"Battle Of The Video Game Heroes" Proudly Presents:
Battle of the Video Game Heroes, Season 6!
Episode 9!!
The Quest to Save the Past!!
Part 1
by Sean Kelly
 
 
THE CAST
Top Row:
Mario, Toad, Peach, Bowser, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Buzzy Beetle, Bullet Bill, Cheep Cheep, Blooper, Spiny
Second Row:
Lakitu, Hammer Bros., Shyguy, Ninji, Pidgit, Cut Man, Guts Man, Ice Man, Bomb Man, Fire Man, Elec Man
Third Row:

Metal Man, Air Man, Bubble Man, Crash Man, Wood Man, Dr. Light, Dr. Cossack, Dr. Wily, Kalinka, Rush, Beat
Bottom Row:

Bob-Omb, Mega Man, Roll, Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong, Blob, Mr. Red-Eyed Guy, Ian Pugh, UDX
 
 
(It is a nice and peaceful day at the archive and everyone is playing a four-player game of Super Smash Bros.)

Yes I am winning!

That is only because you set the item switch to put only Bob-ombs in the levels that you cleverly avoid.

Stop your whining Cranky.

At least you are doing better than me and DK.

Yeah so?! I hate being in second place all of the time!

Anyone want to play Mario Party 2?

Everyone: ME!!!!

Toad!  Don't you think these guys have enough N64 for one day.

I guess...

Well I had enough too. I am going to turn off the N64 and watch some TV.

( goes to turn off the N64 and suddenly the system disappears in a flash! And when  turns around he notices that everyone else has disappeared)

Oh. I guess this is some kind of trick caused by the writers I will go ask them.

( goes over to  and )

Hey guys did you delete the N64 and Nintendo characters from Sean Kelly's latest episode?

N64??

Nintendo Characters???

Yeah Nintendo characters. Isn't this called the "Battle Of The Video Game Heros"?

Yeah it is called that, but we never heard of Nintendo characters.

Yeah, we only write about things like Pong.

PONG!!!!

(Shocked,  leaves the writers)

Something very weird must be going on if everyone does not remember what Nintendo is. I know, I will ask Mr. Red Eyed Guy.

( blows the Red Eye Whistle and  appears)

Ahh Blob, so you want to know what has happened to the archive.

Like always you have read my mind.

To get answers, head towards the only Nintendo friend left.

( disappears)

I don't get his riddles. Who's left??

(Suddenly  comes in his spaceship)

Ahhh so Blob survived! Robots, capture him.

Uh oh!

('s robots surround , however  is suddenly transported and he ends up in 's lab)

Ahh Blob, I am glad you have made it.

Yeah! Dr. Wily's goons almost got you.

Dr. Light! Mega Man! What happended to all of the Nintendo characters?

The characters that you know and love cease to exist.

CEASE TO EXIST!?!?!?!?!!?

Yep, totally wiped out.

What happened? And why do you still exist?

You might have remembered an episode last year called "The Good Old Days", in which everybody was converted to NES form.

Yeah, so?

You might have remembered the remote control device flinging out of Wily's hand.

I know that. According to the end of the episode it landed in a beach. The button on the remote was pressed by Cranky and nothing happened.

Sorry Blob but that hypothesis is, sadly, wrong. The remote that flew out of Wily's hand, had a mini flying device which led it back safely to Dr. Wily's lab.

And Dr. Wily decided to go to plan B.

And what was plan B?

To make a time machine.

You mean a time-altering device?

No I mean a living breathing time-machine made with the technology of the Time-Altering device. Dr. Wily used the additional technology of his remote to set the Time Machine to the NES era.

So he traveled back in time?

No. Modern characters can not exist in the NES era since it has a very limited color span.

So if you traveled back you would just degrade into a pile of pixels.

Instead Dr. Wily used the machine to send blueprints for Nuclear 8B.

Nuclear 8B?

It is a series of towers that will send out beams to a main connector coming from a tower at Dr. Wily's lab which would send out a Nuclear blast that would eradicate all 8-bit characters in the Area. And when Cranky pressed the button on a modified-remote that was planted in the beach by Wily, it activated the countdown on the towers in the NES era, which sadly the length of the countdown was undetermined until now.

If N8B went off in this time, it would just eliminate the Game Boy characters, however since it went off in the NES era it had a much more drastic effect.

When the N8B went off it eradicated the origins of modern video games as we know it. It prevented the NES characters from evolving to SNES and N64 characters.

