It hadn’t been hard to learn about X’s plans. He was good at keeping secrets, yes, but Dakota had become equally good at digging them up, especially when they surrounded Zero.
Three key spots… One for his body, one for his blueprints… and one for his memory core.
The latter was the one that caught her interest. Located in one of the antarctic outposts, it was an area entirely uninhabitable by humans. Too harsh, too cold – but reploids could get there just fine. She could get there just fine, especially with her experience being an arctic guide.
She could go there and hunt out the core and be back before X was even done looking for Zero’s body. One thing less for him to do would help, right?
– Maybe, if someone hadn’t been blocking her path to the hangar, where the exploration vehicles were stored.
“Rebecca, aren’t you supposed to be training?”
Rebecca made a squeaking noise, looking back at Dakota like the other had caught her at something, and her face went a bit pink.
“U-Uh…”
“No? I, uh…”
Yes, yes she was. But she had been curious enough about where X was going to try and peek into the hangar. She looked a bit ashamed for trying to peek in, though she didn’t know if X even used this hangar.
“I, uh, wanted to see if I could help with what Dad’s doing…? Maybe take a bit of the burden off him…? He looked really stressed…”
She sounded unsure of that, like she decided on it not five seconds before Dakota found her.
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