Chapter 3: First Contact
I stated in the previous chapter that Wily has access to the blueprints of certain older Robot Masters. What I meant by that, is mostly the Robot Masters that he built. You see, in most Mega Man games, the Robot Masters were stolen and redesigned by Wily, or were hostile for any other reason, such as roboenza or joining King. In those cases, Wily likely doesn't have their blueprints. However, there were some games where all or some of the Robot Masters were originally built by Wily for combat against Mega Man. In those cases, he likely still has their blueprints, and could possibly rebuild the robots. However, Mega Man 1 and 3 are special cases. I'm basing this fanfic off of elements from both game canon and Archie canon, and in the latter, the Mega Man 1 and 3 Robot Masters were originally industrial designs from Light, but Wily had held onto copies of their blueprints from before he betrayed Light. However, I see it as unlikely Wily would rebuild the Mega Man 1 Robot Masters, as he probably would see them as obsolete and useless compared to the Mega Man 2 Robot Masters, which Wily had designed after the Mega Man 1 Robot Masters when looking at their blueprints. Shadow Man is an exception from the Mega Man 3 Robot Masters, as he was a Kuiper Droid resurrected by Ra Moon, so it's unlikely Wily would know how to rebuild him on his own.
That being said, the rebuilt Robot Masters that Wily would have access to in this fanfic are:
Metal Man, Air Man, Bubble Man, Quick Man, Crash Man, Flash Man, Heat Man, Wood Man, Needle Man, Magnet Man, Gemini Man, Hard Man, Top Man, Snake Man, Spark Man, Gravity Man, Wave Man, Stone Man, Gyro Man, Star Man, Charge Man, Napalm Man, Crystal Man, Junk Man, Spring Man, Slash Man, Turbo Man, Sword Man, Search Man, Frost Man, Grenade Man, Buster Rod G, Mega Water S, Hyper Storm H, Enker, Punk, and Ballade. Note that I didn't include any Mega Man DOS Robot Masters, as there doesn't seem to be enough information on them, so I don't know whether or not they were built by Wily.
Of course Bass is an obvious inclusion to his assets as well, as we've established. But he didn't need to be rebuilt, because he was never destroyed in the first place, despite having fought and lost to Mega Man on several occasions. Zero is technically there too, but Wily still hasn't finished designing and building him.
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.
Not all of the Robot Masters had entered the ship, since there's so many of them and too many at once would get in the way. Only a select few entered, being Bass, Quick Man, Crystal Man, Spark Man, and Gyro Man. Air Man and Gravity Man were already there as established. Besides, some wouldn't be able to handle the environment, such as Charge Man or Bubble Man.
"Huh. I didn't know the doc was having me fight a little girl." Bass said as he boarded the ship.
"She said she's from another universe." Gravity Man objected.
"Well, if she's really a human, I guess she's still by definition an alien if she's not from around here..." Air Man corrected.
"Don't just converse as if I'm not here!" Chiyuri interrupted.
"Still, we mean it. Surrender." Air Man reminded.
"You seem to be underestimating what I can do with this gun..." Chiyuri threatened.
"Are you kidding me?" Quick Man belittled. "I mean yeah, buster tech has improved a lot recently, but handheld versions for humans aren't nearly as powerful and can't even make a dent in us Robot Masters. And quit stalling already!"
"Perhaps Air Man didn't make himself crystal clear. The girl is from another universe, we have no idea what we're up against." Crystal Man intervened.
"...Ya got that right!" Chiyuri exclaimed.
She flipped a switch on the side of her gun, causing a green energy circle to appear at a certain radius from her body, with four smaller circles embedded in four points on the circumference. She pointed her gun upwards, as blue hollow circle bullets were fired randomly across the room, while the smaller circles created waving patterns of tiny white bullets. Every Robot Master in the room tanked some bullets, not being ready for it, getting ashy wounds in their armor. When they were barely starting to react after getting hit, Chiyuri had already teleported into the air in a green flash of light, hovering in the middle of the room. Quick Man immediately threw a burst of three razor sharp boomerangs in Chiyuri's direction, but she easily flew through the large gaps between them. She tried to fire semicircle bursts of little white bullets out of her blaster at Quick Man, who evaded them running around the perimeter of the room. Just then the Quick Boomerangs behind her changed direction, locking on to her, which she didn't expect. She took some cutting damage. Just as she began to turn in the other direction, Bass charged forward and jumped, trying to fire a machine gun volley of buster shots at her. She easily made slight movements to dodge out of the way, but then found herself weaving through the gaps of several inaccurate blue tornado bullets from Air Man's arm cannon. She then saw one of the crystal orbs fly past her face, four of which had been fired by Crystal Man, and one ricocheted off the ceiling. A burst of blue hollow circle bullets with tail streaks were released as she teleported again. She ended up on the edge of the room. Spark Man turned around and unleashed the ball of electricity he had built up in his arms, and Chiyuri barely moved out of the way. Spark Man immediately tapped the conductor on his head, causing a burst of electric projectiles, but Chiyuri easily moved to the side a bit into a gap between them. She then started firing spiraling patterns of small white bullets from the small green circles, many of them easily harming Spark Man.
