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Dr. Wily ran faster than he ever had in his life. Bass was teaming with rage and almost caught up to him when an overhead door closed behind Dr. Wily. It took Bass a minute to break through it and when he did, he saw Dr. Wily in his own attack ship. It was similar to the one he had only recently destroyed. Dr. Wily tried in a civil way to calm Bass. "Bass, understand something. Wouldn't you be smart enough to think you'd need a bigger can to contain the trash?" Bass began firing at the ship "I'm not your trash can anymore Dr. Wily!" he yelled "I'm no longer your puppet either!" He fired at the wind-shield that Dr. Wily was in, but a large shield covered it over.
Several large guns popped out and fired. Bass double jumped onto the ship and started firing specifically at the shield. Suddenly, spikes popped out all over the ship and Bass got pricked bad. He leapt off and got hit by the guns.
A particularly powerful laser hit him in the back and destroyed his teleporting device. He fired again while dodging and double-jumping to avoid the bullets. He finally destroyed one and the other guns retracted back into the ship.
Then a large red crystal on the front of the ship appeared and began charging up. Bass had seen this kind of crystal before, and if he didn't destroy it, it would bathe the entire room in a large red laser. He fired repetitively at it till it burst.
He fired repetitively on the outer side of the ship, particularly at the seams. He knew this ship wouldn't last long.
At last, the whole outer hull of the ship was destroyed and Wily's shield dome was opened. Bass immediately jumped back on the ship and fired at the glass shield. It cracked and Dr. Wily jumped out of an escape hatch below the ship. Bass jumped into the ship and looked around the control panel.
There it was! The self-destruct button for the ship! He slammed his fist down on it and jumped out of the ship.
The entire ship exploded! Bass once again cornered Wily up against the wall. "You betrayed me Wily." he said through clenched teeth. Dr. Wily covered his face "Don't kill me..." he begged. Bass laid his buster on Dr. Wily's temple and Dr. Wily's eyes widened in fear and he whimpered like a frightened dog. Suddenly the building rocked and, although Bass fired his buster, Dr. Wily was jolted out of the way.
Dr. Wily laughed "I can't thank you enough Bass! You not only triggered the self destruction for my ship, but also for the entire building! You'd better leave now, before it's too late!" Dr. Wily ran away and Bass tried to teleport out, but his teleporting device was destroyed!
"Dr. Wily probably wrecked it while he was in that ship!" he thought furiously. He dashed out of the room and fled down the corridors of cells outside Wily's lab. The explosions seemed to follow him throughout the base. He could see the main corridor that ran through the entire building, then eventually the door to the base.
He was just about to turn when, "Bass! Help me!" he screeched to a halt, leaving burns on his boots, he turned and saw Roll still cuffed to the cell bar. Bass turned to leave "I don't have any time to waste! I've barely the time to escape myself!" he thought. Roll pulled desperately at the cuffs and cried frantically "Bass, please don't leave me here!"
Bass chewed on his lip. The explosions were coming closer and the building was collapsing. "Alright!" he thought. Bass finally made up his mind and dashed over to the cuff. He blew it to smithereens! He grabbed Rolls wrist and yelled "Let's go!" He dashed out with Roll running for the exit. They reached the main corridor. Now it was only a matter of time to get to the exit.
The explosions seemed to set off a chain reaction along the walls and they were getting faster and faster, catching up to them! Bass looked behind them and knew they couldn't make it. He doubled his efforts and ran faster than ever before. Then he looked up at the ceiling ahead of them. Just above the exit, the ceiling was crumbling.
"Faster!" he thought and knew that if he didn't, he and Roll would be toast, literally. He almost wished he had left Roll there. At least he could have escaped! "No..." he thought "I'm not leaving her here. Not now!"
He suddenly realized just how fast he was going. He looked sideways at Roll, but only saw her hand on his arm. She was no longer running even. Bass was going so unbelievably fast she couldn't keep up with him and was flying through the air, just holding on to him. Bass knew he never could run this fast himself.
Then in a flash, he understood what Protoman had told him. He would never destroy Megaman. Never. Megaman fought to defend the world and that would never let Megaman lose his strength. Bass knew that if he fought Megaman, the fact that he was fighting him for sport wouldn't provide him for the neccesary strength to keep going. At that very moment, he was trying to help someone and he was running faster than he was ever designed to go! He couldn't run this fast to save himself!
They were getting closer to the exit and the ceiling finally fell. Bass ran low with his head down and thought "Come on... I've got to make it!"
Suddenly, an explosion went off right underneath him! He and Roll were sent hurtling out the door missing the falling ceiling by inches and landed 30 feet away from the base just as the entire building collapsed in one gigantic explosion!
Bass lay there panting heavily and Roll just lay there. Neither of them could move. They were both burned and hit in different places, but they were alive!
Roll got up and shook Bass. "Bass... get up.." she said weakly. She drew her hand back, Bass was hot. He had overheated in his running. Roll took Bass's helmet and strapped it on. She used the head mic and called Dr. Light.
Roll looked back at Dr. Wily's base, now a crumbling heap. She looked at Bass. He looked almost fried. She was extremely worried. If he didn't get immediate help, he would burn out. Her eyes filled with tears when she thought of how brave he was.
Bass almost sacrificing himself for someone else was unheard of. She cradled his head in her lap. "Please don't die..." she whispered.
Auto suddenly teleported near them with Eddie. "Roll! How are you! I.. oh." he noticed Bass "Oh, oh... Oh boy, this can't be good." he teleported them both back to the base.