Author's Note: Like I said in the last chapter, I was going to use the X-
Men Evolution series instead of the original comic and cartoon. I knew
more about the Evolution series than I did the other X-Men series. If I'm
going to have Marvel characters all over the place in this fanfic, it's
best to pick out ones I'm familiar with so I don't have too many Marvel
fans telling me what I did wrong.
Revise Note: I've taken some more time to think this over and have decided to expand some scenes. And yes, in case you haven't noticed by the second time I've down this, I do have a big obsession with water scenes. But I swear I'll try not to overdo it so much! And if I had told you this whole thing was going to be installed with the sixth chapter, I kinda changed my mind (So sorry, please don't kill me!!! ^^;;;). I keep thinking that I'll never get the sixth chapter up in time, so I decided to just stick the five revised chapters up before the next one comes along.
_ 5 _
Who to Believe?
The digital clock struck 8:00 as business outside was as normal as some people are lead to believe. Mega turned over in bed, still asleep. Rush laying next to the bed, also asleep.
A minute later, a strange, tingling feeling ran down Mega's back neck. He squints his eyes shut, trying to ignore the tingling feeling until a buzz saw crashed through the window and hit the wall on the other side of the room. Both the sound of window shattering and Rush's startled yelp woke Mega up as he shot up, looking at the buzz saw pinned to the wall.
"What the...!?"
"Rise and shine, Mega Man!" came a voice, making the feeling on Mega's back neck worse. He quickly spun around to see Guts Man and Metal Man standing on the roof of another building across the street from the hotel.
"Guts Man!?" Mega yelped, "Then Wily must be here as well!" He throws the covers off and ran to the balcony of his room with Rush right beside him, "Why the sudden wakeup call, Gutsy? Come to have your hide remodeled!?"
Guts Man sarcastically threw his hand on his chest, "Oh, I'm hurt. And here I thought you'd be happy to see someone you've been searching for two and a half days."
Mega looked past Guts Man's ugly face and gasped when he saw what he had under his arm, unconscious, "Dr. Light!"
"M-Mega?" Dr. Light groaned.
"Let him go, you oversize pile of scrap!" Mega yelled, pointing at Guts Man.
"Make me!" Guts Man laughed. He and Metal Man turned around and ran off. Mega gripped the bars of the balcony, snarling.
"You're dead, Guts Man!" He yelled. Rush switched to jet mode as he jumped on and flew after the two fleeing Wily bots.
* * *
The chase went from Manhattan to the bridge where the car piles have now been cleared off and traffic was going like normal until two robots crashed through each car that came at them. The people in traffic once again had to abandon their cars, running and screaming as nothing but a car filled bridge was left standing.
Guts Man and Metal Man's chase came to an abrupt stop when a plasma blast slammed into the ground behind them, the explosion shoving them on their faces.
Mega landed behind the fallen bots, pointing his plasma cannon at them.
"Last chance, Macintosh brains!" he yelled, "Back away from Dr. Light before I melt you into lightning rods!"
"Big words coming from someone who's been turned into a human!" Metal Man said as he got up and turned to Mega, "Allow me to show you what kind of blood type you have!" He formed a metal blade in one of his hands and fires it at Mega only to see him sidestep it.
"Now allow me to show you something," Mega said as he rolled his left sleeve up, revealing his plasma cannon, "I'm not as defenseless as I was yesterday!" he finish by slamming his blaster arm to the ground in front of him. An electrical charge trailed towards Metal Man before a pillar of light shot out of the ground, engulfing him in electricity until he exploded into a pile of joints.
Mega turns to Guts Man who quickly backed up, Dr. Light still under his arm.
"H-Hey! Wait a minute!" Guts Man stuttered, "Let's take me still having your creator into consideration."
"Who said I was going to use the same attack on you?" before Guts Man had a chance to move, Mega throws his blaster arm out, his middle and ring finger pressed against the center of his palm, and fires a ball of webs, splattering all over his face.
"HEY! I CAN'T SEE!" Guts Man cried, dropping Dr. Light and clawing at the webs covering his face until a purple flaming foot swung around and slammed into his face, throwing him to the banister on the other side of the bridge, out cold.
Mega ran over to Dr. Light as he had just regained consciousness.
"Are you okay, Dr. Light?" he asked, putting his arms around the good doctor and helping him up. But when he did, his plasma cannon glowed as another sensation ran through his body. Mega pretended not to feel it.
"Am I glade you're here, Mega Man," Dr. Light said, putting his hand on his head, "When I went to look for you, Guts Man and Metal Man showed up and captured me." He took his hand off his head and placing that and his other hand on Mega's shoulders, "Now that you're here, we can find the portal that brought us here and go home."
Mega took Dr. Light's hands and gently removed them from his shoulders, "We can't. Now until the machine that turned me into a human is fixed."
"Yes. We can't have you like this forever. But how do we find our way back so that can happen?"
Mega smiled and turned around, "You know what you have? Cunningness. And it just so happens that that kind of ability demands a response!" he whips around and points his plasma cannon at Dr. Light. Both he and Rush yelped and backed away.
