Bowling Alley

Applauding once more as Power successfully manages to get a spare, Ichigo smiles before tousling her mane.

"Talk about a power stroke of brilliance on your part, ya adorable, nerdy little pony! Now let's see if you can't make a strike this time!"

Dave's Home Base

Dave sits on his throne at the Main Hall. Master Hand and Crazy Hand, their mission long finished, had since left the base. Advisor Fira is with him, informing him of the recent events.

"I see. It seems we may have use for the backup plans after all. But, this new being concerns me deeply. Beyond even creation....? I wonder what could that mean?"

He sighs. Missing another season kind of makes him feel a bit lonely, but what can he do about it?

He was about to stand up when a portal opens through, revealing someone he was not expecting.

"Princess Kumatora? This is a pleasant surprise, your highness. What do you need of me?"

"Hmm.... seems to me that I'm in the right place. You are the one they call Dave, correct? I need your help with something. Have you seen this place?" Kumatora shows him a photograph of an unknown place.

"No, I do not believe I or anyone affiliated with me has ever been there, nor have I ever seen it."

"And it's best to stay that way. There's a horror there waiting to be unleashed. And.... what do you know of Porky Minch, the Pig King?"

"We have several records of his exploits with a cosmic horror and of his defeat. Why do you ask?" Fira notes.

"Then you know of the Absolutely Safe Capsule. You see.... something managed to bypass the "absolutely safe" part and took Porky away."

"What?! That's not a good thing at all. The multiverse has seen increasing threats these days, and if Porky joins them...."

"Indeed. We must find him and seal him inside once more, if not find a way to finish him off for good."

Dave then offers his hand at the Princess, saying "Welcome to the fray, Princess." She shakes it.

Somewhere in space

The masked Dave has been lost for a really long time, now. With supplies dwindling, he'll have to get there soon or die from hunger and dehydration. Summoning a portal one more time, he escapes a massive horror behind him.

He appears near a structure he recognizes as Detective Gamechanger's base. "Finally," he grumbled to himself. He walked towards the base.

When he's close to the entrance, suddenly an array of weapons appear. "Must be GC's defense system," he notes to himself. He then transmits a message to Detective Gamechanger in Morse code.

"- .... .. ... .. ... -.. .- ...- . .- -. -.. .. .- — -.— —- ..- .-. ..-. .-. .. . -. -.."

Unknown location

Pokey "Porky" Minch floats on an endless void, pondering how he had managed to escape the Absolutely Safe Capsule and what to do next. Then suddenly, an unknown being appears.

   "So you are the infamous Pig King. I have need of you,"    it said in an ambiguous voice.

Porky then receives his orders by telepathy. He is then transported to another unknown location. He smirks, already thinking of ways he could possibly backstab the entity.

Edited by dave_the_assassin on Aug 8th 2019 at 7:43:26 PM

Marx checks the strange capsule he found the other day, to reveal... whatever's inside has escaped. The capsule is broken. Marx, realizing that something he could use for nefarious purposes have escapes, explodes into rage.

Meanwhile, Lucas, after talking with his newfound flower-friend, senses danger in the air. A the same time, Goldie the flower detects odd, sinister presence in the air, as if something he has a bad history with has awakened.

Edited by Oggy123 on Aug 8th 2019 at 3:08:26 PM

Bowling Alley

Power giggles at the pun. "Maybe I should change my name to Power Strike if I get better at this!"

With nothing much else to comment on for the next day in the Arena, Power focuses on her next shot. She sets the ball down and kicks it.

Come on, come on, give me a strike...

It knocks down all the pins but the two corner ones.

"Argh, I was so close!"

The Database Library, Basement

Database has been updated to v0.15!

6k2 beams at Ally as the latter's eyes flash brown and gold to celebrate the latest version. For 6k2, it felt like forever to get this update done, and hopefully the updates will be faster from here on out.

However, she still deserves a vacation after this. Maybe after she nominates her tributes for next season? And hopefully someplace far away from the likes of Snow or Valecor...

"Since you're awake, I'd like you to meet my other assistant."

