(The discussion thread is here
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Welcome to HGS: Another Side Another Story. It is a roleplay spinoff for the Hunger Games Simulator forum game, akin to both the RP's in the Roleplaying section as well as the ITTs in Forum Games. It tells the story of the Hunger Games in the Arena of Panem, the nominators who sent the tributes, the tributes themselves both in and out of the Arena or even other people relevant to the Games. In addition, it also tells their stories beyond the Arena.
You can jump right in with any character, like your nominator self, your tributes, etc. The structure of this RP will be open-world. Don't worry about not being skilled/experienced enough or being new to RP'ing. Finally, ASAS accepts any skill level or RP style. Other than these, there are some important rules to note, which are:
- No godmodding will be allowed or tolerated here. The offending player will be given punishment depending on the severity.
- Please communicate anything important you plan on another player with the said player first. Don't just execute it without their consent.
- Don't be rude to other players, both out and in-universe. This extends to RP offenses like railroading, guilt-tripping, coercing, or other forms of forcing them.
- This RP is related to the Hunger Games Simulation:Beyond the Possibilities forum game. Thus it will have events based from that game, including the tributes. This means if you want to RP as tributes, please nominate them officially on the thread first, with misses not being counted. This has to be done after an incident with a player who hasn't joined the game itself yet.
- Since this RP is Loose Canon in relation to the main HGS thread, the host's interpretation of events isn't necessarily 100% canon. Every player has the right to deviate from what the host says and go with their own interpretations. If multiple players have their tributes involved in the same event(s), please communicate with each other so that you're on the same page regarding how you see them.
- This RP chronicles the lives of the nominators and their tributes behind the scenes. While dark plots are acceptable, the overall tone of the RP should be light-hearted and comedic. This RP is not a Cosmic Horror Story or action story about defeating evil. It is a Slice of Life comedy with some adventure to it, first and foremost. Our previous RP, Convergence, is not representative of the intended tone, and the grimdark tone of that RP is one of the main reasons it was retooled.
- Nominators and tributes alike can transform into Pokemon whenever they enter a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon World (but they can bypass this with certain items/methods or shapeshifting) or via other means outside it such as a season event, Transformation Trinkets, or shapeshifting. The players are free to choose the Pokéforms that best suit their characters and even give them color schemes outside the standard and Shiny colors, but there is a hard rule for this. If you want your character's Pokéform to be a Legendary, Mythical, or Ultra Beast, please ask the RP mods for approval. Outside the Arena, these Pokéforms are still OP, but we want to give leeway for tributes who theoretically can have them such as deities.
- Other rules are covered in the RP guides: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13414403220A81433600&page=1#comment-1
Other guides to help you can be found below:
Here's my opening RP post:
Detective Gamechanger's Base
A sharp-dressed man in a green suit and yellow tie is standing by the entrance of the base. He is of average height and has whitish skin, though still a bit darker. He is Billy, one of the nominators and the organizer of the party.
Indeed, after the nominators' returned and settled their problems, they decide to have fun with a party. Billy also sent invites for all the other nominators out there, as well as basically anyone else, including tributes, non associated parties, interested nominators who haven't participate yet, or even those who just wants to hang out.
The place itself in the base is refurbished for party purposes. Fancy chairs and tables are set everywhere for people to relax, as well as put food and other objects for the latter. There's also various collections showcased, including those belonging to the Detective, like his classic cars. Various themes to the base are set too, including detective noir as GC would have preferred.
Billy is now awaiting for other guests to arrive. He is also ready to give them a pleasant surprise during the party pertaining to his nation.
Edited by Billy5545 on Aug 23rd 2023 at 12:18:55 AM
Not an evil Thievul
Earth-ME3
(Eye-Sicle looks like an angry cat as Firebrand carries him. Goliath flies alongside them.)
(Having to fend for himself isn't really that new for Brooklyn, though in a world with this kind of alien invasion is certainly new for him. He's set up camp in a very old abandoned house with a series of traps around it. The only indication that he's even there is a pair of glowing eyes visible through one window.)
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Earth-ME3
Still looking for something moving, Firebrand first looked at Eye-Sicle to make sure he was not going to fall. He snarled upon seeing his angry face but was relieved that Eye-Sicle wasn't complaining verbally.
Firebrand then turned his head towards Goliath.
"So... From what world do you come from exactly? Your clan must have fun ransacking those pesky humans, assuming they exist in your world." he said, completely unaware of what was actually going on in Goliath's homeworld.
Meanwhile, as he flew around, Arma quickly concluded that this world was completely unknown to him. The technological ruins certainly intrigued him, having never seen them before.
He landed behind a rock and spied on one ruined house with several traps around. He narrowed his eyes upon seeing glowing eyes from one window.
Arma wasn't sure, but he could have sworn these eyes belonged to a gargoyle. His blood boiled, eager to fight, but he quickly calmed his lust for battles down, knowing this wasn't the best option right now.
If there was indeed a gargoyle inside of this house, it would be the first familiar sight in this world for him, and after sealing himself for so long, he wasn't against some conversation. Arma also needed a guide for finding out where the hell he was.
Of course, Arma wasn't stupid and knew if whoever was inside was hostile, he would not hesitate to destroy them. He had to be cautious.
The bulky demon carefully flew towards the house with his angel-like wings, avoiding the traps that weren't on the ground, trying to be as quiet as possible. Once he reached the outside wall, he dug some of his claws on it, waiting.
Immediately as the eyes would reappear, Arma would suddenly burst through the window, trying to restrain the inhabitant of this house's limbs with his arms and legs. He knew this wasn't really the best way to greet someone that may not even be an enemy, but the demon wasn't going to take any risk.
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
Braids From S286 Not Included
The Arena
Unlike the original 6k1, her AU clone was wearing both her Exoskeleton and pauldron when she was summoned here. As soon as the horn sounds, she, alt!Power, and the rest of their comrades all Zerg Rush into Bob, but he somehow manages to kill them all in one fell swoop... or did he?
The Crowd suddenly starts glowing, and 6k1's Keyblade Armor activates on its own and fuses with her Exoskeleton while alicorn wings sprout from Power's back. The two nominators then transform into their powered-up forms not unlike Undyne's and float above Bob with the rest of the empowered Undergrounders.
"I'M 6K1 THE STEADFAST!"
"WHILE I'M POW-POW THE POWERFUL!"
"NOW PREPARE TO FACE THE WRATH OF EVERY MONSTER FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!!"
They both chase Bob down, screaming their battlecries with alt!Undyne, while the Galarian Weezing mistakes Darkwing Duck for Ultimate and gasses him with Strange Steam, Confusing him into killing himself. The Weezing then just floats around later that day, but Champ's sword glows blue when it approaches him, while Data Squeak receives "Manly Chocolate" from Bolo, which is actually a rusty steel bar. As for the Crowd, they all gather supplies and jump down small ledges on the way to their camps, with 6k1 and Power flying home.
Asgore's Home
Asgore tears up and hugs Asriel again after he tells him everything.
"Son, I am so sorry to hear... I forgive you for everything that you did as him, and I promise that I will teach you to become a good prince!"
Asriel sniffles. "Really, Dad? But but... what about the other monsters?"
"Not everyone will forgive you as easily as your family, but this is a good start."
"And as we said earlier," says Toriel, "we'll help you in every step of the way!"
"And I'd also like to thank Mett for taking care of you, too!"
"Aww! But wait a minute... did he name himself after Mettaton or was he always named like that?"
"Uh... if it is the former, then he sucks at naming things, just like me!"
"Daaaaad..."
6k1 then finishes catching up with the seasons, seeing that the latest has just begun.
"Wanna watch with me to spice up this tea party?"
"Sure thing, sis!" says Asriel.
And so she props her phone and sits with her family, but everyone but Frisk gasps when the Crowd transforms into their powered-up forms.
"I-Is that me...? In my Hyperdeath form?!"
Asriel shows Asgore his ring and quickly rubs it.
"Wait wait, son, now's not the time to—"
But he powers-up and sets his hands on fire.
"Show what the ring does."
Toriel facepalms and sighs.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on May 30th 2022 at 5:26:39 PM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
Not an evil Thievul
Eye-Sicle's Lair
Wow, guys, those other us's look really awesome now! (June remarks when their doppelgangers in the Arena turn into "Undying" forms through sheer DETERMINATION after being attacked by Bob.)
