Amy is out! Will she be able to save the day, or has Rock made a terrible mistake in entrusting this to Amy? And are Amy and the girls the only allies that will be made in this endeavor? Find out in:
Mega Man Otherworldly adventures!
Meanwhile, unconnected to any of the mayhem being had at the factory, three teenagers from Camp Tyler, the summer camp of the opposite side of the highway, have snuck out of their cabins and have taken investigating the highway on a midnight excursion. The kids are Joey Kim, Mikael Summers, and, Beauty Sullivan, all of them age fourteen. Joey, the obvious leader of the group, leads the way to the freeway, curious to see just how fast the cars are going, but is constantly being slowed down by Mikael, who is scared. As Mikael tries to voice his concerns, the normally passive Beauty agrees with him.
"Joe, we're going to get caught!" Mikael says meekly. Beauty says no words, but stands next to him and nods in agreement. In response, Joey just brushes them off and promises nothing bad is going to happen.
"Relax guys, nothings going to happen; besides, we can't back off, we have to bring something back. Remember Mikael?" Joey says mockingly. In response, Mikael puffs out his chest to appear tough.
"It's not my fault! The guy whispered that he put peanut butter in it! If it was there, I coulda died! My allergies, remember?" Mikael said with a very uneven voice.
"Well, sucks. Because now we have to be here, and if you tell anyone, you're gonna get in just as much trouble as me, capiche? Joey said with a hint of cockiness in his voice.
Suddenly, their pointless conversation was rudely interrupted by the crash of cars on the highway, metal was flying everywhere, and it looked like a shooting star had burst from the hardware factory on the other side of the road. Mikael and Beauty hit the floor, shivering, but Joey had run up to the road to see what was going on.
"Oh my Gosh!" Joey yelled as he ran toward the freeway. "This I gotta see!"
To Mikael's angst, he ran up to Joey make sure he stayed out of trouble.
"Whooahhh!" shouts Amy as she is hurled into the heavy traffic. The explosion from the factory triggered attention from the nearby cars, causing them to panic and swirl out of control. As cars spin out and slam into each other, a couple motorcycles spin out onto the side of the highway. Amy was hit by a large semi-truck, whose driver neglected to see where he was going. As a result, Amy's helmet got a large dent, and one of her shoulder pads was knocked away. She rolls out onto the street and stands up, only to be blindsided by a screeching car. Quickly, trying to fly away, she activates her rocket boots, but right when she takes off, a truck takes out her left one, causing her to crash into the side of a semi. When she bounces off, she id dazed, but it seems as if the worst of the dilemma has passed.
However, she thought wrong. Her suit, now horribly mangled, is starting to lose its protection factor, fast. She gets up to walk to the countryside, but a cars start to rush by frantically. As she tries to cross, she is constantly being faces with the treat of being run over, and because of the smoke, nobody can see her crossing. She jumps up, and because of the power of the suit, manages to jump on debris to get to the other side. But one lane before she reaches it, a car swerves and hits her, sending her to the street, and another car is heading straight for her!
"Joey STOP! You're gonna get hurt! STOP! Mikael screams to Joey as he's restraining him from running out onto the highway. Joey returned this by punching him square in the jaw. Out of shock, Mikael lets go, and Joey scrambles to help the girl who fell into the path of the car.
Amy struggles to get to her feet, breathing heavily, but when she sees the headlights of the incoming car, her heart nearly stops. Her mind was screaming for her to move, but her body refused to listen. Suddenly, her right arm is suddenly grabbed and yanked over to the country side of the road, pulling her out of harm's way. She falls next to her rescuer, and watches the car she so narrowly avoided become disintegrated when it smashes into the car previously behind her. Fortunately, the now-sandwiched car had no driver; they must have jumped out beforehand. Good call.
Suddenly, Amy swoons, she collapses to the floor, breathing heavily and completely exhausted.
Joey, Beauty, and Mikael all look at the mystery girl, utterly bewildered. Without a thought, Mikael tugs on Joey's arm, telling him that they should leave right away, and not to bother with her.
"Joey, come on man, I got a really bad feeling about this, let's just go! Come on!" Mikael pleads. Joey jerks his arm away and stared at Mikael, severe.
"We can't leave her behind, that's so messed up!" Joey says. She kneels over Amy and checks to see if she's breathing, she is. Then he goes over to her feet and motions to Mikael.
"Pick up her upper half, I got her legs." Joey says.
