Ice-Man VS Ice Climbers is a What-if? episode of death battle by MadMaxPyro
INTRODUCTION[]
MadMaxPyro: Ice, it's pretty cool.
Max: And today we're pitting the Eskimo champions of the cold against each other.
MadMaxPyro: Ice Climbers, the champions of scaling cold mountains.
Max: And Ice-Man, the ice robot master.
MadMaxPyro: He's Max and I'm... WAIT what?! We're having two against 1? How is this fair?
Max: Trust me, it's fair.
MadMaxPyro: If you say so.
Max: I'm Max and he's MadMaxPyro who is also me because I'm really just one person and because I feel like it I'm going to to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a death battle!!!!!
ICE CLIMBERS[]
Max: The ice climbers, the blue wearing Eskimo guy Popo and pink wearing Eskimo girl Nana are the Arctic adventurers...
MadMaxPyro: Wait! So are they brother and sister or boyfriend and girlfriend?
Max: It's never been confirmed but considering the fact that they look pretty much exactly the same they must be brother and sister not boyfriend and girlfriend.
MadMaxPyro: Maybe they can be both! Oh god sorry, that was really wrong even for my standards.
Max: ...MOVING ON, the Ice Climbers have been scaling to the top of icy mountains pretty much their whole lives. They are experts at what they do but it's still no cakewalk.
MadMaxPyro: Yeah, these icy mountains are always home to many enemies including polar bears, penguins, and... pterodactyls? What?! This i'snt pre-historic times! Anyway, to top it all off sharp ice stalactites frequently fall down. God, what do they even get out of doing this all the time?
Max: To come prepared Popo and Nana are equipped with their trusty hammers used to smack and defeat foes. They can dash towards foes and spin around for a spinning hammer attack.
MadMaxPyro: They also have the power to shoot an icy blizzard from their hands that can freeze opponents into icicles and they shoot ice chunks from their hammers.
Max: Also they keep a rope in hand that they can attach to each other to jump up a great height, useful for getting up high distances.
MadMaxPyro: In their one game the Ice Climbers have succeeded in scaling to the top of every dangerous mountain they set foot on, apparently this made them cool enough to get to fight against the rest of Nintendo's stars in the Super Smash Bros series.
Max: They are an effective team, so much so that they work as one whole entity however, this is also tied to their weakness. When separated from each other they are both not very strong on their own, as such staying together is crucial.
MadMaxPyro: Though when they are together they kick some frozen ass!
( In Super Smash Bros Brawl, the Ice Climbers repeatedly smack King Dedede against a wall with their hammers.)
ICE-MAN[]
Max: In the year 2000X a new age of robotics was dawning heralded by Dr. Thomas Light and his partner Dr. Albert Wily. Together, they planned to launch mankind into a new age of prosperity.
MadMaxPyro: So they built a bunch of robot masters to do things too dangerous for people, like cutting down trees, bringing down buildings, and... being cold?! Screw this backstory, what's with this Eskimo robot?
Max: That's Ice-Man, one of the original robot masters built by Light and Wily. Ice-Man was built to perform human-like tasks under extreme climate conditions.
MadMaxPyro: But as we all already know the pissed off and jealous Dr. Wily stole all of Light's robots and used them for good old evil and world-conquering. So like all the other robot masters Ice-Man was reprogrammed to be evil and with deadly weapons used to try and kill MegaMan. Ice-Man in particular has manipulation of ice so he was programmed with freezing weapons.
Max: His Special Weapon is Ice Slasher, a sharp ice blade launched from his mouth that can freeze anything at a temperature of -200 degrees. He tends to shoot 3 of them at a time at 3 different angles.
MadMaxPyro: He can also make ice stalactites fall from above and create floating clouds that drop snowflakes to freeze opponents. He even has a pistol that can shoot either a freezing beam or sharp icicles as projectiles or makeshift barricades.
