The Brewer
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of the characters that featured in "Mega Man" cartoon series.
They belonged to Capcom (1987-2013) and Ruby-Spears production (1995)
Author's note [12/12/2017]: The time setting of this story is set after all of the Ruby-Spears cartoon episodes, six months after the episode "The crime of Century".
Chapter 1 Prologue: The dream and the reality
It was a typical night in the desert area between California and Arizona; the dry, strong wind pushed through the badlands as the full moon hung upon the dark blue sky. Despite the sound of the wind, even the Skull Fortress, the notorious terror nest of the infamous evil scientist Dr. Albert William Wily, was all quiet at this hour, since most of the robot masters were recharging except for a few who were on the night shift guarding the Fortress.
In the control room located on the top of the highest tower of Skull Fortress, Proto Man sat leisurely on a broken armchair with his feet up on the radar console while surfing the internet on another computer next to him. He likes hanging around in this room, a place where no one would dare come up and bother him so he could use some solitary time by himself.
Actually he was on the night shift of Skull Fortress's defense duty, there wasn't much to do at this hour except staring out at the lifeless canyon, turned out he was staying up all night playing computer games or watching online movies, that's the reason why he likes doing the night shift.
A lot of things came up on Proto Man's mind lately, it's been five and a half year since Wily began his quest conquering the world, and yet they haven't even took over anything more than twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile, Skull Fortress was in finical crises. The problem was there for a while, although Wily had pulled some measures to slacken the problem, including invent some micro device to remote control toys to rob people, but the money they got from these small time robberies was far less than the amount they needed. Ever since Mega Man stopped them from taking the giant black pearl for sell, the situation became even worse. Now they can't replace any broken piece of hardware anymore, if weren't for Proto Man ran the crews to get food for Wily from time to time, Wily would have starved.
Proto Man was stressed, in fact he was the only one who able to bring back money to keep this place running, he has some small business on the outside, which Wily didn't know about it yet. The responsibility of keeping Wily and every robot masters alive landed on Proto's shoulder, and the peer pressure was a little to big for him to carry alone.
Despite of that, he started to think about things other than Wily's scheme. He's been surfing the internet often, to read about the places and beautiful things outside this filthy metallic clink, dreaming if one day he could go on a trip to see around the world, away from everything and everyone he knows. Of course that would be nice if his little brother could come along with him too.
He couldn't help but smile when he thought about this, but deep down he knew that is not possible, as he and Mega Man both fought each other for years. Proto Man believed things wouldn't have much difference even if the battle is over; their relationship has already been torn apart by the cruel war.
The internal communication of Skull Fortress ranged, it was installed in a 50s-style telephone on the console, Proto ignored it until the third time it rang, knowing that should be something important to bother him at this hour, he put down his leg from the console and picked it up unwillingly.
"What up, Tone?" Proto already know who that was on the other side of the line, and directly addressed him by his nickname.
"Proto Man, Dr. Wily send wants to you go to his room as soon as possible, he said it's urgent." And he was right; it was Top Man's voice.
"If it is that urgent, why didn't he just call me instead?" Proto sighed, "Alright, I am coming down, tell him to wait if he urged."
Ten minutes later
"Bullshit, what kind of urgent can that be at 5 A.M.?" Proto cussed as he walked into Dr. Wily's workshop. "I can't even remember when was the last time he step out of the place. How long has he been holed up there? A month?"
The door slide opened, the smell that blast out from the room kept pushing Proto from stepping into the room, Proto had to take a while to make himself adjust to the stench inside. Once he was in, all he could see were stacks of fast food boxes, wasted cans and empty bottles are all over the place; there were various of glassware and chemical instruments on the table, some strange white crystalline solid are in the glass cylinder.
Proto also noticed an empty bottle of sedatives, some pills were even spilled on the table and the floor, and a pipe with some white powder inside. An unknown rage raised up inside him at the instant, he grabbed the bottle and clench it in his fist. "Wily! Where the hell are you?" He called, and throw the ruined medication container on to the floor violently.
