Rwf-9AX2Tc Taco Bell

*"I speak like this when I'm not screaming."*

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

The Rwf-9AX2Tc is a Bydo-based fighter converted an R-9AX2 Dinner Bell, with a fuselage resembling a taco. A pilot was evidently inside the craft's cockpit when it was converted, resulting in the pilot being fused to their craft, unable to remember their prior identity. While the researcher(s) who approved and undertook the project are unknown, the sole prototype of this craft holds a deep resentment toward them.

## Biography

The specimen began life as an unmodified Dinner Bell, seeing use as the subject of several unspecified tests whose results were influential in later R-Craft development, a path which it was perfectly complacent with, until an unknown research team began experimenting on it, using various types of Bydo flesh to gradually replace its fuselage with a nightmarish construct with its current signature appearance; their motives, affiliation and identity are a mystery. Subsequently, the fighter was abandoned in an empty pocket dimension with a damaged trans-dimensional drive and deliberately erased memories, where it would remain alone and develop suicidal thoughts across several years before being discovered by EV, who used a Sym-Spike to mitigate the damage it had suffered, allowing it to escape to RP-B, where it has resided ever since.

He barely remembers anything from before permanently being interned in an Angel Pac. After that, everything is "fuzzy" for the lack of a better phrase, with identifying data about the researchers completely gone. His memory becomes properly clear just after being dropped into the Empty Dimension. His "first memory" that's still there would be the circumstances surrounding his quote:

*"It has been some time since I was assigned the role of test pilot. Ever since, my life has been completely under the control of those jerks in the development team. And I can't even fly the craft without having weird measuring devices attached to every part of me. I think that's why I feel like I'm suffocating when I fire the Wave Cannon. Even equipping the Force and the Bit makes me feel sick sometimes. I've take part in the testing of other craft, but I've never felt like this before. What the hell kind of experiment are they conducting on me?!"*

Later, it would obtain the ablilty to shapeshift between its normal form and a 1.77-meter-tall humanoid appearance thanks to its properties as a Bydo waveform.

He would finally appear in R-Type Distortions in Chapter 7, being sent by EV to the Evergreen colony to check in on it while EV's communication with the rest of the protagonists were cut off.

No further information is available.

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## Appearance

Fighter form: An R-9AX2 with a more neon green paint coloration than normal, with the canopy and upper section (side pods, thrusters and underslung Wave Cannon are unaffected) replaced by a taco. An unknown symbol emblazoned with a "7" can be found.

Humanoid form: An impossibly lithe humanoid with the torso and head formed from Bydo flesh, limbs clad in neon green metallic armor whose visual design consists of several distortions of the general shape of an R-9AX2's side pods, with and actual such side pod attached to each hip. Around his head are four spikes resembling EV's, the face is a heavily stylized front view of the taco component, with two R-Craft headlights that resemble eyes, the neck has a collar resembling a taco shell, and the torso consists of a mass of cables and wires connecting from the robotic-looking limbs to the middle of the torso, where they taper off, and six octahedral crystalline growths on his back that can freely launch off as Fat Missiles or retract seamlessly back into the surface. The "7" logo is visible on his left shoulder pauldron, though it is difficult to notice.

## Timeline

1. ~2165-2167: The seventh R-9AX2 to be produced is completed.
2. ~2167-2169: The Craft History 19 test pilot becomes the guinea pig for an enormous gamut of unethical experiments and inhumane tests. Eventually, the pilot is converted into an Angel Pac and permanently installed into the craft. For reasons unknown, the subject was eventually altered into a Bydo craft resembling a taco, seemingly to hide several of its unique components behind the guise of being a completely different project. Rwf-9AX2 "Dinner Bell" Serial No. 000007 is now deemed Rwf-9AX2tc "Taco Bell".
3. ~2170: The newly-created R-9AX2tc goes missing under mysterious circumstances, and nearly all, if not all, detailed records of R-9AX2s are erased. In reality, the R-9AX2tc was left to rot in the Empty Dimension, having been sabotaged in an apparent attempt to keep him sealed away forever. The psychological and physical torture he went through causes his psyche to revert to that of a scared child.
4. ~2179-2180: The R-9AX2tc is found by EV, somewhat stabilized by a Sym-Spike, and rescued, deeming the craft "Bell".

## Armaments

Force: Standard H/Bydo Force (Can select either)

Wave Cannon: Abomination Hybrid Wave System: Fires Standard XX/Devil II Wave Cannon.

Bit: Eyeball/Shadow/Red Pod

Missile: Flesh Missile (Fires 2 Eyeball-like missiles. Drops in movement direction, then fires forward at high speed. They only home in if an enemy is in a specific radius of the missile, which is larger when in the first phase.)/Eyeball/Photon

Control Rod HLS: A makeshift weapon based off of the hard light swords used by other characters. The guard is a Standard Force H control rod, miniaturized in the same manner Bell miniaturizes when transforming. While the control rod is removed, Bell dismisses the rest of the Force through a desynch portal so it cannot go berserk. The HLS's grip, which doesn't appear to be part if the original rod, is formed by the tendrils that attach the rod to the force, braided together to look like it does. It subtly changes its shape to flawlessly fit the contours of Bell's hand, allowing him to wield it better. Bell creates it by firing a red laser from it, pushing the laser back into the control rod with his bare hands, and then bashing it like a chipped-stone tool until its shape changes from a honeycomb to a blade. He sharpened it by using a whetstone he found in the kitchen of the RP-B space station. The blade's pinkish hue is a mix of the red and blue from the Air-to-Air Laser H used to craft it. The initial result was rather crude, but was improved over time.

