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// End of the Beginning 
// Story: When Dimensions Unite 
// by Turbo the Brony 
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Smaug Aftermath


Isle of Berk: HtTYD Universe

All was silent after the body of the now deceased Smaug fell, as it crashed into some of the remaining hunter ships, until it sank to the bottom of the sea, until it would land to the ocean floor.

Then from the silence came a roar of cheering and applause, as the residence of Berk and the Outcast allies cheered with victory.

Sonic’s team were also happy about this, though while Fluttershy felt a little shaken that a giant scary dragon was killed, she was still little happy that her new friends were ok, Gandalf himself, was very pleased, as the dragon was finally defeated.

As the riders returned to the ground, Hiccup got off first and saw everyone cheering and chanting his name, only to get caught off guard by a surprise kiss from Astrid, who was also happy to be alive with him, though he would then return the kiss as the crowds continued to cheer.

“I’ve got to give it to you,” said Sonic as he approached the Viking couple, “that was some pretty sweet flying moves you did there!” he then gave Hiccup a good hand shake as the chief replied “Thanks.”

However, as the cheering died down, Piglet began to speak up, “Excuses me, but, um, while Wolfang is gone… what about the rest of the mess?”

The others and most of the village looked around at what Piglet meant, as they saw several pterodactyls still flying around, while down in the ocean, heading far off to sea, several life boats containing a few hunters that escaped were retreating back to their bosses (though few of them were trying to escape some of the few alien creatures that survived and were coming to get them).

Just then, something popped up from ocean wreckage, followed by a roar as Rathalos had arisen after getting punched by Iris Heart.

“Dude, that other beasty is still standing?!” Mikey exclaimed.

“Don’t know about you,” Sonic spoke, “but somehow there are other ways to try and take down that creature.”

The others nodded in agreement a bit.

Suddenly, as Rathalos was soaring away to who knows where, a rift suddenly opened up in front of the beast, “Another rift!” cried Twilight, as Rathalos soared into it.

“Where do you think it goes?” asked Pooh, looking a little worried.

“I don’t know,” said Sonic, “but we need to get going right now!”

“Alright,” said Hiccup, as he and Toothless stepped up and said, “I’m coming with you!”

“What?” Astrid and Valka both cried out.

“Hiccup, I don’t know about this,” said Valka, “What if something happens to you out there? I already lost Stoick and I don’t want to lose you too!”

“I know,” said Hiccup, as he explained, “but you heard what Sonic and the others said, there are other worlds out there, even beyond our world and Berk, someone or something seems to be responsible for this and I need to help them with finding their friends and stop whoever it is that is causing these rifts to appear!”

Valka looked down with worry, until Hiccup cupped her chin with his hand, as he looked to her with a warm smile, “I’ll be alright, mum, I promise.”

Toothless then came up between them, as Hiccup began to stroke him, “Besides, I got Toothless with me.”

Though worried about this, Valka decided to accept Hiccup’s decision, “Ok, go with them,” she said, “and be safe.” Hiccup then hugged her as a sign of thanks and love, before turning around to join the group.

“Hey, Hiccup,” said Astrid, gaining his attention, “don’t think you going to go adventuring without me now, would you?”

Hiccup gave a small smile as he shook his head, “You’re going to come along, no matter what I say, aren’t you?”

“I’ll be happy to look after Stormfly, if that’s ok?” asked Eret, knowing that the dragon had been his good friend for a while, which Stormfly nudged on his shoulder, giving Astrid a chuckle at this.

Hiccup then looked to the others as he spoke “My mother and Eret will be in charge while I’m gone,” he said, “make sure you be prepared for anything else, in case of any more otherworldly beings or others.”

“Hurry up, chief,” Knuckles called out, “the rift’s becoming unstable!”

At this, Hiccup got on to Toothless, with Astrid hanging on behind him, as they rode towards the rift in the sky, with the others following them by their side (most of the group who can fly helping those that can’t as they flew), along with both the gateway piece that Donnie was currently carrying, as the others waved goodbye and good luck on their travels.

The group reached the rift and entered it just in time before it closed.

“Good luck, son,” said Valka, as everyone returned to their duties, “and be careful.”






Quest Begin


Unknown Location

As they soared through the rift, the Viking allies were very amazed about how they were traveling, afterwards, they landed back in the strange world, with the others not far behind.

“Now that,” said Hiccup, “was pretty amazing!”

“I know, I suppose that traveling through the rift was like we were actually flying!” Astrid explained, once she and Hiccup got off Toothless.

Sonic nodded at that, “You know, maybe next time, you can try riding the rift without riding your dragon, just to see how it feels.” He suggested.

“Well, it can’t always be entertaining,” said Gandalf, “I almost lost my staff that time.”

“Me too, only its my lunch.” Explained Mikey, his head ringing a bit as he felt a little tipsy.

As Donnie got out the piece, it began to vibrate in his hand, until it floated out and hovered in the air, at which the robotic voice spoke out, “Hey, nice job, you brought back one of the Rift Keystones.”

“Keystone?” asked Rabbit, “What’s a keystone?”

“Do you think that the shard that was on Wolfang’s staff is also a keystone?” asked Hiccup, refereeing to the shard from Wolfang’s staff.

Following getting Wolfang’s staff, the group gained the shard, which was basically another keystone, or technically, a shard of one.

When Donnie got it out, the voice instantly recognized it.

“Huh, I see you found a part of another Rift Keystone,” it said, as the shard began to float up as well, until it spoke a little disappointed, “though it looks like that this one must have splintered somehow.”

Donnie then spoke up to the voice, “Say, uh, what do these keystones do, exactly?”

“Well, most of my data about all this is a little bit out of whack at the moment, so I’ll give you a bit of info that I know,” the voice began to explain, “you see, these keystones at times hold special abilities, basically the ability to travel through time and space, based of the powers of an ancient entity from long ago,”

Everyone got curious at that, ‘an ancient entity?’ they all thought.

