Metal Virus

The **T-Type Metal Virus** is an artificial virus created by Metallix, adapted from an original strain created by Doctor Eggman. It is a synthetically concocted virus that transmutes organic matter into metallic matter and is highly contagious.

## History

### Past

The original strain of Metal Virus was created by Doctor Eggman, after recovering from amnesia. He then tested it on Rough and Tumble, which led to Sonic getting infected. Eggman, deeming it a success, set about mass-producing the virus and dumping vats on it into towns and cities.

The infectious nature of the virus spread to such a degree that it eventually claimed several of Sonic's friends, including Shadow. Meanwhile, its mutations led to the resulting Zombots getting out of control for Eggman, leading to Starline to call upon the Deadly Six to fix the issue for them.

Unfortunately, Zavok immediately took over operations, planning to infect and destroy everything Sonic and Eggman held dear with the Metal Virus, thanks to the Zeti's power over magnetism. With the Chaos Emeralds under their control, the Zeti set about sending waves of Zombots to spread the virus further, but eventually were defeated by Sonic's friends and the Babylon Rogues.

With Rouge disabling Zavok's source of production, Zavok became bent on destroying Angel Island, the last stronghold of the uninfected, but at the last minute was stopped by Sonic and Silver, with help from Metal Sonic. Using the power of the Chaos Emeralds and Starline's Warp Topaz, Super Sonic and Super Silver managed to send all traces of the Metal Virus into the Sun.

## Infected

### Previous Strain

* Tumble
* Sonic
* Charmy Bee
* Cheese
* Chocola
* Shadow
* Vanilla
* Vector
* Big
* Froggy
* Jewel
* Tangle
* Zomom
* Zeena
* Knuckles

### T-Type Strain

* Bowser
* Vector
* Espio
* Rawk Hawk
* Komodo Joe
* Zeena
* Zor
* Crunch
* Void
* Kazooie
* King Boo
* Daisy
* Geno
* Waluigi
* Madonna Garnet
* Goombella
* Jimmy T.
* Petey Piranha
* Watt
* Funky Kong
* Pasadena
* Midbus
* Jagger
* Big
* E. Gadd
* Antasma
* Starline
* Diddy Kong
* King Bob-omb
* Amy
* Froggy
* Pura
* Lumina
* Dingodile
* Shadow
* Master Mantis
* Crump
* Van Gore
* Jonathan Jones
* Mad Scienstein
* Bumper
* Koops
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## Design

### Appearance

At a microscopic level, the Metal Virus consists of nanobots that resemble bacteriophages. As such, they appear as spheres and bodies with six legs each. When observed and contained on the other hand, the virus appears like a gray metallic liquid.

### Powers and Traits

When the Metal Virus makes contact with active organic tissue, be it either in flora or fauna, the virus will spread across the organic matter of the subject and transmute it into a metal-like substance. With fauna, the Metal Virus transmutes their entire body into a liquid metal composition, which makes them both durable, and able to reconstitute themselves should they take sufficient damage. Infection from the virus is very quick, and always turns the victim into a hostile "Zombot" subject to direct control from Metallix.

The Metal Virus can be spread through mere touch. The Metal Virus can also affect any form of fauna, being able to infect denizens of not only Mario's, Sonic's and Crash's worlds, but also extraterrestrials and ghosts.

Like any virus, the Metal Virus is prone to mutation, as shown by how the Zombots became increasingly aggressive over time. The mutations are also capable of evolving the virus to the point of overcoming its weaknesses and become more virulent. While the Zeti were capable of controlling the original strain to a certain degree, the T-Type strain can adapt to overcome this, and thus, they can be overwhelmed.

#### Master Race

Thanks to an imprint of the Life Code, in his Rebirth•Metallix form, Metallix can transmit his structure onto all Zombots via the Monoliths, due to his similar nature in composition. This will transform all infected Zombots into his very likeness, though they will retain both their overall height and size. They also do not gain any of his powers in this form.

### Weaknesses

Super speed, Chaos energy and God Ki are particular agents of the virus that can send it into remission. Users of God Ki are considerably harder to infect. The only known neutralizing agent to the Virus is Ring energy.

## Trivia

* The T-Type Metal Virus' name is adapted from that of the Nemesis-T Type, an antagonist from the *Resident Evil* series.
	+ This is a reference to the fact that the T-Virus (or "Tyrant Virus"), along with other viruses such as the Uroboros, were created artificially by companies such as the Umbrella Corporation.
	+ The Metallix Master Race form of the Metal Virus is based on the Master's use of the Immortality Gate from *Doctor Who*.
* The Metal Virus being neutralized by Ring energy is loosely based on how the X Parasites were similarly neutralized from Samus Aran after being given the Metroid Vaccine from *Metroid Fusion*.