Jump 076: Captain N

Jump 076: Captain N

Location: The Palace Of Power
Age: 14
Identity: [-100] The Game Master
Drawbacks: [+500] Oh, There's Samus, A Time Of Heroes, Not So Keene, The Console War, Sworn eNemy

[100/1400]  You Stop That
[Free]      High Score!
[200/1400]  Playing With Power
[400/1400]  Continue?
[500/1400]  By The Pixel
[900/1400]  It's Too Dangerous To Finish Off Jumper Now!
[Free]      Can't Beat The Classics
[1100/1400] The Zapper
[1400/1400] Power Pad

This is definitely not what I expected to see with Captain N, as vague as my memories of it are, but I'm not complaining. Kevin Keene was a no-show and instead I was summoned; this is fitting. Rather than the insanity of the show itself, there's a great deal more faith toward the games and what they had - warp zones are legitimately a thing and tie together the multiverse.

Mother Brain is quite more a legitimate threat than any hokey TV show would imply, and the villains she collected to do her bidding weren't a matter of her scraping the bottom of the barrel. Of course, she still had King Hippo and the Eggplant Wizard, but ah... those two were apparently the mandatory comic relief, not her trusted lieutenants. She was more than happy to make alliances of convenience at times with individuals like Bowser, Ganon, or King Dedede. Her more permanent alliances ensured she had an effectively unlimited number of underlings - for example, Dracula and his minions, the Red Falcon organization (you may remember them from Contra) or the Black Warriors if she needed to blend into a more normal world (recruited from Double Dragon). And with travel between worlds possible, some worlds' villains banded together in smaller organizations. Dr. Wily working with Shredder made for a very bad day, for instance.

On the other hand, I got to do much the same. I had a core of allies who were on my side - Simon Belmont, Mega Man, Pit, Samus - and others that often helped such as Mario and Link. Of course, Mario had a lot of fires that he had to put out so that was pretty infrequent, but Link often lent his blade when things got tense.

Come to think of it, that's probably why Ganon kept trying to murder me. I suppose he probably took it a little personally that I shot him in the face and took away his triforce to lock it up in the Palace.

After a few years though, curious things began happening. The local multiverse began to have a connection to another, through a handful of worlds - Mega Man's one of the more notable among them. And that connection had results that were... less than ideal. Mother Brain, of course, invaded and was rebuffed; due to that misunderstanding, the locals banded together and ... well, there was war. Of a sort. There weren't any unified offenses, no armies that went on the march, but it was pretty ugly at times. Watching Sonic and Mario face off was a heck of a thing, for instance.

Hell of a ride, I have to say. Especially when Mother Brain somehow managed to actually weaponize entropy and screw literally everything up - while such a thing wouldn't kill me directly, it would all but freeze me. Trapped in suspended animation for years afterward, Mother Brain herself destroyed, I could do nothing but watch in horror while the local multiverse underwent a great change.

Terrible, yes, but great.