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Hi all (. I'm really sorry about these last two chapters taking so long; I've been really busy with school (they seem to love bombarding you with homework just before break). Ill try to update more often from now on. Anyway I'm not gonna spoil the surprise of what's gonna be in this chapter so your just gonna hafta find out by reading. And hopefully someone will finally REVIEW. Sigh o well here's the next chapter of
a light from the shadows
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chapter four: the tournament part 2
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Rockman sat hidden in a bush trying to not make any noise. After he and forte had slid down the cliff, which had quickly turned into a race, they had met heavy defenses immediately and had gotten separated. Around him at least fifteen guard Joe's patrolled the area looking for him, and it was only a matter of time before they found him.
Beautiful he thought just fucking great I'm separated from the only help for miles I have no idea how to get to the arena from here and I'm surrounded by guard Joes, I'm gonna die in this dam jungle. Well if I'm going down I might as well take a few of them with me
Rockman began charging his buster and looked for good chances to attack. After his buster was fully charged he leapt out from the bus and slammed his fist into the face of a nearby sniper Joe. He grabbed the sniper Joes shield and bashed his head with it. After that he immediately whirled around blocking with the shield, and not a moment to soon. Just as he blocked with his shield several shots bounced off it. After they had all fired and were charging again he moved his shield and fired his charged shot at a group of sniper Joes, one was destroyed while the ones surrounding it were damaged by the explosion and thrown off balance. Rockman used this chance to unleash a flurry of rapid-fire shots destroying three more sniper Joes. He took cover behind a tree as they began to fire again. He glanced around the tree to see how many were left.
"Damit" he grumbled," there are still ten of them" before he could say anything else two grenades landed next to him, one on either side.
He didn't have time to dive out of the way before they exploded or even shield himself. He was rocketed away from the sniper Joes and away from the tree, which didn't escape the explosions unscathed, and landed feet away. He groaned, as he slowly turned onto his back only to see three busters pointed strait at his head. Before they had a chance to fire though all three of them were shot and destroyed, which was then followed by two more explosions. He quickly scrambled to his feet and was immediately thrown behind another tree by someone
"Cant you stay alive for ten minutes without my help?" the person asked
Rockman finally got a chance to see who his savior was" protoman!" he exclaimed," what are you doing here?" he asked
"I could ask you the same question" the red robot replied" I got some information about a tournament here and decided to check it out how bout you?"
"I just got some information about a tournament held by wily, and this was the only place I could think of"
"Looks like you guessed right" protoman said grinning
"Have you seen forte around here?" rockman asked," he and I were working together on this but we got separated"
Protoman's grin widened" you and forte?" he said obviously amused by the prospect" he hates your guts, why the heck is he helping you?"
"We are just working together to take down wily" he replied
"Well I might help but right now my main objective is to find out any information on the computer the geezer has here, his fortress computes are very heavily guarded, I'm hoping for it to have light security as he wont be here long"
"Um wouldn't he usually guard those computers with robot masters?" rockman asked
"Ya and lots of em" protoman replied
"Well aren't all the robot masters, you know, in the tournament"
"Yes but I suspect he has every possible defense up and an army of robots guarding it, not to mention an entire ceiling of auto guns. I tried to break in there once id rather not relive the experience"
"We should find forte and get wily, there will be a lot of robot masters and we will probably need his help"
Protoman nodded" but first we gotta take care of these rust buckets" he said motioning to the other side of the tree. Just then a grenade fell in between them and one on either side of them.
~in the arena~
Quick man stood staring down his lightly colored opponent. He was the only one to ever rival quick mans speed.
"Your fast turbo man but not fast enough" he said grinning" if you cant out run someone you're as good as dead. I on the other hand can fight even without being faster than my opponent"
"Mock me while you can" turbo man replied," ill retire you just like I did fire man, your both out dated relics"
"Are you both ready?" wily asked. Both fighters nodded, getting ready to bolt the second the match started" then let the first match of the semifinals BEGIN"
Both fighters immediately dashed, quick man away from his opponent and turbo man toward his. Turbo man turned into a car to get to his maximum speed, despite the sacrifice of agility and defense. Quick man had already hit turbo man with several quick boomerangs, and now that he was in his racecar mode it was much easier. When turbo man started toward quick man in an attempt to ram him quick man continued firing with one hand while readying his giant boomerang in his other. Quick man was about to swing his giant boomerang when turbo man suddenly changed and leapt into the air. He immediately activated his fire wheel and hurled it at quick man. Quick man screamed as the flames engulfed him. As soon as he landed turbo man created another fire wheel, but this time ran toward him rather than firing it in an attempt to win this match the same way he did the last one. But the fire wheal engulfing quick man died down quick enough to give him time to put some distance between the two fighters. His armor was almost completely gone, along with most of the cloth underneath. What remained of the cloth and armor was welded to his skin and all of the skin exposed was severally burned. Fortunately for quick man his quick launcher was still working, unfortunately his giant boomerang had ben dropped when he was hit by fire wheal and he hadn't picked it up. He immediately brought up his arm and fired some quick boomerangs; unfortunately they were all melted before they reached turbo man
Crap he thought I can't attack him with my boomerangs my quick boomerangs near him and, just beautiful only 35% of normal speed output this is just fucking beautiful. I'm fucking doomed; if I attack him head on I get fried. If I sit here and wait, he attacks and I'm still fried he thinks for a moment well I guess there's only one choice left
He stood there looking at turbo man a moment longer then dashed toward him as fast as e could
"Heh you're a real fool aren't you" turbo man said" your legs are far to weak to dodge my fire wheal" as he ran towards him he grabbed his giant boomerang which was on the way" you cant cut my attack and you know it!" turbo man shouted as he unleashed his fire wheal.
