Hi guys, I'm back. How y'all doin'?
Alright, guys, I'm back with my sequel to Okkusenman, How Many People Love You?, and part two of my between 9 and X series. Before I get into the story, I wanted to do something first. I really hate the stories where you think they look interesting, but then you realize you have to go back and read the prequel to it just so you understand the premise. So, for convenience's sake, here is a summary in what happened in the previous installment, "Okkusenman", just so you don't have to go back and read it if you don't feel like it right now. I encourage you to do so later, because it is interesting, if I do say so myself (lol), and it's naturally more in depth. Bass fans should like it.
In any case, here's the summary, and I don't own Mega Man. I pwn Mega Man!
...That was corny, wasn't it?
------- Okkusenman summary ------
Mega Man rushes to the hospital to find that Dr. Light has collapsed, and the medical doctors are saying that he's nearing the end of his life. To make matters worse, Dr. Wily has broken into the robot museum with the help of his new battle bots, the Armoroids, and released all of his previous robot master, with which he intends to initiate his final scheme for world conquest and revenge against Mega Man. To make matters even worse than that, Wily's only female robot master, the loyal and bubbly Crystal Bot who always calls him "Dad", has made friends with a naiive and unsuspicious Roll, and learns what happened to Dr. Light through her.
Bass grumpily returns to Skull Castle and demands for Dr. Wily to repair a broken Treble, who refuses. Wily has become disappointed in his most powerful robot, and won't do anything for him unless he behaves. Crystal Bot enters, and feeling sorry for Treble, volunteers to fix the wolf for him, despite being told by Elec Man to go repair the monitoring systems. Meanwhile, Mega Man is seriously damaged by the Armoroids, and as he is getting repaired, he learns that Wily was aided by an insider to get the robot masters' CPUs.
Dr. Wily isn't having a good day: several of his robot masters have turned on him, and are fighting and destroying his castle, as well as trying to spread the virus on their systems to the the non-affected robot masters. Wily orders Team 1 (Guts, Cut, Elec, Ice, Bomb, and Fire Man) to destroy the infected ones and sends Bass and the newly repaired Treble to go protect Crystal Bot as she and Team 5 (Napalm, Charge, Gyro, Gravity, Wave, Star, and Stone Man) investigate the source of the virus. They find a remote activation device that was meant to set off a program that had been installed on several robot masters' CPUs before Wily had recovered them. A new robot master, Signal Man, tells them that it was Dr. Nikola Cain who did it. Signal Man manages to damage Crystal Bot's teleportation and communications devices before he is destroyed by Bass.
Mega Man continues to investigate the insider, only to find out that the insider only helped Wily somewhat: they still wanted Wily to believe there was some resistance to retrieving the CPUs. As Mega Man is pondering this, he encounters Bass and Team 5. He equips his new super armor, which makes it much easier to defeat Bass. He and the other robot masters leave, only to discover that Crystal Bot has somehow disappeared. Unknown to them, she has made her way to Light Laboratories, quite happily helping Roll organize a storage room, using the opportunity to steal Mega Man's super armor data.
Bass, very irritated, searches for Crystal Bot, managing to find her and discover her false friendship with Roll. After scaring Roll off, Bass takes the teleport-incapable Crystal Bot onto Treble Jet, and they depart for Skull Island, only to be stopped by a second Cain robot master: Emit Man. Bass manages to defeat him, but Treble's flying circuitry has been damaged, and Crystal has to call for the Skull Cruiser to come and get them. In the meantime, Bass takes on a third Cain-bot, Psycho Man, whose mechaniloid army was planning to destroy the city. Mega Man arrives during this time and helps defeat the army. Before he can question Bass, he sees Crystal Bot watching the fight below and tells her that he's figured out her ruse, and that she won't be able to fool Roll any longer. The Skull Cruiser arrives, and Crystal, Bass, and Treble make their escape.
Wily scolds Bass for allowing Crystal to be hurt, and he repairs Crystal's communications device before going to bed and leaving Crystal to finish repairing the formerly infected Cain-bots. At Light Labs, Roll regrets being so naiive for trusting Crystal Bot. Auto searches Psycho Man's CPU, and discovers that Dr. Cain wants to be a greater villain than Wily, because he believes that he deserves to be more infamous. They also discover the identities of the remaining Cain-bots; Echelon Man, Bullet Man, Sight Man, Algorythm Man, and Epic Man. Back at Wily's castle, Crystal reveals her new lab assistant, the little pipi Bruce (AKA Clef), and tells Bass that she has made a new type of armor from the data she stole from Dr. Light and that is both stronger and lighter than anything Wily has ever made. She also says she'll install her energy crystals into Bass' buster arms, allowing him to shoot both at the same time and making his shots stronger. As she prepares his and Treble's upgrades, Wave Man reveals Crystal's shadowy past: she wasn't created by Wily, but by the now-dead Crystal Man, who made her with parts from Roll, Auto, and the mysterious Mega Man X. Crystal Man, however, was killed by Wily, who didn't appreciate him thinking he was smarter than his creator and trying to upgrade Team 5 behind his back.
