Megaman Battle Network - New Generation
Book 4 - The Last Shadow
By Zelloss
Author's Note: ^^
WARNING: Violence. DUH...
Chapter 3 - The Seal
-=-Rock-=-
I relaxed, lying down and recharging my energy. That had been the third Robot Attack this week. My energy unit to my side continued to recharge, it had nearly been all used up.
Protoman slowly rose up from the bed opposite me. "I hate not being able to do anything... All we can do is wait... I'd rather be actually doing something..."
I smiled a bit. "You accept what life gives you, Dynastu, you don't argue..."
Protoman suddenly laughed. "You seem to have gotten quite wise in such a short time... Or were you always this way?"
"No... I guess the fact that I've nearly been killed several times has changed the way I see the world..." I smiled, but only half-heartedly.
Suddenly, the telephone rang. Protoman forced himself to stand up, and stumbled over to answer it.
"Eh... What!? A Humanoid Bot?" Protoman was practically shouting. "Oh... fuck... This isn't good..."
"What's going on?"
"Amyrth? Nah, I doubt it... I don't even think that bastard is still alive..." a thin smile crept across his face. "Either way, this is not good..."
"What's going on!?!"
"Alright, I can move, I think Rockman has decided to be decently active... Roll?"
"TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!" I shouted.
Protoman didn't even bother. "Ah... Keep her safe, no reason for her to get involved... Yes, I'm sure of it. I'll be right on it..."
Protoman slammed down the telephone. "Please tell me what's going on!" I commanded.
Protoman ran by me, grabbing my arm and pulling me rather quickly, perhaps because I was lighter, and perhaps because his strength was rather high. "Humanoid Bot... Calls himself Forte... Under Wily's control... Comeon!" Protoman huffed out, as he dragged me down the hall.
"I'm not ready for this!"
"That's why he's attacking now!" Protoman shouted back, as he reached the main doors surprisingly quickly, and exited.
The building across from us blew up, the top flying to crash into another building. I looked straight up to see a black-covered robot high above us.
"What the hell!?" Protoman shouted.
The robot suddenly dropped down, landing a bit in front of us. Protoman dropped me to the ground, and raised his arm cannon at the robot. "What do you want?"
The robot laughed, a deep and threatening laugh, before standing straight up and turning to face me and Protoman.
The navi was tall, covered in dark armor with a golden jewel on his chest, large wings of metal spread out from his back.
"Greetings... My name is Forte... And I'm here to destroy..."
* * * * * * * *
-=-Dynastu-=-
"My name is Forte... And I'm here to destroy..."
Forte raised his arm, which was turned into a long energy cannon similar to the one on Rockman's arm, and fired. I shoved Rockman out of the way, and I was sent flying backwards, crashing through the glass doors and into the hallway from the blast. My armor was chopped up, and I could see blood and oil mixing. It hurt bad whenever that happened, the dark oil shouldn't be entering my bloodstream.
I tried to stand up, and a chunk of my visor poked into the side of my head. One shot, one simple shot, and I was now in tatters. How could somebody have this much power?
I stood up firmly, and saw Rockman firing rapidly, shooting at Forte. As the shots came close, Forte flew up in the air, shooting down at Rockman, blowing the poor child nearly as bad as me. Rock's body rolled, crashing down a few inches in front of me.
The kid's face was smeared with blood, his right arm was twisted at an odd angle, and his body armor was ripped apart.
"D... Damnit!" I swore, and raised my arm cannon, dashing into the streets and looking for Forte.
I couldn't see him. I turned quickly, looking around. Up, down, left, right. He was nowhere.
Something hard hit my helmet, smashing my head so hard that I fell unconcious.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
The shot I had fired hit Protoman's head, right on the top, and I could hear the crack of a shattered skull. This power... This was too easy. Why had Wily needed to be scared of these weaklings?
I jumped down from the top of Light's building, where I had been, and landed on the ground next to Protoman's body, where his entire armor had been torn off. The black color of his hair was slowly turning a deep purple, and at the bottom, a deep crimson from the blood flow from his skull.
"He was a fool..." I laughed. I turned my gaze up to the entrance of the building, and walked in. People screamed, well, those that were left. I looked at the kid Rockman.
"That was pathetic... To turn a child into a weapon that doesn't know how to use it's own power..."
