Magma Dragoon and Slash Beast leaned up against the wall...their red eyes gleaming in the darkness.
"Hello boys..." Magma said with a growl.
"Long time no see..." Slash said with a touch of sarcasm.
"Its nice to see you too...Sorry I didn't send you a birthday card recently..." Zero said with a sneer.
"Very funny smartass...but I'm afraid the mission ends here...we can't let them be disturbed..."
~Them?~ X thought.
~Wily!!~
*
Wily went through the data over and over as he slowly opened the capsule...the "red monster" coming out of its cage.
"This is perfect!" Sigma shouted in happiness.
"With this warrior I can finally destroy X...and his infernal partner Zero."
Wily's eyes widened slightly.
"You mean that in the future my greatest creation will be teamed up with Light's greatest creation?"
Sigma smiled and nodded. "Coincidental ain't it?"
Finally the red figure's eyes began to glow with a light green light.
It stepped out of the capsule slowly...and looked to Sigma.
"Good...there's one thing I won't have to teach you."
The red monster unsheathed his Z sabre...ready for action.
"Good..." Sigma said.
"Your first targets are X and Zero..." Sigma showed pictures.
"X....Zero..." the monster replied as it looked on and grimaced...its eyes fading to a dark blood red as it scowled and held out its sabre.
"Targets confirmed!" It said as it sped out the door and up to where all the action was.
"Now its just a matter of time..." Sigma said.
The shadowy figure could sense X and Zero nearby...feeling the presence of Slash Beast and Magma Dragoon as well.
"I shall wait a moment..." the monster of the dark said to himself as he hid out in a sheltered place until the time was right.
*
"What is it that Sigma wants with Wily? Tell us what you know!" Zero demanded.
Slash Beast and Magma Dragoon smiled at each other.
"These boys sure are demanding..." Slash Beast hissed.
"Yeah...maybe we should teach them some manners!" Magma growled as they both turned to face X and Zero.
~I knew this wasn't going to be easy~ X thought.
Slash charged at Zero while Magma set his sights on X and the room exploded with chaos.
*
Protoman saw TopMan and GeminiMan on either sides of him and HardMan and GutsMan were on both sides of Megaman.
"So...what's plan B again?" Megaman muttered desperately.
Protoman smiled.
"Jump..." he said calmly.
Megaman looked at him like he was insane and then Protoman turned and barked the order at him.
"JUMP!" He yelled.
Megaman jumped quickly into the air as Protoman charged his buster.
"We'll do a combination buster attack." Protoman said.
Megaman smiled.
"Ok..."
Megaman charged his as they both fired and the two plasma blasts met in the middle with a huge explosion. The explosion sent Top, Gemini, Hard and GutsMan flying back into opposite walls as Protoman landed in front of TopMan and Megaman landed in front of HardMan.
Topman spun around and kicked protoman, hard, across the face. Protoman went flying into Gemini man who brought his knee hard into Protoman's stomach. After recovering from the blow Protoman put his hands down on Gemini's knee and pushed back, firing a blast of plasma directly into GeminiMan's head.
"GGRRRAARRRGHHH!" Gemini cried as he fell onto one knee...his head unit badly damaged.
Megaman ducked a massive punch from Hardman only to be punched from the other direction by Gutsman, slamming into the wall megaman winced and dropped onto one knee...waiting for Gutsman to charge again before jumping up and flipping over his head, causing Guts to run into the wall Megaman fired a fully charged plasma blast into GutsMan's back...planting him in the steel wall, his back completely stripped of all metal armoring.
Hardman and TopMan stood side by side.
"Damn you!" hardman bellowed.
"You'll pay for that." TopMan promised.
The two fired their weapons at the same time creating a massive spinning fist, it knocked both Protoman and Megaman into the wall.
Wincing Megaman staggered onto his feet and aimed at the spinning fist...firing a full blast charge...but it didn't do anything.
"Protoman..." Megaman mumbled.
"Yeah, I gotcha..." Protoman nodded as he fell onto one knee and staggered up...they both aimed and charged their busters again.
"Let's kick it up another notch and give this chip a try eh?" Protoman encouraged.
Megaman smiled as he charged his buster up to its fullest extent...a red light flashing on his forearm
"NOW!" Protoman cried as two humongous plasma balls tore through the spinning fist and then through the two robot masters...leaving nothing more than a melted pile of metal.
After surveying the scene of carnage Protoman and Megaman looked at each other as a huge metal door opened. They nodded to each other as Protoman took point and Megaman followed close behind.
*
Slash jumped into the air and brought his razor sharp claws down towards Zero's head while Magma held out his hand and fired a huge ball of fire at X.
*
Zero brought up his sabre quickly, Slash pulling his claws back and backflipping to land on one knee. Pushing off his bent knee he charged again, stopping short he shot out his hands as small scythes came flying out from his hands towards Zero at blinding speed...aiming to slice him to bits.
*
X called his Chill Penguin blaster program and charged it up. ~Oh no you don't...~ he thought...
Creating a wall of ice as the fire slammed into the wall of ice he took out zero's old sabre and went around the side of the wall slashing at Magma's middle.
Magma backflipped as X's sabre slashed through mid air, the energy creating a streak of light where the sabre slashed.
X looked over and saw the scythes heading towards Zero...fast.
*
Zero's eyes widened slightly.
~Crap!~ he thought as he jumped straight into the air and did a frontflip, unsheathing his sabre he executed his Kuuenzan technique at Slash's head. Slash growled and jumped up to meet the Sabre with his claws, pushing Zero off balance. Zero fell back and slammed on the ground hard. Slash came down claws first aiming to take off Zero's head. Throwing his feet up he kicked Slash in the stomach and sent him flying overhead, backrolling and getting onto his feet he turned and fired a blast of plasma at Slash...the energy racing towards him he had nowhere to go... the sound of the energy slamming into him echoed through the room as slash emerged from the smoke minus one arm. He grimaced and growled...
