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LEVEL FIVE: The Very Late Christmas Special
Because the ending is a bit rushed…
Part 2: Battle Atop The Egg Carrier! I Must Save Christmas! Sigmasonic X Makes Stupid Animé Episode Titles!
On the hill outside of the settlement known only as Famicom City, four robots continued to play cards while the fifth watched.
"Well, I fold," said Crystal Man.
"Same here," added Proto Man.
Diskoe beeped in victory and placed the money inside Guts Man's now-empty pokéball.
"That shouldn't have happened," commented Crystal Man.
Bass spoke, "Like I said before, your predictions suck."
There was a pause, until Blues said something. "So… what do we do now? Disco has all our money."
Diskoe beeped.
"Diskoe, sorry."
Diskoe beeped 2x 65x2-15 times.
Bass answered. "Nah, let's not. Wily should have known that he doesn't need those Egg Skulls to kill Mega Man and all his friends when he has me."
Proto Man coughed.
"What? It's not like I'm doing that now. Anyway, maybe we should… destroy a building or something."
"An abandoned building," added the Light-bot.
"Okay, fine, whatever. So, you know any?"
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Meanwhile, on The Great Fox, the main ship of Star Fox…
The crew sat on the main deck. "So, what do you want to do for Christmas?" asked Fox McCloud out of boredom.
"Maybe we can set off some fireworks?" suggested Falco.
They decided not to.
Slippy put in his thoughts. "Maybe we can donate toys to orphans!"
"We're an elite strike force, Slippy, not a charity!" pointed out Falco.
"Besides, we don't have any toys anyway," added Fox.
Slippy made another suggestion. "Well, maybe we can watch a Christmas Special like 'Christman'!"
"Shut up Slippy!" Falco yelled.
Slippy got up. "That's it! You treat me like dirt; you made up new pronouns to describe me; you're always yelling at me; and you didn't let me have that last taco! Now, you're going to pay!" The frog then lunged at the bird.
"Megas XLR Normal Battle Theme"Fox got up. "Slippy! Calm down!"
Peppy the old rabbit then added some advice. "Falco, do a barrel roll and get out of there!"
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Meanwhile, in the world of Dreamland, Kirby slept peacefully in his house after the crazy adventure he just had saving Christmas from The Dark Matter.
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Meanwhile, in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi had a large Christmas dinner at Peach's castle. Seriously, does every character have to be on some grand adventure during the events of this story?
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At the castle where Toad is having his Christmas party, unknown to King Game and Watch or any of the competent officials there…
"Mom! Did you finish the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches yet? The Tupperware fight is about to start!" yelled Toad from across the castle.
At this point, a smaller toad that looked similar to him walked past. "Don't worry bro, I WILL get you that game!" Toad announced.
"…What game?" Toad's brother asked.
"You know, Cerebron: The Last Empire!"
"When did I say I wanted that?"
"Well everyone else wants it!"
"Well everyone else is an idiot, that game sucks!"
"…You want that game, and that's what you're gonna get!"
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In Famicom City, at the Egg Skull's wreck…
Inside police lines, Jon Jones sat on a bench, half of it destroyed by one of the missiles but still stable, playing on his GBA when he heard a soft whirring. When it got louder after a couple of seconds, he looked up to see Dr. Light coming toward him on Rush and switched off his game system as a result.
The doctor landed on the ground near the Game Master as he got out of the bench. While Rush lied down to rest, Dr. Light looked toward the remains of the Egg Skull. "So I assume this is what I am to analyze?"
"Well, I wouldn't say analyze," commented Jon, "I'd just like you to see if there was any way to track the other Egg Skulls using the devices in this one."
"Well, if the machines communicate with each other, receive orders from a single point, or send messages to a single point, then yes, I should be able to help you track them," the doctor replied. "So, where is the pilot?"
"He and the other robbers were picked up by the police. They didn't receive any major wounds, so they are currently being held in jail until their trial. The police already got everything they needed from here, which is why only I'm here. By the way, how did you get here so quickly?"
"Simple, I just used Rush to go to the warpport closest to Tokio, and using my special VIP card, I got instant access to a warp. I came to the Main Region Warpport and used Rush to fly here. That's why he's trying to reserve energy right now until his generators can produce more," he said pointing to the robot dog that was apparently sleeping. After a brief pause, the doctor spoke again. "I suppose I better see if it is possible to track to robots now." With that, he walked to the robot's cockpit, the entrance now easily accessible with the robotic armor now lying on its side, and looked around the controls. "Yes, I see…"
"So, can you do it?" asked Captain N.
"Yes… I think I can. Even so, it will take about an hour or so to make a tracker, so its best if you go back to the castle for now."
"Okay, thanks for helping." Jon started walking away. He still had some unfinished business.
LATER…
As Jon came up to Game Venders Unlimited, he noticed that the Axem Rangers were no longer in the line. They must have been in the store. "&Crap, I didn't tell them what game to get&!"
"YO! YO! DUDE!" a voice yelled from the alley. Jon quickly ran to it before it would make the stupid yoshi sounds again.
When Jon came into view, Axem Red started talking. "YO DUDE! WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT GAME TO GET! SO! WE JUST GOT YOU THE MOST TOTALLY! AWESOME THING TO EVER GRACE! MANKIND!"
"We got you Cerebron: The Last Empire!" Black added. "Blood, guts, nudity up the wazoo! Only for the greatest of superpimps!"
"AND THAT SUPERPIMP! IS! YOU!"
Green spoke. "I tried to indoctrinate them not to get it. After all, you don't intimate like the type of person."
"No, it's fine, I'm just getting the game for someone else, and this is just what I was going to get. Thanks for the help." Jon assured.
"NO PROBLEMO! YOU JUST NEED TO! DO SOMETHING FOR US! AND THE BADGES WILL BE CANCLED OUT!"
"My girlfriend, who I love more than anything and is the most beautiful and funny person in the world and would never ever break up with me just broke up with me," said the new ranger, Axem Blue. "I need to cut myself until THE PAIN GOES AWAY!" He then played Linkin Park's "Numb" on his MP3 Player and started cutting his wrists. Jon could just imagine the eye shadow he was wearing under his mask.
Black attempted to pimp-slap Blue but the attack failed
With that last sentence, all six rangers teleported away.
Jon looked at them. "&Wait… the badges will be canceled out? What could… oh ----&." Jon suddenly remembered something about the description of the Ally Medals and looked in his GBA to confirm it.
x1 Ally Medals. Proof that you are allies of (the Axem Rangers). When used at least 24 hours after first given, the other group must do what you say. One use. You used yours. The Axem Rangers still have theirs.
"&… Well crud, it's a mind control device. And I just used my use to get them hold my place in line. I suppose I could assume my subconscious thoughts are also what caused them to get Cerebron, and that since Green was the only smart one he was unaffected by them… and that's also probably why they were acting so nice to me… but either way, I just used a mind control device to get a game that isn't even supposed to be that good… Well, I suppose I can't fix that now&." Jon tossed down the warp to the castle and teleported there.
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Meanwhile, in Famicom City's outskirts…
"Well, here we are," announced Crystal Man as he and the other four robots to an area filled with abandoned warehouses. "I told you my intuition would bring us here!"
