The Cliff
AAAAUGH! Sorry it took so long for me to get this chapter up! I'm soooo sorry… T.T I hope this chapter makes up for the wait! Now to answer reviews.
Banbie Bunny's Bro: I hope this chapter is longer than the last one. If I do revamp, I'll try to make the fight longer.
I'm usually not good with writing emotions, so this is a really good job for me!
Yeah, Snickerer pointed out that I made a few mistakes last chapter… But I'll make sure everything is in place this time! I promise. Thanks for the advice!
DragoFlare4000: I'm not a sappy person, so this story's not going to get sappy anytime soon… unless I get hit by a meteor or my deranged reviewing friend in my neighborhood…
Snickerer: No, unfortunately. If all the robot masters were independent, our 'heroes', for lack of a better word, would have no one to fight against… or would they?
I agree, not a good question to ask unless you want to be torn limb from limb… which I doubt is Crash's case.
Ummm… That one sentence was my mistake. Switch 'Rock' with the second 'Bass', and you'll have what should have been written there. ;
Of course Zero would love to hear that… Zero would also love to tear whoever said it apart.
Yes! Score one for Crash!
What's the Review-hostage thing? 0.o Could you explain that please? And thanks for your review!
Chaotic XYZ: Yeah, I've read Crash and Bass comics at fragile-minds dot com. They are awesome! I've started spriting because of them and Bob and George. ;
Fighter: Yes, violence is cool. However, fighting scenes are not my forte, (Hahaha forte… ok, it was a terrible pun. Sorry!) But I'll do my best!
: "The Red Death?" How foreboding… But once again, it's a good thing this is a fanfiction, 'cause I do plan on calling him Zero. Sorry. And there is no way I'm going to kill Bass or Roll. After all, I don't like killing my favorite couples. Nice evil laughter there.
I don't own Megaman. If I did, Roll and Bass would be star characters and the couple of the show! Whoo-hoo!
On with the chapter!
THE CLIFF: CHAPTER 5
ESCAPING, EXPLODING, AND AWAKENING
Bass felt his back hit the wall. The blast he sent at Wily blazed gloriously as it hit his WILYX300.
"NOOOO!" Wily screamed as his machine crumbled beneath him, ejecting him out in a series of monstrous explosions.
Bass fell to the floor, slumping forward in shock. Roll ran over to him as Blues and Rock stared after her, mouth open in shock. Rock turned to Blues.
"What just happened?" Blues shrugged.
"I have no idea."
"Are you ok Bass?" Roll asked worriedly, kneeling beside him. Bass pushed himself to his feet.
"I'm fine. Just a little stunned." He mumbled.
Rock, remembering the reason he and Blues were here, turned to face Wily only to find that Wily had disappeared.
"You may have destroyed my WILYX3000, but when my reploid activates, you're all scrap metal!" Wily's voice called over a speaker.
Bass ran over to the main controls for the base, shouting over his shoulders to the three light-bots, "You three get out of here now!"
Blues and Rock obeyed instantly, darting out of the lab doors, but Roll hesitated, watching Bass as he worked at the controls. She felt Rock grab her hand.
"C'mon Roll! We have to get out of here!"
As they exited the lab, a computerized voice spoke over the intercom.
/Self-destruct initiated. Base will self-destruct in 5 minutes. Please evacuate the building./
Roll looked over her shoulder as she ran. The doors to the lab were open, so she could see Bass running towards them, away from the console.
'He was setting the self-destruct!' She realized.
Bass was almost out of the lab when the doors slammed shut, locking automatically. The last sight of Bass she got was the surprised look on his face in the split second before the door finished closing.
"Bass is trapped!" she cried, trying to pull away from Rock in order to help Bass. Rock kept a firm grip, replying, "Bass will be fine! He always finds one way or another to get away and come back!"
"Hey! You're going the wrong way!" someone called as they turned to head down a different hallway. They turned to see Crashman beckoning them. "This way!"
Roll followed without hesitation, and her brothers soon after.
/4 minutes to self-destruct. Evacuate the building now./
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Bass charged his buster, but it wouldn't charge fast enough! He beat on the door, trying to pry them open.
