BIT Squad - Beyond the 4th Wall
Stapled-Together Edition
Episode 1 - Pilot
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
2BIT is a sky blue fox from a special pocket dimension. This realm, known as Byte Space, has a strange, digitized look to it, but it is more of a cosmic place where the denizens monitor and manage the destinies of various other dimensions within the multiverse. They are largely offshoots of other "prime" universes that fall out of Byte Space's jurisdiction, but that doesn't make the job any less demanding. So, in order to manage, 2BIT split his own psyche into several other beings, able to help him carry out his duties in several places at once. They form up a team known as "BIT Squad."
Today, 2BIT sits at his clear, digital desk, looking into the world of GeneX Prime through a dimensional window. "Well, at least one version of Sonic is doing sort of okay... I don't wanna think about what the source-prime Sonic is going through now." he mutters. A black tiger with white stripes approaches his desk. He has gray eyes, but you'd swear they were red with anger. "TWO!! Where's the yearly update on GeneX Necros!?" he snaps. 2BIT swivels his floating seat and scratches his head. "There's nothing scheduled for GeneX Necros this year, 16BIT. Cerberus is dead. War's over. Let them find their own destinies for a while." he muttered. "Don't be so lazy! That world still has tons of reconstruction needed! ...And I'm not gonna do it!" 16BIT said, crossing his arms. 2BIT's tail flicked as he rolled his eyes. "Yeah... I'm the lazy one... Who was it that set the path for the rest of GeneX Prime's year?" he muttered. A kooky blue haired man in an alligator costume suddenly butted in. "Was it me!?" he asked, eager to take the credit. "Gah! Gator... I mean, 5BIT! What are you doing here??" 2BIT groaned. Gator glanced at the fox and the tiger and shrugged. "Fiiiirst... It's Infinity-BIT! And anyway, it's bring your pet to work day! So... I brought my... Hey, where'd he go??" Gator said, looking around frantically. 16BIT looked a bit panicked. "You brought an OUTSIDER in here!? CODE RED!! CODE RED!!" he shouted, running off in a panic. "Why couldn't you bring your pet to one of your other jobs... Well, what is it?" 2BIT asked. Gator scratched his head. "Hmmm... Which was it again?" Suddenly, a jet of flame chased 16BIT across the digital hall! "Oh, yeah! It was my Salamence!!" Gator grinned. "Of COURSE it was!!" 2BIT groaned.
As the fox and the crazy human chased the dragon Pokemon, they passed a room where miniatures of the denizens of each reality were kept neatly on shelves. "Gah! Not the Control Model Hall!!" 16BIT shouted. "You mean the voodoo chamber..." 2BIT snickered. "Bad Salamence! Down! Sit! Roll over!!" Gator shouted. Instead, Salamence swatted his tail across the hall, making the trio duck and knocking a miniature version of Knuckles the Echidna off a shelf.
Somewhere in a Sonic-based reality, Knuckles suddenly stumbled down the steps of the Master Emerald shrine! "Ooof!! Ow!! Hey!! Sonuva!! Yoooow!!" he wailed as he tumbled to the bottom. He groaned as he picked himself up. "What the heck?! WHO DID THAT!?" he yelled, glancing up at the Master Emerald. "Tikal...? Chaos? ...King Boom Boo...? ...S-some days I hate this job..." he muttered, shivering a little.
Back at Byte Space, Gator was busy teleporting around, trying to get Salamence's attention, while 16BIT was scrambling to catch the "voodoo dolls" before they could fall. 2BIT, meanwhile, materialized a dark blue helmet on his head, and carefully approached the dragon Pokemon. "I understand, Salamence... You feel lost and confused... Don't panic. We'll send you home..." Ignoring 2BIT's words, Salamence used Dragon Claw and knocked the fox on his helmet, sending him spinning backward dizzily. "Gator, d-does he have a Poke Ball?" he groaned. "Oh, right!" Gator said suddenly, "Salamence, return!!" In a flash of red light, Salamence vanished into Gator's Ultra Ball. 16BIT growled as he held a handful of "voodoo dolls." "YOU MEAN YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAT ALL ALONG!?" he roared.
2BIT calmly returned to his desk as Gator fled from their supervisor. "Just another day monitoring the multiverse, ho hum... Geez, I wonder how many back injuries I have on my hands now?" he mumbled.
Episode 2 - Anniversary
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
2BIT is a sky blue fox from a special pocket dimension. This realm, known as Byte Space, has a strange, digitized look to it, but it is more of a cosmic place where the denizens monitor and manage the destinies of various other dimensions within the multiverse. They are largely offshoots of other "prime" universes that fall out of Byte Space's jurisdiction, but that doesn't make the job any less demanding. So, in order to manage, 2BIT split his own psyche into several other beings, able to help him carry out his duties in several places at once. They form up a team known as "BIT Squad."
Today we find 2BIT out not on urgent business, but rather hoping to celebrate. Ten years prior, the dimension of GeneX Prime was born, and 2BIT began his work, watching and guiding this world, and soon many others, from his sanctuary in Byte Space. The dimension was actually created with a history already behind it, but 2BIT took great pride in the 10 years of existance he played a part in shaping. He hoped to celebrate with some of the denizens of this world that he'd come to view as his pseudo family, but there was one catch: they didn't know him. He's come down to this world before, but always wiped the memories of his visits in the end...He had his reasons. However, this quickly became an issue when he walked into the Neon Tavern to have some celebratory drinks, and was quickly carded and tossed out, due to not actually having any ID. "I never knew those barkeeps were so unkind... I wasn't gonna get booze anyway, last time a BIT did that it broke time." he muttered, dusting himself off. A familiar face, Kosmo the Morph, was passing by, and chuckled at him. "Kid, if you didn't expect to get tossed out, you're dumber than you look!" the purple-furred morph laughed. 2BIT turned to say something, but thought better of it. "I didn't come to start a fight, I'm here to celebrate... Hm, maybe I can pass as a long-lost relative of Tails..." he mumbled, hurrying out of sight before flicking his wrists to open a wormhole, giving him a shortcut to the Mystic Ruins.
Heading up the steps towards Tails' Workshop, he was quickly accosted by SPOT, the robotic dog. "Intruder! Intruder!!" SPOT's mechanical voice blared, to which 2BIT frowned. "Since when are you a security drone?" he asked. Text popped up on SPOT's monitor in response. "State your purpose, or be disintegrated!" 2BIT stepped back nervously. "You're glitched up, right? I mean, do you do this to the Girl Scouts, too??" he stammered. "Insufficient reply. Entering offensive mode!" SPOT's monitor stated before a large laser cannon appeared from the hatch on its back! 2BIT quickly materialized his helmet and jetpack onto himself, taking off just as lasers started zooming in his direction! "Down!! Sit!! Bad dog!!" he yelled, flying in a panicked fashion as SPOT chased him! The noise drew Tails from his workshop, and he yelped in alarm. "Hey! What's going on out here!! Stop it, SPOT!!" he shouted, rushing back inside to grab for a remote, which he used to override SPOT's programming. "...Offensive mode disengaged..." SPOT stopped suddenly, but 2BIT was already pretty well out of control, and crash landed on his head with a THUD! "That...helmet... smartest thing...I ever...thought up..." he mumbled as he splayed onto his back, panting. Tails rushed over, looking concerned. "I guess my security protocols need some work... Um, are you okay? I'm so sorry!" he said, offering a hand to help 2BIT up. The blue fox shook his head and cracked his back, groaning softly. "Forget you saw me... I'll just be going... Far away from SPOT!" he grumbled, firing up his jetpack and flying off. Tails watched him go, scratching his head. "Hey, how'd he know your name, SPOT??" he mumbled.
2BIT tried a couple more places, but it was useless. No one knew who he was. Finally he decided to just relax on the beach of the island of Darkegg Fortress, watching the sunset until he was ready to return to Byte Space. Copter the fox, along with echidnas Punchy & Rainbow, soon noticed him and approached, a suspicious look on Copter's grumpy face. "Hey, what're you doing here?? Don't you know this is an Eggman base? Why... you could get turned into a robot or something!" he growled. Punchy shrugged. "Nah, that won't scare him. Hey, pal, this is OUR hideout! Beat it, or I'll beat you!!" the green echidna warned. 2BIT glanced up at them from the lounge chair he was sitting in, while Rainbow scolded Punchy. "Be nice! He's not bothering us, One!" she said, "Hey, what's your name?" she asked. 2BIT shrugged. "It's no use. You won't remember me anyway..." he sighed. Just then, a certain fennec emerged from the nearby tower. "2BIT??" she said, surprise in her voice. 2BIT stumbled in his chair and turned to see Gemini the fennec approaching, looking at him curiously. "Huh? You know this clown?" Copter asked. Gemini shrugged. "Why don't you leave us alone, Copter. I'll handle this..." she said with a light smile. Once they were alone, Gemini sat in the sand beside 2BIT's chair, watching the sunset with him. He wore a contented smile. She was the only one he'd allowed to remember him. It was against the rules...but she was his favorite. "I've watched this world for 10 years straight... Though my vision has extended to times beyond the linear progression..." he said, smiling. Gemini nodded. "I'd say you've done a good job, but there sure have been no shortage of disasters..." she chuckled awkwardly. "It's not my place to prevent all tragedy... Only to offer a little guiding hand when needed." 2BIT sighed. Gemini stood up, smiling. "Well, keep doing your best..." she said, leaning down and lightly kissing his forehead, "Think of that as encouragement, hehe. Happy Anniversary, 2BIT!" she said, skipping off cheerfully. 2BIT was sitting straight, his face scarlet, a hand rising to touch the spot where she'd kissed him. As he let out a happy sigh, Gator appeared next to him with a burst of smoke! "Hey! They want you back at Byte Space ya lazy blue goon! Chop-chop! Oooh, my old pirate crew's on this island!" he said before rushing off to annoy Copter and the others. 2BIT rolled his eyes and sighed. "Maybe after 20 years I can enjoy myself..."
Episode 3 - Pokemon Collection
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
Note: 16BIT is retconned as of this episode. The tiger is now 32BIT. I actually intended that in the first place but fouled up.
2BIT is a sky blue fox from a special pocket dimension. This realm, known as Byte Space, has a strange, digitized look to it, but it is more of a cosmic place where the denizens monitor and manage the destinies of various other dimensions within the multiverse. They are largely offshoots of other "prime" universes that fall out of Byte Space's jurisdiction, but that doesn't make the job any less demanding. So, in order to manage, 2BIT split his own psyche into several other beings, able to help him carry out his duties in several places at once. They form up a team known as "BIT Squad."
2BIT is a very busy guy, so as he prepares to go on a great new journey, he seeks assistance in preparations. Walking through Byte Space with him, or flying actually, is a white-furred mouse with tiny golden wings, bright blue eyes and a wide, beaming smile. "Well, as everyone knows, I'm heading off to the Alola region in a few days. 32BIT will be holding the fort while I'm gone. Same story as pretty much every year... I'm going to regret promising Prof. Oak I'd complete the Pokedex that time..." 2BIT chuckled. His companion flitted around him excitedly, eyes bright and joyous. "You're off on an ADVENTURE!? That's so awesome! I wish I could go but I don't have a human form, teehee!" he giggled. 2BIT sighed. "Err, yeah... Anyway, I got a job for you, 16BIT. You know all the Pokemon I caught in all those other regions?" he asked. 16BIT nodded playfully. "Yup, yup! Well, I haven't met all of them... How many are there, anyway?" he asked in a wondrous tone. "You'll find out..." 2BIT muttered, opening a door to reveal shelves filled to the brim with Poke Balls of many colors. "I always wondered what this room was for..." 16BIT gasped, smiling. 2BIT nodded. "These are all my Pokemon... 721 species... I have no idea how many total. Actually, it's not 721 species, I'm missing a few, but don't tell Prof. Oak." he chuckled, "I need you to sort them out. Sort 'em by type... No, region! Hm, no... species? Just don't put them in alphabetical order by nickname. 32BIT did that last year. I still can't find all my Feebas..." he groaned. 16BIT gasped and nodded, doing an aerial flip and flying into the room excitedly. "I won't let you down, sir! It's an honor to work with your cute li'l Pokemon!" he giggled. 2BIT smiled with a chuckle. "Only you would enjoy a chore like this... Well, I got a boat to catch! I'll send for some of my Pokemon in a couple weeks!" 2BIT said, rushing out in a hurry. 16BIT examined a red & white Poke Ball and scratched his head. "Hey, how do you tell what's in them without opening 'em up, anyway?" he wondered aloud.
Fortunately, 2BIT left 16BIT with his Kalos region Pokedex, which had a scanner that could identify which Pokemon was in which Poke Ball. However, this job quickly proved to be just as enormous as it looked, and the flighty mouse began to wonder how he'd get it done before 2BIT returned. "Hmmm... Oh, I know! I'll get one of our cute little friends here to help! Now, let's see... which one of these balls should I open up?" he murmured, scanning with the Pokedex in search of the perfect helper. As he reached for a ball to examine, he clumsily knocked one over. "Whoopsy!" he gasped as the ball opened up, and an angry-looking Tyranitar emerged! "Waaaah!! S-stay calm mister!!" 16BIT stammered, scanning the Pokemon with the Pokedex to get information on it. "Err, I mean, miss! ...'Tyra'? Err, cute nickname!" he chuckled awkwardly, backing away from the intimidating Pokemon and knocking several more Poke Balls off the shelf! "Gwaa! No, no! Don't come out!" he stammered as several Crobats and a Golbat emerged and started flapping about! In their panicked confusion, some of them let out Supersonic attacks, which seemed to enrage Tyra! "Oh, boy... Um, wait right there, I'll get help for you, fellas!" 16BIT said quickly, scanning the Poke Balls hastily in search of a Pokemon that could help him defuse the situation. One of the Crobats knocked down a ball releasing a Raichu. "Oh, hey Bucky! Please, stay calm! I'm handling this!" 16BIT promised. However, Bucky the Raichu started hurling thunderbolts at the bat Pokemon, angry at having been disturbed! "Hey! Stop it! 2BIT will be furious if he finds out I let his Pokemon get hurt!" 16BIT stammered. Tyra fired a Hyper Beam at Bucky, the attack connecting with a thunderbolt and causing a very loud explosion, making 16BIT cover his ears. "Yeesh... OK, here goes! Help me out, Spike!" he said, tossing a Poke Ball on purpose this time. Out came a Lucario, who glanced around with alarm at the battling Pokemon in the room. "Get their attention with Bone Rush!" 16BIT suggested. Spike shrugged and created a bone out of energy, thwacking each of the other Pokemon with it before returning to 16BIT. Now, all eyes were on them, and they were angry. "...Ooops..." 16BIT whimpered, "Right, now they're mad at me..."
