"creative process"
Hey all, welcome to the plot summary of His Own Antagonist! Or, at least, the summary of what would have taken place during HOA had I not edited Happy Anniversary to be complete on its own. Still, I feel you guys might like to know what the fuck I was originally planning before I threw in the towel, so here we are. There'll be a few notes as we go along, but otherwise, enjoy!
For anyone who likes music, there's a Bonus OST: Fable- killing our memories (It really fits my emotions when I decided to quit this all, so it might be worthwhile listening to it as you read on)
As I finished editing chapter 35 of HA, I kinda began to reflect back on all that I've wrote and realized that, wow, it's a Big Thing. Over 195,000 words, 8+ years, and a shit-tonne of fans and people who helped me along the way. As the Megaman fandom subsided (the apparent death of the franchise will do that to anyone), so did my ability to concentrate on this story. I really, really hate unfinished fics though, so eventually I bucked up and completed it. I used to write a chapter every couple of weeks, and other times it was years between words. And now? Now it's done.
Below are some plot points I wrote out. I'm sick of editing and/or I want you to see the genuine creative process, so you'll see more than a few mistakes and skipping of ideas without proper explanation. And honest to gods, this is so embarrassing to post. But when I think back on when I first started this fic in high school, little old teenage me, who so loved the megaman franchise like her only friend, would be thrilled and curious to see what a creative process could be like. So for her, and for you, I'm gonna post this.
Please do enjoy.
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Small legend for you guys reading this;
? = idea I'm unsure about
... = events in between that I hadn't thought of/gotten concrete yet, probably more pseudoroid fight chapters
Etc, etc, I'm sure you can figure out what I'm writing about...
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First of all, a deleted scene! When the Legion-held fighting tournament was to begin, I'd planned a 'break'/funny chapter involving the opening ceremonies. They were supposed to be held in an old/ancient village, and yes, the same one hinted at in the "Tales of the sky" critic's edition chapters. Anyways they were gonna hold a traditional monster-costume contest featuring, guess who, the "god of destruction". Omega was supposed to enter and, of course, lose spectacularly. Had to cut this because obviously Omega parading around in his traditional gear would have been an obvious OH LOOK AT THAT for Seraph/Copy X. And, you know, maybe Legion. Later on Omega was going to enter the fighting contest, get past "registration rounds" and need to fight the other megamen later, maybe Atlas. You can guess why this also got removed.
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Also hey, quick note about the retcon. Viral was gonna be the bad guy! Big surprise.
(note to self and readers; viral snapped in chapter 32, the time where it sealed away omega's capacity to feel love. It seeks to make Omega the most powerful, and guard him from everything outside of himself, even if it means causing Omega harm with its own hands in his omega's inner world/mindscape/whatever. Literally.
Remember: Viral was a self-formed AI created by the potential system running amok. Because of this, it was unstable and vulnerable to... well, going REALLY unstable. Which it will. Stay tuned.
First chapter: one week later? Omega's life as a raider- gets shown around base (ONE LAB IS OFF LIMITS!) (PLOT POINT!) The base is an airship like the guardian airship because, you know, not all raiders are stupid and they copied the guardians since, hey, a good idea is a good idea!
Somewhere around here: HE HAS TO GET MEDICALLY EXAMINED BY THE RAIDERS. THEY TAKE DNA SAMPLES (Iggy takes a few of her own too?). IMPORTANT PLOT POINT!
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Several missions involving him antagonising legion, etc.
...meets alpha, who was made before the raiders knew about his transformation abilities?
Pandora and prometheus, with model O, prove to omega's greatest rivals
raider hijinks chapter. After getting back from beating prometheus, they need to 'haze' him. Discreetly, of course, so they don't get killed. XD and/or they want to celebrate him fighting prometheus and seemingly winning, so they try and force him to have drinks. Doesn't go so well, and since he can't ingest any of it he ends up puking it out over the sides much to everyone's laughter. Of course omega can't kill his own teamates A) because that would be bad for his rep, and B) trying to force alcohol into a system without any systems to process it is really a bad way to half-fry his systems and make him look like a lightweight. Alha's nickname for him is now 'the lightweight geezer' and another omega-clone (beta? Etc?) doesn't help matters much by ribbing into omega as well.
Fighting tournament chapter. Info on the fighting tournament, how it's going (Ashe likes watching rather enthusiastically. Someone complains because of her previous injuries, but that's why she's watching and not plying along. She's recovering pretty fast anyways thanks to her being a megaman and all those easy little sidequests for vent keeping her in shape?)
'crack some heads' chapter(s). Omega sent in to help smack down some rival raiders. Works alongside alpha and some of the others multiple times. (mix this with some tournament chapters?)
Potential guardians/legion chapter where the world's state should be tied up/explained more...?
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somehwere in here add a gem gang cameo in the fighting tournament?
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Spacial Rend! Rival raiders were pushed to their limits with Dark Prophecy's rise in the ranks, tried to create a special pseudoroid in desperation. It killed them all and is now running amok. Omega fights it, but it's really tough (note to self: it's a nine-tails remake ? Should have one in my sketchbook?)
