maybe we don't deserve love
Warning: major character death
- BassRock week: May 18 - End
In the end, it was an accident.
Which was ironic, given his primary function. Bass had a unique numbering sequence. Special Wily Number 001, the only one in his line, design based off of Mega Man's schematics and programming, built for the sole purpose of destroying him.
Mega Man was his reason to exist.
It was hard to remember the last time he'd fought with the intent to kill. Time had changed things, warped his thoughts and feelings, growing from hatred and need to prove his superiority into something far more complicated.
In spite of that they'd stayed on opposite sides of the mirror, oil and water. An invisible divide between them that they were never able to breach.
…he had to know. Prying open Mega Man's access panel, Bass pulled aside cables and carefully drew out the board that contained Rock's integrated circuit chip. Everything that he was.
It was impossible to describe what he felt then, discovering that he'd finally fulfilled his purpose.
The only Wily 'bot to ever do so. Putting an end to a rivalry that had existed long before he did, winning a war he was born into, accomplishing the goal he'd inherited from his creator.
Losing the one thing that really mattered, all their possibilities and potential crumbling around him. All the things he could've had, the things they might've been.
Everything he wanted and didn't deserve.
He'd lost. He'd won.
Bass was relieved when the programmed deactivation sequence launched, Mega Man's body still in his arms, I.C. chip still in his hands. It was poetic, really: without him, Bass no longer had a reason to exist.
And what they couldn't have in life, they could—