Author's Note: I haven't played a lot of Capcom games (Other than Mega Man
and Street Fighter), so don't complain if I screw up on other character
profiles. Anyway, this maybe a cartoon/video game crossover of Mega Man
and some other characters from Capcom (Not cartoon related for those of you
who don't want too much cartoon/gaming crossovers), but later in the
fanfic, there will be another crossover. Plus, this is mostly a spin off
the MM manga, meaning the Robot Masters from the first game are on Rock's
side.
A slight warning those who visit the Mega Man Homepage and read the fanfic series (Although I should've stuck this up when I first posted this fanfic), this has NOTHING to do with the "Land of Confusion" fanfic written by Mandy Paugh. That particular fanfic inspired me to make this cartoon/game crossover. So to be honest, I WASN'T the first person who came up with the idea of having the adult Mega Man meet his child-like prodigy in another dimension. But I suppose you already knew that.
Revising Note: New ideas replace the old. I've taken out a lot of confusing plots and replaced them with ones that are HOPEFULLY understandable. I hope this revised chapter doesn't damage what I've previously written when I posted this fanfic.
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Disasters of the Unexpected
It rarely rains or storm in summer on the planet of Capcom. But it wasn't just the rain that confused everyone. There had been reports of a skull-shaped object coming out of the cloud and flying away. When the first person reported this, the police thought he was crazy until more people started reporting the same thing.
Hearing this, most of the city knew that Wily had somehow gotten out of prison and stayed hidden in the storm cloud for sometime before he chose a time to attack. It wasn't until the prison guards claimed Wily is still in his cell, moping that something was wrong. And to add to that horror, the minute everyone found out Wily hadn't really escaped, robots resembling those of Dr. Light's (minus Mega Man) have ambushed most of the streets, scaring everyone and making them think they came from some parallel universe where good robots turn bad.
* * *
Rock came out of a video game store in a mall in Capcom-Tokyo, wearing a sky blue t-shirt, baggy jeans and white sneakers. With Wily in prison, he had a lot of free-time to fool around like any typical Middle School-type kid wandering the mall, looking for toys, games and comic books.
He was about to leave when a blue streak suddenly crashed through the window and slammed into a potted plant on the other side of the mall. This startled him and half the people walking by the area. A crowd started to form around the dust as it started to clear up around the object that skyrocketed out of nowhere. Once the object came into view, everyone but Rock's forehead turned blue with fear.
Lying in the mixture of porcelain and potting soil was what looked like Rock's true identity, Mega Man, only older and muscular. Rock knew what's been going on all day with all this evil alter ego stuff sticking fear on people's faces, but somehow, he felt as though his adult twin didn't appear to be the evil, kill things for a living kind of robot everyone would claim him to be.
"If that robot's different from all the others attacking the city, I'd better be leaving before he wakes up." came a sudden voice that nearly sent Rock two feet off the ground in shock. He turns around to see Blues standing behind him with his arms crossed and his shield missing.
"Since when do you come to a mall?" Rock asked, "aside from playing video games at Dr. Light's house and the local arcade in Capcom-Tokyo, we rarely see you anywhere else."
"Old scarf isn't what it used to be anymore," Blues said, pointing at his all but shredded scarf laying limp around his neck, "I figured it was time to get a new one, hopefully one that can stand being in the wind more than this old rag."
"You really need to spend some more time indoor," Rock mumbled, "Pretty soon, you'll spend so much time outside, you wouldn't know what a soft bed is anymore."
Blues frumped, then dropped his elbow on Rock's shoulder, using him as a robo-human elbow rest.
"Hey, this 'outsider' saved you from death a million times," he grinned, "Don't go telling me what's good and bad."
Then, they heard groaning and looked at the ground to see Mega's face twitching as he placed his hand on his head and shook it.
"Whoa, what a haul," he moaned, "I thought I was going to be torn apart." Mega opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was a bunch of terrified eyes staring at him. He then gulped, "Something tells me I'm not in Kansas anymore...."
He gets up and looks around the frightened crowd. Once he got to his feet, the crowd started to back away, causing him to cringe slightly.
"Um...I don't suppose any of you could tell me where I am," he asked, nervously. No one spoke. This made him even more nervous, "W-what? Was it something I did?" he took a step forward and everyone scattered, screaming and crying for help. Mega was left there, looking around, not only confused, but startled as well.
"I wouldn't be surprised," Blues muttered, "since my counterpart started attacking the city, it's only natural that everyone has something against him."
"Hey! What's that supposed to..." Mega turned around to find no one behind him.
"Look down." Mega did so and saw Blues with his elbow still on Rock's shoulder. His appearance startled Mega as he stumbled back and pointed his plasma cannon at him.
"W-What...What're you...!?" he stuttered. This kind of reaction didn't faze Blues one bit. He just snorted and took his elbow off Rock's shoulder.
"Don't worry, I'm just leaving," he said, then eyed Rock behind his visor, "Good luck talking to your twin."
"Hey!" before Rock had a chance to argue, Blues left.
The minute Blues was out of sight, a bomb appeared out of nowhere and exploded between Rock and Mega, the force shoving them away from each other as a crater was left in the smoke it left.
"Convenient!" came a voice, "I come here to raise hell in this mall and Mega Man just happens to 'drop in' when things were about to become a 'blast'! Well, I can fix that!"
The two looked up to see a larger Bomb Man standing on the banister of the second floor, tossing a bomb up and down in his hand. He throws another bomb at Mega who kicked it back at its thrower, whacking him in the face a second before it exploded. Once the smoke cleared, Bomb Man's butt pressed against the glass of the nearly blown banister with his feet high in the air.
"Your butt couldn't look better against glass, Bomb Man!" Mega said with a sheepish grin.
Bomb Man jumped to his feet and leaned over the banister, holding another bomb in his hand. "So that's how you want to play it, Mega Jerk!?" he yelled, "So be it! In case you haven't noticed, there happens to be someone who hasn't started running like the other people in this mall!" he finished by eyeing Rock.
Mega noticed Rock hadn't moved since the blast. He turned back to Bomb Man, "Leave him out of this! What has he done to you!?"
"Why, just standing there and watching me turn this mall into a pile of concrete and poles. Isn't that doing something?" Bomb Man laughed. With that, he hurls the bomb towards Rock who panicked and ran off before the bomb hit the ground he stood on and exploded. Bomb Man laughed again, "This is more entertaining than trying to blast you! The kid looked tough up to the point where I threw the bomb!"
Bomb Man arched his arm back to throw another bomb when he suddenly felt the ground leave his feet. He looked down to find out he was three feet off the ground.and rising. He looked up to see Beat struggling to pull him further off the ground.
"Hey! What...put me down, ya egg-shaped bird!" Bomb Man yelled. Beat looked at him and Bomb Man almost thought he saw a bird-like grin before looking down to find he was no longer hanging over the second floor. In fact, he was now an inch from the other side of the banister, leading some 10 feet to the ground where he had been throwing his bombs. He panicked, "W-wait! I change my mind! Don't put me down!"
Beat chirped what sounded like "too late" and lets go. Bomb Man screamed while flapping his arms and legs before winding up with his head stuck in the bottom floor and his hands and feet flying in the air in various places, muffling swear words too harsh for anyone to want to hear.
"Whoa. Bested by a bird? That's not like you, Bomb Man," Mega grinned, despite seeing some familiarities on Beat as he flew off.
