Chapter 1: How did it get so far?
Disclaimer: I do not own Rockman/Megaman or Forte/Bass, unfortunately for me.
Dr. Thomas Light looked at the rubble of what was once a city and he couldn't help but wonder how much of that rubble mirrored the inside of his subconscious self. My god Wiley, what have you done now, is this really something of your creation, thought Dr. Ligh as he recalled his infamous science partner, whom he always regretted for going down the path he did, but it was too late for any side thoughts. This destruction was caused by a metallic monstrosity of the infamous Dr. Wiley's creation named Adonus, a creation tens time the stronger than King, a robot that was trouble to take out before. Light did find it strange that Wiley didn't have Bass involved with the matter of destruction of the city or at least thought that Bass would be there since he was a creation of Wiley and probably one of Wiley's greatest creations, a rival for his own Megaman. Something about Bass made Dr. Light a bit nervous, maybe it was the fact that he could see a deadly determination in Bass's eyes a determination that made him all the more dangerous and maybe the one factor that would someday catch up with Megaman.
"Or maybe it already has caught up with him," muttered Dr. Light as his eyes searched through the rubble to see some sign of his favorite creation, Megman. It had been two long agonizing weeks since communication had been lost with Megaman as he was trying to stop the uprising that was happening.
"What," asked Roll, a bit confused as to what he was saying and she could see that genuine look of worry that was on his face. "You're still worried about him, aren't you?"
"I can't help it, he's like my son and I've been sending him out to protect this city without thinking that there might be something he can't handle," said Dr. Light, grumbling a bit because he was quite angry with himself. "None of us thought that anything of Wiley's could create this much destruction and now, more than any other time, I'm worried for his safety."
"I am as well, after all he is my brother," said Roll as she looked down into the rubble as well before returning her attention back onto piloting the aircraft that they were using. Even if the coalition forces of robots and humans were fighting against the rebel robot army there was still danger lurking about and Roll would have to blast her way out of there with the help of the aircrafts defense system. "Maybe he's off somewhere doing some form of hero work out on the front."
"The only problem with that theory is that this is the front," said Dr. Light as he looked out at the city and turned to the back of the aircraft to see the form of something on the ground. "Quick turn right there, I think I see something!"
"Yes I see it right there, though it seems to be taller than how I remember Rock," said Roll as she ignored her misgivings and turned the aircraft around to move towards the figure who had the same body type as Rock and had, it seemed like, the same hair as Roll got closer, but it was still too difficult for her to distinguish between the two forms.
Before she could get her look at the form, however, the aircraft was impacted on one side by a metal blade that was a foot in diameter and shot at an amazing speed. Pulling up on the controls, Roll tried to keep the aircraft from crashing into the ground, but only managed to make the crash a little softer as the aircraft hit the ground. After taking a quick moment to check her internal systems, Roll removed her safety harness and helped Dr. Light out of his seat to check on his injuries, finding most of them to be very minor thanks to the safety harness Auto had installed into the chair. Taking the hand held buster from the small compartment box, Roll carried the professor out of the aircraft before another metal blade pierced through the hull of the aircraft setting off a chain reaction that caused the aircraft to explode. The force of the explosion sent Roll down on the ground on top of Dr. Light to keep him safe from the blast.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous Dr. Light," said a sinister voice from up above them on a ledge, a robot that sported red and black armor with a metal blade attached to his head. "I always wanted to kill the man who created that pain in the neck, Mega Man. It looks like I've finally got my chance."
"Don't think I'll miss just because I'm a girl, Metal Man," shouted Roll as she leveled her buster at him, but had to give up her aim to dodge a metal blade that was chucked at her. She silently thanked the fact that she he had asked Dr. Light to install some combat functions into her systems.
"Well, it seems I also get to turn his sister into scrap metal, a cute pile of scrap metal to be exact," sneered the infamous Metal Man as he tossed another blade that was destroyed by a mega-buster blast before it was even an inch from his hand. "Who the hell dares to get between me and my pray?"
"I do," said a deep voice that sent chills down her spine as she saw that figure getting closer, mega-buster arm aimed, and she could tell who it was even before he got close to reveal the white hair and purple marks on his face.
