The Protectors of the Canonical Worlds/April Fools/2020

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(This is the 2020 April Fools Episode of the Protectors of the Canonical Worlds. If you don't know what the PCW is, click here to look at Episode 0.)
Part 1:The Usual Buisness
Celia:You know, we've been dealing with the triversal canon quite a lot.
Deric:Of course we have. It's a crossover of nearly every other canon out there. It's going to get distorted a lot.
Celia:But what about the original canons? I've played Deltarune quite a lot, and I still haven't gotten a single Deltarune badfic.
Deric:Maybe because of how good we do in the triverse, we're sent to specialize here? And those who do better in the other canons are sent there more often?
Celia:I suppose that makes sense.
Deric:Perhaps we can talk to the other agents around here. They can give us more answers.
And of course, just as they were about to do this, their console beeped.
They got a Deltarune mission.
Celia:Of course. As soon as we talked about Deltarune, we got a Deltarune mission. OF COURSE. 
Deric:Apparently, someone thought it was a good idea to bring Frisk from Undertale in here.. Preventing Susie from being mean to Kris, thus ruining the whole arc. 
Celia:And succeeding, somehow. Quickly as well.
Deric:Well, I suppose it's time for us to protect the plot-
Celia:CONTINUUM. Not the plot, the continuum. What did I tell you about getting the two mixed up? Now something bad's going to happen!
And just as Celia finished her sentence, Delinae somehow appeared.
Part 2-The Encounter
Celia:..Wait.. Are you..
Delinae:Delinae.
Celia:How did you get out of your continuum?
Delinae:Ever since a friend of mine told me about the outside world, I've been extending my domain there. And as soon as I heard the words "plot continuum", I came to investigate.
Celia:.."Plot continuum"? I don't get it. I corrected Deric because he said plot when it's the CONTINUUM we're protecting.
Delinae:And look what we have here.. A response center, with a console.. Sending you guys on a mission to bad fanfiction. Who do you work for?
Celia:We're called the Protectors of the Canonical Worlds. We go into bad fanfiction, and kill off the influences it brings, to protect the worlds. Bad fanfiction can distort the worlds, after all..
Deric:We're not sure exactly who we work for. They just tend to call themselves the Management.
Delinae:You sure it's not the Protectors of the Canonical Continua?
Celia:Continuum is simply the technical term for the fabric of a world. Much like the space-time continuum of World Prime.
Deric:I still don't get why you're here. What are you here to investigate?
Part 3-The Confrontation
Celia:Deric, this is the god of copyright. Clearly, he's here because someone around here ripped off someone else. Or it's another case of him spotting vague similarities and calling it copyright infringement.
Delinae:Well, yes. And I believe that your very organization itself has infringed on the copyright of another. So.. I'm afraid I'm going to have to shut it down.
Deric:Wait, you can't just.. do that! What is the originazation ripping off? Maybe if we talked it out, see if it's fair use.. Or just pay a fine.. Wait, you can't even do anything to this place! You're from a continuum, and we're not!
Celia:Deric, this is Delinae we're talking about. Who just claims copyright and strikes you, often without explanation.
Delinae:Oh, that's on Youtube. It's not like I have a way to tell anyone. Their email adress isn't always public, you know! And I do reveal who is the one being infringed.
Delinae:You guys have infringed on the copyright of an older organization. You've infringed the copyright of.. The PPC.
(DUN DUN DUUUN!)
(If you know what "PPC" stands for, and guess it BEFORE reading Part 4, you get a virtual cookie. Yes, I'm aware of them. And this is what this episode will be about.)
(Hint:It's not pay-per-click.)
(No, I don't own the PPC.)
(If you wish, you can type in some of your reactions to each part of the story as you're reading it.. Or not. :3) 
Part 4-The Charge
Deric:..What's a PPC?
Celia:Probably something legal. Maybe he's not allowed to say the name?
Delinae:Come on, you both know what I'm talking about. HarpWire? Acacia and Jay? Ms. Cam?
