Mysteries are like crossword puzzles in the Sunday paper. They don't seem to solve themselves. But everyone seems to be a liar and a cheater in this crummy town. Worse than my family reunion. Can't trust nobody, I tell ya.

"Mom?"

Ciel looked up from the television sitting on the desk. "Hmm? Yes, dear?"

"Uh, I'm ready for the new upgrades."

"Oh. Right. Come, sit on the table."

Zero sat on the operating table and Ciel began to get to work on him. "Say, what were you watching?" he asked.

"Oh, just some crime noir movie. To be honest, his life kind of sucks. Can you imagine being all alone, no one to trust but yourself? I mean, seriously, man. Get a girlfriend or at least a friend!"

Zero looked down. "If I can find one," he said to himself.

The next day, Zero was doing his morning exercises, free running across the rooftops. "See any trouble yet?" Ciel asked in his communicator.

"No, not...wait." There was a loud explosion. A house had caught fire. "Should I?"

"No. This is a job for the Good Guild."

Still, Zero decided to stay and watch. That's when he noticed something was off. It looked like the Good Guild wasn't helping things. No. It looked like they were making things worse! Instead of putting out the fires, they were dousing the building with gasoline, making the fires bigger. And instead of helping the people along, they were kicking them aside.

"I think this counts as trouble." Zero jumped off the roof and landed in front of the Good Guild. "Has your minds been melted or something?!"

"Zero!" one of the Good Guild exclaimed. "Destroy on sight!" The other members of the Good Guild turned their flame throwers at him and began blasting fire balls at him. Zero sliced a fire hydrant in half and sprayed them all in a torrent of water. Then he aimed the water at the fires and doused them all off.

"Hey!" Mega Man jumped out of nowhere and landed next to him. "What do you think you're doing?!"

"Did you not notice that?" Zero asked. "The Good Guild was not exactly living up to their name!"

"It wasn't their fault! Did you see their eyes?"

Zero raised an eyebrow. "Their eyes?"

"They had purple and yellow swirls in them! This is Hypno Woman's doing!"

Zero gulped. Hypno Woman was perhaps the most dangerous of the rogue robots. The proof in the pudding was when she used her powers to put his mother in a trance.

Mega Man put a thumb on his own chin. "Still, it doesn't make any sense. Hypno Woman is extreme, but she doesn't normally harm people." He suddenly got excited. "Finally, a real mystery!"

Zero almost jumped when he heard the slow jazz music. "Who's playing that saxophone?"

Mega Man said to the little robot in his head, "Mini, are you playing that music?"

"Your powers of deduction are top notch," Mega Mini said.

Zero contacted his mother. "Did you get all of that?"

"Yep," said Ciel. "But I haven't heard any news from her. Not since she started dating Dr. Light."

Zero's eyes widened. "She is? When did this happen?"

"A few weeks after the debacle with the power plant. I know. Weird."

Zero looked down from his perch and saw Mega Man again. "Hold on. I see Blue Bomber. And it looks like he's...monologuing?" The cyborg jumped down from the building and used his hover boots to silently land to the ground. He followed Mega Man to an old warehouse. When Mega Man took one step inside the building, the door slammed shut. "Of course it's a trap," muttered Zero.

The cyborg blasted a hole in the wall and found Mega Man fighting off purple emoji spheres. "Looks like Mega Man was right," Zero said as he took cover. "And is he...monologuing again?"

Indeed, Mega Man seemed to be talking like a character from Casa Blanca. "Tripping a ton of technical traps told me two things. One, I was right about Hypno Woman. She's in on the scam to corrupt the Guild. Two, she had Dr. Light tricked like a rabbit at a magic show. In Silicone City, trust no one!"

Zero came out of hiding and blasted the emoji balls. "Zero," the Blue Bomber exclaimed. "What are you doing here?!"

"Looking for Hypno Woman. Same as you." He looked up. "And it looks like we don't have to look far."

Mega Man followed Zero's eyes and saw Hypno Woman slowly hovering down toward the two of them. He was about to attack when she suddenly grabbed him in a hug. "Oh, Mega Man! I'm so glad you came!"

"Uh...the villain is hugging me," he said to Mini. "What do I do when the bad guy is a hugger?"

"Hug back?" Mini suggested.

Zero had a different plan. He took out his sword and pointed it at her neck. "Drop the boy." Hypno Woman obeyed and carefully set Mega Man down. "Now. I think we need to ask some questions. Like why you hypnotized those Good Guild members."

"We?" Mega Man asked, offended. "This is my case!"

Hypno Woman held her arms up. "Zero, I'm innocent! Dr. Light sent me to deal with some troublesome robot. But he's like nothing I ever encountered! So angry! I used my powers against him but it didn't work. Worse, he replicated them!"

"What?!" Mega Man and Zero exclaimed. The latter lowered his sword.

"He doesn't fully understand my powers. But if he finds me...we can't let that happen! Mega Man, if you see Dr. Light, tell him I'm sorry. He trusted me and I failed him."

"I know the feeling," grumbled Mega Man.

Suddenly, Mega Mini shouted, "Interrupting your moment of insight. The Guild is attacking the Light House!"

Mega Man and Zero arrived at the Light House just as a whole army of brainwashed Good Guild members slowly began to march towards the Light House. "Hypnotized or not," growled Mega Man. "No one threatens my family!"

