5-Alive: The Challenge
When Mega Man finally managed to come to after his treatment for Roboenza, it was to find the lab all but shut down, the Master Weapons he'd collected gone from his systems - along with a system message stating they were purged due to viral contamination, though said contamination had an incompatible delivery system - and a rather fancy invitation in his lap, raised calligraphy shaping the letters. Curious, he picked it up and began to read.
Dear Mega Man,
I have been thinking about ways to deal with whoever it is that has been trying to frame Dad and I for attempting to take over the world. At your recommendation, I've been trying to determine a permanent way of dealing with such a problem, and I have come up with two possible solutions. I am loathe to enact the second, as it could have dire, long reaching consequences. As such, I have chosen to enact the first.
After all, I can't really be framed for trying to take over the world if I've already succeeded.
Mega Man paused at that line, staring in disbelief. "She wouldn't..." He thought about everything he knew about Vinyl, and sighed. "She would..." Groaning, he continued to read.
In the present state of the world - with the vast majority of robots still offline from the Roboenza outbreak and most of the world powers unable to function without their robots - now is the perfect time to act. I discovered someone was trying to set up a frame job on me in that regard, complete with an active - but empty at the time of discovery - Skull Fortress. Finding no clues as to the perpetrator, I instead have taken it over as a base of operations for this challenge between the two of us.
That's right, Mega Man. The two of us. I have reactivated eight Robot Masters you never actually fought, along with one I made just in case we ever went against each other again. This one is special, and I'm rather proud of him. You'll fight him if you're able to beat the eight older Robot Masters.
And here is the challenge, the wager. If you are able to defeat all nine Robot Masters and destroy this Fortress, my Father and I will leave Earth forever, permanently severing our ties and interest in this world. If, however, you are bested - whether through failing to beat a Robot Master or being rendered off line without managing to destroy the Skull Fortress - then you will cease any and all attempts, present and future, to prevent me from conquering the world.
Dr. Light's lab is currently on lockdown. You can't leave, unless you confirm agreement to these terms. Once and for all, I want this resolved. Either I will take the world and you won't fight me anymore, or I will leave the world and you won't fight me anymore, and I won't be a scapegoat for whoever's causing these problems for us.
Before you decide, a few guarantees from me. It is just between you and me. Your only ally will be Rush, my only ally will be my nine Robot Masters. Bass, Prometheus, Dr. Light, and Dad will not be involved, nor will any Robot Master you've faced before.
Should you agree, the Lab computer contains a file on the first eight Robot Masters you will fight, including where to find them. If you manage to beat them all, you will receive a data file containing the location of the ninth, though you'll have to meet him to learn anything about him. You are not required to destroy any of the eight Robot Masters, merely prove yourself superior to them and acquire their Master Weapons. However, the ninth will fight to the death, or your surrender.
The choice is yours, but know that you're on live, international broadcast from the moment you come online after recovering Roboenza. The whole world will see if you accept or refuse my challenge, and they all know the stakes already. Choose wisely.
Also, when this is over, come over to my place for a rad gaming night celebrating the final end of this. Might be in Sky Lagoon, might be on Mars...either way, I expect you there.
Love, Vinyl.
PS: Make this badass.
Mega Man couldn't help but chuckle as he reached the end of the formal invitation. She did say she'd send one if she ever decided to try taking over the world again, he mused to himself. Setting it aside, he stood up, staring straight into a floating camera bot's lens. Lifting his arm cannon to beside his head, he braced it with his other arm as he struck a pose. "I accept your challenge!"
The entire lab hummed to life, and a data file immediately appeared on one of the screens. Mega Man went up to it and began going over the data. "Let's see...Gravity Man at the anti-grav research institute...Wave Man at water quality administration...Stone Man on a mountain peak near the hanging gardens Gyro Man is supposed to be occupying..." He paused at that. "Wonder what it means 'supposed to be occupying'? Gyro Man's only got an approximate location..." Shrugging, he continued down the list.
"Star Man in an old abandoned space station, wonder if it's the one from when I first fought Bass? Charge Man...at the tracks, nothing more specific. Napalm Man at the weapons manufacturing plant...and Crystal Man in the mines..."
He straightened his shoulders as he took it all in. "Well, all that's left is to decide who to go after first." He frowned thoughtfully as he tried to run an optimization program to predict the best order...
...and finally came up with nothing. "Crap."
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THE FINAL STORY ARC APPROACHES! AAAAAAAAAAA, I'M SO EXCITED!
So I wonder who he will take first? I vote Crystal Man because why not?
This sentence feels very clunky. You might want to add something to make it flow better, like "...without their robots, now is the perfect time to act."
Aside from that, looking forward to this! Wonder who Mega Man will fight first, and what personality they'll have.
I vote start with Charge Man
This is obviously the long delayed fight where dark man was supposed to show up...But things are slightly different now...hopefully this is where we learn who was really behind Vinyl's framing before then...or is Dark Man more of a clever bastard than his original counter part?
And what of...The Wily Master Plan of GB lore or will we see a Starforce Reference in the final moments when Octavia shows up
Given that Rock is stuck in "Death by Backstory", I don't think he'll survive this bout. As with many others, my bits are on Dark Man being behind all this nonsense.
