Cheese Factory: 11:00 a.m.

Vast mountains of cheese and mechanization greeted Mega Man and Bass as they touched down at their next destination. As with the previous stsge, the finned robot took off almost immediately, blasting away mice-like enemies along the way.

"Bass! What're you doing! Come back!" Mega Man's cries fell on deaf ears, and with a frustrated sigh, he took off himself.

After dodging a round of white cheddar spikes (which he assumed to be as deadly to him as the metallic variety), Bass double jumped over a series of bottomless pits before coming to a indoor section shaped like a cheese wheel.

"Really? Let's get this over with."

Stepping inside, he found a giant, muscular mouse bot carrying a hammer made of swiss cheese.

It roared about as loudly as a mouse possibly could before swinging its weapon. After missing its target, it tried to lunge at Bass directly. It got a face full of purple pellets for its trouble.

"Come on, Jerry! I'm just getting warmed up!"

Furious, the mouse swiped its relatively small tail at Bass and missed before inhaling deeply before spitting out a gooey, yellow substance.

Glued to the floor by the stuff, the mouse quickly set to work pummeling the Wily robot.

Bass' screams of pain were loud in Mega Man's ears as he approached the cheese wheel room.

"Bass!"

"Don't you dare interfere, you Blue Brat!" Bass screamed through gritted teeth.

"Are you sure? It sounds like you're losing..."

"Shut up, tin can. I can take care of myself!"

Bass himself was locking hands with the mouse in a test of strength, but was clearly on the losing end.

Just as Bass was going to pass out (albeit unwillingly), A shot blasted his adversary in the shoulder. He didn't even have to ask where it came from.

Mega Man... Again...? I must be... really... pathetic...

Bass trailed off in his thoughts before passing out.

Mega Man, meanwhile did battle with the mouse, careful to step over his fallen partner. The mouse finally met its end smashed to peices against the metal door that was also his route of escape.

After a long period of pulling Bass' unconcious body free of his cheesy bounds, he picked him up and swiftly warped him home to Dr. Light.

Curiously, the door after the mouse led to the boss door, bearing the familiar "Dr. W" logo.

"If it isn't the Beloved Bleu Bomber," A smooth voice echoed throughout the room.

A robot shaped like string cheese popped out of the ground in front of Mega Man.

"Uh... Hi."

"Seems like you're all provolone. It's a shame fish-boy couldn't make an apperence. Well, then again, Chucky was a very sharp opponent..."

"Shut up about my friend!" Mega Man said, getting angry. "And your cheese puns are horrible!"

The Robot Master shrugged his shoulders casually. "You realize he doesn't like you, right? You've gotta work on picking cheddar friends."

Mega Man growled in response.

"Calm down already... Fish doesn't go very well with cheese, anyway."

I said SHUT UP!" Mega Man launched a stream of pellets at Cheese Man.

"You want a fight?" He asked calmly. "Fine. You better bree ready, Mega Man!"

Strafing, Mega Man put a few uncharged shots in Cheese Man's body, but he shrugged it off and launched the same gooey fluid at Mega Man that Chucky had used.

"You're gonna LOVE my Cheese Whiz!"

A loop of the cheese roped Mega Man in for a kick, and the evil robot used it as an oppurtunity to repeatedly slam the blue robot into the ground using the loose strands of cheese on his head as tendrils.

Cheese Man laughed maliciously. "After all these years of whipping the designs of that old pile of parmesan Doctor, you're finally done in by one of the newer cuts off the block!"

Mega Man grunted in pain, but it was far from physical. "Y-your p-puns...hurt...worse than the actual str-strangling."

Luckily, while the two were busy with their exchange, the Blue Bomber had come up with a plan. He'd changed weapons without his enemy noticing and stuck Soldier C4 bombs on Cheese Man's hair tendrils. Now all he needed was a safe way down from his current predicament.

"Hey, what kind of coward are you, anyway?"

Angry eyes looked back up at the bot. "What was that?"

Mega Man kept his ploy going. "Sure, you talk like your some kind of fine cut of mozzarella, but you're really more like Limburger. All style, no substance. And you stink like it, too."

The enemy robot threw him on the ground in anger, giving him enough time to roll away from danger.

"You know what?" the cheese-themed enemy began, beside himself. "I was going to settle for stretching you until you broke into tiny peices. But now, I can't decide whether to dice you, slice you, or outright shred you!"

"Is that so?" Mega Man calmly responded as he got up and dusted himself off. Cheese Man might as well have told him that it was going to be sunny tomorrow.

"Well, yes... Wait. Why are you smiling?"

"Oh, nothing. Just thinking about my favorite type of cheese."

Fear rose in the Robot Master's voice. "What's that...?"

He ejected a detinator button from his Buster and pressed it. "Melted!"

BOOM!

The blasts did critical damage and threw,him against the wall, but the cheese bot simply laughed upin realizing his situation. "Not bad at all. In fact, I'd say..."

His words reverberated throughout the room as he exploded for the final time.

"You're pretty gouda!"

Mega Man groaned as he picked up two broken peices of his foe for himself and Bass. He unceremoniously left, with the knowledge that he'd take special care to have his creator delete every single memory of his latest foe's terrible cheese-based puns.