Its only flaw was that turbo man couldn't see through his own attack after it was fired he didn't see quick man plow right through the attack, ignoring the pain and pushing his body to dangerous levels, he pushed his body to run as fast as it could in its current state
Screw what my systems say he thought
He emerged from the other side of the fire wheal going at 110% of his normal speed. He grinned as he saw the look of shock and horror on turbo mans face who could do nothing but watch as quick man cleaved him in two.
Unfortunately for quick man his over clocking his systems caused them to shut down to conserve energy and he was unable too stop. He crashed to the ground and skidded several feet
"God dam those internal systems," he grumbled
~a half an hour later~
Shadow man walked into the arena at the same time as shade man who came from the opposite side of the arena. The wind whipped the end of shadow mans wrappings around which would have normally reached down to the ground while shade mans wings swayed slightly with the wind. They both stopped in the middle starring at each other
"I'm glad I got a chance to fight you" shadow man stated," now I can prove who the real master of the darkness is"
Shade man smiled, bearing his fangs" ill suck the life out of you just like I did that pitiful flash man"
"Are the both of you ready?" wily asked through the speakers. Both of the fighters nodded" then let the second and final match of the semifinals BEGIN"
Shadow man immediately began throwing his shadow blades at shade man while dashing toward him. Shade man immediately fired his noise crusher at the ground, which immediately bounced it back, charging his weapon. To avoid the shadow blades he leapt into the air moments before they sliced the now vacant space. From his place above the field he fired his noise crusher at shadow man, missing each time. But his shots were getting closer and closer, especially the charged ones. When shade man fired a charged shot ahead of shadow man that probably would have hit him, shadow man stopped dead in his tracks. He hurled several shadow blades at shade man then immediately dashed under him and strait up at him. Shade man was able to easily dodge the shadow blades, but unfortunately for him he noticed shadow man a little to late. He was able to escape the assault with only a gash strain up his torso, but it wasn't fatal. Unfortunately for shadow man, the attack didn't have the desired affect. H had expected to kill shade man, or at least faze him until he reached the ground. But one of the blasts he had fired at the ground before shadow man had stopped had come back to shade man which charged his gun, and the falling shadow man was a sitting duck. He attempted to throw some shadow blades, but they were easily knocked aside by the noise crusher, which wasn't even slowed. Shade man also fired his paralysis beams from his eyes. They were slow moving but shadow man had ben disoriented by his wall and was hit b the beams. Shade man didn't waist a second and immediately flew down grabbing shadow man. The talons on his feet sank into shadow mans flesh and circuitry causing his armor to break and crumble under the powerful grip. Bringing him up above the arena his sank his fangs through the fabric surrounding shadow mans neck, into his neck. He began draining power from shadow man, replenishing what he had lost from being sliced. Shadow man quickly regained control though and was able to break free of shade mans grip and land safely. Unfortunately he had ben drained quite a bit, from the noise crasher, the talons tearing into his shoulders, and his energy being drained, he had almost no energy left, his systems were about to shut down and they both knew it. He quickly looked around for his sword. Spotting it nearby he snatched it up and immediately faced shade man. He hadn't moved he. Shadow man looked up at shade man who was staring down at him with a triumphant grin, his attack had completely backfired. Shade man landed and walked casually toward shadow man. He knew shadow man could barely hold his sword, let alone swing it.
"Well well well" he said grinning" look at the 'master of darkness' now. Got anything before I finish you?"
"Go.to hell" shadow man said barely awake
Shade man grinned as he readied his eye beams, could never be too careful. Unfortunately for shade man he should have skipped that precaution. Shadow man brought up his sword just in time to reflect the beam back at shade man; it hit him right in the eyes.
Shade man stood frozen from the beams except for a few systems" h-how? You shouldn't be able to reflect it back." He whispered
Shadow man grinned" diranium reflects any and all.matter in an energy state"
"D diranium? Were the hell did you get that?" shade man asked astonished
"Ask the devil.when you get to hell" shadow man said as he brought his sword to his shoulder and sliced shade mans head clean off, contaminating the ground with another bioroids blood.
~a couple of minutes later~
From his special lab above all the other rooms in the stadium wily watched with a large grin as his two greatest robot masters trudged onto the field. The wind kicked up dust around them as they both advanced toward each other, stopping in the middle of the stadium.
"Hello quick man" shadow man said, nodding his head
"Hello shadow" quick man said returning the nod" why don't you just quit now, you know you don't stand a chance. Ill crush you like I crushed all the others foolish enough to fight me"
"I can think of one who managed to win" shadow man mocked
"You lost to him as well" quick man returned" Besides, there is no way he would win in a fight with me now. Just like you"
"Ill not lose to the likes of you" shadow man growled as he glared at quick man
"Alright" wily intervened" a very good job, both of you. You have both made it to the final round and proven you are strong. But the question is, which of you is the strongest? This fight will determine that, and the winner of this tournament. For this match, it is not over until one of you is DEAD so begging for mercy wont get you anywhere. If one of you doesn't die then the fight doesn't end. Now, are both fighters ready?" he shouted. They both nodded, not ever taking there eyes off each other" then let the championship match BEGIN"
~meanwhile, outside~
Forte, protoman, and rockman stood in the empty room confronted with three passageways.
"Just our luck" forte grumbled
"I don't suppose would you know the interior of this place as well, would you forte?" rockman asked grimly
Forte shook his head" this place was built before me," he said" I guess we will each have to take one" the others nodded" ill take the one on the right" he said
"I guess ill take the left" protoman said as they both started walking
Rockman stood there a moment longer then sighed" I guess I'm stuck with the center then" he said as he headed down the only hallway left
~a few moments later~
Forte walked into a large room and the door immediately shut tightly behind him
"Typical wily" he muttered as he glanced behind him
He looked ahead to see two robot masters standing in front of him. The first one was much larger. His body resembled a keg with a large thruster on the bottom. He was completely blue with a large cylindrical head. His armor was completely blue except or a large orange gem in the center of his chest. He was hard man
The other robot master was shorter and had only a chest plate for armor on his torso. His gauntlets and boots were pretty standard except instead of hands he had two large drills. His armor was entirely red and on top of his helmet was another large drill. He was drill man.
