Chapter 3

Many points of view, many people doing nothing.
By: Ghostwriter

There was this person named Carscard. They offered to translate this story for me. Most of their stuff was/in Spanish or genres I'm not familiar with. But it was a nice offer. I'll remember that. Oh, but this time around, my story has been featured in a community! This is the community it is on: .net/community/The_Golden_Turd/63909/ it's like, a community for terrible bad stories that are entertain to read, they are good. That is how I feel about my baby.

Disclaimers: I don't own anything to do with Capcom. The only reploid I called my own is Stardust, but you can use her if you want. I just wanted someone to throw out to be there for random flirtation and yelling and it's hard to tell if Maverick Bosses are male of female. I also drew a picture of a random reploid with freckle and yellow armor once upon a time and since her face looked evil, I figured she was a Maverick. The little ghost, however, is my character and I don't see the reason for anyone to want her. Also, paranormal is either true or not true. Understand?

Someone ran down the halls of the Maverick Hunter's Head Quarters. It was none other then Alia, the operator who not only told X and Zero where the Mavericks were, but also the one who did the paper work they never got done (which was more time then not, about 85% of the time, at least).

Like mentioned earlier, she was running down the halls of MHHQ in a hurry. She was on her way to see Signas, the supervisor of the whole Maverick Hunter groups.

About 5 hours after an earlier Maverick battle, X's and Zero's signal vanished. She was not really worried about them for not returning to base at first. This was a common occurrence; Zero would usually go off somewhere (usually to get drunk) and X stayed by his friend's side just to make sure Zero did not get into a fight (Zero was a fan of bar brawls). But the signals just went up and vanished. And without them reporting in for the standard time when a scene became secure, Alia felt concerned. She decided to report to Signas first, then Dr. Cain.

She entered Signas' office. "Sir, I have something to-what the hell?" Alia started out calm, but she exclaimed out as she saw Signas sleeping on his desk, a big puddle of drool on some of his paper work. Now any other time Alia would have made fun of Signas for that, and probably would later, but now was not the time for taunting. "Signas, wake up!" She shouted at him.

"Mhhmm…give me four minutes, Kitty-poo." Signas said and rolled over, starting another little drool puddle on the other side of his paper work.

Alia did not want to know nor did she care to know who 'Kitty-poo' was, but she had to tell Signas the situation. "SIGNAS! WAKE UP!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.

Signas sprang up, a piece of paper connected to his mouth. "Whoozawhathuhwhatthedamn!" He shouted wide-awake now. He blinked and looked at Alia, "What the hell was that for? I was just closing my eyes for a few seconds, no need to shout." He did not comment on his need to remove dead tree from his face.

Alia could have said a lot of things to him, but decided to screw it and tell Signas what happen. "Listen, Commander X and Commander Zero are gone. None of our sensors can pick them up! What should we do?" Alia demanded.

Signas blinks. "You woke me-I mean disturbed me for that?" Signas said looking at Alia with a little bit of anger, "I don't see what the problem is."

"What do you mean?!" She was becoming a little angrily herself, "Our two best hunters are missing!"

Signas shrugged, "Why should we worry? You just said they are our best hunters."

Alia looked at him in positive shock. "What do you mean?! The both could be dead!!"

"Well," Signas stated matter-of-factly, "Zero already died several times, so no worry there, and X hasn't really died before. And it's not like there is proof that they are dead. It's a chance, but I highly doubt it."

Alia's face was now a mixture of shock, anger, confusion, and dumbfound. "But, but, but…" she stammered out.

"Like I said Alia," Signas started, "Don't worry and relax. Now leave. I need to catch up on my…paperwork." And Signas grabbed the drool-covered paper and started to read it over.

"Oh, forget it!" Alia threw her arms up in the arm and walked out of the room.

Signas waited for her to leave, and then laid his head down on his desk, starting another nap.

Alia decided that she should bring this Dr. Cain. As well as the crap that was Signas. Alia knocked on his door. "Dr. Cain?! I have some news for you." The door didn't answer. Alia blinked and pondered her next course of action.

Now, if Dr. Cain was taking a nap, she would not mind coming back; Dr. Cain being an old man may need those naps to function well. But Dr. Cain was known for his all-nighter and she heard some sort of base sound coming from the office. He had to be awake.

Alia knocked a little louder. Still, no answer. She then pounded. Nothing. She shrugged and decided to open the door. In case he was asleep, she could easily slip back up. She was quiet when she wanted to be. However, she saw movement and the response came out automatically, "Dr. Cain, I'm sorry to bother you sir, but I must report-oh my god." Alia stopped as soon as she saw the most terrible thing imaginable.

Dr. Cain was dancing with a lampshade on his head with a bottle in his hand and 'getting giggly with it'. Yep, Dr. Cain was very drunk and had decided dancing was the greatest thing to do.

Alia stood with her mouth gaping, just staring.

Everyone and their cat knew that Dr. Cain was a heavy drinker, but no one cared since he was not an angry drinker and still did all his work with precision. But this was too much for Alia. She walked out of the room, shut the door, and started to walk down the hall again.

