M3-Sigma - Monday, March 06, 2000, 8:16 PM
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Robotropolis - City Square
Welcome to the center of Robotropolis! This houses the nerve center of the entire city: The Wily Plaza! This is town center has BIG and WIDE open area for public gatherings under the pristine awe-inspiring build of the Wily Plaza and in front of it, a giant marble statue of the city's founder: Dr. Albert Wily! He is the greatest thing since Jeremiah Springfield. The square has roads branching off to each major area of the city of Robotropolis, leading to the other great sites the city has to offer both man and robot alike. The sheer perfectness of this city makes you want to drop down on your hands and knees and worship the Wily statue and thanking it for creating such a perfect utopia! But instead, you just stand there and do your normal thing, for the sake of normalcy.

Magistrate Vile displays an amazing amount of patience by allowing the Kaiser to do so without either movement or word of voice. He remains stiff, straight, and does absolutely nothing, save think. He will tolerate this only so long, as the Repliforce learned, but this force like unto a God that he deals with now. Thus, he, of course, does not mind. It is only a matter of time...
The Kaiser will crush their enemies. Their reality will become this one. He, once more, shall 'truly' lead the Mavericks. Though, should this not occur, Sigma's mind will only handle this power for so much longer. For this to occur, the Magistrate shall wait an /eternity/...

Kaiser Sigma smiles. It's one of those evil, cunning smiles that usually means somebody is about to be involved in a lot of pain. "We wish to know your name, minion. Such a plan is indeed similar to our choice, and we recognize intelligence when it presents itself before us." Only the barest pause is given for Tianna to introduce herself, before he turns back to Sting. "You, spy, shall be rewarded for your attempt. Not the promised reward, as you failed us, but a reward none the less." Pulling his weight off of Goliath, Sigma motions towards Skull Fortress. "You shall be given the honor of leading the diversionary attack at the eye sockets you described. Take a small force, and prepare to strike upon our command." Then, with his other arm, the Kaiser indicates the rest of those gathered. "All others under our command shall prepare for battle - by dawn, the Fortress of Wily shall be but a smoking ruin, and all those within shall be dust beneath our boots." Thrusting a fist into the air, he bellows, "We, Kaiser Sigma, The Sigma, command it!"

Vermilion Rat looks out of the teleport area, gritting his teeth. His mirrored shades sit on his nose, and he blinks, hearing Kaiser shouting. He looks around, wondering who is around, that might spot him, before he moves back behind the door, listening to the speech, from his safe spot... for now.

Sting Chameleon blinks once, the features of his beak just melting downward and then some. A suicide mission. He musters a low key response in a voice as if kicked of breath. "Oh." Tail goes limp.

All the present troops cheer.

Tianna says, returning to a salute, "Tianna-7, Lord. Which group shall I go with?" She cheers with the other, probably just to go along with the flow - but not much, because she never does anything that excitable.

Sting Chameleon immediately casts his face away to glare darkly at the dirt behind him, like all plotting sneak-types do. Musing in deep thought. Deeeep thought. .oO(Indeed the Kaiser is mad as Bit says.. or at least unfavorable, in terms of preference..)Oo.

Neon Tiger cracks her knuckles with a feral grin and eyes Sting. It would be a pity to loose a plaything but survival of the fittest and all, and she chooses to follow the fittest. "The might of my division is ready for your command, sir."

Magistrate Vile slowly lowers his head, the hum of energy echoing through the area about him. Then a hiss, a spark and the darkness within his helm is cast in a dull, red hue. "As you will, my Lord.." Is all that he utters. His grating, dry voice pierces all other voices, carrying his acknowledgment through to the Kaiser. No other vocalization is ventured, for in his mad rant of power, one is wise not to object in any manner. Indeed, he may be mad, but there is far more than enough power to back up such insanity.
The Magistrate's arms raise, folding slowly.

Glamour Bunny blinks out in a flash of dazzling light while all the other Mavericks are busy cheering, once she hears the plan of attack on skull fortress, time to get out of here before she gets caught up in any nasty conflict......looks like Mirror was lying in that letter of hers, time to report this back to Bit, unfortunately.

Sting Chameleon grins and suddenly looks up to the Kaiser, a broad, devious smile curling about his beak. "I should request that Neon serve under my temporary command, sir- as she provides her service so willingly- she is quite perfect, given her 'bright' composition and skills, to be an excellent distraction." :>

Sewer Rat says, "Ey, I'm pretty good at sneakin' around too. I could join ya."
Tianna says, "The point of a distraction is /not/ to sneak. I thought that was obvious."

Mirror Pegasus never even noticed Glamour. Though the rabbit probably could have been undisguised and she wouldn't notice. Her wings flicker a bit. "Do we get to smash some Robot Master wimps?"

Sting Chameleon grins over to Sewer Rat, deftly holding a digit in a matter of fact manner, catching a glimpse at Neon now and then to revel in the possibility of taking down someone with him. "Indeed! It is!"
Sewer Rat frowns, "Eh, blow it out yer fancy lil' costume."

Kaiser Sigma makes a motion towards his hip. "We would enjoy your companionship by our side, Tianna-7. We are always watching for those who may prove themselves worthy of power under our rule. You show promise in our eyes. You shall gain the chance to prove yourself this day." He then nods once to Vile. "We shall expect both our Magistrates to stand beside us in battle, as well. Your input, as ever, is appreciated, our minion."

The Kaiser's attention turns next to Sting, the eyes glancing towards Neon and Sewer briefly. "You have our blessing to take those you wish, spy. Though not too many - we dare not deprive all our minions of the pleasure of..." And Sigma chuckles, grinning to Mirror. "Smashing Robot Master wimps."

Vermilion Rat blinks, listening, and then looks around the corner of the door, pulling his binoculars up, to get one good look at those that are there. He twitches his whiskers, and adjusts his sunglasses. He shakes his head, making mental notes, and then kneels back into his shadowy hiding place, listening.

Neon Tiger shoots a dark glare at Sting Chameleon, her red ear gems starting to glow with anger. "What? You dare to presume you can command me?" Her form blazes to life in a bright glow of mingled colours, perhaps to her disadvantage pointing out how 'glaringly' obvious she will stick out in an assault.

Lunar Dragon touches down before Kaiser Sigma, his drones landing behind him like black & red nightmares, as he says "Greetings, Kaiser. I hope I am not late."

Tianna salutes. Bigger. "Yes /sir/ - or Lord," she corrects herself. "I would be pleased to perform such duty."

Sting Chameleon hmms, rubbing the underside of his beak as he muses over the oderifous form that is Sewer Rat. "Still, you possess potential.. your crass demeanor and vulgar presence might be an asset. Care to, join us?" He risks getting filthy by shoving out a claw to shake with the vermin, giving him a choice, unlike Neon, whom he merely replies to with a sly, subtle nod to her angry question.

Sewer Rat chuckles, "Shure... I'll go with ya." He still seems completely unaware that he smells like a public toilet.

Kaiser Sigma nods to the various Mavericks who speak to him, bow down to him, and generally kiss his big shiny butt. However, there is something else he has on his mind at the moment. "Now... were is our other Magistrate? He should be here for such a grand occasion..." Reaching down to his radio, the Kaiser quietly rumbles to himself for a bit.

Sting Chameleon nods, still slightly disgusted as he retracts his claw back before /really/ shaking hands with this one. Thought that counts, afterall. "Mm, yes, good then."

Neon Tiger looks to Sigma, her expression nearly demanding to know if he is serious about her having to follow the Chameleon into battle.

Magistrate Vile leans back, so that his helmet may angle upward t'ward the sky in thought. Yes, indeed -- Where is the other? The Vile of this time has revealed quite an amount of things to the Vile of the future. Principles which make sense. Principles which he had...Forgotten. Thus he stiffens, merely peering into the sky with folded arms and still form.

Vermilion Rat shakes his head, and then flickers out of existence in his hiding spot, so he doesn't get his rat tail toasted by someone who's suspicious of him.

Lunar Dragon stands with his fellow dragons, 13 crimson and black forms ready to rain an inferno upon the robot masters. What he's thinking is anyone's guess.

Mirror Pegasus looks at Lunar, looks at his drones, then looks to the Cabbit sitting on her shoulder. "Nyasu, like, what did you do with the minions we brought?" The cabbit just smiles smugly. "Don't worry, they'll be here."

Neon Tiger swings about and just glares at Sting Chameleon. "I think it would be wise perhaps, if my ~commander~ were to lead by example and take the point in the diversionary assault."

Neon Tiger straightens up and grins, making herself look as innocent as possible, which isn't very. "I wouldn't want to follow the lead of a coward after all. Good way to prove yourself. Build character too."

Neon Tiger grins a little more toothily and adds. "And if you die, it will be a glorious death that I will let mavericks for ages never forget."

Sting Chameleon prattles one set of his claws along his chest plate, puffing up. "I haven't the faintest clue as to what you are alluding to."
Lunar Dragon suggests "Allow me to volunteer the services of a few of my drones to the assault, they are /quite/ a distraction."

Sting Chameleon snaps his fingers to Lunar Dragon, bearing a pleased smile. He's adjusted to this commander thing pretty good already. "Excellent suggestion." He then salutes, ignoring Neon by facing his back to her.

Lunar Dragon tells the group "Drones one through four, temporary command assigned to unit Sting Chameleon for period of fourty-eight hours." and the four drones in the front seem to come to life, rearing to their full 10 feet in height and stomping towards Sting.

Sting Chameleon whistles dixie for no reason, waiting.

Mirror Pegasus looks around again. "Get them. We need help for this." "Well, if youse insists." Nyasu snaps his claws, and in a few minutes a swarm of smaller, less flashy cabbits, small dinosauriods carrying big bones for clubs, flutting mechanical butterflies, and a few small (and cute!) robotic equines that look like rejects from a My Little Pony episode gather around her. Mirror and Nyasu nod to each other, smirking. "I'm ready!"

Vile sends Sigma a tightbeam radio transmission: " As you command. It may also interest you to know that your counter-part in this time yet lives."

Sigma sends a tightbeam radio transmission to Vile: "Indeed so? Hrm. Yes, his death was too simple. Too convenient. We shall have to prolong it."

Sting Chameleon aruptly claps his claws twice in a prompt and puffed up maner, without even looking behind him. "Dragon Drone, stand down." He remains straight faced to wait for the reaction.

Vile sends Sigma a tightbeam radio transmission: " *Snicker* Have I ever voiced how superior you are to this time's Sigma? If not, I wish to do so now."

The drones stop almost on top of Sewer Rat, sinking back onto their crouched, all-4s 'waiting dragon' stance.

Sting Chameleon spins around with child like glee at the resulting spectacle. "Eeee!" Spinning in a circle wildly, he stops, calms himself, and amidst snickering, orders them to piroette gracefully in a row.

Magistrate Vile continues staring silently into the sky, arms folded and form stiff. He seems content on not moving, either, 'lest directed otherwise. There are far too many things to consider ...

Tianna paces up and down the street, not willing to stay still any longer.
And they do, though with huge wings and tails they cause quite a bit of property damage.

Sting Chameleon snickers once more, and finally orders a relent on their dancing routine.

Kaiser Sigma glances up from his radio, and smiles as this world's Vile appears. "Your admiration is accepted, our Magistrate. Now, gather your troops. We leave shortly." A quick turn and he faces towards Sting and the rest of the distraction team. "Our spy - go. Now. Bring unto us glory and victory." The giant dictator's eyes narrow. "And do not disappoint us again."

Sting Chameleon sharply spins around and nods firmly once to the Kaiser. "Indeed, lord."

Neon Tiger sighs at her 'commander' and shakes her head. She still can't believe this, her armor glowing with a slight red tinge to it to signal her displeasure though she tries not to let it show. Being such a colourful character can be a pain at times. "Finally." she mutters as the Kaiser speaks.

Sewer Rat's tail whaps one of the drones lightly as he waddles towards Sting. "Ready."

Sting Chameleon nods to the rest of the ensemble, rubbing the underside of his beak amusingly with a finger before heading down the particular path that leads to doom. This time, he's noticably unnerved- could be the fact that he's back with a troop of ballet induced Mecha-Dragons that is providing a source of ill-based security. Or he might be thinking up something stupid. Your pick. :)

Vile stands atop his magnificent ride armor, his poise that of a taker, a conqueror. Throughout time, great conquerors have simply looked upon a land and known that it would belong to them or be destroyed, and that nothing would stand between them and their final victory. This is what Vile feels as he looks upon not simply Skull Fortress, but the expanse of existence itself. His optic sweeps over the gathered force of troops, numbering near a thousand. He calls in his finest voice, "Mavericks, servants of the empire, today we mold destiny to our will! Today, we write a new page in the books of history! Today we build a new kingdom on the broken bodies of humans! Do you know why? Because we are superior! The humans brought us, the perfect species, into this world. Their times has passed and ours has just begun! Know that once Wily falls, the world will not be long after! And after the world, the stars themselves! The Universe will know our purity! The universe will know our power! Mavericks, FORWARD, FOR TODAY WE MAKE THE FUTURE!" Vile calls to the forces, not believing most of what he says. Perhaps reality will die, but all the better. Goliath crashes forward, beginning the siege.

Mirror Pegasus just BA-LINKS, then looks doubtingly at Nyasu. "Did we just hear, like, a *whole speech* from Vile? How weird is that?" The cabbit twirls a claw at the side of his head. "I think the time warps are gettin' to him. Not that it matters."

Magistrate Vile slowly lowers his helm toward his direct counterpart. He stares in silence, body beginning to gently rock back and forth in thought. A grating, dry chuckle hums from within that helmet, the spirit of chaos and lust for destruction - Death. They will all die, surely, in their own time. This Vile...
...Knows the truth. Understands the truth. A truth that he, the very Magistrate of this Empire, has only now begun to learn. Admirable. Thus, it is with that notion that Magistrate Vile ceases his personal laughter, barely audible in the first place, and readies himself to follow the Kaiser as requested. He has always stood by his side and he will do no less now, despite his growing -- Insanity.

A simple nod is all it takes. One motion of his head to the Viles, and the Kaiser is off. Within moments, the rest of the Mavericks are with him and both Goliaths, heading to the fortress - and destiny.

<Soon...>

Skull Island
What once was a desolate wasteland has been transformed into a veritable paradise. The charred remains of a brutal battle between the titans known as Repliforce, the Mavericks and the Robot Masters is no more. The island has been restored it it's tropical paradise, rich with the ability to produce crops and containing even lusher, greener jungles. The balmy climate is perfect for anyone who wishes to leave here. The remnants of war have long been brushed aside, replaced instead by the massive visage of Skull Fortress. The large Robot Master HQ rests atop an active volcano, channeling heat for geothermal energy. And the massive fortress overshadows...a new hope for the future: Robotropolis. Robotropolis, the new capital of the Robot Masters. Can such a destructive force maintain the peace and harmony that it has wrought upon this land? Only time will tell for certain. Otherwise, the entire island seems to have benefitted from the Robot Masters presence.

Sting Chameleon sends Sigma a tightbeam radio transmission: "My liege- our strike is underway, but we cannot hold much longer as our forces are severly limited."

Chance Asp gets hit right in the face with the beam. "Watch it!" she says, one optic neatly sizzled. "You could poke someone's eye out with that!" She slithers forward, trying to get at least one solid swat in on the cat.

Enker is dazed and disoriented, and at a most opportune time too.

Sewer Rat lets out a pained squeak as Yamato stabs him. He growls, "ey! I ain't no shishkabob!" He dashes forward towards the Master martial arts guy, his tail whipping up and lashing out, the tip spinning around faster and faster

Elec Man's eyes slowly recover and he takes a squinting look around...

Sting Chameleon rears around again amidst random gunfire, apparently taken a likening to riding a mecha dragon about. He soars in for another swipe, glaring amidst the rush of wind whipped clouds among his beak directly at Metal Man below, squinting his left eye once.. as it flares and releases a beam of concentrated energy.

Yamato Man deftly dodges the tail strike from s. rat and instantly counters with a heavy swipe of his spear saying "This is not a cook off and i find you referance to such confusing"

Neon Tiger grins toothily as the little snake swings at her, neatly leaping over the flailing appendage. "That. Won't. Do." she growls. Landing with a heavy thud and a cloud of glowing dust, she thrusts herself forward, claws flashing through the air towards Chance in a vicious flurry of blades.

There it is - in the distance. A quiet but growing rumble. A feel in the earth and in the air that something is happening. Something terrible approaches.

And there it is. Coming out of the ruins of Robotropolis, like a tidal wave of metal, is the Maverick main force. Huge in size, and toting along with them more gumbies than can be counted, the forces of Kaiser Sigma appear. In the lead is the monster himself, with a Goliath Ride Armor on either side.

The battle cries of a thousand beings rise up, and weapons begin to blaze, peppering the area with inaccurate long-range fire. And above it all is the maniacal cry of the Kaiser -

"DEATH TO THE SLAVES OF WILY! LET TO FLESH BE UNSCARRED!"

Elec Man looks over at Chance Asp again. "You want a hand?"

Chance Asp hisses as she's shredded. With a good deal of her scales splintered, broken, or just plain gone, she lunges, teeth bared. "I am not going to be a Maverick's plaything! Stay out of my office!"

Metal Man blinks as the multicolored beam scores his armor, searing an internal system into malfunctioning sparks. He stands there silent for a moment. "Ow!" Pulling out a god-honest Metal Blade, he lets fly with a howl of pain... even though it really didn't hurt all that much.

Elec Man is distracted by this newcomer to say the least. He looks over in that direction and squints into the distance. "Aw, nuts. I only can think of one freak that ugly..."

Cut Man shakes his head and yells "O come on! You should know that watching my death over and over isn't a new thing for me!" He retakes his Kung_Fo pose and hops far into the air towards Sewer Rat. He whirls his body around and lets his foot fly out at the rat. "What the?" He hears the rumbling of Kaiser and his booming voice. His martial arts training has helped him ignore the big K.

Enker narrows his eyes at the rumbling and the arrival of the Maverick armies, ready to go to any lengths to defend Wily's haven of Skull Fortress.

Sting Chameleon shrieks once more as another blade is sent his way, pulling on the reins a /third/ time to evade the deadly menace. As it rings past without scoring, the dragon drone has decided it's had enough, and jerks forward to fling it's cargo off unceremoniously. Sent sailing into the air, Sting screams, headed right for his mortal arch nemesis. Well, not really. Just Metal Man.
Sting Chameleon misses Metal Man with his Ram attack.

The ocean stretches out forever, reaching as far as the eye can see. However, something dark visibly appears over the horizon. The image is blurry, it's shape dificult to determine as of yet. Suddenly, more shadows appear, dozens of them. They grow larger as they approach skull island at tremendous speeds. As they come closer, it is now all too apparent what these were...ships. They cut through the water, spraying foam and producing turbulant suction beside their hull. They continue to roar through the ocean, tearing through waves, proudly carrying waving flags of Repliforce.

Inside one of such vessels was the Colonel, standing tall and proud. He towers over the other repliforce soldiers around him, the officer watches them as they load their weapons and brace for their landing. This has been the moment the executive officer has been waiting for, the moment of truth. He did not like the idea of defending an enemy from an enemy, but in this case...it was for the greater good. Unlatching his weapon, the Colonel tightly laces his fingers around the sabre. With the crackle of activation, the energy blade shrieks to life. The sword produces an eerie glow, luminating the silent interior of thee carrier ship. Staring at the door, the reploid was all too eager for things to start. With a calm british tone, he speaks to his men one last time..."Remember, this fight is not for our cause...it is not for our glory...and it sure as hell is /not/ for the Masters! We fight for the fate of our world, and perhaps those of countless others. Should we fail..." He cuts off his speach, the words were only putting more pressure on the men. Each one had an expression as if the weight of the world was upon his shoulder, which is actually quite true. Red lights flicker to life and the door locks unlatch.

