I don't care if it looks messy. It HAD to be submitted.

See, I periodically visit eBay. Mostly to look up action figures. (To all you "mature" teens out there: You laugh, but also you forget what you wrote on the bathroom stall.) One seller, whose identity will not be given as to protect it, was selling RS-Megaman figurines (remember those? Please tell me you do.). They weren't familiar with the characters, but managed to name the ones they did correctly except for a certain red raider who, if you can believe it, was given the name of "Roton".

Roton. Derived from Protoman. Not that big of a stretch, but hey, still worth mentioning.

I wouldn't have given it a second thought, had it not spawned--wait for it--a dream, involving the seventh planet from the Sun, Megaman, and scientific inaccuracy.


In space, there was Uranus, apparently stripped of nearly all its atmosphere, because it was a rocky planetoid with many cliffs and some plant life, and oxygen. And on this outer planet lived some robots, or humans, or cyborgs, or whatever--bipeds who resided on Uranus. [Give that a minute to sink in.] One of them was a young fellow named Roton. He was a quiet, lone figure, as people who grow up on an isolated, strangely-gravitated planet may. For whatever reason, he was selected to leave Uranus and find another planet.

Joy of joys, the last space vehicle in the robots' possession malfunctioned while Roton was using it, and he made a not-so-soft landing on Planet Numero Tres. Badly injured, he stumbled out of the wrecked ship and collapsed face-first in the dirt.


Some years later, another young robot, name of Megaman, and his siblings--Roll, Protoman, Gutsman, Cutman, et all--venture to the neglected seventh planet for another unspecified reason. While wandering around (trying to figure out why Uranus was no longer much of a gas giant, I'm sure), a robot came out of nowhere and, upon spying Protoman (who had removed his helmet, probably trying to readjust it), cried, "Roton, is that you?"

Solemnly, "Protoman" turned to his siblings and sighed. "Guess I better tell you now..."

When Roton made a touchdown on Earth, a not-so-young man named Dr. Light found and repaired him, but was unable to do anything about the ship. Deciding to play along until he could find a transport back home, Roton renamed himself "Protoman", as he was masquerading as Dr. Light's first robot (not that the scientist claimed that).


The Foxinator still believes me to be on something.

Rarely do my dreams make any sense, and this one was no exception--HOWEVER, if someone could write the above convincingly, they'd win several Internets.

Off to bed with me; it's getting late.