There was still no respond from Wily, but Proto could smell the scent of some burning chemical coming from the bathroom, so he walked into the bathroom, and saw Wily smoking a pipe with a some white powders in it,
"Wily! What the hell are you doing?" Proto scolded and snatched the pipe out of Wily's mouth, breaking it into two half, then threw it onto the floor and stomped it flat.
"Hey! that's some good crystal I just made, what's wrong with you?" Wily moaned as he rubbed his sleepy eyes, which have a dark grayish circle around them.
"What is wrong with you? Smoking meth in your own lab?" Proto growled, "With all these chemicals around, you might have just blow the whole place up!"
"I won't! I am the genius here, I won't make such stupid mistake!" Wily explained.
"This staff is messing with your head! Mr. Genius, this is not the reason I stay here for!" Proto yelled, "That's it! I don't work with a junky! Tell me when you are done with this stuff, I am out!" Proto turned around and leave, Wily hurried to grapple his arm and halt his action.
"Alright, alright, I am quitting it...I..I...just needed some substance to fresh off my brain..." Wily plead.
"You are more like flushing your brain into the john! You are messed up!"
"Come with me, I have got something to show you, and this time...this time we will be taking over the world for real." Wily said as he drag Proto to his workshop. "There is...there is something I found interesting on the internet, this thing will help us to take over the world..."
Wily search through his messy work table, and he handed Proto Man a stack of papers, signaling him to read it. "This thing, 'The Brewer', it's a powerful thing, it can change the world. Only if we can get our hands on it..."
"You heck into the homeland security's database just to get this information? How do you know it is not a trap?"
"That don't matter, they won't do anything to us...This thing is special, the state government is trying to keep it from the public, they file it in the top secret sector, which means it's worth something...What do you say if we take it for our own? Only if I can figure out what it does..."
Proto Man read through with a quick scan, this topic was started to lure his interest, but of course he is not exactly interested in 'The Brewer' itself, he was more into the process of how to take it, so he can finally have some action other than sitting in Skull Fortress all day.
"Hold on a second. The document says it is only an ancient artifact! And everybody got killed after they lay their hands on it, like it is cursed!" Proto interjected, "In my opinion, you better give up the idea and stick with your scientific thesis, I have seen enough spiritual staff already after you released that bluish monster from a box. Besides that, what does it actually do?"
"I don't know yet! That's why we are going to find out!" Wily said, "The ancient people put this thing into wheat and water to make beer. That's why they call it 'The Brewer'. "
"You have got to be kidding me! What do you mean you don't know yet?" Proto Man taunted and slap his hand against his helmeted forehead, his excitement for the long waited action disappeared at the instant. "What do you want it for? Build a beer factory? Don't we have some other issues right now other than this senseless bullshit? Such as our financial problems? Come on!" He snapped.
"We get it, and we can sell it in the black market, then we will be rich overnight!" Wily replied.
Proto Man shook his head in frustration, he was about to reach the bottom line of his patience. He knew Wily would dig his head deep into anything once something arose his interest. Proto was suspecting why Wily would interest in such thing, there might be something else behind it, and he was sure it was not about making money as Wily himself said, only he couldn't figure what it is, yet.
"Is THAT simple?" Proto questioned, "Not that I am doubting your intelligence, I just don't think things would ever goes as planned, especially the ones YOU acted out! I don't mind dying, but I want to die on something that matters, not stupid plans; and I don't really see how this 'Brewer' thing worth me to stick my neck out."
"We have wasted five and a half year on his 'take over the world' schemes but we hadn't even took over a parking lot! Please stop stick your head up in your ass and make something real!" He added.
"Nothing is real unless you create it yourself! Sitting in here and complain won't get anything!" Wily snapped back.
"Whatever, it's your call." Proto didn't want to waste time to argue with Wily over this anymore, he simply back off and submit to Wily's plan, considering at least there is something for him to do. "How you want it done?"
Wily signaled Proto to come over as he trying to show him a big US map. "When we get our hands on this thing, we will be making history! They are going to move 'The Brewer' by trains, it is going through the south side of the states to Washington DC. and I think this is the best chance ever if we want to take it for our own. Listen carefully, this is what I want you to do..."
"We'd better hope this time there won't have cursed lion people, or ugly blue spirit jump out of it..." Proto sighed.
