Hey it's me again! I'm just trying to churn out chapters like crazy right
now 'cause I'm goin' to get busy real soon with school and all (projects,
tests). So, here's MegaMan again! This time, it'll get interesting, so
please bear with me 'till I get to the POV blending. Hope you like this
chapter!
AND IT'S REALLY LONG SO SETTLE DOWN BEFORE YOU READ IT!
-shrapnel
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Chapter 6
POV = MegaMan
PAST
MegaMan looked around frantically at his surroundings. He didn't see anybody. It was totally deserted. The blank walls, the blank ceiling, and the same blank floor were unchanged. The only evidence of his brother was. actually, there was no evidence at all of his brother. MegaMan had ran back to ProtoMan with Roll on his shoulder after the defeat of ElecMan, but when he got there, ProtoMan seemed to have disappeared.
"ProtoMan!"
MegaMan heard no answer. He felt tense. He looked at Roll in the corner, and felt a pang of guilt for leaving her unprotected. Now he felt another pang of guilt for his brother. Not because he left him unprotected, ProtoMan could take care of himself, but leaving him alone. They should have gone together.
"Damn."
MegaMan began to panic. But because of help from his sister, he took deep breaths and calmed himself down. -This isn't the time to panic-, he thought. He thought for a moment, his body language showing that he was deep in thought. He reasoned that he had to go through the now open door once covered with the barrier. MegaMan knew that would have been what his brother must have done. He looked at Roll.
"I'll be back later, sis."
He knew that his beloved sister couldn't hear him, but talking to her helped take a small bit of responsibility of his shoulders. He turned toward the opening, and ran through the door.
POV SHIFT = ProtoMan
Flashback
ProtoMan looked around the room. MegaMan had just left to find Roll. ProtoMan had decided to stay to take care of the next room once MegaMan got it open. He sighed, and thought about his brother. Once, they had been enemies. They had fought countless times, until he realized that Wily truly was insane, and that helping family is better than going against it. From then on, he had helped MegaMan whenever he called him, but he still felt a strong sense of independence. He still went on his own sometimes, leaving a note and just leaving in the middle of the night. He needed the feeling of freedom. It was the only thing that kept him himself. ProtoMan had been built with certain differences than other robots. All robots had the rules of robotics programmed into them, but he and MegaMan's parameters had both been slightly modified. MegaMan had in his programming a small amount of free will, but still held to true to the basic rules. ProtoMan, however, still retained the rules, but barely heeded to them. The freedom that he desperately needed also helped keep him different, and in his viewpoint, sane. ProtoMan slumped down to the floor and yawned.
"Wow. I'm sleepy, and I was just fighting, too."
ProtoMan yawned again. He tried to keep his eyes open, but the felt so heavy. Eventually, they just closed on their own.
Later.
ZAP!
ProtoMan awakened with a start. He jumped up and looked around. He saw nothing different, and he decided to go back to sleep when he noticed that the door to the next room no longer was blocked by the barrier. He squinted at it, and realized his brother must have shut off the generator. He also noticed that the room was extremely dim.
"Good going, bro. But, couldn't you have left the lights on?"
ProtoMan decided to go through the door. Waiting for his brother would just take longer. So, ProtoMan readied his buster, and just walked into the next room.
"What the?"
ProtoMan stood stiff as a brick. He looked around and couldn't believe his eyes.
"WILY! HOW DARE YOU COME HERE!"
The person known as Wily turned around sharply and with annoyance in his voice, he said:
"YOU AND YOUR LITTLE BROTHER DESTROYED MY ROBOTS AGAIN!"
ProtoMan chuckled. He looked around to gain a bit of familiarity with his environment. He was in a rather large room. The power in here obviously went out, but the light from the large window at the far end was enough to brighten up the room. It technically was the cockpit, but the real piloting was done by the master computer. There was a big window in the far end of the room, showing the clouds and ocean that the plane was flying above. Wily seemed to be sitting in front of the same master computer used to pilot. Next to him were many more computers manned by more of Wily's robots. The room itself looked slightly different from all the others. This one had a simple design sketched on to the walls in certain places, and most of the flooring was gray, other than the blank floors behind him. ProtoMan noticed a shadow extending from behind a small wall marking the end of the stairs going up to the computers. He immediately knew who it was.