"W-What're you doing, Mega!?" Dr. Light cried.
"Oh, come on! You think I'm stupid enough to think you can fool me? The real Dr. Light would've at least tried to convince me to be human a while longer," Mega's grin stretched, "Besides, I don't remember him having shape shifting abilities."
Rush looked at Dr. Light who went from startled to scowling. He grabs the robo-K9 and throws him at Mega, knocking them to the ground.
"Wily said you couldn't copy anything!" Dr. Light snarled, but his voice was more feminine than what Mega was used to. Rush looked up and let out a doggy yelp upon see him shift back to Mystique, the scowl still plastered on her face, "Still, as a human, you have many flaws."
"Do I?" Mega asked sarcastically, "I think you forgot that I copied your shape shifting powers, so now I get my robot body back and stop you from using the same trick on the real Dr. Light!" he pushed Rush off his lap and got up, shifting to his robot form. But once he did, a sudden jolt of pain came out of his blaster arm, dropping Mega to his hands and knees, the robotic form fading back to his human appearance. Mystique laughed.
"Your blaster doesn't seem to register some of your commands," she said, "Lucky for me, the same mistake won't happen." Mega opened his eyes to see her shift into his robot body, voice and all.
Scowling, Mega gets up only to have his robotic double grab him by the throat and dangled him over the other side of the banister.
"Won't your creator be shocked when he sees his own son lead him to his doom without even knowing it until it's too late," Mystique said with an evil grin, "Too bad you won't be around to see it."
Rush snarled and jumped on Mystique, driving his fangs onto her shoulder. The disguised mutant screamed in agony before grabbing Rush by the ear and throwing him against one of the cars, crashing through the window and slamming into another door on the passenger side seat.
"A pity. If he hadn't seen through my disguise, your creator would've been really fooled by my appearance," Mystique turned her attention back to Mega, the evil grin widening, "Now, how shall I deal with you?" she then tightened her grip on his throat, hearing him try to breath, "Should I break your neck, or choke you to death?" she continued to increase her grip on Mega, seeing just how shocked he was when he couldn't breath from the pressure on his throat.
"How about neither!?" Mega yelled. He whips out his plasma cannon and blasts Mystique in the face, causing her to release him and cover her face. Mega began falling towards the ocean below. He shifts into a trout just as he hit the water at the bottom of the bridge.
The trout wiggled about before shifting back to Mega's human form as he turned around and headed towards the surface. Mystique had recovered from the blast long enough to see him burst his head out of the water, throwing his hand on his face and rubbing it.
"Have a nice dip, drip?" she yelled. Mega took his hand off his face, looking up at her, "I'd kill you now, but I've got more important people to deal with. But don't worry, I'll come back for you when I'm done disposing them." she grinned sinisterly once again and ran off.
"That is one facial expression I'm never using again when I get my robotic body back," Mega said, cringing.
A robotic paw reached out and grabbed the car door, followed by another. Rush's head soon popped up, putting one paw on his head and shaking it, groaning.
"Hey! Rush! I'm down here!" Mega hollered. Rush jumped out of the car and ran to the banister, looking over it to see him waving towards him. He barked and switched to his glider form, swooping down towards his now human companion.
When the legs of Rush's glider mode were close enough, Mega reached out and grabbed them, letting Rush carry him back to the top of the bridge. Once on solid ground, Mega lets go of Rush's legs and crashes on his hands and knees, catching his breath.
Rush landed beside him, turning back to his doggy form and nudging Mega's face.
"Ugh! I'm never going to get used to being waterlogged," Mega complained, looking at Rush. Once he got some feeling back into his legs, he stood up, "Come on, we'd better find Dr. Light before Mystique does. If he's still here."
Rush barked, switching to jet mode. Mega hopped on as the thrusters came to life, lifting Rush into the air and flew off back towards Manhattan.
* * *
Cut Man walked around the center of Manhattan, people looking at him funny as they passed him by. Snake Man stood on the roof of one of the buildings, looking around until he saw Dr. Light's head appear among the crowd.
"I see him!" Snake Man hissed. He points his search snakes towards Dr. Light and began firing. People began scattering the minute they heard his blaster go off.
Dr. Light stopped when he saw the crowd scattering, then looks up to see the search snakes an inch from his body, hitting the ground and exploding. Snake Man landed in front of him with Cut Man coming up from behind.
"What's going on!?" Dr. Light cried, looking back and forth between the two Wily bots.
"We know Mega Man is in the area," Snake Man said, "We've decided that if we use you as a defense, he wouldn't attack you."
From the ally, a shadow watched the scene play out, "Huh. Won't he be surprised when he finds out who saves him."
* * *
While Rush flew through the sky, Mega looked around. Noticing how empty the streets were, he figured either Mystique or Wily's robots were somewhere in the area. Then the tingling sensation ran down the back of his neck again, causing him to yelp, getting Rush's attention as he eyed him, barking.
