Oh, son of a...!

Beta Shadow casts a shadow over the colors in order to force them to appear a few inches back.

Why is everything evil choosing NOW to appear!? We have enough on our plates with the OMNIVERSE-DESTROYING THREAT alone!

Delta Paradox dodges.

Ok, so you explained #1 and #2. Now explain #3: WHY should I let you walk away?
By the way, it won't matter where you jump to. If the MMRPG Omniverse is destroyed, YOU will fade away too. EVERYONE connected to the MMRPG Omniverse will fade away. And don't say you aren't connected to it, because the mere fact you're here proves otherwise. So unless you don't want your little "evil team" to be ANNIHILATED, you'll give those weapons back at once. Because if you don't, then I'll be the one to annihilate you before the one who's trying to destroy us all does.

Delta Paradox Hyper-Freezes Time (as in uses a time-freezing ability that surpasses all time-based resistances) to steal the weapons back!

Alright, whoever-you-are, we can either make this a thief-off, or you can just explain to us who you are, why you want the weapons, and why we should let you have these weapons that are the keys to saving the Omniverse- including yourself, mind you- from utter destruction.

Alright, let's see... Oh! Some Pickle Rick Hand Grenades! I might make use of these.
Hm, some Hot Mixtape Shurikens... I suppose they don't need to make sense to be powerful.
Heck yeah! Got me an Electrified Banhammer! This should come in handy!
What kind of weapon did you get, Beta?
...
...Beta?

Beta reaches into the briefcase and pulls out an epic-looking sword that resonates with a powerful energy, with a radiant blue glow. Carved on the sword in ancient letters spells out a single name... "SHAGGY".

...I shall wield this blade in the name of your honor... Master Shaggy.

Beta Shadow suddenly transforms into Full Release Shadow for a mere instant, in sync with the blade's aura, before returning to normal, sheathing the blade.

...We should, uh... Probably pick a few weapons out for the others.
Huh? Oh, uh, good idea.

Beta Shadow and the others picks out a few weapons for the Aeons, Enka, the other DOS bots, Eta Cosmic, and Zeta Light. Zeta Light gets a Delet This Gun while Eta Cosmic gets a Nyan Cat Launcher. Yes, THAT old meme. What the others get is up to the people who control them. (Rotom picks for the Aeons, Salt picks for Enka, all that stuff.)

Unfortunately, none of the Kremlings nor K. Rool are on the ship.

They must be somewhere here in the memehole... Come on, we must beat K. Rool to the Golden Meme™ and get it before he does!

Pirate Jones rushes ahead to search for the Golden Meme™...

Accents are not required, but is highly encouraged if you are willing to.

Suddenly, as Pirate Jones looks around, he sees another ship in the distance... And one he recognizes very well!

That ship... It cannot be...!

Pirate Jones approaches the ship...

It be... This be his dreaded ship... He must be somewhere around here, trying to find the treasure before we do!

Yeah, about that...

The screen pans out...

...We be already here. Welcome... To the Memehole!

Pirate Jones then lowers the plank to the ground and grabs his cutlass.

Shall we be going?

Ah, yes, me arsenal of explosives, always comes in handy when me trusty cutlass doesn't exactly cut it, no pun intended. I hold just about every Explode-core weapon in me database, as well as every Water-core weapon too. Of course, me favorite is me trademarked Remote Mines!
...Oh, and also this:

Pirate Jones' claw suddenly transforms into a blunderbuss, which then fires a powerful plasma blast at the Lv. 35 Mafia Boss in order to blow them into pieces!

That, me hearties, is me most powerful weapon: me Plasma Blunderbuss! At it's max power, even the strongest of robots have their upper halves be incinerated! I even use it to punish crew members who dare try to pull a mutiny on me!
That reminds me, don't pull a mutiny on me.

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With the Letter L prepared to fight the Skull Reaper, surely the Skull Reaper's going to come out anytime soon, right?

...The answer to that question is no, no he is not. In fact he's still looking for Beta Shadow in order to stalk him and take whatever powerful artifact Shadow has, and THEN he has that hit on Collateral Aeon and Zeta Light. So basically it's going to be a while.

