Why won't anybody talk to me?

Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!!!!! NOTHING!!!!!!

Uzu: Imbri, yes I do have to admit X smiling evily, is very scary, but imaginable some how.... . Don't ask..

I will try to post at least every week, if possible. Maybe every week and a half or something like that. 00 QUOTAS!!! XD Depends on how inspirated I am. Ok ok, every 2 weeks. But, hey, I would guess that you would preffer a good chapter to a crappy writen one nyeh? I'm pretty much screwing myself over by adding pplz from the comand mission.. gah, I need to get the game before I get to the uhh wait a minute, I ain't telling you what chapter they're in!! Hmmm. Still haven't caught Axl yet. He escaped me three times this morning.

Axl: X3 sticks tongue out at her

Uzu: XD Oh well. Bah, I like to ramble. Haven't really talked to anybody for a while... WHY WON'T ANOBODY TAlK TO ME??????!!! Sorry couldn't resist the pun XD!



"Hmmnnnnnnn...." Axl turned over on his side. Last night had been quite a trek, his feet were sore and ached under each heel. His torso hurt with every breath he took because of lactic acid. (Ya know the pain after you work out?) Plain and simple, he did not want to get up. Anyway, it was only 5 O'clock. He had another 2 hours before duty. Peering at the clock he mentaly sighed at himself. 5 O'clock? What on earth had possesed him to wake up so early? Not really wanting to find the answer from himself, he turned over yet again towards his other side with a grunt. Why was he having so much trouble sleeping? Usually the others would have to drag him out of bed literally by pulling his legs. Yet tonight he had had very distraught dreams. It was probably the information he had download yesterday. He noticed that everytime he downloaded something, he ended up having nightmares. Strange.

Rolling to the other side, yet AGAIN, Axl yanked his bed cover with him. Now on his stomack, staring lazily at his clock he tapped his fingers on the bed's frame. 'That dream... was scary.' He thought to himself suddenly. He had forgotten most of it but he remembered the sense of fear when he woke up in cold sweat. He remembered flashes of black, and another familiar face somewhat related to the flashes of purple, and Sigma. Now he remembered.

He had been standing on a platform, facing this never ceasing foe. On his left side a black robot stood with him. It looked over at him and gave a cocky smile, almost as if 'we can take him, or die trying'. On his right stood a purple robot, who pretty much looked as if he were ready to faint right then and there, face as blank as a sheet, but stood his ground next to him. Both he had felt were good friends to him. Ready to fight to the death. As if the battle had started he saw flashes of Black and purple and gold. The flashes were soon acompagnied by green, pink, white and red. And then it ended.

The part of the dream that had happened before, he could not however recollect. Snuggeling up to his blankets he decided to go over the rest of the information on Zero's past and present. Suddenly a name popped up from one of the lists. Zero Nightmare. What was this? Trying to open the file for more information on who had created this 'thing', Axl stumbled on a security block. He didn't have the right code to open up the link. "Darn." He mumbled. He had forgotten how even downloaded information still had security measures. He would have to be a higher rank to be able to receive the proper code to read this file.

Now he was bored. He couldn't look at anymore information, and he couldn't sleep..what more was there to do around here? Pausing for a moment he sighed yet again. He never had asked himself that question when he was a part of Red Alert. There was always something fun to do even when he wasn't on any missions. Like say, throw rocks at SplashWarfly? (Now we know why he hated Axl so much XD) Or pre-ignite SnipeAnteater's missles? Actually this was one of the hardest things for him to get used to at the Hunter's HQ. There wasn't anything to do! Maybe if he found some one who knew how to have fun..

On that mind set he launched himself out of bed and headed straight for the door. "Let's see.. This should be intresting!"



Pitter-pattering once again on the cold light hued tiles of the HQ's floors, Axl trotted past various HQ 'employees'. It seemed that quite a few were still working. The maverick scare had probably made Signas put everybody's hours up. Not everybody was up and working though. Axl passed by Zero's chamber, seeing that the hunter was lying back on his bed reading a magazine while listening to some questionable music, he decided to not bug him. The Crimson hunter was known for his bad mood swings.

Curiously X wasn't in his room. Maybe Signas had them on some sort of shift work? Still walking a long, Axl wasn't paying any attention to his surroundings. That is until he not-so-lightly-bumped into some one. The other layed sprawled on the floor muttering to himself darkly. Quickly pulling himself up he uncreassed his white lab coat. "What on earth is your hurry at this time in the morning?!"

