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Boy, that didn't end well...
Hey, don't feel bad. It could have been worse.
Yeah, if we ALL died!!!
Exactly!
For some reason, memory fails me on what vanquished me in battle...
RESEARCHING BATTLE MEMORY.
...
I mean, usually I don't pay attention because we always lose anyway...
..but even for not paying attention, all I remember was GZ and some phone*...
Well, team, looks like we have our next mission: Find out what happened!!
We're pathetic...
*beep* (Assistance would certainly be useful. The pun, less so.)
Well, I'm glad it has all been sorted out. I can't imagine what it must have been like to linger out there for so long...
I'd have to agree.
Well, if there's nothing else you all need from me, I shall be going for now.
...where to?
Somewhere...quiet.
Certainly easier said than done, but if you want something at least close...
...I know a small cottage down in the Quiet Forest you could settle in for a while.
?!?! (What is that?!)
...? (Hold on, did I hear someone else on the line?)
Oh hey, a tournament! I've heard about that.
Thing is, Rumia's already planning to sign up, and I don't wanna take her spotlight...or spotdark.
I wonder where she is, anyway...
...
...
...
...is this where we wait for the tournament?
I dunno!
Big buddy, I'm fine! Some really weird stuff happened, but it's all cleared up now.
And please don't remind me of the special fruit juice.
Me hear echoes in hole after bringing friend Diddy back to friend Doppler.
Hello friend Donkey and money person Bluster! What you looking for?
*sigh* What are you doing back here? I'm a lost cause.
I wouldn't say that.
How did you...?
...well, it's not going to help anyway; I'm still cursed with releasing that virus from my body.
We've got that covered, too.
...?
You'd be surprised at what can be done if you don't leave everything to yourself.
I hope this works...
...?
...
... (They were here. And now that I know what they are, it won't be long until I find where they are.)
...
...just know the next time you or someone in your web of connections makes a "slip o' the tongue" like that, I will have much more to say, Ecolo.
..."Temporal Leakage"...and it's only coming from him?
Correct. We just need a cure, and a way to prevent it from spreading again.
A cure doesn't sound as out of reach as you'd think. No signs point to it being on the level of even the Coda Corruption, so even if Shadow Digital cannot undo it himself, it's a simple task finding someone who can.
As for preventive measures...
What?! No! You said you were-
Volt Man, calm down. I have no intention of using Limited or its derivatives.
Team Mecha may have invented these Adaptors to harness such power without letting it run amok, but in doing so, they also found a way to contain easily-spread viruses.
If Rika and I can reverse-engineer the Adaptor technology, we might be able to create something that will keep Shadow Digital safe.
Dark Arle, can we talk? 
Here they are. The Digital Calvin and Hobbes Forums. The Omniverse where I was born.
...wait, why aren't you showing us your Universe?
Because I can't, Dangan Man. Not even this machine can re-discover those lost events. All that remains are my own memories of it.
...well, can you tell us what memories those were?
...I suppose it's the most I can do.
My Universe began with a fight. A fight between me and a boy who only went by "Double D". It seems he had two friends, "Ed" and "Eddy"...but I'm getting off-track.
Just one Shadow Blade, and the boy was on the ground. He said he recognized me, and I recognized him. From "Mega Man 3"; in my world, both a game and a landmark in history.
I told him that he helped Mega Man defeat me back when it happened, as a denial of his request to play video games with me...and that was it.
Time stopped for both of us, and eventually the whole Omniverse came crashing down on our heads.
I only ever truly knew one person in that world, and they were my enemy...
But then I lingered. One way or another, I was left in the Void, with nowhere to go.
I'm still in disbelief that I clung on for that long, but as I did, I learned new abilities, and re-shaped myself from the worlds I saw be born and die.
Hmmh... (Why didn't Brash just get you?)
Because he didn't see a need for me, Yoshi. Back when my world was around, Brash knew so little.
"Gensokyo" was as foreign of a concept to him as it was to most of your world's Reapers. Maybe even more.
The DOS robots, Fang the Sniper...even Gilgamesh was one of the many things he didn't learn until after he left me behind.
But I hold nothing against him for leaving me behind. There was so much more for him to do in the next decade or so, and in the end, my world didn't even matter.
The only thing I have on my mind now is what to do with the curse the Void left me with.
Ecolo, it was me. What I meant was that I infected them by accident.
Temporal Leakage follows me like a curse. That's why I told you to stay away; if you approached me, it would have affected you too.
I don't know what spell you speak of, but it long predates you.
...what kind of person are you?
A perfectly reasonable question. I'm not sure if I can give a perfect answer, but to provide as much as I can... 
...I'll need this.
Wait, are you just going to do what Delta Dude did?
...not quite. But I certainly wish I could. In any case, let me show you.
What happened to your friends...that was indeed my doing.
It's not a Nightmare Virus. It's Temporal Leakage.
Hnngh! (So you're here to drop another all-powerful corruption on us?! Even with Regulus gone we have more than enough to worry about!)
...this isn't powerful at all. Temporal Leakage has no positive effects whatsoever. There's a reason why your friends are still down here, instead of wreaking havoc on the surface.
Then why did you infect them?! And who are you?!
...
To answer your first question...I had no intention of doing so. But even wandering beneath the earth, my presence affected your friends, and all I could do was bring them here to try and help them.
As for your second question...
Long ago, I was the Robot Master Shadow Man...
...but with all that's happened since, I can't call myself that anymore.
You...WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?!?!
Stay away from me.
Your threats mean NOTHING to me, you mother-
It's not a threat. It's a warning.
I can't seem to find any traces of them anywhere...
Hmmmhh... (Hold on, what's that there?)
...that certainly wasn't there before. I'm suspicious that it's related to these recent disappearances...
And I'm certain that it is! Come on, guys!
Are you sure this is the place?
It has to be. This is the exact location the map picked up.
Hold on...
This must be it...
What the
?!?!
...!
Well, now that we've sorted that out, what should we-
DYNA!!!
Wh-Volt?!
Sonic Man...Torch...they're gone!!!
Wait, where?!
I don't know!! And we still don't know where Orange or Diddy went!!
...
This isn't a coincidence anymore.
... (I don't care if they're underground, in space, or in another dimension. I will not rest until this uprising is over.)
It doesn't matter if you're faster or not, I'm better than you!!
You should have been left to starve like the runt you are!!!
You know what? You two don't deserve this.
...
... (Sir, I fail to see the benefit in these devices. They demand that for every attack we launch, two of my people must perish.)
... ("Units"? Are my kind not people of their own to you?)
... (...)
... (...yes, master.)
...what's troubling him?
I'm not sure...hey, Sonic M-
No...
No no no no no no no no no NO NO NO NO-
Now's our chance, dudes!
Ow!!! That's not fair!!!
Kid, you can count the things that are unfair around here on one hand!