A Robot No Longer
Chapter 1
I'm not really sure how it happened. It kind of…just did. One day, I was taking a much-deserved break from saving the world, and the next day, I woke up…different. Just…different.
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Glowing with a green aura, Mega Man held his Mega Buster, his name for the arm cannon that could replace his hand at will, at the giant mechanical skull-shaped robot towering over him. He jumped up into the air and fired a huge energy shot at the skull-shaped robots eyes…
The blast knocked Wily, the evil scientist manning the machine, from the controls and back up against the control room. The controls began to malfunction and the screens turned red, with the words "WARNING! WARNING! OVERLOAD!" flashing on them in big letters. Frantically, Wily looked around at the controls for the emergency escape button…
He found it and the entire control room separated from the skull robot as it exploded in a plume of smoke and flame. He was now controlling a giant flying saucer. Quickly, he manned the controls again, turned towards a wall, and fired a blast at it. The wall exploded and the saucer flew through the hole where the wall had just been.
"Bwahahahaha!" Wily cackled into the microphone on the control panel. His voice rang through the hallway, magnified by the speakers in his Skull Fortress. "Mega Man, you should have learned by now! You can catch me as many times as you want, but I'll never give up! NEVER!"
"Stop, Wily! I won't let you escape!" Mega Man yelled back. On instinct, he began to change color. Green, silver, yellow, orange, blue, pink, black, gold, and finally, red. When he reached red, he stopped changing colors and a thin beam of light came from the sky, through the ceiling, and onto the floor, where a small creature began to appear.
In a small flash, a red robotic dog, Rush, was standing before Mega Man. It barked three times and then began to change shape. It's legs turned like the wheels of an airplane until its front legs could no longer be seen and it's back legs were behind it. The paws then changed shape as well, until they took the form of two small rocket engines. The dog's body became flat, and soon, the only way you could tell it was the same dog was the head, which hadn't changed. The dog barked again, and Mega Man leaped onto it's back.
"Let's go, Rush! We must catch Wily!" Mega Man yelled, and the engines ignited. Rush flew off after Wily at breakneck speed.
Soon, Mega Man could see Wily's flying saucer in the distance. He still wasn't out of the fortress yet, which was good, since Mega Man was catching up to him. Wily must have noticed this, for his saucer started to speed up. In retaliation, Rush began to speed up as well.
Mega Man fired three continuous shots from his Mega Buster at the saucer, but Wily dodged all three with relative ease. Mega Man didn't give up, and kept on firing over and over. Eventually, just before they reached the edge of the fortress, a bunch of the shots hit Wily's saucer, which began to smoke. Fire burst out from the back end and the ship plummeted towards the ground…
After it had already blasted its way out of the Skull Fortress. Mega Man cried out as Wily's ship plummeted towards the rocky cliffs below…Mega Man couldn't let him die…not only was going to jail the right punishment, but it was one of the three laws of robotics…no robot could ever harm a human being.
Quickly, he and Rush flew down the cliff after Wily. Mega Man started to change colors again. This time, he stopped on silver and pointed his Mega Buster at Wily's saucer. He fired, and a silver rope of light shot out and wrapped around the saucer. Mega Man pulled his Mega Buster like a fishing rod, and the beam pulled Wily toward him. In seconds, Mega Man had the entire ship attached to the end of his buster.
Wily would have been grateful, but he knew what this meant. He was going to jail all over again…but he didn't mind…he got used to it after the twentieth time or so.
Quickly, but carefully, Mega Man deposited the now-dead saucer on the base of the cliff and jumped off Rush. In a thin beam of red light, Rush teleported away. Mega Man turned blue again, and his Mega Buster contracted into his arm. Instantaneously, his hand appeared in it's place.
Carefully, Mega Man walked over to the edge of the saucer and knocked. The metal door began to open, sliding upwards slowly. Reluctantly, Wily walked out of his saucer as a ramp slid out from the door.
