Chapter 13 : Success

Dr. Light didn't know what to say. Roll wanted to be human too… He had not seen this coming, and was left in a state of a shock for a moment, but he recollected himself and began to talk.

"Roll, why?"

"Because it's lonely without Mega Man around."

"Lonely? But Rock is here…"

"Rock's never going to be around, I know it. Now that's he a human and everything, he's going to be busy like you. And you'll be going places, and doing stuff that I can't do with him. He's my brother, Dr. Light…I already miss when we'd just spend time together in-between Dr. Wily's attacks."

Dr. Light still didn't know how to respond.

"But the world needs you, Roll."

"It does?"

"Yes, Roll. Think about this… What if Dr. Wily attacks again? With Rock a human, we need a battle robot to fight him and protect the world."

"But… I can't… You want me to become a battle robot?"

"Exactly. When Dr. Wily attacks again, if you want to be a battle robot, you can. And until then, you can help me in the labs. But if you really want to be a human, you can become one anytime you want."

"Alright… Thanks, Dr. Light."

Roll smiled and grabbed Dr. Light around the waist, then went back to her own room to sleep.

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Scorpion Man was having relatively no trouble tearing apart Mega Man. Mega Man was running at 25 efficiency, and Scorpion Man was at an above average 65.

Mega Man slid under as Scorpion Man took a step back, and charged forward, leaping off the ground on it's eight robotic legs and falling straight down in an attempt to crush Mega Man, who quickly slid under while charging his Mega Buster. He then flipped around as he got back up and jumped and fired at the tail portion, dealing severe damage!

"Damn it…" Forte cursed as he stared at the simulation, purple, white, black and blue light covering his face and illuminating the dark room.

"Why'd you make Scorpion Man so robotic? Wouldn't it be better if he was smaller and more human?"

Forte imagined a black and purple robot that stood on two legs, with four extra arms, a huge spiked tail, and hands that fired barrages of poisonous bullets.

"No, not really. Mega Man will be crushed if this thing so much as runs into him."

"Alright, if you say so…"

Forte and Wily continued to watch the battle, but were both silent during it. Mega Man was falling apart, almost destroyed, and Scorpion Man's armor was beginning to crack. Mega Man fired three plasma charges at the noticeable weaker points in Scorpion Man's armor, and Scorpion Man whipped out his tail to stop the attack.

All three hit the tail and bounced off the armor, and the tail impaled Mega Man, who exploded, releasing an explosion of yellow energy in the every direction with a powerful, deafening "dew dew dew" sound.

Forte grinned.

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One week later…

Blues walked outside of the hospital, still slightly dizzy. Upon waking up, one of the doctors had talked to him about how to prevent future heart attacks, but he had barely listened.

In fact, he was supposed to be being picked up by Dr. Light, and had been told to wait in the waiting room until he arrived.

Blues had opted to disobey that command and instead had walked out of the hospital completely. Luckily, none of the doctors or nurses had noticed him do so (or at least hadn't done anything about it).

He walked through the parking lot, with no particular destination in mind.

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In Dr. Light's lab, Roll held a yellow orb in her hands, being careful not to accidentally integrate it into her systems. She had been modified over the past week from being just a housekeeping robot to a housekeeper and a lab assistant.

She looked at the large robot sitting on the counter. Dr. Light had apparently found it sitting around in a junk pile. The robot, a lot like Auto, seemed to be made from a lot of miscellaneous spare parts. The robot was a rusted gray, with only one arm and one working eye (the other one was an enormous blank pupil, but was there). One leg was larger than the other as well. It came off simply looking quite creepy.

After carefully looking for a panel, she put the orb inside it, and nothing happened at first. Then, the robot began to stutter momentarily. She slowly walked backwards, and the robot's rusted gray armor seemed to sink and fall, the helmet eventually laying lopsided on top of the robot's head.

She stared at this phenomenon, then brought herself to walk closer to it, slightly nervous. The robot, if it still was one, wasn't moving, so she grabbed its helmet and managed to get it off.

The entire robot toppled, falling against her and knocking her to the ground, landing on top of her. The helmet was off, and rolled across the lab floor into a wall. She pushed the robot off her and stared at it.

The robot was completely bald, it's one moving eye staring straight at her. The lopsided chest armor moved up and down slowly, and it seemed to be struggling to move.

She pressed her hand against its head, and a quick reading told her the temperature was hot, by human standards anyways.

"Hi, I'm Roll.." she said, still slightly awestruck.

"Ciao, sono un robot del prototipo, l'indicazione 54MU3l. Tutte le letture sono giù. Sconosciuto di posizione. La grande percentuale della memoria e dei dati sembra essere pulita."

Roll's translator activated. The robot was speaking, of all things, in Italian, but appeared to have understood her.

"Hello, I am a prototype robot, designation 54MU3l. All readings are down. Location unknown. Large percentage of memory and data appears to have been wiped."

"Alright, 54M. May I call you Sam?" Roll asked.

"Eso está bien.." Sam responded.

"That is alright," came the translation, this time translating it from Spanish.

"Why are you speaking like that?" asked Roll, who had been wondering that.

"Ich kenne alle Formen der Sprache, aber vocal Fähigkeit war glitched und reparierte nie." Sam responded.

"I know all forms of language, but vocal ability was glitched and never repaired," came the translation, this time translating German.

"Do you mind if I help you up? You're going to need a lot of help to get back to normal." Roll asked.

"Eso sería muy bueno. Gracias," the robot responded, staring blankly at the ceiling with its one eye.

"That would be very kind. Thank you," the translator translated, from Spanish again.

Roll walked over to the robot and tried to lift it, and barely managed to, even being a robot. When she did though, the left arm portion of the armor collapsed and fell off, revealing a stump where an arm would be. Roll didn't notice, and scanned for Dr. Light's current position. He had asked her to do the yellow orb experiment while he was away for a moment.

She quickly discovered that Dr. Light was nowhere in the vicinity of the house, so she sighed and began to drag the robot into her room. As she dragged it through the hallways, Tango ran in-between her legs, and Rush crashed into her, knocking both Sam and her onto the ground.

She sighed and picked Sam up again, grabbing his only arm and placing it around her shoulder.

"Questo posto è stupefacente.." Sam remarked, the translation coming as "This place is amazing."

"Thanks," she said, smiling as she finally reached her room and dragged Sam in there. She lifted it onto the charger/bed, and it looked around with its one eye again.

"Perchè qui?" it asked, the translation coming as "Why here?"

"It's a lot more comfortable than the lab," she said, smiling.