Homestuck Loops
From Accct Wiki
Midnight Crew
Loop M1
Alpha
Loop A1
Your name is JANE. And you find yourself back in your humble little room and in your skinny teen body.
====–> Look around for your objects
You dig for your handy stirring solution and -
====–> Check Pesterchum
Archie Games
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Commissioned by Archie to Square Enix in 2006 as a means to get Ken Penders away from Sonic, Birth by Sleep is a comic set ten years in the past to appease Nomura's strict grip on Sora and his gang. It features Terra, Ventus, and Aqua as the lead characters designed by Nomura himself as a specific guideline for Penders and company. He then re-designed Terra and Aqua to resemble how they'd look on the day Sora was born. created four additional characters, half of which based on Sega Properties. A black boy named Lekz, a latina girl named Pyrhha, an Echidna named _ and a Nightmaren named Twilight. They travel across all sorts of Disney Worlds. Illustrated by Alan Sullivan
- Issue 1: Welcome to the Jungle
- A young girl named Madoka Quentira is swept off her feet by a dashing rogue named Terra Ende and takes her in as an apprentice.
Pixar Loops
a bug's life
Flik is Awake
"I'M LOOOOOOOST!!!" Flik's eyes snapped open to find that there's suddenly a pile of food where it wasn't before, there's a harvester on his back, and his mind was commanding him to fetch food for Hopper. But wasn't he-?
Was that a dream?
Clearly it was, what with the circus bugs and the travelling cracker box. So he wisely chose to lay his pack aside and do it the old-fashioned way as to not disrupt the offering.
Hopper
'It was bad enough that he had to see Hopper's ugly mug every snapback...' Flik thought to himself as he felt the added mass of his body. 'But to end up as a Grasshopper, let alone part of his gang?!'
"Flik, this better be good!" sniped Hopper, as bitter as ever.
"Ah... Well, you see..." Flik struugled to get the words out as he cued up his new contraption. "Using rose-petals, some silk string and the Earwax on all the q-tips I've found, I managed to engineer a harvest moving contraption to assist the colony."
"Ain't it cute... do you hear that, boys?" Barked Hopper to the rest of his gang, taking interest in the moment. "Pickleboy here wants to help the ants!"
Flik heard the laughter of his 'fellow' grasshoppers before Hopper proceeded to tear his hard work apart. "It's NEVER about the food! If they EVER get it through their THICK little thorax that they OUTnumber US, it's OVER!!!"
Hopper was thrashing about in front of the innovative (currently) grasshopper who wanted to help until Molt restrained him to the best of his ability, Flik could only watch as the two brothers struggle with their values, the elder of which recalling his promise to his mother and holding back his fists.
At least Flik knew what to do when the Grasshoppers show up next time.
Kairi and the Lecture Pill
"I'M LOOOOOOOST!!!"
There he was, back at that one harvest for the upteenth time, having lived for far longer than any ant should have. He retraced his steps, did all he could to keep himself in the part he played where it all began.
"No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
Speaking the same words. Doing the same things. Acting the same ways. Meeting the same faces.
"What did you do?"
Making the same mistakes.
"Where's My Food!"
Atta struggled to explain herself to the worst boss he ever had thus far. "Are you sure it's not up there?"
"Are you saying I'm stupid?" Hopper deadpaned to which Atta shook her head. "Do I look. Stupid. To you?"
Hopper did his spiel, taught Atta the 'first rule of leadership', burst in anger from the mentioning of birds, and delivered his usual ultimatum.
"If you don't keep your end of the bargain, then I can't guarantee your safety." reminded Hopper. "And there are insects out there that will take advantage of you, Someone could get hurt."
With a snap of his fingers, in came Thumper. Flik promptly mobilized when Dot was to introduced to the feral insect, moved back in line but he noticed an odd detail when he made the commission of double the usual order before the last leaf falls. "You look like you've seen a ghost."
"How..." Atta piped. "How are you even here!?"
"I think you know the answer to that..." Hopper grinned sinisterly, "Let's Ride!"
And thus, the Grasshoppers were on their way home, leaving Atta in a stir.
"Not sure why, But I had thoughts of when I was queen." pondered the Princess, still in apparent shock in what she just saw. "We stood up against Hopper, Hopper was gone, Circus bugs abound- actually, that adds some credens to all of that being a dream..."
"Having a bad day?" Atta looked behind her to find a light-pink worker ant with a flat sheet of stone lined by small rod-like pebbles at the bottom.
"Oh, uh... Yeah," Atta began to collect her composure and focused on the harvest. "First came a flash of ...impossible ideas."
"Not for long..." whispered the pink ant.
"Then I hear from the Grasshoppers that our harvest fell down the river..." Atta grew more and more uneasy and panicked before grasping the subject's shoulders "Now we have to provide double our order to a gang of grasshoppers lead by an Insect I saw get eaten by birds!!"
"Hold on, Hold on, Hold on." Flik scattered to make eye contact with the Princess. "You're repeating the same summer, too?"
"Oh, so that's why I turned up here this Loop..." the young ant just sighed as she pulled a droplet from her thorax (certain ants saying that it just magically appeared from thin air.) "May a princess Dorothy please step forward."
