Wait…who do I love?!?!??
Leon's ship was confusing enough as it was, but in the dark it was almost impossible to find your way around in that thing. I could hear Leon's pirobots running about his ship shouting one thing after another. I could also hear the sounds of gunfire echoing through the ships halls. Things were very eerie inside the large, ancient ship. I walked about lost for a few moments hoping to find the bridge but to no avail.
[ohhh, Teisel, why couldn't you have cut the power after I found Leon?] I silently whined to myself after checking the sixtieth room and finding it near empty. So I wandered the ship some more finding no trace of Leon or any recognizable rooms.
"Leon where are you? Coward show yourself." I whispered trying to keep calm. I continued to search for Leon but I could not find the evil old man anywhere. "ohhhh!! LEON stop hiding!" I shouted in an impatient frenzy, my hands curled into fists as I yelled at the top of my lungs. "ohh, where is he?" I sighed after a moment of no reply to my cry.
[Stupid! Yea like yelling in the dark would somehow make Leon show himself.] I thought shaking my head. Suddenly the lights of the hallway began flickering on forming a path through the maze of hallways and rooms. I followed the path of light through the hallway not sure what to expect. I glanced to the side and saw my reflection in the mirror. I still looked pretty despite the ash still on my clothing or the bruise on my forehead. My pink shirt was still clean, despite my surviving yet another one of my robots exploding , but my usual black overcoat was now torn at several places. I could also see that my pants had been torn at a number of places showing my, surprisingly, beautiful unscratched legs.
[ hmmm, I have such gorgeous legs why don't I show them off that often? I mean that floozy Roll always has her legs showing…I bet I could really attract….attract who? Ohhh if only I could remember. I know there has to be somebody I love. But who?] I thought looking at my reflection on the wall. I quickly checked my face in the reflection on the wall.
My big green eyes looked tired and red, and as I spotted before I had one huge bruise on my forehead. but at least my hair wasn't knocked out of place by the explosion, the hair gel Teisel buys me usually makes my hair indestructible, and my smile still is the most attractive even in this dismal state I'm in.
[wait why am I making sure I look good…I'm out to get Leon! Why I should throttle myself for this laziness!] I thought realizing that I had wasted a hole eight minutes looking and posing for myself in the very reflective wall.
[hmmm, I wonder how Leon's crew gets the walls so clean, I mean whenever the servbots start cleaning the walls I find that they drew crayon pictures on it….there I go again! Ohhhh!] I realized that I was once again thinking about unimportant things. I finally ripped myself from the wall and marched down the path of lights.
*****
After a near eternity of following the trail laid out by the lights I reached it's destination. I found myself once again standing at the door to the room where Leon had first had that meal with Glyde, Teisel and I. I opened the door and peered in the room. The room was dimly light and I could only see the long table at which we sat for that one meal.
[all right Leon…where are you?] I thought looking through the room. I looked and looked again but I couldn't see anything.
"Ki Ki, you left Megaman very confused you know." I small squeaky voice suddenly said behind me. I jumped with a start and faced the strange voice ready to attack.
"What…a-a monkey?!?" I blurted out.
"you probably shouldn't be here Tron. I bet that Leon guy is very mean." The monkey said, doing a weird little dance where he would twirl his arms around and then lung to a side.
"more than you know…wait you Megaman's monkey….umm, Data!" I said, suddenly remembering how the monkey had actually directed the construction of the first ever successful space ship.
"Ki, that's right…jeeze and Roll says that Megaman has a bad memory, she should just talk to you, you have what ten second memory?." Data asked, mocking me.
"I don't have time for this." I snorted. The monkey continued to dance as I searched the room for signs of any secret passages or machinery. But I found nothing and soon got frustrated.
"errr, I've searched this room over and over, maybe Leon was just leading me away from himself." I said in defeat.
"ohh, he didn't lead you here, Tron. But don't worry he is close by, Ki." The monkey said cheerily.
[hmmm, I wonder if Megaman gets tired of this little things annoying personality.] I thought quickly.
"well then who brought me here?" I demanded.
"Yuna and Sera did. They want to talk." Data replied. I rolled my eyes and made for the door through which Leon had told the servbots that the cafeteria was.