He uses Temporoc's EX skill to try and finish it off, but it's using its own skill (spacial based ex skill). The two collide, Space-guy is killed, but the resulting time-space rend catapults omega back to Area N. With the exit blocked by boulders (from the collapse caused by Pandora, Prometheus and Copy-X, he's stuck.
Gets EX Skill: Spatial Sunder/Scar
Tries to recreate the accident that got him there, gets EX combo: Dimensional disturbance. Gets out. Practices with it a few times, finds out that he can rip the barrier between cyberspace and reality whenever and however he wants to get back to area N! It's now looking like a great safe spot, no longer a prison!
He plays around with the fact that, hey, he just discovered that he can make shit here. Makes a few blades of grass, rocks, even a flower (which becomes quite prolific later on) Then he makes a critter, Aeon? IMPORTANT PLOT POINT! AEON NEEDS NEEDS ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE MADE! OR ELSE! YOU HERE THAT, SELF?! HE'S IMPORTANT!
Aeon is a small, four-winged little critter of pure energy, warm to the touch (Omega thought he'd be burning or painful, since he's made of pure fiery-like energy and all, but it's actually a pleasant warmth (this quote will be used later!))
Aeon flies off.
He practices with it a bit, to get the hang of it. It takes a lot of energy though, so in the end (after warping to a few random places) he tries to go back to the raider HQ (cause they'd be freaking out at this point, probably).
Accidentally ends up in the off-limits lab.
Looks around.
He's right smack dab in front of some sort of containment canister, large, glowing, and see-through (a lot like Grey's from the ZXA beginning).
Well fuck, what do you know, there's something in there.
That has long (white?) hair
Black skin.
And looks a lot like him.
Major holy fuck moment. Omega clone!
And, guess what? He looks at a nearby console, and finds, of all things, WEIL'S notes on his construction, along with the Raider's medical Z-rays, DNA samples, etc.
And that's about when alfredo and Scimitar step in.
...uh oh.
There's a "so you found out, huh?" moment.
He is told by scimitar), the data is FROM THE DIG WHERE HE FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE RAIDERS. (note to self- oh, the irony. The old lab they dug up, that he guarded them as they dug up, was (one of) Weil's! Well, what do you know?) (And if anyone asks, the data was left relatively easy to decript because insane old Weil A) had multiple labs hidden around and B) thought it would help spread chaos and discord after his death (were such a thing to happen) to have such nasty schematics easily available)
explain that this is why there are so many new pseudoroids out on the market. Many of them, IE devilbat ignis, were based on Weil's designs and either kept by the Daark Prophecy group or sold to the highest bidder (with a kill switch?) should they attack the D.P.
Scimitar tries to tell him to still stay with the raiders, but he's not having any of that. He smashes the tank, killing the clone which is on life support as its incomplete (first version of THETA (known at this time as Eta-the greek letter before theta)! They have to do it again, which involves a long process of "growth", or reliance on a reprogrammed repair system, which is interrupted prematurely, ending up in Theta being a 'premature baby' at the end of the fic(s)? Perhaps more on that later).
Unfortunately, the raiders have already sprung into action. The four living 'elemental clones' show up (alpha included?). Omega instantly backs off, trying to think of a way to fight them. Unfortunately, he's pretty much worn out, and he's used up too much energy to use another Dimensional Disturbance, so he transforms into his bird (temporoc?) form and busts a hole in the room and escapes... or so he thinks.
Note:
Raiders will also/have also used ragnarok cannon blueprints to augment their ship's cannon
Alpha: non-elemental clone, gold armour and red hair, is the first and the strongest (exact clone?) Slightly nuts/very rash nature? Lacks potential system, as do all the rest (minus Theta)
Beta: died before being born(first experimental clone-body in lab?)
Gamma: Lightning clone- timid nature? (uses wyvern form- look in sketchbooks!)
Delta: Ice clone, (uses the narwhal+wasco form (see old sketchbooks, the design is in there somewhere!)) Very serious nature
epsilon-died before being born- experimental fire type, burnt out shortly after 'birth'? (got a little too excited and accidentally killed himself...?)
Zeta: fire type clone, uses dragon form? (found in sketchbooks somewhere...) Carefree nature?
Eta: killed by Omega in the lab (before Eta's activation), attempt at creating a clone with an advanced potential system (details on this in Weil's notes? Or is explained by Viral?) (needed a slower "booting" process, ie gestation time, to allow body to become accustomed to rapid growth/change (they'd learned from the previous clones dying that you couldn't just activate a clone right away and expect it to live for very long)
Theta: Raiders attempt another "Eta", but the raiders are destroyed before the experiment finishes gestating. Theta is "born" prematurely in the crash (tank shatters, but he's got enough self-life support to live a little longer unlike Eta, who died as soon as the tank was compromised), is small like a baby. Iggy finds him in the Raider ship's wreckage, hides him in the hanger she "stole" from omega. That's where Omega finds them at the end... but that's still a ways to go!
Anyways, back to the plot...
Alpha, Zeta and Delta also transform into their own flying forms, chase after Omega (Gamma stays behind to help the leaders)
They chase him to above the stadium where the fighting tournament is going on (final round, ZX Vent/Aile vs. model A grey, Ashe is still out from her injury).
