Tsukasa: This is a re-posting of a fic from my main profile on this one. A couple of reasons for this would be:
A, Almost all my video game stuff is here anyway and
B, I felt like it
B isn't a good reason, but there you go. Reminder from Chapter 1: I will be posting up through chapter four in one go as I already have the X arc written.
Project X
Disclaimer: Mega Man and Everything else I reference belong to Capcom and their various owners. However, I own Xavier (well mostly), Zack (who I hope won't end up a Gary Stu), Dr. Tsukina Light, my villains, and Xavier's family
Chapter 3:Time Keeps on Slipping, into the Future
Zack picked up the casing in a tissue, remembering the crime shows and on impulse hopped on his bike and peddled away as fast as he could. He arrived at a slummy part of town, but he knew there were a few ex-hoods who had worked with Gr-Albert in the past that might help him based on him. Before the first Robot War, his family denied Albert was insane and let him babysit Zack once. BIG MISTAKE. Zack was exposed to the criminal element and knew of a hood that specialized in bullet manufacturing, and he did so often for Albert.
Hopefully he was out of jail.
"Who's there?" he asked.
"Zack Watson." said Zack.
"Who?" asked the man.
"I used to be Zack, W-Wily," he said softly looking around hoping no one was near enough to hear him say that name.
The door was flung open.
"The little blonde kid! I remember you." the beefy man said. "What can I do for the grandkid of my best customer?"
"You can tell me what this is." said Zack, "And promise to not tell anyone Wily reproduced."
"I can do both." said the man, "Though the second I can see the reason for very well."
Zack proffered the casing.
"This didn't come from a bullet." he said looking at it, "It's part of a tranquilizer dart that got chipped off. Not many people commission this type. I sold one to some military guy a few days ago, tranquilizers are best fresh."
"Days? As in maybe two?" asked Zack hoping the man would say no.
"Yeah, said it was for some recruitment thing." he said.
"Do you have his address?" asked Zack coming to one conclusion: Kidnapping.
"Yeah, why?" asked the man.
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Xavier was rushed to the operating table to make sure he would live; well that was only the reasons for the two Dr. Lights. The Commander's reason was to check for any lasting damage to his golden goose. The reason the bullet did the damage it did was the metal on his bones wasn't yet set, and therefore weak.
"He'll live but he'll be offline for a while." said Dr. Tsukina Light.
"Good, while he's out, Dr. Light, not you, him. I want you to erase him memories. I want to stamp his defiance out before it can start and cause trouble." said the Commander.
"I cannot do that!" said Dr. Thomas Light.
"He means he can't do that yet. Xavier- Cyborg X is still too unstable for any massive brainwave tampering." said Dr. Tsukina Light.
"Very well we will wait until he is in the green." said the Commander, "Which is?" he asked looking at Dr. Thomas Light.
"Five hours." he said.
"Good." said the Commander.
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Zack after promising not to reveal his source to the police arrived at the police station with all the evidence he needed.
"Watson?" asked a detective. Zack looked over at the detective (It was an older man) from across the room. He walked over.
"Yes?" he asked.
"You're not making this up are you?" the detective asked.
"NO! Xavier Prosper was kidnapped by some psychopaths and given family history I know psychopaths." said Zack pointedly. The officer nodded, his birth name had come up in a background check.
"We'll look into this." he said.
"Thank you for believing me, Detective Tracy." said Zack. The man nodded to Zack.
"We'll do our best." he said.
Zack left and Detective Tracy smirked. The guy at the address Zack Watson né Wily, had given him had been on his radar for weeks. This kid had just given him his means to finally get a warrant.
'I've got you now.' he thought.
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The alarm klaxons blared. The five hours the good doctor and her ex had asked for had gone by and now he was being raided by the police.
"Get him to the basement!" The commander ordered. Xavier, still in battle mode was wheeled into an elevator and placed in a stasis pod, once he had forced the doctors to hook him up to the necessary systems he pointed a gun at Tsukina Light's head.
"Wipe his memories now and implant false ones that he is a loyal soldier to me and that he volunteered for this." the Commander ordered.
"I can't do that! I don't even know how to tamper with memories!" said Thomas Light.