"I'm starting to regret copying Spider-Man's powers," Mega grumbled, rubbing the back of his neck, "But this spider sense only means...." he looks down to see Dr. Light trapped in a pincer formation by Cut Man and Snake Man, their blasters pointed at him, "It figures! But it doesn't look like my robotic double hasn't shown up yet, so I'd better act fast!"
"If you don't come along quietly, I'll...." Snake Man was cut off when a pillar of fire engulfed him, knocking him to the ground, charred. Cut Man looked up to see Mega jump off Rush and land behind Dr. Light.
"Hey! This wasn't part of the act!" Cut Man cried.
"Well, I'm making it!" Mega said, pointing his plasma cannon at Cut Man. The Wily bot whimpered and fled.
Mystique snarled, "Damn! He's very persistent! If I don't distract him, that kid could ruin my plans!"
"Dr. Light. Is it really you?" Mega asked. Dr. Light turned to him, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes...but do I know you?" he asked. Mega's mouth hung open. He knew this was going to happen, but he felt like something was stuck in his throat when he got upset.
"D-Dr. Light, it's...!"
"Nice of you to come along and help," interrupted a voice. Mega turned to see his robotic double walk up to them. Rush muffled a snarl, "I was going to do it myself, but the crowd held me back."
"Mega?" Dr. Light asked. He was about to walk towards Mega's imposter when the human prodigy thrusts his arm in front of Dr. Light to stop him.
"It's okay, I'm here to help," Mega's robotic imposter stated, "You don't have to be protective any longer."
"Believe me, I am," Mega said, "Maybe if you blew my head off when you had the chance to, I wouldn't have gotten in the way!"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I think you should get some help. You've obviously lost it, kid."
Mega grabs his robotic clone by the arms and slams him against the wall of a bakery, seething "Listen, you sadistic bitch...!"
"No!" Dr. Light got between Mega and his clone, pushing them away from each other. The robotic Mega straightened up and brushed himself off.
"Let's get out of here before this idiot tries anything else." He growled. He walked away as Dr. Light followed, looking back at Mega a minute before turning his head around.
"H-Hey! Wait!" Mega cried. He brought his hand up as it to grab something, quivered then slowly dropped. Rush stood beside him, whimpering.
Completely out of ideas, Mega's whole body shook as he dropped to his hands and knees, punching the ground with his right fist.
"Dammit! What'll I do now!?" Mega choked, dropping his head below his shoulders. Rush ran up beside him to see his eyes squeezed shut, tears hitting the ground for the first time since he was turned into a human.
When he realized he was crying, Mega quickly rubbed the tears from his face and crawled towards a lamppost, leaning his back against it and putting his hand on his head, tears still dribbling down his face. Rush followed him, sitting beside him
"Geez! Look at me! Is this what happens to a human when he freaks out? I feel like a complete idiot sitting here and crying while Mystique drags Dr. Light somewhere to be annihilate...in MY body!"
Rush looked at him, whimpering. Mega shook his head, "Snap out of it! There's gotta be something I can do to get Dr. Light to recognize me! But what?" he looked at his hands, "he should've at least remembered me before I was reconstructed into...." he trailed off, frowning, "How could I've been so stupid!"
Mega jumps to his feet, punching the palm of his hand, "Maybe there is a way to get Dr. Light to recognize me!" he turns to Rush, "Come on, we're going to find Mystique and force the truth out of her!"
Rush, overjoyed that Mega was almost back to his old self, barks and switches to jet mode.
* * *
Mystique lead Dr. Light into the darkest forest of the Manhattan Park.
"Where are you taking me, Mega?" Dr. Light asked.
"There's someone where who can help us get back home," Mystique said, her voice still cloaked by Mega's, "He said he'd be here in this park, so we'll have to wait until he shows up."
"Hmm," Dr. Light said, scratching his beard, "I still can't help wondering where I've seen that guy. Rush didn't seem to want to come with us for some reason."
"Don't worry, Dr. Light," the robotic fake grinned, forming his plasma cannon, "Rush'll come around eventually."
"Darn right he is! Right into your face!" came another voice. Mystique looked up to see Mega jump off Rush and slam his feet into her chest, slamming her into a tree and knocking it over. Dr. Light whirled around just in time to see the robot-turned-human land on his feet a few inches from his robot double.
"What's the matter with you!?" his robotic clone complained, pushing himself up, "Did you save Dr. Light just so you can crush me in the process!?"
"That's real cute, Mystique! But now you've gone too far!"
Mega's robotic clone got up, "Why do you keep calling me Mystique! I don't even know this person!"
"Gee, I don't know. Why don't you shed that disguise and ask me that again!"
"You really think you're the REAL Mega Man?" The clone laughed, causing Mega and Rush to growl, "What a lunatic. How can you get Dr. Light to think you're the real Mega Man when you don't even have any proof?"
"I don't? Well, if you think YOU'RE the real Mega Man, then name three of Wily's robots that were actually made by Dr. Light."
That question stopped his clone dead, "Made by Dr. Light!? What're you talking about!?"
