Disclaimer: I don't own rockman wily or any of the other characters in this
story they all belong to capcom so don't sue me
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Well, I never really expected it to last this long to be honest (. I expected to write one maybe two chapters and get bored, which happens a lot for me. But I think ill keep the story going. Course it would help if I could get some REVIEWS. Please PLEASE review. Pretty please? Ill give you a quarter. Well hopefully you will, but for now I give you the next installment of
a Light from the Shadows
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Chapter two: the competition
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They stood there for a moment both gazing out at the city thinking about what lay ahead of them.
"You think it will work?" quick man asked
"I don't know" shadow man replied" all we can do is follow our orders and put our faith in wily's plan"
"Ya.well we should get going"
"See you back at the base" shadow man said as he dashed off
Quick man nodded" see ya"
~a few moments later in the power plant~
"Heh this is gonna be two easy" elec man said grinning as he walked over the two dead guards." Now lets see, how to do this" he whispered while staring at the huge generator" o well guess ill have to do it the old fashioned way" he said his smile broadening
He created a ball of lightning that encompassed his hand as he walked up to the huge generator that took up half the space in an already huge room.
"Wonder how much electricity this thing can take before short circuiting" without another word he touched the generator with his hand inside the ball of lightning. Sparks and bolts of lighting started shooting from the machine as several alarms went off
"Warning warning generator is overloading emergency shutdown activated" a mechanical voice shouted over the intercoms overhead.
The generator suddenly became quite the alarms stopped and all the power in the city went out
Elec man grinned" that should do it" he said proud of himself"
~at a nearby military base~
A huge robot that looked like a he could take on an entire squad of tanks cam rolling up to the gates on treads
"Halt, who goes there?" a solder shouted from over the walls in the pitch- black base
"Are you guys in place?" the robot asked through the communicator, to softly for the guards to hear
"We are" three voices responded
"Then lets get this show on the road" he rolled up close to the powered down base" my names napalm man and I'm the one who will be siegeing you tonight"
Before the solder had a chance to respond napalm man started raining down gunfire and missiles on the base
"GAH, SEND OUT THE TANKS!" one of the solders shouted into the communicator
"We can only spare 3 for the front gates, we are being attacked on all four sides from different robots!" I voice responded through the COM units
"Just send whatever you can before AAAA.."
Afew minutes after napalm man started bombarding the base with missiles the gates opened. Several tanks rolled out followed by solders all wearing armor and carrying rifles. Unfortunately for them they neglected to notice the bombs napalm man had placed on the ground
BO BO BOOM BO BOOM BOOM
"AAAAAH" several solders screamed from the highly explosive mines exploding near them, and some were killed before they knew what was happening, but the mine killed them all, and two well placed mines disabled the gates abilities to close. Napalm man grinned as we entered the base
"This is to easy," he said grinning
~On the street near the base~
Crap rockman thought the casualty rate is sky high I gotta get over there and stop them NOW
Rockman suddenly skidded to a stop. He stared at the figure blocking his path
"S-shadow man"
"Hello rockman" the masked robot replied
".Step aside shadow man, I have to get to the base"
"We can't let you do that," a voice behind him stated
Rockman whirled around" quick man? You're here to!?"
Quick man nodded" I'm afraid you have to fight us before going to the base rockman"
"Sorry but I don't have time for you" rockman replied as he started to run at shadow man
"If you try to run without fighting then we will have to destroy these apartment buildings around us" shadow man stated coldly
Rockman stopped dead in his tracks "YOU WOULDN'T" he shouted
"Go ahead call our bluff"
Rockman stood there for a moment not moving or saying anything" alright but lets make it quick"
"Gladly" charmed a third voice
Rockman whirled around but to late. Magnet man had already clipped on a small metal ring around rockman's leg.
A beam suddenly shot from the ring to a nearby column of a parking garage, which it formed a ring around
"What the heck is this?" rockman asked sourly
"Its to keep you still for three minutes so we can use this little device" shadow man stated holding up the scanner
"Hah that isn't gonna work" rockman stated pulling out the small EMP generator
He pressed the button on the generator and a small wave started going outward a few feet from the generator. Unfortunately before it reached the scanner magnet man dashed in front of shadow man and created a magnetic field blocking out the EMP. Rockman was about to try again before quick man snatched the generator from rockman in the blink of an eye
"Huh, o crap" he stated as he watched quick man crush the small device in his hand. Shadow man pointed the scanner at rockman
"Gah there's no way you will get away with this!" rockman shouted as he fired his cannon in a last ditch effort to stop the scanner. Unfortunately his efforts were in vain as magnet mans shield deflected his shots. In one last attempt he tried to destroy the restraining devise, shooting it, pulling at it, smashing it, but nothing worked.
