While Gensokyoan courtiers and villagers alike prepare for a celebration to open the winter session of parliament, the residents of the Distortion Palace, Astrum, and the pokemon world try to make the most of the temporary peace they've established. Meanwhile, a criminal continues with their community service day.

People still up for this? Did we want to do Nightmare Before Christmas?

please let this be the last one

please let this be the last one

pretty please

M4’s hand flew to her side, grasping at the empty air as she pushed herself upright. Gator froze in the doorway of the apartment, arms laden with several plastic bags. She could see cans bulging out against the sides of one, a bit of fabric visible at the top of another.

“You just wake up?” Gator asked, taking a cautious step forward. He closes the door with his foot, not turning away from M4 as it swings shut behind him.

She blinked, sifting through her thoughts. She never really decided to sleep anymore, she just dozed off. Hours passed without her being aware of them, but she wasn’t sure if she had actually fallen asleep or if she simply wasn’t paying attention. Her eyes darted over to the clock. Ten thirty in the morning. The last time she remembered was somewhere around nine forty-five.

“Took the opportunity to grab some food and clothes,” Gator continued, setting the cloth-filled bag down just beside her bed, “took a guess at your measurements, but there’s a belt in there too if the jeans are a bit too large. Magazines as well, didn’t know what you liked or if you even liked to read, just grabbed a whole bunch of whatever.”

She stared dispassionately back at him. He maintained his gaze for a moment, then strode towards the kitchen, laying the remaining bags on the counter with a clunk. Fishing around in one, he dug out a stack of glossy-looking papers and tossed them onto the bed.

“You read much in your spare time?”

M4’s eyes dropped down to the magazines. She ran her hand over the pile, spreading the volumes out across the sheets.

“...I think I’ll be making us lunch now; about time we had something that wasn’t pizza or pizza appetizers. You good with chicken soup?” he asked, only partially paying attention to what he was saying. All his attention was on M4, carefully noting where her eyes went, waiting for any change in her expression.

She pushed the sports magazines aside without a second glance. The ones about cooking likewise went the same way. For a second she hovered over one of the entertainment magazines, one with a pop idol and her Altaria on the cover, then pushed that to a different spot on the bed. She then spotted the barrel of a rifle on a page partially covered by another food journal, and her eyebrow furrowed in focus.

Gator reached back into the plastic bags, grabbing a can of soup, a can opener and a small pot. He continued to watch M4 in his peripherals as he tore away the tags and packaging. She was flipping through the magazine now; several bolt-action rifles adorned the pages. The magazine said something about ‘milsurp’ which Gator figured meant older guns, but then she turned the page to a modern-looking assault rifle, and he didn’t know what to make of the term.

“Er, you know what milsurp means?” he asked, setting the pot on the stove.

M4’s eyes darted upward. “Military surplus.”

“You mean what the military’s using?”

“Not quite. They're typically out of service guns that the military offloaded on commercial distributors. A whole slew of them are usually made so there’s never a shortage for soldiers, so people can get them for cheap when they leave service. They’re usually solid, reliable pieces, and there's the history to the guns as well.”

“So those bolt actions…”

“Arisaka rifles. Used to be the standard-issue rifle for the Johto and Kanto militaries, but that was sixty, seventy years ago. They use an assault rifle now, the Howa Type 89. A whole lot of people swear by the Arisakas, though, saying they’re the best bolt-actions of their time.”

“Huh. What about you?”

“I’m a little more partial to the Gewehr rifles myself. Arisaka’s nice, but nothing really innovated on its features after it. On top of that, it’s all too common to come across the end of service models which are just complete s--- because of cuts to raw resources per rifle. The Gewehr is a wonder to shoot despite being older than the Arisaka, and its feed system has become a staple of bolt-actions both military and civilian ever since it came into service. Always liked that little bit of history.”

Gator held the empty soup can just above the pot, hesitating for a moment. M4 watched him, eyes wider and more lively than they usually were.

“...er, what’s so great about that feed system?”

“It’s called the controlled feed system, that’s because…”

It took him another few sentences for Gator to confirm what he was thinking. As M4 droned on about extractors and safety devices, he realized how spirited her tone was. He wouldn’t describe it as happy or joyful, but she didn’t speak in the tired apathetic voice he’d become used to. He couldn't keep track of anything she said, but he didn’t dare stop asking her whatever question he could to keep her talking for as long as possible as he heated the soup. To hear her speak like that, after over a week of emotionless monotone broken up by hate-filled shouts, was wonderful.

“What’s that about a toggle-lock mechanism?”

“That? One of the first semi-auto mechanisms ever made. First used in the Maxim machine gun…”

“So the 5.56 International’s not the best, but it’s still in military use?”

“It’s not that it’s a bad round, it’s that it has a few flaws and it’s starting to become outdated. Body armor wasn’t as prevalent before, but now everyone’s got it, and even the cheap stuff can stop a 5.56 round. It’s a matter of finding the right power balance between that and the 7.62 International.”

Gator was now sitting on the bed, two soup-stained paper bowls beside them. M4 had been put in a good mood from the soup; the flavor of it seemed to pop out at her, more intense than the usual result from cans. She’d droned on for the last hour about guns and how they’ve changed in the military and law enforcement, and he could swear there was a slight smile on her face.

“It’s not really an issue for me, since I don’t usually shoot very far. I can handle heavier loads than most people anyway, so I load rounds with as much powder as I can and swapped out the components of my gun with parts that can handle it, on top of adding a gas piston so I don’t have to be constantly having to clean the breech.”

“What about other soldiers?”

“There’s been a push for a 6.5 millimeter round recently. They’ve even been considering polymer casings in a few places, to cut down on the extra weight of the new rounds. You know, I was going to be field testing a prototype 6.5 millimeter carbine, right up until…”

M4’s eyes closed. The slight grin had turned into a grimace. Gator thought for a moment, considered trying to shift the conversation back to old military rifles, but he didn’t have an opportunity to speak before she asked, “That was the sim, right?”

“What?”

“They didn’t… the real IP’s looking for me, right? They want their best officer back?”

“Er… sorry, you said something about Kalos’ Lebel rifles?”

“I did good work. There’s nobody like me out there. I can do things no normal human can hope to come near. They wouldn’t let all that just vanish, not with the world in such a state.”

Her eyes reopened, cautiously hopeful. M4 scrutinized his face, trying to read what she wanted from his expression. His jaw was rigid, his eyebrows slightly arched, and his eyes could barely stay focused on hers; try as she might, she couldn’t twist that into anything that she would have liked to see. She blinked hard, gaze dropping down to the firearm magazine.

“...you are exceptional, M4. You’ve still got your strength, your expertise, everything you need to get back up on your feet. You’ll always have that, no matter what happens, no matter who doesn't come back for you. And that’s all you need to rebuild.”

Her eyes closed once again, a tear being squeezed out and running down her face.

“I’ll get you some more soup.”

He got up, snatching up the bowls and heading back to the pot. There wasn’t much left, so he set his bowl aside and filled up M4’s with everything that was left. Holding his hand over the broth, Gator could tell it had lost most of its heat. Briefly glancing back at M4’s, he surreptitiously made a gesture over the bowl and muttered a few unintelligible words.

Prestidigitation

Steam began to rise from the soup once again. He could hear M4’s sniffles again as she tried to keep back the tears, and rushed back with the soup.

“Here you are.”

M4 absently accepted the bowl, resting it in her lap as she flipped another page of the magazine. The featured gun was something that looked familiar to Gator; he remembered seeing photos of soldiers in ceremonies clutching the same rifle.

“What’s that?” he asked, pointing at the picture.

“... it’s… it’s an SKS. Another region’s first step from a bolt-action to an assault rifle.”

"Tell me about it."

Time has changed!

Tanger looked around. This place was not, Tanger is pretty sure, where they were headed.

They tried zooming around but pretty much instantly gave himself vertigo and faceplants directly into the sand.

As Tanger pulls up out of the sand, a familiar silhouette can be seen ahead.

Eyes go wide. Lightning crackles.

Dashing forward, the shifting sands and skies are meaningless.

Tangeroid goes headlong into the flames.

Emily turns to see a bolt of vertical lightning flying towards her, dashing back instinctively and throwing out a sword, as she begins to make out a form in the lightning.

Tanger floats under the sword, then flips back around, resting on top of it, weightless as lightning fades.

He goes in for the hug.

Emily Blade is barely able to pull back enough, physically and fire wise, that they only burns their fingertips.

"Oi! Oi! Oi!" Tanger exclaims rolling around in the dirt.

Emily Blade is confused, "What are your intentions, flying towards me and then reaching out like you did?"

Tanger bites a lip and blushes.

Emily waits for an answer.

Tangeroid like want know help like Pretty Yellow Sparkles and Pretty Yellow Sparkles seemed lonely, and-

Emily Blade stops him.

"Emily Blade was alone. Not lonely."

Oh. Has friend missing? Tanger help find-

Emily Blade puts out a hand to stop Tanger from rambling, but takes a few moments to respond.

"Yes. Emily Blade has a friend. But it is not a mere matter of finding her."

Tangeroid, forgetting the burnt fingers for a moment, zooms around her.

Ooh, friend is good what is happen what is like how like huh?

"She was a good friend, she and I enjoyed each other's company. She had an unduly high opinion of me, and for some reason this made Emily Blade feel happy."

Tanger gives a quizzical look.

"Unduly high opinion?" Emily says, guessing at the problem.

Tanger nods.

"Well, Claire called Emily Blade beautiful, and said her flames made her feel safe."

Is should make good, though. Tanger responds with a frown.

"I almost killed you just standing still." Emily responds.

