Megaman ran quickly after the assailant...
"Come back here SparkMan!!" He was in a rage...SparkMan had just killed a very important Japanese diplomat...a diplomat that Megaman was in charge of protecting.
Sparkman turned and smiled firing three blasts of electricity at Megaman
Megaman slid under the first one, leaped over the next and as he strafed to the left to avoid the last one it slightly damaged his right arm.
~No matter...~ he thought to himself as he charged up his Buster Shot and fired a huge blast under Sparkman's feet, Sparkman went flying and crashed roughly on the concrete below.
Megaman ran faster now to catch up and jumped, landing on Sparkman's back he held out his buster cannon towards SparkMan's head.
"Don't even think about moving..." Megaman said with a huff...thanks to Sparkman now everyone would start doubting their security, even with Megaman around.
The rest of the police were coming just when suddenly, in front of Megaman, a portal opened up.
~What the hell?~ he thought to himself as he took a step back, getting off of sparkman.
Suddenly a massive plasma blast came out of the portal towards where Megaman was and he quickly jumped out of the way...forgetting that there were people behind him. He watched helplessly as the blast tore through the air and exploded near the Police and other officials.
Quickly Megaman looked back to the portal. A tall dark figure stood in the middle of it, with a over a dozen more shadowy figures behind it.
Megaman saw the figure aiming his arm again, which looked surprisingly like his, and in return Megaman charged up his Buster Cannon and fired it full blast at the stranger.
What happened next scared Megaman to the core.
The blast hit the figure, but did nothing. It simply exploded on his armor.
He saw a smile through the darkness as another huge blast was on its way....he decided to go for broke as he fired a Buster Cannon shot into the oncoming energy and it exploded in mid-air.
After the dust cleared the figures had stepped out of their portal.
"My my my...he certainly is small isn't he..?" The tallest one said...
"Yeah well...certainly nowhere near the real mckoy." A well built purple Maverick responded.
Megaman looked over these figures. They were gigantic. They all looked like robot masters that he'd fought before..but they were over twice as big as the originals.
He didn't like the look of it at all...
~Who the hell are these guys anyway?~ he thought to himself...~Certainly not wily's cronies...they look too advanced...~
"Sigma!" the purple maverick called out.
"What is it...?" Suddenly, a tall man stepped forward. He looked unlike any other warrior Megaman had ever seen. On his side he had a saber and wore a long magnificent cloak around his neck. His armor was incredible and decorated with badges and honors. His full blue eyes looked down at megaman as he smiled an empty, dark smile.
"Well boys...that's him all right. The legendary Megaman..." he began to chuckle as the rest of his followers laughed out loud and slowly began to walk towards him as one body of evil.
*
"I don't get it..." X said quietly.
"What don't you get?" Zero asked, practicing some moves with his Z-saber.
"Sigma's forces have been inactive for a full 72 hours. Not so much as a broken window has been reported." X puzzled to himself, in such times as these the Mavericks being silent for 12 hours was something to think about.
"Maybe he's just taking a break from all the ass-whoopings we've given him lately." Zero smiled to himself.
"No... its not that at all. Something's not right...I can feel it."
Zero looked at X...he was genuinely worried about something...but what could Sigma possibly be doing?
Megaman looked around at the now 14 fully visible robots that had stepped out of that portal. Bringing up his buster cannon doubtfully he began to calculate the probability of success and was not pleased with the outcome at all...only one thing he could do.
"RUSH!!!" he yelled out as his faithful companion came blasting in from nowhere.
"Rush! Back to the lab!" as Rush's engines kicked into full gear and they sped towards Dr. Light's labs...
~Surely Dr. Light will know who these creatures are...and how to get rid of them.~ he convinced himself as he rode on Rush's back.
*
Suddenly a reploid worker ran into the room.
"X! Zero! We have a strange energy reading in the surveillance room!" he shouted.
X and Zero turned to the worker and nodded.
"I told you that something was going to happen..." X said.
"Right..." Zero agreed as they both followed the worker back to the surveillance room.
Signas was already standing there looking at the readings when X and Zero came in. They saluted.
