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Chapter Two

X mumbled as he woke up the next morning. With a yawn he rolled out of bed and pulled on his jacket again. He had woken up late in the morning and decided he would go see if Zero was at the spot. He snuck out again and ran back.
Zero was already waiting for X. He sat on a low branch in a tree. He noticed X running over and smiled. "Hey! X! Up here!"
X looked up and waved before climbing up into the tree too, "What'cha doing up here?"
Zero shrugged, "I thouwt it would be neat." he smirked. "Its a gwood view too."
X nodded, "Yeah it is. Hey I have an idea! Maybe we can flatten some of the sticks and make a sorta tree house!"
Zero nodded, "Yeah! That sownds fun!" he jumped down from the branch.
X jumped down too, and reached into his jacket pocket, "Oh and here. I thought since Bass won't let you do anything fun, you could have my Game. Its really fun." he passed Zero the handheld.
Zero turned it over and looked at it, "Twanx, X!" He put it into one of his pockets. "Now, wets get to work!" he rubbed his hands together.
X nodded and went about to pick up large sticks to make the tree house, "Maybe when I get back I can find some real wood to make it with!"
Zero smiled and nodded, "I'w wook around too! I showld be able to find somefing in my room."
X took an armful up into the tree and deposited them, then he jumped down and joined Zero again to find more.
Zero took the sticks and put them in the same spot as Xs, "Wis is going to be cwul!"
Bass kneeled behind some rocks a ways off, watching them. "I guess I should try and see what they're like before I break up their little party."
X started laying the sticks in patterns like planks of wood, "Alright, I think we got enough! Let's start making it!"
Zero nodded and climbed up into the tree and help X get the floor in place.
Bass shook his head from his hiding place, "Pitiful.."
X's tongue stuck out a bit as he laid a particular piece down and said, "I bet we'll have the best tree house ever built! No one can say otherwise too!"
Zero smiled and nodded as he pushed his hair back, as it was falling into his face, "I thould tie it back or somephing."
X nodded, "I bet it would look cool in a ponytail like Roll has."
Zero thought about it, "I'm not wure who Roll is...But a ponytail swounds good!"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to say, Roll is my Sister." X rubbed the back of his neck.
Zero nodded again, "Cwool! Maybe I cwould come over and meet your famiwy sometime!"
X nodded, "Yeah! That would be awesome! Ok, let's try to finish some more."
"Yeah...hand me twat piece there." Zero said putting out his hand.
X handed it to him, then his head came up for a moment, "Hey, did you hear that?" he asked quietly.
Zero put it in place and looked at X, then around, "No...What?
Bass narrowed his eyes, and aimed his blaster at their fort, "If you two are so advanced...dodge this.." he said and fired off a blast.
X screeched in fright and yanked Zero down as the blast went over their heads.
Zero's eyes went wide as he was pulled from the tree and an energy blast went flying past his head. When they hit the ground, Zero was in shock. "We...we...we cwould have bween killed..."
Bass cursed and jumped over the rocks, "That's enough play time, boys!" he marched over to them.
X shook visibly with terror and stared up at Bass.
Zero turned to Bass and narrowed his eyes. He slowly stood, shaking, not with fear but anger. "Why...why bwother...why did you twy to kill us..."
Bass shrugged, "I don't need to explain myself to the likes of YOU!"
X narrowed his own eyes and picked up a rock from the ground next to him. With a growl he tossed it straight at Bass' face.
Bass caught the rock and smirked, "Really now." He crushed the rock into dust. "My turn." He aimed back up at the fort and blasted their work into splinters.
Zero watched in horror. All their hard work, up in smoke.
He growled lightly and shook more, and the bangs of his hair fell in front of his face, covering his eyes. He picked up a surviving stick and charged at Bass, "I'w kill you!"
X watched in dumbstruck silence and then his head turned to Zero and Bass, he cried, "No Zweo! Don't!!" he tried to grab his arm and pull him back.
Bass laughed even harder at Zero's challenge. Zero ignored X and lunged at Bass, braking the stick across the unarmoured part of his face. Bass glared at Zero and smacked him in the back of his head, sending Zero back, landing at X's feet.
X shrieked and backed up until he fell over, he didn't have a clue what to do next. Should he run? He shook his head, he couldn't juts leave Zero there. He stood and brandished a stick too, "Go away!! I mean it!!" he said timidly.
Bass exploded with laughter, "That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! Or you'll do what?"
X bit his lip and swung the stick, "I'll, uh...uh...Just go away!!"
Bass shook his head and pointed his blaster at X, "I might not be able to defeat your brother yet, But I'll make up for it by destroying you!" he laughed.
X cringed and covered his head in fear, waiting...
Zero forced himself to stand, he staggered some, "Weave...X awone..."
Bass just laughed again and charged up his buster. Then from behind Bass came a whistle. Bass turned, "Wha--" behind Bass came a Blaster shot to the face. He flew back several feet, landing hard.
Blues walked over to Zero and X. He looked down at them and Zero glared back up at him, then gave out and fell back to the ground.
X stared up at Blues, then shook Zero, "Zweo! Get up!! What's wrong!? Blues, what's wrong with him!?"
"Too much going on at once, got hit too hard. He's not used to combat." Blues said and kneeled down by them, "Don't worry. He'll be fine."
"No!" Bass said, getting up, "NONE of you shall be fine!"
"Come on, X. Lets go home..." he took his shield off his back and blocked a blast that Bass fired at them.
X shook his head, "No! Not without Zweo! We can't just leave him here!!"
"We can't take him with us, X. Zero lives here, he'll be fine." Blues said, sliding back a few inches from Bass' blasts, which were increasing in strength.
X wanted to argue, but nodded, and said quietly, "alright..."
Blues nodded and picked up X and teleported away with him, leaving Zero laying on he ground.
"X...why did you go..." Zero mumbled as Bass walked over to him, looked up into the sky and yelled. He then glared down at Zero and kicked him in the side, then picked him out roughly and dragged him back to the base.