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 5
Dr. Wily stared down at the four Robot masters. "Vas this? Recreations of my old Robot masters? Then my little grandson is alive. Come to me my creations, Ve shall bring this backwards vurld to its knees!"
"No going doc, we like our current boss." Guts man said, showing off his nonexistent muscles.
"And we like what we do." Yamato man said defiantly, standing proudly with his spear at his side.
"At least we're not puppets like those hunks of scrap." Skull man said, narrowing his red eyes and pointing his Skull Cannon at the Elite Masters.
The Elite masters snarled and glared at the Robot masters, but Zero only let out a faint snort.
Dr. Wily snarled. "Then prepare to become scrap! You vill wish you were infected by my virus and become like these statuesque drones! Ballade, Enker, Punk, destroy them!"
"Yes doctor!" The Elite masters spoke in unison as they rushed the four Robot masters.
Punk began to grapple with Guts man, both using the sheer brute force of their arms to try to overpower the other. Neither seemed to gain nor get any ground, both seemed evenly matched. Ballade was shooting his Ballade Cracker missiles at Skull man, but each attack was blocked by the Skull Barrier. Skullie had little time to counter attack, he had to spend most of his focus on holding up the barrier. Enker was using his Mirror Buster spear to duel with Yamato man's own spear. While Enker was much more agile than Yamato man, the samurai robot was much heavier and stronger. Making him difficult to trip or injure.
King meanwhile was watching the battle field intensely. But then he noticed something... Shadow man was no where to be seen. King began to scan the battle field with his powerful optics, the ninja was no where to be seen. The Regal elite taped the smaller Quint on the shoulder.
"Shadow man's not here, take a look from the air using your Sakugarne." King commanded, his black cape ruffling behind him from a slight breeze that had picked up.
Quint hated taking orders from King, or anyone for that matter (save Wily), but he complied. Sakugarne, Quint's auger-tipped pogo stick seemed to sink closer to the ground for a brief second, the catapulted up into the air forty-so feet into the air then came back down making a huge crater in the street.
"Well?" The golden robot asked, none too pleasantly.
"I didn't see nuttin." Quint spat. He might've been the weakest of the Elites but he had the biggest mouth. In truth the other Elites respected the semi-intelligent Sakugarne more than the Mega man copy, but not by much.
King scowled at the small green and yellow robot, he would've crushed the arrogant little copy then and there if Wily hadn't specifically told him not to. That and Punk and Quint had an unusual relationship. Punk would defend the little booger for the simple reason that he wanted to be the only one to beat the little snot. And not even King wanted to mess with an angered Punk.
Both of them looked over at Zero, who was watching the battle intensely with a sadistic grin. It was clear to see he was itching to fight, he was just waiting for the word from his master. Both of the Elites shivered at the thought of having to someday fight that monstrosity.
Meanwhile Sonic, Knuckles, and Chief Remington were held up in a dead end alley, watching the fight intensely.
"So ol' chrome dome used a computer virus on these bots." Sonic said as he poked a small Metool, it was strange not to see the little hard hatted robot pull into it's helmet like they where notorious for doing when scared.
"The question is how they were all infected." Remington said thoughtfully. "They aren't connected to each other, someone would've noticed if someone inserted a disk into each one and I personally doubt they'd allow someone to do that. What's the carrier?"
"I'm more interested in that red robot the old guy has." Knuckles said. "It far exceeds anything I saw old Robotnik made."
"Okay Rem, here." Sonic said, tossing the brown echidna his personal cell phone. "Dial fast man, because these guys mean business. And when their done they'll come for us."
Remington needed no more goading, he contacted the EPD and began to give the receptionist a stern talking to. "I don't care about procedures, let him out! We've engaged the real suspect and he's got us cornered in an alley!" Remington nearly had a heart attack as a stray blast from one of Ballade's wrist mounted cannons hit the wall just above the Chief's head. "Just hurry up and send him to the corner of Fifth and Main!"
Knuckles looked over at Zero, "Hard to believe that balding creep's not using him. Instead he's just toying with the Robot masters using these guys."
Sonic shook his head. "This old guy's just like Robotnik. Cocky, arrogant, too sure of himself to even consider failure."
Knuckles smirked. "Well isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?"
Knuckles only got a snort from Sonic as a response.
"I gotta admit... Yer tough..." Guts man grunted, still trying to match his might against that of Punk.
