Disclaimer: o0 I don't own the Megaman X series, 'cause if I did I would have changed the ending of X8! (sob) I pity that maverick!.. and I laugh because Axl's probably going to go evil or something. Don't get me wrong, I loooooove Axl, but to see him as a kick ass maverick blowing up stuff would do my heart some good. I mean he's so cute! Could you imagine that cuteness blowing up a truck? or AT LEAST beating up X. Now that's something that'll be well worth it. I'm sorry but ever since X7 and that part where X says "no send him back, we don't need this" I've thought of him as a prick, sorry all you X lover's out there, but he's mean and whiny and get's on my nerves!!!!
X: You flatter me so.
I WISH I COULD JUST LEGATO HIS ASS!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Lumine: Don't steal my attacks.
Uzu: When's you get here?
Lumine: uh...
Uzu: (grabs a baseball bat) Wait a minute! Didn't it take me four retry chips because you bashed into me constantly and then fired beams at my fe-
Lumine: (is gone, amazingly!)
Gate: That was harsh.
Uzu: Shut it. You're next on the list.
Gate: Oooooooooh. Verbals threats. Some one's pissed off.
Uzu: Yes...
Gate: ?
Uzu: IT TOOK ME ALL WEEK AND THEN I FORGOT TO SAVE!!!!! (SOB) DAMN SIGMA!!!
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"Area SE:(98,34).."
The four reploids stood next to each other surveying the terrain. To be truthful each was a little nervous as to what they would find in this desolate area. Cautiously X began to charge his buster as he took a few steps. Zero contented himself by just securing his grip on his beloved Z-saber. Dynamo simply unsheathed his double sided beam saber. Axl unsuredly played with the trigger buttons on his dual guns. The sense of edgyness was in the atmosphere. Something just didn't seem right.
And when Axl's gut told him that danger was on the horizon, he found it very hard not to listen.
The young boy just stood there, waiting. Waiting for anything. His body flooded with relief when their 'operative commander' gave them simple yet clear orders.
X turned to the lonely group. Like any miletary man, he told them to do what they had come here to do.
"Search around for any information that we can transmit to our navigators. If you encounter a maverick, silence them before they can warn the others. Remember, if you ever come into trouble," tapping his buster lightly he continued, "just call."
Nodding grimly the four parted ways. The eerieness still floated around the air, snaking it's way around the metallic obstacles of the long forgotten navy base. The young reploid guessed that if he went to grab some air, his hand would come back with some sort of smog. Shuddering slightly at the thought, he doggedly went on, hopping over old fragments of walls and long dead metallic wires that were once sparked to life with electricity.
His heart beat was fast and furious. He felt rather embarrassed, as the sudden fear of looking back took hold of him. Trying to shrug it off, he quickly spun around to see how far the others had progress. He was met with the same eerie fog, and no more. The others were long gone. Axl had never felt as alone as he did now, not even when he had ditched Red Alert. Now it seemed that even if he did scream now, nobody would be able to hear him.
This was not helping his nerves. (Why I see pink fog, I will never know..)
Stopping in his tracks, he took two deep breaths of air. Loosening his mind of all his thoughts and anxiety, he focused on the mission. Get information.
The area suddenly became less lethal. The silence simply became the norm. Until a sound resonated off of the metallic debry in front of him.
Grabbing his guns as if they were an essential part of his biomechanics (XD) he aimed straight ahead without question or doubt. Sweat beaded off the side of his forhead as he prepared to change his firing range. As soon as the noise had came, it had left.
It was only a few minutes later (Read: 7) that he encountered X. Looking rather displeased, X walked up to Axl.
"Hmm. It seems my route just led me into a circle." Checking his surroundings, he motioned his head towards Axl. "You?"
Hesitating for a moment Axl replied, "I have nothing to report. Not even the slightest evidence of anything being used here... What route did you take?"
