The Night That Changed Everything (RP)

[Rozark]

Galaxyman continues to drive closer and closer to the party, the lights growing brighter with each passing moment. At least, he thought he was. Those giant lights he saw were spotlights; the entire police force on him with helicopters. Apparently he passed by a lamppost and forgot to go to the special zone because the dazzle from his Disco car made a nearby clone Fakeman spontaneously combust. He thought they wanted his Disco car; they weren't going to have it without a fight.

Some confetti flew out of the back, blinding nearby officers and forcing them into a party mode. "PULL OVA WE HAS U SURROUND" said a young fakeman. Apparently it was "Bring your daughter to work day" so that was a thing. The young fakeman threw her cellphone at the Disco car to try and stop it; it bounced off and was nowhere to be found. The young fakeman began to cry and scream obnoxiously until the bigger Fakeman called off the chase in pursuit of the clearly more important search of his daughter's cell phone.

Galaxyman let out a sigh of relief and continued on his journey back towards the party, now with only the mystery crate and Etanks remaining. Meanwhile the janitor has exhausted himself. Looking to the side he sees some kids bragging about their motorcycles. He quietly pushes over the majority of the motorcycles and flies off with another, leaving the kids to their card games. "ooo yee, I'll get that bucket of bolts" said the Janitor as he rides down the open road.

[Hallan Parva]

Star Man ran over to Auto's truck, his face stricken with genuine despair. Snake Man had failed to realize it, but during their short-lived escape Plant Man had passed out, completely unconscious. The Snakelet in Plant Man's chest wiggled a little bit, still sealing the hole with its coiled-up body. Star Man noticed the Snakelet was there and had a quick look of disgust before regaining his composure and whispering something to Honey Woman.

"Do you think Light can repair him? Because I know for sure Doc Wily won't lay a finger on him without giving him some sort of death weapon..."

Snake Man chuckled. Wily was always up to no good, building a set of eight Robot Masters to attack the city... or just stealing Robot Masters that someone else made for him. He's been at it... what, fifteen times now? Or was it closer to twenty? It was like some perverse ritual. Even simple robots like Gemini Man, whose only power was to create temporary clones of himself, were weaponized and given different attacks tuned to their element, such as the reflective Gemini Laser.

"Wait a minute..." Snake Man muttered to himself. "Wily... death weapons..."

He had a sudden realization. "I've got it! Star Man! Honey Woman!" He jumped from the truck and landed in front of the two.

"I need you to shoot me in the face. As hard as you can."

[Gumballtoid]

Seeing the battle had already been won just as quickly as it had begun, Enker stowed his spear and tossed the crushed E-Tank aimlessly backwards. It happened to hit Bubble Man, who was struggling to climb out of the pool. He fell back in with a splash.

His eyes scanning the field, Enker saw the remains of Police Joes and a fake Fake Man laying about. "Grenade Man still did a better job of trashing this place last year...," he muttered under his breath. Enker approached Auto's truck, wondering what in the heck called for an attack like that, and watched with interest what would surely prompt Snake Man to seek facial reconstruction.

[-FiniteZero-]

"...Uhm... Why would I do that?" Honey Woman asked, confused as all heck. She then felt something tugging at her arm lightly. Surprised, she looked down to see that Plant Man was awake. He was smiling, though you could still tell that he was in a lot of pain.

"H-hey." He said.
"Planty!" Honey Woman exclaimed as she hugged him.
"It's almost midnight. Just 10 more seconds." Plant Man said, pointing at a large clock with his free hand.

Honey Woman looked up; He was right. It was 11:59 PM.

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"Happy new years." Plant Man said before giving Honey Woman a soft kiss on the lips.

[Hallan Parva]

Snake Man sighed. "I need access to my critical protocol, ehh, and that can only happen when I'm in a weakened state. Plant Man took a visit to the other side of nasty, and I'd feel better if he had some form of... ehh, immediate repair."

"Speaking of Plant Man..." Snake Man noticed Plant Man wiggle around a bit. Then he tugged on Honey Woman's arm with what little strength he had remaining. "H-hey... it's almost midnight. Just a few more seconds." He weakly pointed toward the clocktower.

