7: Final Crush
Turning, Mega Man saw the figure that had approached. Much like every other robot, Bass had changed in appearance from the music. Armor now only covered both lower arms, both legs below the knees, and the larger helmet on his head. The armor was black and gold, and the rest of his body was covered by a black bodysuit, with a circular button-like protrusion in the center of his chest, marked with a 'V' superimposed over a 'W'. A brown cloak was wrapped around his shoulders and hanging over his body. Treble was also different. Though he was in cycle mode, much like Rush, the face portion at the front seemed somehow...corrupted, as though it were constructed of endless chunks of data stuck together. The eyes glowed red, and white light formed within the mouth of the beast.
Mega Man and Bass stared at each other for a time as the highway in space slowly sank towards the Earth, the engines of their Support Unit Cycles revving in eagerness for the finality of this confrontation. It was plain that there would be no holds barred once this began...and both were waiting for the perfect signal to start.
Behind them, the edge of the highway entered the outer envelope of Earth's atmosphere, and began to crumble from the strain of reentry, dissolving into so much space dust.
Rush and Treble reared up with a roar, and the race was on.
As they sped along the slowly crumbling highway, Mega Man and Bass constantly maneuvered around each other, jockeying for position even as they took whatever pot shots they could manage. However, the damage from the battle with Turbo Man had caused the highway to be less than uniform, with the occasional warp of the road forming a ramp over a large gap. Mega Man was forced to take these ramps to leap over, though Treble was designed to be able to race along the undamaged railings at the edges of the highway. As he rolled along those, Bass would aim his buster upwards, shooting at Mega Man even as he flew through the air. This tactic caught Mega Man completely off guard the first time it happened, and he took a few bad hits. Bass' overconfidence opened him up as well, however, as he stopped evading for a time to gloat, letting Mega Man get him a few times as well.
The strategy of the race quickly became plain. Each tried to get ahead or behind enough to take a shot at the other without opening themselves to counter-fire, while still keeping an eye out for the obstacles of the highway itself, and avoiding running out of highway at either end. While the segments behind them were crumbling to dust, the ones ahead of them weren't completely attached to each other, and a mistimed leap from one segment to the next could be just as lethal as running out of highway.
As the race continued, each of them gained an advantage at various points, putting their various abilities to good use. The surprise of Bass' unique combat abilities was counterbalanced by Mega Man's greater experience in combat, which was in turn balanced by Bass having prepared specifically for a fight like this whereas Mega Man had been forced to wing it for the entire time. Before long, each of their shield energies had been reduced to half, and they found themselves on the last highway segment.
Bass pulled even with Mega Man as they raced along the crumbling road to the end. If something wasn't done, both of them would descend uncontrolled to a fiery doom in the atmosphere. However, both had a way around that.
"Rush..." Mega Man spoke up, shifting so he was braced with both feet on his seat.
"Treble..." Bass spoke up, mirroring Mega Man's shift in position as each of them shifted to one foot on the handlebars.
"BOOST~O!" they both called out as they leapt from their cycles just as said cycles came to a halt at the edge of the road.
As Mega Man and Bass flew into space, Rush and Treble shifted back to their canine forms. With a joined howl, each turned into ethereal impressions of themselves, flying towards their Masters.
As Rush infused Mega Man, his appearance changed. Red armor plates appeared over his hands, clasping on in the form of gauntlets, changing his buster shot to a rocket punch. Crimson boots took shape over his feet, rockets on the bottom giving him flight. A red torso plate took shape around his shoulders, slamming down and extending stubby wings with matching rockets, granting him true full flight. In a blaze of light, the blue of his body between the plates turned red, and a helmet in the shape of Rush's head slammed into place with a snarling roar. With power fully infused, Mega Man drew his sword, taking a few sweeps at the air with it before shifting to a battle stance towards Bass, one foot forward, one back, and the blade of his sword balanced on his empty hand, outstretched.
Bass and Treble's transformation was no less flashy. Similar boots and gauntlets covered Bass' feet and hands, but in deepest black and twilight purple, speckled here and there with the light of the stars. Only one hand remained hand shaped, while the other became a much larger buster, wicked and gleaming in the reflected Earth light. The torso plate extended much larger wings, each individual feather granting its own thruster for more controlled flight. At the front of the torso plate was a glittering golden gem, shining with the light of the sun. A wolf's head helmet snapped into place over Bass' head, wide fins spreading out to either side like wings with a blood curdling howl. Drawing a sword from a hip holster, Bass set the blade to vibrating as sonic energy raced down the length, slashing a few times and firing off a few charged shots before posing, feet together as he faced Mega Man, sword to one side and buster on the other.
