As Mega Man returned to base, feeling much more relaxed, Dr. Light rushed up to him. "We've located the eighth Wub Master!" he shouted out. "It was rather difficult to isolate him because up until now he wasn't causing trouble or wrecking havoc!"
"So where is number 2 then?" Mega Man asked, plugging himself in for a brief recharge. "Where am I going to be fighting him?"
"The sewers."
Mega Man paused. "...I'm going to be slogging through miles of sewage?" he asked worriedly.
"Actually, I have a solution to that," Dr. Light offered. "I've upgraded Rush's Jet mode. As long as he's gliding over water, he won't run out of fuel. And sewage is...mostly liquid. So you'll be able to glide your way through. And on top of that, I've managed to lock onto the Wub Master's exact location! I can beam you straight to him!"
Mega Man grinned widely. "This might actually be fun."
As Mega Man and Rush beamed in, they dove into the sewers. Rush landed in jet mode, hovering just above the surface of the sewage as he sped along, Mega Man braced on him. Since he had to maintain his balance at these speeds, he'd disabled his charge function. He didn't want to accidentally blast himself off Rush into the sewage.
Sewer Gator erupted from the sewage in front of him, also racing along in front. "Welcome to my home, Mega Man!" he proclaimed happily. "I hope you like it, cause you will never leave! I, Sewer Gator, will be your undoing!"
"I think you've got that the other way around," Mega Man grunted, leveling his Mega Buster.
"You'll have to catch me first!" Sewer Gator shouted, dashing off into the sewers, Mega Man on Rush in hot pursuit.
Mega Man leaned forward on Rush, trying to give him the smallest possible air resistance profile for the most speed. Every so often he swerved to one side or the other to dodge large red spike balls. As he sped along, he saw Sewer Gator deploy enemy robots to assault him...which appeared to be robotic anthropomorphic turtles armed with bo staffs, nunchucks, sais, and katanas. Each went down after several Mega Buster shots, but there were quite a lot of them.
After a time, Sewer Gator popped out of the sewage again. "Not bad, not bad!" he proclaimed happily. "But it's not enough to just blast! Ya gotta go fast!" With that, Sewer Gator shot up a fast running river of sewage and through a loop-de-loop.
Mega Man ducked down low, clinging tight to Rush as he followed the twisting, turning path that was reminiscent of a roller coaster. "How the heck is the sewage staying in the tunnel when it loops like this?" he demanded angrily.
"Miniature gravity generators lining the tubes!" Sewer Gator shouted back as he launched off the end of one tube, performed numerous flips in the air that somehow gave him extra height and speed, only to land in another tube that he shouldn't have been able to make the jump to according to normal physics. "Let's see if you've got the moves!"
Much to Sewer Gator's surprise, Mega Man grinned widely as Rush shot off the end of the jump tube. He proceeded to perform a number of skating tricks. Flips, handstands, spins... Each trick launched him higher somehow, and he landed in the other tube. "Woohoo!" he shouted, thrusting his clenched fists into the air.
"You're not supposed to be enjoying yourself!" Sewer Gator shouted back, dashing backwards away from Mega Man as he proceeded to throw brown and pink spirals at him. "You're supposed to be freaked out, grossed out, and barely able to function!"
"Now where's the fun in that?" Mega Man asked, swinging Rush to the side so he went completely around the circular tunnel to avoid the missiles as he fired back. "This whole thing has been a big joke! Vinyl wants to push me, to make it plain she doesn't like me throwing Wily in jail. It may surprise you both that I don't like throwing him in jail either! But we're on opposite sides here...so this is what happens! No reason we can't have fun with it!"
Sewer Gator growled angrily. "You're mocking me! I am a serious threat!" With an angry roar, he lunged forward, trying to snap his jaws shut on Mega Man.
Mega Man evaded by jumping upwards off Rush. As the jaws snapped shut, he used a belt he'd grabbed out of the sewage to bind Gator's mouth shut. "Vinyl's very accurate in what she does," Mega Man commented as he landed on his foe's snout. "Not surprised she made your jaws work like a real gator's or croc's. Now you're going to tell me where Vinyl's based, or I'm going to blow you away."
Gator smirked through the binding's on his jaw. "I only know the warp pad is up ahead," his voice synthesizer broadcast so Mega Man could hear. "And only my Master Weapon can activate it! So go ahead and blow me!"
Mega Man shrugged. "Fair enough." Cocking his buster, he unleashed a barrage of shots until Sewer Gator began to explode. Flipping off the erupting bot, he landed on Rush and sped forwards to the warp pad. As his systems registered the upload of 'Sewer Missiles', the warp pad activated, and Mega Man leapt in, warping away to Vinyl's home base.
He landed in country he didn't recognize before a massive, towering fortress with a huge, upside down horseshoe on the front, glowing in segments up and down with different shades of blue. The gates stood open for him, welcoming him in to the challenges that awaited. "Here I come, Vinyl!" he proclaimed, storming in.