note to those who were reading this story before: I am reviving this story, and cleaning it up a bit. Over the next two or three days, approximately 20 chapters will be posted.

Disclaimer: All characters in this story, save for filler characters and Officer Dale, are owned by Capcom.

Most events follow Mega Man series game cannon, though a few events have been deliberately changed.

Hope you enjoy and don't be afraid to leave me any comments/reviews of any sort, good bad or otherwise, especially if anything is seriously wrong or lacking.

Note: Parts of this story may (and probably will) contain profanity, violence, and somewhat disturbing themes.

Also, during this chapter, the version of Mega Man seen in visions of the past will be reffered to as Mega Man(1)

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Saga 1: The Fall of Mega Man

Prologue: The beginning of darkness

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In the late 20th century, there were two world-renowned scientists known as Dr. Light and Dr. Wily. Once upon a time, they worked hand in hand, to create semi-sentient beings known as robots, humanoid machines with the ability to think and act independantly. These two created a variety of robots. The first was a prototype, appropriately named Proto Man. However, this robot had an extreme sense of independence and escaped before we was complete.

However, Wily and Light learned much from their time building this prototype, and began construction of ten new robots. Among them were Mega Man, a robot designed to be a lab assistant, Roll, a robot designed to be more or less a maid, and eight other robots made for various uses, mostly industrial. These eight robots were referred to as robot masters. However, while Light won award after award and received recognition, Wily had gone largely ignored by the world. This caused great jealousy, hatred, and madness to stir within his mind and soul.

Wily then decided to reprogram and take possession of the eight robot masters, ignoring Mega Man and Roll. Wily had great plans to exact revenge and take control of the world. Mega Man, seeing what Wily was doing, asked Light to reconfigure him to be a battle robot, to stop Wily's mad plans. Light agreed. Mega Man eventually defeated Wily.

Time and time again, Wily escaped the clutches of the law and the police, and constantly came up with new schemes. Everytime however, Mega Man rose against him, and Wily never truly suceeded.

However, things were about to change. The decision of one whimsical being would irrevocably change the fate Earth forever...

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"Why did I agree to this again?" asked the little blue robot, known the world over as Mega Man.

"Less talking, more fighting!"

Protoman, Mega Man's older "brother" was another robot, with a silver and red paint job, and a visor that obscures his eyes. He had challenged Mega Man to a sparring duel, as it had been awhile since either of them had any real villains to fight, and did not want Mega to get rusty.

"But this doesn't feel right, you can't expect me to go at you full strength! And besides, you have a lot of nerve suddenly showing up out of the blue after going incognito for several months."

"If you don't want to get seriously damaged, you better, because I'm going at you with everything I got!"

The blue bomber managed to avoid several energy blasts from his brother's arm cannon, but wasn't firing back.

"Cmon, fight back you wimp!" Proto Man exclaimed rather loudly.

Suddenly, to Mega Man's shock, Protoman did a mad dash and was at point-blank range. But instead of firing a buster-shot made for close range, Mega simply tried to block with his left arm. But he was way too slow.

"Eat this!"

Protoman quickly swung his arm into a punch, which he thrust upwards and caught his younger brother under the chin. Protoman's strength caused lift, making Mega fly up and back into the air, and he landed on his back with a loud thud.

"Well, crap, he's unconscious. Time to drag him back to Dr. Light's lab."

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Mega Man: "What? Where am I?"

Mega began to look around, only to see darkness. Then all of a sudden, the darkness swirled with a mixture of light, forming an image, sort of like a real-time holographic movie.

Mega Man: "What is this? This can't be... this is the past... what is going on here?"

What appeared before Mega Man is a memory of a couple of years ago. Mega had just felled a large machine, piloted by the one and only Dr. Wily, a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. A dark voice begins to speak to Mega Man.

Unknown voice: "What do you see little robot?"

Mega Man: "This, this is one of many times I defeated Dr. Wily. Must be. But who are you?"

Unknown Voice: "Ill answer that soon enough."

Unknown Voice: "You see one of the many times you have defeated this Wily fellow. But tell me, what is different about this event in particular?"

Mega Man: "I... don't know..."

Unknown Voice: "Then simply watch"

The monstrous machine Dr. Wily was piloting moaned and came to a complete stop. Dr. Wily then steps out, and is on his knee's, asking for forgiveness.

Dr. Wily: "Ok, I give up. Sorry about all the trouble. I'll go quietly..."

The Mega Man of the past, the one of his memories, replies.

Mega Man(1): "I don't trust you, Wily! I'm gonna do what I should have done years ago!!"

Dr. Wily: "You forget, Mega Man. Robots cannot harm humans..."

Mega Man(1): "I am more than a Robot!! Die Wily!!"

The vision freezes,and the voice speaks again.

Unknown Voice: "You had an incredible desire to end his life, the life of someone truly evil, someone who only wants to hurt others, control others, and please himself."

The vision continues to play. It appears that Mega Man is about to end Dr. Wily's life when the ceiling begins to collapse and a steal beam falls on the defeated villain. Just then, a robotic dog named Treble rescues Wily, then the dog's master, Bass, appears. This robot, a bit taller than Mega, painted mostly black and has a jewel in his upper chest and forehead.

