So they all just started attacking rapidly. From spamming arm cannons, To just throwing things intensely. To stabbing things too many times for it to be alive. The only thing that seemed to be working was Punk's punching. But that kept making them multiply. Everyone was getting tired. They'd been attacking these things non stop for 10 minutes straight. Nothing was happening. Nothing was getting better, Only worse. Until there was one irritated X.
"Why isn't anything working?!" He said between rapid breaths. Zero shook his head.
"Our weapons aren't doing anything. Not even my Tenshouha." Zero said.
"This is really really annoying..." X said while he balled up his fists. Suddenly a Blue Devil walked up and grabbed X. It had him literally in the palm of its hands. X didn't look paranoid just really really annoyed. Zero imediately tried to start hitting it with his Saber. No use.
"UGH. I fucking hate...these damn things..." X said quietly as he uppercutted the Blue Devil without thinking. It cried "BUMOOOOOOOO" and dropped X in pain.
"X are you okay?"Axl asked seeing how far X had dropped to the floor. X got up smirking.
"Fine infact maybe even a little better...I found the weakness..." X had said. Everyone turned to look at X in hope of knowing what this weakness was.
"EVERYONE. STOP USING YOUR WEAPONS. JUST PHYSICAL ATTACKS. THAT'S IT'S WEAKNESS" X shouted so everyone could here him.
"Seriously?! I'm upset now..." Quickman said.
"Well its not all bad...atleast we didn't get eaten. There was this one time I was fighting one of these and..." Megaman started but got cut off.
"Shutup and start attacking." Quint said as the Devils were moving in. Before Quint could move the Devils swooped and grabbed him and put him into his mouth. Quint had got eaten. Axl , Enker and Punk had laughed. Megaman faced palmed.
"Pfffft. Maybe he should of listened to Megaman's story..." Axl said while fighing back laughter.
"We've got to help him" Megaman said worried
"He can get himself out right?" Zero asked sprinting over there.
"No he'll get digested." Megaman answered.
"Shit." Zero said dashing towards the Devil that had ate Quint. Megaman also started attacking the Devil. So did Quickman. He'd been using his speed powers and quickly punching the Devil. It started crying. "BUMO BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOONBUMOBUMOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Then it exploded. Quint came popping out of its mouth. He fell on his face. Quint got up hurt.
"That was amazing Quickman." Zero said after Quint had been secured.
"Yeah it felt good just punching and not using my Quick boomerang." Quickman said looking at his hands.
After that basically they all went ham. More Devils came but they killed them all. With robotic fists and some intense round house kicks. X even did the tatsumaki. Finally After the Devils had been Killed. Something odd happened afterwords. There was this loud horrid skidding noise. It hurt all of their ears.
"Ouch what the hell kind of noise is this?!..." Axl said covering his ears fast.
"It feels like its shaking my very core..." X said.
"I'm a little worried about the aftermath." Zero said. As the three looked over they saw the rest of the crew all past out on the floor. Protoman , Bass , Quint , Enker , Punk , Shadowman , Metalman , Megaman , Quickman all sprawled out on the floor. X, Zero and Axl all began to panic. All of their alies had fallen. They began shaking them to wake up. They only stirred none of them woke up.
"We can't leave them what are we going to do?" Axl said as he panicked.
"I got an idea." X said. But before X could share his master plan all the robot masters had gotten up.
"Agh...what happened?" Megaman asked. Everyone else was still getting up.
"You were randomly knocked out by a noise." Axl answered.
"Sounds like one of Wily's plans...to control us." Bass said rubbing his head.
"Yeah...I remember when he tried that a few months back. Shit was real." Protoman said.
"Yes I too remember. The weaker of us will succumb to the control. We must tredge carefully." Shadowman said.
"Yeah but which of us should be careful?" Metalman asked.
That's a good question. But I think we should keep going and just find out later. If it truely is the weakest then we shouldn't have a problem. Right?" Zero stated. Quint shook his head.
"I don't know what you thought but none of us here are weak. Sure some of us are stonger than others but no one is weak. Anyone under control would be a huge problem considering the abilites we all have." Quint said. Enker agreed.
"That's true plus...what if Wily changed the game considering that we'd remember it from one of his old schemes? Remember how hard the Devils were." Protoman said.
"So basically how your putting it...anyone of us could loose our shit at any moment." Axl said a bit frightened.
"What if we all lost control and there was only one left to fight us all." Megaman said also getting a little frightened.
"Enough now you guys are just jumping to conclusions. Seriously..." Zero said giving a look of disapproval. He looked to X for support but X was also shaken up.
"What if its me?" X said suddenly.
"Oh my god...WHAT IF ITS ME." Bass said looking at the palms of his hand as if he were going to turn mutant any moment.
"You guys I'm actually feeling a little weird..." Enker said suddenly.
"OH MY GOD. ITS ENKER ATTACK HIM" Quickman said. Zero facepalmed.
"Ok now you guys are just being Ignorant..." Zero said. Everyone still kept flipping their shit.
