10: Sickness
When Mega Man reached the teleportation dock to get back to Light's Lab, he was surprised to discover it was on lock down, with Typhon standing guard over it. "Typhon, what's going on?" he demanded. "Why can't I teleport down?"
"Quarantine," Typhon explained firmly, his voice as monotone as ever. "No teleportation to or from Sky Lagoon until the situation is resolved."
"What situation?" Mega Man countered. "I need to get back to Light Labs for a retrofit and maintenance! How am I supposed to get there if I can't teleport?"
"You can jump," Typhon offered bluntly.
"Over here, Mega Man!" Albert called out before Mega Man could respond. "I'm taking a shuttle down to Light Labs myself today. You can ride with me. I can explain what's going on in transit."
Shaking his head, Mega Man raced over to join Albert on his way to the shuttle. "So what's this about a quarantine?" he demanded intensely. "And why didn't Vinyl mention it?"
"Because I haven't told her about it," Albert explained calmly. "Her entire focus has been on the Mars project, first trying to break through the communications static while you were on Mars, and then making sure nothing interfered with your shuttle's safe return. You have been gone for an entire month, after all."
Mega Man nodded as they reached the shuttle. "I know. That's why I need to get back for repairs and the like. But why a quarantine?"
"That's rather difficult to explain," Albert explained nervously. "It seems that a great many robots...are getting sick."
Mega Man stared at Albert flatly. "...what?"
"It's as surprising to me as to you," Wily explained as the shuttle lifted off, heading for the land below. "We've managed to determine it's a virus of some sort, at least as far as it interacting with robotics, but it appears to be airborne."
"That's impossible!" Mega Man countered. "A computer virus can't be airborne!"
"Thus the confusion and dilemma," Wily confirmed. "The physiological symptoms resemble the common cold amongst humans, but it only seems to be affecting robots...and not all robots at that. We've yet to determine a common factor as to the robots that are affected, or a method of correcting it."
"So why are you heading down to Light Labs?" Mega Man asked curiously. "And why the ban on teleporting?"
"Because as of yet, there have been no infections on Sky Lagoon," Wily explained. "We intend to keep it that way. No teleportations, and any shuttles coming up have to have robots on board. We know the incubation period of how long after exposure symptoms are exhibited, and each shuttle is kept quarantined that long. No one disembarks unless that time elapses with no symptoms showing. We aren't taking any chances. As for the trip to Light Labs, I've been working with Dr. Light to try and isolate the exact nature of the program causing these problems so it can be stopped, so we can create a cure program."
"While that makes sense, doesn't that mean you have a robot down there you're working from?" Mega Man asked worriedly. "Who do you have that's already infected?"
Albert was silent for a time. As the shuttle pulled into the Light Labs dock, he finally spoke up. "...Roll."
Rock stared through the quarantine glass at where Roll lay in a med scanner, groaning as she tossed back and forth. "Is...is she going to be okay?" he asked worriedly.
"She should be," Dr. Light spoke up calmly, working quickly with the data he and Dr. Wily had managed to gather. "She's in the early stages of infection, only been a couple of days since she started showing symptoms. If we're able to analyze it completely, we should be able to cure her before she goes into shut down...or further."
"Shut down?" Rock demanded in shock. "Further?"
"It's the progression of symptoms as we've recorded so far," Dr. Wily explained. "First, symptoms resembling the common cold. This is soon followed by weakness and loss of motor functions, resulting in what you see Roll demonstrating now. After that, internal temperature controls go awry, and any artificial bio-systems - such as the newer model digestive systems that more closely resemble the human digestive tract, like what you yourself have - shut down. Then the higher brain functions shut down. Then..."
Rock turned to face the doctors. "Then what?" he demanded.
"Then they reactivate in a berserker state," Dr. Light finally spoke up. "The first eight Robot Masters who showed infection have already gone rogue and are rampaging."
Rock staggered back in shock. "But...why haven't they been stopped?"