Mega grinned on seeing his double flinch, "Dr. Light had three robots just after Roll and I were created, Cut Man, Guts Man and Ice Man. If you were really Mega Man, you would've known about that. But I guess Wily got so caught up in his work, he forgot to mention that bit of information."
Mystique looked at Dr. Light who frowned and began moving towards Mega. Raged, she moved to blast Mega when he grabs her by the arms again and slams her against another tree, this time, the impact didn't knock it off.
"It's over, Mystique!" Mega said, "You couldn't fool me or Dr. Light. That means Wily's plan went completely down the drain."
Mystique snarled, "Tell me, how many times have you been kicked in the balls?" she asked in her normal voice.
"What!?" Mystique smiled and shoves her foot HARD into Mega's crotch. Mega's eyes bugged out as he screamed at the sudden pain, crashing to the ground in a fetal position and covering where he had been kicked, eyes still wide and groaning in a high-pitched tone with his lips compressed.
"You have a lot to learn about being human before you go acting like a hero," Mystique said. She then shifts into a falcon and flies off.
Dr. Light ran up to Mega who forced himself into a sitting position leaning against a tree, "My goodness! Are you okay!?"
"Yeah," Mega yelped, catching his breath, "But I didn't know a crotch was a guys biggest weak point."
* * *
"You failed!" Wily roared.
"Only because you didn't tell me everything," Mystique said, "I held my end of the bargain, now you hold up yours."
"I told you to bring Mega Man and Dr. Light's corpse to me! And since you failed to do that, I will not risk having my robots invade a mutant institute and come back in pieces!"
"You forget, old man. I can change into the strongest creature in the world and take you down in one blow."
Mystique backed up, ready to shift into that said creature when she caught Wily grinning and stretching his mustache.
"You're the one who should be trembling in fear. Or did you forget the pain inflicted on you when you tried to ambush me?"
Mystique looked up, seeing a shadow growing behind Wily. Her eyes widened, "N-No! Please, not him!"
"You're too late," Wily said, "You tried to defy me, and now you will pay. And I don't think he would leave you with a simple slash this time."
The shadow advanced towards Mystique who quivered in fear the closer it got.
* * *
"I can hardly believe it, Mega," Dr. Light said, examining his robot- turned-human son leaning against the tree, "You've been turned into a human. A full flesh human. But how?"
"It was an accident," Mega said, "the machine that did this to me is still being repaired in a different world. I just need to find a way to get back there in time. The operator may be the only one with the parts needed to build the portal back to our world."
"I hope you're right," Dr. Light said, getting up, "If Roll hasn't been worried since we disappeared, by now, she'd really be overwhelmed. It has been two days since that inter-dimensional warp machine malfunctioned. She must be trying to find a way to get it to work again."
Suddenly, a scream echoed throughout the forest, reaching the trio as they turned in the direction it came from.
"What was that!?" Dr. Light asked.
"That was Mystique!" Mega got up and ran off.
"Mega, wait!" Dr. Light called out.
When Mega got to where the scream came from, he gasped. Mystique laid against a tree, covered in her blood. She, herself, has claw marks covering her entire body, blood seeping out of each gash.
"Sizzling circuits!" Mega yelled, "Those marks couldn't have been from any normal animal." He heard Mystique groan and tremble and walked up closer to her, bending down, "Mystique! Who did this to you?"
"C-Changed...into a monster...." Mystique groaned, "You must...get away from here...."
"Changed!? What do you mean!?"
"Take a 'wild' guess, brother!" came a half-beast, half-human voice.
"P-Proto Man!?" Mega turned around to see a streak slam into his right shoulder, knocking him away from Mystique, blood flying out of the gashes in his torn shirts. He cried out in pain until he slammed into the ground on his side, blood staining the grass and dead leaves around him.
A towering, wolf-shaped figure stooped over Mega as he tried to lift his head up in time to see the creature bring its claws to its mouth and lick the blood splattered in its fingers.
"How I love the taste of human blood. Especially when it comes from my little brother."
"W-What happened to you?" Mega mumbled, barely conscious from the pain inflicted on him. The shadow took its foot and pushed him onto his back.
"I would tell you, but you wouldn't be conscious long enough to pay attention." The creature said, "But don't worry, by the time you regain consciousness, I would have slaughter every being in this city."
The creature stood, turned around and walked off, leaving Mega laying in the blood stained grass.
OOC: I wasn't getting anywhere with the next installment, so I decided to re-route this chapter a bit. Hopefully, this would help me get the sixth chapter up.
Next Chapter: Proto's thirst for blood over dominates his wolf instincts and Wily loses control of him. While the human half is trying to battle his way to the surface, he raging vampire werewolf half goes on a killing spree, eventually leading him to the Institute for Gifted Children. And with most of the X-Men stuck on the ship with Rubyheart, there seems to be nothing Xavier can do to stop a raging, blood thirsty werewolf from breaking in and dining on mutant blood, gaining their abilities of that and growing stronger.
