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Mega Man, Forte, & Jane were walking south from Appleton to New Guzzville. Mega Man was in the lead, while Forte & Jane were following behind. It was from there that Forte began to ask Jane a few questions.
“So, Jane, you're a clone of Roll?”
“Yes, my model is derived from DLN.002, who you call Roll.”
“Oh, so you're like to Roll what I am to-”
Mega Man looked back with a threatening look.
“...Hmm, well my series is more akin to the Sniper Joe line of robots.”
“Oh, so like blues. Man, if Blues loathed those guys, I wonder how well Roll is taking this-”
“Can you two shut up, I'm gonna make a call.”
Forte & Jane stopped dead in their tracks, while Mega Man walked off to go make a call. He dialed up a number, & started to call Vesper Woman.
Ba-ding Ba-ding
“Oh, hi Rock! How are things on your end?” Asked Vesper Woman.
“Hi Chelsea…” he said, in an unpleasant tone. “Have you gotten your first robot master yet?”
“Yeah, we got Gust Man. Actually, we're fighting Pyro Man right now!”
Sounds of flames & buster fire could be heard in the background.
“Tempo, stop trying to punch him, you're just gonna get set on fire!”
“FEEL THE WRATH OF MY HOLY FLAME, PROFLIGATE!”
“Predestination isn't real, Calvinist scum!”
“You wouldn't have happened to have run into any clones of your sister, have you?” asked Vesper.
“As a matter of fact, yes.” said Mega Man, looking at Forte & Jane.
“Yeah, one of them came at me with a flamethrower laughing all manically, almost set us on fire too. Another one tried to charge us with this giant sawblade thing, before Blues blew it up. Blasted her with the Gust Blower, & I haven't seen her since. Speaking of.” Vesper woman turned on the Gust Blower, & pointed it at Pyro Man.
“HEY, STOP BLOWING OUT MY FLAME!”
“Okay, Chelsea, as much as I appreciate you trying to help, I feel like using the gust blower over here is a tad bit counter intuitive!”
“Yeah, it's a different story over here,” said Mega Man, "apparently the Janes were on strike because they didn't like working for Demo Man, so they didn't pose much of a threat. At least until we took out Demo Man. Then they decided to act.”
“WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!”
“I SAID THEY DIDN'T POSE MUCH OF A THREAT!”
“OKAY I'M GONNA HAVE TO CALL YOU BACK, THINGS ARE HEATING UP OVER HERE!”
“OKAY, I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER!”
WHERE WAS VESPER YOU MAY ASK? Sorry, where was Vesper you may ask? Well, she & the gang were out in the Dorado Redwood Forests, fighting Pyro Man of course. Pyro Man was trying to shoot his fires, while Quake was behind him repeatedly jabbing him in the back with her drills, & Proto was shooting him repeatedly in the face.
“STOP-”
POW
“SHOOTING-”
POW
“ME-”
POW
“You-”
POW
“filthy-”
POW
“spawn…”
Pyro Man collapsed and hit the ground with a THUNK. Vesper finally turned off the Gust Blower & handed it back to Proto.
“Okay, that's two down, two to go.”
“Why didn't we get to Static Man, isn't he a lot closer?” asked Vesper.
“Well he is, but we don't have anything to counter him yet. There's an order to this you see.” replied Proto.
“Oh, okay.”
Behind them, a Jane covered in leaves & thorns emerged from the bushes, out of breath, somehow. She looked up to take in the scene.
“WHAT?! You beat him already?” she exclaimed.
“Uh, yeah.” Proto Man said, “It was kind of easy with this overclocked leaf blower.”
“But you can't just blow out a fire with a leaf blower!
“I think we just did though.”
“Ugh, [!@#$] this.” Jane grabbed her broom & charged the enemy, but Quake just grabbed her & threw her away, followed by Proto blasting her with the Gust Blower.
“You know at some point they should realise that's not gonna work.”
Jane flaw & flew until she landed on a tree, & fell all the way down. Her right hand was broken beyond repair, & the lens of her left eye was cracked. When she got up, she found herself near a cabin. It didn't appear to be inhabited recently. She made her way toward the shed, where all the tools were. On the table, was a chain saw. She sawed off the back side of it, wired the motor to her own power supply, & stuck the thing onto the broken stump of her hand. She then began the long trek up north to Glacier Man's Domain.
