Chapter 5: Getting in was the Hard Part

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"Kiss my ass," said Bass in a cool tone as he fired his buster right into the face of Drill man and then turned to aim his buster at Crystal man. Because he was still waiting to regain full energy capabilities he had only fired a stun blast, but he had powered it up so that it would hurt like hell when Drillman woke his pathetic hide up. There were none of the typical bots that he would usually have to face, which was good because he had gotten tired of going through that crap for a long time. "Now then why don't you tell me where I can find the shuttle bays and the leader of this base because I so want to blow him up."

"You can forget about me ever telling anything to you," spat the Robot Master as he tried to make himself look tougher than the other, more powerful Robot Master.

"That wasn't a request and that was the wrong answer," said Bass as he fired at Crystal Man's legs, blowing both limbs off completely as Crystal Man screamed in pain. "Now then we can take all day because I have the ability to take you apart piece by painfully blood piece, but then again I can also just leave you here."

"Okay, I'll tell you just don't hurt me anymore," cried Crystal Man as he started to cower in front of the powerful Robot Master. "Just go right to the armory it will be on the seventh floor and then go down the hall to the right."

"Thank you, garbage," said Bass in his usual insulting manner and walked past the damaged lesser robots.

Bass walked all the way down the hall that was purely metal with a bluish tent to it that reminded him of his rival. In his mind, Bass was making the list of all the things he was going to do when he got out and all the robots he was going to destroy once he got at full power. As soon as he had started to get on the elevator, the damn lower level soldier robots started to show up due to a routine check in. These robots had one very important malfunction of hesitating for two seconds as soon as they spotted an enemy to verify that it is a target while smarter robots, Robot Masters, could do it in seconds and Bass was made so that he would be shooting on the drop of a dime. The generic foot soldiers could not do the same and were mowed down by his rapid buster before they could even remove their own busters.

This had one drawback to it as the destruction of a patrol alerted other robots who would be put on alert mode where there was no hesitation for identifying targets. Even though he was infinitely more powerful than they were at any given time of day he was still waiting for pull power abilities and he was certain that there would be stronger enemies that would become a challenge with him in his current condition. Bass had to immediately hit the elevator doors to close so that he could get as far as he could before they cut the power to the elevator shaft. The doors closed just as the foot soldiers had reached the area, he had a good bit of time to wait for the elevator to get to the seventh floor.

"How are my energy capabilities doing," said Bass as he checked his internal systems on the progress. "94, that upgrade really came in handy, I can reboot in half the time it use to take me."

The guards of the south entrance to the base were lying in the dust when Roll snuck up to the base, Protoman had obviously came through this way and had left a wake of destruction behind him. It was easy for him to slip by and see that most of the guards inside were also in similar condition so she was easily able to get deep into the base. The only problem was when the alarm went off and then hundreds of soldier robots ran out into the corridor, forcing Roll to hide in the ventilation shaft to avoid them. The only problem was that she was trapped where she was and before she knew it the ventilation shaft started to warm up. Hastily, she had to climb out when she believed that it was all clear, but on climbing out she was proven wrong by the wild shots of the numerous soldier bots down the corridor. Without many options, left available to her, Roll dived behind a corner and started to return fire with her buster, taking careful aim because the hand held busters had limited power.

"Surrender now, woman, and I will not destroy you or harm you," said a cool and calm voice from behind the front line of the soldier robots. Out stepped one of the infamous most infamous Robot Masters in Dr. Wily's arsenal, Dark Man.

"I don't think so," said a voice from behind her and she turned to see Protoman with his buster aimed at Shadow Man. "We're going to take our leave now, so if you'll excuse us."

"Oh but you just came to the party," replied Dark Man as he pointed his arm cannon at Proto Man, the robot he had once impersonated. "It would be so bad if you and Bass couldn't stay a while, especially with that cute sister of yours."

