9: One Small Step
For Mega Man, the worst part about taking a mission to another planet was that there was no way to control his initial landing point. He had no way of knowing where on Mars he'd end up when he first teleported in, only that he'd arrive at ground level somewhere. Still, he was prepared for it, and was ready with an emergency warp out if it dropped him somewhere unsafe, like to close to a lava flow or over a canyon.
The best part, however, was stepping out into a brand new landscape, unlike any he'd ever experienced before. The red rock crunching beneath his boots seemed to muffle the sound of his footsteps, leaving him walking in near silence. Even the few bots running or flying about did so in near silence, with only the slightest electronic, mechanical hum in the background. And outside the areas where construction had already happened, the landscape remained all but untouched. It was the most relaxing start to one of these missions that Mega Man had ever faced.
Right off the bat, it was plain that Hornet Man had made great strides as far as managing both plant and animal introductions, as Mega Man stepped out of the red rock into a grove of giant trees, plainly part of maintaining an oxygen rich atmosphere for all other aspects of the budding environment. As relaxing as going beneath their boughs was, however, Mega Man soon found himself climbing an incomplete building with wide gaps staring out into the trees. The fact that many robots patrolled the paths in a hostile manner told him some of what he suspected, that somehow the Robot Masters sent here had gone rogue.
He wasn't surprised to see several animal shaped robots patrolling, as many of the tasks that would be taken care of by animals once the environment was completed was currently handled by robotic animals that could handle the incomplete environment. He tried to ignore them when he could, but when they attacked him he was forced to defend himself.
Reaching the end of the structure, he came across Concrete Man, who was sitting tight and staring at the lack of construction going on. "What's going on here?" Mega Man demanded in confusion. "Why's this place so incomplete?"
"Ya know how many hours ah've been working?" Concrete Man replied calmly, leaning back against a pillar.
"Uh...I don't see the relevance..." Mega Man began.
"Ah've been working 120 hour work weeks," Concrete Man muttered angrily. "Me, and me boys. Workin' our bods to the bone, to get a job finished on schedule..."
"Well, you are basically building a planet," Mega Man explained logically.
"We was never paid overtime!" Concrete Man snapped out, shifting into a battle stance. "So I'm gonna take it outta yoo, Blue Boma!" With that, he charged forward.
Mega Man quickly leapt out of the way, eyes widening as he saw the whole structure shake as Concrete Man slammed into the wall. Quickly switching his buster settings, he opened fire with a static discharge, designed to build up slowly in the target before overloading the electrical systems, forcing a shut down. Time to see if this even works, he thought to himself as he started shooting.
Concrete Man continued to charge back and forth, leaping around as he tried to crush Mega Man beneath him, cover him in concrete, or slam him against the wall. As the structure continued to shake from each slam, Mega Man began to become concerned that Concrete Man intended to bring the building down on top of him.
Finally, however, the new static weapon proved enough to push Concrete Man into a shut down. Getting to the downed bot's side, Mega Man opened communications. "Vinyl, I'm sending a shut down Concrete Man back for a full diagnostics. Something was...off...about him."
The signal that came back was distorted, but he received the clearance to trigger the warp. He did so after downloading the Concrete Shot special weapon, just in case it proved useful. Noticing a nearby completed tower reaching up high above the clouds, Mega Man nodded. "Might as well confirm a safe exit in case I stay too long to teleport out," he muttered as he clambered down the structure, heading for the Interplanetary Control Tower.
The lower levels of the Control Tower turned out to be solid stone with only an elevator shaft penetrating it, leading up to the upper levels. Riding the elevator proved uneventful, though it let him out well below the top floor, forcing him to make his own way to the actual Control Room. Once more, however, it was in near dead silence.
The only security beyond roundabout paths he encountered were small, flying saucer shaped bots that flew around in regular patterns while whistling. As they ignored him if he didn't interfere with their functions, he did his best to avoid them.
Moving carefully to avoid other security bots that ignored him if he didn't engage them, Mega Man made his way the rest of the way up the inside of the tower, past the various screens containing information on everything going on around the planet and with the various freights still transferring back and forth between Mars and Earth. "At least everything still seems to be working properly here," Mega Man muttered to himself.
Before long, he safely reached the actual control room...to be confronted by total panic.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Galaxy Man screamed out as he raced back and forth through the chamber, switching back and forth between saucer form and robot, desperately trying to keep everything functioning normally.
"Galaxy Man?" Mega Man called out. "Is everything alright?"
"Mega Man!" Galaxy Man cried out happily. "Help! Help! AAAAAH!" He waved his hands over his head in terror.
"It's okay," Mega Man reassured him. "I'm here to help. What's the situation?"
"HEEEEELP!" Galaxy Man called out again.
