Chapter 10: We're out of here again

While X and Axl were working, Signas was in his office, with his coffee and a newspaper, when suddenly, someone kicked the door open.

"Zero? How did you come here? I thought we locked you in!" Signas said in surprise.

It was Zero.

"I have a window in my room, ya know!" Zero snapped.

Signas thought, and forgot to lock the windows, too.

"Sigh… you win, what are you going to do?" He asked.

"Um…"

Zero thought for a moment. What should he do?

'Oh, what the hell.'

Zero started beating Signas up again.

"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!" Signas screamed in pain.

"Scream all ya want! KILLING TIME!" Zero yelled and punched him.

"Zero!" A familiar voice called.

It was Alia, with Layer and Pallette behind her.

"You're back? So early? Heh heh heh…"

"Captain Signas, are you okay?" Pallette asked.

"I'm fine… Don't worry about me." Signas replied.

Alia told the entire story of what Zero and Axl did, so Signas called Axl for punishment.

"Well, Axl, tell X that he's free from doing his work for being kind to them, but you two… for causing troubles to Alia and Layer… are going to work for the rest of your break time, understood?" Signas questioned.

But Axl stood up and yelled, "NO!"

Everyone stared at him.

"Excuse me?" Alia said.

"I don't care what you say! You can't ground us forever just because we did ONE bad thing!" Axl added, "I'm OUTTA HERE!"

He jumped off the window and escaped. Then Zero glared at them too.

"He's right. Axl, I'm coming too!" He called and jumped off the window like Axl did.

Zero and Axl ran for several blocks, and got tired of running, hoping none of them followed.

"Zero, you got any money…?" Axl gasped.

"Yeah…"

"I'm cold… its way too snowy here…"

"Don't worry. Lets walk into that cafeteria over there."

"Nah, that hotel over there is better…"

Zero shrugged, and it might be better.

As they entered, they wanted two rooms for each.

"Here's your key." Zero said as he handed Axl his room key.

"Thanks."

Zero's room was right beside Axl's, but of course, they didn't always visit their rooms.

But for once, Axl did visit.

"I hope nobody tells about us." Axl said.

"Yeah. Its more annoying in the HQ, I found out. Electopia would have been better without the girls." Zero agreed.

They looked at the sky, at night (in their own rooms!). It was a starry night, beautiful stars falling down from the sky and landing to the Earth. It was beautiful, never have they seen such sight.

But the beutyness of the stars reminded Zero one thing.

Iris.

He gave out a sigh, and wondered how Iris would be doing, in heaven. He wondered if he did the right thing, killing her, as she opposed him. He didn't want to kill her, of course, but what other choices did he have?

Zero closed his eyes, laying on his bed.

X was alone, also watching the sky. He smiled as he watched. He enjoyed watching the stars.

Alia was also watching, with Signas beside her.

Layer and Pallette were watching from the roof.

Axl visited Zero's room once more.

"Hey, Zero, lets go back to the HQ tomorrow. Maybe I should apologize." Axl suggested.

"Apologize? Man, thinking of that makes me PUKE." Zero mumbled.

"Fine. I'm leaving tomorrow. You can think about it while I go." Axl said, and returned to his room to sleep.

When came the morning…

Axl headed out the hotel after returning his key, he walked his way to the HQ.

But he didn't feel good.

He was really near the entrance to the HQ, but he felt really cold, and sick. His vision was blurry. He fell down to the darkness.

When X went out for a walk, he saw Axl, laying on the snow.

"Axl!" X called, and ran up to him.

He carried him, and started asking him, "Axl! Axl! Can you hear me?"

As he was running and carrying him to his room, Alia noticed X carrying him.

"So, Axl is back, is he?" Alia wondered with an evil smile.

"He's not feeling well.. maybe he caught a very bad cold." X said.

He laid him on Axl's bed, and covered two blankets on.

But Axl started to gain some conciousness., for a moment.

"Alia…" He called, and she turned.

"I'm… sorry… say that… to others…" Axl shivered.

"Axl, forget about it. Just get some rest." Alia said with a smie.

X left the room, but before he did, he had to ask Axl one thing.

Three guesses what he could be asking.

"Axl, where's Zero?" X asked.

"At… a… hotel… near… HQ…" Axl shivered once more.

And went back to sleep.

THE ONLY MISSING SCENE!

While Zero and Axl was running, Alia and Signas ran to X.

"X, you are free to go." Signas said.

But Alia nudged Signas to remind what he was suppose to say.

"Um… you look for Zero and Axl, and bring them back as soon as you can?" Signas requested.

"Um…"

"You have to, X… YOU HAVE TO!" Alia pleaded as he shook X by grabbing his shoulers.

X didn't want them to be like that to him, so he decided(I have a serious lack of thesaurus, right?) to look for them.

Remember Zero and Axl ran SEVERAL blocks? X dashed to only a few of them.

X gave up, and went back to the HQ, telling them he couldn't find them, and apologized.

So what will Zero decide? Will he come back, or will he stay there for the rest of the break time he has?

To be continued…