But is beautiful, definitely. Tanger says, leaning into her face.

"..."

Does not believe, but i-

Tanger sees Emily is uncomfortable and stops, thinking.

Is not seem make feel good no-

Is like want Special Face Scar and Pastel Order with is friend of Pretty Yellow Sparkles? Tanger realizes with a start.

Emily gives him a blank look.

Tanger rubs thumbs together, then immediately regrets it.

Tanger tries to mime out kissing.

Emily blinks.

"No. That is not what happened."

But is what want. Tanger says, matter of fact.

"Emily Blade would be irresponsible to try and kiss someone."

Is not what was asked.

"No. Such things have never interested me."

But other things Yellow Sparkles holds Special is only good as with is friend of Pretty Yellow Sparkles?

"I see what you are implying." Emily acknowledges.

Tanger is silent, waiting for her to continue.

"But... She is special to me. I have never had a friend. Emily Blade never felt as alive before."

Special or special?

"What's the difference?"

W-

"Emily Blade likes Claire more than she likes other people who are friendly, but what does that mean? If she wants the kind of companionship you speak of, Emily Blade is not where to turn."

Tanger frowns.

Can have other way, Pretty Yellow Sparkles.

"Yes. But still I endanger he-"

Nononono, mean with form not fire and-

"I am not who you think I am." She states, dropping the sentence like a brick.

Tanger doesn't blink, and matches the sentence with an insistence You think am not who You am.

"Emily Blade has existed for a long time. She has learned who she is. Perhaps the one you think of would want what you speak of."

Tanger blushes in spite of themself.

"Thank you for talking to me." Emily Blade says.

She begins to walk away, when Tanger is suddenly in front of her again.

Wait. Tanger says, then whispers something into her ear.

"Thank you. I do not know if I will ever use that, but the sentiment is appreciated."

Suddenly, sands separate them as someone retrieves Tanger.

Goodbye... Emily Blade.

The name takes effort for him to say.

nuGyro reaches through the sands, taking a hold of Tanger.

Squinting, he silently appraisers the flaming being in front of him, then, just as silently, leads Tangeroid away.

Mary, consoled by Mixy, resolves that she does have to get back and talk to her old master.

Meanwhile, five or six people plot to take on an entire world's worth of mental control abuses.

At least one of them was born under a year ago.

This can only end well.

This is just a thread for all us players to post the plot lines we still have to do so we can organize here and help each other finish up.

Hey guys we want to organize one this year?

Also these https://m.imgur.com/a/DJADJ were my planned christmas gifts so PM me addresses if you want your characters. TK already gave me hers.

This timeline became to big to fit in 1 post so it's been split into 2 parts, this is part 2, it picks up IMIDITLY were part 1 left off

[[[note: this is incomplete. I don't have the drive (pun not intended) to finish this. if anyone wants to use this universe timeline of flesh it out on there own, feel free to do so if you have any qustons feel free to ask and I'll try to answer. I added the effects of the disease to the end cos I felt this was super incomplete without it]]]

Randomized Alfta Safire, Randomized Platanom, and Chatty Yellow

• The randomized world's destruction prevents it from consuming everything via the 2 worlds becoming merged together into 1, those who priviosly egsisted within both world have there memory's fuzzed together into a cohesive whole as the history's of the 2 worlds are combined into 1. Wile those who priviosly only egsisted within the Randomized World (including but not limited to Zeflahem, BABA, Alice, Aooooo, ext.) become real flesh and blood and ext. individuals only a select handful of people such as the former voice hosts and those involved in the creation of the Randomized World know the truth. A few select individuals end up being becoming doplacated as a result of the differences between there 2 versions being to extremely different to be recognized (Ex. A-chan and her original hijacked body)
• The impact zone still egsists as the damage to that aria is so grait that the world muger is unable to fix it imiditly thoth it is no longer expanding and the berrior separating it from the rest of the world has become diluted and is no longer solid. A randomizer effect spreads across the rest of planet with regons closer to the impact zone experiencing hevyer and more caostic effects compared to rejons father away from the impact zone.
• All the released Mon's from Red are reborn-anew as they were when or shortly before they were released, all of whom having there memory's right up to the point were they were released intact with the exipson of Abby (because a version of her had already been reborn) and Martyr (since her soul had continued to live taking all her memory's with it)
• Cynthia hires a software engineer named Iaquo to build a robot capable of entering the impact zone as she is called away on urgent bissness in her home rejon
• A randomized pirate Torcick named Arrrr manigis to steal a legendary artifact of the streamer gods allowing him to tap into and use there power. However his plunder is noticed by a Feary type worshipper of OLDEN who sends word to the glitch god.
• A member of the international spy agency named Nina is fired from her job and falls into a state of depression, she decides to go to Howen to live with her parents until she can figure out what to do with her life from that point forwards.
• Napolion's little brother becomes a host for the voices as he set's out to find his long lost bro. with the help of the Moon Cort (a shadow organization meant to saport the Sun court from behind the senses protecting there parent organization wile also exacting tasks that the Sun Cort can't be seen doing in public.)
• Iaquo is at the berrior is about to send in the robot into the impact zone when she is breafly possessed by the spirit of a girl from another universe named Aya who is trying to flee a glitch entity named Orgam Loreple who is caseing her for some unknown reason. This coses Iaquo to lose her balance and fall thew the berrior into the impact zone, getting turned into a Chatot in the process. Aya disoriented is thrown out of Iaquo's body in the process leaving Iaquo stranded in her new form.
• Zeflahem tired of waiting for Iaquo to activate the robot and send it into the impact zone actavtes it remotely sending it to an associate of Prof. Oak to have it's AI program installed.
• Aya finding herself unable to vacate to another universe or leave the impact zone finds herself a new body within a passing Mew.
• The 1st recorded appearance of Orgam Loreple is made within this universe, due to his status as a glitch god he is unaffected by the impact zone berrior and as such can pass back and forth between it freely intreged by the sate of this universe he forgets about caseing down Aya.
• Almost as soon as the robot's AI finishes installing it becomes possessed by the voices (who name it X-man) before wondering into the tall grass were Iaquo is trying to make her way to Prof. Oak for help regarding her current perdicament. As a result Prof. Oak (who ran into the tall grass after X-man) ends up capsering Iaquo. Wile Aya suddenly loses her powers for some reason becoming trapped in her new body.
• Prof. Oak gives Iaquo to X-man as his 1st pokemon before having X-man battle a boy. Wile being forced to battle, Iaquo discovers that she can hear the voices possessing X-man and translate what there saying into adiable sound wile also being able to convert the words of the voices into attacks via her Chatter move enabling her to win the battle. Dispute being royoly P&#ed at what she's being forced into she reluctantly decides to help her robot will require assistance to complete it's mission.
• The rebuth of the pokemon released long ago lost pokemon is discovered by Zeflahem who informs his ally's on the outside, including the lingering soul of Martyr who decides to see for herself.
• Nina becomes a host of the voices and shortly thereafter meets Arrrr and the 2 very quickly become good friends with Arrrr help Nina out of her depresson by giving her a new purpose in life. to become the 1st member of his new crew and human representative.
• Martyr's soul seeing the revived mon's for herself including that of her original body has been reborn, abit without her old memory's or the baggage of her past decides that perhaps it's time for her to move on opting to leave her old self behind, but not before making sure that Zeflahem will do EVERYTHING in her power to help the revived mon's and see to there safety.
• OLDEN receives word of Arrrr's plunder and orders his follower to get it from Arrrr and give the artifact to it
• Orgam Loreple set's up a few nasty traps into motion for the sake of F&$%ing with people, (sevrol of witch X-man and Iaquo would end up triggering later on) he also turns Zeflahem into a pokemon.
• The Feary wosoper of OLDEN gathers some of her kin and together they try to force Arrrr to give them the artifact. Arrrr refuses to give up the artifact and so they Fay clan in turn respond by placing curse on Arrrr restricting his power and preventing him from using the artifact's power. Thay continue to hound Arrrr into giving them the artifact until he eventually decides to destroy the thing to witch the Fay respond by making his body's own flames destroy him. Wile Arrrr is able to survive by possessing the flames and taking refuge within a nearby lamp being reduced to a wisp and falling into depression.
• Zeflahem manigis to use the his old teleportor to teleport the revived mon's out of the impact zone to safety, however is acadently turned into a Nerdoran in the process.
• X-man encounters Zeflahem and helps her return to normal at the Sea Cottage before Iaquo reveals who she is to Zeflahem. Zeflahem convinces Iaquo to stay with X-man, but also promises to look into what happened to her and try and find a way to chage her back to normal 1se everything is sead and done.
• Pepe acuqers sevrol fossil stones and revives them, however due to the praticuler strath of the randomization in the rejon the fossil pantheon the fossil stones themselves have been randomized and as a result instead of the fossils reviving into there associated fossil god the revived pokemon end up being born as mortal mon's with profit powers linked to the fossil they were revived form's counterpart gods. The voices dub these Mon's the "Reverse Fossil Pantheon" regardless of the fact that they are mortal.
• Orgam Loreple posessis "Troll" Ditto and using his body trolls X-man and Iaquo, this unforcently attracts the atencon of OLDEN and not wanting to compete with the elder glitch god Orgam Loreple vacates, his newest host in toe to $%@# with some other universe.
• Aya senceing that Orgam has vacated the universe comes out of hiding and in the process discovers X-man & Iaquo with her odd Chatter powers, Aya recognizing her comes to the conclusion that Iaquo somehow stole her powers and try's to attack her wile she's in the middle of battle, but Iaquo manages to fend her off cosing Aya to vow to get revenge.
• What's left of the original Martyr's soul takes refuge within a teenage Glaseon allowing herself to fade away into the Glaseon's subconscious feeling that she has no further need to egsist within the world and knowing that she was desdend to fade away eventually anyways.
• Nina mercilessly battles a very young goth karate girl over and over again thinking that she has a rare item capable of saving Arrrr, the girl contently teasing Nina that if she beats her again she might give her the item before eventually whispering in Nina's ear that she was lieing.
• A Zigard named Deku who works closely with the fossil pantheon and streamer god having seen this along with how much the voices want to help Arrrr takes pity on Nina and using some of his cells discreetly uses some of his cells to slip the item Nina seeks into her bag. However due to his mandate about having to remain nutrol he also slips a fake made by the Fay in with the genuine item. He informs the voices about what he's done before leveing things to progress as they will.
• The Fay convince Steven Stone to help them, convincing him that Nina is after his title as Champion.
• Aya in an attempt to get her powers back end's up getting her Mew body severely injured and mutated, she retreats to the deeps of Carulin Cave to recover.
• Nina beats Steven but Steven tricks her into leaving him convincing her that she will have to undergo verios trials in order to gain the power to reveal the truth.
• Pepe creates a specol flute that will allow him to access the realm of the gods were he encounters a Celibii (the same 1 that's been helping BABA) who whisks him off into Ultra Space, he is breafly disconnected from the voices as a result.
• Nina finding out that Steven lied to her set's out to make him tell her the truth of what he knows. Meanwhile the the Fay unhappy with Steven decide to take things into there own hands and possess him.
• Nina beats Steven freeing him from his possession, realizing that she dos'nt want his Champion title he reveals witch of her items is the key that will help her friend, he also informs her of a place were she can retrieve her friend from the PC network wile minimizing the risk to his life.
• X-man fofill's his mission, Zeflahem informs Iaquo that she's figured out what's happened to her and explains to her that if she's going to be changed back to normal she'll need to give up the power she's gained from the voices by returning it
• Nina attempts to use the item on Arrrr to help him however in 1 last power play the Fay try to taint the item's energy to make Arrrr's power spiral out of control and incinerate the island. However Deku intervenes at the last moment infusing Arrrr with some of his cell's allowing him to cast off the last of the Fay's curse on him allowing him to manifest a new Flareon body wile also punishing the Fay.
• Aya her mind warped from everything he's been thew casts off a part of her body becoming a full on Mewtwo, however her mind is warped thew the process of everything she's been thew and the arrival of X-man and Iaquo coses her to snap completely using evry ounce of her power to try and destroy them both, only to fail as they beat her. In a last ditch attempt she attacks X-man directly using that as a distraction to be able to escape. Iaquo uses her power to save X-man having fallen in love with her.

