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Genuinely really sorry I haven't put out anything lately, guys. Seasonal depression and family shit has been hitting me hard and I don't really have a lot of motivation to write. I promise that I'll put something out soon, though.

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So I got the idea that the second batch of MRU universes (the batch that Mega Man Chaos is part of) is going to have all four of them be experimental in some way.

For Mega Man Chaos we obviously have the deliberate split-anchor setup. Though, it's not going to be a 50/50 split like the incidental split Avatars were. Instead each is going to be specifically written with 80% of the code, obviously with an overlap in the extra 30%, because according to the Grid's projections it will theoretically make their universe more stable than average rather than the slight decrease that Cole, Sally and the Arles had to deal with and they want to test that.

Then the second one is Splatoon 3 to see what, if any, effects a fully customizable character becoming the Anchor will have. Yes this will end up bringing in slightly modified versions of my Agent OCs from my Squid Memes AU (basically their names, personalities and designs are the same but I have to remove anything directly tying them to the SMG4 universe).

The third will actually be Super Mario 64, because they want to see how the same game will develop differently as a meme cycle server under different circumstances.

And I still haven't figured out the fourth.

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The Mega Masters (Universal Wily Numbers)

The eight Mega Man-defeating Robot Masters that Wily snatched and reprogramed in Mega Man Chaos.

UWN-001 Sir Guts

Master Weapon: Guts Hammer An alternate version of Guts Man where the world is a stereotypical swords and sorcery setting while still having the same tech level as the base universe. Things played out the usual way in his universe, with him and the other five industrial Master Knights getting stolen by the villainous Lord Wily and then being defeated and restored to normal, and then years later there was a friendly tournament between Master Knights that Sir Guts managed to win, scoring an extremely close victory over Sir Rock in the final round. Guts is an honorable and chivalrous warrior, and getting stolen and bound to serve Wily again really chafes at him.

UWN-002 Grid Man

Master Weapon: Long Bomb A sports star who got stolen and reprogrammed by his own version of Wily and got in a lucky shot during his fight with Mega Man. He didn't even have to be reprogramed after getting snatched since he was already being forced to be loyal to Wily and one Wily's as good as any.

UWN-003 Origami Man

Master Weapon: 1000-Fold Arms In the Base Universe, Origami Man was built by Wily on a whim after several all-nighters and proved to be completely useless, only capable of folding himself into...well, Origami, as well as being made almost entirely out of actual ordinary origami paper. In another universe, he was instead made from layers upon layers of highly flexible -but also highly durable- paper-like sheets of metal, and given an actually useful version of his self-folding abilities. This version is a deadly assassin who managed to kill his Mega Man before the boy even realized he existed.

Because Paper beats Rock.

UWN-004 Ulti-MET

Master Weapon: Rivet Gatling Once a little Modular Excavation Tool with big dreams, now a walking arsenal set on mowing down all who oppose their dark master. Even if this is a different version of him.

UWN-005 Bond Man

Master Weapon: Super Glue A scrapped concept for the original set of industrial Robot Masters. Given the context of his arrival, it was probably for the best.

UWN-006 Disco Woman

Master Weapon: Mirror Ball Like Grid Man, a stolen Robot Master who got lucky. In her case she used to own and operate her own night club.

UWN-007 Steam Man

Master Weapon: Steam Jet Not sure if he counts as a fire robot, a water robot or a wind robot...

UWN-008 Void Man

Master Weapon: Event Horizon An extraterrestrial robot who's somehow powered by and in full control of a spacial anomaly that almost-but-not-really acts like a black hole.

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parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual's posts but not talking to them)

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On a much lighter note, I also got an idea for the playable Sniper Joe.

Basically, Wily really should've been more specific on the definition of beating Mega Man. Joe is from a universe where Blues' core never had the fault it did in canon, so the military demonstration went off without a hitch and the original plan to give the Joe units Robot Master-level AIs was approved. As a result they became an elite peacekeeping task force, gradually expanding into other branches like search & rescue and various kinds of disaster relief thanks to their various different Models equipped for different environments and situations.

The playable Sniper Joe in particular was the leader of the squad that stopped their version of Dr. Wily's first invasion with Dr. Light's six stolen Robot Masters, thus technically "defeating" Mega Man by making it so Rock never had to become him in the first place. As you can imagine, suddenly getting transported into a Wily fortress with the mad doctor ranting about how Joe was going to help him finally destroy that blue menace and claim what was rightfully his once and for all did not go well.

For Wily, that is.

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So I figured out some of the story for Mega Man Chaos. And why Roll finally decided to get upgraded after all this time.

