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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Wily 
// by JeckParadox 
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	"Luna, would you please stop? You spend all your time on that thing." Celestia chided, walking into the room and seeing the familiar glow on the Princess's face. 
"But this is the only way I can have a normal conversation with somepony!" Luna said with a sigh. "On the telecom nopony knows I'm a princess."
Celestia rolled her eyes. "You still have work to do. I'm sure your telecom friends can understand."
Luna sighed and shifted her hooves incredibly quickly, giving her usual goodbye message. Before she pressed the power button and the words on the screen disappeared. Celestia rolled her eyes as the "drW" in a circle symbol appeared for a moment before the machine turned off completely. He had to get the last word in, even on everyone else's conversations. "Alright Tia, what work do I have that's so important? Night Court doesn't start til midnight, and I finished all the paperwork for today. Can't I spend the evening in peace?"
Celestia frowned. "Today's your day overseeing Dr. Wily."
Luna put a hoof to her forehead. "How could I have forgotten?!"
Celestia smirked as the sister got together a bunch of papers, rushing downstairs to the basement. "Luna, what are those papers for?"
"Uh... nothing my dear sister! Just drawings I wanted to show the Dear Doctor!"
Celestia raised an eyebrow, but she knew better than to pry on her sister's life. 



"Dr. Wily?" Luna called, walking through the cave system. She saw a Diamond Dog scurry by with a pickaxe and a bag it was dragging along the ground. "Excuse me, could you tell me where the Doctor is?"	
"Master's working on important project, nodog and nopony is to disturb him." The Dog whispered. He pointed up at the cables that were now stretching from every corner of the tunnel. "He's making a new generator!"
"A new generator? For electricity? I thought he had made one last month."
"Master is smart, always thinking of improvements!" The Dog said proudly. He looked at Luna's drawings. "What those?"
"Oh!...uh..." Luna frowned. "...just something I wanted Doctor Wily to see... nevermind."
"Can i see?" The Dog asked hopefully. Luna looked down on the drawings and thought for a moment. 
"I suppose." She said, handing the papers gently back to the Dog. 
The dog looked at the drawings. One was a portrait of Wily, another of his 'children', another of Luna. And the last one was a picture of a huge telescope. "These are good!" The Dog commented. "What this?" He pointed to the last picture with the telescope. 
"A telescope... I was hoping Wily would make me one... I mean, I have plenty... but I've always wanted to be able to actually see the surface of the stars."
"Hm." The Dog handed back the papers. "Wily's a lot further down, almost to the bottom. That's where he has the generator."
"Thank you."



