--Opening theme: Identity 2: SHK-- .

Chapter6:Gratitude

"Are you serious?! You're so young!!!" Axl made an unhappy face and started to grunt, "Yeah! That's what they all say to me!" then he tried getting up again, this time he managed to stand up and walk, "Thank you guys for the time but I have to go back before they notice I'm gone from the maintenance lab. Bye!!!" the trio waved Axl good-bye and he dashed away to their room. When he arrived he saw his pistol and locket on his bed, "Thank goodness it's still here." He said to himself, then he jumped to lie down on his bed, rain started to pour down outside, "It's raining!" he said, and then he sat up to look outside. He hummed a lullaby and put himself to sleep…

After several hours of deep sleep, "Axl…Axl…Axl! Wake up…wake up…" Axl rolled to the other side of the bed to avoid 1being woken up. "5 more minutes Lee…I wanna sleep more…" Zero got totally pissed off by this; he took out his giant paper fan,

SMACK!!!!!!

"Oww!!!!!! What was that for??!!" Axl said getting up and rubbing the back of his neck, "It's time for training!!" Axl blinked a few times, "Ok! Just don't hit me again with that fan!!!" Zero smirked and went to the cafeteria with Axl to eat both of their breakfasts. Axl felt really uncomfortable because of everybody is staring at him blankly, curious of who he was and where he came from, he bent over to whisper in Zero's ear, "Why is everybody staring at me?" Zero smiled at him, "Just like any other hunter here, they're curious about who you are to enter here." Axl pouted and ate in the very corner of the cafeteria, a female hunter saw this and walked over to him, "Hey, are you the new rookie here?" Axl looked up at the hunter, "Uhhm…yes. Why?" she just smiled and went away back to her friends, then one of her friends looked at him and took out a screwdriver and formed her arm into a buster and tightened a screw in it, "And to think a prototype like him would have a buster like this one." One of them said, Axl got totally pissed of by his gesture, he put down his lunch and stomped away out of the cafeteria with his pistol in hand, swinging dangerously, "I think he heard you." they all laughed. As Axl was walking out he bumped into Alia the second he walked out the door, she saw that his eyes welled up with tears, she walked in with anger in her face, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!!" A hunter stood up, "I think one of my friends hurt his feelings; I told you he overheard you!!!" Axl walked to the firing range which several hunters were practicing their aim and power at the maverick dummy, "Good Afternoon!" he said and moved to the center vacant spot in the range. He drew out his old fashioned pistol and his plasma cannon. The maverick dummy showed a few hundred feet away, "Stupid hunter! Showing off what I don't have! Hmmph!" he said taking aim, he fired several shots for the kill, the sound echoed through the whole firing range, the other hunters were quite an alien to this sound, and looked at where Axl was standing, "What's that thing?" a hunter asked but Axl wasn't listening, he just continued making gun combos with his weapons after several minutes his rage was now gone and smiled with satisfaction as he saw his result, "Well I think this should do it." Another curious hunter looked at the dummy, "Shoot! He's quite good even without a buster system!!" X was now looking for Axl but couldn't find him throughout the whole HQ, "Hey Rex! Have you seen a rookie?" Rex looked at X, "Yeah! You should see what he did to the maverick dummy; he's really good at it!" X dashed to the firing range to look at the dummy, "Ohhh gosh!! What happened to this!" he said to himself looking at the battered burning maverick dummy, then he dashed away again in pursuit of looking for Axl, he tried their room, locked! Axl was inside, "Axl! Are you in there?!" a giggle was just heard through the door, "Axl!!! Answer me!" but there were more giggles heard, X went outside to look at the window, "Zero give me a boost I need to see what he's doing in there, "I told you this isn't gonna work! It's too high!" X rolled his eyes, "Here Zero I think this would help." He gave Zero a chip named jumpster, this made Zero lift X higher than before, "Higher Zero! I can see the window inches away." X reached the top and he saw Axl with a purple wolf-like creature, "Zero! I think that's treble with Axl. And they're playing!" Zero dropped X accidentally, "WHAT! Treble! Here! Bass must be close! Treble never goes anywhere without Bass in close range." Zero drew out his saber and scouted the grounds; Bass was in the tree perfectly camouflaged when Axl spotted a kid up the tree, the kid was wearing a striking black and yellow stripped armor with a blue diamond like shape on his chest. His helmet looks like a fish, with a fierce colored diamond on his forehead. The kid waved at him and Axl rushed to the window, "Hi I'm Axl! What's your name?" the kid almost fell down, "Hello! My name is Bass, have you seen my pet?" Axl carried the wolf-like creature up to the window, "Is this it?" Bass nearly fell down this time, "Yes! Treble! Come here boy!" treble jumped down from the window, "Shoot!" "Don't worry he won't get hurt he landed steadily at the ground." Bass pointed out. "Ahhh…ok." Bass hoped down from the tree, "Bye Axl see you next time!" Axl waved the kid good bye, and closed the window. "What a nice boy."