A Glitch In The Circus

ERROR 404: Exit Not Found

The episode opens up on a black graph paper-like screen. A red dot materializes, and after the camera zooms, similar dots of other red shades fill the screen from the left upper corner. The first dot grows, before stock images flash on the screen; wrapped presents on a table, a bright carousel, a pumpkin patch-styled event with animal looking figures in a central gate, a bright valley scene with a rainbow hot air balloon in the sky, an inflatable bungee castle slide with black polka dots and a cartoonish monkey head on the top of the entrance, and finally an upshot view of three circus tents outside. The images then fade.

The red dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 5 different small shapes in various colors. Then, more dots of different shades of green fill up he's from the right upper corner, before flashing back into another sequence of images; sugar gummy worms, inflatable dinosaurs, a half-eaten burger on some tissue paper with fries and ketchup on it, a grassy landscape with various trees and a pond, a picture of strange antique masks lined up side by side on tables, a classic cozy outside of a restaurant with red and white plaid tablecloths and empty glass cups stuffed with tissue paper, an eerie photo showing multiple flowers lined up next to a silly smiling clown toy with a red and yellow square sequence, and finally a white alligator in a pink colored pool.

The red dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 10 different small shapes in various colors, though misshaped than the last. Then, more dots of different shades of blue fill up he's from above, before flashing back into another sequence of images; The main office of C&A with computers and desks. He begins to make beats, emitting more misshapen shapes in various colors, now bigger and out of control, leading it to be contained in a box. Above it, a blue dot materialized in the red dot's place. It was then filled with yellow shades from the upper left corner. The blue dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 8 different small shapes in various colors. However, the red dot suddenly sparks and breaks free right before it devours the blue dot... Which seems to glitch out as a spark flies off of it, causing the program to glitch out, emitting chaotic particles of all varying shapes and sizes. Once everything settled and it regained dominance, it began to slowly shrink before slowly emitting red and yellow shapes that took the form of a circus tent...

We cut to where the previous canon episode left off, the cast is standing on the black and white checkered floor of the circus tent, but the circus is black and white with only a few hints of purple coming mainly from the holes in the floor and walls leading into The Void. Although they are less colorful, the players still remain in their usual colors. Kinger is standing a bit away from the others.

Ares: ....You.... KILLED Caine?

Pomni: I... Are you sure? How could that even happen? There was no undo button or anything?

Kinger: Uh-I... I don't know! I think he was messing with the console and... I don't know what happened. I... Before Cosgrove and I could do anything, the floor opened up and...

Gangle: I.... Deleting Caine caused all this to happen?

Ares: He's the main AI, remember? The Circus is an extension of him. It's part of who he is....was. With him gone, this place is unstable.

Jax: *murmuring* ....That's convenient.

Pomni: *stern* Jax.

Jax: What? Are we all just supposed to forgive this?! It's because of HIS work we got stuck in this hellhole in the first place! This guy messes up in the worst possible way he could, now we have nothing!

Ragatha: Jax! Please, just... calm down! We- We're all... *stuttering* We're...

Rhodes: We're stranded. No leads, no kernel patch... And now no central AI to keep this stable. What are we going to do now?