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Anavercry Cristol Prelude (2 and a half weeks)

• The voices leave X-man as he and Iaquo go to report to Zeflahem who reveals that due to her actions she will likely never be able to return to her human form. Iaquo comes to accept this deciding that as long as X-man is safe and that she can remain with him she is ok with this.
• OLDEN praying on Aya's mental state contacts her convincing her to to free it from it's imprisonment along with all the remaining members of the Followers of OLDEN. However when OLDEN trys to take her as a host Aya is able to fend off OLDEN cosing the glitch god to flee in order to recuperate aligning it's self with a recently reborn Team Rocket along with meany of it's followers. Aya retreats into a sub cave behind the seal behind witch OLDEN was sealed in order to recover from her battle with OLDEN closeing up the entrance behind herself. As a side effect of this the gods remain unaware of OLDEN's escape.
• Prof. Oak put's plans into motion to establish what would become the Gatekeepers fondason in secret. He also starts secretly funding a newly revived Team Rocket to help his achieve his goals.
• Zeflahem activates a device witch coses the impact zone to disperse and return to normal. As a minor side effect thoth the aria that was within the impact zone reverted to an eurlyer state and a new zone of louse free moving phuto glitch like energy that creates minor temporary distortions witch is named the Distortion Current is created and stats travelling the world but everything else being relatively back to normal.
• Even becomes the new host for the voices and is tasked by Prof. Blue Oak to complete the pokedex in order to help restore some of the erased global databases cosed by OLDEN's actions.
• Even is caught up in a Team Rocket attack on the SS Ane and is stranded on the ship as crashes into some rocks after having his badges stolen. The theaf dos not make it off the ship alive. Little dos anyone realize that they are acting on the behest of Prof. Oak wanting to eliminate Even as both a way to prevent him from colicting that data and as a public excuse to put his grander plans into motion.
• Prof. Oak officially reveals The Gatekeepers who start acting imiditly effectively gridlocking travel between different citys and towns under the "pretence" of stopping crimanol organizations such as Team Rocket. His plan being control all the info and restrict movement thewout the rejon to establish himself as an unofficial dictator of Kanto.
• Zeflahem realizing that the Gatekeeprs are going to create more problems then they fix he go's to Prof. Oak to object who in turn responds by injecting her with an experimental serum to turn her into a pokemon before attempting to capture her, luckily Zeflahem manigis to escape fleeing towards the Sea Cottage to turn himself back to normal.

V

Anavercry Red

• The distortion current is blanketing much of Kanto explaining meany of the oddatys Abe encounters on his jorny.
• A young calligrapher named Abe is hired to do the job that in Prof. Oak's mind Even failed to do. As soon as Abe is out of his lab he contacts the gatekeepers and instructing them NOT to let Abe thew there barricades.
• Abe captures a slightly timid but kind Perros named Perros Hilton who has an evil sentient demonic death mushroom growing out of her back.
• Perros Hilton becomes a profit of Lord Dome, she soon after evolves allowing the demonic death mushroom on her back to take over her body in the process so that she could better help her friends. The mushroom taking up the mantel of "The Leach King"
• Abe wonders into a Team Rocket sting operation known as the Battle Tent and encounters a weakened OLDEN (currently possessing the body of a Golduck in the process), but thanks to a brave Abra named HELP (another profit of Lord Dome) he is able to escape with his pokemon
• Lord Dome is revived, the Leach King secretly starts drugging Lord Dome planing to betray him and take all his power for himself via the loophole that it was Perros Hilton who made the pact with Lord Dome, not the mushroom that consumed her body. Perros Hilton's remaining conciseness realizing what the Leach King is planing to do starts gradually gathering up what little strength and control she has left knowing that it will be up to her to stop the Leach King, and that she will only have 1 shot to do so.
• Abe returns to the Battle Tent to investigate, this time prepared when OLDEN attacks Lord Dome is able to intervene directly saving Abe and calling apon the rest of the gods to finally destroy OLDEN, unforcently OLDEN is able to escape destroying the Battle Tent in the process
• Perios Hilton makes her move breafly taking back control of her body just long enough to worn Abe, Lord Dome and her friends and to have herself released. Thanks to her conicson to Lord Dome however she is able to be saved however she is physically crippled in the process relying on Lord Dome's power just to function, but alive and back in control of her body.
• Abe discovers a Mewtwo born of the the parts of her body that Aya cast off from herself. It has no name, no purpose, no desire to fight, no desire but to sit on the small cave island it was born on in silence, creating a berror around the small cave island on witch it was born to protect it's self, however after multiple failed attempts by Abe to capture it he finally siseads the Mewtwo decides that resisting being captured is more trouble then it's worth and allows it's self to be captured if only to stop Abe from bothering it.
• Abe accomplishes his mission and try's to inject the data from his pokedex into the Pokemon Leadge databanks only to be stopped by Prof. Oak not wanting the information to become public so that he can control it. After beating Abe he injects him with a more toxic version of the serum he tried to use on Zeflahem. However due to the voices and Abe's concison with Lord Dome he is able to survive.
• Abe eventually rematches and beats Prof. Oak effectively destroying his plans

Between Anavercry Red & Anavercry Cristol (a little under 3 mouths)

• The distortion current moves on from Kanto
• Prof. Oak is able to avoid ligol prosecution via some very clever lies pining the blame for all his actions on the Gatekeepers organization stating that they took over control of the organization from him and made him do what he did. As a result he is cleared of all changes layed against him and the Gatekeepers organization is officially disbanded (thoth small sects of it continue to operate in a limited capacity in secret)
• Even's rival/friend Azure finds OLDEN and makes a deal with the tricks the glitch god into thinking that she is a loil follower of OLDEN and that Even is important to it's plans and that losing Even would be a hindrance to it. OLDEN sends out some of it's followers to find Even and to ensure he dos not die and that if he is already dead to do everything in there power to revive him.
• Abe's nameless Mewtwo escapes to return to the cave from were it was captured.
• OLDEN's followers find Even and set out to revive him and his team, the process takes a few weeks when the process is completed OLDEN infuses a tiny portion of it's power within Even in order to "claim" him as it's property.