The gist of it is, Wily worked out how to transport things between universes, but his method only drags things in, so he can't use it to travel. So, he decided to search the multiverse for robots that had managed to actually defeat their version of Mega Man (or at least an equivalent), and then steal and reprogram them to finally conquer the world with.

One of these robots was a girl named Staccato. She's from a universe where the Emerald Spears (the anti-robot terrorist group from the Archie Comics run) eventually decided to fight fire with fire and create their own series of nine Robot Masters (though they called them Execution Units) programmed to destroy every robot and robotics engineer on Earth and then themselves (that last bit is how they justified the blatant hypocrisy of the situation).

Staccato was ESN-009, the last and most powerful of her series, as well as their leader, and was the Spears' answer to Mega Man. She's equipped with a Variable Weapons System, as you'd expect, is made of future tech like Quint thanks to the Spears somehow getting their hands on the Time Skimmer (they even based her face's design on Roll like how Quint was designed to look like Rock as a form of psychological warfare. she's not programmed to think she's Roll from the future though), and instead of having a Buster as her primary weapon she can swap her hands out for what are essentially lightsaber battleaxes. And as you might expect, creating a robot who's mind is almost-but-not-quite equivalent to that of a human child and building their code on a foundation that they and everyone remotely like them shouldn't exist and it's their sole purpose to enforce that doesn't exactly lead to the most stable of Artificial Intelligences.

As you'd guess from the whole "specifically grabbing robots who managed to beat their Mega Man" thing, the Execution Units proved very effective, and eventually Roll was the last member of the Light family left, and one of the very few Robot Masters left on top of that. In one last Hail Mary play, she turned to Wily (because of course her Wily managed to survive. it's what he does) and asked him to turn her into a weapon powerful enough to avenge their families (to Bass's credit as the self-proclaimed Ultimate Robot Master, he lasted longer against Staccato than Rock and Blues combined). He did so, transforming her into Neo Woman, and she tore through the Emerald Spears and the first eight Execution Units like a force of nature.

When Staccato and Neo Woman finally clashed, they pretty much ended up ripping each other apart since they were both hellbent on killing each other with no real desire to survive themselves. Base Universe Wily's dimension snatcher grabbed what was left of Staccato, and as an unforeseen side-effect of the two robots' proximity some of Neo Woman's memories were imprinted on Base Universe Roll. Not anything she can consciously recall, just some weird moments of deja vu, some occasional trauma responses she has no idea of the source of, a terrible sinking feeling that prompts her to insist on getting upgraded so she can watch Rock's back, and somehow knowing who Staccato is despite never having met her.

For Staccato's part, being reprogrammed to be loyal to Wily on top of her horrible base programming is Really Not Fun. Fortunately after she's defeated Quint shows up, snatches her away from both sides, then repairs her and removes both Wily's loyalty programming and the Spears' everything, so now instead of being a genocidal/suicidal axe-murderer she's just Incredibly Traumatized, absolutely drowning in guilt, and lacking any true purpose!

...Look it's a start. And arguably already a massive improvement.

TLDR: Wily's stealing robots from other universes this time, one of them was a super-powered clone of Roll named Staccato made by militant robophobic conspiracy nuts, Roll's haunted by the alternate version of herself from that universe and that's why she got upgraded, after the game Staccato got rescued by Quint and is now free from both Wily and her creators and the healing can begin.

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Tales From the Grid: Wily's Meme Masters

While the Anchors are away on vacation and the firewall twins are still recovering from the battle against the CCC, the Syndicate decides to use these lowered defenses to check out one of the servers slated to be in the next batch of MRU universes. Namely, by having Crocker and Metal Timmy travel to the world of Mega Man Chaos and scope out Dr. Wily as a potential new recruit. He does so by having Metal magically insert ideas for a new set of Robot Masters and Fortress Guardians into the not-so-good doctor's mind.

A set based on the SMG4 Crew.

When the inevitable invasion proves even more chaotic than usual, Roll volunteers to handle the bosses while her brothers are busy with damage control all across Mega City.

And oh boy what a time she's in for.

The Robot Masters (the Wily Guardian Series)

(if you're wondering why the numbering is weird, it's because 3 and 4 are reserved)

WGN-001 Ink Woman Master Weapon: Splattershot Weakness: Inkweaver

WGN-002 Psycho Woman Master Weapon: Baka Hammer Weakness: Super Shotgun

WGN-005 Rap Man Master Weapon: Sonic Boop (now why would he have that?) Weakness: Baka Hammer

WGN-006 Shroom Guy Master Weapon: Super Shotgun Weakness: Bonk Bat

WGN-007 Arcade Woman Master Weapon: Pixelator Weakness: Sonic Boop

WGN-008 Manga Man Master Weapon: Inkweaver Weakness: Melon Blade (Roll is likely very confused about why he was designed to look like an Axolotl. To be fair so was Wily.)

