Megaman Excel
By: Metal Sonic EX
Disclaimer: I do not own the Megaman X series. Nor do I own Megaman Legends, Megaman Legends 2, or The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. I don't own them now, and I won't anytime soon. However, I do own some of the Mavericks' attacks. You know, the ones that I, as in ME, came up with. Don't touch those. They are mine.
I would like to inform everyone that on April 16, 2005, I got The Misadventures of Tron Bonne! By the time I actually post this chapter, I will have done one of two things. I would of beaten the game, or I would have gotten mighty close to beating it! Anyways, the point is that I now understand the entire Legends series decently well. Also, some stuff referring to The Misadventures of Tron Bonne will be mentioned in later chapters.
Also, I did start this fanfic as a school assignment. My teacher, who is a weirdo when it comes to fantasy/ middle-earthly stories, said that my class had to write a 'novel'. So, I took this opportunity to write the first three chapters. I had to bring it to an abrupt end because he started us on another one. Oh, well. Anyways, I'm through talking! So, with that said and done, chapter one!
Chapter I
Welcome To The Jungle!
"Well, here we are." Roll landed the Flutter carefully, as did Tron with the Bonnes' ship. As soon as everyone got down from the ships, a tall, white-haired lady greeted them. "Hello, there. You must be the Diggers Von Bleucher has sent to investigate the ruins.' Banner accepted her extended hand with a broad smile. "That's us." The lady, who Megaman remembered as the mayor of Manda Island, then spotted the Bonnes. "Aren't you…" Teasel interrupted with a goofy smile. The Bonnes? That's us." Banner pointed a figure at the family of pirates. "Don't worry. If they act up, we'll gladly take them off your hands for you." Teasel narrowed his eyes and the mayor nodded.
The Bonnes had attacked Manda Island a few months earlier and their accomplice at the time, Bola, had even tried stealing the key to the 'Mother Lode' from the ruins. "Well, we're not going to get anything done just standing here. Let's go." The mayor began escorting the group through the city to the ruins. On the way, they passed through the city. Miraculously, it had almost been completely repaired after being destroyed by Tron's earlier attack.
When they arrived at the ruins, the mayor revealed something odd. "All of the regular reaverbot signals just disappeared without a trace when this new one came." Matilda pondered this for a few seconds. "Which means, we won't have to worry about getting harmed if we entered the ruins." Prof. Casket shuddered suddenly. "I've got a bad feeling about this. You know, one of those feelings that tell you that you are getting involved in stuff that you shouldn't be. When did the reaverbots disappear?"
The mayor shrugged. "A few days ago, I think." Roll began walking towards the ruins. "Well, come on. Let's go." Megaman nodded and began following Roll. "Roll's right. We should get this over with." Everyone nodded and began following the two. The mayor called out to them as they entered. "I'll stay out here in case something happens."
Once inside, the group turned the corner and was met by a miraculous sight. In front of them was a glowing, blue stone, which Megaman had used to raise the balcony on his first visit. The balcony and walkway was about three stories in the air, making the room's full height about four and a half stories. The walls and ceiling were covered in ivy and leaves. It was to the point of where you couldn't see the walls themselves. There was a door on the left and right of the group. Not to mention the two on the walkway.
"Wow. This place is a lot more beautiful than I pictured it." Megaman smirked and looked at Roll. "Like I said, it is kind of hard to describe." Teasel was just gaping at everything. "We should of come in here instead of Bola, the stupid coward. Running away on us. I'll show him." One of the Servbots nodded in agreement. "Right. Maybe we should take a few pictures." Tron looked at the Servbot. "Not right now, #27. Maybe later." Chances are that #27 was going to say something like 'AAAAAWWWWW, but just then, the confident teenage voice rang out. "Well, how 'bout that. Fancy meeting you here."
Everyone looked up on the balcony and saw a teenager with a long, blonde ponytail and red armor staring at them. He had white shoulder pads with an odd Z-shaped symbol imprinted on the left one. His armor, like I said, was red and had two green bulb-like things in the middle of his chest. His helmet was also red and it had a triangular blue crystal in the forehead.
"But, then again, I kind of figured that you were coming. Banner raised an eyebrow and Tron started, then her face grew beet red. "So, who are you?" The stranger opened his mouth to say something, but an outburst from Tron cut him off. "HE'S THE ONE WHO TOOK IT!" By now, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what everyone did. Tron thrust her finger in the air and pointed to something behind the blonde.
They all followed her finger, the stranger included, and stopped when they saw the missing saber handle poking out from behind the blonde's head. "Hey, wait a second!" Teasel cried out in alarm. "So, you're the one who took it!" Zero pointed at Megaman, then pointed a thumb at the handle. "Yeah. I'm also the one who saved you. Besides, this is mine, after all." He then did something no one expected. He jumped over the rail and began his three story descent. Gasps and cries of alarm rang out. Amazingly, he landed on his feet and stood to his full height almost immediately.
