Megaman Battle Network - New Generation
Book 4 - The Last Shadow
By Zelloss
Author's Note: He... I assumed you've realized just what we've gotten into?
WARNING: There's some violence here, it's not too bad, though...
Chapter 2 - Rock and Roll
-=-Roll-=-
"Roll...?" I heard Dynastu's voice from behind me.
I thought for a moment, not turning. "I assume the process turned out okay...?"
"Yeah, Roll, it did... Take a look..."
I turned, and gaped.
"What the...? Oh my god..." I gasped out. "You look so different, not anything like yourself..."
Dynastu nodded. "I've become Protoman..."
"Why are you hiding your eyes?" I asked.
Dynastu, I mean, Protoman, stepped back a bit. "I... I can't show you..."
"Did something go wrong...?" I asked, curious as to why he suddenly wore dark shades.
"It wasn't the fault of the transformation..." Dynastu said, "Something outside caused it, so don't worry about it..."
"What happened?"
"I... Even describing it would be too disgusting for a girl like you..." Protoman said.
"Well..." I began, not sure what to say.
"Listen, Roll..." Protoman cut me off. "You have to make a choice now. If you agree to let Rock become robotic, it's possible that he could save you, but you'd have to make the decision soon, while we still have time to fight..."
I gulped. "Trying to change the subject?"
"You are too, now. You can't avoid it, Roll, if you don't decide quick, it may be too late..."
I looked at Protoman, with a look of fear in my eyes. "Is... Is Rock going to change from what he used to be like, just like you...?"
Protoman nodded.
"I... I don't know..."
I turned and ran, not knowing what else to do, and found myself inside of the medical room, where Rock was laying in bed, half-asleep, half in a coma.
"Rock..." I whispered. "What should I do...?"
"He won't be your brother if he's changed..." a voice sent chills down my spine.
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
"He won't be your brother if he's changed..."
Roll turned and looked at me. "Who are you?"
I knew there was a terrified look in her eyes. "I am Amyrth Skie. I'm here to give my two cents on what you should do..."
"Well, out with it..." Roll said.
"On one side, if you let it happen, Rock will be able to protect you, and live freely..." I began, then caught myself.
"On the other hand..." I tried to stop myself from grinning, "He won't be your brother anymore. He'll constantly be in danger. In fact, he may die sooner then if he wasn't changed. And you won't be able to go everywhere with him, because Light will make him travel..."
Roll looked at me, with a strange look in her eyes.
She remained silent.
"Just remember, Roll, if this happens, he won't be your brother..."
I turned and walked out.
"Wait, Amyrth..." Roll called after me.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for letting me know that..."
I nodded and walked out, into my own small office.
I went to a telephone, picked it up, and hit some keys.
"Hello?"
"Who is this?"
"Connect me with Dr. Wily, please."
"Who is this?"
"His Associate."
"Name, please?"
"Forte, stop playing around and get me Dr. Wily."
"Fine then!" Forte cursed, and put down the phone to get Dr. Wily.
"Even in this day and age, I, the good researcher, has to try and get a job with Dr. Light, while that stupid Forte tries is second-in-command to Wily..." I reminded myself. "And we still have to use Telephones."
* * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
"Dr. Wily! Call from Amyrth..."
"Excellent..." Wily laughed, turning and walking over to the telephone. "Keep surveillance from our robots, we're approaching today..."
I nodded and walked off.
I'm Forte. I admit, I'm not like Amyrth, but I was good enough to get a job as Wily's assistant, even though Amyrth's job is more important - spying on Thomas. I'm just a kid, though.
I didn't walk too far away, though, and hid myself just around the corner, so I could hear their conversation.
"You... You've got to be kidding..." Wily shouted out suddenly.
There was a pause.
"And you honestly think Roll is going to let it happen? I thought I told you..."
Another pause, as Amyrth answered.
"Okay, then there's a chance she won't. Listen, Amyrth, I need you to sabatoge this no matter what. If Dynastu's change went well, then..."
