01: Fragments - RvB Season 10 OST (Williams feat. Casey Williams, Lamar Hall & Barbara La Ronga)

[@MUSTANG_P51]

“You think your so fucking tough don’t you, Texas! Well let me ask you something. Who’s the monster now, bitch?” -Agent South.

[@catherinew.d.d.3650]

Cortana was metastable. She finally coped with her rampancy and was able to gain peace and true sentience. Her "body" in games Combat Evolved through Halo 3 was just a projected image. She even stated in 4 that she couldn't really see or feel the sun, she just knew. When she protected Chief she finally accepted what was happening. Also she actually went through the stages!(melancholia, anger, jealousy) She then could see him and for the first time she touched him. An image can not touch or see.

[@warriorofdawn876]

And now look at what point we've gotten to with Halo 5 and Infinite... how did things go so wrong...?

[@Pewfles]

@@warriorofdawn876 I guess the problem with becoming more human like, is you get a lot of the flaws that make us, too.

[@itstime6974]

@@warriorofdawn876 I think its canon that its Cortanas rampant fragment that survived and went to the domain to fix itself

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

Unfortunately I think this is reading too much into it. 343 unfortunately changed the rules of rampancy from the Bungie days from "an AI becoming human" to "nah they just think themselves to death" Which, in other setting would be fine and neat, but at the time of writing Halo 4, she was supposed to be dead. She used her last bits of herself left to save Chief. We can only assume she "became human" in retrospect of Halo 5 saying she's alive.

[@AnonTDegenerate]

@@PANCAKEMINEZZ Tbf I kinda like the change. a smart AI like cortana or alpha are literally based off a person's brain but act differently. So it'd make sense if they had some level of personality and humanity. Whereas "thinking yourself to death" is terrifying, like AI dementia in a sense

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

This break-in was heavily influenced by the fragments. Remember how Wash said that the A.I. are what convinced their agents to try to rescue Church? Now Tex is obviously acting on her own, but she counts for actually being an A.I., Theta is the one who pushed for North to help, and Delta probably played a part in convincing York. Sigma's controlling Maine, Omega is almost always controlling someone, and they and Gamma were the ones torturing Church as well. They are controlling the game.

[@Gilmore-Devoss]

Omega was with tex and they was very well synced up

[@AuroraIceFlame]

Sigma was the puppet master he was pulling all the strings as soon as he was harvested.

[@channelofworlds7673]

protect me cone

[@TKK-630]

Channel Of worlds funny how no one except me commented here

[@ronniethebiodroid2936]

I chuckled at this

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@TKK-630 and me and any others below us yeeee

[@l.a.wright6912]

Funniest shit ever, of all time.

[@Grim-c8n]

2:35 and grif thought he had it bad

[@splatterking1171]

DareStep he did, he had a propane tank launch him in the air, fell nuts first on a concrete barrier, had tex hit in the nuts with the stock of a shotgun, and that was only one episode

[@lc1279]

@@splatterking1171 Getting your nuts crushed is one thing. Getting your nuts spiked by an explosive is another. At best, they had it even.

[@BladeCrossEXE]

The difference is Grif survived. The Freelancer Grunt didn't.

[@tfw8738]

@@BladeCrossEXE I mean, power armour tends to protect you from that stuff...

[@EmberGlow1261]

It's probably just me, but I thought the line was "Don't even know our own secrets." rather than "Don't even know all our secrets."

[@entrancedsnow7076]

Same here.

[@epgbros]

+EmberGlow1261 South:You think you're tough, Tex? Well let me ask you, who's the monster now, BITCH?!

[@minecraftawsomeness1457]

+The epic game bros aw shit

[@TheHunter112546]

+EmberGlow1261 this is late but it is what you thought.

[@ethansaucier2917]

It sounds to me like "Don't even know our own secrets." Which makes sense for the Freelancers, because they didn't know that they were actually the bad guys.