"Bass! Come out and show yourself!"
Somebody chuckled in the silence, and behind that wall walked Bass, Wily's most advanced creation to date.
"ProtoMan. Glad you could make it. Where's the other one?"
"You mean MegaMan? He went and shut off the generator."
Wily nodded his head.
"Yes, he did. But I doubt he figured it out by himself."
"Actually, we used Roll."
Bass nodded in understanding.
"She was always the smartest one."
Wily jumped up into the air.
"ENOUGH! YOU WILL NOT FOIL MY PLANS THIS TIME! BASS! ATTACK HIM!"
"My pleasure."
And with that, Bass jumped toward ProtoMan with surprising speed. However, ProtoMan was ready, and he jumped to the side, firing four shots at the same time. Bass was shocked by ProtoMan, and was hit by all four shots. He flew back into the wall, and hit it with a crash. ProtoMan blew the smoke off his buster, and powered it up again.
"Come on, Bass. You're supposed to be better than me!"
Bass growled in answer and responded by shooting a long row of shots from his buster. ProtoMan sidestepped the row in its entirety, and aimed at Bass. He fired just as Bass leapt into the air.
"Huh?" was all ProtoMan was able to get out before Bass kicked him in the chest. ProtoMan grunted and flew back, skidding on the floor.
"Damn." He got up, and brushed himself off. He felt energized, and completely ready to battle. However, something in him held him back. He wasn't sure what, but he felt strange. He fell to his knees and strangely enough, started to have a shortness of breath.
Wily jumped up and down.
"Yes Bass! You hit him with it!"
ProtoMan looked up at a smiling Bass, and an exuberant Wily. He managed to raise himself partly up through the haze and dizziness swimming around him. He felt strange, sleepy almost. He couldn't seem to focus, or even see right. He tried to get up, but felt a strong blow to the chest, and he fell back down again. He wheezed for breath, and coughed. ProtoMan opened his eyes slightly and looked at the now laughing black and purple robot towering over him.
"What. did. you. do.?"
Bass merely laughed at ProtoMan's weak attempt at talking.
"Don't worry about it. It'll be over soon."
Before ProtoMan blacked out, he felt something really hard hit the side of his head.
End Flashback
POV SHIFT = MegaMan
He stopped when he reached the new room. He looked around in shock. Not only was there Wily standing on the steps, there was also Bass standing over his brother, who was lying on the floor, barely moving.
"What have you done with ProtoMan!"?
Bass turned around. So did Wily. Wily looked at him in anger.
"THERE HE IS! GET HIM BASS!"
MegaMan didn't have time to respond for Bass dashed and jumped straight at him. MegaMan used his trademark slide, and slid right under him. Bass looked down in surprise at his enemy staring him in the face. MegaMan smiled quickly, and then kicked Bass' legs with his own. Bass went off balance and did a somersault before crashing to the ground. MegaMan glanced at Wily who was jumping up and down yelling. MegaMan took his attention away from the strange sight and ran to his brother's side.
"ProtoMan! Are you all right?"
No answer. MegaMan shook him. No reply. MegaMan cursed, and looked at Bass. He was gone. MegaMan instinctively rolled to the right, and was lucky because right when he rolled, Bass kicked the ground with a smack. MegaMan looked at him, and saw a really unique sight. Bass was stuck in the ground, trying to pull his foot away from the floor. MegaMan scratched his head in confusion.
"Bass! Does your shoe have glue on it?"
Then he saw it. A strange green liquid oozing out of the place where Bass had hit the ground. MegaMan thought for a moment, then he rushed to his brother and turned him face-up. He saw a small slit in ProtoMan's armor, where a bit of green liquid seemed to emanate from. MegaMan stood up in anger.
"You poisoned my brother! Have you no sense of honor?"
Bass stopped the frantic pulling at his leg and laughed a laugh that was utterly disturbing.
"Of course. I will do anything I can to destroy you and everything you stand for!"
