Rebirth of the Machine

[Sonic]

Well, it seems like you finally entered the story. Bout time.

[Andrew]

*Chapter 9 - Rage Of The Machine*

Shoryu kneeled comfortably atop the closest building to the Hunter HQ, his blue eyes skimming over the entrance to the ruined base, parts from the destroyed force Sebastian had sent were littered all across the terrain in front of the base.

‘Anode did that.. He’s the only one with a powerful enough buster.. At least.. He was the only one at the time of the Reploid demise..’

The Maverick closed his eyes and sighed lightly, setting his hands lightly upon the twin lances at his waist, twirling his thumbs slowly around the ends of the metallic shafts. He opened his eyes, and while grinning beneath his face mask, pushed off the rooftop. Mid-jump, he activated the thrusters in his boots and air-dashed along the sky, dropping steadily.

* * *

Anode and AX walked side by side, watching as Panic and Piro an on ahead, pretending to be fighting, shouting out the names of their attacks before making the motion for them, sending ‘blasts’ at own another. Lizzy strolled along behind Anode and AX, glancing back and forth along the collapsed road, her thoughts on other things.

“Samurai Cutter!”

“Redemption Wave!”

“Shut up the two of you!” Lizzy burst out, glaring at the two of them.

Panic and Piro both stopped, straightening up at the sound of their commander’s voice, glancing at each other. They stood stalk still as Anode and AX walked past, a stealthy smirk on AX’s lips. Lizzy stood in front of them, her arms crossed in front of her chest.

“There will be no more of that. You understand me?” The two of them nodded quickly. “That’s good. Now stop fooling around and scout ahead. We’re almost to the base, but we don’t know what this Sebastian might have waiting for us.”

“Yes ma’am.” Piro’s visor slid down over his eyes and he turned and ran across the road, leaping up the side of a building to the rooftop to get a better view.

“Of course, Commander Lizzy.” Panic pushed his helmet back down over his head and turned and ran off, passing by both Anode and AX, leaping on to a broken lamp post and jumping on to the roof of one of the smaller buildings, his hand morphed into his gatling buster.

Lizzy walked over to Anode and AX, who smirked down at her. She shook her head, giving them both a deadly glance and walked on ahead of them. AX laughed lightly, following after her, closely followed by a smiling Anode.

* * *

Shoryu landed on a shifting metal panel and quickly leapt once more as it slid off it’s peak and slid down amongst the rubble. He landed a few feet in front of the pit where the metal slab fell. He looked toward the massive metal doors of the HQ, nodding lightly as he made his way toward it. As he drew close to the door, a few feet away from his destination, the sound of voices caught his attention. He twisted his head to the side, his eyes widening, and then dove out of sight.

* * *

“You work much faster than I can, Shift. I appreciate the help.”

“It’s my job to help you, Faern. That’s why I was sent here.”

Faern put the finishing touches on the core of Blues, as Shift stood at the head of the lab table containing the red robot. As Faern drew the welder away from the robot’s chest, Shift lifted Blues away from the table and inserted a few memory chips into the back of his neck, allowing the few seconds it took to process all of the data, and then removed them.

“We’re ready now, doctor.”

Faern slowly walked around the tables and set the welder down on a small trolley. He turned and nodded to Shift, who laid Blues back down against the table and stepped away from them both. Faern picked up a control from the trolley at his side. He tapped a code into the pad, before inserting his thumb into the glowing blue area. As he lifted his thumb away from the control, the two robots on the table shook slightly. Mega Man lifted his head from the table and sat up, setting his hands to either side of his helmet, shaking slightly. He twisted his legs off the table and landed on his feet, opening his eyes and turned to Shift and Faern, “Where.. Where am I?” Blues hadn’t moved yet, but at the sound of Mega Man’s voice his body shifted. He leaped to his feet on the table, spun and aimed his buster at the human and unknown Reploid.

* * *

‘Who are these two!? And why is my chronometer spazzing out? This time can’t be right.. It can’t be.. No. I refuse to believe this! I HAVEN’T BEEN DEAD THIS LONG!’

