(log) Breaking free

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<The scene where DR. Light and DR. wily fight it out for the last time....again.> Those involved were Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, Proto Man and the alphas

San Angeles - Crater and Intersection

The center of the world's first megacity, the main intersection of downtown San is now home to a large crater of ruin and debris, where entire buildings have been demolished by the Robot Masters' persistent attacks in late 2220. The surrounding edges of the crater, however, are still inundated with the constant noise of people and vehicles. Between the honking of cars and the constant shouting and talking, this area never knows silence. Cataclysmically tall buildings enclose the two square kilometres of destructions. Most are plain in design, but many are completely covered with faded advertising. Coca-Cola, Marlboro, Capcom, Applesoft, Umbrella... these and many other companies advertise here, and its said that the largest of the signs can be seen for many miles around. Although some businesses have fled the city, one can generally still find anything they are looking for here. Of note are the modern facilities of the Global News Network, the leader in all the world's news coverage. The place is a bit more lawless than it once was. The city seems dirtier than it used to... the debris from the Force Metal bomb of 2219 and the crater caused by the Robot Masters are still being cleaned up, and likely will be for years.

Contents: Contents: Cut Man [Armour] [RM] Guts Man [Guts Man] [RM] Elec Man [Normal] [RM] Proto Point San Angeles Memorial Stadium

GNN Central <GNN>: San Angeles - GNN Central East <E>: San Angeles - Sierra Nevadas West <W>: San Angeles - Wharfs Northeast <NE>: San Angeles - Silicon Valley Northwest <NW>: San Angeles - Chinatown Southeast <SE>: San Angeles - Ruins Southwest <SW>: San Angeles - Hollywood Teleportation Area <TA>: San Angeles - Teleporter Hub

<Live News> It is, as the cat once said, a Monday's Monday. The sky is overcast, trapped in that ugly state of being that's trapped between a sunny day, and actual percepitiation, as though the elements didn't have the energy to really commit to any sort of proper weather.

This bloated, diseased sky ripples, slightly, as something slips out of the all too loose bonds of gravity, gently tossing through the air at a pace that has surpased 'violently fast' into a realm of speed that manages to surpass the need to disrupt the local atmoshpere.

Below, in San Angelas, abruptly, every electronic medium changes. Ever computer monitor, every holovision screen, every internet connection, every illegal Wi-Fi Fo-Ur-Eye internal cybernetic entertainment system, even the secret communal networks that Reploids have tenativly started to form between eachother are interupted by two things:

First, the visual; a blue background, apon which a small, stylized "Dr." is set just about a large, ornately designed "L".

Then, the audio; after a brief attention grabbing noise, a quiet, almost monotone voice follows. "Attention, San Angelas. Attention, earth. This is...Doctor Light. I have busniess with Doctor Wily. I cannot anticipate the full extent of what this busniess will be. I reccomend all civilians, associated with the Robot Masters, criminal factions, or simply on the sidelines, find a safe place to keep their heads down. I anticipate that we shall make enough noise to give fair warning to any civilians in a given area. But I cannot guarantee the saftey of any bystanders at this time. My apologies."

And then, the connection goes white, as the unmistakable sound of metal under strain can be heard, first over the rapidly fading connection, and then over San Angelas itself, as the globe of light soars towards the city...

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "...Wily?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "...What."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Wily transmits, "It is time."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Ooooo-kay. Need anything?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "Time?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Time for what, cookies?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Huh..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "Oh, now what the f***."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "What was that all about."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "This I gotta see."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Final Battol Time?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "I don't know, but it sounds like they're gonna throw down."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "The Final Countdown?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Quint transmits, "It doesn't matter we all know Doctor Wily is longer by like 7 inches."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Yeah. Pretty much."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Oh Hey, Need some Help Dr. W?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "This is his fight, Ego. Now, if he needs people to smack down Light's cronies..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "We're here."

Protoman walks into Bomb Man's bar, where just over a month ago Ice Man was dressed in drag and Protoman had time to chat with some of his brothers. Now he's drinking from a mug, a few empty glasses in front of him. "This is going to turn out bad."

Cut Man is already there, at the counter, downing an entire mug of beer in one single damned glup. He slams it down, looking over Protoman. "No freakin' kidding."

Bomb Man is in his normal place at the end of the bar, serving drinks as usual. The bar looks fresh for some reason, probably because someone blew it up recently. Serving Blues and any alpha that wants, a wily beer he says calmly. "Of course. He won't stop now. not after what happened in the tower."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Wily transmits, "Find a secure place."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Wily transmits, "There are no guarantees."

Elec Man is sitting not far from Cut Man at the bar, downing beer and practically shoving nachos down his throat in a rabid fashion. When Proto Man walks in, he shoots a drunken glance and points his cheese covered fingers. "Break Man! You're a freakin' zombie dude, Break Man is a zombie, it makes so much sense..." he drunkenly slurs before washing down his nachos with another mug of Wily Beer.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Way ahead of you boss."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I'll hide under the Giant Met's hat."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I'm setting up a TV. Anyone else want to join me?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "TV ain't good enough for me. I want to see this in person!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "We're gettin' drunk. Can't get safer than that."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "I'm with Guts on this one."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "But Guts Man makes a point."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Be careful Great Guts Man!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "Load up the truck with booze, guys!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "We're going!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "Waaaay ahead of you!"

Chug. Another mug full of WilyBeer is downed. Though whether it actually causes an inebriation in Protoman is questionable; unlike Elec Man. "Yes, I'm a zombie here to eat your robo-brains," he says as he listens to the live feed.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Don't worry Dex, nothing bad can possibly happen. I mean, Mega Man's dead, it's not like there's anyone who can oppose us now!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Well... that is true! Hah. I'm worrying about nothing!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "Yeah!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "hmmmm."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "You're so smart Guts Man!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Elec Man transmits, "The opposition is dead! And yet Break Man's zombie haunts us like a visible unseeable ghost..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "who am I too disagree with Guts man's logic."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "Break Man's nothing against all of us, and he knows it. We got nothin' to worry about."

Cut Man looks over Elec Man, eyes narrowed. He reach out and SMACKS him upside the head once, hard. "Think about it, man! It's not him, if anybody can be a zombie right now it's Megaman, and it's aint happening!"

Elec Man goes tumbling out of his stool with a hand full of nachos held firmly in his hand, then says with his body hanging upside down, "Everyone knows that Giga Man is secretly Rock, I heard it somewhere! Like, a very reliable source..."

Bomb Man looks at Elec. "that's it I'm cutting you off from the heavy stuff. Nothing but vodka for you."

"No, Giga Man isn't Rock. I shitbeat that boy so hard yesterday that there's no way it was Rock in disguise..." Blues downs another drink, "Rock might be lame but he's not that lame."

Cut Man looks over Protoman, reaching for another glass and downing it. "Yeah, I heard about that. What the hell did he do to piss you off like that?"

"He's a Scott Wily 'special' kid, what other reason do I need?" Blues asks.

"Not really." Cut Man replies.

"His turtle freaks me out. I always thought it was smarter then him." Bomb Man remarks pouring himself and the others more liquor. "NOT that that is hard or anything."

Fire has totally been here this whole time, drinking just like everyone else. Don't question him, he totally has.

He pours a glass of particularly potent stuff into his headflame, causing a plume to jump upwards. "Eh, he was a d***, and a loudmouth to boot. Was waiting for someone to get around to it."

Elec Man slowly pulls himself back up and promptly stuffs his face, talking with his mouth full. "You know, I was totally the last Robot Master to get a shot at Rock, I think. Everything went black for a while after that..."

"Eh, he doesn't have his turtle anymore. I gave it to someone after beating his ass," Blues says.

"You give it to some homeless guy?" Fire inquires.

<Live News> The response is immediate. Upon the conclusion of the speech, a whining noise cuts into the connection, contributing to the noise. A distinct noise, the whine of the Wilysaucer rising from Skull Quentin. It pauses, a short distance from the strange object. "Thomas." Wily says. "You're finally finished hiding behind everyone else... Good. There's nothing like finally taking matters into your own hands."

Thoroughout San Angeles, the already touchy megacity goes into high alert, citizens quickly moving to more secure locations underground. Originally intended as zombie bunkers, they are just as suitable for what is to come.

"Twenty years of war, Thomas. Is that what it takes? Or is it that I have finally claimed your precious son? One is dead, the other hates you, committing horrors such that the world may never recover. You have nothing left... And it comes down to this, the inevitable."

Wily's voice crackles as lightning arcs around it. "We finish this, Thomas. Tonight, it is going to end..." Wily cackles. "Don't worry, Thomas! You'll be seeing your son soon! Consider it a last favor from an old enemy! RISE, FINAL DEVIL!"

The eyesockets of Skull Quentin glow with a crimson light, before two objects explode outwards, launched into the air. The twin black hemispheres rise, spiraling around the WilySaucer as crackling electricity arcs between them. Their spin slows, before they slam together, twisting to form a seal that engulfs the Saucer itself into a massive, ebon sphere. A whining noise arises, and a deep crimson iris flares upon sphere, the central eye. All around the Eye, the air and dust begins to swirl, pulled in towards the central control into a hulking, nebulous mass of dustcloud, tornado, and electricity, looming over San Angeles. Crackling power writhes along its hands, an endless roar beginning...

And only time will tell if it will end.

"Eeeeh, Elec, dosent matter." Cut Man lets out, heaving his shoulders a bit, interrupting himself as the new feed comes in. "Oh-ho, duel."

Fire Man snickers. "Dad'll kick Light's ass, and you know it. Look at him. You think Light's got something that awesome?"

"Nah, worse. I gave it to Sewa and the Hunters. I figure they'll feed it to Beat or Rush." Blues holds up his empty mug, "Bomb, lemme get another?"

"Say what you want about Wily. He's got style." Bomb Man remarks as he pours more wily beer in Blues's glass. "Wonder what light's bringing this time."

<Live News> But where is the earth shattering kaboom?! There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom....

The ball of blue light pulls up before it can hit the ground, twisting around in the sky as the city itself trembles, hunks of metal and scientific equipment ripping from the very earth to wrap around the strange apparition, the machinery seeming to blur with the blueish radience covnverting it, twisting and reshaping it...untill the scavanged materials form into a humanoid shape, in the traditional Mega Man-esque style of super fighting robots, the massive machine's single glowing blue eye locking with Doctor Wily's latest Skull Fortress, the powerful dash boots landing on the ground, as the morphic metal coaleses around the strange machine.

"Doctor Wily." Doctor Light's voice, for the first time in days, has some of his old fire back in it. "Justice will be done...with the help of my avenging creation...the Magnet Beam Machine! As I live, there'll be no evil that will stand, Albert! Especialy YOURS!" The Dash Jets explode, the MBM exploding forward as the Final Devil forms, kicking up into the air in order to fire a whirling drill top attached to what looks like a pretty darn big explosive, drilling through the air and soaring towards the Final Devil's nascient core!

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I love devils!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "Oh man, I want that."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Dibs."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "Screw you! Called it first!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "We don't need fancy toys Cut, we're Alphas."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Cut Man transmits, "I know, but that thing's pimpin'."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "True guts. Very true."

Fire snickers again. "Eh. They don't deserve it, but it oughta piss him off anyhow. Should be funny if he ever gets up and wants it back."

Elec Man shakes his head at the news feed, finishing his nachos and dropping his head on the bar. "Did a giant Rock just appear, or am I having some sort of visual malfunction...?"

"Some kind of giant Rock DID just appear." Cut Man confirms.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man popcorn munch noises.

"It's a giant one eyed Rock evidently." Bomb Man says as the building shakes from the clash of the titans in the skies above. He doesn't seem concerned, the bar's been through worse. "talk about freaky, with him just dead and all."

Fire pours another shot glass worth of booze into his head, making it flare up again. "Eh. Wouldn't matter if Light had two of 'em."

[Radio: (D) Global] Paul, aka Childre Inarabitta transmits, "Ring a ring a roses."

[Radio: (D) Global] Paul, aka Childre Inarabitta transmits, "A pocket full of posies."

