Mega Man didn't hesitate - much - before leaping into battle, actively pursuing the eight Robot Masters that Vinyl - he wasn't going to keep referring to her as X-P0N3 in his head now that it was a takeover attempt, since it always screwed with his internal spell check - had taken control of. Thankfully, he knew he didn't actually have to defeat any of them, just inflict enough damage that he could duck in and tear off the ribbon being used to control them. Obviously, Vinyl wanted him to manage it, since she'd emailed him a map of where the Robot Masters were attacking, and even a list of who she expected to be weak against whose weapon. He decided to ignore weaknesses, however, on the off chance that Vinyl had put Freak Chips in the ribbons along with the control chips.
Since Flame Man had taken over an Oil Field, Mega Man decided to go after him first. After all, he was trying to rescue these robots, and letting Flame Man accidentally blow himself up wasn't on that checklist. The Oil Field was surprisingly clean as he arrived, well shielded in an Arabian architectural style amidst the desert sands. At first all Mega Man encountered there were rogue Mettools, which he ignored as he could easily get around them.
The more dangerous enemies were floating robots that dropped lit matches. While not dangerous in themselves, there were quite a few oil pits scattered around, and the last thing Mega Man needed was for them to erupt in flames because of a dropped match. He destroyed these bots on sight.
As he continued on, he found a more interesting foe, a robot that sat flat on the ground heavily armored, and exploded when flipped over by a level three charged blast. However, when it landed in an oil pool, it became a floating platform he could ride across by repeatedly depressing the switch revealed on its underside.
The pattern of flame tossing robots positioned near oil pools repeated, allowing Mega Man to prove to himself that he no longer feared leaping precisely from small platform to small platform. He found himself chuckling as he saw the same patterns Vinyl had used before, turning the struggle into a game...and now, Mega Man actually felt like playing. He felt he was beginning to understand how Dr. Light could be so forgiving of Dr. Wily. Is this what friendship is like? he thought to himself. Or have I just gone mad?
Inside a final chamber, he found Flame Man madly blasting every surface with his fire. "No germs, no spills, no mess!" he barked out. "All shall be cleansed with fire!" He spun as he caught sight of Mega Man. "You! You are filth upon my cleansed land! You shall burn in cleansing flames!"
Mega Man quickly leapt back and forth, evading the waves of fire Flame Man unleashed. "Whoa! Cool off a bit and listen to me!"
"Cool is dirty!" Flame Man screamed. "Fire shall clean!" Leaping back, he fired off blasts of fire, trying to hit Mega Man.
Offered no other method of countering, Mega Man started firing, trying to inflict enough damage to slow Flame Man down a bit. He quickly realized that Flame Man followed an attack pattern relative to whatever position he was in after landing from a jump, and stuck to that. Before long, he'd worn Flame Man down enough with his regular shots that openings were starting to appear...but they didn't last long enough for him to close the distance. "This is going to hurt you more than me!" he warned as he started charging his buster.
"Burn!" Flame Man roared, unleashing more waves of fire along the ground.
Mega Man shifted into position where the waves would miss him, then turned his back on Flame Man. As he heard his foe raising his buster, he unleashed his own. "Skull Buster!"
The blast lashed out, the recoil sending him slamming bodily into Flame Man. As they both crashed against the wall, Mega Man spun and tore the ribbon off.
Flame Man quickly pushed him off. "Don't touch me!" he screamed, quickly proceeding to sterilize himself with fire. "...huh. Recall code. Clean room!" With that happy squeal, he beamed out.
A room popped open, revealing a weapon chip for Flame Man's F. Blast Master Weapon and a new design schematic for Rush. Picking it up, Mega Man grinned. "Dr. Light's going to have a field day with this," he chuckled, beaming back to the lab.
With the new Rush Power Adapter equipped - allowing Mega Man to equip Rush as an armor suit that boosted his defense and offense to huge margins at the cost of some maneuverability and the use of Master Weapons - Mega Man decided to go after Blizzard Man next, figuring that the F. Blast would help him out on the Frozen Island.
Once arriving, Mega Man found that there weren't too many robots blocking his path across the snowy plains. While towers soared in the distance and mountains reared in the further distance, the path Mega Man walked had only the simplest of structures. The few robots that lined the path were heavily armored, and could only be damaged when they opened their armor to attack. While he had no trouble fighting his way through, he couldn't help but find the walrus bots oddly adorable. Probably too much time with Vinyl, he mused internally. Everything's starting to seem adorable.
After making his way further in, the next place of interest was as he crossed a submarine that raised and lowered in the water with a spiked ceiling directly above. While crossing it proved easy enough, the path beyond involved leaping from bomb platform to bomb platform. As Mega Man had learned previously, depressing the switches on these - which were pointed upward for this segment, meaning he had to to stand on them - started a count down, ending in the platform exploding. As such, he crossed quickly to climb up a ladder.
Beyond that last path, the only real obstacle Mega Man encountered was more bomb platforms which he had to carefully maneuver around. Once past that, he made his way into the final chamber, only to dive to the side to evade an ice blast from Blizzard Man. "Hey!"