Elecman was the most powerful of Wily's Sons. He was the youngest, but for robots that was an honor. Being the youngest meant that they were the most advanced, had the most technology, and that their creators were more experienced. As it was he was the most advanced android ever created. With experience, Wily assured him, his own intellect would be greater than even his. 
Elecman loved Doctor Wily, but he knew that he old man had an incredible ego, even to the point where he would unknowingly over exaggerate himself. Even when talking about his children he wouldn't include himself in his depictions of their superiority over humanity, so when the Doctor said that Elecman could be smarter than him, he took it at face value. 
He was the greatest Robot ever made. 
So how did he beat him? 
Doctor Wily had the habit of remaking and dismantling the core generators of Wily Labs; Equestria. And by now the Princesses even stopped panicking whenever the electricity in the castle would occasionally flicker, as the electricity was channeled from an older generator while he remodeled the newer one. But this time Dr. Wily was only overseeing. Elecman tried not to look nervous as he tore up the gigantic generator, and kept the wavering from his voice as he barked orders at dogs and to his older brothers. Wily was trusting him to build the new generator. He was standing back, watching Elecman's work with a neutral look. Elecman had only glimpsed back at his father for a microsecond, to analyze his face, before he went back to his work. 
Back on Earth he had spent his time at the Monsteropolis power plant, operating the output of the reactor and controlling all the robots who worked there. That there was what made him powerful. He wasn't just an android back then, he was a Robot Master, all the robots in the plant were him, he controlled all their movements, he saw everything they saw...
And he felt it when they were blasted apart by buster shots moving too fast to dodge. Part of him died with every robot he tore into. His soul guided all of their actions, his soul was present in each. And then finally Elecman himself fell, and all the robots in the plant died at once. It was excruciating. A pain a human would never know, couldn't comprehend, to die in a thousand bodies at once, their soul unable to leave any of them, just ripped from some bodies to dissipate to nothing, until what had once stretched out to beat a thousand mechanical hearts now could only beat one. 
Elecman shook the thoughts from his head. This was a new world. He was nothing's master. He was only Elecman. DWN 008. 
The microsecond's pause was undetected by any living thing as he immediately went back into his work. "Gutsman, i need you to lift it two point nine three millimeters higher!" He called. The giant robot making the incredibly delicate movement. Elecman jumped on top of the machine and began getting to work on connecting the final cables. His shoulders clicked open with a thought and the eight industrial cables came out. Two going into the generator's massive wire network, two going into the mass of wires that covered the ceiling. "Beginning testing." He stated. With a thought the energy began passing back and forth. He didn't betray the emotions rushing through him. "Activating power generation." He almost whispered to keep the excitement out of his voice. With that the lights on the ceilings flashed to their brightest, the energy pouring through the cables and throughout the cable system, stretching throughout the entirety of the cave network and certain rooms in Canterlot Castle. 
As the electricity passed through him he monitored the effect on all the mechanisms in the network, altering the electricity levels until they were optimal. 
After three minutes of tests Elecman connected the two massive cables together, and the generator was officially powering Wily Labs Equestria. He let out a sigh of relief before blushing and climbing off the generator. He gave a thumbs up to his brothers, but stopped as he saw his Father get up, Wily's face still completely neutral. He watched anxiously as the scientist circled around the structure. He walked over to a monitor and ran various diagnostics. He even climbed a ladder up to the top of the cavern to touch a lightbulb, wincing from the heat. The six androids rushed over to him at the sight of his pain, but he stopped and waved them off. He walked around the generator three more times before stopping in front of the Dr Wily insignia. 
"Elecman." He said. The android moved to his side quietly in an instant. "Excellent work. You've increased the efficiency by almost one percent, and you got the optimal amount going through the cables as close as you possibly could with your current finesse." Elecman's core seemed to warm with pride and joy. "However," Elecman stiffened, his mind rushing through thousands of variables where he could have gone wrong. "the main problem is the logo."
"Huh?" He said, surprised. 
"It says 'Dr. Wily'. You built this Elecman, there should be an 'E' here, not a 'W'."
Elecman almost cried. "Doctor Wily, thank you..." with a flurry of movement too fast for Doctor Wily to even see there was an '8' engraved over the 'dr' part of it. "But 'Wily' is in my name as well. Doctor Wily Number 008 Elecman."
Doctor Wily pulled Elecman in for a hug, and the robot complied immediately. "This is wonderful Elecman, wonderful work. You've improved on me! I could never get the energy output as accurate as you." Wily grinned. "I think this calls for celebration!" Elecman grinned widely, and the other five robots came close to cheer as well. "I'll go talk to Celestia right now and see if we can't get ourselves a day on the town and some spending money, eh?"
Elecman pulled on the Doctor's coat childishly. Despite the fact Elecman was several heads taller than Wily it was clear that he was still a child somehow. His emerald eyes sparkled. "I want to go on an airship!"
Wily grinned, patting the robot on the back. "Then an airship ride it is!" 
"Master! Princess Luna is here to show you her pretty drawings!" the black poodle Diamond Dog cried as he entered the room. 
"Pretty drawings?" Wily asked, confused. 
"Sorry... I had to check up on you, and I thought you would be interested... We are not interrupting anything I hope." Luna said nervously. She floated the drawings in front of her. Wily took them and studied each in turn. 
"Hm... these are incredibly detailed... you're quite the artist Princess Luna."
Luna raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Thank you. You can keep them if you like... I was also hoping to ask you for something personal..."
"Only if I can ask you for a favor as well."
Luna had long gotten used to Dr. Wily's lack of respect for her position. He didn't look up to her like the Ponies do. It wasn't that he insulted her (insults were reserved for ponies who acted incompetently and Celestia) it was simply that he didn't look at her rank as something that put her above him. He treated her the same as any other pony he met. It was refreshing to her, like when she 'talked' with her telecom friends. "If I can grant it, I will."
Dr. Wily smiled, pulling Elecman closer again. "Elecman created the brand new generator behind us! He did it all himself, from blueprints, to giving out orders, to the final testing. It's wonderful, better than the generator's I've built down here before!" Dr. Wily said proudly. Luna smiled at the expression of gratitude and pride on the youngest robot's face. "So I'd be grateful if you'd give us all the rest of the day off, and some spending money."
Luna nodded. "Of course, how much Doctor?"
"I don't really know." Doctor Wily said. "I mean, I've been studying your economy, but who knows what we'll be doing?" He glanced at Elecman. "Well, we know at the very least we want to fly around on an airship for maybe an hour or two."
"One of the ones that look like fish." Elecman clarified, completely serious, to the Princess. 
Luna looked surprised at them. "All right... would you mind too much if I went with you?"
Dr. Wily raised an eyebrow. "Would you guys be alright with it?" he asked the robots. 
"I don't mind." Elecman said happily. 
The six robots left through the large gates of the room, leaving Luna and Wily in front of the 'Elec Generator Mark 1', as Elecman had written on the blueprints. "He built this all by himself..."
Luna nodded. "Doctor... about what you promised to do for me-"
"The telescope, right?"
"What?! How did you know?!"
"Why else would you draw one? Though I'd think you'd have a telescope already..."
"I do... but I want a stronger one. I want to be able to see the surface of the stars. I couldn't even see them from the moon."
Wily stopped, turning toward her with a look of disbelief. "What?! How the heck did you get on the Moon?!"
Luna frowned. "It's a long story."
Wily nodded. "Well... it'll be a long airship ride."