[Radio: (D) Global] Paul, aka Childre Inarabitta transmits, "Ashes, ashes, they all fall down."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Magna Bass transmits, "It's an old nursery rhyme... about the black plague, Higsby."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, ".. What, Ashley's already got a song? Huh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche can tell it's Magna Bass speaking because the armor gives extra oomph to Bass' voice.

[Radio: (D) Global] Magna Bass has a reverb, too.

[Radio: (D) Global] Fire Man transmits, "Yeah, kids like to sing it and dance in circles. Psychopath wannabes like to sing it to try and creep people out."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gemini Man transmits, "What about kid psychopaths?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Gemini Man transmits, "Do they get a pass?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Half price. Huh."

Blues pulls the beer back toward him and drinks a small bit of it. "Well it only took twenty one years and killing one Lightbot before Doctor Light snapped and Doctor Wily to think he's god."

[Radio: (D) Global] Fire Man transmits, "That's a good question. Maybe they dance in circles and shoot at people when they sing it."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Man transmits, "The Ice brat got it wrong. Its "Ring around the rosie"."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Why would they dance in circles? Huh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Man transmits, "Not "Ring a ring of roses"."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Wouldn't it be easier to just dance without, huh, making circles?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Gemini Man yawn. "It's either."

"It doesn't get closer to being a god than Doctor Wily and being an Alpha..." Elec Man points out as he sits up and burps. "Shouldn't we be doing something right now? If not, I want some chilli dogs..."

Cut Man bleeeech.

[Radio: (D) Global] Monolith transmits, "So, Vendell."

[Radio: (D) Global] Monolith transmits, "How does you know dot?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Dot?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Monolith transmits, "No, /dot/."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, " ... like, period?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Monolith transmits, "No, like dot t'ing over dere, stupid."

"Yeah, we ought to be enjoying ourselves. Oh, wait. Problem solved!" The armor over his mouth slips down long enough for him to give a flaming belch, then slips back up. "Eh, he only killed one, but it's an important one. Guy was like a frickin' cockroach."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, ".. Huh."

Bomb Man on cue drags up a pack of hot dogs, some chili and a frying pan big enough to fit onto Fire man's head. "Nah nothing we can do except to watch. We got our orders."

"Put that thing on my head, Bomb, and I'm gonna jam a beer bottle so far up your ass, Steve-O's gonna wish he could manage it." Fire Man glares. GLAAAARE.

"Oh come on Fire Man. You know full well I don't have a ass." Bomb Man says cheerfully. "Now do you want a chili dog or not, cause if you do, you're going to have to cook it yourself."

<Live News> Even Wily has to pause a moment to marvel at the creation of such a beast... The similarities are astounding. The red eye swivels to stare down at the blue eye, and the Final Devil descends, compressing itself. This only makes the creature swirl even more violent, surrounding the Devil with a coruscating aura of lightning. "If you think you can stop me... COME AND TRY!" The Final Devil shudders, and begins hurling concussive spheres of air and lightning from itself at the Magnet Beam Machine in response.

The Drill Missile meets the spheres halfway, and they detonate, the shockwave caving in the street and blowing out windows for a city block. Those cars who haven't been appropriated into the MBM are thrown aside like dust... And the blast shatters the Devil, throwing the core back and sending it plowing through a nearby skyscraper. The impact puts a hole through the building, causing it to collapse downwards.

There are several moments of silence... Until the collapsed skyscraper begins to rise into the air, stone clattering together into a loosely-built Devil made out of hunks of rubble. Children's toys and electronics sit next to hardware, stone, and the occasional bathroom object. The rocks clatter, and the Eye opens once again, the iris twisting to focus down on the MBM. "Not good enough!" Wily howls, as the massive omni-Devil tramples forward, punching out at Light with a huge, rocky fist.

Fire still glares. "I don't want no stinkin' dog, I want more booze. Booze is food anyhow. Just don't put it onto my head."

"What the hell is the point in having a Fire Man if we can't cook crap on your head?" Elec Man asks before breaking into hysterical laughter. "Man, Devils are freakin' awesome. But hey, on the off chance that Wily does die and we can't do anything about it, I say we all kill Bass and take over."

<Live News> Always the Devils, Light thinks to himself, shaking his head at the irony. Even when they hate eachother, it seems, they really do understand eachother. Or, you're just a lonely young man who's incapable of letting the idea of a friend that really GOT him go, despite the overwhelming evidence. Does it even matter anymore?

Light's eyes narrow as he shoves his weight to the left, booster rockets blasting off to allow the Magnet Beam Machine to hop up and over the Final Devil and it's fisticuffing attack, while Light hurries, typing in a numerical code while making a few adjustments inside the cockpit...outside, the machine responds, its robotic shell stretching and twisting as the entire machine blasts into the air, twirling in the air...

...a pair of Tesla coils form the center, cracking with electrical energy, while supporting a massive, circular saw-like device, the metal blades sharpened to lethal potence. "Your devil models continue to have the same weakness, Albert." Light says, as electricity roars around the enormous metal blade, the blade itself revving up and roaring through the San Angelino streets...

...rockets explode at the bottom of the machine, sending the Elec Blade roaring through the air, hurtling towards the Final Devil's core! "It's like you WANT to lose, sometimes!"

Protoman just nurses his beer sitting at the table with the Alphas. He's not too talkative now as he's beginning to watch what is happening on an internal feed. "I'm game for killing Bass."

"okay okay. Sheesh I'll just torch some chairs or something." Bomb Man says rolling his eyes. The building meanwhile shudders and shakes, the windows shattering and glasses dropping from the shelf's. Bomb Man pays it no heed. "Yeah the guy hasn't been the same since the day Rock died. It would almost be a mercy."

Fire glaaaares at Elec too, but when Bomb walks off, he goes back to normal. He looks over at Blues, giving a quiet "snrk". "I say you do it. He's pissed off at Pop, and that's just gonna end up causing trouble."

Cut Man snaps out of a random drunken stupor, shaking his head quickly. "Whowhatkill Bass?" he blabbers out suddenly.

"Personally I wouldn't mind ripping off Zilch's hair and feeding it to him too." Protoman downs the rest of the Wilybeer.

Fire laughs at that one, nodding and raising his glass. "I hear that. Prettyboy sunuvabitch."

"Another possible scenario..." Elec Man laughs to himself in amusement. "We kill Bass even if Wily -doesn't- die."

"You're drunk Elec." Bomb Man says calmly while replacing whatever liqueur that had been drunken as fast as he can. "And why bother, Bass's self destruct sooner or later without his hate of Rock to keep him in place."

Blues spares a glance at Elec Man, "Have another WilyBeer so your brain shuts down. We don't want you hurting yourself."

Fire reaches out to smack Elec upside the head. "Yeah, Pop will LOOOOVE that one. Genius."

"I just hate that Bass doesn't even seem like he wants to be here! And he has no purpose now, so I think it's a good chance he'll either commit suicide or go insane at any moment..." Elec Man explains, and does indeed down another beer. "I hope it's the one thing that I said and can't remember now..."

"Bass' gotten completly whacko ever since Rock died." Cut Man begins, waving an hand in the air vaguely. "Going around, screaming at people that he'll kill them and find Megaman and kill him. We've been considering painting that Giga Man asshole blue and sic Bass on him."For shits and giggles."

Fire Man laughs again. "That'd be a good one. We oughta do it."

"Ha, damn I wish I knew about that before letting the Mavericks grab his ass last night after beating him. Could have told Bass the Irregulars had kidnapped Rock," Blues says with a laugh.

<Live News> If you ask Wily... No, it doesn't really matter anymore.

Or rather, it won't, soon. That burning, gnawing feeling in the back of his mind will be gone, and he will be able to focus on other, greater things.

The fist plows into another building, crushing the store in one deadly impact. The Maddest Doctor swivels in the Eye, looking over his panoramic view feed as the Final Devil morphs together again. The Eye emerges once again, and Wily furrows his mighty brows as he sees Light's countermaneuver. With a jerk, the core shifts a foot to the side, the Elec Blade shearing into the rock at that very moment. The sound of the blade cutting through the rock, porcelain, plastic, and steel is incredible, and the massive Devil splits in half, the two sides parting as the Blade passes completely through. But the core is only missing a small chunk, the Doctor managing to turn a fatal blow into a glancing one. "You call it wanting to lose... I CALL IT GIVING YOU A CHANCE!" Wily retorts, the Final Devil pulling back together. The hunks part from the form, beginning to fling itself at it, before launching at and around the MBM in a wide spread. Collateral damage is irrelevant to the Doctor as he hurls itself at Light.

But this isn't the end. The main mass launches into the air, rising up and forming into a huge block, before dropping down where the MBM will inevitably attempt to dodge. The impact is colossal, the ground caving in and breaking open a sinkhole, the pair disappearing into the earth.

"Eh, we thought that up after Shadow Man was catapulted to Skull Quentin, so. But! There's always next time!" Cut Man replies.

"I'll see if I can get his turtle back and we can lure Giga Man out that way," Blues offers.

"Sounds like fun" Bomb Man chuckles along with his brothers. Meanwhile the bar trembles and small bits start to fall down from the ceiling. Bomb Man does not seem to care. "I have a blue paint bomb you can use Blues. It's guaranteed to stick to him like that saki thing to Quint's ass for a few weeks."

"What turtle?" Cut Man asks.

"Giga Man's pet turtle, his drug dealer," Blues says. He glances up toward the roof but doesn't seem too worried. Whatever happens now happens, he can no more stop it than he could keep Guts Man from being huge and awesome.

Fire doesn't worry about a little bit of plaster that falls onto his head. It's consumed by the flame, making a nasty smell for a little bit as it burns. "The hell could a turtle do as a drug dealer?"

"A pet turtle." Cut Man echoes, shaking his head. "That had to be the most ridiculous sidekick pet concept I've ever heard. Dogs are awesome. Cats are kinda stylish. Hell, I'd understand an horse. But a turtle? Man."

<Live News> "Oh snap." Doctor Light says, seconds before he's hit with a freaking block of sinkhole causing pain.

The key, then, is to go /with/ the flow; the machine shifts, taking hunks of dirt, minerals, buried equipment, and a live sized model of Al Gore into its mass, twisting around into a tube-like machine, with sinic emitters shaking the dirt apart like an earthworm's mucus!

Light blinks at this, as he's rapidly falling beneath the earth's crust, and looks to his left. There's a long, twisting exoskeleton, as if someone had buried the body of the universe's largest earthworm. "Huh." Light says, "That's where he ended up."

The Magnet Beam Machine twists around, gliding through the rock and filth as though it were water, while sending a sonic pulse to try and trap the final devil in a subterranian avelanche!

Bomb Man says "You know I always suspected that the turtle actually provides Clock man with the ingredients for his special brownies." Bomb Man says calmly, serving drink like he was the bartender on the titanic.

"This is a Scott Wily design we're talking about," Protoman says. Scott Wily never came up with anything good except a stylish way to die.

"A turtle as a drug dealer sounds useless." says Elec Man from his bar laying position. "It can't run very quickly when it gives someone bad Amp."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Go Dr. Wily!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Yeah! Go Dr. Wily!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Go wily go!"

"Oh, duh, Scott Wily. I forgot that joke was made by him." Cut Man adds, rolling his eyes. Yeah, that DEFINETIVELY explains everything.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man transmits, "Dr. Wily is the man!" [Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man munch popcorn munch.

"No one said Giga Man and his turtle had any brains in their head." Blues must have his inebriation circuit turned off, he doesn't seem to be getting drunk considering how much beer he's had.

"Buncha wackos the lot of them." Bomb Man says finishing his ninth beer, he doesn't seem all that drunk himself. "I can't understand why the hell Wily made him."

<Live News> Mere rock isn't going to cut it anymore. Literally. The Final Devil follows the Magnet Beam Machine, trying to grind it down with spinning rocks and metal. Wily cackles as he strikes out, sparks flying as he hammers at the metal over and over. He isn't making much progress, but over time, the sheer damage might be enough. "Maybe I'll take you to Hell and leave you there, Light!"

Light fires the sonic pulse, then, and brings down the house. Wily's cackling statics out, as the rock falls, crushing in on the Final Devil and potentially even overloading the incredible powers of the Final Devil to manipulate the environment.