How did you and Dr. Wily survive?

When the 8-bit Dr. Wily built the N8B he also built a protective double 8-bit force field around his lab.

Since this force field let off 16 bits of power, it was not affected by the blast. Therefore it left Dr. Wily free to take over the world!

It is a lucky thing that I found out about Wily's plans and I built a duplicate force field around my lab. Now it is time for us to put a stop to Wily's plan.

How do we do that?

I have built a duplicate of Dr. Wily's Time Machine that is set to one day before the N8B goes off.

Why only one day?

It's just to add dramatic effect to the episode.

I made some modifications to the time machine that would make you into 8-bit form which will prevent you from becoming a pile of pixels.

You will be briefed futher when you arrive. Good luck Blob.

I will try my best.

( enters the time machine and he travels back to 's lab in the NES Era where he and every character from now until the end of the adventure are in an 8-bit NES form)

Ahh Blob, it is nice to meet you.

(confused) Didn't we already meet?

No you mean the future me. Unlike your time-altering device and its many clones, you are actually in a time and place where no-one has any knowledge of SNES, N64, or BOTVGH. So watch what you say.

( arrives with , and )

Hello Blob. Pleased to meet you. Our future counter parts have told us so much about your adventures in the BOTVGH.

Well thank you.

Hi Blob. I am Mega Man's sister, Roll.

Well hi, Roll.

( arrives with )

Good day Mr. Blob. I am Dr. Cossack, friend of Dr. Light. And this is my daughter Kalinka.

Hello Blob.

Hello Kalinka.

You may remember Dr. Cossack from being blackmailed to fight Mega Man in his fourth adventure. He is now a good friend and he headed the research team for Dr. Wily's N8B. Dr. Cossack, will you please brief Blob?

Very well. The N8B consists of 4 towers. Three of the towers are positioned around the world with the final connector-tower being at Dr. Wily's lab. I believe you already know how the N8B works.

Yes, I do.

Good. Your job is to disable all four towers. Even if one tower is diabled, Dr. Wily will just have to boost the power to make the N8B funtional with the number of towers remaining.

Where are these towers?

The first tower that you will go to is in the Super Mario Bros. world and it is guarded by Bowser. The second tower is in the world of Metroid, guarded by Mother Brain. The third tower is located in the world of Castlevania which is guarded by Dracula. And the final tower is at Dr. Wily's lab.

Mega Man here will accompany you on your quest. And he will bring along his trusty dog Rush.

Ruff ruff!! Rush do not want to go!

All right Rush, you do not have to go if you don't want to. Beat will accompany you then.

Tweet tweet!!

I also recall stories of in certain BOTVGH adventures that Mega Man has teamed up with Samus and Link to save Christmas on many occasions. Blob, make sure to find them during your adventure.

Well how about letting me sleep until the next part until we start the adventure?

Sorry we can't do that. There is only one day until the N8B blows. You have to at least disable the first tower before you could even think of having a break.

Oh well.

(Reluctantly , and  head over to the SMB World, meanwhile in 's lab...)

Dr. Wily, our spies have received information that Dr. Light and Mega Man have sent for a hero from the future. His name is Blob.

It must be the Blob that my future counter-part has warned me about in his messages. He knew all along that Dr. Light had built a duplicate of his machine and he told me to be ready. Cut Man, you go work on that law degree that you wanted. And send 10 of my classic robots to stop Mega Man and Blob.

Why not your best robots?

I have to save those.

(Meanwhile , and  arrived at 's house where  and  are visiting)

Ahhhh Jumpman old buddy. How are you doing?

Fine. Thank you.

Hey Mawio and daddy! Mega Man and some blob guy are here.

Ahh, Blob and Mega Man. Dr. Light told you that you were coming. You want me to help you beat Bowser, eh?

Right on. Hey where's Luigi?

He is off crying somewhere saying that he is not treated fairly in our games or something. I don't know what he is talking about, he has co-starred in every game so far. Well, maybe not Dr. Mario, but that was a puzzle game and it doesn't count.

You are some kind of hero Mario.

Yeah. Who knows..... Maybe one of these days I will wear metallic clothes!

Or maybe you could put wings on that hat to make you fly better.

What's wrong with the raccoon tail?!

Nothing!! Just... wings makes more sense, that's all.

I would raver prefer that you would wear a cape like Superman.

Who knows?

( and  enter)

Hi Blob. Me and Toad baked some cookies for your arrival.

Thanks!

