Megaman landed outside the Aqua Region. The whole place was water with large glass domes over certain areas. Inside were various agricultural machinery inside. There was walkways all over the place through the water. The machinery somehow purified it and instead of looking blue, gray, and green, it was clear blue! It was beautiful.
But this was no time for sightseeing. Megaman got a call from Dr. Light. "Megaman! My robots are picking up a lot of robots approaching the area. One is particularly larger than the rest. It might be Zero. I'm going to take a risk and teleport you directly to the place where the part should be. It might teleport you to who knows where, but I think they know exactly where it is and Zero's teleportation should penetrate the glass domes." Megaman prepared for manual transport. "Go ahead Dr. Light! I'm ready!"
Megaman teleported out of the outside and found himself inside a large glass dome. He didn't know which, it looked like any other. It contained lots of different machinery all over the place. The part had to be in one of those. "Good thing I have that locator device" thought Megaman "It would take all day to search all these machines." he switched it on. The locater made a screeching noise and went dead.
Megaman's eyes widened in suprise and fear "Dr. Light!" he called "The locater is broken!" Dr. Light sighed and you could hear him smack his fist on a wall. "Megaman the teleportation was slightly unsuccessful. You are in the right dome, but you will have to look for the part yoursel- without the locater. Hurry! The signals are getting stronger."
Megaman ran around the dome looking into every bit of machinery he could find. There was walkways from one machine to the next, all else was water. Megaman ripped open the paneling to one machine. Nope, not there! He ran over to another. It's not there either! Megaman looked around. There was still like- fifty left to check! He didn't know if he even had a minute to search them all!
"Could you use a little help, bro?" Megaman looked around. Protoman! Protoman stood leaning with his arm on a machine. He gave a friendly smile "I thought you could use a little help." Megaman smiled back "Thanks Protoman. Hurry, I don't know how long we have!" Protoman gave a thumbs up "Whatever you say." Protoman and Megaman checked every machine they could. In only 50 seconds they had checked 25 machines. Protoman tore open another machine. "It isn't here. You know what Megaman?"
"No I don't. What?" asked Megaman. "I have a funny feeling that the part we're looking for is in one of the machines furthest away. After all, it would be a bummer to check all the nearest machines and find it was in the others all along." Megaman nodded "O.K. Let's check those ones next." Megaman and Protoman sprinted to check the machines furthest away. As luck would have it, the first machine that Protoman checked had the part.
"Ha!" exclaimed Protoman proudly holding up the part. It had the legs "Nothing like a little ingenuity to help you out, Eh, little brother?" Megaman laughed "Funny feelings help as well now let's get outta here." Just then, a small shot flew by and knocked the part out of Protoman's hand. It rebounded off the machine and into the hands of Zero. Who was now training his buster on them. Megaman groaned "I knew it couldn't be that easy."
He dashed forward. He leapt into the air. Zero fired his shot. It knocked Megaman down to the walkway floor. Megaman groaned. Zero laughed "Not so tough are ya?" He held up the part tauntingly. "And you can say goodbye to this!" he said. Megaman ran forward and managed to get a hold on one of the legs, but Zero would not let go. He grabbed the leg and pulled. Megaman was losing his grip and the part began to slip out of his hands!
Zero pulled harder "Dr. Wily gave me better strength and armor. You have no chance." Megaman gritted his teeth. He tried hard to hold on, why didn't Protoman help him? Protoman was leaning on the machine with a smug smile on his face. "Well little brother. I would have thought you would remember to use your other powers." Megaman realized what he was saying. He smiled "Thanks Big brother!" he called.
Then he turned back to Zero "Gutsman power!" he yelled. He equipped Gutsman's strength and his hold became incredibly strong! Zero began losing his grip. "Grrrr, you little creep. Take this!" Zero kicked out with his leg. Megaman took the punch in his stomach. "Ugh!" he gasped. It would have hurt terribly, but Gutsman's power was enough to absorb most of the force. Megaman finally got a secure grip on the leg and pulled it over his shoulder with all his might. Zero was taken with it and ended up losing his hold on the part and falling in the middle of the walkway.
Megaman held up the part "Hey Protoman! Let's play a little- monkey-in-the-middle!" Megaman tossed the part into the air. Protoman got ready to catch it. Zero however was not really damaged by his little air trip and recovered quickly. He leapt high into the air intending to catch it. He was stopped in mid-air by a shot from Protoman and the part landed in Protoman's hands.
