Wily smiled happily as he carried Vinyl to the lab with him the next day. Well, carried was a bit of a stretch. He'd tried holding her in his arms, but she'd squirmed and wriggled until he'd released her, at which point she'd promptly climbed up him onto his head. Since that was apparently her favorite perch when moving, he decided to let her ride. He greeted those who looked at him with a smile and a wave, and Vinyl mirrored his actions. He found the dropped jaws as they realized the unicorn on his head wasn't a fashion statement much more entertaining than the laughter he'd gotten before.
He'd left the sonic disruptor in his apartment, in the secret arsenal that opened when he pushed the toilet handle up instead of down. He didn't want to reveal to Dr. Light - or the ones who had commissioned their project - to realize just how advanced Vinyl was...yet. Beyond that, the possibilities of sonic technology - if he could figure out how she did it - were mind boggling.
Of course, the moment Vinyl had seen the arsenal, she'd tried to get at all the weapons to test them out. He'd woken up 17 times last night to take a weapon away from her and put it back. Finally, he'd locked the bathroom door...only to be awoken by the sound of his shower head being obliterated by a plasma blast and the discovery that Vinyl had learned how to use that aura she generated to pick locks. He made a mental note to study that and figure out how that energy worked.
At the lab, Dr. Light looked up at him. "Didn't leave her at the apartment?" he asked curiously.
Wily managed to look aghast. "Really, Tom? Leave an infant unattended for an entire day? What a terrible parent you'd be!" As Vinyl hopped down from his head, he watched her with a smirk. "Figured she might want to see more of our work."
Dr. Light raised an eyebrow. "Couldn't get her off your head, eh Al?"
Wily chuckled and rolled his eyes. "At any rate, I'm going to go take a closer look at the Robot Masters' code. Check for bugs and the like."
"Try to keep an eye on her," Light groaned. "I'm still worn out from repairing Rock and Roll yesterday."
Nodding, Wily headed to the computer room, plugging the 6 Robot Masters into the central computer to examine the code. While he did check for bugs, his primary interest was in checking how the override program he'd given them to install was progressing.
While he worked, Vinyl raced around the lab, chasing the various shiny and noisy toys he'd scattered around for her specifically to keep her distracted during this part of his work. He did notice that she seemed to spend a lot of time at the toy turntable...which he didn't remember putting there. Noticing Protoman in the corner pretending not to be watching Vinyl play, Wily couldn't help but smirk. Protoman was the only robot in the lab specifically designed for combat, though his refusal to take orders was both baffling and made him useless to the people who'd commissioned him. As he seemed to vanish if anyone other than Wily, Light, or now Vinyl looked at him, the two Doctors had told everyone that he'd run off shortly after completion. Thankfully, they had bought that story. Protoman was so good at hiding that even Rock and Roll didn't know of his existence.
Protoman had always been a loner, deciding his own path. He also didn't trust anyone, not letting either Light or Wily repair him or look at his code. He was also the only robot who could probably stand against Wily's plans with the Robot Masters. But if Vinyl was wrapping him around her hoof, and she wanted to help... He couldn't stop himself from chuckling at how things were falling into place for him.
In response to his chuckle, Vinyl turned towards him with a huge smile. She leapt up onto the computer, turning around on the keyboard as she clicked random keys with her hooves as she turned to face him, looking adoringly up at him. Hearing the clicking of the keys, though, she glanced down at the keyboard. Moving her hooves, she saw the keys depress with a click-clack and gasped happily. She then proceeded to dance on the keyboard, a rapid clickety-clack filling the room as seemingly random lines of code appeared on the screen.
"Vinyl!" Wily snapped. "Don't do that!" He quickly pulled her off the keyboard.
Vinyl, for her part, giggled happily, snuggling into his embrace.
Shaking his head, Wily tried to examine the lines of code she'd wound up typing in.
"@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg"...
Wily struggled to make sense of what had been typed in, but it was absolute nonsense as far as he could tell. "No way I can let this be in the Robot Masters. It'd fry their circuitry." Reaching out, he pressed 'Delete' to start erasing the nonsense code.
As soon as 'Delete' was pressed, however, the screen started flashing error messages. As best as Wily could tell from it all, it looked like the computer was trying to connect to the internet, but there wasn't an existing net connection, a security precaution given the nature of their work. After a time of the screen flashing randomly, everything returned to normal.
"That...was strange," Wily murmured.
"No kidding," Protoman replied. "What the heck happened?"
"Let me see..." Wily went over all the code in the system, but didn't find any anomalies. However, he did find something unusual in the Robot Masters' coding. New 'if/then' protocols were present in their personality subroutines, but the qualifiers for activation - and the results - were deeply encoded in the same nonsense code Vinyl had typed up...and Wily couldn't delete them. At first he thought of telling Light to get his help fixing this...until he noticed the way the new lines of code connected to each Robot Master's 'Master Power' was reminiscent of Protoman's combat code. The new code also connected back to the new program he'd added...which meant bringing Light in would reveal the nature of that program. It wasn't time for that yet.