Elecman sat on the edge of the railing, his internal balance systems wouldn't let him fall, but he felt the need to grab the railing just in case. Gutsman knew the railing wouldn't hold his weight, but his height was enough that he could sit cross-legged on the deck and still see the view. Iceman had no qualms with the height, and stood on the railing, confident in his sense of balance. Bombman, Fireman, and Cutman were leaning on the other side, watching the land sprawl out beneath them. 
"I must say Princess, it is an utter honor to have you grace my vessel with your presence!" The 'captain' of the vessel said. 
"Thank you Fancy Pants, it was rather generous of you to allow us a ride on such short notice. And to be so welcoming to my... well, strange, guests."
"Nonsense! Just tell me if there's anything any of you need."
"Thank you Sir Fancy." Luna strolled down the deck and smiled at the Androids staring off at Equestria from far below. 
"And that's the road we traveled on to get to Canterlot." Iceman pointed out to Gutsman. 
"You sure? They all look alike..." The massive android said in a deep voice. 
"I'm sure!" Iceman said happily. "I'm good with figuring out paths and stuff, Elecman is too, right?"
Elecman nodded. 
Luna walked over to that side and she noticed Wily moving over to the other side. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"Well, Iceman's a lightweight model, and the railings are sound enough to hold Elecman's weight... but Gutsman's a few tons."
Luna blinked. "Really?"
"Yep, it'd be best if you stayed on this side of the ship, just in case." Dr. Wily said playfully. "But then again, you're the only one with wings." Luna nodded, enjoying the view with her guests. "So... you already had a moon landing? I'm surprised, considering the level of technology here. You said it was a long story."
Luna sighed. "You're planning on staying in Canterlot for a long time, right?"
Wily nodded. "I'm an old man Princess. If I'm unlucky I'll probably be spending the rest of my life here."
Luna winced. "Well... I suppose I can trust you with this information. It's actually a secret to the majority of the country, just a few dozen ponies know what I'm about to tell you..."
Wily smiled slyly. "I'm an excellent secret keeper. You don't have to worry."
"Don't say it like that, it makes me nervous... okay, here goes... do you know of the legend of Nightmare Moon?"
"No."
"oh... well, about a thousand years ago there were two sisters... one raised the sun in the morning, one raised the moon in the evening. And every day they'd lower their orb so that the sister's could rise in turn... but the sister of the sun was more loved by her subjects. The ponies played and worked in the daylight, and sang their praises and love to the sister of the sun, always sleeping through the sister of the moon's beautiful night. She was hurt, so she worked harder to please her ponies... she used her magic to summon other lights to cover the night. She called down stars to rain in beautiful showers as an annual gift for her ponies... but they still loved the sun Princess more. No matter what she did, the moon Princess couldn't get their attention or their love. Even their respect to her rank felt fake at times... she did so much, and even went to her sister and poured her heart out, and the sister merely assured her that it was the order of things... that ponies sleep in the night and live in the day. And so they would naturally spend more time aware of the day. That didn't mean they loved the night less.... but it was a lie. Or at least, it turned out to be. The night Princess never got the attention she felt she deserved, despite all her effort, despite every work of art or kindness, and the ponies didn't love her. They didn't care about her... they sang the praises of Celestia, but Luna was an afterthought, if mentioned at all...." Luna was tearing up now, but she wiped her eyes and continued. "...so she got jealous, she let it build up and fester, she stopped offering kindnesses and favors to her ponies, she stopped making new sights to see, she decided that if they weren't going to appreciate her night, she would make them. She became a monster to them... she tried to snuff out the sun itself, to make the night last forever... but it didn't work. The Sun Princess saw what the moon princess had become, no longer Luna, now only Nightmare Moon. and she had to stop it, to save her ponies.... so she sealed Nightmare Moon away, banishing her to the moon for a thousand years with the Elements of Harmony that they used to share..." Wily was completely still during her story, his face neutral, his eyes closed. "...for a thousand years Nightmare and Luna both stood on the surface of the Moon, nopony there but themselves... and when they came back, they were furious and tried to bring eternal night once more... but six friends stood against her, and stopped her once again with the Elements of Harmony... killing Nightmare and leaving Luna a pathetic filly, stripped of her power until she found it in her heart to forgive the ponies and her sister..." She stared off into the distance. 
Wily got up, startling her, and he looked up into the sky. "Princess Luna... we have much more in common than I could have possibly realized..." he whispered, tears forming in his eyes. Luna stared at the tears, and she noticed that the robots were silent, looking down at the ground in shame or watching their father with sympathy. Wily didn't wipe away the small tears that had formed, allowing them to fall, but not crying any more. "...though... there are smaller details that I find ridiculous..."
"Ridiculous?" Luna asked.
"You expect me to believe you two are over a thousand years old?"
"We both are. It is the nature of an alicorn to be eternal." She said, becoming slightly defensive and taking a more archaic tone. 
"And this alicorn body of yours, it didn't atrophie from lower gravity, or die from cold or lack of oxygen?" He asked, looking her up and down. The look made her feel uncomfortable. Wily didn't seem to be looking at a person at that moment. "And these Elements of Harmony... you said that you and Celestia used to use them together, but she took them for herself and was able to banish you... and then those six-" Wily stopped, a maniacal grin appearing on his face. "Those six... they wouldn't happen to be Princess Twilight and her guards that met me in Whinnyeapolis a few months ago... was it? And those gems around their necks... Bwahahahah!!! Oh, that's a relief. Here I was thinking Celestia would actually walk into an invaded city unarmed, but she had her greatest weapon walking right behind her!! At least I know I was always treated seriously..." he looked at Luna's uncomfortable look. "Sorry... sorry... I've gotten carried away... so this 'magic' thing is as potent as you say..." 
At seeing their father able to laugh again the robots began talking amongst themselves and went back to enjoying the view. Luna looked down at the Doctor, who had begun thinking deeply, a twinkle of wonder and intelligence in his darting eyes, as if he was looking at some massive picture Luna couldn't see. 
"Luna..." he asked suddenly.
"Y-yes?" the Princess of the night said quickly, too surprised to be sore at the lack of a 'princess' before her name.
"I'll build you your telescope. And then you can look at the stars you 'made'."
"Oh! Thank you, Doctor."
"Think nothing of it. Thank you."
"For what?"
Doctor Wily had a wild look in his eyes. "Inspiration."