I dunno, I look kinda ridiculous. (Wanda says, shaking her head.)
(Then everyone is shocked when the doppelgangers dump tar onto Moko and drop him from a bridge.)
...You know, uh, I don't think I wanna visit this other universe if all of us are jerks who have no issue doing stuff like that there. (Miss Ball remarks.)
Earth-ME3
(Goliath's expression darkens.) ...We fight to PROTECT the humans. The city where we now live is always under threat from man-made or otherworldly evils.
Yeah, uh, sounds exciting. (Eye-Sicle says. He looks down at the ground.) Hey, you know the guy who messed with my system when you got nominated for Season 140?
(Goliath pauses for a moment.) ...I do.
(Brooklyn briefly senses someone (or something) approaching, but before he can react, he is being pinned down by an unknown intruder. He tries to throw them off with his wings.)
Alright, who are you?? (Brooklyn shouts. Whoever this guy is, he's not one of those aliens.)
(The abandoned house is coming into view of the other three.)
Edited by kablammin45 on Jun 29th 2021 at 6:11:55 AM
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Scipion's lair
Scipion raised his eyebrows upon seeing himself and his Pokémons rivals evolve/mega-evolve/becoming Gigantomax
"Boss? Why am I so big?" Onox asked.
"I think it's linked to another version of our world. That's too bad, you look way more threatening with that form." Scipion pondered.
The Zoroark grinned evilly when the group disposed of Moko. Obviously, the clone who suggested the gruesome idea was none other than alt!Morgan. And again, he was forced by the other clones to tone down the kill.
Earth-ME3
Firebrand suddenly stopped moving at Goliath's answer.
"You... You gargoyles protect humans in your world? And from their own idiocies? What kind of sick joke is that??" he muttered in shock and disgust.
Then again, he should have expected this. Scipion warned him about how surprising the Multiverse could be. Firebrand shook his head, still having a hard time processing what he just heard.
"I guess I should pity you." the gargoyle still sighed, resuming his flight.
Back at the house, Arma grunted from Brooklyn wings' blows but kept holding him, his expression barely changing.
"My name is Arma. That is all you need to know for now." Arma grunted. The demon stared at Brooklyn dead in the eyes, concluding that whoever he was holding wasn't an enemy.
"I will not kill you. You will tell me who you are, where do you come from, and explain what is happening here. But attack me, and I will destroy you." the tall demon warned, still not completely trusting Brooklyn. He carefully let go of the gargoyle, got up, but remained on his guard.
It was around this moment that Firebrand and Goliath saw the house. Though he didn't saw the exact scene, he felt some presence inside.
"Hmmm... I think there are some movements in that ruined house. Should we inspect it?" he asked Goliath and Eye-Sicle.
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
Braids From S286 Not Included
The Arena
The Crowd decides to settle down for the night and all set up their camps. Due to the tribute barrier, however, they have to set them up close to each other, so everyone's cramped for the night. While 6k1 the Steadfast tries working on the Database and Pow-Pow the Powerful puts on her Rey outfit and works on her painting, Noi approaches them and babbles about going outside.
"Okay, I'll just continue working on the Database some other time." says 6k1 as she goes out, "These camps are getting crowded, anyway..."
Power, on the other hand, groans. "I just wanna finish my painting!"
But she follows Noi outside, anyway, encouraging alt!Ichi to join her, while Data Squeak shoots down Bolo's robo-bird and the Galarian Weezing gives Benbot a "candy Leppa Berry".
The next day, the Crowd was going about their day when they find Moko hanging from a bridge. 6k1 flies towards him to rescue him while Power stays close to Ichi, but a cyborg woman wearing a Palpatine-esque cloak rallies everyone to help her pony minion
◊A/N fill a giant vat with hot tar.
"Everyone else is doing it, even your family..." says alt!Dark 6k1, "so why not you and your minion?"
"She's my friend, not a workhorse!" shouts 6k1 while Power glares at her Dark counterpart and paws at the ground.
"Backing out so soon?" Dark 6k1 points her robotic left hand at them, "you know how group tributes work, right? They feed on mob mentality, and you're missing out a lot if you don't join us!"
"No! There's no way we're joining you!" 6k1 shouts back, "I'm going to rescue this child, no matter what you say!"
"Come on, you can only go so far in being nice!"
"Heeheehee..." says alt!Dark Power, "more 'paint' for my masterpiece, please!"
6k1 cracks under pressure and tips the vat with the rest when it's full, with Power reluctantly following her. They both look down at Moko slipping and feel their stomachs drop before trying to fly away from the bridge.
"I think my powers are getting over my head..."
"Oh Celestia... did I mean to do that?"
Dark 6k1 glares at them, but decides to leave them alone for now while Dark Power laughs maniacally while slathering herself with the leftover tar. Meanwhile, the Galarian Weezing watches Kurm Frög's nose flute performance in amusement while Data Squeak rants about being tied to a tree with King Andrias and tries gnawing his way out.
Asgore's Home
The family chases Asriel around the house, and Toriel drags him down and pulls the ring out, depowering him.
"Asriel Dreemurr, what did we say earlier about controlling your powers?"
He sighs and follows her back to the living/dining room.
"I know you're excited to show them to Dad, but there's a time and place for everything! I'll put this ring away for the rest of the reunion!"
"Okay, Mom..."
They all settle down again and watch the season, but 6k1 does a double take at a certain pair of AU Dark Nominators.
"Th-They exist all along?!"
"Why should you be surprised, sis?" asks Frisk. "There's an Underground where everyone but Flowey is evil."
"Wait, what?!" asks Asriel.
"Yep, Sans told me about it."
"But this is different," says 6k1, "Dark Nominators used to be active back in the day, but for these two... their original counterparts must be somewhere in the Multiverse, watching them while waiting for the perfect time to strike..."
Mimi curls up into a ball and shudders.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jul 11th 2021 at 2:23:41 AM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
10,000 grams of pure caffeine
The Arena
Side A - Libre
Libre quickly digs himself out of the pile of tapes he buried himself in. "Shit, what to do, what to do..."
He grabs...a bottle of powerful bleach from the Cornucopia. Then he notices King Andrias. "...Maybe at least I'll try getting a kill or two this season..." He's still breathing rapidly out of fear.
"Fucking die fucking die fucking DIE!..." Libre yells as he force-feeds King Andrias some powerful bleach, only for the latter to come out unaffected. "RRRRRRRGH, DRAT!" He decides to get out of the Cornucopia before anyone tries to kill him.
After getting some time away, Libre drifts off, getting himself immersed in a bit of gardening to calm down.
But then, a lawnmower charged at him, aflame.
"SHIT-" It exploded at him, giving him severe burns."AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Then, a plant seemingly made out of human flesh with a freaky face bites into his stomach, forcefully tearing one of his ribs off. "AAAAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!"
He falls down into a pitch-black hole, seemingly filled with pitch-black water, accidentally swallowing a mouthful, making him force himself up and out of it. "What the hell just happened..."
Then, barking. A wolf-like creature climbs out of that hole, it's teeth clearly not normal for a wolf like that. It bites into Libre hard, thrashing him. "AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!! LET ME GOOO!!!"
Just as the wolf-like creature is done with him, a massive swarm of worms suddenly overwhelm him.
"OHHH FUCK, OHHHH FUCK! OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK-AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-..." The worms overwhelm and eat him up from the inside.
Side 2 - Karl Jacobs
Karl cracks under the stress he built up, and starts incessantly yelling. "Y-you fucks are all gonna die! ALL OF YOU!" He quickly runs away from the Cornucopia afterward.
"L-look at you, cute...thing! You're such a baby idiot!"
Karl notices Demongo getting possessed, and pulls out a diamond sword, striking Demongo with the blunt end to exorcise Mayer's ghost. "Get. Out!"
The sound of the frying pan hitting the wall infuriates Karl. "Stop, stop, stop! I got a diamond sword and I'm not afraid to use it!"
After hitting the odd water, Karl finds himself in Data Squeak's body. "I-What the fuck? WHAT!? Why am I this odd-looking squirrel-thing? What the fuck? Can someone get me back to normal? Please? Please? Please-"
Eventually, Karl finds himself back in his body. "...BWAAAH! [panting] Did I...did some sort of urge just disappear from me?"
"...And, be sure to follow your dreams, and don't let anyone else, tell you otherwise..."