“A race of ancient beings, who were descendants to this entity with the same powers, at the time created the very gateway and the keystones that you see before you,” the voice continued, “for the seven keystones were based of the powers of the ancient beings, for they had control over space, time and reality, for the keystones, they based off these powers.”

“And what about that gateway?” asked Sonic, pointing to the gateway that they just came through.

“Ah, now that,” the voice stated, “is where the keystones are based at, since you probably know how it works, I’ll explain to your new guests what it does,” the voice coughed as it prepared to explain, the transportable gateway is, of course the gateway to many worlds in the Multiverse, allowing anyone full travel to anywhere, it is also powered by the keystones as well, this is basically of how powerful they are, for, even when off the gateway, can open up rifts to different realities, though at times, it can detect and, sometimes if not gone unchecked, cause any dimensional anomalies, which at times open up different portals to various worlds.”

“Well,” said Raph, “then I guess it’s kinda a good thing that one of them was shattered, right?”

“Hold on,” Knuckles interrupted, “I know that these “Rift Keystones” can do that, but didn’t we travel to Hiccup and Astrid’s world without it?”

“True,” said the voice, until it explained why, “however, the gateway’s power was basically using the remains to open a portal to the Dragon universe, but now that you got one of the Rift keystones (along with, you know, a piece of one of them), it can help you guys on your journey later on!”

“Oh, I get it!” Neptune stated, “So it would be like going on a scavenger hunt, finding these other keystones!”

“As well as finding the other parts of this keystone.” Donnie added.

“Correct,” the voice agreed, “once you’ve found the keystones, you can place them back on the gateway, here on Vorton.”

“Vorton?” asked Leo, “Am guessing that Vorton is the name of this here planet!” Apple Bloom suggested.

“Well this is going to be sweet!” Sonic said with great determination, “The sooner we find these keystones, the sooner we’ll be close to finding our friends, before who knows what other crazy stuff might happen in those other worlds!”






Fellowship Followup


The Bridge of Khazad-dûm, under the Mines of Moria: Middle-Earth

“How can this have happened?” Boromir asked, minutes after Gandalf and Frodo vanished into strange vortex, followed by an odd group of beings and creatures.

“It’s almost as if this quest has become cursed, we loose the Ring, and now our comrades are lost who knows where!” he continued, beginning to bring up doubts of their journey.

“Don’t give up just yet, Boromir,” Aragon spoke up, “I am sure that those being s we saw may be allies, and they may yet to keep them safe until they return.”

“But when,” Sam asked, the Hobbit beginning to get concerned and worried of his friend, lost somewhere, for it was his job to help look after him, with the help of his pals, Pippin and Merry, who had joined them half way on their journey when they were escaping a farm.

The Hobbits were very peaceful, living their lives down in the Shire, but following Bilbo’s adventures, the One Ring changed everything forever.

When finding the Ring, Gandalf entrusted Frodo to keep hold of it, with Sam, and later Merry and Pippin, to accompany him on his journey, they were then became part of a group known as the Fellowship of the Ring, formed with Gandalf, Aragon, Boromir, the Elf bowman Legolas and the Dwarf warrior Gimli.

But following the danger with Balrog, both Frodo and Gandalf had suddenly vanished, leaving the Fellowship worried and confused about what has happened, mostly for Sam.

“When will they return, they could be in who knows what kind of danger!” Sam stated, “If something were to happen to Mister Frodo, I’ll never forgive myself!”

Then a sound caught their attention, as the growls and roars of Orces were approaching.

“We must hurry,” called Legolas, “if we dwindle any further, we are sure to be in danger!”

Suddenly, as they were about to move, a portal suddenly opened up, startling the Hobbits and causing Swordsmen, Legolas and Gimli to react to defence, but what came out was something they didn’t expect.

Emerging from the portal, Team Sticks and the Maverick Hunters had left Stick’s universe, in hopes of tracking down Sigma, however they had now arrived in what looked like a cave of sorts.

“Where are we now?” asked Zero, as he looked around his surroundings.

“I don’t know,” replied Sticks, “but I knew we should have taken that left turn to Albuquerque!”

As they stepped out of the portal, it closed right behind them, “Great,” groaned Axl, “there goes our ticket out of here.”

“And to make things difficult,” X spoke out, “there’s still no trace of Sigma, he could be among any other world other than this one!”

“Not so fast, trespassers!!” Gimli shouted out, gaining the travelers’ attention, as the Hunters (and Sticks) saw the Fellowship armed at them, they prepared themselves for arms as well (with the exception of Sticks’ “team” members).

“Ooh, waitwaitwait!!” Sticks shouted out, having snapped out of her serious battle ready position before turning to X, “Dibs on getting to say “Take me to your leader”, please, pretty please?”

X gave a bit of a small smile before saying “Sure, go ahead, I guess…”

Hearing about a leader, Aragon guessed that they may want to speak to him, so he lowered his sword before slowly approaching the group, “I take it that you seek to see me?” he asked, gaining the travelers attention.

“I am Aragon, and I suppose that I am the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring.” He introduced himself and the rest of Fellowship.

“Never quite heard of this “Fellowship” group…” Zero stated, as he lowered his laser sword as well.

Suddenly, an arrow landed between the two teams, which caused them to both look in the direction of where it was fired, spotting several Orcs popping out of several cracks from the cave walls, one of them made the first shot, before the others readied their arrows to fire.

“Everyone!” cried out Legolas, “we must leave immediately! There’s no time to waste!”

“But what about Frodo?” cried Pippin.

“I’m sure they’ll be fine!” Boromir shouted before grabbing him and Merry, and hurrying on ahead, while the others rushed off, Sam looking back a little, hoping that what Boromir said was true.






Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes


New York City, Marvel Universe: Present Day

In another universe, much like our own, but different, another world filled with heroes, much like the Universe of the Justice League, but home to a different team of heroes.