"Morning Sir!" X said.
Signas saluted with very little enthusiasm as he handed them both the report and turned back to the screen.
"I don't like this one bit X...not one bit at all." Signas said with great concern.
X read the data files...the number patterns and codes encrypted suggested a time alteration of some sort...
"Is this what I think it is?" Zero inquired.
Signas nodded solemnly.
"Crap..." Zero said as he turned back to finish reading the data sheet.
"Time travel? That's a first..." X said with a slight note of happiness...
"After all, if its the first time maybe they died during the travel process."
Signas shook his head and turned back to X and Zero.
"They made it back X...and they plan on killing Dr. Light."
X's face instantly turned stone cold as he staggered back a few steps and leaned against the wall.
"Yes...you know that if they succeed the paradox will be catastrophic...if they could get to Light at the same time they might just..."
"Well...is there anything we can do?" Zero said with a punch of enthusiasm.
"We do have means of getting you back in time, but you only have a week...after that we can not safely pull you back into this time." Signas said with a cautionary tone.
"We'll do it! Won't we X?" as Zero turned to his battle partner and gave him an assuring thumbs up, X recovered from the initial shock and stood, nodding to signas.
"Show us to the time machine." X demanded.
Signas lead them down a dark hallway to a secluded elevator. After putting in an intricate code, a voice confirmation and retinal scan, the doors opened and they went down to the lowest floor in the Hunters HQ. The doors opened as a massive lab was revealed to them.
"I know, even you two haven't seen this part of the Hunters HQ because it was thought unnecessary. Down here is where we develop the newest weapons and advances for the rest of the human race."
They approached a large door...and signas took out his security clearence card and swiped it, after another retinal and voice confirmation the doors opened revealing a large dome-like contraption.
"You will enter the dome and we will input the date to which Sigma and his followers went..."
"Followers?" X asked.
"How many does he have with him?!" Zero demanded.
"He has 13 others with him..." Signas said with a sigh.
X and Zero looked to each other...it was too late to turn back now.
"Let's go...hurry up Signas!" X ordered as they stepped into the dome and turned around, facing Signas and the other scientists they closed their eyes as Signas activated the device...all around them electricity shot everywhere as energy drew in and they dissappeared in a flash.
Megaman flew towards Dr. Light's hideout...
~Who the hell are those freaks?~ he thought to himself...
~I hope the Dr. can figure out what they want...and maybe how to get rid of them....~
Rush landed outside of the lab as Megaman jumped off and ran in...Rush transforming back into his playful dog mode he followed megaman as he sped down the hallways towards Dr. Light's office.
He passed by his "Sister's" room as Roll looked out her door to see Megaman running by.
~I wonder what all the commotion's about...?~ she thought.
*
Sigma smiled and turned to his troop.
"Listen men, I want groups A and C to remain here and find an appropriate building to take over and make our HQ...group B will come with me to the good Dotor's lab. Understood?"
The team of 12 became 3 groups of 4 as 8 of them took a few steps back and 4 of them stepped up to Sigma.
Sigma turned to Vile
"You make sure the two HQ teams get the job done understand?" He said.
Vile nodded silently.
Sigma turned to where Megaman flew off to and took chase on foot...usually this would be a foolish thing but Sigma and all his followers could run over 80 MPH...Sigma smiled.
~He won't know what happened...he'll be gone before he could even think about retaliating!~ Sigma chuckled to himself.
~Oh the genius of it all...I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner!~
Sigma and the others sped towards the base...seeing it grow closer as they came over a rolling green hill they made their final march towards the base.
*
X and Zero were surrounded by a flash of bright white light as they flashed through over a century of activities and milestones...suddenly the light died down and they stepped out of the portal in the middle of a lush green field.
Zero looked at his locator on his left arm...
"Sigma and 4 other mavericks are about..." Zero turned around
"10 miles that way..." The locator signaled again as Zero turned to his right and pointed.
"And over there, 8 mavericks...and Vile?!" Zero exclaimed.
"Vile?" X said with astonishment.
