Ok I will just come out and say it. I have no ideas for this fic, normally I have some idea of what to do but not this time.
Who liked Akako? I have no idea where she came from. Actually, and no one who doesn't know me will believe or understand this, after finishing chapter 2 I have just been letting my fingers hit the keys with out any pre-thought ideas.
And stop telling me MEGAMAN is actually MEGA MAN, I know that but like MEGAMAN better.
Ok READ and then REVIEW!
A blaster from the past C4)
Rock felt the tank click open and remained where he was, letting his system reorient and run a stats check. A warning error appeared in the back of his mind and he had to spend a few microseconds trying to remember what it was.
His eyes snapped open and he leapt from the tank as he remembered the error code that had only ever shown up once before. It was the same error he had gotten when Willy had tried to reprogram his memory core.
He caught the wire trailing from behind his ear and ripped it free, ignoring the jolt it sent across his system. He was letting his emotions take over and they where a mix of rage and fear. His armor appeared around him and both hands disappeared as he started charging his busters.
He turned to Akako who was sitting there beside the restoration tank he had been in, her face was stuck somewhere between annoyance and surprise. Rock brought up both busters and fired them together, the two large blasts of plasma merging just before impact.
Akako screamed in terror but it was too late. The blast had already hit and dispersed against red armor. Rock stopped the growl in his throat as he regained his senses. Rush had jumped before the blast, his armor attuned to protect him from Rock's standard plasma signature.
Rush was sniffing at a pale and stunned Akako, wanting to play. Rock considered shooting her still but sent his armor away knowing he wouldn't unless she tried something like that again.
Akako was recovering from the fright of nearly being retired and was trying to push Rush away from her. "Rush heel." Rush walked over and sat down beside Rock, his tail thumping against the ground. "Rush go play with Roll." Rush looked up at Rock before turning and leaving with his head down and his tail drooping.
Rock calmly walked over and pulled the small handheld computer from Akako's hands and snapped it in half, and then into fourths while she glared at him. Then he reached down and lifted her to her feet, ignoring her protests.
"would you stop pulling me around. I can walk on my own." She pulled her arm from his grasp and glared at him. "now where exactly are we and what did you mean when you said this might be my prison?"
Rock started walking away, pausing only long enough to gesture for her to fallow him. As they walked down the hall with their footsteps ringing off the walls Rock let her stew in silence. "we are in Dr. Light's current lab, you don't need to know where it is at the moment."
Rock flipped a sweeping robot back onto its treads with his foot, planning on telling Rush he shouldn't bother them while they were working. "until I or Light think its ok for you to leave you are going to remain in this compound. Weather your awake or in stasis depends on how well you behave."
Akako tried to pick up the sweeping robot but it zipped away from her before she could catch it. "why exactly don't you want me to leave. So far all I have discovered is that you have at least one mechloid and a rather decently sized self-contained compound. And that you are perhaps a class a hunter from the one memory file I got from you."
Akako found herself on the floor and everything spinning around as a stinging sensation spread across her face. Rock had hit her with his open hand and was standing over her flexing his hands into fists and back. "that is the first rule. You are never to ever try tampering with my memory core. I will not hesitate to destroy you if do."
Akako held her Stinging face and couldn't help but tremble with fear. The anger in his voice and the emptiness in his eyes proved more terrifying than she believed even Sigma could be. He reached down again and she flinched back as he griped her arm and pulled her to her feet.
He turned and started down the hall again leaving her standing there wondering if she really would be trapped here. He stopped at a doorway and waited for her to fallow him, as she came up beside him he hit the door open and walked through into one of the smaller research labs. Smaller being about the size of a ranch home and including a basic living module for the scientist who wouldn't leave his work.
As she stood there staring at all the equipment he closed the door behind her. "second rule. You will not leave this lab. You can use any of the equipment here but the computer has only programs and basic work related utilities. It isn't connected to any files database and any attempt to reach those files will result in a rather violent anti-aggressor program"
Akako stepped forward as if not believing what was before her and ran her hand along the console of a vast machine that could do the tasks of seven of her best similar devices in her own labs. "how did you find these. Are they operational?" her fingers found the activation key and she watched as the machine hummed to life and many small lights began to race across it.
"they should be fully operational but the attendance robots have only recently been restarted so I'm not sure.I believe I purchased this particular peace of equipment at a technology symposium. Rule Three. You cannot take anything back with you if you ever leave. That means you will have to commit everything you learn or discover to memory because I wont let you take even one recording disk with you." Rock let his fingers enter a simple command in the console and smiled to himself as a small hatch opened and a peace of plastic emerged, shaped like a miniature Rush.
Akako had frozen as her thoughts tried to comprehend what Rock and said without saying. She reached out and griped his arm, making him look at her. "just how old are you Rock? I thought that maybe you had been made and sealed shortly after X but you keep saying strange things. You just told be you bought ancient technology at a symposium and there are those childs storys talking about a robotic hero but we cant find any hard data to confurm it."
