Disclaimer: I don't own rockman, the robot masters, or any of the other
characters mentioned in this fic they all belong to capcom so don't sue me
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I still find it hard to believe I'm still doing this. I swear I'm making half of the story up as I type it; course stuff like that always has come easy to me. Sorry for not updating in awhile, I've ben really busy. Please continue to read my fic and would some one please REVIEW. I haven't gotten a single review yet and I really need some feedback, so please review. This chapter is going to have a lot more fighting and gore then in it then the previous chapters. So if you don't like that kind of stuff you might want to skip some of the chapter. And now, I give you the next chapter of
A Light from the Shadows
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chapter three: the tournament part 1
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He walked into the tournament ring as cocky as ever. The wind kicked up dust around him from the dirt ground but his red and gold armor shined as brightly as ever. He walked to the center of the stadium where a purple and gold robot was waiting for him.
Quick man grinned and said "I see you made it past the preliminaries napalm man"
"I could've leveled this whole stadium if I had wanted to, or if I do" napalm man said smugly
"I'm sure wily can find a better use for all your ammo after I've turned you into scrap metal" quick man retorted
Before napalm man got a chance to answer wilys voice blasted through the speakers" alright" he shouted" you both know the rules. The fight doesn't stop till one of you loses and anyone who helps one of the competitors will be dismantled. Ready? FIGHT"
At the moment wily finished that word napalm man sped backwards on his treads, fortunately for him he didn't need to turn around to do so. As he flew backwards he unloaded all of his guns and missiles onto quick mans position. Quick man immediately jumped upward to avoid getting hit, and fired several quick boomerangs, forcing napalm man to make evasive maneuvers to avoid being hit, which wasn't easy with tank treads. He did however manage to avoid being hit and as soon as quick man landed he turned to face him. Quick man immediately began firing his boomerangs again to keep napalm man from firing. Unfortunately for quick man, napalm man did the exact opposite of what he expected. Instead of moving to avoid the boomerangs napalm man simply stood there and fired as many things he could at quick man. Quick man knew the bullets, plasma pellets, and missiles would take him out long before his tiny boomerangs took out the heavily armored napalm man. Quick man knew his only hope to defeat the behemoth was to use his giant boomerang, unfortunately it could be easily shot out of the sky before getting halfway to napalm man. His only chance was to out maneuver napalm man and get up next to him so he could slice him. In an attempt to confuse him quick man immediately began jumping and running in every direction, while slowly inching closer to the tank like robot master. Unfortunately he hadn't noticed that napalm man had set mines on the ground while he was dodging quick mans quick boomerangs, and stepped right on to one.
BOOM
Quick man was sent flying over napalm man, though he didn't see it. Napalm man immediately looked to the dust cloud were he thought quick man was. He stood triumphantly as he stared at the vacant area, thinking quick man was vaporized or buried. He never saw quick man come up behind him raise up his boomerang and bring it down right on top of his head, staining the ground with napalm mans innards. He was carried out of the ring in two half's, while quick man hopped out with one leg missing.
~several minutes later~
The two combatants stepped onto the field at the same time; one of them was red and white. His torso looked like a bolt and instead of hands he had long thin cones with spikes sticking out of their ends. On top of his head was a large device used to help conduct electricity. He was spark man.
His opponent was black with red gauntlets and yellow boots. He had a yellow lightning bold painted on his chest and yellow painted around his eyes with another lightning bold going upwards from between his eyes making it look like a mask. He was elec man.
"You both know the rules correct?" wily asked and both the competitors nodded" then FIGHT
Both combatants immediately shot huge electrical charges at each other, each canceling out the others. Spark man jumped high in the air creating a charge that sent sparks out in every direction. After dodging these attacks elec man sent his thunder beam at where spark man was about to land. He grinned thinking the battle was already his, but to his dismay spark man caught the attack with his hands/spikes and absorbed it! Elec man could only stare in horror. It was his best weapon! He didn't have very many others, and none could compare to his thunder beams power, which was notoriously the most powerful master weapon of them all.
Crap he thought all my attacks aside from my fists are lightning based. How the hell am I supposed to fight this guy if I can't hurt him?
Before he could ponder on this any more spark man sent another deadly shock strait at him.
Only one choice he thought its risky but it's the only chance I've got
When spark man readied his next attack elec man made his move, dashing behind spark man and grabbing his conductors before he could unleash his attack
"What the? What the heck are you doing?" spark man snarled
Without a word elec man began sending as much electricity into spark mans conductors as he could
"What? Hey are you insane or something all your doing is helping me here you know" spark man said grinning. Elec man however just gritted his teeth as he sent as much energy into spark man as quickly as he could
" Forget it" the red robot mocked said" there's no way you can generate enough power to overload m-" his expression changed to horror as he began feeling a burning where his generator was" n-no way there's no was" he began thrashing about in an attempt to not only get out of elec mans grip but to use of some of the energy. But alas, all his efforts were in vain as all he did was prolong his death into a much more excruciating ordeal. After about thirty more seconds of pumping electricity into spark man he exploded, sending parts, both organic and artificial, all over the ring. And covering elec mans armor with blood and oil
"Cocky punk" he mumbled
~a few matches later~
Shadow man stood in the center of the ring waiting for his opponent to appear
"Perhaps he came to his senses and realized no one has any chance against me," he grumbled knowing the idiots would never forfeit
After another moment another robot master walked into the ring. He had tan and gold armor, a headset that looked like that of an ancient pharaoh, and a black and gold cape.