Roll, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane, & Jack were all walking along the side of the road on their way to Costco. Walking alongside each other, the differences between Roll & the Janes were now very apparent. Of course they all had their own slightly differing hairstyles, the Janes all had red eyes, while Rolls eyes tended to fluctuate, though had settled on a deep blue color for the time being, Roll had cuffs on her sleeves, while the Janes all had Gauntlets, & the Janes all had tights under their dresses, while Roll had none. Another weird thing, both Roll & Jane had red dresses, while Jack had a blue one, & the others had various shades of green.
“So what’s Costco actually like?” asked Jane.
“You’ve never been?” Roll replied, “It’s an amazing place! They have all sorts of items you can buy in bulk, & they even have a food court you can eat at after you’re done shopping!”
“Is it true that they sell hotdogs for only $1.50?” Jane asked.
“Of course they do, why would they ever raise the price?” Roll said, “I usually get about 6 of them when I go there. That is if they have them in stock.”
As they got within sight of the main entrance however, Jane started to become hesitant. “Hang on, I'm seeing a lot of units in combat inside the building on my GPS. Are you sure this isn't a trap?” she asked.
Just then, a massive burst of flames came out from the entrance, & several Janes ran out while on fire screaming. Roll got out her water bucket & extinguished the nearest Jane. Jane crouched down & started speaking to the melted Jane.
“Jane, what’s going on in there?” asked Jane.
“*Cough* It’s Grill Man! We went inside looking for hotdogs, but the Cashier Joe didn’t know what to do, so he called his boss, & Grill Man just came out of nowhere! We just wanted to get hotdogs for $1.50!” Jane cried.
“Grill Man?” Roll asked, “Don’t you mean-”
At that moment, another Jane went flying through the window. Before she could even get up though, a flaming piece of charcoal went flying into her, turning her into a screaming wildfire on the asphalt. Then, out came Janet, in her Grill Woman form, carrying a fire extinguisher & riot shield. She matched up towards the Jane, & extinguished the fire, leaving a shivering wreck of melted latex, burnt kevlar, & fried electronics. Grill Woman, placed her left foot on the Janes head, & crushed it.
Jane turned towards Roll timidly. “I-Is that…?”
“Janet? Yeah, she's Grill Woman.”
Jane was in complete shock & horror, but the Janes were seemingly unfazed.
Grill Woman finally turned towards the group, absolutely furious. “YOU!!!!”
“M-Me?” asked Roll.
“I threw you out of here and told you to never come here again! So why, are there even MORE OF YOU????””
“Oh, well, that's a long story…”
“Don't laugh me off, I know you have something to do with this!”
“Well… I might have gone out to fight Dr. Wily.”
“So is that it, you're just as careless as always?”
“Hey, I didn't know he was gonna clone me!”
“SHUT UP! I'm gonna rip apart every one of your clones, & then I'm gonna burn you so hard, your face is gonna look like a well done steak!”
“Oh boy.” Roll got her mop ready to defend herself. The Janes each got their weapons ready, but Jane stopped them, & prepared her own buster.
Weapons, drawn. Fighters, at the ready. That Jane from earlier, Scumbed to her wounds. The other Janes, piles of ashes.
Let’s go ham.
Roll Kicked over the water bucket, sending the water toward Grill Woman, & Jane shot at her several times, but she just blocked it all with the Riot Shield. Roll charged at Grill Woman & climbed onto the shield, while Jane kept firing at Grill Woman. Grill just blocked again, but now with Roll trying to dodge all the shots coming her way. Roll awkwardly reached around the shield & slapped Grill Woman on the head a few times. Grill threw the shield away at Jane, who took it straight to the gut. Roll got back up & charged Grill again, & the two were now dueling in the Costco parking lot.
Meanwhile, the Janes stood to the side, watching the whole thing, as they were told. Jack looked towards the Costco entrance.
“Hey, should we go inside & get something for this?” asked Jack.
“What? No! Jane told us to stay over here.” replied Jane.
“I know, but I feel bad letting her take the fall for us.”
“Ugh, you can go in, we’ll stay in here.”
So Jack ran inside Costco, while the others waited.
“Hey, where are you going?” shouted Jane, right before being hit by a flying fire extinguisher Grill Woman had thrown.
Roll continued to attack Grill Woman with her Mop, while Grill Woman sent out bursts of flame & pieces of charcoal from her cannons. Roll parried one of the flaming charcoal back at Grill Woman. Grill woman just caught it in her mouth, swallowed it, & let out an even bigger burst of flames at Roll. Jane finally got back on her feet, & brought out a mop of her own, & charged at Grill Woman, but she just picked her up & threw her against a car. Just then, Jack came running out with a Super Soaker. She pumped it a few times, & released a full blast of water upon Grill Woman.