[@darkshadowssonic]

"well hello there ladies, what might be going on here" XD love north

[@suckmymiddlefinger4350]

*what seems to be the problem?

[@niecysanders4872]

North you know what the problem is that bitch stabbed us in back

[@cooldude6269]

*out of place trumpet intensifies*

[@bahamutagni8389]

That trumpet truly is out of place

[@bahamutagni8389]

@that0ne B O I that was a beautiful response

[@lok4890]

@John lord of memes Rofl

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@lok4890 AAAHJJHJ

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@bahamutagni8389 RREEEE!!!!

[@R0bilicious]

That solo at 1:54 is freakin amazing!! Love this song!

[@werock2785]

The things tex will do to save me.

[@AINova-xb6zz]

Yeah plant scary but not so much once you get to know her

[@TheTwitchSniper]

Your both dead so shush you two

[@yordi1full]

Technically, Church isn't dead.

[@TheTwitchSniper]

Depends on which one your talking about, you shush too your also dead

[@yordi1full]

I live on as a memory in Epsilon, which means I am not dead. In a way.

[@gh0stofinf1nity11]

0:43 hits hard (I also noticed "when it's all over, we all will pay")

[@MrLolthingy]

I could've sworn it said "Reverse Teletubbies, this means war" somewhere.

[@someperson220]

.........?

[@someperson220]

Don't hear it.

[@froggertmusic1284]

I heard cosmic teletubbies

[@mikaelrenzoh.sebastian9381]

I heard we are just fragments of Jesus until I read the lyrics

[@lostZ0ne]

Took me a while to hear it. LOL!

[@DoctorDissonance]

I always figured that as more fragments were added, they'd eventually start merging together to become someone closer and closer to the Alpha's original personality. After all, Sigma's whole goal was to become metastable that way. Either way it'd be a real interesting process to watch, and I for one wouldn't mind a miniseries focused on the Meta just for that.

[@brandonhughes4076]

Spoilers for the final season of RvB: You kinda predicted the plot of Restoration 11 years in advance lol. That's exactly what epsilon-sigma was trying to do

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

Epsilon is the fragment that carries the memories, but Tex is the personality subroutine based on them. For instance, the Delta fragment contains the emotional core of logic and a personality subroutine based on that core. Tex is just the subroutine. Church later split himself into two fragments, giving his memories to one, but another personality subroutine based on those memories did not come into being, so Epsilon and Alpha are running the same subroutine and are the same person.

[@ZVelzy]

Now ladies, and gentlemen to the best halo players in the world. Can you beat Agent Texas?

[@aarjo8258]

Eventually.

[@ZVelzy]

Agent Maine had the assitance, of agent washington, and several AI, and Aarjo you better be good at running or else tex will get you.

[@Crykstill]

Patrick Lon And we all know how Tex VS Washington goes...*Hint hint* Iceberg to the face

[@aarjo8258]

Well, if you stabbed her in the face with a spike...

[@entrancedsnow7076]

They didn't technically stab her with a spike, just the directors memory of her in a robot body. That really is all we have seen her as, an AI of sorts.

[@Creepynazgul]

Just bought the album. been headbanging to this and tearing up to Forever.

[@inha1ed]

“COVER UP YOUR EYES NOW AND WAIT FOR THE DARKNESS. TRY TO FALL ASLEEP FAST AND PAY FOR THE BLINDNESS” -Me trying to fall asleep (It’s been 3 hours now)

[@Opticfreakinbarrel]

That guitar gives off some heavy Blazblue/Guilty Gear vibes, if I may say so myself.

[@UM4DBRO210]

agreed XD

[@shavono8402]

ohhhhhh, i get it now. its about the fragments of AI in project freelancer. aha.

[@stonedwolfy]

what i would give to see a live version of them singing this

[@lazyliongames6660]

Can you count past infinity?