"Oh! My friends call me Dot." answered the younger princess.
"Not when this thing's through with you." Kairi then hands the little ant the drop "Suckle on this, if you please."
And Dot promptly suckled the fluid into her body, sensing a faint tingly sensation. "And how will this make me any-" and then it kicked in, initiating a change in Atta's younger sister "Wubba-Lubba Dub-Dub!"
The echo in the colony was heard near and far, but the reaction that ensued towards her current body gained the ire of the new consciousness. "Really had to be something this small... No matter, The lifespan of a mayfly's short enough. How do you do, I'm Rick Sanchez, not the genuine article, but an extension of his intellect, personality and consciousness made through specific chemicals known to simulate the proportionate aging process of a mayfly for eleven minutes, more than enough for a quick look into the multiverse."
"Wait, M-Multiverse?" piped Flik. "You mean what's beyond the colony."
"A hell of a lot farther than you think." Dot's wings had grown in by that point and thus allowed her to take flight for an illustration of the great tree that marked the colony. "Picture our great tree but, like eleventy-bajillion and infinity-fourteen times larger and with a supercomputer!"
"That's Yggdrasil and it's broken." Dot continued to lecture the ants on the subject of how the tree could have been damaged, the nature of Loopers and a brief detour into the aging of a mayfly as defined by a Robot Chicken comedy sketch over the course of almost nine minutes. All the while the growth of the little princess became more and more noticeable to the colony, her appendages lengthened, Thorax widened, and her face lost plenty of her innocence as even her voice matured into something that could easily be mistaken for the worker ant that gave her the droplet to begin with.
"And now that you know the intel, the chemicals will evacuate. Graaaaaass... Tastes bad." a yellow droplet fell to the ground beneath her legs and Dot promptly snapped out of her trance, her freckles being the only indicator that she was who she was. "Okay, why is everybody staring at me like tha-"
Her elder sister looked in shock at her little sister who was now almost as grown as she was, said younger sibling clutched her throat in shock. "Why do I sound like Kairi?"
- Mayfly aging = .8 years per minute
- 6 years x .8 years per minute = 4.8 minutes
- (30 mins = 24 years) - (7 years = 5.6 mins) = (17 years = 13.6 mins)
- 13.6 mins - 4.8 mins = 8.8 minutes
Monsters Inc.
Sora gets an idea
Sora had Looped into Monsters Inc. as an intern and he'll be the first to admit, the mailroom is a decent and yet rather slow start to his temporary career. Today was different, for today was during the age of the Laugh Floor where comedy is typically king and the monster behind this magic is none other than James P. Sullivan whose longtime friend Mike Wazowski was the resident Anchor of this Loop.
"Sora, Three days before the end of the Loop." Mike chimed to his Looping senior as he popped his eye into the mailroom. "Anything special you wanna do to round off your stay here?"
It was there that Sora had an idea. "Yeah, can I tuck Boo in on the last night."
"Only if you're good." Smiled Mike as he slid back off to his next door, already were there gears turning in Sora's head. An idea was there for a surprise gift in honor of a day to come.
The time inevitably arrived and he had minutes to spare with the child so Sulley was watching Sora like a hawk of sorts.
←Boo→
←Boo is unpocketed during Sora's childhood.→
Finding Nemo
Curious
Marlin swam about his as he left Nemo to the Dropoff. Ever since he's been let in on the Loops by his son, he had to roll with the punches like with today's helping: Basic Fish Biology.
"So 'Martha', how's the weather down there?" His words pierce with relatively astute accuracy as she let out an embarrassed sigh.
Evolution
Up
Foreward
Ellie's Character Arc going from 'You're not powerless, you can do whatever you want if you just put your mind to it.' 'You're not all-powerful, you don't always have agency and there are things about your life today, roles you fill and things you do, that won't be here forever. It's up to you how to deal with it, but whether or not you like it, change is happening.'
Kinship with a Companion
The Doctor was loving the Unified Timeline Loop he found himself in, mainly because Yggdrasil had cobbled all the Disney branches together ever-so haphazardly as was to be expected of what were built to be standalone films. Some connections made sense, some did not, but it's a computer generated mass Fusion of Branches so you'd expect a few hiccups in terms of how it jumps through all the necessary hoops.
"You know, you don't talk much... I like you!" a girlish voice chirped that attracted the Time Lord's attention as the spry little source of the sound darted back home with a playful smile. He kept up with the child as he had but recently gotten used to the first of his regenerated forms but made sure to hide away from her sight at any opportunity before he stepped on a tree branch and the cracking sound made the girl freeze in place and take note of her surroundings before skipping along her way...
Before punching a magazine-reading hobo in the face. "Who dares?"
"I dare mister!" the girl asserted as the Hobo backed slowly to the doors of a blue police box. "You're looking pretty suspicious and I wanna get to the bottom of it!"
"Well, ah..." The mopheadded fellow struggled to think of something until an idea hit him. An idea that echoed words that he had heard from a purple-haired princess at a pub he visited with like-minded 'time lords and ladies' "What if I told you that the universe is broken."
"Somebody better fix it!" the girl chimed.