She calls Dupe over. He walks around Ally, checking every part of her like a curious little monkey before moving in front of her. He smiles and mews, and Ally introduces herself. He's startled by a purple light moving across his body.

Scan complete.

Name: Experiment 344 (Dupe)
Home Universe: Hawaii (Lilo & Stitch)
Nominator: TRP-6001
First Season: S23

Do you want to know more?

Dupe shakes his head a little.

"Let's save that for when we reach that season," says 6k2.

Affirmative. Storing tribute information in Databanks... Storage complete.

"I bet you two can get along well! Just watch out for Ally if her eyes turn red."

The two of them nod in agreement. Some time after they play together, the back door opens. 6k1 yawns as she enters the room with a clean lab coat.

"Well Dupe," she says, "time to merge us back."

She stands right next to 6k2. Dupe uncoils his antenna and fires the ray, phasing the clone back into her.

She stretches her arms to confirm that she has regained her strength. "Ah... much better. And did I give Yona and Messenger a library tour? Yes, I did."

She turns to Ally. "Mind if you give me a preview of the Reaping for Season 16?"

Searching Databanks... Search complete. Tributes nominated by TRP-6001: Toriel and Rarity.

6k1 puts her hand to her heart and sheds a few tears.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jan 3rd 2021 at 3:50:20 AM

Bowling Alley

After watching things start to wind down in the Arena and getting the feeling that either an event or some other mass amount of deaths was on the horizon, Ichigo turns back to Power as she knocks down all but two pins with her next throw.

"Ooh, almost had 'em there! But on the bright side, a spare's always way better than a split."

Earlier, at Zanreo's Secret Base

"So I guess it couldn't last forever..." Zanreo says with a sigh as she watches the ZIG-01 spacecraft she nominated for this themed Season alongside her signature tribute CATS, be overrun by yetis. It had earlier survived Akudis Gil's attack, and gotten cured after being poisoned, but guess its luck had to run out at some point. As for CATS... he died early again, during Day 2 this time. At least he didn't keep suffering throughout the Season like last time... that almost made her feel bad for continuously nominating him. But there was always a next time... well, time for some revivals and repairs once again as she waited for the next season to begin. Now let's see how the remaining tributes did...

Edited by Zanreo on Aug 9th 2019 at 5:10:22 PM

Bowling Alley

Power continues watching as she kicks the ball again, knocking down one pin. She sees Kaito graduate from Bale's Villain School with flying colors... only to fatally break his spine from falling from the top of the tribute pyramid the next day.

"Bale's school must be really popular, huh?" she says, remembering the time when Rango flunked out from it two seasons ago. "My art school has been open for a few seasons already, but it hasn't gotten any enrollees yet..."

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:46:17 AM

Det. GC's Base

The detective sees Dave via the cameras on his security system.

Computer, ignore that guy and let him in, he's a guest I've been expecting.

As the security system opens the force field and trains the guns and robots away from Dave so he can enter, the detective turns his attention back to his work he's currently doing.

On the Rubik's Cube the note on the front door was referring to is a new note:

Thanks to a change of plans I'm now at a different sublevel, customizing some portable collapsible vehicles for our journey. Feel free to help me customize them to your liking if everyone isn't here yet. Yes, you still need to solve the cube to reach me.

The Capitol

Snow makes a new televised announcement.

   Some of you may be a tad miffed that I had Valecor become a nominator, as he's an evil monster. Well, some call me that but I ain't changing anytime soon...   

   Anyways, we've finished with the repairs to Scipion's attack during the nominator games, so the budget to our facilities is back to normal. However, as compensation for our hard workers and to pick up the slack the prices everywhere shall be tripled as of now. That is all.   

Bowling Alley

Shaking his head when Kaito winds up failing his deceased master Kylo, Ichigo's gaze remains on the TV as Snow makes his latest announcement, and he rolls his eyes when everyone's favorite President Evil declares that prices would be tripled despite the budget being back to normal.

Muttering something about how there was always a catch when it came to Snow before briefly contemplating potential ways to strike back at him, he turns back to Power, offering her a sympathetic look when she laments the lack of enrollees at her art school.

