Mega Man found himself propelled upwards into an ocean...somehow. At this point, he'd decided to not question how Vinyl had gotten the Wubtress to work. It was already in defiance of everything he knew about natural law as far as how big it was on the inside. It really shouldn't be a surprise, as far as he was concerned, if he went up to come up the bottom of an ocean.
He was grateful to find that the consistency of the liquid actually allowed him to swim around, since he was unable to get a signal out to Rush. Waving his arms and kicking his feet, he was able to more or less propel himself through the liquid. Unfortunately, he quickly discovered that while doing so he couldn't fire his buster. Unless he was braced on a platform, he couldn't shoot at the enemy robots that came after him.
The robots were an...intriguing variety. White robotic squids shot balls of ink at him, while varicolored robotic fish swam back and forth or pursued him, depending on their color scheme. Flowers shot fireballs at him that somehow burned underwater. Giant clams opened and shut, tantalizingly revealing various energy replenishing items he could absorb, plainly ready to snap shut on him should he dare to try and snatch them.
Through it all, a massive robotic eel swam, plainly hunting him whenever he got too close to it. It was far too big for him to take down readily, and it moved too fast for him to risk bracing somewhere and opening fire. Thankfully, there were quite a few stone structures he could swim through that were too small for the eel to pursue him through...even if they did have a glut of the other enemies. He did discover the occasional green or red box he could grab hold of and ride for a time as it sped forward.
Every so often, Mega Man was able to find an air pocket underwater that the robots couldn't pursue him into. He took advantage of these areas to rest and recuperate as he made his way through, especially as they had energy capsules hanging from the ceiling, just out of his reach ordinarily, but he was able to find a way to get high enough to shoot them down from the ceiling by stacking boxes.
At long last, Mega Man reached the surface of the ocean...and saw nothing. Looking around in all directions, he struggled to find where the next Guardian could be. He groaned. "Don't tell me I have to fight him somewhere underwater!" he groaned loudly.
"Okay, I won't," a familiar voice told him from behind as music erupted into the air.
Spinning, Mega Man yelped, barely managing to get out of the water before the giant eel snatched him up. Landing on its head, he saw a familiar figure standing there. It was Shadow Man, but he'd changed. His blue garb had darkened to purple, and a long red scarf flowed in the air behind him. Spikes stuck out from his elbows, and a sword was strapped to his back. "What the-who are you?" Mega Man demanded, shocked.
"I was Shadow Man," the figure replied. "I am now Umikage. You have two questions left."
Mega Man ground his teeth. "Is this going to happen with all of you?" he demanded angrily.
"Yes, but four hardly counts as all," Umikage replied. "You have one question before I attack."
Mega Man struggled not to snap in anger or give a sarcastic quip. "Is this another pattern learning trial?"
"Correct," Umikage stated bluntly before lunging forward, his sword leaping into his hand.
Mega Man let out a gasp as he evaded the charge the only way he could, by leaping over Umikage. He couldn't dodge far side to side without falling off the eel, which sometimes changed directions without warning, making him restabilize to avoid falling off into the water, where robotic sharks now waited to tear him apart. Umikage followed up his charging slash by hurling several shurikens, leaping into the air to hurl kunais, and landing at the head of the eel and thrusting his arms up to send a wave of water at Mega Man, which ran the risk of pushing the blue bomber off the eel.
Acting quickly, Mega Man evaded each strike as best he could. The shurikens could be slid under. The kunais could be dodged by running back and forth. He could dodge the wave by hiding close behind one of the eel's spines, which rose up as it drove through the wave. Unlike Gaius, Umikage did not follow a specific pattern of what order he used the attacks in, although his movements did give Mega Man a warning of which attack came next.
In trying to find the damage point, Mega Man made the mistake of moving into melee range, only to receive a barrage of sword slashes, punches, and spiked elbow strikes before being tossed away, having to grab hold of a spine quickly to avoid being thrown off the eel.
Eventually, Mega Man managed to figure out where Umikage was vulnerable: the blue and white shuriken on his forehead. Unfortunately, he deflected shots aimed there with sword strikes, thrown shurikens, or thrown kunais. The only time the shots could get through was when he was summoning the wave. However, Mega Man was nothing if not determined.
At long last, Umikage pulled back, sheathing his weapons. "That is enough," he stated bluntly. "Hold on tight." With that, he vanished.