"I see you decided to go through with your suicide then? Pharaoh man" shadow man said confidently
"Talk while you can insolent whelp. All who question my power shall be punished by it, no matter who are what they are" pharaoh man retorted with his own self-confidence
"Enough small talk" wily yelled through the speakers" lets do this. Ready?" the fighters nodded
"FIGHT"
Both of the competitors immediately dashed away from one another, pharaoh man charging his buster while shadow man threw his shadow blades as quickly as he could. Pharaoh man, after taking a few small scratches, stopped and swung his buster in a horizontal arc unleashing his fully charged pharaoh shot as he did, which spread out as it went farther. Instead of dodging the attack shadow man dashed strait at it, slicing through it with his sword he dashed at pharaoh man and tried to cut him to pieces, but only succeeded in damaging his opponents cape. Unfortunately for shadow man he hadn't noticed pharaoh man was charging his pharaoh shot again. Pharaoh man made a small sacrifice, he allowed shadow man to stab him in the arm, and then grabbed shadow mans arm with the wounded arm while the blade was still in it. He put his buster up to shadow mans face. Shadow man starred in horror as pharaoh man unleashed a fully charged pharaoh shot to his face at point blank range. The blast sent him flying backwards several yards and he lost his grip on his sword, his bandages were all either destroyed or had fallen off, and his face was badly burned and bleeding. He lay on the ground motionless for a while as pharaoh man walked next to him, pulling the sword out of his arm as he did.
"Well well well, the great shadow man, the most feared robot master of all" he leaned down so his face was inches from shadows as he opened his eyes" how did someone like as weak and reckless as you get such a reputation?" he asked
Pharaoh mans eye suddenly widened and his expression changed from its confident smug look to a look of shock and horror.
"With skills and tactics" shadow man said with a grin
"Tricky basterd" pharaoh man whispered as he fell onto shadow man. Blood and oil were staining the pharaoh mans and shadow mans armor as shadow man pushed him off, pulling the shadow blades out of pharaoh mans back and the backs of his head and neck. As he stood up he grabbed his sword returning it to its sheath and walked out of the ring.
~a few minutes later~
The two combatants stared at each other in silence as they prepared themselves for the fight.
One of them was outfitted very similar to megaman except a different color scheme, red and white, and helmet. His helmet had one large loop coming out of either side of his head where his ears would be. On top of his head he had what looked like huge cutting sheers. He was cut man.
His opponent had green boots and blue armlets. Instead of feet he had huge claws and he had more claws protruding from his armlets. His upper torso was blue while his lower torso and shoulder plates were green, his chest plate also had a wide white stripe going down it. He had long orange hair, which was pointing backwards in spikes. He was slash man.
"You both know the rules correct?" wily shouted when both the competitors nodded he continued" ready? FIGHT"
Slash man immediately dashed strait for cut man and attempted to slice through him. Cut man however had anticipated this and jumped over slash man throwing his cut blade while he was in the air. Slash man dashed out of its way toward cut man who began dodging slash mans attacks. When cut mans cut blade finally came back around slash man jumped over cut man firing a bomb of goop to immobilize cut man. Before the cut blade even got back to him cut wan was stuck in place as the red sticky goo kept him from moving.
"I admire your courage" he said" but you never had a chance" Without another word slash man rushed forward slashing cut man to pieces.
~In the surrounding jungle about 50 miles away~
Rockman walked through the jungle brush, completely lost, and with atmosphere and plants interfering with both his teleporter and COM unit.
Lovely he thought I'm trapped in the middle of nowhere, no idea where I am, no idea where to go, and no way to contact anyone you've sure done it this time rock
He stumbled through the jungle for a little while until he heard something that made him stop in his tracks
"Why did that dammed old fart have to build that stupid stadium in the middle of nowhere? In a place that's impossible to teleport into? Just chalk it up as another reason to kill the old basterd once I get my hands on him" a voice grumbled through the brush
He would know that voice anywhere" forte!" he shouted
"What the" the black robot said surprised as he came through the brush and saw rockman" huh? What are you doing here?" he asked
"I'm searching for wily" rockman replied" I heard he was having a tournament and this was the only place I could think of where he would hold it. Though right now I'm kinda lost. And my navigation system is out, and my COM unit, and my teleporter"
"Ya" forte replied" that's why wily choose this place as location, so you couldn't just teleport in, and so it would be extremely hard to find it. Now" forte said forming a buster in with his left hand" I believe we have some unfinished business from the other night"
Rockman stood there for a moment" forte your going after wily after our fight right?" he asked
"Of course," he snarled" but what does it matter to you? Your gonna be dead soon anyway"
"Do you really think you can take on an army of robot masters alone and damaged?" he asked
".Dam I didn't think of that" he said lowering his buster
"How bout a truce till we take care of wily?" rockman proposed, holding out his hand
Forte stood there for a moment then scowled before taking rockman's hand" you know I could backstab you at any time" he said
"You wont" rockman replied smiling
"How do you know?"
"You want to prove your strength, not just kill me"
"As soon as wilys gone your next blue boy"
~at the coliseum~
Shadow man walked into the ring, new wrappings now on his head and stared at his opponent.