Mega Man frowned, realizing this wasn't the best way to get what he needed to know. "Look, can you see what's causing the problem with communications?" he asked hopefully. "And see about getting an escape shuttle in case everything goes wrong?"
"Directive!" Galaxy Man proclaimed happily, rushing to the controls and getting to work on just that, plainly happy to have someone telling him what needed doing.
Sighing in relief, Mega Man turned to go, glad of at least one ally.
"Oh! Oh!" Galaxy Man called out, rushing back to his side. Handing over a chip for his special weapon, the Black Hole Bomb, he proclaimed, "Shiny!" before pointing towards the mines.
"Your weapon will help me deal with Jewel Man?" Mega Man translated. When that got him an eager nod, he smiled and turned to go. "I'll take care of it."
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Hmm.... not all is well in little China.
Or whatever you're calling that
Cute. Nice to see this dynamic of Mega Man working with
Wall-EGalaxy ManAnd Galaxy Man continues to be my favorite RM of this set. I guess he just feels better being told what to do, glad Mega Man didn't have to fight him.
And I sympathize with Concrete Man, not getting paid sucks.
So it looks like the robots have gone berserk in ways befitting their characters hopefully Mega Man will be strong enough to stop them.
Vinyl made a simple mistake here or somebody screwed with something. It makes me wonder why Mars has not been mentioned yet in Melody of the Future?
I look forward to seeing Jewel Man having an extended dialogue with himself.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Well at least one of them's alright. However, if past experience is anything to go by, Mega Man better leave Splash Woman till last. I forsee great mental scarring there.
Methinks Rock should get a prolonged R&R with Kalinka. Wait a sec, I just realized that Rock and Kalinka's future progeny will be X's nephew and Octavia's cousin.
7481223
My money is on an Elder One showing up again. We haven't seen one in this end of the timeline since the F.A.R.T. arc.
Hmm.... Martians? Dem dirty alien Reds never stop, do they?! [/'60s hick]
7481183 Vinyl should have picked back up workers! Wouldn't Guts Man (or whoever he is now) replace Concrete Man?
Con: "Hey, Boss, when am I getting paid?!"
Vin: "You literally destroyed a good chunk of your work fighting Rock so... you are not getting paid much. I can't believe I thought of giving you a bonus! Don't worry, I have a replacement that will take your place!"
Guts: "I pick things up and put them down."
Splash: "I have something you can pick up and put down~."
Vin: "Hey, didn't you-"
...Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Galaxy Man is basically what the child of Eva and WALL-E would look and sound like?
7482617 Good, I wasn't the only one that noticed that.
7482617 Yep.
7481223 I remember them talking about taking off an off-world colony. I can't remember if exactly where it was. It was where 0 went to collect all the virus particles for an upgrade.
7481223 Well, this may turn out to be completely unrelated, but wasn't the plot of DOOM about a portal to hell, that was found on Mars?
Please be unrelated
7481245 Oh Oh, riddle game with Mega Man!
7482888 I do now
Methinks that Galaxy man may end up being the villain of this arc.
7481183 but he is a robot, what the heck are you supposed to pay it with? It don't net money for any food and they don't pay bills so... what?
7486429 electricity, oil, books to read, games to play, a house so he doesn't get rained on.
7486635 I see your point but a few smart ass comments.
1. On Mars there is no weather yet so no rain so no need for a roof
2. It is ether electricity or oil not both. For electricity they need to have a plug in somewhere and electricity don't do well with oil. If oil there would need to have an alternator installed to keep the internal battery charged
3. Robots don't need to have fun unless they are programmed to and I'm not sure if all robots are like that
7486680 Ah, but he'll need to make a down payment on the house when they do start them so he can get his preferred spot, then the furniture and appliances he'll want. And the oil might be necessary for robots like we use water, for refreshment and cleaning. In Star Wars A New Hope C3-PO is very happy to get an oil bath. And standard robots might not get bored, but I can see lots of bored Robot Masters picking up hobbies like reading or playing video games.
7486701 like I said, I was being a smart ass. It wasn't meant to be serious
7486753 ah, sorry, but given how Wily and Vinyl are trying to promote robot and human equality I figured Robots would start to have many quirks from humans.
7485947 Yeeeeessss, presciousss…
7488132 Um, because there hasn't been an Astro Boy reference yet,
...I really hope Galaxy Man isn't actually the one behind things...
7488619 Nah. I don't think Tat would tarnish Wall-E that way.
Yay Galaxy Man wasn't totaled!
Galaxy man is the best one in this batch.
someone messed with the union bots and made galaxy man panic, whoever is behind this must be either incredibly smart... or so monumentally stupid that he's more dangerous then anything else.