"Wait, what-" The eel suddenly dove, and all Mega Man could do was hold tight to a spine. It then leapt out of the water, swimming into the sky. "Why can't this place make sense?!?!" Mega Man screamed out in frustration.
A panel opened up on the eel as it soared into the sky, revealing a note.
Because it's more fun if it doesn't.
Two questions left.
Vulcan.
Groaning, Mega Man smacked his face against the eel as it soared ever upward.
Um, just a hunch, but I think Discord is involved, both with Vinyl's arrival and subsequent activities.
I laughed so hard with the end
Vulcan. Fire.
At some point, Vinyl is going to be sad.
Because she broke Mega Man.
"MEGAMAN! THE WORLD IS GOING UP IN FLAMES!"
Much older Megaman.
"Just give me a minute. This book is quite interesting."
"THAT'S A HISTORY BOOK! SHOULDN'T YOU CARE MORE ABOUT THE WORLD BURNING!?"
"Indeed. It goes over how many bucks I give about the world going p in flames. Let me guess. A unicorn did it?"
"YES!"
"Fantastic! Let me just" texts a text," There! Problem solved!"
"REALLY!? YOU GOING TO GO FIGHT HER!?"
"What? No! I'm just telling her to leave Hawaii the hell alone. I've always wanted to live there."
"YOU'RE NOT CARING! AT ALL!"
"Which is why I've delegated all Giving A Buck to Rush."
"HE'S YOUR CHAIR!"
"Indeed. He gave up kicking an apple tree and we gave the job to Light."
"YOUR FATHER! ISN'T HE DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!?"
"You'd think that and he was, but... He just sighed and built two robots. I think I saw a bright flash and saw a gray Earth Pony. She was quite soft, you know!"
DING!
The WubMaster Texted: WHERE ARE YOU!? I'M BURNING DOWN THE WORLD! SHOULDN'T YOU DO SOMETHING!?
"WHO WAS THAT!?"
"Just Vinyl. it's great! You give a buck and Vinyl gives a buck about the world burning. Maybe you should meet up!"
"I AM NOT INTERESTED IN HORSES!"
"Tuh tuh. Narrow minds like that get in the way of development. You know that right?"
"I AM MORE INTERESTED IN THE APOCALYPSE!"
The WubMaster Texts: I HAVE SUMMONED CTHULU! And Yoggoth. AND THEY ARE BURNING THE WORLD DOWN! SHOULDN'T YO UBE DOING SOMETHING!?
"I seem to be quite popular. Mind holding?"
"NO!"
"Cool!"
The Rock Texts: Sorry about that. Just not feeling it. Mind sparing Hawaii? I want to check it out. But if you have to destroy it, I'm sure it's fine. I hear the Moon's rather nice."
The WubMaster Texts: I AM BURNING HAWAII FIRST!
The Rock Texts: Watch out for Pele. Or lava then. Say, how much money do you think would it take to Terraform the moon? Think I could get Rush to get me up tthere?
The WubMaster Texts: WHEN DID YOU GET SO CALLOUS!?
"WHEN DID YOU NOT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING!?"
"When I accepted my life was weird."
The Rock Texts: When you began to take pleasure in my attempts to stop world destruction. Which was when I first started.
"It kind of just accumulated you know."
The Rock Tets: So it's kind of your fault you know.
"Say, what do you think of me pulling a mysterious disappearance? Like I'm just a legend and I decide to train the next hero?"
"THAT'S A HORRIBLE IDEA!"
"IT REALLY IS!"
"ARGH! IT'S THE WUBMASTER!"
"Hey Vinyl! What do you think of my idea of terraforming the moon?"
So obviously, the next trial is fire. That's a good song by the Megas.
I liket his theme of upgrading pre-existing Robot Masters, into more powerful Wub Masters. Shadow Man into Umikage was awesome, fighting on teh back of the Eel reminded me of that fight on the Robo-Dragon from Strider and the Colossus from Shadow of the Colossus. I've liked Gaius and Umikage, and can't wait to see Air Man/Mister Typhon. Hopefully Typhon happens to have a friend/partner similar to Ultros .
Overall I like this elemental stage/theme you have going on ^^. Now all Vinyl has to do is work out how to make a robot that empowers the element of magic
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I guess its just a question of whether or not it'll be the acoustic version, which I honestly think sounds better than the original version.
