[Up on the landing pad for the transport ships -the highest point in Giga City- an X is sitting on the edge of the platform and staring down at the clouds as they drift by beneath his feet. He's just doing what he does best.

Over thinking things. Over thinking them straight into the ground.]

[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? 

[After sneaking his way back out of Hunter territory (and missing the big kerfluffle with Axl and Lumine and the Xes) and moving all the way down to one of the lower air bus stations of Central, Axl started doing some thinking. About his current choices, about what he can do, what he knows, what he can do ( Read more... )

It felt like he'd been running forever, but even a combat reploid like him had to wind down eventually.

I can't believe I actually did that.He'd run off like some cowardly little rookie who lost his nerve and for a moment he honestly couldn't forgive himself for it. He tried not to look absolutely mortified as he tried to piece together the pieces ( Read more... )

[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))

[Well, he's decided to come up for air from settling things down over in Tianna, and he's got a mind to enjoy a little sunshine. And possibly troll for a new body or two. Still needs a few more specimens, after all.  There's a child-Reploid frolicing not far from him that's just gosh darn cute as a button.

Hmm, he hasn't tried the experiment on a ( Read more... )

[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... )

[While he's heading over to Central to find that other Axl, Axl opens up a line on the Hunter frequency, full encryption is go...]

Zero? X? Got a...minor situation.