Bomb Man yanked his head out of the ground and fell on his rump, rubbing his tomahawk, "Oh! That stupid bird! I'll blow him to pieces for this!" he opened his eyes to see the bomb land in his lap. He screamed two seconds before the bomb exploded, leaving him in a pile of broken joints.
"You there! Stop!" came a voice. Mega turned to see an army of policemen and robots coming towards him. Panicked, he turned and ran off. Rock just stood there, wondering if his double could really be trustworthy or not.
* * *
Rock explained everything to Dr. Light when he got home. He was both intrigued and baffled at who was now on whose side.
"This is very interesting," Dr. Light muttered, "Like the news report said, we may be facing evil beings that resemble us."
"I don't know," Rock said, "One of them seemed to be different from all those other robots that tried to raise pandemonium."
"Yes, that other Mega Man you mentioned earlier. What I want to know is what these robots are doing here and why they want to attack us."
Dr. Light went over to the computer and began typing until a map of Capcom-Tokyo appeared on the screen with several dots flashing.
"I managed to program this radar to pinpoint all of the robots that aren't from this world," Dr. Light explained, "There seems to be a big cluster over in the park in the west. That's probably where their rendezvous point is. Try and find out what they're doing by any means possible. Even if you have to act like you're on their side temporarily."
This was something that would make Rock very uncomfortable. He didn't have the skills of being a spy like Blues did when he played Wily's little game to save Kalinka during the fourth time Capcom-Tokyo was under attack. What are the chances he'll ever get any information if he had to play "double-crosser" for a while?
* * *
Rock, wearing his fighting uniform, watched from a tree branch in the location where Dr. Light had told him the altered Robot Masters would be hiding in. The park was dark at this time of night, making it easy for him to try and slip through without being detected, but he wasn't sure how long this would last before he was discovered and probably destroyed before he had a chance to explain.
Following the sound of some talking, Rock continued to jump branches until he found what looked like an electrical lamp serving as some kind of campfire in front of what looked like a chasm with a downhill leading to the mouth of some underground cave. In the brightness of the light, he saw three robots standing outside the chasm, two of them resembling the Guts Man and Cut Man he grew up long enough to call them "brothers". The third one resembled Dark Man.
"How much longer are we going to be stuck out here?" Guts Man complained, "It's as dark as the cave and I'm bored."
"You heard Wily," Cut Man said, "Since Mega Man is obviously here, we have to make sure he doesn't accidentally find this place. If he does, he could ruin Wily's plans and we'll be in serious trouble."
Guts Man snorted and walked over to the tree Rock stood on, "I don't see what the big deal is. It could take him weeks to find this place. Oh, I'm so bored, I could pound something!" he finished by slamming his fist against a tree without looking at it, causing it to jolt and fall over, taking Rock with it.
The minute the tree hit the ground, both Cut Man and Dark Man jumped to their feet.
"Did you hear something?" Cut Man asked, "It sounded like someone screaming."
"Bah, I didn't hear anything," Guts Man grunted, "The tree made so much noise, anything could've made a sound."
Rock, hidden behind the leaves of the tree, took this opportunity to try and sneak away. Unfortunately the sound of leaves rustling got Guts Man's attention as he turned to the knocked over tree and caught him trying to crawl away.
"Hey! I see someone!" he cried. Dark Man reacted by throwing a ball of electrical energy in the direction Guts Man pointed in. There was a flash behind the mess of tree leaves. Guts Man reached into the leaves and hauled Rock out, trying to get out of the electrical barrier that surrounded him.
"Ha! Is that Mega Man?" Cut Man asked, walking towards the Guts Man's "prize".
"If it is, he sure has shrunk," Dark Man said, "Almost as if he fell in the Fountain of Youth for robots."
"I don't know. There's something about this kid that separates him from Mega Man," Guts Man said, "I bet Wily'll know what to do with him."
* * *
"A miniature Mega Man?" a German-accented Wily muttered as he walked towards Rock who just sat in his electrical prison held by Dark Man with his arms and legs crossed, frumping.
"Huh! He looks like a kid to me," Proto snorted.
"Maybe, but if he's a resemblance to Mega Man, he'll be just as powerful," he then grinned, turning his attention back to Rock, "I'm so happy you could show up."
"Yeah? I don't see it." Rock grumbled. A vein appeared on Wily's forehead, but he tried to ignore the remark.
"Uh...Dark Man, why don't you release him so we can have a more comfortable conversation." Dark Man just looked at Wily before ripping the electrical barrier open and dropping Rock hard on his rump.
"Now," he continued as Rock got on his knees and rubbed where he had fallen, "I have a favor to ask of you. You see, we come from a world much like yours, but different. In our world, we are the good guys and Dr. Light, I'm sure you've heard of him, he's the evil maniac trying to take over the world. We've escaped through a portal and wound up here, but Dr. Light doesn't want us to live, so he's sent his robot through the portal after us. And he's currently tearing up the city, looking for us as we speak."
"But weren't your robots the one that nearly tore up Capcom-Tokyo earlier?" Rock asked. He knew what really happened, but thought it would be a lot more fun if he acted like he didn't. Plus, he could complete his mission faster by doing this. Wily cleared his throat and fiddled with his red necktie, looking a bit hesitant.
"Oh...you saw?" he asked, "Well, I'm very sorry. My robots are a little rambunctious when they show up in a world they've never seen before." Proto just stared at him, sneering at the sound of being called "rambunctious", "Anyway, I'm sure you must be more powerful than your...evil twin. I'm sure with your help, we can stop him once and for all. Oh, and there is another thing I'd like you to do. If it isn't too much trouble, I would like your Dr. Light to build us a portal back to our world. Dr. Light is currently building an army of evil robots to overthrow the government and all of the united leaders of the world. If we don't go back there and stop him, the city will crumble and I fear not even my strongest robots can stop him."
Rock was glade he isn't totally lost with what he saw so far. Otherwise, he really would've had complied and suffered the consequences of letting a parallel world fall under the wrong hands.
A batonton flew up to the trio. It flashes a projector, showing Mega hiding behind a row of hedges while a group of policemen ran past it, unaware that he was there.
"What's this!? Mega Man's standing directly over this cave!?" Wily nearly wailed.
"I-is that bad?" Rock asked.
"Of course it is!" Wily began yanking at his hair, "If he finds a way in, he'll ruin everything!"
Scared out of his mind, Wily ran over to the communication room, Proto and Rock following behind. Wily punches in some numbers next to the door. The door registered a chorus of beeps before the door slid open.
Wily ran inside the communications room with Proto behind and grabs the microphone under a huge computer screen, "Scramble all robots! Mega Man is in the vicinity! Make sure he doesn't get in!"
Wily began typing on the keyboard, bringing up cameras in each cavern doorway that could serve as a hiding place if intruders were ever spotted. But when the ninth and final camera came up, the whole underground hideout's power went dead, nearly turning it pitch black.
"What...what happened!?" Wily cried out.
"The power's out!" Proto yelled.
Wily slammed his fists on the keyboard and swings his finger towards the door, "Go turn it back on! QUICKLY!"
"What's going on?" Rock called out as he ran in after Proto ran out.
"Our power's been cut off!" Wily cried, "Without it, nothing in this base works!" he points at Rock, "Here is your first assignment! Go out there and make sure your evil twin doesn't find his way inside! Crush him if you have to! Just make sure he doesn't find me!"
Rock yelped and ran for the door, letting out a quick, "YES SIR!"
