Trouble In Paradise

By: Metal Sonic EX

Disclaimer: I do not own the Classic Megaman series, the Megaman comic series, or the Battle Network series. I like them all, but I don't own them.

In the next chapter, Megaman regains consciousness and takes on Elec Man.EXE. Also, Chelsea and Alan learn more about Rocky's alter ego. This chapter is pretty straight-forward. So, here goes nothing. Anyways, here's chapter five!

Chapter Five

Taking On A Familiar Face

Megaman was in his armor. standing in a fortress of some sort. He began looking inside doors, stopping when he found an empty one. Upon entering it, a capsule appeared and steam sprayed from it as it opened. When it did…

-Flash-

Rocky woke with a start a female's surprised scream rang out. Rocky immediately clutched his chest in pain. Then, he turned as Elec Man ran to the doorway. "What's going… Doc! Doc, we need you!" Moments later, Dr. Light, Roll, Alan, and Cut Man ran in. "Oh thank God you're okay." Rocky smirked weakly at Alan. "Yeah, I guess. What happened?" Chelsea, who'd been in the room when Rocky woke up, smiled. "About time! You've been out for a whole day!" Rocky looked at her, lowering his arm as the pain diminished. "That's not what I asked." Elec Man stepped forward. "Let me put it this way: EXE series attack you at school, beat the stuffing out of you, your friends take you and run into us, and we bring you here."

Rocky looked down and noticed several needles injected into his arm. "So, you guys didn't…" Alan began rubbing the back of his head. "Not really. We did freak out when we found out that they were ex-Robot Masters. Plus, it also freaked us out that they're your half-brothers." Rocky smiled and looked up. "Big family, huh?" Chelsea smiled back. "Big isn't exactly the term I'd use, but still along the same line." Dr. Light, who'd been examining several monitors walked up to Rocky. "If I could have some privacy, that would be great. I should be done momentarily." Everyone nodded and filed out, but not before Roll hugged Rocky tightly.

As Light began to fiddle with some machinery Rocky brought up the subject of his dream. "I'm not sure what to say, but it might be a vision of some sort. You should probably just forget it though. No reason getting worked up over something that might not even exist." Rocky nodded, but didn't forget it. About an hour or so later, Rocky walked into the living room just as a new bulletin crossed the screen, interrupting Cut Man's show. "Son of a camel stuffer! What is this?" We interrupt this program to bring you a special new bulletin! The eight Robot Masters who are referred to as the EXE series are attacking various points of the city, including a steamworks facility, an amusement park, an abandoned castle on the outskirts of the city, and a power plant. The EXE series would seriously cripple any of the city functions, major or minor. Only one question comes to mind: Where is Megaman?

Everyone turned to Rocky as he opened the door. "I have to go. I can't just let them sit back and destroy the city." Dr. Light came in, hearing the newscast on his portable radio. "Rocky, if you are to go out (which you probably will…), then be extremely careful. You haven't healed from your wounds yet." Rocky nodded, then promptly shut the door behind him. "Sometimes I don't know about him." Elec Man smirked. "Yeah, but remember, he's the one who wanted to do this." Chelsea turned to him. "Wanted to do what?" The eldest Robot Masters looked at her. "Wanted to become Megaman. Way back when I and everyone else here were full-fledged Robot Masters, Rocky choose to be converted into a fighting robot to stop us. Thus, Megaman was born." Chelsea and Alan listened intensely as Elec Man continued. "You know that Roll is his full-sister, right?" They nodded in unison. "Well, he's also got a full-brother."

At this time, Dr. Light sat in an easy chair and began scratching his beard. "Ah yes! Protoman." The two turned to him. "Protoman?" Light nodded. "Yes, Rocky's prototype. He's a bit of an odd one, always going into to battle for the thrill, working alone, the anti-social attitude, you get the point." Chelsea and Alan nodded. "However, there is something wrong with his systems." They both started and looked at Dr. Light. Elec Man saved him an explanation though. "Doc Light won't tell us what, but he says that he'll die if he doesn't seek him for help." Chelsea released a small gasp and Alan turned slightly whiter. "What is wrong with him?" Elec Man shrugged. "Only Doc Light knows. Speaking of which…" They turned and saw that the doctor had left.

