Chapter 8: Gotcha!
Zero woke up and saw that he was in a place… a hospital?
It was a hospital, and X was waiting for Zero to wake up in his room, but he was also sleeping on a chair.
"X…?" Zero called, and X woke up.
"Zero, you awake now?" X asked.
"Yeah…who dragged me here?" Zero questioned.
"I did. You and Axl were fighting and became unconscious, remember?" X reminded.
"Oh yeah, that prankster… where is he?" Zero wondered.
"The room beside us. He's fine. He awoke last night, when you were here." X replied.
"I see. By the way, X, what are we gonna do about our hotel room?" Zero asked.
"I got our keys from the hotel manager. He had extras." X answered.
"Then the problem is solved. I hope the girls didn't find out." Zero said.
"They did." X joked, but Zero thought it was real, and HE got a heart attack.
"Whoops." X said.
Few hours later…
"X, DON'T JOKE LIKE THAT AGAIN! I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK!"
"Sorry…"
Then Axl came, and started approaching Zero.
"Axl, no! Don't fight now! He's still injured!" X warned, but Axl kept going anyway.
When he went near Zero, he made a fist.
He didn't punch Zero though.
He just wanted to make his fist hit Axl's, and he did. X was relieved.
When Zero and Axl got better, they went back to their hotel.
"Phew… fainlly being in the room feels like were home." X sighed.
"Yeah, its nice." Axl exclaimed. Lets just rest for now… hmm?" Axl suggested.
They did, of course, because they're tired.
X had a dream, though. A bad one to specific.
Alia, Layer, and Pallette were in front of X, Zero, and Axl, in civilian clothes. However, the three Hunters couldn't move, but the girls were abled to. Alia took X's cap off.
"Ah ha! So this was you all along!" Alia said. Layer took of Zero's fake hair, and Pallette took off Axl's cap.
"Okay, what are you going to do?" X asked in shock.
"I could say, we told Signas about this and you three will be GROUNDED IN THE HQ FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES!" Alia yelled.
X woke up with a gasp.
'Okay, this whole thing just gets on my nerves.' X thought.
Zero woke up, too.
"Guys, do you ever wonder why those girls are here?" Zero asked.
"Nope." X and Axl asid.
"Maybe their room will give us some clue…" Zero suggested.
"What's your poi-"
They heard the next room door opening… giiiii…
"Maybe we should look around for clues." Zero said.
"Okay, but if we get caught, you owe us five bucks." Axl said.
It was a deal, so when the girls entered the elevator, they quickly crashed into their room. Layer was the only one there, for some reason. Zero sneaked behind her and knocked her unconscious, and hid her under someone's bed (without even caring who's)
They quickly searched in the room for clues.
"Guys, look at this!" X called. Zero and Axl came.
"They're really coming here to look for us!" X pointed at a diary, saying like, "X, Zero, and Axl are nowhere to be seen here", or "Still not seen".
Layer actually got consciousness again. But too soon?
"Not you two again…!" Layer paniced.
X, Zero, and Axl looked at each other. They gave out a sigh.
"Listen, Layer, please promise don't tell anyone about this but…"
X, Zero, and Axl took their civilian clothes off. Layer was shocked, it was the Hunters!
"Please don't tell Alia or Pallette. We came into this room to look for the reason why you're here." X explained.
"Sorry about that incident, we were locked outside and we had to steal your key." Axl apologized.
"I'll think about that. It is hard to tell all the troubles Zero and Axl caused, and I cannot definitely tell on X. But Zero and Axl, I must think about." Layer said.
Zero and Axl gulped. What should they do NOW!
The Hunters went back to their room. Zero and Axl hid under their beds just in case Layer might tell them. They stayed there for the whole day. X wore his civilian clothes (and wore a new shirt he bought; which had Capcom logo on it)
"I'll bring you something to eat." X said, and left the room.
He came back with two bags of French fries he bought and went back to his room. Zero and Axl were waiting under their beds.
"Here." X handed them.
"Thanks, X. You're the coolest friend I have!" Axl commented.
"Hey!" Zero said, "I thought I was the coolest!"
"Heh heh…" X laughed.
Then there was a knock on the door. Zero and Axl hid under their beds as fast they could.
X opened it. It was Layer.
"I decided I haven't told them. You see, we only came here so we can give you boys some break in the HQ, but we never thought you would be here." Layer explained.
"Huh, that's weird." X said.
"Where are they?" Layer asked.
X knew he shouldn't tell her where Zero and Axl would be. He'd be dead, so he said, "Uh… Uh oh, there's a spider on the wall!"
"Don't lie please, X." Layer said.
"No really, there is!" X pointed.
Layer looked in the direction, but X quickly shoved her aside and closed and locked the door as fast as he could. But when Layer saw the direction, clearly, there was a spider.
"Gave her a lie." X said.
"You were great out there!" Zero commented.
"Nice one!" Axl said.
"Layer, what are you doing here?" Alia's voice came from outside.
"Oh, um… I was trying to go out too…" Layer lied.
"But its that way!" Pallette said.
"I know, but I… tripped." Layer lied.
Alia and Pallette stared at Layer in a suspicious way.
"Okay, whats going on?" Alia wondered.
"Were you doing something in the next room?" Pallete asked.
"N-n-no! Of course not!" Layer stuttered.
"Ok, something's suspicious. She must have done something in the next room." Alia said.
Pallette knocked on the door. X was shocked by the time he heard it.
"X… don't open it…" Zero whispered.
X nodded.
"Okay… Alia Buster!" Alia called.
X's mouth opened VERY wide, and so did his eyes. So were Zero's and Axl's under their beds. Thank god X was still wearing his civilian clothes (OMG how many times did I say that in this story?), but not Zero and Axl.
"Uh… hey! What was the point of breaking our door!" X asked.
"Excuse me… did our friend here visited you…?" Alia asked.
"Um… no…" X said.
"Excuse me, and what is that blue thing under your cap?" Pallette asked, pointing at X's near seen helmet.
"Uh… my motor cycle helmet!" X lied.
Now things were more suspicious.
"Okay, lets see here… blue socks under your sneakers… blue tarso like thing on your shirt… its kind of ripped…" Alia looked around. She took off X's cap.
"Ah ha! Gotcha! So where's Zero and Axl!" Alia asked.
X looked shock, and called out, "RUN!" X yelled, and Zero and Axl came out from their beds and jumped off from the balcony.
Axl seemed to be dropping faster than X and Zero, but he had that hover thing on his legs. He grabbed X's and Zero's hands and hovered off. But things didn't go too well either.
Pallette did the same thing with Alia and Layer. Axl was losing altitude, and they were going down.
"Thank goodness his hover ability is temporary…" Zero sighed, "Still, where are we falling too?"
X looked down. They were falling down on the street.
"Crap. Maybe we should have thought of this." He said.
"Hey, we HAVE thought of this." Zero complained.
"Since when?" X asked.
"Um… I guess we can talk about that later." Zero said.
It was the street. But why weren't any cars moving?
Of course! Snow! Perfect! They can fall down! Easy!
They landed safely on the snow, and started heading to the airport.
"Wait what about our lugages?" Axl reminded.
They looked at each other again. They ran back.
TO BE CONTINUED…