* * *
The batonton flew around the pathways of the cave, chirping along the way until a ball of fire slammed into its back. It screeched before hitting the ground, filling the area with silence.
Rock walked up to the batonton, switching his color scheme from red and yellow back to his original blue, "Sorry, bat ball, I'm take over this scouting assignment. And I don't need you getting in my way!" he finished by pointing his Mega-Buster at the nearly damaged batonton and blasting it into a pile of scrap.
He looks in front of him, seeing a cavern doorway standing near the smoldering spot where the batonton used to be. Rock ran inside the cavern, seeing everything but a foot of ground sticking out of the walls and cavern entrance surrounded by stalactites and a wide lake. He could hear some faint voices from the surface of the underground cave. Most likely the voices of the policemen searching the surface.
"That psycho version of my brother'll find the power box I weld shut and turn the power back on. I'll need to get my own twin down here before that happens." Rock mumbled to himself as he switched to a gray and white color. A bomb appeared in Rock's left hand as he hurls as far as he could.
* * *
From the surface of the cave, Mega crouched behind the tall hedges surrounding a tree. Three more policemen ran by the hedges, not one of them noticing their would-be fugitive was right under their nose as they passed.
"I don't understand," Mega mumbled, "I crash into a mall, and everyone's running in terror like I'm some dangerous serial killer."
Suddenly, an explosion erupted below Mega, almost causing him to jump out of his hiding spot. The three policemen that were walking away from the hedges heard it and stopped moving.
"Did you hear that!?" one of them asked.
"Sounds like an explosion," He turned around, seeing bits of smoke coming out of the hedges, "It came from that tree!"
"Crude!" Mega seethed under his breath. He began to back away as the three policemen went back to investigate, worried that they would find him. But when he dropped his hands behind him, the ground gave way, dropping him down a hole.
The policemen came up to the hedges, seeing nothing but a hole in front of the tree.
"There's nothing but a hole," the third said.
"Some punk must've set a land mine in the cave somewhere. We'll get him after we find that Mega Man imposter." The three turned and walked off.
* * *
Mega dropped into the cavern, trapped between a pile of dirt and rocks. As he was falling, he caught what looked like a shorter version of himself standing near the door before landing in the lake beneath him with a big splash.
Once the water went calm, Mega came up, putting a hand on the side of his head, looking towards the hole he fell through.
"Great," he grumbled, "And here's me without a scuba suit."
Mega takes his hand off his head and turns towards the mouth of the cavern, seeing nothing but a foot of ground in front of the archway.
"What was that, anyway? I could've sworn I saw a midget version of myself watching me fall down a hole."
Mega frowns slightly and swims towards the edge of the ground, pulling himself out of the lake and walking towards the doorway. When he came out of the water cavern, he saw a camera and several electrical lights strewn along the corner ceilings of the wall.
"Look's like someone else has been here," Mega said. He was about to move when the lights flickered on one by one. Mega followed them to the camera, which started to jitter and slowly move around.
* * *
Rock walked into the communication room. Wily saw him and turned around.
"Well?" he asked.
"I looked everywhere," Rock said, "But I haven't seen any sign of that alter ego of mine."
After finishing, the power kicked back on as all nine of the cameras came back to life as well as the lights in the communication room. Proto came back in a minute later.
"I found the problem, Doc," he began, "When I found the power box to this base, it was welded shut. I had to tear it off to fix the problem."
Suddenly, the alarms went off. Everyone turned to the monitors to see Mega pointing his plasma cannon at the camera and blast it off.
"What!? It's Mega Man!" Wily wailed.
"But that's impossible! I already checked that area! He couldn't have shown up there!" Rock yelled.
"He must've shown up after you left," Wily grabbed his head and began rubbing it until his hair became messier than it already was, "Oh, this is a disaster! If he bombs the communication room, the whole base will go up in smoke! Then with no one to stop him, Dr. Light will be able to take over the world!"
This began to worry Rock. He knew Mega saw him just before landing in the lake. If Mega shows up and points him out by appearance, Wily will realize he helped his alter ego.
While wanting to fight his alter ego was going to momentarily have Mega think everyone was against him, he felt he didn't have much of a choice. Aside from that, Rock thought it would be fun to fight...himself, seeing what kind of capabilities he has against what he was originally built with.
"Let me fight him," he nearly stuttered. Proto just glared at him.
"Now just a minute here, kid," he said, arms crossed, "First of all, no one fights Mega Man but me. Second of all, why should we let you fight? You were the one who returned with the report! What if you're the one who let my brother in here!?"
"But I told you I didn't see him come in! I swear! And besides, what's the fun in having to sit back and watch Hothead Man...." Rock thrusts his thumb in Proto's direction for bold vulgarity, "...destroy him for me."
"What was that, you little...!" Proto threatened to strangle Rock when Wily threw his hand in front of him.
"No. Let the boy have his fun," Wily grinned, "I want to see just how powerful he really is."
"Cool!" Rock said, "Don't worry, Doc. That alter ego's so wimpy, he couldn't last five minutes against me!" he turns around and runs off.
Once Rock was out of sight, Wily turned to Proto, "What a fool. And to think this world depends on him to save them from my own clone."
"It isn't fair, Wily! I keep telling you I wanted to destroy Mega Man! Not that little upstart of a brat! Besides, if we send him out there to fight my brother, they'll soon realize who's on the wrong side and gang up on us."
"Don't be ridiculous, Proto Man. Did you see how eager that boy is to destroy Mega Man? He probably doesn't have a single power cell in his brain. And once Dr. Light finishes building a portal out of here, we could easily take over the world without that real nuisance getting in our way."
"No one's THAT stupid. That kid is up to something. He probably begged us to fight Mega Man just to warn him about us."
"I seriously doubt that, Proto. But to make sure he doesn't do anything that would damage our 'partnership', we should go and see how the battles going."
* * *
Mega had been running around the cave, looking for a way out while blasting any camera that saw him running up or down the path. It wasn't until he ran into Guts Man and Cut Man in a wide area of the cave that trouble was about to start.
"H-How did you get in here!?" Cut Man whined.
"Who cares!? We have to stop him before he finds the communication room and destroy it!" Guts Man yelled as he charged at Mega and swung his arm only to see him duck and leg sweep him onto his back.
"Didn't you hear?" Mega asked, getting up, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And you fit that category."
"Ha! You may think so, but I won't make much of a racket, especially since I won't be the one on the floor when I'm done with you!" Cut Man fired a pair of cutting blades from his cannon. Mega sidestepped it as it flew past him and bounced off a stalagmite in the distance.
"You need to learn how to aim, Cut Man," Mega said as he blasted Cut Man in the chest, knocking him onto Guts Man. He then stood there, staring at the two Wily bots, "I knew something smelled. And it wasn't the lake. I'd better stop Wily before he tries anything."
"You're not going anywhere!"
"Huh!?" Mega turned around to see a blue fist fly into his face, knocking him into another stalagmite and crumble to the ground.
"Sizzling circuits! What hit me!?" Mega cried out, shaking the dizziness from his head.
"You should've brought a flashlight. That way, you would've avoided that punch I threw!"
"Huh!?" Mega looked in front of him, seeing a blast flying in his direction. He yelped and rolled out of the way as the blast sailed past him and blew up the stalagmite he leaned against, "W-What's going on!?"
Mega was about to get up when a knee slammed into his chin and sent him flying back a few feet before hitting the ground.
"Gimme a break! That wasn't even 30 seconds. I could fall asleep doing this."
