MEGA
MAN 7

THE NOVEL

(© 1997 Nathan Jahnke)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title
Prologue
Chapter 0: Just Ridin' In My Automobile...
Chapter 1: Someone Dropped a Box of Soap Around Here....
Chapter 2: Rain, Rain, Go Away!!
Chapter 3: It Looks Like a Tornado Went Through Here!!!
Chapter 4: BRRRR...
Chapter 5: We've Come a Looooong Way!!
Chapter 6: When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go!
Chapter 7: Boingy Boingy Boingy!!
Chapter 8: The Night of the Vamphires
Chapter 9: We'll Have Her Fixed Up In a Jiffy!!
Chapter 10: Bro Bots
Chapter 11: Teenage Mutant Ninja Hurdles...
Chapter 12: It's Ladder Time!!
Chapter 13: Oh No ... Not AGAIN!!
Chapter 14: Wily Wiley Willy

Okay, here's a little warning: I have a very strange writing style. You might enjoy it, you might hate it. But I'm just going to tell you ahead of time...it gets pretty wild!! And, another thing, I never use the word, Doctor, and I always call Mega Man, "Rock." Heck, it's Protoman writing this story about his little kid brother, what did you expect? "Immortal Metal Azul Kiddie Dude??" Mail me about it after you've finished reading.


Prologue

Mega Man walked into the door, and it slid open in its noisy fashon, as usual. Was this the final battle, or just another, "I would have got him but he ran away!" battle? He would soon find out.

Dr. Wily's giant battle machine really was giant, this time. It looked like a large boxy hovercraft on spiked treads. Which, in fact, it was. Rock, as usual, knew which weapon to use. He blasted the huge blundering piece of scrap metal with the Silver Tomahawk. He got this weapon from Tomahawk Man, after he was blown to pieces by rotating pink plant leaves. It worked well, as usual, and his life bar was soon depleted. But when it was fully gone, nothing happened. The life bar filled up again. Rock strained to see the change for a while, and then it hit him. Well, yeah, both of them. The machine's energy bullets and the realisation that Wily's head was now looking out the front of the skull decoration on the machine. Rock knew which weapon to use this time, too. He made like an old-style knight and chucked the Knight Crush at the machine. This weapon was from Knight Man, after he had been felled by little sharp pieces of metal that were supposed to look like arrowheads. But they didn't. The lifebar grew small once again. And when the thing blew up, it was complete darkness. But Rock knew why. Wily would soon appear in his little dissapiering craft, as usual.

He powered up his Rush Suit adapter and socked Wily in the face when he appeared low enough. With the help of a few Energy Tanks, Wily was soon blowing up again. He fell out of the burning wreck and tried to run, but Rock snatched his flying arm out of the air. "Not this time," he said. It was great. Soon the camera crews were there, taking pictures by the millions. This was a scene that would not soon be forgotton. But it was.


0

"I can't believe Wily is loose again!" yelled Roll, riding with Rock and Auto in the Automobile. "Won't this madman ever stop??" wondered Roll. "He won't be loose for long." Rock said. "Once Light gives Rush and me our new enhancments, Wily is history!!" The Automobile ran into the road. A wierd steam roller thing had been messing up the place, so it was pretty unstable. To underscore that point, Auto said, "Whoa!! End of the line. The road is too unstable to go on." Light had given Auto specific instructions about Rock's helmet. He was to wear this new, Metool-style helmet from now on, because it was safer. Rock put it on. Roll glared at Auto. "Me too," said Auto. "I kinda like the other one." Rock took the Metool-style one off, put it on Roll, and put on his usual blue helmet. Auto activated the tape player in his Automobile and the "You'll have to deal with me!!" song played. "Good luck, Megaman," said Roll.