[@stonedwolfy]

@@lazyliongames6660haha. I know right

[@catnipflowers5803]

A song called fragments with a lot of different tones and styles swapping throughout the song. If it wasnt for the context of the song, i would hate dissonant trumpet, yet because of the context, i love it

[@SQUABO]

made some connections that probably didn't exist, but interesting none the less. Cover up your eyes now and wait for the darkness -Alpha and Omega Try to fall asleep fast and pay for the blindness -Theta and delta You don't want to see what's growing deep now inside us -The twins (not a lot of info so just role with it) What we've all become is just lies and disguises -Sigma and Gamma Each verse describes different AI and what Alpha was feeling when fragmenting.

[@StephTheory]

how was this not in Death Battle yet?

[@RT4Copyright]

Williams said he'll type up the official lyrics soon! :D Let's compare how wrong we are!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

So, how'd things end up?

[@theharlothunters7170]

Man, lot o' people complaining about the rap, shit, for me, it i what makes Jeff's music so awesome because it just fits right in,

[@seantheplayer101]

Yeah, and what would you put in there? That's a long time for just a guitar but then again On Your Knees does have a long guitar piece at the start. (over a minute)

[@TLB95Switchblade]

Sean Warkentin Nothing wrong with guitar (or more generally rock or metal) instrumentals. One of my favourite pieces of music from Red vs Blue is easily Mental Meta Metal and it's an entirely instrumental (well almost entirely, Sigma's "Agent Maine, isn't that the soldier from the freeway? The one that shot you in the throat? I thought so. Sic 'em." plays at the start) metal piece. It's brilliant.

[@seantheplayer101]

LuckyBullet Yeah. I like the rap alot more though it might be because his style of rap is alot more like me and btw i hate eminem so dont think i like that

[@CerberusPlusOne]

Who is the rapper?

[@eleliabooce4002]

The Dragonborn What are you doing here? arent you gonna try to convine Bethesda to make Fallout 4 faster? maybe it will also speed up Elder Scrolls 6 [it might even have you in it!]

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

The piece we call Epsilon contains the memories, but he isn't another person based on them. If it was, then Epsilon would have been another Tex, because that's what she is. The reason she came into existence is because when they gave Alpha Leonard's memories, the memory of Alison was so overpowering, another person based on those memories formed within the Alpha program.

[@unemployedbean]

dude thanks this song ive been serching since the episode came out im subing

[@Mr19tjd]

Bring it on Tex!

[@dragonlordchan2162]

A.I. means Artificial Intelligence

[@HaloProke77]

Caboose, are you getting this?

[@bigfatcarp93]

HaloProke117 Yes, That guy Tex... is really a robot. And you're his boyfriend... which makes yooooouuuuu.... A GAY ROBOT.

[@HaloProke77]

I don't want to catch pregnancy!

[@jantheman4242]

bigfatcarp93 Bleep Bloop

[@RageMagikarp]

jantheman4242 Tucker did it!

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

Beta isn't any of those emotional cores, it says "full A.I., spontaneous......" on the file. Though to be more accurate, Beta is actually memories, she may not have the memories, but she represents what a person based on Church's memories would be, this is subtly mentioned in Season 9 when Church tells her "You were the memory, you were the key."

[@superfiver]

I might of way overreacted before, this song is so badass, but the rap completely took me by surprise the first time listening in a bad way. But after listing to the song a bunch more times, it is not that bad. FRIKKEN LOVE THIS SONG!

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

0:29, I think it was actually "we are just fragments and pieces", not "we are the fragments and pieces", the reason I say this is because that lyric is a reference to Sigma's line "No, not alone, were are just fragments after all, pieces. Omega and Texas, are something else."

[@eleliabooce4002]

we realy need a piano version of this

[@CodeDarkBlue]

Favorite song ever in rvb by far hooly shit

[@Venaloid]

FINALLY! I've been waiting for this song!