Mega sat up, rubbing where he had been hit and looks in front of him. He gasped when he saw Rock land in front of him.
"You're that kid I saw when I fell through that hole in the ceiling!"
"Nice to see someone remembers me! Now remember this!" Rock points his Mega-Buster at his now shocked and confused double.
"W-Wait a minute! What're you doing!?" Mega yelped.
"Saving Wily from the likes of you!" Rock said. He fires another blast, causing Mega to stumble away from it as the explosion left a crater in its place.
"What're you talking about?" Mega asked, getting up.
"I could tell you, but you won't be functioning long enough to download it into your memory banks!" Rock throws a punch only to see Mega sidestep it and grab it. He grinned, "Now that's what I've been waiting for since the start of this fight!"
"I don't know what Wily told you, but I'm not your enemy!" Mega tried to protest.
"Don't go telling me that, buster! I know how parallel universes are played. You're not fooling me!" Rock tightens his fist and spins around, swinging his fist over him and slamming Mega on his back, forcing him to let go of his wrist.
By the time Mega had opened his eyes, Rock had his foot pressed on his chest, his Mega-Buster aimed at his head and charging.
"You can't do this!" Mega yelled, "Wily's the one you should be after, not me!"
"Oh, tell me another!" Rock shouted, "I'm done playing with you. I'm ending it now!" in the back of his mind, Rock was practically begging Mega to retaliate.
Mega looked beside him, seeing Cut Man and Guts Man piled beside him, then back at Rock, seeing the nozzle of his buster sparking with charging plasma. He slowly stretched his left hand towards Cut Man and rested his hand on his arm, causing it to send a glowing outline down his arm as Cut Man's weapon data entered his mainframe.
"Come on! You attacking me or not?" Rock snarled, "If you don't do something, I'm going to blow your head off!"
Mega whips his blaster towards Rock's left shoulder and fired a pair of cutting blades, slamming into the shoulder blade and sending him flying off his chest and on his back, his arms and legs spread out as spark flew from where the cutting blade stabbed.
Sighing with relief, Mega gets up and walks over to his fallen clone, bending down to him, seeing his face twitch before his eyes shot open.
"I'm sorry I had disabled your blaster arm," Mega said, "but I needed to stop you before you make the biggest mistake of your life."
"On the contrary," Rock said with a grin, "You're the one who made a mistake!" before Mega could figure out what he meant, he whips out his right Mega-Buster and fires a charged shot. Mega couldn't dodge it fast enough and was sent flying into another stalagmite, crumbling to the ground.
Mega tried to get up, but the strength of the blast left him nearly crippled. Rock jumps to his feet, grabs the cutting blade sticking out of his left shoulder blade and rips it out, black fluid dripping from the sharp ends of the scissors and the puncture wound on his left shoulder.
"I guess I should've told you about my spare Buster," Rock said, dropping the cutting blade beside him.
"S-Spare Buster...?" Mega groaned, "You mean you have blasters on both arms!?"
"Looks like we each have our own differences. You have one buster gun that can copy any weapon you touch," Rock walked towards Mega, his right Mega-Buster pointed at his head, "But while I don't have that ability, I still have the firepower in both arms. Granted I won't be able to aim very well with my right Mega-Buster, but it still saves me from tough situations."
"Well, I see you met my new ally?" came a voice Mega knew all too well. Wily emerged from the cave, standing behind Rock, "Nice work for a first time. I could get used to having you in my robot army."
"You creep! What did you do to trick him!?" Mega spat.
"Trick him? Whatever do you mean? You are the one trying to trick him. I warned him of how you enjoy making life miserable for everyone in our world. He's willing to finish you off so that I can prevent anymore of Dr. Light's robots from taking over the city."
"What!?"
"Oops! I guess I let that little information slip. Well, I might as well tell before your clone annihilates you. See, when I told him about how Dr. Light wants to take over the world, he promised to have HIS Dr. Light build a portal back to our world." Wily then began to stretch out his mustache, "With you out of the way, Dr. Light won't stand a chance against my robot army and he will quickly surrender."
"You're planning to leave me here while you go back to our world and take it over in my absence!?" Mega cried. He then glared, "Forget calling you a creep! You're a lying, low-living piece of shit!"
"Ooh, swearing in front of a child?" Wily waved a finger back and forth, "I thought Dr. Light programmed you to be politer than that. But I do appreciate the complement. Now enough talk. Hurry up and destroy him!"
Rock aims his Mega-Buster at Mega's head, but didn't move. Mega noticed he was compressing his lips, a look of confusion replacing the evil grin he had plastered on his face earlier.
"What're you waiting for? A special dispensation to blow up robots!?" Wily roared, "Finish him off before he gains enough energy to get up!"
Rock stood there for a minute before lowering his Mega-Buster. Wily was about to yell at him when he turns around.
"I...I have a better idea," Rock said, "Instead of destroying him, why don't I take him back to Dr. Light? I'm sure Dr. Light could be able to reprogram him to be with his brother."
Wily gritted his teeth, growling, which slowly faded. He then scratched his chin.
"You know. That's not such a bad idea. You are building me a portal back to my world and you crippled Mega Man. It's only fair I give you something in return."
"You can't!" Mega yelled, "By building a portal back to his world, you're allowing him to take over!"
Proto stood next to Mega and yanks him off the ground, "Cheer up, bro. At least this time, you'll enjoy working with us for once." As he left with Mega in tow, he gave Rock a hateful smirk. Once the two were out of sight, Wily turned to Rock, noticing the gash on his shoulder blade.
"That looks painful." Wily said, acting like he was concerned.
"It's nothing Dr. Light can't fix," Rock said, covering the gash on his left shoulder, "Don't worry, Wily. I'll be back tomorrow with the a newly repaired arm and the portal."
"No. I want that portal built here."
"Here? But if I don't have this arm repaired, I won't be able to use both busters."
Wily grabs Rock by the shoulders and almost yanks him to his face, "Listen, kid. I may trust you, but I don't have faith in you." He then squeezes Rock's left shoulder, causing the sparks to worsen, seeing him bite back the urge to scream, but could hear him groan in agony, "I know when to be careful around suspicious characters. Come to the communications room when you're ready and call Dr. Light to this location. I'll have my robots on watch until he gets here." He got closer to Rock, seeing him cringe slightly from both the pain and the look on his face, "I don't want to destroy my new ally an hour after he had proven his loyalty to me."
Wily smiles and releases his grip on Rock, seeing him drop to his hands and knees, grabbing his shoulder blade and breathing heavily. Satisfied, he walks off, leaving Rock in the middle of the cave. Once alone, the blue warrior began fingering the gash Wily had squeezed, looking at the stalactites hanging off the ceiling. With his left arm non- functioning due to the cutting blade, Rock's plan of getting both he and Mega out in one piece was going to be harder than he wanted. But he couldn't just leave his clone alone in the cave waiting to be reprogrammed. He had to do something.
OOC: I thought this idea would be better than my first. I just hope that no one finds it offensive that I would have decided to delay Mega's trust towards his midget double. Not for long.
Next Chapter: Rock ditches the stupid act and blows up Wily's base after getting the information he needed. But not before restoring Mega back to health and helping him escape. Thinking that Rock had been caught in the blast, Wily's first order of business was to bomb the very mall Mega showed up in. But when Bomb Man realizes that Rock is still alive and hanging around the mall with Guts, Cut and Mega, all wearing disguises, he does more than plant a bomb somewhere in the mall. How will Rock be able to deal with Bomb Man without having to turn into Mega Man in front of a fleeing crowd? Will Mega have to shed his disguise and prove to everyone he isn't as dangerous as reports lead him to believe?