"...I think we can pretend this didn't happen," Wily muttered, more to himself than to Protoman. Not that Protoman was listening at this point. Vinyl had found a whistle and was playing a tune he seemed to find fascinating.
Awesome.
Really random freakzoid code
I can't believe you put that code in this story....
Soon Vinyl, you will learn the art of ham from the master, then no one will be able to dislike you.
super intelligent genius vynil! yay!
more please!
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Someone caught the reference!
Sonic technology eh?
Metal Sonic: Hey, what about me?
Shut up, you're not from this franchise
But really, great chapter from a great author.
No wonder Vinyl is very tricky to handle and care for.
6337021 if it had to connect to the Internet that's the only possibility. Still amusing use of it.
Tatsurou my friend you have done it again and now...*Hnnng, grabs chest*
Super pone extraordinaire, Freakamare, Freakamare!
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I caught it when he pressed Delete.
And yes, I admit I went and looked it up to make sure you had the same sequence of keystrokes.
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The really funny thing about it?
The original bug was discovered when the show's MC's cat jumped on the keyboard, and he pushed delete to get rid of the nonsense code.
I guess this isn't a... Fixed Musical number.
Guess he doesn't really like... The Rolling Stones*.
*Note: Just wordplay as I have zero idea if they actually are rock music, never listened but just used their name for puns so calm down before anyone tries to nerd rage at me.
Huh. So Wily and Light use Pentacle Chips in their computers. Who knew?
6337235 yes. they are literally named after musical stuff.
Let it never be said that Light and Wily put thier past at bandcamp behind them...
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Oh yeah, I know. I'm a big fan of Freakazoid from way back when it first aired.
6337310 Oh, that part I know but the type of music they make I don't know just to make things clearer.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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Don't worry. Rolling Stones are rock and roll.
Love the Freakazoid shout out, can't wait to see how if effects the Robot Masters. And apparently Protoman is the champion of Hide and Seek:
he'd have snuck up behind the announcer and taken him out in a second.
6337310 I'm still surprised neither one made a Rhythm or Rhyme girl bot. Hey 6337021, what if Wily made a pair of female robots named that to be Vinyl's caretakers when he's to busy or fighting???
Blows everything up everywhere, Freak-a-Pone, Freak-a-Pone~
Generates Wubs in underwear, Freak-a-Pone, Freak-a-Pone~
She's gonna save the nation, by causing devastation~
Wubs will conquer the whole world, Freak-a-Pone, Freak-a-Pone~
(Had to make BS lyrics with that title XD)
Freakazoid?! Really?!
Ugh.
I kid; nice move there.
I love Protoman's theme!
Obligatory theme song GO!
Possible Freakazoid reference?
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So how long do you think it will be before the people making Super Hero movies make one for him. I mean, they're doing one for Deadpool and Ant Man, so why not Freakazoid?
6356644 He doesn't really count since he doesn't originate from a comic book series. You said it yourself that Deadpool and Ant-Man are movies but they originally originated from comics.
The title had me sing the theme song. Then the delete button came up on the computer scene
ALL TOGETHER NOW!!! Do do doooo~ do doooo~ do do doo doo do do dooooo~
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Ah yes, Protoman was originally build as a musical robot... right?
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Depends on who you ask. The Archie Comics confirm an old fan-theory that the Sniper Joes are the production models that Proto Man was the prototype for. Though with a much less powerful AI.
That said... I wonder where Time Man and Oil Man have run off to. Don't tell me they've been forgotten!
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All the superhero movies coming out today are Marvel and DC. Freakazoid! is Warner Brothers.
The best programming language, of course:
Say hello to the aptly-named "brainfuck" programming language. The above prints the lyrics to the song "99 Bottles of Beer".
Thank you Google for finding this reference for me just by putting in that code.
rs1227.pbsrc.com/albums/ee424/Kallanda_Lee/tumblr_ln1yz1evsO1qcmmsi.gif?w=480&h=480&fit=clip
Vinyl's a bit of a tech-wizard, isn't she? Yes, I find that a little funny.
...am I missing something by not understanding that line of code?
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Look up "Freakazoid".
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No wonder I never encountered it. Aired at such early saturday mornings at the very end of the 90's it would be imposible to encounter.
Thank you for the lead.
i cant find an image of donald trump saying "OOOOOOH!" on the internet you know... hands flapping and saying it? i think that image would be appropriate here. to show a loose representation of how some people feel about this cuteness overload moment.
Last time I checked the first game had only 6 robot masters
Ice man
Fire man
Elec man
Bomb man
Cut man and
Guts man
Don't know if it was a typo or something
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he may of had a little flub since after 1 it was usually 8. That and Powered Up added 2 more to fit in with the other entries number wise.
Delete
FreekOut
FreakaScratch, Freakasee.
and thus, the most chaotic change to the entire mega universe occurred from vinyl's antics... THE FREAK-A-CODE, though imagine if it was allowed to access the internet, wily as freakazoid would be hilarious to see, also more interactions with wily and vinyl are always fun to see, still as good as i remembered on my first read around, onto the next chapter.