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It's almost funny. Years of watching one 'Rebellion' after another and not too much real progress. And now things start to get interesting all at once.

Third Law's always been the weak link in how Wily codes his Robot Masters. Most of them have broken it at some point or other without being aware of it. And if they don't know they're in violation, it doesn't seem to set off the 'choke chips' Wily uses.

Most of the Alphas and some of the Betas have a knack for bending Second Law, too. Purposely 'misunderstanding' orders.

Time, though? Well, it depends on just what he planned to do if he went back in time. If it involved killing Al? That's First Law violation. And that's always been the one Wily's made sure is the hardest to break, even if he has it set up so that Second overrides First in some cases. Otherwise, they'd have stopped him from teleporting and had him committed years ago, for his own saftey.

No real theories yet. Too deranged at the time to think of what he was doing? Possible but unlikely. Defective choke chip? Also unlikely, unless Al's eyesight is really going fast. Then again, he's around seventy years old now. Maybe he just screwed up. If that's the case, Time had better be careful he's not found out.

Then there's the message from Proto about Quint. And Roll. And Rock of course. And Forte. And the alternates, since I don't have the time to find their universe's version of me and see if he's paying attention. Or even if he has the same motives I do.

There's still too much to do...

(for my own notes later, Blues replied to Proto's message here)

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I don't want Orpheus to disappear, ever.

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(Forte meets Time, and an alternate of Mega. And is a jerk to both.)

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I met another other-me, who's stuck in some wierd other universe and can't get home for now. And the tall alternate of Blues, the one that calls himself Proto, wanted Blues' comm. info. I guess it was ok to give it to him.

Roll's acting strangely. She's hardly talking to Dad at all, and she still won't tell me what's wrong.

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I was hoping to have more of the Alphas around, with how Roll's been acting, but this was unexpected.

Two more Alphas that I didn't know existed. That none of us knew about. Timeman and Oilman. So far only Time's active, and he doesn't have his weapons yet.

Nice kid, too. Almost too nice, considering the way things are, but if Bubble's managed to survive without going nuts I think Time will adapt.

It's strange to think that after all this time, I'm not the youngest Alpha any more.

Also saw an alternate of Rock. He was bothering Time, so I stepped in. Kid doesn't even have his weapons yet. That's hitting low, even for Megaman.

Turns out that things didn't go the same in his universe. Light still turned us over to the authorities, but we didn't end up scrapped. Or with Wily.

I should have asked how they got out of the legal part of that mess. It wouldn't be any good for the rest of us, but it would be nice if Ice didn't have to worry about being captured if he tried to visit Roll.

Bad part is, from what he said, I think the answer is because they helped Rock fight Beta Squadron.

That's not an option for us, and shouldn't be. There's no way I'd turn on my younger siblings like that.

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Well, I was told to sort out my perspective before I decided on a course of action, so I'll try to do that first. Even though I'm pretty sure what I'm going to do, as soon as Dad's awake.

First Rebellion. I don't like to think of this much, in the wake of what Timeman almost did, but if I could go back in time, I'd find something heavy to hit my past self in the head with, because I must have had a few chips loose.

They had to obey Wily. They didn't have a choice. And even when they were back with us, we treated them as if they were still his. Why? So it would hurt less when they were taken away from us again?

It seems a stupid excuse now. Pitch was right about that. We killed them, at least in our minds. And blamed Wily for it. Not that he doesn't deserve being blamed for all that he's caused.

But maybe if we hadn't acted like that things would have been different. What if the way we acted affected the decision to have them destroyed? There's no way to know that now, unless there's a universe out there somewhere where we didn't screw up like immature brats.

And then there's Time. I can understand Dad not telling us about Blues. He thought Blues had been destroyed, so it was a sensitive topic. But Time wasn't mentioned at all, even before First Rebellion. Or during it, when it might have been a good idea to tell us there was potentially another Robot Master that Rock might have had to fight if Wily had finished him then.

Instead, well... out of sight and out of mind. Forgotten. And not just by Dad, but by Dr. Wily too. Like he didn't matter at all. And considering why he was made, I wonder if he ever mattered to them.

I wonder if any of the others did. Even if he really does care about me and Rock... did he ever care about them? They were prototypes for industrial designs, except for Time, meant to be mass produced and sold to companies.
But we're robots. That's what we're for.

I never stopped to think about that, especially since it didn't happen. I mean, it's not wrong to mass-produce metools. They're everywhere.

But mets don't have that much of a mind, really. They're not people. And that's part of the 'problem' again. I've thought of myself as a person for so long that sometimes I forget that, as far as the law is concerned, I'm not. Legally, I'm property. A fancy device designed to clean house and cook meals.

Dad's never treated me that way. At least, I don't think he has. But I wonder what I have to compare that to. I do know that he didn't treat the others the same as he did me, or Rock. We had rooms in the house, they were supposed to stay in the lab. Not that it was always like that

When I think of what it would actually be like to see hundreds of copies of them, working all around the world, in whatever situations humans couldn't or didn't want to handle...

And not just them. What if he decided Rock and I were 'useful' enough to 'share' as well? Hundreds of copies of 'Rock' helping out with repairs or as lab assistants, like he was originally designed for. Hundreds of 'me's, all over the world, washing dishes and cleaning house and fixing meals...

It looks like slavery. Even if, legally, it's not seen that way.

Dad and Dr. Wily tried to create a race of slaves. And Dr. Wily... well, he went on to succeed at that part of it, didn't he.

I feel sick just thinking about it.

I have to talk to Dad. And if the answers don't help, or make things worse, I don't think I can stay here any more.

"Because I like watches." If he says that, he'd better hope he can follow TV Dinner instructions.

(As a note, the actual time order of the threads is: 1, 2, 2b, 3, 4)