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Fade-Highwind — The Snipers

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Description "I had hoped that police brutality was a thing of the past. It seemed to increase dramatically once Trump was elected. I didn't know what to do, so I decided to make a line of industrial humanoid robots to try to calm things down after building Rock, Roll, and a few other projects. But with the commission brought up between the United States government, Albert, and I, we had to produce at least a prototype humanoid robot built specifically for the purpose of advanced warfare and other forms of combat by 202X. Albert and I had built one that I had given the name, 'Blues'. However, I had given him too much 'emotion', so to speak, and as soon as he had overheard Albert and I talking about installing a new nuclear battery for him, as well as a possible removal of some of his more drastic feelings, he ran off. A few months after this, we had built the Snipers. The 'Joe Units' as we called them as a joke, were meant not for the purpose of putting fear back in the hearts of people, but for rescue operations where humans would normally be traumatized permanently. The Snipers lacked the programming for synthetic emotion so that they too would not be traumatized. As a result, they were put into the United States government as the main military force, working on land, in the US Navy, and even the Air Force. Shortly after, I built Rock, Roll, and worked hard with Albert's help on the Robot Masters. However, something happened to Albert, and he no longer seemed to be the happy man he once was. I asked if he was alright one day and he snapped, and he left the building and walked off. It was early August when I last heard from Albert, and the man was running for president of the United States. And surprisingly his serious tone was what the people thought the country needed. Even I had voted for him. I had given control of the Robot Masters to the government by then, and so now they were under Albert's plans. Unfortunately, our new President Wiley was still unwell from when we had last formally spoken. He had known that I was worried about him, but then by late September, there were several buildings across the country that had been attacked by the Robot Masters. I didn't think it was Albert's fault at first, as he said he would do something about it by late October. November passed and he seemingly ignored the countless lives lost that day of September 25th, and my own domestic humanoid robots were worried themselves. Roll had stopped cleaning and had been quite a bit more sad. But I knew she would be fine; it was Rock I was worried about. He wouldn't speak to anyone for two days, and then he too went a little off. He was screaming and slamming objects around, but I knew he wouldn't harm anyone human, or Roll for that matter. Then one day Roll came in crying and Rock ran in shortly after, grabbing me by the throat and yelling at me. I was worried because I had programmed him specifically not to harm anyone. He didn't, but he demanded that I modify him and weaponize him into a combat robot. I promised Rock I would do it, just because I was losing my breath. But when the time came to do it, I was scared that something would happen to the boy. I turned him into the hero we know now as Megaman, but even then I didn't want Albert to die. After the transformation I sent 'Megaman' to try to take out the six Robot Masters starting with Bombman. Bombman was currently in the main operations building for the entire military. I sent Megaman there knowing if he managed to defeat Bombman, the whole battle would be easier. The Snipers would no longer be a problem if they weren't active. Recently they had been acting as the police units as well. However, people were dying every day with no criminal activity and I feared if Megaman couldn't beat them that we all would be next. Police brutality has gotten out of control even now, but it's still just as bad if not worse than it was decades ago."

-Dr. Thomas Light, 20XX
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