"No matter," Zero said with determination "We need to go and stop the attack at Dr. Light's lab right now!"
X and Zero ran towards the lab at top speed...hoping that they weren't too late.
*
Megaman heard them coming...as he looked to Dr. Light
"Amazing..." Dr. Light said.
"Well? Do you know what they are Doc?" Megaman asked desperately.
Dr. Light nodded slowly.
"These...beings...are far more advanced robots than anything the world is close to at the moment. Their power, ability to make decisions, everything...its all at a much higher level than yours, or any of the robot masters you've faced."
Megaman stepped back slowly in denial...
"Can...you stop them?" He asked with the greatest amount of hope imaginable.
Light closed his eyes and shook his head slowly...the trampling of the monsters growing closer Megaman grew worried...he knew that he couldn't stop these monsters, yet at the same time wanted to protect Dr. Light.
"RUSH!" he yelled. "JET MODE!" Rush transformed as Mega Man went and opened the roof.
"Doctor, you ride rush out of here, go to Cossack's lab and wait there...I'll meet you as soon as I can..." he looked to Roll.
"You go with him too..."
Roll shook her head violently as the trampling grew closer.
"I can't leave you here alone Megaman! Who knows what those monsters will do to you!" she cried.
Megaman picked her up and handed her to Dr. Light.
"You have no choice! GO!" Rush took off as Roll turned back and yelled...
"MEGAMAN!!!"
Megaman turned and faced the oncoming monsters...knowing that this was most likely the last battle he'd ever face.
Zero and X got a visual of Dr. Light's lab.
"Oh no!" X yelled as he saw the 5 tall figures stampeding into the labs.
"Quick X...let's go!" Zero demanded as he ran towards the lab.
Zero leaped as high as he could and front flipped. He saw an opening in the roof.
"What a stroke of luck!" he exclaimed.
"Hey X! Come on! We can get in through the roof!"
X nodded and jumped as high as he could, Air dashing he front flipped in the air, lining himself up with the hole.
*
Megaman saw the figures had slowed to a walk. 5 tall menacing figures as he aimed his buster cannon.
"Please..." the one in the front said with a mocking tone.
"Its a waste of your energy." As the five stepped into the light.
"Who are you?!" Megaman demanded.
"Me?" the one in the front asked innocently.
"Oh yes..where are my manners?" he chuckled.
"I am Sigma...and these are my men...well, four of them."
The four lined up next to Sigma as he pointed them out and introduced them.
"This is Boomer Kuwanger...Sting Chameleon...Frost Walrus and Launch Octopus."
The four hissed as they were introduced.
"This is the first one huh?" Sting asked with a hiss.
"He looks really puny." Frost Walrus grunted.
"Certainly no fun for us now is it?" Boomer whined.
"Maybe we can even the score!" a familiar voice yelled as they dropped down from the ceiling.
Suddenly Megaman turned around.
"PROTOMAN! BASS!"
Protoman stood and smirked...looking over to Bass, who simply frowned as he turned to Megaman.
"You're so weak...I saw two other guys up there who are ready to come in any moment now..."
"Two others?" Megaman thought.
Protoman turned to megaman "Yeah...who are those guys? One of them's a tall red robot...and he has a funny looking sword. The other one looks like a taller version of you...they some of Dr. Light's newer creations or something?
Megaman shook his head and then looked to the 5 in front of him, who suddenly became very anxious.
*
~That one looked awfully familiar...~ Bass thought. Recalling the red figure flying through the air...
*
"They're here?!" Launch asked with amazement.
"How could they have found us here?" Sigma thought out loud.
Suddenly Megaman found out who they were talking about as a tall red figure and a tall blue figure landed in front of himself, protoman and bass.
*
X landed on one knee next to Zero as he stood, staring down Sigma, Boomer Kuwanger, Launch Octopus, Sting Chameleon and Frost Walrus.
He turned slightly to the three legends behind him and was amazed at the resemblance between the old megaman and himself.
"Hey, X! Yoo-hoo?" Zero said with a little worry.
"We're not exactly on vacation here." he said as X came back from his look alike thoughts.