"You're going to pay for that..." he muttered as his eyes suddenly went blood-red...something wasn't right.
Slash beast glared at Zero and for the first time, Zero was genuinely scared. The glow of his eyes seemed unnatural. Like what he was seeing was the deepest darkest pits of the hottest hellhole. Slash suddenly charged forward with tremendous speed and spun, kicking Zero straight across the face and sending him into a nearby wall.
X looked over and saw Zero hit the wall but didn't have time to do anything before Magma came out, fist first and slammed X in the mouth. They both landed next to each other as Slash came towards them for a low attack and Magma high above ready to fire his flame attack. X and Zero looked at each other as Zero got up and spun quickly knocking away Slash's claws, pointing his buster directly at Slash's head, Zero smiled and fired the blast. Slash's head unit was completely disintegrated as Magma shouted out in rage and fired a massive fireball towards the two.
Once again X called an ice wall, but it wasn't big enough so they were scorched by the flames of Magma Dragoon's rage...damaging them considerably. After they recovered from the attack they both jumped into the air on either side of Magma, charging their busters they fired at him but he quickly dropped down onto the ground on one knee as their two blasts collided and set off a huge explosion. Flipping backwards both X and Zero stared down Magma as he too was beginning to change...slowly...but surely, he was changing.
"Are you frightened little boys? You can't explain this incredible power! Prepare to be crushed!" Magma exclaimed as he powered up for another Fire attack.
"Zero...ice element, quickly!" X shouted as he brought up his chill penguin technique again, Zero nodded and leapt into the air, bringing his sabre down it became a razor sharp icicle flying down towards Magma at an incredible speed while X fired a massive ice wall towards Magma, these two ice attacks came too fast and Magma was overcome, being sliced in two before slammed into the wall and crushed.
Both of them breathing heavily they looked at each other.
"This is more difficult than I had imagined..." X admitted.
"Yeah...they've been working out or something. We'll need to keep our guard up from now on..." Zero agreed as the two went through the newly opened door...a shadowy figure following close behind.
*
Sigma turned and left Wily's inner chambers long before as Wily snickered to himself and opened the secret panel to the deepest part of his lab where the real treasure was hidden.
"I wasn't going to let him take you my pet...don't worry." Wily cooed as he went over the Data from the latest tests.
"GGM is sure proving useful with the data input. I'm sure he's proving to be of quite some help out there with that freak Sigma." Wily said to himself when suddenly a silent alarm went off behind him.
"What's that? No...impossible. That would mean..." Wily turned around as suddenly the unthinkable became reality.
*
Bass looked around carefully as he went through the bottom chambers of Wily's lab. Walking as silently as possible he came across the first door and opened it with relative ease. He stepped in and the door shut quickly behind him. Standing before him were two Robot Masters...hiding in the shadows.
"Who are you?!" Bass demanded.
"My name is ElecMan..." one said with a hiss from the darkness.
"I'm QuickMan." The other said as they stepped into the light.
As soon as Bass saw them for some reason he knew he was out of his league...
*
Wily looked up at his creation...its eyes were glowing with a murderous blood red as it smiled.
"Hello doctor..." It muttered slowly as it unsheathed a sabre.
"You can't do this to me! I created you! I made you what you..."
Wily wasn't able to finish his sentence as the monster sliced his head off...leaving him a crumpled heap of flesh in the lab. Destroying all the main computers in the lab he took off looking for more fresh meat.
*
The shadowy figure known as GGM had returned back to where Wily had been just as the monster escaped. Luckily GGM found somewhere to hide as he watched the horror unfold.
"You can't do this to me! I created you! I made you what you...ARRRRGGGHHHH!" the sound of the blade slicing through human flesh hit GGM at the nerve as the monster took out the door at lightning speed GGM sat there...stunned...unable to move or think or feel. Finally the rage began to settle in as he slowly got out of his hiding position and growled. Preparing his buster his own eyes began to shine with vengeance as he took off after the beast. Determined for revenge.
Megaman and Protoman walked into the small room...another one with small beacons of light.
Suddenly Megaman received a distress signal from Bass's location before it came to a sudden, violent end.
"Protoman..." Megaman asked quietly.
"...yeah I did..." Protoman answered.
Megaman closed his eyes for a moment...feeling them soften before opening them again.
"Bass..." he said quietly, his voice shaking slightly.
"I don't know what happened to him...but I have a feeling we won't be seeing him again." Protoman said in a rather monotone manner.
"...whatever it was that happened..." Megaman said...his voice almost completely lost under the rage and confusion of his lost battle comrade.
"...Bass didn't deserve it..." Megaman finally blurted out.
Protoman walked over to MegaMan and gently put his hand on his shoulder.
"Whatever it was… we'll find it and have vengeance for Bass…I promise." Protoman said with a smile.
Megaman smirked, finding new hope in this latest pact. But it didn't last long as a soft hissing laughter came from the shadows.
"Awww… Megaman and his brother having a sentimental moment…if I had any feelings I'd probably cry…" the figure snickered as it stepped into the light and the two heroes met with an incredibly familiar face.
*
DarkMan, ShadowMan and MetalMan all ran to where they heard their masters scream. They were shocked to discover their master slain in his deepest, most secret room in the lair and to see that his latest project was missing…not to mention GatlingGunMan.
"Whoever did this…will now know the end of my rage…" ShadowMan said with a shaking voice as he clenched his fists.
"I'll rip them apart! I'll slowly tear off their limbs and…" MetalMan looked over to DarkMan…
DarkMan stood very quietly with a blank expression on his face, and yet his eyes told volumes. Hidden behind those eyes were tortures and plans awaiting the culprit of this crime that would make the devil shudder…a power that knew no end and would see to the end of the monster that did this to his beloved master.
"He went this way…" DarkMan said with a solemn tone as he ran down the hall in GGM's direction.
