3Note: Wow, I actually got something done before the year's end! This has been a fun little thing to do, a little strange, yet I'm glad I did it. Perhaps I could toy with doing a comic or something with it, yet that'll just have to be seen in the future.
Thanks for your viewing!
Chapter 11: Upon a Dream
"All right," Dr. Light stated, viewing the monitor's readings. "Everything appears to be functioning as it should."
Mega Man gave a sigh of relief, rising off the examination table. "Good to know." He took a moment to stretch his form before hoping up off the table. "Last thing I need is something else going loopy."
"Speaking of," Roll interjected. "What exactly happened in there?"
"Like I said, I still don't entirely get it." the Blue Bomber stated, placing his palm to the center of his helmet. "She called herself Morrigan, said she was all this stuff, and we essentially beat each other until she gave up." He noticed his sister giving him a look. "No, nothing about it was pleasurable."
"That's a lie." The blonde chuckled, much to her sibling's dismay.
The azure android then looked to Rush, whom had been mostly quiet since their 'release' from the world they were previously trapped in. Going over and giving him a small pet on the head, Mega then turned to the bearded scientist. "Is there no trace of anything? None at all?"
He had expected Light to shake his head. Yet it seemed that the old man was at a loss. "Well…about that," both Mega and Roll were taken aback by this sense of unease that came over their creator. "The Dream Transmitter, at least what we managed to salvage, has had no display of any hiccups or glitches." He paused for a moment. "Don't worry, I have NO intention of making use of it. Such a thing is a grave abuse of power." He continued. "However…the source of what you've…described, Mega Man, before now, I would've declared impossible. Yet…"
"Yet what?" Mega questioned.
"The interference appears to have come from an external force. Outside of the machine."
"Well…couldn't it have been Wily?" Roll asked.
"…it's a possibility that he was simply playing along." Light acknowledged. "Yet still…"
Despite the ordeal being over, there still hung a veil of dread over the entirety of the lab, let alone over the very word 'dream'. Mega Man gave Rush another pat, his blue eyes traveling over the monitor, the components of his CPU displayed on the screen, reading as functional.
Functional…and conscious.
Sleep mode was not going to come to him easily, he suspected, for some time.
Realm of Makai
Despite the aches and pains that plagued her body, she still attempted to keep her steps as quiet as possible. The small 'clicks' of her heeled boots echoed throughout the winding stairwell as she methodically made her way up. Blasted machine did a number on her, there was no denying that. Yet it was only now that she was forced to admit that she severely underestimated the damage he had done. She wasn't going to just sleep this one off.
"Mistress!" a low hiss came from above her, she going a bit further up the stairwell to see a tall, broad shouldered, blue skinned humanoid that bore the face of a corpse, he garbed in the attire of a butler. "There you are!" despite his relief upon seeing her, his elation died the moment he saw just what sort of state she was in. "Oh…oh goodness, what happened?"
Morrigan coughed a bit, her chest aching. "Let's just say…" she moaned, reaching the top and practically collapsing into the servant's arms. "Mechanical men can play a little rougher than normal men."
The blue skinned butler rose a brow (or where one should've existed). "I…don't entirely understand."
The succubus merely sighed. "Just…get my nightwear laid out. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I need to get to bed."
…
It took her some time to calm him down from the number of bruises laid upon her, if not just to keep her father from rousing from his own sleep, yet the small moans and sharp inhales she emitted certainly didn't help matters either. Yet eventually, she managed to get her rose-pink nightgown on, her bed awaiting her, lined with fat, fertile roses of hot pink.
Something that she would've normally welcomed, but now, it only brought rather unsavory, recent memories.
"Comfortable, mistress?" her servant questioned, Morrigan in turn sighing.
"As much as I can be, given the circumstances." The blue skinned butler then grew silent, she sensing what he was wishing to say. "How is the Master's current condition?"
"He is…stable." He told her. "Though…"
"Though what?"
"I will say this, milady, perhaps it would be wise for you to begin making…preparations."
The woman was silent, bringing her arms to hug herself, as if trying to get warm. "He…he will be fine." She answered. "The Master…father has ruled this section of Makai for thousands of years. There's no reason that his reign should end so abruptly now."
Her servant sighed. "If you say so." He began to make his way to the exit of her bedchambers. "I bid you a good rest, Mistress."
"…thank you. Goodnight."
With that, she was left alone, she making her way to her bed and easing her way on it, wincing as she adjusted her position until she found one that made her experience the least amount of pain.
'Cursed robot.' She hissed to herself. 'Old man interrupts MY night, and then that blue…' she was so frustrated, she couldn't even form coherent thoughts. That blasted Mega Man had not only destroyed her good time, something that could've been forgiven if he simply let her show him his place, yet to stomp and crush her pride…ooh, that couldn't simply be forgotten!
Still…despite herself, Morrigan had to admit that she was taken aback by the existence of things such as him. Humans had advanced more than what she had given them credit for. Not as much as her kind, of course, yet lower lifeforms such as they were full of surprises. And from what she had seen, the blue boy was far from the only one in existence. Such things required further…examination.
She'd head out again once she healed up, which, given her species, would probably take only a day or two. Then…then she'd head out and see more of what these metallic beings had to offer. And who was to say it would stop there? Maybe she'd engage with some of them…maybe she'd pay a visit and see what that balding old man was up to.
And maybe, just maybe, she'd pay that blue robot a little visit in the future.
A visit that, in one way or another, she would emerge victorious in.
Note: The end! I believe that Morrigan's servant has a name, yet searching for it hasn't turned up anything.
That said, here's hoping that you all enjoyed this strange little entry of mine.
