BIT Squad: Enter the BIT-verse!
Episode 12 - Enter the BIT-verse!
Copyrights: 2BIT and most of his squad belong to the author...2BIT.
Tails and other Sonic characters (c) SEGA
Other characters belong to their respective owners (i.e. Mario (c) Nintendo, Kingdom Hearts (c) Disney/Square-Enix, Pokemon (c) The Pokemon Company/Game Freak)
The BIT-rehab center, basically a therapy office in Byte Space where the various variants of 2BIT and 8BIT had been brought. Simply imprisoning them, it was decided, was a bad idea. Instead, Vixy planned to train them as the next generation of BIT Squad. Though a few troublemakers like Loki-BIT were making things difficult, Vixy had made progress rehabilitating the BITs. Except one was neglected; 8BIT himself. He stood outside the office, idly listening to Vixy's little therapy session. "They're all nuts... We should have just sent them to the void from whence they came..." he muttered, starting to walk away. A portal suddenly opened in front of him, and 8BIT stumbled into a different place. It was... Green Hill. The precise spot where "the clap" happened, resulting in the creation of all those extra BITs. 8BIT had tumbled over in his surprise, but a hand was offered to hoist him up. "What's the big idea!?" he shouted, finding himself looking at the pale mask of that particular fox. The Masked Fox showed that he was wearing a particular glove on his other hand. "Something like this was used on you, am I right? And the result? Your will was forcibly bent to serve that silly squad." he stated. 8BIT tugged his hand away from the fox. "I'm perfectly fine, thanks..." he grunted. "Is that why you use an old photo to represent you on Youtube? You feel it, I know you do... 2BIT took something from you. I'm here...to give it back!" he said, slapping 8BIT in the back with the special glove! In a burst of light, that glove disintegrated, and 8BIT was transformed back into his old, black and red-furred self! He gave a growl, scowling at the masked one. "He did take something... My spine! But why do you care anyway, huh?!" he snapped. The Masked Fox stepped back, and removed his mask briefly, letting only 8BIT see his face. His eyes narrowed, and then the black fox laughed. "Oh, I see... I get it... Kinda. Who cares! I'm off to get some revenge... wanna come, or stay in the shadows?"
Meanwhile, Tails was showcasing a new ability he'd gained after spending time in the Shatterverse and being exposed to its Paradox energy. Before the eyes of several Squad members, he transformed into Sails, brandishing a sword with his "contraption!" Dusk shrugged. "Big deal, you changed costume." he muttered. "Arrr, I also learn to speak pirate like this! Shiver me timbers!" Tails said before, with a flash of light, he turned into Mangey next, his alternate self from Boscage Maze. The adorable feral version of Tails leapt into 2BIT's lap as he sat at his desk, purring when 2BIT pet him. "Good boy..." he chuckled. "Thanks! Rawr!!" Tails said, jumping back down. Bucky scribbled notes as he observed him. "Fascinating... You can channel the forms of your multiversal selves, but it's still you! The energy of that Shatter-space is intriguing..." he said while Tails transformed into Nine, using the spider-leg-esque robotic tails to climb up the wall and hang on the roof. "Might come in handy too, eh?" he said with a smug grin as Gator walked by. "Huh? Aaaak!! Giant spider!!" he screamed, producing a broom with which he attempted to swat Tails down! "Chill, Gator, chill!" 2BIT shouted, while Tails simply turned back into Sails and landed next to Gator. "Reportin' fer duty, capp'n!" he said, saluting. Gator looked at him in bewilderment. "Gah? Uhh... As you were, matey!" he babbled. After Gator walked away, Tails reverted to his normal form. "Fortunately I seem to be otherwise stable despite this strange energy being inside me. But why was I the only one affected?" he wondered. "Likely because you're the only one with alternate selves existing in that Shatter-space. Still, I'd like to examine you later..." Bucky stated. 2BIT yawned and sat back in his seat. "At least things are peaceful today..." he sighed. Sure they are...somewhere...
Somewhere else, there was Blocky, the polygonal 64BIT who handled a number of things that this writer is otherwise too lazy to explain. He was walking down a specific hallway of Byte Space, beeping and booping as he does, when 8BIT passed by. "Bzzt? Wait, where are you going, beep? You can't be here!" Blocky told him. "I can be anywhere I like!" 8BIT snarled, raising a hand toward Blocky and blasting him into the wall with a bolt of dark energy! Blocky buzzed and collapsed in a crumpled heap while 8BIT continued onward, passing a sign on the wall that read "Core Area: Do Not Enter."
And so, while the majority of BIT Squad was chatting in the main office, the entire dimension seemed to suddenly shake violently! "Waaaagh! A-an earthquake?!" Tails stammered as he fell over. "Take cover!" shouted 1BIT, holding his shield over his head as he looked around nervously. The tremor stopped briefly, only to rock the office again in a moment! "We're not on Earth, we can't have an earthquake!!" 2BIT pointed out. The door to Stripes' office burst open, and the tiger ran out, looking awake to an unsettlingly unusual degree as he ran through the main office in a panic. "Byte Space's core is under attack!! We're done for!!" he shouted, which left the squad mostly in a state of panic, aside from Cupie. "We'll be fine! See, the lights are still on!" he smiled. The monitors flickered and then the regular lights turned off, while red emergency lights came on. "I heard this was the last chapter. I knew we were about to die." Dusk sighed. "No one's dying! Everybody, get to the core, now!!" 2BIT shouted. The Squad started to scramble out of the office, but Gator stayed behind, shaking his head. "We're not supposed to go in the core! Ooooh, so much disregard for the rules since I left. Sad." he murmured.