For there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes were united against a common threat! To fight the foes no single hero can withstand, and on that day… the Avengers were born!

For that was then, this was now.

It appeared above the skies of New York only twenty minutes ago, looming over the city, spilling it’s noxious spawn by the hundreds, the thousands!

The Avengers and several of their allies were called deal with it, but instead…

“It’s total chaos here in New York as an alien invasion is in action!” cried out J. Jonah Jameson, man in charge of running the Daily Bugle News.

“Strange Starfish-like aliens are attacking innocents at the seems as the Avengers are fighting, and web menace Spider-Man is no doubt helping these invaders in the conquest!!” the reporter said, once again accusing Spider-Man for the cause of this attack through his smear campaign against the web-crawler.

For what was really happening was as the Avengers and few of their allies were having a hard fight with the starfish aliens, as while attacking the spawns was a bit easy, it became difficult when they and several of the citizens learned that the spawns could stick to a victim’s face, taking complete control of them and few of the heroes and, well, it would be quite difficult to attack an enemy without attacking an innocent victim it’s stuck on, now would it?

“Oh no, Jen!!” cried the Hulk, as he witnessed his cousin, the She-Hulk, AKA Jennifer Walters, getting attacked and controled by a spawn, before attacking him and the rest of their team mates.

“Guys, we got a major problem!” A-Bomb called, as he saw what was happening trying to evade get attacked, “Those starfish, they’ve just got She-Hulk! They’re taking people over, controlling their minds!!”

Falcon, dealing with the situation as well, understood what A-Bomb meant as he made the call, “You heard him, guys,” he said, “keep those things away from your faces or-- sorry, Power Man –they’ll control you too!!” he called out, during this having to deal with a starfish controlled Power Man.

“Hey guys!!” Nova called out, “It seems that the big, bad, ugly starfish is basically the one sending down these little uglies!”

“Well spotted, Nova,” said Thor, before turning his attention to the giant starfish as he spoke, “Now strike at the wellspring of this threat and end it!”

Hearing this from the God of Thunder, Iron Man, Nova, Vision and War Machine joined him as they struck the creature in it’s eye, which seemed to be very effective, as the monster let out what sounded like cry of pain, though it had a hint of anger in it as well.

“I hope that this gets it done fast, cause my armor is calculating that every second that thing passes more of these things fall!” stated Iron Man, as he witnessed more spawn raining down to the streets of New York.

On the streets it is getting bad to worse, as several more of the Avengers began getting controlled and attacking their own teammates.

“Get back!!” shouted Rhino, a villain-turned-hero, as he shoved some of the controlled heroes away from his teammates, “How the heck do we stop these things? How do we even fight them?!”

“I don’t know, Rhino… just keep at it!” cried Spider-Man, as he tried hard not to the citizens that were under the control of the starfish aliens.

Suddenly, a controlled Iron Fist struck Spider-Man, before going after him and Captain America.

“Come on, Iron Fist, fight it!” Spider-Man called out, trying to get his teammate to fight the control over him as he attacked the Captain, who was deflecting Iron Fist’s attacks with his shield, “You can do this, you’re strong enough to break it’s crazy zombie control on you!”

Just then, the Hulk grabbed hold Iron Fist by surprise, “I’m sure he’s doing his best,” he said, “but now I think I could try stopping him hurting you and the rest of your friends.”

As he laid him hard on the street road, Hulk grabbed hold of the starfish, as he struggled to get it off the young warrior.

Thankfully, he did it, as the starfish was ripped straight of Iron Fist, as the latter spluttered and regained his senses, his face a little wet from the starfish’s wet suction cups.

“Iron Fist, you ok?” asked Spider-Man, relieved that his friend was all right and back with him.

“I’m fine, Spider-Man,” Iron Fist spoke, his voice a little dry, but able to speak, “I was… I think was linked into all them, into it!”

“Into who, the invader?” asked Captain America, having joined the group gathered around the young hero.

“Staro…” Iron Fist said, “its name is Staro… it thinks itself as the Star Conqueror! All it wants… is total control!”

Iron Fist then looked up to the alien, known as Staro, as the others looked to his direction as he continued, “Its mind… so vast, so calm… slowly irresistibly powerful, like a great ocean… like it’s own waves of order, we can’t hope to defeat it!”

“Waves of order you say?” Captain America asked, as he then had a small thought “Then I think we can defeat, but first, I want everyone who hasn’t been controlled make a clearing, keep those that are controlled away.”

“And the second?” asked Spider-Man.

To this, the Captain turned to the webbed warrior as he said, “Help me get Dr. Strange!”

Shortly afterwards, Dr. Strange was brought over to the situation and was caught up to speed with Captain America’s plan.

“Are you sure you know what you guys are doing, right?” asked Hawkeye, who was helping out in stopping anyone getting in the way of the plan.

“I’m sure of it,” said the Cap, as he approached the Sorcerer Supreme, with the starfish spawn that was ripped off Iron Fist in his hand, “are you ready, Doctor.”

“I will do what I must.” Said Strange, as Captain America placed the spawn on him, with the worried faces of Spider-Man, Iron Fist and the Hulk looking on.

Just as the creature tries to take his mind, Dr. Strange taps into his world’s seething store of various types of magic, taps into it, and sends it flying and flooding upward into the creature’s own mind, it screams as the magic pours into it.

Suddenly, the Star Conqueror is sent flying out of Earth’s orbit, and into space.

Back on Earth, the spawns begin to lose control, resulting them to slide off their hosts, as the citizens and most of the heroes regain their own thoughts, coughing and spluttering a bit from the slimy parts of the starfish.

“That was… that was a bit strange…” said Falcon, having been taking control earlier, “Feeling all that control over me, then came this pain and rage and then… nothing. Is it over?

