Freeze Screens 7, 8 - Rush Search

Do We Get Rush Search?

Any% can collect Rush Search for a chance at getting the "Good Boy Skip", you must acquire Rush Search. You can do that best on this screen for any% (technically you could get Auto's Super Bolt and buy it, but that is...slow...and expensive).

Follow the strats on this page and just stay up top the extra jump to get Rush Search if you want it. It's otherwise not required and does not impact the rest of the run, and only loses a few seconds if you try it.

Obviously(?) 100% runs should collect Rush Search here anywayanyway. This is especially true since Rush Search can find secret versions of just about every upgrade needed for 100% to avoid buying them at the shop, including the Exit Module later in this very stage.

Screen 7 - Top Route

There isn't too much to screen 7 - just slide, jump the pits, and stay on top. Also Quick Swap to T. Strike.

There is a 2 tile gap placed at an awkward location for sliding over between floating platforms 2 and 3, so just jump it - Mega Man's first slide might end off the ledge and hopping is faster than restarting the slide.

Stay up top the whole time if you are collecting Rush Search (on the 5th high platform)

In either case, drop into the gap between platforms 4 and 5. Fire a T. Strike at the green turret on the way down. 

If you miss the turret, just jump and shoot it. The floor enemy will probably hit you, just don't fall in the pit. Better to take the damage than a death.

Continue sliding to the end, but at the end of the screen, full jump into the transition. This should be from the end of the third non-ice platform, before the bigger drop-off. Just like Screen 1 and 2, hold Up and Right through this transition.

Screen 8

Screen 8 is a polar bear guarding an E-Tank. If you finished screen 7 properly, you should grab the ladder and quickly climb to screen 9.

If you miss the jump, don't fight the bear. Quickly jump to the next screen.

You can grab the e-tank if you want, but there are no real good strats for it. Try killing the bear the Junk or just D-Boosting if you trust your health, but this one is more trouble than it's worth.