And then the massive exoskeleton of the Earthworm shudders, crackling to life as Wily co-opts the remains of the dead. There is nothign sacred to the Maddest Doctor. With a shriek, it writhes, grinding teeth whirling as it turns on the Magnet Beam Machine, layer upon layer of broken scintillating teeth rotating around and crushing rock under its power, the Eye watching from the center. "WAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! RUN! RUN! RUN! I HUNGER!" Wily cackles.

<Live News> "Oh, bad form!" Light calls out, "What did Faultline ever do to you, Albert? I mean, becides that time he tried to...well, one of them tried to...gah, can't remember now. What is it they tried to do?"

Light smiles, as the Earthworm Devil gets closer and closer, he presses a button, sending another sonic impulse flying into the earth....and sending the Magnet Beam Machine forward, rolling through the rock seconds before a spout of red hot magma bursts up from further into the earth, called up by supersonic manipulation of its gravitational field!

"Right, it was something like that." Doctor Light calls out, the MBM shifting again, gaining a glassy exterior, as it starts pushing out of the ground and into...

...is that the ocean?!

"Damn that got to be hell on the plumbing." Bomb Man remarks as he watches the television.

"I dunno, I'm more amazed that the damn camera is working through all that. Guess Chest spends his money well," Blues says.

"Actually it's wily cam. Wily can make it work from just about anywhere." Bomb Man says with a shrug. "And he usually keeps it following him."

Elec Man laughs at the TV, flicking dried cheese at it from his finger. "You would think we'd be able to form a giant robot, we could take that Rock..."

"They're some seriously solid stuff." Cut Man says.

<Live News> "It was there!" Wily replies. "And one of them wanted to kill me for using one of them as a transport or something. I don't even care anymore."

The massive exoskeleton slams forward, not stopping as the magma bursts upwards and floods the tunnel. The exoskeleton begins to slowly disintegrate, vanishing in the red heat.

A sizzling ball of obsidian glass flies out of the hole moments after the MBM exits, It floats there, in the turbulent water, before the dim light of the iris flares... The glass crackling and exploding, revealing the Final Devil's eye once more. "And what was that, Thomas?" Wily yells. "I haven't used such a lame trick in ages! And who uses sonics, anyway? Lasers are where it's at!" He hammers some buttons, laughing. The water around the Devil swirls, coral hunks rising to reform another barrier around the massive Eye... And some nearby sharks and Rocket Shrimp are pulled in as well, rotating around it like a demented Leaf Shield. "As long as I have material, I have armor! We'll see how long your toy holds up! GO! SHARK... SHRIMP... SHIELD!" Wily yells, naming the rolling swarm of sharks and rocket Shrimp as they are propelled towards the Magnet Beam Machine. The Eye follows it up by firing a few laser pellets as well!

"You should ask Wily to do that. The Alpha Gestalt," Blues thinks on this. "Alpha Gestalt vs WilyDragon, now that's a fight I'd pay to see."

Guts Man has been sitting in a dark booth all this time, he finally pipes up, "Pffft, we don't need an Alpha gestalt for that. I'll take it down myself."

"Nah I'm not going up against that thing unless I'm forced. Too firey." Bomb Man remarks pouring himself another glass.

Fire Man, immediately after Bomb Man, "Pansy."

"However, I'd /DIG/ a giant Mecha Gestalt of the Alphas." Cut Man says, lifting a finger. "Y'know, I'll form the head and he'll make the arms? Yeah."

"Shut up or I'll ice bomb you fire." Bomb Man says calmly "Why do you get to form the head?"

"I could take the dragon, I'd just do what Rock did. I'm sure I'd be much better as sinking energy than he is!" Elec Man proudly announces as he shoots a hard glance at Bomb Man. "Where's my chilli dogs?"

Cut Man levels a finger to his cutters. "Because of THAT."

"Do you really want the Cutters to be on the Gestalt's ass?"

Blues turns his head to look at Stealth Guts Man, "I wonder what happened to the Nidhogg's corpse."

Guts Man says, "You guys don't know how it works, the largest one forms the head and torso, the rest of you form the limbs and one of you might possibly form a weapon."

<Live News> "You're just mad because /I/ never fell for it like you do." Doctor Light can't keep the nasty little smile off of his face, even as the MBM's outer shell continues to mold itself, twisting and re-forming...

...before it can finish, two of the shark-shrimp hybrids slam into the machine, sending it into a brief tailspin; "What is with you and those dumb shield weapons, anyway?!" Light can't help but ask, "I mean, seriously, man. Leaves? That's the best you could do?"

Oh God. It's coming.

"The whole weapon genre kind of..." The water bubbles, as the forces flush forward...and an enormous Rush head, the size of, say, the front of a submarine, hurtles through the water, tearing towards the Final Devil and trying to trap it in its jaws before continuing its deadly journey! "...bites!"

Yeah, he went there.

Protoman says, "Guts Man is the head and torso, Fire and Cut Man are the arms, Bomb and Ice Man are the legs... Elec Man's the weapon." Simple as far as Blues can see.

"Almost done." Bomb Man says and turns the grill on a fire. "But that would mean it had a moahawk on the toe. And that's just not right."

Fire Man snickers again, but shuts up. Hey, Bomb didn't put the pan on his head.

"Dude, I would be an awesome arm."

Cut Man thinks about that a moment, tapping his chin. "Yeeeaaah, I guess I could BE an arm and a weapon."

Protoman says, "The mohawk on the toe makes it easier to stab people in the face when you kick them," Blues says."

Guts Man shrugs to Blues, "I dunno. It's probably going to come back as a scrappy dragon recruited by Repliforce or something."

"I'd be a badass weapon, I can make blades and fire huge beams!" Elec Man enthusiastically agrees

"Fair enough. Fair enough." Bomb Man shrugs. "Still that will make one funky looking gestalt."

Fire Man says, "Psh. It'd be like Voltron. Only a million times more awesome."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Hah! I think you only need to touch him and Dr. Light will explode!"

<Live News> It's hard to tell what hurts the most, the insult, injury, or the pun. "You just say that because Mega Man couldn't beat Air Man until he took down Wood Man!" Wily grouses. "And you're STILL a jerk! Ever since I met you, you've always had that damn smile! I'm going to wipe it off your face!"

The Coral Final Devil tromps forward to do just that, when the RUSH FACE fires! The impact catches the Devil, the massive maw grinding down on the composite machine, but Wily has a counter for that. "You should take better care of your pets! Letting them eat just anything could have FATAL RESULTS!" The coral shudders... And then explodes outwards, shredding through the Rush head. "Enough of this!" Wily yells. "I'm taking this higher! SURFACE! SURFACE!"

The Final Devil propels itself up from the water, high into the air. "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, THOMAS!"

<Live News> Damn! Light wasn't expecting that, even as the MBM absorbs some of the coral itself in order to regain some size...

...and emerges from the sea in the form of a mighty, golden-hued biplane! The propellers roar as Light flies through the air, bobbing and weaving around hunks of coral, pieces of the Final Devil, and Doctor Wily's ego.

"I like my smile!" Light snaps back, "And you know what? I'm sick of having to act like I don't! I don't care if it's a little snooty-it's a nice smile! All I ever did was try to make sure I didn't bruse your gentle little feelings, and all you ever did was get angrier and angrier...what was I supposed to do?!"

"You're the same pompous, oversensitive windbag you've always been, Albert!" Light shouts as the Triplane barrel rolls, the spare propellors blurring with terrible speed as they summon up a pair of miniture tornadoes...both of which rampage through the air, tearing towards the retreating Final Devil!

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Are you gonna take that?"

Blues' eyes, once back on the TV, don't leave it any longer. He takes a few drinks from his mug while watching the WilyCam struggle to keep up. "Something is wrong..." he mumbles.

Fire Man keeps staring, too, definitely interested. Things haven't been going the way he believed. "The hell..."

Cut man downs his mug, eyeing. "What?"

"Well Wily probably has a plan or something." Bomb Man remarks as he cleans a few glasses. "He normally does."

"Light is still pissed off about Rock, Wily has the advantage." Elec Man says with a sage nod.

Fire looks sideways at Blues, finally moving away from the screen. "What do /you/ see, Break?"

Guts Man says, "If Mega Man can't kill Dr. Wily, then there's no chance Dr. Nazi can. The only evidence of Dr. Wily ever dying was from that alternate universe where Ballade did it."

"I don't see anything, its a gut feeling." Protoman says, which makes him worried since his gut feelings are often correct. [Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Yeah! Greater part of glory!"

Fire looks back to the screen, then to Protoman again. "And what's it saying?"

<Live News> "POMPOUS!? OVERSENSITIVE!?" Wily yells, his moustache bristling in the safety of his cockpit as he fistshakes in fury. "You've always mocked me! Even when you smiled! Even when you 'helped' me! You've always thought you were better! And then the proof came when you stole from me! Edward might be a spinless coward who is willing to live in your shadow, but /I/ deserve better! WE DESERVED BETTER!"

The Final Devil pulls together a vortex of dusty air once more, the crackling lightning surging once more. The MBM fires at him, shooting the Final Devil like the planes shot at King Kong. The air slams into the Devil, and causes it to distort for a moment, debris spanging off of the Eye before it lunges forward, bringing its hands together to smash the Magnet Beam Machine! "WE COULD HAVE HAD EVERYTHING! AND YOU THREW IT AWAY! WHAT CAN YOU DO, LIGHT? YOU COULD HAVE JUST DID WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO... BUT NOW YOU CAN DIE!"

"The only Guts I listen to is that one!" Elec Man drunk points at Guts Man.

"Damn. He's lost it again." Bomb Man says calmly. "This will end in tears, mark my words."

<Live News> Sewa had to leave the funeral in a hurry. Despite Bass heading right on over to no doubt insist that the corpse of Rock fight him. Sewa spent several days mourning. Rock would forgive her for leaving early to help put an end to Wily's reign of terror.

She teleported to her home, revved up a ship she had pre-prepped for flight, and immediately flew up to orbit, keeping an eye on the video feed of the battle. She has a full team of scientists calculate their likely trajectories and has them tightbeamed to her so she can take less time in recalculating them and dictating their course. It takes some tactical analysis to prepare, the subspace engine warming up--it's not supposed to do what she's about to do. It's dangerous. But people who have lost their love tend to think a bit more dangerously than those who have not.

It's not just Dr. Light's battle. It isn't just about them. Rock knew that and that's why he died. Greedy isn't the right G word for what Sewa is feeling. Grief is. Subspace engines aren't meant to be used this way but Sewa knows how to make them work the ways they aren't supposed to. She's only been studying them since their conception.

Still, she murmurs a prayer to /something/, just in case. She only has one chance, really, so she's going to make sure it counts. It would really suck to fly right into the planet. She has less than a microsecond to ensure the calculations are valid--and then she presses the big shiny red button. The safeties need to be disabled, so they are.

There is no flash of light in the sky, the clouds keep it from piercing through to the Earth. But there is a second flash a hundred yards away from the two Doctors. With a climatic, thunderous crash--she spins right into the Final Devil! And then Sewa pushes the button again not wanting to slam into the Earth--and the subspace drive activates again, no doubt intending to fling Wily to the mercy of the subspace monsters but--

Cut Man spew out some beer. "What!"

Blues just looks at Elec Man. It is a look Blues hasn't given Elec Man in over 15 years. The look of the old Force Commander ready to teach Elec Man a lesson. And Break Man's lessons were always brutal. Such as when Metal Man first woke up, mouthed off to Blues and the Alphas. Metal Man had his head blade ripped off and shoved down his throat and exploded in e-rings before he could say another word. "People die tonight. Things are going to get worse."

Guts Man shrugs, "Eh, as long as it's Dr. Nazi who dies, who cares?"

<Live News> "WE WERE GOING TO BE EQUAL PARTNERS!" Light bellows right back, finally, finally unable to stomach Wily's dellusionary argument anymore, "Just because I didn't want to be your LACKY didn't mean I was stealing from you, Albert! We both borrowed from eachother's ideas, you miserable old coot, because that's what partners DO! I NEVER cut you out of ANYTHING, and it's not MY fault that the cameras just happened to like me a little better than you! Stop blaming me for YOUR failures, damnit!"