“Indeed, good friend, it is.” Thor proudly said, as he looked to see his comrades and friends returning to normal.

“Man,” She-Hulk spoke, as she was spluttering out the starfish slime from her mouth, “I’m never going to look at calamari the same way again, and I’m gonna need a bucketful of breath mints after this.”

“You alright, Strange?” asked Iron Man, helping the Sorcerer Supreme back up on his feet.

“I’ll be alright, Iron Man,” Dr. Strange stated, “but I believe I’ve found a discovery of this encounter.”

As several of the heroes helped the citizens, the rest approached him as Dr. Strange explained, “When making contact with the creature, while staying in control, I sensed something… confusing, as if something was very wrong. I believe that… Star Conqueror is not of this universe, it didn’t know how it came here, yet it knew it didn’t belong here…”

“Great,” Hawkeye spoke up, “dealing with giant sushi monsters from another dimension, how terrific…” he said with a small groan.

“We’ll get to that bridge later,” Captain America said, “right now we need to check if any of the civilians are alright, then we’ll head to Fury to explain the situation.”

Spider-Man nodded to this, as he looked back up to where the creature known as Staro was as he spoke to himself, “Yeah, and with what’s happening right now, there’s no telling what else we might encounter…”






Justice League Earth


Justice League Watchtower, Above the Earth, DC Universe: Present Day

Where is Batman?

That was all in the minds of each of the Justice League and Teen Titan members.

For several hours ago, most of the two teams learned that several villains had attacked an event in Gotham, which unraveled special technology that would help change the world, as well as discovery of a small meteor that crashed, containing a good amount of Kryptonite.

During the fight, Bane, being one of those who attacked, made a quick getaway with the Kryptonite, needing to give to Luthor or the highest bidder to help take down Superman, with Batman and Robin went on to capture him.

However, during the chase, Batman and Robin’s signals suddenly vanished, as if they disappeared of the face of the world.

To add to the mystery, there had been an unknown inter-dimensional anomaly, which took place exactly where the duo vanished.

Batman’s allies grew concerned on where he went, while Robin’s team, especially Starfire, were worried what may have happened to him.

“Don’t worry, Starfire,” Wonder Woman spoke to her, knowing of her feelings for the Boy Wonder, “we’ll find them both soon enough, I promise.”

This got Starfire’s hopes up a bit, while back with Superman and the Martian Manhunter, they began to receive word from the Flash, who was back on Earth, preparing to make a jump through to another world via Inter-dimensional Treadmill.

“How’s goes your uncle, Wally?” asked Superman, as he was speaking to Kid Flash, who, with his girlfriend, Jinx, a former villain, was with the Flash at the moment.





Earth, Keystone City (just barely and not for long): Present Day

“It’s working well, Superman,” Kid Flash spoke up, as he and Jinx checked the readings as the Flash continued running faster, and faster, as sparks began to fly and the treadmill was activating to help the speedster get the jump to the unknown, “all systems are green and Uncle Allen is almost through the barrier!”

“The residual of the readings from what could have been a dimensional rift seems a little different,” Jinx stated, “but if where the Flash is going is where Batman and Robin are at, then we might be able to get them out of there.”

As he sped on, the Flash felt like the barriers between worlds was fighting back, back he knew that his friend was in trouble, so he continued to fight back as well, almost like a fish trying to swim up a waterfall.

‘J’onn, are you there?’ the Flash communicated through special telepathy, as the Martian Manhunter and Miss Martian had the ability to do a special communication through telepathy, to keep in contact with their respected teams.

‘I hear you, Barry, are you alright?’ the being from Mars replied, as the communication was all good.

‘A little nervous,’ Flash explained, ‘it hurts… like there’s some resistance… hard to… attune…’

As he sped, it almost looked like he was beginning to vanish, and in his place, an adult human sized light was replacing it, within the speeding vortex, the Flash was nearing the barrier’s breaking point, ‘it’s like it is trying to stop me from going further, but I got to keep trying!’ he continued.

‘I know you can do it, Barry, just keep going, I’ll maintain mental contact as long as I…’ Martian Manhunter failed to finish, as communication began to fade, which meant that the Flash was on his own.

‘Great,’ though Barry, knowing he was on his own now, then continued to run, ‘come on, Barry,’ he though, ‘push harder, it hurts so much, but you have to keep going, just… keep… going…’

As he thought those last words, there was a bright flash…





Marvel Universe, unknown town: Present Day

…And the Flash arrived at his destination, skidding to a stop to look around.

From where he was, it looked like a nice town, all peaceful and quite, though despite anyone around at the moment.

“Huh,” he said to himself, “not quite the evil villain’s lair I expected…”

As looked from block to block, he grew a small smile at where he was at, “This place looks pretty peaceful,” he then begin to realize something, “this is where Keystone City is, back home, though this isn’t a city, just a nice sleepy river town.”

He then got out his hand-held device, which was strapped to the backpack he carried with him, and began doing some readings of his current position.

“I’ll just take a few wideband molecular scans here,” he said, “and maybe take a good look aro--”


Bad Timing for a Speedster!


Suddenly he was cut short when he heard a scream not far where he was, as he turned around, he spotted what looked like an angry mob, chasing a young creature in everyday human attire.

He heard several of angry voices, shouting “FILTHY MUTANT!!” “Stop him!” “Show him how we treat freaks like him!” “Touch my daughter, will he?”

The strange creature, which was described as a mutant, was in a bit of panic, and the Flash thought he was crazy, but he could hear what the creature was trying to say his voice to the mob, with little success.

“Hey, no, wait! Mr. Beeman, it’s me-- Pete Gehringer!” the mutant, named Pete Gehringer, called back to one of the members of the mob, “I’ve been to your house! I’m on the school football team! This just… happened! I wasn’t like this yesterday, I swear!”

Despite not being from this world, Flash had to do something to save the kid, he rushed between Pete and the mob, which both stopped at their tracks when they saw him.

