AN: I'm getting into the horrible habit of starting stories and never finishing them. And I have learned the reason why: My writing has improved since the days of How Wide the Universe and other of my earlier stories and because of this, I'm VERY unhappy with them and have no will to continue such pieces of crap. But people seem to like the basic ideas of my stories so I can't just leave them sitting there, rotting up my account name. Which is why, starting with this one, all of my stories are goint to go through a major over-haul. After I'm done writing the renewed versions, I'm deleting the crappier ones to make room. Plus it's spring break and I can only clean, play video games, MineCraft and read so much at a time before I go stir crazy.

So, background time: This story is going to AU in areas, I can already tell you that. But this story is going to be mainly about Rock and Forte and the Theory of Evolution. I'm a fairly big biology nut and I'm already planning a career in that area when I get to college but I'm going off topic.

A couple of weeks ago I got into a Megaman craze and my craze periods are horrible, horrible things to go through because I become obessed with them. Since then I have gone through all 177 pages of Megaman fiction here and caught myself up with most of the games and shows. For some reason I just can't get into Starforce and ZX, even Legends was some of a stretch for me.

When I got to the X series, I asked that one question that every Classic Megaman fan has to ask. What happened between Classic Megaman and Megaman X? And to a point, where did the free thought idea come from and how was it possible? So here is my take on it with a twist.

Basicaly my mind thought was this: 'how could Light find the time and energy to come up with the programming for free thought?' I also happened to be watching Bicentennial Man at this point (if you haven't watched it, I suggest you do). So, what was stopping the robots of Light and Wily from evolving human emotions much like Andrew who was orignally designed to be a mindless servant? What was stopping them? Being the biology nut that I am, I thought the Theory of Evolution would be a good answer to this since complex beings tend to mutate in some form or another. In this case I'm taking the part where beings evolve to survive in hostile enviroments. Makes sense if you think about, robots are feared by the general public because their different. Robots evolve past or reset a set coding and gain the emotions that make us human to better insure their survival from the human race and form what we would call the defining feature of a human, a soul. It also helps bridge the gap between Classic and X.

Also, food for thought, some people do not age gracefully while under stress. I imagine that this is the case for Dr. Light since he is constantly in the public spotlight for his robots. Stress from public attention is not a good thing, look at some old movie stars and you'll see what I mean. I think that it gets to him sooner or later and he starts to show the signs of intense stress and a decline in mental health which begins to affect his judgement on what's the best course to take. You'll see this behavior later on.

Before I forget, who here has seen A.I. Artificial Intelligence? I have to ask this but don't you think Rock would fit the role of David almost to a T? I mean both are cute and have that undying love and innocent quality to them and would go through a lot of crap just to see the love of another and to be more human. That movie made me bawl out my eyes the first time I saw it, it still makes me cry today.

Reminder: I don't own Megaman, never will nor do I claim ownership to the Theory of Evolution. But I do claim ownership over the plot and whatever OC's that I throw in there. This story will and is YAOI or guy-on-guy. Because really, most of the robots are guys and there's only two girls. It was going to happen sooner or later. Plus they're robots, they don't have the same values as most humans. Not only that but you can't ignore the hints between X and Zero. Also be aware that I use Japanese names for most of them. So: Rockman/Megaman, Forte/Bass, Blues/Protoman, Gospel/Treble. Also I tend to drop the -man (or woman) from the names, so don't be shocked if you see Quickman become Quick. I do not like the -man endings at all.

NOW ENJOY MY UNBETA'D STORY.

~Respect the spaces~

~Wait for it~

~Almost there~

~ENJOY~

The art of evolution was truly a sight to behold, that is if one was around long enough to witness it in action. What made it beautiful, to him at least, was the thought of something simple being able to change itself to survive in a new environment while becoming a entirely new species.

In all honesty, he had to give props to Darwin for discovering this within the course of five years (no doubt surviving through scurvy and other ailments that tended to plague sailors of the nineteenth century) and finding the most diverse island chain to currently exist. In fact he had visited that island chain more times then he had his own home country and he made sure to visit his home country at least twice a year or more. He even had a hidden base on one of the smaller islands.

Yes, it was easy to believe that Dr. Wily was only interested in conquering the world and building a rather large number of sentient robots. That was why the Theory of Evolution was one of his guilty pleasures and why he had such a large number of said sentient robots. You see, he had a project in the works and it went along the lines of this: could sentient robots, bioroids really, evolve into something more complex that went beyond their original programming? If so, what could cause this change and how extensive would it be?

Wily had always wanted to see evolution in action but knew he would most likely die before he ever saw it happen, not with the measly eighty year lifespan that most humans had been gifted with. So he had turned to his second favorite past time, building and programming robots with near human intelligence. This past time was what led him to his partnership with one Thomas Light, who was also trying to build a robot capable of near human intelligence.