"Hello slash. I saw your match with cut man, this should be fun. Though we both know you don't stand a chance" shadow man said grinning under his new mask
"You will fall as easily ass all the others" slash man replied with his own grin
"Are both fighters ready?" wily asked both. The fighters nodded" then lets begin the first match of the quarterfinals. FIGHT"
Slash man and shadow man both dashed towards each other. Shadow man slashed with his sword in one hand and a shadow blade in the together, while slash man simply used his claws. Shadow man slashed downward with his sword which was blocked by slash mans claws, he tried to punch shadow man in the stomach, which would effectively stab him, but was blocked by a shadow blade shadow man was holding.
"I didn't know you could use thoughts things in close combat" slash man said
"You don't know a whole lot about me slash man" shadow man replied
Pushing away from slash man he put a few feet in between the two of them and began throwing as many shadow blades as he could at the rabid robot master. Slash man however jumped over shadow man firing a goo bomb as he did. Shadow man however was to fast to be caught by the attack and dashed to where slash man was bout to land tiring to slice him with his sword. Slash man tried to use this to his advantage, trying to block with one hand and stab with the other. He did manage to stab shadow man in t he shoulder, disabling his left arm, but he was unable to block the sword and instead got his arm sliced off at the elbow. Shadow mans arm fell to his side limp, as his wrapping were drenched with blood. Slash mans arm fell to the ground spilling its contents onto the surrounding ground which soon me the pool that was created from slash mans elbow bleeding. Slash man immediately tried to kick shadow man with the claws on his feet, but shadow man was able to get slash mans blades out of his shoulder and get jump out of the way, though he was still cut by the kick just not deeply enough to do anything more than create a little blood. He stood there, he was unable to throw shadow blades and his opponent couldn't fire his goo bombs.
"You've got more damage" slash man stated" you will fall first"
"We will see" shadow man said as his breathing became heavier.
Shadow man dashed at slash man who did the same, but what slash man hadn't ben expecting was shadow man throwing his sword. He managed to knock it out of the way, but when he looked ahead of him again shadow man was gone! He looked above himself to where he had knocked the shadow mans sword just in time to see shadow man coming down and plunging the point of his blade strait into slash man. When he landed he pulled the blade down and toward him, ripping it out from where it was and almost cutting slash man in two, spraying his parts all over shadow man and the ground around him.
"I told you, you didn't stand a chance," he stated coldly before walking out of the ring
~a little while later~
The robot master stood in the middle of the ring waiting for his opponent to appear. His armor was all dark blue and purple. He had a large dark green gem on either shin, and talons where his feet would be. He had large purple wings and long vampire fangs. He was shade man.
There was a sudden flash of light and his opponent was suddenly in front of him. He was mostly blue with gold trim. He had gold colored gloves and the top of his head was a gold colored glass. On his right arm he had an unusual buster that had much more of a box shape to it then the normal oval shape. He was flash man
Flash man grinned" I always like to make flashy entrances" he said, with only himself laughing at his joke
"You think your funny don't you?" shade man replied" well ill just suck that confidence right out of you" he said, with his broadening smile revealing his fangs
"Alright you both know the rules ready?" both fighters simply nodded" FIGHT"
There was a bright flash and flash man was gone! Shade man looked around for a moment before being hit in the back by a shot of hot plasma.
"Gah, what the?" he shouted whirling around just in time to see flash man before another bright flash, this time he immediately felt the plasma shot on his back.
There were several more flashed and he was hit several more times before the bombardment finally stopped. Shade man dropped to the ground with his armor badly damaged and in some places completely gone, most of his skin that was exposed was badly burned and bleeding. There was another bright flash.
This time flash man appeared in front of him" hah that was to easy" he said grinning" I'm feeling merciful today" he said" ill give you a chance to forfeit and leave here alive. So," he said while leaning down so he could be face to face with his opponent" why don't you just save me some time and just forfeit"
Shade man grinned," because you just gave me the victory," he said
Before flash man had a chance to do anything beams suddenly shot out of shade mans eyes strait into flash mans, he was completely immobilized
"Rockman hated this trick" he said" but he was never hit in the eyes so he always broke free before I was able to suck all his energy out of him" he said as he griped flash man" and I'm not giving you a chance to surrender. Shade man sank his fangs into one of flash mans central energy pathways and began draining him of energy. Within minutes flash man was completely drained and shade man dropped his limp body to the ground as he had stood up after absorbing a little energy
" Well it wasn't confidence but it was just as good" he said grinning evilly
~The next match~
"So your gonna be the next one to fall eh elec?" quick man said with his usual cocky grin
"Your fast but not as fast as electricity" elec man retorted
"Both fighters ready?" wily yelled from the radio tower" FIGHT" he yelled before the fighters could nod
Quick man began dashing around and firing quick boomerangs in an attempt to confuse elec man, unfortunately elec man was one of the faster robot masters and was able to follow him, he immediately shot his thunder beam at quick man who was forced to abort his attempts to confuse his opponent in order to avoid the blast, one hit would probably if not defiantly kill him as he had thin armor for less weight. He continued to fire his quick boomerangs as he dashed toward elec man who kept firing his thunder beam and the persistent quick man. Quick man tried to get close to elec man several times but each time he was thwarted by his thunder beam. Seeing the direct approach was no use he grabbed his giant boomerang and swung it in front of him low kicking up lots of dust, too much to see through. Using the dust could to cover his movements quick man fired some quick blades in random directions then jumped over where elec man had ben standing so he would be behind his adversary. As he came down he brought his boomerang down to slice the robot master in two, but elec man had seen him jump. Elec man caught the blade in midair and started sending energy through it strait into quick man. Quick man howled with pain as he felt tens of thousands of volts of electricity course through his body by the second. After a moment of shocking him elec man released the blade allowing the boomerang and quick man to fall to the ground.
