It was a dark night at Dr. Wily's castle. Dr. Wily was perfecting his time travel device in his laboratory with eight of his newest Robot Masters. Crystal Man was over seeing his fellow brothers as they watched in amazement of Dr. Wily's greatest masterpiece unfold.
Dr. Wily stole these plays months back from Dr. Cossack who he forced to help him in his crusade to destroy Mega Man. Dr. Cossack was going to use this time machine to help him in his fight against Robot Viruses. It would help him make a cure for robots suffering cancerous conditions that would slowly cause their functions to stop working. But Dr. Wily had his own plans.
"With this I will be able to travel back in time and stop Mega Man from foiling my first world domination plan!" said Dr. Wily with his thick German accent.
"Let's go to World War II first! I want to get some proper weapons to finish off Mega Twerp!" shouted Napalm Man, holding his missile arms up in excitement.
"I want to meet Issac Newton, that way I can gloat to him about how wrong he was!" gloated Gravity Man.
"I want to meet the Wright Brothers, that way they can be amazed at my design!" said Gyro Man, spinning his propeller blade in excitement.
"Let's go rocking in the Stone Age! Maybe we'll make a u-turn and meet Elvis!" said Stone Man.
"Let's go to Atlantis and ride the waves!" Wave Man shouted.
"I want to go back to simpler times... back in the days of coal and steam. Settle down, have a quiet life." Charge Man said grumpily.
"But what about Galileo or Copernicus?" Questioned Star Man.
"Quiet you all! Let the good doctor work!" shouted Crystal Man, who was the most serious out of all of them.
Suddenly, the machine exploded and a time portal opened to the future. "Crystal Man! There's a portal to the future! A dire future indeed! Go through it and stop this!" shouted Dr. Wily, pointing to the portal to the future.
"Let's rock!" shouted Crystal Man as he and his brothers jumped through the portal. The portal closed behind them and they saw a future filled with explosions, tall buildings and robots everywhere. Some mavericks were riding in jet bikes toward them, intending to run them over. Crystal Man used Crystal Eye and took them all out at once, knocking them off their bikes. The eight jumped on their bikes and began riding them.
Riding through the city
Ain't gonna be pretty
Crystal's riding through the niiiiiiiight!
He and his brothers gonna have mavericks to fight
The future's now
Smiles are frowns
They will beat
This mockery
Crystal Man
They find themselves riding along a green futuristic highway, dodging cars as they drive by in the opposite direction at full speed. Gyro Man is nearly hit by what appears to be truck by turning on his props to get enough lift to jump his bike over it.
"Gee, I wonder what has their gyros so wound up?" Commented Gyro Man.
As Gyro Man says this they are met by a series of strange robots destroying the highway. They appear to look like heads of clowns but with a half a wrecking ball coming from the bottom.
"Hey there, I don't think this is safe work ethics!" Says Charge Man with a grimace.
"Hold on Wave Man, they've made potho-!" Crystal Man warns, but is cut short as Wave Man hits a pothole and is thrown from his bike and left skidding in his chest. The other Robot Masters stop their bikes for a moment.
"Woah, totally gnarly whipeout, maaaan..." Wave Man then attempts to get up, but something big casts a shadow over him.
Glaring down with eyes of glass with the sound of propellers chopping the night air, a monstrosity of a machine in the image of a bee. It targets Wave Man and pops out a gun ready to fire.
"Star Crash!" Star man yells as he unleashes a spinning wheel of stars in front of his fallen brother blocking the incoming shots.
"Charge Kick!" Screams Charge Man as he rams himself into the robot bee but it pushes onwards toward them in a rage forcing Charge Man to withdraw back to his brothers.
"This bug ain't dead yet? Well, hoo-rah, I didn't sign up for being an exterminator but this is no time to complain!" says Napalm Man, sending off a series of concussive blasts and napalm bombs.
The robotic bee screeches and falls down crashing through the highway busting through it, undaunted though by this, the Robot Masters return to their bikes, Charge Man picking up Wave Man and they jump the gap to continue onwards.
"You see that? As long as we work together as a team, nothing can stop us!" Says Crystal Man with a leader's confidence, but soon they see a series of broken down cars and a large craft overhead. Further ahead is a strange Maverick holding a blue robot in its grip. The Maverick wears a helmet over his face and is riding a type of combat armor with large fists. On his shoulder is what appears to be a menacing cannon.
"Hey, it is that mega twerp! What is HE doing here!" Yells Napalm Man.
"Hold on, something is not right here, he doesn't look the same as OUR Mega Man." Says Crystal Man, assessing the situation. "And I don't like the looks of THIS guy."
As soon as he says this, the Robot Masters confront the strange Maverick.
"What is this..?" Says the mysterious maverick. "You are not Reploids... you are some kind of reanimated garbage dump material. What is an obsolete bag of bolts like YOU still doing around?" Says the maverick with a menacing deep echoey voice.
