Glitch Production: Meta Runner

S2 Episode 10: Fatal Error

Summary: Tari and her friends enter the endgame and risk everything as they fight to find the truth.

(Plot)

Fatal Error takes place after the events of Episode 9 where Tari faces against Evelyn.

Before that, the 2 vans are nearing the Main Building of Tascorp. Masa, Belle and Sofia have a conversation on whether Tari and Theo is able to beat the game in time (specify needed for sentence)

Meanwhile, Evelyn fires another laser of monster entities as Tari defeats them. Tari shouts towards Evelyn for a fair fight, 1v1. Another set of monsters spawn as Tari takes care of them, but after doing so, Evelyn hurls a large lava rock towards Tari. Tari counters with some sort of reflect hammer ability, taking out the monsters around her as well as pushing back Evelyn.

Responding, Evelyn hurls a smaller rock than the one before, Tari reflecting it back to Evelyn. The 2 play a sort of Ping Pong match with the rocks when Evelyn's arm began to overheat. Realizing this, Evelyn blasted the rock back as a final hit but Tari goes into a calm mind before reflecting the rock back into Evelyn's face.

Though as Evelyn gained balance, she threw one part of the stage towards Tari, though she misses and supposedly Tari uses the stage piece to project herself into the sky. In an attempt of stopping her, Evelyn fires another monster entity laser but Tari deflects it with a mid-air spin attack, hitting Evelyn and dropping on a nearby platform half-submerged in lava.

Though the flag was in her reach, Tari refrained from grabbing the pole as Evelyn rose up once again. Tari askes her to turn off her life cheat for a fair match, but Evelyn denies and responds for Tari to not complain to her. In addition, Evelyn strikes Tari's platform, forcing Tari to progress through the stage until Tari ends up on a long, open platform, allowing Evelyn to grab her off the ground, Tari losing her hammer.

Evelyn cheers, chanting that she's won and Tari is finished. Tari replied that she is finished which leads to Theo who was charging up the Coconut Burst Jump, releasing it above Evelyn, purposefully missing the pole. Evelyn makes a snarky remark about Theo missing, wasting their time. Though this grabbed Evelyn's attention to presumably trying to grab Theo, getting herself stuck in the previously mentioned platform.

Tari makes a note about the bad collision detection when Theo throws down his coconut shell while crossing the large gap on the platform Evelyn is stuck on. Evelyn makes one last tease about Theo missing before Theo responds "Oh, did I?". The Coconut shell's memory shifts around until it lands onto the same hammer which is in an infinite spin. The hammer spins against Evelyn, continuously repeating damage, causing Evelyn's Meta Runner arm to completely overheat, breaking down. This immobilizes the abomination which allows Theo to climb it and grab the pole, clearing the stage and the game's cache, removing the glitch code set before.

Theo then finds himself back at the beach, where the credits are playing. Tari then shows up next to Theo, saying she knew what she was doing all along. The two then embrace, reveling in their victory. Theo then briefly panics, wondering if they're out of time, but Tari calms him down, and then sends Theo out of the game cartridge. However, before Tari leaves, she suddenly spots a mist of purple sparkles that then materialize into Lucinia. The two converse for a bit, and Lucinia reveals to Tari everything that happened during the failed experiment (although we don't know that yet).

Suddenly, Tari wakes up in Lamar's car, and sees Theo in the backseat. They all rejoice, but Tari reminds them that they still have to execute the next phase of her plan: busting out Masa, Belle, and Sofia. Reluctantly, Lamar agrees to continue, noting he doesn't have much of a choice, and activates the car's battering ram on the front.