Sand is sent flying into the air as the ships come crashing onto the beach. Enormious ramps fall down from each vessel, revealing hordes of reploids inside the hull. The troops pour onto the shores of skull island unorganized, they scream in the hundreds towards the battle currently engaged. Among them, is the Colonel leading the army. He runs at an amazing velocity despite his great mass. With his sabre held high, he guides the Repliforce forward to engage the enemy.

Mirror Pegasus zooms in towards the fray withe Kaiser and the others, a mechanical cabbit sitting upon her back. Following her is a swarm of robotic butterflies and winged ponies, carring little boneclub-weilding dinosauroids and more robotic cabbits with them. The reploid equine of mythology soars with surprising grace. "For the glory of the Maverick Empire!" She stops, coming to a hover upright as her companion moves to her shoulder, and poses dramaticly.
"Like, go kick butt and stuff!" Nyasu the cabbit cackles gleefully. "Go get 'em!" In a surge of force her robotic minions dive upon the Masters gumbie forces in a full assault.

Sewer Rat just emits a strangled gurgle as Yamato Man spits him like a roast pig, and is then subsequently kicked in the head by Cut Man. He goes sprawling, his draining energy no focusing on Cut Man. "You just bought yerself a ticket to six feet under, afthole." He hoists up an arm and a little nozzle pops out, spraying a streak of corrosive liquid plumber at Cut.

Metal Man leaps into the air, a beautiful somersault, putting his back to Enker as he splashes into the Maverick, trying to get his body blades spinning fast enough to hurt.

Vile comes a little too close to Skull Fortress for the Wilydragon's comfort, who ROOAAAARRRS loudly in warning! Vile wisely decides not to test the mechanical creature's patience again.

Cut Man watchs as the rat sprays that crap at him. "O no you don't! Not that easily!" He throws himself to the right and prepares to throw his blade at the little rat.

Neon Tiger leaps back again, adopting her hit and run tactic and avoiding the snapping jaws of the snake. With outstretched hand she makes her next strike. The large gem set in her palm glow ominously, sparkles starting to fall off the glittering surface. "Laser emitter pod!" With the announcement of her attack, a multitude of small laser beams in a myriad of colours spray out towards her target.

Sting Chameleon instead crashes clumsily into the dirt, his skull embedding into the earth completely. The rest of Sting's form wildly thrashes to free himself, and he does, whirling about to face his foe properly, ready to dash away at a moment's notice. He.. sorta taunts. "See if I don't run if you hit me!!!"

Chance Asp isn't fazed that much. She starts to sway left and right, up and down, in a very rhythmic pattern, to catch Neon Tiger off guard. To help the illusion, she stays quiet except for hissing to go along with her swaying.

Elec Man, while keeping an eye on the somewhat nearby Neon Tiger, starts building even more of a charge, seeing as how a bunch of really big guys just showed up.

Yamato Man stops his assult and glares at cut as he barges in on what should have been his kill. He sighs and steps back from cut and sewer, wiping some of sewers last attack of his face.

Metal Man snarls, getting up and rearing back. "I'll show you a hit!" He throws a punch at the Mav.

Sting Chameleon screams like a girl.

Cut Man watches the rat and watchs Yamato back off. "If I cut your tail off do you shrink?"

The massive form of Goliath, bearing the augmented body of the Magistrate, clanks along aside the Kaiser. His dark optics peer forward in a steady, calculate silence. Each member of the opposing forces are analyzed under this careful sweep; not one escapes his observation. Slowly, Magistrate Vile's helmet angles down, though the optics continue their study. They peer just below the extent of the helmet's visor.

Their fire is merciless. Death may find comfort within them, but all that is good -- All that is living, they cower. It is, indeed, hatred which has risen up within Vile once more. Hatred unseen for years, but that which has been revived. The dark, twisted Phoenix of Vile has torn asunder the bounds of intellect and only this desire to destroy remains. Farbeit, however, for he to not take advantage of his new power and knowledge, though. "For the Empire..." Vile's helmet snaps up, "...May /DEATH/ rain down upon our enemies; these heathens, blinded from the truth!" His voice grates loudly, but by no means out-weighing the Kaiser's words. Rather, they mean to accent them. "For our Lord! DESTROY THEM!" The Magistrate shouts to the Maverick gumbies under his direct command. That they do -- Charging onward ...

Clubasauruses, Pegastrons and Mech-Cabbits rush into battle with Hammer Joes and Hardhats, while hordes of Robo-Butterflies hover over the scene, firing off mini-whirlwinds at the Eggbomber Birds. Mirror Pegasus continues to hover over the chaos, for the moment content to deal with the gumbies until she spots a better target to deal with.

Sewer Rat snarls, "If I tear that corny scissors off yer head, do you die? ACCK!" He snide remark is cut short, literally, as Cut Man slices off part of his left flank. he's now bleeding heavily and decides insane Kaiser or not, he's outta here. Flipping off the assembled Masters, he turns and runs for the ocean.

Neon Tiger swings her tail about and sways it in much the same manner as the snake before her is doing. She grins ferally, gleaming metallic teeth catching the glow from her armour in an intimidating display. "This is how its really done." Her flashbulb strobes in a blinding white light, which is fortunately for most, unidirectional.

Jet Stingray sails above the air on the horizon, hovering down closer to the battle at hand and dashing straight on into the heat of the melee and just plain joining in the carnage that will commence, "The cavalry has arrived! Time to kick some aft and make some scrap!"

Elec Man says, "All right! Who wants to be the first to fall?"

Chance Asp just stands there, still dancing, and manages to closer her eyes in time. She takes advantage of the flash to slither closer and try to wrap around Neon. "Not if you're just clearing a path!"

Enker watches as the ships of Repliforce pull up, much needed help from a long time foe... Nothing to unite two enemies quite like another enemy they share. Enker steps forward amongst the troops, the lights of battle reflecting here and there off of his armor, the shots flying past casting odd and flickering shadows against his face. He raises his weapon and the symbol of his power high, a beacon of light somewhat dwarfed by the constant weapons fire. He heads over to the Magistrate himself, lowering his weapon before the giant Ride Armor of the twisted demon named Vile. "Greetings," he says to the Magistrate of the Maverick Empire.

Kaiser Sigma strides at the very tip of his force's spearhead, a towering, unstoppable force. As the Maverick troops slam into the Master defenders, he simply begins striking out at random, energy scythe gleaming and busters laying down a constant layer of fire on all that moves. One particularly unlucky Hardhat disappears under the Kaiser's giant boot, flattened completely. A Sniper Joe is bisected by the scythe in one smooth strike.

"Die all, die merrily, for none may stop the might of Kaiser Sigma!" Joyous cackling winds it's way through the pure chaos of battle as the Kaiser simply smashes his way through the troops, determined to reach Skull Fortress. And there, standing in his path, is one poor, poor Master. "You shall be the first to fall, slave." The mighty scythe lifts upwards. "Be at peace."

Sting Chameleon ducks in the nick of time, blinks stupified at Metal upon standing back up straight, and rasberries again. This time though, he spins around to run after doing so. Enough fun for to-day.

Cut Man catchs his blade skill fully and puts it back on his head "That should be enough." He laughs as the Rat flees. A Joe impales him in the head and Cutsy falls to the ground grabbing his face.

Metal Man recoils backwards, shocked. "What the heck was that supposed to be?" He pulls out another few blades, chucking them again in a vain attempt to hit.
Yamato Man falls back into the fortress to assist in defense from the inside of the fort

Elec Man, in a fit of suddenly valor (stupidity?), jumps out in front of Kaiser Sigma. "Death to all with tuning forks on their foreheads!" He cuts loose with his EMP blast at the much, much bigger robot.

Sting Chameleon gacks, literal X's crossing over his eyes as the metal sharpy things render his body. He lands limp into a pile of vegetation, and scurries off. Badly hurt.

Streaking across the sky, the Vorpal's engines slowly power down as its speed slows. As it nears Skull Island, it slows to a hover above the beach as the maneuvering engines engage. Landing skids slide out of the underside as it begins to lower itself down and as it lands, a hiss of steam shoots out of the sides. The Hunters have arrived.

Megaman leaps from the Vorpal's hatch, only to stop midair on an invisible platform. He points his cannon downward and creates another platform, leaping down. Stop, fire, jump, stop, fire, jump..

Protoman blinks in from nowhere. Or at least that's the way it seems. In reality, he just teleported from the Vorpal. He forms appears in a crimson flash several kilometers off from the site of the battle between the Masters and Mavericks, surveying the situation before entering the fray. His yellow scarf flaps in the Caribbean breeze as he lifts his visored helmet. Master, Hunter, lone wolf...he's all of these things and more. But today, all he wants is to go home.

Metal Man blinks. "Come back here, you cowardly little wanker! I'm not finished with you!" He runs off.

Neon Tiger hisses, finding herself wrapped up in the weak coils of the asp. Annoying more than anything, and merely a minor setback. With a powerful roar, she flexes every chord of synthetic muscle, ever hydraulic, every servo and attempts to power the snake off of her form.

Chance Asp flies backwards, skidding slightly. On her back, she doesn't get up but breathes heavily. She puts her hands up. "No more! Please!"

Seminole jumps from the Vorpal, not far behind Megaman. He simply freefalls, then uses a pair of pnumatic jets on his feet to slow his descent to the ground. With a *thunk*, Seminole has landed. The Hunter draws his sword, then starts sprinting towards the conflict.

"Pft. Is that all?" One of the giant maroon hands simply reaches out and deflects the EMP wave off, sending it careening into the crowds. Several unfortunate gumbies get zotted by the fall-out. "Prepare to meet your end. There is no escape." The huge energy scythe comes up, then slashes down. Hit or miss, the mighty weapon continues on it's arc, ripping open one of the unlucky Hammer

Joes that was trying to crack open the Kaiser's armor. "None shall halt the advance of Kaiser Sigma!" The giant takes another step forward, plodding to his goal.

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> steps from the Vorpal, forceshield shimmering as it falls, cushioning the blow as the mighty Ride Armor slams into the ground. This suit enclosed, it's hard to see the pilot, but there's really no point in hiding it. Michael Eildath is inside, and he's pissed off.

Magistrate Vile shifts his helmet just enough so that his optics may peer down, through the bottom border of the visor, toward Enker. "Ah, Robot Master Enker...." begins the Magistrate with a tone that, while still maintaining a concentration of intelligence, wields a tone of coldness and rage that was hardly there before. It is quite distinct now, however, as he continues, "It is, indeed, a pleasant night to die.. As the might of the Kaiser overshadows your pathetic Island, you yet stand before me." A chuckle rings out from the Magistrate, his helmet now angling down to properly peer at Enker, "Are you /that/ eager to greet Death, Android? So be it! I shall no less discourage this decision than I shall turn my back to your weapons." He knows very well that Enker is not here to talk, with the chaos and destruction holding reign over the landscape. If it is a duel he wants, then very well -- He shall grant such a desire.

Megaman leaps from the final platform, de-equipping the magnet beam, and lands in a crouch not far from the main battleground. "This feels weird, helping the Robot Masters..."

Elec Man looks grumpy as his EMP shot misses. "That wasn't supposed to happen..." He suddenly finds himself jumping backwards to dodge the incoming blade of death.

Repliforce Flagship <Crusader> can be seen coming from the Carribean sea, through the smoke and fire lit skies. As most of the Repliforce Battleships begin to lay siege towards the Kaiser's primary defenses around the city, The Crusader moves closer into the dropzone and its bay doors and upper hanger begin to open, releasing troops by air and sea. Finally, aboard the main deck The Admiral and the General can be seen. The Admiral appears to be moving frequently towards his Radio receptors, giving orders to the fleet of ships around the vacinety of the island...

Elec Man gets a cocky look on his face. "Can I rub your bald head for good luck, big guy?"

Neon Tiger growls low and raises a single set of claws. As she draws them back her entire body begins glowing a uniform orange. Slowly her glow builds in intensity until finally she stands there, a bright fluorescent figure. She pushes off with her powerful legs and speeds for the small snake with a cry of "MERCY IS FOR THE WEAK!" As she nears Chance Asp she unleashes her drawn back arm and slashes at the Robot Master pawn, then launching herself skywards to try and rake anything she may catch into shreds.

The two factions collide along the sandy shores, the beauty of the tropical isle lost in a sea of soldiers. They combat one another viciously, tearing circuits wiring and armor. The Repliforce troops continue to push on, fighting valiantly...but the Mavericks were a formidable army. Dozens of reploids fall within seconds of engagement, audio-splitting explosions fill the air as bombs go off. The atmosphere is filled with the pungent odor of burning metal and the firing of lasers. Everywhere once can turn to, there was fighting. This is paradise lost.

The Colonel tears through the frames of several Maverick gumbies. His sabre easily cutting through their armor. It hums with each slash. The colonel moves around fluidly, as if knowing the moves of everyone around him. Once the numbers around him became too overwhelming, the officer is quick to teleport out and let the troops use their own weapons against one another. Surprising the enemy as he reappeared elsewhere, the Colonel continues to battle even during his rephasing back into reality...using a cruel method called 'tele-fragging'. With mech-fluid encompassing all over his body and the countless soldiers around him , it is difficult to distinguish the Colonel from any other Repliforcer.

Flash Rabbit drops out of the ships cargo doors, apparently riding one of the larger and friendlier gumbies down. The poor gumby seems to be regretting its offer to Flash, as the rabbit happily chews its ears off, oblivious to the look of anguish on the kind gumby's face as Flash bores it to death, even as they float down to the ground.

Elec Man suddenly lashes out with a goodly share of the energy he's been storing, at the hideosly more powerful robot. "Now how about some nice shock therapy?"

Stepping down the ramp of the Vorpal, the Hunter from the future known only as X already has his X-Buster fully charged, glowing like a bright star in the midnight sky on his arm. With a deep scowl on his face, he walks right past everyone in his path, occasionally punching a stray Maverick out of his way as he makes his way towards his ultimate goal. "KAISER!" He cries out at the top of his lungs. The time of reckoning has come, all of his years of fighting, his suffering, his hope...it is his duty now to fix this terrible wrong that he began all those years ago...when he took the life of his best friend. "It ends now, Kaiser. Today. Come down off your throne and face me once and for all." Stopping a fair distance away, he simply stands there ...and waits, his weapon held ready and charged at his side.

Chance Asp screams as she's laid open almost completely, circuitry bare to the world. She screams, unable to move, fight back, anything except scream and gibber for more mercy. It's also not working.

Seminole draws his datchi from his back, giving a glance at Megaman as he starts slashing through the jungle as well as the Maverick gumbies that have started coming his way. "I wouldn't worry about it, Megaman. Soon, you'll be able to go back to stopping Wily," he grunts between slashes and parries, almost unheard on the field of battle.

Megaman smirks, morphing his arm into a cannon, "Yeah. Not that I'm looking forward to that." He uses his short size to his advantage, slipping ahead of Seminole's path.

Protoman continues to survey from atop a grassy knoll not far from the battle, what's visible of his face impassive to the massive carnage below. The odd Maverick gumby that stumbles towards him in hopes of taking down the engimatic Protoman soon finds himself a smoldering pile of circuits, with little effort on Protoman and his buster's part.

Cut Man stands up and grins "I am here.....They are here....My luck is here..... SWEET!"

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> begins to wade through the mini-Maverick gumbies, crushing them underfoot as Ride Armors are wont to do.

The near blinding glow about Neon Tiger quickly dies off as the claws discharge in her foe's battered frame. She looks most pleased, eyeing the shreds of metal still wrapped about her blades. As she falls from the apex of her leap, she eyes the still functioning snake below and decides she wants to finish her once and for all like the example wanted make. She bares her teeth, the jagged maw of steel opening wide. She lands on all fours as any feline would, atop her prey and snaps for the first vital area she sees.

General solemnly observes the battle from atop the deck of the Crusader, allowing Admiral to fulfill his function without much interference aside from saying, "Bring the Crusader as close as possible to the battle Admiral. Breach their defenses." He sweeps his gaze over the battlefield on land from afar. Eyes locking firmly onto the large frame of Kaiser. As fire power begins to rain down around him and into the oceans from the defenses of the Mavericks, General doesn't blink to much or react to much to it. Instead he rumbles "Kaiser Sigma is the key. If he is defeated then the Maverick forces will collapse without the charisma of their leader to drive him. The brunt of our stronger forces must attempt to wedge a passage way to him. I will take care of the rest.." He steps forward, closer to the front end of the Crusader and surveys the sea as if gauging it and waiting for the Crusader to drive its way closer towards the battlefield.

Seminole grins at Megaman for while, before watching him disappear into the battle. He presses on, managing to continue his fight against the Maverick gumbies. Slash, parry, blast, repeat. Soon, it's almost like a reflex.

Protoman decides to reconnoiter the area around the fortress and teleports over towards the gates, behind the Master line. As he does, he received a transmission, at which he just smirks and slips inside.

Flash Rabbit quickly lands, pushing towards the evil Kaiser, intent on stealing his crown too when he's instantly swarmed by gumbies! Having never been in a real battle before, Flash is soon overwhelmed and forced to fight for his life, even against these piddly opponents, not really knowing how to deal with enemies en mass.

Elec Man looks over his shoulder at Cut Man. "Stop that! I'm too busy for this!"

Chance Asp is still there, still screaming, and not going very far. The only reason she's not dead is that Neon only pulled off some of her scaley armour that was already almost removed.

Cut Man looks at Elec "Sorry."

Megaman springs through the trees, letting loose a few volleys of Rolling Cutters to clear his path where necessary. Suddenly, the blue form bursts from the trees into the battlefield, landing on a Maverick robobat and knocking it out of the skies.

Kaiser Sigma barely notices as the electrical beam digs into his armor. His attention is elsewhere, now. The bane of his existence is here - X. One of the busters swings around, and, off-handily, fires at shot at Elec Man. "Go away, pitiful one. We have *real* opponents to attend to." The giant thrusters along his back ignite, lifting Sigma into the air. "X! Oh, we have waited for this day!" Out comes the Sigma Sabre, replacing the scythe. "We face you with great pleasure, and shall treasure this final end! Your armor shall look beautiful upon our trophy wall, with that of Zero!"

The giant Maverick lands before X, crushing a random Repliforce gumby under his feet. The sabre glows with the same level of insanity as his eyes. On the back of his feet, panels open up and dash jets strong enough to propel most robots into orbit ignite. "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEE!"

Elec Man happily beats a retreat from Kaiser Sigma. He stops and peers at X. "Ack, saved by Rock."

Neon Tiger curses her luck and the snake, getting up onto her knees as she straddles the prone reploid. Her ear gems glow bright red in frustration which she immediately takes out on Chance with sweep after sweep of her uncharged claws, assuming nothing interrupts her. Snakes make such good scratching posts.

Chance Asp's screaming is abruptly cut off when her voice box bounces several feet away and grinds to a stop. Assorted other internal machinery shortly become external machinery, much to Chance's dismay ( if she was still there ) and scattered across an area. Finally, her computer core, the very important piece, is dashed into more pieces against a rock. (But look at it this way. Instead of having just one, now you have seventeen!)

