This is a Gift I am doing for my good friend De*Fault, inspired in some ideas of both of us, I hope she likes it. This fanfic is taking place in some sort of Altern Universe where most of the regular Rockman Series' events had occured, I just changed a few things. I am an evil person so don't ever think you'll see the robot masters withouth their armors, I just Love them, And Oh yes, my English sucks a Lot, sorry about that. Hope you like this DE*FAULT!

A ROSE BETWEEN DARKNES AND LIGHT

by Vejichan

Chapter 1: When Live Begins

He opened his eyes, the noise wouldn't let him sleep, the thunders on the sky and the cries in the room next to his own were driving him crazy. Quickman sat up on his bed sighing, he turned his head to the window on his room, the thunders were very visible through the curtains as the cries on the next room grew louder "Better check on him" Quickman sighed and left his room as another thunder broke the night's silence.

When the blue eyed robot master entered the room he found a small form curled into a ball in the bed, crying. Quickman went to the bed's occupant and placed a gently hand on the other's shoulder making him jump a bit "Hey, Calm down. It's me, Quickman" the smaller form shivered and turned around to face him "Q-Quickman?" The blue eyed robot master nodded "What's going on Plantman?" He asked as he turned on the little lamp next to Plantman's Bed, the flower shaped robot master sat on his bed sobbing a little "I'm scared..." Quickman sat next to him "Of the storm?" Plantman nodded "I see, Don't worry, it's something that happens, nothing wrong is going to happen" "But..." the Red armored robot master smiled gently placing a hand on Plantman's Head "Everything's gonna be alright. You don't have to worry, just try to sleep. You'll see how beatiful the sun will shine by tomorrow" Plantman sobbed a bit more and rubbed his eyes "Alright... Thank you Quickman" "You're Welcome brother" he smiled again and left to his room to get some sleep.

Outside he found a familiar silouette, holding a glass of water "You are still up Shadowman?" the blue eyed robot asked smiling placing his hands on his waist "He didin't let me sleep" Shadowman snapped annoyed "Why does he have to cry like that? It's Just a stupid storm!" the Ninja bot drank his water, Quickman frowned a bit "It's just the first time that he sees a Storm. He was just scared, that's all" "Yeah Right, But I insist he doesn't need to cry that hard! Actually he shouldn't cry at all!" Shadowman turned to leave, Quickman just sighed and went to his room. Once in his bed he thought a bit about Plantman, Just 2 weeks had passed since Plantman was created and activated, he was the last of the "6th Generation", they were actually the 7th generation, but their predecesors were activated and put to sleep to act in case Dr. Wily's new plan could fail. So Plantman was the last and the youngest of all the robot masters, and was by far the oddest. Ever since the first time the other Robot Master met Plantman they felt someway curious about their new brother, his apearence was everything but threathening, his helmet had 4 red petals attached, his eyes were purple and a deep shade of red covered his eye-lits, He was just a bit taller than Iceman and Heatman, but he looked a lot more childish than both of them... He indeed looked and acted like a child. Thinking about his little brother Quickman finaly fell asleep, the golden boomerang attached to his helmet shining with the thunder's light.