"Grr... We did underestimate her! Her attacks are too much!" Bass said. He pressed one of the red buttons on the side of his helmet, and spoke into his communicator, "I need backup! Probably Flash Man!"
"No, not him!" Quick Man stopped and interjected.
"Actually, I've got an idea!" Gravity Man spoke up.
He tried to stop the bullets by activating his Gravity Hold, yet nothing happened.
"Huh? Why can't I gravitate the bullets?!" He complained.
"Looks like the gravity capacitor in this ship disables your ability there!" Chiyuri explained. "Looks like I'm the only person in here who can fly because of that thing!"
"Guess again, buddy." A voice from behind said.
As Chiyuri tried to turn around, she was immediately punched in the head. When the knockback stopped and she straightened herself out, she locked eyes with Gyro Man, still somewhat dizzy. He immediately threw two Gyro Blades, which Chiyuri moved left and right to evade. She pressed a button on the side of her gun, and a second one materialized in her other hand, dual wielding them. She fired two streams of blue crescent shaped bullets at Gyro Man. He immediately tried to make evasive maneuvers, but the positive photon bullets were too fast for him. After getting hit by a few, he tried to land on the ground. He fired a few Gyro Blades forward that then spun and changed direction, moving upward underneath Chiyuri, but she evaded them barely. Gyro Man stopped and put his hand on his chest, in pain from the blue bullets he just tanked. Suddenly Chiyuri felt the force of something energetic hitting a forcefield generated by the green circle, and turned around. Gravity Man may not have been able to use the Gravity Hold, but at least he still had a good arm cannon, and Crystal Man was also there shooting out of the crystal in his chest. They were with Bass, all firing a barrage of buster shots up at Chiyuri, making tiny yellow explosions against the green circle. They managed to break the forcefield as she charged up a ball of energy on the ends of her guns, and then fired a line of large blue triangular bullets from either gun, mowing down the three of them with a charge shot just in time.
The green forcefield is gone and her guns are running low on energy. She was then grazed by a Quick Boomerang, and saw two more pass her. She knew this time to move out of the way when they changed direction. She turned around and charged up for a longer time, before releasing several lines of scattering hollow blue circle bullets in Quick Man's direction, but he continued to run out of the way, misdirecting the aimed pattern. She was about to press a different button on her guns in frustration when she was suddenly pushed up against a wall by a huge gust of wind from Air Man, as several blue tornadoes hit her as well. Up against the wall, she still managed to press the button, and blue lasers fired from a load of turrets hidden around the room, tripping up Quick Man as he ran and his legs were severed, falling over. The lasers missed Chiyuri and Air Man. She finally managed to fire a few blue orbs out of her guns that connected to the wall near Air Man on the other side, or stopped nearby before reaching the wall. Right afterwards, several blue lasers connected between the orbs, as Air Man fell, in pieces.
Just as everything seemed over, she began to deactivate the lasers and her guns were cooling down. And time stopped. Literally. Flash Man stepped on board, followed by Crash Man, Slash Man, Gemini Man, and Heat Man, all unaffected by his Time Stopper. They walked up to the time-suspended Chiyuri, prying the guns from her hands. Gemini Man generated his clone and they grabbed Chiyuri by the shoulders. Time unfroze. Chiyuri was surprised to find herself suddenly disarmed and subdued. After the long fight, she had no strength to struggle.
"Wh-What the... But how?!" as she was surprised.