"There are people that are acting to fix it," smiled the ol' chap. "and the means of how are... well, that's why we're here, isn't it."
The girl tilted her head with intrigue before the chap opened the doors to reveal an incredible sight: An ivory-white room with circular windows to more white housed a six-sided typewriter of sorts as a whirring glass column gleemed in the distance. She stepped closer and closer to the Console with the gentleman rolling out a great oak from out of nowhere as he spoke: "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
"It's... Tardy?"
The man smiled. "That's one way to name your Type Fourty TARDIS, yes. I'm the Doctor, by the way, and you are?"
"I'm Ellie!" the youngling chimed back to the Doctor. "Nice to meet ya!"
"It's nice to see you too, wee lass." The Doctor shook her hand before tending to his console. "Now, Onward and Outward, Further up and Further in! Off we go!"
---
The TARDIS re-materialized in front of Ellie's house in the morning hours as promised back when they were off in England before heading to the Moors. Ellie skipped on out of the
-2 and Ellie-
Love between companions
"So we've been keeping up this corny punching contest of ours ever since," Smiled Ellie, now a maid of sixteen, as she talked of her provincial life since her prior adventures with the Doctor, whom she didn't recognize until she saw the ageless spirit within the cosmic hobo she had known from childhood beneath the towering mass of teeth and curls that came to visit from outside her window. "You know it's funny... I thought I outgrew you but... that's kinda moot considering, eh..."
"Naw, don't worry, little one." Ellie eyed the man with the added ease that comes from a reduced height gap that made her taller than the Hobo of her youth, a realization that made the man he was right then and there reword his responsible. "Erm, young lady. No matter what changes, we're still roughly the same in terms of what makes us who we are..."
"Ellie-girl!" a howling western voice rung in the winds. "Ya better go git the trash out!"
"AHM COMIN', PA! DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT ME!" Ellie addressed with a louder texan tone before going back to the slight one she addresses the Time Lord with. "One moment, please."
Ellie marched off to do her housework, picked up the filled bag to drop it off in the metal can when she found the Doctor standing by the sidewalk lining the yard outside her door. Leaning by the TARDIS and waiting for her, a wide grin welcoming her with a gleeful "Where to first?"
"Well, I'm learning about King Arthur, so why not go to Camelot?" Ellie walked to the trash can as a young man hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce. "Then again, I really wanna go to South America so badly..."
"America, but south. Got it." The Doctor noted.
"And I know how much you hate lawlessness, so let's go rob some robber barroOOOWWWW!!" She began swearing up a storm out of the piercing pain of stepping on the bottom of a bottlecap. "Son of a... FUCK!"
The Doctor grew concerned for his companion as the hiding man readied his fist. "You need anything?"
"No thanks." Ellie shook her head, inadvertently causing her haircurls to come off to set loose her luxurious locks. "I got this. Just set the co-ordinates and we'll be on our way."
"Right, then." The Doctor walked right into the TARDIS before peeking out to point to a hidden figure. "You might want to bring a friend along."
"Who?" Ellie turned to see the lanky young man as he stood agape of how beautiful she was. She looked to him with a wily glare as he looked to his clenched fist, causing him to shrug and promptly punch himself.
"Holy crow." It was all he could say to the room inside the small booth as his childhood friend and his homeroom teacher fiddled with the controls.
-4, Carl and Ellie in the post-Disney Era-
Married Life of Companions
-6, Carl and Ellie in the Eisener Era-
Willing Life of Companions
-8, Carl and Ellie in the Iger Era-
Charmed Life of Companions
-10 visiting Carl and Ellie for The End of Time-
Coco
Disney Adminspace
- Janus (Head of the Disney Loops, Admin to Disney, Kingdom Hearts, Others)
Meeting Fontus
Janus looked to the overwhelming list of Branches that were available to him, in awe of how many branches were active as of this particular branch. He hadn't had this much on his plate since the
DDLC
Do you even lift, bro?
Natsuki sipped her coffee alone, thinking of the outside world and the omniverse at large compared to herself. Sure, she is getting
Designated Guardian
Another day, another walk to school to be interrupted by a phone call (which truly meant something if Monika had to use her phone as a 'phone') and sure enough, Natsuki heard the signature ringtone of the Club President and received the news over the line. "A Chaperone? As in a teacher to oversee the goings-on!?"
"I know, right?" Monika complained to the smallest of her cohorts "I never thought we'd find ourselves with a teacher at this school."
"It's funny, Y'know..." ponded Natsuki as she bit into her Cinnamon Pop Tart. "We're part of a school setting, yet we never spent actual time in a legitimate class."
"Mainly because Sayori, Yu-chan and us... We're usually the only ones here..." Monika glanced to Natsuki as she popped in a cassette of B.E.R. music. She began jogging to the schoolyard, thinking that the exercise would help her to an extent (as opposed to just thinking and appearing in the classroom.) Within eleven minutes, she made it there in time to change her shoes. Off in class, their new homeroom teacher: Juüsan-Sensei, seemed right at home in their setting but there was an added sense of not necessarily belonging there.
