Roodaka Vs. Hexadecimal
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I'm going to do my Versus a bit differently from now on... I'm changing the overall format (inspired by Makaru's format) for future versus and they will remain in my black font color. Also, go check out Makaru's very own versus in his blog, Unicron Vs Galactus.
And now for our newest Versus...
Roodaka VS. Hexadecimal
About her:
Little is known of Roodaka's past, other than that she comes from the island of Xia. She has related an anecdote of her rite of passage: she and another of her people were climbing a mountain that tried to eat them, while braving fiery rains and acidic grass. When she was almost at the top, her friend was caught by the mountain. She could have saved her friend, or reached the top on her own. She chose to climb to the top while the mountain enjoyed its meal.
At some point, Roodaka was trained by the Dark Hunters ( specifically The Shadowed One). She "bought" this training by exposing the treachery of Nidhiki and mutating him from a Toa into an insectoid monster. She also provided another one of her mutants to the Hunters, who was given the codename "Silence".
Soon afterward, Roodaka entered the service of the Brotherhood of Makuta. When the Toa Hagah rebelled against the Brotherhood, it was she who turned them into small Rahkshi-faced creatures that she called "Rahaga". However, her rival Sidorak took credit for the idea, and he was awarded with command of the Brotherhood's Visorak armies while Roodaka only got second-in-command.
As Viceroy of the Visorak hordes, Roodaka schemes to take control and become their sole ruler. Where Sidorak leades the horde in grand battles, Roodaka prefers to implement more intricate, subtle plans. She can also quickly become irrational and violent; she has been known to throw Visorak off of high places for "making mistakes, not listening to her, refusing to look at her, or looking at her for too long". While neither Sidorak nor Roodaka trust each other, Sidorak has often proposed marriage to her (as marriage, being merely a political alliance in the Bionicle universe, would give him influence with her people and give her power as the Visorak's Queen); she has always rejected his offers.
When Makuta became imprisoned in Metru Nui, he telepathically called out to his servants, and both Sidorak and Roodaka jumped at the chance to gain his favor. They captured the Toa Metru, and Roodaka suggested they be executed spectacularly; the Rahaga were able to save them at the last minute, but not before the Toa were mutated by Visorak venom into bestial Toa Hordika. While Sidorak went off to conquer the city by force, Roodaka went to Makuta's prison and cut a small piece out of it for use in her schemes. She also had evidence planted for the Toa Hordika to find that stated that others had been destined to be the Toa instead of them; made all the more devastating by the fact that it was authentic (though it was later revealed to the Toa that they were the destined heroes after all; the evidence was made to deceive Makuta).
When Toa Vakama began to succumb to his feral side, Roodaka went behind Sidorak's back and offered him command over the Visorak hordes; Vakama agreed as thought that doing so would help him free the Toa Hordika; he thought he could command the Visorak not to harm the Toa. She had Vakama kidnap the Rahaga in order to prove himself to Sidorak, and when he was still reluctant to accept Vakama she tempted him further by finally accepting his marriage proposal.
Roodaka's schemes neared completion as the remaining Toa Hordika and their ally Keetongu stormed the Visorak's base in the city's Coliseum. When Keetongu was climbing up the Coliseum wall to get to her and Sidorak, Roodaka blasted him with her shadow energy and sent him plummeting to the ground. Sidorak offered her the final blow, but she refused; it was only then that Sidorak realized that she didn't really wound Keetongu - she had only made him really, really angry. With Roodaka refusing to help him, Sidorak stood no chance against the enraged Rahi, and Roodaka became the Visorak's Queen in his place - as she had planned all along.
She then confronted the Toa Hordika, who were vastly outnumbered; her plan was to kill them and absorb their elemental powers, using them to free Makuta. Instead, she got blasted by the five resisting Toa - and Vakama, who had rejoined them, threatened to fire as well. Roodaka warned that the Visorak would kill them all if she died, but Vakama (who still officially was the hordes' commander) ordered them to retreat; they quickly complied, as Roodaka was a traitor who had killed their King. After that, Vakama fired, but ended up doing what Roodaka wanted (though in a much more painful way than she would have liked); the six elemental blasts were absorbed by the stone from Makuta's prison, and ended up shattering the prison, freeing Makuta. The first thing Makuta did was to teleport the defeated Roodaka out of the city and away from danger, though it appeared to many that she died from the assault.
