| Narrator: No one was left who could remember how it had
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| Happened,
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| How the world had fallen under darkness.
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| At least no one who would do anything.
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| No one who would oppose the robots.
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| No one who would challenge their power,
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| Or so Dr. Wily believed…
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| [There is a skyline in the distance. |
| A brilliant and
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| Bright city with building after building crowded into a
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| Dense and industrious center. |
| The city is closer now.
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| Rushing past the buildings to the base of one crumbling
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| High-rise. |
| The first story passes by. |
| The second now,
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| And with more speed. |
| There is a blur of windows and
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| Brick. |
| Eighteen… Nineteen…]
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| Twenty floors above the dark streets of the city, Dr.
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| Light lived in a run-down tenement.
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| An eccentric and brilliant man.
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| Light was a loner, a thinker, a man of ideas.
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| Ideas forbidden in Wily’s society.
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| The society for which he worked.
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| The society in which he lived.
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| The society that he would set free.
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| And so Light worked, far into the night, when the
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| Watchful eyes of Wily’s robots weren’t upon him.
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| He’d set his skillful hands to the task of creating a
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| Device to bring about a change, to create a machine to
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| Bring freedom, to create a man to save the world.
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| Twelve years Light worked and on a cold night in the
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| Year 200X, Protoman was born.
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| A perfect man, an unbeatable machine, hell-bent on
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| Destroying every evil standing between man and freedom,
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| Built for one purpose, to destroy Wily’s army of evil
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| Robots. |
| Ready, willing, prepared to fight.
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| [The streets, the arteries of this metropolis, run with
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| Bodies. |
| Crowding together, they flow out of the city,
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| Toward a superstructure east of town. |
| A factory. |
| A
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| Fortress. |
| Glancing at it the fascade resembles the face
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| Of a skeleton. |
| Smoke pours from the stacks high above
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| The outer wall. |
| The gates are open. |
| A figure stands in
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| The light before the entrance. |
| Perfectly still, he
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| Waits. |
| The crash of metal destroys the silence. |
| One by
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| One the Robots step forward, step into the light.]
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| Cutman
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| Gutsman
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| Elecman
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| Bombman
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| Fireman
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| Iceman
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| Proto
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| Fireman: Attack!
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| [The violence is surreal. |
| Metal against metal, the
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| Sound is deafening. |
| For most, the reaction is
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| Automatic. |
| Hands cover ears. |
| Mothers reach to cover
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| Eyes of terrified children. |
| The blows are quick and
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| Precise. |
| This is Protoman. |
| Dealing death without
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| Remorse, without hesitation, and still, the fight is
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| Unbalanced. |
| One against so many. |
| Protoman fights
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| Without fear of defeat, although it is inevitable. |
| The
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| Men keep their distance, straining to see every
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| Crushing blow through the smoke that has surrounded the
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| Ongoing battle. |
| The din stops abruptly. |
| Unsettingly.]
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| Narrator: And as the smoke cleared!
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| Wily rose above the countless robots remaining.
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| Protoman was wounded, low on energy, struggling to
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| Remain standing as Wily ordered the final attack.
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| The death of Protoman.
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| The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall, to
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| Watch their hopes destroyed.
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| They watched them beat him, they watched them break
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| Him, they watched his last defense deployed.
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| There was not a man among them who would let himself be
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| Heard.
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| But from the crowd, from thier collective fear, arose
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| These broken words:
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| We are the dead
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| We are the dead
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| Human Choir: What have we done?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: What will we do?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: Where will we turn?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: Is there nothing we can do?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: How did it come to this?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: How did we go so wrong?
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| Narrator: We are the dead
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| Human Choir: We are the dead |