Chapter 2: Paths Cross On A Collision Course

I do not own Mega Man, nor Touhou Project. Mega Man is rightfully owned by Capcom. Touhou Project is rightfully owned by Team Shanghai Alice.

Upon arriving at the Probability Space Hypervessel, Yumemi held out her hand, and in a beam of light, a futuristic phone materialized. She tapped into a peculiar app, and tapped a button, causing a floating door to open out of nowhere on the invisible ship. She entered the main deck and looked around, not seeing Chiyuri. She went to the living quarters and knocked on the door to Chiyuri's room. It mechanically slid open...

"Oh, you're back." Chiyuri greeted.

"I've decided we're going home now, my ability to fly and reduced energy consumption on my staff should be enough to show to the other scientists..." Yumemi claimed.

"Somehow, I don't think that'll convince 'em..." Chiyuri snickered.

WHACK!

"No, this WILL work! I'm going to the cockpit now." Yumemi said.

Yumemi arrived at the cockpit. Upon pressing some buttons and flipping switches, the ship's invisibility cloak turned off as a massive amount of energy charged up around its surface, before disappearing in a burst of light. The sudden light show caught Reimu's and Genjii's attention on their way back to the shrine, as the scientist and her crew member left Gensokyo.

In a far flung, different universe of advanced science and robotics, in an unknown location, a mad scientist watches over monitors and security cameras, overseeing the army of robots constructing his new fortress. Said robots were also commanding their own groups of lesser construction robots.

"Everything seems to be coming together so well! I was lucky I was able to escape that blue pest last time we fought... I escaped arrest, and I'm already building up my next plan of attack! Thomas will pay for stealing my Double Gear idea, and he'll basically pay for everything else, too!" He said in a monologue.

"Pffft, how do you know Mega Twerp won't just trash your scheme again this time?" Bass snickered, standing behind Dr. Wily, whom was sitting in large swivel chair with a skull insignia on it.

Wily turned towards bass and stood up from his seat. "Because things will be different this time! I had a point about holding onto the blueprints of my older Robot Master designs, and creating a wireless backup system for their memories whenever I choose to rebuild them. And that would be now! I resurrected all the Robot Masters I have the blueprints to, and they're building this fortress as we speak! Mega Man's never had to deal with a robot army this large before!"

"You do realize you're referring to Robot Masters Mega Man has already faced and destroyed before, right? You've done things like this before, it never works when you send an opponent Mega Man already has experience fighting. Are sure you can even call yourself a genius?" Bass snickered again.

"Of course I'm an even greater genius than Thomas! I won't send the Robot Masters one at a time this time, instead with this army of resurrected Robot Masters, I'll have them all face Mega Man at once in this massive fortress!" Wily explained again.

"You've tried that before. He can still handle fighting multiple enemies at once. Ugh, consider how he's adaptable, he'll eventually manage to copy some of their weapons and then start abusing their weaknesses. I can't believe a robotics genius like you is being outsmarted by his own creation right now."

"Well then! I'll have you know the development of my secret weapon has finally begun construction! It'll work as a last resort if he defeats all these Robot Masters again."

"If I had a zenny for every time you mentioned a secret weapon in all of your secret plans- actually wait, are you just referring to that stupid girly robot again with the blond ponytail?"

"Yes, like I've said, Zero is designed to exploit Mega Man's few weaknesses, like Mega Man always does to the Robot Masters I create or steal! That's why Zero's designed to wield a beam sword, and to be quick enough on the draw, to cut Mega Man's arm cannon off, literally disarming him! And if this plan doesn't go as expected, at least Zero will be just as adaptable using the technique system, with still plenty of other tricks up my sleeve! I'll set a new standard for combat robots!" Wily just keeps having counterarguments.

"Heh, a typical explanation. It happens all the time in movies, when the villain explains their master plan, only for it to "somehow" fall apart later on. Besides, I thought I'M your greatest invention. If you'd just send me right now, I'd have Mega Brat all taken care of." Bass just keeps nitpicking.

"I'm no villain! I want to prove to Thomas that I'm the better robotics expert, and the world will finally recognize me! This all started out as a misunderstanding! And besides, Zero will be an even greater invention than you could ever dream of being... I've learned from your case and Copy Robot's that copying Mega Man, or making a doppelganger, like how he always copies my Robot Masters' weapons, won't work. I've already learned that I can't fight fire with fire. But in Zero's case... this will be more like fighting fire with water." Wily pointed out.