In the scheme of things, it was Dr. Light who had ended up building the body of the first prototype and Wily himself was put in charge of doing the basic programming for it. Needless to say the prototype failed in the first few minutes and many scientists that had supported the program blamed Wily since the error was found to be in the programming. Personally, Wily believed (but knew better since it really was in the programming) that they blamed him because he was German and was still slightly sour about World War 2. Wily could just barely remember yelling that he could fix the programming and make it ten times better since he knew about the mistake.

So when the program was to be shut down and put into Light's care, Wily was just a little bit irked. Okay, that was a lie, he was beyond pissed off when he learned of it. Could you really blame him for stealing the body of the prototype that he was supposed to have helped built? In his mind: no.

After perfecting the program to the max that his computers could allow, he was struck with a rather interesting thought. Was it possible to program a type of behavior into a machine? Or would the machine act only on the traits that were programmed into it? Could a machine develop its own default behavior if allowed to?

In these few questions, Wily saw his opportunity to watch evolution in action, probably within his own lifetime. Wily had only added just the basic elements for the prototype's behavior: had to obey the three laws of robotics, independence from others and able to function on its own. With these three basic traits, the bioroid Blues was born but not right away.

At first Wily thought he was rather simple, he followed orders without a hitch, didn't need constant attention and was able to do basic repairs whenever he was injured. In fact, Wily didn't bother to name him at all, just merely referred to him as Proto. Then something happened, a hiccup if you will. This hiccup? Wily caught Proto reading a book some six months after he was activated.

This was exactly what Wily wanted to see. He never hinted in Proto's programming to show an interest in books. Not a thought, not even a line in the coding. If Proto was just a simple machine with a programmed personality, he would have ignored the book and gone on with his given job. No, Wily had made the programming complex enough that allowed mental growth to occur. This was an amazing breakthrough for robot technology as well as the Theory of Evolution.

Proto's mental 'baby' stage only lasted three months. Within nine months Proto had changed his name to Blues (come to find out he actually did like jazz music, Wily had learned this the hard way) and was slowly developing a wonder lust that was starting to clash with his original programming of obeying human orders.

Within a year Blues had secretly met with his second creator. That was basically when 'the shit hits the fan' point and Blues' mental growth went haywire. He was openly disobeying Wily's orders and often tried to make his life miserable when Wily tried to enforce the three robotic laws on him (this was pretty much the same time Blues found his like for dark sunglasses and his trademark yellow scarf. Wily to this day claims that the scarf came from thin air since it was 'not there a day ago but here today). It was also the point that Blues met his two younger siblings, Roll and Rock. Needless to say Blues was met with a small dilemma of being an older sibling or a loner.

Wily was so engrossed with Blues' development to the point where he lost all sense to what was going on in the world. It was from Blues that he learned that Light had in fact built several more robots following their designs from Blues. Once again, Wily saw an opportunity to watch evolution in a robot that he had not designed.

Wily had noted with little surprise that Blues was showing signs of human emotions, in this case he wanted to be there for his siblings that he had absolutely no idea about and really had no duty to, but yet he was still willing to get to know them better. Because of this wanting to know his siblings better, it wasn't that hard to rope Blues into Wily's half-assed plan of 'let's rule the Earth' since it involved using Light's brand new robots, ten in total.

Blues had not been designed to be a fighter when the plans were first made but Wily had no problem outfitting Blues with a buster (Blues will deny this to the ends of the known Universe but he begged to have the shield made as well) and a uniform to fight in. Wily hoped that Blues would not develop a power-trip since the last thing he needed was a rampaging bioroid and ruin his chance at studying robot evolution and his second goal, world domination.

The rest was well known history to the people of Earth, Blues and Wily kidnapped the ten Light bots (while it was reported that Roll and Rock had been able to get away this was not the case, Blues had been hanging onto them the entire time and we all know that news reporters have no souls and don't mind being paid off), Rock was turned into a fighter unit to combat the evil plans of Dr. Wily, the eight robot masters were reprogrammed to follow Wily's orders and that Rock saved the day.

~I'm aware that there was a very long Author Note and a short chapter but this is more of an experiment that I'm doing so it might not be the best ever. I'm willing to aplogize for that fact and may it be known that I have a cat that enjoys walking on my keyboard when I'm not looking or somehow causes me to lose track of what I'm writing and it turns into babble/troll language. Please point this out to me because I tend to miss those little things and my cat is a sneaky ninja that adores my keyboard and clogs it up with its unending supply of fur that causes me to replace it at least twice a year.

~R&R Peeps~