“Ow, That hurts!”
Then Jane had a realization. If she had the broom, then surely she also had the spray bottle, right? Sure enough, she did! She took it out & began to spray Grill Woman.
“Ow!”
Roll got in on it, & began to start spraying too.
“OW!” Grill Woman could no longer maintain her form & went back to being Janet.
“You know what? [!@#$] this. I’m not going back to the mechanic because of you, I’m leaving!”
“Wait, does that mean…?” Roll asked.
“Yeah, sure, go on in, take whatever you want.” said Janet.
Janet walked off to chipotle or whatever. Roll & Jane looked at each other & began to argue.
“I can't believe you tried to shoot me!”
“I was aiming for Grill Woman! You should have gotten off the shield while you had a chance.”
“I could have taken her down myself, you just got in the way!”
“Got in the way? I was taking all the hits for you back there.”
“Hey I know you guys are busy, but they still have hotdogs over here.” Said Jane, from inside the store.
& just like that, the two of them forgot their argument & went inside to get their hotdogs.
Back on the east coast, Mega Man & his team had crossed state lines & were approaching the outskirts of New Guzzville. While Mega Man was still in a bad mood, Forte & Jane were still having a nice time talking to each other.
“Yeah so what's it like being 4 hours old?” asked Forte.
“I dunno. I already have some of the Rolls memories pre-loaded, but everything still feels new to me. What about you, aren't you like, four?”
“Hey, you gotta learn to respect your elders, young lady.”
They both laughed, while Mega Man suffered in silence.
“Hey, haven't we been walking for a while?” asked Jane.
“Huh, you're right.” said Forte. “Hey Mega, did we need to walk all the way here? Couldn't we have just teleported?”
“Oh, we definitely could, I just really hate you right now!” Mega Man said in a deceptively positive tone.
“Ah jeez…”
“You know, I don't have a built in teleporter, so who knows what would happen to me if you did?”
Mega Man thought, huh, maybe we should teleport after all.
“Don't give him any ideas, Jane.”
The group continued to walk down the highway, & wouldn’t you know it, they were at their destination, a cement refinery by the looks of it. From a distance, it appeared as if multiple concrete blocks had been erected around the area to create a giant barrier around the site. Several Janes could also be seen sweeping dirt from the top of the walls. It seems with no real directive, they resorted to their basic programmed instincts.
“Hey Forte, you wouldn’t happen to be able to scale 30 foot walls, would you?”
“Can you?”
“That’s what I thought.”
So Mega Man & Forte instead went up to the roof of a nearby office building. From there they could jump down to the wall & scale back down from there.
“Okay, are you ready?” Asked Mega Man.
“I mean, not really-”
“OKAY HERE WE GO!” & Mega Man threw Forte & Jane off the building.
“WAAAAAAAA!” they went as they tumbled down & onto the top of the wall. Mega Man simply used Rush Jet to get down.
“WHAT? YOU HAD RUSH JET THIS WHOLE TIME?!”
“Yeah but there was only room for me.”
“Hey Forte, don't you have a dog too? Why couldn't we use him?” Asked Jane.
“Oh, uh, he's being dog sat, by a, uh, friend.” Forte said nervously, but Mega Man was already out of earshot, so there was no need to obfuscate. Up ahead, a couple of Janes spotted Mega Man & the gang.
“Hey, those guys are trespassing! What do we do about that again?” asked Jane.
“I dunno, let me call this in.” Jane radioed her supervisor Sniper Joe. “Hey Joe, what do we do if someone climbs on top of the wall again?”
“Uh, I think we shoot them.”
“Oh, okay.”
Jane pulled out a Glock 19, & opened fire on Mega Man. To Mega Man, it was like getting pelted with pebbles, which did hurt, but wasn’t too damaging.
Joe came back on the radio. “No, you don’t use the gun here. You’re supposed to use the buster.”
“Oh, that makes more sense.” So Jane put away the gun & instead started shooting at Mega Man. Mega Man just continued to stand there in irritated bemusement, as the buster shots pelted him in the face like a dodgeball in a 5th grade PE class.
“Hey Jane, I don’t think that’s working.” said Jane
“Well what are we supposed to do, Jane?” asked Jane.
“Maybe we should try hitting him with the brooms?”
“Yeah, that does seem like a better idea.”
