Super Smash Bros. Vs Capcom
Adventure Mode
Level 2: Skyline
Pit sat on one of the thicker clouds above Sim City, doing something that was quite unlike him. He was brooding, brooding on the state of the world and his own current situation. While his Lady Palutena had sent him to find and defeat the force responsible for the merging universes, he had no idea where to go or who to go to. Even worse, his connection to Palutena had severed, meaning he couldn't even consult with her.
So now he rested in the sky, trying to gather his thoughts. He had seen the trouble in Sim City, and now had an inkling of what to do. Those strange robots that had robbed a store were using technology similar to the forces of the Subspace Emissary. Was it possible that Tabuu had been revived, somehow? Even more unsettling was Meta Knight's assault of the half-demon mercenary, Dante. Meta Knight had always been the sort of warrior who sought to challenge himself, but why would he capture his defeated foe? What was more, the people he gave Dante too were the same type of soldiers that accompanied the Koopa Troopas in their kidnapping of Princess Peach. Well, at least he could leave that last problem to Mario and his new allies.
His mind made up, Pit stood and prepared to take flight.
"Pit."
Pit's eyes widened. He knew that voice! Turning around, he beheld the glorious visage of Palutena herself!
But something was wrong. Palutena looked faint and fuzzy, like an image on a damaged television screen.
"Pit, there is something you must do." She said, her voice slightly distorted.
Pit bowed, and asked, "Lady Palutena, what's wrong?"
Palutena exhaled. "The energies binding the worlds together is limiting my power, I do not have long to talk. I have discovered the means to restoring the worlds. Pit, faithful warrior, you must seek out…these."
Palutena held out her hand, and a ball appeared above it. It looked like a Smash Ball, but it was more white than blue. And instead of crossing near the bottom-right, the lines on the ball met closer to the middle and were tilted, resembling an X, but only very vaguely.
"What is that?" Pit asked, staring at it.
"These balls are the key to restoring order," Palutena explained, "You must seek out all eight of them in order to put an end to the chaos."
"Leave it to me!" Pit declared, pumping his fist. "I'll find those balls for you, my lady!"
Pit turned away from Palutena, and dashed for the edge of the cloud. Taking a grand leap, he began to jump from one solid cloud to the next, as if they were stepping stones on a pound.
"I knew I could count on you…" Palutena whispered, smiling a bit too broadly…
Stage 1: Cloudbank
Pit bounded across the clouds. It was tricky going, as there was no way to tell the difference between clouds that could support his weight and clouds that couldn't. Luckily, he had the Wings of Pegasus to help out if he made a wrong step, but their power faded soon after, forcing Pit to resume his legwork. At one point, flying koopa creatures appeared in his path. None of them looked very happy to see him.
"Hey, guys, just passing through," Pit greeted cheerfully, "Hey, I don't suppose you've seen an airship around here, have you?"
A Lakitu lifted up a spiny egg and pointed at Pit. "Get him!"
Pit tensed. "Is that a no?"
The flying enemies lunged at Pit en masse. Pit jumped above and onto a Paragoomba and fired a few arrows. The arrows struck a Koopa Paratroopa, a Parabeetle, and a thrown Spiny egg. Without missing a beat, Pit landed on the other side of the pack of baddies and readied his bow for another shot.
"Yea-heah!" Pit cheered, "Anyone else want a bite?"
The Lakitu wasn't impressed. Snapping his fingers, more Paragoombas and Paratroopas appeared in the air.
"…Oh," Pit said, slightly mollified. Taking a quick headcount, he said, "Well, I'm pretty sure I have enough for all of you…where were you guys hiding, anyway? Behind the clouds?"
"Surrender, angel boy," Lakitu ordered, "Or we'll take you by force!"
"I'd like to see you try!" Pit retorted.
A small voice in the back of his head (Lady Palutena?) reminded Pit that he shouldn't become preoccupied fighting. The voice also mentioned that an X-ball had been part of the swag stolen from Peach's castle by the people controlling the airship. With that in mind, Pit, Captain of Skyworld's army, enacted the most ancient and popular of military strategies; he turned around and bolted.
There was a brief pause as Lakitu's eye's told his brain what had happened. Then Lakitu shouted, "Hey! Get back here!"
