Hello! A reader on requested that I show Six and Rex's relationship from the very beginning. So this is my randition of things. Yes, it is posted under romance/family still because I will be ending it when Rex turns eighteen, the age he is in "A Little Spirit" and in "Baby Spirit". I do not own Generator Rex MOA does. If I DID own Generator Rex, it would go like this:

Ten-year-old Rex woke up in Mexico months ago. He was alone and scared. He did not know the language very well, having grown up around people from different countries. People who had used English as their main form of communication. He could not find his parents or his big brother, Cesar. Rex was alone with only the stars for comfort and it terrified him…

Burble.

Burble.

Burble.

His stomach growled. Rex had been forced to steal food in order to survive. He tried to do so as little as possible because stealing always made the food taste bitter to him… He hated stealing from people, but no one seemed willing to help him out. Rex was in a very small, very poor village. Everyone was already struggling to survive and taking in another mouth to feed wasn't an option since their children were already half-starved.

There was the orphanage….

But Rex was… Different. He could do things that no other kid could. When he got scared machine parts would shoot out his body. It was typically nuts and bolts from his ears and nose or the odd gear from his hands. Once there was a circuit board that came from his mouth!

He choked on that one… It burned his throat and really hurt!

Rex took a deep breath and briefly wondered if he could use his strange ability to turn himself invisible. He snatched a loaf of bread and ran. The bakery owner screamed after him. A couple of people tried to stop him but crude machines appeared out of the back, shoving them away.

The mayor of the small village heard of the nante-infected boy and called Providence…

The siren went off while Six was training in the unfinished dojo. He growled in aggravation and ran towards the hangar where his own personal jump jet was located. Six may have just been a mercenary but he was also a skilled pilot so Providence provided him with his own means of transportation. The mercenary programmed in the coordinates and took off for Mexico.

He ordered half the grunts to search for the boy while the other half evacuated the village with him. While Six was admittedly not a people person he hated the idea of someone suffering needlessly whether it was at the hands of others or in a disaster like this…

There was just something buried deep down inside that made him a natural protector. No matter how hard he tried to hide it, it always reared its ugly little head seemed to take over his heart.

Little Rex was hiding in a nearby building. He watched a man in green run by and thanked his lucky stars that he went unnoticed…

"El niño demonio está ahí!" Screamed an old woman.

Rex nearly cried…

'Why does everyone hate me?'

A bunch of men in black and white uniforms cornered the terrified little boy, waving their guns in his face and yelling. Rex froze up as the yelling brought back memories of the event, something that he had been trying desperately to forget. The poor boy covered his ears and cowered in a corner.

He was so scared… He wished he were bigger. Rex wanted to be bigger than the men with their guns so they couldn't hurt him. The little boy whimpered and began to cry. He felt an odd surge of power… He felt stronger…

The little EVO's eyes began to glow electric blue. The glowing light spread through his body in a circuit board pattern.

"What the fuck is he doing?!" A grunt asked.

A kind of shell formed around the boy's body. The grunts opened fire only to have their bullets flung back at them as the bounced off this strange new build. The shell grew larger and larger, forming scrawny looking metal appendages. The grunts screamed in terror as the mecha boy began to grow, causing the building to crumble and fall around them.

It sprouted a head with eclectic blue glowing eyes, a twisted sword for a right hand, and two large yet crude rocket launchers on each shoulder. The mecha towered over all buildings.

Six stared up at the mecha with a frown and called in for an aerial strike. It wasn't something that he particularly wanted to do but he really had no choice. Child or not, the mecha was out of control.

It wasn't long before jets came flying in, launching missiles at the mecha, hitting it dead on. The mecha retaliated by firing some rockets form its shoulders, shooting down nearly half the jump jets.

Six leaped up onto the mecha's arm and ran up until he reached its neck. The mercenary stabbed it in the back of the neck.

"Six?" White asked from the confines of his tank.

"Get back it's going to explode!"

The mecha reached up and grabbed Six then detached its hands, sending him flying to safety just as it blew up. Six frowned and pulled himself from the rubble before desperately trying to contact White and the rest of their team.

"Help?" Came a weak voice behind him.

Six turned and uncovered a scrawny ten-year-old Latino boy. The boy slowly opened his eyes and muttered something in Spanish. Six sighed. He very well couldn't leave the poor kid there… So he took him with.

"Dude, is that sword for real? Are you a ninja?" The boy asked as they snuck along a building.

Six quickly covered the Latino's mouth upon hearing an EVO.

"Gross! Your hand smells like monkey breath! Why don't you call HQ or 911?"

"When the creature blew it took out everything electronic. This place is pretty much a dead zone. We're on our own," he mercenary said in his typical deadpan tone.

"So much for ordering a pizza," The boy quipped.

Six raised an eyebrow.

"I'm joking cause if I don't I'm gunna remember how scared I am right now… …Actually aside from my name that's all about I do remember."

Six swallowed, feeling a sense of panic rise up in his chest. This boy was potentially an orphan… He knew how horrible orphanages were from past experience…

"A family?"

The boy shook his head.

"An address?"

The boy shook his head again.