Bass looked at the buildings. "I have to admit, Crystal, you did some good for once. Well, let's get started." He, Proto Man, Crystal Man, Diskoe, and Treble went up to the door to the closest warehouse and opened the door to find someone inside.
"Hey! This is the property of Team Metallix! You better leave!" said the guard, a Joker from the Viewtiful Joe games. Soon after he said that, crashing sounds could be heard from within the building.
"Looks like they're already destroying the place," commented Blues.
Crystal Man's gem gleamed. "… Or perhaps they are bowling…"
Bass then slapped him with the back of his hand. "Shut up Crystal!"
Diskoe beeped.
The guard answered. "The building down there isn't taken. You can use that."
The former Poké Man buzzed.
"You're welcome."
Proto Man looked at the vacant building as they walked away. "What do you know? It's two stories! Twice the destruction!"
They soon came up to the door. Crystal Man's gem gleamed. "You know, I think I'll sit this one out. I just realized that my attacks just shatter and bounce off inanimate objects. It's a shame though; my predictions tell me that this will be a good rampage."
"Whatever. Diskoe, Treble, you coming?" asked Bass. The two other robots followed Bass and Blues into the building. "Okay, remember, just fire at everything until you run out of energy!"
Bass activated his Flame Sword (absorbed from Sword Man, what it does is self-explanatory) and started cutting at the boxes around them, setting them on fire as a side effect. When the flames started to surround him, the not-pronounced-like-fish double jumped out of the ring and started anew in another group of boxes and crates. After a while, the black armored robot ran out of weapon energy for his sword and switched to the Blizzard Blast (first used in Ch. 1, absorbed form Blizzard Man), starting to fire the weapon at the blazes. The fire near the attack-snowflakes somehow froze in place, and Bass continued this until the ground was pined with pointy frozen flames. Following this, he switched to Napalm Bombs (absorbed from Napalm Man, they are fiery bombs) and started spreading them across the ice spikes on the floor, causing all of them to explode and melt.
Diskoe stood in front of a wall and started firing his pokéballs at it like a machine gun, purposely making sure that they didn't open. This didn't have much of an effect on the wall, but I'll be damned if he wasn't having fun.
Treble hopped around the room firing energy blasts at the boxes and machinery of the room from his tail while howling. He eventually found his way to a construction vehicle being kept there and started taking it apart with his teeth.
Meanwhile, on the upper floor, Proto Man spread Poppy Bombs (absorbed form the Poppy Men in Ch. 2) in a large circle on the floor near the wall, which all exploded in sequence. Blues and Bass hooted as the floor of the second story started to fall apart.
Outside, Crystal Man's crystal gleamed. "Oh crap!" he yelled as looked up wildly. "No… nothing? Well, okay then." A few seconds later, a piece of the wall that Proto Man blew up along with the floor flew toward him. Diskoe, hearing his earlier swear, came running outside and saw the rubble coming towards the now oblivious robot master. Thinking quickly, Diskoe pulled out the gem robot's temporary pokéball (until they fully move in with Robotnik (the only two robot masters currently staying in Diskoe are Guts Man and Crystal Man, the former of whom is missing)) and returned Crystal Man, causing him to turn into energy and come flying back into the orb. Following this, Diskoe came running into the building while loudly beeping. Bass, Proto Man, and Treble came up to him.
"Well, what is it?" asked the red robot.
Diskoe beeped and moved his pokéball shaped head around in circles.
"Ah, who cares what happens to him. Let's keep on destroying the building!" ordered Bass.
"Now wait a minute," Blues stopped the fin-headed robot. "If Crystal Man got caught in the crossfire and he wasn't even participating, who knows what else could happen. We should at least do something a bit safer."
"Like what?"
LATER…
On the hill where they previously played cards, Bass, Proto Man, and the re-released Crystal Man lay asleep, while the video screen on Treble played a downloaded rated R movie (they weren't in the mood for NC-17).
Diskoe looked on in annoyance, being one of the few robots there who was still awake, when he heard some beeping coming from Treble. He walked up to the dog robot and pressed a button. The video changed to an image of Dr. Wily.
"Poké Man, is Bass there?" he asked.
Diskoe beeped.
"Diskoe, whatever. Anyway, just get him up here!"
Diskoe walked up to the now-sleeping Bass and removed the control gem on his chest. He then pressed a button on his head and electricity started shooting out of the hole in his chest. Soon, Bass woke up and started to get up normally as he put the gem back in place.
Diskoe beeped.
"So Wily wants to see me?" asked the now-awake robot. "Well tell him to piss off, I'm having too much fun!"
Diskoe beeped.
"Everyone else is asleep? … Okay fine, I guess I might as well talk to him."
Bass walked up to the screen.
"Yeah, what is it?"
"Bass, what do you think you're doing!" the balding mad scientist yelled. "Do you know how long it has been since I assigned you to investigate the fallen Egg Skull!"
"Jeez, why can't you just get Robotnik to send one of his robots?"
"Bass, you know the only robot of his intelligent enough to do this task left is Metal Sonic, with Metal Knuckles and those E-100 robots long gone and Ivo being more of a battle-suit kind of guy, and he's busy keeping an eye on the Egg Carrier's pilots! So only you and the other robot masters can handle this!"
"Then why not let the other robot masters handle this?"
"Because I'm telling you, that's why! Now go before I disconnect you!"
The black armored robot sighed. "Jeez, fine." He turned off the transmission. "Well, let's go Treble, Diskoe."
Diskoe beeped.
"Yeah, I guess we should take Crystal, but just leave Proto Man here."
Diskoe whirred.
"Guts Man? Jeez, I forgot about him. I guess we'll have to pick up that sissy eventually… maybe next week like I said when he left." Bass, realizing that he was still wearing the power level scanner look-alike, the ES Radar Device, pressed the button on the side, causing the eyepiece to flash and point toward the direction of the wreck. "You returned Crystal yet?"
Diskoe sounded like an explosion.
"Good, we're teleporting to the South entrance of Famicom City, where it's closest to the wreck, and we'll just dash from there."
The rounder robot sealed itself inside of a pokéball, which was then picked up by the taller robot. As soon as Treble came near him, Bass surrounded himself in a purple aura and teleported away with the orb, soon followed by his robot pet.
LATER, AT THE CRASH SIGHT…
Bass looked at the wreck, turning to his comrade when he beeped. "The S9 is gone? …----!"
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Meanwhile, in Dreamland…
Kirby was sleeping peacefully when suddenly the lights turned on and a large black ball of goop started yelling. In reaction to this, Kirby slowly woke up and started rubbing his eyes. "Huh? What is it, Gooey?" he sleepily said to the blob, with a pair of large eyes, a big mouth, and a long tongue. Miraculously, Kirby seemed to speak more clearly when he was half-asleep, or perhaps this was somehow related to the adventure he just had?
Kirby listened to Gooey's story. "…Whispy turned into a what?"
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At the castle, Jon knocked on the door to the room where Toad was having his secret party, only to be answered by the host himself.
"Heeeey, Jon, you get that…" Toad looked around, "…thing?"
"Uh, yeah, I did." Jon brought out the game. Toad grabbed it out of his hands and held it up for the world to see.
