All characters belong to Capcom. Asaki Kai, that shadow, Durgus, and Toriyama Hadeka belong to me. I'm not making money off of this. It's for entertainment only. Dedicated to the few who know me and are *not* disgusted with the male/male inserts. Now, have yourself a nice day. ^^

Chapter 2



"Begin the countdown."

"Yes doctor."

"5....

"4....

"3....

"2....

"1....

"Initiating rift creation."

The giant machine dully shrilled to life, illuminating the room with it's own activated power source. An orb in the center of the monsterous electronic glowed with the flow of power running into it. "Enter time."

Dr. Asaki imputted the date to when he wanted the rift to occur and hit the 'enter' button.

"Scanning..... Year is 2087, month is June, day is the 3rd, time is 14:25:00. Enter destination."

Asaki entered the place and sat back, waiting patiently for the greatest accomplishment of mankind to be conceived.

"Scanning..... Hemisphere is the north/east, country is Japan, area of west Kyoto. Spanning into current time: March 17th, 2168, 12:52:42. Location: Tokyo, Japan."

In the past..

"Sir, we have an unknown property just sitting there in the fields west of Kyoto city."

Captain Toriyama Hadeka looked over his assistant's shoulder and eyed the screen. The radar was picked up an unusual energy disturbance. One eyebrow rose in thought. "Contact Dr. Light and see if he's looking at it as well."

"Yes, Toriyama-san. My radar has picked it up as well." Dr. Thomas Light stood infront of the monitor, Rockman and Roll standing behind him silently.

"What do you make of it?"

Light reached over to tap a few keys on his console, looking at the sensory input. "Its energy mass is low grade, but the power it's emitting is nearly that of several nuclear power plants altogether. It had a diameter of ten feet and seems stable." He looked back up at the large telecommunicator. "The only safe option I have to offer is to send a probe to investigate its purposes."

Rock bowed his head and watched the radar. Two more smaller dots caught his attention as both move quickly towards the object-in-question. "Light-san! I think Wily sent out one of his robots to go see what this thing is!"

The doctor turned back to the black and green circular screen and stared. "I believe you're right, Rock. It seems that he sent out--"

You don't need to tell me. I know who it is.. "Rush Jet!"

As Rush's electronics obeyed the command, Light looked over his shoulder, a little startled. "Rock, be careful! We don't know what we're dealing with!"

Rockman leaped onto Rush's back. "Don't worry. I'll be careful." And they were gone through the opening above.

With a sigh, Thomas turned back to the screens. "Hadeka, hold the probe for later. Maybe Megaman will find out something."

Captain Toriyama saluted. "Will do, Dr. Light."

The monitor went blank and Light stared at the radar. One blip was already there, the second closing in on it, and the third, just appearing on the screen, was quickly trying to gain some distance. Roll put both of her hands on the doctor's shoulders and watched the screen over his shoulder. "Dr. Light? If this one is Rock and, judging by the speed, this one is Forte, the third one is Blues, right?"

"I'm pretty sure it is.. but right now, I'm more worried about Bass. Wily dispatched him practically imediately. Maybe he knows something we don't.."

In the present..

"Dr. Cain! There are five unidentified energy surges above the city."

Dr. Jeremy Cain leaned over the short hunter and adjusted his glasses. "Durgus, can you bring up its stats?"

The small brown and black reploid typed in a few commands and stated, "We should have them printed out in a few minutes--- Oh my god."

"Nani?"

"Something is falling from each of them. All have re-enforced titanium outer shells."

Cain's eyebrows knit and he pointed to the screen. "Send retrieval units to those areas and see what you can pick up. I want these disturbances investigated imediately!"

"Now... wasn't spending a little time up here worth all that trouble?"

"... Yes.. it's very worth it."

Zero smiled and held his shorter lover against him. The view overlooking the valley was just too flawless to pass up. The Crimson Hunter knew Yakasa loved nature; it was pure, clean, and a very uplifting experience when you're used to buildings surrounding your space of life. The surprise was worth it, as X had said, and Zero knew this was one 'idea' the blue armored prodigy fully approved of. "Good..."

"Just don't think that because this plan was a decent one that I'm willing to trust the rest of them." X chuckled quietly and laid his head back, watching as a falcon took to the sky by way of wind currents. ... But where was that beeping coming from?

Zero spat out a few curses before answering his telecommunicator. "What is it," he replied flatly.

Dr. Cain's face appeared on the tiny screen, paler than normal. "I need you and X to return imediately back to Maverick Hunter Headquarters. It's rather important."

"I thought you said no one would be yanking us out of our time? It obviously is not related to us--"

"It is!" Zero blinked. Cain never raised his voice.. "It is directly related to you, now would you please return?! I promise you, you both will be able to get back to your vacation, but right now, I need you, X most of all.. Please."

Zero blinked again and trained his gaze to Yakasa, who had the same dumbfounded expression on his face that he did. It would've been amusing.. if it had been under different circumstances. X took the wrist-bound device, wrist and all, towards him and said, "We'll be there in a couple of hours. X and Zero out."

The screen went blank and Zero groaned, falling onto his back. "God damn it..."

"C'mon, love... Let's climb back down before Cain has a panic attack over whatever has him spooked."

"Feh. Fine.."

"Okay," huffed the red clad reploid, "what could be so important to pull us away from fresh air and the hills." He ignored the elbow in the gut he received.

Dr. Cain motioned for them to follow, still as pale as when he had first contacted them.

X had his helmet at his side, finding it not necessary to wear it inside the building. He ignored Zero's grumpy mood and acidic rambles and thought of what could have scared the doctor so much to pull them back. As they walked, the Blue Bomber started feeling a bit uncomfortable as they neared their destination: the medical laboratory.

Inside the doors, the feeling turned painful, but X contained its presense. Cain led them to a curtained area, in which make the pain acute and teetering dangerously on the border of tolerable and not.

The white, stainless cover was pulled aside by metal rings... and Yakasa just froze. On the table behind those sheets was a robot, resting angelically on the lab table. The armor was an azure blue, matching his own in some spots, the built itself low class compared to the current standards. And the face.. it was almost like looking in a mirror, only this one's feature were more childlike and softer. At that moment, the pain seared ferociously, started with his chest cavity, and tackling his senses.

His knees buckled and X staggered, fightly gravity. He didn't notice the head piece clatter to the ground or the stong arms that encircled his midriff, which only caused more pain. He seethed, but not in anger. One green eye was kept open, staring at the metal table. And out of his lips came the inaudible word, "Rockman..." And then, blackness came.