9: Not Having as Much Fun
As Mega Man continued forward, he found himself making his way down an open, straight corridor with few enemies. Unfortunately, those few were far more durable than any he'd encountered before, making them exceptionally difficult to destroy. Once past them, Mega Man stumbled into a room where manipulated gravity caused him to slowly float towards the ceiling. As he started to feel the beginnings of vertigo and nausea, he disabled his artificial digestive system, putting those aspects in standby and negating the sensations. "There are times where I am glad to be a robot," he mumbled to himself as he continued to float.
At first, Mega Man couldn't figure out how to maneuver as he slowly floated upward, and fired off his buster in frustration. The recoil, to his surprise, sent him floating backwards. Turning, he fired again, and slowed himself down until he was once more going straight up. "This is going to be interesting..."
As he floated upward, he carefully used this method to dodge around floating mini-devil enemies, doing his best not to shoot the blobs of goo because doing so caused them to burst into smaller blobs that scattered, making them harder to avoid. Eventually, he reached the ceiling and was able to grab hold of a ladder, climbing to the next level.
The next corridor forced Mega Man to maneuver carefully around spike balls on floor and ceiling, as well as small flying enemies that attempted to knock him into the spikes with shots and ramming. He then dropped down, making his way past several areas that let him replenish some of his energy reserves to better prepare for what was to come.
Beyond there, Mega Man found another altered gravity chamber, which he was able to maneuver in much the same way as before, though now there were spike balls and the occasional flying claw enemies in addition to the mini-devils. Thankfully, Mega Man was able to stay out of the activation range of the claws so they couldn't drag him into the spikes.
After that, Mega Man made his way through another narrow corridor with enemies, spike balls, and pits. Making his way past it, Mega Man found a straight drop into the room with the next Fortress Guardian. This Guardian proved to be two spheres of goo, one green one yellow, with a control core in the green sphere. The two spheres floated in opposite corners of the room, sending tiny blobs out to interchange in paths meant to hit Mega Man, and the control core could only damaged when it was passing between spheres. In an attempt to hold it out longer, Mega Man tried shooting it with the Black Hole Bomb. While the momentary singularity didn't slow it down, it did cause a major fault in its systems, drastically damaging the control core. "Guess I know its weakness," Mega Man murmured as he continued to evade.
Five shots later, the Guardian fell apart as the control core broke, allowing Mega Man to make his way further forward.
The next part of the Fortress felt like the final, as it was a narrow path leading straight downward with few enemies or obstacles. The only enemies were the occasional Mettool, and the only obstacles were short spike pits and lasers that had to be blocked using Concrete Shot. Once past it all, a straight drop led Mega Man to a chamber with eight teleport capsules, only five of which were functional. He sighed at the sight. "Guess I know what happened to the ones I sent for repairs..." he murmured softly, jumping into the first active capsule.
Concrete Man awaited him there...but it quickly became apparent to Mega Man that he'd been badly tweaked, resulting in him being little more than a berserker combat bot...and a sub-par one at that, as his combat abilities were far below anything Mega Man could handle. Even without using a special weapon to target his weakness, Concrete Man was disabled with little trouble. As the fight went on, however, Mega Man found himself growing angrier.
Once Concete Man was disabled, Mega Man went to each of the other capsules, quickly disabling Jewel Man, Tornado Man, Hornet Man, and Plug Man, relying only on his stun buster in hopes of keeping them intact for repairs. Once they were all disabled, a ninth capsule awaited him, taking him to yet another new area.
He found himself in a massive chamber, unable to see the distant walls or ceiling. Before long, a massive mecha dropped down, resembling a T-Rex with a Wily style skull for a head. After landing heavily on the ground, it levitated upward and began spitting green eggs with yellow spots at Mega Man, which bounced towards him.
Mega Man dodged the first few eggs as he thought about this. Alright, he deduced. If this were one of Wily or Vinyl's mechs, there'd be an obvious trick to beat it that was a trap, and a less obvious trick that's the actual way to beat it without injuring the pilot or pilots thereof. But I know this is someone trying to make it look like Wily or Vinyl, and isn't as clever as they are since I was able to determine it was a frame up way too soon. So...it'll be the obvious trick method. Following that, Mega Man shot one of the bouncing eggs, making it bounce back into the skull of the mech and explode.
When the skull exploded after taking enough shots, a cockpit was revealed with what looked like Wily sitting in the cockpit. Mega Man didn't have time to investigate, as it immediately started spitting fire at him and trying to crush him by landing on him. The stomps were easy to evade, and Mega Man focused on taking out the flamethrower at the mech's 'mouth'.
When the flamethrower broke, it caused a chain reaction destroying the mecha, leaving the cockpit to fly off. It then began to warp around the chamber, shooting energy balls at Mega Man. Since Mega Man didn't have time to aim and dodge, he switched to Hornet Chaser and let the weapon hunt the target down while he focused on evasion.
When the cockpit finally exploded, the 'Wily' inside leapt away, running for it. However, Mega Man was able to get a scan of it...and discovered that it was a robot designed to imitate humans. Mega Man immediately leveled his buster, intending to take it down and bring it back for investigation. However, the moment he started charging his buster the bot self destructed, leaving nothing behind to bring back but the brief scan he'd gotten.
As Mega Man continued to investigate the Fortress control center, he found it was the source of the signal jamming. Once he shut that down, he'd be in contact with Vinyl again. However...he had a decision to make before he did. If he reported the entire event officially, there was enough evidence to implicate Vinyl and/or Wily, and not enough to investigate further. However, if he acted to keep them from being implicated, then he wouldn't be able to investigate who had created that copy robot.