Everyone looks up in time to see a fierce aerial battle, where Omega is desperately defending himself. He puts up a good fight, but... is shot (nearly, except for the spine) in half, and 'killed'. His body falls into the stadium, smashing through it as the mega men dash to get out of the way (Vent/Aile escapes, but grey is stuck on a floating bit of rubble) Omega's blood stains the water underneath (it was an amphibious environment for the water-only fighters), obscuring it.
Everyone is screaming and evacuating the stadium. The clones hover above, talking to themselves. Well, he's not moving, oh well, something as old as that deserved to be dead if he couldn't keep up with the times! (should've joined us!) remarks alpha.
He looks at grey.
Speaking of old... hey, isn't that kid the one that everyone calls a hero? The hero of change? How foolish. He hovers down in front of Grey.
Something as outdated as legion calling him their hero for the future... legion wasn't the ones who would decide the future! Dark Prophecy was!
Something as worthless as grey didn't deserve to be alive! End that chapter.
Next chapter (or end of previous one):
Note: (Chapter name for when Omega goes berserk/Viral takes over (at the stadium); The Fall of Eternity.
"does this guy even know the meaning of 'attack pattern'?!"
"Of course he does! After all, he seems to have a pattern of using whichever #$%ing attack hurts the most when we're not ready for it!")
In monotone (operational/computer) voice (first person):
Viral realizes that Omega's not moving, and he's all but dead. Nope, can't have that. He overrides the emergency shutdown protocol, converts/releases the stored maverick virus into energy for healing (it's been storing up for a while, so he can't do this again later). He then permanently combines a lot of Omega's found DNAs (including a leftover, hidden fragment of the Dark elf's) and creates a new form (those DNAs, including Temporocs, are no longer available except for EX skills), then takes over omega as "the poor master takes a rest" (he can handle it) or something... need to work on this.- Note: he already has the wyver form?
Next chapter:
Just as Grey, helpless and stunned on the rubble, is about to get killed, the red water underneath him starts to glow. Alpha squawks and retreats, and everyone is left staring at the phenomenon. Suddenly something shoots out of the water, spinning in a funnel/water twister (similar to lugia's from that pokemon movie (2000)?).
Cue a description of Viral's dragon/dark elf form (the one that I'm currently using/sometimes use as a desktop background?). He's eerily quiet at this point, but one looks at the glowing eyes reveals that there's definitely something wrong.
Grey, dislodged from the rubble, is discreetly rescued by seraph, who drags him to safety even as Viral (because it's Viral who's in control right now) starts flapping his wings. Still, not a screech or anything. Something starts forming in the air as if the flapping wings were tearing it...
Alpha snorts, says something derogatory about Omega not being dead yet (he should be) and attacks. Viral screeches, rattling everyone since it sounds so unholy. He flaps harder, but only once?, starting to move. He makes a steep bank, and alpha moves to chase...
Only to fall to the ground in two pieces, sliced vertically through the heart and head. But, it's not like a slice, it's as if the pieces were just removed.
Surprise surprise, Viral was using Dimensional Disturbance as an attack. That's what was tearing the air! Alpha is now dead, and the others try to kill viral in return.
Almost needless to say, Viral dances circles around them. He's having a whale of a time slowly killing them, bit by bit.
Seraph is struck dumb, since he knows EXACTLY what those tears are... sorta. The result of a rend between reality and cyberspace!
(Make a note that this may be accidentally similar to the reality-breaking capability of the dead ends by darkie)
Meanwhile, the stadium gets so torn up that stuff starts to float just like it does in area n.
In the skies, it's looking really bad for the clones when, suddenly, viral starts acting haywire. The dimensional disturbances in the sky disappear as he has something like a seizure, then blinks as if confused. Something in his eyes has changed. He looks around in a panic, then uses another dimensional disturbance to escape.
The clones retreat. They did do some damage to omega, and they have the new dark elf/dragon DNA... (for Theta). Everyone else recovers, trying to figure out what to do. Seraph brings out all the stops. SCREW secrecy, Omega just tore through the frickin' barrier like it was paper! Wet paper!
Legion and cyberspace both work together to try to figure out what to do (and we need COMIC RELIEF here people! That was major "oh holy fucking shit" stuff going on! The audience needs to laugh for a few chapters... even if it means dragging out the cliffhanger (heh, I'm so evil...) also, the raiders and legion are going to fight over finding Omega. Keep reading...)
Reveals: Dr Karo comes in to help? (from the cyber-elf babysitting mission, he's appointed mediator between legion and cyberspace since he rebuilt seraph?)
Elsewhere, Scimitar and Alfredo are discussing how to get their hands on Omega (that was a CRAZY amount of power, of course Scimitar wants it!)
Insert first part of Scimitar's quote, "There are two ways to get a rat out of a hedge. First of all, bait it out."
Alfredo notes that they already did that, got Omega to join them, but then the 'rat' smelled the trap and went. So, what's the other way?
Scimitar sneers. "well, the other way to get the rat out...
