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 13
Somehow, Knuckles managed to time a punch just right and hit Quint straight in the face. Effectively knocking the green robot off Sakugarne, who bounced once more into the air then landed with a crash as the pogo stick's eyes closed and shut down. Quint meanwhile cowered on the ground before the Guardian, who was grinning and cracking his knuckles.
"Not so tough without your little toy are ya?" Knuckles said coldly as he began to advance on Quint, who was crawling backwards away from the echidna.
Quint was not known as a brave robot, heck he wasn't even known as a powerful robot. No one even knew why Dr. Wily kept him as an Elite master instead of just junking the pathetic little loser.
Quint continued to back away until he hit a wall of a building. Knowing it was either begging for mercy or go down fighting, Quint growled as he pointed his buster cannon at the echidna. "I'll show you who's tough!"
Quint leapt up with every intention of blasting the echidna to swiss cheese with his seldom used buster cannon. Knuckles however had a better idea. The Guardian drove his fist with all his might into Quint's arm weapon. Much to Quint's surprise, the echidna's fist actually shattered the Elite master's mechanical arm up to the elbow.
"Had enough short stack?" Knuckles said as he grinned down at the Elite master who was writhing in fear.
Quint cowered under the Guardian's shadow, he had to think of something fast if he was going to get away... He decided to pull a desperation move.
"Hey what's that!" Quint screamed in fake terror as he pointed behind Knuckles. Knux, either out of gullibility or reflex, looked behind him. When Knuckles looked back after seeing nothing he found that Quint had grabbed Sakugarne and was making a break for it.
Knuckles sighed. "That wore me out more than I thought... Besides I don't think he'll be back anytime soon."
"You little blue pest! I'm going to cut you to pieces so small, they'll have to bury you in a match box!" Punk screamed as he once again transformed in his buzzsaw form and began to chase after the blue hedgehog.
"Come get me you copy cat!" Sonic called to the red Elite as he sped off.
Punk, not being one for thought of any kind, Punk only followed Sonic as he sped after him in his saw mode. Punk was seething in short sighted rage and should've been looking where Sonic was leading him. Sonic made a quick turn and ran in front of Ballade. Ballade had no time to react as Punk cut him in half the long way.
Punk stopped, changed back to his normal mode, and looked back at his fallen comrade. If he had been mad before, he was furious now. "I'm going to enjoy rending the flesh from your bones!"
Sonic waved a finger at Punk as if he was scolding a child and gave the Elite a wide smirk. "If you think that's bad, look out behind you..."
Punk looked behind him, just in time to catch two of Ballade's missiles slammed into his stomach and was blown back into a brick wall. Smoke fumed from the cracks in Punk's armor as the red titan fell lifeless to the ground. Ironic that Ballade's last defense mechanism in case of his death would cause the death of the one Elite Ballade so hated.
Sonic plunked down in the street. "I remember when that used to be no problem for me. Too many feasts at the castle..." Sonic said.
Enker's thrusts and strikes seemed to be getting more and more powerful with each parry Jonny made. 'My left arm is starting to feel like jelly...' Jonny thought. 'It's about time to end this...'
Enker was thinking more or less the same thing and leapt into the air, his spear pointed straight down in the direction of Jonny's heart.
However, with one quick motion of his arm Jonny dropped the spear and switched weapons. A drill like projectile shot from Jonny's arm and hit square in Enker's chest knocking him back in mid-air. Enker landed hard on the ground, only then did he see what Jonny had done. The projectile had actually burrowed into the Elite's chest and Enker could clearly see a round orange orb blinking on his chest.
"Wha-What is this thing?" Enker screamed as he tried to pull the blinking object out of his chest.
"It's called a Crash bomb, courtesy of Crash man. And if I where you I wouldn't touch it if I where you." Jonny smirked evilly, loving the paranoid look on his enemy's face as Enker stared at the bomb. "It can be set on a timer or go off by remote... Take a guess which one you got beeping in your chest..."
"If I'm going down you're coming with me!" Enker growled as he leapt at Jonny.
Enker never got there. In truth Jonny had fired a bomb with a timer of about fifteen seconds. Telling Enker all that was just a way of taking up time. Enker exploded in mid air sending blue, black, and gold parts in all directions.
Jonny sighed a breath of relief. "That was intense. And Zero's going to be all the more difficult."
Mega man's full charged blast knocked King's axe out of his grasp. Actually, most of King's arm went with it. King backed away from the blue bomber. He had been programmed with so much data on Mega man, but now that he had actually seen what the little robot could do, and that he was weaponless, King for the first time knew fear.
"Master Wily! Help me" King called back at Dr. Wily, fear and desperation in his voice.
Dr. Wily however was less than supportive mood. "King... You like the other Elites... are just pawns. Zero is the only thing I need." Dr. Wily raised a small remote control and pointed it at the regal robot.
"M-Master Wily! What are you doing?" King stammered, silently praying that Dr. Wily wasn't going to do what he thought he was.
Dr. Wily pressed a button on the remote and King began to glow like a great flame. Then with a loud 'bang' exploded.
Mega man watched in horror as King self destructed. "Wily... You are the cruelest person I know... This time, I'm making sure you face justice!"
"Yamahatze!" Tengu man yelled again as he fanned his tri-blade again at Zero, sending another orb of concentrated air at the red robot.
Zero wasn't going to be hurt again by that attack. The blond robot jumped over the sphere of wind, and landed on Tengu man's shoulders. Tengu man attempted to swat the proto-reploid off him with his tri-blade but Zero caught it by the center blade and yanked on it, breaking the aerial Robot master's arm off at the shoulder. Tengu man wailed in pain and fell over holding the hole where his arm had been.