A slight warning those who visit the Mega Man Homepage and read the fanfic series (Although I should've stuck this up when I first posted this fanfic), this has NOTHING to do with the "Land of Confusion" fanfic written by Mandy Paugh. That particular fanfic inspired me to make this cartoon/game crossover. So to be honest, I WASN'T the first person who came up with the idea of having the adult Mega Man meet his child-like prodigy in another dimension. But I suppose you already knew that.
Revising Note: New ideas replace the old. I've taken out a lot of confusing plots and replaced them with ones that are HOPEFULLY understandable. I hope this revised chapter doesn't damage what I've previously written when I posted this fanfic.
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Disasters of the Unexpected
It rarely rains or storm in summer on the planet of Capcom. But it wasn't just the rain that confused everyone. There had been reports of a skull-shaped object coming out of the cloud and flying away. When the first person reported this, the police thought he was crazy until more people started reporting the same thing.
Hearing this, most of the city knew that Wily had somehow gotten out of prison and stayed hidden in the storm cloud for sometime before he chose a time to attack. It wasn't until the prison guards claimed Wily is still in his cell, moping that something was wrong. And to add to that horror, the minute everyone found out Wily hadn't really escaped, robots resembling those of Dr. Light's (minus Mega Man) have ambushed most of the streets, scaring everyone and making them think they came from some parallel universe where good robots turn bad.
* * *
Rock came out of a video game store in a mall in Capcom-Tokyo, wearing a sky blue t-shirt, baggy jeans and white sneakers. With Wily in prison, he had a lot of free-time to fool around like any typical Middle School-type kid wandering the mall, looking for toys, games and comic books.
He was about to leave when a blue streak suddenly crashed through the window and slammed into a potted plant on the other side of the mall. This startled him and half the people walking by the area. A crowd started to form around the dust as it started to clear up around the object that skyrocketed out of nowhere. Once the object came into view, everyone but Rock's forehead turned blue with fear.
Lying in the mixture of porcelain and potting soil was what looked like Rock's true identity, Mega Man, only older and muscular. Rock knew what's been going on all day with all this evil alter ego stuff sticking fear on people's faces, but somehow, he felt as though his adult twin didn't appear to be the evil, kill things for a living kind of robot everyone would claim him to be.
"If that robot's different from all the others attacking the city, I'd better be leaving before he wakes up." came a sudden voice that nearly sent Rock two feet off the ground in shock. He turns around to see Blues standing behind him with his arms crossed and his shield missing.
"Since when do you come to a mall?" Rock asked, "aside from playing video games at Dr. Light's house and the local arcade in Capcom-Tokyo, we rarely see you anywhere else."
"Old scarf isn't what it used to be anymore," Blues said, pointing at his all but shredded scarf laying limp around his neck, "I figured it was time to get a new one, hopefully one that can stand being in the wind more than this old rag."
"You really need to spend some more time indoor," Rock mumbled, "Pretty soon, you'll spend so much time outside, you wouldn't know what a soft bed is anymore."
Blues frumped, then dropped his elbow on Rock's shoulder, using him as a robo-human elbow rest.
"Hey, this 'outsider' saved you from death a million times," he grinned, "Don't go telling me what's good and bad."
Then, they heard groaning and looked at the ground to see Mega's face twitching as he placed his hand on his head and shook it.
"Whoa, what a haul," he moaned, "I thought I was going to be torn apart." Mega opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was a bunch of terrified eyes staring at him. He then gulped, "Something tells me I'm not in Kansas anymore...."
He gets up and looks around the frightened crowd. Once he got to his feet, the crowd started to back away, causing him to cringe slightly.
"Um...I don't suppose any of you could tell me where I am," he asked, nervously. No one spoke. This made him even more nervous, "W-what? Was it something I did?" he took a step forward and everyone scattered, screaming and crying for help. Mega was left there, looking around, not only confused, but startled as well.
"I wouldn't be surprised," Blues muttered, "since my counterpart started attacking the city, it's only natural that everyone has something against him."
"Hey! What's that supposed to..." Mega turned around to find no one behind him.
"Look down." Mega did so and saw Blues with his elbow still on Rock's shoulder. His appearance startled Mega as he stumbled back and pointed his plasma cannon at him.
"W-What...What're you...!?" he stuttered. This kind of reaction didn't faze Blues one bit. He just snorted and took his elbow off Rock's shoulder.
"Don't worry, I'm just leaving," he said, then eyed Rock behind his visor, "Good luck talking to your twin."
"Hey!" before Rock had a chance to argue, Blues left.
The minute Blues was out of sight, a bomb appeared out of nowhere and exploded between Rock and Mega, the force shoving them away from each other as a crater was left in the smoke it left.
"Convenient!" came a voice, "I come here to raise hell in this mall and Mega Man just happens to 'drop in' when things were about to become a 'blast'! Well, I can fix that!"
The two looked up to see a larger Bomb Man standing on the banister of the second floor, tossing a bomb up and down in his hand. He throws another bomb at Mega who kicked it back at its thrower, whacking him in the face a second before it exploded. Once the smoke cleared, Bomb Man's butt pressed against the glass of the nearly blown banister with his feet high in the air.
"Your butt couldn't look better against glass, Bomb Man!" Mega said with a sheepish grin.
Bomb Man jumped to his feet and leaned over the banister, holding another bomb in his hand. "So that's how you want to play it, Mega Jerk!?" he yelled, "So be it! In case you haven't noticed, there happens to be someone who hasn't started running like the other people in this mall!" he finished by eyeing Rock.
Mega noticed Rock hadn't moved since the blast. He turned back to Bomb Man, "Leave him out of this! What has he done to you!?"
"Why, just standing there and watching me turn this mall into a pile of concrete and poles. Isn't that doing something?" Bomb Man laughed. With that, he hurls the bomb towards Rock who panicked and ran off before the bomb hit the ground he stood on and exploded. Bomb Man laughed again, "This is more entertaining than trying to blast you! The kid looked tough up to the point where I threw the bomb!"
Bomb Man arched his arm back to throw another bomb when he suddenly felt the ground leave his feet. He looked down to find out he was three feet off the ground.and rising. He looked up to see Beat struggling to pull him further off the ground.
"Hey! What...put me down, ya egg-shaped bird!" Bomb Man yelled. Beat looked at him and Bomb Man almost thought he saw a bird-like grin before looking down to find he was no longer hanging over the second floor. In fact, he was now an inch from the other side of the banister, leading some 10 feet to the ground where he had been throwing his bombs. He panicked, "W-wait! I change my mind! Don't put me down!"
Beat chirped what sounded like "too late" and lets go. Bomb Man screamed while flapping his arms and legs before winding up with his head stuck in the bottom floor and his hands and feet flying in the air in various places, muffling swear words too harsh for anyone to want to hear.
"Whoa. Bested by a bird? That's not like you, Bomb Man," Mega grinned, despite seeing some familiarities on Beat as he flew off.
Bomb Man yanked his head out of the ground and fell on his rump, rubbing his tomahawk, "Oh! That stupid bird! I'll blow him to pieces for this!" he opened his eyes to see the bomb land in his lap. He screamed two seconds before the bomb exploded, leaving him in a pile of broken joints.