Meanwhile, Wily tries to seek help from Dr. Light and Mega, who seemed skeptical at first, but reluctantly helps him try to get Proto's human instincts back. But can Mega stand up to the strength of his half-beast, bloodsucking brother? And what about the other X-Men left behind? Can they ever hope to stop him before he reaches Xavier and sucks some of his powers?
Revise Note: I've taken some more time to think this over and have decided to expand some scenes. And yes, in case you haven't noticed by the second time I've down this, I do have a big obsession with water scenes. But I swear I'll try not to overdo it so much! And if I had told you this whole thing was going to be installed with the sixth chapter, I kinda changed my mind (So sorry, please don't kill me!!! ^^;;;). I keep thinking that I'll never get the sixth chapter up in time, so I decided to just stick the five revised chapters up before the next one comes along.
_ 5 _
Who to Believe?
The digital clock struck 8:00 as business outside was as normal as some people are lead to believe. Mega turned over in bed, still asleep. Rush laying next to the bed, also asleep.
A minute later, a strange, tingling feeling ran down Mega's back neck. He squints his eyes shut, trying to ignore the tingling feeling until a buzz saw crashed through the window and hit the wall on the other side of the room. Both the sound of window shattering and Rush's startled yelp woke Mega up as he shot up, looking at the buzz saw pinned to the wall.
"What the...!?"
"Rise and shine, Mega Man!" came a voice, making the feeling on Mega's back neck worse. He quickly spun around to see Guts Man and Metal Man standing on the roof of another building across the street from the hotel.
"Guts Man!?" Mega yelped, "Then Wily must be here as well!" He throws the covers off and ran to the balcony of his room with Rush right beside him, "Why the sudden wakeup call, Gutsy? Come to have your hide remodeled!?"
Guts Man sarcastically threw his hand on his chest, "Oh, I'm hurt. And here I thought you'd be happy to see someone you've been searching for two and a half days."
Mega looked past Guts Man's ugly face and gasped when he saw what he had under his arm, unconscious, "Dr. Light!"
"M-Mega?" Dr. Light groaned.
"Let him go, you oversize pile of scrap!" Mega yelled, pointing at Guts Man.
"Make me!" Guts Man laughed. He and Metal Man turned around and ran off. Mega gripped the bars of the balcony, snarling.
"You're dead, Guts Man!" He yelled. Rush switched to jet mode as he jumped on and flew after the two fleeing Wily bots.
* * *
The chase went from Manhattan to the bridge where the car piles have now been cleared off and traffic was going like normal until two robots crashed through each car that came at them. The people in traffic once again had to abandon their cars, running and screaming as nothing but a car filled bridge was left standing.
Guts Man and Metal Man's chase came to an abrupt stop when a plasma blast slammed into the ground behind them, the explosion shoving them on their faces.
Mega landed behind the fallen bots, pointing his plasma cannon at them.
"Last chance, Macintosh brains!" he yelled, "Back away from Dr. Light before I melt you into lightning rods!"
"Big words coming from someone who's been turned into a human!" Metal Man said as he got up and turned to Mega, "Allow me to show you what kind of blood type you have!" He formed a metal blade in one of his hands and fires it at Mega only to see him sidestep it.
"Now allow me to show you something," Mega said as he rolled his left sleeve up, revealing his plasma cannon, "I'm not as defenseless as I was yesterday!" he finish by slamming his blaster arm to the ground in front of him. An electrical charge trailed towards Metal Man before a pillar of light shot out of the ground, engulfing him in electricity until he exploded into a pile of joints.
Mega turns to Guts Man who quickly backed up, Dr. Light still under his arm.
"H-Hey! Wait a minute!" Guts Man stuttered, "Let's take me still having your creator into consideration."
"Who said I was going to use the same attack on you?" before Guts Man had a chance to move, Mega throws his blaster arm out, his middle and ring finger pressed against the center of his palm, and fires a ball of webs, splattering all over his face.
"HEY! I CAN'T SEE!" Guts Man cried, dropping Dr. Light and clawing at the webs covering his face until a purple flaming foot swung around and slammed into his face, throwing him to the banister on the other side of the bridge, out cold.
Mega ran over to Dr. Light as he had just regained consciousness.
"Are you okay, Dr. Light?" he asked, putting his arms around the good doctor and helping him up. But when he did, his plasma cannon glowed as another sensation ran through his body. Mega pretended not to feel it.
"Am I glade you're here, Mega Man," Dr. Light said, putting his hand on his head, "When I went to look for you, Guts Man and Metal Man showed up and captured me." He took his hand off his head and placing that and his other hand on Mega's shoulders, "Now that you're here, we can find the portal that brought us here and go home."
Mega took Dr. Light's hands and gently removed them from his shoulders, "We can't. Now until the machine that turned me into a human is fixed."
"Yes. We can't have you like this forever. But how do we find our way back so that can happen?"
Mega smiled and turned around, "You know what you have? Cunningness. And it just so happens that that kind of ability demands a response!" he whips around and points his plasma cannon at Dr. Light. Both he and Rush yelped and backed away.
"W-What're you doing, Mega!?" Dr. Light cried.
