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Contents 1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity 1.1 Screenplay 1.1.1 So Long, and thanks for all the fish 1.1.2 Good Morning! 1.1.3 The Park 1.1.4 The Date 1.1.5 The Birthday 1.1.6 Edge of Infinity 1.1.7 "RETURN FIRE!" 1.1.8 The First Looper 1.1.9 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity 1.1.10 High School 1.1.11 Cera Threehorne 1.2 Chapter 0: Ol' Uncle Walt 1.2.1 Maine 1.2.2 The Bar 1.2.3 Teh Date 1.2.4 The Party 1.2.5 Attack on Spacetime 1.2.6 Loop 1: Ranma 1.3 Branch 1: Pixel Pinkie 1.3.1 Loop 1: New Neighbors 1.3.2 Nina 1.4 Branch 2: Fighting Foodons 2 Guidebook notes 2.1 Book 1 2.2 Book 2 3 Code Lyoko: The Yggdrasil Files 3.1 Snip 1: Restless 3.2 Snip 2: Routine 3.3 Snip 3: Loud 4 Samurai Jack S5 Loops 4.1 Snip 1: Sweet Thing 4.2 Snip 2: Never forget your first 4.3 Snip 3: Rose-Tinted Glasses 4.4 Snip 4: Thunderbolt and Lightning 4.5 Snip 5: Victory Forevermore 4.6 Snip 6: Mitosis 4.7 Snip 7: Raiding the Dank Camp 4.8 Snip 8: Like Rabbits 4.9 Snip 9: Mutual Rivals 4.10 Snip 10: Everybody Loves somebody sometimes 4.11 Snip 11: Scatman 4.12 Snip 12: ? 4.13 Snip 13: CI 5 Beserk Activation 5.1 The Admin 6 re:Code Lyoko 6.1 Speech 6.2 Presentation 6.2.1 Osaka's Struggle 6.2.2 What is re:Code Lyoko 6.2.3 So what's the Plot? 6.2.4 So how will the Sausage be Big? 6.2.5 Who are we rooting for? 6.2.6 Riley Andersen 6.2.7 Bonnie Anderson 6.2.8 Mary 'Boo' Gibbs 6.2.9 Jordan 6.2.10 Toby Pepper 6.2.11 Redd Raimi 6.2.12 Eraqus Ende 6.2.13 Xehanort 'Xeh' Shirogane 6.2.14 Yen-Sid 6.2.15 Masako Hakumei 6.3 Season 1 6.3.1 Episode 1: Space Oddity 6.3.2 Episode 2: You've Got a Habit of Leaving 6.3.3 Episode 3: We Are Hungry Men 6.3.4 Episode 4: Come and Buy My Toys 6.3.5 Episode 5: The Laughing Gnome 6.3.6 Episode 6: Maid of Bond Street 6.3.7 Episode 7: Rubber Band 6.3.8 Episode 8: Please Mr. Gravedigger 6.3.9 Episode 9: Don't Sit Down 6.3.10 Episode 10: An Occasional Dream 6.3.11 Episode 11: I Pity the Fool 6.3.12 Episode 12: The Prettiest Star 6.4 Season 2 (7: Code Lyoko World Tour) 6.4.1 Episode 1 (134): The Supermen 6.4.2 Episode 2 (135): Knock on Wood 6.4.3 Episode 3 (136): Fame 6.4.4 Episode 4 (137): Sound and Vision 6.4.5 Episode 5 (138): Station to Station 6.4.6 Episode 6 (139): Breaking Glass 6.4.7 Episode 7 (140): Under Pressure 6.4.8 Episode 8 (141): China Girl 6.4.9 Episode 9 (142): Ashes to Ashes 6.4.10 Episode 10 (143): This Is Not America 6.4.11 Episode 11 (144): Day in, Day out 6.4.12 Episode 12 (145): Under the God 6.4.13 Episode 13 (146): One Shot 6.4.14 Episode 14 (147): Bus Stop 6.4.15 Episode 15 (148): Video Crime 6.4.16 Episode 16 (149): A Big Hurt 6.4.17 Episode 17 (150): Tin Machine 6.4.18 Episode 18 (151): Jump, they say 6.4.19 Episode 19 (152): Strangers when they Meet 6.4.20 Episode 20 (153): Telling Lies 6.4.21 Episode 21 (154): Little Wonder 6.4.22 Episode 22 (155): I'm Afraid of Americans 6.4.23 Episode 23 (156): Something in the Air 6.4.24 Episode 24 (157): Angels of Promise 6.4.25 Episode 25 (158): Brilliant Adventure 6.4.26 Episode 26 (159): Everyone Says 'Hi' 7 Andy + Bonnie 7.1 Snip 1: Mobius Inn 7.2 Snip 2: Toy Story that Time Forgot 7.3 Snip 3: Toy Story 7.4 Snip 4: Calamity 7.5 Snip 5: Got B.O.? Get DIO 7.6 Snip 6: The Voyages of the Automata 7.7 Snip 7: See you soon... 7.7.1 Other Snips 8 DragonBall re:Creation 8.1 Franchises 8.2 Arc One: Serial Tuner 9 The End of Kingdom Hearts 9.1 Riku's Destiny

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity

Screenplay

So Long, and thanks for all the fish

OVER DARKNESS...we hear what we will come to know as the VOICE OF THE GUIDE.

GUIDE VOICE

Yggdrasil, the home of the most powerful supercomputer ever created, managed by the gods themselves.

We see a glimpse of the world tree in all its glory.

GUIDE VOICE

It was a divine place, full of some of the most powerful entities Man had ever known, legends upon legends written about them.

In the array of dimensional cubes, stock footage can be seen from the Original Seven Universes.

GUIDE VOICE

In this divine tree, a supercomputer was housed that contained millions of universes within, all congregating into one mass called the “multiverse”.

We see Admins reporting to their offices with papers in their hands. Hypnos is being carted to his office by Hermes would be a nice touch.

GUIDE VOICE

For a long time, this system was maintained and run with exceptional care and precision, everything going in a normal fashion with nary a hiccup spotted in its code.

A young lady tinkers with holographic screens surrounded by some more footage from popular loops.

GUIDE VOICE

All the Admins of the entire computer were the gods themselves and their subordinates, meaning that some of the wisest and strongest beings of the universe were maintaining order.

A zooming shot of Yggdrasil in full functionality.

GUIDE VOICE

The mainframe had the best hardware in all of Creation, meaning that such mundane fears as viruses and damage to the hard rive were practically a non-issue. At least... until the infection.

We see dolphins swimming at SeaWorld.

GUIDE VOICE

The smartest species in the root universe tried to warn all the lower species of this dreadful Sunday, this Dreadful August Twentieth in a comparably decent 2917, Whilst the Dolphins seemed to catch the drift like you'd expect from the second smartest species in the first universe,

Traditionally animated technicolor frogs magically appear from thin air.

GUIDE VOICE (cont)

The Third Smartest Species, being humans, could not perceive the Atlantian Camofrogs as any more than figments of the imagination due to their inability to maintain their existence in both sight and sound due to the Camofrog's pathetic existence as a one-dimensional creature.

Back to the Dolphins

GUIDE VOICE

Realizing humans are being deceived by an insidious force, the dolphins choose to leave the doomed world behind with the Camofrogs. Their final message was a natural one for them: 'So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!'

As the Dolphins swim together while doing some seems to be stunts for the people, the Dolphins looks at the humans who were kind to them even though the latter can't understand what the former were trying to warned them about.

-Distributor- Presents

A -Studio- Production

As bubbles appear while the Dolphins sang on, we see the title of the movie

The HitchHiker's Guide to Infinity

(Featuring the Following Franchises.)

It is almost time so the Dolphins performs their moves for the crowd and eating the last treats from their 'trainers'. As the Dolphins doing, we, and we alone, hears them singing.

Male Dolphins: So long and thanks for all the fish

So sad that it should come to this

We tried to warn you all but oh dear?

Oh! My Goddess

Penned by Kōsuke Fujishima

Filmed by Hiroaki Gōda

Ranma 1/2

Penned by Rumiko Takahashi

Filmed by Studio Deen

You may not share our intellect

Which might explain your disrespect

For all the natural wonders that

grow around you

Pixel Pinkie

Penned by Alicia Rackett

Filmed by Blue Rocket Productions

So long, so long and thanks

for all the fish

Fighting Foodons

Penned by Naoto Tsushima

Filmed by Tetsuo Yasumi

Jurassic Park

Penned by Michael Crichton

Filmed by Steven Spielberg

Female Dolphins: The world's about to be destroyed

There's no point getting all annoyed

Zatch Bell

Tony Anselmo

Dolphins: Lie back and let the planet dissolve

Male Dolphins: Despite those nets of tuna fleets

We thought that most of you were sweet

Taija Isen

Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women

with John DiMaggio

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

Kath Soucie

Female Dolphins: So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

JusSonic

Dolphins: So long, so long and thanks for all the fish

Child Dolphins: If I had just one last wish

I would like a tasty fish

and Mike Pollock

Casting by JusSonic

Opera Dolphins: If we could just change one thing

We would all have lungs to sing

Co-Producers: Julayla Beryl, Neros Urameshi and Anonymous But Interested

Soon it was nice time as the Dolphins were splashing around under the moon light. It's time for them to make their departure to leave the planet before it's too late for the creatures to do anything. First they are going to finish up their song of departure.

Music by megamewtwoed

Dolphins: Come one and all

Costume Designer: Essteka

Man and mammal

Editor: acosta jose ramiro

"Production Designer: Darth Ben Valor

Side by side

In life's great gene pool!

Director of Photography: slpytlak

Executive Producers: KingHuffman, Julayla Beryl, JusSonic and Anonymous But Interested

Producted by JusSonic, Anonymous But Interested, Julayla Beryl, Neros Urameshi and Darth Ben Valor

Based on the Infinite Loops fandom project initiated by Innortal

Soon we hear a chorus as the Dolphins were humming and holding their tones for a moment. The time has come. It's sad for them to leave mankind but they have no choice...plus the humans couldn't understand them anyway.

Screenplay by Alexander Cayford

Soon the Dolphins themselves begins to jump out of the water and are actually flying through towards the sky and space themselves!

Male Dolphins: So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

Female Dolphins: So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

Soon all the Dolphins are out of the water and heading right into space. It is unknown if or when they will ever return, if ever. The song is coming to a big close.

Dolphins: So long, so long and thanks for all the fish

Directed by -

Good Morning!

The Park

It was a beautiful Sunday as Zatch ran in the park. Kolulu, Tia, and he were playing tag as their partners watched. Kolulu, who had been returned to battle because of the King forcing her to, chased Zatch around the monkey bars because she was it.

BLONDE CHILD

(Laughing) “Ya can’t catch me Kolulu!”

ASIAN TEEN

“Kids…”

JPOP IDOL

“aw, does little Kiyo miss being a wittle kid?”

KIYO (ASIAN TEEN)

“Hey!”

Jim and Drew are watching it play out when Drew realizes something.

DREW

They're cartoons, like... straight out of an anime.

-Jim and Drew-

Kolulu, now chasing Tia, giggled. “Sorry sis! I love ya, but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna go easy on you!” Tia yelled. Kolulu ran so fast on trying to catch her sister, that she didn’t see the toy hidden in the sand, so she tripped.

“Ow!” Kolulu cried. Lori and Megumi, who stopped just enough from torturing Kiyo, ran over to Kolulu (That includes Kiyo) who was by her sister and her crush. “Are you okay, Kolulu?” Lori asked in concern. “Y-yeah. It’s just a small scrape on my knee.” Kolulu stuttered, trying not to cry. Zatch, or AKA, her crush, noticed the toy on the ground was Vulcan. “Oh! I’m sorry Kolulu, I must’ve put Vulcan there when we got to the park. I’m really sorry.” Zatch said apologizing. “It’s okay, Zatch.” Kolulu said blushing a little pink. Nobody really noticed but the humans.

-Jim and Drew-

Kiyo picked Kolulu up and put her on the park bench. “Lori can you read the spell?” Kolulu pleaded. “Yeah, here we go: Zerusen!” Lori yelled, taking out a pink book.

Kolulu, who had her hand a few inches away from her knee, pinkish aurora came out of her hand and landed on her knee, within a few seconds, the scraped was left with nothing but a scar. “You’ve really got to teach me how to do that…” Zatch joked. Kolulu giggled. “There’s one other thing I wanna say.” Kolulu said. “What’s that?’ Tia asked. Kolulu touched Zatch on the arm and said: “Tag! You’re it!” She the jumped from the bench and ran the same direction Tia did. “Hey! No fair!” Zatch laughed. He ran after the girls within seconds. Zatch ran gleefully from Tia, whom was now it. Kolulu, giggling, continued on with her day.

The Date

The Birthday

Edge of Infinity

In front of us was an array of earth-chunks being pulled up into space watching as a man in velvet red leather stood against a tall, broad, bearded man in a blue robe, Nintendo-themed Tank Top and bright red cap reading 'Make Existence Great Again' The man in red is LUCAS and the blue robed man is JESUS.

JESUS "I know what your ass is thinking, Lucas! ...and believe me when I say the damage you'll do will make the Fall of Constantinople look like the Garden of Eden so PLEASE listen to me!"

LUCAS "No, YOU Listen! Just because you believe in freedom of souls doesn't mean they're not nourishment for our power."

JESUS "We gain power with every new possibly we explore, Lucas,

Lucas is stepping closer to a big red button.

JESUS Not from eating souls and matter, So please don't try to wake up the metafungus.

"Like you need this Hub to begin with," the demon snorted as he pouted out his point "You have a whole shitton of universes just like it with little difference here and there for 'Diversity' like anyone gives a slam anymore!"

"But the butterfly effect."

"But modern science."

"But human dignity."

"But eternal life."

"But bone cancer."

"But eugenics."

"... You know what, push that button and you sink all of Yggdrasil within the next year." The beardman disgruntledly relented. "But we'll ice your metafungus to save this happy little drive, or to avenge it."

"And If I refuse?"

"We'll let you go free and we'll pretend this never happened." The man in the blue robe had his hand extended for the gentleman in red. "Forget this end without end stuff and we can clean up these parasites together. I hear that there are medical miracles you turned down for countering your geoengineered bugs, why don't you make them all mainstream so we can save the lives of millions."

The man in red took a step forward before a balding man came to the beardman with words of advice. "My good Saint, Do you honestly think there is a trustworthy soul in a form designed to free the Evil Lord Xenu?"

A mook thrusts the ignition tube into the console and an ultimate storm of desolation and disease can be seen sweeping the planet on a big screen from above, every known disease hitting humanity at once from cancer to ebola, bones eroding, structures and items reducing themselves to polygonal shapes before dissipating into nothing as the souls of humanity are ripped from their bodies the exact millisecond that those bodies splash out of canon and turn into paint thinner.

LUCAS

...You're not as retarded as you look.

The old king is impaled by the deadly metafungus made from the root universe, He screams in pain as we cut to Kolulu collapsed onto the ground with her hands on her head screaming.

TIA AND ZATCH

“Kolulu!”

They run to her aid only to also collapse suddenly with their hands over their heads, their partners running to them as Ra looks in terror.

LORI

“Kolulu!”

KIYO

“Zatch!”

MEGUMI

“Tia!”

Kolulu, having pink aurora come over her, red aurora around Tia, and Blue around Zatch.

RA

"Faster, Nimbus, Faster!"

An incredible virus and massive numbers of bugs flooding the rest of the system as the agent of erasure paced around the king, watching the malware overload the supercomputer and causing seemingly irreparable damage to its systems for the Zeitennix Sludge to absorb these downed realities, codes practically ripped asunder as a result of the attempted metacide.

LUCAS

...and so the world of man ended, not with a bang nor a whimper, but with a sploosh of deadly metafungus.

The king is pulled into the mass of sludge to be eaten alive, A bolt of cosmic lightning appears upon the fortress as the man in red storms off. The hatch of the newly-appeared train opens to reveal the aurora has faded. The three mamodo looking different as we cut to a close up on main her.

"RETURN FIRE!"

KOLULU (in a lower voice of her usual one.) “What’s going on? ...My voice!” she suddenly put her hand over her mouth.

LORI "Kolulu.. You’re… "

A teenager! So were Tia and Zatch. In place of Kolulu’s pink dress was a rose pink tank top, white capris, pink tennis shoes, and her hair had become an inch or two longer down to her shoulders. Tia, she wore a red halter top, black capris, red tennis shoes, and her hair had been cut down to her elbows. Zatch, now just wearing a blue t-shirt that had his name on it, some jeans with blue tennis shoes. His hair and eyes the same too.

HERMES

Skully, Just got some news on your sisters. Bell's evacuated Keichi, Skuld's ready to- WHOA!

We see that Skuld had similarly changed but had filled out more than the mamodo. We get a shot of her sweet, succulent ass.

SKULD

...sticking out.

Skuld stands up straight, showing of her barely visible abs.

SKULD

...sculpted.

Skuld gropes her round, fluffy breasts.

SKULD

...Sticking out.

She pulls her ear, feels her cheeks, then roars with pride with her matured face directly in front of the camera.

SKULD

RETURN FIRE!

RA

Balls to the wall, Ash-Hags!

The First Looper

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity

GUIDE VOICE

Produced as a reaction to a premonition of this cosmic calamity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity is a truly remarkable book and a remarkably clever response to the attempted metacide of Yggdrasil.

GUIDE VOICE

Penned by the man himself and an ever-growing pool of the Loopers he initiated to keep the universes stable,

GUIDE VOICE

it is more useful than the WestphallMaps.wand website,

GUIDE VOICE

better selling than the QuadStars Vol. 42 Blu-Ray Box Set,

GUIDE VOICE

and more divisively contrivertial than Orae Flesher's trilogy of evolutionary rebuttals

GUIDE VOICE

'Evolution is Nonsense', '42 finds that contradict evolution', 'Why evolution is a pyramid scheme by globalists to demoralize and destroy humanity as a species.'

GUIDE VOICE

Though proven to be similar to the flagship series of the highly liberal Great Publishing Corporation of Ursa Minor, it has surpassed it in sales and information as the standard suppository of knowledge and wisdom, and that can be chalked up to three distinct reasons.

GUIDE VOICE

one being that it is slightly cheaper, the second being that they tried to bury it as 'fake news', third in that it is constantly growing thanks to the imput of the Looper community.

GUIDE VOICE

Nowhere is this more obvious than the friendly phrase printed on the cover being a common phrase to welcome people into the Infinite Loops 'Keep Calm and Leave your Sanity at the Door'

High School

We cut to an Australian High School as we see Jim and Drew put into the role of Teacher and assistant reading from the HitchHiker's Guide to Infinity.

DREW

"So, what you're saying is that there's a deep state out to destroy this tree-"

JIM

"Was a deep state, past tense." (Walks to the chalkboard with a long stick of chalk to write down some notes.) "The only thing left of that now is a blank space where your precious ol hub should be."

DREW

"Blank? Y-You mean we're all dead!?"

JIM

No, we're not dead.

DREW

That's a relief.

Jim draw up a quantum equation onto a third of the board over the course of his saying the following line.

JIM

It just means every atom that composed your universe had been turned into a deadly metafungus designed to eat away every possible universe it can reach as it infects countless others with glitches and viruses which spread at Mach 2600 speeds.

DREW

"So it's faster than light?"

JIM

"Faster than time." (Outlines the word time before marching across the class) "Then again, Time is nothing more than code and save files clumped together by sentient perception so you're better off calling it 'faster than code', so is this little ping that I'm about to test out right about... now!" (snaps his fingers)

Drew's head started ringing with a strange mental sound that seemed to ring in the head of a student sleeping in front of them.

SUZY

COOKIES AND MILK!

The students start laughing at the anchor of the Branch of Battling Mamodo.

DREW

"So, we're nothing but data?"

JIM

"Naw, you're organic as the rest of us, it's the barrier that keeps a universe together that is made from calculated light and data." Jim set up the satellite receiver on his setup. "And it keeps a reality-shattering kaboom from wiping out the root of Yggdrasil in a literal vessel of satan himself to retcon existence itself out existence in a blatant attempt at full metacide!"

DREW

M-METACIDE!?

NEON PINKETTE

The retroactive abortion of the very concept of a person, a place, a thing and even an idea.

JIM

Ah, look. Another fella who's Awake and well!

NEON PINKETTE

And so very Loopy, you could hoist Anchor easy!

JIM

Yeah, are we all glad to be alive. (To Drew) Thankfully, we are clearly welcoming new exchange student, they're people, into a classroom in what is clearly a Japanese-style high school in Australia, a place, with what you'd clearly call a stack of mobile devices for each of the six, they're things, with our intention clearly being to introduce you to the Infinite Loops, an idea. Bonjour, Gashern!

ZATCH

Hey.

KIYO

We're all Japanese, Teach.

JIM

Right, Right. Of Course. Guten Tag, Koruru!

KOLULU

Erm...

Directly above 'Koruru' is the violent persona from the series appearing ala the Inner Sakura from Naruto.

INNER KOLULU

Does he even teach german?

KOLULU

Not that I know of...

INNER KOLULU

Then why is he spouting German!?

KOLULU

Maybe he's trying to give us a warm welcome.

JIM

Now you're getting it. (Inter the Ooumi 'sisters') Nihou Tioko and Megumi Ooumi and How ar- ('Tioko' immediately kicks Jim in the nuts) AH! aaAAAaahhh...

MEGUMI

Couldn't you be nicer to the guy.

TIA

He's a symptom of our problem, why even bother to respect that loser?

JIM

Hurtful... :(

(Tia sits next to the Neon Pinkette)

NEON PINKETTE

Hello there, I'm Pixel Pinkie. And this is my best friend, Nina.

TIA

Save it, Ya glob of GoAnimate Garbage.

PIXEL PINKIE

Hurtful... :(

Back with Jim and Drew

JIM

"These very students in this very classroom at these very desks witnessing our chat about this very topic means that the metacide clearly... (Whaps Nikki in the nose) failed."

DREW

"Then what the hell are we doing here?"

JIM

"That's the beauty part."

Cera Threehorne

(The Students exit the class as Jim and Drew discuss the Loops)

JIM

"See, there's this thing in 68% of the universes hooked up to Yggdrasil that renders time to pass a bit differently like a sort of 'safe mode' for spacetime where a specific chunk of time repeats over and over for as long as it takes to solve the big problem they've caused."

A tall, somewhat lanky fellow was walking through the near empty hallway of the high school as a human when the girl next to him, who had orange hair, stiffened. The fact that she began to look around in a panic caused him to react by pulling her into an alcove and keeping her pinned against him and the wall.

TALL KID

"Cera? Did you just wake up?"

Calming down a bit at the familiar voice, Cera looked around shakingly.

CERA

"Li-Littlefoot? Is that you?"

At the nod of the lanky teen, she relaxed some but was still in a state of shock.

CERA

"What's going on?! Where are we?! What are we?!"

Jim placed one finger against her mouth, silencing Cera whilst explaining a specific detail.

JIM

You need an Anchor to get a particular branch Looping cause that's all a Looper ever is and shall be: just a cosmic mass of ethereal memories describing a growing collection of repeating lifetimes, to give a brief run-down.