"Lovely" forte grumbled," so are you two going to commit suicide or just step aside?" forte asked grinning
"Your going down forte" drill man chimed" I'm gonna frill you so full of holes they wont be able to make scrap metal of you"
Forte started firing at the two with his forte buster immediately. The two, in turn, responded with there own weapons. Forte was easily able to jump over their weapons and avoid them while keeping them under fire. Drill man suddenly jumped up and turned upside down as he came down, using his drills to bore a hole strait into the ground.
Forte grinned devilishly as he got an idea "Hey hard man" he shouted" I bet you've gotten rusty over the years' there's no way you could hit me with your tackle"
"O ya? Well ill show you" hard man grumbled though forte. Knowing hard man wasn't the smartest of the robot masters, already knew his answer
Hard man leapt high into the air with the help of his thrusters and sped towards forte. When he was directly above forte he quickly changed his course and went downwards directly at forte. Of course forte had ben expecting this and dove out of the way just as hard man came down and drill man came up. The two collided and there was a large explosion. When the smoke cleared forte saw the both of their bodies lying in a pile with both their heads missing. He grinned as he walked through the only other door in the room aside from the one he entered through.
~at the same time~
Protoman walked through the doors and was confronted by five sniper Joes. Normally he would have simply laughed at them, but these were no ordinary sniper Joes. These were the new sniper mkII units, he could tell by the purple color schemes. He had faced them before, they were deadly. Not quite as powerful as robot master but they always traveled in groups of at least three and used deadly tactics. They were much smarter than normal sniper Joes and they moved around a lot. There firepower was much greater than normal sniper Joes and there armor was much thicker. Unfortunately all of these add-ons didn't make it any slower, in fact just the opposite. They were faster and had a better rate of fire than normal sniper Joes.
"Craptaculer" he groaned
Protoman immediately took out his shield and began moving, making sure to not get surrounded or cornered. Despite his efforts they managed to get on all sides of him and began raining down a hail of shots onto him. Protoman was using all his skill and training just to stay alive when he suddenly got an idea. He stopped firing at the robots and charged up his buster, focusing mainly on avoiding hits. When it was finally ready he gripped his shield tightly and hurled it at the nearest snipers head. He then unleashed his charged shot toward another. The charged shot sped across the room, disintegrating the other robots plasma shots. Using his shot as cover he ran over the stunned robot he had thrown his shield at. Grabbing the shield, which had landed in front of the robot, he glanced at the robot and noticed a large hole in its head, probably from the shield. He placed his blaster right on the hole and fired it over and over until the robots head exploded. By that time the other robots had restarted their bombardment, but his shield was on his back blocking their shots. Using this tactic he was able to easily defeat the mkII's quickly and quickly ran to the rooms exit to see where the end of the passage was.
~meanwhile~
Rockman walked through the huge metal door common with robot masters and guardians. Unfortunately he was confronted with a dead end.
"Beautiful" he mumbled as he turned to leave
Unfortunately the door had already shut and was sealed tight
"What the heck" he said aloud. He heard a low humming noise from behind him and whirled around to see the wall was actually a giant robot!" what the heck?!" he exclaimed
The giant robot produced cannons and turrets of all shapes and sizes from all over its body, and where there wasn't a gun there was a missile pack. Rockman's eyes widened as he saw this and he wished he still had his shield from before. He immediately dove out of the way of the machines initial shots, firing at it as much as he could. Unfortunately his shots didn't seem to damage the robot in the least. He looked for a weak spot on the robot, there always was one. After firing for a while at every inch of the robot he could he noticed one shot did some damage. He had shot a large crystal inside the barrel of the main cannon, which cracked it. He concentrated his fir there and after a few more shots the gem broke and the gun exploded. Rockman grinned as the guns around it powered down. Suddenly four much smaller gems came out in protective cases, one in each corner. The guns quickly went on and began firing once more. Rockman was forced to repeat the same process he did with the main cannon. Unfortunately when he was about to destroy the first gem it suddenly began to glow. It shot from its resting place strait at rockman. He tried to dive out of the way but the gem exploded, throwing him against the wall. He groaned as he got up, only to be hit by a hail of gunfire. He dropped down again and the gunfire stopped. It seemed the guns only detected movement.
Maybe if I move slowly enough he though they wont pick me up
He cautiously stood up, trying to move as slowly as possible. It worked! He charged up his buster and slowly brought his arm up, pointing it at the nearest gem the one on the bottom left. All of the guns began to retract back into the huge robot, and just after they did the gems started to. Rockman chose that moment to strike. He unleashed his super shot and let down a hail of rapid-fire shots on the nearest gem. Before the guns could begin firing and before the gem could shoot itself at him the gem exploded in place, producing a large hole in the robot. Without the support of the lower left part of the robot the upper left part collapsed to the floor, joining the other parts. He again stood perfectly still so as to make t he guns think he was gone. The guns stayed fixed on his position for a long while then slowly retracted again. Rockman had already charged his cannon again and was aiming at the only lower crystal left. When the guns had all gone back in the robot again rockman repeated his previous attack and, as expected, the upper part collapsed after the lower part exploded. He grinned at the large heap of robot and climbed over it to find another door.
~a few seconds later~
Rockman came out of the hallway into a large room. He saw that there were three passages aside from the one he came from. Two were on either side of his coming from the same direction as the one he came from. The other one was directly across from his and he could see a light at the end of it. He suddenly heard footsteps coming from the hallways on either side of him and backed back into the passageway, preparing for another fight. He was relieved to see forte and protoman coming from either side.