As time passed by, the new robot masters begun their training, all of them seemed to be good warriors, all of them, except for Plantman, Quickman was practicing with Centaurman when he saw Magnetman trying to get Plantman to train "You must train to learn how to control you power, now come and attack me" Plantman didin't move "But my power is mainly for defense" Magnetman sighed "Alright. Then I'll attack you and you'll defend yourself" Magnetman charged against Plantman and lauched a magnet missile to the smaller bot, he didn't move again, recieving the full impact of the missile on his chest being sent far away against the floor "Damn!!" Magnetman cursed and ran to his youger brother to check on him "Hey Plantman! You're Alright?" the smaller bot opened his eyes holding his chest to ease the pain "Hmmm... Yeah..." Magnetman sighed "Why in the hell you didn't defend?!" the flower-shapped robot tried to stand "I... I don't know... how to..." He looked to his older brother "I don't like to fight anyways... Why do I have to?" Magnetman scratched his head a bit confused of his brother's extremely pacific nature "Well... Hmmm... That's what we were created for... I think" Pharaohman came to them "What happened?" "Nothing, Plantman doesn't want to fight" the yellow armored bot turned his head to Plantman "Is that true?" Plantman nodded "You know, you can't run away forever. We'll leave this as it is for now" Pharaohman looked at Magnetman then to Plantman again "But next time, you will have to fight. Come on Magnetman I'll train with you" The two robot masters walked away. By the time the rest of the Robot Masters had stopped their training and were looking at Plantman, Shadowman snorted and walked to him "I hope you are happy now" Plantman looked up at the Ninja bot "You just screwed the training!" Shadowman passed by Plantman snorting again towards the fortress.

Quickman Saw Shadowman leave and looked at Plantman again, the youngest bot lowered his head his petals began to fell down. Quickman turned his glance at Centarman who seemed very displeased by Shadowman's comment, the red armored bot frowned a bit too, and was about to walk towards Plantman when he saw the tall figure of Yamatoman walking to the flower-shapped bot, the dark purple armored bot kneld by his brother's side "Are you alright Plantman?" "Yeah... I am sorry, I didn't mean to cause troubles" Yamatoman smiled throught the mask of his samurai Helmet and placed a hand on his brother's shoulder "You didn't cause any trouble at all. Don't mind the ninja. But Plantman..." Plantman looked up to his brother "I know you don't like to fight, I don't like it either, but I'll do when it becomes necesary, I'll fight if It's required. You must do the same" "But I don't know how to fight" "I'll teach you some basics if you want" Quickman kneld next to Yamatoman "Tell me your power is for defense?" Plantman blinked at the speedster and nodded "I'll talk to Woodman His power is defensive too, He can teach you how to use your's" "Thank you" Quickman smiled and patted Plantman's head "No problem".

Woodman accepted to teach Plantman how to summon his defensive power, their techniques were very similar, when Woodman's Leaf Shiel was formed by razor-like leafs that fell everytime one of them hit on something, Plantman's Plant Barrier was formed by some petals as sharp as Woodman's leafs, that rounded the small robot master and bloocked every single hit they recieved, and instead of Falling one by one, the barrier remained intact until recieved too much hits or until Plantman throw it against an enemy causing a lot of damage. Woodman was impressed by the defensive powers of the youngest robot master, but he soon discovered his powers were more than just a barrier for protection, Plantman was even more conected to nature than he was and he was also given a Buster Gun.

Woodman walked to Quickman on the rest room eating an orange "Hey Quickie can I talk to you?" "Yeah, and Stop calling me Quickie!" Woodman chuckled "Ok, Ok, I won't do it anymore" the Trunk-shapped robot master sat next to the red armored bot "It's about Plantman" "What's with him?" Quickman took a sip of a soda "I've been working with him about his barrier, I must say I am impressed with him. However the point of this is that I found he has a Buster Gun" the Blue eyed robot blinked turning his face to his brother "He needs to learn how to use it Quickman, and I am afraid I can't teach him. I know how to hit a target with my leafs but aiming with a buster gun it's impossible for me" Quickman nodded "We'll have to get someone to teach him" the red armored robot sliced a finger around the Golden Boomeran on his head "Who could assist us on this?" Metalman Jumped betwen his brothers with a bag of chips "What about Geminiman?" he suggested, Woodman Blinked "Geminiman?" "Yup, He has a lasser, what diference can be between shooting a Buster Gun and a Lasser?" Quickman Poundered the situation "Yeah, maybe he can help".

