hey everybody, your favorite guardian of heart here. im really glad that people are still reading this, its inspiriing really. but a bit of bad news for you fans, i have a serious lack of reviews, i have nearly 200 views total and i have one review by one person on each chapter thus far! so yeah, if you guys want to read more, your going to have to put just a little tiny bit of effort and heart into it and actually say somthing about my freaking fic! cough cough ahem... anyways, enjoy my fellow maveri-- i mean reploids '.
It was a slow day indeed for Alia as she sat at her workstation and allowed two navigational expert reploids do the work for her. As she sat, she flipped through the pages of a book, trying desperately to stay awake through the monotonous boredom. Something caught her attention though; the sound faint at first, and then it grew louder, as if one of the reploids were walking past. As she turned her head to look she froze up in horror and disbelief as X walked by, his body torn apart. As she went to stand, she heard X's voice come in a sharp tone "I don't want to talk about it!" he spat out without even glancing over "I'm heading to sick bay, and don't you follow me Alia! I just need to think for a while, I can let my stasis and the repair capsules do that for me!" His footsteps once again trailed off and Alia let out a deep sigh.
"why does that man have to continually get hurt" she said thinking out loud "I wish he would realize how much it pains me to see him hurt…" her sentence trailed off as she returned her gaze to the book, even if her mind wasn't even somewhat concentrated on reading. In fact, the only thing on her mind at the moment was X, and she began to day dream. But her fantasy was shattered when a loud bleep was heard and one of the reploids turned to her, his hands still upon the keyboard.
"Miss Alia, you need to come take a look at this reading we just revived, it's quite phenomenal!" Alia closed her book and got up out of her seat, walking over to the main computer that the reploid was it and scanned over the screen with her eyes.
"So" she said in a dull tone "there are only minor maverick activities shown on here, why are you wasting my time now?"
the reploid shook his head "its not here, look on the extended radar" he said pointing to a small area on the top right corner of the screen "don't these energy signatures look odd to you!" Alia looked closely and blinked a couple times, astonished by what she was seeing. It seemed to be energy unlike anything ever seen in the base before, and it was massive. But what was odd was it was off in the far stretches of the extended radar, which showed that it was coming from outside of earth, even outside of NE.
"Dexon my friend" Alia said to the reploid with a smile and an exited glimmer in her eyes "I believe that you've stumbled upon a breakthrough in science!" Alia went fast to work, pushing Dexon to the side and zooming in on the detected energy. After a while it finally focused upon something very odd, a blazing comet engulfed in a light blue energy. And the most amazing part about it all was that the comet was heading straight for earth! However, the energy seemed to be too intense, for even at that distance the computer that was fixated on it began to fizzle and spark and then just as Alia and Dexon stepped back from it, it exploded in a flurry of electricity, smoke, and fire. Exited from both the incident and the new energy found, Alia rushed off to the medical bay as fast as she could, plowing right through Dexon as if he were as worthless as he was before he found the new energy.
X sat down on one of the operating tables and his head lowered as he brought his hands up to bury his face in, the synth skin singed and damaged. Sobbing he tried to speak through it to himself, but it came out in stutters. "Why… w-why does this always h-have t-t-to happen to m-me. What have I d-done to deserve this! F-first Axl dies in my hands, a-and its all bec-c-cause of that bastard Vile! I destroy c-countless innocents and for w-what! To just have Sigma c-come back and do it a-all over again! N-now Vile returns and kills my newest ally… I'm s-sick of this! I'm sick of fighting! I'm sick and t-tired of the never ending battles that I'm p-put through! A-and now it seems as though ill h-have to fight my friend Zero… why I ask! Why am I put through s-so much misery! Why is it th-that while everyone else enjoys their lives I'm put on the frontlines! Please… j-just let it end… let my s-suffering end…"
X got up and started to walk over to one of the capsules, stumbling along the way as Alia walked up to the entryway and stepped in. as she was about to walk in further she stopped herself and let out in a weak voice "X…?"
X stopped and stood straight up, still sobbing "g-go away Alia. Leave me alone…"
"No X" she said with a bit more courage "I wont, you need help…"
X turned around and threw his arm back behind him screaming "I told you to leave me the hell alone! I just want to deal with t-this on my own god damn it!" then X coughed, and a bit of oil came up as his balance waned and he began to fall forward, his eyesight blurring.
"X!" Alia shouted out as she ran as fast as she possibly could to X, catching him in her arms as he fall, his chest armor falling completely off and onto the floor as he rested in her arms. She turned his body around and both gasped in quickly. Their glances met and not a word was spoken as they gazed into each others eyes, they just stayed there in that moment in time, enjoying the moment and yet not. It was as if they both felt safest in that moment, but at the same time, they felt more nervous and uncomfortable than they had ever felt before.
"Alia…" X said, trailing off, his mind drawing a blank except for one single thought.
"X… I…" Alia was also speechless, finding it hard to even breathe. Her face was becoming flushed from the moment, yet neither of their gazes trailed from each others. X's breathing was heavy, and Alia's became short as the rose in her checks got more and more prominent. And that's when they finally let themselves go, and Alia let out a gasp of surprise and relief. The two moved closer together; their hearts racing, their minds focusing on nothing but each other, their breath coming short. They realized then how they truly felt about each other, and as they finally realized what had been right in front of them the entire time, their lips came but moments apart from each other.
A blinding light came from within the confines of the lit room occupied by Zero and Wily, and Wily snickered as he worked upon his project. "So Wily" Zero said, watching on in curiosity "what exactly are you making?"
"I'm building a few reploids to help our quest along its path" Wily snorted, his gaze fixated upon what he was fast at work on, never hindering as he grabbed various parts from the junk piles around him. "With the help of them and you, it will be an easy task to take control of both Earth and NE!"
Zero laughed and turned his back to Wily "so you think that I will that easy do you? Have you not taken into account X, Axle, and the rest of the high ranking reploids that have fought along at my side!"
"Nye he ha ha ha!" Wily laughed, continuing to work "I made quick work of that foolish boy Axle. All I had to do is reactivate Vile and in a flurry of energy and concussion missiles, he was no more than a piece of scrap metal!"
Zero winced, remembering what Vile had done to him and he clenched his fist tightly, his entire arm shaking from the pressure he was applying "you had to bring that bastard back didn't you!"
Wily stopped working for a second, caught off guard by the comment "relax Zero, Vile died as well; there is no need to worry about such things."
Zero let out a sigh and wandered around the room aimlessly, his fist now unclenched and his arm swung at his side as he walked along. He searched the room as he walked and then he heard Wily call out "finished!" he trudged back to where Wily was and looked over the inventors shoulder, gazing upon the new reploid before him.
"So Wily, what exactly did you create just now?" he questioned, looking on in fascination.
Wily turned, a smirk upon his face, and he extended his arm out to his new creation. It stood almost as high as Zero did; actually its form was very similar to Zero's form. It was red with white stripes upon its arms and boots. On one arm there was a cannon type of weapon and each of its fingers were segmented and hollow. Where its shoulders would be there were two large red and white tanks, and its helmet had an opening at the top of it. "Zero, I give you one of my later creations that seemed to do exceedingly well against both Rock and Forte. I give you Burner man… I suppose that I can't use those names any more can I?" Zero just let out a sigh and kept listening to Wily, showing no emotion "I shall dub him Burner, what do you think of that name my creation?" Zero gave a nod and then started to walk away, and Wily kept up his work diligently.