...is to burn the bush"
They've studied the energy given off by Viral/Omega during the fight, and realizing that it looked a lot like data, they've decided to use mechaniloids, satellites and other stuff to send out a program to seek him out and infect him with some sort of controller virus? (ie, so they can control him)
It doesn't work out so well though. The mechaniloids can't find him, and Legion is combating them.
Speaking of Legion...
Insert a chapter here of the cyber elves (Dr. Karo's, to be precise) causing chaos. No one's told the innocent little things how dangerous everything is, but they know that something's up which is bringing everyone down, so yeah, they pretty much prank everything in sight (and then some!).
At the end of that chapter, though... things aren't so light.
Distraught by the lack of effect the controller virus is having, Scimitar tells Alfredo to just "erase the damn thing and let's get to work on something else"
Of course, they put Omega's DNA into the virus so that it'd work, right? (that's why legion was after the virus/data, since it had omega's DNA but they didn't know what it did).
Remember, now, that all Data on omega is sucked into the netherworld...
And Omega is infected!
Next chapter:
Distraught over the losing battle he's fighting with the virus (he knows it's going to force him to be subservient), he's desperate for a solution. Cue Viral, who says that, if Omega gives him complete control for a bit, Omega himself won't be forced to obey (since he won't be in control anyways), and he'll delete the virus. And he'll even make Omega stronger to boot!
Omega's suspicious, but Viral is only doing this for the good of his master! Besides, I'm just another part of your own programming!
Right before the virus takes complete control, Omega agrees? (or viral takes over anyways)
Now that viral's in control, he does exactly as he said he did, destroying the virus and converting it's energy into a MASSIVE dimensional disturbance. However, he doesn't give omega control back. Instead, he starts torturing him.
"I'll make you stronger, in body and in mind! No matter the cost!"
Just as the torture starts going under way, Omega screams in pain and fury. Why are you doing this? Aren't you a part of me?
Viral smiles (creepiest description as possible).
"Of course I'm a part of you?
"So why are you doing this to me, to us? Why?"
"Because," he said simply, "there is nothing but power. Strength. I will make you stronger! Whether you want to be or not! There is nothing but power! POWER!"
He starts beating omega viciously, tearing him apart only to reconstruct him and tear him apart again, despite omega's screams for him to stop.
"I'm doing this for you, master, for you! All for you! FOR YOU! FOR YOU!
AHAA HAA HAAA HAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAAHAAAAA!"
...yeah, pretty fucked up, eh?
Meanwhile, outside of Omega's inner world, the dimensional disturbance Viral set it is literally destroying everything, combining reality and cyberspace just as Seraph feared. On their way to try and stop it, they realize that Omega's signature is in the centre of it, and they're not the only ones. The raiders are there too.
Grand Nuage against Blight Brouillard. Blight bruilliard emplys the ragnarok cannon (We may not be on the same level of genius as that old monster, but even idiots like us can read a blueprint!"
In the fray Omega's former ship, the Harbinger, along with others are used to board the Blight brouillard? (mostly by crashing it into the deck)
At this point, Legion needs to find out (maybe from cyberspace stealing the data?) about the Clone project.
The remaining clones and the heroes fight, clones lose (Theta still in the developmental tank, but he's way way too early in his development to be sent out. They try to speed up the process?).
Viral Appears suddenly, the heroes evacuate the raider ship. Viral destroys the ship. He's in Omega's body? But he's using powers that no one's seen before, simply flicking his wrist to form a D.D. to rip the raider ship apart. Scimitar is killed (alfredo goes nuts or something later? Or is it that Alfredo is killed and scimitar becomes obsessed with getting Omega's (and Theta's) power for himself)? Pretty much all the raiders are now smears on the ground now.
Note to self: either he shows up to fight them, or he just appears in an airspace somewhere, perhaps at the 'peak of the world', where he is completely silent. The Dimensional Disturbance is spreading out like oil on water, a slow, slick and calamitous tear in time-space. When the heroes go to confront him, if he speaks to them, the words "appear(ed) in (their) minds like writing on a page, though they sensed no sound but the slow advance of the end and the movement of the air, they heard, if not in their ears, in their thoughts, the ultimatum of the God's voice.
"Come. Meet your destruction!"
NOTE TO SELF: when the viral space tearing occurs, refer to the entrance of the subspace (smash brawl) for ideas on what it looks like?
And the void swallowed them whole." (Mario and Luigi Dream team OST- Dreambeats? Speaking of dream team, the 'deep dream world' or whatever is another good model to use for the void))
etc, etc, they get to Viral...?
Seraph's guys in cyberspace pop up at this point, with an experimental program (resembling a sword) that's designed to delete programs/souls. Permanently. They still don't realize that viral's behind it all. They don't like having to do that, since even bad guys deserve a second chance in cyberspace, but Omega has gone too far with this!
The heroes attack, using cyberspace channels to get close to Viral. He's not having any of that, though, and sends them/their data to the "inner world" that's slowly becoming an outer world as he rips the space apart. (He thinks he has complete power over the space, but, well, he's nuts, it's even beyond his power to control everything there).