"You there! Stop!" came a voice. Mega turned to see an army of policemen and robots coming towards him. Panicked, he turned and ran off. Rock just stood there, wondering if his double could really be trustworthy or not.
* * *
Rock explained everything to Dr. Light when he got home. He was both intrigued and baffled at who was now on whose side.
"This is very interesting," Dr. Light muttered, "Like the news report said, we may be facing evil beings that resemble us."
"I don't know," Rock said, "One of them seemed to be different from all those other robots that tried to raise pandemonium."
"Yes, that other Mega Man you mentioned earlier. What I want to know is what these robots are doing here and why they want to attack us."
Dr. Light went over to the computer and began typing until a map of Capcom-Tokyo appeared on the screen with several dots flashing.
"I managed to program this radar to pinpoint all of the robots that aren't from this world," Dr. Light explained, "There seems to be a big cluster over in the park in the west. That's probably where their rendezvous point is. Try and find out what they're doing by any means possible. Even if you have to act like you're on their side temporarily."
This was something that would make Rock very uncomfortable. He didn't have the skills of being a spy like Blues did when he played Wily's little game to save Kalinka during the fourth time Capcom-Tokyo was under attack. What are the chances he'll ever get any information if he had to play "double-crosser" for a while?
* * *
Rock, wearing his fighting uniform, watched from a tree branch in the location where Dr. Light had told him the altered Robot Masters would be hiding in. The park was dark at this time of night, making it easy for him to try and slip through without being detected, but he wasn't sure how long this would last before he was discovered and probably destroyed before he had a chance to explain.
Following the sound of some talking, Rock continued to jump branches until he found what looked like an electrical lamp serving as some kind of campfire in front of what looked like a chasm with a downhill leading to the mouth of some underground cave. In the brightness of the light, he saw three robots standing outside the chasm, two of them resembling the Guts Man and Cut Man he grew up long enough to call them "brothers". The third one resembled Dark Man.
"How much longer are we going to be stuck out here?" Guts Man complained, "It's as dark as the cave and I'm bored."
"You heard Wily," Cut Man said, "Since Mega Man is obviously here, we have to make sure he doesn't accidentally find this place. If he does, he could ruin Wily's plans and we'll be in serious trouble."
Guts Man snorted and walked over to the tree Rock stood on, "I don't see what the big deal is. It could take him weeks to find this place. Oh, I'm so bored, I could pound something!" he finished by slamming his fist against a tree without looking at it, causing it to jolt and fall over, taking Rock with it.
The minute the tree hit the ground, both Cut Man and Dark Man jumped to their feet.
"Did you hear something?" Cut Man asked, "It sounded like someone screaming."
"Bah, I didn't hear anything," Guts Man grunted, "The tree made so much noise, anything could've made a sound."
Rock, hidden behind the leaves of the tree, took this opportunity to try and sneak away. Unfortunately the sound of leaves rustling got Guts Man's attention as he turned to the knocked over tree and caught him trying to crawl away.
"Hey! I see someone!" he cried. Dark Man reacted by throwing a ball of electrical energy in the direction Guts Man pointed in. There was a flash behind the mess of tree leaves. Guts Man reached into the leaves and hauled Rock out, trying to get out of the electrical barrier that surrounded him.
"Ha! Is that Mega Man?" Cut Man asked, walking towards the Guts Man's "prize".
"If it is, he sure has shrunk," Dark Man said, "Almost as if he fell in the Fountain of Youth for robots."
"I don't know. There's something about this kid that separates him from Mega Man," Guts Man said, "I bet Wily'll know what to do with him."
* * *
"A miniature Mega Man?" a German-accented Wily muttered as he walked towards Rock who just sat in his electrical prison held by Dark Man with his arms and legs crossed, frumping.
"Huh! He looks like a kid to me," Proto snorted.
"Maybe, but if he's a resemblance to Mega Man, he'll be just as powerful," he then grinned, turning his attention back to Rock, "I'm so happy you could show up."
"Yeah? I don't see it." Rock grumbled. A vein appeared on Wily's forehead, but he tried to ignore the remark.
"Uh...Dark Man, why don't you release him so we can have a more comfortable conversation." Dark Man just looked at Wily before ripping the electrical barrier open and dropping Rock hard on his rump.
"Now," he continued as Rock got on his knees and rubbed where he had fallen, "I have a favor to ask of you. You see, we come from a world much like yours, but different. In our world, we are the good guys and Dr. Light, I'm sure you've heard of him, he's the evil maniac trying to take over the world. We've escaped through a portal and wound up here, but Dr. Light doesn't want us to live, so he's sent his robot through the portal after us. And he's currently tearing up the city, looking for us as we speak."
"But weren't your robots the one that nearly tore up Capcom-Tokyo earlier?" Rock asked. He knew what really happened, but thought it would be a lot more fun if he acted like he didn't. Plus, he could complete his mission faster by doing this. Wily cleared his throat and fiddled with his red necktie, looking a bit hesitant.
"Oh...you saw?" he asked, "Well, I'm very sorry. My robots are a little rambunctious when they show up in a world they've never seen before." Proto just stared at him, sneering at the sound of being called "rambunctious", "Anyway, I'm sure you must be more powerful than your...evil twin. I'm sure with your help, we can stop him once and for all. Oh, and there is another thing I'd like you to do. If it isn't too much trouble, I would like your Dr. Light to build us a portal back to our world. Dr. Light is currently building an army of evil robots to overthrow the government and all of the united leaders of the world. If we don't go back there and stop him, the city will crumble and I fear not even my strongest robots can stop him."
Rock was glade he isn't totally lost with what he saw so far. Otherwise, he really would've had complied and suffered the consequences of letting a parallel world fall under the wrong hands.
A batonton flew up to the trio. It flashes a projector, showing Mega hiding behind a row of hedges while a group of policemen ran past it, unaware that he was there.
"What's this!? Mega Man's standing directly over this cave!?" Wily nearly wailed.
"I-is that bad?" Rock asked.
"Of course it is!" Wily began yanking at his hair, "If he finds a way in, he'll ruin everything!"
Scared out of his mind, Wily ran over to the communication room, Proto and Rock following behind. Wily punches in some numbers next to the door. The door registered a chorus of beeps before the door slid open.
Wily ran inside the communications room with Proto behind and grabs the microphone under a huge computer screen, "Scramble all robots! Mega Man is in the vicinity! Make sure he doesn't get in!"
Wily began typing on the keyboard, bringing up cameras in each cavern doorway that could serve as a hiding place if intruders were ever spotted. But when the ninth and final camera came up, the whole underground hideout's power went dead, nearly turning it pitch black.
"What...what happened!?" Wily cried out.
"The power's out!" Proto yelled.
Wily slammed his fists on the keyboard and swings his finger towards the door, "Go turn it back on! QUICKLY!"
"What's going on?" Rock called out as he ran in after Proto ran out.
"Our power's been cut off!" Wily cried, "Without it, nothing in this base works!" he points at Rock, "Here is your first assignment! Go out there and make sure your evil twin doesn't find his way inside! Crush him if you have to! Just make sure he doesn't find me!"
Rock yelped and ran for the door, letting out a quick, "YES SIR!"
* * *
The batonton flew around the pathways of the cave, chirping along the way until a ball of fire slammed into its back. It screeched before hitting the ground, filling the area with silence.