"To bad" he said," you were a good fighter, that was a nice try"
"I'm not dead yet you out dated piece of junk" quick man grumbled as he slowly got up, he grabbed his boomerang and used it for support as he stood up" and I'm not giving up" he growled at his opponent
"Surely you must be joking" elec man said grinning," you can barely stand, let alone fight"
"I don't care how damaged I am!" quick man shouted as he dashed toward elec man gripping his huge blade
"Your very valiant but it wont do you any good!" elec man stated as he fired his thunder beam
Instead of dodging it, quick man swung his blade vertically upwards, cutting through the attack, using the momentum of his attack to go in a circle and the momentum of his run to get up to elec man, he cut the other robot master in two as he brought the blade up for a second slice. Because quick man was drained he wasn't able to put much more force into the blade, which forced elec mans body back behind quick man as he went forward strewing his insides across the field as the flew across it.
Quick man skidded to a stop" you should have surrendered," he said before limping out of the arena using his boomerang as a crutch
~a few matches later~
The impatient robot stood in the center of the ring. He had a red cylinder shaped cannon on either arm. He his upper torso and shoulders had red armor covering them and what looked like a stainless steak burner for a helmet with fire protruding from the top. The rest of him was gray. He was fire man.
There was suddenly the revving of an engine as a racecar roared into the ring, as it reached the center in transformed into a robot master. His boots were a very light blue on the shins and green on the feet with wheels on either side of both his heels. His wrist guards were green and he had white gloves. His front torso was light blue with four small exhaust pipes and his back was green with two much larger exhaust pipes protruding from them. Where shoulders normally would be there where large tires. His head was light blue with a thin red band going around it. It also had a large black and white checkered stripe going on top of his head going from one end of the band on the front of his head going to the back. He was turbo man.
"Hello you outdated trash burner," he said
"Hello you oversized toy car" fire man replied. If either of them had mouths they would have been grinning
"Ready?" wily asked, both the competitors nodded" then let the last match of the quarter finals begin"
Both of the fighters immediately shot their own fire weapons, though fire mans was much stronger and wasn't even slowed by the weak fire wheel. Turbo man though had already changed into a racecar once more and had sped out of the way. He sped around the arena in speeds to rival quick mans and made several attempts to ram fire man who continued to fire his fire storm at turbo man. Unfortunately for him he wasn't fast enough to hit the speeding robot or dodge him. After a few hits he stopped firing and stood still keeping an eye on turbo man, and as soon as he came in for another attack fire man unleashed his firestorm full force, hitting the helpless turbo man who had no chance to avoid it. He was forced to change back into his more resilient robot form, lest he be destroyed, and he skidded along the ground till he stopped right in front of fire man. Without a thought fire man aimed both his cannons down at the hapless turbo man and fired. Turbo man had only just enough time to put up a shield of fire around him and put as much power into it as possible. He knew however, that he would run out of energy long before fire man. He looked desperately for a chance to get away and saw one. He saw that one of fire mans legs was badly damaged from constant ramming. He put as much power into his shield as he could and thrust up against fire mans weakened leg. Fire man immediately stopped his assault and screamed in pain and the intense flames surrounded his leg. The flames quickly melted his armor and set the cloth underneath on fire. His leg was now completely bare and turbo man griped fire man pulling himself up so fire mans entire body was encompassed by the scorching flames. The terrible stench of burning flesh filled the air as fire mans screams of pain subsided. After a moment turbo man released him and let what remained of his body fall to the ground.
"Stupid old geezer" he grunted
~a little later about 2 miles away~
"About how close do you think we are?" rockman asked
"We should be pretty close now" forte replied looking at a paper map" it should be about two miles.that way, give or take a few" he said pointing in ahead of them
Rockman nodded" good I'm getting tired off all this jungle"
"In about the last half mile he probably will have some defense robots so be prepared" forte said
"O lovely" rockman replied" that'll be fun"
"O and you might want to stop," he said
"Huh? Stop whaaaaaAAAAAAAAA" he yelled as he suddenly stepped off a huge cliff, and was only saved by forte catching his leg before he fell to far
"That's why" forte grunted as he pulled rockman up" about a mile and a quarter of our journey is going to be down that cliff"
"Thanks for the warning" rockman said still in shock
Forte grinned" look," he said pointing toward the cliff" you can see the stadium. A little after, if not as soon as we are down this cliff expect a fight"
Rockman nodded as he got up and walked toward the cliff" alright then we should hurry," he said
"Its gonna take a long time to climb down that thing" forte said
"Who ever said we were climbing?" rockman replied looking at him with a devilish grin
"What do you? O no you better not be thinking what I think your thinking" forte said
Rockmans grin broadened as he nodded" you coming?
"Have I got a choice?"
