Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, blah, blah, blah. You've heard this sht before.
But I do own this story.
A Wily tale, 6 Years later.
Part 4
Days passed and nothing was every found of this mysterious red robot. But the police still held Jonny in custody just to be safe.
On the fifth day Ali-Su had managed to talk some of the guards to let her see her husband.
"Are you okay Jonny?" Ali-Su asked, looking in at the human.
Jonny turned to look at the echidna. He was unshaven and had 5 o' clock shadow real bad, had only one arm, had clearly been poorly treated by his captors, and was not unjustly aggravated by the look the guard standing next to Ali-Su. But he walked off not too slowly when he saw the murderous look the human was giving him.
"Ali-Su, have you had any luck finding anything on this robot?" Jonny asked, looking almost pleadingly at Ali-Su.
The yellow shook her head, and began to clean a bruise on Jonny's head with a clean handkerchief from her pocket. Jonny wished these bars weren't there. He wanted to hug his wife, one handed or not.
Ali-Su gave Jonny a concerned look. "Have the inmates been roughing you up?"
"They don't let me out of this cell. Some of Remington's men have been interrogating me." Jonny placed his left (and only) hand on Ali-Su's. "The worst was the time they took off my sunglasses and shined the light in my eyes."
Jonny winced at the memory of that. They wanted to get imaginary information out of him and had put the seventy-five watt bulb up to his face and pried his eyes open. The pain from his over sensitive eyes couldn't be described in words. It felt worse than having some old grizzled homeless guy tearing open a two inch cut with his filth encrusted fingers. (Kinda graphic but you get the point.)
Ali-Su did her best to kiss Jonny through the bars, she missed him a lot, but in her opinion the kids missed him a lot more. "Jack wanted me to tell you that he broke his little botonton and can't figure out what what's wrong. He wants you to help him when this all gets cleared up."
Jonny smiled. "Tell him I'd be glad to. Ali?"
Ali-Su folded the white cloth and placed it back in her pocket. "Hmm?"
"You don't... think I'd really make something like that, do you?" Jonny asked, worried what she might be thinking.
Ali-Su shook her head sharply, her dreadlocks almost whipping the sides of her head. "Of course not! We've been together for six years now." Ali then smiled warmly. "And I KNOW you wouldn't try what your grandpa did."
Jonny smiled, rubbing Ali-Su's cheek lovingly. "I'm glad. This is quickly becoming what it was like on Earth... Beatings, poor living conditions, little or no food..." Jonny then gave the echidna a very worried look. "I don't want to go back to that Ali..."
Before Ali-Su could respond the guard returned. "Your time is up."
"But I barely had five minutes with him!" Ali-Su protested.
The guard shrugged, smirking evilly. "I don't care. If I say yer time is up, yer time is up."
Ali-Su gritted her teeth, seriously annoyed at the nerve this guard had. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
"Take care Ali."
Ali-Su gave her husband a loving smile and a nod before walking away, closely followed by the obnoxious guard.
Jonny slumped against the wall. He was going to put whoever made that robot in a world of hurt when he gets out of this cell.
"Come on Rem, Jonny's not a bad guy..." Sonic goaded Chief Remington as he, the chief, and Knuckles walked back" And it's been nearly a week since that robot attacked."
"And it's not like you really have anything on him." Knuckles said. "Someone could've reprogrammed the thing."
"Maybe so, but he's the best lead we have at the moment. And I can't just let hi-" Remington stopped as they turned the corner.
The streets were devoid of all natural life, but that's not why Remington stopped. Maintenance robots, Construction robots, Servant drones, just about every kind of mindless drone in the city had stopped in its tracks. They stood as if frozen in time, in whatever task they had been performing at the time. Needless to say, it was eerie.
"Um... what's wrong with all the drones?" King Sonic asked, not sure exactly how to approach this sort of thing. He was used to destroying bots, not worrying about their health.
Knuckles tapped one of the motionless robots on the head and it fell over, utterly lifeless. "It's like they all short circuited..."
Sonic and Remington checked on a few other worker robots, all of them were just as catatonic as the first.
Sonic scratched his head "What could've done this? An EMP?" (Electro Magnetic Pulse)
Remington shook his head and pointed to the intersection. "If that was the case then the street lights and everything else wouldn't be working..."
The trio stood for a second assessing the situation for a few moments, until an unusual humming noise met their ears. They looked up to see a small skull shaped craft, like a scaled down version of the Skulker. But where the Skulker could seat up to six people comfortably, this vehicle could obviously only fit one person due to its size.
