[As X started back toward the Hunter base with Phantom, he reached out to connect to Alia over a secured and encrypted channel.]

Alia? Come in?

[After getting out of medical, wandering around to clear his head and running into his twin, X had gone to find Axl and talk to him. After spending some time with Axl, X went to find Alia. He wanted to know what her analysis of Axl's scans had been ( Read more... )

[Routine reports coming in, routine scans on the monitors, Alia sitting at her console running at least three other pieces of data analysis at once even while she's keeping an ear on the comm systems ( Read more... )

[After the fight with Lumine, X had gone to medical to get that nice row of holes in his torso patched up. None were especially serious thanks to his armor, though the one just under what passed for a ribcage had chewed deeper and damaged his internals, including several relays, and tore open a coolant line. His body had automatically rerouted ( Read more... )

[oh, hey! Remember that copy of Zero that was running around thinking it was the real one? Have a call from it, Hunter-folks. A rather tense message to the command-level channel.]

This is Zero. Sorry for the radio silence. Been working on something, needed to lay low. I have bad news and worse news. Which do you guys want first? 

[Yeah, Alia? Layer? Have a Zero bursting in on the control room, wild-eyed. WHATEVER you happen to be doing right now, get ready to drop it.]

Did you just hear that?

((In reaction to this . >:3))

[She's had a night to let things sit, and Alia's a little more rested...though not by much, since keeping herself away from working on the problem doesn't mean she could keep herself away from thinking about it, and in many ways, thinking about it without doing any real work on it just makes things worse ( Read more... )

[Ever since she'd taken her seat, Layer hadn't moved from her station. It was easy to monitor and work her magic over the comm lines, but the difficulty hump came in the form of navigation: Alia was right... they had the right idea, but the spotters needed a little more time yet. Can't stop, have to the weight for a while longer. She could stop to ( Read more... )

[She would have loved to say she'd seen stranger, but that was up for debate: Having no memory of how she arrived here, she found herself taking her first steps in this foreign place after five minutes of looking around in a carefully-practiced calm ( Read more... )

[The dead Zero is being moved by the medical team to proper containment, the Force Metal -- she'll have to ask X more about that later -- is in a sample tube for her to look at later, and as enlightening (or maybe not enlightening, but at least interesting) as it's been spending the past while in a room full of X's and Zeros, trying to figure out ( Read more... )