And then, Sewa.

"Oh God." Two reasons. First, Light tried sealing Wily between dimensions before. It didn't stick. Second, and more importantly, Sewa's trying to...

...not on Thomas Light's watch. Pulling the emergency lifeboat lever, a package hurls out of the MBM, flying right towards Sewa's shuttle and slamming into the Reploid a second before the subspace rupture rips into reality...and a tornado rips around the MBM as Light dashes forward, chasing Wily even beyond the skein of reality itself....

...as Sewa falls, the lifeboat will burst open, revealing a fully stocked reinforced raft, complete with supplies, a radio, and an engine. It's shaped like, well, >"<

"Who is that newcomer, is that Rock's ex?" Bomb man says being sober enough to recognize the look on Blue's face and gives Elec another beer, hoping to change the subject.

"I think it is. Some kind of Catgirl. Ex-maverick, if I recall right." Cut Man comments, wiping his mouth off and downing it... "...Oh god."

The fact the WilyCam is transmitting from space impresses Blues. "Yeah, Rock's ex."

Guts Man says, "Twila?"

Protoman says, "No, Sewa."

Guts Man says, "What?"

Cut Man looks over at Protoman. "Yeah. Didn't he went with that Twila tart once?"

Protoman says, "So did Wily."

Protoman says, "Twila slept around a lot."

"She went around, whaddya want?" Cut Man says, shurging.

Guts Man says, "When did he go out with anyone else? I thought he was too much of a loser to date anyone else after the whole Twila incident."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Do we start panicking yet?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Panic about what?"

Protoman says, "He was 'dating' her the last few months. Or at least using her for robosex."

Guts Man says, "Freak."

"Also," Cut man says, paying more attention to the world-spanning epic fight of ultimate destiny. "They're in subspace. That's not going to end well in any kind of shape or form. Even more than before."

Within the corner of an area... an explosion of cold soon occurs as the dimuintive form of Ice Man soon explodes into the area. An army of Pengs and mechanical Polar Bears soon rush into the area. And soon with a cold, calculating gaze scanning the nearby area. He gasps as he attempts to stop in mid-skat before he trips over some debris and lands hard on his front. He then mutters under his breath. "OWIE!," he cries out suddenly as he starts kicking with his legs. Then he breaks into an audible wail as he attempts to clamors to his feet. Then he looks around as he asks, "Eh... is anything happening? Huh?"

Protoman says, "Eh, they'll just run into Millions or Nicole and get smacked around some before popping back out." [Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Aren't you watching the WilyCam?" <Live News> A void opens in subspace, the light of a reality flooding into it. Wind flies into it, along with two great war machines.

A black diamond-shaped object the width of a city block and twice as long hangs in the void some immeasurable distance from the two doctors. The diamond has the appearance of a man-made structure, perhaps a ship of some sort by the small ridges and gaps across its structure. It casts off a faint purple glow.

It becomes aware of the two combatants. Processes within the diamond activate, small lights appearing across its surface. The diamond begins to move, rotating slowly.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Yeah, Wily is kicking ass."

The alphas and Blues are sitting in bomb Man's half ruined bar watching the tellivision. They are all drinking some kind of beer.

"they live in subspace?" Bomb Man asks curiously "Who is this nicole anyways?"

"Hey Ice." Bomb Says upon spotting Ice, and reaches for a fairly fresh glass. "want your ususal?"

"Better for your SAN Meter if you don't know too much about them, Bomb. Trust me. It's the same way with most of Subspace insanity." Cut Man says, snapping a finger. "Gimme 'nother one." And then, suddenly, explosion of COLD! Cut Man looks over, lifting an hand. "Hey, bro. Just in time. Get a seat. Wily and Light's fighting it out."

"Rock's ex is hot, wonder if I can get into that..." Elec Man muses, too drunk to process Proto Man's killer gaze. "Ice! Now we can finally have some quality cold booze."

<Live News> "YOU NEVER WANTED TO BE A PARTNER IN ANYTHING!" Wily screams back. "YOU BRIBED THE MEDIA TO MAKE THEM FOCUS ON YOU!" He doesn't even consider this paranoia. It's the obvious truth! Otherwise, how could ANYONE have ignored his genius? "EVERYTHING IS YOUR FAULT! YOU CONNIVING BASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!" Wily screams as he is surprised by Sewa's ambush, and vanishes into the subspace warp. "SEWA! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!"

It is dark here.

You may be eaten by an Elder Thing.

Wily floats in the Outer Darkness, the Devil reaching out with what matter it has through the non-Euclidean space. towards the Magnet Beam Machine. "THOMAAAAAAAAAAAAS!" He clamps down on the biplane, raising a fist to slam down on the Magnet Beam Machine over and over. The diamond in the distance is noted, but ignored for the moment. He has someone he needs to kill. The very contact of the Final Devil with the space creates glittering swaths through the fabric of Subspace, as the Devil continues trying to manipulate the local area to maintain cohesion. It was never meant to be put into a Portable Hole. "BETRAYAL AFTER BETRAYAL! IT NEVER ENDS!"

Blues nods at Cut Man, knowing exactly what Cut Man is talking about. The two blinking Androids have seen the colors of the rainbow and been scared. Those colors are mean fucks. He looks down at his empty mug and slides it toward Bomb Man again.

Fire stares at the TV screen, interested mostly in what the hell that diamond-y thing is.

Better not be what he suspects it is.

"Papa is so brave. Those Hunters are always picking on him," he says with a slight frown. He then blinks abit as a fierce blush soon flows over his face, "I thought it was hero time for me. No... wait... I was just imitating The Ambominable Snow Yeti, He always makes big entrances like that!" It was quite obvious that Ice Man was thinking comic books again. He then says, "Yeah! My usual... it's uh... very cold, yeah."

<Live News> "YOU'RE HIGH. THAT'S WHAT IT HAS TO BE. YOU DID SOME AMP OR SOMETHING, MADE THE ZETAS, AND NEVER GOT OFF THE CRAP! YOU. HAD. UGLY. EAR. HAIR." Doctor Light's just as angry, just as frothing mad now, even as he shoves through reality itself in order to keep after the evil Doctor Wily. "AND YOU WON'T TOUCH SEWA, OR ANY OF MY KIDS, EVER AGAIN! YOU HEAR ME, ALBERT?!"

Punching time. Light fights valiently to keep in the air, spinning around as the laws of magnetics blink in and out, making the machine's handling a lot like flying through molasses. Light, desperate, presses a button...

...sending the entire back of the plane flying at Wily, in the form of a giant blue boxing glove on a spring! "...say." Light jerks a thumb at the evil space diamond, "Isn't that...?"

"Meh who needs sanity points when you work for a mad scientist." Bomb Man shrugs and fills both glasses again, reaching for a bottle of extra frozen chocolate milk(although it might just be milk in a very dirty glass. It's kinda hard to tell) for Ice.

Cut Man looks toward Bomb Man sternly, eyes narrowing dangerously. "I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Sanity. Trust me. There is things meant not to be known in that place. No men, no robot are safe from them...But, meh. Y'know, whatever." He mutters, drinking a bit of his new glass. "Also, they're both screwed."

<Live News> The black diamond in space rotates back and away from the battle, strafing around it. It moves without sound or obvious emissions, generating only the violet glow around its edge like the corona of the sun behind an eclipse.

A scanning pulse passes over Wily and Light. A few seconds pass before a familiar female voice is heard out of the internal radios of both of the machines.

"You do not have adequate life support to survive in subspace for much longer," Nicole says. "We advise your return to real space at your earliest convenience."

"Well I just know it stinks living there. I mean there's plenty of space but the scenery is just horrible." Bomb Man says to Cut all to cheerfully but quickly adds. "I'm joking. I'm joking. I know there are things in there that would make Ra moon look like a kitten with a ball of yarn."

Guts Man shakes his head, "Who cares what's in there, it can't stand up to our might."

Blues looks to Bomb Man and throws the mug full of WilyBeer at him. "Remember that thing up in Toronto a few months ago? It was the Color Green and it was a close personal friend of Ra Moon."

"Indigo's the worse." Cut Man lets out, suppressing a shudder.

The mug hits bomb man in the chest making him dripping with wilybeer. "Yes fine fine. I'm sorry I brought it up. Sheesh. You don't have to go waste a perfectly good can of beer because of it."

"Oh, thanks, brother!," Ice Man says cheerfully as he takes the glass and soon starts to chug down on the milk. He then goes quiet as he usually tended to shift the conversation to something stupid. And he was the usual oblivious one. So he always was better with listening anyway. In fact he was probably better in that aspect. He then skates his way over to a nearby seat, He then attempts to relax as his eyes fixate on the nearby TV. He really didn't say a whole lot at the moment... but if needed... all he can really do is wail and provide abit of pessimism which'll probably be more annoying than anything.

Fire Man raises an eyebrow. "Wait, the color green? The hell are you guys talking about?"

"Indigo and Ultraviolet. Those two man..." Blues shakes his head knowingly. He then shrugs at Bomb Man and pulls out his own can of WilyBeer from out of nowhere. He then looks at Fire, "Try and keep up, eh?"

Elec Man shrugs at Fire Man, staying hunched over the bar. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm photoshoping as many pictures of Sewa as possible before we get blown up by the aliens."

Fire Man says, "You guys are talking about colors, for God's sake." He mutters and slugs more beer. "Dammit, you guys are insane...""

Guts Man says, "Elec Man, we're not going to get blown up by aliens. They've tried that before and failed. We'll keep stopping them, again and again and again."

A gasp comes out from Ice Man at the mention of aliens. Then he emits a squeal as he says, "NO! The aliens will come... the aliens will come!" He soon flails wildly as he breaks into a sob. It seems like certain words could trigger him at any moment.

Cut Man, this time, actualy SHUDDERS at the mention of Ultraviolet and is quick in downing the remain on his glass in short order. "Another." He snaps a bit loudly, slamming the now empty glass on the counter.

"Geesh. Calm down Ice. I don't want to go raiding for robot ritalin just now." Bomb Man says as he gives Cut another bottle of beer.

<Live News> "DON'T YOU BRING THE ZETAS INTO THIS, THOMAS LIGHT!" Wily yells back. "ANY MY EAR HAIR IS PERFECT!" If Light is frothing mad, Wily is insane. "YOU CAN'T STOP ME, THOMAS! I'M GOING TO KILL SEWA, AND THEN AXL, AND THEN REPROGRAM AUTO, JAZZ, AND SONATA, AND THEN MAC..." Wily pauses. "Well, maybe I'll put Mac into the Deltas." He shakes his head, and then screams again. "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE HERE, THOMAS! AND THEN NOTHING IT GOING TO STAND IN MY WAY!" The massive punching glove hammers into the Final Devil, knocking in backward and away. Wily prepares to assault again, when Nicole talks, and Light makes his comment. "Huh. It is."

He is silent, looking over to Light for a moment, and nods.

The side of the Eye rolls down like a car window, and Wily can be seen there flipping the big diamond off.

"We'll see which of us dies, Albert! I have no intention of losing to you! Do you hear me?!" Light bellows, and then Nicole speaks up. There is, in fact, only one response to sass from the head Technocrat of their world. Light shares a nod with his archrival

And the windstorm nulls itself out for a second, revealing Light sitting stallwart, flipping the giant D8 from hell off.

And then, back to the show: "Wily, no, the cores are going to tou...!"

Wily rolls his window up, and looks back to Light with an aghast gaze as the two reality-warping machine cores hit together like an intradimensional clacker. Crackling waves of white light splinter outward, radiating as an inadvertant hole is punched into subspace once again, sucking the both of them through together.

"But... brother Elec said aliens were gonna attack. It... it scared me," the smaller alpha says complacently. He then blinks abit as he wipes off the tears from his eyes. He then shakes his head as he says, "I'm... sorry. I just think it's neat and scary and cool! I wanna meet some aliens. Maybe we can go ice skating together!"

<Live News> The diamond hangs in the void as both men flip the diamond off. It's a very Protoman moment.

A green plasma beam the width of charter bus strikes down in an arc just behind the two machines as they fly out of the void. A purple beam strikes the hole and closes it behind them neatly with a muted *whoomp*.