"I see you guys made it," he said
They both turned there heads, surprised to see him" you just worry about yourself, remember I'm the one who's gonna kill you no one else" forte grumbled" now lets get going there's only one passageway left thankfully, and it looks like an exit"
"Hopefully to the arena or stands" protoman stated. The other two nodded and they began to run down the passage
When they came to the end, they found themselves standing in the huge stadium's arena. They looked to the center and saw shadow man and quick man fighting. Quick man was missing his right arm after the elbow and shadow man was missing his entire left arm.
All three of them raised there guns and yelled" HOLD IT!"
~a few miniutes earlier~
Before wily even finished saying begin the two had dashed away from each other, quick man shooting his quick boomerangs, and shadow man his shadow blades. They continued there long range barrage of each other for a long while, slowly easing toward each other, each taking just as many hits as the other. When they were about ten feet away from each other they stopped firing and charged strait at each other. Shadow man gripped the hilt of his sword while quick man grabbed his giant boomerang. Both of them swung as they met and the two weapons met each other. CLANG. The both of them stood there trying to push the others weapon away with there own. They were looking directly at each other with not even a foot between their faces. Both of them could see the lust for battle and the want to prove themselves in the others eyes, burning as brightly as there own desires.
"Ill crush you" quick man growled
"That'll be a cold day in hell" shadow man retorted
They both pushed away from each other and began hurling there small weapons at each other while keeping there bigger weapons in there hands, occasionally coming in and striking at each other with them. Eventually they both charged forward swinging their blades, but this time they did not meet. When they stopped both of there blades were bloodied. Shadow man had ben cut on the arm, cutting off a piece of cloth and flesh, while quick man had a wound in his side about an inch and a half deep. They both began to bleed staining their armor with blood. They turned their heads to look at each other for a moment the whirled around and dashed at each other, again the blades didn't meet. Instead of running past each other the two stayed in the center trying to slice each other. The both of them received a significant damage, and shadow mans bandages were now all around his neck leaving his head completely exposed. Shadow man suddenly created two shadow blades with his left and began using them to try and slice quick man, in addition to his sword. To counter this, quick man began firing his quick boomerangs as fast as ho could. The quick boomerangs caused quick man to lose his balance a little but he managed to stay on his feet. After firing a few volleys of quick boomerangs quick man swung his giant boomerang with all his might, in an attempt to knock shadow man down. He succeeded. Shadow man was thrown back by the force of the blow and flew a few feet before landing. He looked up just in time to roll out of the way to the left as quick man brought his giant boomerang down on where his head was. Unfortunately his left arm was caught by it as he rolled and was sliced clean, off spilling his blood everywhere. Ignoring the pain brought his sword around with his right hand as he rolled. He cut off quick mans right arm at the elbow sending his opponents blood to join his own. Quick man screamed in pain as he stumbled backwards, though he didn't let go of his giant boomerang to grip it. He looked at shadow man with rage as he prepared to attack; shadow man had already gotten up and done the same. They stood there for a while, staring at each other. And as they did something happened. A certain respect and acknowledgment for each other's powers that they had lacked before. As the rage slowly left both their eyes, grins slowly crept over both of their faces as they stared at each other. The two of them nodded at each other and were about to charge each other once more when they suddenly heard three all to familiar voices yell
"HOLD IT!"
The two of them both looked to see forte, protoman, and rockman all standing in one of the many entrances, all pointing fully charged busters at the pair. Menacing laughter was suddenly heard over the intercom
"Hello rockman, protoman, and my old friend bass. I'm glad you could all make it" he said as robot masters started pouring into the arena from every entrance, and the one behind them slammed shut" don't tell me you thought all me robot masters were destroyed in the tournament did you?" he asked" iv got a total of fifteen robot masters here. Not including the two fighters of the championship you see in front of you of course. You may have been able to defeat my guards but these robot masters will be much harder. Even the three of you together cant defeat them" wily taunted
"Is that so?" forte asked as a wicked grin appeared on his face" well lets just that little theory why don't we"
Rockman and protoman let off there super shots. Forte however was unable to charge his forte buster and simply sprayed his foes with shots from his gun like buster. They all scattered and began pelting the large group of robot masters as much as they could. While the robot masters also scattered and tried to destroy the trio. While all this happened shadow man and quick man quickly got off the field and up to wilys lab.
~A few moments later in wilys lab~
The two damaged robot masters walked into the room to find wily with his back to them
"Ah good your both here" he said as he turned to face them" I'm afraid your comrades don't stand a chance against all three of them, despite what I said. I do however have a plan to defeat them," he said as an evil smile played across his face" you both remember the scanner you stole yes?" they both nodded" well, I've managed to modify it. It no longer scans things. Instead, it now uses its waves to send a deadly virus. Its specially made to only hurt bioroids," he said as he pulled out the modified scanner" it only needs to connect to transfer the virus, it doesn't take any time. It works by tricking the mechanical parts of a boiroid to force his organic parts to make an organic virus. After it does this, the bioroid will die without the antidote. Because of the nature of the virus sent, as soon as it forces the organic parts to make the organic virus it is sought out by the boiroids systems and destroyed. Unfortunately I still have some work to finish on it, so I cant use it just yet. I'm telling you both this because you're going to help me get him. While it doesn't take any time to transfer the virus it does take time to charge the machine. You two will distract him while it's charging. Sorry but I don't trust anyone with such a delicate machine, not even my robot masters" he held up two vials" these are the antidotes, since you two will both probably be hit with the virus as well you will need them" he said as he handed the vials to them" now come" he said" iv got a ship waiting to take us back to my fortress, I'm giving you both upgrades"
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That's it for this chapter. Again I'm really sorry it's taken so long to post this and ill try to not take so long from now on. Please keep reading and REVIEW. I don't care if it's a bad review or good just please someone review. O well, until next time peace (
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Hi all (. I'm really sorry about these last two chapters taking so long; I've been really busy with school (they seem to love bombarding you with homework just before break). Ill try to update more often from now on. Anyway I'm not gonna spoil the surprise of what's gonna be in this chapter so your just gonna hafta find out by reading. And hopefully someone will finally REVIEW. Sigh o well here's the next chapter of
a light from the shadows
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chapter four: the tournament part 2
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Rockman sat hidden in a bush trying to not make any noise. After he and forte had slid down the cliff, which had quickly turned into a race, they had met heavy defenses immediately and had gotten separated. Around him at least fifteen guard Joe's patrolled the area looking for him, and it was only a matter of time before they found him.
