As the realization that they'd been puppeted by Sigma settled in, X, Zero, Octavia, and Axl all leveled their busters at the Maverick. "What did you do with Redips, Sigma?" X demanded angrily.
Sigma cackled wickedly. "What did I do with Redips? Oh you poor naive fool...I was Redips all along!"
"What?" Zero demanded in shock. "But...then why...? Was it all just to get back into power?"
"Actually-" Epsilon began.
"Shut up, cheap knock off!" Sigma snapped angrily. "This is my big moment, and they want me to talk! You are going to shut up and let me have my moment!" Once Epsilon subsided, Sigma turned back to the others. "From the first moment you met 'Redips', it was me. At first it was a remote Reploid drone I controlled...but once Copy Chip technology became available, I installed it into my own body and took his place. What safer place from your wrath than amongst your allies, after all?
"As for my plan..." Sigma chuckled darkly. "As long as you lot are the heroes and I am the villain, I can't win. So if I wanted to win, I had to make you the villains...and I knew just how to do it! I saw how fierce you became, X and Zero, when Octavia was threatened. How much more fierce would you be when you experienced having children? When it was those who sprung from your loins? So I made certain Gate completed his research and created Armatige.
"But it's not just you two I needed to shift," Sigma continued darkly. "Prometheus...he's a very dangerous relic of the past like you lot. I had to take him out of the action. So I tweaked Armatige's personality core while she was being constructed...so she would click perfectly with him. What better excuse to retire than having a loving wife, children, and not being needed? And with that proof that the technology worked...it was only a matter of time before things were in place."
"...that's why the New Type Reploids made sure we knew they were a threat to Omega and the others," Zero deduced angrily. "You wanted us to cut loose and stop caring!"
"Exactly!" Sigma declared. "The world saw you as heroes, defenders of justice! As long as you accepted that, I could not conquer you even if I defeated you. To tear you down from that...I had to drag you to the level of police - what you were meant to be all along as Maverick Hunters - upholding the law. When you reached the point that when the law says you didn't have to show mercy...you didn't. To turn you from Captain America to Judge Dredd. And once you stopped holding back...the whole world would see the monsters you really are."
"You really think you'll sway that much world opinion with one broadcast?" Massimo demanded irritably. "X, Zero, Axl, Octavia...they're known as heroes world wide! They have high ranked allies who know them personally! You really think you can convince them?"
"That's the beauty of it, you bumbling buffoon!" Sigma declared with a wicked laugh. "I don't want to convince those who know them personally. The very fact they do fits into my plans perfectly. Those in the world - officials or civilians - who do believe the broadcast will call for blood. Those who know you all personally will try to beg for calm, for reason...and be branded a part of your revolution! The world will descend into civil war and chaos...and I shall rise from it in the Ultimate Body created by the Binary Power of Ether, and take my rightful place as the God of Reploids!"
"You made one mistake!" Ferham snapped out angrily as she flared her engines. "You told us your plan before it was finished!" She charged forward, arms outstretched to tackle Sigma to the ground...only to pass right through him.
"That would be a mistake," Sigma cackled as his image flickered. "That is...if I were really here..." The image faded out. "If you still think you can stop me, come to my throne atop the tower where I look over my kingdom!"
"There's a teleporter over there!" Epsilon called out. "That must be where he went!" The group immediately took off in pursuit, in a desperate attempt to catch up with Sigma.
The other end of the teleporter led to plain corridors, elevators, and another warp pad. At the end of it all, the group found themselves in the chamber at the top of Jakob Tower, the interior completely colored golden as Sigma sat in a chair, circuitry connecting him to the room itself and the two pieces of Supra Force Metal orbiting each other in the massive dome directly above him. As he caught sight of the group, he grinned. "And my timing is perfect," he declared softly as energy began to arc through the room and the two chunks of Metal.
"What's that supposed to mean-" X began.
"Everyone out!" Epsilon roared out. "The room is designed to interface with his Copy Chip technology! When that ability gets supercharged by the Supra Force Metal, he'll be able to fully analyze the build code and abilities of everyone in the room, incorporating that data into his Ultimate Body!"
As everyone turned to try and leave, the door sealed shut. "And that's why I said my timing is perfect," Sigma purred wickedly. "You have just enough time to realize you've walked into my trap...and not enough time to escape it..."
The entire chamber blazed with light.
Well dang.
But can it copy ponies?
8157844 my thoughts too
Sigma: "BEHOLD MY ULTIMATE BODY!"
X: "...That...was more high pitched than anticipated..."
Sigma: "WHAT ARE YOU TALKI-Whoa why are you all so tall?"
Everyone looks down, Sigma is now a pony.