Deric:..I still don't get what you're talking about.
Delinae:Can you people STOP playing around? I'm sure you've heard of the Protectors of the Plot Continuum! Because your organization.. has infringed on their copyright.
Delinae:But, I have heard about this "fair use" thing. Tell you what-I'm going bring you guys over to Ignotus with me. If you can convince me that you haven't infringed on the rights, I'll leave, and you'll be free to continue as you wish.
Delinae:But, if you fail... This orginazation will be shut down, and ALL of you will be stuck there.. Forever.
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Part 5:You Get To Prepare
Celia:How can we properly make a defense, when we don't even know what the PPC is? And why aren't you talking to the creator of the organization?
Delinae:Well, that's just it. You two seem to be the main characters in your continutity. And the creator of the organization? That's not who I'm looking for. You guys are the most connected to the author, so you have to do the defense.
Celia:Wait.. We have an author?
Delinae:Yep. And I'm going to be creating an avatar of them to be the defendant of this. You all search through the mission logs, your backstories.. Anything you can find to try and defend yourself. The trial starts in 12 hours. 
Delinae:Here, I've unlocked all the doors. You'll need everything you can find.. And be sure to do your research on the PPC. You'll need it.
Celia:Delinae, are you a Sue?
Delinae:Why would I be a Sue? ...Okay, Shrodinger HAS helped me out here.
Celia:He wouldn't do that. I'm scanning you with my device.
|Delinae, God of Copyright. 65% In-Character. Anomalous abilities discovered. Plot holes originate from [ERROR-POSITION OF ORIGIN IS OUTSIDE OF THE KNOWN MULTIVERSE]|
Delinae:I told you, your world has an author too! Oh, and I've frozen time. How interesting that your device is so similar to a CAD..
|-|Investigation=
Part 6:Searching the Files
Celia:You know, I don't think we should go in there.. I know Delinae unlocked the door, but I don't think Management would be happy.
Deric:Look, we're probably inside of a PCW badfic. We might as well analyze everything we can. Clearly, our devices, and perhaps even us have been knocked out of character. Maybe looking there can tell us what's causing this..
Celia:..Well, this doesn't seem usual, you do have this right.. Maybe this is a badfic. And I think we know who the Sue is.
Deric:You know, I think the fanfic wants us to win this one. And discover the "dark secrets" of the Organization. Maybe we should just go against the fic and stay in-character?
Celia:We can always just portal to an earlier chapter and fix the fanfic by excorsing ourselves later on. This is PCW badfic, so our devices would only affect the current story.. Unlike other kinds of badfic, which is why we can't use similar tricks elsewhere.
Deric:How do we know that idea isn't part of the badfic? What if we're the Sues?
Celia:If we are the Sues, other agents will come and excorsice us. Then, we'll wake up back in the real world. And if this is the plot, derailing it will only confuse the agents. I think we have to go in.
Part 7:The.. Guidebook?
Celia:Okay.. We have a list of all the departments and their roles.. Things we already know.. The devices seem to have been made by.. Professor Larry..
Deric:These are just a list of the science of the world! Why was it behind the door?
Celia:Because this is badfic, that's why. Wait a minute... Does this thing tell us exactly how the consoles determine whether or not a fanfiction is bad?
Deric:I guess this isn't so bad. Makes sense-If someone saw this, they could try to fool the devices!
Celia:But this is telling us that if a fanfiction warps the continuum too far away from its prime formation, it takes it as badfic.
Deric:But it also tells us what it recognizes as "prime formation". If someone tweaked the bits of information in the world just right..
Celia:...Don't you think it'd go beep before the tinkering finished? Also, I read it too, it's partly based on plot stability.
Deric:Okay, I think we need to copy all of this down. The history of the organization? And hey, what's this? ...It's all blurred out.
Celia:Based on where that is, it's likely a secret department. It's blank because our author never revealed what it is, so the fanfic writer couldn't fill it in.