"Oh, come on! You think I'm stupid enough to think you can fool me? The real Dr. Light would've at least tried to convince me to be human a while longer," Mega's grin stretched, "Besides, I don't remember him having shape shifting abilities."
Rush looked at Dr. Light who went from startled to scowling. He grabs the robo-K9 and throws him at Mega, knocking them to the ground.
"Wily said you couldn't copy anything!" Dr. Light snarled, but his voice was more feminine than what Mega was used to. Rush looked up and let out a doggy yelp upon see him shift back to Mystique, the scowl still plastered on her face, "Still, as a human, you have many flaws."
"Do I?" Mega asked sarcastically, "I think you forgot that I copied your shape shifting powers, so now I get my robot body back and stop you from using the same trick on the real Dr. Light!" he pushed Rush off his lap and got up, shifting to his robot form. But once he did, a sudden jolt of pain came out of his blaster arm, dropping Mega to his hands and knees, the robotic form fading back to his human appearance. Mystique laughed.
"Your blaster doesn't seem to register some of your commands," she said, "Lucky for me, the same mistake won't happen." Mega opened his eyes to see her shift into his robot body, voice and all.
Scowling, Mega gets up only to have his robotic double grab him by the throat and dangled him over the other side of the banister.
"Won't your creator be shocked when he sees his own son lead him to his doom without even knowing it until it's too late," Mystique said with an evil grin, "Too bad you won't be around to see it."
Rush snarled and jumped on Mystique, driving his fangs onto her shoulder. The disguised mutant screamed in agony before grabbing Rush by the ear and throwing him against one of the cars, crashing through the window and slamming into another door on the passenger side seat.
"A pity. If he hadn't seen through my disguise, your creator would've been really fooled by my appearance," Mystique turned her attention back to Mega, the evil grin widening, "Now, how shall I deal with you?" she then tightened her grip on his throat, hearing him try to breath, "Should I break your neck, or choke you to death?" she continued to increase her grip on Mega, seeing just how shocked he was when he couldn't breath from the pressure on his throat.
"How about neither!?" Mega yelled. He whips out his plasma cannon and blasts Mystique in the face, causing her to release him and cover her face. Mega began falling towards the ocean below. He shifts into a trout just as he hit the water at the bottom of the bridge.
The trout wiggled about before shifting back to Mega's human form as he turned around and headed towards the surface. Mystique had recovered from the blast long enough to see him burst his head out of the water, throwing his hand on his face and rubbing it.
"Have a nice dip, drip?" she yelled. Mega took his hand off his face, looking up at her, "I'd kill you now, but I've got more important people to deal with. But don't worry, I'll come back for you when I'm done disposing them." she grinned sinisterly once again and ran off.
"That is one facial expression I'm never using again when I get my robotic body back," Mega said, cringing.
A robotic paw reached out and grabbed the car door, followed by another. Rush's head soon popped up, putting one paw on his head and shaking it, groaning.
"Hey! Rush! I'm down here!" Mega hollered. Rush jumped out of the car and ran to the banister, looking over it to see him waving towards him. He barked and switched to his glider form, swooping down towards his now human companion.
When the legs of Rush's glider mode were close enough, Mega reached out and grabbed them, letting Rush carry him back to the top of the bridge. Once on solid ground, Mega lets go of Rush's legs and crashes on his hands and knees, catching his breath.
Rush landed beside him, turning back to his doggy form and nudging Mega's face.
"Ugh! I'm never going to get used to being waterlogged," Mega complained, looking at Rush. Once he got some feeling back into his legs, he stood up, "Come on, we'd better find Dr. Light before Mystique does. If he's still here."
Rush barked, switching to jet mode. Mega hopped on as the thrusters came to life, lifting Rush into the air and flew off back towards Manhattan.
* * *
Cut Man walked around the center of Manhattan, people looking at him funny as they passed him by. Snake Man stood on the roof of one of the buildings, looking around until he saw Dr. Light's head appear among the crowd.
"I see him!" Snake Man hissed. He points his search snakes towards Dr. Light and began firing. People began scattering the minute they heard his blaster go off.
Dr. Light stopped when he saw the crowd scattering, then looks up to see the search snakes an inch from his body, hitting the ground and exploding. Snake Man landed in front of him with Cut Man coming up from behind.
"What's going on!?" Dr. Light cried, looking back and forth between the two Wily bots.
"We know Mega Man is in the area," Snake Man said, "We've decided that if we use you as a defense, he wouldn't attack you."
From the ally, a shadow watched the scene play out, "Huh. Won't he be surprised when he finds out who saves him."
* * *
While Rush flew through the sky, Mega looked around. Noticing how empty the streets were, he figured either Mystique or Wily's robots were somewhere in the area. Then the tingling sensation ran down the back of his neck again, causing him to yelp, getting Rush's attention as he eyed him, barking.
"I'm starting to regret copying Spider-Man's powers," Mega grumbled, rubbing the back of his neck, "But this spider sense only means...." he looks down to see Dr. Light trapped in a pincer formation by Cut Man and Snake Man, their blasters pointed at him, "It figures! But it doesn't look like my robotic double hasn't shown up yet, so I'd better act fast!"
