{Last updated: 6/28/2014}
... Well, dang. I've been absent for too long... (O.o)
Sorry for the super loooooooooooong wait, everyone! You see, school has reaaaally got me to work on school-related stuffs only (or in other words, TONS of homeworks), so I was left weary and not working on anything that non school-related. Not to mention I'll have my Term 2 Mid Test on 6th October of Monday until 10th October of Friday... (X_x)
Still, I'm glad that this fic already reached 76 reviews—that's really a shocking sight! Usually, it'll take me until Chapter 30-ish to reach this number, so this is really something I truly appreciate from you all! Thank you for your continuous support, everyone~! :')
Thank you for your reviews for the previous Chapter, buddies! x3 ..As always, before I continued to the fic, I would like to thank koryandrs, blee7442, Sword Dancer Sapphy, Wolverine the biobot, Snodin, Prometheus16, ethan.muller.35, plz, Guest, REDxYELLOW, and jared.christopherson.5 for the reviews you gave me— it means so much to me and I really appreciate it! Oh, and I would like to thank to any writers who has fav/follow this fanfic, too! x3
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Disclaimer : The game company Capcom owns the series "Megaman" and any of its characters in this fic. Piano is owned by Capricorn— the company that create the Japanese fan-game "Rockmen R: Dr. Wily's Counterattack". Blastman is owned by blee7442, and Prometheus is owned by Prometheus16. What I own is the plot of this fanfic~ ^^-
Rock & Roll
Chapter 23 : Resembling Her is the Enemy
"U-UURRRGH! Why there are no signals here?! Grrr... A-And why this place need to have LOADS of steps?!"
Roll coughed hard from fatigue as she crawled through the grand spiral staircase, panting heavily, an irritated look was placed on her face.
A moment before, after gathering enough courage to go on, Roll ran through the super-quiet long corridor, sound of her stomps echoing around her.
It took 15 minutes before the blonde robot girl arrived in front of a grand spiral staircase. At the sight, Roll knew that Rush Jet would be a great help right now. So she reached for her ear piece and call Auto to summon Rush...
Kzzzt...
Only to know that in a spot she currently at, there are no signals available.
Roll let out a loud groan as she remembered the time she decides to get through the grand spiral staircase— all by herself.
She first ran easily through the steps...
Jogged when she thinks she need to safe more energy...
Walked when fatigue began to flow within her...
Stomped when fatigue took control over her body...
And finally, she crawled through the steps until now due to total fatigue.
"J-Just how MANY steps do I have to went through to get to the 'boss' of this stage?!" Roll yelled angrily, but then coughs again. "U-Urgh... Lucky I brought an E-Tank with me... I-I'll make sure to drink it up when I reach the top of this ANNOYING grand spiral staircase!"
As she continued to crawl, Roll coughs again. "UUURGH! DR. WILYYYYY!"
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It took a while before the blonde robot girl finally reaches the top. As she panted heavily, Roll let herself met the ground face first, doing it carefully so she won't get any pain for her action.
"Oh, FINALLY!" Roll's muffled voice was heard, "Took you LONG enough to end, you ANNOYING grand spiral staircase!"
Roll stayed in her position for quite a long time before she felt some bits of her energy flow back into her. Then, as she slowly push herself to a sitting position, the blonde robot girl pulled out an E-Tank from her stock, eagerly opening the can and drank its contents in one gulp.
"Fuwaaah... Now I'm ready to go!" Roll said after finishing her E-Tank, pushing herself up to her feet and proceed to the grey metal door before her.
Once she did, Roll was surprised that the usual corridor thing she always encountered was not there, facing a big room with many platforms instead.
"What...? Why this is new..." the blonde girl muttered, head cocked to the side. "Hmm... I wonder who I should defeat here..."
Roll walked around, observing the platforms placed randomly— the ceiling, the walls, the floor, and everywhere. They're all placed in horizontal, vertical, and uneven positions.
The blonde girl keeps looking around, her eyes focused to the uneven-placed platforms until a voice of a girl broke the complete silence.
"There you are, Blondie. I've been waiting for you to come."
Gasping in surprise, the blonde girl whirled, hoping to see whoever just spoke as she did so. But much to her shock, she found no one.
A-Am I just hearing things...? Roll thought, a slight feeling of dread began to appear within her.
Much to the blonde girl's surprise, she heard the previous voice sighs. "Really now...? Up here, Blondie."
... So it's not just my imagination, Roll thought as she looked up, her bright blue eyes move around carefully through the uneven-placed platforms...which quickly widened once the blonde girl caught an unexpected sight.
"W-What the...?" Roll gritted her teeth, crossing her arms. "... Really now, Dr. Wily? I thought you're at least a bit creative!"
