Chapter 2: In the Kattlelox Island…
Timmy was docking her airship her home island named 'Chalk Hill'. Slowly, she walked out of her air ship with the black refractor on the arms, leaving the sleeping Drone behind.
The island had clear blue sky. Knee-length grasses flooded the island's plains. Though named 'Chalk Hill' there are no hills but man-size bumps and rocks across the island's center.
"Hello Timmy" A man with short brown hair, wearing blue trousers, brown slacks, and a white polo T-shirt greeted her. Although he was no more than 25 years old, he seem to be a bit slow even with the help of a cane on his right hand. The man walked closer. "Hey what's that?" He asked as he saw Timmy bringing a black refractor.
"Well, Kevin, I don't know… I never thought there is such thing as a black refractor" Timmy answered with doubts. She stared at the refractor on her hands. She was wondering if this is some joke or some strange artifact in the ruin or this is some kind of a trap.
"You don't seem secured when doubts shadow your mind Timmy…" Kevin answered with compassion as he approaches Timmy and rests his hand on her shoulder. Then he smiled at Timmy. "Why don't we go to Kattlelox Island, I heard that professor Barrel is there. Perhaps he can tell us about this black refractor you found."
"Its OK, we don't have to bother going." Timmy replied as she headed towards her house nearby.
"No Timmy. This (black) refractor you found must be quite a find." Kevin called "This could be a very important find. Even a one-of-a-kind refractor."
"Its OK, I can dwell on my anxiety." Timmy replied as she turned around to Kevin again. "Besides, you're not well and I don't want anything to happen to you"
"Timmy, I know that I am not well." Kevin replied in a low and compassionate "But, I am just as curious and anxious as you are. I think its better we show this to Barrel. I too am worried about you because of this treasure. Besides, Kattlelox Island isn't far…"
Timmy smile and nod at Kevin. "Well, I think you are right, let's go…"
As Timmy and Kevin entered their Airship, a mysterious bird overheard their conversation. It appeared like a metallic condor and it had no feathers. When Airship left, the robotic bird departed towards the ocean in the other direction.
Tron was looking around and checking the servbots maneuvering the Gasselcraft. Afterwards, she was drawing out some lines on the map at the bridge of the ship, probably to point their next destination.
"Miss Tron! You must see this." Servbot 7 called her out while watching the radar monitor. Tron was shocked that the last segments of the lines she drew out got very crooked.
"What! I am busy and I told you yesterday not to bother me when I plot out the map!" Tron answered angrily and she turned back to her map
"Please Miss Tron." Servbot 8 called out before Tron could draw anything on the map "We detected an object. It is too small to be of any ship or aircraft but the radar showed that this is had an unusually strong energy around it."
"What!? What do you mean!" Tron answered angrily again as she approached the radar the servbots were observing.
"Miss Tron, there is something ahead" Servbot 12 called for Tron while steering the ship's wheel.
Tron turned her attention towards the window to see what the commotion was all about. She picked out a binocular on the nearby table for a better look. *Megaman X? No, It can't be, X is blue and this figure is black and it also has a cape* She thought but still she continue to observing the stranger with her binocular.
"Try to get closer on that…thing" Tron ordered servbot 12.
"Aye aye Miss Tron." Servbot 12 answered while steering the Gasselcraft. Thereby following Carnage directly from behind, about 10 miles and closing.
Carnage started to get irritated with the Gasselcraft behind him. *What the heck is the matter with you. Get off my tail!* He thought as he burst with blazing speed. Putting him ahead of the Gasselcraft for nearly another two miles before turning right.
"Follow him" Tron, shouted
The Gasselcraft increased it speed towards Carnage, making him even angrier.
"Alright! You ask for it!" Carnage stops his flight, stood still on the air, turned towards the curious ship and fired an orange beam from his palm and towards the Gasselcraft. The beam was so huge it can swallow the Gasselcraft whole and it was over a mile long!