"Get outta here Protoman!" yelled Megaman "Get the part to Dr. Light! I can take care of this yahoo!" Protoman gave him a thumbs up "Sure thing Megaman!" And he teleported out.
Dr. Light paced back and forth nervously. "I sure hope Megaman will be alright. I wish I could send him some help." then a red beam came through the ceiling and Protoman came in. "Hey! Long time, no see Doc!" he greeted. Dr. Light jumped "Protoman! What are you doing here?" he asked. Protoman produced the part "Just a delivery. Courtesy of Rock Light."
Dr. Light grabbed the part "Thank you Protoman! Quick, Let's get this part onto Bass! I want Megaman to have all the help he can get."
Zero looked angrily at Megaman. "I have had enough of your meddling. It's time I got rid of you once and forever!" Megaman began charging up his buster. "If you think I'm going down easily, you are really wrong!" he ran forward and jumped upwards and fired downwards like he did in the city. Zero however was not fooled and just dashed underneath him. Megaman missed and landed on his feet. "Rats, he knows my moves! This is one smart robot!"
Zero dashed towards Megaman. He hurled his fist right into Megaman's jaw. Megaman was sent spinning into the machine they found the part in and made a large dent on it. Dazed and trying to move his jaw, he could see Zero moving in for another punch. He switched to flame cannon and shot the water around him. It produced a cloud of vapor and Megaman and Zero lost each other, enough for Megaman to charge his buster and retaliate.
Zero saw a shape in front of him. He dashed forward and powered up his fist. "Take this, Mega-dope!" he yelled smashing his fist as hard as he could into- what? A machine? He suddenly felt his back take a powerful shot that slammed him into the water. Megaman laughed "I'm suprised you fell for that. A reploid would know better!" Zero swam back up and got back onto the walkway. He lay there for a minute gasping. "Why you little scrump!" he growled.
Suddenly, three teleportation beams entered the dome. Gemini Man, Flash Man and Crash Man came in. Megaman backed away fearfully. It would be hard to face all four of them at once! Gemini Man laughed "Ha! It looks like your about to be made history Mega-dweeb!" Megaman readied his buster "I don't think so Gemini Man!"
Crash Man's motor began to whir "You won't escape me Megaman!" They all advanced forward. Zero suddenly stood up and looked at them furiously "How dare you come here?" he demanded. All three of them stopped short "Dr. Wily told us to. He said in case you needed help!" said Flash Man. Zero drew his saber and advanced forward "I told Dr. Wily I could take care of him myself. I don't need you getting in my way. Yaaaaaaah!"
Zero dashed forward and began slashing the robots to pieces. It didn't matter what the robots did, Zero destroyed them all. Gemini Man even in his multiple form, didn't last long. Flash Man tried to run using his temporary time freezing power, but even that couldn't stop Zero from reaching him. Crash Man tried running as well, using his super speed. But Zero's dashing ability superseded that and cut Crash Man in two. All three of the dismembered robot masters fell into the water.
Megaman stood in shock at what he had just seen. Zero had attacked and killed three of his own allies! Zero looked at Megaman. He smiled wickedly "What do you think of that? I'd surrender if I were you." Megaman glared at Zero with a look of hate in his eyes. "No possible way." Zero held up his saber "Then I'll have to do the same thing to you that I had to do to the others." Megaman crossed his arms in front of him. "Come and get me."
Zero dashed forward with his saber raised high in the air. Megaman didn't move. Zero kept coming at him full speed. Megaman still did not move an inch. He waited and waited. Zero was only ten feet away and he saw his chance. He leapt into the air and swung downwards. Finally Megaman reacted. Zero's saber made contact with the Z-Saber in Megaman's buster! Megaman held his position. Gutsman's strength managed to keep the saber away, but at the same time Zero's own strength kept the two sabers constantly holding each other in the middle.
The equality of the strength made them both jump away from each other without getting hit. Megaman and Zero stood facing each other preparing for another attack. Zero jumped forward with his saber striking across. Megaman slid underneath him and struck a nifty blow to Zero's leg, causing the dash jets to come right off! Zero staggered and nearly fell off the walkway. He began charging up his buster when a plasma shot came from out of nowhere and knocked him to the ground.
"You put up a good fight little bro!" yelled Protoman. He had just entered and still had his buster trained on Zero "But he still has to deal with me!" Then, an orange teleporting beam entered the dome.
It was Bass!