"There" shadow man stated" its done." Turning on his communicator he said to the others" alright everyone mission complete pull out NOW"
A series of affirmatives sounded through the communicator. Suddenly the rope like beam that was holding rockman in place disappeared.
"And not a moment to soon" quick man stated" looks like it ran out of juice
Shots suddenly started raining down on them from above
"Gah what the heck?!" quick man shouted looking to see were the shots came from
"FORTE" rockman shouted
Forte grinned as he landed" I heard a military base was under attack and I could think of only one person so I decided to come over here and make his life miserable. Plus I figured you'd be there so I could take YOU out once and for all and prove my strength. But you can wait till after these robot masters"
"Sorry forte but we gotta run" quick man said activating his teleporter
"Wish we could stay and destroy you but we got strict orders not to fight" magnet man stated before activating his own
"I warned you something was going down tonight rockman, you should have headed my warning. Well, until we meet again" without another word shadow man activated his teleporter
"Rockman stood there for a moment before hearing a voice through the communicator
"Rockman, it's a miracle. All of the robot masters have pulled out of the base and they were about to level it, and the power plants back online" a military officer relayed
"That's.good" rockman said before starting to walk away
" HEY were do you think your going what about our fight?" forte shouted
"Not now forte" rockman said gloomily while activating his teleporter
"Grr how DARE he do that to me" forte snarled" ILL GET YOU YET ROCKMAN, ILL PROVE IM THE STRONGEST," He shouted
~at wily's lab~
"Very good all of you wonderful job" wily said congratulating them all" iv already told the other robot masters about the plan and the tournament so feel free to talk freely about it" he stated grinning broadly" the tournament beguines in two days, I expect you to all be in top shape for the preliminaries" all the robot masters nodded" good until then you are dismissed"
~at noon the same day, somewhere in the city~
Rockman walked through the park in his usual human outfit
How could I have ben so careless he thought now, wily knows how to build my weapons system, and program it. Who knows how many more fortes he will build now
While he was thinking he wasn't watching were he was going ant ran into a kid who wasn't looking were he was going and running very fast
"oooooooooowwwwwwww" the kid who looked about 16 or 17" sorry about that" he said to rockman as he stood up" I shoulda watched were I was goin" he said extending his hand to help rockman up
Rockman looked at him. He was slim, slimmer than shadow man. He was a few inches taller then he was and had long red hair. was wearing a gold shirt and red pants and a reddish gold baseball cap.
"It was my fault," he said taking the boys hand" I wasn't watching were I was going either"
"Ya I saw you earlier. Pretty deep in thought" said the boy
Rockman blushed" eheh ya" he said sheepishly
The boy smiled" you should try doing something to keep your mind off your problems, that's why I was running" rockman nodded" so what's your problem?" he asked
"Ah well.its kinda personal" he said blushing again
"I can understand that" the boy replied
"So what about you?" rockman asked
"Iv got a tournament coming up" the boys grin grew wider" and there's no way ill lose"
Rockman nodded were have I seen him before? He thought I KNOW I've seen him somewhere before but where?"
"Hmm.have we met before?" the boy asked
"I was just thinking the s." he stopped and in a much lower voice he whispered" are you quick man?"
"Yep I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out" the disguised boiroid replied cheerily
Rockman took a step backwards" what the heck are you doing here? Come to attack the city this time?"
"Hey calm down" he replied" I wasn't lying when I said I was running to keep my mind off a tournament," he said smiling" I'm here on my own accord"
Rockman stood still for a moment remembering his encounter with shadow man" did shadow man tell you what I looked like?" he asked, quick man nodded" what kind of tournament is it"
"The only kind wily ever holds" he responded
"And why is he holding it?"
"Well you can't expect him to put the weapons system in a bunch of robots do you? It's really hard to make. The materials are all really rare and take a lot of time to process. Not to mention it takes forever to program. He's only going to put the system in one of his robots. Well I gotta be goin, see ya" before rockman had a chance to say anything else the robot master ran off"
"Great" grumbled rockman as he walked on" well at least I know I won't be fighting ten fortes. But I still gotta train and get ready for whoever wins that tournament. Or, if I can, stop it altogether" without a second thought on the matter he immediately began looking for a place that would be safe us his teleport in"
"Yes master wily," a voice from behind a nearby building, said," rockman knows about the tournament"
"Good" a voice said through the communicator" now report back to base"
"Yes master wily"
~at the fortress~
Quick man stood in the middle of a hallway. Part of the boomerang on his helmet, along with a little bit of his helmet, was cut off. His chest plate was cut in several places, and in the center of were the boomerang painted on his chest was supposed to be, there was a large hole in his armor, exposing slightly charred skin. Surrounding him were two robot masters on each side of him. One on each side was lying on the ground dead. The live ones were hard man on one side and elec man on the other. On the ground there were cut man and pharaoh man.