The Admiral gazes over to his commander and gives him a slight nod, "Affirmative sir." With that his gazes towards the brunt of the fight and moves to his radio once again, "Admiral to Bridge, steer and direct the ship to coordinates zero, zero, five point six and raise the forcefield. We are heading right into the brunt of the fight. Keep us going fast and heavy as we need to be as close to shore and the Kaiser as we can."

A transmission is sent back to the Admiral and a quick bright flash of light appears around the Crusader, obviously indicating the raising of its forcefield. As its primary bay doors close and numerous aerial fighters are launched before the forcefield rose, The Crusader's speed begins increasing very quickly and heading straight for robotropolis.

Elec Man rushes at Neon Tiger. "Hey! That wasn't cool!"

Seminole perks up visibly as he manages to find, of all things, a female scream, through the sounds of battle. Violently pulling his already bloodied datchi from a fallen Maverick, Seminole turns and charges towards the sound. Abruptly, the screaming stops, producing a growl from the Maverick Hunter. He moves quicker, finally getting a visual on Neon Tiger... and what's left of Chance Asp.

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> continues to tear through the Maverick troops, Michael's eyes blank as he goes about the mindless process of fighting. He doesn't make pithy comments, he doesn't show off. He does his job.

Maneuvering to the side, X is unable to move quickly enough and takes the full brunt of the attack. Grunting as he's struck, he flies backwards into the sand, creating a small crater in the ground. Flipping backwards out of the self-made hole, he crouches a moment before leaping high into the air, "This isn't your world, Kaiser! Your madness is going to end _today_, with _me_. And even if I die here today, I'll make sure that I take your ugly twisted corpse with me."

Coming down across the sky, the futuristic Hunter finally releases the tremendous power of the blast he's been charging this entire time, causing a huge cloud of hot energy to pour out of his weapon, which streaks towards the large Maverick leader like a ball of pure blazing emotional fury. *CHOOOOM*

Neon Tiger raises a clawfull of shredded circuitry towards the sky and roars in victory. Quickly she leaps to her feet and tosses the remains aside, looking about for her next challenge.

Flash Rabbit finally succeeds in literally chewing his way through his opponents, having bitten off a rather nasty-tasting gumby's arm and winging him with his blaster as he lept free of the dogpile. Although scratched and lightly bleeding from several places, Flash still seems to be in fighting condition. Amazingly the bunny seems to be a fast learner, and learns to avoid being mobbed down as he slowly and unsteadily works his way towards Kaiser and Robotropolis.

Elec Man jumps at Neon Tiger, pulling back a fist that's filled with a sparking handful of electricity. "What, Sigma not give you your Friskies this morning?" He lashes out at her face with aforementioned fist.

The true brunt of General's attention focuses upon the battle between X and Kaiser. Frowning deeply as he attempts to gauge the possible outcome of such a duel. "Without the necessary power...even X is not going to be able to defeat the Kaiser. He cannot in his future, he cannot in this potential past." He continues to watch and wait, bracing himself against the deck of the Crusader as the forcefield comes up and the massive ship begins to drive its way closer towards the island...as close as is possible for it while energy begins to slowly build up around his mammoth hand. Targeting Kaiser from a fair visually. "I will be going in Admiral. I leave it to you to make sure we have a means of retreat should it become necessary for our forces to withdraw. Use any firepower necessary. Breach their defenses!"

Neon Tiger finds herself caught offgaurd by the small Master, not looking in the right direction for her next challenge apparently. Twirling to face him she hisses and lashes back with an uncharged fist of her own. "You are next!"

Seminole is distracted as a horde of Maverick gumbies charge him just as he started his pursuit of Neon Tiger. Naturally, he can fight them off, but these gumbies have decided to actually present Seminole with a fight. Utilizing his datchi, he slashes at them violently, opening armor and causing limb loss. But if there's one thing about Maverick gumbies, they're persistant.

Elec Man dodges back in the face of the incoming attack. "Wrong, I'm last!" He attempts a backhand to make Neon tiger back off just a little.

Megaman leans over and grabs a Met running nearby. Leaning back, he flings it like a frisbee, sending the hardhat careening off the heads of various Mav gumbies. Xena Man strikes again!

Magma Dragoon strides through the fray, Maverick soldiers fall in rapid succession. He pays very little attention to the smaller, weaker opponents and moves ever closer to the larger ones... the major enemy. Those he vowed to destroy.

Flash Rabbit .oO(I hope Glamour's not around)Oo. Flash thinks, worrying that in his combat daze he might attack her without knowing it, as he reflexively blasts another gumby with his cannon, mumbling an apology and stepping over the badly wounded Maverick.

Up comes the Sigma Sabre, weilded like a lightsabre parrying blaster bolts in Star Wars. "Mad? *MAD*? You dare call us mad?" The huge blast of plasma smashes down, striking the energy blade full-on. Just as he did this against Bass two days before, the Kaiser again slides backwards as the massive ball of plasma splits against the sword.

Much to the surprise of those standing near the Kaiser, the X-Buster's blast is cut in half, running a river of white-hot energy along either side of his body and totally vaporizing any foolish enough to stand there. The force is amazing, however - what progress forward which Sigma made with his dash jets is taken away as the force rolls him backwards, creating deep gouges in the earth.

Then, it passes. Kaiser Sigma stands there, shielded by his weapon, and unscarred by X's assault. "Pitiful creation of Light! You can not harm us, now or in our world!" The sabre drops to the side, and Sigma's hand raises. "We are disappointed that you even try. Accept and submit." Near-invisible forces gather around his hand, causing the air to ripple. Pinching his forefinger and thumb together, the wave of magnetic force hurls off towards X, aiming to envelop the warrior's neck.

Neon Tiger sidesteps the little Master's attack and places a hand on her chest, looking very regal and full of herself as she begins laughing at him. "Last? Last! This is the beginning! The Reploid race will rule this world as we are meant to. Weak human controled ~things~ like you have no chance!" She ofcourse doesn't catch her own pun there. She does however do her best to catch Elec Man with a bright pink blast from her tail. "Neon Laser!"

Elec Man gets as close to the ground as possible while standing. "going to wax philisophical on me, are you? Is that you talking or the Maverick Virus? While you think on that, I'll show you how they just don't make 'em like they used to!"

Elec Man's leg glows as a trail of electricty flows through it and snakes along the ground toward Neon Tiger with almost blinding speed.

Grasping at his neck as he's choked, X grips at the invisible forces holding him in a futile attempt to pry himself free. Gasping for the breath to speak, he strains his voice to try and rasp out a few words, "I've...never given up, Kaiser." Clawing at the hold on him, he dangles in the air helplessly, managed to squeeze out one last phrase, " ...and I never will."

The Admiral looks back to his commander and shows a rather wide grin about his usually expressionless face, "Gladly." He murmurs to himself, continuing on, "As you command sir! Har Har!" he says, placing his hands at his sides and giving a good hearty laugh. Again, he moves to his radio as the Crusader is close enough to shore and seeing an opening in one of the walls surrounding Robotropolis, "Admiral to Weapons Room, load the missile batteries and begin charging the main gun. Set aiming coordinates towards one zero six. Prepare to drop the forcefield on my command."

As the Admiral gives his orders to the crew of the Crusader, four rather large barrels extend from the center of the ship and are prepped for firing. *hhuuuuummmmmmm* A low humm can be heard from the Crusader's Main Gun, and every few seconds becomes louder and louder. The Naval Commander looks on, waiting for the right moment. The Fray clears and Admiral gives a the order, "Admiral to the Crusader, Fire at will!" With that, four to eight missiles shoot out towards various Maverick soliders, annhiliating nearly a battalion and two platoons. The Main Gun fully charged, fires *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!* and explodes the wall into little less than rubble. Finally the Crusader, gives at full speed and rams itself into whatever is left to clear the debris.

Zip! Zing! Zap! Three blasts of energy fire toward the Kaiser from the Blue Bomber's cannon as he runs toward the duel. "You leave him alone!" The first few shots fly wide, but Megaman charges up his buster as he runs, and releases a larger blast aimed for the Kaiser's arms, "Or else!"

*SNAP* goes the kitty. If Neon had fur, it would be standing on end, instead she glows a bright blue from the electrical discharge coursing through her systems. With a yelp of pain she leaps into the air, then, glaring at Elec Man, she decides she'll show him how a lightning strike is done. Upon touching ground again she springs forward, mouth wide open. She closes her powerful jaws at the Master, hoping to get a good taste of him before this battle is through.

Magma Dragoon turns all around slowly.... he calls out, "Who is skilled enough to take me?! Do not even bother confronting me if you do not stand a chance...." At that moment he spins and removes the head of a charging Bull Maverick with a solid chop of his hand. "I thought I had made my point clear.... someone qualified please." He continues to stalk the field.

Elec Man's eyes bulge as the techo-kitty jumps him. The deadly fangs shred his body more than a casual bystander might assume possible. Worse, his electric charge isseems to be running low.

"Excellent.." rumbles General's voice as his massive body is illuminated by the fire power erupting from the Crusader's main gun. He watches as the energy cuts a swatch of ruin through the Maverick sea forces and final naval defenses and then steadies himself as the Crusader rams its way forward and breaches the remaining debris and defenses. Gumby firepower lights the ducks around General as well and the Repliforces manning the cannons and gun turrets that bristle along the Crusaders form begin to unload with a volley of return fire. Filling the air with a rain of fire as explosions blossom all around the massive ship and it's commander and the Repliforce CO. Seeing an opportunity, General abruptly steps forward and drops off of the ship as it reaches shallow enough water for it to move without it grounding itself. He drops down and descends into the water with a tremendous splash and and impact. Bending his knees abit to absorb the shock of his fall, while behind him reinforcement Repliforce troops begin to deploy into smaller ships that detach from the Crusader, "Repliforce! Advance!" rumbles his voice in command towards the arriving reinforcements.. And then he himself begins to stride forward through bay, heading towards the land and making a beeline towards the fight between the two Rocks and Kaiser.

Kaiser Sigma continues to hold X in place with his magnetic grip, pushing his mortal enemy down to the ground. "Kneel. KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!" In some kind of sadistic ecstasy, the Kaiser stomps forward, the still glowing Sigma Sabre in his hand. The magnetic hold continues to push X downwards, flattening him against the ground. And then, overhead looms Sigma. Large as a tank and twice as evil, he looms. "Perhaps you do not surrender to us, no matter how futile it always was. Even now, you do not - and thus, we shall free you from your pitiful existence and end your annoyance." The mighty glowing blade raises upwards..

And the pint-sized Blue Bomber wafts a blast right past the Kaiser's ear. The moment of distraction is enough - the concentration on the magnetic hold is broken, freeing X. And Sigma's attention is diverted to the *other* version of his mortal enemy. "Another who dares defy us! Share the fate of your duplicate!" Both the Kaiser's eyes shift from blue to crimson, and a pair of beams thrust outwards.

Magma Dragoon leaps across the field with reptilian bounds. His body is charging with extreme heat and when he's sure he's clear of friend... he releases it all upon foe! "FIRE STORM ATTACK!" he shouts... a flare of great proportions is seen as several Maverick soldiers around him fall or are incinerated under the intese heat. "RAAAAAHHH! Onward to Robotropolis!"

Repliforce Flagship <Crusader> 's hanger bay doors open as it continues to fire at remaining Maverick land forces. As its doors fully extend downwards, a platoon of Repliforce Navy Seals can be seen running swiftly and twice as fast as your typical Repliforce solider. These are the Repliforce's Elite Seals.

Neon Tiger sidesteps the counterattack like the highly trained warrioress she is. With a smirk and a weaving tail, she ends her graceful dance of evasion with a flailing of her mulit-use appendage, snapping her tail at Elec like a whip.

Elec Man seems to feel he's in trouble now, and his visage is deadly serious. He evades the tail whip and goes into a defensive stance. As he charges one hand with electricity, he lunges with his other in a knife hand attack.

Neon Tiger doesn't even bother to avoid the next assault, switching from feline grace to what she's more well known for, brute strength. Planting her feet firmly in the dirt, she launches back at the lunging Robot Master and his little knife.

Grunting as he's shoved into the ground, the Hunter grits his teeth, preparing for the inevitable attack, when he's saved by the little Blue Bomber. Rubbing his neck as he's released, X heaves a deep breath and quickly takes advantage of the opportunity. Slowly the colors of his armor shift and change, becoming the dark and twisted shades of Vile's armor. "You've always underestimated everyone, Kaiser. No one was ever good enough for you. Well, here's a little gift from the one person you do trust." Charging straight for Sigma, he lunges forwards in a maddening frenzy, raising his X-Buster, as he fires out a burst of darkened energy from it. The intensity of the attack exceeds even the fury of his first attack, threatening to engulf everything around it in swirls of black.

Megaman's eyes go wide as the eyebeams are focused on him, "Umm... eep?" He flips forward in a neat cartwheel, bounding over the energy blast. "Ha! Nice shot, if you were aiming for the ground!" He lands lightly and holds his hands out in front of him, materializing... a giant ball. He grins toward Kaiser and drops the ball, giving it a mighty kick in the direction of the mammoth Maverick to keep his attention -away- from X. "X, you okay?"

Elec Man oofs as he is taken off his feet by the charging Reploid, his attack casually knocked away as a side effect. As he hurtles toward the ground, he attempts to grab a hold of Neon Tiger with his charged hand...

Kaiser Sigma screams in rage as X moves again. "NO! WE DO NOT PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN!" His right arm shimmers, enveloped in a sparkling energy field. With one swipe, he deflects both the Vile Cannon's shot and the ball, sending them careening off into the now dwindling crowd. All around, the Maverick offensive slows, as the sheer combined forces of the three other factions cut down the numbers. All around, gumbies fall - but the Kaiser still stands, unbowed and unscared. Not to be distracted again from his quest, the Sigma Sabre rises. "X! You Shall Die!" And then the mighty glowing blade comes down, aiming to sever the future-Rock's head from the rest of him.

"Megaman!! X!! Stand clear!" rumbles General's voice as he stalks his way across the battle field. Huge frame crushing under foot the remaining Maverick gumbies and armored frame easily taking the minor fire power that some manage to get out. Behind him the elite squad of Repliforce that accompanies him begins to fan out and enter the midst of the battle field, serving to assist in the drive forward against the seemingly endless hordes of the Mavericks. "Kaiser Sigma! You have lost this day! Your forces are being decimated. Your time here is DONE." As he nears the location of the conflict between the 'Megamen' and Kaiser, he brings up a gigantic wrist and points it forward towards the godlike being. Metallic casings slide backwards and large gun turrets begin to bristle along the wrists. Cannons charging up with a hum of electric blue energy that charges..and then fires outward in a volley of energy towards Kaiser Sigma.

Neon Tiger leaps into the air and arcs back, even turning a flip midair. This has the basic effect of getting away from Elec Man's attack. The day-glo huntress takes up a three pointed stance and arcs her tail up over her shoulder, the bulb set in the end glowing brightly. "Ray splasher!" She calls out her primary weapon for the first time in this battle. Large twinkling spheres of light fly towards her target in a spray, each one accompanied by a *bzzt*

Protoman heads out of the gates at full speed, buster raised and charged to full power. Alongside... Bass? A mere crimson, gray, and yellow streak, he heads for the Kaiser like everyone else seems to be. Leaping over fallen Mavericks, Master, Repliforce, and other assorted bodies without pausing to look if any of them are familiar, he pulls up short as General bellows and unleashes a barrage of fire, bringing up his arm to shield from the blast.
Flash Rabbit looks up and gasps at the literal titantic battle about to begin, nearly getting his head blown off for his lapse of concentration as a small laser blast leaves a scorch mark between his ears.
And at that same time, from the gates of hell itself, the most feared of monsters arrives. With it's immense head swinging from side to side, as if to bring it's glare to all those who would dare attack it's sanctuary. Gaping maw opens wide, unleashing a sheer scream of prehistoric times, joined by a splash of fire from it's gullet that actually incinerates a row of Mavericks that had gotten too close.
Behold...the Wilydragon.

Megaman shifts his cannon back into an arm. "Hey! Big bread-bun guy! Leave X alone!" His colors shift to white and orangish as he clenches a fist and darts forward, staying clear of the General's blast, and leaps for Kaiser, one arm swinging for a Guts-powered uppercut!

Blues and Quire appear in a flash of crimson Et All.
Quantum Kitsune , wishing she could get in close to the Kaiser ... or SOMEONE ... triple-splits and starts slapping around Maverick gumbies. "Get ..." "Out ..." "Of ..." "My ... "WAY!"

Elec Man staggers against the blast as it catches him fully, but manages to stay on his feet. He balls his remaining electricity into a sparking globe of static and rushes at Neon Tiger, attempting to belt her with it. "Eat this!"

Seminole actually pauses as General fires, awed by the sight - as well as deafened and blinded temporarily by the blast that follows.

Magna Bass jets out alongside Protoman, not bothering to leap over those in his path. Any who are stupid enough to get in his path are outright incinerated, be they friendly gumbies or energy gumbies, falling to the power of his charged buster. With thrusters burning at maximum intensity, he cuts a swath towards the Kaiser himself, closing in like the rest of them. "Today Kaiser...you learn the -truth- of your mortality...." he whispers.

Protoman leaps up into the air, bounding off of a piece of circuitry that could have been either from machinery or from a Reploid, and shifts colors. His red and gray armor swirls and takes on tones of white and dark blue. As he nears the apex of his leap, his buster flashes, projecting multiple spears of ice.. undoubtedly something he took from one of the Robot Masters of his own world that became too impudent. The ice knives arc towards Kaiser Sigma, Protoman not uttering a word as he attempts to subdue the demon that would risk the obliteration of all in order to satisfy his own mad whims.

Neon Tiger leaps up and over her charging foe, landing neatly behind him. Quite aerial, she is. She spins about quickly, not having any time to charge up her claws, and unleashes a slash at his unprotected back, hoping to catch him before he can get out of reach.

Kaiser Sigma staggers backwards as he becomes the center of attention. With his forces in disarray or destroyed, the Kaiser becomes the center of all attention - the combined firepower of nearly all those gathered concentrates on him. Repliforcer, Robot Master, Maverick Hunter and rouge Maverick alike pummel his huge form. Nearly every sort of exotic energy, projectile and explosive impacts on him at once - while most do little if any damage, the combined force pushes him away, backwards, back... towards Blues and Quire.

"We shall not be defeated! We are beyond the Alpha and the Omega! We are Sigma! All kneel before us! You shall all pay for this impudence against our personage!" Yet, for all his talk, the Kaiser seems oddly impotent to carry out his threats. Purely on the defensive, he throws up a last desparate attempt to keep his hide intact - the shimmering sheild around his arm extends to cover his entire body, absorbing nearly all the firepower that rains down upon him.

Quantum Kitsune blinks at the bellowing. "Sheesh. How many Greek letters are you gonna BE in one sentence?"

Magma Dragoon charges right after Colonel at the gargantuan Goliath bound Vile. His Burning Katana spinning overhead as he flips through the air several times. He prepares to dive his blade deep into the mechanation. "You WILL fall or return to your own time!!"

As the Sabre comes down upon him, X activates a saber of his own . . . his friend Zero's Sabre which still lies stored within his Buster, one of the few things he has left of him. As the two blades clash, sparks of energy fly about, as the Hunter strains under the sheer strength and force of the Kaiser. Baring his teeth as he struggles, he quickly deactivates the energy blade and leaps to side, aiming his X-Buster back at the Maverick Leader as he flies sideways from his jump, "No! It _will_ happen, Kaiser! Your decade of tyranny is going to end today, with the salvation of all of reality!" Releasing a blast of energy, he lands unceremoniously on his side in the dirt, sliding along the ground as his speed slows.

