Disclaimer: I don't own rockman wily or any of the other characters
mentioned in this fic they all belong to capcom so don't sue me
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Hi all. I know I said id update more often but when you don't get any feedback you kinda lose motivation. Not only that but I constantly have a million new ideas popping into my head, ya I'm one of those people, so its hard to stay focused on one task for to long. Well the fic is almost done so ill be able to go onto different things soon. Ill try to have the last chapter up before winter break is over, but I'm not making any promises. So now I give you the second to last chapter of
A Light from the Shadows
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chapter five: zero
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Shadow man lay on a cold metal table in the middle of a lab. Everything was dark and the only things he could see was wily looking down at him, and quick man on similar table next to him.
"Now" wily said suddenly as he began to turn and walk away" I'm going to equip you BOTH with the new weapons system, and something else" he said turning his head to look at them" Its brand new. I call it an emergency offensive system, or eos. It's a special program that, when you are in grave danger, you can divert power to activating it. It will perform a special function like greatly increased speed, or a very powerful attack, but it take extreme amounts of energy to use and drain's your supplies. After one use you systems will immediately shut down from the shortage of energy, so don't use it at your leisure, though the more energy you have still the longer the effects last, or the more powerful the attack" he turned his entire body to face them" are you both ready?" he asked
"Yes master wily" they both chimed in unison
Wily nodded" then shut down, ill activate you again when I'm done" both robots complied and shut down there systems
~a few hours later~
"CLANG"
Shadow man bolted upright and looked to see what had happened. He saw wily tinkering with the scanner/virus transmitter, and a tool he didn't know the name of on the ground
"Ah shadow man" wily said as he turned toward him" sorry if I woke you"
Shadow man sat still for a moment before shaking his head" its alright" he said" how did the operation go?" he asked
"Flawlessly" wily said as he turned back to the machine" you both have the weapons system AND the eos. Also you can now charge energie into your sword for a more powerful strike"
"So what's my eos?" he asked
"Yours is called the shadow strike" wily said" power will be diverted to your sword, giving you the power to cut virtually anything in two with one swing"
"Virtually?" shadow man asked
"Well a fifty foot solid block of diranium wouldn't let you cut to far but I don't think you need to worry about that, it can cut bioroids and robot easily. And if you miss and don't deliver a killing blow, it also sends them a virus that powers them down until the virus is remover, its easily removed but it must be don't from someone other than the victim"
Shadow man nodded
"Quick man woke a little while ago. He said to tell you he was going to try and copy some robot masters abilities, and train them. You should do the same"
Shadow man nodded, despite the fact wily had his back to him, and got up and left.
~somewhere in the fortress~
Shadow man walked down a random corridor, looking for robot masters. Most of them were all scrap from the tournament and the little firefight that ended it. a few managed to escape though, and wily had machines working to rebuild the others. So far he had met only two robot masters, flash man and guts man. the newly rebuild flash man put up a bit of a fight before he finally gave in and let shadow man copy his power. Guts man, not wanting to fight one of the two champions, simply let him copy his power without a fight.
Shadow man stopped as he heard a sudden whirring behind him that was getting louder. Whatever it was it was closing in fast. He whirled around to see a red and gold tornado whirling toward him. He had just enough time to jump out of the way before the tornado smashed into him. The tornado suddenly stopped moving, and gradually stopped spinning. When it had stopped shadow man saw who it had not ben stop man as he had suspected.
"Quick man" he said astonished" I how did you get that power?" he asked" top man was only just rebuild. Not even 30 minutes ago according to the computer"
"I was waiting for him" quick man said with a board grin" I was hoping for a little test duel now that we have these new abilities"
Shadow man chuckled" I found flash man" he said
Quick mans grin vanished for a second then returned" that cant kill me" he said
"It can damage you severely and give me a chance to slice you to pieces with my sword" he replied
"Perhaps we should test this theory" quick man said putting a hand on his giant boomerang
Shadow man gripped his sword and took a step forward with one foot. He was about to dash toward quick man when they both heard an all to familiar voice in there communicators.