Deric:..Wouldn't they just fill it in with the first thing they could think of?
Celia:..That does sound like a badfic writer. Maybe they just messed up their formatting of the list, so it appears as a blank to us here.
Celia:!
Deric:What did you find?
Celia:..Deric, I think I found our story.
Deric:..They tell exactly how our missions went.. Wait, it's not finished!
Celia:It's still good enough. We still found our story. We can use this.
Deric:Do you think we should change a few things to make that one incident with the anomalous tapes better?
Celia:..No way! That'd mess up the continuum!! We are not warping our canon! We're here to protect it! Even if it seems like a good idea, canon is not something to be messed with!
Part 8-The PPC
Deric:Okay, we have some computers. Let's look up this "PPC" thing.
Celia:..*gasp* Oh my goodness. The PPC is a real thing. And it's been doing this.. Since 2002! Could Delinae be right about us?
Deric:No way! We haven't even looked through it! Let's see.. They started in Middle-Earth, and we started with the triverse, then Undertale! We never even did Middle-Earth!
Celia:Alright, what do they have.. Okay, so their management is the Flowers.. What's Management for us again?
Deric:We still don't know. If it turns out to be more Flowers, I don't know what I'll be saying in the trial!
Celia:Now that the author's reading this, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be Flowers.
Deric:Hey, Celia! I think we spotted something big! Their version of plot holes don't match ours at all!
Celia:Just because a few things have changed doesn't mean it's not a rip-off. We're still going to need more than that.
They continued searching through.. Until their time was up.
|-|The Pre-Trial=
Part 9-The Courtroom
The agents find themselves in a dark, black room. Delinae is wating for them. And what appears to be a.. ghost is there as well.
Deric:Who's this person?
Delinae:The avatar of the author. I wasn't going to recreate the animatronic, that'd be copyright infringement.
Gabriel:Wait, THAT'S what happened? ..Oh. This is Ignotus.
Delinae:Yes. It is. I presume you're aware why you're here?
Gabriel:Clearly, you think I commited copyright infrigement. But how? Was it playing as Undyne? My Munchkins and Dragons series?
Delinae:That series died off on its own, I have no buisness shutting that one down. Do you recongize the two people beside you?
Gabriel:...The PCW agents.. Wait, you have a problem with the PCW?
Delinae:Of course I do! I know exactly what you based it off of.. And that's copyright!
Gabriel:...You do know that I specifically stated in the intro that I'm not the first to make a story about killing Sues, right?
Delinae:It's still copyright infringement, though. And Gabriel, you're not the defense. These two are.
Celia:We.. kind of found this story. And.. Apparently Tinker doesn't want you to defend. He seems to enjoy making US do it. ...Even though we're not even attorneys.
Deric:Wait, Tinker? Wasn't this just between us and Delinae?
Celia:I mean, do you REALLY think Delinae isn't going to let Gabriel defend herself? You're always defending yourself when your stories and videos get taken down, that's how the process works.
Deric:Maybe we're just in a badfic..
Gabriel:..I'm not an attorney either. And you know Tinker, he just wants to entertain himself.. Even though that's mostly ticking people off..
Delinae:You all can talk about why Tinker may or may not have done this after the trial.
Part 9.5-Wait, this isn't right...
Celia:..Wait a minute.. If you're the judge we have to convince isn't copyright infringement.. Why are we on opposing desks? Shouldn't you be in the judge's bench?
Delinae:Actually, I'm not the Judge. I really did try to hold this trial, but I got rejected.. Something about conflict of interest.. Separation of power.. I really don't get it, we're not in the United States.
Celia:If you're not the judge.. then who is?
Delinae:Unfortunately.. It's Tinker. ..Even though I've been able to enforce copyright on Tinker.. Now apparently he's the judge.
Celia:..Are you serious right now? Tinker?
???:Well, we can't just have a boring trial where they're declared guilty from the start now, can we?