Suddenly, another robot landed between the two. It was Namagem. "I think we found your culprit," said Zero. "He's the only other robot with replication powers!"

"Why the Guild?" demanded Mega Man.

"Teammates," said Namagem with a smirk. "To tear open the safest place in Silicone City for it's greatest prize!"

"The Mega Key!" Mega Man realized. He narrowed his eyes at the other replicator robot. "Who are you?"

Namagem pointed his Buster Cannon at him. "Figure it out, genius." Before he could get the chance to fire, he saw Zero coming towards him with the Z Saber. "Zero. I'm prepared this time!" He pulled out a sword of his own and blocked Zero's attack with it.

"Where did you get that?!" Zero asked, taken aback by the new tool.

"My father's been training me for an encounter with you, cyborg!"

While the two opponents clashed, Mega Man tried to assess the situation. "I can't take him and stop the Guild without help! Replication activation!" He pointed the Buster Cannon at Namagem, but something was wrong. The data he tried to replicate felt...corrupted somehow.

"Don't like these readings, Big M," warned Mega Mini. "Something ain't right. Disengage! DISENGAGE!"

Mega Man stopped the replication process just in time before the data could fully corrupt his systems. But not before he got hit by the recoil in the process.

Meanwhile, Zero and Namagem were still struggling against each other when the latter got an incoming call on his communicator. "Forget him! Get the Mega Key!"

Namagem shook his head and tried to push Zero back. "I can win this!"

"Get the key and we can reprogram Mega Man to our revenge!"

"But...Zero!"

"DO IT!"

Letting out a growl, Namagem kicked Zero in the gut, sending him to the ground.

Inside the Light House, Suna activated the force field just as the brainwashed Good Guild was mere feet away from breaking in. "The shield won't hold forever," said Suna.

"Rush, go find Mega Man!" ordered Dr. Light.

The robot dog barked and flew off to Mega Man's unconscious form. He licked his cheek and the Blue Bomber awoke. "Rush? Oh, no!"

With a blast from his Buster Cannon, Namagem destroyed the shield. He chuckled as he stalked towards the Lights. "The Mega Key. NOW!"

"OY!" Namagem turned and blocked Zero's sword with his own. "We're not finished!"

"That goes for me, too!" Mega Man flew down on Rush and kicked Namagem in the face before jumping off. "Activate Hypno Woman schematics." He activated Hypno Woman's powers and fired blue emoji balls at the Good Guild. "Good Guild, think for yourselves!" Namagem suddenly got back up and fired at the Blue Bomber.

He jumped onto Rush's back and took flight while Namagem clashed with Zero again. "Don't you know when to give up, cyborg?!"

"Never!" Zero shouted.

Mega Mini read the current schematics. "Boss, we're sitting ducks with the schematics we got on board!"

"Trust me, Mini!"

When Namagem saw Mega Man, he reached behind his back and tossed a boomerang at Rush. Zero was distracted for a brief second, giving his opponent the opportunity to punch him in the face and sending him flying into a tree. Then Namagem walked over to Mega Man and pointed the Buster Cannon at him. "So pathetic. Why does everyone think you're such a hero?" Before he could take the shot, the Good Guild, free from the brainwashing, attacked him.

"Rush, I need more time to charge," whispered Mega Man. Rush nodded and flew over to Namagem, firing everything he had at the evil robot. "Watch my stats, Mini. We're going to need everything we got!"

"You got it, boss! 75 percent. Keep going, kid!"

Namagem blocked the robot dog's attacks, only to let out a scream of pain as he felt something slash his back. He turned around and dodged Zero's sword just in time. "Stop getting in my way!"

"You got the green light, kid!" shouted Mega Mini.

Mega Man pointed his Buster Cannon at Namagem. "Zero! Get out of the way!"

Zero looked over his shoulder and saw the cannon about to fire. He jumped over Namagem's shoulders and pushed him into the cannon's aim. Mega Man fired, sending Namagem flying over the trees.

Namagem groaned as he struggled to get back up. "What a disappointment."

Namagem ignored his father's commentary. "I can handle this!"

"Return to the mountain base. NOW!"

He let out a growl of frustration and punched a tree.

Mega Man collapsed to his knees. "Big win against the big bad," he groaned. "Go team."

"Mega Man!" Zero ran up to him and held out his hand. Mega Man took it and Zero helped him up. "You okay?"

"Why are you helping me? I thought we're still rivals."

"Just because we have different ways of dealing with our enemies doesn't mean we have the same goal. I want to keep the Mega Key safe just as much as you do."

Mega Man sighed. "I don't know if I can trust you entirely. But maybe..."

"Mega Man!" The two heard Dr. Light and Suna call out. Before Mega Man could say anything else, Zero dropped a flash bang and disappeared.

"You didn't use your upgrades," Ciel said when Zero returned home.

"I didn't really need it at the time," he said as he took off his armor.

"A little test or two wouldn't kill you."

"Your just going to have trust me on how I make my decisions." He set his helmet down on a chair and sat down on the couch. "By the way, how did that movie go? Detective Fedora, was it?"

"Oh, it was fine. He learned to trust others in the end. But he didn't trust his dog as he always stole his food." Ciel snorted. "This is why I don't have pets."