Have a bonus chapter, guys. Zero's point of view on having a kid. If you notice that things seem a little... off, please keep an open mind. ;)


Zero wasn't sure why he had said 'yes'. When the Hikaris had approached him and asked him whether they could use his data to created another Navi, he'd been quite reluctant at first - why should he? This wasn't his era, and there was no reason for him to do so.

And yet he'd found himself thinking about it. He'd never been normal. Having a child was possibly the most normal thing that people did, even if in most cases it was a child of flesh and blood. He'd never had children, unless one counted her, and he'd never had a chance to really know her.

Besides, the Hikari family reminded him of him.

So he'd said yes, and had offered data that he didn't feel uncomfortable giving them. The Hikaris didn't look the gift horse in the mouth, and combined his data with Megaman's without questioning him as to what exactly he had given them. Again, that young Navi reminded him of him so much that it hurt, but this era's Megaman - Hub - was a good Navi.

The Navi - Zero didn't think that was the right term, but it was the closest - that was created out of his data was, for lack of a better term, adorable. He found himself picking up the tiny thing and watching it squee happily. Clearly it was able to tell that he was one of its 'data donors'.

He rubbed the little Navi's head and smiled faintly as it giggled. His best friend would have a field day when he heard about this - he, Zero, the fierce crimson devil, had finally had a child that he wanted to spoil.

"Zero?" Megaman had asked. "Since you did offer your data to create him, and he looks more like me... I was wondering if you would like to name him and create his Navi emblem?"

Him? Really? Zero wasn't sure whether he could do it, but he nodded.

He considered the name for awhile, staring down into the little Navi's bright green eyes, full of curiosity and wonder. "...X. His name will be X."

After him.

With that in mind, Zero created the Navi emblem. Even if no one in this era remembered, he would make sure that the memory of the Hunters stayed alive, that they didn't stay forgotten. Navi emblems were generally designed after the Navi, so it was an easy decision for him.

A stylized X, similar in color and design to the Maverick Hunter logo. It suited the young Navi, and he looked forward to telling 'X' about his namesake when he finally did grow up.

The Navi grabbed a part of his hair and started chewing on it, and despite how he normally felt about people grabbing his hair, he found himself not minding too much.

He felt... happy.

Zero just hoped that the name wouldn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy.


Naturally, it had to be the one day that he decided to go out onto the Internet to see if he could find some more benign viruses to bring back. That hadn't been too hard; a couple of viruses from the Trumpy family had started following him around, playing cheerful music all the while.

He wasn't going to complain, especially since the basic Trumpy was able to leave him invulnerable to anyone that might try to get in his way.

When he had gotten back to SciLab, however, everything had been a mess. Apparently someone had broken in and, the Officials were hard at work determining what damage had been done, which, curiously, they hadn't been able to find.

It was Megaman that had come to him, clearly unhappy with having to deliver the news.

X had been stolen.

The young Navi had been programmed not that long ago, and had aged up from a baby to a toddler. While he'd been adorable as a baby, he had also been completely helpless, requiring someone to be around him at all times. The Hikaris had, of course, at the time, only allowed their family members, the other people on the team to create him, and Zero himself around the tiny Navi. Unlike his friend, this X had had the opportunity to have a big, happy family that loved him.

One look at those adorable, innocent green eyes and Zero's ancient core had completely melted. Given that he lived at SciLab, he often agreed to stay with the child he had named after his best friend; it was only fitting that Zero took care of X.

When X had aged up from child to toddler, he often trailed along happily after Zero, wrapping his arms around his legs and demanding to be picked up and spoiled by him and to play with his pet viruses. The first time that X had tried to braid his hair, Zero decided that he had named him aptly.

After the kidnapping (X was a person, not a thing), Zero had gotten the story from MegaMan. X at the time was being watched by one of the SciLab scientists that had been on the team to create him when the break-in happened. With all the confusion and the series of attacks, it took awhile to realize that X had vanished without a hint as to where he could be..

Officials and SciLab alike had scoured every inch of the internet, in hopes of finding X hiding somewhere so that they could take him home, but with how little damage had been done during the break-in other than collateral, random damage, it had been clear that X had been the their target.

It wasn't the first time in his life that Zero had felt like his world had shattered. That had happened numerous times. But never was it easy to get over something like that. Now he understood why parents broke whenever something happened to their children.

He'd never been a parent before.

But in this new world, he had had X to live for.

And now X was gone.

They had caught footage of the Navi that had supposedly taken X. A female, witch-type Navi that he hadn't recognized, but had brought back a sense of deja vu in him. Zero glared at the footage of the female Navi, at the malicious smirk on her face that made something dark and vicious flare up inside of him.

"Not my son, you bitch," he whispered.

It was at that point that Zero made a vow.

He would find his child, if only to make sure that this X, at least, had a happy life.


Zero is exactly who you think he is. If you're asking "Which Zero?", the answer is: both. Hello, headcanons.