CHAPTER 1
It has been a year now since X's creation and within a month of his creation there have been more reploids created: Zero, Link, Inuyasha, Zelda, Kagome, Stratigo, and last a more "quiet" one called Sakura. Sakura was Monroe's favorite, but a minor detail first: He didn't create her. Where she came from, he had no idea, but he had found her wandering around with what seemed like human amnesia. He took her in and treated her like the others, but he was quite surprised when he couldn't fully analyze and diagram her cybernetic network or any part of her. While this frustrated him to no end, he finally gave up and decided that in time as technology advanced and improved, he'd be able to. Until then, she stayed near Monroe. She would follow him, talk with him, and, in a sense, stalk him. David didn't mind and encouraged her to learn more from him, as he did with the rest of his androids. Some would say she seemed a little off in comparison to her brothers and sisters. Each was installed using the same mold as X, but with slight modifications to certain ones. Zero and Inuyasha are more equipped to handle close quarters fighting. Link has a good balance, but still leans towards melee fighting. X, Zero, Link, Inuyasha, and Sakura all are equipped with some type of sword. X, Zero, and Sakura have a light sword (think of it as the light saber from Star Wars). Link and Inuyasha have been given a titanium-alloy sword coated with a diamond "glaze." These swords have been sharpened by a laser and slice the air without sound. Both swords were also designed to hold a charge. When fully charged, Inuyasha's sword (yeah, it's the Tetsusaiga) unleashes a devastating wave of energy (the Wind Scar). Link's sword wasn't designed to carry as much energy as Inuyasha's, but when Link's sword is fully charged, he'll use a spin attack and during this attack, the energy will form a wall, and the more circles he completes or the more energy he uses, the stronger the wall of energy will become. Finally, when he stops, the wall concentrates into four rings and will shoot out in an outward spiral. X and Zero can charge their swords up to make them bigger and/or longer or even to mimic the shape of a metal blade. They can also shoot a small wave of energy from their light swords. X's sword is blue, Zero's is dark red, Link's is tinted green, Inuyasha's is tinted red, and Sakura's is just plain white (though she will make it pink from time to time). Sakura can utilize two light swords, however, since she only trains in private with Monroe no one knows if they can do anything else but turn on and off. Stratigo wasn't made to fight, but rather help devise strategies and solve problems instantly. So far, his mind is the most technologically advanced of the seven. Kagome uses special arrows. They're special because, of course, they utilize the technology used to create the light swords. The laser comes on after she has drawn it in her bow. She has extremely sharp eyes and can see what the others can't. She isn't physically powerful, but she is fast, agile, and can shoot small energy blasts from her hands as a last-minute defense. Zelda is the technology expert and can create small but effective energy barriers. Without her and her extremely proficient hacking and computer knowledge, the group wouldn't have been able to steal the data from their recent missions.
More recently, a new reploid has emerged. He hides mostly in the shadows, and seems to have taken a liking to blood red and black colors. The group knows he exists, but no one knows him except for Monroe. When they ask Monroe about this mysterious reploid, he tells them to mind their own business or tells them that they need to see Lisa, the base's main supercomputer and get checked out for errors. If they saw him, it was only a glimpse, as he would seemingly vanish in front of them.
Only X has been able to see him once and by chance too. He saw him in the training room practicing with six blades (he was handling only two at a time). Two of them looked exactly like Link's sword, but one carried a blood red tint while the other carried a black tint. Another two looked like katanas and similar looking to Inuyasha's sword, but they were tinted the same as the previous two. The last two were lightswords like X's, but they again carried the blood red and black tints. X climbed the crates in order to approach the dark reploid, but X looked at the crates behind him for just a second. When X turned to look at him, he was gone.
Yet again, he evaded me. How does he do this? It's worse than what Batman does to Gordon!