@The Letter L : Actually, iirc, Winston's ship is nowhere near the Meme Hole. And since it has pretty much stopped moving, and everyone else is off of it now, I don't think there's a real reason to involve it.
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The Golden Meme™ be... Well, exactly that, a meme made out of 100% pure gold. He who holds the Golden Meme™ is considered to be the richest man in all the land!
But the Golden Meme™ be illusive... It can only be found in memeholes such as this. It be every pirate's dream to add it to their treasury... And soon, that pirate shall be me, Captain Pirate Jones!

Pirate Jones turns towards Dyna Man.

So no, I shall not let this memehole be removed... Not until I get me hands on that Golden Meme™! As soon as it be mine, ye can do whatever with it. But first... ADVENTURE AWAITS!

Pirate Jones orders the helmsman- a Skeleton Joe- to go full speed ahead into the Memehole!

Of COURSE me ship is goin' in the Memehole! I be on a quest to find the legendary Golden Meme™... Once I have it in me hand n' hook, I'll be the richest pirate in all the land!

Pirate Jones then scratches his artificial "beard" in thought...

Hm... Normally, I'd punish people who board me ship uninvited by forcing them to work for me for all of eternity... But Memes be a powerful and dangerous sort... As such, I could use the extra muscle.
If ye don't want to be trapped as me swashbuckler for the rest of yer natural or artificial life, ye must assist me in obtaining the Golden Meme™. Once it be mine, I'll let ye go. Do ye agree?

Suddenly, from the Captain's Corner of the ship Salt jumped on...

YARR! Who dares to board upon me ship uninvited!?

The recolored Pirate Man walks out from the Captain's Corner!

I be captain Pirates Jones! That's right, Jones, as in DAVY JONES! Now, explain why ye are on me ship!

Hm, an Earth Star Field... If I find the Super Earth Fusion Star in this location, I might be able to send that over to Collateral Aeon...
You know. Because I'm NOT collecting those. I'm focusing on the Alpha Seeds, nothing else. Don't try to push this plotline onto me, RSB.

After breaking the 4th Wall, Zeta Light proceeds to look for the Super Earth Fusion Star.



*I'd use the "color text trick" Rotom showed in the Formatting Help thread, but I'm not going to color my text just to do that.

Sure, I'm up for some exposition and lore-building.

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Meanwhile, in the forgotten Universe 1, Timeline 2 created when Salty.EXE threw Shadow Mewtwo, a figure warps in.

That's odd... Not a lot of people in this Universe. Maybe I'll find something or someone if I keep looking...

The figure goes to the nearest hilltop, dramatically revealing his identity...

...I, Eta Cosmic, will try my best to find something in this universe to help in the battle against Skull Reaper and his mysterious employer!

I'm just... Gonna go find some Alpha Seeds. If you don't mind.

Zeta Light warps away.

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Alright, now where to look...
...Wait, who's that over... Wait, is that...?

*Calling on a Communicator* ...I'M tellING YOu, gHosT! THE FIrST PErSon I RAn inTO In THis UNIVErsE was jEVIL! ISn't That JUst CRAZy?
Yes yes, very wild. Now just tell me what power sources you've heard about so far!
oH, Of COURSE, Of cOURSE! LET's See, so far i DiSCoVeReD aboUT ThE alPha SeeDS AND sOmEtHiNg CaLleD a "SuPEr fUSioN star".
... *Sigh* Spiritomb, I already went ahead and let Necrozma use our Rouge Stars. And Alpha Stones were MY creation, before I went off and let... someone else... boss a few denizens of the Void around in order to mass-produce them.
Now don't call me back until you found something NEW. We already had an arc that somewhat concerned the Energy Elements, we're having an arc that involved the Omega Stones, and we're eventually going to have an arc based around the Rouge Stars. We're running out of ideas here! Now go and find some USEFUL power sources to base my arc off of, and try to make sure that it's Element-based. Understood?
yES, SIR! AlrEADY on It! *Hangs up*

Huh. So it seems that Ninja Ghost sent Spiritomb here to look for ideas for his saga in Discorded Adventures*... Fair enough, I suppose.
I don't think I'll need to interfere... Though I hope he doesn't try to cause any trouble...
In any case, the next Alpha Seed location is... *Looks northwest* THAT way, in the desert... Shouldn't be hard, right?

Beta Light heads into the nearby desert...

