Star Force: The Great Demon King of Inventions, Tom Dubius

Plot Synopsis
Tom Dubius is trying to atone for his small sin of nearly destroying the entire world, but prayer and purification rituals aren't working for him. So wracked with guilt, he just doesn't know what to do, so Aaron Boreal suggest he uses his skills as an engineer to make an invention the world will use. Dubius leaps up with a new enthusiasm and gets to work right away.

Meanwhile Geo and Omega-Xis get in an argument about whether to go to the science institute or the beach. Omega-Xis uses his control of the Transer to tug at Geo's arm, while Geo resists him, going the other direction. Eventually the Transer breaks in half, and Geo has to take it to AMAKEN to get it repaired. He gets a Wave Scanner as a temporary replacement, a bit of a prelude to the Star Carrier that will come out next game. Tom Dubius tries suggesting if a new Transer with new functionality would benefit the world, except all his suggestions are kind of useless or impractical (this is also some foreshadowing about the Star Carrier).

Dubius is having too much trouble thinking of a new invention, and just has a bunch of impractical crap, including a giant zipper fixer, and a Time-Machine's outer appearance. Ha! Time traveling would never work in this series!

Just then, an outbreak of viruses attack the lab, and MegaMan takes care of them all. Suddenly, Dubius gets the idea of a device that gets rid of EM-viruses! He quickly goes to work, and comes up with something similar to one of those mouse hotel trap things. The device works in three ways, attract the virus, capture it, delete it. Everyone wants him to test it out, so he turns it on and attracts thousands of viruses. They're all amazed until they find out Dubius hasn't figured out the capturing and deleting parts just yet, and unfortunately the off switch gets stuck!

Geo pulses in and is surrounded by viruses as the episode ends.

Critique
Not much really happens this episode, but Dubius gets some more development that works better for his character bringing him into the next series of Tribes. It's an ok episode, no where near the quality of the last few. Thumbs down though for most of the mediocrity of it.

Rating: Thumbs down.