Super Science
Ch 76: Let's Talk It Out
Light walked up to the impressive new research facility spread out in every direction before his eyes. In any other situation, he'd be in awe and wonder! Chomping at the bit to get just a peek inside the place and see all it had to offer. But this wasn't a leisurely trip. He had been forced here to negotiate and he only hoped he could succeed. Before he could knock on the doors of the building, the two automatic sliding glass doors opened to reveal Izuku and Egon standing behind them.
"Good to see you have come, Doctor.", Egon greeted him.
Light took a calming breath as he offered straight off the bat, "I'll give you whatever you want if you give him back to me."
Egon put a finger to his chin and began to say, "Well, I do have an unusual ach for some salami and-."
"Egon!", Izuku scolded him.
Egon dropped it quickly and argued back, "Okay okay! Geez! Let me have my fun, why don't ya.", after pushing his hair back he told the old man, "Well give you your kid and his pet if you simply come and sit down."
Light raised an eyebrow at this and he was brought into the building where he was brought into a seemingly empty yet well-lit room. The only thing inside was a long table, some chairs, and his old adversity sitting across from at the far end. Both scientists met their eyes and sneered at one another. Once inside he was set before a chair at the opposite end of Wily where the two glared daggers at each other.
"Wily.", Light greeted with a groan.
"Light.", Wily greeted with a hiss.
"Tension.", Izuku side-mouthed to Egon who nodded quietly.
Wily grunts a chuckle and says, "I see your droid is just as useless as he always is."
"He is not useless and you know it!", Light argued while pounding the table.
"Alright! That's enough outta you two!", Egon yells at both old men, causing them to shut up. After he took a deep breath he addressed both and told them, "It's clear you both have a lot of pent-up aggression towards one another and not the sexual kind, so why don't we get it all out in the open before we open another can of worms."
"Or worse, start a war.", Izuku adds.
"A bit late on that front.", Wily murmured under his breath.
Egon nods with Izuku and says, "Exactly. So why don't we just try and find a middle ground or the closest thing to one."
Lights groans a sigh and begins, "Fine, I'll start. Albert Wily is a narcissistic, cold-blooded, egotistical maniac who has no regard for human life!"
"And that's just some of my good points.", Wily shoots back with an egotistical smile.
A tack mark appeared above Light's head as he said back with a forced smile, "Did I also mention how insanely insurable he is!"
Before things could escalate any further Egon raised his voice and shouted, "Okay, quiet down, Thomas Light! Let's start with you Albert."
"Well if I had to sum it all up I'd have to say that…", Wily stated as he stroked his chin before slamming the table and yelled at Light, "The only reason I'm like this is because of you!"
Light looked offended by the comment before he pointed to himself and exclaimed, "Me!? I've never done anything to you! You're the one who tried to take over the world!"
"You did!?", both Izuku and Egon exclaimed while looking at the other old man.
"Only once.", Wily argued back.
"Once?", Light shot back.
"Okay okay, a couple of times. But I still failed, didn't I?", Wily waved off the accusation before turning to the two scientists and asking them, "And besides, you didn't know about that?"
"No. Care to explain?", they both asked again in unison.
Wily groaned and told them, "What's there to explain? I made a robot factory, made a bunch of bots, hijacked some of Lights' civil servant robots, and tried to take over the world. Then Mega Brat came along and destroyed everything. And it's still your fault!"
Light rolls his eyes at the blame and says sarcastically, "Oh yes! Of course! It all makes sense how I forced you into attempted world domination!"
"You did!", Wily argued back.
"ENOUGH!", Izuku yelled, causing the two men to shut up as the teen rubbed his eyes under his glasses before telling them, "Okay. You two have some kind of misunderstanding between one another. Doctor Light says he never did anything to you. And yet Doctor Wily says you did. Let's hear Albert's reasoning as to why he feels that.", to this, both men nod in agreement.
"Before I do that, how's about a trip down memory lane?", Wily offered as he hopped off his chair and walked to where Light was sitting, walking about the room as if reminiscent and telling him, "You remember college, don't you, Tomas?", Light said nothing in return, so Wily continued. "You got in on recommendations and twelve different scholarships. You were the son of the late and great Doctor Illumination.", he explained with fake gusto.
"Doctor Illumination? But your surname is Light.", Izuku questions.
"Long story.", Light tells him.