"Oh, fine, have it your way. Kill the damn boy then, I don't care. I won't let some shrimp get in my way!"
Wily slammed down the phone. I took off towards the surveillance room, to try to keep from getting caught.
I wondered if I should be worried. I decided not. Everything would go as planned.
I reached the surveillance room, where I could see straight from the eyes of the six robots. Fireman, Gutsman, Iceman, Bombman, Elecman, and Cutman. Well, I thought, as I spotted the city in Cutman's viewscreen, this is going to be fun...
Meanwhile, Wily had come up behind me.
"Forte..." Wily smiled.
"What?" I asked.
"I... I think I might have an interesting task for you, should this plot fail..."
"What...?" I asked again.
"For now, I have no use of you..." Wily laughed, and I felt the floor drop out from under me.
I landed head first, a good distance down, and fainted.
* * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I sat near Rock, wondering what I should do.
Amyrth had been right. He wouldn't be my brother if I turned him into a robot...
Unless...
An idea hit me. There was one way for him to still be my brother.
I ran off to find Protoman and Thomas.
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
I saw Roll dash off down the hall, and I knew she had decided to let it happen, or something like that. I knew I didn't have any time to lose.
Quickly, I moved down the hall into Rock's room.
The poor boy was faint, his hair spread across the pillow. His chest slowly rose and fell. I looked at him, part of his chest hooked up to a life support system, his lungs wouldn't be able to hold without it.
I grinned. "This would be too easy..." I smiled. "All I'd have to do is cut it, and..."
"Don't you dare, Amyrth..." Dynastu made me turn.
"Do what?"
"Kill that poor child. I'm onto you, Amyrth..." Dynastu smiled. "I know you work for Dr. Wily. I suggest you leave right now..."
I gulped, feigning surprise. "You've been spying on me, haven't you?"
"Ever since you blinded me, I wanted to know why..." Dynastu grinned. "Don't worry, in only a minute, Thomas will be here, see what you're trying to do, have my information, and have you in prison in a moment..."
I laughed. "No, Dynastu, that's not what's going to happen..."
"Why?"
"Because it's too late..." I grinned, and flicked my wrist, bringing out the knife from it's hidden sheath.
"No!" Dynastu shouted, raising the hand with the strange hole in it, pointing it towards me.
I plugned the sword down into the young boy's heart. Instantly, Rock awoke, screaming in pain. A red flow stemmed out.
Dynastu's fist glowed for half a moment, before a large burst of energy shot from his hand.
It crashed into me, blasting me back against the wall, and cracking it with that much force. My clothing had been scarred and ripped, and my skin had been bruised badly. A light red flow was coming from my own chest.
"Damnit..." I cursed, and dashed towards Dynastu, grabbing the knife from Rock's heart and jumping towards Dynastu.
Dynastu twisted, kicking me hard in the side. I felt the contact of metal against my side.
I flew. I heard a large crash, as I went through the window, the one four stories above the ground.
* * * * *
-=-Dynastu-=-
I didn't even bother to check on Amyrth after the kick. I hoped he was long gone.
"What happened here!?" Thomas shouted, running into the room.
"Rock!" Roll shouted.
"It was Amyrth..." I said. "Roll, you've decided to let it happen now, right?"
Roll nodded. "But you'll have to change me too..."
I didn't bother to ask why. "Okay. Would you rather be kept away from your brother until the transformation is complete, or what?"
"I... I want to wait until I'm changed as well to see my brother..."
I nodded. "Go to my office and wait there..."
Roll nodded. "Please, save him..."
I didn't want for her to leave, I turned instantly back to Rock. He was heavily breathing, gasping for his last breaths of life.
"We have to do it now..." Light said. "I just got reports that Wily's robots are coming, right now..."
* * * * *
-=-Rock-=-
I had felt the pain. The pain of my life ending, and it was worse then anything I had even felt before.
