Chapter 2: Six Months Later

Mega Man awoke with a start. It almost dawn yet the air was filled with sounds of chaos. He rose from bed looked out of the window; many buildings were in flames and people were running for their lives. He raced into the living room where he found Auto, Roll, Rush and Beat.

"What's going on?"

"Dr. Wily seems to have had some robots in reserve" Roll answered. "They're destroying the city and Dr. Light seems to have gone missing."

"Why didn't you wake me?"

"We were about to" Auto responded. "Mega Man you've got to get out there and find Dr. Light!"

"Right, I'm on it!" He suddenly realized that he didn't have his helmet on and turned to fetch it when Auto stopped him.

"I have a helmet for you right here." He was holding out a yellow construction helmet. Mega Man glanced at it before giving Auto a look. "Oh alright you don't have to wear it."

Rush, who had quietly slipped from the room, appeared next to him wearing the proper helmet. Megaman put it on and headed outside with his dog still at his side. "I think a bird's eye view would be to our advantage, don't you?" Rush barked and converted into jet mode; they sailed over the city and occasionally swooped down to destroy an enemy robot. He was just wondering what was going on when he answered his own question and made a bee line for the high security prison across town.

Mega Man and Rush descended upon the fortress like building but were thrown backwards by a massive explosion. The dust and smoke prevented him from seeing any details but he was able to make out five odd shaped figures, two of which were floating. As the smoke cleared four of the figures vanished and the form of Dr. Wily in his flying saucer.

"Did you honestly think it was over? I knew that I might be captured one day so I created a few robots just for this purpose. If they receive no signal from me for six months they would awaken and scour the Earth until I was found."

"Good for you but I'm not letting you escape!"

"I think you will once you turn around and discover that you have other things to worry about."

Mega Man turned and discovered an awful sight; the unconscious Dr. Light had been strapped to the arm of what looked like a massive steam roller with a head.

"Ha ha ha, have fun with the Mad Roller Mega Man!" And with that Dr. Wily closed the hatch of the saucer and flew away.

"Oh man, what can I do? If I destroy him then Dr. Light will be hurt or worse!"

Mad Roller opened his mouth and Rush just barely pulled them out of the path of a jet of flame. Mega Man fired a few shots at the head but Mad Roller swerved putting Dr. Light in his line of fire. He circled around and came in close trying release his creator but the Roller turned his head and Mega Man had to jump away to lure his aim else where. He landed on the ground and found himself directly in the path of the giant roller.

Suddenly a flash of purple light caused Mad Roller's head to explode and the whole robot shut down. Mega Man looked up to see a purple robot with a large almost bat-like helmet standing on top of Mad Roller. Next to him stood what looked like a purple robotic wolf.

The robot jumped down and said "I can't believe that you've defeated Dr. Wily over and over again with skills like that."

Mega Man could think of nothing to say but "Thank you."

"You're welcome. My name is Bass and this is my partner Treble. You'd probably better cut him down."

"Oh right!" Mega Man released Dr. Light who began waking up. "Doctor, are you alright?"

"I think so. What happened? I stepped outside to see what was going on and everything went black."

Bass explained "You were captured by Dr. Wily's robots as he escaped. But you're safe now."

"Dr. Wily is free?"

"Yes but Treble and I are going to take him down. Mega Man, you have considerable skill but need to become much stronger. I hope to see you again someday." He nodded to Mega Man and teleported away, quickly followed by Treble.

Dr. Light sighed and said "I never imagined that Dr. Wily would actually break out."

"Yeah I thought this mess was finally over. But I'm going to get stronger like Bass said and I'm going to stop him once again!"