The Silver-Tongued Slicer: Cutman
On the rooftops of an abandoned, enormous manufacturing complex, Megaman is teleported to the location of the next Robot Master. He stood and looked around, noticing a large amount of smaller robots. And these weren't construction robots or even assistant robots. These were security robots, and they almost saw Megaman. He jumped out of sight of a robot, tapping on the communicator button. "Roll, talk to me. There are a lot of robots around, and I don't know what the rest of the facility looks like."
"The other 5 Robot Masters heard about how you defeated Gutsman and beefed up their securities. This facility has flying sentries that attempt to knock you off the roof, wall-mounted mini-turrets that will try to gun you down, and small capsules that will fly around and shoot electricity in 8 directions. Be careful, Megaman. Your missions will be much more dangerous now. Use your Mega Buster and the Super Arm ability you took from Gutsman to take care of the security robots." Megaman tapped the communicator button and started his journey across the rooftops of the facility.
Sure enough, Megaman came across a swarm of the flying robots. Immediately they dive-bombed towards Megaman with the intent of pushing him off of the roof and to his death. Megaman jumped out of the way and shot at each of the robots. One of them escaped the hail of plasma-based gunfire and flew right at Megaman. In a split-second, Megaman switched from the Mega Buster to the Super Arm, grabbing the small robot and breaking the rotors it needed to fly with. With one mighty throw, he tossed it far into the distance, watching fall into the horizon. Megaman smirked to himself and continued with his mission.
A little farther down the path before climbing a series ladders, Megaman saw a collection of wall-mounted turrets. They were hiding inside of shells that opened only when a trespasser is near. Megaman walked forward towards the turrets and jumped high. As he soared through the air, the shells opened and turrets began firing at him. Using quick dodging and blasting, the turrets was taken down one at a time with no effort. However, one stray shot hit Megaman on the side, making him fall to the ground. The communicator started ringing and he tapped on the button to answer. "Megaman, you got hurt! Don't worry, there's a way to heal any injuries. Scattered across the debris of robots you destroyed should be energy capsules. Absorbing them will repair any damages you retain." He tapped the button and searched through debris, finding a small, glowing capsule. He crushed it in his hands, absorbing the energy that was hidden inside of it. In no time, he felt his side healing and saw that there was no longer a burn from the shot. Megaman continued his ascension up ladders, shooting down several turrets and jumping away from hails of gunfire. Eventually, he climbed all the way up and made it to the second level of building roofs.
The communicator rang before ascending the final rung of the ladder. "What is it, Roll? I'm almost at the top."
"There's been a spike in robot activity! More security robots have been summoned! Be careful, Megaman!" Almost immediately after standing at the top, a small building that looks like a metal shed opened up a window and several robots in the shape of scissor blades flew out, trying to get at Megaman and cut him. Megaman had difficulty trying to dodge them all, almost getting cut several times along the way. With quick movements, the young robot made it through safely.
As Megaman made his way through the facility, he quickly shot at and dispatched small, blue robots that hopped around like mechanical fleas. Continuing on, he saw more ladders being guarded by small sentries that moved around, protecting the area. As Megaman looked closer, he saw that they had cameras that were similar to eyeballs, and were protected by a thin coat of electricity, which could harm him if contact was made. With a burst of courage, Megaman ran forward and jumped up into the air, dispatching the sentries before climbing up the ladder. As he climbed up, he saw more sentries waiting to attack charge into him. With one foot on a rung, he launched himself upwards, destroying the four sentries that were surrounding platforms he needed to jump on to advance. After jumping up to another ladder, Megaman climbed up and hurried down a narrow opening, not knowing that a sentry was waiting to tackle him and take him down. With a swift knock down, Megaman falls, unable to move from the electricity that was shorting out his movement capabilities. The other sentries took the opportunity to charge at him, making sure he stays down. But, mere seconds before impact, Megaman feels his body loosening back up and rolled away from danger. He shot and took down every last sentry, making sure he picked up energy capsules to heal himself. Up another set of ladders were five sentries. However, they were spaced and arranged in an odd way, allowing Megaman to sneak up the last ladder up to another roof.
Quickly running past another metal shed with robotic scissor blades and along the rooftops, Megaman saw more of the flying robots. Quickly shooting them down and kicking the remains off the roof, he found a ladder and slid down it. As he got down to a platform, he saw the capsule Roll mentioned earlier and moved quickly. Once it opened up to shoot out multi-directional electric bolts, Megaman quickly fired his Mega Buster at it, trying to stop its attack. He succeeded, watching it explode burst of electricity as if it were shorting out. Megaman slid down more ladders and found another capsule. He quickly switched to the Super Arm ability, jumping above the capsule and grabbing it, crushing it between his hands like a brittle sphere made of glass. Making his way down the ladder, Megaman felt he was almost there.