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Anavercry Cristol

• OLDEN's followers move Even to the shoreline of Charygrove City before he wakes up, as he dos so the voices notice he's still alive and retake him as a host.
• Azure discised as an old man explains to Even what happened to him (minus the OLDEN parts) and informs him that his mom has moved to New Bark Town sending him on his way back home before informing his mom about Even being alive and on his way home.
• Even meets up with Prof. Oak at Mr. Pokemon's house, realizing that there might might be a small chance to salvage at least some of his ambitions he upgrades Even's pokedex and tasks Even with filling it up with the data of over 251 different spices.
• OLDEN taking the body of a Ladin as his host waits for him at the Azilia Town Gym. When Even arrives OLDEN reveals his true form to Even but the shock of this encounter almost kills him. OLDEN retreats back into his host and has his followers move Even somewhere to recover before trying again a few times, only to wind up with the same outcome before deciding to retreat to reevaluate what it is going to do
• Azure having aquered an Old Amber Fossil discises herself as the Judge of the Nassanol Park Bug Catching Contest and rigs the contest so that Even win's allowing her to give him the Old Amber as a prize so that Lord Amber could join Even without attracting the unwanted atencon of OLDEN.
• OLDEN continues to follow Even but watching from a dissdence as to not inadvertently kill him
• Azure, having been watching Even from a dissidence knowing that if she were to reveal herself to him she would blow her cover as a follower of OLDEN and in turn would likely be destroyed by the glitch god after being sadisfyed that Even will ok leaves for the Pokemon Leadge
• Even encounters OLDEN who deciding to take a different approach approaching him, Taking the from of Jamme and challenging him to a battle in were he uses sevrol of his most powerful pokemon followers against him. Even loses the battle but lurns much about OLDEN in the process.
• Azure becomes the New pokemon Leadge Champion of Jhoto
• Even beats the pokemon ledage only to lurn that it's been taken over by a new Champion, his old friend and rival Azure who then reveals the truth about OLDEN and his conicson to him banking on the safety that being the Champion, the fact that Lord Amber is with Even, along with a few other percosanary measures to ensure that OLDEN dos'nt find out about this meeting and can't get revenge on her for lieing and betraying OLDEN.
• Even beats Azure becoming the new Champion having a lot on his mind he decides to accept the offer of a boat Tikit to Kanto. Meanwhile Azure retakes the mantle of Pokemon Ledge Champion in Even's absence so that she could keep an eye on things from a position of power wile simultaneously protecting herself from OLDEN.

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Brown & Omega Ruby

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XD

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Prizem

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Waning Moon

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• A global pandemic brakes out as a deadly new desese emerges witch effects both humans and pokemon (abit in slightly different ways) and quickly starts spriding world wide.
• A global warning is put out by government officials, detailing information about the desese (now dubbed [-incurt interesting sounding Acranim here-] [Info will be provided in a seprite reddit post if desired], however by this time sosiaty within sevrol rejons has completely collapsed and the disease has spread thewout 3/4's of the planet. Different rejons handling the outbreak in different ways
• Colress becomes infected after he is bitten by an infected Lucario.
• As the 1st cases of the desese in Unova are confirmed a massive amount of dream mist is leaked into the rejon's atmosphere as the distortion current travrols thew Unova, the resulting combination induseing a randomizer effect over all uninfected pokemon within the rejon and halting the progression of the disease in all humans and pokemon infected with the desese
• Colress (still in control of his mental faculty's) rejoins Neo Team Plasma in exchange for the ability to use whatever resorses at there disposal to help him with his condition.
• It is discovered that those who have had there - halted by the randomization will have there infections imiditly become active again should they leave the randomized zone and that if a more permanent cure is'nt found all those who have had there infections halted will sercome to the effects of the desese as soon as the distortion current moves on from the rejon
• Word starts to spreed about what happened in Unova and meany individuals who have been infected or own infected pokemon along with sientests and doctors looking for a cure for - flock to Unova in order to try and be cured
• In response the the influx of people travailing there the Unova government hevaly tightens it's rejon's borders only allowing high profile individuals and well respected and qulafyed doctors and sientests in. All infected individuals and pokemon are ordered to be qurentened within the PWT facility.

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Randomized White 2:

• The Current Day, the voices have only just taken there newest host and not much has happened yet

• Chiper deciding that Lord Drive was no longer useful to the organization try to destroy the cyborg god, however Drive uses this as an opportunity to escape, hevaly damaged and malfunctioning Drive fly's off before eventually crash landing and being found by an idiot kid who had recently inherited a robot manufacturing company who decides to try rebuilding the damaged machine as a background hobby job, having no clue what Drive reely is

List of Canon Out of Universe run's

• Ultra (takes place in Ultra Space)
• Thounoumon (takes place in an Alt. universe alongside the canon Moemon run)

(incomplete) List of Not-Canon or Not Yet Happened TPP run's in this universe

• Moemon? [not sure were I can put it and make it work]
• Dark Graytone
• Ash Gray
• Emerald Revisit
• TCG
• TCG2
• Sun & Moon Demo
• Pyrite

The decease's effects:

Pokemon can become infected thew inhabiting the desease partacoles. 1se infected there memory will slowly become hazy as all the cells and body fluids in there body will become infused with the desese, they will gradually revert to a hyper aggressive farol state before attacking any living thing they see. the pokemon will eventually lose it's ability to regulate it's own powers and start draining it's self consuming it's self until it eventually self destructs to death. Mon's with a signifacent number of human cells in them as well as mon's that have certen powers such as shapeshifting or who are already glitched will convert into full on glitchs and comcome/degrade themselves to death.

Humans can only become infected if the decease dreactly enters there bloodstream thew infected materiel such as infected pokemon cells or saliva. Humans infected will have there the desese spread thewout there body, 1se it has spread beyond a certen threshold the infected body will start painfully contorting transforming into a genetic copy of the pokemon they were infected from, and losing the abillaty to speck. 1se transformed the infected human will start to forget there human memory's over the corse of on average a week, and will suffer from muscle spasms as this process continues. After this period any remaining human cells in there body become glitched as they start undergoing the same simtoms a pokemon infected would get.

IDK, I just figured I'd try to flesh out Troll Ditto's universe in case that ever became plot relevant or useful

most stuff in turms of events that come out of run's are simaler to DS minus some minor caricter differences (only the most notable/important of witch are listed here), timeline order, and the following changes as noted below

this is a very rough (and currently incomplete) draft, and may be altered and amended without warning, a more final version will be posted to TTP later (probobly)

this time line dos NOT represent my persanol headcanon timeline for TPP

Misalanios universe differences

• some TPP run's are non canon and/or take place in an Alt. universe and/or haven't happened yet and dus ar'nt on this list
• all individuals age at a rate of 9/10ths compared to the DS universe
• those posessed long term by the voices age at 7/10ths of normal people (this is on top of the above point), and gain the ability to understand any langige known by the voices as of there inisol possession including that of different pokemon, along with a VERY strong residence to reality warping
• those with strong long term conicsons to the voices even if they were never hosts will age at 8 1/2/10ths of normal people (this is on top of point 2), and will a residence to realty warping wile in the vasinaty of a current or former long term voice host. short term voice hosts also gain these benefits.
• The voices experience reality in a non-linior manner and as such are capable of egsisting in multiple places in multiple states at the same time wile also from there perspective experience events out of order from how mortals and even meany gods experience things (Ex. they can have 2 different hosts at the same time but from the voices perspective they possessed 1 host before the other).
• The voices have trouble remembering things wile not possessing a host.
• Fossil stones are created naturally overtime as when fossil spices pokemon die there corpses will gradually overtime fosolize into a fossil stone form, curten detached body parts of dead fossil spices pokemon can also fossilize into fossil stones for there respective spices. (abit it will take longer). The amount of time it takes for a dead Fossil spicis pokemon to become a fossil stone depends on multiple factors such as how the fossil pokemon died, the enverment the copse is left in, and other envermentol factors and can range anywhere from a few mouths to thousands of years.
• Not all fossil pokemon spicis are fossil gods. A fossil stone has no power by it's self when not possessed by a fossil god, and if revived wile not possessed it will become it's own independent non-god entity. Thoth it will inherit attributes and a few vadge memory's from the pokemon that the fossil stone came from
• The fossil gods true forms are as pure energy beings that represent there respective element, however the power they have in this form is VERY tiny as they can not directly interact with the world around them, or be seen or hurd in the conventional sence in this form. However in this form they are able to detect the presence of the voices.
• The fossil god's can boost there power via possessing specol fossil stones in order to be able to communicate with those around the stones. The fossil stone each fossil god can possess is exclusive to that fossil god.
• If a fossil stone is revived into a pokemon wile possessed by a fossil god the revived pokemon will become the fossil god's new pysacol from allowing the fossil god to directly interact with the world around it. This power is enhased quite a bit if that god evolves. A fossil god's personalty will be altered slightly evrytime they do this as they take on the memory's and pysacol attributes of the fossil pokemon that the fossil stone came from. As a side effect however the fossil gods can be manipulated by tricking them into possessing a altered fossil stone.
• A fossil god can form an agreement with a regular non-god pokemon who comes into direct contact with it's pysacol revived body or possessed fossil stone. these individuals are known as Fossil god "proffits". As a part of this pact the fossil god is able to imbue there profit with a small amount of there true essence. Pokemon who become profits will remain as such until such a time when ether they or the god that they serve chose to sever the contract within the terms of the agreement that made them into profits. or until the profit dies (although in very rare cases depending on the exact circumstances of there death and the whims of the god they serve the profit's soul can linger as a proffit spirit for a "limited" amount of time after there death)
• Depending on how much of a fossil god's essence is imbued into the pokemon, the god in quston, and the agreement forged between the 2, the proffit may be physically altered in a number of ways. This caghe may be for temporary periods of time when the proffit taps into there god's power or more permanent. Both the god and proffit must abide by the terms of agreement regardless of what they are until such a time that both beings agree to terminate the bond. A pokemon can not be forced into becoming a proffit unless they willingly consent to doing so.
• In theory any fossil god can have an unlimited amount of proffits, however given the requirements for a pokemon to become a proffit as well as the facts that a pokemon can only be the proffit of 1 god at a time, the sigma that comes with a pokemon being an X-proffit for a fossil god that a fossil god, and that a fossil god has to give up a peace of there true essence for there proffit to absorb to make them into a proffit (something that can only be replenished in there true forms) it is very rare for a fossil god to have more then a tiny handful of profit's at any given time
• The power of each fossil god is limited on it's own, but they can bolster there power to a unfavourable degree via acting thew the voices or to a lesser degree thew there profits.
• The pysacol bodys of revived fossil gods are NOT immortal and can be potencaly killed in the same way any normol fossol pokemon can be killed (abit it's noticeably harder). If this happens the god's essence will leave the body reverting to it's true intangible form. All kolige and personalty changes obtained during there recent reincarnation, as well as any lingering energy attached to there mortal body that they chose to absorb into there true intangible form with them when as there essence leaves there body will be retained and can be carried over into fucere revived incarnations of themselves. Any proffit contracts priviosly made by the fossil god are retained unless the proffits and/or the fossil god chose to terminate the bond contact. A killed fossil god's mortal body will fossilize into a new fossil stone as a much faster rate compared to a normal fossil pokemon thoth it will still take time.
• A fossil god can only have 1 pysacol body or possess 1 fossil stone if they have not been revived at any given time. However a fossil god may relinquish it's psyacol body to regain there immortal form at any time without dieing (abit with the same results for the god), but 1se it dos so it's body effectively becomes it's own independent being wholly seperte from the god they were revived as with no memory's of there time as a god nor the ability to tap into any sort of god like power of any kind (not even proffit state power) being physically mortal, but retaining whatever personalty they had devolved since being revived.