Wily coughs to gain their attention then says, "As I was saying! You had everything given to you in life and didn't have to break a sweat getting in. While I had to bust my hump with no recommendations or money! I had to skim the covers of textbook after textbook. Sleepless night after night. Until I finally aced that entrance exam and walked in feeling like I had made something of myself.", Wily spoke of all this with a seemingly youthful glitter of joy in his eye. Only for it to die as he tightened his hands into fists, and said in a sour tone, "But then you came along and ruined everything! Everyone wanted to be around the "prodigy". I couldn't make any friends and my roommate won't stop squawking about you every single night! Tomas "this" and Tomas "that", blah blah blah! That's all I ever heard. I assumed that you, being a spoiled rich kid, would drop out within a month or accomplish nothing. Trying to coast through everything as I saw you did."
After saying this with a hopeful tone Wily became extremely angry, grabbing at his hair as he yelled, "URGH! But you didn't! You took to it like a fish to water. I made just as many accomplishments as you, if not more, but you always took the spotlight every chance I could even get a glimmer! You'd somehow take the last meatball sub at lunch, you threw those loud parties and kept me up at night, and you even asked out the girl I liked, even though you knew I liked her! And to make matters even worse, when graduation came around, you did that God-awful speech for so long that instead of going up to receive my diploma in front of so many strangers who wanted to congratulate me. I had to be handed it after the fact since you couldn't help yourself from keeping that gaping maw you call a mouth, shut!", Wily ranted off in the face of the old doctor, breathing heavily.
Wily punched the table behind Light and demanded, "When was my time to be recognized? Where were my congratulations and good job? My slap on the back or anything?", Wily walked away from him, looking at the floor while Light looked on in shock. "I mean I did amazing things in my time. I made a highly advanced AI from the ground up, I created robots with bodily movement on a 1:1 scale of humans, and I made a robot making a factory machine the size of a car garage. For peat's sake, I made a robo-me that was so convincing that no one could tell the difference!"
"So that's how you made so many robots in such a short time.", Egon stated aloud.
"That's amazing.", Izuku also stated aloud, making Wily smile to himself at the praise.
Light just sat there unable to move or speak in return for what he heard. So the only thing he could do was mouth out a pathic, "Wily I…I'm so sorry. I had no idea. Not a clue about any of that. Could you ever forgive me?"
Wily turned his head to the man and thinking about it he listed off, "For ruining my life and having me hounded every chance my head pops up with your pet android? Yeah, I don't think so."
Seeing that these two would need more than a mock couples counseling, Egon decided to end things here for now, seeing as progress was made nonetheless. So he stepped in between the two men and told Dr Light, "Well, I'm glad you two have finally reached a breaking point. Now I'm sure you two will have lots to talk about later, but for now, let's get your kid and you can get out."
Light stood up and walked with the two scientists as Wily stated behind. Light looked back once more and saw his old rival sitting at the table one more, and looking solemnly down at it. Making the old man sigh sadly to himself before leaving.
He was then brought to the Robotics Division where Hatsume was standing around something on a table. When Light came close to the table he saw the severed remains of Mega Man and Rush! The two robots looked like they had been cut apart in a cartoony manner. Their arms, legs, and heads had been removed from their torso and laid about in several different pieces with Xs over their eyes. Only for Izuku to rub them off, showing they had been drawn on and Egon to glare at a giggling Hatsume.
"Ah! Mega man! Rush!", Light exclaimed while running up to the disassembled robots where he demanded, "What did you do to him?!"
"He attacked and we defended. Pretty simple.", Egon said flatly.
"Not simple! He's in pieces!", Light exclaimed back.
"And somehow still alive.", Hatsume stated while looking at a device that appeared to be reading the vital signs of both robots.
Dr. Light looked confused for a second before realizing, "What!? Oh, wait. I added that feature years ago. Phew! Good thinking on that one."
"Well, we'll put him back together and you can bring him home.", Izuku told him as several mechanical arms descended from the ceiling and began to quickly and efficiently reassemble the two robots.
As the machines reassembled the robot, Izuku turned to Light and asked him, "You're gonna explain everything to him, right?"
Light nods and says with a heavy heart, "Oh course I will. Things have changed. But I know this will just be awful for Rock. He loved to play savior."
Izuku thought it over for a bet before offering to the doctor, "You know you could always register him as a hero.", an offer that Light liked the sound of.
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