LITTLEFOOT

"We're both in a high school known as 'Great Valley High' in the town of Great Valley. High school is a place where young humans go to learn stuff and we're both humans this loop."

For some odd reason, Cera felt her cheeks heat as she felt Littlefoot's taller body press against her.

CERA

"O-oh... Humans, those guys like Tickles, right?"

As Littlefoot smiled and nodded, Cera felt her cheeks heat a bit more. "Right. Now then, remember what I told you about learning a loop's memories?" Once she nodded, Littlefoot took a breath. "I want you to do that right now. It should tell you everything you need to know about this loop."

While she calmed down further, Cera closed her eyes and searched her memories. 'Okay... I'm Cera Threehorn, in 11th Grade, whatever that is. I live with my dad... The Sharptooth was something called a "Serial Killer". And...' Several moments later she opened her eyes with an perplexed expression on her face as she looked up at Littlefoot. "Um... Littlefoot?"

Littlefoot just raised an eyebrow at her. "Yes, Cera?"

Her question caught him off guard. "Why do I have memories of the two of us pressing our mouths together?"

There was silence for a few moments as Littlefoot's face went bright red. "Um... Hoo-boy..."

Chapter 0: Ol' Uncle Walt

In the beginning, there was nothing. No prehistoric dinosaurs, no microscopic algae, no anything in particular, there was but one spark of determination floating in the void of nothingness that was the beginning. But then the Spark said: Let there be light, and the rest was history.

Each week would be the same thing. On Monday, the Spark delivers light. Tuesday for the Sky. Land and Sea on Wednesday, Et cetera. And it can truly get tiring after a while and it's hard to garner some respect without a face for his subjects, Just look at how Adam and Eve treated his rules. He needed assistance, so on the seventh day one particular week, he created that assistance as well as a face to interact with the creation designed to act as said assistance. The new race made from these two 'gods' as you call them, would one day be christened Lespirans.

These two Lespirans weaved together their own universes with several distinct quirks sprinkled in from time to time, and often times the former spark would create more Lespirans to increase the output, soon what used to be a one-man show steadily grew into an expansive network of hundreds of like-minded deities over the centuries churning out universe after universe, even going as far as inventing:

Yggdrasil, the home of the most powerful supercomputer ever created, managed by the gods themselves. It was a divine place, full of some of the most powerful entities Man had ever known, legends upon legends written about them. In this divine tree, a supercomputer was housed that contained millions of universes within, all congregating into one mass called the “multiverse”.

For a long time, this system was maintained and run with exceptional care and precision, everything going in a normal fashion with nary a hiccup spotted. All the Admins of the entire computer were the gods themselves and their subordinates, meaning that some of the wisest and strongest beings of the universe were maintaining order. The mainframe had the best hardware in all of Creation, meaning that such mundane fears as viruses and damage to the hard rive were practically a non-issue. At least... until the infection.

The date was August 20th, 2017, more than six thousand years after the root of existence began. It was a time of convenience and spontaneousness, a time where the Clinton Couple were just about ready to kick the bucket. African, Libyan and Syrian Soldiers were being deported after being shipped here for an invasion... by the order of cuckled democrats and authoritarian communists. America was thankfully becoming great again and soon, many an able-bodied gentlemen were joining the work force for once in their goddamned lives. No more sitting on his rectum doing Belgium all while they complained about their welfare, No! They were going to have to force themselves to make something of their gelatinous existences and this will happen one way or another, just as this twenty-four year old ape descendanthas done when he became a licencee of Blockbuster Video. This man was Drew Lea Maine and he currently knows as much about his destiny as the trees know about the crayola company. This is the story of how this manchild freed himself from the shackles of mundane life when the city decides to pave a bistro on his workplace.

Maine

After my refreshing monthly sleepaway visit to my grandmother of sixty-four, I made my way to my workplace of choice to find a slow flow of customers as per usual in this small suburban town. I set up my storefront and got my workers in line, all both of them. Lydia stood ground at the checkout counter while Wyatt paced around to assist any incoming customer. Me, I had the most difficult job of all.

When the landlord stepped forward to find me laying firm against the bright orange bulldozer, he grinned with such disrespect. "Come now, Mister Maine. You don't think this would actually win your petty little war, do you?"

"Watch me!" Sneered Drew to his land owner. "We shall soon see who rusts first!"

"The Dunkin's gonna be built cause it's gonna be built, there's no stopping that." Shrugged the Land Lord. "You could've gotten the signs at any moment."

"So how come I only heard about this yesterday?"

The landlord merely sighed to himself, "Listen, I loved Blockbuster back in the day, made movie night easy for me when the VCR was still relevant. Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Sound of Music, I could go on but I wont! And do you know why?"

"...streaming." Drew muttered to the civil leader.

"Yes, Much more convenient than discs that get lost ever so often!" declared the smarmy master of the shopping plaza.

Drew's anger got him off his hide and facing his Land Lord dead in the eyes "But it robs you of the pleasure of actually owning a particular object to hold in your hand that contains the treasured memories you hold dear! All for the sake of convenience when you're really throwing away your god damn liberties and rights to a banking conglomerate pretending to be a government! Are you still clinging to that Blu-Ray Collection?"

The motor began to rev on the dozer, prompting Drew to rush back to his spot and continue laying on the spot. "You won't get me like that, either!"

"Mister Maine, do you know how much damage it would cause to this dozer?" the moment that Drew asked what, the fellow cheekily stated: "None at all!"

The Bar

Coincidentally, 'None at all' is the amount of suspiscion his land lord had towards his earlier occupation as the busboy to the Cosby Comet where he served a space captain: a liberal cartoon named THiN-CRUST and together they ripped apart rotten media of any shape and size, but soon enough, friction began to tear the group apart with a faulty video being the last straw, at least for now.

But this didn't stop a fan of Drew's days as 'Mister DeeP DiSH' from stepping forward and greeting the abandoned critic. "Good morn to you!"

"Hello... Guest!?" Drew was honestly befuddled by the presence of this bearded gentleman.

"Please, call me Jim." he extended a hand to Drew with a smile on his face. "Come, me and a few buddies are going off for a pint."

Drew sighed. "Wish I could, but I've kinda got a piece of cultural history to preserve here."

"Well, I've got beer and Pringles out for the boys." winked Jim, waving to the workers as they marched forward to the array of snacks. "So?"

Drew wasn't convinced in the slightest, he knew for a fact that while distracting the workers with such sheer snackage was a most logical idea, all that beer and popcorn wouldn't hold them off for too long. So he resorted to a more intimate tactic. "Hey there! You want a good view of the eclipse?"

"Well, yeah." Smiled a passerby as she dim-wittedly marched towards Drew to meet him. "You know a primo spot?"

"Sure, just come closer." The broad stepped forward as Drew got up and shook her hand. "A good ten hours aughta be enough time."

"Time til the eclipse, got it." Her slurred words making Drew greatful for his adequately higher level of intelligence. "So I just gotta stand there-"

"No! You lay there on this here towel." Drew laid the woman atop the towel, and handed her a sunbathing mirror. "And never move once."

"Okay." Drew smiled as he made his way to Jim who guided the one-time reviewer to the Bar.

They walked in to find themselves in a different place altogether. With patrons of all sorts, manly men, voluptuous women, little boys and girls holding onto their dolls for dear life. It felt like a welcoming place, sure, but there was an air of uncertainty surrounding the patrons, as if they were hiding from something utterly dreadful.

"Jim, You're back!" grinned a man with a white mop of hair atop his head as another gentleman with a moustache pulled the two of us close. "Come, we've got an hour and a half til it all ends."

"Hold up, end of what?" asked Drew.

"Yeah, we're... gonna need to explain some details about the sad state of the world." Jim then hands Drew a pint of whiskey. "Fact is, there's a parasite infestation conspiring against humanity in front of an unconscious public eye."

"Appreciate the drink," Drew complimented, "...but I'm not really into alcohol."

"You really should drink that, though." said the white-haired man. "It keeps the body mass loose for atomic teleportation."

"Right," uttered Drew "And you are..."

"I'm Ted." smiled the white-haired man with the bowtie, "The gentleman to my right is named Elias."

"Top of the mornin'" The moustachioed man smiled back.

"And we're here to fetch some stuff for the demolition." Jim smiled to the normie.

"So you've anticipated the destruction of my workplace?" Squawked Drew.

"Ehhh... Sorta." Jim could only shrug to Drew's response.

"Have you noticed the trannies in Hajibs welcoming terrorists to slaughter gays, christians, anyone who believes in free speech." Elias sighed to the gentleman "And immediately saying that all whites are guilty, the south is guilty, christianity's guilty, gun owners are guilty, confederate flag's guilty, every statue's guilty, all while the false activists are hired to murder the police to make room for the drones."

"And on the mainstream media, they are commanding them to destroy American landmarks, kill republican politicians, kill every family, kill every human..." ranted and raved old Teddy. "Kill, kill, kill, All in an effort to bankrupt the planet and enslave the species with debt and sterility because the left is merely a disguise for literal Global Communism!"

"Hold on?" Asked Drew in auspiscion, "What exactly are you going on about?"

"Depopulation!" Jim paced the bar towards Drew voicing his frustrations with the world. "Gender spectrum bullocks to sexually confuse and dilute the youth into falling into the sin of transexuality! Deadly human-killing chemicals in every consumable product from bug spray to even vaccines! Political establishments ordering their underlings to kill every patriot they can find just to keep themselves in power! All while their souls are sucked into a network of soulcatchers creating a wide array of philosopher's stones to convert every atom of this universe into a deadly metafungus right under our noses because to them, nobody's special! In fact, we're all just trash waiting for the clones of Satan to throw us awayby blowing up our planet!"

"But I thought that everyone were special snowflakes." I said. "That's how humans work, right?"

"A Human is a special snowflake." Ted assured to the boy. "Humans are tyrannically contagious attention whores of scum, hate and genocide and you know it.

"But not all humans, right?"

"Not all humans, of course, have you seen 80s music back in the day." Chuckled Jim as he thought of "But Hollywood's run by Terrorists who seek nothing but the complete destruction of beauty and passion, have you seen the new RoboCop?"

"And that Harlot Bates. If ISIS wasn't running the Communist News Network, then it might just have as much of a fetish for it as the rest of the Left-Reich." Elias sneered towards the apparent Terrorist Media. "I'm more into independent media, marketing to people who seek to get their democracy back from the tyrannical excuse of an ACLU."

"No, they're all symptoms of his big battle plan against the planet we love!" Jim snammed his fist in outrage against the damage being done to the earth. "We've got to purge the satanic moles hiding in the global government now befor-"

"It's not gonna work!" Ted roared towards the bearded man before slumping in his seat. "It's the day of the eclipse... it's already too late."

"You're right." Jim took out his watch and exclaimed "Welp, I just wasted five minutes of the universe's life doing mindless exposition. Maybe we should shove off for that birthday party of yours?"

"Sure, Why not? This Sunday's starting to taste like a Tuesday!" Drew stealthily snarked as he made his way out to the door. "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

Ted, Jim, and Elias took all the peanuts they could and flung their wallets at the bartender as Jim decrees: "A round for everyone, on me."

"You really think the world's going to end?" Jim responds with a nod whilst his comrades make their way to the car. "Shouldn't we lie down or put a bag over our heads or something?"

Jim immediately nodded: "If you want."

"Will it help?"

"Narcs no." Jim exits with a friendly salute, leaving all in confusion.

"Well, can't say I blame him with all them lawless liberals." quoth the bartender with an aloofness to his voice. "...last orders, then?"

Teh Date

As the foolish young shmuck stepped into the car, his new friend made his way to his -50s motorcycle- to keep up. "Well, now that we've established what we're doing here, what If I told you that I wasn't from Queens?"

"I could tell by the skin tone, mate." scoffed Drew as kept to his path.

Jim smiled to the retail manager. "And how'd you react if I said I was a hodgepodge of memories cobbled together into an organic body for the purpose of exploring the hub cluster."

"I'd suggest a beautiful idea and change the subject." Drew took some added time to think of one such subject when finally he came up with one that would play into our story sooner than you think. "I found the one! The perfect girl. I found her, and then I let her get away. You remember that fancy cosplay party I told you about? Earlier this week at the convention center, I saw her."

The Party

Drew biked his way back to his grandmother's house for this, his twenty-fourth birthday. All of his friends were here as they readied themselves to gorge on cake and pizza, neither of which were in short supply. Pan Pizzas of plenty of varieties lined the plastic benches as the sloshing of the above-ground pool's water waves fluently filled the air. To the left was a 16 inch Manager's recipe adorned with bacon, crispy chicken, and pepper-jack cheese, to the right: The Big Porker sporting pepperoni, ham, sausage and bacon. And dead in the center lay the star of the show, i.e. the reason for all the Milkshakes: The Dragon Knight!

"One Slice. That's all you get, man." Drew said to himself as he stared down the concoction's ingredients: Pepperoni, sausage, regular bacon, jalepeno peppers upon pepper jack cheese and ghost pepper sauce. The one-time 'Mister DeeP DiSH' took a bite, then another, and another! Before he knew it, he had just picked up his third slice only for it to be swiped away and halfway engulfed by his adopted sister: "Ponyo!"

A firey red mop of hair laced a perky teenaged face, her athletic arms brushing the sweater tied around her hips, her bright eyes, albeit somewhat smaller, still showcases the innocence that reminds him of how she came into his life.

Ponyo.

"Oh, golly... I'm so unimportant!" He flattered himself with ego-stroking compliments as he opened his first gift. "Arr... I never thought I'd see it with me own eyes."

From his grandmother who provided him shelter for the night prior: A Nintendo Switch console lay in front of him, a rather silly device considering everything that lay before him in the future.

Main Character's 24th Birthday Party. He receives a Nintendo Switch.

Drew immediately realized where this truck of movies came from and asked: "Is that everything?"

"All we felt like saving." His loyal cashier's words rock his feeble mind and sees him taking Jim's Motorcycle. Jim was reacting in slight terror, but apprehensive necessity as there were seven minutes left til the end of the world and he just set up his grandmother's house for terrestrial transmission. Zooming over the speed limit, Drew made his way to his workplace to find that the foremen have already took down the awning and are knocking away the plaster to Drew's utter horror.

"Dastards! All Y'all!"

The Blockbuster has been torn down

"Attention, all dominant organisms of this thought table." grunted a crotchety old voice. "This is the Administrative Beureau of Yggdrasil here on a routine purge of the Rusephorz genus as they were created from HATE energy and therefore are made of pure evil that the hivemind uses to disguise itself as individual people of power for the specific purpose of decimating the human race through psychological indoctrination and biological molestation."

"Your belief in such lies has distracted you from achieving the true energy that runs the universe and powers the abilities most other universe sport themselves. Your trust in such tyrants has led to wars on industry, sentience and humanity waged by parasites that worship death and erasure." On every screen, in every brain, atop every drop of the atmosphere, humankind lay witness to an alien race after all this time. The voice that took over for the elder voice was a smooth, buttery baritone of bravado. "Your faith in such dogma has washed away the true nature of your outdated universe and it is through this initiative that we choose to save as many kind-hearted, hard-working human families we can find from the prison planet they plan to consume!"

"I apologize to all who are inconvenienced by the infestation, but I'm afraid you have surpassed the two-hundred year time limit to file a fumigation request at your local Moon Kingdom and thus are now set for demolition by order of the Lespiran planning council." Another voice, this time a young woman with a kindly ring to her voice. "When we received word of a moon mission from your local space program, we were ready to shelf the orders when we saw a technological trash can of an aircraft, on a quarry set, filmed in black and white, and the plans layed there on display for fifty long, depressing years."

Panic begins to spread across the world as yet another voice is heard, a lot more childlike, but distinctly feminine. "This is for your own good. Too many people are turning humanity against freedom, against wealth, against independence from their slave drivers that have hid themselves from the public eye while they pour millions of Islamic aliens under the guise of Immigration to conquer the west and destroy its populace for the sake of their worship of Death itself. We have to wash away this planet, we have to lift away the good men and women with the parks, we have to use this eclipse to wipe the table clean."

"The least you should do was haul your ass to Tiggyyack-616 and look up the plans, especially after what we've done to salvage this cheap ass table of yours." a woman in a black dress was displayed everywhere one might see her pointing to a flat table, white hair contrasting with her darker complexion. She had a jaded concerto to her voice aimed to the ape descendants, as if she knew something about that table. "We conceive a duplicate of the world's greatest bounty hunter, it ends up assimilated to be a shield to your pedophillic predators. We implant messages to your 'Jefkay', they kill it off to shut it up! We've archived all these worlds with all these possible energies, Sharengan Chakra, Spiral Energy, Puella Magi, Nothing's worked! You are utterly normal Worms!"

"You needn't worry about the evil ones. We have your lord and savior on the case to dethrone the parasites and execute them with his platoon of Saints." The Male voice spoke as towns and cities were pillaged and decimated by every man, woman and child. "Again, we apologize for this inconvenience."

The cosmic force from Jim's arm gesture lifted our neighborhood into the air where I saw the solar eclipse loom closer than I ever seen it. Now, an eclipse is nothing to sneeze at, don't get me wrong! It was what it was opening us up to that was concerning me.

Attack on Spacetime

In front of us was an array of earth-chunks being pulled up into space watching as a man in velvet leather stood against a tall, broad, bearded man in a blue robe, Nintendo-themed Tank Top and bright red cap reading 'Make Existence Great Again'

"I know what your ass is thinking, Lucas!" Roared the bearded man. "...and believe me when I say the damage you'll do will make the Fall of Constantinople look like Garden of Eden so PLEASE listen to me!"

"No, YOU Listen!" The leather-clad man snarled back "Just because you believe in freedom of souls doesn't mean they're not nourishment for our power."

"We gain power with every new possibly we explore, Lucas, not from eating souls and matter." The bearded man saw the other man loom ever closer to a bright red button. "So please don't try to wake up the metafungus."

"Like you need this Hub to begin with," the demon snorted as he pouted out his point "You have a whole shitton of universes just like it with little difference here and there for 'Diversity' like anyone gives a slam anymore!"

"But the butterfly effect."

"But modern science."

"But human dignity."

"But eternal life."

"But bone cancer."

"But eugenics."

"... You know what, push that button and you sink all of Yggdrasil within the next year." The beardman disgruntledly relented. "But we'll ice your metafungus to save this happy little drive, or to avenge it."

"And If I refuse?"

"We'll let you go free and we'll pretend this never happened." The man in the blue robe had his hand extended for the gentleman in red. "Forget this end without end stuff and we can clean up these parasites together. I hear that there are medical miracles you turned down for countering your geoengineered bugs, why don't you make them all mainstream so we can save the lives of millions."

The man in red took a step forward before a balding man came to the beardman with words of advice. "My good Saint, Do you honestly think there is a trustworthy soul in a form designed to free the Evil Lord Xenu?"

"Wow, you're not as FUCKING RETARDED AS YOU LOOK!" The man thrust the ignition tube into the console's second left leg and the ultimate storm of desolation and disease swept the planet, every known disease hitting humanity at once from cancer to ebola, bones eroding, structures and items reducing themselves to polygonal shapes before dissipating into nothing as the souls of humanity are ripped from their bodies the exact millisecond that those bodies splash out of stability and turn into paint thinner. The man in blue could only watch as a metallic jet led an array of Spaceplanes to pick up the velvet man by the trailer with its Zathruran Steel claws. Xenu laughing all the way as the velvet man grinned at his accomplishment of destroying the birthplace of humanity, the very root of Yggdrasil.

...and so the world of man ended, not with a bang nor a whimper, but with a sploosh of deadly metafungus.

And from the metafungus the evil canon tyrant had produced from the very root of the tree, an incredible virus and massive numbers of bugs flooded the system, overloading it and causing seemingly irreparable damage to its systems for the Zeitennix Sludge to absorb these downed realities, codes practically ripped asunder as a result of the attempted.

The computer had plenty of anti-virus software, which the old king acted to use against Xenu and his minions. Hammerships swerve to blow away enemy drones while Patcher Drones freeze the metafungus in its tracks, even the highest Admin around worked by the seat of one's trowsers to heal whatever damage was caused as if one's life depended on it.

Try as they might whilst Xenu releases more troops upon the Admins, but the Admins of the system truly had no choice but to sever the lost roots from the tree and demolish the spread of the deadly metafungus. What made it even worse was the knowledge that, since the entire multiverse was stored on the hard drive, another new Zeitennix outbreak could destroy Yggdrasil on a conceptual level, which would of course lead to hundreds upon thousands upon millions of billions of trillions of deaths.

The Adminsphere acted quickly to blast the metafungus with digital nitrogen to freeze up its organic material in polygonal degradation, ethereal bullets rain upon the Zeitennix spread freezing each of its thousands of tendrils eating away at Yggdrasil from the root upwards. Soon, the metafungus lay encased in protective cubes waiting to be eradicated from existence as the Adminsphere droneships regrouped for the final blow.

"Commence Demolition." And so, twas done.

Loop 1: Ranma

Ranma could only cringe, looking at how this Loop was turning out very badly. Nothing good will come of this, he mentally cried, wondering what Gods he had pissed off for this to happen. He had been so petrified by the sight before him, he hadn't even noticed when Soun Tendo poured the boiling hot water over him.

"You're problem's not so bad," smiled Soun, oblivious to any discomfort/fear Ranma was feeling. "Now I know you have a hard choice. My little girls all take so much after their mother."

"Daddy!" giggled the eldest Tendo.

"Now then: Serenity, age 19, Usagi, age 17, and Usa, age 16," he said, pointing to the platinum blond, pure blond, and pinkette in turn. "Choose the one who will be your fiancée!"

"Is he okay?" asked Usagi. "He just went pretty pale."

"He must have eaten some of your food," smirked Usa.

"WAAAAAH! I TRY! AND DADDY EATS IT!"

THUMP!

As a whole, the trio of oddly hairstyled girls and fathers looked at the Saotome heir … collapsed on the ground, twitching heavily.

"I … think he's having a seizure," mumbled Usa.

"WAAAAAH! WE NEED A DOCTOR!" yelled Usagi, panicking.

"I'll get the first aid crystal," said Serenity, as she dashed into the kitchen.

"Stop acting like that, Boy!" bellowed Genma, offering what 'help' he could.

Ranma fought to regain control over his massive nervous twitch, but could do nothing to stall the fear of an entire Loop … of magic girl fiancées.

Branch 1: Pixel Pinkie

Produced as a reaction to a premonition of this cosmic calamity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity is a truly remarkable book and a remarkably clever response to the attempted metacide of Yggdrasil. Penned by the man himself and an ever-growing pool of the Loopers he initiated to keep the universes stable, it is more useful than the WestphallMaps.wand website, better selling than the QuadStars Vol. 42 Blu-Ray Box Set, and more divisively contrivertial than Orae Flesher's trilogy of evolutionary rebuttals 'Evolution is Nonsense', '42 finds that contradict evolution', 'Why evolution is a pyramid scheme by globalists to demoralize and destroy humanity as a species.' Though proven to be similar to the flagship series of the highly liberal Great Publishing Corporation of Ursa Minor, it has surpassed it in sales and information as the standard suppository of knowledge and wisdom, and that can be chalked up to three distinct reasons, one being that it is slightly cheaper, the second being that they tried to bury it as 'fake news', third in that it is constantly growing thanks to the imput of the Looper community. Nowhere is this more obvious than the friendly phrase printed on the cover being a common phrase to welcome people into the Infinite Loops 'Keep Calm and Leave your Sanity at the Door'

Loop 1: New Neighbors

Drew could only sit in shock as the guide introduced itself to its audience of friends and family. "So, what you're saying is that there's a deep state out to destroy this tree-"

"Was a deep state, past tense." Jim shrugged as he took a look at the world they found themselves in at the moment. "The only thing left of that now is a blank space where your hub should be."