Axl, still with his posterior on the floor, just looked up at the purple reploid. Glancing left and right and then up again he replied. "Umm... I wasn't running..."

Slapping his hand on his forhead the other sighed. "Right, right. Sorry. They have me overworked this week." Offering his hand to help the younger reploid up he continued. "My name's Gate, I don't believe I've met you."

Chuckling Axl accepted the lift. Only then did he realise how much older the other repoid was compared to himself, that and the black marks under his eyes from lack of sleep. Feeling a tad uncomfortable Axl shifted his eyes to the left wall's plain light blue paint. "I'm uh, Axl. I don't think that I've seen you either."

Starting to walk off again towards his previous goal, Gate looked back at the red head. "That's because they keep me under lock and key in the research center!" Smiling he waved a goodbye in Axl's general direction. A few minutes passed until the young reploid shuffled his feet. Alone in the hallway, bored out of his mind.....

"GATE!!!!! WAIT FOR ME!!!!!!"



"And this is the research lab!" Gate stated as he waved his hand airily to show the research center.

"Wow." Was all Axl could muster as the vastness of the underground lair appeared to journey on forever. Chrome seemed to be littered everywhere as well as parts for mechanical use. Unbelievably though, everything was in order, contrary to the 'used' state of the workplace.

Axl strode over to one of the metallic desks. He peered at the various papers and blue-print for future projects. Curiously he turned his head to look at Gate who was gazing in the opposite direction. Taking his index and thumb, Axl removed a few offending plans to the other side of the desk in order to look at a more interesting one. It had a jet propelsion upgrade sketched on it. Hmmm. Wouldn't he just love to have one of those. Immediate surprise came upon the boy when Gate appeared over his shoulder smiling. "You like that one eh?"

Blinking quite a few times Axl stared at the older robot. No one ever let him look at their plans and blue-prints. They all usually shooed him away and told him to get lost. He suspected that most of them still thought that he was 'untrustworthy' because of his background with Red Alert. This was a total change.

"You, you don't mind?" He stuttered unsure of what to feel at the moment. He was so used to being downhearted all the time...

"Why would I?" Now it was the purple robot's turn to be inquisitive. "What's the matter, why are you looking so sad?" Putting an arm comfortingly on Axl's shoulder Gate looked worriedly at the boy.

"Well... Nobody ever lets me look at their stuff. They all seem to be afraid, or think I'm too young to be allowed in the HQ."

"You probably won't believe me, but I understand exactly what you are going through." Pausing the older robot looked away for a moment. "It's only now that they're beginning to trust me actually."

Raising an eyebrow in Gate's direction, he glanced up at him. "Why?"

"Umm... Well...Uh, say kid, why don't we find some chairs to sit on. This might take a while..." Grabbing a wayward chair for both he started his conversasion.

"About 2 years ago I used to work with several collegues on a robot project. Their were various topics to choose from. I went ahead and chose a project in which I would have to make an unscanable robot. I suceeded briefly after.

My collegues then started to question my motives, and soon most of then didn't trust me. They ridiculed me, and encased my robots. Trying to get over my, um, 'rash' feelings towards them I went for a walk."

Again raising an eyebrow, Axl interupted. "That's it? You went for a walk?"

Glaring the other responded coldly. "I'm not DONE yet." Clearing his throat he continued. "It was then that my foot hit something hard. Looking down I saw what seemed to be a weird looking panel chip. Deciding to inspect it I picked it up..."

"And then Sigma appeared and tried to kill you!"

Slamming his fist on the metallic desk Gate glared again at the boy. "WOULD. YOU. LET. ME. FINISH?!"

Gulping Axl nodded. Sighing in relief Gate yet AGAIN, continued. "Well when I picked that stupid thing up, it must have contained the maverick or Z- another virus.." Swifting his eyes nervously at Axl, Gate mentally slapped himself. He had to remember not to let on what he so blatantly knew. So he decided to speed the conversation up a notch before he could blurt out any more information.

"Anyways, short and simple, I went insane." This brought on a gasp from his audience, to which he quickly gave a glare some what on the lines of 'If you dare to say ONE WORD-'

"Apparently when I was under the influence of, well... whatever it was, I had built and ressurected several reploids, built my own battle armor, and resurected the evil Sigma."