Delinae:DO YOU NOT SEE THIS? THIS IS BLATANT COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!! And did I not SAY I was going to give them a chance?
???:Oh, please, we all know you wouldn't. So I figured it'd be better if I made things a little bit more... fun.
|-|The Trial, Part 1=
Part 10-The Trial Begins
Celia:What kind of trial has Tinker as a judge? Discord would probably be a better judge!
Tinker:Oh, don't worry, little "protectors of worlds".. You're talking to the creator of the triverse here! You should be proud to have the fairest of judges decide your fate..
Celia:Tinker, you're one of the-
Tinker:Now, now.. You're not allowed to discredit people in the courtroom.
Celia:But the trial hasn't even started yet!!
Tinker:Oh, that's right. *bangs the hammer* The court is now in session for the GRAND TRIAL of the "Protectors of the Canonical Worlds". Really, they call themselves that, but all they're doing is ruining people's fun. How boring.
Celia:Hey! Those bad fanfictions ruin the worlds, turn them chaotic, and destablize them! If there's enough bad fanfiction, the continuum won't even exist anymore because of all of the paradoxes that get created! Plot holes destroy worlds!!
Tinker:Paradoxes? Perhaps these worlds simply haven't learned to adapt to and embrace the fun of these things! Really, you should have seen the look on everyone's faces when Legumen the Legend happened! It was so hilarious! Such a shame you ruined it.
Celia:TINKER!!
Delinae:Objection! This entire conversation is irrelevant to the case at hand!
Tinker:Oh, please, who the defense is is a totally relevant thing!
Delinae:It has nothing to do with what I'm accusing them of! Can we just get to the point already?
Tinker:Oh, fine. Objection sustained. Please, begin.
Delinae:As you all know, the defendants here are of a multi-dimensional group-
Celia:Extradimensional. We're not across multiple dimensions, but within the very space between them.
Delinae:..Noted. So, the defendants here are of an extradimensional group, whose goal is to remove the effects of bad fanfiction from the canonical worlds. They do this by portaling to the world in question, and after observing the effects of the fanfcition, they undo it all.
Delinae:And it is my case that they are simply rip-offs of another organization, called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum.
Delinae:This organization is a multi-dimensional group, whose goal is to remove the effects of bad fanfiction from the continua. They do this by portaling to the fanfic in question, observing the effects of the fanfiction, and stopping it all.
Deric:Okay, so the premise is similar. But you can't copyright a premise! And even our style is different. We've seen the fanfiction from start-to finish, and the PPC never does that!
Delinae:It could be because the author didn't know how to finish it earlier!
Deric:Or, it could be an actual, intentional difference!
Delinae:Who knows? Even still, one difference doesn't prove it's not infringement.
Deric:You still can't copyright a premise! In order for it to be infringement, you have to show how we're copying the PPC as a whole!
Delinae:Well, I've only just begun! The PCW and PPC both have consoles that beep when there's a problem!
Celia:How else are we supposed to know when to step into action?
Deric:Apparently the PPC has a "Law of Narrative Comedy". That's not a thing here.
Delinae:Is it a coincidence that your console just so happens to beep at the worst possible time? Or is that the "Law of Narrative Irony" there? 
Celia:...
Delinae:Shall I go on?
Tinker:Oh, please do! This is all quite interesting... *grin*
Celia:Okay, can we, um, call this thing off? The judge Tinker seems to be up to his old tricks again..
Delinae:Sorry, you're stuck with him. 
Tinker:Also, do note that I'm the creator of the triverse, so, in a sense, I'm the representative of our continuum. Now, let us have our fun before you get yourself in contempt of court!
Celia:But the triverse is just a part of the trivoid, which is the real continuum!
Tinker:Oh, that old thing? Have you seen ANY stories be made about it, EVER? We all know the real continuum is the triverse!
Celia:Tinker! There's Shrodinger! There's the Omegakin! There's the-
Deric:..Okay, can we get back to the point?
Delinae:YES, we need to get back to my case. 
