I own no Megaman characters, any familiar dialogue or the main plot. Credits to Capcom.
As best as they could, Lan, Maylu, Sal and Miyu operated their Navis against the viruses that lurked in the Western Traffic Light Network. World Three's viruses were definitely no pushovers, but combined attacks were the key that the four Navis used to victory. The Mr Progs at the main platform were free and flipped both the switches. What Lan hadn't noticed during the process of getting Megaman there, however, was that the bus had just passed them!
"Darn it! We're too late!" Lan growled before getting a phone call. He picked it up to find 'that' woman again!
"Sorry, charley!" she taunted him.
"Grr!"
"Hah! You better listen up, kiddo! I forgot to mention that I placed a virus in the bus' gas program. In time, it'll make the gas go backwards, them... BOOM!"
"What!?"
"Unfortunately, it'll take quite a bit of time because it keeps moving about... But they'll enjoy that, I'm sure! And the end show's definitely worth the wait! And there's nothing you can do! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
In rage, Lan hung up on her, only to get another phone call.
What could she want this time!?
Only this time, it wasn't from that creep. It was from Dex!
"Lan! We're headed East now!" he freaked out. "Help us!"
"We'll stop it this time!" Lan vowed. Addressing the other three around him, he said, "Let's go!" They nodded as a response.
The four immediately rushed for the town's East, taking the tunnels that they came across. Maylu, Miyu and Sal feared for Dex, Tory and all the other bus passengers' safety, but Lan was determined to save them. After finding a jack in port in one of the traffic lights, the four jacked in their Navis. Once again, Megaman and the others had to find the main platform with the Mr Progs and delete all the viruses around them. In the Eastern Traffic Light Network, the Navi team encountered Swordys (ghost knight like viruses which swung their swords) and Fire Swordys (Swordys with Fire Swords). At first, there was difficulty, but it was nothing that cooperative operating couldn't handle! The Mr Progs were free and the switches were flipped. As the bus drove by, the stream of energy seemed to barely miss it!
"Not again!" Lan sighed.
"But look!" Maylu pointed out, seeing sparks crackle slightly from the bus.
"Yes. It seems to be slowing down," Miyu stated.
"It gives us more time," Sal elaborated. "Let's not waste it!"
Lan got another phone call from Tory, who told him that the bus just turned and headed for South and repeated the process again. When they were finished, the stream of energy shot out, as the bus was in line with it, slowing it down even more. Despite this, it appeared to turn north, heading for the Center.
"We can stop it there!" Lan told everyone. "Let's finish this!"
The bus was slow enough for Lan and the others to outpace it by walking! This gave plenty of time to delete the viruses at the Central Traffic Light Network, which was by far the most difficult of them all, if not only for the sheer numbers. There were some combinations of Puffys and Buffys (the fire variants), but it was still nothing Megaman and the others couldn't handle! With the last switches flipped and the stream of energy shot out, the bus slowed down to a halt. Everything seemed to be all over! But...
*BRIIIING* *BRIIIING*
"Ha ha ha! You may have stopped the bus, but not the gas program!"
"Nooo!" Lan cried in anger. "It can't be!"
"Sorry, pal! Now everyone will go bye bye!"
"No..."
"Three!"
"Dex..."
"Two!"
"Tory..."
"One!"
"I'm sorry..."
Lan looked down at the ground in shame. He had failed. All he could do was await the coming explosion. Sal and Miyu shook in fear and shielded their eyes from what was to come.
But it never came.
Lan, Sal and Miyu looked up and faced the bus. It was completely intact. Wait a minute. What was Maylu doing in front of it?
In The Bus...
"Colorman! What's going on!?"
"Aah! Sorry, Maddy! There's this cute little Navi in here and... Aaaahhh!"
"Colorman!"
"Aha! I've got you now!"
The 'cute Navi' screamed in pain and she keeled over to the cyber ground. All she could see was Colorman's ugly grin on his face.
"G-Get away from m-me..." Roll mustered enough guts to say.
"Ho ho ho! I shall delete you soon enough, my pretty," Colorman grinned widely. He saw two other Navis charge straight for him, but the red and blue dummies surrounding Colorman were commanded to tackle them back down and did as ordered.
"Guts... This guy's tough..." Gutsman confessed.
"How can we beat this guy?" Iceman responded.
Three flashes of blue light appeared before their eyes. The blue lights morphed into shape. Three Navis. Skullman, Woodman and Megaman! Megaman turned to the down Gutsman and Iceman.
"Are you two okay?" he asked them.
"Who... Who are those guys?" Iceman replied with his own question, before being introduced to Skullman and Iceman.
"Oh ho! So, the clowns have arrived!" Colorman noticed.
"You're calling us clowns?" Skullman retorted. "You look more clown like than all of us!"
"You think you can just attack my friends like that!?" Megaman snapped back, before hearing Roll's voice call his name, well, his nickname. He turned to her and gasped. "Roll! What have you done with her!?"
"Wouldn't you like to know! Ho ho ho ho!" Colorman chuckled, bouncing up and down on his polka dotted ball.
"Enough, wacko!" Maddy shouted. "Delete these pests!"
"Yes, ma'am!" the crazy Navi responded cheerfully, doing a mock salute. He leaped upwards, positioning himself above Megaman, and released his ball down at him. Megaman just managed to dodge it, but was too slow at countering with his Mega Buster, for Colorman retrieved his ball and sprang back up.
Skullman crossed his arms, then thrust them out and literally threw them at Colorman like boomerangs. The dummies came forth and protected their master from damage, absorbing the Boomerang Bones' damage easily. The bones reattached themselves to Skullman and he rushed forward and smashed his fist upward at him. As Colorman was crashing down, Woodman stepped above him and thrust his own fist upward at him, propelling the enemy up even higher. Skullman took aim and breath Ghost Fire at Colorman, but he couldn't help but hear him laugh rather childishly.