They all wake up, scattered around the inner world. It's even more fragmented than area n(very much like the distortion world from pokemon!). They regroup, meeting the embodiments of omega's emotions along the way. As omega was so fragmented by viral, they can do this, since Omega's core soul is the thing Viral's torturing at this point. It's convoluted; I have to figure out a better description... or re-write this section completely. Major WIP at the moment.
...YEAH. PRETTY MUCH RE-WRITE THIS SECTION COMPLETELY. BELOW INFO IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Note (in order of appearance?):
Rage: a brainless/stupid flying dragon thing and he's red. He also attacks things on sight until logic tells him to quit it.
Logic: little grey mouse-thing? He's well, very logical (he's the logical processors/programming, not just an emotion), but... he's kinda small. He helps the group the most, leading them to viral, and explaining the inner world phenomena along the way.
Sorrow: is this medium-large sized blue whale thing? Just floats around making a lot of noise. Logic tells it to stuff it, it goes and mopes in a 'corner' somewhere.
Hollow: the feeling you get when you don't know how else to feel. It looks like a big, tan chime-thing, and makes a single gong sound as they pass it. Confusing/odd, but meh.
Pride-shows up and makes a hullaballoo just for the hell of it, hindering the heroes. Bright yellow? As quoted by logic, Rage (who's still tagging along) does the first intelligent thing in his whole short life span and kicks the annoying little shit off the platform they're on, you don't see him again. Rage follows him so they can fight?
Love: (although they don't know it) Small, baby-like form. As they're walking, Pandora jumps into the air between two platforms (placed far apart) to get across. She disappears somewhere. She accidentally got inside of Weil's program, and finds a pretty little field with Love sleeping, wounded, inside of it. She struggles to get out to the others, who are kinda panicking. She finally gets past the barriers, the program dissipates. When she shows the others what they found, not even logic knows what the hell it is. If rage is still around, it calms him? Pandora keeps it for now.
Note: NEVER MIND the animal appearances, use cyber elves that are not entirely discernable. A little less weird, really.
Ahem, moving on,
Logic(?) tells them that this is what the world will become if all of reality and cyberspace merge. There's simply too many forces opposing each other for any coherence. Oh, and by the way, Omega's not actually in control of this.
They're all WTF until logic leads them finally to viral. (they're on a large, circular, arena like platform)
they thought omega to be mindlessly powerful, but on the inside Viral's been torturing him to "make him stronger/protect him from the people trying to delete him (by nearly killing him so that A) he can't move and thus viral can do what he wants with him and B) so that the people don't think that killing omega will do anything since, well, heck, he's already kinda 'killing himself'). Basically, he's trying to protect Omega by hurting him, because that works with his insane logic- aka, using the potential system as an excuse, viral hurts omega to make him stronger, then has to hurt him even more to make him even more strong, and so on and so forth because eventually he'll be all-powerful and invincible, right?)
He's holding Omega's limp, bloody, dripping body. Viral goes on a rant about the master will be the ultimate power, he'll be a god, because this is HIS inner world and HE'LL have ultimate control!
We'll be god! We'll have all the power in the world! Because the world is our power!
Power! God! Etc, etc.
Oh, and by the way, Omega's not doing so good for some reason, so Viral will help/despite his helping his poor master become strong enough to rule...
Everyone is appalled as Viral callously smashes omega out of the way (or whatever else, to "make him stronger"), since the 'master' really shouldn't have to bother with weaklings after all and begins to fly.
Of course, while the master gets stronger, I'll just deal with you so he doesn't have to!
Viral then notices Love, and hisses. Didn't he lock him up! Oh well, time to fucking die now you useless wretch! (there's no room for love?)
Pandora gets Logic to take the baby and scram, he doesn't need second bidding.
This pisses off viral, and he attacks.
Note: No, the above summary does not happen quite as written. It happens as written here; Emotions take the form of cyber elves that impose their emotions on nearby people. Logic does not exist (not an emotion) anger makes everyone fight each other (is the largest cyber-elf= btw no one can see their forms, not even Seraph. They are just glowing balls of light-love is still imprisoned however, and stays with them after it is freed, until Viral banishes it upon their arrival (he intensely dislikes the emotion as he think it will weaken his master).
Everyone's pretty much convinced at this point that, screw omega, let's take out the batshit insane guy who's actually trying to kill us!
Serious fight goes on, viral's really strong. They're losing.
The heroes, however, have a last-ditch manoeuvre. They manage to risk everything, and hit Viral dead-on with the deleting sword!
...Viral is completely shocked.
They've won!
...Or not.
Viral laughs, throwing the sword aside. Hah hah, did you really think that'd work! Oh dear, poor things!
Meanwhile, Omega comes to a realization. Everything in this world is an aspect of him, right? So is viral?
He takes up the sword (it fell beside him, nearly over the edge) and hides it behind his back, calling for Viral's attention. He asks viral for confirmation on the theory, and hey, Viral's happy to serve the master, so he confirms it.
"We're both one!"
"So... if I die... you do too?"
Virals freaking out since, guess what, Omega just drew the sword on himself. Viral yells at him to stop, tries to explain his motives for the torture (to make you stronger, to make them think that you were unnecessary so that they wouldn't bother to kill you, etc).