*
GatlingGunMan ran down the halls with blinding speed, his eyes filled with rage as the walls and doors flew past him like bad memories.
~I'll find that beast and rip him apart with my bare hands!~ He told himself as he pivoted off his right leg and leapt down the next hallway, increasing his speed even more.
*
ElecMan and QuickMan smiled down on the beaten, broken Bass.
"That was way too easy…" Elecman said with a snicker.
"Yeah, I thought Bass was one of his 'stronger' robots." Quickman said with a snicker.
The two stood over bass laughing together for a moment until ElecMan finally said.
"Well, I suppose we can leave him alive…after all he is one of Wily's older robots, he may want him as a memento."
*
Bass simply lied on the floor listening to the insults…unable to do anything about it.
~I'm…the strongest…I'm…the strongest…~ he kept repeating in his head…but the constant insults and laughter finally broke through and shattered the solid belief in his superiority.
"…after all he is one of Wily's older robots…he may want him as a memento." ElecMan said as Bass quickly shut his eyes, that final sentence hurting more than any physical attack he had ever felt.
Huge pieces of his armor lay scattered around the room as he heard the two robots feet move towards the door as it shut behind them loudly. He opened his eyes for a moment…only to realize he was locked into the darkness…the darkness of his shame. And with that…he closed his eyes once more, and wept.
*
"Hello boys!" GutsMan said with a bellow.
"It's good to see you again…"
Megaman and Protoman both grimaced as they got their busters ready.
"Now now now…you may not want to be so jumpy…" a voice from behind them scolded.
Megaman turned quickly and noticed the small figure of CutMan step out of the shadows.
"Can we just get this over with already?" TurboMan said quickly as he emerged from almost nothing.
Megaman looked around to the three robot masters, amazed at how they could not have sensed them with their detectors.
"Now then, let's get this little party started shall we?" GutsMan said as he clenched his fists when all of the sudden CutMan looked at his detector.
"Hey…hey GutsMan…look at your detector." CutMan said in a monotone, dull voice.
"What is it abo…" GutsMan stopped completely as he read his detector…something was picking off the new guy's men one by one within seconds of each other. Pretty soon Sigma's remaining forces were nowhere to be found in the lair.
"What the hell is that thing?!" TurboMan asked in confusion and fear.
"I don't know…but I don't want it finding us next…"
GatlingGunMan ran and turned down another hallway and stopped suddenly, sliding for a few feet before stopping in front of a huge metal door.
~There's something in there…~ he thought as he walked up to the door and gently put his fingers on the door, activating the microphones on his fingers.
*
X and Zero walked into the room slowly when all of the sudden X slowed to a crawl before stopping completely.
"Oh my god…" X said quietly looking at his Locator.
"What is it?" Zero asked while he looked down at his arm and then he realized what it was X was so spooked about.
"They're…all gone?!" Zero exclaimed.
"It…looks that way…but how?" X wondered when all of the sudden he heard something.
"Zero…" he whispered softly as he motioned him to get out of the way…he aimed his buster at the door and charged it.
*
GatlingGunMan was getting anxious after the silence and suddenly he heard a low humming sound…
~DAMN!~ he thought violently as he jumped back and to the side as the door blew out after an incredible explosion.
From the dust came a tall blue robot and a tall red robot…the ones he'd been trailing. And suddenly his eyes turned to slits of hatred as he realized the red robot's identity…
His master's assassin.
Protoman and Megaman stood surrounded by Guts, Cut and TurboMan...breathing heavily and yet at the same time they weren't as scared as the others were.
"What the hell is that thing!?" GutsMan asked nervously.
Turboman's eyes suddenly went wide as he turned hearing a clatter behind him.
"It's in the other room!" He yelled frantically.
The steel doors bent and twisted like putty as Megaman and Protoman ran into the back room and hid behind the wall knowing that whatever was coming was far too powerful for any of them...and it was a good thing that they did, for what unfolded would be considered horrific in the deepest pits of hell.
*
Zero smiled as he heard the frantic scream of a frightened robot and blew in the door.
As the dust cleared the figure from hell stepped through the broken twisted door slowly, his eyes burning with a fury unlike any the Robot masters had ever seen.
"Hello boys...were you expecting me?" He said calmly as he smiled, slowly unsheathing his Z-sabre.
"What....what are you?!" CutMan asked.
Zero chuckled.
"Can't you recognize your own brother? I'm hurt boys..." Zero's smile turned into a hellbent grimace as the onslaught began.
He leapt towards Cutman first and spun, slashing off Cut's head...running his sabre through Cut's middle he brought it down quickly slicing his body in half. A few quick movements reduced Cutman to bits as he smiled and turned to GutsMan and TurboMan, who were both enraged.
Guts charged with his huge fist held out towards Zero's head and Turbo ran around quickly to get the monstrosity from behind.
Zero smiled as the fist came from in front of him and the attack from behind.
Zero quickly ducked as Guts' massive fist slammed into Turbo's face as he spun around slicing turbo in half, holding out his buster he incinerated Turbo's upper half with a single blast, but he was careless. Guts was able to slam him with his massive fist when he was busy killing turbo, sending him flying into a wall.
Zero shook his head slowly and staggered up. Guts knew that what he had just done had sealed his fate.
"You certainly pack a punch...but you're a coward to attack when one's back is turned." Zero said calmly as he fired his buster to incinerate what remained of Turbo's body.
"Now your death will be remembered through history!" Zero declared as Guts threw another punch, this time Zero caught it effortlessly.
"Fool..." he said as he slowly crushed Guts' hand, Guts letting out a blood-curdling scream as the pain rushed through his body.
"Oh...does that hurt? I'm sorry...maybe this will help..." He said heartlessly as he ripped Guts' arm right out of his body.
What followed was a scream that echoed through the emptiness of the lab and ringed in the ears of the 6 remaining Robot masters in the lab...not to mention Sigma and Vile.