Pit zigged and zagged across the clouds, fighting off enemies wherever he could. At one point he almost stepped right off a cloud- but managed to hop back on thanks to a Paratroopa underneath acting as a stepping stone.
"When I told everyone I wanted to be popular, this isn't what I meant!" Pit gasped, bouncing across a large gap by using smaller clouds as stepping stones.
"Who are you talking to?" A Paragoomba asked, flying aside him.
"There was a lot of dialogue in my last adventure," Pit explained, "I'm used to there being a lot of talking when I'm in action."
"Seems like a cheesy distraction from an otherwise forgettable play style." The Paragoomba commented, before lunging at Pit. Pit responded by hitting him with his bow.
Pit continued on, reminded of his first epic journey. The clouds felt strange to him as he stepped on them, soft, yet firm. Like mattresses. Then he stepped onto something that felt solid. Pit realized he wasn't on a cloud, but on a platform in the sky!
"Hey, I wonder what's keeping this thing aloft…" Pit wondered aloud.
It was at that moment that the platform began to sink. Panicking, Pit jumped to another platform floating ahead, only for that to buckle under his weight as well! What followed was a mad dash across a obtuse bridge of sinking blocks in the sky. This wouldn't have been much fun for the attacking monsters to watch, except Pit kept flailing his arms about like a giddy school girl who was having a spasm. Pit calmed down once he reached a cloud bank that wasn't going to fall out from under his feet. Remembering what he had been fleeing from originally, the angel captain turned about and let loose from his magic bow. After felling his pursuers, Pit rested against an archway that was there for no reason.
Stage 1 complete
"Not bad for the step in my epic quest…" Pit muttered, and began to look around. "Now, where's that airship?"
The sound of cannonfire got Pit's attention. Looking around, then down, he saw the airship 34 degrees down in a southward direction. There, he saw the airship, it's cannons firing from all ports. Something was flying around it, shooting thin beams of green energy (Pit wasn't sure, it was pretty far away) at the airship.
"No way…" Pit gasped, his eyes widening. "Is that an arwing!?"
INSIDE THE AIRSHIP
M. Bison, head of Shadowloo, was quite impressed. Holding the orb before him, he stared into it, smiling evilly. He felt power emanating from it, and as he looked into the reflection his face cast onto its surface, he felt a small trace of that power flow into him.
"Very good, ladies," He said to his two Bison Dolls. Tearing himself away from his own image, twisted and discolored, he placed a treasure chest on the floor next to him. "This brings our total up to three. Only five more to go."
"We have also captured Dante of Devil May Care and Princess Peach," One Bison Doll reported, saluting. "The latter is being held in the brig. The former has already been sent to Wesker's facility."
"Good, good," Bison said, pleased. While he had never met Dante personally, he had heard about him from Wesker. He would be a useful tool once he was properly…molded. "Do the rest of the monsters know about the ball?"
"No, sir. As per your orders, we've kept our capture of it secret." The other Bison Doll answered.
Just then, the door to Bison's cabin burst open and a Goomba waddled in frantically. "Hey, we got problems!"
Bison looked at him. "What's wrong?"
"We're taking a lot of hits from that Arwing!" the Goomba yelled, panting, "And now there's this blue kid shooting up the joint!"
"Blue kid?" Bison repeated, he's interest piqued.
UP ON THE DECK
MegaMan fired his Mega Buster repeatedly, sending the attacking Koopa creatures flying. He was lucky that the teleporter was able to send him onto a moving object, and even luckier that the enemy had such primitive defenses. However, what the enemy lacked in quality, it made up for in quantity. There seemed to be a never-ending supply of strange, fanged mushrooms with feet, wind-up toy bombs, and big moles that threw wrenches. That strange air fighter helped, thankfully, keeping the airship's cannons distracted.
"Maybe I should just gun it…" MegaMan wondered, charging up his Mega Buster.
Stage 2: Airship Deck
MegaMan fired another charged shot, causing a Bob-Omb to explode. As the blast shook the deck, the Blue Bomber ran forward. Unfortunately, that Bob-Omb was at the start of a line of Bob-Ombs, causing a chain-reaction of explosions. Realizing that he was seconds away from being scrap, MegaMan jumped up onto a floating platform, just barely avoiding a rerun of his fight against Bombman.