X nodded and turned back to Sigma.
"We know all about what you're planning out here Sigma! Why did you bother coming back in time to have us kick your ass? We could've done that in our own time!"
*
Megaman gasped as the tall blue figure began speaking of times...he had a feeling something wasn't right about these guys and that they were most likely from another time.
"I knew it..." he said to himself.
Protoman and Bass looked at each other and then back to Megaman before turning their attention back to the main event in front of them.
*
Sigma laughed
"Always the charmer aren't you X?" he said with a snicker.
"Its 5 on 2...you really think you can win?" Boomer said with a smug tone.
*
Protoman and Bass looked at each other...
"Hey, we're here too you overgrown freaks! Its 5 on 5!"
Bass yelled as he pointed his buster towards the green lizard.
"Yeah...I don't know what you think you're doing here, but we're going to get you out!" Protoman smiled as he aimed his buster for the fat walrus.
Megaman smiled, glad his friends were there to support him as he took aim at the Octopus.
Both he and protoman started to charge their cannons, and to megaman's surprise...so did Bass.
"Yeah...I paid cossack a visit...he had a buster power up for me..." Bass said as if it were no big deal.
Megaman smiled and took aim again.
*
Zero and X looked back to the three and smiled.
"It looks like they have the right idea..." Zero said with a chuckle as they lined up with the three pint sized warriors and charged their own busters, the X and Z busters.
"On my command!" X said...the others nodded.
*
Sigma looked to his other warriors..surely the smaller three wouldn't be a problem...would they? He didn't know what to expect and didn't have time to think about it before X fired...triggering a hellish chain reaction.
The five searing blasts of energy screamed through the air as it hurled towards Sigma and his four comrades.
"Damn! Move no..." Sigma began to say as the blasts exploded just a few inches in front of their faces.
The five mavericks went flying out of the labs with incredible force, 3 of them instantaneously destroyed. Sigma looked over to see that the only one left with him was Sting Chameleon and that he was badly damaged.
"Sting! We need to get back to the city...surely the two other teams have fortified a HQ by now..."
Sigma turned back with a low growl to the five heroes standing in the doorway.
"You will regret this day! This I swear on my fallen comrades!"
Sigma turned and took off running with Sting Chameleon as Zero, X, Protoman, Bass and Megaman all stood with their busters charged and aimed at Sigma.
*
"That turned out much better than I could have hoped." X said with a smile.
"Yeah...you certainly are as strong as we heard." Zero said as he turned to Protoman, Bass and Megaman.
Megaman and Protoman looked at each other, and then to Bass, before turning back to the warriors from the future.
"So who are you guys anyway?" Bass asked with a tone of impatience.
"My name is X..." he replied...as he looked to Zero.
"And I'm Zero...its an honor to meet you." He said, a dumb smile on his face.
Bass looked to Megaman.
"Are these guys Light's? Or Cossack's?" He asked curiously.
Megaman shook his head.
"They're neither, I think they came from the future...like those other freaks."
Protoman looked back to X and Zero, surely noticing their distinct differences physically as well as their superior intellectual programming.
"So you're from the future huh?" Protoman said with a tinge of fear.
X nodded.
"Who made you guys anyway?" Bass said...the questions now starting to sound like those of young children.
X spoke first.
"I was created by Dr. Light, just like Megaman, although my creation isn't going to be until years from now...I am his final robot...or reploid as we are called in the future."
Zero sighed.
"I'm not sure of my origins...I simply began to aide X in his fight against Sigma and we've been battle partners ever since."
Megaman looked to X with awe...not believing that this creature would be created by his own Dr. Light.
"Speaking of Dr. Light..." X said with some concern.
"Where is he?"
Megaman stepped forward.
"I sent him to Dr. Cossack's lab...its not too far from here..."
"Ok..." X said quietly.
"Perhaps we should go and talk to this Cossack? He might have some tools to help us." Zero said.
Megaman nodded.
"You're right, if we're going to take on those freaks we should head over and see what Cossack has for us."
Protoman smiled.