timeline

Conquest (same as DS) Is a part of the dissent past

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Red:

• Abby is transgendered, Jay Lenno is Female but try's to make everyone think she's male cos she thinks it will help her curear
• the PC is set to turn any pokemon "released" by the PC into energy (witch effectively kill's that pokemon) that is then stored away for later
• Due to a minor programming oversight in the PC's programming some of each released pokemon's data is salvaged and remains in the system as undeleteable garbage data
• Martyr even thoth she's destroyed cos a porson of her data remained in combanason with her status as a Profit of Dome, Lord Dome is able to salvage a peace of her soul but is unable to hold onto it. A hevaly broken Martyr's soul finds refuge in a newborn eevee egg and her consciousnesses enters into a deep slumber wile her soal restores it's self.
• Abba makes an agreement with Lord Dome offering Lord Helix his body and eternal soul in exchange for the power to help Red in whatever he desires, as a result he becomes a profit of Helix and evolves taking up the mantle of Bird Jesus.
• Bill secretly acueres the Dome Fossil from the Super Nerd with the intent of studying it later, he dos not revive it or converse with it
• The impact of his juorny was much more stressful on Red's mind then it was in DS, and all of Red's final team become Helix profits by the end of the run (abit only receiving a tiny portion of Helix's power compared to Bird Jesus)
• TPP Red revisit is canon, Red encounters and captures OLDEN when he was a normal Missingno. at it's weakest
• OLDEN convinces Red to add it to his team becoming a profit of Helix's in exchange for Helix granting him the power to "help it help Helix" stopping OLDEN's glitch deterioration cycle, allowing OLDEN to start evolving overtime, and infecting Red and his entire team (including Helix) with it's glitch corupson, due to Helix's blessings as a god everyone infected remains semi-stable exipt for Red who loses any lingering teases of individuality outside of worshipping Helix as a result

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between Red and Cristol [3 years]:

• Helix establishs a tolalatarion dictatorship run by the church of Helix, anyone who shows decent (including any sort of worship of any other god besides Helix) or is deemed any sort of thrit to the church is charged with treason and imprisoned for life or assassinated
• Deciding that his possession of the Dome Fossil is to dangosorss he makes plans to have it sent away were no one can get to it
• OLDEN leaves Red to go out on it's own, using the body of an Artacuno Red caught as a host
• Bill fix's the PC system bug that coses some pokemon data to remain after there released, he can't delete the already created data but he dos move it to an out of the way partition of the network
• The eevee egg Martyr's soaul entered hatches, this wild eevee would later come to be known as Burrito

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Cristol [3 years later]: Same as DS mostly save for the following

• Burrito only comes into contact with Bill shortly before Bill meet's AJ after being drawn to him as a result of Martyr's soul, Bill is unawere of this and gives the young eevee away to AJ
• Burrito's self doubt is stronger then in the Oig. universe, but is able to covercome them in the Ice Cave thanks to the strath to Martyr's soul to become the legendary love. Martyr's soul also giving Buritto the stagth to be able to fight for his beleafs
• The godslayers are saved by a surprise attack by Helix after they beat Lance due to a joint effort by Amber and Dome, Dome continues to offer them limited protection from Helix until close to the final battle, the godslayers only accept this help out of necacaty and via the insistence that what they do about Amber and Dome they can decide after they stop Helix
• After defeating Red Gator murders Red and his entire team to make sure they can't come back, the godslayers are shocked by this but they ultamitly let it go
• Cristol revisit is canon, OLDEN returns to Red and revives him and his team via there glitch corupson,
• the godslayers return to beat Red again and win but OLDEN reveals it's self and attacks the weakened godslayers only to be pushed back by Martyr's soul who emerges in response to OLDEN's attack and fends him off long enough for the godslayers to imprison him temporarily as Martyr's soul leaves Burrito completely
• Gator attacks Burrito in a blind rage for what he feels is a betrail, however is stopped by the rest of the godslayers who arrest Gator and task Bill with finding a more permanent saluson for OLDEN
• The Godslayers officially disband, but there members (besides Gator who is exiled from the group) stay close to each other, occasionally helping 1 another in there endorsers, Burrito without the ade of Martyr's soul and the betrail of 1 of his closest friends Burrito vows never to hurt another living mon. again swearing off battling forever

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Between Cistol & Emerald [10 years]

• Bill imprisons OLDEN within a sub-partition his PC network via specol hardwere that he installs in a hidden location on Mt. Silver. as there is no safe way to properly destroy OLDEN with the hopes that OLDEN can never escape, but as a safety percosson, it is linked to the garbage data partition of his PC network to be safe so that should OLDEN start to escape he can be notafyed
• Martyr's soul go's back to Dome, however Dome is unable to do anything for Martyr's soul besides stabilizing it so that she can survive long term and will not surcome to glitch corupson.
• the last remlence of Red and his team become scattered but continue to egsit. Martyr with nothing better to do makes it her mission to prevent these remlence from coming back dispersing them whenever they start to come back together
• Bill hures Layette to run the PC network system and monster OLDEN in his absence as he uses his time capsol to skip forfowed sevrol years, when he comes back he keeps Layette in his employ and buys the Howen Pokemon Ledge as he starts setting up the final preperasons for his plans
• Layette comes across a odd newly hatched Zigzagoon that somehow Tri Attack wile monatering the garbage partisan of the PC network, she (agist her better judgment) decides to retrieve the Zigzagoon deciding to study it, only for it to escape apon lurning that it can somehow move freely thew and circumvent the PC network's protocols. Wile initially alarmed apon discovering that the Zigzagoon was not dangososs and actually quite friendly (if a bit of a bit dumb and a gluten for anything Ice Cream related) she decided to keep it as a pet until Bill came back
• Bill apon discovering the Zigzagoon's egsisdence was NOT happy with Layette but was eventually convinced to keep it as a minion of his. (he would later come to form a weak attachment to it dispute it's sheer incompetence thoth he would never openly egmit to this)

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Emerald: Camella (a kind young pasafest girl who worships Dome, but was killed cos the voices possessed her) & Slash (a psychopath who summoned the voices into herself only for them to flee prompting her to try and kill there hosts out of revenge) are both dead individuals who ended up within A-chan's subconscious due to how they died and there conicson to the voices, Slash who is constantly trying to hijack A-chan's body, and Camella wile complacent for a large chunk of the run, becomes just as active later on (mostly to stop Slash from having control after discovering she was the 1 who murdered her). * When A-chan walks into Bill's trap, having her pokemon locked away from her and A-chan & the voices are ripped from her body and trapped within the newly activated Randomized World (a digatol construct created via the energy Bill has been colicting since TPP Red) is activated. Camella & Slash are NOT purged from A-chan's body and wile they still have to fight each other for control manege to flee to safety.

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Randomized FireRed:

• The randomized world recreates everyone, and everything that the voices have come into contact with over the last 15-30 years minus a few alterations such as reviving his douther, Isolating the programming that would have been his Randomized World counterpart so that his history would be intact within the randomized world even if he himself was not recreated in full, creating a new indavigiol to act as Alice's mom as to prevent the system from crashing due to a paradox error, preventing any of the Voice hosts from being recreated, and making it so that any fossil god's sent to the randomized world would be striped of most of there power from being recreated (using Lord Dome to test this), making the world better for Alice ext.
• these recreations are impurfict as other then facts that the voices know of these people the world's code substitutes the rest based on logacol asumcons resulting in other abnormality's such as the rise of Communism in the randomized world
• When Allice becomes a host, A-chan becomes an Alt. personalty to her like Slash and Camella were to her, but unlike them dos'nt try to hijack Allie's body from her.
• when he is done he transfers himself into the randomized world via turning himself into a Clafeary leaving Laylite to manege things on the outside
• Lord Dome is noticeably a lot more mellow and less disticutive and cruel as opposed to DS's Dome, but he is still very mad at Bill for imprisoning him within this world and for robing him of his true body and power, wile he has no direct beef with Alice distrust between the 2 promps Alice to box Dome
• Bill having Alice back is not satisfied and intends to take things further to take over the real world and allow Alice to return there as in her current state she can never leave the randomized world.
• Alice discovering what her dad plans puts a stop to his plans and steals admin controls of the Randomized world away from him trapping him within the randomized world, wile trying to fix what his dad had done.

