Axess: Get Dr. Regal

Plot Synopsis
The NetPolice now have a lock on Regal's position, and they try and blast him out of the atmosphere, but Regal has some of his own defenses, and takes out all their satellites. Lan goes against orders, and decides to handle Regal personally, through the use of Yai's rocketship.

Yai, Dex, Chisao, Mayl and Lan depart to space, but almost get caught up in a cluster of debris left over from JunkMan. To help out the problem, JunkMan and MegaMan DoubleSoul, and MegaMan is able to use JunkSoul to move the debris out of the way. This is also helpful, because MegaMan is also able to use JunkSoul to deflect the shots being fired at his NetOp by Dr. Regal's space station.

Regal says, "fuck it," and launches a dimensional area and fills the void with a bunch of viruses. He then invites Lan onto the station. Lan goes alone in Cross-Fusion (using Battle Chips for Oxygen) and meets up with Regal. Regal summons ProtoMan to fight him, and Lan tries to convince ProtoMan that there is still good within him. ProtoMan has none of it and continues the attack, but Lan grabs a hold of him, and MegaMan tries to siphon the dark aura out of ProtoMan. ProtoMan realizes what is going on, and breaks the hold. He goes to strike again, but Regal breaks the dimensional area.

Regal tells Lan that he'd rather, "see you crash into the Earth along with this station!" Regal ejects, and the air slowly drains out of the room. Luckily, Lan's friends have come along with a space suit to keep Lan from suffocating. Unluckily, Regal takes out their space ship, and sends the station that they're all on, plummeting towards Earth.

JunkMan sees this, and uses his debris to cover the ship, to protect it from the heat of reentry. Lan and company are saved (I wonder if Yai's maids are alright? Ah, they're extras, fuck em), but Regal's whereabouts are unknown. The episode ends like just about half of these episodes end, with Ms. Yuri driving off cackling like a hyena.

Critique
The last space episode was more silly than anything, and I'm willing to go along with episodes that are just crazy, but when we get an episode that tries to take the more insane aspects of the previous episodes seriously, it just doesn't sit well with me. Imagine if the next episode, they had Lan run to Netopia non-stop, just because he ran so far in the MistMan episode. That's what I'm getting at here, and sending the characters into space again just doesn't sit well with me.

That said, Yai actually has some funny lines outside her normal rich kid crap, and I still like JunkMan, and I like getting to see JunkSoul (I think we have only one more Soul left for the show, the most powerful one!!!).

Overall, I think this episode is pretty bland. What was the point really? We had the buildup of finding the space station for a while now, and after one episode, we're pretty much back to where we were before we went to look for it. Regal is missing again. The plot running around in circles like this is just irritating, and there isn't enough excitement in this episode to hold it together. Plus, Dr. Regal talks faster than a damn cassette recorder on fast forward.

Rating: Thumbs down.