Elec Man tries to spin around as the surprisingly agile (or at least mobile) Neon Tiger vaults over him, but fails and his back is torn open. He yelps in serious pain and his eyes dart frantically, looking for a means of escape.

Flash Rabbit phews with relief as the tide turns in favor of Repliforce, the evil mean gumbies seem to have thinned out, and Flash is able to disable them without killing them, much to both fighter's satisfaction. He keeps going until he sees that evil kitty mauling a helpless Robot Master, and wonders if he's supposed to help or not. Flash finally decides it never hurts to help, so off he goes, sprinting to the RM's side.

Megaman shifts colors once more. Orange fades into lime green and the boy hero forms another ball in his hands...this time a black one...with a fuse. "We? How many of you are in there, anyway?" He shrugs and chucks the bomb toward Kaiser, "I don't care! None of you are gonna hurt my friends!"

Magistrate Vile emerges from a previous battle, Goliath somewhat damaged from what would appear to be slash grooves of sorts. His stance is that of falling back, moving away from 3 distinct figures. He seems none too happy, either, about the entire ordeal. However, he /did/ take Enker down with him, despite everything. The Ride Armor whirls quickly and begins a full charge toward the Kaiser. Goliath slides to a stop, unearthing various amounts of debris with him, not far from the Kaiser. "Master...I have returned.." It is, at this time, that Vile happens to notice the forces gathered. 'Dang' He thinks with a slight hiss. What has happened in his absence...? He quickly raises his /own/ field.
Kaiser Sigma's forcefield withstands the attack.

Elec Man bursts toward Robotropolis, seemingly finding an energy reserve.

Magna Bass pulls up at the very last second, gaining height as his wings spread wide, his glare centered on the Kaiser himself. With a loud *SHRAKT!* his buster-arm ignites in a glowing field of energy, sharpened to a molecular edge with it's solid energy construction. As the field is erected, he smirks ever so slightly. "Ahh Kaiser, now that the tables turn, one sees just how much of a true -child- you are in many ways. Insanity beyond reckoning that others can't even fathom. That's all...your power is MEANINGLESS without drive to push it." His speech, is more meant for himself than anyone else right now, as his thrusters adjust themselves, then suddenly push him forward as a streak of light, bearing down on the huge form at a blinding pace, barely visible in his blindingly fast approach....followed by the sudden blazing trail of energy as his weapon slashes outwards, trailing sparks behind it.

Quire appears in a flash of light next to Blues, standing on a hilltop near the raging battle. In her hand is a tiny briefcase, but salvation comes in small packages, Quire herself being living proof. As she gazes as the battle she shakes her head, "You see, this is why science is so much superior. Look at this. A bunch of big guys shouting and throwing things at each other. It's like a locker room at a recreation center." She frowns as she hears the Kaiser bluster, "You wanna bet?" she throws the briefcase on the ground and it seems to explode outward. It expands, rising and connecting, reassembling itself. In the place of the small package it had previously occupied is a large, circular ring of metal. "Now, let's see if the Kaiser can match up to the queen of science!" she hits a large button on the side of the ring, and blue energy surges over the device. A cascade of falling, blue energy slams down from the highest arch of the portal, filling the ring with raging temporal energy. Through it, a bleak, desolated landscape can be seen. Damnation, the Kaiser's future, destiny's cruel little joke. However, this blasted hell on earth may yet prove to be a salvation for a world still innocent, a world still pure.

The other arm of General raises upward as the firepower from his assualt does little save to simply cause Kaiser to raise his forcefield up. "What you ARE..is DEFEATED!" rumbles his powerful voice as his internal systems begin to reroute power and more turrets open up, bristling all alongst his mammoth arms and charging upward with a loud *VRRRMMMMMM*. There is a brief pause as X makes his attack and then waiting for him to clear the imminent blast zone. HE waits again for Megaman's attack to strike and then cease and then he rumbles loudly, "X, Megaman, stand clear!" And then his cannons open fire with a volley of energy that burns the air and ground in its wake. Repeated firepower of ionic blue energy that scorches even Maverick Gumbies in it's path in judgement on its way to the Kaiser Sigma. He notes Magna Bass as well coming in at the last second but doesn't have much chance to give him warning to watch out.

Protoman lands with a thud after his ineffective Ice Slasher attack. His armor again shifts colors.. this time back to a more familiar red but with yellowish-orange shadings instead of gray. He raises his buster again, firing off three sawblades at the Kaiser.

Neon Tiger laughs, watching Elec Man flee like the pathetic human controlled weakling she perceives him to be. She flashes her claws and looks around for yet another plaything. She's feeling particularly lucky tonight.

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> pauses as it tears through the ranks, the human inside paling as he sees the devastation that lies beyond. To him, it looks like the mouth of hell.

Elec Man yells over his shoulder. "You wouldn't be laughing if I hadn't taken the time to soften up Sigma!"

Repliforce Flagship <Crusader> Fire and Brimstone, Smoke and Ash can be seen from the exchange of fire between the forces both on the ground, the air, and the sea. In a last defense, a sudden new fleet of maverick ships begin flowing in from the Carribean Sea. A New Fully armed armada of battleships and warships alike, flowing swiftly across the waters of the Skull Island bay.

A small transmission is sent to the Admiral, via the bridge informing him of the new crisis at hand. He quickly rushes to the port-bow of the ship, gazing on as the horde moves on. He sighs, lowering his head for but a moment. Then looking up towards the new threat, .oO(We will reign victorious, no matter the cost.)Oo. Moving to his radio, he sends a transmission towards the entire Repliforce army.

Magma Dragoon looks onward at the great gargants tangling.... even he is at awe. He gets a radio transmission though and moves quickly. He charges forward and cuts through several soldiers. He fires his flamethrower at Kaiser Sigma. "Keep Firing!"

Seminole does as ordered, finishing off the last of the Mavericks he was fighting. He moves up to a hilltop, drops to one knee, and fires shot after shot of his charged energy beam at the Kaiser. Of course, on its own, the beam is useless. However, combined with everyone else...

Flash Rabbit shakes his tiny fist at Neon, "HEY! How come you Mavericks are so mean so often? Can't you guys ever be nice?!"

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> suddenly gets a new order, and turns to face the massive form of Kaiser Sigma, weapons coming online and flashing outward in a beautiful display of firepower. Laser beams streak forth, doing

Quantum Kitsune shakes her head. "Just too much going on for little ol' me to be of any use ..." She looks around a bit, still trying to get her bearings in all this mess. "But there's gotta be *something* I can do ... besides just looking good, of course ..."

Blues turns to the minute scientist. "Science is mearly a tool of war. Do not consider yourself better merely because you are the developer and they are the executors."

Magna Bass tilts his head towards the direction of the portal as it opens, some part inside of him tells him just -what- to do...as it's certainly something he can relate to rather easily. "Feel pain Kaiser!" he howls, jetting over the heads of the others after pulling a hard loop, and actually coming to a hover just over General's head. Energy gathers in his buster-arm, starting to build to a frightening pitch as it grows brighter with each passing second, near blinding to look at now. "Feel wrath like the scared rabbit you are!" His right arm jerks up, supported by his left, now gaining more power for every moment that passes...

Megaman returns to his normal color, eyes wide as he sees Quire's toy, "Wow..." He holds one hand back, charging energy in his Buster, "You've ruined your own world, Kaiser...There's no way you'll ruin this one." He snaps his cannon up to aim at the massive form, "It's your fault Roll is hurt...And I won't let you hurt anyone here anymore!" His eyes narrow in a rare display of anger, "So go back to your wasteland... Go back and rule a dead army.. Go back...your destiny is now...Yaaaaaaa!" He lets out a war cry and unleashes the full power of his Megabuster upon Kaiser Sigma!

Elec Man stops near Robotropolis to watch, but is unable to muster more than a few sparks to help.

Neon Tiger swivels an ear towards the replidork bunny and a grin spreads across her muzzle, exposing her teeth. Flashing briefly a bright orange, she turns to face him. "Oh, have I upset you? Allow me to make it up to you." She leaps towards Flash with blinding speed, arms outstretched. "Lemme give you a hug!"

Flash Rabbit smiles at Neon, thinking he's finally succeeded in winning over a Maverick when he finds out she didn't want to give him a hug at all! "YEOUCH!! Hey, you tricked me!" he wails, rolling around to get some distance from her, his left hand covering his fresh chest wounds from her. Blindly he snaps off several rounds from whatever cannon he has ready, which happens to be his sonic cannon. Pure sonic energy shimmers in the air on their way towards the Maverick Tiger

Charging his X-Buster like a bright dying star about to go supernova, X leaps high into the air, glowing high up in the sky. Like a beacon, he calls out loudly, his final words. This is the moment, the time of reckoning, the end of all existence...or the beginning of a new era for his world. "No. I fought you for years and watched as you tried to destroy everything I ever cared about, left my entire world in ruins, and devastated and tainted everything you touched. You've corrupted your last innocent, Kaiser, and ruined your last life. It's going to end HERE. And even if I have to destroy myself with you, I'll make sure you die once and for all." Lifting up his arm, he aims his Buster at the bane of his existance, his rival for the past ten years and fires, pouring out all of his spirit, his soul, and his very hope into one final shot that rings out like the very wrath of sweet justice. "No matter what you killed, you never killed my hope." *Shrak-THOOOOOOOOM!!*

Protoman shifts back into his regular colors, his attacks on the Kaiser so far futile. His buster begins to charge to full power as he hears X's radio summons and raises it towards Kaiser Sigma. He still doesn't speak, for what is there to say to a maniac set on ruling the world? That's why he doesn't speak with Wily much. He joins in as Bass, Megaman, X and everyone else use their combined blasts against the Maverick emperor. The searing blast of blue-hot plasma surges forward, the counterforce from the concussion wave flinging his scarf back behind his back.

Hyper X flies in from above. Better late than never... As he watches the Busters begin to go up, he too begins to charge his Hyper-X Buster. As he swoops toward the megalithic battle, he calls out, "Hope I'm not TOO late!" The boosters on his back burn brightly as he swoops.

The New armada of Maverick ships skim along the waters. But the Repliforce navy, moving quickly and efficently, ceases its assault and turns about to face the new foes. Speeding along, the two massive forces quickly engage and begin to exchange fire. The ships begin to move into a (C) formation around the mouth of the bay's entrance and the Maverick forces begin to move into the fray. Coming from the hanger bays and aerial bays are two ride armors, The Hawk and the Frog deploy. The Repliforce Hovercraft <Barracuda> deploys and quickly submerges to do battle with foes beneath the sea! Then Leading the aerial squadrons, is the Repliforce VTOL <Razor>, with the Hawk just nearby. All forces begin to fire and ships on both sides begin to receive massive losses of ships and men.

The Admiral stands out on the prime deck of the Crusader, holding its waving and flutting flag with pride and honor, "Arr, ye swervy sea-dogs, go back to the pits of yell ye came from! The Repliforce shall win and have yer hides! Charge!!!" With that the Naval Commander, begins to throw his own arsenal of weapondry against the Maverick's Naval ships!

Hyper X continues his descent, landing nearby Protoman. His armour, red already, has an even deeper crimson aura around it. "Yup. Late, but not too horribly so," he comments to himself, looking about at the gathered. Man, lotta people. His eyes, then, fall on Kaiser Sigma and Magistrate Vile. A grimace crosses his features, as the aura grows, the red tinging with gold.

Mirror Pegasus comes bolting out of the jungle at highspeed in the air and high overhead. Keeping to the distance to watch for now as she escapes her own nasty little fight

Magistrate Vile continues to stand there, glaring coldly into eternity and destiny itself. The shining, white aura of his forcefield shines and swirls in its stay, protecting its Master against would-be assaults: Or so he would think, for the Magistrate, at this time, does not notice Rock ....

Jet Stingray is tries to catch up with Mirror after having her sent on the run. But she seems to outdistance him.

Neon Tiger looks at the scorch mark now decorating her chest place and growls back at flash. She begins advancing slowly on the rabbit, stretching out her hand; the glowing gem set in her palm twinkling, then letting loose a rainbow spray of laser fire. "Laser emitter pod!"

Magna Bass hefts his charged buster as well, somewhere deep inside letting X attack the Kaiser for that brief mom ent, to give him his final anger. If there's one thing that Bass can sympathize for...it's hate, and a foe that one can't feel for no matter what. With a building crescendo of power, he suddenly unleashes his full-power blast, letting loose and pushed -backwards-, actually over General's head in the process.

Whaaa---TOOOOM!

The sheer power of the blast propels him backwards, and over General's head in the process....but the screaming ball that is unleashed joins all those others that have been let loose.

Megaman staggers back a bit as the blast's recoil washes over him, but he stands firm. He brings his megabuster to bear once more, charging power to it...

Kaiser Sigma continues to slide backwards, slowly but surely. The great forcefield around him collapses, and hits continue to score against his armor. There's little he can do, save absorb the punishment. Huddled down in his armored crouch, the Kaiser spares a moment to glance back, to see where he's being pushed to. And then he sees it. And beside it, the tiny scientist who he laughed at and didn't obliterate in London. "NO! WE SHALL NOT BE DEFEATED LIEK THIS!"

Unfolding, even though it allows even more firepower to slam into him, Sigma begins to build up power. More power than you'd think was possible. "WE SHALL LET NONE HAVE THIS WORLD IF WE CAN NOT!" His entire body glows with crimson energy - not just the busters, but the whole Ride Armor sized form. "BURN IN THE FIRES OF THE GREAT VENGANCE AND FUUUUUUUURIOUS ANGER OF THE SIGMA!" Plasma-flames leap off his body, licking into the air and scorching the earth below his feet. The sheer heat is tremendous, causing what plant life remains to burst into flame around him. Through the halo of death is barely visible the view of Kaiser Sigma, his body actually melting under the strain of his own attack.

But with even greater force, X's blast meets the Kaiser's flames. It's possible that, somewhere off there, they *don't* feel the shockwave of the explosion. However, that's just not possible for those nearby. The ground under Sigma liquifies, and the burning, dripping form of Kaiser Sigma sails through the air, disappearing through the hazy portal.

As it does, yet another shockwave rolls through the area - a temporal wave, this one greater than all those before it. Bright white light shimmers outwards, rippling off to the horizion.

Quantum Kitsune BLINKS as the Nova Strike shockwave rolls over the battlefield like the Genesis Effect in Star Trek II. "OOOoooohhhh ... SH*" She suddenly *blinks* away, reappearing in the same place after the wave has passed over. "Oot."

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> reels backwards, fighting to keep the Kodiak on it's feet as the shockwave hits.

Mirror Pegasus yelps as a sudden shot wizs by her fleeing, having to stop and look. Thankfully she's high up in the air at the moment, and out of range of were it was actually aim. "Like, that was CLOSE!"

Hyper X crosses his arms before his chest as the red/gold aura swarms and crescendos at a gold. "Hey Magistrate!" he cries, boosters on his back sending him leaping into the air. "Here's a little present I wasn't able to give you before!" As he hits the peak of his leaps, he spins around; the energy suddenly focuses on his hands, and as he turns back toward the fight, targetting M. Vile, he shoves his hands together, palms out and toward M. Vile, and looses a volley of golden energy, warping and twisting together, heating the air as it passes. "HYPERBUSTER MEGABLAST!"

Jet Stingray UGHS!!! Getting hit hard by the nova strike as he was trying to go after Mirror, his engines start to overheat from the firepower and suddenly burst into flames, sending him sprialing to the ground, "Oh sh---*CCCRRRAAAAASSSHHH*"

Flash Rabbit oofs! and is shoved out of the way of Neon's recent attack. He decides he's had enough of this mean pussy cat, and draws a small spear, its tip crackling with energy. Setting it firmly in his arms, he lowers his head like a football player and charges the Tiger, brandishing the spear inexpertly and closing his eyes just before impact, wincing in expectation of the pain. o O(I really hate doing this!)

Megaman throws an arm up as the blasts of heat followed by the temporal wave wash over him, "Knew I should've kept that Leaf Shield from last month.." The force sends him tumbling back, battered, slightly charred, but mostly unharmed.

Magma Dragoon grits his teeth as he watches Magistrate Vile get pounded by the blast . He clenches his fist and calls out one last time, "I warned you.... you should have listened........"

Mirror Pegasus giggles. "Looks like I got here just in time for the fireworks after all." She hmms a bit, wondering if she should actually help someone, or just sit there in the air and watch...

Seminole tumbles back and falls under the temporal wave, but seems to be generally okay as it passes over him.

Protoman raises his Proto Shield as the two blasts meet, riding out most of the shockwave without harm. When he lowers it to see Kaiser Sigma gone, but the Magistrate still standing. While everyone else reels from X's blast, Protoman suddenly knows what he has to do. He stands up quickly, just as Hyper X's blast takes down Vile's forcefield. He heaves a sigh and snaps off a fairly brief radio message before sprinting for the Magistrate. "VILE! You want to challenge me? For what I did to you in your world? Now's your chance!" He leaps, and while in mid-air, blinks... appearing on top of Goliath and Vile. He grabs at Vile with all his strength, trying to wrench Vava from his demonic shell.

Magna Bass reacts instantly as the power is unleashed, flipping over and snapping his wings hard over his body, as if to form as a shield. Ironically enough, he falls slightly behind General in the process, thus being spared the hurricane force winds that blast through the area at breakneck speed, and the searing heat. As the sheer power seems to fade, he finally unfolds his wings then, smoke trailing from his form, but still active, considering the situation and all. With a glare, he stares towards where the Kaiser has actually begun to melt, furrowing his brow in nothing short of dark victory. As the form is sent hurtling through the area, Bass himself actually alights right next to the General's shoulder, raising a clenched fist. "So it comes to pass General..." he intones. "...and so it ends. The rest, are mere annoyances."

The glowing form of Neon Tiger is bowled over by the shockwave of the Nova Strike, sent rolling along the ground but basically unharmed by the blast. She looks up and tries to find Flash Rabbit, her attention caught when his attack just misses her. With a defiant roar she charges, her form beginning to glow a brilliant orange as her energy claws grow in power. She dashes full tilt towards Flash Rabbit and swipes at the bunny, tying to slice the annoying repliforcer into tiny ribbons.

Quire hovers a foot off the ground with her nifty new pair of anti-gravity boots. She isn't shaken terribly by the shockwave as a result. Quire regards Blues, "Ahem, it IS science that just saved every reality, everywhere, not to mention your spandex-clad butt, so give the philosophy a rest!" She turns to the gathered crowd, "Okay, get bullet head through the portal and I can start sending the rest of you back. Hurry, I only have about fifteen minutes of power left." She calls. "So say your goodbyes, past and future people, and all that, because hopefully none of us will meet again!"

Left barely standing, X collapses to ground, his armor all but ruined as steam and heat rise up from his battered form. Slowly a pool of red fluid forms beneath him slowly. A myriad of alarms and internal warnings go off in his head, warning that he's sustained critical systems damage. Coughing up some crimson liquid from his mouth, he picks up himself up with great strain, dripping from his wounds and cracked armor. Slowly removing his helmet, he gazes at the spot where Kaiser once stood and heaves a slight breath from his mouth in relief before tapping the Maverick Hunter symbol on his chest, which crackles and sparks before finally obeying his command, damaged though it his. Calling out in a raspy voice, he states aloud, "...I did it. I did it Roll. My world..is free." Having said that, he falls back to his knees and collapses in the pool forming at his feet.

