Lumine
From: Mega Man X8
The transformation of Air Man to Zephyrus in Season of ZFRP would have unintended consequences, namely in causing the set future of the Mega Man games, that being the Mega Man X series, to begin to unravel. Lumine, the ultimate reploid slash Maverick, would have refused to go quietly and be erased, and hence traveled back in time to test/destroy Zephyrus via constant assaults via other Mega Man X reploids, while also disguising himself as a young fan of Zephyrus to observe him close up. Several of the Reploid attacks did happen, each leaving behind a letter that would have ultimately spelled out TRALPHIUM, another name for Helium-3, which is found in great quantities on the Moon, which is where Lumine was confronted in his game and where his base was. The Kobbers would have gone there, confronted a final trick (Mega Man X8 Sigma, who was going to present himself as the Lord being back, to try and anger the Bargoers into just destroying the fake Lord and leaving without asking questions) before Lumine revealed himself, his whole motivation being that Zephyrus should not exist, as it was destroying his whole universe. Rejecting the notion that Zephyrus should negate himself to save one possible timeline, the Kobbers would have fought and bested Lumine, who would be erased from existence afterwards, lamenting that it seemed that fate would allow one being to exist at the cost of so many. Ultimately, it may have been best not to happen: not only would certain things (like certain villain returns) be clarified later as something players would not want to happen, even as a trick, but the TRALPHIUM code word/clue to the moon ended up being an unexpected cheat, as Helium-3 is not officially known as tralphium (it was called that in a video game, and someone added it to Helium-3's Wikipedia page as official fact, which I blindly accepted because hey, it was on Wikipedia) and hence tralphium is not a word that actually exists, a fact that utterly baffled the players playing in the RP who attempted to use dictionaries and word engines to figure it out (A famous joke was that with the letters that ended up being officially provided and it being established there was nine letters, the only word they could spell was a strange bird name called Tangwhaup). Such an event would have likely played a big role in Zephyrus retiring after Season 2, one thinks, had it managed to occur without issue. One final vague detail of the aborted storyline's early parts; it lead to Zephyrus, Sine, and some others poking through Wily's wrecked fortress to discover a being-built Zero, who they rigged to explode before they fled. But it's possible Zephyrus and Sine didn't actually succeed in blowing up Zero.
The Leprechaun
From: The Leprechaun film series.
The Leprechaun would have teamed up with Radu to bother the Bar. Odds are Radu would swiftly be given the boot in that partnership. after which the Bar would have swiftly rendered the Leprechaun dead. But he's been dead before. He's also been in space before. So perhaps he may yet return in a new story form.
The Vathack Deadliners
From: Extreme Ghostbusters
The Mark of the Yellow King would have had one last surprise in store for the Bargoers in October, summoning the malevolent writing spirits from Extreme Ghostbusters to plague the Bargoers. Considering their near-indestructibility, some fun would have surely been had, and who knows how the Bargoers would have dealt with them. It might have been even more absurd than how the show tried to.
The Knights of Myaer
From: X-Men-First Class. Sort of.
This one sort of applies, as they only appeared in a brief blog flashback. A group of six (three shown) dimensional aliens of immense power and ennui, who battled each other using planets as their warground (the planets being destroyed in the process), they would have been the enemies in the second half of the aborted Sine-focused Blog series called 'Run'. With Sine would caught their eye due to her dimensional tech, after running a bunch of missions the Knights (originally called the Knights of Hykon in their source material, changed to Myaer for later wordplay) would have confronted Sine, wrecking the world she'd delivered her blue ruby to and forcing her to flee. With her actions with Zephyrus and Jonesy having left her without a single Kobber ally, Sine would have forced into a long retreat as she desperately tried to escape their grasp. During which, she would have crossed paths with Caine (and caused the events that dumped him at the Bar) and also with Doomrider (which may have ended very ugly for Sine had the Knights not angered the biker demigod more). Ultimately, Sine would have stopped running and tried to make a final stand (One idea I had was that she would make use of this machine to upgrade her equipment and give herself a fighting chance). Exactly how it would have ended was never decided: time muckery was considered, but ultimately the story was never written. Between real life and others not agreeing with the scope and design of the plot, the events still officially happened and made Sine realized how much she'd screwed up, but they will never be told in detail. Does this mean the Knights might yet return? Well...Sine does tend to make a poor combatant...
That Lumine plot looks equal parts intriguing and hair-pulling difficult to implement.
ReplyDeleteBut bird is the word, you say?
Hmm.