"Quick man, shadow man, I need you I the test lab IMEDIETLY. You have got to see this" wily said franticly
~in wilys lab~
Next to wilys lab there was a huge room wily used to test robots and anything that might be dangerous. His labs floor was about eight feet below the testing rooms ceiling. The room was large and rectangular, about 80 feet in height, about 100 feet in width and about 50 feet in depth, with the longest side facing wilys lab. Where the two rooms met there was a huge window spanning the entire length. Both quick man and shadow man had ben in that room, tested for there combat capabilities. Though they were both much stronger now.
Wily was standing at the center of the window looking down in awe at what was in the room. The both of them walked over to the window and looked down to see what he was looking at. They saw the walls were covered with oil and blood and the ground was littered with parts from various robot masters. The only living thing in the room was a slash man, so drenched with his enemies fluids that you couldn't even see any of his original colors, and his eyes glowing blood red.
"W what the hell is that?!" quick man asked horrified as he backed away from the window
"That" wily said as he turned his head toward him" is the virus from the scanner. The zero virus" they could both see the insanity in wilys eyes as he grinned devilishly at the carnage below, not showing the least bit of pity for the dead robot masters" before now iv only put the virus in normal robots, and each time they all died. But when I put it into a bioroid," his grin broadened" they go insane with rage and want only to kill and destroy. I sent ten robot masters in there including freeze man, the one slash mans weak to, and they were all slaughtered by slash man, they didn't stand a chance, not even all of them together, how fast do you think he can kill rockman?"
"I think we should kill slash and destroy the virus permanently" shadow man said" that thing is to dangerous, it could destroy the world"
"I know" wily said" isn't that grand?"
"G GRAND?!?" quick man shouted" I thought you were out to conquer the world not destroy it!"
"I did" wily said grinning" for the first few wars. But after a while I just hated the world so much, I want to blow it up, BLOW IT ALL UP. KILL THEM ALL HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA"
The two looked down into the room at the insane robot, knowing they were powerless to stop wily thanks to there programming
"Now wily said turning to them" neither of you are aloud to even leave this fortress until I say so, NO ONE is to know of this virus" he commanded, they could now see the pure insanity in his face" The plan is the same, the cure still works, the only difference is that now. As soon as rockman is infected, we get out of the city and let the world be destroyed by its hero. Then when alls said and done we will leave this planet and blow it bits"
~a few minute later~
Quick man and shadow man lay next to each other, shadow mans head without its wrappings, in a place resembling a park, though it was in the middle of the fortress. They both thought it odd that a man like wily would have such a place, but didn't complain. They were on a hill near the bottom, just below them there was a stream, and there was a tree giving them shade from the sun which beat down on the only room it could get to in the entire fortress.
".What are we gonna do?" quick man asked
"I don't know" shadow man replied" the only thing we can do I guess, do as we are told and hope wily fails"
"You know wily wont fail unless he's stopped, and we are the only ones who can stop him" quick man replied
Shadow man sighed" yes, but we cant do anything thanks to our programming"
They lay in silence for a moment until quickman stood up" iv.got to go" he stated simply" ill see you when its time for the mission"
Shadow man sat up, surprised at his friends sudden action" huh? Where are you going?" he asked
"Iv.got some work to finish before the mission" he said as he walked away
"O.ok" shadow man said with suspicion in his voice as he lay back down.
~an hour later in wilys lab~
Shadow man and quickman stood next to each other with wily in a giant machine and four robot masters sitting in various places on it. On the top left was napalm man, below him was elec man, next to him was crash man, and above him was search man. with wily on the top, I the middle.
"Are you all ready?" he asked
"Yes master wily" they all said in unison
"Quick, shadow do you both have your antidotes?" he asked, they both showed him there vials" then lets get going" he said giddily" I want to see the looks on the peoples faces when there hero attacks them" they all teleported out.
~moments later~
Shadow man and quickman sat on top of the machine while wily and the other four robot masters fired away at the city
"DESTROY EVERYTHING" wily shouted" RAISE THE CITY TO THE GROUND, KILL EVERYONE"
Shadow man heard an all to familiar sound and grabbed his sword. He whirled around swinging his sword, just in time to deflect a super shot. Wily and the robot masters stopped firing and looked behind them to see rockman, merged with rush. Shadow man whirled around again, swinging his sword, and deflected another super shot from the front. It was protoman
"there's two but where is the last on? He whispered" as if to answer his question a rain plasma shots came down onto the machine from above. He looked up to see forte merged with treble.