*
Elecman and QuickMan stood outside their masters deepest room, dumbfounded at the sight of his slain body.
"Who...did this?!" ElecMan demanded.
Suddenly a scream unlike any they had ever heard filled their ears, it was the scream of their comrade GutsMan.
Quickman looked at his detector.
"Let's find Shadow, Dark and Metal quickly...GGM is still around here too and if he saw this...god knows what he'll do now."
Elecman nodded in agreement, knowing GGM very well by now he was very aware of the damage he was capable of, and had pity on the soul that would anger GGM to such a point.
*
"Oh, I'm sorry...did that hurt?" Zero asked mockingly.
GutsMan grimaced and looked up to zero in spite.
"Damn you...filthy [penguin]..." he said slowly.
"Now now now..." The monster said with a chuckle.
"Is that any way to talk to your brother?"
He began eyeing Guts' other arm.
"That's looking kind of heavy now...shall I get rid of it for you?" He said in a slow, low tone.
Guts' eyes widened slowly in terror as he looked at Zero in disbelief.
"No..you can't...please..." he said...his eyes beginning to water but it didn't help. With a quick movement Zero ripped the arm out of Guts' body and what followed was a scream that sounded like it came from a soul pushed over the edge of pain.
*
The scream rang clear in Protoman and Megaman's ears as they winced and closed their eyes, tears forming.
~Sure GutsMan is a Robot Master...but no one deserves this kind of torment...~ Megaman thought tearfully.
*
The torture lasted for 30 minutes as Zero cut GutsMan from top to bottom with small cuts in order to prolong his torment and pain. When it was all over Wily wouldn't be able to recognize him, not like it mattered anyways, since Wily was dead.
Slowly Zero made his way through the room that Megaman and Protoman were hiding in as he headed to his next target, another doctor's lab...
Thomas Light's.
Sigma and Vile stood outside the south side of the lab quietly, the breeze carrying a wave of dust towards the two remaining mavericks from the future.
"I can't believe that's Zero..." Sigma said quietly, still in awe of Zero's onslaught earlier that he barely escaped along with Vile.
"Surely that hellspawn isn't Zero, his power is far more than the Zero we know..." Vile's voice was still shaking from the prior encounter in which they lost the remaining mavericks that they had.
"I think he's still in the lab..." Sigma said quietly.
"We can head to Thomas Light's lab and destroy it while Zero is busy in there tearing up the lab." Vile suggested quickly...he wanted to get away as fast as possible.
Sigma looked to Vile and saw this fear, disgusted by it, and yet at the same time understanding.
"Very well...come!" Sigma ordered as he took off towards Light's lab, hoping to steal some important information on the X prototype.
*
"You!" GGM screamed as he pointed at Zero.
"What is it? Are you one of Wily's goons?!" Zero asked suspiciously as he unsheathed his sabre.
GGM growled.
"I'm more than one of his "goons"...but what use is it giving information to a dead robot?" GGM smiled coldly as he held out his buster.
Zero growled and turned to X as they both began charging their busters.
The three warriors faced off...the sound of their busters humming as each of them met each others glare with a calm collected stare.
"You killed my brothers...you killed my master..."
GGM's body began to glow softly with a gentle red aura.
"Now you can use every resource at your disposal to try and dispose of me! Stand firm beast! This is your final battle!"
GGM launched forward and stopped short firing his blast at Zero from about 4 feet away.
~Damn!~ Zero thought as he tried to roll to the right of it but the blast caught the bottom of his legs and spun his body around as he crashed into a wall, his legs slightly damaged...Zero winced.
"Crap..." Zero mumbled.
*
Suddenly a large blast came and slammed into GGM's side as he went flying. Zero looked to the source of the blast and saw X standing with a smoking buster as he staggered to his feet and walked over to stand next to X. Turning around he was astonished to see the mysterious robot stand after taking that blast.
*
GGM hit the red beast with his blast but only a moment later he was slammed by a blast of energy.
~What the hell?~ He thought quickly until he realized what had happened.
~That blue robot!~ he finally concluded as he slammed into the wall and fell.
He heard the beast standing slowly so he decided to follow suit and grimaced, staring down the murderer and his accomplice.
X looked to zero as he stood up slowly, then back to GGM.
~He's a lot stronger than the others...~ X thought worriedly.
Zero winced and staggered over to X, tapping into his surplus energy supply to heal his legs...holding his Z sabre tightly as he growled.
"You want a fight? Very well..." Zero smiled menacingly and charged at GGM, who had also unsheathed his own sabre and the two met with powerful slashes.
Their sabres collided as energy flew off of them, the two grimacing as they held their sabres in place…
"You're pretty strong…" Zero said with a smile.
GGM screamed in fury and pushed with all his might, sending Zero off balance as he jumped and spun bringing his foot across Zero's face sending him flying into a nearby wall as X charged with his buster extended, loosing a small blast of plasma into GGM's face.
The explosion sent GGM reeling backwards. He almost crashed into the wall, but was able to extend his feet and push off of the wall into a frontflip, landing on one knee before looking up slowly.
"Two on one…that's not very fair…" GGM said with a smile.
With that he held his sabre out in his left hand and tossed it into his right, smiling through the whole thing.
"Let's go another round!" GGM declared as he leapt towards X and Zero.
*
Alpha Zero stood outside of Dr. Light's lab…smiling as he walked towards it slowly.
As he expected the defense system began as soon as he stepped just over a millimeter into the boundaries…dozens of turrets came from Light's ceiling and walls and opened fire on him. Alpha Zero smiled, the bullets doing nothing to his advanced armor as he walked towards the base slowly, taking out the turrets one by one. Alpha Zero finally made it into the lab with little effort as he chuckled.
"What a futile defense system…what use would that be against an intruder like me?"
Alpha Zero continued his mission as he destroyed the main doors, blasting his way into the lair, tearing through anything and everything that stood in his way.