Delinae:So.. You people are often grouped in pairs, correct?
Celia:Yes, actually! We actually joined the PCW at around the same time! Naturally, we were grouped together.
Delinae:Partnering in pairs is also the standard set by the original stories of the PPC.
Celia:Are you seriously trying to copyright the number of people in a group?!
Deric:This is Delinae we're dealing with. Of course he'd try to copyright that.
Celia:Objection! Delinae keeps trying to say we're infringing copyright, but he has yet to give a clear case of copyright infringement! I formally request a Motion to Dismiss!
Tinker:..Denied. I want to see more of this fun, after all.
Part 11-Things Get Worse
Delinae:It's not like these are the only similarities between the two groups. I was merely getting started.
Delinae:As you would know if you actually did your research on the PPC, it is divided into departments. And so does the PCW.
Celia:Well, duh! Of course an organization would be split into departments! The Sue Department, the Bad Crossover Department, the Technology Department.. All which serve a purpose that inevitably follows from the premise.
Deric:Also, the PPC has a Department of Intelligence, the PCW has no such department.. There's no need for such a thing, as bad fanfics are spotted mechanically, without the need for a Badfic Report!
Delinae:Leaving things out doesn't mean you're not ripping them off. And I'm almost entirely sure that the agents in that April Fools Episode were a member of that secret department.
Celia:Those guys who pretended to take us out when we pretended to have became Mary Sues? Seriously? They were just regular MSD agents! If one of us turns into a Sue, the other one excorsises them!
Delinae:Clearly you didn't look deep enough:They ARE members of that department. I'll show you the files.
Celia:If we know about it, it's probably not that much of a secret.
Delinae:In fact, I have a very good guess on what the name of that department is. The secret department is.. The Internal Operative Department.
Celia:..Um, we have no way to prove that's true! Objection!! That's speculation!
Tinker:I'll allow it, because I can have Shrodinger test it!
Celia:Um, Tinker, Shrodinger's not going to-
Deric:*whipsering* Celia, this is probably badfic, remember? And in badfic, anything can happen!
And behind the scenes, Shrodinger analyzed. With intimate knolwedge of everything within the continuum of the triverse, including every bit of information that ever crossed paths with it, he analyzed the memories and physiological states of Celia, Deric, and Gabriel.
By analyzing the exact state of Celia and Deric, and then taking into account the rules of the PCW that were gathered from the experiences of the agents, he was able to reverse-engineer what happened around them, down to the very projection of every photon to cross their eyes. He recreated the room the agents were in when they searched for PCW documents.
If he wanted to, he could simply do the same with Gabriel, and conclusively solve whether or not Gabriel intended on ripping off the PPC. But he didn't do that.
First, this isn't about intent, but about whether or not the PCW counts as a ripoff. And second, why step in and ruin the fun?
There was something in that blank space. But it was hidden from the world itself. And the words were in fact in superposition-They hadn't been determined yet. Though every possibility had something in common-This department was aimed to prevent badfic from distorting the PCW itself.
But slowly, the many possibilities all began to converge into one name.
The name that remained was the Internal Integrity Department. The continuation of the 2019 Fools' Episode had became canonized.
Part 12-The Wildfire of Chargers
Celia:..See? It's not the DIO!
Delinae:Sure, the name doesn't say "Internal Operations", but the purpose is still the same! It's still a rip-off!
Celia:It's still another thing that logically follows from the premise! We might get badfic, and we need a secret department that nobody knows about to stop bad PCW fanfiction!
Deric:Seriously, Delinae. Give us a real case.
Delinae:I'm still not done!
Delinae:You have to wear disguises, and make sure not to do anything that would break canon.. Just like the Original Series of the PPC!
Deric:Of COURSE we can't break canon! We're here to fix canon, not wreck it!
Delinae:Gabriel easily could have said that if canon was fixed anyways, breaking canon was allowed..