"Augh!" Toad yelled for some reason.
"AUGH!" the people in the room yelled in response.
Jon paused for a minute. "…So, is this your own personal cult or something?"
"No, just a bunch of friends. Say, why don't you stay, have a few sugar cookies? The Tupperware fight is about to begin!" Two buttons appeared in front of him—Yes, and No.
"…The Tupperw—?"
"NO TALKING DAMMIT!"
It's been so long that the Game Master almost forgot about that. He pressed the "No" button.
"Why not? These Tupperware fights only have the world's finest!"
Jon Jones sighed. "&It's going to be one of these, huh&?" He pressed the "Yes" button.
"Great, have a seat, take a cookie, it's just about to start!"
The lights turned off and a spotlight shined onto a large table in the middle of the room. On three sides, two people each were standing with plastic containers of food. On the remaining side was a Waddle Dee in black armor carrying a watermelon. Everyone placed their food items on the table, and the black armored one stepped away from the table into the darkness.
"TUPPERWARE FIGHT, BEGIN!" Toad yelled as a bell rang.
One of the participants grabbed a container with some pudding. "Well, we just escaped from the evil monster in light-speed and we have reached the Watermelon!"
A person with apples added, "Dear god! We are detecting incoming fire from all areas!"
Watermelon seeds spat out at the Tupperware.
"It's a trap!" yelled someone with fish.
"We must fight on!" urged the Pudding. "All foods attack the Watermelon with full force! We will avenge the Cookie Dough!"
The people started to open up the Tupperware and started throwing the food inside at the Watermelon.
"Sir, the attacks seem to have no effect on the shields! We must retreat!" advised the Apples.
"No!" replied the Pudding. "We must have faith in Gelatin and Steak! They'll get the shield down!"
Watermelon seeds continued to spit at the foods.
"No! They got me!" screamed Fish.
"Fish!" yelled the Frozen Bubble Gum.
"Don't worry! I'll take them out with a suicide attack!" The person threw the food, container and all, at the Watermelon, knocking it back a bit and causing the bin to fly off the table."
"Fish! No… I won't let anyone else die!" The person speaking poured some lemonade on the gum while screaming hard, turning the pink gum yellow.
"Dear god! Could it be!" yelled the Apples.
"It is!" yelled Pudding. "A Super Lemontastic Gum!"
"Impossible!" pointed out the Fried Rice. "It's only a legend! It can't be real!"
The Super Gum charged at the Watermelon, yelled, and launched a flurry of attacks at the fruit. It knocked back the Watermelon a few inches, but it still proved ineffective.
"Impossible!" stated the Pudding. "We have a Super Lemontastic Gum and we are still ineffective against it!" It seems that once the gum powered up, everyone else stopped attacking and just watched.
"Not for long!" yelled some new food. From out of nowhere, a steak gripping a butcher knife (it was actually a person holding a steak in one hand and a knife in the other) sliced the Watermelon in half, tossed the knife to the floor, and landed on the playing field, followed by a container of gelatin.
"Steak! You son of a b-tch!" yelled Pudding. "You got here just in time! Now Gum, attack now that the shield is down!" The yellow gum reeled back and dashed into the red flesh of the Watermelon halves, knocking both off the table, causing them to splatter on the ground. All of the food items cheered.
"The Food Squad Delta Five was victorious," narrated Toad. "But there was a heavy loss in their hearts. How could they continue without Cookie Dough's sweetness and Fish saying 'It's a trap!' all the time? They won't have much time to reflect, because they will have to face a new enemy soon. But even with the addition of the Super Lemontastic mode for Frozen Gum, will they be victorious? We'll find out next time, in, oh, about thirty minutes."
The lights switched back on and everyone in the room cheered loudly, except for Jon, who just sat there dumbfounded.
"So, what did you think?" asked Toad to Jon Jones.
Jon tried to find the right words. "…Well, the cookies were nice… and the play—"
"Fight."
"Fight… well, it was nice… I guess. I, uh, better be going now." Jon walked out of the door and headed to his room. In there, his thoughts turned to the original point of the room Toad was using for his party. Exactly what was it the castle for? Perhaps he would never know. He checked the clock. "It's only been sixteen minutes. Forty-four minutes to go."
At this point, he heard a beeping sound from his Game Boy Advance, signifying that he had an e-mail. The Game Master pulled the device out. "&An e-mail from Kirby? 'Get here quick'? 'You need to see it for yourself'? … Sure, why not&?"
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"The S9 is gone!" Wily yelled.
"Yeah, and it wasn't just wrecked, either. Someone took the whole thing," added Bass. He and the other robots were back at the hill, but Proto Man was now gone.
"See, this wouldn't have happened if you had just gone in the first place!"
"Now see, first of all, the person could have taken it right after he beat it, so I wouldn't have been able to reach it in time no matter what; and second, does one more robot data really matter? What, you two have about twenty data records already!"
Dr. Robotnik appeared on the monitor, via a split screen. "He's right you know, Al. According to my calculations, we have just enough data for the Mega Egg Skull!"
"So that means all that's left is to collate all of the data and find a power source!" Wily noted.
"And I know just the place! We should get this up and running by about 12!"
"So, the next order of business is where should we attack first—M-Earth, home of Sonic, or SI-Earth, home of Dr. Light and Mega Man?"
Bass decided to speak. "Jeez, why don't you guys just attack the Main Region? There shouldn't be any real heroes here besides Captain N, with everyone going home for the holidays."
The two scientists paused. "Of course, attack the Main Region during the holidays! Why didn't we think of that!" Dr. Robotnik exclaimed.
"Because you two are retards," Bass replied.
"Bass, I'll tell you what," started Wily, ignoring what his robot said, "why don't you and the other robot masters have the rest of the day off?"
"What, all three hours of it left?" Bass asked.
"…Okay, if this goes well, you guys can have tomorrow off as well." Wily then hung up, followed by Eggman.
Bass placed the phone back "So, I guess we're going to Metal Knuckles' Bar then to see if we can get drunk?"
Diskoe beeped.
"Oh don't be such a baby! Wily Beer has no requirements other than being a robot!
Diskoe made some strange beeps, like the kinds made when a pokémon is healed in a Pokémon Center.
"Uh, what? I didn't understand that."
Diskoe shot out Crystal Man's pokéball, and he came out completely awake.
"Wily put a healing thing in you? Well, okay then. Hey Crystal, we're getting drunk! You wanna come!"
Crystal Man's forehead gem gleamed. "Well, apparently, in my vision of the future, I'm walking with you guys, so I guess I have to come."
"So, wait, Crystal, what happens when you go against your predictions?" asked Bass.
"I don't know, and I don't want to know." Crystal Man started walking with Bass, Diskoe, and Treble to the outskirts of another part of Famicom City.
In case this wasn't made clear enough earlier, all of the other robot masters are with Wily and Robotnik, but aren't fully moved in yet.
LATER…
The four walked along the street—this part of the city was mostly filled with the semi-intelligent robots (true intelligence hasn't been reached in most places) so they didn't look too conspicuous—when they heard some singing.
Diskoe beeped.
"Its probably just some carolers, just ignore them," stated Bass.