"Now, let's rap about Rosa Parks! A strong independent woman who fought for the rights of her people!" A wide grin appeared on her face as she dived deep into the history of a country they don't care much about, seeing as how they're just code and programs in a game file.
"So, that new teacher likes to talk a lot, and I do mean Alot." Natsuki rolled her eyes to the lecture before whispering directly to Monika "You think that she's our new chaperone?"
"There's a chance."
Later that day, it was time for the Literature Club meeting and everyone waited at the door since Monika did not have the key for the Loop. The sound of footsteps began to reach the five students and got louder and louder as the teacher approached the
Wonder
"I've never been one to pray, but I figured that coming up here on my knees would do the trick since you are a god... of sorts..." The manlike mass of teeth and curls kneeled before the stained glass of the church windows, hoping to get an answer to his prayers. "Zurvan, If there's one thing I want to know that I can get across here, it's this: Is my TARDIS Looping?"
The wind blew, no answer.
The light glowed through the window, no answer.
The Doctor dived deep into his innermost subconscious, no answer.
"Some other time, perhaps..." The Doctor got up and stood before his fellow churchgoers, quiet as a mouse, before walking out to return to his TARDIS with a concerned look on his face. If the TARDIS was just as alive as he was, couldn't Zurvan just activate the old girl as soon as possible? There certainly was so much to explore for the Time Lord in his own backyard, But what happens when the wonders of home run out?
The Doctor walked past a tiny wooden shop in Manhattan, gaining his attention. "How can that be? How can a little wooden block be so enduring? How can this store still be here in a city of steel!?"
The Doctor opened the door to an incredible sight.
WiXoss
Ruko and Tama
Ruko blinked.
Ruko looked to her hands.
Ruko found the LRIG that brought her quite a few victories in the past.
Ruko saw that she was in her pajamas instead of her school uniform.
"Ru..." Her voice. Tama's voice.
She fell out of her chair in shock which gave way to befuddlement towards having been sitting in her chair all of a sudden, then in came her loving grandmother and her worried tone. "I heard a crash! Oh, no. Are you hurt?"
"No, no. I'm fine." assured Ru, wanting to get back to Tama as soon as she can.
"Did you fall out of your chair?" Her grandmother asked.
"Yeah... but that okay..." Ruko felt her parental guardian coddle her fondly. "I just got back together with an old friend."
"Oh... That's nice, dear."
Meta-Game
Ruko were at the card shop digging for booster packs, looking through the banlist on her smartphone.
"Just when I thought Duel Monsters couldn't get any weirder, Konami pulls this convoluted tripe!" complained a regular player in the tournament scene. "I mean, yeah. We really wanted a second Extra Monster Zone with our independent Pendulum Zones back, but if we have to put up with this?!"
Ru looked to the boarderless card in his hand and merely backed away as he kept on complaining. It felt weird that Wixoss wasn't a thing and yet Selector Battles were, but the fact of the matter was that there were still innocent lives to save from the system.
"So Pendulum Monsters go into the LRIG Zone as Life Cloth, then it goes into an ENER Zone before being sent to the graveyard." Ruko's confusion with the added complexities in the mechanics that LRIGs and ARTS add into the metagame.
"Yeah, but you can still pendulum summon them automatically from the LRIG Zone." Explained the clerk at the shop. "At least it disqualifies Pendulums from the Extra Deck..."
"I feel ya." Sighed Ru before thinking to herself. "No repeat can top the weird factor of this."
Tama and Ruko
This repeat, however, could.
Mayu looked to her daughters, Tamashiro and Kuroyuki, and smiled fondly as they played Wixoss with each other. Flinging down cards and reciting the effects they choose to call forth, overall having a good time. She remembered when she was sealed off in that small doorless room, how she was rescued by UN Forces and nursed back to health. That was 20 years ago, now she has moved on from her period of isolation and started a humble life at a card shop. But she started to notice that her little Tama was talking with a single card: an LRIG as they are called.
She knew not the importance of that card, so she passed it off as just another childhood quirk.
"Oh, Ruko..." she sobbed. "The repeats really h-h-hurt..."
"It's alright, Tama. It'll be over before you know it." Ruko grasped her fist from within the Card. "On the plus side, you could see this as a trial run for being human."
Tama smiled. She knew her friend's ambitions well and she wanted to reach them alongside her. But the wait was quite the struggle in of itself as for right now, she had to contend with- "Donk!"
Kuro dunked her head into the cereal with an arrogant pride much to their mother's annoyance. "Kuroyuki, stop teasing your sister. You both need to look presentable for picture day."
Nanago and Nodoka
The Doctor has seen plenty of Fused Loops since the time of his activation, more often than not his Time Lord physiology would be nullified by Yggdrasil to fit the universe he had been pidgeonholed into. Thankfully, his TARDIS had followed him in for this Loop in a sense. Here, she plays the role of his wife: Idarisu Kurebayashi, and together they act as caretakers to her brother's fraternal twin children Yuzuki and Kazuki. Under the in-Loop guise of Nanago Kurebayashi, the Doctor toils on with a Powerpoint Presentation for a pitched project he needed to propose to Zurvan and other Admins (Manifesting in the mortal plane as investors.) in order to get her Looping.