"That was close…" MegaMan commented. He moved ahead and dropped back down onto the deck's main floor, which looked surprisingly undamaged. He wondered what kind of wood was used in its construction. He got to a point where there was a large gap in the floor. It didn't lead to the inside of the ship- it was if whoever had built the ship had just decided there should be a few cube feet of air between sections of the ship. Looking ahead, MegaMan saw that next few yards of the ship's deck consisted of floating platforms. A bit confused, he began to hop across, occasionally dodging Bullet Bills. After getting past the floating platforms, MegaMan found himself back on the normal deck. He moved on, and noticed that his path was going down- the deck's path seemed to go into the ship without accessing the interior. However, after the bit with the platforms, MegaMan wasn't that disturbed by this new turn. He was, however, quite disturbed by the giant spikes coming out of the walls and floor!
"WHO DESIGNED THIS SHIP!?" MegaMan screamed as he ducked and dodged the spikes.
After the initial surprise, it became easier to predict where the giant spikes would come out from. After coming back onto the top-deck, MegaMan continued on. This next part of his path was riddled with cannons and Bullet Bill blasters. Oddly enough, none of said armaments seemed to be intentionally pointed at him. However, that just made navigating the section even harder, as MegaMan now had to contend with a changing maze of cannonballs and giant, snarling bullets. His Mega Buster allowed him to blast as many rounds as he could, but MegaMan didn't have time to properly charge it.
"Ah! Erg! Oh!" MegaMan grunted as the occasional mortar struck. To make matters worse, this area seemed to consist solely of floating platforms as well, only unlike the previous section, the platforms moved about in a quick, but rigid pattern. Even with the threat of the cannons, MegaMan was able to make his way across.
Once through the cannon obstacle, he realized that he was now at the opposite end of the ship, where the cabins were. Annoyingly, he found that there was no door to the inside. He looked about. At the top of the cabin section seemed to be a large green pipe, perhaps a haphazard chimney. With lack of anywhere else to go, MegaMan began to jump up towards it. Once he got up to the top, he found a flag pole. Staring up at the flag, MegaMan absentmindedly tugged at the rope, bringing the flag down.
Stage 2 complete
With an inexplicable sense of fulfillment, MegaMan dropped into the pipe. The minute he was gone, a wall down below on the deck opened up, and out came M. Bison. Under his arm was the chest. He looked around, but could see no one who matched the description of 'blue boy'. Nonetheless, the scorch and blast marks suggested a high chance that the one-man invasion was headed by MegaMan. Spotting the one-man fighting flying around the ship, Bison placed the chest down and opened it up.
"Might as well see how accurate our intel was…" He murmured, taking out the orb.
MEANWHILE
Pit struggled and strained as he climbed up the anchor chain. His attempt to jump onto the airship had not gone well. Not only did he misjudge the distance, but some high winds kicking up threw him off balance. Luckily, he was able to use his wings to flap closer and latch onto a loose anchor hanging from the airship. And just as he was reaching the deck, he saw a MASSIVE beam of purple light shoot out! It clipped the wings of the Arwing, causing it to go down.
"Holy cow!" Pit gasped, pulling himself up.
AT THAT TIME
Bison, clutching the orb in one hand, shuddered in amazement. He felt power rippling off of his body. It was like nothing he had ever felt before! Any watching would see that the head of Shadowloo seemed to be giving off a multi-colored glow.
"And that was with just one…" He murmured, staring at his hands. "What kind of power comes with all eight…?"
"Holy cow!"
Bison turned around. Much to his shock, there seemed to be a young boy climbing up onto the deck! This boy dressed like something out of Greek mythology- or someone's idea of Greek mythology. In his hands was a golden bow. And most noticeable of all was the pair white wings on his back.
Pit realized that his exclamation had been heard, and had the decency to look chagrined. "Uh, oops?"
"And just who are you, boy?" Bison asked, amused. "And what are you doing on my ship?"
Pit was about to come up with a pathetic excuse when he saw the orb in Bison's grip. His awkwardness vanished, and the angel stood up and pointed dramatically.
"You! Uh…" He faltered for a bit before recovering, "Military-guy! I am Pit, servant of the goddess Palutena! What you are holding is very important for the well-being of the world! And I have been tasked with retrieving it!"
