As Mega Man beamed back in, he rolled his eyes as he saw Wily approach. "Who's next?" he asked in resignation.
"I'd suggest you head after Needle Man next," Wily indicated. "His armor has a design flaw that causes focused light to pass right through it."
"Meaning Gemini Laser would bounce around inside him and cause a great deal of damage," Mega Man confirmed. "But...why suggest? Normally you say 'this one next, hurry!' What's different?"
"You didn't neutralize Shadow Man," Wily explained. "We have no idea of where he is. Wood Man, Air Man, and Crash Man will be keeping an eye on your progress in case you need assistance. Tom and I are going to be trying to track Shadow Man down in the mean time. You, however, need to neutralize the remaining Robot Masters so Shadow Man can't get any backup."
"Understood," Mega Man agreed, stepping back into the teleporter as soon as he was fully recharged.
While the Robot Masters kept track of Mega Man's progress, Wily went to talk with Tom. "Any progress on tracking down Shadow Man?"
"Afraid not," Tom replied. "I've been scanning for the unique energy/metal reaction that his gyroscope and cloaking tech are made from, as that's the repairs he'd need, but the only signal I'm getting is from here in the lab, and I know he can't be here."
"That's right," Albert agreed. "Nobody here would be repairing Shadow Man."
Vinyl let out an adorable sneeze.
"Are you alright, Vinyl?" Wily asked quickly, kneeling down beside her. "You aren't catching a cold, are you?" Before Vinyl could respond, Wily put his hand to her forehead. "That doesn't feel normal," he commented on her temperature. Raising his head, he called out, "Roll! I need blankets, warm packs, and chicken soup with tofu, stat!"
"Coming, Doctor!" Roll called back.
By the time Mega Man had reached Needle Man's chambers, Wily had Vinyl cocooned in a blanket, a soft heat pack on her head, a bowl of soup in front of her, and a put out expression on her face. "Make sure she eats her soup," Wily instructed Air Man. "I wish I could tend to her myself, but-"
"Understood, Doctor," Air Man replied. He spooned some soup up, holding the spoon out to Vinyl as she sat on the couch. "Say ah."
Grumpily, Vinyl allowed herself to be fed as she watched Mega Man fight Needle Man.
As Mega Man entered the chamber, Needle Man snorted at him. "About time, bub," he grunted. "I've been waiting forever."
"Sorry to keep you waiting," Mega Man replied. "But you just weren't that high a priority." He calmly shifted to Gemini Laser as he spoke.
Needle Man glowered at him. "Oh...you're gonna regret that choice of words, bub." Needles 'snicked' out of his busters.
"Doubtful," Mega Man stated as he fired. The laser impacted with Needle Man, knocking him back.
Needle Man's eyes turned red, and needles erupted all over his body. Lifting his arms, he let out a bestial roar, the needles all over him launching randomly as he charged for Mega Man.
Mega Man desperately evaded the charge, and stared in shock as the door crumbled under Needle Man's impact. Since he was unable to evade the endless barrage of needles, he knew he had to end the fight quickly.
Thankfully, three more laser shots finished Needle Man off, letting him acquire the weapon chip and the capsule of Energy Element.
While Wily and Light gave Mega Man a reverse acupuncture session - pulling the needles out to fix the damage - Vinyl managed to escape her caretakers in order to get back to the part of the lab she'd hidden and converted to her own purposes. Protoman had finished fixing himself, and loved the new glasses, especially as they interfaced with his new optics to provide him with alternative forms of vision, including sonar. Shadow Man's gyroscope was nearly finished, and would just need to be installed.
However, one other project was in the works, Vinyl's first attempt at building her own Robot Master. She knew this one would be, at best, a rough draft model. It was the most basic of basic, and looked like a mish mash of parts she'd scavenged out of the lab's recycling plant...which it unfortunately was. However, having installed Mega Man's variable weapon system in its core so it didn't have to worry about running out of weapon energy, she was certain it would prove a nice challenge.
All that it needed was a name...and an opportunity to reveal it without being thought to be involved.
As Mega Man went up against Spark Man, Vinyl realized she had the perfect opportunity...
Mega Man had been briefed on Spark Man. Given his design, his only weaknesses were Shadow Blades - which Mega Man hadn't been able to acquire - and his own weapon. However, Mega Man had studied the actual blueprints for a bit, and believed he had a plan that could work.
Spark Man leapt onto the scene. "I'm shocked to see you at long last, Mega Man!" he chortled. He aimed his spark arms forward. "Felt you needed a jolt after all this time-"
Spark Man's words were cut off as two Needles from Mega Man's Needle Cannon embedded themselves in the sides of his head. "What? Hey! I'm positive that's not fair!" He reached up with his spark arms to try and remove them.
Two Magnet Missiles connected the spark arms to the needles. With the circuit completed, Spark Man's own electrical nature overloaded him. "W-w-w-w-what an e-e-e-e-electrifying experience!" he called out before exploding.
Smirking, Mega Man collected the weapon chip and energy element capsule.
As Mega Man beamed back in to the lab, he was bowled over as a black, grey, yellow, white, and red robot with a skull face trampled him, snatching the Energy Element capsule from him. "Thank you very much!" the robot stated politely. "I knew you were polite, but I never imagined you were so generous."
Mega Man looked up in time to see the robot enter the teleporter with all eight capsules. "Wait!"
The robot smiled at him. "Know that Doc Robot thanks you for making his job so much easier!" the robot called out before beaming out.
As the lab went into an uproar, Vinyl feigned snoring to maintain an appearance of innocence. However, one person wasn't entirely fooled...
Now I want a picture of Vinyl in the blanket with air man holding her
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Confusion, thy name is this ending. Still, happy to see another update.