I couldn't hear anything but my own shouting.
Then, suddenly, I had fallen faint.
And reawoken, not feeling the pain at all.
I took a moment to build up my energy, then opened my eyes.
I tried to lift my left hand, but it felt strangely heavy. I lifted my head and tried to sit up.
I caught a look at myself in the window.
Behind the window, the first thing I noticed, was that the window had been shattered, and that the building just beyond the window had dissapeared somehow.
Then I looked at the edge of the window, where it wasn't shattered.
I gasped.
My body had been changed. A large dark blue helmet covered my head, and my entire body had been covered by white and blue armor.
The strangest thing to me was my left arm. It had become a long cannon of sorts.
"Awake, Rockman?" a young man asked. I recognized the voice as the one Roll had talked to while I was trapped.
"Rock...man?" I asked.
The man nodded, entering the room. He was changed, just like I was, wearing red armor, a scarf-like cape, and shades.
"Yeah, Rockman. I guess, from now on, we're brothers..." he extended his hand. "Name is Protoman..."
"Are you human or totally robot?"
"Human turned robot, just like you..."
"Why was I turned this way?" I asked.
"If you weren't, you would have died... And... And your sister wanted it that way so you could protect people..."
"Roll!" I suddenly remembered. "Where is she?"
"She... She is safe, don't worry. Right now, we have bigger things to worry about..."
"Like what...?" I asked.
Somebody jumped through the window, a small red robot with a pair of scissors on his head.
Protoman turned around, raised his hand, and fired off a burst of energy at the small robot.
The robot dived out of the way, letting the shot pass through the window. The red-armored bot reached up, grabbed the scissors on it's head, and threw them at Protoman.
They stuck, sticking into Protoman's red-covered right arm, and drawing a small flow of blood mixed with... Oil? Was that it?
Protoman pulled back a bit, raised his arm, and tried to fire. It didn't work.
"Damnit... Rockman, go, let me handle Cutman..." Protoman cursed, as another pair of scissors formed on the head of Cutman.
"No..." I shouted, raising my arm cannon, and focused on it.
A burst of energy shot out, slamming into Cutman, and scattering pieces of him across the entire room. A part of his arm flew by my head, and a bit of oil leaked onto the bedsheets behind me.
I gulped. "What was that?"
"Wily's robots, they've come early... Let's go, there's five more..."
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
I tried to stand up, to right myself. My bones and muscles ached from the fall and the attack. My lungs were strangely tight, making it hard to breath.
A robot walked up to me, one I had never seen before. His body was covered in black, an emerald on the front of his helmet and one on his chest.
"Amyrth, I'm here to take you back to Wily..." the robot said, grabbing onto me.
"Who" I groaned out, "Are you?"
The face flashed a smile at me. "An accomplise..."
"Forte!" I was shocked. "No way..."
"Wily says you're to be brought back, Amyrth..."
I gulped, but I was in no state to fight against an armed bot, and let myself be carried away.
I wondered if they managed to save Rock or not...
* * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I slowly awoke.
I didn't feel different, but I knew I had to have changed somehow.
Slowly, I sat up. My dress felt slightly heavier, and my body felt a bit harder, but not too much harder.
"Has something changed...?" I asked.
"You awoke quicker then I would have expected..." Light said. "I didn't have time to do serious modifications, but you'll be able to defend yourself..."
I sat up. "Why didn't you have time...?"
"We're being attacked already..." Light sighed.
The door behind Dr. Light crashed, and a large, hulking robot came through, swinging a huge fist at the doctor.
I stood up quickly, ran forward, extended my hand, and brought it around at the robots head.
There was a ringing sound, and the robot fell over, stunned senseless.
"What the...?" I looked at my hand.
I was gripping an iron frying pan.
"Woah..." I gasped. "Cool!"
"Comeon..." Dr. Light said, as we moved into the hall.
The robot, Gutsman, stirred, getting up again, suddenly. I didn't notice it until I heard a punch shooting towards me.
