urbem_initium | Open Megaman RP Post

[...okay. Axl wasn't exactly sure what was going on, because one moment, he'd been fighting Mavericks, traversing through some ruins to complete his mission. The next? He was in... a city. A not ruined city, and in fact it looked to be in much better state than most of the civilian inhabited cities he'd visited before. There were humans everywhere, and not a single Reploid to be seen. Was this a human only settlement? Except that didn't quite make sense, because even the most hateful human cities had a few mechaniloids here and there and he didn't see those around either.

The most puzzling evidence was the way they all stared at him like he was some sort of alien.

So he'd ducked into a nearby alley to get away from the attention and sort out his location. Pinging HQ got nothing. Well, that wasn't exactly true. He would've expected nothing, but he was getting a sense that the whole city was covered by a network, and he was getting ping backs from... something, and a whole bunch of data he couldn't interpret very well. It was a confusing mess, to be honest, and just left him feeling a little more than frustrated.

With a bit of a huff, he sent out one last query -- general location and information on the area -- and settled against the wall in preparation for the mass of confusing data he would inevitably receive in return.]

Edited (i derped) 2015-08-14 18:15 (UTC)

[Megaman would like to say that his first reaction to getting random mystery pings from nowhere had not been to shriek so loudly he'd gotten damage inquiries from concerned passers-by. He would be lying. It was hardly his fault; anybody would be startled by a disembodied voice suddenly talking to them, verbally or otherwise!

He'd calmed down eventually, at least, and tried to communicate with....whatever it was...but it really wasn't going all that well. A few other navis had "heard" it too, and had tried to talk with it, but they'd all pretty much given up after a while. Nobody could really understand what was being "said," after all, and whatever it was either couldn't "hear" or didn't understand them either. At least, he didn't think it could. Nothing had really felt like an attempt at a coherent reply.

...was this something like Zero? Had he tripped over some newly-sapient digital life's first "words"?

Megaman was almost ready to give up himself when another ping came in. This one he could understand, even if it. Still didn't quite make sense. A request for network location data and system info, he could understand, but the real world? Why would it want that? ...well, no time to think. He scoured as many network connections in the area as he could to "map" out the geolocations of their IP addresses, pulled up as much general info as he could find using them, and bundled it all up to ping back.

He kept a copy of it all for himself, too. Just in case.

"Lan, you need to call dad. I think I just found something weird."]

[As he expected, the returning data made little to no sense. First of all, he'd never heard of this DenTech City that whoever it was that sent him the data was telling him this city was named. On top of that, DenTech City contained so many locations that were... to put bluntly, frivolous and wastes of space, resources and electricity. It wasn't that they had any sort of energy shortage (that probably wouldn't happen for another century or so), but Earth was already doing poorly thanks to the Earth Crisis and the surface only recently became habitable for humans again. Maybe one entertainment space could be expected but there were so many others, and... there were also a ton more humans in the city than what would've made sense.

Frowning, he sent out a query to his aide -- a question about DenTech's prosperity, and the location of the Maverick Headquarters. He paused, and then added on a third query -- the identity of his helper.

Hopefully they'd understand it-- about thirty percent of the data sent back had been some sort of junk data, or something he couldn't understand, to be more accurate. He couldn't help but shake the feeling that he wasn't supposed to be here, wherever here was.]

[This is so weird. And a little nerve-wracking, to be completely honest. Sorting out this ping isn't as easy as the last one, but still much better than most of what he was getting earlier; he can at least sort out that it's asking something about the city, even if the exact request doesn't line up to anything he can understand. The other is just another jumble of meaningless data, but at least it seems to be getting closer to coherent communication--

--oh. Is that...it wants him to introduce himself? Is that it? That's...unexpected, but. It makes sense. He doesn't even have to think about it - he pops off his ID string immediately, and after a couple of seconds (and a check to make sure nobody's watching):]

I, uh...I'm Megaman.

[Talking verbally to nothing feels even weirder than talking via data pings to nothing, but it's worth a shot. Maybe doing that will convince it to show itself.

After a bit, he tries pinging with just a bare query context data. Maybe he can get it to introduce itself back...]

[He almost starts when a voice comes through his headset-- young, and entirely unfamiliar. A bit of data follows, but like the string of data before the voice, it's incomprehensible, so he ignores it. He presses his hand to the side of his helmet -- reflex -- and after a moment's of hesitation, he decides it can't hurt to try to communicate by voice.]

Uh, hey there Megaman. Thanks for answering my pings.

[There's a brief, awkward pause as the Reploid tries to figure out what to say next.]

So, uh, you said this place is called DenTech City? What are its coordinates? [He'll figure out how to phrase the rest of his questions after.]

Yeah. No problem.

[Now that he's got a voice to work with this...okay, it still feels weird. just slightly less weird. Maybe.]

Coordinates...? Um. Just a sec. [GPS coordinates? Strange, but, okay. He can get that information no problem, and sends it off via ping on instinct.] I...can you understand that?

Yeah, I got that... [GPS coordinates are GPS coordinates. Except.... when he cross checks it with his own data of the world, the location pops up as an entirely deserted-- no, irradiated area that was inhabitable for humans.]

...actually, maybe I don't. Isn't that area still heavy with radioactivity? I thought it was still inhabitable for humans.

What? That...no, of course not! [If he sounds absolutely horrified by that idea, well. That's because he is.] Why would you even think that?

[He's absolutely pulling up a separate channel to the PET so he can talk to Lan without this...whatever hearing. Dad needs to know about this and he needs to know now.]

Why wouldn't I think that? The world's still suffering from the Earth Crisis! The surface's only recently become habitable for humans, hasn't it? This DenTech City place is a complete anomaly in location, buildings and services, population... everything! Hell, it even has a huge network! That's just asking to get wrecked by the Virus.

[He was beginning to get a sinking feeling about the whole situation...]

Man if you tell me I was somehow teleported back in time by that Maverick's move I think I'm gonna have to break something.

[That was a joke but now that he gives it a little more thought, it sounds more plausible than he's comfortable with.]

...it is 22XX, right?

[He's quiet through that whole little...rant. None of what he's saying makes any sense. It sounds more like something out of a movie than something that someone could actually believe. Especially whatever he meant about a virus - as if anyone could make a virus that a navi wouldn't be able to handle.

This is starting to get really, really creepy.]

No. It's 20XX.

["Lan! We have an emergency!"]

[There's a long moment of silence as Axl comprehends Megaman's reply and realizes it's not a joke. How was he supposed to respond to that? How did he even get to 20XX? What about X and Zero, they needed him to be around.

Now would be a good time to have a meltdown, except he was a Hunter, Hunters didn't have meltdowns. So he just sighs, very loudly, pressing the palm of his hand against his head crystal.]

Okay, sweet. I'm in the past with a whole bunch of humans and zero Reploids, and I have no idea how I got here. Iiiii'm not gonna tempt fate by saying something about it possibly being worse. [Except saying that was totally tempting fate, but he didn't care. Fate could go screw itself as far as he was concerned right now.]

You wouldn't happen to know anyone that could help me with this, wouldja?

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