Rock proceeded to the right, where he found Light, a little messed up because of the steamroller thing. "Dr. Light! Are you okay?? I'll bring back Roll to take--" Light cut Rock off. "No, there's no time. Besides, who wants to be taken care of by a blonde?? LOOK!!" He pointed towards the prison complex. "Wily is using the attack of his robots to cover his escape!!" A flying machine gun blasted the prison. Wily got into his spaceship that had been smuggled inside the prison, and flew out to do the eyebrows at Rock and Light for no apparent reason. Then, a loud bark threw through the air. Rush, who had been standing behind Light, dragged off the former's lab coat. He ripped it to pieces. Out fell a box of energy biscuits. Rush gulped them down. Light shook his head and said, "You must go now, Megaman. Get Rush and follow Wily's spaceship!!"

Rock did as he was told, even though he had at least some free will. The road was really messed up!! It created a classic Mega Man level. Rock blasted Mets and little flying things on treads until he got to the cause of all the destruction: the steamroller thing. Rock hit it in the head a few times and it died. A great challenge, that. Rock continued on.

A mysterious robot teleported in. It was black and white and red all over. It fired a laser at Rock, so Rock fired back. Within a few seconds, the robot was severly damaged. "You are as good as they say, Megaman!" it said. "Please, it's Rock, not Megaman." said Rock. The other robot ignored the plea. "I'm Bass and he's Treble. We have been trying to stop Wily while you were gone, even though you weren't gone anywhere. Actually, we are bad bots created by Wily to infiltrate you and steal Light's new advents, but you are not supposed to know that. So forget I said it." Then they teleported off in a cool way. Rock wished he had a teleporter that would make an effect like that! He would have to ask Wily for one later. But who was Bass.....??


I

When Rock arrived in Burst Man's level, he knew instantly he wouldn't like it. It smelled like soap!! Bus-sized bottles of the liquid littered the place. Rock killed a thing on roller treads and proceeded to the right, where he found some time bombs. They activated when Rock stepped on them. So he did. He jumped out of the way just in time as they all blew up. Burning debris set the bubble solution on fire, so the place really stunk...

Rock collected an energy can and activated some more bombs. "Hey!" yelled a flying shooting thing. "Think fast!!" The thing shot at Rock. But Rock had already dissapiered into the next screen. The bomb he had been standing on caught the flying thing on fire. "Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!" it screamed. A roller thing tried to help, but it caught on fire too. Rock giggled with glee as he set the whole place on fire using the time bombs.

Soon, he came to a lake of bubble solution. He took out his ACME Bubble Maker and set it to work in the lake, which overflowed. All the enemies in and around the lake got bubbles in their circuits and had to shut down. All of the bubble junk settled on the bottom, covering the spikes. "Easy as pie!!" exclaimed Rock as he strolled along the floor of the former lake of bubbles.

A while later, he saw a door. "Oh boy, it's Burst Man!!!" he yelled excitedly. Burst Man floated up in a bubble, which broke when it hit the spikes on the ceiling, dumping its rider all over the floor. "Owww!!" exclaimed Burst Man. He got right back up and threw some bubbles at Rock. Rock jumped over them and blasted Burst Man with a fully-powered shot. "Take that!!" Burst Man was getting low on energy, so he threw bombs all over the place, put some bombs in a few bubbles and launched them, and made some bouncy orange bubbles. "Hate to burst your bubble, Burst Man, but the battle ends now!!!" Rock yelled as he bounced off the bouncy bubbles, off the bubbles on the walls, and right into Burst Man just as he released a super-shot. Ouch.

Burst Man's weapon was sorta stupid. It just fired out bombs encased in bubbles. And if Rock wanted to, he could just fire the bombs.


II

Rock knew that the bubbles would work on Cloud Man, so he chose him next. Cloud Man's level was filled with.....clouds. Lots of them. It looked like it would rain soon. Rock didn't like rain. He had memories of it shorting him out, even though that couldn't happen anymore. I mean, does it short out you????

