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Axl wandered across HQ, looking for Palette on this nice…cloudy day.
He ran into Zero, who kept complaining about his hair getting tangled.
“Man. I love this hair and all, but it gets annoying at times…” Zero said with a sigh.
“So why don’t you cut it?” Axl suggests.
Zero shrugs.
“Don’t really want to. It can’t grow back. Good thing you or X don’t have that problem” Axl scratches his helmet in thought.
“Hold on…does X even have hair? I’ve never seen him without a helmet on…” Zero’s eyes widened.
“Good question…he probably does but I’m not sure…” Axl’s eyes narrow.
“You mean you’ve never seen him without it?” Zero shakes his head and then hesitates.
“Actually. Yeah I have. I just forget if he ever changed the style. I think only one other person has seen him without it and she’s not even here…” the auburn-haired reploid smirks.
“Welp!” He exclaims, throwing his file somewhere.
“Screw files! Let’s go see X’s hair!” Zero frowns.
“Good idea” he pauses and points to the file “but pick that up and give it to Palette and THEN we’ll go”.
Axl groans but does as he’s told.
The two made their way to Central Command and met eyes with Palette who was chatting with Layer about something.
The purple-haired navigator was blushing but no one decided to press on it.
“Hey, Palette! I got that file you wanted!” Axl said as he handed it to her.
She accepted it with a half smile.
“It better be done right this time. Or else you’ll have to deal with Signas” Axl laughs nervously.
“I watched a tutorial. It should be all good” Palette gives him a skeptical look but she shrugs it off and continues with her job.
Zero doesn’t say anything as he stares at Layer, who’s averting her eyes.
The hunters hid their goodbyes to the navigators and went to go find a certain azure hero.
They found him chatting with one of his unit’s hunters.
Something about better aim and practice.
X met eyes with the pair as the hunter left.
“Hey guys!” He exclaimed “what’s up?”.
Zero made his way towards X. Axl followed close behind.
The blonde greeted X by wrapping his arm around him and patting his back, Zero looked over to Axl and nodded.
Axl, as fast as he could, reached out for X’s helmet and tried to pull it off.
X notices and squirms, making Zero tighten his grip around X.
“Hey—! What are you—” the azure hero exclaims in surprise as he tries to get Zero off of him.
“Stop…” Axl says as he tries to get X’s helmet off “resisting!”.
X makes a weird noise as Axl manages to pull his helmet off and then covers his head.
“I see some brown locks~” Zero teases.
X blushes and reaches for his helmet.
Axl is hiding behind Zero at this point, snickering.
“Why are you still trying to cover your hair? We already got the helmet off!” Axl says with a slight laugh.
X just groans.
“I want my helmet back!” Axl pulls the helmet back.
The auburn-haired reploid is enjoying this whole thing.
“I will let you have it if you show us your hair and stop trying to cover it” Zero smirks.
X becomes more frustrated by the second but hesitantly complies.
The azure hero lowered his hands slowly and revealed his beautiful brown hair.
Axl would admit that X’s hair looked SUPER soft. Just by looking at it.
“How is your hair like that?” Zero asks.
“Like what?” X questions, getting more insecure by the second.
“Fluffy…” Zero says as he reaches out to touch X’s hair, only to get his hand slapped away in the process.
Zero muttered to himself angrily as Axl was about to put his hand on an unsuspecting X.
Or so he thought.
X grabbed Axl’s hand and twisted it in an unnatural way.
“Ow!” Axl exclaimed as he pulled away.
X’s expression is unreadable as he grabs his helmet.
“There. You guys saw my hair. But absolutely NO touching. Got it?” X says as he puts his helmet on with a slight pout.
The auburn-haired reploid and the blonde nod.
X smiles and leaves the two.
“Never again?”
“Never again.”