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Chapter 2 - The Fighting Vipers (Post 1 of 3)




wait damnit soap didnt i already do this




"its LIKE that, but they're still very obviously right here."




well, it's certainly full of water!




Have You Seen Me?

This flies in the face of all common sense.
There's been a long string of unexplained events here. Guess this is another one.
"I give up!"



we are joined by our friends from the previous chapter, who apparently have their office located in the same place as the NxC protagonists, which is "somewhere in the near vacinity of this fountain oh hey look a fountain"




There's been a LOT of trouble in this location, apparently. You would know, Chun, you were there.





CANT YOU KIDS SEE IM BUSY

I doubt they were hiding in the water.
And I wouldn't call those guys too normal, either!
Yeah. If you called that normal, that'd be about the end of Roppongi, I'd say.
Y'know ask me two years ago if I would ever play a game that's like NxC but with an even more annoying pair of protagonists to follow around and I wouldn't believe it existed, but here is me being so very wrong.

Hey, I think I've seen that kung-fu lady before.
Pai Chan, right?
Yes. Oh, are you Chun-Li from Interpol?
Ah... How did you know?
It's hard to keep a low profile when you dress so distinctly and have fought countless mutants, superheroes, and saved the world from Galactus.

One of my actor friends knows you.
THEY JUST DO

We ran into one of their agents earlier. A sharp-eyed female martial artist.
(Juri?!)
the only female martial artist, obv.

How about we help them? They've got spunk and they may be useful to us.
How about you explain to me why you even care








legWEAR, on the other hand, is a joke




sorry, but you're no kyoko~





"it is impossible when i have the NECRO DESIRE"




Morrigan: The IGN Of Fighting Games





tell me where the goddamn star is




WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU NUT

Chapter 2 - The Fighting Vipers (Post 2 of 3)






Great! Stuff!




and here is some fatass

Looks like we got the monster boss here!
They call him Boss. Boss Monster.

I think I've seen that ring on his back before.
"Only an original PxZ character would look this stupid!"

Ah, yes, Eins has told me all about you, lady. I am Drei Belanos, of the Belanos brothers. And I'm not gonna go down as easily as he did!
Looks like SOMEBODY is doubting the power of Tenzai Ninjutsu over here!

You've already ransacked my home! What else do you possibly want from us?
Heh heh heh. Well, a few things.
Heh heh heh






"But first I have to keep from falling into plotholes!"




That un-straps my dress!

Aw, come on, lady! I'm a really nice guy on the inside! I can't wait to take you up in my arms... and carry you to your doom!
A real looker, too! You're missin' out, Mii!





"I heard a bunch of shit-ass characters were in need of some actual cool characters to spice up their game."

Ehhh? Who the hell're you?
Someone get this Fat Ass a copy of Fighters Megamix, he is clearly missing out on a lot in his life.

Wow, who's that? That's quite an outfit he has.
Walking around in Roppongi like that, is gonna turn a lot of heads, yeah.
I have a hard time believing, with this cast of characters, that a guy who looks mostly like a japanese punk stereotype is really out of place in fictional japan.

Are you...Bahn?
No doubt about it. One of the Fighting Vipers from Armstone City...
Ooh, hey, Akira! Pai's here too, huh? Man, it's been ages!
"We're from the Sega Club, man, we're tight."


Hey, speaking of, Akira, you see a guy in a blue student uniform around?



What is THAT nerd doing here!?

No, I havent. We're looking for some people, too. They just disappeared earlier.
"I've spent all of like 5 seconds looking at a fountain and found nothing, I dunno what gives."

That kid you're looking for, Bahn, did he vanish on you, too?
I called 'im over here so we could settle a coupla long-standing scores.
He's my Rival, from School, y'know

Man, I hope that bastard didn't get caught up in all of this junk!
I'm really worried about that fucker, y'know?

I don't think the social center of Tokyo is a good place for a brawl, Bahn.
"But given my idea of clothing and how I wear it, it might not be the best idea to follow my advice"

I don't appreciate being ignored, you! Come on!
Good point, you freak.
Uhm...