"Oh, thanks for the cookie! Sorry I called you a baby idiot back then..."
Side III - The Crowd
[FATAL BLOW DEALT]
[HIGH LEVELS OF DETERMINATION DETECTED]
"...Didja think you can kill someone who has died once before?" The sclerae in Libre's eyes suddenly turn black, as his iris glows teal.
"What did you expect, trying to take down a goddess?" Moona's clothes have changed to a different outfit
◊, and her eyes now glow an ethereal white.
You're gonna have to try harder than...THAT!" Tommy proclaims, now looking like a half-raccoon-half-human creature.
"Y'know what, fine, lets go get some fresh air!"
"HOW'S ABOUT THAT, YOU TREACHEROUS ADVISOR!?"
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Suisei cackles madly as she pours down hot tar upon Moko alongside many more of the crowd.
"...FUCK! Why a goddamn prison island!?"
"I don't know!" Jace impulsively responds.
Robotnik and Wily's Base (Base RW)
Dr. Wily hears some laughter.
"Huh? Who's that?" He asks.
The cloning machine Robotnik copied suddenly activated. "What the..."
Briefly, some shadowy thing shows up from the floor in front of the machine, then inserts itself into the machine. "Hey! What do you think you're doing messing up that cloning device!? It's the only one we have!"
After a while, nothing happened other than the cloning machine turning back to normal. "What the hell was that about..."
Webking House
"...LIBRE DIED!? OHHH FUCK, WE GOTTA HURRY GUYS!" Tommy yells.
Ollie's noticably hiding in a corner.
"...Something's the matter?" Jace asks her.
"SHIT! Uh, n-nothing!" Ollie answers nervously.
Suisei, Tommy, Tubbo, and Lily quickly go out and ride up some kiting spiders to recover Libre's body so that he can be revived.
"Also guys, keep an eye on Karl in case something bad happens to him too!"
Meanwhile, something shadowy infiltrates the cloning machine.
Edited by SomeLibre on Jun 29th 2021 at 11:37:50 PM
Cassie | he/they | But will it stop the pain forever? / I just can't be sure
An eagle
Billy's Mansion
Billy watches the season, where he notices alternate versions of himself, the entire people he cares about... and unfortunately Dark Billy alongside other related villains. He immediately squints his eyes at the sight of these criminals. At least they are the alternate versions and not the real deals who somehow manage to escape from their timewrecking, he thought. In addition, Billy's staff members and pet are also confused by their alts and the actions they have been doing as part of the group.
Billy then looks at Mayer, wondering about her performance. After seeing her getting a second version and killing someone with the help of her meebos, he's disappointed when she dies relatively early. It doesn't help that her soul got purged away and thus stuck in the afterlife. Looks like has to help Rhodes Island resurrect her after the season is over.
He finally looks at his own tributes, expecting the Mannish Boy data clone's behavior. He is also concerned about data Noi's latest behavior. Then, he is interrupted when he receives a message from someone. He opens his quantum phone to reveal the sender is Asgore.
He texts him, "Hello Asgore. I am glad to hear from you after a long time. I have been doing fine, despite my work lately. How are you? Also, I wonder how 6k1 is doing? I just hope she is fine."
Billy soon continues watching the season, and his eyes seem to catch interest at the sight of Dark 6k1 and Dark Power. It makes him think, "So there are more threats to us. I should prepare some measures against those two Dark Nominators." After this, he feels sorry for Libre and the unknown nominator's deaths, for they are fellow nominators like him. He then considers sending any of his contacts a message.
As for Arcturus, he is in a separate room to watch the season with George and Kayla, who have just finished telling him about the story of the Dark Nominators. His voice seems to be that of someone trying to muster confidence, but is clearly in fear as he says, "So they are back? I'm gonn-gonna protect dad, Mimi and the nominators if they dare to hurt us...!"
Rhodes Island, Terra
Meanwhile, the Rhodes Island operators are watching the season in various places, either the cinema room or other rooms where there are TVs. The first ones to comment are Silence and Ifrit, who are missing Mayer since she has to be taken away for the season by an unknown nominator. They are now watching a TV.
"Wow! There's a second Mayer! That's awesome!" Ifrit screams like am excited child.
"This is an interesting data. I should gather information on this once the fight against Oripathy is over." Silence, who is next to Ifrit, says.
"Oh my! Look Silence, Mayer's got a kill on that trash tribute! He's even Not Important, haha!" Ifrit says in response to seeing Mayer 2 blow up Nkt Important using her meebos after he revealed his wish to become a podium finisher.
However, Silence scolds her, "Ifrit! Watch your words! This is not something you should cheer over for."
She then looks worried, "... I'm concerned about that second Mayer. It is not even a day, but she already resorts to killing someone, especially with a petty reason."
Then, Mayer 2 gets into a fight with Demongo. Ifrit is cheering for her to win, while Silence is hoping she will survive 2. Sadly, the demon overpowers Mayer and her meebos, killing the former and dismantling the otter robots. However, Mayer 2 tried to get her revenge by possessing Demongo.
As he tries to fight off the possession, he can be heard alternating between himself and Mayer, with the possessed Demongo blurting out, "Hey! You gotta pay for killing me and especially destroying my precious meebos!" at one point. Clearly it's Mayer who's saying it.
During all this, Ifrit screams about Mayer's death while crying about it. Meanwhile, Silence is just shocked and freezes in place. The battle is eventually over when Mayer 2's soul is purged from Demongo, with the camera showing that it has been sent to the afterlife.
Ifrit immediately lets out a tantrum as she vigorously sobs, "Wahh! Mayer! No! Please come back, please come back! I'm going to find the Doctor!"
Meanwhile, Silence is still stunned. She soon sadly mutters, "... Mayer, no... I-I can't believe this would... Ugh..., I hope he can do his resurrection for you..." She then hears Ifrit's last line, so she sternly says, "Ifrit, the Doctor cannot bring Mayer back. However..."
"Wahh! They can't! I... I don't believe you! The Doctor is an amazing person! They must be able to do everything to bring Mayer back!"
"No, as talented as they are in your eyes, they cannot resurrect her. No one in Rhodes Island could. But there is one person who can..."
"Who?! If you are lyin', I'll burn you..."
"I am not lying. That person is Billy. I trust him as he has already performed resurrection on operators Exusiai, Lappland, Aak and Hung."
"So you are tellin' me..."
"Yes. Now we have to wait for Amiya to meet us and for the season to end."
In the meantime, Saria is also watching the season in a separate room. While her face may not show it clearly, she seems to have a subtle hint of sadness at Mayer's fate. However, she also trusts that Mayer can be brought back. Finally, Ptilopsis is on her way to Silence and Ifrit.
Braids From S286 Not Included
The Arena
Night 2
6k1 the Steadfast and Pow-Pow the Powerful sit as far away from the Crowd as they can, the former shivering and the latter wrapping her wing around her.
"I don't know about you," says 6k1, "but this is the first time I actually killed someone in the Arena..."
"I've been there," says Power, "but I've learned to accept it and move on. It's part of fighting in the Hunger Games!"
"I know, but I can't get over this right away... what should I do?"
Suddenly, alt!Psyche starts doing the noodle dance, and everyone else joins in, reluctantly or otherwise.
"Hey, I remember that dance!" says 6k1 as she gets up and jigs, then gets a bright idea.
"Why don't we all go to summer camp tomorrow to unwind from that murder?"
"That's a great idea!" says Power, "and Ichi, I know how much you loooove dancing like Ron Swanson at parties, so this ain't so bad!"
She dances like Twilight towards him while alt!Dark Power does the same with alt!Dark 6k1.
"Technically, we were there in the other MGTs," the latter says to alt!Dark Ichi as she dances as well, "but I don't have time for this!"
"Heeheehee... I guess you're not immune to the bandwagon either!"
Dark 6k1 facepalms while the Galarian Weezing gets run over by a truck. Data Squeak, meanwhile, swims in a strange pool and suddenly finds himself in Karl's body.
"What's this? Why am I a blocky human now? And why am I speaking slower than usual?"
Thinking fast, he tests the water and dips himself in again, and he finds himself back in his own body.
"Whoathatwasweird!"
Day 3
The next day, 6k1 the Steadfast raises enough money for the tickets to the summer camp island. She and the Crowd board a giant cruise liner to it, but upon arrival, the island guards arrest them and throw them in prison. Somehow, it's big enough to house all of them in their own rooms.