"And who would we send?" Dr. Wily asked flatly. "If we send other Robot Masters, they could end up infected. If we send ordinary robots...well, the Robot Master circuitry is still fully functional, so you know where that would lead. And unfortunately, the areas the infected Robot Masters are rampaging in have become too dangerous for human troops, and we've yet to get a mech unit in close enough to make a difference."
"Or in essence, this is exactly the same situation every time you or Vinyl were attempting world takeovers, except we don't know what's causing it," Rock translated. "Isn't that right?"
Dr. Wily bowed his head. "In essence..." he mumbled ruefully. "I don't really like admitting it, though."
"In that case, the solution is the same," Rock concluded. "I go in, defeat the rogue Robot Masters, and bring back data on their infections for a clearer picture on how to combat it."
"Not alone you don't," a familiar voice spoke up from back in the lab.
Turning, Rock's eyes widened. "P-Prometheus? Forte? What are you two doing here?"
"What does it look like we're doing?" Forte asked as he triggered his armor, preparing for battle. "Like we'd trust this to just you."
Rock smirked. "Well, it'll be interesting for us to be fighting together again...Bass." With that, he summoned his own armor units. "Let's go!"
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Welp, they're screwed. This shall be epic!
MAVERICK IS FINALLY HAPPENING, WOO!!!
Is this...the early stages of the Maverick Virus, or something related to the real plot of Mega Man 10?
Let's get ready to rumble!!!
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It's the plot of MM10.
Yeah, a computer virus doing something that it shouldn't possibly do? How absurd, we have easy-to-disable hard light projections for that.
So since this is a Tatsurou story, there doesn't seem to be any appearance of Roll outside of the consistent expy in the sister story, and there are dark forces at work, I'm guessing she's gonna die. RIP Roll, we hardly knew ye.
All three of them working together at the same time???? Excuse me while I bounce around my room squealing in glee.
*Five minutes of bouncing and squealing later*
Ehem. Anyway... whatever they go up against is TOAST. And that doesn't include if they bring along Rush and Treble for Super Adapters.
Oh yeah, and we need to see Splash Woman give Forte a big deep kiss that makes everyone blush and turn away after this adventure.
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Maybe not, she does suffer with this illness during this game. I think she will be fine but Rock will die. From what I understand he did come down with it during the game.
7556854 Hmm, I'm thinking more of a scenario where he'll have to fight a nigh unbeatable foe, so he sacrifices himself as a symbol for others to follow in one of the most epic displays involving drills in any medium.
i.ytimg.com/vi/grAm7NPdyCY/maxresdefault.jpg
Of course, the finale of a Kirby game would be the first thing that pops into your mind, and not a fairly popular anime that also has drills in it.
Knew what was coming, but still...this jumped into m' head upon seeing the title (yes, this recording specifically).
(has coarse lyrics, should not play if you or those around you are adverse to f-bombs)
7556762 And they can't be the same thing why? Seriously, Tat's has already linked his 2 Megaman stories, why wouldn't he for this?
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Gurren Lagann would like to raise it's hand. Plus it is just that awesome.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good work.
7556942 Right, that's the joke. The bit from Planet Robobot isn't too shabby, either.
I'm glad they're all teaming up, much like the actual Mega Man 10. Bass' shop theme is good to listen to.
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Blade Man should be like Mihawk. Strike Man should be like Craig T. Nelson's Coach, maybe? Or just an aggressive coach altogether. Pump Man could be the butt of his own joke. Nitro Man could have a 'Notice me' senpai attitude towards Turbo Man. Meh, I shouldn't say so much
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...I wasn't saying it wasn't possible, I was clarifying that this is, indeed, so far following the plot of Megaman 10 for someone who had not apparently played it.
I'm guessing that this sickness, which I'm going to assume is the roboenza, was released on the Earth while Megaman was busy dealing with the out-of-control robots on Mars. And, really unlike the conquests of Dr. Wily which were separated by a year each, these two incidents, if separated by any amount of time, seem to be just a month apart. Just looking at the evident and possible time separation, that there is a disparity from Wily's plans.
At any rate, I won't ask questions about how the story's going to end. I'll just enjoy the ride to its conclusion.
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Ditto.
