At the police headquarters
Wily lead Guts Man, Napalm Man, Elec Man, Time Man, and Shadow Man down to the police station. He was stopped by a pair of policemen. "Wily. What are you doing here?" One of them asked.
"I have come to offer my services."
The policeman looked at him with a questioning look, then looked at the robot masters. "You'll have to leave them out here."
"Of course, of course," Wily turned around, "Now, you stay here." and walked off into the building with two other policemen. Four more police men were sent to look after the robot masters.
"Shadow Man?" Time Man whispered.
"What?"
"Any idea of how to get in?" Time Man questioned.
"I think that when Dr. Wily comes out will be the best time."
Finally, after fifteen minutes, Dr. Wily came back out. After heading a ways, Time Man and Shadow Man broke off from Dr. Wily's group. They walked until they stood across the street from the back of the police HQ.
"How much can you slow down time?" Shadow Man asked.
"Pretty far, but it wears me out."
Shadow Man looked at the building, then looked at Time Man. "Think you can slow time enough that we move incredibly fast and you can hold it there until we get up to the 7th floor?"
Time Man grimaced. "Yes?" he said, unsure.
Shadow Man also grimaced and looked back at the building. "Let's get a rope."
"What for?" Time Man asked inquiringly.
"To tie you onto me."
After a while, they found multiple broken ropes and combined them into one big strong rope. They got back to the police HQ. Shadow Man tied Time Man to his back. "Ready?" he asked.
"I hope so," Time Man replied.
Shadow Man looked hard at the police HQ. "Now!"
Shadow Man started running. Everything seemed to move slowly except him. He dashed across the road, up and over the chain-link/barbed fence, and dashed across the field. "How are you doing, Time?"
"Go!" Time Man said.
Shadow Man ran even faster. When he was within 2 feet of the building, he jumped, and landed with his feet first and started running up the side of it.
"Hurry!" Time Man yelled.
"Almost there!"
Shadow Man reached the 7th floor and quickly went through an open window and crouched on the tile floor of a two-way hall.
"Ha! We made it Time Man!" he whispered, but there was no reply. He looked back. "Time Man?"
Time Man was out cold.
"Blast."
It was only then that Shadow Man started to feel tired.
"I don't need this. Not now," he said and continued onward toward his destination. He found a door, labeled "Select Employees Only!" with a keypad for a lock.
Shadow Man grinned. "I always liked a challenge." He started to analyze the keys, using his built-in black light. "Blast! Someone else has been trying to get in too!" He said under his breath after noticing that almost all of the keys were pressed. He heard a noise causing his eyes to widen. Someone was coming. He looked around for a place to hide. "None!" He whispered and got out three shurikens and a dagger and crouched. Just as two police officers came around the corner, he threw his shurikens at one, ran to and tripped the other one while the police officer looked at his buddy that had just been taken down. Then Shadow Man quickly finished him off with a quick jab. Shadow Man looked around and stood up. After pulling the bodies out of view from the corridor that they came from, Shadow Man went back to the door. He looked more intently at the keypad. "It looks like you have been used more." He then carefully pushed the keys. He finished it and pushed the enter key. There was nothing for a moment, causing Shadow Man to become nervous, then the keypad turned green. Shadow Man breathed a sigh of relief, walked in, and closed the door. He turned around to see a room full of equipment. "Whoa!" He let his jaw drop. "Dr. Wily would feel like he was in heaven with all of this!" There were guns, armor, and most importantly, at least for Shadow Man's mission, electronics and parts.
Dr. Wily started singing the German's Anthem to himself while walking away from the HQ and Fire Man, Wood Man, and Plant Man had joined him. About 5 blocks from the HQ, in an alley, Dr. Wily stopped in his tracks, and slapped himself on the forehead. "Nein! What are you doing?" He asked himself. "Guts Man! Bring the Skull Truck!"
"Right-o!" Guts Man opened a part of his arm and dialed on a keypad. "Estimate to arrival... At what speed, doctor?"
"FULL SPEED!" Dr. Wily exclaimed.
"Estimate to arrival... 10 minutes."
"10 minutes!" Dr. Wily yelled. "I don't have that much time! Shadow Man doesn't have that much time!"
Guts Man recoiled in fear, separating himself from Wily by putting his hands in front of him. "It's not my fault!"
Dr. Wily turned to Elec Man. "Go help Shadow Man!"
"But I'll be seen!"
"I don't care anymore! This mission can't fail!" He yelled.
