The Brothers Meet
Fire Man can be loved. Fire Man can be hated. Judge
yourself. In the last comic a misterious Fire Man appeared from nowhere, facing a powerful Tengu Man wearing superior alloy as armor. However with Mega Man's help, Fire Man could defeat that warrior owner of superior technology. At the same time Fire Man could stop that Tengu Man destroyed the blue bomber. Moved, Mega Man decided to taken this weird Fire Man to Dr. Light's Laboratory for reparations. However nothing assures that this is the real Fire Man. Maybe is an impostor who wants to destroy Dr. Light's lab, or maybe he is in fact Fire Man, the one who years ago wanted to destroy Mega Man with all his being. Both possibilities are a risk that Mega Man has decided to run on his desire to recover what Dr. Wily usurped him years ago. His first Family. Page 1 Updating time ... done Inventary of installed componets ... Initializing... ... Theta phase canceled ... Defining ... 50% IGNITION! FLOOOSSHHH! RAAARGH!! Roll: AYYYY! Floooosh! KRUNK! CRACK! Cancel Rest Unarmed weapons ...
Page 2 Roll:Great, you're reactivated! Rock will be very happy ... How do you fell? Fire Man : Do I know you, girl? Roll: It must be my hairstyle... I'm Roll. Remember me? Roll:Look at my feather duster .... Remember? Roll : Maybe is my dre... CRASH! Fire Man : RELEASE ME! Roll : Hey, stop that because you'll just hurt yourself ... I would liberate you but dad said that he must study you first. Roll : Why don't you have some rest? You almost died in that ... Fire Man :Listen to me, you brat ... Fire Man :You better liberate me at this precise moment ... Fire Man : ... because if I liberate me by myself ... Fire Man : I'll give you an ending so terrible that you'll regret for have been born!! Roll : ... Roll: D-dad, Fire Man is working ... Light: What? We are there! Roll: A question ... Roll: He can't scape. Can he?
Page 3 Mega Man : Fire Man ! You're OK! Roll, Why have'nt you released him? Roll : Huh? ... I ... Mega Man : I'll liberate you in a second ... Roll: No, Rock! Wait! Fire Man : Captured by kids ... Now I can rest in peace. Fire Man : Everything turns around me ... Where the hell I am? Fire Man: All this damned sensations, based on creatures weaker than me ... torment me. Roll: I wouldn't lie you with something like that. He threatened me, I swear it. Mega Man : But ... Why? Roll: I don't think he's friendly Roll: In fact, he looks dangerous Roll : And although he would really be Fire Man, remember that he died years ago hating you till the last moment Mega Man : Fire Man hated me a lot in the past ... but he saved me from death in the fight against Tengu Man ... Mega Man : Maybe Roll is right Mega Man : Maybe he's not my brother Fire Man Light: Hey there ... sorry for the delay! Light: How is our guest? Light: Did he wake up with good mood? Fire Man: That voice ... Light: What's wrong fellas? FFFLOOOOSSSHHHH!! Fire Man: YOU!
Page 4 Fire Man: Here's that My moment has arrived! Roll: It's too hot! Mega Man: You won't stand it, dad! Go away! Light: You neither, get out of there! Fire Man: There's no place safe for you, old man! Bzzz! Klash! Crash! Mega Man: Roll! Let's go! Mega Man: Stand up! Roll: I'm burning! Mega Man: You'll be ok! Fire Man: You're gonna pay for that what you made me!! BOOM! CRACK! CLASH! Fire Man: I won't rest until you pay me what you made me!! Mega Man: Run! Run! Fire Man: To made me a damn coward!! BLAM!
Page 5 Roll: What a fright! Look at me! Roll: He's a monster! Light: This will help! Them: No, dad! Fissssss!! Roll: And you were going to liberate him! He almost kill us! Mega Man: Sorry! Ha! You look like a mess! Roll: Stop with that! Light: He is a very dangerous robot. We must deactivate him Mega Man: No! He's my brother! Light: Rock, Fire Man died more than ten years ago, you destroyed him! Light: Obviously that is a bad copy made by some mad scientific to confuse you. Mega Man: He hate you, dad! Only the real Fire Man would hate you! Mega Man: Tell him, Roll ! You know it! Roll: I ... don't know Roll: I only know that he always was unpleasant ... You knew him better. Mega Man: Since he was born he felt himself different ... Mega Man: More than ten years ago, Dr. Wily reprogramed all my brothers, except him ... because he always hated us. Mega Man: When I fighted him, he revealed me his hate ... I never understand him. Roll: If that's true, Why he helped you before Tengu Man? Mega Man: I don't know ... don't know ... Ten years waiting! Maybe at last I can finish this inner grief! I must talk to him! Light: Son, we only have to scan his brain and we'll know if that's really him! Mega Man: No dad, this is betwen him and me! Don't interfere!
