Inferno

"Investigate and stop the uprising at the disposal center."

- Stage description

Inferno, known as Drop Dead in Japan, is Burn Rooster's stage in Mega Man X8. It is a waste disposal center that uses the heat of a volcano to incinerate garbage, including scrapped Mavericks. It appears to be located in South America, border of Argentina and Chile.

Description
The stage begins in a vertical tunnel full of platforms which automatically scrolls downwards, forcing the player to jump down the platforms. After this, there is a sub-boss room with either Vile or an abundance of fiery Mine-Qs to fight. Next there is a long, vertical shaft full of spikes and machinery. There is then another vertical auto-scroller segment, which leads right into Burn Rooster's boss chamber. After Burn Rooster's defeat, the volcano's control system goes out of control and the Hunters must escape the flowing magma through the mouth of the volcano to teleport away.

This is also an Intermission stage, acting as an endurance test.

Enemies

 * Batton Bone S
 * Bindholder
 * Float Gunner
 * Guardroid HIG
 * Guardroid LIG
 * Megabyoall
 * Mine-Q
 * Skyroid

Items

 * Foot Parts H: After the sub-boss room, there is a dark vertical tunnel where the capsule can easily be seen. After going underneath it, carefully climb the wall on the left, avoiding the spike patches, to reach it.
 * Rare Metal - T Breaker: In the same dark room, travel all the way to the bottom and use Axl to get the Skyroid's DNA. Then, climb back up near the top to find a small pipe, and copy the Skyroid to fly through the pipe and find the Rare Metal.
 * Rare Metal - Weapon Tank: Before going down the second auto-scrolling shaft, jump up the platforms and air dash to the right to find a room where two Guardroids are protecting a Rare Metal.
 * Rare Metal - Double Barrier (X): In that dark room, there will eventually be a Bindholder. Use Juuhazan with Zero's T-Breaker to break the floor and find the Rare Metal in a box. Oddly when you get the message about it with Layer as your navigator, she says that it'd be breakable with a good kick, but the K Knuckle doesn't break it.