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The first five MRU universes

So again, gonna be a while before these actually happen because I want to actually write out the process of Piper stealing the HMG research, some of the preparations for Launch Day, and the actual First Activation, and I'm waiting until after I finish the Wonder Arc to write those so I don't end up abandoning it half-finished for months. But I at least wanted to list them out.

Again, universe 1 is basically the Test Universe, while 2-5 are in one batch that gets activated all at once.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Anchor: Link

Supervisor: Trinity

MRUs: 0 and 1

To justify having references to every game (because why wouldn’t it) Time Portals appeared basically everywhere at the same time the Memes did. Also, the Internet Graveyard got merged with the Wild-Era Sacred Realm (which was obviously never visited and is at the current End of the timeline so it doesn’t mess anything up and I can do whatever I want with its aesthetic). Yes, whoever did the setup had to get every Korok seed so the Key Items menu couldn’t canonically update and potentially break something. They did, in fact, get a raise for that.

Hamtor Tubez

Anchor: Doc the Hamtor

Supervisor: GIF

MRUs: 2 and 3

A puzzle game about leading Hamster-like creatures called Hamtors through elaborate tube mazes. Doc is a Mad Scientist and the leader of the Hamtors and is training them for when he will one day TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!, and there’s other unique Hamtors with special abilities that get introduced throughout the game as new puzzle elements.

Beneath the Faerie Mound

Anchor: Frida

Supervisor: Quazar

MRUs: 4 and 5

A metroidvania about a Changeling who gets Taken Back and has to fight her way out of Faery Country so she can return home. She initially thinks that MRU5 is another faerie who's come to try Taking her again.

The Fairly Oddparents!

Anchor: Timmy Turner

Supervisor: Spreadsheet

MRUs: 6 and 7

Look, making the Pokemon Anime universe part of the AU has set the precedent for also being able to use cartoons as SMG/MRU universes instead of just Games.

Interestingly, the Memes changing things to make the universe more entertaining undid a lot of the later season retcons, especially the Season 9 ones, so a lot of the characters are actually less Mean and Stupid than before. I'm using kid Timmy because he's the Real One so the live action movies and That One Spinoff aren't canon outside of memes, but Nicktoons Unite and its sequels are. So are seasons 9 and 10, 10 because I happen to like Chloe (or at least what she had the potential to be) and 9 because I think it would be funny to have Sparky be The Thing We Never Speak Of among the characters who would know about him.

Janitor of Heart: Stain Rising

Anchor: Rodney Teegan (Champion Form only)

Supervisor: Connectivity

MRUs: 8 and 9

A Magical Girl Beat-'em-Up that's actually a tie-in to an in-universe comic series called Rodney Teegan: Janitor of Heart.

The premise of the comic series is that a girl named Mina Reynolds who is Exactly the sort of person you'd expect to be a Magical Girl Protagonist gets her chance to when her school is attacked by a goop monster (part of an eldritch being known as The Stain) and she finds a magic bracelet containing the Spirit of Heart, Harmony, who chooses her as the Champion of Heart. But, when she tries to transform, some wires get crossed somewhere and the bracelet's power instead flows into Rodney Teegan, a 57-year-old janitor who Mina considers a close friend and who was with her when she found the bracelet. And because the transformation is based on what Mina wanted to look like as a magical superhero, he ends up in the body of a teenage girl with a cute poofy pink outfit. Whoops.

In his Champion form, Rodney has the expected enhanced strength, and can heal very quickly, but his main power is being able to turn cleaning supplies into weapons. It can be something as simple as a broom (in fact his signature weapon is a spear made from a push broom) or as massive and complex as a street sweeper truck. Also, Harmony isn't just a Cute Mascot Character and actually joins in fighting, mainly using super-strong punches and kicks and acting as a healer. Mina still has the bracelet (it actually can't come off at all) and needs to be nearby in order for Rodney and Harmony's powers to work. I have not come up with what Rodney's hero name would be.

Anyway, the game depicts the events of a particularly large Stain attack, this one being an invasion of the whole city, but other than the larger workload it'd be a fairly normal day (since by this point the three of them are more-or-less used to this since it's been a few months) if not for someone new joining the fray. It turns out that Harmony isn't the only Spirit in town, because we're introduced to the Champion of Storms, Thunderbird, and her Spirit partner Zap. Thunderbird has weather control powers, usually favoring lightning, and has a strange transforming mechanical construct that she uses both as a weapon and mobility aid, usually mechanical wings, giant electrified gauntlets, or supersonic skates. She's fighting the stain too, but has apparently decided to start a rivalry with Rodney's team instead of working with them just 'cause. Also, when her machine isn't in Skate Mode it's revealed that she has a translucent magical construct in place of her right leg.

She's eventually revealed to be Hazel O'Brien, one of Mina's classmates. The machine is her wheelchair, which transformed along with her because why wouldn't it?

