Author's note

Now for the second chapter. Time to introduce a Scorpion wannabe and a wiseass that will plague the fic until the end.

Things to mention

- Megaman is still owned by Capcom. Or as I like to call 'em these days, Cashcom. Quit being mean to your franchises, guys D:

Chapter 2: Fury Sparks

Scorpius let out a small chuckle when he had noticed that Megaman was behind him, with his buster pointed at him threateningly.

"Ahhh, the Megatwerp! I knew you'd show up if I decided to cause some havoc…especially at something big like this!" Scorpius shouted out, so both of them could hear him. Megaman frowned out at him.

"Who are you…and why would do this?!"

Omega-Xis appeared by Megaman. "Kid, don't you know by now? Bad guys like him rarely like to talk, and usually when they do talk, it's always trash talk about how badly they want to kick your ass." This caused Megaman to shake his head in annoyance at Omega-Xis, but then he heard Taurus speak up.

"He's right! Who cares why he's here, he ruined the contest! Let's get him, Megaman!" Taurus yelled over Scorpius in a furious tone, obviously angry about having his big moment ruined.

Scorpius, during the middle of their conversation, had been locking onto both of the boys, and finally decided to speak up.

"Ruin my banter why don't you…Hidden Missiles!"

Scorpius proceeded to fire out several missiles out from his tail out, with them spilting up and injuring both Megaman and Taurus Fire. Megaman slide back a little distance, and shook his head to regain his composer.

"Why you….eat this!" Megaman replied, firing a few shots from the Megabuster towards Scorpius. Scorpius responded and dodged the pellets easily, but Taurus, who had expected this, acted quickly.

"Taurus Flame!" he cried out, inhaling and then exhaling firey breathe out towards Scorpius, causing him to receive some burn damage. While it wasn't critical, it still caused him to flinch. Megaman took this opportunity easily and charged at him using the Mega-Attack, attacking with a flurry of sword strikes.

He then finished his 4 hit combo with a kick, causing Scorpius to fly into Taurus. As Scorpius noticed this, Taurus let out a chuckle, and used his Ox Tackle to tackle Scorpius into a wall. He then backed up after his attack, Taurus let out a taunt.

"Had enough?"

His taunt proved wrong; Scorpius wasn't too badly injured from that attack. He instead, responded by shooting out some acid like projectile at Taurus via his tail.

"Scorpion spit!" he cried out as the attack hit Taurus, causing him to take a few steps backwards, towards Megaman. As Megaman stared at his ally in pain, Scorpius laughed out.

"Fools! I'm a Scorpion! You'll need to do better than that to harm me!" Scorpius stated, crossing his arms in triumph. He then pointed his tail at Megaman. "Scorpion STING!" he yelled out, grabbing Megaman with his tail.

Megaman cried out in pain, as he was crushed by the Scorpius' tail. Taurus regained his sight, and saw Megaman getting crushed.

"Darn it! Geo!" Taurus cried out, attempting another Ox Tackle to help his friend, to no avail. Scorpius easily dodged out of the way, causing Taurus to smash into a wall of the stage. He then proceeded to toss Megaman off into the distance. He had noticed Megaman gone, and glared angrily at Scorpius.

"Awww, too bad, you raging Ox. Now, how about start screaming for me? I like it better when they scream…"

"That kid looks like he took a nasty hit…" the female spoke with curiosity, as she and her traveling companion observed the fight.

The male frowned. His companion glanced at him. "Oh no. I've seen that face before…you want to help, don't you?" She shook her head. "Well, let's think about this for a moment. We've only just arrived here, and-"

Too late. He had already gone off to help, without saying a word. The female sighed.

With Geo

As Geo struggled to get up, he found himself unable to. Pain went all about his body; it seemed that Scorpius had injected him with something while he was in the Scorpion's stinger. Now, his body was pain all over. This wasn't good.

"Need…need to help….Bud…" he managed out, despite that it seemed no one was around to hear him. The pain was unbearable…

Then, as quick as the pain had appeared, it begun to vanish. Someone was healing him…

Geo opened his eyes weakly, and came to contact with an adult in his early 20s, perhaps. He was dressed in a light gray tee, gray vest, some dark pants, and long black and white gloves that appeared to be leather gauntlets. The tee in question had a strange symbol of what appeared to be a star colored like a yin-yang symbol and a sword on the right arm of the shirt, and the left arm had a hole on it.