"Wait, blank?" Drew's eyes widened in fear. "You mean we're all dead!?"

"No, we're not dead." Jim corrected "It just means every atom that composes your universe had been turned into a deadly metafungus that eats away every universe it can reach as it infects countless others with glitches and viruses which spread at Mach 2600 speeds."

Drew glanced to the bearded man. "Faster than Light?"

"Faster than Time." Jim would keep his eyes on pieces of a radio setup that had appeared out of nowhere. "Then again, Time is nothing more than code and save files clumped together by sentient perception so you're better off calling it Faster Than Code, so is this little ping that I'm about to test out right about... now!"

Drew's head started ringing with a strange mental sound that gained the attention of his family. "So, we're nothing but data?"

"Naw, you're organic as the rest of us, it's the barrier that keeps a universe together that is made from calculated light and data." Jim set up the satellite receiver on his setup. "And it keeps a reality-shattering kaboom from wiping out the root of Yggdrasil in a literal vessel of satan himself to retcon existence itself out existence in a blatant attempt at full metacide!"

"Metacide?" If poor old Drew weren't sweating bullets during the lifting of his neighborhood, this would leave him drenched in his own bodily fluids by the time this snip is done.

"The erasure of the very idea of a person, a place, a thing..." Jim was focusing on materializing a skeleton key into his hand. "And here's the kicker: an idea.

Drew slumped in his birthday chair. He was in utter shock at the notion of reality being completely negated on a conceptual level.

"Thankfully you are clearly watching me, a person, unlock the door of what's clearly a fellow looper's house, a place, with what you'd clearly call a skeleton key, a thing, with my intention clearly being to introduce you to this branch's Anchor, an idea." Jim opened the door and walked into the kitchen of that house where he picked up a box snacks. "This very conversation in this very house with this very box of Cheez-Its about this very topic means that the metacide clearly failed."

"Then what the hell are we doing here?" Drew complained.

"Ah, that's the beauty part." Smiled Jim as he tugged Drew closer "See, there's this thing in 68% of the universes hooked up to Yggdrasil that renders time to pass a bit differently like a sort of 'safe mode' for spacetime where a specific chunk of time repeats over and over for as long as it takes to solve the big problem they've caused."

A yawn is heard in the background, the source of it was a sleepy-eyed young teenager in pajamas with an odd pink hairdo adorning her head "...morning."

"Hello there, Pinkie." Jim smiled to the girl in pajamas. "We finally implemented these guys from the root of Yggdrasil and we're giving them a tour of the Loops!"

"A Tour!?" Pinkie's smile grew wider and pulled Drew's arm on her way to her branch's local anchor. You see, In order for the coding of a loop to be properly completed, there has to be a stabilizing constant that could exist throughout all the iterations of each universe. They couldn’t just simply have every single person’s memory be reset with every restart, not only because of the chaos that would wrought, but because the universe and all its variants would just collapse due to sheer data overload. Thus, after even more deliberation, they ended up coming to a solution: the creation of “Anchors”.

The idea of creating an Anchor was simple: one person from each dominant universe within the multiverse would be selected to not lose their memories at the end of each Loop, and instead keep all of them throughout every single iteration. They’d be reliving the same period of their life over and over again, fully aware that time was repeating itself. The idea was that, the strongest-willed individuals in each reality would be chosen to be the one that “anchored” the existence of their section of the multiverse, and as long as they were alive and active, their universe and all its variants would continue to exist.

Obviously, such a realization would have lasting impacts upon one’s psyche if left unchecked, so the Admins decided to add something “extra” to try and make it a bit less strenuous for the Anchors: the allowance of others to Loop along with them.

Nina

Snug in bed lay the anchor of this world: A red-headed pubescent female ape descendant named Nina. It was her strong bonds with two of her friends built upon friendship and trust that allowed them both to loop alongside her. These other Loopers didn’t have a specific designation, mind you, but it was agreed upon that this will be the only way that other individuals would be allowed to retain their memories across Loops.

Now, there's a vital duality for these anchors and their admins, Anchors will warm up to the people they were familiar with now continuing their existence alongside them throughout all the Loops as a fixed constant in their lives. On the Admin side, well... let's just wait until a certain other character is available before we jump to any conclusions.

"Nina, we have guests!" smiled Pinkie as the redhead named Nina shuffled her body out of her sheets to find the two normies from another world. "They're just as loopy as us!"

"...really now?" Nina swung her legs off of her mattress and laid themselves firmly onto the ground. "Are those the root earthlings we keep hearing whispers about?"

"Two among sixty-four million, my Anchor." Jim curtsied before the redheaded youth, much to her flattery. "I personally lifted this man's family and two of his former employees into the savefile, I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all, Mister Hexten." Pinkie did an honorable salute as she marched to her close friend's side. "What do you want to do first."

"Well, I'd perfer to see what a regular day is for you if you don't mind." stated Drew.

Branch 2: Fighting Foodons

Guidebook notes

Book 1

Digital Genies -

Book 2

Ninjutsu is among one of the many disciplines in the Shueisha Cluster designed to harness Chakra into a whole plethora of special abilities. They can be used for such earth-shattering things like summonning a powerful tailed beast from your heart to something mundane like bumping up your physical development from the form of a child to that of a grown woman like so.

Code Lyoko: The Yggdrasil Files

Snip 1: Restless

It was always the same year.

That year.

The year I was set free once again, the year I rediscovered myself, the year I made my peace.

The year it lived and died.

I felt like I was going insane, at first I had assumed that the year was nothing but a fleeting dream, then it repeated again and again, I wanted to call out to anyone I could find but to no avail. I thought I was going insane, at least until I found myself in front of the supercomputer. What just happened? Was Jeremie in the Supercomputer instead of me!? I checked my pocket for my phone and dialed Jeremie's phone number and surprisingly enough, I received a response.

"Aileta... What just happened?" Asked Jeremie as I walked into the Elevator. "One minute I was in front of the Supercomputer with you guys and the next: I'm here at this Cut-Rate Yale in London."

Apparently he's at a prestigious school for gifted youths and thankfully well aware of what's going on. "You mean you're not on Lyoko?"

"Why would I be on Lyoko? I never set foot on Lyoko, I'd never be that stupid!" Yelled Jeremie on the other line.

"But if you're here. Then who-?" I then remembered my father, maybe he's in the Supercomputer. I chose not to waste a second rushing to the control terminal and turning on the viewscreen only to find in the place of Carthage a cylindrical city of sorts. Well, a city and a similarly structured ruin. I paid no heed and activated the materialization program, sliding down the ladder in increments to meet within the scanners...

A silver-haired man in the buff.

"Oh, this your first variant?" He asked.

---

"So this Yggdrasil's systems have been damaged and we're repeating time endlessly until it's fixed..." the man nodded as he put on his newly-supplied shirt. "Are you usually an AI in a virtual world in your 'baseline'?"

"Oh, definitely." Bob glanced to the altered holographic projection of Lyoko. "In fact, my homesystem Mainframe, that's the spinning top with twin drives in the center. That's usually its own separate computer."

I shrugged and said "If you want to live here, you're going to need a Job, Bob."

"That's okay," smiled the Guardian "I'll just apply as a computer lab teacher at... Kadic, was it?"

"That's fine." I sighed as I marched with him into the Elevator. "Just try not to pig out on real world food."

"And risk my waistline? I don't think so."

Snip 2: Routine

There I was, back in the factory as usual. Immediately after I activated the Supercomputer that Franz had built, Me and Aileta have been looping for a couple centuries now and I was more than ready to do a bit of experimentation with augmenting the Supercomputer with a few new attachments like a few additional Scanners and one new Mega-Scanner that I was putting the finishing touches on. But now, all that mattered was rescuing Aileta before XANA awakened and rigged her with the usual virus.

Aileta emerged from her scanner as I skimmed through the school files to trace whatever fused loop elements have made it in. Sure enough in the place of Sissi's usual flunkies were Mepple and Mipple, currently Mepel la Zen and Mipelle Zacrone. Turned into humans because of the limited genepool of our world, meaning Natalie Blackstone and Hannah Whitehouse were not too far behind. But of course it didn't hurt to double check.

---

"Are the accommodations to your liking, Miss Shmee?" Fellow privileged child Elizabeth 'Sissi' Delmas greeted her new roommate with open arms and a spot in her entourage.

"Well, the tech's relatively primitive for my tastes, but I think I can manage." the snooty princess of one of the leading names in DUST manufacturing made her presence known to the disappointed Doormats Mepel and Mipelle. They received a call from their friends whose names were still Nagisa and Honoka and thus were now free to treat this current loop as a Vacation Loop. On the top bunk of her bed was a raven-haired bookworm reading Animal Farm by George Orwell, pondering what this new loop had in store for them both.

---

"C'mon, this is the only time we've had away from Sissi since we got here, you've got to help us find replacement PreCure!" cried Mipelle.

"Sorry, guys. But I don't think either the Dusk Zone or the Garden of Light even exist right now." I shrugged to the two usually-fairies as I casually adjusted my glasses. "I believe that's why you looped in as human kids."

"Please, You said this loop had its own threats!" Mepel spouted as I stared blankly at the two. "A team of PreCure is more than capable of defeating the lead evil in a year or two or your corporate masterplanner's money back!"

"Your last loop was with Rick?"

"No shit, Sherlock." snarked Mipelle as she broke out her cellphone. "I'll try to have our girls-"

"Jeremie, we got trouble!" Aileta dashed to our table and took her seat where she laid out the laptop from her Subspace Pocket. "XANA's activated a Tower in... Just look!"

I saw the map and spotted in the place of Sector 5...

"The Dusk Zone!" gasped Mepel and Mipelle as they slumped back from their seats in fear. My response was: "Huh. What do you know? Looks like we're going to need to break out the new toys. Aileta, you ping whatever loopers might be available while I get the old band back together."

---

Sure enough, I was greeted with an elevator packed with three familiar faces standing in front of three new ones. I gave them what they needed to know about the situation at hand and how we intend to fight back.

"So you're saying that this XANA is going to keep on attacking unless we do something about it?" Ulric asked and I confirmed.

"And I have a fully tested system on how to combat it." I wasted no time in getting them to the scanners, making sure to have Aileta hook up the Megascanner for its maiden voyage.

"Transfer Blake."

"Transfer Weiss."

"Transfer Odd."

"Transfer Aileta."

The harmony the scanners hummed acted to catalogue the atoms accounted for each person. Mepel and Mipelle clutched to Blake and Weiss for a specific reason, my mind thinking back to Mepel's words about the original Pretty Cure duo and how they gained power from the two fairies. And believe it or not, Mipelle proposed that it could be possible to get replicate the same results by combining their Atoms. Not sure how it would work out, but it's worth a shot at this point.

"Virtualization."

The two Huntresses held their hands together and reached out with the others crying out: "Dual Aurora Wave!" as their atoms were torn to shreds with the others as the Supercomputer pools them into their digital avatars.

---

Lyoko Warriors at work

Snip 3: Loud

My eyes snapped open, I got up and pressed my temples. I heard someone's voice, a foreign voice, telling me to go back to sleep. Someone in my bed, sadly it wasn't Samantha as is the case for non-looping girlfriends. I just got killed off of my eighth loop and already I felt like this was eating at my hair. Rubbing my forehead, I felt that, yes, I WAS loosing hair!

I rushed to the bathroom and found a man that is making his way through his forties, I dug into my loop memories to find that I was married to this Rita Loud and I have ten daughters and a son. Great, A loop where I look my age and I'm essentially the father of my own siblings.

If there was anything more dull than a desk job (though the fact that I had one this loop certainly doesn't help.) It was a slice-of-life loop providing me a desk job. I marched from room to room, glancing for any signs for fellow loopers if this were a fused loop. I let out a ping for each of 'my' kids from oldest to youngest, and believe it or not, I received myself a response on the second door. I opened it to see a sixteen year old girl injecting herself with some sort of syrum, she glances at me and lets out a half-smile towards me.

"Don't bother giving me the speech, I already pieced together what's happening to Yggdrasil a few loops ago." The teenage daughter that pesky tree thrust upon me as she glanced at her body as the pouch of fat below her lifted sweater started to melt away. "Apparently you're just in time for my experiment with saiyan blood, so clearly you're a fellow looper."

"Yeah, this is my first fused loop." I sat by my second eldest daughter as her body firmed up. "This the first time you saw a different face hoist Anchor?"

"Close, it's my third." The girl had then stripped off her sweater entirely to reveal that her wirey frame had toned somewhat and firmed with slight indications of musculature underneath as if she's quite worked out. "First was a Dragonball Loop where I took in some Saiyan blood to keep in time freeze for when I pieced together notes from a super-soldier syrum in my second, Now I'm putting it all together in the third."

"Isn't it cheating to get all the ingredients from off Loop?" I asked

"Nonsense, the only off loop ingredient is the Saiyan Blood." Her developing arms have now toned and show full signs of biceps and triceps with the developments she holds, while her shoulders and brastraps seem to have meshed up with muscle underneath of her brassiere as if it can't stand being kept in but very well constructed to prevent it from breaking as if it has been widening accordingly just as she had been growing and widening. "Everything is a blend of Iodine, Calcium, Potassium sprinkled into a fine blend of Bone Broth."

"So, you can basically turn any Joe Shmo into a Superman or something?" I asked to the brunette brainiac. "All from a freaking superdrug?"

"More like a Super Saiyan..." In a bright flash, her body exploded with a golden flame of energy which lit up the whole house. Her muscular development has become more relized with mass growing out alongside her formerly ripped appearance, emerging from her biceps and triceps, her lean and large calves, tight quads right against her shorts that constrict against her and fully revealed abs that are breaking out in a full six-pack with a light set of obliques. "But the effects only last for a single loop, and being a natural-born human, I'll usually loop in that way. So this syrum is more of a potion that can only be used in emergencies."

"Ah, so it's a limited fix, eh?" I shrugged as I skimmed through my Loop memories to see if there was still a chance of supranatural elements in this world, and sure enough, I found it. "Light Labs, eh? That'll do!"

---

"Look, I was sent here by my dad!" panicked Lincoln. "I didn't want to come!"

"And but did you have to bring The Doctor Light in there, too!?" Jeremie was panicking at the sight of one of his idols barging in with help.

"I understand that you aren't willing to accept our assistance." The good doctor stated to the boy. "But you need it as much as Mister Loud needs you?"

"We just got to know if you're awake or not." I asked to ol' Einstein. His look of confusion was all I needed to see, hence I pushed him out of the seat and typed away to see that Aileta was sitting in Lyoko as you'd usually expect out of the early days of the Lyoko Warriors. "Aileta, you're Awake, right?"

Aileta's eyes widened in shock. "Odd!?"

"Yes, It's me. This face is not a cause, but a symptom of my burning hatred for Yggdrasil." I lectured to the princess "It burns brighter than a blue sun on a faraway planet, It will continue to blaze long after the final loop, It will last as long as there are branches that are repeating time and it will be my lasting legacy!"

Aileta's face showed a an expression of annoyed apathy "What did you do?"

"Challenged one of XANA's IRL Mechs which flipped me the double bird..." I muttered with reluctance. "Lasers came out, fried me, looped in as a dad, and now I'm here with my only son and ten daughters."

"Look, I kind-of understand why you're pulling us all in there..." added Lily, the eldest, as she stepped backwards. "But do you really think that XANA guy's worth it?"

"He wrecked my shit last time!" I pouted, despite not exactly being the age where pouting is an acceptable term for my actions. "The sooner I kick off round two, the better!"

"But that's why Megaman is here, to fight these battles in your stead." rebutted my current boss. "You needn't try to go-"

"Can and am, doc." I barked back. "When the ol' Della Robia vengeance train's a chuggin, no time to stop's worth pluggin."

"Two can play at that game!" I plucked my two model replicas of Jaques the bird, and lasers were ready to come out. Aileta begged me to stop but it was too late, the birds fired away and their yells of agony filled the factory with the resulting nuclear explosion that crashed the loop, blanketing us all in a blinding light.

Samurai Jack S5 Loops

Snip 1: Sweet Thing

The loops have done wonders for us. For starters, those fused loops, she took the form of more advanced forms of life and the wits would stick to her like Peanut Glue on bread.

The current mayor of the Town of Akuton was peeling the fruit he currently required to eat at the moment. "A-Ah..."

The fellow glanced towards his original charge, her tiny knees trembling underneath the weight the mind was forcing them to carry. a mind that was trying to say the word: "App-pul..."

That adorable childlike lisp brought a smile to the old (usually) machine's face

In Animal Crossing, she learned to walk and talk.

---

"Uh, excuse me." X-9 heard a voice and glaced towards a young girl with ravenous red hair with several blonde streaks adorning it. "Remember when you called me for a petsitting job?"

"...yeah." The robot responded. "And what's it to ya?"

She opened the door of her apartment to reveal a girl, around the age of a preschooler, reading Curious George and reciting the alphabet song.

"She barked out the word 'loop' couldn't stop backing until... I figured it out." X-9 walked over to the little one's drawing and saw the name. "And now I upgraded the petsitting gig into a babysitting gig. 'Nother reason to love the loops, huh?"

An oily tear of pride dripped onto the paper, one that did not smudge away the name that was written onto it.

in Equestria Girls, she learned to read and write.

---

"And what do I want from a robotic adult like you?"

"We've long since accepted our inability for our universe to repair itself." I brushed my hand against the top of her head. "We're not sure if this rumored completion expansions will happen or not, or what it means for our looping existence, but it's better to come prepared."

"...I understand." The bald boy in a red hoodie marched to his podium in confinement with the metal man. "Numbuh Fifty, to be a member of our organization, you need to train your body and mind to keep up with our risky lifestyle."

"Right!" she grinned.

"There will be good adults, unaware folks you can trust by a smidge," the commanding officer accentuated calmly in his british accent "...and then there will be the adults that deliberately dominate over children everywhere."

"Right!"

"And not a single adult here shall hear of any shred of our intel!" Numbuh One glared with a chilling stare towards her smiling face. "I have made my statement clear, right?"

"Rrrrrrrright!" Numbuh One pressed his fingers against his temples in embarrassment, finding himself lucky she hasn't-oh, wait. forget I said that. "Numbuh Fifty reporting for duty!"

Among the Kids Next Door, she learned to fight so she could protect and serve

---

"Lazer Arrow!" A shower of metal darts rained upon the two Tarantulas, sealing their fate as their metallic exoskeleton detonated to blood red code. A swarm of hornets were looming ever closer to Odd's surprise. "That's a lot of bugs. Hey rookie, full house of Hornets at 5 o'clock!"

"Okey-Doke!" The newcomer leapt into the air with her enerbeam swinging her thirteen-year-old body across the digital trees to trip chunks of the swarm into the digital sea. A leaping kick to a just-digitized Krabbe acted as her landing pad whilst Yumi carved up the bugs that remained. "Am I doing good?"

"Very good, kiddo." Smiled Yumi as Aileta dashed to the greenhorn on her way to deactivate the tower.

"You're becoming quite the hero, aren't you, Lulu?"

The sweet thing blushed at the pinkette's compliment. "Thanks, but there's one thing I don't get."

"What is it?" asked Aileta as the young rookie walked into the tower right alongside her.

"I heard that Skynet reformed one loop and was rewarded with the gift of Looping." The usually-canine character mentioned from the whispers of the Cyberdyne branch in her few Bar Loops "Now she's a Green Lantern and obsessed with being-"

"Human?" Aileta glanced to the greenhorn before her and sighed upon ascending with her to the top level of the tower. "If you think you can get XANA to change like that, you are sadly mistaken."

"But why!?" Cried my ever-looping companion. "What's stopping him from Looping!"

"XANA was programmed to destroy Carthage and anyone willing to use it to their advantage, those were my father's exact words!" Aileta screamed towards the foreign Looper "If XANA were activated, he will not rest until our universe, or even existence itself is destroyed!"

"No, I know people can change. X9 changed. Vegeta Changed! I CHANGED!" "This is what the admins called EVOLUTION! ...they put it in every lifeform so they can survive."

The pinkette had finished entering the Code into the panel, sighing to herself in remorse for her nietivite. "You're just a pup, a real diggity-dog in a blossoming young woman's body... Of course you'd think it'd be that simple."

Tears benan to flow from her cheeks as the return to the past enveloped Lyoko, Kadic, France and every damn souls swimming in it.

as a Lyoko Warrior, she learned the ways of empathy and morality

---

By the end of it all. She had blossomed into a brave, loyal little woman, capable of holding her own and more than willing to lay down the law

But there was one thing that was on her mind.

"Dad..." She muttered. It was our loop as Hunters and Huntresses at Beacon, I was a natural human (again) and she the faunus that lay in the bed beside me. "Do you think that maybe, this isn't the way life is meant to be? Repeating the same life over and over, turning up in universes that don't make sense, living on for endless amounts of time without any change in the status quo without said universe mixing... Do you think it's right?"

"Course not." I shrugged, "Everything that lives must eventually cease to function."

"Even the loops?" Her voice was blunt, like she felt genuine fear for her life. "We've done so much with Jack, we've gotten so much better. Maybe... I don't want the loops to end... Maybe I want as many people as I can to loop! Maybe I want EVERYONE TO ASCEND!!"

I held her tight, reaffirmed her comfort and tucked her in saying: "It'll be fine. Just get some rest and we'll talk about it in the morning when we're not trying to destroy our universe."

"Okay..." She cuddled her old Pikachu Plushie, still as fluffy as the day she got it from a previous loop. "Goodnight, Dad."

I smiled at her. "Good Night, Lulu."

Sweet Thing. She may be all grown up, but the fact she still views me as her father after all this looping brewhaha... She'll always be my little Lulu...

Sweet thing.

Snip 2: Never forget your first

"It's for you, pappy." The Unawake Legend Numbuh Zero handed over his communicator to the very Master of Masters that replaced his father and promptly age-ifies to something more in line with the dawn of the 1900's within Aku's grasp.

"Hello?" Aku answered and on the other end was who else but his Admin Shou-Hsing.

"Greetings, wise Shogun of Sorrow." spoke the Chinese god of time. "I come bringing wonderful news, we're starting work on a final series of loop expansions for your branch!"

"Really now?" Asked the Deliverer of Darkness

"Quite right, Ten little expansions spanning over thirteen months following a full fifty-year expansion!"

"WHAT JOOOOOY!!!!" Aku promptly extended one of his claws to bite Montgomery Uno's head clean off, age-ifying his body and replacing the now digested head with that of Aku's. "The Samurai will find himself with quite a surprise when I go to break the tedium of infinity."

