#there’s a lot that happens

[theramblingsofadork]

EDIT: Updated 12/27/24

⋆｡°✩ Starpoint Squad AU Lore Post 2⋆｡°✩

— (Here’s a link in case you missed Act 1 )

— Competition Arc: Act II: The Plot

🚨 (Major spoilers ahead!)

Throughout the duration of the competition, there is a side plot going in with the tensions between the Starpoint Squad and their rivals, (Team Name still TBD). A nature loving team comprised of Yew the Human, Starline’s old school rival Atlas the Timberwolf, his cohort (Unnamed) the Cougar, Skara the Skunk, and Stormy the Mink.

Despite everyone’s best attempts to ignore them, they manage to get under the squad’s skin, harassing them and their lack of team spirit, particularly in the beginning.

They clash during the competition, despite Starline still remaining fairly confident they can beat them.

But as the end approaches, Skara and Stormy are announced to have suddenly dropped out without warning. Despite Yew and Atlas stating it was due to family issues, Starline sees the event as suspicious, considering how determined they were to beat them.

But it isn’t until he decides to enact his contingency plan after his eye opening dance with Rivet that he finds out what’s really going on.

He’s in the middle of planting mini remote detonating EMPs on the competitors’ robots, when he happens to overhear the remaining members of (Team Name still TBD) getting angry about Skara and Stormy having to be ‘removed’ due to Atlas’s negligence in stopping them from discovering their plot to take over the competition.

Starline is of course, inquisitive, and decides to investigate.

In doing so, he discovers they have a plot to take over Atmos using the competitor’s robots, then kidnap the head innovator and use him to gain access to the power of the CORE. (The giant slumbering gemstone which powers all of Aethos and it’s surrounding regions.)

They plan to use it’s power to trigger an event that’ll ‘reset society’, wiping out all infrastructure in order for nature to make a comeback, but Starline realizes how reckless that plan is, considering the CORE has nearly caused multiple cataclysmic level events in the past, and needs to be handled with care. (Something he’s sure the three of them have practically none of.)

However… he could ALSO use this to his advantage.. He could offer to join them, to ensure they don’t mishandle all that power, only to later backstab them and hand over Atmos and the CORE to Eggman instead, undoubtedly securing his partnership with the doctor.

Before he can decide though, as luck would have it, he’s then discovered and confronted by a teammate. (Undecided who.)

They learn of what’s going on, and when Starline tries to dissuade them from stepping in, they realize where his goals really lie, and state that with, or without him, they’re going to warn the team and stop them.

They run off, and Starline tries to push them out of his mind. Convince himself that his goal is all that matters. But another voice inside him argues back.

Yes, he could attempt to salvage his plan by joining the villains. But in doing so, his team has a high chance of getting hurt, or worse. They won’t be convinced to run away or back down, no matter how the odds are stacked against them.

As such, he finds himself at a crossroads.

Fulfill his dream? Or give it all up for the ones who treated him with kindness? Who listened to him, shared ice cream with him, who he’s watched flourish and grow throughout this entire journey?

And despite how determined and dead set he is on accomplishing his goal, he comes to realize that he can’t bring himself to let them get hurt.

So, he choses to abandon his goal to join them, much to their surprise and relief. They form a plan and move in to stop the plot from happening, only to be captured halfway through by Unnamed’s telekinesis. Yew commends them for their attempt to stop them, before Atlas comments that he’s surprised Starline chose the Starpoint Squad, as he was certain he would betray them to join ‘the superior’ team once he learned their plan.

Starline defends them by insulting (Team Name TBD), much to Atlas’ annoyance, before Unnamed throws them into a cell with Skara and Stormy are being held. The two are super ticked off for being played for fools, and offer to put aside their differences and lend their aid to the Squad if they can get them out.

With some creative thinking, they manage to escape, and by the time they reach the assailants, the ceremony has already begun, with Yew and Atlas revealing themselves to the entire competition and taking control with the competitors’ robots.

Things seems dire, but Starline quickly concocts a plan. With his team by his side, they’ll ensure Yew and Atlas don’t succeed. Everyone’s skills, big and small, will all come into play here, and they have their roles to fulfill to secure total victory.

It’s a plan of small victories.

Hex, Skara and Stormy will be facing Yew,

Cello and Lug will help people escape,

Starline will fight with Atlas for the EMP trigger,

and Rivet and Charge will battle Unnamed.

At first all seems to be going in their favor, but when Hex is grabbed by Yew and held hostage under threat of de/th, Starline has to make a bold choice to trust the one person he doesn’t want to to reach him in time. It works out fine, and the tide is changed for them as Charge shows off the full capability of his power and speed.

Hex is freed and caught by Rivet, and Charge and Yew clash and battle it out in a final one on one showdown. Yew ejects from the robot she was piloting as it reaches critical status, and manages to escape as the team are forced to turn their attention to the robot to stop it from crashing and exploding. Skara and Stormy step up as the heroes of that moment, using their experimental bazooka bubblegum blaster to stop the impact.

The day is saved, and everyone celebrates. Atlas laments as he and Unnamed are arrested, and Starline can’t help but be smug.

Of course, despite their win, and being thanked by the head of Atmos, the Starpoint Squad still end up being disqualified for the illegal use of EMPs, effectively putting an official kabosh to Starline’s plan.

Still, they all head out for drinks and celebration for stopping Yew, and Starline, despite his hollow frustration over his plan going up in flames, reminds himself that it’s not the end of the world. He’ll have another chance.

He attempts to make an escape and sneak off and while the team is distracted, but they still stop him, asking where he’s off to and thanking him for his help.

He declares that ‘it’s time for him to leave,’ ‘there’s nothing left for him here now,’ and ‘he should get back to pursuing his goals’. To which the team invites him to stick with them, seeing as they realized they want to stay a team after the competition to pursue their goals together.

And while a small, quiet part of him wouldn’t mind accepting, Starline sabotages himself by pushing it down. He hasn’t given up yet.

Besides, it’s not as if they’ll forgive or accept him should they learn the real truth behind his aspirations and goals anyways.

While being with them was pleasant, he knows they’re meant to exist in two different worlds.

So, he states he’ll think about it, before parting ways with them. Shelving them and the experience into the back of his mind as nothing but a memory, before returning to his goal of working alongside Eggman.

It’s not as if his and the Starpoint Squad’s paths will ever cross again.

(Funny how fate works…)

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this is so stupid :D

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