Suddenly, Rockman raised his arm cannon, straight at my chest, and fired.
I flew backwards, crashing into the wall. A large hole was ripped open in my armor, and oil was there, but it was only a superficial scratch. "Come on, is that the best you've got?" I smiled, as I activated something in my buster using my hand.
Three shots flew out, spiraling into Rockman's chest, and cutting three gashes straight through him, before blasting apart the wall behind him. Rock fell over, blood covering his blue armor.
I laughed. "Then, where is the third?"
I heard a small sound in my ear. "Forte, this is Wily. Return to the base with the victims..."
"But what about Light and the girl bot?"
"Ignore them, I only need those two..."
"Very well..."
* * * * * * * *
-=-Wily-=-
Forte flew in only a couple moments after I had called for him, arriving with the bodies of two dead men upon his shoulders.
"He... Rockman and Protoman... The two most powerfull robots ever? They look so pathetic..."
"Broken skull and fractured ribs with Protoman, almost 100% dead. Cut veins and slashed lungs in Rockman, approximately 50% chance of cessation" Forte reported.
"Thank you... Take them into the room, and put them into the pods..."
"The what?" Forte asked, as he walked down the hall, and turned into the center of a large cavern.
This cavern was dug into the mountainside, as was the rest of the fortress, but this was especially deep. Five pods, using the old cyrogenics process, were waiting.
"What's that for?" Forte demanded.
"Well..." I smiled, evily. "I know that I can't win this century... I know that if things keep up for too long, everything will go wrong, despite your power... Light would only need a couple days to create a weapon like you..."
"You're awfully pessimistic..."
"Cyrogenics..." I laughed. "I intend on using them to store you three and me, sealing this place off for several hundred years. With that, I can come back, and reprogram these two bots, and with you at my side..."
"And Amyrth, master Wily?"
"Ah, he is going with us..." I smiled. "Comeon, load them up... Perhaps in a couple hundred years my mind will be good enough to recreate them from the dead..."
"Are you sure you'll even survive?" Forte asked. "You're old enough already..."
"Shut up, I know what I'm doing! Load them up!"
Forte sighed, and walked over, setting Rockman's body into a sitting position in one, and Protoman into the other, despite their injuries. The blood mixed with a strange glowing green fluid as they floated in the mixture, designed to keep people alive for centuries.
Forte looked to the other three, and probably noticed one already held Amyrth's torn and tattered body. He looked like he was asleep, and I wondered if he knew that Amyrth had no idea this had happened.
"Comeon, you next..." I smiled. Forte nodded, stepping over to one of the two remaining pods, before turning back to me.
"And if you don't survive? I mean, should something go horribly wrong...?"
"Destroy the world, Forte... It's in your power, so you should do it..." I smiled..
Forte nodded, and stepped in. The pod sealed instantly.
"Just relax..." I grinned, as the fluid overcame Forte's body, and he floated lifelessly in it.
I then began to walk to the last pod.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Thomas-=-
"They what!?" I shouted.
Roll nodded. "They killed Rock and Dynastu..." she was in tears, and she held onto me.
"They can't be dead..."
"They are, I saw it... That robot... Forte... I heard Dynastu's skull shatter... I saw the shots tear through Rock's chest, cutting him wide open..." Roll whined.
I gulped. "Then what?"
"Forte just... stopped. He took the two bodies, and flew off..."
"Flew off? Mabye we can track them down..." I muttered.
"They went towards the old mountain... You know, the one where the mines used to be..." Roll brightened just slightly.
"O... Okay, mabye it'll work..." I nodded. "Comeon, there's a chopper on the roof..."
* * * * * *
-=-Wily-=-
I reached up for the door of the pod, when I heard a strange rumbling coming from the very back of the cavern.
Slowly, I turned. A couple stones fell away, revealing an opening. There was a bright green glow, the color of the fluid that was being used in the other tanks.
I stepped away from my pod, and walked towards the strange light. Yes, it was the glow of a pod, the viewpoint just a bit higher then eye level. I moved some stones, and stood up to see in.
There was somebody in it. He was floating in a strange green liquid, his hair floating gently around his face in the fluid. The hair, through the liquid, was a shade of dark purple, the same shade I had seen in the hair of Amyrth.