Up there, sitting at one of the uneven-placed platforms at the walls, was a girl that looks EXACTLY like her. The only difference is that her look-alike has pale purple hair instead of yellow, the bow she wore colored a brighter green than hers, and her eyes are dark blue instead of light blue like hers.
Roll stared long at her look-alike, thinking why Dr. Wily make a copy of her instead of reconstruct one of his Robot Masters.
"You look just like me..." Roll uttered, bright blue eyes still focused at her look-alike. "Who are you...?"
Her look-alike's reply is...something absurd. And that really, REALLY annoys Roll.
"I'm Roll, duh."
"You?" the blonde robot girl said with a humph. "Yeah, right. I don't remember being that ugly."
Her 'copy' snickers. "Such a hot-tempered girl you are... I take it you dislike my appearance so much?"
"Of course I would!" Roll finally snapped, glaring at her look-alike angrily. "Why wouldn't I? Dr. Wily made an exact copy of me! I know Megaman ever fight a copy of him, but I never thought Dr. Wily would do the same to me! Ugh, I guess the time he said his head is all spinning to build and sketching new stuff is TOTALLY not true, after all!"
"My, my. Poor you..." the look-alike chuckled. "I would like to hear your whining more, Blondie. But sadly, I have a job to do."
"W-Whining?! I'm NOT whining!" Roll exclaimed, looking annoyed. "Seriously, you want a piece of me, look-alike?!"
"That sure sound fun, Blondie," her 'copy' said, suddenly switches her left arm to a red Buster— the sight that make Roll groans even more. "Fine by me, but you won't win."
"Hmph! Don't get too cocky!" Roll retorted, switching her left arm to a red Buster. "We'll see about that!"
*Music Starts : Demo Stage Music [Rockmen R: Dr. Wily's Counterattack]*
Roll jumped to the nearest platform, getting up to the higher ones before she fires her small shots to her look-alike, who quickly dodged the attack before she hopped down from the platform she stood at, all while charging energy to her Buster.
It's a shock for Roll when she saw her look-alike fall down at high-speed and landed perfectly to the platform the blonde girl currently at— with no tense facial expression or whatsoever.
Then, without warning, the purple-haired 'copy' points her Buster at Roll, releasing a charged shot at her.
"Gah!" the blonde robot girl cried in pain, almost losing her footing. Fortunately, she manage to regain her balance before she could fall.
"First attack, Blondie," her look-alike said, somehow like a taunt. "Come on. You have to do better than that."
The blonde girl gritted her teeth. "It's NOT 'Blondie'!" she brought her Buster up, "It's ROLL!" she roared, releasing a charged shot toward her look-alike.
"Aww," the purple-haired 'copy' said with a false sad tone, as she stepped to the platform next to her to avoid the charged shot, "but I am Roll."
At that statement, anger began to bubbled within Roll. "S-Say WHAT now, look-alike?! Gosh, aren't you an ANNOYING one?"
"But it's true," her look-alike suddenly hopped from her spot, and quickly set herself down beside the shocked blonde robot girl. "I mean, if you are the real Roll, any of your attacks should have hit me since this fight began."
Without warning, the purple-haired 'copy' bent down, delivering a swift kick that swept Roll off her feet, making the surprised blonde girl fall down, skipping 2 platforms before she landed HARD to the third one.
"UAAGH!" Roll cried aloud in agony, feeling her energy decreased much when her back made contact with the platform's hard surface.
"Aww, look! Second hit~!" the look-alike cackled, hopping down from the high platform she's at, and landing perfectly on her feet to the platform Roll currently on.
"I am soooo going to win this battle~!" the look-alike said, jumping around like a happy child would. "Come on, come on! Stand up! Let's continue, Blondie~!"
Roll gritted her teeth at her look-alike's childish actions— which obviously taunts her somehow. The blonde robot girl slowly push herself up to her feet, bright blue eyes glaring dangerously at her 'copy'.
"I won't lose!" Roll declared aloud. "I'll land a hit on you, one way or another!"
"I'd like to see you try, Blondie~!" the purple-haired 'copy' exclaimed, as she and Roll continued their battle.
The two of them began to exchanged shot after shot while jumping up and down to the platforms around them, dodging each other's attacks swiftly.
Both girls also sent their shots rather quickly, so when they evade each other's attacks, most of them are missing their bodies by an inch.
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Minutes passed by, yet Roll still unable to land a hit at her look-alike, while her 'copy' already hit her multiple times.
At those minutes too, Roll learned about her look-alike. And it's not good for the blonde girl.