## Quotes

### RP-B/ Bydo Fun Shenanigans Room

*"And here I was thinking that my existence was more than strange enough..."*

*"Every day, the sheer absurdity of this world amazes me, even though I know it shouldn't."*

*"I... don't know what to say. Except to cling on to hope."*

*"The tests ran on me before I was turned into this form are the only reason you exist. To consider me useless is to consider all my descendant craft, and by extension you, useless."*

*"Mean is an understatement. There is literally a Bydo Core more respectful to me than this man over here."*

*"Last time I heard, humanity does not enshrine assholes unless they are delusional."*

*"I don't have any of the answers. I don't even know if they would make this better or worse... And given my track record, I'm not betting on the former."*

*"Genuine question, though. What's wrong with headpats?"*

*"Does the world conspire to deny him any shred of respect?"*

*"I can absolutely relate, whenever I'm typing. I have to use the ends of my Force's control rods..."*

*"I have no words except this:"* `BEAM[██████████]`

*"Hey, I'm the one who does the screamAAAAAAAAA-"*

### Cu-R-sed-P

*"Well, I think it's time to chew gum and kick (Imnotsayingthathisparentsmightbewatching), and I don't see any gum here!"*

*"This place is mentally attacking me. Whenever I try to think to myself, or open my nonexistent mouth to speak... there's this nagging presence in the back of my mind, urging me to say things wrong.* *And I can't understand why."*

### R-Type Distortions

*"Well, before something horrible happens out of nowhere, could you let me in? For the life of me, I can't find the door."*

*"We can't exactly count on the inspectors being comically incompetent, can we?"*

## Trivia

1. Is extremely fourth wall aware
2. Speaks in bold italics
3. Has an irrational fear of the number 7
4. Is obsessed with headpats
5. Has a habit of defeating enemies in one hit (Defeated Daimon in one hit, destroyed a Gomander in one hit, etc.)
6. Has seen Vic's real-life face
7. Is able to use meme powers in non-serious appearances, including the Falcon Punch

The inside of his filling includes:

-Actual "taco filling" (though only on the outer surface), including flesh similar to Negus O Shim, Bydo System Alpha and Bydo System Gamma, "lettuce" resembling the Digitalius series, "onions" resembling the Mad Forest series, "sauce" whose only known ingredient is J-Zyme and "cheese" of unknown composition. (They are all constantly regenerating to freshness, though extreme injury could temporarily cause a decay-like state.)

-A comically large collection of teratomas and other tumors. All of them were deliberately put there by "the culprit".

-A hopeless tangle of seemingly-random R-Craft parts.

-One of EV's Sym-Spikes, which is constantly stabilizing him and is the only reason his trans-dimensional drive currently works.

-A menagerie of wires and cables, which are most visible in his humanoid form.

-The actual (damaged) center block, upper block and canopy of the original Dinner Bell, including the Angel Pac that houses Bell's consciousness and former body (the test pilot from the R-9AX2 Craft History).

-The various inhumane measuring devices installed during the events of the R-9AX2 Craft History.

-DATA EXPUNGED, the component which grants him fourth wall awareness and the occasional memetic ability (e.g. Falcon Punch.)

His humanoid form looks the way it does because it's mostly self-taught, his shapeshifting is crude and makeshift. Most of his humanoid body is just copy-pasted pieces of Dinner Bell chassis warped into various shapes (that's why his shoes look like canopies, for instance), and the torso was already in the taco, just taco filling-shaped instead of torso-shaped. The most complicated thing he did was designing his head, and even that was just mostly distorting the shape of a taco into the shape of a head+slapping on a pair of headlight-"eyes". For example, his fingers are formed out of miniaturized copies of an R-9AX2's upper fins, with added joints based off the hubcap-like part on the side pods. The design was made with the idea "he's an amateur shapeshifter at best" in mind. That's also part of why he can't transform into anything he likes; he'd have to design it from scratch in his head, and he isn't skilled enough to not instead warp into a nightmarish distorted abomination. Instead, he just switches between two forms he knows all the ins and outs of. The face is designed to have the same silhouette as his adoptive mother EV.

He is afraid of the number seven because 7's nature as a constant of the universe meant that its creepily appearing everywhere latched on to his anxiety and caused him pareidolia. Now, he can't help but notice sevens everywhere.

Bell is obsessed with headpats because he associates them with being freed- and truly loved- after being used as a tool of destruction for years (and then abandoned for years more) as if he was subhuman. To him, being petted is not just bliss, but also a reminder that there's always hope for a better world no matter how grim things are. That's why he always cheers up when pat, and why he never suffers from diminishing returns; it is *always* comforting and reassuring to him without exception.

Bell was originally the test pilot from Craft History 19, who is the person inside the R-9AX2tc's Angel Pac, and the R-9AX2 he used in Craft History 19 is the exact ship that was turned into a taco. Their name is currently unknown.

[FURTHER DATA PENDING...]