The hatch on top of the small skull shaped craft opened and a old man, about in his early sixties, stood up. The gaze he cast down at the trio was made all the more creepy by the sinister smile on his face. This old man appeared at first glance to be an Overlander, but Sonic quickly saw from the old man's fingers he clearly wasn't. The old guy was going bald, but the pale grey hair that was on the sides of his head stuck out, making him kinda look like a coconut tree with a bald spot. He had a bushy mustache, white lab coat, red tie, black slacks, and he had a skull on his belt buckle.
"Who are you?" Remington shouted up at the stranger in the familiar style craft.
"Vho am I? I am the great Dr. Wily!" The old man spouted in a thick German accent. "The soon to be ruler of this vurld!" The revealed elder Wily then let out a long demented laugh.
'And I thought 'Toine had an annoying accent...' Sonic thought.
"I don't think so!" Knuckles shouted up to the mad scientist.
The elder Wily laughed as if a small child had threatened him. "I don't care. Now, Elite masters! Zero! Come to your master!" Dr. Wily called out, snapping his fingers.
The first robot that appeared was Zero, he burst through a solid concrete wall like it was nothing. The dust that surrounded him made him seem like a monster emerging from his lair, and the sadistic look on his face only made this appear more so. Zero made an intimidating glare at Knuckles and the others before standing just below Dr. Wily's mini Skulker.
A gold and blue robot wielding a long spear ran across the street from a nearby alley. Slashing parked cars and trees up like paper until he came to a stop just behind Zero and stuck his spear in the ground and leaned on it. Dr. Wily had named him Enker.
Another robot followed Enker, stopping next to the spear wielding Elite master. He was purple with orange details and had a curved blade attached to his helmet. He had two blasters attached to his wrists and two launchers in his chest. The group knew he was going to be a hard case. He was known as Ballade.
A red robot somewhat resembling Knight man rammed into a car, knocking it across the street and into a building. He had orange details and spikes around his wrists and on his shoulders and knees. His head had a mohawk made to look circular saw, making him look more dangerous than all the Elite masters. His name was Punk.
A small lime green and yellow robot bounced down from one of the roof tops on a cross between a jack hammer and a pogo stick, making huge holes in the street. His name was Quint.
The last robot was gold with a flowing black cape, making him look very regal. He also carried a large gold tower shield and an executioner's axe that glistened in the sun, both he and his weapons itched for battle. He was King.
Knuckles cracked his neck and knuckles in preparation for this fight. It had been a long while since he had fought, what with the Legion worrying more about themselves and the Dingoes going back to Downunda. He still sparred with people occasionally but that was mostly only promotional stuff, the Guardian hoped he wasn't rusty.
"This isn't going to be easy..." Sonic took a deep breath, "Remington, of light of the situation, I want you to call the jail and tell them to release Jonny. We're going to need all the help we can get."
"Gladly." The chief of police said taking out a cell phone, 'The bureaucrats are going to eat me alive for this...'
But before the brown echidna could press a single button Ballade shot it out his hand with a well placed shot from one of his wrist mounted plasma blasters. Remington looked down at the molten pieces of red plastic and bits of metal that was once his cell phone, very aggravated because he only had three more payments on the thing.
"These Elite Masters are superior to my old Robot masters, and even Bass wasn't match Zero!" Dr. Wily smiled widely, delighting in boasting to the world about his achievements.
"Bass? You mean that black robot that was like that blue robot you kept losing to?" Sonic smirked, remembering the video files Jonny kept back at Wily tower. Sonic and Knuckles both now clearly see why Jonny was so conflicted about his grandfather, he WAS a nut.
Wily sneered at the mention of his old enemy. "Yes, the traitorous vetch is now a pile of scrap in my lab. Vaiting to be recycled!" The elder Wily laughed. "And soon, I'll take this vurld and make it my own. Just like little Jonny should have done."
"Oh no you're not Doc!" A gruff voice said. The group whipped their heads around to see who said that.
Guts man, Skull man, Shadow man, and Yamato man stood behind the former Freedom fighters. Each eager to put these enemy bots in their place.
To be continued...
A/N: This Isn't the REAL Zero, it's an unperfected prototype to the Zero we all know and love to see whoop Maverick ass.
Also; Ballade, Quint, Enker, and Punk only appeared in the Gameboy series of Mega man games. So it's no big deal if you don't recognize them. Thanks to the Mega man Mush website for the info on these guys.