So the Janes pulled out their brooms & attacked Mega Man. Mega Man, while still apprehensive about shooting something that looked like his sister, summoned the strength to open fire on the Janes, sending the both of them tumbling to the ground.
Forte finished being on the floor with Jane, & was ready to catch up with Mega Man. Before he did anything though,
“Hey Jane, you might want to close your eyes for this.”
“Okay!”
Forte asked Jane to do this, because he didn’t want her to be traumatised from seeing her sisters get demolished.
The mob of Janes was joined by their accompanying Joes, who took shots at Mega Man & Forte from behind their shields. Mega Man & Forte each took shots at the crowd, & Forte even managed to break a few of the shields on the Joes.
Unfortunately, a Joe inside a nearby crane had gotten the wrecking ball prepped & ready. He moved the crane to the side a bit, then swung the whole thing right into the wall where Mega Man & Forte were standing.
“Look out!” cried Jane, but it was too late. The wrecking ball had destroyed the ground where they were, & the three of them fell to the ground, being buried under the rubble of the destroyed wall. All the Janes continued to go after them, diving down to their deaths below without a second thought as to why.
When Forte opened his eyes, he immediately closed them, because it was extremely bright. When he opened them again, he observed that he was no longer in Guzzville, but actually in the sky? Well, there were clouds everywhere, and it was very blue. He looked to his left, and saw Rock sitting on the ground, annoyed.
“Hey, Mega Man, where are we?”
“Welcome to heaven pal, you're dead.”
“Dead? What, no, that can't be, we normally survive falls like that.”
“It wasn't the fall, it was the rubble that killed us. Do you need glasses or something?”
“Uh, well how long are we gonna be here for?” asked Forte.
“Until Dr. Light boots up one of the backups of me back at the lab. Though I doubt Wily cares that much to keep backups of you. Especially since you're currently working against him.”
“Wait, so am I gonna be here… forever?” Forte asked, shivering.
“Yeah pretty much. Hey, you can get acquainted with the others. Look, here come some of them now.”
Several robots came running across the clouds. They were: Cut Man, Guts Man, Elec Man, & Bomb Man.
“Rock!” Cut Man cried out, “We saw everything from up here!”
“So I take it you're aware of Roll getting kidnapped?”
“Kidnapped?” Guts Man said, “Actually, she's perfectly fine. In fact, she's at Costco right now with some of the Janes.”
“She's at Cost- Oh god dammit, we were just there!” Mega Man yelled to the heavens.
“Hey, where is Jane anyway?” Forte asked.
“Oh, hi, uh, Forte.” said Bomb Man, “yeah, uh, she's probably, uhhh…” he muttered, while pointing downward. “Sorry…”
“What?! She's in Hell????” screamed Forte.
“That's not surprising, if anything it's basically a given since she's a Wily bot.” said Mega Man.
“B-but, I'm a Wily bot?”
“Yeah, & if she's anything like Roll, it's basically guaranteed at this point.”
Mega Man froze. “What?”
“Oh crap, uh, yeah you weren't here for this.” said Elec Man. “Yeah, so about 4 months ago, during the Costco Incident, Roll kinda, pffff, so we went down there & put her in Yellow Devils custody for her own safety. Then when we checked in on her, she'd killed the Yellow Devil.”
“...So you're telling me, that Roll LITERALLY killed ROBOT SATAN, & I now have to live with that information for the rest of my life??”
“Well… we would kinda feel bad if we didn't tell you the next time you were here.” said Bomb Man
“Wait, if Roll ends up down there, then how am I here?” asked Forte, “Then why am I here?”
“Oh that's easy.” said Cut Man. “So as it turns out, it's very hard to actually get into hell. In fact, you would basically be having to try to be as bad as possible. As for you, from the way you've been acting, basically everything you do ultimately winds up favoring the good guys in the end, so you ended up here.”
“Oh great. So my sister is the Anti Christ, & my rival is a saint by technically.
Suddenly, Mega Man & Forte began fading out of existence.
“What? What's happening to us?”
“Oh, looks like we're being booted back up. I guess Wily does give a shit about you after all.”
…
“Man, I was just about to tell him about Quint.” said Guts Man.
“Do you want him any more screwed than he already is?” asked Elec Man.
Back in the land of the living, Mega Man & Forte woke up. Their back sides had been opened, & it appeared that several cables were connecting the two. Jane was off to the side, with another cable connecting her to the others.
“Hey guys!”
“W- Jane? You're alive?!” yelled Mega Man.
“Yeah, turns out all the bodies protected me from the fall.”