"And this was probably something you've been meaning to create for a while now... Well, I tell you what, these tributes are seriously missing out if they're not going to an art school made by the Leonardo Da Vinci of ponies herself."

Kneeling to look the unicorn in the eye, he sets his wolf-headed cane down and pats her on the head.

"How about this? Once the season's over and the winner's been announced, we cross another thing off my to-do list and head to your art school," he offers, smiling. "I would suggest going after you've had one last shot at the pins, but as tempting as that might be, methinks President Snowball might not take kindly to us just warping into the Arena in the middle of a season. That, and I doubt 6k1 would be happy with us if we did something like that..."

"Oh, really?" Power smiles back. "Sure thing! And yeah, 6k1 makes sure her tributes are sent home before the next season begins. Not only is it against the rules to be on the field while not registered; it's also pretty dangerous."

She recalls when she and 6k1's tributes arrived from GC's party just when Season 45 began. 6k1 called her scientists to stealthily escort her, Toriel, and Carlos, and also Dave's tributes Starfall and Kairi to the Science Center. They were taken to the Station of Multiversal Travel, where they were sent home by Scientist Perri and her crew.

"Also, I'm tempted to call him 'President Snowfall', but Twilight and/or Starlight might take offense to that," she adds with a small giggle, recalling the Equestrian equivalent of Scrooge in the literary classic A Hearth's Warming Tail.

"Anyway, one more shot before we take a break."

The rack puts down a new set of pins, and another ball is rolled back to her. She sets it right in the middle and kicks it. However, it wasn't as strong as before, and the ball rolls down the lane at moderate speed until it slows down at the frontmost pin, touching it lightly.

Power sighs, but then all the other pins fall down, followed by the one hit by the ball.

"YESSS!"

Billy's Ship, Outer Space

After Billy stabbed himself with the Stand Arrow and seemingly survived it, he felt some kind of a power coming from within his soul. He soon used his willpower to summon it. The power materialized soon. His Stand.

Billy's Stand was comprised of 50 mechanical looking units, of various 3 dimensional geometric shapes, like cube, sphere, pyramid, etc, with an orb on the middle, which glowed. They floated around him in a concentric formation. They also had glowing lines that all connected to the orb in the middle. They, alongside Billy, emitted golden aura around them. After that, by instinct, Billy immediately tried to channel the basic power of his Stand. He had to go to the simulation area of his ship for that to prevent collateral damage.

After entering the simulation he wanted, by instinct, he first specified what the Stand's units would be like, one by one, through his mind. Immediately, they assumed the roles Billy wanted, forming offensive, defensive, and support units, with various and diverse equipments, with some parts of it made or scavenged from surrounding materials to further improve it rather than making from the Stand itself after that stage. Indeed, his Stand is highly adaptive in nature. Soon, Billy first used them all against a simulated army. Immediately, the defensive Stand moved quickly into a certain formation to form a shield protecting Billy and the rest of his Stand. Then, the attack unit fired various weapons, like bullets, lasers, explosives, missiles, etc to the army, while the support helped. Some units got damaged, and it transferred a bit to Billy, who felt some pain, but they were fixed by the support ones. The other supports soon reinforce the offense and defense ones with buffing rays. After some time, the army got defeated.

After the simulation, Billy went to his deck back, desummoning his Stand, but not before doing an analytic of his Stand stats and using one more undiscovered power after that. It's as follows: Destructive Power: B Range: A Speed: B Durability: E Precision: C Development Potential: A

After getting his stats, Billy was satisfied to see them, though worried about the fragility of the units itself if they got directly attacked. Billy then configured all the units as a computing device. They changed accordingly, and soon, they perform calculations about business, that Billy sent to his clone once finished.

Then, few days later, Billy, not receiving any response from Mett, decides to skip straight to Elliot instead. He projects a AI controlled hologram of him into his place, and calls Elliot, saying he wants to talk with him. Billy also has George vibe more nominators, seeing Zanreo and Vengeful Bale this time.