"Kids, Dinner!" Hollared Ida-sama (As the unAwake Nanago often called her) as the twins strolled out of their rooms and sat by their plates. "Thank you for letting me cook for you this night."
"By all means, I can only hope to match mother's cooking." Yuzuki pushed her fork and knife into the steamed Chicken Parmesan her aunt had cooked for her. "Trying yours will maybe answer a few questions I have for you."
She took a bite into the white meat and chewed away as Nanago chimed in with a question. "I happen to be wide Awake if you're feeling a tad bit Loopy, y'know."
"No, it's fine." Yuzuki uttered with her mouthful. "Just having this weird case of Deja Vu is all..."
A knock on the door can be heard nearby which gains the attention of Yuzuki. "Oh, there's someone I'd like you to meet today."
"Ah, yes... Miss Ruko Kominato, is it." Nanago raised his brow. "Go on ahead and invite her in."
"Okay, Uncle Nana." smiled Yuzuki.
"Allow me." Kazuki opens the door to reveal his sister's newfound friend walking into the house. She had a wide smile which then faultered for a moment before she made her bow of honor.
"I hope you don't think I'm intruding on you two!" She barked to the legal guardians of sorts.
"Not at all!" Smiled the fellow in the tan coat and plaid cardigan, laying his black-pants covered legs on the ottoman underneath the table. "In fact, I've reason to believe that you rubbed off on my wee little niece."
Ruko jumped when the strange man her memories told her was Yuzuki's uncle Nanago pulled out a Wixoss card which contained the living LRIG of a Selector "She might have gone Loopy so to speak."
"Hanayo!" Yuzuki's voice cracked at the sight of her LRIG.
"How did you get that card!?" panicked Ru as they saw the living lady in the confines of the card.
"Checked her room at about midnight, noticed a moving picture on the paper-thin cardboard." The gentleman spoke as he laid it onto a nearby napkin laid beside Yuzuki, a knowing look in his eyes. "If anyone believes that I don't recognize a quantum organism storage unit, then they have another thing coming."
"Quan-ti... Orgy..." Tama was being lost in the lengthy words while her patron Selector called him out. "How do you know, are You a Selector?"
"No, not in the usual sense." Glanced the man as he picked up something from out of nowhere before looking to his wife and smiling. "Go on, back with you with our little Kazoo."
Kazuki was flusted by the coddled old chestnut of a nickname that uncle Nanago pulled out of mothballs. "Oh, come on, pops. I thought you wouldn't use that again."
"But to me, You'll always the wee little Kazoo we knew from your father's care. Now go, I've this moment with your sister and her friends to deal with." Thus, they vanished up the stairs for the night, leaving the good man with the youths. "I take it you've been feeling time repeating itself within your little corner of existence?"
"You know about the repeats!?" yelped Ruko in shock to Yuzuki's surprise.
"You mean to tell me the thing with Hanayo wasn't a dream-!" panicked the young Looper. "And that she really did steal my body in the future!?"
Hanayo stood silent in her card as it lay on the napkin, waiting to be returned to the hand of her Selector.
"I've waited a long while to pull out this little thing." Nanago pulled out a videocassette from his coat and from his pants pocket - a rolling AV Cart with a potato battery powering the electrical units. "I've taped a few of these during a unique more... Unique Loop in my life."
He inserts the tape into the VCR to cause the screen to display a sort of ailen presidential seal. "The following is a Public Service Announcement on behalf of the Gallifreyan High Council."
It looked like 80s Cheeze spewed through the lens of fast food service, yuppie culture, and exercise tapes all tied together with an ironically terrible rap song.
"Yes, I made it intentionally cringe-worthy to distract from the hidden truth of the matter." Leaned Nanago as he pulled a strawhat from his coat pocket and placed it atop his head. "Filming this was quite the hoot if you ask me."
Yuzuki and Ruko jumped with surprise. "You recorded for a president!?"
"I was the president. See." Nanago pointed to a charming young man around his early thirties with blonde mop of hair on his head and clad in a white edwardian cricketer outfit. "Had the proper mindset for a... relatively peaceful reign at that time."
The man on the screen laid down his copy of Wonders of Undeath: One Zombie's gripping struggle against Epcot and caught a cricket ball in his hand with a smile on his face. "So you noticed that you've seen this same game, same occasion, same memory once or twice before at a point. Well, either you're in a rut you need to get out of or it's because of this: Yggdrasil."
The screen then showed an abstract structure of data and fiberglass, code and holoscreens, time and space as it shifted in flux. "We Time Lords are limited to our own particular universe and the only way we know of the wider tree at large is from the Infinite Time Loops system."
"Hold on, are you talking about time travel?" asked Ru to which Nanago nodded in confirmation. They proceeded to sit through the tape and observe the history, logistics and terminology that went in the world that they've stumbled upon that evening. Before they knew it, the tape was about to reach the closing credits.
"Follow these rules and try out these tricks and I am certain that you'll do just fine." The gentleman tips his hat and smiles. "Thank you and remember to keep your sanity at the door."
"So, getting the idea, little ones?" smiled Nanago to the two girls and their LRIGs.