"And see Kalinka too..."
"Come back here SparkMan!!" He was in a rage...SparkMan had just killed a very important Japanese diplomat...a diplomat that Megaman was in charge of protecting.
Sparkman turned and smiled firing three blasts of electricity at Megaman
Megaman slid under the first one, leaped over the next and as he strafed to the left to avoid the last one it slightly damaged his right arm.
~No matter...~ he thought to himself as he charged up his Buster Shot and fired a huge blast under Sparkman's feet, Sparkman went flying and crashed roughly on the concrete below.
Megaman ran faster now to catch up and jumped, landing on Sparkman's back he held out his buster cannon towards SparkMan's head.
"Don't even think about moving..." Megaman said with a huff...thanks to Sparkman now everyone would start doubting their security, even with Megaman around.
The rest of the police were coming just when suddenly, in front of Megaman, a portal opened up.
~What the hell?~ he thought to himself as he took a step back, getting off of sparkman.
Suddenly a massive plasma blast came out of the portal towards where Megaman was and he quickly jumped out of the way...forgetting that there were people behind him. He watched helplessly as the blast tore through the air and exploded near the Police and other officials.
Quickly Megaman looked back to the portal. A tall dark figure stood in the middle of it, with a over a dozen more shadowy figures behind it.
Megaman saw the figure aiming his arm again, which looked surprisingly like his, and in return Megaman charged up his Buster Cannon and fired it full blast at the stranger.
What happened next scared Megaman to the core.
The blast hit the figure, but did nothing. It simply exploded on his armor.
He saw a smile through the darkness as another huge blast was on its way....he decided to go for broke as he fired a Buster Cannon shot into the oncoming energy and it exploded in mid-air.
After the dust cleared the figures had stepped out of their portal.
"My my my...he certainly is small isn't he..?" The tallest one said...
"Yeah well...certainly nowhere near the real mckoy." A well built purple Maverick responded.
Megaman looked over these figures. They were gigantic. They all looked like robot masters that he'd fought before..but they were over twice as big as the originals.
He didn't like the look of it at all...
~Who the hell are these guys anyway?~ he thought to himself...~Certainly not wily's cronies...they look too advanced...~
"Sigma!" the purple maverick called out.
"What is it...?" Suddenly, a tall man stepped forward. He looked unlike any other warrior Megaman had ever seen. On his side he had a saber and wore a long magnificent cloak around his neck. His armor was incredible and decorated with badges and honors. His full blue eyes looked down at megaman as he smiled an empty, dark smile.
"Well boys...that's him all right. The legendary Megaman..." he began to chuckle as the rest of his followers laughed out loud and slowly began to walk towards him as one body of evil.
*
"I don't get it..." X said quietly.
"What don't you get?" Zero asked, practicing some moves with his Z-saber.
"Sigma's forces have been inactive for a full 72 hours. Not so much as a broken window has been reported." X puzzled to himself, in such times as these the Mavericks being silent for 12 hours was something to think about.
"Maybe he's just taking a break from all the ass-whoopings we've given him lately." Zero smiled to himself.
"No... its not that at all. Something's not right...I can feel it."
Zero looked at X...he was genuinely worried about something...but what could Sigma possibly be doing?
Megaman looked around at the now 14 fully visible robots that had stepped out of that portal. Bringing up his buster cannon doubtfully he began to calculate the probability of success and was not pleased with the outcome at all...only one thing he could do.
"RUSH!!!" he yelled out as his faithful companion came blasting in from nowhere.
"Rush! Back to the lab!" as Rush's engines kicked into full gear and they sped towards Dr. Light's labs...
~Surely Dr. Light will know who these creatures are...and how to get rid of them.~ he convinced himself as he rode on Rush's back.
*
Suddenly a reploid worker ran into the room.
"X! Zero! We have a strange energy reading in the surveillance room!" he shouted.
X and Zero turned to the worker and nodded.
"I told you that something was going to happen..." X said.
"Right..." Zero agreed as they both followed the worker back to the surveillance room.
Signas was already standing there looking at the readings when X and Zero came in. They saluted.
