As Mega Man warped in to the front of the Skull Fortress, he found Vinyl sitting right next to his warp in coordinates, with Albert behind her and Bass holding a camera to record the whole thing. Mega Man blinked in shock at that. "Aren't you supposed to be waiting for me inside, so I have to fight my way through?"
"Why?" Vinyl asked curiously. "The challenge said you have to destroy the Fortress to beat me this time. Never said you had to fight your way through it first. And when you managed to get Wub Man's weapon, I figured you'd decide to make sure there wouldn't be any collateral damage before just blowing the place up. So I'm here to let you know that I've already teleported all the robots and drones out. If it gets blown up, it'll be purely symbolic...which is the idea here, isn't it?"
Mega Man nodded slowly. "I suppose so...but didn't the challenge say Wub Man would fight to the death?"
"Wub Man is dead," Vinyl replied sadly. "Or at least, close enough to it to make no difference. All that came of teleporting out when he did was extracting his personality core directly, rather than remotely downloading the program. Putting enough sonic tech in him to be a true sound-based Robot Master left him with very little armor, and rather vulnerable to direct impacts."
"Oh..." Mega Man turned to stare up at the Fortress, then back down at Vinyl. "And this isn't a trap or anything? There's nothing in the Fortress to cause some sort of problems or logic error if I try to destroy it from here?"
"You have my word, nothing in the Fortress is a trap for you should you try and destroy it," Vinyl promised. She gestured to a red line right in front of them. "I even marked out the shrapnel radius, and evacuated the entire area. The only thing that will be damaged should the Bass Cannon be turned on the Fortress will be the Fortress itself. I've played my last card, Mega Man. I'm just here to be a good sport, and face the end of our game with dignity."
Mega Man smiled softly. "You know, for all the danger and everything else...this has been a lot of fun."
"It has been," Vinyl agreed as Mega Man turned back to the Fortress. She watched as his coloring changed to blue and white, as he lifted his buster and gathered energy, the speaker panels sliding out the sides and angling to direct the sonic disruption energy as power flowed from all over Mega Man's body into his buster. "Mega Man, before you pull the trigger, there's one thing I have to say."
Mega Man glanced back towards her as all the energy in his body focused into his buster. "Y-Y-Y-eah?" he asked, his eyes widening in surprise that his voice box errored.
Vinyl grinned widely as she watched his systems carefully. After a time, she lowered her shades to look him right in the eye. "It's my win."
As she spoke, Mega Man's entire system shut down, his eyes going dark as the energy in his buster dissipated, his entire body going limp before collapsing to the ground.
Albert's eyes opened wide in shock. He started to open his mouth to ask a question, but Bass put his hand to the man's shoulder to quiet him.
Vinyl approached Mega Man's body and gently removed the helmet. Pushing the focus crystal out, she slipped the hole around her horn as she slid the helmet onto her own head. Grinning, she turned to the camera, extended her hoof, and pointed down. "Drop it!"
"And cut!" Bass proclaimed as he shut off the broadcast. "All done, Vinyl. We'll just have to see if it all worked as well as what you put in the Bass Cannon program."
"I'm sure it will," Vinyl agreed as she turned back to her Dad. "So...you have questions?"
"Why did he just shut down like that?" Albert demanded. "Did...did you slip a voice command prompt into the Master Weapon program or something?"
"Nah, that wouldn't have worked," Vinyl corrected. "I designed the program so that in order to fire it, several safeties have to be deactivated in order for it to draw the necessary energy to fire...specifically, the ones that keep the Weapon programs from drawing more power than the system can spare. What Mega Man overlooked when he did that was that it could drain his system completely dry...even without being fired. Only Bass' bassnium power core generates enough energy by mundane means to fire the Bass Cannon safely, and he only gets one shot. So the moment Mega Man dedicated his systems to firing the Bass Cannon...he lost."
"I...see," Albert mused. "I admit, I never would have thought to program a Master Weapon like that. What kept such a trap from triggering for Wub Man?"
"I gave him the Bass Cannon program and tech, but none of the required drivers to actually initiate the firing sequence," Vinyl explained. "And don't worry about Rock. Power Core dropping to these levels automatically triggers the Sleep Mode, so he'll be fine and undamaged once he's recharged."
"And...what was with the pose for the camera?" Albert asked curiously.
Vinyl grinned widely. "That's the best part. I found a specific sub-harmonic frequency that can be broadcast through any type of speaker, completely undetectable. When the human inner ear translates that particular sound wave into brain data, it makes the human mind very accepting of things presented to it. It basically makes anyone who hears it a lot more gullible."
"And it's been playing in the background of the entire broadcast, making everyone believe to the core of their being that the fate of the world was balanced on our fight...and that the simple act of besting Mega Man means I now rule the world." Vinyl's grin split her face. "And all the world leaders - political and military - were watching the broadcast."
"You mean...?" Albert gasped in shock.
"Yup!" Vinyl confirmed. "I'm Queen of the World!"
oh damn vinyl you be a tricks'y little minx
Oh you clever little bugger!
....Well played.
oh boy, all hail queen DJ-PON3! but... that leaves who was behind all the set ups?
Clever girl.
Rock has known he was being played somehow from the very beginning, but Vinyl's still a few steps ahead. When he wakes up and has it explained why trying to fire the bass cannon caused him to shut down he's probably going to feel foolish. I seem to remember that he's aware of Forte having a special power core, and he only gets the one shot.