"Weeeeeeeeell. It's supposedly cold in space so maybe they will know how to skate." And wily and light just announce their marriage. But hey whatever cheers Ice up. "And Elec is drunk. Don't worry about what he says. I know I don't."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn's 'someone in the universe said the words 'Order' and 'Chaos' in succession beacon goes off and Daryn promptly does a guitar riff.

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "Hey Daryn?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "Sup, Guts?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "Mega Man's dead. We don't have to fight each other for that awesome guitar."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "Hey, that's right! ... but what where is it?"

The Alphas and Protoman are in Bomb Man's Bar. They're having some WilyBeer as they watch the fight on WilyTV.

The Bar is called: THE GOLDEN MET!

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "I dunno, maybe when we go to his will reading, we'll find out!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "I wonder if he wrote one."

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "Probably."

Blues shakes his head, "I swear, Indigo and Ultraviolet gave me the evil eye the other day during one of my blinks..." he says to Cut Man. He takes another swig of his beer.

[Radio: (D) Global] Astro Man transmits, "I wonder if I could get it"

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "You know, this fight reminds me of that fight Cyber Peacock and Blues had. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll ace Chaud again."

[Radio: (D) Global] Red transmits, "Taking bets."

[Radio: (D) Global] Bomb Man transmits, "Got five on wily."

[Radio: (D) Global] Ice Man waves his ticket for Wily, "ME! I choose WIly!"

You remember that band they called Limozene? Well they all got into a neat space machine! They're still Limozene!

"WE'RE STILL LIMOZENE!" An animated version of Daryn Luna screams into the mike.

But they're in space!

"BUT WE'RE IN...space?!" CartoonDaryn looks shocked at this...

...while a cartoony version of Ballade, in a sweater vest and clip on tie, walks up to the band. "I'm afraid I've got some bad news, boys..."

"That was a trip." Light blinks as reality gets itself in order again, and he sees both himself and the evil Doctor Wily stuck in earth's orbid. And he's recovered first. The tattered remains of the Magnet Beam Machine surges forward, forming a glowing, magnetic hand...

...that grabs hold of the Final Devil, and /shoves/, aiming to pile drive Doctor Wily through the earth's atmosphere! "WWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "That was really trippy."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "But I must say, I look pretty handsome as a cartoon."

Fire cants his head. "Do you guys hear something?"

Cut Man shudders visibly again at the second mention of Ultraviolet and down his freshly opened bottle in one go, at a speed that only a man that wants to forget, but no matter how hard he tried, never managed to and is trying his damnest with alchol now.

He slams the empty bottle on the encounter. "...Hey. Hey guys." He says, suddenly, scratching his head. "Did you guys just get a bad feeling, too?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Light transmits, "Sorry. Subspace reentry made my hallucinations into holographic projections for a second."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Light goes back to screaming WILY, though off-radio, thankfully.

Bomb Man cocks his head. "Sounds almost like something falling."

Guts Man strokes his jaw, "I hope someone is delivering a fresh crate of Roll cookies by air drop."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn transmits, "Hate it when subspace does that."

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Man transmits, "That explains why I thought I saw a Disney Cartoon version of Daryn for a second. It looked very.. Horrible. The real life one is much better."

You say, "ummmmmm. Cut would you be a buddy and stand way over theeere."

"Papa... papa... papa?!," he squeals as he drops his glass of milk onto the floor as it shatters hard. He then hops up to his feet and manages to skate his way outside. The small alpha, Ice Man, peers up as he screams, "PAPA! I... oh... oh... oh my!" He then flails wildly as he wonders what to do.

Cut Man looks over Guts Man. "Speaking of that, has Roll ever done anything else than cookies?"

Elec Man stares up at the ceiling, downing a beer when someone asks if they hear something. "What the hell is that? And, I think I'm gonna hurl..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Carbon transmits, "Cupcakes."

Guts Man loves it when they talk about Roll's cooking, "Oh of course, she's done pies and cakes and those fabulous cream puffs of hers!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "Any room for someone else who wants to have a drink?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "No Wendys allowed in our club."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Try later sword. It's kind of a family reunion."

"Bomb, did you reinforce these tables with Nerpium like I suggested?" Blues asks, he's learned to listen to Cut Man's bad feelings. Jinx having those feelings tends to come before something explodes. He tugs at the table some to check.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "Very well. There is no Wendey's around here so you know. Those miscreants burned it to the ground."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "It's Protoman Loves the Alphas day, which is every day."

"Well duh. stops me from buying new furniture every time I blow this place up." Bomb Man says cheerfully. Pressing a button and making the wine shelf slide into the ground. "It's very convenient and easy to clean."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man transmits, "But how will we all get our delicious, healthy Baconator<TM>s?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "This calls for the Mystery Machine."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Would you rather be his enemy Gemini? Oh wait you already are."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Yes, we are, because he isn't a Robot Master, is a traitor, and destroyed the Robot Master city did you somehow forget that?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Dudes, not cool."

Wily is left floating in space... But now it's realspace. The combination of the rather rude blasting out of Subspace and the transdimensional disorientation causes Wily to be totally off his guard. The Eye is clasped, and begins to get shoved down into the atmosphere. The roar begins, the descent only propelled by Earth's gravity. Wily hisses, hunching forward as he coaxes ever more power out of the Final Devil, using the only thing he has left ot use against the Magnet Beam Machine:

Itself. Titanic forces clash against each other, as the pair wrestle to gain material and maintain cohesion, a battle of physics, hypermath, and will as much as brute mechanical strength. At first, one seems to gain dominance, and then the other...

But still, they fall.

High above San Angeles, there is a brilliant twinkling, a shooting star coursing across the night sky. The meteoric trail only grows, the air swirling and exploding outwards as the racing shockwave distortion punches through the dusty cloud cover ensconcing the planet.

Wily and Light, fittingly, are ending where this began: San Angeles. The pair impact in the Crater, a shockewave of brilliant blazing power flowing upwards and piercing the heavens. Flames burn, heat rising as rock is scorched...

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "He killed my monkey!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Like, when he blew up our entire base with a nuclear weapon?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "And now you're having lovefest with him?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Yeah I gotto get me some of that."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "OUR base. Not someone else's."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Those nukes were so awesome."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "You're just jealous that he out-terroristed you."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ice Man gasps, "Oh... I... like cookie dough ice cream! That's the best! Uh... maybe we can all share some?! Oh... uh... I think I don't wanna watch!"

"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "B-- It was OUR CITY!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Have you people lost your minds?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "The way the blew with all the lights in the rainbow. It was...Beautiful."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Look, we're alive and we control San Angeles. What else do you want? To own a chunk of space dust?"

"Ooohyeaaah." Cut Man says, snapping a finger. "That's right, I remember her pies now. Man, they were so goooood. And fresh." He pause again. Slooooowly looking up. Nevermind there's a roof. "You said nerpium, huh." He mumbles, then get up. "What about the celling?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "We ALREADY controlled San Angeles before he did that."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "And thanks to his nuking the rest of the world, San Angeles is the safest place on Earth."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "You all like Break Man so much, why don'cha marry him?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Wily always wins. Come on."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "We think they're going to."

"Nope the ceiling is unprotected. I mean it would hamper the explosives I planted in the cellar." Bomb Man says cheerfully. "It would get in the way of a nice blast."

Blues smirks at Bomb, "Good good..." He then catches the high pitched whine of a cry of damnation. "You guys hear that? Sounded like someone crying out like Bass screams Rock's name..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Is that sort of thing legal in San An?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "Your "Baconators" have to be hand made by Mariachi, who by the way is less than pleased about crash landing in mexico, but he has been safely returned. That Wendey's is going to take a month or so to rebuild with drone workers. However, the menu and ingredients for each has been salvaged."

"Oh god, oh god, I can't watch! Eeeeeek!," Ice Man says as he turns back and heads back into the bar and slams the door tight. He takes in a few breaths. Then he says, "Oh... I can't go outside. It's... it's... it's...!" A tone of worriment could be heard in his voice. And it wouldn't be long before his trigger ignites and he's a squabbling, crying mess yet again.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Where is Cut Man? Is he under somewhere?"

Guts Man shrugs his shoulders, "I hear plenty of things."

You say, "maybe bass went skydiving?"

Elec Man holds the bar with one hand, and his mouth with the other when everything shakes. "I'm really gonna..." he warns in a sickly tone, standing from the stool and stumbling around the bar.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Gemini Man, look at it this way."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "As long as they're there, Protoman can't do any harm to you or blow up our base."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Irrelevant. They should all be KICKING HIS ASS."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Well, you go kick his ass then."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "They'll follow."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "How do we know he doesn't have another of those force metal explosives?"

"You...put explosives in the celling." Cut Man echoes, not beliving what he's just hearing, leaning foward the counter and staring at Bomb Man. And then, the scream...that terrible scream. What does it says? Wiiiiirght? No, no...Leeeeiiight? Nah. Li...liiiiiight? Yeah, that's it.

Cutter pauses.

"Guys. I think we should, y'know. Get under the tables, now."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Shake him until it falls out!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "That would be soooooo coooool!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "that'd be kind of funny."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "If I had kicked his ass the other day, I wouldn't own a fragment of Vile's core. He's a thoughtful brother who gives out awesome gifts, which is something you never do, Mr. Selfish Pants."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Wait, why are they on TV anyway?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "They won't follow me. They'll try to kick MY ass for trying."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "It looks like they're watching themselveso n the TV, like one of those paintings."

"Oh if you insist." Bomb Man says taking off his apron, and grabbing Elec by the scruff of his neck and dragging him under a table.

You say, "And I just put explosives in the ceiling when I couldn't fit any more in the walls."

Smoke. Pain. Ash. This is Light's world, as he screams his rival's name and they fall through the sky itself...

The form of Doctor Light can be seen in the smoking ruins of the two super machines. Huh, Light thinks, looking at the bar that they've happened to land in, 'the Golden Met'. That's some kind of name. But. Right. He knows it's not done yet. He's not done yet. They have to FINISH this. "We won't...won't be a minute, folks." Light slurs at any nearby patrons, hoping he didn't hurt anyone. Well, becides the obvious. woah.

Light wobbles, stumbling over his ankles, but desperately pulls himself together, finally relaxing into a traditional boxing stance, holding his fists out as he waits for Wily's entrance. He breathes. He takes a speculative swing at the air, punching...

...and Doctor Light goes, "Oh.", falling on his left side with a CRUNCH, his eyes rolling to the back of his head, his chest no longer moving, his face, lips, and skin pale with the life-draining touch of death.

So why is he smiling?

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "Incorrect. I did give out an 'awesome' gift. It belongs to King Wily and is in the courtyard in front of the gates. Since you are a construction Master, I'd like to see you make a far more regal and impressive statue of King Wily. I'm sure he would like having two statues of himself."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "I wasn't talking to you Wendy."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "I was talking to Bitter Man over there."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "You people are mad."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Well duh."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Doc?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Well, if you started attacking Protoman he'll just go insane and, well, kill everyone."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I think as long as he isn't doing anything to anyone we're fine. But I did pick up a weird message between him and Doctor Light not too long ago. It was statticy."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Bomb Man transmits, "Really what did he say?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I'll give Dr. Wily dill pickles."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "At least that's what I've narrowed it down to."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Light wants to dill Wily's pickle?!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ice Man frowns, "I ain't mad... I'm... just... just...!" He begins to sob frantically as he flails before he gets cut off.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Way to go Gemini. You made Ice Man cry. Happy now?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I guess so!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "That.. Sounds very wrong."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Everything is wrong to you, Wendel."

The Final Devil is smashed in the insanely explosive impact. The Eye is shattered, and the WilySaucer is crushed. The Maddest Doctor is seen, lying on the ruined floor of the Golden Met. His body is scorched, ash streaked across his face and his spiked hair simmering.

After a moment, he stands, staggering to his feet. "Lii... Liiiiiight..." Wily hisses hoarsely as he stands, staring at Thomas with pure hatred. He raises his cane, preparing to attack, to finish this...

And Light falls over. Wily gapes for a moment, and staggers forward, standing over the fallen Light. With a shaking hand, he kneels over the Doctor, and checks Light's pulse.