As they walked some more, the voices became clearer. It seemed to be a group of kids and some man. Soon, the carolers came in sight.
Bass started at them. "Is that…?"
"Yes, it is," Crystal Man replied. "A living snowman. Do you think it's from the Mushroom Kingdom?"
"You're the psychic one! How should I know!"
The group of kids surrounding the walking, singing snowman turned on the street the four were on, with the top hat wearing humanoid following. "&Please don't talk to us, please don't talk to us&," Bass's mind pleaded.
When he came up to the group, the snowman spoke, "A Merry Christmas to you fine folks!"
Bass screamed and shot the snowman's head off, causing the top hat to fall onto the ground
The children around him screamed.
"Uh, sorry about that, I haven't been the same since that incident with all of the ice robot masters last Christmas."
Some of the children started saying, "Put the hat back on!"
"Why, what's so important about it?"
Crystal Man picked up the hat on the ground and looked at it. "Ah, I see. It must give him his life."
"Nah, that can't be it!" pointed out Bass.
"No, it's true!" the kids yelled.
"Boom! What did I tell you! Am I good or what!" said the gem-robot.
Diskoe beeped.
"So you're saying this is Frosty the Snowman?" Bass asked Diskoe. "If that's true, I guess we should give it back to the kids."
Diskoe made a sympathetic whir of doom.
"No, I'm not being soft! I'm just saying there's nothing we could do with it!"
At this point, Treble, who was tired of just being a phone during these events, decided to do something by grabbing the hat out of Crystal Man's hands and running away.
"Treble, sit!" Bass yelled as he started running after his dog/wolf, with Diskoe following after.
Crystal Man's gem gleamed. "Guys, I just got a vision! Treble's going to grab the hat out of my hands in… oh, wait, crap!" Crystal Man then started running after them.
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In the eternally vibrant Green Greens, Game Master Jon Jones, along with the Hero of Dreamland Kirby, stood in front of the tree Whispy Woods. While he often collaborated with the selfish King DeDeDe's plots, he was usually kind when he wasn't possessed. Typically, he was an apple tree with two holes for eyes, a branch as a nose, and a third hole as a mouth, but there was something different about him.
"He's… a Christmas tree," said Jon.
"Yeah, pine tree," answered Kirby. "Apparently, some kind of monster is causing this, like with the Great Deku during the adventure of the Link you know, and the acidity of the pines are hurting him."
"Oh, yeah, I remember that acid thing from Biology class… So, what do you expect me to do?"
"Whispy says that the monster inside him is tough, so you're here to provide backup, considering how I just defeated the Dark Matter and I'm pretty tired. I called you over here because with your pocketwarps you could get here the quickest."
"Oh, and by the way, is it just me or are you speaking more clearly?"
"Yeah, it turns out the reason I was speaking the way I was when you first met me was because I had this scarf caught on my vocal cord. During one of my battles today, I was hit pretty hard and I ended up coughing it up."
"Huh…"
Whispy Woods started talking. "Well, I'm ready to let you guys in. Are you sure you won't need any more help? Because I have a feeling that this will be very tough!"
"We're fine Whispy, just let us in so we can help you!" exclaimed the pink puffball.
The now-pine-tree opened up his mouth so far that his bottom lip fell to the ground. With this, the two walked in. Immediately they saw the problem—there was a squid-shaped animal with a white body and black tentacles attacked in several places around the tree's inside. Jon shot off the tentacles and Kirby ate the squid, causing him to turn into Squid Kirby. In this form, Kirby flailed about on the ground and was unable to move much, so he got rid of it. It didn't even bother to fight back. With that they walked out.
Right before their eyes, the pine tree shifted back to an apple tree.
"Well, was it as difficult as I told you?" asked the now-cured living plant.
"Well, it was harder than beating Barney's Hide and Go Seek for the Sega Genesis, but considering that you don't even have to find anyone to beat it…" replied Jon. In case you're wondering how I know that, I'm sorry to say it was one of my games back when I was four.
"…Well, okay, maybe I might have exaggerated a bit, but thanks for the help!" Whispy thanked the two.
Jon turned to Kirby. "Do you mind if I go now?"
"No, you can go."
Jon pulled out a warp and traveled back to the Main Castle. He still had twenty-one minutes until the approximate time Dr. Light would be ready. It was time to watch TV while playing a GBA game at the same time.
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Meanwhile, on Angel Island, home of Knuckles the Echidna…
It was night and the emerald's guardian had just fallen asleep. However, he woke up when he heard some sounds, and didn't like what he saw.
"Excuse me, Knuckles, but I'll just be borrowing this!" Robotnik said as a large claw dropped from his hovering machine, the Egg Typhoon, and latched onto the Master Emerald. By this point, Chaos had already retreated into it.
"Oh no you don't!" Knuckles yelled as he jumped up and shattered the claw with a single punch, leaving the emerald unharmed.
"So you want to do this the hard way, huh?"
Following this, Eggman flew off the tiny piece of land out of sight. Within a few seconds, however, he reappeared with his normal vehicle in a brand new machine. Below the normal capsule was a pair of small laser blasters, and to the sides were two pairs of large wings. The first pair was large, thin and gray, flapping up and down constantly, while the hind wings were a pair of green rods connected to two large green disks with gray blades protruding, also flapping. Finally, on the back three orbs connected together forming some kind of tail. Each of these orbs had a pair of rocket boosters out to the side.
"Behold! My newest creation, the Egg Dragonfly!" gloated Robotnik. "You won't stand a chance against this one, you stupid echidna!"
"Your machines are nothing compared to me!" Knuckles claimed in response.
Two separate messages appeared—one in front of Robotnik, one in front of Knuckles.
EGG DRAGONFLY
KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA
"Egg Hornet Battle Theme from Sonic Adventure (DX)"
Eggman dashed forward in his new machine towards his opponent, firing lasers across the ground, but Knuckles easily dodged them and jumped on top of the altar in order to reach the doctor.
"Get a load of this!" the scientist spouted as the disks on the rear wings detached and spun toward the red humanoid. In order to avoid this, Knuckles jumped off of the altar onto the ground and the disks flew right over him. The Egg Dragonfly started flying around again at high speeds while firing lasers at the echidna, and while it was closer, he still managed to dodge the assault. However, in a twist of fate, the returning disks struck Knuckles in the back, cutting him and sending his light body a few feet away. Seeing an opportunity, Eggman detached to orbs forming the abdomen and they shot out at his opponent. Not thinking clearly, the emeralds' guardian tried to punch one of the homing orbs away from him but instead got electrocuted, again causing him to fly back about a yard. As soon as he got up, he already had to dodge the incoming orbs and laser fire, and when he jumped into the air, he started spinning rapidly and dug into the ground.
"You think you can escape me that way! Well, let's see what you think about th--!" Eggman started, but was interrupted when Knuckles emerged in a large eruption of dirt that buried the still-pursuing orbs. Robotnik growled in anger as the echidna jumped onto the mound, and since the machine could only hover without the orbs to provide thrust, jumped onto the windshield of the Egg Typhoon, cracking the bulletproof glass with every punch. In response, the mad scientist again launched to wing disks toward him, and the emeralds' guardian jumped off right before he was hit. Then, he glided after the disks, which were about to return. He latched onto the flat side of one of them and stuck to the other with his free hand.