Oh yeah, Snake Man thought while the clock ticked towards the new year. The plan was supposed to be a New Year's party, wasn't it? This will make a great story to tell the guys... Snake Man looked back to the truck and the other Robot Masters. The clock struck midnight, and the air lit up with a dazzling array of fireworks. It's a lot more interesting than saying "I had the robot flu", that's for sure.

Honey Woman leaned over and gave Plant Man a sweet kiss. The Snakelet in Plant Man's chest let out a squeal, closing its eyes.

[Hilman170499]

When the clock struck at midnight, Ballade looked into the sky, letting out yet another small grin. He saw the fireworks show and thought to himself, "This world, it has a lot more to it than combat. This looks like the best time to make a resolution." His admiration to the fireworks show and the fun setting of the party before the chaos made Ballade realise he was missing out on a lot. He spoke out his resolution, "I will make Mega Man proud by taking down evil and punishing it for the danger it causes. Then, I will enjoy life outside of combat. REMEMBER THIS WORLD, I AM MKN-003 BALLADE AND I AM NO LONGER A MEGA MAN KILLER!"

[Magnet Dood]

After Star Man heard Snake Man's explanation, he shrugged and held up his buster. I'll take any excuse I can get to shoot you, you slippery bastard, he thought silently as he unloaded on Snake Man's back, putting six Star Buster shots into him. "Happy New Year, from me to you." Looking at it, it did seem to hurt a lot. He almost wanted to say sorry. Almost.

Directing his attention to Plant Man, he smiled as he finally woke up. "Nice to see you awake, sleepy head, but in that condition you won't be awake much longer. We're gonna have to take you to somewhere to get fixed... and fast," he added as oil started to leak out from underneath the Snakelet plugging the wound. When a loud booming sound was heard, he jumped, but noticed it was only the fireworks. He then frowned slightly. He watched Plant Man waking up, watched him and Honey Woman kiss. I sure wish I knew what that tradition felt like, he thought sadly. And everyone says Wily's the villain... maybe Light is, for making everyone a guy. He should've made more female robots... Shaking his head, he turned back to Plant Man. "We'd better get moving soon."
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Reliever Man was still standing with Napalm Man when the fireworks went off. He smiled a bit. This is even better than our home run celebrations, he thought, watching the firecrackers whistle upwards and explode into dazzling bursts of color. As pretty as the sight was, he refocused himself and looked back to the fake robot's remains. "We need to get to the bottom of this..."

[CHAOS_FANTAZY]

At the sound of an explosion, Fake-Man looked up, and saw the fireworks illuminating the night sky.  "Now is no time for celebrating," he said to no one, "but I can afford a few seconds."  He pointed his Fake Revolver up with one hand, and fired a shot between each pause:  "Here's to another 20XX of Robotics...may the new Robots be strong and intelligent...may our great heroes remain ever vigilant in fighting for everlasting peace...and may Dr. Wily's harebrained scheme fall apart at the seams!"

Spinning to reload, his face turned from wistful to stern in an instant, like a muscle he had allowed to relax but was now holding tight once more.  "Alright, that's enough celebration for now.  If there's a Fake-Man faker roaming the streets—and he thinks he's me, no less—you can bet your bolts that they wouldn't just send one Robot.  The choice is, do we hunt them down or wait for them to hunt us?  Given how little we know about our foe, hunting them would be suicide, so I'm staying right where I am.  Auto, see if you can't repair Plant and anyone else who might be injured.  Everyone else...get ready."

[TheDoc]

Napalm was deep in thought, Could it be possible there was NO IC chip? No, he had a compulsion to kill Fakeman, meaning he had feeling/personality. But if the creator wanted the chip to be destroyed...He asked Reliever without looking at him, Maybe the creator made a fragile IC chip on purpose? To cover his tracks, that is. Either way, why would he do that? What's to gain for us by putting this Fakeman's homicidal IC chip into another robot?

Quickman stood there awkwardly watching the situation resolve itself. He looked around and saw Napalm with Reliever. Happy that Napalm had finally started talking to someone, he ran back over and asked, Hey, guys what's wrong?