Beautiful he thought just fucking great I'm separated from the only help for miles I have no idea how to get to the arena from here and I'm surrounded by guard Joes, I'm gonna die in this dam jungle. Well if I'm going down I might as well take a few of them with me
Rockman began charging his buster and looked for good chances to attack. After his buster was fully charged he leapt out from the bus and slammed his fist into the face of a nearby sniper Joe. He grabbed the sniper Joes shield and bashed his head with it. After that he immediately whirled around blocking with the shield, and not a moment to soon. Just as he blocked with his shield several shots bounced off it. After they had all fired and were charging again he moved his shield and fired his charged shot at a group of sniper Joes, one was destroyed while the ones surrounding it were damaged by the explosion and thrown off balance. Rockman used this chance to unleash a flurry of rapid-fire shots destroying three more sniper Joes. He took cover behind a tree as they began to fire again. He glanced around the tree to see how many were left.
"Damit" he grumbled," there are still ten of them" before he could say anything else two grenades landed next to him, one on either side.
He didn't have time to dive out of the way before they exploded or even shield himself. He was rocketed away from the sniper Joes and away from the tree, which didn't escape the explosions unscathed, and landed feet away. He groaned, as he slowly turned onto his back only to see three busters pointed strait at his head. Before they had a chance to fire though all three of them were shot and destroyed, which was then followed by two more explosions. He quickly scrambled to his feet and was immediately thrown behind another tree by someone
"Cant you stay alive for ten minutes without my help?" the person asked
Rockman finally got a chance to see who his savior was" protoman!" he exclaimed," what are you doing here?" he asked
"I could ask you the same question" the red robot replied" I got some information about a tournament here and decided to check it out how bout you?"
"I just got some information about a tournament held by wily, and this was the only place I could think of"
"Looks like you guessed right" protoman said grinning
"Have you seen forte around here?" rockman asked," he and I were working together on this but we got separated"
Protoman's grin widened" you and forte?" he said obviously amused by the prospect" he hates your guts, why the heck is he helping you?"
"We are just working together to take down wily" he replied
"Well I might help but right now my main objective is to find out any information on the computer the geezer has here, his fortress computes are very heavily guarded, I'm hoping for it to have light security as he wont be here long"
"Um wouldn't he usually guard those computers with robot masters?" rockman asked
"Ya and lots of em" protoman replied
"Well aren't all the robot masters, you know, in the tournament"
"Yes but I suspect he has every possible defense up and an army of robots guarding it, not to mention an entire ceiling of auto guns. I tried to break in there once id rather not relive the experience"
"We should find forte and get wily, there will be a lot of robot masters and we will probably need his help"
Protoman nodded" but first we gotta take care of these rust buckets" he said motioning to the other side of the tree. Just then a grenade fell in between them and one on either side of them.
~in the arena~
Quick man stood staring down his lightly colored opponent. He was the only one to ever rival quick mans speed.
"Your fast turbo man but not fast enough" he said grinning" if you cant out run someone you're as good as dead. I on the other hand can fight even without being faster than my opponent"
"Mock me while you can" turbo man replied," ill retire you just like I did fire man, your both out dated relics"
"Are you both ready?" wily asked. Both fighters nodded, getting ready to bolt the second the match started" then let the first match of the semifinals BEGIN"
Both fighters immediately dashed, quick man away from his opponent and turbo man toward his. Turbo man turned into a car to get to his maximum speed, despite the sacrifice of agility and defense. Quick man had already hit turbo man with several quick boomerangs, and now that he was in his racecar mode it was much easier. When turbo man started toward quick man in an attempt to ram him quick man continued firing with one hand while readying his giant boomerang in his other. Quick man was about to swing his giant boomerang when turbo man suddenly changed and leapt into the air. He immediately activated his fire wheel and hurled it at quick man. Quick man screamed as the flames engulfed him. As soon as he landed turbo man created another fire wheel, but this time ran toward him rather than firing it in an attempt to win this match the same way he did the last one. But the fire wheal engulfing quick man died down quick enough to give him time to put some distance between the two fighters. His armor was almost completely gone, along with most of the cloth underneath. What remained of the cloth and armor was welded to his skin and all of the skin exposed was severally burned. Fortunately for quick man his quick launcher was still working, unfortunately his giant boomerang had ben dropped when he was hit by fire wheal and he hadn't picked it up. He immediately brought up his arm and fired some quick boomerangs; unfortunately they were all melted before they reached turbo man
Crap he thought I can't attack him with my boomerangs my quick boomerangs near him and, just beautiful only 35% of normal speed output this is just fucking beautiful. I'm fucking doomed; if I attack him head on I get fried. If I sit here and wait, he attacks and I'm still fried he thinks for a moment well I guess there's only one choice left
He stood there looking at turbo man a moment longer then dashed toward him as fast as e could
"Heh you're a real fool aren't you" turbo man said" your legs are far to weak to dodge my fire wheal" as he ran towards him he grabbed his giant boomerang which was on the way" you cant cut my attack and you know it!" turbo man shouted as he unleashed his fire wheal.