"That guy on the video, in the cricket gear..." Yuzuki then pointed to her uncle. "Is it really-?"
"Mnyess, In a sense, he is, isn't he? Nothing another one of these can't solve." Nanago chuckled chipperly as he promptly pulled another tape from his coat pocket.
It was labeled 'Regeneration: It's only natural!'
Fire Tama
"Now, grow!" Ruko stacked onto her base card as Tama felt the surge of power flow through every cell in her body. She was now clad in a firey red ensamble and the aura of the sky above her patron selector turned a bloody crimson color, indicating that Tama had swapped colors with her enhancement for the turn.
Ruko plays two SIGNI and sicced them both on their opponent, Tama channelling their power into her attacks.
Recovery of an MMO Junkie
Hiyashi
Hiyashi blinked.
Hiyashi glanced side to side.
Hiyashi stepped forward and reached to the sky.
"What is this... feeling..." Hiyashi could feel the wind in his hair and the calmness of the morning on his skin. He ran into the dungeon headfirst as if something was controlling him, something far away from his reach causing his exact movements. "Whoa! Stop!"
But no matter what he intended to do, he was stuck following a sort of script and he didn't have a damn thing on him, as if his entire inventory just up and vanished.
Pain.
A straight-up brutal uppercut to the jaw, at least where the jaw would have been had it not for Hiyashi jumping upward like an idiot to inevitably respawn above an enormous steel rod that he would land legs out onto before slumping onto the floor in searing pain for all to point and laugh at/pray for
"Rest in peace."
Moriko Morisato's eyes were glued to the screen as she waited for her character to move. How could a character retain stun lag after a killscreen?! Has she really lost her touch? Did she underestimate the differences between Fruits and her departed haunt?
"That's weird." Moriko spotted a speech bubble with a message displaying: 'He punched me in the dick. Why? Why did he punch me in the dick?'
"Is this a cutscene engine thing?" Moriko fought through the migraine and watched on, waiting for her avatar to recover to a point where he could get up.
"Hey there, are you okay?"
It was her voice, an angel's voice. He had to act casual in front of her, so he did. "Yeah, ah... I'm okay. I'm just stuck on a quest, I keep dying and falling back here."
"Oh, I get it now." the young girl greeted to a composed Hiyashi and an obsessive-looking Moriko.
"She's so cute!"
Moriko Plays
"That's weird," exclaimed Moriko, her browser at the install screen of Fruits de mer to sign up for the MMO. "It says I already have an account, but that can't be right, can't it?"
She clicked the icon on her desktop, logged in and sure enough, there was the character she apparently made: "One hot guy character, there he is exactly as I wanted right about now..."
Nervous to take control, she fiddled with controls to see how he moved as a character with this keyboard of hers. "He moves alright, I guess..."
It felt strange, as if he was already fine tuned to her liking, like she's played this game before...
Another day, another geocide cult crashing a Loop under the noses of its Anchor. Zurvan sipped his coffee as he sat in his chair, unaware of what Yggdrasil was to thrust upon him.
"Zee, you there!?" Hermes rushed to his office with a dossier in his hands. "We got another one! A freakin' PC is Looping!"
Zurvan ignored the messenger god and went back to observing the Doctor, who has started showing a tape to new Loopers that featured footage from inside of Yggdrasil filmed by Madoka and passed to the patron Anchor of his Branch.
"Zurvan, this neet's computer is Anchoring a whole honkin' Branch!" Hermes complained. "How do you deal with that!?"
"Ask Heppers, he's more equiped for troubleshootin'..." Zurvan returned to his seat and kept typing away with Thoth to ask if he could take in the WiXoss branch.
Moriko Watches
Hiyashi was killing it for his guild, dancing sommersaults and backflips around big-level bosses with his fully capped level to the amazement of the others. Right that moment they were going up against a powerful boss and faring quite well having chipped away at its health to a surprising extent.
"Bring it home, buddy!" Kanbe restrained the Boss with his fellow guildmates as Hiyashi made a mad dash towards the fowl beast.
"Smile, ya son of a bitch!" The virtual fighter thrust his blade into the bossmonster, causing it to explode into a riptide of light and magic much to the celebration of clearing such a high-level mission.
"That was incredible!" cheered Lily. "I'm impressed, Hiyashi!"
"How'd you get so freakin' good?" Asked Kanbe.
Hiyashi merely shrugged and smiled with a humble tone to his voice: "I guess it's all in how I practice..."
Lily could do little more than oggle at her long-time internet friend. "I'm glad that you've come so far."
Hiyashi looked to her eyes and smiled. "It's all thanks to you."
"They took meh jerb..." A drunken Moriko whined as she cleaned her carpet, robbed of her control over her in-game avatar.
Moriko Sees
"Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the game CPU, How it's playing itself..." Moriko paced the room with a phone in her hand and a look of concern on her face. "No, as in my Avatar literally hijacked the controls and went full Skynet on me!"
The Elite Neet bickered over the phone with an IT guy who swore to have never seen AIs implemented by the devs before something caught her eye. "That can't be right..."
She soon found herself confronted with an earlier date on her computer when she remembered it being the next year when last she slept. "Why is it set to 2017? Shouldn't it be next year now, 2018?"
