Mega Man and Bass: Frenemy Mine

Home Invasion!

Wily Castle Prime: 10:15 p.m.

Mega Man touched down at the given coordinates... only for his mouth to fall wide open at what he saw.

Quickly pulling up the good doctor up via hologram (thankfully, he didn't need Rush to do this anymore, as it had been recently integrated into his programming), he merely had to turn it around to show the doctor what was in front of him.

"Oh..." Dr. Light sat there in stunned silence before falling out of his chair laughing.

Mega Man didn't blame him. It was hard not to laugh at the haphazardly thrown together mess that called itself a "castle", when in reality it was a mangled apartment building that had metallic tubing running through it and a hastily constructed, grotesque skull plopped on top of it.

"Hey everyone, it's Mega Man!"

Someone from the crowd circled all around him and the building shouted it. Chants of his name followed.

He never did do very well at PR conferences for this very kind of thing. He was just doing his job. He didn't need a parade in his honor...

Of course, that didn't stop some people...

Shyly waving at the populace, he strolled in. The front door had already been busted open, presumably by Bass.

A wooden entryway awaited him. He might have walked over it without a second thought if it wasn't dotted with spikes. More confused than anything, he made his way to an intercom at the wall next to an elevator. He clicked the button and a message played. It was Joshua

"Welcome to Mechanix Homes Apartment Number 103-B, otherwise known as YOUR DOOM! If you are not named Mega Man, Bass, or Proto Man, then SCRAM! Do mind the spike-laced entryway on your way out."

The robot wasn't quite sure what to make of this.

"If your names ARE as mentioned above, then PREPARE TO DIE! Before I make you explode into multiple appropriately colored outward fanning bubbles of energy, I feel that you should know that since I can't seem to make the elevators here one-way, you can take a break and come back at any time should you get stuck on a floor."

That's nice of him, Mega Man thought.

"I am a fair man, after all. Now, take the elevator up and PERISH!" The message ended there.

"Okay, then..."

Mega Man did as instructed, with the typical sort of ominous music that Dr. Wily used for his castles functioning as elevator music here.

Section 1...

The elevator opened to reveal a maze of bottomless pits. Lifts with obvious drop points were the only ground bridging the gap of infinite blackness between the place where he was standing and the other side of the room.

"How is this even possible?" He wondered aloud as he made his way through the lift sequences. This shouldn't have been possible on the second floor of an apartment building!

It didn't help that there were flying enemies of various kinds to dodge around. Thankfully, the Honeycomb Drone was useful in dispatching them.

Once the chasm was cleared, there were very few obstacles remaining. A few scattered enemies from the journey so far met him in combat only to be bested with minimal effort by the hero.

"Now, Mega Man," the voice of the boy behind all of this echoed throughout the room. "Face the incredible power of my mighty Super Sakugarne!"

A giant pogo stick blasted through the wall, jumping high to try and crush Mega Man.

Stepping out of the way, the toy left a huge crack in the floor. After avoiding a couple more attacks, the robot noticed an eye-like mark on its front, near the handles. Utilizing the Fit Flip to dodge, he honed in a few charge shots at its weak point. Upon dying, it tried to ram him one last time while on fire. The blue hero dodged that one, allowing the thing to fall into the bottomless abyss he just passed over.

"Are you going to give up, now?"

He was hoping that Joshua heard him. He had.

"Never! You've beaten but ONE of my creations! Go to the next floor, and I'll show you what true terror is all about!"

Sighing, he hit the button for the elevator.

Unbeknownst to everyone there, a familiar face was looking out from another rooftop towards the building. He grimaced in determination before warping away.