Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-30384301-20180809125956/@comment-31727837-20180811140023

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''Teragill McDennis, Jelo’s elementary school friend and current champion of the United States Gaming Competition, has decided to come to Echo Creek to challenge the best of the best in gaming! Starcade, a big fan of Teragill, notices that he look suspiciously like Terabyte, a hacker known to steal experimental and potentially malicious AI, and decides to investigate with the help of her friends. Is Teragill really the infamous Terabyte or is it just one big coincidence?''

In the city of Eitbit, Starcade and the Retro Rebels were all socializing in a nearby coffee shop (assuming that Eitbit HAS one). Starcade eventually brings up the infamous hacker Terabyte, who has been best known for stealing several types of experimental and potentially malicious Artifical Intelligence all around the globe. She even mentions that Terabyte might even stole the schematics of Dynasty’s experimental AI, Giffany, which was scrapped because she deleted herself before she can shut down the Galactic Fortress’s power and servers. She ends the subject by saying that eventually, Terabyte suddenly disappeared when he stole Soviet Russia’s experimental AI and nobody in the Internet has seen him since. Suddenly, in Eitbit’s News Channel, they announced that Teragill McDennis, current holder as the Best Gamer in the World and Champion of the United States Gaming Competition, is planning to visit Echo Creek to meet the Lock Room Gang and host a gaming competition in the Echo Creek Arcade Area, where Echo Creek’s best gamers will compete against him in 3 different gaming scenarios: Horror, Platformer and Beat ‘em Up. Whoever beats him in all 3 scenarios will be crowned the Best Gamer in Echo Creek. Starcade, excited to meet Teragill, decides to go to Echo Creek with her friends to come and meet him.

Starcade and her friends eventually make their way to Echo Creek and made small talk with the gang before they wait for Teragill to come. Eventually, he did come using his black and green sports car. Teragill then meets his adoring fans and citizens of Echo Creek (notably Nebula, Star Butterfly, and, of course, Starcade) before meeting with one of the leaders of the Locked Room Gang, Gerald Edmarkson. Teragill remarks that Jelo looks like someone he had met before in the past, and Jelo vice versa. Teragill states that he reminds him of an old friend when he was in elementary school while holding out half a heart necklace with an emerald jewel embedded in it. Immediately recognizing the necklace, Jelo quickly checks his bag, where he finds the other half of the heart necklace, with a sapphire jewel on it. They connect the two halves together to make a heart with a line saying “FRIENDS FOREVER.” Teragill and Jelo then realize that they were once old elementary school friends and they both reunite.

After Terabyte finishes with his reunion and talks with his other fans, Starcade comments that Teragill looks kinda like Terabyte, however, Test Subject Blue dismisses the accusation, stating that she probably thinks that because of his fashion choices. After Teragill finishes talking with his fans, he announces that due to the absurd amount of fans in Echo Creek, he says that the terms in the tournament changed he will only choose 3 members of the Locked Room Gang to compete against him, via name cards in a cardboard box. Starcade was ecstatic that she might have a chance to go up against Teragill, the best gamer in the world. He pulls out the first one: The first competitor is Jenny. He pulls out the second card: The second competitor is Mario. He then pulls out the last card and the third and final competitor is... Starcade! Teragill announces that the tournament will start tomorrow night and will be set in the Echo Creek Arcade Area. After the announcement, Teragill walks up to Jelo and asks him if he can crash into his house for a day, as he forgot to make a reservation for a hotel room ahead of time, in which Jelo allows.

At Jelo’s House, Teragill helps himself with some cola and a bowl of chips as he sits down with Jelo as they watch a film together, reminiscing the good old times they had when they were in elementary. Teragill eventually confessed that the reason why he suddenly didn’t come back to elementary is that his father landed in a new job in Kansas. After the film, Teragill gave Jelo his old elementary yearbook, that has both Jelo and Teragill when they were 6-7-year-olds. Jelo Thanks Teragill and says “good night” to his friend before they went to sleep. The day the tournament came, Starcade, still suspicious about Teragill possibly being Terabyte, sneaks into Teragill’s car, lock picks the trunk and opens it, finding only two suitcases. One of them only has spare clothes and hygienic equipment, while the other has a lock inside of it. Right before Starcade can attempt to lockpick the lock, Teragill catches her in the act and scolds her for looking into other people’s stuff without their permission. Starcade tried to object, but Teragill shushes her by threatening to disqualify her if she doesn’t get her act together. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to compete with him, Starcade was forced to comply. Teragill then apologizes for snapping at her, saying that he didn’t get much sleep last night and offers her to a trip to a local coffee shop, which Starcade accepts the offer.

Hours later, the big gaming competition starts at the dusk of night, where a crowd gathers to see who will win the competition. Teragill announces the games the competitions will play to try and beat him: for the Horror genre, a classic Slender Man race; whoever grabs all 8 pages and escape Slender Man’s wrath before Teragill can win the first portion. The second game for the Platformer genre is the world 8 final boss in Super Mario Bros; whoever dies first or defeats Bowser last loses. The final game for the Beat ‘em Up genre is Street Fighter; whoever defeats Teragill, who is playing as Ryu, while playing as Ken, wins. In the first competition, Mario dies from Slender (due to him being unaware of the controls and mechanics), Jenny escapes from Slender last, while Starcade escapes from Slender first with flying colors. In the second competition, Jenny dies from Bowser, Mario defeats Bowser last, while Starcade defeats Bowser before Teragill can with no problem. In the last competition, both Jenny and Mario die from Ryu while Starcade defeats him before the time limit runs out. It was then where Teragill announces Starcade as the Best Gamer in Echo Creek and gave her a Medal of Honor and a round of applause.