The several hours later
Southeast border of Nevada
Proto Man, Quick Man and Metal Man were standing on the top of a hill right above a train tunnel where they can oversee the train tracks, waiting for their target to come.
"Proto Man, what are we after this time?" Quick Man on the side asked.
"We are after some stupid artifact, 'The Brewer' or whatever the name is." Proto replied. "Some security company is escorting it by train, we are going to take them out and take the thing back to Wily."
"So why would Wily interest in this thing? Anything special about it?
"Why don't you take Guts Man and Cut Man along this time? If I remembered right they seems go with you on every mission." Quick Man asked.
"That was Wily's idea to bring them along for his world domination scheme, and probably the reason of the failures too." Proto answered casually, "Today is up to me to choose the crew, Guts Man is too big and too clumsy to move in a narrow place like on a train. Cut Man...I can't even imagine what he can do to help. So I choose you and Metal Man, you can help me to locate the target with your speed, your boomerang can handle both long and short firing range. Metal Man can handle close counter attacks, that will help if we encounter with resistances.
"So...when the trains arrive, what do we do about it? Derail it?" Metal Man asked
"That's what Wily ordered, but I think we can do it in a less violent way, I don't see it's necessary to derail the whole train just to get a thing." Proto explained, "All we need is to get that special container which carries 'The Brewer', orange in colour, with rec number of D7689 painted on the outside. When the train arrives, we jump on board and look for our target. Once we find it, we clear the resistances on the train and secure the target, when the situation is under control, I will call Ring Man to fly the Skycrane to come over and pick it up. Quick Man, your main job is to make sure the container attached with the Skycrane as quick as you can, and the chopper will lift the whole thing up and fly back to Skull Fortress. The location here is quite solitary so there won't be much trouble from the local police."
"This will be a walk in the park" Metal Man said with a okay gesture.
"But...uh, what if Mega Man shows?" Quick Man asked.
"That's not possible, he is probably stuck in that cozy lab in New York, which is over two thousand and eight hundred miles away. Unless he has the travel speed faster than an Intercontinental missile, we will be long gone before he even shows."
"Hey, the train is coming!" Quick Man said as the train was coming towards their direction with a whistle. "Wait up, you didn't mention the train is carrying armored cars and tanks?"
"What?" Proto blinks as he confirmed Quick Man's description with his own eyes. "Damn it, Wily didn't even mentioned it is a military train we are intercepting!"
"Let's hope they don't have a panic button on the damn train!" Proto jumped onto the train when it passed through right in front of them, which Quick Man and Metal Man followed him.
Meanwhile
Los Angles
"I love the weather here! Much warmer than New York in this season." Roll said, as she, Mega Man and Dr. Light were sitting in the coach of their new bought beach house in Los Angles, right next to the Santa Maria beach. "Too bad we are only staying here for couple of nights, I just wish I can stay here for longer."
"We can come back here in summer." Dr. Light said, "A nice sunny place to relax, that's what we need."
"I am pretty relax right now!" Mega lean his back on the coach with a stretch. "Only if Wily never shows again, maybe we can actually move here."
"Speaking of Wily, how long has it been since the last time he attacked? Like nearly six months?" Roll asked. "Maybe he is dead already."
"I am not counting count on that one, let's hope he isn't planning on something big." Mega sighed. "Brain Bot, please don't turn this house into a scientific thriller park! We might move here after take down Wily."
"I bet he won't dare to show up in charity ball on tomorrow night."
"I am not sure about that, the police department said they find something unusual about the charity ball, they are highly concerned that there might have an attack, many celebrities and important officials will be there. That's why they invite us to be there as well." Mega stated with concern.
"Stop talking about those things that hasn't yet happened. We are here to relax! There must be a lot of TV starlet tomorrow night, I am going to get their autographs! From Everyone of them!"
"If you don't mind, I'd like to make some adjustment to the house, of course there are still a lot of improvements can be make in the design of this house, especially the security department, maybe I should design a house management AI in here..." Brain Bot mumble by himself as he kept walking around the place and investigate everything by his weird detailed eyes.
"Brain Bot, you can do whatever you like here, and that's main reason I buy this house, then you can still help out the scientists in the university whenever they need you, you can also able to develop your own projects in here at the same time." Dr. Light stated with a smile.
