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Contents 1 Midnight Crew 1.1 Loop M1 2 Alpha 2.1 Loop A1 3 Archie Games 3.1 Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep 4 Pixar Loops 4.1 Toy Story 4.1.1 Flik 4.2 a bug's life 4.2.1 Flik is Awake 4.2.2 Hopper 4.2.3 Kairi and the Lecture Pill 4.3 Monsters Inc. 4.3.1 Sora gets an idea 4.3.2 Terra finds a new face 4.3.3 Railroad 4.3.4 Graveyard Shift 4.3.5 Damaged Goods 4.3.6 Homecoming 4.4 Finding Nemo 4.4.1 Curious 4.4.2 Evolution 4.5 Up 4.5.1 Foreward 4.5.2 Kinship with a Companion 4.5.3 Love between companions 4.5.4 Married Life of Companions 4.5.5 Willing Life of Companions 4.5.6 Charmed Life of Companions 4.6 Coco 5 Disney Adminspace 5.1 Meeting Fontus 6 DDLC 6.1 Do you even lift, bro? 6.2 Designated Guardian 6.3 Wonder 7 WiXoss 7.1 Ruko and Tama 7.2 Meta-Game 7.3 Tama and Ruko 7.4 Nanago and Nodoka 7.5 Fire Tama 7.6 Belted out 8 Recovery of an MMO Junkie 8.1 Hiyashi 8.2 Moriko Plays 8.3 Moriko Watches 8.4 Moriko Sees 8.5 Moriko meets Hiyashi 8.6 Hiyashi Claps 8.7 Hiyashi Writes 8.8 Moriko codes 8.9 Hiyashi Learns 8.10 Moriko Meets Ruby 8.11 Harumi meets Hiyashi 8.12 Lily Breathes 9 CTG 9.1 Monday 9.1.1 V is for Vital 9.1.2 Y is for Youth 9.1.3 U is for Ultimatum 9.1.4 W is for Waste 9.2 Tuesday 9.2.1 D is for Danger 9.2.2 O is for Orbit 9.2.3 S is for Satisfaction 9.3 Games, Sports, and lovely lady humps. 9.3.1 Q is for Quickening 9.3.2 A is for Airtime 9.3.3 J is for Juvinile 9.3.4 K is for Kiss 9.4 Har Har Har Har 9.4.1 I is for Imagination 9.4.2 G is for Grievance 9.5 An Exit Sign 9.5.1 M is for Money 9.5.2 L is for Lies 9.5.3 R is for Regret 9.6 Five Hours of Summer 9.6.1 F is for Friendship 9.6.2 P is for Poverty 9.6.3 T is for Tedium 9.6.4 N is for Nostalgia 9.7 Commend Thy Spirit 9.7.1 B is for Babylon 9.7.2 C is for Cohesive 9.7.3 E is for Evacuation 9.7.4 H is for Hope 10 Doctor Who: The Yggdrasil Diaries 11 ReBoot 11.1 A Guardian's Code 11.1.1 Snip 1: Before the Storm 11.1.2 Snip 2: Generic Plot 11.1.3 Snip 3: Literally Zixx 11.1.4 Snip 4: So... Code Lyoko, then 11.1.5 Snip 5: New Blood, Bland Taste

Midnight Crew

Loop M1

Alpha

Loop A1

Your name is JANE. And you find yourself back in your humble little room and in your skinny teen body.

====–> Look around for your objects

You dig for your handy stirring solution and -

====–> Check Pesterchum

Archie Games

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Commissioned by Archie to Square Enix in 2006 as a means to get Ken Penders away from Sonic, Birth by Sleep is a comic set ten years in the past to appease Nomura's strict grip on Sora and his gang. It features Terra, Ventus, and Aqua as the lead characters designed by Nomura himself as a specific guideline for Penders and company. He then re-designed Terra and Aqua to resemble how they'd look on the day Sora was born. created four additional characters, half of which based on Sega Properties. A black boy named Lekz, a latina girl named Pyrhha, an Echidna named _ and a Nightmaren named Twilight. They travel across all sorts of Disney Worlds. Illustrated by Alan Sullivan

• Issue 1: Welcome to the Jungle

A young girl named Madoka Quentira is swept off her feet by a dashing rogue named Terra Ende and takes her in as an apprentice.

Pixar Loops

Toy Story

Flik

The birthday haul this Loop was more or less the same as any other, Andy's Mom got him Buzz as usual while one of his friends got him a Flik figure from a bug's life as that was Pixar's first film in this particular reality.

Once he got up on the bed, Woody Pinged for his fellow Loopers and promptly received three in return. Buzz did his spiel, re-enacted his introduction then gathered on one side of the bed for Roll Call. In addition to Himself and Lightyear, Slink and Hamm were the Loopers that were Awake at that time so all they had left to do is investigate this new Flik toy and figure out his purpose for the Loop.

Flik was exploring the bedroom floor with a sense of wonder and curiosity in his eyes when Woody and the rest of the Loopers turned up to greet this new hiccup in the Loop. "Look, I know Buzz is getting a lot of the spotlight but there are plenty of other toys here who can show you around during your time here."

"Thanks." Blushed Flik. "I'm kinda new to this whole sensation."

"Well, seeing as you're literally mint out of the box, we couldn't just leave you hangin' like this..." Woody specified to the newer toy. "We could show you around if you like."

"Oh, I don't want to intrude or anything." stressed Flik. "I mean, this is my first Fused Loop and all tha-."

"W-Wait, okay, hold on a tic..." Woody gathered as much of his thoughts as he can muster before asking. "You're Looping!?"

This gained the attention of the four other Loopers present, Flik merely answered. "Yeah."

"Golly bob howdy, Seems to me like there's more of us out there every day." chuckled Slink, "Question is, who gave ya the talk?"

"Funny you should mention that, eh..." blushed Flik, embarrassed to let them know how he learned of the Loops. "Actually, Princess Atta had been activated that Loop, so Kairi gave us both the whole 'Welcome to the Multiverse' spiel."

"Kairi?" Woody raised an eyebrow to this response. "As in the princess of heart over in the realm of light?"

"Yeah," Flik scratched the back of his plastic 'scalp' "Though not in the way you'd expect."

Flik refused to even mention the speech's blunt involvement of the known Looping sociopath Rick Sanchez.

a bug's life

Flik is Awake

"I'M LOOOOOOOST!!!" Flik's eyes snapped open to find that there's suddenly a pile of food where it wasn't before, there's a harvester on his back, and his mind was commanding him to fetch food for Hopper. But wasn't he-?

Was that a dream?

Clearly it was, what with the circus bugs and the travelling cracker box. So he wisely chose to lay his pack aside and do it the old-fashioned way as to not disrupt the offering.

Hopper

'It was bad enough that he had to see Hopper's ugly mug every snapback...' Flik thought to himself as he felt the added mass of his body. 'But to end up as a Grasshopper, let alone part of his gang?!'

"Flik, this better be good!" sniped Hopper, as bitter as ever.

"Ah... Well, you see..." Flik struugled to get the words out as he cued up his new contraption. "Using rose-petals, some silk string and the Earwax on all the q-tips I've found, I managed to engineer a harvest moving contraption to assist the colony."

"Ain't it cute... do you hear that, boys?" Barked Hopper to the rest of his gang, taking interest in the moment. "Pickleboy here wants to help the ants!"

Flik heard the laughter of his 'fellow' grasshoppers before Hopper proceeded to tear his hard work apart. "It's NEVER about the food! If they EVER get it through their THICK little thorax that they OUTnumber US, it's OVER!!!"

Hopper was thrashing about in front of the innovative (currently) grasshopper who wanted to help until Molt restrained him to the best of his ability, Flik could only watch as the two brothers struggle with their values, the elder of which recalling his promise to his mother and holding back his fists.

At least Flik knew what to do when the Grasshoppers show up next time.

Kairi and the Lecture Pill

"I'M LOOOOOOOST!!!"

There he was, back at that one harvest for the upteenth time, having lived for far longer than any ant should have. He retraced his steps, did all he could to keep himself in the part he played where it all began.

"No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

Speaking the same words. Doing the same things. Acting the same ways. Meeting the same faces.

"What did you do?"

Making the same mistakes.

"Where's My Food!"

Atta struggled to explain herself to the worst boss he ever had thus far. "Are you sure it's not up there?"

"Are you saying I'm stupid?" Hopper deadpaned to which Atta shook her head. "Do I look. Stupid. To you?"

Hopper did his spiel, taught Atta the 'first rule of leadership', burst in anger from the mentioning of birds, and delivered his usual ultimatum.

"If you don't keep your end of the bargain, then I can't guarantee your safety." reminded Hopper. "And there are insects out there that will take advantage of you, Someone could get hurt."

With a snap of his fingers, in came Thumper. Flik promptly mobilized when Dot was to introduced to the feral insect, moved back in line but he noticed an odd detail when he made the commission of double the usual order before the last leaf falls. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"How..." Atta piped. "How are you even here!?"

"I think you know the answer to that..." Hopper grinned sinisterly, "Let's Ride!"

And thus, the Grasshoppers were on their way home, leaving Atta in a stir.

"Not sure why, But I had thoughts of when I was queen." pondered the Princess, still in apparent shock in what she just saw. "We stood up against Hopper, Hopper was gone, Circus bugs abound- actually, that adds some credens to all of that being a dream..."

"Having a bad day?" Atta looked behind her to find a light-pink worker ant with a flat sheet of stone lined by small rod-like pebbles at the bottom.

"Oh, uh... Yeah," Atta began to collect her composure and focused on the harvest. "First came a flash of ...impossible ideas."

"Not for long..." whispered the pink ant.

"Then I hear from the Grasshoppers that our harvest fell down the river..." Atta grew more and more uneasy and panicked before grasping the subject's shoulders "Now we have to provide double our order to a gang of grasshoppers lead by an Insect I saw get eaten by birds!!"

"Hold on, Hold on, Hold on." Flik scattered to make eye contact with the Princess. "You're repeating the same summer, too?"

"Oh, so that's why I turned up here this Loop..." the young ant just sighed as she pulled a droplet from her thorax (certain ants saying that it just magically appeared from thin air.) "May a princess Dorothy please step forward."

"Oh! My friends call me Dot." answered the younger princess.

"Not when this thing's through with you." Kairi then hands the little ant the drop "Suckle on this, if you please."

And Dot promptly suckled the fluid into her body, sensing a faint tingly sensation. "And how will this make me any-" and then it kicked in, initiating a change in Atta's younger sister "Wubba-Lubba Dub-Dub!"

The echo in the colony was heard near and far, but the reaction that ensued towards her current body gained the ire of the new consciousness. "Really had to be something this small... No matter, The lifespan of a mayfly's short enough. How do you do, I'm Rick Sanchez, not the genuine article, but an extension of his intellect, personality and consciousness made through specific chemicals known to simulate the proportionate aging process of a mayfly for eleven minutes, more than enough for a quick look into the multiverse."

"Wait, M-Multiverse?" piped Flik. "You mean what's beyond the colony."

"A hell of a lot farther than you think." Dot's wings had grown in by that point and thus allowed her to take flight for an illustration of the great tree that marked the colony. "Picture our great tree but, like eleventy-bajillion and infinity-fourteen times larger and with a supercomputer!"

"That's Yggdrasil and it's broken." Dot continued to lecture the ants on the subject of how the tree could have been damaged, the nature of Loopers and a brief detour into the aging of a mayfly as defined by a Robot Chicken comedy sketch over the course of almost nine minutes. All the while the growth of the little princess became more and more noticeable to the colony, her appendages lengthened, Thorax widened, and her face lost plenty of her innocence as even her voice matured into something that could easily be mistaken for the worker ant that gave her the droplet to begin with.