"Well then I guess I could stay just a little while to talk with you," said Proto Man as he fired his blaster, only to have it collide with Dark Man's blast and the two began to fire upon each other. "Roll stay behind the shield until I tell you to come out."

"Rather presumptuous I see, as if you knew already that you were going to beat me," taunted Dark Man as he called upon his barrier to protect himself, but as he did that there came an explosion right beside him. The blast knocked him into the other wall, temporarily disrupting his barrier long enough for Proto Man to get a shot in, hitting Dark Man in the side and cutting through most of his systems.

"Oh it's you, wondering what that thing was that keeping me from breaking through the wall," said Bass matter-of-factly as he walked out of the charred hole that had been blown in the wall, dusting his shoulder pads off before turning to the other soldiers. "There are more pests here than a dumpster, it's a good thing I have the perfect tools to be an exterminator, it seems I'm going to need them."

"Should have known a damn fool like you would just go around blowing stuff up," sighed Proto Man as he shook his head. "I swear, you have no self control what so ever."

"Kiss my shiny metallic black ass," spat Bass as he began to mercilessly gun down all of the robots in his vicinity while stepping over the pile of scrap metal that used to be Dark Man. "First I'm going to find this Adamus and then destroy him completely along with all of these other pathetic weaklings that get in my way and then I'm going to make it seem as if he never existed. Then I'm going to find that Blue Dweeb and kill, have him repaired and kill him again for failing to stop such pathetic weaklings!"

The anger in his voice was something that raised the threat level in the sensors of the robot soldiers causing an overwhelming sense that was something like the emotion known as fear. It was very rare that robots ever felt such a sensation, but right now the robot soldiers and Robot Masters watching the tape knew that they feared Bass. Bass, the Robot Master adorned in black armor with purple markings on his face, the unhinged killing machine that seemed so majestic when he destroyed as if he was the god of death. That was the Bass that Roll saw as she looked at him in all of his destructive glory and terror.

"Come on we got to get out of here, there is nothing here," said Proto Man as he grabbed Bass's blaster arm to stop him from his destructive reign.

"Fine then, but the hangar area is this way as well," said Bass as he kept walking on the path that he was, but he found that there was nothing in his path towards the hangar. "I guess they ran out of the trash to send."

"Hahaha, you did well to get here past all those robots but you won't beat me," said the booming, airy voice of Air Man as he dropped down with his face all puffed and ready to blow a wind.

"Out of my way unless you want to end up like the late Dark Man, you old junk bot," threatened Bass as he pointed his buster at the older Robot Master. "Proto Man, don't waste your life using your energy functions to try and fight this hunk of junk. I know you have very limited life span, more so than normal, and you're in a lot of pain, so don't go fighting, your pain makes you off a bit."

"Okay then but just be careful," warned Proto Man as he started to take Roll past the two, but Air man turned to attack them.

"You're fight is with me, nimrod," cursed Bass as he fired a blast into the back of his enemy though Air Man was able to jump just in time to avoid the attack. "Damn it!"

Air Man immediately set his sights on Bass, firing at Bass and even though Bass could easily use the abilities of another Robot Master to offset the attacks, but he still wasn't at full power. As tough as he looked, Bass had used a lot of his energy blasting through the other robots along the way and destroying Dark Man's barrier. His strategy, if it could be called that, was to dodge the attacks and try to get himself as far away from Air Man and his whirlwinds as possible. Blast after Blast was fired at Air Man, each one doing a lot of damage to the metal plating, but Bass wasn't so lucky as he was immediately caught in a whirlwind attack that sent him flying right into one o the shuttles. There was a woosh sound in his ear as he stood up with one of his shoulder pads damaged a bit, but other than that it was nothing too serious. He got back up and checked his weapons functions again for another time and found that this time they were up to 100.

"Now you're definitely screwed," said Bass in a cocky tone as he smirked and started to change into his Tengu form with a Tengu Blade ready.