(Kenshinryuu's Suggested Listening)
As Mega Man started his fall, he angled himself so his head was straight down with his feet straight up. He was familiar with this sort of thing from movies and video games he'd watched and played with Vinyl, and knew that he would need to keep his speed as high as possible while still keeping control. Checking the plasma rifle, he was unsurprised to discover that it had a limited ammunition supply. He'd have to be sparing with his bullets.
Coming up from below, several floating drones opened fire on him as they swirled in a circle. Tilting his body, he managed to dodge to either side of the incoming bullets, he carefully shot each drone out of the sky. As the last exploded, a sphere of light floated up to him to be absorbed into the gun, replenishing the ammo and improving its firing capacity. Holding it forward, he readied for the next assault as he fell through the atmosphere.
As his speed increased, the drones started coming faster and faster, and in more complex waves. When he missed one of the drones in a group, he cursed as the energy sphere didn't form. Thankfully, each collected sphere replenished his ammo fully, no matter how empty it was. The different colors of light added different effects. Red gave him additional damage. Yellow increased the number of bullets the gun fired in a spread (which thankfully didn't increase ammo consumption). Green restored his own energy from the few times he took damage. Blue generated a temporary energy shield that absorbed hits for him, giving him a bit of breathing space. Orange temporarily added a piercing effect to the plasma bursts, letting them punch through drones to damage the other drones below them.
Once he was fully in the atmosphere and gravity returned to normal, new hazards presented themselves. In addition to the waves of drones, the clouds sometimes had mines hidden inside them, which caused the rifle to lose its upgrades when he took damage from them, even if the shield was up. After discovering that, Mega Man worked to avoid clouds as he fell until he caught sight of the tower. With a desperate spin, he managed to go in the open top of it rather than to one side, certain that missing the tower would bring failure.
Inside the tower, turrets mounted on the inside of the walls shot at him, forcing him to evade. Much to his frustration, he discovered that he couldn't destroy the turrets with his plasma rifle, and they continued to track him even after he went past them. Thankfully, they couldn't track him too far beyond their mounted points.
After a time, a much larger drone appeared with several turrets mounted on its body as it fired on him. Mega Man did his best to dodge as he fired a few probing shots at the large creation, discovering that most of its body was invulnerable to damage. The turrets, however, weren't. Shooting the turrets caused them to break and eventually explode, releasing the spheres of light to replenish ammo and other effects. Once he managed to destroy all the turrets - while evading both weapons fire and a few charges of the large drone - the drone's armor broke off, revealing numerous tendrils armed with lasers and the inner core. Thankfully, these parts could now be damaged.
With the drone finally destroyed, Mega Man found himself teleporting straight down...where he landed deep below the Tower, and found Vinyl waiting for him on a high platform.
"Nice job on getting this far, Mega Man!" Vinyl praised. "I knew you could do it! So...Death Machine time!"
With that shout, the lights came on, revealing that the 'platform' she was standing on was actually a giant effigy of Wily's head, fully robotic. It grinned widely at Mega Man, revealing 21 teeth. As it came online, familiar blasters came out of the ears as the eyes glowed.
Leaping back, Mega Man did his best to evade the infrequent sonic disruptor shots - which still had to recharge eleven seconds between shots - and the lasers from the eyes. Each tooth glowed in sequence, firing off a different Master Weapon Mega Man had faced before from Wily's robots...not including Metal Blade.
After a time of the barrage being evaded, the creation's mouth opened wide and fired off a massive sonic disruption blast which Mega Man was only just barely able to slide under. The mouth then closed after Mega Man got a few shots off, discovering that the focus crystal for the larger Sonic Disruptor was the creation's weak point. "Next time that thing fires, I win!" Mega Man shouted out as he started charging the buster on his left arm for the Skull Blast.
Vinyl giggled. "Looking forward to seeing how you do it!" she cackled. "But I don't think you can do enough damage!"
"You'll see!" Mega Man shouted out, cycling the Variable Weapon System in his right buster to 'It Burns!', the weapon from Bad Chef.
"That won't do you any good!" Vinyl proclaimed as she danced in excitement. "My Death Machine is immune to all damage from weapons I designed!"
"I don't intend to use it to damage this thing!" Mega Man proclaimed as he dashed forward just as the mouth opened wide again. "I'm using it to control a weapon that will!"