The four robot masters on the machine started firing at proto man and forte, but left rockman alone. And the giant robot rather than, rather than attack, seemed to power down.
"You know what to do" wily said to shadow man and quickman, they both nodded and jumped off
rockman stood unmoving, though still charging his buster, as shadow man and quickman walked toward him
"Hello rockman" shadow man said as he nodded at him
"Hello" he replied" I know this isn't just a random attack" he stated" its not wilys style, there must be another reason for attacking"
Quickman nodded" there is"
"Your not gonna tell me are you?" he said
"wilys gonna do that" shadow man stated as the two of them stopped right in front of rockman
They starred at each other for a long while" are you going to fight back?" shadow man asked.
Rockman nodded" I suppose I don't have a choice do I?" he said
Quickman shook his head as he grabbed his giant boomerang" sorry rockman" he said" but we have to do this"
Shadow man and quickman both dashed strait at rockman, both swinging there weapons. Rockman, however, jumped over them and fired a charged shot at shadow man, hitting him in the back. Shadow man stumbled a little bit before turning around and throwing some shadow blades. At the same time quickman fired his quick boomerangs. Shadow man ran over to a nearby building, or what remained of it. he choose the largest piece of rubble he could find and activated his super arm. He slowly lifted the huge piece of rubble over his head, unfortunately for him rockman noticed him. Rockman fired a charged shot that hit shadow man square in the chest, causing him to drop fall backwards and drop the huge stone. Fortunately for him he was able to grab his sword and slice the piece of rubble to bits, which fell harmlessly around him. Unfortunately they had still cause a chunk of loose cement to fall down, right above shadow mans head. Shadow man rolled out of the way in time to avoid the rock hitting his head, but It still snagged his wrappings. Not wanting to waist super arms energy, he simply cut the end of his wrappings instead of moving the rock, causing them to fall around his neck, as they were no longer held in place. Quickman who had men dodging and firing all this whole time finally decided to use on of his master weapons. He grabbed his giant boomerang of his back and activated to spin. Holding the blade out like a propeller, though angled downward so he wouldn't gain altitude, he spun around at blinding speeds and shot toward rockman. Rockman, forced to divert all his attention to quick man immediately began dodging him as best he could. He knew if he was caught by that blade he would be cut to ribbons. After a few moments quickman finally broke off pursuit and went over to shadow man, whom he stopped next to. They both starred at rockman, and at the giant robot behind him, and rockman starred back oblivious the virus wily was about to send his systems.
".Sorry rockman" shadow man said as he lowered his head
"Huh sorry? For wh-" rockman stopped in mid sentence and whirled around to see wily pointing the fully charged scanner at them
"Goodbye rockman" he said grinning as he shot the virus at them
They could all feel the virus enter them and begin its work, but before anyone could do anything quickman shouted" ROCKMAN CATCH"
He threw a vial of the antidote to rockman who caught it" drink it quick" he said" it's the antidote" rockman complied and downed the vial.
Wily starred in horror at what had just happened, he didn't have the power to fire another shot of the virus! He clenched his teeth in rage and slammed his fists down onto the controls" QUICKMAN" he screamed" WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"
Quickman grinned as he produced another vial of the antidote" I made another antidote" he said
"Quickman" he growled" activate your self destruct sequence NOW"
Quickman stood unmoving for a moment before saying one simple thing that defied physics
"No"
Everyone stopped fighting and starred in astonishment
"W what?" wily asked, his rage appearing to have left
"I.said no" he stated simply" I wont do it, and I wont follow your orders ever again"
Shadow man stood a moment astonished" quick.you cant..its not possible"
Quick man downed his own vial of the antidote and said" we are able to learn aren't we? Well I learned to defy my programming"
"But you cant.that's impossible" shadow man whispered
"Then how did I do it?" he asked
a rain of fire suddenly came down onto quickman as the four robot masters on the giant robot, none of them had been killed, unloaded massive amounts of fire onto quickman alone. Quickman was rocketed back into what was left of a wall, which then crumbled under the sudden force of quickman and some shots that missed him
It began to rain
"QUICK" shadow man shouted as he dashed over to where his friend lay
he found him laying in a pile of rubble. He quickly pulled the stones off of him and lifted his head. He was badly damaged. His armor was almost completely gona except for some of his left boot and the giant boomerang that was laying beside him, still in one piece.
