X sat in one of the break rooms in HQ, studying the ship. He knew it was on of Dr. Light's, because on the top was a small 'L' in the lower right hand corner. Once, while his right arm had been under repairs, he'd seen his arm's motor circuit. It had had the same L. That had made him feel good, as if through it he'd felt his 'father's' presence. Touching and holding the data chip made him feel the same way.
All day Reploids had sought him out to see the incredibly rare find. Like Zero, they were amazed at its good condition, and often they asked X what he thought should be done with it. Each time he'd said 'I don't know,' but he really did know: He thought he should be allowed to keep it. After all, Dr. Light was his creator, and this little chip was really all he had left of him.
"Hi." The quiet voice made X look up sharply, startled. He saw one of the band, and he'd been so lost in thought it took him a moment to focus.
"Oh, uh... Felsen, right?" The brown-haired Reploid nodded and sat down in a nearby chair. "Heh, this is the first time I've seen you without your brother nearby." Felsen smiled.
"He worries about me sometimes. It's that whole 'big brother' syndrome. But I managed to convince him if there was anywhere I'd be safe, it's here." He eyed the chip. "Have you tried to open it?"
"Open it?"
"There's data on that chip. We tried to open it, but couldn't." X noticed Felsen was looking at him rather intently. "It's heavily encoded, and protected by five voice-activated pass codes."
"Wow! That's heavy duty security."
"Uh huh. We thought that since you're one of Dr. Light's creations, maybe you can crack it." X sighed.
"Even if I have the capabilities, I wouldn't know it. I have very little memory. I don't know much more than I was created by Dr. Light, put in a stasis capsule, and then found by Dr. Cain when it opened. I don't even really know why I was built." At first Felsen was a little startled at that, then regained his previous expression.
"I know why you were built, X." X looked at Felsen, then chuckled.
"To save the world, right? I've been told that hundreds of times." Felsen's face for an even more intense, searching look.
"X, I know why Dr. Light build you." Now X frowned.
"How could you know anything like that? Dr. Light died nearly one hundred years ago. Nothing of his is known to exist, save me and this chip. Even his lab vanished with everything in it."
"My family and I are Dr. Light experts, you might say. We know him better than anyone else alive, I'd bet." Again X frowned. For some reason, the familiarity this stranger was taking sparked his circuits the wrong way.
Abruptly, Felsen's eyes widened, his expression changed to one of surprise, then shame, and he lowered his gaze. "I'm worry, X. I've offended you in some way. I'll leave you be." He quickly got up and went to leave. X blinked in surprise.
"Wait, Felsen - " Felsen turned at the doorway to look back at X.
"I should've known better than to interrupt you, when you were so clearly thinking of Dr. Light. I apologize. But I do know why you were created." This time X said nothing, so Felsen continued. "You were created for two reasons, X. The first was that when evil ups the stakes, so too must good or be overrun. In this you were right in thinking you were built to save the world."
"And the second?" whispered the famed Hunter. A trace of sadness drifted over Felsen's eyes.
"It's perhaps the greatest reason of all: Dr. Light wanted another son to love." And with that, Felsen left.