Time travel

The Time Skimmer is the device that Dr. Wily used to travel to the future during the events of Mega Man II.

Shortly after the events of Mega Man 4, Doctor Wily learns of a top-secret government project to create an experimental time-machine known as the Time Skimmer at the Chronos Institute. He proceeds to steal it, and uses it to travel approximately 37.426 years in the future. While in the future (approximately the year 2048), he experiments with the technology of the age and reprograms the future version of Mega Man, taking him back to his own time and renaming him Quint.

The Time Skimmer also features into the antagonist from Mega Man & Bass: Challenger from the Future, Rockman Shadow. Shadow is apparently also a modified Mega Man from the same future as Quint, although it is not explained how there are two Mega Men in this future.