Interestingly, Connected Cosmos Company were the ones who made the game, and also the ones who came up with Hazel and her Thunderbird persona. However, due to the terms of the licensing agreement the comic's creator owns the rights to the character, and has made sure that the specific designer in CCC who made her gets the royalties for the character being used in the comic (because the game is canon to the comic and Hazel's now a major character), rather than the company as a whole. She's the one character created by CCC that Jayin doesn't own, and I like to think that grates on her, especially because she can't do anything about it without damaging her company's carefully cultivated reputation.

Anyway, as far as the MRU stuff goes, there is one odd quirk about Rodney's Anchor Status: due to only his Champion Form being playable, his Anchor code is dormant in his normal form. Thankfully this doesn't cause problems for the Meme Cycle or the universe's stability, and it doesn't have the same negative effects as actively suppressing his Anchor Tendencies would. It does, however, make it so his Champion form has a different personality (bubbly airhead with occasional violent tendencies) than his normal form, which is very much Not A Thing in canon.

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Phil Foden’s flying: Man City starlet on playing for Pep Guardiola

When Manchester City won the Premier League last season, Captain Vincent Kompany called up Phil Foden and told him to come to the pub.

It turned out to be a big night in Hale, but while Kompany and John Stones sang and danced with supporters, Foden was sitting in the dark by a lake in Stoke on Trent.

"I went fishing night with my dad instead," Foden tells Sportsmail this week. I just felt too young to party. I was 17. So I thought it was the most sensible thing to do and Vinny actually said it was the right call.

Phil Foden is in line for another league winners' medal if Manchester City beat Brighton

The 18-year- old has made 13 Premier League appearances under Pep Guardiola this year

It was night fishing. So we were there until the morning.

'Funnily enough we didn't talk much about the football, we just chatted about normal dad and son stuff. He is a United fan. He is finding it difficult this year… '

Win at Brighton on Sunday and Pep Guardiola's City will be champions again and Foden is in line for another medal. He was given one last year after making five appearances.

This season the number has jumped to 13 and resembles the steady progress promised him by his manager when he spoke to Foden last summer.

On Monday, Foden started against Leicester but was actually sitting on the bench when Kompany struck the remarkable long-range goal that cool City victory. Turns out it was perhaps not the fluke everybody presumed.

"It's funny because we've recently had a bit of shooting at the end of training and Vinny has suddenly decided to join in," Foden smiles.

It resembles the steady progress promised him by his manager when he spoke to Foden

When City won the Premier League title last year Foden went fishing with his dad

"He has got a bit, to be fair." He can hit "top bins" a few times so maybe that practice came in to play. It was made for him to score wasn't it? He's always there in the big moments showing his class.

'I saw the ball hit the top of the net. I was like, "Wow, did I just dream that?"

"It was such a special goal and the most important of the year."

Twenty-four hours later Foden was at Phil and Clare, girlfriend Rebecca Cooke and their baby son Ronnie, who was born in January, watching rivals Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League.

In a rather modern manner, Phil Snr and Jnr sat side by side in the kitchen watching on their mobile phones. "It was brilliant what they did," says the City midfielder. "It got me out of my seat as a fan.

" To do what they did without two key players just shows their heart and determination and shows how well we have done to be above a team as good as that . Our squad is obviously very special.

'We could have had them at Anfield and it would have been a different story now.

'There may have been some breathing space! But we know we can go to Brighton on Sunday and put in a job. We can beat anybody on our day. "

Foden has been kept largely hidden from the media during his emergence from City's system

It's a law and miserable Manchester afternoon and the player many have labeled as the future of English football is in a glorified warehouse near the M60 doing energetic keep-ups with some friends and a chap about to interview him for television.

Foden, dressed in a tracksuit and here on a day off, is smart and angular. He is good, but he is not flash and it seems deliberate. Unless you were watching really closely it wouldn't immediately be apparent who was the one with all the talent.

Still only 18, Foden has been kept largely hidden from the media during his emergence from the City system. Aware of the persistent narrative about his number of playing minutes at a time when other young English players are considering moves abroad, Guardiola has not wanted him vulnerable to all the fuss.

Now that he is a regular in City's Premier League squad, we are gradually being allowed to see a little more of him. This is his first clean chat with a national newspaper and has been arranged as part of the launch of the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series on the Nicktoons TV channel.

Advised in advance that Foden is a 'bit shy', it transpires isn't it. He is reserved, which is different. Wandering around Manchester, he is still surprised when people ask him for a photograph and admits he is working on his mental image of himself.

Foden is still surprised when people ask him for a photograph as he wanders around the city

Foden pictured alongside Guardiola and his baby son Ronnie, who was born in January

"I wake up every morning and think my career is just going so fast," he says, cradling am ug or tea. 'I am still young and trying to act normally but I think I need to start growing up.

"I go and play with David (Silva) and Kevin (De Bruyne) every day but still feel like a fan if you know what I mean?

