Rockman vs the Transformers
To give the reader a rough idea, the combined Constructicons create a beastly machine known as Devastator. While not the fastest or smartest of the Decepticons, Devastator is without a doubt the most powerful force under Megatron's command. Nearly indestructible, Devastator leads many Decepticons charges into battle, acting as both the unstoppable, wall-rending war engine and the impenetrable barrier needed to safeguard the soldiers behind him.
The rock and stone of the mountain were like Styrofoam to Devastator, who crawled through the cave and pulled himself out into the open air. Standing up to take in the dusty canyon before him, in the center of which stood a massive facility decorated in an odd skull motif, Devastator only hesitated a moment before taking his first ponderous step towards Skull Fortress.
Of course, there wasn't a spy satellite in the world that missed him, either.
Governments all over the world were suddenly glued to their computer screens as they watched eagle's eye footage of the massive green and purple machine. In Russia, a call immediately came through to the house of one Dr. Cossack, one-time rival of Rockman who had since become an ally.
Kalinka picked up the phone. "Cossack residence," she said.
"Kalinka!" She recognized the voice. It was the head of the Russian military, Hilposkov. He was an old friend of her father's, and had supplied him with valuable tactical information and finding with which to start anew in the business of spy equipment. Right now, though, he sounded worried. Very worried. "I must speak with your father immediately!"
Kalinka nodded, which was in retrospect a stupid thing to do, and then called for her father.
Shadowman, on the other hand, was straining to be as silent as possible.
While he'd been snapping pictures with a wireless digital camera Wily had built into his head, the large robot known as Starscream had entered the room without warning. Shadowman had barely hidden himself away in the shadows of the computer consol he'd been photographing, but Starscream seemed a little preoccupied. He was cackling and muttering to himself again, often referring to 'the plan.' Shadowman couldn't help but be curious, and moved slowly to watch the computer screen.
He could barely see the screen, but there were images there of something large. Perhaps a planet, of some sort. He could barely make out the markings along the top of the picture. Moving a little to see more, the planet came into better view. It was large and gray, and seemed to be pieced together. Moving carefully, Shadowman snapped a picture.
And that's when Starscream turned his head to look right at Shadowman.
"Well . . . crap," Shadowman muttered as Starscream grinned.
"Oh, an intruder! How lovely!" Starscream laughed gleefully. "I shall destroy you and present the scraps to Megatron!" So saying, Starscream leveled the laser cannons on his arms at Shadowman and fired.
The ninja robot shoved off of the ceiling and rocketed to the ground as the twin beams of pinkish light carved a molten swathe through the metal. Landing deftly and running away from his attacker, Shadowman managed to avoid the molten rain that splashed down from the new hole in the ceiling. He heard Starscream laugh again, and whirled about in a quick motion and threw one of his trademark shadow blades.
Starscream never saw it coming as the oversized throwing star sailed through the air with blinding speed and sliced the end off one of his laser cannons. Starscream yelled, more in surprise than pain, and fired wildly with his remaining cannon. Shadowman somersaulted backwards, avoiding the laser, and landed on one foot. Spinning around again with his momentum, the ninja unleashed another blade, this one smashing into Starscream's shoulder.
This time, the yell was in pain, and now Starscream was angry. He dived for the smaller robot, trying to crush him, but Shadowman was too quick. Being the first robot to be built with the Kick-Dash or 'Slide' function (a feature Rockman had added to him), Shadowman simply slid underneath the sailing Decepticon and ran for the door with all his ninja speed.
His stealthy intrusion compromised, Shadowman made his way back toward the hole in the wall, but stopped once he found that a horde of the larger robots were already there, waiting to go through a much, much larger hole. They all seemed ready for combat, and many were laughing and talking about crushing the 'puny bots.' Left with no other option, Shadowman began to scout for a new place to hide.
And not a moment too soon. As the stealth robot hid himself away in a cooling vent, Starscream came out of the computer room, pulling the shadow blade from his shoulder and demanding the help of a few other large robots. While they searched for him, Shadowman watched and waited for his chance to escape.
Blues watched the canyon below. He'd found Dr. Wily's latest hiding place a long time ago, before the mad scientist had fully moved in, but hadn't deemed it necessary to divulge the information to his heroic brother Rockman. So far, Wily hadn't done anything yet aside from rebuild many of the robot masters, but even they seemed docile, laid back, and generally at ease.
But now? Some new, almost alien force was attacking Dr. Wily's Skull Fortress. A massive robot that looked as if it was made entirely out of pieces of construction vehicles was making its way toward the building, obviously intending to make it much flatter than it already was. Perhaps it was time to tell Rockman where Wily was hiding now, and request that he save the mad doctor, just this once.
"Incredible, isn't it?"
The voice took Blues by surprise. He hadn't heard anyone approach, and yet, to his left stood a man in a jump suit, wearing a pitch black helmet over his head. A helmet meant for motorcycle riders.
"And you would be?" Blues asked.
"No one important. I'd be asking who THEY are," the man gave a nod toward the large robots that were beginning to come out of the cave behind the green behemoth.
"That would be the question of the day, I believe."
The man chuckled at this. "They are Decepticons."
"Great name," Blues said. "I bet they get a lot of business."
"They rape planets and take their resources. They're little more than pirates. Its disgusting, really, when they could be so much more."
"And how do you know anything about them?"
The man chuckled again. A grating laugh that played on Blues's nerves. "I know what there is to know. I know that two milling years ago, the Decepticon ship, the Nemesis, crashed on a pre- historic Earth. I know that due to the damage from the crash, they ships computer failed to bring them out of stasis. I know that they'd never have woken up," the man nodded toward the fortress, "if not for one man's decision to drill into the mountain that buried their evil."
Blues mulled over the man's words. "You're depressing. Are you a friend of Duo's?"
"I have no idea who that is."
"Okay," Blues shrugged. "So, who are you?"
The man chuckled again. You could almost FEEL the grin beneath the helmet. "My name is Sideways."
"Ah. Well, my name-"Blues began, willing to return the favor, but he was cut off.
"Is Blues. First son of Wily and Light. Prototype of all humanoid robots, or Robot Masters, and only holder of Thomas Light's revolutionary 'X-Engine.'" The man turned to Blues. "Like I said, I know what there is to know."
Blues felt almost violated. Only himself and Dr. Light knew about the X-Engine. It was the piece of Blues that allowed him to be who he was: A roamer. He didn't have to obey the three laws because of the X-Engine. It had been a test to see if a robot that could break the rules would. So far, Blues hadn't killed anyone, but he had disobeyed on any number of occasions, something the three laws of robotics would not normally allow.
"Can you give me one very good reason, then," Blues began, raising his buster up to point at the man's head, "why I shouldn't just kill you? You know I can."
There was a silence and then the man chuckled. The noise itself almost made Blues shoot him. Then, he walked back toward a large motorcycle Blues hadn't seen before, and got on it. "I advise you tell your brother to come quickly, or else those Decepticons will lay claim to Wily's energy generators and have enough power available to them to REALLY go to town on this planet." Without another word, he revved up the bike and sped away.
Blues stood there for a long time, his buster still pointed at the empty air.
"Damn," he growled, and then activated his long distance radio.
"Blues to Rockman. Blues to Rockman, do you read? I have located Wily's fortress, and the old man needs out help exterminating an alien problem . . . "