Mega Man X: Admission
Chapter 25
(Season 3)
Alia had never seen X so distressed. She wasn't sure if she should keep her distance and let X weep or if she should comfort him.
"X…" Alia said, walking towards the crying shell that was X. "I… I don't know what to say…"
"Of course you don't," Zero said, following Alia up, "You never had a brother, let alone a brother who was out to kill you."
Alia looked at Zero, about to cry herself. "I… I was only trying to help…." She said as Zero continued to walk toward the next room.
"Come on Alia, X needs some time to be alone…" Zero said, his words trailing off as he walked into the next room, waving for Alia to follow him. Alia looked at X, who seemed to have missed the whole conversation. Before following Zero she approached X, getting onto her knees to match his position.
"X, I know I don't know what you are going through, but I'll always be here to try and understand." Alia said, hugging the crying figure tightly before raising to her feet and following Zero.
X sat in the room, his eyes still brimming with tears. He sat down, pulling his legs close to him, and placed his head on his knees.
"Why…." He asked himself. "Why did it have to be like this? All I ever wanted was to be a normal person, leading a normal life with Doc Cain…"
He slammed his fist on the floor, "ALL I EVER WANTED WAS TO LIVE A PEACEFUL LIFE! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME?"
X stood up in a flash and began punching a empty wall. "DAMN IT ALL! DAMN YOU CAIN FOR FINDING ME! DAMN YOU LIGHT FOR BUILDING ME! DAMN YOU SIGMA FOR FIGHTING ME! DAMN IT ALL!"
X's fists made loud clangs as they hit the walls of the room, the sounds echoing in every hallway and room of the complex.
"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO FIGHT ME SIGMA? WHY COULD YOU HAVE JUST LET ME BE?!" X screamed as his hands continued to hit the walls.
"Because you are worth fighting with X."
X looked around for the source of the voice, not seeing anyone.
"AARRRRRRR!" X yelled, letting one final punch fly into a nearby wall. The large crash from the punch was followed soon by the large crash of the wall falling backwards.
"Oro?" X said, looking straight down the large hallway that followed the now fallen door.
X turned to call Alia and Zero, but a feeling told him to go alone. X activated his lighting systems and began the movement down the hallway. As X walked down the hall an eerie silence befell him, even his footsteps seemed to have stop resonating sound. He soon emerged in a large, well-lit room. A single machine sat in the center, a capsule. As X walked toward the capsule the walls around the capsule descended. As X stepped up to the capsule a flash of light activated a hologram of two robots, a dog and a young girl.
"Well look who it is!" The female robot said. She looked about 14, and dressed in a long red dress. "It took you long enough, geeze. For a while I thought you weren't coming!"
The dog barked in agreement. X stared at the capsules, not sure what to say.
"Who… who are you?" X asked.
"You mean you don't remember me X? I'm hurt! I thought I had left a bigger impression."
Once again the dog barked in agreement.
"You look very familiar, but… wait, you're the girl from the video!" X exclaimed.
"Very good dummy, I thought your older sister would be memorable."
The dog barked.
"Oh, and our dog, geeze." The girl laughed.
"But…. You still haven't told me your name."
"Oh, you are so STUPID! Its Roll, R-O-L-L!" Laughed Roll. "And this is Rush."
The dog barked once again.
"I still don't understand… how could I know you? I would never have met you, I didn't get released until 21XX!" X said as he tried to sort through the information.
"21XX??? Oh no, you were out for awhile before then." Roll said, a bit puzzled by X. "But that doesn't matter. I bet you came here cause Rock told you to."
X nodded. "Yeah Roll, Rock… Wait a second… Rock and Roll? Oh lord. Just a question, but was Dr. Light insane when he named you guys?"
Roll laughed. "No, he just loved music."
"So then how did I get stuck with a crappy name like X? Man, now I don't feel loved." X said, laughing.
Roll joined in the laughing, and Rush merely stared blankly at the two. Soon the two calmed down and the laughing stopped.
X sighed. "Ok, we have to find a way to get you out of here and back to Hunter HQ."
Roll looked at X a bit puzzled. "Leave the lab?"
X nodded. "Yeah, we'll take the capsule out of here and let you join Rock."
Roll shook her head. "Nope, sorry, we can't leave here."
X looked at her. "What? Why?"
Roll sighed. "Dad told us to do some stuff for whenever you found us, assuming you WOULD find us. Now that you have we have to get it done."
X hesitated before asking, "What kind of 'stuff…'"