Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, blah, blah, blah. You've heard this crap before. I DO own Jonny Wily. If you'd like to use him in a fic, just tell me.
But I do own this story.
A Wily tale, the beginning.
Part 7
The next day Mega man and Roll waited at the bakery and saw no sign of Jonny. Nor did they see him in the following week. This began to worry them.
Upon their return to the house they brought the situation up with their father and creator.
"It must be because of horrible act of vandalism and arson that destroyed Jonny's home. No doubt the poor child heard what they did and he's scared to death about them coming back to get him." A look of pity and sorrow came to the old doctor's face at the thought of Jonny huddled in an alleyway trembling in fear.
"Do you want me and Roll to go find him?" Mega man asked. He didn't like seeing Dr. Light saddened by this news and he defiantly didn't want Jonny out there alone.
Dr. Light nodded. "Yes. But this time I want you to bring him here... I don't want him out there alone anymore. Not with those men walking around free."
"I understand. I just wish the police would lock up those men." Mega man clenched his fist. There where times when he thought about breaking Asimov's first law. Not that he was subject to them.
"As do I. But they don't have many leads." Doctor Light sighed. "Besides if they got one or two that doesn't mean they got them all..."
"How could people do that father?" Mega man asked. "I don't understand how humans could do something so vile."
Dr. Light sat down, having worked all morning he felt he deserved a break. "Some humans are motivated only by what they fear and do not understand. But instead of trying to understand what they fear they try to destroy the object they're afraid of."
Mega man nodded. "I'll go find him."
"I'm going with you Mega." Roll said as she walked up to her blue armored brother.
"Well... I could use the extra help." Mega man said as he turned to Roll. "Okay, come on sis. Rush! We'll need your nose."
The red bionic dog that had been lying in the corner on a soft doggie bed sprang up and rushed over to Mega man.
"Be careful you two. And please bring him back safely." Dr. Light told them.
Mega man nodded once more. Letting Dr. Light know he understood. "We will doctor. Come on Rush!"
Rush yipped and ran out the door and down the street, closely followed by Roll and Mega man.
"One day those two will be the death of me." Dr. Light chuckled as he went back inside. "But I guess that's the way it is when you're a parent."
Rush was sniffing the street, desperately trying to pick up Jonny's scent on a heavily traveled concrete sideway was not easy.
"Why do you think Dr. Light is so interested in finding Jonny Mega?" Roll asked.
"He said that Jonny has a brilliant mind and that it shouldn't be wasted out here on the street." Mega man said. "And I don't want to have to think about Jonny being out there all alone. He seemed like a nice kid."
Roll nodded, a worried look was plastered on her young face. "Let's just find him fast. Rush please hurry. I don't want those bad men to find him."
Rush wagged his tail and barked once before running off again with both Light robots in pursuit.
Rush lead them down several blocks and into an alley. Both Roll and Mega man arrived and looked around. All they saw was a dead end alleyway, a sewage drain, a dumpster, and a card board box that was lying on its side.
"Rush, are you sure this is where Jonny is?" Roll asked as she looked around. This alley was dark, damp, and foul. Not a place she'd want anyone to have to stay. Not even Dr. Wily.
Rush wagged his tail and gave a yip before motioning Roll and Mega man over to the box. Upon looking inside Mega man found a shivering, terrified little boy in the corner muttering 'please don't let them hurt me please don't let them hurt me'.
"Jonny? You okay?" Mega man asked as he lifted back the cardboard flap and peered inside the box. "Dr. Light sent us to see if you where alright..."
Jonny stopped muttering to himself and looked out at the Light robots. Both Roll and Mega man could see that he was in a state of panic. His face was red and puffy as if he had been crying for a VERY long time. There was no doubt in the Light robot's minds now that he knew about the arson at his former place of residence.
Roll stooped down and took Jonny's hand. "Listen Jonny, we'd like you to come home with us."
Jonny jerked his hand back and tried to get as deep into the corner of the box as he could. "I'm not going out there! They'll kill me!"
Roll got down on her knees and looked at Jonny until he looked back at her. "Jonny we know those... People killed your parents and burned down your house... I'm sorry..."
Jonny cleared his throat then dried his eyes on his sleeve. "Why are you sorry? You didn't loose anything."
"But I feel bad that you lost everything. I may be a robot but I have feelings you know..." Roll said as she began to cry. She felt awful that Jonny had lost his family. She imagined it must feel the same as if Dr. Light died. The image of her father in a casket was too much for her.