"I could say the same for you ol' timer." Punk responded. He was quickly growing more and more agitated by how well his opponent was doing against him, so he did what he always did in this sort of situation. He played dirty.
Punk suddenly drew his head back and slammed his bladed mohawk into Guts man's face. The construction robot let out a loud growl and broke his hold, staggering back a few steps. After a quick check he found that he had only superficial damage to his face. Some of the synthetic 'skin' that covered his face was torn and hung like a rag, reminding everyone that he was in truth a machine.
Punk then cracked his knuckles and did something that surprised both him and the Mobians, the other Robot masters where too preoccupied with Enker and Ballade to notice though... Punk's spiked shoulders reconfigured themselves and moved down, covering his body like a shell. The spikes from his shoulders, wrists and knees rotated outward. Combined with his blade-like mohawk he now like a giant buzz saw.
Guts man gulped feeling a slight sense of dread, but took up a defensive stance. 'This ain't gonna be pretty... Then again neither is he.' He thought.
At the last second Guts man jumped to the right, and Punk ended up going right between Ballade and Skull man's little fire fight. Punk was slammed with barrages of plasma blasts and Skull shots. Punk surprised everyone when he transformed back into his humanoid mode. He was unscathed, but he was incomprehensively pissed. He glared over at Ballade who merely glared flatly back, seemingly unmoved by his unexpected attack Punk's person or his glare.
"When this is over I'm going to break you into little bits Ballade!" Punk threatened loudly, shoving a finger in the purple robot's direction.
The other Elites chuckled at Ballade, they knew Punk always came through with his threats. Quint knew this more than others but he was just glad to see him picking on someone else.
Ballade was suddenly decked in the face, knocking him backwards. The Elite shook his head to rid himself of his disorientation only to receive a kick to the face from Skull man's boot like foot.
Ballade tried to fire off a shot but Skull man kicked his hand away at the last second. Skull then kicked Ballade again, knocking him on his back then sprang on Ballade. He then began to pound the back of the Elite's head with his powerful fists.
Punk, furtherly annoyed from seeing his comrade being beaten by someone other than him, began to advance on Skull man. But the large spiked robot was grabbed from behind by Guts man's large hand and was thrown back into the side of a parked car.
"I'm not done with you yet Punk!" Guts man cried, barely managing to dodge the sudden charge from Punk.
"Looks like that red spiky robot's got your signature move blue." Knuckles said.
"That just means he has good taste." Sonic smirked.
Remington took out his tazer and looked at it, he nearly laughed. "Lot of good this thing will do here..."
"You never know. It might help." Sonic said.
Remington shook his head. "This thing hasn't been recharged in three years. And the batteries have a life of six months."
"Why didn't buy new ones?" Knuckles cried.
Remington smiled weakly. "I work a desk job now, I kept forgetting to do that."
Sonic looked over at Remington. "You get a hold of the jail?"
Remington nodded, tossing the King of Mobotropolis his cell phone back.
'Where is that cowardly ninja?' Yamato man thought as he parried a strike from Enker with his spear. 'One would think the head sensei of the Shadow school would have the bolts to fight like the rest of us.'
"You are a worthy opponent Yamato man..." Enker said as he backed off, preparing for another strike. "A pity I have to destroy you."
"Falling to an honorable foe like you would be more tolerable than falling to that monster your creator made." Yamato man said, motioning to Zero.
"On a personal level, I agree." Enker stated flatly. "A shame we're on opposite sides."
Enker had always disliked Bass because of his overly aggressive nature, and positively hated him because of the freedom he was granted because of his power yet never succeeded in defeating Mega man. Enker was even more disgusted by Zero, who seemed nothing more than a bloodthristy psychopath.
"How'd you get here Doc?" Guts man called up to the old man, punching Punk in the mid section. "Last I heard you where back on Earth, and very dead."
The old man reached into his lab coat. "Vhy that's simple, my dull witted friend, I used my grandson's invention the Planet-" Dr. Wily stopped when he realized that the device wasn't in his coat. "Vas this?"
Dr. Wily looked around franticly for the Planet Skipper inside his vehicle thinking he may have dropped it, but couldn't find it. When he looked up Dr. Wily saw the previously unaccounted for Shadow man standing on a roof top. Smiling slyly as he held the Planet Skipper in his hand like a trophy.
Wily's face contorted in both terror and hate, he glared down at his robots and pointed at the ninja. "Zero! Destroy him and reclaim my device!"
In an instant the red robot was off...
To be continued...