* * *

Panic leaped across the gap between the buildings and landed on a roof of a brick house, his footing slipping slightly on the wet red stone. He walked forward slowly, his gatling aimed before him. He noticed Piro’s position on the opposite side of the street, his sniper rifle drawing over the street slowly, waiting for something to appear so that he could shoot it. Panic’s attention returned to himself as he heard the sound of someone skipping up the side of a wall. He ran to the opposite side of the building, but before he got there, a jolt of electricty shattered his reality and sent him sprawling across the rooftop, splitting the ‘rail’ on the opposite side and sending him crashing to the alley flooring.

* * *

Shoryu smirked lightly as he flipped over the side of the roof and landed in a crouch on the brick roof. He laughed lightly, setting his hand to his face mask to keep it from being heard by the Hunters down on the road. His head spike spun back around into it’s place, after twisting around to fire the electrical attack it could produce.

‘That Hunter was extremely weak.. I hope that’s not the best they have..’

A shot rang out, and Shoryu flipped to the side, the plasma shot ripping through the roof, forcing it to crumble. He landed on the side of the hole and leaped upward, another blast splitting the air at his side, almost hitting him. He glared at the Reploid on the rooftop across the street.

‘This one will die slowly.. I’ll make sure of it.’

* * *

“Lizzy!” Lizzy set her hand to her comm. unit, staring up the street. “Panic’s been hit. We have Maverick activity.”

“How many?” She waved for Anode and AX to catch up. “A single unit, took Panic with one hit, I believe. Melee-unit, I believe. I should be able to keep him at bay until you three arrive.”

“Keep it up, Piro. Avoid injury!” Lizzy turned to face the two male Hunters with her, a dark grin on her lips, “He hurt one of my units. I’m going to kill him, don’t even try to stop me you two. Or I’ll have to split you apart as well, you got it?!”

Anode smirked, nodded and activated his foot thrusters, exiting their presence rather quickly. AX quickly followed, his beam saber in hand and activated, the azure blade creating a small aura as he dashed after Anode. Lizzy grinned darkly and whipped out her baton, activating both sides of the axe, spinning it around in front of her as she quickly followed after them.

* * *

Shoryu’s arm morphed into his buster as he leapt from the brick roof, multiple blasts emitting from the end, tearing through the house that Piro was positioned on, but never hitting him. Shoryu landed into the ground with a massive thud, dashing forward before Piro could get another shot off. He leaped from the edge of the sidewalk, slamming into the side wall of the house, firing a shot straight upward through the ceiling. He turned and dashed straight back out of the house, the spike on his helmet spinning around to face before him. He twisted in his dash, coming to a stop facing the house. A jolt of electricity spiraled upward, wrapping around Piro’s form, sending him flying backward across the roof. He turned to see three other Hunters beginning to arrive.

“Hello Hunters.. Welcome to my nightmare..”

* * *

AX came crashing down first, his saber hitting nothing but the street as Shoryu leaped backward, his buster forming and firing straight at him. Anode appeared in front of AX, whipping his double-ended saber through the blast, canceling it out with the electric end of his saber. Shoryu growled, but dashed to the side as Lizzy leaped over the two of them, swinging the axe for Shoryu’s head, slamming into the ground and spinning the axe out in front of her.

Shoryu snatched the twin beam lances from his waist and leaped over Lizzy’s axe, sweeping both blades for her face, but she leaped backward away from the attach. He landed where she was just standing and dashed to the side, drawing the two blades into an ‘X’ in front of him at AX, who couldn’t avoid it quick enough and he went spiraling backward across the street.

Anode slammed his saber down in front of him, swinging it quickly. Shoryu drew one blade upward and caught the plasma end, spinning the spike around to the front of his helmet once more. Anode swung the electric side of his saber into the electric jolt, catching it inches from him, the current trying to draw him into it.