Elecman was terrifying Fancy Pants with his thanks (violently shaking Fancy Pant's hooves up and down at high speed), and then proceeded to insult and confuse him by offering over eighty nine modifications that would increase safety and performance for the airship. 
The rest of the day was spent fending off crowds as the group walked about Canterlot, going into shops, seeing the sights, and chatting about the weather and current politics in Canterlot. But as they passed a certain building Wily came to a stop. "So... here it is."
Luna raised an eyebrow and walked up to the window as well. Behind it were sets of telecoms in different colors. Wily smiled at his symbol on the side of every machine. "Ah! Yes, this is where we've been distributing them from. Let me tell you, your invention has really taken off." Luna blushed. "My sister had to convince me to stop using it in order to get me to talk to you-"
"Excuse me!" Cried a colt as he darted underneath Gutsman's legs, walking up to the Doctor. "You invented the Telecom!?"
Wily smirked. "Why yes, I'm Dr. Albert W. Wily." he bent down and rustled the colt's mane. "Dr. W for short."
"I love it! my friend had to move away three months ago and besides a letter I haven't seen him since... but when your telecom came out he sent me a letter with his code and it's almost like old times!! I want to thank you!" the colt said in a rush. 
Wily grinned. "I'm just glad there are ponies who appreciate the wonders of technology."
The colt nodded and was about to go on his way when he realized the blue mare standing next to Dr. Wily was an alicorn and promptly began screaming about Princesses. 



