I have been following your story off and on for a while now and I must say I am both pleased and impressed at the thought and effort put into this story. I would go on, listing every trait that I thought was good, but I think that would be wasteful of your time. I am no experienced critic or writer and will leave the story where it belongs, left alone as you see it until you've written it in it's entirety. Instead I will give you the the truest and simplest review I can. I have spent several hours reading your story, a work in fiction based off of another work of fiction, and find that I have not regretted the time being spent. I have enjoyed your story and eagerly await the next chapter. Good luck and thank you.

...RIP RD-224. You kinda reminded me of R2-D2. :(

What a great chapter. i was literally in tears when that little Metool sacrificed himself to save us. This is one of the best Megaman prequels ever written. EVER. I love all the moments of dramatic irony, like when Wily asked the crew if he was a villain.

Wow! I LOVE THIS FIC SO MUCH! it is one of the most well writen fics i have ever read! i have read published books that weren't as good as this! NO willy why? its like watching the first three starwars movies i like willy to much! can't you do like a spin off ending where he stays good please! i dont want to read the bit where he goes bad! even if you do do a chapter on it i wont read it i'll just read up to that chapter. KEEP IT UP! i love this story and please finish it soon1 i can't wait any longer!

Erico,

Keep it up. I've been checking in on your fan fiction for seven years now, and it's still as good as ever.

I am looking forward to seeing how GRL concludes. You have brought Wily and Light to life far beyond my expectations.

Keep up the great work,

R

YOU.

Yes you.

YOU are GLORIOUS!

I begun reading this a mere 3 months(during the start of March)...and it was so amazing...there were some characters I definitely loved. Like Latchkey.

Latchkey...

By the way it might irk, but I totally this simple character...so much so I've some stories about her personality in paper.

Wait.

Yes...I said "her personality". Because I am a proper lesbian and I imagine her curled up on a chair (A-la L from deathnote) with a twinkie hanging out of her mouth and...

Oh god...I really have to show you the drawing...

That is, if you want...to...

I really enjoy this story. You've made the world of Mega Man come alive, and you include canon details in very interesting ways. The characters come across as vibrant, and you've given me a look at Dr. Wily that I never expected -- and I can't help but feel dread knowing what's going to happen to him.

Story-wise, I've enjoyed your work a lot. I especially like the little details, like how you tied in the "Battle Network" timeline into this one through the competition and the coin flip.

I gotta ask: if the coin flip had gone the other way, do you think there still would have been the war?

I wonder if it is considered appropriate for a grown male to "SQUE!" ? And being straight.

I mean, "HOLY ** AN UPDATE! SWEET!" but also, "HOLY ** AN UPDATE, AND ITS BEEN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS SINCE THE LAST ONE! SWET!"


But I find myself with trepidation, seeing as this chapter left us with a semi-cliffhanger. Reading the author's blog, I totally understand the reasons, and am grateful for what he has posted for us. Yet, at the end of the chapter I find myself talking to my monitor asking it where the rest of the story was.

The problem with being a great author, is that when you write a story, people always want more, and society of this day and age just don't have patience to wait many months for the next installment. Be it a chapter every 2-6 months, or an entire novel every 2-5 years...

Oh, NICE. I was wondering how you were going to make the shove fail. Very elegant. It was a very surreal experience reading that, though, after my review of the last chapter.

Can I say that I really like your handling of the technological aspects of all this, and how different it is from the standard Star Trek technobabble approach? And the humor? Because I do.

A few more notes:

After reading the end of the Coke exchange between Murges and Light, all I could think was "Creek Moment!" TV Tropes has Ruined My Life.

Oliver being seventeen years older than Jessica is not a problem if he's at least 48 and she's at least 31. 48/2+7=31. The Creepiness Formula is satisfied. And I'm pretty sure they are -- remind me what their birth years are?

>robots for “Defense”,

This should probably be single-quoted, since it's inside another setof quotes, and the comma goes inside.

>And don’t start with that “It’s been online long enough to…”

Again, single quotes. Plus you've got two opening quote marks and only one closing one.

>Going from zero to 25,0 miles per hour over a stretch of twenty-three seconds was certainly nothing to see as routine.

Uh, no. That's an average of 49.55 g. I'm looking at Wikipedia's article on g-force now, and that'd probably kill them.

>...double and triple checking numbers; Altitude and navigational commands...

The A isn't capitalized there.

This gets better and better. I love your explanations and nods to the game! Like the charged shots, the gravity rooms and stuff! And RD-224 is so cute :) I felt really happy when he decided to protect the humand and worked faster. If all the Metools did that, it could be completed in time!

Er, I do believe the "lead" in "Bubble Lead" originally referred to its ability to lead the way, like showing where the fake floors in Wilys Castle were..

Loving the references though.

I don't remember what nationality Paul Van Hostick is, so I can't say for sure that obscenity of his is inaccurate, but might want to get a second opinion on it.

This? This is sheer genius. I've never played the Megaman games, the closest I've ever come was reading "In Wily's Defense," a sprite comic. Nevertheless, I've come away with an extensive understanding of the characters that you've given life to. This has been an unvarnished pleasure to read, and deserves twenty times the reviews it has gotten.

I was half-expecting project SKYLIGHT to be called Final Weapon when I read the physical description of the station... oh well, maybe in a few decades or so?

Chapter was shorter than usual, but I suppose its better that way, to build suspense and such. Guess I'll just have to wait a few months to see the conclusion.

...It's a comet.

It's made of ice.

It's made of water.

With a nuclear thermal rocket, it's made of PROPELLANT.

With a magnetic confinement fusion propulsion system, electrolysis of water, and proton-fusion capacity (which I presume they have), it's made of REALLY GOOD propellant. And it could probably push for years. Sure, the comet's huge, but they only have to change its angle a little. And their robotics are good enough that they could make their rocket adjust for the loss of mass the sun will cause.

I know I'm talking about suspension of disbelief in a Mega Man prequel, but have you ever read Entering Space by Robert Zubrin? It goes into the numbers a lot. Really, just from the numbers, I can't see how shooting at it from LEO is supposed to be more effective.

And was the K-T asteroid really that big? Wikipedia's article on the Alvarez hypothesis says only 10km in diameter.

Wow. Even knowing it's going to turn out okay, I'm still scared for the world. Loved the cartoon reference to 'plasma cannons' :p I have to say, the part where the Metool exploded made me laugh. I dunno why.

Awesome chapter.

Hey, there, Final Weapon! Guess they hacked the poo out of you in the future, eh?! XP Enjoyable as ever.