"Real funny, ma'am." sneered the worker over the phone before hanging up with a note. "We ain't even a week past Halloween."
Moriko had nothing to speak, just thoughts of utter existential horror.
After searching Groupon for an affordable headset, Moriko got one at a going out of business sale at Radioshed for a measly $24 with a webcam thrown in for free with enough to get a $5 Fill-Up at KFC on the way back. After setting up her new toys, she logged onto Fruits de mer and laid out her lunch, making sure to hide from her typical group of friends before switching on her tech for her confrontation.
"Okay, Webcam on. And here we go."
Hiyashi was curiously pulled away in this tiny little corner of the world leaving him to wonder why he let that familiar force take control of him for that moment.
"Hello?" Hiyashi piped as his voice echoed in the ocean level he found himself in to his whistfully nostalgic caution. "If anyone's there, then speak up, alright?"
He looked for someone, anyone who could be the puppeteer responsible for the repetition he's been enduring these past six times he's been sent back. One look behind him and he saw the face of his apparent tormentor...
A thirty-something year old woman in a coffin apartment of sorts.
"Can you hear me?" read Moriko, having received the text blurb coming from her character before picking up a drumstick and replying: "Only by reading the blurbs, buddy. No voiceover for avatars is a pain."
She bit into her breaded white meat and watched the new blurb appear on her screen. "So, you're deaf? Only to the game's voices, most likely... I can hear the sound effects and music just fine, though."
Moriko chewed on as she spoke to the Avatar of her creation, looking to see what made him as self-aware as he was. Another blurb appeared, so she swallowed her food and read onward. "Where are you from? Simple, I'm an Elite Neet from the land of the rising sun!"
Japan?
"Yeah, where this game was developed and all." Moriko spoke to the player character before asking: "You know that place."
Yeah, I think I was job hunting before I turned up here.
Mori groaned at her lies coming back to slap her in the face. "So compared to me, you're an infant..."
Hey, watch it!
"Okay! I'll stop, just wanted to open up to you is all..." Moriko sipped her Sierra Mist, wondering what to make of the Ai thinking the made-up IRL status was actually his own real life. Another blurb, this time with a serious tone. "Let's see... If you're over here controlling me..."
"Are you the one responsible for the resets?" Hiyashi asked the woman on the screen as she adjusted her glare and read the blurb. "Well, Answer me, damn it! I want to go home!"
"Yeah, hate to break it to ya, but to you this is home. To me, it's my first repeat." The woman on screen scratched the back of her scalp as she blushed with embarrassment and shame. "I'm just as stuck in this mess as you are, and you're just my avatar."
"Avatar... Me?" Hiyashi felt a strong tugging at his heart. "Are you saying that I'm..."
"One hot guy of my own imagination!" She arrogantly boasted with a finger to her nose and a grin to her face, unaware of the heartache she was leaving in her path before introducing herself. "Moriko Morisato, and you're probably Hiyashi as I admittedly named you... quite poorly I may add. What was I thinking?"
"I'm not real..." Hiyashi stood with a heart made heavy by the truth behind his existence and ties to Fruits de Mer
He wanted to cry.
Moriko meets Hiyashi
She blinked, she looked around to see that her office was relatively more... low-tech than usual. No smartphone, no computer, no anything. Just a typewriter and some paperwork, the same type of paperwork she got away from when she chose the Neet life.
CTG
(Monday/CN)
I is for Imagination
←CN-tan wants to be an animator but is blocked from that dream by her duties as a Contractor.→
G is for Grievance
←Something involving CN-tan exposing her grief towards the dying Earth→
(Tuesday/???)
Games, Sports, and lovely lady humps.
Q is for Quickening
←GaS and OSM being Buddies→
A is for Airtime
←GaS is caught going out drinking with Mtv→
J is for Juvinile
←GaS being the last of her generation of Redstone Daughters to not have children.→
K is for Kiss
←GaS dating G4 and facing the consequences of her lover refusing to pull out.→
(Thursday/???)
(Friday/???)
Five Hours of Summer
F is for Friendship
←OSM's friendship with GaS as it blossoms and blooms→
P is for Poverty
←OSM/ABC Kids' financial woes as her friendship with GaS deteriorates→
T is for Tedium
Banning Families. Banning Bonds. Banning Life.
This is the gigavirus' ultimate goal and poor Ortenza Disney was stuck there in the Jesus Christ Universe Factory watching the snuff parties that alert the higher-ups to demon infestations. Sometimes there will be cultists that take over the world and restrict humanity to tiny death machines that use their bodies to power their systems to kill outsiders that try to escape. Other times, they have rendered earth uninhabitable by radiation poisoning and confusing the bee population to extinction through screen sickness. Or in this case where a powerful force behind the scenes is controlling humanity through the mind, body and soul.
Either way, this rules the universe as dead and must be squeezed for its cosmic energies to be pooled into creating more refined universes.
"So, what's the damage today, Miss Disney." She turns around to see Lady Skuld, lead engineer of the Factory, accompanied by her sister Belldandy who has wrapped an arm around that of her human husband, Keiichi Morisato.