Bison smirked evilly. Then, he put the orb back into the chest, securely locking it. "If you want me to give you this lovely ball of power, you'll need much more than a finely-improvised litany."
"Really?" Pit asked, cocking his head in confusion. "What else would I need?"
Bison's evil smile widened. Then he thrust out his palm, shooting a fist-sized bullet of Psycho Power out at Pit. The angel dove forward onto the deck, narrowly avoiding the explosion that took out a piece of the structure he had been standing on.
"Gah! That was close!" Pit gasped, standing and staring at the destruction. "Good thing I'm so good at falling…"
M. Bison jumped down on the deck and took a fighting stance. "Why don't you show me if you can back up those bold words, righteous servant! It would be a shame if you were all talk."
Pit turned back to Bison and became very aware of the difference in size between them. He suddenly felt like that guy who had to fight a giant…
Pit vs M. Bison
Pit took aim and unleashed a slew of light arrows at Bison. They hit, but seemed to do little damage against the larger man. Bison charged forward, a fist raised and brimming with Psycho Power. Pit jumped up and over Bison just in time to avoid being crushed by the blow, but as he landed received a heavy kick to the back. Pit went tumbling, but managed to recover. Splitting his bow into dual blades, Pit ran towards Bison, spinning them like a buzz saw. Bison jumped directly upward to avoid, then came crashing down in a heavy stomp. Pit just barely avoided the stamping attack, but gulped when he saw the imprint Bison's boots left in the deck.
"That guy's a monster!" Pit realized, "Maybe I should keep my distance…"
Pit put his bow back together and began to fire more light arrows. Rather than letting them hit as before, Bison moved to dodge them. As he did, he shuffled forward. He then an elaborate somersault, smashing Pit's head in with his feet.
"Agh!" Pit gasped, hitting the deck. Bison stood over the angel, a look of vile amusement on his face.
"Looks like your body's as fragil as a bird's, boy," the Shadowloo leader noted, "Which would explain your wings."
"I'll show you wings!" Pit yelled, and activated the Wings of Pegasus. The captain of Palutena's guard shot into the air, far out of Bison's reach. Flying around, Pit fired more shots from his bow. Some struck, and some didn't. Bison was also moving to put Pit into striking range, but the angel was flying too swiftly to be caught by punches and kicks.
But Pit knew that it wouldn't last. The Wings' power would run out soon, so he either had to finish the fight or land some distance from Bison. Landing, he fired a few more shots from behind then charged. Splitting his bow into dual blades again, he prepared a strike.
"I hope I get there in time…" Pit muttered. He hoped to land a decisive blow while Bison was still reacting to the shots.
But Bison wasn't someone who would let his back be taken so easily. When Pit was close enough, Bison's entire body began to glow with Psycho Power and he unleashed a massive wave of energy from all directions.
VOOM!
"Aagh!" Pit cried, caught off guard by the blast. The Psycho Power struck him dead on, sending the angel flying back. Pit hit the edge of the broken wall and fell down.
End Battle
Bison looked down at the angel as he struggled to get back up. He was impressed by the winged boy's tenacity. As Pit tried to brace himself with his bow, a piece of the deck gave away, sending him down. Bison quickly moved towards him when he realized what was happening, but it was too late. Pit had fallen off of the airship. Bison looked down but could see no sign of the angel through the clouds they were flying in.
"That's unfortunate," Bison grumbled, "I would have liked to ask more of this 'goddess' he mentioned. No matter." A small, muffled explosion was heard from within the airship. "I better see to the other stowaway…"
INSIDE THE AIRSHIP
Peach sadly paced around the small room she had been put into. Out of all the times she had been kidnapped, this was…not so bad. There may have been no furniture or windows, but it beat a cage she had been stuck in once. At least she had her privacy. Toad stood at the door, listening.
"I think I hear someone coming!" The little mushroom man announced.
Peach stopped pacing and looked towards the door. She heard footsteps too, along with some kind of soft thuds that were getting louder…
"Toad, get away from there!" Peach cried.
Toad jumped from the door just as it came crashing down. In the dust and smoke, Peach saw the silhouette of a humanoid figure with a trail of smoke coming from one arm.
