Into the Keep
AN: Probably the shortest chapter for this story, this is more or less filler.
Mega Man reappeared on a platform. A small fleet of Bladers came to swarm him, but he wiped them out with a few bursts from his Buster. Moving forward, he jumped across more platforms to reach the inside of small tower. Initially, Mega Man could not see a pathway out of chamber to a dead end. Suddenly, the metal floor that was holding his weight disappeared. He fell down a long shaft. Lights lit up as he went descending to the bottom. He crashed onto the floor below, but his body remained intact. After standing up, he tried to get his bearings. Where was he?
Before he could question his situation any further, suddenly the whole room was lit up with an eerie glow. Right in front of him was Cut Man! But it was impossible! Cut Man had been deactivated by him a day ago! How could the robot master be active? But glancing closer, Cut Man looked odd. His eyes were glowing red! Mega Man went through the options of how Cut Man was standing before him.
Either Wily rebuilt him, or this Cut Man was an imposter. Judging from the lack of personality, the robot he was seeing was probably a clone. Unfortunately, there were no boulders or large debris to throw. Remembering how effective his normal arm cannon shots were against the original robot, Mega Man quickly dispatched the clone after, leaving a charred body in his wake.
After Cut Man's second destruction, Mega Man found an exit out of the pit, descending down a tower that was full of enemies. Soon, he found another pit, reencountering Elec Man, but he was a lesser threat than before. The two cloned Robot masters, Mega Man realized, were weaker than their Original versions. They posed nothing but a distraction since Mega Man knew what the two Robot Masters' weaknesses were. Elec Man was cut down by Mega Man's Rolling Cutter and collapsed into a pile of chopped parts. After his defeat, Mega Man found the exit of the room, As he fell down another pit, Rock was ready for another clone battle.
The only thing was that he couldn't move. He tried shaking his limbs and turning around, but he was frozen in place right after he fell down the trapdoor. His frustration turned into hopelessness as he heard the something charging up. Wily was going to destroy him! As Mega Man waited for his impending destruction, nothing happened. Instead, the machine scanned his body. After its task was completed, a mysterious robot appeared in front of the petrified prisoner. The machine had blue armour and looked like just like a carbon copy of him! The only difference was that the copy had red eyes opposed to Mega Man's blue eyes.
Finally Mega Man was released from his bondage. He quickly faced off against his clone. But he could not best the other robot. The battle dragged on his Mega Man tried to outwit his evil twin who kept anticipating his every move. Whenever Mega Man tried to maneuver against his doppelganger, the clone would quickly counterattack with a different Robot Master ability for each of the super robot's attacks. After a short clash trying to break through his clone's impregnable defense, Mega Man stopped in his tracks, which also stopped the other robot from moving. The fight was turning into a stalemate. Both of them were too evenly matched.
'Why won't this dead ringer go down already? Can I use the imposter's ability to my advantage?'
Mega Man unleashed a Thunder Beam onto the ground underneath his feet, which made the clone copy the same action. Quickly, the clone had electrified itself. Apparently, the robot did not have electrical insulation in its boots, unlike Mega Man. While the robot was momentarily stunned, Mega Man changed his weapon to the Fire Storm and engulfed his imitation in fire. The copy's body was singed and melted slightly, which revealing the clone's skeletal upper half. The robot screeched harshly and tried to counterattack with its own Fire Storm. But it reacted slower due to the internal damage of shocking itself, allowing Mega Man to keep scorching the clone, over and over.
However, the robot finally escaped from the flames. The flames melted the rest of its artificial skin and armor, revealing its true form. It was a skeletal, demonic robot with large glowing red orbs for eyes. The letter "W" was etched on its skull. It let out a sonic scream and charged, using all of usual abilities.
In response, Mega Man fired his flamethrower blasts directly, but the bot created a massive ice pillar. When the flames melted the base of the newly formed structure, it began to tip over. While Mega Man focused his attention towards the toppling tower, the clone blasted him at point blank with an Ice Slasher, freezing him stiff. Mega Man's quickly heated up to melt him out of the prison in five seconds. When he was nearly freed, his doppelganger electrified him. He was incapacitated, his armour power source shut off as well as paralyzed by the massive amount electricity shocking his body.
Taking advantage of his moment of weakness, Mega Man's clone threw its version of the Rolling Cutter at him. Mega Man desperately tried to move, but to no avail. Was he going to die like this? Just as the saw was in 1 meter of him, Mega Man quickly ducked. The Rolling Cutter hit the wall behind Mega Man, bouncing harmlessly aside.
When the Rolling Cutter sailed past him, Mega Man charged at his twin. With the Fire Storm selected, Mega Man ignited his body, spreading the flames onto his clone after he tackled him to the ground.
The doppelganger melted away into a pile of semi liquidized metal, with only the sizzling cranium of the clone intact. With his foes vanquished, Mega Man got up from ground and teleported deeper into Wily's Fortress.