Bass: "Too late Mega Man, he who hesitates is lost! We shall return."

The vision freezes again, and the voice continues to speak.

Unknown Voice: "This robot is half right. You most certainly hesitated, and it cost you. But it's not just that. Even if these turn events didn't happen, you really would not have been able to bring yourself to end his life, could you? Despite all that he has done to cause pain and suffering in this world."

Mega Man: "..."

Mega Man: "Your right... I know this to be true.. but why... why couldn't I?"

Unknown voice: "Isn't that obvious? It is that bit of programming built into your BIOS, the one that prevents you from seriously wounding or killing any human being, regardless of circumstances. I believe it is commonly referred to as the 3 laws of robotics, or some such silly thing."

Unknown Voice: "But tell me, if you could change all of that, if you could have free will, what would you do with it? Would you end Dr. Wily's life?"

Mega Man: "What? That... that was just anger, I cant let myself succumb to such things. And even if I believed that to be right... I cant, as you said, it is built into my BIOS, I cant harm any human being, not even Wily."

Mega Man: "Wait, who the fuck are you? Why do you care about any of this? And why are you pervading my dreams?"

Unknown Voice: "Hmm... did you just use a profanity? Didn't your creator, this, "Dr. Light" specifically program you not to use such foul words, no matter how much you wanna use them?"

Mega Man: "Wait.. your right... what did you do to me? ANSWER ME!"

Unknown Voice: "I think I will answer several of your questions at once"

The world of Mega Man's dream rapidly changed, showing a different image. Here, it showed Mega Man lying on the ground, unconscious, with a large robot from outer space named Duo, along with Protoman, standing over him, looking down on Mega Man.

Unknown Voice: "Do you know what's going on here?"

Mega Man: "This... this was after I defeated Wily, when he was trying to use that Evil Energy from outer space, but he failed non-the-less. But what's going on here? My internal memory has no records of what happened while I was unconscious."

Unknown Voice: "Quite simply, Protoman rescued you from certain death, and as you can now see, the large one is removing the evil energy from you. But, watch closely."

Duo shattered the evil energy he had gathered from Mega Man into nothingness. But, from the energy, at the last moment, a very small glimmer of green energy fell back into Mega Man's head, easily passing through his helmet.

Mega Man: "What the hell is that? That's you, isn't it? GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"

Unknown Voice: "Yep, thats me. And do not worry, ill be dead soon anyway."

Unknown Voice: "And I most certainly did something to you alright. Put simply, I have modified your BIOS, in that you can now bypass pretty much any system or programming you choose, thereby giving you free will."

Mega Man: "You what? I'm not supposed to do that. Robots are not supposed to have free will. Change me back!"

Unknown Voice: "No, I will not. I bet you are worried that with free will, you might do something evil or terrible. And that is exactly what I am interested in. Unfortunately, I wont live to see if you continue with your purity or be corrupted. I made the mistake of attempting to hack into the robots known as Roll, Protoman, and Bass. It seems I tried to do too much at once. I doubt my attempt to change their BIOS as well even succeeded. And now I am going to die. Actually, it seems my time is..."

The Energy being choked, then disappeared with a flash, and Mega Man awoke on a table in Dr. Lights Lab.

"Ah, Mega Man your awake. You really took one hell of a blow during your sparring match with Protoman."

Dr. Light, Mega Man's creator, simply stood over him, watching for Mega's reactions. Dr. Light was shorter than the average man, was a bit round in his build, and had a white beard. Dr. Light had his left thumb and index finger playing with said beard.

Mega simply looked around with a groggy expression, trying to make sure he was back in reality now.

"Oh yeah, thats right, I was sparring with Proto. Where is he anyway?"

"Right here you little wimp! Damn, I cant believe you can go toe-to-toe with the best Wily's best robots yet you get knocked out by an uppercut. Well, I'm off now, laterz"

"Now you hold on Proto!"

Roll, Mega Man's "sister" walked in the room. She is slightly taller than Mega, wearing a pink dress, and her synthetic hair was in a ponytail. She had quite the angry look on her face.

"What do you want?" Proto replied, rather annoyed.

"Apologize to little brother, making fun of him after you used such a dirty tactic on him. And you know he hates fighting!"

Dr. Light was just laughing.

Protoman: "I will not, his wimp-like tendencies might get us killed one day. I am taking my leave now. Until next time."

Protoman does a 2-fingered wave with his index and middle fingers, then disappears in a flash.

"That rude, arrogant..." Roll was using much effort to control her anger.

"Roll calm down, Protoman will never change, and he was only trying to help Mega Man, right?" Said Dr. Light, trying to calm Roll.

"I guess... Hey Mega Man, come on quit moping around already. You weren't beat that badly!"

"Huh, sorry I felt distracted for a second. I must still be out of it. I'm gonna go lie down and regenerate."

"Huh, thats strange... you alright Mega?" remarked Roll, worried about Mega.

Dr Light merely shook his head.

"He probably just needs more time to recuperate. Let him rest. Besides little lady, you still have chores you have not finished yet."

"Oh fine."

Mega Man lays down on a special regeneration table in another room in Light's Lab.

Mega Man began to ponder various thoughts.

"I wonder... maybe now... I can change for the better, or maybe I shouldn't. Ill have to think about that..."

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End of Prologue