Sorry Mega Man. We couldn't find any nuts and bolts for you.

That's all right.

(Suddenly , &  crash into the house!!)

Ha ha ha! So you thought that you would crash the boss's shocking party?

That was a chilling idea but it will not happen.

So do I have to fry you or will you just give up?

Beat! You know what to do.

Tweet tweet!!

( flies away and comes back with a big, ticking box)

Hey Bomb Man, are your bombs lit?

(checking) Not me.

Well who could it be? Crash Man?

My bombs do not have fuses.

Maybe the noise is coming from the box.

Then why don't you check it Air Man?

( blows open the box with a gust of air)

Oh, it is just a box full of Bob-ombs.

Wait, did you say a box full of Bob-ombs?

That's what I said......

I just remembered that I have to watch Jeopardy!!

Me too.

Me three.

Me four.

Me five!

Me six.

Me seven...

You know, I think I'll go too.

(, and  leave to watch Jeopardy)

Wait you don't even like Jeopardy! Well Elec Man, at least we are brave enough to stay.

You know, I think "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" is on right now.

( leaves)

HEY!!!!! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE ALL ALO....

(The s go off and  blows up into a million pieces)

I knew that the robots would run off at the sight of bombs.

( picks up 's head)

This is just what I need to fix the burner on my stove!!

Hey Mega Man! There are plenty of nuts and bolts now!

No thanks Toad. We have to be on our way.

(, &  start on their way to find  and the N8B tower)

Hey shouldn't there be any guards?

(Suddenly a  pops up)

Ha ha ha. You will never get past me!

He has to be kidding! Move to the side everyone.

( goes to stomp the  however suddenly a hammer comes and hits  in the head)

You shouldn't have thought that we would be defeated so easily.

It is the bad guys' turn to win now!

( then flies in on his cloud)

Hey guys!! Watch out below!!!

( drops an egg that hatches into a )

Ha ha! You can not jump on my spikes Mario!

Who said jump?

( blasts , and )

Just try and blast my hard shell Mega Man!

He may not be able to blast you but I know what to do!

(Using his strength,  bashes )

Well at least I am still here....

We can fix that..... Beat?

Tweet tweet!!

( flies over to  and pecks at his eyes)

OUCH!!! A robotic bird just pecked me! I knew I should've gotten windows for this thing!

( flies away)

Hey you still have to get me!

And me!

Don't forget about me!

Wait a second! You guys are just figments of my imagination!

Oh yeah!

( disappear)

I guess nothing else can go wrong......

(Suddenly cannons fire)

Think again Blob boy!!

Quick, into the lake!!!!!

(Everyone jumps into the lake where they are not alone)

Hey Mario I'm pleased you can keep us company!

So why don't you stay awhile?

I don't think so fishies.

You know squids are not fish.

OHHHHHH! A wise guy.

( and  charge at the gang)

Not so fast!

( blasts  and )

Okay. I think that Bowser has the N8B at his castle, which is through that pipe over there.

How convienent.......

(The gang goes through the pipe and they head into the castle and they meet up with )

Mwa ha ha! You and your friends will never defeat me this time Mario!!

Well all we have to do is collapse the bridge that you are standing on.

I knew that you would have thought about that, Mario. That is why I have made this protective brick wall that only.... say a bird can go through!!

A bird!!! I don't think I have one of those!

(Suddenly  pops up)

TWEET TWEET!!!

( flies though the hole in the wall and touches the Axe, collapsing the bridge)

Oh bother!

( falls into the pit)

Okay, the tower is on the other end of the pit.

How can we get past with the bridge collapsed?

Tweet tweet!!

( carries everybody over the pit to the other side)

BOY!! There are sure big muscles in that little robotic body.

I see the tower!

( goes over to the tower and disables it)

Well it is one down and three to go. Me and Mega Man have to get going.

Well I will be glad to lend a hand.

I will stay and take apart this tower so it cannot be re-activated.

Daddy? Can I join Mr. Blob on his avensure?

Sure son. Maybe it will give you some more Hero training.  Who knows maybe one day you will go on to star in your very own series of video games that will even be better than the ones Mario stars in.

I don't like the sound of that.

And can I have a little monkey as my best friend??

Who knows we will just have to wait and see.

Well let's get going.

(After successfully disabling one of the towers for the N8B,  and  are joined by  and  in their adventure. What challenges lay next for our heroes? Stay tuned next time for part 2 of THE QUEST TO SAVE THE PAST!!)

TO BE CONTINUED
 
 
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