I heard rumors about you monsters. I think you need a lesson or two, right now! Ladies and gentlemen, you now officially have Genghis Bahn III at your service! I'm still itchin' to beat down that little punk, but I won't say no to a warm-up!
I'm not your sparring partner, you! I'm gonna devour you!
You!




Well Gosh and Fuckin Golly Gee

Chapter 2 - The Fighting Vipers (Post 3 of 3)



[crap]




Such is the Life of Pai




"Your EYES are on FIRE! Allow me to STOMP it out!"





damnit mii




im sure at some point soap did or will explain why there are 5 motherfuckers on screen but holy shit game calm down




I'M THE PUNK GUY WHICH MEANS YOU SHOULD OCCASIONALLY REMOVE LETTERS FROM MY DIALOGUE AND REPLACE THEM WITH APOSTROPHES




"Alright this is a bit tricky, you have to press forward, then down, then down-forward..."




[shit]





Seriously, she's so much worse. How did they manage that!?




[barf]






It seems as though they were ten years too early.
















PxZ catering is apparently not too solid!










I have no words






[fucking whatever]




let us all say goodbye to Fat Ass. But no worries, he'll be back sooner than you think!

Man, what the heck? That lion dude was pretty tough.
What's happened to Roppongi? This is totally going to depress the retail climate.
You're an idiot.

I don't think that's our most immediate concern.
"It's not even our least immediate concern. Quite frankly, it's just not any of our damn business."




They're just all having a Cool Capcom Party and you're not invited, fuckers!

First the zombies from out of that fountain, and then the Belanos brothers.
"I might ALMOST be interested in this!"





Try explaining this little entourage to your co-workers, Mr. Tenzai

You mean here? In this building?
No Akira he means that you should have a seat in the bloody fucking fountain

Yowza. And here I thought detectives were all, like, poor 'n stuff.
Maybe I should go private myself, once this is all over.
oh man, Humor Incoming!

Maybe... assuming you're as talented and handsome as I am.
The 'Fashion Victim Robert From King Of Fighters' look is really 'in' this year.

Huh? I thought you were just squatting in one of my company's empty offices.
Shh, quiet, m'lady.
Just mooching off of her, huh?
I would prefer if you said that she was making an investment in me.
I... guess this is what's going to pass as character development in this game.

You need to have more pride in yourself than that, Kogoro.
Chun-Li: Detective, Motivational Speaker

Oh, I don't know. Some men would kill to have a life like that.
...what, to mooch off of someone while being completely incompetent at managing to make something of your life? I'd like to think we strive for a little better than THAT, lady.




they go inside





we get a tasteful pan away from the city to show us th-















NO FUCK YOU YOU'RE ALL DEAD SHUT UP

Oh, Dokugozu. Naughty, naughty!
glad to see you havent changed much haha just kidding im not glad for ANYTHING

We must be delicate in how we handle things.
"You saw what happened last time. Like, wow, holy fuck."

What do you mean?
The "rifts" are too unstable. We could get blown anywhere.
OH I GET IT, "GET BLOWN", HA, THAT'S A REAL CLEVER... er... wait, no, hold on...

Those kids down below... They might be in danger.
Yah-hah! That's wonderful news, isn't it, ma'am? It saves us from having to deal with them later!
Oh, if only the audience was so lucky...

Oh, so direct. But you may be right. Let's proceed with our original plan. To the rendezvous.
Right!
You got it!
I'm glad our buddies 'Those Assholes Who Inflict Poison In NxC (Which Was A Really Poorly Handled Mechanic)' finally got some speaking lines, they offer so much!



So this conversation accomplished nothing!

Oh, PxZ, you're such a tease.

Ha, hahaha, ha...

Ugh.

I expected this reaction from SK and here are some background information, and boy did I laugh.


Anyway, here is some useful informations.