"And now that you know the intel, the chemicals will evacuate. Graaaaaass... Tastes bad." a yellow droplet fell to the ground beneath her legs and Dot promptly snapped out of her trance, her freckles being the only indicator that she was who she was. "Okay, why is everybody staring at me like tha-"

Her elder sister looked in shock at her little sister who was now almost as grown as she was, said younger sibling clutched her throat in shock. "Why do I sound like Kairi?"

Mayfly aging = .8 years per minute

6 years x .8 years per minute = 4.8 minutes

(30 mins = 24 years) - (7 years = 5.6 mins) = (17 years = 13.6 mins)

13.6 mins - 4.8 mins = 8.8 minutes

Monsters Inc.

Sora gets an idea

Sora had Looped into Monsters Inc. as an intern and he'll be the first to admit, the mailroom is a decent and yet rather slow start to his temporary career. Today was different, for today was during the age of the Laugh Floor where comedy is typically king and the monster behind this magic is none other than James P. Sullivan whose longtime friend Mike Wazowski was the resident Anchor of this Loop.

"Sora, Three days before the end of the Loop." Mike chimed to his Looping senior as he popped his eye into the mailroom. "Anything special you wanna do to round off your stay here?"

It was there that Sora had an idea. "Yeah, can I tuck Boo in on the last night."

"Only if you're good." Smiled Mike as he slid back off to his next door, already were there gears turning in Sora's head. An idea was there for a surprise gift in honor of a day to come.

---

The time inevitably arrived and he had minutes to spare with the child so Sulley was watching Sora like a hawk of sorts.

"And that's why hiding naughtiness under the mask of feminism is wrong." Smiled Sora as he closed the Feminist Baby book and tossed it into the fire in his pocket. "So, Boo? Is there anything you want out of the Loops, do you want to see them in college?"

Boo giggled at Sora's offer while Sulley peered in concern. "Uh, Sora..."

"Or perhaps you want to see swarms of Heartless, truely viscous monsters, moreso than the ones like us." the cooing noises bubbled over. "We've got seconds left this Loop. What's it gonna be?"

Boo flashed a wide and eager smile, filled with all the acceptance Sora wanted to see.

"Up you go!" Sora stuffed Boo into his Subspace Pocket with three seconds to spare to Sulley's shock.

"Sora! What are you doing!?" Panicked the big blue furbear "You can't be seriθψξσώςάфюяжб-"

---

Sora opened his eyes to find his level is far lower, indicating that he's Awakened early into Birth by Sleep. "Well, at least I can understand Boo better..."

He promptly popped Boo out of the pocket and showed her the beaches of Destiny Islands. She ran across the sands for a minute or two before a thought crawled into her head and escaped her breath. "Kitty?"

Terra finds a new face

Terra stood at that same spot, the same circular plateau where Sora and Riku commonly sparred. He held his wayfinder to his chest, the railroading of the storyline picking up steam despite Xehanort's Looping self foregoing his baseline role. Seeing the typically sadistic Vanitas joined by Braig and the Replika project somehow being further along than normal worried him somewhat, but Xehanort reassured him that Yggdrasil was just doing its job to keep the Baseline as similar as it can.

For now, Terra could only watch the sunset over the sea as the two boys raced towards the plateau with another child, a girl in pink. "Kairi's here early as well... But what if..."

Gears started turning, clues connected, the outward appearance of the girl in question. "Oh, no..."

"Beat ya!" Giggled the brunette in the red trunks. "The Score's 1 to 2!"

"C'mon, Sora. I let you win!" Riku clarified to his brother in arms. "I had to wait for you-know-who to catch up."

Terra had to speak up to his much younger Anchor about this child. "Sora, who is this?"

Sora was struggling to get the words out through his childish lisp. "Well, I wanted to do somethin' for a friend so I-"

"-went ahead and got Selphie to join our group for the Loop at hand." Riku interrupted, knowing all too well the consequences of letting the truth slip out this early.

"Selphie?" Terra raised an eyebrow. "This wide-eyed Pixar Princess is the same Selphie Tilmitt from our home branch."

"Yes, she is." lied Riku.

Terra's stare fiercened towards his chosen successor, but he knew Riku wouldn't lie unless there's a good reason. He re-aimed his sights to Sora, a look of concern lacing his face to show how very disappointed he was at the Anchor of his home reality before moving out to head home.

Railroad

"Master! Have you gone mad!?"

"Terra! I command you – step aside!" his master ordered.

"No!" Terra shouted back, armor fading.

Master Eraqus's eyes narrowed. "You will not heed your master?"

"I won't!" Not when he'd seen Ven backing up like that, clearly afraid. Not when it was the master that was supposed to guide and protect them who had attacked first.

"Why do all my attempts to reach you fail!?" Their master hung his head and tried one more time to get Terra to back away. "If you don't have it in your heart to obey..." he looked up, pain filling his eyes as he saw the resolve on Terra's face, "then you will have to share Ventus's fate." A tear ran down his face before he lunged towards Terra, attacking in earnest.

Terra blocked the attacks, refusing to give any ground. "Enough, Terra!" Ven said from behind him. "He's right..."

"Quiet!" Terra barked. He hated stealthing in front of his friends, he hated stealthing to dissuade his master, he hated stealthing for a much more changed version of a foe he knew would doom him from this moment life.

"Terra..." Ven said softly. Then Terra was tackled from behind, throwing him off-balance and narrowly avoiding one of Eraqus's swings. He tumbled to the ground, snarling as he prepared to deal with this new threat because Ven needed him –

He was shocked to see it was Ven trying to hold him down. He stopped struggling immediately; hurting his friend was one line he would never cross. "Ven, get off!"

"No!" Ven yelled. "Just stop it, both of you!" Tears welled up in the boy's eyes as his hands fisted in his hair. "Terra, Master, please, listen to me..."

Eraqus had pulled his Keyblade back, light drawn in around it for a powerful attack, but froze. He lowered his Keyblade, light dissipating as he stared at the the two boys, horror dawning on his face.

"Please, no more fighting..." cried Ventus, a shadow watching in the distance. "If they get me to fight, then it's over... Vanitas needs me and me alone to become the x-blade and we can't let it happen and I'm scared and I don't know what to do but you can't fight the Master don't you know how much he loves you and I love you too that's why I can't let you –" He took in a shuddering breath, head lowering to rest on the older boy's chest, voice becoming painfully level. "I can't let you two fight because of me. Not for me..."

"Ven..." Terra said softly, putting a hand on the younger boy's shoulder. It was trembling, putting the lie to Ven's attempt at calm. His rage was forgotten in an instant as he tried to think of some way to help, to fix this, to make things right since Ventus still wasn't Awake for the Loop.

"Ventus, Terra," Eraqus said from where he still stood. Terra shot him a glare, wrapping an arm protectively around Ven as he stood and moved back. Eraqus didn't come closer, Keyblade low at his side, held too loosely to be threatening. "What am I doing? Raising my Keyblade against my students..." He shook his head, pain lining his face as he held a hand over his chest. "Was I truly so blind to not see the darkness forming in my heart?"

"Master..." Terra said, still holding tightly to Ven. The darkness coiled within him, ready to leap out and attack at the slightest provocation.

Eraqus kept his head down, not looking at them. "I am sorry, both of you. I let my fear cloud my judgment, but no more." Grey eyes were clear as he dismissed his Keyblade and looked up, meeting Terra's light blue ones directly. "You were right to stand against me, Terra. And you deserve to know why you had to, what secret lies behind Ventus first coming here."

"I already know," Terra said, maybe a little harsher than he should have. He pulled back on the darkness, feeling it reluctantly settle. "Master Xehanort told me about Vanitas."

Ven started, pulling away from Terra. The older boy let him, since Eraqus didn't seem like he was going to attack again, and Ven stared up at him with a mix of worry and fear. "Xehanort told you?"

Terra nodded, giving his friend a reassuring smile. "It's okay, Ven. He told me about the training accident –"

"It wasn't an accident!" Ven yelled. He flinched, one hand pressing to his head as he gasped in pain.

"Ven!" Terra reached out for his friend, surprised when Ven knocked his hand away, eyes wide with panic as he stepped back.

A second later the look cleared, and Ven looked down, shoulders sagging. "It wasn't an accident," he repeated quietly, half to himself. "I didn't want to fight, wasn't strong enough..." He winced, hand again going to his head. "I was too scared to do anything, and he..."

"I suppose that's my cue..." The wisened old man in leather and silk approached them from a dark corridor with a fez atop his head, stroking his beard as he stepped forward... "Kingdom Hearts is a most tempting subject of study; The one true light said to be the heart of all worlds, over which a great Keyblade War was waged, nearly destroying everything as a result." Xehanort eyed the boy, "Once upon a time, I saw fit to do everything in my power to one day reach that world personally..." A grim, sullen expression graced his face. "But it is said that the only way to open Kingdom Hearts is with the legendary χ-blade, a weapon formed when forces of pure light and darkness clash, something I sought for myself once upon a time, even raising my Keyblade against my closest friend."

Ventus merely looked with anger as Eraqus looked on with concern, "And Ventus, was he the first to undertake your teachings of balancing light and darkness?"

Xehanort nodded. "The boy was spry and crafty, yet still green and thus, nieve." Ven stared the man down with the fierce glare of a guy pissed at the world that drowned his goldfish "He felt that he would rather die than walk the twilight between like you're seeing with Terra, so I took desperate action to salvage this lost cause by flushing every inch of Darkness from his heart, making into into a heart of pure light... But the purge caused the pure darkness to coelesce into a humanoid form. hence Vanitas... And now, he seeks completion, the χ-blade being the dreaded prize in the matter and with it: access to the one thing I felt necessary to risk you all just to see within my now limited lifetime."

Master Eraqus nodded. "And now you know why I attacked Ventus. No one can be allowed access to Kingdom Hearts, the damage this could cause is far too much to allow anyone to come close to its power."

Terra hung his head, concerned for this future and weary of the Baseline as Xehanort pulled out a coffee mug resembling an E-Tank. "So you continued with Vanitas?"

"For a period of time, yes..." Xehanort's sullen face painted a fitting picture of how he felt.

"Terra." Master Eraqus's voice was heavy, conflict plain on his face. "When we were students, Xehanort often spoke of seeking such a balance. But when I have seen darkness, it is always like a wild, raging beast, lashing out at anything that threatens it. To control it without giving in to it, without becoming it, is something no one has ever achieved. Not even Xehanort himself, no matter how he tries. For years I have fought against it, seeking to rid it from our world. Yet despite all those efforts, the darkness persists, grows stronger in response to the light. And now, seeing you, I must wonder... if perhaps I have been wrong."

"Master..."

Master Eraqus shook his head. "The darkness is dangerous, and something to be wary of. That remains true. But it lies within all of us, in every heart. If it can never be driven out, then it falls to us to find another way." His master set a hand on Terra's shoulder. "That path may be the one you now choose to follow, as a Keyblade Master."

Terra's eyes went wide. "Master, do you really mean that?"

Master Eraqus nodded, giving Terra a warm smile. "I truly believe that if anyone can find a way, it will be you, Terra."

Xehanort let out a smirk, relieved to see his old friend warm up to his pupil's skill. He looked over to Ven. "And if you should start to lose yourself, I have no doubt your friends will be there to guide you back."

Ven looked warily at Master Xehanort, then to Master Eraqus, but hope was already starting to return to his eyes. "You're not gonna destroy me?"

Their master shook his head. "I was wrong to even think such a thing. If one of you must be destroyed, it should be the one that threatens the worlds, not the one that would protect them." He set his other hand on Ven's shoulder. "And I will be counting on you to help Terra find his way, to be a light for him should the darkness become too great."

