Author's Note: I know what I'm about to do is going to give me a flood of
rants, but it was an idea I had that I couldn't shake off. So if you
Cartoon-type Mega Man fans find this a little offensive...I'll be in my
closet until you stop hunting me down with torches and pitchforks. ^^;;;
Revise Note: As you might have noticed, I haven't made much of an appearance in my previous chapters. This is mainly because I figured the fanfic would've been better off without me getting in the way. But this alternative is just going to make the plothole thing a lot worse.
_ 3 _
A Bad Day Gone Worse
"YOU ATE MY FAVORITE DONUT, YOU BRAT!" boomed a voice. Rock tore down the hall with Guts right behind him, arms high in the air and steam coming out of his "ears".
"I swear, no one said it was yours!" Rock cried, "I thought it was left out for anyone to eat!"
"I'm going to pound you so hard, you'll forget what pain is!"
Rock made it to the double doors of the lab and starts pressing a bunch of numbers until the doors slid open. But by then Guts has already appeared behind him, eyes glowing red and more steam coming out of his ears.
Inside, Dr. Light continues to decipher the blueprints taken off Mega's memory banks. Even with the explanation given to him last night, Dr. Light was still having trouble figuring out what goes where. Mega stood in front of the monitor, trying to locate his Dr. Light and Rush through the very radar that led Rock to Wily's former base.
Rock attempted to get through the door, but Guts had his arm arched back and sent it flying right into his back. The punch sent him flying right into Mega who stood conveniently right where Rock headed.
The two slammed into each other. Mega's body stops him from flying any further, but as a result, he gets shoved the rest of the way and crashes into the very machine that turned Rock into the crime fighting Mega Man.
"Oh no!" Dr. Light cried as he had wittnessed the whole thing. The crash caused the machine to short out, surrounding Mega as his scream echoed throughout the lab house. There were some mini-explosions before everything went dead silent and Mega hits the floor, smoking.
"Uh oh...Am I in trouble again...?" Guts mumbled.
Everyone remained silent as the smoke cleared. What they saw completely shocked them.
"Sufferin' cyborgs!" Guts yelled, "Dr. Light's machine turned your towering twin into...into a human!" Indeed, Mega had changed. While he hadn't been wearing his helmet since he appeared the night before, other parts of his body, minus his legs and plasma cannon turned from titanium to flesh, wearing a light blue t-shirt and dark blue shorts.
Dr. Light scratched his beard, "Hmm. It seems Rock's collision with Mega had something to do with this problem."
"Well? What if we use the machine again to turn him back into a robot?" Rock asked, panicked, "That way, he won't know what happened."
Dr. Light walked over to the machine and sighed.
"I hate to say this, but when Mega slammed into the machine, it crashed," he said, "It's going to take me a while to fix this." Guts and Rock's jaw almost hit the ground.
"Wha...what'll we do now!?" Guts squeaked.
"What'll we do!?" Rock yelled, turning to Guts, "You were the one who punched me! You figure something out!"
"Like hell I will!" Guts yelled back, "I wasn't the one who shoved his counterpart into that machine and turned him into a human!"
"Excuse me!" Dr. Light snarled through clinched teeth, "If you two are going to argue, take it outside!" Guts and Rock glared at each other but left nonetheless.
Two hours later, Mega dragged himself into Dr. Light's lab, shaking his head. Dr. Light looked up from the damaged machine for a second, then returned to repairing it, trying not to show how nervous he was.
"Glade to see you're awake," he said, "How're you feeling?"
"Like my head was stuck in a vise," Mega grumbled, rubbing his hair, "What's going on, anyway? Rock shoves me against the wall, next thing I knew, I woke up in his bed. The minute I come out, everyone's looking at me funny."
Dr. Light cleared his throat with a loud cough and then got up, scratching his chin, "Well...how should I say this...Have you ever had any experience as a human before?"
Mega raised an eyebrow to that question, "Not fully. What made you bring that up?"
Again, Dr. Light clears his throat loudly, then points to a mirror near the construction table. Mega followed his movement until he saw himself staring at his human reflection in the mirror and freaked.
"W-What happened to me!?" he cried, "This can't be my reflection!"
"I'm afraid it is, Mega," Dr. Light said, rubbing the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, "You see, Guts was chasing Rock because of a donut problem and when he punched Rock at you, the shove sent you into the very machine I'm currently fixing and caused this strange effect."
"Well, the machine could change me back, couldn't it?"
"Yes, it might. But it'll take some time for me to fix this before I can test it out. Besides, don't you want to experience being a human and see what it's like?"
