禁断のスクロールの物語
Forbidden Scroll of Stories
Disclaimer: I do not own anything official such as characters, locations, powers, ect. from the NARUTO series. I just make all these various entries that depict Naruto in various different settings. On an added note, some of these one-shots are under crossover scenes, therefore in those crossovers; I do not take any ownership of characters, themes, and whatnot for when I do a crossover scenario. That includes fictional cameos, celebrity cameos, and real-world cameos. Remember that.
Author's Note: This is one of four future chapters that are Mega Man-themed. This is settles with the Classic series and descends into the X series. It also cameos several elements from the Rockman Megamix mangas (or mainly I replace Classic!Shadow Man with Megamix!Shadow Man (because Megamix!Shadow Man reminds me so much of Kakashi).
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It was a tear in time and space which a bloodied and nearly-dead Naruto Uzumaki fell into along with the Konoha ninja that had impaled him with a katana all in a self-gained form of vengeance. Not often does something occur without some sort of outside interference. But sometimes, there are certain times where the universe develops something akin to a "hiccup", and something complete random happens. In this case, a temporary rip in time and space briefly connected two universes before getting severed. The ninja's last view of the demon boy impaled on his sword was a faceful of energy hitting him full on, then darkness.
Buster gun lowered, Bass walks over along with Shadow Man.
"Is the kid alright?" the sometimes lazy shinobi questions aloud.
Bass carefully pulls the blade from the small boy's chest.
"I don't know, damn it," Bass growled.
Even if Wily negated the three laws in most of his creations, even the dark-clad robot could not just ignore such a shocking sight of a fully-grown human willingly murder a human child.
"We should take the boy back to Wily then," Shadow Man says, shifting his headband a bit.
"You think the boy can survive a warp?"
Shadow Man doesn't reply, making Bass grunt and pick the bloodied child off the ground. Cuts, bruises, burns, puncture wounds that suggest needles or something similar was used as a stabbing weapon, and a shallow cut along the neck by razor wire sickened the dark robot. In a beam of gold and purple, two Wily-bots vanish.
Bass could have very well have left the human child there, but then Shadow Man would have rescued the boy despite being a robot built to combat Light's heroic Mega Man and the Light-bots. And in the back of Bass's cyber brain, he just couldn't leave a nearly-dead child clinging to life still. It would have haunted him...
=0=0=0=
The stasis tank normally used for robots was reconfigured for human healing instead. On one computer, Dr. Wily sat there as he analyzed the diagnosis read-out on the screen. A frown came over his lips as he recalled Shadow Man and Bass bringing back to the base an injured child. He may be evil and desire taking over the world, but hell, even HE has morals. To learn that Bass and Shadow Man came across a man holding a katana through the chest of the boy, he had to applaud the action Bass took. They brought the child to him and the boy despite all other instances he should have already kicked the bucket, was still clinging desperately to life.
Not to mention the child had a strange energy source inside his body that was contributing to the child's miraculous grasp to keep on living.
"So, how's the kid?" came a voice from the shadows.
"He's living because of a strange energy that resides inside of his body. I figure that without this strange energy, he would have been dead a long time ago. A bit confusing as to how this boy could have such energy in him."
"Maybe it explains that flash of light Bass and I saw."
"Possibly," Wily mutters.
Shadow Man walks up to the fluid-filled tank, where the boy was stripped of his ragged clothes. A simple wide metal bar around a "portion" of the tank offered the healing child any sense of censoring/privacy. He was connected to the air breather, and various tubes and needles were put in him feeding nutrients and fluids to the severely-injured body.
"Even if he survives, the horrors this boy must have endured would leave him distrusting of most humans. I feel sorry for the child to have such a dark life."
"So... what do you plan to do, Wily? You have something scheming... I can tell."
"It'll be a very risky procedure. It's not uncommon for most humans to have robotic implants for missing arms or legs. I just plan to take it a step further. A full robot transformation/transfusion."
"Really?" Shadow Man's only exposed eye is a bit wide with awe. "You're capable of this feat then, Wily?"
"Of course. Even if Bass is a bit of an ingrate half the time, he was still one of my best creations ever. If I succeed... the boy will be the first robot/human hybrid. It can open new research possibilities."
"Or another tool to defeat Mega Man?"
Wily ignored the subtle jab as he opens up another window and begins his next project. Shadow Man looks back to the child floating in the stasis tube before disappearing in a Shunshin no Jutsu.
