Ruby-Spears: The Strange Island of Dr. Wily

Guest Staring: Wood Man

Plot Synopsis
This one is a little hard to follow the setup for. Dr. Wily and his bots are at an island with a bunch of Stone-bots, as GutsMan puts it, "Just like robots except made out of stone." I'm not entirely sure if Wily built these things or discovered them, but in either case the only way to control them is with a neuron-emitter device he's built. This coats the island with a strange radiation field or whatever.

Dr. Light has invented a new weather controlling device, but the radiation field is screwing up the weather on this island and Dr. Light is afraid it will mess up his control for his experimentation, so he, Roll, Mega Man and Rush go to investigate. When they arrive at the island, Dr. Wily and his bots attack, but something goes wrong and suddenly the Stone-bots attack Wily just as fiercely as they do Dr. Light.

Everyone jumps onto Dr. Light's plane, including Wily and his bots. The radiation field has apparently grown even stronger and now they can't leave the island until it's disabled. This means they need to find Wily's neuron-emitter. Wily agrees to help Dr. Light find it and destroy it, but secretly he's planning on fixing it and using it to destroy Mega Man.

Mega Man, Proto Man, Cut Man, Guts Man and Wood Man go out to find the neuron-emitter while Rush, Roll, Light and Wily stay on the ship. They locate the neuron-emitter inside a volcano, which Light deduces if it continues, the island will explode! Knowing the emitter's location, Wily jumps out of Light's jet, and welds the door shut in like two seconds. Ignoring the obvious question of how the hell he did that, where the hell did he get a blow torch and welding mask? Lucky for him Roll isn't as fast at cutting the door out as Wily is in sealing it up.

Everyone reaches the volcano and a battle ensues between Wily's bots and Mega Man versus the Stone-bots. In the midst of battle, Wily sneaks over to the neuron-emitter, which he notices broke down because it over heated, fixes it, and has everyone attack Mega Man. He turns it up to full power, and now some colossal Stone-Bots come to life as well. The neuron-emitter overheats again, so Wily and his bots run for their lives as Mega Man tries to destroy it before the island explodes. He ends up chucking it into the lava, shutting down all the Stone-bots and saving the day.

Critique
Alright, this is actually a great episode. It's a lot of fun, and there's quite a bit of humor with the good guys and bad guys working together. Poor Proto Man, he just wants to work with his little brother... or destroy him, either or really. Wood Man carries a shield shaped like a leaf for his weapon, leaf shield. I guess someone didn't bother to research how the weapon actually works? The action sequence at the end of the episode is probably one the best of the series, excluding the title sequence of course, and one hilarious part to it is where one of the Stone-bots rips another Stone-bot's arm off and swings it like a baseball bat at Mega Man. Classic stuff! After the sea of shit that have been the last few episodes, it's good to see the season finale rose above expectations!

Rating: Thumbs Up!