Deric:That wouldn't make for a very good story, would it? Then we could be Sues and kill them off in an instant! No conflict at all!
Delinae:And what about the fact that each of you have your own device-An Analysis device for characters, and an analysis for canon of the world itself?
Deric:The PPC has the Character Analysis device, to see what kind of character someone is, and the Canon Analysis device, to see how out-of-character a canon character is! Not the same!
Delinae:What about the fact that your devices exploded because there was a character replacement? Devices explode in the PPC as well!
Celia:Objects exploding actually happens a lot in fiction. This isn't something the PPC invented.
Delinae:And what about Sue-phantoms? Everyone knows that's a rip-off of the Sue-wraith! In fact, the PPC has even used Sue-phantom as an alternate name for Sue-wraith!
Deric:How else can you explain canon characters becoming Sues? Last time I checked, the Sue-wraith was originally an explanation for canon characters acting out-of-character.. period! The name at that point was author-wraith!
Delinae:And the distinction between possessed canons and character replacements?
Deric:Everyone knows there's a difference between warping canon and replacing it.
Delinae:But one could easily justify a replacement as saying the canon has no control anymore, and it's the phantom acting!
Delinae:And let's not forget minis.. Gabriel ripped off the Official Fanfiction University of Middle-Earth!
Deric:Our minis are different, though. The "mini" does not refer to the size of the character dimensionally-speaking, as in OFUM, but instead the amount of information contained in that character.
Deric:Since this is a new character created by a spelling error, no information is given about this character. So it defaults to the default species of the continuum.
Delinae:So, what is the default species for Lord of the Rings?
Deric:Most fanfic characters are human. Humans are the default. In OFUM, the thing you accuse Gabriel of ripping off, we have mini-Balrogs.
Delinae:And what about the charge list? That was also in the PPC!
Celia:..Delinae sure has brought quite a big case.. Can we even win this, Deric? Is it possible that we might end up being.. guilty?
|-|The Trial, Part 2=
Part 13-Whoops, We Forgot a Jury!
Delinae:Look. Any one of these, on its own, would prove nothing. But there are just too many similarities between the PCW and the PPC. It's clear the PCW is nothing but a ripoff, and belongs in Igoratus.. Forever!
Delinae:Can we just get this over with, Tinker? GUILTY! GUILTY!
Tinker:Oopsie doopsie, I forgot trials around here needed jurors! Hmm, I wonder, who should I choose?
Delinae:Just pick other gods of the triverse!
Tinker:I was thinking maybe I could bring a PPC agent into the mix.
Delinae:Then YOU'D be breaking copyright. You don't get to do that. We don't have permission to use the PPC. Only analyze it.
Tinker:Oh, fine. I'll just bring in characters from other series. *snap*
Deric:Delinae, the charge list.. is natural. We need to know WHY the fanfiction was bad. Maybe it can get sent around, and people will know what not to do. That's not evidence of a ripoff of the PPC.
Avia:...And just when I thought I was finally free...
Sunlight Sparkle:..Hmm.. What world did I find myself into?
Tinker:Hm, that orange horse is a teeny bit too Twilight. *snap*
Undyne:NGAH!!!
Thera:..Hey Tinker! Wait.. if I'm seeing you in the flesh, then..
Celia:WHY did you bring a Mary Sue here?!
Tinker:Now, now, you need to be tolerant of all kinds of people, even those who change the canon. Sometimes, you just need to learn to appreciate change. I'm sure the triverse is flexible enough to not get destroyed.
SMG4 Mario:Can I have some food?
Celia:You brought MARIO here?
Belle:Hmph. This better be important, because I was practicing for a world record! Otherwise, you're gonna get it.
Celia scans Belle Fontiere with the Analysis Device. But nothing happens. Actually, something does happen. The device explodes.
Tinker:Nuh-uh! No cheating, Celly!
Celia (with some annoyance clearly visible):But.. HOW? You aren't even supposed to-
Tinker:Destroy a little device?