Edit: Also,
Well played Vinyl well played
So, Mega Man lost, Vinyl is Queen, and Wily came out on top, for once. I see no problems here.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
So...she's the queen now...how does she intend to use her new station to flush out who tried pinning the Mars debacle on her?
Holy-...I knew Vinyl can be the chessmaster if she puts her mind to it, but she just broke the mold here. She's Daddy's Little Girl, alright.
Damn that is funny, I should have seen that coming, too bad that Rock didn't have a backup plan just incase of something like this happening, of course there is still the problem with what will happen next, after all Rock does have a Human girlfriend, won't she try something against Vinyl for doing that to her Boyfriend?
Well played, Vinyl! Well played!
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I think I broke my phone trying to like this again...
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Everybody's congratulation Vinyl on what she just pulled off.
I'm just hoping she's thought this through as well as they think she has.
Damn, I knew the ponies in your fics end up OP, but Vinyl has to take the cake for shattering canon. Clever Mare...
.... Well, all hail our new adorable Queen of the World, I suppose. Scravecrow, get the party started!
Clever girl.
Dear Vinyl,
Satan: Hmmm I don't know if I should be proud of that girl or really scared.
Well, damn.
*lowers glasses* clever girl... *looks to the side and gets jumped by Raptorman*
Wow... that was probably the most clever twist I've seen Tats write, all the elements were there, we could have seen it coming, but we didn't, and that's what makes a twist great, not simply being shocking, but the fact that it was right in our face, and shocking us anyway.
Bravo, tats, cant wait to see how whoever is plotting against Vinyl manged to destroy civilisation through their own hubris in time for the X series.
Although I do wonder once again if Vinyl and Wily have forgiven Light yet...
Anyone want to put good money on it being Dr. Weil being what causes things to go bad between this and this fics sister story? Then in future him being the cause of the events of X8 then at some point unleashing Omega?
Why and how do things go to shit then!?
7655761 Yeah, that about sums it up.
7655980 Excellent question! ...Wish I knew the answer!
7656040 relinquish thy info!!
So what is Vinyl's endgame I wonder? This was merely step one, what is step two? We know step three is profit.
I for one welcome our new adorable Overlady.
But dang it, I wanted to see a giant fortress explosion. And will Vinyl and Rock be tracking down the person responsible for trying to frame Vinyl???
I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I have questions about the sonic disruptors.
In this chapter Vinyl talks about the power requirements and stuff, but in the very beginning Vinyl built a hand held Sonic disruptor out of a normal stereo that recharged after a minute. Is that first sonic disruptor different from the Bass Cannon?
And now she and Trixie can have their planets duke it out for the glory of their respective Queens. Actually, Twilight's also vice-president of the galaxy (or something similar I believe), and Pinkie is pretty much a goddess in all but name. We could have a four-way planetary showdown!
Why that cheeky little hair ball
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Yes.
The original Sonic Disruptor is much smaller than the Bass Cannon, and power requirements increases geometrically based on the size of the blast (as opposed to linearly as it does for plasma or laser based weaponry).
For plasma or laser based weaponry, the size of blast: power requirement ratio is thus.
1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 4:4...
And so on. For Sonic Dirsruptor blasts, however...
1:2, 2:4, 3:8, 4:16...
And so on.
The Bass Cannon Master Weapon (like the one Bass is equipped with) is size 11. The most power units a standard power core can generate without overtaxing is about 500. The full power Bass Cannon requires 2,048 units to fire. A bassnium power core generates 4,000. An Ether Enhanced Core (what Prometheus has) produces 6,500. A standard Reploid Plasma Core (what X is built with) produces 10,000...but that gets further enhanced as he gets upgraded. An Ether Binary Core (White Zero from Melody of the Future) produces x^N energy, where x is the base output of the standard power core being enhanced by the Binary Core, and N is the intensity of the emotions that triggers the activation of the Binary Core. (Note that this can damage the body of the one doing so if it exceeds the maximum levels of energy they can contain.)
Ohhh....crap.....ummm...h-how old is she now? Is she even qualified to be a Queen?
So I wonder how long it will take for the world powers to realize what is happening and ask rock to step back up and take her down again only for rock to be like
7656149 Cool! Thanks
7655936 scared, definitely if she teams up with Twilight.
The comments before mine sum up all i would want to say or even could say
That said....
ALL HAIL QUEEN VINYL!
Sneaky little filly... But what about the one who framed her and Wily for the Mars Incident?
since no one has said it...
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HAIL VINYL!
7655772 except I am pretty sure she and vinyl are best friends so I think Vinyl gets a pass
I for one welcome our new pony overlord
ALL HAIL VIMYL SCATCH OUR NEW PONY MASTER
Well, that's how it goes. Sometimes you drop the bass, sometimes the bass drops you.
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Current Twilight or Midnight?
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7656888 Both.
I... Uh... Well...Huh.
I honestly have no idea how to feel about this. On one hand Viny's the main character, despite most of the story being presented from Rock's POV. Wouldn't feel right if she didn't win in the end.
On the other hand, this is easily the most incredible rendition of Rock/Mega Man I have ever seen, and I kinda want to root for him after everything he went through. Seeing him get taken out by a technicality just feels wrong. Totally a Tatsurou move, but still wrong.
Well... let's see how long it takes Vinyl to resort to unstable dimension hopping to escape the paperwork that comes with ruling the world!