Chapter 38: The Trial of Wind! Luigi vs. Windman!
Dr. Wily is sitting in his office, and he learned that Plantman is defeated. "Incredible, Megaman defeated Plantman in a few minutes! He's getting stronger than ever! But as long as I have the Darkling on my side, I have no fear for him!" He turns to a monitor and sees Windman facing off with Luigi. "So someone stumbled upon the Trial of Wind. They say that green Mario brother guy is weakest among the Smashers, so Windman should have no problem handling him.
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Luigi runs around the room like wild. "AAAAAAHHHHH! HELP ME! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"
Windman watches Luigi run around. "Is running all you can do? You will not advance any further just by running in circles." Windman produces two propeller blades in his hands and hurls them at Luigi. "Wind Cutter!"
Luigi slips on the floor and collapse, and the blades fly over him safely.
"You got lucky, human," says Windman.
Luigi got up and runs like mad again, screaming at the top of his voice in fear. Windman drops down in front of him all of a sudden, and he quickly turns around and runs in the opposite direction, but Windman drops down in front of him again! "You cannot escape," says Windman.
"How did you get from place to place so fast?" Luigi asks him.
"There are wind boosters under my feet. It releases wind that travels at about 200 mph, so I can fly through the sky and get to places fast. No matter how fast you run, I can always catch up with you."
Luigi backs up slowly in fear. "Looks like I have no way out of here!" he thought. "Unless I defeat him, I'll surely die!" He takes out his Thunder Rod and holds it in an offensive position. "You better not underestimate me!" Luigi says to Windman. "I'm as deadly as my brother!"
"So you are getting serious, right? Let me show you something fascinating." Windman turns to a pillar behind and pulls back his right fist. The fan on his shoulder begins to spin and makes a loud engine sound. When the sound is at its loudest, he punches the pillar hard, not only shattering it, but also send the shattered pieces flying backwards!
Luigi's face goes into a surprised expression. "You're that strong!"
"When the fan on my right shoulder spins, it acts like a turbine and powers up my right arm greatly, allowing me to deliver the all-powerful Wind Punch," explains Windman.
Luigi trembles even more. "Looks like he's no pushover…" he thought to himself. He took notice of a heating vent several feet high on the wall. "Maybe I can try to escape from there!"
He points to a random direction and says, "Look! There's something there!"
But Windman isn't fooled by him. "There is nobody here besides us,"
"…" says Luigi, if it's even possible, and then he turns around and runs towards the wall.
"Are you running again? The wind tells me you are trying to escape through the heating vent. I will not let you succeed."
When Luigi got to the front of the wall, he taps the tip of the Thunder Rod against the floor, and the rod starts to extend! Luigi holds onto the upper end and the extension of the rod lifts him up into the air. He reaches for the grate and tries to pull it open, but then a strong gust shoots out from the vent and blows him off balance and he falls towards a large spinning propeller!
"NOOO! I'M GONNA GET GRINDED!" screams Luigi. He sticks his rod towards the propeller, and when the blades of the propeller hit the rod, the propeller broke into pieces! Luigi safely falls onto the floor. "I'm saved! Thanks you, Thunder Rod!"
He sees Windman charging towards him at high speed, so he quickly slams the tip of the Thunder Rod onto the ground and he shoots up high into the air, as if the rod was a pogo! But Windman flies up in front of him and says, "The air is also part of my battleground."
"AHHHHH!"
The fan motor on Windman's shoulder starts spinning and roaring. "Wind Punch!" he shouts as he unleashes a powerful punch. Luigi quickly holds up the rod in front of his face just before the punch contacts. The fist hits the rod and the force pushes Luigi backwards towards the floor. Luigi crashes onto the floor with a hard bang.
"Waaaaaa…"
Windman looks down at the beaten up plumber. "If you didn't block my punch with the rod, then your head would've been torn off."
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Fox, Samus, and Mario are going fine. Behind them lay several broken and shattered robots that they have fought.
"Security is pretty tight here," says Samus. "But they are pushovers."
"I wonda how's Luigi," says Mario.
Eventually, they came to room with lots of small holes on the floor, similar to that of a net.
"This room has quite a design," says Fox. "I wonder what it's for."
A green translucent blob slowly crawls out from the net floor before them. "What's that?" asks Samus.
More and more green blobs appear; until it eventually forms into the shape of a man. It's more like a giant head with large arms and legs. "What is that!" asks Samus again.
"Jello?" says Mario curiously.
Then they see a mechanical eyeball float down from the air, and it starts to flash. The green blob being seems to responds to the flashing, and an opening appears in front of the head area. When the opening is wide enough, the eyeball flies inside it and the blob covers up the hole again. The eyeball opens its eyelid from inside, revealing its large purple lens.
"It's a Darkling!" gasps Samus.
"And it's controlling the green slime to do its biddings!" says Fox.
The eyeball flashes again, and then green blob hurls a large green ball of slime at them, but they quickly jump aside to avoid it. Samus quickly switches to her battle armor and begins firing at the blob. When her shot hits the green slimy body, the shot disappears and leaves behind a small crater on the body, but it fills up after a few seconds.