Since PXZ is the 4th game in the NXC canon ( Endless Frontier and Endless Frontier Exceed comes right after NXC ), Saya resurrected in Endless Frontier and in fact they treated it as Kenny in a South Park episode, everyone is surprised to see her and the fact is she doesn't even know why she's alive either and everybody stopped caring 5mn after. This is lampshaded multiple times in Endless Frontier. Have Fun.

tl;dr version: Saya doesn't know herself why she was resurrected 2 games prior and not even the characters care one bit 5 mn after. ( and the NXC main characters stopped caring. )

In an interesting turn of events, Endless Frontier does have a good story. Since it's not a crossover, it does have a stable universe and background to base its story on.

[Spoiler]

Saya resurrected in Endless Frontier and in fact they treated it as Kenny in a South Park episode, everyone is surprised to see her and the fact is she doesn't even know why she's alive either and everybody stopped caring 5mn after. This is lampshaded multiple times in Endless Frontier.Have Fun.

Y'know, yeah, that sounds about the amount of effort they would put into that. Given how many other wonderful, tasteful female designs they made for that game they couldn't POSSIBLY exclude her, and who needs reasons?

Spoiler for Hidden:

lets even make her a protagonist to give her more screentime, THAT'LL make sense

Kenny

Don't get me involved in this clusterfuck tyvm

I'm just posting here to let you know that a sequel is coming.
The game sold twice much in Us and Europe than in japan, so we'll have "Project X Zone 2 : Brave New World" at the same time as japan does.
More characters, attacks and a longer game overall.

What happened to the playthrough ?

blame soap. he is a lazy jerk

now i will fall behind on my namco crossover lore and it's all his fault

Chapter 3 - The Further Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Post 1 of 4)



Nothing's happened yet, but I have to agree.

Also, go ahead and do any admiring dat booty that you feel needs done.



Yep, sounds like Project X Zone!



We weren't around to see any of that stuff but I'll trust you on this one, Tron.

And now we're picking up a mysterious energy source here on Kattelox Island!

We must recover all the energy immedally, w-Mega Man!

How am I supposed to concentrate on my work with all this stuff happening? Don't you get how I feel, Servbot #1?!

#1

Yes, Miss Tron! Now that rocket you're building will be even more delayed.
You guys go and figure out the source of that energy response. Got it?

#17

Aye-aye, Miss Tron!

#28

Miss Tron! We've tracked down the energy source!

There's no cinematic pause or anything. #17 says they're on it and #28 immediately says that they've found it. Either these guys are really fast or #28 in particular is a step ahead.

By the way, according to the Crosspedia, there are 41 Servbots. Let's keep up with which ones we encounter! I wonder if all 41 are actually in the game.

Great work, #28! So where was it?

Also, apparently Tron can tell these things apart. I've never played Mega Man Legends, so I don't know if they say how she can do it. Either way, I guess it's impressive?

#28

From inside that fountain over there, and I'm afraid it's growing stronger!
Huh?!



And then it fades to white. Unfortunately, none of them have been around quite long enough to figure out that fountains are bad news in the world of Project X Zone!

Chapter 3 - The Further Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Post 2 of 4)



In another place, and maybe even another time, we meet up with these two. Remember them?

Frank! Snap out of it, Frank!
Nnngh... Hsien-Ko? What just happened?



Wait. No, this can't be!
Frank?
We're in... Williamette?! And everything's as it was before the outbreak, too!



I've never played Dead Rising either, but the Crosspedia tells me that this is the town where that game took place, and that the people there were turned into zombies. This Crosspedia is pretty handy!

Movieland and Entertainment Isle sound like great stores, by the way.



The game pans around the area for a little bit and then the fountain goes flashy-flash.



Who is this woman and who are all these LEGO™ men?



I do wonder what being transported by a Project X Zone Fountain feels like. Not that I want to find out for myself!

Everything just went white before my eyes. What's going on here?

#1

M-Miss Tron!
#1! I want a full report on this!

#1

I, um, er...

Ugh! None of this is making any sense whatsoever!

Frank's over here looking like he's about ready to choke a LEGO™ dude.