[@ZolkiaProstif]

I love how in this episode York beats wyoming in a fight yet it is Wyoming that kills York later on

[@Man-O-Little-Tan]

But york had been out of practice at the time he was beaten

[@Lardo137]

Personally, I believe that the AI fragments are all in various stages of rampancy, due to the Alpha being rampant when the AIs were extracted. Of course, that thing inside the Sarcophagus patched him up each time, but he was rampant to some degree during the extraction process. Take Delta, who disobeyed the Director's orders to forget the Alpha. Or Omega, who really is sorta permanently, rampant. Or Epsilon, who doesn't have a personality whatsoever (until Caboose fed it).

[@SonMD1]

still sounds awesome!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

If only spike grenades really work the way the fighting spectacle here did... that aside, Tex just curbstomping the Freelancer mooks sure reminds me of boomer shooter rampages in the likes of Doom, Blood, and DUSK.

[@AuroraIceFlame]

This song still kicks so much ass

[@reacho360theodst7]

The lyrics sound strange but the guitar rift sounds amazing at x1.25

[@Ultimalocked]

Sigma, Delta, Theta, Gamma, Omega, Beta, Alpha, Epsilon, Epsilon-Tex, Eta, Iota. Those are the awesome AIs.

[@ZolkiaProstif]

Finally the song weve all been waiting for

[@palmalove61]

Love this song. Got my friend hooked.

[@gedyzaz]

pfff... she can't kill me . cuz i'm a motherfucking ghost!

[@olfactorysun382]

The drummers legs lol

[@ZolkiaProstif]

One of the best episodes ever of all time

[@realMrUnPop]

Mostly because the folks at RT shortened it to fit that specific part where Tex starts mauling with Freelancer spike-grenades. Jeff Williams usually extends his tracks out for the official album releases so you're not getting these small 50-second one-shot audio clips, so you're getting something worth your while :)

[@Chaz235]

i just love the thought that only caboose can break the intense planning by project freelancer to hide their most incriminating AI

[@MasterHall117]

Charlie caboose is a freelancer you do know that right? He suffered the same fate but worst as wash did when he got epsilon

[@XDNOVA13]

This would be a good song for Rwby season 2

[@mikemontijo3939]

It feels like a RWBY volume 3 song now lol

[@madara91phil]

Yeah, I got it.It's true that we have never seen the "full" Church (except for the beginning of S9E13,but it was only his voice).However a little chance doesn't mean impossible. I have seen Cortana in H4 and it's surely worse,but she is also a full AI and the process of rampancy can be different between the AIs.Church's behavior in S10 is a sign of rampancy for me. Remember that rampancy causes alteration in an AI's appearance(E18)and his anger and thoughts are unusual for an AI,even a smart one

[@melvynlennard]

I love how this song uses a combination of all the RvB song artists. The only thing that would make it better would be a section with Trocadero.

[@jbw1907]

they just get better and better

[@Epsilon7602]

This song is awesome and it goes perfect with the fighting scene if u have seen season 10 u know what I am talking about

[@tonberry2670]

I honestly think that the first few lines is from the perspective of Maine and what the A.is are doing to him.

[@Derk_Studios]

Love this song. 1st place Pray. 2nd Fragment. 3rd Terrify. :)

[@Girlwholovesherelves]

Update: Day 800 oh it looks like it's been sucked up into a black hole. Somehow it's managed to find another black hole that leads back into this dimension and now might crash into Earth.

[@spooder_jockey]

Had this song stuck in my head all day! Finally, thank you!

[@OFJehutyV2]

This. The background sfx's made the song that much better.

[@Astronomy1337]

Can't wait til the album comes out on amazon!

[@camoflage20]

They usually do, Jeff edits them after they were put in the show so they can be better suited to release

[@jpawelcz]

Ummm Tex is dead. That is a blank threat.

[@matthewr5548]

have you seen RVB seasons 9-10 because there are some flashbacks of project freelanser

[@ShiftySetax]

+Josh Pawelczyk Dude she's been dead 3 times now, think that will stop her?