Its only flaw was that turbo man couldn't see through his own attack after it was fired he didn't see quick man plow right through the attack, ignoring the pain and pushing his body to dangerous levels, he pushed his body to run as fast as it could in its current state
Screw what my systems say he thought
He emerged from the other side of the fire wheal going at 110% of his normal speed. He grinned as he saw the look of shock and horror on turbo mans face who could do nothing but watch as quick man cleaved him in two.
Unfortunately for quick man his over clocking his systems caused them to shut down to conserve energy and he was unable too stop. He crashed to the ground and skidded several feet
"God dam those internal systems," he grumbled
~a half an hour later~
Shadow man walked into the arena at the same time as shade man who came from the opposite side of the arena. The wind whipped the end of shadow mans wrappings around which would have normally reached down to the ground while shade mans wings swayed slightly with the wind. They both stopped in the middle starring at each other
"I'm glad I got a chance to fight you" shadow man stated," now I can prove who the real master of the darkness is"
Shade man smiled, bearing his fangs" ill suck the life out of you just like I did that pitiful flash man"
"Are the both of you ready?" wily asked through the speakers. Both of the fighters nodded" then let the second and final match of the semifinals BEGIN"
Shadow man immediately began throwing his shadow blades at shade man while dashing toward him. Shade man immediately fired his noise crusher at the ground, which immediately bounced it back, charging his weapon. To avoid the shadow blades he leapt into the air moments before they sliced the now vacant space. From his place above the field he fired his noise crusher at shadow man, missing each time. But his shots were getting closer and closer, especially the charged ones. When shade man fired a charged shot ahead of shadow man that probably would have hit him, shadow man stopped dead in his tracks. He hurled several shadow blades at shade man then immediately dashed under him and strait up at him. Shade man was able to easily dodge the shadow blades, but unfortunately for him he noticed shadow man a little to late. He was able to escape the assault with only a gash strain up his torso, but it wasn't fatal. Unfortunately for shadow man, the attack didn't have the desired affect. H had expected to kill shade man, or at least faze him until he reached the ground. But one of the blasts he had fired at the ground before shadow man had stopped had come back to shade man which charged his gun, and the falling shadow man was a sitting duck. He attempted to throw some shadow blades, but they were easily knocked aside by the noise crusher, which wasn't even slowed. Shade man also fired his paralysis beams from his eyes. They were slow moving but shadow man had ben disoriented by his wall and was hit b the beams. Shade man didn't waist a second and immediately flew down grabbing shadow man. The talons on his feet sank into shadow mans flesh and circuitry causing his armor to break and crumble under the powerful grip. Bringing him up above the arena his sank his fangs through the fabric surrounding shadow mans neck, into his neck. He began draining power from shadow man, replenishing what he had lost from being sliced. Shadow man quickly regained control though and was able to break free of shade mans grip and land safely. Unfortunately he had ben drained quite a bit, from the noise crasher, the talons tearing into his shoulders, and his energy being drained, he had almost no energy left, his systems were about to shut down and they both knew it. He quickly looked around for his sword. Spotting it nearby he snatched it up and immediately faced shade man. He hadn't moved he. Shadow man looked up at shade man who was staring down at him with a triumphant grin, his attack had completely backfired. Shade man landed and walked casually toward shadow man. He knew shadow man could barely hold his sword, let alone swing it.
"Well well well" he said grinning" look at the 'master of darkness' now. Got anything before I finish you?"
"Go.to hell" shadow man said barely awake
Shade man grinned as he readied his eye beams, could never be too careful. Unfortunately for shade man he should have skipped that precaution. Shadow man brought up his sword just in time to reflect the beam back at shade man; it hit him right in the eyes.
Shade man stood frozen from the beams except for a few systems" h-how? You shouldn't be able to reflect it back." He whispered
Shadow man grinned" diranium reflects any and all.matter in an energy state"
"D diranium? Were the hell did you get that?" shade man asked astonished
"Ask the devil.when you get to hell" shadow man said as he brought his sword to his shoulder and sliced shade mans head clean off, contaminating the ground with another bioroids blood.
~a couple of minutes later~
From his special lab above all the other rooms in the stadium wily watched with a large grin as his two greatest robot masters trudged onto the field. The wind kicked up dust around them as they both advanced toward each other, stopping in the middle of the stadium.
"Hello quick man" shadow man said, nodding his head
"Hello shadow" quick man said returning the nod" why don't you just quit now, you know you don't stand a chance. Ill crush you like I crushed all the others foolish enough to fight me"
"I can think of one who managed to win" shadow man mocked
"You lost to him as well" quick man returned" Besides, there is no way he would win in a fight with me now. Just like you"
"Ill not lose to the likes of you" shadow man growled as he glared at quick man
"Alright" wily intervened" a very good job, both of you. You have both made it to the final round and proven you are strong. But the question is, which of you is the strongest? This fight will determine that, and the winner of this tournament. For this match, it is not over until one of you is DEAD so begging for mercy wont get you anywhere. If one of you doesn't die then the fight doesn't end. Now, are both fighters ready?" he shouted. They both nodded, not ever taking there eyes off each other" then let the championship match BEGIN"
~meanwhile, outside~
Forte, protoman, and rockman stood in the empty room confronted with three passageways.
"Just our luck" forte grumbled
"I don't suppose would you know the interior of this place as well, would you forte?" rockman asked grimly
Forte shook his head" this place was built before me," he said" I guess we will each have to take one" the others nodded" ill take the one on the right" he said
"I guess ill take the left" protoman said as they both started walking
Rockman stood there a moment longer then sighed" I guess I'm stuck with the center then" he said as he headed down the only hallway left
~a few moments later~
Forte walked into a large room and the door immediately shut tightly behind him
"Typical wily" he muttered as he glanced behind him
He looked ahead to see two robot masters standing in front of him. The first one was much larger. His body resembled a keg with a large thruster on the bottom. He was completely blue with a large cylindrical head. His armor was completely blue except or a large orange gem in the center of his chest. He was hard man
The other robot master was shorter and had only a chest plate for armor on his torso. His gauntlets and boots were pretty standard except instead of hands he had two large drills. His armor was entirely red and on top of his helmet was another large drill. He was drill man.