"Bass, what the hell are you doing here, I don't have time for someone who missed his chance to b great," exclaimed Metal man as he threw three other blades at the robot rival of Mega Man, but Bass simply stepped to the side of one blade and destroyed the other two without having to stop walking.
"This area isn't your domain, this area is the place where I take my time through all of the screaming to try and figure out where the little blue dweeb is," said Bass in a voice that was as solid and cold as ice. "You have ten seconds to run before I turn you into nothing more than a metallic toilet."
"I won't forget this," shouted Metal Man as he ran away from the buster toting robot with his tail between his legs.
"What an annoyance, I see someone let all of Wiley's idiots run free," said Bass as he switched his arm back to normal and looked at the sister of his sworn rival, Mega Man. "As you were, but don't try to engage me in a fight, you wouldn't win."
"What do you plan to do with us now," asked Roll as she lowered her gun to avoid any unpleasant fights with Bass, he may be arrogant but he had power to back up his speech.
"Nothing at all, I'm not interested in fighting either of you, more like I'm interested in fighting your brother," replied Bass as he leaned his back against a wall and looked at them through his cold eyes. "Don't tell me your part of that small coalition that is fighting against Adimus in these parts."
"No, right now I'm here to find my brother, though it would be nice to link up with the coalition forces," said Roll as she helped Dr. Light up to his feet. "We received some signals out here from them, but I haven't gotten any other word from them so I think that they might be pushing elsewhere."
"Most communications are jammed here anyway," said Bass as he looked off towards once of the rock formations. "But then again I bet they could tell you all about it."
"I suspected that we wouldn't be able to sneak up on you, Wiley-bot," said a human armed in a green armor like suit with one of the more powerful buster rifles aimed at Bass, but it did little to intimidate the Robot Master. "We have you surrounded, Robot Master, now surrender your army."
"You're retarded aren't you," stated Bass as he got up from the wall that he was leaning against and then snapped his fingers, calling out for his robotic dog to jump out and take all of their weapons. "If I could have sensed you there then wouldn't I have my army trained on you right now, not to mention that fact that you believed you could take me at close range or any range for that matter? For the record, I will never be called Wiley-bot ever again, instead you will call Lord Bass or Master Bass, as fitting with my title of Robot Master."
"Bass would you stop with the fighting and just give them back their weapons," shouted Roll as she pushed his mega-buster aside, earning a growl from him that caused her to step back a bit. "They are only after Wiley and I doubt that you're a part of this scheme to conquer the world, especially after you fought Metal Man."
"He fought Metal Man," asked one of the astonished soldiers of the small coalition. "That guy has been causing trouble for a lot of our units."
"So you would see how it would be very beneficial for Bass to join you," said Roll as she smiled at the leader of the group, who finally sighed and nodded yes. "Good then I'll need you to teleport us to whatever base you have with a medical quarters or a place for Dr. Light to rest."
"I could do that if our signals weren't jammed by whatever is doing it," said the leader as he checked around. "The closest base is three miles away and we'll be out in the open."
"Give me whatever teleportation device you use," ordered Bass and he received the device only after Roll nodded for the soldier to do so. Bass then link his own teleportation device with the device and transferred his codes to the other device so they could bypass the jamming. From the scans of the robots he had fought, it seemed that they were using the old Wiley code so he knew that they weren't jamming them. "This should work."
"Thank you," said the soldier before he patched into the nearest base. "This Alpha team, Lieutenant Campbell calling to Sector Base Zero, do you read, over?"
"Yes, this is Commander Eva, reading you loud and clear," said a voice over the com link. "What can I do for you Lieutenant?"
"We need to be teleported back to base with the inclusion of three others included to the package," replies the soldier as he turned on the homing beacon for the lock on to complete.
"Okay we have a lock on to your signal, starting transfer now," said the voice over the communications device and Bass saw his whole body bathed in light as he was teleported to the base.
Roll had been sent through a lot of teleportation holes, but never had she come out of one to have a bunch of men pointing buster rifles at her with a woman wearing a large white coat with various military insignias on them raising a hand in the air. She was ready to fire and with Bass just a few meters from her, she could tell why.
