1Chapter three: And the game is on
The team appeared in a large green field, and the bright-eyed man landed and smashed his big sword into the ground causing large chunks of land to fly up into the air.
"Damn it!" The bright-eyed man shouted.
"Hey calm down." Sonic said waking up to him.
The man spun around and punched Sonic sending him flying back. He then turned around to find Sonic in front of him. The man looked back behind and then at Sonic startled.
"Ok, let's talk about this. Why don't we first of all get back to Black Mesa?" Sonic suggested. So the team gathered in a bunch and Samus used a new type of beam given to him by a team of scientists at their base, he aimed, and fired a green ball much like what they have been using all this time. They all got into the ball and flashed away, as did the bright-eyed man who was reluctant to follow.
The team appeared in the purple and blue-skied world for a brief moment and then appeared in Black Mesa.
"Good, you're back!" Otacon said with glee as the team returned. "Snake, good to see you."
"Yeah, thanks for sending these guys after me Otacon." Snake shook Otacon's hand and walked out of the room.
"I don't think I've meet you," Otacon said looking at Link and the man with the big sword. "What are your names?" The man walked right past Otacon and left the room. Link stopped and shook Otacon's hand. "Hey, I think I've heard of you. You're that Link aren't you?"
"Yes."
"Seems our numbers have increased. Hey someone go get that other spiky haired guy."
Sonic ran out and met up with him. "Hey how's it going?" He asked friendly. The man looked down at Sonic who was smiling wide.
"Leave me alone." He gave Sonic a look of disdain.
"Hey, I can understand. You went after your villain, he got away, and now you're angry."
They spiky haired man stopped. "You don't understand at all." He continued walking. Samus appeared in front of him.
"I know how you feel, you're villain is so much more dangerous and evil than ours. And he probably did something really bad that you want to get back at him for…"
The man's eye twitched and he put his hand up to Samus's chest. Samus looked down at it curiously. The man shone a green light and with a magic force sent Samus flying.
"Get out of my way."
"He's not your villain anymore." Megaman said helping Samus up. "Now that he's joined with all of ours he's our problem as well. Just as Wily is your villain now and so on."
Snake put his hand on the bright-eyed man's shoulder. "Let's just talk about this and then you can do what you want."
He looked at all of the team, sighed, and agreed.
They led him to the waiting room area where Otacon was sitting waiting for them.
"Ok, why don't we go around and introduce ourselves to each other?" Otacon suggested. The team looked around at each other nervously, it took Sonic to break the ice first.
"My name is Sonic the Hedgehog. For several years now I've been fighting the evil Dr. Eggman. He makes robot creations and torments my planet of Mobius. While fighting him one day he went into one of those portals and disappeared I followed him and ended up here where I met Snake and Otacon."
"Uh…I'm Megaman, I was created by Dr. Thomas Light to fight Dr. Wily and his hoards of Robot Masters. I came after that purple dragon thing attacked while I was fighting Wily."
"………I'm Samus Aran. I'm a bounty hunter and I was chasing after the creature Ridley who had captured the last of the Metroid species. Obviously they have made more from the one."
Samus explained for Link. "His name is Link, he has been fighting the evil Ganondorf in the land of Hyrule. And as far as I can tell that desert we went to before was Hyrule, was it Link?"
"Yes."
After a bit of silence and nudging from Otacon Snake decided to tell a little bit. "My name's Solid Snake. I've been working under the secret organization FOXHOUND until it was dissolved. More recently I've been working with Otacon to hunt down and destroy the anti-nuclear weapon Metal Gear in what ever form it takes. While I was investigating a Metal Gear created by the US Navy named RAY, One of those green balls showed up and Sonic came running out. We didn't know what to make of it. After a while of studying these orbs, a man came out of one wearing a security guard suit by the name of Barney Calhoun. He explained the situation to Otacon and now we've been working on finding these guys out."
"Where is this Barney now?" Samus asked.
"He's on an assignment in a place called 'City 17'. He gave us our teleport and sent us here. The scientists named this place Black Mesa, after their previous work station."
So now that left the bright-eyed man. Surprisingly it was quicker than they expected to have him talk.
"My name is Cloud Strife. I've been working with a party of others to destroy a planet-killing corporation called Shinra. And then Sephiroth…we have to find him!"
"Calm down Cloud." Otacon stood up and pushed his glasses back up. "We can't just go rushing in, we have to work to take them out slowly by destroying reactors and what not in Antarctica."
"Woo!" Megaman shouted.
Cloud stood up. "We don't have time for that! Sephiroth is going to get what he needs and destroy us all!"