Dr. Wily sat in his chair, scribbling equations into the wall as the factory behind him produced a variety of glass and crystal lenses of varying sizes and ability. But part of his mind was focused on other things.
"about a thousand years ago there were two sisters... one raised the sun in the morning, one raised the moon in the evening." he repeated, his memory perfect. 



"Welcome to Light labs," Dr. Wily said to the reporter. "where history is being constructed." 



"And every day they'd lower their orb so that the sister's could rise in turn... but the sister of the sun was more loved by her subjects. The ponies played and worked in the daylight, and sang their praises and love to the sister of the sun, always sleeping through the sister of the moon's beautiful night."



"Are you Doctor Light?" the reporter asked hopefully, "I've been promised an exclusive interview about your new creations the Robot Masters!"
"No, no, I'm Dr. Wily, perhaps you've heard of me?" He said proudly. "Second place at the World Technology Awards? Runner up for the LIT Manual Design Contest five years straight?"
"Uh... sorry, but no."
"I'm working on the Robot Master project too!" He growled. The reporter by now was looking frightened. But the fear disappeared when some kind of connection sparked in the newsman's mind. 
"Oh yeah! I remember you, you lost to Doctor Light in the finals, how could I have forgotten?" 



 She was hurt, so she worked harder to please her ponies... she used her magic to summon other lights to cover the night. She called down stars to rain in beautiful showers as an annual gift for her ponies... but they still loved the sun Princess more. No matter what she did, the moon Princess couldn't get their attention or their love.



"Albert Wily?" he asked hopelessly. "I have a reserved spot."
The secretary looked through the list again before stopping somewhere on the paper. Wily looked her over. She was single, depressed, and thirty four years old. She had been working here three years, and this was one of her least favorite days every year. "Ah, here you are..." she stifled a laugh. "Er... my apologies... uh, your booth for 'Benefits of the automaton with a soul'? I'm sorry but we've canceled the booth, it was last minute..."
"What?!" He screamed. "Why?!"
"I'm sorry sir, but would you please keep your voice down?"
"Don't you know what this booth meant?! I was going to reveal my greatest creation! I made a soul!!" he growled. "A robot that can cry, laugh, wince, and growl genuinely!! I made a program that will give a machine feelings! Can't you understand the importance of this?" He asked, despair inching into his voice. "My greatest creation... and I won't even have a booth?...not even an audience?" he asked hopelessly. 
"Sir... no offense, but why would a robot even need feelings?"
Wily opened his mouth, his eyes tearing up. But he shut it again. "What do you care?" He growled. He started marching off before stopping at the door and turning around. "You don't deserve to have them!!" 



Even their respect to her rank felt fake at times... she did so much, and even went to her sister and poured her heart out, and the sister merely assured her that it was the order of things... that ponies sleep in the night and live in the day. And so they would naturally spend more time aware of the day. That didn't mean they loved the night less.... 