Omega just smiles. He doesn't know that the sword will be a permanent deletion thing, he just thinks that if he takes himself, "the core" out, then that'll take out viral and Area N will take care of bringing him back. HE is the goddamn god of destruction, an he doesn't need any help or sympathy from anyone, not Viral, not anyone!
"I think we've both been here long enough."
Then he looks at Viral.
Viral screams, rushing forwards to try and stop-
The blade goes in- (it's either this, or pandora that does the dirty deed?)
((Note to self; after love is released and he's doubting his resolve, he looks over at pandora and just realizes... it's the right thing to do? Also he's maybe jealous/scared of Viral, because viral sorta signifies all he was meant to be. Or, just after he puts the sword in he realizes something really wrong just happened. Pandora is probably crying right now, and instead of being angry, or sad, or enraged, Omega is just confused. He reaches out ("Why? Omega, mind blank as he stared at her. Why was he reaching? To try and fight death? To... to her... why her...?"), but his eyes are on her as he falls over the edge an disappears))
everyone tries to bail/escape.
There's nothing but white, bright flash of pure nothing, white.
Everyone wakes up, the D.D. is gone along with the new dimension viral was forming. No one can really figure out what the fuck happened. But hey, we're all alive, it's all good! Legion and the cyberspace police double and triple check everything, but nothing's wrong. They can't find anything, really. Seraph says goodbye. He's going back to cyberspace? (poor sod needs a break, I don't blame him! He's going to say that he needs to return to work though, of course that's not what's going to happen. He appoints sigma (the jailer... yes, THAT Sigma) as the temporary commander during his vacation. Sigma's all too happy to be able to atone for his sins while he was unwillingly infected/infecting).
Note to self: Seraph later gets appointed an "unofficial member" of the sage trinity (Unofficial since Cyberspace is technically not supposed to exist)
Legion does... whatever they're gonna do when the world nearly ends and they have to get everything back in normal. A celebration/memorial? Whatever.
Cut scene to Iggy, alone in the hanger, working on something that (in a flashback/earlier hinted at obscurely after the raider ship crashes) she found in the wreck as she escaped. Make note of which leader survived, if any? (Alfredo/Scimitar laughing like maniac then conking out before they could get to "the wretched, destroyed project" Theta, who they figured dead).
Don't mention to audience that it's Theta that she's working on. Just tell them that she wants to atone for being so involved in the "False god/Clone" project (one of the head scientists?)
finl chapter. Or is it...? epilogue time!
Meanwhile, in the shattered remains of area N, omega's last little scraps of data are floating apart, the result of which would mean that the data wouldn't be able to work together anymore (thus his mind would cease to exist, and he'd die, permanently). It's painful it's slow, and yet, it's surprisingly peaceful knowing that he's finally going to be gone for good.
He's still reaching. What for, he doesn't know.
Pain, then numbness...
He closes his eyes.
A pleasant warmth. (remember that quote from earlier?)
A small figure appears, dragging back a fragment of Omega's data.
Omega is unconscious, but Aeon (told you he was important!) speaks.
"Whether or not you meant to, God of Destruction, you created me. You gave me life, and I shall return the favour...
By giving you back yours."
Final(!?) chapter? Or epilogue 2?:
Iggy is in the hangar, startled when she sees someone come in. It's Omega, and he's surprised to see her too. Something smelt like him from reality, so he had to go back to see what it was (to get rid of it?)
Iggy is silent. She turns around, grabbing what she was working on, and shows it/holds it out to him.
"I'm sorry... I had to right my wrongs."
Omega instantly hates the little thing. It's small, defenceless, and it's a copy of him that looks just like a baby version of him!
It was a baby version of him!
Who cares about that trustful look in her eyes, that thing dies now!
He takes it, holding it up, and it wiggles in protest. She yells at him to stop what she knows is coming next.
Then, that little emotion that Omega never felt before (love) decides to bitch slap him in the face.
As Theta starts to cry, Omega lowers him, kinda unsure of himself. At first he thinks that he just doesn't know how to go about killing it, but... he's feeling kinda weird.
Iggy stops dead. She sees something on omega's face (emotion; conflict). She backs off quietly.
Omega REALLY has to kill that thing. He knows what it is, and he knows who made it. But...
It squirms, and its eyes, which were closed until now, open. Theta stares Omega right in the face.
Love hits full-on, and there's not a bloody thing Omega can do about it. He's stunned, and sorta flops/sits on the ground, just staring back. Weil, Scimitar, World, you're a bloody lot of bastards! He has to kill it. But he can't kill it. But he has to! But he can't!
This persists for a while. Theta's stopped crying, and Omega's just sitting there, holding him close and absolutely confused. It's the first time he's experienced love, and he has no idea what to do with it, and why it's making him not want to do something that he knows... thinks... probably should do?
Theta starts to protest for some reason. Iggy slyly hands Omega a bottle of restorative compounds/nanites (he's still a bit premature, until he's got his own restoration systems up and running he's reliant on the nanite formula-whatever).
It takes a lot of instruction to get the dumbstruck Omega to figure out how to get the bottle from point a to b, but he figures it out, and that is that.
She tells him why Theta needs the nourishment, only for a few more weeks but until then...