"No!" Robotnik yelled as Knuckles threw the disk on his right hand as hard as he could at the main section, badly damaging the cockpit and destroying the lasers. Finally, he jumped off the disk left, which returned to its place on the wing, and smashed his fist into the window, breaking through it and destroying the controls. In reaction to this, all of the Egg Dragonfly attachments fell and exploded, leaving only a badly damaged Egg Typhoon.
KNUCKLES WINS! YOU GOTTEN… RINGS!
End "Egg Hornet Battle Them"
"Grr, you may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war! Got it Quick Man?"
Suddenly, an orange blur ran past Knuckles towards Robotnik. The blur stopped, revealing a human-like robot in red, with yellow boomerang insignias on his knees, elbows, chest, and forehead. "I got it, Dr. Robotnik," he said. He was holding the compartment in which the Chaos Emeralds were kept.
"The Chaos Emeralds! You must have gotten them while I was fighting! Why you…!" Knuckles exclaimed in anger as he ran toward the two.
"Quick, let's get out of here!" both Robotnik's machine and Quick Man turned into beams of light that started traveling towards the sky.
Knowing that he would be unable to follow them, Knuckles ran back to the Master Emerald. "Master Emerald, here my plea! You must send the Chaos Emeralds elsewhere, out of the reach of the ones with dark intentions in their heart!"
In response, the emerald glowed with a green aura, which shot out for a mile in radius. In a part of the sky in the distance, space seemed to distort and seven glowing lights shot out from it away from the aura. Also out of the distortion fell Quick Man, who was suddenly pulled out of his teleportation mode and crashed into the Earth below. There was no sign of Robotnik, however.
"I better tell Sonic about this," said Knuckles to himself as he jumped off the island and started gliding.
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It was about 9:50 when Dr. Light called Jon, a little more than the hour prediction he had given earlier. "Well, I managed to create the radar for the robots like you requested. I'm currently in a Rush Porta-Lab just down the street from the wreck, but there's no need to come over here, since I'm mailing you the device via Paratroopa Express. It should reach the castle within a couple of minutes, due to its proximity."
The doorbell rang from downstairs and Toad could be heard yelling, "Jones, it's for you! Get down here and pay before I shove it up your wang!"
"Or it could arrive now," finished Dr. Light.
"Doesn't this place have any security? How could some random mailman just come up to the King's Castle?" asked Jon, mostly to himself.
"Well, actually," the doctor started, "the Castle has some of the latest security systems, mostly scanners and such, but since the radar contains my seal, the systems ignored the item I made. Go down and get the radar and I'll explain how to use it."
Jon headed downstairs with the Dr. Light's image on his GBA and paid for the device, heading outside in order to continue the conversation.
"There's no assembly required, so simply pull it out of the box and put it on, I'll explain the rest from there," Dr. Light said from across the screen.
Jon opened the box and pulled out the Egg Skull Radar, which looked strikingly similar to the one Bass wore. "This looks like something out of Dragonball Z or something," he commented.
"Dragon Ball Z? I've never heard of it. Perhaps I should watch it," said Dr. Light.
"Well, you should probably watch Dragon Ball first. While DBZ has everyone as adults, DB starts out when everyone is a kid."
"Kids, huh? I guess I'll watch that instead. Anyway, as soon as you put it on, press the large button on the side."
Jon did so, and several numbers and arrows appeared on his green eyepiece.
"The arrows you see represent the direction of the Egg Skull, while the number indicates the distance. As you can see, there are quite a bit—seven in this dimension alone, but there are still others in other worlds. The number in each can be found by pressing the smaller button below the larger one, and pressing it again will make it switch back to this view. Pressing the large button again will turn it off, of course. From what I've seen, there are a total of fourteen Egg Skulls across the dimensions, so be careful. Well, then, I better get back to the Christmas party. Good luck beating these new Egg Skulls, but I'm having a bad feeling about this. It would probably be for the best if you took someone with you."
"I'll do that, thanks. Could you ask Mega Man to come?"
"Yes, I suppose I could. The Egg Skull Radar has a tracking device, so Rock will just follow that to where you are."
"Thanks for the help." Jon ended the conversation as he turned off his all-purpose-GBA and ceased transmission. Checking the radar again, he noticed something different. "&Hmm, the seven Egg Skulls in this dimension have moved… and they still are. Strange, they all seem to be heading towards one place that way, though I still can't tell the distance it seems pretty far. I should probably go over there to see what's going on, but I need someone to get me over there. Wait… of course&!" With that, Jon headed back inside and used a warp to go to Famicom City.
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Bass, Treble, Diskoe, and Crystal Man beamed onto the Egg Carrier's deck and walked into one of the nearby corridors to be greeted by another robot master. "Back already?" asked Wind Man. "You usually come back much later than this."
"Well what can I say, we got bored, and we got really tired from chasing Treble everywhere," responded Bass as he walked past the brown robot. The body was large and circular, with the chest area green. For some reason, the robot appeared to have brown nipples. The arms and legs were black, with the right arm ending in a white hand and the left ending in an energy blaster similar to Mega Man's. On top of his head was a propeller that allowed him to fly into the air, and on his shoulders were two large fans.
"Well, you managed to make it just in time! The oil leftovers from the Christmas dinner I made are still warm!"
"Seriously, Wind, Wily didn't reactivate your weapons so you could cook oil!"
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I can't."
"Besides, with my Bassnium power source I don't need to eat or sleep in order to recharge like you guys!"
Crystal Man spoke up. "Well, either way, me and Diskoe still need to eat. Does Treble need to eat, too, Bass? Wait, the answer's coming to me… no."
"Actually, he does," responded the black-armored robot. Crystal Man made a grunt of disappointment in response. "By the way, that reminds me, you've had your weapons on this entire time, right?"
"Say, you're right. Considering what time it was when we left and what time it is now… I only have 30 minutes of charge left!"
"Relax, just turn off your weapons and you'll have about four hours left," assured Bass.
"And once that retard Eggman finally finds a way to power robot masters with animals, your battery won't just last one day without weapons and three hours with," added Wind Man.
"Wait, so then we won't have to stay in those little rooms in order to stay charged while waiting for Mega Man?" asked Crystal Man.
"I doubt it'll happen anytime soon so don't get your hopes up. Besides, shouldn't you have known that? You're supposed to be a psychic for god's sake! Then again, the only things Wily got right were Treble and I."
Diskoe beeped.
"Sorry to say, but you'd be any competent scientist's reject. And besides, you remember how messed up you were when Wily first created you! And frankly, I doubt this Eggman guy is any better!"
At that point, Dr. Robotnik walked through the door grumbling. Not only had he failed, but also he had to travel to a secret warp point in order to return to the Main Region and had to teleport again to reach the ship.
"Speak of the devil. So Robotnik, you managed to get those Chaos Emeralds of yours?"
Eggman grumbled louder.
"Didn't get it, huh? What happened, did the little echidna lay eggs in your hole?"
The fat man ignored this insult. "I almost got them, but he used the Master Emerald to repel them away, sending Quick Man to his death!" Robotnik yelled. "I'll get that rat if it's the last thing I do!"