"The robot masters will be all gone by the time you get there if you don't"
Forte sighed" all right lets get it ov-" before he had a chance to answer rock bolted toward the cliff grabbing a huge leaf off a tree as he did
"Alright then lets GO!" he shouted as he jumped of the side and began skidding down the slightly slanted cliff using the leaf as a board
"Huh? HEY, WAIT FOR ME!" forte shouted as he dashed toward the cliff grabbing his own leaf
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well that's it for this chapter. Next chapter the two of them will arrive but will it be in time to stop the tournament? Will they catch wily? Will the tournament be finished? Will I ever stop asking these inane questions? All these answers and more in the next chapter of a light from the shadows. REVIEW
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I still find it hard to believe I'm still doing this. I swear I'm making half of the story up as I type it; course stuff like that always has come easy to me. Sorry for not updating in awhile, I've ben really busy. Please continue to read my fic and would some one please REVIEW. I haven't gotten a single review yet and I really need some feedback, so please review. This chapter is going to have a lot more fighting and gore then in it then the previous chapters. So if you don't like that kind of stuff you might want to skip some of the chapter. And now, I give you the next chapter of
A Light from the Shadows
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chapter three: the tournament part 1
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He walked into the tournament ring as cocky as ever. The wind kicked up dust around him from the dirt ground but his red and gold armor shined as brightly as ever. He walked to the center of the stadium where a purple and gold robot was waiting for him.
Quick man grinned and said "I see you made it past the preliminaries napalm man"
"I could've leveled this whole stadium if I had wanted to, or if I do" napalm man said smugly
"I'm sure wily can find a better use for all your ammo after I've turned you into scrap metal" quick man retorted
Before napalm man got a chance to answer wilys voice blasted through the speakers" alright" he shouted" you both know the rules. The fight doesn't stop till one of you loses and anyone who helps one of the competitors will be dismantled. Ready? FIGHT"
At the moment wily finished that word napalm man sped backwards on his treads, fortunately for him he didn't need to turn around to do so. As he flew backwards he unloaded all of his guns and missiles onto quick mans position. Quick man immediately jumped upward to avoid getting hit, and fired several quick boomerangs, forcing napalm man to make evasive maneuvers to avoid being hit, which wasn't easy with tank treads. He did however manage to avoid being hit and as soon as quick man landed he turned to face him. Quick man immediately began firing his boomerangs again to keep napalm man from firing. Unfortunately for quick man, napalm man did the exact opposite of what he expected. Instead of moving to avoid the boomerangs napalm man simply stood there and fired as many things he could at quick man. Quick man knew the bullets, plasma pellets, and missiles would take him out long before his tiny boomerangs took out the heavily armored napalm man. Quick man knew his only hope to defeat the behemoth was to use his giant boomerang, unfortunately it could be easily shot out of the sky before getting halfway to napalm man. His only chance was to out maneuver napalm man and get up next to him so he could slice him. In an attempt to confuse him quick man immediately began jumping and running in every direction, while slowly inching closer to the tank like robot master. Unfortunately he hadn't noticed that napalm man had set mines on the ground while he was dodging quick mans quick boomerangs, and stepped right on to one.
BOOM
Quick man was sent flying over napalm man, though he didn't see it. Napalm man immediately looked to the dust cloud were he thought quick man was. He stood triumphantly as he stared at the vacant area, thinking quick man was vaporized or buried. He never saw quick man come up behind him raise up his boomerang and bring it down right on top of his head, staining the ground with napalm mans innards. He was carried out of the ring in two half's, while quick man hopped out with one leg missing.
~several minutes later~
The two combatants stepped onto the field at the same time; one of them was red and white. His torso looked like a bolt and instead of hands he had long thin cones with spikes sticking out of their ends. On top of his head was a large device used to help conduct electricity. He was spark man.
His opponent was black with red gauntlets and yellow boots. He had a yellow lightning bold painted on his chest and yellow painted around his eyes with another lightning bold going upwards from between his eyes making it look like a mask. He was elec man.
"You both know the rules correct?" wily asked and both the competitors nodded" then FIGHT
Both combatants immediately shot huge electrical charges at each other, each canceling out the others. Spark man jumped high in the air creating a charge that sent sparks out in every direction. After dodging these attacks elec man sent his thunder beam at where spark man was about to land. He grinned thinking the battle was already his, but to his dismay spark man caught the attack with his hands/spikes and absorbed it! Elec man could only stare in horror. It was his best weapon! He didn't have very many others, and none could compare to his thunder beams power, which was notoriously the most powerful master weapon of them all.
Crap he thought all my attacks aside from my fists are lightning based. How the hell am I supposed to fight this guy if I can't hurt him?
Before he could ponder on this any more spark man sent another deadly shock strait at him.
Only one choice he thought its risky but it's the only chance I've got
When spark man readied his next attack elec man made his move, dashing behind spark man and grabbing his conductors before he could unleash his attack
"What the? What the heck are you doing?" spark man snarled
Without a word elec man began sending as much electricity into spark mans conductors as he could
"What? Hey are you insane or something all your doing is helping me here you know" spark man said grinning. Elec man however just gritted his teeth as he sent as much energy into spark man as quickly as he could
" Forget it" the red robot mocked said" there's no way you can generate enough power to overload m-" his expression changed to horror as he began feeling a burning where his generator was" n-no way there's no was" he began thrashing about in an attempt to not only get out of elec mans grip but to use of some of the energy. But alas, all his efforts were in vain as all he did was prolong his death into a much more excruciating ordeal. After about thirty more seconds of pumping electricity into spark man he exploded, sending parts, both organic and artificial, all over the ring. And covering elec mans armor with blood and oil
"Cocky punk" he mumbled
~a few matches later~
Shadow man stood in the center of the ring waiting for his opponent to appear
"Perhaps he came to his senses and realized no one has any chance against me," he grumbled knowing the idiots would never forfeit
After another moment another robot master walked into the ring. He had tan and gold armor, a headset that looked like that of an ancient pharaoh, and a black and gold cape.
