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Chapter Three

As soon as X felt his feet touch firm earth, he shoved away from Blues and fled to his room his eyes watering.
He darted past Mega, who called after him, but he ignored him and ran into his room.
Blues sighed and slowly followed X into the house. He looked at Mega, "Leave him be. He just went through a lot." He said and looked down at hall towards X's room. He whispered to himself, "It can't be easy leaving a friend behind to that monster."
X tossed himself onto his bed and sobbed into his pillow. He hadn't ever really had a real friend. Sure he had Mega and Blues and everyone else, but it wasn't the same. He stayed on his bed with his face buried in the pillow from the rest of the day.

Bass threw Zero into his room, slammed and door shut, then disappeared into the castle. Zero rolled up into a ball on the floor, holding his stomach where Bass had kicked him. His long hair has fallen in front of his face as he shuttered slightly. Tears were visible through his hair, rolling down his cheeks.
The only person that had been nice to him, the only person that had been his friend, had left him to the mercy of Bass. He slowly took the handheld game that X gave him out of his pocket. He glared at it, "I'w make you pay…" he crushed the game and tossed it across the room, then returned to his ball.
X sulked in his room for hours, and soon Mega came in to check on him, "X?" he said quietly.
X looked up from his bed and then let his head fall back down, "What?" he mumbled through the fabric.
Mega sat down on the bed next to him and asked, "What exactly happened?"
"Nothing..." X grumbled.
Mega stayed there for awhile, then sighed and gave up, and walked out to leave X to sulk.
Blues looked up at Mega from leaning on the wall, "Well...? Anything?"
Mega shook his head, "He won't even budge. I knew nothing good would come of him sneaking off...I should've kept a better eye on him..."
"Don't worry about it, Rock. He would have found some way out." Blues walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't let it get to you."
He nodded, "Right...But who knows what will happen now? I just hope we won't have to go along with...that plan. He doesn't deserve it..."
Blues agreed, "No, he doesn't. But if needed, we have to put our own happiness and our personal peace aside for the greater good."
Mega nodded, "I'll talk to Doctor Light...he'll want to know what's going on..." with that he stalked off his eyes set forward.
Rush scratched at X's door and growled as he tried to get in. Blues walked over and opened the door a bit.
Rush bounded in and jumped onto the bed to nudge X, who only curled up tighter into a ball to ignore him.
Rush blinked. With a whimper he sat down at the foot of the bed with his own version of a sigh.
Light, Roll and Mega were conversing quietly in the living room, and they looked up as Blues walked in.
Blues looked at them, then sat down, "I thought I'd stay around for a bit."

Zero walked into Wily's lab, alone, his hair now tied back in a pony tail. "Dwocter...I want you to make me swonger..." He said, his head bowed and his bangs in front of his eyes.
A thin cruel grin spread across the crazed doctor's face, "You do, do you? Well then my pet, we shall begin at once..."
Zero nodded slightly, "Okay. Gwood." I will make you pay for leaving me, X. Zero thought as he followed Wily.
Wily led him down into a large Lab filled with hundreds of different machines, he turned sharply to him, "Soon you shall reach your full potential, you will be MY personal Warrior to do as I command. Is that clear?" he growled lowly.
Zero nodded again, "Yes..." he didn't care, he just wanted revenge.
Wily cackled, "Then let us begin..."
Zero just nodded again, and closed one of his hands into a fist.

Light turned back to the three and spoke, "As much as it grieves me to say this, but we must take the chance now to prepare for Wily. He's been to quiet of late, I fear this Zero is something we would never be able to stop without something to prevent that...I will start the Preparations. I need one of you, if not all of you to explain this to X..."
Blues, along with Mega and Roll, nodded.
Light sighed, "Do it as soon as you can. I don't know how long it will take me to finish, but I want him told as soon as possible."
Blues stood, "So, wants to talk to him first?"
Roll blinked, "I think we all should. It will confuse him less."
"Alright..." Blues sighed, "...Lets get this over with."
Mega stood, along with Roll and walked to X's room. Roll took a breath, "I hate the very idea of this..."
Mega nodded and mumbled, "Its for the best..."

They knocked on X's door, then walked in.
X looked up from running his hands over Rush and quickly wiped at his eyes. He stammered, "Y-Yes?"
Blues looked at Mega and Roll, then at X, not sure how to go about it. "X...we know how tough it must be for you right now..."
Roll sat down next to X on the bed, "We know you feel bad you left your friend...But there something we have to tell you..."
Carefully, they told X of the plan, and Mega ended with, "Do you understand?"
X had stayed quiet throughout the whole discussion, and slowly, he nodded, "Yes..." he looked back up with a new light in his eyes, "If it makes me stronger, I will."
He continued hoarsely, "If it means I don't have to leave my friends behind...I will."

Wily had worked days on end, and soon, he was staring at the seven foot tall Cryo Tube.
His blood shot eyes had a malicious gleam as he cackled and tapped the buttons that would awaken it Pod's occupant.

Light was in a similar state, only his eyes were grave and he shook his head, "I pray we never need your power, X...I really do..." he loathed himself as he himself tapped the small buttons.