Back again. I'm trying to update this story every other day from now to the end. Not too fast, not too slow, right? May take a while, since I'm doing two stories at once (the other's a Sonic the Hedgehog story), but I promise to get this done. Promise! Oh, and just so I don't have to say it anymore, it's Zero's POV if it's in first-person, regular if it's in third. Got it? Good.
It's the middle of the night, and I still can't sleep. This whole thing is troubling me. In one day, my life has been switched around. How long can I be like this? Days? Months? Years? Oh, I hope it doesn't come to that.
The only other sound in the room is the sound of X sleeping. Lucky. No matter what he's forced to deal with, he does his best, no matter how much he hates it. It makes me wonder how much like the original Megaman he is. Were they the same, or different? My ears twitch, as I hear the door open. For a minute, I'm suprised to see myself standing in the doorway. It doesn't take long, though, for me to remember that it's Rush in my body, not me. (Confusing...) He walks over to me, a scared look on his face.
"Zero," he says. It's weird, because of the fact he's in my body, he also has my voice. It sounds weird scared.
"What is it?" I manage to say quietly. I look over to see if it woke up X anyway, but lucky for me, he's a deep sleeper when he want's to be.
"Dr. Wily was in my room," Rush says quietly. "I saw him. He was all darkish, and he was telling me to kill Megaman." I stare at him for what seems like the longest time. He saw Dr. Wily, and Dr. Wily said to him what he says to me. How could that be?
"Did he do anything else?" I ask.
"He yelled at me when I said I didn't understand," Rush replys solemnly. "He sounded really angry. I've only heard him yell like that at Megaman and Bass."
"Bass?" I ask. The name sounds familiar.
"Uh huh," Rush says. "He yells at Bass for not defeating Megaman."
"Can you tell me who Bass is?" I ask him. Rush looks at me in an odd way, as if asking "Why do you want to know?" with his face. I never knew I could look like that.
"Bass is a reploid created by Dr. Wily," Rush says after a while. "He's black and golden. He also has a wolf-reploid named Treble. Both of them are really mean." I had heard that Wily created other reploids, but I have never heard of Bass. I wonder why? I don't think I was activated yet, because I don't remember Bass, Megaman and Rush, and it doesn't seem like Rush knows about me. I wonder what happened to them, and why X and I never met them.
"Well, tell me if you see Wily again, okay?" I ask. He nods in reply. "Good. Don't be scared of him, he has no power over you." At least, he shouldn't. I hope nothing worse happens because of this. Rush bids me goodnight, and leaves the room. After much thinking, I manage to fall asleep as well.
"Wake up already Zero!" I see X in front of me.
"Morning already?" I ask. Of course, he doesn't understand me, but he knows I'm awake.
"Well then," X says, "I've got to do a training lesson with some of the new recruits. Axl and Rush are already in the lobby. Wait there for me, okay?" I nod, since that's the only way I can say yes.
"Good," he replies. "Don't get into any trouble, okay?" I nod again, watching him as he walks out of the room. I soon leave too, headed for the lobby.
Today is Thursday, one of the days used for training sessions. Meaning, the corridors are just about bare. Everyone is either at training, or taking a break. Lucky for me, so I don't attract attention. I just keep walking, until I hear a sound behind me.
"Arf," I turn around to see a robo-security dog, a simple robotic dog that keeps an eye out for intruders, as the name implies. The dog stares at me.
"What do you want?" I ask, wondering if he'd understand me.
"Sniff," it says. I guess we can understand each other since we're dogs. But what could he mean by sniff? Does he smell an intruder? I take in a whiff of the air, but I don't smell anything unusual.
"Sniff what?" I ask. The security dog just stares at me with his blank robot stare.
"Sniff dog," he says, circling around me. I realiaze what he's getting at.
"Oh no you don't!" I say, swiping my paw at him. The dog backs away.
"No sniff?" it asks.
"No sniff," I say, walking off. Boy, if Sigma busted in here with a dog maverick, we'd be in serious trouble. That is a really disturbing thought...I soon forget it, because I see Axl ahead.
"Friend!" I automatically think. Before I can stop myself, I jump on top of Axl, and begin to lick his face.
"Nice to see you too," Axl says. He then whispers, "Good acting Zero." I notice that a few reploids were walking past, and Axl must have assumed I did it to look authentic. But really, I don't know why I did it. It was like...I dunno, like I wanted to. Felt like a way of saying, "Hiya' buddy, glad to see you!" I'm not turning into a dog myself, am I? I'm going to have to keep a better hold on myself. I get off of Al, allowing him to get up.
"Where's Rush?" I ask, even though he can't understand me. He thankfully guesses at what I was asking.
"If you're wondering where Rush is, he's back at the lobby," Axl says. "Don't worry, I told him not to get in any trouble. I just came to see what was taking you. X already told us he'd send you our way, so we could keep an eye on you." I'd rather they keep an eye on Rush, but I just nod in reply.
"Okay then, let's go!" Axl says. Soon, both of us are walking to the lobby.
"Zero, there you are!" A reploid stumbled into the lobby, his eyes fixed on the red-clad reploid. Rush took a moment to realize the reploid was talking to him.
"Yeah?" Rush asked.
"Look, I've was supposed to do saber training with some rookies today, but I have some 'business' to attend to, if you know what I mean." Rush nodded, even though he didn't know what the reploid meant. "So, I was wondering, could you teach them today? I know you're better at saber training than X and Axl, and those rookies need to learn quickly."
"Course I could," Rush said happily. Like Megaman and X, Rush was designed to help people too.
"Besides," he thought, "how hard could it be?"
"Oh, thank you Zero," the reploid said. "I owe you one. Wish me luck!"
"Okay," Rush replied, even though he had no idea what the reploid would want with luck. He waved as the reploid left, and then made his way towards a map of the HQ to see where the training area was.
Hope you all enjoyed it! Oh, and if you didn't get the part with Zero and the dog, read PRIVATE's review for chapter 3. (Hope that was good enough buddy!) Anyway, chapter 5 up soon! Rush doing saber training, oh no!