Orchestrated By C.M. Rich (Magnetman)
By Mega Man N
December
17th, 20XX
3:35 PM
«Déjà vu,» Saturn thought. Once again, the graceful Pseudo-Human found
himself sitting in a dark corner in Skull Castle calling the other
Cosmic Gladiators after meeting Hyper Storm.H. It was too weird, he
thought, but he decided to cut to the chase and call Pluto again.
"Pluto?" he said, shocked by the visual on the screen. "What
happened to you?"
"The Neostardroid armor got destroyed while we were in Rome,"
Pluto replied, "so I had t' replace it with parts from the Sagittarius
and fight in this in Kaliningrad."
"I'm so sorry," Saturn replied sympathetically. "I wish
you'd been as lucky as me, all I got was a lost hand and a few deep
marks here and there, I was almost destroyed in Lisbon. Wily repaired
them all now, but… I fought Hyper Storm.H again, like I did in Mexico
City. But I don't get— why's everyone spreading rumors and thinking
Mars knows the guy?"
"He does," Pluto explained. "I don't know how, but they
do know each other, 'n' knowing an SA operative's definitely enough
to not trust someone."
"But the Scissor Bastards just brainwashed the Mercs, right?" Saturn
asked back. "They couldn't've joined that psychopath by choice,
I don't think… Besides which, I wanna know if they stopped spreading
those rumors about us."
"Not really," Pluto corrected. "I guess Hyper Storm
being in the RPD isn't THAT much better than the SA in these guys'
books. But anyway, if losing my Neo armor wasn't enough, Mercury is
DEAD."
Saturn's eyes grew wide.
"Wraithman killed him" was added after a brief pause.
"Was this also in Rome?" Saturn asked.
"Yeah," came the feline Stardroid's reply.
"I wish I'd been there," Saturn answered apologetically. "I
should've been there. Now I'm starting to question why I didn't bring
up leaving for Wily with the whole team. Plus I worked with the Comrades
in St. Petersburg but I wanted to tell them so bad that he's on Wily's
side. I think they had a right to know, but… I just couldn't tell them."
He paused for a moment.
"Pluto, I… I'm just so sorry. I'm sorry I ever left Cossack."
" 'Sorry' isn't gonna replace all the missing armor and Mercury,"
Pluto replied. "And now the SA's coming to Cossack's place for
a little party."
Saturn tensed. «First Mercury, and now the rest of them,» he thought.
«I don't know if Mercury would still be alive if I'd been there. Or
would I have been destroyed? I don't…»
The ringed robot's face fell. "I wish I could do something to
help this time," he spoke softly, but began to raise his voice
as he continued.
"But Wily's probably got something for me to do and the Scissor
Bastards're almost halfway around the world. I HATE how the war's turning
out!" He then closed communications with the Stardroids.
"I HATE how we're losing so hard to the General," Saturn
raved,
"I HATE the Scissor Bastards and I HATE to think about how much
damage they've DONE! FUCK THEM ALL!"
The wielder of Black Holes then stood up and tried his best to compose
himself.
"One more time," he said to himself, his fists clenched and
his head bowed slightly. "Just one more time, then I'm gonna go
back."
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