"You got it!" Ven agreed, almost floating as he grinned. He threw his arms around Terra's neck, practically squeezing the life from the older boy. Terra was too relieved that his friend was smiling again to care. "Congratulations, Terra!"

Xehanort watched with a hint of nostalgia from the Loop prior, spending the time bonding with Eraqus, the man he considered a brother both in baseline and in the preceeding iliteration of the world. He chuckled to himself, seeing much of Eraqus and himself in both youths as a looming presence grew closer. "Eraqus!"

Eraqus braced the attack with precision while Xehanort summoned a wall of ice to block the arrowheads fired at the lot of them. The two Masters and their shared disciples found themselves confronted by Vanitas and a new figure (to Eraqus). Both sporting looks that mainly seek vengeance, the scarred man scowling to the bald man with a fez and complained. "What happened, man? You used to be about the music!" A knowing look towards Xehanort. "Aren't you gonna get a piece of the pie this go-round?"

"You aren't supposed to know about the Keyblade, you stand before us only because my body wasn't as spry as it once was." Lamented Xehanort. "But your persistence is laughable at best with your skill."

"You really think that, huh? As if." sneered Braig. "All it takes is a little peek into tomorrow to get the hang of your whole shtick."

"You're damaged goods, master..." uttered Vanitas. "You've up and gone soft."

"I mean come on, you let one of those mushy married couples into your life and suddenly you're mush, too?" complained Braig, "Pft, Alright, then... I've got backup waiting for me down over in the Keyblade Graveyard."

"There, I will take what I want from Ventus and choke the life out of everyone else." Vanitas raised his keyblade over his head. "Like so."

The devastation of the Land of Departure went forward and all parties involved acted to escape the collapsing castle and flee to the Mysterious Tower where Aqua was rescuing a unAwake King Mickey from the empty void that lerks in the lanes between.

Graveyard Shift

Aqua marched up to the tower observatory and opened the door to reveal Terra and two similarly built figures only to find a pleasant and unpleasant surprise on both sides of him.

'I keep forgetting that Xehanort's Looping,' Aqua thought to herself '...and that this Xehanort has Chrysalis Syndrome.'

"It appears Xehanort has shown repentance for at least some of his actions." Yen-Sid recapped to the gifted mage among the newest generation of Keyblade Masters "But it appears that Vanitas has ravaged your home in retaliation."

"Figures..." Sighed Aqua. "I'm just glad to see that you're safe."

"Indeed." Eraqus nodded, "But our duty to this world shall not be done until Vanitas is dealt with."

"I'm guessing he's luring us to the spot where the Keyblade War laid waste to the realm of fairy tales," stated Aqua, holding back her distrust of the man who had left many a life in ruin. "Is that correct, Master Xehanort?"

"Yes, I suppose it's fate that posessed him to wait there for us to arrive." Xehanort let out a sigh. "It is my intellect that brought us all into this mess, so it is only fitting that I use it to pull you out."

"Be on your guard, all of you." Spoke Yen-Sid to his colleagues and successors. "You may never know his true intentions."

Xehanort frowned as they set off for their destination.

←The confrontation between Team Departure and Vanitas→

"Why wouldn't I be Looping? Haven't you been keeping up with Baseline?" chuckled Braig as he clicked a button. "I end the baseline being half you, remember..."

←Braig drops a Replika Terranort on them→

Damaged Goods

Up at the Tower, Master Yen-Sid watched as the elder masters and their disciples regrouped in the face of their bittersweet victory. The Viewing Globe displaying an image of Braig talking with his legal employer in Radiant Garden to take in the battered puppet made from memories.

"Right this way..." Braig spoke as he and the other loyal servants and apprentices stepped towards the unconscious puppet.

"Young man, what ails you?" Ansem spoke to the wounded youth as he grasped his hurting body in his arms. Braig watching to see if the Tree's efforts to railroad the chains of destiny paid off. "Can you speak? Tell me your name."

The puppet's voice choked out: "Xeha...nort..."

"Xehanort." Ansem glanced to the troop that 'found' him as the youth fainted on the spot. "Quickly, take him to the castle!"

"You can count on me." Spoke Braig with a callous smile of satisfaction as he lifted the puppet to carry him back home. Xehanort couldn't bare to look anymore and deactivated the Viewing Globe, grasping a bag.

"We may have won the battle..." sighed the dark artisan. "But we must hide away if we are to survive the coming war..."

Eraqus nodded in confirmation "With our training grounds torn asunder, we must go and retreat somewhere where those who abuse and subsequently surrender themselves to darkness cannot sense our presence."

"I have chosen my first disciple." Terra announced to his master. "He's a good kid, always willing to protect his friends but still has a strong desire to see what lies beyond his boundaries. He hails from Destiny Islands."

Xehanort instantly recognized that world while Aqua realized who Terra was bringing up. Eraqus stood in his thoughts and responded: "I see, The light within that world is warm enough to fend off the dark for an extent of time. Not to mention that Xehanort has a history with that world dating all the way back to his youth where I first met him. I suppose you performed the inheritance ceremony."

"Of course." Terra bowed to his longtime teacher with a look of respect.

←Team Departure licks their wounds→

"So it's settled." The master stood with a stern expression. "We disappear from the eyes of fate until the right time comes."

Homecoming

←Master Xehanort returns to Destiny Islands with the other BbS Keyblade Masters→

Finding Nemo

Curious

Marlin swam about his as he left Nemo to the Dropoff. Ever since he's been let in on the Loops by his son, he had to roll with the punches like with today's helping: Basic Fish Biology.

"So 'Martha', how's the weather down there?" His words pierce with relatively astute accuracy as she let out an embarrassed sigh.

Evolution

Up

Foreward

Ellie's Character Arc going from 'You're not powerless, you can do whatever you want if you just put your mind to it.' 'You're not all-powerful, you don't always have agency and there are things about your life today, roles you fill and things you do, that won't be here forever. It's up to you how to deal with it, but whether or not you like it, change is happening.'

Kinship with a Companion

The Doctor was loving the Unified Timeline Loop he found himself in, mainly because Yggdrasil had cobbled all the Disney branches together ever-so haphazardly as was to be expected of what were built to be standalone films. Some connections made sense, some did not, but it's a computer generated mass Fusion of Branches so you'd expect a few hiccups in terms of how it jumps through all the necessary hoops.

"You know, you don't talk much... I like you!" a girlish voice chirped that attracted the Time Lord's attention as the spry little source of the sound darted back home with a playful smile. He kept up with the child as he had but recently gotten used to the first of his regenerated forms but made sure to hide away from her sight at any opportunity before he stepped on a tree branch and the cracking sound made the girl freeze in place and take note of her surroundings before skipping along her way...

Before punching a magazine-reading hobo in the face. "Who dares?"

"I dare mister!" the girl asserted as the Hobo backed slowly to the doors of a blue police box. "You're looking pretty suspicious and I wanna get to the bottom of it!"

"Well, ah..." The mopheadded fellow struggled to think of something until an idea hit him. An idea that echoed words that he had heard from a purple-haired princess at a pub he visited with like-minded 'time lords and ladies' "What if I told you that the universe is broken."

"Somebody better fix it!" the girl chimed.

"There are people that are acting to fix it," smiled the ol' chap. "and the means of how are... well, that's why we're here, isn't it."

The girl tilted her head with intrigue before the chap opened the doors to reveal an incredible sight: An ivory-white room with circular windows to more white housed a six-sided typewriter of sorts as a whirring glass column gleemed in the distance. She stepped closer and closer to the Console with the gentleman rolling out a great oak from out of nowhere as he spoke: "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."

"It's... Tardy?"

The man smiled. "That's one way to name your Type Fourty TARDIS, yes. I'm the Doctor, by the way, and you are?"

"I'm Ellie!" the youngling chimed back to the Doctor. "Nice to meet ya!"

"It's nice to see you too, wee lass." The Doctor shook her hand before tending to his console. "Now, Onward and Outward, Further up and Further in! Off we go!"

---

The TARDIS re-materialized in front of Ellie's house in the morning hours as promised back when they were off in England before heading to the Moors. Ellie skipped on out of the

-2 and Ellie-

Love between companions

"So we've been keeping up this corny punching contest of ours ever since," Smiled Ellie, now a maid of sixteen, as she talked of her provincial life since her prior adventures with the Doctor, whom she didn't recognize until she saw the ageless spirit within the cosmic hobo she had known from childhood beneath the towering mass of teeth and curls that came to visit from outside her window. "You know it's funny... I thought I outgrew you but... that's kinda moot considering, eh..."

"Naw, don't worry, little one." Ellie eyed the man with the added ease that comes from a reduced height gap that made her taller than the Hobo of her youth, a realization that made the man he was right then and there reword his responsible. "Erm, young lady. No matter what changes, we're still roughly the same in terms of what makes us who we are..."

"Ellie-girl!" a howling western voice rung in the winds. "Ya better go git the trash out!"

"AHM COMIN', PA! DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT ME!" Ellie addressed with a louder texan tone before going back to the slight one she addresses the Time Lord with. "One moment, please."

Ellie marched off to do her housework, picked up the filled bag to drop it off in the metal can when she found the Doctor standing by the sidewalk lining the yard outside her door. Leaning by the TARDIS and waiting for her, a wide grin welcoming her with a gleeful "Where to first?"

"Well, I'm learning about King Arthur, so why not go to Camelot?" Ellie walked to the trash can as a young man hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce. "Then again, I really wanna go to South America so badly..."

"America, but south. Got it." The Doctor noted.

"And I know how much you hate lawlessness, so let's go rob some robber barroOOOWWWW!!" She began swearing up a storm out of the piercing pain of stepping on the bottom of a bottlecap. "Son of a... FUCK!"

The Doctor grew concerned for his companion as the hiding man readied his fist. "You need anything?"

"No thanks." Ellie shook her head, inadvertently causing her haircurls to come off to set loose her luxurious locks. "I got this. Just set the co-ordinates and we'll be on our way."

"Right, then." The Doctor walked right into the TARDIS before peeking out to point to a hidden figure. "You might want to bring a friend along."

"Who?" Ellie turned to see the lanky young man as he stood agape of how beautiful she was. She looked to him with a wily glare as he looked to his clenched fist, causing him to shrug and promptly punch himself.

---

"Holy crow." It was all he could say to the room inside the small booth as his childhood friend and his homeroom teacher fiddled with the controls.

-4, Carl and Ellie in the post-Disney Era-

Married Life of Companions

-6, Carl and Ellie in the Eisener Era-

Willing Life of Companions

-8, Carl and Ellie in the Iger Era-

Charmed Life of Companions

-10 visiting Carl and Ellie for The End of Time-

Coco

Disney Adminspace

Janus (Head of the Disney Loops, Admin to Disney, Kingdom Hearts, Others)

Meeting Fontus

Janus looked to the overwhelming list of Branches that were available to him, in awe of how many branches were active as of this particular branch. He hadn't had this much on his plate since the

DDLC

Do you even lift, bro?

Natsuki sipped her coffee alone, thinking of the outside world and the omniverse at large compared to herself. Sure, she is getting

Designated Guardian

Another day, another walk to school to be interrupted by a phone call (which truly meant something if Monika had to use her phone as a 'phone') and sure enough, Natsuki heard the signature ringtone of the Club President and received the news over the line. "A Chaperone? As in a teacher to oversee the goings-on!?"

"I know, right?" Monika complained to the smallest of her cohorts "I never thought we'd find ourselves with a teacher at this school."

"It's funny, Y'know..." ponded Natsuki as she bit into her Cinnamon Pop Tart. "We're part of a school setting, yet we never spent actual time in a legitimate class."

