It turned out that Dr. Light was right to make Roll a Black Belt with her broom.
He was also right to make it anything but an ordinary broom.
"Hi-yaa!" She screamed as she dealt with countless enemies. From there, her broom effortlessly transformed into a pogo stick to help her deal with large gaps.
Overall, she dealt well with the power plant, though she did suffer a few passing shocks along the way.
Instead of the usual Robot Master room, she found an area of generators arcing with blue electricity.
"Huh?" She hadn't expected this.
She activated her communicator. "Uh, guys, do you missions usually end in big, open areas like this?"
Joshua, who was seeing exactly what Roll was via a camera implanted in her helmet, shrugged. "Your brothers would know better than I would… Hold on."
Quickly, said brother was on. "Not usually. More often than not, there's a definite, small room locked away behind a door with Wily's insignia on it."
Joshua chimed in. "I don't like this. Be careful, Roll."
Roll got into a defensive stance immediately. A rumble of thunder boomed overhead.
Odd, we're indoors,Roll thought.How can there be…
She didn't get to finish her musings, as she had to dodge with split-second timing to avoid being struck by lightning right then and there.
There, a sheep-like Robot Master appeared, bathed in electricity. Wordlessly, it charged a bolt of electricity in its wool, which broke off and turned into another thunder cloud which dropped its payload, this time not missing its target.
Seizing up from the electricity running through her system, she barely had time to get out of the way of her foe charging her.
Taking advantage of the opening in her foe's guard, she aimed her broom, at this point a staff, for his back.
It screamed, which Roll forced herself to ignore. She had a job to do. She knew from the unprovoked attack that there would be no reasoning with their opponents here. That, and from what she'd seen, whatever version of Sheep Man was sitting here wasn't the talking type anyway.
Sheep Man took a lot of hits but got some in himself in return. He later resorted to shrouding himself in electricity and teleporting around in hopes of hitting her. He got another hit in before Roll resumed connecting on her blows.
Sheep Man was literally smoking as machinery popped inside of him. One more hit would end the battle for sure.
One more hit that she would not get in.
The Robot Master warped away just before Roll could come down with the final strike.
"Well, well, well. Can't say I expected you of all people to be here…"
The voice seemed to come from everywhere.
"Who are you?!" Roll seemed to call into nothing.
"You may call me Novak, young lady. I've met your brother before."
Roll remembered the brief report her brother had given after his recent battle with an electrically-based foe.
"You were in Fuse Man…"
"Actually, these drones are just that," the man explained. "The genuine articles are untouched, with only their battle data extracted."
"What do you want?"
"Oh, nothing really." The nonchalant reply sent a shiver up Roll's nonexistent spine. Wily had never come off as that amiable when he was clearly lying. "I just want to be the top dog in robotics. By any means necessary."
"What are you planning?"
"All in good time, my dear. I do encourage you to come to the coordinates I send you. To that end, I've provided a little incentive for you."
Dread froze the robot in place. "What…?"
"I'll have Joshua tell you himself."
To her shock, her communicatior patched in by itself.
Joshua picked up, clearly in panic mode.
"Mega Man's been kidnapped!"