I corrected some mistakes near the end of Chapter 36, regarding what happened to Young Link. I can't believe I forgot about his existence! Well, he's gonna shine in this chapter.
Chapter 40: The Evil That Brings Power! The Strongest Robot Bass!
Megaman and Bass are in a fierce combat—firing shots at each other and once in a while coming together for a close melee. Rush and Treble are also fighting—biting and clawing each other.
Megaman made a move that caught Bass off guard and throws a punch in his body, making Bass fly into a pile of junks.
Bass smirks and gets back up, "You have grown stronger since we last fought, Megaman. But I'm afraid I'll still win today."
"There you go again!" says Megaman. "You're always boasting about your strength! You have more mouths than brawls!"
"I'm serious this time. I'll show you why!" says Bass. He signals to Treble and the robotic dog runs up to him. When the two comes in contact with each other, they flash in a bright purple light. When the light fades, Bass has become bulkier than before and has large purple wings extending from his back!
"Remember the time when I pretended to be your friend and you allowed me to enter your lab?" Bass asks Megaman. "You still remember that I stole your Adaptor Suit and used it on myself right? Surely, you remember this form too!"
"Of course I remember!" replies Megaman. "But I still defeated you in the end."
"That's true, but now it's different! I'm not only fused with Treble, but also with the Darkling!"
A strange purple shadow appears from the floor and crawls up Bass's body. The shadow binds itself around Bass and slowly enters his body, making his eyes slowly turn purple. "Now I have the power of the Darkling! You cannot defeat me!"
"You're still the same, Bass! I can still defeat you like always!"
"You do not know the power of the Darkling! Prepare to die!"
Bass extends his wings and flies towards Megaman. Megaman raises his arm cannon and fires several shots at Bass, but it did not stop him from moving forward. Bass's fist emits a purple aura and he slams it at Megaman, who quickly hops back to avoid the punch.
Megaman continues to fire shots at Bass, but the shots just bounce off him harmlessly. "How come my Mega Buster isn't working against him?" wonders Megaman. "What has Dr. Wily done to his armor?"
Bass flies into the air and fires a large energy shot downwards, blasting the floor and filling the room with thick purple smoke and it hits. While Megaman is trying to find his way out of the smoke, Bass reaches his hand forward and grabs him by the neck, and then hurls him away.
Rush pounces at Bass to bite him, but the evil android swats the dog away with one hit. Megaman gets back up and charges up his Mega Buster. When fully charged, he lets it loose at Bass. The plasma shot hits him and creates a large explosion, but Megaman is surprised to see Bass walk out of the explosion harmlessly. "How is that possible!" gasps Megaman.
"You are an idiot, Megaman!" Bass jeers at him. "You truly do not know the power of Darkling!" He lifts up his arm cannon and fires a thin purple laser beam at Megaman. The beam came out so suddenly that Megaman didn't have time to fully dodge it, and it pierces through his right shoulder.
"AAACK!"
He puts his left hand against his damaged right shoulder and cries in pain. Bass walks up to him and kicks him in the face, and then stamps his foot against Megaman's head. "Hahahaha!" laughs Bass. "I told you I would win!"
Megaman growls angrily, he quickly gets back up and throws a punch at Bass, but the android grabs his fist and then slams him against the floor. Bass points his arm cannon at Megaman's face and says, "Your end is here! Die!"
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Dr. Wily watches with pleasure from his office. "Great job, Bass!" says Wily happily. "You have proved yourself useful at last! Kill Megaman!"
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Megaman has taken too much damage to move, and he can only sit there, waiting for Bass to fully charge up his arm cannon. Suddenly, a bright yellow shot zooms in from the side and hits Bass on the side of his waist. "GYAAAAK!" The shot blasts Bass all the way to the side of the room.
Young Link runs up to Megaman and asks, "Are you all right?"
"Not all that right, but still able to move," says Megaman, slowly standing back up. "Good thing I'm a robot, and I can be fixed again."