"Meh, Quick Man was just a delirious crack addict anyway. He probably would have run off a cliff even if the furry didn't kill him. The point is, now you won't be able to finish that Mega Egg Skull thingy, and Wily's bound to get pissed. But then again, I doubt he even expected you to succeed."
"Why you insolent brat!" Eggman pressed a button, causing his Egg Walker machine to walk through the door, and he then jumped in.
"Don't do it, Lord Robotnik!" exclaimed Wind Man. "He's just trying to get a rise out of you!"
"Bah, neither this guy or Wily deserves to be called Lord of anything, except maybe the Lord of Asswipes! And besides, even if I was trying to get a rise out of him, I doubt any of us would notice it!"
"Why you!" after saying this, Eggman activated the weapons on his machine.
"Yeah, let's do this!" Bass then placed the top hat in his hand onto a cloths rack, causing it to suddenly come to life.
The cloths rack, slowly twisted around. "Hey, what am I doing here? Where is everyone?" Bass then quickly pulled the hat off.
"Jeez, I keep on forgetting to keep the hat collapsed," Bass said as he collapsed the top hat and placed it on a nearby table.
Eggman looked at the hat. "What is that?"
Bass looked back at it. "That? That's Frosty the Snowman's magic hat or something. It brings any object it's placed on to life."
"Oh really… can I have it?"
"What? Oh, sure, whatever, it's retarded anyway."
"Thank you," Eggman said as he got out of his machine, grabbed the hat, and ran away.
"Hey, you b-stard! What about the fight!" Bass watched the scientist run away. "…Jeez, for a fat guy, he's really fast."
Diskoe beeped.
"Oh, right, that. Get me the microphone!"
Diskoe beeped in correction.
"Whatever! Just get it!" Bass got it soon after and spoke into the intercom. "Attention all robot masters and whatever Eggman calls you guys, uh, badniks! Wily has given us a break for the rest of today and maybe tomorrow! You know what to do!"
With that, the sounds of several robot masters teleporting and flying away could be heard around the ship. Apparently the only intelligent badnik left, Metal Sonic, didn't want to leave.
"So, you're coming Wind Man?" asked Bass.
"Nah, I better stay here to guard the ship and, y'know, cook," replied Wind Man.
"Whatever. How about you, Diskoe?"
Diskoe beeped negative zero times.
"Okay, I guess that just means me and Crystal will go back to Metal Knuckles'."
"Wait, didn't you come back here in the first place because you were bored?" asked Wind Man.
"Well, I'm getting bored here, so I might as well go back down," the black armored robot replied. Following that, Treble and he teleported away from the room.
Crystal Man, however, stayed. "By the way, Wind, before I go, I have a prediction you should probably hear."
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"Well, it looks like you were right," stated Mega Man as he and Jon watched the Egg Skulls fly up to a large red carrier ship in the sky, the Egg Carrier. "The Egg Skulls were gathering in one spot. Oh, and sorry I got here so late."
"No, it's okay. I used Rush to get here first, and then Rush had to go back and pick you up. Besides, I called other people to come help and they still haven't gotten here, so you aren't the last."
"Well, either way, Rush is too tired to carry more than two people, and that's with his E-tanks drained, so we'll need to find another way on. I guess we can hijack the last Egg Skull so we can go onboard, but then the other people wouldn't be able to reach the ship."
"Don't worry, they'll be able to. Let's just wait for the last guy."
After a couple of minutes, there were only three Egg Skulls left, flying one at a time up to the hovering Egg Carrier 3.
"Well, the last guy's about to leave, let's attack!" advised Jon.
"Right!" Mega Man said as he fired a Tornado Hold at it, trapping it in a miniature tornado. Suddenly, a figure flew down from the ship and destroyed the device causing the tornado, and the remaining Egg Skull continued flying up.
"It's a good thing I came a few minutes before Crystal Man said," Wind Man said to himself as he turned to his foes. "You two should consider yourselves lucky! You are about to face the wrath of WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
"Robot Master Jingle"
End "Robot Master Jingle"
LATER…
"I don't know, I don't feel comfortable like this," Jon said. He and Mega Man were holding onto Wind Man's arms as he carried them up to the Egg Carrier 3.
"Don't worry, I disabled all of his weapons. If he tries to shake us off, I'll shoot him and then Rush will save us from falling," Mega Man assured.
"Didn't you say Rush couldn't support both of us?"
"Yeah. Anyway, it doesn't matter, we're here."
Wind Man landed on the ship's deck, ignoring the much deadlier, but easier to access Sky Deck.
DUNGEON: EGG CARRIER 3…When the two got off, Jon asked, "What should we do with him?"
"Just leave him be, he's no harm."
"By the way, I just realized, couldn't you have teleported here?"
"The teleportation system in robot masters, and me, only allowed you to go to the large warp-hubs found in several of the larger regions, which was why I am unable to just go right to a boss's room. Though, now that I've bothered to scan for one, there's a warp hub on this ship, probably so the robot masters can go on and off here."
They started walking away.
Wind Man was clearly annoyed. When the two ran into one of the doors leading into the ship, he pulled a walkie-talkie out of a side compartment. "Bass! Any other robot master! Can you hear me?"
There was a buzz and someone responded. "Hey, it's Bass. What is it, Wind Man? If you walked to call me, call me on the girl-attracting cell phone, not this retarded thing!"
"Bass, this is bad! Two people have gotten on the ship and disabled my weapons!"
"Ask me if I care! It turns out all of the robot masters were heading down to Metal Knuckles' Bar, so we're trying to see if it's possible to make a robot drunk!"
"Bass, the people are Captain N and M—"
"Who cares! I'm hanging up now!"
"Bass? Bass!"
The walkie-talkie buzzed and then there was silence.
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"&Okay, I just have to find the Zone Sealer, that thing Wily used to lock this region last time, and then I have to look to see if they have a device that lets them travel through dimensions, a Warp Generator&," Jon reflected on the orders Mega Man gave him. They had split up to look for different things. Mega Man teleported to the ship's warp-hub and was going to destroy it, then track down the engines and destroy them.
After walking down the hallway, he came to a large room with a bunch of chairs, a big TV, pool tables, and other assorted entertainment devices. "&This must be the lounge. Where is everyone though&?" He looked around, and noticed a round robot master come in the room with a bowl of oil. As soon he noticed Jon, he dropped the bowl and made a bunch of Kung-Fu poses while beeping.
"…Who are you supposed to be?"
The robot with a pokéball head beeped.
"I'm guessing you're one of the new robots Wily and Eggman made."
While posing, the robot beeped the robot master jingle.
READY!Jon fired a B-Blast, and the robot fell over. "This is going to be easier than I thought!"
Jon walked up to the felled robot master, when something suddenly shot out at him. "A pokéball?"
There was a bright flash of light and suddenly, Jon found himself in a large, red and white room. He looked around. "&Huh? Where am I&?" He paused. "&Aw crap, I'm in a pokéball, aren't I&?"