After her supposed "death", Roodaka was found by the Dark Hunter codenamed "Tracker" (though he had to be restrained from killing her), and was brought back to the Hunters' base to "discuss her future" with the Shadowed One. She currently acts on her own, and has been playing both sides in the war between the Brotherhood of Makuta and the Dark Hunters.
About her:
Hexadecimal is an insane virus operating out of Lost Angles and who has a not-so-secret crush on Bob. She constantly wears a mask, changing them through waving her hand in front of her face or turning around so the viewer never really sees her change masks. In all practicalities, her vast collection of masks shows her facial expression (thereby giving her a harlequin-like appearance). The expressions shown in these masks range from happy, scheming, to a downright homocidally insane expression. These masks also hold her power in check, though when removed (as in the episode "Painted Windows"), her power escapes and continues to do damage although she will overload and be destroyed if the mask is not replaced. Hexadecimal has the ability to control nulls (sprites downgraded to slug-like status for losing to the User in a game), which has earned her the title "Queen of the Nulls." Hex has transfinite power - meaning that, though her power is not infinite it continues to regenerate even as she exhausts her power; Hex can be weakened and takes time to restore herself to full power, but she will return to full power.
Both Megabyte and Hexadecimal were at one point part of the larger virus Gigabyte. It was accidentally split into two effectively opposite parts, Megabyte representing order and Hexadecimal representing chaos.
She is a benign virus, meaning she doesn't infect other entities. Instead, her whole motive was to cause random chaos for fun (and also to kill Megabyte, who kept trying to kill her, possibly due to sibling rivalry). Due to her power and insanity, her fun nearly always led to Mainframe crashing. She even once nearly caused it by accident, when a Web Creature possessed her and the nulls formed a giant "Nullzilla" around her as a result.
Her power charged the Hardware that closed the portal to the Web in Web World Wars, but on a whim she decided to fire the Hardware at the Principal Office, which would destroy the Core and the whole System. Luckily, a Game Cube landed on top the Hardware and the feedback from the Cube along with the charge that she had already built up in the hardware seriously damaged her; Megabyte had her rebuilt and enslaved her into being a weapon he could use against Mainframe. This only made her more insane and very angry, and when she broke free of Megabyte's control her resulting rampage devastated G-Prime. She spent the rest of her days lurking in Lost Angles (a play on the word Los Angeles), until a returning Bob was able to defragment her - her masks were replaced by a real face (it looked exactly like her masks, except her mouth moved to her voice) and her insanity was replaced with quirkiness.
When Mainframe restarted, a viral scan disinfected all the Virals in Mainframe. Hex, who had been given an Icon (or PID) and registered with the Office at Bob's insistence, was scanned but was so powerful that she wasn't infected. When her power was lessened in Daemon Rising, the viral scan (which remained in her Icon) started again and turned her into a normal unpowered Spirte, wearing white and gold instead of red and black. When Daemon conquered Mainframe and Bob was in danger of dying, Hexadecimal absorbed some of Mainframe's core energy in order to become the Hexadecimal of old once more, now with power levels comparable to even Daemon's. She finally had to sacrifice herself by spreading her benign infection (which contained the cure to Daemon's infection) throughout the Net.
Her sacrifice symbolizes two themes previously stated in the show: "Love conquers all boundaries." -- AndrAIa.
Hexadecimal decides to fight Daemon's countdown in order to ensure the safety of the one she loves: Bob.
"Chaos will always triumph over Order; it is the way of things." -- Hexadecimal
It is stated by Turbo that Daemon's purpose is to bring Order to the world. The Queen of Chaos backs up her statement in the end when she cures the net of Daemon's infection.
Her name is a reference to hexadecimal notation, which programmers sometimes use rather than binary notation.
Scuzzy
Hexadecimal's familiar. A cat-sized animal with a video screen on its head. Named after SCSI, which stands for Small Computer System Interface.
Powers:
Roodaka has:
Rhotuka launcher, which fires spinners that mutate targets into whatever form that she pleases; Catcher Claws that allow her to catch others' Rhotuka spinners, poison them, and fling them back: She can also focus her natural shadow energy into devastating blasts which she could fire from her fingertips.
Hexadecimal has:
Fireballs, Rage, ability to fly, control nulls/become Nullzilla.
Evilness:
Roodaka:
Kills Visorak for fun, Betrays everyone.
Hexadecimal:
For a virus she is nice, get on her bad side she will destroy you.
Overall winner?
You decide.
Kohaku
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