"Quick" he whispered
quickman slowly opened his eyes" hey" he whispered
"Don't talk" shadow man said" save your strength
"Don't kid yourself" quickman said" you know I'm not gonna make it, even if I could live with the proper treatment, wily is the only one who could do it"
Tears began streaming down shadow mans face" no" he whispered" you cant.not after we came so far"
Quick man grinned as he held up his had" take them" he said" take them all"
"I wont need them" shadow man said" cause your not gonna die"
"Stop it" quick man said as he grabbed shadow mans arm and began transferring his weapons data" I'm going to die.there's no stopping it" he said" but.before I go.do one things for me."he whispered, obviously fading from life fast
"Sure anything" shadow man said" just name it"
"Don't let anyone.be your master.ever again," he said as he smiled weakly" brother"
Shadowman starred down at him" brother" he whispered as quickman finished transferring his weapons data
"Good.bye" quickman whispered as his eyes fluttered closed
Shadow mans eyes widened in alarm" quick QUICK" he shouted as he began shaking him. After a moment he pulled quick mans body close and embraced him
"BROTHEEEEEEER"
He sat there for a moment, holding quick mans limp body, both of them soaked from tears and rain
"Shadowman" wily shouted" enough mourning. Crush his body with a rock and kill rockman NOW"
Shadowman slowly let quick mans body slide to the ground and stood up, but didn't move after that
"Did you not hear me?" wily shouted" I said crush his body and kill rockman NOW"
Shadowman slowly turned his head to look at wily, and what wily saw struck terror into his cold black heard
his eyes were glowing blood red
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Well what do you think? There is one chapter left to type and I promise I will have it done before winter break is over if I get some reviews. also note that I changed from "quick man" and "shadow man" to "quickman" and "shadowman" partway through. It did have symbolism and a cookie to anyone who can figure what it was. And note that I never said shadow man drank his vial. Well I hope this holds you over till I finish the final chapter but until then, peace (.
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Hi all. I know I said id update more often but when you don't get any feedback you kinda lose motivation. Not only that but I constantly have a million new ideas popping into my head, ya I'm one of those people, so its hard to stay focused on one task for to long. Well the fic is almost done so ill be able to go onto different things soon. Ill try to have the last chapter up before winter break is over, but I'm not making any promises. So now I give you the second to last chapter of
A Light from the Shadows
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chapter five: zero
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Shadow man lay on a cold metal table in the middle of a lab. Everything was dark and the only things he could see was wily looking down at him, and quick man on similar table next to him.
"Now" wily said suddenly as he began to turn and walk away" I'm going to equip you BOTH with the new weapons system, and something else" he said turning his head to look at them" Its brand new. I call it an emergency offensive system, or eos. It's a special program that, when you are in grave danger, you can divert power to activating it. It will perform a special function like greatly increased speed, or a very powerful attack, but it take extreme amounts of energy to use and drain's your supplies. After one use you systems will immediately shut down from the shortage of energy, so don't use it at your leisure, though the more energy you have still the longer the effects last, or the more powerful the attack" he turned his entire body to face them" are you both ready?" he asked
"Yes master wily" they both chimed in unison
Wily nodded" then shut down, ill activate you again when I'm done" both robots complied and shut down there systems
~a few hours later~
"CLANG"
Shadow man bolted upright and looked to see what had happened. He saw wily tinkering with the scanner/virus transmitter, and a tool he didn't know the name of on the ground
"Ah shadow man" wily said as he turned toward him" sorry if I woke you"
Shadow man sat still for a moment before shaking his head" its alright" he said" how did the operation go?" he asked
"Flawlessly" wily said as he turned back to the machine" you both have the weapons system AND the eos. Also you can now charge energie into your sword for a more powerful strike"
"So what's my eos?" he asked
"Yours is called the shadow strike" wily said" power will be diverted to your sword, giving you the power to cut virtually anything in two with one swing"
"Virtually?" shadow man asked
"Well a fifty foot solid block of diranium wouldn't let you cut to far but I don't think you need to worry about that, it can cut bioroids and robot easily. And if you miss and don't deliver a killing blow, it also sends them a virus that powers them down until the virus is remover, its easily removed but it must be don't from someone other than the victim"
Shadow man nodded
"Quick man woke a little while ago. He said to tell you he was going to try and copy some robot masters abilities, and train them. You should do the same"
Shadow man nodded, despite the fact wily had his back to him, and got up and left.