I turned around, to see Gutsman knocked out, a large hole opened in his chest. He fell over forward, oil leaking onto the carpet, and I spotted my brother, covered in blue armor, holding his hand out, Protoman behind him.
"Comeon!" Rock shouted. "Let's go, Roll!"
I ran over to him, the professor following. A robot appeared behind them, toting a bomb.
Instantly, I called upon the frying pan and smashed the robot backwards. The impact of the robot crashing into a wall activated one of it's own bombs, exploding quickly.
"Two down!" I shouted.
"Three, actually..." Rock grinned. "Let's take the rest out."
* * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
I returned to Wily's castle, a nearly-dead Amyrth slung across my back.
"Master Wily, I've returned..."
"Forte, excellent..." Wily grinned. "Take Amyrth into the lab and leave him there for now... There's more important things to take care of right now..."
"The Robot Raid?"
"No, building a new band of robots to take care of our enemies..."
"Why, Wily? We're doing fine, aren't we?"
"No!" Wily exclaimed madly. "We're not! We couldn't be doing worse! Light turned three people into robots, and they're destroying ours at top speed! We have to create an army to fight them!"
"Sir Wily..." I looked up at him.
"Yes, Forte?"
"Give me the strongest weapon you've got. I'll take care of them, don't worry."
"Okay" Wily nodded. "You're the only Semi-human on my side, it makes sense to keep you alive..."
"And sir..."
"What now?"
"What about Amyrth?"
"I already have plans for him..." Wily laughed. "Trust me on that one..."
A couple small, yellow-headed and blue-bodied robots ran in. "Sir Wily!"
The Servbots, Wily's simplest invention. Capable of being produced in massive quantities. And they don't disobey orders no matter what.
"They've taken out the robots!"
"Then we'll build more!" Wily shouted. "I will have an army! The world will be left in chaos, and from that chaos, I will rise to lead the world!"
"A ha ha ha ha ha!"
I sighed.
Author's Note: He... I assumed you've realized just what we've gotten into?
WARNING: There's some violence here, it's not too bad, though...
Chapter 2 - Rock and Roll
-=-Roll-=-
"Roll...?" I heard Dynastu's voice from behind me.
I thought for a moment, not turning. "I assume the process turned out okay...?"
"Yeah, Roll, it did... Take a look..."
I turned, and gaped.
"What the...? Oh my god..." I gasped out. "You look so different, not anything like yourself..."
Dynastu nodded. "I've become Protoman..."
"Why are you hiding your eyes?" I asked.
Dynastu, I mean, Protoman, stepped back a bit. "I... I can't show you..."
"Did something go wrong...?" I asked, curious as to why he suddenly wore dark shades.
"It wasn't the fault of the transformation..." Dynastu said, "Something outside caused it, so don't worry about it..."
"What happened?"
"I... Even describing it would be too disgusting for a girl like you..." Protoman said.
"Well..." I began, not sure what to say.
"Listen, Roll..." Protoman cut me off. "You have to make a choice now. If you agree to let Rock become robotic, it's possible that he could save you, but you'd have to make the decision soon, while we still have time to fight..."
I gulped. "Trying to change the subject?"
"You are too, now. You can't avoid it, Roll, if you don't decide quick, it may be too late..."
I looked at Protoman, with a look of fear in my eyes. "Is... Is Rock going to change from what he used to be like, just like you...?"
Protoman nodded.
"I... I don't know..."
I turned and ran, not knowing what else to do, and found myself inside of the medical room, where Rock was laying in bed, half-asleep, half in a coma.
"Rock..." I whispered. "What should I do...?"
"He won't be your brother if he's changed..." a voice sent chills down my spine.
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
"He won't be your brother if he's changed..."
Roll turned and looked at me. "Who are you?"
I knew there was a terrified look in her eyes. "I am Amyrth Skie. I'm here to give my two cents on what you should do..."