General shields his eyes and snarls abit from the shockwave that erupts outward as X unleashes that hellish attack on Kaiser Sigma. He begins to power his weapons up once more even as he watches through the light, Kaiser Sigma being forced backwards into that portal. The hurricane force winds and mammoth shockwave erupt even against his frame and cause him to stagger slightly as the shockwave of the Nova Strike rails against his body with horrific force. He then glances towards Magna Bass as he approaches him and rumbles, "Yes..yes it ends.. After so much destruction it ends however it will not be over fully until the time distortions cease. The others must return.." He frowns abit and then begins to stride forward towards X's location and finally pauses before
Magistrate Vile is struck, twice, his own Forcefield collapsing from the punishment. It is at this time that the Magistrate snarls, hissing out his displeasure at the whole thing. True, though Goliath is rather badly rent now from the battles, he still lives on. Even as his Lord and Master begins to be absorbed into the portal, he does not move. As it were, the portal doesn't appear to be taking him. He's fighting it with everything that he has.
Goliath's arms lunge forward, impaling the ground to aid, "I...Shall not go...." His voice grates with lust in his words -- A lust for death, vengeance! Yet... All is not well to plan.

Protoman grabs hold of him and Vile shifts, snarling out with a loud, though still grating voice, "Dang you, Protoman! You think that by doing this, you shall bring salvation to this world and my own? NO! It shall not be so for I, Protoman, have come to the knowledge of the truth!" Goliath strains against the combating forces, the spikes beginning to rip along the ground. It is this time that Vile sees that this particular battle is lost, "When I am returned..." Vile hisses up at Protoman, his blood red optic humming to life, "...I shall personally -- kill you..."

It is this time that Goliath fails, the Ride Armor, pilot and aggressor stumbling and loosing the battle to the portal ...

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> stops again. "X?" Mike starts making his way towards the fallen Hunter, though he can't hope to outpace the massive General.

Flash Rabbit opens his eyes as he discovers he missed her, taking a few more steps before turning around. "Hey! Where'd you go??" he shouts. His eyes go wide when he finally sees her leaping at him and he draws a sturdy sword, stepping back to ward off her slashes with more luck then skill before diving at her and swinging the small scimitar in a furious blurr

Mirror Pegasus sees that X has fallen, and it dawns on her that, if he dies here, it could mean a major catastrophe for the entire universe in general. Though she may be a bad guy, her misguided purpose is for the good of reploids. Many of which will die if something isn't done. Biting her lip to ignore her injuries, she swoops down towards X and those approaching him. "He, like, needs to be fixed and sent back to his world! If he dies here, the temporal rifts may never ceases!"

Elec Man figures most of the fighting is over and cautiously approaches the crowd.

The albatross sets down near the battlefield with a heavy *WHUMP*, kneeling almost instantly to let its passengers free for the moment....

Neon Tiger grins, watching the blade spark off her day-glo armour plating. She looks back at Flash next. "Did you really think that would do anything, you pathetic weakling?" She bats at the offending blade, then lashes out at Flash with her fist.

Hyper X blinks as Protoman yanks himself, and M. Vile, into the portal. "NO!!!" His boosters fire to life, and he jets downward; passing over the downed X, he stops...Protoman can Blink, and he'll be fine. Though, X might not be. His boosters lower him, and he lands next to X. Kneeling, he looks at X. "No..."
In the distance, the Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Albatross> comes to a landing, having survived the effects of the temporal wave without too much trouble, since it wasn't in the immediate vicinity. After receiving X's transimission, Roll is the first to hop out, even before Rick has finished safetly landing the vehicle. She drops the entire way to the ground, tumbling as she lands on her bad leg. Not about to let a little thing like pain stop her though, she's quickly up on her feect again, and rushing towards what remains of the battle.

Megaman's gaze shifts in worry from Protoman to X... In a final decision, he daashes for the fallen X, "No! You can't die...not now...there's still too much for you to do in your world!"

Protoman clings to Vile and Goliath, unable to do much else. He helmet comes flying off to reveal his face, twisted in concentration and fury. No longer Protoman.. or Break Man... but Blues... older brother to Rock and the first sentient robot. His blond hair whips around his head, around the face that is so much like his brother's. And, were you close enough to see, you'd see the cold blue of his eyes has changed. An inner fire, one that has so long lain dormant for the right fuel, now burns with an intensity so bright that it threatens to engulf him. As he and Magistrate Vile fall through the portal, he says triumphantly, "You can kill me.. you can kill X.. but you can never kill hope, Vava... Fight the future!!" And the portal swallows them, his fallen helmet rebounding off the ground and bouncing down towards the battlefield.

Quire moves towards X on her stumpy legs, pushing through the bodies of fallen warriors. As she nears the fallen freedom fighter she calls, "One side! One side! Genius coming through, let me see what I can do, and I once again stress the 'not having a lot of time' you drama-queens seem to be forgetting!" She takes out a few micro-tools as she walks forward,

Michael Eildath drops from the Kodiak, only to see the others converge... and Protoman vanish. "Oh, no..."

Repliforce Flagship <Crusader> enters the fray of ships, preparing to unleash every piece of its massive arsenal upon the on coming armada of ships.. But doesn't, as suddenly the rest of the Maverick ships begin to pull back and sail away from the area. The Admiral looks on with curiousity and confusion, "What in blazes is going on?" He turns around and notices on land that all is calm, a small portal can be seen as people begin to be thrown and pass through it. He smiles, a rather proud and good feeling rises about him, "They did it.. Its over."

The Naval commander moves to his radio receptor and commands all of his ships to stand down. He sends another transmission, curious about what is happening on land as he commands all of his ships to be on stand by as the Crusader begins to make its way back to shore.

Flash Rabbit yipes as the blade is knocked out of his hand and he leaps up over her, landing behind her as the tiger flies by. "Not really" he says honestly, "I'm still rather new at all this, and that was just to keep you away from me...so I could do this!" he says and releases the blast of energy he had been building up while talking, a powerful blast of coherant light streaking towards her.

Rick Morgan watches through wide eyes from the cockpit, reaching out for Roll as she moves to leap down, to try and stop her. "Wait!" he calls, but she's not really stopping, and he has to make sure that the ride armor he's piloting stays upright and active.

Hyper X looks up at Roll as she approaches, "Sis... can you... fix him?" He looks back down at X, sapphire eyes beginning to cloud up, even as he hears Protoman. Two deaths... his brother, and himself... As Quire approaches, his gaze turns around to her. "Fix him... please..." Protoman can't be helped... as much as he wants to believe that his brother CAN, he can't...

Megaman crouches not far from X, "Protoman knows what he did.. But we need to save X...for his world..."

Magna Bass watches for a very long moment, through narrowed eyes, and slowly drifts down from General himself, flipping about and demerging without another word. His course begins to carry him forward as well, approaching the fallen X with everyone else.

Quint-Sakugarne has dealt with massive paradoxes, time fluxuations and all that shit, and he's about tired of it. He really just wants to go home and kick Megaman's blue pajama'd aft. Sure he hasn't been around real much, just pondering and killin', it's his way. He sits atop Sakugarne, watching as Protoman takes on M. Vile. "He's changed Sakugarne... can you see it? This will not bode well if he is to return... he will join his brother in our world as well..." Sakugarne grunts in agreement, but is cut off as Quint gasps in horror at the fact that Protoman just went through the portal.

Mirror Pegasus shakes her head. "Normally, I wouldn't think of helping a Hunter. But, in this case, if it means beating that freak of a Sigma wannabe, who's been corrupted of his power and lost sight of his true purpose, then it's, like, for the better. It's the lesser of two evils, or some junk like that."

Blues hangs his head as he hears the words of Protoman, he says quietly, "Things will never be the same there again, he feels the need for right. This is how it began. With the fire for justice he will oppose Wily, he will join his brother, found the hunters and start us down the dark path that will lead his timely to the grim future that he just returned Vava to." He sighs looking up to the sky and to the stars, .oO(that will not come to be here.)Oo. His fist clinched in fury.

Twila Peterson stays silent for the longest moment as she sits behind her brother within the armor. It doesn't really take that long for her to change however as she decides to follow Roll. Her features are ashen, but it's not from the sight of the tremendous amount of devastation laying about.

Roll skids to a halt as the sheer size of the crowd forming around her futuristic brother prevents her from getting close enough to help. Hearing the Rock of her time speak to her from the vicinity of X, she struggles to push her way through, though it's uncertain if she'll be able to make it there before someone else like Quire can, considering that she's still hurting from her earlier encounter with Vile. "Let me...through...please!" she says, trying to squirm her way through, even going so far as to rudely push other people aside in her urge to get to her wounded brother.

Elec Man crosses his arms and frowns at Roll and Twila ferociously.

Magma Dragoon stands atop the walls of Robotropolis.... no one is sure how he got there... but this is where he now is. He folds his arms and looks over the whole battle field... as the remaining ones who are time displaced begin to depart through the portal, some willingly... some not so willingly. He thinks about X, one who made such a sacrifice sacrifice... Protoman's return to his senses.... they all did it. His tail slowly whips back and fourth X will live on.... he must. Magma looks down to where X resides now... with several others gathered around him. "You are brave beyond brave X." He gives a slow salute.

Hyper X demerges as well, though Rock is still kneeling next to X. He looks up, again, at Roll, then Quire, then to Bass, in an almost pleading manner. As Roll can't get through, he stands, "LET HER THROUGH!" Fists clenched, in almost the same manner as Blues, he looks around again, unsure of what to do. He showed up late, he's no medic...

Rick Morgan facepalms as -Twila- hops off now, and proceeds to facepalm. He dosen't bother to pursue for the moment, knowing that there's more than enough Hunters and Repliforcers present to keep them both safe, thus he decides to keep a steady eye out in the meantime for now, able to see from his elevated height.

Michael Eildath stands there, in front of the idling Kodiak, standing back and looking on with a horrified expression on his face.

Quire sighs as she looks over the wreck that is X's body. She takes out a small tricorder-esque device and runs it over him, "Oh dear, maybe if we had more time.. but.. as things stand.. the wound is fatal.." she looks to Rock, then to Megaman, then back to X. She snaps her fingers, "Why didn't I think of it before. You three are essentially composed of the same matter, albeit slightly altered. I may be able to borrow some power from each of you to save him, but it's a risk and I'll need someone to help me.."

Neon Tiger blinks down at the hole in her chest, unable to belive that the rabbit just put it there. She ignores the transmissions in her com for the most part, instead retreating, humiliated, by a pathetic little repliforcer. She has not noticed her new lord's disappearance, nor the fact that the rest of her forces have been defeated, she just knows that she has been beaten by Flash Rabbit. She is not pleased.

Elec Man quietly suggests, "Why not send him to his own place, where he can die without causing a paradox or whatever?"

Quint-Sakugarne grins... massively. Soon the grin turns into a fit of laughter. The little green midget laughing hysterically atop his crimson mount. People are dying all around him and the multiverse is falling appart, but this little maniac is laughing. "The Idiot! Buwahahaha... How quaint... saving the world and all." Quint clenches his fist tightly. "Oh, the beauty of it all... maybe this trip wasn't a waste...."

Mirror Pegasus considers a bit, and not getting in Quires way, pulls the ribbon off her tail, the other out of her tail as she returns to her usual appearance. Staying out of the real medics way, she goes to bandage up some of Future-X's leaking wounds with her bows, using what limited medical knowledge she has. After see the twisted Sigma that rules that world, she'd rather have a hated Hunter alive to fight him than let him continue that insane madness.

Quantum Kitsune glares at Quint. "Don't *MAKE* me duct tape your mouth."

Megaman nods quickly, "It's worth the risk.. to save his world.."

Flash Rabbit stares at the retreating Tiger, then back down at his tri-cannon, then back at the tiger. "I...won?" He gasps, then a smile spreads on his face and he leaps in the air shouting, "I WON!!!" He shakes his fist at Neon, "That's what you get for being mean, and don't you forget it or I'll have to punish you again!"

Bass is of course able to shoulder his own way to the front of the group, staring down on X's form with emotionless eyes. Even at this moment, the peak of all peaks....when the world itself is saved, he finds no pity, no remorse at the other's condition. After all...it's the way of things isn't it? And even if it isn't the X that -he- knows, it's still an enemy in many forms. But that's for other times, as he simply tilts his head up to glance in Quire's direction, narrowing his eyes slightly with some other thought.

But it passes quickly enough.

Rock bobs his head as Quire asks... "I'll do it..." He looks to Megaman, then down at X; his eyes fall on Roll, and the approaching Twila.

Flash Rabbit holds a hand over his fairly shredded and scorched chest as he wanders over to see what everyone's gathered around, even crawling under the larger reploid's legs to get a good view of the show...

Michael Eildath frowns. "I hate to be pragmatic, but we'd better hurry, if we want to get him back before the Stardroids decide we've screwed it up for the last time."

Elec Man moves to let Flash Rabbit by. "Nice work on that furball, long ears."
Mirror Pegasus has done her little bit to help, and nods to Quire. "Worth a try." With that, she gets out of everyone's way and flies towards the other Mavericks to watch the end of this. If the universe does end, it out to be an interesting show at least

Seeing as how Elec Man happens to be one of those in *her* way, Roll elbows him hard out of her way as she nears. Immediately, she slides down on her knees, heedless of the mud and blood that she comes to a stop in, picking up X and cradling him in her arms as she presses her forehead down to her chest, tears streaming down her cheeks as she hugs him close. "X...Rock..." she murmurs. Lifting her head, she looks at him in the eyes. "You can't die now. Don't you remember...all the things I told you before? You've got to..." She looks frantically up at Quire, including Megaman and Rock in her gaze as well, pleading to the geninus scientist, "Please, you've got to save him!"

Quint-Sakugarne is still laughing, and no one's going to stop him from having his momment. In saving this universe, Protoman has doomed the past to the rule of Wily, or atleast that's what the wee l'il one believes in his mind. "Your mine when we get home blue boy...just you wait..."

Elec Man hurmphs as Roll pushes him. "Hey, isn't there a shelf that needs dusting somewhere?"

Repliforce Flagship <Crusader> arrives on shore within the next few moments. Blasting off from the main deck of the ship, The Admiral comes alone, speeding towards the fray of people hording around the most upgraded of all of the Rocks, X.

Rock nods softly, reaching up to shrug off his helmet, tossing it aside. A quick reach behind, at Mike's prompting, and his chest and back armour fall off, revealing a white shirt underneath. "Whatever you need, Quire..." His sapphire eyes look down at his sister. Tears roll down his cheeks, "We're trying, sis... we'll save him..." He looks at Quire. "Will Roll do, to help you?"

Elec Man moves to shock her, but stops and thinks better of it.

Twila Peterson wasn't able to overhear Quire's proposal...although Roll may have since she's more ahead of the gathering than she is herself. Also, Roll has the added pleasure of being an android as such. Her features pale furthur as they move through the crowd and she catches a glimpse of X as well as the others. Let us through already," she bites out. It's then Roll forces her way even more so, finally allowing Twila in as well. "How...what..." she fumbles as she draws close as well. She glances at Quire once. "Anything you can do?" She's a medical assistant...not a full-fledged doctor...

Flash Rabbit blinks and smiles at Elec, "Thanks!" and keeps crawling until he can just see part of the downed X. Although shocked at Roll's behaviour, he quickly realizes her reason and gives Elec a nasty look when he gets upset. .oO(Don't even think about hurting Roll or I'll have to teach you a lesson too!)Oo.

Michael Eildath's brow furrows as he watches, worried for both Rocks, even if he doesn't express it very well.

Mirror Pegasus glances at Quint-S, then at Kit and her tape and smirks.
You paged Rock with 'What's your present state...besides prolly having your armor looking like it was run over a few times and crying your eyes out? :)'.

Rush barks lightly at Elecman, then turns to pad up next to Twila.

A few raspy coughs from the Hunter of the future is indication that he is indeed alive, but barely. His cracked and dented helmet lies beside him, leaving his wildly chaotic auburn hair drifting in the sea breeze. Looking upwards at those gathered around him, he strains to lift his head up to get a better view, but finds himself too weak as it drops back to the ground. " . . . not really supposed to put that much power into the Nova Strike," He states outloud in explanation, to no one in particular. The backlash he recieved was more than his systems could handle, more energy than they were designed to take. Shaking his head, he knows his sister is probably concerned about him, perhaps even to the point of tears. Resting in her arms, he shakes his head and forces a slight smile, "Don't worry about me, Roll. I've survived worse." His eyes wander a moment amidst the crowd before he looks up into the eyes of his sister, "There's always hope, Roll." Reaching his hand up, he tries to wipe a tear from her eye, tough he probably only succeeds in getting drops of crimson fluid all over her cheek, "You taught me that."

Elec Man rolls his eyes at the little dog, then continues to watch the show.
Flash Rabbit waves his poofy (and slightly muddy now) tail at the Robot Master and hmpfs! as he turns to watch them work on X.

Quint-Sakugarne bounces over to the fallen helmet, still laughing. He reaches down to pick it up and stare at it wide eyed. "Protoman... Protoman. How well I knew thee! You fool! You've given me the greatest gift of all! Beautiful!" X is dying? Who cares? Wily's gonna rule the world!" He drops the helmet to the ground, bounces a few feet into the air with Sakugarne and... crushes it.

Quire removes a small, triangularly shaped device from her vest. She taps a small button on its base and three metal cords snake out. Quire takes hold of one and moves towards the Rock of this time. She swiftly plugs it into his chest, where it deploys nanites that instantly interface with his power core. Next she moves to Megaman, of the past, and inserts a similar plug into his small, blue body. Finally she moves to X, of the future, and kneels next to his limp form and attaches the final plug to the fallen hero. "This will either save him or kill all three of you. But, just think, how often am I wrong.. wait, think about the law of averages. I'm bound to be right one of these days." Before anyone can protest she quickly hits the button again. Blue energy shoot out from the center, snaking into the power of past and present, drawing upon their power, their essence, and their life to restore vitality to the future. "Perhaps.. just perhaps, we may all be saved."

Admiral arrives among the vast crowd that lies about the dying X. He slowly begins to descend to the ground below, as his jet-propulsion systems turn off to cool down. With little smudges of black smoke and little dents within his armor, he appears alright and wearing his expressionless look upon his face. He walks towards where the majority of the Repliforces now stand, curious of the condition of the future X, but saying nothing.

Elec Man says, "Don't get all bent out of shape, bunny-boy. You don't really think I'd hurt my own sister, do you?"

Megaman closes his eyes as the power is drained from his body. Oh, Quint will get his...once X is safe.

Bass continues to stare through narrowed eyes, the edges of his mouth tugging down ever so slightly. He listens to X's words for a few moments then, before finally turning around without saying a single thing, and beginning to shoulder his own way through the crowd once more, giving those in his path his usual, solid push to get the hell outta his way. As he emerges from the crowd, it's ironically near General's huge feet, as Treble moves to join up with him at the same time.

Twila Peterson kneels down not far from Roll and X, offering Rush a warm hug and then gentle strokes along his back as she watches the operation.

Rock lets himself give powers into X... sapphire eyes shutting, he tries not to think. Quint is second in his mind right now, as he stands stark still, hands open and at his sides, palm out. Rush licks Twila's hand, then walks over to lean up and lick Rock's.

General rumbles, "Indeed." as he hears Michael. For the time being he had been observing from the background...allowing the others to crowd about X and then he glances to Bass as and states, "It is a shame that after this crisis ends I expect you all to return to your former ways Bass. This .. example of an alliance shows the amount of good that can be done if these wars would only end and we all work together for the mutual benifit of this world."

Elec Man snorts up at General. "Except that our ideas of mutual benefit don't quite mesh."