...soooo, Vinyl made a super mario 64 stage... I love it.
What fun is their in making sense?
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
I wonder what's going to happen when Mega finally meets up with Vinyl? Will it be before or after something like what 6869031 suggested happens? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
NOBODY SUGGESTS WHAT I SHOULD DO!!
And so I listened to this instead.
Was shadow man a pokemon?
Tatsurou, this fic is on the main page, I give this fanfic a place in my top 10 Fanfics... now I got to figure out which top 10 to put it in (videogame crossover or sci-fi so far are ordered.). You will now get this fan made theme song i descovered for achieving glory:
may it bring Epic-ness to your next goal.
Edit: I take that back, theirs two of your stories being shown in the main website's page. you get this as well:
6869138 I see what you did there.
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The legendary assassin, one who was thought to be undefeatable... until a lone Net Navi decided enough was enough.
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But instead, we have Mega Man to take care of him.
You fool, if you aren't careful, he could one-shot you with Muramasa!... then again, he hasn't taken much damage, so there isn't much use for that. In fact, unless you have really high HP and Area Grabs, it isn't very useful, especially with its weak AoE (1-2 spaces in front of you? Come on.). It's only real value is for the sake of completion in the long run.
You know, I just realized... why doesn't he use his Skull Blasts? It seems like it'd be fairly useful.
I dunno, just seems a bit weird, considering he's just going at these 4 elements in-step. I mean, wasn't the point of all his revelations been to ultimately realize he can win as stupidly awesome as he can? And correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a beam that can cut through invincibility frames count as stupidly awesome?
Other than that, what a stupidly awesome chapter you've managed to come up with. I, for one, like Underwater Levels, although that Water Temple from OoT was REALLY boring. Take care,
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Watch the next one be Air just to mess with us.
Its fine. Annihilation of Monsteropolis is a great song, anyways.
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The reason he doesn't use Skull Blast too often is the recoil. It sends him flying backwards.
6869908 Oh yeah, that was a thing, wasn't it?
6869720 Well, of course it will be, they're in the sky.
I'd like to see something involving Kingdom Hearts or Spyro the Dragon.
6869410 What does Des Tecum mean? And thank you.
Wily better check Vinyl into rehab cause she was high on the shrooms when designing the Wubtress
Very nice chapter, glad to see a very interesting stage and boss battle. Though it is a bit annoying the fights only last until he grasps the pattern and then it stops.
6869908 So.... if he was falling towards the ground and destruction from massive fall damage, Rush was out of commision, and he had nothing else... could he fire the Skull Blast at the ground to slow his descent to survivable levels???
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If he aligned himself so down was forward, yes.
6870319 I know that Deus ex machina means "God of machines" so maybe Deus techtum means "God of computers?" Or "God of technology?" I dunno. Someone back me up. And I probably misspelled a few things. Sorry
6870716 I guess "Deus Ex Machina" has multiple meaning? The version I know is a problem is instantly resolved with either luck or a plot device.
My example is Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The only spoiler I'm giving is R2 D2 ex Machina. Any other words here is just filler; making you think I'm spoiling the ending, but I'm not! I think it's a good movie. Respect your Sith lord Darth Jar Jar, everyone. Meesa not a fan of-a huge spoilerses.
6870777 That's the definition I know it as too. I was just trying to translate what the words themselves meant
6870716 Deus Ex Machina is from older Grecian plays where they would lower a 'God' onto the stage in the last act who would simply resolve everything that had happened.
I like more the Discord version
6870319 Latin for 'God be with you.' Based off of (and I think better than) the crusaders motto deus vult, or 'God wills it.'
6871071 Ooh yeah. Tes Dectum. Mind as well have said Force Be With You. But yeah. Tes Dectum.
6870716 Go to the original comment please. It's quite hilarious.
And yes. That could be it.
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6871679 Thank you. That's the moment I'm waiting for.
Well, I would be much less confused if I knew when he got on the wheel from the eel.
OONAGI!!!!
Eheheheee!
....is this Avatar thrown into the mix?
if you think this makes no sense, enjoy a day with Pinkie Pie and Discord from MLP and Wu from Ninjago. i think ur head would explode
what was the song for this chapter? cause the link's dead
a fight against an upgraded shadowman, making him far more powerful, and making it so intense, also i think i found the song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCZer0jTMA&ab_channel=TheMegas