X-AVR Chapter II: Lying Low

"X-AVR Chapter II: Lying Low" is a fictional short story written by Gilbert Martinez. It is a sequel to "X-AVR" that is intended to explain more of X-AVR's origins. Here, he creates his alias, meets a man called Joe, and lives a life on the run after killing a teenager in broad daylight.
==Plot==
It is March 22, 1981. X-AVR has just fled the lab where he killed the scientists. He flees into a forest and encounters two young men, Bill and Jake. They point him in the direction of the city, which is a few miles past the lab. X-AVR arrives at an alleyway that leads to a street that is vibrant with human activity. He comes across a newspaper on the ground. The front page, detailing a major sports accomplishment, was written by a man named Xavier Larsen. X-AVR likes the name, and so he makes his alias into Xavier. He sees the Space Needle in the distance, which reminds him of the lab, and so he turns away from it in disgust. X-AVR hears a man call to him, who has been living in the alley since 1975 following a divorce. X-AVR tells him that his name is Xavier, and the man reveals himself to be named Joseph "Joe" Cleveland. After telling each other their backstories, they hear a group of teenagers walking along the street that are mocking the homeless. Joe confronts them and, after being mocked, punches the shortest teenager in the stomach. The others proceed to beat him up as X-AVR confronts the teenagers himself. Two of the teenagers mock X-AVR before he kills the shortest one. People scream, and the other teenagers run away. X-AVR flees while carrying Joe. He stops in the thick forest and sets Joe on the ground. Joe tells him that the police will surely come for him, and so they should lie low in order to avoid being caught. They go on to live an incognito lifestyle. The police later find the lab and discover the dead scientists, and news reports talk of X-AVR for days on end that portray him as a ruthless killer.
==Background==
After completing "X-AVR" days before, Gilbert Martinez decided to expand upon Xavier's origin story. He was visiting family in Texas at the time, and he didn't bring his laptop; Martinez wrote this story on his phone.
The story was germinated on August 10, 2014. He finished it at 12:02 AM CDT on August 15, 2014 (10:02 PM PDT on August 14, 2014).