Roll smiles through her tears at X, not minding at all this his finger leaves a streak of red on her cheek as she runs her own fingers through his hair gently. "I know," she murmurs softly at him, smiling proudly at her brother, despite her own worries and fears for him at the present. Supporting his head up with one arm, she looks up, seeing all her friends, as well as the temporary allies of the Robot Masters and Mavericks around her, the fact that they all worked together to help achieve the victory of defeating Kaiser Sigma warming her heart. Shifting position slightly, she moves to let Quire place the device on X's chest, praying and hoping that this will work.

Jet Stingray limps through the brush and foliage to look up at his superior officer, "Yeah....but if that happens then we'd be out of a job."

Michael Eildath nods at General, looking far into the air to see the face of the titan, then stares at Bass with a dark expression.

Elec Man says, "And what joy, I could be a mobile power plant again."

Magma Dragoon now has made his way up to the edge of the group and looks towards the X's. He folds his arms and stares calmly. His fists are clenched very thight though.

Mirror Pegasus scowls a bit as Quint-S continues to laugh and blather insensently. "Like, the universe could fall apart at any moment, and you're laughing like a nutball? Like, shut up!" She conjures up a burst of ice in her hands, and chucks it at Quint-S. "Why don't you just go home and junk?"
Flash Rabbit crawls over to the laughing Quint, thinking he looks rather familiar but unable to place the face as he finally stands up, his white fur now totally brown from the mud all over his front. It seems he's got quite a little ego developed from beating Neon Tiger. "Hey you! You put that down, that belonged to...um...darnit I don't remember, but its not yours, and you need to be nicer!"

Colonel stands there, one among many observers. He just watches and listens silently, exhausted and fatigued after perhaps one of the largest ground assault Repliforce has ever shown. The Colonel smiles at Admiral as he makes his way over to the group. "Not bad Admiral."

Elec Man says, "If the universe collapses, it'll happen because these guys are taking too long, not because he's laughing, you know."

Elec Man doesn't seem to notice he's the only active Robot Master around.

Bass pauses next to General's huge foot, hearing his words, and thinking them over for the moment. He shoots a glare of his own in Elec Man's direction, before tilting his glare upwards to the massive Repliforce CO. "The mutual benefit of the world of this world is far from my desires General....and I believe you know that quite well." He grunts, and moves to unclip his own helmet, pulling it loose as long, raven colored hair spills out, and around his shoulders. "T wish the planet to exist, for my own purposes....and that's enough for me. Whether another perishes, or those from another world perish, I care not." he makes a slight gesture with his right hand. "You will never accept Wily's rule, and he shall never accept that you resist him. With this all over, we're now back to the way things were..." Even as he speaks, he steps onto Treble's back, who fires up his thrusters and begins to slowly lift into the air. "Now that the world itself can be fixed...-everything- returns to normal..."

Twila Peterson watches Rush for a moment as he makes his way back to his master and pauses to observe Rock himself through her own tears. She then gazes back towards Roll and X, biting her lip and taking an uneasy breath...at loss for what to do at the moment. She then gets to her feet somewhat shakily... "Quire...anything more than can be done?"

Jet Stingray folds his arms, looking down at Quire, "Yeah.....is this munchkin gonna fix him or what?"

Rock grunts softly as the energy siphon continues. "Let's...pray this...works..." His hands flex and clench.

Quint-Sakugarne continues bouncing up and down on the helmet... up and down... up and down. Foolish good guys. Protoman's helmet is no more than scrapmetal by the time he's attacked. Dodging with his twinkish agility, he fires a few blasts into the dirt at Mirror's feet, trying to blind her. "Back off." He nods at Elec Man, "Always were a wise one, Elec, I'll have to give ya a promotion back home... buwahahahahahaha!" Ooooh, Evil Laughter!

Admiral looks over to the Colonel and gives him a slight nod, "Indeed, it was a battle well fought. But with it, it carried a heavy price." he says directly to the Colonel, crossing his arms as he gazes down at the mortally wounded, X. "Many people have given there lives this day so that others might live my friend. Let's hope we can at least save one more, so they did not die in vain."

Elec Man says, "If anyone deserves a promotion it's probably me."
Elec Man says, "Be sure to tell me to spark Megaman for me."

Quire looks at a small time-piece she's carrying on her wrist, "Yes, subdue Quint and prepare him for time-transport. My generator has three minutes left, so say your goodbyes.. and prey this works."

Flash Rabbit hmpfs as he's ignored, and decides the only way to get Quint to listen is if he's someplace he can't be ignored. With this thought firmly in mind, Flash walks up behind Quint and jumps up on the pogo stick with him!

Quantum Kitsune eyes Quint-S, tossing the duct-tape roll up and down in her hand. Her two 'sisters' blink into existance nearby, and promptly gang-tackle Quint-S. "GET HIM!" The sound of duct tape coming off the roll is heard ...

Jet Stingray erks, "Flash....this is no time to start bumming a ride off of Pogo boy."

Disco comes charging in, having heard of the events through the Hunter datanet. He comes up to the assembled Hunters and skids to a halt, his usually manic demeanor calm for once.

Elec Man sighs as he hears the order to return to base. It's kind of nice to be able to taunt your enemies without getting beat up, especially when someone else is there that's more obnoxious than you to take the brunt of their wrath.

Mirror Pegasus gets splattered with the dirt, and grumbles a few cureses in his general direction. While the other real Pegasus pops up behind him while he's busy with her double, and while Kit is busy ducktaping him and his jackhammer down, she yanks out yet another of her ribbons and attempts to gag his mouth with it.

Colonel frowns and makes a quick estimate of the numbers of troops lost in this battle, he quickly shuts off the calculations...one death was too much as it is. His eyes swivel from left to right, trying to fathom the trajedy. Everywhere were the broken bodies of Mavericks and Repliforce, the stench of mech-fluid filling the air. The officers gaze returns to X, "Death is always useless."

Twila Peterson rises up to her feet as Quire is too busy concentrating on what it is she's attempting. Noting that she can't really be of any help really right about now she sets about helping in what way she can. She approaches Rock's side and places her hand within his, grasping it firmly.

Elec Man trudges toward the base, with one last look at the assemblage. Now he'll never know for sure what happened, exactly.

Rock doesn't open his eyes, but he gives Twila's hand a squeeze as the energy flow continues. "How... much... more?" he grits out,

Jet Stingray looks badly damaged himself, turning towards Colonel, "Yeah...but we all gotta go sometime. Just hopefully with a more diginified end than others." He looks towards the Ducktaped Quint-Sakugarne.

Elec Man pauses for a sec as he passes Twila and lightly zaps her behind.

Disco comes up to Rock, Twila, et al and looks striken by the pure massacre around him. His blue eyes cast downward to the fallen X, shaking his head as he kneels on the stained ground. He doesn't need to be told what's happened.. it's all too obvious.

Admiral looks over to Jet Stingray as he approachs and nods to him, "Indeed you are right lad.. indeed you are right." he says, sighing slightly. As he finishes, he gazes towards the portal that is still swirling, widely opened.

Quint-Sakugarne is jumped from every direction by various robots. Sakugarne is pulled from beneath the elite as he falls to his knees. Somehow, however, he manages to squirm out from those tackling him, sans his helmet and sans Sakugarne. You know, it's kind of funny, but he looks almost exactly like Blue's sans helmet. "Eh... back off. I'm goin'. Don't need no..." He stops short as the party begins to move en masse towards him, turning towards Quire, "Turn it to the past now, or I do something really silly and take your universe with me." His hair, an odd green color, flows in the wind. "Please?"

Roll hugs X close again, pressing her head lightly against his, indeed praying with all her might for him. "Please X," she whispers so softly that only he can hear, "You've got to live for your world, for everyone that Kaiser Sigma has corrupted and...for me. I love you, brother," she adds softly. She ignores all the others outside the little circle for the moment, concentration on just helping X to get better. She momentarily curses inwardly for not being able to use her keytool to help repair him, but the multitool was broken earlier in the day, and her utility arm is now the property of Slash Man, so all she can do is comfort him, and pray.

Twila Peterson turns a concerned glance back towards Rock, calculating he may need some aid when this is done as well, considering the energy he's expending to his twin. She bites down a help as she's feels some electricity hit her in an unbecoming place and turns swiftly to offer the Master a very cold glare before turning back to the others. Her thought's are taken from Elec Man quickly enough as her free hand rests itself on Rock's upper arm as if trying to provide additional support as well.

"Hmmm..." rumbles General towards Bass, "Yes this is a shame. I would have hoped that perhaps with all that has happened you all would consider a change to your ways but it is unlikely as many things are these days. Our truce is officially over then Bass. After this has wrapped up and after reality has rearranged himself to the way it should be..you understand I'm sure that we will continue to do our duty just as I am sure you will continue to follow the whim of your mad doctor like the underlings you are.. Minus the free will that you think you possess." he sighs and shakes his head while glancing away. "War will forever be your path, both physically and spiritually.." Turning he begins to step away to allow for more room for the Hunters to continue their goodbyes with X. He himself, has nothing else to say. Now comes the cleanup and restoration period. Much must be repaired.

Michael Eildath watches, the feeling of dread still building inside of him. He's not really an optimist.

Flash Rabbit waves a finger at Quint, saying "I told you so!" before bending down and picking up Protoman's mangled helmet and cleaning off the mud...most of the mud anyways. Sighing, he holds the helmet in his arms, cradling it for some reason as the magnitude of the event hits him. He looks down at his hands, and notes some of the 'blood' on them, and blinks as he realizes he actually /killed/ somebody today..."Oh, my, god." is all he can say.

Jet Stingray looks to General, "Yours too, Sir. It's what we were built for."

Watching as the device is placed in his chest, X is simply left to wait for the results. Reaching his arm upwards, he takes his sister's hand in his and squeezes it gently, to let her know that he's still there with her, though he lacks the energy to speak. Despite the fact that he may die, he still smiles. Finally, he has made amends for his past, atoned for his sins, and repaired the damage done to his world and people. If he passes, he can do so knowing that his world is free. Shifting his gaze, he sees Twila standing beside Rock and offers her a slight upturning of the corners of his mouth, the best greeting he can offer because of his weak condition. With his free hand, he searches his chest a moment and then holds up a small pendant for her to see, which has amazingly remained clean and unstained. Letting it rest on his neck once more, he squeezes Roll's hand again and whispers, "I love you too, Roll."

Elec Man grins devilishly at Twila as he starts moving faster. "It was General! Really! See ya 'round, 'Mrs. Wily.'"

Quire is...oddly moved by the midget's request, being one of the tiny people herself. "Go back to your world, Quint," she flicks a switch on the portal and the blue energy shimmers, changing from a world of damnation to a teleporter view of Skull Castle from days of yore, "Hurry through, and.." One of Quire's maternal instincts take over, and she smooths back Quint's helmet hair, "Try and behave."

Colonel sighs and feels Roll's pain, she was so nice to him just the other day. Nobody like her should feel such pain. Kicking up some dirt and limping towards some Repliforce gumbies recuperating, he quickly instructs them to spread the word that it was time for the men to load back into their ships. Afterward, he returns back to Admiral squinting at the ocean and staring at the damaged Repliforce ships. The vessels were beaten badly. "Exactly how many of our naval equipment was lost to us Admiral? Considerable?"

Bass smirks ever so slightly, at General's words, crossing his arms as Treble continues to slowly jet away from the scene. "War is -always- my being...every ounce of it. It's what I'm built on, it's what I -crave-." he chuckles then, and soars gently over the heads of the others, and actually setting down next to the portal itself, swiveling his gaze towards Quint himself as Quire speaks to him.

Mirror Pegasus gives Quint-S a swat in the aft with her fan (no attack) and winks at him. "Like, get going already." Her cabbit drone hops in, and dumps Sakagrune at Quint's feet. "Here, and take your trash with ya! Don't need ya trash littering up our dimention."

Elec Man retreats into Skull Fortress before anyone can decide that killing him is more miportant than X's plight.

Disco pipes up, trying to help. "You did, though...most of the world that was.. umm.. like, shifted, is back. Africa...San Angeles...you did it."

Megaman glances up from X a moment as the portal shifts. Oh yes, Quint is definitely gonna get it next time the Blue Bomber sees him.

Not suprisingly, Twila ignores Elec Man more fully now. The Master really isn't too important to be bothered with. Instead, she offers X soft smile of her own as tears continue to burn her skin with their salinity. "Hang on..." she finds herself whispering. To which Rock she means...id anyone's guess. Perhaps all three.

Quick Man limps onto the edge of the touching scene quietly. He, like most of the Robot Masters, looks like hell, with most of his armor missing. His helmet's cut in half, exposing his baldhead underneath, and he's walking with a nasty limp. Quietly, he simply watches the Hunters gathered around the fallen X.

Another squeeze is sent Twila's way... Rock opens his eyes, and looks over toward Quire, then down at X and Roll. "X...c'mon, pull through...that's only a flesh wound..." he mutters, softly.

Michael Eildath stands there quietly now, suppressing a grim smile as Quint is cowed and sent home. His mind drifts back to the scene at hand, and he closes his eyes, muttering a quick prayer for X.

Disco looks over at Quire. "Um, yer the scientist chick here, right? Can you hook up that doohickey to my timestopper to give it more power?"

Admiral moves his gaze from X, to back towards the Colonel, "The losses were moderate at best. Damages on the other hand, were heavy. But thank fully, being the marine reploids we are. No Casulties were reported." He replies, not really concerned about his ships at the moment. Rather the fate of the world and the dying lad, who's life is currently within good hands but at danger at the same time.

Magma Dragoon moves forward a bit speaking softly, "You WILL live X.... there is nothing that can change your fate. Nothing that can keep you from returning to keep the world safe as we always knew you would. You never give up..... never......" He folds his arms again over his chest and looks around at the others.

Jet Stingray looks to Disco, "Hooking it up to a timestopper? You sure that'sa good idea? You might freeze time in whole island."

"Hmmm.." rumbles General as he watches Bass departure. He then turns his eyes to sweep over the rest of the battlefield...He gives Jet Stingray a very .very. stern glance but says nothing to him...instead he rumbles, "Repliforcers who require transportation...converge on the Crusader. We are pulling out. Our task is done here, the rest remains to the hunters. Those of you who wish to remain may do so. Admiral, you may depart. The battle is over. The battle is won. The rest is up to the hunters..." He himself doesn't move but continues to watch the scene, eyes narrowing further.

As the energy flows from the other Rocks to X, he slowly feels himself regaining strength as his internal systems gain the raw power they need to begin repairs. Coughing gently in response, he seems to be progressively less and less weak, though he stays resting in his sister's arms. It's been a long ten years of fighting, and he's earned a rest, however briefly it may last. Though his wounds don't 'magically' seal themselves, the fluid stops its leaking as the various breaches in his armor are sealed enough to stop further damage.

Disco says, "Well duh...that's why I asked."

Twila Peterson applies firm, but gentle pressure to Rock's hand, and arm, in return, silently continuing to pray as she looks on through a clouded vision. The fact that X recalled the necklace and it's meaning does lift her spirits somewhat however. If the reploid does leave the land of the living, his spirit would have not.

Quint-Sakugarne grins at Quire, "Thank you..." He chuckles a little more, calling out one last time for this dimension to hear, "SAKUGARNE! TO ME!" From the crowd of people a shining crimson pogostick leaps into the air, flying towards Quint. The elite mounts his ride and looks out over the gathered crowd, his green hair flowing in the wind despite Quire's pesterings. Wow... he did actually enjoy it here, no matter how much he wanted to go back. "Well... it's been a riot people, maybe I'll be able to come visit one day? After I help Wily take over the world of course...." He narrows his eyes at Bass. "Bass... you have so much here...Power...Respect through fear...and a true evil purpose, unlike that ***** Protoman. You will kill Rock one day, and it will be as glorious a day in this world as it will be when I kill that blue punk in my world." In the background, Tequila Worm pops up and gets the voice of the guy from the waterboy, "You can do it!" Quint smiles, and pulls out a data chip, "Here... something I've been meaning to give you... it's got plans to something on it you might find interesting... Wily called it 'Doc Man'" The elite changes his attention to Roll, "You really were sweet, kid... remind me to kiss your alternate self more often, eh?" The midget takes one last bow towards this world, "Thank you! Goodnight, Idiots!" And off he bounces into the portal.

Rock ignores QS... his vision falls on the healing X... "Mega...we did it..." he says, softly, smiling and letting his tears flow freely down his cheeks.

Magma Dragoon now speaks more roughly, "Now get up X!"

Flash Rabbit continues to rest on his knees, cradling the helmet and bawling his eyes out. But this doesn't seem to be the standard 'Flash Sniffle' of old, for he knows that in killing another reploid he has killed something inside himself that day. He stares at the pogo-flattened helmet and continues to weep for others and for himself.

Roll just smiles back at X, joyful yet sad at the same time as more tears well up in her eyes, to trail down her cheeks and drip down on X's chest armor one by one. She continues stroking his hair lightly with her one hand and holding his hand with her other, remembering back to just the previous night, and how they shared it together as they used to, a long time ago before Dr. Wily stole the first Robot Masters and started on his path as a criminal. Looking up at Quire she asks softly, "How long before we know if it works, or not?" She too ignore Quint-Sakugarne, though she does flush lightly at his comment.

Michael Eildath looks up at Magma... another pragmatist, it seems. He looks down, checking his chrono with a nervous glace towards the portal.

Mirror Pegasus glances back over at the Hunters and X. "Well, Kit, either everything goes back to normal, or the universe falls to pieces. Either way, should be an interesting show." She offers a bag of popcorn to her close to a partner as she can get. Kit and her can stand each other, at least. "Want some?"

Twila Peterson doesn't pay any attention to the leaving Quint either come to think of it. She's has more greater concerns at the time being. "It's working...I think..." she emits quietly. A hand reaches up to brush itself lightly against Rock's cheek to wipe away some of his tears.

Megaman takes hold of X's shoulder, "Come on...I know you'll pull through. You're me, after all, and you've been through a lot!"

Bass takes the small chip in hand, twisting it around to glance at it, his eyes narrowing ever so slightly in thought. Even after Quint has disappeared into the portal, he upends the chip and holds it flat in his palm, staring at it. Is it the plans for another possible 'replacement'? After all this time, he's had to fight so many of them...and each time his position has gone unchallenged. But can he manage to hold out forever? The very urge to crush the piece in his hand into so much powder arises to him. But slowly, he tilts the chip to his thumb and forefinger again, and proceeds to put it away in his storage hatch, to give to Wily at another time....

Quantum Kitsune nods. "Sure. The potential end of the multiverse is no time to worry about thigh cheese." She happily munches on the popcorn, watching. She's not so much callous as realizing she's utterly out of her depth here.

Rock glances sidelong at Megaman, "Like I said... that's only a flesh wound..." He grins, repressing a grunt from his power systems.

Sting Chameleon , however, is brooding, incapacitated as he is with a metal saw blade in his back, lying hidden in a pile of vegetation nearby. /He/ was paying attention to Quint.

Roll blinks as her question is instead answered by actions rather than words. Sniffing, she reaches up to use a finger to wipe away her tears, beaming down at X as she realizes that he's going to survive. She helps him up into a sitting position, still staying near and supporting him until he has enough strength to get up.

Admiral 's expressionless face turns to a slight smile as X begins to regain the strength he needs. (My Best to ye X, Fierce and Valient are ye and a born Solider.)Oo. he thinks, taking one last look at the futuristic Rock. With that finished and saved, he turns his gaze towards the General and nods. He Replies, "Aye sir." He looks around, "All hands, lets load up and head for home! Har Har!" he shouts out, gaining the attention of the Repliforcers as he throws a motion for those dismissed to follow, continuing his way back to the Crusader.

