Aftermath
The first thing Rock did when the three managed to get to the lab was collapse on the couch. Ice almost had a core attack upon Rock's sudden collapse, but Elec calmed him before shutting down again to be fully fixed. Roll gave Ice a huge hug upon leaning on the table, whispering reassurance. Soon, the little ice robot followed to be fixed as well. The news started to come ono about the apparent defeat, but Rock's energy was almost entirely depleted. He closed his eyes to prepare to shutdown, only to feel something like a blanket wrapping around him and Dr. Light quietly speaking.
"You did good Rock."
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Rock didn't know how long he was out, but he knew he was still on the couch as he opened his eyes. Bright green and blue eyes were staring at him back, smiling as he bolted up. "Woah okay! Hi Cutman, Iceman."
"Hey Rock! 'Ice' to meet you, being all good again and not evil!" Cut smiled, but Ice gave a annoyed look.
"I swear, I don't think I can stand being around you bro. Your puns are just so..."
"Cool, right?" Cut gave a smug look. Rock chuckled by the look little Ice was giving. He was ready to strangle his brother.
"STOP."
"How are you guys feeling?" Rock slowly got up from the couch, with Cutman providing support on his side. With every small step, Rock was getting up on his feet and started to walk normally again. He realized that his energy was at full health and all of his cuts were gone. Dr. Light and Roll must've fixed him while he was asleep.
"We're alright, but miss Roll and Dr. Light are with our brothers in the lab." Ice blurted out and they walked down to the lab. As they came into the lab, Rock was greeted by his sister bear hugging him. He gave a smile as he returned the hug, as well as looking at all of his repaired brothers. Elecman was just unplugging himself from the table, Guts and Bomb were smiling while chatting and patting each other's backs, and Fireman was drinking a heated E-Tank.
Dr. Light came up to Rock to give him a hug, but this one lasted longer than the others. Rock didn't think to much of it and waited for his father to let go. "I did it, dad."
"I know. But promise me that you'll never do that again, okay?" Dr. Light whispered.
"Promise. But, what happened to Dr. Wily?" Rock was wondering what happened to the mad doctor that disappeared.
"Old man up and fled the city in shame, little blue! Good riddance, I say. The whole 'messing with my brain to make us evil' scheme really messed me up. Can't believe we almost got you." Bomb spoke up, messing with his red mohawk in shame.
"My justice has been messed with and misused by such a foul human. Never again will I attack innocents, let alone my own family!" Fire declared and set his own head on fire. Dr. Light managed to calm him with a shoulder pat.
"It's alright Fireman, I'm sorry everyone that this had to happen. I..." Iceman interrupted Dr. Light by hugging him, almost to tell him that they forgive them and to not worry about it. Cutman gave Rock a shoulder hug while smiling.
"Ice, you're not showing any temperature imbalance anymore." Rock blurted out.
"Yes it doesn't affect me anymore, Rock sir. Perhaps it got fixed when you shocked me back in our battle. It has been working just fine afterward." Ice said proudly.
"So in other words, he gave you quite a 'shocking' therapy?" Cut smirked, the other robots either groaning, tilting their heads confused, or smirking at the joke. Elecman acted fast and held little Ice like a toddler, preventing any further action to strangle Cutman.
"So Pops, when do we get to go help the city and explain to the officials?" Gutsman asked Dr. Light. The good doctor sighed before clearing his throat, each of his 'children' stopping to listen.
"Even though Rock was able to stop everything from growing our of control, I'm afraid Albert already made his mark on the city. The officials want to meet up with us to clear things up, and try to convince people that you're all harmless. Hopefully, they will give you a second chance."
There was murmuring between a few of the robots, with Rock talking it through with Roll. Eventually the robots agreed and helped preparing to talk with the mayor, Elec charging himself to full power, and Cutman making awful puns toward the rest of the family. Dr. Light assisted Rock in taking off his battle armor, the little gladly putting away the memory to just return back to his normal life. Helping his father around their home and happy with his new family.
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Most of the Light bots were forced to sit or stand in the corner of the room as the meeting was taking place. Rock was able to sit next to Dr. Light and Roll, facing the mayor in his seat. While the mayor looked calm and collected towards the impending conversation, some of the other people in the room weren't so calm.
One side of the mayor were two agents, and from the looks of their clothing and badges, Rock thought they were agents of some kind. One of them was a tall man wearing a dark green coat and black hair with grey edges. He stared at Dr. Light with cold judgement, it would surely put a chill down the little robot's spine. The other agent though was female, younger than the male and had dark red hair. She looked at Rock, giving a small sympathetic smile and waved.
"So Thomas, why don't go over this one more time?" The mayor smiled.
"Agreed."
"What happened at the presentation a few days ago?" At first, Rock thought the mayor already knew what happened, but stopped himself upon seeing the recorder in the male agent's hand.
