H.N.M's "Games Server Adventures: Housepets X Dive"

[Amazee Dayzee]

All of this does seem like it would be incredibly cool! I am sure that everything will be just perfect when you get it in writing!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

I have nothing thus far. I thought I was going to reboot this but unfortunately I had life to take hold of me.

So, I'll see what I can come up with but just know that I'm still around, only this time I'm writing with the raspberry pi instead of a windows machine. But this would also have to take backseat as I have to work on the big project that is "Chaos Fighters."

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

...And now I'm still coming up with blanks. Maybe that reboot and the big project would have to wait. Beside, I have a lot to do and I don't really know if I can pull the works off.

So, more of the "King of Games Server" it is. I'll try and see what I can come up with.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Whatever you come up with I am sure is gonna be very great! I can't wait to see what ideas you have in store!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

Okay, since I said I would be writing, Here's something that I could come up with on the spot regarding the likes of the Dot Muncher himself.

Also, Ms. Pac-Man is part of the staff hired by the SYSOPS (King and Rena) specifically to spite ATGames. Ms. Pac-Man should have been Namco's property since they own Pac-Man. They tried to work with GCC but ATGames had to ruin the legal negotiations.

Point of view is of Ms. Pac-Man herself.
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Another day, another means to stick it to those charlatans. What, you thought I am completely out of the picture in spite of my legal captors' best effort? Well, you're not the only one.

Name's Ms. Pac-Man. Or you can just call me 'Mizz' since it would be a mouth full saying my name over and over again. I wish my husband's success after all. If you're thinking about posting the game data here, DON'T. After all, King is a thief but a necessary evil. Also it's against the forums' rules linking to such pirate's loot.

You get all that 'Jack Sparrow?' I know you're supporting the official release within reason, but you're dealing with a lady whose too much to handle, especially with such speed.

And before you say it, Of course Sonic The Hedgehog is the fastest period, and Shadow the Hedgehog is equal as well as Metal Sonic and possibly Silver The Hedgehog, if he's able to get a hang of such footwork in addition to flight.

So, what is it that you want? Any reason why you caught me before I punched in?

Mizz is Handed the wanted poster for one Dr. Ivo Robotnik. The same antagonist from the cartoon "Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog."

...I see. Ol' Buttnik himself is making a move in a scheme to shut the SYSOPS up. Yeah, Pac-Attack is also something that King played since he owned a Sega Genesis and a Game Gear which he keeps hooked up at home because of the battery power that system eats up.

...He imported a Saturn and bought a Dreamcast after the Master System and the Addons for said Genesis. Everyone knows, He even bought a Saturn Bomberman Joycard after saving up enough for said Sega Saturn Import.

But enough about him having friends in the gray market for his Sega Saturn, what else is to say aside from Joel being a Sega Geek? Surely you read his world's story before you got around to making fanworks with the usual so-called 'genius' writing this schlock, in addition to said hack's thumbprints?

I just hope King and Rena are able to outfox Dr. Robotnik and his hordes of robotic stooges before things really go south.

As for me? I have to prepare things for this upcoming showdown. A battle of the brains if you would. Puzzles, math, reading, you know. things that require brainwork.

"It's a good thing I found you Mizz! Bandora Shop's usual fruit salad with pretzel crisps. You favorite!"

...Thanks Rito Revolto. Tell Rita And Zedd that the Chaos Fighters would be waiting for them just in time for the 50th anniversary challenge, should the world in reality doesn't get screwed over.

"Yes, I'm sure Ed would use the cash for something nifty." It's 'Zedd' you numbhelmet. As for the payment, I subscribed to this 'delivery scheme' and the check should be there.

...Good thing he's rather dense, otherwise he'd take the lashings personally. Now, to punch in and have breakfast.
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PLEASE BE SURE TO CLEAN WHEN YOU'RE DONE EATING. NOBODY LIKES A INFESTATION THROUGHOUT THE SERVERS.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I really loved how this chapter began to set things up to move the story along! This is gonna be a really nice few next chapters!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

Well, I may as well make this multipart challenge take the form of a general challenge, especially with some set pieces regarding Pac-Attack and other puzzle games. Like the machine displaying the two combatants' grid matrix (King and Robotnik) taking the form of two Sega Game Gears hooked up to each other by means of a Gear To Gear Cable.