Just then, 32BIT burst into the room. "What is all the racket in here!? Bats! Batty! Batmon! Losoar! Why are you all flying around outside your balls!" the black tiger shouted. Spike shouted something in Poke-speak, and the other Pokemon turned to 32BIT. "All of you get back to your balls! 2BIT would be ashamed of you, fighting like this!" he said sternly. 16BIT and 32BIT soon returned the Pokemon to their balls, and the flying mouse shook his hand. "Thanks... I should've been more careful..." he chuckled, "Well, now I know 2BIT has a thing for bats!" he grinned. 32BIT shrugged. "They're convenience-captures from what I hear... Now let's get these sorted. I'll have 'em alphabetized in no time!" he said, walking over to a shelf to get the job done "properly." 16BIT chuckled. "Let's do it alphabetical by region, then. I think 2BIT would prefer that." he suggested. "2BIT don't know what's good for him..." 32BIT mumbled, turning while carrying a Poke Ball and knocking another aside with his tail. The ball- a Master Ball -burst open, and a massive green Pokemon took up the entire room! It roared in annoyance, and 16BIT let out an impressed whistle while 32BIT groaned underneath the beast. "Wow! A Rayquaza! Hey, can you go mega? Show me, show me!!" 16BIT said playfully. "NO, DON'T SHOW US!!" 32BIT wailed.
2BIT would never have someone else sort his own Pokemon again.
Episode 4 - Cupid's Arrow
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
2BIT is a sky blue fox from a special pocket dimension. This realm, known as Byte Space, has a strange, digitized look to it, but it is more of a cosmic place where the denizens monitor and manage the destinies of various other dimensions within the multiverse. They are largely offshoots of other "prime" universes that fall out of Byte Space's jurisdiction, but that doesn't make the job any less demanding. So, in order to manage, 2BIT split his own psyche into several other beings, able to help him carry out his duties in several places at once. They form up a team known as "BIT Squad."
With 2BIT still out on his journey, 16BIT decided to take it upon himself to spread some Valentine's Day magic as February 14th approached. BIT Squad just so happened to have a magic, invisible bow imbued with the power to make those shot by its energy darts fall in love...temporarily. Only if they were truly compatible would the spell take hold permanently. Normally 2BIT would handle this along with a particular assistant, who was on hand to join 16BIT. It was a yellow-furred female fox, wearing jeans and a light blue tank top. She was 4BIT, the only female member of BIT Squad. "Okay... The job's pretty simple. I pick the girl, you pick the boy, and we watch the results." 4BIT explained to 16BIT once they'd arrived in the universe of GeneX Prime. 16BIT flitted around holding the bow, a cheerful gleam in his eye. "We're gonna make so many people happy! Let's go, let's go! Wait, so, they can't see me while I hold the bow, right?" he asked. "That's right, but don't get too loud. We don't wanna spook them..." 4BIT sighed. 16BIT got really excited as he spotted a few people ahead. First, they saw Sonic, Amy and Tails standing by a street corner. "Alright! This'll be easy! I know which ones to hit here!" 16BIT said, drawing back his bow hastily. "Wait, we're supposed to talk first!" 4BIT shouted. However, a pair of darts went flying right away, and struck two of the group. "Ooops... I think you messed up my shot. Well, happy is happy, right?" 16BIT grinned as Amy and Tails turned to each other, their eyes widening and blushes crossing their faces. "...Tails? Amy? What's with you two?" Sonic asked. "Y-you're very pretty today, Amy..." Tails said shyly. "I never noticed how cute you are, too, Tails... Wanna ditch Sonic and get a burger together?" she asked. The pair of them walked off hand in hand, making Sonic's jaw drop. "H-hey! What's this game? Ha ha! Very funny! COME BACK HERE!!" he shouted, chasing after them. 4BIT held her face in her hands. "This'll set Sonic and Amy back a bit once it wears off... I hope Cream doesn't show up..."
4BIT tried to keep 16BIT's attention as they continued, but his excitement at playing Cupid was difficult to contain. Soon they came to a park where Copter the fox was relexing on a bench while Gemini the fennec was busy practicing her magic. "2BIT and I have talked about this one for years. It's time we brought these two together. Now, start by shooting Gemini over there..." 4BIT instructed. 16BIT nodded. "She's pretty. Any guy would be lucky to end up with her!" he smiled, aiming and letting loose the magic dart, making Gemini stop suddenly as the spell started to take hold. "Now, I want you to..." 4BIT began, only for 16BIT's excitement to get the better of him. "I got it! She'd go great with this guy!" he chuckled, launching a dart past Copter and into someone else! "No! What have you done??" 4BIT gasped. Gemini turned, and ran to the one the spell had drawn her to. "Oh, my... I never realized how devastatingly handsome you are... Bucky!" she said as she sank into the arms of the rat, making Copter stumble out of his chair in shock. "Wh-what in the?? Have you completely lost it!?" he stammered. Bucky smirked as he lifted Gemini into his arms. "Bet you won't have this sort of magnetism when YOU hit seventy-five years old, eh, Experiment 2?" he chuckled. Copter held his stomach. "You're seventy-five?? G-gemini, tell me that snaps you outta this!" he groaned. Gemini was busy gazing into Bucky's surprisingly youthful yellow eyes. "Let's go somewhere quieter... Buckie-wuckie..." she cooed. 16BIT smiled at 4BIT, who was busy lightly hitting her head against a tree. "You picked him because he was a rodent like you, didn't you?" she grumbled. "What's the matter?" he asked obliviously.
4BIT decided to take the bow herself as they left GeneX Prime for another realm, one in the Pokemon multiverse. "We scarcely have any Ash Ketchums in our juresdiction, despite all the Pokemon worlds we work with. Right now Ash is taking a break home in Kanto, and it's the perfect time to set him up with one of his best girls..." 4BIT said. "I'm supposed to get some say, aren't I?" 16BIT asked. "2BIT and I worked this stuff out over the course of years. I don't really need you." 4BIT grumbled. They found Ash doing some "special training" with Pikachu outside his house. Unfortunately, there were no females in the immediate area. "Drat. Now what?" 4BIT muttered. 16BIT scratched his head. "You know, there are other types of love." he pointed out. "What are you getting at?" 4BIT asked. 16BIT took the bow and shot Ash. Then, he noticed Pikachu was looking a bit worn out. He fired the next shot at the electric mouse Pokemon, and Ash hesitated in his commands. "...You know what, buddy? You've been working too hard. Let's go get a biiig snack for you as a reward!" he offered. "Pikapi! Pika-chu!!" Pikachu leapt at his trainer and climbed to Ash's shoulder, licking his face happily. "Ha ha! I didn't mean me!!" he laughed. 4BIT watched this and smiled a little. "OK, you make a good point...you adorably optimistic lug." she said, taking the bow and shooting him with it, followed by a shot upward to hit herself. "Awww, that was sweet... I think... Where are you? You know I can't see you with the bow!" 16BIT stammered. 4BIT simply gave him a tight hug. "Right here. Happy Valentine's Day, brother..." she smiled.
Episode 5 - 2BIT Returns
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
2BIT is a sky blue fox from a special pocket dimension. This realm, known as Byte Space, has a strange, digitized look to it, but it is more of a cosmic place where the denizens monitor and manage the destinies of various other dimensions within the multiverse. They are largely offshoots of other "prime" universes that fall out of Byte Space's jurisdiction, but that doesn't make the job any less demanding. So, in order to manage, 2BIT split his own psyche into several other beings, able to help him carry out his duties in several places at once. They form up a team known as "BIT Squad."
Having been out on a journey for a few months, 2BIT was anxious to see how BIT Squad carried on in his absence. "I'm anxious to see how BIT Squad has carried on in my absense... Did someone just narrate that?" he muttered. "I dunno. I can't hear the narrator here like back home." Gator replied. They stepped into the office of Byte Space...and found everything in utter turmoil. Tables were overturned. Food was scattered all about. There was a fire covering one of the viewscreens that showed the worlds they were supposed to be monitoring. "Great scott! What happened!? Where's 32BIT!?" 2BIT stammered. 16BIT was flying around with a goofy grin on his face. "Oh, hey, 2BIT! Everything's falling completely apart! Isn't that FUN!!?" he said over-enthusiastically. "Oh yeah... I broke 16BIT. Byeee!" Gator said, teleporting away. 2BIT looked flabbergasted. "This is outrageous! Where the heck is 32BIT?!" he babbled.
4BIT ran by with a fire extinguisher and fumbled with it, trying to put out the fire. "Good job taking care of things while I was gone! I designed this dimension to be fireproof you know!" 2BIT growled. "Those boys found a way!" 4BIT whined, "WHY AM I THE ONLY GIRL!?" she cried, distraught. 2BIT slowly walked past her. "...Because, er... Frankly, I don't know why part of me split into a female form at all..." he babbled, "Where the heck is 32BIT??" he repeated. The back office opened, which was apparently pitch dark inside. A black fox emerged from the darkness. "...Looking for someone?" he grinned. 2BIT frowned. "8BIT... Yeah, this had your fingerprints all over it..." he grunted.
2BIT ran toward 8BIT, joined by the mousy 16BIT and the feminine 4BIT. However, 8BIT pulled a bound and gagged 32BIT from the dark office to stop them. "I hog-tied your office manager, and he's staying this way until my demands are met!" he said. "Demands?? We won't be meeting the demands of any evil-me!" 2BIT shouted. "Let's hear him out first." 16BIT grinned, overly happy. 8BIT nodded. "It's very simple... Give back my Nightmare Zone. OR... Give me a dozen glazed donuts." he demanded. 4BIT growled at him. "You evil fox... You know we're not made of donuts!" she snapped. "I guess we give back the Nightmare Zone then..." 16BIT smiled. 2BIT slapped him. "Ooof! ...Thanks, I needed that!" the mouse sighed, still smiling. "GeneX Necros only recently was freed from the Nightmare Zone. We're not putting any world through that horror again." 2BIT said. 8BIT shoved 32BIT against the back wall. "I'm not smelling any donuts, though... Are we gonna fight, then?!" he growled. Suddenly, Gator warped back into the room. "Who wants cupcakes!?" he cried, holding a large box filled with chocolate cupcakes. The others all glanced at him, and 8BIT lowered his guard. "...Close enough. Today, we eat cupcakes. Tomorrow, we fight." he shrugged.
As the group went to pig out on pastry, a certain black tiger struggled in his bonds, finally slipping the gag from his mouth. "H-hey!! Guys!! UNTIE ME!! I want a cupcaaaake!!" 32BIT cried.
Episode 6 - Nicknames
2BIT & BIT Squad belong to... 2BIT.
GeneX & related characters belong to 2BIT.
Sonic the Hedgehog & related characters belong to SEGA.
Pokemon & related characters belong to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
Last time, 2BIT came to the realization that everyone going by numbered BIT names was a tad confusing when they all got together. He pondered how to solve this problem, and soon arrived at the solution.
Gator raised the alarm as an outsider arrived in Byte Space. 4BIT, 16BIT, and 32BIT ran out to see what was the matter, and found 2BIT standing with Rainbow the echidna. "Multi-colored marauder!! She's come to steal my prescious cola!" Gator cried. "Cool off, Gator. I brought her. Why don't you man the phones?" 2BIT grumbled. "Why do we even have phones?" 4BIT asked. "Every office has phones!!" 32BIT retorted. Rainbow waved as Gator walked off. "Bye, Bluehair!" she said. 4BIT's fox ears twitched and she shook her head. "No way, 2BIT. I see where you're going with this. We are not getting new names from Rainbow!" she protested. 2BIT smirked. "WE aren't... You are. I'll keep 2BIT, thanks. She can't even nickname me thanks to author-power." he chuckled. Rainbow smiled. "That's right, BIT-Boy!" she said. 2BIT's eyes widened. "Wait... what?" And 32BIT laughed at him. "You had to remove that restriction to let her name us! Isn't that rich, BIT-Boy!! Gah ha ha!!" he chuckled. "What's so funny, Stripes?" she asked. The name was alright given that 32BIT was a tiger, but his bemused reaction to the name brought laughs to the group.
"Do me! Do me!" 16BIT giggled, flitting around Rainbow playfully. A cherub-mouse. This might be a tricky one. Rainbow watched him fly around and chuckled. "Well, aren't you a cutie? Nice to meet you, Cupie-doll!" she smiled. The others busted up laughing, and 16BIT giggled cutely. "Okay, I can work with that!" he chirped. "Uh... We'll call him Cupie. But we are NOT calling me BIT-Boy!" 2BIT growled, "I will pull you all back into my consciousness and start over!" he threatened. "Party pooper." Stripes retorted. 4BIT rolled her eyes. She wasn't amused by any of this. "What about 8BIT?" she asked. "Skip him. Two BIT names are okay." 2BIT said, "But Rainbow, what would you call her?" he asked. Rainbow looked at 4BIT. "I dunno. Lady 2BIT?" she giggled. The group bursted out laughing again, and 2BIT groaned. "Could you try a little harder? We're going to use these names." he said. Rainbow looked carefully, thinking hard. "Hmmm... Well... How about Vixy?" she asked. 4BIT blushed, thinking about the name. "Um... O-okay... Vixy... Hey, that's actually not bad, Rainbow. Th-thanks..." she smiled.
Gator walked over with a cordless phone. "Hey, boss! It's 6BIT! He wants to know if you want him to come out of the shadows? Also, should we get all the other BITs for this meeting?" he asked. Vixy stared at 2BIT. "...Other BITs? ...I thought we were it..." she stammered. 2BIT chuckled softly. "W-well, you were new here, Vixy. Need to know basis and all that. Um, no, I'd better get Rainbow home. Tell 6BIT his new name is Dusk... That should gloom up his day appropriately." he said. Gator shrugged. "Hey, do I get a new name?" he asked. 2BIT glared at the costumed human. "You have too many names as it is! Back to the phones, Gator! C'mon, let's all get back to work!" 2BIT shouted. Stripes and Cupie saluted him. "Whatever you say... BIT-Boy!!" they said before running off. "I'll get you, you punks!!" 2BIT shouted. Rainbow scratched her head. "I dunno what the deal with this place is... But it looks fun! Invite me back sometime, guys!" she smiled. 2BIT sighed, tapping her head to put her to sleep, and wipe her memory at the same time. "Not bloody likely. This crowd is enough of a headache..." he muttered.
Episode 7 - Lucky
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Kingdom Hearts belongs to Disney & Square Enix.
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2BIT was gazing into his crystal tube of viewing, which honestly, looks an awful lot like a kaleidoscope, and got a surprised look on his face. "Toys. Toy Story. Sora will be arriving in the world of toys!" he babbled. Gator peeked up from his work station. "I was able to find that out just by Googling!" he smirked. 2BIT glared at him. "Gator, let's leave some shards of the fourth wall intact, how 'bout it?" he asked. "Ooooh!! You're looking at SORA!? Let me see!!" Vixy ran over and tried to wrest the crystal tube of viewing from 2BIT's hand. "This isn't a telescope for creepily spying on people! ...Okay, that's exactly what it is. But it's MINE!" he shouted, "Where's Cupie with OUR Sora??" Vixy stood up straight, looking excited. "We have a Sora!? Why didn't you say so! Agh! I gotta fix my hair!" she said, rushing off. "I think she likes Sora!" Gator whispered. "Yeeeeah... What is your job here, Gator?" 2BIT grumbled.