"Well where are they?" I sneered.
"They are coming, they'll be here in a minute so if you'll just wait." the Data said continuing his extremely stupid dance.
"Well you can tell them…whoever they are, that I don't care what they want from me. I am going to get Leon and I'm not letting any of you stop me." I harshly told Data as I walked out through the door.
*****
The hallway that I stepped into was almost the same as all the other hallways that I had been through save that this one had a large number of doors that I had never seen before.
[alright we came this far, this hallway seems a little different, maybe the bridge is nearby, heck maybe it has one of those fancy life detector things like the rest of the museum or something that useful.] I thought slowly walking down the hallway. At the end of the hallway sat a single gold door with a single large reaverbot eye attached.
"Hmm, well if it looks important…" I murmured to myself as I opened the door and stepped through.
*****
"ahh, I was wondering if you would show up Tron." Leon's cold and insulting voice rang as I entered into the nearly deserted command bridge. Leon was the only person present in the large almost empty room.
"Leon…we trusted you, you fat jerk. You hurt me, you tried to kill me, and for that I am going to get you." I threatened Leon.
"Really now?" Leon asked sounding skeptic of my threat. I reached towards my back where I had the buster pistol holstered.
"Yea Leon. You are going to pay." I calmly replied.
"You know your mother once said something like that to me, that is, before she met her tragic fate." Leon mocked. I glanced around the room and found that the only other door in this almost empty room was across from the one I entered. Leon gave me a sly smile and burst for the other door suddenly. I was faster than Leon and I soon caught him before he reached the door and I pinned him next to the wall. I then pulled out my weapon and placed it on Leon's head.
"Leon…I AM going to get you!" I sneered at him.
"Go ahead shoot. I'm already too old; you have more than enough reason to." Leon replied, tempting me to shoot him.
"shut up!" I shouted forcing the gun closer to his face.
"ah ha ha haa. Listen kiddy your mother once had me just like this she had a chance to kill me, remove someone who threatened to kill her kids. However, you know what, she didn't and only a few short years latter she and your father were dead…dead because of me. She didn't kill the person who was going to kill her. And you, you're just like her…too weak to be a real pirate. Just look at your family, dirt poor because you don't have the stuff." Leon mocked.
"SHUT UP!" I screamed placing myself at a full arm length away in order to shoot Leon. "I am tough enough to do what is necessary! I will do what keeps the people I care about alive!" I growled.
"Tron? What are you doing?!?" a familiar voice suddenly burst out from the door I entered from. I looked to my left to see Roll and the young police officer Denise running in the room.
I moved my gun placing it under Leon's chin. "Get back!" I yelled.
"Tron stop this!" Roll pleaded.
"Stop your under arrest!" Denise then added pulling her own gun.
"What?!? No! I won't! He…he tried to kill me, he hurt me…he almost killed Teisel, he…he used me!" I replied, not feeling as sure of myself as I had before.
Roll took a step closer to me. "Tron listen, he is going to get what is coming to him, but Tron this isn't the way to handle things." Roll calmly said.
"what! Megaman never says 'hay please stop' he just shoots me until I'm left in a flaming crater!" I harshly said back.
"yea, but he never tries to kill some one!" Roll snapped back. "Tron just put the gun down." Roll softly suggested.
"ha! Shoot me c'mon you wimp, coward, just like I said too weak to be a real pirate!" Leon mocked.
My attention snapped back to Leon.
"Don't you dare!" Denise shouted taking aim at me. I then turned my head to look at Denise, but just as I turned my gaze to Denise, Leon kicked me in the stomach and snapped my arm to the side grabbing my gun. Leon then struck me across the face and escaped through the door. As Leon escaped quickly followed by Denise I slumped down onto the floor and grabbed my legs in a fetal position. I then began to rock back and forth calming myself down as I cried.
"I could'a… I should of…ha ah ah ha ah." I began whimpering. Roll came over and placed her arms around my shoulders.
"Tron are you alright?" she asked softly. I continued to whimper for a moment. "Tron calm down, it's alright. How did Leon hurt you?" Roll softly asked. I cried for a few moments more and then sat up right.
"he used me…I am never going to forgive Leon for using my family like that. He convinced me that I killed Glyde and then tried to kill me!" I told Roll feeling like I should get back into the fetal position.
