Chapter 52: Time Man & Oil Man
Rock was in an open field with a slight elevation and in front of him, looking angrily at Mega Man, was Time Man.
"Time Man!"
Rock exclaimed in amazement watching the robot waiting for him.
"It took you 3.06 seconds more than the anticipated. I expected the great Mega Man to be faster than that"
Time Man commented starting to launch his attack.
"Wait! I don't want to fight with you. We can fix you"
Rock exclaimed, dodging Time Man's attacks.
"Do you think I want to be fixed?! I want the doctors to see you fall!"
Exclaimed irritated Time Man firing more attacks.
"Rock! Do… sta ... there ... st ... at. Shoot!"
Quick Man shouted from his side with a lot of interference while Rock dodged the attacks and started firing. The place must be far away so the signals arrive with so much interference, or it can be a cruel plan of Break Man and Time Man.
Time Man, seeing that Rock began to attack smiled and dodged the attacks. Rock knew what Time Man was going to do, he had done the same in his other battles. He had faced him before, he had the determination to defeat both of them and bring them back to the labs. He wants his brothers back.
The arrows of Time Man went directly towards Rock, who, seeing them jumped dodging and shooting Time Man as he fell.
Time Man slowed the time advancing towards Rock by dodging the Buster's bullets until he reached Rock and kicked him back.
When the time came to normal, Rock leaned on his knees shooting quickly and sliding under Time Man, who jumped evading his attacks, in order to be behind Time Man and shoot him.
The sound that Time Man let out indicated Rock managed to take Time Man by surprise. The robot turned around looking at Rock with anger before making the time go slow and shooting more arrows running towards Rock so the arrows hit him, it was a dirty trick, but it worked. When the attack reached Rock, time returned to its course and Rock continued firing until Time Man jumped to evade them and dashed. Time Man had turned around waiting for Rock to attack him from behind again without expecting Rock to dash to the other direction attacking him directly causing him to fall.
"You are good ... but you are still a new model"
Time Man commented firing his arrows when Rock approached, jumping up and firing once more. Rock fired several shots avoiding the arrows and approaching Time Man when he slowed the time and attacked again. The arrows came towards Rock and he fell backwards when time returned to its course.
"Please! I just want to take you back to the lab"
Pleaded Rock and dashed until he got close to Time Man when he jumped out of Rock's reach. When Rock stood up, Time Man was landing so he fired several more shots so they would arrive just when he came down and hit him. Time Man turned panting to shoot Rock several arrows that Rock continued to evade until finally Rock came to a low point of the ground and began to shoot quickly taking advantage of the fact Time Man couldn't throw his arrows in an inclined direction.
"We don't need you! We are fine!"
Exclaimed Time Man annoyed looking at Rock.
Realizing this, Time Man jumped to face Rock, slowing the time and hitting him until time returned to normal and Rock stopped Time Man before shooting him several times taking advantage of how close he was to him.
The robot jumped back from Rock, which took advantage and shoot him until he moved away from his attack range. Rock moved quickly to keep track of him in case he wanted to run away and saw him land.
Time Man had fallen to his knees panting and sparks flew from his arm.
"No ... it can't be ... I've ... I've tried so hard ... I'm sorry ... Oil ... brother"
Time Man whispered looking at the floor before lifting his head, fixing his gaze on Rock before turning off.
"Time Man! "
Rock exclaimed approaching Time Man and revising it.
"Time Man, please resist"
Said Rock trying to check Time Man.
"Rock! Will ... give ... for ... Time ... labo ... doc ... for ... Calm ..."
He listened to Quick Man through the communicator raggedly and Rock knew why he seemed to be alone. The connection was very bad. He couldn't hear the steps that came close.
"TIME!"
The shattered voice that echoed in the empty field made Rock react.
Rock raised his head to see Oil Man approaching and shooting Rock. His eyes were open and shone with despair. His red scarf had stopped covering his mouth.
"Time Man!"
Exclaimed Oil Man approaching Time Man, kneeling by his side looking at him with desperation and panic from top to bottom.
"No no. Time, you promised to wait for me. You promised we would do it together. Why? Why didn't you wait for me? We were going to get away from everyone"
Whispered Oil Man lightly touching Time Man's chest. It was burning. He had turned off in order to avoid overheat all his systems because of the complexity of battling and manipulating the flow of time. He sighed a little, closing his brother's eyes before he glared at Rock.
"You'll pay for this!"
He screamed before beginning to attack Rock.
While the battle against Time Man was tough, the battle against Oil Man proved to be much worse. Oil Man was angry and wanted to hurt Rock badly. He didn't want to hear reasons.
Oil Man fired his oil directly in front of Rock, filling the path with oil and using it to make an onslaught on Rock. With plenty of experience from the past two encounters, Rock jumped and landed behind Oil Man's back firing several times.
"Please stop! I'll just take Time Man to the lab to have him repaired"
He tried to explain himself before Oil Man rammed him hard again, knocking him to the ground.
Carefully, Rock got up to shoot Oil Man when he came up to repeat his attack and saw him jump to dodge the attack before Rock slipped and started firing at him from behind.
"I don't want to hear what you and the doctors will do to Time Man! We were fine before all of you appeared!"
Oil Man shouted shooting his oil once more towards Rock followed by an onslaught in which Rock dodged with a jump and continued shooting despite not being able to see well. The oil had entered his eyes.
The alerts that flooded Rock's vision didn't help his situation. His systems weren't made for such complicated battles as this two. He was going to go offline if the damage continued.
Seeing Oil Man jumping his attacks, Rock began to slide watching the oil gave him more speed too in order to ram Oil Man when it landed. The robot fell and began to shoot its oil towards Rock repeatedly in which Rock was saved sometimes jumping when they arrived or received the blow.
Oil Man was moving from one place to another, without approaching a corner Rock couldn't reach, whenever he tried while he rammed or slid, Oil Man jumped on him or blocked his way.
Rock's levels were low and each attack only made them lower and increased the damage. He didn't know how much damage Oil Man had, but he hoped it was enough to turn him off.
When he saw Oil Man ready for another onslaught, Rock began firing as he approached and when he arrived, he jumped and landed away from Oil Man shooting him once more.
With one last shot of the buster, Oil Man fell next to Time Man.
"Hey bro, we'll see each other in the next world if robots have a soul"
He whispered as his form began to fade. He couldn't keep his molecules together for long. When he went out, the oil that formed his body left a mechanical skeleton.
At that moment, Rock realized the only place without a drop of oil was where Time Man had fallen. Oil Man had fought Rock trying not to harm his brother.
An overheated robot and a robot without an external cover.
Rock could feel his energy levels were so low he only managed to fall on the ground full of oil. The alerts appeared one after another in his field of vision.
Starting emergency shutdown...
"Rock!"
He heard Quick Man's voice before everything went dark.
Well, in the game in this part we fought Break Man. In this fic, Rock fought Time and Oil Man.
I don't know what to say right now. I envisioned this battle since the second game, I hope this will be enough for now. I really hope the translation was right.
Also, don't panic. Rock will be fine, he needs to end this game.
Btw, Did you like the cover of the fic?
itanimulli: cry, cryyy xD. Basically, everyone chats about this like a TV show. A very cool TV show xD Rock, someday, will look at the stairs and will remember to kick Break Man for it xD Ohhh and the one-shot, don't worry, I will tell everyone when it will be uploaded :D
Thank you very much for reading!