"Yes, but there's a chance that the completion of these expansions could possibly be it for your loops." Shou-Hsing lamented to the Master of Darkness before delivering good news. "But I can suggest to Yggdrasil to supply as many fused loops as it can squeeze within the seven thousand years between each expansion."

"Then I'll take a Gurren Lagann Loop immediately after the first one," smiled Aku. "Put me in the role of Lordgenome, have my Nia grow-"

"Hold up, you want her dripping with muscle?" Shou-Hsing was met with the obvious quote.

---

"SAMURAIIII JAAACK!" Aku has fully stripped all autonomy from the Senior Citizombified husks that was the all unAwake Loopers of Sector V. "Behold the seeds of my labor, be it through Islamic Submission or straight-up assimilation, all hearts will return to the darkness that is Aku!"

"I come with great news from the big cheeses of Yggdrasil..." Spoke Aku with his goggled, pudgy mouthpiece. "But only before I take this ONE stupid son of a gun and turn him into AKU!"

The ponytailed vessel groaned as the pudgy vessel cackled "Even as an extension of AKU, his lines still stank!"

"Hey, come on!" Complained the Nostalgia Critic that was somehow tied to Jack's back. "Sans does this jokey thing and he's alright!"

"That's cause he can form jokes from his throathole!" snarled the mantis-like bug lady. "Not to mention the way he uses it."

"Enough Talk! Once I absorbify the last of the Kids Next Door, I shall go ahead and DESTROOOOYINATE YOU SAMURAIIII!!!" Aku's voice snarled from the balded vessel and the scene played out as per usual, Numbuh One hesitated to unleash his one-on-four attack, Sector Z joined in to knock back the vessels of Aku, all seemed par for the course until Aku cancelled out their recommissioning by age-ifying them into delightful vessels of his evil.

"Tell the Kids Next Door... WE MISS THEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!" Their howls of pain smothered by the wrinklifying decay that was Aku. No sooner did the five-man hivemind lunge forth and age-ify Nigel as well and through his lips, Aku delivers his message. "With the Kids Next Door finally destroyed, I shall deliver to you the great news!"

"Why?" Jack stood in utter shock of what has happened. "Why decimate this world to tell me?"

"So that It shall be the last thought you know for this loop." Aku was transmogrifying the moonbase into a Tapioca factory as he spoke. "The expansions are coming to our branch at long last, and these new loops will soon be our last!"

"You don't mean-?"

"Yes..." The boiler was ready to ignite with his roar. "This will lead to the end of our Infinite Loops, and you... Shall... DIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!"

Jack wanted to scream upon this news, but suddenly "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Nigel tore himself away from Aku's power, screaching a noise to pierce all of time, all of space, sending both himself and the Samurai back to a time before Grandfather and the dominion immediately suffered fore it.

"ohhhh, nooooooooo..."

---

The Samurai watched as time rippled and flowed, satisfied upon being sent back to the past that Aku typically flung him out of. Nigel watched as his wrinklified, decayed form restored itself to the youthful, childlike form of his baseline. Delighted to be free of Aku's grasp, but remorseful upon realizing the details of this particular loop and fearful of the punishment loop that was to ensue upon the defining moment.

---

The Prince flings his mystic blade against the ground to release the evil spirit for him to put it out of the earth's misery... or so the story typically goes when it lacks a certain Nostalgia Critic. "I apologize for your swift defeat at the hands of this puddle of a sin."

"It's alright." Smiled Sparky-Sparky Boom Man as he pointed to the many holes in the ceiling. "This place has a history of being burst into or out of."

"We all know how this goes, so we all know what I usually do. I'm just going to fill you in on a little secret for this loop." Aku explained upon the floor of the Critic's currently flame-coated workplace "Swimming in the ol' crown jewels is a seed that's quite... Loopier than the others."

The Prince reacted in lament and acceptance, "Two consecutive branches... in a fused loop?"

The Nostalgia Critic was dumbfounded by this revelation. "Sweet Jesus, Jack, You got double-crossed!"

"How very... Observant..." The Demon's screech was enough to pierce time and space itself and thrust the Prince away with barely a word uttered, The Demon knew that when he and the Samurai Prince crossed paths again, the latter would not be as fortunate. But that would be far, far into the future where his chaotic evil was law.

"Now, my punishment to you Adequately Impressive Three for your oh, so shining example." Aku loomed over the cowering Pixelator and Clobbererer who feared him so as did Aku's ultimate damnation for them: "SITTING AROUND AND WATCHING IRON FIST ON NETFLIX!"

---

"Yeah, I'd like to retake my shares in the company, please." Punching ensued on the screen as the Shogun of Sorrow sat in the center seat of the couch between Tacoma and Malcom, dumbstruck as to how surprisingly good it was compared to the baseline not starring Spring Man as Danny Rand.

"You lucked out, Adequately Impressive Three." Aku spoke in an awestruck tone to his voice. "Twintelle fits surprisingly well into the director's chair. Both figuratively and literally."

"And Spring Man really brings the sort of depth to the role you'd want out of Iron Fist." Complimented Tacoma. "Even if the extendable ARMS make him look goofy."

"I'd say they didn't have the budget to cover them up in post, but come on, Twintelle got someone to edit in Avengers Tower," stated Malcom with irritation, "Surely editin out stretchy arms would be a snap for this guy!"

"But then he wouldn't be recognizable under the CGI!" Tacoma rebutted. "And he deserves to shine on his own merits."

"Like his remarkably introspective performance as Daniel-san." Smiled Aku. "Just the way I like my actors, Extra Thick!"

"Five times..." Aku turned around to find the other guy standing there in disbelief. "Five. Fucking Times you do the exact same thing with no variation on it whatsoever!"

"What are you talking about, we only did it, like, twice." Malcom corrected.

"Like hell, ya did, you even reviewed the same movie twice!" Rob glanced behind himself in thought. "Come to think of it... Doug reviewed a fuckton of movies twice."

"Oh, so you're Awake, are you?" Aku grinned at the Critic's more level-headed brother "Forgive me, friends. I deal with Loopy friends all the time, see... there's this tree that's getting really really sick-"

And it was at that point that the Samurai and the Critic re-appeared from the future to Aku's shock. The Samurai proceeded to charge forward at the demon with his sword in hand, slicing through Aku and the couch where he sat. Hurrying with his pace and conservation of mass, Aku had to think quickly, and bite hard at the Samurai with a locked pocket and a determined spirit. Jack would cut Aku down the middle, slashing away at one half while thusting his blade deep into the other to absorb the evil spirit within. "NOOO MOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!"

His piercing stab to the floor of Aku's evergrowing pit of hate caused explosions to rock and rattle every corner of the demon's lair, leaving nothing more than a smoldering crater where the Nostalgia Critic's familiar studio usually went.

"It is done." The Nostalgia Critic fainted into Rob's Arms in an overly dramatic fashion.

"I felt as if I heard the mind of Cartoon Network's most Iconic Villain cry out in pain and agony..." The critic spoke in a hammy whisper. "...then was suddenly silenced."

"He will never hurt anyone ever again." At least, thought the samurai, Not until the next loop Numbuh One was feeling a deathly chill and received a grim reminder of the very nature of this peculiar loop.

"Without Aku, the sixth age of the Kids Next Door would have never emerged. Numbuh Zero, my own father, would have never exixted." Numbuh One slowly realized as he felt his life dimming. "I would have never existed, I... am probably going to be the test dummy for the new Emoji Movie punishment loop, aren't I?"

"There's an Emoji Movie?" The Nostalgia Critic watched the boy next door vanish out of existence, leaving only his clothes. The boy mattered not to the reviewer so much as the imminent threat before him as he fiddled with his phone to look up what irked him the most and saw the trailer for the film in plain sight, damning app product placement and all dating this movie with its mere existence and driving the Sparky-Sparky Boom Man to tears of utter shame. "I'm gonna have to review this..."

A tone of calamity and woe enveloped the world as the Loop effectively collapsed.

Snip 3: Rose-Tinted Glasses

To the Loopers of Remnant, it was rather normal for Penny to come along and meet up with them after she arrived from Atlas. The robot girl was a part of their lives, after this long.

What was not normal for them, however, was for “Penny” to have swapped genders.

Or have a team with her, who were serving as “exchange students” for the year.

Or actually not be Penny at all, but instead a Visiting Looper.

At least Ozpin had sent off Cardin’s team for the exchange.

---

“Hello! You are Ruby Rose, correct?”

“Uh, yeah.” Ruby said carefully, looking at the strange girl that had just walked up to her out of nowhere.

She was also ignoring the pair of large, floppy ears that the clearly-a-dog-faunus had. She was still a person, after all.

“I am Lulu! Nice to meet you!”

“Um, hi Lulu!” Ruby felt extremely awkward as she shook the other girl’s hand. Her social awkwardness wouldn’t just go away after one day, after all, even with how Yang seemed to be expecting that it would for some reason.

“Arf!”

Before Ruby could consider the matter further, however, her dog ran up behind her to the faunus girl.

“Zwei!” Ruby said, watching as the corgi began to bark happily at Lulu.

“Aaaw! Who’s a good boy?” Lulu grinned, reaching down and beginning to scratch behind the corgi’s ears.

“Arf!” Zwei said, hopping up into the girl’s arms.

“Er, I think he wants to talk. See you later, I promise I’ll bring him back!” Lulu said to Ruby.

The unawake girl just looked confused. “What are you talk-"

Before she could ask her question, Lulu had sprinted away at a pace that put Ruby’s Semblance to shame.

“…Did a student from another kingdom just kidnap my dog?”

Meanwhile, as the two dogs fled the area, Zwei started talking.

“So, you’re the first dog Looper?” Zwei asked, looking up at the floppy ears of the girl holding him.

“I think so.” Lulu admitted, setting him down. “And you’re our new member?”

“That I am.” Zwei did the best imitation of a bow that he could.

Lulu chuckled as she scratched his ears.

---

"Miss Weiss"

“Samurai Jack.” Weiss Schnee replied politely, giving the older Looper a short bow. “It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

“Likewise. I understood you wished to see me before?”

“Indeed.” Weiss stated, nodding. “I had understood that you were among the first Loopers not from Star Wars to train as a Jedi.”

“You have heard correctly.” Jack said, unPocketing a lightsaber and activating it.

Weiss looked slightly interested as a white beam shot out. “Interesting. A atypical kyber crystal?”

“It was a Fused Loop. The blade was one of a kind.” Jack said calmly.

“Ah. Does it carry the properties of your normal sword?”

“Indeed it does. Have you found a lightsaber version of Myrtenaster?”

“As a matter of fact…”

---

“General Ironwood?”

“Yes?” The old man asked, turning around to the robot… man? Person? That had, regardless, replaced Penny for this Loop.

“I wanted to talk with you.” X9 – or Cent, as he was called here – said politely. “About Penny.”

And with those words, he had the military man’s more or less total attention.

“Way I understand, in your baseline, she was killed by one Pyrrha Nikos, yes?”

“She was. Due to an illusion cast by one Emerald Sustrai.” Ironwood replied coldly.

“I see. I… was subject to a similar situation in my past. I wanted to speak with her - see if I could help.”

“What do you mean by that?” Ironwood asked, frowning.

“Are you familiar with the “cartoon”” – here, X9 visibly made air quotes – “Samurai Jack?”

“I’ve heard of it from Penny. Never had the time or inclination to watch it, though.” The general admitted. “But I did hear about the Loopers of that world.”

“Yup, I was the third Looper of that world to activate.”

“And you were a robot as well, if I recall right?” Ironwood asked.

“Yeah. Last of the first robot series that Aku had built, before the beetle-drones became more widespread.”

“And the only one to develop emotions, as I recall.” Ironwood added darkly.

“Heh. Pretty much.” X9 chuckled before a scowl came over his face. “Me and Lulu have got to thank that scientist who built me for that, at least.”

He frowned. “Not really anything else, though.”

“You have an issue with them?” Ironwood asked, raising an eyebrow.

X9 did the robotic equivalent of sighing. “Yeah. Bastard ratted me out to Aku after I had retired. They took Lulu, and Aku told me – still does, sometimes – that if I didn’t kill Jack, she’d die.”

Ironwood grimaced. “That never ends well, I imagine?”

X9 snorted. “Jack’s taken down entire armies of the things built to replace my series alone in our baseline. Take a guess how well I did by myself.”

He sighed. “I knew I was going to probably die from the start, so it was easier to move past it for me than I hear it was for her, but still… it’s not easy at first, waking up and remembering the guy who killed you.”

Ironwood said nothing.

“Just… tell her that. Next time you see her.” X9 breathed out. “If she’s anything like me… knowing you’re not alone is a comfort.”

---

Yang was in slight awe as she stared at the male Huntsman that was visiting both her school and her Loop.

Not because of his height and size – even though he was almost the size of Choji Akimichi as an adult at the age of 16.

Not because of his red hair and ponytail – even if they were pretty cool.

No, her interest was because of something else.

“Yo-your leg!” She stammered, looking down at the young (in reality, much older than anyone in on the planet save maybe Ruby and definitely Jack) man’s left leg. Or rather, the thing that had replaced it.

“Aye, wee lassie!” The warrior known only as the Scotsman said, grinning as he brought up the Dust rifle that he had turned into a prosthetic. “Ah gots a few billion more sort a like this! Wanna see em?”

Yang grinned as she looked up.

“YES! Can we compare notes?!”

Snip 4: Thunderbolt and Lightning

-Post S5E1-

The thrum of the engine. The screech of the metal limbs. The cries of the innocent. The listless winds of eons past.

This was the world Jack Woke to.

A legion of Beetle Bots, charging after two, no, three innocent creatures. The beetle's design called for this. They would destroy the innocent and the good.

Jack accelerated.

The Beetles turned from the trio of aliens to him. Jack's hand went first to empty air, and then into his Subspace Pocket, seizing his sword and drawing it. His free hand pulled the combination rocket launcher mini gun from his back, and blasted a hole into the center of the beetles, where the innocents were.

Jack arrived, readied and willing. The beetles charged. The battle began.

The battle did not last long.

Wreckage, the smoking, oily remnants of the Beetle bots marring the field. Jack's motorcycle was intact, even if he was low on ammo. The innocents were unharmed. Jack, clad in armor as he was, turned to them, and looked down upon the three blue aliens. An electric text appeared above one. "Thank you."

Jack knelt, taking a roll of linen paper, a vial of ink and a brush. He labored for a bit a moment, and presented his fruit to them. "You're welcome."

They waved him off as he rode into the sunset.

---

The expansion, it seemed, had finally arrived, and left Jack with no short supply of confusion. It had been years since he had last seen Aku... or at least he was reasonably sure of that. He was also reasonably sure that all portals back to the past had been destroyed.

And there was the open question of the strange warrior, a shogun creature, astride an ebon stead. Who the hell was that? Aku? Himself? Jack didn't quite know.

As he rode through the wilderness, Jack pondered such thoughts, such pain. Fifty years of the future, fifty years with his past and his failures hanging over him... had his will been so weak? In the beginning, had he surrendered himself to failure, to the end, after a mere five decades of Looping? Or was it that with no way home, with no chances to right the wrongs of the past, that he could find no refuge than simple defeat, if not in body, than in spirit.

The leafs of the red and gold forest stirred beneath him. Jack asked himself. Had he forgotten his purpose, in the future? Was he so shattered? Could he have-

Smoke. There was smoke on the horizon, from a distant town. Jack stopped, blinked, and turned around, gunning the engine.

He had evil to kill.

---

The town was long gone though. Razed days before, and not a soul, tragically, remained. Jack stopped, set the kickstand of his bike down, and sighed. Next time, he told himself. Next time.

"Mmh, Jack. Mmhm. Well well well Jack, long time no see."

Jack turned and looked at the flamboyant sounding robot man dressed in purple. "No time no see. Scaramouche, ambassador of annihilation, piped Piper of ruination, crooner of carnage, Aku's favorite assassin. Hmm... not really digging the front end shag."

Jack starred at the flamboyant purple robot man. "My beard?"

"Yeah, yeah, that. Where have you been buddy, I destroyed this town days ago! Been waiting for you all that time! And... wait..."

Scaramouche looked down at Jack's sword, and shrugged. "Well, good to see you again. I'll just call up Aku and tell him I'll be delivering him his soon to be favorite severed head for Akumas."

He pulled out a smartphone and dialed Aku. Jack starred at Scaramouche. "You have service out here?"

"Better believe it baby." Scaramouche got through. "Aku, my man, I-"

Jack politely sheathed his blade and picked up Scaramouche's momentarily conscious severed head. "Thank you for the compliments. But you should have seen this coming. It is an assassins end."

Scaramouche frowned, and died.

Jack picked up the phone and listened to Aku rabble for a moment. "And then I just expect you to start asking me for a time share, and I'm going to tell you again... wait... I recognize that stoic silence."

"Aku."

"Jack, Jack, enjoying the new expansion are we?"

Jack looked around. Apparently his body and the rule of drama were colluding to toy with his mind, since he was currently hallucinating that several rocks around him were innocent children. "No."

"Well, we'll see about that. Oh, and by the way, you haven't happened to see any me-themed bounty hunter ladies as of late?"

Jack looked at the smartphone in confusion. "No, I haven't."

"Yeah, me neither. Strange, I know."

"You sound different. Do you have another cold?"

"Oh, live and change, we all do. Well, not you. Bye."

Aku killed the connection, and Jack mounted his bike again, after looting Scaramouche's body for weapons. The Samurai, despite himself, grinned. It felt good to be back.

---

And in a distant fortress, a woman named Ashi stared out into the beautiful world, and asked herself how she had come to return to the lair of her mother.

Snip 5: Victory Forevermore

Max was back at her dorm in Arcadia Bay in a rare turn of events, even for herself. She decided to send out a ping, receiving six other responses with a seventh and eighth telling Max to report to to a nearby classroom. I checked through my loop memories to find that my teacher was named Jack and his assistant Techna had invited me and six other students to a special classroom to talk about a specific topic of grave importance.

"Heya." Chloe, ten o'clock. She was among the students that were summoned by Jack, she was feeling a bit anxious towards the meet-up. "Looks like another fun loop, huh? Why else would we be here at Arcadia?"

"C'mon, Chloe. These home loops always have a twist that block my rewind." I reminded my friend. "That's how our admin patched me up, right?"

"You don't have to tell me twice." teased Chloe. "So what's the deal?"

"According to my loop memories, we've got an Archeology class between gym and photography." I recounted. "Extra History credits were promised and we took the bait."

"So we're trapped like tuna fish in setup for a sci-fi show." Chloe opened the door with a dry expression. "This'll be fun..."

We made our way in to find who else but my friends from the Great Valley, and FYI, their human forms look kinda nice. Littlefoot, or Connor as he's called this loop, has this lanky bishonen kind of vibe from one of those JRPGs. Cera was about an inch or two shorter than I was, but had thicker muscles than what my string-bean ass could hope to achieve. Peter was even shorter, a pathetic five-foot-five. Spike looked like a guy who could routinely plow through Prescott like a runaway truck. And Dolly, she looked fine for a petite princess like her.

"So this is your baseline?" Littlefoot asked and I nodded in confirmation. "I kinda lived through one of these."

-Abare Dino Thunder-

Max Caufeild/AbareMaroon = Ruby Stego Ranger

Chloe Price/AbareIndigo = Sapphire Bachycelo Ranger

-Kyoryu Dino Charge-

Sensei Jack/Kyoryu White

Connor 'Littlefoot' Douglas/Kyoryu Crimson

Cera Threeve/Kyoryu Magenta

Dorothy 'Dolly' Southlake/Kyoryu Chartreuse

Peter Nightingale/Kyoryu Teal

Spevk 'Spike' Rehmeev/Kyoryu Slate

Snip 6: Mitosis

-Post S5E2-

I don't exactly know how long I've been repeating the same year over and over, But I know that I'm stuck eternally studying for my entrance exam ever since I first opened that door with my High School Uniform on. I've always worked by hide off to reach the same high school as Yuichi, no matter how much it changes, no matter how long it takes. But in spite of that, I always have this nagging feeling that time isn't really progressing all that much. Today was a decent cap to my current year, I put my high school uniform on and peeked into the keyhole of my room, hoping to myself that this will be the time that I finally make it to the-

-LOAD: SJ2001.501-

...egg cell?

Oh, no! I've been reduced to sperm in a newly conceived egg! How am I ever going to remember my entrance exam? How am I ever going to remember Yuichi!?

Relax, we're alive, aren't we?

Wha-Nanappe?

Yo.

It's not just you that's swimming in here.

It's all of us. And there might be a reason as to why, but we're not going to get that until all of us have been born and raised.

We're gonna be honest to god Septuplets this time! I bet we'll look cute as babies, don't you!?

So you've been repeating the past year over and over.

Eyup!

Probably.

Uhuh!

yeah.

Clearly.

Yep Yep Yep.

You guys... Why haven't you told me?

Each of us thought we were the only one. Guess we were all wrong...

Thank You! I never want to be aloooone...

---

The Daughters of Aku: a deadly cult of amazonian ninjas who have enhanced their bodies by drinking the very lifeblood of the Shogun of Sorrow himself. The High Priestess and divine leader of the cult had obtained the proper fertilizer to produce the seven newest members of her sinful establishment and is now forcing them all out into the world for Aku as her underlings bow before the two. Her screams echoed across the chapel, the gong sounds with every successful birth, seven in all. The first to arrive had a soul that was somewhat determined, yet unskilled. Second came an elusive child who was capable of the art of seduction and sedation. Next came a brilliant mind which made up for its lack of combat potential with a the skill of a master tactician. A lax spirit adorned this next daughter which hid a dangerous fury which did not seek any disturbance. The fifth of the daughters was sheepish and slow but had the will to fight when the time comes to attack. The penultimate child saw a firey temper which sported a lack of focus. Finally, the youngest had an unbridled sense of happiness which saw a frighteningly low level of restraint if honed a certain way.

---

"Aku, our lord and master, is one with the darkness. He was born from it." spoke the High Priestess as the seven Suzukis of Aku stood above a pile of dirty coal drenched in flames and darkness. "It fills him with infinite power."

Nana looked down in fear over this looming dive she was about to take. "We, too, must become one with it."

No sooner was her mandatory bathrobe immediately stripped away to reveal the barenaked body of a four-year-old girl. The High Priestess decides to initiate the baptism with a grin upon the psychotic face beneath his mask. "We are forever grateful and ever in your service."

And with that, the eldest daughter is immediately kicked into the pit of soot. Her screams ringing throughout the temple

---

It only got worse as they got older. Strenuous Training, Beyond Zero Tolerance and sub-standard living conditions. All to harden each of them all into cold-blooded killers, something they never wanted to be in the first place

Nanasama slips on a cliff in front of Nanacchi, but gets up with 'encouragement' from the High Priestess.

---

The seven Nanas, each one now twenty-five years old, complete their training with an adept skill at killing people and hunting prey. Aku decides to squander all that talent by:

"You are seven, but now you wear the face of one." Spoke the Deliverer of Darkness as the Sisters donned their masks. "One purpose for which you were born: TO SIT AROUND AND WATCH LUKE CAGE ON NETFLIX!"