I looked at the face, so calm, but I could sense an imense power.
I focused on the closed eyes. I wondered if this may very well be one of Amyrth's relatives...
Then suddenly, the eyes opened.
It was a cold shade of purple, mixed with black in one eye, and I felt my body being forced backwards by some unknown power. My old body slammed into the rocks at the back wall of the cavern.
The rest of the rock flew away, as the pod emptied itself and opened. A tall man stepped out, the dark purple hair flowing down his back, and his body was covered in a pair of dark jeans, nothing else, revealing incredibly strong muscles and a well-scarred body, a strange black mark on the upper left arm.
"Finally... Thank you for awakening me..." the man spoke. His voice was deep, terrifying, and I knew what was about to come.
I reached for my holster. I always carried a weapon, and I prayed to god it would work. I raised the pistol and fired.
The man, somehow, caught the bullet with the palm of his hand, it seemed, and I saw it drop straight to the ground, as if it had been caught and dropped.
"How... Who...?" I gasped out.
"Wily, you go about world destruction all wrong..." the man laughed, as he walked over.
I fired three more times.
I saw the bullets wizz through the air, and he was gone.
Then a strong fist blow to my chest, and a knife from out of no where that sliced through my throat.
"For releasing me, you die quick..." the man smiled, as my life dissapeared.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I ran into the large cavern, and saw the pods.
Six of them, five of them filled. One with Amyrth, one with Forte. Another with a strange man who looked similar to Amyrth, and another with Protoman. The last held my brother, the blood turning bits of the green fluid crimson.
Then I saw Wily beside me, his neck slit and his body definately dead. I wondered what had happened.
I looked at the pods, as Light walked up beside me.
"I see them... Cyrogenics..." he said. "I don't know, but these pods will be sealed..." he walked over to a keyboard. "For about for a couple hundred years..."
"What!?" I shouted, running over to my brother's pod. I looked at him, he was so pathetic.
"I... I can't stand it..." I cried. "Light, can't you do anything?"
"No... I'm afraid I can't..." Light sighed. "Listen, if you care so much for your brother, I can seal you up too..."
"A... Alright..." Roll nodded. "Put me in there..."
~To Be Continued
Author's Note: ^^
WARNING: Violence. DUH...
Chapter 3 - The Seal
-=-Rock-=-
I relaxed, lying down and recharging my energy. That had been the third Robot Attack this week. My energy unit to my side continued to recharge, it had nearly been all used up.
Protoman slowly rose up from the bed opposite me. "I hate not being able to do anything... All we can do is wait... I'd rather be actually doing something..."
I smiled a bit. "You accept what life gives you, Dynastu, you don't argue..."
Protoman suddenly laughed. "You seem to have gotten quite wise in such a short time... Or were you always this way?"
"No... I guess the fact that I've nearly been killed several times has changed the way I see the world..." I smiled, but only half-heartedly.
Suddenly, the telephone rang. Protoman forced himself to stand up, and stumbled over to answer it.
"Eh... What!? A Humanoid Bot?" Protoman was practically shouting. "Oh... fuck... This isn't good..."
"What's going on?"
"Amyrth? Nah, I doubt it... I don't even think that bastard is still alive..." a thin smile crept across his face. "Either way, this is not good..."
"What's going on!?!"
"Alright, I can move, I think Rockman has decided to be decently active... Roll?"
"TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!" I shouted.
Protoman didn't even bother. "Ah... Keep her safe, no reason for her to get involved... Yes, I'm sure of it. I'll be right on it..."
Protoman slammed down the telephone. "Please tell me what's going on!" I commanded.
Protoman ran by me, grabbing my arm and pulling me rather quickly, perhaps because I was lighter, and perhaps because his strength was rather high. "Humanoid Bot... Calls himself Forte... Under Wily's control... Comeon!" Protoman huffed out, as he dragged me down the hall.
"I'm not ready for this!"
"That's why he's attacking now!" Protoman shouted back, as he reached the main doors surprisingly quickly, and exited.
The building across from us blew up, the top flying to crash into another building. I looked straight up to see a black-covered robot high above us.
"What the hell!?" Protoman shouted.
The robot suddenly dropped down, landing a bit in front of us. Protoman dropped me to the ground, and raised his arm cannon at the robot. "What do you want?"