He was in his laboratory thinking over Protoman's situation when his radio beeped. He swiftly changed the channel and Rocky's voice rang out. "I'm in the same power plant that I found Elec Man in the first time." Light nodded even though he knew that he couldn't see it. "Well done, my boy! Destroying the power plant would just about bring this city to a standstill! You must defeat the EXE series at any cost! But be sure not to push it too hard, Rocky." A brief silence followed. "Got it!"

Megaman cut his contact with Dr. Light and looked around. It had been years since he'd been in the power plant, so it looked old even though it was still used. Holes in the ceiling let sunlight slowly enter the building. He continued around until he found a rusted ladder with numerous janitorial signs around it, mainly warning of it being unsafe. Megaman climbed onto it anyways and began scaling it. Once on the next level, he scanned the area before continuing upwards. This continued until he reached one final ladder. He scaled it, but about three-fourths of the way up, it began to shift under the stress. Megaman quickly scaled the last fourth before the ladder gave way and plummeted to the ground. Megaman sighed and stood up only to have someone grab his shoulder. Through instinct, he spun around and fired his buster at Elec Man.EXE.

He was thrown back slightly as he chuckled. "You've learned, but you still don't know everything. I see that you've chosen to fight us. Very well. Seeing as I am the first, you have two choices. You could let me live and try to take on one of my weaker brethren or you could kill me. In that case, a detonator which I implanted inside my body shall activated, signaling my brothers of my death and of your decision." Megaman frowned. "So?" Elec Man.EXE shrugged. "Your choice." Elec Man.EXE immediately lifted his arms and held two fingers together. "Dodge this." He snapped his fingers and a lightning bolt struck down where Megaman jumped from. After charging his buster, he fired it at close range into Elec Man.EXE's chest.

He stumbled backwards, allowing Megaman to tackle him. However, this tackle sent them both hurtling into the hole in the roof and plummeting to the ground below. This caused Elec Man.EXE to course with electricity as Megaman lay limp. He grabbed his side and slowly stood. Elec Man.EXE quickly stood up and kicked Megaman in the side, sending him back to the ground. Elec Man.EXE then charged his generators and grabbed a nearby power cord. Back at the Light estate, which was a huge mansion that could house many more people than it was currently holding, the TV became staticky briefly. "What the…" Suddenly, all of the lights and the TV went out. "Oh, come on!" Cut Man stood up and smacked the TV. "Stupid electronic box! I could do a much better job than this could!" Elec Man smirked. "I know. With as much as you talk, it's the news, talk shows, game shows, and everything else rolled into one, pointless conversation." Chelsea smiled at this insult and turned to Cut Man as he turned to her. "One, that's not funny. Two, why are you taking his side? And three, what the crap is wrong with the TV?"

Back at the power plant, Megaman was thrown back into a wall as the huge blast of electricity. Elec Man.EXE smirked as he charged another attack. Megaman quickly reacted by climbing up the rusted ladder. Elec Man.EXE frowned and threw the cord he was holding back into the machine it emerged from. This caused the power to go back on at the Light estate. "Finally! Stupid piece of crap TV." Cut Man sat down and continued watched a comedy channel as Elec Man occasionally looked up.

In the power plant, Elec Man scaled the ladders one by one until he'd reached the floor with a ladder which had only one supporting beam. He shrugged and began climbing up it as far to the right of it as he could. Just as Elec Man.EXE got to the top, he remembered seeing a swift blur moving down towards the ground as he was climbing up. Before he could react, though, Megaman shoved the ladder backwards over the rail. He plummeted to the ground, realizing what the blur was seconds before his impact with the ground. As he landed, he was impaled with the other supporting rail of the ladder and the other end emerged from his chest. He just lay there, twitching his fingers in shock. As he gazed up, Megaman looked over the rail at him. By the time he got to the bottom, Elec Man.EXE was no more. Megaman raised an eyebrow, then shrugged. "Guess you can't expect everyone to tell the truth. He wasn't that hard." He quickly located the special chip found on all Robot Masters and took it with him as he exited.

