Megaman Excel 4
By: Metal Sonic EX
Disclaimer: I own a few select bosses and Capcom owns everything else.
Chapter IV
Aerial Strike
X and Dynamo knocked on the door and was permitted entrance into Dr. Light's lab. "Dr. Light, this is Dynamo, a fellow Hunter. Zero and Axl were unavailable at the time."
Dr. Light nodded, then picked up a remote. "Well then, let's get to business." He pressed the button and a screen was lowered.
(Megaman 5 (NES) - Stage Select begins playing)
The map reappeared with three targets. "The government has detected a large aircraft flying towards the capital. We need you to destroy it as soon as possible." Dynamo whistled. "Sounds like fun. Let's do this!"
(Megaman 5 (NES) - Stage Select fades out)
(Megaman X4 (PSX) - Boss Intro plays)
(The Robot Master throws his hands behind him and loads his turrets.)
Artillery Man!
(Revenge of Shinobi (Sega Genesis) - Like A Wind begins playing)
(A.N. This tune is available on KH Insider.)
Ready
Dynamo beamed down and spun his saber around. He ran down the hall and entered a small docking port. The shield holding everything inside the ship spontaneously failed and everything began flying out into the sky.
Dynamo quickly grabbed one of the handles on the wall made specifically for that reason. He swung back and forth and dash-jumped to the second. He repeated this process and soon exited the room. "Why haven't the doors closed?"
He looked up to a security camera and smirked. "Smartass…" The shield was reactivated and Dynamo began running down the hall. He came to another large room, but Megaman lay unconscious in the middle of it, his armor nearly blown to pieces. "Great…"
X beamed down and started. Dynamo, you grab him and get out. Then, head back to our time and ask Coonite about this ship. I've got a bad feeling about this, like there's something we're overlooking." Dynamo nodded and dashed into the room. He grabbed Megaman as the shield failed and X dashed to a handle. "Later!"
Dynamo flew out of the ship, Megaman in tow, and beamed off a second later. X quickly made his way across the room, then entered the hall as the shield reactivated.
"I've got a really bad feeling about…" He made a right and entered a storage room, filled with an estimated fifteen nuclear warheads. "…this…" At the estate, Dynamo had just dropped Megaman off and was leaving as he got a transmission from X. 'There's nukes on this ship! Fifteen of 'em!" Dynamo gasped, then beamed to the time warp.
"I hear ya! I'll tell Coonite about this. You just try and disarm them." Back in Central Tower, Dynamo nearly kicked the door of its' hinges, panting like a wild bull. "Coonite! You, past, X, now!" Coonite raised an eyebrow, then closed his eyes.
"What do you see?" Coonite immediately opened his eyes, mouth hanging open. "This isn't good. This shouldn't be happening! You must get back to X! There's twenty-eight warheads onboard! If that ship gets to the capitol, it'll wipe the entire country and bring forth the vision I showed Gate centuries faster."
Meanwhile, X disarmed the fifteenth warhead and sighed. "Thank God…" X exited the storeroom and quickly made his way down the hall. He came some shutters and entered them.
(Revenge of Shinobi (Sega Genesis) - Like A Wind fades out)
Warning! Warning!
After a long trek down the hall, X walked into the command room and looked around. "You've got guts coming here." X jumped back as a heavily-armored Robot Master stepped forward. He cracked his neck and the turrets that made his hands loaded themselves.
"I suppose that you're here to stop me, too. Well, it isn't going to happen. That pipsqueak couldn't stop me and a pipsqueak redux ain't gonna do much either."
X growled, then noticed several warheads scattered around. He quickly twelve and growled. He fired a buster shot, but it bounced off of his armor. "Wha…" Artillery Man smirked. "Wily may be old, but he's no fool! After his first encounter with you, he developed a super armor alloy that is immune to your firepower."