“Wait, then how did you bring us back?” asked Forte.
“Well I was able to put most of you back together, but your cores were basically unsalvageable. So I hooked you both to my own!” Jane said, pointing to the two cables. “I also got myself these.” she said, displaying her new legs, a red & yellow one which were mismatched from the green of the rest of her uniform.
“Oh, that's just… so fun!” cried Rock, dying a little more inside with every word spoke. “Can we go fight claw man now?”
“Oh yeah, he's over there.” Pointing to the other side of the refinery.
“Okay let's go.” Mega Man got up & began running, which started to tug Forte along with him.
“Hey, wait, I need to tell her something.”
“Like, right now?”
“Listen, it's important.”
“Okay, I can wait…”
Forte turned over to Jane and put his hand on her shoulder. “Jane, I want you to understand, you've been very helpful for us up until now, but some of your siblings might not appreciate that.”
“Helpful? She's been with us for 2 hours! & most of that was her riding on your back!”
“Oh no, why's that?” Jane asked.
“Well, they're under orders to stop us from stopping Dr. Wily, & they might not appreciate you helping us by, you know. & because of that, we might have to put down a few of them.”
“Aw, but I like you guys!”
“Don't worry, after we're done, we can probably put them back together and give them new jobs! How does that sound?”
“Aw, that would be nice!”
“Okay then, not lets go!”
Jane was now being dragged by the two of them by the cords, & scurried along to catch up with the boys. There were still a couple of Joes & a few mets that were disposed of relatively quickly, though the complication of being tied together caused problems for them.
“Forte, stay close to me, we can risk getting pulled apart,” said Mega Man.
“Hey, don’t forget me! You’d be dead without me.” said Jane.
The three moved further into the factory. Mega Man & Forte fought a few of the remaining Janes, while Jane kind of got tugged around by the two as they tried to move in different directions. The Three of them running around without coordination eventually resulted in them getting tangled up, & they all fell to the floor.
“Oh man, okay, let’s untangle ourselves & try again.”
Jane was looking suspiciously at Joe. He had just given Roll & the other Janes their hotdogs before they went into the store. Jane however, didn't like the jib of this guy one bit.
“Um, excuse me, are you going to order something, or just stare at me all day?” Joe asked.
“Why are you working here,” asked Jane, “Aren't Sniper Joe units meant to be guarding something?”
“Actually I was a Hopper Pilot back in the day.”
“Oh, one of the yellow guys?”
“Yeah. After I got rebooted, they decided to give me a job that didn't involve heavy machinery, which is how I ended up here.”
“They? Who's They?”
“The United States Government. They introduced the Sniper Joe Rehabilitation Program to help get us back to doing something useful rather than sitting in the scrap pile.”
“Oh, & is that why you have two eyes?”
“Yes, that is how I got my second eye. It's an aesthetic thing. People get weirded out by seeing us without helmets, you know.”
“What, the face you had one eye, or the fact you look like the Break Man?”
“Oh, funny story actually, you know the Copy Robot Wily made, right?”
“Yes, it's in the records last time I checked.”
“Yeah, so the first time, he got obliterated by all the Robot Masters teaming up. Well guess what? He didn't die. So about a year later, Wily gives him the ability to make holograms of himself. He tries again, and gets owned again. So now it's 2 years later, he's got new green armor, some weird pogo stick thing, and starts actually going by Quint now. Well guess what, he loses a third time. At this point, he goes ‘You know what, I'm done.’ So he decided to run away and start his own life, you know that happened to Forte too, weird how that happened twice. So he decided to live on his own but oh [$#!^], the copy scanner’s broken, so he can't just change how he looks. So now he has to buy a bunch of hair dye and style it in a specific way just so he doesn't look like Mega Man, otherwise he's gonna look like an idiot. And now when people see him, they go, ‘Hey look, it's that guy who kinda looks like Mega Man.’ and I mean he's not happy about it but it's better than looking like the guy who kicked your [@$$] 3 times in a row. So now he kinda just wanders around town & goes to Applebees with Forte some time, and he kinda seems disappointed with life, but what can you do?”
Jane blinked. “That's not a very funny story, Joe.”
“Oh, wait until you learn what happened between him and Roll. You see, about 6 months ago-”
“Hey boss, they have one of those barcode reader things over here!” Shouted Jane, from the checkout registers. The group had finished shopping & were getting ready to leave. Of course they had all the groceries that were asked of them, Jane got one of those grabby claw thingies, Jane got a hotdog plushie, because she loves hot dogs, Jane got a Switch 2, & Jack got some legos & a blowtorch. They also got a bunch of E-Tanks for the road. They weren’t going to pay for any of it of course, they were just checking out the register.