MegaMan looked in anger at the robot. He charged up his buster.
"Then I will do anything I can to stop you!"
But before MegaMan could fire, Bass jumped toward him and tackled him.
"Got ya!"
Bass smiled menacingly at the robot he had pinned down on the ground, and gave a hearty punch. MegaMan's head snapped to the right as the fist collided with his head. He kicked Bass off with a feat of strength, and jumped up, facing his opponent face-to-face.
"Let's do this Bass!"
MegaMan fired and Bass leaped over the plasma shot with ease, and returned the favor with his own streak of shots. MegaMan rolled away from the attack and took a shot at Bass again. Bass dodged it in midair, and landed on the ground just in time to see MegaMan change color.
"What the?"
"If you don't remember, I blew up the generator, which means I had to deal with ElecMan."
Bass's eyes widened.
"Yeah. You got the idea."
MegaMan, now colored schemed yellow in what used to be his blue parts, fired a lightning bolt straight at the shocked purple and black robot. A sickening crackle of electricity threw Bass backward straight at Wily. Wily yelped and ducked for cover. The robot flew right over his creator, and right into the gravity controller of the master computer. Wily's eyes widened with fear.
"NOOOO!!!!!"
The panel was exploding. The fire mini-explosion and the wild currents of electricity threw Bass across the room into the far wall. Before MegaMan could do anything, the plane lurched suddenly, throwing MegaMan onto the ground. Hard. MegaMan groaned, and looked at the chaos. The Wily robots controlling the other computers had all began to panic, all asking their master what to do next. He saw Wily jumping up and down, and he also saw his brother, ProtoMan, skidding along the floor. MegaMan ran and grabbed ProtoMan and ran out the door. He could faintly hear Wily screaming as he ran into the next room.
"The plane is going down! Start the back-up plans!"
MegaMan quickly ran and picked up Roll in the next hallway. Now, MegaMan was carrying ProtoMan, his brother, and Roll, his sister, on his shoulders. He ran as fast he could, trying to avoid the falling objects. The plane lurched again, this time throwing MegaMan over to the left wall. MegaMan turned to face the wall face-to-wall, in an effort to try to reduce the damage to his loved ones on his shoulders. He hit the wall right on, and groaned in pain. MegaMan shook his head, and re-gathered his senses as the plane began to shake. MegaMan put a hand on the wall, trying to balance himself.
"Oh, damn it!"
He quickly ran to the back room. He found the ladder he had used earlier, and shot an even bigger hole with his buster. He jumped down it, and planned to land on the floor. Instead, the plan gave another lurch, throwing MegaMan completely off balance and into a wall. The plane, now shaking violently, began to screech as the wind scraped against it. The wall MegaMan was leaning against began to crack, and MegaMan had a sickening feeling the plane wasn't built for hard landings. He gulped deep, and grabbed his brother and sister, and just ran.
He got to the escape pod right when the wall he was leaning against gave a long groan, and broke up, it's parting being thrown into the sky.
"WHOA!"
MegaMan was thrown off balance by the sudden gusts of wind, but managed to take hold of a bar close to the pod. But by doing so, he dropped his brother, ProtoMan.
"Brother!"
Just as ProtoMan almost flew out the opening in the side of the ship, he snapped into action. He shot out a hand, and grabbed hold of the end of the bar, preventing him from being sucked out.
"MegaMan! How's it going?"
MegaMan blinked away the tears.
"ProtoMan! You're all right!"
"Of course! I can't be beaten that easily!"
ProtoMan slowly crawled up to where MegaMan was. MegaMan began to open the door to the small pod and tossed his sister in.
"ProtoMan! You next!"
ProtoMan nodded, and crawled past his brother into the pod. Once he was in, he grabbed hold of the cockpit seat, and reached out his hand. The pod was roomy enough to hold three people comfortably, and the computers didn't take up too much of the space. ProtoMan was glad, because he wasn't leaving without his little brother.
"Brother! Let's go!"
MegaMan stiffened.
"What about Wily and Bass?"
ProtoMan sighed.
"It's Wily! Of course they have a back-up plan! Let's just worry about us!"
