. Read the first part first!
He was one of my favorite bosses and his stage had awesome music but I know that he will be corrupted in some way. I arrived to his stage but it was a little dark and his music was no longer fun, it was creepy and dark. The mine cart wasn't there either but strangely the bats were still there and went on to attack me. This underground tunnel just gave me the creeps, even the spikes had red oil on them. The deeper I got, the darker it became. The rock busting bots were just old rusted up metal with red oil on the spikes. I kept going even tho I didnt really want to and I made it to the part where you are supposed to ride a mine cart to get over the cliff to get to the boss but it wasn't there.I was thinking "Now how am I supposed to finish the level?" I wasn't getting anywhere by standing there so I went on. But as I was holding the Right button Meta started running.
He was running so fast that it was the same speed of a mine cart, but the track was different. For once there was a cool moment in this dark tunnel...but it changed quick. His eyes glowed red again and by now I know what that means. There were enemies on the track and one by one they got ramed into and splattered their red oil everywhere. There was deep static and the screen was getting a darker red. I was like "NONONONONONONONONO" but I held down the right button and I hit the ramp fly skyward. The waterfalls and water were a blood red which didnt suprise me. Finally I went through the doors and confronted Armor. This shields were cracked and nearly broken while his armor was full of dent marks and blast holes. The battle music started up and actually it was the orginal theme, no corrupted version.
The battle started and everything went out normally but when his life got low all hell broke loose. Each hit would knock off a peice of him until he only had a head and torso. He didn't explode, no no he stayed looking liek that. His red oil pooled upon the ground.All Meta did was laugh at the sight of him which actually made me very angry then he beamed up. I got the awesome Rolling Shield and it did excatually what I usually does. But it didnt change eta's color which didn't suprise me at this point. His face changed too liek the others. It showed a robotic skull with bolts of lightning charging from it. That leaves just 3 Mavericks to defeat.
I chose to go up against Launch Octopus because I had his weakness which was the Rolling Shield. Upon arriving to the stage, it looked just as I expected. The water was a blood red color and the sky was very dark. It was also raining and the rain even damaged me so I quickly ran twords the water and jumped in. It was strange because I moved sorta slow and his jump was even slow but that proved to be quite useful. It was kinda hard to see through the waters, luckily there wasn't any enemies to be seen. While going through the level those submarine mini boss guys were still there and acted normal.
Soon enough, I made it to the ship which your supposed to destroy to get the turbo heart but it wasn't there and neither was the hatch. I jumped down to get the turbo heart but it was too thick form me to see so I abandoned that idea. Nearing the boss, I encountered that worm fish dude but he had spikes all over his body so I couln't ride it while shooting it. Almost all of my weapons had no effect on him so I decided to stop playing around with him and charge up my primary missile weapon. Then I fired it but there was a very loud static boom which cause me to flinch. When I looked back at the screen only bits of him remained. I had no idea that I was able to do that.
Finally I made it up to the boss door but all around me was dead reploids sunk to the bottom around his entrence. Ugh, I knew something awful was lurking behing that door so I went through it and confronted Lauch Octopus but he was feeding off of something. I looked like one of those robotic fish. Then the battle started. The only attack he did was the Wirlpool Suction thing. I looked closely and seen that he didn't have missile racks, only 2 extra tenticles. The battle wasn't hard but it took alot of my time. Eventually I defeated him. Instead of laughing a Text Box appeared and Meta said "I wonder how brother is doing." After that he beamed up.
I was disappointed by the fact that I didn't obtain a new weapon from him. It was back to the Stage Select Screen and unsuprisingly Lauch Octopus' face changed. His face was all dented up and half of it was missing. Next I was going to go up against Boomer Kuwanger but his picture stunned me. His eyes were glowing red, just as Meta's would. I selected him but instead of going through his intro and starting at the start of the stage, I started in the boss room and a conversation started. Boomer said "The sky has gotten dark, was this your doing?" Meta said "Yes brother, everything is going as planned." Boomer said "Did you manage to finish off the remaining enemies?" Meta said "Indeed, they are all destroyed." When I heard that my mind was like blown.
So all the corpses, all the destruction, and all the half beaten bosses were his doing? No way.. The conversation continued. Boomer said "Good work. Now only 1 enemy remains and that is Sting Charmelion! I'll come along and assist you in this final attack." Meta said "Ver well. With him out the way, we can ensure the total annilation of Reploids and Humans!" After all that Meta beamed up. Finally, it was time to defeat the last boss. I picked him and watched his intro, but he looked scared and terrified as if he knew I was comming for him. It made me feel sad at first. I then started on his stage, but it was a horrible sight.
The trees were on fire and had numerous claw marks on them.I seen the enemies but they were being attacks by guys that apparently wre my comrades. Everywhere I went the enemy was being destroyed. I made it to the part with that big robot that guards the Armor but he wasn't there and neither was the capsule. Anyway, I continued through the firefight and made it to the part where your supposed to use a ride armor to get to the boss but the ride armor wasn't there. That didn't stop me so I went on and every ride armor guy I encountered, one of my comrades in a ride armor would appear to protect me. It was cool yet creepy.
Finally, I made it to the end and went through the boss doors and there Sting was. The battle had started and none of my attacks were damaging him.Then I realized that I might have his weakness so I went to the pause menu to select the Boomerang Cutter, but it wasn't there. Instead it said Boomer Kuwanger. I selected that and unpaused. When I did, the Meta sprite was replaced by Boomer Kuwanger and a Text Box appeared then said "Your end is at hand." Sting said "Nyeh nyeh hah! I dont think so, I aint' scared of you!" After that Boomer Kuwanger engaged Sting, but I wasn't able to control him so I just watched.
Boomer would throw his Boomerang Cutter to know Sting down then throw him into the ceiling. Red oil would spatter everywhere everytime he would do that. Eventually, Sting gave up and died. Afterwards the victory theme played but it was backwards and very demonic. Meta's sprite came back and he beamed up. I didnt' get a new weapon and I wasn't loaded back to the Stage Selection Screen. I appeared in that scene that would usually be Zero and X but instead it was Meta and Boomer Kuwanger. The conversation started and Boomer said "Finally, now no one stands in our way."
Meta said "Now we can proceed with our plans. Humanity and Reploids will finally come to a end." Boomer said "The time has come, lets get to it!" After that they both turned and looked at the screen. They stared at me for 5 seconds when a error message popped up and said "SNES9X has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvience." Seconds later the emulator closed itself out. I sat there wondering what just happened? I tried loading the rom back up but it wouldn't work cause it was corrupt. After many other tries I closed out the emulator entirely. Then I looked at my desktop background and it wasn't what it used to be.
It was the Stage Selection Screen of the game before I defeated all the bosses. Ever sense then I never thought of Mega Man X the same way again and realized that for every good side, there is a dark and evil side.
Someday you will come to know fear, just as I have. Face me, and you shall surely perish! -Meta, the Cosmic Destroyer
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