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 6
Jonny had a rude time being escorted out of the jail. He was just grabbed by one of the guards, given this things and shoved out like a unwanted house guest. He didn't even get time to put his arm back in.
"What's the deal?" He asked the guard as the gates closed behind him.
"You're not the perp, the real guy's in the industry district, wreaking the place." The guard said, quickly returning to his post.
This was all Jonny had to hear. After making sure everything was returned to him and his lab coat was on his back, Jonny reattached his arm. Letting out a brief yelp of pain as the arm's wiring attached to his nerves. After a quick test of his arm he then flipped open his cell phone.
"Treble... Come."
Shadow man was now fleeing for his life across the rooftops with Zero right behind him. Zero's right hand retracted into his arm, and began to fire erratic barrages of plasma blasts from his powerful Z-Buster. (A/N: It's not powerful compared to X's, but keep in mind X and the original Mega are on totally different levels. See the anime episode Mega X for reference.)
Shadow man was pulling out all of his tricks in dodging his pursuers blasts, even going so far as to drop caltrops on the ground, which had no effect on Zero at all. In an act desperation, as Shadow man leapt to the next roof top he spun around and unleashed a hail of Shadow Stars. Zero, undaunted, lazily swatted the shurikens away like flies.
It wasn't just Zero's power that truly worried Shadow man, it was his speed that made the normally cool as a cucumber ninja feel like he was about to bite the big one. Shadow man was known for being among the most agile of the Robot masters, but robot was easily as fast and skilled as he was. Maybe even more so.
Shadow man's first mistake was his fatal one. Some ignorant maintenance workers had spilled some oil on one of the roofs while working on the air conditioners and had neglected to clean it up. Shadow man was more preoccupied with Zero to pay attention to WHAT he running on and slipped, slamming into the hard padlocked metal door that led to the stairwell. Zero, who was much more cautious, landed next to the ninja and grabbed Shadow man by the leg and threw the ninja across the roof, Shadow man smashed into the small brick railing that bordered the roof.
Zero grinned and gave a short cackle as he reached for the device the ninja held in his hand.
"Hey red!" Zero looked up in time to catch a plasma blast to the face. This blast did two things; it caused him to drop shadow man, and it knocked him back across the roof and down to the streets. Shadow man looked back to see Jonny standing on a hovering Treble just off the side of the roof, his arm cannon still smoking from it's release of energy.
Shadow man scrambled to his feet and looked up to his creator. "Boss, what are you-"
"No time to talk." Jonny said quickly. "Get to the hotel and round up as many Robot masters as you can. I want to take this jerk down myself."
Shadow man nodded. "Be careful boss, this guy's worse than Skull man on a bad day."
"I'll keep that in mind." Jonny said, as Shadow man bolted towards the hotel, the Planet Skipper in tow.
The battle between the Elite master and the Robot masters raged on. Both sides seemed equally matched, but these Elites seemed tireless, and they were getting better with each attack.
Yamato man had inflicted some superficial damage to Enker's gold armor, who had done much more considerable injuries to Yamato man. The worst was the large gash on his chest Enker had made after the samurai had swung wide. Guts man had a busted left arm and his face was hanging from his head like an old dish rag. Skull man had the least damage, but he was covered in dust and was running short on cyber skulls. Punk and Ballade had sustained very little damage, although Ballade would admit that he could've stood for a good cleaning after this battle.
Dr. Wily smiled from his perch in his one person. His Elites may not have been as powerful as Zero, but they certainly more entertaining. When Zero fought the battles were always so short... Albert W. Wily jerked his head away from the battle below his as an all too familiar sound of rockets blazing towards him.
"Vell, vell... If it isn't my grandson..." Dr. Wily motioned to his Elites to stand down, and they did by taking they're place next to King and Quint. The Robot masters nursed their wounds and ran over to their creator and stood behind him. All three glaring at the Elites and Dr. Wily.
"Grandpa Albert?" Jonny exclaimed as he landed in the streets, his shocked look quickly faded to a look of annoyance. "I see you faked your demise again Grandpa, but tell me... How did you escape Skull Fortress before the reactor when critical?"