"Don't you mean Eve? I thought this Sephiroth was the second in command." Snake asked.
"It's just a ploy!" Cloud shouted. "Sephiroth is going to betray them all!"
"Hey! Be quiet for a second." Otacon shouted. None of them had seemed to notice that a phone was ringing. Otacon picked up the phone. "Yes? Really? And island? Yes, I'll tell them." Otacon hung up the phone. "That was one of the scientists. He said that we've gotten information that points out a secret base on an island out off the coast of,"
"What kind of island?" Megaman interrupted. "Have you got a picture of it?"
Otacon showed a satellite picture that was taken of the island to Megaman. It was in the shape of a large skull.
"That's Wily's island. Let's go."
So the team headed over to the teleporter room. They all got situated and were teleported away.
"I hope your soon return." Otacon said as they teleported.
The team again arrived at the blue and purple-skied planet again and then appeared in a grassy jungle area.
"Now be careful, this place is loaded with traps." Megaman said carefully moving through the forest. After walking for several hours, Sonic got fed up and ran ahead. Before Megaman could warn him to stop Sonic had already ran out of the jungle, and Megaman was right behind him. "I told you it wasn't much farther."
Sonic shrugged his shoulders, put his hands behind his head and continued walking. As soon as they had walked over the first hill they all stopped speechless as they looked down upon the hoards of robots that stood between them and the large skull shaped base with a big W on the forehead.
Before another word could be said Megaman rushed down the hill firing and destroying dozens of the robots. Samus sighed and ran down as well, Sonic slowly followed, Link unsheathed his sword, grabbed his shield and ran down with a yell, Cloud grabbed his sword and charged down. Snake, having only fought one kind of robot in his life was unsure of how this would go. But he grabbed his FAMAS assault rifle and charged down.
Megaman was able to hit his targets causing them to explode on contact; Samus used a variety of different beam weapons and missiles taking out several robots, Sonic ran though slicing several robots into pieces, Link sliced through robots one at a time, whereas Cloud took out several at a time with his huge sword, Snake had a harder time as bullets aren't the best things against robots and he was in too crowded an area to use a STINGER or NIKITA.
They all continued to run through the battlefield of robots, until they found themselves at the front door.
"You guys are gonna go in through the front door?" Snake asked standing back against the wall.
Megaman stood in front of the massive door. "It's how I've done this before." Megaman stood up to a large keypad. "Now what was that code? Ah yes, 6853 5646 1241 7515 I believe." Megaman punched the numbers in, the keypad flashed and the doors opened.
"How many times have you gotten into this base?" Snake asked, surprised that Megaman knew the code off the top of his head.
Megaman thought. "Let's see, about eight times I think. Though, it changes location and form each time." Megaman smiled.
There was a large dark room to enter into. So the team entered, the lights suddenly flashed on only starling Link a little this time.
The lights revealed six robots, one was large, had red armor on his legs arms and shoulders, his chest was covered by a black plate and the rest of his body was yellow. He also wore a yellow hard hat on his head.
"Gutsman!" This one shouted.
The next was similar height to Megaman, he was actually very similar to Megaman in appearance except his body was white, save for his orange arms, legs, and groin area. He also had a large pair of scissors on his head.
"Cutman!" Shouted this one.
The next was also the size of Megaman, this one wore a blue coat much like an Eskimo, a silver belt and white gloves and boots.
"Iceman!"
The next was gray, save for his red chest armor and red gun-arms. He also had a torch on his head.
"Fireman!"
Next was a robot that was mostly black, save his red arms, he wore a yellow mask over his eyes that had a lightning bolt going up from the center.
"Elecman!"
The final robot was a little plump, his body was mostly black, with red chest armor, yellow gloves and boots, and a yellow head with a red mohock. He also carried a large cliché bomb.
"Bombman!"
The team was a little shocked, they knew this wasn't going to be an easy battle.
Gutsman stepped forward. "Who dares to enter Dr. Wilys fortress?"
The team huddled together, weapons at the ready, six on six, one for each of them.
Samus readied his gun. "I'll take on the Eskimo, I can use plasma beam on him."
"I'll take the big one with the hard hat." Sonic said. "Hey Link, you wanna take the one with the scissors on his head?"
"Yes."
Cloud readied his sword. "I'll take on the electric one."
Snake had to think hard about his choice, either the one with fire coming out of his head or the one with the bomb. "Megaman, which one are you going to take?"
"I'll take all of them." And Megaman dashed out.
The rest of the team was startled by Megamans dash, but to their surprise, so were the six robots.