Lizzy slammed her shoulder into Shoryu’s side, sending him crashing into the middle of the street, but he immediately flipped to his feet, his spike sparking with electric current, before launching a jolt at Lizzy. She leaped over it and brought her axe down upon Shoryu, who tried to evade, but the axe cleaved through his left arm, removing it entirely from his body.

“GRAH!!” Shoryu yelled out in pain, leaping away from Lizzy and her axe, sparks showering away from his arm.

“Get back here, Maverick!”

Lizzy quickly dashed in for revenge upon her team members, but Shoryu slipped to the side of her axe swing, slamming his still able hand into the middle of her baton, the shower of sparks raining upon the road as her axe deactivated. Shoryu leaped toward Lizzy’s still dashing form and slammed his foot down into her back, sending her crashing into the pavement. Shoryu stood upon the downed female Hunter, deactivating the beam lance and setting it back to his waist, his hand morphing into a buster and aiming toward Anode.

“Give this message to whoever’s in charge..” Anode’s buster aimed back, as Shoryu continued speaking, “I’m going to kill all of you.”

* * *

Anode’s buster went off, but Shoryu had already began his retreat, escaping through a nearby alley-way and vanishing from sight. Anode turned his gaze to the sound of footsteps behind him, AX joining him at his side, sparks leaping from the cut in his chest panel.

“Stupid damn Maverick..”

Anode smirked and helped AX over to where Lizzy was slowly getting to her feet. She coughed loudly, reaching for her ruined baton and returning it to its holster. She pushed herself to her feet, dusting off the carbon rubber suit, multiple tears in it across her mid-drift and legs.

“Remind me to kill him harder for ruining my axe, that bastard..”

The three Hunters turned their attention farther down the street, watching Panic limp toward them. But he stopped and waved for them to come to him. They walked over to their fellow damaged Hunter, who’s armor was split in half and his helmet was missing.

“I got felled in one god damn shot.. Dammit..” Panic wiped the blood trickling from his lips, turning his head as Piro emerged from the rooftop and dropping down beside them all.

“Hey.. At least we all lived..” Piro said optimistically.

“He has a point.” Everyone turned to look at the only non-damaged member of their little group; Anode.

“Shut up!” They all cried in unison.

* * *

Shift’s body created a hole in the middle of it as Blues’ buster went off, creating a small hole in the wall behind him. Shift fired off a piece of himself that clogged Blues’ buster, shorting it slightly.

“Dammit..”

Mega Man set his hand lightly on Blues’ shoulder, which got Blue’s attention. They stared at each for a moment, before Blues morphed his buster back into his hand, throwing the glob of silver goo back at the silver Reploid, who absorbed it back into his chest. Mega Man turned and looked at Faern and Shift, clearing his throat slightly.

“Anyone wanna tell us what the hell is going on around here?”

[Sonic]

This is what i wanna see... some classic reploid action ;D

[RELLIK]

very good you got better wriring skills than me. keep it up. is there a 10th chapter or is it in the making?

[Andrew]

There are over thirty chapters. I just forget to post them over here.

-Paragon

[RELLIK]

is this story on another site?

[Andrew]

Yup. It's posted at BnG, but since very few people from here dare to venture there, I'll just keep posting it here.

Ever slowly.

-Paragon

[RELLIK]

were exactly is it at BnG i went but didnt know were to look

[Andrew]

*Chapter 10 - Reinforcements on All Ends*

Alpha ran on ahead of Bread Man, who walked slowly along behind him, his fingers entwined against the back of his head, his eyes staring off into the sky. Alpha swiftly climbed up on to a lamp post, staring down the street in silence, which brought tears to Bread Man’s eyes.

“Brendan... Umm.. What’s big.. Purple.. And makes BIG cracks in the road?”

“... Do I even want to know?” Bread Man glanced up at Alpha, who was trying to squint farther down the road.

He leaped from the lamp post and landed beside his partner, his azure saber activating at his side. He nodded up at his taller companion, he morphed his hand into a bigger than normal buster. They readied themselves for this new threat.

