I would like to say that I do NOT own any of the Metal Slug characters or vehicles. They are the official property of SNK Playmore. However the character General Blackout is owned by me. This is my first fanfic btw.

SO enjoy!

The Robot Conspiracy

Chapter 1: The cargo Arrives

There were large trucks all around the busy streets of Tokyo, Japan. Busy roads were made busier, and lots of shouts and honks could be heard. This all was being viewed through the disguised cameras all around town. General Blackout was watching carefully at the big screen in front of him. Whichever camera's view the screen showed; there were the trucks with their large cargo containers.

"I have a bad feeling about this," the General muttered under his breath. "Hundreds of cargo trucks in a day? Something's up." He then thought about it carefully, and said, "Send in Eri Kasamoto." "Yes sir," the one operating the giant camera screen said. He picked up a radio and said, "Eri the general wants to see you in his office."

The General turned around and walked out of the room. However, the moment he walked out and closed the door, one of the soldiers operating the base's security camera's dashed towards the door, pressed his ear on it, said, "the coast is clear." Everybody in the room cheered, and started playing multiplayer on "Counterstrike Global Offensive."

Outside a furniture shop

Eri, disguised as a civilian, saw that people were gathering at many of the shops where the cargo trucks had stopped outside. "What is it?" she asked one of the people, who replied, "Robots are being on sale at many of the shops all over Tokyo." "Robots?" Eri wondered, "Maybe they're kid's toys." Suddenly, the shops doors swung open, and the shopkeeper, a guy of about 40, said, "Behold! It is the next generation! The ASD, Amazing Service Droid! IT can do you any kind of service and will get any of the housework, or any other type of work done in a jiffy!" Everybody was astounded. Everyone except the Japanese commando of course. Until one of the droids walked out of the shop and stood right in front of everyone. The robot looked a lot like the NS4 from that film I, Robot. The only difference was that it was silver, and on its breastplate was written "ASD" and the robot said, "How may I be of service to you?" Eri, annoyed that she had wasted her time just to see a robot showcasing, turned to leave, only to find out that the crowd (of which she stayed in the back) had grown BEHIND her, and all the people stampeded into the shop, like a group of angry elephants, trampling Eri in the process (I'm surprised she survived).

The very next day

All of Tokyo's people had robots in their houses (since each one was for 25000 yen, which is a bargain) and even the Regular Army base (also known as the Octagon since from the sky it looks like a gigantic octagon) had robots doing stuff which some of the employees considered "too tough" (like cleaning the toilets, since they were a lot worse than public toilets). Meanwhile, in the garage located at the back of the facility, just next to the hangar, Tarma Roving showed off his new cool bike to Marco Rossi. "Well, what do you think?" Tarma said with pride in his voice, "Isn't it my best work yet?" Marco had to admit, it was pretty good. Suddenly, a familiar voice said, "Hi, Tarma!" Tarma knew that voice all too well.

Looking down and turning his head sideways, he saw Alisa Stewart standing with a smile on her face. "Hey Tarma, I got a little problem, that Metal Slug over there won't work. Maybe you could help me out." Grabbing his arm and dragging him, Tarma kept looking at the floor. Marco only smirked. Tarma and Alisa both were engineers (Alisa is slightly better than Tarma) and Alisa was always impressed by the missions he had done, and his experience with the Slugs, so it's not surprising why she preferred his company (which Tarma found as a nuisance). In fact, the last time she called him and told that a Metal Slug wasn't working, Tarma pointed out to her that she hadn't even put the engine in it. You could say she liked him.

"Yeah I see the problem," Tarma said, "it's that- ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!" He noticed that Alisa was watching his face all the time.

"What? Sorry," she replied, blushing a little. "Sheesh!" Tarma thought, and continued, "Like I was saying, that bolt is in the wrong position. You have to turn it counter-clockwise." So our blue-haired she-engineered grabbed her trusty wrench, which she also used as a close combat weapon, and turned it, clockwise, loosening it.

An engineer, at the same time, was pulling a rope tied to a Walking Machine, who wouldn't budge. "Come on! I want you to meet other robots who are just like you!" he said to the machine. "They are not like me," the machine said, "Because they are EVIL!" Marco, who clearly heard the word 'evil', turned his head towards the engineer and the Walking Machine. Evil? That's interesting…

"I said counter-clockwise," Tarma repeated, getting agitated. "Whoops, silly me," Alisa said, and turned it counter-clockwise, and then clockwise (I bet you can see her plan). "Now look," he said, grabbing her hand which held the wrench (Now do you see Alisa's plan?), "You turn it like THIS!" Tarma said, and turned the wrench with such violent force, that the bolt flew out of it's position went ricocheting all over the place, and with a speed of 120 km/h, smashed the head of a robot (that much force? AWESOME!) that was carrying a tray that had two glasses of Red Bull on it. The glasses smashed onto the floor, the drinks spilled (what a waste of good energy drink) and an engineer sat to his knees and screamed "NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Three objects flew out of the robots head and landed at Marco's feet. One was a computer chip, or simply the robot's brain, but Marco didn't know what the other two were. Picking up all three, he then walked towards the back of the garage which led into the Octagon's long hallways. Unbeknownst to him, one of the robot's who was helping an engineer fix a Slug Flyer was watching him.