"Well, out with it..." Roll said.
"On one side, if you let it happen, Rock will be able to protect you, and live freely..." I began, then caught myself.
"On the other hand..." I tried to stop myself from grinning, "He won't be your brother anymore. He'll constantly be in danger. In fact, he may die sooner then if he wasn't changed. And you won't be able to go everywhere with him, because Light will make him travel..."
Roll looked at me, with a strange look in her eyes.
She remained silent.
"Just remember, Roll, if this happens, he won't be your brother..."
I turned and walked out.
"Wait, Amyrth..." Roll called after me.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for letting me know that..."
I nodded and walked out, into my own small office.
I went to a telephone, picked it up, and hit some keys.
"Hello?"
"Who is this?"
"Connect me with Dr. Wily, please."
"Who is this?"
"His Associate."
"Name, please?"
"Forte, stop playing around and get me Dr. Wily."
"Fine then!" Forte cursed, and put down the phone to get Dr. Wily.
"Even in this day and age, I, the good researcher, has to try and get a job with Dr. Light, while that stupid Forte tries is second-in-command to Wily..." I reminded myself. "And we still have to use Telephones."
* * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
"Dr. Wily! Call from Amyrth..."
"Excellent..." Wily laughed, turning and walking over to the telephone. "Keep surveillance from our robots, we're approaching today..."
I nodded and walked off.
I'm Forte. I admit, I'm not like Amyrth, but I was good enough to get a job as Wily's assistant, even though Amyrth's job is more important - spying on Thomas. I'm just a kid, though.
I didn't walk too far away, though, and hid myself just around the corner, so I could hear their conversation.
"You... You've got to be kidding..." Wily shouted out suddenly.
There was a pause.
"And you honestly think Roll is going to let it happen? I thought I told you..."
Another pause, as Amyrth answered.
"Okay, then there's a chance she won't. Listen, Amyrth, I need you to sabatoge this no matter what. If Dynastu's change went well, then..."
"Oh, fine, have it your way. Kill the damn boy then, I don't care. I won't let some shrimp get in my way!"
Wily slammed down the phone. I took off towards the surveillance room, to try to keep from getting caught.
I wondered if I should be worried. I decided not. Everything would go as planned.
I reached the surveillance room, where I could see straight from the eyes of the six robots. Fireman, Gutsman, Iceman, Bombman, Elecman, and Cutman. Well, I thought, as I spotted the city in Cutman's viewscreen, this is going to be fun...
Meanwhile, Wily had come up behind me.
"Forte..." Wily smiled.
"What?" I asked.
"I... I think I might have an interesting task for you, should this plot fail..."
"What...?" I asked again.
"For now, I have no use of you..." Wily laughed, and I felt the floor drop out from under me.
I landed head first, a good distance down, and fainted.
* * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I sat near Rock, wondering what I should do.
Amyrth had been right. He wouldn't be my brother if I turned him into a robot...
Unless...
An idea hit me. There was one way for him to still be my brother.
I ran off to find Protoman and Thomas.
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
I saw Roll dash off down the hall, and I knew she had decided to let it happen, or something like that. I knew I didn't have any time to lose.
Quickly, I moved down the hall into Rock's room.
The poor boy was faint, his hair spread across the pillow. His chest slowly rose and fell. I looked at him, part of his chest hooked up to a life support system, his lungs wouldn't be able to hold without it.
I grinned. "This would be too easy..." I smiled. "All I'd have to do is cut it, and..."
"Don't you dare, Amyrth..." Dynastu made me turn.
"Do what?"
"Kill that poor child. I'm onto you, Amyrth..." Dynastu smiled. "I know you work for Dr. Wily. I suggest you leave right now..."
I gulped, feigning surprise. "You've been spying on me, haven't you?"
"Ever since you blinded me, I wanted to know why..." Dynastu grinned. "Don't worry, in only a minute, Thomas will be here, see what you're trying to do, have my information, and have you in prison in a moment..."