[@orbitalgaminggirl6987]

+Jacob Knight So true.

[@Corymbia]

tex is not dead, alison is. tex has simply been deactivated

[@ShiftySetax]

JIKMADATOR WURUNWA Although, for an A.I. that is death.

[@jbw1907]

this is now my fav song

[@Eligos.Ravensong]

i wanted to hear this song so badly tnx !

[@DaJazzGal]

Eta and Iota were 'love' and 'compassion'. If you watch closely when Tex is flicking through the files CT gave her, on one of the pages it says down the bottom Love/Compassion...

[@casadebang6590]

Meta theme song. This is obviously about a phyco controlled by AI. "Screams in the silence. Voices fill your brain". It's the AI because "We are just fragments and pieces.". Fragments of the Alpha. "We are controlling the game" they are controlling Maine, who pretty much screws over everyone (until he falls off a cliff)

[@vanitywolfe7808]

this is about texas and alpha

[@zuembekinder]

or it could be about the freelancers as a whole they are just fragments of something bigger just like the A.I.s

[@hannahschrenk7981]

vanity wolfe I think you're right. It sounds like the rap sections are about Tex, being all badass and fighting things, and the rest is Alpha. If you remember at the beginning of season 9, the Director has a line where he says 'the system will determine the order' in regards to who gets sent on which missions. I think he meant Alpha was picking agents for each assignment (this adds into how Alpha thinks it's his fault when the Director tells him that some of the agents have died. He thinks it's his fault for sending them on the missions). This could be what the line 'we are controlling the game' in the song comes from. All of those parts of the song just sound like Alpha and all the fragments. Then the rap sections are clearly some badass fighter, which can easily be viewed as Tex.

[@EvilParagon2]

Spoiler. Tex is an AI, Tex is the AI Freelancer answer you are looking for.

[@casadebang6590]

Evil Paragon 2 So Tex is the FreelANSWER?! I'll just leave now...

This is the best song of the entire season... i mean.... the entire series!

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

No, they're two separate fragments. Normally fragments are not different people. In Halo 4 Cortana split herself into multiple fragments and they were all one person. The reason fragments like Delta and Sigma are different people is because they tortured Church so he'd develop a split personality. They got the idea because Church was "born" with a split personality (Tex) that they had to remove. This didn't work for Epsilon though, he remained the Alpha.

[@StormMachinima]

This was a very interesting way to combine all the types they've made

[@aquilliusranger2137]

The best part is always the guitar part from: 1:54 to 2:07 Someone should try these type of guitar moments again and again...it never gets old for me. :P

[@maddizzle1744]

Aquillius Ranger Yeah, there's such a satisfying chord at 1:55

[@tamarawilson1330]

best song ever of all time

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

I'm pretty sure he was in control, notice how he does more with his holographic avatar after Episode 17, it's because he now remembers how to use his A.I. functions again. That anger wasn't rapmancy induced, it was genuine frustration at the fact that for the first time in years, he wants to find this man (as opposed to them dragging him into it) and now they're backing out. He enlarges himself (taking advantage of the holo room) to look down on them as mere problems he has to deal with.

[@RedGlass88]

My favorite song from Season 10.

[@Tkdboy-gk1wk]

I personally don't mind the rap. It sounds a lot like a guy having a mental breakdown, like the Alpha.

[@rafis117]

In the slideshow mode, it's much less apparent how hard Tex is shredding Freelancer's mooks.

[@chefluck9146]

awesome song

[@hannahschrenk7981]

I love the songs for this show better than songs written just to be songs.

[@flippypoonthegrunt6698]

I don't really get the rap hate I think the rap fits pretty well

[@FaythHeart1]

they should do a crossover between RWBY and Red vs Blue, it can happen

[@eleliabooce4002]

Gizmo Fux Why? we could see: Carolina vs Ruby, Tex vs Ruby, etc.