~somewhere in the fortress~
Shadow man walked down a random corridor, looking for robot masters. Most of them were all scrap from the tournament and the little firefight that ended it. a few managed to escape though, and wily had machines working to rebuild the others. So far he had met only two robot masters, flash man and guts man. the newly rebuild flash man put up a bit of a fight before he finally gave in and let shadow man copy his power. Guts man, not wanting to fight one of the two champions, simply let him copy his power without a fight.
Shadow man stopped as he heard a sudden whirring behind him that was getting louder. Whatever it was it was closing in fast. He whirled around to see a red and gold tornado whirling toward him. He had just enough time to jump out of the way before the tornado smashed into him. The tornado suddenly stopped moving, and gradually stopped spinning. When it had stopped shadow man saw who it had not ben stop man as he had suspected.
"Quick man" he said astonished" I how did you get that power?" he asked" top man was only just rebuild. Not even 30 minutes ago according to the computer"
"I was waiting for him" quick man said with a board grin" I was hoping for a little test duel now that we have these new abilities"
Shadow man chuckled" I found flash man" he said
Quick mans grin vanished for a second then returned" that cant kill me" he said
"It can damage you severely and give me a chance to slice you to pieces with my sword" he replied
"Perhaps we should test this theory" quick man said putting a hand on his giant boomerang
Shadow man gripped his sword and took a step forward with one foot. He was about to dash toward quick man when they both heard an all to familiar voice in there communicators.
"Quick man, shadow man, I need you I the test lab IMEDIETLY. You have got to see this" wily said franticly
~in wilys lab~
Next to wilys lab there was a huge room wily used to test robots and anything that might be dangerous. His labs floor was about eight feet below the testing rooms ceiling. The room was large and rectangular, about 80 feet in height, about 100 feet in width and about 50 feet in depth, with the longest side facing wilys lab. Where the two rooms met there was a huge window spanning the entire length. Both quick man and shadow man had ben in that room, tested for there combat capabilities. Though they were both much stronger now.
Wily was standing at the center of the window looking down in awe at what was in the room. The both of them walked over to the window and looked down to see what he was looking at. They saw the walls were covered with oil and blood and the ground was littered with parts from various robot masters. The only living thing in the room was a slash man, so drenched with his enemies fluids that you couldn't even see any of his original colors, and his eyes glowing blood red.
"W what the hell is that?!" quick man asked horrified as he backed away from the window
"That" wily said as he turned his head toward him" is the virus from the scanner. The zero virus" they could both see the insanity in wilys eyes as he grinned devilishly at the carnage below, not showing the least bit of pity for the dead robot masters" before now iv only put the virus in normal robots, and each time they all died. But when I put it into a bioroid," his grin broadened" they go insane with rage and want only to kill and destroy. I sent ten robot masters in there including freeze man, the one slash mans weak to, and they were all slaughtered by slash man, they didn't stand a chance, not even all of them together, how fast do you think he can kill rockman?"
"I think we should kill slash and destroy the virus permanently" shadow man said" that thing is to dangerous, it could destroy the world"
"I know" wily said" isn't that grand?"
"G GRAND?!?" quick man shouted" I thought you were out to conquer the world not destroy it!"
"I did" wily said grinning" for the first few wars. But after a while I just hated the world so much, I want to blow it up, BLOW IT ALL UP. KILL THEM ALL HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA"
The two looked down into the room at the insane robot, knowing they were powerless to stop wily thanks to there programming
"Now wily said turning to them" neither of you are aloud to even leave this fortress until I say so, NO ONE is to know of this virus" he commanded, they could now see the pure insanity in his face" The plan is the same, the cure still works, the only difference is that now. As soon as rockman is infected, we get out of the city and let the world be destroyed by its hero. Then when alls said and done we will leave this planet and blow it bits"
~a few minute later~
Quick man and shadow man lay next to each other, shadow mans head without its wrappings, in a place resembling a park, though it was in the middle of the fortress. They both thought it odd that a man like wily would have such a place, but didn't complain. They were on a hill near the bottom, just below them there was a stream, and there was a tree giving them shade from the sun which beat down on the only room it could get to in the entire fortress.
