Chapter 4: Captured

Disclaimer: I do not own Megaman or Bass. Capcom owns both of them.

The blazing heat of the sun did nothing to prevent the lumbering titan of a robot from walking toward its intended target, the unsuspecting Alpha base. Gutsman brought one fist up as he marched along and had it risen to prep himself for a surprise attack that would help his comrades to break into the base. With a mighty swing, Gutsman sent a powerful ripple into the earth that caused the ground to shake and the base to shake as well, the shouts of terrified lab technicians ringing out into the silent air. Before anyone in the base could react, two other robots moved in from the sides to increase the confusion and panic. Unfortunately for Gutsman, that didn't stop them from noticing him standing above the horizon and before he knew it they were firing rockets at him with the payload that could destroy a small town. Not being built to be bright, Gutsman raised his hands to try and grab the rocket but it was too powerful and it pushed him into rock before colliding with his chest and causing a massive explosion that was the end of Gutsman.

The first tremor sent Roll tumbling out of her seat and onto the floor where she was certain he short skirt was hiked up just enough for anyone who wanted to could see her underwear. It was an embarrassing thing, but luckily for her no one was around there to do such a thing because most were either operating on Bass or Protoman, though Bass only needed someone to occasionally come and check in on him during his sleep state. There were still two hours until he would awake again, but Roll was certain that he was needed right at that moment. Though at that moment it was up to her to do what she could so she quickly ran to her room, trying to keep balance while the base shook and then changed into her clothing before going to the weapons section. Most of the soldiers were rushing about while a familiar face stood out among the crowd of soldiers, commanding the men to go with his scissor hands.

"Come on men I need you out there," said Cutman as he directed the soldiers and turned to shoot out one of his blades at a sniper joe that had gotten through the defenses. He then noticed that Roll was also standing there grabbing one of the buster rifles from the rack. "Roll what are you doing here, you should be taking cover or something!"

"I've been equipped with combat capabilities so that I can maneuver around and help," said Roll as she started to look around at the other soldiers. "What about the other robots, I thought there were others that joined up in the group?"

"Gutsman was reprogrammed and has just been confirmed destroyed," said Cutman sadly as he thought of his fallen friend and the others that fell in battle. "Elecman has been leading us this whole time while Fireman has gone lone wolf and we haven't heard from him in days. Bombman was destroyed yesterday by one of the Robot Masters."

"Protoman is alive but he's being repaired right now and Bass is being upgraded right now and will be asleep for two hours."

"Bass is helping us! He's a Robot Master and an enemy of your brother if you don't remember!"

"Right now he is the only chance of us finding Rock so we have to trust him now, besides this new robot Adonus is ruining Bass's ego."

Another explosion in the base sent the two to the ground while some of the technicians were screaming for support from some of the soldiers before they ducked for cover under the attacks from the Yellow Devil, now called Green Devil because the gelatin body had been turned to green. Gellatinous balls fell from its body, rolling on the floor at any in its path. Cutman through his scissors at the robot and found that it went through and was sucked in with no chance of it coming back. Roll fired her buster rifle at it but only managed to get the scissor blade out of the Green Devil's body.

"That body of yours has gotten better, Green Devil," commented another Robot Master as he fell from the ground. "I'll take Bass and head off while you take care of the base, if you fail you might as well destroy yourself because master won't accept any screw ups."

"You put Bass down right now," demanded Roll as she raised her weapon at the Robot Master, but was forced to dodge the ball of glob that was rolling towards her and looked up to find the Drillman, the Robot Master in question, had already escaped with Bass's sleep chamber. All that was left was the lumbering Green Devil.

"I'll try firing concentrated bursts while you throw your scissor blade into its head," said Roll to Cutsman, who was already stuck to the ground by one of the hardened globs of goo. He nodded to her as she slung her buster rifle and started unleashing short controlled bursts at one spot so that it would be caught on that but it didn't seem to work as its body would regenerate as soon as she did that.

Slowly changing the power to her buster meter, a dangerous thing to say the least because it was as well maintained as the ones that were built in to robots. The buster rifle shook in her hand as she raised it, unsure that it would blow up in her face, but she knew that she had to do this if she wanted to see her brother again. After what seemed like ten minutes, Roll pulled the trigger and sent a charged shot flying right at her target hitting it right in front of its core and melting back right down to the center. As soon as she had done this however, a glob of green slime had hit Cutman right on his head, preventing him from using his scissor blade and Role knew that if she fired her shot again it would explode. Just as the Green Devil was about to shoot out one of its energy balls, however, a shot of energy blew out and caught the Green Devil right in its eye, causing the creature to explode. Luckily for them, Dr. Light had built a body for Protoman long ago to make for his short lifespan and the pain that he was feeling that would be just a quick transfer away and he had been lucky enough to have found that body and it was kept at Alpha base. It took just a simple mind transfer to the new body for them to fix it.

"I'm glad you came when you did or else we would have been in a lot of trouble," said Roll as she ran over to hug her brother and he smiled while hugging her with one arm. "We have to go after tht one Robot Master and find him, he took Bass."

"I think I've been out of it too long," said Protoman as he rubbed his head a bit and then looked at Roll. "I thought Bass was a Robot Master and that he was the nemesis of our brother, the one who keeps trying to kill him all the time. I mean, he's got his moments, but I don't see him being the hero since Wiley is the one behind all of this."

"No, he's not part of Wiley's army anymore and he's decided to help us," said Roll cheerfully, but she could see that he brother had a hard time buying it, which was understandable, just a few years ago Bass had nearly killed Rock, if not for the fact that Rock was able to get off one shot that distracted Bass enough for Rock to get away. "He agreed to help Dr. Light and was given some new upgrades that make him even stronger, if they reprogram him then what do you think will happen to us or Rock if Bass finds him?"

"Okay then, getting him back is now our top priority," said Protoman before he turned his back. "I'll go on ahead; you should stay behind and see if father is alright."

Before Roll could say anything Protoman teleported away leaving Roll speechless. Did he just blow me off, thought Roll before she turned her watch tracker on to monitor where he landed. Years ago her father, the brilliant Dr. Light, placed a tracking device on Protoman so that Rock could help him when need be. Okay then, I'll go see what help I can get for an assault on where ever they have taken Bass, but I should check on how Dr. Light is doing.

The surroundings of the room were unfamiliar to Bass as he looked around at the room that he was in and found that it was a room for prisoners or for dissecting robots. The person who had ordered him to be locked away probably didn't know much about him or thought that he would sleep longer because he was only held down by restraints. Also, the codes to send his combat functions off line were pretty basic and were obviously meant for any other robot, but he was made with different codes and so any use of other codes were futile. In no time Bass had taken out the codes and removed himself from the restraints to take another look at the surrounding area. It reminded him a lot of Wiley's lab with the same mechanisms and computers in the control room that he was easily able to get into and download all maps of the area. This seemed to go faster than he expected, even without the help of Treble, which was all thanks to Dr. Light's new upgrade but of course he wouldn't admit that, it would be a cold day in hell before he admitted that. It wasn't that he wasn't grateful for it, he truly was grateful; it was just that thanking the man who invented his rival didn't exactly sit well with Bass, too much like him thanking Megaman.

"The prisoner should still be sleeping, we better bring him before General Jupiter," said a voice on the other side of the door. Bass could recognize the voice of Drillman, another one of Wiley's failure Robot Masters, that couldn't do anything, except maybe slow the annoying blue bomber down.

"He has been restrained so if he wakes up he will be defenseless," said the other Robot Master, Crystalman, as he opened the door only to find himself on the business end of Bass's buster. Payback for kidnapping him, payback was a bitch.