"Give it up, Bass!" Wily cackled over the intercom. "You're trapped, and when my base goes up, so do you!"
Bass growled angrily, aiming his buster at the door. He fired, and was surprised by the smoke clouds that issued from the buster. He looked at it closely and growled.
"Shoot! My buster's down!"
/Three minutes to self destruct/
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I blinked. Where was I? Some kind of glass wall separated me from the outside world. My body was full of energy, raging through me like wildfire. 'I need to get out of here!' something screamed in my head. I peered through the glass, and saw a black robot with a strange helmet trying to pry some doors open. I raised my hand and tapped on the glass to get his attention. When he didn't react, I tapped the glass harder. He heard it this time, and turned to face me. He looked surprised. I waved, and he gave me a half-hearted wave in return. Now he looked worried, but I don't know why.
I wish I knew why.
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/Two minutes to self-destruct. Evacuate the building now! This is not a drill/
'How'd he wake up?' Bass thought dumbfounded as he waved half-heartedly to the reploid in the container. He watched as the reploid made some hand motions, pointing to himself, tapping on the glass, then pointing at the console, and finally pointing to Bass.
'He wants me to let him out!' Bass figured.
/One minute to self-destruct. Evacuate immediately/
Bass shrugged and ran over to the console. What did he have to lose?
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Roll, Blues, and Rock followed Crash to a large door that opened into the woods outside.
"Finally!" Blues shouted. Before the doors closed, they heard/One minute to self-destruct. Evacuate immediately
"Shouldn't Bass be out by now!" Roll cried. The others exchanged glances.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." Crash insisted. "He's gotten out of tougher situations before…"
"I hope you're right…" Roll murmured to herself, staring back at the entrance, thinking, "Bass, please come out of there alive!"
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"Stupid controls!" Bass growled as he tried to open the container the reploid was in.
/Enter password
Bass typed 'Wily'
/Incorrect. Try again
"Aughhh! Wily must have changed his passwords!"
Just then, his hand hit a small orange button.
/Reploid release activated
"Wow. That was really lucky…" Bass said as the capsule prepared to open.
/Ten seconds to self-destruct. Ten… Nine… Eight… Seven…
"Kind of sad really…" Bass said to the reploid, even though he couldn't hear him. "You never even got a chance."
/Four… three… Bass tensed himself for death. /… One… Zero
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What was going on? The black robot at the console had just backed away. I felt the wires that had been charging me up fall away. The black robot was saying something, to me, I think. The glass is too thick though. I couldn't hear it. The capsule opened. /Zero
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Roll watched in horror as the building started exploding, starting from the middle and spreading out in all directions. "Where's Bass?"
Crash looked worried. "I don't know." He admitted.
"Could he have gone out another entrance?" Rock asked.
"That was the closest one," said Crash. The building area closest to them started to groan with the destruction of the rest of the base, and then exploded abruptly as the bombs went off. Smoke streamed off the rubble. Roll went to search the wreckage, but Blues held her back.
"There may be some bombs that didn't explode earlier." He explained. "We at least need to make sure all the bombs have gone off."
Roll allowed herself to be restrained for a little, but the second the smoke cleared, she broke free from Blues' grip and ran over to the destroyed base.
"Bass! If you can hear me, please say something!" she shouted, trying to pick her way through the rubble towards the main lab. Something green was shining through the gray metals. Ignoring the warnings being shouted by her brothers and Crash, she headed deeper into the wrecked building towards the glow. "Bass? Is that you?" She called worriedly. The green light abruptly shot up out of the rubble and Roll could see it clearly. She gasped. The reploid that Wily had created had surrounded himself and Bass in some kind of translucent green force field. Bass was slumped over the reploid's arm, and the reploid himself didn't seem phased by the wreckage around him. Roll heard shouts of surprise from the other three robots behind her as the reploid landed on a pile of scrap nearby. He walked over to her, holding up a battered Bass.
"Is this who you're looking for?
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You all must hate me for taking so long. I'm very sorry; I got kind of lazy during the summer. Hopefully, the next chapter will be updated sooner. Don't worry; I haven't given up on this story!
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