".What are we gonna do?" quick man asked
"I don't know" shadow man replied" the only thing we can do I guess, do as we are told and hope wily fails"
"You know wily wont fail unless he's stopped, and we are the only ones who can stop him" quick man replied
Shadow man sighed" yes, but we cant do anything thanks to our programming"
They lay in silence for a moment until quickman stood up" iv.got to go" he stated simply" ill see you when its time for the mission"
Shadow man sat up, surprised at his friends sudden action" huh? Where are you going?" he asked
"Iv.got some work to finish before the mission" he said as he walked away
"O.ok" shadow man said with suspicion in his voice as he lay back down.
~an hour later in wilys lab~
Shadow man and quickman stood next to each other with wily in a giant machine and four robot masters sitting in various places on it. On the top left was napalm man, below him was elec man, next to him was crash man, and above him was search man. with wily on the top, I the middle.
"Are you all ready?" he asked
"Yes master wily" they all said in unison
"Quick, shadow do you both have your antidotes?" he asked, they both showed him there vials" then lets get going" he said giddily" I want to see the looks on the peoples faces when there hero attacks them" they all teleported out.
~moments later~
Shadow man and quickman sat on top of the machine while wily and the other four robot masters fired away at the city
"DESTROY EVERYTHING" wily shouted" RAISE THE CITY TO THE GROUND, KILL EVERYONE"
Shadow man heard an all to familiar sound and grabbed his sword. He whirled around swinging his sword, just in time to deflect a super shot. Wily and the robot masters stopped firing and looked behind them to see rockman, merged with rush. Shadow man whirled around again, swinging his sword, and deflected another super shot from the front. It was protoman
"there's two but where is the last on? He whispered" as if to answer his question a rain plasma shots came down onto the machine from above. He looked up to see forte merged with treble.
The four robot masters on the machine started firing at proto man and forte, but left rockman alone. And the giant robot rather than, rather than attack, seemed to power down.
"You know what to do" wily said to shadow man and quickman, they both nodded and jumped off
rockman stood unmoving, though still charging his buster, as shadow man and quickman walked toward him
"Hello rockman" shadow man said as he nodded at him
"Hello" he replied" I know this isn't just a random attack" he stated" its not wilys style, there must be another reason for attacking"
Quickman nodded" there is"
"Your not gonna tell me are you?" he said
"wilys gonna do that" shadow man stated as the two of them stopped right in front of rockman
They starred at each other for a long while" are you going to fight back?" shadow man asked.
Rockman nodded" I suppose I don't have a choice do I?" he said
Quickman shook his head as he grabbed his giant boomerang" sorry rockman" he said" but we have to do this"
Shadow man and quickman both dashed strait at rockman, both swinging there weapons. Rockman, however, jumped over them and fired a charged shot at shadow man, hitting him in the back. Shadow man stumbled a little bit before turning around and throwing some shadow blades. At the same time quickman fired his quick boomerangs. Shadow man ran over to a nearby building, or what remained of it. he choose the largest piece of rubble he could find and activated his super arm. He slowly lifted the huge piece of rubble over his head, unfortunately for him rockman noticed him. Rockman fired a charged shot that hit shadow man square in the chest, causing him to drop fall backwards and drop the huge stone. Fortunately for him he was able to grab his sword and slice the piece of rubble to bits, which fell harmlessly around him. Unfortunately they had still cause a chunk of loose cement to fall down, right above shadow mans head. Shadow man rolled out of the way in time to avoid the rock hitting his head, but It still snagged his wrappings. Not wanting to waist super arms energy, he simply cut the end of his wrappings instead of moving the rock, causing them to fall around his neck, as they were no longer held in place. Quickman who had men dodging and firing all this whole time finally decided to use on of his master weapons. He grabbed his giant boomerang of his back and activated to spin. Holding the blade out like a propeller, though angled downward so he wouldn't gain altitude, he spun around at blinding speeds and shot toward rockman. Rockman, forced to divert all his attention to quick man immediately began dodging him as best he could. He knew if he was caught by that blade he would be cut to ribbons. After a few moments quickman finally broke off pursuit and went over to shadow man, whom he stopped next to. They both starred at rockman, and at the giant robot behind him, and rockman starred back oblivious the virus wily was about to send his systems.
