"It's your turn to feed him".
"No. I distinctly remember that its your turn to feed him".
"Are you sure"?
"Yes".
"Really, really, REALLY sure"?
Doing his best to retain his calm demeanor, something that he had unfortunately had to perfect after his best attempt at minion construction had resulted in servants that barely had enough brain power to run the most outdated calculator, the baritone voiced tyrant spared his bumbling lackeys a glare before turning towards more pressing matters.
Like planning for his next operation to expand his control over this irritatingly persistent system.
If he had been granted the same abilities as his deranged sibling, then perhaps his domain would be nearly as big in territory as the ruins that continued inhabitants of what they had lost. But sadly, fate had seen fit to leave him as the less powerful of the two beings that had been born in the city's destruction, though thankfully that didn't mean that he was the less dangerous of the two.
For while his crazed sister possessed power that few, if any, could stand against, her inability to remain focused ensured that her schemes were always implemented for her amusement, rather than the empire building he had first set upon after his 'birth'.
It still irritated him that despite controlling what had once been the system's primary industrial center, his efforts to expand his domain were forever thwarted by those who failed to recognize the rising new order.
Of course if it hadn't been for the efforts of their so called savior, the system's remaining forces, which comprised mostly of light armored vehicles led by his 'father's' natural offspring, would have quickly fallen under his control.
Still, he supposed it could be worse.
His industrial resources ensured that the losses he incurred after every scheme were rapidly replenished. Apart from a small sub sector, his enemies had been unable to successfully reclaim their lost territory. And perhaps the most important of all, he had a new scheme that would allow him to..
"Warning. System breached. Warning. System breached".
Allowing a confused frown to cross his lips, for never before had he ever heard the System Voice make that particular announcement, the green eyed tyrant put an end to the idiotic banter of his brainless minions with a harsh command.
"Hack, Slash. Cease your moronic prattling and check the sensors. I want to know where this breach is, and how those foolish sprites are reacting to it".
Pleased to see that his brainless minions still possessed enough mental capacity to recognize the less than pleased tone in his voice, the limb detaching virus was thankfully spared from the duo's usually idiotic reply thanks to having half of his question answered by the very thing he sought to clarify.
For just as Hack and Slash were about to rush to carry out his orders, a beam of light crashed through the roof of the Tor, providing the vast throne room with two of the oddest looking sprites, if indeed they could be called that, the virus had ever seen.
Though judging by the gasp of astonishment from the least threatening looking one, Megabyte quickly surmised that the ones responsible for the system breach were now in his grasp.
"This is a most interesting assignment master. I've never been in a computer before. Do they all look like this"?
…..
Fighting the urge to chuckle at Mantis's observation, and doing his best to smother the very real desire to act like the nerd he was, for his next client, and the show he had been apart of, had been a particular favorite of his since he was a child, the villain advisor motioned for his antennaed servant to remain silent as the baritone voice of the deceased actor Tony Jay drew his attention.
"Well this is rather interesting. I had originally taken you for sprites, but judging from the female's declaration, I assume that such is not the case".
Motioning for his acquired servant to remain silent, and fighting the urge to sigh in relief as he noticed the detached state of his client's legs, the villainous advisor began what would probably be one of the more difficult sales pitches of his career.
For the information that he carried, while able to change the fate of the main villain of the world's first computer animated television show, might not be overly pleasing to the tyrannical virus.
…
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Did you hear that Scuzzy? Not only does Megabyte get to enjoy an extended trip to the Web, but the one that defeats him is the young sprite that he constantly dismisses as a threat. Oh what an amusing outcome. Don't you think"?
Turning her smiling features towards her sole minion, an expression that she quickly changed into one of attentive annoyance as her brother mentioned her name, the Queen of Chaos found herself clenching her fists as she listened into to this rather interesting conversation.
"And what about Hexadecimal? I trust you realize just how much of a …inconvenience she is to my quest to accomplish my vision. I do not deny that her power is great, but her…insanity ensures that she is far from stable".
Waving her hand to change her mask into the one that best expressed her rage, the female virus quickly transformed it back into one of amusement as she heard the surprisingly normal looking User provide an answer to Megabyte's question.
"Sadly, her continued existence is something you will need to tolerate due to a number of reasons. The first, and probably the most important one is that she's the only being powerful enough, once she uses Mainframe's core to power up, to combat the Super Virus that has taken over not only the Guardian Collective, but also the rest of cyberspace. Without her, there would be nothing for you to rule over once you managed to escape your...exile".
