-Warning: extreme OOC ahead. Warning! Warning!-

A week had passed and X still wasn't feeling any better. He still woke up nauseated and miserable, he stopped eating food at all so he wouldn't be able to throw up but he couldn't stop feeling sick. Every afternoon X went down to the Med Bay where Lifesaver took readings, asked questions, and generally tracked symptoms but still didn't seem to have any answers. X was starting to get antsy, he was tired of being sick and he was tired of being on a forced vacation, especially since he couldn't go anywhere. At least Zero's pranks seemed to have stopped since X first got sick, X was grateful not to wake up to find his room covered in party string or shaving cream in his hand or some other little inconvenience.

But enough was enough, X wanted answers and he wanted them today. With that in mind X headed down to the Med Bay to have some words with Lifesaver. Upon entering the Med Bay he quickly spotted Lifesaver and walked up to him. "Lifesaver..."

"Ah hello X. You're a little early today. No matter, it should only take a moment to get set up."

X shook his head and help up his hand. "Lifesaver, just wait a minute. Before you run any more tests I want to know what's going on, you have to have some idea by now and I'm tired of being kept out of the loop. What's wrong with me? Can you fix it? How much longer am I going to be off duty?"

Lifesaver sighed and put down a data pad he had hastily picked up. "Let us go talk in my office, there will be less chance of interruptions there." Lifesaver led X to his office, where X seated himself in a comfortable chair in front of Lifesaver's desk. Lifesaver moved behind the desk to seat himself in a big, cushy chair and started clearing his desk of clutter, neatly piling data pads to the side. X looked around quickly, the office was comfortably spacious with a tall door and wide chairs to fit nearly any size person, a necessity in a world where the normal height ranged anywhere from three to ten feet tall.

"X," Lifesaver began, "After reviewing the raw data from your scans and continual observations I have come to the conclusion that the original results were in fact correct." Lifesaver waited for X's reaction at that point.

It took a moment for X to absorb the information. "What?" Lifesaver just shrugged. "But... that's impossible." It sounded more like a question the way X's voice wavered. "I can't be pregnant! That's just not possible! Men don't get pregnant, robots don't get pregnant... robot men don't get pregnant! That's two times the reason I can't be pregnant!"

"You know in math and the English language a double negative is a positive."

"This isn't math! There's no way, that just can't be right. You said yourself the pods were wrong."

"I said it was only a possibility, X. I can't explain how or why, but that's the only conclusion I can come to. Remember X, you have incredibly complex systems that no one really understands. No one knows the limits of your capabilities."

"There's no way this is normal! In fact, there's no way this is happening! If this is some elaborate joke Zero put you up to I'm not going to be happy." X glared at Lifesaver over the table.

"I assure you I do not take part in any of Zero's hoaxes and I am quite serious. It seems this is a lot for you to take in, why don't you go back to your quarters and rest for a while. There really is no need to gather data today." Lifesaver stood up and started moving for the door while X sagged and leaned against the desk.

"You really are serious." His shoulders slumped in a look of defeat he hadn't felt since the space colony fell to earth.

"Yes, X, I really am serious. The data doesn't lie and so far as I can tell you are pregnant. As I stated earlier, it might be best for you to go rest right now."

X pushed off the desk and headed for the office door, he really didn't feel like talking with Lifesaver any more. Without saying a word X walked out of the office and headed back to his quarters.

Or so Lifesaver assumed. What really happened was X put on his armor and headed down to the garage. Fortunately X being off duty hadn't restricted his access to anything, so no one stopped him as he mounted a Ride Chaser and took off without a word to anyone.

It didn't take long for X to get to Noah's Park and it was certainly a lot easier to navigate with a Ride Chaser rather than running around. As he got to his destination X took a moment to admire the artificially created natural beauty around him, the park was quite serene when he wasn't fighting for his life. He slowed to a stop, put down the kickstand, and walked away from the bike a short distance. There on the ground was what he was looking for, fortunately it hadn't moved in the last couple months.

"Dad? I need to talk to you." X stood looking down at one of Dr. Light's capsules. He nudged it with his foot and waited for a response. "Dad... I know you can hear me." X bent down and tried finding a power button, he tried interfacing with it, he tried stepping into the pod, he even gave it a hearty kick. Finally, X flopped on the ground and stated quite annoyedly, "I'm not leaving until you come out and talk to me." With that he grabbed a nearby stick and began poking the pod while repeating, "Dad... Dad... Dad..." over and over and over again.

"Alright already, I'm here." The pod jumped to life as Dr. Light's hologram came online. "X... I thought something like this might happen someday, so I've prepare parts for you."

"Uhm... no. That's not... NO. That's not what I'm here for!" X looked near ready to panic.

Dr. Light sighed and shook his head. "X... I might have expected this of Roll, but not you. My last child and you come home pregnant."

"This is home? No wait... so you know!" X pointed an accusing finger at the hologram.

"Of course I know, you think I wouldn't keep track of you? And I must say X, I'm quite disappointed in you." Light crossed his arms and looked sternly at X, though his mouth kept twitching as he tried to hide a smile.

"So do something about it, fix me. Make the problem go away!"

