It was another day at MegaMan Jr. High.
CrashMan: Okay class, your assignment for today is to talk among yourselves until you develop a plot.
So the class begins talking.
ProtoMan: Is anyone going to get Metal Gear Twin Snakes? I think it proves GameCube has the best March lineup/
KI walks in.
KI: No talking about contraversial subjects like which system is better! Talk about religion or politics or something.
After discussing the upcoming election for awhile Bass thinks of something.
Bass: MegaMan, I bet you wouldn't have the guts to play hooky!
MegaMan: Do you really think we should discuss this in class?
CrashMan: Chicken!
MegaMan: Fine, we can.
CrashMan: MegaMan, one month detention for trying to corrupt pure, innocent Bass!
After school the conversation resumes.
Bass: MegaMan, I bet you wouldn't be man/robot/kid/ whatever you are enough to play hooky tommorrow!
MegaMan: I see no reason to play hooky.
Bass: I dare you to!
MegaMan: Not that again! Fine, I'll skip our free period tommorrow.
Bass: You'll never get past CentaurMan, our free period teacher! And we have a 10 page report due in that class tommorrow!
MegaMan: I'll find a way. And I dare you to skip also!
Bass: I'm not dumb enough to do something just because you used that word.
MegaMan: I understand, it really does seem stupid to.
Bass: WHO ARE YOU CALLING CHICKEN? You're on! And while we're piling on kid show cliches, let's make a bet on it! The loser of the bet has to... I dunno, paint the winner's fence.
MegaMan: We don't have fences, and what are we betting on?
Bass: Fine, forget the bet. But we'll cut school tommorrow! (he turns to the crowd listening to their conversation) And you'll keep it from the teachers, right?
Zero: Right.
Roll: Right.
ProtoMan: Right.
Ceil: Right.
Wily: Right.
Act break.
Act 2:
MegaMan spends all night planning how to skip school, ignoring several requests for help with robot attacks.
MegaMan: This school is impossible to get out of! The front exit is guarded by giant robots and spike pits, and the back exit is inconvenient to get to from free period! I need help from a trusted, mature source.
MegaMan makes a topic on LUE.
MegaMan: These aren't helpful suggestions! I wonder how they know I bought an N-Gage? I'll have to think of something without LUE's help, which I never thought I'd do. I know! I'll just do a barrel roll past the guards!
And so at free period the next day:
MegaMan: I'm ready Bass!
Bass: Fine, you go first.
MegaMan sneaks out of the school, doing a barrel roll under the security cameras.
MegaMan: I'd like to see Bass top that escape!
Cut to free period. Bass raises his hand.
Bass: I'm cutting class now.
CentaurMan: Have fun!
Bass meets up with MegaMan outside of the school.
MegaMan: Well, we both got out. Now what do we do?
Bass: The important thing is not to run into anyone we know.
MegaMan: Let's go to my Dad's office!
They go their. As MegaMan predicted, Light is nowhere to be found.
MegaMan: Good thing there's a Brady Bunch marathon on today.
Bass: This is boring! Let's go somewhere more exciting!
MegaMan: Where?
Bass: I know just the place...
Cut to the box factory. (if you don't recognize it, it's not stolen!)
MegaMan: This place is boring.
Bass: But look at all the boxes!
MegaMan: These boxes are boring, I only like boxes that depict me as an old man with yellow armor.
Bass: Fine, we can go somewhere else.
MegaMan: Let's go to KI's house, I've always wondered where he lived on this show.
Bass: If you don't know that how can we go to his house?
MegaMan: This city is just a couple of blocks, all the auxilary buildings are in the same place! (he steps up to across the street from his house) KI's house please.
A house appears out of thin air. MegaMan rings the doorbell. A huge head appears.
Head: If you're inquiring about the job as writer of MegaMan Jr. High, the position was filled by a drinking bird. If you are a character from MegaMan Jr. High, go away or you're fired! If you are a Fox representative, KI has raised the price of the show to a crayon and a carton of chocolate milk.
So MegaMan and Bass continue walking around. Someone is hanging from a cliff in the middle of downtown.
AstroMan: Help, help! I'm going to fall!
Bass: But you have/
MegaMan: Shut up, the audience might not know he can hover!
MegaMan pulls AstroMan up.
AstroMan: You saved me! You'll be famous!
MegaMan: I saved someone's life! But people might find out I skipped school!
Act break.
Act 3:
AstroMan: I'm calling the media!
MegaMan: Wait! I don't want a lot of attention!
AstroMan: We're getting on the news whether you like it or not, you saved my life, now you have to do something for me!
MegaMan: Well, they'll probably just ask about saving you.
SearchMan comes up to them.
SearchMan: I heard someone say the word media, get ready to be on my news News at Six show, tonight at 7:00PM! So what is the story about? It will have to be pretty good to top my special tonight about pinball violence.
AstroMan: MegaMan saved my life!
SearchMan: Well, that raises an important question: WHY WEREN'T YOU IN SCHOOL?
MegaMan: I... was...
Bass: Skipping school, shame on you.
MegaMan: I can't let Dad see this tonight!
Later at home.
MegaMan: I have to stop Dad from watching the news!
Light: MegaMan, unplug the phone and smoke detector, I'm going to watch SearchMan's report on those horrible pinball machines!
MegaMan: This is terrible!
So the news starts.
SearchMan: Tonight on The News: How media violence is corrupting our youth, a special report on violent crimes, and if we have time something about the government being overthrown. But first, a look at a local boy who saved someone's life.
Light: Why wasn't he in school?
SearchMan: Local resident MegaMan saved local stock character AstroMan's life. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is, THIS BOY SKIPPED SCHOOL!
Light: MEGAMAN! I haven't been this angry since our 7-11 got a pinball machine! You're telling Wily you skipped school tommorrow.
MegaMan: Wily's going to be at a seminar on pointless distractions tommorrow.
Light: So skip school and tell him!
The next day at the seminar:
MegaMan: Dr. Wily, I have something to confess. I... skipped school yesterday!
Wily: Well, I'll have to decide how to deal with this. On the one hand, you had the courage to tell me and saved someone's life. On the other hand, you skipped free period... detention until the sun burns out! Which will happen before the next episode!
Mr. T walks onto the set.
Mr. T: Except for Civic and Bananajam, we've had a lot of fun tonight. But there's an important issue here. Staying in school is important. If you drop out of school you won't learn how to read or write.
MegaMan: But I already know how/
Mr. T: ANY REASON AGAINST SCHOOL IS AN EXCUSE! If you don't go to school, you'll never learn how to operate computers from the 70s. So be cool, watch the remake of my show coming to Fox this fall!
And so MegaMan learns an important lesson about listening to anyone who walks on screen after an episode. Stay tuned for the next MegaMan Jr. High!