Future Shock
by RandyPandy
This fic appeared after my reintroduction to the Cartoon Mega Man universe. This is based on the episode of that cartoon with the same name, which also happened to be my favorite episode of all time. However... I have no access to the episode whatsoever. This is based solely on my memory. Hopefully, I don't mess up too much.
Dr. Light beamed as he stood by the covered machine. Standing with him, along with the two scientists that he was presenting to, were his robots Mega Man, Roll, and Rush.
"Now, my friends, feast your eyes on the improbable," Dr. Light said. He pulled off the cloth on the machine, revealing a small green hovercar-shaped device large enough to seat several people. "This is a Transversal Interspace Module Egg, also known as T-I-M-E. As in, time machine."
One of the scientists grinned. "Oh come now, Dr. Light, everybody knows that time travel is pure fantasy."
Dr. Light grined back. "Perhaps a demonstration would satisfy my esteemed colleagues. Now, who would like to try it out?"
Before anybody could speak, a monitor nearby turned itself on. Appearing on it was Dr. Wily, the mad scientist himself. He had an evil smile on his face. Everyone stared at him with a surprised expression.
"Yes, I would very much like to try out that Time Machine of yours, Dr. Light," he cackled. "For he who controls time controls the future! Mwahahahaha!" The monitor turned itself off.
"Dr. Wily!" Dr. Light gasped. "But how!"
The glass ceiling above them suddenly shattered, and the three robots and the three humans quickly got out of the way. All of them looked up to spot Metal Man standing in the opening with a hovering Skull Jet right behind him.
"Don't mind if I drop in! I'm taking that little gizmo of yours," Metal Man jumped down.
"Your not taking anything, Metal Man, because my blaster is faster!" Mega Man snapped, forming his arm cannon. But before he could shoot, Guts Man jumped through a wall behind him and grabbed Mega Man.
"Your blasting days are over, Mega twerp!" Guts Man growled, restraining him. Rush growled and tried to bite down on Guts Man's foot, but the robot simply kicked him away, where the poor dog landed headfirst in a trash can.
Mega Man, however, refused to be a good little captive. While Metal Man got some rope and hooked up the machine to Wily's Skull Jet to haul it away, Mega Man struggled as best as he could, nearly breaking free from Guts Man's grip.
"Hold still, you runt!" Guts Man growled. "You're not going anywhere!"
A door opened and Cut Man ran through. He cocked his Rolling Cutter. "Leave him to me, Guts Man!" Cut Man said. "I'll cut him down to size!"
Mega Man abruptly stopped and formed his buster again. "This hotshot's giving you a hot foot, Gutsy baby!" he yelled while blasting Guts Man right on the foot. The huge robot yelped and lost his grip on Mega Man.
Cut Man fired his Rolling Cutter at Mega Man, who jumped out of the way. The blade whizzed back around, but missed Cut Man and instead cut the ropes connecting the time machine to the Skull Jet.
Both the time machine and the Metal Man fell to the ground. "Gack!" The angry Metal Man ran towards Mega Man and aimed a Metal Blade at him.
"Nice move, Mega Man, but the buzz around town is that I'm number 1!" Metal Man growled. He fired the Metal Blade. Mega Man dodged it, and it cut through a pillar, causing it to land on top of him. "Looks like the Blue Wonder is down for the count."
"Get up, Mega!" Roll screamed. "Get up!"
"You never stood a chance against a sharpshooter like me!" Metal Man grinned. Metal Man walked over towards Mega Man and moved a spinning Metal Blade towards him.
Mega Man, however, was not finished. "Not today!" he replied, firing a plasma shot into the vent. As Metal Man prepared to throw the Metal Blade, the plasma shot rebounded off of the sides of the vent and came out through another vent, striking Metal Man. Roll raced towards them and helped Mega Man pull the column off of him.
"Hot stuff, big bro!" she beamed as they gave each other a high five.