"come on Tron get up. Listen Megaman told me about you two's last fight…he figured that he had better apologize…you know there are a few things worse than that misunderstanding that Megaman still hasn't apologized to me for." Roll said, I instantly thought of the two spots in Roll's diary where Megaman walked in while she was changing.
"really?" I perked up now feeling a little giddy at the through of Megaman coming to apologies to me.
[what is it about him that I like soo much?] I silently thought after realizing how I was suddenly anxious to see Megaman.
"hmm, doesn't matter, it looks like I am going to get arrested…" I began to say, but Roll nervously looked over her shoulder and cut in.
"Listen Tron, I'm going to help you, but just this once. If you go through the door I came through and then take the second door on your right it should take you to the aria Megaman is in, and I think there is an exit over that way, from there you can get to the Gesellschaft and escape." Roll told me pointing to the door she and Denise came in from, and the door I had used earlier.
I looked Roll in the eye for a moment. "thank-you." I sighed, as I jumped up and rushed towards the door .
*****
Following Roll's instructions I took the second door on the right and began to follow the new hallway.
[wait a second! Roll only told me this would take me to the aria Megaman was in…she never told me how to reach the exit!] I suddenly realized.
I began to walk the hallways not knowing which way to turn. As I approached a set of doors near what had to be the outer edge of the ship I could suddenly hear the sound of gunfire in a near-by room. Curious I ran over and peaked around the corner of the door. Inside I could see Megaman and the X guy together standing over a broken reaverbot corpse. But instead of moving on or picking up the many refractor peaces lying all around they just stood there glaring at one another.
"Yes Trigger, I haven't been completely honest with you. My actual unit designation is Proto-X, of the Proto-warrior series. I am also the master unit of this facility. I left this facility to protect the research of Mistress Kiore from ambrient units like you, and I have already begun seeding the Betas with Anthro-unit technology which will over time resurrect the Alpha humans. Despite the hindering actions of mistress' Sara and Yuna and even yourself, your Master and his race will be resurrected. " X told Megaman.
"X what do you think you doing?" Megaman demanded.
"It is my duty as a purifier unit to eliminate all ambrient units, Megaman Trigger you are to lower your weapons and be destroyed immediately." X suddenly ordered. Realizing where this was heading I pulled myself away from the scene and continued walking down the hallway. As I walked I started making a series of turns which seemed to come automatically to me. Eventually I could see an open door which lead to the outside and excitedly I began to run towards it. But as I drew close to the door the robot voice in my head began to say something.
[Self preservation procedure complete.] The voice said which caused me to stop. However, I did not have time to think about what the voice because the second I stopped Data, Megaman's monkey, and two girls stepped into my path. The first of the two women in front of me was an older looking woman with short blond hair and a single strangely recognizable bracelet. The blond woman really reminded me of an older version of Roll. The other was a younger girl, maybe just a year younger than I. the girl had green hair, which was done into two strangely flat ponytails. In addition, the younger girl had almost mud colored skin and oddly enough, red eyes. Lastly, the younger girl had two bracelets that looked extremely similar to the older woman's.
"see, kii, I told you that she would be coming this way." Data told them.
"Wow Data I'm impressed." The older woman told the little robot. The younger girl smiled and looked as if she were going to start jumping up and down. Suddenly the girl looked at the older woman and asked
"Yuna, what procedure do carbons take to relive this excitement emotion? I appear to be incapable of bringing it under control." The younger girl asked the older one, in a flat almost sterile tone.
The older woman put her hand over her mouth to hold back a laugh. "ohh, Sara it is always like you to try to keep a cold demeanor come on try living outside the system a little." Yuna told the younger looking Sara.
[wait….Sara, Yuna….ambrients!] the voice in my head hastily declared and forced me to feel uneasy.
Next the elder woman looked at me and with a smile said. "So you're Tron Bonne, we've never officially met but Megaman used to talk about you quite a bit on Elysium. My name is Yuna" Yuna said introducing herself to me.
[ she really looks like Roll…errrr, Roll said that Yuna borrowed her mothers body…I-I remember seeing her and Megaman getting out of the first space ship I built with Roll…I even remember seeing this girl…I-I felt so jealous of this girl for a while…but why?] I thought to myself rubbing my temple.