Cupie soon popped out of nowhere with "their Sora" in tow, Lucky the cat. "Whoa! Wh-what is this place!?" Lucky gasped. 2BIT smiled and walked over to the black cat. "You guys'll love this. I've picked up a new trick. I can make people selectively remember my previous encounters with them." he chuckled, and gently tapped Lucky's forehead two times. With that, Lucky blinked and looked around a bit less awed, but a little disoriented. "Bwa...? 2BIT? Oh, you must wanna talk about that great destiny you said I have again..." he said, rubbing his neck, "I'm still kinda confused about all that. I really can't do anything special." Cupie chuckled. "Wow! Neat! It's like you can pause the conversation and pick it up later!" he smiled. Lucky looked at him and grinned. "Hey, a mouse... Hehe, I'm gonna catch ya!" he said playfully, leaping at the flying mouse who playfully dodged him. "No, don't eat me, mister cat!" he giggled. 2BIT shook his head. "Lucky, it's just a quick question. I just learned worlds like Toy Story are accessible..." he began. Lucky turned and smiled. "Oooh, can I go?!" he asked excitedly. "Erm... No, not there specifically. I want to know if there's any similar world you'd like to visit?" 2BIT asked. Lucky scratched his head. "I get a choice?" he wondered. 2BIT chuckled. "Well, I thought it'd be nice to give you one choice." he smiled. Lucky licked his lips as he thought it over. "...I wanna Find Nemo. Yeah, yum-yum..." he giggled rubbing his tummy. 2BIT smacked himself in the forehead. "No. No, no. You don't get to have a fish fry! Not talking fish, anyway! If you won't take this seriously, forget it! Tough road ahead for this Keyblade master!" he scolded. Lucky frowned. "Aw, I was just playing around! Wouldn't I turn into a fish, too? Some sorta catfish? I wouldn't eat a fish if I was a fish! Besides, Whisk should meet Dory!" he suggested. "Nope! Besides, now that we've established you're well-versed in Pixar, I think we forget it!"
Vixy ran in at this moment, her hair combed out and looking all done up for a date. "Hellooo, Sora-aaah?" she gasped, seeing Lucky. She glanced at 2BIT, and her face turned red. "You said...it'd be Sora!!" she growled. "Huh? Well, uh... We... MIGHT have a Sora somewhere... But he's not in play yet..." 2BIT said awkwardly. Vixy was holding a purse, and now she seemed prepared to use it as a weapon. 2BIT tapped Lucky's head to return his memory to normal. "T-take him home... I gotta...ruuuuun!!" he yelped, fleeing from the angry Vixy. "This is almost as bad as when I booted up Kingdom Hearts 2 and was stuck with Roxas for a week!! Augh!!" the lovelorn fox girl yelled. Lucky scratched his head in his memory-muddled daze. "I get the feeling she doesn't like me for some reason..." he mumbled. "Naaaw... Uhm... Let's get you home before you retain memories of this..." Cupie chuckled. "Hey, a mouse!" Lucky gasped.
Episode 8 - A Mania for the Archives
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Mario belongs to Nintendo.
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Stripes was going through some archival information in his office, groaning to himself. "I hate when they tamper with the space-time continuum. So much paperwork..." he groaned. In a moment, Gator stepped in with another bundle of papers for him. "Why all the hard copies?? Shouldn't this be on a smarty-pants phone or something??" he asked. Stripes shrugged. "We can convert the paper directly to data... 2BIT just likes physical backups." he muttered. Gator was not paying attention. "Hey, so this is all because of that Maniac, right? Oooh, I hate Maniac!!" he growled. Stripes looked up. "Huh? Um... It's Mania, not Maniac... We're calling it a new event caused by timey wimey junk after Generations." the tiger explained.
"Do your job and stop breaking the fourth wall!!" 2BIT shouted from the next room. Gator scratched his head. "Hmm... Do you suppose there's a Classic Gator?" he asked. Stripes ignored him. It was best to ignore Gator most of the time. Curious to find this out, Gator decided to check the archive of beings...that crazy room with miniatures of everyone. It was being watched by Cupie, though. "Hey, mouse bit! There's cake in the break room!" Gator cried. "Oooh! We have a break room?!" Cupie gasped, flying off in his own fit of curiosity.
Gator had learned some lessons after last time, and snuck around almost afraid to touch anything. Across the room from Sonic's figure, he could see Classic Sonic. "We do have doubles... Hm..." he muttered, creeping over to check it out. He tripped over his costume's tail, of all things, and staggered, trying not to hit anything. "Waaah, yaaah!! ...Whew... I almost knocked half of Troblusk City on their tushies!" he babbled. Suddenly, the door opened and 2BIT snapped at him. "Gator!! You were banned from this room!!" he shouted. "Gaah!! Eat Mario Brothers!!" Gator shouted, tossing statues of the iconic bros. at 2BIT!
Somewhere, Mario and Luigi were spinning across World 1-1 while a trio of Koopas watched them. "Ugh, they're making me dizzy." one Koopa said. "Is that how ridiculous we look?" another replied.
Later, 2BIT had tied Gator to a chair so he'd listen. "There's no Classic Gator, you've always been...this." he stated, "Now, Classic versions of other denizens of GeneX Prime, I can't rule out... but I don't have control statues for them yet. Come to think of it, why the heck do I have those?" he wondered. Stripes stepped out of his office with a grunt. "Well, according to the archives, you confiscated them from 8BIT, who tried using them to take over the universe." he stated. 2BIT nodded. "Yeah, that's it! And that's why we have archives! ...Because I can't remember things I haven't written down..." he babbled.
...Is that why these stories all exist?!
Episode 9 - Coward Squad
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An alarm was going off through Byte Space. All of 2BIT's various selves had been called back from wherever they were in the multiverse. Even ones we've yet to see, like 64BIT, 128BIT, and 22BIT were there. No, you don't get to see them now. On to the matter at hand. 2BIT himself had taken off his gloves just to nervously bite his nails as he observed some worlds through a monitor...sort of like he was flipping through channels on a TV. "Hey! What's the good word? Why's everyone crowding up the TV room??" Cupie asked as he fluttered up next to 2BIT. Stripes tapped him on the shoulder and drew him back into the crowd. "It's Halloween. All hands on deck. In fact... ALL HANDS ON DECK!! BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES, GUYS!!" Stripes yelled. "Hey! I do the piratey talk around here!" Gator protested. 2BIT glanced back at the nervous and confused faces in the crowd. "...Some of you are new here, so I'll explain. During Halloween, I kinda...sorta...lose all control over the multiverse. Even the worlds I created." he said nervously. Vixy raised her hand. "Why, exactly?" she asked. "Excellent question!" Stripes responded, "...We don't totally understand. Probably some sort of gypsy curse. Always blame the gypsies." he nodded. 2BIT shrugged. "I've been too nervous about the extent of my lost power to look into it. Don't wanna die because all of a sudden I'm mortal. But the lack of control, coupled with the nature of some worlds, leads to situations like these..." 2BIT flipped the screen to a view of a world where a grisly scene was displayed that, if we were to describe it, would up the age rating of this story. Cupie literally turned green at the sight. "Hey! I'm the green guy here!" Gator grunted at him. 2BIT turned off the screen. "We call these Nightmare Zones. Sooo many dead Sonics..." he sighed, "I called you all back so you'll be safe during this dangerous time. We'll handle any cleanup we can tomorrow." he stated. "It's like mischief night, but it REALLY sucks." Vixy stated. "You're all cowards..." The group turned towards a voice in a shadowy corner of the room. Only folded hands could be seen outside the oddly pitch dark shadows. "Hmm... I've been meaning to fix the light in that corner." Stripes sighed.
The voice repeated. "Cowards..." It was Dusk, 6BIT. 2BIT looked in the general direction of the shadows he was hiding in and folded his arms. "Where do I begin with you? Care to volunteer to go out and handle things, then?" he asked. Dusk scoffed. "Naw, I don't want to die, either, really... But you're all cowering in here where it's safe rather than...anything else. Which makes you cowards. It's just a fact." he said casually. Gator jumped up and down excitedly. "Oooh! I know what'd lighten the mood in here! Let's throw me a birthday party!!" he suggested. Half the room groaned. An office party didn't sound fun with the looming thought of "Halloween cleanup" they'd have to do the next morning. Vixy let out a soft growl. "Excuse me, none of you boys are going to challenge Dusk's claim that we're cowards?? I'm not a coward!" she snapped. 2BIT glanced at her awkwardly. "What do you propose, then?" Stripes cleared his throat. "I have a simple solution. Anyone who wants to prove themselves wil spend the night in a random dimension! ...Not a Nightmare Zone, though. That's suicide." he said, "And the rest of us...get a little more breathing room..." he added under his breath. It was crowded in Byte Space at that moment. 2BIT nodded. "Fine! Whatever! Not that we gotta prove anything to the guy who hides in the shadows all the time, right? ...Right? ...You guys are making me go, aren't you...?" he groaned.
Stripes grumbled as he walked along with the others to the randomly selected location they were to spend the night at. "Razza frazza cowards, frazza razza kick me out..." he grumbled mostly incoherently. Vixy and Gator were with them, and they stared at 2BIT, who had taken on a human form as they arrived in this particular dimension. "Why are you all ugly and human?" Gator asked. "He looks kinda like YOU, Gator..." Vixy blurted. Maybe she thought that way because 2BIT retained his light blue hair in human form. He was dressed in a dark blue jacket and jeans. "In some worlds, I take on an appropriate form, specific to that world. You guys are the ones that'll stick out." he shrugged. Soon, they arrived at their destination. "The Old Chateau... Well, let's go in and unpack our sleeping bags." 2BIT sighed. "This place don't look haunted at all!" Stripes grunted, unconvincingly.
It looked extremely haunted inside. The Chateau was a dusty, broken down mess of a building, and Gator could swear he heard creepy music playing as they entered. "H-hey, boss... You brought some Pokemon, right?" Vixy asked. 2BIT scratched his head. "My Sinnoh PC box is pretty empty. Everything was sent to Kalos or Alola." he stated. "Heck, we're safe! Pokemon don't kill people! ...Right?" Stripes chuckled. "...Have you ever read a ghost Pokemon Pokedex entry?" 2BIT gulped. Suddenly, the chandelier above them shook a bit, making jingling noises above them. "Very funny, Gastly!" Stripes shouted. Vixy shivered. "I heard there are human ghosts in these houses, too... How safe would you say humans are??" she whimpered. "Yaaaah!! It grabbed my tail!!" Gator shouted, startling the others. 2BIT stomped his foot and crossed his arms. "Let's just get some sleep! We'll be fine!" he insisted. Suddenly, the door slammed shut. "We're gonna die!!" Gator yelled. Vixy and Stripes both rolled their eyes at him. "We're not gonna die. It was just the wind." Vixy sighed. A shrill, raspy voice suddenly rang through the room. "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!" With that, the entire group ran to the door, banging and pulling on it to get it open! The chandelier crashed to the ground behind them, making them jump. "Wait, I got it! ...Turn the door knob!" 2BIT babbled, opening the door and leading the others in running for their lives. The raspy voice chuckled, and stepping out of the darkness was a certain black and red fox... 8BIT. "Happy Halloween...cowards." he snickered, sticking out his tongue.
Episode 10 - A Squad Christmas Carol
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By now, hopefully you know BIT Squad's deal. A demigod fox named 2BIT split his being into several others in order to help him watch over the multiverse, operating out of a small dimension known as Byte Space. They keep the peace across worlds 2BIT created and worlds he didn't. They are BIT Squad.
As Christmas was approaching, Byte Space's office was decked out in festive lights and a tiny Charlie Brown style Christmas Tree that Gator had put out. A real one, shedding pine needles everywhere. Some squad members that had been in the field for a while had come home, including 10BIT, otherwise known as Dogson, a tailless brown floppy-eared dog who represented 2BIT's nostalgia, being based on the first being he ever created. "So, Rainbow named you guys? Rats, I could've used a new name..." Dogson sighed as he spoke to Vixy. "I wouldn't say these names are great..." she mumbled. Stripes, the black & white tiger, came out of his office as the Squad was relaxing on a break. "Alright, I have the work sheets for the week of December 25th..." he announced, getting a collective groan as a result. "I'm happy to work, boss, but Christmas day?" Cupie chuckled nervously. "Multiverse crime doesn't take a holiday." Stripes said. "Yes it does!" Gator shouted. 2BIT walked over to Stripes and led him back to his office. "Don't riot, guys! I'll talk to him..." he said, closing the door behind them, "You remember I'm the boss, right?" 2BIT said. Stripes nodded. "You remember you put me in charge of the office, right? So technically, I'm the boss." he grunted. 2BIT rubbed his chin. "Okay, consider me your Marley right now. You're being a bit of a jerk, even for my work ethic. So, have fun getting visited by three spirits." he said, turning to exit. Stripes crossed his arms. "Har har. That's just a bunch of movies. Isn't it? ...2BIT?" he babbled, but 2BIT didn't turn back. "...I'm not giving us the day off. You guys work, I make you work. That's what being the work ethic is all about..." he grumbled.
Stripes was napping a bit later, and awoke to find his office unusually dark. "Huh? ...Hey, there's no night in Byte Space. What gives?" he muttered. "There's night when it's narratively convenient!" came a voice. It was Dogson, who was lightly floating above Stripes' desk and holding a candle. "Guess what? I'm your Ghost of Christmas Past!" he said, "Guess that's why I was introduced in this episode. Meh." he muttered. Stripes rubbed his eyes and grunted. "Good luck with that. My past is 2BIT's past." he stated. Dogson shrugged. "We'll see about that!" he said, snapping his fingers. They emerged in a bedroom. "Christmas 1991!" Dogson announced. A small, cute-looking child 2BIT was seated in front of a TV, playing Sonic the Hedgehog on SEGA Genesis. "See?" Stripes said. "Wow... 2BIT sucked..." Dogson muttered, "And look, he quits. I guess he didn't get into Sonic until Tails showed up..." he sighed. "Wasn't this supposed to be about me? And isn't 2BIT supposed to be ageless?" Stripes asked. "All good questions! Let me fast-forward through 2BIT's life story here..." Dogson muttered, tapping the candle a bit. Eventually, they came to Stripes, asleep at his desk. "Do you ever work, work ethic?" Dogson asked. "My job doesn't take long!" Stripes protested. Dogson glanced outside his office. No one was there. "Well, you didn't use to force everyone to work on Christmas." he stated. "There wasn't as much to look after then." Stripes sighed. Dogson flipped ahead to a later Christmas. Stripes was frantically running about the office from desk to desk, inputting commands at each terminal. "8BIT tried to pull something that year. Tried to shut us down. I ran myself ragged trying to keep the lights on!" he grumbled. Dogson shrugged. "Yeesh, that's ruff... Sorry, dog pun. But why haven't you ever taken a vacay like the others? Surely 2BIT could've fixed this in the morning?" he suggested. Stripes sighed. "I'm... 2BIT's work ethic... He neglects me a lot as it is. If I can be around to do something right once in a while, I should, right?" he said glumly. Dogson blew out the candle and they were back at the present. "Don't be a downer, this is a comedy series. Well, I'm off! Enjoy the present!" Dogson said, flying right through the wall. "How do living people become ghosts and then go back to living after??" Stripes asked.
