Part 74: Overruled!

The program that controls the camera arrives to provide some assistance.



What little he can anyway.



This is useless! What can possibly be done here? All the evidence that we'd need has been deleted.




Well, it can't hurt. It can waste precious time, sure, but it isn't like we have anything else to go on.



Lan proceeds to note that that isn't unusual at all.



Oho? Something strange, anything potentially useful?



Mick proceeds to shove the poor Security Bot into the locker and slam the door shut.



Yeah, Mick. Hilarious.



Still, there's nothing else to do but let the poor thing out. We did hear it banging weakly on the locker in class earlier.



Letting it out of the locker, the Security Bot expresses relief at not being locked up in there for any longer.



Mr. Mach overhears the commotion of the Security Bot getting free of the locker and arrives. He asks if Lan is the one who shoved it into the locker, though Lan insists truthfully he isn't.



The thing is though, Security Bots record what they see, so Mr. Mach will know for certain who locked the poor thing up.



...Wait a minute.



Perfect! Mick's mischief saves the day! Score one for troubled children who may or may not grow up into delinquent adults!



Right at the end of the RoboControl Comp, just where we fought BlastMan originally, is where the data is stored.



And right at 4 pm yesterday, there's Yuuichiro! Concrete video proof that he didn't hack the JudgeTree!



"He" refers to the Security Bot in context, not Yuuichiro. But yeah, if the Security Bot was recording the whole time, he'll definitely have seen the real perpetrator!



Oh deary me. Didn't see that one coming.



Back to GreenTown!



Fortunately, the random NPC legal employees are the reasonable sort, so we're allowed into the Punishment Room.



You're strapped to a chair. About to be condemned to 100 hours of electrocution torture. This is not the definition of "OK", you know that?



Just to the left is an NPC who is in charge of the Punishment Room.




Yeah yeah, go figure. Only caring about the legal reputation, huh?



Now, this is still the MMBN series. What's the silliest way the process of pardoning someone could be carried out?



To the JudgeTree!



You have to admire Ito's nerve.



Anyone who looks like MegaMan Juno can't be up to anything good! That perpetual smug smile and inexplicable ability to see with your eyes closed! We should have suspected you from moment one!



And we're right in front of the JudgeTree! How's that for karmic retribution? That's an admission of guilt if I ever saw one!



Lan asks why in the world Ito did this. After all, Ito admired Yuuichiro!



Oh no, not this again.



Is this going to be some sort of lead in to your tragic backstory of injustice, Ito?



Fortunately, no.



This is quite true. Lan's basically Cyber Gentry given that his father is basically the guy running the computer-controlled madhouse that is the MMBN setting.



He's part of the same organization that Yuika and CircusMan were! Which begs the obvious question...



Take a wild guess.



This is Ito's rather sinister role in the organization:



This is surprisingly cunning for MMBN villainy. People who get in the way get fed to Ito's warped court system and done away with in a way that nobody will question. Not at all like Gospel murdering Arashi with a briefcase bomb.



And by the way, guess who it was who really hacked the JudgeTree?



This is a lot like the I, Robot movie except with less Will Smith.



"Everyone" includes Lan, of course.



"Everyone" also includes, well, everyone.



Ito controls the JudgeTree now, and by extension, an army of Punishment Robots. Being entirely barricaded in, Ito's basically untouchable. MegaMan even remarks at how well-planned this all is.



There's a door to the left of this room that's now open.



This door, however, asks for a law-based password. Not this again...



This time is slightly different, however. You need to actually memorize this number.



Lan won't do it for you.



It's a service access to the JudgeTree!



And right up that ladder, we're back in the court room! This time, we're right at the JudgeTree's maintenance panel and out of reach of anything Ito's robot army can do.



Neener neener neener, Ito!




And you guys were only joking. Yes, there actually is a JudgeMan.Exe.



Ooh, a two-for-one deal!




I get to beat up not one but TWO organization Navis!



But before that, let's have a motive rant from Ito. Take it away!



Well, we could have guessed that.



When he was young, Ito thought this way.



Oh for the love of...



Do we have to go through this again?! We already dealt with Duo two games ago!




Yup, he is just like Duo.



Meanwhile, we all have lost faith in your credibility.



Are we going to get a name for this blasted organization yet? Come on, we're further into the game than we were in MMBN4 when Nebula got revealed. I mean, I've played this game before, and I don't even remember when they reveal the name yet. Sometime soon, I think?



So here's Ito's surprising amount of characterization in a nutshell. He's all nihilistic now because of how many criminals there are. Well, if you can't beat 'em...



And this is the organization's generically-stated goal: Remaking the world. Which has, technically, been the goal of every villain in the series:

MMBN1: Wily wanted to get rid of NetSociety.

MMBN2: Gospel wanted to destroy the world and rebuild it with them as the rulers.

MMBN3: See MMBN1.

MMBN4: Duo wanted to destroy the evil world entirely.

MMBN5:



Right then, time to Jack-In and put a stop to this lunacy!



Frkadrk JUST MISSED IT!