"I should've read the fine print..." 6k1 sighs.
"We were manipulated into killing Moko," Power calls to Ichi on her crystal ball, "so we'll try to find our way out!"
Meanwhile, her Dark counterpart paints the walls of her cell with tar with her bare hooves, while Dark 6k1 retrieves her plans from inside her cloak and starts scheming.
Welp, looks like we got what we deserved... she thinks, but since these Arena prisons are as flimsy as cardboard, I'll just spend my sentence here planning on how to mess with 6k1 in the Voidlands...
Data Squeak, meanwhile, throws TFS!Cooler's jacket on the ground, and the latter demands him why.
"Wellit'sbecauseitwouldn'tlookgoodonyou! Youshouldthankme. Itwouldhavelookedgoodonyourbrotherthough—"
Cooler then promptly breaks down and kills him while Kurm Frög delivers freshly baked cookies to the prison camp.
Asgore's Home
6k1 is doing fine, Asgore messages Billy. She and Alphys restored Asriel to his normal self, and he is now with us watching the season. His ring has been purified, so removing it won't revert him to Flowey, but he still needs a human SOUL to strengthen his body.
6k1, meanwhile, pets Mimi reassuringly.
"Don't worry about those Dark Noms, we'll prepare ourselves for when they attack!"
"But are there evil Starbles out there?"
"Who knows? From what Billy and I know so far, they're generally friendly critters! But we'll keep studying them so we can learn more about your species!"
"Aww... maybe when I'm older we can visit the Jungle Planet?"
"Perhaps, but Blackblood invaded it, so we'll study it remotely until we can find a way to defeat him and free the Starbles!"
"Alright!"
6k1 continues watching, but sighs at her tributes' deaths. She then focuses on the Crowd, observing alt!Dark 6k1 in particular. She doesn't know what exactly she's planning, but from what she can see in the notes, Dark 6k1 will be another obstacle for her in the expedition.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on May 30th 2022 at 5:28:31 PM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
Not an evil Thievul
Eye-Sicle's Lair
(The gang is reassured when Cleo observes more closely and relays that the one who was responsible for Moko's unpleasant exit was actually what appeared to be a dark alternate counterpart of 6k1 herself.)
Oh, good, I can feel better about possibly meeting this other me now. (Joaquin says.)
Wait...so, she's an alternate dark counterpart of a dark counterpart of someone else...?? (Veena asks.) ...Maybe I shouldn't think about this too hard.
(Later, everyone starts doing a funny little dance.)
Hey, what sorta dance is that? (June asks.) Music's awful catchy.
...Oh, duh! It's the Noodle Dance! I remember that show! (Miss Ball says.) Man, nostalgia....
(June leaps to her feet and starts doing the dance herself.)
NOODLE! USE YOUR NOODLE DAAAAANCE!
(Jared ducks back in from the kitchen.) Did someone just do the Noodle Dance?
Yep! It was me! (June says, the illusionary backdrop going away. Everyone not familiar with the dance's source material is just flat-out puzzled.)
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(Goliath groans. This is a song-and-dance he is all too familiar with, and one that hits REALLY close to home for him, too. He doesn't say another word.)
Please say yes, dammit! I wanna be on the ground again already. (Eye-Sicle says.)
...Alright. (Goliath starts descending.)
(Brooklyn stands up, not letting his guard down but not attacking for the moment.)
I'm Brooklyn of the Manhattan Clan. From a faraway kingdom called New York City. As for why I'm here...it's a long story. I was in these Hunger Games, and someone decided to throw me into...I guess it's her world? You're actually the first creature that isn't a monster I've seen. Are you a gargoyle?
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Scipion's lair/Arena
Suddenly in the island where the ASAS!cast was imprisoned, TFS!Freeza showed up and more than easily disposed of the guards, eventually freeing the massive group to recruit them rather than just helping.
But everything changed when Scipion, wanting to mock his own cocky tribute and certainly not wanting to work for him, muttered something into Onox's ears, resulting in the Toxtricity... biting Freeza's tail.
"...Did you just bite my fucking tail?"
"EYAHAHA!! Yes, we did!! You're useless to us now!! Kill h-"
Scipion was immediately shot by a Death Beam, not killing him, however.
"What was that? Oh dear, I didn't mean to do that, I am so sorry." Freeza "apologized".
"Freeza, we didn't meant-"
Aaron ended being shot as well.
"Oh that happened again! I really should work on that. It must be the stress of being in the arena... Also, it's lord Freeza, dog."
Freeza then shot some other people, with the only one being happy about that being Morgan himself.
"Hehehehe... You truly are an amazing bastard..."
"Hmm? Well, thank you there, pink elf-imp. But I won't lie, shooting every single one of you fools is starting to become annoying. Luckily I have a more... efficient solution to that problem."
Grinning, TFS!Freeza raised his finger, creating a massive Death Ball, though not big enough to kill everyone.
"Remember when... ugh, bigger. Bigger. Bigger! Perfect." Freeza complained, enlarging the ball.
"Ahem! As I was saying... Remember before the Bloodbath when I told you I would put you out of your misery? Here we are, now. As you can see, I take my promises very seriously."
"You... won't get away... with this..." Scipion groaned.
"Tell me. Have you ever heard of the planet Vegeta?"
"W-What...?"
"Funny. Because I expect to hear the same from the next person when I ask about you, clones."
Freeza then threw his Death Ball, slowly burning everyone to death.
"Tata." the exaggerated tyrant said, flying away, having seemingly killed all of them.
Well, save for one much to the original Scipion's shock.
The actual OT!Scipion, somehow still standing, slowly got up, portions of his face's bandages missing from the attack, revealing parts of his gory skinless skin hidden beneath and his signature grin.
The crazy ex-nominator stared and slowly waved at the camera, chuckling quietly as if he was actually watching the nominators watching the season and disappeared.
Scipion rubbed his eyes in disbelief and stared at the screen his mouth wide opened.
Was the mad mummy actually behind all of the clones? Did he do it to show him and the other noms something? Or did he simply sneaked in just for fun?
Scipion then remembered about the dark nominators' clones he saw on-screen with his past self and hissed in anger, pretty much wanting to kill the real deals himself.
At least his own dark version had died some time ago. But now that he was thinking about it, who killed him?
Deep down the Zoroark couldn't shake the feeling that whoever, or whatever tracked Dark Scipion down made him suffer a fate somehow worst than Timewrecker.
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"What? You've got dizziness?" Firebrand cackled at Eye-Sicle. The gargoyle still complied and landed, turning back into his true form.
"Alright. Let's get into that weird house."
Back inside the house, Arma listened carefully to Brooklyn. Much to his annoyance, the gargoyle was visibly just as lost as him and didn't come at all from the same world. Even those "Hunger Games" were unfamiliar to him.
"Hmph. It would seem we are both stranded to this strange world, then." he said, slightly relaxing, but still keeping his stoical attitude.
"I am not exactly a true gargoyle. Perhaps something akin to a gargoyle-like demon. I come from a land named the Ghoul Realm. I was defeated by a powerful red demon that happens to look somewhat like you and sealed myself to assist him on his quest. The next thing I know, I wake up in this world for no apparent reason." Arma admitted, looking at the ground.
"I do not know what exactly the monsters of this realm are capable of. But until we find a way out of here, it seems we have no choice but to team up at the moment."
Edited by Scipion3 on Jun 30th 2021 at 10:04:03 AM
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
10,000 grams of pure caffeine
The Arena
Side III - The Crowd
"TO THINK THAT YOU MAY REMAIN USEFUL AFTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED, IS A FOOLISH ACT." Red the Hellbeast gloats.
"THE MELODY OF DEATH AWAITS YOU!" Yu continues.
"PERISH FROM ALL DIMENSIONS!" Lily yells, preparing her Ragnarok spell upon TFS!Freeza.
"You. Are. A. Foo-"
But then, TFS!Freeza turns the tables upon the Crowd, the Death Ball thrown down upon them.
"OHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH-"
Once the Crowd is down, a black, smoky wisp thing with a teal aura drifts off with the wind.
Side 2 - Karl Jacobs (Content Warning: Worms and Trypophobia)
Karl stumbles upon a messed-up garden, noticing Libre's pockmarked corpse with a bunch of worms infesting him.