Hearing this, Mega explodes and turns to Dr. Light so fast, he was almost a blur, "You're asking me that at a time like this!? I doubt the Dr. Light I know would even recognize me, let alone Rush!"
"I know it must be hard having your luck turn on you in the worse situations, but it's a lucky thing you weren't all human, or you probably wouldn't leave the lab unarmed."
Mega looked at the plasma cannon on his left arm, knowing this was the only defense he had.
"Why don't you take a walk and cool off for a while," Dr. Light said, "I need some time alone to try and fix this machine and figure out how to reverse the effect."
Mega bit back the urge to punch something inanimate with his blaster arm. He sighs and walks out the double doors. One thing he should be lucky about is that anyone who was scared of him because of something Proto did to provoke their assumptions would barely recognize him unless he actions got their attention. And he could take Wily's robots by surprise if they hadn't already found out what happened to him already.
And speaking of Wily's Robots....
In the market of Capcom-Tokyo, a man and woman were walking by, talking about their day when Guts Man and Cut Man appeared in a pincer formation. Their size almost petrified them as they clung to each other in fear.
"A third of the city in panic and Mega Man isn't here to stop us! This must be a miracle!" Guts Man laughed before he saw a red streak slam into him. Rush stood between him and the couples, growling as they took off running.
"Darn! I didn't think his mutt would show up and stop us!" Cut Man whined.
"Ah, who cares? He's just a stupid dog." Guts Man said as he raised his fist to strike.
"Who're you callin' stupid, Guts Man!" called a voice. Guts Man looked up to see a robotic foot slam into his face and knock him to the ground.
"Hey! What's the big idea!?" Guts Man growled as he sat up to see who his attacker was. Mega now stood between him and Rush, eyes aimed at Cut Man who stood behind them.
"He has guts showing up and stopping us like that!" Cut Man whine as he aimed his cutting blades at Mega. Before he had a chance to fire them, Mega whirled around and fired a shot from his plasma cannon at Cut Man, knocking him to the ground.
"Don't be too surprised at how much I've changed, Cut Man!" Mega said as he stooped over Cut Man who was shocked at the realization of his voice.
"That's...that's Mega Man!" he cried.
"Righto, Cutter. And now I'm going to give you a taste of your own medicine!" Mega placed his blaster hand on Cut Man but nothing happened.
Before he could figure out what went wrong, Guts Man appeared and punched him across the street until he crashed through the window of a tailor shop, scaring the people inside.
"Hey Mega Man! I hope you got the punch-line, cause the next one will be deadly!" Guts Man laughed as he and Cut Man crossed the streets towards the broken window of the tailor shop.
Mega sat up, shaking the dizziness and pieces of broken window out of his head.
"Damn! Why can't I take Cut Man's weapon!?" he groaned.
"What's the matter, Mega Man? Too chicken to fight back?" Cut Man laughed, "I'd be too if my only defense were skin and bones."
Mega got up to see Cut Man and Guts Man crossing the street, then the customers in the tailor shop watching them approach, their eyes widening in shock as they began to back away as if they were in their faces.
"You're out of luck, Mega Man!" Guts Man said, "You can't possibly defeat us as a human." he neared the broken window of the tailor shop when Rush jumped him and bit his shoulder, "OW! HEY! GET OFFA ME, YOU STUPID MUTT!" He grabbed Rush and slammed him into the ground, shattering him into separated joints.
"Rush!" Mega cried. Enraged, he charged through the broken window and aimed to punch Guts Man in the face, but ended up getting a huge fist in the face that sent him flying into a lamp post, nearly denting it and falling, limp on his rump, groaning.
"Ha! That was pathetic!" Guts Man laughed, "Haven't you learned by now, Mega Man? You can't do anything when you're a human! Except die!" he finished by raising his fist. Mega barely looked up to see the fist before a wave of fire engulfed both Guts Man and Cut Man, leaving them piled on each other, charred and slightly dazed.
Mega got up and looked in the direction the fire wave came from to see Captain Commando standing beside him with his fist out.
"You should never pick a fight with someone you know you can't beat." he said. Mega fumed.
"What is this!?" he complained, "Does everyone think I'm a wuss because I got turned into a human or something!?"
"You don't know the first thing about fighting as a human. Therefore, you can't win this fight with just three robotic joints. You couldn't even copy the Robot Masters' powers as you are now."
"Thanks for the information, but that's something we already know." Guts Man said. Captain Commando turned to him to get punched in the face, sending him towards Mega.
Mega threw his hands in front of him for endurance as Captain Commando came into contact with him and almost crushed him against the lamppost. While this was going on, he almost thought he saw his plasma cannon glowing and felt a strange sensation running through his body.