8157870 Please Tatsurou almighty include this in the story.
8157870 That would be so hilarious!
Hmm... Can't think of any puns this chapter.
Nah guys. I got one better. It can't copy ponies. So...
Next Chapter: Everyone Loses. Sigma too stronk, pls nerf.
Chapter After:
Whether Vinyl left Octy a Dues Ex Machina or Varia had something up its metaphorical sleeve or Octy gets her wings... Octavia shows him why you don't mess with ponies.
Or it might take a few more chapters. But I do suspect this is where Octy is going to hit true PWNY Bullshit Tier.
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Or perhaps he becomes Tirek...stealing powers and all that jazz.
8157870 i wanna see that!
I really hope that this be sigma's last run. I really want this twit to die off
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Took the words outta my mouth
You know what, this is turning out to be very similar to Vinyl's story. I am wondering though have they prevented the Zero games or has Sigma just set them going? Also Prometheus has backup and he didn't reach old age by being stupid so let's see him show Sigma how he did it when he young.
I just had a random thought has vinyl touch the cello in this story yet I will have to go back and reread to find out
I think this would be a good time to bring out the badass grandpas such as Prometheus, Duo, and Skull man because I can't remember what name he goes by now, and showing everyone that old robots still have relevant combat protocol.
8158142 Exactly. Retirement is a choice. Plus there's that Prometheus and Skull Man have always been more behind the scenes operators in this century than direct players, and it's easier to be forgotten as such when you "retire" because people will take that at face value.
Also, I suspect that Prometheus had Armatige checked out by the Vinyl/Albert Wily AI's for tampering, or if not they remotely checked anyway, and that Sigma's changes to her code to "make" her fall in love with him never had a chance to really take hold, meaning that it happened despite the tampering and their love would be real.
8158180 pre02.deviantart.net/b28d/th/pre/i/2013/063/f/0/cello_bass_cannon_by_zacatron94-d5wxfsk.png I really want to see this in-story.
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Thanks for that video. I'm just surprised that I haven't seen more 2Cellos videos posted here.
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Oh God, I REALLY hope it doesn't end like Vinyl's story, and I REALLY hope Sigma hasn't set things on the path to the Zero series...
And I thought Epsilon was an ass. Then again. Sigma did manipulate Maine to kill other Freel-
Wait, wrong Sigma.
Fully analyze the build code and abilities of everyone in the room, eh?
Tango isn't in the room. Piano isn't in the room. 'Classic' isn't in the room.
Unless he somehow managed to store some 'virus' energy from back before it was all reintegrated with Zero; he cannot replicate the binary reaction chamber that powers White Mode, and my gut tells me that the Etheric Reaction Chamber design is more efficient than anything Sigma's analysis can create utilizing the crystallized Ether that is Force Metal. One creates the source in pure form while the other relies on a version dug out of the ground.
Furthermore: While this would make Sigma an easy match for any ONE opponent, he is not facing one opponent. Strength in numbers exists for a reason.
Finally, we have Epsilon in the room along with Steel Massimo. One was designed to specifically counter Sigma and the other is, well, wearing armor rather than having been designed for combat.
8158330 That would be Dynamo, I believe
And now Sigma reaches Aizen levels of magnificent bastard. Let's hope he's hoist by his own petard in the chapters to come.
8157870 It'd be like when Veger became an ottsel in Jak 3
8158497 I see what you did there.
Wasn't the most bombastic of boss music, but I did like the BGM they put for Ultimate Redips in the game.
Anywho:
WARNING! WARNING!
8158675 Oh my gosh, senpai replied to my comment, eeeeeee
so he tries to copy octavias data and implodes because he can't
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Or he becomes Alicorn Sigma...
8158947 Or he becomes Ultimate White Alicorn Centaur Sigma, King-Princess of the Reploids and Terrans.
8158504 and one more thing siggy gets the pluses and the negatives of copying i.e. massie's weak body
Huh.... that is a pretty good plan. To bad Sigma doesn't know about Duo being on Mars, I'm pretty sure Duo will come crashing down fist first as soon as Sigma attains his full evil power.
So we come back to Sigma as he becomes a god. He truly was a bigger threat. Always a joke at first and now he's evolved metaphorically and literally.
Yes; YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!
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..... YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!! Fucking callbacks! It not only factors into what he knows about them, but it all comes back to how the end Times started. He has surpassed the infinite!!!!!
This is the stupid awesomeness I've been asking for all this time! THANK YOU, TATSUROU, THANK YOU!
{Sigma: I won't be needing this anymore... *discards the instant ramen* It's time to throw down!}
the die is cast, the world is in peril, and sigma has just copied the essence of both a pony AND bio metal... meaning he has acess to real magic and adaptive super armor, the world's FUCKED