And as we're joining King, we get to see him training for the big challenge.
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"Ah, Dr. Robotnik issued his latest challenge." King noted in intrigue as he's round like a berry again, but with a Pac-Man as his round body this time as his hands, feet, tail and head are the things sticking out of the spherical body that is chomping ghosts, dodging dangers, marching through mazes among other things as he is getting psyched. "And what a coinkydink too, as I was just playing through some Pac-Man!"

"Yeah, in a somewhat different manner Frank." Pac-Man stated, with his voice from Pac-Man World 3. (Martin T. Sherman is said voice actor.)

"Come on Sherman! I'm not taking those battle game loss personally." As yes, there is a Battle Game on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color version of Pac-Man. (Possibly on the Game Gear Version as well but emulation doesn't really support it.)

"Well, excuse me if I side with Zedd regarding your freak tribute to me." Pac-Man verbally struck with that barb. "Well now that we got that out of the way, Dr. Robotnik is challenging you, Joel King Milton, to a video challenge. Mainly involving Puzzles aside from Puyo Puyo."

"What? Columns?"

"Pac-Attack is the video challenge. I'm sure you're able to transform at will, because aside from Joy-cons, how else would you operate the Puzzle Matrix with blocks and ghosts falling down AND a devious mastermind with a IQ of 300 on top of that?"

"I train with that game. I was a Sega Geek back in the day." King beamed with optimism.

"That... everyone else knows. Puyo Puyo Fever is last game to officially be released for the Sega Dreamcast." Pac-Man sighed and looked over to the corgi pac-man sphere, chomping ghosts with one of many power pellets. "As soon as you get done, Turn back to the normal body and let's get cracking! Robotnik's goons will arrive soon." Pac-Man thinks pistachios, licking his lips as he thought out loud "I could go for some pistachios and a loaf of buttered toast."

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How to Play Pac-Attack

Okay, so you know how Tetris works when it comes to the formula of falling block puzzle games.

D-Pad moves the falling piece left and right, with down being the controlled soft drop.

One of the buttons rotate the piece clockwise, another counter clockwise, and in puzzle mode, a third/whichever button doesn't rotate the piece changes the direction Pac-Man faces.

Pieces come in three piece L shaped arrangements of blocks, ghosts, and Pac-Man. Ghosts must be eaten by the Pac-Man to rid them of the grid, blocks disappear when a line of them is made. Pac-Man follows a path involving horizontals and downwards before he does his death animation and leaves the grid.

The blocks, ghosts and Pac-Man follows the law of gravity. Use this to your advantage for high scores.

Eat ghosts to fill up the fairy meter. Once it is filled, a fairy will take the place of Pac-Man and erase a portion of blocks and ghosts that she happens to land on. Use her wisely.

As time goes on, Pac-Man would take longer to show up as well as the speed of the game increasing to where it would be difficult to be precise.

Keep the matrix clean! If the top section is blocked off where another piece cannot enter, you lose.

In puzzle mode, you need to eat all the ghosts to move on to the next stage. If you can do it in the fewest Pac-Man then the stage would be marked regarding your performance. You lose if you run out of Pac-Man to solve the puzzle, in addition to overloading the matrix.

As for versus mode, It's the usual battle between two players, where longer ghost chains cause garbage lines to rise and ghosts to fall into the opponent's matrix. The ghost chain levels are represented by fruit you can eat in Pac-Man. Clear lines of blocks to remove the garbage lines and eat your opponent's ghosts they send you to counter attack!

Whoever's matrix overloads loses.

And now you got the general gist of Pac-Attack. Let the training begin... If they haven't started without us that is

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King is his small, slim self as he readies the puzzle matrix. "All that mass gone in a transformation and he didn't even need slim-fast to do it!"

"Come on Pac, I had to throw that game to get here." King starts the game up with Normal Mode. Normal starts him off at level 10 and a modest point bonus as the door prize.

And here comes the puzzle pieces. King rotates and arranges them into modest chains where the matrix's Pac-Man can eat the ghosts. After a while, Pac-Man realizes King is focusing on eating ghosts instead of strategically arranging them so rows of lines can be cleared by gravity once Pac-Man eats them up.

