| Subject: SHOCKING REVELATIONS |
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Date Posted: 19:15:09 05/30/03 Fri
IO awoke just has he remembered landing. He was on his back. But, he did not see darkness. He saw the open sky. He could hear the rush of the ocean, and the cry of gulls circling in the air. The sun high overhead, shining into his optics. He tried to get up, but he felt dizzy. His gyroscopic balance system worked to orient itself. "You took quite a nasty hit!" A deep, booming voice told him. "What? Who are you?", IO asked. A large reploid walked towards him. "Just relax, I'm not going to hurt you.",the big reploid said. "You're a guest here." IO looked confused. "My fight? Was that just....a dream?" The large reploid shook his head. "No, it was quite real I'm afraid.",the large reploid answered. "But, don't worry about it for now. What is your name my friend?" IO put his hand to his head for a minute. He shook off his weakness, and stood up. "I am IO.", he said with confidence. He felt strange. He felt as if he were at full strength again. "IO, huh? You're small, but you're toughr than you look!", the big reploid told him. "My name is Bull. Blast Bull actually, but you can call me Bull if you like."
"Bull? Blast Bull?",IO asked. Bull nodded confidently. "You know, the others were quite surprised when we found you!"
"Others?",IO asked.
"Doppler's specialists. Or at least that's what HE called us." IO's eyes lit up. "Dr. Doppler? You mean he's here?"
"Didn't you know? You fought with him almost two days ago! Well, you must be out of it to not remember a thing like that?"
"Tell me Bull, what do you mean? Where am I? Tell me everything that you know!", IO became frantic.
"Alright...just relax! Of course I'll tell you. Based on the images we watched from the security cameras, you were able to escape from the submarine bay, where Vile had set a trap for you.", Bull told him.
"Vile knew I was coming?",IO asked.
"No not really. Up until now I had no idea who you were. But we've heard so many stories about how crafty Mega Man X is. We thought he might have told some of his troops to hide, but no one expected to find someone as powerful as you. D'ya know you made quite alot of trouble for all those troops that went down to the sub bay?"
"Why, what happened?", IO asked.
That car came down like a bomb, and blew a huge hole out of the wall. 'Course, that explosion happened to blow some reserve fuel tanks, and then some other stuff blew as well. You almost brought the whole place down on top of them."
IO suppressed a smile, and nodded. "Tell me more."
"Well, you got up to the top floor, right? Doppler was up there waiting for you...we guess. The cameras were destroyed when the control room went up. Heck, his whole base was shot to hell after the nukes went."
"So where are we now?", IO asked.
"Well most directly, you're here on my oil rig. But in general, you're on Dr. Doppler's Island fortress."
"WHAT! You're kidding me! I thought it blew up!"
"Oh, that? No...that was just something set up for the tournament. Most of the buildings in that city were hollow pre-fab set-ups. There used to be an old city on that island, but it was wasted by the Repliforce during their rebellion. After the Repliforce's regime was toppled, Doppler siezed as much of their power as he could. He bribed their leaders, and stole their technology."
"I thought alot of it looked familliar.", IO replied.
"Yeah, well I won't even get into the things he did to get us to help him. But anyway, Doppler took the money and used it to build this place. The old island was a way to draw all the attention away from this place. Besides, you saw what happened to it! Now then, Dr. Doppler was found lying face down in a pool of...I don't know what it was. I don't really know if Doppler is a human in an exoskeleton, or a Reploid. I never knew in fact. But the liquid didn't look like human, OR reploid blood. I think it was a weird kind of coolant, or something."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Doppler has us all tied to this alarm. If he ever needs us in a hurry, it goes off, and we all have to go running to his aid. That's where we found the two of you. It looks like you almost killed him! In fact, you actually sliced through his cloaking device."
"Cloaking device?"
"You ask alot of questions, don't you?", Bull laughed. "Yeah, he had one, except he called it a dark cloak. Vile had been outfitted with it the first time the Doc rebuilt him. It conceals your appearance in ordinary light, and in dim light....well forget it. He was testing it out when you came up there. It looked like he wanted to use it to destroy Mega Man X, or something. I think he wanted to test it out first. But you showed up, and slashed right through it! That sword of yous is amazing!" His steel saber! IO reached for it...but it was gone! "Where is my...?" Bull raised an eyebrow. "Oh, sorry. Your sword is safe...don't worry. But, we've placed a binding cuff on your arms, and put the sword away. You won't be able to use your weapons here. That's why I'm not worried about fighting you. Oh, and don't get any funny ideas either. If you try to take them off, or use your weapons, they'll blow your arms off. You're strong 'n all, but even you'd be hurt...badly! Just relax for now, okay?"
Io shook his head. He looked around at the massive construction. Then he looked out over the ocean, and saw the unmistakable silver gleam of a city. "So, all this time Dr. Doppler has been hiding this place. And no one even knew about it? But how come? Why does need an island fortress?"
"Beats me. He probably wants to amass a huge army, and try to make a grab for power. I don't really care. I told Doppler to his face that he's a nut job. I'd rip his heart out myself, if he had one. But he threatened to nuke my home city if I didn't comply. Then he placed some kind of device in my system. If I even try to disobey him, he can detonate it, and I'll die. So, I do what he wants...until I can figure out a way to find it, and remove it. Heck, Wind Raven's the only one who doesn't have one."
"Who's that?", IO asked.
"The leader of the air force. He's addicted to war I guess, and he never talks to us much, 'cept when he has to. Anyway, why don't you follow me. You might feel good now, but you're still really weak. You need to rest."
"Okay, I will go with you. I don't really have a choice anyway....but before I go, I just have two questions."
"Okay, shoot!", Bull replied.
"Did I kill Dr. Doppler?", Io asked. Bull shook his head, "No, but we all wish you had....don't tell anyone I said that, or else!" IO stepped back a bit, as bull momentarilly became frightening. IO stared at him, and then asked his second question. "Okay. Where is Mega Man X? I heard the gaurd say Vile took him to Dr. Doppler."
"What? Big mouths....always spreading gossip! How did they know? Vile must have been bragging. Don't worrry about Mega Man X, you'll meet him soon enough. (to be continued)
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