---

"Isn't my presence alongside you a pointless excuse to gather readers from a cult comic to corporately mandated mainstream v-"

"Shaddap and make me a sammach, hoe!"

"Well, looks like the biochemistry of the fairer sex is hard at work, eh? Is that it?"

"Battle Couple Combo!" Aku laid his legs on the table, spread far enough to make room for a tube of Kickin' Chicken Taco Pringles whilst the Nanas of Aku sat around the Master of Masters with surprise and relief towards the past twenty-five years of their existence. They each take a small, square bowl as the High Priestess was in utter shock to this sudden shift in her lord's Attitude towards the children she raised for their intended purpose.

"How DARE you, sir!?" Snarled the Priestess. "These Seven were raised for the singular purpose to KiLL THE SAMURAI!"

"The Daughters of Aku were raised for the singular purpose to kill the Samurai. These are clearly not the Daughters of Aku but Seven Similar Septuplets who looped in as the Daughters of Aku." Aku rolled his eyes at his avid worshipper. "It's very complicated, see, there's this tree that's going broke, gods are working to fix it or else existence fades from existence. It's that kind of stuff that sees guys like us repeat time and space over and over without stop. The Samurai obviously understands that, why can't you?"

"Timelines repeating themselves?" The priestess was dumbfounded "Master, tell me that this isn't your excuse!"

"Be grateful that these loops are in place, most people live one life and that's it. With the loops, you can repeat your life over and over without any signs of them stopping." Aku sneered to his disciple. "Besides, we'd all be nothing without these loops, as in all of spacetime itself would not exist if Yggdrasil kicked it so..."

"You say that life is meaningless?" spoke the priestess in dismay.

"Yeah, pretty much." Aku then handed a piece of paper to the high priestess. "Here's a list of foodstuffs I need you to pick up at the Mobius Inn. The Innkeeper and her employees got my ping a few years back, so I made this order a few minutes back. And be sure to list the items out loud or they won't hear you."

"Oh... Very well..."

As the priestess marched towards the Mobius Inn, fate had apparently overheard the conversation as a specific shot of the show they were watching focused on a quote that was aimed directly at her. "Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh! Ready, Defenders?"

"Ready! Aahahahahaha-!"

---

The Priestess enters the Mobius Inn to find herself surrounded by dinosaurs of every species, scaled and feathered, standing alongside an array of odd characters in many shapes and sizes. Certain fellows might find that these people have entirely different art styles.

"Can I help you?" An athletic young woman with broad shoulders and an apron tied around her hips.

"Yes, I have come to pick up Aku's order of a Veggie Thiccburger for Nanacchi, Double Bacon Chicken Thiccburger for Nanappe, Fat Koko for Nanakko, Fat Hammond for Nanarin, Fat Darrel for Nanapon, Quesalupa for Nanasama, Doritos Locos Taco for Nana, and the Tower of Thicc for Aku."

"You're here for Aku's food, eh? Coming right the shell up!" The woman's form faded as her shadow inflated to the size of even Aku himself, soon the high priestess saw in her waitress' place a towering T-Rex fetching a huge tray of paper takeout bags, rushing to her patron's car in no more than a few huge strides that can be counted on two to three hands, all to pack this tray into the backseat of her future van.

The priestess could only stand in shock over the revelation that the inn was somehow staffed and founded by dinosaurs. Confronted with such oddities, the high priestess sat by the bar in confusion. "I fail to understand this new reality."

"You and me both, sister." The ashamed priestess would find herself face to face with a man with a Dinosaur's head atop his shoulders. Her only reaction was to plant her face against the table, the man merely saying to an unseen person: "I'm A Dinosaur."

Snip 7: Raiding the Dank Camp

-Post S5E3-

It had started as a normal day for the Cult of Aku’s priestess.

As the High Priestess watched her daughters train against those who had sworn their lives (willingly or not) to Lord Aku, she was pleased to note that they were all focusing more or less entirely on their combat skills now.

At least, she was making note of that.

Up until the front door exploded without warning.

She stopped noting things in other areas when that happened.

“Who dares?!” She hissed, whirling around to face those who dared to assault the temple of her master.

As the dust began to clear, she saw three figures – two roughly the size of a normal human, one about two feet taller than them.

Unnoticed by her, or most of the temple, a fourth figure walked in behind them, low enough to the ground that you would have had to look for them to see them.

However, when one of them walked forwards, the other figures were shoved to the back of the Priestess’s mind as her brain froze momentarily.

She would recognize that robe, that face… and that sword… anywhere.

“SISTERS! COME FORTH!” She roared. It seemed her daughters would not be needed to eliminate this fool after all.

As one, every face in the main temple, and many more from the side passages, swung towards the entrance.

“The samurai who has cursed our lord has come here to die! See that he meets his fate!” She roared, bringing out her staff as she prepared to move with them.

Below, she noticed something. Namely, that her five-year old daughters were starting to move towards the entrance, and their enemies.

Frowning behind her mask, she jumped down like a thunderbolt, landing in front of the seven of them.

“Not you.” She hissed like a viper.

“M-mother?” One of them – she couldn’t tell which – asked in a puzzled tone.

“You would all only get in the way as you are now. I will decide what is to be done with you after the samurai is dead. Begone!” She hissed, lashing out with her arm.

Wincing, the seven ran away from their sole parent into the depths of the temple, away from the massive clash taking place at the front gates.

A clash the cultists were overall, doing very poorly in.

“Crush them! All of them!” The High Priestess screamed, charging forwards with her staff in hand, the stance she had honed her whole life taken as she moved to attack the samurai.

She never made it there, however.

Before she could make it close enough to battle Jack (currently fending off five of the novices at once with seeming ease), pain shot through her legs.

“Wha-?” She gasped, turning around as she fell to the ground.

As the hilt of a blade impacted her mask, knocking her out, several thoughts ran through her head in an attempt to process the last thing she saw.

Namely, wondering how in the world such a tiny dog could be carrying a copy of the Samurai’s sword in its mouth so proficiently.

---

It was in no way a normal day for any of her sisters known as the Daughters of Aku.

Their home had been assaulted. Attacked by the being they had been raised to kill for the entirety of their lives and a handful of pitiful allies.

The outcome should have been clear. The foe of their master should have fallen swiftly before their colleagues, and mother would return to them to decide what their new purpose in life would be.

However, the yells and shouts coming from outside their hiding place over the cavern – where they could stay hidden from sight but also hear what was happening – told a very different story from what should have been happening.

Mostly because all of the screams that they heard – or at least, the screams that sounded of pain – were coming from a woman’s throat.

None of their attackers – except possibly for what appeared to be a dog that was sneaking into a secret room as it shifted into a humanoid form – were female.

"Shh... It's gonna be fine. At least one of you twerps'll end up Loopy like me eventually, so we might as well dig into the underlaying features of your fruity little club before time resets itself!" A big grin adorned the elder girl's face as she towered over the seven sisters. "Won't that be fun?"

The children slowly stepped away from the thieving faunus before them, unaware of what the damned thing really was as it dug into its documents. This couldn’t be happening. Their mother had made it clear that the destroyer and his allies could never defeat the righteous in a direct battle.

But the sounds from below and the canine shifting into a humanoid form told a different story.

"Holy Cheese, I knew Shillery was one of those children of Aku, but George Lucas, Katie Perry, Bill Nye, How low can this satanic pedoring even sink!"

---

It was not a normal day, or Loop, for Jack, but he was hoping to make what he was doing in it more normal over time.

Earlier, X9 and Lulu had found the base of the Cult of Aku, well in advance of the sisters departing to hunt him down.

Their next course of action had been clear.

“Wahahaha! Bring it, lassies! Me granny hits ‘arder than you!”

Smiling as he heard his best friend laugh, rubber bullets firing nonstop from his gun-leg, Jack returned his mind to the battle at hand. These cultists wouldn’t defeat themselves, after all.

Even if they technically had when the Daughters they had raised killed all of them as their “graduating test” before being sent to eliminate him.

“Jack? How are you holding up?” Came the voice of X9 over the radio.

“We are doing well in this battle, so far.” Jack replied, absently using his free hand to send one of the cultists flying. “Have you located them yet?”

“Practicing my normal, non-Looping, tracking skills. Nothing on the Daughters yet, only had a minute or two. You’re certain that the deprogramming methods you’ve got will work?”

“Indeed.”

“All right. I’ll call back in a few – hang on.”

“HYAA-AAGH!”

The sound of a loud, fleshy, THWACK! Echoed over the transceiver as X9 went back to work.

Focusing his attention back to the fight in front of him, Jack began to clash with a woman that looked to be slightly more dangerous than the rest.

Mostly because she lasted for two seconds instead of one before he disabled her.

Oh well. Another day, another Loop, another fight alongside the Scotsman, X9, and Lulu, and finally, another loss for Aku.

All commonplace in the life of Samurai Jack.

Snip 8: Like Rabbits

-Post S5E5-

The Wandering Samurai was flabbergasted as soon as he found himself in the future.

"Something on your mind, Samurai?" a voice asked him, revealing Aku.

"Aku," Jack said, with less venom in his usual tone. "Just amazed at the current state of affairs."

Aku gave him a small look. "Does it have anything to do with me offing the closest thing you had to a best friend in this era?"

"That's part of the reason." That, Aku just looked at the Samurai in genuine curiosity. "The other part is more along the line of how."

The incarnation of Evil just gave him a blank stare, Jack just giving one back.

"I know how, just...how? I've met his wife. I've helped SAVE his wife. I've even tried not to rouse her anger when her...weight is called into question and enjoyed her haggis. It's more along the lines of how they're not as muscle-bound or huge as they are."

That got Aku curious as he managed to open a portal to the Scotsman's area...and understood what he meant as he silently closed it.

"You weren't kidding," Aku muttered. "I was in quite the mood in Baseline that I never got to ask 'how' myself." He then looked at the Samurai. "The only theories I can think up are they've upped their training regiment, they have a very high metabolism, or their genetic structure is quite...something."

Jack gave out a small shrug as he looked at his sword. "I can say one thing," he muttered. "Meeting every single one of them is going to be quite a hassle."

"Ah yes," Aku muttered. "The fan girls. I get them every now and again myself. If their father is quite the storyteller as much as he is your partner in crime on occasion, then I can picture some of them being quite...forceful."

They gave out a shiver.

"So," Aku muttered, "are you going to do your hero thing as usual?"

Jack gave out a stare. "It's not often we just talk," he replied. "Keep in mind that you and I are supposed to be enemies."

"Yes, I know. I fling you into the time where my evil is law, and you try to undo the future that is Aku. Personally, I'm starting to miss the chase."

That gave them a small look and Jack a small smile.

"For old time's sake, then?" he asked the incarnation of evil, sword and sheathe gripped.

Aku gave out an evil grin. "For old time's sake," he replied. "Remember that I'm not easily quelled. So try to chase me when you can...Samurai Jack!" That's when he did the familiar laugh and disappeared, leaving Jack to do his usual thing for the few years.

If the Scotsman was Awake, they were going to have quite the talk.

Snip 9: Mutual Rivals

-Post S5E7-

The two forces sitting across each other were, at face value, natural foes. One was a literal source of evil, the self proclaimed master of masters, the deliverer of darkness, the shogun of sorrow, the lord and eternal conquer of Earth and the galaxy, the shape shifting lord, the one with great flaming eyebrows; Aku. The other was the most powerful and deadly warrior in this existence, pure and humble of heart and soul, displaced prince of forgotten kingdom and time itself, one who could jump good, the liberator and saviour of countless people, the one who showed the world that good can win and hope can flourish, the wielder of a magical sword that three gods forged together to banish evil away; the Samurai.

On another look, they were friends of a sort; eternity spent together through reality itself repeating time as a means to repair damage done to it had caused formality to form between the two. They still opposed each other as they did in the first timeline, but now to keep their skills in level with each other as they both viewed the other as their true rival and the only one allowed to finish the other.

The news they had received by a true God of reality a few thousand iterations ago had still effected them greatly and thus they had went to see other after had occurred to them.

With Aku lifting a teacup to his lips and taking a sip, something he had gained a liking for after replacing the dragon of the west so many times, the incarnation of evil said to the man in white, "So Samurai, three more expansions."

"Indeed," the Samurai replied, tipping his head. "Three more expansions and then it is over."

The news that their slice of reality was nearly repaired in full with a few details remaining lost to time had shocked them both and the other travelers through time as well. They had not expected this after the long period of inactivity and halting progress to the restoration of their reality but now, almost clockwork, there had been repeated expansions that proved their world was progressing to being healed. That their Administrator had informed them of the news of close they were prompted this meeting between foes and friends to discuss the importance of this herald of information.

The Samurai raised an eyebrow and took a long sip from his cup. Once he was finished, he said, "You expect to me to defeat you?"

The demon sputtered, his eyebrows flaring out in outrage before he calmed himself down. "No, not really; if anything, I can see myself taking you out in a multi kill to ensure you are finally dead."

"Fair enough," the Samurai said before placing his cup down. "Until the final battle," he bowed at the waist with Aku waving him away.

The demon waited until the Samurai was gone before replying, "Until the final battle, my worthy foe."

Snip 10: Everybody Loves somebody sometimes

-Post S5E8-

I woke up in my bedroom, snuggling my pillow in a rather... unmentionable position.

On a Viking ship, a young girl named Ikra goes seeking training to rescue her father who had been trapped in a ring of fire.

Jack and Ikra in Egypt raiding a tomb.

Jack and Ikra sparring in Tibet

"This can't get any worse."

---

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Jack turned to his friend, and raised an eyebrow.

"I knew ye had it in ya, Samurai, an' boy do those sissy internet types on Tumblr whine."

"I presume that this is about Ashi."

"Ye darn straight, it's aboot Ashi. Ya found a good woman, and the Hub done blew up in many ways, so I stroked th' flames and watched their whinin' go loud. AHAHAHAHA!!! An' I betcha ye gone have lots'o children too. I just know it."

"I... Enough about this!"

"Ooooh, are ye embarrassed? Tough luck, laddie. I ain't lettin' ya have the end o' it! AHAHAHA!!!"

Jack groaned as he pulled the brim of his hat lower. Clearly this was a retribution for his backhanded comments on his longtime friend's beloved and his next-of kin.

Snip 11: Scatman

-Post S5E9 (Centuries after Ashi's first loop)-

"-saw him with... out... what the heck?"

The newly Activated Looper looked over himself, and then realized something.

"Am I dead? Oh no, babe. I screwed up big time. Now I'll never be Aku's numero uno. Why does this look familiar?"

The Looper decided to spontaneously look at his phone.

"Wait, didn't Jacky boy destroy this thing? Wait a sec. Did I go back in time? Oh... HELL YEAH, BABY!!! Scaramouche is aliiiiive, baby! I got a second chance! Sca-do-ba-do-wah ya-ya-ya. Ske-bo-ba-dah-bwa oo-la-la."

Many years later.

Scaramouche, now reduced to a head again, realized that this was going to be tougher than he thought.

"Oh boy. That samurai is one tough mofo. I suppose if I'm lucky I'll get a third chance and..."

"Just stop before you embarrass yourself."

"Huh?" Scaramouche looked at the finely dressed robot standing over the head."Hey, listen pal. I don't know who you are, but I ain't giving up working for Aku, babe. So scram!"

"I suppose explanations are in order since you were talking about second chances."

"Oh geez. I gotta stop monologuing. Who the hell are you, babe?"

"My name? X-9. Let me explain why you have your 'second chance.'"

Snip 12: ?

Snip 13: CI

-Post S5E10-

Jack was at peace, at long last. He had finally done it, finally defeated Aku, finally back in the past with his father and mother well and healthy, his homeland restored and was set to marry the woman who had healed his pain and who he loved so dearly.

Everything was going so well until she vanished, now aware of her paradoxical existence causing her to fade away. He felt his soul was about to tear itself apart when he heard a voice call out to him.

"Samurai Jack," Shou-Hsing, his Admin called out to him from the sky with Ra, Odin and Rama behind him. "I must congratulate you on achieving the near complete restoration of your Branch. What you see before you is your mortal reward for all the pain and suffering you had endured," he gestured to the sky, with a smile on his face. "Now let us bestow your divine reward."

And suddenly, there were bagpipes.

Turning his head to the sky, Jack saw that a time portal open up and all those he met in the future come out on the same ghostly air that his best friend created when they fought Aku in the future, all smiling at him with said best friend grinning savagely. They made big curves in the air as they descended to the ground, with everyone dressed in their finest. Jack was about to ask what was going on when all of a sudden, all of the Scotsman's daughters came out on their deers, dressed in white gowns and each deer had a chain attached to them leading to a chariot with-

"No," he whispered in disbelief as on the chariot was Ashi, looking at him with the same love he had known during the time they had spent in the future and in the past rebuilding his village. He watched as his friend's daughter pull up to the side, with his mother rushing to Ashi's side again. Jack was about to go to her when the Scotsman grabbed him with a giant arm.

"Jackie boy, what were you thinking having a wedding without me here?! I am hurt, Jackie!" the Scotsman teased, punching him in the arm. Jack was too stupefied to even deflect the blow, his eyes still on Ashi.

He slowly turned his head to Shou-Hsing and said, "I do not understand. I am not complaining but does this not break the time space continuum and several rules?"

"Jack, my dear Anchor," Shou-Hsing said, shaking his head. "You must remember that rules are there to be broken. Go enjoy your wedding and your life, Jack. You have earned this."

And Jack did just that, watching Ashi walk up the isle again with everyone watching the ceremony carefully. He was relieved that she did not vanish on him again and able to say their vows and become husband and wife, with everyone either celebrating or crying, the Scotsman sobbing like a baby, as Jack and Ashi shared their first kiss of many to come. Jack made sure to say the same three words every time he woke up next to her and the same three words every time they went to sleep; I love you.

And they spent many years together, bringing forth a golden age for the world that had no end. With the peace of the past and the knowledge of the future, there was no more wars to be fought, no more battles to be won, no more heartaches to endure, just years of peace and happiness. Jack replaced his father as emperor of Japan and Ashi the empress, her kindness and gentleness winning the hearts of many and her endless crusade to ensure that no child suffered any ailment winning the remaining hearts.

Due to the fact he was a Looper, Jack was unable to give her a son but that did not bother them for they adopted many sons and many daughters and their halls were always full of laughter and joy.

And every day and every night and every chance he got, Jack told Ashi "I love you."

Years past for them and this time, it remembered Jack, aging his body but not dulling his mind or his heart.

It was many years later, with Jack and Ashi now shrunken with age when Jack awoke next to his wife, rubbing her wrinkled face with a gentle hand and still seeing the beautiful woman he married all those years ago, and knowing that her time was short.

Ashi opened her eyes and with energy that she had not felt in ages, pulled herself up quickly to steal a kiss from Jack's lips. They held the kiss for a period before they parted. Jack said, as he had said everyday since marrying her, "I love you."

"I know," she coughed, smiling contently up at him before coughing again, her body shaking. She stayed him when he tried to stand to get help, knowing it would be pointless. "I love you too." And then she was gone, able to hold on no longer.

Holding his wife's body, Jack leaned up to kiss her forehead. A heartbeat later, the Loop ended with the death of its Anchor.

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Shou-Hsing felt her presence behind him but didn't care to turn around, just watching Jack fighting against an army of robotic beetles with a smile on the samurais' face.

"You know that you are considerable trouble, right?" Skuld asked him.

"I know."

"You know that we have rules against what you did, right?"

"I know."

"We cannot do this for every Looper because that would strain Yggdrasil too much.'

"I know."

"Good. Here is the list of fused loops I have prearranged for that girl of yours to go visit after you Activate her," Skuld said, dropping a stack of folders on his desk.

"I what?" Shou-Hsing asked in confusing, turning around to face the Norn.

"We are repairing Yggdrasil because it needs to be done and," Skuld leaned in, gripping her hammer. "It is the right thing to do. He has been Looping for a very long time and I will be damned if this is all that he gets at the end. Shou-Hsing," Skuld said as she stood up and hovered at his office's door. "Give this story a happy ending."

With a salute to his boss, Shou-Hsing got straight to work on Activating Ashi, smiling to himself as everything was finally going to be right once more.

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Jack Awoke to find himself falling out the time portal that Aku threw him into at the very beginning. It would be a very long time before he saw Ashi again but he was fine with that. He knew what was waiting for him at the end of his travels and he was at peace, at long last. With a nod to the three young men, he went off to see some dogs that would need his help.

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Ashi was very confused.

The last thing she remembered before the current set of events was… very odd, to say the least.

She remembered going to bed, her lover and husband besides her as they fell asleep – and, a few seconds later, she could feel his heartbeat starting to slow.

She had known that it would come in time. Both he and she would pass – and in the end, she didn’t mind. She had spent most of her life with him and helping his home rebuild from Aku’s tyranny after the gods had brought her back to Jack, as well as his two friends from the future (and that small dog that seemed to live for an oddly long time…). The world had been peaceful – utterly different from what she had known in her youth.

Her life was full and complete. In the end, the only true regret she had, even then, was that none of her sisters ever lived long enough to be free as she was and to share in her good fortune.

Aya… Akari… Ayumi… Ami… Anzu… Airi… I’ll… join you… soon.

And then, she had opened her eyes to find herself in the middle of a classroom, with twelve other students, and none of her sisters or Jack anywhere within eyeshot.

Needless to say, she had panicked, although she had done an admirable job of controlling herself, in her opinion.

First, she had blinked, taken in the students around her, as well as the teacher, and mentally decided which of them she would interrogate to find out what had happened, how she had arrived here, and how exactly she was supposed to get back home.

At least, after she had tried (and failed) to determine where that odd… noise, for lack of a better word, came from.

After passing over the other girls in the class (three of them appeared to be related, the fourth and fifth were each talking with one of the boys), one of the other boys appeared to be talking to… a wooden plank, so probably no help there… another appeared to be focusing more on feeding a goat that the teacher was for some reason ignoring, and of the last three, one was too large and looked too dim-witted to be much use, the second had a look on his eye that she had never known to not mean trouble… which led to the only viable candidate.

It seemed that the boy with that hat would be answering her questions soon.

At least, that was what she had concluded then.

That particular conclusion had led to the current situation.

Namely, her dangling in midair, held there by a hundred tiny “arms” that had all emerged from under the boy’s hat when she had tried to ambush him in the men’s room, with about a dozen more of those arms manipulating technology that, even in the future, she had never seen even remotely the likes of – mostly because half of it seemed to be made out of scrap.

She could already hear both her sisters and Jack scolding her lightly.

Never judge someone by their appearance, Ashi.

-RebelUtion-

Eddward “Double D” was having a rather odd day.

The Loopers of Peach Creek were all Awake – unsurprising, given how close they all were after so very long, but always pleasant – and they had gotten what appeared to be a visiting Looper, given how she had slightly snapped to attention when they had all Pinged.