"Give up" elec man shouted," There's no way you can win"
"Really?" quick man taunted" lets see you two clowns try and stop me"
"Grr hard man blast him"
The huge robot master nodded and fired his hard knuckles at quick man. Quick man dodged the two flying fists and dashed strait at the helpless hard man, or at least almost helpless. Hard man bent over slightly and activated his thrusters sending him flying across the room faster than the knuckles. Unfortunately for hard man, quick man had anticipated this and quickly moved out of the way pulling out his giant boomerang as he did. Swinging the huge blade he used hard mans won momentum to cut him in half; he immediately turned to elec man. Unfortunately for elec man he had do dodge the flying pieces of the destroyed robot master and was almost hit but his body but managed to avoid getting hit. Unfortunately for him he had ben to preoccupied with avoiding hard man to notice quick man running up next to him. Quick man stopped halfway to elec man though and fired off three quick boomerangs, which elec man easily dodged
"Common quick man you think I'm slow enough to get hit by a few boomerangs?" elec man taunted grinning at having avoided his opponents attacks so easily
Unfortunately he didn't doge the hard knuckles that had turned around and headed back at him. Taken aback by the hits that shattered his armor in two places he didn't have nearly enough time to dodge the three quick boomerangs that were coming back at him.
Shi-shin-shink
Elec man fell to the floor dead
"That was to easy" quick man mumbled
"I agree" a voice, echoed through the hallway
Quick man spun around to see shadow man
"Jeez you can't have this thing any higher than what level 10?"
"This was just a warm up" quick man snapped
"Well how bought a real workout?" shadow man asked putting his hand on his sword hilt
"A duel?" quick man chimed
"No we are saving that for the tournament remember? That way I can beat you in front of everyone." Shadow man taunted
"Why don't you just give up now there's no way you will last more then ten seconds with me, they don't call me quick man for nothing" the red robot master replied
"Ya a battle can be won against you quicker than any other robot master" shadow man retorted
"I know you didn't come here just to mock me. What do you want?" quick man asked
"A little competition" shadow man replied
"What kind of competition?"
"An obstacle course"
"Hah you know there's no way you can defeat me on an obstacle course"
" A level 40 obstacle course"
".O, well I suppose, why not. Ill embarrasses you now AND at the tournament. If of course you make it past the preliminaries"
"Heh, your not much faster than me. Though you are much slower than me," shadow man mocked
"Huh what do you m- HEY" quick man shouted fuming
"Computer activate level forty obstacle course" shadow man shouted
"Affirmative" an automated voice chimed
The room began to distort as colors and shapes became unrecognizable. Soon they began to stop moving and shifting, and formed what looked like a large canyon. There were two paths.
"So I take one you take one sound fair?" shadow man asked
Without saying a word quick man dashed forward taking the path to the right. Not to be left behind shadow man quickly took the path to the left
Shadow man ran along and for a few moments didn't find any obstacles, but soon he came to an area with several walls set up strategically to discourage attackers, though he could weave around them there was an army of different Joes taking refuge behind the walls while firing at shadow man. Crystal Joe's, hammer Joes, skull Joes, and of course wilys favorite, sniper Joes. The sniper Joes were able to use there shields as walls and as such gave more room behind the walls for other Joes.
Without stopping to consider the situation shadow man continued dashing toward the fortifications while dodging fire from his enemies, not bothering to use his shadow blades because he knew they could simply duck behind walls or shields. Though as soon as he got up to the fortifications he immediately drew his swords and started slashing and that he could without straying off his course. After about a minute of dodging, slashing, and running he finally got to the other end of the walls and continued on.
For his next obstacle he stopped in his tracks. He stood at one end of a huge pit, far to wide for him to jump across. The only way across was by using a few flying enemies as platforms to jump on, unfortunately they all had propellers on top and were all moving. And as if that weren't enough on the other side of the pit there was a wall of sniper Joes waiting to fire as soon as he came into range, which was about an inch past the edge of the pit
"Lovely" he mumbled" well might as well get it over with"
He jumped strait for the first flying robot. He threw a shadow blade ahead of him to cut off the propeller before he reached it so as he wasn't hit by it. He continued this pattern for a wile, using his sword to block and reflect al of the shots the sniper Joes on the other side were shooting. Unfortunately for him they all had the accuracy of real snipers. When he finally reached the last one he waited for a moment before pushing off as to throw of the sniper Joes aim. As he was in the air he threw as many shadow blades as he could at the sniper Joes to keep them pinned down as he flew over their heads. When he landed he didn't even bother to look behind him as he dashed off again. After facing afew more minor enemies and obstacles he came to the end of the fork and saw the goal line. Unfortunately quick man wasn't far behind him.