This is just too easy... thought Rock. It still hadn't started raining and the level was almost half over already. Then Rock saw a strange little bad bot. It was hovering on a platform that Rock needed to continue on. So he blasted it. Big mistake. The bot was actually a weather control robot. And Rock had just made it tell the clouds to start raining.

He groaned as he continued on. Maybe the rain would stop later. He saw a building up ahead. That will certainly give me shelter from the rain, he thought. So he climbed the ladder to go inside. He killed a Sniping Joe and climbed a high ladder. Then he heard a strange whistle, 'cause it's my turn take the spotlight for a few seconds!!!

"Did you know that use can use some of your friggin' weapons to discover hidden junk???" I asked. I didn't give Rock time to answer. "Try using the flame weapon in the woods. You know, the Scorch Wheel you get from Turbo Man by using the Noise Crush on him, and the woods with the hoppers and bees in Slash Man's level. Cause Beat's up there. I didn't want to get him down myself, even though I could, cause you're the hero around here. But you're not supposed to know that. So act suprised when you see him, kay? Get it?? Got it?? Good. Bye, now...." I said. I left a bomb in the room, and right after Rock left, the whole building blew up. Take that, Cloud Man.

Rock had a strong sense of deja vu as he dodged the mommy birdies and the Fiendish Fans. This was from Air Man's level!!! Stupid Wily, ran out of ideas for level design, did you? As it turned out, that was the final stretch. Cloud Man was just ahead!!

He used the Danger Wrap on Cloud Man. It encased him. When the bomb exploded, his cloud was vaporized and he fell to the ground. When he was able to get his engine back on and fly into the air again, Rock repeated the attack. Within minutes, Cloud Man was nothing but a small thundershower on the radar.

The Thunder Bolt made lightning bolts. It could also power up some machines. Rock knew he was going to be able to see this in motion in Junk Man's level, because he knew everything. Well, almost.


III

Junk Man's level was filled with ... well, just that. Junk, junk, and more junk. And cockroaches. Rock didn't like cockroaches, especially robotic ones. So he blasted them all. He took an elevator ride, and ended up several floors down. More cockroaches......and lava. Rock knew that he could freeze the lava with Freeze Man's weapon, because he knew everything. Well, sort of. Rock saw some platforms and a machine that appeared to be broken. So Rock blasted it. With the Thunder Bolt, of course, so it would activate and move the platforms out of the way of the Slush Jet adapter. Once Rush got this adapter, he could turn into a jet sled and fly Rock around. But since it was Slush, it was a bit difficult to stay onboard.

Rock saw another machine that activated some magnets and some platforms. He remembered what his friend Mario had told him, and activated the machine. He rode up a plaform and stepped into the ceiling. Now he could walk across most of the level without ever lifting his blaster!!! But he fell off into a hole made by a falling rock. Rock thought fast and activated the Slush Jet adapter. But Rush, in that form, was too slushy and Rock fell off....onto a platform, luckily! I'm going to have to get Light to work on the slushy effect!! thought Rock.

Onward he tramped until he got to Junk Man, who was very stupid when the proper weapon, the Thunder Bolt, was used. It electricuted him, shorting out many of his functions. After that, he was a cinch to defeat.

The Junk Shield encased Rock in junk. How fun.


IV

Brrr....Cold. Well, what else did you expect from Freeze Man's level? Rock put on his parka and started forward. "Careful, or you'll catch cold!" Rock yelled at the mechanical polar bears. "But we're mechanical, we don't catch cold. Just take it from Mandi," said one. "Besides, the cold doesn't make people get sick, contrary to popular belief," said another. "But this is a stupid story my brother is writing," said Rock. "Can't you just get sick to make it funny??" he asked. "Well.....okay," agreed the lead one. "But just don't tell Willy. He gets real mad."

This is easy! thought Rock. When he got to an enemy, he just asked it to get sick, and it did, making it easy for him to pass. When he got to a cave with spikes, the spiked enemies got sick and dropped their spikes on the spikes, making it easy for Rock to spike on across. Soon, he was at Freeze Man's door...