"Mainly because Sayori, Yu-chan and us... We're usually the only ones here..." Monika glanced to Natsuki as she popped in a cassette of B.E.R. music. She began jogging to the schoolyard, thinking that the exercise would help her to an extent (as opposed to just thinking and appearing in the classroom.) Within eleven minutes, she made it there in time to change her shoes. Off in class, their new homeroom teacher: Juüsan-Sensei, seemed right at home in their setting but there was an added sense of not necessarily belonging there.

"Now, let's rap about Rosa Parks! A strong independent woman who fought for the rights of her people!" A wide grin appeared on her face as she dived deep into the history of a country they don't care much about, seeing as how they're just code and programs in a game file.

"So, that new teacher likes to talk a lot, and I do mean Alot." Natsuki rolled her eyes to the lecture before whispering directly to Monika "You think that she's our new chaperone?"

"There's a chance."

Later that day, it was time for the Literature Club meeting and everyone waited at the door since Monika did not have the key for the Loop. The sound of footsteps began to reach the five students and got louder and louder as the teacher approached the girls. "Alright, girls. If you're feeling Loopy, feel free to let me know if you'd be interested in-"

"Hold up! Not only are you our new teacher for the Looper." Deduced Monika, the most clever out of the four. "You're a Looper, too?"

The smile on their current teacher's face widened with Glee, Monika taking it as confirmation with a cheer of: "Yes! Result!"

...which their teacher echoed to a tee (complete with a Yorkshire accent to boot.) This befuddled Monika as her words were imitated by her senior "Wait, you knew what I was gonna say!?"

They continued spouting the same words at each other down to the last "Jynx!" while Natsuki and Sayori talked amongst themselves with speculation on their minds.

"I told you, It can't be Emma Swan." pouted Natsuki before holding up an image of the equally blonde Lazuli, also known as Android 18. "It's gotta be 18!"

"Not a chance, Nat." Sayori sniped back. "She wouldn't be this easily excitable, nor is she fit to teach anybody!"

"You're right... She's too patient to be her..." Natsuki muttered in disappointment as she stuck her nose back into another manga. "Noel Vermilion?"

"No." Chimed their visitor. "I'm the Doctor. First Loop for this new face!"

"Doctor?" piped Natsuki. "of What?"

Oh, Japanese Culture.

Wonder

"I've never been one to pray, but I figured that coming up here on my knees would do the trick since you are a god... of sorts..." The manlike mass of teeth and curls kneeled before the stained glass of the church windows, hoping to get an answer to his prayers. "Zurvan, If there's one thing I want to know that I can get across here, it's this: Is my TARDIS Looping?"

The wind blew, no answer.

The light glowed through the window, no answer.

The Doctor dived deep into his innermost subconscious, no answer.

"Some other time, perhaps..." The Doctor got up and stood before his fellow churchgoers, quiet as a mouse, before walking out to return to his TARDIS with a concerned look on his face. If the TARDIS was just as alive as he was, couldn't Zurvan just activate the old girl as soon as possible? There certainly was so much to explore for the Time Lord in his own backyard, But what happens when the wonders of home run out?

The Doctor walked past a tiny wooden shop in Manhattan, gaining his attention. "How can that be? How can a little wooden block be so enduring? How can this store still be here in a city of steel!?"

The Doctor opened the door to an incredible sight.

WiXoss

Ruko and Tama

Ruko blinked.

Ruko looked to her hands.

Ruko found the LRIG that brought her quite a few victories in the past.

Ruko saw that she was in her pajamas instead of her school uniform.

"Ru..." Her voice. Tama's voice.

She fell out of her chair in shock which gave way to befuddlement towards having been sitting in her chair all of a sudden, then in came her loving grandmother and her worried tone. "I heard a crash! Oh, no. Are you hurt?"

"No, no. I'm fine." assured Ru, wanting to get back to Tama as soon as she can.

"Did you fall out of your chair?" Her grandmother asked.

"Yeah... but that okay..." Ruko felt her parental guardian coddle her fondly. "I just got back together with an old friend."

"Oh... That's nice, dear."

Meta-Game

Ruko were at the card shop digging for booster packs, looking through the banlist on her smartphone.

"Just when I thought Duel Monsters couldn't get any weirder, Konami pulls this convoluted tripe!" complained a regular player in the tournament scene. "I mean, yeah. We really wanted a second Extra Monster Zone with our independent Pendulum Zones back, but if we have to put up with this?!"

Ru looked to the boarderless card in his hand and merely backed away as he kept on complaining. It felt weird that Wixoss wasn't a thing and yet Selector Battles were, but the fact of the matter was that there were still innocent lives to save from the system.

"So Pendulum Monsters go into the LRIG Zone as Life Cloth, then it goes into an ENER Zone before being sent to the graveyard." Ruko's confusion with the added complexities in the mechanics that LRIGs and ARTS add into the metagame.

"Yeah, but you can still pendulum summon them automatically from the LRIG Zone." Explained the clerk at the shop. "At least it disqualifies Pendulums from the Extra Deck..."

"I feel ya." Sighed Ru before thinking to herself. "No repeat can top the weird factor of this."

Tama and Ruko

This repeat, however, could.

Mayu looked to her daughters, Tamashiro and Kuroyuki, and smiled fondly as they played Wixoss with each other. Flinging down cards and reciting the effects they choose to call forth, overall having a good time. She remembered when she was sealed off in that small doorless room, how she was rescued by UN Forces and nursed back to health. That was 20 years ago, now she has moved on from her period of isolation and started a humble life at a card shop. But she started to notice that her little Tama was talking with a single card: an LRIG as they are called.

She knew not the importance of that card, so she passed it off as just another childhood quirk.

"Oh, Ruko..." she sobbed. "The repeats really h-h-hurt..."

"It's alright, Tama. It'll be over before you know it." Ruko grasped her fist from within the Card. "On the plus side, you could see this as a trial run for being human."

Tama smiled. She knew her friend's ambitions well and she wanted to reach them alongside her. But the wait was quite the struggle in of itself as for right now, she had to contend with- "Donk!"

Kuro dunked her head into the cereal with an arrogant pride much to their mother's annoyance. "Kuroyuki, stop teasing your sister. You both need to look presentable for picture day."

Nanago and Nodoka

The Doctor has seen plenty of Fused Loops since the time of his activation, more often than not his Time Lord physiology would be nullified by Yggdrasil to fit the universe he had been pidgeonholed into. Thankfully, his TARDIS had followed him in for this Loop in a sense. Here, she plays the role of his wife: Idarisu Kurebayashi, and together they act as caretakers to her brother's fraternal twin children Yuzuki and Kazuki. Under the in-Loop guise of Nanago Kurebayashi, the Doctor toils on with a Powerpoint Presentation for a pitched project he needed to propose to Zurvan and other Admins (Manifesting in the mortal plane as investors.) in order to get her Looping.

"Kids, Dinner!" Hollared Ida-sama (As the unAwake Nanago often called her) as the twins strolled out of their rooms and sat by their plates. "Thank you for letting me cook for you this night."

"By all means, I can only hope to match mother's cooking." Yuzuki pushed her fork and knife into the steamed Chicken Parmesan her aunt had cooked for her. "Trying yours will maybe answer a few questions I have for you."

She took a bite into the white meat and chewed away as Nanago chimed in with a question. "I happen to be wide Awake if you're feeling a tad bit Loopy, y'know."

"No, it's fine." Yuzuki uttered with her mouthful. "Just having this weird case of Deja Vu is all..."

A knock on the door can be heard nearby which gains the attention of Yuzuki. "Oh, there's someone I'd like you to meet today."

"Ah, yes... Miss Ruko Kominato, is it." Nanago raised his brow. "Go on ahead and invite her in."

"Okay, Uncle Nana." smiled Yuzuki.

"Allow me." Kazuki opens the door to reveal his sister's newfound friend walking into the house. She had a wide smile which then faultered for a moment before she made her bow of honor.

"I hope you don't think I'm intruding on you two!" She barked to the legal guardians of sorts.

"Not at all!" Smiled the fellow in the tan coat and plaid cardigan, laying his black-pants covered legs on the ottoman underneath the table. "In fact, I've reason to believe that you rubbed off on my wee little niece."

Ruko jumped when the strange man her memories told her was Yuzuki's uncle Nanago pulled out a Wixoss card which contained the living LRIG of a Selector "She might have gone Loopy so to speak."

"Hanayo!" Yuzuki's voice cracked at the sight of her LRIG.

"How did you get that card!?" panicked Ru as they saw the living lady in the confines of the card.

"Checked her room at about midnight, noticed a moving picture on the paper-thin cardboard." The gentleman spoke as he laid it onto a nearby napkin laid beside Yuzuki, a knowing look in his eyes. "If anyone believes that I don't recognize a quantum organism storage unit, then they have another thing coming."

"Quan-ti... Orgy..." Tama was being lost in the lengthy words while her patron Selector called him out. "How do you know, are You a Selector?"

"No, not in the usual sense." Glanced the man as he picked up something from out of nowhere before looking to his wife and smiling. "Go on, back with you with our little Kazoo."

Kazuki was flusted by the coddled old chestnut of a nickname that uncle Nanago pulled out of mothballs. "Oh, come on, pops. I thought you wouldn't use that again."

"But to me, You'll always the wee little Kazoo we knew from your father's care. Now go, I've this moment with your sister and her friends to deal with." Thus, they vanished up the stairs for the night, leaving the good man with the youths. "I take it you've been feeling time repeating itself within your little corner of existence?"

"You know about the repeats!?" yelped Ruko in shock to Yuzuki's surprise.

"You mean to tell me the thing with Hanayo wasn't a dream-!" panicked the young Looper. "And that she really did steal my body in the future!?"

Hanayo stood silent in her card as it lay on the napkin, waiting to be returned to the hand of her Selector.

"I've waited a long while to pull out this little thing." Nanago pulled out a videocassette from his coat and from his pants pocket - a rolling AV Cart with a potato battery powering the electrical units. "I've taped a few of these during a unique more... Unique Loop in my life."

He inserts the tape into the VCR to cause the screen to display a sort of ailen presidential seal. "The following is a Public Service Announcement on behalf of the Gallifreyan High Council."

It looked like 80s Cheeze spewed through the lens of fast food service, yuppie culture, and exercise tapes all tied together with an ironically terrible rap song.

"Yes, I made it intentionally cringe-worthy to distract from the hidden truth of the matter." Leaned Nanago as he pulled a strawhat from his coat pocket and placed it atop his head. "Filming this was quite the hoot if you ask me."

Yuzuki and Ruko jumped with surprise. "You recorded for a president!?"

"I was the president. See." Nanago pointed to a charming young man around his early thirties with blonde mop of hair on his head and clad in a white edwardian cricketer outfit. "Had the proper mindset for a... relatively peaceful reign at that time."

The man on the screen laid down his copy of Wonders of Undeath: One Zombie's gripping struggle against Epcot and caught a cricket ball in his hand with a smile on his face. "So you noticed that you've seen this same game, same occasion, same memory once or twice before at a point. Well, either you're in a rut you need to get out of or it's because of this: Yggdrasil."

The screen then showed an abstract structure of data and fiberglass, code and holoscreens, time and space as it shifted in flux. "We Time Lords are limited to our own particular universe and the only way we know of the wider tree at large is from the Infinite Time Loops system."

"Hold on, are you talking about time travel?" asked Ru to which Nanago nodded in confirmation. They proceeded to sit through the tape and observe the history, logistics and terminology that went in the world that they've stumbled upon that evening. Before they knew it, the tape was about to reach the closing credits.

"Follow these rules and try out these tricks and I am certain that you'll do just fine." The gentleman tips his hat and smiles. "Thank you and remember to keep your sanity at the door."

