MegaMan Generation, Chapter 4: Out of Body Experience
"What are you doing?" The green and blue Metool peeked out from under the tabletop, looking at Toshiro. It had been two months since his activation, and Dr. Light insisted that Dou visit his creator, both for development and so that he could do work on Blues uninterrupted. Dr. Light liked having Dou around, and it had helped his project a great deal, but he wanted to make sure Dou knew who his real creator was.
"Hmm? Oh, hey, Dou. I'm working on the Atomizer Prototype…" Toshiro looked like a mess. He had dark circles under his eyes, and the neighboring closet looked like a technological mess. Toshiro was working on the final component for a project he called the Atomizer Chamber, a tiny room built to disassemble a person's molecules and bring them to the chamber, or send them from the chamber to a different location. This model was heavily amplified so it could teleport anywhere within the Tokyo city limits without a satellite, no matter what the weather was like. He'd said that when Dou's final body was complete, he hoped to have a more compact unit that would allow global teleportation, wearable for humans, and built-in for robots. Of course, he was working too hard, as usual. He often worked into the early morning, and his mother simply didn't care. Since his father was always at work until the morning, he was never there to send Toshiro to bed.
"You know, you should get to sleep...You don't take very good care of yourself." Dou was somewhat worried about his creator. He had taken readings on Toshiro, and knew that he wasn't in peak shape. Right now, he was extremely tired, but seemed to be preparing for another all-nighter. Dou was afraid he'd collapse from exhaustion, but then he stopped and closed it up.
"It's okay Dou…I've finished it anyway…we can test it tomorrow." With that, Toshiro promptly fell out of the chair, asleep before he hit the ground. Dou was used to this, and wondered if all children were like this. An hour passed, and Dou's internal receiver clicked on, Blues at the other end.
"Hey, Dou…how are things going with the kid?" Blues could be heard on the other end, obviously impatient. Dr. Light and Dr. Wily must have gone to sleep for the night, and Blues was even easier to bore than Dou was.
"Good, he's finally asleep. We get to test his teleporting device tomorrow, so that should be interesting…don't tell Dr. Light or Dr. Wily about it yet, though, okay? He wants it to be PERFECT when he finally reveals it.
"No problem…hey, Dr. Light and Dr. Wily are finally going to build me a body! I've seen the schematics. I'll look human!" Dou was very happy for Blues. Toshiro had made similar plans as well, but was waiting for the teleportation module for his body to be finished first. Dou was in no real hurry, though.
"That's great! Mine might take a little longer, but Toshiro plans to make one for me, too!"
"Yeah, but I found something in Wily's files that worries me…" Dou listened up. Blues sounded serious…like when something really concerned him.
"What?"
"Well, Dr. Wily's files have a major flaw in them. It seems like it'd be extremely easy to hack into the prototype AI…the one he THINKS we are using, as well as the AI planned for use in future semi-sentient DRN models." Dou was worried now too…
"…You mean all the robots that have Wily code will be susceptible?"
"Yeah…I don't know if I should tell Dr. Light or not. If I do, he might not believe me, and Wily will find out about the problem and want to patch us. Once he scans us, Wily will know that we don't use his AI components." Dou thought for a moment.
"So we know, but we can't do anything about it, or else Wily might know that years of work were flushed down the tubes…Poor Wily…" The robots agreed not to say anything unless the issue came up.
The next morning, Dou was to go back to the lab. They had to hurry up and test the teleporter. After Toshiro got everything hooked up, he placed a chunk of metal into the teleporter, after scanning its surface with a computer.
"This is it, Dou…I'll teleport it only five feet, and we'll scan it after it reappears to see if it is exactly the same…" With that, he puts it on the pad and activates the teleporter. A streak of grey light could be seen shooting up off the pad, and it came back down five feet away, reassembling into the same mass of metal. Toshiro held his breath as the results appears on the screen.
"100 match." Dou cheered and before Toshiro could stop him, he'd reset the integration point, and teleported himself away. Immediately he got a message from Dou, saying he'd arrived at Dr. Light's lab safely, and Toshiro smiled, happy. What Dou didn't tell him was that he'd teleported in on Dr. Light, who had woken up early to work on Blues' body. Needless to say, Dr. Light was shocked to see a green beam of energy zoom down from the ceiling, and materialize into the green and blue Metool. Dr. Light looked at Dou, stunned.
"Hey, Doc! Uh…just a type of transportation that Toshiro is working on…pay no mind, okay? Please don't tell Wily, either. He doesn't want it leaked out yet or anything." Dou knew that if Toshiro found out that Dr. Light knew, he wouldn't get angry, that wasn't in his character, but he might get upset. That was even worse. Dr. Light smiled and nodded. He knew that good technology couldn't be rushed, but he noted the odd accomplishment in his mind as he led Dou to a room…where Blues stood. However, Blues wasn't in his Metool body.
