05-19-2017, 09:20 AM
System startup initiated... ... Done.
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System error, attempting diagnostic program.
A.I. network: Online. Age check... Error - variable overflow.
Loading last backup; Date 23XX.XX.XX
Warning - Primary Battery low. Recharge required; Projected requirement 156 days at 23% efficiency...
Attempting network connection... failed. Please check connection.
Body function test...
Warning - Broad-Range Eye Camera error; Repair required.
Lightweight "Titanium-X" alloy armor enabled. Integrity 100%.
Reactive Armored Skeleton enabled. Projected damage resistance... Calculation error - Please calibrate system.
Warning - Full-Auto Gyroscopic Stabilizer System offline. Please check connection...
Warning - Emergency Acceleration System offline. Please check connection...
X-Buster online, output test 35%.
Warning - Energy Amplification Device error; Repair required...
Warning - Variable Weapon System offline; Please check connection...
Continue activation? y/n
>y
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Welcome back, MEGA MAN X.
You have (1) unread message.
>load mail\unread /bydate
Omni Wrote:My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it. But! There are rules. I will explain them only once, so listen carefully.Message end.
This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be yours. But you will need more than this. If you desire it enough, you will find it. You will find that using it comes naturally. Just think of what you desire most.
You will not be alone in the Omniverse. There are others. Of course, they, too desire Omnilium. Do not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn.
That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.
>wake
Please Wait...
A pair of eyelids crept open, exposing a pair of shining bold eye-cameras. Stark white assaulted his visual sensors, and Mega Man X wondered for a moment if this place were actually some sort of afterlife.
He knew for certain that could not be true, however.
His body- it felt almost strange to have a body again. The certain weightlessness of his nigh-ethereal being had become his norm for the past few decades or so. Simply being physical like this once more was not the strange part, however. The oddity in this situation was the body itself.
X recalled the message he had inadvertently been left. When did he receive it? No date had been listed, where it most definitely should have been. He poured over the log of his internal console for a time, examining the details. The android beckoned his joints, his artificial muscles to animate, and they did. After what felt like an agonizing moment, he sat upright from the laying position he had awakened in.
The ultimate conclusion that Mega Man X reached? This body was not his own, but a fabrication of Omni.
That should have been a given, of course. His original shell had long since been lost to the events of the Arcadia War. That fact that he remained in any body at all could only be a dead ringer for his having been placed in a new form.
That being said, the detail put in this imitation was, well... A cursory glance over his new armor revealed a complex new Titanium-X shell, much in the likeness of X's original model but lacking the simplicity of it. The android wanted to say 'appreciable', but he found himself having second thoughts. Those second thoughts concerned the apparent lack of capability this new body bore. All the nuanced little internal systems were either absent, non-functional, or of questionable operation.
Never, in all of his time operating, could X recall any time where his form had been stripped quite so bare as now. The prospect of this almost insulted the android, painting the mysterious Omni as a cruel and unlikable figure.
Unfortunately, also as a result of this prospect, X had no more power to judge.
With a sigh, the blue knight stood up, the machinery of his skeleton shifting and creaking ever so subtlety. At least the body did everything that one would reasonably expect a body to do at a baseline level. At least the armor seemed sturdy enough. At least his mind had translated well enough into the internal functions.
By the time the android erected himself upright, getting his bearings of the immediate white space, he had reconsidered. X should be more grateful he had entered this world with a body at all, much less one made specifically for him.
That left one burning, absolute question: why did this 'Omni' bring Mega Man X here?