The pair stared each other down as they slowly descended into the atmosphere, letting their thrusters take the worst of the reentry so they didn't take damage from that, instead of each other. Once they were all the way inside the atmospheric envelope and the first cloud passed by them, they lunged in, clashing swords. The energy surrounding Mega Man's sword held the sonic energy of Bass' sword, allowing them to clash repeatedly. As they pulled back, Bass fired off several blasts from his buster, which Mega Man was able to split and deflect with his sword before countering with a rocket punch. Bass dropped downward to evade, and Mega Man pursued.
They clashed several more times on the way down, each trying to get an advantage on the other...but here Mega Man found an advantage in his experience. The descent of the fifth 'trial' during the Wub Master events had prepared him for endlessly descending battles, and he could easily track how thing would change as they fell, something Bass couldn't counter. As the fight continued, Bass was forced to lose more and more altitude to evade Mega Man's strikes. Despite this, however, the lower they got, the more confident Bass seemed to get. "You're good!" he called out as they entered a large canyon. "But I'm better!"
"We'll see about that!" Mega Man roared as he launched the fist holding the sword, following up with a charge.
Bass dove down, speeding through the canyon towards the end of it. Pausing to reequip his arms, Mega Man pursued. However, Bass was able to fly much faster, and he was falling further and further behind.
At the edge of the canyon, Bass defused with Treble, landing on his feet and turning to face the canyon as he leveled his buster, gathering energy. His Bassnium power core redirected all available energy into the buster as panels slid out, humming with the gathered energy as they focused it into the canyon. He watched on his visor as the energy built up, almost ready to unleash. He grinned widely as the energy peaked just as Mega Man came into view. "Yo metal boy blue!" Bass called out. "Drop it!"
Mega Man's eyes widened as the blast - ten feet wide - shot towards him. Desperately, he separated from Rush, using the energy of the separation to propel both as far apart from each other as possible. The world violently shifted back to normal as the force of the Bass Cannon disrupted the enchanted music, the canyon vanishing as the empty desert took normal shape. The beam of blue and white sound tore through the air, seeming to rip a hole in reality, though actually only releasing a blast of focused sound energy.
As the blast faded, Bass stared at what had happened. "I...missed?" he gasped out, stunned. He then winced as Vinyl's voice erupted through his comms.
"How under the sun do you miss with a ten foot wide blast at less than five feet?" Vinyl's voice screeched in his ear. "Dammit, Bass, you had one job, to finish this on a totally epic note, and you botched it! That's it, show's over, get back here!"
Sighing, Bass beamed back up to Sky Lagoon, Treble following.
Mega Man, for his part, continued to stare at where the blast had been, and at the rocks and cacti that had been in its path, now with perfect arc cuts where it had passed. He remembered what it had felt like the first time a blast from a Sonic Disruptor had left a perfectly circular hole through his torso. For the first time in his life, he found himself glad he wasn't more human.
He had been designed to be able to eat, and to taste. But his 'digestion' worked very differently from a human's. Anything he ate entered a catalytic converter where it was broken down to its component molecular structure, before being funneled through his Variable Weapon System's energy/matter converter, the resulting energy being stored in his batteries. As a result, there was no waste product, whether liquid or solid, and thus no systems for handling such.
He was very glad of that right now. Had he possessed such systems, he knew what happened just a few moments ago would be far more embarrassing.
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Ha, that last bit was hilarious. By the way, hope you don't mind if I treat the adapter activation as the Kamen Rider call-out that I recommended.
Poor Forte/Bass, ditto for Rock/Megaman.
Well, that's one way to finish this trip.
I think this is a quite from that Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie. I think, but can't properly remember.
So when Bass and Treble fuse they become Nightmare Bass? I mean, pitch black and purple with stars thrown in...
Over the top fight scene ended with an insane level blast. What more could you want? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
YOU MISSED! WITH A CANNON!
Yes, I was thinking about Tremors 4 that time. Couldn't find a short clip from it though.