".Sorry rockman" shadow man said as he lowered his head
"Huh sorry? For wh-" rockman stopped in mid sentence and whirled around to see wily pointing the fully charged scanner at them
"Goodbye rockman" he said grinning as he shot the virus at them
They could all feel the virus enter them and begin its work, but before anyone could do anything quickman shouted" ROCKMAN CATCH"
He threw a vial of the antidote to rockman who caught it" drink it quick" he said" it's the antidote" rockman complied and downed the vial.
Wily starred in horror at what had just happened, he didn't have the power to fire another shot of the virus! He clenched his teeth in rage and slammed his fists down onto the controls" QUICKMAN" he screamed" WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"
Quickman grinned as he produced another vial of the antidote" I made another antidote" he said
"Quickman" he growled" activate your self destruct sequence NOW"
Quickman stood unmoving for a moment before saying one simple thing that defied physics
"No"
Everyone stopped fighting and starred in astonishment
"W what?" wily asked, his rage appearing to have left
"I.said no" he stated simply" I wont do it, and I wont follow your orders ever again"
Shadow man stood a moment astonished" quick.you cant..its not possible"
Quick man downed his own vial of the antidote and said" we are able to learn aren't we? Well I learned to defy my programming"
"But you cant.that's impossible" shadow man whispered
"Then how did I do it?" he asked
a rain of fire suddenly came down onto quickman as the four robot masters on the giant robot, none of them had been killed, unloaded massive amounts of fire onto quickman alone. Quickman was rocketed back into what was left of a wall, which then crumbled under the sudden force of quickman and some shots that missed him
It began to rain
"QUICK" shadow man shouted as he dashed over to where his friend lay
he found him laying in a pile of rubble. He quickly pulled the stones off of him and lifted his head. He was badly damaged. His armor was almost completely gona except for some of his left boot and the giant boomerang that was laying beside him, still in one piece.
"Quick" he whispered
quickman slowly opened his eyes" hey" he whispered
"Don't talk" shadow man said" save your strength
"Don't kid yourself" quickman said" you know I'm not gonna make it, even if I could live with the proper treatment, wily is the only one who could do it"
Tears began streaming down shadow mans face" no" he whispered" you cant.not after we came so far"
Quick man grinned as he held up his had" take them" he said" take them all"
"I wont need them" shadow man said" cause your not gonna die"
"Stop it" quick man said as he grabbed shadow mans arm and began transferring his weapons data" I'm going to die.there's no stopping it" he said" but.before I go.do one things for me."he whispered, obviously fading from life fast
"Sure anything" shadow man said" just name it"
"Don't let anyone.be your master.ever again," he said as he smiled weakly" brother"
Shadowman starred down at him" brother" he whispered as quickman finished transferring his weapons data
"Good.bye" quickman whispered as his eyes fluttered closed
Shadow mans eyes widened in alarm" quick QUICK" he shouted as he began shaking him. After a moment he pulled quick mans body close and embraced him
"BROTHEEEEEEER"
He sat there for a moment, holding quick mans limp body, both of them soaked from tears and rain
"Shadowman" wily shouted" enough mourning. Crush his body with a rock and kill rockman NOW"
Shadowman slowly let quick mans body slide to the ground and stood up, but didn't move after that
"Did you not hear me?" wily shouted" I said crush his body and kill rockman NOW"
Shadowman slowly turned his head to look at wily, and what wily saw struck terror into his cold black heard
his eyes were glowing blood red
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Well what do you think? There is one chapter left to type and I promise I will have it done before winter break is over if I get some reviews. also note that I changed from "quick man" and "shadow man" to "quickman" and "shadowman" partway through. It did have symbolism and a cookie to anyone who can figure what it was. And note that I never said shadow man drank his vial. Well I hope this holds you over till I finish the final chapter but until then, peace (.