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.

A Wily tale, the beginning.

Part 11

Jonny spent the majority of the next few weeks on the household computer. Checking everything from old articles on news sites, to forums, even checking on a few biographies that had been written with what information was known to the authors. From what he could gather Skull Castle was Dr. Wily's base of operations prior to being captured by Mega man and it was still standing in the thick jungles of southern Mexico. Also he learned that the United nations where having trouble even getting close to the wicked place. Every missile that was fired detonated prematurely due to an unknown jamming signal and every demolition crew was chased off by the old man's security defenses. Much more Dr. Wily was now sitting in a jail cell and was denied all visitors. So there was no way Jonny could meet him face to face.

Jonny thought long and hard on the subject. Talking to Dr. Wily over the phone wouldn't be enough. He had to tell the old man off in person. The only option that seemed to appeal to Jonny was going to Skull Castle. It would now doubt have a fail safe that would activate after going for so long without his grandfather running the show. It was something he had done before. The more he considered his options the more Jonny liked the idea of going to Skull Castle. Seeing what his grandfather had created made the idea even more appealing. With his mind made up there was one question. How was he going to get to Mexico?

His trips to and from the coffee shops came to an abrupt halt. Firstly because it reminded him of Zoe and he didn't want to even think about the traitorous girl. Secondly she had gotten back together with her ex boyfriend and he had given Jonny a black eye for just making his 'precious angel' cry. When he had returned to the house he told Dr. Light that he had tripped and fell. He wasn't sure if Dr. Light believed him, but the ice cold piece of meat that Roll pressed on his face quickly got his mind on other things. Namely vengeance against the man behind all his lifetime of troubles.

The solution to his traveling problem came to him one day as he was passing Mega city's railroad tracks on one of his walks. After closer examination of the railways and their schedules Jonny determined if he snuck into one of the boxcars he could ride from Mega city all the way south to the boarder. He plotted his journey in secret. Knowing that Dr. Light would disapprove of him traveling to Skull Castle both because of the danger and the fact that he was only thirteen years old.

Jonny had packed some preserves that where packaged in resalable containers, a spare change of clothes, and an old picture of his parents. The one thing that had survived the fire that swallowed his house.

With a heavy heart Jonny took one last look at the Light household before heading off towards the train yard. He wanted to stay with his adoptive family but he knew this was something he had to do if he was ever to feel free from his family curse.

After three days of riding the rails and seeing the beautiful countryside, being awoken at night by the loud whistle of the engine, and jumping from train to train at refueling station Jonny got to a small town not far from the border to Mexico. He then carefully selected another train that him across the border and farther south. Both countries had grown more used to each other in the past few years and had been transporting goods to and from each other via the railroads. After another 3 days of blistering heat Jonny was only a matter of miles of his destination. Silently he thanked whatever god there was that he had gotten here without anyone finding him. With the last of his food gone Jonny set into the jungle. He did his best to avoid anything that seemed dangerous. He always sought out the shallow parts of streams and other moving bodies of water and avoided clearings. But above all if he heard a noise that sounded either natural or not he went in the other direction. After what seemed like days Jonny emerged to see Skull Castle standing in the middle of a gigantic clearing.

The structure had a large skull in the front that stretched from the roof all the way to the front door (which happened to sit within the open lower jaw). The rest of the building seemed to have been wiped up from the remains of an old Aztec temple. But it was clear that Dr. Wily had made some improvements with a large satellite dish, reinforced steel plating on all the vertical walls, and small holes for small robots to attack from. Vines and moss was growing all over the exterior of the Castle, suggesting to Jonny that no one had paid the clean up crew. (XP)

"Well Gramps, you sure know how to make a guy feel welcome." Jonny snorted as he walked to the entrance. Quickly he found a terminal and opened the doors. But then something hit him; from what he had heard no one had ever been able to get close to the bone headed place. Why was he able to get to the entrance where trained UN soldiers couldn't?

As Jonny stepped inside he saw that the place was spotless. The steel blue floors where polished to a fine mirror finish as where the walls. Giving the place a pristine and almost sterile feel to the castle.

After searching the main floor and not finding the slightest bit of opposition. Not even something simple like a tripwire seemed to be guarding this whole complex and the UN said they couldn't get close to the place. Yet the place seemed deserted. Jonny was pleased when he discovered an elevator that was hidden behind a massive yet inactive guard robot. The elevator quickly took him up to a large room. Jonny looked around the interior of the room. There was a large roller robot with a bladed mohawk, a hermit crab like robot, and a large container of yellow goo with a mechanical eye floating in it. Although none of these large machines where active they still demanded a sense of awe and even a little fear from the young man. Looking along the walls Jonny could see smaller robots ranging from the size of a house cat to nine feet tall and all different shapes and builds. Jonny was attached to one green and black cyclops like robot carrying a green and yellow shield.

"What a wonderful design." Jonny said as he admired the robot. "A reflective shield used to deflect laser fire and a chargeable buster cannon to attack with. An excellent combination."

Jonny heard something approaching from behind and spun around only to see nothing. That is until he looked down to see a tiny robot wearing a tiny hard hat. Regardless of the fact that it could've been dangerous Jonny bent over and picked it up.

"Hello there little guy." Jonny said. "What's a tiny guy like you doing here?"

The tiny robot wiggled out of Jonny's hands and ran over to a computer terminal where it jumped up and down. Whatever it was trying to say Jonny guessed that it wanted him to look at something. Jonny walked over and the tiny robot looked up at him with puppy dog eyes.

Jonny couldn't help but let a small smile appear on his face. The little guy was just so cute. "Aww, you want up? Here let me help."

No sooner than Jonny set the tiny robot on the terminal a small cable attached from its head to the terminal. The screen showed pictures and schematics of the prison, the robots that sat not far from where Jonny stood, and hundreds of plans for escape from a maximum security prison.

Jonny looked over the data for a while. The robot with the hard hat was called a Metool and the robot with the shield was called a Sniper Joe. More names and designs appeared on the screen including one robot named Bass. He seemed different than the others in construction and programming. It seemed he was given no emotional or personality blocks of any kind. Why would the old man make something that unstable?

Jonny looked over at the specs of the 'Sniper Joe'. With a little modification it would suit his needs just fine.

To be continued...