Mario throws several fireballs at the body, but like Samus's beam, the fire made several small craters on the body, which eventually fills up again. "Our shots are not-a affecting it!" says Mario.
The green monster slams its oversized hands onto the ground, creating a large green tsunami that's rushing towards them! "Watch out! Tidal wave!" shouts Fox.
They quickly run away from the green wave until they come to a wall. "Oh no! We're done for!" screams Samus.
The green wave crashes into them.
"YAAAAAAAHHHH!"
The three falls onto the ground, with their bodies covered in green slime. Fox is the first to get back up, "Good thing it didn't physically hurt us. Come to think of it, how dangerous can slime be?"
The green monster forms its right hand into a solid green blade and stretches it forward to hit Fox! Fox quickly jumps aside and fires his gun at the monster. The monster uses its other hand to swat Fox onto the floor. "Ouch!"
Samus fires super missiles at the monster's head, but when the missiles hit the green slime, it bounces off! Samus quickly jumps away before the returning missile hits her. "What kind of slime is this that nothing can penetrate!" she exclaims.
Mario jumps into the air and whacks the head with his Fire Rod. The rod simply bounces back when it hits the green body. The monster fires a green blob and when it hits Mario, it traps his body inside! "Help-a! I'm stuck-a!" cries Mario.
The monster slaps the 'slimed' Mario, causing him to bounce around the room due to the blob around him. "WAAAAAAH!"
"I'll help you, Mario!" shouts Samus. She fires her grapple beam, and when the tip of the beam touches the blob, the blob immediately melts and vaporizes! Mario falls onto the floor and lands on his butt.
"Thank you for helping me…"
Samus is surprised just now. "The grapple beam melted the blob… That means…" She turns to look at the green monster.
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Luigi is lying on the floor. The impact just now hurt his backbone greatly, and he can barely stand up. He can see Windman standing on a pillar in front of him. "I cannot… die here… I must be brave… like my brother Mario…" he mutters to himself. He slowly got back up and limps towards the pillar.
"You still have strength for fighting? Incredible…" says Windman in surprise.
When Luigi is a few feet away from the pillar, he falls back onto the floor again. "Your body couldn't possibly be moving after the hit you took. Now to end this!" says Windman, and he jumps down from the pillar and performs a flying kick at Luigi! Just before the foot hits him, Luigi uses his Thunder Rod to hit the wind booster under Windman's foot, pushing the robot back into the air and he falls onto his knees. "How dare you!"
He takes out a large fan blade and throws it at Luigi. Luigi quickly uses the rod as a pogo stick and bounce up high into the air, avoiding the blade thrown at him. Windman looks up and takes off into the air as well. When Windman flew into the air, he couldn't control his movements properly; he is flying in an awkward position! "What's wrong with my wind booster!" he gasps. "Oh yeah! When I tried to land the kick on him, he destroyed the booster on my left foot using the rod!"
Somehow, Windman made it to the front of Luigi. "I'm going to kill you for destroying my left wind booster!" The fan motor on his shoulder begins to spin and roar, and he pulls back his fist. "Wind Punch!" He throws the punch at Luigi's face, but the plumber quickly moves his head aside, and the punch only managed to scrape across his face, making a small bruise.
"It's just a small cut! It's nothing big!" Luigi says to himself. He raises the Thunder Rod over him and electric begins to form around it.
"Oh no!" gasps Windman. "I can't move in air properly with only one wind booster!"
"Thunder Overhead Smash!" shouts Luigi at the top of his voice, and he slams the rod down on Windman's head HARD.
"UUUUWAAAAAAAAGH!" screams Windman, as falls down from the sky and drops straight onto an active propeller. When he comes in contact with the spinning blades, a large explosion occurs and pieces of the robot flies everywhere.
Luigi falls back down and lands on his feet. "I'M BRAVE LIKE MY BROTHER!" shouts Luigi at the top of his voice, and then a metal falls down and bonks his head. "Ouch!"
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Samus runs towards the green monster, avoiding the slimes toss at her. When she got near the monster, she fires the grapple beam at its face. The beam pierces through the head, boring a tunnel that leads to the eyeball in the middle. Samus reels back her grapple beam and shouts to Mario, "Mario! Now!"
Mario jumps up and stretches the Fire Rod forward. The tip of the rod hits the eyeball dead on, pushing it out of the blob on the backside. The rod pushes the eyeball all the way to the wall on the other side, and the eyeball explodes in a burst of purple smoke, ending with a death scream of a Darkling.
The green slimy body begins to melt, until all the blobs fall through the net floor. Fox gets back up and asks, "How did you two defeat him?"
"I used the grapple beam to rescue Mario from the blob, and the beam melted the blob around him. Since the grapple beam is made of electric, I figured out that the blob's weakness it electric. That's how we defeated him," explains Samus.
"You're pretty smart! Now we must move on!" says Fox.
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The death of Windman triggers a door to open, and Luigi quickly runs through it. "Phew… I made it…" says Luigi. "I knew I could be brave and strong like Mario! I must continue to be brave!" With this, he bravely walks forward, ready to take on anything tossed at him.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Well, Luigi killed a tough opponent! Isn't he brave after all? If you played Megaman 8 or Megaman & Bass, then you should recognize the green slime monster as the Green Devil.