"Yeah, and the way to keep him out of our lab..." Roll muttered lightly. "I 'd say...why don't we go take a walk to the pier, to take a ride on that Ferris wheel?"
"That's a good idea, but I guess I am too old for that, why don't you two go and have a good time, I'd like to stay here have some peaceful time." Dr. Light said.
Dr. Light grabbed the remote and switch on the television, it is the special news broadcasting at the moment.
"This is reporter McElroy, we are broadcasting live of the real time crime scene on the south border of California. A freight train is under attack by several robots, police are on pursuit. And it's confirmed that the attackers belongs to Dr. Wily's forces..."
The camera focused on the three attackers on the train, and clearly shows the attacker identity, it's Quick Man, Metal Man and Proto Man.
"Only three of them? That's weird. Where did Guts Man and Cut Man go?" Mega thought to himself, "We have got no time to waste, I am going to stop them!" He whistled Rush to shift into jetboard mode and flied away from the balcony.
"Wait for me!" Roll called behind him, but Mega Man and Rush has departed already. She dashed to the garage, only realized she didn't have other transport in here. "Only if I didn't left my sky cycle back at home..."
On the train
Proto Man fired a plasma shot to a police helicopter, the blast hit the heli's tail propeller and crashed to the ground. He was standing on the top of the target container dealing with the annoying helicopters flying above him, and waiting for the Skycrane to pick it up while Metal Man was sewing the security bots into two half by his roller blade.
"Proto Man to Ring Man, where the hell are you? We are about to get apprehended." Proto yelled to his arm communicator.
"In coming!" Ring Man replies, "You should know this S-64 Air-crane is hard to find!"
"Lower the winch as quick as you can, slow poke." Quick Man jabbed, and he then spotted a figure flying towards their way on the sky "We have to get going before...Holycrap! It's Mega Man!"
"Why does everything has to go against me today!" Proto cussed, "You guys concentrate on hooking up the container with the chopper and leave immediately, I will handle my little brother myself!"
Proto fired a rapid string of shots towards Mega, trying to keep him away from his crews and the heavy-lift chopper and the train. Mega Man could sense Proto's intention as well, but he doesn't want to deal with Proto right now, he had to protect the cargo first. So he aimed his blaster to the Skycrane instead.
He fired a shot towards the Skycrane, only the blast didn't hit the hovering chopper. The blast was bounced off its route by Quick Man's boomerang.
Mega Man jumped onto the train, Metal Man was there blocking his way.
"Long time no see, Mega dude!" Metal Man said. "It's time to make you have a little taste of my blade."
Metal Man draw his blades at Mega, Mega avoided it with a step backward, and kicked Metal Man's feet, causing him to lose balance, and then he fired a shot on to his back, made Metal Man fell off the train with a yell.
Meanwhile, Quick Man grabbed the chance and used his advantage to tie the container with the Skycrane in the matter of seconds, him and Metal Man climbed aboard the control panel of the Skycrane by the same speed.
Proto was standing on the top of the container, watching Mega and Metal Man's fight all along, after seeing Metal Man being kick off the moving trains, Proto leap on Mega's back and pinned him down on the floor. "Ring Man, get it out of here! Now!" He ordered.
"You are not going anywhere!" Mega yelled, as he trying to yank Proto off his back. Mega struggled to turn over, Proto slugged his face fiercely, "That's great! I am looking for someone to punch today!" Proto growled.
"Blastard!"Mega punched Proto back in the face, but that didn't slowdown Proto's fist, he then kicked him on the stomach by using his knee, and throw Proto off him.
The brothers rolled away from each other a little, both with the hostile look on their faces.
"Why are you such moody today? You need help!" Mega spat.
"Shut up!" Proto tried to grappled on Mega's neck and hold him down, which Mega Man took a step backward and strike back with an uppercut, which the hit Proto hard on the jaw, the only part on his body that hasn't been covered by armor.
!?
Proto's vision suddenly went completely dark, like a bulb that has been switched off, a buzzing sound rang around his audio sensors.
"What happened...
Proto felt like himself was scattered into pieces, like all of his coordinate reflexes were ripped apart from him.
