21XX A.D...
They all gathered outside of the Hunter Tower; Mega Man, Protoman, Roll, Rush, Dr. Light, X, Zero, Iris, Colonel, and Tengu Man. Dr. Wily sulked at a distance as the others said goodbye. "You sure you're gonna be okay in this era?" Bass asked Tengu Man.
The taller robot shrugged. "Sure. Now that I'm a Reploid, I don't really belong in the past anymore, and since I beat that Maverick Virus thing, the Hunters have taken me on, so it's not a big deal."
X and Rock gripped hands. "Well, see ya," Mega Man said with a grin.
X grinned. "I hope not."
Bass gave Zero one last brotherly embrace, then separated from the group a ways. "I guess we can't do anymore damage around this popsicle stand, so I say it's time to blow this joint."
With a quick set of commands in his teleporter, Bass summoned another vortex, now blue instead of purple. "Good guys, first," he remarked with a smirk. "This'll take you to Dr. Light's lab." Dr. Light, Rush, and Roll went through first, and Hadrian and Rock were about to follow, when Bass stopped them. "Oh, by the way. Check your closets when you get there. I left Cossack and Kalinka tied up in one of them. The two brothers smirked and nodded before leaping into the funnel of light. "Okay, Doc," Bass nodded to Wily. "Your turn."
"It's about bloody time you got to me!" Wily yelled angrily. "I created you! You should have put me above all the others! I ought to shut you!"
"Aw, shut up!" Bass interrupted as he pushed the old man in before he could continue. Finally he turned to the assembled Reploids. "See ya!" He said with a grin and a salute before he leapt in after his creator.
"Well," X stated. "I guess things are gonna return to normal around...waitasec!" X noticed that the warp had yet to close. In fact, it was beginning to draw the air around it into itself, like a vacuum.
"That can't be good," Zero agreed.
Suddenly the vacuum effect intensified, and Iris, by far the lightest of the group, was sent hurtling toward the warp. "Heeeeeey!" she cried out in surprise.
"Gotcha!" Zero quipped as he managed to grab one of her hands with both of his own. Zero was being anchored by X, who had one hand around his partner's waist and the other around a street light. Tengu Man and Colonel were far enough away to not be affected by the suction.
"Zero, I can't hold on!" Iris gasped a split second before her hand slipped out of his. With a scream, Iris literally flew backwards and into the warp.
"Iris!" Zero yelled as he wrenched X's arm from around his waist and leapt in after her.
X shook his head. "Man, I just know I'm gonna hate myself in the mornin'..." he muttered before he let go of the light fixture and allowed himself to be sucked in as well.
Before X realized it, he landed unceremoniously on the soft, damp surface of a grassy hill. He looked up to see that Zero and Iris had landed in the same area he had, and were already picking themselves up. The warp had, of course, disappeared by now. "What the heck was that all about?" Zero asked, annoyed.
"I have no idea," Iris, the more scientifically minded of the three, said. "Either Bass made a miscalculation when he opened the warp, or there was some kinda irregularity about it. Maybe those things aren't all that stable to begin with. There's just no way to be sure, though."
X was getting the lay of his surroundings and groaned when he saw the nondescript house they of which lawn they landed. Zero heard him and asked, "Hey, X. What's up?"
X turned to his companions. "We're in big trouble, guys. That's Dr. Light's lab. We're stuck in Rock's time period."
Zero, as was his habit when faced with a new problem, cursed.
20XX A.D....
The garage of Dr. Light's lab looked quite a bit different from what one might expect. In fact, it looked like the garage of a teenager who was obsessed with his car. A stack of tires were placed in one corner, one wall had many tools hanging on it. Along the other wall, by the door that lead into the rest of the house, in a nice wooden frame, hung the front page of a newspaper, now almost ten years old. The headline read Mega Man: Fighter for Everlasting Peace. Whoever had thought that headline up had apparently been playing too much video games. Still, it was the first ever report on Mega Man's exploits, so it had won a place of honor on Dr. Light's walls. In the center of the garage rested a classic 2025 hover car. Protruding from beneath the car, was a pair of legs. Those legs belonged to Rockwho was also known as Mega Man.
Rock hummed contntedly to himself as he reached for a wrench from the tool box he had with him. He had been a tool using robot before Dr. Wily's first attack, and many of those old skills stuck with him. Shortly after the third battle with Dr. Wily, Rock had found this car in a scrap yard, and bought it cheap. Of course, it was anything but cheap to restore it to its former glory, but Dr. Light was quite wealthy, what with the income he got from his top-of-the-line inventions, and the kindly scientist realized that Rock could really use a project to keep him busy, so Rock was allowed to purchase almost whatever was needed for the car. Of course, now the car was his pride and joy, and no one was allowed to drive it without his permissionDr. Light included.
The gate to the house opened and a young girl with curly blonde hair stepped into the garage. Today, she was wearing a typical tee shirt and shorts, though Rock had seen her in a traditional Russian costume more often than not. "Hey, Rock," Kalinka Cossack called, with an almost unnoticeable Russian accent. "There are some guests at the door."
Rock pushed the small hovering platform he was lying on out from under the car and reguarded the young daughter of his creator's good friend. Dr. Light, Dr. Cossack, and Roll had all gone into the city. There was a project the two were working on that needed more sophisticated equipment than that found at Dr. Light's home, so they instead went to New York's LighTech buildinghome base of the robotics firm Dr. Light had started. Roll went along to make sure the two scientists ate. "Did'ja tell 'em that the Doc was out?" Rock asked Kalinka.
Kalinka shrugged. "I did, but they said they were here to see you as much as he. I invited them in, and they are waiting for you in the living room."
Rock frowned slightly. As rare as uninvited visitors were in the first place, it was even rarer that any should really want to see him. Rock was beginning to feel a little uneasy, and though he didn't know what had caused the feeling, it did cause him to ask, "What did they look like?"
Kalinka thought for a moment. "Well, there were three of them. One girl, two boys. The girl was a little taller than you, with brown hair. The boys were about this tall," Kalinka held her hand high above her head, "and one had black hair and looked kind of like you. The other one was blonde, with long hair down to his knees."
Rock stopped cold. It couldn't have been them! But, Rock knew very other men who'd wear their hair that long. "Tell 'em I'll be right there," he said to Kalinka.
As it was, it took Rock a few minutes to meet with his guests. Wether they were who he thought they were or not, he didn't want to appear before them all covered in grease. When he did appear after cleaning up, he saw that his suspicions were correct. They may have been wearing human cloths, Iris was even wearing a baseball cap, but there was no mistaking who they were. "X, Zero, Iris," he said with not a hint of surprise in his voice. "What are you doing here?"
X grinned. "Not our idea, trust me!"
Outside the lab, hidden in the shadows of a tree planted next to the house, a mysterious
figure watched. His scarf fluttered in the slight breeze as the light reflected off both his red and
grey armor and the dark visor covering his eyes. The red robot grinned. "It seems that this
week's gonna be pretty interesting after all..." he muttered to himself. Then, as silently as he
had appeared, Protoman was gone.