"Samus?" Peach asked, raising an eye.
When the smoke cleared, it revealed that instead of Samus Aran, intergalactic bounty hunter, it was in fact a young boy in blue armor.
"You're not Samus…" Peach murmured.
"Aren't you a bit short to have an arm-cannon?" Toad asked.
"What?" MegaMan blinked, "No, my name is MegaMan, I'm here to rescue you."
"You are?" Peach clapped her hands together gracefully. "Well, thank you!"
"You're welcome," MegaMan replied when he heard a some heavy footsteps from afar. "Let's go, we have to get out of here before Bison finds us."
"Bison?" Peach asked.
With MegaMan leading, the two of them and Toad left the holding room.
Stage 3: Airship Interior
MegaMan, believing that the path he took down to Peach's room was no longer safe, tried to find an alternative route to the outside. Unfortunately, no matter which way they went more of the strange monsters (Which Peach could freely identify) blocked their path. Luckily, it was easier fighting past them now, as Peach proved to be no slouch in the fighting department. In fact, she was good enough that it was a wonder she got kidnapped as much as she did.
When asked, Peach answered, "Well, if I don't let them kidnap me, they hurt everyone and wreck everything. And not being kidnapped is a lot harder than you think. If you struggle the wrong way you might pull a muscle."
Peach was saying this as she stomped a Koopa Troopa then kicked its shell down the hall. The shell knocked away approaching monsters as it bounced off of the walls. MegaMan was suitably impressed.
At one point the two (And Toad) came to a large empty space full of floating platforms, spikes, and bars of fire moving about. There seemed to be no floor beneath them. MegaMan and Peach had to time their jumps to avoid an unpleasant end.
"Who designed this ship, anyway?" MegaMan asked, "There's no way any sort of crew could work here. It's not safe."
"Bowser has never really cared about the welfare of his troopas," Peach explained, "He's more concerned with keeping anyone from breaking in or out."
"Piranha Plant!" Toad yelped suddenly, "Piranha Plant!"
Sure enough, there was a plant that seemed to be all mouth, with sharp fangs and a swollen tongue sticking out poking its head out from a pipe in the wall. MegaMan blasted it with his Buster Gun.
After passing down that corridor, the group came upon a large empty room. As they crept in cautiously, the doors suddenly slammed shut. A large turtle with huge swinging arms jumped down from the ceiling. Boom Boom began to jump around, forcing Peach and MegaMan to separate as they dodged his assault. MegaMan fired several rounds from his Buster Gun, causing Boom Boom to go "Ouch!" as they struck his fists. However, Boom Boom didn't slow his attack.
Peach, meanwhile, was going for a different tactic. Standing cautiously in the corner, she waited until Boom Boom had landed before jumping up into the air. Her timing was spot-on. She was right above Boom Boom when the koopa leapt into the air again, and as a result he collided with her high heels. Boom Boom fell, allowing MegaMan to fire more shots at him. With Boom Boom momentarily stunned, MegaMan and Peach took the chance to lay a beat-down on him. After taking several more hits, Boom Boom vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving only a pile of gold coins behind. As Peach scooped the precious disks into her dress pocket (Yes, her dress has pockets. A princess who always gets kidnapped has to dress practically) the room's exit opened up. Going into it, MegaMan and Peach found themselves in a hallway pocketed with pitfalls. Jumping across the pits with ease, MegaMan came across a large pipe going up through the ceiling.
"What's this for?" the Blue Bomber wondered, and saw that the pipe had an access tube on the side. "Could it be…?"
"What is it, MegaMan?" Peach asked, walking up behind him, then noticed the pipe. "Oh! You found a warp pipe!"
"I think we can use this to get out," MegaMan explained, "It sounds like it goes all the way out to the deck."
"then what are we waiting for?" Toad asked, and dove into the pipe.
Peach and MegaMan watched as a slight bulge in the pipe appeared and traveled up into the ceiling.
"Shall we?" Peach asked.
One trip through the tubes later, and the group was back on the deck. There, MegaMan noticed a tall flag pole.
"Wait a minute, this wasn't here last time…" MegaMan noted, absent-mindedly tugged the rope. A flag with a bright blue M went up.