The younger girl, Sara looked at me for a moment and then stated "you do realize that it is common carbon custom to respond courteously to a introduction, I do not think that silence is at all part of that custom." Yuna glared at Sara quickly and then looked back towards me as I now grabbed my head in mental pain.
"What? I am only stating the custom as you instructed me on it." Sara then asked, a pompous tone in her voice.
Yuna, rolling her eyes, walked over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Sara, she's in pain." Yuna explained. I then bent over in pain and began to mutter.
"It appears that she might be trying to respond." Sara continued. Yuna knelt down and looked me in the eyes. "A-ambrients….err, no I…ambrients, for unit safety immediate escape is needed…no I must know what is it about Megaman that I forgot…this units safety takes priority over your desires. Errrahhh!" I began to debate with myself. Yuna's eyes grew wide with surprise.
"By the masters!" she muttered.
"I was…I was jealous of that green haired girl because of Megaman. Why, why would Megaman make me jealous of this girl, hate Roll, and make me feel so giddy?"I asked myself, my head filled with pain as something that seemed to large to fit in my find struggled to return to my memory.
"What is it?" Sara asked now with the sound of interest in her voice.
[ it's because you love him……wait… who do I love?....you love him….who?.....you love him, you desire to be near him, your happy to see him even when he bests you because you love him…..who is it?.....you love him Tron, you know you do you just refuse to remember!…..who Megaman?....Megaman! wait I-I love Megaman! How could I of been so blind? I love him! I LOVE HIM!....and-and he is in danger!] I realized this and everything that I ever did in my life suddenly came into focus, new emotion filled everything that ever happened to me and a new purpose came into my being.
"Megaman!" I gasped, as if breathing for the first time. My eyes grew wide and desperate as I looked at Yuna. "Megaman! He's in danger!" I cried pushing myself away from her and running back down the hallways I came from.
[Logical choice for unit preservation, now turn left here.] the hitchhiking voice in my head ordered. I turned right, ignoring the voice and heading towards Megaman.
[What are you doing? Turning right brings this unit closer to danger!] the voice screamed into my head
[too bad…I'm saving Megaman and your helping me!] I mentally roared.
[Such action is illogical!] The voice declared.
[Well you picked the wrong persons head to stay in!] I countered.
I now neared the room Megaman and X were in. I drew my pistol and crouched near the door. Inside I could see Megaman and X standing apart from one another, but Megaman looked like he was paralyzed and X had a huge charge of energy resting in front of his buster gun.
"You put up quite the resistance Trigger, but now you are incapable of escaping this attack, your chances of survival are now non-existent." X stated leisurely. Megaman looked like he was struggling to move but he could not.
"Don't worry…my love, tee he, it all finally makes sense." I giggled to myself, now feeling completely elated and eager. after Megaman had saved me or stopped me from doing something wrong, so many times it felt good finally being in a spot where I would be saving him.
"Good-bye Trigger." X sneered raising his buster gun to fire.
"NO!" I screamed running into the room firing my pistol. I hit X's buster gun weakening it's energy store and causing it to fire. I continued to run and I placed myself in front of Megaman just in time to be hit by an oversized energy bullet right in the stomach. I could feel the energy burn through my cloths and char my skin underneath.
As the blast hit me, I could see the world go dark around the edges of my vision. "errrr." I sighed as I began to fall backwards, only to be caught by Megaman's strong but careful grip.
"hmmm, Trigger, this I can not understand…" Proto-X began. " this unit has been imbued with a self preservation program yet despite the programs functions here it is, defying all logical processes and not only placing itself in danger but aiding a ambrient unit."
While Megaman gently laid me down on the ground I put my hand over my wound and glared at X through the one eye I was able to keep open.
"This unit is now even capable of acting against my directives, yet my investigations had provided me with no indications of this unit having a power capable of countering my directives." X stopped, glancing at me one last time then he then turned his full attention to Megaman.
"hmmm, it seems I am now making a program error…I have no reason to confide in an ambrient purifier unit such as yourself. I will unlock the mystery of this unit when I access its main data base and begin a complete reprogram." X finished.