X thought for a second. "But, wouldn't that make you weak against weapons from this time?" Artillery Man started, then growled. 'Perhaps the old man really is a fool. No matter. We're just about at the capitol and I've got a present for them." He cracked his neck again. "Bring it on!!"
(Megaman: Powered Up (PSP) - Boss Theme begins playing)
(A.N. You can get this tune on Atomic Fire.)
(Artillery Man's Health)
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X dashed away from the door as Artillery Man launched missiles toward it. He quickly ran up to the first warhead and disabled it. He then picked it up and threw it at Artillery Man. "What was that?!" X ran to the second one and disactivated it. He picked that one up, but dropped it when Artillery Man charged him.
He grabbed the nearest one, disarmed it, and was hit by a missile barrage. He got up, grabbed the disarmed warhead, then grabbed the other one and threw them both at him, knocking him down.
"That's but three of twelve!" Artillery Man shoved the disarmed warheads off of him, but was hit with a fourth. "Com on! Come on!" X grabbed two at once and disarmed them both. "Hahaha!" X looked up and saw his turrets aimed at his face.
"Checkmate, buddy." X shoved the warheads forward, causing Artillery Man to fall face-first into the ground. X rolled away and grabbed another warhead. He disarmed it, then rolled it at him. He simply stomped on it and it was torn in half. "Two minutes, hunter!!"
X grabbed a warhead, but shoved it away when Artillery Man fired. He grabbed the warhead and threw it at Artillery Man. He then used a trick that few knew how to pull off called the 'Pause Break' where he rapidly and continuously beamed in and out of the same place.
After a few seconds, he beamed down again and saw that the entire room was in ruin. The one warhead had detonated the others, devastating the entire ship. The ship hadn't exploded like it should have, but the ship was rapidly descending.
"Fool! The main warhead is in my body! The others were just simple bombs! As long as I am active, this ship will reach its' target!" X smirked. "You mean the one we just missed." Artillery Man started, then looked out of one of the holes in the wall. Sure enough, they'd just passed the capitol building.
(Near Death Attack - Arsenal Burst)
Artillery Man pounded the ground, causing X to lose his balance. Then, Artillery Man began glowing. He's putting all of his power behind this attack. When he uses it, he'll begin exploding and when he does, this ship will be toast!
"Arsenal Burst!!" X make a quick exit by jumped out of one of the holes in the wall and he watched as missiles flew everywhere and Artillery Man exploded.
(Artillery Man's Health)
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(Megaman 8 (PSX) - Boss Beaten plays)
""Dr. Light… Please hurry…" Seconds later, X beamed off. Just as he beamed off, someone beamed onto a nearby building and watched the ship explode. "To think… A world so similar to my own…" The figure chuckled to himself. "Existence is the greatest paradox of all…"
(Fatal Fury (Sega Genesis) - Player Select begins playing)
Megaman/ X got Homing Arsenal!
(Megaman appears and launches a trio of homing missiles. He beams off as X beams in and begins to charge. He fires the attack a barrage of nine homing missiles are fired. He then beams off.)
Zero got Tremor Fist!
(Zero beams in and smashes his fist into the ground. It creates a massive tremor before he beams off.)
Axl got Homing Missile!
(Axl beams down and summons a rocket launcher. He fires a homing missile before beaming off.)
(Fatal Fury (Sega Genesis) - Player Select fades out)
Back in Central Tower, Dynamo jumped to his feet. "I'm cool now, so I'll be…" X entered the room, his armor stained black from the explosions. "Thanks for nothing…" Dynamo looked offended. "I saved you, didn't I?" X shook his head. "You saved my past self, but not me personally."
Dynamo scoffed. "You and your logic." X walked up to Coonite and sat down. "What happened?" Coonite frowned. "I know it now to be true. The doppelganger me has lesser versions of all of my powers and, if gone unchecked, could alter time itself without any of us being the wiser."
Next time: The GBD remembers his name and the hunters are forced to bring reinforcements.