Quickman went looking for Geminman, he found Snakeman in the kitchen chasing Crystalman who was bitting a very big Chocolate bar "My... Crystalman will ever stop eating?" the speedster shacked his head "Seriously I doub it!" Crashman appeared bitting a sandwitch "What's up Quickman?" the dark orange armored Robot Master asked cheerfuly smiling, Quickman always thought of Crashman being more like a kid, being cool and relaxed about almost everything, that was just before Crystalman was created and certainly Crashman acted way lot mature than the Food devouring Crystalman "I am looking for Geminiman, I want to ask him to teach Plantman how to aim his buster gun" Crashman Blinked trought the crystal visor over his head "He has one? Cool! I saw Geminiman playing chess with Gyroman on the recreation hall" "Thank you, hey, check on those two, I don't want them to crush the kitchen because of a chocolate bar!" Crashman lifted his thumb "Sure thing!". Quickman left to look for Geminiman, and as Crashman said, he was playing chess with Gyroman "How long will take you to make a move? For god's sake, I'll become a fossil before you make your move!" Gyroman protested "Ow shut up, I am thinking!" the dark aqua eyed bot answered "Hey Geminiman can you help us?" without taking his sight away of the chess table he answered "What is it?" "We need someone to teach Plantman how to aim his buster gun" Resting his head on hand he keept thinking on his move "Why do you want me to help him?" Quickman sighed "He is our brother, Plantman knows very little about most of his habilities, he is part of our family too, we must help him. But If you don't want to help, it's ok" he turned to leave "I never said I wouldn't help him" Geminiman moved a piece on the table "Checkmate" Gyroman blinked "What?? That's not Checkmate!!" He looked at the chess table as Geminiman walked outside with Quickman "Damn, Checkmate!" Gyroman pushed down his king.

Geminiman started his aim training with Plantman, He didn't seemed very happy about shooting a gun, but he obeyed Geminiman's instructions trying his best to please his older brother "You must relax when Aiming and shooting, the gun isn't going to eat you" Geminiman told a very nervious Plantman "Yeah I am sorry" "Being sorry most of time wouldn't help you. Come on, let's practice again. First thing to do is relax, Think straight, for now your target isn't going to move, so keep in that on mind and take your time thinking where you want to shot" the flower shapped robot nodded "Ok, then, Close your eyes and take a deep breath then prepare your gun and think where you want to shot" the purple eyed bot did what he was told "Ok, now shot whenever you are ready" Plantman glared righ to the center of the target he frowned a bit and shot his buster gun. The shot went straight to the starget's center making a big hole on it. Geminiman blinked a few times and smiled "Very well, You did it very well!" Plantman smiled "Ok, try again" Geminiman pushed a boton in the control he had on his hand making a new target arise from the floor, Again the smaller bot shot at it. Geminiman keept arising targets until Plantman was able to shot them a bit faster "That's all for now. We'll practice on moving targets tomorrow. Now go and take a rest" Plantman nodded and left running away.