“Okay, Alpha.. You need to put your game face on,” Bread Man instructed, aiming his buster carefully in front of him, slitting one eye to get a better angle. Alpha let his eyes widen to the size of dish saucers, his jaw falling open, drool trickling down on to the ground in front of him, “Alp-.. Dammit Alpha! Not your VIDEO GAME face! Your SERIOUS face! Stop screwing around!” Alpha quickly shut his mouth and gave an innocent grin, “Oops, sorry.”

* * *

Enzan leaned against a wall, yawning loudly as he slumped his entire form into the steel structure. He closed his eyes as another wave of sleep rode over him. He slid down the wall and sat down on the floor, 32 laughing lightly in the control room. Enzan lifted his hand to the ear piece, clicking it off and falling into a slightly deep sleep.

* * *

The steel door clicked lightly, every two to three seconds, another tink landing on the door. Steam collected on the seams of the doorway, the door sliding upward, steam covering the entirety of the door. A silhouette appeared in the door, stepping out from the shadows of the darkness. The door slid closed behind him, the steam slowly beginning to clear, red armor flashing in the dim light of the underground corridor. A pair of dark shades gleamed slightly as the light licked across them. He hefted up a mighty shield and set off down the hallway away from the door, the lights flickering off as he passed.

* * *

“We’ve got Crushers, too!”

Bread Man leaped backward, firing off twin shots from his buster. The first shot ricocheted off the spiked bottom of one of the Crushers, blowing apart a chunk of the sidewalk. But the other blast was clean, and blew the Crusher apart. Alpha leaped into the air, screaming out, “BAKA SLASHER!” cleaving his saber up through spikes and core, ripping the Crusher in two, the explosion lurching him backward slightly. He landed and spun on one foot, switching his free hand into his buster, “BAKA BUSTER!” Multiple shots of plasma raining from the end of his buster, tearing through multiple Crushers at once.

* * *

32 slammed his hands down against the computer console, snarling angrily at the screen before him, “Dammit!” He sighed heavily and set his head down against the keyboard, breathing in and out slowly, calming himself. He lifted his head and stared at the screen, X’s schematics displayed on the screen. He tapped a few keys lightly, letting different calculations be put into the design of X’s design, he was rewarded with a beep and a red flashing light.

“Why doesn’t anything work..” 32 typed in another calculation, receiving the same answer, “No matter how hard I try.. X’s design will always be flawed.”

* * *

Alpha tripped over himself, falling to the ground. Fortunately, his fall got him out of the way of a Crusher’s spiked bottom. The device slamming into the ground where Alpha had just been. Bread Man cut the Crusher’s spike free and filled the smaller Reploid’s face with plasma. The explosion not big enough to effect either Hunter. Alpha got to his feet, grinning over at Bread Man, who shook his head and fired off a round of plasma at the incoming Quaker.

“We got big purple Reploids!” Alpha called out, laughing lightly.

Bread Man’s saber flashed quickly across the terrain, the crimson blade tearing through the Quaker’s single arm, ripping through metallic cords and sockets, the Reploid-sized arm dropping to the earth with a shattering sound, tearing tendrils into the earth. Alpha, who had just yelled out, “BAKA SLASHER!” swung his sword through the Quaker’s head, ripping it from it’s shoulders and sending it toppling across the earth. He leaped from the purple shoulders of the Quaker; all three parts exploding simultaneously, shrouding the two Hunters in smog.

“Good work, Alpha. But no time to dawdle. We need to find that warehouse. If 32 is right, there might be more Hunters there.” The two Hunters went running down the road, Alpha adding a skip to his step as they went.

* * *

The red Reploid stood over the small human boy sitting against the wall. He set his shield down in front of the human, a dark smirk on his face as he knelt down and turned the flashlight off.

“No need to waste the batteries like that.”

He got back to his feet, slid his hand into the notch at the back of the shield, hefted it back up. The red Reploid turned and slowly made his way back to the room with the silver doorway. The door opened the same way as before, with an unnecessary amount of steam. The Reploid walked through the door, which closed behind him latching shut, the hinges on the sides disappearing into the wall, as to make the door look as if it cannot be opened in anyway.

