I am the worst author in the world XD I forget I write a fanfic then take me months to write one decent chapter. Maybe I should quit writing? XD

Disclaimer: MMX is not mine, nor is the characters.

"Good Bye HQ"

By: Nyago

Axl POV

"Iris? That's a pretty unique name" Looks almost mysterious too, but I guess if you look that pretty you can't be evil right? I mean I meant lots of girls and so far none of them seem dangerously evil, even if they were suddenly turn Maverick. But let's think about this for a minute...I never really meant that many girls. I liked Shina, but Nikki was also very nice to me, so I can't really judge for other girls if I only actually spoken to 2 of them. It would be pretty close minded of me to judge just by just knowing two girls. My mind once again wonder off but return to reality when Iris spoke.

'Thank you" She smiled. "By the way ..." she turn around to face me, still we kept walking. "In case we do get spotted by other reploids, make sure you try to avoid their questions. We wouldn't want X to find out about our little secret now do you?" She smiled again.

X...He was the reason why I was running away in the first place. Well no not running away just getting away from HQ for a while. I needed to know more about myself....I wanted to know more about myself. Been around HQ wasn't going to help me, specially if X is around. He hated me....I just know he does. Suddenly notice from the corner of my eye that Iris stop dead in her tracks and turn around to face me.

"If you have anything to say, say it now. We are leaving this City...." She made it pretty clear I won't be coming for a long time. Not that I mind anyway....

"I know..." I reply, looking down at the ground. I was fully aware of this since she had introduced herself to me. Something about her though, it was awfully familiar...

"I wanted to ask you..." I lift my face to see her. "Why do you want to know so much about yourself? What is the purpose?" She asked me the strangest question yet I have no idea how to answer.

"I don't know." I started, "I guess I always wanted to know more about myself. Why am I the only one with this ability and such." Was that the only reason? I don't know, I was so confused and asking me questions wasn't going to help me either.

"I see.." She said softly, before turning her head and began to walk again. I blinked for a minute then kept with her pace a few steps back. Everything was going well, that's until....

"Axl? Hey Axl!" Oh no, I reorganized that voice. "Hey man, long time no see, where are you going?" To my worst suspicion I was right, it was someone I knew. An old roommate of mine before I was re-assign again to another room. He was a nice guy, just too talkative. Didn't know when to shut up.

"Hey..." I smile, turning my face, seeing a grin on his face.

"Got a girl I see eh?" He whisper in my ear.

"Eh-heh sort of, anyway I can't chat for long. oh and don't telling anyone about this ok?" I never really asked for favors but I wouldn't want my cover for escaping get away now do I?

"Sure man, anything for a good old roommate! By the way, where ya ahead?" he got closer to me, "Thinking of getting laid already?" He smirked.

I blushed, "No! you got it all wrong! She is just a friend of mine, right?" I smile and faced towards her. Only to notice she was already facing us, smiling again. "Heh..." I sighed.

For a minute there, I could had swore I saw his eyes pop out of it's place. He had this weird shock of confused or maybe he knew her? "Ok man, see you later!" He grinned, walking away not taking his eyes off Iris. He banish behind a few blocks later, leaving me to sigh again.

"Shall we?" She reply, knocking me off my gaze. I say it took us at least a good ten more minutes before we found a set of brushes. Which was shock, though she was going to take me out of the city, how is trees going to help?

"Here we are!" She walked a few steps ahead and pulled the bushes and show me some sort of Motorcycle, that was kept hidden. "Shall we?" She said, extending her hand to me as in welcoming me to come with her. I only knobbed and grad a hold of her hand, putting a helmet she had assign me and sat behind her. She started her motorcycle and placed the helmet on her head. Firing it up and we rode like a bullet.

"Wow!" I said, holding on to her waist, "This is awesome!" I yelled, feeling the wind blow my hair away. Faster and faster we drove, and further we saw HQ behind us. I made up my mind and there is no turning back now. I wanted and I will find out more about myself, so when I return to HQ, I will show X who really is the boss of me.

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X sighed, and graded his left hand and place it on his forehead. He had removed his helmet and stare at the ceiling of his office. Not brothering to settle his head down, he notice he wasn't alone in the room.

"I hear." the person said.