"If you don't come along quietly, I'll...." Snake Man was cut off when a pillar of fire engulfed him, knocking him to the ground, charred. Cut Man looked up to see Mega jump off Rush and land behind Dr. Light.
"Hey! This wasn't part of the act!" Cut Man cried.
"Well, I'm making it!" Mega said, pointing his plasma cannon at Cut Man. The Wily bot whimpered and fled.
Mystique snarled, "Damn! He's very persistent! If I don't distract him, that kid could ruin my plans!"
"Dr. Light. Is it really you?" Mega asked. Dr. Light turned to him, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes...but do I know you?" he asked. Mega's mouth hung open. He knew this was going to happen, but he felt like something was stuck in his throat when he got upset.
"D-Dr. Light, it's...!"
"Nice of you to come along and help," interrupted a voice. Mega turned to see his robotic double walk up to them. Rush muffled a snarl, "I was going to do it myself, but the crowd held me back."
"Mega?" Dr. Light asked. He was about to walk towards Mega's imposter when the human prodigy thrusts his arm in front of Dr. Light to stop him.
"It's okay, I'm here to help," Mega's robotic imposter stated, "You don't have to be protective any longer."
"Believe me, I am," Mega said, "Maybe if you blew my head off when you had the chance to, I wouldn't have gotten in the way!"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I think you should get some help. You've obviously lost it, kid."
Mega grabs his robotic clone by the arms and slams him against the wall of a bakery, seething "Listen, you sadistic bitch...!"
"No!" Dr. Light got between Mega and his clone, pushing them away from each other. The robotic Mega straightened up and brushed himself off.
"Let's get out of here before this idiot tries anything else." He growled. He walked away as Dr. Light followed, looking back at Mega a minute before turning his head around.
"H-Hey! Wait!" Mega cried. He brought his hand up as it to grab something, quivered then slowly dropped. Rush stood beside him, whimpering.
Completely out of ideas, Mega's whole body shook as he dropped to his hands and knees, punching the ground with his right fist.
"Dammit! What'll I do now!?" Mega choked, dropping his head below his shoulders. Rush ran up beside him to see his eyes squeezed shut, tears hitting the ground for the first time since he was turned into a human.
When he realized he was crying, Mega quickly rubbed the tears from his face and crawled towards a lamppost, leaning his back against it and putting his hand on his head, tears still dribbling down his face. Rush followed him, sitting beside him
"Geez! Look at me! Is this what happens to a human when he freaks out? I feel like a complete idiot sitting here and crying while Mystique drags Dr. Light somewhere to be annihilate...in MY body!"
Rush looked at him, whimpering. Mega shook his head, "Snap out of it! There's gotta be something I can do to get Dr. Light to recognize me! But what?" he looked at his hands, "he should've at least remembered me before I was reconstructed into...." he trailed off, frowning, "How could I've been so stupid!"
Mega jumps to his feet, punching the palm of his hand, "Maybe there is a way to get Dr. Light to recognize me!" he turns to Rush, "Come on, we're going to find Mystique and force the truth out of her!"
Rush, overjoyed that Mega was almost back to his old self, barks and switches to jet mode.
* * *
Mystique lead Dr. Light into the darkest forest of the Manhattan Park.
"Where are you taking me, Mega?" Dr. Light asked.
"There's someone where who can help us get back home," Mystique said, her voice still cloaked by Mega's, "He said he'd be here in this park, so we'll have to wait until he shows up."
"Hmm," Dr. Light said, scratching his beard, "I still can't help wondering where I've seen that guy. Rush didn't seem to want to come with us for some reason."
"Don't worry, Dr. Light," the robotic fake grinned, forming his plasma cannon, "Rush'll come around eventually."
"Darn right he is! Right into your face!" came another voice. Mystique looked up to see Mega jump off Rush and slam his feet into her chest, slamming her into a tree and knocking it over. Dr. Light whirled around just in time to see the robot-turned-human land on his feet a few inches from his robot double.
"What's the matter with you!?" his robotic clone complained, pushing himself up, "Did you save Dr. Light just so you can crush me in the process!?"
"That's real cute, Mystique! But now you've gone too far!"
Mega's robotic clone got up, "Why do you keep calling me Mystique! I don't even know this person!"
"Gee, I don't know. Why don't you shed that disguise and ask me that again!"
"You really think you're the REAL Mega Man?" The clone laughed, causing Mega and Rush to growl, "What a lunatic. How can you get Dr. Light to think you're the real Mega Man when you don't even have any proof?"
"I don't? Well, if you think YOU'RE the real Mega Man, then name three of Wily's robots that were actually made by Dr. Light."
That question stopped his clone dead, "Made by Dr. Light!? What're you talking about!?"
Mega grinned on seeing his double flinch, "Dr. Light had three robots just after Roll and I were created, Cut Man, Guts Man and Ice Man. If you were really Mega Man, you would've known about that. But I guess Wily got so caught up in his work, he forgot to mention that bit of information."
