Ravenf6: This is probably my weirdest project to date, but standard disclaimer applies, I don't own Mega Man X (I do have some of the games) ,or the Monty Python Flying Circus nor any of the sketches and songs (I do own a VHS collection). I'm not getting paid for this, but I am doing this for enjoyment.

Mega Python's Flying Circus

Prologue: The Gathering

Life became quiet after the seventh defeat of the maverick mastermind, Sigma. And since there were no real outbreaks or rebellions, the Maverick Hunters found themselves bereft of work.

Even now, they spend time trying to find hobbies: Signas was building one of those model-ships-in-a-bottle, Alia was a learning a strange language, and Douglass was trying to build a cappuccino machine that runs on cold fusion. Thus leaving the regular hunters, X, Zero, and Axl completely bored out of their heads in the archives.

Axl:. Does it always get this quiet around here?

Zero: Not THIS quiet,.. You could hear a pin drop. I'd wish there was some action around here.

X: I don't think it's that bad; for the first time in a hundred years we actually have peace.

Zero: That's easy for you to say; You've been in a capsule for most of those years. I've been bored for all that time.

Axl: Okay guys take it easy, you don't want to have Alia come in, do you?

X: (sweat drops) Yikes. Alia's scary when she's angry.

Zero: Ha ha. Old Grandpa X is afraid of little Alia!

X: (smug) You weren't so tough when she found out you put that hidden camera in her room. I heard your screams of pain all the way from the city limits.

Zero: (Reaches for his beam saber) How'd you like a new hole in your head?

X: (left hand changes into buster canon) Suits me fine I can rip off that gigantic feather duster called your hair!

Just then, Dr. Cain comes in with a large bundle of papers.

Dr. Cain: What's going on here?

X, Axl, and Zero turn to Dr. Cain looking quite surprised.

Axl: Um.. just a training exercise, doctor.

Zero: What are you- (Axl elbows Zero and X),- uhhh that's right!

X: No harm done. (to Axl) You could have warned us if the old bat was in

Axl: (to X) Just shut up unless you want to suffer the polka curse!

X: What 'polka curse'?

Axl: As a maverick counter measure, Doc Cain developed a satellite that can beam polka music into the heads of any reploid he chooses.. and I was the test subject.

Dr. Cain: Well, if you three are acting, I've got great news. We're gonna do a show.

Axl, X, & Zero: (paralyzed with fear) A SHOW!?!?!

Dr. Cain: What? Is there a problem?

Zero: The last time we put on a show, we had another Maverick Rebellion!

X: Yeah, they all wanted our heads on a pike!

Axl: (shudder) Who'd have thought a play about metools could be so horrible??

Dr. Cain : Oh come on, guys. You're going to like this: it's a comedy! Besides, the others are excited about it.

Zero: (growling) That's because they're always in the audience as critics.

Dr. Cain: Come on, just take a look at this script, we're doing a classic.

Axl picks up the script.

Axl: ."Monty Python's Flying Circus??" What the heck is a flying circus?

Zero: And who's this Monty Python? Sounds like a crazy maverick.

X: I think I've heard of this before. Yeah, I remember that Dr. Light and Roll often watched this show in my younger days.

Axl: Reploids don't age, X.

X: I don't mean that literally, I was talking metaphorically. Talk about your weird and twisted humor!

Dr. Cain: Hey, someone knows the material! Good thing too, since you three will be staring.

Zero: Count me out, I'd rather have my eyes ripped out with a red-hot poker!

Dr. Cain: (evil grin) I was hoping you'd say that.

Reaching into a side pocket, Dr. Cain takes out a remote control, aims it at Zero and pushes a button. At first nothing happened, but soon the crimson hunter was clutching his head and starts rolling and screaming in agony.

Zero: X_X AAGHGH!!! POLKA MUSIC!!!! TOO.. HORRIBLE!!! AHAGAHAGHGAGHAHGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

X: My god. If something like that can bring Zero to his knees, it's surely the power of darkness.

Axl: My thoughts exactly

Dr. Cain: So what do you two think?

Axl and X look at each other, then at the writhing Zero.

(Heavy sigh) "We'll do it".

Dr. Cain: Wonderful. (shuts off the remote) Rehearsal will be in Gate's Test lab.

X: Gate?? But wasn't he destroyed?

Just then, a pillar of light descends in the room and a person comes out.

Ravenf6: I can answer that question.

X: Who are you??

Ravenf6: I am the writer of this fic. I decided that Gate would be assisting the Maverick Hunters in repentance for his Nightmare Phenomena.

Dr. Cain: Oh Good Lord! The Maker!

Zero: (Gets up from his suffering and starts staring daggers at the stranger) You! You're the reason I had to listen to that accursed music! Do you know how horrible a torture that is??

Ravenf6: Yes..your point being?

Zero: (Vein starts throbbing on his face) I don't care if you're human, I'll beat the living crap out of you!

