Mega Man Quint: The Birth of Quint
by RandyPandy
Welcome to the Mega Man Quint series! This will be a series of books featuring a practically unknown character in the Mega Man video game series: Quint. Yes, Quint. If you have not played the games Quint appears in and want to know which ones he appeared in, I suggest you locate The Mega Man Network (a website about the games) or The Mega Man Hompage. I've yet to see a site dedicated to Quint, though.
NOTE: This was originally known as Timescape Saga, Book 1: The Birth of Quint. However, having discovered a series on the Mega Man area of with the same name, I decided to change it, since the other one was there first. Oops.
Disclaimer: Everything you see here doesn't belong to me. It all belongs to Capcom. The expression of it and any plot-holes that happened to be filled belong to me though.
Dr. Albert W. Wily had just had an idea. True, it wasn't as genius and sneaky as a few of his other ideas, such as tricking Proto Man into fighting his own brother, but it would probably get the job done. And it was sneaky enough to make him laugh with glee.
He had reconstructed eight of his previous Robot Masters and fled to his space fortress orbiting just above Earth after Mega Man had foiled the fourth Robot Rebellion. He was very annoyed at the blue pipsqueak, and had been plotting revenge ever since. Unfortunately, he had not come up with anything – until now.
A spy device he had planted in a place known as Chronos Institute had revealed a prototype machine that could be the answer to all of Wily's dreams. No one at Chronos Institute even knew that Wily knew of their machine, which they had been keeping secret for the past decade or so. In fact, they were keeping it secret even before Proto Man had been built. Wily smiled at the thought of how the machine could help him.
However, Dr. Wily, while insane, was not stupid. He knew what the consequences of his actions might be. Did the cost really outweigh the benefits? If his plan – and the machine – worked, then he would forever be rid of the blue pipsqueak known as Mega Man. If his plan – and the machine – didn't work, then the universe as people knew it could become rather violently messed up. And he didn't want to suddenly pop out of existence.
Dr. Wily pondered his decision for a very long time – several hours at least. There was no way that he could ask the Robot Masters – they didn't really understand the consequences of his actions. They were just robots, after all. Finally, he decided on the oldest method of making decisions.
Flipping a coin.
Even the mad scientist himself thought that it was silly, though he refused to allow it to bother him. Wily had stolen money from Dr. Light's lab when he had fled, so it was easy for him to locate a 10Z coin. He stared at the coin for awhile, before saying to himself, "Heads, I do it. Tails, I don't."
The universe works in strange ways. There are even theories that each and every action creates a new universe. As Wily flipped the coin, one such path was created. The coin landed on the table, and Wily eagerly looked to see what the outcome had been. As soon as he saw the outcome, he walked towards his computer and said through the speakers, "Calling all Robot Masters to Laboratory 2A."
Then he picked up some blueprints for a building and walked out of the room, neglecting the coin lying on the table. If one could see the coin, then it won't be hard to see the head of the latest president of Japan on it.
In that one coin flip, the universe was altered indeed.
Okay, that prologue looks kinda strange, even to me. Especially the coin-flipping part. But... shrugs Read and Review!