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ㅤㅤ⌜ With barely time to react, a weight attaches and forces itself to latch onto his sight, digging flexible teeth into the back of his head.
ㅤㅤBoth eyes widen. For a brief moment, he hopes that second would be enough to ping to Wily for aid, ⌟
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⠀⠀〝 Right, right—- way ahead of you, doc! 〞 He's pretty sure he'd be laughed at if he walked up to his fellow robots dressed like this. And /that/ simply won't do!
⠀⠀Playfully saluting his creator, Proto quickly scurries out of the doctor's lab, making his way back to his own room.
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// that’s just an open/flavor text fyi i just wanted him to comment on that
( He nods. He’s willing to take the benefit of the doubt here; and if it turns out it wasn’t as serious as they thought, he’d take advantage of it. )
Yes, we’ll help him… and once he’s weakened from /that,/ I will step in and conquer from there. He won’t be able to stand in my way!
( Now, he has to process the fact that Mega Man might /not/ have been lying after all. )
( Wily, of course, is not one to squander an opportunity when he sees one. Even if Mega Man’s words are entirely true, and they’re in for a fight… then he knows he’ll have the last laugh. )
You’re free to tell the others— but put your armor on first, Proto Man.
( No casual dress on his watch. )
… Why has Shadow Man gone offline?
( Repeated attempts to contact him are unsuccessful. Wily has to just… sit back, in total disbelief. )
( He gave his robots an /order/ for a reason! )
I won’t have any of my robots fall under his thumb. I’ll have to program a failsafe update…
( At least Wily and Mega are on the same page, even if he doesn’t know it yet. )
So an evil Mega Man X… and he thinks he can take /my/ world from me?
( Hmm. He pushes his current work to the side. That could wait. It seems like Proto’s more casual appearance, ironically, adds to how serious this is, if he’s willing to come up here without armor to tell him all this. )