Mega Man: The Rules of Love

Chapter 4: Hunt on the Prey

(A/N: Yeah, this is gonna be a real action-packed one. I'm doing my best to try to finish this fic before I go to college. Anyway, enjoy!)

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Chelsea ran as fast as she could, trying to evade the robotic wolf named Treble, but he was right on her, rushing angrily at her, looking for a big feast in her. She made him angry by interfering his business of attempting to finish off Mega Man, and now she would pay dearly for this!

Chelsea was scared out of her mind. No matter how many hallways she ran down or stairs she climbed, Treble would still be right behind her. She had to hide somewhere so that the wolf robot would not get her for the time being. But with Treble constantly on her trail, she needed a distraction.

Before she could think of how to distract it further, Treble leaped from behind at Chelsea, hate and anger in its eyes. Thinking out of desperation, Chelsea superkicked Treble hard a few feet back. Chelsea was amazed at how she was able to do that, but saw this as her chance to run down the next hallway and find some place to hide.

Treble was able to recover rather quickly, and now more angry than before. He could see Chelsea's shadows in the other hallway and rushed down to follow her, but found the hallway practically empty, Chelsea out of sight.

Treble knew better than that. There was no way she could have ran all the way down the hallways that fast before he could catch her. Chelsea was hiding in another room in this hall; he could sense it...

He started to walk slowly down the hall, sniffing and snarling to help him find Chelsea. Treble found her scent behind a door. He looked at it; it was a blue steel door that read in bold caps: "GYM EQUIPMENT ROOM. AUTHORIZED PERSONELL ONLY!"

Treble smirked and started banging on the door with his head, hoping to break it down and cause Chelsea to panic. Even now he could picture her screaming and quivering in fear, knowing that her death would come soon.

After about 8 shots at the door, it broke down. As the robotic predator entered and looked around, he saw Chelsea was nowhere to be found. Treble knew better than this. He knew the girl was hiding somewhere in the room, and he would find her and make her suffer, if it were the last thing he did!

Chelsea was indeed hiding in the room, behind a bag of dodgeballs, some traffic cones, and some gymnastic mats. She was putting her hands on her mouth and trying her best to remain completely still, as she saw Treble survey the room, sniffing around to find her. Treble walked around in a complete circle until he came outside of where Chelsea was hiding.

Trying her best to not breath or make any sudden movements, Chelsea watched quietly as Treble sniff around. He somehow knew she was behind there. Treble started pushing and slashing the obstacles separating the prey from the predator. His intent was to make her quiver in fear and force her to confirm she's behind there.

Chelsea did nothing, while afraid, stayed as still and quiet as possible. Treble tried his best, but could see his plan wasn't working. Growling in a bit of anger, he slowly started to walk away, seemingly giving up. Chelsea gave a sigh in relief, thinking Treble wouldn't come back.

She couldn't have been more wrong...

Treble could hear the sigh, snarling in delight that he was able to fool her. Before she could try to come out of hiding, Treble walked back in the room and opened his mouth. From it came a turquoise-colored flame. He aimed and fired it at where she was hiding, freeing the dodgeballs (and de-airing some of them), shattered the cones, and left many holes in the mats.

Chelsea screamed in shock and fear. She did not expect Treble to do something like that. Now her hiding place was destroyed, the robotic wolf's plan working as he began to charge at her.

"GRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

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Rock slowly opened eyes and sat up on the mattress. After almost 2 hours of being comatose and dozed off into a deep sleep, he had finally awoke and his body felt pretty better than when he was knocked out. He looked around as he was trying to get his baring back together. He could see his body was in bandages. He slowly removed them all and saw his bruises and injuries were all healed. Rock looked around and saw the huge hole in the wall.

"What happened here?" he asked himself.

"The office was attacked, that's what happened."

Rock turned to see Principal Suzuki and Nurse MacMillan sitting down near the entry to the room.

"Ms. Suzuki! Ms. MacMillan!" he said.

"Are you feeling 100 percent, Rock?" asked Nurse MacMillan.

"Pretty close..." he replied, moving his arms around to check and see if what he was saying was true. Even 2 hours after he still couldn't believe he was able to lift up and toss all that tons of heavy basketball equipment, in an attempt to save Chelsea.