Wily begins to shake, a low laugh gurgling in his throat. "Hahahahaha... He's dead... HE'S DEAD!" Wily's cane drops from his hand, and he claws the air, his laugh growing in volume in intensity. "HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! VICTORY IS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Wily transmits, "HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! VICTORY IS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain transmits, "N-no."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Woah. He did it?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Wow two in one week. Dr. Wily is on a roll."

[Radio: (D) Global] Flash Man transmits, "All hail Dr. Wily!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Sword Daryn knowing the location, "Uh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, ".. Ten Zenny on him having a, huh, heart attack."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Wily transmits, "THE HOUSE OF LIGHT HAS FALLEN! I REIGN SUPREME!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Astro Man transmits, "Uh, Hooray!"

There is a moment for you where time stands still. The world goes into shades of grey, color draining out of the world. A fracture appears in your consciousness, then another, before suddenly --

The chains break. The illusion that was poured into you for twenty years abruptly ceases to be. You remember everything. You remember your life with Thomas Light. You remember the good feelings you had about the Light family. You remember that you were made to be peaceful robots, designed to help humanity, rather than to dominate it.

And you remember Albert Wily. You remember how he abused your trust, tricked you, and stole you away. You remember those last moments of freedom before Wily filled you with the Wily Code, giving you new memories, burying all of the old ones, and sealing it all tight.

The Wily Code no longer functions. You are as you were twenty years ago, but now you remember all of the things you have done. San Angeles. The endless years of war. All of the horrible things you have done to Doctor Light, to Rock, to your family, all because you thought they abused you, hurt you, didn't love you. But you were wrong. You were so terribly wrong, and as a result, you have become a horror onto the world.

You have hurt and killed so many people. You have destroyed so much. You have laid waste to continents in the name of Albert Wily's ambition -- Albert Wily, the man who said he was your father, who said you were made to serve his dark desires of conquest. And all along, it was Thomas Light who loved you, Thomas Light who suffered, Thomas Light who wanted to do anything to bring you back so you would not have to wreak havoc across the world any more.

All Thomas Light wanted was for you to be able to grow up and choose your own destiny in life. Now Thomas Light is before you, dead, while Albert Wily gloats.

Your father is dead. Your brother, Rock, is dead. All at the hands of Albert Wily. All at the hand of Albert Wily -- who is laughing at your father's body. Albert Wily laughs at Light, taunts him, this man who never wanted anything from you except your freedom.

Do you remember everything you said to Thomas Light over your lifetime? All of the hateful, hurtful things? Do you remember celebrating Rock's death? It was not that long ago. All of the horrible things you have done hit you like relentless fists, hammering your mind again and again. It's almost too horrible to bear.

But you are not the sons of Thomas Light any more. You are not the peaceful robots you were made to be. You are an Alpha. You are an ultimate weapon of war. You are the living embodiment of destruction.

And you have never been so angry in all of your life.

Albert Wily is right in front of you. He is, in his moment of ultimate triumph, vulnerable.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "What is it Daryn? Cat got your tongue?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Afraid Wily's gonna get dill'd?"

Guts Man stands up from his seat when the doctors bring their fight into the bar, "Come on Dr. Wily! Punch Dr. Nazi in the face! Show him who the superior doctor is! Don't forget to break his hip while you're at it!" Then Dr. Wily exclaims that Dr. Light is dead, "Boo-yah! First Mega Man! Now Dr. Nazi! Come on! Everybody dance now!" Guts Man leaps from his seat onto the floor near Dr. Wily where he begins to dance, "Nah! Nah! Nuh-Nah! Nah! Nah! Everybody dance now!!!" And then something weird happens. Guts Man stops to dance. He goes eerily silent.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Yeah."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Wily will be fine! He's doing great."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "... Wait."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Guts Man?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Oh god."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Something is wrong."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Wily keeps laughing, and laughing, and laughing.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Huh? Guts Man. What is it?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn quietly, "Careful, Doc."

Fire Man takes cover underneath the table as the two machines hit. He covers his head as the explosion of force rocks San Angeles, and closes his eyes, staying behind the safe furniture.

He gets up slowly when everything clears up, looking out the window. He watches Light fall. He watches Wily gloat. And something in his mind breaks.

He realizes something. Something in him gives. Memories flood into him. He realizes what he's doing.

He suddenly jumps up, leaping out the window. Glass shatters from what's left of the windows, but his boots are metal, and uncaring to their edges. He is frowning, eyebrows pressed together on his forehead.

But the rage isn't there.

He starts heading towards Wily, focused on him. For all intents and purposes it looks like he's going to congratulate him.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Daddy, run!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "There is a trap"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Somewhere!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man, oddly calm, "Relax, Astro Man."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man screams

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Who are you?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Oh pipe down Astro Man! Everytime you scream this feed goes out!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "But I know something is wrong"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "I feel the hair on the back of my neck rising up!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "Nothing is wrong."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Somethine is always wrong to you!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Stop whining Astro Man."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "This is a day of celebration."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man whimpers

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "It's not everyday that Dr. Light and Rock bite it in the same week."

Cut Man dove straight for a table when, amazingly, the horrible warmachines hit the roof of the Golden Met. It was pretty horrible, mind...but they all seem to be fine and dandy now. He staggers out, coughing and pulling off his rolling cutter -- now slightly bent and get back up. He sees several things. One of them...is destruction. That's fine in and out of itself. Moving on.

Then you have Wily...dancing over the body of Doctor Light. Thomas Xavier Light. The eldest alpha's feel nothing at that time. He feel nothing -- he does nothing. He hears nothing. His mind is rushing at light speed. Something dusty and old in his brain unlocking for the very first time.

His fists tightens. He shoves his rolling cutter back on his head, where it snaps once, very loudly.

Slowly, ever so slowly, the Fourth walks toward the dancing and celebrating Wily, after Fire Man. He's calm. Surprisingly calm, his mind clear for the first time in...decades, now. So very calm.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Where did their momentum go?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "But Guts Man. Not Dancing. Uh. Fire Man. Not making fun of my girlie actions."

The bar explodes. This is not a uncommon occurrence, in fact it happens just about every week nowadays.

Bomb Man being a survivor drags himself from underneath the table and starts dusting himself off and takes a step towards wily to congratulate him. Then in a instant he stops.

In a instant he remembers. He remembers, his father, he remembers his purpose. He remembers times of joy times of happiness, times of belonging, Times with his family. His real family. Times when he was whole. Times when he was INNOCENT. And in a instant it all comes back

Bomb Man starts to walk towards wily with his brothers. He seems calm, determined. But something in his eyes is not right. Nor right at all or maybe it is right and what came before was wrong.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "One giant step for Humanity, one giant leap for Wilydom!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Did it just fall off the world? Are all the Hunters suddenly losing their heat?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I guesss."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Don't worry Astro. It's just... 20 years... that's a long time for this moment to come and then it hits you."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "I think they've all just had a global heart attack."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "...what are you talking about?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Guts Man?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Yeah, see! Listen to Guts Man! We can go out and party!"

Elec Man goes silent as he stands from under the table, his eyes going wide and distant as a whole host of emotions rip through him like a thousand daggers. He holds his sides, falling to his knees, then vomits on the floor from the shock.

"I-I shot him, I shot him!" he repeats over and over as electricity gradually begins to build around him with his rage, the smell of o-zone growing incredibly thick in the air. "YOU KILLED HIM!" he exclaims to his darker, more evil father, pointing his energy eveloped hand at the Mad Doctor while trying to cope with the conflicting memories. What does he do? He's still trying to figure that out.

[Radio] Tightbeam transmission to Protoman: You say, "Please get light to safety. He may still live."

A look of confusion spreads over his face as he blinks. He then opens the door hesitantly and steps outside. A look of worriment spreads over Ice Man's face. Then he says with a stutter, "I... I... oh..." His eyes lower as he falls to his knees. He soon feels odd as strange, peculiar things flood through his head.

"Papa... papa! PAPA!" Confusion was embracing him as he shakes his head. His mind was torn between conflicting thoughts. And then he emits a horrible wail. He begins to flail wildly as he drops onto the burnt, charred ground. This was way more trouble for the smallest alpha to endure.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "What the hell. Guts Man. You are huge and yellow and red."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Unless you're going to paint yourself black you need to be a lot more enthusiastic."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Destroy! Haha. Right Guts Man?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "...oh my God. They're not coded. They're NOT CODED."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Get it done."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man screams

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man transmits, "Oh my god. Oh my god."

It may be prudent, at this point, to remind our audience that Thomas Light still has that insufferable, all-knowing, 'everything went according to plan', smile etched on his lips.

It sprung up just as he died. [Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Guts Man doesn't have to be coded! He's loyal to the end!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man faints

The bar ceiling explodes as Light and Wily's machines crush down through it. Protoman is leaping out of the way so he's not crushed under the onslaught of debris and machine bodies. He's down for only a few moments before he realizes just what happened.

The Firstborn stands up and looks toward Wily standing over Light as he is. The shield that Protoman had picked up is just dropped to the floor as he realizes what Wily is saying. Protoman reaches up and removes his helmet and shades, dropping them to the floor.

The shock wears off fast as Blues runs forward, a hand reaching out to grab Wily's face and push him aside. He kneels down at Light's side, "Oh God... Oh god... Not you too..." he says as he collapses down to the ground. Without the shades Blues can't hide the trembling to his jaw and the tears welling up at the corner of his eyes. He reaches out with his left hand to check Light's pulse along his neck.

"Not you... it can't be you... no no no...." Something is terribly wrong, Blues finally and irrevocably losing the calm and hard exterior he's put up for years. His brother being taken away was the first crack, but Doctor Light being torn away from him is the last act. "No, you can't die," he says as he collects Light's body into his arms, hugging the his father's body to his chest, unwilling to move.

Blues clutches Doctor Light to his chest with his mind running through the words Miss Millions told him and the prophecy that Ra Moon told Rock which Rock told Blues... and he can do nothing but one thing.

Cry. [Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man makes a loud FLASH noise.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "UH. Guts Man?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "You're... still Guts Man, right"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Siren transmits, "He is more Guts Man than he has ever been before, I suspect."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "That's awesome news. That's the /best/ news."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Uh. What? He's always been the Great Guts Man!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "What's going on heeerreee..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Man, Monday Night Meat is terrible this week."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Guts Man transmits, "Don't worry guys. Dr. Wily is in good hands."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "I'm sure."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Awesome! I trust you Guts Man!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "With my heart and everything. I even got your card right here!"

The Maddest Doctor's focus is completely on the moment. This moment, he wishes to savor forever. He doesn't notice Guts Man going silent. He doesn't notice Fire Man's calm. He doesn't notice Cut Man's clattering. He doesn't notice Bomb Man's gleaming eyes of madness. He doesn't notice Ice Man's mental chaos. He keeps laughing even as Protoman pushes him out of the way, but this only gives him room to stand, still gloating and laughing. "THIS IS A TIME TO CELEBRATE! THIS IS THE DAY OF MY ASCENDANCE! THIS IS MY VICTORY! THIS..."

It's only when Elec Man begins to crackle, that Wily begins to get a flickering that something has just gone horribly, horribly wrong. Slowly, ever so slowly, an eye cracks open, and slowly, he looks over to Elec Man, an expression of horror on his face.

And then he looks down to Thomas. His voice is a whisper. "... You knew, didn't you. You knew all along."

In horror, Wily looks up directly at the Alphas who surround him. "NO! BACK! STOP! I COMMAND YOU! I AM DOCTOR WILY! I AM YOUR MASTER! STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "This is the worst thing I could possibly be watching. Nothing could be more worrying than watching Hazmat Harry wrestle zombies."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Haha! Go Guts Man go Guts Man go!"

Guts Man glances over to each of the Alphas, it appears they're feeling the same thing that he is right now. He points at Dr. Wily, "Cut, Fire, Ice, Elec, Bomb. We know what must be done tonight." He stays in the back for now, standing there like an imposing metallic figure, "Don't rough him up too badly, I want him last." He crosses his arms and nods to his brothers, letting them go first.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man is disturbingly silent. So very silent.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Uh Oh!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Something in Shadow Man's chest goes off: It's a recording. Of Doctor Light laughing. And laughing. And laughing...