"Still got ghosts on the brain?" Pac-Man asked King as he observed his play style. "Yeah. I thought you make big lines of ghosts just to eat them up for the high score."

"About that? That is a predictable mindset. I get it, I eat ghosts and it's a primary game mechanic. Maybe if you played the puzzle modes, you'd get some ideas on how to arrange the ghosts so that blocks fall alongside them being chomped for massive scores."

"Is there such a thing as too many ghosts?" King wondered. "Yes, if you're only focusing on making large chains. A predictable strategy can ruin you with a well paced attack."

And so, after a few rounds of the Normal Game, Puzzle Game is next. 100 levels on Sega and Nintendo, and a "Road to GodHand" Puzzle mode with many more on Playstation's Namco Anthology 2.

If you wish to play Pac-Attack for yourself, you'd have to buy it. Heck, it's even on digital in Pac-Man Museum+ on steam, and the game can be streamed in your browser if you know where exactly to look. But overall, it doesn't cost that much, even in the second hand market.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Loved everything that you have done with this chapter Hiraoka! I thought that it was a very nice continuation to the story!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

It's taking a while for me to come up with anything in particular. A lot of things were happening and I felt rather bad a few days ago. Still, it could be worse. It could involve games of old turning into propaganda.

...I'll need to talk to a moderator regarding my emotions surrounding the games turning into propaganda as politics's one of the big No-Nos that I have in my personal list of No-Nos.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Hopefully that you will be able to get that figured out for the next chapter! I am sure that whatever else you come up with will be just magnificent!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

Morale is improving since I got things off my chest in regards to the world. Now for a bit of escapism writing fan works.

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"Dr. Robotnik is here. Yes, the same one you beat constantly in game "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine." And he's really teed off. hope you can win this King." As Rena informed King, he's psyched again.

"Well, I'm out of time in that case! Training is over, and now we're ready!" The Corgi is ready to drive Robotnik mad by beating him at another game. The mad doctor of that Sonic Cartoon is here, ready to beat him.

"So, you're that wretched man that still tormented me even when you've got dog days!" Cue King humming Dr. Robotnik's Theme from Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog. "Yes, THE SAME! The machine is ready for our ghost munching falling block puzzle challenge!" At that point, King notes how fast Ms Pac-Man worked on setting up that Gear To Gear combat viewer and everything else.

"She must had some hot peppers to speed her up even faster!" And as Ms. Pac-Man shows up, Scratch and Grounder were being roughly handled by her as their intent were clear. "There's no cheating your way out of this Robotnik."

Robotnik screamed insults at the two dunce buckets for trying to fix the game to his favor. Yes, this Robotnik is the same that King faces off against while he had his Sega Genesis and that one game. "If I wanted to cheat, I'D LET YOU KNOW BEFOREHAND!" As he was about to slap the two dolts, he instead turned them around and shoved them out the door. "This is a personal battle against the SYSOP I know. Now go into the audience stands and watch me settle the score."

"Yes your viciousness!" "Right Away!" And the two were clanking about how Robotnik is going to pick a favorite between the two.

King simply jeered "There's always a first time, even with games that are new to us." And so, The arena is set, the two were going to settle things, with Sonic and Rena being referees to make sure everything is square. Yes, Jaleel White's Sonic and "Bella Hudson's" furry fancasting role will be strictly judging by the ruleset to defy any cheating shenanigans.

As the two opponents entered, two of the Ultramen inserted the macro Pac-Attack cartridges and hooked up the Gear-To-Gear cables. Breathing adapters with fresh filter cartridges because I assume the environment must be toxic to the Ultras, hence why the noisy warnings and flashing red indicators reminding them to wrap things up and exit before they succumb to the poison of the atmosphere.

That's what I assume regarding the Ultras anyways since I need "a simple explanation" as to why they're here for a longer period of time. And I just found out that the timer in involved with a host fused to a Ultra, but again, that is gameplay/fighting portions of their formula. I need to get around to watching Ultraman, just assume that they're fused to some hosts willing to fight the macro fight if needed.

And as the grudge match is about to begin, the Ultras turn on the machines and set the two Game Gears' instances to Versus Mode, Complete with much smaller handhelds to operate the games with their own screen, though screen peeking is still a thing they turn and craned their heads up. Would you believe Analogue Pocket is the system with Gear-To-Gear support?

