Origin One- Hey, bet you didn't notice, but I switched to writing this BEFORE the "Begin Chapter" to cut back on confusion. See isn't it better this way? Anyway, I'm not in a humorous mood so I'll just say that you should all Email me. Or IM me at Guymontag5 on AIM. That could fill the void when I'm not writing! And you could corrupt my thinking and lead me to writing more of what you all want to read.

Ushi-Sama- yeah, he's very impressionable. \o\______/o/

(that's an EVIL face)

Begin Chapter

The base had gone on red alert status, no one was to enter or leave the base, especial X. Signis had ordered the command right after Zero had discovered that there was one such person as Capt. Erk.

"Where's Alia?" Signis yelled to Zero. Zero shook his head as the command centers full staff entered the room. Signis, about to lose sight of Zero in the madness motioned for him to find her before being bombarded with questions from the staff. Zero nodded and forced his why through the crowd.

"Its to early for this." Zero said to himself. He dashed down the halls. As he ran he activated his headset. "Alia! Alia, come in!" he yelled but received nothing but static. "Great, either she has her headset off or some things happened. And knowing X its not the first of the options."

"God damn it X, why did you have to do this to me?" said a crying Alia, back to the wall of the former command room. She couldn't believe that X had just decided to run off, and on top of that make sure she wouldn't try and stop her. She knew someone would find her, this was a commonly used storage room, but it wasn't her well being that worried her.

"ALIA!" Zero screamed again into his headset getting nothing but static again. He pushed himself through the now crowded halls of the Maverick Hunter HQ. "If I was X, where would I go to release stress." Zero thought before coming to a realization. "The old command center of, coarse!" yelled Zero aloud as he pushed his way through the Hunters.

Alia couldn't stop crying. She knew that X would go to the coordinates and that no level of alert would stop him. She grabbed her headset off her head and through it across the room in frustration. She hated this.

"Al-a," A voice said through her headset. Alia looked up. "Alia! Can -ou he-r m-?" the voice asked. Alia quick crawled to her headset.

"Yes! Yes, I hear you. Is that you Zero?" she asked, feeling greatly relieved.

"Affirmative. Your in the old Command room right?" Zero replied.

"Yes. Zero, what's the status on X?" She quickly inquired.

"Unknown, but don't worry we have the base in a full lockdown." Zero said, though obviously not believing a word of it. "Ok, I'm right outside the room. Stand away from the door."

Alia quickly realized what Zero was about to do and scurried behind some boxes. A blast of massive proportions threw the door to the other side of the room. Alia quickly scuttled out of her hiding place and out the door. "You know Zero, the door was only locked. You could have just opened it." Zero looked at Alia oddly. "Right," said Alia, rolling her eyes, "forget I even mentioned it." Zero nodded as the two hunters began to run toward the elevator.

"Signis, Signis come in, do you read me?" shouted a voice on Signis's headset.

"Yes Zero, go ahead." Signis replied, looking at the base information as the crew of the command center tried to locate X.

"Drop the alert status, nothing we do is going to keep X from going. Alia and I are already en route to the Vehicle bay, which is where X will head while the alerts up. If you want to save the bay doors then I suggest you open them."

"I'm sorry Zero, but I can't drop the alert. I will NOT allow X to leave this base to go to an obvious trap." Signis responded.

"Signis, listen to me. Nothing we have can stop X when he's like this!" screamed Zero.

"Your wrong Zero, in fact we have two things. First off we have Alia, who should try to talk him out of this stupid crusade-"

"That option already failed sir." Alia chimed in.

"Then that leaves us with option number two Zero. You." Signis said. "I want you to stop him by any means necessary. Even if that means fighting badly damaging him. Signis out."

Zero couldn't believe what he had just heard. Signis wanted him to fight his best friend. Even if it meant injuring him severely.

"What did he say?" Alia asked as the two of them arrived at the vehicle bay. Zero shook his head.

"Nothing important. Now come on, we have to stop X."

Upon entering the room they immediately gasps. Around the entire room were injured reploids and humans alike, obviously the ones that had tried to stop X from leaving.

"Alia, you check the wounded, I'll stop X." Zero head, dashing towards the 17th division's private bay. Alia nodded and ran over to the nearest human.

X couldn't believe what he had just done. Hurting people is something X was not accustom to doing, but some how something about it felt. good, even intoxicating. He looked down at his buster, fully charged and ready to fire. Pointing at the bay doors he fired. The blast hit the door and in an instant the door gave way to the power of the shot. A large hole now sat where a 10 inch titanium door had been previously.

"X!"

X looked behind him to see Zero dashing toward him, saber drawn. Seeing the red reploid dashing toward him with a weapon drawn was not something X had seen before, but reacted quickly, dodging the vertical slash that was performed soon after.

"Zero, what are you doing?" X asked, confused by his friends actions.

"I'm sorry X, but I can't let you leave." Zero replied, bring his saber back in front. "And I'm willing to fight you if that's what it takes."

X was shocked. He never would have thought that his best friend would be willing to attack him like this. But I have to leave, X thought to himself.

"I'm sorry Zero, but I have to go." He said.

"No X. The whole message was faked. Your being drawn into a trap!" Zero said.

"What?" X said, his eyes widening.

"The entire thing was faked. The one named Erk doesn't exist. Someone made him up to get you out there." Zero explained.

"So then there was never a group sent out after that reploid?" X said.

"Well, yes there was."

"But you've gotten in contact with them right? We know that there ok, right?" X asked.

"Well, no, we haven't had contact in two days but-" Zero said, instantly regretting it.

"Then I still have to go. They could be in danger!" X said.

"That's no reason to rush off like this X!" Zero replied.

"I wont let you stop me Zero." Said X, a purple aura erupted around him. "Even if that means I have to go through you."

Zero stared on him horror as the purple aura grew. The energy X was giving off was so very familiar. To familiar for Zero's taste. He knew exactly whose it was. "Sigma." Zero brought his saber down, not quiet sure what to do, but he only knew that he wouldn't win against X even if he tried. Seeing this X got on his grav bike.

"Thank you old friend. I'll be back before you know it." X said as he passed Zero and sped down the highway toward the coordinates that the notes had supplied.

Alia rushed in and ran up to Zero. "I heard a grav bike, what happened? Where's X?" But all Zero could do, and needed to do, was point toward the hole in the bay door.