Her 'copy' is a sharp-eyed one like Prometheus, and her attacks— which keep hitting the blonde girl even when she's dodging her shots— means she's a precise one like Blastman. With this combined, it looks as if her look-alike is a strong one like her older brother Megaman.
Roll cried once again as her look-alike's small shots hit her, while hers are easily avoided by the purple-haired 'copy'.
H-How did this happen?! Roll thought, teeth grinding together in anger. If this continues, then I'll lose! I should find a way to land a hit on her somehow!
Roll fires multiple small shots and a charged shot to her look-alike, but once again, the purple-haired 'copy' avoided it easily, spinning in the air like a ballerina while sending a charged shot at Roll, which hit the blonde girl again as she landed back to the platform on her feet.
"Uagh!" Roll was sent down to the platform just below her, wincing in pain. Her energy sensor gave her a warning that she don't have much left, and that she should refill them soon.
The worse thing is, she ran out of E-Tank.
"My, my! Look~!" her look-alike chuckled, crouching down beside her, smiling innocently. "Such pale face you made there, Blondie! Are you sick?"
Roll almost have no energy to snap at her 'copy', so she just turn her head away.
"Aww, you are? That's too bad," the look-alike pouted, standing up. "Oh, well. If that's the case..."
The innocent smile suddenly gone from the 'copy's face, and was replaced with a wide, evil smirk... Upon catching a glimpse of it, Roll's mind screamed, closing her eyes shut.
"Well," the purple-haired 'copy' points her Buster at Roll, "I'll end this quick then..."
Charging energy into her Buster, the look-alike grinned. "It was fun while it lasted... Goodbye, Blondie~"
The look-alike took a few steps back, Buster fully charged with huge amount of energy.
She was about to release it at Roll when the blonde girl spoke.
"N-... No..." Roll muttered as she shook her head. "I-I can't lose... N-Not now..."
Her look-alike look unimpressed. "Oh...? Is that so? Well, sorry, Blondie. Looks like I'm going to beat you here. So just stay there, and let me shot you to scraps," the purple-haired 'copy' said boringly.
Roll gritted her teeth. "N-No! I-I won't... l-lose..." the blonde robot girl uttered, and suddenly, her body glowed and a bit change was done to her outfit— her red dress and boots transformed in color to deep blue, while her dark blue sleeves and her boots' cuffs changed in color to deep purple.
"W-Won't... l-lose..." Roll slowly stood up, looking at her look-alike right in the eye with determination...
From the 'copy's view, however, she saw more from the blonde robot girl. And that made her wonder.
Determination indeed written all over Roll's face, but she seems to unaware that strange red sparks was coming out from her body, and a grotesque black color swirled within her bright blue orbs.
"That's sure something new..." the purple-haired 'copy' murmured in a low tone, seemingly thinking. "What would happen next, I wonder...?"
Just after the 'copy' said so, she saw Roll crossed her arms in front of her face.
"I-I... c-can't..." Roll uttered, looking serious, "l-lose... H-HERE!"
With those words, Roll held her hands out. The blonde girl then let out a very, VERY loud cry, and suddenly, the whole place started to shake.
"W-What the—?!" the purple-haired 'copy' bent down and grab a hold at the platform's edges as the quake goes on, and seems to get more violent as seconds goes by. The look-alike then look up to Roll, eyes widened in shock.
"W-What power... C-Could this be—?!" the purple-haired 'copy' began, but was abruptly cut off when something shocking happens.
Roll let out another loud cry as suddenly, uncountable ring-shaped lilac waves were released from Roll's body, going around the whole room and damaging all the platforms. The purple-haired 'copy' gasped, knowing well what would happen next.
"Oh, dang it," the look-alike uttered, a blank expression at her face. "This won't end well..."
Right after the purple-haired 'copy' said so, all of a sudden, all the platforms cracked and broke to pieces, leaving the two girls to fall to the ground at dangerous rate.
"H-HWAAAAAAAA!" the purple-haired 'copy' cried aloud in frantic, wondering how on Earth she could survive this fall.
I don't care about that Blondie, but still, I'm...! the 'copy' stop herself from thinking, knowing it's useless to do so with her current situation. So she continued to scream instead as she keep falling down, with Roll not far from her...
*Music Ends*
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Suddenly, an arm wrapped around the 'copy's waist, surprising her as her eyes shot open.
"E-Eek?!" the purple-haired 'copy' look up, and in instant, the panic within her washed away.
"Big Brother~!" the 'copy' smiles brightly to the black robot who was holding her. "Oh, I knew you actually care about me~!" she added as she flung her arms to the black robot's waist.
