X, having agreed to take on a different name, as long as the Babybones version of him was around, frowned.

He really didn't like keeping secrets.

The Babybones version of him was sleeping now, and X was glad that they were out cold.

It made it easier for him to speak with Epic, without the kid overhearing them.

He sighed.

"You okay bruh?" Epic asked him.

"Not really." X sighed. "Just thinking..."

"Me too..."

"..." X rested a hand over where his stomach would be, if he had his ecto summoned. "They would have been five today..."

"I know... You're worried about something. You only get melancholic when that happens."

X nodded his head, many things triggered his melancholic moods nowadays, and being worried was one of those triggers.

"It's the Babybones me that I'm worried about. They look too much like me, even with the small differences that tell us apart..."

Epic's eyelights widened when he realised what X was trying to tell him, and what it meant for the small Babybones. "The resemblance is close enough for Ink to think that you managed to hide a Babybones from him."

"Yeah, which means that Ink would kill him, instead of kidnapping them, and keeping them with the other Babybones."

Speaking of that, what did out resident planners think about our theory on Ink's actions?"

X smiled. "Well, when I shared it with them..."

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X laughed when he heard Blue swear, and kicking himself for not picking up what had happened. He had seen Ink do this before, changing his actions to throw the plans of enemies around, when he had been a Star Sans, but he had never realised that once you had figured out what outline that he was using, you could use it against him.

"So, I'll take that as a 'call us back in a few hours'?" X asked, chuckling.

"Shut up." Blue growled, before he ended the call, leaving X, alone, with his laughter.

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Epic chuckled. "They're probably still kicking themselves for not figuring that out, sooner."

X chuckled. "Yeah. Me too... So, what should we do now? While we're waiting for them to come up with a plan?"

Epic smiled, looking at the sleeping Babybones. "Take care of a kid?"

X nodded his head. "I like the idea of that."

Cross continued to sleep, unaware of what was happening around them.