Chaotic Hangouts

Berserk Robots in Bubble Town

Chaotic Hangouts

Chapter 21: Berserk Robots in Bubble Town

Date: December 1st, 2023

it's the first day of December and so far, it's been something else. A few days ago, I ended up on a long mission fighting a battle to keep yet another universe away from One Supreme World's control. It was strange to fight in the universe of memes but it worked out in the end. I teleport back to the Miitopia BRAINS base to find quite the sight. Frosty The Snowman with his buttons, wide belly, snowy body, carrot nose, pipe, and head lacking his hat has suddenly showed up out of nowhere. Some of my comrades have already come to see for themselves what's going on. Dominic sighs: "This is such a nap causation. It shouldn't even be possible for something like this to happen. This is a breach of this base's defenses." I speak up: "I have several questions. Mostly, why is Frosty here and how did he get here?" Frosty replies: "Hey. You folks look like heroes from those anime and cartoons the kids love these days. Could you help a snowman out?" Yappa Yappa notices he's melting and starts laughing: "He's melting! He's melting! He's going to die!" I put my hand on his shoulder: "Yappa Yappa, we talked about this. You've been getting better but you still have a long road ahead. This is not funny." Bray walks in, sees Frosty melting, and casts an ice spell in him to keep him from melting away. Barla speaks next: "I'm ignoring what just happened. Swiftdrawer, do you know this snowman? If you do, that's hella awesome." I nod: "Yes. Everyone, this is Frosty the Snowman." Frosty smiles: "I'm so glad my name has reached even to this place. Are things around here always so unusual?"

Dominic reluctantly nods: "When we aren't away on missions or training or experimenting, this is often how things go. Sometimes it's a real nap causation." I give an affirming gesture: "With that out of the way, you said you needed help. What's wrong, Frosty?" I found out later that the reason the alarms weren't going off due to detecting an unregistered life form was that they were actually muted by a certain mischievous ninja. "It's like this.. Last year, I was brought to life by the children. If you know who I am, you gotta know my entire story. Anyway, I came back this year only for my hat and the children to go missing. I've been using the magic of Christmas to travel around, looking for anyone who can help me. Until I found myself here, I had no such luck." Barla smiles: "Don't worry, we'll find them." "Indeed, we shall. It's intriguing that the power of Christmas is so strong." Some time later, we managed to locate them using the technology in the base as well as advanced magic. I look at the location: "Bubble Town? I know that place. It's full of robots living alongside people and was nearly destroyed 3 or so times. By natural disasters and the villainous plots of Dr. K. If they're in Bubble Town, who knows what would happen given all of the robots as well as the curious minds of the children and the hat. We won't need many of us to track them down. Besides me and you, Frosty, we'd need just a few more to go."

Dominic speaks again: "I'm staying here. It looks like all of the Quantum Leap teleportations have begun to bring the energy supplies within the collective to critically low levels. It's such a nap causation. I'll try reducing energy use here before finding more energy sources in this universe. Should have known this would happen since teleporting someone just once actually takes an unfathomable amount of energy. Most of the energy cost has been unknown to us until recently: been sourced from the Nexus itself." I reply: "So what you're saying is that we've been helped by divine intervention for 3 years with teleportation without even being told. Well, let's talk about that later. Right now, it's time to go to Bubble Town. I insist that Yappa Yappa comes because the general mood and culture of it might help him regain some more of a semblance of sanity." And so, I ended up going to Bubble Town with Frosty, Yappa Yappa, Barla, and Madeline(who almost didn't go in order to keep an eye on Carlos until Dominic told her he'd deal with the ninja). Once there, Frosty says: "You weren't kidding, being teleported does feel weird. *looks around* Gosh, where would we even begin to look for the hat and the children?" Madeline replies: "The hat will be easy to track down. I'm tracing its location right now." I add: "I'll search for the children by sensing Ki but there's a lot of people in this city. It's not going to be easy. We should narrow down the search before we go anywhere. Actually, all of us can sense Ki so it might be a wise idea to split up and head for spots where children are most likely to go. The amusement park is one of the places worth checking out. There's also the donut shop, RobixCorp, and other cool or tasty places around Bubble Town."