"H-HEY! Get your dirty hands off me, you weirdo!" the black robot groaned aloud, teeth grinding together in annoyance. "As for your statement, HMPH! You get the wrong idea there, weirdo— I only followed old man's orders!"
The purple-haired 'copy' pouted, releasing her hold from the black robot's waist. "Aww... Too bad for me then. So what did Dad promised to give you in return? Knowing you, you won't follow his orders easily, Big Brother Bass."
Bass smirks at the statement. "Old man promised to add more upgrades for me and Treble if I go here and save you from this fall," the black robot explained. "Still... Why need to disguise as that Roll girl, weirdo?"
The purple-haired 'copy' giggles. "Oh, just for fun, Big Brother... Aww, did you miss to see your younger sister's face that you ask that~?"
"W-Who said that, YOU WEIRDO?!" Bass roared angrily as the purple-haired 'copy' closed her eyes, initiating a silent command to revert back to her true form— a purple-haired robot girl in white dress labeled as SWN-002 by Dr. Wily— named Piano.
"Come on, Big Brother! Let's go back home~!" Piano said cheerfully, putting her arms around Bass' waist again. The black robot groaned at this, and was about to activate his teleportation system when he noticed Roll.
Wait, she's unconscious...? Bass looks down, grinding his teeth together as he noticed that they almost reach the ground. Dang it... This is totally against my will, but...
Piano yelps as Bass suddenly hopped to the nearby falling platforms, then continued to jump to the others multiple times until...
"W-What...? BIG BROTHER! W-What are you DOING?!" Piano snapped, glaring at Bass as she watched the black robot slung his free arm around the waist of the unconscious Roll.
"Her 'disappearance' might be fun for you, but NOT me," Bass groaned, glaring back at Piano. "If she's gone, that blue-dweeb might lost his will to fight, which is a BAD thing for me!"
Piano gritted her teeth. "W-What's THAT supposed to mean?!"
"It means I won't get a chance to fight that blue-dweeb if this sister of his are gone, YOU IDIOT!" Bass roared indignantly, looking away from the angered Piano before she could give him a piece of her mind. "TREBLE!"
A loud howl was heard as Treble came from above, already in his 'jet mode'— which is him transforming into a flat jet board.
Treble flew just below his master, allowing Bass to land down on him. The black robot then made Treble stop and hovering in the air as the remaining platform pieces fall down to the metal ground, creating a loud echo that made Bass, Treble, and Piano's hearing systems buzzed for a moment.
"GAH! S-Stupid echoes..." Bass groaned as his hearing systems revert back to normal, teeth grinding together in annoyance.
Piano huffed. "We wouldn't hear that if only you forget about Roll and get out of here sooner."
"I've told you the reason why I save her, haven't I? Blame the blue-dweeb for this," Bass said, rolling his eyes. Still riding Treble Jet, the black robot flew down to the piles of broken platforms below, placing the unconscious Roll on the top of a platform piece that still have smooth surface and coincidentally in horizontal position— even when it was atop the many pieces of broken platforms.
"Huh?" Piano wondered aloud. "Big Brother... You'll leave her? Why don't we—"
"There is no need to bring her with us," Bass replied with a huff. "Someone— blue-dweeb or whoever— will surely fetch her away from here. And besides, having you on board already gives Treble a hard time to stay in this form, you weirdo."
"H-HEY! I'm NOT that heavy! You're so mean!" Piano protested, and with a loud huff, she added, "W-Whatever! Let's go back already, Big Brother!"
"You don't have to tell me that, weirdo," Bass said with a small smirk, before he— still holding Piano with one arm by her waist and riding Treble Jet— flew away high to the air until they're gone from sight, leaving the unconscious Roll and the huge mess behind...
Piano— disguising herself as Roll! The battle between the two robot girls is a tie due to Roll's unexpected attack... But was it really on her own intention?! Piano seems to know something... What could it be?
Find it out... by stay tuned for more Chapters~! ;D
Anyhoo... Piano disguised(?) as Roll was a reference to "Rockmen R: Dr. Wily's Counterattack", where at their first meeting, she does that.
Oh, and... I'm sorry, but NO replies for now! I was EXTREMELY busy until I can't make one. O_x ..But you know how THANKFUL I am when I got your feedbacks; it means a LOT to me! :') ..Thank you for the reviews, buddies! I'm glad you enjoyed this story, even though I always make you all annoyed by the late updates... X_x
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You know what they said; "Nobody's Perfect". So I beg your pardon if there's some errors and 'weird' sentences in this Chapter. Thank you to you all who've read, fav, follow, and review this story! :) ..Well, as always, next Chapter is in-progress. So stay tuned for more Chapters, everyone! Cheers~! ^^-
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