MegaMan thought about it for a few seconds, and nodded.
"Let's go."
MegaMan reached out his hand to grab ProtoMan's. But just as their fingers came within an inch to each other, MegaMan felt a pulling at his leg. He looked around and yelled in shock.
"Bass!"
Bass, being the one who had involuntarily broke the gravity controller had obviously recuperated, and had followed MegaMan through his attempts to escape. Through the harsh wind now, Bass could barely be heard.
"I will defeat you! No matter what!"
MegaMan turned away, and tried to grab his brother's hand just as the plane gave its final lurch. It threw MegaMan away, and he grabbed just in time at the bar with his left hand. MegaMan, now at the middle of the bar, about 6 feet away from ProtoMan, heard Bass, at the end of the bar, give a frightening yell.
"We're going to crash!"
MegaMan looked down wildly. He saw the beautiful ocean, now the ugly origin of many worries. Next to it, came his worst fear. Land. An island, filled with forests and mountains, and complete with an enclosed beach stood right between the crashing plane, and the softer ocean. The plane seemed to be aiming for the island. Before MegaMan turned away, he saw a glint of metal in the sun coming form the middle of the island. However, he didn't give it much notice. He turned around. He knew what he had to do.
"ProtoMan! Close the hatch! Get Roll out of here! We don't have a lot of time left!"
ProtoMan could barely hear his brother. He looked in shock at his MegaMan. The island started to look even bigger. He wouldn't leave without him. The plane, now shaking incredibly fast, made everything a blur, including voices. But before ProtoMan could act, MegaMan shot a small-energy blast right into him, knocking him backwards into the pod. And before he could get back up, another shot to the control panel forced the hatch door shut, and shot the escape pod away. ProtoMan could only look in horror through the window of the pod as the plane his little brother was riding crashed into the island. The loud blast and the smoke and fire coming from the new crash site convinced ProtoMan that his brother had been extremely honorable in his last moments. ProtoMan slumped to the floor and put his face in his hands.
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Well, what do you think! MEGAMAN'S GONE DOWN! Oh, well. A story wouldn't be much without the hero, so expect to be seeing him again. And Bass and Wily? DUH! Hope you like it so far! Review!
-shrapnel
AND IT'S REALLY LONG SO SETTLE DOWN BEFORE YOU READ IT!
-shrapnel
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Chapter 6
POV = MegaMan
PAST
MegaMan looked around frantically at his surroundings. He didn't see anybody. It was totally deserted. The blank walls, the blank ceiling, and the same blank floor were unchanged. The only evidence of his brother was. actually, there was no evidence at all of his brother. MegaMan had ran back to ProtoMan with Roll on his shoulder after the defeat of ElecMan, but when he got there, ProtoMan seemed to have disappeared.
"ProtoMan!"
MegaMan heard no answer. He felt tense. He looked at Roll in the corner, and felt a pang of guilt for leaving her unprotected. Now he felt another pang of guilt for his brother. Not because he left him unprotected, ProtoMan could take care of himself, but leaving him alone. They should have gone together.
"Damn."
MegaMan began to panic. But because of help from his sister, he took deep breaths and calmed himself down. -This isn't the time to panic-, he thought. He thought for a moment, his body language showing that he was deep in thought. He reasoned that he had to go through the now open door once covered with the barrier. MegaMan knew that would have been what his brother must have done. He looked at Roll.
"I'll be back later, sis."
He knew that his beloved sister couldn't hear him, but talking to her helped take a small bit of responsibility of his shoulders. He turned toward the opening, and ran through the door.
POV SHIFT = ProtoMan
Flashback
ProtoMan looked around the room. MegaMan had just left to find Roll. ProtoMan had decided to stay to take care of the next room once MegaMan got it open. He sighed, and thought about his brother. Once, they had been enemies. They had fought countless times, until he realized that Wily truly was insane, and that helping family is better than going against it. From then on, he had helped MegaMan whenever he called him, but he still felt a strong sense of independence. He still went on his own sometimes, leaving a note and just leaving in the middle of the night. He needed the feeling of freedom. It was the only thing that kept him himself. ProtoMan had been built with certain differences than other robots. All robots had the rules of robotics programmed into them, but he and MegaMan's parameters had both been slightly modified. MegaMan had in his programming a small amount of free will, but still held to true to the basic rules. ProtoMan, however, still retained the rules, but barely heeded to them. The freedom that he desperately needed also helped keep him different, and in his viewpoint, sane. ProtoMan slumped down to the floor and yawned.