I laughed. "No, Dynastu, that's not what's going to happen..."
"Why?"
"Because it's too late..." I grinned, and flicked my wrist, bringing out the knife from it's hidden sheath.
"No!" Dynastu shouted, raising the hand with the strange hole in it, pointing it towards me.
I plugned the sword down into the young boy's heart. Instantly, Rock awoke, screaming in pain. A red flow stemmed out.
Dynastu's fist glowed for half a moment, before a large burst of energy shot from his hand.
It crashed into me, blasting me back against the wall, and cracking it with that much force. My clothing had been scarred and ripped, and my skin had been bruised badly. A light red flow was coming from my own chest.
"Damnit..." I cursed, and dashed towards Dynastu, grabbing the knife from Rock's heart and jumping towards Dynastu.
Dynastu twisted, kicking me hard in the side. I felt the contact of metal against my side.
I flew. I heard a large crash, as I went through the window, the one four stories above the ground.
* * * * *
-=-Dynastu-=-
I didn't even bother to check on Amyrth after the kick. I hoped he was long gone.
"What happened here!?" Thomas shouted, running into the room.
"Rock!" Roll shouted.
"It was Amyrth..." I said. "Roll, you've decided to let it happen now, right?"
Roll nodded. "But you'll have to change me too..."
I didn't bother to ask why. "Okay. Would you rather be kept away from your brother until the transformation is complete, or what?"
"I... I want to wait until I'm changed as well to see my brother..."
I nodded. "Go to my office and wait there..."
Roll nodded. "Please, save him..."
I didn't want for her to leave, I turned instantly back to Rock. He was heavily breathing, gasping for his last breaths of life.
"We have to do it now..." Light said. "I just got reports that Wily's robots are coming, right now..."
* * * * *
-=-Rock-=-
I had felt the pain. The pain of my life ending, and it was worse then anything I had even felt before.
I couldn't hear anything but my own shouting.
Then, suddenly, I had fallen faint.
And reawoken, not feeling the pain at all.
I took a moment to build up my energy, then opened my eyes.
I tried to lift my left hand, but it felt strangely heavy. I lifted my head and tried to sit up.
I caught a look at myself in the window.
Behind the window, the first thing I noticed, was that the window had been shattered, and that the building just beyond the window had dissapeared somehow.
Then I looked at the edge of the window, where it wasn't shattered.
I gasped.
My body had been changed. A large dark blue helmet covered my head, and my entire body had been covered by white and blue armor.
The strangest thing to me was my left arm. It had become a long cannon of sorts.
"Awake, Rockman?" a young man asked. I recognized the voice as the one Roll had talked to while I was trapped.
"Rock...man?" I asked.
The man nodded, entering the room. He was changed, just like I was, wearing red armor, a scarf-like cape, and shades.
"Yeah, Rockman. I guess, from now on, we're brothers..." he extended his hand. "Name is Protoman..."
"Are you human or totally robot?"
"Human turned robot, just like you..."
"Why was I turned this way?" I asked.
"If you weren't, you would have died... And... And your sister wanted it that way so you could protect people..."
"Roll!" I suddenly remembered. "Where is she?"
"She... She is safe, don't worry. Right now, we have bigger things to worry about..."
"Like what...?" I asked.
Somebody jumped through the window, a small red robot with a pair of scissors on his head.
Protoman turned around, raised his hand, and fired off a burst of energy at the small robot.
The robot dived out of the way, letting the shot pass through the window. The red-armored bot reached up, grabbed the scissors on it's head, and threw them at Protoman.
They stuck, sticking into Protoman's red-covered right arm, and drawing a small flow of blood mixed with... Oil? Was that it?
Protoman pulled back a bit, raised his arm, and tried to fire. It didn't work.
"Damnit... Rockman, go, let me handle Cutman..." Protoman cursed, as another pair of scissors formed on the head of Cutman.