He immediately began pushing as hard as he could going as fast as he could, unfortunately for him quick man was doing the same, and he had made it quite clear that he was the fastest robot master. Quick man slowly caught up to shadow man as the raced for the finish line. Just as they passed the finish line quick man managed to get ahead of shadow man by mere inches and win
The both of them skidded to a stop after they passed the finish line
Quick man grinned while breathing heavily" hah I *pant* told you id *pant* win"
"It *pant* wont go as smoothly in *pant* the tournament" shadow man replied just as exhausted" speaking of the tournament, are you ready for it? I don't want to humiliate you unless your at your best" shadow man mocked
"Just try to last long until after they finish saying 'fight'" quick man retorted
~the next day~
All of the robot masters gathered in the huge stadium wily had used during his sixth bid for world domination. Wily voice suddenly blasted over the load speakers
"I'm glad to see you all decided to come. I'm going to skip the introductions and get strait to the good part, the preliminaries will be don't through a series of four person free-for-alls. After there are only sixteen of you left we will begin the finals. You lose in the preliminaries when you are knocked out of the ring, surrender, or are destroyed. Now get into your respective grooms so we can do this"
After all the groups were assembled most of the groups left, but four remained in the stadium and entered one of four rings. Shadow man was in the first groom and he was placed with some mediocre robot masters, knight man, guts man, and cut man.
When the match started cut man knight man and guts man all charged at him knowing that he would win and there only chance was to all attack him at once. Shadow man grinned under his mask at there smart, though futile, effort. He backed up a little to the edge of the ring waiting for the two weapons that had ben thrown at him to reach him. A second before they attacked his current position he jumped up and over guts man who had also reached him. Before he landed he kicked guts man in the back with all his might and forced the behemoth robot master out of the ring. Using his hands to flip himself up into the air again he landed next to the other two robot masters. He grabbed his sword and at the same time he spun in a full circle attempting to cut the both of the two remaining robot masters in half. While he did destroy cut man knight man managed to block with his shield. Knight man stumbled backwards a few steps then charged to attack. When he got close he fired his mace, which shadow man easily dodged. What shadow man hadn't expected though was knight man to try to bash him with his shield and head but him. While he was able to dodge the shield, knight mans forehead landed right between shadow mans eyes. He dropped his sword as he stumbled backwards before falling down. He looked up just in time to dodge knight mans mace coming down on his head. Knight man continued to assault shadow man swinging his mace without firing it, inching him closer and closer to the edge of the circle. Unfortunately for him he didn't realize it was shadow man who was inching him toward the edge, not the other way around. A little before shadow man reached the edge of the ring knight man swung down with his mace. Shadow man caught his arm and rolled backwards-pulling knight man with him. Putting one foot on his stomach he launched knight man out of the ring behind him.
~a few rounds later~
Bah quick man thought looking at his opponents I don't see why wily doesn't just give ME the upgrade. None of these maggots are any match for me
He was facing tomahawk man, hard man, and magnet man
As soon as the match started hard man and magnet man ignored the other two competitors and began assaulting each other. Tomahawk man threw some of his feathers at quick man and charged at him
Pathetic he thought while shooting some quick boomerangs at the feathers this guy is just pathetic
The boomerangs he fired at the feathers cut them in half and continued toward tomahawk man who immediately stopped. Jumping over the boomerangs he threw his tomahawk at quick man who used his giant boomerang to knock it to the ground
As tomahawk man landed quick man said in an irritated voice" you're a real moron you know that"
"WHAT? How dare you your gonna get it n-" before he had a chance to finish three quick boomerangs gut through him from behind. He dropped to the ground dead.
Quick man grinned they always forget they come back he thought
Quick man heard a thud and looked over to see hard man laying dead on the ground, killed by his weakness, magnet missile. Magnet man stood there looking at the undamaged quick man, although he himself was very damaged.
"Forget it," he said" you win, I surrender. No point in fighting a hopeless battle" without another word he limped out of the circle
"Well" quick man stated" that makes things much simpler"
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Well? What do you think? Please review and tell me what you think. Next chapter "the tournament" will cover most, if not all, of the fights.