Time went by and Plantman became more confident about his skills, his aiming with the Buster Gun was one of the best among the other robot masters equiped with a Buster Gun or Lasser Gun. Of course, Geminiman was by far the best of them, he was, after all a sniper shooter. Just a few weeks after the 6th generation robot masters started their training most of them were now able to control their powers completly becoming ready for Dr. Wily's next scheme. Magnetman prepared himself for his first trainign session with Plantman after the incident weeks before in their very first training "Alright Plantman, Are you ready?" The smaller bot nodded "Ok, I'll attack you so Prepare to defend yourself" Magnetman charged against Plantman, the flower shapped bot didin't move for a moment, the crimsom armored Robot Master feared his brother wasn't going to defend again but launched a magnet missile anyways. As the missile became closer to the small robot master Magnetman almost closed his eyes fearing the worst "Plant Barrier!" The cry of Plantman caught magnetman's attention and blinked when he saw his missile being blocked away by the petals spinning around Flower Shapped robot "What?!" Magnetman watched attonished the barrier, it was intact "Ok, that was fine, let's see how you handle this!" Magnetman lauchend 3 missiles, the 3 of them were blocked by the Plant Barrier "That barrier is very strong..." Magnetman saw Plantman frown and rise his hands commanding the spining barrier to impact against the Magnetic Robot. Magnetman could barely avoid the barrier by jumping away, though, his feet hadn't fully touched the floor when a green foot was about to hit his head, the crimsom armored robot master blocked Plantman's Kick and jumped away again "Good Lord! I never expected you to attack like that" Plantman prepared for battle again "Quickman taught me!" "Alright, Let's make things harder!" Magnetman charged against his younger brother and tried to punch him, Plantman evaded the punch and tried to punch him back but Magnetman had already jumped away and had lauched another magnet missile, Plantman knew he wouldn't be able to summon his plant barrier in time and turned his hand into his Buster gun and aimed quickly at the missile shooting and destroying it. But the match wasn't over yet, Magnetman appeared behind Plantman kicking him on the back, the smaller robot fell to the floor as Magnetman jumped on his back holding it against the floor, Plantman supressed a cry of pain as well as he could, after the first wave of pain passed away he tried th stand but the superior wheight of Magneman holding him against the floor keept him from getting up, his streng had already left him and Plantman make no attemp to stand again.

Magnetman released Plantman and kneld next to the youngest robot master caressing the smaller bot's back trying to ease the pain "Are you alright Plantman?" Plantman barely nodded, too weak to even speak "Are you sure? Did I hurt you too much?" "It's... Ok... I am just tired..." Magnetman took his brother in his arms carefuly picking him up "Ok, I didn't wanted to hurt you so much, but, that is one of the many things you must learn about battle, I never wanted to hurt you, just knock you. But your enemy will not care about hurting you, it will try to destroy you, you must be prepared for everything" Plantman noded as his older brother took him away of the Training camp. Quickman ran after Magnetman when he saw Plantman lying on his arms "Is he alright?" he asked "Yes, Just a bit hurt and very tired, but he will be ok. Our little brother has many surpises, Geminiman and Woodman taught him very well, he could destroy one of my missiles with his gun, an his fighting movements were good. I see you did a great job teaching him brother" Magnetman said taking away the mask on his helmet that covered his mouth "With more training he will last longer in battle and will be at the level of rest of 6th generation" Magnetman placed PLantman on the couch and went to the kitchen looking for a soda , Quickman fllowed him "Yeah, the time for Dr. Willy's new plan is getting closer".

Shadowman passed by when the two crimsom robot masters were talking looking for an orange, Quickman smiled to him "Hi Shadowman" "Hi" the red eyed robot master answered as he cut the orange in two "Guess what? Our little brother Plantman almost defeated Magnetman" Shadowman turned to look at Quickman and returned to his task on the orange "Almost, doesn't count" He said as he left the kitchen bitting one of the orange's halfs. Magnetman blinked at him then frowned "What's his problem?" Quickman Sighed "It looks like Shadowman doesn't like Plantman a bit... Just like Gutsman and Stoneman" Magnetman snorted "What an asshole".

