Mega Man walked into Proto's room to tell his brother about a letter he had just recieved. As he walked in he noticed potatoes with faces painted on them on Proto's desk.
"Umm... Proto? why do you have potatoes in your room?" Mega asked.
"They're my new pets." Proto explained cheerfully. "The blue one's name is Rock."
"Why'd you name it after me?"
"It's the first name that I thought would work. I mean I couldn't name it Zero or Crono or... Terrance." They both shuddered at the mention of Terrance. "Anyway, the purple one is Gospel, the black one is Forte, the pink is Roll, the green is Tango, and the coolest one of all, the red one, is named Blues."
"Gee... I think maybe I've heard those names somewhere before. I wonder where that could be?" Mega said sarcastically.
Proto smiled innocently.
"Anyways," Mega said. "I wanted to tell you that I got an invitation to be a contestant in the 'Forte Gameshow.'"
"What in the world is that?" Proto asked.
"I think it's a gameshow."
"Maybe it's a cooking show."
"I don't think so. It's a gameshow."
"No, it's not! It's a cooking show."
"Gameshow."
"Cooking."
"Game."
"Cooking."
"Game."
"Cooking."
"Shut up both of you." Roll butted in from the doorway. "It's a gameshow and that's final."
Mega gave Proto a look that practically screamed 'I told you so.' "Anyway," Mega said. "They're going to send me a letter in a couple days that'll give the details."
"'Kay." Proto said.
A few days later, the letter came and Mega again went into Proto's room. Mega noticed that Proto was eating a baked potato, and that on of his pet potatoes, Rock, was missing.
"What happened to Rock the potato?" Mega asked.
"I ate him. He wasn't getting along with the others." Proto said while smiling evily.
"Umm... yeah. Anyways, I just came to give you a ticket to the show tomorrow." Mega said as he placed a ticket next to Proto, and then backed away.
"Do you have any idea what you're going to make?"
"Make?"
"On the cooking show."
Mega just left.
That night Proto woke Mega up.
"What?" Mega asked.
"My pet watermelon wants to sleep in your room." Proto said, holding out the watermelon.
"Why?"
"'Cause it's lonely."
"Why can't it sleep with you then?"
"It doesn't want to sleep with me, it wants to sleep with you."
"No."
"You sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"So it can sleep in your room?"
"No!"
"But you just said 'yes'."
"I said 'yes, I'm sure' not 'yes, it can sleep in my room.'"
"But..."
"No! Absolutely not!"
"Fine then," Proto said and then threw the watermelon out the window. "Now look what you made it do!"
"Why'd you throw it out the window?"
"You made it comit suicide."
"How can it comit suicide? It's a plant. It was already dead."
"Ahhhhh! Blasphmey!" Proto screamed and ran out of the room.
Mega went back to bed.
The next day Mega showed up on time for the gameshow. He was introduced to the host: Forte, otherwise known as Bass. The other two contestants were Treble and Rudy. Mega Man took his place on the set as the show began.
"Welcome to 'Forte's Gameshow'. I'm Forte. Before we start our show, we'll introduce the three contestants." Bass said as a spotlight shined down on Treble. "Our first contestant is Treble, my dog. He was made, along with me, to help Dr. Wily take over the world. He obeys my every command." Then Bass muttered, "normally."
Next the spotlight moved to Rudy. "our next contestant is Rudy from Wild Arms. He's a kid so stupid he couldn't figure out that he was a bioroid." Bass said.
The spotlight finally moved to Mega Man. "And our last contestant is Mega Man. An annoying blue dweeb built by Dr. Light. I've heard from a reliable source that he is responsible for the death of a pet watermelon, and he tastes great as a potato."
Bass paused for a moment. "And now a commercial from our sponsers, Cossack walnuts."
Next came an annoying jingle playing in the background while walnuts danced around the screen.
The gameshow started after the commercial break with Bass explaining the rules to the contestants.
"Okay, the rules are very simple. If you can't understand ther instructions, I'll be foreced to slap you with a fish." Bass said. "Now, I ask a question an you answer the questioin by hitting the big red button in front of you. Anyone not understand this." Bass looked around for a moment before continuing. "Okay, now the first question, 'What is on the top of a house?'"