"Lovely" forte grumbled," so are you two going to commit suicide or just step aside?" forte asked grinning
"Your going down forte" drill man chimed" I'm gonna frill you so full of holes they wont be able to make scrap metal of you"
Forte started firing at the two with his forte buster immediately. The two, in turn, responded with there own weapons. Forte was easily able to jump over their weapons and avoid them while keeping them under fire. Drill man suddenly jumped up and turned upside down as he came down, using his drills to bore a hole strait into the ground.
Forte grinned devilishly as he got an idea "Hey hard man" he shouted" I bet you've gotten rusty over the years' there's no way you could hit me with your tackle"
"O ya? Well ill show you" hard man grumbled though forte. Knowing hard man wasn't the smartest of the robot masters, already knew his answer
Hard man leapt high into the air with the help of his thrusters and sped towards forte. When he was directly above forte he quickly changed his course and went downwards directly at forte. Of course forte had ben expecting this and dove out of the way just as hard man came down and drill man came up. The two collided and there was a large explosion. When the smoke cleared forte saw the both of their bodies lying in a pile with both their heads missing. He grinned as he walked through the only other door in the room aside from the one he entered through.
~at the same time~
Protoman walked through the doors and was confronted by five sniper Joes. Normally he would have simply laughed at them, but these were no ordinary sniper Joes. These were the new sniper mkII units, he could tell by the purple color schemes. He had faced them before, they were deadly. Not quite as powerful as robot master but they always traveled in groups of at least three and used deadly tactics. They were much smarter than normal sniper Joes and they moved around a lot. There firepower was much greater than normal sniper Joes and there armor was much thicker. Unfortunately all of these add-ons didn't make it any slower, in fact just the opposite. They were faster and had a better rate of fire than normal sniper Joes.
"Craptaculer" he groaned
Protoman immediately took out his shield and began moving, making sure to not get surrounded or cornered. Despite his efforts they managed to get on all sides of him and began raining down a hail of shots onto him. Protoman was using all his skill and training just to stay alive when he suddenly got an idea. He stopped firing at the robots and charged up his buster, focusing mainly on avoiding hits. When it was finally ready he gripped his shield tightly and hurled it at the nearest snipers head. He then unleashed his charged shot toward another. The charged shot sped across the room, disintegrating the other robots plasma shots. Using his shot as cover he ran over the stunned robot he had thrown his shield at. Grabbing the shield, which had landed in front of the robot, he glanced at the robot and noticed a large hole in its head, probably from the shield. He placed his blaster right on the hole and fired it over and over until the robots head exploded. By that time the other robots had restarted their bombardment, but his shield was on his back blocking their shots. Using this tactic he was able to easily defeat the mkII's quickly and quickly ran to the rooms exit to see where the end of the passage was.
~meanwhile~
Rockman walked through the huge metal door common with robot masters and guardians. Unfortunately he was confronted with a dead end.
"Beautiful" he mumbled as he turned to leave
Unfortunately the door had already shut and was sealed tight
"What the heck" he said aloud. He heard a low humming noise from behind him and whirled around to see the wall was actually a giant robot!" what the heck?!" he exclaimed
The giant robot produced cannons and turrets of all shapes and sizes from all over its body, and where there wasn't a gun there was a missile pack. Rockman's eyes widened as he saw this and he wished he still had his shield from before. He immediately dove out of the way of the machines initial shots, firing at it as much as he could. Unfortunately his shots didn't seem to damage the robot in the least. He looked for a weak spot on the robot, there always was one. After firing for a while at every inch of the robot he could he noticed one shot did some damage. He had shot a large crystal inside the barrel of the main cannon, which cracked it. He concentrated his fir there and after a few more shots the gem broke and the gun exploded. Rockman grinned as the guns around it powered down. Suddenly four much smaller gems came out in protective cases, one in each corner. The guns quickly went on and began firing once more. Rockman was forced to repeat the same process he did with the main cannon. Unfortunately when he was about to destroy the first gem it suddenly began to glow. It shot from its resting place strait at rockman. He tried to dive out of the way but the gem exploded, throwing him against the wall. He groaned as he got up, only to be hit by a hail of gunfire. He dropped down again and the gunfire stopped. It seemed the guns only detected movement.
Maybe if I move slowly enough he though they wont pick me up
He cautiously stood up, trying to move as slowly as possible. It worked! He charged up his buster and slowly brought his arm up, pointing it at the nearest gem the one on the bottom left. All of the guns began to retract back into the huge robot, and just after they did the gems started to. Rockman chose that moment to strike. He unleashed his super shot and let down a hail of rapid-fire shots on the nearest gem. Before the guns could begin firing and before the gem could shoot itself at him the gem exploded in place, producing a large hole in the robot. Without the support of the lower left part of the robot the upper left part collapsed to the floor, joining the other parts. He again stood perfectly still so as to make t he guns think he was gone. The guns stayed fixed on his position for a long while then slowly retracted again. Rockman had already charged his cannon again and was aiming at the only lower crystal left. When the guns had all gone back in the robot again rockman repeated his previous attack and, as expected, the upper part collapsed after the lower part exploded. He grinned at the large heap of robot and climbed over it to find another door.
~a few seconds later~
Rockman came out of the hallway into a large room. He saw that there were three passages aside from the one he came from. Two were on either side of his coming from the same direction as the one he came from. The other one was directly across from his and he could see a light at the end of it. He suddenly heard footsteps coming from the hallways on either side of him and backed back into the passageway, preparing for another fight. He was relieved to see forte and protoman coming from either side.
