Gyro man walks over to acorn and puts his hand on acorns shoulder in comfort,looking at dust

sorry about dust,he's secretive about things sometimes...

Gyro man then winced at the mention of the incident,seems like whatever was still there in gyromans corrupted memories,he wasn't a fan of what went down-

Dust looks around at the surrounding area

long story,star will probably tell you when we get to safety and he stops being dazed

Dust lowers his voice aswell

2027,why the fuck are you guys still using parallel ports!?

Dust looked at midi with suprise
sorry for asking,but what year is it exactly? I would have thought if you guys had robot masters you'd at least have USBs like us-

I can't remember how much it is exactly cuz it changes depending on which gen it is,for 3.0 I'd say it's abouut 5Giga bits per second? I don't really know though,despite using the hardware I could barely tell you about how I work

Dust then looked to the side,mumbling

despite knowing what a scrapped robot master looks like,I never really looked to see how we tick-

this place is weird-

He then shook his head

type of port for data transmission,we use them,and if your planning on doing a temporary lobotomy on gyro,star blast and I we should probably get to somewhere less explodey and somewhere that isnt filled with a bunch of people that also heard that message-

Dust looked at midi with slight confusion
that's a USB? You don't have USBs?

Meanwhile,blast was deep in thought,looking slightly frustrated,and gyro was looking confused
do we know someone called pump man?,every time I try and recall a 'pump man' the memory is corrupted-

Star man looks incredibly dazed and spaced out (he he)

w-what happened,all I could see and hear was static?

The voice continued,talking through every device in the area with a thin layer of static noise playing alongside the message that occasionally became louder and obscured the message slightly

WHO CAN HEAR OR READ THIS, MY N#*# IS P*#& MAN, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS Dↀ╤ ↔⋨≬≋, BUT I WAS TOLD BY ONE OF MY %¥¢©€ THAT I NEED TO SPEAK INTO THIS, SO TO ANYONE OUT THERE IN THIS ,@LT3RN4T3 D1M3NS10N, PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A ST∆RM4N,A BL∆STMAN, A DↀSTMAN AND A GYRO#*# ALL TOGETHER AS THEY VANISHED FROM OUR D1M3NS1ON A FEW WEEKS AGO,AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT THEM,SO IF YOU HEAR THIS,PLEASE TRY AND R3SP0ND ## *# ↀ╤ YOU-

There was another loud burst of static before the transmission cut out,causing star man to drop to the floor as the others rushed to his side to help him

Blast man gets up and bows as gyro and dust join in on the applause,as they do, star man looks on at the three with mild upset and disappointment on his face

do they really not remember? anything?

star then walks over to join the applause, but he stops while walking over and goes blank, and suddenly, static begins to come out of every radio in the general vicinity , including star man, at the sound of static,blast,dust and gyro all looked over at star in confusion and concern
ATTE-TI-N AN-O--

Well when you've been working with explosives for...

blast man did some mental maths on his fingers

4 to 5 years! youve gotta know what makes these things tick,even if what i work with is mostly fireworks-

blast continues his bomb defusal, scowling slightly and he keeps tampering with it, eventually he shuts his eyes and looks away as he pulls out a wire, and holds the explosive out at arms length and waits a few seconds to make sure the bomb doesn't explode, when it doesn't explode, he holds the bomb in the air in celebration

HUZZAH!, one fresh bombn't!

you got a Defused bomb!

Alrigh! calm your CPU! I'm doing it I'm doing it!

Blast sat down with his legs crossed, and immediately got to work carefully disarming the bomb and taking it apart, dust and gyro both look at him with slight disbelief

I've never actually seen blast disarm a bomb,do you think he knows what he's doing?

I'm pretty sure blast knows more about explosives than anything else in the world, heck, id even say he could easily tell you exactly how an explosive works by looking at it,but he couldn't tell you what day it was in the week-

Star was watching blast work from the doorway,glancing over at gyro and dust with a look of concern

alright! lets go!

blast turns and exits the boiler room and heads upstairs to where dust/gyro/acorn was,expecting the others to follow behind, when he enters the room,dust turns and looks at him with relief

good to see that you actually heard my call, I could have sworn these things were damaged beyond repair-

nope! just heard static and you saying the word ass so we decided to come and check
Blast then paused again

He he, ass

Dust looked at blast with a "are you freaking kidding me" kinda look, before showing blast the bomb in the body bag

this is why i wanted you to come here.

oh!

blast paused,picking up the explosive

thats a bomb!

Star goes to say something in his semi possessed like form,but blast bops him on the head,snapping him back into reality,blast then turns to midi and meddy

I dunno,all I heard was static and dust saying the word 'ass',maybe we should go meet up with him?

Blast paused to make a giggling sound

heh heh, ass

blast and star pull of victory poses,with star pulling out his rose to pose like James from team rocket,while blast poses similar to his intro from Megaman 11!

we should search them for lo-

As blast was talking he was cut out by static coming from his slightly damaged built communicator,aswell as star going blank again

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Dust looks into the bag as Gyro joins him and acorn,simultaneously both of their eyes widen with fear


t-thats another bomb-

this isn't good,I'll try and contact blast now.

Dust pressed one of the button ears on the side of his face,wincing at the static that came through due to the damage it had sustained



Blast,get your shiny metal ass back up here this instant we need your expertise.

dust choses not to question 'acorn's smile, and looks at some of the shards and dust on the floor left by the miners

I hope they understand that i'm not cleaning this up, besides, this stuff feels like it would damage me if i were to inhale it-

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blast jumps back away from the darkshine slime, and pulls out a fake detonator, upon seeing this,star stops his anger driven attack on the slime and moves back aswell,trying to put himself between the slimes and the group

Everyone stand back!

blast man then flashes a manic grin as he flips the safety cap of the detonator

This'll be DYNAMITE!

he then takes a second to allow MIDI and meddy to move away from the slimes, and then mimics pressing the detonator switch, at the same time activating the chain blast bombs to explode!