Rock frowned and dropped the Rush figure back into the machine. "I will have to be more careful with my words it seams." He turned and went to leave but her hand was still on his arm. he didn't take his eyes from the floor while he answered her, "I was active long before X was even a thought in Light's mind. I was the first humanoid Robot that had every capacity of a human."
He tried to pull away again but her grip was still on his arm and she was making him think about things that he would rather leave behind. She pulled him around and tried lifting his chin but he kept it down so she bent down until she was staring into his eyes. "who are you Rock?"
He brushed her side and went to the door stepping out and sealing it to open only at his command. He leaned against the door for a long moment trying to stop his logical mind from fighting his emotions. Every time he wondered who or what he was this happened and he wouldn't be able to think clearly for days.
He walked down towards his room, planning to lock himself in until his self-conflict was resolved. It wasn't the first time this had happened but he didn't have any other way to deal with it. once he had battled Bass while he was like this, Bass had almost taken him apart before Rock had managed to make a solid hit with his buster.
He brushed aside Roll as she was blasting at his door, not caring about the insults she shouted at him and sealed the door behind him. He fell onto the only chair in a room full of grisly trophies. He let his eyes find a warped pair of circular scissors as his mind recalled his first real battle.
"give up Megaman. Dr. Willy will rule the earth and you wont stop him." Rock was standing in his new armor, already cracked and damaged from fighting more small robots than he thought possible.
The Robot before him was taller than him and covered in red and white armor with a round pair of scissors standing up from his head. It was Cutman and Willy had reprogrammed him. "I can't let you harm anymore people Cutman. I will stop you."
Rock raised his one still functioning buster and fired a single shot of plasma. Cutman sneered as his hand switched with another round pair of scissors and easily swatted the feeble shot away. "look at you. Just look at what you are against me. I am a fast moving blade-swinging lumberjack that is made to do damage. I could cut through you just as easy as this tree."
Cutman swung his arm and his scissor blade flew out and sniped a tree's truck in half. The blade retuned as the think tree fell into the clearing, right towards Cutman. Cutman ginned and leaned forward as the tree met his head, the scissors on his head cutting easily through the tree and letting the halves fall away. "and you are a little tiny boy made to hand an old man his tools or think of someway to make something better. Surrender and Dr. Willy might let you clean his bathroom."
Rock was tired and hurting from his injuries but he swore he wouldn't let Willy win. "yes I'm just a thinker and you are a woodsman but I think I can still win." Rock charged at Cutman, somehow avoiding his swiping blades and jumped up, bringing his damaged arm down and against the side of Cutman's head.
Cutman bent down and shoulder rammed Rock back, ramming him into a tree and stepping back as Rock tried to move. Cutman walked back to the tree he had cut and placed a foot up on it as her watched Rock struggle to get to his feet. "still think you can win Megaman?" Cutman took a moment to examine his scissor hand as if checking his pedicure.
"yes." Megaman was holding his side where he could feel some of his major components shattered by the powerful assault.
"wrong." And with that Cutman shipped his hand again sending several scissor blades flying at once. Rock stood there in pain until the last moment before dropping to the side and letting the blades pass him and sever the tree behind him. As the tree started to fall Cutman laughed and stepped forward, "I'm spending more effort cutting the trees than fighting you."
Cutman's laughter stopped as he tried to move his head scissors only to find them warped shut from Rock's earlier attack. Before he could move the tree struck, sending bits of metal and the warped scissors flying as Cutman was driven into the ground like a nail into wood. Rock crawled back to his feet and made his way over to Cutman's remains and took the scissor buster from his arm. he managed to transfer back home before falling over.
Rock blinked and moved his eyes away from the scissors, he won that battle with luck realy, he didnt mean to warp Cutman's blades it jut happened. He stood and turned his chair around, not wanting to think about the many reminders behind him of what he had done in the name of peace.
He closed his eyes and let the battle of logic and emotion rage inside his head. He spent the next day sitting there and made no attempt at moving. he would be useless until the battle was over, logic always won but the battle still had to be fought.
sorry for the extremely short chapter but I haven't got any ideas to work with here and I didn't feel like rehashing a bunch of robot master battles. I may add more of his old boss battles in if I'm asked but they are mostly filler.
If you want this story to continue toss me a few ideas. I got nothing. So unless you want more extremely short chapters that hardly help the plot give me a direction to go. I don't really want to go with the plot of X3 but I don't know what else I could do with the X universe.
And finally my confession. I HATE the original and X games. dives behind armored wall to avoid fan retaliation amazing huh? I hate them but I still wrote a fic about it. well that goes to show you how my mind refuses to work. I get an idea and I have to use it.
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