Several minutes later, Megaman flew into the yard of Light's estate on Rush Jet. He jumped off as Rush transformed back. Chelsea, Alan, Roll, Elec Man, Cut Man, and Dr. Light all exited to welcome him beck. His armor folded off as he transformed back into Rocky as Cut Man walked forward. "First thing first, is he dead?" Rocky nodded. "Good. Now, what the crap did you do? The TV lost power! And I was watching something important!" Elec Man sighed. "You were watching Reno 911 on Comedy Central." Cut Man shrugged. "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Elec Man rolled his eyes and began walking back to the house. "I'll be inside if you need me." As everyone turned to walk back inside, Rocky tripped, but never hit the ground. Instead, someone grabbed his leg and flipped him over his own body, into the cement on the other side of him. Rocky grabbed his side in pain and barely managed a gasp, then a dodge as Elec Man.EXE punched the ground. The pole had been broken, but a small portion of it still lay impaled in his chest.

"You'll… Never… Become… Like us…" Rocky reached for his watch, but Elec Man.EXE swung his fist at him. It never made contact, but a large thunderbolt shot forward. Suddenly, in a beam of light and an odd whistle, a shield appeared in front of him, blocking the attack. "Protoman!" He smirked. "You've got interesting ideas on how to finish them, but you've got to finish the job before leaving." He spun around and fired his buster at Elec Man.EXE around the left side of his shield, which lay on his back. Elec Man.EXE began walking towards them as someone tapped his shoulder. He turned and saw Cut Man running for it. Behind him, the original Elec Man stood there. He placed one hand above and below the lightning bolt on his chest. Then, after swiftly withdrawing his hands, he replaced them as an electrical charge was created. "There's only room for one Elec Man. And that's me." He threw his arms forward and an electrical wind surrounded Elec Man.EXE. In a sudden blaze of light, Elec Man.EXE exploded into numerous particles and as truly no more.

A few minutes later, Protoman sat in the living room as Chelsea and Alan expected him. He wore red armor and had a black visor emerged from the top of it. A long, yellow scarf was tied to his neck and a large shield was strapped to his back. Then, Rocky and Dr. Light walked in. "New weapon?" Alan raised an eyebrow and turned to Cut Man. "Huh?" Rocky smirked. "Every time I beat a Robot Master, I get a special ability from that robot. In this case, I got something called Lightning Grapple." Dr. Light smirked and explained. "Lightning Grapple is a thunderbolt fired from the buster which acts as both an offensive strike and a grapple. Of course, the weapon does have limited ammo and it's special range of fire. It won't work if, from what I've gathered, the target grapple hook or something of the sort is about twenty feet away. In other words, it's range is very limited and you've got to get pretty close to use it."

Rocky smirked and turned to Protoman. "Looks like we got a bit carried away, huh?" He stood up. "I might as well help you with these guys. Besides, I've got nothing better to do." Before Dr. Light could say anything, he turned and exited the household. Dr. Light sighed and scratched his chin. "As you can tell, the chance of actually convincing him to take my help is pretty farfetched." Chelsea nodded as Alan just stared in the direction he'd left.

Elsewhere, Wily entered the living room where his nephews were watching TV. "Hello boys." They all welcomed him and he sat down. "This is another special new bulletin, after the recent and brief power outage, is has been confirmed by sources close to the Light estate that Rocky Light, now better known as Megaman, has in fact eliminated the first of the EXE series. Now that Megaman is back in the picture, will he be able to deal with the others?" Dez noticed Wily's eye began twitching when this was finished. "Is something wrong?" Wily started and turned to him. "Oh, no. It's just that I think that these Robot Masters deserve a reasonable trial as humans are. Give them a chance to make good of their crimes. That's what I say." The three brothers exchanged glances and slowly scooted away.

In the next chapter, Megaman takes on the fiery EXE series Robot Master and things start looking worse for the Boltz Boys. Until then, Read and Review and I'll continue!