1Chapter one: Many meetings

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The evil Dr. Wily has been defeated. After so many years of defeat at the hand of Megaman, Wily gave up and stopped his creation of Robot Masters. And with that, Megaman was needless. There was still work to be done in the reconstruction of all the damage that Wily had done over the years, but then still, it was never the same for Megaman since Wily's final defeat.

Then one day,

"Hmm? There's another alarm?" Dr. Light moved over the computer console. "What's this, this alarm is from Dr. Wily's lab. Roll, get Megaman in here right away!"

"What is it Dr. Light?" Megaman asked coming into the room.

"This alarm is coming from Dr. Wily's lab. This of course is strange because that lab has been abandoned for years."

"You're right Dr. Light. I'll check it out."

"Be careful Megaman!

Megaman said he would be careful and rushed into the teleport.

Megaman stepped into the teleporter and zipped off. When he arrived at Wily's old lab, he found it empty and quiet.

"Wait, there's no distress here. Who fired the alarm?" Megaman continued to walk further into Wily's lab when a light flashed on.

"I'm glad you could make it Megaman!" Shouted Dr. Wily from behind a control station high in the room.

"Wily, I thought you were finished!" Megaman shouted.

"Oh, far from it. Instead of leading you through a maze of traps and robots to fight a harder robot at the end of the maze so that you may steal his special ability and use that special ability to defeat my other robot masters and eventually use all of the ability's to gain access into my lair and then defeat my greatest creation using those same abilities, I decided to get you here right from the get go."

This confused Megaman, he had been used to the same routine for 15 or so years he found himself helpless. Wily then flipped a switch that opened a hatch on the ceiling of the room that released a large yellow mass of goop. Megaman knew what was coming. The goop began to bubble, it slowly began to rise and took the form of a large sphere with legs and arms. It was a behemoth in size, it flexed its large yellow arms, and a single red eye opened in the middle of its body. Megaman of course was at a loss. He had always used an electric attack for this monster. The yellow devil began to separate itself and fly across the room. Megaman dodged the yellow devil as best he could but he found himself being pelted by the large yellow blobs.

It was then when there was a bright green flash. A purple blur flew across the room and destroyed the devil. A purple dragon floated in the air, fire escaping the corners of it's mouth, and bright yellow eyes scanning the room. Megaman looked up at it in fear, the only dragon he had ever faced was a big robotic one, and he was pretty sure this one wasn't a robot.

The dragon made a loud screeching sound.

"I'm sorry Ridley, I came up with this great plan to destroy Megaman once and for all. I knew that this one would work!"

The dragon screeched.

It was then when out of the green ball of which Ridley had come from a missile came launching out. The missile struck Ridley and he fell to the ground. Then out of the ball came a spinning object, which looked human but was curled up. The object unfolded, landed on its two feet and pointed its gunarm at the dragon. It's orange armor shone.

The dragon screeched.

Wily pushed a button and a green flash surrounded him. He was then gone. When Megaman looked back down he saw that the monster and the mystery person had engaged in combat. Megaman was blown away by what the mystery person was able to do. The person was able to leap far into the air spin, stay in the air, shoot missiles, a variety of different beam weapons, and aim the direction of his arm. He was fast, agile, and powerful. Megaman was most impressed by his skill.

The mystery person shifted the form of his arm and began firing blast that seemed like ice. It was then when the dragon hit the person's arm and sent him flying. The mysterious person fell on the ground and lay almost motionless. The dragon hovered high above him charging some sort of blast from its mouth.

"What are you waiting for? Blast him!" The mystery person shouted at Megaman.

Megaman lifted his hand into the air pointed at the dragon, shifted to the Mega Buster, but his arm then fell down to a horizontal point.

"What are you doing?" The person shouted from the pile of rubble. He had gained some movement.

"I'm sorry! My buster can only shoot horizontally" Megaman then tried to jump up and hit the dragon, but it was too high. Megaman then started up on some platforms and other piles of debris to get to a higher point. All the while the person slowly got back up and the dragon used the ample time to charge its blast to a very powerful point.

Megaman got the height he needed. He turned over to his Mega Buster and shot a small yellow pellet. The tiny energy pellet sped over to the dragon and hit him. It knocked him back a little way but didn't do enough to stop him.

The mystery person sighed and slowly made his way back up. He then pointed his gun arm up, charged, and fired one of those missiles again. Although this time it seemed more powerful then before. The missile hit the dragon dead on, the dragon fell to the ground and retreated into a green ball that formed behind him. The mystery person then ran after the dragon.

