Finally, the main character and his faithful companion are introduced. Everything else was just leading up to the moment. Enjoy! (Excuse me for getting the diagnostics test wrong. I'm not quite sure how to do it.)

I.

I think.

I think, therefore I am.

Those were the first words that went through the robot's mind. It had lifted itself out of the blackness and into the world around him. The robot opened a pair of startlingly bright emerald eyes and got a good look at the world before him.

It was in a nondescript room, with computers and wires all over the place. Many of these wires were connected to other machines, and the screens had stuff on them that the robot itself could not understand. It stood up and almost instinctively brushed a lock of brown hair away from its face before jumping down from the table he had been lying down on.

The robot walked over to a piece of reflecting metal and got a good look at himself. He was mostly two shades of green, with a pale green jumpsuit and dark green armor. There were golden bracelets around his ankles and wrists, and the robot got an odd feeling as to why they would be there. But he shrugged it off and picked up a helmet sitting nearby.

The helmet was primarily dark green, with a golden boomerang on the top that matched his bracelets. A blue tinted visor would protect his eyes. The young robot put the helmet on and did a diagnostics on itself.

Diagnostics test for unit "DRN001 QUINT" have been located. Continue? Y/N

>Y

Sound is at 100 operating capacity

Range of motion is at 100 operating capacity

Armor created out of Titanium Alloy with 96 durability.

Jumpsuit created out of Zangstic fibers.

Helmet is equipped with UV protection visor and comm. device. Protection at 95.

Legs equipped with Slide Function.

WARNING: Slide Function offline due to incompatibility with current structure. Unable to bring online.

Legs equipped with Emergency Acceleration System. Bring online?

>Y

Arms equipped with Mega-Buster Mark 13.

WARNING: Mega-Buster offline due to severe damage. Unable to bring online.

Memory Core OS has 156,838,284 tera bytes of free memory space left.

WARNING: Memory Core OS is damaged. Several files have been corrupted. Save corrupted files? Y/N

>Y

Save to where? Backup/Main

Backup

Memory files have been saved in backup. Continue diagnostics? Y/N

>N

Memory Core OS is corrupted? Is that why I cannot remember anything? The robot thought to itself. It had learned some valuable information from his diagnostics, such as his name, what he was created of, and the "Mega Buster," whatever that was. For now, however, he should find out where he is and what he should do. He will finish the rest of his diagnostic test later.

Quint, as the robot decided to call itself, slowly stood up from where he had been kneeling and shakily placed a hand to his head. Everything was so confusing. He was in a place he recognized and at the same did not recognize. He turned towards a piece of reflective metal, taking his helmet off. The person in his reflection looked familiar yet strange. Quint put the helmet back on.

"Ah, I see you have woken up," a voice said from behind him. Quint whirled around, instinctively holding up his left arm as if expecting it to morph into something else. It didn't. Quint, slightly embarrassed, put his arm down and regarded the newcomer.

It was an elderly human, who was wearing a white lab coat and had wild gray hair. Alarm bells rang in Quint's head as his subconscious screamed a warning at him, but Quint took no notice of it. He gazed at the human. "Who are you?"

The human looked surprised and mildly pleased. "You do not know your creator?"

Frowning, Quint thought. Then he shook his head. "No."

The human almost looked... gleeful. "Then remember this. I am Dr. Albert W. Wily, your creator. I assume you know your designation and what you have been created to do."

"My designation is Quint. However, there is nothing to tell me what I have been created to do," the robot said in an almost monotone voice.

Wily frowned at him. "Your designation is to destroy an enemy robot. Its designation is Mega Man Light." The scientist studied his face closely, looking for any signs of recognition or realization, and was relieved when he saw none.

Quint nodded in affirmation, even though he was still very confused as to why he should destroy this robot that Wily had mentioned. "Acknowledged."

Wily smiled an evil smile. "Good. I will call you when I need you." He turned and left the room.

The moment Wily left the room, Quint sank down onto the floor and clutched his head in his hands. "W-Why can't I remember anything...? Who am I? Why don't I like Wily? And why does the name Mega Man sound so familiar?" Shaking slightly, Quint took one last look at his reflection and fled out of the room.

Quint walked through the hallways, completely ignoring the mechaniloids running around the fortress trying to complete various tasks they had been assigned. For the first few hours of his short life, he was just walked around and watched the Robot Masters (which his mind automatically identified, strangely enough) chat with each other in a familiar, friendly manner, and the little mechaniloids work cooperatively with each other. For the first time, he felt very lonely.

"Saku! Saku!" a voice called. Quint's head snapped up. He looked around, wondering what that had been. He noticed that everyone else that he could see ignored the voice. "Saku!" the voice called again. Yet again everyone ignored the voice. Quint stood up, starting to walk in the direction that the voice had come from.

"Sakugarne!" the voice called yet again. Quint broke off into a small jog, running towards the voice. "Sakugarne!" Louder this time, the voice drew Quint into a secluded part of Skull Fortress. Finally, Quint rounded a corner to a dead end and stopped.

The first thing he noticed was that this part of Skull Fortress was only partially built, with lots of construction material all over the place. The second thing he noticed was that there was a pile of metal and wood, and coming from this pile was the voice, "Saku! Sakugarne!"

Quint frowned, dashed towards the pile, and began lifting the stuff off. The voice continued calling, "Saku!"

"Hang on!" Quint replied. "I'll get you out!" Presently, he uncovered a small red mechaniloid that looked a lot like a pogo-stick with eyes and a mouth. He pulled the mechaniloid out of the pile and stood it up.

It was slightly battered, but it looked okay. The pogo-stick beamed at him. "Sakugarne!" it chirped in a happy voice. It bounced around Quint, chirping happily.

"Hey, hey!" Quint protested, embarrassed. "It was nothing!" Secretly, though, he felt good, as if he had made a difference. He smiled and patted the pogo-stick, his bouts of loneliness beginning to fade as he observed the happy robot.

"Saku!" it said. "Saku!" It moved closer to him.

"You want to stay with me, don't you?" Quint asked, still smiling as he continued patting the pogo-stick.

"Saku!" it said with an obvious tone of agreement. Quint's smile grew larger.

"Well, if you want to stay with me, you need a name. I'll call you Sakugarne!" Quint began to walk away, the newly-christened Sakugarne following him loyally. Maybe... just maybe I won't be alone after all!

"Saku!" said Sakugarne.

I'm finding his meeting with Sakugarne to be a bit strange, but... shrugs Read and review!