"Hello boys..." Magma said with a growl.
"Long time no see..." Slash said with a touch of sarcasm.
"Its nice to see you too...Sorry I didn't send you a birthday card recently..." Zero said with a sneer.
"Very funny smartass...but I'm afraid the mission ends here...we can't let them be disturbed..."
~Them?~ X thought.
~Wily!!~
*
Wily went through the data over and over as he slowly opened the capsule...the "red monster" coming out of its cage.
"This is perfect!" Sigma shouted in happiness.
"With this warrior I can finally destroy X...and his infernal partner Zero."
Wily's eyes widened slightly.
"You mean that in the future my greatest creation will be teamed up with Light's greatest creation?"
Sigma smiled and nodded. "Coincidental ain't it?"
Finally the red figure's eyes began to glow with a light green light.
It stepped out of the capsule slowly...and looked to Sigma.
"Good...there's one thing I won't have to teach you."
The red monster unsheathed his Z sabre...ready for action.
"Good..." Sigma said.
"Your first targets are X and Zero..." Sigma showed pictures.
"X....Zero..." the monster replied as it looked on and grimaced...its eyes fading to a dark blood red as it scowled and held out its sabre.
"Targets confirmed!" It said as it sped out the door and up to where all the action was.
"Now its just a matter of time..." Sigma said.
The shadowy figure could sense X and Zero nearby...feeling the presence of Slash Beast and Magma Dragoon as well.
"I shall wait a moment..." the monster of the dark said to himself as he hid out in a sheltered place until the time was right.
*
"What is it that Sigma wants with Wily? Tell us what you know!" Zero demanded.
Slash Beast and Magma Dragoon smiled at each other.
"These boys sure are demanding..." Slash Beast hissed.
"Yeah...maybe we should teach them some manners!" Magma growled as they both turned to face X and Zero.
~I knew this wasn't going to be easy~ X thought.
Slash charged at Zero while Magma set his sights on X and the room exploded with chaos.
*
Protoman saw TopMan and GeminiMan on either sides of him and HardMan and GutsMan were on both sides of Megaman.
"So...what's plan B again?" Megaman muttered desperately.
Protoman smiled.
"Jump..." he said calmly.
Megaman looked at him like he was insane and then Protoman turned and barked the order at him.
"JUMP!" He yelled.
Megaman jumped quickly into the air as Protoman charged his buster.
"We'll do a combination buster attack." Protoman said.
Megaman smiled.
"Ok..."
Megaman charged his as they both fired and the two plasma blasts met in the middle with a huge explosion. The explosion sent Top, Gemini, Hard and GutsMan flying back into opposite walls as Protoman landed in front of TopMan and Megaman landed in front of HardMan.
Topman spun around and kicked protoman, hard, across the face. Protoman went flying into Gemini man who brought his knee hard into Protoman's stomach. After recovering from the blow Protoman put his hands down on Gemini's knee and pushed back, firing a blast of plasma directly into GeminiMan's head.
"GGRRRAARRRGHHH!" Gemini cried as he fell onto one knee...his head unit badly damaged.
Megaman ducked a massive punch from Hardman only to be punched from the other direction by Gutsman, slamming into the wall megaman winced and dropped onto one knee...waiting for Gutsman to charge again before jumping up and flipping over his head, causing Guts to run into the wall Megaman fired a fully charged plasma blast into GutsMan's back...planting him in the steel wall, his back completely stripped of all metal armoring.
Hardman and TopMan stood side by side.
"Damn you!" hardman bellowed.
"You'll pay for that." TopMan promised.
The two fired their weapons at the same time creating a massive spinning fist, it knocked both Protoman and Megaman into the wall.
Wincing Megaman staggered onto his feet and aimed at the spinning fist...firing a full blast charge...but it didn't do anything.
"Protoman..." Megaman mumbled.
"Yeah, I gotcha..." Protoman nodded as he fell onto one knee and staggered up...they both aimed and charged their busters again.
"Let's kick it up another notch and give this chip a try eh?" Protoman encouraged.
Megaman smiled as he charged his buster up to its fullest extent...a red light flashing on his forearm
"NOW!" Protoman cried as two humongous plasma balls tore through the spinning fist and then through the two robot masters...leaving nothing more than a melted pile of metal.
After surveying the scene of carnage Protoman and Megaman looked at each other as a huge metal door opened. They nodded to each other as Protoman took point and Megaman followed close behind.
*
Slash jumped into the air and brought his razor sharp claws down towards Zero's head while Magma held out his hand and fired a huge ball of fire at X.
*
Zero brought up his sabre quickly, Slash pulling his claws back and backflipping to land on one knee. Pushing off his bent knee he charged again, stopping short he shot out his hands as small scythes came flying out from his hands towards Zero at blinding speed...aiming to slice him to bits.
*
X called his Chill Penguin blaster program and charged it up. ~Oh no you don't...~ he thought...
Creating a wall of ice as the fire slammed into the wall of ice he took out zero's old sabre and went around the side of the wall slashing at Magma's middle.
Magma backflipped as X's sabre slashed through mid air, the energy creating a streak of light where the sabre slashed.
X looked over and saw the scythes heading towards Zero...fast.
*
Zero's eyes widened slightly.
~Crap!~ he thought as he jumped straight into the air and did a frontflip, unsheathing his sabre he executed his Kuuenzan technique at Slash's head. Slash growled and jumped up to meet the Sabre with his claws, pushing Zero off balance. Zero fell back and slammed on the ground hard. Slash came down claws first aiming to take off Zero's head. Throwing his feet up he kicked Slash in the stomach and sent him flying overhead, backrolling and getting onto his feet he turned and fired a blast of plasma at Slash...the energy racing towards him he had nowhere to go... the sound of the energy slamming into him echoed through the room as slash emerged from the smoke minus one arm. He grimaced and growled...