"SERIOUSLY CALM THE FUCK DOWN. SHITS NOT THAT SERIOUS." Zero shouted. Suddenly everyone got quiet.
"Zero's right we need to calm down...in fact...I think we need to CUT DOWN ON THE STRESS!" Metalman said as he pulled out his Metalblade and skid across the floor and took a hostage. It was Megaman. Metalman put the Metalblades right up to Megaman's neck almost peircing skin.
"Woah. Drama bomb...Didn't expect it to be him! Shocker. Foreal." Axl said as he pulled put his pistol. Metalman just chuckled.
"No time for white girl jokes Axl..." X said dissaprovingly.
"You'll never beat Master Inafune, He's grown tired of waiting for a rematch. But no doubt you've gotten smarter, faster... but as for stronger I doubt it..." Metalman said sinisterly.
"WILY WAS THIS APART OF THE TRAINING?!." Protoman shouted at the ceiling. Wily responded.
"No it wasn't actually...I'm a bit confused myself. That gas was supposed to paralyze you guys later in the last battle." Wily answered over the intercom.
"So Keiji Inafune is interfering?!" X asked.
"Guess so..." Wily answered.
"So Metalman's possessed basically and we can't do anything about it?" Protoman asked hoping to be proven wrong.
"Pretty much." Wily answered. Axl growled.
"Well fuck that." Axl started to dash at Metalman. But was stopped by some strange force field. Axl couldn't move. Metalman laughed like crazy.
"I told you not to move now the little blue bomber gets it." Metalman said as he used his Metalblade to chop off Megaman's blaster arm. Megaman cried out in pain. He was now almost useless without his blaster.
"You think I'm just going to stand by and watch as you hurt Megaman? Got me twisted." Protoman said as he nodded to Bass and Zero. Protoman came running at Metalman with his Protosheild. In one super fast motion Metalman hit Megaman in the back of the neck completely knocking Megaman out. He dashed at Protoman and Punched a hole through his shield. Knocking Protoman in the face. Protoman fell to the floor. Metalman grabbed Protoman around the kneck and began chocking him. Zero decided it was his time to strike so he used a traveling tenshoha. But, It was blocked by a force field. Bass' attempt at an attack had also been deflected.
X decided it was his time to strike. But what attack? He'd already trapped Zero and Axl...what chance did he have? Before X decided Enker, Punk and Quint all tried attacking at the same time. They were frozen. Quickman and Shadowman were also caught in binds. Metalman still had Protoman by the kneck chocking him.
X was the only one left. Metalman started to chuckle.
"What are you going to do Maverick Hunter X? I'm chocking this poor innocent Protoman? Look at him squirm. Pathetic. Could never be a main character." Metalman said as he squeeze harder. Protoman was still alive. Struggling but alive. He was fighting back as much as possible.
"What's wrong X? Why not shoot its not like I'm innocent?" Metalman said.
X couldn't move. All of his friends had been trapped. He was next. He had to help Protoman somehow. So with out further delay...he powered up his blaster and whispered a word. "Shinku"
"What was that? can't hear you over the sounds of Protoman's screams." Metalman said.
"S-Stop..." Protoman said. Between last grasps. Metalman growled in annoyance.
"You can still talk? Let me fix that." Metalman took his fist and punched Protoman in the eye knocking all the glass from his helment into his eyes.
I can tell you now that the scream that Protoman let out was the worst scream anyone has ever heard. To this day, the sound will still ring in Zero's ears. Could you my reader imagine, glass grinded into your eye with a robotfist? Its pain you couldn't imagine. Well continuing on.
The moment that happend X's blaster had been ready.
"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDOOOOO OOOOOOUUUUUUUKEEEEEEEEEEN" X had let out the largest blast anyone there had seen it looked like a mini A-bomb. But it clearly wasn't. Metalman tried to set up another barrier. it had broken. The blast had hit him. Destroying his whole body. Just then the barrier had broken and let everyone free. Protoman had fallen to the floor. He was past out. No one spoke one word. Bass and Zero had gotten there first but, Everyone had run over to Protoman checking if he was still online. Zero frantically checked his systems. He was borderline dead.
"WILY HURRY UP TRANSPORT US BACK. Protoman...he's..." Zero said fighting back getting emotional. Axl picked up Megaman and his blaster and everyone else got on the transport pad. There was no point in trying to retrieve Metalman. He had disintegrated. Everyone tried to get what had happened out of their minds.
Because they were weak Their friends had been injured. Almost killed. Hell one was killed. Zero had felt this feeling before. He'd experienced it with Iris and the Colonel. There was nothing he could do. But for this feeling to happen again. It was like putting salt on the wound. X was the one who'd been strong. At a great cost. Metalman was now dead. There was nothing left of him.
Zero couldn't think about it any longer. He wondered when this nightmare would end. This wasn't a nightmare. It was reality. Zero knew that. But Zero wanted so badly to believe.
Was this the price for true freedom? To decide their own fates.
Would it be worth it in the end?
To be continued.