Bass is still in the automatic machine where his upgrades are being installed, when Crystal Bot decides that she wants to go out and get some supplies so that she can create a new and more powerful anti-virus for the next time Cain shows up. In the town itself, Mega Man ponders over the previous night's battle, only to be interrupted by Echelon Man, whose powerful "heatshock" attack proves more devastating than Mega Man expected. Mega Man manages to defeat him, but he is trapped under a huge chunk of brick that once made up a wall, and Crystal Bot steals both Echelon Man's CPU and absorbable power. Crystal hacks the CPU, learning and telling Mega Man that the heatshock has hurt some of his inner systems, and that if he doesn't get the brick off of himself soon enough, he'll explode. Crystal, saying that she isn't that patient, approaches. Mega Man thinks she's going to kill him, but instead she merely frees him and repairs his inner coolant system, saying that she wants Bass to be the one to defeat him. Crystal gives Mega Man Dub the spider-bot, saying that Dub is Roll's new cleaning assistant. Dr. Wily, who has just repaired the monitoring systems in time to witness the entire exchange, is furious, and demands that Fire Man retrieve Crystal Bot and bring her back immediately. Bass, in the meantime, has finished being upgraded and leaves.
Mega Man discovers that Dub is just what Crystal claimed he was, and the spider-bot doesn't seem to have any weapons or any loyalty whatsoever to Wily. Confused, he nonetheless leaves, fearing what an upgraded Bass might do to the city. Crystal Bot, upon returning to Skull Island, is confronted by a furious Wily, who demands that she be reprogrammed. After a failed escape attempt in which she sends Bruce to find Bass, Elec Man shocks her, and she loses conciousness. Bass, impatient for Mega Man to show up, decides to provoke him by going to Dr. Light's hospital room. Dr. Light, very friendly, tries to sway Bass from his destructive ways, but the conversation has little affect on Bass, other than to persuade him that maybe Dr. Light was a better person than Bass had previously thought him to be. Mega Man, however, arrives, and it's back to business for Bass.
Bass, now more powerful than ever, is a very serious threat to Mega Man. They fight, but before the fight can conclude, Bruce shows up and tells Bass what happened to Crystal Bot. Very angry, Bass threatens Mega Man and leaves. After checking on Dr. Light, Mega Man encounters Wily, who informs him that he has made a robot that can wield an instant death spike for a weapon. Bass shows up again, and Wily reveals to them both that he's turned Crystal Bot into a mechaniloid fighter. Bass demands that Rock fight Wily, and he himself, after a failed attempt to tell her who her real creator was, fights Crystal Bot. However, he finds out that the crystals she installed in his arms prevent his busters from hurting her, and it's only with the surprising help of Gyro Man and Stone Man that he manages to defeat the ridiculously over-powered girl-bot. Finding a way to bypass his protocols, he manages to join Mega Man against Wily's boss-bot, only to find out that Wily can automatically self-destruct him. Mega Man, however, saves his life, and the two, joined by the remainder of Team 5, manage to defeat the boss-bot, leaving Mega Man to finish up and capture Wily himself. Mega Man allows the others, who have betrayed their master, to go to his labs and be repaired.
As Roll and Auto are getting ready to operate on the robot masters, Auto reveals that Crystal Bot's personality AI is gone, and that there is no way to repair her. Bass is upset, and he reveals to Roll that he was going to take Crystal Bot as his technician so that he could escape being bossed around and oppressed by Wily. Angry now that this plan is now impossible, and left with no other choice, he tells Roll that he wants her to remove his failsafes that force him to be loyal to Wily. He says that he won't try to kill Mega Man anymore, as he feels after Mega Man saved his life that defeating him would be pointless. However, as he is about to submit to this, Jewel Man shows up, and they find out that Crystal Man left programs on his CPU to not only reinstall Crystal's personality AI, but upgrade all of Team 5, as well as a bizarre set of blueprints to turn Roll into a fighter-bot. Bass, relieved that Crystal Bot is going to be alright, finally submits to having his failsafes removed so that he can recover Crystal Bot's memories.
As Bass is about to leave, he finds out that Dr. Wily has managed to escape Mega Man again, but this only gives him an idea. After recovering the memories and destroying Elec Man with the echelon heatshock, Bass takes Wily and brings him to justice, which Jewel Man and Mega Man witness on tv. Shortly afterwards, Bass, Rock, Team 5, and Team 9 (Jewel, Magma, Hornet, Plug, Tornado, Galaxy, Concrete Man, and Splash Woman), all go to destroy Skull Castle.
Crystal Bot awakes while they are gone, and is shocked to learn what Wily has done to her, how her entire team has departed from Wily, and how Bass has given up on defeating Rock. However, she finally finds out about Crystal Man, and it cheers her up to see the footage of Elec Man being defeated. Team 5 decides to clear out Star Man's space station and establish it as their new base, and as they do, Bass, surprisingly, keeps Dr. Light company in the hospital until his release. After his release, Dr. Light goes with Roll to Florida for a vacation, while Rock and Team 5 remain to keep a close eye on Dr. Cain. Bass and Crystal Bot depart for Russia with Dr. Cossack to see if they can discover the location of Zero and destroy him.
And in the meantime, Dr. Cain has learned his lessons well. Though quiet, he's been making his preparations. He won't be defeated so easily this time....