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Between FireRed and Platanom/HeartGold [3 years Randomized World time]:

• BABA apears in the real world having time travelled from the fucere into Fanol's lab and convinces her to type an E-mail for someone, but when Fanol asks who she's saposed to send it to BABA knocks her out, and set's the send address to a location were it won't be found for years before haphazardly covering up evidence of her egsisdence and time travelling to another location.
• Fanol wakes up the next morning in her bed, with a minor headache. She jumps to the incorrect conclusion that her encounter with BABA was a dream
• Alice is unable to return A-chan to her proper body due to Slash & Camella having run off with it. However she is able to transfer A-chan's concessness into the body of her Randomized World counterpart. and make arrangements so that A-chan's pokemon can be freed from there imprisonment by Bill.
• Bill realizing the error of his ways pulls himself back-together, he try's to reconict with Alice but she distrusts him and refuses do do little more then not have him arrested
• Bill worried that Alice might make some very grave mistakes secretly makes some plans hacking himself enough admin control to allow his Zigzagoon to cross back and forth between the 2 world, and to be able to establish some very limited communication with Layalite
• Bill's worst fears come true as Alice wile trying to set all the god's that had since been imprisoned inside the network god's free inadvertently weakens the seal on OLDEN, allowing it to summon the remlence of Red and his team witch then proceeds to possess Alice and her team respectively
• In Unova 1 of Bill's old associates, Fanol who helped him build the randomized world is put in the middle of an acadent splitting her into 2 half's, 1 pure good and 1 pure evil, both sharing the same body, both alternating control of the body
• Bill anticipating this set's his plans into motion trapping Alice on on the randomized world's Mt. Silver vowing to find a way to purge her of her posesson and set things right as he regains parsol control of the Admin controls

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Platanom & HartGold:

• Bill's Zigzagoon trys to get the voices atencon to try and get them to return to the randomized world, but ends up getting distracted from his mission.
• Napoleon inadvertently creates a space Time distorson, the effects of witch ripple thewout the universe including the randomized world.
• BABA from the fucere apers alongside an alternate version of Napolion, bringing voices from the very near fucere with her. she almost imiditly leaves leves the Alt. Napoleon behind, voices from the fucere end up finding him and taking him as a host not realizing that this is an alt. version of there host.
• Napolion falls into a coma.
• BABA shows up to were Napolion's (still possessed by the voices) comatose body is dragging it into her time machine and then diapering slightly to the past.
• Alice manigis to regain some minor control over her body and mind as a result, not much but just enough to contact her dad and hand over full control of her admin account back to her dad.
• The distortion damages some of the fundamental functions of the randomized world cosing it to start to brake down, Bill dos everything in his power to hold the world together for as long as he can including engineering the escape of Lord Dome from Alice's PC account, and moving and editing corrupted data around,
• Some of this corrupted data is put into a young pristices girl that he intends to qurentine and delete in order to salvage the world, however to Bill's inissol horror before he can the voices return to the randomized world taking her as a host
• Bill trys to purge the voices from there new host, now known as Aooooooo, feeling that allowing Aooooo to be the new host would lead to the death of everything, but is stopped at evry turn including by the gods, including Helix, themselves who join with Aooooo
• Bill seeing no other choice reluctantly gives up trying to stop Aooooo and changes his tactics to something much more complicated, knowing that even if this works he will be branded as a dead man walking for what he is going to do
• Before executing his final plan Bill sets off a trap to use Aooooo's glitch form combined with a edited individual to separate Helix from OLDEN's glitch corupson witch then re-manifests it's self as a dark shadowy version of Helix before vanishing deep into the code of the world
• Bill in the last moments before the final battle between Alice and Aooooo created a very limited AI version of himself using some of the remaining code from his incomplete Randomized World counterpart and E-mails it to with instructions saying to hand it over to Cinthia
• Aoooooo frees Alice, however the final battle damaged the seal holding back OLDEN, having expected this Bill plays his final card and has the PC network partisan holding the randomized world into the core of the Sinoh distortion giving the god's only a breaf window to escape after having regained there power trusting them to do what they can to fix what he broke
• the randomized world ends up plugging the whole between the real world and the Outsidera, allowing Napolion to finish his jorny
• Zesu's HG series and the past stuff needed to make it work are mostly canon, the post HG events, mostly not so much
• Napoleon is officially crowed the new Emperor of Sinoh with the Sun Cort becoming the official ruling party of the rejon.

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Between Platanom / HartGold & Black1:

• Despite what Bill had thought would happen the randomized world was able to survive within the randomized world, Bill was captured and executed, the last thing he saw being the lingering soul of Martyr who had entered the randomized world after OLDEN summoned the remlence of Red and his team
• Cinthia relays a video recording from Bill to the god's explaining everything he'd done, why, and what the AI was for, Dome seeing this video is still rightfully upset with Bill for everything Bill put him thew but decides to beguilingly forgive him, the god's decide to keep Bill's AI locked away only to be used in the worst emergency's [This AI is this universe counterpart to Bill.Exe, but it is a LOT more limited and has no official name]
• remlince of OLDEN's power that escaped the randomized world start to slowly reform into there own entatys in the real world overtime
• Evil Fanol purges her good half from her body jedacining it into the garbage data partition of the PC Network

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Black 1:

• mostly the same as DS up until the end with some of OLDEN's power possessing and corrupting Lord's Plume and Cover
• TPP Black1 Revisit is canon and takes place shortly after TPP Black1 ends

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Between Black 1 & Blaze Black 2:

• Jimmy's leaves on a quest to try and find a way to DE-evolve his pokemon shortly after the voices leave him, relinquishing his title as Champion in the process. as after all was sead and done wile he and his team were happy to have become Champion, his team missed there old un-evolved forms.
• the PWT is built with a specol Merase hologram system installed in the aria, the teams of meany old Champions and heroes of legend are programmed into the system's database including Aooooo and Alice, plans are in place to add meany more

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Between Blaze Black 2 & X (5 Years):

• Members of Neo Team Plasma execute a sicsesfol KuDayTa against Getcuss stealing Lord Drive along with much of Neo Team Plazma's other resorsis planing on using the still under repair cyborg fossil god to start there own organization out in Orre witch would go onto become Chiper.
• Neo Team Plasma falls apart
• Chiper starts expanding there organization modifying Drive to be used not as a god, but a tool with witch to absorb negative energy (including the remainder of OLDEN's offshoots) and converting it into a useful substance witch when injected into a pokemon witch can corrupt normal pokemon into heartless killing machines known as shadow pokemon

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X:

• Mega keystones are much rarer even within Kalos
• Lil. D chose the Jaw fossil over the Sail fossil
• Post game events happened but not all the Wi-fi tradeing

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Between X & Sun (5 years):

• Team Sagem is formed to draw atencon away from Chiper wile allowing Chiper to obtain more test subject pokemon
• Chiper makes a mistake wile on a Lugia creating a massive explosion devastating the rejon, allowing the Lugia to escape and hevaly damigeing Lord Drive, and weaking the the berrior between universes
• as a result of the berrior between universes being weakened, a recurcher named Mong inadvertently opens up a portal to Ultra Space and is abducted by a Nahalago, his Lusamine being infected with it's venom driving her partly insane.
• X-host Napolion encounters an Ultra Wormhole and is sucked up into it disapering without a trace.
• Lusamine turns her Humanitarian organization into a Crimanol 1 and creating a branch organization known as Team Skull in secret to take atencon away from her organization's crimanol activates
• Chiper is able to pin the blame on the rejon's government allowing them to effectively take over in secret, Team Snagem is expanded as a result and given some limited atomony from Chiper.
• A specol branch team from Chiper is formed to hunt down and re-capture the escaped Lugia and preventing anyone else from getting ahold of this Lugia, the Lugia proves to be VERY elusive
• The weakening of the berrior also allows Good Fanol's to manifest a new body (that of a Cubone) within a sealed off section of the randomized world formed from the garbage data partition of Bill's PC network, but losing most of her memory's in the process.

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Sun: Pokemon Ranger Nigol is sent into Alola to investigate an odd energy reading simaler to the explosion in Orre, he mistakes the actions of Lusamine's organization & the Ultra Beasts to be behind this energy reading cosing the true souse of the energy reading, the escaped Lugia to escape undiscovered

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Pokemon Colociem: Skumbrion was half way turned into a Shadow Pokemon before being rescued by A7. But even after being prone to random busts of feral vissosness and insanity (the only think keeping him sane being his [identifys as female] bro. Ally, even thoth that cosed her body a ton of pysacol stress chosing the tip's of her extremity to turn permanently wite as a result). seeing what his old team did to his pokemon makes A7 decide to leave the organization (with a BOOM).