Shadow Man started to pick through the equipment. "Well, let's see. Dr. Wily needs eyes, a processor, a generator..." and he started bringing stuff next to the door. As he was doing this, he heard footsteps. He quietly put down his stuff. "Come on, just pass, just go on your way." But the footsteps stopped right in front of his door. Shadow Man quickly ran to the nearest gun. "Hmm. This is a machine gun, right?" He quickly set the big gun on the floor and loaded it with a belt cartridge. The door flung open, but no one was there. Shadow Man scanned the doorway for signs of movement. "Wait a minute." He thought, then he leapt to his feet and took cover behind some equipment, just as someone started to fire at him with a handheld machine gun. Underneath the din of the gun fire, Shadow Man opened his com link. "Doctor!" He yelled. "I'm under fire! Send help!"
"That's what I'm doing, you idiot! Do you think I would let this mission fail? Where are you!"
"7th floor!"
Shadow Man pulled out three of his shurikens and threw them at three different individuals, killing one, hitting another in the arm, and another just grazing his temple. Shadow Man leapt to his feet and started throwing a flurry of shurikens at the different people that came through the door. He moved across the room until he arrived behind some more equipment. He took a peek over the equipment and could see a person behind the door yelling through his com link. "Blast!" He breathed deeply, stood and threw a shuriken, nailing the person in the chest by curving the shuriken in an arc. There were still three more people behind the door, but they weren't firing anymore. Shadow man looked over the top of the equipment that he was behind, shurikens in his hands. One of the policemen popped around the corner and fired a burst of gunfire. Shadow Man quickly ducked down. "I can't handle these guys."
"Did you know that you're squishing me?" Time Man asked, startling Shadow Man.
"Sorry about that." Shadow Man looked back over the equipment and threw a shuriken at one of the policemen that was trying to sneak up on him, killing him. Shadow Man stood up and started to charge toward the door, doing his best to dodge the barrage of fire. He jumped through the threshold and threw two shurikens at the two people at either end of the door, making them drop to the ground. He executed a flip in the air and landed on his feet. "Ha, ha!" He exulted, then dropped to his knees, cringing in pain from a bullet in the stomach. A sniper walked toward him. "So. Dr. Wily isn't rehabilitated after all." He aimed his gun toward Shadow Man's head. "End of the line, Shadow Man!" Shadow Man resigned himself to his fate, but the wall exploded, slamming the sniper into the other wall.
"Shadow Man!" Dr. Wily yelled.
Shadow Man struggled to get to his feet and limp over to the shattered wall. He saw an armored truck, which had the image of a skull on front, with a machine gun on the back with a rocket launcher on the hood.
"What about the stuff?" Shadow Man yelled.
"Guts Man! Get up there!"
Guts Man ran to the wall, with Elec Man and Fire Man on his back, and started to climb up. While Shadow Man waited for Guts Man to get up, a bullet whizzed by Shadow Man's head. He turned around to face his enemy, but received a volley of bullets, causing him to land on Time Man. Guts Man got to the 7th floor, looked at the police officers who were scared by his presence, looked at Shadow Man, then tossed Shadow Man down to where Napalm Man waited. Elec Man released a volley of electricity, bringing an officer to his knees while the rest retreated. Guts Man looked to where the officers were. He grinned in delight, "And Bass calls himself the ultimate robot!" He walked to the door while Elec Man and Fire Man stood guard, grabbed the equipment, and walked back out. He stopped at the wall's edge.
"GUTS MAN!" Elec Man yelled while firing a volley of electricity at a police officer who had tossed a grenade around the corner. Fire Man started running toward the police officer, fire blazing in front of him. The explosion from the grenade, which had exploded right by Guts Man, caused him to fall out of the broken wall to the ground, hitting the ground with a heavy thump, but he had twisted in midair, making him land on his back, keeping the bigger pieces of equipment safe from damage. Elec Man ran down the hallway, opposite of where the officers were, only to find that other police officers were coming from the other end. He quickly turned and ran back from where he came from, receiving a bullet to the chest.
"No. This can't happen," Elec Man whispered to himself, then he crumpled on the floor.
Fire Man, in his attack, had rounded the corner where some officers were coming down the hall. Soon after seeing Fire Man, they opened fire, causing Fire Man to stumble.
"Must.. Go... On..." he clenched his teeth in pain. He got back up, only to receive another volley of sniper fire.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Wily," he said. "I've failed you."
Plant Man, who was controlling the rocket launcher on the Skull Truck, noticed a bazooka peeping around the corner of the building. "HEADS UP!" He yelled and fired. Part of the building exploded, killing the officer who had managed to fire off a shot causing the Skull Truck, along with Plant Man and Dr. Wily, to sustain damage. Time Man, meanwhile, was still strapped to Shadow Man's back. Another bazooka shot brought down Napalm Man. The police officers moved in, guns in hand.
"Get Wily out of that truck!" One person shouted. Another found Time Man.
"Hey! We got an undamaged one here!"
Time Man started to charge his time ability. As soon as they let him loose, he slowed down time and ran off.
In an alley, he stopped to catch his breath. "The parts." He thought. "We've failed."
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