"Libre? LIBRE!? OHHHH GOD! PLEASE, DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE DEAD!"
Surprisingly, Libre's body starts twitching again. He slowly wakes up. "W-...Karl?" He puts his right hand on his head, feeling lightheaded.
"...Ohhh thank god, you're still alive-"
Suddenly, a worm jumps from a pockmarked hole Karl notices briefly, quickly digging into his arm. "AHHHH! WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK-" He notices a hole, and the worm, and starts screaming incessantly, trying to get the worm off of him.
After Libre gets up on his two feet, it becomes clear that the swarm of worms have infested his body, as many of the pockmarks house them. "K-Karl, what the hell's happening-"
Suddenly, he vomits out a massive amount of worms, all of them swarming at Karl. He notices the swarm charging at Karl. "W-WHAT THE-" He quickly collapses back onto the garden, some of the worms still clinging to him.
By then, Tommy, Suisei, Tubbo, and Lily have landed at the Arena, just as they witness the horrific chaos.
"KARL! LIBRE! ARE YOU OKAY!?" He tries to approach them, but the worms quickly make him scared, sending him running away from them.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? WORMS!??" Tubbo yells in fear, trying to stay away from them.
Suisei and Lily try to kill as many worms as they can, but quickly enough, they've all gone off to Karl.
"...Get...OFF!" Karl sics the worms at the four.
"K-KARL! NO!"
"STOP IT! VOID HOLE!" Lily casts her Void Hole spell upon Karl, stopping any of the worms attacking the four from reaching them by sending them into a void.
"WHAT'RE YOU DOING!?"
"GO. THE FUCK. AWAY!" Karl rapidly rushes off, away from the four and Libre.
"Hey hey HEY HEY!! STOP!!! KARL! WHAT'RE YOU THINKING JESUS CHRIST!" It's futile. Karl's run away.
"Guys...he might be dead..." Suisei checks Libre's body after Lily clears it off of any remaining worms.
"...No. NO!"
"Shit. That can't be! Hurry guys, lets get back home!"
Webking House
"Alright, what're you doing by the cloning machine?" Jace questions Ollie.
"...n-nothing." The latter responds.
"...really? What's the point of standing near the machine then?" Jace asks again.
"I...uh..."
Suddenly, the cloning machine turns dark.
"What the-"
Something black and smoky suddenly manifests in the cloning chamber. By the time the chamber opens, a familiar figure comes out of it with teal, glowing eyes.
"Libre? Y-you're alive? Or is this your ghost?"
Little did Jace knew, some data went missing from the machine.
Edited by SomeLibre on Jun 30th 2021 at 4:08:11 PM
Cassie | he/they | But will it stop the pain forever? / I just can't be sure
Not an evil Thievul
Eye-Sicle's Lair
(Understandably, nobody really looks at the TV when Frieza does what he does best toward their doppelgangers.)
...Yeah, uh, I guess those other...uh, "wes" are out now. (Greta remarks.)
Has the screen changed yet? (June asks, covering her eyes.)
It has, yes. (Cleo says. She catches a fleeting glance of OT!Scipion in the massive burn mark on the ground where everyone was, but she can't tell if it's the real OT!Scipion or another lookalike.)
...Well, that was an experience and a half. (Kay says.) Hope those lookalikes all get revived after this.
(Unbeknownst to everyone else watching the season, Stan the Unstanning disappeared from the massive group at some point between now when Frieza just wiped the entire group of doppelgangers and the mass Noodle Dance.)
Sir, if you would unhand me-! (Stan wheezes through the choke hold against a tree Knox currently has him in.) I don't even know where this "Stanford" who looks like me lives! I wasn't even aware there were others much like me until now.
Well, guess yer useless to me, then. (Knox says, opening up a dark portal to the holding area for the other Stanfords in Dark Stanford's lair.) See ya later, feller.
(Knox pitches Stan through the portal and carries on.) So much fer that. I'm gettin' outta here.
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(Brooklyn seems a mite skeptical about trusting this guy (just because he's been burned before), but he's ready to be out of this place.) Alright, deal. These monsters are more like giant flying machines, but they're dangerous, I can tell you that much.
(Goliath and the other two land outside the barn.)
That's Brooklyn. (Goliath says, hearing the voices inside.)
Who's the other guy? And when should we go in there? (Eye-Sicle asks, his laser eye primed to shoot lasers if necessary.)
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
10,000 grams of pure caffeine
Webking House
The familiar individual is wreathed in a thorough shadow.
◊
"Gah, yes. It's me." The individual answers to Jace, oddly in a normal volume. "Well not me, but the one from that massive group tribute that died to FreezaA/N ...the fucking Arena man..." Said individual seems to be visibly panting.
"JAAAAAACE!" Tommy bursts in, followed by Lily, Suisei, and Tubbo, who's carrying Libre's body.
"Oh, Tommy! Libre's not dead yet-"
"Careful." The individual warns. "That might not be my corpse. That might be a NotThem."
"Wait, what're you talking about, Libre?"
"Fucking, thing...almost ate me out of existence. Only by escaping like this," The individual points to its current form, "I managed to survive."
"Make sure the NotThem hasn't stolen my body. Seems like it did." They point at Libre's pockmarked body...then they dissipate into pitch-black smoke that disappears soon after.
"W-what!?" Tommy questions.
"Jeez, looks like we need to revive him-"
"Jace, who the fuck was that?"
"Libre right?"
"Well, then why did I never saw anything about this NotThem bullshit when we went off to recover him back then?"
"What're you talking about?" Jace dismisses Tommy.
"I..." Tommy facepalms.
"...I'm not sure if he can be revived." Jace states.
"...then how come you could bring me back to life when I ended up becoming sausages!?" Tommy questions.
"That...took a lot of effort, believe me. I had to go through a much more complicated procedure in order to reconstitute your body before reviving you."
"Well shit..."
"Maybe try that cloning machine? He did got cloned in the first place, so..."
"...what the fuck are you proposing, Tubbo?"
"An easier solution for our friend? Cuz, if it took that much from sausages to you-"
"K-knock it off with your words, it sounds unsettling."
Jace goes to the machine...and the cloning data for Libre seems to be entirely missing.
"Uh...does anyone know what's happening with this thing? I can't seem to find Libre's cloning data."
"Oh, the cloning machine?" Ollie answers to Jace, seemingly jolly but secretly hiding something with her smile.
"...Y'know, do you? Is that why you were near the cloning machine?"
What Ollie's hiding, was that she seemed to have a hand in Libre's death and Karl's possession. "Yeah...uh...that shadowy thing showed up and entered the machine...and then..." She looks noticably nervous when she explains it to Jace, her worms seemingly squirming in unison alongside her.
"...Shadowy thing?"
"Y-y'know, L-Libre!" What she's also hiding is that she can feel that the shadowy thing that entered the machine was not Libre; it told her to show it where the cloning machine's at, feeling it through her worms. "God, I wish we aren't with our worms..." She thinks to herself, slipping with her first-person pronouns as her worms worry with her.
"Gullible fools..." The shadowy individual says, looking back at the Webking House from outside before seemingly dissipating.
Edited by SomeLibre on Jun 30th 2021 at 11:31:58 PM
Cassie | he/they | But will it stop the pain forever? / I just can't be sure
An eagle
Billy's Mansion
Billy continues watching, where he looks as his clone and everyone he cares about get destroyed alongside everyone by the Abridged Freeza's attacks. After seeing the unpleasant sight, Billy decides to watch his own tributes' performances. He feels a little satisfied when he sees Mannish Boy being killed, though he also feels a slight unhappiness at losing one tribute for the season. He's also further concerned by Data Noi's actions.
Billy soon responds back to Asgore, "It is a great news indeed, Asgore. I am also relieved to hear your son is doing fine after all he went through. I wish your family will continue to do well. Finally, I can offer my help with the search for the SOUL."
Billy then sends another message to the Webking House, "Greetings. I am Nominator Billy. I just want to say that I wish Libre will recover after his unfortunate time in the Arena. If you want, I can even offer some help for his recovery."
Infinite Darkness HQ, Exegol
"I'm requesting for the recruitment of one of my assassins!" DIO says to the Council of the Dark minus Suzumi, referring to Mannish Boy.
"This is about the baby, right? I'll admit the boy's darkness at such young age is surprising." Palpatine admits.