"Now here's our little advice," Guts Man said, approaching the two, "Never get involved in something that you don't belong in."
Mega shoved Captain Commando off him and got up, seeing Guts Man almost towering over him, arching his fist back to strike. Panicked, he did the same thing and shot his plasma cannon towards Guts Man, causing a beam of fire to fly into his chest and send him flying towards Cut Man, knocking them both on top of each other again.
"Whoa!" Mega yelped, looking at his plasma cannon, "D-did I just do that!?"
Guts Man sat up, shaking the soot from his face, "What's going on!? I thought Mega Man couldn't copy anything he touched!"
"It looks like he was able to copy the abilities of that guy who attacked us," Cut Man said, pointing to Captain Commando.
"Ha! It doesn't matter," Guts Man said, getting up, "Mega can only copy one weapon from each person he touches and it'll disappear eventually, which means he'll be left defenseless again." Cut Man tried to grin as he got up, the two walking towards Mega who knew he was going to be in trouble again.
Then something else came up in his head and without knowing it, slams his blaster fist into the ground. A trail of electricity traveled across the sidewalk towards Guts Man and Cut Man and exploded under them in a barrier of lightning. The two screamed before exploding into pieces. Mega blinked again and looked at his plasma cannon.
"It's like I just copied every ability he had," Mega muttered, "but how long will that last?"
His train of thought got cut off when the ground suddenly shook. People began screaming and running around as cracks began to form everywhere. Most of the buildings started to crumble as red, hot wind began blowing from the cracks on the ground. Mega turned towards Rush and ran to grab him when he felt an explosion knock him off the ground. The whole place began to erupt as small explosions popped out of every section of the city before a huge one annihilated the whole Capcom universe. From the darkness of the debris, a pair of glowing eyes could be seen, followed by a low, sinister laugher.
OOC: No, it isn't the end of the world (or the fanfic). Hopefully you guys aren't as confused about this chaper as you might be with the last two (If so, please tell me and I'll try and fix it).
Next Chapter: Half of both Capcom and Marvel wake up to find themselves on Rubyheart's ship. But the other half of the Marvel and Capcom heroes (including Mega and Rush) wound up in the fused worlds of Marvel and Capcom. What does this sudden turn of events have to do with the vision they saw? And is the Parallel Universes' Dr. Light also trapped here? What about Wily and his robots? Find out next time...if there is a next time.... ^^;;;
Revise Note: As you might have noticed, I haven't made much of an appearance in my previous chapters. This is mainly because I figured the fanfic would've been better off without me getting in the way. But this alternative is just going to make the plothole thing a lot worse.
_ 3 _
A Bad Day Gone Worse
"YOU ATE MY FAVORITE DONUT, YOU BRAT!" boomed a voice. Rock tore down the hall with Guts right behind him, arms high in the air and steam coming out of his "ears".
"I swear, no one said it was yours!" Rock cried, "I thought it was left out for anyone to eat!"
"I'm going to pound you so hard, you'll forget what pain is!"
Rock made it to the double doors of the lab and starts pressing a bunch of numbers until the doors slid open. But by then Guts has already appeared behind him, eyes glowing red and more steam coming out of his ears.
Inside, Dr. Light continues to decipher the blueprints taken off Mega's memory banks. Even with the explanation given to him last night, Dr. Light was still having trouble figuring out what goes where. Mega stood in front of the monitor, trying to locate his Dr. Light and Rush through the very radar that led Rock to Wily's former base.
Rock attempted to get through the door, but Guts had his arm arched back and sent it flying right into his back. The punch sent him flying right into Mega who stood conveniently right where Rock headed.
The two slammed into each other. Mega's body stops him from flying any further, but as a result, he gets shoved the rest of the way and crashes into the very machine that turned Rock into the crime fighting Mega Man.
"Oh no!" Dr. Light cried as he had wittnessed the whole thing. The crash caused the machine to short out, surrounding Mega as his scream echoed throughout the lab house. There were some mini-explosions before everything went dead silent and Mega hits the floor, smoking.
"Uh oh...Am I in trouble again...?" Guts mumbled.
Everyone remained silent as the smoke cleared. What they saw completely shocked them.
"Sufferin' cyborgs!" Guts yelled, "Dr. Light's machine turned your towering twin into...into a human!" Indeed, Mega had changed. While he hadn't been wearing his helmet since he appeared the night before, other parts of his body, minus his legs and plasma cannon turned from titanium to flesh, wearing a light blue t-shirt and dark blue shorts.