"I can't do that X, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just going to have to live with the consequences of your actions." Light couldn't hold back a chuckle at this point, which only irked X further. "You have to admit there's a certain irony in this situation."

"That's not irony, irony would be if Zero was the one who was pregnant. But how is this even possible?"

"Well you see, X, when a man and a woman love each other very much..."

"I'm not a woman!"

"Nature finds a way." Light spread his hands as if he didn't know any more than X.

"I don't believe that, I don't believe you either right now. You know something and you're not telling me. I think I have the right to know."

Light shrugged, "There was a glitch in your system, something unexpected that went out of control. What do you think would happen when you let people who don't understand your systems do maintenance?" X looked at Light unbelievingly, "I really don't understand what is going on right now X, but there's nothing really wrong so there's nothing to fix."

X walked over and mounted the Ride Chaser. "Some help you were."

"I'm not some fairy godmother that can wave a magic wand and fix all your problems, X. Some things you have to deal with yourself. But I have every confidence in you, my boy." X simply kicked the kick stand and took off. It would be a long ride back to headquarters.

About half way back X spotted another Ride Chaser heading in his direction, the other driver slowed as it approached X, then pulled around to come up next to him and ride alongside. X activated the com system in his helmet to talk to the other reploid. "Hello Zero , what're you doing out here?"

"I came to look for you, I figured you came out to race Ride Chasers since it's been so boring lately and I thought I'd come join you."

"No, I didn't come out here to race, that's something you would do. I needed to talk to Dad."

"Oh... is it about the whole barfing thing?"

X grimaced, he didn't want think about that. "Yes, yes it was." X hit the brakes and came to a stop, Zero circled back around and came to a stop next to his blue-armored friend.

"So what did the old coot have to say? Does he know what's going on?" X nodded slowly, he wasn't sure if he was ready to talk about it yet. "Well, aren't you gonna tell me?"

"I suppose I should. Apparently I'm pregnant."

Zero blinked a couple times, "Whut?"

"That's how I feel, but both Lifesaver and Dad say the same thing. It just... it doesn't make any sense!" X sank lower into his seat on the Ride Chaser.

"So... you're pregnant. Then that means," Zero paused for a minute as if in deep thought, "I'm going to be a daddy!"

X facepalmed, "You can not be serious."

"What? Aren't you excited? I think this is exciting!" Zero looked far too happy for X's taste, he could practically see the sparkles hovering near his face.

"You blasé acceptance of this whole thing is completely astounding. And I don't think I could handle anything else today so I'm going back to base." With that X kicked his Ride Chaser into gear and took off. Zero quickly activated his Ride Chaser and follows X back to the base.

Late that night Zero was peacefully sleeping in his own quarters, X was still quite upset, when something woke him up. Groggily Zero looked around, wondering what had caused him to prematurely exit his sleep cycle when his eyes fell on a faintly glowing, blue figure. "Santa Claus?"

The figure frowned at Zero, and hefted his shotgun. Wait, shotgun? Santa didn't carry around a shotgun, and it was still early spring. Santa didn't do his whole breaking and entering bit in the middle of spring. Zero sat up and shook his head to clear it as he tried to focus on the intruder.

"Dr. Light?" Zero sounded a bit incredulous as he recognized X's creator. "What are you doing in my room? Without a pod? Holding a shotgun?"

"If'n you're my granbaby's daddy, I assume yer gonna be takin' responsibility, right son?"

"Uh... yes?" Zero shifted in his bed, completely confused by Light's strange behavior.

"Good, because I expect you to make an honest woman of X."

"But X isn't woman."

Light shrugged, "He's still the one who got pregnant."

"You do realize you're hardly frightening, being a hologram."

"Of course, of course, the shotgun was just because this will probably be my only chance to attempt this. Can you blame me for having a little fun?"

Zero chuckled slightly, "I suppose not."

Dr. Light smiled before moving quickly to Zero's side, holding the shotgun at point blank range. "I'm serious though, you better take care of X or I will make you pay. And don't think just because I don't have a body that I don't have ways to get to you."

Zero just stared at Light for a while, unsure how to properly respond. "You know, X is my best friend and I'd never let anything happen to him."

"Good, good. But if you ever do anything to make my little boy cry I'm coming after you. Well, take care of yourself." With that cheery threat the Dr. Light hologram disappeared and Zero was left to just sit there in his confusion.

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Today is Sephi's B-day so I thought it would be awesome to actually finally post the second chapter of the fic devoted to her! It's actually been done for a couple weeks but none of my pre-readers ever got it back to me so I decided to just give up and post it! Hah! And in case you haven't figured it out from the warning at the beginning the characters are completely out of character. This whole story is based on them being OOC and I won't warn you again. So yes... X is preggers! Isn't that adorable? And Zero's all excited. He's probably happy he isn't the one who's pregnant.

And I have a plea: help me with this fic! For the next chapter I need some ideas on how other characters, such as Alia, Layer, Signas, or Axl along with nameless NPC hunters, would react. If you have any kind of idea go ahead and just leave a comment. I'd appreciate it very much!

Characters are all copyright their respective owners, this story is simply meant as parody. No money is being made from this fanfic.