"Do you recognize this room?" Mother asked as she opened the door. They had left the hospital later on, and Rock still didn't accept the reality that he was trapped in. He wanted to be Mega Man. He wanted his family…Dr. Light, Roll, Protoman, Rush, Beat, Tango…
"Rock? Are you okay?"
"Huh? Yeah…I'm fine." Of course I'm fine, I only recently found out my whole life has been nothing but a dream.
Mother smiled weakly. "This is your room."
"This is not my room." Protested the boy.
"Just take a look around. Maybe you'll remember something."
"There's nothing to remember." Rock snorted, "I've never been here before."
Mother sighed. "Just…look around, all right?"
There was an obvious bit of sadness in her voice. Rock suddenly regretted snapping at her like that…after all, she'd just lost her son.
Maybe she really was telling the truth…Mused Rock, …Maybe I'm just some delusional kid, who thinks he's some made up superhero…
He entered the room, looking around. A bed in the corner, with blue sheets, sat unmade in the corner, under a window. Next to the bed was a bookshelf, filled with a countless amount of comics and novels. He headed for the shelf first, inspecting the novels… Authors like Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Douglas Adams dominated the shelf, and random superhero comics were scattered everywhere else…
…Yes, he knew these books, almost by heart… I, Robot, Farenheit 451, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…
…But he couldn't remember reading them. Not as Mega Man…anyway…
They were telling the truth.
Mega Man was nothing but a dream, a sci-fi hero he had created in his own mind, and became…
But I don't want to lose that life…I was so happy there...
Everything was rushing back to him now. His memory was returning. A boy who loved scifi. He got good grades. Not perfect, but definitely above average. But…nobody at school accepted him. In reality, in this body…he was considered a geek, an outcast. As Mega Man…he was a hero. Everyone loved him. He was important.
Now, he wasn't just a geek, he was a delusional geek. A crazy kid. Who still didn't remember much…
I want to go back…I want to be Mega Man again…
But I can't…
He fell to his knees and started to cry.