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// Shades and Shrapnel(Flash Bomb Edition) 
// Story: Mega Man In Equestria 
// by The Destined One 
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AppleJack burst into the library. “Twi, what’s wro-” She quickly cut herself off to find that Twilight wasn’t there anymore.
“Aww, horseapples. This is bad.”
She quickly ran back outside. RD was in the middle of an intense argument with Mega Man about currency--she was sure it was bits, while he was sure it was screws. “I told you, BITS! Why would screws make any sense? WHAT’S A SCREW?” Dashie retorted. “You mean, the stuff they use to build houses? What sicko would use THOSE as currency?”
“Shut your holes, you two!” Applejack yelled. “Twilight’s... gone!”
Both RD and Mega Man gasped. Pinkie interrupted. “GONE? WHERE? To a slumber party? OhboyohboyohBOYYYY! I WANNA COME!”
“She’s not in a slumber party! Look at this!” Applejack showed the ponies a metal feather-like object. It was purple.
“Uh oh...” Mega Man leaned down to inspect the feather. “Oh dear...” He turned to them. He had a lump in his throat from anxiousness he quickly swallowed. “I’m afraid what I was afraid of has happened.” Everypony gasped. “Shade Man came and took Twilight.” He shuddered, thinking of the cold-blooded torture he might have been putting Twilight through.
Rarity’s mouth was agape. “Oh..oh dear. This is bad. This is dreadful. THIS IS AWFUL! THIS IS THE WORST! POSSIBLE! THING!” Faucets from her eyes rained down as hard as a tsunami. Mega Man put up an umbrella to protect himself from the rain.
“Fool!” someone said.
Mega Man turned to the voice and recognized someone he had never wanted to see again.
“Grenade Man,” he said with distaste.
“Oh, yeah! This party’s getting crazy! Let’s rock!” Grenade Man took out several Flash Bombs. “Get ready to have an explosive time!”
Everypony quickly dashed behind a tree except Pinkie. “OH YEAH! PARTY TIME! C’mon, Grenade Guy! Let’s dance!” Pinkie ran up and jumped around him.
“PINKIE!” Mega Man yelled. “He’s one of Dr. Wily’s most dangerous robot masters! Stop it! Right now!”
But Grenade Man didn’t seem to mind. He started dancing. “Give me a disco ball, would you?”
Pinkie fired her party cannon. “PARTY TIME!” She hung up some balloons (The Pretty ones!), some lights (The Sparkly Ones!), and the streamers (Enough for Three!)”
“NOW IT’S A PARTY!”
Mega Man’s jaw hit the ground.
No, literally. It detached from his mouth and hit the ground.
Grenade Man snuck away from Pinkie and whispered to Mega Man, “Can we settle this somewhere else?”
Mega Man reattached his jaw before answering. “Certainly.”
Pinkie never noticed that everyone had left to watch Mega Man battle Grenade Man.
Mega Man drew his Metal Blades. “Bring it on!”
Grenade Man jumped up onto a house and fired a Flash Bomb. Mega Man dodged and threw several blades, and they hit Grenade Man’s other Flash Bombs, which blew up in his face.
“Keep hitting me! I love it!”
Applejack’s jaw dropped. Thankfully, not literally.
“I think this Robot Master’s a few tufts short of a cloud,” Rainbow Dash whispered to the other ponies.
“Can’t argue with that,darling,” Rarity said.
“You’re not wrong,” Fluttershy replied.
Mega Man fired the metal blades once more, but Grenade Man dodged with ease. “You’ll have to do better than THAT, Mega Man.” He shot his Flash Bomb at the roots of a nearby tree, causing it to fall on an unsuspecting Mega Man. However, unlike Shade Man, Mega Man couldn’t squirm from under the tree. As he struggled, Grenade man walked over and aimed his Flash Bomb cannon down at Mega Man. “Any last words?”
“Hey, Grenade Man! Look out from above!”
Grenade Man tilted his head. “Odd last words...”
A thunderbolt hit him in the head.
“Yes!”
“Still crazy,” RD said.
“I’ll...I’ll get you Mega Man...” Grenade Man stumbled around, unable to get his head straight. “Oh, that hurt..wonderful, wonderful, pain.” He chuckled. “Who did that... anyway?”
“Just the weakest Robot Master, apparently.” Sheep Man reformed into his robot self as the smoke settled. “How does it go, Grenade Man?”
Sheep Man expected more harsh, piercing insults, but he got the exact opposite of that. “Sheep Man. You, of all robots.” He leaned on a nearby building. “I’m impressed. Really, I am. Nice work, pal. I’ll send out a message warning about you before I go...ding!” He said. “There. Anyway, see ya, pal.”
He fell on the ground. “I’m going out...with a bang.” He turned on every one of his Flash Bombs and latched them onto himself. “Everybody, stand back.” Everybody in the area stepped back 10 feet, and then he released a large explosion. When everything settled, Mega Man heard an echo:
“That felt good!”
“Okay, he doesn’t have ANY tufts,” RD said. “That’s just plain WEIRD.”
Sheep Man flew down.
Mega Man didn’t say anything.
Then he spoke.
“I’m sorry I treated you the way I did, Sheep Man. I was wrong to do so. Just because you look different doesn’t mean you’re weak. You can help us.”
Sheep Man would have smiled if his mouth was visible. “Thanks, Mega Man. Now, I got some information from the others: They’re sending in the Mega Man Killers.”
Mega Man gasped. “WHAT?! NO! Not THEM again! But surely Ballade isn’t going?”
“He is, but only because he has to follow Dr. Wily,” Sheep Man said.
“Well, let’s go! We have to be prepared!”