Epilogue: Home

The Reploids spent a few more hours there, gathering up a few personal possessions of the older Light children, touring, reminiscing about things. Unanimously they agreed to keep the location of the lab a secret, for the moment at least. The Mavericks were still too much of a threat for the lab to become public knowledge. Not even Colonel would know. Once they had all their things packed into the van, they returned to Hunter HQ...

... to find out that Bass had escaped!Seems he could remote activate Treble, who hadn't been kept under as tight as guard as his master. The instant his eyes had opened, all hell had broken loose. He'd downed every Hunter that had gotten in his way – though fortunately none were fatally injured – and fused with Bass the first chance he could. Stronger,but still injured and not ready to fight all the Hunters at once, Bass had opted to blast a hole in the wall and retreat,calling over his shoulder that he'd be back for the lights.

Rock, Blues, Rush, and the Cossacks were made full Hunters within the hour, and Roll was gratefully accepted onto the Med stall. Tango would be made a Hunter too, after a few upgrades.

That evening sun found all the Light children on the roof, X's favorite spot, watching the sunset.

"Do you think,"Roll asked, "that what Bass said... will he come back?"

"Probably," Blues responded."After all, we really pissed him off."

"Well, when he does,"Zero put in, "he'd better be ready, because we're gonna show him what us Lights can do!" X laughed. He'd finally found that which he'd been searching for, for so long.

Xavier Light, the last son of Dr. Light and known as X to his friends, had found his place in the world, at Hunter HQ, with his family.