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Chapter Eleven

X was right behind Zero as they walked through the dark building. The only light that guided them was the glow of their crystals. X kept his eyes forward, not wanting to look around.
Zero, on the other hand, was looking around franticly, not wanting to miss anything. He growled, "I can barely see anything! Wait, I know." he drew his sabre, activating it and using its green glow as a light of sorts. "Well...it helps a little."
X froze in mid-step as he heard something. He grabbed Zero's sabre and hissed, "Shut it off!! Quick!"
Zero looked a X oddly, but shut off his sabre anyway. "What was it?"
"Voices...I can still hear them faintly. This way." went ahead his head slightly tilted as he listened.
Zero followed behind X, making as little noise as he could.
X took a quiet breath as he steadied his hands and peered beyond a corner. He jumped back and hissed, "Sigma!!"
In the next room, Sigma was arguing with the eight Hunters he had taken with him.
Zero smirked, "Good." he peeked around himself, then pulled back. "Nine of them and only two of us. That's not really fair odds. Any ideas?"
X bit his lip and thought for a moment, "I'm not sure...Our best change is surprise..."
"Right." Zero looked around and saw some pipes that lead up the wall, and along the ceiling and right over Sigma and his group. "I got an idea." he said he grabbed onto the piles and hoisted himself up the wall and along the ceiling.
X shrugged and followed after him.
Zero stopped when they were above the group. The fall from where they were to the ground was about 10 feet. Zero hooked his feet onto the pipes, and grabbed his sabre, keeping it off, "Ready?" he whispered.
X turned his hand into a Buster again and nodded.
Zero let go of his other hand and hung upside-down. With his free hand he counted down from 3, then he unhooked his feet and fell upon the group, activing his sabre on the way down, striking one of the lesser Mavericks as he landed.
X jumped down with a fully charged shot, that sent him up a bit as he sent it down.
He landed on a Maverick and swung his fist into its crystal.
Zero smirked as he stood over the felled Maverick, "Two down, 6 to go." he smirked and turned to the other Mavericks and Sigma, he sabre casting a green glow upon them all.
Sigma howled, "Kill them!!" and the six maverick charged.
X was knocked over, and he struggled to stand as the Maverick pinned him down.
X barked and fired at shot into its face.
It fell away and X stood and darted away from a Maverick as it tried to grab him.
Zero smirked as he dodge the Maverick that attacked him and countered with his sabre. The Maverick stumbled back minus an arm. He growled at lunged at Zero, just to get a sabre through the gut, then dropped to the ground. Zero looked away and moved to the next one.
Soon the only Maverick left was Sigma, who snarled, "So, the spineless whelp and the red crazy think they can take Sigma down do they?"
"See X, I told you he was jealous of us." Zero smirked as stood in a combat stance, his sabre at his side.
X stood off the side of Zero, his Buster humming.
X felt rage run through his whole body, and it caused him to howl and lunge at Sigma, a ball of superheated plasma from his Buster hissed towards Sigma as he did.
Sigma dodged and kicked X in the back as he flew by.
Zero followed up X, his sabre slicing threw the air as he aimed for Sigma's back.
Sigma jumped aside as first Zero came at him, then X.
He cursed as X grabbed his back and latched on. He took his sabre and swiped at X's face to get him off.
X screeched as the sabre cut across his nose and cheek and he let go to nurse his face.
"X!" Zero yelled at lunged at Sigma, swinging his sabre at Sigma's sabre arm.
Sigma howled and dropped his sabre as Zero's slashed his arm. With a dark growl he said, "Next time you won't be so lucky!!" and warped away.
X was off to the side. His hand over his face.
Zero growled as Sigma got away. He put his sabre away and kneeled by X, "...You okay?"
X shook, but he nodded, "It just stings...Is my back ok? It kinda hurts..."
A few cracks down X's armor had been inflicted when Sigma had kicked out at him.
Zero nodded slowly, "Yeah, you'll be fine. Come on, lets get back to the base." he stood, looked back at the fallen Mavericks and Sigma's arm. He shook his head and looked away, "Come on." he extended a hand to X.
X took it, but when he was standing clapped the hand back over his sore face.
He winced, but gritted his teeth.
Zero put X's free arm over his shoulders and helped him out of the building.
X grinned slightly, "Thanks. I wasn't much help when it came to Sigma was I..."
"No, you were a great help. We probably wouldn't have lived through that alone. We probably got lucky too." Zero said. "Do you think you can make it back to the base or should we call for help?"
"I'm alright. Just a cut. I can make it back."
Zero nodded. "I wonder what Alia will think about your battle scar?" he smirked some.
X couldn't fully grin, but half smirked, "What indeed..." he ignored his face and back and focused on keeping one foot in front of the other.
Zero laughed a little, "Well, we'll find out soon enough."
Alia was waiting in the Base when Zero and X came back.
She ran to them to help X, "What happened!?"
"I'm fine, Alia." Zero smiled, "Oh, right. X put up a good fight against Sigma. Got a nasty blow to the back and face though. He'll be fine."
X was drozy when she spoke to him, "Come on X, to Dr. Cain, NOW." "Alright...Alright." he said as she helped him along.
Zero placed his hands on his waist and watched them go off. He smiled to himself, then decided he should go report to Signas.
Signas was waiting for his unit to return, and noticed Zero walking up, "Any news?"
Zero nodded, "X and I found Sigma and his eight Mavericks. We took out the lessers, but Sigma got away. He forgot his arm though." Zero smirked some at this. "They're all in an old building to the south."
Signas nodded, "Great job. I'll have some hunters watch that place."
"X is on his way to Cain with Alia for repairs. If I'm needed for anything else, I'll be in X's room." Zero said, saluted to Signas and turned to go.
Signas nodded once again then returned to waiting.

It was a few hours when X came back to his room, his armor fixed and all that was left of his gash was a tiny flawed mark across his nose. He rubbed at it.
"Hi ya, X. How you feeling?" Zero asked and waved from laying on X's couch.
X stared at him sleepily and shrugged, "Fine..."
"Signas gave us the 'great job' and he's going to have that building watched."
X stifled a yawn, "Alright..." and he sat down on a small cot like bed shoved into the corner of his room. He knew he should sleep in his pod, but he didn't feel like it.
Zero glanced over at X, then made himself comfy on X's couch, yawned, and fell asleep there.