"Commander Eva, you have nothing to worry about, he's not hostile," exclaimed the lieutenant as he found himself on the other of the gun.
"Fine then, men stand down, but I won't be trusting you too much Bass," said the female commander in a harsh tone that made it obvious that Bass had some run ins with the military. "Right now we are having massive destruction from those other creations of Wiley so I can't be sure that you won't be giving me the same trouble later on."
"As of now you can be assured I won't destroy you, just by the fact that if I wanted to or had some purpose like that, I would have done it already," said Bass as stood there with a face that was just begging for a challenge.
"Must you do that," asked Roll as she rubbed her head.
"Do what," asked Bass.
"Start a fight when it's not needed," said Roll and she quickly remembered her other problems. "I almost forgot, I need someone to take Dr. Light to a medical bay or something right now."
"Have it done, I wish to see if I can get Dr. Light's help with certain things," ordered Eva as she then turned to Roll and asked her, "Do you need any repairs?"
"No, I'm still at top shape, but I would check Bass from the way he holds his mega-buster arm," said Roll, pointing to said arm. "It could be something picked up from the rubble or continuous use of it without a period of recharge or rest in between."
"Well that is odd, the great Bass having trouble with his power," chimed another woman dressed in a more modern lab suit that was used for mechanics. "Now this is just too good to be true."
"Sometimes it's those things that can really do some damage to you," said Bass as he changed his hand to an odd shape that looked like a blaster with three hooks extended from the barrel and attached to two black colored rings. "It would appear that the weapons system of that robot you sent out was very flawed, so flawed that copying it put my whole weapons system out of whack for a minute."
"It serves you right for trashing our Pride Man," snapped the female scientist and she motioned for him to come to the bay for mechanical repairs. "He was our pride and joy, but as soon as he ran into you he was such a sad sight. When they brought him back our whole mechanical team was depressed. You can still see the fist marks in the Commander's desk from when she heard the news."
"I can imagine that your robot might have had some sentimental value to you," said Bass as he laid down on the operation table for his repairs. "You just made the mistake of targeting random robots that were associated with Wiley, hoping to strike gold one day. By the way, Treble is right behind you and any motion to try and do something like erase my memory and personality and you will be ripped limb from limb, just thought I should warn you, he's very jumpy these days."
Dr. Light wasn't a young man, nor was he a middle aged man. He was an old man and he had to admit sometimes that his limits were closing in on him, no matter how much he wished he could get back on the rope of the robotics world like he could twenty days ago. Now he had Roll beside him to help him if he needed anything fixed or had to perform some mechanical operation, except he did most of them, he was just waiting for a time when he could pass it down to her. A human making new ways to improve robots was fascinating enough, but what Dr. Light wanted a robot to make new ways to improve robots. It was a dream that he often wondered the difficulty in achieving, especially now that it seemed like very little was going his way, or anyone else's way for that matter. When Roll found him writing in his notebook, she couldn't help but laugh at how much his work was like a bad habit. He just couldn't give it up, not even for a second.
"You still working on that new upgrade you were planning," asked Roll as she looked at him with her typical smile on her face.
"Well an opportunity came up that I had never had the chance to think about before," replied Light as he when to jotting it down and then looked at another notebook that was filled with Wiley's creations including some of the data that they had learnt about on Bass.
"Oh no, don't tell me that you plan to use Bass," exclaimed Roll as she looked at her creator.
"It is the only way to combat this menace and maybe the only way to save him," replied Dr. Light as he looked up behind Roll at the staring eyes of the above mentioned robot. "Please tell me, will you help me fight this threat and find Mega Man?"
"As far as destroying Adonus is, I've already got a reason to go after that bastard, but as far as it comes to saving Mega Man, well I'll only do it when it's in my best interests," replied Bass as he looked down at Dr. Light and didn't bother to shake his hand. "This is only a temporary alliance that will be broken whenever I feel like it."
"I understand, but I hope you will allow Roll to be out there with you since you will have to retrieve something from my lab."
Bass looked at Roll and then at Dr. Light before simply saying, "Fine."
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