I feel sorry for Bass. Does this mean Mega Man defeated him and he is no longer in the club? Hopefully next time Mega Man will be prepared for the fight better.
7268212 Actually, that is a quote of Wolf O'Donnell from the Star Fox series, and I remember it clearly from Star Fox 64.
7268387 Technically a draw since neither was defeated. He can still be in the club.
Bass has a bad aim. It is now... canon.
With that much power I can see how he could... split.
I liked the pacing. It wasn't Rush'd so it was... never in Treble.
This chapter is nothing special; it was a blast!
:) This is my favorite chapter of this story! *thumbs-up*
Ok best chapter yet, still that would have been hilarious if megaman shit himself.
wow...a double reference in the Title...nice.
also yes, it is a good thing robots dont usually have human waste processes.
I did love Bass' .EXE design. Wanted the figure for it as a child.
7268212
I hate to tell you this, but I think 7268588 is trying to take your job.
7268690 Is that a challenge then 7268588? I'm sure Rock could... ride out the fight to the end. After all, he was going through things with a... hop, skip and a jump for half of it. If I didn't know any better I'd say that this fight gave him a... BOOST-O confidence.
7268588 *ba dun tss*
your definitely getting way better at your fight scenes this was awesome
Fun ending to this particular combat sequence.
A very enjoyable chapter. Great job.
FUCK YEAH, SWEET FIGHT!
7268818 Vinyl seemed pissed to the point that Bass is in Treble. He hasn't died yet so we can hold on Gospel. Sorry, grammar is not my Forte.
...who am I kidding? I make terrible puns when I can get some lift while you rocket past me with your skilled puns. I can only slow my decent so much before I fall. I can type reasonable mind trips, but puns? You got it covered like a support unit. You're your own Mega Man with a variable puns system or something and a burn buster.
Side Note: There's going to be a new Mega Man TV show in 2017. Mega Man (2017)
Get this: He is Classic Mega Man, but yet he's not Classic Mega Man. This "Aki Light" kid goes to a robot high school with nano bots that allow him to become Mega Man. And nobody knows he's Mega Man!
I swear, if it becomes a musical at some point then I am DONE with Capcom. Luckily, Man of Action on running this.
Mega Man was just worried because he forgot his brown pants.
... A thing is gonna happen, isn't it? Oh well, might as well put music over it.
Huh, neat... how did the original end again? Something about the greater good and Joseph Addison or something. It was a staple in the series, because it dealt with a major character contemplating a life or death decision based on a man's poor decision-making. He'd been given so many chances at redeeming himself, so many possibilities of living a normal life, and yet he gave them all up to pursue his values. And so, the main character thinks to himself:
It's a bit offset by the unfortunate goofiness of the sequel, but it was one of the major events that went beyond the literal interpretation of the common theme of the franchise: Are we bound by our mortal limits and desires, or can we surpass them, and thus be left with a new path, for better or worse?...
But your version was OK, too. The high velocity of the arc was interesting, the usage of sources was engaging, and the ending wasn't as cheap as one would expect (ties are pretty cool at times).
I have to wonder, though. A lot of people, including my friend, believe that 40% 40% 20% is the greatest episode, and that Teen Titans Go! would be better off if every episode was like it... But would that really be the case? Sure, the animation was awesome, the song was catchy, and the theming was masterful... but would it make for a good series?... But what do I know, my favorite's The Fourth Wall.
Seems Willy screwed up when making his targeting system.
(Hears First track)
OH MY GOD! IT FITS SO WELL!!!
(Hears second track)
Oh god, the awesomeness is too much for me!!!
Awww, I was hoping for a bit more banter between Mega Man and Bass to show they were both having fun. Hopefully they can meet up while Bass is taking Vinyl to a park or something and toss some tennis balls for their dogs to fetch. Or team up against some bullies picking on Vinyl for being so small.
Was that... a Battle Network design?!
meanwhile, in a parallel universe, he has a Classic design...
VIdeo link "terminated"
The music link is down.
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Fixed.
That was extremely similar to the Sonic/Shadow final battle. Nice job. And I love the images my brain managed to create for those body designs.
live and learn was SUCH a fitting final song for this fight, and the fact bass managed to somehow MISS is hilarius, like how was it possible
(Have already read it all and Know’s she didn’t realize the consequences of the Bass cannon actually hitting Megaman)
… wonder if she’d realized that she should be Glad that the Bass cannon Missed?