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Well, I never really expected it to last this long to be honest (. I expected to write one maybe two chapters and get bored, which happens a lot for me. But I think ill keep the story going. Course it would help if I could get some REVIEWS. Please PLEASE review. Pretty please? Ill give you a quarter. Well hopefully you will, but for now I give you the next installment of
a Light from the Shadows
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Chapter two: the competition
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They stood there for a moment both gazing out at the city thinking about what lay ahead of them.
"You think it will work?" quick man asked
"I don't know" shadow man replied" all we can do is follow our orders and put our faith in wily's plan"
"Ya.well we should get going"
"See you back at the base" shadow man said as he dashed off
Quick man nodded" see ya"
~a few moments later in the power plant~
"Heh this is gonna be two easy" elec man said grinning as he walked over the two dead guards." Now lets see, how to do this" he whispered while staring at the huge generator" o well guess ill have to do it the old fashioned way" he said his smile broadening
He created a ball of lightning that encompassed his hand as he walked up to the huge generator that took up half the space in an already huge room.
"Wonder how much electricity this thing can take before short circuiting" without another word he touched the generator with his hand inside the ball of lightning. Sparks and bolts of lighting started shooting from the machine as several alarms went off
"Warning warning generator is overloading emergency shutdown activated" a mechanical voice shouted over the intercoms overhead.
The generator suddenly became quite the alarms stopped and all the power in the city went out
Elec man grinned" that should do it" he said proud of himself"
~at a nearby military base~
A huge robot that looked like a he could take on an entire squad of tanks cam rolling up to the gates on treads
"Halt, who goes there?" a solder shouted from over the walls in the pitch- black base
"Are you guys in place?" the robot asked through the communicator, to softly for the guards to hear
"We are" three voices responded
"Then lets get this show on the road" he rolled up close to the powered down base" my names napalm man and I'm the one who will be siegeing you tonight"
Before the solder had a chance to respond napalm man started raining down gunfire and missiles on the base
"GAH, SEND OUT THE TANKS!" one of the solders shouted into the communicator
"We can only spare 3 for the front gates, we are being attacked on all four sides from different robots!" I voice responded through the COM units
"Just send whatever you can before AAAA.."
Afew minutes after napalm man started bombarding the base with missiles the gates opened. Several tanks rolled out followed by solders all wearing armor and carrying rifles. Unfortunately for them they neglected to notice the bombs napalm man had placed on the ground
BO BO BOOM BO BOOM BOOM
"AAAAAH" several solders screamed from the highly explosive mines exploding near them, and some were killed before they knew what was happening, but the mine killed them all, and two well placed mines disabled the gates abilities to close. Napalm man grinned as we entered the base
"This is to easy," he said grinning
~On the street near the base~
Crap rockman thought the casualty rate is sky high I gotta get over there and stop them NOW
Rockman suddenly skidded to a stop. He stared at the figure blocking his path
"S-shadow man"
"Hello rockman" the masked robot replied
".Step aside shadow man, I have to get to the base"
"We can't let you do that," a voice behind him stated
Rockman whirled around" quick man? You're here to!?"
Quick man nodded" I'm afraid you have to fight us before going to the base rockman"
"Sorry but I don't have time for you" rockman replied as he started to run at shadow man
"If you try to run without fighting then we will have to destroy these apartment buildings around us" shadow man stated coldly
Rockman stopped dead in his tracks "YOU WOULDN'T" he shouted
"Go ahead call our bluff"
Rockman stood there for a moment not moving or saying anything" alright but lets make it quick"
"Gladly" charmed a third voice
Rockman whirled around but to late. Magnet man had already clipped on a small metal ring around rockman's leg.
A beam suddenly shot from the ring to a nearby column of a parking garage, which it formed a ring around
"What the heck is this?" rockman asked sourly
"Its to keep you still for three minutes so we can use this little device" shadow man stated holding up the scanner
"Hah that isn't gonna work" rockman stated pulling out the small EMP generator
He pressed the button on the generator and a small wave started going outward a few feet from the generator. Unfortunately before it reached the scanner magnet man dashed in front of shadow man and created a magnetic field blocking out the EMP. Rockman was about to try again before quick man snatched the generator from rockman in the blink of an eye
"Huh, o crap" he stated as he watched quick man crush the small device in his hand. Shadow man pointed the scanner at rockman
"Gah there's no way you will get away with this!" rockman shouted as he fired his cannon in a last ditch effort to stop the scanner. Unfortunately his efforts were in vain as magnet mans shield deflected his shots. In one last attempt he tried to destroy the restraining devise, shooting it, pulling at it, smashing it, but nothing worked.