12:30am, the lab

The door opened, and Fio Germi saw that Marco was still sitting there, with his back facing her, with only a lamp to give him some light in the dark room. She walked up to him, and looked at what he was working on. On the table were a computer chip, and a really weird object, and some tools. Marco held another weird object in his hand, and he was just looking at it, blankly, which gave her the creeps. "Marco?" she said. The PF commando jumped, and saw that it was only the most innocent soldier in the whole wide world (I wouldn't call her innocent on the battlefield though) and sighed. "Hey Fio," he replied, and turned his chair towards her. "Fio, you see this right?" he said, showing her the object. "Of course I can see it," Fio said, adjusting her glasses. Without them, she was as blind as a blind guy (what else should I compare it with?) "Well," Marco said, gulping, "that chip," and he pointed towards the computer chip, "has the robot's main code in it, to serve people. But this thing," and he held up the strange object, "is a code breaker. Attached to the chip. This means the robot can choose when it doesn't want to follow its original code. And this thing," he picked up the other weird thing, "is a communicator. It receives and sends signals that are the same as the ones cell phones send and receive. That means somebody is constantly keeping a line of communication with them." Fio just stared at him.

"So… they're evil?"

"Not evil by the way they've been made," Marco said, "But they're evil because of the communicator and the code breaker." Fio yawned and said, "It's kinda late, I'm going to bed. If you're gonna stay here, then take this," and she gave him a blanket. "Good night," she said cheerily and left. Marco stared at the door. The only thing he could wonder was how Fio always maintained a positive mode despite the fact that the world was in constant threat from General Morden and his Rebel Army. The thought of General Morden brought a lot of rage into him for Morden was responsible for the deaths of many of his friends and thousands of innocent people. "If I could just get my hands on him….." Marco said with a lot of venom in his voice.

All of a sudden, somebody, or something, lifted Marco off his chair, and threw him like he weighed only a few grams. Marco fell into the darker parts of the room, since there was only a lamp on in the entire room leaving the room in a lot of darkness. He turned his head towards the lamplight, and saw a robot take the chip, the communicator, and the code breaker. "No! Stop right now!" He shouted and pulled out his Murder.50E handgun, the standard weapon for all male military personnel. The robot, however, ignored him, and disappeared into the darkness. Marco ran towards the table, grabbed a flashlight (did I mention it was lying there?) turned it on, and looked around the room. There was no sign of the robot anywhere. But he hadn't heard the door open. So how did it appear and disappear so quickly? Marco turned the light towards the ceiling. "Just as I suspected." The air-con vent was wide open. But how did a robot as large as the average human being fit in there?

Marco quickly kicked the door open. Suddenly Fio ran right into him. "Fio I need-" Marco said, but stopped. He noticed that Fio was sobbing. "I lost it! Oh Marco, I've lost him!" she cried, taking her glasses off and rubbing her eyes. "Lost him? Who?" Marco asked. "My-" Fio said, then took out a tissue, blew her nose, then said," "My TEDDY BEAR! It was in the SPARROWS quarters this morning, but now it wasn't there." She then squeezed Marco with so much force that Marco thought he was gonna suffocate. But our dear Italian hero was totally dumbfounded. Fio keeps a TEDDY BEAR?! Is she THIS childish?! Marco wondered. Fio was not only the most positive member of the group, but also the most childish (her victory pose is a perfect example).

Marco then remembered that he had been attacked by a robot, and told Fio the whole thing. Fio, after listening to the whole story, stopped crying.

"We have to tell General Blackout about this!" Fio said, "Maybe he'll give all the robots the boot."

"But that robot took all the evidence," Marco reminded her.

"Never mind that, let's go!" And she grabbed Marco by the arm, and pulled him towards General Blackout's office. Marco almost stumbled onto his face in the process. 30 seconds later, the duo got outside the office. When the door was silently opened by a robot. It silently closed it, turned towards Marco and Fio, and said, "Shhhhhh…. The general is dead tired."

It was the word 'dead' that caused Marco to pull out his handgun and aim it at the robot's head. "Fio, check the room now!" Fio kicked the door open (ROUNDHOUSE KICK! HELL YEAH!). The general woke up, and sat up in his bed. "What's goin' on? Is it a Martian invasion?" Fio was about to answer, when she noticed he was holding something. Something FLUFFY.

And she recognized it. "MY TEDDY BEAR! YOU TOOK IT?!" Fio shouted. The general looked down at the plush toy (Busted). "Oh this? Uhhhhhh…. I…. umm…" Fio stomped up to him, and grabbed the teddy bear. "GIVE IT! GIVE!" "NEVER!" The general shouted back at her, and started a tug of war. This lasted for only 3 seconds, because both of them applied so much force, that the teddy bear RIPPED in half. Fio stood thunderstruck. Her teddy bear…. Given to her by her father on her last trip to her house in Italy…... in half… REVENGE! REVEEEEEEEEEEEEENGE!

"You'll pay!" Fio said, and pulled out her Murder.15E revolver, the standard handgun for female military personnel.

"FIO ARE YOU INSANE?!" Marco shouted, who saw what she was doing.

"Vengeance shall be mine!" said the literally insane Fio.

Marco jumped. Pushed her. BANG went the revolver. The general was knocked backwards and he fell back into a sleeping position. The robot looked into the room, and muttered, "The humans must be crazy….."

So this is the end of chapter 1. Chapter 2, coming soon!

Let me just tell you that Alisa Stewart is one of the main characters in the Metal Slug mobile series. And that the Walking Machine is vehicle that appears in Metal Slug 4.

Hope you liked it!