WGN-009 Kat Woman Master Weapon: Bonk Bat Weakness: Splattershot

WGN-010 Melon Woman Master Weapon: Melon Blade Weakness: Pixelator

Fortress Guardians

WGN-00M & WGN-00L The Jump Men Defeat provides Jump Upgrade Package, providing: -Triple Jump -Backflip -Side Flip -Wall Kick -Long Jump (note: Wily somehow managed to replicate the BLJ glitch despite the fact that, from his perspective, it shouldn't have been physically possible. He's genuinely just That Good of a mad scientist.) -Ground Pound (signature technique of Jump Man Red) -Flutter Kick (Signature Technique of Jump Man Green) These are movement options, not Master Weapons, so they don't consume Weapon Energy and can be used in any form.

Boop Devil (Oh that's why Rap Man had that. Huh, aquatic Devil-series with a massive sonic attack and enough sapience to have an extremely personal vendetta. that'll be fun to deal with.)

Melon Deity (upgraded versions of three of the robot masters will be replacing the usual refights)

Shroom Slayer (complete with the full Doom Eternal arsenal and Anti-Shroomy's personality)

Agent Ink

Wily Battle

Super Wily Guardian 34 A giant mech with its colors split down the middle, SMG4's colors on the left and SMG3's on the right. Along with the usual Wily Machine abilities and the fact that it has arms and legs, it also has the ability to summon energy constructs based on memes to fight and access to every single explosives-based Master Weapon in the series. It also has two self-aware AIs included to help Wily keep track of everything, and they spend most of the battle bickering like an old married couple. Once this is all over the Lights will probably be building them separate bodies.

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appears. hi, hope you're doing well :3 wanna pop in to say hello. may your days be many and ur woes few!!!

Hi hi!! Thank you, Engie! <3 I hope the same to you, have many good days and few bad ones!!

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Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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Had the idea of Alice trying to create a more human-like form for herself. Not that she minds being a Pokemon now, honestly it comes with a lot of perks. But she has a strong mental image of herself built up and a crudely drawn vector model of a duck does not fit the bill (let's be fair she was a digitized copy of a human for years and only became a Porygon a few weeks ago. one of those is going to have more influence than the other).

Unfortunately she has some software limitations to deal with, namely that unevolved Porygons can't render curves, can only produce so many planes at once, and would have trouble sustaining a form that much bigger than their default.

The result is Tulip getting woken up in the middle of the night during the Nintendo World vacation by some weird lights outside her room (and she'd actually been trying to follow a decent sleep schedule for this trip so she could keep pace with the rest of the group, too) and walking in on a low-poly version of herself (given that Alice is near constantly around her she seemed like a good starting point for a real world humanoid body). She's not particularly fussed about it because she's been living with two recolors for the last seven years, copies of herself are not even remotely a problem to her.

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SMG3: I am very handsome. Sometimes I look in the mirror and think to myself "I have committed horrible acts".

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Vitality: What state would you live in?

Lag: Constant anxiety.

Buffer: Denial

CPU: Perfection

Crash: Florida.

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Cluster, seeing the Toxic Old Man Yaoi: it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none--

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Crash: Hey, do you have 2,500 credits?

CPU: What do you need 2,500 credits for?

Crash: An escape room?

CPU: What escape room is that expensive?

Crash: The Containment Zone.

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Kidnapper: We have Mario.

Luigi: Please, put him on the phone.

Kidnapper: Go ahead, you're on speaker.

Luigi: Again, bro?

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Lil Coding: I can't ever show my face to my dads ever again.

Cody: It can't be that bad.

LC: No, it was.

Cody: How?

LC: Papa asked me why I was sneaking out to see you, and I said, "Who's sneaking out?"

LC: He's not even mad that I was lying, just disappointed that I was so bad at it.

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Juliano: The "new year, new me" agenda is going pretty well.

Forum: Have you made any progress?

Juliano: Of course I have. Just one week in and I'm already a lot worse than I was last year.

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The Abyss: You call them heinous actions. I call them lore. We are not the same.

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Black Doom, watching Juliano & the Abyss after the NWO takeover: Jeez, talk about down bad.

Phobos: ..

Phobos: I am not even going to comment on the irony of that.

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