The Roxsztars

[ Versus Central ]

The Versus Dimension was formed by crystals that lost their elements, resulting in a planet covered in plain, stony hills. The missing elements caused the land to glitch as it formed, creating rectangular prisms that towered from the ground and a large fractured star in the sky. Some glitches became the first five lifeforms here known as Versztars, which have various appearances but often look like fusions of different creatures. They learn about their glitch powers that can alter the stony landscape into whatever they want at the cost of energy. The Versztars became friends and wanted to use their powers to create a nice space to live, but they all disagreed about what it should have.

After arguing, they decided to each make a plan of their own and get together to see whose is best. When they started reviewing their plans, they found they actually wanted multiple parts of each other's plans in the final product. Therefore, they incorporated many of their ideas, including turning the rectangular towers into housing units, into one giant city that was named Versus Central due to the competition that created it. They didn't have enough energy to change most of the land, so they decided to leave it for future ideas, allowing natural glitching to form slightly different landscapes.

As they lived in Versus Central, the Versztars found they were maturing into more stabilized forms. Using this, one of them learned how to alter themselves to asexually create new life, so they all reproduced to populate the city. To prevent chaos from their offspring's glitch powers, they instilled a culture of teamwork and friendly competition, and found their kind had a remarkable ability to compromise with each other. Eventually, the population grew enough to require groups of mayors that are routinely cycled to regulate the landscape's usage. There are now a few hundred Versztars all living in present day Versus Central.

[ Versus Vector ]

Retropodd is a current day Versztar who lives with his mother Sonyapodd. Just like her, Retropodd's head had two round disks that didn't behave in any special way. Retropodd liked exploring as a child, and Sonyapodd would often have to find him wherever he ended up. One day, it learned about a camping trip to one of the planet's outer habitats: a sandy beach with a beautiful shoreline. He was enamored and was excited to go there with its mother. There was a rule to not alter anything outside of Versus Central, but the camping group enjoyed their time regardless.

The group set up tents to sleep in as Retropodd wandered across the shoreline. Sonyapodd found it again and decided to set their tent at that spot. Little did they know, their tent was on top of a buried portal to Storm Summit in the Roxsztar Dimension. As they lived and slept, the musical energy from that Dimension seeped into their minds. Retropodd's more glitchy form channeled it in a way that gained him the power to play any sound it could imagine. Retropodd quickly discovered his love for music after the trip, even though music was a very rare interest in Versztars.

As he grew up, he wanted to create his own music studio. He pitched the idea to the mayors who approved because of the lack of musical projects. In order to keep it however, he had to prove other Versztars would enjoy it as well. And so, it used his powers to create his studio called Versus Vector near the city's edge to prevent noise pollution. When he started to compose though, he couldn't think of what his first song should be. He wanted it to be perfect but had too many ideas. His song deadline approached as it cycled through ideas and scrambled for inspiration.

[ Battlegrounds ]

Desperate for an solution, Retropodd visited the spot on the shore where it first started liking music. He watched the shore until he started hearing strange sounds from under the sand. It dug down and discovered the portal he had slept over. It cautiously stepped through onto a sandy shore in Storm Summit. Strangely, his music powers couldn't work quite right in this realm, and he couldn't zap around anymore. He explored until he encountered Thrundurr, Vansambul, and Cybirx. Terrified by these bizarre beasts, it fled away and hid, but they soon found and spoke to him. Despite how bewildered it was by this place and these creatures, he noticed how they seemed friendly and could somehow talk. So they began talking and learning about each other and their home Dimensions.

A new face appeared at the Thriller's grand opening. It introduced itself as Cwubbluwee, the queen of the nearby Common Castle, and gave a speech to invite the eligible inhabitants to a royal celebration there. It described the festivities to be held, including a secret surprised that excited the invitees. Despite the couple of rude interruptions from Thrascal, Cwubbluwee finished the speech and returned home to await the arrival of the invitees who rushed to gather the remaining eligible Roxsztars. The invited group consisted of Tannjee, Willokke, Dawshnozz, Fibbzit, Dulshiwwe, Flumminke, Wiskkrune, Tlekenana, Yinngott, Trubbzul, Snakalpak, Malmmaye, and Stelkergeist, with SkwetePhumt already living at the Castle.

After the inhabitants arrived and got to know the queen, Cwubbluwee realized it forgot the scroll that held the secret surprise in one of the towers closeby and didn't remember which one it was in, so it asked Fibbzit and Snakalpak to look for it. After a while of searching, the two found it and returned to the main castle. As Fibbzit handed Cwubbluwee the scroll, it beckoned everyone to listen and read the scroll aloud. The secret surprise was right at the beginning! It was an announcement that one inhabitant who could proved itself the best would receive the royal honor of being Cwubbluwee's second-in-command. This enthralled everyone into wanting the honor for themselves, except for Fibbzit who, in knowing its friends well, felt this decision can backfire.

The inhabitants quickly began debating how they would be best for the role and describing their self-indulgent plans, which steadily turned into arguments which turned into declarations of battle. Cwubbluwee enthusiatically told them about the sparring ground and gave them blunt lances to use. They were scared during the first spar between Tannjee and Wiskkrune but soon started to enjoy it. Despite the matches, the arguments persisted as Cwubbluwee simply liked watching them spar and didn't think to keep any scores. Fibbzit was not a fan of all the fighting and what a second-in-command would mean for the rest of the group. Later, it was time for a feast where everyone enjoyed plain-looking blobs of cream that came in various flavors.

After the feast, Fibbzit followed Cwubbluwee into a tower to talk about how the challenge was probably not the best idea, especially with how it's being managed. Cwubbluwee listened at first but was distracted by Flumminke and Stelkergeist sparring on the ground in front of them. As Cwubbluwee proved unable to refocus, Fibbzit stormed off in annoyance and went to explore more of the Castle. It traveled along unoccupied hallways and eventually found a door leading to a special room. The walls were adorned with colorful stained glass depicting broken crowns, and the crown meant for the second-in-command sat at the end in a protective seal on a podium. Fibbzit read the podium's book revealing that shattering the crown would make it multiply into enough crowns for every inhabitant and was meant to signify that all voices mattered. With how Cwubbluwee was like, there's no way it read the entire thing in order to know this! This led Fibbzit to concoct a plan to stop the fighting and fulfill the crown's true purpose.

Toward the day's end, the inhabitants gathered in the ballroom and anxiously awaited the queen with the announcement of who won the royal honor. As Cwubbluwee descended the room's central staircase with the crown in hand, Fibbzit covertly hid on the side waiting for the right moment. When Cwubbluwee presented the shining crown, Fibbzit leapt, grabbed it from its hands, and landed on the floor surrounded by all the others. To everyone else's horror, it suddenly threw the crown onto the floor, shattering it to pieces. A bright light engulfed them all and strangely teleported them to a nearby balcony. The light faded and like the book foretold, the crown split to multiple colorful orbs that formed into more crowns! Fibbzit explained what happened to the dumbfounded Cwubbluwee and the ecstatic crowd, but Cwubbluwee was thankfully also happy with this change of plans. It was even proud of Fibbzit for helping it realize what it hadn't before and promised to pay more attention. Everyone celebrated with their new crowns and made up for their fights, while Fibbzit and Cwubbluwee ended the day by watching fireworks together.