"You're going to pay for that..." he muttered as his eyes suddenly went blood-red...something wasn't right.
Slash beast glared at Zero and for the first time, Zero was genuinely scared. The glow of his eyes seemed unnatural. Like what he was seeing was the deepest darkest pits of the hottest hellhole. Slash suddenly charged forward with tremendous speed and spun, kicking Zero straight across the face and sending him into a nearby wall.
X looked over and saw Zero hit the wall but didn't have time to do anything before Magma came out, fist first and slammed X in the mouth. They both landed next to each other as Slash came towards them for a low attack and Magma high above ready to fire his flame attack. X and Zero looked at each other as Zero got up and spun quickly knocking away Slash's claws, pointing his buster directly at Slash's head, Zero smiled and fired the blast. Slash's head unit was completely disintegrated as Magma shouted out in rage and fired a massive fireball towards the two.
Once again X called an ice wall, but it wasn't big enough so they were scorched by the flames of Magma Dragoon's rage...damaging them considerably. After they recovered from the attack they both jumped into the air on either side of Magma, charging their busters they fired at him but he quickly dropped down onto the ground on one knee as their two blasts collided and set off a huge explosion. Flipping backwards both X and Zero stared down Magma as he too was beginning to change...slowly...but surely, he was changing.
"Are you frightened little boys? You can't explain this incredible power! Prepare to be crushed!" Magma exclaimed as he powered up for another Fire attack.
"Zero...ice element, quickly!" X shouted as he brought up his chill penguin technique again, Zero nodded and leapt into the air, bringing his sabre down it became a razor sharp icicle flying down towards Magma at an incredible speed while X fired a massive ice wall towards Magma, these two ice attacks came too fast and Magma was overcome, being sliced in two before slammed into the wall and crushed.
Both of them breathing heavily they looked at each other.
"This is more difficult than I had imagined..." X admitted.
"Yeah...they've been working out or something. We'll need to keep our guard up from now on..." Zero agreed as the two went through the newly opened door...a shadowy figure following close behind.
*
Sigma turned and left Wily's inner chambers long before as Wily snickered to himself and opened the secret panel to the deepest part of his lab where the real treasure was hidden.
"I wasn't going to let him take you my pet...don't worry." Wily cooed as he went over the Data from the latest tests.
"GGM is sure proving useful with the data input. I'm sure he's proving to be of quite some help out there with that freak Sigma." Wily said to himself when suddenly a silent alarm went off behind him.
"What's that? No...impossible. That would mean..." Wily turned around as suddenly the unthinkable became reality.
*
Bass looked around carefully as he went through the bottom chambers of Wily's lab. Walking as silently as possible he came across the first door and opened it with relative ease. He stepped in and the door shut quickly behind him. Standing before him were two Robot Masters...hiding in the shadows.
"Who are you?!" Bass demanded.
"My name is ElecMan..." one said with a hiss from the darkness.
"I'm QuickMan." The other said as they stepped into the light.
As soon as Bass saw them for some reason he knew he was out of his league...
*
Wily looked up at his creation...its eyes were glowing with a murderous blood red as it smiled.
"Hello doctor..." It muttered slowly as it unsheathed a sabre.
"You can't do this to me! I created you! I made you what you..."
Wily wasn't able to finish his sentence as the monster sliced his head off...leaving him a crumpled heap of flesh in the lab. Destroying all the main computers in the lab he took off looking for more fresh meat.
*
The shadowy figure known as GGM had returned back to where Wily had been just as the monster escaped. Luckily GGM found somewhere to hide as he watched the horror unfold.
"You can't do this to me! I created you! I made you what you...ARRRRGGGHHHH!" the sound of the blade slicing through human flesh hit GGM at the nerve as the monster took out the door at lightning speed GGM sat there...stunned...unable to move or think or feel. Finally the rage began to settle in as he slowly got out of his hiding position and growled. Preparing his buster his own eyes began to shine with vengeance as he took off after the beast. Determined for revenge.
Megaman and Protoman walked into the small room...another one with small beacons of light.
Suddenly Megaman received a distress signal from Bass's location before it came to a sudden, violent end.
"Protoman..." Megaman asked quietly.
"...yeah I did..." Protoman answered.
Megaman closed his eyes for a moment...feeling them soften before opening them again.
"Bass..." he said quietly, his voice shaking slightly.
"I don't know what happened to him...but I have a feeling we won't be seeing him again." Protoman said in a rather monotone manner.
"...whatever it was that happened..." Megaman said...his voice almost completely lost under the rage and confusion of his lost battle comrade.
"...Bass didn't deserve it..." Megaman finally blurted out.
Protoman walked over to MegaMan and gently put his hand on his shoulder.
"Whatever it was… we'll find it and have vengeance for Bass…I promise." Protoman said with a smile.
Megaman smirked, finding new hope in this latest pact. But it didn't last long as a soft hissing laughter came from the shadows.
"Awww… Megaman and his brother having a sentimental moment…if I had any feelings I'd probably cry…" the figure snickered as it stepped into the light and the two heroes met with an incredibly familiar face.
*
DarkMan, ShadowMan and MetalMan all ran to where they heard their masters scream. They were shocked to discover their master slain in his deepest, most secret room in the lair and to see that his latest project was missing…not to mention GatlingGunMan.
"Whoever did this…will now know the end of my rage…" ShadowMan said with a shaking voice as he clenched his fists.
"I'll rip them apart! I'll slowly tear off their limbs and…" MetalMan looked over to DarkMan…
DarkMan stood very quietly with a blank expression on his face, and yet his eyes told volumes. Hidden behind those eyes were tortures and plans awaiting the culprit of this crime that would make the devil shudder…a power that knew no end and would see to the end of the monster that did this to his beloved master.
"He went this way…" DarkMan said with a solemn tone as he ran down the hall in GGM's direction.