"We Are PAC-MAN" begins playing in the background as the versus game is being played within a montage of gameplay, the two fiends are stacking blocks, chomping ghosts, sending garbage pieces to each other, and generally being fast as the match eventually goes down to the wire with both King and Robotnik needing one more win to best the other.

("Pit, I know you got the band ready, but is it really necessary for something that new?") ("Either that or "Pac-Man Fever." Besides, It's a falling block puzzle game, not a dot eating maze game!") ("Good Point.")

And just as the final round in the set is about to begin... A spell akin to a Power Outage occurs.

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"...If we actually cast that spell, we would have a evil scheme ready to go!" As the police interrogated Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. "We were just in the stands, serving refreshments for a somewhat increased price! (We had to make up for the stock after all.)"

Fox and Satu were not pleased with the two since they have magic at the ready with their staves, but the pressed on a few times, reviewing footage, logs and any kind of security details "...The Mighty Morphin' Villains are serious." Fox realized.

"Of course they're still bankrolling their schemes" Satu stated. "It's their work ethic that drives them to have some good in them, even if they're evil."

As the four were rooting around for something that would bring the power back, the two villains luminated the K9 Officers visions to where they can easily see in the dark.

"Don't take it the wrong way audience!" As Zedd is calling the writer and the readers out. "The Good Deeds are strictly business!" ...Right. At least the villains like them are affably evil if you could describe my writing of such in one trope.

Soon, they found a generator. Fox decided to make himself into a somewhat different kind of power source "How much is that Sunny-D energy drink with the abnormal features?" Zedd looked at his stadium vendor kit and realized Fox's juicy idea. "Oh no! I know your brother in law Lindberg! A RIGHT OUT FREAK!"

Rita told Zedd off in their usual bickering as Fox took the energy drink can and chugged it. She gets Fox's strategy to bring back the power within the zone, and agreed with him that Breel is a freak. ("Let him cook Zedd! We sell the medicine to easily change him back!") ("Of course, but KING IS HIS BROTHER IN LAW! And I'm not going to let the officer develop such interests as that [CENSORED DESCRIPTION]!")

As Fox becomes a round power source, he had Satu take two electric clamps and clamp his chest as well as the generator. The others in the police force as entering the stadium zone, even that of Grape's Squadron of Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Grape being Kibaranger while the rest of her team are the core Zyurangers as she proceeded to find the two nogoodniks to give them a piece of her mind and a fight should they resort to violence.

Overall, The challenge between King Milton and Dr. Robotnik had to be postponed as outages are occurring all over the King Of Games server.

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Well, At least Analogue Pocket would do Gear-To-Gear multiplayer, If I can figure out how to get two and the means to try the feature out.

As for the power outages among other disasters being here within writing? ...It's complicated but let's just say it has something to do with myself, my general outlook, my emotional state, my physical and mental health, just everything, everywhere, all at a time.

[Amazee Dayzee]

You really did come through SPECTACULARLY when it came to posting this next installment of the story! You definitely have a great future of storytelling ahead of you!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

I'm back to writing again. Though how I can make some sense of my fan fics crossing over when there is a Grape Jelly who is known by her node name "Puss In Boots" and another one who is the police cat that is a part of a set of Power Rangers which she leads.

...Heh, I guess the various servers are undergoing disasters upon disasters considering how things are going at this rate. And to the point where Fox needed to have Breel make those energy drinks to have someone in the force at least to keep the power going within.

Anyways, the Permaberry self insert would be keeping Cerberus company as another delay occurred regarding her battle games.

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That's right, It's me. Hiraoka Michio. The self insert permaberry who goes life being whatever species within reason.

Cerberus is facing delays as disaster struck hard. Another outage? I'll have to be the battery again so that she can blast through the competition, if she can that is. Stuck in a B Ranking after getting demoted for yet another loss. First loss within a ranking is no big deal, though the Demotion Bout is rather harsh. She just took the L after all and decided to work harder to at least maintain the solid B Rank.

As the door opened, Cerberus have with her a energy can that can make whoever drinks it inflate into powerful berry which would be used as a charger and a battery, just in case another blackout.