"I was presenting a new line a robot masters to public, hoping that they would be helpful to humanity. But at some point during the presentation, they were corrupted and reprogrammed by Albert-"
"You mean Dr. Wily?" The mayor interrupted.
"Yes. He snuck in backstage and reprogrammed them to attack innocent civilians and destroy everything around them. I tried to stop them myself, but due to their mindsets at that time, it was impossible to reach them." Dr. Light continued.
"So you agree that the robots were not in your line of sight when it was taking place?" By that question, the male agent seemed to glare even harder, the female agent sighing at her partner's reaction.
"N-No, I told Rock to fetch them backstage. Then when the attack happened, Roll and I saw him run to the front-"
"You told a robot to go get your other machines?" The male agent spoke out, putting the recorder down. "Seems kind of odd, if you ask me."
"Gilbert!" The female agent spoke out, "Don't assume anything yet, we haven't even-"
"I need to say this though Roslyn. Dr. Light, you admitted to saying that those 'robot masters' you call them were not fully completed, right?" Gilbert gestured to the robot masters in the corner. By the gesture, Ice wanted to sink behind Elec as protection, Bombman halfheartedly waved to the agent and Cut hugged Gut's head.
"R-Right. They were just being completed, they just needed to get certain softwares up to avoid viruses or bugs..."
"And that robot boy you have next to you knows a thing or two about building robots, since he's your creation as well?"
"I would like to say 'son', but yes. He helps me around the lab." Dr. Light wasn't sure where Gil was heading.
"So in other words, he would know how to hack robot's coding to make them turn..." Gil murmured. The female agent stared in horror, and Rock almost wanted pop out of the seat himself.
"Hold on sir, are you suggesting Rock would deliberately sabatoge my creations?" Dr. Light gasped in shock.
"Of course not. But if this Dr. Wily managed to reach toward him and force him to reprogram robots... After all, the 3rd law of robotics is a robot would do anything to preserve it's own life." Gilbert shot back.
"Gil, think this through!! A robot, even to protect itself, can't interfere with the first law to harm humans. I think he would know that, so why would he do it anyway?" Roslyn spoke up to her partner.
"Calm down Krantz, I'm stating hypothesis here."
"Sounds more like threats to me." Rock murmured.
"Um, Mister." Cutman spoke up, "If it helps, we would never plan on hurting anyone of our free will. Especially if it made our creator and Rock unhappy, because they made us happy in our first moments."
"We realize the memory we 'ave created on this day is tainted. I will not allow that to continue! So, if there's any way at awl we can prove our innocence, we will do it without a second thought. We swear it." Fireman did a little bow where the rest of them followed. Gilbert did a little 'hm' and Roslyn giggled. Dr. Light coughed before standing up.
"Please everyone, I am asking you to give my creations and my children a second chance. Please let us fix what has been done and prove how helpful they can be to humanity as a whole." He asked again, waiting for their response.
The mayor then raised his hand. "If you and your robots can clean up the city and prove to everyone that they are here to help, then they will be guaranteed to stay. I, for one, don't want to be forced to throw away these robots Thomas. Especially since I've heard how much you've worked on them."
Dr. Light and his children smiled before looking for the agents approval. Roslyn was the one to step up and speak. "I'm interested in helping you all in any way I can. You need any help, I will be contact. Gil?" She looked at her partner.
It felt like an eternity the old agent stood still. The robot masters waited in baited breath, Light staring at him with a determined look. Gilbert sighed deeply before finally nodding.
"I'll go along with anything that could repair the damage. However Thomas, I will be keeping an eye on you and your robots. You cross any lines, we will be right on you. Got it?" He gruffly stated.
"That's his way of saying we'll be making sure nothing happens to you. Take care doc!" Roslyn smiled, pulling her agent partner to the side.
"Thank you, all of you." And with the final judgement, all of the Light family exited the building. At that point, Rock didn't notice how fast his core was going until he remembered to breath. Ice managed to let go of Elec, staying relatively close to Roll not that she minded. It was a calm silence between all of the members before one finally spoke up.
"That went really well." Cutman blurted out.
"It sure did Cutman. I'm certain some of you would like to go fix some of the city now?" Dr. Light said. He chuckled by the amount of hands raised. Iceman proposed to go with Fireman to take down the ice, while Elecman would restore the fallen power plant and Gutsman clean the yellow devil goop off the streets.
"All right, all right! You all can go for now, but I expect you to be back before sundown. Get going!" The old doctor laughed as he watched his creations disperse like ants. As they entered the car, Rock got the odd feeling someone was watching them. The temporary thought made him clumsy and bump into someone. He didn't get to look as he hopped in the car.
"Sorry sir."
"Nothing to be sorry for." The boy responded. The car drove away as the yellow haired robot watched on.
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