* * *

32 was getting extremely frustrated. Not only was every calculation he put into the computer to correct the flaw designs on X’s armor not working, but Enzan had fallen asleep on the job. He shook his head and entered a few more calculations into the computer, each rewarding him with an erroneous beep and a flashing red of the screen. He slammed his hand into the console.

“Damn you Dr. Light! You and your stupid robot!”

32 stared into his hands for a moment, thinking carefully. He then lifted his head quickly. He tapped on the computer, bringing up a split screen of X without the Light Armor and then him with it. The design flaws were completely corrected when X was in the Light Armor.

“That’s why! Dr. Light set it up so that X would be completely flawless under his armor. He was supposed to be that way. Well.. Time to fix that.”

32 set about transferring the calculations from X with the Light Armor on to X without the Light Armor. X’s design began to change and reform itself on the screen as each calculation was entered. In the end, both of the designs were completely the same, but X was now going to start out completely flawless, instead of having to work himself up to that point.

32 kicked the floor slightly, rolling the chair over to the monitor containing Axl’s data. Though being a Reploid, 32 yawned loudly. He checked his chronometer and blinked a few times, the time didn’t seem right, but it had to be.

‘I’ve really been up five hundred hours? I need to recharge.. Axl, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow.’

32 pushed the chair out away from the computer and walked out of his miniature laboratory. He walked down the hallway a few yards, stopping at a doorway slightly taller than he. He tapped in his passcode and entered the room. Within the room was a cooling unit containing nothing but Energy Capsules, and a Recharge Pod. 32 set one foot on the side of the pod and the green paneling slid open. He stepped up inside of the massive unit and the paneling closed behind. He shut himself down and the lights dimmed in the room, a soft green glow illuminating the room.

* * *

Bread Man and Alpha had been running for three days straight, at the least. They had gone from the western most side of the city, where the ruins of the old Maverick Hunter base was located, to the eastern most side of the city, where there was even less human activity. Apparently, the west and east sides of this particular city were considering the playground to gang fights and other illegal activities.

Bread Man grabbed Alpha by the shoulders and lifted him up to the window, letting him look inside the grime covered rectangle. He scrubbed his hand over it, revealing a big enough clean area to look through. He gazed into the factory, whispering down to Bread Man, “Are you sure this is the right one?” Bread Man acknowledged his answer with a nod. Alpha leaped from his position atop Bread Man’s shoulders.

“We need to go inside. There are too many boxes by the window to be able to see anything clearly. If there really are some Stasis Pods in there, we have to get a closer look.”

Alpha walked around the corner, morphing his hand into a buster, Bread Man following suit. The two slipped into the warehouse as silently as Reploids could. Bread Man took the west side, motioning for Alpha to take the east. He swept through the entire warehouse slowly, gazing around for a pair of twin Stasis Pods of the same size and color.

“I don’t see anything, Alpha. How about you?”

“I think I got something.”

Bread Man ran over to Alpha’s position on the opposite side of the warehouse. He cut straight through the middle. The two hunters stood in front of two blue pods with jade paneling. The one on the right contained a dark armored hunter, with red trim. Bread Man noted that it reminded him a lot of the Shadow Armor that X used to wear. Alpha grabbed a towel sitting on a nearby box and rubbed it over the other pod, revealing a Reploid that looked distinctly like Zero, but his armor was blue, and his long hair was red instead of yellow.

“We found them, Bread Man.”

“Yea.. Mr. Death and Franco. The two Hunters that joined during the Repliforce years. That was such a long time ago. I hope they still have their memories intact, I doubt 32 will want to reprogram all of that information back into them.”

Bread Man and Alpha both leaned down in front of the two pods, inserting passcodes into the twin pods. The code to Franco’s pod was the exact opposite of what Mr. Death’s was. As the panels accepted the passcodes as the correct ones. Bread Man and Alpha stood back up and stepped back away from the pods, the two Reploids inside activating right before their eyes.