...But he stopped. Rush was barking. "Stop that, Rush! You'll alert Freeze Man of our presence!" Rush cowered. He began to dig. After quite a while, he came up with the Exit. The Exit was a piece of junk. So Rock threw it away.

"I'm gonna freeze you!" Freeze Man yelled after breaking out of a piece of transluscent jello. Rock put on the Junk Shield and launched part of it at Freeze Man. It got stuck in his mouth. "Mmmm hmmm hgm ugh!!" Freeze Man yelled. Rock kicked his butt (literally) and snatched his weapon.

The Freeze Cracker fired a piece of frozen metal in random directions. Rock had no idea how to control it, so he just rapid-fired.

Rock knew that Wily had already made four more robots and was planning to attack the Museum, because he knew everything. Sort of.


V

"Welcome home, Rock!" Light screamed as Rock teleported into the lab. "Look! Wily's attacking the Robot Museum!" Rock yelled, pointing at the monitor. "Nonsense. He--" Light started, but was cut off by an emergency message coming on the monitor showing Wily attacking the Robot Museum. "This is terrific!" yelled Light, but corrected himself. "Terrible! You must go NOW Rocky!!"

Rock browsed the museum's exibits. The robots somehow seemed better drawn than when he had originally met them. He was in no hurry, because he knew Wiley would wait for him in the room coming up. He also knew that it was Guts Man missing out of the broken exibit. Why? He knew everything. Almost.

"You put that down!" Rock yelled at Wily. "I think not. I am going to--" but Wily was cut off by Protoman mysteriously teleporting in. "I don't think so, Wily, that makes a horrible stage boss!" He jumped up and turned his hand into a blaster. "Now put him...." And blasted Wily's spacecraft into a million pieces. Not to mention Guts Man. "DOWN!!!"

Then the ever-mysterious Protoman ever-mysteriously dissapiered. Wow, thought Rock. Guess I don't know everything!


VI

Just like Rock had thought, there were four new robots waiting for him on his SNES when he got back. He had missed the R-U-S-H letter in Freeze Man's level, so he went back and got it. He then froze the lava in Junk Man's level to get the letter there. After that, he froze the weather control dude in Cloud Man's level to make it start snowing. He then climbed a ladder that would have been impossible to get to before and grabbed the final letter.

The Rush Suit Adapter was what he got. He activated it, and Rush teleported down. He then turned into the ta-da Suit Adapter and slammed into Rock. But the darn thing got stuck, like always. "God *BEEP* it!!" Rock yelled in frustration as he tried to pry Rush off his back, to no avail. "Better get on with Slash Man."

Slash Man's level was very reminescent of Jurassic Park, and Rock knew it. He met mechanical dinosaurs. They were purple, with green spots. And they sang.

I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME!
WE'RE A BIG HAPPY FAMILY!
WITH A GREAT BIG HUG
AND CHIPMONKS GALORE,
YOU'RE SURE TO END UP SORE.

Rock tugged at their zippers, and they fell apart. Thus, Slash Man's level was quite easy. When he made it to the forest, he knew exactly what to do. He used Rush Coil to vault up to the hidden ladder that Protoman had been talking about, because he knew everything. Maybe. Beat was up there, locked in a cage. Rock broke the cage with his blaster, then put it back together again and put a paper Beat inside. Heh heh heh, he thought.

Slash Man ran a cool Internet site. He gave Rock a copy of his weapon, and continued working on the computer. Rock shrugged and left.

The Slash Claw let Rock lash out into the night. Cool.


VII

Spring Man's level was a joke. There was no challenge whatsoever. Only oversized Slinkies and guns blocked his path. Rock was quick and blasted them all, only to find out Spring Man was easier yet.

