finally i upload another chapter for all of you fans out there, you know the whole like five of you > . either way enjoy, more to come soon i hope.


When Layer teleported into point x in moonlight city all she saw were countless buildings demolished, the rubble strewn everywhere in sight. She made her way through the city slowly, looking all around for humans or robots that may be injured. She soon heard the scream of a young woman who sounded like she was in her late twenties. Layer rushed through the city, jumping from one piece of rubble to the next in hopes to catch up to her before it was too late. After double jumping over a large heap of pillars Layers eyes were set upon what appeared to be a large robot built for moving items. It picked up her sound when she landed and quickly grabbed a large mass of rubble and threw it at Layer with great force and speed. Layer then quickly rolled out of the way of the rubble and un-sheaved her beam rapier and held it out in a defensive position. "That's enough Crush!" beckoned a somewhat sinister voice as Zero jumped down from the clock tower nearby and walked in-between Layer and Crush. "L-Layer! What are you doing here?"

"I'm filling in for X to take down a Maverick that just appeared in the area… Zero… it wasn't you was it…?"

"A maverick…?" Zero questioned "not likely! I'm just obeying lord Wily's command; this was all a ploy to get X to come. But since you're here, I won't go through with my mission."

"But, why? You came out of your way with that… thing, and you won't even go through with your prerogative? Why zero…"

"Don't you remember what I said so very long ago?" Zero said almost reflectively "We'll always be together as a team. I wouldn't harm you… not even if my life was on the line!" With that, Zero teleported out with Crush.

Layer stood there amazed for a moment, and then dropped her rapier; it deactivating as it fell. The girl and the robot that was accompanying her ran over to Layer and the girl stood a few feet back from the femme fatal.

"Thank you for saving me and Auto, miss" she said in an almost innocent tone "if you hadn't come along we would have been destroyed for sure!"

"But, there's no such reploid in the system named Crush… could he be a new age model?"

"Crush, hardly!" she yelled out "I'd know that robot anywhere… that's Guts Man… just improved."

"Come on girl, we need to get you back to MHHQ" Layer gave the girl a large sheet with those words. "Put that on, it should shield you from any radiation caused by the warp transport." The girl put it on quickly and her, Layer, and Auto all teleported out.

Alia was back at her command post, and was frantically trying to get the energy signal traced that she had just a bit ago. "Miss Alia…" came the call of one of the reploids helping her.

"What is it!" Alia snapped without looking away from her computer.

The reploid was a bit surprised and scared, but he persisted "while you were away we began doing research on that blue energy…"

"Spit it out Sketch, I don't have all day to deal with incompetence!"

Sketch looked down, he was hit hard by Alias aggravated blow to him and it hurt. "A-after analyzing it we've tracked it back millennia"
Alias head shot up, her eyes wide and she made her way over to him, resting her hand on his shoulder. "Well Sketch, looks like you're not as useless as I thought you were, good job." A smile stretched across Sketch's face and he almost shed a tear after hearing it, not ever getting compliments in his time of work. He sat down at one of the computers and Alia followed. "So, show me what you've found Sketch."

"You see miss Alia" he said as he worked at the keyboard diligently, moving from file folder to file folder until her pulled up the information he was looking up "as it turns out this energy is based on a very unique energy which counterbalances with a second and now near extinct energy. We like to call it light and dark energy, but you may call it whatever you wish." The screen changed just then and showed a strange looking tank like contraption. "This is the energy tank that we believe could cycle this energy; however it was never developed and only discovered shortly after the eighth robot rebellion back in Dr. Light's time. The good doctor said that "if I were to create such a device, not only could the results be devastating for our planet, but we could also disrupt the space time continuum!" So we have nothing to go off of except for what little information we have discovered."

"So how exactly is this relevant to the energy source other than if we were to build such a system we could control it?"

"It tells us one thing, and it's a very important little fact…" Sketch said, taking a long pause before speaking again. "It means that this energy signature may be from a robot..."