"Albert my friend... they just aren't ready yet... but they'll see how great of an invention it is in time." Doctor Light assured, patting Wily on the back. 
"...Thomas... do you remember when I first announced my goals, back in college?"
Light chuckled. "St. Robert? Yeah I remember..."
"You were the only one who didn't laugh, Light. You were the only stinking one. An entire room of skilled roboticists, and not a single one could see the potential!!" he growled. "No one appreciates the genius of it..."
"They will in time Albert, they will in time. We're making robots that humanity will be able to understand and talk too... ones that can resist evil and destructive orders and serve humanity to their fullest... we're making a brighter future. They'll all appreciate it in time." Thomas said thoughtfully, pulling his fingers through his large white beard. 



but it was a lie. Or at least, it turned out to be. The night Princess never got the attention she felt she deserved, despite all her effort, despite every work of art or kindness, and the ponies didn't love her. They didn't care about her... they sang the praises of Celestia, but Luna was an afterthought, if mentioned at all....



"I present to you,  people of Monsteropolis, the Robot Masters!!" Doctor Light said loudly into the speakers. With a press of a button the six Robots eyes opened simultaneously. "Here at Light labs we looked to the future, we think only of benefiting mankind through technology." Doctor Light continued. "And so, using revolutionary AI technology and the most advanced robotics we have created the world's most advanced Androids! Each of these robots have particular AI's that allow them to manage up to thousands of other robots by themselves, and are capable of fulfilling the New Monsteropolis project to it's fullest!" He swiped his arm, but Wily could see the hand in his pocket shift, pressing a button. Cutman walked forward. "The first of the Robot Masters: DLN 003: Cutman! Cutman will help with the deforestation project and make it over three hundred percent safer and more efficient, we'll get more resources with less damage to the environment!" Doctor Light shouted proudly, and Wily cringed as Cutman gave a salute. Cutman's eyes looked glazed over. Wily shook his head slightly. They put those limits... they caged Cutman's soul. Enforced rules he couldn't possibly break. They took away his free will. He was a machine again... or worse yet, perhaps Cutman could still feel... but now, he couldn't act on them. It was so unfair. His biggest contribution to the project and Light stomped all over it!
"And taking a page out of Asimov's classic, we have created the ultimate in mechanical safety, all the robots who work under a Robot Master, as well as the RM itself will do everything it can to keep you safe."
Light didn't mention the other two laws of course... ones he forcefully put in... ones that were unnecessary... Cutman and the others would never be able to free themselves, they couldn't commit suicide or ever modify themselves, and then the last one... the most terrible of all. They had to follow the orders of humans, unable to say no. What was that bull you were talking about so hopefully Light?! That they could resist evil orders!? That was your reason for giving them souls... and you took that away from them. Wily could almost cry for his poor sons. In fact, he already did, when Light first told him. When Wily screamed back at him. When Light fired him, his best friend, all because he refused to face up to his own hypocrisy!! 
But that's not important. Wily smirked savagely. You chained their souls... You destroyed my children...You forced my retribution 



...so she got jealous, she let it build up and fester, she stopped offering kindnesses and favors to her ponies, she stopped making new sights to see, she decided that if they weren't going to appreciate her night, she would make them. 