Max: Ice-Man is also completely immune to even the most chilling sub-zero temperatures which makes sense since he's a robot. Freezing him is nearly impossible. However, he does have his weaknesses. For instance, while he is able to still function in hot environments he is less powerful while in them.
MadMaxPyro: Yeah, plus he is severely damaged by electricity, bombs, and fire. And his biggest weakness of all is he has some mental problems.
Max: As shown in MegaMan Powered Up he appears to have a split personality and two persona talking back and forth with himself as if he is two people one a soldier and the other a commander. He often panics when others show up immeadiately prompting the commander persona to demand him to attack.
MadMaxPyro: And plus, like all other robot masters he is always defeated by MegaMan.
Max: Though regardless he has proven to be the strongest of ice robots even being greatly respected by fellow robot master FreezeMan.
MadMaxPyro: IceMan, he's pretty cool.
(IceMan shoots multiple ice slashers at MegaMan as MegaMan jumps up shooting electricity back.)
INTERMISSION[]
Max: Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!
MadMaxPyro: It's time for a death battle!!!!!!!!!
BATTLE[]
In an extremely cold and ice covered climate the Ice Climbers are about to jump up another mountain but they stop when they suddenly notice around them that the creatures they normally fight are frozen into large icicles. They hear footsteps from behind them as a figure steps towards them who appears to be a man in a blue coat identical to Popo's. But this is no man, it is a robot, the robot master IceMan.
Nana ( to Popo): He looks scary Popo!
Popo (to IceMan) Did you do this?
IceMan (to himself): There's something dangerous up ahead sir! Oh? Freeze it at all costs soldier!
The Ice Climbers jump a little startled at hearing that, quickly holding up their hammers prepared to battle.
Ice-Man breathes 3 ice-slashers at the Ice Climbers. They swing their hammers destroying all 3 to bits but Ice-Man continues breathing more at a rapid pace. The Ice Climbers smack some ice chunks from their hammers clashing with some ice slashers shattering them, and then jump over the rest and run away splitting up in opposite directions to confuse Ice-Man making him unsure of who to shoot at. The Ice Climbers then come rushing at him and both smack him with their hammers repeatedly in the face hurting him and stopping him from breathing ice blades. But, as they are doing so Ice-Man forms a cloud in the sky which hovers above them and drops snowflakes that freeze them into an icicle together.
Ice-Man: Well, that was easy. Don't let your guard down yet soldier! Look!
The Ice Climbers are chipping at the ice smacking with their hammers soon breaking out of the icicle but blue and chilly suffering extreme frostbite from the freezing, injured. Ice-Man immeadiately breathes an ice slasher at them but they block with their hammers which causes their hammers to become frozen solid. The Ice Climbers then retaliate by jumping directly in front of Ice-Man shooting an icy blizzard from their hands at Ice-Man but it does nothing.
Ice Climbers: WHAT?!
This leaves them vulnerable as Ice-Man takes out his ice pistol shooting sharp icicles at the Ice Climbers which pierces various parts of their skin causing bleeding and knocking them on their backs a few feet away from the force of it. Ice-Man then shoots a freezing beam at them but the Ice Climbers quickly get up roll out of the way and grab their hammers smacking them against each other to break the ice off and smack some ice chunks that hit Ice-Man damaging him a little while shattering his pistol disarming him. Ice-Man naturally retaliates by breathing more ice slashers but the Ice Climbers keep smacking ice chunks as dozens of both side's projectiles clash and shatter each other with this going nowhere. To get out of this stalemate, suddenly, Popo thinks of a plan.
Popo: Hey Nana! I have an idea, follow me to the top of that mountain!
The Ice Climbers run towards the mountain and start jumping up it but Ice-Man uses his ice manipulation to form many ice stalactites on the mountain that start falling down on the Ice Climbers. However they manage to dodge all of them and the Ice Climbers then reach the top anyway.
Ice-Man: Targets are escaping! Initiate mobile trackdown!