=0=0=0=
It took six months, but Wily had succeeded. He created the first human/robot hybrid. The child's old body has since died three months into construction, and the only thing that remained was the energy source that acted as a type of life preservative for the brain long enough to cybernetically enhance it and install into the new body for the child. The boy, now a robot, would age much like a human, but his age would be much slower; a type of semi-youth extended life span.
The energy source in the boy's new body empowered the boy. He could very well be just as strong as Bass or any of his creations. But with the human brain, the boy will still think and act much like a human. The three laws won't apply to him. Now came the moment of truth...
Pressing a button, he started up the programs in his newest creation. Inside Naruto's darkness, lights shine forth behind his closed eyelids, in scrawls of digital data. Brain booting up. Artificial heart booting up. Fusion Core Generator activating. Systems check-up shows zero error.
His artificial lungs take the first grasp of oxygen as his eyes slowly open. His vision was blurry at first, until they clear up and he looks around. An old man with gray hair was looking at him.
"Where am I?" he whispered.
His voice was also different. No longer did it sound like it was at a boyish pitch. It was smoother now, no grating edges.
"You were rescued from death, boy. I saved your life. My name is Albert Wily."
"Saved? Why? Everybody in Konoha hated me, calling me a demon child. I thought I was killed when a sword went in my chest."
Konoha? That was a foreign word. And Wily knew that there was no place that went by that name.
"You were in a coma for six months. Three months ago your body died on you, but your brain still survived due to the strange energy force that was inside your old body. Your brain was preserved long enough for me to finish building your new body. When I transferred your brain, the energy immediately adapted to your new body and I used it as your source for your Fusion Core Generator."
Naruto if he was still human wouldn't even understand half of what Dr. Wily was saying. But for some reason, his brain could not only understand it all, but was processing it faster than any normal human being. He felt so... alien...
"Your new body is as human as it can be. But you are not overly defenseless. I've outfitted you with armor and a weapon to tap into your potential."
Wily held his hand out to the reborn child, who physically looks to be that of a thirteen year old despite having the mentality of a six year old.
"Would you like to see the new you?"
He accepted the kind old man's hand.
=0=0=0=
Zero cries out as Proto Man dealt the final blow, and manages to cripple the berserk robot. He was not alone. Duo was also there, albeit severely damaged. And then there was Bass's little brother, N. The orange-armored Wily-bot brushed back his sunny yellow hair aside, synthetic blood dripping from the large cut in his head. None of them survived this fight without sustaining major injuries/damages to their bodies.
"Proto Man, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, N," the red and gray robot tells the hybrid robot.
N was once a human. He recalled his old name many years ago: Naruto Uzumaki. Reborn, he simply wanted to be called N. He was indeed a great warrior, often able to fight Mega Man down to the point the robot could be destroyed for good. But just as Wily predicted, N's human side would never truly lay the killing blow. And the old doctor never reprimanded N for his choices. N was the greatest achievement of a human surviving near-death by becoming a hybrid fusion of a robot.
And at one time, when alien androids from another section of the universe invaded Earth, N led the fight to the aptly-called Space Warriors teaming up with Mega Man, and forcing Bass to comply on a truce. How N managed to do that, the old man would never know. But then Wily's next greatest creation was born. But a problem happened. The robot, simply named Zero, had a glitch in the system. Wily was the last to die as Zero laid a destructive siege in his hidden laboratory. His last act was to send Bass and N to safety, and send a quick message to his old college Light before Zero destroyed the safety bunker doors, and terminated him.
Bass had died alongside Mega Man trying to subdue Zero, however they both had managed to cripple the advanced android, enough that N, Protoman, and Duo could deal the blow that would shut the bot down.
"Duo?"
"I am well."
N looks to the blond robot in red and white armor. How could such an advanced robot be so destructive? He knew that it was the work of the virus inside Zero. A virus that was born from a glitch and then it had mutated, corrupting everything and making it the perfect killing machine. Humanity would more than likely blame Wily, the man who was like a father to him, but in the end... he too was a victim in Zero's bloodied rampage.
"He must be sealed away and concealed. So that no other human will ever awaken him again, and I know the place," N tells Proto Man and Duo, getting the two bots' attention.