"How'd you do that!" Teasel began freaking out again. "Simple. I'm a reploid. A species of highly-advanced robots." Teasel stopped freaking out and raised an eyebrow. "Like I was trying to say before, my name is Zero. And yours…" He pointed to Megaman. "…is Megaman Trigger, otherwise known as the legendary Maverick Hunter, X." Now Megaman raised an eyebrow.
While the group was trying to figure this out, a mysterious yellow reaverbot was spying on them from behind the mass of leaves on the wall. His red monocle-like eye was swarming with blue boxes of information about whatever he looked at. "He he he. The legendary Maverick Hunters meet again. This, however, is going to be your last reunion. Enjoy the last few moments of life while you still can, X." The reaverbot then turned around and scurried up the wall.
"So, you're a robot?" Zero smirked and looked at Roll. "Yeah. But, then again, so is he." He pointed to Megaman and Tron rolled her eyes. Everyone else stared at Zero, but he was to busy noticing a few leaves that had fallen from the ceiling. This isn't good. And here I thought that we would at least get out of the ruins before this happened…
"I can't explain everything right now, but I can tell you this: when you were a Maverick Hunter, for every Maverick that you destroyed, you got a special weapon from them. You also got at least one armor from every incident that Sigma started. However, shortly before you were reset, you locked the weapons and armors you had obtained in such a way that they wouldn't be scanned by Mother Two. You programmed the locks in a way that it would automatically unlock itself whenever you truly needed it. This was programmed to happen after you had beaten Mother Two. All you need to worry about unlocking right now are your weapons, especially if the Mavericks really are returning. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm going to let you handle this one."
Megaman took a few steps forwards when Zero took a few backwards. "Wait! What do you mean? I have to fight a Maverick by myself? I don't even know what a Maverick is!" Zero chuckled and pointed to a few leaves that had begun to fall from the ceiling. "Just ask him what a Maverick is."
"Scawa!"
A giant, yellow blur broke free from the leaves and startled everyone, even causing Megaman to fall on his rear end. The odd creature stopped just a few feet above the ground. An electrically-charged thread was coming from his rear end and it was probably connected somewhere on the ceiling. This was weirdest thing since the shark incident.
The creature had eight legs. The front two had hands at the end of them and his back two were abnormally thick. His other four protruded from either side of him and they were small and thin. His body was yellow and green, and he had a blue 'R' with a star in the middle on top of a red triangle imprinted on his back. He had two fang-like objects protruding from the front of his face and he had two eyes, his left one being a normal eye. His right one was a red monocle-like object which had blue boxes of data in front of it. His rear end had a few protective spikes coming from it.
The creature looked from Banner to Tron to Teasel to Prof. Casket, information about each of them popping up whenever he looked at them. His eyes finally came to rest on Megaman and a cackling sound came from between the fangs. "Hahahahaha. We finally meet again. The legendary Maverick Hunter, X. I've waited for this moment." Zero finally spoke up after being oddly calm for so long. "Web Spider. Repliforce Forest Infiltration and Surveillance Unit."
This is so weird! But at least this thing has a name now… Megaman stood up and craned his neck back slightly to look at the reaverbot known as Web Spider. "What kind of name is Web Spider?" Tron spat. Spider looked at her and spat a comment back. "What kind of name is Tron Bonne?" Tron started. "Besides, I need to destroy the Maverick Hunter before he regains his memory." Roll started this time. "That reminds me. Where's Data?" Meanwhile, on the Flutter, Data was having a conversation with his friend.
"He can't be back! He just can't be! Oh, what am I going to do?"
He looked over to the cactus that he was talking to and a long silence followed.
"…"
"I thought that too."
Back inside the ruins, Web Spider had decided to get down to business. "Well, it's been nice talking to you, Maverick Hunter. But, the time to end this has come!"
(A.N. Remember when I said that I'd try to get the battles as close to the games as possible? This is what a Legends-style battle looks like.)
Mission Objective
Defeat Web Spider
Spider thrust his right arm forward, while bringing his left towards himself. (Imagine a karate stance) "Vengeance is a virtue, Maverick Hunter!"
Mission Start!
(Boss Theme)
(Megaman X4 Boss Battle)
"Jagitgitgitgitgit!"
With lightning fast reflexes, Spider began to crawl up his thread and into the safety of the leaves on the ceiling, dodging the first three buster shots in the process. Once behind the leaves, he began to crawl around the ceiling, making leaves fall wherever he moved to. "Watch out for his Lighting Web! It'll temporarily immobilize you!" Spider fell from the ceiling before Megaman could give his thanks. This time, however, Web Spider stopped halfway between the floor and the balcony.
"Scawa!"
Spider bounced to his left, then his right, resumed his karate pose, and shot an electrically-charged web at Megaman. Megaman dodged it and it began homing in on him. Thankfully, it hit the ground prior to it's impact with Megaman and it started a small fire, one which quickly burnt itself out. Wonderful… Megaman started and shot three more buster shots at Spider. Unfortunately, he miscalculated one thing and the shots bounced off.
(Web Spider's Health)
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(A.N. This was the closest thing to a bar of health that I could find. Sorry…)
"Hahahahaha! Do you actually expect such primitive technology to hurt me? Hahahahaha!" Wonderful… Just wonderful… "How am I supposed to hurt him?" Spider shot a comment at him as he retreated again. "That's just it, YOU'RE NOT!" A white glow began emitting from Megaman's buster and, when the glow fainted, it shone a brighter blue than before.