He tried to return to his nap, but he knew he'd be woken up again soon. He'd seen this movie; Several versions. That made it harder to soundly rest. And then, just as he started to drift off, an icy wind blew open his office door, and a cheerful laugh roused him as Booster the Reindeer flew in, wearing a green Santa suit and dashing around the air in his office playfully. "Hey! Merry Christmas, palsy! I'm your Ghost of Christmas Current!" he giggled. "Don't you mean present?" Stripes asked. Booster landed beside him and poked his chest, giving him a static jolt. "Yow!" he yelped. "Nope, current! Presents come to those who deserve them, so sayeth the law of the North Pole!" he chuckled. Stripes grunted and stood up. "Shouldn't you be working for Santa right now?" he grumbled. "I'm a backup reindeer. How many of us does he need?" Booster chuckled, "But we're here to talk about..." he was interrupted by Stripes. "Let me guess; Nephew Fred and Tiny Tim?" he smirked. Booster scratched his head. "Err... No. Fred Leo and Tim the Fawn are both from the future, so I guess they're not in my itinerary..." he stated to Stripes' bewilderment. "Come on! Touch my silky robe! It knows the way!" Booster stated with a grin. Stripes grabbed the scruff of his collar. "You wake me up like that again and I'll knock you into Christmas Yet-to-Come!" he warned as the scene shifted around them to show what Christmas Day would look like that year. BIT Squad was glumly watching monitors within the office, many of them looking particularly depressed as they watched celebrations in other dimensions. Sonic and their friends were out singing carols in GeneX Prime. 2BIT could see his Pokemon frolicking in Poke Pelago's islands without him. "Ingrates. Yeah, have your fun Primarina...And all you Crobats..." he muttered. And of course, Jingle the Reindeer had been to another town 2BIT had a mayorship over. "Jingle's such a showoff. Really pulls off that Santa suit..." Booster mumbled, looking at his own suit with insecurity. Stripes shrugged. "So the office is bored. So what?" he grumbled, "They're not gonna die." Stripes stated. "I'm gonna DIE if I have to watch this any longer!!" Vixy conveniently whined, crying a little. Booster looked at Stripes with his arms crossed, and Stripes sighed. "Well, why should I suffer alone?" he asked. "I don't know. Why should you? Close the office." he suggested. "But if we're not watching..." Stripes stammered. "Does the multiverse fall apart on Halloween? Yeah, Santa sees you in there. But actually, don't answer that, not a great example. Well, this is why there's three ghosts. Maybe future will give you something to think about!" he said, poking Stripes again and jolting him, which caused him to wake up in his office. "...I picked a bad day to start drinking coffee. I'm having reactions to it..." Stripes grumbled.
Of course, he realized there was one ghost left. "Alright, guys. This episode is already running long. On with it! Where's future!? Who is it? The Doomsayer? The Deathbringer? Phone it in, why don't you guys!" he shouted. Sure enough, a hooded figure appeared, holding a scythe. "I am the Ghost of Christmas Future!! I know all that ever will be...on Christmas!! The hanging of garland shall be outlawed after one too many holiday-related hangings!" the ghost's voice boomed. Stripes tried to peer into his hood. "You're not Guard, voice is different. They didn't get 8BIT for this?" he asked. The ghost tapped his scythe. "Such questions are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Now, let's see how Christmas will look after the Sun burns out..." he stated. "Uhm... Isn't this supposed to be about me?" Stripes asked. The ghost groaned. "FINE... Like it matters when all Earths are cold lifeless balls of rock..." he grumbled, tapping the scythe again to transform the scene around them. They arrived in GeneX Prime, where they saw Booster sitting at an intersection with a windshield wiper. "I'll wash up your car for rings! Shine your shoes? Sing to your kids?" he asked a car as he flagged it down. Officer Razor crept over and cuffed him. "You've been warned about bothering people, elf!" he grunted. "I-I'm not... Okay..." he babbled. Stripes glanced at the ghost. "What are you saying? My work ethic spilled over into the worlds we care for, and none of them celebrate Christmas anymore? That's nuts." he said. "Maybe for Scrooge, but you're a demigod." the ghost stated, "Come..." he said, tapping his scythe. Next they saw Dogson, curating a small "history of Christmas" museum in a lonely corner of the Mushroom Kingdom. A few bored looking Toads shuffled about. Dogson himself looked rather glum. Gator was mopping up nearby. "You know what this place needs, doggy? Heavy metal music." he stated. Dogson sighed. "No one even gets it anymore..." he frowned. Stripes scoffed. "Laying it on a little thick, aren't you?" he asked. "All it takes is a couple years without Christmas. People decide for a moment they're happier without it. Less bills. No annoying relatives. When no one's doing it at all, they lose the point entirely..." the ghost said, tapping his scythe.
They shifted to Byte Space, which was mostly empty. A sign hung from a dark corner reading "I told you so." Stripes looked at it and frowned. "That's Dusk's work, I guess..." he muttered. He looked around and saw 2BIT, with a new monitor setup pulled right out of The Dark Knight, allowing him to closely watch and control all worlds by himself. "What, I pushed him so far he went full control freak?" Stripes asked. 2BIT shivered and tapped some keystrokes. "A time anomaly? Ohh... It's one of those pesky ghosts of Christmas. I'll get the Phantom Fighters in here to rid us of that!!" he shouted, summoning Sonic and Tails with ghost-catching packs! "Oh... Right. Demigod." the ghost babbled. Stripes jumped. "Get us out of here then! Hey, where am I? And don't say dead, that's a cliche!" he shouted. The ghost tapped his scythe and they emerged in his office...where they found the door bricked up. "Hey! What's the deal?" Stripes asked. "2BIT got fed up with you calling the shots after you made him snap. At least you get to nap all you want. And hey, you won't die until he dies. Have fun!" the ghost said, starting to walk away. "Hey!! You can't leave me like this!!" Stripes shouted, grabbing for the ghost. His hood fell to reveal...a bunny? It was a dark-blue rabbit, with a very glum looking face. "Oh, great! You ruined my whole dark-broody vibe!" he snapped. "Wait... Dusk??" Stripes stammered. He'd never actually seen Dusk, aka 6BIT. He started to chuckle. "You're a bunny?" he grinned. "I'm a hare! Stop laughing! Oh, fine. Whatevs. Not like you'll change. Merry Christmas, dude..." He raised his scythe as if to strike Stripes, and he raised his hands to block, only for everything to go black!
Stripes once again awoke in his office. The first thing he did was take his coffee mug and drop it in the trash bin. The second thing he did was go to the door, peeking his head out to see everyone working. "...Okay, stop harassing me, guys. You can have Christmas off." he announced. "But I haven't begun to harass you!" Gator stammered. 2BIT looked over at Stripes with a smile. "Thanks, man. Merry Christmas! Wanna join us on our vacation to Alola? I got you all disguises so the humans won't freak out!" he offered. Stripes shrugged. "Well... Why not... Halloween doesn't destroy the multiverse, right? Hey, did you guys know Dusk is a cuddly bunny?" he asked with a grin. "WHO TOLD YOU?!" Dusk shouted from his dark corner, "I mean...it's a lie. I'm a snake." he stated. Vixy held a flashlight to his corner and chuckled. "A cute and cuddly snake!" she giggled, seeing his rabbity form. Dusk pouted. "Humbug I say. See if I help haunt people in their dreams again..." he grunted. Booster flew across the office as everyone laughed, somehow making it snow under him. "Merry Christmas to all! And to all a Happy Random Weekday that isn't Christmas yet!" he cheered. Stripes rubbed his eyes with a nod, and retired back to his office to finish his nap. "Our office is totally nuts... I love those guys..." he sighed with a smile.
Episode 11 - Bad Dog
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Mario belongs to Nintendo.
Other characters belong to their respective owners.
"The Switch stinks!" Dogson was annoying anyone who would listen. "All the games are remakes of Wii U games except Oddysey! It's too big to fit in my non-existant pocket! And worst of all... no Virtual Console!" he complained, his face stuck in a game of Fire Emblem Warriors. "...Yeah, I wanted all the Dreamcast games on the Wii U." Gator mumbled as he passed by. "Everything sucks and is pointless..." Dusk groaned, "But you're just sour because there's nothing much nostalgic on the Switch." he muttered. Dogson opened his mouth for rebuttal, but rubbed his chin to consider it. "Right...recent game remasters don't count..." he muttered. 2BIT walked in and found everyone standing around Dogson, exchanging gripes with him. "Hey, what is this, a coffee break!? We don't drink coffee! Back to work!" he shouted, snatching the Switch from Dogson. "Don't completely shatter the fourth wall. How many times must I say this?" he grumbled, "We need to find you something constructive to do instead of complaining about modern stuff..."
And so, the mission to find Dogson a niche began! We'd love to do a musical montage here, but you're going to get enough of that nonsense in Sonic GeneX this year. So, here's some quick gags!
Dogson was seen walking 2BIT's various pets. At the end of his leashes were SPOT, an Arcanine named Chip, a Lycanroc named Twilight, and Cookie, a villager from 2BIT's Animal Crossing village. "Why does the robo-puppy need a walk? Why am I walking Cookie!? This is demeaning for all of us!" Dogson complained. "Aw, I just like getting out in the fresh air!" Cookie giggled.
Dogson was put in charge of curating 2BIT's Mario Maker courses. It seemed a good idea, nobody was otherwise paying attention to them. Unfortunately, this was a bad idea as Dogson converted all 3D style stages to original Super Mario Bros. stages. Vixy test played them and growled. "How can I beat a Yoshi level without Yoshi!? What were you thinking!?" she shouted. "Not my fault. Nintendo should've made 8-bit Yoshis." Dogson said. "You called?" said 8BIT, appearing out of nowhere and snickering as he unplugged the Wii U.
Dogson tried to take over the cooking for BIT Squad. At the next lunch, the squad found bones and kibble waiting for them. "...You're taking your species a bit too literal, dawg..." Stripes groaned, looking at the bowl left for him. "Can I sprinkle some cheese on it?" Cupie asked. Dogson crossed his arms at them. "Well, we don't actually HAVE a chef, and we can't do takeout forever!" he told them. "Says who?" Gator asked. Dogson turned to walk away. "Me! Now eat up...you're stuck with Chef Dogson until we get a replacement!" he said, walking out. 2BIT groaned softly. "Any volunteers?" he asked. Once out of sight, Dogson snickered and opened a closet, pulling out a tasty looking, well seasoned steak. "This'll teach them to make me walk things..." he snickered.
....It taught no one anything.
Episode 12 - Korean Winter Olympics
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2BIT had arrived in uhh... umm... Korea. (good luck getting me to spell that place's actual name!) It was cold, but it was February, and the Winter Olympics were in full swing. 2BIT expected to see Mario and Sonic and their entourage of pals around, ready to hit the slopes or remind themselves what the heck curling is. Alas, there was not a Toad or Chao in sight. He scratched his head as he roamed around. Nope, naught but human athletes...and none of them looking anything like Italian plumbers. "Mario? Maaaariooo? Hm, I'm starting to sound like Luigi..." 2BIT muttered. He got a communication coming in through his helmet's newly installed comms device; It was Stripes. "Errr, boss? You did check on the status of everybody before you left, right?" he murmured. 2BIT shrugged. "Well, I figured Sonic wouldn't be here, still reeling from those six months that happened outta nowhere, thank you Eggman..." he murmured, "What's Mario doing, cleaning Rabbid vomit? ...Anyone pay any attention to that Rabbid nonsense?" he asked. "Heck no." Stripes responded, "We don't really have that much responsibility towards Mario..." At any rate, 2BIT was getting the feeling that Mario and Sonic had skipped these Olympics. "This is a bad omen for Mario & Sonic's friendship... Also, no one warned me before I came south of the danger zone?! I'm not much up on current events, but I heard North Korea's leader um... Know what? I'm not gonna say any more... Someone may be listening and take it...badly..." he murmured, walking off nervously.
2BIT wasn't the only one who'd shown up, maybe nostalgic for events that weren't quite canon anymore. 8BIT could be found hanging near the speed skating rink, his skates slung over his shoulder. "No Bowser, no Eggman... Should I try to create an international incident instead of an interdimensional one, I wonder?" the sinister fox mused. 2BIT glared at him. "Shut up. You want to start a nuclear war and destroy the world?" he snapped. "Maybe. That'd stop crooked corporations from taking advantage of the little guy...since y'know...little guy would be dead!" 8BIT snickered. 2BIT smirked. "You're just upset that Deathbytes got cancelled. Turns out a force stronger than me can stop you...pageviews!" he said, sticking his tongue out. 8BIT rolled his eyes. "I didn't cancel anything, I'm just on break. Need a real good match for the return. How about you lend me some of your yous?" he snickered. 2BIT shook his head. "They're you, too. And I think if one of us dies, we all die. Or was that just if I die? You immortal?" the blue fox wondered. 8BIT shrugged. "I don't get bogged down in those details either. Enough chitchat. You know why we're both here. Let's have a race. Let's see... if I win, one of your squaddies has to join me and be my minion. And if you win..." he said, trailing off. 2BIT shrugged. "You'll owe me a favor... To be collected at a later date, and you can't say no!" he smirked. 8BIT grunted, "BUT, it can't be for me to sabotage or stop my own schemes!" he stated. "...Deal!" 2BIT said, shaking on it.
And so, a neutral party was needed to judge the race. Fortunately, they found a Lakitu that Bowser had sold into Olympic slavery at the Sochi Olympics. Bowser's...not a great king. 2BIT and 8BIT stood on the ice at starting positions, their skates ready to go. Lakitu's fishing pole displayed a traffic signal. Red light... Second red light for some reason... Green light! The two foxes were off! Naturally, 8BIT thought to cheat. Snapping his fingers, he caused Mario Kart-esque item boxes to appear. "I've been saving these things... C'mon, blue shell!" he said, grabbing an item only to find a useless coin...probably because he was in first. "Shoot! These are from Mario Kart 8!" he growled. 2BIT skated over to another box. "You reap what you sow! Eat lightning!" he shouted, zapping 8BIT and causing him to shrink as he passed by! 8BIT snarled and followed behind 2BIT as they turned the corner. He snagged another item and held a red shell. "Close enough... Have a nice slip!" he shouted, tossing it. 2BIT glanced back. "This isn't karting!" he smirked, jumping onto the shell and riding it Super Mario 64 style! 8BIT's jaw dropped. "How are you even doing that with skates!?" he shouted. "Video game logic!!" 2BIT shouted back. "B-but we're in Pyu...Pae... Pyukumuku... Ehh, Korea!!" 8BIT protested. 2BIT easily crossed the finish first with the shell carrying him, and as he jumped off, it kept going around the track until it hit 8BIT from behind! "Yeow!!" he shouted. "You owe me! Remember!!" 2BIT shouted. "As if either of us will remember! We couldn't remember the details of Vancouver either!" 8BIT shouted, skating off in a huff. "...I remember kicking your ass..." 2BIT chuckled.