"Roll... Don't cry..." Jonny pleaded. He felt horrible that he was worrying Roll enough to make her cry. He knew she wasn't real but that was besides the point. In his eyes robots where people too, not just wires and circuits.
"W-will you just come home with us... Just for a few days?" Roll asked as she wiped her tears on the back of her wrist.
Jonny gulped. Girls where never nice to him in school (then again neither where the boys), but Roll was the first female anything he considered nice. He wanted to make her feel better, so reluctantly... he agreed. "Well... okay Roll."
Roll's attitude did an instant one-eighty. She grabbed Jonny's arm, yanked him out of the box and smiled like the Cheshire cat. Which kinda creeped Jonny out to some degree.
"Let's go home" Mega man said as he put an arm around Jonny's shoulders and smiled.
As they began to walk back to Dr. Light's house Jonny's mind turned a single question over and over. Until he decided to just ask it. "Hey Roll?"
"Hmm?" Roll hummed as she looked over to the young human.
Jonny swallowed, starting to have second thoughts. He didn't want to sound insensitive, but being six he just kinda blurted out. "I didn't know robots could cry." He immediately felt like smacking his face against a brick wall.
'Smooth move stupid...' He thought.
Roll however didn't seem to care about how blunt Jonny had been. "Dr. Light gave me and Mega man special features to make us seem more human."
Jonny sighed, he was glad that she didn't blow her top like when he asked the girl who sat next to him if he could barrow her pencil. Let's just leave it at this; it took three teachers and the principal to get her away from Jonny and he got his first stitches that day.
To Jonny Roll however didn't seem violent in the least. He liked her.
Dr. Light man had been watching out the window for the past few hours now. He had found it impossible to work while he knew that Mega man and Roll could return any moment with the poor child.
"Hey Doc." Proto man said, appearing as if by magic behind Dr. Light. Nearly giving the old man a heart attack.
"I really wish you wouldn't do that Proto." Dr. Light scolded as he turned to face his first robotic creation.
"Not my thing." The prototype robot said as he leaned back against the wall. "I heard you've taken a liking to Dr. Wily's grand kid."
Dr Light blinked. He had told no one this outside of Roll and Mega man. "How did you know?"
Mega man's older brother smirked and waved a finger. "Trade secret."
Dr. Light mentally shrugged. Brushing off his curiosity and turning to more current matters. "Have you heard anything about Dr. Wily?"
Proto man frowned. "Nadda. The old geezer's either in some dark hole somewhere or he'd dead. Or both."
Dr. Light ignored the geezer comment. After all he and Dr. Wily where both in their late fifties.
Proto man stood up and stretched, a small enigmatic smirk had appeared on his face. "I see you have guests. I'll see you later Doc."
Before Dr. Light could protest Proto man disappeared in a flash of red light.
Dr. Light sighed. Ever since the beginning Proto man had been a free spirit. Coming and going as he pleases and worrying his aging co-creator. Not that the other man how aided in his construction cared. Namely Dr. Wily when he and Light worked together back in the day.
Dr. Light looked out the window and smiled. What he saw was Mega man, Roll, Rush, and Jonny approaching the house together. A warm smile crept onto the old man's face as he opened the door and walked out to meet the small group that was approaching his door.
Both Mega man and Roll where besides themselves. Roll was doing all she could to keep from giggling and Mega was just happy that they had found Jonny.
"See what we found Dr. Light?" Mega man said, giving Jonny a friendly nudge forward.
Jonny looked away from Dr. Light. He didn't feel like he deserved to ask to live with the man he thought so highly of. Besides those bad men could come after him here too. And that wouldn't be fair to these nice people.
Dr. Light meanwhile just smiled down at Jonny and placed a hand on his small shoulder. "I promise if you live here no one will hurt you. I give you my word."
Jonny thought about this. He knew Dr. Light was a man of his word, his past accomplishments to make humanity better proved that. "Well... Okay... I'll stay here Dr. Light."
"Whee! I got a new brother!" Roll squealed as she hugged Jonny, causing the young boy's body to freeze up and his face turn bright red from embarrassment.
Dr. Light chuckled at the young lad. Remembering when he was young enough to be THAT embarrassed over something as simple as a hug from a pretty girl.
From a nearby rooftop Proto man watched as Jonny walked inside with Dr. Light and Proto's brother and sister. A sharp wind picked up and caused his scarf to flap uncontrollably for a short while.
"You take care of him little brother." Proto man said to the wind as he disappeared once more. Headed to parts unknown.
To be continued...
-collapses from exhaustion- I wrote have of this last night while I was watching a Celebrity Deathmatch marathon... Hope you enjoy...