“Hold on there, kid,” he said to Pete, before turning to the mob, “everybody, hold on a second!”

“What the… where did he come from?” said one member of the mob, quietly to one of others, as the Flash continued.

“Look, okay, you’re scared, but this is no way to act,” the speedster stood behind the mutant, who was surprised to see someone stand up for him, “if this kid had committed a crime, call the cops. If not, then what are you doing? Get a grip, before all this goes too--”

Before he could finish, however, one mobster shouted out “Another one! He must be another one!!” then more of the rants began a new, this time commenting on the Flash.

“He’s got to be one of Magneto’s evil mutants… come to collect that one!!”

“Don’t let them get away… either of them!!”

Realizing the danger, Flash turned back to Pete, “Man, not friendly aren’t they? All right kid, don’t worry, I’m here to help you get out of this!”

“Who-who are you?” asked Pete, confused about this encounter.

“Oh, right, forgot…” the Flash said to himself, realizing that this person has never heard of the Flash, before turning his attention back to him.

“Doesn’t matter about me,” he explained, “just get going, I’ll try and cover you!”

Pete was surprised about this stranger, but if was here to help, he had to listen to him, so he sprinted off, and, to the Flash’s surprise, did some incredible high jumps, as he jumped from roof to roof.

The Flash followed behind, getting into his own sprints, but before he could escape, one of the mobsters threw a spanner at him, hard.

This caused him to skid a little, lose his footing a crash onto the pavement, “Oh man,” he said to himself, “Gotta get out of here! Have to get--”

His train of thought was cut short, as the mobsters began to gain up and approach him, ready to attack…






Peaceful Future


Outside Light Labs, Mega Man’s world, Year 20XX: Present day

It is a lovely summer, and nearby Mega City, the robot helpers, including Rock, well known to all as Mega Man, are helping out around the lab of their father and creator, Dr. Thomas Light.

Dr. Light had a dream of a utopian future where man and machine worked together side-by-side. To that end, he created his robot children, Rock and Roll, as well as the first Robot Masters, to help with everyday work with mankind.

However, Dr. Albert W. Wily, an old friend of Dr. Light, decided to make the “Light Number” Robot Masters into weapons, and declared war on the world. Even if it meant fighting his robot brothers, Rock had himself transformed into Mega Man, so that he could save “Light Number” Robot Masters, stop Dr. Wily and save the innocent.

Through time, he would encounter Dr. Wily’s own “Wily Number” Robot Masters, and do battle with each one of them, including his robot rival, Bass, Wily’s best robot fighter who would try to best Mega Man time and again, his evil twin, Copy Robot, who at one time framed Mega Man for crimes he never committed, and even Dr. Light’s first creation, his older brother, Proto Man, going by the name, Break Man.

But even through danger and dramatic struggles, Mega Man would succeed and save the world from Dr. Wily’s schemes.

Then, one month ago, came what would be Mega Man and Wily’s final battle, after defeating the mad doctor, during the destruction of his latest Wily Castle base, Dr. Wily disappeared and was presumed dead.

Now most of Wily’s Robot Masters have been given a second chance, allowing them to help out with everyday life as best as they can.

As for Mega Man, he returned to the peaceful life as Rock, Dr. Light’s son and creation, helping out around Light Labs.

“Okay, on my mark, we give it one steady jolt. Ready?” asked Elec Man, after explaining to Mega Man what to do with the power generator that they were holding onto.

The young hero nodded to his robotic brother’s question and said out “Ready!” as he prepared one of his weapons equips, the Thunder Beam, to help out Elec Man.

“Three, two, one… Mark!” the electric Robot Master shout out, as both he and Mega Man used their electric powers to activate the generator.

The machine slowly hummed, and lights on it began to glow, showing that it was now functioning.

“Yay! We have power again!” said Roll, Rock’s sister and the robotic daughter of Dr. Light, as she was doing a bit of gardening with Cut Man, while happy to know that the lab had power again.

“Heh heh, too bad!” chuckled Cut Man, as he carried out some of the plants for the garden, “I enjoyed seeing Ice Man and Fire Man tag-teaming as the heating and cooling units, it was quite funny!”

After sorting out the power, Mega Man and Elec Man finished their job, “Man, we’ve been dealing with one crisis after another for so long, things might actually feel like they’re back to normal soon!” Mega Man stated, as he returned to normal.

Soon Guts Man and Concrete Man showed up, “Hey, Megs!” Guts Man cried out, waving hello to his chums.

“What’s up, Guts Man?” asked Mega Man as he approached on of the construction Robot Masters.

“We’re almost finished the repairs on the east wing of the lab, but we’ve run out of materials.” Guts Man explained, pointing out to where he and Concrete Man were working.

“You’re back to being a cuddly little helper bot now, right?” he asked, as Mega Man reverted back to Rock.

“Ha! Sure I am!” Rock said, “I’ll head off with Auto to town and pick some things up.”

“Are you sure you’ll be alright?” asked Roll, a little concerned.

“Why not?” asked Rock, “It’s not a long drive away.” He then scratched his head as he chuckled a little nervously as he continued, “I mean, yeah, there was that one time I got pulled over because I look like a kid, but…”

“No, I mean…” Roll said as she shyly admitted, “I just worry, okay?”

“It’ll be okay, sis,” said Rock, understanding what his sister meant, as he gave her a hug, which she happily returned, “the trouble with Dr. Wily is over. Just because I’m leaving your sight doesn’t mean disaster will strike.”

“I know,” said Roll, “it’s just hard to let my guard down after all we’ve been through.”

“I understand…” said Rock, though deep down, he felt very well sorry for Wily, despite all that had happened, every time he defeated the mad man, he always showed mercy for Wily, but sometimes, what happened back at the Wily base always seemed to haunt him.