"Wow. I'm sleepy, and I was just fighting, too."
ProtoMan yawned again. He tried to keep his eyes open, but the felt so heavy. Eventually, they just closed on their own.
Later.
ZAP!
ProtoMan awakened with a start. He jumped up and looked around. He saw nothing different, and he decided to go back to sleep when he noticed that the door to the next room no longer was blocked by the barrier. He squinted at it, and realized his brother must have shut off the generator. He also noticed that the room was extremely dim.
"Good going, bro. But, couldn't you have left the lights on?"
ProtoMan decided to go through the door. Waiting for his brother would just take longer. So, ProtoMan readied his buster, and just walked into the next room.
"What the?"
ProtoMan stood stiff as a brick. He looked around and couldn't believe his eyes.
"WILY! HOW DARE YOU COME HERE!"
The person known as Wily turned around sharply and with annoyance in his voice, he said:
"YOU AND YOUR LITTLE BROTHER DESTROYED MY ROBOTS AGAIN!"
ProtoMan chuckled. He looked around to gain a bit of familiarity with his environment. He was in a rather large room. The power in here obviously went out, but the light from the large window at the far end was enough to brighten up the room. It technically was the cockpit, but the real piloting was done by the master computer. There was a big window in the far end of the room, showing the clouds and ocean that the plane was flying above. Wily seemed to be sitting in front of the same master computer used to pilot. Next to him were many more computers manned by more of Wily's robots. The room itself looked slightly different from all the others. This one had a simple design sketched on to the walls in certain places, and most of the flooring was gray, other than the blank floors behind him. ProtoMan noticed a shadow extending from behind a small wall marking the end of the stairs going up to the computers. He immediately knew who it was.
"Bass! Come out and show yourself!"
Somebody chuckled in the silence, and behind that wall walked Bass, Wily's most advanced creation to date.
"ProtoMan. Glad you could make it. Where's the other one?"
"You mean MegaMan? He went and shut off the generator."
Wily nodded his head.
"Yes, he did. But I doubt he figured it out by himself."
"Actually, we used Roll."
Bass nodded in understanding.
"She was always the smartest one."
Wily jumped up into the air.
"ENOUGH! YOU WILL NOT FOIL MY PLANS THIS TIME! BASS! ATTACK HIM!"
"My pleasure."
And with that, Bass jumped toward ProtoMan with surprising speed. However, ProtoMan was ready, and he jumped to the side, firing four shots at the same time. Bass was shocked by ProtoMan, and was hit by all four shots. He flew back into the wall, and hit it with a crash. ProtoMan blew the smoke off his buster, and powered it up again.
"Come on, Bass. You're supposed to be better than me!"
Bass growled in answer and responded by shooting a long row of shots from his buster. ProtoMan sidestepped the row in its entirety, and aimed at Bass. He fired just as Bass leapt into the air.
"Huh?" was all ProtoMan was able to get out before Bass kicked him in the chest. ProtoMan grunted and flew back, skidding on the floor.
"Damn." He got up, and brushed himself off. He felt energized, and completely ready to battle. However, something in him held him back. He wasn't sure what, but he felt strange. He fell to his knees and strangely enough, started to have a shortness of breath.
Wily jumped up and down.
"Yes Bass! You hit him with it!"
ProtoMan looked up at a smiling Bass, and an exuberant Wily. He managed to raise himself partly up through the haze and dizziness swimming around him. He felt strange, sleepy almost. He couldn't seem to focus, or even see right. He tried to get up, but felt a strong blow to the chest, and he fell back down again. He wheezed for breath, and coughed. ProtoMan opened his eyes slightly and looked at the now laughing black and purple robot towering over him.
"What. did. you. do.?"
