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Code X

Chapter Two - Tension

The three robots had taken the teenagers into thier base, Hunter Base. This base was a huge steel building filled with similiar repliods who appeared to be lower ranked officers. The steel support beams, pipes, and technological advances in the hardware in the computer circutry was amazing to the teenagers, other than Aelita.

She however, felt ecstatic to be surrounded by so much technology. She felt at home. It was like when she was stuck in Lyoko. She'd always been surround by amazing technology. Now that the pink haired girl was yet again, joy overran her soul.

The three reploids from before made sure the teenagers were taken to a secluded room. The room was a barren, silver room with a single table, big enough to fit eight, and a big window up at the top with silouhettes looking down into the room, looking back and forth at each other, as if in deep conversation with one another.

The teenagers sat next to each other on the left side of the table, Aelita on the right, Ulrich on the left, Odd next to Ulrich, and Yumi next to Aelita. X sat in front of Aelita, Zero stood against the wall, and Axl sat in front Ulrich, leaning back on his chair. X's green eyes looked on the four of them, but they weren't judgemental, instead they were soft and caring.

As he opened his mouth to speak, the words seemed to float out of his mouth with the

kindness in his heart. "So, which of you is presumed the leader?" These words stumped the

assembly of teens. They had never really thought about who was or wasn't leader.

Aelita spoke up and said, "I guess I would be." They looked at each other and nodded in agreement. Axl made a slight chuckle after the words had escaped her lips.

X swiped a look at Axl then back ti Aelita. He blinked for a moment and thought, choosing his words carefuylly as he prepared a question for the pink haired female. When he opened his mouth, he asked,"If you're not reploids, then what are you?"

Odd chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. "We're humans, Genius."

Zero smirked at Odd's comment and bounced himself off the wall. Ulrich interjected by saying, "Odd!" Then hurredly looked over to the reploids. They seemed unoffended so Ulrich calmed down. He looked over to Odd and whispered, "Hey, will you stop insulting the super strong looking robots?"

Zero got off of the wall and sat down next to X. He kept his eyes closed and leaned back in the chair. Speaking to X, he said, "Well, whatever they are, they look like they could do some damage. I say we test thier strength."

Yumi looked at the red robot and asked, "Test our stregth? How?"

Axl smirked and answered the question for him, "By having a sparring match in the training room. So, what do you think?"

Odd jumped out of his chair and shouted, "Yahoo! Finally some action!"

Axl got out of his chair, put his arm around Odd, and walked out of the room saying, "We're gonna have a lot of fun Kid."
X sighed and shook his head. "Is that all you two ever think about?"

Zero stood up and held his hand out to X. "Don't worry," he said, "I also think about how much you're worrying's gonna kill ya some day."

X smiled, took his hand, and stood up. He looked towards Aelita and Yumi and asked, "Do either of you wish to join them?"

Yumi and Aelita shook thier heads, but calmly as now they see that the reploids in fornt of them are in fact, good people. Ulrich, however, didn't want to sit back. He pulled out one of his two swords and said, "I'll spar with you."

Zero looked at him for a moment. He then unsheathed his saber and said, "Good, I could use another swordsman to train against."

The girls sighed and X laughed. "Zero, I get you don't see many swordsman, but does that mean you go around fighting anyone who picks up a sword?"

Zero ignored the comment and showed Ulrich to the training room. Zero was heard saying something about waiting until Odd and Axl were finished. Aelita asked, "Are they always like this?"

X just shrugged. "If you call being a little overzealous about battle, then yea."

Yumi laughed. "Maybe it's thier way of making up for thier problems," she joked. The three of them laughed and followed Zero and Ulrich out the door. Yumi and Aelita seem to be friends with X, but what of Ulrich and Odd with Zero and Axl?