Jane wasn’t really interested in that though. She was curious about this Quint guy actually. “Anyways, you were saying?”
Jack managed to get her hands on the barcode reader at the counter. “Hey, I wonder if this would work on our barcodes?”
“You mean the one’s on our back?” Roll asked, ‘Sure, let’s try it!”
All the Janes, save for Jane who was still at the food court. First, was Roll.
BEEP
“DLN.002” Jack read on the monitor.
“Huh, must be reading our serial numbers.”
Next was the fluffy one.
BEEP
“SWJ.425”
Then, came the mean one.
BEEP
“488”
Then, the dull one.
BEEP
“468”
& finally, Jack did herself.
BEEP
“404” she then looked at Jane, still talking to Joe. “Hey Jane, do you want to try this.”
“Umm, actually, I think we should get going.”
“Awww.” all the Janes said.
“She’s probably right. We should get back to your base before these go bad.” Roll said, picking up one of the bags.
Jane paused for a moment, before continuing on. “Yeah.. let’s go home girls.”
As they were leaving, Jane walked up beside Roll, & asked her a question. “Hey Roll, um, what’s your relationship with Quint-”
Roll got in front of Jane & stopped everyone in their tracks. “Don’t mention that name to me or anyone else, ever again.”
Jane whimpered.
Over on the east coast, Mega Man, Forte, & Jane finally got untangled. They were now moving more carefully with the other two in mind. The three of them shuffled along to the other side of the complex. It was there that they found Claw Man stacking bricks in a corner with his giant claw. He turned around & saw Jane, being led along by Mega Man & Forte.
“Jane, why the [!@#$] aren’t you at your post? And why are you hooked up to these guys?”
“Oh, I’m not a part of this unit actually.”
“Then who the [!@#$] are you with then?”
“She’s with us!” Forte declared.
“Temporary. This is a temporary thing until we can get our energy cores fixed.”
“Well I know why you're here!” yelled Claw Man. He radioed in the Operator Joe up in the crane. “Joe, release the wrecking ball!”
The crane from earlier swung around & dropped the ball down. The 3 of them jumped out of the way. When they got up, Mega Man was somehow holding Forte like a bride. Jane giggled a little, while Mega Man’s face went red & dropped Forte to the ground.
“Oof”
Mega Man then got out the Hand Cannon, & fired at the base of the crane. The crane came down towards Claw Man, who jumped out of the way before it could land on him.
“Fine then, let’s do this!”
Claw man got out his Claw Grabber, & launched it at Jane. It connected, & all three of them were flung like a hammer at the olympic games. The three rolled on the ground, & now were all tangled again.
“You should know not to take things that don’t belong to you!”
“Sorry Claw Man, but that’s my whole gimmick!”
Mega Man shot the Hand Cannon once more, The shot landed right next to Claw Man, who fell off balance. Forte managed to get his shooting arm free & fired upon Claw Man, breaking away at his armor.
“Hey, stop that!”
Jane pushed against the side of the tangled mess they were in, & they all rolled over in the direction of Claw Man, who was crushed by the combined weight of all three robots, plus the electrical cables. Jane took one final stab at him with her broom, puncturing his shell & deactivating him for good.
“Jane!” cried out Mega Man.
“What, did I do something wrong?”
“You're supposed to knock him out, not kill the guy!”
“Hey, go easy on her Mega, she’s still new to this.”
“Okay, let’s see what we can salvage.”
The group got untangled once again. Mega Man inspected the damage on Claw Man. He wasn’t beyond repair, but he couldn’t get the weapon in this state.
“Rrrrip!” Jane had yanked off the arm of Claw Man, & stuck it on her own.
“Ugh, well, that’s one way.”
Roll & the Janes were all carrying the groceries back to the pod where they came from, except for 468, who was playing on her switch 2. Jane was still shaken up by Roll yelling at her, but also worried. About what? Who knows.
“Hey, where is your base anyway?” Roll asked.
Jack said, “Oh, it down south at Che-”
“Oh, hey bitches!” said a very mean voice. Roll froze in peril, & everyone else followed suit, except for 468, who bumped into 488 in front of her, shoving everyone forward a few steps. Everyone looked to their left, to see a slender male robot, with a hawaiian shirt, ripped jeans, green jacket, & purple scarf.
“Aw [!@#$], this guy again?”