Ice-Man shoots out an ice slasher but this time he sets it underneath himself to ride as a snowboard up he mountain. But he had taken the Ice Climbers bait as they start smacking more ice chunks with their hammers that slide down the mountain towards him. Ice-Man swerves left and right to precisely dodge the first several ice chunks but then gets hit by one knocking him off his ice slasher snowboard and falling far down below crashing through the ice into the water.
Nana: Yay we did it!
Popo: Victory!
The Ice Climbers jump up and down in joy but they celebrated too soon as Ice-Man jumped back out of the water with some damage but still functioning fine.
Nana: What?! How could any man survive that fall?
Popo: I don't think this is a man we're dealing with. It's a machine.
Suddenly Ice-Man from the distance summons more icicles to fall on the Ice Climbers up on the mountain as they start to run and slide down the mountain to escape.
Ice-Man: Commander! How do I extermimate these organic replicas of myself? Organic! The answer is right before you soldier! These mere mortals cannot withstand getting hit by the freezing temperature of the ice sla...
Ice-Man's psychotic monologue is interrupted by the Ice Climbers suddenly arriving at the surface and before he can react, the Ice Climbers jump up and slam him with their hammers with enough force to crash him back through the ice. Underwater, the Ice Climbers continuously smash Ice-Man with their hammers but Ice-Man summons ice stalactites to fall from above which repeatedly pelt them taking damage forcing them to swim and smash through the remaining ice stalactites with their hammers as they soon barely break through and escape jumping in opposite directions landing on ice platforms but worse for wear with the aforementioned icicles piercing all over their skin.
Ice-Man quickly comes crashing through the ice and shoots an ice slasher at Nana who tries to retaliate with her hammer but is too weak as the hammer simply bounces off the ice slasher, as the ice slasher then hits her freezing her solid.
Popo: NANA!!!
Popo runs to Nana and smashes the ice around her repeatedly breaking the top off but it's no use. She is already dead from the extremely cold temperature.
Popo: NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ice-Man: One target eliminated sir! Very good soldier but one more remains!
Popo cries in sadness which soon turns to anger as he turns to Ice-Man.
Popo: I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!!!
The angry Popo charges at Ice-Man air swinging his hammer on Ice-Man's head but all it does is create a metal clanking sound with no damage or knockback since Popo is too weak on his own. Ice-Man stands there unphased and then quickly breathes an ice slasher directly on Popo freezing him solid in an icicle killing him. Ice-Man then kicks Popo and Nana's icicles into the water as they sink down deep below.
Ice-Man: Excellent work soldier! Well, it's just like you said commander. A good soldier always stays cool in battle.
RESULTS[]
MadMaxPyro: ... That was cold.
Max: Now it's time to lay down the cold hard facts. The Ice Climbers may have the power of teamwork but it wasn't enough. Sure, the Ice Climbers have no trouble dealing with extremely cold temperatures on a regular basis but Ice-Man's ice attacks are a whole new level of cold especially the ice slasher which freezes foes at a temperature of -200 degrees! That's a temperature no normal human can survive and unfortunately the Ice Climbers aren't superhuman. They could only dodge this attack for so long, once they got hit at least once it was game over for each of them.
MadMaxPyro: Also, ice attacks were not so effective on Ice-Man as shown in MegaMan games he takes miniscule damage from his own element so the ice chunks did little damage. Plus being a robot he's immune to the cold temperature aspect of ice and was specifically designed to be immune to any aspect of cold so the Ice Climbers hand attack that normally freezes foes was completely useless on him. So really the main thing that the Ice Climbers had to attack with was their hammers which is bad because Ice-Man i'snt the kind of opponent a regular human would want to be fighting in melee range.
Max: Plus, considering the fact that the Ice Climbers are regular humans they don't have superhuman strength so it's unreasonable to say that their wooden hammers would be able to even dent a metal robot like Ice-Man.
MadMaxPyro: Those poor two little kids. Ice-Man sure is COLD, he needed to CHILL out.
Max: The winner is Ice-Man.
TRIVIA
This is the first MadMaxPyro death battle where the villain wins.