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Chapter four- Rust Town Rescue

The smashers finally arrived at Dr. Light's lab, "That was further away than I thought", Link complained. The eight heroes entered the giant building and looked around for the doctor, "Freeze!" cried out a voice behind the smashers, the eight span around and aimed their attacks at the voice, it was an old man in a white lab coat with a small pistol, he gulped and dropped his gun instantly and raised his hands, "Fine take what you want you thieves, but Mega Man will hunt you down", he yelled, "Were not thieves, were friends of Raiden" DK yelled back, "Are you Doctor Light?" asked Samus, Dr. Light lowered his hands, "Yes I am… your friends of Raiden?" the doctor answered, "He a sent us here" Mario began, "He gave you something a long time ago, some kind of key, we need to bring it back to him" Yoshi added. Dr. Light looked down, "The key, I wished every night that it would never spoken of again, this must mean the Heartless are out…wait a minute" Dr. Light replied, he then remembered the attack on Rust Town…those black creatures were Heartless! "Oh no…! Mega Man!" the terrified doctor cried, just then the main computer screen switched on and Mega Man's face appeared on the screen, "Doc! These things at Rust Town, there everywhere, when I blast them they just reform…I'm in real trouble here, I need help!" suddenly the screen turned off. "Mega Man!" Dr. Light cried, he then turned to the smashers, "Oh please, you have to save Mega Man, he's like a son to me" the doctor begged, "Were is he?" asked Fox, "At Rust Town, my Auto Cruiser can take you there, you can't let the Heartless take him….the key…is inside Mega Man, I built him around it so as to keep it safe from anyone, if the Heartless get the key from him…all will be lost". "We'll a save him, don't you a worry" Mario called back before hoping into the cruiser with the others, the large ship raised off the ground and took off at full speed towards Rust Town.

In a temple somewhere, a figure stood over a glowing crystal ball, the ball showed the smashers rushing to Mega Man's aid, "Well done Gollum" the figure said, the voice of the ghoul Gollum echoed through the temple, "Thank you master, we will watch these stupids until the key is yours" he said, the figure smiled and continued watching the smashers, "I almost regret doing this, but he must pay…they all must pay" he growled.

Mega Man jumped up and blasted plasma bolts down at a group of Heartless, the exploded but a few reformed. The robot fell to one knee panting heavily, his human side was completely exhausted and the dark creatures just kept on coming, "Dam it!" Mega Man growled as a bunch of Warrior Heartless leapt at him….then went flying back and slammed into the wall, "Huh?" Mega Man tilted his head, then turned to see Mario with smoke in his hands, he and the rest of the smashers jumped forward, "Are you ok Mega Man?" asked DK, Mega Man nodded, "I don't know who you guys are, but I owe you" he replied. "Don't sweat, now let's get rid of these guys", Fox called before firing his gun at the Heartless, Samas jumped to his side and fired away also, Link jumped up and threw his boomerang, it cut through a few Warriors and landed in his hand, Pikachu and Kirby pummeled a bunch of Heartless near the town. The smashers kept up there fight until all the remaining and reformed Heartless started retreating, they almost sounded like they were snickering, then the heroes found out why.