Here's the epilogue!
Quint glanced out of the window of the fortress, staring at the starry sky outside. He glanced down and gazed at the blue, white, and green ball identified as Earth. He glanced at Sakugarne who was standing next to him.
"Well, Wily launched the fortress. Four of the Robot Masters are down there, and the rest of us are up here. Mega Man has to get rid of them down there, then the four Robot Masters still up here, before facing me. And then..." Quint paused, thinking. "And then we act."
"It's gonna be strange, facing Mega Man. But it has to be done. There's nothing else we can do. We need that Time Skimmer. We can't let Mega Man kill us, but we can't kill him either. Do you know what to do, Sakugarne?" Quint asked.
"Saku!" Sakugarne said in affirmation. Quint smiled.
"Right. Now, all we can do is wait for Wily to command the Robot Masters down there to attack."
"Sakugarne?" Sakugarne asked.
"Why do we need to wait for Mega Man to arrive?" Quint translated, looking at the pogo-stick. "We need his help, willing or unwilling. There's no way we'll be able to pull it off if he never arrives. But don't worry," Quint said, gazing back out the window at the planet. "If I survived all those years as him, I'm sure he'll survive to make it to me."
Quint began to walk away from the window, with Sakugarne following him. Quint walked straight into Lab 6B and glanced around. There was absolutely nothing inside the room, except for one metal safe with a eight-number combination luck; the numbers ranged from 0 through 9. Quint had worked out in his mind several possible combos, but who knew how Wily thought? He would have to rely on pure luck in order to guess the combination.
He glanced at the lock. "It's somewhere in there," Quint murmured. "And once I know the combo, I'll get it. But what could it be...?" He stood there, pondering on the combination for several seconds.
He sat down, and Sakugarne hopped over to him. "Saku?" it asked.
"I don't know," Quint replied, still gazing at the lock. "My entire future depends on me discovering four little numbers. How am I going to figure out the combination?"
At that moment, alarms began to sound. Quint jumped out of the room, and with a quick glance at the monitors, he saw what happened: Wily had finally announced his threat to the world, and was now asking Mega Man to just come and attack the Robot Masters on Earth. As Quint watched the video footage coming from Earth, the robot armies began attacking the civilization on that planet.
Quint sighed. "No turning back now, Sakugarne... no turning back now..."
I just hope we make it out of this in one piece...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Ha! The Epilogue is done! I know this was kinda short, but read the next part for some information. As for the combo lock Quint found, the combo is not random. Once I reveal it, kudos to whoever figures out why I picked that combination.