Episode 49: Quiz Bowl
It was another day at MegaMan Jr. High.
ElecMan: Class, it is time to sign up for extracurricular activities! Of course, these are completely optional.
Roll: Is volunteer work an extracurricular activity?
ElecMan: No, it's mandatory.
Zero: Didn't we already have a soccer team?
ElecMan: Well maybe if you hadn't brought it up the viewers wouldn't have remembered! Anyway, the sign up sheet is on the other side of the hall's spike pit.
After several slips and trips to the emergency room MegaMan and his friends reach the sign up sheet.
MegaMan: Ooh, look at all the activities! Karate, swimming, extreme sliding, and script writing are all available!
Zero: That's the list of activities that were banned from school. There's only one we can sign up for.
MegaMan: Please, please let it be ducking!
Zero: Sorry, it's quiz bowl.
Wily comes up to them.
Wily: And it's mandatory for all of you to sign up.
MegaMan: ElecMan said it was optional!
Wily: He meant signing up, I'll put you on the team even if you don't!
Zero: Why are you so determined to have a quiz bowl team?
Wily: It all started when I was your age...
Zero: We're robots, most of us are less then a year old!
Wily: No interruptions! FlashMan, initiate flashback!
FlashMan uses his weapon.
Wily: I was in school, right here at MegaMan Jr. High...
We see a young Wily (who is bald and has a mustache).
Wily: Who's MegaMan? Why is this school named after him?
End flashback.
Zero: That doesn't have anything to do with quiz bowl!
Wily: I don't care, you're all playing! And you'd better win, or you'll be barred from extracurricular activities!
Act break.
Act 2:
Wily: So go home and study! I want everyone to go 110 yards! That's the only way you'll prove to yourself that you can impress me!
So everyone goes home to study.
MegaMan: There's so much to learn...
Rush: Rhy don't rou break up your study rime into reasonable periods so rou won't have to ram?
MegaMan: I'm sick of cartoon dogs that give morally sound, parental advice!
Rush: Fine, sneak into the quiz bowl headquarters and steal the questions!
And so MegaMan does.
MegaMan: I did it! I'll win easily now!
Wily walks into his room.
Wily: MegaMan! You broke into the quiz bowl headquarters and stole the questions! I'm very dissapointed in you. I was going to steal them and share them with the whole team, you're being selfish!
And so the group meets after school.
Wily: Okay team, we only have a week to memorize the questions and answers.
Roll: Isn't this cheating?
Wily: Well if we didn't do this, the other team would cheat by knowing the answers by studying!
And so they memorize the questions. Here are some of them to fill up space:
Question: Why does KI so desperately need to fill up space instead of advancing the plot?
Answer: 42.
Wily: Okay team, it's quiz bowl time! Don't do this for me, do this out of fear of me!
MegaMan: We'll do our best.
Wily: Your best isn't good enough! Didn't you learn anything from those self-esteem courses?
And so the team takes their places.
BrightMan: It's time for Quiz Bowl XXIV!
Sigma: Roman numerals? We don't need outdated numbers or letters!
MegaMan X: Atleast it's not the actual letters instead of the Roman numerals.
BrightMan: Now, before we begin, I regret to inform you that our questions were stolen. So I'll be making this up as we go along.
Wily: This is terrible! Cheating not paying off, what kind of lesson is that for my students?
BrightMan: Let the quiz begin!
Act break.
Act 3:
BrightMan: And now for the first match of the quiz bowl season, the finals!
MegaMan: Who are we going against anyway?
Wily: Well, we used the "Every video game has a jr high based on it" joke in the soccer episode, so I'm not sure.
BrightMan: Introducing our reigning champions, the students of Palette Swap Jr. High!
RockMan, Forte, Omega, Roll, and Ceil (they didn't have alternate names) and their alternate BluesMan take their places.
BrightMan: Let the quiz bowl begin!
Wily: This is it team, makes me proud so I forget the traumatic incident from my past!
FlashMan uses his weapon. We return to Dr. Wily's school days.
Wily: Ooh, a quiz bowl team! I'm going to join!
We see Wily studying hard day and night for the quiz bowl.
BrightMan in 70s clothes: Okay, the final question of Quiz Bowl -VII: What boss isn't weak against MetalMan's weapon?
Wily buzzes in.
Wily: Um, er, uh...
BrightMan: You have five seconds to answer or you will be scarred for life or until your class wins a quiz bowl!
Wily: Is it... I know! Trick question, none of them!
BrightMan: That's... correct!
The crowd cheers. End flashback.
Zero: That wasn't traumatic!
Wily: Atleast it had something to do with quiz bowl this time. Now get out there and win!
Roll: The contest is over, the questions were asked while we were in your flashback.
Wily: NOOOOOOO!
Cut to later. MegaMan can't help but feel sorry for Wily. He goes up to them.
MegaMan: I'm sorry we let you down, although our loss was entirely your fault.
Wily: It's okay. You all tried your best, and that's all a good principal can ask for. But I'm a terrible one. Detention for 4 weeks!
And so ends MegaMan's stint on the quiz bowl team. Stay tuned for our 50th episode, next time on MegaMan Jr. High!