Ravenf6: (scoffs) I can take you out in one blow, for such is in my power

Zero: (Takes out his beak saber) Oh yeah, try it!

Zero swings the saber but it cuts through air. Ravenf6 reappears in midair before a stunned Zero and slams a right cross that sends the pony tailed hunter flying across the room, crashing into a book case and burying the victim in hard covered literature.

X: (Looks at Zero and then at the others) Tell me I didn't just see that.

Ravenf6: Have I proven my point?

Axl: Looks that way, I don't think Zero'll be getting up soon.

Dr. Cain: The writer can do things unimaginable as he can write epics with words. All hail the fanfic writer!

X: Why are you here?

Ravenf6: Aside from Zero getting uppity, I came because I wanted to oversee the show's production. I'm a big Python fan.

Dr. Cain: Speaking of which, we'd better start rehearsing.

X: What about Zero?

Dr. Cain: Axl can drag him down to the lab. Now let's go!

Down in the lab, Gate and Dr. Doppler were surveying the various props
being used for the show.

Gate: Do you think this will work?

Dr. Doppler: Who knows? Do you think we have enough pies?

Gate: I lost track at 40. I'm more worried about the opening number.

Dr. Doppler: It's a musical comedy, of course there'll be some musical numbers.

Gate: Yeah but check out the lyrics.

Doppler reads over the lyrics

Dr. Doppler: Ugh! That sounds disgusting!

Gate: Makes me glad we're not acting.

Dr. Doppler: Amen to that. Dr. Cain should be in with the cast any time now.

Dr. Cain enters with Ravenf6, X, and Axl dragging an unconscious black-eyed Zero.

Gate: What happened to the stiff?

Dr. Cain: Zero had the bad sense to anger the writer. So is everything in order?

Gate: Nope. We're still waiting for the stage crew, not to mention we're short two actors.

Just then the room began to shake violently and the ground splits open. From this void from beyond a fearsome figure in a nightmarish cloak emerges.

???: YARRGH!!!

X: Sigma??

Sigma: That's right, X! My power is too much for Hell to contain, and once again I rise to wreak havoc upon the human race!

Ravenf6: That's perfect!

Sigma: Eh??? . Am I missing something here.

Ravenf6: That raw emotion, that fury! You're perfect!

Sigma: Uh, can you tell me what this wretch is talking about?

X: We're putting a show together, but we're in need of actors.

Sigma: So what does that have to do with.. Oh, I know what you're thinking. But no dice! I have a world to conquer!

Sigma starts flying out of the lab, but a snap of the finger later, heavy chains appear and shackle Sigma to the floor.

Sigma: (struggles against his bonds) What the? Let me out of these chains!!

Ravenf6: Though you escaped death seven times, I control powers you can only dream of. We need your help to make this production work.

Sigma: Get bent!

Ravenf6: Sigma. If you offer your services, I shall grant you a gift. A remarkable gift befitting a reploid of your stature.

Sigma: Reaallllly? Okay, I'll do it.

Dr. Cain: That just leaves one left.

X: Are you sure about this?

Ravenf6: Positive, right, Dr. Cain?

Cain holds up the menacing remote.

Dr. Doppler: Unfortunately we're short a chorus.

Ravenf6: Look alive guys, our crew is here.

The door way opens up when two elderly men came in, one with spikey gray hair, and the other with a white beard like Santa Claus.

X: You're kidding me!

Dr. Wily: Wow, this place puts my Skull Fortress to shame.

Dr. Light: So this is where it all begins.

Ravenf6: Everyone, I'd like you to meet the most venerable robot scientists of the 21st century. Doctors Albert Wily and Thomas Light.

X: Wow, so the capsules do add 10 pounds.

Dr. Light: Yes it does, but now we're flesh and blood again.

Axl: So this is the mad scientist you were talking about, X?

X: Yep. But I'd hardly say 'venerable' for him.

Dr. Wily: You should know that I can still crush you like a nut.

Ravenf6: Now now, Wily. We already talked this over. You and Dr. Light are here as our camera crew. (Menacingly) If you so much as think an evil thought, I'll cut out your balls and make you wear them as earrings!

Dr. Wily: And people though I was crazy!!

Gate: This shouldn't be happening; by all accounts, this should have caused a paradox that would destroy this time stream as we know it!

Ravenf6: Would a, could a, should a, who cares?

Dr. Light: I must say that this is a very strange experience! By the way, has the others come yet?

Ravenf6: Not yet. We still need one more spot to fill for our stars.

Sigma: I'm just glad that cockroach Dynamo hasn't been roped into this yet! I hate that smug son of a-

Just then, a wall explodes open and in its wake was a black and yellow robot with a vengeful look in his eyes.

Bass: Mega Man! I've come to settle the score, you coward!..Whoa! You've gotten big since last time I saw you.

X: Still jolly as ever, eh Bass?