"There" shadow man stated" its done." Turning on his communicator he said to the others" alright everyone mission complete pull out NOW"
A series of affirmatives sounded through the communicator. Suddenly the rope like beam that was holding rockman in place disappeared.
"And not a moment to soon" quick man stated" looks like it ran out of juice
Shots suddenly started raining down on them from above
"Gah what the heck?!" quick man shouted looking to see were the shots came from
"FORTE" rockman shouted
Forte grinned as he landed" I heard a military base was under attack and I could think of only one person so I decided to come over here and make his life miserable. Plus I figured you'd be there so I could take YOU out once and for all and prove my strength. But you can wait till after these robot masters"
"Sorry forte but we gotta run" quick man said activating his teleporter
"Wish we could stay and destroy you but we got strict orders not to fight" magnet man stated before activating his own
"I warned you something was going down tonight rockman, you should have headed my warning. Well, until we meet again" without another word shadow man activated his teleporter
"Rockman stood there for a moment before hearing a voice through the communicator
"Rockman, it's a miracle. All of the robot masters have pulled out of the base and they were about to level it, and the power plants back online" a military officer relayed
"That's.good" rockman said before starting to walk away
" HEY were do you think your going what about our fight?" forte shouted
"Not now forte" rockman said gloomily while activating his teleporter
"Grr how DARE he do that to me" forte snarled" ILL GET YOU YET ROCKMAN, ILL PROVE IM THE STRONGEST," He shouted
~at wily's lab~
"Very good all of you wonderful job" wily said congratulating them all" iv already told the other robot masters about the plan and the tournament so feel free to talk freely about it" he stated grinning broadly" the tournament beguines in two days, I expect you to all be in top shape for the preliminaries" all the robot masters nodded" good until then you are dismissed"
~at noon the same day, somewhere in the city~
Rockman walked through the park in his usual human outfit
How could I have ben so careless he thought now, wily knows how to build my weapons system, and program it. Who knows how many more fortes he will build now
While he was thinking he wasn't watching were he was going ant ran into a kid who wasn't looking were he was going and running very fast
"oooooooooowwwwwwww" the kid who looked about 16 or 17" sorry about that" he said to rockman as he stood up" I shoulda watched were I was goin" he said extending his hand to help rockman up
Rockman looked at him. He was slim, slimmer than shadow man. He was a few inches taller then he was and had long red hair. was wearing a gold shirt and red pants and a reddish gold baseball cap.
"It was my fault," he said taking the boys hand" I wasn't watching were I was going either"
"Ya I saw you earlier. Pretty deep in thought" said the boy
Rockman blushed" eheh ya" he said sheepishly
The boy smiled" you should try doing something to keep your mind off your problems, that's why I was running" rockman nodded" so what's your problem?" he asked
"Ah well.its kinda personal" he said blushing again
"I can understand that" the boy replied
"So what about you?" rockman asked
"Iv got a tournament coming up" the boys grin grew wider" and there's no way ill lose"
Rockman nodded were have I seen him before? He thought I KNOW I've seen him somewhere before but where?"
"Hmm.have we met before?" the boy asked
"I was just thinking the s." he stopped and in a much lower voice he whispered" are you quick man?"
"Yep I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out" the disguised boiroid replied cheerily
Rockman took a step backwards" what the heck are you doing here? Come to attack the city this time?"
"Hey calm down" he replied" I wasn't lying when I said I was running to keep my mind off a tournament," he said smiling" I'm here on my own accord"
Rockman stood still for a moment remembering his encounter with shadow man" did shadow man tell you what I looked like?" he asked, quick man nodded" what kind of tournament is it"
"The only kind wily ever holds" he responded
"And why is he holding it?"
"Well you can't expect him to put the weapons system in a bunch of robots do you? It's really hard to make. The materials are all really rare and take a lot of time to process. Not to mention it takes forever to program. He's only going to put the system in one of his robots. Well I gotta be goin, see ya" before rockman had a chance to say anything else the robot master ran off"
"Great" grumbled rockman as he walked on" well at least I know I won't be fighting ten fortes. But I still gotta train and get ready for whoever wins that tournament. Or, if I can, stop it altogether" without a second thought on the matter he immediately began looking for a place that would be safe us his teleport in"
"Yes master wily," a voice from behind a nearby building, said," rockman knows about the tournament"
"Good" a voice said through the communicator" now report back to base"
"Yes master wily"
~at the fortress~
Quick man stood in the middle of a hallway. Part of the boomerang on his helmet, along with a little bit of his helmet, was cut off. His chest plate was cut in several places, and in the center of were the boomerang painted on his chest was supposed to be, there was a large hole in his armor, exposing slightly charred skin. Surrounding him were two robot masters on each side of him. One on each side was lying on the ground dead. The live ones were hard man on one side and elec man on the other. On the ground there were cut man and pharaoh man.