Past Battle with Wily


Wily Castle 3, Mega Man’s World, Year 20XX: One month ago

Dr. Wily was defeated once more, as his mighty robot had tumbled to the ground, broken and destroyed.

Mega Man, weary but still active, had beaten him, as they looked eye-to-eye.

“I hate you…” Wily groaned, as he tried to get up, until Mega Man started to approach him, though while the doctor was a mad man, the Blue Bomber knew that he would be offered mercy.

But as he draw near, the ground around them began to shake, looking around, both hero and villain realized that all the fighting did a lot of damage for the castle.

The entire Wily Fortress was going to collapse!!

Suddenly, Proto Man, riding on Rush as a hover board, arrived to get his brother out of there.

“Mega Man!” he called out, “We have to get out of here! Right now!”

“Blues, wait!” Mega Man called back, “Wily’s hurt, we have to help him!”

“I couldn’t agree more!” a third voice caught the robotic heroes by surprise, as they turned, they spotted Shadow Man, having arrived to help his master.

Hoping to see a chance of helping his enemies, Mega Man hurried to them.

“Dr. Wily! Shadow Man! Come with me, and we’ll find a way to get out!” he explained, though this surprised the doctor a bit.

“Why?” he asked, “You hate me! Almost as much as I hate you!”

“True, but it’s my duty make sure that no harm comes to anyone, even you!” Mega Man explained.

However before either side could move to the other, parts of the ceiling began to fall, crashing down around them.

“Master Wily, look out! We have to--” it was the last thing Shadow Man spoke out, as he began to pick up Dr. Wily, before chunks of debris landed between the heroes and the villains, cutting him off and cutting Mega Man off from rescuing his enemies!

“Wily!” Mega Man shouted out, worried about what may have happened, but he was grabbed by Proto Man and pulled away from the debris before he could move another inch!

“Mega Man! Rock! We have to go! There’s no time!!” Proto Man shouted, as Mega Man gave in to what his brother said, even it what they saw was the last of the mad scientist.

The trio then beamed out of the castle, just as it crumbled like a biscuit, before it stop, as it now became ruin.





Outside Light Labs

Dr. Light and Roll were worried when the trio returned.

They had learned from the news about what happening back at the Wily Castle, where Mega Man headed off to face off Dr. Wily.

When they saw the castle beginning to crumble, they feared what may have happened to him.

But soon they heard Rush barking outside, and hurried to the front door, and there they were, Mega Man, Proto Man and Rush, a little brushed, but still alive.

“Rock! Blues!” Roll called out, happy with tears, as she rushed to hug them both, “You’re both okay!!”

“Yeah,” Mega Man said with a disappointed smile, “good to see you too, sis…”

Dr. Light came up to them as well, happy that his boys were alright.

“Welcome home, boys.” He said with a smile, until he saw the uncertain looks on them.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, knew that something bad must have happened.

“Blues, Rush and I managed to get out,” explained Mega Man, as he then revealed the sad news, “but Dr. Wily… he…”

Thomas Light soon began to both realize and understand what he meant, Dr. Albert W. Wily, his old friend, had somehow perished during the collapse, despite all the trouble and evil he did, he was still his good friend.

Dr. Light then placed his hand on his son’s shoulder for comfort, and gave him a sad, understanding smile, before embracing him in a hug, which might last forever…






Mega Man's Regrets


Present Day

As he and Auto got into their truck, Rock turned to Roll as he, after his little thoughts replied, “Maybe you’ll feel better once we come back safe and sound?”

“Yeah, right.” Chuckled Roll, “Just get going already.”

“Ha! See you in a little bit,” Rock called out as he waved goodbye to the others, “and I promise I’ll be fine!”

As they headed to town, Auto looked to Rock, seeing a sad smile on his face, knowing exactly what was wrong.

“Still thinking about Dr. Wily, aren’t ya?” he asked, as Rock slowly nodded a bit.

“Not only that,” said Rock, “I couldn’t stop thinking about how I could have saved him, and even helped Quick Man and the others see another way to a new leash of life.”

Auto remembered about that and sadly nodded to that, “I know it was they own choice, but it would have been nice that they helped made things better around Mega City.” He said.

Rock remembered that, following what happened back at Wily’s castle, a few days later, he, Roll and Dr. Light decided an idea of giving the Wily Robot Masters another chance to do good…






Robot Reboot


Light Labs: Few days after Dr. Wily’s death

“Wh-what happened?” a confused and back online Quick Man said as he looked around, “Where am I?”

“It’s okay,” Mega Man’s voice got the speedster’s attention as he turned to see him as he continued, “you’re in good hands now.”

“MEGA MORON!!” Quick Man shouted out, as he got into attack formation, “I don’t know what you’re doing here or what’s going on, but you’re now in big…” it was then that Quick Man realized that his weapons systems were disabled, meaning that he couldn’t attack his enemy with his weapons!

“What the- why can’t I summon my boomerangs?” he said before turning to Mega Man, who was now with Dr. Light and Roll, “Alright you patronizing punk! What ever you just did, you’re going to pay big time!”

Suddenly, he was hold back by none other than his allies, Wood Man and Flash Man, of all the Robot Masters!

“What the heck! Flash Man?! Wood Man?! What are you doing? What’s going on?” he asked franticly, wondering why they were trying to protect their enemy.

“Mega Man and Dr. Light, have brought all of us together, and booted us back online.” Wood Man explained.

Quick Man was surprised a bit until he asked, “Us?”

“That’s right,” Flash Man replied, “Us.” He then showed his ally why, as Quick Man spotted several of the Wily Robot Masters that have come together, those included Heat Man, Snake Man, Bubble Man, Crash Man, Spark Man, Metal Man, Gemini Man, Hard Man, Magnet Man, Top Man, Napalm Man and Needle Man.