Bass merely laughed at ProtoMan's weak attempt at talking.
"Don't worry about it. It'll be over soon."
Before ProtoMan blacked out, he felt something really hard hit the side of his head.
End Flashback
POV SHIFT = MegaMan
He stopped when he reached the new room. He looked around in shock. Not only was there Wily standing on the steps, there was also Bass standing over his brother, who was lying on the floor, barely moving.
"What have you done with ProtoMan!"?
Bass turned around. So did Wily. Wily looked at him in anger.
"THERE HE IS! GET HIM BASS!"
MegaMan didn't have time to respond for Bass dashed and jumped straight at him. MegaMan used his trademark slide, and slid right under him. Bass looked down in surprise at his enemy staring him in the face. MegaMan smiled quickly, and then kicked Bass' legs with his own. Bass went off balance and did a somersault before crashing to the ground. MegaMan glanced at Wily who was jumping up and down yelling. MegaMan took his attention away from the strange sight and ran to his brother's side.
"ProtoMan! Are you all right?"
No answer. MegaMan shook him. No reply. MegaMan cursed, and looked at Bass. He was gone. MegaMan instinctively rolled to the right, and was lucky because right when he rolled, Bass kicked the ground with a smack. MegaMan looked at him, and saw a really unique sight. Bass was stuck in the ground, trying to pull his foot away from the floor. MegaMan scratched his head in confusion.
"Bass! Does your shoe have glue on it?"
Then he saw it. A strange green liquid oozing out of the place where Bass had hit the ground. MegaMan thought for a moment, then he rushed to his brother and turned him face-up. He saw a small slit in ProtoMan's armor, where a bit of green liquid seemed to emanate from. MegaMan stood up in anger.
"You poisoned my brother! Have you no sense of honor?"
Bass stopped the frantic pulling at his leg and laughed a laugh that was utterly disturbing.
"Of course. I will do anything I can to destroy you and everything you stand for!"
MegaMan looked in anger at the robot. He charged up his buster.
"Then I will do anything I can to stop you!"
But before MegaMan could fire, Bass jumped toward him and tackled him.
"Got ya!"
Bass smiled menacingly at the robot he had pinned down on the ground, and gave a hearty punch. MegaMan's head snapped to the right as the fist collided with his head. He kicked Bass off with a feat of strength, and jumped up, facing his opponent face-to-face.
"Let's do this Bass!"
MegaMan fired and Bass leaped over the plasma shot with ease, and returned the favor with his own streak of shots. MegaMan rolled away from the attack and took a shot at Bass again. Bass dodged it in midair, and landed on the ground just in time to see MegaMan change color.
"What the?"
"If you don't remember, I blew up the generator, which means I had to deal with ElecMan."
Bass's eyes widened.
"Yeah. You got the idea."
MegaMan, now colored schemed yellow in what used to be his blue parts, fired a lightning bolt straight at the shocked purple and black robot. A sickening crackle of electricity threw Bass backward straight at Wily. Wily yelped and ducked for cover. The robot flew right over his creator, and right into the gravity controller of the master computer. Wily's eyes widened with fear.
"NOOOO!!!!!"
The panel was exploding. The fire mini-explosion and the wild currents of electricity threw Bass across the room into the far wall. Before MegaMan could do anything, the plane lurched suddenly, throwing MegaMan onto the ground. Hard. MegaMan groaned, and looked at the chaos. The Wily robots controlling the other computers had all began to panic, all asking their master what to do next. He saw Wily jumping up and down, and he also saw his brother, ProtoMan, skidding along the floor. MegaMan ran and grabbed ProtoMan and ran out the door. He could faintly hear Wily screaming as he ran into the next room.
"The plane is going down! Start the back-up plans!"
MegaMan quickly ran and picked up Roll in the next hallway. Now, MegaMan was carrying ProtoMan, his brother, and Roll, his sister, on his shoulders. He ran as fast he could, trying to avoid the falling objects. The plane lurched again, this time throwing MegaMan over to the left wall. MegaMan turned to face the wall face-to-wall, in an effort to try to reduce the damage to his loved ones on his shoulders. He hit the wall right on, and groaned in pain. MegaMan shook his head, and re-gathered his senses as the plane began to shake. MegaMan put a hand on the wall, trying to balance himself.