"Morning Sir!" X said.
Signas saluted with very little enthusiasm as he handed them both the report and turned back to the screen.
"I don't like this one bit X...not one bit at all." Signas said with great concern.
X read the data files...the number patterns and codes encrypted suggested a time alteration of some sort...
"Is this what I think it is?" Zero inquired.
Signas nodded solemnly.
"Crap..." Zero said as he turned back to finish reading the data sheet.
"Time travel? That's a first..." X said with a slight note of happiness...
"After all, if its the first time maybe they died during the travel process."
Signas shook his head and turned back to X and Zero.
"They made it back X...and they plan on killing Dr. Light."
X's face instantly turned stone cold as he staggered back a few steps and leaned against the wall.
"Yes...you know that if they succeed the paradox will be catastrophic...if they could get to Light at the same time they might just..."
"Well...is there anything we can do?" Zero said with a punch of enthusiasm.
"We do have means of getting you back in time, but you only have a week...after that we can not safely pull you back into this time." Signas said with a cautionary tone.
"We'll do it! Won't we X?" as Zero turned to his battle partner and gave him an assuring thumbs up, X recovered from the initial shock and stood, nodding to signas.
"Show us to the time machine." X demanded.
Signas lead them down a dark hallway to a secluded elevator. After putting in an intricate code, a voice confirmation and retinal scan, the doors opened and they went down to the lowest floor in the Hunters HQ. The doors opened as a massive lab was revealed to them.
"I know, even you two haven't seen this part of the Hunters HQ because it was thought unnecessary. Down here is where we develop the newest weapons and advances for the rest of the human race."
They approached a large door...and signas took out his security clearence card and swiped it, after another retinal and voice confirmation the doors opened revealing a large dome-like contraption.
"You will enter the dome and we will input the date to which Sigma and his followers went..."
"Followers?" X asked.
"How many does he have with him?!" Zero demanded.
"He has 13 others with him..." Signas said with a sigh.
X and Zero looked to each other...it was too late to turn back now.
"Let's go...hurry up Signas!" X ordered as they stepped into the dome and turned around, facing Signas and the other scientists they closed their eyes as Signas activated the device...all around them electricity shot everywhere as energy drew in and they dissappeared in a flash.
Megaman flew towards Dr. Light's hideout...
~Who the hell are those freaks?~ he thought to himself...
~I hope the Dr. can figure out what they want...and maybe how to get rid of them....~
Rush landed outside of the lab as Megaman jumped off and ran in...Rush transforming back into his playful dog mode he followed megaman as he sped down the hallways towards Dr. Light's office.
He passed by his "Sister's" room as Roll looked out her door to see Megaman running by.
~I wonder what all the commotion's about...?~ she thought.
*
Sigma smiled and turned to his troop.
"Listen men, I want groups A and C to remain here and find an appropriate building to take over and make our HQ...group B will come with me to the good Dotor's lab. Understood?"
The team of 12 became 3 groups of 4 as 8 of them took a few steps back and 4 of them stepped up to Sigma.
Sigma turned to Vile
"You make sure the two HQ teams get the job done understand?" He said.
Vile nodded silently.
Sigma turned to where Megaman flew off to and took chase on foot...usually this would be a foolish thing but Sigma and all his followers could run over 80 MPH...Sigma smiled.
~He won't know what happened...he'll be gone before he could even think about retaliating!~ Sigma chuckled to himself.
~Oh the genius of it all...I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner!~
Sigma and the others sped towards the base...seeing it grow closer as they came over a rolling green hill they made their final march towards the base.
*
X and Zero were surrounded by a flash of bright white light as they flashed through over a century of activities and milestones...suddenly the light died down and they stepped out of the portal in the middle of a lush green field.
Zero looked at his locator on his left arm...
"Sigma and 4 other mavericks are about..." Zero turned around
"10 miles that way..." The locator signaled again as Zero turned to his right and pointed.
"And over there, 8 mavericks...and Vile?!" Zero exclaimed.
"Vile?" X said with astonishment.