Episode 13 - Easter Fools
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This is the tale of 6BIT, also known as Dusk. A tale of woe and gloom and doom. A dark tale so dismal that you'd best just stop reading right now. This is the story of how Dusk was buried alive. It was a calm day in Lavender Town, the freaky music had only caused nine instances of Lavender Syndrome and Ben also drowned...wait, that's Majora's Mask. At any rate, Dusk was there on a mission from 2BIT, to check into urban legends and creepypastas. Like the one about Slenderman. He's right behind you as you read this. Also, it was Easter. So they picked on Dusk because he was a bunny. "Geez, I can't hear the narration, but I get the feeling it's bad like a Fanfiction.net story today." Dusk sighed as he headed for Pokemon Tower. "Maybe there'll be some sense to the next part of this chapter...I wouldn't get my hopes up though, reader. I'm pretty sure I spotted Sonic.exe out the corner of my eye." he shuddered. "Woooo, do you know da wae??" a bug-eyed Gastly said, freaking Dusk out. "That's it. This isn't even Halloween. I'm out of here!" he shouted, heading for the exit. But when he got there, he suddenly found himself in the buried alive room.
"Oh, shoot! How'd this even happen!? I haven't even gotten in any battles! I don't have any Pokemon, even!" he stammered in panic, looking around for an exit. Out of nowhere, Master Xehenort from Kingdom Hearts appeared. "Welcome... You shall be one of my vessels, rabbit...and together we will rule Zootopia!" he sneered. Dusk stared at him. "Gator...are you behind this nonsense?" he murmured. Gator appeared in the room, too. "Gator is also Xehenort... You are Xehenort, I am Xehenort... Everyone is XEHENORT!!" he declared, his eyes a sinister yellow. Dusk sighed and backed up. "At least as Xehenort I'll have some power over stuff..." he sighed. Suddenly, Xehenort was knocked out by a FALCON PUUUUNCH!! "Show me your moves!!" Captain Falcon declared. Dusk scratched his head. "Wait... Am I in Smash? That would almost make sense of this nonsense....so I guess probably not." he sighed. 8BIT walked up behind him dressed like Freddy Kreuger. "Noo, this is a dream, boy... Do you know da wae?" he cackled. Dusk was about to lose it and scream when the lights went out.
"APRIL FOOLS!!" When the lights came on, Dusk was in the Dream Temple. 2BIT, Gator and Dogson were snickering at Dusk while the Dream King as Shadow Tails sat with an annoyed look in his eye. "My temple is not a toy..." the Dream King grumbled. Dusk growled softly. "You put me through that ridiculuous nonsense for a JOKE!?" he growled. "Well, we knew you wouldn't wanna do an Easter special!" Dogson grinned. Dusk shuddered, but then smirked. "Oh, wouldn't I?" he said, stepping over to the Dream King and whispering something to him. The bunny and Shadow Tails started walking away...just as giant Easter eggs started tumbling into the room, crushing 2BIT, Dogson and Gator! "Nooo!! But I am Xehenort!!" Gator wailed. 2BIT groaned and tried to get up from under the giant colored egg. "Gaaah... What, you can't take a yolk? ...Urrgh... Bad pun... Choking to death on it!!" Then, 2BIT died and met Ben, who drowned.
...April Fools!
...We're not sure if any part of this thing is canon at all... o_O
Happy Easter, too!
Episode 14 - Smash Talk
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"Alright, everybody!" 2BIT said with a big grin, "Another Smash Bros. is on the way! Master Hand is determining which people get the prestigious honor of joining the battle!" Most of BIT Squad was present for this meeting, and Gator raised his hand. "Think I can join this time? I've been training!" he grinned. "Uhh, 2BIT doesn't want our squad to join the battle. We're supposed to work behind the scenes and we don't need that publicity." Vixy said. 2BIT nodded. "Yeah, but it'd be nice if we could influence things like with the Smash Ballot. So, I'd like to know who all you're voting for if given the chance! Of course, hehe, you know I'd vote for Tails!" he smirked. "So, you don't think Tails can get in on his own merit?" Dusk pointed out, making 2BIT frown. Dogson stepped up and fist-bumped 2BIT. "I'm with ya, boss! I'll support Tails, too!" he said. "Suck up!" Gator shouted. "2BIT just votes Tails based on nostalgia, I guess..." Stripes chuckled. 2BIT crossed his arms. "Well, guys, who would you all vote for?" he asked. Gator frowned. "Baah, K. Rool's a stinky croc... Isn't there any gators besides me? Oooh! Feraligatr!!" he decided, making everyone roll their eyes. Vixy got a dreamy look as she thought about it. "Well, I could vote for Sora..." she blushed. Dusk frowned. "This is all pointless, and as such, I might as well go crazy and say Q*Bert." he shrugged. Cupie giggled. "Hehe, this is fun! How about Toad?" he smiled. There was a bit more eye rolling at that. Finally, it was Stripes' turn. "I'll go with Impa; Sometimes a bit of a middle-management type, but who can kick butt!" he smirked. 2BIT listened to this and shook his head. "You guys aren't taking this seriously. Feraligatr? Q*Bert?" he grumbled. "Wait a minute! Tails isn't even a fighter, what gives you the right to critisize!?" Vixy snapped. "He is so a fighter!" Dogson argued, "Just because he's not the strongest doesn't mean he doesn't qualify!" And so began the fighting.
"Impa literally kicks all your choices' butts!" Stripes shouted. "Pfft, who cares." Dusk sighed. "Hey! We gators won't be beat by none of you clowns!" Gator argued. "Sora beat Sephiroth!! Sephiroth!!" Vixy protested. "Non-canon!" Dogson retorted. "Do we have to fight, guys? It's just a game..." Dogson murmured. "Whadda you know, you picked Toad!" Gator scoffed. 2BIT frowned. "It's more than a game. Anyone picked for Smash gains more recognition than ever before. It can work wonders for their very existence. Just look at Pit...he came out of retirement after 25 years!" he pointed out. "Then we'd better settle your argument..." the group turned to see 8BIT waiting in the shadows. "We gotta change the locks to this office." Gator sighed. 8BIT chuckled. "Me, I want Goku in Smash. Just because it'd blow up the game. Anything could happen at that point....plus I'd like those wimps to feel real power..." he grinned. "You're nuts..." Stripes grunted. 8BIT smirked. "Well, why don't we put all this to the test? I have a stadium. Let's pit our picks against one another!" he sneered. 2BIT shrugged. "We can't. We have no version of Goku to add to such a battle." he said. 8BIT scoffed. "It's Smash Bros... We use phonies brought to life!"
Arriving at 8BIT's stadium, 2BIT and his dark side each took time to program the characters into the computer. Soon, the stadium transformed into Big Battlefield, and the competitors were formed! "Oooh...I want popcorn!" Cupie giggled. 2BIT turned to 8BIT. "This is my show, too, so none of that gore you like." he said. 8BIT grunted. "You're no fun." As the match began, Q*Bert was goofily hopping from platform to platform. "Huh...this is practically his stage." Dusk observed. Suddenly, Goku flew in and delivered a massive punch, sending Q*Bert skyrocketing into oblivion! "Well, that sucked..." Stripes sighed. 8BIT smirked. "Of course...Goku is the most OP character anywhere, barring his own universe. I look forward to seeing 2BIT suffer as he tears his little fox hero apart!" he said darkly. Seeing Q*Bert so easily dispatched, Impa, Sora and Tails nodded to one another, seeming to agree to work together. However, Feraligatr leapt into action first, attempting to chomp Impa with its powerful jaws! "Why am I not surprised Gator's pick isn't a team player?" Vixy growled. "Go, Feraligatr! Use Dragon Ascent!!" Gator shouted. The others glanced at him in utter stupefication, the idea that he'd know such an obscure move, but not how impossible it is for Feraligatr to use it perplexing them. Impa had blocked his attack with a shield, and then struck back with her massive sword, knocking the Pokemon away! Goku took advantage of her distraction and grabbed her from behind, pummeling her with several hard-hitting punches before throwing her backward! "Kamehamehaaaa!!" Goku then fired a colassal beam at Impa, knocking her out of the battle in a terrible explosion! "Why does leaving the border kill guys in Smash Bros. anyway?" Cupie asked, munching popcorn. "Must be lined with explosives." 2BIT mused. Sora began to race across the field using Sonic Blade, smacking both Goku and Feraligatr like Fox using his illusion side-B. Tails leapt over this and pointed an arm cannon down at the stunned Goku, hitting him with a blast that caused repeating damage for a moment! Feraligatr tried to grab Sora, but he zapped it with a thunder spell...which for some reason sent the Pokemon soaring off the field! "Hey!! Final Fantasy rules say lightning HEALS water guys!!" Gator complained. "Pokemon rules make more sense there..." Dogson stated. As Tails and Sora ran at Goku for the kill, the worn-out Saiyan suddenly picked up a fairy bottle and healed himself. "Hey!! No items!!" Stripes complained. 8BIT smirked. "It wouldn't be Goku without a sensou bean deus ex machina to ensure he wins." he stated. "Sora can still do this...Th-the keyblade beats everything!" Vixy stammered. "Give me strength!" Sora said, beginning to charge an attack. Goku soared at him, only for Tails to fly into his path and drop dummy rings onto him, stunning the all-powerful fighter! He then went into an aerial combo, spinning his tails to strike Goku over and over! However, Goku suddenly glowed gold, turning Super Saiyan! "Wait...f-final smash!?" 2BIT protested. "His final smash is some super-duper-supreme Saiyan form. This is normal for Goku." 8BIT cackled. Goku then grabbed Tails and looked ready to squeeze the life out of him, but Sora activated his attack! Several strong beams erupted from his keyblade and flew at Goku and Tails as Ragnarok was unleashed! Goku chose to simply throw Tails rather than pummel him, trying to flee the attack. However, Sora intercepted him with incredible speed and began to rapidly strike the Saiyan with his keyblade! "Ha ha! Sora can long-game any enemy into dust!" Vixy smirked. However, Goku soon broke out of the combo and gave Sora a swift one-two punch of his own, knocking the keyblade master to his doom! "...He always did have cruddy HP..." 2BIT sighed. Now, Goku turned back to Tails. The fox smirked from behind a wall of dummy rings and chu bombs that he'd tossed about. However, Goku simply started to fly at him! So, Tails flew up as well, footstool jumping off Goku's head to send him into the traps below! The spectators were tense as Tails and Goku stopped short, seeing a Smash Ball float by. They each rushed toward it, and it looked like Goku would get there first, but Tails tossed a boxing glove on a chain forward, breaking it first! He glowed, and blew a whistle, calling the Tornado to him! He hopped into the cockpit and flew at Goku... only for the Super Saiyan to smash the plane with a swift punch! "Heeey... final smashes are supposed to be invulnerable! You're cheating, 8BIT!" 2BIT snapped. Tails climbed out of the rubble to see Goku sneering over him. The fox gulped, but then smirked, picking up the broken engine like an item and launching it at Goku like a bullet bill! The impact sent him flying...and in a stunning explosion, Tails had beaten him! "YESS!! In your FACE, 8BIT!!" 2BIT shouted at the growling black fox. Suddenly, a familiar tune was played as a hammer started to swing. Turning, Tails was whacked and sent to his own defeat! Who should be holding the hammer but Toad! "I'm the best!" the mushroom cheered as a victory screen was displayed. Everyone stared blankly, except Cupie who began to clap. "Yay, I win!" he smiled. Dusk rolled his eyes. "Told you all this was pointless." he muttered. "Let's play Mario Kart next!" Gator suggested. "Dibs on Toad!" Vixy called out.
In the end, Smash Bros. is a game. Even demigods can have fun with it!
Episode 15 - Matrimony Interlude
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BIT Squad's office in Byte Space was decorated with flowers and streamers as the entire squad gathered together in the monitor room. They had popcorn, cake and lots of soda ready. It was something of a party. This was because a momentous occasion was taking place; the first wedding of two of the BIT-verse's many heroes! "Don't call it BIT-verse narrator! It might stick!" Gator shouted at clearly no one. There was a bit of disquiet in the room as they bore witness to the unpleasant occurrences that you surely read about in Sonic GeneX: the Series by now. (Right? Well, you'll not get spoilers here!) "At least all that singing has stopped for a bit..." Dusk murmured. "Yeah, but did 8BIT cause all this craziness? I mean of all days for these things to happen!" Dogson complained as he watched the events on the monitor. "Hey! I resent that! ...I'm just over here trying to figure out where our Smash Bros. predictions went wrong..." 8BIT grumbled, sitting in a corner. Vixy glanced in his direction. "Wait, he's in here!? Don't we have security?" she stammered. "That's 2BIT's department..." Stripes said sleepily, his head down on a desk. Vixy took a look around. "Hey, where is 2BIT?" she wondered. "And how come according to this schedule the action is now gonna stop for a month?" Cupie asked in regards to the pacing of the wedding they were gathered to watch. "Did I type month? It was supposed to say moment. Silly autocomplete!" Gator giggled, answering nothing for our readers. (Don't worry, the next part should come soon enough, 2BIT will be weighing precisely when the best time to post it is...) Noticing that their leader was nowhere in sight, Vixy decided to go looking for him. "He's not ducking out on another chapter! He's supposed to be the protagonist of this thing! The squad can't literally do EVERYTHING!" she grumbled, heading for the most likely place, his office. "I wouldn't bother him. If he's so out of it that I'm in here, he probably won't want to be disturbed..." 8BIT stated. Vixy stared at him. "You evil or what? Don't give me advice!" she scoffed.
