Vinyl sighed in relief as she saw the light return to her patient's optics. "You're online," she breathed out. "Thank goodness. I was getting worried there. I was having enough difficulty with the repairs that I was afraid you might not come online ever again."
Her patient chuckled softly. "And after you made sure my core wouldn't do me in," he joked.
"And then you nearly do," Vinyl countered. "Sheesh, reckless much?"
"It was the only thing I could think of to keep down the casualties," he replied. "Speaking of..."
"Only Astro Man and Tengu Man were wrecked," Vinyl explained. "The others are already being repaired. Though right now, I'm more concerned about you. You saw what happened every time I tried to combine Justice Energy and Evil Energy. How did you know you wouldn't explode?"
"Duo was controlling his Energy," he replied. "Guiding it, making it do only what he wanted it to. I thought that if the two energies were being guided to cooperate..."
"Of course!" Vinyl gasped out. "I kept trying to make them work in the same vessel...but a binary power core design with two initial cores and one fusion core that steadily combines and releases the energies from the binary cores...that could work! I'll have to run some tests to compare it against the sample..."
"Sample?" he asked curiously, trying to sit up.
"Don't move!" Vinyl insisted. "Your entire system has completely redesigned itself. Until analysis is complete, I don't want you breaking anything." She gestured to his other side. "The sample's over there. What'd you call it...Ether?"
He turned to where Vinyl had directed, and saw a tiny white sphere, endlessly billowing like flame. His sensors told him that the tiny sphere contained more energy than all the Robot Masters put together. "...I had that inside me?" he murmured in shock.
"Yup," Vinyl confirmed. "Burned out every circuit in your body, even after completely redesigning your systems. From the looks of it, in order to properly wield Ether at those levels, you'd either need a body designed from the ground up to utilize it, or have the built in energy/matter conversions Duo and his counterpart use. Wish I could figure out that system..."
Her patient lay back. "I'm...different?" he asked, surprised.
"Very different," Vinyl confirmed. "Your circuits follow completely different patterns, your auto-repair function is nanite tech on a level I've never seen, and your build code they run on is now based in DNA encoding. Not only that, in some cases it seems like you're more biological than technological...like some sort of bio-roid or something. Managed to get you back online by finding your new auto-repair system and activating it. Been watching it work since."
"I...see," he murmured softly. "Well...I guess we...I?...should expect some differences..."
Vinyl looked at him worriedly. "Protoman? You okay?"
"I'm...not really Protoman anymore..." he responded softly.
"...Blues?"
"We...well, we aren't a we anymore, if that makes sense," he explained. "I think we are now a...new me? So I don't really feel right going by either name that was just one or the other."
Vinyl smiled softly. "Then pick a new name," she offered.
He gazed at the tiny sphere of Ether. "Hmm...how about Prometheus?"
Vinyl glanced over at the flame like sphere. "The Titan who stole fire from the gods to give to mankind, huh?" she murmured softly. "Oddly appropriate."
Prometheus smiled softly. "I'm glad you like it," he replied warmly. Feeling his systems finishing repairs, he lifted his arms, putting his hands behind his head. "Say...where's my new shield?" he asked curiously.
"Right here," Vinyl replied, tapping his back.
"Huh, didn't even notice it was there," Prometheus murmured softly. "Well, I guess some things haven't changed in me the-" He cut himself off as a new diagnostic system kicked in. "...Vinyl? Do I have...new equipment?" he asked nervously.
Vinyl tilted her head. "Well, yeah. The shield's new, and your buster's in a whole new league, and that energy saber-"
"No, I mean...do I have...new systems?"
Vinyl scratched her chin, even more confused. "Well, yeah. You've got functional cybernetic organs inside you, complete with the full digestive tract...though no disposal system, since it has 100% efficiency by dumping the undigestibles into your energy converter-"
"I mean...something a bit lower?" Prometheus clarified.
"Oh yeah, that new dash system is killer!" Vinyl crowed happily. "The speed boost you get from that is off the hook! And it's even got an overcharge function to let you rocket yourself forward in midair! Dad and Dr. Light have been working non-stop to try and analyze anything they can of your new inner workings for future projects-"
"Not that low," Prometheus corrected. "I mean..." He blushed brightly, not sure how to explain his question to Vinyl without becoming even more embarrassed.
Vinyl glanced over his body, trying to figure out what he could be talking about. "Umm...your testicles?"