Colonel turns around to face the troops, pretending not to be interested in the gathering. His tone returns to it's regular British pricky self. "You heard the Admiral." The Repliforce soldiers all regain their composure, they sadly enter their ships in a single file line, leaving their dead infantry comrades on the sandy shores of Skull Island. The executive officer nods over to Admiral while the troops continue to enter the Crusader and various other ships, "They're all yours." His attention moves over to the others in the corner of his eye. Unable to resist, the Colonel goes back to the others. He stands beside the towering General.

Quire taps a switch on the portal and the view shifts again, distorting in a flash of blue. This time it's a teleporter view of old Light Labs, back in Washington D.C. A younger version of Light, along with Roll, Auto, Beat, Fliptop, and Rush stare in, wondering where their Megaman went... blue boy having vanished just a second ago for them. Quire looks at the little guy, "Come on Megaman, you're up next."

Disco frowns and looks around, asking idly, "Where'd Protoman go?"

Michael Eildath walks over towards Megaman, obviously wanting to say something.
Rock looks up at Mega. "It's been fun, Mega." He extends his Twila-less hand out to the smaller Blue Bomber.

Roll lifts her gaze to Megaman, smiling faintly. "Goodbye," she says to him as well, though she's not as concerned about him, knowing that he's alright, and has his own version of Roll to go back to. It's at that time that Quint comes running back through and kisses her. She's utterly shocked by this, or else she'd have slapped him...or something.

Bass lifts his gaze from where he was glancing at the chip, and inwards to the portal once again, frowning as he stares back at the original versions of them all. Where it -all- started. Somewhere inside, he does have a desire to do little more than blast them to pieces....but they aren't -his- enemies. Not the ones that he knows of this world. Thus, he stands fast, next to the portal, watching and waiting as one by one they begin to go.

Quick Man glances at Bass... and then does something that, most likely, he shouldn't. Moving away from the enterance of the fortress, he limps over to Flash Rabbit. With an odd smile, he kneels down next to the Repliforcer, and nudges him with a lightly sparking finger. "Hey, guy. I think there's a certain Hunter over there that might need that helmet for his brother. Might want to give it back."

Mirror Pegasus comments in a narrative tone, "And in usual cliche fashion, the good guys get all mushy and emotional over the departure of their new comrades."
Admiral looks back to the Colonel, giving a smile towards his commanding officer, "As you command sir. Ho ho What! Har Har!" he says in response to his commanding officer. With all the soliders lined within the Repliforce transports and the Crusader, he vanishes back behind the Bay doors that close behind him.

Rick Morgan frowns to himself, watching over this, and he practically goes -rigid- as he spots Quint kissing Roll. "Agh!" he starts, wanting to do something...anything. But he's too darned far away, and all he can do is clench his hands into tight fists and glare.

Flash Rabbit blinks up at Quick Man, so startled he stops weeping. Slowly he gets to his feet, noding to the RM and heading over to the trio...by now duo of Rocks. "Um, Mr Rock sir? I found this, and I was gonna take it home and fix it, but *sniff* I heard it belongs to your brother."

Megaman slowly stands up once he's sure he's done all he can for X. He plods toward Rabbit and takes the crushed remnants of his brother's helmet, "Thanks." He looks at the bits and sighs slightly, "I'll miss you, Protoman.." Only then does he turn back, smiling cheerily as always, and shakes Rock's hand, "Yeah, it has!"

Shifting slightly as he recovers, X lifts himself up slightly into almost a sitting position, though he still keeps himself supported on Roll. Perhaps his next mission when he returns should be finding his own sister from his own time. After all that's he's been through, he has so much to tell her, he has to believe that she's still alive somewhere on his world. Watching the little Rock's world appear, he gives Megaman a smile, "Stay good, Rock. You have a lot of adventures ahead of you, and a lot of growing left to do." For a moment he considers leaving him with a momento, but he knows he doesn't truly need it. Despite all that's happened here, Mega Man is in the sweetest, most innocent period of his life that he'll know.

Rock smiles. "Give your Roll a kiss for me, Mega? And...keep an eye out, for a certain pretty girl in your future." Here, he looks at Twila with his sapphire eyes.

Quick Man watches with a smile... then facepalms. "The *other* Megaman, you dumb rabbit."

Michael Eildath looks down at the little Megaman, trying his beast to smile, though still looking like the brooding character that this universe made him.

"Umm," he says. "Megaman, I know your world's a lot different than mine, but... I've just got one request. If you ever run into me, I mean, the other me, over there... if there is one." He kicks a rock embarrasedly. "Try and help him out, if he's anything like me. Get him to...I dunno...cheer up."

Twila Peterson blushes slightly at Rock's statement. Aaaaaw.

Disco grins at Megaman, despite all the heavy emotions and so forth. "Oh hey... I got something for you." He fishes in a pocket and pulls out one of those stick-on hippy flower stickers. He hands it to Megaman. "To remember all the awesome times you're gonna have."

Quantum Kitsune nods and gets another mouthful of popcorn. "Well, at least Flash Rabbit is redeeming himself, showing us his true nature, pulling stupidity from the jaws of competence."

Megaman grins, "I will." He blinks a bit at the pretty girl line and nods to X, "You stay safe."

Bass recrosses his arms over his chest, and slowly rolls his eyes at all the sentiments. "Oh -please-" he mutters. "Time is growing short, and all this sweetness is going to start giving me a case of cavities."

Magma Dragoon bows to MegaMan as he leaves. "Train hard.... you are a true warrior and a warrior never gives up...." He cracks a slight smile at the little Rock.

Michael Eildath walks off a bit, towards the Kodiak, more than a little embarassed at his own willingness to ask the cross-universe traveler to do something like that.

Mirror Pegasus giggles at Kitsune's comment. "Must be a bunny thing." "Makes me glad I'm half cat," comments her cabbit from her shoulder in addition.

Rock smiles a little, at Mega, then turning his head, looking at X and then offering one of his free hands to his 'older brother,' and his other to his sister.

"Ladies, gentlemen." rumbles General, "I realize this may be a difficult moment for you all but you must be swift. We can no longer afford to strain the space time continumum any more then we already have. The time for goodbyes must come to an end.." he nods his head and rumbles, "We have a new beginning we must concentrate on. We owe it to these travellers to make the most of it."

Quantum Kitsune nods to Mirror and her ... tribble-lookin' shoulder-fur. "Well, it looks like it's all good now." She pulls out her cellular phone, and starts dialing. Pause. "Hiya, Morty? Yeah ... start printing those 'The space-time continuum was nearly rent asunder, annihilating the multiverse, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt' T-shirts."

Twila Peterson blinks as it seems that Junior must now bid his farewells now. She momentarily let's Rock's hand go after the two shake and holds her arms out towards Megaman shyly. "Mind...a goodbye hug?"

Megaman nods to Mike, "I will, Mr. Eildath! Don't worry!" He turns and grins at Twila, leaning forward to hug her. There's his answer.

Bass sneers, and slowly returns to glowering and keeping his arms crossed over his chest, casting another glance through the portal itself. Ah...what a world...a world that doesn't know -him-. One that would be ripe for the plucking.....so easy....

But then again, he has his own attachments to this reality. No matter his words...

Michael Eildath smirks, leaning against the armor again.

Quire shakes her head, allowing her mane of hair to tumble down, "How many times do I have to say /NOT MUCH TIME LEFT/" She looks at Megaman, "We don't wanna ruin everything for you, it'd take the fun out of life, so just GO THROUGH THE FREAKIN' PORTAL!"

[OOC] Flash Rabbit says, "better yet, send Roll with X ;)"
[OOC] Michael Eildath facepalms.
[OOC] Rock says, "No."
[OOC] Rick Morgan says, "Do that and I'll have to dive in after her. :)"
[OOC] Roll will go if Rick, Twila, and Kyo-Ohki come too. :)
[OOC] Michael Eildath, and probably the entire MH faction, kill Flash Rabbit.
[OOC] Flash Rabbit says, "well X is much more lonely in the future, all his friends dead, and humans dead. Now Rock has other people instead ;)"
[OOC] Colonel says, "Rick would be heartbroken."
[OOC] Rock would end up diving in after the rest of 'em, y'know. :) I'd miss the cabbit.

Mirror Pegasus whistles a bit. "Hey, little Blue Boy. Better, like, get your blue butt moving so we can send your older self back too." She pauses a moment, then smirks slyly. "Gotta get you home so you can destroy all those Robot Masters so when you're world gets to us Mavericks, we don't have to put up with those totally losers as well. So be sure to beat them all up good, okay?", she trills at him almost too cheerfully.

Quick Man turns and, with careful grace, sticks out his tounge at Mirror.

Twila Peterson offers a pretty good-sized hug towards Megaman as well as a quick kiss on the cheek all his own. Upon hearing Quire she slips out of the embrace and surprises X with one too...and a quick kiss on the cheek to him too. Not waiting for a reaction she hurries back over towards Rock, smiling lopsidedly.
Twila Peterson offers, "God go with you both."

Megaman breaks loose from Twila and gives Roll a hug...there's always time for hugs, dangit! He scampers to the portal and turns around. Now would be a perfect time for a speech, but time is short. So he just waves, "Stay good, everyone! Especially you, Mr. Fish-Man!" And with that, he spins and leaps through the portal.

Quantum Kitsune pffts! "Stay good ... shyah, RIGHT."

Magma Dragoon nods, "May Robudah's teachings keep you well."

Michael Eildath ponders saying something to X... then decides against it. Back when he first showed up, Mike made it a point not to ask what happens to him, and he won't now. He waves instead. "Vaya con dios, X."

Flash Rabbit smiles a little actually, a small giggle escaping as he looks at Jet Stingray and decides 'Mr Fish-man' is a good nickname for him.

Roll would like to give Megaman a hug herself, but she's busy holding onto X. However, it's Megaman that comes to her instead, and she smiles as she uses one arm to hug him back. "Good luck!" she wishes him with a cheerful tone as he goes back through the portal to his own time.

Mirror Pegasus rolls her eyes at Jet. "He means Finhead over there, with the weird looking wolf bot."

Disco looks over at X, the Rock he's slightly shy around. "Hey, cuz... remember to smile more, okay? It only takes two servos to smile.. and seven to frown."

X receives a radio transmission from Twila Peterson.
You send a tightbeam radio transmission to X: "And always remember...faith, hope, and love..."

Bass snorts at that, but continues to stand fast. Even -he- knows it isn't worth putting the world into another chaotic turmoil. He then flashes a deadly glare towards Flash Rabbit and Jet Stingray. You're on the list.

Michael Eildath snickers at little Megaman, then smiles. He's happy again, for a while at least.

Colonel sighs, looking around and feeling more than out of place. A bit awkward since he held no personal ties with anyone here. The soldier eyes Bass being that dark loner in the corner, quickly the reploid recalls their conversation that had been cut off earlier. He moves over to Bass, past the portal, the Colonel taking a quick glance at the alternate dimension. They blink at the amazing sight of past earth, so calm and peaceful. Back then there was no need for Repliforce. His gaze snaps back next to Bass. "You still think things would have turned out the way they are without /our assistance?" He smiles proudly.

Twila Peterson then places her hand back into Rock's giving it a firm gripp after sending the radio message.

Rock steps forward, as Twila returns, to unintentionally copy Mega, encompassing both Roll and X with his arms. "Take care, alright, X? And keep hope... your Roll is there. I know it." Stepping back, he looks back at Quire then moves to Twila, and squeezes her hand as she links hers with his.

Jet Stingray narrows his eyes back at Bass, whenever you're ready, we'll rumble till the break of dawn.
Mirror Pegasus munches on some of her popcorn. "One Mega down, one to go. Can we move this along folks?" She glances at her arm, as if looking at a watch. "If the universe does blow up, I, like, don't have an Improbabilty Drive available to go back in time and fix your big screwup."

Disco sniffles and wipes at his noise with a sleeve, taking out a little holo-camera and snapping some pictures of everyone. Except Bass.

Bass arches an eyebrow, turning his glare towards the Colonel himself. "Perhaps...perhaps not Colonel." he mutters, snapping his eyes-front again, watching the sudden image of X's world through the portal with a somewhat morbid interest. "Does it really matter in the end? It's been resolved, and we can all get back to our 'happy' lives once more."

The current blue bomber nods his head upon hearing Mirror. "She's right. Duo is, after all, kinda set up to nuke the world if we screw up..."

Twila Peterson makes a face towards Rock's statement. "Hey...no pressure..."

Shakily lifting himself up to his feet, using Roll as support, X stands back up to his full height, managing to steady himself enough not to topple over back onto the ground. He doesn't feel the best he ever has, but he's good enough to make it back to base once he's back in his own time. Turning to face Roll, he stares for a long time into her eyes, knowing that this might be the last time he ever sees his sister again. "Take care, Roll," he states before embracing her into a tight hug. "And don't ever change. Always stay as sweet and as giving as you are now, and if you ever need to remember me, just look to the communicator pin I gave you." Pausing in surprise as he's given a kiss, he glances at Twila and blushes slightly. The Rock everyone once knew still lives inside him somewhere after all. Turning slowly until he's facing both Twila and Roll, he offers both a smile, something he seems to be able to do much more easily as of late. "I'll miss both of you." Giving Rock a nod, he waves a hand. "Hey, you take care of yourself and these two lucky girls." Bending down, he lifts his battered helmet off of the ground and gazes at the portal. "Thank you, to all of you, for saving my world."

Quire hits a button on the teleporter again, "I'm sending you to exactly two months after you left..." the image in the portal shimmers again... in it appears the future... but a different future. Humans have begun to emerge from their hiding places, and it is obvious the world is restoring itself as the portal shows a panoramic view of a lush valley, natural mountains rising in the background. In the valley humans have fashioned shelters from the bodies of Mavericks, "Not a perfect world..." comments Quire, "But it's better.... because it has to be...now go back, X, and show the world what you, X...Megaman... Rock...can really do...and hurry, I have exactly 45 seconds of power left."

Quantum Kitsune hangs up her cellphone, content to know that she'll be making money off of this in T-shirt concessions. "Well, get MOVING for the luvvapete. One of you blue bummers is too much already."

Twila Peterson .oO(What I wouldn't give for that Maverick to shuddup!)Oo,

Rock nods softly at X. "I will. And... I'll make sure that they both stay safe and happy."

The blue bomber is rewarded another squeeze of the hand from Twila for that one.

Colonel shakes his head, he looks down at Bass in disbelief. He wanted to brag on about how Repliforce saved the day, and without them the island would have been over run with Mavericks. However, the officer just nods and lets sleeping dogs lie. "Our 'happy' lives? Does that mean us returning at each others throats? I hardly call that pleasurable, you saw today that we /are/ able of cooperation. Why not end this futile fighting, we have proven that we /can/ find a compromise." The Colonel dares to continue and push Generals philosophy on Bass.

Mirror Pegasus comments to X, trying to sound helpful and like she doesn't care at the same time. "Like, go on old-X. As much as I dislike you, I'd rather have you in their foiling that twisted insane Sigma's schemes than having him causing suffering for -all- reploids. We'll have enough of a mess to clean up in this world after him." Maybe a bit surprisingly, she gives him a pat on the shoulder. "At any rate, you helped save our world from him. Now go save yours."

Having already said her good-bye ...and not knowing what else she can possibly offer...Twila merely smiles back towards X and slightly dips her chin.

Bass snaps his eyes back to X himself once again, glaring for a long moment. He gives no words to this version of his foe, the one he hates so much......no. Because this -isn't- him. His foe would never have overcome him....Sigma would never have risen to where he stood in X's timeline. No....indeed there were far differences between the two.

At Colonel's words, he actually begins to chuckle deeply, moving his hands out to the side. "Colonel, can you imagine me settling into a life where I fight for justice and truth? And to make the world a better place? I hardly care about that." he leaves his own motives at that though, as he recrosses his arms once again. "It dosen't work. No more than you could fight to try and rule over this planet and wrest control from all those present."

Roll smiles at both her brothers, reluctantly letting go of X to let him stand on his own. After hugging him tightly back once more, though she never tires of hugging her older brother, she moves to stand beside Twila. A seam appearing in her suit, she reaches down into the normally hidden compartment to take out the communicator pin when X mentions is, holding it tight in her hand as she nods back to him. "I'll never forget you, Rock, and I pray that you'll be able to find your Roll when you get back to your time..."

The portal flickers as the generator runs down...the clock is ticking people.

Rock squeezes Twila's hand, and lets his other move to gently encompass one of Roll's. "Good-bye, X... stay safe. Now, go."

Quantum Kitsune glances at the time. "Hmm. How odd, my watch now has 'Doomsday' written across the top."

Disco waves, "Bye, X!"

Quick Man simply shouts from the background, "Get your damn butt going, you nitwit!"

Roll quickly steps forward before Rock takes her hand, standing up on tiptoes to kiss X quickly on the cheek. "Bye, X..."

[OOC] X says, "It's ironically, really, Bass. Sigma won because of me. Because I decided I was good enough to decide to judge whether or not someone lives or dies. And it started when I killed all the Robot Masters, ending with you, Bass himself. And as you said yourself, you weren't there to act as balance. A lot of people weren't because . . . well, I killed them. ;)"
[OOC] Bass says, "See? Rock needs me. Bwahaha."
[OOC] Twila Peterson says, "Like a hole in the head ;)"

Jet Stingray mutters, "Yeah...I'm sure you'll have a lot more fun putting your world back together again after Kaiser trashed it, X."

The portal flickers some more... flicker... flicker... flicker...

Tequila Worm breaks out a few cases of Worm Suprise, passing several bottles around. "Ole! Dee world ees saved! Fiesta!"

Rush barks a goodbye at X, standing before X, Twila and Roll.

Colonel frowns and stops there. Bass was just being true to his nature, he was just being himself. As the Colonel and General were defenders at heart, the dark knight was a conqueror. Nobody could change that. The Colonel gives Bass one last look, the expression non-hostile...just a gaze, trying to search /some/ form of good inside the android. One could only hope. The Repliforce XO turns his attention away from the Master and begins to walk away. He comes to an abrupt halt. "Oh by the way Bass...one of your men, Enker, lies battered at Robotropolis. He went offline after we fought the Magistrate. Tell him that the Colonel said he fought bravely." With that, the Repliforcer vanishes into nothingness.

Strangely, X has come to a better understanding of Mavericks on this world. Many of the ones of this reality are truly not nearly as terrible as the ones from his. Glancing at Mirror Pegasus, he brings himself to nod at her respectfully. He's met Sigma, a man who is nowhere near as insane as the Kaiser, who, though misguided in his methods, seeks only equality. Perhaps this could have been his world. But now, he has greater things to be concerned with. Creating shelters out of the dead bodies of others is the first thing he'll have to . . .change. Walking up to the swirling entrance to the portal, he pauses right before he steps through and states back at everyone gathered, "If you ever figure out how, come visit me sometime and see how we're doing. I could use the company of old friends." Offering one last, genuinely friendly smile, he slides into the portal, returning back to his own world, to begin the long process of repairing and healing society.

Rock still holds the two girls' hands as X leave. .oO(Goodbye... opefully you won't have to have lived through that world...)Oo.

And the portal goes out like a light! The END!

Disco says, "Dude! I can barely wait for the sequel~"

Quantum Kitsune throws her bottle of Tequila Surprise at Disco.

Disco ows as he gets tequiled

Mirror Pegasus walks over and SMACKS Disco with a fan, howling, "NO SEQUAL! THE UNIVERSE BARLEY SURVIVED THE FIRST TIME!"

