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« on: May 18, 2013, 03:40:42 AM »
With WilyII cutting off contact, Hajime takes a moment to rethink his intentions. He still intends to execute Plan B regardless of whether the Resistance recognize him in his Mecha Dragon replica mech, but in order to do so, he needs to vacate his Robot Masters except Tarot Cat (for reasons explained prior to being talked into repairing the Wily Star II) so they aren't spotted and destroyed with so much as a negotiation to switch sides. WilyII's incapacitation was all the opportunity he needed to get this done since Fix-It Man and Paint-It Man would more than willingly finish up repairs regardless of whether his Robot Masters stayed or not.
He presses some buttons on the console in front of him, opening up frequency channels to his Robot Masters as they were lingering about the interior of the Wily Star II with nothing to do except for Concession Man, who blissfully follows Fix-It Man and Paint-It Man, offering them refreshments with each completion of a room.
"It's almost time," he said, "The Resistance have caught onto the repairs of the Star and will infiltrate it, hopefully to make sure there isn't a single lug nut left behind to be salvaged by doc's robots. Considering what's happened in St. Acidburg, and how many members of the Resistance recognize you as part of my crew, there's a possibility they won't even bother talking you into joining their side and gun you down the second they spot you. So I'm giving you this one chance to return to the Junkyard and stay hidden unless further commanded by Chariot, Magician, or Ryuta."
Most of the Robot Masters look to whoever was with them as they linger about before nodding in acceptance and teleport back to the RPM Junkyard without a second thought. Beast Man and Concession Man remained, the latter too busy digging through his supplies for E-capsules to give to Fix-It Man after completing one of the rooms to pay attention to the announcement and the former lost in thought over his personal conflicts.
While he had no loyalties to any Wily after being reconfigured into a werewolf-like robot and tossed into the Junkyard just for liking a catgirl, he still owes them for giving him life and the ability to do more than just follow commands. Not to mention being born a Wily robot first meant he harbors a dormant personality overwriting bug that would activate if he so much as thinks of joining any opposing forces. Either way he shouldn't abandon this duty even if he knew it would protect more than just the initiation of Plan B.
No sooner had Hierophant fled from the control room, he noticed a card-like blur zip overhead, heading in the exact opposite direction he was fleeing from. Realizing it was Emperor, he and Death ran after him only to see Random Man scramble out of the control room, looking around in frantic hysteria before punching in a different set of numbers, causing the doors to fly shut just as the card had slipped, unnoticed, into the room.
Fazing into the control room, they see Emperor take his usual position behind WilyII's backrest, all but blissfully unaware of the half-dazed doctor laying swirly-eyed on the console. He hasn't initiated his Vanish ability, and seemed to eager to wait for the doctor to wake up to realize he had been spotted by the very cards he had been fleeing from.
"Now or never...." Hierophant mutters mostly to Death before pointing his staff towards Emperor and hissing "Vanish!"
By the time Emperor heard his voice, the gray ball of light flew towards him, causing another series of crystal-like entities to surround him, the Evil Spinning Chair, WilyII, and his control console.
"Let's hurry before he wakes up," Death pipes as Hierophant rushes over to grab Emperor only to see him let out a deafening, girlish shriek and leap out of the way, causing both his encounter with the back of the chair and the ear-piercing noise to snap WilyII back to his senses.
The maddening doctor "acks" before scrambling back to a proper sitting position, inadvertently banging his head into Hierophant's face and knocking him flat onto his back.
"EH!? WHAT!?!? WHERE!?!?!? I'LL KILL 'EM!!! I'LL KILL 'EM ALL!!!!"
As he was whipping his head and chair around to figure out what is where, his sporadic eyes immediately locked onto Hierophant dragging himself to a propped position his hands, using one of them to cover a fountain of citrine blood spilling out of his near broken nose.
"YOU!" he shouts, pointing ever so dramatically at Hierophant as he snaps out of his agonized daze upon realizing he had been spotted yet again. WilyII twirls his chair and uses the very hand he pointed with to slam onto one of the buttons to call in his robot army.
Hierophant yelps and springs to his feet, pointing his staff at the control console, "DISPEL!"
WilyII's finger was no less than an inch from hitting the button when a pillar of rainbows surrounded it, causing his entire hand to faze through the console. The enraged doctor does a double take before attempting to hit the button several more times only to see his hand fall through the console.
Letting out the most inhumane roar short of the Hulk, he whips his chair around to face Hierophant, "YOU DARE MESS WITH MY CONTROLS AGAIN!?!?!?!? MURDER!!!!"
He then charges towards Hierophant and Death, who panic and scramble out of the control room by fazing right through the sliding door and into the adjacent wall just as WilyII pops out, stopping immediately upon realizing he had gone straight through the door. He turns to face the door, stepping in and out before looking down at himself to find his entire body had become a transparent, white outline.
It was then that he realized that the intruder also appeared as a transparent, white outline, further confirming Unity's claim of there being an invisible magical card lurking about. But as he was about to contemplate how to use this to his advantage, he failed to notice Hierophant poking his head out of the wall he fazed through, pointing his staff at his once solid body.
"Dispel!" he shouts, grabbing WilyII's attention just in time to see the orb on his staff glow white. The manic doctor screams "CHARGE!!!" before careening towards his transparent foe only to be hit by the glowing orb of light, turning him solid in an obscuring burst of orange clouds leading to an uneventful connection with the very wall his target was hanging out of.
"Well, that didn't last long...." Death sighs, rubbing her hair a third time as she watches WilyII tip over and fall flat on his back with little chibi Aile's of different Rock-On forms circling his dazed eyes.
"Let's just get Emperor before one of his robots shake him back to his senses...." Hierophant mutters as he runs back into the control room to find Emperor glued to the still dented ceiling.
Noticing the Evil Spinning Chair was still affected by his Vanish spell, Hierophant plops down onto it and pushes the lever controlling its height, raising the chair towards the ceiling close to where Emperor is. Emperor grinds his teeth in frustration before turning his head to the side and placing the back of his hand near his cheek, letting out a feminine laugh.
"Oh, you think you've got me beat just because the great mastermind is unconscious," he chortles, "But you're forgetting one important factor about my card...."
He then drops below the card's screen tossing clothes around before popping back up in a white mage costume complete with the hood draped over his head.
"I can also cast magic!" he exclaims before pointing a wooden stick with a gold ankh attached to the end towards the hydraulics controlling the height of the Evil Spinning Chair, "Dispel!"
The orb attached to the body of the gold ankh glows white as a pillar of rainbows surrounds the chair, causing Hierophant to fall through the seat and land hard on his back as the chair returns to its physical form. Agonized beyond senses, Hierophant struggles to sit back up while prepping his staff to cast Float on himself only to hear the keypad beeping as the door slides open and WilyII charges into the room, snorting steam from his nose while looking around at the drastic change in scenery.
"CURSE THAT INTRUDER!!! HE BETTER BE GOOD AT SQUIRMING AND BEGGING FOR MY FORGIVENESS WHEN MY ROBOTS FIND HIM!!!"
Hierophant gulps silently as he slowly and quietly starts crawling out of the control room with Death irritably following after him.