Servbot 12 screamed in fear too scared to steer, as the beam raced towards closer and closer. Tron hastily pushed away the servbot 12 and took the wheels herself. She made a quick, sharp turn left, narrowly evading the beam. The beam was so strong that it rocked the Gasselcraft.
Tron was so terrified at the enormous beam that she fell butts first after steering the wheel. A few servbots came to Tron's aid. Servbot 12 and 7 came to take the wheel.
"Are you alright Miss Tron?" Servbot 5 asked. But Tron was breathing hard and fast and shivering because of her fright. She was too scared to respond.
Teisel entered the bridge while massaging his head. "What happened? The whole ship shook!" asked but when he saw that his sister was in shock, he quickly came closer to her aid.
"Are you alright?" Teisel asked at Tron but all she did was breathe hard and fast. "What happened" Teisel asked the other servbots.
"Master Teisel, we were following a strange person" Servbot 10 answered
"He looks like Megaman Trigger X but his color is black instead of blue" Servbot 2 continued.
"He even had a cape." Servbot 21 said
"He must be angry and he shot us with this huge laser." Servbot 7 said waiving its 'hands.'
"Luckily, Miss Tron save us by taking this wheels and took us away from the beam" Servbot 12 continued.
"The beam must have shocked her" Servbot 30 continued
"Alright, I will jus take her to her room and give her some rest" Teisel said as he lift Tron and exits the bridge.
The Airship docked outside the gates of the apple market of Kattlelox Island. Its engines stopped and Timmy and Kevin, with a leather bag, stepped out of the craft, leaving Drone asleep on the couch.
"Halt." A police officer by the gate shouted "Your ship is on the 'no parking zone', move out or else I will issue you a ticket"
Kevin stepped forward "Officer, we will move our ship but please grant us the permission to see Professor Barrel Casket."
"Then why do you want to see Professor Barrel Gasket?" The police officer asked
"Timmy and I would like to show him this…"Kevin opened the leather bag and showed to the officer a black refractor.
"You got your point their sir, I'll contact the inspector." The officer said as he pulled out his radio and called the station
Kevin turned to Timmy "Timmy, just dock the ship a little further from here."
"OK." Timmy answered as she entered the Airship and maneuvered it towards the Cardon Forest.
X, Blues, and Bass were walking around the downtown towards the apple market. They met an officer running pass them.
"Something must be going on…" Bass said.
"Let's follow him." X said as he, Blues and Bass followed the officer. The trios then followed the officer towards Cardon forest…
"Here are your Citizen ID Cards." The officer hands over some cards to Kevin and Timmy.
"Thanks." Kevin responds. Afterwards, the officer walks away.
"Hey officer, something wrong?" Blues asked, while X and bass followed him.
"Well, Not really but there is something interesting here" the officer said and turn his attention to X "This guy had a black refractor and he wants to see your grandfather, Barrel, to study his artifact."
"You knew professor Barrel too." Kevin came and asked when he overheard the conversation.
"Yes…" X answered
"Great, Can you take me to him." Kevin begged for X
"Sure" X replied as they all went towards the city. Bass was somehow late from the rest of the group and he saw the bush at the side of the road moved around as though someone or something disturbed it.
"Bass, something you see or what." Blues asked
"I thought I saw the bush trickled or something"
"It's probably some animal or winds, don't you think?"
"Well, I don't know but…"
"We better go, or else we will be very, VERY, behind."
"Alright" Then Bass and Blues entered the city via Apple Market.
In the bushes, there were three men. They all wore some black fatigues with mask.
"Did you see that." The thug whispered.
"That must worth a fortune…we will be rich!"
"Yes, let's go get it"
Barrel was reaching for a book high at the shelf but he couldn't because of his 'hunch-back' posture. It was pretty normal for him partly because he was already old.
"Darn book!" he scolded out as he tried to reach it high in the shelf "Must I have to use a ladder all the time." He left the shelf in search of a ladder when suddenly the doorbell rang.
"Coming…" He called out sighing. He reached for and opened the door and he saw X, Blues, Bass, Kevin, and Timmy.