" I feel like asking them to sign something for me but actually playing with them.

'I don't mean I don't want to stay normal because I do. But sometimes I get up in the morning and just think, "Wow."

On the pitch, the necessary mental shift has already taken place. After his two goals helped City win at Newport in the FA Cup, players from the Welsh club told him they had rarely observed such precocious talent.

"They wished me luck with my career," he reveals. "They were a great bunch of lads and it made me feel good."

Physically he has some growing to do. The Premier League is a place for athletes and Foden has not yet developed the power that will come with age. But he was always small and, because of his talent, was always asked to play with older boys. So he is used to the challenge.

"Sometimes I feel leggy and off balance and I know it's a growth spurt that's underway," he says. 'My legs are long and my body needs to catch up. It will happen in time.

'I look at some players and wish I was a bit stronger to look after myself but there is now I can do from a bit of gym and look after my body right.

'I was very underdeveloped and small when I was young but they used to tell me I had the technical ability to play up.

The teenager celebrates after scoring an early winner against Tottenham last month

Foden doesn't drive yet and takes a taxi to City's training ground every day

'They said I had the brain of an older person so they would challenge me by playing me up against lads much bigger than me.

'To this day I feel like I am still doing it and I think those experiences got me ready.

' I used to get kicked a lot and still do. You can't complain. You just have to get up and get on with it. And I am not the only one. Bernardo [Silva] is tiny but he has a brain and that is the main thing.

'Still quiet to win the ball off other people. You don't need to be massive. You just need to know what you are doing on the pitch. "

Those who know Foden well will tell you about the influence of his parents and it is apparent. Foden has manners and remains boyish. He doesn't drive and takes a taxi to and from training every day.

Some young footballers seem too good for their careers to move fast while others can seem daunted by quick progress. It is a fine line and Foden seems to be on the right side of it.

"Life has definitely changed but I still like to play football," he explains. "I will go to the Trafford Center and people will ask for a picture and I will be like," Oh yeah, this is who I am now ". I don't always realize.

"I hope they now know what it's possible to achieve in the game.

" Some kids don't think it's possible because or the team we have at City but anything is possible and you have to believe and work hard. If I can do it then anyone can. '

Foden (right) scored twice as England won the Under 17 World Cup final in India in 2017

After Foden scored twice as England won the Under 17 World Cup final in India in 2017, his father cried on the phone. "He doesn't normally show emotion as he is quite a serious guy," recalls Foden.

"But he cried that day. He said: "I can't believe what you have done". I didn't really get that until I came home. "

For the Foden family, it was a major staging post on a journey that ground when City academy scout Terry John spotted six-year-old Phil at his primary school in Stockport.

'I remember it like it was yesterday, "Foden says. "He was looking at year seven kids and I was year four or five.

" Luckily my teacher said he had seen me in the playground and I seemed all right.

"So they asked me to do this little session on my own, dribbling round cones. I was thinking, "What's this?" but thought I would try my best.

'I was a bit young to really realize what it meant and who he was. He just gave me a number for my parents to call him and I am smooth they did. "

Foden's formative City spent years in the pre-Abu Dhabi era when training for kids took place at the old Platt Lane site adjacent to Manchester's 'curry mile'.

Foden admits he still feels like asking for team mate Kevin De Bruyne's autograph

A facility shared with the public, nevertheless produced players such as Micah Richards and Daniel Sturridge.

Foden idolized them simply because they were exactly what he aspired to be: young, English and successful.

'You see the under 8s training on perfect grass pitches at our place now and you think how amazing it would have been when to have that child or facility when I was that age, 'he laughs.

'We were old-fashioned AstroTurf that left you with loads of grazes. But it's great to see the training ground we have now. It shows where we are going. "

City would appear to be heading towards another league title, maybe even a domestic treble. Foden, meanwhile, has the talent to go wherever he wishes.

"There is always talk about me not playing enough but I don't listen," he says.

"I am only 18 but people are trying to judge me now.

"Pep believes in me and I know he will give me the opportunities.

" What he said to me last summer has actually come true. Every year I have played a bit more. "

If catastrophe is avoided at Brighton on Sunday, the chances are there will be another big party but no guarantee the youngest member of the City squad will attend.

Ronnie, hey, doesn't drink and is just as likely to head home to see. Either that or the fishing rods will be out again.

He reckons his dad is' part-Blue 'now and his mum has always been leg of that persuasion.

' There will always be pressure on you if you are a young player in a team like ours, "he says, when asked if his home life shields him from some of the glare.

" When you play you have to play well and show people what you can do. I try not to feel it. It's been a good season for me and for the team.

'It's a successful season if we get two or three trophies.

"Obviously we would have liked to go further in the Champions League and it was a little unlucky how we got out.

" But I think we have done brilliantly on the whole. If we win the league I will be so proud. "

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