"I see you decided to go through with your suicide then? Pharaoh man" shadow man said confidently
"Talk while you can insolent whelp. All who question my power shall be punished by it, no matter who are what they are" pharaoh man retorted with his own self-confidence
"Enough small talk" wily yelled through the speakers" lets do this. Ready?" the fighters nodded
"FIGHT"
Both of the competitors immediately dashed away from one another, pharaoh man charging his buster while shadow man threw his shadow blades as quickly as he could. Pharaoh man, after taking a few small scratches, stopped and swung his buster in a horizontal arc unleashing his fully charged pharaoh shot as he did, which spread out as it went farther. Instead of dodging the attack shadow man dashed strait at it, slicing through it with his sword he dashed at pharaoh man and tried to cut him to pieces, but only succeeded in damaging his opponents cape. Unfortunately for shadow man he hadn't noticed pharaoh man was charging his pharaoh shot again. Pharaoh man made a small sacrifice, he allowed shadow man to stab him in the arm, and then grabbed shadow mans arm with the wounded arm while the blade was still in it. He put his buster up to shadow mans face. Shadow man starred in horror as pharaoh man unleashed a fully charged pharaoh shot to his face at point blank range. The blast sent him flying backwards several yards and he lost his grip on his sword, his bandages were all either destroyed or had fallen off, and his face was badly burned and bleeding. He lay on the ground motionless for a while as pharaoh man walked next to him, pulling the sword out of his arm as he did.
"Well well well, the great shadow man, the most feared robot master of all" he leaned down so his face was inches from shadows as he opened his eyes" how did someone like as weak and reckless as you get such a reputation?" he asked
Pharaoh mans eye suddenly widened and his expression changed from its confident smug look to a look of shock and horror.
"With skills and tactics" shadow man said with a grin
"Tricky basterd" pharaoh man whispered as he fell onto shadow man. Blood and oil were staining the pharaoh mans and shadow mans armor as shadow man pushed him off, pulling the shadow blades out of pharaoh mans back and the backs of his head and neck. As he stood up he grabbed his sword returning it to its sheath and walked out of the ring.
~a few minutes later~
The two combatants stared at each other in silence as they prepared themselves for the fight.
One of them was outfitted very similar to megaman except a different color scheme, red and white, and helmet. His helmet had one large loop coming out of either side of his head where his ears would be. On top of his head he had what looked like huge cutting sheers. He was cut man.
His opponent had green boots and blue armlets. Instead of feet he had huge claws and he had more claws protruding from his armlets. His upper torso was blue while his lower torso and shoulder plates were green, his chest plate also had a wide white stripe going down it. He had long orange hair, which was pointing backwards in spikes. He was slash man.
"You both know the rules correct?" wily shouted when both the competitors nodded he continued" ready? FIGHT"
Slash man immediately dashed strait for cut man and attempted to slice through him. Cut man however had anticipated this and jumped over slash man throwing his cut blade while he was in the air. Slash man dashed out of its way toward cut man who began dodging slash mans attacks. When cut mans cut blade finally came back around slash man jumped over cut man firing a bomb of goop to immobilize cut man. Before the cut blade even got back to him cut wan was stuck in place as the red sticky goo kept him from moving.
"I admire your courage" he said" but you never had a chance" Without another word slash man rushed forward slashing cut man to pieces.
~In the surrounding jungle about 50 miles away~
Rockman walked through the jungle brush, completely lost, and with atmosphere and plants interfering with both his teleporter and COM unit.
Lovely he thought I'm trapped in the middle of nowhere, no idea where I am, no idea where to go, and no way to contact anyone you've sure done it this time rock
He stumbled through the jungle for a little while until he heard something that made him stop in his tracks
"Why did that dammed old fart have to build that stupid stadium in the middle of nowhere? In a place that's impossible to teleport into? Just chalk it up as another reason to kill the old basterd once I get my hands on him" a voice grumbled through the brush
He would know that voice anywhere" forte!" he shouted
"What the" the black robot said surprised as he came through the brush and saw rockman" huh? What are you doing here?" he asked
"I'm searching for wily" rockman replied" I heard he was having a tournament and this was the only place I could think of where he would hold it. Though right now I'm kinda lost. And my navigation system is out, and my COM unit, and my teleporter"
"Ya" forte replied" that's why wily choose this place as location, so you couldn't just teleport in, and so it would be extremely hard to find it. Now" forte said forming a buster in with his left hand" I believe we have some unfinished business from the other night"
Rockman stood there for a moment" forte your going after wily after our fight right?" he asked
"Of course," he snarled" but what does it matter to you? Your gonna be dead soon anyway"
"Do you really think you can take on an army of robot masters alone and damaged?" he asked
".Dam I didn't think of that" he said lowering his buster
"How bout a truce till we take care of wily?" rockman proposed, holding out his hand
Forte stood there for a moment then scowled before taking rockman's hand" you know I could backstab you at any time" he said
"You wont" rockman replied smiling
"How do you know?"
"You want to prove your strength, not just kill me"
"As soon as wilys gone your next blue boy"
~at the coliseum~
Shadow man walked into the ring, new wrappings now on his head and stared at his opponent.
"Hello slash. I saw your match with cut man, this should be fun. Though we both know you don't stand a chance" shadow man said grinning under his new mask
"You will fall as easily ass all the others" slash man replied with his own grin
"Are both fighters ready?" wily asked both. The fighters nodded" then lets begin the first match of the quarterfinals. FIGHT"
Slash man and shadow man both dashed towards each other. Shadow man slashed with his sword in one hand and a shadow blade in the together, while slash man simply used his claws. Shadow man slashed downward with his sword which was blocked by slash mans claws, he tried to punch shadow man in the stomach, which would effectively stab him, but was blocked by a shadow blade shadow man was holding.