Omega's just listening, theta clutched closely to his chest. Yeah. He's going to kill it. But HE is going to kill it. No one else. HIS responsibility, his Theta, HIS.
Yeah, by the way, Legion is already on her tail, she doesn't know how much longer until they get a brain cell working and look in the hangar, but yeah, you can figure out what they'd do to him if they got a hold of him. Legion knows about the clone program too! (managed to steal data earlier/get it from seraph)
Well, that just doesn't sit right with Omega, nope, not at all. Iggy asks him if he could take Theta. It's the only way.
Omega's still thinking on it, but then they hear a noise. Oops, Legion! They got that brain cell working!
Not even thinking, he runs. He thanks Iggy before he leaves.
By the time legion gets inside, Iggy's just smiling. Hey, don't you know to knock?
(she becomes the third sage (for trinity) later thanks to her technical knowledge? Have to figure out how that works later. Maybe just works for them).
Omega makes it back to Area N. Aeon greets him (He's as big as Viral. Explanation later?). Omega just looks at Aeon's questioning look...
"I have a son".
Next fic opener;
"I have a son".
Aeon looks back.
"Well you'd better bloody well take care of him."
((IE Aeon is NOT gonna let Omega fuck this one up! He WILL kidnap Theta from Omega if he has to, and put the g.o.d. On a time out if he has to. This may include bossing him around to get area N kid-friendly))
END FIC! FUCK YEAH! WHOO! FINALLY OVER!
Or not...
Third fic ideas! ...although, it may not be a fic so much as a connection of instances/oneshots (like Happy Birthday was):
Aeon-Viral: Aeon found viral's remains while reconstructing Omega, absorbed him, and they're actually quite a happy pair... person... bi-polar flying thing? Uhm... use the same body/mind (Aeon's). Omega can still transform into viral's physical form, only with a different colour scheme. By the way, Viral's sane now, and actually quite nice? That's a shocker! He's a little apologetic for going off the deep end, but he's still very possesive/protective.
Yeah, anyways, he's Theta's guardian while omega works on reconstructing area N into something more natural looking/child friendly. He helps out on the reconstruction too from time to time.
Theta loves his "daddy" who returns the favour grudgingly (aww, how sweet... the real Omega would kill me by this point).
By the way, his daddy has told him that he was a bad person and people hated him, and would thus maybe hate theta too, and that's why they were alone (theta asked one day why there weren't any other people around... just for your backstory info)
The first few months/years were hard for Omega, though. He's a god of destruction after all, not a dad! Thank heavens for Aeon!
By the way, theta was made from Omega's DNA right before viral took over, so he's slowly been growing his abilities. At the moment he can do the shape-shifting, although he takes on a lot more baby-ish look too it (ie, think a pudgy/baby lugia-esque version of viral instead of the regular nasty-looking one Omega has).
This is perfectly natural to him, mind. He's just a kid. It's not like learning something new everyday, that you can transform or whatever, is anything out of the ordinary, right?
At one point, Omega calls Aeon-viral to him to discuss a field he's making. It's rather pretty, actually, like a field of wheat. Only the typical blue-green/teal of the netherworld. Ah, nice.
By the way, remember the flowers omega made earlier when he was experimenting? They're beautiful, harmless, and grow like freakin' stink on a carcass. Seriously, Omega stuck one ON A ROCK and it still grew! He likes them but there needs to be some variation!
By the way, while they're discussing how to possibly improve the situation, Theta just, oh, I dunno, discovers how to do a dimensional disturbance portal.
Oops.
He thinks it's great fun. Well, what do you know, he ends up in the middle of Legion and decides to explore. Whoa, lots of people! He turns into a dog-form in the alley (perhaps developed by omega for swift movement over long distances, ie the netherworld) and trots out.
Meanwhile, his dad and Aeon just figured out that he's missing.
Oh.
SHIT.
Omega can't pinpoint exactly where theta went, but he can't really sense him anywhere. Aeon makes the horrible realization that a D.D. was made recently. Omega, you go search for him in reality, I'll look here!
Omega does just that, also goes dog form as he appears right outside of legion. Tries to sniff his boy out.
Meanwhile, Theta's having a hell of a lot of fun exploring. He doesn't like getting walked on or nearly run over by vehicles though, so he heads to a secluded park where there's fewer people, and they're more spaced out so they won't keep stepping on his poor tail.
And, oh, Pandora and Prometheus just so happen to be there. Yay!
Theta keeps walking around. He spots the pair playing around with pandora's staff, teasing each other. There's a tree with apples nearby, so she's getting them for herself and not letting him have any. She finally relents, and the two share a small meal.
Theta turns back into human behind the tree he's behind. Can't eat anything without hands! Well, okay, you can, but it gets messy. Daddy doesn't (usually) like him getting messy.
He walks up and asks the pair if he can have one. They give him their last one, he sits below the apple tree and eats it. Yummy! They're watching him, wondering where his parents are.
Well, that was the first apple theta ever ate and he absolutely loved it! He didn't want to bother the nice people to get him more, though, besides, they were out themselves. So, what the heck, he'll get some more himself!