"Chelsea!" he gasped. "Is she...?"

The principal cut him off. "She put herself in harm's way to save you from that robot. But now it's chasing her."

"What did the robot look like?"

"It was a purple wolf, with a spiky mane and sharp claws & teeth. And red eyes that looked like a hungry red devil."

Rock didn't have a doubt in his mind. He was sure that the robot she was describing was Treble. And if Treble was around, then that meant Bass was around as well. And when those two are someplace, it's never a good sign.

Not stopping to think twice, Rock got up and ran out to look for Chelsea. He had to find her...before Bass got her...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Rock heard a loud scream disrupting his thoughts. He knew exactly what that meant and who it was coming from...

"Chelsea!"

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Chelsea was trapped in the equipment room, her exit blocked off by Treble, who lunged at her. She was pinned down by the wolf, who started slashing and biting her with no mercy. He was quite outraged and would not give up until there was nothing left of her. She struggled to free herself, and after a few kicks, Treble was lunged across the room.

That only made the canine robot even more hungry for her flesh and blood. Treble growled louder and prepared to charge at her again, but this time, she had an aluminum baseball bat with her. As Treble proceeded to attack her, she hit him with the bat, right in the kisser. The impact sent him crashing out of the room and into a wall in the hall.

Chelsea cautiously exited the equipment room with the bat and approached him. Checking to make sure he was out of it or even dead, she knelt down and carefully put her left hand on him. When she did, Treble opened his eyes wide and bit on her hand hard. Chelsea screamed loud in pain and fear, dropping the bat. Treble then shoved his claw right into her left rib. This caused her to scream louder as blood started pouring out of her body. As she fell down to the ground on her knees, Chelsea started to cry as she began to accept her fate.

"Let go of her, Treble! Or you are gonna regret it!"

Chelsea opened her eyes and looked up to see at the very end of the hallway was Rock, feeling determined and well. For the second time today, Chelsea thanked god Rock showed up on time.

Treble let go of his grip and slowly approached Rock, as Chelsea started to pass out from the blood loss she sustained. Treble eyed the android with malice intent in its eyes. Rock was ready, though. Treble began by firing a turquoise flame at him, but Rock dodged it. Treble then charged at Rock, hoping to cause blood loss for him as well. Rock, however, saw it coming, and punched him right in the face, flinging the robot back a few feet.

Treble slowly got up, angrier than he was when Chelsea got in his way. He charged at Rock with amazing speed and power. Rock was tripped over and Treble attempted to sustain new injuries to him, but the blue android was too strong and he shoved Treble away. As both of them got up, Rock finished the job by kicking the wolf robot a long way through several walls and into some trees outside.

Rock ran over to check on Chelsea. Thankfully, she was alive, but the amount of blood lost was off-the-charts. He didn't know how long she would last. But he was grateful for Chelsea. She gave her own safety up to keep him safe. Now the pair were even...

Jack rushed down the hallway to see the damage done at the area. "What the fuck happened here?"

"Treble happened!" said Rock. "He was gonna attack me, but Chelsea...Chelsea put herself in harm's way and took the hit..."

Jack looked on as Rock looked sadly at Chelsea's bloody body. He wanted to puke at the sight, but was touched at how brave Chelsea was to put herself in danger to keep his best friend safe. The thought later escaped him.

"The nurse won't heal these wounds, I'm sad to say." he said. "We have to get her to the hospital."

"I'll take her there myself." Rock nodded.

"No, Rock! You still aren't feeling 100 percent! Wait here and I'll have the principal call for an ambulance!"

"We can't wait! By the time an ambulance comes to pick her up, she may not be alive!"

"Rock the hospital's 10 miles from here! You won't have the strength to do it!"

"I do too have the strength! And I WILL carry her to the hospital, even if I have to do it by myself!"

Before Jack could argue any more, Rock picked up Chelsea and ran out the school, towards the direction of the hospital. Jack just shook his head, unimpressed.

"Stubborn idiot..." he thought as he walked back to class.

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(A/N: Yeah, as you can clearly see, shit has gotten serious and Proto Man's an asshole. Anyway, hope ya like it. Later!)