Mystique looked at Dr. Light who frowned and began moving towards Mega. Raged, she moved to blast Mega when he grabs her by the arms again and slams her against another tree, this time, the impact didn't knock it off.
"It's over, Mystique!" Mega said, "You couldn't fool me or Dr. Light. That means Wily's plan went completely down the drain."
Mystique snarled, "Tell me, how many times have you been kicked in the balls?" she asked in her normal voice.
"What!?" Mystique smiled and shoves her foot HARD into Mega's crotch. Mega's eyes bugged out as he screamed at the sudden pain, crashing to the ground in a fetal position and covering where he had been kicked, eyes still wide and groaning in a high-pitched tone with his lips compressed.
"You have a lot to learn about being human before you go acting like a hero," Mystique said. She then shifts into a falcon and flies off.
Dr. Light ran up to Mega who forced himself into a sitting position leaning against a tree, "My goodness! Are you okay!?"
"Yeah," Mega yelped, catching his breath, "But I didn't know a crotch was a guys biggest weak point."
* * *
"You failed!" Wily roared.
"Only because you didn't tell me everything," Mystique said, "I held my end of the bargain, now you hold up yours."
"I told you to bring Mega Man and Dr. Light's corpse to me! And since you failed to do that, I will not risk having my robots invade a mutant institute and come back in pieces!"
"You forget, old man. I can change into the strongest creature in the world and take you down in one blow."
Mystique backed up, ready to shift into that said creature when she caught Wily grinning and stretching his mustache.
"You're the one who should be trembling in fear. Or did you forget the pain inflicted on you when you tried to ambush me?"
Mystique looked up, seeing a shadow growing behind Wily. Her eyes widened, "N-No! Please, not him!"
"You're too late," Wily said, "You tried to defy me, and now you will pay. And I don't think he would leave you with a simple slash this time."
The shadow advanced towards Mystique who quivered in fear the closer it got.
* * *
"I can hardly believe it, Mega," Dr. Light said, examining his robot- turned-human son leaning against the tree, "You've been turned into a human. A full flesh human. But how?"
"It was an accident," Mega said, "the machine that did this to me is still being repaired in a different world. I just need to find a way to get back there in time. The operator may be the only one with the parts needed to build the portal back to our world."
"I hope you're right," Dr. Light said, getting up, "If Roll hasn't been worried since we disappeared, by now, she'd really be overwhelmed. It has been two days since that inter-dimensional warp machine malfunctioned. She must be trying to find a way to get it to work again."
Suddenly, a scream echoed throughout the forest, reaching the trio as they turned in the direction it came from.
"What was that!?" Dr. Light asked.
"That was Mystique!" Mega got up and ran off.
"Mega, wait!" Dr. Light called out.
When Mega got to where the scream came from, he gasped. Mystique laid against a tree, covered in her blood. She, herself, has claw marks covering her entire body, blood seeping out of each gash.
"Sizzling circuits!" Mega yelled, "Those marks couldn't have been from any normal animal." He heard Mystique groan and tremble and walked up closer to her, bending down, "Mystique! Who did this to you?"
"C-Changed...into a monster...." Mystique groaned, "You must...get away from here...."
"Changed!? What do you mean!?"
"Take a 'wild' guess, brother!" came a half-beast, half-human voice.
"P-Proto Man!?" Mega turned around to see a streak slam into his right shoulder, knocking him away from Mystique, blood flying out of the gashes in his torn shirts. He cried out in pain until he slammed into the ground on his side, blood staining the grass and dead leaves around him.
A towering, wolf-shaped figure stooped over Mega as he tried to lift his head up in time to see the creature bring its claws to its mouth and lick the blood splattered in its fingers.
"How I love the taste of human blood. Especially when it comes from my little brother."
"W-What happened to you?" Mega mumbled, barely conscious from the pain inflicted on him. The shadow took its foot and pushed him onto his back.
"I would tell you, but you wouldn't be conscious long enough to pay attention." The creature said, "But don't worry, by the time you regain consciousness, I would have slaughter every being in this city."
The creature stood, turned around and walked off, leaving Mega laying in the blood stained grass.
OOC: I wasn't getting anywhere with the next installment, so I decided to re-route this chapter a bit. Hopefully, this would help me get the sixth chapter up.
Next Chapter: Proto's thirst for blood over dominates his wolf instincts and Wily loses control of him. While the human half is trying to battle his way to the surface, he raging vampire werewolf half goes on a killing spree, eventually leading him to the Institute for Gifted Children. And with most of the X-Men stuck on the ship with Rubyheart, there seems to be nothing Xavier can do to stop a raging, blood thirsty werewolf from breaking in and dining on mutant blood, gaining their abilities of that and growing stronger.
Meanwhile, Wily tries to seek help from Dr. Light and Mega, who seemed skeptical at first, but reluctantly helps him try to get Proto's human instincts back. But can Mega stand up to the strength of his half-beast, bloodsucking brother? And what about the other X-Men left behind? Can they ever hope to stop him before he reaches Xavier and sucks some of his powers?