Curiouser and curiouser. Unfortunately I don't have enough clues to point at anyone/thing more specifically than 'those who want Sky Lagoon to fail.' Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
I'm curious if we are still in the normal Megaman games or if we went into "Megaman & Bass"
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Megaman 10 had DLC that let you play as Bass/Forte.
7557831 Ok only game from this megaman style I had played with them good guys was "Megaman & Bass" so I wasn't sure, though I have a feeling if it wasn't already planned for this line up I may have just added it to your list
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Megaman and Bass takes place after 7, I'm pretty sure. So it's not happening in this story.
7557890 Ok
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Megaman & Bass took place between 8 and 9
7556739 Possily both: it's hella unclear, and fat fucking chance we'll ever get any additional canon info from Capcom or Inafune. MM10 DOES have 'Roboenza', so that is canon. And it seems Tats is adding a bit of the Rage Virus to it.
Some may/may-not-be canon: cut part of the Rockman Zero Collection website: http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Rockman_Zero_Collection_Timeline
Anywho: Fan speculation has been that MM8's Evil Energy and MM10's Roboenza were going to be the components to what would later (in the timeline) become the Maverick/Sigma virus (tho should note: 8 was released in '96, X2 I think is the first proper mention of Sigma's viral nature/"The Maverick Virus" (with X1's ending just having Sigma say "my 'program' is intact"), was released in '94, and MM10 was a Wii Shop release in 2010). That cut Timeline says that X has 'perfect viral countermeasures' in Light's response to an 'alien (ie: extraterrestrial) computer virus'; one would presume that's a within-lore-wording of Evil Energy, but that's not concrete.
But, it goes on to say that the Maverick/Sigma Virus is a mutation of the 'alien virus' that X was specifically designed to be a countermeasure to, having been in stasis with Zero--- along with some fuzziness in that it was in the capsule with him, but only infected him after his and Sigma's fight, and that "making an evil robot, then have them turn maverick" means "they turn good," but the virus had been leaking out and causing infections, and thus instigating the creation of the Maverick Hunters, before Zero got out.
Oh, don't forget the whole "Mother Elf" bullshit, which leads to Wier's soul infecting a different colony's wreckage to make biometals, which leads to ZX, while in the meantime Robo-aparttheid happens, then I think the Carbons of the Legends series is suppose to means that humans and reploids are effectively extinct and the Carbons are the hybrid child species, and yeah: shit gets complicated.
Also, Ra Moon may have something to do with it, as well-- but that's in the Archie comics.
I don't suposse they can't just put a back-up or something like that from before they got ill.
I imagine this is why the switch to reploids, and the first cases of Maverick incidents and appropriate response practices.
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That was almost as convoluted and wtf as the Zelda timeline.
Aww, hell.
Hmn, so a virus that renders the infected robots into senseless berserkers. I feel like I'm jumping at shadows, but could this finally be the cataclysm?
Nice way of introducing what may be roboenza into the story.
At the end, I thought Mega Man taunted Forte with the name Bass (the fish) instead of Bass (The stringed instrument/deeper section of sound).
You kidding me right, computer viruses do travel by air, this is why I always have my Bluetooth disabled, and I only use it when I need it. Long ago noob me already burned my first cellphone with the virus that traveled by air
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Wireless signal is still a controlled transmission. Not the same as airborne.
This is like saying your phone caught a cold because someone coughed on it.
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yikes. i don't have a cell phone... well, actually i do, but i don't have a service plan so i just do it for games, watching videos and writing sometimes. i use my tablet more, though. wait, am i rambling again?
I'm calling it right now, Kalinka is behind this.
>>lightningman
Nah its gotta be her dad
Why do I have a bad feeling that Cossack is behind this...?
wait a minute... AIRBORNE VIRUS, HIGH INTELECT, my god, it has to be... HIM... it's all starting to make sense now, who could design this type of robot, who was vile enough to design a robot that BROKE the laws of robotics without a care for human life... who designed a robot.. WITH AN AIRBORNE WEAPON, the only being mad enough from what i can tell... WAS SKUNKMAN'S CREATOR...