Megaman's eyes glared, as did Zero's and Protoman's. Yamagatchi laughed, then pulled out a gun. "You people are all too easy. Now, your people are dead, and mine will win. You should have joined my side, Zero. You're purpose is so close to mine."
Zero responded with the finger.
Yamagatchi's hand squeezed the trigger, but Protoman jumped to grab it. The beam went upwards, and hurt no one. Protoman held the trigger at Yamagatchi.
Computo gave a mew. Yamagatchi laughed. "Your cat knows what's wrong, moron," Yamagatchi said, firing an electro-magnetic blast at Protoman. Protoman fell, his helmet rolling off his head. His expression was shocked, but in a way, relieved. Megaman's heart skipped a beat.
"You can't do that!" Megaman cried. "You'd have to be a…."
"Robot," Yamagatchi agreed, holding his own face. He snatched it off, revealing a wiry head, with metal in every which direction. "And so I am. I am perfection. I want more perfection." He fired a blast at Computo Cat, who dodged with grace. "And you all are far from perfect."
Megaman growled as he charged up. Zero did the same. Yamagatchi fired another blast, but the Megaman slid underneath it, and Zero dashed out of the way.
Megaman and Zero fired sitimulessly. Yamagatchi cursed, and Zero fired again. Megaman watched helplessly as Yamagatchi's wrist flickered. The walls of the tower came crashing down, and the room was suddenly exposed. A power core lay underneath them, growing and swelling with energy.
"You see?" Yamagatchi cried. "This is useless! Soon, this will swell and destroy the entire-"
Megaman reached up and grasped Yamagatchi's neck. "I. Do. Not. Care." His eyes were cold. "You've killed, slaughtered, and destroyed carelessly. You say perfection, but you still use the same techniques that Wily pulled off, when it comes down to it. But unlike you, Wily was a lot more humane. I'd rather have him in this position than you."
Yamagatchi's eyes held no fear. Instead, they held triumph. His palm was up, exposed. Megaman threw him into the core. The blast hit Megaman's foot, which stopped working instantly.
Trinity flew down, along with Forte. Forte looked up at Megaman. "Trinity says he's got another body. And another. And another. She says there's no stopping him. He expected this."
Trinity made no movement. "There's only one thing to do," she said quietly. "You've got to shut him down with a command. I don't know it so well."
"Take Computo out of here," Megaman said. "You won't have to come back." Trinity nodded, and Computo jumped up in her arms as she flew away, only taking one last look. "I'm sorry," she whispered to the night.
Yamagatchi appeared on top of the desk this time. He had not bothered donning human clothes- instead, his body was covered every inch with guns or weapons. Zero charged up again, and Forte let out a yell.
"Command: Override! Yamagatchi ended! Password: Q-U-L-N-T-"
Yamagatchi teleported over to Forte and elbow chopped his back, causing him to drop to the ground. Forte was left speechless.
"Z," Zero responded, finishing the code. Yamagatchi's arms shuddered, as he fought the programming. Zero stood, angrily charging up his Z-buster. Megaman looked from Zero to Yamagatchi, and Yamagatchi smiled.
"I'll still have time to kill you all off," he said quietly. He pointed an arm cannon at Forte. With horror, Zero leaped into the air, and Megaman was paralyzed from the blow. He made some movement, but it wasn't good enough. Zero's blow came two seconds too late. Forte's eyes shown bitter defeat, yet the victorious cry of one who has been beaten several times. They showed this, and he looked from Zero to Megaman, and his head exploded in blood.
Zero was flung back and his the ground. He was covered in blood as he looked down at his hands, his eyes narrowing. Megaman charged up, his arm burning.
He knew the reason. It was for his desire to help people. It burned when Trinity was hurting Joe, when the Hawk was killing innocent people, when Trinity was attacking Terry. His eyes filled with tears, and in his mind, he saw Marie give her last breath to fight, as she fell. He saw Brandon, as he lay dead with Larry and Terry, the yellow team missing one person. He saw the kids dead, sprawled everywhere. He saw Light dead, with Protoman watching. He saw Lui dead and Charity getting chopped. He resaw Tango die, and watched Forte's memories as Wily whispered to Zero, then lay down. He saw Roll helplessly teleport Protoman away, then watched only to have Protoman killed by Yamagatchi. He saw the children who should have been playing, the parents who were dying, and Joe, dead as well. He remembered Chaos's words. "I'll miss you forever, boy… and so will the world." With all that, in less than a second, his Arm Cannon could no longer take it, and the biggest super-shot he could possibly make hit Yamagatchi. Yamagatchi suddenly had a big hole in his stomach, and looked at Megaman.
"You…are…perfection…." He whispered, falling over, dead. Zero looked at Megaman, who collapsed with exhaustion. The core powered down, and the moon shown bright as the clock struck midnight. Megaman took off his helmet, and started crying.
Several miles away, Trinity and Computo watched the core go blank. Trinity gave a smile as she threw her helmet up in celebration. Computo fired an explosive force-field, big enough for everyone to see.
Marie looked up at the sky and smiled. dying. In heaven, so did many others.
"I've failed them," Megaman said, crying. "I failed them all."
Zero blinked, his Z-buster transforming back into a hand. "How do you suppose that, Megaman?" he asked, genuinely surprised.
"I let them die," Megaman said, crying. "I failed them. I let them all die."
Zero nodded, his Z-buster reappearing once again. As he fired at Megaman, Yamagatchi's fist threw another electo-magnetic wave. Megaman was stuck and he fell three hectometers into the ground, face-first.
Zero was shut off.
AftermathWhen Zero reawakened, he was in a warehouse. He couldn't remember who he was, or where he was from, but there was an image that haunted his mind. As he thought about it, it was about a blue robot who had fallen several meters. His eyes were blue, but not surprised, and they were filled with a sort of happiness. They somehow were filled with purpose and kindness, as if the robot had seen a vision, a grand vision. The vision seemed to reflect in his eyes, there were people all around him, and he happily greeted a woman and an old man. Someone who he thought he knew was in the picture, with his helmet off, standing by an old man who also looked happy. Zero blinked and the image faded away.
Suddenly, the door of the warehouse opened, and a bald, green robot with flashy white hipgaurds entered.