"I have been hit..?."
His vision came back online five seconds later, but everything was still fuzzy around him, all he could see were lines and dots; his audio sensors were also get messed up, all he could hear was some faint sound of the train, and a lot of noise like someone screaming next to his ear.
"I got to move, can't let him go after the chopper."
Proto didn't realize that he was right on the edge of the moving train, he was still busy in fighting the dizziness around his head, he lost his balance and fell off the train.
Mega Man tried to grab Proto's arm to stop him fell, but he accidentally caught on Proto's scarf instead. The scarf was loosen from Proto's neck due to the pull and left on Mega's hand.
The train was just going through a bridge over a river when Proto fell, which was only forty feet high from the water surface, Proto's head hit hard on a large boulder at the bottom of the river, causing a shock induced short circuit to his electronic brain, he felt funny at first when some hallucinations pop up in his vision, and then he was completely lost conscious.
"No!" Mega exclaimed as he watched Proto's lifeless body disappeared down the river. He whistled Rush, who came to Meg's side in jetboard mode, Mega hopped aboard and tell rush to carry him down to the river at once.
Proto Man's dream episode(0): Nightmare
Proto Man woke up and found himself in a concealed room full of scientific instruments, the pale white walls fitting with pale white floor tiles and white cabinets; there is a long metallic lab table in the middle, several spotlights were hung upon it.
"What happened...?" Proto wondered, shook his head a bit. He had a familiar feeling of this place, he knew he should have been there before, but strangely he couldn't think of where it is. "Such clean and tidy...it's definitely not Wily's, his lab is always as messy as hell. And why am I here?"
Proto stared into the window nearby, the glass reflection told him that his is not wearing his helmet, he looked down at his body, he wasn't wearing his armor at all.
"What the...?" Proto checked himself and discovered that he was wearing black jeans, yellow T-shirt and a light brown jacket. "Wait a minute, where is my armor? Why am I in normal clothes? What's happening?"
Proto heard some noise coming from outside, it's the sound of heavy vehicles and a lot of people marching. He looked through the window and saw some guys dressed in camouflage uniform gathering in the yard, there were also robo troops holding guns surrounding the whole place. He also noticed that those armed people and robo troops had no emblem on them.
"What's going on here?" Proto noticed something was afoot, he quickly hid himself behind the wall and peeked, "No badges...that means these people are not from the military, they are mercenaries? That's not good, I better get out of here."
Proto rushed to the door and turned the knob, but it's locked from the outside, "Damn it's locked! I am trapped!" He tried to kick the door open but failed, "Let me out of here!"
"The target is inside, ready to engage! Get clear!" The commander of the troops announced from a loud speaker.
On the other hand, Proto was trying desperately to generate the possible methods to escape the room with the least risk as quick as he can. Now that the door has been block from the outside, the yard was already filled with military troops, they will shoot him as soon as he climb out of it; The only way he can get out of the room is through the air vent above him.
Proto pulled a worktable over, attempt to get himself high enough to reach the air vent and tried to pull himself up into the vent.
Suddenly, a molotov smash through the window, and lit Proto's clothes, Proto dropped onto the floor and rolled around, tried to roll get rid of the fire. The fire quickly spread through the entire room.
While Proto was too busy dealing with his burning clothes, a rocket fly through the window. There was no place for him to run.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"No-bulp!"
Proto woke up trying to yell as his throat filled by water at the instant, he opened his eyes and found that he was in the middle of all mud-dish river bottom and the water was flowing rapidly around him, there even have bubbles on his visor, he hadn't been carried away by the current only because one of his foot was stuck in a gap between two huge boulders on the river bed.
Proto tried to pull his leg out by brute force but failed, his foot was stuck tight against the boulder, when he pulled harder, it stuck even tighter in the gap. He switched to his arm blaster, which was water logged and malfunctioning.
"Damn it!" He cursed in his mind.
Mega Man had Rush flied low close to the water surface along the river, he thought Proto would surface very soon since he doesn't seemed taken serious damage from the upper cut. But several minutes later he still couldn't see his brother came up, and he started to worry. Proto Man's scarf was still in his hand.