"A grandmother I can dump you on?"

"Nothing. Except waking up and seeing your face. Not exactly the angel I was hoping for."

"You're in shock. We're going to find a place to hold up."

"I'm not hiding! Why, are you trying to get rid of me?"

"I screwed up and it may have well cost my friend his life. The last thing I need is you slowing me down."

Six frowned as he saw the massive crater that he creature left behind.

"What's going on? What did this?" The boy asked sadly.

It was at this point that Six remembered that he was dealing with a child… An innocent boy who probably took one look at this disaster before them and thought that his family was caught up in it. The mercenary knelt to his level and placed a comforting hand on his head.

"Don't worry we evacuated this area."

The boy seemed to calm slightly upon hearing that.

Six stood and began to head away from the wreckage.

"I'm Rex. What's your name?"

"Six."

"Six?! What kind of a name is that?"

The mercenary frowned; this kid was really starting to annoy him… They didn't get very far before being ambushed by a mole EVO.

"New plan. Run!" Six said as he drew his katana.

The EVO spat some kind of weak acid at Six and jumped him.

Rex looked back and screamed, "Ah! Leave him alone!"

He shoved the EVO back and electric blue circuits began to spread throughout both their bodies. It wasn't long before the mole EVO collapsed and revealed an unconscious man.

"Ugh! Great! I probably have rabies!"

Six stared at the small boy in shock.

"What?"

"We're heading back to Providence."

"Why?"

"You have the ability to cure people. Right now Providence is using a machine that vaporizes the nanites and kills the EVO."

"You mean they're killing people?!"

"Yes."

"Alright. I'm in. But you have to find my parents!"

Six hesitated, "Deal."

The mercenary got the kid situated in his jump jet then took off. He just didn't have the heart to tell him that his parents could possibly be dead. That's just how the nanites worked… Some people were unaffected, some became monsters, and others perished…

Six reunited with White and Captain Callan in what is affectionately called the petting zoo at Providence.

"Glad to see you alive partner," White said.

"Happy to accommodate," Six quipped.

"Better stay clear of Fell. He's furious we didn't bring back a sample of that monster."

Six heard a cage open to his left and saw that Rex had set Bobo Haha free.

"Uh. No. I don't know where they keep the jet planes," Rex said.

Bobo made a run for it but Six grabbed him by the back of his collar and flung him none too gently back into the cage, locking it up again.

"Why did you let him out?" Six demanded.

"He asked me to! I don't know if you guys are aware of this but that monkey talks!" Rex answered with a childlike glee.

White slammed Rex into a cage and held him there by his shirt. Rex winced and struggled to get away.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Six growled and grabbed Rex by the arm, pulling him away and pushing him protectively behind him.

"He's with me. There's something I want to show…"

Six was cut off as another EVO was exterminated.

"…Dr. Holiday."

The mercenary guided the boy by his shoulder towards the lab, keeping a wary yet protective eye on him the entire way there. Dr. Holiday promptly took care of Rex's injured wrist and chewed Six out for taking him to see her rather than going to an actual nurse. Rex whined at her for being too rough and aggravating his injury. Six raised an eyebrow at her shitty bedside manner.

The mercenary shook off his initial shock towards the woman and opened the cage he had been leaning against.

"What are you doing?! That EVO is scheduled for processing!" Holiday screamed.

"Show her," Six grunted as he struggled to restrain the EVO.

Rex cured the EVO, revealing a man. Holiday stared at the unconscious man in disbelief.

"We found it doctor. The third alternative."

"What does he… How?!" Holiday said.

"Meet Rex. The cure."

Holiday flung herself at the poor unsuspecting mercenary. Six stiffened up, feeling horribly uncomfortable. Rex smirked in amusement at the mercenary's discomfort. He took pity on him and tapped the doctor on the shoulder.

She took him to the kitchen and watched in disgust as he wolfed down fifteen large frozen burritos. Six leaned against the doorway feeling mildly ill himself… Rex yawned loudly and lay his head down on the table. Holiday tried to shake him awake but he simply wouldn't budge. Six sighed and picked the boy up.

"I'll take you to a room in the medical ward."

Rex whimpered in his sleep and clung to Six's swat suit. The mercenary held the boy a little tighter and rubbed his back in a comforting manner. Rex quieted down and fell into a deep sleep.

Holiday raised an eyebrow but said nothing. She had gotten the impression that Six was just as closed off and as heartless as the other mercenaries that Providence had given temporary agent status to.

'Apparently I was wrong…'

"I can't wait to see Fell's face when we show him," Holiday said in a spiteful tone that rubbed Six the wrong way.

"No. Tomorrow we move him to a safe location," Six said.

He knew that there was no way in hell Fell would take his discovery seriously. The doctor was a hateful bastard who would favor dissecting the boy to extract the cure over working with him.

"But I need to work on him right away!"

"Trust me," Six said, "Not everyone will feel the same way about working with an EVO. If we time this wrong it could turn ugly."

Holiday sighed exhaustedly, "I hate this war."

She walked away just as White revealed himself.

"Hey partner. Hows tricks?" White asked with a frown.