So, the Squad reached the core of Byte Space to find 8BIT there. The core was a mass of blue energy contained in a giant clear sphere. The sphere was itself contained in a sort of generator that was plugged into the weird digital realm. Though it looked very sciency, it was actually all magical. No, it isn't science you just don't understand yet, it's actual magic. But the generator had been damaged, presumably by 8BIT. "Tails, Zed, make repairs quick!" Vixy instructed. "But you heard the Writer! It's magic, and I'm a tech guy!" Tails babbled. "You can make a fake Chaos Emerald, you can do this!" Vixy huffed. "...That was a different Tails but okay..." he sighed. The others surrounded 8BIT. "So, you're back to your old colors, hm?" 2BIT noted. The black fox growled and fired a blast at 2BIT, who neutralized it by summoning a swift lightning bolt. "You thought you could mind-control me into being another of your lap dogs! Just like you're trying to do with the others of us that were created! Well, I'm putting an end to you playing god!" he shouted, starting to turn to the core. 1BIT and Cupie charged at him, but 8BIT quickly zapped them back with his dark power, knocking Cupie into Dusk and 1BIT into Vixy! "Whew! Thanks for breaking my fall!" Cupie sighed. "Rrrgh, thanks for breaking my tail..." Dusk retorted sarcastically. Bucky tried to create an opening with his own electric powers, but 8BIT proved more powerful, blasting him backward into Stripes! "Aw, shoot! Now I'll never build up power for my Kamehameha!" the tiger groaned. That'd just destroy the core, anyway. With the Squad disabled, this left 2BIT to face 8BIT, while Zed drew some tools into existence for Tails. "Wait, can't you just draw a new generator??" Tails asked. "It's too big! I can't create just anything I want!" the zebra protested. "Why do we suddenly have so many rules??!" Tails snapped. Because where we're going, we will have to stop breaking the fourth wall...
2BIT had been thinking about what 8BIT had said. "Okay, okay! You're right... There should have been a better way to handle...well, you. And the new BITs. But I mean... You've seen how things are going in other worlds, right? The inconsistency, the chaos... the downright bad writing-err-I mean insanity among the peoples. Yes, insanity." I'll allow that fourth wall break since certain entertainment industries deserve the ribbing, even if this series is also pretty poorly written. At least this story is free! But 8BIT didn't care about that. "So you solve insanity by eliminating free will? I could point to worlds where that isn't working out so well!" he snapped. 2BIT approached him, cautiously reaching out a hand. "I'm sorry... This whole Guardian-of-the-Multiverse thing... It isn't easy. But hey, YOU were planning to just destroy everything!" he pointed out. 8BIT's hands were glowing with dark energy, but his stance was surprisingly calm. "I'll accept your apology. Because I know you haven't a clue what you're doing..." he stated, sighing to himself, "I don't want to destroy everything anyway. Such a cliche thing for a dark-side to do... But you can't go unpunished!" he snarled, turning quickly and unleashing his built-up dark energy on the core! Tails was clinging to the side of the generator via Nine's metal tails, but was forced to leap off as the attack struck! "No!!" 2BIT gasped, the ensuing explosion filling his field of vision! His helmet materialized around his head, as though that would help. 8BIT created a corridor of darkness, just like the ones from Kingdom Hearts, and escaped quickly while Byte Space started to go nuclear (or something like that). It was an explosion that sent the entire squad hurtling in different directions, breaking through the walls of Byte Space and becoming lost in the void beyond!
2BIT awoke on a sandy beach. The heap of polygons that was once Blocky was floating on the water close to shore. Groaning, 2BIT stood up and looked around. He could see Station Square on the horizon, and he recognized this version of the cityscape. "This is GeneX Prime... At least I'm not floating in the void...or dead in the water..." he gulped, glancing at Blocky. The cyber fox couldn't actually die, but he was clearly damaged. "That may have seemed excessive... But it was necessary." 2BIT looked to see the masked fox approaching. "You... You set 8BIT on us! What exactly is your problem?! ...Has the Writer figured it out yet?" he asked. I will say, I considered multiple solutions, including 1BIT being the masked fox. Or just BIT, from the same universe. But instead, when the mask came off, 2BIT could see his own face, with two scars going across his right eye, and a patch covering the left one. "I may have alluded to being from somewhere in the Omniverse before, but... I'm actually you from the future!" he declared. 2BIT folded his arms. "Really, Writer? MORE time travel? Come on..." he groaned. Look, once you open that box there's no closing it. "Listen! I'm changing the past for your own good! You think your noble work will leave you and the multiverse better off, but you're only going to end up the same as you began... utterly alone!" future 2BIT shouted, "...and the Omniverse also got destroyed too. That kinda sucked." he added, a bit flippantly. 2BIT raised his hands in frustration. "And how am I supposed to fix that without Byte Space!? Blocky can't make portals without plugging into my cosmic console, which 8BIT just destroyed!" he shouted. Future-BIT gave a mocking laugh. "Figure it out, or this time the Omniverse will end faster. Oh, yes, I have become another version of the Doomsayer, I'm well aware!" he said, stepping back and opening a corridor of darkness behind him. "If I can't take away the pain that created me, I'll burn everything down! Maybe... Kingdom Hearts can let me build anew!" he said before vanishing through the corridor! 2BIT stood bewildered. "Kingdom Hearts!? ...Shoot, I gotta find Lucky... And I gotta get Blocky! Hang in there!" he shouted, racing to the ocean. With our BIT Squad series ending, it appeared that the next story to take its place would be Chaos Hearts 2... featuring 2BIT???
Well, something like that. This Writer grows weary... so I'm combining my three tales into one. Until that kicks off, for BIT Squad this is...
The End.