"Your turn to be the battery." as she handed the can to one of my magic hands. As I drink the drink, my flavor changed, my body grew huge and I felt like I'm exploding with energy. (not exactly, but the sensation is the same.)

And at the same time, I just so happen to be a rooey from the Bomberman series. Nothing major or anything, I just decided to be one for the day. And so, I'm going to power the server.

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"...This won't hurt a bit Jim." as Lan Hikari proceeds to clamp my chest with the energy clamps, and another to a power source so I can power the machine.

(Yes, "James Lee McKigney" is my real name, but no, Don't call me Paul. This is just to avoid an obvious confusion regarding the Netbattler. Also, don't give out your real name.)

And as the worlds are powering up again, I realized that I had caused some obvious confusion for Lan Hikari to reffer to me by my birth name. In any case, I'll have to be the battery for the time being until I go through the power that the canister gave me. When I am finally back to normal, I'll have to let Cerberus know that the drink was a success in powering the machine.

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Yes, I had to give that personal info of mine because things are only going to get worse as time progresses. Hopefully I'll be able to go forth and live life the best as I can. I don't know if I'll be able to work on fan fiction anymore but at the same time, I had to get things off my chest as I was thinking of Mega Man Battle Network's main character and how it would cause such confusion.

[Amazee Dayzee]

This is a really great chapter and I do enjoy what happened in it! keep it up with the writing because its great!

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

All righty then! Since I have a set of MMOs to play through, I would still be writing this fanfiction to keep up with the likes of the game world. Although there would be some obvious crossover with my other fan fics (with the likes of Joel Beauregard and the 20-something human who was a 5 year old raccoon kit,) turnabout crossover is rather fair so I wouldn't forget. Still have to write regardless but it would be worth something.

As for the likes of Gex? Well, Gex would still remain as a agent with attitude but his character would be innocently insensitive. ("Specifically because references are easily dated, is that true?") ...Yes Gex, that is true. But I would be writing you some neat toys to play with. He'll also break the fourth wall in my writing to speak what's on his mind, in addition to being a mouse potato on some serious business regarding the free(-ish) world. ("Hope you'll write me well.")

Now then... Let's start this instance, shall we?
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"Okay Tum Milton, let's go over why we have to use my Zords to clear paths for that Battery of the Gods." Gex is showing off his Zords as he explains the business to the mankit with a heart of gold. "The instant that men had to be "energy fruit" to power the servers made my scales crawl, especially since I obtained a internet connection and a powerful computer to keep up with the "Average Joels."

There is no need to explain how Gex knew about that part of the net ("Not Safe For the Forums" as you'd say.") ...but the emphasis on that name sold how serious the situation is to the gecko.

"Say no more Gex." Tum stated. "I'm just here for honest work, that's all."

"Maybe so, but in addition to the juicy antics invoked by one 'Brilliant' Breel Milton, men having to become juice filled batteries to keep the world online is ridiculous as well as some bad "Soylent Green" inspired writing." Gex pulls the huge tarp covering his Zords.

"These are how we're going to clear the path to get that everlasting battery into the server." Dinosaurs, Animals, Vehicles, Ninjas, Humanoids and others are all commissioned by one Grape Jelly Scotch (The Lead Ranger of her squadron) to get Gex that helping hand in what is essentially a whole plot reference of a assignment of Rare's Blast Corps.

"These are how we're going to destroy stuff to get that battery in one piece. Volatile stuff, the battery that is. All that power could destroy the server and spread to all the other servers."

Gex have a artifact that splits him into five beings, the green one being the original that used the artifact, and the red, blue, yellow and white Gexs are the copies. "You would be my sixth ranger in this case my good man, since everyone knows that the zords must unite into the Megazord in order for them to be considered heroic by nature."

Gex then goes over his Zords, toynetic by nature but this is a fan work. ("Well, aren't you going to commission my zords' designs?") ...When I'm financially stable Gex.

"Of course, there's the fact that there's multiple combinations possible. But don't panic, we'll have manuals to figure out how they work. As soon as we finish fighting monsters..." Gex stops to laugh "...Then the battery will begin shipping."

And so, The two heroes begin their training, Gex being five heroes from one, Tum Milton being the human with raccoon markings as his sixth, and all the while, more men have to swell up like berries in order to power the server that is still prone to blacking out.