[-FiniteZero-]

Meanwhile...

Someone, covered in shadows, smiled to him/herself. "Ahaha, all according to plan. Everyone thinks that the real Robot Masters are fakes, and my fakes the real! Everything is coming together..."

Back at the city...

Plant Man smiled a bit. "So you wanted me to-" He started to say before Star Man took care of it. "Er... Okay then. Snake, what's the rest of your plan?" He asked. "And perhaps we should be covert? I don't know if whoever's doing this is watching us."

[Hallan Parva]

Star Man gave a sly grin. "Happy New Year, buddy... from me to you."

BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP

The sound of damage. It had been a while since he last heard it, but it was still all too familiar. Snake Man reeled back in pain with each hit, his frame shaking from the knockback force. The six shots from Star Man had nearly knocked Snake Man into the park fence, though he still had enough force to recover.

"Ehh... heh heh... right back at you, Buzz..."

Snake Man walked back to Plant Man. "For this next part, I'm going to have to knock you out again. And just so there aren't any objections..."

((this is the part where I'M CHEATING))

Before anyone could give those words any proper thought, Snake Man gave a solid uppercut to Plant Man right in the chin. Heat Man flipped his lid in shock, and Honey Woman probably let out a scream. Plant Man rose up in the air while Snake Man prepared a Snakelet in each hand. Right before Plant Man hit the floor, Snake Man threw the two Snakelets at him, bouncing him off-the-ground, then fired a third Snakelet directly into the hole carved in Plant Man's chest plate.

"Snake Eyes!" Snake Man yelled as he shot the miniature snake, his eyes glowing red. This time, Plant Man stopped in the air instead of hitting the ground a second time. Within seconds his chest lit up in a similar red glow, then his entire frame. Soon, the levitating Plant Man was surrounded by colourful pink and red petals. The flowers swirled in the air, enveloping Plant Man with their protective force. Right before their eyes, Plant Man's chest sealed up with a makeshift metal patch. Plant Barrier faded away along with the red glowing, and Plant Man landed on the ground with both feet, back to his senses.

((CHEAT THAT WAY, SPONGEBOB))

"Ehh, now before you get mad," Snake Man said to Plant Man and Honey Woman, "I didn't really have a choice but to force a quick nap on you. Ehh, you were too weak to even move, so I had my snakes access your weapon data directly, ehh? I remembered about the modifications made to Plant Barrier..." Snake Man motioned to Star Man. "The barrier has the power to, ehh, restore a Robot Master's damage. I just knocked you out and forced the barrier to activate."

Snake Man walked closer to Plant Man, looking at his chest. "This will hold up a lot better until we can get you repaired properly. Ehh... unfortunately, my snake's still in there, so you shouldn't eat anything with a lot of... ehh, salt in it. Don't want a sick snake moving around your circuits, ehh."

((darn it just go accept Guts Man already))

[-FiniteZero-]

(What? Oh. Guts Man is in, since it seems plenty of people who're supposed to be in this haven't posted for a while.)

[TheDoc]

Napalmman looked at Quickman, This robot didn't have an IC chip. Quickman was shocked, What!? How is this possible? Napalmman just shook his head. It's not, so me and Reliever Man were going to investigate. I thought we'd start wi- I'll tag along, then. Napalmman stared at Quickman, Sorry, you finish. I thought we'd start with the last place the robots were before they teleported, which seems to be about a half mile or so away. What do you think, Reliever?

[ZeStopper]

And then Terra woke up from whatever just happened because beating up robots makes him tired for some reason.
"Huh? What did I miss? I fell asleep!"

[Hilman170499]

Ballade's previous grin changed to worry as he realises that he has no idea where to start being a hero. However, he thought of someone who could help... Dr. Light. He thought to himself, "I heard Mega Man has been getting better with the aid of a genius. I should go find the man and request for his aid on my redemption. However, I do not know his location..." He only built more worry. Therefore, looked for directions by asking various robots around the venue the same question: "Excuse me for bothering you, but where can you find the location of the genius who has been working with Mega Man?"