"I-Urm..." Ortenza looked to the world nearby and saw the cultists through the crystal and pushed it away from sight. "We might actually be completely clean today, Madame Skuld."
"Hey, First time in a month." cheered Belldandy. "Congratulations!"
"Yeah..." Skuld sipped her coffee and glanced to the orb that Ortenza had moved aside with a look of concern. "What's going on in there anyway?"
"Oh, uh... SpaceX is founding... A space colony!" She lied. "On Uranus!"
Skuld pondered the possibility. "So SpaceX is getting far on that universe, huh?"
"Looks like that's a keeper, wouldn't you think, Keiichi?" Belldandy asked her husband in eagerness to see humanity spread beyond the milky way of home. Keiichi merely stood with a suspectful glare towards the jeweled eye representing the newborn reality.
"I guess we're done here, Miss Disney." Eyed Skuld before shooing the relatively green employee back to her station. "Move along."
The three march away from the measly worker of the universe factory as she let out a sigh and sat back down at her station. She held up the Photo on her Wayfinder.
←OSM at the Jesus Factory, hauling Near-Hub crystals and squeezing doomed universes→
N is for Nostalgia
←OSM returns to One Saturday Morning: Her personal TARDIS where she finds all of her friends and far... far beyond.→
Commend Thy Spirit
B is for Babylon
←Viacom goes to the cosmic supercomputer dubbed 'The Babylon Network' to consult it on the stability of the situation→
C is for Cohesive
←Viacom talks with Congress about the Jezabel outbreak in the omniverse with Babylon →
E is for Evacuation
←Babylon begins his Ascension to destroy the Root of Yggdrasil.→
H is for Hope
←The Channel-Tans conseal themselves in Hypertime as the root of Yggdrasil is destroyed by Babylon's Ascension.→
>"FAREWELL, FIRMAMENT."
Doctor Who: The Yggdrasil Diaries
- A First Doctor Adventure with Ranma Saotome in the DC Universe
- A Second Doctor Adventure with Yuya Sakaki in -?-
- 'The Impeccable Doctor Riley': The same story Crisis wrote Crossing Mega Man and Inside Out, but with the Third Doctor
- A Fourth Doctor Adventure with Sonic the Hedgehog and Celina (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V)
- A Fifth Doctor Adventure with Shantae in ?
- A Sixth Doctor Story with Yugo and Rin in ?
- A Seventh Doctor Story where he stays in a specific time and space with Goku (DragonBall Z) as he lets a certain character borrow the Tardis
- An Eighth Doctor Story with Keichi and Belldandy/Virdandi (Oh! My Goddess) exploring the end of Yggdrasil as we know it.
- A War Doctor Story with Yuto being Welcomed to the Multiverse.
- A Ninth Doctor Story
- A Tenth Doctor Story about the fall of Arc-V, The First Four Protagonists of the Franchise Duel Zarc after he eats Ray's Soul.
- An Eleventh Doctor Story
- A Twelfth Doctor Story dealing with the fallout of Arc-V's destruction alongside Sonic
- A Thirteenth Doctor Story where she poses as a companion to a fake Doctor (i.e. the guy who borrowed the TARDIS in the Seventh Doctor Story
ReBoot
1.1
Bob went along his day as he usually does, gliding across Mainframe to chase down Hack and Slash. He noticed something was rather off about today, mainly that today had already happened, seven straight times. It's been bugging him since he woke up from a vision he had, it's been bugging him since he encountered Killabyte again, it's been bugging him since he ran into the Repeat Commands: four unknown viruses that tend to show up to reset computers to an earlier state.
swf, an orange sprite with pink hair and three eyes.
gif, a red sprite with white-laced green hair.
png, a green sprite with baby blue spiked hair.
jpg, A bald blue sprite in a red guardian uniform.
"You are not to speak of our resets or our existence." swf bluntly stated as she locked jpg's rogue keytool Dox onto Bob. "Our programming will prevent you from bringing it up to any of your local authorities."
"You are Anchor 144, 31 Anchor Units divorced from the Crash." png belched. "Your end can spell death without a fellow anchor present like jpg and me, 108 and 69 respectively."
"You're insane! When the Guardians hear of your 010011-011001-00001" Bob panicked as his mouth went binary from their re-coding of his thought-to-speech functionality. "You sure know how to censor a voice, do ya?"
"You should see what YouTube does with its conservatives." swf nonchalantly stated.
an irritated jpg glared at swf. "Aim higher."
"Don't worry, we won't be here for comparably long." gif bowed to the guardian "...with your timeframe, we'll be in and out of the system faster than you can say..."
"...Oops."
1.2
Another day, another Game Cube poised to do a number on Mainframe. Bob goes to defeat the User and protect the system sector from nullification.
"Glitch, Game Stats." The keytool projected the relevant data on the current cube "Fighting Game, huh? I guess I can deal with it. ReBoot!"
Next he knew, he was clad in a mustard yellow shirt, black pants and a leopard-print bandana. And his opponent was a ponytailed man in a red Chinese outfit, his eyebrow raised at the blue tint of his foe.
"Of course the Game Loop'd dump me down here." The two fought, punches, kicks and combo.