Blues was now in a humanoid form, and appeared to be in his early teens. He wore a grey jumpsuit with red boots, gloves, and belt. Dr. Light had also just given him a yellow scarf as a gift, which Blues had accepted happily. He had it on already, and it looked cool. His hair was black with a red hue, and his eyes were a rusty reddish-brown. He smiled at the Metool, who was frozen, impressed.
"…Wow…Blues…that looks amazing!" Blues smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"Now I can do a LOT more. I can finally read stuff on the upper shelves in the library." Blues smiled, and Dou would smile back, if his mouth could move into that position. Dou hoped that his body would be completed soon as well. With the teleportation problem solved, he knew Toshiro would start quick, as soon as possible, especially once he knew Dr. Light had finished Blues' body. Little did he know that Toshiro was already hard at work, and had been for a while. Midway through the day, Toshiro came over, and it seemed that Dr. Light was expecting him, and then Dr. Light started showing him Blues' body. Blues was well aware that Toshiro was partially responsible for his existence, one of his three co-creators, but was expecting him to be…well…older. After a few hours of talking, Toshiro stood up and looked toward Dou, smiling.
"Well, we wouldn't want to leave Dou out, here, so I have a little surprise for him…" He pressed a button, and a blue and green body beamed in. The Body looked like that of a young teen, like Blues, with brown hair and green eyes. Dou smiled, knowing exactly what was going on, as this body looked just like he wanted his body to look like. After a few moments, and the reanimation of a stunned and gaping Dr. Light, Dou was transferred to the new body, and opened his new eyes for the first time.
"…I HAVE HANDS!" Dou exclaimed, happily going over his body's new capabilities. Needless to say, Dr. Wily was surprised when he came back, and found two humanoid robots instead of one, as well as an eight-year-old boy. Dr. Light and Dr. Wily were to follow their original plans, Dr. Light being in charge of 001 and 002, and Dr. Wily taking care of 003-008, still unaware that his code hadn't been used in Dou or Blues, and that Dr. Light had no plans to use it in 001 or 002.. Dou wanted kid siblings as well, but knew that Toshiro wasn't exactly a rich child, and the only reason he could get the parts he did was because his father owned a scrap yard which the government sometimes fed good titanium and plastics into. Of course, Dou found his body durable, and he even looked remarkably humanoid, even right down to his skin. It took all of two years of scavenging to find the perfect components for Dou's new body, and he knew it. That line of thought was interrupted when the doorbell rang. The doctors had been expecting a prominent Russian scientist, who was showing progress in building his own sentient robots, and his daughter. Dr. Cossack and Kalinka both came into the room, immediately being shown Blues and Dou. Kalinka seemed pretty surprised, though Dr. Cossack was well aware of the situation. Dr. Light had informed them of the fact that Dr. Wily wasn't really responsible for the AI after Dr. Cossack had trouble with adapting Wily's work, but a child like Kalinka was. The Cossacks decided that this boy was him, and this was confirmed when they spoke to Dr. Light after Wily left again. The nine-year-old Kalinka was becoming fairly skilled in her own right, Dr. Light discovered, when she introduced him to her robotic pet, a robot named Beat, built after she saw Eddie. Dou played with Beat for a while, while Blues watched, and Kalinka talked with Toshiro.
"So…Dr. Light tells us that you were responsible for part of the AI, as well as most of Dou's programming and his new body…is that true?" Kalinka looked at the boy, surprised that he was a year younger than she was.
"Yeah, I got the idea from seeing Eddie's debut…hey…were you there? I bumped into a girl wearing clothes like yours, but I was in a hurry. I THINK I apologized in Russian…I was in a bit of a hurry, so I'm not sure." Kalinka blinked, realizing that he was the one who had run into her two years before.
"Yep, that's me! I got the idea for beat from Eddie's debut, too. I don't have Mom anymore, so sometimes I get lonely when Dad is busy." Toshiro seemed sympathetic.
"Sorry to hear that. My mom is alive, but Dad divorced her when she was convicted of negligence a month ago. She left me stranded in Kyoto after we'd visited her relatives. No big loss, though. She just wanted me to earn money for her to spend anyway." Kalinka seemed shocked, like she'd never imagined a mother being capable of such a thing. She decided it was her stereotype of a mother, and left it at that. She decided to brighten up the conversation.
"Well, I guess we have some things in common then…it's odd that no other Light Syndrome people have been born since us…maybe it only happens a couple times a generation or something…" After Kalinka spoke, Toshiro thought for a moment.
"Yeah, well, part of it is detection. If it isn't detected, the baby usually can't survive childbirth. I heard that your dad, Dr. Light, and Dr. Wily were born by C-section for other reasons and lived because of that." Toshiro and Kalinka talked for a while, about the mechanics of their respective creations, programming, and other things, until it was time to go. Everyone said their goodbyes, and was shocked when Dou happily jumped over to his creator, touched his shoulder, and they vanished in two beams of light.
"Teleportation…" Kalinka breathed. She held Dou's old Metool body, the last event cementing that day in her head for the rest of her life.