Mega pressed the button in front of him. Nothing happened. He pressed it again. Still nothing. He started pounding on the button. Then Treble pushed his button.
"Roof." Treble barked.
"Correct." Bass said. "Now, what is on the out side of a tree?"
Mega Man tried waving an arm in the air.
Treble hit his button and barked, "bark."
"Correct again. What kind of life does Dr. Wily lead?"
Mega Man started jumping up and down while waving both arms in the air.
"Ruff." Treble barked.
"Correct yet again. Am I a hansome robot?" Bass asked.
"Yup." Treble yipped.
"Correct..." Bass said.
"Excuse me?" Mega Man said.
"What do you want?"
"My button doesn't work."
"Tough."
"Umm.. how am I supposed to play without a button?"
"Don't play then."
"Excuse me, Forte?" Said a voice from a overhead speaker.
"What?" Bass said.
"You have to get Mega Man a means to play." The voice said.
"Oh, yeah? Why should I listen to you?" Bass growled.
"I'm one of the judges." The voice replied.
"Oh. Nuts. Fine then. We'll take a break while I go find Mega Dweeb over there a button that works." Bass growled as he stalked off stage.
"Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Protoman and I'm here to provide you with a little entertainment while Forte is otherwise busy." Proto said while wheeling a large tray of grass onto the stage. "If you'll be patient, this will only take a moment to set up."
Proto then ran offstage and came back with and incredibly lagre fan and a cassette player. He plugged them both in. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you 'Proto's Grass Crew's rendition of The Phantom of the Opera.'" He then turned on the big fan, which made the grass swirl around. Next he turned on the cassette player, which played a taped version of 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
A few minutes later Proto was being booed off the stage. "Fine, see if I care. Just don't hold me responsibe for the countless deaths of all the heartbroken grass out there in the world. If you wake up in the morning and find your lawn mowed down or sprayed with weed killer, just remember, it's not my fault. You're the ones who made them all commit suicide."
"Sorry for the strange entertainment folks, but we're back now." Bass said as he threw a small whistle at Mega Man. "And we even got Rocky Horror over there an whistle so he can play too."
Bass paused for a moment and looked at the clock on the wall. "I'm sorry folks but we're out of time. Judges will you please give us the winner." A small envelope floated down from the ceiling and into Bass' waiting hands. "And the winner is... Mega Man?? What?!? He didn't even score a point! How can he be the winner?"
"He's winner by default. Treble isn't eligible to play." The voice from the loudspeaker said as it walked onto the stage in the form of a cloaked figure. It was followed by two other cloacked figures.
"It never said in the rule book dogs aren't allowed to play." Bass protested.
"It does now." The first figure said as it drew off it's hood, revealing Roll. The other two figures also removed their hoods and turned out to be Dr. Light and Proto.
"Hey, that's no fair. You're Mega's relatives. You're biased against me and Treble!"
"And you're biased against Mega Man. I think it sort of evens out."
"True. Oh well, he who hesitates is lost and all that stupid stuff Dr. Wily makes me say. You haven't seen the last of me!" Bass said then stalked off the stage muttering a few choice words.
"Hey!" Proto shouted. "You shouldn't be saying stuff like that. They damage the minds of little pink bunnies and small children. Fortunatly there aren't any of those in the room... or at least none that look like either children or pink bunnies. You never know, they could be hiding as a potted plant or maybe even a can opener." Proto rushed off to check for little children or pink bunnies with damaged minds.
"Maybe we should leave now before he gets out the fan and cassette player." Mega suggested.
"Good idea." Dr. Light said.
"Hey, who wants to watch the rest of Phantom of the Opera with me?" Proto asked, coming on stage with his props.
Then everyone except Proto ran off screaming. The area was vacated in a matter of seconds.
"Fine then. I'll just watch it myself. Then once it's over I'll have to get out Dr. Light's lawn mower and..." The rest what Proto was about to say was lost as Phantom of the Opera started again.