Dr. Light scratched his beard, "Hmm. It seems Rock's collision with Mega had something to do with this problem."
"Well? What if we use the machine again to turn him back into a robot?" Rock asked, panicked, "That way, he won't know what happened."
Dr. Light walked over to the machine and sighed.
"I hate to say this, but when Mega slammed into the machine, it crashed," he said, "It's going to take me a while to fix this." Guts and Rock's jaw almost hit the ground.
"Wha...what'll we do now!?" Guts squeaked.
"What'll we do!?" Rock yelled, turning to Guts, "You were the one who punched me! You figure something out!"
"Like hell I will!" Guts yelled back, "I wasn't the one who shoved his counterpart into that machine and turned him into a human!"
"Excuse me!" Dr. Light snarled through clinched teeth, "If you two are going to argue, take it outside!" Guts and Rock glared at each other but left nonetheless.
Two hours later, Mega dragged himself into Dr. Light's lab, shaking his head. Dr. Light looked up from the damaged machine for a second, then returned to repairing it, trying not to show how nervous he was.
"Glade to see you're awake," he said, "How're you feeling?"
"Like my head was stuck in a vise," Mega grumbled, rubbing his hair, "What's going on, anyway? Rock shoves me against the wall, next thing I knew, I woke up in his bed. The minute I come out, everyone's looking at me funny."
Dr. Light cleared his throat with a loud cough and then got up, scratching his chin, "Well...how should I say this...Have you ever had any experience as a human before?"
Mega raised an eyebrow to that question, "Not fully. What made you bring that up?"
Again, Dr. Light clears his throat loudly, then points to a mirror near the construction table. Mega followed his movement until he saw himself staring at his human reflection in the mirror and freaked.
"W-What happened to me!?" he cried, "This can't be my reflection!"
"I'm afraid it is, Mega," Dr. Light said, rubbing the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, "You see, Guts was chasing Rock because of a donut problem and when he punched Rock at you, the shove sent you into the very machine I'm currently fixing and caused this strange effect."
"Well, the machine could change me back, couldn't it?"
"Yes, it might. But it'll take some time for me to fix this before I can test it out. Besides, don't you want to experience being a human and see what it's like?"
Hearing this, Mega explodes and turns to Dr. Light so fast, he was almost a blur, "You're asking me that at a time like this!? I doubt the Dr. Light I know would even recognize me, let alone Rush!"
"I know it must be hard having your luck turn on you in the worse situations, but it's a lucky thing you weren't all human, or you probably wouldn't leave the lab unarmed."
Mega looked at the plasma cannon on his left arm, knowing this was the only defense he had.
"Why don't you take a walk and cool off for a while," Dr. Light said, "I need some time alone to try and fix this machine and figure out how to reverse the effect."
Mega bit back the urge to punch something inanimate with his blaster arm. He sighs and walks out the double doors. One thing he should be lucky about is that anyone who was scared of him because of something Proto did to provoke their assumptions would barely recognize him unless he actions got their attention. And he could take Wily's robots by surprise if they hadn't already found out what happened to him already.
And speaking of Wily's Robots....
In the market of Capcom-Tokyo, a man and woman were walking by, talking about their day when Guts Man and Cut Man appeared in a pincer formation. Their size almost petrified them as they clung to each other in fear.
"A third of the city in panic and Mega Man isn't here to stop us! This must be a miracle!" Guts Man laughed before he saw a red streak slam into him. Rush stood between him and the couples, growling as they took off running.
"Darn! I didn't think his mutt would show up and stop us!" Cut Man whined.
"Ah, who cares? He's just a stupid dog." Guts Man said as he raised his fist to strike.
"Who're you callin' stupid, Guts Man!" called a voice. Guts Man looked up to see a robotic foot slam into his face and knock him to the ground.
"Hey! What's the big idea!?" Guts Man growled as he sat up to see who his attacker was. Mega now stood between him and Rush, eyes aimed at Cut Man who stood behind them.
"He has guts showing up and stopping us like that!" Cut Man whine as he aimed his cutting blades at Mega. Before he had a chance to fire them, Mega whirled around and fired a shot from his plasma cannon at Cut Man, knocking him to the ground.
"Don't be too surprised at how much I've changed, Cut Man!" Mega said as he stooped over Cut Man who was shocked at the realization of his voice.
"That's...that's Mega Man!" he cried.
"Righto, Cutter. And now I'm going to give you a taste of your own medicine!" Mega placed his blaster hand on Cut Man but nothing happened.
Before he could figure out what went wrong, Guts Man appeared and punched him across the street until he crashed through the window of a tailor shop, scaring the people inside.