Bringing her head closer to better drink in the shocked expression of her brother, Hex buried her head in her hands as she started to convulse.
"He…he…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA".
Well used to his mistress's frequent mood swings, though by no means pleased to put up with them, Scuzzy merely stared at his owner as she switched between masks.
"Ooooh Scuzzy. This is simply too amusing. To think that Megabyte, the virus who strives to control everything he sees, and has on more than one occasion tried to delete me, knows that I will achieve what he has always dreamt to? Oh it its simply delicious. Such a pity that he fails to understand the true nature of Chaos, otherwise I might have been persuaded to lend him a hand. Cause after all, siblings are supposed to help one another. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA".
Lost in her own cackling mirth, the Chaos Virus missed the less than pleased growl of her more tyrannical sibling as he directed his next question towards the so called User.
If she had been listening, she would have heard the strange being inform Megabyte of her viewing portal, how to permanently defeat the leaders of Mainframe without turning the system into a charred husk. And perhaps the most important of all, how to ensure that he didn't become the unwilling slave of a corrupted user.
…
Though few people would believe her, at least those who were still lucky enough to possess anything resembling free will, Dot Matrix had already experienced the hell that was the new regime.
Security checks, extreme brutality to those who failed to live up to the Virus's expectations, these were the things that one could experience if they happened to dwell in any of the systems that composed Megabyte's sprawling Empire.
Still she supposed it could have been worse since she could be living in the realm of chaos that had at one point been called the Web.
It was actually quite the strategic move on Megabyte's part, offering up the untamed expanse of cyberspace to his fellow Virus, all for the occasional service that proved to the uninfected that the leg removing tyrant wasn't as powerful as he liked to believe.
She was still uncertain as to why Megabyte had chosen to keep Hexadecimal active after she had managed to successfully combat the sprite looking virus known as Daemon, but she had long since given up on trying to figure out on what went through the mental processors of the blue armored tyrant.
Especially since she had other problems to consider. Like the state of her family.
Bob, minus his Keytool of course, had been given to Hexadecimal as a gift to keep her preoccupied during her ruling of the chaotic nature of her sphere of cyberspace.
Phong, while immune to Megabyte's infection, had found his head placed in a jar, and now served as a fountain of advice for the Virus, who was usually able to convince the old sprite to adhere to his demands with the threat of violence towards innocent, albeit corrupted, civilains.
And Enzo, her only surviving relative, had become the very thing that he had once dreamt to be. Only a twisted nightmare of it.
After being corrupted by Megabyte, her little brother had been transformed into one of the best game combating sprites Mainframe, if not the entire Net, had ever seen. He was strong, he was smart, and he lacked any sense of compassion or loyalty to the ideas that his hero had once held so dear.
And to make matters worse, when he wasn't preventing Megabyte's valuable sectors from becoming nullified, the virus had the sprite now known as Matrix hunt down those who still resisted the regime.
It still horrified her when images of her brother executing the pink skinned hacker Mouse where shown to remind the citizens of Megaframe 1 of the cost of resistance, but such occurrences had become almost numbing due to their frequency.
And to think, all of this happened because Megabyte convinced Hexadecimal to make it appear that Mainframe was receiving an upgrade. Once inside the Principal Office, the Virus had quickly corrupted the paint program, and ensured his victory.
Copying his fleet of ABCs until they outnumbered the Guardian Armada by a factor of 4 to 1.
Erasing Glitch from existence so that Bob was merely another Sprite, albeit one that couldn't be infected.
And perhaps the most heinous of all, transforming her brother's beloved dog Frisket into nothing more than a common lawn ornament.
But even though there remained some pockets of resistance to the virus's rule, Dot Matrix possessed no hope that things would ever improve.
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Annnnd that's another chapter done XD I know its not Disney, but very fond childhood memories of Reboot, along with sadness at the season 4 cliffhanger, and the disgust for the Netflix remake.
Anyway, always wanted to do a chapter for Megabyte, though it was challenging since lol. But its done, out of the way. And now have to figure out who to do next.
Narrowed it down to 3.
Judge Claude Frollo. Voice provided by Tony Jay. I urge you all to check the Megabyte version of Hellfire XD.
Don Bluth Rasputin.
Or…either the Horned King (would be more of a flashback chapter since I think I've mentioned previously that ive already done him lol) or one of the more chauvinistic bad guys that exists lol
Anyways. Hope you enjoyed this.
Til next time.