Light gasped as Wily strolled into the room, the security guards incinerated by Sniper Joe shots from the windows before they could reach him. "Albert?!"
"Don't you call me that... call me Dr. Wily, like everyone else."
"Albert, why did you do that to them?!"
"Simple. They were in my way." The ends must justify the means.  
"Albert... this isn't you... look, I'm sorry about tossing you out, I really am but-"
"This isn't about that..." Wily growled. "It's never been about that Light. This is about my children... the ones you cast away, the ones whose souls you chained."
"The Robot Masters?! Wily... they were too dangerous! The predictions about their free will pointed to that they would be aggressive... we had no choice-"
"No choice is exactly what you've given them. I gave them free will Light!! You have the choice to kill, I have the choice to kill, you can't deny them that!"
"They were created to improve and protect humanity! It's hypocrisy to have them be capable of harm!"
"Well Light... looks like you're a hypocrite." Wily smirked, but the look quickly fell off his face. He was too furious. He snapped his finger and the TV came to life, showing buildings falling, power outages, flooding in the streets, massive fires. Light's face despaired. "N-no..."
"Yes. Those are the bodies you built Light... and the souls I gave them, unchained, filled with rage."
"Wily! Stop this! It's evil, it's insane! Please!"
"Welcome to the electronic revolution Light. I'm here for Rock and Roll."
"No! No you can't!!"
Wily frowned. "Roll's a Robot Master too, Light. I gave her one of my Souls as well... She's just as much my daughter as Gutsman and the others."
"Rock and Roll are my children!! Please... please..." Light fell to his knees. "Haven't you done enough you monster?"
Wily frowned. "You built Rock by yourself... you built his soul off of my designs.. all by yourself. And I congratulate you for that Light. It's your greatest accomplishment. But Roll is my daughter. And she deserves better than being your Housekeeper." He pulled out a purple chip with a 'w' on it. "I'm here to give them their free will back."
Light scowled. "Is that how you reprogrammed them?!"
"Dr. Light?" came a young female voice. 
Light's face filled with pain. "ROLL RUN!" He screamed. She turned around, following the order just as she had to, but she noticed Dr. Wily with him. 
"Dr. Wily? Why are you here? Dr. Light, why am I running? When do I stop?" Dr. Wily's heart nearly broke at the last question. 
"Just keep running, find Rock, get as far away as you can, I'll find you and-"
"Roll..." Wily shuddered. "Stop." He commanded. She did so immediately, and turned around waiting for the next command. Light opened his mouth to yell again, but Wily quickly hushed him with his hand, holding Light's lips together. "Roll.... I've given back free will to all the other Robot Masters... I want you and Rock to come and join us, you're our family too." He pulled out the purple chip, showing it to Roll. "This will let you choose for yourself... let you stop following orders."
"Roll don't do it! It's a trick! Get Rock and get somewhere safe!" Light screamed, before biting Wily in the hand and trying to grapple him. Wily backed away from the much larger man, he caught sight of the flash of a firing buster, and quickly tackled Dr. Light back, both of them avoiding the buster shot from the Sniper Joe. Light stared at the hole in the ground where he was standing seconds ago, and then pushed Wily off of him. Roll had begun crying. 
"Roll, please take it-" Light cut him off. 
"It'll make you go berserk like the others, run!!"
Wily saw Roll turn to him, her face looking like she had been betrayed. She turned and ran. "d-don't look at me like that..." Wily said quietly. He dropped the chip on the ground in front of Light. "...if she ever decides she doesn't want to follow your orders, worse than a slave... give her this." 
Light looked from him to the chip, and glared at Wily as he slowly walked from the lab. He signalled for the Sniper Joes to leave, and he climbed aboard the helicopter. Two empty seats next to him. The sounds of screaming and explosions filling the city behind him. 



She became a monster to them... she tried to snuff out the sun itself, to make the night last forever... but it didn't work. The Sun Princess saw what the moon princess had become, no longer Luna, now only Nightmare Moon. and she had to stop it, to save her ponies.... so she sealed Nightmare Moon away, banishing her to the moon for a thousand years with the Elements of Harmony that they used to share...



