ROCK’S UNREASONING, PART TWO

Rock is defeated temporarily by his best-friend-turned-enemy, Buster “Bass” Wily.  After hours of lying unconscious, he finally wakes up to a call from his intercom…and finds that he has converted back due to loss of power.

Voice: Rock wake up! Where are you? ROCK!!!

Rock realizes who it is and jumps up suddenly, his head hurts from being knocked down abruptly from Bass’ brash blow. Rock: Doc…is that you?

Voice: Rock, are you alright? What happened?

Rock: Just a minor setback….is it possible for robots to get headaches? Unnhhh….

Rock starts to faint a bit, and presses his hand against his head and cringes a bit.  Rock: He got me pretty good…

Doc: Tell me where you are, I can bring you some energy…

Rock: No time! I still need to find Roll…I’ll stay in touch!

Doc: Rock, don’t go just yet….*click*

Rock cancels the receiver and discontinues the conversation. Rock: Sorry Doc, I can’t waste a nanosecond…Roll really needs me!

He finds his skyboard untouched by Bass, luckily…but not completely….

Meanwhile…

Bass is back on Wily’s ship, bragging about how he defeated Megaman and how easy it was…

Bass: You missed out! I totally PWN’D Megaman…OWNED…by ME!

Bass relaxes back with his feet propped up.  Bass: Won’t need to worry for about that Blue Dweeb anymore!

Wily: You idiot! Did you forget, Megaman’s creator is still living, and so long as he is…YOU FAIL ME *grumbles *

Bass gives him a snive look…  Bass: You never did as well before I was built! I’ve got more power in my pinky than all of your “other” creations put together… *swings his pinky at Wily *

Wily: I can still do better robots than you, remember you can be replaced!

Bass: HA!!

Rock remembers where he was trying to look, and flies high above the city to search for the junkyard where he suspects he’ll find Roll.  He sees an ocean of shiny metal from above, the sun shining down on it as he soars over what appears to be the place he’s been searching for.

Rock: This looks like the place…

He lowers the airboard to the surface to get a closer look, and as he does, he hears what appears to be someone crying.

Rock: That sounds like crying.  Roll? …I have to find her if she’s here…

As he gets closer to the sound, it becomes more recognizable, and the louder it gets the faster he runs to it.  He finally finds who he was looking for….Roll. She’s exactly where Doc found her the last time she ran from home. Rock stands right at the edge of the inactive compactor and looks down into it seeing a distressed Roll…

Rock: I heard I’d find you here…

Roll looks up but looks down, still disgusted with him.  

Roll: I didn’t expect you to come…I probably didn’t want you to either.

Rock’s face crumbles…he starts to feel somewhat frustrated, and he begins to cry, knowing he was wrong, but that he can’t find the words that are right to let her know how sorry he is.

Rock: ROLL…I know I was wrong, but please don’t do this….

Roll looks up at him angrily.

Roll: YOU DON’T RESPECT ME FOR THE THING WE NEVER HAD!!

Rock: If it wasn’t for you, if Doc never created you…I’d never know what it was like…  I couldn’t imagine being alive without you there…

Roll’s face softens slightly.  

Roll: You couldn’t? *sob *

Rock: NO. Because…*sigh* You’re like a mother.  But we’re brother and sister, because we were both made from the same plans, with differences that set us apart.

Rock kneels down, and reaches his hand to her.

Rock: ROLL! I RESPECT YOU…AND I LOVE YOU EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT MY MOTHER!

Roll’s eyes fill with tears and she gets up, and starts walking to him.

Roll: That’s what….I wanted to hear….

As she gets close enough to reach out her hand, almost reaching Rock’s… They are abruptly pulled apart by Bass’ actions.

Bass: AWW, HOW SWEET!

Bass makes a disgusted face.

Bass: YOU MAKE ME SICK! MOTHERS ARE FOR HUMANS!

Rock rubs the abrasion on his cheek that Bass punched to get Roll away from him…

Rock: Sometimes I think you’re just jealous…Dr. Wily won’t give in to your demands!

Bass: Actually...I’m more jealous that Roll won’t be my girl and that you’re interrupting our private time together!

Bass charges up his blaster and points it at Rock.

Bass: *in a grave voice * AS ALWAYS….

Roll panics and yells at Rock to get away.

Roll: ROCK, WATCH OUT!!

Bass fires and hits Rock, who is too mesmerized by his own thoughts of the wrong he’s done. He gets knocked clear to the other side of the junkyard, unaware of what Bass will do, as he is unconscious again.  He fades out, but not before he hears the sound of a siren coming near.

Bass holds Roll by the arms and won’t let go as she struggles to the best of her ability.

Bass: NOW…since we finally get some quiet time together…

Roll: The only one that should be quiet is YOU! Shut up!

Bass hits Roll in the face and she cries, but she isn’t about to give up fighting her way free.

Bass: Had enough? While Rock’s in Lala Land, we can spend it here…or actually YOU can…

Bass leaves her in the compactor, but finds a piece of steel to bring back, and he bends it and pushes her behind it right into a wall of the compactor.  He melds the steel into the wall so that she cannot escape.  By this time, she  is seeing her fate and panics.

Bass takes the controls and pushes it to the active position, causing the walls to move. Roll cries out in a last effort to free herself, in hopes that Rock really does forgive and forget…

Roll: MEGAMAN!!!

TO BE CONTINUED….


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