Hadrian's arm panel popped open with a snap and a spark.

"Whoa! That never happened before. Gotta check that out."

He continues to tinker at his blaster untill it popped off onto the table. He picked it up with his other arm and loaded into a small homemade machine.

"That's the only bad part about this new stronger laser," Proto thought to himself, "it's having to recharge this damn nitro-lithium cell. Damn hoods in the alley, made me use up the last of my power."

The machine dings like an old microwave, and the arm flies out and lands right in Hadrian's lap.

"AAAAGHHHGHGH!! HOT! HOT! HOT!" Hadrian jumped out of his seat and dropped the arm to the ground.

"Dammit! Still not used to these 'real' emotions and pain."

He put the arm back into the open socket, he felt the jolt of lithium energy flow through him. He turned it and it clicked into place, the recorder took some time to readjust to the perimeters. He temporarily shuts down to let this adjust.

The mysterious man watches Proto's eyes go dark as he shuts down.

"Blades! Go NOW! This is an imperative opportunity!"

"You don't have to tell me twice boss!"

Blades disappears with a gust of purple energy. The shadow watches the security camera as blades appears outside Hadrian's apartment disguised as a UPS man.

"Now the fun starts," the shadow mutters, "When Blades deactivates Protoman, I will rebuild his personality in my image." The shadow spins around in his chair, once again facing the screens showing the camera feed. "That's why they call me, The Puppet Master! Ah HA HA HA HA!!"

Proto awakened a little groggy

"KNOCK KNOCK" a deep voice from the hallway calls.

"Huh? Who is it?"

"Um... Delivery for Hadrian Blues!. You him?"

"Yeah..." Proto doesn't really recall ordering anything, "I'll be right there"

The ball of light surrounded him, turning him into Hadrian again. He opened the door.

"What's the package?" He asked.

"Nothing really," the delivery man said, "Just this."

A Level 8 blast flew into Hadrian's chest from point blank range.

"I know you daffy bastard!" He yelled to his damned diagnostic AI.

The delivery man whipped of his disguise revealing a tall bot that resembles the grim reaper. His staff has light blades on each end, making a high tech sycle.

"Meet you doom, Flatscan!" Blades yelped.

"Shove it!" Proto jumps over the swinging blade, kick Blades in the head when in the air, Tranforms into Protoman, lands, and lets a blast into his assialint's back.

"You'll pay for that one Protoman!" He pulls a small remote from his belt.

"What's that?"

"It's this," Blades says as he pushes the button and teleports.

"The wall with his door explodes, then several other explosions go of around his loft.

"Holy Shit!" Proto whipped out his shield. The rushing shockwaves and hot air sends Proto flying backwards through a window. He ricochets off the next building, and hits the pavements hard.

"My apartment!" He yells.

Some passers-by look down the alley to see what was going on. The first thing they see is a burning building rubled and a robot with a pissed off look on his face.

"That robot's destroying that building!" A man yells.

"It's one of Wily's bots!" a voice yells.

"Someone call the police!"

"No, wait I..." Proto takes a step towards them.

"Run! He's gonna kill us!"

For the next several hours all that was heard fire engines, police sirens, and a thousand rioting civilans, all of blamed on protoman.

A bruised and tattered Hadrian Blues staggers into a phone booth and places a credit into the slot. "Shit! Where is it?" He curses as he goes through his pockets. "Ah-ha! Got it!"

He dials the number on the paper.

"Hello?" A cute, calm, voice answers.

"J-Janey? This is..."

"Hadrian!? Omigod are you alright! I just heard on the news that a building near you was blown up by that evil Protoman!"

At that moment, several emotions run through his mind.

"I'm okay, hey I need to stay with you for a while, That was my building that got destroyed."

"Jesus H. Christ on a crutch! Yes! Yes! I live..."

"I know where you live. I'll be over."

"Wait Hade....."