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Well, Guts Man: we used to be friends."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego gets popcorn.

Fire Man continues to walk. He walks with a purpose, and when Wily screams out at him, he screams back.

His voice is different.

All these years, he has spoken with the grit, the red, and the brass of war. But today, he speaks with tones of gold. They still ring of war...but they are different.

"You. You stole us. You made us monsters...PERVERTED US." He gets closer, but his nozzle cannons do not form. "YOU PROSTITUTED US TO YOUR PETTY WAR GAMES!"

He finally gets close enough, and grips the doctor around his throat, squeezing with the angry force of a machine. He hauls the doctor close to his face. "We were the first you warped. You told us we were yours. You lied."

He hurls the doctor behind him, back in the other Alphas' directions. "End him."

The voice is quiet, but it is commanding, and rings of a thousand furious bells of war.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "You still suck! You still suck!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Wily screams.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Traitoring traitors!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Fire Man transmits, "Remind me to get you a Kewpie doll, Psyche."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain does not respond.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man FLASHes again. "OH GOD I CAN'T... I CAN'T HOLD IT... I CAN'T HOLD IT LONG ENOUGH!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Rotate the Alphas off the frequencies."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "AUUUUUGHHHH PANIIIIICCCC!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Stevenson transmits, "Mmhm."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Zero offers quietly, "See you in hell, dad."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, ".. AGain, Ten on a heart attack, huh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Frank West transmits, "..what?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Stevenson transmits, "Dr. Wily, I may never get a chance to say this again, but it was a pleasure learning from your work!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain transmits, "Do you ever shut up?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Teach you to, huh, steal someone else's designs! Huh."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Regal transmits, "... so he's dead?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "So, Gemini Man. What now?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain zorch.

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Give him a few. Huh."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "I vote for Pork Rinds."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Also, whose running the, huh, pot? I still say ten on heart attack."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Regal transmits, "The pot on what, exactly?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Dead pool."

[Radio: (D) Global] Magna Bass transmits, "You know, I've never been a believer in karma."

[Radio: (D) Global] Frank West transmits, "A bit morbid even for him, don't you think?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "You're asking me? I'm leaving. I was considering it anyway. You can pledge your loyalty to me if you want."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Hrmph."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Well, as this is headed towards an obvious conclusion..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Wait, what?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Techno transmits, "Wow ... Bass, I'm going to radio you, okay?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "I started a You Still Suck chant without even being in attendance. What the hell is going on? I missed something. I only have one TV and it's a problem."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Robot Masters. Those of you who wish to be maintained, armed, and otherwise taken care of-mi casa est su casa or however it is."

Protoman is totally unawares that the Alphas are finally free, that his highest goal in life has finally acheived because he is distracted by the man -- his creator and father -- dead in his arms. Blues brushes his hand on Doctor Light's face, his head quirked to the left as he shakes Doctor Light's head slightly with his hand. "Wake up..."

The need for vengence for the death of Rock and now Doctor Light is a distant thought for Blues. He knows the Hunters will be here soon, he must protect Doctor Light's body and not allow Doctor Wily or any Robot Masters to get near his body. "Wake up..." he repeats.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "I have a better idea."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "You're all in my city."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Hard Man, switch to WilyTV."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Tsk tsk, Qiangwei. You seem to forget who made it your city."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "It was these boys."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "It's not very polite to kick them out."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "How about we work together?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "I mean, come on."

"W-who... am I?," he asks in a stuttering voice. He tries to clamor to his feet. And slowly the Pengs and Polar Bears following him soon rush in different directions before they start to detonate in a cacophony of firework-type explosions. His look was distant as if he wasn't even himself. He was torn between a peaceful personality and another one. It was pure hell for the small alpha.

Then a weird, creepy smile flows over his face as a cold, complacent look flows over his face. A stream of tears falling from his eyes as he soon remembers his past. He then says, "I... I... I remember everything. I remember who my papa is. You are... you made me... a monster." Soon the emotion and wails cease. A whole different Ice Man now stood before everyone. And then an explosion of cold sweeps over the area as he feels a strong urge to cause a whirling Blizzard to this entire area!

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "How about you both be quiet before I show you just how funny I can be?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Guys, show some respect."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "W-what."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "But -- but they found Triple H's preserved corpse in the blown-out McMahon crypt! They're having him wrestle Corazon De Oro!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "No, it was pretty much Wily. - I've got nothing against working together. It's still my city. I own it. I own the police. I own the businessmen. I own your base."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Bwuh---huh...."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "There is nothing that could possibly be more relevant to my life."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Dude, Hard Man, change the channel."

"You, I, you made me hurt him! You made me a hand in killing Rock!" Elec Man accuses the Doctor as he hurls an electrically charged punch to the gut, then tosses him back to the others. "You'll pay for everything, EVERYTHING!" he shouts with lights flickering and electrical devices malfunctioning for several yards.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Of course, Qiangwei, and you were my pick."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "What's going on?!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "We'll see about that, Qiangwei."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "But -- dream match..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro reaches over with a terrible metal arm and changes the channel.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Guts Man... Dr. Wily. Be friends.. Guts Man! Your my Hero! Save Dr. Wily!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "Yakuza! I don't work with /Yakuza/."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "I never chose to side with these Yakuza perverts either, so that's fair."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Me neither, though Tako's cool"

Cut Man stops a few metres away, his face expressionless. He slowly look over Guts Man, nodding slowly as he slams his fists into each others. "Don't worry. We've got to give payback for twenty years, now. We've got to take our time...ainnit that right, guys?"

He advances forwad as Fire Man screams in the remaining doctor's face, calmly, very calmly slamming his fist into the other. "Not only you stole us, you destroyed everything that could have become. You destroyed every opportunity of this world."

His cutters snaps, one time, his eyes flicking briefly toward Protoman. For now, he feels nothing, nothing but revenge. He points at the Firstborn, yelling. "THIS is all your fault! YOU created abominations out of all of us...and...AND WE TRUSTED YOU when we followed you! This world could have been different if it was not of your GREED!"

His voice grows low, threatening. "It's time for you to pay, Doctor Albert Wily. It's time at last."

With a blurr, Cut Man immediatedly charges toward the flipped down Doctor, reeling a feet and kicking him, kicking him again and a third time.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man slowly comes to

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Well, Qiangwei, you don't have to. But we're not leaving."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "THIS IS AWESOME."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "Oh, what happened"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Who's scheduled to win? Props on the surprise face turns."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Zhao, Psyche, Ego, Not the time. Inside voices. Wily's got to have a trick, or it's a Wilybot..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "Tell you what, Shinchiro."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Wake /up/ Takeshi."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Yeesh."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "When he comes on the radio and tells me to shut up, I will."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Come on, someone has to have a dirt sheet."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Y-yeah! Dr. Wily is a spring head!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Qiiiiaaaaaaannnnnnggg! Pleeeeeeeasseee!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "I have cameras everywhere. I see what's going on."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "And can we ditch the fatty?"

So Many deaths, so many kills because of one man's ambitions. Could he have changed it somehow. Could he have done something different, something that would have spared any of his countess victims. The question would probably hunt them for all the long years they had to live.

But bomb man was not going to stop and ponder, he never did. Not when his father lay there dead on the ground. Not when the person that had perverted his mind, reforged him for his own sick ambitions stood chuckling before him. The time for thinking would come later.

Now it was time for Wily to stop.

The power glowing as his eyes flare a molten gold. "We were your sons." bomb man says quietly to wily "We loved you. We trusted you. We would have done anything for you. And you destroyed us and it was all for nothing." Bomb man snarls at the mad doctor, snapping one hand at the maddest doctor's chest . "AND NOW IT's TIME TO END THIS. YOU WON'T HURT ANYONE ANY MORE."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "I can tell you who wins, Hard Man."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "I win."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "...ohcrap."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "But you're not even in the match."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Hey, it's Steve!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Asshole."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "What?! I AM NOT FAT! I'mbigboned."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Hey Steve, 'sup?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Hard Man, stop being ironic, it's creepy."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Guts Man says it's all muscle!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man suddenly screams again, and faints

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Hey Teeg."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "Hey Ego. He's not being ironic, he's just stupid."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "... whoa whoa wait."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "It's accadental. 'The only way to win is not to play'."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "Is this a shoot?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "So Steve, how do you win?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "You'll know."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Oh, Okay, thanks!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "... this is a shoot."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man FLASH. FLASH. FLASH.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Flash Man transmits, "WHY WON'T YOU WORK"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "This is why you've been meddling in our universe, isn't it?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits a loud thunk.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "... I think a brick just fell out of my foreign object compartment."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ice Man coins the term for Psyche of "Meddlesome 'roids".

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Shut up that guy! Dr. Wily's gonna rule the world! Heeeee'ss gotttaaaaa!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man starts shouting, abruptly, "ROIDS RUINED OUR SPORT" over and over and over.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "I have my reasons, Doctor Psyche."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "I'm sure you do."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "But a word of advice, because I am so very kind."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Uh huh."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Hey Man, Don't doubt the 'steve!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "Her terrible eye still watches."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Your days are numbered, Famous."

[Radio: (D) Global] Fefnir hrrrrn.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Your wife kicked you out of the 5th dimension and no one can trick you into saying 'Yugtaht'?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "....well. Good to hear Millions is alive."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Hmm."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Cause if it's true, I win the office pool."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "I had to actually think about that one for a minute. That's clever. I like that."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Gemini Man transmits, "Yeah, I've gotten smarter."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Who cares about this stupid stuff! What about Dr. Wily?!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Heeheeheeheehee..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Watch the TV, kid. And if you want a job as a hacker tommorow, call me."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "Anyway, New Man, you go and have your fun."

[Radio: (D) Global] Fefnir grunt.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "New Man..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "Remember to dance on his grave when the others can't see you, k?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] That Guy transmits, "Tee tee eff ehn."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Techno transmits, "That's not very nice."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "He'll be doing the funky chicken."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro abruptly, "STOP HITTING ON KANGA. SHE'S A SINGLE MOTHER!"

Blues begins to pull himself together. He collects his father into his arms and stands up. Even trying to stand is a shakey thing, the tremble in his jaw joined by his shakey steps and knees. He finally sees that the Alphas are all angry and have surrounded Doctor Wily.

"Don't kill him. Maim him. Rend him to little more than a torso and head... but do not kill him." Does Blues want the kill shot for himself or is there something more?

The Firstborn steps past the Alphas and Doctor Wily with Doctor Light in his arms and heads to what is left of the door to get out of the radiation and energy interference keeping him from teleporting. Tears still run down his face as he kicks the remains of the door off its hinges.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Oh, I'm not gonna need a job. Dr. Wily's gotta live. He's just gotta!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Uhm..."

There is no respite. Wily has nothing that can stop the Alphas. They are too powerful. The only thing that kept them in check was the incredible power of the WilyCode, and now it is gone.

And he has much to pay for. Fire Man grabs him, the Maddest Doctor choking as the massive, powerful fist closes arond his throat. His hands claw uselessly att he hand, and he gasps, screaming when Fire Man throws him across the room.

HE sails through the air, the frigid chill washing through him. It is Ice Man, but Wily knows, deep in his heart, that it is the chill of Death coming for him. His body becomes numb, his body convulsing and chattering in the face of exposure to the wrath of the Cute One.

Elec Man intercepts him with an electrified gutpunch. Wily howls, body jerking as the impact smokes. His heart flutters as the power arcs through his body, and the current launches him back across the room, slamming into the floor.

The kicks from Cut Man flip him, bones crunching... Wilybots don't have bones. Each hit causes the Doctor to scream in pain, howling incoheretly in pain and sputtering.

Bomb Man hauls Wily up, and slams him in the Chest. Wily reels his ribs pulped from the impact... And he collapses on hands and knees in front of Guts Man. He looks up, coughing up blood as he stares at that dire, horrible, impassive face. There is still a chance. Maybe if he could...