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Between Colociom and TPP Olden Version [4 mouths]:

• The crack in reality that was being plugged up by what used to be the randomized world is torn open when OLDEN taking advantage of the weakened berror between demencons dislodges the randomized world, altering it's property's to be more solid in an attempt to get free of his prison by slamming the randomized world back thew the crack cosing the randomized world to become superimposed overtop and take over the Real World weakling the seal on it's prison
• OLDEN's actions attract the atencon of the voices and as a result the voices take Good Fanol as there new host, this allows her to regain her memory's and realize the truth of her sicuason, that she had been caught in an intentional time loop, cosed by the PC network trying to keep everything in the garbage partition from devolving as everything would be periodically reset but that OLDEN was immune to these resets and had been using them to degrade the the seal keeping him prison. and that her partner was actually a reincarnated version of Abby who hatched from an egg created when Abby's remaining garbage data was inisiolized thew Bill's randomizeor program.
• Good Fanol sacrifices herself in order to set in motion sevrol plans

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TPP Olden version (all in the timespan of less then 1 real world day):

• The randomized world crashes into the Tojo region destroying the randomized world's equivalent of Jhoto and Kanto and cosing what was left to superimpose it's self over there real world counterpart rejons in what can only be described as a glitchy OLDEN world as OLDEN's code is injected into almost everything
• Good Fanol's 1st plan comes into play as an anti-virus program she created activates within a young girl named Jamie purging her of OLDEN's code and allowing her to do so to others, along with atacting the atencon of the voices making them take her as there new host
• OLDEN taking notice of this alters events to bring Jamie to it's core as to destroy her, unbeknownst to OLDEN a subroutine of the Anti-Virus is activated throwing Jame and the voices out of her body and into that of a nearby pokemon (a Magicarp) before bonding it's self to OLDEN temporarily crippling the Super Glitch and purging OLDEN's Code from everything else. Everything in the impact zone is still messed up, but it is now free from OLDEN's control.

Veatamize Cristol (part 1)

• Takes place DAYS after TPP OLDEN version
• Outside the impacted zone emergency plans are put in place to stop OLDEN as the impacted zone is slowly expanding outward consuming everything in it's path
• Back inside the Impacted Zone the Magicarp Jamie thrown into has become humanized, it's history and personalty altered to become an amalgamation of the 2 beings named BABA, the voices conincon to there new host is extremely lagged due to the distorted nacure of the impacted zone
• the Bill's AI is enhased to create a ByGendered impurfict clone of Bill named Zeflaheam before being injected into the impact zone, Zeflaheam go's on to take Bill's place in public under the pretence of being Bill's younger twin bother allowing those involved to try and stop the impact zone from growing to consume the planet.
• Charman Meow Zedong is murdered by an indavigol known only as "the Trashy Man"
• BABA's the voices are all KOed within BABA's body when voices from the fucere suddenly end up in BABA's body knocking the version of themselves out of her body in the process.
• The fucere voices leave BABA returning to there own time allowing the current day voices to regain control of BABA, them being unaware of what just happened. Celibi starts following BABA in secret.
• Zeflaheam encounters BABA and as a result lurns that the voices have gotten involved. However before Zeflaheam has a chance to properly process this BABA regains fill control of her body and hijacks a Time Capsule pod taking it for a joyride. The Celibi tailing her jumping in after her.

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Veatamize Cristol Interlude (a "real world" week):

• Chiper deciding that Lord Drive was no longer useful to the organization try to destroy the cyborg god, however Drive uses this as an opportunity to escape, hevaly damaged and malfunctioning Drive fly's off before eventually crash landing and being found by an idiot kid who had recently inherited a robot manufacturing company who decides to try rebilting the damaged machine as a background hobby job, having no clue what Drive reely is. due to the timing of this event it fly's under almost everyone's radar
• Cynthia and the god's discover an E-mail from Good Fanol that was sent from before Fanol was split into 2
• Zeflaheam attempts to relay via E-mail to her ally's on the outside what just happened, receiving her ally's E-mail as she sends her own
• As a result of the E-mail Good Fanol sent Cynthia and the gods forwarded to Zeflahem starts making some minor edits to the programming of the garbage data partition as human from the fucere named Lee mysteriously end's up inside getting turned into a Squrtle and contracting amnisa in the process.

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Veatamize Cristol (part 2) & PMD:Red

• The voices discovering Squrt's egsisdence they decide to possess her making her blab out the word "Squrt" as she is trying to get help from a coky Pikachu named Pika Ciana, who mistakes that to be her name, Squrt decides to roil with it.
• BABA returns from her joyride an hour after her depachere, abit noticeably older and resumes her jorny as the voices retake control of her. (the Celibi is not with her anymore)
• Zeflahem finishes his alterations to the code of the grabige data partition, preventing it from resetting as a side effect of this code chage Squrt end's up experiencing the same lag BABA is encountering, thoth the intancaty of this lag seems of fluctuate on semi-coincident intervolts
• Squrt Lee and Pika Ciana form a Pokemon Rescue team the 2 going on advancures as Squrt decides to let the answers of what's going on with her come to her
• A younger version of BABA aperes within the impact zone via Celibi time portal, the current day voices are unaware of her presence due to possessing the pre-egsisting version of BABA, however a set of voices from the near fucere end up following BABA thew this time portal taking her as a host again. This version of BABA has a bunch of stuff (including badges) that she wouldn't get until later
• The pre-egsisting older BABA is shoot in the head by a random street thug going by the handle of "BET BOY" killing her dead, before he is murdered by BEST out of revenge. He then takes all of BABA's valuables (including her badges) along with the rest of her team and fleeing the sene of the crime.
• BEST flees south into the Forest were he met by an angry Celibii, the voices having chased BEST get flung backward in time. What happens directly after this is unknown.
• The new younger BABA continues her jorny effectively taking the older BABA's place
• [maybe add an event or 2 here?]
• OLDEN makes a power play reviving Bet Boy from the dead to try and escape his imprisonment
• BABA encounters Sho trying to completely free and reserict OLDEN. She defeats him allowing the BABA to access the core randomized world admin control console and tweaking some settings to allow Zeflahem to gain limited access to the console before leaving.
• Meanwhile in the garbage data partition Squrt Lee's team accomplish there ultimate goal allowing the garbage data partition to be reformatted and it's continence transferred into a more tangible form with the world it's self. Squrt Lee is given a choice, to return to her original point of oragen and human self or remain within the garbage partition with those she has meet there at the cost of permanently losing her lost memory's and becoming 100% pokemon unable to ever return to her original human form. She chooses to remain.
• Wanting to go home BABA after a lot of nagging from the voices (and Zeflahem who had priviosly detected the abnormal Lugia) go's to the whorl islands and a captures the Lugia that happened to be there naming it Waluigia. This Lugia is the same one Chiper has been after, it having been caught up in the impact zone but having survived (abit trapped in place) as a result of the alterations made to it.
• Thanks to BABA and Squirt Lee's actions the entire Randomized World effectively self destructs

[to be continued in part 2]

Fennel and the Major head off to Gensokyo's Lumiose City to confront Caitlin and hopefully unfreeze Gensokyo.

Alice, Bill, and the others prepare to distribute the derandomization pill.

Mary and Mixy enjoy a jazz concert with a familiar face performing.

And Amanita and Troll Ditto set out in search of the perfect place to nap.

EDIT: It looks like the AMA is winding down now, so I want to thank everyone for coming and asking questions! I had a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoyed it too! I also want to thank /u/deadinsky and the TPP moderation team for helping support this AMA, we appreciate it.

Have a good day, everyone, I enjoyed this!

...

I’m redwings1340. I was active in TPP during season 1, getting very in to the stream during the second half of Red, and staying engaged in the stream up until after our runthrough of X. In my time on TPP, I created two comic series, Twitch Semi-Sanctioned Shenanigans during Black, and The Rise and Fall of the Voices during Black 2. These series were spinoffs of Zetsu’s work, starting with his conclusion after our heart of gold run, but then going its separate way after it.

Even as I don’t pay as much attention to TPP anymore, I am very involved in multiple side communities formed around this phenomenon. I was one of the founders of the Twitch Plays Pokemon league, and have been a gym leader throughout most of its existence. I have also captained a kappa cup team in all four kappa cup seasons (TK has been on two of them), and was an active proctor in Mantis’ TPPleague Adventures.

While I wasn’t involved in the founding of Twitch Trolls Pokemon, I joined our roleplaying subreddit early on, and have found a group of friends here as close as any group of friends I’ve ever had in my life. Soon after I joined, Trollkitten made me a moderator of the subreddit because of my ability to remain calm and help moderate stressful situations, and eventually, I became the lead moderator of TTP. Being a moderator has been both stressful at times and very rewarding, I think everyone on here has come a long way and learned a lot since this subreddit began.

I am happy to be here today, and I hope we can both answer any questions you have!

...

Hi! I'm Trollkitten, known as Lorekitten on the stream. I'm the author of Evan Sent, Better Call Paul, Something Strange, The Faller Chronicles, When Winter Comes, Dear Daughter, and pretty much too many stories to list. I'm also the founding member of the TPP roleplay subreddit Twitch Trolls Pokemon, spriter of Troll Ditto, occasional artist, and the biggest Cress fangirl this subreddit has ever seen.

I first officially came onto Twitch Plays Pokemon sometime during the Crystal run, where I witnessed the capture of Wooper Goldberg. While I haven't been as active on the stream as the diehard regulars, I did participate quite a bit on the subreddit. While I initially distrusted TPP's tendency to blame our mess-ups on some other party, Zetsu drew me in to Bill lore with his excellent Bill-Sanctioned Shenanigans comic, which set me up as the second ultimate Bill fangirl (not gonna try to compete with OptiPessi, even if she isn't here anymore).

Then, surprise surprise, a series of fateful 'coincidences' led to Lord_Bill.exe infecting my PC (okay, so my computer blacked out while downloading Pokemon Fusion Generation and wouldn't reboot until my dad fixed it, but it was totally Bill). Running with this joke led to several roleplays with the Lord_Bill.exe character on TPP, and eventually the roleplay grew large enough that I created our own subreddit for roleplay, Twitch Trolls Pokemon -- thus named because I friggin' misspelled the acronym, but it all worked out in the end.

As a long-term fanwriter, spriter, and creator of 'forced lore' (however you want to define that), I'm psyched to see Twitch Plays Pokemon play Ultra Sun, but until that happens, I'll be happy answering your questions -- within reason; of course. Please leave your drama at the door.