The old man gave his grandson a smug look. "Right to the point as always. Just before that blue dweeb tried to grab me, I ran into an elevator that took me deep underground. There I was far from harm of the explosion, with ample supplies I vaited all this time then dug my vay out using a specially designed team of digging robots."
Treble growled up at the old man, Treble could easily tell that his master was not pleased to see this old human.
"And this red robot... I've never seen anything like him..." Jonny said, a sense of intrigue in his voice.
Dr. Wily crossed his arms and grinned. "Ah, I knew you would see the glory of my ultimate creation, Zero."
Jonny's eyebrows nearly shot off his face. "You mean this robot is Project Zero?"
Dr. Wily let out a demented laugh at Jonny's surprise. "Indeed! His power has to be seen to be believed, and he's much more controllable than that traitorous Bass!" Dr. Wily spat after he spoke Bass's name. And the Elites wore a ruthless grin, they were all glad to know that Bass was gone.
"And why are you here grandpa?" Jonny crossed his arms in a fashion similar to his grandfather.
"To find you my heir, and to see what you've been up to these past six years." The evil would be dictator looked around at the drones and Robot masters that Jonny had made. "And I am very disappointed. From the looks of things you haven't done anything constructive!"
Jonny snorted. 'Still as self centered and egotistical as ever..' Jonny thought as he looked over to the alley.
"Hey Sonic, take care of this." Jonny tossed the hedgehog his lab coat, leaving him with just his black T shirt and his Bass cannon. "Guts man, Yamato man, Skull man, Treble... I want you to get in that alley and keep out of this fight. I only want you to interfere if those Elite masters get in the way."
The Robot masters nodded and got in the alley, all of them worried for their creator. The looks of aggression on their faces only proved this. They wanted to fight, they wanted to help their creator in this fight. But they respected his wishes and would not get in his way, for now.
"Vas this? My grandson has lost an arm?" Dr. Wily mused, smirking both out of his grandson's ingenuity and out of sarcasm, the same look he would give him back when he lived with the old man. "Although I could not say I would not have chosen a different arm as a replacement."
Jonny simply growled at his grandfather. He never gave him any credit in the past, he wasn't surprised that the old man wasn't giving even his own flesh and blood any kindness.
"Vas say you mien Enkel?" Dr. Wily asked, "Vould you consider rejoining me in my conquest of our vurld? After we crush this one that is..." (A/N: Enkel; German for grandson)
"Never gramps, I've grown to like it here!" Jonny cried defiantly up to his grandfather. "This is MY world, why don't you just go back home and stay there!"
The old man in the miniature Skulker snarled. "Then your choice is final mien Enkel? Very well... Zero!"
The pony-tailed robot answered his master's call by bursting though a nearby building's concrete wall like it was nothing. Zero silently looked up Wily, like a hunting dog waiting for his master to give his command to retrieve a downed fowl.
Wily smiled widely under his grey mustache. "Go ahead and fight him Zero, take your time and have fun. But don't kill him."
Zero smirked, let out a battle cry, and charged straight at Jonny. Jonny had little time to marvel at how fast this robot was, he knew he had to get serious. In an instant Jonny's right arm grew in size, matching in both size, shape, and strength of that of Guts man's own fist. Jonny drove this enormous gauntlet into Zero's face just as the red armored robot got close. Nothing. For a brief moment it seemed to Jonny like time stopped. He just stood there with his huge black fist in Zero's cheek, then he heard something. Was Zero... laughing?
The noise grew louder and Jonny's guess was right, Project Zero was laughing at him, or his attack, he wasn't completely sure which. Either way Jonny was stunned, he had hit Zero full force with Super arm, in the face no less, and it did NOTHING!
Zero saw his opportunity and with seemingly unreal relaxes, grabbed Jonny by the arm and tossed him over his shoulder into a solid brick wall. Jonny fell sprawled on the ground, he was dazed and slightly disoriented but he wasn't hurt too badly. Zero meanwhile just chuckled at seeing his foe on the ground in pain as he advanced slowly. Relishing the occasional soft groans of pain Jonny would emit.
Sonic, Treble, the Robot masters, and the echidnas stood in the alley, totally engrossed in watching the fight between Zero and Jonny.
"Um... Shouldn't we be helping him?" Knuckles asked.