"Hey Mega Man! I hope you got the punch-line, cause the next one will be deadly!" Guts Man laughed as he and Cut Man crossed the streets towards the broken window of the tailor shop.
Mega sat up, shaking the dizziness and pieces of broken window out of his head.
"Damn! Why can't I take Cut Man's weapon!?" he groaned.
"What's the matter, Mega Man? Too chicken to fight back?" Cut Man laughed, "I'd be too if my only defense were skin and bones."
Mega got up to see Cut Man and Guts Man crossing the street, then the customers in the tailor shop watching them approach, their eyes widening in shock as they began to back away as if they were in their faces.
"You're out of luck, Mega Man!" Guts Man said, "You can't possibly defeat us as a human." he neared the broken window of the tailor shop when Rush jumped him and bit his shoulder, "OW! HEY! GET OFFA ME, YOU STUPID MUTT!" He grabbed Rush and slammed him into the ground, shattering him into separated joints.
"Rush!" Mega cried. Enraged, he charged through the broken window and aimed to punch Guts Man in the face, but ended up getting a huge fist in the face that sent him flying into a lamp post, nearly denting it and falling, limp on his rump, groaning.
"Ha! That was pathetic!" Guts Man laughed, "Haven't you learned by now, Mega Man? You can't do anything when you're a human! Except die!" he finished by raising his fist. Mega barely looked up to see the fist before a wave of fire engulfed both Guts Man and Cut Man, leaving them piled on each other, charred and slightly dazed.
Mega got up and looked in the direction the fire wave came from to see Captain Commando standing beside him with his fist out.
"You should never pick a fight with someone you know you can't beat." he said. Mega fumed.
"What is this!?" he complained, "Does everyone think I'm a wuss because I got turned into a human or something!?"
"You don't know the first thing about fighting as a human. Therefore, you can't win this fight with just three robotic joints. You couldn't even copy the Robot Masters' powers as you are now."
"Thanks for the information, but that's something we already know." Guts Man said. Captain Commando turned to him to get punched in the face, sending him towards Mega.
Mega threw his hands in front of him for endurance as Captain Commando came into contact with him and almost crushed him against the lamppost. While this was going on, he almost thought he saw his plasma cannon glowing and felt a strange sensation running through his body.
"Now here's our little advice," Guts Man said, approaching the two, "Never get involved in something that you don't belong in."
Mega shoved Captain Commando off him and got up, seeing Guts Man almost towering over him, arching his fist back to strike. Panicked, he did the same thing and shot his plasma cannon towards Guts Man, causing a beam of fire to fly into his chest and send him flying towards Cut Man, knocking them both on top of each other again.
"Whoa!" Mega yelped, looking at his plasma cannon, "D-did I just do that!?"
Guts Man sat up, shaking the soot from his face, "What's going on!? I thought Mega Man couldn't copy anything he touched!"
"It looks like he was able to copy the abilities of that guy who attacked us," Cut Man said, pointing to Captain Commando.
"Ha! It doesn't matter," Guts Man said, getting up, "Mega can only copy one weapon from each person he touches and it'll disappear eventually, which means he'll be left defenseless again." Cut Man tried to grin as he got up, the two walking towards Mega who knew he was going to be in trouble again.
Then something else came up in his head and without knowing it, slams his blaster fist into the ground. A trail of electricity traveled across the sidewalk towards Guts Man and Cut Man and exploded under them in a barrier of lightning. The two screamed before exploding into pieces. Mega blinked again and looked at his plasma cannon.
"It's like I just copied every ability he had," Mega muttered, "but how long will that last?"
His train of thought got cut off when the ground suddenly shook. People began screaming and running around as cracks began to form everywhere. Most of the buildings started to crumble as red, hot wind began blowing from the cracks on the ground. Mega turned towards Rush and ran to grab him when he felt an explosion knock him off the ground. The whole place began to erupt as small explosions popped out of every section of the city before a huge one annihilated the whole Capcom universe. From the darkness of the debris, a pair of glowing eyes could be seen, followed by a low, sinister laugher.
OOC: No, it isn't the end of the world (or the fanfic). Hopefully you guys aren't as confused about this chaper as you might be with the last two (If so, please tell me and I'll try and fix it).
Next Chapter: Half of both Capcom and Marvel wake up to find themselves on Rubyheart's ship. But the other half of the Marvel and Capcom heroes (including Mega and Rush) wound up in the fused worlds of Marvel and Capcom. What does this sudden turn of events have to do with the vision they saw? And is the Parallel Universes' Dr. Light also trapped here? What about Wily and his robots? Find out next time...if there is a next time.... ^^;;;