"Ho ho ho ho! Going up and down like that was kinda fun!" Colorman said after the laugh. "But now it's my turn!" He thrust his ball out behind Woodman and it bounced up and down. The blue dummy took one side of him and the red dummy took the other. "Fire Tower, go!"
The red dummy flashed as a pillar of flame came rushing at Woodman, who was simply too big and slow to move out of the way. The ball and other dummy moved inwards, preventing the tree based Navi from getting away. Skullman and Megaman jumped right in to get the obstacles out of the way, but at once, the three of them were hit by the Fire Tower and were sent flying away.
"Hm... That looks like a good strategy!" Colorman just realized as his ball came back to him. "I might just do that more often! Ho ho ho ho ho!"
The three victims to the attack struggled to get up, especially Woodman, for fire burns wood. Luckily, he wasn't set ablaze, just heavy damage. Megaman jumped back into action and fired at Colorman, who just laughed as his dummies took the damage for him (and they showed no signs of wearing out, either!). Lan sent him an Electro Sword and the Navi rushed at the blue dummy and sliced at it. As the two halves disintegrated into data, Colorman backed away. There was no way he could summon more of them.
"But I still have my red dummy!"
"Not anymore, dummy!" Megaman smirked as he sliced the red one in half and deleted it.
"What do you think you're supposed to be, some kind of samurai!?" Colorman shouted, before shooting his white ball at Megaman. "Have a slice of this, then!"
Megaman leaped up as the ball bounced down and he threw his blade down but it recoiled back to him. The blue Navi couldn't control his trajectory to the cyber ground away from the ball and got caught above it. As the ball bounced down again, Megaman found himself falling. He somersaulted and slammed his Electro Sword at Colorman, but it was dodged and before he knew it, the blade disappeared and his arm came back.
"Having fun?" Colorman teased Megaman as his ball came back to him. "Time to bounce again!" He crouched downwards to leap, but he got hit in the back by something rather sharp. And cold, too! "Who did that!?" Colorman frantically turned around and saw Iceman standing straight up.
"Chill out, psycho," the winter Navi joked.
"I make all the jokes here!" Colorman yelled, leaping at him, only to get propelled even higher by a big, yellow fist. "Heeeeey!" he screamed at Gutsman, only to take a straight punch to the face, then yelp in pain, due to Woodman's Green Wood attack, and finally get burned in the face by more of Skullman's Ghost Fire, all while listening to their own little remarks. It was his turn to struggle to get up, but he had to struggle even more, for he took even more pain.
"Doesn't sound like you're too popular of a guy!" Megaman inputted his own joke, gaining a chuckle from Roll.
"Just give up!" Lan told Maddy.
"Grr! Fine! You win this round, kid!" she said, signaling her surrender. "But I'll be back! Just you wait and see! Jack out, Colorman! Keep being passed round like a ball and you will pass out!"
"Aaww!" Colorman whined, doing what he was told to.
"COLORMAN, LOGGING OUT."
Back In DenTech Town...
Lan, Maylu, Sal and Miyu checked with everyone on the bus to see if they were alright. Meanwhile, Dex and Tory looked back on what had just happened and were glad to be alive.
"You know, I heard that the place was gonna blow up!" Dex told Tory.
"What? You sure?"
"Yeah! You know, if it weren't for Lan, we would all be..." Dex didn't want to finish his sentence.
"I know..." At that moment, Tory saw a little girl heading their way. "Hey, guys! Yai's here!"
"Hm?"
"Whew! I'm glad I finally got here!" Yai sighed in relief after rushing for the now broken down bus. Turning to her friends, she asked them, "What happened here anyway? I was worried sick about you guys after I heard about a runaway bus on the news!" She was given every little detail, except the part about shopping for her gift. Well, shopping in general was mentioned, but because of that, she wondered out loud, "What were you shopping for?"
Maylu leaned over to Lan's ear and whispered to him, "Hey, why don't we get Yai's antiques tomorrow?"
"Fine by me," Lan whispered back.
"And what have we here?" Yai suddenly smirked. "Two lovebirds whispering secret messages of love?"
"Yai!" Maylu whined, blushing in utter embarrassment. "I-I don't love him!"
"A-And I don't love her!" Lan backed himself up, also blushing.
"Oh please! You're horrible liars, guys!" Yai responded, gaining laughs from everyone else. All was well with DenTech City once again.
Later, Somewhere Else...
"Please forgive me, sir!" Maddy begged her master.
"Fool! You have failed me again!" Wily roared with rage, slamming his fist down at the table. "Do you think I would think for a moment to give you another chance!?"
"But-"
"Silence! No more excuses! Now get out of my sight!"
In shame, Maddy put her head down and slowly walked away, as Wily ordered her to. She gained a look from Count Zap and Yahoot, but not Mr Match, who wasn't present at all. He had a private meeting with Wily and after that, he was never seen again.
"That's it..." Wily mumbled to himself. "No more... Count Zap!"
"Yes, sir!" Zap responded with a slight accent.
"These two bit schemes have failed me! It's high time that we take down DenTech City once and for all! I'm entrusting you to do this, Count Zap! Is that understood!?"
"I hear and obey only you, Lord Wily!" Zap vowed, saluting him.
Virus Log
Swordys: ghost knight like viruses that swing their swords at their opponents
Fire Swordys: the same as Swordys, except with gold armor and Fire Swords
Buffys: the same as Puffys, except red bodies and fire type bubbles
At first, I wasn't too fond with this chapter, but I think it came out a lot better than I originally thought it would, with all the horrible jokes I've written in and all.
~Have a great day, week, fortnight, month, whatever, and stay upbeat, y'all!~