*A Discord roleplay in the [DATA EXPUNGED] Roleplay Thingy Discord channel that me and Rotom participate with each other in... From time to time. Nothing for anyone else to be invested in tbh.

Wait, what!? What about the Alpha Seeds!? If I don't return with them, REDA- err, my Boss will erase me completely!
Actually, we could use both.
Huh? What do you mean?
Well, if enough Alpha Seeds are collected to make an Alpha Stone, then that could be another possible weapon to use against the main villain behind all this.
After all, we're going to need as many of those as we possibly can.
B-but if I make an Alpha Stone, then I won't-
Hey, what's more important, your life or the entire Omniverse?
...Ok. I'll see what I can do.
Great! Welcome to the Omniverse Protection Squad, boys. I'm going back to Sir Winston's ship. Letter L, you and the others can join us whenever.

Beta Shadow warps off, returning to his previous location.

Skull... Reaper? Ok, can someone fill me in on what's going on around here?

Suddenly, Beta Shadow warps in!

I believe I can fill you in on the details.
Nani!? You're... You're the original version of me!
Yep! I came here because I noticed that Letter L left the ship we were on... Allow me to catch you up on what's going on around here.

It all started when one of my alternate selves, Epsilon Snow- once known as Beta Miser- tried to freeze time in his universe, Universe 3, by removing all the Super Gears. However, his plan ultimately failed and he was destroyed by a large blast. That blast created a split in the Tomlines, creating two versions of the same world... As well as two versions of Epsilon Snow's glasses, which apparently are indestructible and allows him to return to the brink of death. And then Ninja Ghost- before he decided he was done with this Roleplay- spilled milk on the version of the glasses that remained in Universe 3, Tomline 2. The result was Epsilon Snow's opposite, Alpha Fire. Alpha Fire wanted to destroy all OCs, so he hunted down all 7 Power Stars to summon a wish-granting being known as GRAND NOVA. But then Epsilon Snow stole Alpha Fire's wish, and the two fought each other while GRAND NOVA watched. Meanwhile, a few Mettals warned Letter L, Mighty, and myself about how if one more wish were to be granted by GRAND NOVA, the source of his wishes- the Wish Core- it would collapse the entire universe. So while I used his source of limitless power- the High Quality Core- to destroy the rampaging fusion of the two alternate versions of myself (only to revive them later as non-Reapers), Mighty tried to give GRAND NOVA something that would allow him to grant wishes by using up energy, but then along came YoshiTeam, who snatched it from Mighty and angered GRAND NOVA enough to erase all of Universe 3. Then YoshiTeam somehow restored the universe only to basically torture GRAND NOVA into wishing to regain his limitless power in order to fight back. This erased Universe 3 again, but then he restored it and made YoshiTeam explode. Meanwhile, Heat Man attacked the ruins of which the Mettals lived in, and it turns out that Wily is the Emperor of... Someplace in Universe 1, though I'm not sure where at. I decided to look for Emperor Wily while Aeon- the original incarnate of Collateral Aeon over there- decided to look for the Power Stars in order to provoke GRAND NOVA for... Whatever reason. But while all that was happening, someone decided to hire the mentioned "black Skull Man", known as the Skull Reaper, to kill GRAND NOVA and steal his Wish Core. Upon discovering this, Delta Paradox- another alternate of mine, and is in fact the fusion of Alpha Fire and Epsilon Snow- warned all of us about the Skull Reaper. A man named Sir Winston then overheard the conversation and decided that he would take us to the Meme Zone™, where memes originate, in order to prep ourselves for our search for Skull Reaper and the guy who hired him to kill GRAND NOVA, who has the Wish Core, before said mysterious employer could use it to destroy this entire collective Universe, if not the entire MMRPG Omniverse. Also, Skull Reaper is collecting the artificial Souls of robots to grow stronger, and he is currently hired to kill the Letter L.

tl;dr: Skull Reaper BAD, guy with Wish Core WORSE. Was I any clear in my description?
I... Guess so? But wait... A threat to the Omniverse... Is this what Sargent Ghost told us about?

W-wait!

Zeta Light walks up to Letter L's group.

Sorry to intrigue, but what exactly is going on around here? Why are you here, and what even happened to kill the Explosive Trio?