2BIT was indeed in his office, seated with his back to the door. There was a picture frame in his hand, and he was looking wistfully at the person in the picture. Vixy stepped in quietly. She couldn't make out whose picture it was 2BIT was looking at, but it appeared to be some red-furred mammal from a distance. 2BIT placed the picture face-down on the desk and rested his head beside it. Vixy could hear him sniffle a bit. A look of concern formed on her face. "B-boss? ...Isn't our story supposed to be a comedy?" she murmured, anxious to get his attention even if it meant breaking the 4th wall. 2BIT didn't move. "I need a good cry. Leave me alone." he murmured, "Unless you want me to break into song about it? I think we've had enough of that from Bard this year..." he added. Vixy backed up a step. Yeah, there was enough music going on...but she still worried about him. Before she could leave, 2BIT started to speak up. "It's been years...but I still can't figure it out. Why did she leave me? Why did the only person who ever loved me...s-say goodbye?" he sniffled. Vixy froze. She had no idea about this. Why didn't she? She was one of his selves, wasn't she? 2BIT rubbed his eyes and continued. "And...and... In the years since... no one's ever said 'I love you' to me again... what's wrong with me? Is...is it the fact I've closed myself off in this pocket dimension? It's not like I don't have a presence out there..." he stammered. Vixy turned to see his eyes watered over, his face straining to hold back the tears. The wedding must have brought all his feelings of loneliness to the surface. Vixy ran over to hug him, his tears falling onto her shoulder. "Y-you still have us, 2BIT..." she stammered. "BIT Squad is all me, of course they like me..." he scoffed, "Well, like-hate me. Oh, Vixy, don't tell them... I kept this memory away from the squad... Only 8BIT shares it with me. I made the mistake of sharing all my memories with him... We see what a nice guy he turned out to be." he sniffled. Vixy hugged him tighter. "We don't hate you any more than you hate you... You don't hate you, 2BIT." she assured him. He grabbed a tissue from his desk and dried his eyes. "I-I'll meet you out there. I need to get ahold of myself." he said. Vixy nodded and headed for the door. "I love you..." she said, stepping out. 2BIT sighed. "Hollow, coming from me..." he muttered.
2BIT opened a drawer and placed the picture frame inside it, letting out a heavy sigh. "I really did love her... Maybe I didn't do enough to show it? If... if I ever find someone to love me again... I have to do better. Just please...someone give me the chance..." he said softly, wiping his eyes once more before taking a deep breath and heading off to join the others. This wedding would be a challenge for him. To watch others find happiness when it seems so out of reach for oneself... it isn't always easy. As he passed 8BIT, the dark fox could tell he had been crying, and instead of taking a moment to taunt him, he stood up and shot him an understanding glance. 2BIT looked back and nodded. 8BIT could feel the pain, too, as though it were his own. "Hey, boss! I think intermission is almost over. Got some earplugs for the weird singing?" Dusk asked. 2BIT shrugged and sat down. "Hey, I decided this would be a musical, you're going to sit and enjoy it." he chuckled. "Pass the popcorn!" Gator said, sitting next to 2BIT. "Aren't you supposed to be down there at the wedding?" 2BIT asked. Gator shrugged. "I think there's actually three Gators at the wedding already." he said. 2BIT groaned. "Clones or time travel duplicates?" he asked. "You silly... Where's my popcorn??" Gator asked. The squad could see the monitor starting to show something happening again. "Well, there better be only one Gator onscreen at a time or the lot of you are... uhh... imagine I can punish you, okay!" 2BIT growled. "Yikes! I better catch those mes!" Gator gasped, tossing his popcorn into the air and running off like a crazy person. Stripes groaned. "I'll get a mop for that floor popcorn..." he growled. 2BIT nodded and sat back. Hopefully no one would see him cry. Vixy took Gator's seat beside him, clutching his hand. Well, at least he had someone to get him through this...
Stay tuned! Part 2 of Musical Matrimony to come!
"Knock knock! Hey guys! It's me, Zed the Zebra! 24BIT!! You guys locked me out! C'mon, open the door!" 2BIT's artistic persona groaned, once again forgotten and left out of things. "Oh well, I'll talk to these folks... Hey, guys! Part 2 of Musical Matrimony is arriving next week after all! So, good news, you won't be waiting long to see the end of that... Maybe it won't be too long a wait before I get a proper introduction into this story, too. I should doodle a little note for 2BIT..." he murmured, taking the pencil he always balanced upon his ear and looking around for paper, finding none. "...Rats."
Episode 16 - Transportation Demonstration
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"Hello! By now you all must be wondering how we keep traveling between Byte Space and various worlds, right? Well, today I decided to answer that question!" 2BIT says, seemingly looking RIGHT AT YOU. He's in what appears to be a game room, a large monitor on the wall with hundreds of cartridges on the shelves around him. There's a device under the monitor with a slot, it looks kind of like an old game console. "To help demonstrate how this works, I have here the manifestation of my memory, 64BIT. We call him Blocky..." 2BIT said as another fox stepped over to him...or...was it a fox? Blocky looked like 2BIT very much, but in a strange, polygonal form. Almost as though he actually WAS a 64-bit render of 2BIT himself. "Very funny, call me Blocky. You know I won't forget that, either. Just like I remember where every single musical note is in Banjo-Kazooie! Anyway, nice to be talked to for a change. You stuck me in this room and never let me go on adventures!" Blocky complained. 2BIT chuckled softly. "Someone has to operate the portal to other worlds! So, uh... Let's say we wanna go to the Nightmare Zone for some reason." he suggested. Probably because it's around Halloween. Blocky tried to nod, but it looked awkward with his polygonal build. "I remember where that cartridge is... I remember..." he said, looking around the wall. 2BIT scratched his head. "Eh? No, the worlds are not contained in these cartridges! They contain the coordinates for each worlds' location in the multiverse! Ha! What an imagination you got!" You didn't ask him that but he really seems to be talking to you.
"Alright! Here it is!" Blocky said, holding out a cartridge for 2BIT. "Ah, yes... We keep calling it the Nightmare Zone but the label actually reads 'GeneX Necros.' See?" he said, showing it off. It oddly resembled Banjo-Kazooie's boxart, with Tabitha in place of Gruntilda, Sonic in place of Banjo and Heather behind him in place of Kazooie. Sonic is holding the "3000 Dos and Don'ts of Scary Scenarios" book instead of a Jinjo. The rating was H for Horror. Why there's a rating system on the world cartridges we'll never know. "Alright, well, we're not going there for obvious reasons but why not prep the portal device just to demonstrate?" 2BIT suggested. "Yes, masssster!" Blocky sarcastically said like Igor from Frankenstein. He slipped the cartridge into the slot and flipped a couple switches, causing the monitor to flicker on, displaying the Nightmare Zone castle. "We can play with these switches to determine where the portal will drop whoever goes through it... Like so..." Blocky said, changing it to display a graveyard, and then the Master Emerald shrine. 2BIT nodded. "Okay. Turn it off." he ordered. Blocky grunted softly. "No way! This is my chance for ADVENTURE!!" he shouted, leaping at the screen, and suddenly slipping through it, emerging on the other side on Angel Island and at the steps of the Master Emerald shrine!! 2BIT gasped in alarm. "You dummy! GeneX Necros isn't safe in October!! How do I drag him back!?!?" he shouted, looking at the switches on the device in a panic.
"Does this mean the demonstration is over?" asked Cupie. "Why were you showing us like we didn't know?" Dusk grumbled. "I didn't know this stuff!" Gator babbled. Seemed like 2BIT wasn't talking to you after all. You must feel so left out all of a sudden. While 2BIT was panicking, Zed the zebra, 24BIT, stepped over and took a look. "Why don't we tie someone off to a rope, send them in to grab Blocky, and pull back on the rope once we've grabbed him?" he asked. "Because the portal only goes one-way unless this device calls us back!" 2BIT gulped. "That's dumb." Vixy murmured. "No, it's not! It keeps the flies out of here!!" 2BIT snapped. Suddenly, they heard Gator's voice through the screen. "Excuse me, Blocky! 2BIT wants to know how we call you back?" They looked around. No one saw Gator go into the screen, but sure enough he was gone. "Can he teleport through dimensions? Coooool..." Cupie murmured. They watched the screen. "Isn't it obvious? If there's ever any trouble, just press... GATOR WATCH OUT!!" Blocky shouted. Gator turned and screamed as clawed hands grabbed him and pulled him offscreen! "Wait! Stop!! I don't taste good!! Yaaaaaaa why do I keep coming back here!?!?" he wailed as horrible snarling was heard. The squad watched in abject horror, and Block cried out "PRESS THE RED BUTTON YOU IDIOTS!!" 2BIT hastily pressed it, and Blocky was suddenly sucked back through the portal! Gator was ejected through it as well, covered in slimy monster drool. "You don't pay me enough..." he whined. Blocky shivered, standing in the corner. "I...never forget... From now on, I stay right here..." he stammered. 2BIT ejected the cartridge and smiled as the monitor turned off. "Alright! All's well that ends well then!" he said awkwardly. "Hey, why exactly DO we leave GeneX Necros all scary and horrific if we're supposed to protect the multiverse?" Dusk asked. "Some hogwash about balance between darkness and light. Don't overthink every little thing..." 2BIT muttered as the squad filed out of the transport room. Blocky remained, shivering and blinking... He will NEVER forget what he saw....
Episode 17 - A Birthday Wish
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2BIT the fox's birthday was coming up, and with that in mind, Cupie the cherub mouse secretly gathered a few members of BIT Squad in hopes of planning the occasion. "Alright, thank you all for helping out! Our leader works so hard and I wanna make his birthday so bright and special! So, uh... Any idea what sorta gift we should give him?" Cupie asked. "Solitude... That's what I want. Isn't it technically all our birthdays?" Dusk murmured. "Not mine!" Gator said, "And where was my presents??" he asked. Zed the zebra shrugged. "Uhm... We combined your birthday with Halloween, Gator. And, uh, technically 2BIT didn't split into multiple BITs on his birthday, so no, it's not our birthday too." he stated. Cupie glanced at Dogson and Blocky. "Do you two have any ideas? You're like, our thoughts in people form!" he grinned. Dogson crossed his arms. "I represent nostalgia! All I know is everything that isn't as good as the good old days! I miss Toys R Us!" he blurted. Everyone stared at him. "Uhhh... No, we're not getting 2BIT any toys." Dusk murmured. "Toys R Us is gone!?" Gator gasped, a look of despair on his face. Blocky let out some digital beeps as he started walking away. "I represent 2BIT's memory, and I just remembered I have work to do..." he stated. "Aw, but can't you think of anything?" Zed asked. Blocky glanced back at the group. "I do not gain 2BIT's new memories in real-time. He only sends to me important memories since I split from him. Something like what he wants for his birthday does not qualify... But I can send you to the man who might know." he stated. Cupie looked excited. "You can! Wow, I knew you were smart!" he grinned. "It's not just sending us directly to ask 2BIT, is it, because that'd be anticlimactic." Dusk sighed.
Blocky sent Cupie, Zed and Dusk to Christmas Town. Santa Claus knows the wishes of everyone on his list, so surely he could help them out. However, it being December, the group couldn't get in to see Santa himself, or Mrs. Claus, or even Rudolf. The best they could get was Booster the reindeer, who brought them to a sort of records room where all the letters, emails and other wishes are filed away. "2BIT's birthday is right during our busy season, huh? I've heard that's rough but I can't see how! You get to celebrate your birthday surrounded by Christmas!" he smiled. "Oh, yeah... Who could POSSIBLY be annoyed by that..." Dusk groaned. Cupie flitted past him, looking around with eyes full of wonder at all the festive decor around them. "Oooooh... It must be so fun working here! Uhm... So, does 2BIT have a Christmas list we can peek at?" he asked. Booster sat at a monitor, checking a few files. "Ho ho...hum... Ahhh... We got nothin' on 2BIT for this year! He hasn't made any Christmas wishes that I can see!" he stated. "Huh? That you can see? Doesn't Santa see everything?" Zed asked. "Poor Santa..." Dusk shivered. Booster chuckled softly, getting up and flying around Cupie quickly. "You see, sometimes people have wishes that not even Santa Claus can grant. Those get left out of our database because the elves, they have such kind hearts, they'd do their best to make every dream come true, and we'd run outta time! Not even Santa can grant every wish...Nope." he said, setting down on the ground between Zed and Dusk and placing his arms around them, "Even the most powerful and magical of us need help sometimes. I think that's why your squad exists in the first place! Santa can't deliver every miracle, but we hope that people will follow our example, and learn to give in places we can't. That's why... That's why Santa Claus does what he does. To inspire the world... that we might all think about others, and make each other happy." he smiled. Cupie sniffled to hear that speech. "That's so beautiful!! I'm just gonna go home and give 2BIT a great big hug and maybe that'll help him feel better that Santa can't grant his wishes!" he said, flitting toward the exit. Zed blinked a couple times. "Seriously, though, you can't suggest, like, a video game or something?" he babbled.
2BIT's birthday arrived, and with no ideas on what to give him, the squad resorted to cards when the time came. "Another birthday... Another year closer to death. Well, this card's obviously from Dusk..." 2BIT chuckled awkwardly. "Hallmark was having an off day when they wrote that one..." Vixy mumbled. Stripes was busy lighting candles on a large, chocolate cake they'd gotten for the occasion. "Stupid lighter! Can we just get 2BIT's Charizard in here?" he complained. "No way! Then we'll need to let all the Pokemon out, and they'll all want a piece, and how do we divide this cake a thousand ways!?" Gator protested. "I don't have a thousand Pokemon! ...Wait, do I? Holy Krabby..." 2BIT murmured. At 2BIT's request, they lit exactly 20 candles. "Wait, you can't be 20, I can remember the 90s!" Dogson babbled. "Hush, I'm guardian of the multiverse, I'll say I'm as old as I want!" the blue fox whispered. Cupie smiled cutely. "Well, blow out the candles and make a wish, and I hope it manages to come true!" he said, turning and wiping tears from his eyes. "E-even though Santa can't--" Zed covered his mouth to silence him. "Hehe, never mind him! Happy Birthday, 2BIT!" he said with a nervous grin. 2BIT nodded, and shut his eyes, thinking of his wish. "...My wish is the same as every year... Somehow, someway... I wish...to be loved..." he thought, blowing out his candles. Even demigods get lonely, and as 2BIT sat with his many selves, enjoying some sweet birthday cake, he silently hoped that this would be the year he would find the one with whom he could truly share his life with...
...Who knows? He might already know that person, somewhere in the universe...
Episode 18 - Switching to Smash
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A terrible war had broken out. Light and darkness were fighting a bitter battle. Fearing that the battle could spill over into worlds that they watch over, BIT Squad decided to intervene. However, the lord of light, Galeem, had a trump card prepared. In one apocalyptic moment, the world's heroes were wiped out in a terrible flash of light... all but Kirby, who clearly used a cheat code. (Because Kirby riding the Warp Star actually IS a spirit, so I guess no one & nothing could really survive that.) Even BIT Squad, as they attempted to intervene, were wiped out. Vixy, Cupie, Dusk, Stripes, Zed and Dogson were all reduced to spirits. Blocky & Gator were back at Byte Space to watch over the multiverse just in case this sort of thing should happen. What of 2BIT? ...He knew some cheat codes, too.
*Avengers Theme plays* "Wait a minute! Wrong theme! Where's Lifelight??" Blocky says. "We're in the Endgame now!" Gator replies.
(I'm gonna take this just as seriously as Nintendo took Smash Ultimate's story; not at all.)
