Just a forest and few blocks away, meanwhile, in the Light house hold: "I don't know, dad. He seemed pretty certain this time. I..."

"Now, now, let's not jump the conclusions here. Rock, son, you know by heart how Bass like to demoralize you before every battles. He's a pretty good enemy if you ask me because, he always let you win." The hulking white- haired man in his golden-age of his life patted Rock's back as a father.

Rock felt lucky all of the sudden, for no reason, lucky to have a 'circus' family. On the thought of family, he recalled something about his brother who was still in stasis and depressed himself over the incident again. "But what about the blueprints? It's a danger to leave them in the filthy hands of Dr. Wily."

That started to knock some urgency into Dr. Light's flight of the imagination while he suited Rock into his different shades of blue battle armors. "Well, the robots of that model have one special thing about them which makes me less worried of. You see Rock, these robots are like Bass, they can choose their life, very human-like. Furthermore, I know that they all have the sense of righteousness like you do, Rock. Now are you convinced?"

"Y...yes, I guess so." Rock unwillingly accepted the temporary comfort but he at least he found out that Bass was based on the first half of the blueprints.

"Not the answer I want, try again, Rock!" Dr. Light took a deep breathe to make himself look heavier than he already was.

"Yes, I am completely convinced!" Rock couldn't stop the tickle of the sight of his ballooned father that he simply burst into a wild laughter. Roll came running in and stipulated the location of a cockroach which she was chasing but one shrugged while the other shook his head. Without much of a choice, Roll gave Rock a baby-peck on his face and turned it beet red.

Bass marched smartly with Treble beside him and Zero hurried behind them, trying his best to keep up with his 'tour guides.' He noticed something wrong and twitched his head to check up on his brother. There lagging further and further behind, Zero stopped proceeding and focused all his attention into his audio receptors.

A drop of sweat formed on the forehead of the intruder. He anxiously rummaged through his mind for an effective escape plan as he had never really been caught while eavesdropping or even spying.

Finally, the trespasser gave in as he couldn't stand the amount of attention mounting onto him. He dropped from his perch on the ceiling and landed with a loud thud. His dead black visors flickered the sun's rays which were sneaking through the broken seams of the scotched walls and reflected off the smooth surface. Pretending to be cool, the grey robot lifted his head to reveal his features which were hidden under his scarlet helmet.

"Hmm, I see that I have been replaced, I'm hurt." Blues sneered.

"Not really, you're my 'part' elder brother and he's my 'full' younger brother. Anyway, prepare to lose your other 'part' younger brother of yours." Bass nattily warned.

"I do admit that this spanking new brother is kind of impressive, considering how he managed to pick up my presence. But I'm sure Rock can take care of him as the way he does to you."

"Oh yeah? Zero can peel that pathetic sissy's skin off with just a flick of his fingers! However, let's just see how Rock's prototype fair in a match with the mighty Bass! Touche!"

Blues' blood pressure shot up a notch by that insult but someone who had just dropped by almost received a heart attack. He quavered the tiles after heaving his ten ton body weight over the melted sill of a window

"I don't see the necessity, Blues. I suggest that you fight this red chilly which silly Wily has made! On second thought, you shouldn't, because it's not honorable to hit a girl, ha ha ha ha!" Gutsman mockingly roared on with his laughter but was shattered as Zero smashed into the chuckling jaws.

His head dented as it got forced against the surprisingly sturdy walls. He wailed even louder when the pressure did not leave the side of his head, instead it strengthened.

Treble whimpered and stuck his tail between his hind legs. Bass was enjoying the gruesome treatment thoroughly but a perturbed feeling struck him deeper and deeper when he saw the insane grin of the devil. Besides that, he also caught a rare glimpse of a twitch on the corner of Blues' mouth. He could tell that Blues was frozen stiff too.

"Zero, enough, he's had enough...Zero? ZERO! Hey cut it out! Crap!"

"...Hey leave, leave Gutzo alone! Pick on somebody of another size, hey!" Blues sputtered.

"I'm your older bro here Zero! You're killing him man! Let up! Zero!"

The metool-helmet cracked along with the inner circuits and Bass panicked at the rate the torture was going. It was not that it was too fast to put a stop, but too slow and the pain was agonizingly inhumane.