Rock walked up to the batonton, switching his color scheme from red and yellow back to his original blue, "Sorry, bat ball, I'm take over this scouting assignment. And I don't need you getting in my way!" he finished by pointing his Mega-Buster at the nearly damaged batonton and blasting it into a pile of scrap.
He looks in front of him, seeing a cavern doorway standing near the smoldering spot where the batonton used to be. Rock ran inside the cavern, seeing everything but a foot of ground sticking out of the walls and cavern entrance surrounded by stalactites and a wide lake. He could hear some faint voices from the surface of the underground cave. Most likely the voices of the policemen searching the surface.
"That psycho version of my brother'll find the power box I weld shut and turn the power back on. I'll need to get my own twin down here before that happens." Rock mumbled to himself as he switched to a gray and white color. A bomb appeared in Rock's left hand as he hurls as far as he could.
* * *
From the surface of the cave, Mega crouched behind the tall hedges surrounding a tree. Three more policemen ran by the hedges, not one of them noticing their would-be fugitive was right under their nose as they passed.
"I don't understand," Mega mumbled, "I crash into a mall, and everyone's running in terror like I'm some dangerous serial killer."
Suddenly, an explosion erupted below Mega, almost causing him to jump out of his hiding spot. The three policemen that were walking away from the hedges heard it and stopped moving.
"Did you hear that!?" one of them asked.
"Sounds like an explosion," He turned around, seeing bits of smoke coming out of the hedges, "It came from that tree!"
"Crude!" Mega seethed under his breath. He began to back away as the three policemen went back to investigate, worried that they would find him. But when he dropped his hands behind him, the ground gave way, dropping him down a hole.
The policemen came up to the hedges, seeing nothing but a hole in front of the tree.
"There's nothing but a hole," the third said.
"Some punk must've set a land mine in the cave somewhere. We'll get him after we find that Mega Man imposter." The three turned and walked off.
* * *
Mega dropped into the cavern, trapped between a pile of dirt and rocks. As he was falling, he caught what looked like a shorter version of himself standing near the door before landing in the lake beneath him with a big splash.
Once the water went calm, Mega came up, putting a hand on the side of his head, looking towards the hole he fell through.
"Great," he grumbled, "And here's me without a scuba suit."
Mega takes his hand off his head and turns towards the mouth of the cavern, seeing nothing but a foot of ground in front of the archway.
"What was that, anyway? I could've sworn I saw a midget version of myself watching me fall down a hole."
Mega frowns slightly and swims towards the edge of the ground, pulling himself out of the lake and walking towards the doorway. When he came out of the water cavern, he saw a camera and several electrical lights strewn along the corner ceilings of the wall.
"Look's like someone else has been here," Mega said. He was about to move when the lights flickered on one by one. Mega followed them to the camera, which started to jitter and slowly move around.
* * *
Rock walked into the communication room. Wily saw him and turned around.
"Well?" he asked.
"I looked everywhere," Rock said, "But I haven't seen any sign of that alter ego of mine."
After finishing, the power kicked back on as all nine of the cameras came back to life as well as the lights in the communication room. Proto came back in a minute later.
"I found the problem, Doc," he began, "When I found the power box to this base, it was welded shut. I had to tear it off to fix the problem."
Suddenly, the alarms went off. Everyone turned to the monitors to see Mega pointing his plasma cannon at the camera and blast it off.
"What!? It's Mega Man!" Wily wailed.
"But that's impossible! I already checked that area! He couldn't have shown up there!" Rock yelled.
"He must've shown up after you left," Wily grabbed his head and began rubbing it until his hair became messier than it already was, "Oh, this is a disaster! If he bombs the communication room, the whole base will go up in smoke! Then with no one to stop him, Dr. Light will be able to take over the world!"
This began to worry Rock. He knew Mega saw him just before landing in the lake. If Mega shows up and points him out by appearance, Wily will realize he helped his alter ego.
While wanting to fight his alter ego was going to momentarily have Mega think everyone was against him, he felt he didn't have much of a choice. Aside from that, Rock thought it would be fun to fight...himself, seeing what kind of capabilities he has against what he was originally built with.
"Let me fight him," he nearly stuttered. Proto just glared at him.
"Now just a minute here, kid," he said, arms crossed, "First of all, no one fights Mega Man but me. Second of all, why should we let you fight? You were the one who returned with the report! What if you're the one who let my brother in here!?"
"But I told you I didn't see him come in! I swear! And besides, what's the fun in having to sit back and watch Hothead Man...." Rock thrusts his thumb in Proto's direction for bold vulgarity, "...destroy him for me."
"What was that, you little...!" Proto threatened to strangle Rock when Wily threw his hand in front of him.
"No. Let the boy have his fun," Wily grinned, "I want to see just how powerful he really is."
"Cool!" Rock said, "Don't worry, Doc. That alter ego's so wimpy, he couldn't last five minutes against me!" he turns around and runs off.
Once Rock was out of sight, Wily turned to Proto, "What a fool. And to think this world depends on him to save them from my own clone."
"It isn't fair, Wily! I keep telling you I wanted to destroy Mega Man! Not that little upstart of a brat! Besides, if we send him out there to fight my brother, they'll soon realize who's on the wrong side and gang up on us."
"Don't be ridiculous, Proto Man. Did you see how eager that boy is to destroy Mega Man? He probably doesn't have a single power cell in his brain. And once Dr. Light finishes building a portal out of here, we could easily take over the world without that real nuisance getting in our way."
"No one's THAT stupid. That kid is up to something. He probably begged us to fight Mega Man just to warn him about us."
"I seriously doubt that, Proto. But to make sure he doesn't do anything that would damage our 'partnership', we should go and see how the battles going."
* * *
Mega had been running around the cave, looking for a way out while blasting any camera that saw him running up or down the path. It wasn't until he ran into Guts Man and Cut Man in a wide area of the cave that trouble was about to start.
"H-How did you get in here!?" Cut Man whined.
"Who cares!? We have to stop him before he finds the communication room and destroy it!" Guts Man yelled as he charged at Mega and swung his arm only to see him duck and leg sweep him onto his back.
"Didn't you hear?" Mega asked, getting up, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And you fit that category."
"Ha! You may think so, but I won't make much of a racket, especially since I won't be the one on the floor when I'm done with you!" Cut Man fired a pair of cutting blades from his cannon. Mega sidestepped it as it flew past him and bounced off a stalagmite in the distance.
"You need to learn how to aim, Cut Man," Mega said as he blasted Cut Man in the chest, knocking him onto Guts Man. He then stood there, staring at the two Wily bots, "I knew something smelled. And it wasn't the lake. I'd better stop Wily before he tries anything."
"You're not going anywhere!"
"Huh!?" Mega turned around to see a blue fist fly into his face, knocking him into another stalagmite and crumble to the ground.
"Sizzling circuits! What hit me!?" Mega cried out, shaking the dizziness from his head.
"You should've brought a flashlight. That way, you would've avoided that punch I threw!"
"Huh!?" Mega looked in front of him, seeing a blast flying in his direction. He yelped and rolled out of the way as the blast sailed past him and blew up the stalagmite he leaned against, "W-What's going on!?"
Mega was about to get up when a knee slammed into his chin and sent him flying back a few feet before hitting the ground.
"Gimme a break! That wasn't even 30 seconds. I could fall asleep doing this."
Mega sat up, rubbing where he had been hit and looks in front of him. He gasped when he saw Rock land in front of him.
"You're that kid I saw when I fell through that hole in the ceiling!"