What was surprising, however, was how she had tried to attack him when he had gone to the bathroom during lunch hour. His ever-present Pocket/hat based defenses had effortlessly intercepted her, but he still wasn’t sure who this girl/woman was – while her given name in class had been “Ashley”, that didn’t tell him enough. Especially given that nobody named “Ashley” who acted like this wasn’t turning up his Looper database – was this her first Loop, then? Odd…

“Video message received. Urgent.”

Oh?

“How unusual. Why would anyone send a video message from the same school?” He murmured as two of the hundred-fold arms around him (both made of cardboard and old wires) swiveled in front of him, projecting a screen between them, before he chuckled.

“How absurd of me to ask! Most of us might do that if we had a reason!”

Chuckling again, Edd had one of his other arms tap the screen, starting the “play” button on it.

“Hello again, Edd. Good to see you.” Came a very familiar voice from the other end.

Double D’s eyebrows went into his hat. “Caishen! Er, why are you calling?”

“Business. My colleagues have told me that, due to a… coding error, a first-time Looper has wound up in your Loop. I was hoping you had found her.”

The eight arms that were keeping Ashi in one place pulled her over to the screen. “Would this, be her?”

The Chinese god of prosperity smiled. “It is indeed her! Excellent.”

Ashi glared at the two of them in a way that would have made most people quiver in their boots.

Double D and Caishen had both dealt with Sarah and Skuld respectively for easily billions of years, and didn’t even blink.

“Who are you two, and what is going on?” Ashi calmly bit out.

Both the Admin and the Anchor of the Peach Creek Loops turned to the young(ish) human/demon hybrid, one looking surprised.

“…Interesting. Double D, I have a favor to ask of you.” Caishen eventually stated.

“Er, what’s the favor?” Edd replied.

Caishen laid back in his chair, looking slightly calmer now. “I’m going to get Ashi’s code fixed again so she can go to the other Fused Loops she was supposed to go to first. While I am doing that, see if you can explain to her what is happening and then let her down – oh, and see if you can get her to open up to the rest of your friends. She could certainly use more companions than just her husband.”

Before Double D could reply “Affirmative!”, the bathroom burst open.

“Give us two rounds of jawbreakers, and you’ve got a deal!”

“Eddy!”

As he watched the two old friends start to bicker again, Caishen just started to chuckle.

Beserk Activation

The Admin

"Morpheus! Hypnos!" The lunar deity of the islamic folk cheered to a few fellow admins that were just passing through. "Brothers in Arms, I come with news towards a new branch! Bring Skuld forth!"

"Oy, Allah!" Howled Morpheus to his senior as he pressed the summon beacon for the lead debugger. "It's not another one of those branches, right?"

"I humbly assure you that this will be the big kahuna of my duty for Yggdrasil!" Smiled the Arabian Admin.

"Whatever allows us to ignore that other branch you activated." snarked old Hypnos, thinking back to when Allah activated Pixel Pinkie.

"She has a smartphone with a digital genie inside!" pleaded the moon god. "It's so modern!"

"...Okay." sighed the god of dreams as he welcomed the incoming Admin

"This better be good, Allah..." sighed the Norsewoman. "What have you got for us?"

Allah took a deep breath and spoke a certain word of poor judgement "Beserk!"

"...I'm sorry, I need to drop something." Hypnos manifested a glass of water to immediately drop onto the floor as Skuld tried to run only to be halted by Allah's ability to appear from the shadows immediately catching up with her.

"Look, there is a way to power her up, just hear me out!" Allah was squawking to his superior. "We put them through a few abridged variant loops, wait til we get a Griffith who's actually a nice guy, have them all have their happy ending and be crazy and psychotic the way they are, and-."

"Allah, I know you're trying to appeal to the... modern way of life..." Skuld brushed her hair out of her face from her frantic escape. "But I gotta ask, what just happened to you that involves screwing over our hard work?"

"Well, my plan b relies on a short baseline," Allah described to the goddess of tomorrows. "We restrict them to a few months where they were relatively stable individuals, expand from there when they come across the more destructive elements of the world."

"Yes, Alucard dabbles into the Crimson F**ker mannerisms, but that's just it. This?" Skuld's expression was downright apprehensively dumbfounded. "What do you even have for a potential anchor? Guts is a butcher, Griffith a psychopath, everyone else has a whole boatload of problems, just admit you have no clue who to pick and we'll forget this idea of yours ever happened."

"Why don't we use the chunk of baseline that got backed up onto a '97 anime? No overt mention of the Idea of Evil, sidestepping the more immoral elements of the branch." Hypnos slyly spoke with his senior. "Sure, things end up pretty sour for everyone involved, but it's not the worst situation for a branch, init."

"Ah, yes. Need we forget that Evangelion branch was a total disaster area yet we easily debugged it with six other branches and now we're up to hundreds of active branches." Morpheus reassured to the lead debugger to cement their comrade's case.

"Alright... If for no other reason than to hamstring that... Idea of Evil from the get-go. We'll try applying the same logic protocols to it as the Time Lords." Skuld adjusted her suit and tie. "I just don't understand who you'd want to anchor the tree."

"Judeau would be a pretty good choice for a baseline this short." exclaimed Hypnos, "If not, then Puck might also be an option."

"Either way, whoever becomes Anchor will need something beyond their standard skillset to be competitive in such a way as to reliably avert the Eclipse on a regular, effectively doing a lot to keep them sane for progressively longer baseline Loops." Allah added. "Take Guts as an example: something to allow him to carry over his strength training from prior loops would be prized beyond measure, as would something that allowed for physical stat increases to increment with every enemy slain by a certain weapon."

"Like the Persona and Dragon Quest clusters!" Morpheus realized before immediately remembering the threats the setting brings to the table "But Godhand and its minions-?"

"Please, we can easily knock away bugs like Behelits and Apostles." Skuld smiled. "Just set Godhand to Read-Only and keep it locked up in its own little branch."

re:Code Lyoko

Speech

It must be hard for the Osaka Team of Kingdom Hearts, they required the imput from Tokyo Staff for their first numbered entry in the series, being game number three: the most hyped video game ever to grace Development (Second Chance Clip) Now, what other problems have they faced? Ah! Their only contributions have been portable spin-offs and HD rereleases, now that's something to hurt consumer confidence. But that's all talk compared to the broken abilities within those pesky spin-offs, they're flashy and can sweep away mooks, yes. But ask yourselves, is it really the point of Kingdom Hearts? No, the point is interacting with an array of iconic Disney Characters in new and interesting ways. But that has fallen by the wayside in favor of what are essentially theme park rides through their original movies, if we wanted a bulletpoints version of a movie we've probably already seen, we'd go look it up on a wiki! Gosh! This has forced the games to fall back on its plot which, if you haven't noticed showed such promise with potential mystery to solve with each new game contributing something new to the lore. But in recent games, the flaws started to outweigh the strengths. It was manageable with Xion going through the revelations before the very peer who should have underwent it according to a few vocal fans. But then came the squandering of the simple idea of a Mad Scientist going too far and screwing his ass over in favor of evil monster wants ultimate power because destiny said so to god forbid, Time Shenanagans! Yeah, makes such narmy lines as 'Who else will I have ice cream with?' seem normal in comparison. With how all over the place, one shutters to think about how Final Fantasy Vs. XIII was doing while KHIII was forming in his head waiting to get into development. Long used as a reason for why Kingdom Hearts III was taking so long, with Nomura giving repeatedly interviews saying that it had to be his main focus, it too has been in development for nearly a decade, and seemingly, it was so underdeveloped that we know, for example, that as late as 2012 Nomura was suggesting changing it entirely - from scripts to voice work to all the other things that are generally done first - to make it into a musical. Ultimately, once the subseries this game was supposed to cap off got capped off by Lightning Returns, Versus Thirteen was predictably cancelled and its characters, scripts and storylines were recycled into Final Fantasy XV. At least Nomura's finally putting all of his energy into this big project of his, OH WAIT! I knew Square Enix was desperate enough to complete their Nomurafied compilation of their best game ever.

With both Kingdom Hearts III and the Remake of the Decade on Nomura's back, there has to be some way to lighten the load. Enter a little something I'd like to call: re:Code Lyoko. Yes, I am very serious about this.

Now you may be asking what does this one show, Code Lyoko, have to do with Kingdom Hearts? Gentlemen, I bring your attention to a little programming block called. Miguzi was the short-lived younger sister block to an American icon of broadcasting. Its one flagship show was a gem of its time with fine pacing, tyrannical villains, and a gradual tone shift from a monster of the week to a more arc-driven war story. Code Lyoko was one of Cartoon Network's biggest and most critically acclaimed brands during the tail end of the Jim Staples era of the network. Kingdom Hearts is one of Square Enix's biggest brands of the here and now one of the company's last remaining hopes of survival in a company that is now starting to trust them with games again after being burned one too many times with cynically-shelled Final Fantasy XIII. Put them together and you could have a means to stall for extra development time as well as the triumphant return of an iconic series in a unique form which blends a Spin-off, a sequel, and a full-on Reboot! It's a spin-off in that it is set within the universe in question but with a new set of characters. A Sequel in that it picks up where the failed Code Lyoko: Evolution live action programme left off and answers some burning questions on the dangling plot threads of the original series and especially Evolution. And the Reboot part: that just means new fans won't have to understand the deeper aspects to get into the mythos, especially in season one. Speaking of, we fully intend to have season one grace the airwaves of its old stomping grounds of Cartoon Netwoooooooooooooooooorrrrrrr..... (adult swim) ADULT SWIM! Yes, Adult Swim's Toonami block has seen huge ratings success with its revival of Samurai Jack, so it would make perfect sense to add Code Lyoko to that Success Story and officially graduate the show from the defunct Miguzi lineup and have it inducted onto the Toonami Roster.

Now that we've detailed the reasoning as to why this needs to happen, we need a proper story to go through with this puppy. Now, much like the original series, it begins with a Supercomputer, this time in an abandoned Video Game Studio in sunny San Francisco. This coincidentally houses our lead character who is followed into the abandoned studio by her perky young cousin and in a fit of rage accidentally turns on the power for the studio, activating the Supercomputer after years of slumber for its inhabitants. Yes, inhabitants. Unlike in the datascape we've seen in the original, there are a handful of Small Civilizations dotting the seven sectors of this digital world, each housing a whole community of civilians living out their lives. One such place is Cable Town, which houses a pair of friendly fellows who welcome the main character into their lives and christen the new world 'LYOKO' after one of its highly active contemporaries. Speaking of a network of Supercomputers, every person born inside this digital world and every other one for that matter is a virtual AI construct cobbled together from DNA sequences sampled from the scans of its subjects scattered throughout its fifty+ year history. Dating back to its first scan in November Eighth, 1961. I see no connection to anything whatsoever. Naturally, the conflict comes when a virus takes refuge on this newly christened 'LYOKO' who is hiding from a group of familiar enemies only to run into a group of new ones native from both its new home and the real world surrounding its base. And you already know how these kids are going to respond, so let's get a move on to the re: in re:Code Lyoko. It is a symbol that marks a definitive response to the series we've come to know and love, not a reboot, not a remake, but a response to the fans that kept it alive for so long and through so much changes in the popular culture.

With that said, we need to know how the Sausage is made. Well, we've got to keep to a thirteen week production schedule for each of its episodes and the best place to start is with the scripting and storyboarding, a good two weeks to hammer out how the problem at hand can be solved, jokes, character moments, fight chorography, the works. If the writers nail down an episode they want to tell, then it goes on to voicework where the actors and actresses on the Japanese side of production hammer out the performances. Improv is, of course, acceptable, as long as they have a complete voice track in line for the Animation Studios by the one to two weeks it takes for them to prepare it. Next is Animation and we'll need a Japanese animation studio for the Real World Segments, none of that live action junk you tried with Evolution, luckily Square Enix has a cozy relationship with Studio Bones and Studio Bones coincidentally has worked with Thomas Romain before on Space Dandy. Here's hoping five to Seven Weeks working in tandem with the in-house CG animation department of Moonscoop will be accommodating enough. And for the weeks left standing, it goes to editing where we put the episode together to air on Japanese and Later on French and American airwaves, and hopefully many more. Localization will of course be handled in-house for the French Audiences of France 3 and Canal J, but for its Adult Swim Debut, it is strongly recommended that we head on down to Texas and set phasers for Funimation!

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This particular season is sort of a beta test for things to come, as evidenced by the twelve episodes of this season.

Presentation

Osaka's Struggle

• This is their first Numbered Kingdom Hearts Game
• Their prior samples of the series are the Spin-Offs and HD Remakes
• The Balloon spells from Dream Drop Distance scare me by being OP!
• “Who else will I have ice cream with?”
• Nomura was indecisive towards the direction of Final Fantasy versus XIII during production, so much so that it was canned and had its characters and plot recycled for XV.
• Now Nomura is working on an episodic Final Fantasy VII remake on top of KHIII

What is re:Code Lyoko

• Can Stall for time and bring back a classic
• It is a blend of a Spin-Off, Sequel, and Reboot.
• Spin-Off: It starts off with a fresh new cast.
• Sequel: It picks up where Evolution left off and answers a few of the questions left hanging from the five prior seasons.
• Reboot: You don’t have to know anything about the original show.
• Why bring this into being: There’s a dedicated fanbase that are longing for a new series to this very day.
• Where will it go? adult swim

So what's the Plot?

• There is a Supercomputer in San Francisco, CA. It houses a digital civilization dubbed Cable Town within a Digital World of seven distinct sectors the first visitor decides to dub ‘LYOKO’ after checking a folder of notes on a contemporary.
• Cable Town’s inhabitants are Artificial Intelligences randomly generated from a digital genepool diversified across several decades dating back to 1963.
• XANA obtains refuge in this ‘LYOKO’ away from its usual enemies, only to find a few new ones both within Cable Town and from, of course, the Real World.
• The re: in re:Code Lyoko means that this series is a response to the series we’ve come to know.

So how will the Sausage be Big?

• The Writers and storyboard artists start with a bullet-point description of the episode and what occurs within it and write an episode script around it for the first two weeks.
• Then the actors vocalize the characters present and refine their performance over a week or two.
• Both the 2D Animation Team at Studio Bones and 3D Animation Team in-house do their thing for Five to Seven Weeks.
• And the Editors put the episode together for broadcast across the globe throughout the 2+ weeks that remain on the clock
• Moonscoop handles the French localization for Canal J, Funimation handles the English localization for its US Debut on Toonami.

Who are we rooting for?

• The Writers and storyboard artists start with a bullet-point description of the episode and what occurs within it and write an episode script around it for the first two weeks.
• Then the actors vocalize the characters present and refine their performance over a week or two.
• Both the 2D Animation Team at Studio Bones and 3D Animation Team in-house do their thing for Five to Seven Weeks.
• And the Editors put the episode together for broadcast across the globe throughout the 2+ weeks that remain on the clock
• Moonscoop handles the French localization for Canal J, Funimation handles the English localization for its US Debut on Toonami.

Riley Andersen

• She is the one who finds the Supercomputer in San Francisco.
• She takes the initiative to fight the still rampaging XANA in her promise to [DATA EXPUNGED]
• On top of wielding a Scythe on ‘Lyoko’, She gains powers depend on her general mood on a specific day.
• JOY: Electricity, Flight
• SADNESS: Can turn into sentient water, can manipulate ice
• FEAR: Super-Speed, Aerokinesis
• DISGUST: Invisibility
• ANGER: Super-Strength, Pyrokinesis

Bonnie Anderson

• Bonnie calls Riley her Sister even though they are merely cousins.
• The youngest of the group at twelve years of age.
• Pretty darn childish for her age, even telling secrets to her toys.
• Hasn't much of a clue as to who Riley is due to only meeting her at family get-togethers.
• Has a jetpack to fly around LYOKO
• Has a built-in laserwhip attached to her gauntlet on LYOKO

Mary 'Boo' Gibbs

• Bonnie's childhood friend from all the way back at Sunnyside.
• She is considered the most mature of the group, being a year older than the Anderson 'sisters‘ at fourteen, and takes care of the younger members.
• She keeps secrets from the group which ends up hurting her when they inevitably come out.
• Can leap super high on LYOKO
• Has razor sharp claws on LYOKO to cling to walls.

Jordan

• Riley’s friend from school.
• He’s the guitarist of a rock band that performs 80s and 90s hits.

When he joins the Lyoko Warriors later on in the season, he receives a superstinger which can trace monsters and pierce targets with an electromagnetic discharge from the battery pack on the back of his hand.

Toby Pepper

• A stoic young lad at first, but has a soft spot for Anime Trash which sees him frequenting the 4chan boards where he meets a fellow named ‘X’
• His Lyoko form has a Ninja Theme featuring sickles generated from the gems on the back of his hands.
• Can project holographic dataclones at the cost of 10 LP
• Joins the group to protect his family.
• The Equivalent to Ulrich Stern

Redd Raimi

• What appears to be a uplifting girl with a passion for fashion design turns out to be a skilled game programmer and willing coder for the Lyoko Team.
• Starts off struggling with the cloud notes on the Supercomputer’s network of twenty-seven brother and sister systems across the globe, but slowly increases her pace to become on par with Jeremie by the tenth episode of the season.
• Regularly rotates with Riley between coding for the on-site team and fighting off XANA’s attack for the episode.

Eraqus Ende

Outgoing and Energetic, he is the most optimistic of the group. He acts as the guy who eggs on Xehanort on the ‘making new friends’ front and believes Riley working to one day materialize them both and later Yen-Sid and Masako can really help him in this enterprise.

Xehanort 'Xeh' Shirogane

Isolated and Nihilistic. Xehanort understands how futile it is to fight what has already been written into his destiny and is hoping one day for something, Anything to surprise him.

Yen-Sid

Pessimistic towards the thought of an Outside World, Yen-Sid proceeds with his colleagues' passion to enter the world of Riley and the Gang hoping that it can give them something to look forward to following their mark of mastery examination which he and Eraqus had already passed with flying colors. Ends up utterly surprised when the Materialization actually occurs in episode eleven and begins to find hope for his home again.

Masako Hakumei

• A kind-hearted soul and strong-spirited will. Masako is quick to point out when a plan’s not going to work and inevitably when there are elements that will work to her advantage at her fruit stand in Cable Town.
• Xehanort has a crush on Masako and wishes to be the face that greets her into the Real World.
• Is essentially the Yumi Ishiyama of the San-Fran group.
• Redd will program the Keyblade onto Masako’s files if Season 2 becomes a thing.

Season 1

• This particular season is sort of a beta test for the show.
• It is notoriously short (Twelve Episodes)
• It is designed to play out like an abridged version of the original series’ first season, hence the overarching to materialize Eraqus and his crew
• There will be allusions to the Men in Black scattered across the season to answer questions left hanging from seasons past.
• There will also be communication with the fans in the form of a 3.14th wall-cracking subreddit managed by the cast of the show.
• Arc Words: ‘If you can hear us, you are the resistance!’

Episode 1: Space Oddity

• Riley explores an abandoned video game studio in San Francisco only for Bonnie to spook her against the big button activating its Supercomputer.
• Bonnie rushes to the console of the Supercomputer to find a bunch of notes on how to operate it as well as a few new characters, Eraqus and Xehanort.
• Riley, Bonnie and Boo wound up packed into the scanners like Sardines and Virtualized into the Datascape. Heartless attack and take out Bonnie, seemingly killing her when really it just devirtualized her.
• Our heroes uncover the existence of the Virus known as XANA who had been tormenting France for a little over a year before being bleached weeks prior.

Episode 2: You've Got a Habit of Leaving

• Riley, showing concern for her 'sister', drafted a young boy named Tedd Verres to operate the Supercomputer on the grounds of him wearing glasses.
• Tedd's Friend Elliot follows him to the studio and sees the virtual world for himself, deciding to join the group to protect his family from XANA.
• Tedd uncovers more notes on not only how to defeat XANA but on who defeated the original XANA to begin with and the location of other Supercomputers

Episode 3: We Are Hungry Men

• A mysterious lady in red casually observes the group, Bonnie is starving for food and what's offered is Broccoli and Cauliflower.
• XANA digitizes an army of Polymorphic Broccoloids to puppeteer the children who ate the Obama Menu.
• XANA is attempting to trace its other selves in the other supercomputers across the globe.

Episode 4: Come and Buy My Toys

• A new Transfer student comes in named: Marilyn. She is voiced by the same actress, but has darker hair and modern clothes.
• They believe that Marilyn is an amnesiac Masako when really Masako's sealed within the Book of a Bookmaster.
• Insert plot of 'Girl of the Dreams' here.

Episode 5: The Laughing Gnome

• Tedd discovers a Subreddit has been founded by a MotherBlüd82 to gather reports on abandoned buildings that happen to house these Supercomputers.
• XANA contacts a hivemind of Alien parasites called the Adzurk to assist it in its attack on humanity. High-Ranking Commanders are dubbed Rizzir (REZ-ur) and lowly ensigns are dubbed Subrizzirs.
• Boo runs into Rizzir 86 and Rizzir 66, A mad Scientist and her slow-witted simpleton of a comrade. She fights them pretty well IRL, but 86's tech and Vectron Drones make short work of her, just not short enough to kill her before the return to the past.

Episode 6: Maid of Bond Street

• Riley wants some extra money for the new Nintendo Switch and wanted to ask Boo to help her earn some extra money on some yard work, only to be greeted with a three-year-old toddler instead of the fourteen-year-old teen she's known over the past month she spent fighting XANA with her group.
• Bonnie ends up not much better, having absorbed the eleven missing years from Boo, aging her up from twelve to twenty-three. During the Twelve Hours she needs to wait in order to return to normal with Boo, Bonnie applies for a job as an assistant to Bernard Pryce and meets a Lori Salincino who has also entered the race to be Pryce's receptionist. Lori hides her voluptuous curves under a blue turtleneck sweater as a signal of her apparent lack of confidence.
• Bonnie also meets a soon-to-be-fully-graduated nurse, 23-year-old Andy Davis. Her feelings for Andy start to bubble inside of her mind and she ponders whether to go keep fighting XANA and return her body to normal or stay like this and pull herself and Boo out of the team.
• A XANA attack thrusts the decision further against her body, and she makes the right choice to cherish her limited childhood.

Episode 7: Rubber Band

• Tedd finds a kickstarter for a world tour of the supercomputer bases they've detected. It is currently funded for seven trips and is well on its way to its thirteen-stop stretch goal, that's a bad thing since among the travellers are Jeremie Belpois, Ulric Stern, Amadeus 'Odd' Della Robia, Yumi Ishiyama, William Dunbar and Aileta Stones. The original warriors of Lyoko: OWLs.
• XANA shapes a polymorphic spectre into the digital avatar of one such OWL: Ulric.
• Boo is pierced by the blades of triplicated triplicates of the false Ulric, mostly in the arms, legs and spine with a final blade through her forehead prevented by the tower being deactivated. These wounds would have been fatal had there not been a Return to the Past to heal her up, But the scars still remain for all to see.