Suddenly, in one of the far walls, a compartment opened up and some large black orbs started pouring out and rolled along the walls. Jon pressed START and after a few seconds, time froze. "&What the heck are those things? Wait, I'm in a pokéball, so those must be what prevent the pokémon from breaking out. Since I don't see any real weak point, you probably have to hit the walls until the pokéball automatically releases you, and before those orb things come and reinforce the walls. That means, I should pick this wall farthest from the orbs, and use my Smash attack until—wait, what's that&?"
At this point, Jon noticed a button labeled, "If you are a human or another intelligent being, press this to be released".
"&… Well okay, screw that plan then&," he thought as he unpaused and pressed the button. He now has only 4 time points left.
After a flash of light, Jon found himself back where he was in front of the robot he was facing earlier. At this point, the robot started making beeps of forgiveness and started backing away.
JON WINS! YOU GOTTEN… MAP!After looking at the robot for a few more seconds, Jon took a look at the map of the Egg Carrier. The zone locker was the closest, but it was still two floors below. After finding himself looking to see what the robot was watching on TV, he ran out of the door towards the stairs.
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"That so? Well, this is Wily, over and out," Wily said into the walkie-talkie.
"Well, what was it?" asked Robotnik as he made some finishing touches on the Mega Egg Skull.
"Apparently, both Mega Man and the Game Master have managed to board the ship. However, the robot masters refuse to help!"
"Ungrateful little cheapskates! Who do they think they are!"
"We'll have to finish the Mega Egg Skull sooner. How close are we?"
"Actually, the only things that aren't done yet are most of the weapons."
"What weapons are installed?"
"Unfortunately, just the machine guns, hand smashers, and floor smashers."
"Just those? Well, I suppose if we fought either one of them by themselves, we'd be able to win. Oh, and Ivo, did you get that Master Emerald thing?"
"Uh, well, about that…"
"… You didn't get it?"
"Unfortunately no, BUT, I did get this!" Eggman pulled out the hat he took from Bass.
"What is that?"
"It's Frosty the snowman's hat or something. It brings inanimate objects to live!"
"Well what are you waiting for! Put it on the head!"
Eggman, already being near the head, simply put it on. The mech started to move.
"Hey, where am I? Hey, you two little people, is it still Christmas Eve?"
Wily looked at his watch. "It won't be in about an hour, but yeah."
The mech put his hands on both Wily and Robotnik's heads. "Well then I wish you both a very wonderful Christmas!"
"…Ivo?" asked Wily.
"Yeah, Al?" Eggman replied.
"Take the hat off."
Robotnik did just that, and the robot was once again dead. "Well, a personality like that won't help… Wait, I have an idea!"
Eggman turned the hat inside out and placed it on the machine.
"GRAHHHH! SMASH! KILL! MAIM THE PUNY HUMANS!" the mech screamed as it waved its arms wildly about, almost knocking over the lift Robotnik was on.
"Ivo! Take the hat off!" yelled Wily.
"CRUSH PUNY HUMAN!" the robot armor yelled as turned to Wily and lifted up its hat. The white-haired mad scientist screamed until Robotnik managed to pull the inside-out hat off the raging machine. The armor was once again lifeless.
Wily dusted himself off. "Well, it would probably be a good idea to put the hat on from a distance." Eggman nodded. "Also, Ivo, we should probably attach a mechanism that will knock the hat off from a distance." Eggman nodded. "Also, before we add more weapons, we paint the inside-out hat black like the outer part, and add two more things…" Eggman nodded, and then once he understood what Wily meant, he started grinning and let out an evil laugh. The other joined in, and they were soon evil laughing together.
Robotnik stopped. "Oh yeah, Al, did you send out a warning to all of the Egg Skull pilots about the intruders?"
"Oh, no, right, I'll do that right now."
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"&Well, at least now I'm on the same floor as the Zone Sealer&," thought Jon as he walked through the halls, keeping a close eye out for any guards. It would be easier to just PAUSE, but he only had four time points left. Soon, he heard some talking down the hall.
"So, when are we attacking again?" asked one voice.
"Remember, it's whenever the scientists finish that Mega Egg Skull of theirs, then we'll attack the Presidential Castle!" the other voice said.
Jon reached where they were, a point where the hallway forked, making a T. The people talking were two guards, both in Egg Skulls. Suddenly, an announcement came over the speakers. "Attention, be on the look out for Mega Man and Captain N. They have both managed to board our ship and may be able to hinder the plan. Kill them on sight."
"You know what Captain N looks like?" asked one of the guards in Egg Skulls.
"Yeah, I do. He's basically a—hey, there he is!" The other guard pointed his mech's machine gun right arm at Jon, who had peaked over the wall just a little too much. The Game Master reflexively put up a barrier and blocked the bullets before rolling out of view. "After him!"
The two dashed into the hallway Jon was in. "Hey, where is he?" the first guard asked as he stopped and looked around.
"He can freeze time! He must have actually gone the other way! I'll keep going this way, you go the other way!" The two did just that.
In fact, Jon did not PAUSE at all. He had noticed how limited the machines' visual range was and, by rolling at the right time, he ended up right under them where they couldn't see. When they left, Jon was just standing there. Truth be told, he would have been able to beat the two of them, but he didn't want to waste time. Who knows when the two scientists will finish that "Mega Egg Skull"? He'll have to stop them before they finish it.
Jon continued on his original path.
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"There… and done!" said Robotnik as he finished a last adjustment.
"The Mega Egg Skull is complete!" announced Wily.
"For now. You know, now that we finished the adjustments, it really does look like him. Except, you know, we need to color it yellow."
"And give it legs."
"Well, whatever. According to a report from the guards, the Game Master came by hallway A3-4H and they are currently chasing after him."
"That's near the Zone Sealer isn't it?"
"I wouldn't call it near, but it's on the same floor."
"Well, either way, let's get ready."
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"&Here I am&," thought Jon as he stepped in front of a door, and it opened automatically. "&I'll just have to destroy this Zone Sealer, and their plan will be ruined. The only way the Egg Skulls would be effective is for no one outside of this region to be able to help, and the only way you can do that is by locking the zone. I'll just have to—oh, ----&" thought Jon as he walked into the room. There was a large, complicated machine in the center of the large, circular room, and in front of that was a slightly smaller, but still very large, machine. The body and arms resembled that on a normal Egg Skull, except slightly larger, and there was a large empty space in the middle of the chest. In this empty space were two prongs on the top and bottom, apparently meant to hold something in. It seemed to be around the size and shape of the Master Emerald. Also, the hands were different, as it now actually had hands with three fingers and one thumb each. On the shoulders were a pair of large machine guns, each as big as the ones on the normal Egg Skulls.
The bottom section was very different, however, as there were no wheels. Instead, it hovered in the air through some unknown means, and the wheels were replaced with a hexagonal shape with the lowest side covered in spikes.
The head was exactly the same, except slightly larger, and it appeared to have… a monocle on the right eye. Speaking of which, the left hand was holding a cane.
"Welcome, Game Master!" a voice said over the intercom. The door slammed shut behind Jon when this was said. "Meet the Mega Egg Skull! It is still incomplete, but it will be more than enough to defeat you!"
Jon paused. "I would feel threatened, but… what's with the monocle and the cane?"
"We already had the hat," responded the scientist over the speaker.
