Well... I had to update SOMETHING eventually. Sorry, this chapter SUCKS Not much going on or anything... Can't... THINK.

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING.

And I apologize in advance for extreme OOCness.

It was a day about Cubit's surrender-slash-capture.

The mentioned girly-bot was sitting boredly in one of the bunkrooms, which had been quickly turned into a sort of prison. It was locked, and only able to be opened from the outside... Though, he mused, if he really wanted to, he could probably have burnt a hole in the wall and fled...

Though Weil would probably want to give him a verbal beat-down if he made it to Neo Arcadia in one peice. If. Zero would probably be hot on his trail as soon as he got out of the building... And returning to his previous post was out of the question. The factory was probably crawling with rebellious little mavericks as they collected whatever evidence they were after.

So... It was probably in his best interests to stay right where he was. Cubit chuckled to himself - the rebels were even too cheap to get proper bindings. They had said this one guy was busy working on better ones, but before then...

They had just used normal rope. Which Cubit broke out of as soon as they left. Pfft... Rope wouldn't hold anything but the weakest of reploids!

And now, Cubit was sitting on the top bunk of the beds that were in the room, swinging his legs back and forth boredly. They could have at least left him something to occupy his time with. Who knew how long they'd---

Shhffft. The soft noise of the door opening broke Cubit out of his little mental chat with himself. The girly-reploid looked over at the entrance, brows raised curiously.

It was Zero - and Ciel, thankfully, since without her, Zero would probably end up biting his head off. Hm. Seemed they fixed Zero up real well, as he showed no signs of having been burnt from their previous little scuffle.

The blonde rebel stalked over to the bunk beds, crossed his arms, then glared up at Cubit. "Get. Down. Here."

Ciel, however, just stood near the doorway, the same curiosity playing on her face as before. Before, when they showed up in that oh-so amusing position on the teleportation pad.

The girly-bot's pink eyes watched the blonde for a moment. Cubit frowned, as if considering whether or not he should get down off his new favourite perch. He stopped swinging his legs, then pushed off from the bed with all the strength he could, landing gracefully behind Zero.

And then he headed towards a now alert-looking, slightly tense Ciel.

Zero growled, grabbing his saber and activating it, ready to run at the damnable---

"You're looking lovely today, Miss Ciel!" Cubit had stopped about a foot away from the human girl, hands clasped behind his back.

Ciel blinked slowly, relaxing again. "Uhm... Thank-you..." Well, this was a first. Enemy reploid saying she looked... Lovely... Okay. Perhaps he wasn't too bad. For a Weil-bot. The girl grinned pleasantly.

Which made Zero twitch. He had been watching the whole little exchange, of course. And he wouldn't admit it, but he had... Feelings... For the human girl. Seeing her being complimented by an /enemy/ reploid was one thing... Seeing her GRIN about it like she was was ANOTHER thing.

Jealous, much? Heck yes.

An angry Zero continued twitching irritably as the girly-bot started a conversation about the weather with a slightly puzzled, although pleased looking Ciel.

He didn't quite know what made him do so, but...

Zero deactivated his saber, slammed it back to it's usual place at his hip, stalked forward, grabbed Cubit and pushed him back into the room, then similarly grabbed Ciel and marched her away from the room. After closing and locking the door, of course.

Cubit snickered as he heard the girl protesting on the other side of the door. Mental note number one: Zero got pissy when someone flirted with that chicky.

He listened as the racket got further and further until he couldn't pick it up anymore before moving back to the bed, leaping back up to his earlier perch on the top bunk.

Interrogation-slash-negotiations attempt number one... Failed.

Out in the hallways of the rebel HQ, still being carted off and hell - scolded, for whatever reason - by Zero, Ciel sighed. Hopefully the next attempt would work out better.