The Gateway Command
The Gateway Command is a circular device that can link to other systems similar to how a portal works. The difference is that a portal is only made of energy and the Gateway is a mechanical device.
The first Gateway Command
The Gateway Command was invented by Wellman Matrix. At the time Mainframe had no ports to the Net and didn't have proof of other systems. He designed the Gateway so they could find and visit other systems. When he activated the Gateway it locked onto the largest power sorce it could find, the Super Computer. When it did the most powerful thing there was the Super Virus Gigabyte. The Gateway transported Gigabyte to Mainframe's Twin City where the virus damaged the Gateway causing it to explode. The resulting energy split Gigabyte into two viruses, Megabyte and Hexadecimal, and destroyed the Twin City. Wellman and everyone in the city was nullified. A copy of the control circuitry for the Gateway was stored in Mainframes Archives.
The Control Circuitry
In the episode When Games Collide Megabyte used Game energy to break into the Archives and steal the circuitry that runs a Gateway Command. He constructed the actual hardware himself but had to have the circuitry board that opperated the original device. His Gateway and the control ciruitry were destroyed.
Megabyte's Gateway Command
When Wellman Matrix returned in the form of the Null Nibbles his daughter Dot Matrix asked him to reconstruct the Gateway Command so that she could try to fragement the virus Daemon when she arrived in Mainframe. They didn't get the chance to try it, but when Daemon started her count down for the Net to self destruct the virus Hexadecimal volunteered to sacrifice herself and carry the cure by way of the Gateway Command to save the entire Net.
Hexadecimal and the Gateway Command
Megabyte steeling the Gateway Command
Later, when Megabyte returned, Dot came up with a plan to trap him by offering the Gateway Command as bate. While the Gateway was being moved to the Archives by the CPUs Megabyte's ABCs attacked and stole it. In truth the Gateway Megabyte took was a fake, not capable of linking with anything. The true Gateway Command was secure in the Core Control Chamber.
The Gateway Command in the Core Control Chamber
Trivia
- The design of the gateway is similar to the Stargate from the movie of the same name. The control circuitry resembles a vital piece of equipment in the James Bond movie 'Goldeneye.'