2BIT opened his eyes after Galeem's apocalypse, and found the world had been remade. Locations from various worlds had been mish-mashed together, forming a plot consistency nightmare. 2BIT found himself wandering a small Animal Crossing village. "This should be my town. I always name it DOOM figuring it'll be doomed when I stop paying attention to it..." 2BIT murmured, casually breaking the fourth wall. He was way past pretending the fourth wall was intact at this point. As he walked, he came across a gold-winged Pit and a dark clothed Shulk. "Alts! Oh, crap, this can't be good... Well, I'll SMASH ya!" he smirked, prepping a Mii Gunner-type arm cannon. "Go ahead, blast me... I'm already dead anyway..." said "Shulk." His voice had a familiar negative tone. "...Dusk?? Uhh... Well, you're looking buff today..." 2BIT muttered, tilting his head in confusion. "Pit" danced about flitting his wings and looking excessively cheerful. "Look at this bright and beautiful day! And I feel cuter and more angelic than ever, teehee!" This was Cupie's voice coming out of Pit's mouth. 2BIT lowered his gun and let it disappear. "Galeem took your spirits and crammed them into alts of Shulk and Pit?? If I didn't know better, I'd say it was an assets-saving measure to avoid making Smash Run type enemies..." 2BIT muttered, staring out across the cosmos with a cold look, somehow seeming to glare at the game director. Cupie chuckled. "Silly! It was supposed to let him control us like the glowy-eyed other guys, but it seems like BIT Squad is immune to the brainwashing!" he explained. Dusk held his head and groaned. "Enemies... charging after Kirby... That way!" he muttered. "How?" 2BIT asked. "Shulk has visions of the future, apparently. Sucks to be him..." Dusk sighed.
With his arm-cannon re-equipped, 2BIT followed Dusk to the source of his vision. They left the village and found a small forest nearby that Kirby was running through along with a small group of companions. They also noticed Waluigi hiding behind a tree, waiting to ambush them, along with a purple Luigi. "He must be bitter. Never playable, and an assist trophy doesn't even qualify for one of these battles on its own, he needs to have Luigi along or he's not allowed at all... Now, do I really want credit for knocking him out of the story?" 2BIT murmured. As Waluigi and his plumber spirit vessel turned around, Mr. Resetti popped out of the ground between them and 2BIT! "Halt! No resettin!!" he shouted. Cupie knelt down and playfully poked at the mole. "Silly-billy, games don't reset anymore!" he giggled. "You hittin' me? Take that!!" he shouted, smacking Cupie across the forest with his pickaxe! "Yeah, sorry, he was in my vision, too. Shoulda said something..." Dusk murmured. Waluigi started to charge at them as the purple Luigi crept towards them at a slower pace. "Do we really gotta fight? You guys are already dead anyway..." Dusk murmured. Not giving him a chance to talk his way out of it, Waluigi started furiously kicking Dusk before swatting him away with a tennis racket! "Oooh... That always looks painful... Alright, it's go time...!" 2BIT jumped over Waluigi, hopped off Resetti's head, and pointed his arm cannon at the unassuming Luigi at the rear. "Those guys are assist trophies... You're the ringleader here!" he said, charging up a shot and firing!
When Dusk and Cupie came to, they found 2BIT being followed by the spirit of Waluigi. "Guys, I can't shake him..." he groaned. "Wah hah hah! It's Waluigi time! Let's smash already!" the spirit cackled. "I think he plans to help us in exchange for freeing his spirit, teehee!" Cupie giggled. "Sucks to be you, 2BIT..." Dusk sighed. 2BIT glanced at Waluigi's spirit and sighed. "Why couldn't I start with something like Rayman or Knuckles or Vulpix?" he murmured. Waluigi swatted him with his tennis racket, even though it went right through him. "Yeah, yeah... Come on, guys. Let's find the others and fix this mess. We gotta get Waluigi back to his... hey, what exactly do you do when you're not playing games with Mario's group?" he asked. Waluigi turned and scratched his head. "Hrmmm... Ermm... Wait... Waaaaah!!" he gasped, realizing after a moment that 2BIT was trying to leave without him. "Get back here! Cheater! Waaaah!!" Seemed they'd be stuck with Waluigi for a while...
Episode 19 - Dharkon's World / Ooops, Writer's Blocked!
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Previously on BIT Squad; The opening of Smash Bros Ultimate happened, and though most of BIT Squad also attempted to stop Galeem, they too were vaporized and reduced to spirits, all except 2BIT himself....and Gator and Blocky, who aren't invited to this story. In the new World of Light, 2BIT found Cupie's spirit trapped in the body of a Pit alt, and Dusk's spirit trapped in the body of a Shulk alt. However, they maintained control of themselves rather than succumbing to Galeem's will. Dusk had a Shulk-vision and led them to a place where enemies were planning to ambush Kirby. Upon defeating them, 2BIT ended up being followed by Waluigi's spirit as he set out to find the rest of BIT Squad and discover a way to defeat the seemingly unstoppable Galeem...
Well, weeks have passed. For some reason, there's no sign of the rest of BIT Squad although 2BIT gathered a number of other spirits that just didn't get to be in the story for some reason. Also, that whole thing about Galeem being unstoppable? Yeah, Kirby gathered a smaller, definitely weaker band of heroes together, marched on Galeem, and defeated it no problem. It didn't bother busting out its apocalyptic move again. This is some masterwork of plot, huh? Unfortunately, doing that enabled another evil to just come out of nowhere for no reason and create a World of Darkness. This being, Dharkon, seems like an even bigger threat... but sure, it's gonna be pretty much the same as Galeem. But maybe BIT Squad is somewhere in the World of Darkness...
Within the world of darkness, 2BIT's group somehow found themselves in a version of Hyrule. "Yaay! There's a pretty forest!" Cupie smiled. "You mean the Lost Woods?" Dusk sighed, "Then again, he stayed upbeat going through the ruins of Station Square..." he murmured. The spirit of Knuckles hovered beside him. "Not sure that was Station Square. I mean, sure, there's evidence Chaos was there, but it looked like a pretty generic ruined city." he stated. 2BIT shushed them. "I'm trying to think...so keep Waluigi occupied. I was talking to this owl statue while you guys were discussing unimportant plot points, and it told me a legendary hero is in this kingdom somewhere. Gotta be Link, right? And he was with Kirby... So, we'll finally catch up to the main group! Together, finding the rest of the squad and beating Dharkon should be a breeze!" he figured. "I was thinking Sonic when you said legendary hero, but okay. Nobody's found Sonic yet, have they?" Knuckles asked. Dusk crossed his arms. "If Kirby finds Sonic first, we'll never catch up..." he groaned. "Hey! I found Big the Cat!" Cupie cried. The group glanced in the direction of the Lost Woods. "He went in..." 2BIT sighed. "Wah ha ha!! It's Waluigi's time to shine!!" shouted Waluigi as he pushed past Knuckles! Or...through him, seeing as they were spirits. 2BIT sighed. "Noooo, we need someone who knows Hyrule. Anyone speak horse? All we got's Epona..." he said awkwardly.
"2BIT! Cupie! Dusk! Stop playing with your toys and get back to work!" Vixy was standing over the boys. They were in the figurine room in Byte Space, holding a mix of amiibo and general toys. It would really break the multiverse if they were doing this with the magical figurines. 2BIT glanced at Vixy sheepishly. "B-but we have to finish the story! We'll get through the lost woods, but Kirby's already absconded with Link and Sonic, so our legendary hero ends up being, wait for it... Banjo-Kazooie!" he said with a big ear-to-ear grin. Vixy tapped her foot. "It's been months and you've left me in charge all this time. Play time is done, back to your responsibilities!" she huffed. Dusk folded his arms. "You know, if I were cynical, I would say Vixy walking in like this is a copout to disguise the fact that we hit writer's block on this story for months and someone decided to give up on it..." he murmured. Cupie flew up and tossed up the Waluigi amiibo before catching it. "Obviously, it was gonna end with Waluigi and Banjo teaming up to beat up 8BIT while we moved on to the epic final battle from World of Light, and we'd get there just in time to watch Mario and Sonic and everyone save the day before all the spirits are whizzed back home!" he said playfully. 2BIT sighed. "Well, that can't be too far off. But my power would ensure the spirits actually got home. I don't like the ambiguity of the spirits swirling through space!" he pointed out as he stood up. "You sillies... It's just a game." Vixy sighed, "It's not like it really matters how the game ended..." she told them as she led the group out of the room.
They passed one of Byte Space's windows, the vastness of space visible outside. If one looked closely though, they would realize that one nebula in the distance was actually comprised of lost spirits tumbling through space. Dusk did a double take as they passed by. "Uhhhh, guuuuuuys?" he murmured. They each took a better look and gulped. "This is gonna be a few long weekends, isn't it..." Vixy groaned. "Never call anything 'just a game' ever again." 2BIT growled. "I'll go get some gear from the Phantom Fighter's world!" Cupie said with unwavering enthusiasm. "How exactly do we save them if they don't have bodies anymore?" Dusk asked. 2BIT glanced at the Pit amiibo he was still carrying. "The smash spirits are just from a world of figures anyway, right? We need a biiiig 3D printer and we need a lot of them..." he suggested. Vixy nodded. "I'll get Stripes on the orders and Zed on the designs..."
Stripes and Zed looked a bit grouchy. "...So, we've essentially been written out of this story because of writer's block?" Zed growled. "I'd be fine if I could take a nap but you want me on ebay all night now...grrr..." Stripes groaned.
2BIT, Cupie and Vixy had quite a time flying through space with jetpacks retrofitted into the borrowed PCDs from the Phantom Fighter's world. The Ghostbusters' theme blared in 2BIT's helmet as he used the machine to suck up spirit after spirit. "Cupie, you grab Tails, I just don't have the heart to confine his spirit... Ohh, excuse me, I have a score to settle with Baby Bowser... You @%#& Legend Spirit!!" he shouted, flying after him. "Gotta catch 'em all, Pok-ey-mon..." Vixy mumbled as she worked.
Finally, the spirits were brought to the world of trophies, where Blocky transported the 3D printed custom amiibos of each and every spirit. "Did we really need one for the Super Mushroom? Look, there goes one now!" Dusk pointed as they prepared to expel the spirits caught in the PCD containment units into the giant amiibos. "If this doesn't work, I'm coming for you, Sakurai..." 2BIT mumbled, firing off the first spirit. Naturally, they started with Waluigi's amiibo, because of course they did. The squad gathered around as his eyes began to open. "Yaaay! Now say Wah!" Gator smiled. "Wah, what? What are you talking about, dumb human? ...WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!?!?" to everyone's utter shock, the voice of Viridi was coming from Waluigi. "Uhhhh... What order did we suck up those spirits in, anyway?" 2BIT said nervously. "You idiots!! How can you do this to the Goddess of Nature!? You fix this right now! Right now you flesh bags! Or I'll... I'll get my Forces of Nature after you!!" she shouted. Needless to say, finishing this job properly would take a while... But they would get it done. See you in another few months I guess!
(Be honest, 2BIT, you don't have writer's block at all! You just didn't want to do 3 chapters as originally planned!) Ahhhh, well, I'm sorry if you were hoping for an epic conclusion. This has always been a comedy series, anyway...
Episode 20 - Picking up the Pieces
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Previously on BIT Squad; The writer gave up on the Smash Ultimate story and pivoted the plot to take place AFTER Ultimate's story. BIT Squad found the freed spirits swirling through space, and realized they had to help them get home... That mission is still in progress.
And so, Cupie was in Lost Woods. For real this time. "Don't worry, Mr. Skull Kid! I'll get you home! My sense of direction is... Umm... Well, won't the journey be fun!?" the mouse giggled as the masked imp followed along, head rotating now and then as though examining Cupie. "Yuck, so much positivity. What should I do to this guy..." the Skull Kid murmured. "Excuse me! But I'm not supposed to be here!" came the voice of Shulk, following behind with a nervous look, "And I don't need powers to see that this creature is plotting something..." he added. "Heloooo? Sorry, I think I took a wrong turn! Although, are any paths really wrong in this beautiful world?" Cupie shouted from a tunnel. Saria, a kokiri who'd been following them, cleared her throat loudly. "I know this forest very well. I can lead you." she pointed out. "Anything to get me back... I'm on a tight schedule, hehe..." the Skull Kid mused. Cupie poked his head out of the tunnel and giggled. "The big owl is home, apparently!" he smiled.
Dusk and Vixy had gone to the Lylat System to deliver the Starfox and Starwolf team members home. They were borrowing an arwing and a wolfen, as those vehicles had also been turned into spirits somehow. "Alright, where should I drop you, fox?" Dusk murmured grumpily. A voice behind squeaked nervously. "N-not in space! I'm not the fox you want!" Dusk glanced over his shoulder and squinted. "Ughh, my bad Tails. Hey, which Tails are you anyway? Oh boy..." he groaned. "HOW DO WE ALL EVEN FIT IN HERE!?" snorted Pigma, who Tails was kind of sitting on. "...Demigod magic." Dusk murmured. Vixy's voice could be heard over the communicator. "Do a barrel roll, hare-boy!" she teased. "...No." Dusk said, unamused. "Hey, that's my line!" Peppy said from Vixy's arwing, "Just drop us on Great Fox, okay?" he added. Vixy looked concerned. "Uhhh… Did we return the Great Fox's spirit to a vessel yet?" she asked awkwardly.
Blocky was looking more pixelated than usual as he wandered Pac-Maze. "Wait, if I'm here, who is monitoring our transports? Beep boop!" he realized. He was suddenly pulled into a portal before 2BIT took his place, also looking pixelated. "There, you got a cameo. But this plot isn't feeling as good for comedy as I thought..." 2BIT murmured, looking behind himself to see Inky the ghost. "Hey, where are the others? Did Blocky get them here?" he wondered. He decided to explore the maze and check. Turning a corner, he was surprised to bump into Bowser. "What the heck?!" he yelped. Turning away from the frightening Koopa, he found his path quickly blocked by M. Bison! "Blocky, you blockhead!!" he stammered. "Hey, you, kid! You don't look like you belong at Bad Anon!" Turning again, 2BIT saw Wreck-It Ralph peering from another corner. "What...? Ahhh… Wrong Pac-Man maze..." 2BIT groaned, looking for Inky. "This could be troubling if he runs into another Inky..." he murmured.
Zed and Stripes had gone to the halidom of Ylisse, and not just because it's the only Fire Emblem location name that our writer can remember. (I swear!) "Let's hurry and get out of here, I feel like I'm gonna be drafted as some knight's mount..." Zed murmured, looking around at the war-torn battlements they'd arrived at. "Well, fortunately, I'm on top of things, so I know we got our people to the right place! All Fire Emblem guys, right!" Stripes said, only a bit sleepily. They glanced back to see the Black Knight sizing up Garon, while Alm and Celica looked around with clearly lost expressions. Zed tugged at Stripes' arm. "Not a single one of them belong here, I think..." he mumbled, "There's like, a dozen Fire Emblem worlds." Stripes suddenly looked immensely tired. "I hereby deputize you to figure it out then, Zed... I've got err... paperwork to catch up on..." he mumbled, walking away. Zed sighed. "Have a good nap..." he mumbled.