"So, getting the idea, little ones?" smiled Nanago to the two girls and their LRIGs.

"That guy on the video, in the cricket gear..." Yuzuki then pointed to her uncle. "Is it really-?"

"Mnyess, In a sense, he is, isn't he? Nothing another one of these can't solve." Nanago chuckled chipperly as he promptly pulled another tape from his coat pocket.

It was labeled 'Regeneration: It's only natural!'

Fire Tama

"Now, grow!" Ruko stacked onto her base card as Tama felt the surge of power flow through every cell in her body. She was now clad in a firey red ensamble and the aura of the sky above her patron selector turned a bloody crimson color, indicating that Tama had swapped colors with her enhancement for the turn.

Ruko plays two SIGNI and sicced them both on their opponent, Tama channelling their power into her attacks.

"Burning Finger!" Tama made a shooting posture with her fingers and a burst of fire washed over the enemy LRIG and diminished the three remaining life cloth, winning Ruko and Tama the game.

---

"Mission complete!" Grinned Ruko as Yuzuki and Hitoe both hugged her as tight as they can manage.

"Way to go, Ru!" Cheered Yuzuki. "You fried that shade nice and crispy!"

"Thanks!" She smiled. She was getting better at switching up the manner in how her patron LRIG can grow and she has also been sharpening her Duel Monsters game as well in case a shake up like back then would up happening again, So it would make sense that she would plan out some new strategies along the way.

"Ugh! That's my Second Loss!" complained her current opponent, a raven-haired girl with a braided ponytail. "I'll figure out a way to wreck your shit next time! And your little firefly from hell, too!"

And with that, she scurried off to find a less experienced player who wasn't protected by professional friends. With another crisis averted the six young ladies made their way to the local Friendly's to grab a bite.

---

A plate of crisp fries were laid out before the three for the LRIGs to smell and the Selectors to taste. Their mouths watered at the fries alone, Ruko got cheeze fries and Yuzuki had chili fries to tell their orders apart. But first, it was: "Burger Time!"

Hitoe bit onto her Grilled Cheese Sandwich as Ruko and Yuzuki tapped their Baconators together before chomping down with a wide-open grin.

"Awww... Tama wants a Fribble!" whined the LRIG. "Tama hates this card!"

"Easy there, Tama." Hanayo clarified from her cardboard-like prison. "We're still coasting for that selector spread expansion and the sooner that comes, the sooner we can reach the white room with Iona."

"Yeah..." Midoriko looked down in lament. "I just wonder... If I can get Hitoe through without Tanking is all..."

"She'll be fine!" smirked Tama.

"As long as you're in the company of Loopers, you won't falter as easily as you did back at Baseline!" Ruko gave a hearty thumbs-up to both the Green LRIG and her Selector.

"Thank you..." Midoriko glanced away with concern and longing. Knowing the distance between herself and Ruko in terms of Loops, it's a matter of when Hitoe (and by extension, herself) would end up Looping. She hoped to Loop as soon as she could, she didn't want to lose any more memories as Hitoe did in Baseline.

Anything, Even death, would have been a far less tragic fate for her to bare.

Belted out

Ruko waited as her grandmother stitched on one pouch after the next, each the perfect size for housing a deck of cards. Tama was watching from Ruko's wallet, curious as to what that belt was for.

"Tama wants in!" complained the white LRIG. "Come on, why can't Tama see!?"

"Sorry, I know it must be rough in there..." Ruko reminded her long-time partner. "You just hafta wait until it's done to get a good feel of it."

"I wanna see now!" whined Tama before Ruko went back to her bedroom to piece together her deck.

"Let's see... What do I invest in next..." pondered Ruko as she scrolled through Troll and Toad's Wixoss section. "I'm gonna need some fortification against blue cards, maybe some red cards since it worked out pretty well that one time."

"But what if the game changes like with Duel Monsters?" asks Tama with concern. "Shouldn't we stock up on cards from that game?"

"That's the plan with the belt of decks." assured Ruko. "Any card game could replace Wixoss for the Loop so we gotta come prepared. I already know how to make a Subspace Pocket, so a collection of decks for each game wouldn't be completely out of the question, would it?"

A fire sparked and ignited in Tama's eyes! "More games! More Battle!"

"I'm glad." smiled Ruko before returning to her card hunt. "So since we're here, do you think we should invest in Magic?"

"Ew! They've got petal-viles! No thanks!" Tama cried, not understanding the word she mispronounced.

"Okay, how about Bakugan or... Chaotic?" piped Ruko. "Neither of em' are relevant right now but you never know when the Loops can throw a curveball at ya..."

Recovery of an MMO Junkie

Hiyashi

Hiyashi blinked.

Hiyashi glanced side to side.

Hiyashi stepped forward and reached to the sky.

"What is this... feeling..." Hiyashi could feel the wind in his hair and the calmness of the morning on his skin. He ran into the dungeon headfirst as if something was controlling him, something far away from his reach causing his exact movements. "Whoa! Stop!"

But no matter what he intended to do, he was stuck following a sort of script and he didn't have a damn thing on him, as if his entire inventory just up and vanished.

Pain.

A straight-up brutal uppercut to the jaw, at least where the jaw would have been had it not for Hiyashi jumping upward like an idiot to inevitably respawn above an enormous steel rod that he would land legs out onto before slumping onto the floor in searing pain for all to point and laugh at/pray for

"Rest in peace."

---

Moriko Morisato's eyes were glued to the screen as she waited for her character to move. How could a character retain stun lag after a killscreen?! Has she really lost her touch? Did she underestimate the differences between Fruits and her departed haunt?

"That's weird." Moriko spotted a speech bubble with a message displaying: 'He punched me in the dick. Why? Why did he punch me in the dick?'

"Is this a cutscene engine thing?" Moriko fought through the migraine and watched on, waiting for her avatar to recover to a point where he could get up.

---

"Hey there, are you okay?"

It was her voice, an angel's voice. He had to act casual in front of her, so he did. "Yeah, ah... I'm okay. I'm just stuck on a quest, I keep dying and falling back here."

"Oh, I get it now." the young girl greeted to a composed Hiyashi and an obsessive-looking Moriko.

"She's so cute!"

Moriko Plays

"That's weird," exclaimed Moriko, her browser at the install screen of Fruits de mer to sign up for the MMO. "It says I already have an account, but that can't be right, can't it?"

She clicked the icon on her desktop, logged in and sure enough, there was the character she apparently made: "One hot guy character, there he is exactly as I wanted right about now..."

Nervous to take control, she fiddled with controls to see how he moved as a character with this keyboard of hers. "He moves alright, I guess..."

It felt strange, as if he was already fine tuned to her liking, like she's played this game before...

---

Another day, another geocide cult crashing a Loop under the noses of its Anchor. Zurvan sipped his coffee as he sat in his chair, unaware of what Yggdrasil was to thrust upon him.

"Zee, you there!?" Hermes rushed to his office with a dossier in his hands. "We got another one! A freakin' PC is Looping!"

Zurvan ignored the messenger god and went back to observing the Doctor, who has started showing a tape to new Loopers that featured footage from inside of Yggdrasil filmed by Madoka and passed to the patron Anchor of his Branch.

"Zurvan, this neet's computer is Anchoring a whole honkin' Branch!" Hermes complained. "How do you deal with that!?"

"Ask Heppers, he's more equiped for troubleshootin'..." Zurvan returned to his seat and kept typing away with Thoth to ask if he could take in the WiXoss branch.

Moriko Watches

Hiyashi was killing it for his guild, dancing sommersaults and backflips around big-level bosses with his fully capped level to the amazement of the others. Right that moment they were going up against a powerful boss and faring quite well having chipped away at its health to a surprising extent.

"Bring it home, buddy!" Kanbe restrained the Boss with his fellow guildmates as Hiyashi made a mad dash towards the fowl beast.

"Smile, ya son of a bitch!" The virtual fighter thrust his blade into the bossmonster, causing it to explode into a riptide of light and magic much to the celebration of clearing such a high-level mission.

"That was incredible!" cheered Lily. "I'm impressed, Hiyashi!"

"How'd you get so freakin' good?" Asked Kanbe.

Hiyashi merely shrugged and smiled with a humble tone to his voice: "I guess it's all in how I practice..."

Lily could do little more than oggle at her long-time internet friend. "I'm glad that you've come so far."

Hiyashi looked to her eyes and smiled. "It's all thanks to you."

---

"They took meh jerb..." A drunken Moriko whined as she cleaned her carpet, robbed of her control over her in-game avatar.

Moriko Sees

"Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the game CPU, How it's playing itself..." Moriko paced the room with a phone in her hand and a look of concern on her face. "No, as in my Avatar literally hijacked the controls and went full Skynet on me!"

The Elite Neet bickered over the phone with an IT guy who swore to have never seen AIs implemented by the devs before something caught her eye. "That can't be right..."

She soon found herself confronted with an earlier date on her computer when she remembered it being the next year when last she slept. "Why is it set to 2017? Shouldn't it be next year now, 2018?"

"Real funny, ma'am." sneered the worker over the phone before hanging up with a note. "We ain't even a week past Halloween."

Moriko had nothing to speak, just thoughts of utter existential horror.

After searching Groupon for an affordable headset, Moriko got one at a going out of business sale at Radioshed for a measly $24 with a webcam thrown in for free with enough to get a $5 Fill-Up at KFC on the way back. After setting up her new toys, she logged onto Fruits de mer and laid out her lunch, making sure to hide from her typical group of friends before switching on her tech for her confrontation.

"Okay, Webcam on. And here we go."

---

Hiyashi was curiously pulled away in this tiny little corner of the world leaving him to wonder why he let that familiar force take control of him for that moment.

"Hello?" Hiyashi piped as his voice echoed in the ocean level he found himself in to his whistfully nostalgic caution. "If anyone's there, then speak up, alright?"

He looked for someone, anyone who could be the puppeteer responsible for the repetition he's been enduring these past six times he's been sent back. One look behind him and he saw the face of his apparent tormentor...

A thirty-something year old woman in a coffin apartment of sorts.

---

"Can you hear me?" read Moriko, having received the text blurb coming from her character before picking up a drumstick and replying: "Only by reading the blurbs, buddy. No voiceover for avatars is a pain."

She bit into her breaded white meat and watched the new blurb appear on her screen. "So, you're deaf? Only to the game's voices, most likely... I can hear the sound effects and music just fine, though."

Moriko chewed on as she spoke to the Avatar of her creation, looking to see what made him as self-aware as he was. Another blurb appeared, so she swallowed her food and read onward. "Where are you from? Simple, I'm an Elite Neet from the land of the rising sun!"

Japan?

"Yeah, where this game was developed and all." Moriko spoke to the player character before asking: "You know that place."

Yeah, I think I was job hunting before I turned up here.

Mori groaned at her lies coming back to slap her in the face. "So compared to me, you're an infant..."

Hey, watch it!

"Okay! I'll stop, just wanted to open up to you is all..." Moriko sipped her Sierra Mist, wondering what to make of the Ai thinking the made-up IRL status was actually his own real life. Another blurb, this time with a serious tone. "Let's see... If you're over here controlling me..."

---

"Are you the one responsible for the resets?" Hiyashi asked the woman on the screen as she adjusted her glare and read the blurb. "Well, Answer me, damn it! I want to go home!"

"Yeah, hate to break it to ya, but to you this is home. To me, it's my first repeat." The woman on screen scratched the back of her scalp as she blushed with embarrassment and shame. "I'm just as stuck in this mess as you are, and you're just my avatar."

"Avatar... Me?" Hiyashi felt a strong tugging at his heart. "Are you saying that I'm..."

