Chapter 30: Zero, come home, sweet home
X continued his search. Even if he was dying, he would be looking for Zero, his best friend. He didn't want Zero to do anything more foolish.
YEAH, AXL! YOU ARE A FOOL! BUT SO IS HE!
'Zero… wherever you are, don't do anything foolish.' X thought.
Zero was nowhere in sight. But X never gave up. He increased the Ride Chaser's power even more, I mean to the maximum.
But the Ride Chaser went too fast and hit a nearby tree.
"Ow…" X moaned.
But he soon got up to his feet and saw a building… and from the window there was a red arm… could that have been Zero?
X went to take a look by the window. It was actually another Reploids just making love, but the thing was, they saw him…
"AAAIIIIIIIIEEEE! SOMEONE'S LOOKING AT US!" The female Reploid screamed.
X tried to explain, but they didn't listen and hit him with a broom.
X sighed, and had no hopes of finding Zero. He couldn't take it anymore. If Zero was just having his choices, he couldn't stop him.
X teleported back to the HQ. He was tired, so it was time for him to get some rest. He yawned.
When he actually teleported, he was teleported directly to the entrance. When he went in, he noticed some hairs on the ground. One blonde, one brown… it seemed like Zero's and Iris'… maybe.
X followed the hair traces. He knew they were somehow there.
When he finished foloowing, he was pretty upset with the results.
"AHHH! THERE'S A SPIDER ON MY HAIR! GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!" Alia screamed as she moved around like crazy, and some of her hair was falling down.
"Hey, I got an insect as well on my hair! Ha ha! It tickles!" Axl laughed and his hairs were falling as well.
X, being such a gentleman, volunteered and took them off.
"X! THANK YOU!" Alia thanked so happily, and she hugged him tight, until he might be out of oxygen. Axl hugged him as well, and X started to choke. He had to free himself, but that would be too rude, so X had to suffocate instead. Even if he was to tell them that he needed oxygen, he couldn't, because his words were as silent as wind.
X finally gasped when Axl let go. Then Alia. He was now breathing.
"So did you find Zero yet?" Axl asked.
"No, I haven't. Man, where IS he?" X moaned.
X laid down and got some rest. He needed a rest, badly.
The next day…
"Yawn…"
X hoped Zero would somehow be here. If he wasn't…
X would really lose him as a friend, would he?
X went out again to continue his search. When he started, he went to the hotel Zero and Axl went to.
"Did you see any Reploids that both had long hair? One that was blonde and other that was brown?" X asked.
"No, I'm sorry." The manager replied.
X sighed.
But there they were. The ones the blue bomber searched for.
Zero.
Iris.
What happened to them?
They were both covered under heavy snow, eyes closed.
"Zero! Iris!" X called and started digging away the snow.
"Zero! Wake up! Zero!" X yelled.
Zero didn't respond. He was as almost as cold as ice. So was Iris. X had to take them to a warm place, like the HQ.
X hurried, carrying both on his back as he went. That was when he fell and Zero fell off to the ground and craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack…
His leg was broken and it snapped.
X drew a single tear on his cheek.
But he carried both his leg and himself as well. But X started feeling cold as well. He shivered as he went.
"I can't make it, Zero… I… failed…"
X fell with a large thud, when he was just six inches away from the HQ (he didn't realize that after focusing on the two Replioids he was carrying)
But the next time X woke up, he realized he was in his room.
"Gah!" X gasped.
"Zero! Iris!" X called, but from his room Axl stopped him.
"He's fine. He's in his room with Iris." Axl consoled the blue bomber.
X sighed.
He went to Zero's room, where he saw Zero touching Iris' butt while unconscious. It must have been Axl. X quietly took off Zero's hand from Iris, but just when he was, Iris woke up and immediately saw X doing that, but in her opinion, she thought X was trying to be a pervert.
"X!" She screamed.
X jumped.
"Oh crap! I didn't do anything! I swear!" X yelped.
"You pervert!"
Iris transformed into that big robotic kind of armor that made her look like she was some sort of a DEMONONIC LIKE ANGERY TORTURING SUPER DEATH POWERED UP KILLING MACHINE MURDER RAGE kind of monster.
She started attacking the poor bomber.
Zero then woke up.
"Whoa…? Iris? X, what have you done?"
"Zero, you gotta believe me! It's a total misundersta-"
"You bastard!"
Axl, seeing as how Iris and Zero were pissed and beated X up, felt guilty.
"Erm, I did it…" Axl confessed, but they weren't listening.
"GOD DAMMIT YOU PEOPLE NEVER LISTEN?" Axl yelled.
They were still not listening.
"Are you even listening to a word I- Zero, where's your leg?" Axl wondered.
"Leg? What the…? AAAAA!"
That silenced the Whack-the-blue game a little bit.
"Where the hell is my-"
Axl, just wanting to get back for doing something bad to X, poked Zero off the the rhythm and he fell.
"Someone help me up?" Zero asked.
X, the do gooder he was, helped Zero up and put him on his bed instead.
"Listen, until Alia can fix your leg, don't get up." X suggested.
What really made things weird was how did he get up when his leg was torn off? Was it a miracle?
To be continued…
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