"You once kidnapped a little girl just to prove your stupid little point about robotics. You're definitely some supervillain. And what happened to your point about bringing the world to a better way of thinking, by literally offering for all countries' leaders to surrender to you?" Bass rebutted.

"Grrr... See it however you want to! At least I'm not a complete psychopath! And besides, didn't you just say you think you can take care of "Mega Brat" right now? Oh, I have no teleport limiter active on your serial number right now. Go ahead, be my guest, there's nothing stopping you. Go to Light Labs right now if you so choose to, go finally prove to him you're the "better bot", which you've always failed to do so far. Just know that Mega Man's little robo-pets will have you outgunned and outnumbered when you get there. My plan to build up this fortress makes so much more sense than you selfishly taking the offensive to Thomas's home, all because of your intense rivalry to little boy blue~" Wily picked apart as he crossed his arms, with a smug look. "You can't win an argument against your own creator!"

Bass thought about going to Light Labs for a moment... He grunted in anger at Wily as his fists clenched.

"And better yet, you're programmed not to hurt me! So go take your little temper tantrum to Mega M-"

Wily was cut off by the deafening sound of a metallic collision, and the grinding away of many floors and layers of the building.

"ACH! What's going on!?" Wily exclaimed.

Eventually the rumbling in the floor came to a stop. Wily immediately turned and looked at his monitors, to see that 1/5 of the cameras had gone offline. He checked the closest active cameras to the ones that went offline, only to see some kind of massive damage to the fortress, and seeing parts of a strange massive metallic object embedded into many floors in the fortress. Wily pressed a button on a control panel and talked into a microphone...

"All Robot Masters! Suspend construction! All report to the west side of the fortress on the outside, and assess the damage!"

"Wily, if something just collided with the fortress, it can't be safe in here. I'll teleport you to where you're having the Robot Masters rendezvous." Bass intervened.

"Good point...!" Wily responded.

"Sheesh, I'm almost considering leaving you in here for all that crap you just said." Bass threatened.

"Now's not the time for jokes!"

Bass rolled his eyes and walked up to Wily, placing his hand on his shoulder. Suddenly they beam down outside the fortress, as assorted Robot Masters begin to beam down around the same location. They all began to look up in awe at what appeared to be a gigantic, cylindrical-shaped spaceship, albeit, not having much height so it looks more like a fat disc with sharp edges, a lot like a UFO saucer, lodged into the side of the fortress at a gently sloping angle. On the outside, it's made of a highly reflective unknown chrome-like metal, save for various panels and external instruments being a less reflective dark-blue color.

"Egad...!" Wily exclaimed. "Are aliens invading?! Are the Stardroids back for revenge?!... Whatever the case, they landed on my property! We're taking inventory of this thing!"

This wouldn't be the first time Wily tried to use the power of an alien that crash landed.

The awestruck chatter of various Robot Masters quieted down as Wily got their attention.

"Everybody, we're coordinating an attack! You will be led by Bass as you storm the vessel, and subdue any crew members! We need them alive for potential information! I've made up my mind, we'll be taking advantage of their technology!" Wily ordered.

"Hate to burst your bubble, but despite being on our territory, there seems to be a natural teleport signal-jamming aura on that thing." Bubble Man interrupted.

"Hmm..." Wily thought.

"There doesn't seem to be an entrance." Bubble Man observed.

"I can see that, you nitwit! Air Man, Gyro Man, and Gravity Man, you're to take to the skies and get an aerial view. Look for possible entrances! We're not letting them get away!" Wily ordered. "What a great opportunity... Aliens crash landed at my fortress! I'll make do with their technology and use it against Mega Man!"

"And how are you so confident your weapons can overwhelm them, like they won't just vaporize all your robots the moment they step in?" Bass snickered again.

"Oh, quiet you!" Wily exclaimed.

WHACK!-

"Oww! Ahh!" Wily yelled.

"I'm literally made of metal, genius." Bass mocked.

Upon arriving in another universe, Yumemi was immediately greeted with the unexpected grinding of metal, as she seems to have hit some sort of structure. Looking out of the cockpit's window, she can see down a hallway in a building the ship had supposedly crashed into.

"What the-!"