"I didn't know you could use thoughts things in close combat" slash man said
"You don't know a whole lot about me slash man" shadow man replied
Pushing away from slash man he put a few feet in between the two of them and began throwing as many shadow blades as he could at the rabid robot master. Slash man however jumped over shadow man firing a goo bomb as he did. Shadow man however was to fast to be caught by the attack and dashed to where slash man was bout to land tiring to slice him with his sword. Slash man tried to use this to his advantage, trying to block with one hand and stab with the other. He did manage to stab shadow man in t he shoulder, disabling his left arm, but he was unable to block the sword and instead got his arm sliced off at the elbow. Shadow mans arm fell to his side limp, as his wrapping were drenched with blood. Slash mans arm fell to the ground spilling its contents onto the surrounding ground which soon me the pool that was created from slash mans elbow bleeding. Slash man immediately tried to kick shadow man with the claws on his feet, but shadow man was able to get slash mans blades out of his shoulder and get jump out of the way, though he was still cut by the kick just not deeply enough to do anything more than create a little blood. He stood there, he was unable to throw shadow blades and his opponent couldn't fire his goo bombs.
"You've got more damage" slash man stated" you will fall first"
"We will see" shadow man said as his breathing became heavier.
Shadow man dashed at slash man who did the same, but what slash man hadn't ben expecting was shadow man throwing his sword. He managed to knock it out of the way, but when he looked ahead of him again shadow man was gone! He looked above himself to where he had knocked the shadow mans sword just in time to see shadow man coming down and plunging the point of his blade strait into slash man. When he landed he pulled the blade down and toward him, ripping it out from where it was and almost cutting slash man in two, spraying his parts all over shadow man and the ground around him.
"I told you, you didn't stand a chance," he stated coldly before walking out of the ring
~a little while later~
The robot master stood in the middle of the ring waiting for his opponent to appear. His armor was all dark blue and purple. He had a large dark green gem on either shin, and talons where his feet would be. He had large purple wings and long vampire fangs. He was shade man.
There was a sudden flash of light and his opponent was suddenly in front of him. He was mostly blue with gold trim. He had gold colored gloves and the top of his head was a gold colored glass. On his right arm he had an unusual buster that had much more of a box shape to it then the normal oval shape. He was flash man
Flash man grinned" I always like to make flashy entrances" he said, with only himself laughing at his joke
"You think your funny don't you?" shade man replied" well ill just suck that confidence right out of you" he said, with his broadening smile revealing his fangs
"Alright you both know the rules ready?" both fighters simply nodded" FIGHT"
There was a bright flash and flash man was gone! Shade man looked around for a moment before being hit in the back by a shot of hot plasma.
"Gah, what the?" he shouted whirling around just in time to see flash man before another bright flash, this time he immediately felt the plasma shot on his back.
There were several more flashed and he was hit several more times before the bombardment finally stopped. Shade man dropped to the ground with his armor badly damaged and in some places completely gone, most of his skin that was exposed was badly burned and bleeding. There was another bright flash.
This time flash man appeared in front of him" hah that was to easy" he said grinning" I'm feeling merciful today" he said" ill give you a chance to forfeit and leave here alive. So," he said while leaning down so he could be face to face with his opponent" why don't you just save me some time and just forfeit"
Shade man grinned," because you just gave me the victory," he said
Before flash man had a chance to do anything beams suddenly shot out of shade mans eyes strait into flash mans, he was completely immobilized
"Rockman hated this trick" he said" but he was never hit in the eyes so he always broke free before I was able to suck all his energy out of him" he said as he griped flash man" and I'm not giving you a chance to surrender. Shade man sank his fangs into one of flash mans central energy pathways and began draining him of energy. Within minutes flash man was completely drained and shade man dropped his limp body to the ground as he had stood up after absorbing a little energy
" Well it wasn't confidence but it was just as good" he said grinning evilly
~The next match~
"So your gonna be the next one to fall eh elec?" quick man said with his usual cocky grin
"Your fast but not as fast as electricity" elec man retorted
"Both fighters ready?" wily yelled from the radio tower" FIGHT" he yelled before the fighters could nod
Quick man began dashing around and firing quick boomerangs in an attempt to confuse elec man, unfortunately elec man was one of the faster robot masters and was able to follow him, he immediately shot his thunder beam at quick man who was forced to abort his attempts to confuse his opponent in order to avoid the blast, one hit would probably if not defiantly kill him as he had thin armor for less weight. He continued to fire his quick boomerangs as he dashed toward elec man who kept firing his thunder beam and the persistent quick man. Quick man tried to get close to elec man several times but each time he was thwarted by his thunder beam. Seeing the direct approach was no use he grabbed his giant boomerang and swung it in front of him low kicking up lots of dust, too much to see through. Using the dust could to cover his movements quick man fired some quick blades in random directions then jumped over where elec man had ben standing so he would be behind his adversary. As he came down he brought his boomerang down to slice the robot master in two, but elec man had seen him jump. Elec man caught the blade in midair and started sending energy through it strait into quick man. Quick man howled with pain as he felt tens of thousands of volts of electricity course through his body by the second. After a moment of shocking him elec man released the blade allowing the boomerang and quick man to fall to the ground.