"I see you guys made it," he said
They both turned there heads, surprised to see him" you just worry about yourself, remember I'm the one who's gonna kill you no one else" forte grumbled" now lets get going there's only one passageway left thankfully, and it looks like an exit"
"Hopefully to the arena or stands" protoman stated. The other two nodded and they began to run down the passage
When they came to the end, they found themselves standing in the huge stadium's arena. They looked to the center and saw shadow man and quick man fighting. Quick man was missing his right arm after the elbow and shadow man was missing his entire left arm.
All three of them raised there guns and yelled" HOLD IT!"
~a few miniutes earlier~
Before wily even finished saying begin the two had dashed away from each other, quick man shooting his quick boomerangs, and shadow man his shadow blades. They continued there long range barrage of each other for a long while, slowly easing toward each other, each taking just as many hits as the other. When they were about ten feet away from each other they stopped firing and charged strait at each other. Shadow man gripped the hilt of his sword while quick man grabbed his giant boomerang. Both of them swung as they met and the two weapons met each other. CLANG. The both of them stood there trying to push the others weapon away with there own. They were looking directly at each other with not even a foot between their faces. Both of them could see the lust for battle and the want to prove themselves in the others eyes, burning as brightly as there own desires.
"Ill crush you" quick man growled
"That'll be a cold day in hell" shadow man retorted
They both pushed away from each other and began hurling there small weapons at each other while keeping there bigger weapons in there hands, occasionally coming in and striking at each other with them. Eventually they both charged forward swinging their blades, but this time they did not meet. When they stopped both of there blades were bloodied. Shadow man had ben cut on the arm, cutting off a piece of cloth and flesh, while quick man had a wound in his side about an inch and a half deep. They both began to bleed staining their armor with blood. They turned their heads to look at each other for a moment the whirled around and dashed at each other, again the blades didn't meet. Instead of running past each other the two stayed in the center trying to slice each other. The both of them received a significant damage, and shadow mans bandages were now all around his neck leaving his head completely exposed. Shadow man suddenly created two shadow blades with his left and began using them to try and slice quick man, in addition to his sword. To counter this, quick man began firing his quick boomerangs as fast as ho could. The quick boomerangs caused quick man to lose his balance a little but he managed to stay on his feet. After firing a few volleys of quick boomerangs quick man swung his giant boomerang with all his might, in an attempt to knock shadow man down. He succeeded. Shadow man was thrown back by the force of the blow and flew a few feet before landing. He looked up just in time to roll out of the way to the left as quick man brought his giant boomerang down on where his head was. Unfortunately his left arm was caught by it as he rolled and was sliced clean, off spilling his blood everywhere. Ignoring the pain brought his sword around with his right hand as he rolled. He cut off quick mans right arm at the elbow sending his opponents blood to join his own. Quick man screamed in pain as he stumbled backwards, though he didn't let go of his giant boomerang to grip it. He looked at shadow man with rage as he prepared to attack; shadow man had already gotten up and done the same. They stood there for a while, staring at each other. And as they did something happened. A certain respect and acknowledgment for each other's powers that they had lacked before. As the rage slowly left both their eyes, grins slowly crept over both of their faces as they stared at each other. The two of them nodded at each other and were about to charge each other once more when they suddenly heard three all to familiar voices yell
"HOLD IT!"
The two of them both looked to see forte, protoman, and rockman all standing in one of the many entrances, all pointing fully charged busters at the pair. Menacing laughter was suddenly heard over the intercom
"Hello rockman, protoman, and my old friend bass. I'm glad you could all make it" he said as robot masters started pouring into the arena from every entrance, and the one behind them slammed shut" don't tell me you thought all me robot masters were destroyed in the tournament did you?" he asked" iv got a total of fifteen robot masters here. Not including the two fighters of the championship you see in front of you of course. You may have been able to defeat my guards but these robot masters will be much harder. Even the three of you together cant defeat them" wily taunted
"Is that so?" forte asked as a wicked grin appeared on his face" well lets just that little theory why don't we"
Rockman and protoman let off there super shots. Forte however was unable to charge his forte buster and simply sprayed his foes with shots from his gun like buster. They all scattered and began pelting the large group of robot masters as much as they could. While the robot masters also scattered and tried to destroy the trio. While all this happened shadow man and quick man quickly got off the field and up to wilys lab.
~A few moments later in wilys lab~
The two damaged robot masters walked into the room to find wily with his back to them
"Ah good your both here" he said as he turned to face them" I'm afraid your comrades don't stand a chance against all three of them, despite what I said. I do however have a plan to defeat them," he said as an evil smile played across his face" you both remember the scanner you stole yes?" they both nodded" well, I've managed to modify it. It no longer scans things. Instead, it now uses its waves to send a deadly virus. Its specially made to only hurt bioroids," he said as he pulled out the modified scanner" it only needs to connect to transfer the virus, it doesn't take any time. It works by tricking the mechanical parts of a boiroid to force his organic parts to make an organic virus. After it does this, the bioroid will die without the antidote. Because of the nature of the virus sent, as soon as it forces the organic parts to make the organic virus it is sought out by the boiroids systems and destroyed. Unfortunately I still have some work to finish on it, so I cant use it just yet. I'm telling you both this because you're going to help me get him. While it doesn't take any time to transfer the virus it does take time to charge the machine. You two will distract him while it's charging. Sorry but I don't trust anyone with such a delicate machine, not even my robot masters" he held up two vials" these are the antidotes, since you two will both probably be hit with the virus as well you will need them" he said as he handed the vials to them" now come" he said" iv got a ship waiting to take us back to my fortress, I'm giving you both upgrades"
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That's it for this chapter. Again I'm really sorry it's taken so long to post this and ill try to not take so long from now on. Please keep reading and REVIEW. I don't care if it's a bad review or good just please someone review. O well, until next time peace (