One last enemy stood in shadows before the Robot Master's chamber. A giant, Cyclops robot with one leg jumped around, getting ready to crush the blue-suited boy. Dodging his crushing jumps, Megaman hopped onto its back, holding on tight and moving towards the single eye it had, shooting at it point-blank. Down fell the Cyclops robot in one fell swoop, opening the path to the Robot Master room. Going through the entrance, he stopped. He felt uneasy, which he only felt around a certain Robot Master before they turned evil. Going through the second gate and into the chamber, he knew who it was before he saw him. It was a robot the same size as Megaman, sporting a similar outfit but with a round, red head along with red hands, feet, and "briefs" that complimented his white suit. On his head was a large pair of scissor blades. His name was Cutman, and he looked rather angry. He saw him and immediately prepared for fighting. "Rock! Finally, something for me to cut to pieces."
"Cutman, still as brash as always. How are the others? Are you still giving them a hard time? "
"Shut up! I hate working for the boss, I hate the other Robot Masters, but most of all, I hate you!"
Cutman charged at Megaman, scissor blades in both hands and ready to slice him up. He quickly jumped out of the way, switching to his Super Arm weapon and grabbing a nearby boulder that was in the room and came from an earthquake that tore down one of the chamber's walls. With a mighty heave, he tossed the boulder at Cutman. With a smirk, he readied the scissor blades and lunged at the boulder, slicing it into small, insignificant stones and landing in front of Megaman. "If you can't break it, cut it!" Cutman tossed his scissor blades at Megaman, controlling them as they flew directly at him. Unfortunately, they were travelling to fast to dodge, so he had to fall back and suffer some damage being grazed by the blades. As he fell back, he felt the blades barely slice into his arms, causing him to wince. As Cutman caught his blades, he grinned evilly. "I'm too fast for you, little Rock! It doesn't make sense why you were Light's favorite! I'm the superior robot!" Megaman jumped up to his feet and started firing his Mega Buster at Cutman. Cutman quickly blocked with his scissor blades, getting knocked back by having them break into pieces. "It's over Cutman!" Cutman grinned and chuckled, grabbing the scissor blade on his helmet and taking it off, watching as it started to get charged with high frequency vibrations. "Oh no, Rock. It's only over for you. Rolling Cutter!"
Cutman threw the charged up scissor blade, watching as it traveled along the ground and left a long gash before flying up at Megaman. Not knowing what to do under the pressure, he quickly shot at the scissor blade. Every shot missed, but hit Cutman instead, causing him to stagger and hold his wounded chest, yelling out in anger. "I will turn you into a paper doll and slice you into ribbons!" He called back the scissor blade and held onto it, charging it back up with high frequency vibrations. Megaman looked around and had an idea. He jumped over to the boulders from the torn down wall and picked one up with his Super Arm, throwing it up high in the air. Once it started falling back to the ground, Cutman threw his Rolling Cutter at full force, watching as it traveled through the air, cutting through it. With one mighty punch, Megaman shattered the boulder and sent the smaller rocks flying at Cutman at full velocity. The force of every rock hitting him at once knocked him flat on his back, causing the Rolling Blade to fall to the ground, losing all of its energy. Quickly seizing his small window of opportunity, Megaman grabbed another boulder with his Super Arm and jumped high in the air. "You should have remembered Cutman: Rock always beats Scissors! Super Arm!" With all of his strength, he threw the boulder down at Cutman who could only watch in horror as he was crushed. Unlike Gutsman, he wasn't killed upon impact. Instead, he was slowly dying as he watched Megaman walk to him, Mega Buster at the ready.
"I'm sorry it had to be like this, brother. None have this had to happen, you could've realized you were being evil and joined Dr. Light and us." Cutman growled at him, looking at him with pure hatred. "I won't belong to anyone. I would rather die than be known as someone's robot. I hope the others tear you apart. Out of all of Light's robots, I hated you the most, Rock." With that last sentence, Cutman's life faded away. Megaman sighed and touched his arm, downloading the data to get his abilities. He looked at his face, smiling a bit. "Being the oldest out of all of us, I looked up to you. You didn't let anyone get you down and knew when something was up. I'm sorry, Cutman." Finishing the downloading, he stood up. He tapped the communicator button and spoke to Roll. "Mission accomplished, moving to next location." And with that, he teleported to the next area. He began to feel a heavy weight on his chest, the weight of remorse.