He had Rush flied him down the river a little further, then he saw some faint red objects struggling under the water, he couldn't see him clearly, but guesting Proto must be in trouble down there. He switched to his blaster at once, and fired a level 5 shot into the water immediately.
The shot hit right on the boulder that trapped Proto's foot. The shot broke it into several pieces and Proto managed to pull himself out.
Proto has been carried a little further down the river before he could swum back to the shore, the first thing he did was kneel on the ground and throw up the water he swallowed.
Mega and Rush landed on the sallow where Proto Man was vomiting and coughing, he walked up to him a little closer, "Are you alright?" he asked, seeing Proto Man was still in harsh breath, he walked over and handed him his scarf.
Proto realized he was just saved by his enemy, the feeling of shame and anger swarm inside him, he shot Mega with an angry glare and snatched his scarf from Mega's hand. "Yeah, appreciate that." He replied bluntly, sounded angry more than thankful.
"Now for around two." Proto thrown himself at Mega once he finished on his scarf, he pinned Mega on the ground and began pummeling him.
"No! Stop!" Mega protested, shielding his head by his arms. "Can we just talk for a minute?"
"No," Proto replied bluntly. "We are enemy, we don't talk, we fight!"
Mega frustrated by Proto's negative response, he kicked Proto's off him. The two rolled away from each other, both of them were covered in dirt.
"Don't you ever get tired that we have to ravage at each other every time we see each other's face?" Mega spat.
"Do we have a choice? You are the damn hero, and I am the bad guy. All I have learnt was that neither of us would turn, even if one of us do, no one would believe it, so why don't you just shut up and fight!" Proto fired a level 1 stun blast towards Mega chest, the blast was weak and it's just bounced off Mega's armor. Mega back off from Proto a little and charged up his own blaster as well.
Although Mega was a little irritated by Proto's reply, but he knew what Proto just said was true. He simply didn't want to give up convincing.
"Look, it's been five and a half year since our first encounter, don't you think maybe it's time to move on?" Mega probed, intend to talk some sense to his brother.
"This is gotta end somehow! How long you think you can keep doing this until you get arrested or destroyed? Even I can't do anything if you were taken down by the authorities!" He said as he fired a shot towards Proto in return. "I am not asking you turn into a saint or something, at least stop helping Wily and let him get lock up, then we don't have to fight anymore!"
"Are you asking me to betray Wily? Not on your life!" Proto snarled, he thrust toward Mega, the two started to wrestling each other again on the riverside.
"Proto Man, the objective is secured, we are off radar now, do you need some backups?" It's Quick Man's voice from Proto's communicator, which Mega Man could overheard that as well.
"I can take care of myself, just fly back to Skull Fortress immediately." Proto responded.
Proto Man's mission was completed, he only have to shake his little brother off his tail so he could get out of there.
"No! You are going nowhere! If you won't listen to me, then I will have to detain you myself!" Mega tried to grapple Proto from behind, only Proto caught his arm in time, and took the advantage of the position and thrown Mega heavily onto the ground.
Mega landed heavily on his back, the shock caused his system stop responding for few seconds. Proto grabbed the chance quickly fled into the woods and disappeared.
"Give it up bro! I gave it all up a long time ago! Hope doesn't exist on people like me!" Proto hissed towards Mega's ear before he left.
"Aw, that's hurt..." Mega sat on the ground and rubbed his head, and Rush had just arrived the scene and landed by his side, thinking about what Proto Man just said, "You might give up on saving yourself, but I won't."
Later that night...
El Castillo del Diablo
"My jaw still hurts! Something might be broken in there, damn that Mega Man screw everything up!" Proto cussed as he driving in a stolen van into an abandoned town in desert, EL Castillo Del Diablo, which is three miles away from the Skull Fortress. "Don't say it like I like fighting you so much! I don't want to nither! We don't have to fight if you don't come screw things around!" Proto complained out loud towards the air, as if Mega Man was standing in front of him.
This town has no water, no electricity, and no population at all. Only a few fallen shacks and abandoned houses. Proto parked his van into the garage of a rather intact house, he likes to hang around this place, especially when he feels like to be solitary , to have some peace and quiet without any disturbance from Wily and the robot masters.