"One hot guy of my own imagination!" She arrogantly boasted with a finger to her nose and a grin to her face, unaware of the heartache she was leaving in her path before introducing herself. "Moriko Morisato, and you're probably Hiyashi as I admittedly named you... quite poorly I may add. What was I thinking?"

"I'm not real..." Hiyashi stood with a heart made heavy by the truth behind his existence and ties to Fruits de Mer

He wanted to cry.

Moriko meets Hiyashi

She blinked, she looked around to see that her office was relatively more... low-tech than usual. No smartphone, no computer, no anything. Just a typewriter and some paperwork, the same type of paperwork she got away from when she chose the Neet life.

"Don't tell me I have to put up with work... without a computer!" groaned Moriko as she slumped back into her chair with a question burning in her brain. "What year doesn't even have a TV, anyway..."

Moriko was struggling to comprehend her new situation when a man around his thirties marched towards her with a cold-iron stare in his eyes. "You're... not _0_, are you?"

"Uh... Who?"

---

"I'll admit, Al." Spoke Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric. "This is weirder than when the Doc dressed up as Mustang."

"Gold tooth or..." The hollow suit of armor slowly realized and recalled the thought in his head. "Oh... That Doctor."

Hiyashi stood confused, isolated from the two brothers' conversation. "Doctor Who?"

Changing the subject entirely, Edward proposed a Theory that has been baking in his brain for some time. "Say, you don't happen to know a 'Monika', do you?"

"What are you talking about?" Hiyashi tilted his head in confusion.

"You seem new to the whole... 'feeling' thing, that appears to be a thing for Ai Loopers like you." Edward's words pierced Hiyashi like that first punch he had felt in Fruits de mar "Are you with the Literature Club we keep hearing about from the Azumanga Girls?"

Hiyashi was livid and eager to defend the honor of his comrades. "I'm part of a guild of knights, not some cheap old book club!"

"Are you really?" Edward gazed before glancing to Al. "Scratch the Dokis off, Al."

"Maybe he's from TOME." Proposed Alphonse.

Hiyashi shook his head "No. Fruits de mar."

The two stood silent, quietly discussed the whereabouts of Hiyashi's origins, then returned their glance to Hiyashi as a TV Tray is pulled from seemingly nowhere with a Videocassette inside Edward's coat before it is promptly inserted into the VCR to play a brief presentation: "Oh, My Goddess? The Harem Anime?"

"You think it's OMG, but nope!" Edward smirked. "It's a look into the world tree and the cosmic supercomputer."

The scene showed the main three Norns of the show, Skuld looking older than she does in the show proper as she closes the folder in her hands and begins to speak. "This videotape is meant as an introduction to the Infinite Loops, its terms, its services, and its chosen Loopers. If you want to help with repairs to the tree, please pray to your local Administrator that he, she, they or it can deliver onto you the second tape in the series made for being a Branch Administrator."

---

"And that's the deal with what's going on..." Roy Mustang finished to Moriko as he stroked his chin. "Surprised to hear your branch ended up on the list as well... According to our Admin, you're less contaminated than all the others."

"Oh, it's fine." Smiled Moriko, her hand to the back of her head. "It's just that the change in setting kinda threw me for a Loop is all."

"So, getting into the swing of things, huh." Mustang chuckled to himself before adding "I take you're well Anchored as well?"

"Uh... Actually..." Moriko looked down. "There's this MMO I play, Fruits de mar."

Hiyashi Claps

It was a difficult boss, and one that need some intuition and quick thinking to best. Relentless speed and brutal strength and a re-occurrant pattern, No wonder why Yggdrasil saw fit to import Iron Inprisoner MKIII into Fruits de mer with zero regard of whether or not it fit in the game in question.

"Geez, we're getting wallopped here!" panicked a battered Kanbe as Lily proceeded to heal up the party. "Any ideas on how to stop this guy?"

"Simple." Hiyashi smiled, "We put mind over matter."

---

Morioka lifted her hands from her controls and watched as her Avatar clapped his hands together and pressed them onto the floor and watch as the polygons condensed into singular weapon of pure code.

---

Hiyashi held aloft the radiant blade of pixels and polygon and lead the charge for the guild... only to fall into the hole in the floor and crash the quest, resulting in a respawn at the Lobby for the entire guild.

Lilac, Kanbe and Hiyashi landed first, Pokotaro fell onto Lilac next with the co-ed catgirl crushed betwixt his rounded buttocks as Pokotaro caught Himeralda in his arms. Hiyashi would then find his groin crushed by Harumi's feet and heavy muscle mass as five passers-by said their prayers to the group.

"Rest in peace."

---

Moriko leaned back in embarrassment and shame, obviously the game hadn't accounted for the type of alchemy Amestris had to offer.

Hiyashi Writes

Hiyashi blinked.

Hiyashi breathed.

Hiyashi remembered the life he lived.

"Don't tell me, did I end up in High School?" Hiyashi pressed his hand to his forehead as a knock on the door began sending a flood of memories about a childhood friend of his. "Come in, Lily."

The Door opened to reveal Lily, clad in a full crimson schoolgirl fuku, a smile on her face as to welcome him to this new Loop.

"Oh, so I don't have to wake you up today." giggled Lily by my side. "Come on, you don't wanna end up a total NEET, do ya?"

"An Elite NEET! She chose the NEET life!" Hiyashi caught himself echoing Moriko's Motto in life (Since she essentially was his mother in a sense.) and changed the subject. "Let's just get to class, okay?"

"M'Kay!"

---

Monika was perplexed at the new character files in the folder. "Wait, the main dude's got a file?"

"Who?" Natsuki asked from in front of the oven, her cupcakes baking from the heat.

"This hiyashi.char file turned up in the folder." Monika turned the desktop screen to face Natsuki so that she would see the new assets in the game and plan accordingly. "You think he could be a new aspect of the game's canon?"

"Wouldn't our Admin have filled us in about stuff like that?" Natsuki stared down her egg timer as the minutes ticked down.

"You're right." Monika glanced away to her flashdrive containing a spare copy of the game. "Besides, I think the existence of a lily.char means she's replacing Sayori and that means either she or this Hiyashi might be a visiting Looper."

Natsuki bit her lip in thought. "Well, doesn't that mean more Loopers to hang out with for the next two weeks?"

"Yeah." Monika made her way to the chalkboard to write down the day's events.

---

Hiyashi walked into the room at Lily's behest, having sold his soul to the Literature Club for one of Natsuki's signature cupcakes. He sat behind his predetermined desk and let the girls oggle at the new face in their group.

"Club President Monika reporting, welcome to our Literature Club" smiled the resident Anchor of the branch. "First order of business, if any of you are feeling Loopy, raise your hand. That way, we'll know if you're well-Anchored!"

Hiyashi knew the terminologies of the Loops well and stood up to reveal his Looping status. "Yeah, I come from a fantasy setting of a nettoge. So if I end up writing mideval-type fables here, well... there's you're reason."

"Nettoge?" Natsuki uttered the japanese term for MMO quietly as she was the only other native Looper who was awake at the time. "So you're like us, too, huh? Not that I'm... into those things or anything..."

"It's fine, just... Is this what you do here? Read and write poetry?" asked Hiyashi. "Kinda uneventful, don't you think."

"Since it's kind of a dating sim in here, there's nothing all that game-y about it and all Hiroaka can do is choose his reactions." Monika laid back and looked to a note with a hangman game written down. "In baseline, I... kinda got obsessed with the player of our game and deleted everyone out of insane lust for him."

Hiyashi raised a brow and bluntly blurted out a solumn but stern: "That's rough, buddy..."

Moriko codes

Moriko was typing away and looking at keyframes from the show on her screen, doing her damnedest to imitate every move, plot out every hitbox, and program all of that into Fruits de mer.

She took a sip from her coffee and looked to the folder containing her new toys for her favorite haunt when Hiyashi popped up on her phone. "Whacha doin'."

"Hiyashi!" yelped Moriko, scrambling to keep her phone from slipping out of her grasp. Once she regained control of her grip on her phone, she laid her phone onto her mug to use it as a stand. "How are you even on here?"

"There's a phone app for Fruits de mar." Hiyashi smiled to his mistress. "Good for on the go."

"...or disguising the Ai as my own gameplay while I mod the everloving shit out of it." Moriko realized as she chuckled to herself: "Delightfully Devilish, Mori!"

"So you like it?" asked Hiyashi.

Moriko promptly nodded in confirmation heading back to work.

Hiyashi Learns

It was one of those Loops where Hiyashi was real and Moriko wasn't, and this came pre-packed with the College Background she made up for her. It was nice to meet Lilac in real life, still the same gossip-valve as she was in Fruits de mer, and seeing her friends in person. But the sensation of being flesh and blood feels new and yet familiar to him, just as Monika said

---

"Believe me, it'll be weird when you Wake up in the flesh." Monika clarified to her Looping Junior. "Not gonna say it's gonna feel wrong, just... different."

"How so?" Leaned Hiyashi from his desk.

"When we first crossed over, there were sensations." Described Sayori. "The air we breathed, Stomachs growling for food, gravity, taste, all that fun stuff outside the confines of the ones and zeroes that make up home."

"Sounds like a blast!" Smiled Hiyashi.

---

And sure enough, living IRL was shaping up to be as much of a blast as he hoped. Not only can he walk the same earth as Morimori, he could also bump into the players of his guild through the Loop in question.

A fine example would be when he was working at a MgDaniel's to get extra cash for keep his mouth fed during his last few semesters in college. Sure, it didn't pay all that much, but $12 an hour is certainly enough for a learning experience.

"Alright, that'll be 420¥ if you please." Hiyashi took the paper notes from the office lady and slid it into the cash register. "Thank you for your patronage."

"Thank you!" She took her expresso and her value meal as she went on her merry way.

Hiyashi was doing relatively alright when she saw a couple young girls, the one with pink hair looking no more than nineteen years old. Her eyes wide as saucers her cheeks slightly fluffier to show the last lingering hint of childhood innocence before fully crossing into the territory of a fully-developed woman.

'She must be new to the College Campus.' He assumed before getting back to work. He served a few more customers before ending up face to face with that familiar-looking girl. "Hey, welcome to MgDaniel's."

"I would like the Bacon Bill Fry-Pie and Crispy-Crust Cheese-Bopper." She started salavating, "Maybe Mondo-Sized fries and shake with-"

Another girl shut her mouth before she could add more to her meal. "You'd hafta forgive Lily, here. She's kind of a sucker for lootboxes and that Monopoly Promotion you've got running right now technically counts as that."

"Yep, I can't exactly say I'm shocked at how much she's going about this," Hiyashi scratched the back of his scalp. "Is she always like this in, say, MMOs or something."

"Only the Live Service games." clarified the taller woman. "She's one of the belief that $60 games should never bare the horror that is microtransactions yet free to play Netto-ges are where she pours her every penny into big microtransaction promos."

"I get the gist." chuckled Hiyashi. "So you want that order to go or..."

"We'll keep ourselves sitting here, thank you." the posse pulled the pinkette to the table.

"Wait!" cried Hiyashi "I never quite got her name."

"Oh..." the young girl snapped out of her lootbox craze to give him an answer. "It's Lily."

Hiyashi stood silent, she didn't just look remarkably like his longtime partner. It was the genuine article in real life, standing right in front of him. As if by chance, destiny had re-united them for a brief moment under these new circumstances. She may not exactly be the Lily he knows, but she was still just as trusting and as kind as ever...

"Come again."

Moriko Meets Ruby

Dropped into another Fused Loop, Moriko stood in amazement of her workplace before her Loop Memories settled in to show her past with this shop. Apparently, she worked a desk job before leaving it behind to become an elite NEET while also holding a side job at her dad's shop on weekends to earn extra cash.

A new customer arrived at the shop looking for a CD she's wanted since its release. "Me again... Oh... you're not...?"

