What is a robot?
A robot, Spark Man reasoned, was a construct designed to be completely autonomous, to do one job and to be able to do it without fail. No matter the circumstances. A robot is designed to do one thing and one thing only, and if it does anything but that, it has failed.
A robot, Spark Man reasoned, could not be distracted from his job. That was the benefit of autonomous labor over human labor - where a human might perform their job differently depending on many factors, especially emotional ones, a robot could perform the same task the same way on any given day until the end of its lifespan.
A robot, Spark Man reasoned, did not trifle with emotions, and that was why robots did better work than men.
A robot, Spark Man reasoned, did not get scared.
They didn't.
I said, they didn't.
They didn't get scared - stop it! Stop being scared!
He could feel his pistons chug a little faster. 140 BPM. 180 BPM.
He knew the reason for it. He could explain exactly what was happening internally. This increase in piston speed had only begun after his brothers had been destroyed. Naturally, this meant the piston problem was a direct result of the deaths of his brothers.
In other words, Spark Man was terrified beyond reason. Nervous volts danced at the tips of his electrodes. If he could sweat, he would be drenched.
The Grim Reaper was coming - and he had an arm cannon for a sickle.
No, Spark Man thought. I was built to destroy Mega Man. I have a chance. As long as I don't screw this up, I have a hope. And I'm gonna cling to that hope until the day that electricity stops running through my circuits.
And then the teleporter fizzled, and Spark Man's hope was torn to shreds.
The gatekeeper of hell, armed with his crimson hound, had turned up with a special invite. Spark Man realized with a strong sense of finality that this was an invitation that he couldn't refuse, even if he went kicking and screaming the whole way.
"We don't have to fight," the blue spectre said.
Mega Man was lying. Spark Man knew it. Why else would he have destroyed the other seven robot masters? They had to fight. It was in Spark Man's programming. He had no other choice.
A robot was not above his programming. And right now, every circuit in Spark Man was telling him to make Mega Man regret killing every single one of his brothers. To make him feel what it was like to be without a family. To have everything a robot born days or weeks ago could possibly want, and then have it torn from him in a matter of hours.
If he was going to Hell, he was going to kill the Devil too.
Spark Man lit his electrodes and prepared to meet his brothers.