It
was a perfectly normal day in the evil scientist Dr Wily's Skull
Castle. Dr Wily was plotting his next try for world domination, and
thought really carefully so that his enemy, named Rockman, wouldn't
get in the way.
"Now… What would Rockman not expect from me to
do?" he mumbled to himself as he walked back and forward in his
laboratory.
The door to this room was being knocked on from the
outside. Shortly after, the red, boomerang-user android Quickman
walked in.
"Sorry to disturb you sir." he said with a calm
tone. "May I ask you something?"
"Sure, Quickman." Dr Wily
answered. "Come in and tell me what is on your mind."
"It
will only take a second." Quickman said and stayed at the door.
"Eh… May I and some of the other androids take a vacation?"
Dr
Wily snorted at Quickman which took a step back.
"A vacation
huh?" Dr Wily mumbled to Quickman. "…Alright. Just go. I have
had thoughts in stealing Dr. Cossack's androids this time anyway…
So, you just go with these others."
Quickman bowed to Dr Wily
and he left the room.
Quickman came down to the big entry,
were there was a couple of other androids.
"What did he say?"
asked a younger boy with a snake-looking hat, Snakeman.
"Can we
go?" asked Snakeman's buddy with a screen on his helmet,
Crashman. "Oh… Please say he let us go!"
"Yes, yes."
Quickman answered, with his hands pushed in front of him for space.
"But remember, we all have to mention a place we are going to.
Okay?"
"Okay!" said the two androids.
Quickman looked up
at three other androids a little bit away from them. First, there was
the little blue Eskimo Iceman. The blue ninja, Shadowman. And then
the red and white dressed Fireman.
"Where do you want to go
then?" Quickman asked them.
"I want to go to somewhere not
hot." Iceman said with his tiny, low voice.
"Somewhere hot."
Fireman replied. "I need to get this cold of me."
"I don't
really care where we go actually." Shadowman sang as an answer
while he listened to music.
"And you guys?" Quickman wondered
as he looked down at Snakeman and Crashman.
"Australia!" they
both answered synchronized.
Quickman nodded.
"Then Australia
it is."
"What?!" Iceman shouted. "But…! But what about
me?"
"Sorry Iceman. But Snakeman and Crashman were the only
one who said a location." Quickman answered Iceman. "Now, let's
pack our stuff and lets get going. Let's meet here again in less
then two hours, okay?"
Quickman was first in finishing
packing so he waited for the other one. First returning back after
him was Fireman and he had this sailor backpack over his
shoulder.
"So, what do you think of going to Australia,
Fireman?" Quickman asked him for killing time.
"I guess it is
okay." Fireman answered. "It is quiet warm there, so I might get
rid of my flue. I don't like wearing a mask you know."
"Mm…
Yes, yes. How was it with your brother? Is he finished soon?"
As
Quickman finished speaking, the brother came, down the hall came
Shadowman with a purse over his right shoulder, and he was mumbling
some text.
"Three here, three left to go…" Fireman
mumbled.
Time was crawling by, and the only thing entertaining
them was Shadowman's singing. After maybe 20 songs, the tiny Eskimo
arrived with a big backpack. And later on, the other two androids
arrived.
"Time to go then." Quickman said to all of them and
he also started pushing them towards the door. "Hurry up so there
will be more to enjoy."
"Yay!" Crashman shouted. "New
Holland! Here we come!"
The flight over to Australia went
quickly, maybe around one hour, but hey, if you live in Japan, it
won't take long to fly to Australia. Anyhow, the androids walked
down the plane and took a deep breath.
"Ah… Australia." said
Quickman. "The Lucky Country."
"It's hot…" Iceman
complained.
"I wanna to see what it's like in Sydney!"
Crashman said and dragged Quickman with him.
Quickman, not able to
react before being dragged, almost felled down to the ground. But he
luckily didn't fall, and followed after Crashman, and so did also
all the other androids.
And so they arrived in the big city,
Sydney. The looked up at the high houses surrounding them, and they
were amazed. Iceman looked at the Sydney Opera House, and he almost
fell in love with it, but managed to get a grip of himself because of
all the car gases. Being the shorest, and at the same time, youngest,
wasn't exactly not a good thing when being in Sydney he figured
out.