"Yeah, the old man's in the back." Moriko shrugged from behind the counter. "I can get him for you if you like. Or are you one of those white left femi-?"

"Naaaww! Archived and minted in Texas all the way!" Ruby sported a goofy southern accent to her voice. "And you?"

"Confused at what being 'Archived' even is." Moriko tilted her head with befuddlement. "If that's a Looper thing, does that mean you're a Looper?"

"And its resident Anchor!" smiled Ruby as she rolled the first 'R' to escape her breath. "I guess you're new to the Loops, huh?"

"Yep." Moriko picked up a crystal under the display glass. "Introduced to the whole thing in Amestris, So this is..."

"Remnant." Answered Ruby. "And how long have you been Looping yourself?"

"Ten Loops of a few months each." Moriko answered right back. "...and I might or might not be the Anchor of my branch."

"Going Nebulous, are we?" Ruby pondered this revelation. "I think the Walled Loops have a system like that, three Anchors keeping each other as stable as they can."

"Wow, that's... not really my situation at all..." Moriko had no idea on what that branch was, but it sort of related to the Anchoring system laid out before her. "My Character in an MMO I play, he might be the Anchor of my place."

"That's... actually kinda unique. A bit sad, but unique!" sighed Ruby. "So do you wanna compare our ages?"

"Let's see, Baseline's around a few months long, ten Baseline Loops, This marks my second fused Loop, last one was 8 years..." Moriko crunched the numbers in her head "42!"

"40 Trillion!" yelped Ruby at the same time as Moriko before covering her mouth in shock, unaware that both were more or less thinking the answers they have received.

'She's one crone of an embryo...' moaned the still physically-older Moriko

'She's a real Looping infant...' whined the eons-old teenage huntress Ruby.

Harumi meets Hiyashi

Moriko was dreading the part of the Baseline, when he has to meet Hearth a.k.a. Sakurai as roped in by Koiwai and his avatar Harumi. Thankfully she now had the app on her phone so now she could let Hiyashi in on the action and keep Kanbe occupied and away from Yuki's meeting with Harumi.

Too bad she's so completely out of left field, Nico can't keep her mouth shut about her.

So, Hiyashi was roped into following Kanbe and Nico to the two ladies of different builds against his wishes. And sure enough, Moriko had to rehearse her initial meeting with this character who, fittingly enough, was little more than a toy for the predictably casual Koiwai.

"Mori-Mori! Bring it in, Girl!" Harumi dashed forward as Yuki scrambled pleading for Harumi to go into party chat before someone else hears them in the open chatroom. But sure enough, it was too late, Nico and Kanbe were already taking notice.

"Whoa!" yelped Kanbe. "That's unique!"

"And she's saying everything in 'allchat', she's gotta be a newbie." remarked Nico to a stunned Hiyashi.

"What's this 'partychat' eh? How do I do it?" Moriko's mind heard Koiwai's voice through Harumi's lips, she was little more than Koiwai's window into the game. "Am I already doing it."

"Yeah, no." Nico eyed the two of them as they glanced at the three of them. "You switch to partychat manually by pressing the little button on the righthand side of the text imput column."

"Alright, Thank you so much!" smiled Harumi.

"Uh, Harumi." spoke Yuki "You actually spoke in partychat so she couldn't hear you."

Harumi thanked the lone female of the three passers-by as Kanbe speaks to Harumi. "But... that person beside you isn't a Newbie, isn't she?"

"Eh. No, I'm not." confirmed Yuki.

"That's what I thought." Kanbe flatly spoke. "Anyway, sorry for butting in on you guys."

"Pft, it's alright. I'm just happy to talk with some new people." waved Harumi. "Anywho, my name's Harumi, pleased to meet you."

"Hey, speaking of talking to new people..." mentioned Kanbe as Harumi and Nico conversed amongst each other, "Who's the other one, Hiyashi? Do you know her?"

"I...ah..." Hiyashi was caught on the spot, worrying Moriko on her side of the screen. It was on Hiyashi to come up with a decent enough lie to hide his true nature. "She's ah... an older cousin of mine, she used to work a desk job but she recently quit late last year."

"Yeesh, that looks rough." complained Kanbe, "You doing alright?"

"Yep, never better." reassured Yuki. "I'm actually living my dream right now."

On the other side, Moriko was thinking to herself, reciting her mantra to life. 'I chose the Neet life, I'm an Elite Neet.'

Lily Breathes

Moriko was on 'break' which meant that she has ceased modding the files of Fruits de mar for a stint of genuine MMO goodness which inevitably lasts for several hours at a time to the point where she may as well be done for the day.

←Lily is Activated as a Looper and Sakurai is notified of the Loops→

CTG

Monday

V is for Vital

Footprints lace an icy tundra of dead stone and cold steel as four figures cloaked with layers of winter coats looked to the skies of their reality.

←We see the deal with Channel-tans→

"We're squeezing this desolate wasteland because we need THIS!" With that, Lucifer cracked open the canister as the escaping energy floods the atmosphere with screaming souls, earthly regret, fond memories and deep hurting. The other three figures reel back with searing pain from the swerve of energy flowing sporadically through the winds and the air. "We are using every trick to stave off my other self and the heat-death of all existence he intends to inflict on us!" roared Lucifer as he brandished the now empty canister. "Magical Girls destined for tragedy, scream harvest, laugh harvest, memory harvest, even squeezing every failed universe into a pulp of pure quantum energy. That. Is. The Power... of FEELZ! Without FEELZ, We have no power!"

Y is for Youth

U is for Ultimatum

W is for Waste

Tuesday

D is for Danger

O is for Orbit

S is for Satisfaction

Games, Sports, and lovely lady humps.

Q is for Quickening

←GaS and OSM being Buddies in a flashback.→

A is for Airtime

←GaS is caught going out drinking with Mtv.→

J is for Juvinile

←GaS being the last of her generation of Redstone Daughters to not have children.→

K is for Kiss

←GaS dating G4 and facing the consequences of her lover refusing to pull out.→

Har Har Har Har

I is for Imagination

←CN-tan wants to be an animator but is blocked from that dream by her duties as a Contractor.→

G is for Grievance

←Something involving CN-tan exposing her grief towards the dying Earth→

An Exit Sign

M is for Money

←Disney Channel-tan is relishing in her status as a princess of the Disney Lineage→

L is for Lies

←DC-tan and CN-tan arguing about their place in the firmament→

R is for Regret

←DC-tan driven to tears for having to leave behind Earth, her fortune rendered useless by the looming destruction of the original firmament→

Five Hours of Summer

F is for Friendship

←OSM's friendship with GaS as it blossoms and blooms→

P is for Poverty

←OSM/ABC Kids' financial woes as her friendship with GaS deteriorates→

T is for Tedium

Banning Families. Banning Bonds. Banning Life.

This is the gigavirus' ultimate goal and poor Ortenza Disney was stuck there in the Jesus Christ Universe Factory watching the snuff parties that alert the higher-ups to demon infestations. Sometimes there will be cultists that take over the world and restrict humanity to tiny death machines that use their bodies to power their systems to kill outsiders that try to escape. Other times, they have rendered earth uninhabitable by radiation poisoning and confusing the bee population to extinction through screen sickness. Or in this case where a powerful force behind the scenes is controlling humanity through the mind, body and soul.

Either way, this rules the universe as dead and must be squeezed for its cosmic energies to be pooled into creating more refined universes.

"So, what's the damage today, Miss Disney." She turns around to see Lady Skuld, lead engineer of the Factory, accompanied by her sister Belldandy who has wrapped an arm around that of her human husband, Keiichi Morisato.

"I-Urm..." Ortenza looked to the world nearby and saw the cultists through the crystal and pushed it away from sight. "We might actually be completely clean today, Madame Skuld."

"Hey, First time in a month." cheered Belldandy. "Congratulations!"

"Yeah..." Skuld sipped her coffee and glanced to the orb that Ortenza had moved aside with a look of concern. "What's going on in there anyway?"

"Oh, uh... SpaceX is founding... A space colony!" She lied. "On Uranus!"

Skuld pondered the possibility. "So SpaceX is getting far on that universe, huh?"

"Looks like that's a keeper, wouldn't you think, Keiichi?" Belldandy asked her husband in eagerness to see humanity spread beyond the milky way of home. Keiichi merely stood with a suspectful glare towards the jeweled eye representing the newborn reality.

"I guess we're done here, Miss Disney." Eyed Skuld before shooing the relatively green employee back to her station. "Move along, bucko. And don't forget to shell that universe! wouldn't want a plot hole forming outside of the hull, right?"

"Yeah." The three march away from the measly worker of the universe factory as she let out a sigh and sat back down at her station. She held up the Photo on her Wayfinder pocketwatch. If there was ever a day when she missed her friends, it was definitely today. "Only get one a week."

And so, Ortenza Disney returned to her post and continued checking for any imminent danger. Placing inherently good universe on the conveyor belt to be incased in hull-cubes while the more dystopic realities are juiced on the spot for their cosmic energy.

"Good. Good. Good. Good." She continued to sift through the universes, pushing the spherical crystal housing each one into the purple-lined hull-cubes that make up the world tree while dropping the occasional mid-dystopic realities in the disposal shute to be compressed into cosmic energy. They needed that to fuel the machinery hooked up to each sufficiently archived universe, mostly those that were handcrafted by gods or created from flukes.

As she lost herself in her routine, a man marched out of a warp hole from a universe receiving routine diagnostics upstairs. A grim look upon his face, "One-world dictatorship, r-select philosophy... Total genocide of the K-select organisms."

"American Holocaust?" The undertaker nodded in confirmation. "American Holocaust, complete subversion of the free world. IT'S SQUEEZING TIME!"

At that exact moment, an anthropomorphic woodpecker and a caped bloke dashed towards the universe with a crystal-and-steel skull-shaped machine with a long orange canister hooked to its spine dragged along for the ride. The woodpecker-like creature zipped to the crystalic-cased universe and shoved it up the machine's mouth. Urd, the eldest norn that governs the past, merely watches with a can of sake in her hands as she cracks it open for a drink.

"Poor thing." sighed Urd before taking a sip. "That's the fifty-eighth earth we've lost this week, isn't it?"

"Yeesh, that is a lot." Keichi looked on in disappointment.

"Ugh, Earths these days!" complained Skuld as the two workers acted to adjust the harnesses "They just aren't as immune to authoritarian geocide cults as they used to be."

"Let'er Rip!" The avian assistant spun the valve round and round to make the jaws close tighter and tighter and tigher until...

SKRUNCH!

The universe has completely burst into a cosmic liquid fuel flowing through the nozzle below into the canister until every last drop has been drizzled inside of it. "Time of Death: 10:23am."

←OSM at the Jesus Factory, hauling Near-Hub crystals and squeezing doomed universes→

N is for Nostalgia

←OSM returns to One Saturday Morning: Her personal TARDIS where she finds all of her friends and far... far beyond.→

Commend Thy Spirit

B is for Babylon

←Viacom goes to the cosmic supercomputer dubbed 'The Babylon Network' to consult it on the stability of the situation→

C is for Cohesive

←Viacom talks with Congress about the Jezabel outbreak in the omniverse with Babylon →

E is for Evacuation

←Babylon begins his Ascension to destroy the Root of Yggdrasil.→

H is for Hope

←The Channel-Tans conseal themselves in Hypertime as the root of Yggdrasil is destroyed by Babylon's Ascension.→

>"FAREWELL, FIRMAMENT."