Eagle's Hawk Corporation HQ

Meanwhile, Billy's clone, having the same reaction as Billy, was as surprised when he found out both tributes had crews instead. In the end, they had to be brought by portals to the orbit around the planet where the Mansion is, and of course, they were nominated alongside their vessels. At least Captain Kirk, Spock, and others would be useful to the group.

Seeing the Game progress, he was surprised to see what happened to the Death Star. As he continued watching, he decided to do more things to help Billy's job. He's also disappointed to see his business school not taking tributes yet.

Also in the past, the clone continued his investigation into Ribey, going to normal mode when seeing Ribey ignoring him. He decided to sneak out and find a way to reach other areas of the lab, though he decided to sneakily eavesdrop and observe what Ribey was doing first. The clone also already planned to remove the hologram if Ribey attacked.

In the present, the clone decided to meet with Zanreo as instructed, using hologram as usual. He appears on her base's front door and greets her, before saying he want to meet.

Bowling Alley

Looking forward to finally seeing this art school for himself, Ichigo watches as Power rolls the ball down the lane, waits to see how she fares, and grins when the artistic unicorn gets a strike before giving her a hug.

"I knew you could do it, you adorable, nerdy little pony!"

Zanreo's Secret Base

Now, for my next tributes, maybe I'll send in- "...Hm? Seems like I've got a visitor." Zanreo opens her front door and greets the hologram clone. "So... what's this about a meeting?"

Edited by Zanreo on Aug 9th 2019 at 5:15:31 PM

Bowling Alley

"Aww thanks, Ich! With just a little more practice, I can be as good as you!"

Power looks at the TV once again. "Oh, it's the Feast! And that can only mean one thing... to the snack bar!"

She goes there and checks the menu if there's any dessert.

The Bowling Alley

True to Snow's word, the prices at the bowling alley has been automatically tripled, including the concessions in which Power would soon find out by looking at the menu.

On the menu is a dessert called "The Snowball", which is fried ice cream served in a waffle bowl that's covered in whipped cream and chocolate syrup, topped with a small figurine of President Snow.

Bowling Alley

Picking up his cane, Ichigo briefly checks on the progress in the Arena before following Power over to the snack bar, where he reads over the menu as well.

"Let's see... there any particular kind of dessert you had in mind, Power? Don't worry, I can afford it despite the tripled prices."

Then he notices that one particular dessert item has the same name as the nickname he'd recently given Snow. Between that and him seemingly embracing the Evil Santa moniker in one of his broadcasts, Ichigo can't help but wonder if Snow's somehow been learning about the nicknames he's been giving him. Then again, the president did hear him use "Evil Santa" when he attacked him while wearing a Bane mask in Season 50... Or maybe it was just a crazy coincidence and he was overthinking things.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Aug 9th 2019 at 9:43:58 AM

Bowling Alley

Power takes out her wallet and counts her bits. "Oh Celestia, I wasn't prepared for this sudden price inflation, especially given the exchange rate."

Ichi then offers to pay for the dessert. "Thanks. As tempting as that 'Snowball' is, I'd rather have two scoops of cookies n' cream ice cream in a cup. It's my favorite."

The Database Library, Basement

After crying over the loss of her tributes in the Bloodbath of Season 16, 6k1 calms down. She begins planning her vacation.

She can go to Toriel's Home in return for her visiting her in the Recovery Room. Mom sometimes calls her to ask if she's okay, but the last time 6k1 called her was to invite her to GC's party. While keeping in touch with Mom even while worlds apart's comforting enough for 6k1, it'd be nice to bake her signature pie with her and listen to her stories by the fireplace.

6k1 can also visit the Castle of Friendship to see how Twilight's doing, and also for the same reason as Toriel. They can both nerd out while reading all the books in the library! Hopefully the Headmare would take a day off from her school duties to spend time with her.

But what about Walkerville — to check on how the Ramon Family's doing, and especially challenge Carlos to a pun-off? Or maybe she can drop by Ms. Frizzle's house to ask to have a joyride with her on the Bus.

Perhaps the Dark World may be a good spot... or at least wherever Ralsei's home is. Even with Lancer around, he must be lonely ever since Kris and Susie left...

Or... why not have a typical island vacation in Hawaii... but with 626 Experiments running around? As chaotic as that sounds, that would be great, too!