Megaman first took aim onto Gutsman, he fired a few normal shots at him first, which knocked him back a little bit. Gutsman then jumped into air crashing heavily onto the ground causing a large chunk of rock to fall from the ceiling, Gutsman then tossed the large rock at Megaman. Megaman slid under the rock, fired a few more shots at Gutsman and then began to charge, when he had gotten clear of the rock he jumped up and fired the charge blast in Gutsman face plowing straight through it causing Gutsman to explode.
The rest of the team was startled by how easily Megaman had gone through the large Gutsman. What came next surprised them even more. Megaman charged Cutman firing a few shots along the way. Cutman took the scissors from the top of his head and tossed them at Megaman. Megaman jumped over the scissors while firing a few more shots. Upon landing Megaman shone a bright light, and when the light faded he was a different color. His helmet, gloves, and boots all became orange while the rest of his body was white. Megaman then picked up the rock that Gutsman had thrown at him earlier and tossed it at Cutman, crushing him and making him explode.
Megaman then changed again, into a black and white color. He went running towards Elecman. Elecman fired a beam of electricity at Megaman, Megaman jumped over the beam and fired a large pair of shears at Cutman slicing him in two.
Megaman turned into a black and yellow color and fired a beam of electricity at Iceman, after dodging some ice projectiles, destroying him. Megaman changed into a blue and white color and destroyed Fireman with sharp ice wedges, then, changing into a red and orange color, fired a blast of fire at Bombman setting him ablaze and destroying him.
Megaman returned to his normal blue color and wiped his hands.
"Megaman," Samus said after a while. "How long have you been able to do that?"
Megaman looked around. "Do what?"
"That thing where you stole those robots powers!"
"I've been able to do that forever. Remember when I told I wished Wily had made Robot Masters when we first met?
Samus thought about this.
"Well anyway, if Wily put the original six robots on the first floor I can only fear what will be on the next one." And with that Megaman rushed towards the stairs. The rest of the team dashed after him.
When they had finished climbing the stairs they came across a large shutter.
"What's behind this?" Asked Sonic. "More of those big robots?"
Megaman inspected the shutter. "No, you see if this did lead to a boss there would be a big Dr. Wily insignia above it. Meaning that this only leads to a mini-boss." With that Megaman walked up to it, the shutter whirred, a large lock turned in the center of it and it opened. When they walked inside all they found was a large empty room, and one black robot with a gem in the center of his chest, and large flared extensions on the top of his helmet.
"Megaman…."The robot said.
Megaman pointed his buster at the robot. "Bass!"
"Put down your buster Megaman, I'm not your enemy this time."
"I've heard that story before Bass."
"Wily has lost it, for the past several years he's been working on a new robot that he said would blow the both of us away. It's nearing completion, but it's not ready yet. If he tried to activate it now it would mean the end of all of us."
Megaman lowered his buster. "Why do you need me?"
"This robot is far to powerful, I can't stop it myself. As much as it pains me to say it, you and I will have to fight together." Bass extended his hand to Megaman.
Megaman walked forward and shook Bass's hand.
"Though, as soon as this is over you're mine."
"I look forward to it." Megaman turned to the rest of the team. "It's ok, let's go!" Snake, Samus, Sonic, Cloud and Link were all a little untrusting of this situation, but went along with them to a large teleportation device. Bass stepped in, and was zapped away, and then Megaman, Samus, Snake, Link, Sonic, and Cloud followed. Upon arriving at their destination they came to another large shutter, this one with the Dr. Wily logo above it. Megaman prepared himself, and walked in.
The room was that of a laboratory, countless computer devices, cables, and papers were scattered everywhere. In the center though, was a capsule with a shaded figure within it and in front of the capsule was Dr. Wily.
"Bass, you have betrayed me. Your own creator."
"You knew it was coming sooner or later." Bass aimed his buster at the old scientist.
Wily laughed, and turned to them. "You cannot defeat him, he will destroy all of you."
"It's not ready yet! If you activate him he'll kill you!"
Wily laughed and pushed a few buttons on the capsule. Its cover lifted, a blast of mist shot from it. When it cleared it revealed a red robot, with long blonde hair. The robot opened its eyes, and stepped out of its container.
Wily laughed again. "I give you, Zero! The ultimate force of destruction, he will be my ride to world domination!"
Megaman looked with awe at this new robot Wily had created, this, Zero.
"Are you ready Bass?" Megaman got ready for a tough battle with Zero. He looked over at Bass to see him standing by Wily's side. "Bass!"