"No matter," Zero said with determination "We need to go and stop the attack at Dr. Light's lab right now!"
X and Zero ran towards the lab at top speed...hoping that they weren't too late.
*
Megaman heard them coming...as he looked to Dr. Light
"Amazing..." Dr. Light said.
"Well? Do you know what they are Doc?" Megaman asked desperately.
Dr. Light nodded slowly.
"These...beings...are far more advanced robots than anything the world is close to at the moment. Their power, ability to make decisions, everything...its all at a much higher level than yours, or any of the robot masters you've faced."
Megaman stepped back slowly in denial...
"Can...you stop them?" He asked with the greatest amount of hope imaginable.
Light closed his eyes and shook his head slowly...the trampling of the monsters growing closer Megaman grew worried...he knew that he couldn't stop these monsters, yet at the same time wanted to protect Dr. Light.
"RUSH!" he yelled. "JET MODE!" Rush transformed as Mega Man went and opened the roof.
"Doctor, you ride rush out of here, go to Cossack's lab and wait there...I'll meet you as soon as I can..." he looked to Roll.
"You go with him too..."
Roll shook her head violently as the trampling grew closer.
"I can't leave you here alone Megaman! Who knows what those monsters will do to you!" she cried.
Megaman picked her up and handed her to Dr. Light.
"You have no choice! GO!" Rush took off as Roll turned back and yelled...
"MEGAMAN!!!"
Megaman turned and faced the oncoming monsters...knowing that this was most likely the last battle he'd ever face.
Zero and X got a visual of Dr. Light's lab.
"Oh no!" X yelled as he saw the 5 tall figures stampeding into the labs.
"Quick X...let's go!" Zero demanded as he ran towards the lab.
Zero leaped as high as he could and front flipped. He saw an opening in the roof.
"What a stroke of luck!" he exclaimed.
"Hey X! Come on! We can get in through the roof!"
X nodded and jumped as high as he could, Air dashing he front flipped in the air, lining himself up with the hole.
*
Megaman saw the figures had slowed to a walk. 5 tall menacing figures as he aimed his buster cannon.
"Please..." the one in the front said with a mocking tone.
"Its a waste of your energy." As the five stepped into the light.
"Who are you?!" Megaman demanded.
"Me?" the one in the front asked innocently.
"Oh yes..where are my manners?" he chuckled.
"I am Sigma...and these are my men...well, four of them."
The four lined up next to Sigma as he pointed them out and introduced them.
"This is Boomer Kuwanger...Sting Chameleon...Frost Walrus and Launch Octopus."
The four hissed as they were introduced.
"This is the first one huh?" Sting asked with a hiss.
"He looks really puny." Frost Walrus grunted.
"Certainly no fun for us now is it?" Boomer whined.
"Maybe we can even the score!" a familiar voice yelled as they dropped down from the ceiling.
Suddenly Megaman turned around.
"PROTOMAN! BASS!"
Protoman stood and smirked...looking over to Bass, who simply frowned as he turned to Megaman.
"You're so weak...I saw two other guys up there who are ready to come in any moment now..."
"Two others?" Megaman thought.
Protoman turned to megaman "Yeah...who are those guys? One of them's a tall red robot...and he has a funny looking sword. The other one looks like a taller version of you...they some of Dr. Light's newer creations or something?
Megaman shook his head and then looked to the 5 in front of him, who suddenly became very anxious.
*
~That one looked awfully familiar...~ Bass thought. Recalling the red figure flying through the air...
*
"They're here?!" Launch asked with amazement.
"How could they have found us here?" Sigma thought out loud.
Suddenly Megaman found out who they were talking about as a tall red figure and a tall blue figure landed in front of himself, protoman and bass.
*
X landed on one knee next to Zero as he stood, staring down Sigma, Boomer Kuwanger, Launch Octopus, Sting Chameleon and Frost Walrus.
He turned slightly to the three legends behind him and was amazed at the resemblance between the old megaman and himself.
"Hey, X! Yoo-hoo?" Zero said with a little worry.
"We're not exactly on vacation here." he said as X came back from his look alike thoughts.