And now we approach the one part of any Megaman anything that starts with the original Megaman and fallows through with the cannon ending. The part where the world ends. Though I doubt it will be due to the same reasons, reasoning, and methods, this is a prequel to Melody of the Future so... Still, looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
My best are on an upgraded Metal Man being the ninth, or the zero prototype
I love Take 5's.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Candy-Take5-Wrapper-Small.jpg Delicious!
Oh what, you mean by giving Weil a run for his money and unleashing the true "meshiah" upon the world? I guess that's fair, considering the realism in this fic is unreasonably high.
Oh... that actually sounds pretty cool... Wait a second. What if this is how Mega Man dies?! And all this time... When I compared Sigma to Mega Man in terms of getting utterly curbstomped...!! Nah, you'd never do something like that. The evil organization'll probably get involved, kill a major character, and Mega Man sacrifices his life a la Giga Drill Breaker scenario.
Yeah, like that.
{Roll:... Hello darkness, my old friend...}
Please do. Minimum is Mighty No. 9, maximum is this thing.
I wonder if he knows Slug Man (hur hur, get it?).
My advice would be to go with any one, then do it in order from there. You'll be able to tell what order it is based on which Robot Master helps you on which stage. They don't quite contribute to much, but you at least get a feel for which weapon hurts which RM. The trick from there is analyzing your environment to avoid taking too much damage before you face your opponent, then analyze the fight patterns to the best of your ability, and THEN... you get Rank B-D for your troubles. It's not the hardest of games, but it certainly makes you work for your victory. It puts you down... then puts you right back up when you finally win!
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
I vote the final bot is Beethoven, because you've gotta go with a musical moniker!
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No is Sweetie Bot!
I want that Ninth to be Metal Man
Where's Skull Man? Is he alright?
7613402 No, I bet it will be Skull Man.
7613612 He is most likely the 9th robot master.
7613381 That could work
http://pre02.deviantart.net/6929/th/pre/i/2014/036/6/5/sweetie_bot_armed_to_the_teeth_vector_by_weegeestareatyou-d6qudnm.png
I suppose I should've expected the fifth game in the series to make an appearance at some point. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fine with the robot masters in each game appearing out of order. And, as for Megaman dying at the end of this story, well, since I have yet to read Melody of the Future, I suppose that's up in the air for me. I'll continue to follow this story to its conclusion, and enjoy the ride in the mean time. And, I'm going to assume that conclusion involves Vinyl returning to Equestria, and look forward to seeing how that happens.
This isn't to say that I want the story to end. I'm just saying that I recognize that it will end at some point, and I'll just wait to see how things work out for Vinyl Scratch and Megaman.
gravity man is actually the easiest RM to fight EVER....he should fall first
Ah yes, the RMs from Mega Man 5...
Napalm man first?
To quote the Announcer from Pokémon Stadium:
"This is it! The final battle! No one wants to lose having come this far!"
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Eight RMs that Megaman has never fought, and a new one she made just for him.
These conditions mean that Skull Man is disqualified from being the ninth, or any of the preceding eight; Megaman fought him several times, and he's not a new 'bot.
I do wonder who the new one is, though.
Battle to death... Why I can imagine the secret weapon? The ninth robot master is Cyborg Vinyl or something like that.
I can imagine that because is Vinyl, Mega Man can't kill her, so he is forced to surrender.
OOOHHHH, we get to see the MM5 Robot Masters in action???? Nice. Does that mean Mega Man will also be facing Dark Man??? Also, does the way Vinyl set this up mean Dr. Light can't even do any maintenance on Mega Man if something happens like him loosing a leg or something similar???
Also, Vinyl needs to copy Gravity Man's weapon into a room and use it as the ultimate bounce house.
7613152 Like in Megaman (Legacy/Legend)? I forgot the name but still. That would be cool.
I usually did Gravity man first, because I love that music, and he's pretty easy.
7615634 It is actually going to be Zero from before he is discovered in Megaman X (The first one).
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No Mighty No. 9 should not be held as the minimum standard. That game was crap, not saying that due to all the crude that happened around it in the real world, but the game itself was crap and terrible. It should fall below the minimum, not be considered the minimum.
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i knew it! i TOLD my dad that Mighty Number 9 was a Mega Man game, but he said it wasn't! no one ever listens to the Autistic girl!
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Mighty No. 9 certainly tried to be a Mega Man game; but it turned out pretty lousy on all counts; i waited 4 years for my NES Cartridge style USB drive, and even after all the bad things i'd heard about the game, i gave it the benefit of the doubt and played it anyways... and, i eventually shut it off and walked away in frustration and disappointment.
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It turns out Keiji Inafune was never one of the creative minds behind Mega Man; as the colleagues he left behind have since clarified when asked about him, that he was only ever a marketing guy, who had virtually nothing to do with the actual development of any of the Mega Man games. And given that Mighty No.9 stands as a direct, unfiltered example of Inafune's supposed talent as a game writer, i believe that; because the story and dialogue of Mighty No. 9 read like a bad fanficiton, boring, unimaginative, and the villain was insultingly obvious in his attempt to publicly pin the blame on someone else.
Yeah, that's the Vinyl we know and love. Don't let her down, MM.
so now megaman must face the final trial, hopefully he can secure the win... but if he can't least things will be peaceful.