Mikael retorts with "Are you serious?" and Joey simply stared at him, no mistaking, he was completely serious. Joey tells Beauty to pick up that shoulder piece that Amy dropped and she agrees. They head off toward the camp, and after about 20 minutes, the now normally breathing Amy is starting to wake up. As soon as she does, she struggles frantically, causing them to drop her. She doesn't focus in on what their saying, but she desperately stands up and starts to run away, not getting very far. After about five feet, she collapses from the metal and tries to crawl away. Joey grabs her and tries to calm her down, but she ends up punching him in the face. Shocked, and obviously not thinking, he punched her back, and Beauty tackled him, slapping him in the face.
"Get a grip Joey! Get a hold of yourself!" Beauty screams as Amy started to cry. Joey, snapping back into reality, sees what he did, and immediately tries to make amends. He crawls over to her, but then Amy starts to try and back away frantically, completely terrified, the broken suit now crunching and clanging with every one of her movements. Joey then starts to reason with her, with a very calm and sincere voice.
"Listen, I'm sorry I hit you, I wasn't thinking, please, I mean it. Wait, we just want to help you."
To this Amy stops resisting and tries to stand up, but when she started falling, Joey reacts and quickly catches her around the waist before she fell, noticing that she was now unconscious.
"What happened to her?" Beauty asks, genuinely concerned. Joey only asked Mikael to help carry her again and they headed for the camp. Through a bit of ingenuity, they manage to sneak past some of the patrolling counselors and make their way to Beauty's cabin.
"Now what're we going to do?" Mikael asks timidly, his voice staked with a now obvious concern. "All of them are still in there, how are we going to get them out?"
Joey then looks to Beauty, then to poor Amy. "I got an idea" Joey says.
Joey carefully places Amy into a bush next to the cabin, concealed by darkness. He asks Mikael to watch over her as Joey and Beauty walk into the cabin, holding hands. Walking into the cabin, they are immediately bombarded with questions about the dare they previously undertook, some of the girls distracted by how Beauty seems love struck; just as they planned.
Joey then excited all the boys about what happened on the highway, and how it was such a big disaster, he pretended to be terrified and then used that to convince the other guys to go. Beauty told the girls about the disaster and how they should help out too and how the night sky is so pretty and all the guys look so handsome in the light of the fire that it is almost guaranteed they would fall in love. They are both terrible lies, but in no time, they convince everyone out of the cabin towards the highway, knowing that sooner or later, they will be caught by the counselors, but this would at least bide them a little time.
After everyone was gone, they carried her inside and placed Amy onto Beauty's bed. It was one of the four beds in the cabin; all her other roommates had gone already though. Once she was placed on the bed, they carefully removed the leftover armor and put it in a bag under Beauty's bed. They found a gear around her neck, but decided that she must have wanted to keep it. Mikael then got up and got her a glass of water, when she woke; she drank heavily and then asks for another one.
"Can I have another please?" she asks, referring to the water. Mikael agrees, and without a second to spare, she gulps the second helping down as well. "Thank you." She says sweetly.
Joey, trying to be delicate around it, asks her the simple questions, "Uh, excuse me but, who are you? And, what was all of that on the highway back there?" Beauty tells him to give her more time, but Amy decides that she should at least tell them her name.
"I'm Amy." She says sweetly. "And as for the highway thing, it's a really long story, but can you guys tell me where I am?"
"Well," Joey started, "I'm Joey, and these are my friends, Beauty and Mikael. You're in a cabin at Camp Travis summer camp, don't you know?" He asked Amy, being a little rude unintentionally. Amy feels a throbbing in her head and she looks as if she's about to pass out again, but Beauty quickly came over to her, observed her, and started heading out the door. Mikael tries to stop her, but Beauty assured him it was ok.
"I know the nurse's assistant, she is a good friend of mine, and she can help fix her up." When Mikael tries to resist her, she just shrugs him off and left. "Trust me; it's going to be okay" she said as she kissed her farewell to him. Pretty soon, Amy is trying to sit up and Joey found himself convincing her to rest. But her mind is somewhere else, not on her own well-being, but thinking of something else, something that she considered a someone.
"Rock…" she whispered to herself as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Amy is safe, but for how long will this last? Will the police become involved, or will Wily send droids to stop her before this happens? And will these new people she encountered stick by her side, or will they turn her over to the authorities? And if Amy tries to explain her story, will anyone believe her?
Find out in a later installment of: Mega Man Otherworldly adventures!