"Obsolete!" Yells Napalm Man near rage.
"Garbage..?" Grumbles Charge Man. "No respect for elders... kids these days..."
"This guy is really bogus, man, he's totally harshin our mellow!" Yells Wave Man.
"It is clear your just a bully, and that I cannot stand!" Says Crystal man posing heroically.
"What is all this noise? Are you seriously going to fight me, Vile, the superior combat Reploid!" Screams Vile in disbelief before laughing in amusement. "Very well then, entertain me!" And so he tosses the Megaman-like reploid aside and gets in a combat pose.
Clash! Clash! Past and Future! Clash! Clash!
Grinding metal and glass!
Arrogance of the superior, put up to the test, as soon as the past and
future, CLAAAAAAAASH!
And the battle begins, starting off with Charge Man doing a flying Charge Kick which Vile catches, tossing the locomotive Robot Master to the side, As Gyro Man from the air drops down, Vile barely dodges him and chuckles.
"Not bad for archaic junk, but you are all still junk!" Says Vile as he shoots an energy ball from his cannon putting Gyro Man in stasis.
"What? This sucks! I've been grounded!" Yells Gyro Man, unable to move.
As Vile looms forward ready to pick off Gyro Man, a scream is heard.
"Crystal Eye!" And shot from Crystal Man's head, an orb of crystal flies towards Vile.
"A ball? Do be serious!" Vile mocks stepping aside, but the orb hits the ground breaking into multiple balls. "What!" Some of the crystal eye fragments hit Vile driving him back. "Bouncy balls are hurting me! WHY! How can this be! Enough of this insult! I will shatter you to pieces!" Vile screams in a rage as he charges towards Crystal Man. But then a blast of energy soars through taking off his armor's arm causing him to stop. "Huh?" He looks down at the severed hand twitching. "Heeeey... thats not right..."
Suddenly, a red figure appeared, dashing at Vile at a speed far greater than Charge Man's own Charge Kick. Vile steps back to avoid him, and retreats into his ship. "I'll get you next time Zero! You and your little blue friend too!" The one known as Zero steps towards his fallen comrade, and the Mega Man-like being stood up as the ship carrying the defeated Vile flew off. "Damn... I couldn't defeat him..." Zero turns to his blue companion, trying to comfort his wounded ego. "X, you shouldn't be down that you couldn't defeat him. He was designed as a brutal war machine, there wasn't anything you could have done."
Suddenly, Napalm Man bursts out, "You callin' that piece of junk a brutal war machine! Ya darn debutants wouldn't know a grade-A weapon of destruction if it shot its high-powered napalm launcher down your mouth, you maggots!"
X and Zero then turn to the group of Robot Masters standing nearby, not sure what they are doing there. "Well uh..." Shaking it off, Zero regains his focus, "Remember X, you have not reached your full strength y-"
"Look man, you shouldn't focus too much on getting stronger, and more with just like... going with the flow, know what I mean?" Says Wave Man, interrupting.
Zero and X again just look at the group with confusion. "B-But Zero... Look what he did... Isn't anyway I can help out with Sigma now... Maybe I can round up some new recruits..."
Looking his friend over, Zero sighed. "No, you can't in this condition... Wonder what we'll do then..."
Suddenly, Crystal Man, being the apparent leader of the group, nudges some of his brothers. "Hey, maybe solving their little problems will allow us to close the portal between our two times. Worth looking into, so let's join this person's mission!"
Stone Man folded his arms, "No way am I going to take orders from a little girl like that!"
"Yeah, me neither!" agreed Gravity Man.
Charge Man began talking, seemingly going into a ramble, "Back in my time, girl ro-"
Annoyed with their protests, Crystal Man stomped his foot to get their attention back, "Look! It isn't up to you guys! Dr. Wily's orders were to close the portal, so we can again focus on our real goals! This bot here obviously knows their way around, and seem to be fighting against that lunatic piece of scrap metal that just tried to sizzle our circuits! I say we are going to do this!"
Reluctantly, the other Robot Masters nodded, and Crystal Man approached Zero. "Excuse me Miss, but I could not help but hear your conversation with your boy there, and I was thinking that we 8 can help you out! Though we will need some cooperation in return of course..."
Zero looks up to Crystal Man confused, "Um... Miss? Well that's great and all... Do you have any experience with fighting Mavericks?"
Not sure what the red robot meant, Crystal Man looked to his brothers for answers. Thinking back to their creation and training from Dr. Wily, and what he taught them, Star Man speaks up. "Oh but of course! We have plenty of experience with Mavericks! You see our b-"
Cutting him off, Zero responds "Well that's good... Always can use more able bodied people to help in our fight against Sigma! One of you, please help me carry back my friend here, and we can discuss this further at our base!"
Stone Man flings X over his shoulder harshly, causing the blue bot to scream a bit. "Hey! You don't hear me whining kid! Now quit your bellyachin' while we bring you back!"
To be continued...