"The Virus" is the 5th episode of the Animator vs. Animation Series, also being the 1st episode of Animator vs. Animation Season 2.

Unofficial Synopsis

A virus appears on ALANSPC, but this is no ordinary virus...

Plot

Almost four years have passed since the events of Animator vs. Animation 4, with noogai3 seen animating a walking flower. Soon after, The Second Coming enters the scene and asks Alan if he needs help, to which Alan replies that he wants it to look more natural. Seeing the rough draft, the orange stick figure creates two temporary stick figures using the pencil tool, one of which controls the frames of the animation so that TSC and the other stick figure can re-animate parts of the walking flower to create a more fluid animation. When TSC finishes, and the two stick figure drawings jump back into the pencil, Alan checks on the animation. Seeing that TSC had fixed the animation, the two celebrate before the computer begins to buzz loudly.

Realizing the computer is overheating at 92°C, noogai3 checks Task Manager and notices a program called ViraBot overloading the CPU and using up 95% of the computer's memory. After multiple failed attempts at ending the process, TSC and Alan notice an app with a spider-like icon on the desktop called "Virabot.exe" which is the source of the virus taking over the computer's operating system. After failing twice to delete it via the Recycling Bin, TSC asks Alan to draw him a big hammer, which he attacks the app with. TSC's attacks cause the app icon to crack and for a spider-like creature to emerge; the real ViraBot.

TSC tries to hit the ViraBot with his hammer, but it stops the hammer with one leg, before grabbing it and biting it, causing it to dissolve into nothing. The ViraBot then lunges at TSC, who dodges the attack, causing it to instead destroy the walking flower animation. Alan draws thick lines to stop the ViraBot, encasing it in scribbles, and when it escapes by telepathically destroying the lines, TSC draws missiles to attack it. Even when the ViraBot uses projectiles to destroy the incoming missiles, TSC and Alan hit it with a large fly swatter drawing. They begin to draw a rocket launcher, but the ViraBot eats TSC's drawing tool and destroys the drawing. The ViraBot then tries to attack TSC, but Alan grabs it with his mouse cursor and begins bashing it against the side of the computer screen with the Adobe Animate window repeatedly while TSC heads over to sticksfight.com to ask his friends for help.

While TSC is explaining the situation to his friends, the ViraBot appears on top of Google Chrome, causing typical virus website tabs to appear. TSC runs into the house in the sticksfight.com website to hide, but the ViraBot destroys the barrier around the house. The ViraBot lunges towards the stick figures, but noogai3 grabs it with his mouse cursor and begins hitting it against the side of the computer screen. However, it bites the cursor, dissolving it into nothing. When Alan tries to use settings to get it back, it destroys his search panel. Now, without Alan's help, the Stick Gang begins to physically attack the ViraBot. But once they have it pinned down, but it fights back, gaining the upper hand by trapping Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue in spiderweb on the side of the computer screen. As TSC tries to run and help his friends, he gets his foot trapped in spiderweb, immobilizing him. The ViraBot grows two giant blades as it prepares its virulent assault on the helpless stick figures, but when it lunges at TSC, it is blown away by an explosion.

When the dust clears from the explosion, a portal becomes visible, and all the stick figures are surprised when a black stick figure closely resembling TSC emerges from it. Although the Stick Gang and ViraBot are oblivious to the stick figure's identity, Alan is in silent shock, recognizing it as his previous creation, The Chosen One, whom he had assumed was undone along with his old computer seven years ago. Turning to the virus, TCO readies his fire powers before he and the ViraBot lunge at each other, ending the episode.

Characters

Protagonists

• noogai3

• Stick Gang

  • The Second Coming

  • Fighting Stick Figures

    • Red

    • Yellow

    • Blue

    • Green

Antagonists

• ViraBot (debut)

Other characters

• The Chosen One

• The Second Coming's Drawings

Trivia

• This is the first episode in the Animator vs. Animation series to not introduce a new stick figure. All of the stick figures who appear in this episode appeared in earlier episodes.

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