Bass: (angry) It's not Bass It's Bass! as in "base guitar!!"

X: I can blow you away with one little finger so I don't care what you say; you're still the same loser who's named after a fish!

Ravenf6: Dang it, what do I have to do to get this crew organized??

Dr. Cain uses the remotes on everyone who was arguing (machine anyway), and they were promptly screaming in agony.

Dr. Wily: Ingenious device! What kind of frequency is that thing on?

Dr. Cain: One that's too advanced for you, old man.

Just then Zero was coming around.

Zero: Damn, my head hurts. Must have been some party. (tries to open his black eye, but it's swollen shut). a hell of a party.

Ravenf6: Funny. That punch was meant to knock you down, not put your lights out.

Dr. Light: I believe we should get started now. We've wasted enough time.

Ravenf6: Terrific, now we need a make up crew.

Roll comes in.

Roll: (looks around) Some things never change.

Ravenf6: Praised be the saints! We've got our make up artist!

Roll: (sweat drops)...

X: It's been a long time, sis.

Roll: Rock? Is that you??

X: Who else would it be?

Roll: Wow, you've grown!

Ravenf6: Okay everyone, let's set up for the first sketch! Gate, Doppler, I want you to get the stage ready. Wily, you and Light set the cameras up. And Roll, you take Zero to the powder room and see if you can cover up that shiner. Everyone else, rehearse their lines.

Roll: (Takes a good look at Zero) Who did this?

Zero: (stares daggers at ravenf6) Someone with a death wish.

First bit: Sit on my (annoyed grunt)

10 minutes later, the five 'actors are rehearsing their lines, amidst noisy construction and electrical crackling.

Bass: Can someone please tell me why I'm here doing a ridiculous piece of garbage?

Axl: The polka curse.

Bass: Agh!! I hate polka!

Zero: (annoyed) Tell us something we don't already know.

Sigma: Hmm. something tells me we're going to lose sanity unless we get this right.

X: When does the torture begin?

Axl: I think we're starting as soon as Roll's finished.

Bass: I hope that takes forever.

But to the dismay of the actors, Roll and Zero came to the stage.

Zero: So where's the barbarian?

Roll: Take it easy, Zero. It took a lot of time to make that shiner look normal

Zero: Let's get this rehearsal over with so I can hunt him down.

Dr. Cain: (through a bull horn) Okay everyone, quiet on the set! We're going to start with the opener. "Sit on my Face."

Axl: Are you serious?!? That's disgusting!

Zero: No one said anything about singing!

Sigma: No one said anything about sitting on anyone's faces; we can get censored for that!

Dr. Cain: Come on, just be thankful it's a rehearsal. Line up!

X, Axl, Bass, Sigma, and Zero get to center stage.

Zero: (whisper) Well, guys, it's been swell knowing you.

X: (whisper) Relax, I've rigged up something to make this job painless

Sigma: (also whisper) I hope you're right.

Dr. Cain: (Bull horn) Okay, Gate! Start the music when you're ready!

Gate gives a thumbs-up as he sits at the control room flipping switches. Light and Wily start recording on the cameras will Roll, Doppler, and Ravenf6 oversee the rehearsal.

Music: "Sit on my Face", traditional

X, Axl, Bass, Sigma, and Zero: (singing)

Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me

I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you, too

I love to hear you oralize

When I'm between your thighs

You blow me away!

Sit on my face, and let my lips embrace you

I'll sit on your face and then I'll love you truly

Life can be fine if we're both 69

If we sit on our faces

In all sort of places

And play

Till we're blown away..!!!

The music stops

Dr. Wily: So what do you guys think?

Dr. Light: I thought it was quite good. They really got the lines and harmony well for a rehearsal.

Roll: Too well, if you ask me.

Ravenf6: Gate, can you check something?..

Back on the stage..

Axl: I think that worked out perfectly.

Sigma: For once, I'm in agreement. What was that?

X: Something that insures that we never have to perform it again.

Dr. Doppler: (speaker microphone) that was a good one, guys. But we're gonna have to do it again?

Everyone on stage: (eyes double in size) WHAT??!??!

Dr. Doppler: It seems that the musical track we used also contained the lyrics. Let's try it again, but without the music this time.

X falls over anime style and then Zero, Axl, and Sigma begin beating the azure hunter to a pulp.

Gate: What do you think the chances of us getting this done?

Ravenf6: (looks the beating frenzy on the stage) . I think we're gonna be here a long time. MAKE UP!!!!

Production has begun but with a few hitches. Will X survive for the next scene? Will Zero get his revenge? Can Roll keep her frustrations in check while production continues??

Roll: (grim face) Don't bet your zenny on it.

As you've just seen, I'll soon have the crew start performing other Python sketches, with a small list in mind. If you'd like to see a specific Python sketch performed, tell me which one you want to see in your reviews and I'll try to accommodate you in future chapters. More reviews mean more chapters!!^^