He had short brown hair that almost covered his eyes, a stuble, and gray eyes. In the words of this narrator; either he was a reject from a Final Fantasy game (minus belts and zippers), a reject from a Tales Of game (nowadays this a bit more seems more accurate) A bit out of place, but certainly "average"…

…least he didn't have some crazy hair or something absurd like that. Now that would likely be in line for this timeline, considering Geo looks like Lloyd Irving, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is a new ally introduction, after all and they need to be as detailed as possible without going too over the top. Don't worry, they get better later.

He also had a broadsword with a crystal in the center of it, with a dark grey line in the middle of it. Not too big, a two-handed broadsword. Or maybe something you'd exepct Ike or Dante to use. Think like that.

"There, that should get rid of that poison, and whatever wounds you got. I'm no medic, but removin' poison's easy…you alright, kid?" the man spoke in a confident tone.

Megaman rose up slowly, and nodded. "Yeah, thank you…uh…"

The man smiled. Before he could speak, a loud crashing noise interrupted his voice. Seemed like Bud was still fighting. "I'll save the proper introduction for later, since it seems like trouble's still going on. My name's Devon Terrene." He then turned towards the scene of the battle. "You all set to fight?"

Megaman nodded, and the pair ran off to Taurus, who was holding his own against Scorpius. As they re-entered the area, Scorpius glared at Devon.

"Well, well. You again." Scorpius said, pointing one of his arms at Devon. The older male responded by titling his head in confusion.

"Uh…I'm sorry, but do I know you? I'd figure an idiot cosplaying as the Scorpion would ring a bell, but not in this case. What's up, punk? Gonna go try and get revenge on Spidey or JJJ or something?" Devon stated in a dry tone, clearly not impressed with the guy.

The Scorpion…erm, Scorpius shook his head in annoyance. Right, in Wave form, of course he doesn't recognize you. "Whatever, doesn't matter now. What does matter…is that you DIE! Hidden Missiles!" he replied in an over the top manner. Kinda.

Scorpius fired off a few missiles, all of them aimed towards Devon and Megaman. The older man gave off a "tch" sound, and held both of his arms forward. Suddenly, a clear barrier formed from nowhere, and blocked the missiles in mid-air, causing them to explode and hit nothing. Devon gave off a smirk.

"Gonna have to better than that, Mr. Cosplay!" he said out in teasing tone. Normally, this would have caused a look of shock from Geo, but at this point in his life, this would be considered normal. After all, he's had to deal with plenty of perfectly "normal" experiences before, right?

As Scorpius reeled back in surprise, Devon spoke up again.

"Hmmm….Scorpions have heavy armor, so I'm thinking armor-piercing attacks would do. Or, better yet, overheat the armor. What do you think, kid?" he stated, glancing at Geo.

Megaman smiled. "I can do Armor Piercing." He replied. He then shouted out, "BUD! FIRE! NOW!"

Taurus got the message well. He exhaled out, again, "TAURUS FLAMETHROWER!" This time, he let out a stream of powerful flames, purposefully making sure to ignite Scorpius' armor up. This caused the EM Scorpion to feel heat. Lots of heat.

"ARGH! You think just that's going to work?!" he cried out towards Taurus, only to get Taurus to put up the pressure on his flamethrower, greatly heating up Scorpius.

As Taurus Fire burned him, Devon drew his sword, spun it in a circle, then in a flash, seemingly appeared near Bud. A few seconds passed, then Scorpius felt an intense pain in his Tail: Devon sliced at it so fast you couldn't see it. As he was reeling back from the pain, Geo lept at him with a Breaksabre, and hit him three times across his body with the drillsword.

Scorpius yelled out in intense pain, and dropped to his knees. While normally, this would have been an intense blow to him, due to being on fire, he had felt considerably weaker. He powered down to his human form, and glanced up at the three enemies in front of him.

"Argh….you win this round. But this is only delaying the inevitable! The UL WILL liberate the world….mark my words!" he said in the tone of a generic bad guy.

With that, Xel vanished into thin air, teleporting somewhere. Taurus and Megaman powered down to their base forms, walking towards where the man had vanished. Before either of them could say something, Devon spoke up.

"Great, here it seems like I've gotten into another mess that involves the fate of the world…this is what, the fourth time?" he mumbled outloud, walking towards the pair, who had glanced at him. He continued.

"Granted, I've been in stranger spots, so I guess I can let this off as basic. Mostly because "strange" and "normal" no longer have different meanings to me."

And that's that. Like I said; get used to the newbies, you'll be seeing more.

And with that, time to say, bye bye.