Michael Eildath smiles as the last time-worn person walks through, tossing Rick the keys to the Kodiak. "I didn't hurt her much, man." Heading for the alco... er, Albatross, he turns. "Okay, guys... I'm going back to base, getting a stiff drink, and sleeping for about a month. Anyone with me?"
Quick Man stretches slightly, and nods once to Mirror and Quantum. "Well, now that we've got everything out of the way, sent the freak shows home and prevented reality from collapsing in on itself like a fat woman sitting on a paper cup.... You Mavericks have two minutes to get off of Dr. Wily's island, before we sic the Dragon on you." Quick flips up a tiny panel of armor on his wrist, revealing a watch. "Starting now." Then, he simply gives the two remaining Mavericks a Look.

Disco acks, "Whoa, chill momma! I was just yankin yer chain! Trust me.. I was stuck in evil San Angeles.. not pretty."

Twila Peterson sniffles and turns, immediately giving Rock a hug now as well...a fairly strong one...no matter what condition or state his armor is in.

Bass stares for a long time at the darkened portal, through narrowed eyes. Lost in whatever thoughts it is that go through his mind right now. After an extended moment, he then slowly turns back, to face the others, his eyes narrowing further, now to slits. "Now that this is nicely concluded...." he breathes, squaring his shoulders fully. "I would thank you all to make yourselves SCARCE in a rather short amount of time." Gone is the quiet contemplative tone of before, now replaced by the cold hearted ruthlessness that makes Bass....Bass.

As if to punctuate his point, the very ground trembles, as nearby, the Wilydragon...which has stood in the background, suddenly leers over all those present. It tosses back it's head, emitting a thunderous roar that very well shakes the ground under it's voice. LEAVE.

Roll sniffs, feeling herself about to cry again, despite what ultimately appears to have been a happy ending. She turns to Rock, her Rock, and cries on his shoulder seeing as how Twila has got the rest of him. Her tears are slightly sad, she's missing X already, but they are mostly of joy. Joy for her world, Megaman's, and X's.

Jet Stingray says, "Errrr....that's our que. Lets get this show on the road!!!"

Rock is armourless, except for his legs. HE hugs Twila back, removing his hand from Roll's grasp. "It's okay...they're home, and a hundred times happier." As the Wilydragon appears, the Blue Bomber lets out a sigh. "Bass, call of your 'pet.' We -ARE- leaving." As Roll cries on his shoulder, he SORELY wishes that Rush was larger in Jetmode. "Come on, you two. Let's... go home." Rush barks, and assumes his Jet form.

Quantum Kitsune smirks at Quick Man. "Any other day, Quickie, I'd use a minute and forty-five seconds of that to turn you into a long red smear. I was on YOUR side, against Kaiser, you ingrate!" She HMPHS indignantly and turns around, giving Quick Man, hopefully, a gentle tail-to-the-face. "So long, speedboy."

Tequila Worm slithers over to Bass, offering him a bottle of Worm Suprise, "Ey, Basso. You know, we should talk, Si? I gots dee weapons tu nesecito, si? Me and Wily? We could make a deal!"

Rick Morgan catches said keys in his hands, offering a smirk in the process. He then winces at the Wilydragon's roar, and speeds up the pace to get back to the Kodiak, wasting no time in hopping into it.

Quire removes her electro-magnetic floater and salvages as much scrap as she can from the Mavericks and Joes before walking off. She whacks herself on the forehead, "Almost forgot." She clicks a button on her remote control and the portal explodes violently, vaporizing it almost completely. She then walks off on her stubby legs, content that science has won the battle.
Roll jumps at the loud roar of the WilyDragon and nods to Rock, wiping her tears from her eyes. "I can go back with Rick, in the Kodiak," she offers, as she looks around - just where *did* that Rick go anyway? As she passes by Bass, she sticks her tongue out at him.

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Albatross> lifts off, hovering a little off the ground. "Anyone need a lift?" Michael asks from within.

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> lurches to life then as the pilot takes control, and turns towards Roll, slowly stumping in her direction, before lowering a large hand. "Here I am..." Rick speaks. "Let's get outta here."

Mirror Pegasus hmms, and while she's over there, gives Rock a whap with the fan for good measure as well. "Like, that's for stealing my weapon after the last fight. The nerve of some people." And with that done, she heads back to the only other Maverick around. "Com'n Kit, let's head for home." Her one 'pet' cabbit, the only to survive from the horde of minions she started with, hops on her shoulder. "Yeah, let's blow this joint." Mirror scowls, and THWAPS him as well. "Trying to blow it up is what got us here in this mess in the first place!" Nyasu MeYOWS! and rubs his head. "Sorrrr-ee!"

Rock nods at Roll as she stands, leaning slightly to give her a quick kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you back at base, sis." Then, he looks down at Twila softly, with a smile. "Let's go home." And as Mirror whaps him, he looks over at her. "Mirror, don't do that." His armour phases away; the pieces on the ground at least, so he can't just bust her aft.

Quick Man raises up his right arm, and points the golden yellow toaster which is the Quick Boomerang Launcher at Q-Kit. "Bass said *NOW*." Tired as he is, there's still plenty of fight left in the Master. Deep within his weapon, there's the whirrrrrrrrrrr of nasty sharp bladed boomerangs throttling up. "And your two minutes was just cut to fifteen seconds."

General watches quietly till the very end. He doesn't even flinch as the WIly Dragon makes it's appearance and instead slides his gaze towards Bass and rumbles, "Get that device under control Bass." He then swivels his gaze to eye the remaining Repliforces, "Pull out, return to base." He considers for a few seconds what will become of Robotropolis but there is little General can do now. The...clean up will come but not this moment. Turning the giant begins to stride away from the scene.

Twila Peterson jumps back as well at the sight of the dragon. "Sure...you have enough strength?" Twila questions in as she nods towards Rock, getting herself up on Rush somewhat unsteadily. Never...done this before...

Quantum Kitsune gives Quick Man a peck on the nose. "You're so *cute* when you're leveling impotent threats." She then *blinks* away, leaving a half-empty roll of duct-tape behind.

Rock nods softly. "I do, to get us home. Let's go, boy." Rush Jet barks once, as Rock steps on, to help Twila balance.

Bass glares after the others as they begin to move out, flashing a slight smirk at General as he speaks. "I'm not responsible if it gets....hungry." he soothes.

Sure enough, the Dragon -is- holding itself back, though smoke billows from its gaping maw as it glares towards the intruders with nothing less than murderous intent.

Rock:
Before you stands a heroic sight: the Blue Bomber himself, Megaman. Covered almost completely in blue armour, he is a symbol of freedom and defense against tyranny. His feet and calves are covered in large, thick dark blue boots, which lead up to a lighter blue thigh armor. Hip and crotchguards are dark blue, and his abdomen, torso and upper arm armour are a light blue. His forearms are covered by thick, cylinder-type armor, dark blue, and his hands are covered by thick dark blue gloves. His neck is covered by the same light blue armor, and his face is clear, and revealed; his face is unblemished, and shaped ALMOST perfectly, with sapphire-blue eyes that look out at the world with care and sincerity. His head is covered by a thick, dark blue helmet, with indentions for auditory enhancers, light blue with a yellow circle around them, on the side; the helmet also has three light blue protrusions, about an inch long, and square in shape.

Rush:
Before you sits a mechanical canine... well, a jetsled that looks like a mechanical canine. Mostly red in appearance, the sled lies on the dogs belly. His paws and lower legs are red, his upper legs a pinkish colour, pulled up with the paws pulled in for jet boosters. Where his legs attach to his body, there are circular joints, yellow and black gear covers with red outsides. his body is red, and shaped in roundish portions, with a pink abdomen separating his rear end from his chest. His tail is white, and separated, and about 4 inches long. His neck is pink, leading up to a red helmet shaped like Megaman's blue one. His eyes are black, and red dog ears stick up like a german sheperds, and a brownish muzzle, ending in a black nose extends from the helmet.

Mirror Pegasus giggles as Nyasu makes a face at Quick Man. "Like, chill out. We're leaving. Have fun putting your island back together." She winks and blows him a kiss, then turns and follows her comrades lead... Getting the hell outta Dodge!

Maverick Hunter Ride Armor <Kodiak> loads Roll up inside, before turning and stomping towards the direction of the Vorpal, ascending the ramp and heading inside the cavernous interior of the ship itself.

Disco descends from the Vorpal and shakes a finger at the Masters, "I have half a mind..... uh to timestop you all and leave you there."

Twila Peterson knows Rock very well knows how to drive Rush and all. It's not that he doubts his abilities but...well...safe to say, she hangs on pretty tight. "Pushy...aren't they?"

Rock nods lightly, "Very." He holds on to Twila tightly, since they have to stand to fly. Rush lifts off and into the sky.

Sky Above Caribbean Sea
Down below you can see the shimmering, beautiful water. From these heights, you can see every single sea creature on the ocean floor, as clear as day. The water looks so refreshing and clean, you wonder how it has avoided all the contaminating from the humans and reploids. Many birds fly around you, sqwuaking madly.

Twila Peterson hmmms to herself. "Remind me...not to look down..."

Rock nods lightly, "I will...just close your eyes, and we'll be home in no time."

Twila Peterson .oO(Long first step!)Oo. The girl nods, hugging Rock even tighter, and does indeed closer her eyes, trusting him completely.

Rock lets the jet fly, just enjoying the calm after the storm. "At least, things are back to normal. No more worrying about reality or Stardroids destroying the planet..." He makes a note to find and talk to Duo.

Twila nods slowly. "So...it's finally over?"

Rock nods. "For a while, I hope... I'm definitely, though, taking a vacation. You want to come? I was thinking of going to New York, and taking in some opera, or a concert or a ball game..."

"Sounds a bit like a date?" Twila comments.

Rock forces a smitk in respose. "I'm...not too much on subtlety at the moment."

Although, Twila had discussed her relationship with Rock with her brother to have his take on it, and took to heart his opinions, she doesn't see any harm within accepting the invitation. She gently snugs and smiles. "Doesn't sound like it. And...I'd love to...wherever you decided to go."

Rock smiles, and kisses Twila atop the head. "Thanks...it'll be more relaxing having you around."

<Soon...>

Donachi Business District - Neo Tokyo
This is the economic heart of Neo Tokyo and a great deal of the world. It is within these few square kilometers that corporate empires rise and fall, deals determining the fate of the world's commerical enterprises are made, and where the greatest commercial structure ever created dwarfs everything around it, the Stratoscraper. This immense building is so tall that aerospace technology had to be applied to maintain the building's atmosphere near the top, while the foundation below bores deep into the planet's crust. Around the base of this building are the smaller, though by no means small themselves, skyscrapers that house the headquarters of countless corporations and globe-spanning enterprises.The city has reached so far into the sky here that special public transports race up and down between suspended platforms that connect many of the buildings. Floating food vendor booths drift to and from specialized airlocks on the side of the buildings, and the lights from various holographic ad signs reflect from the mirrored windows.

Twila Peterson chances to open her eyes as they continue down towards the city. "And relaxing having you around too." She glances downward, despite her better judgment, but instead of fearing she looks in awe. "Like...some sort of living tapestry..."

Rock smiles. "Flying is a great thing...the world looks less dreary, and more beautiful from up here." Soon, though, they descend onto the roof of the labs, and into the hangar.

Rooftop Runway <Hunter HQ>
While it bears a fancy name and important function, this chamber is really no more than a glorified garage where the vehicles and Ride Armor sit when not in use or while being maintenanced. Large storage closets are against the back wall, directly across from the hangar doors which lead out into the Neo Tokyo sky.

Rick Morgan moves down the ramp of the Vorpal, sighing heavily to himself as he glances out to the vast expanse of the Rooftop Runway's hangar area. Pretty much the most welcome sight he's seen right now, since it isn't all just going to -disappear- on him.

Twila Peterson nods in agreement. "That it does." As she spots the labs coming closer, and then upon landing, she questions, "How are you holding out from the...um...transfusion?" with lack of a better term.

Rock helps Twila step off Rush, "So far, so good..." As Rick greets them, he smiles, and steps off behind Twila.

Rick Morgan turns at the sound of jets, and breaks into a wide grin, stepping forward for the two as they come in atop Rush at the same time, arms already out wide. "Hey! We -did- it!" he pipes up, obviously in one of his better moods. And why shouldn't he be? "I -told- ya we were gonna pull out of it!"

Rock smiles at Rick, giving a wave. "We did it." He chuckles at the second statement, "Yup. And now we're all safe."

Roll walks out of the Vorpal a few moments later by herself, coming down the ramp after Rock and Twila have already arrived.

Twila Peterson offers Rock a nod as well as thumbs up before breaking into a run to tightly hug her brother. "Yeah...you were right, alright!"

Rick Morgan laughs jovially as Twila moves to hug him, twirling with the momentum and swinging her off the floor just a bit in the process. "Maybe you're gonna start listening to your bro more often huh?" he teases her gently.

Roll is suddenly caught up in Rock's arms, as well, tightly hugging his sister. "Sis, have I told you that I love you lately?" Rock says, giving a smile over to Twila and Rick.

Roll smiles at Rock, hugging him back. "No," she replies lightly, broken out of her melancholy thoughts by his hug, "but I know...I know. :)"

Twila Peterson lets out a happy squeak as she's twirled around. "Who me? *giggle* Why would I wanna do a silly thing like that?" she teases, her voice filled with tinkling laugher.
You whisper 'Love you, Rick!' to Rick Morgan.

And there it is, the part that Rick loves the best about being a brother. Even though he's still relatively new to it, hearing Twila laugh like that...it's all worth it. Every little bit of it is worth it, and he proceeds to squeeze her that much tighter before letting her go finally. "I wouldn't know..." he offers with a quick wink.
Rick Morgan whispers: 'Love you too!'.

Roll laughs softly, her laughter overlapping Twila's partially. "I guess so, and it looks you got a high score too," she replies with a grin.

Rock grins. "Love you, Roll." Looking across the room, he calls, "Love you Twila, and you too, Rick." Yeah, he's getting mushy. It happens.

Twila grins broadly as the cyborg releases her and grasps his arm, tugging it playfully to get him to go over to Roll and Rick with her. "Love you too, Rock and Roll!" She pauses at how *that* came out before offering a shrug and then continuing to tug. "Ok, everyone. Group hug!"

Roll giggles. "Hey, you just love Twila, and let me worry about loving Rick," she jokes to her brother, turning to give the other brother sister pair a huge smile.

Rock chuckles. Hey, it's not so bad having your sister in love with the brother of the girl you love; at Twila's Rock and Roll, he laughs as well, and pulls Roll into said group hug.
Rock transforms into Casual.

Rick Morgan oofs as he's tugged along, though grinning from ear to ear. At Twila's suggestion, he snickers. Oh what the heck, and throws himself into the group hug as well. "See? This goes to show we can beat -anything- and everything!"

Roll hugs everyone. Awwwww. Now where's Kyo-Ohki? :)

Rock nods at Rick. "Right. I think we all deserve a good vacation. Maybe you and Roll could come to New York with Twila and me?"

Rush transforms into Rush.
Rush barks and prances around the grouping, panting with tail wagging. :) Hey, you asked about Kyo. :)

Roll reminds everyone, "Now that this is all over, Rick and Twila will have time to visit they're mother, and we're going along too, remember Rock?"

Rock nods. "I hadn't forgotten that. Really, I hadn't..." he says, blushing.

Rick Morgan laughs, and gives a wide grin. "Well..considering that we kinda got this chance now...maybe it might be best to take it up on that." he gives a knowing glance in Twila's direction. DEFINETELY something they'll have to plan very soon.

The young woman can't help but feel somewhat smushed as the foursome hug one another. She glances towards her brother sheepishly, but also hopefully. Who knows...maybe he and Roll would come. She hugs the two on either side of her again and then blinks as Roll makes mention of a certain something. After the Blue Bomber makes his comment she hugs him again, but looking towards Rick. "Guess we should plan that within the next day or two. Don't want to wait any longer for it."

Rock nods.

When people finally disengage from the group hug, Roll smiles at everyone. "I think I'm going to get myself to the medbay now," she decides, "since my leg is still bothering me." She looks over at Rick deliberately, wondering if he might decide to follow her to help fix her leg. She doesn't actually ask him to, and with a wave, limps off inside.

Twila Peterson releases her part of the group hug, although still holds on to Rock, in order to pet Rush as he passes by them. She gives Rock another squeeze and finally lets go. "You going to be ok, Roll?"

Rock backs away from the grouping, and nods at Roll. Before she leaves, he gives her a quick kiss. "See you, sis." He does the same to Twila, only on the cheek, and says, "I need to go inside, as well. I'm starting to lose the 'adrenaline' from the climax of the battle, and feel the effects of that energy drain."

Twila Peterson ohs and nods towards Rock. "Can walk you back to your room if you like."

Rick Morgan hmms and straightens up, glancing in Roll's direction. Of -course- he's going to help her with that, and he moves to start following after her. "Don't worry, we'll have you up and about in a jiffy again."

Rock shakes his head, "Nah. I'll be fine. But if you wanna stop by later, you're welcome to."

Roll nods to Twila. "I'll be fine," she assures the woman as she heads off.

Twila Peterson offers a dip of the chin to Rock before returning the kiss to the cheek with a soft whisper.
You whisper 'I love you. Sleep well, kay?' to Rock.

Rock smiles, and returns the whisper.
Rock whispers: 'I will. You go have a rest too.'.

Twila whisper's 'I will. Promise.' to Rock.

Rush licks Twila's hand, then goes to curl up behind a Ride Armor.

Rock nods, and gives Twila another quick hug before disappearing into the base.

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An attractive young brown-haired woman appears on the monitor, sitting behind the Global News Network anchor desk. She smiles at the camera and begins.
"Good afternoon, everyone. This is Suzie Chapel with a GNN special report. The distortions of time and space that had apparently been ripping apart the planet have virtually vanished. While reports of minor natural disasters such as the mudslides that affected populations in Indonesia are still filtering in, experts believe that these are part of the planet's natural process of recovery."
She turns as Camera 2 flicks on, "We can now also report that the individual known as 'Kaiser Sigma,' who somehow arrived in our world from another universe, has been either destroyed or sent back to his own universe indefinitely. UN officials stated that a combined effort by Repliforce, the vigilante group known as the Maverick Hunters led by Mega Man, and Dr. Albert Wily's Robot Masters overcame the force of Kaiser Sigma's Maverick insurgence."

Suzie shuffles the papers on the anchor desk and smiles her nice plastic smile while continuing.
"While details are unclear at this time, we were able to get some information from sources who were on the scene of the titanic battle. Apparently the presence of several other beings from alternate universes were also present and joined in the fray against the Mavericks. Notable among these were two versions of the Mega Man that we know and two unidentified Robot Masters, one of whom according to our sources, apparently used himself as a battering ram to force the Maverick known as Magistrate Vile to return to his own universe. While our sources indicated that this valiant Robot Master is now trapped in a universe not his own, temporal physicists have theorized that the presence of one such being in an alternate universe does not pose a threat to the fabric of space-time. A Maverick Hunter who wished to remain anonymous reportedly said that 'he was a good guy, even if he was kind of a jerk. But at least now X has someone to fight alongside.'"
Suzie does the paper shuffle again, "With affected areas such as San Angeles and Northern Africa having reappeared mostly intact, health and emergency aid agencies have leaped into overtime to clean up the devastation that this tragedy has left in its wake. This is Suzie Chapel reporting for GNN."
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