Somewhere in the Outback of Australia, Wily had created a small lab deep inside the red rocks that made Australia a tourist attraction before the robot advancement. Proto Man despite his injuries and the damage to his unstable core had helped N, along with Duo. The capsule found inside the lab was where Zero was sealed away, and then locked.
Proto Man collapsed at this moment once Zero's capsule was sealed away inside a hidden room.
"Proto Man!"
"Damn... I don't think I can make it, N," the old bot moaned, as energy sparked off him.
"Proto Man..."
"N... Take me back home..."
N looks into Proto Man's visor, before he reached down and took his helmet off allowing him to see Proto Man's eyes.
"Duo, I'll be back shortly."
Without another word, N was enveloped in his reddish orange light, and took Proto Man with him back to the ruins of Light Laboratory. N brought Proto Man to where Dr. Light was last at before being vaporized, and gently lays the old bot down.
"If only I could apologize to papa for not saving him much sooner," Proto Man whispers.
"Proto Man..."
"N... you have the same Weapon Copy system as my brother and Bass. Copy the weapons in my systems and keep them."
"... Alright, Proto..."
Proto Man smiles one last time as he closes his eyes, N's hand placed on his forehead. In an instant, N's Weapon Copy System starts scanning all the data off Proto Man, and making duplicates of undamaged files in the memory core. Eventually N was finished with his task as he stands up. Proto Man silently expired. Without another look, he teleports away before the United Nation's military rolled up onto the premises. N returned to the lab where Duo was waiting. N took Proto Man's helmet and held onto it.
"Duo... I'm going to seal myself in the lab with Zero. You go and help with the rebuilding from Zero's destruction."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Wily's last commands I plan to fulfill. I am to be his watcher. I hope I can cure him of whatever virus crippled his systems, but if I cannot, then when I wake him up sometime in the future, I will expire him."
"Can you really do so, Naruto?" Duo questions N, using the hybrid's full name of the simple abbreviation.
"With the energy of the fox inside my systems, yes... I do not know what holds for the future of humanity after this event. Hopefully, humanity and robots have become more harmonized in a peaceful union, like Light and Wily envisioned at one time before... history took its course when I emerged in this world years ago."
The robot from space knew what a selfless act N was undertaking, and wished him the best of luck before leaving N who began to activate the lab's defenses, and put it down on red alert lockdown. Duo was the last robot to see him as he vanished, and it would be more than a hundred years until N himself awakens in another hidden capsule as his program during his sleep mode went to work trying to purify Zero of the virus. Then Zero was awakened by Sigma, and the virus (almost eradicated), was transferred after the duel between old robot and reploid. The virus festered in Sigma, the reploid unaware of the dangers until the Day of Sigma arrived.
=0=0=0=
The door fell when N touched it. The lab was now but ruins and his bunker survived the touch of time. Zero's capsule was long since missing and he was worried. Very worried...
In a flash, his armor he updated eighty years ago emerged from his cyber storage of his body, complete with Proto Man's old helmet updated. His armor was still the colors of orange with whites and blacks, but Proto's remained the red and white variety with the visor. A holographic energy scarf forms from the vents of his neck brace; being made of hard light holographic technology, it reacted much like a real scarf would.
"I pray that this world has not suffered. And Zero... wherever you are, I will find you..."
He walks away from the ruins and out into the rocky desert.
"And if you are still infected, then as your older brother... I will retire you."
How different is the Earth now in the year 21XX? N will soon find out as he begins his adventure in a new world...
If the oneshot was made as a separate story plot, N (or Naruto as a human/robot hybrid) would eventually get involved with the upcoming fourth maverick war with Repliforce. But it wouldn't really start for several months.
I would have gone through several character progressions with Zero, X, Colonel, and N meeting Iris, and encountering Dynamo from X5. He would learn that Earth while evolved with the latest of reploid technology thanks to Light's technological remains and his creation "X", he would then learn that Zero was purified in a sense but the virus had escaped deletion by jumping hosts, and thus learn about the maverick leader, Sigma.
Several counters with the Maverick Hunters, an eventual encounter with X and Zero, and Naruto would willingly surrender and they would learn that Naruto was not fully android. Some history thrown in... and then we begin the fourth maverick war. That is as far as I have gotten in thought. Although some plot twists would occur with Naruto now in the main picture such as Iris not dying during the war thanks to the timed intervention of Naruto.
Oh, and as a memorial for Proto Man, N would imitate his whistling intro before appearing out of no where.