*
GatlingGunMan ran down the halls with blinding speed, his eyes filled with rage as the walls and doors flew past him like bad memories.
~I'll find that beast and rip him apart with my bare hands!~ He told himself as he pivoted off his right leg and leapt down the next hallway, increasing his speed even more.
*
ElecMan and QuickMan smiled down on the beaten, broken Bass.
"That was way too easy…" Elecman said with a snicker.
"Yeah, I thought Bass was one of his 'stronger' robots." Quickman said with a snicker.
The two stood over bass laughing together for a moment until ElecMan finally said.
"Well, I suppose we can leave him alive…after all he is one of Wily's older robots, he may want him as a memento."
*
Bass simply lied on the floor listening to the insults…unable to do anything about it.
~I'm…the strongest…I'm…the strongest…~ he kept repeating in his head…but the constant insults and laughter finally broke through and shattered the solid belief in his superiority.
"…after all he is one of Wily's older robots…he may want him as a memento." ElecMan said as Bass quickly shut his eyes, that final sentence hurting more than any physical attack he had ever felt.
Huge pieces of his armor lay scattered around the room as he heard the two robots feet move towards the door as it shut behind them loudly. He opened his eyes for a moment…only to realize he was locked into the darkness…the darkness of his shame. And with that…he closed his eyes once more, and wept.
*
"Hello boys!" GutsMan said with a bellow.
"It's good to see you again…"
Megaman and Protoman both grimaced as they got their busters ready.
"Now now now…you may not want to be so jumpy…" a voice from behind them scolded.
Megaman turned quickly and noticed the small figure of CutMan step out of the shadows.
"Can we just get this over with already?" TurboMan said quickly as he emerged from almost nothing.
Megaman looked around to the three robot masters, amazed at how they could not have sensed them with their detectors.
"Now then, let's get this little party started shall we?" GutsMan said as he clenched his fists when all of the sudden CutMan looked at his detector.
"Hey…hey GutsMan…look at your detector." CutMan said in a monotone, dull voice.
"What is it abo…" GutsMan stopped completely as he read his detector…something was picking off the new guy's men one by one within seconds of each other. Pretty soon Sigma's remaining forces were nowhere to be found in the lair.
"What the hell is that thing?!" TurboMan asked in confusion and fear.
"I don't know…but I don't want it finding us next…"
GatlingGunMan ran and turned down another hallway and stopped suddenly, sliding for a few feet before stopping in front of a huge metal door.
~There's something in there…~ he thought as he walked up to the door and gently put his fingers on the door, activating the microphones on his fingers.
*
X and Zero walked into the room slowly when all of the sudden X slowed to a crawl before stopping completely.
"Oh my god…" X said quietly looking at his Locator.
"What is it?" Zero asked while he looked down at his arm and then he realized what it was X was so spooked about.
"They're…all gone?!" Zero exclaimed.
"It…looks that way…but how?" X wondered when all of the sudden he heard something.
"Zero…" he whispered softly as he motioned him to get out of the way…he aimed his buster at the door and charged it.
*
GatlingGunMan was getting anxious after the silence and suddenly he heard a low humming sound…
~DAMN!~ he thought violently as he jumped back and to the side as the door blew out after an incredible explosion.
From the dust came a tall blue robot and a tall red robot…the ones he'd been trailing. And suddenly his eyes turned to slits of hatred as he realized the red robot's identity…
His master's assassin.
Protoman and Megaman stood surrounded by Guts, Cut and TurboMan...breathing heavily and yet at the same time they weren't as scared as the others were.
"What the hell is that thing!?" GutsMan asked nervously.
Turboman's eyes suddenly went wide as he turned hearing a clatter behind him.
"It's in the other room!" He yelled frantically.
The steel doors bent and twisted like putty as Megaman and Protoman ran into the back room and hid behind the wall knowing that whatever was coming was far too powerful for any of them...and it was a good thing that they did, for what unfolded would be considered horrific in the deepest pits of hell.
*
Zero smiled as he heard the frantic scream of a frightened robot and blew in the door.
As the dust cleared the figure from hell stepped through the broken twisted door slowly, his eyes burning with a fury unlike any the Robot masters had ever seen.
"Hello boys...were you expecting me?" He said calmly as he smiled, slowly unsheathing his Z-sabre.
"What....what are you?!" CutMan asked.
Zero chuckled.
"Can't you recognize your own brother? I'm hurt boys..." Zero's smile turned into a hellbent grimace as the onslaught began.
He leapt towards Cutman first and spun, slashing off Cut's head...running his sabre through Cut's middle he brought it down quickly slicing his body in half. A few quick movements reduced Cutman to bits as he smiled and turned to GutsMan and TurboMan, who were both enraged.
Guts charged with his huge fist held out towards Zero's head and Turbo ran around quickly to get the monstrosity from behind.
Zero smiled as the fist came from in front of him and the attack from behind.
Zero quickly ducked as Guts' massive fist slammed into Turbo's face as he spun around slicing turbo in half, holding out his buster he incinerated Turbo's upper half with a single blast, but he was careless. Guts was able to slam him with his massive fist when he was busy killing turbo, sending him flying into a wall.
Zero shook his head slowly and staggered up. Guts knew that what he had just done had sealed his fate.
"You certainly pack a punch...but you're a coward to attack when one's back is turned." Zero said calmly as he fired his buster to incinerate what remained of Turbo's body.
"Now your death will be remembered through history!" Zero declared as Guts threw another punch, this time Zero caught it effortlessly.
"Fool..." he said as he slowly crushed Guts' hand, Guts letting out a blood-curdling scream as the pain rushed through his body.
"Oh...does that hurt? I'm sorry...maybe this will help..." He said heartlessly as he ripped Guts' arm right out of his body.
What followed was a scream that echoed through the emptiness of the lab and ringed in the ears of the 6 remaining Robot masters in the lab...not to mention Sigma and Vile.