"Heh, don't worry Megaman. I'm just here to watch this plan fail like all of Wily's other plans before, as soon as you've destroyed Zero it'll be you and me again."
"Actually Bass, I don't need you anymore. Zero is superior to you in every way." Wily looked up at Bass with a grin.
"What are you talking about Wily?"
Wily pointed at Bass. "Zero, destroy him."
Nothing happened.
Zero stood there, staring down into his hands. Wily commanded him again, Zero looked up at Wily who was shouting and pointing at Bass. Bass stood with a surprised face. Zero looked away from them and began scanning the team, Cloud…Samus…Snake…Megaman. Zero stopped, his eyes widened, he let out a yell and charged at Megaman. Wily shouted at Zero, but Zero continued his charge. Megaman dodged an oncoming punch and resorted to dodging many more.
Megaman attempted to fire a few shots at Zero, each one having no effect. Zero then punched Megaman sending him flying into the wall. Zero smiled and began to run towards Megaman again, Samus stepped in front of him.
Zero shifted his arm into a buster, this buster was much larger than Megaman's and Bass's. Zero fired a shot into Samus's chest that sent him flying back. Megaman took this time to stand back up and fire a charge shot at Zero that hit him, though it had no effect yet, Megaman was now at a loss. Samus got back up, and the team prepared for battle. Zero looked around at the competition he had, and smiled.
Sonic dashed forward, jumped, spun into a ball and went spinning towards Zero. Zero held out a hand, caught Sonic and tossed him across the room. Link charged slashing at Zero, who successfully dodged each swing, Cloud then came in also slashing at Zero who dodged each swing. Cloud horizontally swiped at Zero, Zero jumped, landed on the sword, performed a sliding kick to Cloud's head. Cloud was knocked back and let go of his Buster Sword, Zero grabbed hold of the sword's hilt, landed on the ground, spun the sword in the air for a little bit and swung it at Link. Link managed to block the blow with his shield, but the tremendous size of the buster sword added to Zero's immense strength sent Link flying. Zero then tossed buster sword aside.
Zero took this time to try and attack Megaman. Megaman used Gutsman power to lift a large rock from when he hit the wall and tossed it at Zero, Zero shot at the rock destroying it. Megaman fired a large pair of scissors at Zero. Zero caught the scissors by the blades and broke them in two. Megaman went through the rest of his stolen powers with no effect.
At that time a large green energy blast hit Zero.
"Bass!" Megaman smiled.
Bass said nothing. He had seen that his blast had no effect, and he knew that Zero would now come at him. Zero began running at Bass and fired at the same time. Bass jumped to dodge the blasts and began firing a series of rapid purple blasts that hit Zero pushing him back a small way. Zero jumped into the air to avoid the blasts, but Bass pointed his buster at a diagonal position and continued to fire at Zero. This came to a shock to Megaman because he was unaware that Bass could change the direction of his shot. Zero landed on the ground again and ran towards Bass, Bass as well began to run. Zero then took his feet off the ground and directed the soles of his boots to the back, he then released a charge of energy from his feet that sent him flying forward, and Bass also did this. The two collided and commenced hand-to-hand combat, Bass was able to hold his own but he knew he couldn't last long.
At that same time Samus fired a missile at Zero while he would be focusing on Bass. The missile got to within impact distance of Zero when he caught it. Zero gave Samus a hard look while not losing a beat against Bass. Zero then took a small jump back and tossed the missile horizontally to Bass, the missile connected knocking Bass back. Zero then dashed at Samus. Samus fired a charged shot at Zero, Zero formed a fist and drew his hand and swung down striking the blast ricocheting it back to Samus. This took Samus by surprise, Samus jumped to avoid the blast and went flying above Zero. Samus charged another blast and prepared to fire it directly down at Zero. Zero leapt in the air and met Samus in the air. Samus did not expect Zero to able to jump this high Zero pulled back his fist and punched Samus in mid-air. Samus flew back, kicked off the wall, charged and fired a Super-Missile at Zero. Right before the super missile was able to hit Zero jumped again in mid air to dodge.
Zero landed on the ground to notice a large missile coming towards him. He could see from the behind the missile was Solid Snake with a STINGER missile launcher. Zero stepped over to one side as the missile was right near him, brought his fist into the air and struck the missile on it's back end causing it to cartwheel back towards Snake. Snake back flipped, kicked off of the wall, flying forward, right over the missile before it would hit him making it explode upon the wall behind him. When he landed Zero punched him in the chest, sending him into the wall that was just blown up behind him. He hit the wall with a crash and fell unconscious.