X nodded and turned back to Sigma.
"We know all about what you're planning out here Sigma! Why did you bother coming back in time to have us kick your ass? We could've done that in our own time!"
*
Megaman gasped as the tall blue figure began speaking of times...he had a feeling something wasn't right about these guys and that they were most likely from another time.
"I knew it..." he said to himself.
Protoman and Bass looked at each other and then back to Megaman before turning their attention back to the main event in front of them.
*
Sigma laughed
"Always the charmer aren't you X?" he said with a snicker.
"Its 5 on 2...you really think you can win?" Boomer said with a smug tone.
*
Protoman and Bass looked at each other...
"Hey, we're here too you overgrown freaks! Its 5 on 5!"
Bass yelled as he pointed his buster towards the green lizard.
"Yeah...I don't know what you think you're doing here, but we're going to get you out!" Protoman smiled as he aimed his buster for the fat walrus.
Megaman smiled, glad his friends were there to support him as he took aim at the Octopus.
Both he and protoman started to charge their cannons, and to megaman's surprise...so did Bass.
"Yeah...I paid cossack a visit...he had a buster power up for me..." Bass said as if it were no big deal.
Megaman smiled and took aim again.
*
Zero and X looked back to the three and smiled.
"It looks like they have the right idea..." Zero said with a chuckle as they lined up with the three pint sized warriors and charged their own busters, the X and Z busters.
"On my command!" X said...the others nodded.
*
Sigma looked to his other warriors..surely the smaller three wouldn't be a problem...would they? He didn't know what to expect and didn't have time to think about it before X fired...triggering a hellish chain reaction.
The five searing blasts of energy screamed through the air as it hurled towards Sigma and his four comrades.
"Damn! Move no..." Sigma began to say as the blasts exploded just a few inches in front of their faces.
The five mavericks went flying out of the labs with incredible force, 3 of them instantaneously destroyed. Sigma looked over to see that the only one left with him was Sting Chameleon and that he was badly damaged.
"Sting! We need to get back to the city...surely the two other teams have fortified a HQ by now..."
Sigma turned back with a low growl to the five heroes standing in the doorway.
"You will regret this day! This I swear on my fallen comrades!"
Sigma turned and took off running with Sting Chameleon as Zero, X, Protoman, Bass and Megaman all stood with their busters charged and aimed at Sigma.
*
"That turned out much better than I could have hoped." X said with a smile.
"Yeah...you certainly are as strong as we heard." Zero said as he turned to Protoman, Bass and Megaman.
Megaman and Protoman looked at each other, and then to Bass, before turning back to the warriors from the future.
"So who are you guys anyway?" Bass asked with a tone of impatience.
"My name is X..." he replied...as he looked to Zero.
"And I'm Zero...its an honor to meet you." He said, a dumb smile on his face.
Bass looked to Megaman.
"Are these guys Light's? Or Cossack's?" He asked curiously.
Megaman shook his head.
"They're neither, I think they came from the future...like those other freaks."
Protoman looked back to X and Zero, surely noticing their distinct differences physically as well as their superior intellectual programming.
"So you're from the future huh?" Protoman said with a tinge of fear.
X nodded.
"Who made you guys anyway?" Bass said...the questions now starting to sound like those of young children.
X spoke first.
"I was created by Dr. Light, just like Megaman, although my creation isn't going to be until years from now...I am his final robot...or reploid as we are called in the future."
Zero sighed.
"I'm not sure of my origins...I simply began to aide X in his fight against Sigma and we've been battle partners ever since."
Megaman looked to X with awe...not believing that this creature would be created by his own Dr. Light.
"Speaking of Dr. Light..." X said with some concern.
"Where is he?"
Megaman stepped forward.
"I sent him to Dr. Cossack's lab...its not too far from here..."
"Ok..." X said quietly.
"Perhaps we should go and talk to this Cossack? He might have some tools to help us." Zero said.
Megaman nodded.
"You're right, if we're going to take on those freaks we should head over and see what Cossack has for us."
Protoman smiled.
"And see Kalinka too..."