"And from what I've seen, that nightmare trick was smart. He managed to take down two powerful fighters with that." Herobrine says as he refers to the curbstomp against Robin and Lucina.
"I guess that baby is worthy of membership then." DIO says with a smirk.
"I have few doubts about him. However, his power over nightmare and his attitude shall be worthy of the dark. He'll bring benefit to us as a member!"
The other council members soon agree with Palpatine's assessment. This means that they allow DIO's request to recruit Mannish Boy to be carried out.
Just an eagle. (Feel free to PM me if you want to talk to me).
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Scipion's lair
"Did... Did he just kill his brother? My other tribute?" Scipion stammered angrily at the Abridged Freeza being... well what he was, telling his brother that he was a "prick" before shooting him.
"You should have expected this considering how this galactic tyrant is..." Morgan chuckled, sneaking behind the Zoroark who shrieked, startled.
"NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!!" the Zoroark roared.
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Arma raised an eyebrow. Unlike Brooklyn, he hadn't a single clue about what even is a machine, though he wasn't against a fight.
"So these creatures must be why you set so many traps around this place. If you managed to survive this far, I am confident that I can do well too." he said.
Meanwhile, Goliath said he could hear some voices from the house. Firebrand also focused but widened his eyes in shock upon hearing one of them.
"...W-What...? No, that's not him, that can't be him..." Firebrand stammered, hastily looking at the Crest of Time. The demon felt that the crest's prisoner was no more inside the stone.
"Eye-Sicle... What the hell did your machine just did? The guy inside that house was supposed to stay here!" Firebrand snarled at Eye-Sicle, showing him the green stone.
Firebrand listened again but was surprised to hear the two still talking. That meant that Arma didn't fight with Brooklyn. The Red Arremer sighed in relief.
"I know the guy. He's a powerful demon around Goliath's size from my homeworld that I fought with several times. He is brutal, ambitious, and eviler than me but somewhat honorable. As for if he is an enemy or not... we'll have to find out ourselves."
Voidlands
Currently, the Blight Ganons were "locked" within Xiamos's old temple, deep in the Voidlands's heart. Malice was absolutely everywhere, corrupting it and the environment around it, undead tributes included.
All of the phantoms were in their true forms. But their Malice was black and they looked like deactivated machines, hovering in the air
, having been reduced to this state because of Scattered Brain. But even paralyzed, they could still talk and mentally project their influence.
"So... We, Blights can finally see thanks to Scattered Brain's shenanigans... It was wise from these dark nominators to hide when Timewrecker rose once more..." the Waterblight muttered
:"THE EXISTENCE OF THE COYOTE'S MASTER AND THE LORD HIGH PROTECTOR ONLY PROVED THAT OTHER DARK COUNTERPARTS HAD ESCAPED OUR SIGHT. ALL BECAUSE SCATTERED BRAIN HAD PLANS FOR THEM. THEIR STRENGTH AND VALOR SHALL BE DETERMINED IN THE COMING MONTHS AND YEARS. PERHAPS ARE THEY MORE WORTHY TO LIVE THAN WHAT WE HAVE SEEN TODAY." the Fireblight growled.
"Yes... And perhaps they might be of use, much more than the evil leagues at work... One way or another, all are linked to their light counterparts. They may be even more efficient than the first wave. And their envy, madness, greed, and fears... All will be consumed by hatred." the Windblight muttered, letting out a disturbing giggle.
"They will die and suffer."
The Blights stopped talking as soon as the Thunderblight spoke.
"Dark Scipion... The rest of Timewrecker's army that the gods failed to punish... All through my hands were sentenced to a fate worse than the one their master is currently suffering. And so is the final fate of these lowly parasites to be claimed by eternal torture, should they fail and should the fool's attention lower itself. No matter who they are... They will all learn that there is no light, there is no darkness... There is no life... Only pain, agony, death..."
"oNLy hAtREd." the abominations all snarled at the same time.
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
Braids From S286 Not Included
The Arena
That night, 6k1 the Steadfast climbs to the top of the prison and looks at the night sky, but sees that many other prisoners made it there ahead of her and are taking pictures of it. She gets her phone and takes pictures too, and Pow-Pow the Powerful follows her upstairs to snuggle with alt!Ichi.
Meanwhile, alt!Dark Ichi snarks at alt!Dark 6k1 about her plans, saying that he'd rather not join her in whatever she's planning.
"It's your loss if it actually succeeds," she says flatly, her cybernetic eyes glaring from the shadows of her cloak. "That being said... does your evil plan include cuddling Dark Pow-Pow at the end of the day?"
Alt!Dark Power promptly pounces on Dark Ichi and demands headpats.
The following day, TFS!Freeza storms the prison and "rescues" everyone, but alt!Scipion provokes him into shooting the Crowd with his Death Beams. Dark 6k1 immediately generates her purple lightsaber from her robotic hand while Dark Power charges at him, but they both get shot before they could land a hit. As Freeza continues shooting, 6k1 ducks for cover and hugs Power as they both get shot as well. They all hang onto their lives with their powered-up forms, but Freeza then summons the Death Ball and throws it at them.
"Ichi, you know what happens if you tempt fate like that!" shouts 6k1 as she slowly burns.
"At least we'll be Together in Death this time..." Power cries as she reaches out her hoof to him.
Dark Power clings onto Dark Ichi while Dark 6k1 glares at OT!Scipion as the entire Arena comes crashing down, but like Tier 0, it returns to normal once every last member of the Crowd dies out.
Asgore's Home
The entire family just stares at 6k1's phone speechless at the burn mark where the Crowd once stood. 6k1, Asgore, and Toriel cover Mimi's, Asriel's and Frisk's eyes, respectively, when alt?OT!Scipion emerges from the ashes.
"That's definitely something Chara would do if they had the chance!" says 6k1.
"R-Really?!" asks Asriel.
"Yep," says Frisk, "Sans told me about that other timeline where they erased the entire Underground because it was 'pointless'."
"Oh my..." says Toriel, "and here I thought they just wanted to kill monsters and humans alike."
"I know you miss them as much as we do..." Asgore says to Asriel, "but if they would go as far as destroying EVERYTHING that stands in their way, it is best that you cut ties with them."
"I know, I already accepted that they're not the greatest person, but it's hard for me to stop thinking about them..."
"That's true," says 6k1, "it's hard to let go of your best friend after they wronged you but didn't apologize, so take your time in processing your feelings on this."
She looks at Chara's locket. Deep down, she doesn't consider them as her sibling because of their atrocities, but she still wonders where they are right now, if they're alive all along.
Asgore, meanwhile, replies to Billy: Thank you for the offer, but SOULs cannot be artificially created. I know you can try creating one with your technology, but I would need Alphys's approval first.
Dark 6k1's Lab, Unknown Location
Inside a chamber that resembles the interior of 6k1's Cloning Capsule, the original Dark 6k1 cracks a wicked smile as the memories of her AU clone are copied into her mind.
Good thing the core of this MGT has a failsafe to prevent another Great Destruction, she thinks. I'd hate it if it actually happened, for it would be a detriment to my plans...
She slowly opens her eyes as the transfer helmet then rises to the ceiling, revealing her purple streak in her black hair.
"Perfect," she says to herself, "this shall technically count as my very first season, for I would've done the same if I were there."
She pulls her hood back up and walks towards the door.
"6k1... you are so naive. Kindness alone won't help you in the long run. You know it's 'kill or be killed' in the Arena, and it's also the case in the Voidlands..."
She opens it and enters her dimly lit computer lab, which has two giant monitors: one shows where 6k1 currently is while another shows the Arena.
"I would've added more to spy on the entire Multiverse, but that's none of my business because I have only my sights on you..."
Dark 6k1's brown eyes flash purple as she eyes on her Light counterpart bonding with her family. Dark Power then trots into the room, leaving a trail of "paint" while hovering her latest masterpiece near her boss.
"Heeheehee... I made fanart of the latest season, 6001!"
"Aww that's nice, but please clean up after yourself and go play with Dark Ichi, wherever he is!"
"Yes, 6001..." Dark Power bows as she hands over the painting before taking her leave, using some clean brushes as mops.
"Now, where was I?" Dark 6k1 asks herself. "Oh, right! I know a lot about you, 6k1... I read each and every article on the Wiki and even studied the Voidlands after hearing about that botched trip. I know you want that old Database, and I'll make sure that you won't get it! One day, I'll enter the Arena as myself so we could finally meet before you go there, but for now... I'll sit back and continue monitoring you, as I always did."