"I'll go quietly. This time." Wily muttered, walking down the ramp towards Mega Man and gritting his teeth. Smiling in victory and relief, Mega Man grabbed Wily's arm and closed his eyes. He turned into a thin blue beam of light and flew straight into the air.
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MEGAMAN CAPTURES WILY YET AGAIN
In another spectacular victory, Rock Light, AKA Mega Man, defeated the infamous Wily for what is now about the twenty-third time. Wily, an infamous criminal who was a former colleague to Dr. Light, has created hundreds of robot masters in his numerous attempts to take over the world and defeat Mega Man and the rest of the Light family, who are his only obstacle. This time, the infamous Wily sent out Rose Man, Clock Man, Color Man, Paper Man, Sumo Man, Quake Man, Doom Man, and Half-Life Man in another fruitless attempt to stop the famous Blue Bomber and take over the planet. When asked about these new creations, Mega Man laughed and stated that Wily is running out of ideas. Dr. Light, the creator of Mega Man, refused to comment.
Wily is now facing a lifetime in jail, although it's unlikely that he'll be in there that long at all. When asked why he refuses to simply let Wily get the chair, Mega Man says that all criminals deserve every chance they get to reform.
More news as it comes.
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His pipe in his mouth, Dr. Light scanned the news article on about Mega Man's most recent victory. The article had…neglected…to mention that Mega Man had also said that he could never and would never lay any harm to another human being. Oh well, that was the media for you.
Light closed the article and went back to his research. Only recently had he found a strange glowing yellow object. It was similar to the yellow and black energy orbs that would automatically repair any damage to Mega Man's system when he touched them.
He wanted to test this on a robot, but he didn't want to damage or destroy Mega Man or any of his other creations on accident. He had no idea what this would do, and he didn't want to take any major risks. He decided he'd ask Mega Man tomorrow, as he was currently resting.
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In a thin beam of white light, Wily teleported into the laboratory of his hidden emergency base.
"GRAAAAAAAH!!!" Wily roared, jumping up and down in fury. "That damn blue bomber foiled my plans again!"
"Face it Wily, everything you've made but me sucked. You'll never make anything better than me, and you might as well quit and take up knitting." boasted a robot in black armor in the background. The robot had a helmet with two orange fin shapes sticking out of the side. Wily jumped and fell over at the sound of the robot's voice.
"Bass! You pompous ignoramus! You almost killed me!" Wily roared. Bass, the robot, scoffed.
"You should be more careful then, old man."
"And you shouldn't sneak up on me like that!"
Bass wasn't paying attention. He was looking at something on the floor. A glowing yellow object on the ground.
"Hey, what's that?" he asked.
"Oh, that. I stole one from Mega Man when he captured me. He was carrying a bunch of them."
"What does it do?"
Wily's eyes seemed to sparkle.
"It makes you hundreds of times stronger. Mega Man will probably think they are dangerous and won't use them, and then you'll be more powerful than him!" he boasted.
"I am more powerful than him, you forgetful old crackpot. But if this makes me stronger…I want it. Now. Install it or whatever." Bass ordered.
Wily grinned as he picked the glowing orb off of the ground. Whatever this thing did to Bass, he'd win. If it worked, it might make Bass so powerful that he could destroy Mega Man. And if it destroyed Bass, he'd be rid of that failure and his annoying boasting once and for all. Eagerly, Wily deactivated Bass and started to work…
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Proto Man perched on the top of a tree, examining his find. He had found a small yellow orb while he was exploring. He had no idea what it did, but he was more than willing to find out.
After all, if he didn't like the results, he could live with it. He had dealt with the problems in his system for this long, after all. Proto Man nonchalantly opened a panel in his arm and placed the yellow orb inside of it. He then deactivated himself and fell into a robotic form of sleep.
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Mega Man had accidentally installed one of the yellow orbs he had found without meaning to. He couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, but it hadn't changed anything, so it didn't really matter.
Tomorrow was another day, after all. Then he could ask Dr. Light about it.