X sighed again, and let his head drop on the desk. Feel defeated and frustrated, X only nodded with his head place on the desk.

"You really need to calm your temper X..."

X bolted up to stare at Zero, "Is not my fault he has an attitude problem. Seriously, I never meant anyone as hard headed as he is..." Zero chuckle. "Expect you..." X pointed out. Zero just stared for a few minutes before he began to talk again.

"Maybe it was you to blame this time, you never actually give him a break. It was about time he snapped. Beside, you were just as hard headed as he was when you began to work on HQ"

"I was not!" X bolted angrily, getting up from his desk. Zero stare in confusion and pointed to X to sit back down, X did as told.

Zero sighed, "Well then, I guess I should have a talk with him eh?" Zero was ready to get up before X spoke. "No, I will handle it, you stay here quiet and I will TRY to make sure I don't suddenly strangle him to death." Zero laughed.

"I guess I should be there then, for safety measures" With that set, both top class reploids left, and ahead towards their destination, Axl room.

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X POV

As we headed up stairs, I began to feel a bit nervous. I never really yelled at anyone and never really got this angry expect when maverick attacked us. Maybe I was been a little selfish, after all is not my place to tell him what's right from wrong, I only want to pretend to be his guardian, for his sake and my own. I don't want him to make the same mistakes I did....is that so wrong to do? I sighed in defeat.

"Stop worrying, what's done is done, apology might be good right now. Before he really begins to hate you." Hate me? Zero the way you say it makes my heart want to break into pieces. I never had anyone inside HQ hate...me before. "Here we are" I stop dead in my tracks, here it was, Axl room. Just a simple knock on his door, apologies and I will be in my merry way to my office. Flustered and relief.

"Axl, X and I want to talk to you" Zero spoke first.

No answer....

"Hey come on Axl, you know X is an idiot sometimes, just let us in and he will explain"

No answer....

Zero looked at me strange, as in saying 'What did you do to the poor kid, can't even talk'. I only glare and crossed my arms.

"Axl open the door will you?" Zero said one last time. Both of us nodded and unlock his room. Only to find no one was in it and the lights were off. "That's strange..." Zero said welcoming himself in.

This was definitely Axl's room, his armor parts were all over the place, school work and bunch of other stuff on top of his desk and bed. But the one thing that was still pretty neat was the direction were his closet lied. I know it was wrong for me to look, but it was clean. Wonder what was so important to him that he kept it organize, so just a small peek won't hurt....

I gasp...

Opening the door I found articles, at least 100 articles base on us. Back when even the repliforce still existed. "Wha..." I couldn't get the words out of my mouth, I mean I knew Axl admire us but I didn't know he kept old articles about the moments we trashed sigma and any other maverick.

Zero walked towards me and takes out one article, as he began to read, I kept my eyes searching for something else. Zero chuckle, and gave the article back to me. "The kid was definitely are biggest fan, look at all of those articles. Even said here one about Repliforce down fall and why did they turn against the Maverick Hunters." Zero pointed at a certain highlighted section.

"Axl must had highlighted it for personal information..." I reply.

"Was Axl alive all those years?" Zero question, crossing his arm. I gave him a skeptical look and return my eyes to the article in front. Was Axl alive all of those years? It even says the date Repliforce when down, so maybe Axl was around during that time. Or rather activated during that time period. I continue to search a bit thru his stuff until I bumped into a certain image, "Zero this is..." I handed him the image.

Zero sighed in frustration as he tried not to recall the events that had happen that date and year. Iris who was currently know as the sister of Colonel and Zero girlfriend was in that image. I must say the hardest thing I ever seen Zero do, was to fight her. He already knew he was stronger than she was even if she was controlled by the crystal but even after all those years, Zero still regrets the fact he was the one that killed her.

"Zero..." I started but Zero had begun laugh a bit. Taking a sit near a clear area of Axl bed, he looked up at the ceiling.

"You know is funny...you think no one can hurt you, no one can harm you if you have no emotions. So I dispatch all of my feelings in to one huge corner of my brain. But in the end..." Zero brought his head back down and sighed, "I ended up falling for someone anyway." This was true, no matter how you look at it, Zero did manage to fall in love. Most people would think it was affection between the two, but I knew better.