Bass stands back up from the blast and eyes YL angrily. "How on earth can a single flesh being hurt me!"
Bass fires an energy blast at YL, who pulls up his shield to block it, but the shield shatters when the shot hits it! Bass fires another shot, but YL jumps up to avoid it.
When YL lands, he continuously shoot Light Arrows at him. "Ha! You think you can hurt me with those puny arrows?" laughs Bass, who does not know about the Holy Weapons. The arrows hit him on his four joints, both the shoulders and the knees, and pierces into it. "WHAT!"
"Ha! You're the idiot!" laughs YL. "You do not know the power of the Holy Weapons!"
Bass growls angrily. "I am the strongest robot, and I will not lose to a flesh being like you!" He fires a large purple shot at YL. YL bravely stands there and pulls back the bowstring, ready to fire another Light Arrow. The longer he holds the string, the brighter the arrow glows.
When the shot is nearer and nearer to him, YL releases the Light Arrow. The arrow penetrates through the energy shot and goes for Bass. Before Bass can move, the arrow stabs into his chest. Bass screams in pain and agony as an unimaginable pain travels throughout inside his body. Finally, the Darkling comes out from his mouth like a smoke and lets out a loud scream before disintegrating.
YL switches to a normal arrow and somehow sticks a bomb onto the tip. He fires the bomb arrow at the now normal Bass, and the explosion from the bomb sends Bass flying into the air. He falls back onto the floor with a hard thud and stops moving.
Megaman is surprised that a simple flesh being like Young Link is able to defeat a powerful robot like Bass. "Incredible…"
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"WHAT!" screams Wily. "Bass is defeated! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" He pounds the control panel hard and pulls his hair like mad. "That's it! I'm going to use the Skullzilla!"
He gets up from his seat and storms to the door. When the door opens, he sees Yoshi, Jigglypuff, and Pikachu standing at the entrance. "Do you know where the bathroom is?" Yoshi asks him.
Dr. Wily points to a door and says, "Over there."
"Thanks!" says Yoshi, and he and the two Pokemon walk there.
Dr. Wily walks out the room and through the hall, but then he stopped. "Hey! Weren't those three the Smashers? Anyway, they're meeting their doom soon enough!"
Dr. Wily walks up to a large door, and he hears a voice saying, "Enter password."
"C-A-P-C-O-M," replies Dr. Wily.
"Password accepted." The door opens and Wily steps inside. Inside the room is a gigantic robot about 50 meters tall and its head is an evil-looking skull. Behind it are large dorsal spines and it has a really long tail.
"Hehehe! I have been working for years on this robot! The reason I built this amusement park is to prevent Megaman from suspecting me! Who said that I am a changed man anyway?"
Dr. Wily walks nearer to the robot and smiles with pleasure. "Behold the Skullzilla, the masterpiece modeled after the king of monsters Godzilla himself! It may not be as big, but it can be as destructive as him!"
He enters the robot through a small opening on the body and made his way to the cockpit, which is located inside the head. He sits down on the seat, buckles on the seatbelt, and presses several buttons on the control panel. "Skullzilla, ready to take off!"
The giant robot's eyes flashes and steam jets out from its joints. The ceiling above it slowly moves apart, creating an opening, and the floor below Skullzilla slowly rises, lifting the robot onto the surface.
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The people at the carnival saw a giant robot rising in the distance, and they say to themselves, "It must be the grand parade that the billboard said! It's starting at last!"
When the robot is fully out of the ground, it lets out a loud metallic roar and stomps the ground hard, creating a short earthquake.
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The Smashers, who are inside the base, felt the earthquake. "What was that?" asks Samus.
"It can't be an earthquake," says Fox. "It's too short to be one."
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Dr. Wily saw the happy and cheering crowds from inside Skullzilla. "Ha! Those idiots think this is some sort of a game? I'll show them the difference between a game and the real thing!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
This arc is taking really long, right? Don't worry; the next chapter will be the last chapter of this arc, so rejoice! And since Flameman is dead, there shouldn't be any flame reviews.