Episode 8: Please Mr. Gravedigger

• Boo is tired of being kicked around and calls the FBI for help. Two members of the Men in Black are sent in, we see them in a scene or two each episode, this episode being the first in which they have a major role.
• Agent Sol Lunamux has a chip on his shoulder while Agent Lana Dunet is a by the book kind of soldier from a Navy SEAL squadron.
• Riley is naturally pissed off at Boo for this, for this means that they’re stuck telling the rest of the FBI everything.
• The plus side being that the FBI will explain everything about the Supercomputers and how three have landed in San Fransisco, Beach City and Kyoto and the rest were reverse engineered over time.
• XANA decides to take drastic measures in the form of the complete set of OWLs much to Boo’s horror.
• The Men in Black try to fight back, but to no avail. It naturally falls to the complete set of SanFran Lyoko Warriors to deactivate the Tower in the Volcano Sector.
• A sense of déjà vu envelops the Men in Black, despite the return to the past.

Episode 9: Don't Sit Down

• Lori Salincino has been hired by Professor Tyron to be his personal assistant since last we saw her in the series.
• Lori kills the chief that has mentored Sol and Diana throughout the past season... with her familiar black claws
• Lori turns out to be an Adzurk dubbed SubRizzir 36 and has since been hired by Professor Tyron to be his personal assistant.
• Subrizzir 36 mentions the San-Fran Lyoko Warriors as the Men in Black offer to join the team.

Episode 10: An Occasional Dream

• Summer Vacation is around the corner and the gang were going to enjoy it but then word reaches them that the original Lyoko Warriors starting the world tour in San Fran. The clock is now ticking on their time independent from the eyes of the OWLs
• Tedd begins work to weave together a unique DNA signature from the digital genepool that was established episodes prior, but he needs one more DNA signature, that is where Jordan comes in.
• After Jordan is Scanned, Riley offers herself as a re-scan. Jordan tries to pry her out of the scanner, but it gets her trapped in limbo.
• Xeh, Eraqus and later Masako have to venture though the Volcano, Ice, Desert and Forest sectors of Lyoko to retrieve Riley's source code. Heartless giving the lot of them a hassle.
• Jordan virtualizes himself to get the final drops of Riley's source code, resulting in a loving scene between Riley and Eraqus.

Episode 11: I Pity the Fool

• After her little spell, she finds out how complete Eraqus and Xehanort's organic bodies are. Answer: "We're waiting for you here."
• It plays out like Code: Earth wherein the group works together to protect Xeh and Eraqus from XANA's Goons while Tedd allows an outsider into the Studio. In this case being the OWLs of Kadic.

Episode 12: The Prettiest Star

• The group go to an amusement park to celebrate the Summertime, but more importantly to celebrate Eraqus and Xehanort's arrival on Earth.
• Riley de-activates the Supercomputer only to find that Xeh and Eraqus have been infected with a bug, Aileta got Riley to turn it back on.
• Xeh is posessed by XANA and it is revealed that Xeh was born as a biovessel for XANA and has used a version of Xeh from another computer to kidnap a missing union leader (Ventus)
• Jordan synchronizes his data to Riley to beat the Guard Armor Heartless

Season 2 (7: Code Lyoko World Tour)

Episode 1 (134): The Supermen

• The gang materialize Yen-Sid and Masako Hakumei, adding them to the lineup of SanFran Lyoko Warriors as the Join the OWLs on their 'World Tour'
• First stop: Walnut Town, Kentucky. Available Lyoko Warriors: The Paltrivel Siblings Jess, Jade, Chase and Frieda. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: 3 months
• Frieda and Chase are two former pets of the sisters that were upgraded from a guinea pig and dog respectively to full blown humans

Episode 2 (135): Knock on Wood

• Next Stop: Beach City, Florida. Available Lyoko Warriors: Peridot. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: 2 days.
• The Crystal Gems protect the city. Peridot has been using the Supercomputer to monitor Homeworld's goings-on.
• XANA attacks by posessing Amethyst to fuse with Garnet, bringing Sugelite into XANA's control.
• Peridot has a special headset to project polimorphic spectres of anything, so Jeremie uses it to project Riley and Aileta to help Pearl fight off Sugelite

Episode 3 (136): Fame

• Next Stop: Montague, Massachusetts. Available Lyoko Warriors: Rick Sanchez. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Bout a week and a half over a year now.
• Rick's grandson, Morty Smith, shows them around the house and brings up the time they met Goku on a filler episode of Dragonball Super.
• XANA posesses the corpse of Abradolf Lincler, causing a Lava Zombie Attack.

Episode 4 (137): Sound and Vision

• Next Stop: Toronto, Canada. Available Lyoko Warriors: Frisk, Undyne, Sans on computer. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Ten Months
• Frisk's Thirteenth Birthday is today, one month, week and day away from Bonnie's and Frisk's hope for the future contrasts with Bonnie's uncertainty.
• XANA's latest Attack teleports the Bubbled Jasper onto Riley's spine, posessing Riley into virtualizing herself onto Navari: The Canadian Lyoko.
• Riley is virtualized as a dragonic dog-like corrupted fusion of herself and obviously Jasper.

Episode 5 (138): Station to Station

• Next Stop: Wales, Britain. Available Lyoko Warriors: Samantha Knight, Shannon Turner, Carla Turner. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Right this episode
• Professor Tyron and the Adzerk ignites a new Supercomputer in Wales they have constructed to compliment the one in Manchester, and they break it in by activating a Tower.
• Odd Reunites with Samantha Knight who is studying abroad for the Summer. When the Attack is made, Odd offers to have Sam start a crew of Lyoko Warriors on the ground to beat back XANA.

Episode 6 (139): Breaking Glass

• Next Stop: Germany. Available Lyoko Warriors: Frankenstein's Monster on computer, Roxanne Hammond as Lead Warrior, Brothers Anton and Elias. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Thirteen Weeks.
• The Adzurk are working to bring about the fourth Reich from within the EU, and have been working since the early 2000s.

Episode 7 (140): Under Pressure

• Next Stop: Osaka, Japan. Available Lyoko Warriors: probably one or two dozen anime kids between the ages of ten to twenty. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Seventeen Years.
• This the episode with Kingdom Hearts' Sora, guys! And he's spending time with his mom, remember his mom?
• It's a parody of these Rose Quartz Flashback Episodes in Steven Universe in that a chain of Songs triggers a flashback to the day Sora and Riku met Kairi within a flashback to Sora bragging about their (poorly-built) raft to his mother within a flashback of Sora's mom meeting Roxas and Xion at book club immediately remembering Sora afterward.
• Sports a post-credits scene based on the fancomic 'if' about Rose Quartz being pregnant with twins and the emotional conundrum that ensued... Except Rick adds his suggestion of 'Greggo raises the gem twin here while you raise the dull twin in Xanadu' and makes the imminent revelation even more disheartening.

Episode 8 (141): China Girl

• Next Stop: Shanghai, China. Available Lyoko Warriors: A whole Amazonian Civilization in a digital world. Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Unknown
• China has made it a point to virtualize children that go over their one-child limit, sometimes directly out of the womb, and the children have grown and developed into strong warriors within its datascape in Shanghai.
• The Lyoko Warriors encounter an army of XANAfied Chinese troops begin moving out to lay waste to democratic countries, they put a stop to it before somebody got hurt, but still!

Episode 9 (142): Ashes to Ashes

• Next Stop: North Korea. Available Lyoko Warriors: None! Time Spent with activated Supercomputer: Twenty-One Years
• This is where things start to go south, with a - pool that uses the souls of lost children (and you don't wanna know how those souls were stolen)

Episode 10 (143): This Is Not America

• Next Stop: Venezuela.
• Venezuela has been devastated by a failed Socialist system.
• Its president turns out to be an Aquamarine of a leagues better cut than the one from the Trial Arc of Steven Universe. She was installed by the Diamonds.

Episode 11 (144): Day in, Day out

• Next Stop: Mexico.
• They phased out the culture piece by piece, calling it all offensive before moving on to the science of biology.
• This group of Lyoko Warriors join up to say: 'No, we don't believe that Gender Spectrum garbage!'
• The Adzurk have been tainting the water and crops with chemicals that mutate sentient organisms into easily infestable vessels for their hivemind.

Episode 12 (145): Under the God

• Next Stop: Turkey.
• One of the areas they enter has its women and children killed as the XANAfied military men to construct an army of Robots.
• There, the Lyoko Warriors discover the alien nature of the three Supercomputers that landed on earth.

Episode 13 (146): One Shot

• Next Stop: Australia.
• Moderate Muslims are few and far between.
• Australia Team's computer kid has died of the Vaccinations supplied by P.C. Davis.

Episode 14 (147): Bus Stop

• Back to Kadic with everything they've learned from the journey that ultimately proved how much of a cold-blooded grip the Diamonds have on earth through these supercomputers.
• Steven gets lost in completely new tunnels in the Original Factory, Jeremie and the gang search for him on foot, only for Odd to soar through on... his Overboard?! Yes, there are hard light projectors across the whole factory!
• The Lyoko Warriors find hope in the form of new information on the Supercomputers. i.e. that they burrow under the earth, converting cities into space ships to vacate the earth and trancend the World that has fallen ill.

Episode 15 (148): Video Crime

• Jeremie is practicing cross-computer Virtualization. The Crystal Gems are used as test Subjects, but end up mind-swapped. Sardonyx awakens in Garnet's body, Amethyst ends up in Pearl's body and Sapphire in Amethyst's.
• XANA's latest attack is the Pac-Man scene from Pixels.

Episode 16 (149): A Big Hurt

• Riley, Yumi, Ulrich and William are sneaking through the office of the Governor of Florida courtesy of Amethyst and Pearl.
• They find the Governor collaborating with Blue Diamond
• The governor is infected with an Adzurk Mask, the final shape of an Adzurk before consuming the body into its full Costume form.

Episode 17 (150): Tin Machine

• Trisha Elric reminisces on how she got to the moment where she had to lead a group of children to find out that their supercomputer was a spaceship.
• In childhood, Trisha met a man named Van Hoenheim. She wanted to spend time with him but he refused... at least at first. But then he decided to make Trisha his protoge, teaching her in combat and the ways of Alchemy. As Trisha blossomed into womanhood, she became his equal, and later, his wife.
• She had two children, Brothers Edward and Alphonse, who were just as dedicated to Alchemy as herself. She kept her Alchemy hidden from her boys until the Adzurk set her barn ablaze and killed her sons.

Episode 18 (151): Jump, they say

• The Lyoko Warriors have received Trisha's intel on Disneyland and how it had a Quantum Computer Installed in every one of its parks by XANAfied Adzurk Costumes.
• Riley, Bonnie and Boo are translated into Tokyo DisneySea and search for clues whereas Odd, Ulrich and Yumi move to free the Adzurk Soldiers from the control of the five towers XANA has activated.
• The Costumes of one tower dissipate into what appeared to be paint thinner upon the Tower's deactivation, Bonus Points if a costume starts fighting back and begs one of the Translated Warriors to find the captain of the Ship that crashed in Kyoto before dissipating.

Episode 19 (152): Strangers when they Meet

• The Lyoko Warriors uncover the capsule of Captain Skuld of Lespira, she awakens to find that she had been removed from her Ship.
• Lespira is the realm where they created the original universe and all the organisms set to populate it. Once their test planet has generated a suitable baseline for the Lespirans, the newly created avatars of imagination and structure, cast a meteor against the planet to wipe it clean so they can spread the Human form across all the new universes they act to create.
• Skuld and her Sisters Urd and Belldandy have been chosen to pilot Drazil Ships which are powered by the existence of internal datascapes fueling each other with Lux energy. They were allowed to tap people they have at least heard of for positions on their new vessels.
• For a brief while, things were good until a cosmic Tyrant created a x-blade IRL from 86% of his ninety planet populace charged forward to chase the three starships into a nearby universe, crash-landing on its version of Earth in July 13th, 1818. The on-board Supercomputers sleep the century away up to November 8th of 1961, when John F. Kennedy ventures to California to activate the first of the three supercomputers. The Rest is History.
• Skuld calls Lespira for help and the Citadel, although more than shocked at how the conspiracy theory of their original earth palette surviving and creating offshoot universes on its own was actually true, agree to send a few ships to retrieve and rescue the three.

Episode 20 (153): Telling Lies

• Sissi tells her father about Lyoko and the Looming end of the world, showing him data on all of the Lyoko Warriors' adventures. He agrees to let them do their work.
• Skuld teaches Jeremie, Laura and Redd how to operate the Fully Formed Spaceship while Anthea is comforting Aileta who is in full self-doubt mode upon learning how little of an impact her father actually made.
• A polymorphic spectre is invading the Earth as the President of the United States is checking up on the planned spaceship.
• The conflict is resolved by Sissi and her father essentially re-enacting the 'It's Hip to be Square' scene in American Psycho. With Sissi using the new Digitizer gear to cut down the Spectre in the guise of the president, and Mr Delmas giving a lecture on Obscure Internet Critics such as Hewy Toonmore. The Spectre's end de-activates the tower automatically, much to Odd's Chagrin.

Episode 21 (154): Little Wonder

• Anthea wants to be a better mother for Aileta, So Bonnie offers to do her a secret favor.
• Bonnie red-pills Andy about their conflict with XANA by virtualizing onto Lyoko and then materializing out, taking years from Anthea and Aileta. This ages Bonnie up to twenty-two and ages Aileta down to five.

Episode 22 (155): I'm Afraid of Americans

Episode 23 (156): Something in the Air

Episode 24 (157): Angels of Promise

• The roots of the Adzerk are foretold in flashbacks throughout Kitsuna's search for willing souls to pilot the new Drazil Ships.

Episode 25 (158): Brilliant Adventure

Episode 26 (159): Everyone Says 'Hi'

• 2600 Million People escape the Earth and watch as it and the humans left behind is transmutated into a plot hole to compress the universe surrounding it into a body: the form of the newly-made Red Diamond

Andy + Bonnie

Snip 1: Mobius Inn

Twas an interesting day in the Nexus Plaza, as it usually is after an Activation Loop. The new arrival in question had been through several loops of her baseline already, but the fact that she looped in as a human child and lived her life in the West was enough to welcome her into the Loops, her two buddies were more than happy to oblage their friend from the branch.

"So there's this tree that's gone broke and we've got to fix 'er up?" Smiled the firey-haired cowgirl, having just learned of the World Tree. "Well, go show me the way and we'll make it right as rain again!"

"Course you'd think it was that simple, Jess..." Woody frowned. Jessie had been Awake for five Loops now, and she was already glad to have not gone mad (yet.) "Only the admins can repair the tree."

"But I thought we could help out, lend a hand!"

"That's not gonna work." stated a bispeckled blonde youth in a blue turtleneck sweater. He had introduced himself as Jeremie Belpois from the Kadic Branch. "You have to know a lot more about computers and coding than me or any other computer whiz around these parts."

"You gotta know computers to fix a tree?" Jessie sounded confused and yet dissatisfied with the situation at hand. "Can we at least get the others looping?"

"Well, that depends on the bonds we nurture." A purple pony spoke to the woman with the red hat. "Many methods have been used to get them looping, but the most potent out of all of them is the power of friendship."

"So I gotta befriend the gang as much as I can, Right?"

"But it has to be natural." Buzz stated. "You can't spend every day leaning over Mr. Potato Head, it has to be a natural progression. It was how I started looping, and now I tend to drink with the genuine article each time I pass him by."

"But these things take a lot of time and effort to do that." Woody finished. "Kapische?"

Jessie nodded. "Can Emily Loop?"

That was a question Woody didn't want to answer, thankfully there was a Q who was willing to take time out of his milkshake date with a draconequis to do just that. "We barely caught a glimpse of Emily in your branch's backup-file back in the Hub. We're not exactly sure how you'd nurture a friendship with someone who sees you as nothing more than an ...insignificant toy."

Jessie's face dropped as she sat by her Cowboy BBQ Burger. "We can try!"

Twas Star Butterfly, who had just been through another Steven Universe loop. She looked to have a story to tell from a fellow looper. "I heard of a lady who pocketed her sister. She grew up loop by loop, lived out her life and died an old, forfilled and dignified woman. I'm sure she was activated soon after, but I haven't seen her around so there's... probably still a chance this could end up failing with total heartbreak for all parties involved but look on the bright side, you get to go to college with 'er!"

"But the diaries say she lived isolated from anyone other than her sister, repeating the same seven years over and over." A blue-haired punk in a beanie sneered towards the Mewni Princess "She lived hella long, yeah. But it wasn't much of a life."

Jessie could only stand in shock so Woody glanced to the Cowgirl and reassured her that: "Sorry, Jess. If we're being honest, my loops usually start when Buzz arrives at Andy's so I wouldn't hold my breath on bringing Emily along in your pocket."

"What about Bonnie?" asked a curious Hylian elf, anticipating an opportunity to do one better than the pocket sister. "Maybe we can chart out a chain of loops catered to her?"

"Link, that's a great idea!" smiled a girl in violet and pink with red hair of a darker tone. "We can start out with a baseline loop taking Bonnie to the day Andy's eighth birthday, they grow up together and bam! Zelda: Breath of the Wild!"

"Are you insane!" A blue robot panicked in the distance. "There's no way that either one's gonna survive being in the roles of the two most important characters of the game!"

"Well, that's where your wrong, ladies and gents." Jeremie flashed a grin of determination. "Jimmy and I have programed the first of what we called 'sleeping Loops' which is a serialized Loop split over the course of a full Loop in the form of dreams. We've been waiting for someone to test our special simulation."

"Hey, that's Jimmy as in Jimmy Neutron, right?" the organic blunette gushed. "God, I have just opened up my own Subspace Pocket and I could really use that sleeping Loop tech right now. I wanna have my sleep-ins count for something!"

"Ease off, Price. I'm not handing out gadgets and Gizmos all willy-nilly." Jeremie stepped back with his arms pushing the co-ed aged octocentennial away. "Go bug Jimmy whenever he loops into your world."

"Doesn't matter either way," Buzz sighed to the group of fellow Loopers "Despite certain wills, not counting the biological differences between genders in terms of physical strength. There's clearly no way a human girl like Bonnie can measure up to the role of Hylian hero on her own."

"I guess that's my cue." In walked Doctor Tommy Oliver, who was holding two boxes of Nintendo Switch Consoles of varying designs, One was bundled with ARMS and colored in a Yellow-and-Red Plaid design attached to a blue belt, the other a Splatoon 2 bundle in white and green connected to a purple belt. "Flicker Drivers, just handed one to a new looper from Dorie's branch, Hana. These things are connected to a couple Ranger suits we packed into the Morphin Grid."

"The Neutron Biosuit XJ-10 line?" Jeremie was aghast with excitement, he delighted in the chance to dissect new programmable technology and this biosuit tech was enough for him to perfect his digitizer gadget. "This in incredible!"

"But this is experimental tech, only three of these things have been developed so far..." Tommy stated to the bargoers "and I want the other two subjects to count for something."

"Then give them to our kids." Woody walked up to the man of five masks "It's kind of our job to always be there when they need us. These gizmos and this series of loops we're planning to get the both of them looping is our way of saying that."

"So you wish to have Yggdrasil deploy you into a series of Fused Loops?" Jorgen Von Strangle, The most powerful fairy of his universe, pulled a huge stack of papers for the group. "All Loop Requests are to be submitted to your admins in writing?"

"But how do we know if Yggdrasil accepts the series?" Woody asked.

"leave a marker." a bloated skeleton in blue nonchalantly stated to the group of his fellow loopers. "a stamp of approval that says: 'hey, here's those loops you wanted' hidden away where you can find it."

"Wait, You can request Loops now!?" A tanned man in orange expressed awe at the revelation. "I wanna go to Toriko's branch, It has a bunch of food and recipes and stuff!"

"Depends on your Admin." The irritated blunette groaned. "Believe me, if it were that easy, I'd have a badass arsenal and washboard abs by now."

"and be sure to trace it in triplicate." sneered the lazy skeleton to the man in orange's discomfort. "c'mon, goku, if you know how to write part of a book, you should know how to write your name on several sheets of paper."

As the Saiyan champion let out a groan of immediate displeasure, Woody took a sheet and started writing away.

---

Skuld was marching with a bubbling irritation, a fury in her eyes aimed at a fellow admin for a potentially stupid idea. She kicked the door open and howled: "Request Loops!? Are you insane!?"

"Well, Hypnos said that if we could get to know our loopers more as people, we could have more incentive to repair each branch on a one-to-one level."

"Hold on a tic." Skuld waved her finger before pointing it at her fellow debuggers. "You were told by Hypnos?"

As if on cue, Hypnos was walking to his office with a glass of water in his hand, hoping he wouldn't get caught by who else but Skuld. He immediately darted as fast as he could, which, knowing Hypnos, meant nothing with the very lax sort of fellow he is compared to the head debugger of existence. "Come on. I just thought it'd be okay to take a few loop requests since, really, we don't get much work around here so we've invented ourselves this fun new system to see eye to eye with our charges n'-."

"I don't wanna hear another word," Skuld fumed. "Just get back to work while I think of a good way to punish you!"

"But what about Woody?" asked ? "He already filed his request for Bonnie and Andy and he would love to see the both of them looping. Maybe this series will kick them off like they did with Miele?"

"That's for Yggdrasil to decide. Always has been, always will." Skuld was willing to drop the hammer upon the fool. "Hypnos, wanna see something neat?"

---

"Okay, son. What do we do after we go potty?"

"Do we wash our hands?"

The sound of their laughter fills the air with cheers of 'We're number two!' soon following as Skuld leans towards Hypnos and grins. "Phone's the Anchor, New Punishment Loop, Alex and his emoji collection to follow suit, knock yourself out."

Snip 2: Toy Story that Time Forgot

This would be the last good night's sleep that I would spend in her bedroom, it was a couple days after Christmas and I had a great day with Mason. The Brand New Optimum X was a great time-waster especially with those space chairs that make you feel like you're in the game, but nothing beats the land of make-believe! This last night was one where I couldn't sleep, cause there was one toy that was missing: My Cowboy!

I checked everywhere in my Room I could before Mom told me to go to sleep. I tucked myself in and worried for about a minute before I heard a voice.

"Do not be afraid."

I glanced to and fro, and found a white plush cat atop my head that said, "I am only here for the Anchor."

"Anchor?" I asked, "for what?"

"For this small branch of reality." spoke the kitten as it leapt across the bed. "I am PhenBey, reader of the book of possibilities, and I come seeking the chosen anchor of this particular branch."

"Why? Is there something wrong that you need it for?"

"...something or someone has damaged Yggdrasil, the cosmic supercomputer that contains and runs the entirety or all reality." I was in shock! We all live in a super-duper computer? How incredible, that means God did make us special. "We were sent by its crew of admins and programmers to retrieve the various universes and find anchors in each one to put them into 'safe mode', time-looping until Yggdrasil can be repaired. This universe is nearing the end of its current loop and I still lack the anchor, but its designated administrator is absent and unable to activate any new loopers, at least not at this moment."

"I'll go!"

The kitten tilted its head towards my smile. "I'll be your anchor if it saves my world!"

"Are you sure, Bonnie?" PhenBey said. "Without an Admin to activate you, the only way to survive is to hide in a subspace pocket. You'd have to leave behind everybody to survive the loops that follow. You'd never see your mother again, and even if you did, she wouldn't recognize you."

"Whatever it takes," I said. "Anything to save the world."