"Zero...." I tried to smile only to see Zero look at me funny again.

"Anyway, we came to see if Axl was here, guess we will have to check around HQ in order to find him." Zero rose from the bed and walked toward the exits. I placed all the articles back to it's place, closed the closet and walked away from Axl messy room, making sure the lights were off and the door was shut tight.

Before I turn to the corner, I saw Zero talking to some girl, it looked like one of my old students, strange. I walked towards them only to hear her finish a sentence. "What's going on?" I asked.

"She says she saw Axl earlier, he was in his room after he left your class but he walked back downstairs for something soon afterwards." Zero answered me.

"Any idea where?" I asked her, facing to see her.

"No Captain X, all I know is that Axl looked pretty angry at something. He rushed downstairs rather quickly." She nod.

"Hmm, Thanks. Might as well check downstairs for him." I looked toward Zero direction.

"Is the only lead we have so far." Zero nodded in agreement and dashed along with me to catch the elevator downstairs. "In case you see him, tell him we are looking for him!" I yelled back at my old student. She agree, great.

As we took the elevator, I took deep breath and lead on the rail corner of one of the sides. Zero did the same, just the opposite side of me.

'I hope we find him soon...." I said, worry.

Zero smirked and looked at me with a serious face, "She said he was piss off..." Zero pointed out.

"Yeah yeah, I will apologies soon enough." I waved my arms in the air with defeat. As the elevator doors open, we saw one of Axl classmates passing by. One of them which came up to us.

"Captain X!!!" It was Shina, she looked rather worried.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Is Axl!" She began, as her friend stood behind her.

"What about Axl?" I asked. Good, now we can finally end the quest of looking for him.

"Someone said they saw him with some strange girl earlier, but the funny thing was they said she looked familiar." She began until one girl stepped forward to finish "Someone claims they saw him with a girl that died years ago." My eyes widen in fear.

"Who?" Zero asked, crossing his arms and looking forward my students.

"Some girl name Iris, Captain Zero..." If anyone knew Zero as much as I did, the name Iris only brought grieve and despair to those that were alive during that time, that knew Zero situation. But as of right now, Zero eyes were wide, and his arms were no longer crossed instead, his face was cover because of his helmet. What came next was rather something I never expected to see in years to come, Zero ran.

"Zero!" I yelled, "Sorry girls, are you SURE you saw him with a girl that looked like Iris?" I asked.

"Yes Sir, one of Axl old roommate saw him earlier. At first he didn't really speak much considering he said he promised Axl not to tell anyone but he is one guy that can't keep his mouth shut if you threaten him the proper way" My eyes gave a very disturb look, I am not going to question what measure of torture...But the part about Axl hanging out with some girl that looked like Iris was bad enough. "Thanks!" I dashed towards the direction Zero had left. This was only the beginning of something I never expected to be....

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"How long before we reach there?" Axl asked, growing tired of riding and holding on Iris waist.

"Almost there!" Iris yelled, speeding up a bit.

It was hard to tell how far and fast the two had travel, but it was for sure they were miles and miles away from HQ. Only way to getting back is the way you came in with. Slowing down the motorcycle, Iris made a complete stop. Removed the helmet and allowing her hair to be free once again. Axl did the same.

"Wow..." Axl gasped for air, stretching a bit and walking around his surroundings. "Where are we?" Axl question, as he notice they were in the wild, trees, animals and even the sun can be seen from this view.

"Patience..." She said. All grew silence as they waited there for something to happen. As the sun set down, the night took over. Bushes began to move and a reploid stepped out of the forest. He was tall, huge and rather maverick looking, but if Iris knew him could he be a friend or an enemy?

"So you brought him...Boss will be pleased with this" He began to say.

"What? Your boss?" Axl said turning his face to look at Iris.

"It will be all over soon...." huh? Over? Before Axl knew what was happening, he was hit on the back of head with a huge blast as there stood another reploid hidden in the shadows. "Iris..." was the last word Axl said before he closing his eyes and felt unconsciously. If I knew better this was only the beginning of a horrible nightmare and a trip to Axl past.

To be continue....

Yay! Chapter 5 is done! :3 I hope this wasn't too fast for some of you, because I am going to chapter 6 now! XD goes to work Comments are nice, makes me hate my work less.