--Opening theme: Earthquake: KAZE.O2--
Chapter 5: One Shot 2
"Axl! Why are you bleeding?" Axl just tried to stop the bleeding by pressing the hot cartridge of bullets onto his forehead. "Axl stop doing that!!" Zero shouted taking the cartridge away from Axl, "I need to stop the bleeding! Or I'm gonna die!" X sighed, "Stupid way Axl! Come on we need to get you to Cinnamon she'll patch up that scar of yours." Axl nodded and tried to get up but his internal system is now infected with a computer virus that is now eating up his memory, he tried getting up but he fell down again, "Come on hop on my back I'll carry you to her." Zero offered a piggy back ride, and Axl slowly climbed on Zero's back and Zero dashed away out of sight in mere seconds, "Cinnamon! He's bleeding! Can you do something about his scar?" Cinnamon looked up from reading her book, "Why what happened?" Zero let Cinnamon take a look at Axl's scar. "Zero, we have some bad news about your new rookie." Zero took Cinnamon outside the Lab. "What is it Cinnamon?" Cinnamon bent over to whisper in Zero's ear, "Zero your rookie is infected with some kind of new generation virus that is now slowly eating his programming." Zero's jaw drooped, "WHAT!!!...IT CAN'T BE!!! Can there be a way to stop this virus?" he lowered his voice, "I think there is a way but we need to defragment his memory so it would be preserved." Zero nodded in agreement, the two walked on in the Lab again, "Axl we need to patch the scar up." Axl nodded, "Zero get me the container labeled 60mm beta wave." Zero handed her the canister and she gave Axl the full dose of Beta wave, this dose made him fall asleep and feel nothing for almost half a day based on the immune system of the reploid. She started the operation and slowly she extracted the virus from Axl's internal system, "Shoot! Zero! There's another problem!" Zero rushed in as she shouted, "What!" "I think there is gonna be another problem, the virus had already replicated through out his entire system. I need another shot at this, make sure when he wakes up he won't struggle ok." Zero nodded his head, and stood guard on the wall. Then she continued extracting the multiple viruses in Axl's internal system. After several hours of intense nervousness, Cinnamon walked out with a sigh of relief, "He's alright Zero, but he's still asleep the beta wave's effect is still active, good thing his creator gave him a very high-tech immune system. He's like immune to any kind of virus." Zero hugged Cinnamon and muttered his thanks, Zero walked inside the room where Axl was in and slept there by his side.
Axl was now waking up, clutching his head, he looked around, "Zero? Wake up! Where am I?" he shook Zero a few times until he woke up, "A…Axl? How are you doing?" Axl smiled and nodded, "I'm fine now, don't worry. So…when will my training start?" Zero pulled out his giant paper fan and smacked Axl's head, "Oww! What was that for?" Zero smiled, "Are you stupid! You haven't recovered from your operation yet! We'll start as soon as you recover." While the two were talking X slowly peeked through the door, and entered, "How are ya' doin' Axl?" Axl looked up rubbing his head from the blow, "Fine." They all smiled and talked together for hours, after a while they stopped when the alarm sounded and X and Zero are to be dispatched. "See ya' later Axl we need to finish this one fast." Axl nodded and waved goodbye, "Bye!!!" Axl was now left alone with the other hunters in the HQ. Axl staggered out of bed and tried looking for his pistol, when he got out of bed he fell down almost every time he tried getting up, "What's happening?!" he then stood up and held the hand railing on the wall and continued to walk towards the room he was in last time, "Now where is that room again??" then he bumped into another person this time it was a girl wearing a red tank top dress and she had this short blonde hair, when Axl bumped into her papers flew everywhere, "Sorry about that miss." He said, "No I'm the one who should be sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." She saw his face and recognized him as the new rookie, "Hey! You're the new rookie! Hi, I'm Alia! Nice to meet you." Axl looked up, "Hello, my name is Axl. Nice to meet you too." He helped her picking up the files that she dropped, "Here you go Alia, all the files that we dropped, and you look like you need help carrying that." She smiled, "Yeah I think so." Axl carried half the pile of what she was carrying to her room. When they arrived, "Ali this is your room?" she looked up at him as she unlocked her room, "Yup, all the rooms here are all the same. Wanna come in and stay?" Axl nodded and they both went in, "Wow! This is nice!" when they came in two more girls helped Alia with her load of papers, when Axl's load has been taken off he fell down hard, "Oww!" Alia and the other two girls rushed over to help him, "What happened?!" they stood him up and saw a bandage on his head and sat him on the Alia's computer chair, "I can't stand up!" he said, "I think it must be the effect of the beta wave Cinnamon gave me." he added rubbing his head, "Must be." Alia said, "Hi, I'm Layer." She said picking up a folder, another girl bent over to inspect his wound, "hello, I'm Palette." Axl tilted his head to get a better look at Alia's room but Palette keeps blocking his sight range, "Well I think your gonna be fine, I heard that you shot a veteran hunter earlier. Why did you do it?" she asked, "I was startled and scared. I couldn't think of any way out." He explained trying to take a better view of the room. Layer tilted her head, "Ok, so…what's your name?" Axl nodded, "my name is Axl, nice to meet you girls." Pallete ran her fingers through her hair,