Not only do we beat another pair of Mavericks, we get some much-needed upgrades on the side.
Blast Hornet
There is a Robot Ride armor located upwards shortly after the start.
When you reach the first set of doors, a dragonfly will show up and create a hologram of a three-dimensional eight-point star. When this thing immediately stars rolling, shoot at it whenever it comes towards you so it jumps right over you and bounces off the wall on its way down. When it stops in the other side of the room, it will go even faster. Avoid it as it makes a complete lap around the room by climbing up the walls and across the ceiling, and hit it with some powerful X-Buster shots. It will then continue to alternate between these two patterns.
After you take this mini-boss down, you'll come across some hangars. The second bridge is collapsible, so shoot the boxes on it to open it up. You can also go to the right side of the last one and open the cracked walls up with the Tornado Fang if you have it.
You'll find some interesting stuff in the pits that you'll find while destroying some more boxes. The first is the Normal Robot Ride armor. Just destroy the robot holding it hostage. Not only will you get this Robot Ride armor, but you'll finally get the ability to use the Robot Ride platform and pick whichever armor you want.
Just before the second set of doors, go up the building and go right. There's the Heart Tank for this stage.
After you've taken down two Mavericks, you'll face Bit in the second empty room. (Bit also shows up in the empty rooms of three other areas in the game.) Bit has three attacks. The first is a ring that he throws from his helmet that flies around the room and freezes you if it touches you. The second is a dash attack where he jumps up in the air and vertically tracks you, dashing at your current position as soon as you're lined up with him. The third are fireballs that will track X, forcing him to stay on the move.
Bit is weakest to the Frost Shield, believe it or not. If you're low to the ground, any Frost Shields left on the ground can do as much damage as those fired directly at him. If your final blow to Bit is dealt with this weapon, he'll die instead of flee.
The third section is a drop down with conveyor belts, followed by destroying (and avoiding) exploding boxes.
If you have Gravity Well, this is the easiest fight in the world. Equip it, then keep mashing the Y button and don't let him touch you. Easiest boss battle ever. If you mash the button fast enough, the bomb bugs and the stingers won't even fire.
Another attack he has is a glowing red light that homes in on you. This is the Parasitic Bomb, and it will explode if it touches you.
Beating Blast Hornet gives you the Parasitic Bomb. This shoots a bomb forward.
When you go back to the World Map in the stage select screen with the Helmet enhancement, you'll be able to find out what secrets are in which stage. If they're red, you haven't found them yet. If they're grey, you have.
Tunnel Rhino
There will be robots carrying rocks...until they drop the rocks after you get close enough. Then they try to shoot missiles at you.
The green wall robots will shoot up to a ceiling, then the face will slowly spin its way downward. Shoot the face, and you'll get rid of the "wall."
There is a fork in the path shortly after the start. Take the left one to continue. You can keep moving past conveyor belts and falling mud, then climb up a wall to get another Sub-Tank.
The blue crab robots shooting small balls of lightning to the sides. These will do a lot of damage if you touch them. These balls can also be charged up to a larger size to do even more damage, and can bounce off the walls twice before disappearing.
The purple drill tanks wil move forward and shoot explosive balls until you're close enough, then they'll shoot their drills. When you destroy one, both drills will come at you.
You'll also deal with large rocks. Some will fall straight from the ceiling, and others will roll towards you.
You'll see a rock tied down by ropes. Unfortunately, you won't be able to see what's beyond that for the time being.
The mid-boss is a tank robot that just keeps running into the wall. Wall jump up the left wall a little bit to avoid the spike, then hit the robot's head with a charged-up X-Buster shots.
Tunnel Rhino will dash from one side of the room to the other. That's all he does. Sometimes he will put on the brakes just before hitting the wall and jab forward with his drill hand. Every once in a awhile he'll stand still and fire drill missiles forward. Sometimes, he'll shoot missiles from those pointy shoulders of his that fly diagonally into the air whenever he does a dashing jab.
If Tunnel Rhino starts flashing numerous colors, he's invincible. Wait for him to stop flashing before you shoot him again.
Beating Tunnel Rhino gives you the Tornado Fang. It's a drill missile! Press Y twice and you'll be able to fire three missiles instead of one.
Neon Tiger
Return to the cracked dark brown wall when you get the Tornado Fang. You'll be able to break that wall with it. Dash jump to the right to avoid all the spikes below and you'll get the arm enhancement, which adds another charge level to your X-Buster - which allows you to shoot two charged shots at once and also combine them to make an even bigger one - and allows you to charge up special weapons.
Blast Hornet
Remember the cracked hangar wall to the left we couldn't destroy at first? Well, now that you have the Tornado Fang, you can! Keep breaking walls to the left and you'll eventually come across an underground hangar where you will find a Robot Ride armor. Destroy the robot holding it and you will get the Chimera Robot Ride Armor and the ability to use the Robot Ride platforms. From here, you can ride an elevator up and head back to ground level.
Also, when you make a certain amount of headway in Blast Hornet's stage, when you take the lift at the beginning, the red robots that shoot the missiles at you turn green. Unlike their red counterparts, they don't shoot the grenades.
To use the Robot Ride Armor pad, step onto it when you get the Chimera armor. Press B to back out, and use the Control Pad and press Y to choose an armor out of the ones that you have. To leave the armor, hold Up and either Left or Right on the Control Pad and press B. You can also use the pad while in a Robot Ride to heal damage to the armor.
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