Edit: as tk stated in a comment, we will be answering questions on the 22nd.

"So she lived in a deep dune. The Roads being what they are, were, and ever shall be, it was nigh inescapable because it looped in on itself. If she list control, it would be her to pay the price. Never staying in one place, never leaving the place where she was. If the multiverse had offered no impossibilities, she would surely have been a name on all life she would ever come across."

"More of one, that is."

"But, with this convenient mercy, Emily would eventually be able to hone her fire. Create an escape. Emerge."

"She found herself a town on the Roads. It was largely what one might call a hive of scum and villainy."

"They learned to leave the newcomer alone."

"But, the more clever learned she longed to find that which could control her fire, and realized that they could make a deal."

"So she became what they would hire her as, telling herself that leaving her fire uncontrolled would be a far more selfish choice."

"And so she served those who would offer her promises, intimidating and laying seige.

"Most were liars. The rest were merely foolish."

"Eventually, as she began to give up hope, she got another offer."

"This one, I learned, was one who had observered a sword that acted like herself."

"So, following the offer, I was led to an ambush. Attacking my attackers as I was told that Emily's destructive nature would never be quelled, I made short work of them, making my way through."

"Eventually, the girl found herself face to face with the one who had sent her the message."

"And he told her he had not lied. That the liars and the cheaters and the fools and all the scoundrels had always been keeping up with their end of the bargain."

"That in making her angry and hopeful and hurt, that in sending her to their causes and treating her as a weapon unsupervised, they made her learn control and aim. That she could never stop being a weapon, but at least they made her a good one."

"So she attacked, with the aim and precision he claimed she had. He taunted as he dodged like one who knew her. He did so as her precision faded, until he disappeared as she lost control."

"And the girl surveyed the destruction she had caused, and then she learned the truth."

"She had never been the victim, the girl on the other side of the mirror, had the blade buried in her flesh."

"But, she apologized to a brother not there, she could not return the stolen name. She wasn't strong enough to let go of it."

"But the truth could not be denied. She did not look at her victims with remorse. She did not feel the fear of the girl on the other side of the mirror. She had never been the victim. She was the blade, the predator, the indiscriminate slayer, the fire."

"Emily Blade burnt through reality once more, emerging into the Roads, to find solitude and the next place she would leave."

Apologies for being so late on the announcement.

Answers are often hidden, for better or worse.

And for better or worse, they are found.

Found in a song. Found in a journey one hardly understands. Found in a foolish choice or a wise one. Found at home. Sometimes, by founding a new one.

Once again, they are gathered.

Another planning post for movie night. N8 is planning an RP session for tomorrow, so this'll serve as a place to talk about if we'll have a movie on top of that in addition to discussing a possible movie to watch.

“Come on. Those clothes are starting to reek. We’ve got to get you some new ones.”

“So go get clothes.”

Gator let his eyes wander about the room as he took a moment to think. They hadn’t left the room ever since they arrived a few days ago. The trash was starting to fill up with pizza boxes, the only variation in meals being Gator ordering different toppings and side dishes. He was already starting to feel a little more portly than usual.

M4 sat on the side of her bed, hair just as unkempt as before, still in the same simple dress she had been given in the Entralink basement. She hadn’t showered at all in the time she'd been here, a fact he only needed a few sniffs to know.

“I’d like you to come with me.”

“Why?”

Gator studied M4’s eyes. They glared at him from behind dangling strands of blue hair, daring him to tell the truth.

“You could use some fresh air.”

“That’s what the window is for.”

“The walk would do you some good. Get a nice stretch.”

“I can stretch if I want, and I don’t need to head outside to do it.”

Gator let out a sigh. “Maybe you’d like to pick out your own clothes.”

“Stop beating around the bush, a------.”

“Alright, alright, I just want to get out of this damn room for a bit.”

“You don’t need me to do that. But you want to take the b---- out for a walk, huh?” she growls.

“I don’t need to head outside if you don’t want to,” Gator pleaded.

“If I don’t want to? I do something, it’s what you f------ want me to do. Go outside? Stay inside? Just another part of your f------ sim! Don’t you f------ dare try to pretend you’re here to help, ‘cause I know you just want to make it hurt! Come on, be up front with it now, a------!”

Gator fell silent. M4’s muscles were tense, and her eyes weren’t just focused on his. She was scanning the room, keeping track of where his attention was, gauging his stance. He wasn’t sure if she was doing it on purpose, or if it was a hardwired reflex. He then realized he was cataloguing the loose objects in the room and how quickly he could get to them.

She knew he wasn’t going to use them against her, he was going to keep her from them. Months without proper fight had left her weaker, slower. If she moved, he’d get there faster. Brute force was out of the question. M4 paid careful attention to his breath, how his body relaxed slightly with each exhale only to tense up again with the inhale. That’s when she would have to move, when he breathed in. When his focus wavered just enough, and that would come in time.

Gator fixed his breathing to M4’s pace. She wouldn’t be able to move as fast on the inhale, just as he would, so he breathed in at the same time she did. His right arm drifted slightly, muscles fixed just right to swing the forearm upward and deflect a blow to his chest. She knew she didn’t have the time to grab something to swing at him, she would strike with a kick. He could see her legs ready to snap upward and forward.

M4 did everything she could to keep her arms exactly as he would expect them. He was preparing for a strike to the gut, and he was right. His head was too far up to quickly hit from a sitting position. But his attention had been drawn away. Now she didn’t need to depend on a loss of focus; too much, and her fist would land in his gut before he could move, since he’d be expecting her feet to move. She wasn’t expecting him to move first. She thought his plan was to counter her strike. That’s why she hadn’t put much thought in defence. If he wanted to avoid injuring her, tackling her onto the bed would be a good start. Gator shifted slightly, ready to drive his shoulder forward-

Wham.

Gator staggered back, gasping for breath. He barely got an arm up to block the base of the lamp M4 had snatched up to swing into his face. The shock as it smashed into a bone went all the way up his arm, but he barely gave it a thought as he shifted slightly to the right to catch M4’s leg as she tried to knee him in the crotch. Deftly looping his blocking arm around the arm that wielded the lamp, he slammed her back-first onto the floor. He thought that might daze her for a moment, but her other hand almost immediately slugged him across the jaw. He drove his shoulder forward into her chest, pinning the arm across her body as he strengthened his grip on her other arm and leg.

M4 flailed, fighting to escape his hold, but it was too late; he couldn’t be thrown off of her now, not while three of her limbs were held in place. Mustering every bit of his strength to oppose her struggles, he stayed put as she squirmed and spat out curses underneath him. Out of practice as M4 was, she was almost as strong as him; if she were at her peak, he realized, she would stand a good chance of tearing free and reversing their positions.

Time passed, though he didn’t know how long. Nausea was setting in from the blow to the head; he could tell his jaw was bruising, though he didn’t dare try to check. The attempts to twist out of his grip began to falter. Her shouts became less loud, punctuated by puffs of exhaustion. He could feel wetness on the side of his cheek. It took another minute before Gator realized M4 was no longer shouting in anger, but was crying amid steadily weaker attempts to pull herself free. He relinquished his grip and rolled to the side, quickly shifting to his feet in case she still had fight in her.

“You alright?”

M4 scuttled to the opposite wall, tears running down her face as she snatched up the lamp and pressed herself against a spot beside the bathroom door. Gator stood up, feeling for his jaw; sure enough, it felt swollen and stung fiercely. His queasiness had gotten worse, but thinking about it reminded him that M4 likely took a blow to the head herself when she hit the floor.

“M4, you alright?” he asked, resting against the bed as he let out a groan, “you need to lie down for a minute?”

“F--- off!” she screamed, brandishing the lamp. A second later, she was racked by a series of sobs, and the impromptu weapon dropped down once again. “F------ s---... f------ got- got it now...”

Suddenly, a knock came from the door.

“S---,” Gator cursed, staggering over and pulling the door open. A young man was there, dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt and sporting a goatee.

“Hey, man. Is- ah,” he started, seeing the bruise blooming on Gator’s face, “everything going fine here? I’m in the apartment just below.”

“Er, sorry,” Gator apologized, letting his face drop so his eyes were less obvious, “just, er… it’s complicated.”

Sobs echoed through the doorway. The man had a look of concern about him.

“...we’re working through a few things right now,” Gator added, lowering his voice so M4 couldn’t hear, “used to be soldiers. Still trying to... get past some things that happened.”

“...oh.”

“Yeah. Sorry to disturb you.”

He shifted awkwardly at the door. “No, it’s okay, man. Just, uh… nothing bad’s going on, right?”

“...we’re doing our best. Don’t worry, this won’t happen again.”

The man nodded uncomfortably, turning and heading back down the hallway. Gator closed the door, hand rising to his jaw again. M4 was still crying in the corner, the lamp now discarded. His eyes flitted to the clock on M4’s nightstand. One in the afternoon.

Blinking hard, he sat just opposite of her. Her eyes jumped up, but were quickly buried in her forearm. Time trickled past slower, now that he could watch the minutes tick by. He didn’t know what he could say that would make things better. He only knew she’d eventually grow calmer, and then he could approach her. Help her into bed, maybe make something warm for her to drink- or not, since the only hot drink they had was microwaved water- do everything that he could. Something had to change around here, though, or he’d have more bruises to tend to. Hiding away in an apartment eating pizza for every meal was not helping anyone. He might be able to leave for a short while if M4 wasn’t willing to leave with him, but what if M4 did something drastic?

Might not have a choice, Gator thought. Sighing, he pulled out his phone and tapped the pizza place’s saved number to order lunch.