"She's not a robot X she can't be reprogrammed!" Megaman harshly replied. But X never replied, instead I heard the sounds of a large fight going on all around me. As the fight going on around me continued, I slowly drifted to sleep trying to hold back the great pain from my stomach wound.
*****
I remember suddenly returning to consciousness in Megaman's arms, I must have fallen asleep in the middle of Megaman and X's battle. I opened my eyes and glanced around. Both my arms were slightly numb and my right arm was hanging down as Megaman was carrying me.
"That is right Trigger, it does appear as though some of the older systems of the original alpha humans are now beginning to reactivate and a number of the old programs are being restarted completely." I could hear the Sara girl telling Megaman. "I suspect, that maybe, just maybe, Proto-unit-X was attempting to recreate one of the old experiments of the ancients."
I then intervened. "I think it was the experiment of someone named Mistress Kiore of the science of biological mechanics division." Truthfully, I am not sure where the information came from but for some reason I just knew, luckily no one asked how, I just knew inexplicably.
"ki, that would explain a lot." Data chipped in. Megaman looked at me with a huge goofy smile.
"Your ok!" he silently cheered.
"Yea." I replied lifting my right arm and receiving a sharp pain in my stomach that caused me to hiss. "Mostly." I then added with an embarrassed smile on my face.
"So where are we?" I then asked, glancing at the hallway we were in.
"Data says we are out of Leon's ship and are now somewhere just inside the main Atlantis facility."
"Megaman…where are my servbots?" I then added.
"We got…ummm, got separated, sorry." Megaman said, his voice conveying how sorry he was.
"Megaman…" I began.
"Tron, I'm sorry, please don't be mad." Megaman a little hastily and nervously pleaded.
"Megaman! Look I just…I want to say…well I really…Megaman, thank-you." I told Megaman feeling myself blush.
"For what?" Megaman asked, sounding confused. I started to blush even more if it was possible.
"So what is this emotion called?" I could hear Sara whisper to Yuna.
"well you know…for, ummm… for, just being there….uh hm, for everything…you really have had to put up with me for all these years so I just sort of feel like I…sort of, uhhh, just thank-you…no, that's not it, Megaman, I…" I began to stammer. My eyes quickly darted around the room as Megaman stared at me.
[well are you going to tell him…just say it!...how can I cover this up, ummm, I could just say thank you…no, that wouldn't be right…I should just tell him, go ahead tell him!...but what if he doesn't feel the same? So what! It'll kill me not to ask, and am I going to "live" longer not telling him? I can't…but I have to…just tell him! Tell him now!] I argued inwardly, finally deciding to tell Megaman how I have felt about him for years.
"Hmm, Megaman…" I began, taking a deep breath to calm my nerves.
"awww, look here kiddo's the kitty kat and the boy in blue are together! Looks like it's that two bird with one stone saying times two! Now I've got myself the kat who ruined everything, the kid who blew half my equipment to pieces, and I have those two ancient birds who would oppose my dominance on ancient technology! Also the weird monkey who taught us the secret to space travel, he has to die as well." Leon broke in almost completely ruining the moment.
"Leon!" I growled. Lean and a group of pirobots all stood in a large hallway intersection with a number of passages behind them.
"Too weak! Like I said." Leon countered.
I looked up at Megaman and I could see his troubled expression. Leon had a whole squad of his Pirobots who were heavily armed, and he wouldn't be able to fight unless he dropped me, which was not something he would do.
"Here, I can see I might have ruined your mood so I'll give you a few seconds to finish what you were saying and say good-bye." Leon decided.
[Now or never] I thought to myself.
"Eh-hm, Megaman." I said, getting Megaman's attention. Megaman looked down at me with those gentle and yet heroic eyes of his and a new thought took over my mind. As Megaman looked down at me I threw my arms around him and lunged forward giving him the most passionate kiss I had ever experienced… correction, the only real kiss I had ever given.
I think what caught me by surprise was that the experience did not feel entirely one way, Megaman actually kissed me back. We kissed for what felt like an eternity but was also felt way too short because as we kissed Leon counted down and eventually ended our kiss with a shout.