And, because it's TOTALLY normal for people to transform (he wonders, idly, why everyone else wasn't doing it, wouldn't going doggy make it easier to get around than those stupid vehicles?), he transforms. He goes into his bird form (the baby viral, which is about as big as a gym bag btw) and rather failingly attempts to get his chubby ass high enough off the ground to get into the tree to get apples.
Pandora and Prometheus immediately recognize the form. He's one of those omega clones! And he's got the Viral form to boot!
And it's small!
And it's cute!
And it's fluffy!
And what the fuck!
Well, needless to say, they call in the masters pretty quick.
By the time Omega finds theta, all the mega men are there, Seraph too, and they're forming a crowd. He's scared out of his wits, and can only watch the proceedings.
Pandora, thank the gods, is holding the confused Theta protectively. Seraph is concerned about him, but he sees that theta's not actually trying to hurt anyone. He makes an assumption about theta that he somehow survived the crash, etc. The group collectively decides that, instead of being a bunch of jerks and killing him, they're going to take custody and survey him.
Theta doesn't want to be taken custody of, however, and cries, "I want my daddy!"
That stops everyone, Omega is dead silent. When Legion inquires about Theta's daddy though, well, he shows them that there's a difference between 'oblivious' and 'stupid'. He figures out that these are the people that hate his daddy, and shuts up really quick.
...
They take Theta to legion.
...
Omega sneaks in while theta's playing in the garden (the mega men are still new at taking care of a kid, so they jostle around the responsibility of watching over him so much that they forget who is supposed to be taking care of him at what time. He gets some time alone to himself in the garden)
They're both really happy. Omega wants to take Theta home ASAP, but theta's starting to get over being scared and he's having fun. Daddy should stay for a while too, they're nicer than you think they are!
Omega is too scared though. Theta realizes this and suggests that he should give them a chance, but, well... doesn't work.
Smart little bugger figures out a plan. "Well, why don't you take a break from taking care of me? I'll have some fun with them, and you come visit a lot! Besides, Aeon doesn't know what is going on, you have to go tell him."
(basically, having his dad go away and constantly come back, therefore getting him used to the mega men. Omega concedes. He's a god of destruction after all, and as much as he wants to, it's probably better for theta to learn from people who, you know, aren't (former) genocidal maniacs. Maybe they even see him every once in a while, in his dog form, but don't know who it is so they adopt him as a pet? ...might let him peek up pandora's skirt later or something... XD "That lucky dog..." "is it just me, or was he smiling...?" *smirks at them as he passes* Of course the girls love this (they laugh), he's just a dog, right? So he looks up all the girls skirts, not because he's a pervert, but because he can, just to spite the other guys. )
...at some point, Theta visits Iggy in prison. He calls her "aunt Iggy" since he knows that she took care of him before Omega? No, wait, maybe because she realizes that he's omega's son, tells him as such, and he wants to know how she knows or how/when she met his dad. Wants to bust her out, but she's fine since she feels she deserves what she got.
Theta asks iggy to tell him a story to go to sleep/how she met his dad? She tells him about her backstory/origins? (was a scientist/mechanic (human at this point) who wanted to see if it was possible to move a consciousness from one body to another (for purely good reasons, ie saving lives, etc). She had to use inactive sentient minds for testing though, but Legion and other governments had this sort of activity labelled as illegal. So, she had to get a commission from raiders. On the day her experiment was successful and she'd tested it on herself, the raiders she was with (raiders trying to be medics/sell body upgrades to other raiders?) were attacked. Her original human body was destroyed, and she was stuck in the iguana pseudoroid body that she'd built for experimenting. "I was captured by the attacking raiders, etc, when I met your dad" sort of thing)
Uhm, yeah, that's all I can think up at the moment... I think.
Anyways, onto other plot points.
Villain: The surviving leader, who wants Theta to use their power for evil and all that shit/revive viral just to kill everyone? Or is it lumine/someone else who wants Theta's body and/or technology to advance their own?
Overall Plot: Theta is taken by legion, so omega has to resort to innovative ways to maintain a watch over him. He has to stop the surviving leader's/new antagonist's plan, perhaps sacrificing himself (so that he can't leave the netherworld, ever) or having it end up where he's too weak to fight back and he decides to just turn himself in to cyberspace? Or does the surviving leader capture him and use him to try and... do evil stuff? Etc, etc... this is gonna take some thinking...
The reason Omega is afraid of dying is that, unlike other souls, Omega was hit by the deletion blade, and although he survived the first time, he doesn't know what will happen if he dies again.
If he dies, maybe cyberspace/Legion revives him to live another life (the "god of destruction" is dead, but "red" can have a new life? Or they can't judge him in cyberspace since he was programmed to do what he did, so they're letting him have another chance to prove himself. He eventually falls for Pandora, they get intimate?)
(PS- Maybe the biometal is why he doesn't die completely, should his death ever occur again? Model O absorbs his soul when the body is too damaged, they repair the body, etc etc something like that...)
YAY! Done! What the fook do I do now!? Oh right, my other fics... *falls flat*
near the end; do I hint at the secret ending in ZX advent? IE thomas is just waiting for the items that will let him control the mega men, etc...