"I KNEW SIGMA WAS IN TH-" Hand resting on the younger boy's mouth Gate continued.

"And then.... X and Zero kicked my ass." Removing his hand from Axl's mouth.

Giggling nervously Axl stared at Gate's eyes. "Wow, what an interesting story.. heheh. Now I understand WHY they don't trust y-" A silencing glare from the other reploid shut Axl up.

Rapping his fingers on the side of the desk, the older glanced at Axl in a casual manner. "So, what do you think?"

"Oh. So NOW you want to hear me!" Chuckling Axl raised his hands in a 'I give up' pose. Slidding out of the chair, Gate crept up behind Axl.

"So.... You don't mind if I do-THIS!!" He suddenly grabbed Axl by the shoulders which made the boy let out a shriek, which soon turned into fits of laughter between the two.

Panting from 'emotional' exhaustion, Axl mustered enough energy to ask a final question. "Gate... If I tell you something.. will you keep it a secret?"

As the laughter died down Gate looked at him questioningly. "Sure. That's what friends do."

Sitting down once again on the chair Axl decided that if anybody could answer him about the Zero Nightmare, it would have to be this guy. "I had read in one of the data files on the main computer that there was something called the Zero Nightmare, could you possibly tell me what this was, or is?"

Staring for a few minutes, Gate calmly replied. "Nope. I've heard of it, but never saw it. I know as much as you do, sorry."

"Hmmm.. Well thanks anyways!" Getting off the seat, Axl waved a good bye at Gate. "See ya around, later!"

Smiling Gate resipricated. "Axl."

Turning around he faced Gate.

"I look older than my age. I'm actually only two years older than you." Gate finished. Once again grinning the teen left the perimeters of the lab.

Watching until Axl was well clear out of the room and further, he let out a tremendous sigh. Zero Nightmare. Of course he KNEW what it was! He had created it! Taking off his helmet momentarily he combed his black hair with his hand. How would Axl even get permission to turn on the main computer? HE didn't even have that access, even before when he was a student. Dreading the fact that he unmistakably knew that Axl had downloaded prohibited information, he blew away some of his bangs. Damn. This was going to be harder than it looked. He had nothing against Axl. Actually he liked the kid a lot. Axl reminded him, of well, himself when he was younger, even though there was only a two year difference between them. Looking down at the blue-prints that laid scattered on the desk, he stared at the one that Axl had been so fond of. Another presence in the lab made him gaze up.

"Gate, Signas assigned us another project. We need your expertise."

"Right, right. I'll be with you guys in a second Alia. Tell Silver to prepare the plans and what-not."

He'd have to think about it in the afternoon.



Uzu: There. Longest chapter so far . Took 3 weeks to write. Just need to check it over. HAPPY?!!!! HAPPY BECAUSE OF MY LABOUR???!!!!!

Gate: Yes.

Uzu: looks through thesaurus How many words are there for 'look'? -Not enough.

Gate: :P

Uzu: throws a looped rope off the screen on her left pulls Let's see if the fish are bitting!

Axl: tied up in loop DAMIT!!!!!

UZU: XD! See you guys in the next chapter!! BBYE! Oh, and by the way, I beat Snipe anteater with the fire circle,(is that what it's named?) the explosion gun with Axl (Axl: XD I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS!!!!), Giga Crush with X, multiple buster shots with both, Axl's missile dodging skills, and a suicide-one-hit-and-i'm-toast-while-lasers-are-firing-buster-shooting-spree with X, a centimeter away from snipe anteater (which if he had moved, I would have been killed.....again). I beat him....twitch Suicide missions will get you far. I tried it against Tron in Megaman Legends. IT WORKED. XD except with one mine instead of busters. ..Now I'm at Red. And personally at this point I do not care if he dies. twitches more violently 17 tries, and still counting. Just like vanishing Gungaroo (who the heck made up that name?) but worst. Niricko and I keep falling in the pits! Or areas in which there is no footing, which is practically the whole screen.

I saw the 'Red defeated ending' in japanese. Only thing that makes me cry is when Axl shouts out ''REEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!". That is it. That is all. I HAVE NO PITY FOR RED WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!! He's tried to murder me to many times... :P

Please tell me what you think of the chapter!! Remember if you have critisism, you can always express it in a nice way. I have nothing against improving my writing.