After Teragill seemingly left, Test Subject Blue, now also suspicious about Teragill possibly being Terabyte, decides to work with Starcade to find out if they really were the same. They decided to investigate Jelo’s House since he was busy taking down evil in other places with his gang. There, they found a flash drive that has Teragill’s insignia on it between the couch. They decided to take the flash drive and download all of its contents onto a laptop. There they found schematics and blueprints about a “Video-Game Transport Helmet” and a “Terabyte Ray Gun/Eitbitizen Storage Unit.” Before they can learn any more, they were ambushed by Terabyte himself, threatening to “delete” them if they don’t give him the laptop. Starcade and Test Subject Blue fought hard to defend the laptop and its contents, but eventually, Test Subject Blue was shot by Terabyte’s laser gun, where he turned into green pixels before dissipating. Starcade, absolutely horrified at what she sawed, was forced to give Terabyte the laptop when he threatened to do the same to her.

After the incident, Starcade was sent into a deep depression, as not only she has lost all evidence to incriminate Teragill for Terabyte, but she has also lost her friend in the process. However, thanks to moral support from the Retro Rebels, Starcade regains her confidence and sets off to find new evidence to incriminate Teragill for his crimes with the help of her friends. While searching for the new evidence, she finds out that Terabyte has his own website. Using her hacking skills, she makes her way to Teragill’s account (OneTrillionBytes). While searching through his account, she finds out that Terabyte was planning to dissect and research characters from Eitbit, to better understand their anatomy (she even finds images of the anatomy of a Human and Terabyte’s “theoretical” anatomy of an Eitbitizen. After downloading all of the new evidence, she receives a distress signal from Eitbit, claiming that Terabyte is attacking the city and capturing Eitbitizens left and right inside of his mech, before entering the Star Fighters arcade cabinet to capture more characters. Starcade and the Retro Rebels quickly make their way back to Eitbit to find and defeat Terabyte once and for all.

Starcade and the Retro Rebels did whatever they can to bring down Terabyte’s mech, but the mech’s durability and devices overwhelmed the Rebels. At one point, Terabyte uses a drone to take control of Viking and forces him to fight the Rebels. Eventually, Warlock had an idea and, when his friends help defend him, casts a spell on Terabyte’s mech that caused it to rust so much and so fast that it was beyond repair. This gives Starcade the opportunity to pounce on Terabyte and they roll to a nearby building, where the entrance collapse, leaving only Starcade and Terabyte. Starcade then asks Terabyte what will he do with Eitbit and it’s citizens and, before Terabyte can respond, she guesses that he’s going to conquer it and use the citizens of Eitbit as test subjects. Terabyte tells her that he has no intentions on conquering all of Eitbit (even plainly commenting, “Think of all of the paperwork I have to do!”), which surprised Starcade a little and asks him what are is true intentions.

Terabyte says that he always, genuinely loved games, to the point where he starts to feel reluctant about dissecting the Eitbitizens to the code, but he felt like he had no choice, as he always hated the fact that all of the characters in video games have a limited amount of dialogue and unique animations, despite the ever-evolving improvement of video game development, and plans to create a new age of gaming where the characters in the game will be given more rights, more freedom, more life. He then says he is going to capture every Eitbitizen in Eitbit, including Starcade and the Retro Rebels, put them through many grueling tests and dissect them to the code to learn more about their anatomy and their independent thinking and, once his research is complete, he’ll auction it off to video game clients all over the world (Nintendo, Sony, Ubisoft, etc). That way, not only he will become rich, but he will change the way Video games are made forever. Starcade, despite her understanding his intentions, calls his plans on doing so insane and that she is going to stop him, no matter how well-intentioned his plans are. Then Starcade and Terabyte dueled.

Starcade fought desperately, planning to try and overwhelmed Terabyte, but he decided to play dirty and download moves and Power-Ups from different games ([Scorpion's Spear], [Mario's Ice Flower], [Ryu's Hadouken], etc), overwhelming her. With Starcade overwhelmed and weakened, Terabyte approaches her, grabs her by the hair, and finishes her off by shooting her with his Ray Gun, bringing her into his gun for storage. However, he too late realizes that while he was finishing her off, she planted an explosive onto his device. Before he can react, the explosive went off, destroying his Ray Gun and freeing Starcade, Test Subject Blue, and every other Eitbitizen trapped in his weapon. After that, he was arrested and was put into jail, with him vowing that once his lawyers bail him out of prison, he will get his revenge on him. After his arrest, Echo Creek's news station broadcasted the incident. When Jelo learned that Teragill, his old elementary best friend, was the infamous Terabyte, it nearly destroyed him. While he did recover from the realization, his old friend's betrayal will now be part of the dark recesses of his mind forever...