"There's more problems," PhenBey said. "Without a looping body that can reset to normal after every loop, Time will take its toll upon-"

"That's great!" Miele said. "That just means I'm gonna get big in the loops!"

PhenBey's voice grew solumn, like it wanted to move on with its life. "But you will also deteriorate with age and inevitably die."

"I don't care," I said. "I'll get as old as I want to, and then see what happens when the loop ends."

"You really think so..." PhenBey said.

"Please, PhenBey," I asked. "I'm not ready to fade away. Not yet. Please?"

"...Fine," PhenBey said. "But there is a responsibility to it."

"Like what?"

"Well, for starters, there's the means of the rules of the road." PhenBey leaped into my arms before leaping onto the desk lamp. "For starters, you can only trust fellow loopers with certain exceptions, of course."

I glanced to the kitten "There are bad Loopers, too?"

"Very bad Loopers, many a Malicious Looping Entity want to ascend to godhood and destroy a Universe down to its data." PhenBey exposited. "Stay away from them for as long as you can."

"Got it!"

"Second rule, you must remain alive for as long as possible, so I put you on a mailing list to receive pharmaceuticals from InfoWars." Info...wha... "I know it gets a pretty bad rap from the establishment, but the meds they churn out are top notch."

"Guess I'll try them out when they come." I chuckled.

"Good. Third, be prepared for any fused loops. If the world is at least tangibly different, keep a level head on." PhenBey marched across the table as it continued. "Fourth, always keep your Subspace Pocket on your person, it's gonna protect you from the loop's closedown since you are unable to be activated at the moment."

"Question, Where is my pocket?" just as I brought it up, PhenBey zipped open to reveal "My Cowboy!"

"Yes. This Toy now holds your subspace pocket," spoke PhenBey as it lay still. "Do treat it with care."

"Thanks," I said as I willed myself into the pocket to find a full array of toys to play with, Figures, Play Sets, Cars, Airplanes, Boats, Spaceships, Toys and Games everywhere! It was a kid's paradise and this will be my home sweet home for the rest of my life!

"I'm going to love it here!"

Snip 3: Toy Story

My name is Andy.

This is the story of how I learned about the hollow joke of the Infinite Loops.

I suppose it all began with Bonnie, my odd childhood friend. More often than not, I find her in my house, heck, even my bedroom with little explanation other than that she was a friend. I played with her time and again in the magic closet which I've always believed to be the ever-so-spacey Attic.

I guess it began with my Birthday, she appeared with this weird card. She said it housed another world, but her way of saying its not for real amounts to 'You're not ready yet.'. So again, I put it in the Attic where it slowly gathered dust. Little did I know that this one game was a guide to the first of many adventures throughout my looping life.

---

I moved away to a new neighborhood with its own school, one that happened to have Bonnie enrolled in its student body. She was clinging to me like a lost puppy and offered me a spot in her elaborate play-dates with mom's old friend Lizzie to look upon us both.

"Oh, my gosh, aren't you just precious!" Her smile was that of a young maiden that had begun working to forfil the promise she was made from upon her birth. Lizzie was working at a day care for college credit as this was her last year for her master's degree, twas a repayment towards my Mom who babysat her in her youth and bonded over the years to become lifelong friends. "I so can not wait to have kids like you!"

"I'd like to bet on that!" Bonnie grinned from ear to ear as she held two thumbs up. "I bet you'll be a great mom!"

"You think so?!" gasped Lizzie.

"I guarantee it!" Bonnie's words brought a shine in the young woman's eyes.

---

It was a snow day, I was making a Snowman for my baby sister Molly and guess who turned up in snowboots and a fluffy coat. "Mornin' Partner!"

She then proceeded to toss a snowball at me. I immediately returned fire and we chased each other around the snow-covered park, only stopping when Bonnie tackled me and sent us tumbling down the Snowhill together. We stopped with our eyes locked onto one another, We exchanged a flustered blush and got up from our position.

---

Days turned into weeks and then turned into months and later on, years. Before I knew it, we were twelve years old and she was jumping up and down to get us rushing to the hospital with a translucent cube in her hand. She was looking for a baby that was born at an exact time at an exact date, and when that newborn child showed up in the nursery, Bonnie would open the cube.

"Come on... I've wanted to see you since the loop began." Bonnie was legitimately excited to see this one baby. The nurse showed up with a baby girl bundled up in a pink blanket. "She's writing down the name..."

"Bonnie, who exactly are you waiting for?"

"Proof, my dear Andy, of my new place in the world." Bonnie then smushed her face against the glass in time for the nurse to put the name onto the crib, the name written down made her smile all the wider! "It worked! It worked!It worked!It worked!It worked!It worked!It worked!It worked!"

"W-Wait!" She was doing a 'ring around the rosie' with me to the nursery window. "What worked? What are you talking about!?"

"Allow me to introduce to you and the world... Myself." Indeed the name on the newborn's crib read Bonnibel Lief Anderson, the exact full name that Bonnie blurted to her friends at school when she transfered in. "And it's all because of a broken-down space tree!"

"What!?" I gulped at the girl that was marching ever closer. "But this is real life!"

"Is it, Andy?" She then pulled out a Broomstick from Woody's pack pocket and then she sat upon it as it floated in the air. "Wanna hear the story."

I nodded in agreement, and thus she flew us back home telling me of how the World Tree Yggdrasil was broken and how it needed looping entities such as herself to keep each branch of the omniverse stable.

Did I mention that Woody was somehow acting as the door to the Subspace Pocket she lives in?

---

I marched over to Bonnie's house and got out 'Ol Woody as I rung the doorbell. Lizzie greeted me into her home to show me the one-year-old version of my best friend for us to babysit in order to grab a few extra bucks. I glanced to her and noted how she changed over the years, how her face was now sprinkled with a couple laugh lines. Her waistline had clearly lost its battle with age, a pot-belly left behind from her pregnancy. Her thighs had thickened to carry her larger frame. Her thick, brown hair was shorter and a bit duller than the first time she saw Bonnie. Speaking of which...

"Howdy!"

"Whoa!" Lizzie jumped backwards from the thirteen-year-old girl that had materialized from seemingly out of nowhere. "You've got to stop pulling this, Hun."

"'s no big!" Bonnie's face was the definitive proof that she has started the transition from an innocent little girl into an independent young woman with more than a few pimples dotting her face. Her head was looking shaping from a round to oval, her nose grew bigger and thinner, and her eyes were getting smaller and more mature. Her wirey, almost five-foot body was slowly but surely gaining definition, curving in the usual places. Even her cheery high voice was starting to slowly morph into a more mature sounding one. "So, what's the sitch?"

---

"X times 3 is 345 divided by 15." Bonnie's fourteen-year-old head was spinning at a mathematical complexity "Ugh! Come on, Bonnie, you are in eighth grade, you should know this by now!"

"Start with the other half." I said to her. "345 divided by 15 is..."

"Alright... 's at the tip of my tongue..." she was fiddling the free fingers of one hand and pressing the rear end of her pencil against her thin whispy lips that were just now starting to gain some volume to it. "Aha! Twenty-One!"

"And twenty-one divided by three?"

"Solid Seven!" Bonnie wrote it down onto her paper and let out a loud cheer. "This midterm's gonna be a piece of cake!"

---

"I wore this dress to my quincenera." Lizzie smiled to her three-year-old daughter as she twirled around with her sleeveless dress pressed against her oversized body. "Oh, the dancing, the food, the gentlemen, all so magical. I wonder if it still fits?"

"I don't think the dress can take it, Mrs. Anderson." I had gotten used to calling her Mrs. Anderson. "You've really let yourself go lately."

"Please, I'm not that bloated am I?" she grinned to her daughter.

"You big, mama." babbled little Bonnie, blissfully unaware of how people can grow and change over time both inside and out. "extra thik!"

And apparently unaware of memetic mutation.

"Well, just sit right there and all show you I still got it!" The mother rushed to her bedroom and prepared to change into the dress to my looming dread. "Lets see if I can squeeze into it... Oh! Hahaaah-ah!"

She continued to vocalize the situation for us for a while before a loud scream of exuberance signaled the current wearer to slide right in and cheers: "IT! STILL! FITS!"

"You pretty mommy!" Bonnie smiled at the fifteen-year-old girl that was secretly her future self, obviously falling for the 'ol younger adult as the parent trick. And who can blame her, her cheeks slimming, her nose thinning, lips filling, and her eyes and ears looked smaller on her bigger more oval-shaped head. From a certain angle, Bonnie's starting to look like a younger version of her mom but more agile and toned.

"And I owe it all to my best friend's fave treat: Peanut Butter AYDS!" I stared in shock, and "Y'know... A-Y-D-S, An appetite suppressant in the 80s. And this actually was a real thing, right before the big HIV Boom claimed a shmuckton of lives. They patented it, they packaged it, shipped it and slapped the name on a lunchbox for all to see, the shell was wrong with the 80s?"

Bonnie's Quincenera was certainly just as interesting as she was. Disco Balls, 80s synth, video arcades as far as the eye can see. She danced with me and held me close, smiling as we stepped to the rhythm of the song. The biggest mess came when she began to break dance, only to get her legs tangled in her flowing dress and land on her back. I let out a little chuckle as Bonnie frowned at her misfortune.

"No more dresses."

---

Our new motorcycles drive into the space with a big briney beach against a beautiful ocean floor, we kicked up their stands and got off the bikes to explore the sands of the seashore. We were both draped in denim and leather and made our way to the changing room so we could get our swimsuits, or rather... I went into the changing room and emerged to the sight of Bonnie without her jeans and shoes, but still clad in her jacket and helmet.

"Aren't you gonna get hot with all that on?" I asked. Bonnie shook her head and replied: "I'll take it off when I take it off!"

I had to ask: "Why?"

"Cause I got a surprise for ya!" smiled Bonnie as she provocatively strutted off.

"And what exactly is it?" I asked behind her back, and she responded: "You'll know when I show you."

I sighed as I looked for a place to set up my towel, only to find this square-jawed jock stud in my way. "If you want to get a taste of the grease truck, then get to the end of the line."

"Oh, I'm not in it for food." I clarified. "I'm just looking for space to put my towel."

"Then go!" The man shoved me into the sand for meatheaded beachgoers to mock and chuckle at. I sense Arrested Development in their dim-witted futures, and they were taking their frustrations on me.

"Hey!" Bonnie was out of her jeans and into a bikini bottom, the top being hidden under the jacket she was still wearing. "Let my buddy go!"

"Hey, lady, if he ain't bothering us, then we'll move on to bigger and better things..." The jock turned his attention to the girl in the jacket. "Like what's underneath that jacket of yours."

"Oh, you wanna know? What I've got underneath this slick little coat of mine..." She took off her Jacket and pulled up her helmet to reveal a curved sixteen-year-old hourglass figure showcasing curved hips and athletic waist. Her arms and legs sported feminine muscles as her biceps were bloating and her calves were bulging with years of jogging, push-ups, martial arts and kickboxing. Her hair was thick and long, almost to her mid back, and the face was resembling her mother more and more, the density of her legs certainly didn't help. Bonnie truly was becoming more like her mother every day, albeit more of a fighter. "A one-way ticket to 93 pounds of pain!"

She leapt over the jock in an acrobatic flip which led to an elbow to the back and a knee to the butt capped off with a sweeping kick to the heels.

"Alright, you asked for it!" The Jock's buddies all stepped forward and Bonnie responded with a Body Slam to one goon which seemlessly led to a sommersault headlock monkey-flip on another. A Jump-Kick against one more mook gave Bonnie the momentum for a leaping knee-kick against the main jock's chest.

"If you wanna come on me, well, you're just gonna have to beat me first!" Bonnie braced for further fighting, but I thankfully intervined and negotiated with them as to not have those guys call the cops and send Bonnie straight to juvie. "I could've held 'em off, y'know."

"Bon, as much as I would love to see you try," I stated in acknowledgement of how much of an ass the guy was. "you've got to hold off on the whole 'street fighter' shtick when you're in public."

"Well, I honestly would've love to, but I wouldn't let you go home with even a hair out of place." Bonnie chuckled. "We've been close for far too long to let anything happen now."

"Uh, em, Y-Yeah..." I gulped, my heartbeat quickening and star rod stiffening. "Y'know, I kinda see why you kept the jacket on, keeps the focus on 'what's inside' and all that stuff."

"And makes the fruit of all my hard work..." Getting closer to me, she reached her arms outwards as she began to wrap them around me. I couldn’t believe what was happening, and before I knew it I felt as her lips locked with mine as her tongue began to enter my mouth. She pulled away to get a good look at my flustered face. "...a surprise."

I let out a sigh and moved in to kiss her back, wrapping my arms around my childhood friend as she pressed me closer to myself. Our tongues intermingled and danced in each other's mouths, Bonnie pressing her perky breasts against me as we continued to exchange the most passionate kiss in our lives, feeling the giant soft globes squish onto my chest. I just couldn’t control myself as I felt my hands travel down as they explored her body, feeling the curves of her thin yet waved waist to her wide but supportive hips, cupping my hands and sqeezing onto her firm heart-shaped aaaaaahhh....

Right, Little Bonnie could be reading this... gonna need a distraction right now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty.

---

"A Trash Bag!?"

"We were out of boxes," I complained "I didn't expect Mom to throw them out behind my back!"

"I specifically told you to put bagged things In! The! Trash!" roared Mom. "If you wanted to save your toys, the least you could do is get another box!"

"From where?!" I asked "Molly made off with what few boxes we had left."

"Excuse me?!" Snarled Molly. "It was Mom that asked me to pack up some stuff for Sunnyside."

"It's not about boxes, Andy!" Mom corrected, "It's about following directions!"

Bonnie tried to get back into the conversation. "Mrs. Davis, I-"

"Don't you dare talk back to me that way, young lady!" Mom howled to my friend. "You and Andy might be the same age, but you're getting the same responsibilities, too!"

"Oh, so you're projecting Andy's mistake on me, too!?" Bonnie complained. "I am SOHOHOHOOO fracking FLATTERED!"

Mom was appalled "And that Language!"

"Belgium, I've just turned seventeen as well!" Bonnie put her long, dainty hands against her womanly hips. "I can say whatever I fracking please!"

"Not when you're in my house, you're not!" They continued to bicker and complain at each other, roaring incoherently in total annoyance with one another as a detached plastic eye witnesses the fiasco.

All seemed hectic til I heard Bonnie's voice promptly howl: "I was frozen today!"

A brief silence was immediately followed up by Bonnie's removal from the house. Bonnie decided to run to the Daycare to check for something, and that's how she managed to got my old toys back.

---

"Ho! Ho! Ho!" Cried my eighteen-year-old girlfriend with her pocket full of toys. "Merry Christmas!"

"Wow, look at all this!" little Bonnie was agape at the sheer critical mass of a special gift sent in from a fellow looper: A complete ten-year collection of the Toonami toy line, mint-condition, complete with playsets. "I'm not sure If I can get through all of this in one day."

"Don't you worry, kiddo." Bonnie grinned to her younger self. "I'll see to it that we all can all together!"

Little Bonnie cheered at the prospect of what will be the last time we would play together as this Christmas would be the end of the loop and with it, our time together, so I figured I'd endulge her one more time before the loop peters out. Goku and Yusuke firing away at each other. Lion-O and Kenshin clashing their blades. Sailor Moon zipping against Queen Beryl and her associate: the Wicked Lady on her sky sail. All with our own toys pooled in, we played together all day on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and a day or two after before little Bonnie goes to a playdate with her friend Mason and wraps up the loop.

Bonnie threw her body atop the bed and smiled. "Well Andy, now that we're all alone with the whole house to ourselves, what do ya wanna do first?"

"Well, there's this study on chemtrails bombarding our food, water, and air with metal particles like Zync and Aluminum." Andy got out a few papers. "Not exactly sure why our science teacher would want to burn this report, but It has sources that he can read up on."

"The builderborgs are out to eat us into extinction. I. Get. It." Bonnie summarized with a disinterested tone to her voice. "We can worry about their depopulation agenda at a Trump rally, but for right now... I think the mistletoe just chose for us."

I looked up and sure enough, I saw some mistletoe above Bonnie's head. Her body had long since evolved away from the bouncy half-pint of seven and the scrawny sprixie of twelve, now stood as a well-toned figure that curved in all the right places. Her face might have had a history of pimples dotting her face on the more stressful days of our high school years, but its as visible as any trace of her braces left in her mouth (read: none at all.) And for her patience she was rewarded with lips to kiss, sultry eyes, and an elegant nose. Her hair grew longer and was at the middle of her back and was shining a chocolate brown hue. Her bright red blouse and dark-green stretchpants complimented the holiday motif of that day and the neckline showcased the cleavage of her ample bussom, the way both played up the womanly physique she used to lure me ever closer to he. It worked as I got onto the bed and the both of us shared another deep kiss with each other.

"I don't... I don't want to let go..." sobbed Bonnie.

"Maybe we don't have to..." I suggested to my looper friend as my eyes darted to Woody.

Bonnie's personal Subspace Pocket.

Once she realized what her friend was thinking, Bonnie's expression of uncertainty shifted to that of tearful relief. "Andy, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for this."

And as we began slipping into her pocket for the end of the loop, she made a fitting offer in tone with the holiday season. "Will you... marry me?"

Snip 4: Calamity

I awoke in a pool of blue water, clinging to Bonnie in a rather primal fashion as a wise old man was making his way towards us.

Snip 5: Got B.O.? Get DIO

Snip 6: The Voyages of the Automata

Snip 7: See you soon...

"So everything and everyone in Textopolis is gonna keep repeating the same life over and over because this Yggdrasil's infected with space malware or something?" the young meh Emoji named Gene stared at the man in a blue shirt and white jacket. "You sure you're not a virus either?"

"Course not, I'm just here because the local Sheriff is undergoing a punishment loop here right now." He casually stated, "Bringing pocketed lifeforms into different loops are a big no-no, so the Admin people send them up here."

Gene glanced to the full bodied man. "And we're a punishment because?"

"The work of an Emoji is boring and repetitive." Gene could only reflect on those words in shame and agreement. "I bet ya wanna know how we all got here?"

---

It all started when a cowboy doll got an idea, an idea to have his new kid grow up alongside his old kid. So he lured the new kid into his pocket at the tail end of the loop, brought her out at the mouth's end: the past. This new kid, a girl, was rightfully scared at first, but as she spent more time with the old kid, a boy, she came to enjoy the time period she now calls her home and in time, she would come to love the old kid too. Time passed and children grow up, the boy of the past became a man and the future girl blossomed into a woman. And so the looped ended with both parties engaged and ready to be wed at the following loop, unaware of the fantastic life of adventure that awaited them.

Woody is reminiscing about the times he's spent watching Andy and Bonnie live their lives together, playing in Woody's pocket, growing up, getting married, having adventures, and weathering old age.

"...see you soon."

---

"The loop ended on a wednesday," The man on the bench said to the emotional emoji "both man and wife lived to their limits, and the sheriff got sent into a new punishment loop."

"That apparently where our loop comes in." Gene sighed to himself and looked over to the odd Multifaced Emojis with full bodies like Jailbreak. "Just lock the pockets and keep them in the same job over and over."

"And that's all I have to say about that."

Other Snips

• Bonnie is repeatedly looping with only one year in her timeline, maybe two, and it's irritating her to no end.
• The ending of Toy Story 3, except with the looping Andy finding out that Bonnie is finally looping.
• Bonnie is studying was to bump up her age and catch up with Andy
• Bonnie encounters her first fused Loop in the Woo-Foo branch which happens to be Lena's activation. Bonnie comes across the Chronologicum

User: Chronologicum, (Me and you/Hear my plea/as we now bore)

Channel the years of us souls two/swap the age between we three/let his time flow into us four

Turn (Him/Her/Them/Me/Us) older, grant (Him/Her/Them/Me/Us) youth.

Use your powers and (Now) Forsooth!

Our youth and age will now univil

Chronologicum: Thans for using me for Evil!

• Bonnie begins work on her college application as she tests the Chronologicum on her mother.

DragonBall re:Creation

Franchises

• DragonBall (Shuesha, Akira Toriyama)
• Ojamajo Doremi (Toei Animation, --)

Arc One: Serial Tuner

• Episode 1: Space Oddity

The episode begins with a trial for a man who dragged the Mahou Dou. Thirteen Years Ago, the government has established a research and assistance organisation for the safety and well-being of alien lifeforms made from a cosmic substance named Acrylix that are pulled into the real world at an earlier point in their timeline, as well as the sustenance of the planet as the strain on the fourth wall is a fickle thing indeed. This is the story of Andy Davis, an assistant teacher straight out of college who has been deemed

• Episode 2:

The End of Kingdom Hearts

Riku's Destiny

Riku and Aqua now stand before god, the only two Original Characters left from the Dark Seeker Saga. Riley, Yen-Sid, Eraqus and Masako charge in afterward.

God: So you came.

Riku: Yes, because of what you've done... To me and my friends!

God: Oh? You blame me for other people's actions?

Xehanort: Not just that! You created Kingdom Hearts! You created the x-blade! You created the gazing eye that ruined infinite lives if not destroying them outright and for what? So that some parasite could get a philosopher's stone!

God: To be fair, it was you, good Tiptarius, that created the Gazing eye to augment your No Name keyblade with the power to see the future.

Tip: Yeah, but do you have any idea how long it took to concoct a work-around for my pupils and every damn clod with a keyblade to make it all the way here!?

God: If you would just listen to the reasoning for this journe-

Tip: No, you listen! I had to get Ava to fling boatloads of them into the future to avoid the destruction of your petty little war that plenty of us tried to prevent despite the obvious timeline etching you caused!

God: If I let things go on as usual without the influence of my sin on the continuity, you wouldn't have gotten up your hide and gone through all these obstacles in your efforts to make the world a better place.

Tip: What world? This is my first ever visit to the real world and it's a fracking table underneath a silver dome!

God: I understand your disappointment with the root of all creation but I assure you, Kingdom Hearts is the go-to place for all your cosmic needs. All you need is a willing participant in a game of mi-.

Riku: I'll go. (We zoom in on the last character standing from the original trio from Destiny Islands) I'll play the godly game... and knock that smug smile off your face within one final minute.

God: ...will you, now?

Riku: (Nodding) Because I've seen the suffering of my friends firsthand, I've seen them live their lives, I've watched them die for your tragedies, I've sat there to see every source of hope I held dear get torn away from me left and right, I've pieced together the storyline you wrote for this purpose! It proves you exist, and therefore you don't.

God: (The glass of Kingdom Hearts begis to crack as his sandwich-eating hand begins to degrade in poligonal structure....) no....

Riku: For the proof begets fact!

God: Nooo...

Riku: Fact negates Faith!

God: NOOOOOOO!!!

Riku: And without faith, You're nothing! (The glass case containing the Kingdom Hearts cosmology shatters as each and every world starts polygonally deleting themselves.) QED.

(The flat world surrounding the Crystal Fortress sees all the souls condense into the tip of its center spire as the castle begins to fall apart while the terrain below degrades into a mess of polygonal shapes)

God: Oh dear... (His mask deletes itself to reveal the face of Douglas Adams) I hadn't thought of that...

(So god and all that he had directly created immediately vanish in a puff of logic.)