Stage Complete
Peach and Toad looked over the edge of the airship. Down below were an endless sea of clouds, with the land beneath it a vague blur.
"That's a looong way down." Toad noted.
"How are we going to get off of the ship…?" Peach mused.
MegaMan was already on the case. "Rush!" He called out. A moment later, a beam of light shot down and became Rush, MegaMan's robot dog.
"Arf! Arf!" Rush barked.
"Oh, what an adorable dog," Peach gushed, and began to scratch behind Rush's ears. "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?"
"This is Rush," MegaMan explained, "He'll be our ticket out of here."
Looking up from Rush, Peach asked, "How exactly can he help?"
MegaMan nodded. "Rush, enter Jet mode!"
"Arf!" Rush barked, his eyes sparkling.
In an incredibly stylized and overly drawn-out transformation sequence, Rush's body structure went from canine to something resembling a rocket-sled…with Rush's head.
"Good boy, Rush!" MegaMan congratulated, and stepped on. Holding his hand out, he said to Peach, "Let's go!"
On robot-dog-turned-flying-device, the group flew as far away from the airship. From his place on the deck, Bison watched them go. Behind him, he heard his Bison Dolls approach.
"Lord Bison, we regret to report…" One began, but Bison cut her off with a wave of his hand.
"I can see that for myself," He said, "Oh well. It's not as if we lost anything important. We have the orb, and that's all we needed from this. Taking that woman was only a favor to that big turtle."
"But sir," The other Bison Doll said, "The Princess seems to have information on the orb we took. Is it really all right for her to go?"
Slowly, Bison turned his head towards the Dolls, his eyes glowing with Psycho Power. "And just why am I learning this now?"
Both Dolls wanted to explain that they unable to make a complete report due to the multiple attacks on the airship, but were too scared to even move. Bison had that effect on his minions.
"Well, it doesn't matter, anyway," Bison said, looking back at the horizon MegaMan and Peach were disappearing into. "Those two are flying over a dumping ground for Wesker's…less successful ventures. The problem will solve itself."
WITH MEGAMAN AND PEACH
On Rush, MegaMan and Peach flew across the sky, entering a patch of wild blue yonder that was particularly full of clouds. They couldn't even see the world below them.
"So, who exactly sent you to save me?" Peach asked, "Was it someone I know?"
"I'm not sure, to be honest," MegaMan admitted, "Maybe when we get back to Dr. Light's lab you can…"
That was as far as MegaMan got when the clouds beneath them suddenly exploded upwards. The group was knocked out of the air and landed on the clouds. Thankfully, the clouds they were on were from the Mushroom Kingdom, and therefore strong enough to support their weight.
"Ar- Arf…" Rush barked pitifully, re-entering his original form. His body sparked here and there, indicating damaged parts.
"What happened?" MegaMan cried, inspecting his dog. "What hit us?!"
Toad pointed fearfully. "I-I-I-I think it was that!"
Both MegaMan and Peach looked to where Toad was pointing. That turned out to be a giant vulture's head sticking out of the clouds, its long neck went down into the clouds that hid the rest of its body! It had numerous, purple veins pulsing all over what parts of its body that was visible, and both eyes were a different color; one red, the other blue. Its beak was bent slightly, and there seemed to be saw-like teeth inside of it.
Boss Battle: Master Necky X Mk II Golden version 7.0
Master Necky reared its horrible head back and then coughed- and from its cough came a mighty black fireball the size of a beachball! MegaMan and Peach jumped aside to avoid being burnt by it, but Necky persisted, coughing more fireballs. MegaMan retaliated by firing his Mega Buster at Necky, but all that seemed to do was infuriate it.
"I wish I knew if this was working!" MegaMan groaned.
"Here, let me try!" Peach offered, and bent down. Pulling out a turnip, she chucked the vegetable at Necky, just as it spat another fireball. When the turnip and fireball connected, what should have happened was that the turnip would be incinerated. What did happen was that the fireball was extinguished and in its place was what looked like a giant seed that landed pitifully on the cloud. The heroes stared at it in stunned shock as Necky reared back to unleash another onslaught.
"Quick!" MegaMan yelled, pointing. "That's when it's vulnerable!"