"What are you doing in the medical ward? I thought you hated germs."

"Made an exception today. Something I should know?"

"Just another day at the office," Six said as he tried to walk way.

White grabbed his arm, "You can trust me."

"I know," Six said as he went to his room to train.

The lights flickered and Six contacted Holiday, "Holiday? Is Fell running protocols at night now? Holiday?"

Six ran to the lab.

"What are you doing?!" The young mercenary demanded.

White turned to him, "I'm not going to let my partner risk his career for one bad call."

The table turned, revealing Rex who had clearly been drugged in his sleep. Six's hands clenched into fists before he willed himself to relax.

"Did you think I couldn't get Holiday to talk?"

Six frowned and approached the table only to be blocked by Fell.

"You're letting your emotions cloud your judgment Six. With what we glean from this boy I could create tools that could inoculate the world," Fell said.

Six growled, "Why risk it? He can already cure them! I've seen it!"

"So what? We train him? Make him one of us?" White asked.

Fell went to cut Rex open only to have his scalpel crushed by a whip of metal.

"I thought he was sedated!"

"He is. It's his nanites. They're protecting him."

A crude metal arm formed and grabbed Fell by the wrist, throwing him against a wall. Rex began lose control as his fear got the better of him. His arms and legs turned into crude builds. To anyone else they were disgusting monstrosities, but to Six they were proof that the kid had the potential to become something great.

"One of us, huh?" White said as he activated the machine.

Rex began to scream in pain. It was excruciating! The boy managed to break the metal bonds that held him to the table.

White fired his gun at him. Six intervened with his katana, slicing the bullet in half and sending the halves into the computer monitors behind him.

"Have you lost it?! He's one of them! If he powers up he'll destroy us all!" White bellowed as he raised his gun again.

"No!" Six shouted as he deflected a bullet.

It embedded itself in the metal beam next to White's head.

"So that's it huh?" White throw down his revolver and picked up his rifle.

He opened fire on his partner. Six rushed him, deflecting bullet after bullet to protect the terrified boy behind him.

Holiday as it turned out was locked up in Bobo's cage.

"You cannot treat me like this! I have three PhDs! Let me out this instant!" She screamed at the grunts as they walked way.

Bobo stole one of her pens and used it to pick the lock. Holiday bolted towards the lab. The monkey EVO's curiosity got the best of him and he followed.

Six felt his heart clench as Rex continued to scream in pain. He may have gotten free but the damage the machine was causing had immobilized him.

"Stand down Six! We need you in this war!" White declared.

"What's the good in winning a war if we can't live with ourselves after?" Six stated.

White was out of bullets. He began fighting Six with his gun, using as though it were a baseball bat. Six had the upper hand until he heard Rex give out particularly loud cry of pain. White took advantage of his distracted friend and kicked his ass.

"We're supposed to be friends. He's a monster! What do you see in him?!"

Six looked down at Rex as the boy trembled in pain and fear. Tears ran down his the young Latino's cheeks.

"Hope," Six said before gaining the upper hand in this fight.

He was about to end White's incessant jabbering with a punch to the face when Fell injected him with a drug to knock him out. The machine began to fail due to Rex's nanites fighting back. Holiday used a crane to lift the boy to safety after Fell ran out like a coward.

Six was just coming to when White picked him up and flung him out of the rapidly closing glass doors.

The younger mercenary beat on the glass, "Why?!"

"I know what side I'm on," White said before he began to scream in pain.

The machine was finally doing its job now that Rex's nanites weren't interfering. It was vaporizing White's inactive nanties. It was killing him.

Six grabbed Fell by his collar and demanded that he stop it. Fell explained that it was impossible to do so once the machine was fired up. Rex placed his hand on the computer and told it to turn off. His nanites worked their magic and White's life was spared. The only adverse affect was that White was now a nanite free albino. Or as Bobo put it, a marshmallow…

It was an agonizingly long day and Six had to get up early for a meeting with White and Holiday to discuss what they were going to do with Rex. The exhausted mercenary collapsed into his bed and was about to surrender to blissful slumber when he heard a knock at his door.

"Enter!"

Rex entered his room with fresh tears running down his cheeks and an embarrassed expression on is face.

Six sat up, "What's wrong?"

Rex sniffled, "I can't sleep. It's too scary. Can I stay with you?"

Six had wanted to say no. He really did… He sighed and moved over. Rex ran towards his bed and got in.

"Just don't make a habit of it kid."

"…Goodnight."

"Hm."

"Hey Six?"

"Hm?"

"Why do people hate me?"

"Human nature. People hate what they don't understand."

"Do you hate me?" Rex asked in a small, fearful voice.

"No. Now get some sleep."

"Kay," Rex muttered as he snuggled closer to Six.

There was a flash of light followed by a low rumble. The mercenary sighed… There was no way in hell he would be getting any sleep tonight…

So there you have it! My version of how they first met. I will be updating from age ten to age eighteen as I mentioned above. Each chapter will only be a years span verses a half-year like "Baby Spirit" or completely random like "A Little Spirit".

Sorry I had to post this later than I did with "A Little Spirit". I didn't want to be late for work.