"Hey wait, that dragon knows where Wily went!" Megaman jumped down from his platform and ran into the portal.

There was then a green flash, and Megaman found himself with the mysterious person on a strange purple and blue-skied planet. He and the other man stood on a purple floating platform surrounded by more floating platforms. There was also the green ball that Megaman and the mystery person had come through, and another green ball that Megaman didn't know where it came from.

"Why are you here?" The person asked Megaman.

"That dragon thing knows where Wily went to."

The person looked at Megaman, "Idiot."

"Hey I," Megaman was interrupted by what sounded like a high-pitched squeal.

"Metroids, figures they'd find they're way into that thing."

Out of the second green ball came several large flying green jellyfish like creatures. One of them made a rush for Megaman; Megaman was startled and didn't make a move. When the creature was straight in from of Megaman, the person shoved Megaman out of the way and pointed its gun arm at the jellyfish. The person shifted its shape into the ice shooter again, but the gun wouldn't fire.

"Curse it Ridley, he damaged the Ice Beam." The person then shifted his gun arm into a different state and fired red beams at the jellyfish. "Surly, these aren't to high for you?" The person shouted at Megaman.

Megaman switched his arm to Mega Buster and began to fire energy pellets at one. Megaman knew that it wasn't working as the Metroid kept coming toward him. The Metroid dashed for his head, as an orange ball sped across his face, dropped something blue, and went out of sight, the blue ball was taken in by the Metroid which then exploded in bright flash.

"You really are worthless aren't you?" The person said walking over to Megaman.

"I could do more if Wily had built robot masters!"

The person looked at him, Megaman couldn't tell what expression the guy wore, as he was wearing a helmet that covered his entire head.

Just then, there was another squeal. More Metroids came out of the open portal, and sped around the platform.

"Try to make yourself a little useful." The man shot more red beams at the Metroids chasing them around the area. One spotted Megaman and made it's way over. Megaman shot, shot, shot, but didn't do much. The Metroid opened its "mouth" and charged at Megaman. Megaman was startled, but then got an idea. The mystery man saw the Metroid charge, and attempt to grasp Megamans head. Megaman began to glow as the Metroid charged, when the Metroid lunged its mouth at Megaman he fired a large charged shot. The Metroid enveloped the blast and blew up. This surprised the mystery man, the charged shot that Megaman had fired was larger and seemed more powerful than his own.

"Useful enough?" Megaman asked. More Metroids came and they continued to battle, the mystery man using his red beams, and Megaman using his charge shot. The fight was hopeless, far too many Metroids were coming in through the portal, and the two fighters were worn out.

"It seems we have a little time before the next wave. What's your name?" The mystery man asked.

"Megaman, yourself?"

"Samus, Samus Aran. Sure it shouldn't be Megaboy?"

"What does that mean?"

Before the conversation could go on the next wave came. Megaman and Samus stood ready, when the horde of Metroids were right at them a green flash went off, and a blue blur went by and picked up Megaman and Samus, then ran back into the green ball from whence it came.

Megaman and Samus found themselves in a large "lab" area. Surrounded by scientists that all looked strangely similar. Although one person in the room didn't look the same, he was short, blue, wearing red sneakers, but most importantly he was a hedgehog.

"You guys alright?" the hedgehog asked.

"I believe so." Megaman said in wonder of the talking hedgehog.

"Sonic! Good to see that you're back." A man said walking in through the door to the lab. He was tall, skinny, wearing casual clothes, and a white jacket, he had somewhat long dark hair, and a pair of glasses.

"Yeah, but no sign of him. Just these two." Sonic said pointing at Megaman and Samus.

The man walked over to Megaman and Samus and held out his hand. "Hello, my name is Hal Emmerich, but feel free to call me Otacon." Megaman shook Otacon's hand but Samus was more reluctant.

"They were being attacked by those jellyfish things. It's only by luck that I saved them." Sonic said standing with his hands folded behind his head.

Samus reached down and grabbed Sonic by the throat, and held him up in the air.

"You don't know a thing about the Metroids." Samus then threw Sonic to the ground and walked off.

"What's his problem?" Sonic asked rubbing his throat.

Samus walked through the building being startled by how all of the scientists and security guards that roamed the area looked so alike.

"So what's going on here?" Megaman asked Otacon.

"Let's get the guy in the armor and I'll tell all of you."