"Hi grandpa!" X greeted Barrel.
"Why hello, but was it just this morning you visited me?"
"Um yes but I think there is something important that you must see."
"Greetings teacher…" Kevin said
"TEACHER!?" everybody yelled said.
"Um do I know you? Please forgive me I can't remember you anywhere." Barrel apologizes
"Well teacher, perhaps you couldn't. My name is Kevin Radius and you were my history teacher when I was still a little child." Kevin explains.
"Ah! Now I remember!" Then Barrel and Kevin hugged each other. "Ha! I am so happy you still remember me!" Barrel said full of Joy.
"Um grandpa, can I go, I have to go to Apple Market to buy Roll a gift when she comes back with Zero this 1 PM" X said
"Well go ahead sunny." Barrel said
"Thanks grandpa" X then dashes out.
"Hey, I want to buy Roll a gift too, WAIT FOR ME!" Bass shouted as he followed X running.
Blues cannot decide if he should stay and help Barrel or go with X and Bass.
"You might as well go with them, Roll may not be happy if you have nothing to give her after she had been away for two weeks" Barrel told Blues.
"Will it be OK? I mean um…" Blues said with difficulty explaining of what might happen.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. We are at peace. There are no pirates, no reaverbots, no bombing and no crooks." Barrel assures Blues of his safety "Besides I am not alone in here."
"OK, thanks professor" Blues said as he walks out calmly and slowly out the door.
Bass was counting his money while walking down the street in downtown. "200, 300, 500, 760, um…that's good." He said but suddenly he was nearly run over by a car driven by an impatient old lady.
"WATCH IT!" the old lady yank while blowing the horn of her car.
"Hey, I'm walking here! You…" Bass replied angrily but X grab him off the street.
"What's the matter with you. You were nearly flat down by jaywalking." X scolded him
"I was just counting my money to make sure I had enough." Bass reasoned out with utmost innocence.
"OK but where is Blues?" X asked. Blues, however, slip into the manhole of downtown and into the ruins.
A strange purifier unit (or something that looks like a purifier unit) was walking back and forth atop a tower ruin standing over 2,000 feet above sea level. Besides him is three other purifier units standing still and upright with discipline, very much like cadets.
he walking figure had black and white armor with a slightly pointed shoulder piece and a white cape. He wore a helmet that covers his scalp and the back of his head and he had a featureless mask made of silvery metal in the place of his face. Based on his appearance and what he was doing, he seemed to be like the leader of the other units
Two of the three purifier-units were male and one a female. From the left, a purifier with white armor he had a glass shield covering his eye and was also wearing a white helmet. At the center, a female purifier, easily recognized by her pinkish lips, pink and gray armor brown eyes and her slender, feminine body form. She had a helmet too, colored pink with a brown hair that goes down to her back but not reaching her hips. The last unit wore a green armor and helmet. His one eye was jacked and the other colored blue.
After walking back and forth across the circle of the top of the tower, the capped unit turn his attention a bit outward towards the direction the other units were facing. He seems to sense someone, more like a friendly troop or messenger, coming. Then a metallic bird, the one from Chalk Hill, was seen in a distance. The black unit stretch out his arm and the bird then clutches its claws on the arm.
"What took you so long! This better be good!" The unit growl. The bird then sent some sound of some code, like telegraph sounds, for the black unit to hear.
"Excellent but it still took you so long." The unit turned his attention to the white unit. "Alright, Megaman Ion. Take your troops to Kattlelox, invade downtown."
"Unit Quantum, take yourself and your troops with me!" He said talking to the pink purifier.
"Megaman Deadeye, take over the sky of Kattlelox. Nobody in or out until I tell you to." He said to the green-armored unit.
"Now proceed!!!" He yelled then flew fast then the three units followed him north. Along the way, giant brown capsules each as big as a football field, raised from the tides of the sea and followed them. First there were only 3 then 10 then 35 then still there were over a hundred and still accumulating.