MegaMan began to charge his Mega Buster, running towards Necky. Peach also began to move forward, but for a different reason. Taking hold of the giant, scorched seed, she began to lift it up. With great effort, she threw the seed at Necky. At the same time MegaMan unleashed the energy of his fully-charged Mega Buster. The two projectiles impacted upon Necky at the same time, hitting it square in the eyes.
Necky writhed in both pain and fury at this, and sank its head under the cloud layer.
"Quick!" Toad yelled, "Let's get while the getting's good!"
Before anyone could do just that, Necky popped its head up on the opposite side of the cloud and began to spit flaming seeds. In panic, Peach held up Toad to intercept one seed. He did so, turning it back at Necky, but he got third-degree burns in the process.
"Hot! Hot! Hot!" Toad cried, blowing on his hands.
"Sorry, Toad!" Peach apologized.
MegaMan, meanwhile, unleashed more shots at Necky. He soon began to wonder if using his Mega Buster would resolve the battle fast enough, and began to move towards Necky. Peach began to do the same thing, having come to the same conclusion. Ducking and weaving between the fiery shots, the two began to hit Necky's neck, Peach using her parasol as a club. MegaMan on the other hand unleashed a devastating combo of punches and kicks- devastating to a human or robot, of course. Both attacks seemed to bounce off of Necky's rubbery hide. However, Necky reacted to the assault with angry screeches, and ducked underneath the clouds again.
"Now what?" MegaMan asked to the world.
The answer came when Necky began to pop up, beak-first, out of the clouds at multiple times, each in a different place. MegaMan and Peach were forced to jump around for their lives to avoid being caught in Necky's mouth. At one point Peach bounced off of the tip of Necky's beak and took out her parasol, floating daintily in the air out of reach. When Necky pecked up through the clouds again, she hit the side of his beak with her rear. Necky shuddered from the impact a bit, stunned. MegaMan took seized the moment to materialized a Mega-ball and kicked it at the dazed Necky. Necky retreated back underneath the clouds, its eyes spinning.
"Funny how the holes that bird make just fill in by themselves, huh?" Toad remarked.
Necky popped out one end of the cloud, both of his eyes turned purple. It then started spitting seeds at an alarmingly rapid speed. MegaMan found himself shooting against the barrage for cover, while Princess Peach retreated under the safety of her parasol. After a few minutes of this, Necky calmed down, panting with exhaustion.
"Now!" MegaMan declared, "While it's defenseless!"
"But what are we going to do?" Toad asked, "Nothing's worked on that thing so far!"
Peach saw one of the seeds lying a little bit ahead of her and an idea came to her. Running towards it, she picked the seed up and headed towards Necky. MegaMan, meanwhile, had a similar idea. He ran directly towards Necky, charging his Mega Buster. Once it was fully-charged, he fired a shot from it. The blast of energy didn't impact on Necky. Instead, it went into Necky's mouth! Necky's eyes bulged from the taste, and then narrowed angrily at the robot. The bird's head reared back, preparing to hock the mother of all loogies, when Peach took the moment to throw the seed she found into Necky's mouth. This second foreign substance was too much for the bird, and Necky's eyes began to spin. It's head slowly and dizzily sank under the clouds.
Peach dusted her dress off in a dainty manner. "Well, that could have gone worse."
"What surprises me how the cloud's still holding us up after all that," MegaMan noted, "I was worried that the bird would peck it to pieces."
"Well, let's get outta here before the laws of physics enforce themselves," Toad declared, and pointed at Rush. "Rockets away, robo-hound!"
Rush saluted, and began to change into Jet mode. However, halfway through his body began to spark, and Rush went back into dog-form. The canine machine whimpered sadly. MegaMan went over for a quick inspection.
"I think that creature damaged Rush," The blue bomber told Peach and Toad, "He won't able to enter his jet configuration until repairs are made."
"Well, why don't we fix him?" Peach suggested helpfully.
"I don't have that kind of capability," MegaMan admitted, "We'll have to go to Dr. Light."
"Then that's where we should go next," Peach decided, "Now, how are we going to get down from here…"
Level 2 end
A/N: Another chapter done. And good grief, I know it's been a while. A long, too long while. I don't have much to say but I WILL get this finished…just as long as I get reviews that keep me motivated.