She then thinks to herself, Perhaps I should visit those other villain teams and see if I can help them in the meantime, as long as it would help me further in my goals. Or maybe I could recruit those villains that 6k1 skipped over or data cloned! I've been doing just fine with Dark Power for years, but it doesn't hurt to recruit more allies!
Edited by TroperNo9001 on May 30th 2022 at 5:32:56 PM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
Not an evil Thievul
Eye-Sicle's Lair
Sure is a whole lotta tributes swapping bodies this season. (Kay remarks.)
Yeah...gosh, you think that'll ever happen to us? (Wanda wonders out loud.) This place is crazy enough that it could probably happen, just saying.
I would hope not. (Cleo says.) I do not know how I would explain to Scale Cove about their new chief no longer being a dragon.
Well, I will say this: it wouldn't be anything new for Jared and I. (Miss Ball says.) That's happened to us already.
Really?
Yep! A villain used a weird laser beam to switch us, hoping Jared would make me look incompetent. (Ball says.) Joke ended up being on him, though! Jared's watched me fight bad guys enough times that he already had a good idea of how my powers work!
I hated not having actual legs, though. (Jared calls from the kitchen.)
Yeah, and it took me days to relearn how to walk on my flippers when it was all over. (Ball adds.)
(Just then, there's a new development on the tube.)
Now what's goin' on??
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Don't look at me! I didn't build the darn thing. (Eye-Sicle protests.)
Right on. I haven't seen any of them lately, but you can't be too unprepared. (Brooklyn says.)
(He picks up on Eye-Sicle hissing back at Firebrand outside.)
...Someone else is here!
Edited by kablammin45 on Jun 30th 2021 at 9:05:36 AM
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
10,000 grams of pure caffeine
The Arena
Day 4 - Night 4
Karl, now infested with worms but still alive, tries to shoot Noi with a stupidity ray gun, but it runs out of ammo quickly.
"Gaaaah, shit!" He drops the gun and leaves Noi behind.
Karl walks up to TFS!Cooler and talks to him, furiously, as the worms all aim at him without actually launching themselves at the latter.
"Can you cut it out with this bullshit rumor?"
Day 5 - Night 5
Karl does a double take after responding to Champ.
"...The fuck's a nan molla? Bluh..."
Karl tries to go to sleep.
But the song of the worms urges him to keep awake. "Ugh..."
He tries to sleep again.
But the worms urge him to stay awake. "Let me sleep..."
Once again, he tries to sleep.
[...]
Eventually, he can't stand the song of the worms anymore. "...Alright, fuck! Stop pestering me!" He gets up once more.
Day 6
"How's this, gunfuck!?" Karl proceeds to strike Alto with a dropkick, but then...he misses, making him slip off a cliff.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO-"
Day 7
Karl finds himself awake again, his worms still within him, but he's now a zombie.
In a...pretty big zombie army.
"...Shit, shit, shit! I'm not gonna be around here anytime soon!...Tommy...Tubbo...Where'd they go!?" It seems that Karl has somehow gotten back to his senses from the worms, and he hurries off out of the Arena.
Webking House
"Can I ask you something, Ollie?" Tommy asks.
"Yes?" Ollie responds.
"Was this one of your worms? I noticed it on Libre's body and..." Tommy shows Ollie a dead worm on his hand. It's silver, with a blackened head, just like the worms infesting Ollie.
"...No!"
"Ya sure about that? A bunch of these things were in his body, but as we went to recover him, we saw Karl approaching him and then, he got, fuckin'...infested with those worms and ran away!"
"Dear god..."
"Yeah, given how he acted quite a bit like you with those worms, are you sure that those weren't one of yours?"
"N-No! I dunno about those!" She lies. She felt a sudden jolt of pain, at the same time Karl hits the bottom of the cliff. "GYAH-"
"...what was that?"
"Sorry...it's just one of those times I have pain from the worms moving in me, heheh..." Ollie's really looking nervous now.
Jace gets Billy's message.
"Oh, hello Billy. Honestly, I think we could use your help with Libre, given what happened to him." He replies to Billy, sending an image showing the physical condition of Libre's body, heavily pockmarked and scarred (though thankfully covered under a spoiler filter so that people don't have that image immediately burned into their brains without clicking it once).
Base RW
"What? It can't make Libre clones?" Robotnik complains after his attempt to make a clone of said nominator fails due to missing data. He facepalms. "Confound it! Dr. Wily!"
"What's the matter?" Dr. Wily responds.
"Why the mean-beaning fuck is the machine incapable of cloning that nominator?"
"...Probably that shadowy thing that showed up earlier." Dr. Wily answers, seemingly thinking about that past event.
"...Well, looks like you gotta figure out where that shadowy-shadow-y booboo went, whilst I, The Great Robotnik, try to adapt to this!"
The Voidlands
At the Voidlands, somewhere far from its heart, strands of cassette reel stick themselves onto a barren piece of land.
Then chains made out of the same material hit.
And then a web of chains. A chain of webs.
Webs. Chains. Webs. Chains. Webs. Tapes. Chains. Tapes-
[violent rock formation noises]
The individual◊ bursts out of the rocks, holding a phone-like device. It reads:
>Dreamlogger: Marks: 11/15
"Stupendous. The gardening accident gave him many marks." The individual says, triumphantly.
Surrounding him, nightmarish landscapes, showing every possible fear humans, animals, and all other creatures can think of manifesting in ways as if it were designed to instill fear into every creature possible.
The individual taps his phone a few times, then he says:
"Drawcia. Orsinov. Henkano. Tricky. Make your marks upon the Dreamlogger."
The shadow enveloping the individual blows away, leaving behind someone who seems familiar...but seems off at the same time.
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"Soon...We shall become one with the minds below."
Edited by SomeLibre on Jul 1st 2021 at 5:21:46 PM
Cassie | he/they | But will it stop the pain forever? / I just can't be sure
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Scipion's lair
Scipion groaned at Freeza ironically die by an attack similar to his death beam. Oh well, Scipion can't say he had been entertaining.
Tired, the Zoroark didn't bother to nominate and instead went out with his team to hunt for some wild Pokémons.
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"Then let's take care of the threat immediately. If you can fight, follow me." Arma growled, spreading his wings. Gesturing at Brooklyn, he rapidly flew outside, ready to ambush the intruders before they could strike.
Before Firebrand could hiss back at Eye-Sicle to tell him to be quiet, Arma appeared and landed on the rock the trio was hiding behind.
"Well, well... I should have expected you would be nearby. Nice to see you again, Firebrand." Arma said, smirking as he crossed his arms at the sight of his rival.
"Arma... I admit I'm not really sure if I should say the same about you. I guess you're not against a fight with me" Firebrand grunted.
"As entertaining as it would be, I and my new ally are seeking a way out of this realm first and foremost, Red Blaze." Arma answered. The muscular demon then studied the other two creatures with Firebrand.
"Hmph. I see you have brought another gargoyle here. How unusual of you. And what is that walking bear doing over here? Is it a pet of yours?" Arma spat, pointing towards Eye-Sicle.
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
10,000 grams of pure caffeine
Calm Bugs (Occurs during Season 166)
Outside, Sig can be seen, still wreathed in the aura, cuddling and touching some Bugsnax.
"Uh, hey Sig." Rei walks up near him.
"...hey." Sig answers.
''"Ya like bugs, huh?" Rei asks, sitting down and petting a Cheepoof.
"...So you like them too?" Sig asks back.
"...Seems like we do."
"What's up with you? You look like a demon."
"Ugh..."
"Did I say something wrong?"
"...It's not that bad, really, given how my left arm's been red and demonic all my life." Sig puts up his arm, looking at a Lime Peelbug climbing up his arm. "It's mainly my other half that bothers me."
"What other half?"
"The one that took over one of the two Klugs recently."
De-Possessed (occurs between Season 165 and 166)
At one point, the Lantern of Star gets disassembled by one of Jace's spiders, accidentally resealing the thing possessing the original Klug, who quickly breathes heavily as he regains his bearings.
"FINALLY! GODS DAMMIT I'M BACK IN MY BODY AGAIN!" He yells.
"Oh hey, Klug, welcome back!" Arle says to him, happy to see that he's freed.