The time for the Robot Tournament Wily had prepared to fake his Plan of World domination was coming closer and closer, Wily was now testing his robot masters habilities in a new Training area, it was like a death race, there was an insane amount of obstacles and hiden weapons ready to shot at the first moving thing, they raced in gruops of two. Quickman was by far the one that made the best record on the track, being so fast he cleared the track in a few seconds, and no weapon was able to hit him, Shadowman found it a bit more difficult, but he had one of the best records, just behind centaurman and Elecman, who were behind Quickman, while Gutsman, Stoneman and Toadman had the worst records. It was Plantman and Crashman's turn to race, Wily observed them from the control Panel above the structure where the race track was build, Once the start signal was heard bot Robot Masters raced trought their respective lines, Crashman took the first place being taller than plantman he vas able to run faster, Plantman however was very close to him. Crashman lauched his crash bombs to blown away some of the obstacles when Plantman jumped over most of them with the same grace of Centaurman, what helped him a bit to tie posisions with Crashman, The dark orange armored Bot didn't noticed as a missile lauched from behind of them and was flying towards his back, But Plantman noticed the missile and in an attemp to protect the other robot master tackled him away of the road, both of them fell to the floor as the Missile hit a wall. Plantman stand up and helped Crashman to get up but and angry voice behind him made him jump a little "What the hell do you think are you Doing?!" Wily yelled at Plantman "I... I tryed to..." "You tried what?! You idiot!! You were supposed to rund and survive the track by yourself!! You aren't supposed to be helping your competitor!!" The other robot master ran to the place whee Wily was yelling at Plantman "I gave you and order! If you can't take your orders maybe the proper punishment can fix that!!". Pharaohman jumped a bit when the word "punishment" came from Wily's lips, in the past, Wily never punished his robot masters, but when the 4th army was created and lost against Rockman, Wily's frustration grew to such levels that he developed a sadistic need to whipe up his frustration and anger by submiting his robot masters to a cruel punishment, Pharaohman was the first one that suffered Wily's punishments, and from then on, every failure comming from any of his robot masters would be rewarded with the cruel torture Wily developed. The bare thought of what Wily did to him made the pharaoh-like robot master shiver, what Wily did to him was something he would never wish upon his worst enemy, and certainly not upon the frail-looking Plantman.

Plantman was scared, he was trembling, but he paid no resistance when Wily took him harshly by his arm and dragged him away towars the door, but it was soon blocked by the tall figure of Yamatoman "Wily-sama, I beg you not to punish him" he pleaded "Don't get in the way!" Crashman rushed to were Yamatoman was "Please Wily-sama, Punish me in his place, It was my fault, He tried to help me" Crashman pleaded holding his arms in the air blocking Wily's way "What the hell are you talking about?! Move now!" Crashman didn't move "Sir I beg you, Punish me not him, It was my carelessness what brought this upon him, It is me who must be punished, not him" He looked down covering his face with the visor on his helmet. "Shut up and get out it is an order!" Crashman stood on his place making Wily become angrier, his face turned a deep red and tossed Plantman to the Floor "Fine!! Have it your way!! We'll see if you are that brave once I'm done with you!" Wily took Crashman's hand and dragged him out of the training race track, plantman looked at the door trembling. Yamatoman went towards the smaller bot and knedl next to him "Are you ok?" "Yes... What is he going to do with Crashman?" Yamatoman keept silent for a moment "I don't know... And I don't think I want to know it" "I didn't wanted to cause him troubles" Plantman's face saddened "I know. Just try to calm down" Shadowman snorted and wen to where Plantman was stepping a few metters away from him "Look at what you have done!" Plantman looked at Shadowman "Now Crashman is going to be punished and torured because of you! You are such a pest!" Plantman looked down trying to hide his tears "And now what?! Will you just stay there crying like a baby?! What kind of Coward you are?!" Yamatoman narrowed his eyes and was about to stand when he saw other six robot master stand on the way between Shadowman and Plantman. Centaurman, Tomahawkman, Flameman, Knightman, Windman and Blizzardman stood in front of the Ninja bot "You better leave him alone" Flameman hissed dangerously "Touch him and you are History!" Centaruman narrowed his red eyes holding his gaze on Shadowman, Knightman took a step forward holding his shied in a protective fashon "You can just meddle with someone smaller than you?" Windman glanced at him with angy eyes "Get the hell outta here!" Tomahawkman waved his axe.