The robot laughed, a deep and threatening laugh, before standing straight up and turning to face me and Protoman.
The navi was tall, covered in dark armor with a golden jewel on his chest, large wings of metal spread out from his back.
"Greetings... My name is Forte... And I'm here to destroy..."
* * * * * * * *
-=-Dynastu-=-
"My name is Forte... And I'm here to destroy..."
Forte raised his arm, which was turned into a long energy cannon similar to the one on Rockman's arm, and fired. I shoved Rockman out of the way, and I was sent flying backwards, crashing through the glass doors and into the hallway from the blast. My armor was chopped up, and I could see blood and oil mixing. It hurt bad whenever that happened, the dark oil shouldn't be entering my bloodstream.
I tried to stand up, and a chunk of my visor poked into the side of my head. One shot, one simple shot, and I was now in tatters. How could somebody have this much power?
I stood up firmly, and saw Rockman firing rapidly, shooting at Forte. As the shots came close, Forte flew up in the air, shooting down at Rockman, blowing the poor child nearly as bad as me. Rock's body rolled, crashing down a few inches in front of me.
The kid's face was smeared with blood, his right arm was twisted at an odd angle, and his body armor was ripped apart.
"D... Damnit!" I swore, and raised my arm cannon, dashing into the streets and looking for Forte.
I couldn't see him. I turned quickly, looking around. Up, down, left, right. He was nowhere.
Something hard hit my helmet, smashing my head so hard that I fell unconcious.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Forte-=-
The shot I had fired hit Protoman's head, right on the top, and I could hear the crack of a shattered skull. This power... This was too easy. Why had Wily needed to be scared of these weaklings?
I jumped down from the top of Light's building, where I had been, and landed on the ground next to Protoman's body, where his entire armor had been torn off. The black color of his hair was slowly turning a deep purple, and at the bottom, a deep crimson from the blood flow from his skull.
"He was a fool..." I laughed. I turned my gaze up to the entrance of the building, and walked in. People screamed, well, those that were left. I looked at the kid Rockman.
"That was pathetic... To turn a child into a weapon that doesn't know how to use it's own power..."
Suddenly, Rockman raised his arm cannon, straight at my chest, and fired.
I flew backwards, crashing into the wall. A large hole was ripped open in my armor, and oil was there, but it was only a superficial scratch. "Come on, is that the best you've got?" I smiled, as I activated something in my buster using my hand.
Three shots flew out, spiraling into Rockman's chest, and cutting three gashes straight through him, before blasting apart the wall behind him. Rock fell over, blood covering his blue armor.
I laughed. "Then, where is the third?"
I heard a small sound in my ear. "Forte, this is Wily. Return to the base with the victims..."
"But what about Light and the girl bot?"
"Ignore them, I only need those two..."
"Very well..."
* * * * * * * *
-=-Wily-=-
Forte flew in only a couple moments after I had called for him, arriving with the bodies of two dead men upon his shoulders.
"He... Rockman and Protoman... The two most powerfull robots ever? They look so pathetic..."
"Broken skull and fractured ribs with Protoman, almost 100% dead. Cut veins and slashed lungs in Rockman, approximately 50% chance of cessation" Forte reported.
"Thank you... Take them into the room, and put them into the pods..."
"The what?" Forte asked, as he walked down the hall, and turned into the center of a large cavern.
This cavern was dug into the mountainside, as was the rest of the fortress, but this was especially deep. Five pods, using the old cyrogenics process, were waiting.
"What's that for?" Forte demanded.
"Well..." I smiled, evily. "I know that I can't win this century... I know that if things keep up for too long, everything will go wrong, despite your power... Light would only need a couple days to create a weapon like you..."
"You're awfully pessimistic..."
"Cyrogenics..." I laughed. "I intend on using them to store you three and me, sealing this place off for several hundred years. With that, I can come back, and reprogram these two bots, and with you at my side..."
"And Amyrth, master Wily?"
"Ah, he is going with us..." I smiled. "Comeon, load them up... Perhaps in a couple hundred years my mind will be good enough to recreate them from the dead..."
"Are you sure you'll even survive?" Forte asked. "You're old enough already..."
"Shut up, I know what I'm doing! Load them up!"
