I got bored and 'cided to have Zero meet Bass. This'll be awkward to write.o.oU Though I am a complete psychopath(As I like to say), so yeah...

Oh yes! Ketsueki means Blood so the title for this story is basically Blood Saber. I might change it later on, dunno...

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A blonde haired, blue eyed male reploid growled something about a friend being late under his breath. He was clad in red armor. That was just Zero. He didn't have much patients, unless it had to do with finding Mavericks, but if it meant waiting for X and Axl, eheheh...no, not much patients. "Maybe Axl locked himself in a broom closet or something..." He muttered.

"Did not!" A teenaged Reploid said, skidding to a stop next to Zero, followed by a blue armored reploid.

"Well it sure seemed like it." Zero muttered, rolling his eyes. "Are you two ready, now? I talked to Alia a bit ago, she said there are two unreadable signals in the Desert Ruins now." He said.

"I'm ready." X and Axl said in unison.

Zero sighed at how they spoke, but nodded. "Good." He said, then got off the wall he was leaning on and walked over to a door, opening it and walking inside, leaving it open for the others.

X and Axl both followed, then X looked at the teleportation devices.

Zero walked over to the little pad thing where they could set the coordinates by hand if they wanted and typed in a code thing. After a minute, he turned and walked over to one of the devices. "Five seconds, guys." He said.

X nodded. "Right." He said, then got onto one quickly.

"Now I know for sure you don't lke to wait, Zero..." Axl said and climbed onto another.

"You've been with us a while and just now learned that?" Zero asked as the time was up and they teleported out.

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"So what do you think it is?" Axl asked, following X and Zero, who were walking side by side, step for step in front of him.

Zero shrugged, though X answered before him.

"Probably some Maverick Sigma's trying to create and keep hidden." X stated.

"But still, it makes no sense. Is he using the Maverick Virus to block the signal?" Axl asked.

"We won't know until we get there, and we're not really sure what we're looking fo---" Zero started to say, but was tackled to the ground by a purple Reploid dog. It starting to lick him happily, almost as if he knew Zero.

"Argh! Get off!" Zero snapped.

"Treble! Get back here NOW!" An Ebony robot snapped at the purple dog as he ran over, panting some.

The dog, which had been called Treble, whimpered some, got off of Zero, and walked back over to the black robot.

Zero sat up, rubbing his face off. "Now I know why I don't like hyper animals." He murmured, then looked at the robot who he had guessed that the dog belonged to and froze. Something was familiar about him, but he just couldn't name it. 'Who is he...' He thought, though was snapped out of his thoughts at the sound of X and Axl getting their weapons ready. He followed in line, stood up, and got his saber ready. "Who the heck are you?" He demanded, watching the ebony robot closely.

The robot looked at him a moment, then at X and Axl, then back to Zero. "Isn't it polite to say your name before you ask someone else's?" He responded, smirking some.

Zero grunted some. "Maybe so, but I'm a Maverick Hunter and I asked your name." He snapped. He was non too happy with the robot's previous response.

"Okay, okay, jeez, cool it, blondey." The robot said. "I'm Bass." He added, rolling his eyes some. "You got quite the temper." He murmured.

Zero sighed some in annoyance at being called blondey. He didn't like that. "Yeah, got it, 'Bass'. I'm Zero." He said. He hadn't taken his eyes off of Bass since he got his saber out.

"And who are you two?" Bass asked, looking at X and Axl.

"I'm X."

"And I'm Axl."

"X? Are you sure it's not..." Bass started, then shook his head. "Never mind." He said.

X looked puzzled, then looked at Axl, who looked back at him, then they both nodded to each other and put away their Weapons, though they were both ready to get them out again incase Bass was a Maverick.

'I don't trust this guy one bit... but... why is he so...familiar?' Zero thought, his mind trailing some, though he quickly snapped back to reality and looked at Bass again.

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Back at Hunter Base, X and Axl had taken Bass to a room to get him checked out, to make sure he wasn't Maverick. Zero had agreed to watch Treble, as Bass wouldn't allow anyone else to. That's what got him to thinking. Why pick him of all people to watch Treble? Why not X? Or Axl? They were as well known as he was, and he knew good and well X was probably a lot more popular than him...so what was Bass thinking when he put Treble under Zero's watch for the time being?

Zero shrugged. "I doubt I'll ever figure it out...though, I could just ask him..." He murmured, walking around outside in a nearby forest, allowing Treble to look around and get to know the area.

Treble let out a sharp bark and took off one way through the forest, obviously running after something.

Zero tensed up at first. "Hey! Treble! Wait up!" He called, taking off after them, then withdrew and ignited his Z-Saber, incase it were a Maverick.

Treble didn't listen and kept running until he finally dashed under some bushes that had thorns and what not in it.

Zero panted some, skidding to a stop, then knelt down where Treble had ran in at. "Stupid Mutt." He mumbled. He peered into the place where Treble was to see that Treble was digging around, trying to get in a...hole? "Treble!" He snapped, reaching in and grabbing the purple Dog's tail, then tugged hard and pulled him out.

Treble emitted as sharp bark of pain from his tail being pulled like that, then looked at Zero with confused eyes, though, in a way, they were scared, as he thought Zero would hurt him.

"What in the name of Sigma are you doing!" Zero demanded, sighed and releasing Treble's tail.

Treble just bark in a reply, but then tackled Zero again like he did earlier, but instead of licking his face, he balled up on Zero's stomach and fell asleep.

Zero groaned some. "Ugh." He muttered, just laying there. "Maybe X and Axl will be done soon. And them, and Bass, will come and look for me or maybe X will contact me." He told himself, sighing.

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Haha... I stopped as Zero took off after Treble... Oye. I feel sorta sorry for Zero in this... having to meet Bass, then watch Treble... he should get Treble a leash.o.0