Spring Man made an entrance by bouncing around and yelling, "Boingy, boingy boingy!!!" Rock slashed him with the Slash Claw and a couple of his springs fell off. Rock continued to kill Spring Man until he was dead.

The Bouncy Springies were little coil things that Rock could throw. Big whoop.


VIII

Shade Man's level had wierd music. Rock thought he knew where it was from, but he couldn't be sure. Guess he didn't know everything after all!

First, he came across some undead robots. They looked like "Cave Bots." Rock groaned and blasted their heads off. "Take that, you, you.....toasters!" Then he saw a mechanical crow. It flung some plasma balls at him, they waved its butt. Rock shot it and it died.

Rock saw a hall full of knights in shining (well, maybe) armor. Uh oh... he thought. But when he approached, their heads fell off. Rock thought quickly and encased them with the Danger Wrap. They flew against the wall, and the bombs inside broke, exploding the riders.

After more crows and some weird press things, Rock went through a door and came across a giant pumpkin. It bounced around. Rock dodged. It opened its mouth, to reveal a purple pumpkin. Rock shot at it, to no avail. It opened its mouth, to reveal a final, tiny pumpkin. It shot Rock with peas. Rock dodged again, but he couldn't hit the small pumpkin before both of the mouths closed. Rock jumped with all his might and shot the big pumpkin's eyes. The plasma went right inside and destroyed the machine. It crashed into the wall, opening up a passage. Rock was wondering how he was going to continue.

Some weird jousting things awaited him. So he shot them. He climbed a few ladders, and ended up on top of the complex! He encountered a huge scary cat. So he shot it. The clouds went over the moon..... a cool 16-bit effect, thought Rock. He shot another scary cat, and dropped back inside.

He was now in an old cathedral. He saw a picture of Count von Wiley, Wily's ancester that lived in these parts long ago. Rock knew everything, some say, so he had Rush dig underneath the portrait. Rush unearthed the Energy Balancer.

Rock dropped down again. He walked to the right, smack into Treble. "OW!" Rock yelled. Treble bit him, but since he was made of titanium (or so they say), it didn't hurt a bit. Bass was hunched over behind Treble. "Dammit!" yelled Bass. "I feel so stupid to have been defeated so easily!" he sputtered. "Maybe I should give up and leave Willy to you." Rock thought for a moment. "No. We are a team. Light will be glad to fix you up, even though you're going to steal Rush and me's new parts and trash the lab." Bass nodded. "Thanks! I'm glad I have a friend like you...."

Shade Man flew down. "Hi, Mega Man, great to see you! Unfortunatly, I cannot allow this to last for long. Sianora, or, should I say, GOOD BYE! Shade Man hovered back up into the dark, misty air. Rock let out a couple springs, which hit Shade Man. The latter swooped from the heavens and grabbed Rock. He sucked the energy out of him until his own lifebar was full. Then he dropped him. Rock charged up the springs and let them loose all over Shade Man, who screamed in agony. Shade Man landed next to Rock and stared at him. Rock turned to stone. Shade Man shot out a Noise Crush. It really messed up the now normal Rock's circuits! The second Crush went over Rock's head and rebounded. Shade Man absorbed it and shot out one that was twice as large as the first. Rock failed to duck or jump, and was hit. He was very low on energy now, so he used the E-Tank he got in Burst Man's level. He surprised Shade Man by jumping up and blasting him in the face! Shade Man exploded in a brilliant show of light.

The Noise Crush worked the same way it had when Shade Man used it. (Very well!)


IX

Turbo Man was the last Master. Rock sped through his stage, because he felt strangly energized. When he was climbing some street light thingies, Rush started barking. "Woof woof woof." Rock knew he was talking, er, barking about Protoman, who was hiding to the right, because he knew everything. Basically.

"Did you get the R, U, S, and H circuit plates?" Protoman asked. "Yep, I did," said Rock. "But it keeps getting stuck! Observe!" Rock called in Rush, and the adapter got stuck, as usual. Protoman hit a button, and Rush dissapiered. "Oh!" yelled Rock stupidly. "That's what that's for!!!"