"Wow…" Fireman said to himself. "This city sure is
impressive. Hm…? Quickman, I think we are missing
someone."
Quickman looked first at Fireman, then at the group,
and the worries were confirmed, there was one missing.
"Oh...
For crying out loud." Quickman sighed. "Damn Snakeman, ruining
all the fun… Come on everybody, we must find Snakeman."
And
the group of androids went searching. They looked everywhere, they
searched high, they searched low. They searched at game stores, and
the searched in girls clothes store. But it all seemed waste of time,
until…
"This is the last place…" Quickman announced to the
others and he looked at the place he didn't want to enter.
"What
is this for a place, Quickman?" Iceman asked.
Quickman looked
down at Iceman, and then also at Crashman.
"Eh… You don't
wanna know." he said. "Fireman, come with me. Shadowman, keep an
eye on them so they don't follow us."
Shadowman nodded as he
forcefully took a tight grip in Iceman's and in Crashman's
necks.
"Now go ahead." Shadowman sang happily with a grin on
his face.
Quickman looked nervously at the three of them as he and
Fireman walked forward, into the area of King's Cross.
"Seriously
Quickman…" Fireman said. "Is this place really that
dangerous?"
"I dunno." Quickman replied. "I've just
heard bad rumours of this place. You know… Drugs, prostitutes and
other bad stuff."
"There goes the so called Lucky Country
then…"
As the two androids walked around a corner, they came
out to an empty street. Well, almost empty…
"Hello there…"
said a young girl, easily dressed, who was leaning against Quickman.
"Wanna have some fun?"
Quickman shivered in his whole body,
and he jumped away from the girl.
"N-No thanks!" Quickman said
at the same time as he was blushing. "By the way… Have you seen a
little guy, about this short, he is very green, and with something
that looks like a snake on his head?"
The young prostitute
thought for a while.
"Now when you mention it…" she said. "I
think I saw him together with Drug-Jane."
Quickman went into
shock, and Fireman was forced to give him massage so that he would
calm down.
"W-Where is this Drug-Jane then?" Quickman snorted
angry.
"Maybe about 500 meters that way, and then turn right."
The prostitute pointed backwards.
Quickman didn't thank her,
instead, he rushed with all his power, with a slightly scared Fireman
hanging in his shoulders. Quickman is famous in Japan, for his speed,
and there is no doubt he was running fast. Dust blinded the people
sitting on the sides of the streets, and some also flew from the
wave. After 500 meters, Quickman stopped and looked to his
right.
"Pl-Please Quickman…" Fireman said in agony. "I
can't take it anymore…!"
But Quickman was too angry to hear
the androids praying, and he ran into an alley that was to the right.
The prostitute was right, Snakeman was in there, and in company of an
old lady. The old lady took out a syringe and squirted with it a
little.
"Oh no you don't!" Quickman shouted as he slide the
last 50 meters, and in front of the lady, he kicked the syringe up in
the air. "Snakeman, what the hell?!"
Snakeman was shocked
seeing Quickman so angry at him, he became mute. Quickman snorted as
he grabbed Snakeman's hand and walked away. But they didn't think
of one thing.
"Ouch!"
Quickman looked over his shoulder,
seeing that the syringe he just had kicked, had landed and drilled
through Snakeman's shoulder. Quickman face went white, and when he
was supposed to pull out the syringe, he accidentally poured the
liquid into Snakeman's body.
"I hate
syringes!"
"Sh-Shadowman…" Iceman stutter. "I'm
not feeling well…"
Crashman looked at Iceman, seeing him
sweating, and not little, but much. He put his hand on Iceman's
forehead, but he quickly dragged it away.
"Yikes!" Crashman
shouted. "Shadowman! Iceman is frickin' hot!"
Crashman blew
on his hand to cool it down, but Shadowman didn't react, actually,
he didn't hear anything because of the music. But he did notice
that Quickman came back, with both Fireman and Snakeman dragged after
him.
"Pretty…" Snakeman said. "Look Quickie, a
butterfly!"
Snakeman pointed up in the sky, where the only thing
that was there was an airplane. Shadowman giggled a little when he
looked at Quickman.
"What…?!" Quickman asked
irritated.