Regardless of her decision, 6k1 has to bring one of her tributes along with her, just in case her holiday gets ruined one way or another.

She emails her plans to Ichi and GC for their suggestions.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Aug 10th 2019 at 2:05:39 AM

Bowling Alley

"No problem. Hopefully someday, I'll be able to get back at Snow for all this garbage he's been pulling."

Ichigo purchases Power's favorite dessert for her while he himself simply orders a slice of apple pie. After getting a couple of bites in, he notices the email notification on his phone, opens it, and reads what 6k1 sent him before replying.

I'd say go with someone tough enough to deal with any potential scumbags plotting to ruin your long-overdue vacay. Like... Madame Maxime. Can't go wrong with a half-giant on your side.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:29:33 AM

Det. GC's Base

The detective receives 6k1's email and responds.

I say go with Twilight as she's powerful and a close friend of yours. Plus you can introduce her to Ally while you're at it as Ally is currently a robo-Twilight. Speaking of Ally, I suggest giving her some combat lessons as Magic vs Technology won on the Panem Themed Season poll.

Voidlands/Valecor's Lair

Valecor speaks to his legion again via his communicator.

   Since I'm still waiting for the other groups to arrive I might as let you know what's been on my mind. As I'm currently absent from the lair I've been thinking of making an official chain of command in case any of our leaders were to be absent for one reason or another. I haven't even picked a second-in-command yet, I was considering Bill for the role as he's my most loyal follower but I wasn't sure if he was the most qualified.   

   So to remedy that, I suggest we vote to determine the best leadership candidates, then set up a series of challenges that puts their leadership to the test to see if they're worthy. Taking on an apprentice after this is encouraged as it would help the chain of command if something bad were to happen to you. If you're not too fond of friends, you may consider an apprentice being like someone you can have a good time with at a bar.   

   This may or may not work out, but if it helps I suggest going to Bale's villain school and see if our group can work out a partnership with Bale to scout out potential apprentices.   

   Should also admit that I've never had an actual apprentice myself. I was going to have one in the original timeline that became the Voidlands, but the less I talk about that the better, it brings back bad memories.   

Zoe had returned to Mett's base,but upon going to tell him about it found out something...weird. Mett's door was locked,and he hasn't been responding to messages. It seems the only thing he's been doing is nominating tributes.

Unknown location

Porky is busy rebuilding his mech. Though his frail body is definitely hindering, the mech is now almost complete. Suddenly, a portal opens behind him. Darkseid steps out of it.

   "So you are the one it speaks of."   

Porky turns around to see a humanoid being behind him.

   "Who are you?!"    he shous.

   "I am Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips. When the being spoke of a Pig King, I wasn't expecting it to be you, a frail old man,"    Darkseid replies

   "It's complicated. Say, you speak of a being you met. Could it, by chance, be an ambiguous voice in a dark, unending void?"   

   "How do you know of that?   

   "I was summoned here by it, as well. Whatever this being is, we'll have to follow it along.... for now."   

   "And what's in it for me? What I seek is the Anti-Life Equation, and the destruction of the universe."   

   "Then it seems we have quite some things in common; I've done a lot of things you wouldn;'t expect from someone like me. Say, what say you we work together? We do things the way it wants us to do, then once we get what we need, we'll backstab it and destroy everything!"   

   "Hmmm.... For now, that would be a good idea."   

They shake hands in mutual agreement. Porky then continues to rebuild his mech, while Darkseid begins to gather his resources.

Timewrecker's Spaceship

Another follower of Timewrecker arrived at his room and knocked on the door. Like the rest of the crew he's wearing black high-tech armor, but his suit has a modernized take on an old diving helmet. All that can be seen out of the visor is a neon purple like the rest of the glowing highlights on the suit.

   Who is it?   

   It's me, your first mate.   

   Come in then.   

He enters the room, holding a black sphere. Timewrecker looks at the sphere with interest.

   Is that the thing I asked for?   

   Yes, the entire country of the United States of America, plucked right from an alternate timeline.   