"time to die Tron!" he yelled, causing Megaman and I to stop our kiss and turn to face him and what would be the coming end of his and my life, not to mention Yuna, Sara, and Data. I grasped Megaman's hand that was part of the arm holding my legs and I squeezed, expecting to be filled with buster bullets any second, but the shooting never started. A large group of bombs and explosives flew into the middle of Leon's group of pirates and exploded.
"Whoa?" I gasped, confused with what happened.
"Yay we got 'em!" I could hear one very exited high pitched voice cried out.
"Miss Tron would be soo proud!" shouted another.
"babu buuu!"
"Guys! Miss Tron's right there!" I could hear yet another of the high voiced servbots yell.
"W-what she-she was here the whole time?" one of the servbots asked.
"Is she still mad?" another in a nervous tone wondered.
"But she said she quit…" another stated in a confused giggle.
"Well why don't we ask her?" one of them suggested.
"ALRIGHT NOW WHAT IS ALL THE COMMOTION? HUGH?" Teisel's loud commanding voice demanded.
"We found Miss Tron!" a servbot cheered. I looked up at Megaman to see if he seemed as confused as I was…he was.
"WELL NOW WHERE IS SHE?" Teisel demanded.
"Right there Master Teisel." A servbot then told him. Teisel's head suddenly stuck out from around the corner of the hallway and when he saw me his eyes grew wide.
"TRON…and Megaman?" he loudly said in shock. Teisel then stepped into the hallway. "ummm, Tron…why is Megaman carrying you?" Teisel then asked.
I looked behind Teisel to see Leon laying there covered in ashes from the explosion and stunned.
"ummm, I kind'a got hurt…bad." I explained felling the sudden relief of still being alive. Teisel's eyes grew wide again.
"What how…HE didn't hurt you did he?" Teisel asked, implying that it was Megaman who hurt me. I blushed slightly.
"No Teisel actually Megaman sort of saved me." I told Teisel. A small group of servbots then rounded the corner.
"ummm, Miss Tron….do you still quit?" they innocently asked.
"What?!?" I then demanded not understanding.
"you said that you quit that Megaman was going to be in charge of us…umm, does this mean you two aren't going to fight anymore?" the servbots told me and then pointed to Megaman carrying me, suggesting that it meant we were now as they put it 'friends'. After the first servbot made the suggestion, another servbot debate broke out.
"Hay stop! Yes I'm still in charge…and Megaman and I are still rivals." I felt a pang of guilt after saying that but I could not let Teisel suspect my love for Megaman, nor could I let the servbots keep arguing.
"Hmmm, carbons…Yuna you are going to have to explain this all to me later." I could hear Sara say behind us.
[shut your mouth….if she keeps talking like that Teisel might get curious and that'll ruin my relationship with Megaman or make it extremely awkward.] I thought harshly at Sara.
Teisel then walked up to Megaman and I. "eh-hm, I'll take her now thank-you." he said formally to Megaman. Megaman then gently passed me over to Teisel who held me firmly. Something about being in Teisel's arms wasn't as comforting as being in Megaman's, even though Teisel is my big brother.
"So, what do we do with Leon?" a servbot asked, in a eager but slightly formal tone.
"Taking action against the carbon unit Leon is unadvisable." Proto-X's voice suddenly rang out. Leon began to laugh as he got back onto his feet.
"Now Leon…it is time we escape this facility and disperse…both of our objectives and other programs can no longer co-exist with the presence of hostile forces in this location." X concluded, as a trap door suddenly burst open under Leon. Megaman leapt forward in an attempt to stop Leon's escape but he was far too late.
"Quick get after him! Don't let him get away!" I ordered, to which the Servbots answered with a loud and excited,
"YES MAM!" as they dispersed through the many hallways.
"Hay Teisel…could we find a bed or something for me to lie down in, I don't feel too good." I then told my older brother feeling the weariness causing my voice to sound rough.
"hmm, OH! Yea Sister I-I'll find you the best bed possible. Looks like we'll have to postpone our little rivalry Blue Boy until Tron gets better…then she'll make you sorry you ever heard the name…Bonne!" Teisel ranted at Megaman, as a number of servbots set out to find a place for me to lie down. [Please don't let this ruin my relationship with Megaman.] I thought for a moment.