There's something wrong here.

BUT AS I LIVE, THERE IS NO EVIL THAT WILL STAND.

Now you stand just as long as they need you, BUT YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO KEEPS YOU ALIVE.

Can you open your eyes? See the blood's on the ground?

(IT'S GONE TO HELL AND THEY WONDER HOW.)

This city made us.

(Pieces of machine from the floor were seized and fused. They began to take form - the form of Light's anger, the form of his guilt, the form of his grief, the form of his love, The form of a son.)

But it won't be for nothing, HE LEFT US A WAY OUT.

(There was the hatred again, the rage, welling inside of him. No more, he thought, as he tore down the tools and parts that framed his apartment workshop. Never again.)

NOW YOU STAND JUST AS LONG AS THEY NEED YOU, BUT YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO KEEPS YOU ALIVE.

YOU'RE PLAYING IT COOL, YOUR HAND ON THE TRIGGER. I THINK WE BOTH KNOW HOW THIS TURNS OUT.

So it begins.

They don't deserve this. (When this is through,) Now more than ever, (Mankind will fall.) WE ARE THEIR HOPE!!

Flip a switch And turn it off, You won't be able to breathe.

Cutman. Gutsman. Elecman. Bombman. Fireman. Iceman. Proto. ATTACK!!!!!!

If there ever was a time, If there ever was a chance, To undo the things I've done and wash these bloodstains from my hands It has passed and been forgotten. These are the paths we must take.

Emily, don't cry for me, I know you never meant for this.

DO NOT SAY THIS IS HOW IT HAS TO BE.

My father worked the mines, Til' the day it took his life.

Sometimes I just wanna drive until the streets run out.

(600 pounds of iron and chrome roared, end over end, towards the entrance, crashed into the steel doors, And exploded.)

But everything's Fine.

(Protoman turns his attention back to his brother.)

(58 seconds to air.)

The needle buried in the red, and soon I head the engine whine-

You've given everything you've got, and still they wanna watch it BURN.

THEY LOOKED TO ME ONCE. NOW THEY TURN TO YOU. DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW? DO YOU SEE THAT THE TRUTH IS: THEY DON'T WANT TO CHANGE THIS.

The fight my brother fought Here, now, will end with me.

You will never have another Hero You will never have another chance.

(Timid voice after timid voice telling him, speaking in unison: A chorus of fear.)

My father told me once when I was young, A man cannot undo the things he's done.

I'm coming, send up a sign. I swear, I can make everything right, I can make it in time.

I'M SO TIRED OF GIVING UP, I'M SO TIRED OF GIVING IN.

THIS CITY'S SLEEPING LIKE A SOLDIER TRAPPED INSIDE OF AN IRON LUNG. MACHINES CAN KEEP YOU BREATHING, BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A NEW WAR'S BEGUN?

YOU CAN'T SEE THE STARS. THEY'VE BEEN FOR AGES.

What have I done? Though I did not pull the trigger, I built the gun.

With hands of iron, There's not a task We couldn't do.

And I know we won't fight alone. And the spark that we carry will turn the dark into A flame, a fire, a light.

THERE'S A CITY THAT THIS DARKNESS CAN'T HIDE.

AND I'M READY, AND I'M WILLING, AND I'M PROGRAMMED TO FIGHT.

(In the silence of the studio he didn't bother trying to make out what they were saying. His eyes focused on a blinking red light above the digital countdown. He spoke aloud. His words bounced off the soundproofing glass. The cameras weren't yet rolling.)

You finally get it. There are no heroes. Mankind is doomed.

The man who turns the wheels, They will follow anywhere he leads.

(He spotted what could only be a human body, twisting lifelessly as it plummeted towards the earth. Light held onto the hope that the falling body was not the one he feared it must be.)

You've only got yourself to blame if you get left behind.

OH, BUT NOW I KNOW. THERE WAS NO PLACE LEFT TO GO.

MACHINES CAN KEEP YOU BREATHING BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A NEW WAR'S BEGUN?

(He spotted what could only be a human body, twisting lifelessly as it plummeted towards the earth. Light held onto the hope that the falling body was not the one he feared it must be.)

OH, I'M NOT THE MAN THAT YOU NEED-

Oh, I can almost hear them- I CAN ALMOST HEAR THE HOUNDS.