Bass.EXE

Bass EXE. is a character in the Mega Man Battle Network series.

= Video games

Quite possibly the most powerful of all Navis, Bass is the first independent NetNavi created. Bass is a mysterious AI navi who roamed the deepest recesses of the internet, seeking to do battle with the strongest opponents. His past is intertwined with that of Tadashi Hikari. It is soon learned that Bass was created by a scientist named Dr. Cossack, whom he saw as a father. Bass was created by Cossack as part of the SoloNavi project: a project to create a NetNavi that was not reliant on a NetOp or a PET to exist. But due to Alpha, Bass was blamed for the malfunctioning of several devices and was believed to have been deleted by SciLab Elite Corps. Since that day, though, he vowed to destroy humanity as he has the scar inflicted upon his chest as his navi symbol. His identity as a SoloNavi allowed him to escape detection with no way of tracking him. As seen in MegaMan Battle Network 3, Bass' presence also creates communication interference, which only helped his escape.

Bass became immensely powerful due to the ability hard-wired into him: The 'Get Ability' program. This allows Bass to absorb the power of any foe he defeats in battle. After the attack by SciLab, Bass was weakened, and crawled through the Net. He fed on the data remains of deleted viruses and Navis, growing stronger and stronger, until he was strong enough to find and delete viruses and Navis on his own. He presumably stole the data for the 'Life Virus' from MegaMan Battle Network 1, and from it absorbed the Life Aura, as it said that some virus data went missing. Other then a select few viruses in MegaMan Battle Network 2, Bass is the only opponent to bear an Aura, much less regenerate it at will. Bass also at one point, engaged in conbat with the Underking Serenade. Serenade was the victor, but only after a battle that raged days. Bass and Dr. Cossack eventually cross paths again in MegaMan Battle Network 3. Cossack uses a 'Pulse Transmission System' to jack his mind into the Net, and there meets Bass. Bass is amused that a 'puny human' would dare to come into his world. Bass then reveals the glowing white scar on his chest, telling Cossack of the trials and perils he went through to gain his power. Cossack attempts to 'self-destruct' his own mind and destroy Bass, and Bass attacks Cossack. However, Cossack survives. This is the only event in which Bass shows some sort of mercy or compassion for humans. Despite the fact that Bass believes he was betrayed by his creator/father (which he was not. Cossack defended Bass when SciLab announced the plan to delete him), he apparently could still not bring himself to kill Cossack. Depite the fact that Cossack apparently survives, he has yet to appear in any other games in the Battle Network series.

As the secret boss in every game (and a story boss in BN3) he soon crossed paths with MegaMan several times, and soon Bass' origins would be known by Wily, who was in hiding after the first LifeVirus was destroyed. Wily learned of Bass' ability to absorb the power of anything he touches, and realized he could be the key to reawakening Alpha. Since finding him could be rather difficult, he decided to have someone make clones of Bass for him, so he found Sean across the Net and convinced him to form the netmafia Gospel and make an army of Bass clones. Sean attempted to do so, using unstable bits of data called BugFrags. The unstable Bass clone mutated into the boss Gospel (who notably resembled Treble). Lan and his friends had managed to stop Gospel and delete the data that allowed Sean to create Bass clones. Bass is seen after the ending credits, dispatching a clone in the Secret WWW area, and raging that he could not allow those wretched humans to make clones of him. Because the Bass created by Sean is not authentic, it lacks many attacks the true Bass has, and also has no aura.

Bass discovered who was behind the plan to clone him, and confronted Wily. Wily gave Bass an offer he could't refuse: if he helps Wily awaken Proto, Bass will fufill his vow of having all of humanity wiped out. Bass agreed to this, even more impressed by Wily's will to sacrifice himself when Proto awakens. Bass managed to get Proto before MegaMan could, and in Proto's core, the data form of Wily commanded Bass to absorb the Guardian Program and he did. MegaMan then fought Bass and won, and Proto consumed Bass along with Wily. However, Bass later appears in the Secret Areas once the Undernet King (Queen?) Serenade is defeated. Bass appears by merging with the BugFrags in the BugFrag trader located in Serenade's lair. He then fights MegaMan, but possesses a stronger aura, twice as much HP, and has various new attacks that are created when his arm transforms into a miniature version of Gospel. This version of Bass is called Bass GS.MegaMan fought this new version of Bass, he narrowly beat him, and MegaMan tried to get Bass to remember his past, but to no avail. He disappeared, and later reappeared to challenge the winner of the Chaos Tournament leg of the BattleChip Grand Prix.

After MegaMan Battle Network 3, Bass was back where he started: crawling through the Internet, near death, until he came across a remnant of Gospel. He merged with it and became something much, much different. He lost his memory, believing he exists only to fight and destroy, and he is only healed by glitch-causing bugs. As such, he faced MegaMan on various occasions. But even without his memory, Bass still remains active, ever seeking more and more power to exact his revenge.

Strangely enough, Bass has later appeared in new forms other then Bass GS. In MegaMan Battle Network 4, he appeared with barely any memory and he attacked with darkness attacks he gained from absorbing DarkPower. He had retreated to the Undernet since then and for some reason, became a statue brimming with dark power. MegaMan found the statue and, because of the DarkSoul within him, awakened Bass and fought him. Intrigued by his DarkSoul, Bass decided to dive even deeper into darkness to find "more power", and MegaMan got to meet him again in the darkest of places, Black Earth. He no longer used his signature LifeAura, or any of his attacks from previous games. In MegaMan Battle Network 5, Bass himself only appeared in certain areas if MegaMan was BassCross MegaMan, which is a fusion of MegaMan and Bass. One of the forms of Lord of Chaos (A recolored Nebula Gray), a hidden boss in the deepest part of the net, is also Bass. After defeating the Lord of Chaos in his Bass form, the real Bass can be found randomly outside his lair. Later, he reappear in Megaman Battle Network 6 absorbing one of the two beastes ,Falzer or Griega, and in Megaman Battle Network 4.5 he's a secret playable charater.