"Those meddling fools let the time machine slip through their fingers!" Wily complained. Dr. Wily, meanwhile, turned to Proto Man, who was sitting in the Skull Jet beside him. "Destroy that time machine! If I can't have it, no one can!"
Proto Man grinned. After all, he was being given a license to do some damage. "Don't mind if I do!" He jumped out of his seat, went to the back of the Jet, grabbed a cannon and jumped out. He perched himself on the windowsill and aimed at the time machine, ignoring the fact that Dr. Light and Mega Man were standing near it.
"Target: locked. Ready..." Proto Man muttered to himself as he aimed. "FIRE!" A bomb-like shot flew from the cannon towards the time machine.
Mega Man looked up and noticed the shot. "Look out!" he screamed. He shoved Dr. Light into the time machine, pressed a few buttons, and quickly pulled the handle. The time machine shimmered.
Suddenly the shot landed and Mega Man was blown back. A cloud of dust settled onto the room. Wily cackled. "Hahahahaha! Now both the time machine AND Dr. Light have been destroyed! Come, we must get back to Skull Castle to make preparations!"
The four robots climbed onto the Skull Jet, which flew away. Meanwhile, a frightened Roll raced towards Mega Man, the two scientists right at her heels.
"Mega!" she called, fear rising in her voice. "What happened? Where's Dr. Light?"
"It's okay!" Mega Man reassured. "I pushed him into the time machine and set it for one minute into the future! He should be coming back right about... now!"
As soon as he said "now," the time machine shimmered and reappeared. However, the lid was open and Dr. Light was nowhere to be seen. Mega Man raced towards the time machine. "Dr. Light!" he called. "Where is he? I don't understand!"
Roll stared at him, horrified. "Something went wrong...!"
"Apparently, the machine can go through time and return, but a human being cannot!" one of the scientists concluded.
"And it's my fault," Mega Man moaned. "I've sent Dr. Light somewhere through time, where he will be trapped forever!" He climbed into the time machine and began fiddling with it. Rush began to howl sadly.
"Mega! What are you doing?" Roll asked.
"I'm gonna find Dr. Light and bring him back!" he told her. "If he's still alive..."
"But Mega!" she protested. "What if I lose you too?"
"Don't worry!" he called back. "I'll just get Dr. Light and come back!" The lid of the time machine started to close.
"Rrarf! Rega!" Rush called, bounding into the time machine right before it closed. The time machine flew into the sky and shimmered before disappearing.
"This is terrible!" the second scientist moaned. "I'm afraid we've lost both Dr. Light and Mega Man forever!"
"Ooohhh..." a voice moaned. "That was some explosion..."
"Huh?" the three turned around towards a pile of rubble nearby. As they watched, the rubble shifted itself aside, revealing a familiar human being with white hair.
Roll's stared happily. "It's Dr. Light!" She and one of the scientists ran over and supported him as he tried to stand.
"Dr. Light! We thought you were gone forever!" Roll told him.
Dr. Light sighed. "No, when the blast struck, it flung me out of the time machine. Where's Mega? Is he okay?"
Roll paused, unsure of how to say it. "Mega thought you were lost in time and just went to look for you!"
Dr. Light sighed. "Oh no. We might never see him again!"
Mega Man piloted the time machine through a limbo of rainbow-colored space as Rush watched it swirl around curiously. Presently, he came into a futuristic city with hover cars flying around. Mega Man consulted the dashboard.
"According to this, we've traveled thirty years into the future," he noted. "Dr. Light should be around here somewhere." Several cars whizzed by, nearly hitting him. "Ack! Doesn't look like a friendly future to me!"
Rush, who had been staring out the window, suddenly yelped in alarm. "Roh no! Rily!" he yelped, gesturing at a view screen with his paw.
Mega Man looked at where Rush was gesturing and started. "Sizzling circuits!" he cursed. "Wily's taken over! He finally won!" He continued to fly, but one of the cars whizzing by finally managed to hit him. "Uh oh! Losing power! We're gonna have to land!"