* * *

“Awaken Elcazor, you’ve been reborn.”

[Sonic]

Keep them coming, Paragon. Btw, exactly where is it on BnG? Like Rellik, I want to see the rest of this story.

[Andrew]

*Chapter 11 - A Rest Finally Worth Taking*

Goompas reclined in his leather chair, setting his feet up on to the round wooden desk before him. He reached out and grabbed a manilla folder from atop the mahogany desk, flipping the crammed ‘Confidential’ folder open. He scanned the first page, reading over the notes Doctor Raijouta had placed along the names of the Reploids to be built into the Wandering Souls team.

'Dynamo..'

The leader of the newly formed squad. He was a mercenary back during the days of the Sigma Wars. He was never displayed as a Maverick, only as a Mercenary that refused to lose to X nor Zero, always fighting them. He refused to lose to them, so he would flee until the next fight. Hopefully, this new Dynamo would not be so cowardice and stay around until the end of the battle.

‘Forte..’

A relic made long ago by the famed, yet mad, Doctor Albert Wily back the 20XX century. He had been built with one purpose, and one purpose alone; to battle Rock and to win. He never did succeed at his task, and was eventually destroyed by another of Wily’s robots. The one and only red Maverick Hunter; Zero.

‘Storm Eagle..’

One of the first groups of Hunters turned into Mavericks by Sigma. He was once close friends with Zero, before the Virus turned him into a blood thirsty killer of all human-kind. He was eventually destroyed by X, by his parts were collected by ex-partner Zero and returned to Dr. Cain. He didn’t want his old teammate to go down like that.

‘Flame Stag..’

Another form Maverick under Sigma’s ruling. Flame Stag was influenced during the Second Wave of the Sigma Virus. During his corruption, Zero was stolen by the X-Hunters and placed into three sections, each section given to one of the X-Hunters. Agile was given the head, Serges was given the chest, and Violin was given the legs. X had to not only fight his way through the three X-Hunters, but he also had to destroy the Mavericks. Flame Stag was one of them, his lair built within a volcano.

‘And Slash Beast..’

The last re-constructed member of the new Wandering Souls group. Slash Beast was a brutal Hunter, always taking out the opposition with ferociousness and deadly skill, leaving the bodies in shreds. He was just as skilled with the claws on his hands as he was with his deadly kicks, which were much more deadly due to the claws on his feet as well. Slash Beast went Maverick during the Repliforce era, taking control of a hover-train as his base. X was in for the hardest fight of his life when he took on Slash Beast, but in the end he won. The remains of this deadly Maverick were retrieved by the Maverick Hunters, not wanting this foul beast to be unleashed again.

“I hope you picked out the right team, Raijouta..”

Goompas flipped closed the manilla folder, tossing it back on to his mahogany desk. He reached for a light blue folder, flipping it open. He glanced at the schematics of Andehshun’s Reploid; Paragon. He set his left hand to the side of his head, resting the folder in his lap. He curled his dark locks about the singular finger, flipping to the internal schematics. He smirked slightly, nodding his head.

“Andehshun designed this Reploid well.. A Schematic Analyzer to assist in collecting new armors for battle.. And a Stasis Web idea in case he was ever infected with a virus..”

‘I remember those ideas from somewhere else.. I just can’t remember where..’

Goompas closed the folder and tossed it up on to the desk, his shaded eyes glancing toward the clock set in the direct center of the large desk. It flashed the digital numbers at him repeatedly; 11:46. He groaned and sat up, yawning loudly. He touched the intercom on his desk and spoke tiredly, “Sherrie.. Can you get me a large cup of coffee?” And the reply came shortly, “Of course, Mr. President.” Goompas released the button and sat back in his chair, waiting for the cup of java that would refresh him enough to keep him awake at least another four hours.