Stretching the back of his shoulders X nonchalantly replied. "Oh, my path led to a grate. I went in it and ended up here. But I did notice a crevice halfway that could be persuaded. I need someone to help me get it open, I tried contacting Zero and Dynamo, but they aren't responding."
'So, he contacts Dynamo and Zero before me.' Axl thought bitterly. 'I'm worth less to X than a rogue bounty hunter.' Half tempted to raise his gun upwards, pull the trigger and blame it on a maverick, Axl sighed unhappily.
"So I was wondering kid. Could you help me with it?" Well what choice did he have? They had to complete the mission, and the only way to do this it seemed, was to get further into the facility.
"Ya, sure. Hey, but aren't you worried about Zero...", after some thought on the sentence he had just said, Axl added, "and Dynamo?"
"Not really." X said as he turned around to face the way he had came. Miffed Axl fixed his eyes on the back of the blue hunter's helmet, not quite digesting what X had replied. On a second thought, Axl realised that X had his reasons. The blue bomber never came out with more than he would usually have to, Axl had noticed that when he listened in on X's and Zero's conversations. X was an introvert, and most of the time you'd have to drag the information out of him, in less-than-honorable ways. (BRUTALLY)
"Why?" He asked the only question he could. The only one that made sense.
"Because," Megaman turned his face to look Axl in the eyes, the sentence would have continued had it not been for the chain reaction that followed. Before a charged laser could be projected towards it's target, a small yet nibble round from a revolver cut off the laser's course (this is not X's buster shot ok?). Both hunters hit the ground for fear of a volley of energy projectiles, which sure enough came. Grabbing Axl's left arm, X flung himself and his partner behind a huge slab of rubble and back down the vent that he had come from. (heh, sounds like X was born in a vent..(giggle))
All that played across their vision was the blackness of the sudden lack of light. Soon enough though, their eyes ajusted to the dim grey that surrounded them. Axl didn't notice it, but X was staring at him. Thoughts blazed the male's mind as he searched for emotion on the younger's face. Why did he save him? That last thought lingered in X's mind. Why had Axl saved him? The first time he had met the reploid he had shouted at Zero and Signas to take him back to Red Alert. He had never given the boy a chance, and when Axl had asked to become a maverick hunter X had practically burst with melancoly laughter.
'Why?' He thought to himself bitterly, as if the actions he had done over the past weeks had been foreing. Did Axl just remind him of something he despised?
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Sorry for spelling errors and the like, but I wanted to get this up ASAP. X was born in a vent! (giggles rabidly) I can't help it, it just sounds so funny.
By the way Rue, X did not invite Axl to have lunch with him, only the ressearch team did (i.e: Alia, Gate, Melee, Silver (who ran away to the caf first XD)) or should I just say Alia? Anyways thank you for taking my idea of an X8 novelisation! I can't wait to read it. Gosh, ya know I even freaked myself out as I was writing the creepy scene. (shudders as if she just saw Sigma) And I was somewhat tempted to turn this fic yaoi. You know, just play around with one word, see how it would change the whole meaning of the sentence. Naw. I couldn't write yaoi for the life of me. It just goes against my principles. I can read fluff, I can read some yaoi, write it? Hell no. I won't even draw the stuff! So that's saying a lot! I guess I don't per say mind male/male that much because it's the other species :). Most of the anime characters look unisex
anyways, so I don't see it changing much... I DID NOT FEEL LIKE MAKING LITTLE SEXY AXL'S LIFE ANY HARDER TO COPE WITH THANK YOU!
Lumine: (giggles)
Uzu: YOU AGAIN?!!!! (takes out bat)
Lumine: EEK! (runs away being chased by a mad ravenous authoress)
Gate: Well review if you want her to write more dammit!
Axl: YAOI??????!!!!!!
Zero: Finally the pain is over to some one else!
Axl: Of course you would know all about it right?
Zero: Heh?!
Axl Gate: XD