"Give up" elec man shouted," There's no way you can win"
"Really?" quick man taunted" lets see you two clowns try and stop me"
"Grr hard man blast him"
The huge robot master nodded and fired his hard knuckles at quick man. Quick man dodged the two flying fists and dashed strait at the helpless hard man, or at least almost helpless. Hard man bent over slightly and activated his thrusters sending him flying across the room faster than the knuckles. Unfortunately for hard man, quick man had anticipated this and quickly moved out of the way pulling out his giant boomerang as he did. Swinging the huge blade he used hard mans won momentum to cut him in half; he immediately turned to elec man. Unfortunately for elec man he had do dodge the flying pieces of the destroyed robot master and was almost hit but his body but managed to avoid getting hit. Unfortunately for him he had ben to preoccupied with avoiding hard man to notice quick man running up next to him. Quick man stopped halfway to elec man though and fired off three quick boomerangs, which elec man easily dodged
"Common quick man you think I'm slow enough to get hit by a few boomerangs?" elec man taunted grinning at having avoided his opponents attacks so easily
Unfortunately he didn't doge the hard knuckles that had turned around and headed back at him. Taken aback by the hits that shattered his armor in two places he didn't have nearly enough time to dodge the three quick boomerangs that were coming back at him.
Shi-shin-shink
Elec man fell to the floor dead
"That was to easy" quick man mumbled
"I agree" a voice, echoed through the hallway
Quick man spun around to see shadow man
"Jeez you can't have this thing any higher than what level 10?"
"This was just a warm up" quick man snapped
"Well how bought a real workout?" shadow man asked putting his hand on his sword hilt
"A duel?" quick man chimed
"No we are saving that for the tournament remember? That way I can beat you in front of everyone." Shadow man taunted
"Why don't you just give up now there's no way you will last more then ten seconds with me, they don't call me quick man for nothing" the red robot master replied
"Ya a battle can be won against you quicker than any other robot master" shadow man retorted
"I know you didn't come here just to mock me. What do you want?" quick man asked
"A little competition" shadow man replied
"What kind of competition?"
"An obstacle course"
"Hah you know there's no way you can defeat me on an obstacle course"
" A level 40 obstacle course"
".O, well I suppose, why not. Ill embarrasses you now AND at the tournament. If of course you make it past the preliminaries"
"Heh, your not much faster than me. Though you are much slower than me," shadow man mocked
"Huh what do you m- HEY" quick man shouted fuming
"Computer activate level forty obstacle course" shadow man shouted
"Affirmative" an automated voice chimed
The room began to distort as colors and shapes became unrecognizable. Soon they began to stop moving and shifting, and formed what looked like a large canyon. There were two paths.
"So I take one you take one sound fair?" shadow man asked
Without saying a word quick man dashed forward taking the path to the right. Not to be left behind shadow man quickly took the path to the left
Shadow man ran along and for a few moments didn't find any obstacles, but soon he came to an area with several walls set up strategically to discourage attackers, though he could weave around them there was an army of different Joes taking refuge behind the walls while firing at shadow man. Crystal Joe's, hammer Joes, skull Joes, and of course wilys favorite, sniper Joes. The sniper Joes were able to use there shields as walls and as such gave more room behind the walls for other Joes.
Without stopping to consider the situation shadow man continued dashing toward the fortifications while dodging fire from his enemies, not bothering to use his shadow blades because he knew they could simply duck behind walls or shields. Though as soon as he got up to the fortifications he immediately drew his swords and started slashing and that he could without straying off his course. After about a minute of dodging, slashing, and running he finally got to the other end of the walls and continued on.
For his next obstacle he stopped in his tracks. He stood at one end of a huge pit, far to wide for him to jump across. The only way across was by using a few flying enemies as platforms to jump on, unfortunately they all had propellers on top and were all moving. And as if that weren't enough on the other side of the pit there was a wall of sniper Joes waiting to fire as soon as he came into range, which was about an inch past the edge of the pit
"Lovely" he mumbled" well might as well get it over with"
He jumped strait for the first flying robot. He threw a shadow blade ahead of him to cut off the propeller before he reached it so as he wasn't hit by it. He continued this pattern for a wile, using his sword to block and reflect al of the shots the sniper Joes on the other side were shooting. Unfortunately for him they all had the accuracy of real snipers. When he finally reached the last one he waited for a moment before pushing off as to throw of the sniper Joes aim. As he was in the air he threw as many shadow blades as he could at the sniper Joes to keep them pinned down as he flew over their heads. When he landed he didn't even bother to look behind him as he dashed off again. After facing afew more minor enemies and obstacles he came to the end of the fork and saw the goal line. Unfortunately quick man wasn't far behind him.