"...Did I crash into some building?! Are the coordinates off?!"

She looked at a screen on a control panel, and saw the line of randomly typed characters. She held down a button on a control panel and spoke.

"Chiyuri! Come up here right this instant!", resounding from a speaker in the ceiling of Chiyuri's room.

"Aye aye..." Chiyuri responded.

Chiyuri soon arrived in the cockpit.

"Did you tamper with the coordinates?!" Yumemi yelled.

"Um... I don't know...? I cleaned the ship like you told me to..." Chiyuri tried to excuse.

"Did you smudge the control panel? Because not only have we struck a building, but according to these randomly typed coordinates, we're not even in our homeworld! We were sent to a different universe altogether, and our destination is off by several hyperdimensions! Not to mention we also seem to have traveled several decades into the future from our origin point in that magic world!" Yumemi exclaimed.

"I tried to carefully wipe around the control panels! B-But then I tried to carefully wipe the tops of some keys but all that random stuff got typed! But I was expecting you to fix it when you see it! Are you sayin' ya didn't check the coordinates before we left?!" Chiyuri complained.

WHACK!

"I had the coordinates of our homeworld, arriving just above our landing pad, already typed into the computer while we were still in the magic world! I was confident you would be competent enough to not mess with it!" Yumemi barked back. "Look, I have our home coordinates written down somewhere, hold on while I find them! In the meantime, go make yourself useful and survey the damage outside! I can tell from these static screens that a few of our landing sequence cameras went offline... And generally a lot of other cameras and instruments as well!"

Chiyuri grabbed a futuristic headset and went outside. Still in range of the ship's gravity manipulation, she flew around the ship and edges of the building they crashed into, trying to get a good look at the damage... She quickly encountered what appeared to be a man in green armor with a copter propeller on his back, which he was using to fly above the ship. They locked eyes.

From his perspective, he scanned and detected that the individual in front of him is a human, but was confused as he couldn't tell how she was flying. There also appeared to be a gun holster on the side of her shorts, holding some sort of handheld buster weapon.

"Huh? A human girl? And how are you flying?! Miss, if you have something to do with this ship, you're coming with me!" He said, in straight English.

Chiyuri immediately fled back around the ship and into the door she left open, but when she went inside and into the main deck, she encountered a man in blue armor with a turbine in the chest plate, and a man in red armor with a crescent shaped body armor piece, both of which had different arm cannon designs.

"Yumemi, it looks like we have company-!" She spoke into her headset. Yumemi then noticed the activity on the main deck through one of the cameras.

"Drat, now we can't return home just yet! Chiyuri, you'll need to dispel them if possible! We cannot bring foreigners back to our homeworld! Too many at once will create an energy imbalance in the ship!" Yumemi responded, pressing a different button to target the headset.

"J-Just who are you people, and whaddaya want with us?!" Chiyuri asked them.

"I'm Air Man, and this is my ally, Gravity Man. We've been ordered to seize your vessel. Surrender now, or prepare to fight." The blue one answered.

Chiyuri pulled out her ray gun. Her hands and arms were trembling...

"T-This is a lethal weapon! If you value your... life? You two are robots right? Or just humans in high power gear?" Chiyuri tried to threaten.

"Oh, yes, we're totally humans! A human would totally have a giant wind turbine going through their abdomen, making no sense of their anatomy!" Air Man mocked.

"I see you were programmed with sarcasm..." Chiyuri bit back.

"...And what's YOUR deal, blondie? You don't look like a space alien." Gravity Man questioned.

"L-Look, if YOU don't surrender, I'll have to use force to get ya off this ship! We can't have ya in here when we return to our home universe!" Chiyuri threatened again.

"And you don't belong here, either! The doc is taking inventory of your ship for landing on his private property! And be warned that Wily-bots don't exactly follow the laws of roboethics, so we're authorized to use force if YOU don't surrender to US!" Gravity Man insisted.

Just then, a group of hovering platforms arrived at the door Chiyuri left open. The platforms were carrying a group of non-flying robots, aside from the green robot from earlier hovering near them. The group seemed to be lead by a robot with dark armor and fins on his helmet. They all stepped off their platforms and into the Probability Space Hypervessel. Chiyuri, at the center of the main deck, was surrounded.

"...And looks like backup has finally arrived." Air Man pointed out.

"This... doesn't look so good..." Chiyuri expressed.