Doctor Who: The Yggdrasil Diaries

1. A First Doctor Adventure with Ranma Saotome in the DC Universe
2. A Second Doctor Adventure with Yuya Sakaki in -?-
3. 'The Impeccable Doctor Riley': The same story Crisis wrote Crossing Mega Man and Inside Out, but with the Third Doctor
4. A Fourth Doctor Adventure with Sonic the Hedgehog and Celina (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V)
5. A Fifth Doctor Adventure with Shantae in ?
6. A Sixth Doctor Story with Yugo and Rin in ?
7. A Seventh Doctor Story where he stays in a specific time and space with Goku (DragonBall Z) as he lets a certain character borrow the Tardis
8. An Eighth Doctor Story with Keichi and Belldandy/Virdandi (Oh! My Goddess) exploring the end of Yggdrasil as we know it.
9. A War Doctor Story with Yuto being Welcomed to the Multiverse.
10. A Ninth Doctor Story
11. A Tenth Doctor Story about the fall of Arc-V, The First Four Protagonists of the Franchise Duel Zarc after he eats Ray's Soul.
12. An Eleventh Doctor Story
13. A Twelfth Doctor Story dealing with the fallout of Arc-V's destruction alongside Sonic
14. A Thirteenth Doctor Story where she poses as a companion to a fake Doctor (i.e. the guy who borrowed the TARDIS in the Seventh Doctor Story

ReBoot

A Guardian's Code

Snip 1: Before the Storm

It was an adequate day in Mainframe, Megabyte was still in his Tor, Hex was still out and about and Matrix was still...

"BOB!"

An UnAwake little Enzo.

After hearing the ramblings and compliments of his young ward and resident Anchor, in came Dot who had a new employee going through orientation as to be expected when you're new in town. Bob promptly breaks the ice with the newcomer "So, the wager says the loser ends up being a waitress here at Dot's."

"Yep, and -Winner- sweeped me pretty solid." frowned -Loser-.

"Can't say I'm shocked." sighed Bob, knowing the feeling of being overpowered. "When you're stacked against -Winner-, there's honestly no comparison. Maybe Ceecil gan get you an energy shake?"

"That's pronounced Cecil!" The french monitor sniped back, "And it'll come from the maiden's pay for this hour, I'm sure of it."

"Hey, can't I just buy it for her?" complained Bob

"It's alright." -Loser- interrupted with a glance. "I can take it... just like your oncoming... expansion, variant... what even is it?"

"Even Yggdrasil's not too sure this time," Bob looked to -Loser- and forced a slight smile. "Still, new's new and besides, we hadn't had one of these firsthand before... What could possibly go wrong?"

Snip 2: Generic Plot

Time passed as it typically does in Yggdrasil, and the expansion/variant was just about ready to roll and in the midst of it all were a group of visiting Loopers.

"Alan Turing High?" Odd glanced to his smartphone displaying his latest haunt. "Is this a new expansion?"

"Or a variant." Aileta leaned back and flipped open her 3DS. "My father's a world history teacher there so I guess that might be the case."

"History? As in, before computers?" Sissi sneered to her resident anchor. "Puh-Lease, that's implying that they care about the cerriculum as much as they do about being the most 'Tech-Progressive' School in the state."

"All the more reason why you're stuck with the kids who fight inside the kind of computers you'd be lost trying to code for." Ulric Stern glared to Sissi. "Still, if it's anything like last time, there's going to be something that concerns us somehow."

"I know." Aileta reaimed her focus onto the 3DS Screen and thought about Jeremie.

---

Yumi, William and Jeremie are already at the campus and were discussing their tactics for the Loop.

"So you'll just be training out in the Gym?" Yumi asked to William.

"Yeah, better to keep everything loose for when XANA inevitably turns up." William answered as he did his squats.

"You go on ahead, that assumes there's a supercomputer nearby and with it, the means to fight XANA." Jeremie glanced to the both of them.

Yumi could only roll her eyes. "And you're checking to find one?"

"That's the plan, same as always." Jeremie stated in a blunt manner of speaking. "Course, the change in setting's going to provide a challenge... But knowing Yggdrasil, there's likely one around here somewhere to keep up this little war of ours."

"Just keep us posted, alright?" Yumi asked and Jeremie nodded as the bus arrived with the others in tow.

---

After recapping the plan to the other four Lyoko Loopers, everyone kept themselves on alert for any strange occurrences that may come their way. Odd, Ulric, and Yumi stayed close while Sissi and William were covering more ground by their lonsomes. All the while, Jeremie and Aileta searched for a nearby supercomputer on foot and by email respectively and it's with the latter where the first of five new faces makes his presence known.

"Pink hair? What a scare." Aileta glanced to the young lad, gangly and lean but with a slight lukewarm smile. "It's kind of a meme from an episode of Power Rangers."

"Ah, that explains it." Aileta sighed.

"Parker. My buddy Austin's back there." Parker promptly pointed to his pal: a more athletic counterpart than the noodle-limbed fellow that stood before her. "If you want to ask him about the whole."

"No thanks," blushed Aileta. "I'm already taken by this point, but I am open to a tour around the place."

"Good." Parker got out his phone and brought up a notification on his phone. "Because I'm kinda looking for a Room Zero if that's a thing..."

"Room Zero?" Aileta felt a suspescious aura from that word and promptly chose to text Jeremie about this Room and waited for a reply.

---

William was getting a run for his money from this 'Trey' guy, he's clearly important if he has this level of skill behind him. It was already bad enough that he had to try his hand at Basketball because of reasons, but to deal with someone of his skill compared to him? Yikes, that'll make it a close game. The clock ran dry and there it was: lost by three points.

"And it's solid!" Jim Morales had also followed them to Alan Turing High as the P.E. Teacher (because of course he has.) and called the game in Trey's favor as the native jock congratulated the frenchman.

"Dunbar, right?" asked Trey. "Good game,"

"Thanks." William walked outside the gym to get some air. "So, you're pretty active for a tech school student."

"It says it's the most tech-forward school in the state, that doesn't mean there's a bigger margin of say... these runts over me." Trey pointed to a chess club grunt with a nasal spray up his nasal passages. "Jokes aside, frenchie, you're relatively decent to hang out with. I like that."

William smiled as he looked outward to the sky to find a man in a black hoodie dashing off on a segway with a plastic-wrapped motherboard in his arms, a darker woman dashing towards him in an effort to catch this crook. "Hey!"

William went ahead and rushed towards the two, Trey following along as they gained the attention of the core circle. Yumi wasted no time in dialing Aileta's phone number to fill her in on the action.

"We've found a couple leads." exclaimed Yumi. "Think you can google them up."

"Already checking the Hub Collection as we speak." Aileta sifted through the achieved forms of reality to see if the description of their new suspects lined up with any Loopers from across the stars. Stopping at the Z section of the alphabetical algorithm, Aileta manages to piece together a stunning revelation. "Yumi... I think we may have a new one."

Snip 3: Literally Zixx

Zixx Phunkee Zee was not having a good day, as if the endless repetition of her battle against Onccalon wasn't enough, this curveball called the Sorcerer shows up and is jamming all her contact with the Network so they're out of the question.

"All this for a graphics chip?" Flannco rolled his eyes from his adamantium case. "If you can't catch up to this dip, I understand."

"If I could gear up with my inventory from the Keep." Zixx bemoaned before hearing the voices of five youths as they catch up with her. "Damn it, we've got civilians on our tail."

"Keep moving, kid!" squirmed Flannco. "They're just as new to us as he is, now go!"

"Going!" Zixx kept running as fast as she could before the boy in brown jumped off to grasp at her legs, restricting her movement and widening the gap between herself and the Sorcerer. "Get off of me! He's a criminal mastermind that has to be stopped!"

"We know, that's why we want to help." The Japanese youth assured as she caught up with the restricted agent of the Network, pulling out her smartphone to update a sixth entity on the situation. "Aileta, we've caught her, but we've lost the other guy."

"It may be for the best." the voice over the phone, belonging to an 'Aileta', started letting herself be heard through speakerphone. "I sent a ping her way and he didn't ping back, so it isn't Saxon..."

"Saxon?" Asked Zixx. "You mean the Sorcerer?"

"Close, the Master." the brunette got up and brushed off the dust as his friend in violet-velvet pulled out an image of this blonde man in a black hoodie. "A Time Lord from the constellation of Kasterberos, ever heard of that?"

Zixx stood silent as her partner peeked out of her metal case to answer: "Can't say that we have..."

"Didn't think so." the spiky-haired blonde in purple walked forward to the alien. "See, the universe you usually inhibit is but one in a much larger cosmic landscape. We'd show you how big, but we need a certain supercomputer to show that to you."

"Wait, hold up, What's all this about a Supercomputer" Trey was confused by this revelation until a notification popped up on his smartphone indicating that his homeroom had been changed to "Room Zero?"

Snip 4: So... Code Lyoko, then

Jeremie walked down the dark hallway leading to the mysterious 'Room Zero' with a flashlight in one hand and a Sonic Screwdriver in another. When he came to the door, he checked to see if it was locked only to be interrupted by a newly-received text from Yumi.

Just got directions to a Room Zero, any intel?

"Well, that clinches it..." sighed Jeremie as he sonicked the door open and slowly stepped forward to find a proper computer terminal to log into. Digging into his Subspace Pocket, Jeremie pulled out a tablet computer featuring a dating sim as the central app and immediately pinged upon booting the game up. "You Awake, ladies?"

"Yeah..." piped Sayori, "And feeling Loopy, too."

"So, you must be the kid in the Supercomputer." Remembered Monika. "Jeremie Belpois, right?"

Jeremie responded with a thumbs-up. "And you're about to make the jump to flesh and blood!"

"Wait... Like, now!?" exclaimed a shocked Natsuki. "But the Loop just started, are you saying that-"

"Yep, you're about to get the full Materialization treatment." Jeremie inserted the disc into the computer and hooked up the tablet into its USB port. "Just gotta check for scanners..."

As if on cue, the light began to shine onto a large ring circling four illuminated platforms, a glowing black-and-yellow symbol glowing in the centermost part of the wall.

"A bit open-ended, but it'll have to do..." Jeremie cracked his knuckles and typed away at the keyboard as the .char files were transfered through the materialization program to convert every one and zero of their binary coding into atoms, then to molecules, then cells, until in a flash of light, there they stood.

"Welcome to Earth." Jeremie said before getting back to his computer and reciting the ABCs of Herem Safety "Attention, Balance, Clenched Fists. Attention, Balance, Clenched Fists. Attention, Balance, Clenched Fists."

He would continue this mantra while the Dokis checked to see if they were indeed Looping. Voices were being heard from outside, most likely the others with the newest Loopers. Jeremie walked off to the door with his fists clenched to keep himself from compromising situations.

"I'm Austin, this is Parker."

"I'm Trey."

"I'm Tamera."

"I'm dead inside..."

"Who said that?"

"My partner, Flannco, he's in here."

"In that... robobag... thing?"

Jeremie glanced to the Dokis and asked them to return to the platforms while Jeremie checked the touchdown point for native life. "Attention, My name is Jeremie Belpois, a young programmer and an ally to your cause. I am about to send a squad of fifteen or sixteen willing comrades to fight the viral presence hanging overhead. If there's anybody out there, please wait to greet them until I say go."

Jeremie waited as they finished their introductions and made their way to the door. Naturally, a notification sent him a specified message from whatever or whoever sent the directions in the first place. "Are you with the preselected Guardians?"

"Yes, I am." typed Jeremie. "And I'm saving them for last!"

The door opened to reveal Jeremie's typical group of Loopers alongside their new friend and the four youths that were apparently chosen for the job, confirming that this was indeed the root of this fused Loop. Jeremie turned to his peers and pulled a screen displaying where exactly they will be touching down, then bumped his fist against the side of the console to initiate the virtualization of the Literature Club. "Eeeeyyy..."

Snip 5: New Blood, Bland Taste

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