*
Elecman and QuickMan stood outside their masters deepest room, dumbfounded at the sight of his slain body.
"Who...did this?!" ElecMan demanded.
Suddenly a scream unlike any they had ever heard filled their ears, it was the scream of their comrade GutsMan.
Quickman looked at his detector.
"Let's find Shadow, Dark and Metal quickly...GGM is still around here too and if he saw this...god knows what he'll do now."
Elecman nodded in agreement, knowing GGM very well by now he was very aware of the damage he was capable of, and had pity on the soul that would anger GGM to such a point.
*
"Oh, I'm sorry...did that hurt?" Zero asked mockingly.
GutsMan grimaced and looked up to zero in spite.
"Damn you...filthy [penguin]..." he said slowly.
"Now now now..." The monster said with a chuckle.
"Is that any way to talk to your brother?"
He began eyeing Guts' other arm.
"That's looking kind of heavy now...shall I get rid of it for you?" He said in a slow, low tone.
Guts' eyes widened slowly in terror as he looked at Zero in disbelief.
"No..you can't...please..." he said...his eyes beginning to water but it didn't help. With a quick movement Zero ripped the arm out of Guts' body and what followed was a scream that sounded like it came from a soul pushed over the edge of pain.
*
The scream rang clear in Protoman and Megaman's ears as they winced and closed their eyes, tears forming.
~Sure GutsMan is a Robot Master...but no one deserves this kind of torment...~ Megaman thought tearfully.
*
The torture lasted for 30 minutes as Zero cut GutsMan from top to bottom with small cuts in order to prolong his torment and pain. When it was all over Wily wouldn't be able to recognize him, not like it mattered anyways, since Wily was dead.
Slowly Zero made his way through the room that Megaman and Protoman were hiding in as he headed to his next target, another doctor's lab...
Thomas Light's.
Sigma and Vile stood outside the south side of the lab quietly, the breeze carrying a wave of dust towards the two remaining mavericks from the future.
"I can't believe that's Zero..." Sigma said quietly, still in awe of Zero's onslaught earlier that he barely escaped along with Vile.
"Surely that hellspawn isn't Zero, his power is far more than the Zero we know..." Vile's voice was still shaking from the prior encounter in which they lost the remaining mavericks that they had.
"I think he's still in the lab..." Sigma said quietly.
"We can head to Thomas Light's lab and destroy it while Zero is busy in there tearing up the lab." Vile suggested quickly...he wanted to get away as fast as possible.
Sigma looked to Vile and saw this fear, disgusted by it, and yet at the same time understanding.
"Very well...come!" Sigma ordered as he took off towards Light's lab, hoping to steal some important information on the X prototype.
*
"You!" GGM screamed as he pointed at Zero.
"What is it? Are you one of Wily's goons?!" Zero asked suspiciously as he unsheathed his sabre.
GGM growled.
"I'm more than one of his "goons"...but what use is it giving information to a dead robot?" GGM smiled coldly as he held out his buster.
Zero growled and turned to X as they both began charging their busters.
The three warriors faced off...the sound of their busters humming as each of them met each others glare with a calm collected stare.
"You killed my brothers...you killed my master..."
GGM's body began to glow softly with a gentle red aura.
"Now you can use every resource at your disposal to try and dispose of me! Stand firm beast! This is your final battle!"
GGM launched forward and stopped short firing his blast at Zero from about 4 feet away.
~Damn!~ Zero thought as he tried to roll to the right of it but the blast caught the bottom of his legs and spun his body around as he crashed into a wall, his legs slightly damaged...Zero winced.
"Crap..." Zero mumbled.
*
Suddenly a large blast came and slammed into GGM's side as he went flying. Zero looked to the source of the blast and saw X standing with a smoking buster as he staggered to his feet and walked over to stand next to X. Turning around he was astonished to see the mysterious robot stand after taking that blast.
*
GGM hit the red beast with his blast but only a moment later he was slammed by a blast of energy.
~What the hell?~ He thought quickly until he realized what had happened.
~That blue robot!~ he finally concluded as he slammed into the wall and fell.
He heard the beast standing slowly so he decided to follow suit and grimaced, staring down the murderer and his accomplice.
X looked to zero as he stood up slowly, then back to GGM.
~He's a lot stronger than the others...~ X thought worriedly.
Zero winced and staggered over to X, tapping into his surplus energy supply to heal his legs...holding his Z sabre tightly as he growled.
"You want a fight? Very well..." Zero smiled menacingly and charged at GGM, who had also unsheathed his own sabre and the two met with powerful slashes.
Their sabres collided as energy flew off of them, the two grimacing as they held their sabres in place…
"You're pretty strong…" Zero said with a smile.
GGM screamed in fury and pushed with all his might, sending Zero off balance as he jumped and spun bringing his foot across Zero's face sending him flying into a nearby wall as X charged with his buster extended, loosing a small blast of plasma into GGM's face.
The explosion sent GGM reeling backwards. He almost crashed into the wall, but was able to extend his feet and push off of the wall into a frontflip, landing on one knee before looking up slowly.
"Two on one…that's not very fair…" GGM said with a smile.
With that he held his sabre out in his left hand and tossed it into his right, smiling through the whole thing.
"Let's go another round!" GGM declared as he leapt towards X and Zero.
*
Alpha Zero stood outside of Dr. Light's lab…smiling as he walked towards it slowly.
As he expected the defense system began as soon as he stepped just over a millimeter into the boundaries…dozens of turrets came from Light's ceiling and walls and opened fire on him. Alpha Zero smiled, the bullets doing nothing to his advanced armor as he walked towards the base slowly, taking out the turrets one by one. Alpha Zero finally made it into the lab with little effort as he chuckled.
"What a futile defense system…what use would that be against an intruder like me?"
Alpha Zero continued his mission as he destroyed the main doors, blasting his way into the lair, tearing through anything and everything that stood in his way.