"Looks like we came just in the nick of time... And my time stop just wore off." Flash Man looked around and assessed everything, ranging from a charred Spark Man full of bullet holes, to a dismembered, sliced up Air Man. He transmitted to Wily, "Looks like all robots are down for the count... Save for Gyro Man and Quick Man, they're in critical condition. During my time stop, Gemini Man and his clone subdued the girl originally seen outside the ship."
"Egad! All this destruction caused by a battle with a little girl?! What kind of universe are we dealing with here?!" Wily exclaimed over the communicator.
Quick Man's body was smoking because of how the Time Stopper affected him.
"Grr... You're the last person I wanted to see in here!" Quick Man barked at Flash Man.
"It's not my fault you killed me back then!" Flash Man rebounded at Quick Man, letting go of the button on the side of his helmet.
"I was just making our job easier! I could take on Mega Man myself." Quick Man reflected.
"You back stabbed me with a boomerang back then, how is that supposed to make our job easier?! And now look at you, you somehow lost your legs fighting a little girl." Flash Man said. "And you couldn't take on Mega Man yourself, he copied my Time Stopper and used it against you. And we know by now that you're particularly weak to it."
"I'm not dead yet, you idiots!" Bass interrupted, struggling to his feet, standing between the gunned down bodies of Crystal Man and Gravity Man. There were ashy wounds all over his armor, and static electric sparks humming up and down his body with smoke rising.
"Scratch that, Bass is also in critical condition." Flash Man transmitted to Wily. As he let go of the button again, his attention shifts back to conversation. "Since you called specifically me for backup, Wily said I would take lead of the raid in case you're down."
"Hey genius!" Bass sarcastically said into his communicator. "I'm still in control whether you like it or not! Send Treble onto the ship!"
Wily interpreted. "There you go, doing your own thing again. But I don't disagree, that's a great idea. Treble is in perfect, undamaged condition, and his power core is fully charged. He'll balance it out with you and give the boost you need."
Treble arrived at the door of the ship on a floating platform. He ran up to Bass, giving the cold stare of a robotic wolf. Bass held his arms out, and Treble lunged forward, causing them to fuse together. As the energetic burst of light subsided, Treble was nowhere to be seen, but revealed as new purple armor on Bass's body with a set of bat-like jet wings, among other design elements. There was no longer any damage on Bass, it was evened out in fusing his mass with Treble. They have activated the Treble Boost adapter.
"Ahh, that feels so much better. And I can feel the power at my fingertips..." Bass called out.
"You... won't get away with this..." Chiyuri weakly chimed in, who was suspended by the two Gemini Men. Bass slowly walked up to them. "My captain is up in the cockpit... She's even stronger than I am. If you face her, she'll rip you a brand new face."
Bass hit Chiyuri as lightly as he could, and she still blacked out. "Let me see the guns you took from her..." he said. Flash Man handed Bass the ray guns he pried out of Chiyuri's hands while time was stopped. As he held them, his armor changed to a white and blue color palette. He handed the guns back to Flash Man, after which, he formed an arm cannon that resembles Chiyuri's gun, but without the grip and trigger as its base was connected to his elbow. "Hahaha... it worked! I actually managed to copy the weapon data!" His armor then changed back to the black and purple color palette of Treble Boost, and his arm cannon also returned to normal. "Flash Man and Heat Man, you're to escort Quick Man and Gyro Man off the ship. Then come back and get the bodies of all the other weak robots who were blown up in this room. Crash Man and Slash Man, you search this floor of the ship while I take the stairs. Gemini Men, bring the girl to Wily."
Everybody dispersed to their assigned tasks. Bass ran up the stairs at the end of the room while Crash Man and Slash Man ran down a corridor. Flash Man went to Gyro Man instead of Quick Man, since he and Quick Man aren't too fond of each other. He said to Gyro Man, "Can you still walk?"
He got a response. "Y-yeah, barely. Even the weakest shots from that girl ripped through me, I was designed with thin armor not just for being lightweight, but also out of cheapness. She sorta got me near my power circuits, my propeller is inoperable..."
"Easy now. If you can't fly, step onto the platform..."
They descended on the hovering platform away from the ship. On the other side of the room, Heat Man lifted Quick Man over his shoulder, almost comforting him. He carried the severed legs in his other arm. As he walked towards the exit, Quick Man had an embarrassed, defeated look... They were followed by the Gemini Men carrying an unconscious Chiyuri onto a platform as well.