Wait did she just make Bass?
Run Vinyl! They're on to you!
6541977
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This guy.
6542001
Ok thanks!
Clearly too many people reading this story have never played Mega Man 3.
Doc Robot was the one you had to fight 8 times across replays of four of the robot masters' stages, twice per stage, each time behaving as, and armed with the weapon of, one of the Mega Man 2 robot masters.
Dr. Wily:DW
Vinyl Scratch:VS
Dr. Light:DL
Megaman:MM
Protoman:PM
Psychiatrist:P
P: SO what's going on today?
DL: My friend's daughter has attempted to take over the world.
P: Yes. I saw when I read the papers. However, that would be incorrect. She seems to be influenced by the father. I'll have to let you know, that depending on how this works out, she may have to go into child custody.
DW: WHAT!?
Protoman charges his beam sword.
P: Please don't try and cut me. I've been cut enough in my journeys. But to be honest, I have no reason to believe AT ALL, that she is of right mind.
DW: What do you mean?
P: For one thing, she has been continuously trying to slip laxatives into my tea. For another, she seems to get undue pleasure from Mega Man's fear at times.
DL: What do you mean?
P: I asked her in a one on one session what her favorite things to do with family was. Guess what I saw?
[Places home family tapes volumes one to three.]
A blue boy slowly being traumatized. Want to know what my personal favorite was?
[Slides a picture of Metal Man]
When I saw this mo-fo.
DW: ...
P: So depending on how this conversation goes, I am going to either to take her away,
PM: No.
MM:No[Thinks about how nice it would be to be safe from heights]
P: Or have her continue to see me one on one. And occasionally two.
DW: Whew.
P: And Mega Man also.
DL: What?
P: I know you have a degree in psychology, but I have a degree in psychiatry. Which means that I have more credibility than you in giving him prescription medicines.
DL: What? I've never given him...
P: I know you haven't. Tree Man has however. It was helpful and I may need to procure some for *ahem* testing, but he may need counseling and depending how bad his dependency on Tree Man's plants are, I may have to send him to Rehab.
DL: What do you mean?
MM: I haven't taken any more.
P: Have you? I can clearly see dilated pupils, slight jittering in the hands, and an overall fear of everything. Very well contained, but...
DW: So I can keep Vinyl if she keeps on seeing you?
P: In short, yes!
DW: Then we're done!
DL: Wait, what does he mean by that!?
[Everybody leaves save psychiatrist]
P: Glad that's over.
[Rushes to bathroom. There were laxatives in his tea.
Huh. You would think Vinyl would of used the best of the tossed parts as well as the VWS powered up by her wub cannon. Guess she technically did except the bass cannon addition. Then again, she probably wants it to be a surprising secret when they find out who Doc Robot is.
Charge?
Reverse?
Looks like Vinyl's gonna... drop the Bass!!!
*Ba-Dum-Crash!*
6542125 Corner. NOW!
So it's not Wily's fault for once?
6542168 *sits in corner with Vinyl*
... What you here for?
-World domination. You?
-Bad puns.
6541968 I second the notion.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
well that happened
Why, Vinyl!? I hated those things in Megaman 3!
Ah, short-circuited Spark Man, nice. Did Megaman get lessons in circuitry from Dr. Light, perhaps?
6542059 Holy shit, write your fanfiction where you're supposed to write it!
(jk)
6542445 It's a bloody screenplay. They don't pass those.
and Crash Man will keeping an eye
1. Will be keeping an eye.
6542001
Oh god, that guy was a dick. You had to defeat him like 10 times before he gave up!
Hmm...
Wait... Needle man is Hugh Jackman?
6542239 Plops down next to you. Bad puns and world domination huh?
I can understand both.
I'll never understand why merely walking into a grocery store casually flipping a butterfly knife around is enough to elicit a call to the police though.
6545440 *Deadpool and Chrysaliss sit with us*
D.P: we're just here waiting for our sequel.
Ch: If Fluttershy can have a sequel, then so can we!
6542668 (did you not see the jk)
(it was in parenthesis like this)
6545659 Sorry. Don't know what (JK) is.
6545733 Just Kidding.
6545476 Dear lord.... I hope not. Pulls out balisong and starts flipping it around
6546146 Can I have a cuddle?
That's not going to traumatize me in any way whatsoever.
6542001 GIVE THAT BOT A PHAT HAT
6546146 RUNS IN TO THE ROOM taste the RRRRRAAAINBBBBOWWWWW
Man I love Doc Robot.
And Dark Man, and the MMKs, ( who I am pretty sure are not showing up in this fic.),and Quint, and Bass. So pretty much every non standard RM besides King.
And the Staroids art RMs so they are on a differant list.
6548707 Flips blade into open position.
Only rainbow here is the sheen from oiling my blade so often.
6549944 ok pulls out mugifin gun and dues ex machina sword hey can you help me my sword just won't get clean and the gun is jamed
6551113 Because your gun isn't properly cared for, and that's tarnish on the sword. Tsk. That will not do.
Proceeds to strip down the gun, clean and oil each part, and put it back together, before turning to the sword and buffing the tarnish off, then resharpening and polishing its blade.
Now your gun should fire just fine, as long as you load it properly. As for the sword, it is clean and sharper than before.
6551436 Hey I clean them !
6552268 Considering the sand, grit, and mud in the firing mechanism, I'm inclined not to believe you.
6552727 damn it discord I GAVE HIM IT FOR ONE SECOND AND BAM ITS BROKEN
She's building Bass, isn't she?
Intriguing.
now doc robot takes the stage, hoo boy things are gonna be heating up, also it's probably wily who's figureing things out...