Bass.exe in the Anime

When Wily broke apart PharaohMan's data, and extracted its Ultimate Program to serve as the basis of the Grave Virus Beast, some pieces of data broke off from the remains of PharaohMan in the process. One of these formed itself into the being known as Bass. However, Bass had no memories of his previous life as PharohMan until he abducted MegaMan and read his memories, learning his origins and awakening his "true self".

He tried to consume the data of the Grave Virus Beast for the Ultimate Destruction Program inorder to become whole, only to be consumed himself. But when MegaMan destroyed the Virus Beast and restored all the NetNavis, Bass took residence in Kid Grave's android body. He left, vowing revenge against the world. He reappeared as the creator of the robot Allegro in Megaman NT Warrior Axess and later resurfaced to revive ShadeMan. In Megaman NT Warrior Stream he tried to absorb MegaMan and ProtoMan's Ultimate Programs when Duo came to Earth, only to have failed, being easily defeated by Slur and imprisioned in the UnderNet, also losing Kid Grave's body.

In the movie that took place right in the middle of Stream, Bass gets captured by Regal and is brainwashed to fight MegaMan and Colonel. Bass, upon returning to normal, wanted to make Regal pay for the 'disgusting act' of a human using him as a pawn, even if meant siding with MegaMan. The duo were no match against the Cyber Beast Nebula Grey so Megaman had Bass absorb his Ultimate Program. Oddly enough, the end result was unexpected, as instead of megaman being absorbed they both fused together and BassCross Megaman was born. Though BassCross was able to stop Regal, the villain attempted to destroy the fusion with a black hole. But Bass forced a separation and flung MegaMan out of harm's way as he himself got sucked in so he could absorb Nebula Grey's remaining power. Thank to this new power, Bass would later return during the final battle against Duo, where he won his rematch with Slur and absorbed her program, becoming even more powerful. Strangely enough, after Bass defeated Slur he just mysteriously vanished into the darkness, and didn't even attempt to go after Duo. No one knows where Bass is now, and no one knows what he will do with his new, terrible, demoniac, and obscure power. It should be noted that by absorbing Slur (most likly dramactily increasing his power... AGAIN) he most likly whould have been strong enough to stand up to Duo. However Bass makes no attempt to defeat/kill/absorb Duo even though he obiously knew Duo was going to destroy the planet.(Killing him in the process.)

Abilities and powers

Following is a description of Bass' powers, as seen in the Megaman Battle Network 3 game.

• Life Aura A glowing yellow aura, the LifeAura blocks any attacks with attack powers of less then 100. Thus, players must have many powerful Battle Chips with which to delete the Aura. While his Aura is active, Bass takes no damage except from effects like poison. He can regenerate the Aura at will, usually after his Earth Break or Air Burst attacks. It can easily be argued that this is what makes Bass so strong of an opponent: if a player does not have any Battle Chips strong enough to break the Aura, they have no hope of defeating Bass.

• Gospel Cannon: An attack used by Bass GS, the Gospel Cannon creates a miniature version of Gospel on Bass' arm, which he then uses to fires flames.

• Earth Break: Bass' trademark attack, Earth Break causes Bass to leap into the air and slam the enemy with his fist, breaking panels. It resembles the Battle Chip PanelOut3.

• Bass Buster: Bass holds out his hands and fires a single yellow sphere along the ground.

• Air Burst: A barrage of glowing yellow spheres that cause heavy damage. A stronger from of the Bass Buster.

• Get Ability: essentially a varible weapons system, this ability allows Bass to absorb the powers of any foe he defeats.

Trivia

• Bass is the one of the only NetNavis to bear some sort of clothing over his uniform: his tattered brown cloak. The SolCross Megaman has the Crimson Scarf, and BassCross has a version of the cloak. Bass resumably wears his cloak to hide the scar on his chest inflicted by the SciLab Elite Corps. Exactly how he came upon the cloak is unknown. Only during the movie, in the manga "Forte's Backstory", and with a cheat in Megaman Battle Network 4.5 we can see Bass without cloak.

• Although Bass apparently bears the LifeAura, in most of the games his Aura has a strength of 100. In the 3rd BN game, the Battlechip Aura had a power of 100, and LifeAura a power of 200. Bass' Aura is also yellow, the color of the Aura, leading some to believe he only possesses a normal Aura. In BN3, there is also a DarkAura which has a power of 300. Possibly to avoid confusion, since BN3 the only Aura has been LifeAura, which now has a power of 200 and is yellow, just like Bass' Aura. An explanation of Bass' Aura from BN3 could be that it was only the storyline Bass that had the 100 Aura: Bass GS had a yellow Aura of 200 power, the LifeAura.

• Bass is the only boss that players can fight in all MegaMan Battle Network games. Until BN4 was introduced, both Bass and ProtoMan could claim this. But ProtoMan cannot be fought in both BN4 games, and thus, Bass remains the only boss that appears and can be fought in all the games.