"What hat?"
"Oh, right, we forgot to put it on. Wily?"
A claw appeared from the ceiling and gently placed a black, inside-out top hat on the head of machine. With that, it started roaring. "CRUSH HUMAN!" it yelled as it activated the machine guns on its shoulders and started firing at the human.
Battle… BEGIN!With as yelp, Jon wavedashed out of the way of the initial spurt, but there was no time to dodge the second, so he put up his shield to block many of the bullets, and rolled out of the way. He then jumped up and started firing at the machine guns while running. "&Jeez, and this is just the incomplete form&?"
He double jumped in order to be able to shoot the hat, which was obviously the source of power, but the robot rose up its right hand and shot a burst of fire towards the Game Master. He airdodged out of the way, but Jon stilled ended up burned when he landed on the ground. He didn't have enough time to pull out a Mushroom before the Egg Skull slammed its' left fist into the ground, shooting a wave of ice towards the Game Master. He tried to jump over it, but it froze his feet together before he could double jump. As he lay on the ground trying to free his feet, the Mega Egg Skull flew over him, with the sharp spikes pointing right towards his body. The machine came crashing into the earth, but Jon had managed to barely roll out of the way. At this point, he managed to free his legs and, seeing his chance; double jumped up and fired a single blast at the hat.
Though unaffected, the hat was knocked off of the head and it flew towards the Zone Sealer, landing on the very top. "GRAH! CRUSH!" the now-living Zone Sealer yelled as it detached from the floor and the cables it was connected to and started "walking" towards Jon.
"No!" Robotnik yelled over the intercom. The claw that had previously put the hat on the Mega Egg Skull now removed it from the now-ruined Zone Sealer, and was about to put it back on the robot before Jon shot it down.
JON WINS! YOU GOTTEN… FROSTY'S TOP HATThe hat suddenly appeared in Jon's hat, and he looked closely. "What? Is this paint? It's inside out?"
"Yeah," Eggman said with annoyance over the speakers. "It was the only way for it to be effective. Just turn it outside-out to make it Frosty's top hat again."
"Is this really Frosty—"
"Yeah it is!" With that, Eggman shut off the intercom.
Robotnik turned to Wily. "Well, are the Egg Skulls coming?"
"Unfortunately, it seems all have them have gathered in the detachable side part of the Egg Carrier, you know, the one with the incomplete engines, to battle Mega Man. I didn't believe it would take all of them to battle Tom's pathetic machine, until I—"
There was a loud sound and the entire ship shook. "That was the detachable part of the ship launching!" yelled Robotnik. "That robot must have found out how to launch it, and without working engines he has sent everyone to their death!"
"Tom wouldn't let one of his robots kill! He must have found a way to get all of the pilots out before he detached the part."
"Either way, we have to get out of here!"
"Neither Mega Man nor the Game Master are properly braced, right?"
"I don't think so! Then, if we go to another region with the unstable large-scale Warp Generator, they won't be able to handle it!"
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Jon managed to eat a few Mushrooms, recovering his health, before Mega Man e-mailed him.
Jon, I managed to destroy the warp-hub, but the Egg Skulls attacked me. I got a map by defeating a robot master on the ship, so I managed to lure them to a detachable segment of the ship, and after forcing every pilot to get out under threat of falling thousands of feet, I detached the part and destroyed all of the Egg Skulls. Suddenly, Team Starfox appeared and started attacking the ship. Three of them are still attacking, while the others and Rush, who has recovered, is helping the criminals get down. You must have called them for help!
However, Jon, you have to abort the mission. Despite the damage Starfox is doing, the Egg Carrier is about to use an unstable Warp Generator to send the entire ship into another realm. Something like this requires a huge amount of energy, and unless you are braced, all of the energy will surge through you, and it will leave you badly wounded if it doesn't kill you! I assume you are on the third floor, where the Zone Sealer is. You have to escape on the nearest escape pod before the ship warps!
Signed, Rock Light, AKA Mega Man
Dated 11:35 PM
Jon, confident that he wouldn't be fighting anyone else, paused and ran to the nearest escape pod. He unpaused and when he got in, pressed the button to launch it and was sent falling towards the Earth. From there, he would see Star Fox's Arwings shooting the Egg Carrier, and carrying the criminals down. Soon, they had finished rescuing everyone and they all, including Mega Man on Rush, started flying away. After a few minutes, and extremely large version of the red and blue warps appeared before the Egg Carrier and it flew through, though it was surrounded by bright yellow surges of energy. It then disappeared.
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Later, on the ground…
"Well, thank you for your help," said Jon to the pilots.
"No problem! We'd do anything for Nintendo!" stated Fox.
"Now, about the money," Falco changed the subject.
"Oh, right, you'll get your money by tomorrow afternoon," Jon said.
"Well, pleasure doing business with you Game Master, and Merry Christmas!" Slippy said as he and all the other pilots on the mission got into their Arwings and flew away.
"Wait, is it Christmas Day yet?" asked to Mega Man.
"Uh, yeah, it's currently 12:06 AM Christmas Day December 25, 2004. Well, Merry Christmas, Jon."
"Uh, Merry Christmas to you too, I guess. So, I guess you're going?"
"Yeah, I am. Oh, and by the way Jon, the entire N-Team thing isn't working for me, sorry."
"Yeah, I thought it was something like that when you and Link just left. Well, I don't really mind, we never really did anything for long periods of time."
"Aren't you going to ask what level everyone is at?" asked Toad, who appeared out of nowhere.
After a pause of shock, Jon asked, "Uh, what do you mean?"
"The Tupperware fights of course! The frozen gum has just now reached Super Lemontastic Gum Level 1 Million, the pudding has gotten Curse Seal Level 22, the steak released his Bankai in the fight after you left and is currently on his Twelve-Kai, and everyone else just powered up normally, though the fish had to use all 12 gates and has died."
"Didn't the fish die in the fight I watched?"
"Oh, yeah, but we revived him with the Non-stick-on Balls later. Oh, and by the way, I found this weird cartridge just like the E-card for your Light Gun," Toad said as he pulled out a Game Boy Advance cartridge. "Try seeing what happens if you put it in your Game System."
Shrugging, Jon did so. His GBA was engulfed by light and it transformed into a strange machine with two screens. "A Nintendo DS! Awesome, now I can play DS games, and if it's the same as the GBA, it'll be able to play games for all the other systems, including the PSP! It's a Christmas miracle!"
"Toad, is there anything different about it?" asked Mega Man. "You seem to know stuff like this."
"Of course there is!" said Toad.
"Well, will you tell us?" asked Rock.
"Of course I will… next time!"
Jon spoke. "Next time? What do you mean by—"
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NEXT TIME ON CAPTAIN N: 2006!
"Instrumental Version Of Captain N 2006 Theme Song""After Kirby investigates some trouble in Dreamland, he gets caught up in a search for the Chaos Emeralds spanning all of Videoland! He'll have to team up with several people like Knuckles the Echidna, and even Wario to get them back!"
"Be sure to read/watch Captain N Level 6: The Great Emerald Search That is Not in Space!"
"I don't appear in this episode except for cameo roles! Wait, so will Toad actually tell us about the DS then?"