"Do it!" he said placing his finger on the trigger. Dr. Light began to write codes and Tsukina saw what he was doing and once he finished he flung himself on Tsukina as the capsule slammed shut.
"What did you do!" he yelled.
"That Capsule is sealed. You cannot use that boy for your schemes any longer." said Thomas Light.
With that the Commander shot Thomas Light in the head, killing him instantly causing Tsukina Light to cry out. He aimed his gun at her whenever the doors burst open. A cop shot the Commander in the shoulder forcing him to drop his pistol.
"Hands on your heads!" they yelled. Tsukina was sobbing over her husband's corpse.
"Dr. Light! Are you alright?" asked an EMT paramedic. Tsukina kept sobbing.
Dr. Thomas Xavier Light was declared dead at the scene.
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Tristan Light was going about his normal routine, working at the hospital, he was an oncologist. He had a wife and three kids, two boys and a girl. He hadn't spoken to his father in ten years, his mother in twelve. His mother denied him his father growing up except for on his birthday and a holiday every year. His father naturally chose Christmas. As his father grew older his beard made him look like Santa clause. This delighted his children the last time he visited. Then Wily went mad. His dad stopped visiting for his son's own safety. Tristan understood that. His mother, on the other hand, had no excuse what so ever.
"Dr. Light!" said a voice and he looked up to see an intern run over to him.
"Call for you at the front desk!" she said.
"Thank you." said Tristan. He walked through the hospital and walked over to the desk.
"Hello? Dr. Light here." he said.
"Tristan Light?" asked a man's voice, "This is Detective Richard Tracy. I regret to inform you that your father Thomas Xavier Light was murdered today." The phone slipped through Tristan's numbed fingers. He grabbed the phone,
"You there?" asked Detective Tracy.
"Y-yes. I'll be there as soon as I can." said Tristan.
On the next flight out, he and his family were sitting in subdued silence. His wife patted him on his arm as the plane took off.
"He lived a long life." she said.
"I know it's just hard to believe he's gone." said Tristan.
"We'll get through this. The person who needs us right now is your mother." said Theresa.
"If she sticks around for the funeral." said Tristan bitterly.
"The past is the past." said Theresa angrily. His children, Thomas, Tara, and Tyler were asleep in the row across from them; he looked at them and sighed.
They arrived at a hospital.
"Your mother is inside with a trauma specialist." said a paramedic.
"Thank you." he said. He entered the room and saw his mother was a mess.
"Mom." he said. He walked over to her and hugged her tightly.
"You-You look so like him!" she sobbed.
"It's ok." he said.
"He died protecting me!" she sobbed.
After leaving His mother with the kids and Theresa he walked out to see he police interviewing a young blonde boy who looked familiar but he couldn't place it.
"This young man helped us shut down the militant group responsible for kidnapping your mother and murdering your father along with the young man's best friend." said the officer whenever Tristan walked over.
"Thank you." he said.
"Zack Watson." said the boy offering a hand.
"Dr. Tristan Light." said Tristan.
"My condolences." said Zack sadly, "We both lost. If only I had searched longer that first day!"
"It's no use contemplating what ifs, Zack." said the officer.
'Watson, that name sounds familiar…' wondered Tristan. 'Wait, wasn't Wily's wife's maiden name, Watson? He's a Wily! Yet he helped a Light? They did mention his friend. I suppose I'll reserve judgment for this Wily.'
Zack exited the hospital fighting his emotions. He'd wait till he was alone until he broke down. His friend was gone! GONE!
Xavier's father hadn't even cared. Zack looked to the sky, 'Now what?'
The capsule containing Xavier was transported to the main headquarters of Light Industries which was buried in yet another earthquake. Wars followed, years passed, technology was lost, and knowledge was gained, disease spread rapidly. Soon mankind was back to the days of early robotics with no robotic miracle such as Mega Man.
Dr. Cain was excavating a large portion of what had once been a sprawling metropolis.
What had had found: Nothing, not a single piece of technology from the past, from when Dr. Light was around.
"We found something in area E-46." said a robot. If this last spot didn't yield anything big, Dr. Cain would give up the dig and got back to his other job.
'One last chance.' he thought. 'Maybe my luck will change.'