"...man, why did you let me stuck in that book longer than you like, should? You could've freed me earlier!" Klug abruptly asks, causing Arle to suddenly reel in confusion on how to answer.
Welcome back, Klu-...what's the matter?" Lily says.
Arle looks a bit...embarassed.
"...spit it out!" Klug exclaims rudely.
Arle gets intensely flushed. "...cause, uh...it didn't really...felt...like, we actually lost you with your clone around...y'know?"
"...What!?" Klug asks, repulsed. "Did that thing in my book convince you to not release me soon after you got me off the Arena?"
"No! He never demanded, we never did either!"
"B-...BULLSHIT! HOW COULD YOU LIKE, DEVALUE MY LIFE LIKE THAT!?"
A Greeting to Other Dark Nominators Around
The individual in the Voidlands sends off a supernatural transmission to any Dark Nominators around. It would display him, saying this:
"Greetings. For those who don't know, I am the dark counterpart of Nominator Libre. Nice to meet you, fellow dark nominators. I look forward for what we plan to enact in the future."
Cassie | he/they | But will it stop the pain forever? / I just can't be sure
Braids From S286 Not Included
Dark 6k1's Lab
Dark 6k1 smirks when Mad Jack resurrects the Crowd as zombies.
"So that means Dark Power and I have another chance! Hope it's a good one!"
She returns to her chamber to copy those memories, but sighs when nothing is transmitted into her mind.
"For a massive zombie army, they didn't do much..."
She gets out and receives a signal on her robo-arm's wrist device. Dark 6k1 presses its button to project the hologram and greets Dark Libre, unfazed by his appearance.
"Greetings, I am Dark 6001. I've been in hiding for years, but technically I got out of my lab last season because I copied my AU clone's memories into my mind. Now tell me... what's your evil plan? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours, and maybe I can help you with it. And don't worry about anyone hacking into this communication line, it's heavily encrypted."
Flashback: Power's Art School, S148-149
With flashing lights and loud game show music, Mini-Mettaton quizzed Paper, Esme, and Shill about himself, harmlessly zapping them whenever they got the answers wrong. Paper, already knowing the answers, skipped them to give her prospective employees a chance, Shill cowered while filming, while Esme danced around to dodge the lightning bolts.
"Wh-Wh-What kind of teacher are you if you're gonna punish the students like that?!" Shill cried out.
"Give them a chance to learn from their mistakes!" said Esme, "especially if they were just accidents!"
Paper, on the other hand, knew that this was all part of the act, but she kept quiet so as not to spoil it. Mini-Mettaton then asked the final question:
Why should you hire this FABULOUS robot as your Drama teacher?
A. He has the CHARISMA to entertain his students
B. He has hosted a LOT of shows and thus knows how the entertainment industry works
C. He is a very FLEXIBLE rectangle
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Paper knew that the most logical answer was B, but she answered D out of politeness. Mini-Mettaton applauded for her, but Esme glared at him while Shill shivered, his charred coat standing on its ends.
Don't worry, darling! Mini-Mettaton said to Esme, For indeed, this was all part of the show! BUT I won't hesitate to punish my students if they ruin my classes!
"But you need to be fair to them!" said Paper. "Think twice on how heavy the disciplinary action should be before executing it. Sometimes, just a light reprimand will help the student realize their mistakes and correct them!"
Okay, I will keep that in mind! BUT THIS WAS JUST THE PILOT EPISODE! UP NEXT IN OUR AUDITION FOR PANEM'S GOT TALENT... ESMERALDA!
Power's Art School, Present Day
Paper was about to tell Power the next part of the interview when she notices that the latter isn't looking directly at her, speechless.
"Is something the matter? Should I repeat that part of the story?"
"Maybe she just got distracted by last season!" says Yellow.
"I-I think that's it..." says Blue. "You think even Paper has a Dark counterpart?"
The art clone shakes her head. "I don't wanna think about it..."
"Yeah, I need a moment..." says Power, "be right back..."
She then calls Ichi to tell him about her and 6k1's Dark counterparts.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jul 1st 2021 at 11:24:47 PM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
Léodagan, the Bloodthirsty
Dark Sisterhood's fortress
Medusa was in her personal room, watching replays of the previous season. More specifically at Dark Power, Dark Ichi, and Dark 6k1.
"It's quite amusing that new players entered the game. Too bad it's even more dark nominators. How unoriginal." Eris chuckled as she materialized behind her fellow goddess.
"I'm already aware." Medusa sighed.
"Actually, I'm also bringing two other news. First, Dark Samus managed to bring an entire hive of Metroids and second one of Xenomorphs with her. Of course, both with queens so that we can have infinite supplies. That makes two powerful additions to our army alongside our respective goons. And as for the second one..."
Eris touched the magical screen with her finger, zooming on the teal shadowy smoke that left after TFS!Freeza made his kill.
"We had Veran working on that, giving that she's a specialist regarding shadows. And it turns out... There's a fifth one. There are even rumors about two other roaming around linked to the polar bear and his pet fox." Eris laughed, summoning a shadowy picture of Dark Libre.
Medusa grinned evilly, the snakes on her head hissing.
"Keep working on it. I expect a full report on them and the rival leagues by the time Chara and Kreia are done with planting the first seeds of doubts within the Dreemur boy." the goddess of darkness commanded.
Edited by Scipion3 on Jul 1st 2021 at 9:10:41 PM
"You're married like me, you know monstrosity can take many forms."
"Hoo boy. Thought they woulda stayed in hidin' after the last Dark Nominators got smoked."
Asgore's Home
Asgore then comes back with the tea tray. He sets it on the table, pours the tea, and lets everyone take one cup each, but Mimi drinks hers all up and eats the cup.
"Golly!" says Asgore, "you're one hungry lil' monster, aren't you?"
"Actually I'm a Starble from a distant planet!"
"Ooh!" says Asriel, "you're from space?"
"Yep, and so is Arky!"
"Arky?" asks Asgore.
"Yeah, Arcturus' my best friend and, and..."
"It's okay to tell him!" says 6k1. "He's family!"
Mimi blushes. "I have a crush on him..."
Asgore and Toriel giggle while Asriel facepalms at them.
"Did you ask him out yet?" asks Asgore.
"N-Not yet..." says Mimi, "but we've been getting along just fine!"
"And take your time in developing your relationship until you're ready!" says 6k1.
"Aww, thanks..."
"And speaking of Billy," 6k1 says to Asgore, "do you still remember me?"
"Of course, I do! You nominated me back in OT S154... just that I do not remember what I did..."
6k1 internally cringes at his humiliating early death to her other tribute Shining Armor that season, but doesn't bring that up.
"But even if I am serving Billy as per the contract, I am still your tribute, so you are free to call me anytime!"
"Thanks, Dad!"
"It is no problem, 6k1! But now that you have reminded me, I will message him just to see how he's doing."
He does just that, then says to the DM, "But if you nominate me again, I would like to request to be data cloned since I cannot rely on the regent all the time, okay?"
"Okay."
"Thank you. Now, son..." Asgore addresses Asriel, "where have you been, and where did you get that ring?"
"I-It's a looooong story, Dad..."
Flashback: Power's Art School, S148-149
OHHH YES! WELCOME, BEAUTIES... ... TO TODAY'S QUIZ SHOW!!!
Mini-Mettaton raised his arms as the spotlight shone on him and confetti popped from the walls of the lounge.
OH BOY! I CAN ALREADY TELL IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT SHOW! EVERYONE GIVE A BIG HAND FOR OUR WONDERFUL CONTESTANTS!
He applauded to summon podiums for Paper, Esme, and Shill, which suddenly appeared in front of them. Paper stomped her hooves for Mini-Mettaton, Esme looked around confused but played along, while Shill started filming with his neck-mounted camera.
"I'm looking forward to this audition!" said Paper.
"You kinda remind me of my former bosses..." added Shill.
"We haven't even started but this is beginning to look like the Feast of Fools!" Esme chimed in. "But what are we supposed to do here?"
Mini-Mettaton flew towards her and pointed his mike at her.
NEVER PLAYED BEFORE, GORGEOUS? NO PROBLEM! IT'S SIMPLE! THERE'S ONLY ONE RULE. ANSWER CORRECTLY... OR YOU DIE!!!
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jan 17th 2022 at 2:29:13 AM
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"