After killing a SISI truck, Rock found Turbo Man.

"I'm going to uh.... er.... Turbo you!" Turbo Man called. "I don't think so. Watch me plasma you all over the universe!" Rock screamed as he shot a Noise Crush at the wall. It rebounded. Rock took it and threw it at Turbo Man, who was going into Car Mode. It shattered him, with pieces of his brittle hide flying everywhere.

The Scorch Wheel was a very clumsy weapon that made a fireball that rolled.


X

Rock knew Protoman would be waiting for him in Shade Man's stage. So he went there.

The same formal feeling hit him harder this time, forcing himself to change radically. This time, he beat the inner pumpkin. It crashed into the floor, opening up another passage. Mega Man blasted a Sniper Joe with a bit of difficulty and found the secret Protoman room.

"So, brother, you are not as weak as I thought. Let's see who's father made stronger!" Protoman declared as Mega Man entered the room. Protoman shot at Mega, so Mega shot back.

It was a fierce battle. Neither knew who was going to win, since they couldn't see each other's life bars. Protoman blasted Mega Man with a super-shot, and Mega did likewise back to him. Just when Mega Man was about to collapse, Protoman jumped to the back of the room. "Maybe you are the superior model, Mega Man. Here, take this with you." Protoman said, tossing his Protoshield across the room. "This is...your Protoshield?!?! You can't give this to me!" Mega protested. "Yes, I can. See? It's detachable. It's okay, take it. And... Watch your back...


XI

Rock teleported into Wily's castle. There were turtles everywhere... I really wonder what this boss is going to be! Rock wondered sarcastically.

Before long, he met Bass. "Wily may fear you, but I do NOT!" Bass yelled. Rock used the Rush Suit adapter, and powered up. His fist shot off, smacking into Bass, who died. (sorta.) "Round 1 goes to you, Rock, but I'll be back. C U!"

Sure enough, it was a turtle. Rock killed it using the Bouncy Springies.


XII

IT'S LADDER TIME!

Rock climbed and climbed. Soon he saw Bass again. He told Rock that he had trashed the lab and stole prototypes of new Rush&Mega enhancments. He used them. They looked like a Rush Suit that flew. Rock beat with a little bit of trouble. "Why... Why can't I destroy him......??" wondered Bass.

Rock killed a big Jap Mask with the Noise Crush. Big whoop.


XIII

"Oh no, not AGAIN!!!" Rock screamed with frustration as he saw the familiar telporter room. But he beat all the dudes with no problems whatsoever.


XIV

Mega fell down three stories. He shuddered in horror as Wily's most horrible creation yet clambered on. It was a giant Skull-Walker. Mega kept blasting it with the Thunder Bolt, though, and Wily was soon forced to escape into his saucer as the machine blew up. The room darkened. For the fourth time in a row. None of Mega's weapons seemed to work against the dissapiering craft, so he took out the Springies. They, of course, being the most forgettable and least useful weapon, worked. But not beautifully. Mega Man had to use all of his gathered E and W tanks before the ship finally exploded and Wily tumbled out.

Wily stared in Mega's face for a moment. Then he said, "Okay, I give up. Sorry about all the trouble, I'll go quietly....." But Mega didn't buy it. "I'm gonna do what I should have done years ago!!!! DIE WILY!!!!!!" But before Mega could release his shot and end the war forever, the castle started to collapse. Mega Man jumped out of the way, but Wily got pinned down.

Mega Man knew that if he went through with this, he would be labeled a murderer and have to join the Protoman club. But if he didn't, Wily would escape, and he would terrorize innocents once again, so..... he.... let off the blast. Ka-BANG!!!!! Wily was vaporized along with the castle.

And so the land's troubles ended forever. See? He really does know everything, doesn't he?



THE END