“We managed to find you I.C. chips,” Dr. Light explained to Quick Man, as well most of the others who were wondering why they were here, “and, despite being on opposite ends, repaired you, my children see that you were all not evil, but only doing what Albert created you for, so we have decided, that we would help reprogram you for a second chance at life.”

“Really,” said a surprised Wood Man, “that sounds brilliant!”

“A second chance? Us?” said an also surprised Napalm Man, “After everything we did?”

“I’m not so sure of this…” said Heat Man, who was beginning to doubt.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Time out!” cried out Quick Man, “That’s completely bonkers! Where’s Dr. Wily? I want to hear his thoughts about this!”

As he said his creator’s name, most of everyone around him looked sad, concerned and serious around him, leaving the quickster to become curious.

“What’s the matter?” he asked.

“Quick Man,” Mega Man spoke up, as he approached him, “I think you need to know something…”

He then explained to him, as he did to the others who were brought back earlier, all about what happened, about his final battle with Dr. Wily, and how the castle began to collapse around them after the tussle, which Mega Man tried to rescue the doctor, but no prevail.

After hearing about this, as well as knowing that the heroes were telling the truth about helping them do good instead, the Robot Masters created by Wily began to ponder a bit.

“I’m just not so sure about this,” Needle Man explained, “I just don’t know that we’ll get along well with everyone, especially after all the trouble we’ve done…”

“Actually,” Bubble Man spoke out his say, “I was a bit uncertain about it as well when they told me, but Roll explained that I could work as a Ecosystem Manager, so it would be like flipping a switch!”

“Are you sure?” asked Heat Man.

“I’m amphibious, I’d very crucial!!” Bubble Man stated.

“And I could work at the Chronos Institute,” Flash Man explained, “I’m sure that they could use help with my advanced time circuits after suffering with Time Man under their employ, and Air Man could help out with repairs with Hard Man.” At that, the latter two nodded with agreement followed by few of the others.

“Ha ha! This is great!” said Mega Man, hearing what was happening, “With the fighting now over and everyone rebuilding, this means we could move on with our lives!”

However, there were nay voters, as Quick Man spoke up with one word, “No.”

“What do you mean “No”, Quick Man?” Wood Man asked.

Flash Man then stepped up as he spoke, “Dr. Light and the others are giving us a new function so we can…”

“Do what?” Quick Man interrupted, “I was built to do one thing, and that was destroy Mega Man! To be fast and quick enough on the draw!”

“What particular use does that have?” He continued, “You want me to give up my old coding? To be a “Mail Man”? That’s not happening!”

“But once you’ve been reprogrammed you’ll get use of it!” Mega Man tried to explain.

However it was shot down as Quick Man countered back, “Then you’re just getting rid of what’s me!! If you’re going that far, you can just blow me up again!!”

“Crash Man!” Mega Man said as he tunred to the mentioned Robot Master, in order to get support, “You’re from his line! Tell him this is a great idea!”

“It is nice change,” he said, only to make a sad smile as he continued, “for some of you. But what do I do? Blow stuff up and wait for everyone else to handle everything else for me?”

He then shook his head sadly as he replied, “Thanks so much for the offer… but I’m afraid I can’t except…”

“But… but… we’ve only just got reunited!” said Spark Man, feeling upset about his partner refusing the nice offer.

“We’re sorry, kid, but he’s right,” stated Heat Man, “we appreciate the sentiment, but when you’re built for battle, becoming something else doesn’t hold any other appeal.”

“Some of us are just too experimental or specialized for any practical use…” Magnet Man added, as Gimini Man, Top Man and Metal Man nodded in agreement.

“Dr. Light,” said Roll, beginning to tear up as she approached her father, “you need to tell them…”


Sad Choices


Dr. Light grieved at this, knowing that what he would say may upset his children even more.

“Gentleman,” he said, “you need to understand that your reconstruction came with a proviso,” he then said, with a saddened serious look, “if you cannot serve a practical purpose, then I’m afraid, by federal law, that you’ll be… decommissioned…”

Quick Man turned to those that also refused the offer, in which, with no choice, some of them nodded with sad agreement, until he turned back to the Doctor.

“All right then…” he said, “I’d go offline with dignity.”

“NO!” cried Mega Man, “You can’t do that!”

“I can, and we all will,” the speedy robot said, “if we resist, then you know that it’ll have to be you who’s got to take us down, you already took our weapons, so it’ll be slaughter if we get reprogrammed, it’s stop us being who we are.”

“What about you, Napalm Man?” Metal Man said as he turned to one of Wily’s Arsenal Robot Master, which the others looked to him, waiting for his answer.

“In truth,” he said, “I would like to stay around, I want to show the world I truly want another chance, then sign me up!”

“All right then,” Quick Man said, giving his fellow Robot Master thumbs up, “then good luck!”

He then turned to the heroes and the other Robot Master who decided to help them as made his say, “I’m glad that so many of you can find a new function, brothers. But as for us -- shut us down.”

“Quick Man, no!” Mega Man cried out, beginning to tear up at this decision, “I fought so hard to keep you all intact! We rebuilt you! You’re only letting yourselves go to waste!!”

Then Quick Man did something he never though he would do, he placed his hands on Mega Man’s shoulders, and gave a small, sad smile to him.

“To not be the real Quick Man,” he said, “now that’s a waste. Good bye.”

Soon, despite Mega Man’s continued pleas, Dr. Light, sadness in his own heart as well, turned Quick Man and his followers offline.

Mega Man and Roll were both saddened at this, until Dr. Light embraced them in a group hug, tears slowly being made in his own eyes.

“My poor, sweet children,” he said, “one of the hardest lessons in life that we have to learn, is that we can’t save everyone and everyone wants to be saved…”





Present

Rock sadly felt a little tear in his eye as he remembered that sad lesson, but he of course, on the small bright side of things, the other Robot Masters, such as Flash Man, Wood Man and even Napalm Man, had gotten along well with they new lives.

At least, to him, a small bit of good had come out of those dank times.