"No..." I shouted, raising my arm cannon, and focused on it.
A burst of energy shot out, slamming into Cutman, and scattering pieces of him across the entire room. A part of his arm flew by my head, and a bit of oil leaked onto the bedsheets behind me.
I gulped. "What was that?"
"Wily's robots, they've come early... Let's go, there's five more..."
* * * * *
-=-Amyrth-=-
I tried to stand up, to right myself. My bones and muscles ached from the fall and the attack. My lungs were strangely tight, making it hard to breath.
A robot walked up to me, one I had never seen before. His body was covered in black, an emerald on the front of his helmet and one on his chest.
"Amyrth, I'm here to take you back to Wily..." the robot said, grabbing onto me.
"Who" I groaned out, "Are you?"
The face flashed a smile at me. "An accomplise..."
"Forte!" I was shocked. "No way..."
"Wily says you're to be brought back, Amyrth..."
I gulped, but I was in no state to fight against an armed bot, and let myself be carried away.
I wondered if they managed to save Rock or not...
* * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I slowly awoke.
I didn't feel different, but I knew I had to have changed somehow.
Slowly, I sat up. My dress felt slightly heavier, and my body felt a bit harder, but not too much harder.
"Has something changed...?" I asked.
"You awoke quicker then I would have expected..." Light said. "I didn't have time to do serious modifications, but you'll be able to defend yourself..."
I sat up. "Why didn't you have time...?"
"We're being attacked already..." Light sighed.
The door behind Dr. Light crashed, and a large, hulking robot came through, swinging a huge fist at the doctor.
I stood up quickly, ran forward, extended my hand, and brought it around at the robots head.
There was a ringing sound, and the robot fell over, stunned senseless.
"What the...?" I looked at my hand.
I was gripping an iron frying pan.
"Woah..." I gasped. "Cool!"
"Comeon..." Dr. Light said, as we moved into the hall.
The robot, Gutsman, stirred, getting up again, suddenly. I didn't notice it until I heard a punch shooting towards me.
I turned around, to see Gutsman knocked out, a large hole opened in his chest. He fell over forward, oil leaking onto the carpet, and I spotted my brother, covered in blue armor, holding his hand out, Protoman behind him.
"Comeon!" Rock shouted. "Let's go, Roll!"
I ran over to him, the professor following. A robot appeared behind them, toting a bomb.
Instantly, I called upon the frying pan and smashed the robot backwards. The impact of the robot crashing into a wall activated one of it's own bombs, exploding quickly.
"Two down!" I shouted.
"Three, actually..." Rock grinned. "Let's take the rest out."
* * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
I returned to Wily's castle, a nearly-dead Amyrth slung across my back.
"Master Wily, I've returned..."
"Forte, excellent..." Wily grinned. "Take Amyrth into the lab and leave him there for now... There's more important things to take care of right now..."
"The Robot Raid?"
"No, building a new band of robots to take care of our enemies..."
"Why, Wily? We're doing fine, aren't we?"
"No!" Wily exclaimed madly. "We're not! We couldn't be doing worse! Light turned three people into robots, and they're destroying ours at top speed! We have to create an army to fight them!"
"Sir Wily..." I looked up at him.
"Yes, Forte?"
"Give me the strongest weapon you've got. I'll take care of them, don't worry."
"Okay" Wily nodded. "You're the only Semi-human on my side, it makes sense to keep you alive..."
"And sir..."
"What now?"
"What about Amyrth?"
"I already have plans for him..." Wily laughed. "Trust me on that one..."
A couple small, yellow-headed and blue-bodied robots ran in. "Sir Wily!"
The Servbots, Wily's simplest invention. Capable of being produced in massive quantities. And they don't disobey orders no matter what.
"They've taken out the robots!"
"Then we'll build more!" Wily shouted. "I will have an army! The world will be left in chaos, and from that chaos, I will rise to lead the world!"
"A ha ha ha ha ha!"
I sighed.