Shadowman didn't say, instead, he took up a mirror
and showed to Quickman he had a kissing mark on the cheek. Quickman
took up a napkin and took it away.
"I hate Sydney…" Quickman
mumbled while he did so.
"Maybe we should go and see the animals
then?" Shadowman asked, yet again singing.
"Yes… Let's do
so. There is at least no drugs or prostitutes there."
So…
The six androids got themselves out into the wilderness of Australia.
The looked out on a big meadow, where there was several kinds of
animals. Quickman tried to rest from the shock from King's Cross,
while at the same time have an eye on Snakeman so that he wouldn't
do anything stupid.
"Pretty flower." Snakeman said as he
actually stared into poop.
"N-No more sun… Please!" Iceman
said as he was shaking, and hiding in the shadow of a tree.
"I
wanna go home…!" Fireman shouted, sitting in the same
shadow.
"What a vacation…" Quickman sighed. "Or what do
you think Crashman?"
No answer. Quickman was up in a second, and
he looked around, no Crashman.
"Oh man…! Shadowman, did you
see where he went?"
Shadowman sang for himself, but quit as
Quickman spoke to him.
"I think he went out to the kangaroos."
he answered, this time not singing. "But that is only what I think.
…Wait. I was right."
Quickman could slightly hear Crashman's
voice, he was screaming in fear.
"I'm sorry!" he said. "I'm
really sorry! Please forgive me!"
And soon, they could see a big
cloud of dust, and in the lead was indeed Crashman, after him was a
horde of kangaroos.
"What did you do Crashman?!" Quickman
shouted to him.
"I don't know!" Crashman shouted back. "I
picked up some red stuff from one of the kangaroo's belly!"
"You
idiot! That was a baby kangaroo!"
"Then that is the reason
they are chasing me! I killed a baby!"
"What?!"
"I
threw it away since I thought it was some kind of blood
plump!"
Quickman sighed, and he stood up from the ground. He
took his boomerang off his helmet and threw it against the kangaroos.
But unluckily, it didn't scare them off, it instead scared
Crashman, who it wasn't even aimed at. He stopped, and the
kangaroos caught him, and off he flew. About maybe 300 meters.
"Quite
impressive…" Quickman said.
"Eep!"
Without any kind of
warning, the drug affected android jumped onto Quickman's
shoulders, shiver in fear.
"What now?" Quickman asked
Snakeman.
"Sc-Sc-Scary!"
Snakeman pointed down on the
ground, and Quickman looked down.
"No…" Quickman sighed.
"Seriously…? Are you, scared of a snake?"
The snake itself
was about 50 cm long, a little bit fat, it had a triangular shaped
head and small subocular
scales. It also had vertical pupils and
many small scales on the top of the head. The snake looked at
Quickman, who looked back. But the snake looked at him in a
threatening way, and Quickman in a surprised way. And also, before
something was done, the snake had bitten Quickman in his
heel.
"Ouch!" he said. "Damn snake…"
Quickman kicked
away the snake, sending it very far away.
"Quickman…"
Shadowman said. "I think that was an acanthophis."
"A
what?"
"An acanthophis, or even called 'death
adders'."
Back in Japan, the evil scientist Dr Wily was
modifying a couple of androids.
"Haha." he said to himself. "I
bet Rockman won't be able to stop me now."
Dr Wily laughed
maniacally, but stopped as it was knocking on the door.
"Come on
in." Dr Wily answered.
"Hello Dr Wily." sang Shadowman as he
entered the room.
"Hello Shadowman. How was the, incredible
short, vacation?"
"Fine I guess. But some of your dear
androids need repairing."
"Really?"
Shadowman
nodded.
"Alright then. Bring them in then."
Shadowman
dragged in the whole gang. It really was a mess. First Snakeman, who
clearly had lost his mind, as he shortly after ran around screaming:
"Pink! Everything is pink!" Fireman, who was still in a huge
shock, and probably not able to do anything. Iceman was now actually
starting to melt, and he mumbled something like: "I can see the
light." Crashman was unconscious, and he had deep marks of long and
skinny foots on his chest. And Quickman, well, he wasn't moving, he
was conscious, but paralysed.
"A-Antidote… Please."
