Megaman landed outside the volcano. He knew he would have to be fast, he ran up the mountain side. As he climbed up the side he encountered a cliff.

He knew he would have to climb it, there wasn't any other way around it. He reached up and grabbed a foothold and lifted himself up. He looked down. He certainly didn't want to find out how high he was!

He found he could jump to a ledge and jumped to it. As he did, he noticed a hard-hat suddenly came falling through the air at him. He quickly blasted it with his buster. He looked around, no other robots were in sight, so he climbed further up the cliff.

Then suddenly, a forced jerked him away form the cliff side. He expected to hit the ground, but instead he floated in mid-air. He looked up and saw a hovering magnet-bot! There were other Wily bots on the cliff side! He quickly aimed his buster carefully.. "A little more to the left... Yeah!" he shot the mechanism on top of the magnet and he caught the magnet. As he fell, he used the magnet and attracted himself toward another Wily bot and grabbed the side of the cliff.

He couldn't use his buster at such a close range. The robot was a vertically moving turret. He activated the Z-SABER and slashed him down. He looked at the saber and grinned, this was going to be a piece of cake! He slashed at the Cliffside till he made a little hole in the side. He jumped into it and began slashing a tunnel into the cliff.

He looked at his tracker, the signal was getting stronger now, so he kept digging. The signal was still getting stronger. Suddenly, he felt a stinging blow to his back and turned around.

The entire tunnel was filled with Wily bots! They all started firing at once. Megaman spun the saber around in a circle. He turned off the saber and used his buster. He fired an extremely powerful shot without charging. His buster was three times as powerful when equipped with the Zero buster!

"Take this buddy boys!" he yelled and began busting robots left and right. The battle seemed under control, but unfortunately there wasn't a lot of room in the tunnel, and Megaman was getting hit badly. He suddenly had an idea. He grabbed his magnet and hurled it into the middle of the crowd.

Any nearby robots were immediately all stuck together. It created a large ball of Wily bots that blocked the tunnel temporarily. He quickly re-activated the Z-SABER and cut a small hole in the wall, just enough for him to crawl through. He got into it and kept cutting a small tunnel.

He suddenly realized, the Wily bots were making a come-back! He quickly stuck the saber in between his feet and slid through the tunnel. He let his arms fly behind him and fired his buster as Wily bots came in.

He was using his feet to maneuver the saber to keep digging, and his arm which he let out behind him when he slid fired shots that were big enough to block his entire tunnel.

The signal was getting more and more strong as he kept drilling deeper in the rock. He turned and saw that the Wily bots were digging their own tunnel and were catching up. He quickly caved his own tunnel in behind him and slid again into what he thought was his tunnel, but apparently it wasn't.

"YIKESS!" he screamed. He felt himself falling through the air. He had drilled right into the volcanoes magma eruption tunnel. He kept falling and falling. He thought "If I don't think of something, I'll be fifty feet into the ground!" He struck a small rock protruding out of the wall and it righted him so he was falling feet first.

"This has got to work!" thought Megaman. He quickly put his arms in a flex position and turned on his slide jets. His fall slowed down considerably "Yahoo!" he cheered as he finally hit the ground. He looked around, but couldn't see anything. "Night sensors, power on!" he turned on his darkness sensors and saw clearly around him.

He looked around. There! He saw Bass's helmet! He ran forward and scooped it up. "It's mine!" he said happily. "I'm afraid not!" said a voice. He spun around and saw a robot that resembled a box. His body was red and he had a blown out face. "Heat Man!" exclaimed Megaman.

Heat Man laughed "It's nice to see you again, Mega-idiot!" Megaman shook his head in disgust. "Look, I don't have time to mess with you." he said "I'm getting out of here before this volcano blows." Heat Man almost instantly began firing heat shots at him. Megaman ran as fast as he could. He didn't have time to teleport out.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." said Heat Man "You see with Bass gone, nothing can threaten Dr. Wily with his newest robot master. I was just about to destroy that helmet myself when you came along. Take fire!" he yelled.

He took out his buster and began firing at Heat Man. Heat Man changed to a column of fire and flew towards Megaman. Megaman slid underneath him and fired his buster up at him. Heat Man was sent spinning into the wall. He growled and got back up. "You think you're good, well how about this?"

Heat Man sent column after column of flames at him. Every time Megaman turned to run, there was a column of fire waiting for him.

He suddenly felt the volcano start shaking. He stopped to think, but that was a mistake. Heat Man leapt over the columns and tackled Megaman down. He jammed a rock in Megaman's buster. He laughed and hurled a flame into Megaman's face.

"Aaaugh!" yelled Megaman at the feel of the fire. He couldn't fire his buster! Suddenly he activated the Z-SABER and it destroyed the rock and it took all the armor off of Heat Man's leg. Heat Man howled and grabbed at his leg.

Megaman threw him off and crawled away, still holding Bass's helmet. The volcano was rumbling now, and Megaman could sense some poisonous gases fill the place they were in. The ground underneath them was beginning to smoke.

"Heat Man!" yelled Megaman jumping to avoid another flame column. "The volcano is going to erupt!"

"Great!" said Heat Man still firing his heated shots "If we stay here, we'll both be destroyed!" yelled Megaman.

"Perfect, at least one of us will!" said Heatman.

Megaman could feel the ground underneath him lose it's stability. He charged up his buster. "If that's the way it's going to go, then fine!" he released his super charged shot. Together with the power from Zero's buster, the shot he released was unbelievably powerful.

Heat Man's entire body was slammed into the wall. Whatever energy was left from the blast, entered into his system malfunctioning almost everything inside. He fell to the ground and couldn't stand up. Megaman stood up. The lava was just beginning to seep through the ground.

Megaman quickly ran over to him. Heat Man was shakingabout to explode. He opened up his cannon and took out his weapon chip and loaded it into his own. Now he could fire heated shots as well!

He turned to run. Heat Man aimed his flame cannon "You can't escape now Megaman take- YOW!" Whomp! Smash! Crash! Megaman looked up and saw a bunch of Wily bots fall on him.

The tunnel he had dug had broken and the wily bots had fallen. Megaman took his chance to teleport out. As he did, he could see the lava completely fill the chamber and instantly burned anything it touched. He watched as Heat Man and the other falling Wily bots hit the lava and sizzle away into nothingness.

As he flew upwards, he suddenly felt the air getting hotter. "I'd better hurry," he thought. The Magma started shooting up the shaft at an alarming rate. Megaman just made it out before the Magma had time to explode out into a large cloud of smoke and ashes!

"I've got the helmet!" thought Megaman as he went to Dr. Light's base. "How will it be to get the other parts though?" he wondered.