"Oh, damn it!"
He quickly ran to the back room. He found the ladder he had used earlier, and shot an even bigger hole with his buster. He jumped down it, and planned to land on the floor. Instead, the plan gave another lurch, throwing MegaMan completely off balance and into a wall. The plane, now shaking violently, began to screech as the wind scraped against it. The wall MegaMan was leaning against began to crack, and MegaMan had a sickening feeling the plane wasn't built for hard landings. He gulped deep, and grabbed his brother and sister, and just ran.
He got to the escape pod right when the wall he was leaning against gave a long groan, and broke up, it's parting being thrown into the sky.
"WHOA!"
MegaMan was thrown off balance by the sudden gusts of wind, but managed to take hold of a bar close to the pod. But by doing so, he dropped his brother, ProtoMan.
"Brother!"
Just as ProtoMan almost flew out the opening in the side of the ship, he snapped into action. He shot out a hand, and grabbed hold of the end of the bar, preventing him from being sucked out.
"MegaMan! How's it going?"
MegaMan blinked away the tears.
"ProtoMan! You're all right!"
"Of course! I can't be beaten that easily!"
ProtoMan slowly crawled up to where MegaMan was. MegaMan began to open the door to the small pod and tossed his sister in.
"ProtoMan! You next!"
ProtoMan nodded, and crawled past his brother into the pod. Once he was in, he grabbed hold of the cockpit seat, and reached out his hand. The pod was roomy enough to hold three people comfortably, and the computers didn't take up too much of the space. ProtoMan was glad, because he wasn't leaving without his little brother.
"Brother! Let's go!"
MegaMan stiffened.
"What about Wily and Bass?"
ProtoMan sighed.
"It's Wily! Of course they have a back-up plan! Let's just worry about us!"
MegaMan thought about it for a few seconds, and nodded.
"Let's go."
MegaMan reached out his hand to grab ProtoMan's. But just as their fingers came within an inch to each other, MegaMan felt a pulling at his leg. He looked around and yelled in shock.
"Bass!"
Bass, being the one who had involuntarily broke the gravity controller had obviously recuperated, and had followed MegaMan through his attempts to escape. Through the harsh wind now, Bass could barely be heard.
"I will defeat you! No matter what!"
MegaMan turned away, and tried to grab his brother's hand just as the plane gave its final lurch. It threw MegaMan away, and he grabbed just in time at the bar with his left hand. MegaMan, now at the middle of the bar, about 6 feet away from ProtoMan, heard Bass, at the end of the bar, give a frightening yell.
"We're going to crash!"
MegaMan looked down wildly. He saw the beautiful ocean, now the ugly origin of many worries. Next to it, came his worst fear. Land. An island, filled with forests and mountains, and complete with an enclosed beach stood right between the crashing plane, and the softer ocean. The plane seemed to be aiming for the island. Before MegaMan turned away, he saw a glint of metal in the sun coming form the middle of the island. However, he didn't give it much notice. He turned around. He knew what he had to do.
"ProtoMan! Close the hatch! Get Roll out of here! We don't have a lot of time left!"
ProtoMan could barely hear his brother. He looked in shock at his MegaMan. The island started to look even bigger. He wouldn't leave without him. The plane, now shaking incredibly fast, made everything a blur, including voices. But before ProtoMan could act, MegaMan shot a small-energy blast right into him, knocking him backwards into the pod. And before he could get back up, another shot to the control panel forced the hatch door shut, and shot the escape pod away. ProtoMan could only look in horror through the window of the pod as the plane his little brother was riding crashed into the island. The loud blast and the smoke and fire coming from the new crash site convinced ProtoMan that his brother had been extremely honorable in his last moments. ProtoMan slumped to the floor and put his face in his hands.
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Well, what do you think! MEGAMAN'S GONE DOWN! Oh, well. A story wouldn't be much without the hero, so expect to be seeing him again. And Bass and Wily? DUH! Hope you like it so far! Review!
-shrapnel