   Excellent, never fails to surprise me what our technology we stole from the detective all those years ago can do. Get ready to send the contents out of the pocket dimension and into the games like the rest of the large tributes we sent in there, I look forward to seeing what happens!   

   Understood, sir.   

Edited by TheGamechanger on Aug 9th 2019 at 2:59:13 PM

Marx sits on his pad, pondering on what will he do now that his potential pawn escaped.

Marx: Augggh! I was perfecting that magic capsule that could get me to overthrow that bonehead president and the butt-faced sidekick of his, and someone had to break it!!!

It was then that an advertisement magazine slipped into the house. It appears to advertise some sort of new type of combat androids.

"Cute combat androids. If i could get some of them on my side, i would make more. And i'll be unstoppable."

Edited by Oggy123 on Aug 10th 2019 at 6:25:27 PM

Bowling Alley

Power finishes her ice cream just as the season concludes with said angry gamer who had his EXP stolen winning by luring Grandma Taters into a fake Cornucopia then blowing it up.

"Well, Ichi? Let's go!"

The Database Library, Basement

6k1 weighs her decisions. Both of their suggestions are versatile magic users, but she might want to go somewhere else in Equestria if she's bringing Twilight along (if she's going there), or perhaps have her show her around the school at least. And while having her meet up with Ally before the trip would be amusing, 6k1 isn't sure of how Twilight would react, given Power's own towards Ally's first version. And of course, 6k1 would still need to arrange with her if there's a schedule conflict.

As for Maxime, she won't take kindly to anyone pointing out her size, and she can't fit inside houses unless she knows the Shrinking Charm. But even then, using it on a human (or half-giant in her case) would be complicated and dangerous.

6k1 considers her third option: Baymax. Not only is he a huggable medical robot (though Ally's huggable as well), but he can also defend her from her enemies with his rocket punches! However, he'll prevent himself from harming anyone, even villains, due to his programming.

Combat lessons for Ally? she asks in her email to GC. I'll see what I can do. She can only go so far with laser beams...

She also writes to Ichi about that, thanking him for the AI guides. Perhaps he knows more about robot combat than she does...

She also adds her opinions about GC's and Ichi's travel buddy suggestions in the emails, awaiting their advice before making her final decision. After sending them, though, she suspects that her beloved assistant would be returning to the Arena come Magitek Season...

Dupe tugs on her lab coat and looks at her with his beady black eyes.

"I know what you're thinking, but summoning 6k2 would defeat the purpose of going on vacation since technically I'd still be working. And don't worry, Ally will guard the basement once she's been trained for combat."

Ally salutes with her wing.

6k1 then checks the arena feed, and— "the season's over already?!"

She writes the letter to her next tribute and seals it in a waterproof envelope before she begins packing, promptly sighing at all the 327 million Americans swarming in.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Aug 2nd 2021 at 4:09:11 PM

Bale's School

Bale had a school opened for villains and villain-wannabes, his job was to teach the basics of being a villain and how to avoid the usual pratfalls villains fall for. He saw the possibility of more villain coming to his class as a good thing.

Bale: Hopefully those villains won't disappoint, I've seen them and they all look promising... Speaking of which, what's happening to the portal-traveling villains right now?

The Fight in Beach City

GIR was sent crashing into a wall by Garnet's attack, allowing Jamie to escape safely.

Garnet: You there, I need you to surrender, peacefully if possible.

Zim: Zim does not do peace!

Zim's PAK grew four spider-like appendages and tried to stab Garnet with them, only for all of them to be cut by a spear, thrown by another gem who was Garnet's commrade, Pearl.

Pearl: In the name of the Crystal Gems I order you to surrender now as well, let's try to settle this peacefully.

''This only angered Zim, who got GIR to work again after the hit it received, the two of them then fought the gems to a standstill, at least until more gem appear, cashing the battle to turn to Earth's Favor.

The other villains left Zim to fight the gems in order to fox the portal's issues.

Entrapta: This one's easy, I'll just rearrange a few sites and we'll be ready to go.

Barbamkn:    You better hurry, because Zim is getting himself into trouble   .

Hordak: She'll finish the job perfectly fine.