He looked down at the street below until he spotted an empty parking space by one of the skyscrapers. He set the time machine down, noticing that several humans were watching it carefully. When he opened the cover and stepped out, they screamed and fled.
"Huh?" Mega Man asked blankly as he stared at the panicking humans. "What's going on?"
Rush shook his shoulders. Mega Man began ride a moving sidewalk, noticing that the humans fled as he approached them. Presently, he came across a small group of children playing with their hoverboards on the sidewalk and walked towards them. The children stopped abruptly as they saw the pair of robots approaching.
"Robo-Security!" one of them screamed.
"Let's beat it!" another cried, and they all grabbed their hoverboards and ran away.
Mega Man didn't bother to chase them. He simply stared after them. "They think I'm one of Wily's robots!" He continued to walk with Rush.
In a secluded part of the city, where the buildings were noticeably darker, a young girl of about eleven with her brown-hair in pigtails was standing in an alleyway. She pulled out a can of spray paint and promptly gave a picture of Wily on the wall some nice graffiti art.
"Wily's a bozo!" she giggled as she spray painted.
"Psst!" a voice called. "Annie!"
The girl ran over towards a shadow, where the voice had come from. It revealed a man with hair and a mustache the same shade as the girl's. He was holding a comic book in his hands.
"Uncle Jet, did you bring it?" Annie asked the man excitedly.
The man smiled at her. "Of course! Anything for my sugar!" He handed her the book, and Annie gazed at it happily and held it as if it were a precious treasure.
"Wow! This is too cool! The Adventures of Mega Man and his wonder dog Rush, issue 6!" Annie reached out and hugged Uncle Jet tightly.
Uncle Jet smiled at her. "I don't know why you're so fond of that imaginary robot! Everyone knows that there are no such things as good robots! They've been programmed by Wily to hate humans."
"Mega Man's good! He's not imaginary! And he'll save us one day! You'll see!" Annie argued.
"Freeze, humans!" Both of them turned around to find a black security robot and a vicious-looking robot dog standing there. The security robot spoke to the dog. "Robo-Canine, retrieve suspicious object from humans!"
The dog leapt forth, grabbed the comic book, and handed it to the robot. "Give it back, you tin canine, it's mine!" Annie shrieked. She looked like she wanted to run forward and snatch the comic book back, but Uncle Jet restrained her.
The security robot scanned the comic book, before turning towards Uncle Jet. "You are under violation of Section 3.2.3.3 for attempting to sell illegal reading material to a minor!" The robot fired a net at Uncle Jet and caught him in it. He picked up the net and began to walk away. Annie ran angrily towards the robot and began beating him with her fists.
"He isn't selling me anything, you tinhead! It's a birthday present! He's my uncle! HELP!" she screamed.
"I suggest you let them go," a voice came. A familiar blue figure stood in the entrance to the alleyway, with a red robot dog beside him.
Annie gasped. "It's Mega Man!"
Mega Man had checked out the alleyway as soon as he heard the voice of "HELP!" He dashed onto the scene and quickly assessed what he saw: a man caught in the net being carried by a security robot and a vicious-looking robot dog, and a small girl hopelessly fighting the robot. Without thinking, he ran to the rescue of the two humans.
"I suggest you let them go," he told the robot. The girl gasped.
"It's Mega Man!" she cried.
The robot scowled at him. "You are in violation of Section 3.2.3.3.A.F interfering with a robo-officer of the law! Punishment: Vaporization!" He dropped Uncle Jet and began firing at Mega Man.
The blue robot raised his buster, but the robot grabbed Annie and picked her up. Mega Man kept his buster aimed, but was hesitant to shoot. "I might hit you!" he called to Annie.
"No you won't!" Annie called back. "You're Mega Man! You never miss!"
Mega Man didn't shoot. He gazed uncertainly between the robot and Annie. The security robot began to walk towards him. "Terminate Mega Man!" the robot growled.
Well, there's the first part. I, somehow, remember exactly where the commercial breaks were, and that where I'm stopping each chapter. Read and review!