Though, right after Zero had charged Megaman the first time everyone seemed to not take notice of Dr. Wily anymore, and there was reason for that. After the action had begun Wily used a hidden door to escape, for that door led to a path that would take him to his flying saucer. Wily was at the final shutter to his hanger when, an unknown entity grabbed the back of his coat, and a familiar whistle was heard.
"Where do you think your going Wily." Protoman asked.
Wily struggled helplessly. "Let me go Protoman, do you want to die too?"
"And what will kill me?"
"Don't you know what your brother Megaman is fighting right now?"
"Huh?"
Wily chuckled. "Megaman won't survive much longer, even Bass is no match for this new robot."
Protoman looked down the hall. "Megaman." Protoman said under a whisper.
Dr. Wily used this moment to his advantage. While Protoman was busy worrying about Megaman, he slipped out of his lab coat, jumped in his flying saucer and took off.
Protoman threw the coat down and chased after him. A compartment on the top opened, Wily lifted his head out, raised his eye brows up and down a couple of times and zoomed off.
Protoman stopped at the end of the hanger and cursed himself. He turned around and decided to see this battle.
Samus fired a charged red beam that struck Zero, Zero was knocked back a short distance but kept coming.
"There's no way to beat this thing!" Samus dodged a blow and continued firing.
Cloud dashed forward and began slashing at Zero with his sword, Zero was able to dodge each slash. Cloud drew his sword back and swung is down at Zero, Zero caught the massive blade in a hand and fired a large buster shot into Cloud. Zero tossed the sword aside.
Cloud stood back up and collected his sword. "That's it." Cloud spun his sword in the air a few times, placed it on his back and began to be surrounded by a green light, he thrust out a hand and sent a wave of fire at Zero, who managed to jump the wave with ease. Then, while Zero was still in the air, Cloud summoned a bolt of lightning to strike Zero. This surprised Zero, but he was still able to perform a second air jump and avoid the bolt. Zero then came down upon Cloud with a fist to the top of his head, sending him face first into the ground.
Link tried a second go at the red robot, he charged and began to slash with his blue hilted sword. Zero managed to dodge the blows and made his way over to the capsule that contained him, he pulled of a long thin pipe and used it as a blade to battle Link, though in this battle Link had the upper hand.
Link slashed, hacked, and blocked until Zero found himself cornered. Zero thrust the pipe forward, Link blocked it with his shield and got knocked back a short distance, but distance enough for Zero to escape. Zero tossed the pipe aside searched the room for Megaman. Having spotted him he dashed to him once more.
Megaman did not try to escape, but he prepared for the fight.
"This won't be easy you know." Protoman said standing next to him.
Megaman double taked. "Protoman, you didn't whistle!"
"Don't worry, I'll make it up to you."
"If you die here then I might as well too." Bass stood to the opposite side.
"Bass, Protoman…thank you." Megaman stared forward in determination.
All three took aim, charged, and fired. The three shots sped at Zero, who jumped over them with ease. Zero never once took his eyes of Megaman.
The three dashed away from Zero and commenced firing. Zero dodged them and fired a blast at Megaman. Protoman dashed forward and blocked the shot with his shield. Bass jumped a small way into the air, rocketed to Zero, and fired a charge shot. Zero jumped to avoid the shot, and Bass thrust upward with a kick that knocked Zero from the air.
Megaman changed into a green and white color and tossed a large bomb right as Zero landed. Zero noticed this bomb right as its fuse went out causing a large explosion. Megaman, Protoman, and Bass all joined up together and waited for the smoke to clear, Zero didn't.
From inside the smoke they could see a white flashing light, then yellow, then green, and finally a pink. A blast larger to any that Zero had fired before flew from the smoke hitting Bass, a second fired immediately after it hitting Protoman, and then Zero came flying out of the smoke and grasped Megaman by the neck and held him into the air. Zero smiled, and gave an evil laugh, all the while gripping harder onto Megamans neck.
Then, Zero's eyes widened, he let go of Megaman, stumbled back in pain, and a large W shone from the crystal on his head. Zero grasped his head screaming in pain, he then charged a blast and began to fire randomly into the air, taking out large sections of the fortress and making it begin to crumble.
"We have to get out of here!" Shouted Megaman. "Protoman, grab as many as you can and take them to Dr. Light's lab! Bass!" Megaman looked for him but he had already left. Megaman sighed, and ran over to Samus and Sonic, grabbed them and teleported away as the fortress crumbled.
Zero continued to shout and fire, until he brought down Dr. Wily's entire fortress down on top of him.
