Behind the aggressor was the mastermind of Bass's deactivation.
"How did you like it my little toy? I told you that I will reduce you one day, and I did! Bass, Bass, Bass, if only you were as obedient as the robot masters, there wouldn't be a need for me to lose a fine model like you. Oh well, that doesn't matter now that I've built the ultimate weapon!" The frisky old scientist boasted at Bass's remains, at the same time dampened Rock's hope of a 'Dr. Wily-less peace.'
Rock shuffled on his bottom, trying gain a more securing ground. But the more he retreated, the closer the Wily bot got. Finally, the brief game ended when Rock's back embraced a steel-grilled garden fence. The limited air space was sliced by the sniggering green saber placed in between the two combatants.
"I see that Zero can kill you off with good grace anytime, so I will let you live a while longer to witness my wrath! Rock, say goodbye to everything that you love! Now, you have absolutely no ability to stop me from taking over the WORLD!!!" Dr. Wily swooped higher in his disk- spacecraft, protected by the reinforced glass hovering just a few inches from him with the strongest metallic compound developed as the base of the vehicle.
"Now go Zero! Kill every single mortal who set foot in this dismal city, make them pay for relying on this pathetic robot and denying me as their leader!"
Rock jumped for Zero's boots and refused to budge, "Please! Mr. Zero, kill me instead! No one else have anything to do with this!" But Zero was ten times stronger than Rock, he flicked an arm at Rock and flung him into the garden. "I don't desire to kill right now!" The steel fence ached inwards, displaying a line of upturned soil, bounded by crispy lawn grass, grown specifically for the temperate environment.
Zero ignored, his blonde hair wagged contentedly in the breeze and fiddled his weapon. "Why? ... Why did you make me do it?" He served a glance at Dr. Wily's direction.
"Zero! How dare you question your master! Go destroy the city now!" Dr. Wily frazzled impatiently.
"No! You haven't answered me! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME KILL BASS?" Zero's eyes came into Rock's view and they were unlike those soulless ones when he blasted the guts out of Bass. They were beginning to fuel the burgeoning aggression, the same hatred which Blues had developed when Dr. Wily reprogrammed him.
"I had no control over him Zero! For all I know, he mind as well turn on me and dispose me! He was useless anyway, only half of the new blueprints. But he did teach me something, he taught me that the new models of super robots can work only with the 'righteous' programming completely intact. However, I found a way to overcome that minor setback!" Dr. Wily said as much as he wanted and did not seem interested to explain the obvious to Zero and Rock.
"And the only way..." Dr. Wily flipped opened the hatch of a skull decoration on his control panels, "...is to insert something so deep that no one can touch." The button which was hidden gleamed as the sunlight dispersed away from the seamless surface and mirrored the sinister look as if Dr. Wily was inside it. Then, a finger covered the button entirely and a beep confirmed that his plan has started. No imprints were left, no evidence at all. He reeled and bounced once on the backing of his throne and waited for the inevitable results.
Somewhere within the complex neural circuits, an indestructible file awakened again. It seeped through the finest crack in the systems, so fast that lightning was no match to its speed. The target files were immediately attacked and seized. All the internal invasions were translated to Zero as unbearable pain. Multiple jolts surged through his mind, he could pinpoint where they started and traveled. The stings lasted for eons, and seconds after seconds, they intensified, not even the numbness could sedate Zero. He slammed both palms against his helmet, clawing desperately, hoping to grab the pain and toss it aside. He couldn't think, couldn't hear himself scream for mercy without words, and couldn't feel himself hurling his upper body ruthlessly.
Rock iced up, he clenched two handful of soil and watched Zero pounding against the air, his golden molt hair straightened and sprayed in all directions while chasing after Zero's tortured mind. Zero could no longer balance himself by staggering; the continuous sharp ring in his files knocked him to his knees. His eyes were still jammed shut, refusing to accept the pain which now fed into his personality files.
Dr. Wily observed comfortably in his hovering eggshell at the reports coming in from the activated file in Zero's mind. It presented the progress of reprogramming Zero temporary with a simple meter. As the gauge filled almost to its brim, Rock was sitting right in front of Zero's struggles. He glued onto the house in the garden and felt the roughness of the concrete while a white 'W' initial glowed inside the crystal on the triangular armor of Zero's helmet. The blue cloud vibrated in the crystals to bring out the colour of the alphabet. A distinct white tail was attached to the 'W' and surfed in the air as Zero tried to shake out the pain infested within.