Zero then began to slash at the other Robot masters with Tengu man's arm, razor sharp tri-blade and all. Turbo man caught the blade in the chest, wires and chunks of green metal flew to the streets as he fell to his knees trying to compensate for the power cord that Zero had just severed.
Knight man swung his mace downward at Zero, hoping to crush his head in one shot. But Zero sidestepped the heavy iron ball and punched the blue armored robot in the head sending Knight man backwards and downwards into the hard concrete. Knight man tried to get up but found that Zero's one blow had damaged his internal balance stabilizers, as soon as Knight man got to his feet he fell again. Knight man was going to have to find a substitute for balance if he was going to get back in this fight.
Zero then threw Tengu man's arm full force at Search man, which became buried in the duo headed robot's chest. Both of Search man's heads made a sound that sounded like old crank vetrola winding down as the security robot fell like a piece of timber.
Pharaoh man managed to hit Zero in the back with a wave of super heated plasma, knocking Zero to the ground. Zero tried to get up but he was hit by another wave of plasma, slightly weaker than the first. The Egyptian robot continued to slam the highly advanced robot with waves of energy, but each time Zero was able to get up a little more. Not long afterwards Pharaoh man stopped firing and fell over, having completely depleted his energy reserves after such repetitive use of his Pharaoh shot attack.
Zero got up and looked at the downed Robot masters and grinned at the sight of destruction. Zero cracked his knuckles and turned to Dr. Wily, awaiting new orders.
Ali-Su, Sally, and Julie-Su sat in the Hotel lobby, they had been watching the news for the past few minutes and had caught the reports as they came in.
"Looks like everyone's safely off the island and in Mobotropolis." Sally said.
"I just hope that people don't think worse of Jonny because of this... He has enough bad publicity." Ali-Su said.
"What do you mean?" Julie-Su asked. "I thought things were going well." Sally likewise gave the yellow echidna an odd look but decided to let Ali-Su explain than just rephrase Julie-Su's question.
Ali-Su looked at the former Legionnaire and the Queen Mobotropolis, somewhat surprised that neither Julie-Su or Sally had been told of the recent happenings at Down Town. "You mean no one's told you?"
"Told me what?" Sally asked.
Ali-Su snorted at the memory of these events. "Some bad eggs for Mobotropolis come by every so often and make trouble for the residents. That and they leave some pretty hurtful graffiti before they take off..."
Julie-Su raised an eyebrow. "How could graffiti be hurtful to someone like Jonny?"
Ali-Su looked at them both and sighed. "This just between you two and me, Jonny's reputation as a nice guy doesn't seem to stretch beyond Down Town's city limits for some reason and I'd hate to have you guys become targeted by these guys."
Both Sally and Julie-Su nodded.
Ali-Su looked down at the floor, she never liked to talk about this sort of thing... "Sometimes he asks me if I hate him for spending so much time in that lab of his. Of course I say no everytime, but I know that all the Anti-tech rallies and these vandals and the debates over whether or not his technologies are right... They get to him."
Julie-Su felt bad for what Ali-Su had gone through. She had the job as a mother, hotel manager, wife, and to some extent a counselor. Since Jonny looked like an Overlander it was easy to create rumors about him, but the fact that he dealed in robotics made such rumors seem even more plausible. Julie-Su sat next to the yellow and placed her arm around Ali-Su in an effort to comfort her. "What exactly do these low-lives write?"
Ali-Su shuddered, she hated to even say these things aloud. "They've spray painted 'Neo Robotropolis' over the 'Welcome to Down town' sign multiple times. They've written things like 'Overlander get out' and draw pictures of him with Robotnik's mustache... these things hurt him. All my husband wants is to help people and this is how he gets treated?
Julie-Su and Sally looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Some people..." Julie-Su snorted, she had a low tolerance for such behavior. It took her forever for people to stop staring at her because she still had her Legionnaire implants. But she still caught some crap once in a while from some insensitive jerk.
Sally placed a hand on Ali-Su's shoulder, causing the echidna to look over at Sally. "Ali... I'll look into it. If you can send me pictures of these hoodlums I'll have St. John look into it. This kind of behavior is unacceptable against someone who helped rid this world of Robotnik."
"Thanks Sally." Ali-Su smiled, then turned to face Sally. "Sally, would you mind if I asked you a question?"
"Not at all Ali, what is it?" Sally said.
"Tell me, why didn't you leave when we sent the children to Mobotropolis?" Ali-Su asked.
Sally frowned, slightly annoyed by the question. "Why didn't you leave?"
Ali-Su sighed. "Because I wanted to be here to support Jonny. Just in case he needed me."
"Well that's the same reason I'm here." Julie-Su said. "Knuckles may be the Guardian, but that doesn't mean he can do things alone."
Ali-Su blinked. "How so?"
"I took martial art lessons from Shadow man when he came to the island a while back. His style's a lot more interesting than the self defense lessons the legion taught" Julie-Su winked at her friends as she ended that statement. "A girl can't be too careful ya know?"
"You too?" Sally said. "He's been teaching me since I lived in Wily tower, back when it was called Skull tower."
Ali-Su grinned. "Glad to see I wasn't his only student."
Sally and Julie-Su gave the yellow echidna surprised looks, they had never pegged Ali-Su as one for fighting of any kind.
To be continued...
A/N: I know this fight has been dragged out, but I swear this won't last much longer…