Once he stepped out of the garage, he already felt there were something was abnormal, he could feel there were something watching from behind. Proto locked the garage with whistle and started walking away as casual as he could, as if he doesn't know anything about the stalker.
But Proto didn't walk towards the direction of the Skull Fortress, he went through the other way and start strolling up to the cliff nearby.
He walked up to an open area on the cliff, he turned around to face the way he came.
"Alright, I know you were there, come out now." Proto said in his most calm self, "There is no place for you to hide anymore, come out and I promise I won't do harm to you."
Two robots stepped out of the shadow and approached Proto. One of them was holding a thin spear, the other one is slightly talker than the other one, his most significant feature is the meniscus like thing on his head.
"So, it's you two following me about? I thought they would send more people here if they want to keep watch on me." Proto laughed, and clearly not surprised by the stalkers before him.
"You are not wrong about that." The tall one said. "You have got five guys watching you all the time, two on that hill, one over there, and two by satellite. And I was just talking about the ones that belong to our side, not yet mentioned the ones who wants to cut your master's head off and hang it on their walls, that would be quite a trophy. You are surrounded, amigo."
"Since when they have been watching me all along?" Proto thought to himself, but managed not to show the astonishment of acknowledging the fact that his has been monitored. "Thanks for the heads up. But whatever, who are you?"
"My name is not important. We work for a government agency, it's not important which one, I will try not to confuse you."
"That's great, government gimps." Proto taunted, "So, you come here to humiliate me, arrest me, or kill me? Maybe all three at the same time?".
"Not now, but you have made a big mistake hijacking that train today, it is not even the States's property, and the person who own it will be really, really pissed. Even if the authority don't do anything, you and Wily will be taken care of within three months."
"What's the big deal? That was just an ancient artifact, the planet is still turning with or without it!"
The bot snickered, "You really think so? Sure Wily have fooled you this easily...nevermind, you are going to find out what it is soon." He threw two posters towards Proto, it's the wanted poster of Wily.
Proto took the poster and studied it for a while, wearing the usual smirk on his face, "This picture took him as ugly as can be, mind if I keep it and put it up on his wall?" Proto laughed, "He will blow a vessel if he see this, saves everyone's work."
"Laugh all you want, a lot of bounty hunters are on to him, it's rare to have such a big price on someone's head. If I were you, I would be extra careful."
"I always careful. Wait, where is mine?"
"Robots don't have wanted posters, chump."The one with spear replied, "They would either crush you into bits or..."
"Or what?" Proto snapped
"Or they will send you to somewhere that is not shown on any map, and do whatever they want to their captives."
"I am so scared, you are frigging blackmailing me? What exactly are you trying to say?"
"Our boss have a work for you, and our organization is powerful enough to get you away from government and the bounty hunter's hit list, you and your little gang, I mean."
"Let me get this straight, your boss want me to work for them? I am afraid I am choosy of who I work for, and how do I know this is not a trap?"
"You have nothing to lose. Besides, I think you are in need of money, correct me if I am wrong." The tall bot added, "Of course we will give you time to think about it. Just to remind you, this is your last chance. People are getting desperate, they are about to something."
"Really? Why shouldn't I kill both of you scumbag piece of shit right here and mail you back to you boss? Maybe he will know what I truly make of by then." Proto warned.
"You are killing yourself just then, a lot people is watching you, your every move. The window is open my friend, and you are jumping out of it. Think about what I said, if you are interested, come back here the day after tomorrow, at noon. If you no show, then we know your answers."
The tall robot put down a piece of name card on the ground and pinned it under a small rock, Proto walked up and picked it up reluctantly, then the two robots turned to leave a chopper picked them up and disappeared into the skyline. Leaving Proto stood there on the lonely cliff sulking by himself.
He swung his fist onto a nearby huge boulder "Damn it!"
To be continued...
Author's note:
This is the third edition of the story. it's been up for long but I decided to reconstruct the whole story since I realized how lame my writing was . So don't be weird if you have read this before, it's complete different.
25/02/2017: The content on chapter one is altered (again), few lines added, but it won't exactly affect the story-line of the latter chapters.
This is my first fic and I am still an amateur writer, but I will try to make improvements and do my best to make it perfect. Thanks for reading!