All of a sudden, Auto spoke out, which startled the young hero a bit, as he said, “Hey! What’s that?”

As he looked up, Rock thought that he saw what looked like a wormhole.

But as he tried get a good look, his eyes widened as saw something coming out very fast… heading towards them!


Brute Battle!


Switching into his hero form, Mega Man grabbed Auto by the arm and jumped out fast, just as the object slammed into the front of the truck, destroying the engine flat.

As they, the two robots looked at what showed out of nowhere.

What they saw was not an object, but someone pretty tough, as Mega Man looked at the brute, he almost looked Donkey Kong, only more gorilla-like, with a sleeveless leather jacket, and seemed to have a roman helmet on his head.

As this gorilla looked around, he spotted the Blue Bomber and grinned.

“So, you must be the Mega Man dude I’ve been told about!” he said in a bulky Scottish accent, as he cracked his knuckles, like he was ready to fight.

“And who are you suppose to be?” Mega Man asked.

“Name’s Bruiser,” the brute introduced himself, “and I’ll be the guy who’s gonna break you apart, right, boys?”

At that point, four robotic droids appeared and landed by his side, ‘Oh boy…’ thought Mega Man as he knew he was out matched a bit.

“Auto, you try and get back to Dr. Light,” he called out to his robotic buddy, “warn him about what’s going on!”

“You be careful, won’t ya?” Auto called back, “I’ve never seen robots like those before, they look kinda alien!”

“Hey,” Mega Man said with a smug, “I’ve dealt with aliens before!”

Before he can attack, Bruiser striked him, sending him flying into a tree.

As he got up, Mega Man spotted two of the droids flying towards him, blasting him with their laser weapons, luckily, he was able to dodge, a little slow, but still made it.

He then activated one of his weapons, being Metal Man’s blade saws, using them to slice one of the droids in half, before using Wood Man’s leaves attack to help deflect one of the laser blasts.

As Bruiser pounced to attack again, Mega Man used Heavy Man’s strength to grab hold of him, and throw him in the opposite direction.

Mega Man used Crash Man’s attack to shoot another one of the droids, a sticky bomb that exploded seconds later after contact.

As the Blue Bomber battled against the last two droids, Bruiser smirked, as he seemed to place a finger in his ear, though unknown to the others, it was an earpiece.

“All ready boss,” he whispered, “let ‘er rip!”

Soon another rift opened behind him as Bruiser looked back to Mega Man, having nearly finished off the droids.

“Hey, Mega Maggot!” he shouted out him, gaining his attention and allowing the last droid to return to the brute.

“If you want me, you’re gonna have to catch me!” he said, before rushing through the rift, the droid following behind.

Mega Man saw this, despite wanting to return to the lab, he had to find out why that Bruiser character attacked him.

He then turned back to Auto as he called out, “Auto, you get back to the lab!” he then rushed to the wormhole that was slowly beginning to close as he added, “I’m going after them!”

“Mega Man, wait!” Auto cried out, for that was the last Mega Man heard, before jumping into the portal, as it then vanished instantly.

‘What is going on here?’ Auto thought with worry, before turning back towards Light Labs in a hurry.

As he rushed off, he continued thinking, ‘Got to warn Dr. Light and Roll about this!’ he thought, ‘Let Elec Man and the other know too! Maybe even Flash Man, Air Man… Quake Woman even! We might need everyone’s help with what’s just happened!’

Unknown to Auto, as he left for the lab, another rift opened above the sky, as some unknown objects were flying towards Mega City. 

As for where Mega Man ended up in, the others will never know, but of course, for each of them, like Mega Man and Dr. Light, deep down, despite what he had done, they felt a little sorry for what happened to Dr. Wily…

Though, unaware, that they would have found what really happened!






Fate of Wily


Unknown location: two days after the collapse of Wily Castle 3

All was quiet at an unknown part of a block, possibly not far from Mega City, it was quite basically one of the abandoned work offices that were decommissioned, with a possible chance of being torn down.

However, today, it seemed that something, or someone, was still currently using the building as a place of operations, as someone continued walking up the stairs to one of the top floors.

As he entered one of the old offices, Shadow Man saw his master, felling a little better as usual.

Having suffered minor injuries during the Castle’s collapse, Shadow Man had to bring Wily to somewhere as a sanctuary, he would be healed in no time.

Now, after a few nights rest, Dr. Wily was back in the game.

“How are you doing, Master Wily?” he asked, which was responded by a sinister grin from his creator.

“Ah, feeling right as rain, Shadow Man!” Dr. Wily stated, “No crumbling rubble or any aches or pains can’t stop from planning a new scheme!”

“Understood,” Shadow Man spoke, as he bowed to Wily’s compliment of himself, “what are the plans ahead?”

“We mustn’t dilly dally for long,” explained Wily, “as soon as we leave this dusty place, we’ll need to find a new base of operations, see if there is any scrap and metal lying around, enough for me to begin construction on a new line of Robot Masters and the real fun shall begin!”

The despicable doctor then walked up to his creation, and patted him on the shoulder as he spoke, “Come Shadow Man, we must begin at once!”

The ninja Robot Master nodded in agreement and turned to the door, so his master would follow.

However, before they could leave, something flashed from behind them, and voice was heard out.

“Ah, yes, just the scientist we need…” it said.

As Dr. Wily and Shadow Man turned around, they were both shocked and baffled at what they saw.

There, behind them was what looked like rift, leading to who knows where.

“What in the--” Wily could only say, before a giant hand emerged… and grabbed hold of him!

Panicking, Dr. Wily struggled to escape, but was pulled through the rift, as he cried out for help.

“No! Shadow Man! Help! Help me! Somebody help meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!” that was all he said before disappearing into the portal.

Without a second to lose, Shadow Man prepared his weapons, before making a jump through the rift, just as it closed behind him, leaving the building abandoned and empty once more…