Page 6 Roll: I don't like this Light: Calm down, we'll be able to see everything from here. Auto: Mega Man can beat anyone! I can bet my screws, he'll be all right! Roll: I hope so. Mega Man: Are you already calmed down? Fire Man : Mega Man Mega Man: My friends and my family call me Rock. Mega Man: Listen, I respect the humans a lot, but also the intelligent robots. Mega Man: And I don't like that a thinking robot must be deactivated just because it isn't convenient for the humans its existence. Mega Man:It gives me rage that always behind every "bad" robot is a human who programmed him in that way. Mega Man: But your history is different. The life hasn't been fair with you and that confused you. Mega Man: I won't judge you because I'm a machine like you. Mega Man: So I'll liberate you. Weapons armed to maximum. Mega Man: But if you insist to threaten the people who I love... Mega Man: You'll force me to stop you at any cost Mega Man: Fire Man, brother, let's leave the past behind and let's be a family again like we used to be. Mega Man: Please.
Page 7 Roll :He released him! That wasn't planned! Light: Rock knows what he's doing! Look! He's not attacking! Light: He's thinking about Rock's words! Light: Cross fingers! Maybe this will have a happy ending! Auto: I don't understand it, Dr Light! How is possible that a robot that you created can hate you so much? Is reprogrammation that terrible? Light: The strangest thing is he never was reprogrammed. Fire Man and Elec Man were my unique combat designs from beginning to end. None should be dangerous, but there was a terrible accident when Fire Man was born and his face got burnt. The worst damages were at his mouth, and I had no time fix him before he waked up, so I made him that helment. I never knew it, but Fire Man felt anger when he realized that he wasn't perfect like his brothers. He just doesn't hate me. He hates all of us! The saddest thing is that when I had everything ready for his reparations, Dr. Wily take him away with Bomb Man, Cut Man, Ice Man, Elec Man and Guts Man. They were reprogramed because they weren't evil, but Fire Man ... Light: Nobody knows why Fire Man followed Wily by his own will. Roll: When Rock faced the other five, their valuable minds were already gone forever. They were ... different robots Light: Yes, Roll, but Fire Man was indeed the robot that Rock knew and admired ... thus it was very hard to destroy him. Light: I understand he's trying to recover him at any cost ... Light: Rock always felt guilty for Fire Man's ending ... during all this years he has wondered if everything could be different. Roll: It wasn't his fault. Roll: This is not right. Why Fire Man haven't said anything?
Page 8 Fire Man: Is this everything what you've learned during all this years? Chat? Fire Man: You're still the same damn coward! Mega Man: What? Fire Man: Do you think I'm interested about you or your stupid family? It's clear that you don't even know me a bit! You are nothing to me! Mega Man: Fire Man! Leave your hate! You don't have nothing to fight for! All we have forgave you! Fire Man: I don't need your mercy neither your compassion! Fire Man: I'm FIRE MAN, the warrior! Fire Man: And you, spoiled kid! I'm fed up watching at you! Just die! Fire Man: NOW! Mega Man: Nooooo! Roll: He's attacking him! Light: We must stop them! Fire Man: Did you come here with your armor only to chat? Fire Man: Yeah right! Fire Man:What you want is THIS! Mega Man: AAAAAAHHHHH!!
Page 9 Fire Man: I'm always ready to please you ... BLAM! Fire Man: ... Making you feel on your skin ... Fire Man: THE FIRE STORM!! FOOOM Mega Man: Oh no! BOOM! Mega Man: Enough, Fire Man! Mega Man: I don't wanna fight you! BZAAAAM BLUM!
Page 10 Fire Man: I don't even had to avoid it! Fire Man: Did he miss in such a short distance? Mega Man: Did you see that? Mega Man: Damn! Mega Man: I'm programmed to return any attack against me! Mega Man: But I could miss that shot on purpose! Mega Man: I don't wanna fight because you're my brother! My father made you and there's no evil in you by nature! Mega Man: There's no reason to fight anymore! You don't have nothing to prove! Mega Man: Wily tempted you in the past with his power! That's why you followed him! You never cared about his world conquer! You just wanted to prove that you were better than me and I understand it! I understand it and maybe I could make the same thing! Mega Man: We were too young! Just kids! I don't accuse you! I can't! Mega Man: I can't ... Come back with us, brother ... please. Mega Man: Fire Man? Mega Man: If I just would read his mind ... Mega Man: The storm on his head ... must be terrible ... Mega Man: I just want to help you, brother ... Let me do it! Light: As a warrior I implanted a terrible pride to Fire Man Light: But he's intelligent ... He must know that Rock is sincere. Roll: Psssst! Rock! Get out of there! Mega Man: What? Auto: Dr. Light said Fire Man will never get out of that shielded room. Roll: Get out now, Rock! Leave him imprisoned! Fire Man: Leaving so soon, Mega Man ? Mega Man: Uh? Fire Man: In the past you never escaped from me. Mega Man: Fire ... Fire Man: I'll give you a reason to fight for! Mega Man: What?
