Reality
Anthony finds he has transferred to another reality where his Zapbots were never created.
Synopsis
Anthony wakes up to find himself in a completely unfamiliar settings with an individual named Mike telling him he has to go to class at a local art college. Unsure of what is going on, he sets off to figure out what happened to his life as he finds he has reverted back to being fully human.
Through some discovery he finds out he has possible either switched realities or history itself has been changed as the Zapbot spaceship carrying the Matrix never landed in his back yard. Thus he went onto High School and subsequently college where he discovered new friends and relationships. However, it appears one particular individual has hatred for him by the name of Scott.
During lunch at the college a fire breaks out in a nearby building and Anthony although without his powers still maintained his Zapbot knowledge, uses it to rescue a human from the building. This immediately makes him a hero of which he chooses to ignore as not mess up the timeline if the original Anthony should return.
As Anthony reached out to his online friend Jon via a Bulletin Board system, he discovers that the Zapbot Spaceship burned up in orbit around Earth in this reality. After a confrontation with Scott where he pulls a gun, Anthony sees Speedy in a parking lot. Using a secret prefix code, he takes Speedy over forcing him to reveal that the Zapbots are present in this reality.
Speedy takes him to Duplaflex where the Zapbots interrogate Anthony as they are hidden in this reality from humans. Anthony finds that Boaty was destroyed in battle. Scan does some research and discovered that Anthony had swapped realities during transport through a specific temporal riff in space. The Zapbots take Anthony back to the specific point in time to mend the temporal riff and return him to his own reality.
Back in his own reality, Anthony makes an effort to reach out to his newly discovered friends in the alternate reality. During the mission the Gongos stage an attack and Matt E. is killed. Although Anthony has acquired new friends, he is depressed from the loss of his friend Matt. He experiences a dream where Matt reaches out to him and wakes up just before Boaty messages him.
Grieving Anthony visits the gravesite of Matt to express his condolences in a poem, as he tries to move on.
Featured characters
| Zapbots | Humans | Enemies | Planets |
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Quotes
"I’M DORKATRON!"
- Mikey talking to Anthony in the alternate reality. .
Notes
Production notes
- (I believe) this is the first appearance of Tiremarks, Tiretracks, Poppin, Terrain?.
- Third pass to provide extra details and upgrades happened in 2021.
Continuity notes
Real-life references
Oh boy so many here...
- Columbus Ohio, duh!
- Columbus College of Art and Design
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Russell Ohio, near my hometown of Chesterland, Ohio
- Rocky River, where my Bulletin Board friends lived.
Continuity and plotting errors
Other trivia
- Preface to this story has various tidbits of who are people I still talk to today.