Forte sighed, and walked over, setting Rockman's body into a sitting position in one, and Protoman into the other, despite their injuries. The blood mixed with a strange glowing green fluid as they floated in the mixture, designed to keep people alive for centuries.
Forte looked to the other three, and probably noticed one already held Amyrth's torn and tattered body. He looked like he was asleep, and I wondered if he knew that Amyrth had no idea this had happened.
"Comeon, you next..." I smiled. Forte nodded, stepping over to one of the two remaining pods, before turning back to me.
"And if you don't survive? I mean, should something go horribly wrong...?"
"Destroy the world, Forte... It's in your power, so you should do it..." I smiled..
Forte nodded, and stepped in. The pod sealed instantly.
"Just relax..." I grinned, as the fluid overcame Forte's body, and he floated lifelessly in it.
I then began to walk to the last pod.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Thomas-=-
"They what!?" I shouted.
Roll nodded. "They killed Rock and Dynastu..." she was in tears, and she held onto me.
"They can't be dead..."
"They are, I saw it... That robot... Forte... I heard Dynastu's skull shatter... I saw the shots tear through Rock's chest, cutting him wide open..." Roll whined.
I gulped. "Then what?"
"Forte just... stopped. He took the two bodies, and flew off..."
"Flew off? Mabye we can track them down..." I muttered.
"They went towards the old mountain... You know, the one where the mines used to be..." Roll brightened just slightly.
"O... Okay, mabye it'll work..." I nodded. "Comeon, there's a chopper on the roof..."
* * * * * *
-=-Wily-=-
I reached up for the door of the pod, when I heard a strange rumbling coming from the very back of the cavern.
Slowly, I turned. A couple stones fell away, revealing an opening. There was a bright green glow, the color of the fluid that was being used in the other tanks.
I stepped away from my pod, and walked towards the strange light. Yes, it was the glow of a pod, the viewpoint just a bit higher then eye level. I moved some stones, and stood up to see in.
There was somebody in it. He was floating in a strange green liquid, his hair floating gently around his face in the fluid. The hair, through the liquid, was a shade of dark purple, the same shade I had seen in the hair of Amyrth.
I looked at the face, so calm, but I could sense an imense power.
I focused on the closed eyes. I wondered if this may very well be one of Amyrth's relatives...
Then suddenly, the eyes opened.
It was a cold shade of purple, mixed with black in one eye, and I felt my body being forced backwards by some unknown power. My old body slammed into the rocks at the back wall of the cavern.
The rest of the rock flew away, as the pod emptied itself and opened. A tall man stepped out, the dark purple hair flowing down his back, and his body was covered in a pair of dark jeans, nothing else, revealing incredibly strong muscles and a well-scarred body, a strange black mark on the upper left arm.
"Finally... Thank you for awakening me..." the man spoke. His voice was deep, terrifying, and I knew what was about to come.
I reached for my holster. I always carried a weapon, and I prayed to god it would work. I raised the pistol and fired.
The man, somehow, caught the bullet with the palm of his hand, it seemed, and I saw it drop straight to the ground, as if it had been caught and dropped.
"How... Who...?" I gasped out.
"Wily, you go about world destruction all wrong..." the man laughed, as he walked over.
I fired three more times.
I saw the bullets wizz through the air, and he was gone.
Then a strong fist blow to my chest, and a knife from out of no where that sliced through my throat.
"For releasing me, you die quick..." the man smiled, as my life dissapeared.
* * * * * * * *
-=-Roll-=-
I ran into the large cavern, and saw the pods.
Six of them, five of them filled. One with Amyrth, one with Forte. Another with a strange man who looked similar to Amyrth, and another with Protoman. The last held my brother, the blood turning bits of the green fluid crimson.
Then I saw Wily beside me, his neck slit and his body definately dead. I wondered what had happened.
I looked at the pods, as Light walked up beside me.
"I see them... Cyrogenics..." he said. "I don't know, but these pods will be sealed..." he walked over to a keyboard. "For about for a couple hundred years..."
"What!?" I shouted, running over to my brother's pod. I looked at him, he was so pathetic.
"I... I can't stand it..." I cried. "Light, can't you do anything?"
"No... I'm afraid I can't..." Light sighed. "Listen, if you care so much for your brother, I can seal you up too..."
"A... Alright..." Roll nodded. "Put me in there..."
~To Be Continued