Zero started laughing. "Congratulations! X Buster has just been unlocked! It's the buster you used as a Maverick Hunter! Now, just trust me and hold down the rapid-fire!" Megaman did so and, instead of shooting, it began to charge energy. Megaman raised an eyebrow and Spider emerged from the leaves again, this time, a few feet below the balcony. "Now, SHOOT!" Megaman pointed at Spider and released. However, he wasn't used to fully-charged blasts, and he slid backwards, almost to the wall, because of the force. "WOAH!"
Spider didn't realize that Megaman's buster had changed, until he noticed the blast coming towards him. "What's this?" His red eye began flowing with information about the blast, but two words caught his attention: Collision imminent… "Uh oh." When he got hit, he began to swing back and forth on his thread, flailing his arms around in the process.
(Web Spider's Health)
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He let out a moan as soon as he stopped. "I don't feel so good." He shook off the effects. "No matter! I'll still stop you!" He retreated once more into the safety of the leaves. The process of Spider popping out and retreating back to the leaves, Megaman shooting much smaller charge blasts, and Zero letting out the occasional chuckle took about ten more minutes. Teasel had even begun to doze off a couple of times.
(Web Spider's Health)
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Megaman finally got flustered. "I need something more effective!" As if to answer his cry for help, a white glow surrounded his body and, when it faded, his armor had changed to a combination of brown and light brown. Again, Zero laughed. "That's Twin Slasher! You acquired it from Slash Beast! Shoot it!" Megaman did so and, unfortunately, it shoot a sharp blade straight into the ground. "Hahahahaha! Nice aiming, Maverick Hunter!" That's when everyone, Spider included, noticed a second blade heading for Spider's thread. Obviously, it was snapped in two when the blade hit it. "Uh oh." Much to the amusement of Zero, Spider fell flat on his face.
(Web Spider's Health)
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Now even Teasel and Megaman joined in at laughing at this spectacle. Yes, he had landed on his face and, yes, it had looked painful. But, this was just great! Spider was now on his back, struggling to get back up. But he was failing horribly due to the fact the his butt was too big! He actually had to rock back and forth in order to get on his feet again.
When he finally managed this impossible task, Megaman was nearly in tears after laughing so much. "STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! THAT WASN'T FUNNY!" Megaman managed a response between laughs. "You're right. It was hilarious!" This was the last straw for Spider. "THAT'S IT! PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER!"
(Near Death Attack -Super Lightning Web)
Spider began radiating a faint white glow and he did a handstand. He then began to shoot numerous threads from his rear end. They began to connect and almost immediately began to cackle with electricity. Everyone stopped laughing and Zero explained. "Every Maverick has at least one Near Death Attack. It's there most powerful attack and you can't hurt them while they're giving of that glow."
Spider stopped and a huge electrical web had been formed by using the walkway, walls, and ceiling for support. He used another thread to get himself onto the web. "Let's try this on for size!" He began moving along the web while making that annoying noise, but at a slower pace.
"Ja. Git. Git. Git. Git. Git."
When he stopped, he spread his arms out and opened a compartment in his buttocks.
"Spider Bomber!"
(A.N. This isn't my attack. It's in the game. All I did was give the attack a name.)
As he said this, four miniatures spiders shot out of the compartment and they blew up when they hit the ground. Megaman, who had dodged the first wave, was somewhat surprised to see eight more spiders shoot out of the compartment, which closed afterwards. This time, the spiders landed and started walking towards Megaman. He strategically shot three Twin Slashers and blew up six of the eight, the other two exploding when they hit Megaman, throwing him backwards.
Spider began moving around again and Zero called out to Megaman again. "Charge Twin Slasher!" Megaman did so again and when Spider stopped, he released it. This time, six super-fast blades shot out, three burying themselves in the ground and three in Spider's body.
(Web Spider's Health)
None
Spider's web fell apart and exploded while he was thrown back, pointing his butt at the startled group in the process. As small explosions began taking apart Spider's body, his red eye began flowing with the last pieces of information he'd receive. Destruction imminent… Does not compute… "You'll pay for this Maverick Hunter! WWWWRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!" Web Spider exploded and, in a ball of flame, became nothing more than shards of metal.
Mission Complete!
The group shielded themselves from the debris with their arms. Zero began clapping and walked up to Megaman, just as his armor changed back to its original blue color. "Well done. Not bad for a first try!" Megaman gave a weak smile.
"Thanks. Can I ask you something?"
"Be my guest."
"Just who are you?"
Zero chuckled. "That, my friend, is another story."
Or, in this case, another chapter! Like I said, I'm trying to get this as close to the games as possible. I'm still finishing the Megaman X-style battle system, but it should be done by the time I get to those chapters. Anyways, E-mail me and tell me how you liked the Legends-style battle system. Flames are welcome as well. What won't be accepted is you not Read and Reviewing. Click the button. I KNOW YOU WANT TO!