Although he had completely won over his former greatest enemy, no matter how loyal Zero was Copy X simply couldn't shake his paranoia that one day she might turn on him. In an attempt to quell his insecurities, he eventually offered her an "upgraded" body promising a number of benefits. In reality the body had even less power than Zero's female body, and a significantly weaker CPU, Copy X figuring that she wouldn't be able to scheme against him if she lacked the brainpower to do so...

Here we join Zero finding out the hard way that her hopes of becoming his full-time bodyguard in addition to his loyal pet were not to be. On the other hand, she's pleased that she's even closer to his ideal, and feels that she might have taken the body anyway if he had asked directly. She was becoming difficult to recognise as Zero, something that neither of them minded...

A version without dialogue can be found here:

sta.sh/0v3d67s68nw

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I couldn't help but get another couple of pictures with this heavily modified Midnight Bliss Zero design. As usual, this is done by the excellent :iconzdemian:. Is there anything else you'd like to see in this "bad" end?