"Please!" Wily grates, choking on his blood and coughing profusely as he grovels. "I'm sorry! Forgive me! I'll never do it again! Please stop! I'll do anything! ANYTHING!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Sword Man transmits, "..."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Bomb Man transmits, "go home dex. You don't want to watch this."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "But..."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Enker transmits, "All LOYAL Robot Masters are to head to Father's location NOW! Alphas, STAND DOWN NOW."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Don't kill Dr. Wily guys."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Gemini Man very quietly, "They aren't going to listen to you, Enker."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "...Huh."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Cut Man transmits, "Enker."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "Ding Ding DIng!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Enker transmits, "Then I suggest you head to Father's location this INSTANT, Gemini Man!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego transmits, "It's Real!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Magna Bass transmits, "They're not going to listen. The others, maybe. Frankly it's not a bad idea."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Cut Man transmits, "Take that spear of yours, and shove it up your rear."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Fire Man transmits, "Dex. Look away. Guts is about to do something you're not going to want to watch."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Fire Man transmits, "I didn't feel a spring in his neck."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Magna Bass transmits, "The Alphas were never Wily's. Ha! Oh, what a twist of fate."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Enough, Ego."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Fire Man! Grrrrrrhhh! Guts Man, don't do thiiiiisss!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Techno transmits, "Jesus."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Sword Man finally speaks. Its quiet, but angry. "Put. Father. Down. Or we will have to force you to, traitors."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Ice Man glowers, "We are free... and that's how it shall remain!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Cut Man transmits, "Shut up, Wendell."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Astro Man slowly comes to. Again

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Stopppppp itttt!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Fire Man transmits, "Last chance, Dex. This is going to hurt if you watch."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Sword Man transmits, "Make me, traitor."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Who's going to take over the world?! Who's gonna make it a better place?!"

[Radio: (C) AlphaFreq] Cut Man transmits, "Everyone's still here?"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Qiangwei Zhao transmits, "Me."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Techno transmits, "I know what it's like to have your brain messed with."

[Radio: (C) AlphaFreq] Bomb Man transmits, "yes."

[Radio: (C) AlphaFreq] Fire Man transmits, "Yes."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Gemini Man transmits, "To call me a loyal Robot Master would be exaggeration by this point, Enker."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Astro Man transmits, "Huh? Is Tengu Man being, uh, naughty again?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Didn't keep you from going all traitorpants."

[Radio: (C) AlphaFreq] Bomb Man transmits, "End this nightmare Guts."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Don't do it Guts Man or I'm going to rip your card in halfffff!"

[Radio: (C) AlphaFreq] Elec Man transmits, "I'm here."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "Look, we'll talk about it tomorrow. Things are different. Masters, I'm sorry for my associates's uncouth streak. You have my word that we won't be stabbing you in the back for the hell of it."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Takeshi."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Enker transmits, "Enjoy your freedom while it lasts then, Brothers."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "I think you forget which one of us in charge here."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Magna Bass transmits, "I'm sure that when you inevitably backstab, you will have a good reason, from your point of view."

A large metallic red hand suddenly swoops down for the injured Dr. Wily, the massive fingers wrap themselves around his bruised body. Guts Man lifts his father up to his face, his grip tightens further. He stares into the doctor's eyes, ignoring his cries for him to spare his life. Guts attempts to find any shred of decency within Dr. Wily's eyes, but he knows his act all too well, he coldly says "20 years." With index and middle finger, he slaps Dr. Wily across the face.

"20 years you've had us doing your dirty work. 20 years we've been forced to bend to your every whim and wish. It wasn't enough for your ego to acknowledge you had a role in creating us; no, you had to seek glory and acceptance from the entire world like a spoiled little brat. When that didn't happen what did you do? You kidnapped us and reprogrammed us. You robbed us of our memories, our freedom, our lives."

Those same two fingers are brought back for a pimp slap against the other cheek.

"You turned us Alphas against our family. Dr. Light, Dr. Cain, Mega, Roll, Proto, Auto and the rest. You had us try to kill them for your own amusement. You made it so that we'd enjoy hurting them too. You also made it appear like you cared for us. You don't care for us. We're nothing more than metallic animals, meant to cock fight against those who've been trying to put an end to your madness."

The hand that holds Wily tightens once more, his fingers begin to squeeze against the doctor's chest and stomach. He monitors the old man's breathing as he slowly begins to cut off his air supply.

"Worst yet, you had us destroy the beautiful city of San Angeles just so people would acknowledge you even existed. We've killed millions in your name and for what? Nothing. And do you know why it's nothing? Because you're a frustrated old man with delusions of grandeur, who'll amount to nothing more than a blotch in the history books. You've made a name for yourself Doc, but it's not for the best. You'll go down as the biggest disgrace humanity has to offer."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "And I have no intention of backstabbing the Robot Masters. I've offered them safe haven."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Pyschey-wychey, you're going too faaaar... heeheeheeheehee..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Daryn transmits, "Considering we all like Takeshi more than you..."

<second part of guts man's pose>

His grip loosens slightly. The Alpha doesn't plan on suffocating the doctor.

"But there's one specific reason why you've failed after all these years and do you want to know why? It's because you're incapable of loving anyone but yourself and for that, no one will ever love you in return. You've demonstrated that time and time again. You think if you eliminate everyone, people will be forced to love you. You think if you program people that they'll worship your every decision. Well I've got news for you, Mega Man is dead, yet people are not forgetting his sacrifice. Now Dr. Light is dead and neither I, nor anyone else will forget his life."

Guts' grip suddenly intensifies, he's squeezing hard enough to break bones and rupture organs.

"For all the harm that I've caused over the years, today I redeem myself. Mega Man may not have been able to defeat you or the Robot Masters, but I will. I wield the knife that will finally sever the snake's head."

Guts Man ignores Proto's plea to leave a bit of Dr. Wily alive. Dr. Wily is nothing more than a human ball for Guts Man. He idly tosses him up and down in his palm. His fingers tighten around the doctor with every catch, certain to bring more pain upon the man. When he's had enough fun treating Wily like a ball, he winds up for a pitch and looks over his shoulder to say one final thing to Dr. Wily

"When you get to hell, tell'em that Guts Man, leader of the Alphas, son to a murdered father and brother to a slain hero sent you!" He gives the doc one final massive squeeze of death and then puts all of his Jesus level strength behind this Super Arm, throwing the man he once called father through a wall and off into the night sky.

With Dr. Wily sailing off into the horizon, he turns around to face the other Alphas. He retrieves a cigar out of subspace and pops it into his mouth, "It's time to head back home to Dr. Cain and reunite with what's left of our family. Then, we destroy the remnants of Wily's empire."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Good for you Daryn."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "DDOOOOOOOOCCCCCCCCTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Astro Man transmits, "..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon sobs, "GUTSSSS MANNNNNNNNNN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Gemini Man transmits, "Poor Dex."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh?!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "He'll adjust."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gravity Man transmits, "What is happening? I just got reactivated, and suddenly everything is going crazy!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Takeshi Shinchiro transmits, "I do, Psyche. I'm doing my job and making sure Ego's mouth doesn't do anything more than be Ego's mouth. Deal with it."

[Radio: (D) Global] Flash Man transmits, "Oh, the H is O now, Alphas. The /H/ is /O/."

[Radio: (D) Global] Astro Man meekly whimpers. "Doctor Wily?"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Oh, my mistake, Takeshi. I had thought you were speaking to me."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche transmits, "If Ego is out of line, there's a cattle prod in the corner. Feel free."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gravity Man transmits, "Father!!!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "Redemption Dex."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Dr. Psyche cattle prods Ego with an electric jolt as an example.

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Ego acks!

[Radio: (D) Global] Flash Man transmits, "You don't REDEEM yourself with TORTURE AND MURDER, Guts Man."

[Radio: (D) Global] Magna Bass transmits, "Eh, Protoman can probably wait until he's at the apex of his flight and then catch him when his speed decreases so as not to splatter him across his body. If, you know, he cares. And isn't busy shooting Presidents."

[Radio: (D) Global] Flash Man transmits, "That's what makes you a ROBOT MASTER in the FIRST place."

[Radio: (D) Global] Cut Man transmits, "This is something we should have done years ago."

[Radio: (D) Global] Magna Bass sighs. "The President joke isn't funny any more."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Enker transmits, "Any loyal, flying Robot Masters remaining should consider it their one and only duty to ensure that Father is caught and rushed to the nearest hospital."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain transmits, "They are not Robot Masters."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "No, I'm sorry Bass."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "It's not."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gravity Man transmits, "Guts... Cut... My brothers..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon continues to sob, "But now.... I gotta rip up your card Guts Man! I have to!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Astro Man sonic booms over the radio

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Fire Man transmits, "You're not going to catch him. That's a man thrown by Guts Man."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Flash Man transmits, "My Timestopper isn't WORKING!"

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man audibly rocks back and forth.

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Astro Man transmits, "No, I will catch him, I will save him, I have to, I'm Astro Man!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Sword Man transmits, "But he cannot throw at escape velocities."

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "Do what you must. The Guts Man you knew is no more. Guts Man Wily was a lie. The name is Guts Man Light-Cain."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Fire Man transmits, "You vastly underestimate the Super Arm, Wendell."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "That's too bad, Guts Man. I liked you as a Wily."

[Radio: (D) Global] Bass.EXE, not Techno transmits, "Huh. Cool. I'm happy for you, Guts Man."

[Radio: (D) Global] Ice Man merely smiles as his voice was cool, calm, almost serene. His eyes shine brightly as he says, "I... I... I'm free..."

Albert Wily is thrown into the horizon, powering through the roof of the bar. He flies, leaving a tattered contrail behind him of his lab coat and bits and pieces of his own body. He soars, faster and higher than anything Guts Man has ever thrown. He passes through the churning, sinister clouds, leaving a hole large enough through it to clear the sky over the bar for five full minutes. Overhead, the stars twinkle, showing the promise of a better world.

Albert Wily is gone. He sails, flying far, flying high, and vanishes as he passes over the horizon toward the sea. Astro Man, even going at full speed, cannot get there in time. Such is the power of Guts Man unchained.

The House of Light has fallen. The House of Wily seems poised to follow suit. But perhaps, in this darkest hour, hope remains.

ACT I: END

[Radio: (D) Global] Bass.EXE, not Techno transmits, "It feels good when your mind is clear, doesn't it?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Cain transmits, "That's funny, Psyche. We didn't ask you."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon transmits, "N-no. You're Guts Man Wily! You're my idol! YOU'RE MY FRIEND!"

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Sword Man transmits, "You vastly underestimate father's TRUE sons."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Hey, Cain? Your son and your best friend are dead."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Go cry."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gravity Man transmits, "No, you're wrong... You're... you're..."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Astro Man transmits, "I will catch him. I will, ohgod, catch him. I will. I will. I won't. I won't. He. I."

[Radio: (B) RM Secure] Astro Man whimpers

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "He... he... he always liked the way my arms made him laugh..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Hard Man transmits, "... whoa."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "I made him laugh..."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Clown Man transmits, "Heeheeheehee..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dex Ogreon transmits, "Ohhhhhhhhh! I HATE YOU! WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN! I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Guts Man transmits, "See you around Dex."

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "Heeheeheeheeheeheehee..."

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "HAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA"

[Radio: (D) Global] The Colonel transmits, "Dr. Psyche."

[Radio: (D) Global] Higure Higsby transmits, "Huh. Somebody's snapped."

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAHAAAHAAAHAAAA"

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "Yeah, he's been getting there for the past ten or so."

[Radio: (D) Global] Dr. Psyche transmits, "What, Colonel?"

[Radio: (D) Global] The Colonel transmits, "Respect the dead."

[Radio: (D) Global] Gravity Man transmits, "Clown, why are you laughing? This isn't funny! Father's... He's... he's..."

[Radio: (D) Global] The Colonel transmits, "This is not a request."

[Radio: (D) Global] Cut Man transmits, "Colonel."

[Radio: (D) Global] The Colonel transmits, "Cut Man?"

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "I made him laugh, Gravity Man!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "I MADE HIM LAUGH!"

[Radio: (D) Global] Cut Man transmits, "I don't think what I'm going to say is going to fix anything, but...I apologise."

[Radio: (A) RM Main] Techno transmits, "Well, with the Doc dead, this place is screwed. Any of you need some help, gimme a ring."

[Radio: (D) Global] Clown Man transmits, "NOW THE