#17

There's a guy who looks like a photographer...

#28

...who's with some kind of Chinese zombie...

#1

...and surrounded by these weird-looking monsters!

While playing, I didn't even notice the monsters until this point. But looking back through the screenshots, it seems they joined when the fountain went flashy-flash.

Gnosis! No, not the Pilgrimage Fleet?!

#17

Miss Tron! I see some Reaverbots, too!
Ugh! Well, we can't just sit here!



So if the Crosspedia said there are 41 of them, and Frank and Hsien-Ko are #43 and #44, who's #42? Is Tron a servbot?



So if you count the two new servbots, we've only seen five so far. Maybe the other ones are off doing something else. Or maybe only #1, #17, and #28 can talk? I have no idea!

Chapter 3 - The Further Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Post 3 of 4)



TuneMakers... the perfect store for people who like making tunes!

#43

Um, I'm not a number, I'm a free man, thank you.

#44

Aiyah. Why are you here, Tron?
How should I know? I was just out for shopping and a little field work.

#43

You know this woman, Hsien-Ko?

#44

We met a while ago. She comes from really far in the future, I think.
That about sums it up, yeah.

It's nice to have the occasional reminder that Namco X Capcom is canon and that in this storyline, the stuff in NXC's storyline really did happen.

#43

The future, huh? So you expect me to believe she's a time traveler?

Because I guess that's somehow more ridiculous than all of what's happened so far.

#1

P-Please believe us, sir!

#17

I s-swear it's true, sir!

#28

Um, could I ask you what your name is, sir?

#43

Me? I'm Frank. Frank West. Are you guys robots? You look familiar.

Frank West wasn't in NXC, so I wonder where he would know them from. Dead Rising fans, are there any references to Mega Man Legends in Dead Rising? Like a servbot on a shelf or something? I feel like this statement is making some sort of reference.

I don't know much about Dead Rising, but I do know there was a large Servbot head mask thing in one of the shops as a reference that you could slam on a zombie's head. They even used it as a super in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.

EDIT: Looks like that's been answered!

So I'm stuck in the past yet again. This is the last thing I need. I guess I'm gonna have to deal with these bad guys before anything else.



This one is just regular "Servbot". I guess there's no point keeping up with them all anymore if the game doesn't even do it...



Hey, I know that character! It's, um, black KOS-MOS!



Bitches don't know they 'bout to get hit with the Big Hilb.



It just does a light flash thing and opacifies the Gnosis dudes.



You must be! I've never heard of anything that could phase Gnosis into normal space that wasn't a T-Weapon!



What did you just call me, bitch?

Miss Tron, do you know this person?

It's the generic Servbot again. Damn. I went and made this fancy CSS way of displaying Servbot numbers with their portraits and now they're just using the generic one. Lame-o to the maximo.

Yeah. She's a battle android developed to fight against the Gnosis. She was built after the KP-X android, KOS-MOS. She's the improved TP-XX model!

Toilet Paper?







Well, I can tell you where I wish she was, and that's right here on my team.

I don't know! We were just taken here without any warning!
Tsk.. The same as me, then.



Be sure to get her entirely in the frame for when you show the pic to Professor Oak!

Frank, this really isn't...
I don't mind. You may as well take that photo for posterity's sake. Though it will be the last thing you ever do.

Alright, it might be better to stick with the Pikachu running around on the Electrode or something.



What are you gonna do, Hilbert Effect me to death?

Eeeeee! A-All I did was answer your question!
You can't just do that! That's crazy!



Look at that determined pose. This is a robot who believes in herself.

Chapter 3 - The Further Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Post 4 of 4)



Fight time!



T-elos proceeds to go about her plan to kill us all by... standing there and doing nothing.



This turn just consists of enemies moving around a little bit.



Then, the camera pans over to Leisure Park...



Is it? Can it be?



It is! It's our heroes!



Wait, we've been in this clown's office all along?



I was about to say. This don't look like no office building!



I guess doorways can act as portals too or something. Or maybe there's a fountain right outside the door. Who knows?