As the mouth opened completely, Mega Man thrust his fully charged left buster forward as he triggered the Master Weapon in his right. The flames shot out from his ass, propelling him forward to slam his clenched left fist into the focus crystal, cracking it. While keeping 'It Burns!' active, Mega Man released the Skull Blast, the flames behind him countering the recoil so all the force of the blast went into the crystal, destroying it.
As the Death Machine exploded, Vinyl leapt clear of it, landing beside her father as he stepped out. When the explosion cleared, Vinyl smiled up at Mega Man. "That was fun!" she proclaimed happily. "We should do it again some time!"
Mega Man stared at her, not sure he was hearing properly. "Can I get some answers first?" he demanded.
"Ask away!" Vinyl proclaimed happily.
Where did I see this? Ohhh, yes... Here
Well then... That ending threw me for a loop...
Wonder what the answers will be?
I was fully expecting a "no", but okay.
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I like this version better, especially the size-shifting on the eyes.
Edit: I appreciate the generally better animation in the one you linked, but I like how this one is more like the original with the same pony six times as the backup singers. Also the leg animation on the lead singer pony.
revealing 21 teeth.As it came
1. Just forgot your spacing.
Have Megaman snap someday and just not give a damn.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Man, I don't even CARE about that stupid sub-plot at this point; this chapter was AWESOME! Although I'm gonna have to admit something... instead of listening to the suggested listening, I... well, listen for yourself.
It's not you, or Kenshinryuu for that matter, I just wanted to do something different. No hard feelings? Anyways, good luck with other stuff.
I was actually listening to
for most of that, since I tend to listen to Pandora while reading.
Well... uh.... Power Poots?
6901844 Nothing that makes Megaman happy if the last few sets of questions were anything to go by.
Mission Impossible, Nah that was Contra.
Also not how I thought Vinyl would make a wily head to rest on since she is getting too big for Wily's.
Liking the techno arrangement of the first Wily stage from Megaman 2
Vinyl's funny and adorable as always
I'm sorry, no, no.
You don't get to do a shmup section with Vinyl Scratch as the boss and use anything but this:
or
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That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Megaman, it is a trap! The Three Questions rule is still in effect!!!
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Basically every iteration of Magneto I've seen. However, if in the past five years the X-men comics have rebooted his fundamental racist beliefs (often soft-balled as "Mutants are the Future" rather than something akin to humans will adapt to the future) I wouldn't know. I'm afraid I have rather given up on comics for Marvel and DC for the time being. But back to point, yes Magneto isn't usually on the front lines, in fact he's pretty consistent in not being on the front lines until the field of battle has been leveled with the exception of his appearances in cinema. He is however, an ideologue who inspires his minions to execute his will. Such notable examples are Blob, Toad, Sabertooth (definitely a murder count there), Mistique (more of a murder count with each new edgier iteration), Juggernaut upon occasion, and so on. And that's why I consider Magneto morally evil.
But like I said, Mega-man is technically in the future (year 20XX after all), so Magneto could be radically changed by then, or just have been radically changed in your universe's story. Just some context would be appreciated.
Apparently I suck at finding music. Good thing you have suggested listening.
Ooh! Can't wait to see her explanation!
Awesome chapter. Though I couldn't help but think that Mega Man will never want to play a Bullet Hell type game after this experience.
>6902438 I want to see this.
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Odd. The primary manifestation of Magneto I know is from the original X-Men cartoon, where he was always on the front lines, only killed people if they were immediately in his way during a specific mission, and still treated Charles Xavier as his old friend.
In point of fact, it's the way Xavier and Magneto relate to each other in that which was the basis for how I wrote Light and Wily relating to each other in this story.
I'm starting to wonder who's the REAL "bad guy" in this story. I originally thought that Vinyl was helping Wiley. Now it seems like he and Light will eventually team up to stop her from doing something.
6904197 Yeah, that's how I always saw him too.
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I will admit, I have not seen much of the 90s cartoon. Though it does not bode well to recall that he deigns to show Xavier's mutants mercy upon occasion, as the key word is still mutants.
Your final Boss fights are substandard.
7168410 NNNNNNOPE.
All I can think of during this bit is Tsuna’s X-burner attack from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
This link broke since the video is gone. I think we'll need a replacement.
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...unfortunately, I have no idea what it was anymore...
and thus the final foe is bested, and now time for some well deserved answers.