* * *

Shoryu stumbled into Sebastian’s laboratory, a Joe helping him along, trying to stop the leaking fuel from his arm. Sebastian turned to look at his returned Maverick, sighing heavily. He pointed to the table Elcazor had been laid on while being built. Shoryu pushed himself up on to the table with his free arm, while Sebastian shooed away the Joe.

“You got yourself damaged already?” Sebastian guy thingyed a brow, restraining himself efficiently from getting angry. Shoryu stared at the ceiling, “I went and fought the Hunters.”

“Did you kill any of them?” Sebastian asked, sarcasm ringing through his forth. Shoryu snarled sharply, “I took out three before I was wounded, and then took out another. The fifth one; Anode, has always been too powerful to take on while handicapped.”

“Excuses for your failure.”

Sebastian shut down Shoryu’s systems as the Maverick reached his good hand to grab the doctor’s throat and throttle him. The arm went limp and fell over Shoryu’s chest. Sebastian slowly set about repairing his first real Maverick Reploid, sighing lightly with each passing minute.

* * *

Piro and Panic stumbled into the Hunter Base, those two being the worst off from the fight, due to the direct shots of voltage to their systems. Panic dropped to his knees at the doorway, AX helping him up as he walked past. Panic stumbled toward the door, his hair sparking from the voltage still running through him, his right hand gripping at the center of his chest, where his power core was.

“I’m running low on energy.. And fast..”

“We all are, Panic. We’ve been active for too long. 32's missions are getting more and more atrocious,” AX commented, lifting Panic a little more, helping him walk.

Piro opened the hatch to the basement area of the base, he entered and was followed by AX and Panic, then Lizzy, and Anode brought up the rear, glancing behind him to make sure there was no one following them into the base. As Anode slid underneath the hatch and it shut behind him, a figure strode forward from the shadows, a dark purple rapier ignited in his right hand.

* * *

Panic activated the coding to his door, the door leaping open. AX helped him into his room as Lizzy, Piro, and Anode walked to their corresponding rooms. AX lifted Panic up by his shoulders, setting him into the pod. AX nodded lightly as Panic bent down and activated the code himself. The paneling slid closed in front of him, casting a blue sheen over his yellow armor. AX exited Panic’s chambers as the lights dimmed and the pod activated.

Piro stepped into his room, closing his eyes and leaning heavily against the metal door. He undid the visor around his face and tossed it to the floor by his pod. He pushed away from the wall and stepped up inside the silver pod, activating it with a simple voice command, “Sleeping time.” The paneling slid down from the top and latched into the bottom, activating and sending Piro into a slumber as he shut down.

Lizzy stepped into her room and angrily threw her destroyed baton across the room, the cylinder slamming into the wall and embedding itself there. She drew her teeth together and ground them together, setting her hands to the sides of her head, restraining herself from bellowing out in anger. She slowly relaxed and stepped into her black recharge pod, the crimson paneling displaying intricate patterns across her green armor. She shut down and the system began to recharge her core.

AX and Anode met in 32's lab, noting his absence. As well as Enzan’s presence, sleeping or otherwise. Anode pointed to the screen displaying X’s schematics, smirking slightly. AX walked over and leaned over the computer, staring at X’s designs, all the flaws removed. He shook his head, “32 removed the flaws by making X’s design incorporate the Light Armor from the get-go.” Anode nodded softly, undoing his helmet and setting it into the crook of his arm, “That means X is going to be powerful upon reactivation, meaning we won’t have as much work to do.”

AX smirked clicked off the monitors to the computer. He rounded about and followed Anode out of the small laboratory. Anode and AX split paths at the first intersection; Anode going to the left and AX to the right. AX opened his door with a quick tap of three buttons and stepped into his room. He smiled lightly at the Light Pod set up on the right side of the room. He walked over to it, the paneling disappeared and Light’s hologram appeared before him.

“Welcome back, Alpha-X.” Came the hearty greeting from the old doctor, “It’s good to see you too, father.”

* * *

Anode slit his lips into a small line, standing in front of his door. He looked up and then to the ground, pondering for a moment whether he would really need to recharge. He shrugged off his wait and entered his room, disappearing into the darkness within. The sounds of a pod activated and the swish of closing panel was heard.