'Okay', Alia started to think, 'Now, who else could you tell that might listen. I've got it! Lifesaver, he'd know what to do!' Alia started to run down to the medical bay, hoping that Lifesaver was not 'busy' as the other two leaders were.

She entered the medical bay and asked the secretary, "Where is Lifesaver?" she demanded, running out of patience.

"Um, he is in the operation room, but he is in the middle of a-" before the nurse droid could finish, Alia started to the operation room. She went through the door and opened them without much for care.

"Lifesaver, I need you help!" Alia shouted.

Lifesaver turned around…and made a wrong insertion in the person he was operating on.

"OH MY GOD!!!" One of the other doctors shouted as the patient's vitals started to go haywire.

"****!" Lifesaver shouted out a bad word and started to try to fix the mistake he just made. Alia stared just for a moment before quickly getting her little tussie out of there and headed back to her quarters to…wait for other people to get done.

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Back to where everyone else is…

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"They've awaked, Master," a female voice said.

"Good," said another voice, this one heavy.

"What should we do?" The first voice asked.

"Oh, let are killer 'guest' deal with them," Said the second voice in a sinister way, "Now, how do we detected our guest?"

"I'm sorry to say Master, but we don't have that in our computers yet, but it will soon be operational." The female voice said.

"Quite alright," 'Master' said, "I'm still proud of the work you did, my dear. Very impressive for a first mission. Better then my other minions."

"Thank you, Master," voice one said with a smile on her face.

Suddenly, two other bots opened the dark room and stormed in, in a fight.

"No! Don't even think about it Dynamo! You even lay a hand on my baby…I swear I'll…do something!"

"You know what Vile? I don't care about your armor and you're threats suck."

Then the walked through the other side.

Stardust and Sigma both blinked and rolled their eyes.

Sigma clung to his head. "Yep, a lot better then my typical…minions. I wonder if I'm being punished."

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Somewhere else…

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Somebody groaned. The one eye opened. Then another.

"Oh, my freakin' head." X stated very groggily. He sat up. "Jees, what hit me?" He rubbed his head, looking around. X blinked. 'Where am I?' He thought.

The area he was in looked like a normal base, except there wasn't anything around. Just big, blue-gray metal walls with a few doorways here and there. In the corner of the room laid Zero.

X blinked and ran over to his best friend's side. "Zero?! You alright, buddy?" X said with concern in his voice. He hoped that Zero was not damaged. When X turned Zero over, he found something that surprised and irritated him. The Crimson Hunter, Commander of unit 0, and a full A Rank, the most feared hunter around, was snoring and sleeping like a baby with a goofy smile on his face.

X was dumbfounded for a bit, then started to get angry for wasting his concern on the drunk sleeping on the cold floor. "WAKE UP YOU JERK," X shouted at Zero.

Zero was wide-awake now. "What the hell?!" Zero shouted, "God, I'm so wasted." He then noticed the X was glaring deadly at him. "What did I do now?" Zero remarked.

"Nothing," X said with clenched teeth, "Just get up, fool, and lets figure out were we are."

Zero got up, a little wobbly. He had to lean against X for support, but never the less got up. Zero studied his surrounding. "Where the hell are we?" Zero said. "Must be a base or prison, or something."

"My thoughts, too." X looked around some more.

"Well, standing here debating on where we are isn't getting us anywhere." He clapped his hands, "I say we split up and go exploring." Zero stated.

"But Zero, we don't know where we are or why we're here! There could be Mavericks here, I mean, someone must have knocked us both out, and I distinctly remember us going to fight Vile and Dynamo. For all we know, they set bombs around!" X shouted in a panic.

"It looks fine. I mean, I seem to be having trouble with sending out any communications from this location. But," Zero paused for a moment to check something, "Our short-wave communicators are still working so if one of us gets in trouble, we can tell the other one. Okay?" Zero finished with a smirk on his face.

"But…" Zero already started down a corridor before X could finish. X was now pretty mad, so he thought screw Zero and started down another corridor.

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And in this corner…

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The Ghost Girl looked around. "Damn, what do you think we should do, Jack?" She said to her little Jack Skellington rag-doll.

The doll, of course, did not answer, but it was nice to have around. She had found her doll in some weird room that had a bunch of big computers and things in it and was quite glad to have it here with her instead of where she was suppose to be.

"Well, we better look around; there is suppose to be a killer around here somewhere, and they're not nice. Then again, Brooks isn't that bad. He's pretty funny when he's mad, but cool when he's not." The little thing said to herself more then to her doll, still walking down another hall, then another, then another…

Then she gazed down a particular hall, passed it, but came back for a double-take

Their hair looked like a hippy, though their hair was very shiny. Well, his hair seemed to be in a ponytail. She would call him a he for the moment because he was rather taller. She also noticed that he had weird armor on. Most of it was red, white, and black. The helmet made it look like he had horns.

"Whoops", her voice echoed the hall.

The man stiffened. "Uh oh." she remarked a little less loud.

Very quickly he pulled out a little rod that ignited into a sword made out of light and turned around.

Gods, don't you love cliffhangers?