"Well, that general area, but-" Prometheus' eyes widened. "I have testicles?"
"Complete with cybernetically augmented spermozoa," Vinyl confirmed. "Even got a humanoid delivery system, too. Genetic analysis indicates that your base genetic code - not including the parts that cover your cybernetic aspect - is a fusion of Dad's and Dr. Light's for some reason-"
"And you didn't think to bring this up sooner?" Prometheus demanded in something of a panic.
"I didn't think it was important," Vinyl offered in consolation.
"Not important?!" Prometheus shouted out. "Haven't you read Pinocchio?"
Vinyl scratched her chin. "...huh. Hadn't thought that comparison before." She shrugged. "Congrats, Prometheus, you're a real boy. Want me to build you a girlfriend?"
"VINYL!"
Wait....is Protoman the starting point of Zero? All of my "YES"!
Now you see, this is why I'm still reading
Vinyl. I have no words. You have not only disgusted me, but you have created Biometals 400 years before they should have been.
Oi... Is Pandora next?
7400995 And Carbons from Legends...
That was funny!
Those last lines...
This, this is why I read your stories.
Ooookay...
Now I kinda want to see all of Melody of the Future from Prometheus point of view.
yeeesssss my favorite fanon.
So he is a biometal now?
that last line was priceless.
So this is were they get the core idea behind X's armors
Vinyl, as obivious as Twilight.
Might I suggest Rhythm?
Those last lines Love to see we've reached the birth of Prometheus.
7401015 I see what you did there.
Wait... Blues isn't Zero?!? Meh. On the plus side...
Does anyone remember where in Melody of the Future Prometheus shows up? I'm pretty sure he did at some point...
7401341 My current theory is that Secret is Zero's odd persona at the beginning. I mean go back and read Doc Robot's lines, they are a bit odd to me.
this chapter is both cute and hilarious at the same time. well done
7401264 Untz, Untz, Untz.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
7401264 But Rhythm doesn't work without Blues...
7401725 not unless techno is involved >:3
7401828 ...
R&B. Rhythm and blues.
It's a music genre, like Rock and Roll. Music isn't exactly my Forte, and I'm not trying to use some kind of Gospel truth to convert you, but I'd be in deep Treble if I didn't at least try to drop some Bass-ic knowledge on you.
7401907 i was making a genre pun (-_-)
But meh i guess you could say there's nothing without time but rhythm and rhyme :3
I have a question about the robot masters that were destroyed, a question I expect to be answered as the story progresses. Are they going to be rebuilt, or is Megaman just going to face off against six this time, as he did in the first game?
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...Mega Man's not going to be facing off against the Robot Masters this time. Wily and Vinyl aren't doing anything to make him go against them.
7401907 im sorry, those puns r just...ooooowwwww! and this is coming from a Dragon raised on all the worst groaners...
A bit of an odd title for a chapter.
But interesting nevertheless
So.... Proto- i mean, 'Prometheus' is like the first Reploid?
7402121
Well, people had already guessed me titling it "Meowth" or "Right"...
I'm pretty sure I'm going to burst out laughing when ever I read those last lines
7402742 Same. *swivels around* Luna, take a look at this!
7401264
Yeah, that's good.
Why suddenly I think of the typical villain that create a enemy of the opposite sex of the hero?
I get the impression that this is the event that Octavia and X went on hiatus for.
Also, loved Vinyl's response to Prometheus's discovery of his new systems. Still, that is one hell of a paradigm shift for him.
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ok seriously thats a low blow with gags lol now he has to were clothes
And thus the hiatus ended, and all was happy, I guess.
7401369 his first appearance is after vinyl got flash blind. he gives her the echo Shades which would allow her to use echolocation. In the chapter
(1: the second charge )
7407161 He was mentioned that early, huh. Didn't he actually appear at the end of a later chapter, though?
7398685 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
7398705
OK
7405676 When I hear Vinyl calling Prometheus a "real boy" all I can think of is this...
Prometheus, very appropriate. Clearly the start of the reploid type robots, which is interesting as it means they had a partially non-terrestrial origin from the very beginning.
Which, after a fashion, probably means that the big crisis event still to come isn't just the fault of Earth and the creations of her children (well, and Vinyl).
2 words...The FUCK!
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okay, that's both inappropriate AND appropriate. inappropriate language, appropriate context.
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...
...
... i think i just contradicted myself somehow...
IM DIEING!!!!
Oh dear lord, Vinyl.
But he didn't say no...