They do a bit of reacting to each other's presences.



My squad's pretty strong, T-elos... sure you don't want to reconsider?

Not too friendly a greeting there. Who is she?
Her name's T-elos, and she's a really evil and scary android!
I don't know what's goin' on here, but if this is a fight, I'm always game.

And it's probably best that we don't try to find out what's going on here.

I guess it is, more or less. ...But I'm starting to think things are gonna get worse before they get better.

Yep, we sure have lots of chapters of getting worse to look forward to!



Both of them are already placed, so I do nothing here.



We gon' knock dis bitch's ass all the way back to Leisure Park.



fuck you



This asshole won't have a single Ether Pack S to his name when we're through with him.



Here are a couple of Tron Bonne action poses.



Pictured: Servbots #2, #4, #5, #8, #9, #12, #13, #15, #16, #21, #25, #32, #34, #37, #39, #43, #44



Is that the generic Servbot?



Here are some Kogoro motion blurs.



This line is probably in a fanfic somewhere.



C'mon, Bahn! Get it together!



At some point, T-elos started moving. I think it was after everyone else showed up.



Well, it was almost the finale? Maybe?



Here's the only special move T-elos used. Pretty normal special move fare, but the finishing gunshot is a nice touch.



Akira and Pai were just walking around breaking things and opening chests. I don't think they got into any fights this chapter.



KOGORO IS FUCKING DEAD

R.I.P.



R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.R.I.P.



I don't remember what this does. But maybe Kogoro could have used it!



Then they break some shit for good measure.



OH! IT'S A BASEBALL



It's good! Hole in one, baby!



If by "out of this world", you mean "to Leisure Park", then yes. It certainly won't get you to Kogoro's office.



You're not NXC legend KOS-MOS, but I'm sure you're the next best thing!

I have no interest in cooperating with complete strangers.
Well, can I get a pic, at least?
Frank, I really don't think that's appropriate.
Certainly.
Really?
Great! Okay, give me a big smile!



This one's going in the porn folder, gents!



Could you fap to porn of a woman who vowed to kill you the next time she meets you?

Man, that was one crazy chick. I kinda dug the way she was moving.
Was she from the same world as you, Tron?
Yeah. She said she was looking for KOS-MOS.
Huh. If she's searching for someone, she should have hired me for the job.

Nope. You're stuck as Mii's bodyguard.

Can we worry about Ryu and Jin first, Kogoro?
Besides, why are we even here? I thought we were going inside your office.

*laugh track*

Ugh! None of this is making any sense whatsoever!

Whatever happened to Ryu and the others in Roppongi has just happened to us.
Hmm. So, in other words, we're as missing as they are.
Well, if we got in here through the door, maybe we can just go right back out.
Hopefully. Ready to go in the "out" door.

Oh, Morrigan!

I don't know much about Dead Rising, but I do know there was a large Servbot head mask thing in one of the shops as a reference that you could slam on a zombie's head. They even used it as a super in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.



SIGH

Frank West wasn't in NXC, so I wonder where he would know them from. Dead Rising fans, are there any references to Mega Man Legends in Dead Rising? Like a servbot on a shelf or something? I feel like this statement is making some sort of reference.

To further answer this, the entire dead rising series is full of references to the megaman series given that they were created by the same guy. The first gave an entire megaman outfit as a reward for beating the game 100% including a working megabuster weapon. The first and second includes servbot masks which can be used as yoshi described, but in the second game you can even attach a lawnmower blade to it and use it as a deadly weapon! Frank also uses the masks in both his fighting game appearances, so, yeah, the lego dudes have become pretty synonymous with him.

So if the Crosspedia said there are 41 of them, and Frank and Hsien-Ko are #43 and #44, who's #42? Is Tron a servbot?

this page offers a couple of references to that, though I'm still not sure. Mostly linking it because wowie zowie even the developers gave them all unique personalities.

The more I know!

I'm starting to think I should do more research on these characters. Maybe I'll do some interludes later on where I play some of the games they come from.