After thinking for a time, he shut down the comm-jammer. Before long, he got an incoming call. "Mega Man!" Vinyl called out in his ear. "I'm getting a signal through. Do you know what happened?"
"Looks like some sort of mechanical issue," Mega Man replied. "I'll give you a full report face to face."
Vinyl was silent for a time. "Got it, Rock," she stated finally. "Can you bring the malfunctioning bots back?"
"That I can do," Mega Man confirmed. "Galaxy Man will provide a shuttle."
"See you soon then," Vinyl agreed, cutting the line.
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I remember a similar situation in the Halo novel First Strike. Master Chief is given a choice between submitting two variations of a report on the Flood. The less complete version would mean a lessened likelihood of finding a counter for Flood infection, while the complete version would have killed Sergeant Johnson as the UNSC's science division would have dissected him to find out why he was immune to the Flood.
Wondering how Rock will handle this one...
i can see 3 outcomes to this.
1. he megaman keeps his mouth shut and does nothing.
2. he makes his full report, it goes public etc.
or 3. he tells vinyl what really went on yet gives the lessened report for public knowledge.
cant wait to see what ya choose. as always another great chapter.
Well, it's either a new player in the game and therefore thinks he's slick when really he's nothing more than old grease.... or we have an old player being forced to do this against their will, and purposefully botching things to make it easier for Rock to get through.
This story seems to hit the featured box every few weeks. This story deserves it though.
7538442 Uh oh...if it's that second one we may actual know who it is...and that would mean we have a huge problem on our hand...
7538454 Try 'every time it updates'. Tats really took off with his PWNY-verse, even though I love some of his older work more.
Really hate those moments where one can be hindered from telling the whole truth upon their discovery...I mean, granted, moments like these are entirely warranted, but it sucks sometimes.
Guess Jack Nicholson was right all along: You can't handle the truth.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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Well, I hope this leads to Vinyl going with Mega Man to track down the person trying to frame her daddy.
7538706 Ah but I do know who's behind all this, the Metool King. A powerful adversary to be sure.
And let us not forget his descendants.
Yup, proud warriors indeed.
7539016 UltimateMaverickX's animations are the BEEESSSSSTTT!!!!
Hm......
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............................................................. Allegro?
Interesting. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
I hope whomever is responsible for the "Mars Event" will be punished severely. Very Severely!!
lol. Galaxy man is DEFINITELY Wall-E.
Just went back and reread fortressshy again.... Damm, has it really been so long?
Ya know, sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if I had'nt made my one contribution to all of this... But then I decide that thinking about depressing alternate-presents is probably bad for my mental health... God I'm a shameless egotistical prat, I'm sorry, what I'm trying to say is, you do good work, tats...
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Thanks. Glad you've enjoyed all these.
7544853 welp, now I'm feeling gushy AND nostalgic , so here comes epic ramble time!
Ya know, fortressshy was one of the first fanfics I read and actually liked? I found waking nightmares first, but who doesn't come in from tf2 and not find waking nightmares first? But the sheer genuine PASSION you put into every chapter had me snared tighter than a bear trap. You still updated pretty regularly back then, but fortressshy was the only one you did at the time. The meta humor, the utterly ridiculous swearing match in the comments, the first tangent alt-script, and all the rest of the so-feels-y-it-hurts nonsense that happened within. Then you started writing a sparkle in his eye, which prompted me to ask a question, a crackpot question I had'nt really expected a response to... And you gave it an entire blog post! An entire fucking blog post for a question from an account that couldn't of been more than 3 months old! That's crazy! And now you've poured out your heart and soul into these stories to realize something I asked for giggles and "wouldn't that be the coolest thing EVER?" It's like I asked the most fateful question in internet HISTORY or something! And watching this universe unfold, watching thousands of people have even the slightest joy in their lives because of your daily triple-feature, you brilliant clockwork workaholic you, all because I ASKED A FUCKING QUESTION its the greatest fucking feeling in the UNIVERSE. I know I can't claim a bit of this as mine, that honor rests with you, tats, and possibly tangent and all the other wonderful betas and alt-script writers you have, but this is still the best thing EVER! This is probably cheesy and embarrassing and straight out of left field coming from me, but it's 5:00 In The morning and I haven't slept, so I don't care...
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I have a special folder in my bookmarks bar labeled "Encouragement". In it, I have bookmarked several comments I've gotten on my stories that I've found specially encouraging, or have put an especially big smile on my face. Any time I feel like I'm losing direction or hope, wondering why I still get up every morning...I look at the comments bookmarked there.
This comment of yours has earned a special place in that folder. Thank you.
7544926 all this heartfelt nonsense is worse than fucking fortressshy at 90000% concentrate... I'm not gonna fucking survive this I swear... *sniff*
7544931 the comment sections collectively of all of your stories is like a novel itself, isn't it? Hell, you could make an entire YouTube series of tats comment shenanigans alone, and it be the craziest, the alt-scriptiest, heart-meltiest internet soap opera to ever feature a horde of tourettes syndrome orc's assaulting a (draconic swear)-mobile for the honor of putting money in a jar for misbehavior... In the first episode
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Huh. That might be interesting.
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Please don't.
This is all deliciously ironic, since pulling framejobs or otherwise working behind the scenes at first was Wily's thing.
And you know what else is funny? This is the first game plot in this story that's actually had a Wily Capsule fight, isn't it? It's kind of funny that it's taken this long for one to pop up compared to the games... then again, Wily and Vinyl haven't been seriously trying anything since what, this story's version of Mega Man 3?
Yeah, Vinyl obviously knows he's got a predicament on his hands. Good call waiting for a face-to-face.
whoever made the robot was smart, but the fact they COULD make one that perfectly matched wily means they'd have to be close...