Page 11 Fire Man: No more psychoanalysis! No more foolishness! Fight me now because if you leave me here, the first thing that I'll make once I can get out will be to melt your stupid sister down!! Mega Man: B-but ... Fire Man: Furthermore I'll put an end to all your family and all this damn place! Mega Man: N-no! You won't do that! Fire Man: Fight me with all your powers, because if I defeat you, I'll liquidate them anyway!! Mega Man: Shut up! You're lying to me! Fire Man: Look at me, boy. Fire Man: Do you think that I'm lying? Fire Man: I heard that screechy voice over there. Fire Man: Yes ... she's outside! Fire Man: I'll melt her down right now sou you'll see that I'm serious! Mega Man: NO! BOOM! Fire Man: Good! Fire Man: How good!! Roll: Rock! Come here! Roll: Rock! Roll: What are you doing?! Mega Man: Roll Roll: NO! BLAM! Auto: He lock in there with him! Auto: He locked it from the inside! I can't open it! BLAM! BOOM! KABLAM! Roll: They're fighting! Auto: But ... Mega Man is better than ... POW! BLUM! Roll: You don't understand, Auto! Fire Man can kill him!
Page 12 Rock won't fight with all his power! He loves Fire Man as much as any of us! He is his family! And I'm sure Fire Man will take advantage of that to finish him! Fire Man: Damn it, Mega Man! Fight! Fire Man: I'll kill the girl! I swear it! Mega Man: N-no ... you won't ... Fire Man: What? Fire Man: I mean it! Don't dare to test me! Mega Man: I can't believe it ... so many years and you still want to prove that you're better than me ... Mega Man: Listen ... I am not going to destroy a brother just to cry over his dead body ... that finished to me years ago ... I swore that it would never happen again ... Mega Man: Now it's your turn! Fire Man: How? Mega Man: Go ahead! Finish me! That's what you want, isn't it? You always hated me more! Always! Fire Man: You're less than crap, coward! Mega Man: You're transparent to me ... There is not more evil in you than the created by the hatred ... Mega Man: With my death ... all that hatred will die with me ... Fire Man: I don't want to hear more bullshit... ! Fire Man: I'll destroy you with the FIST OF FIRE!!
Page 13 Fire Man: Bye, Mega Man! Mega Man: With my death ... all your childlish hate will be satisfied ... and your real values ... will emerge ... Mega Man: ...and like me ... you'll defend all human life ... Fire Man: DIE! Auto: I did it! Roll: NOOOOOO!! Fire Man: FIST OF FIRE!! BOOOM!! Auto: Holy cow! Roll: ROOOOCK! KABOOOM!!
Page 14 Roll: Rock? Mega Man: What? Mega Man: Fire Man! Fire Man: To defend all human life?? Fire Man: I don't accept that responsibility. Mega Man: Brother... Mega Man: UNGH! Roll: Rock! It hurts you too much? Mega Man: These little scratchs? C-calm down ... I'll be OK! Mega Man: I'm OK! I'm happy! My great brother ... he could kill me but he didn't! Mega Man: Roll, our big brother, the warrior with hair of fire, is back! Fire Man: Don't get me wrong, boy! You brought me here to the old man for reparations ... and now I spared your live ... for this time. Fire Man: So I guess we are even now. Fire Man: I already told you .. I don't care about you ... neither your family!
Page 15 Mega Man: That's not true! Fire Man! Mega Man: Don't go away! Wait! Mega Man: Don't leave us! We're your family! Mega Man: Damn! Roll: Rock Mega Man: WHY DID YOU SAVE ME TO DIE BEFORE TENGUMAN?! Mega Man: WHY DID YO DO IT?! Fire Man: He callenged me ... Fire Man: And paid the cost ... Fire Man: I Never cared you Fire Man: Face it! Mega Man: FIREMAAAAAAAN!! Fire Man: You won't see me laughing ... ever Mega Man: Why? Why is he doing all this? Roll: Rock ... Rock, let him go! You already heard him, he doesn't want to stay with us. Roll: You can't obligate him. It's not your fault. Mega Man: No, no! You don't know him as I do!
Page 16 Mega Man: He wants to come back ... on the deepest part of his being ... he wants to come back. Mega Man: This sound crazy but I know that all the harsh things that he tell us ... he tell for pride ... he doesn't feel those words ... Light: Then it's his decision! Mega Man: Dad? Light: And when Fire Man choose to come back, we'll wait him with opened arms Roll: Well, I'll do an effort because I don't like him so much ... Anyway, he doesn't likes me too. Auto: Ditto This is the most important to me! My family! My home! Fire Man, you have a home too! And I know you will come back soon!
Bass: Fire Man, uh? Bass: Mmmmmmh ... Bass: Wily will be interested with all this.
END � 1999, 2000 Iv�n Rodr�guez Asqui
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