Naegi Protection Squad

Okay so I haven’t really been spoiled on anything else regarding 2 EXCEPT for the major thing, that being Lloyd’s sacrifice.

And while I don’t know how it happens, I just wanna say that the aftermath is gonna be crazy. Like the whole team is gonna be devastated but you know who’s especially going to be devastated? Kai.

This is the THIRD time he has lost a teammate due to ultimate sacrifice, and this is the SECOND time he has lost a SIBLING from ultimate sacrifice.

He did not handle Zane’s death well. He did not handle Nya’s death well. He almost lost his damn mind in Monstrosity because he thought he’d never see his family again.

Kai “don’t worry, I’ll look after you from now on” Smith is going to be very upset, Kai “worried about Lloyd for all of season 5 when he was possessed” is going to blame himself for not having done enough, Kai “my destiny is to PROTECT the green ninja” is going to feel like he failed his little brother.

This is just what I think the plot could be about, along with the hypothetical of gunshow actually becoming canon (which I believe there is a chance but it is a small one)

If the plot of CAV isn’t about an organization recruiting villains to do their grunt work for them, then it’s probably a gameshow/tournament. I’m more inclined towards the latter because Puzzles’ model has a microphone and I don’t see any reason why he’d have it unless he was performing. Plus WPNZ and Puzzles were BOTH reached out to via television, hinting that this could be some kind of televised event. So basically whoever’s in charge is gathering up random villains left and right to be put into this “contest” for…whatever reason.

I think Puzzles and WPNZ are going to be forced into participating because…well, if I had to guess, if you don’t play along then your planet is destroyed, as was seen on WPNZ’s board (that or the game’s losers have their planet destroyed.) Besides once these two reunite they’d have no desire to continue pursuing whatever this thing is and go right the hell home and catch up rather than keep willingly participating.

I don’t know what the winner would receive, maybe they’re spared or crowned the biggest, baddest villain alive? So yeah WPNZ and Puzzles team up and decide to play, thinking they’ve got this in the bag. However, after a challenge or two they start butting heads over how they should approach things, as I imagine the game involves showcasing how “villainous” the players truly are.

Puzzles is focused more on the performing aspect, and WPNZ is more focused on the physical aspect. Only when they combine the two will they actually get ahead. They might even get fed up with each other and go so far as to comedically sabotage each other. (I’m basing this SOLELY off of those drawings Zam showed of Puzzles and WPNZ together even though there’s no context.)

Okay here’s my fanfic ship part of the theory:

Perhaps, as the game goes on, it’s subtly (then not so subtly) shown to us that WPNZ and Puzzles are catching feelings for each other, and if I had to guess who’d realize it first it would be WPNZ. This could complicate things, as they need to focus on the game, but they’re just becoming so infatuated with each other and keep forgetting they’re on a show. Like, imagine them winning a challenge and they’re so elated and excited that they get caught up in the moment and one (or both) of them kiss the other.

(alternate option, there’s a scene where WPNZ is genuinely trying to admit he has feelings for him, and Puzzles, who can’t comprehend why anyone would love him romantically, thinks he’s doing an act for the show and “breaks his heart” to look extra evil or something. Puzzles quickly realizes WPNZ was being serious and it wasn’t a bit but it’s too late to take back what he said.)

Throwing some more angst into this, imagine if they advance far enough into the game, where it’s revealed that there can be only one winner. One by one, contestants are taken out, until it’s just a few of them left. This makes our duo nervous, but before the next challenge WPNZ tells Puzzles not to worry and to just do his best.

Puzzles gets so wrapped up in competing and surviving that he does succeed, only to realize that WPNZ was disqualified. He’s shattered, and before WPNZ is dragged away to a who knows what kind of fate, Puzzles tries to apologize. WPNZ is distraught and feels a little hurt that Puzzles so easily forgot about him but puts on a brave face for him because he’s still glad that he made it regardless. The last thing he tells Puzzles is to win this thing, and Puzzles promises that he will before they’re ripped from each other’s arms (again.)

I don’t know what happens to the disqualified contestants but I don’t think they’re killed, they still have use, after all. I think they’re taken directly to the “big bad” who’s running the whole contest and it leads to some kind of potential assimilation/mind control situation while the remaining contestants have no idea that it’s going on.

Actually, what if the final contestant (Puzzles) has to fight all the previously disqualified villains as a final challenge in order to win? That’d be nasty if he had to fight WPNZ, especially after they expressed that they have blooming romantic feelings for each other. Obviously Puzzles would snap WPNZ out of it and they’d take down the big bad together with maybe some other characters and put an end to the contest/show forever.

After all that WPNZ probably asks Puzzles out on a date or something I dunno.