* * *

“Were you successful on your mission?” Dr. Light asked, his hologram rarely ever moving anything but the lips.

“My mission was semi-successful. I was on convoy, returning a human teenager to his place of work. It turned out, that it was Black Ops Agent Shift undercover.” Dr. Light nodded his head, “Ah.”

“Anode and Fidget were successful in helping Lizzy and her group in defeating the Maverick disturbance. It was two D-1000s in a partially populated area,” AX went on, “Fidget didn’t return with us, and is still out there somewhere.”

Dr. Light’s face would have shown its concern if it were able to do so, but it only nodded slowly. AX smiled slightly, laughing a little, “But knowing Fidget, he’s probably in more trouble now than he will be when he gets back.”

Dr. Light laughed softly, AX smirking from across the room. He waved goodnight to Dr. Light, “Goodnight Father. I will see you tomorrow, then?” Dr. Light’s hologram disappeared behind the paneling, but his voice came through clearly, “Of course my son. I will always be here.”

AX stepped up into the pod, deactivating his systems. The azure panels slid down around the circular formation of the pod, closing AX up inside of it. After a second, the lights in the room dimmed out and the pod activated, shining a blue light around the small space, recharging AX’s energy core.

* * *

O’s body toppled to the floor, smoke streaming from the center of his small chest, billowing upward toward the darkened sky. Fidget breathed heavily, blinking for a few moments before pulling himself together. He kept the gun out, just incase O wasn’t really out for the count. Bleu stepped away from O’s fallen form and stood beside Orichalcon, holding her hand over her mouth as Fidget stepped toward the body.

“Why did.. Why’d you shoot him, Fidget?!” Orichalcon gasped out, keeping Bleu close and away from Fidget.

“That was O.. O.. The Reploid that Bread Man built. He went Maverick days before the humans turned against us and started to shut us down. You guys didn’t recognize him!?” Fidget shouted out slightly, gazing up at the two of them.

A sudden movement from O’s body made Fidget jerk and let off a trio of shots straight into the Reploid’s face and chest, the explosion sending Fidget toppling over backward. He sat up and shook his head, wiping the grime from his face. Bleu and Orichalcon glanced back and forth between one another and stepped forward toward the scorched mark on the flooring. Fidget pulled himself to his feet and stood in front of the two frightened Reploids, smirking slightly.

“You guys wouldn’t happen to have a base somewhere around here that has a recharge pod now would you?” Bleu nodded softly, pointing back the direction they had come, “Yes, Fidget. We have on-FIDGET!?”

Fidget went toppling forward, slamming into Orichalcon’s chest, his energy core almost completely depleted from energy discharge. Orichalcon hefted their commander up on to his shoulder and carried him back toward the base they had with O.

* * *

Goompas checked the clock again, as he had five minutes ago. It glared back at him with its neon glow; 1:27. Goompas groaned out loud, catching the attention of Sherrie just outside the door. She came rushing into the room and smirked slightly at the President, “Sir. You can go to bed now. I’ll take over the folders for you, and then when I take my break, I’ll get Cicero to take over when he gets in later on today.”

Goompas nodded lightly and slid out of his chair, walking toward the door on the left side of the room. He pushed open the door and toppled into the room and on to his leather futon-type bed. He threw his shades on to the floor and ripped off his tie, tossing it on to the floor. He grabbed his pillow and curled up with it.

‘Hopefully.. The vice president will be capable of taking care of all those files.. Cicero better do a good job.. Or I’ll bludgeon him.’

[Sonic]

Great. Another chapter. But can u please give me the BnG site?

[Knuckles]

CLICK ME!!!!
and then go to forums

[Sonic]

Lmao these comics are hilarious! Im gonna just stay here and read them

[Andrew]

What's the point in having this thread here if you're just going to go read them off the BnG site?

Why don't you just live with what I post and wait like everyone else did the first time around?

-Paragon