"That robot's power is above anything our leader has seen..." Yamato man said, leaning on his spear. "And in my opinion, this guy's power has to be on par with the Wily Guardians young master Jonny took apart after Robotnik was banished to the Void..."
Treble growled, but was restrained by Guts man's remaining good hand. "The boss said he wanted to take this guy on by himself, so that's what we're gonna do... For now anyway."
The onlooker's thoughts were interrupted by a loud ringing sound coming from the lab coat Jonny had tossed to Sonic, who had it draped over his shoulder.
Sonic dug through the many pockets that lined the inside of Jonny's white coat and pulled out a small black cell phone and flipped it open.
"Jonny! Boss are you there?" The voice on the other end cried.
"He's... a little preoccupied. Who's this?" Sonic asked, trying to sound calm despite was happening just around the corner.
"It's Star man! We've got a problem here in Down Town!" The robot master turned musician franticly cried.
"Slow down man, what's the problem?" Sonic said, thinking this had to be the first time HE had said that phrase to anyone.
"Amy logged in to the 'net and it's like she's short circuited or something..." Sonic could tell from Star man's tone that his normally cool composure was gone, replaced with an almost helpless sounding one.
"You said she was using the 'net?" Sonic asked, sounding a little overly curious.
"Yeah, she plugged in to see about some of those upgrades this guy was offering on TV. Then she just froze like an old computer with today's video games."
"Upgrades? Who was offering them?" Sonic asked into the black cell phone.
"There was a TV commercial earlier today." The gold robot said. "The guy had a weird accent but he said he had created upgrades that could make any mechanical being stronger, faster, and more alive."
Sonic frowned. "What did this guy look like?"
"No one saw what he looked like. The only thing in the commercial was Jonny's logo." Star man sounded like he wasn't completely sure, but Star man never committed too much to anything. He WAS a dreamer after all. "Although I admit I think they got the color of the W wrong. It's supposed to be silver, not yellow."
"Thanks Star man, I'll tell Jonny about this. Just keep an eye on Amy for me okay?"
"Sure, just hurry. The sight of her eyes all static-y like that's creeping me out." Star man said as he hung up.
"Well what was that about?" Knuckles asked.
Sonic closed the phone and put it back in one of the pockets in Jonny's lab coat. "Looks like Jonny's grand dad used a upgrade ploy on the net. He posed as an announcer on the airwaves and told everyone that there were upgrades for all the Robains and drones on Mobius." Sonic stated, an unusual seriousness in his voice. "Then when they, or in the case of the drones their owners, plugged in to the net they must've infected with this virus."
Knuckles picked up the Metool he had poked at earlier, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the little thing. Both of his daughters absolutely adored these little robots, as did Julie-Su. And all three of them kept bugging him to buy one for them. But like most Mobians he still had some issues with keeping robots of any kind.
"I don't understand, why would he make a virus that would make robots and Robains become inert." Remington asked. "And how do we go about fixing them?"
"Jonny would know, but he seems a tad preoccupied." Sonic said as they all returned their attention to the fight.
Zero lifted Jonny up drove his own fist into Jonny's unprotected abdomen, if anyone had seen him at that moment they would've claimed the human's eyes jumped out of his skull for a second. Jonny fell limp to the ground, coughing up a small amount of blood as he held his aching stomach. Zero kicked the human in the side, knocking into the air for a good three feet, then the Robot planted his boot on Jonny's chest.
Zero tore the sunglasses from Jonny's face. He reveled in the sound of Jonny growling in pain and him squirming under his foot trying futilely to escape. Zero then shoved his Z-Buster in Jonny's face, the light that shone in the human's eyes made Jonny scream in agony. The light from the robot's arm cannon shown down on Jonny's face with increasing intensity, making Jonny scream louder and louder, while Zero's vicious grin grew and grew. He enjoyed seeing his enemies writhe in pain, Zero found it intoxicating. But Zero wanted more.
Zero took his Z-Buster away from Jonny's face and grasped Jonny's arm, dug in with his heel, and began to hard pull on Jonny's right arm. Jonny's eyes were burning in pain from the light from Zero's buster cannon, but this felt even worse. There was a sickening stretching sound, like that of muscle and sinew beingstretched beyond their limits. The sound of Jonny's cries of unadulterated suffering echoed throughout the city.
To be continued...
A/N: Evil ain't I?