"Nice to see someone remembers me! Now remember this!" Rock points his Mega-Buster at his now shocked and confused double.
"W-Wait a minute! What're you doing!?" Mega yelped.
"Saving Wily from the likes of you!" Rock said. He fires another blast, causing Mega to stumble away from it as the explosion left a crater in its place.
"What're you talking about?" Mega asked, getting up.
"I could tell you, but you won't be functioning long enough to download it into your memory banks!" Rock throws a punch only to see Mega sidestep it and grab it. He grinned, "Now that's what I've been waiting for since the start of this fight!"
"I don't know what Wily told you, but I'm not your enemy!" Mega tried to protest.
"Don't go telling me that, buster! I know how parallel universes are played. You're not fooling me!" Rock tightens his fist and spins around, swinging his fist over him and slamming Mega on his back, forcing him to let go of his wrist.
By the time Mega had opened his eyes, Rock had his foot pressed on his chest, his Mega-Buster aimed at his head and charging.
"You can't do this!" Mega yelled, "Wily's the one you should be after, not me!"
"Oh, tell me another!" Rock shouted, "I'm done playing with you. I'm ending it now!" in the back of his mind, Rock was practically begging Mega to retaliate.
Mega looked beside him, seeing Cut Man and Guts Man piled beside him, then back at Rock, seeing the nozzle of his buster sparking with charging plasma. He slowly stretched his left hand towards Cut Man and rested his hand on his arm, causing it to send a glowing outline down his arm as Cut Man's weapon data entered his mainframe.
"Come on! You attacking me or not?" Rock snarled, "If you don't do something, I'm going to blow your head off!"
Mega whips his blaster towards Rock's left shoulder and fired a pair of cutting blades, slamming into the shoulder blade and sending him flying off his chest and on his back, his arms and legs spread out as spark flew from where the cutting blade stabbed.
Sighing with relief, Mega gets up and walks over to his fallen clone, bending down to him, seeing his face twitch before his eyes shot open.
"I'm sorry I had disabled your blaster arm," Mega said, "but I needed to stop you before you make the biggest mistake of your life."
"On the contrary," Rock said with a grin, "You're the one who made a mistake!" before Mega could figure out what he meant, he whips out his right Mega-Buster and fires a charged shot. Mega couldn't dodge it fast enough and was sent flying into another stalagmite, crumbling to the ground.
Mega tried to get up, but the strength of the blast left him nearly crippled. Rock jumps to his feet, grabs the cutting blade sticking out of his left shoulder blade and rips it out, black fluid dripping from the sharp ends of the scissors and the puncture wound on his left shoulder.
"I guess I should've told you about my spare Buster," Rock said, dropping the cutting blade beside him.
"S-Spare Buster...?" Mega groaned, "You mean you have blasters on both arms!?"
"Looks like we each have our own differences. You have one buster gun that can copy any weapon you touch," Rock walked towards Mega, his right Mega-Buster pointed at his head, "But while I don't have that ability, I still have the firepower in both arms. Granted I won't be able to aim very well with my right Mega-Buster, but it still saves me from tough situations."
"Well, I see you met my new ally?" came a voice Mega knew all too well. Wily emerged from the cave, standing behind Rock, "Nice work for a first time. I could get used to having you in my robot army."
"You creep! What did you do to trick him!?" Mega spat.
"Trick him? Whatever do you mean? You are the one trying to trick him. I warned him of how you enjoy making life miserable for everyone in our world. He's willing to finish you off so that I can prevent anymore of Dr. Light's robots from taking over the city."
"What!?"
"Oops! I guess I let that little information slip. Well, I might as well tell before your clone annihilates you. See, when I told him about how Dr. Light wants to take over the world, he promised to have HIS Dr. Light build a portal back to our world." Wily then began to stretch out his mustache, "With you out of the way, Dr. Light won't stand a chance against my robot army and he will quickly surrender."
"You're planning to leave me here while you go back to our world and take it over in my absence!?" Mega cried. He then glared, "Forget calling you a creep! You're a lying, low-living piece of shit!"
"Ooh, swearing in front of a child?" Wily waved a finger back and forth, "I thought Dr. Light programmed you to be politer than that. But I do appreciate the complement. Now enough talk. Hurry up and destroy him!"
Rock aims his Mega-Buster at Mega's head, but didn't move. Mega noticed he was compressing his lips, a look of confusion replacing the evil grin he had plastered on his face earlier.
"What're you waiting for? A special dispensation to blow up robots!?" Wily roared, "Finish him off before he gains enough energy to get up!"
Rock stood there for a minute before lowering his Mega-Buster. Wily was about to yell at him when he turns around.
"I...I have a better idea," Rock said, "Instead of destroying him, why don't I take him back to Dr. Light? I'm sure Dr. Light could be able to reprogram him to be with his brother."
Wily gritted his teeth, growling, which slowly faded. He then scratched his chin.
"You know. That's not such a bad idea. You are building me a portal back to my world and you crippled Mega Man. It's only fair I give you something in return."
"You can't!" Mega yelled, "By building a portal back to his world, you're allowing him to take over!"
Proto stood next to Mega and yanks him off the ground, "Cheer up, bro. At least this time, you'll enjoy working with us for once." As he left with Mega in tow, he gave Rock a hateful smirk. Once the two were out of sight, Wily turned to Rock, noticing the gash on his shoulder blade.
"That looks painful." Wily said, acting like he was concerned.
"It's nothing Dr. Light can't fix," Rock said, covering the gash on his left shoulder, "Don't worry, Wily. I'll be back tomorrow with the a newly repaired arm and the portal."
"No. I want that portal built here."
"Here? But if I don't have this arm repaired, I won't be able to use both busters."
Wily grabs Rock by the shoulders and almost yanks him to his face, "Listen, kid. I may trust you, but I don't have faith in you." He then squeezes Rock's left shoulder, causing the sparks to worsen, seeing him bite back the urge to scream, but could hear him groan in agony, "I know when to be careful around suspicious characters. Come to the communications room when you're ready and call Dr. Light to this location. I'll have my robots on watch until he gets here." He got closer to Rock, seeing him cringe slightly from both the pain and the look on his face, "I don't want to destroy my new ally an hour after he had proven his loyalty to me."
Wily smiles and releases his grip on Rock, seeing him drop to his hands and knees, grabbing his shoulder blade and breathing heavily. Satisfied, he walks off, leaving Rock in the middle of the cave. Once alone, the blue warrior began fingering the gash Wily had squeezed, looking at the stalactites hanging off the ceiling. With his left arm non- functioning due to the cutting blade, Rock's plan of getting both he and Mega out in one piece was going to be harder than he wanted. But he couldn't just leave his clone alone in the cave waiting to be reprogrammed. He had to do something.
OOC: I thought this idea would be better than my first. I just hope that no one finds it offensive that I would have decided to delay Mega's trust towards his midget double. Not for long.
Next Chapter: Rock ditches the stupid act and blows up Wily's base after getting the information he needed. But not before restoring Mega back to health and helping him escape. Thinking that Rock had been caught in the blast, Wily's first order of business was to bomb the very mall Mega showed up in. But when Bomb Man realizes that Rock is still alive and hanging around the mall with Guts, Cut and Mega, all wearing disguises, he does more than plant a bomb somewhere in the mall. How will Rock be able to deal with Bomb Man without having to turn into Mega Man in front of a fleeing crowd? Will Mega have to shed his disguise and prove to everyone he isn't as dangerous as reports lead him to believe?