Shadowman didn't move, none of the impressed him, he was about to answer to their menaces when a very angry Quickman stepped on the way holding his hands to keep them away from each other "That's just enough!! You guys stop all this threatening! And you Shadowman" he turned his blue gaze upon the ninja bot "Please just go away for now, don't get the things worst" Shadowman held his red eyes upon his elder's for a few moments, then he snorted and obeyed, Shadowman hardly obeyed any of the robot masters, but Quickman was his best friend, and Shadowman respected the speedster enought to obey him. Quickman sighed and turned to the other 6 robot masters they were now looking down to his younger brother who was crying hard, not too loud, but har enough for any robot master in the room to notice it. Pharaohman looked at where Plantman wasy crying, he was someway marveled at him, such a frail, kind creature trapped in a world so dark like Wily's Fortress, the peaceful moments where appeciated, but for someone like Plantman this Place was too dark, too cruel... Why Wily created a robot like him, so kind and good hearted? that question intrigued the pharaoh-like bot, What kind of cruel game Wily was playing? What his insane mind was ploting for the youngest of the robot masters?. Pharaohman felt pity about the smaller robot, he knew very well why Crashman insisted in being punished in his place, Plantman would never stand the punishment, too much cruelty, too much sadism, the mad scientist would enjoy beyond possible tearing appart the kind mind of Plantman, drive him mad of both mental and phisycal pain... Pharaohman smiled a sad smile behind the mask of his helmet and did what nobody expected of him, he walked to Plantman and caressed his head softly and kneld next to him "Hey plantman, Don't worry about Crashman, he'll be fine. We'll take care of him, You'll see" the purple eyed robot master looked up to the red eyes of Pharaohman, those red eyes were showing compassion and sympathy "It... it was my fault" the smaller robot sobbed, the yellow armored robot master shacked his head "No, It was not. You did what you thought it was right, you tried to help". The sound of the door opening caght their attention, a very injuried and bleeding Crashman tried to stand supporting himself against the door. Quickman ran to him holding the smaller robot "God, this looks so bad. We need to get you to the repairs room" Crashman barely nodded Pharaohman turned to Ringman "Hey Ringman, take care of Crashman" the other robot master nodded and went to Crashman "We'll take care of your injuries friend, come on" They took Crashman to the medical wing on the fortress.

Quickman was waiting with Pharaohman, Yamatoman and Plantman outside the repairs room, the crimsom armored robot glared for a moment to Pharaohman, what he did that afternoon was a bit unusual, Pharaohman was usually very looner, he was indiferent to most of the problems of his brothers, he really didn't expect to see him helping Plantman, though, the Pharaoh-like bot never was mean with him he also acted almost as if the youngest robot master didn't existed most of time. Ringman and Metalman came out the repairs room "He's fine now, he just needs some rest" Ringman said rubbing his eyes "Thank you Ringman" Quickman thanked "I'll take him to his room". That night Crashman was sleeping and Plantman was next to his bed, the crash bomber moaned a bit before opening his eyes a little "Crashman?" the tiny childish voice of Plantman called "Hmm? Is that you Plantman?..." "Yes... Are you... Are you alright?" Crashman smiled weakly "Yes I am... Just a bit tired" "I am sorry... It was all because of me, Shadowman is right... I only cause problems" the dark orange armored bot snorted "Don't mind him... You did nothing wrong. You saved me, It was me not you. I deserved this, you risked yourself to help me..." Crashman turned to smile at Plantman "Would you like to be my friend?" Plantman smiled and nodded, Quickman watched the 2 robots smiling at the new friendship between his brothers.

To be Continued...

Bwahahaha!! I know I am evil, Sorry but this thing it's a bit large, I can't tell the whole story in only 1 chapter. I changed a few things here, thought Plantman was designed the DWN-045 and Yamatoman the DWN-048, doesn't mean that Plantman was built before Yamatoman, I think he was designed first, but he could have been constructed the last of the Rockman 6 Robot Masters. I dedided to make the Rockman 7 Robot masters to being built first than the Rockman 6's Because I need Plantman being the Youngest of all, and some of the Rockman 7 Robots will be important in this story.