He immediately began pushing as hard as he could going as fast as he could, unfortunately for him quick man was doing the same, and he had made it quite clear that he was the fastest robot master. Quick man slowly caught up to shadow man as the raced for the finish line. Just as they passed the finish line quick man managed to get ahead of shadow man by mere inches and win
The both of them skidded to a stop after they passed the finish line
Quick man grinned while breathing heavily" hah I *pant* told you id *pant* win"
"It *pant* wont go as smoothly in *pant* the tournament" shadow man replied just as exhausted" speaking of the tournament, are you ready for it? I don't want to humiliate you unless your at your best" shadow man mocked
"Just try to last long until after they finish saying 'fight'" quick man retorted
~the next day~
All of the robot masters gathered in the huge stadium wily had used during his sixth bid for world domination. Wily voice suddenly blasted over the load speakers
"I'm glad to see you all decided to come. I'm going to skip the introductions and get strait to the good part, the preliminaries will be don't through a series of four person free-for-alls. After there are only sixteen of you left we will begin the finals. You lose in the preliminaries when you are knocked out of the ring, surrender, or are destroyed. Now get into your respective grooms so we can do this"
After all the groups were assembled most of the groups left, but four remained in the stadium and entered one of four rings. Shadow man was in the first groom and he was placed with some mediocre robot masters, knight man, guts man, and cut man.
When the match started cut man knight man and guts man all charged at him knowing that he would win and there only chance was to all attack him at once. Shadow man grinned under his mask at there smart, though futile, effort. He backed up a little to the edge of the ring waiting for the two weapons that had ben thrown at him to reach him. A second before they attacked his current position he jumped up and over guts man who had also reached him. Before he landed he kicked guts man in the back with all his might and forced the behemoth robot master out of the ring. Using his hands to flip himself up into the air again he landed next to the other two robot masters. He grabbed his sword and at the same time he spun in a full circle attempting to cut the both of the two remaining robot masters in half. While he did destroy cut man knight man managed to block with his shield. Knight man stumbled backwards a few steps then charged to attack. When he got close he fired his mace, which shadow man easily dodged. What shadow man hadn't expected though was knight man to try to bash him with his shield and head but him. While he was able to dodge the shield, knight mans forehead landed right between shadow mans eyes. He dropped his sword as he stumbled backwards before falling down. He looked up just in time to dodge knight mans mace coming down on his head. Knight man continued to assault shadow man swinging his mace without firing it, inching him closer and closer to the edge of the circle. Unfortunately for him he didn't realize it was shadow man who was inching him toward the edge, not the other way around. A little before shadow man reached the edge of the ring knight man swung down with his mace. Shadow man caught his arm and rolled backwards-pulling knight man with him. Putting one foot on his stomach he launched knight man out of the ring behind him.
~a few rounds later~
Bah quick man thought looking at his opponents I don't see why wily doesn't just give ME the upgrade. None of these maggots are any match for me
He was facing tomahawk man, hard man, and magnet man
As soon as the match started hard man and magnet man ignored the other two competitors and began assaulting each other. Tomahawk man threw some of his feathers at quick man and charged at him
Pathetic he thought while shooting some quick boomerangs at the feathers this guy is just pathetic
The boomerangs he fired at the feathers cut them in half and continued toward tomahawk man who immediately stopped. Jumping over the boomerangs he threw his tomahawk at quick man who used his giant boomerang to knock it to the ground
As tomahawk man landed quick man said in an irritated voice" you're a real moron you know that"
"WHAT? How dare you your gonna get it n-" before he had a chance to finish three quick boomerangs gut through him from behind. He dropped to the ground dead.
Quick man grinned they always forget they come back he thought
Quick man heard a thud and looked over to see hard man laying dead on the ground, killed by his weakness, magnet missile. Magnet man stood there looking at the undamaged quick man, although he himself was very damaged.
"Forget it," he said" you win, I surrender. No point in fighting a hopeless battle" without another word he limped out of the circle
"Well" quick man stated" that makes things much simpler"
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Well? What do you think? Please review and tell me what you think. Next chapter "the tournament" will cover most, if not all, of the fights.