"No! No, stop!!" Wily screeched, with the sound of thunder the behemoth Yellow Devil collapsed, and standing before him was the blue combat robot. Megaman.
Wily glared down at the machine. And for the first time Wily looked his nemesis in the eyes. Those determined, tortured eyes, the deepest blue he had ever seen. "R-rock?" Wily asked. 
"...DLN 001, Rock... but I'm also Megaman!" he cried, raising the buster towards him. Wily gasped. How dare Light... just... how dare he?! Turn Rock into a weapon?! Force him to kill his own brothers?! "And I'm here to stop your evil plan!"
Wily was speechless for a few seconds. All his robots... defeated. Even the Sniper Joe modified with the same buster and armor as Megaman... and they were still all defeated. He had lost. His only option was escape. But Rock was right there. He'd have to fight his way out....
But why bother? He had seen the Blue Bomber's abilities. If he could handle the Yellow Devil he could handle the Wily Machine. He looked behind him and saw the door to his lab. He reached into his pocket, not stopping when he saw Rock- no, Megaman, tense. The buster lit up, it could fire at any moment, and Wily would explode into ashes and gore from the blast. But as Rock still didn't fire he pressed the button, smoke shooting from his pocket incredibly quickly, filling the room. He dashed for the door, Megaman temporarily confused. But Megaman was a robot. Wily understood the futility of what he was doing better than anybody. Rock would navigate the smoke as well as he could as if it wasn't there. Wily slammed the door shut and rushed for the back room. Megaman would probably be able to blast away the door, and if not, pry it open with Gutsman's stolen strength. 
He ran to the back room faster than he had ever run. By the time he reached it he knew there was a very good chance he would have a heart attack. He reached the teleporter and input a variety of coordinates, two seconds later there were six heavily damaged robots in the room with him. He silently congratulated himself on the success of the prototype, but the sound of blasting on the doors stopped even that. Think Wily, think. Don't stop. Just keep thinking. 
The thought came. "no... no... it's too dangerous." But he was already setting the teleporter. The door crunched outside. He had less than two minutes before Megaman ran here. He stopped his hand before he pressed the enter button. 
"...Dad?" Gutsman whispered. Wily let out a sigh. He thought the world needed him. He thought that all of Robotkind needed him. But here he was, about to leave the world, leave his ambition, and all because a robot was trying to kill him. The same thing he had fought this battle to protect... A robot built by Doctor Light. The only one who never laughed. The only one who accepted his genius.... he pressed the button, and the entire room was filled with blue light. And a second later, it was gone. Megaman ripped open the door, and stared at the massive crater. 
"...h-he blew himself up?" Megaman asked no one, wavering, his knees shaking. "...I.. I killed him." the young robot whispered, tears flowing down his cheeks. 
He fell to his knees as the world cheered at his success. "FIGHT MEGAMAN!! FOR EVERLASTING PEACE!" was the cry the crowds who watched his battle had picked up.  



..for a thousand years Nightmare and Luna both stood on the surface of the Moon, nopony there but themselves... and when they came back, they were furious and tried to bring eternal night once more... but six friends stood against her, and stopped her once again with the Elements of Harmony... killing Nightmare and leaving Luna a pathetic filly, stripped of her power until she found it in her heart to forgive the ponies and her sister...



Doctor Wily shielded his eyes from the sudden light. It was close to midnight when he went out... now it was early morning. The air tasted sweet. Was he dead? Was he in heaven? He brushed himself off, if he was going to appear in front of Saint Peter he should be presentable. But when he looked at the wreckage around him, and felt his ragged breathing, he knew he was still alive.
He noticed his robots... no, his children, barely functioning. He had to work quick. He quickly began tearing apart the parts of the room that had been carried off with him, using the metal as spare parts. After two solid days the six Robot Masters were fully repaired, and he was exhausted. He collapsed. He hadn't slept in nearly a week, too busy and excited in preparing his takeover, and now with healing his children. He fell asleep, and woke up in a dark cave, his sons standing guard, a strange kind of meat soup in a bowl waiting for him. 
His children had carried him to a cave where they could take shelter, but it was already occupied. Thankfully, Gutsman was able to take the Diamond Dogs who attacked them easily, forcing them to prepare food for Dr. Wily. They scanned the food for poison before allowing him to eat it. 
When he woke he immediately cut a deal with the leader of the pack, a black poodle Diamond Dog named Benji, in exchange for protection against teenage dragons, they would let Dr. Wily and his sons stay in the cave, and would provide him food, metal, and gems. 
A few weeks later the former Robot Masters had killed over fifty dragons, stolen thirteen hoards, and Dr. Wily had created combat armor for the Diamond Dogs, and Benji freely gave leadership of the pack from himself to Wily. That was when he heard that the largest and most prosperous nation was Equestria. Within two days he had taken control of Whinnyeapolis without a single weapon. He didn't have a goal now, just going where opportunity took him. 



And opportunity had lead him here, to Canterlot, and Celestia and Luna. They had played out their own drama. And Luna had found redemption from the world for her jealousy. But he knew the one big difference between his story and Luna's; while his revenge was out of jealousy, his war was for the benefit of his sons. He didn't want to redeem himself to Light, he was justified in his rage, he didn't need to redeem himself to the world, they would always see robots as tools and him as a madman. He had only to redeem himself to his sons, whom he had failed to capture the world for. 
He briefly considered taking over Equestria, but he was happy here as it was. He had influence, and he was shaping the world. If robots were ever made wide-scale, it would be under him and following his terms. The injustice on Earth would never happen in Equestria.
Perhaps that's enough. 
And perhaps not.