[@SuperTroodos]

If it's non-canon, then yes, this must happen

[@SuperTroodos]

I would want it as a comedic piece, not a fight, a fight would be hilariously one-sided, since RWBY's power level is so much higher than RvBs

[@SuperTroodos]

Unlikely, since Penny... Just Penny

[@FaythHeart1]

Of course non-canon, I want to see the RVB Team meet the RWBY Team, fight off some of the grimm or "Space Pirates" or something lol

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

Oh you mean Blood Gulch memories. Well when Church got near his other piece, the memories stored on that fragment flowed into him. Since the two fragments are literally one person and have the same mind, they share the same thoughts, so information stored in one piece should be accessible to the other, hence why Church started to get flashes of his past, by the same logic, the information regarding BG events flowed into the Epsilon fragment.

[@StarKiller561]

Thanks.

[@dylanvallieres9397]

I love the song

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

When I was watching this scene for the first time, I was like "Hell yeah, that's what you bastards get for torturing Church. His badass GF comes in and totally fucks your shit up."

[@MasterHall117]

Jacktheinfinite101 sounds bout right.... this is the moment you realized it ain’t always the guy who fights for the lady... this time ( and the rest of RvB), the ladies save you....

[@SpryO3]

I'd just like to take the time to say, I love your avatar! I remember years and years ago, I chose the same picture as my avatar when I actually stayed active on any forums.

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

He did so because he found it impossible to bring her to him. I don't think he belived he would see her again at that point, after all the horrible things he did, I don't think he ever believed he would go to where she ended up after all he did, just the way he speaks to FILISS at the end shows that.

[@GeoDagon]

The numbers are the order that the songs are in on whichever album they are in.

[@rafis117]

I like your answer, but I think he was referring to the rap interlude that wasn't in the original episode. It's a thing that Jeff Williams and Trocadero do - expand on pieces they give RT to play with.

[@BlueFlameSlicer]

Great OST

[@nicolegummyworms3623]

i love rvb c; I just love it so much sniff sniff

[@TinnaMinor]

I am going to have to request that you upload Tex Vs Tank next. That trumpet...

[@AZUREPHOENIX777]

What was all that stuff earlier about Tex being the memories and epsilon being the failure?

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

The similarities between Alpha and Epsilon are because they are the same person, that's the point I was making, when the director harvested Epsilon, he failed to create another person, so both fragments were the same person, one piece just has the memories while the other doesn't. Tex is literally based directly off Church's memories of Alison, which are of her failing, hence why she fails, but she isn't based on failure itself. "You were the memory, you were the key."

[@CABRALFAN27]

Maybe it's like that one episode of Rick and Morty with Tiny Rick, where the AI Fragments try to alert the Freelancers to the dark truth of their origins, but can only do so through Heavy Metal and Rap. XD

[@matthewjones605]

The only complaint I have with this song is that it fluctuates too much it doesn't keep a common theme it starts awesome then weird and crazy then calmish then awesome again.

[@johanneshaukanes4531]

Couldn't agree more

[@Jacktheinfinite101]

(continued) also the other peices aren't inside him, he takes their likeness at will, it's a basic A.I. function, he can appear as anything in his memory banks, even a chair, but the other personalities are not present in his program. Finally, I think you misunderstand what Epsilon is in relation to the Alpha, here's a video I made to explain it watch?v=uMOZJ7JzxiA

[@FlygonN129]

YES! I LOVE THIS SONG!

[@eShopbag]

you still like it?

[@Persephoneia01]

Actually it did work for Epsilon he fragmented and became Alpha's memories. Since that was all he was he went a bit crazy at first and was extremely unstable. But in season 9 and 10, he was able to reach meta-stability through having the memories of the of AI fragments.

[@Samocoptor]

Best. Intro. Ever.

[@dragonquest8ftw1]

i think he means things like metastability and the different variations of A.I's stuff like that honestly the A.I functions sometimes go over my head as well

[@Zenlore6499]

Awesome!!