The lead unit pulled out his tiny radio while flying "This is Megaman Mimic. The Black Refractor is believed to be in Kattlelox Island. Invasion undertaken…" He waited for a response but then got impatient after 10 seconds "Where is that idiot Juno. He is supposed to respond to this situation now. Argh, forget it!" He turned off his radio.
Bass rushed to the toy store, leaving X near the bookstore. "Hmm, maybe I should budget some money for Zero." He said looking for some pocket books, magazines, and other reading materials.
"Whoa! What a cute kitty." Bass yell after seeing a stuff cat. Bass turned top the clerk and asked "How much for the kitty…"
"30 bucks, sir" The clerk answered. Bass immediately paid it without any question. Bass then scrambled for a white teddy bear and bought it for 50 bucks, but he still buy more stuff toys.
X went in the electronic shop where he was greeted by the storeowner. "Good morning, sir! May I help you?" the storeowner said. "Yeah, a gift for a girl…" X replied. "No problem…" the storeowner said as he leaves the counter to assist X.
Blues was walking down cautiously down the mazes of the ruins, making sure he finds the reaverbots first before they do. "I knew I should not spent all my money on arsenal upgrades." He murmured "How am I going to earn enough money for Roll now."
Walking down deeper, he finds a treasure chess. Crossing his fingers, hoping to find some money or refractor shards inside. He opened it and finds a lot of refractor shards, which worth 2,000 bucks. He picked them up and stored it in his backpack. "Now, better head to the surface." He said.
Just as he turned around, two spider-robots, each the size of a car, dived and blocked his way. He aimed his buster gun only to be caught in surprise that another robot spider from above dived and pinned him.
"Get off me!" He protested. Blues caught one of the spider's legs, pushed himself up, lift and slams the spider to the two other spiders. Each spider stood back on its 'feet' only to receive firings from Blues' buster gun. The three spiders burst to bits and Blues collected the shards popping out.
Blues made it out of the room but he was greeted by a lot of other reaverbots, big and small, blocking his way. Blues fired madly against the reaverbots. He took down a dozen of them. Turning around, still firing his buster gun, he took down even more. He walked out of the room calmly.
X and Bass were waiting outside. X had a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates for Roll and a book for Zero. Bass had a flat box gift-wrapped and a bag full of stuffed toys.
"Bass, you are like Santa Clause with a black attire." X jokes on him. "Anyone can call you the new Santa now."
"Why, I just want to show Roll that I like her." Bass reasoned "I mean, I was able to afford this much so, I… I bought this much"
"Bass, showing your hospitality of her return doesn't mean that you have to buy as much stuff as you can afford. By the way…what's in that gift-wrapped box?"
"Its something special, I won't tell you what it is but it cost me 8,500 buck to buy it." Bass said, holding his gift away from X.
"Let me guess, a tray of jewelry…or a laptop." X sign at Bass' extravagance. *Bass, if you were a millionaire you would buy all of Kattlelox with your habit*
"By the way, where is Blues!?" Bass asked. Before X could say anything, the gate leading to the Ruin opened up and Blues stood out.
"Where have you been? Why did you end up there." Bass and X interrogated him.
"My pocket was cash dry." Blues said. "And I got to earn some money, so I went down the sewer then to the ruins to do so."
"There is not enough time to shop now." X said. "I mean its 1:30 PM and she is supposed to be here at 1 PM"
"No problem." Blues said, inserting his hand to his pocket and let out a beautiful gold necklace with a shiny red stone (crystal) shaped like a heart. "Tada!"
X sighed again then two police cars arrived. A police officer came out of his car and dashed towards X and his group.
"X, Bass, Blues, you must all go to uptown." The police officer said
"Yes why?" X asked nervously.
"It's an emergency. Its Barrel…"
X and Bass dashed leaving behind their gifts. Blues packed up X's gifts into Bass bag full of stuffed toys then he lifted it and followed them towards Apple Market. The police officer didn't even got the slightest chance of letting them into his police car because they were running too fast.