"To bad" he said," you were a good fighter, that was a nice try"
"I'm not dead yet you out dated piece of junk" quick man grumbled as he slowly got up, he grabbed his boomerang and used it for support as he stood up" and I'm not giving up" he growled at his opponent
"Surely you must be joking" elec man said grinning," you can barely stand, let alone fight"
"I don't care how damaged I am!" quick man shouted as he dashed toward elec man gripping his huge blade
"Your very valiant but it wont do you any good!" elec man stated as he fired his thunder beam
Instead of dodging it, quick man swung his blade vertically upwards, cutting through the attack, using the momentum of his attack to go in a circle and the momentum of his run to get up to elec man, he cut the other robot master in two as he brought the blade up for a second slice. Because quick man was drained he wasn't able to put much more force into the blade, which forced elec mans body back behind quick man as he went forward strewing his insides across the field as the flew across it.
Quick man skidded to a stop" you should have surrendered," he said before limping out of the arena using his boomerang as a crutch
~a few matches later~
The impatient robot stood in the center of the ring. He had a red cylinder shaped cannon on either arm. He his upper torso and shoulders had red armor covering them and what looked like a stainless steak burner for a helmet with fire protruding from the top. The rest of him was gray. He was fire man.
There was suddenly the revving of an engine as a racecar roared into the ring, as it reached the center in transformed into a robot master. His boots were a very light blue on the shins and green on the feet with wheels on either side of both his heels. His wrist guards were green and he had white gloves. His front torso was light blue with four small exhaust pipes and his back was green with two much larger exhaust pipes protruding from them. Where shoulders normally would be there where large tires. His head was light blue with a thin red band going around it. It also had a large black and white checkered stripe going on top of his head going from one end of the band on the front of his head going to the back. He was turbo man.
"Hello you outdated trash burner," he said
"Hello you oversized toy car" fire man replied. If either of them had mouths they would have been grinning
"Ready?" wily asked, both the competitors nodded" then let the last match of the quarter finals begin"
Both of the fighters immediately shot their own fire weapons, though fire mans was much stronger and wasn't even slowed by the weak fire wheel. Turbo man though had already changed into a racecar once more and had sped out of the way. He sped around the arena in speeds to rival quick mans and made several attempts to ram fire man who continued to fire his fire storm at turbo man. Unfortunately for him he wasn't fast enough to hit the speeding robot or dodge him. After a few hits he stopped firing and stood still keeping an eye on turbo man, and as soon as he came in for another attack fire man unleashed his firestorm full force, hitting the helpless turbo man who had no chance to avoid it. He was forced to change back into his more resilient robot form, lest he be destroyed, and he skidded along the ground till he stopped right in front of fire man. Without a thought fire man aimed both his cannons down at the hapless turbo man and fired. Turbo man had only just enough time to put up a shield of fire around him and put as much power into it as possible. He knew however, that he would run out of energy long before fire man. He looked desperately for a chance to get away and saw one. He saw that one of fire mans legs was badly damaged from constant ramming. He put as much power into his shield as he could and thrust up against fire mans weakened leg. Fire man immediately stopped his assault and screamed in pain and the intense flames surrounded his leg. The flames quickly melted his armor and set the cloth underneath on fire. His leg was now completely bare and turbo man griped fire man pulling himself up so fire mans entire body was encompassed by the scorching flames. The terrible stench of burning flesh filled the air as fire mans screams of pain subsided. After a moment turbo man released him and let what remained of his body fall to the ground.
"Stupid old geezer" he grunted
~a little later about 2 miles away~
"About how close do you think we are?" rockman asked
"We should be pretty close now" forte replied looking at a paper map" it should be about two miles.that way, give or take a few" he said pointing in ahead of them
Rockman nodded" good I'm getting tired off all this jungle"
"In about the last half mile he probably will have some defense robots so be prepared" forte said
"O lovely" rockman replied" that'll be fun"
"O and you might want to stop," he said
"Huh? Stop whaaaaaAAAAAAAAA" he yelled as he suddenly stepped off a huge cliff, and was only saved by forte catching his leg before he fell to far
"That's why" forte grunted as he pulled rockman up" about a mile and a quarter of our journey is going to be down that cliff"
"Thanks for the warning" rockman said still in shock
Forte grinned" look," he said pointing toward the cliff" you can see the stadium. A little after, if not as soon as we are down this cliff expect a fight"
Rockman nodded as he got up and walked toward the cliff" alright then we should hurry," he said
"Its gonna take a long time to climb down that thing" forte said
"Who ever said we were climbing?" rockman replied looking at him with a devilish grin
"What do you? O no you better not be thinking what I think your thinking" forte said
Rockmans grin broadened as he nodded" you coming?
"Have I got a choice?"
"The robot masters will be all gone by the time you get there if you don't"
Forte sighed" all right lets get it ov-" before he had a chance to answer rock bolted toward the cliff grabbing a huge leaf off a tree as he did
"Alright then lets GO!" he shouted as he jumped of the side and began skidding down the slightly slanted cliff using the leaf as a board
"Huh? HEY, WAIT FOR ME!" forte shouted as he dashed toward the cliff grabbing his own leaf
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well that's it for this chapter. Next chapter the two of them will arrive but will it be in time to stop the tournament? Will they catch wily? Will the tournament be finished? Will I ever stop asking these inane questions? All these answers and more in the next chapter of a light from the shadows. REVIEW