Gator and Dogson were walking through Spiral Mountain, escorting Tooty the bear back home. "Do we really have to follow her home? Don't we have lots of people to take home..." Gator mumbled. Dogson shrugged. "2BIT says that we should make sure no one kidnaps her or anything. Also, I have no idea where this puzzle piece goes..." he said, holding a Jiggy. "I think it belongs to Illusi! Look at its big silly eyes..." Gator observed, poking its eye. "Ow! Please don't poke me like that, sir!" Mr. Jiggy...said. Dogson dropped the puzzle piece after that and ran ahead to where Tooty was skipping. "This place gives me the willies! Could you hurry home, please?" he asked. High above them, a certain witch was observing the action. "In this world you should not be! So scram already so I can nab Tooty!" Gruntilda said with an oddly omnipresent voice. Gator glanced around. "Rhyming!? The ultimate evil! I'm staying forever until I defeat you!" he shouted. "Blue of hair and suit of green... A stranger goof I have not seen! But this game's script you won't defy! It's time for you to say good-bye!" Grunty warned. Dogson cleared his throat. "Shouldn't you run, Tooty?" he asked. The bear shrugged. "Not if the game script says I shouldn't. I'm sure my brother will rescue me..." she said. Before Gator and Dogson could muddle the plot further, Blocky pulled them back to Byte Space. "Noooo!! I have been beaten by rhymes!!" Gator wailed.
Eventually, 2BIT had taken it upon himself to take Tails back to his own world. "Back to running through the Green Hill loop endlessly, huh..." came the voice of 8BIT, taunting them from nearby. "Huh?" Tails murmured. "Run along, Tails. You're home now..." 2BIT said before turning to 8BIT, "You mad that you didn't get an epic final showdown in this story?" he asked. 8BIT scratched his head. "Well... this chapter's run long already..." he mumbled, "...You haven't figured me out yet, have you?" the black fox asked. 2BIT glanced behind him, and saw Knuckles and Silver run by. 8BIT had...brought them back? The black fox turned with a sigh. "I'm you, dufus. I might be the darkness within you, but..." As his voice trailed off, 2BIT finished his thought, "...You're not actually evil." he realized. 8BIT started to walk away. "Let's not get all huggy now. See you around..." he said. 2BIT nodded, and watched his mobian friends run through the Green Hill loop for a bit. "...Where do I even go from here?" he asked himself.
Where indeed?
Episode 21 - Beyond the Fourth Wall
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Byte Space was losing power. The very dimension was prone to quaking as the circuits strained to support BIT Squad's operations. An emergency meeting of the entire squad was called to order, with roughly 128 different members gathered. And we only know ten of them. Seems a shame to end the series knowing that... "What's the matter, 2BIT? Didn't pay your electric bill?" 8BIT shouted over the noise of a hundred BITs talking among themselves. "SILENCE!! Ugh, how can I get a word in edgewise with so many of myself? Maybe this whole operation was a bad idea..." 2BIT murmured. The BITs kept talking, so Stripes got up with a megaphone. "SHUT UP, YOU IDIOTS!!" he yelled. "...and my banana is much more plaid than your banana!" Gator babbled as everyone else silenced, "...….What?" he asked as though whatever he was saying was totally normal. The whole dimension suddenly rumbled to remind everyone why they were there. "Is Byte Space hungry?" Cupie asked. "It's obviously dying." Dusk grumbled. "I also get a random line." Zed added. "No, you don't!" Vixy groaned, "Now let's listen to 2BIT already!" she said, annoyed that we're wasting so much time getting nowhere. 2BIT cleared his throat. "Thank you, Vixy. I have no idea what's happening, though. Byte Space is a freaking Dimension. And Crisis on Infinite Earths is a thing happening on the CW, it doesn't affect us." he stated. "Way to date this story, 2BIT!" Dogson shouted. "We did a chapter on the Sochi Winter Olympics, I think that shark's been jumped!" 2BIT shouted back, "So, anyway, if no one here has any better ideas about what's happening...." he added, voice trailing off. 69BIT raised his hand, but Zed smacked it down. "No one wants to hear what's going on in YOUR head..." he grumbled. 2BIT nodded. "Then there's only one solution left to me... I have to go... BEYOND the fourth wall!!" he declared. "Ooooooo…. He said the name of the stooooory!" Gator gasped.
So, 2BIT was now on his way to the transport room, followed by Vixy and 8BIT. "What do you mean you're going 'beyond the fourth wall?!' That makes no sense!" Vixy said as they walked. "Can I come? I'd love to see what I can mess around with in a world we can't normally reach..." 8BIT smirked. "Beep, speaking of which..." said, Blocky, rushing to catch up to them, "Blip, boop; It's currently hard enough to get a normal portal to other worlds running. How do we expect to get one to the fourth dimension running? Beep?" he asked. 2BIT shrugged. "Okay, in order, I'm literally going beyond the fourth wall to speak with MY creator; No, 8BIT, I don't think you should come, and, uhhh... we'll figure this out if we put our heads together, Blocky." he answered. They passed by the figurine room, Stripes' office, the bedrooms, the bowling alley and the skating rink on the way to the transport room. "...We're going in circles. And why does Stripes get an office and nobody else?" Vixy asked, the one question we're asking about any of those rooms for some reason. "Never mind, we're here." 2BIT said. "Nobody's going to question the idea that 2BIT's going to talk to his own creator? Basically our god?" 8BIT muttered. Vixy shrugged. "After everything we've been through in the past couple years, what else could he even be doing?" she sighed. Alright, now that we've established that, could all of you but Blocky and 2BIT please wait outside? "Aaaand now the narrator's bossing us around..." 8BIT grunted as he and Vixy walked out of the room. Once they were out of the room, 2BIT poked Blocky in the nose. "Sorry, buddy, but you ARE the portal." he said as Blocky buzzed and beeped, his body glowing before he transformed into one of the cartridges used in the portal generator that looked suspiciously like a game console. The label on this particular cartridge was blank. "There won't be anyone to bring me back, so I hope this works out..." 2BIT murmured, placing the cartridge into the machine.
Gator suddenly burst into the room. "Hold it!" he shouted. The portal had already appeared, and 2BIT was peering into it. "I can't hold it! Who knows how long the portal will stay open! If Byte Space stops working, we're doomed! I need to go over our heads and ask someone who can fix this to fix it!" he said. Gator shook his head. "I'm the dumb guy and even I know that nothing about this plot makes sense!" he shouted. "Well, maybe my creator can explain it. We don't have time to think of a better idea!" 2BIT said. Gator tapped his foot. "Well, we have a little time. Help me think of one last joke for the people watching us from beyond the eigth wall!" he said. "...You mean fourth wall." 2BIT replied, turning around. "Or do I...?" Gator said ominously. There was an awkward silence for a bit. "Okay, I've got one. Knock knock!" 2BIT said. Gator glared at him, backed out of the door, and closed it. 2BIT then nervously rubbed his forehead. Yeah, this lack of ideas for humor is a big part of why this series is ending. So, with nothing left to delay him, 2BIT turned and leapt into the portal...and went beyond the fourth wall!
Episode 22 - Beyond the Fourth Wall Part 22 Final Finale of Finality
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Previously on BIT Squad...
After messing around in various worlds, having a Christmas Special, getting killed with memes, dealing with the aftermath of Smash Ultimate, and other shenanigans over the course of 20 chapters, BIT Squad found that Byte Space was losing power. If you don't know what Byte Space is, try reading a chapter before the final chapter! Anyway, because the series is ending, rather than think of a rational solution, 2BIT decided to break out of his reality and go beyond the fourth wall to talk to his own creator... which involved turning Blocky into a teleportation cartridge. Seriously, read some older chapters. No? Okay, but I have no idea why you want to read this one then...
2BIT emerged from the portal to find a small, dusty room. He yelped as he banged his head on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, a rather odd place for the portal to drop him off. Rubbing his head, he poked his head out and looked around. There was a TV and collection of video games, a bookshelf stuffed with more DVDs than books, and directly in front of him, was a man seated in front of a laptop. Some stupid youtube video was playing as the man was typing. 2BIT thought for a moment he might be in the wrong place. The man stopped typing, his work finished, and then the dust caused 2BIT to sneeze. The man sat up straight in surprise, hesitant to look behind him. So, 2BIT crawled out from the bunk bed and stepped over to get a look at the man, and their blue eyes met each other. The rather thin man had brown hair and a scraggly, barely groomed beard. He wore glasses and really didn't look anything like what 2BIT pictured his creator might look like. Yet, this was where the portal took him. "My...creator?" the fox asked awkwardly. The man honestly looked shocked, and nodded as his mind processed what was happening. "You want to know about, ahh, Byte Space, yeah?" the man said skittishly. 2BIT nodded. "I guess you are my creator. What do I call you?" he asked. The man shook his head. "Uhh, don't call me anything. It's better that way." the man replied, "But yes, I wrote your story and it uh... apparently happened." he said, rubbing his head as though still trying to wrap his head around it. "Sorry if I'm shattering your worldview but my world's falling apart." 2BIT said a bit grumpily, "Can't you just write it back into working order?" he asked. The man chuckled softly. "Of course I can, but at the same time, can I honestly write forever?" he asked 2BIT. The fox folded his ears and looked worried. "What does that mean?" he asked. "It means... All things come to an end. Even Byte Space. But!! But-but-but!!" the man was talking fast like he thought he was going to be interrupted, "...Sorry, thought you would...never mind. I was going to say, you'll be fine." he stated. 2BIT raised an eyebrow. "But what about the multiverse?" he asked. The man shrugged. "I'm the writer, aren't I? All I have to say is, 'and the multiverse never faced a threat that would require BIT Squad again. The end.'" he pointed out. 2BIT crossed his arms. "That's not very satisfying. What was the point in the first place, then?" he asked. The writer also crossed his arms as he sat back. "What is the point of anything, indeed? I don't think we can answer that. It's something people have to figure out for themselves... It's something you'll have to figure out." he stated. 2BIT looked a bit worried. "But won't I disappear once you stop writing me? Won't I end like Byte Space?" he asked. The writer couldn't help it. He gave the blue fox a hug. "Not if I can help it." he said, "My life has limits, but you can go on. That's your purpose. That's the purpose of all writing, in a way. So..." the human tapped each of 2BIT's shoulders almost like he was knighting him, "I hereby christen you a real boy, and the squad members too. No longer will you be considered alternate selves of one another." he said. 2BIT's eyes widened. "Wait, can you do that??" he stammered. "Writer. Won't take effect until you're back in your world, though. Which, you now have the ability to choose your homeworld." the writer added, "But you'll lose your demigod status. Mostly. I haven't decided how much power you'll retain. I don't wanna leave you with nothing but you're not interesting if you're OP." The writer was leading 2BIT back to the portal now. "I don't need to still be interesting, do I?" the fox asked. "Let's say I might not be done with you. But I really need you out of here before someone questions why I'm talking to myself in here." Their voices were identical, oddly enough. 2BIT looked back at the writer. "I still have so many questions. Like... there's this plot hole in this one chapter of--" the writer shoved him through the portal before he could finish the question. "I can't explain 06 any more than Sega can!" the writer shouted.
So, 2BIT arrived back at Byte Space, restored Blocky to his former self, and returned to the main office where only the ten members of the squad that we know remained. "I'm freaking out here, 2BIT! The rest of the squad was Thanos-snapped!" Cupie whimpered. You know it's scary if Cupie isn't positive about it. 2BIT shrugged. "Well, let's be honest. Did those guys even really exist? They never actually did anything." he said. "69BIT said a line!" Gator pointed out. "Then maybe he's in a better place..." 2BIT murmured, "We're apparently all going to better places, too." he explained. It took a while for 2BIT to relate his conversation with the writer, and by the end of it, Stripes was fast asleep. "Funny, I was a real boy before being drafted into the squad, just not relevant to anything. Guess I'm back to square one." Dogson grumbled. 8BIT growled. "I don't want to lose my powers! You should have brought me along!" he complained. "Well, at least you'll be your own man now." Vixy shrugged. Byte Space's lights flickered, and Zed groaned. "I don't mean to alarm everyone, but won't we all go poof along with Byte Space if we're still here when that time comes?" he pointed out. "Might as well. The writer will probably use 2BIT again, but what life is left for us?" Dusk asked. "As if we all really disappear between chapters, haha!" Gator chuckled. Well, it's that tree falling in the forest thing. Does Gemerl still exist despite Sega never using that robot after Sonic Advance 3? Technically yes, but does it really? I'm not helping. At any rate, 2BIT thought about where to go. "You know... do we really belong anywhere? Hmm... It might take some time for us to find our proper places in the universe." he said. "How can we do that if Byte Space is about to go poof?" Cupie asked. "We're doooooomed!!" Dusk shouted. 2BIT crossed his arms and looked around. "Wait... he said we get to choose where we stay. Well... I choose Byte Space!"
Wait. You can't do that. I'm trying to end this thing. To definitively end this thing, there's gotta be a genuine sense of finality. I've gotta fix it so that your adventures can't continue in the way they've been progressing.
"You saaaaaid..."
Okay, I get it. You can't just settle down in GeneX Prime. That'd be weird. Just think of Blocky there. You need time to figure out where everyone really goes. Alright. But you're not in business.
The lights came back on, but the universe-monitoring equipment shut down. And caught fire. And blew up. It was a set of controlled explosions. Only Gator was harmed. "Yaaaaah!!" He is actually immortal even without being part of BIT Squad. Heck, he might have actually gotten more powerful in this retcon. 8BIT ran to check on the figurine room. He found the door itself gone. The room itself was gone. That nonsense had been written out of existence. "Aw, come on! I wanted to get just a couple people-controlling figures for old time's sake!" A PA announcement also sounded through Byte Space. The voice sounded like Omochao for some reason. "By the way! The writer wanted to mention that 8BIT and 2BIT are still related! Brothers? Evil twin? Light and Dark form? Whatever! We'll figure it out!" the voice said. Stripes woke up with a start. "What the? Back to work?" he questioned. 2BIT chuckled softly. "Yeah, guess so, Stripes. But not the same work." he murmured. The multiverse wouldn't need BIT Squad anymore. So it was written, so it was so. Now the squad had to find their own purpose and happiness for themselves. Perhaps one day, we'll see what they make of this gift of freedom. But for now, the writer has a massive final GeneX story to work on, so all distractions had to be removed. Would you like to see 2BIT return? In what way? Any ideas for the rest of the squad? I mean, I could always come up with my own ideas but they'll be pretty dumb, like this chapter. Still, have no fears, I've got stories for years.
They're all posted already, go read them.
The end...... No, really. Totally not making a Series 2. Definitely. Absolutely. Stop looking at me.
...Aw, crap, I did a Series 2 after all, didn't I? Well, maybe that'll get the stapled-together treatment eventually...