"No need for the cold shoulder," Blizzard Man replied. "Just wanted to make sure you kept a cool head." Blizzard Man suddenly curled into a ball, rolling straight for Mega Man.
"Yipe!" Mega Man yelped, lunging to the side and opening fire, aiming for the ribbon as it became visible again. Thankfully, Blizzard Man and the ribbon were large, slow targets, allowing Mega Man to get in plenty of hits even as he evaded the flurry of ice Blizzard Man sent his way.
Blizzard Man continued his attack pattern without fail, and eventually his ribbon fell apart. "...you took my victory. That's cold. But it looks like we'll have to put this disagreement on ice. I'm being called home." With that, Blizzard Man beamed out.
Another room opened, revealing a weapons chip for Blizzard Man's Master Weapon, B. Attack. "Two down," Mega Man muttered to himself as he warped away.
Why do I get the feeling that it's not the original creators that are sending the recall codes?
These two are some of the more entertaining of this batch. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
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Megaman's going to snap someday.
BUt not today.
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I'd say it's more akin to having fun more than anything else. Since Mega Man and Vinyl don't really hang out in their spare time other than on sparse occasions when she and Wily have "reformed", and there's next to no chance this will progress into kismesissitude, the relationship in question is more of a fierce rivalry, I'd say.
Alright, so I was one of many who were forced to read Fahrenheit 451 in my younger days. While it's true that fire can purify the impure in this world, there is many a time when the impure is beneficial to society in some respects. In short: Mega Man, defeat him with style.
Huh, alright, so now that Mr. Freeze as portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to storm the battlefield. Hopefully Mega Man won't be going to hail if he should lose. If he manages to trump him, he'll precipitate a better chance at victory. Maybe he'll even be able to beat him in a cold snap. His accomplishments thus far should snowball into success further down the line, so hopefully he doesn't wipe out any time soon. With any luck, he should be able to get through this without getting hurt... what? Why're you giving me the cold shoulder?
(the other sans, if you're reading this, sorry if I snow-drifted into your territory.)
Well, see you later.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
7068839 Oh it's cool that you did, we just need more of those with chill attitudes and making sure the puns themselves don't freeze over. At least we know you're not going to let it go to the deep freeze for the time being. At least these puns aren't giving anyone frostbite huh?
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7068872 Yeah, hopefully no one will get frosty about it. It'd be a shame if someone got cold feet because of it. It's times like these when we can say that this was a close shave...d ice.
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I've finally caught up to you, no, I've surpassed you I beat all 6 of the first Megaman games in the time it took you to F.A.R.T! That didn't come out right. God I have no life
7068872 This is where most people would post an image of an angry Papyrus, said people should chill out, these puns are really cool.
(I'm not sorry, I might as well be snowed in at my house, so I have nothing cooler to do)
Not gonna lie: I was expecting a Flame Hyenard reference from Flame Man
I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about
7068872 I think these puns are pretty nice. Noone's really been a hothead about them either, so there aren't any heated arguments. It's pretty great.
Megaman. it's both Friendship AND insanity.
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Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if Rock decommisioned himself once all this is over. A world without Vinyl is not a world worth protecting.
7068887 There are a variety of answers in a variety of contexts. In this one, it is simply this:
People be crazy, yo.
7068887 looks like somebody needs to chill out. I recommend a nice, cold shower.
(It was at this point that he realized, there is no such thing as cold, just more hot, and all of his puns were put on ice.)
7068979 Finally, i found others who share a burning passion for puns.
The armor adapters were my favorite part of this game, glad to see them. But I really want to see the Power Adapter used against Wind Man at Vinyl's request to see how physically strong it is.
7068872 I think it's cool that you have that burning passion for good, clean puns. I must be honest, you've never made a bad pun when you see an opportunity. You are on fire and can keep your cool in these situations! I just don't have that much rush skill, but the fact someone is making puns is a field day to me!
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7072995 Oh.
I think it was meant to be this.
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7073432 Alright, just remember: In Shared Pains, Luna still says "Ponyfeather" as opposed to "Ponyfeathers". What, were you expecting something related to Mega Man? Too bad; F14m3rz time!!
Yes.
Yes.
7068758 Nah, he already snapped and is out the other side of that. He's much better now.
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Please, please stop.
7091770 why the cold shoulder?
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I was going to simply upvote your comment as basically what I was going to post anyway, but then I realized that The Pink One is an ideal emoticon for that particular duality.
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I'd say all the puns here burn, but if that's the case then it's with the cold edge of frostbite.
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Well... Blizzard Man went out pretty quick. Hopefully Centaur Man will last longer.
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As amusing as Badger is, what does this have to do with Mega Man?
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Reckon it's the 'Burn in holy fire' part being relevant to the germaphobe Flame Man, could've just use a clip of that rather then the whole compilation but oh well.
Flame man and blizzard man saved off for the next stage, and gotta say all the ice puns blizzard man said where ice cold.