Deric:Celia, there's a reason why we try not to get noticed with our devices.. Besides the fact that it might bring an anachronism to the canon.
Delinae:Can we start adding triverse people to the list?
Tinker:Okay, fine. *summons UPLO<<D*
Delinae and Celia:Did you seriously just pick-
Tinker:What? I thought you wanted a triverse god! Well, I guess I'll just pick someone else, then. *UPLO<<D vanishes, and is replaced by.. Meggy.*
Meggy:Another challenge? ..Wait, you're not anybody I know..
Tinker:Oh, don't worry, I have a challenge for you.. Here's everything that happened so far.. And it's YOUR job to find out.. Whether or not the PCW is a rip-off of the PPC!
Delinae:Here's a hint, it is.
Tinker:So go on.. Use your lawyer skills.
Ava:..Where am I?
Tinker:You're here today to watch the trial, and find out if these two people are copying the PPC!
Celia:Are you serious?
Tinker:Yes, I am. Now, I would add five more jurors to comply with the law, but what fun is there in doing it the legal way? Seven is enough, anyways. Remember, if four out of seven say you're guilty, then you are!
Celia:Tinker should probably give you all the transcript to the trial, the link to the PCW stories, and to the PPC.
(Okay, two things.)
(One, try not to get Ava and Avia mixed up.)
(Two, this is actually an older VERSION of Ava. This episode has been in the works since around January. So not everything you see about Ava here represents the real Ava.)
(In fact.. Much of it doesn't. It's far closer to Kingdom Hearts Ava than the Ava I currently have.)
Part 14:The Trial Continues
Undyne:They WHAT? So all those fanfics me and Alphys wrote..
Celia:They're actually fine. They just won't happen, because interfering with canon damages it, and enough damage would cause it to collapse entirely. What do you think happened to Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Thera:Now, now, we can't act like those are the same. What happened to Uncle Tom's canon is a deliberate attempt to sabotage the canon, to get it to fit their warped point of view.
Thera:But to say they're copying the PPC? Now, now, that's a stretch. Perhaps we should just charge them with something else?
Celia:Nice try. You're not in Undertale, and we, the PCW, have used our technology so that Sue power is ineffective here. It just takes a strong field of logic.
Delinae:So, like a Reality Room from the PPC?
Avia:This seems to be quite a complex case. Clearly, Gabriel knew of the PPC. After all, they cited Jay and Acacia as the ones who created the concept of killing Sues. It seems like they were inspired by the PPC, and tried to make their own story with a similar concept.
Avia:But is it too similar, or is it original enough to call your own? Hmm..
Ava:Well, it helps that they gave some citation..
Belle:Well, is the killing Sues premise the ONLY thing they got from the PPC?
Mario:Can I have some food?
Tinker:Okay, I was expecting a little more excitment.. *swaps Mario with Theo*
Theo:Crackerjack!
Theo:What? No way! They beat up the bad guys!! They wouldn't do bad stuff, because they're the good guys!
Delinae:You seriously brought HIM as a juror?
Tinker:Well, that's one vote in!
Delinae:We haven't even made our closing statements yet!
Tinker:If Theo wants to vote early, then he can!
Deric:Well, I suppose it's time for closing statments.
Delinae:Apparently, since they're already voting. Anyways, as I have shown, the PCW have a massive number of similarities with the PPC. Just a few might not say much, but there are so many, that there is no reason to suspect that the PCW has not been derived from the PPC, and then rebranded.
Deric:We might have many similarities with the PPC, but we carry a fair share of differences as well. Not only that, the vast majority of these similarities come from natural consequences of exploring the effects of bad fanfiction, and a team that has been organized to stop the threat.
Belle:Theo, if you would stop being so ANNOYING!! You didn't even READ the stories! They were fixing up this canon of this "triverse", which in of itself basically made all the games' story look like they weren't crafted by many artists working hard to make games!
Belle:Fortunately TasCorp was unaffected by this, but apparently not anymore!! We need to get this over with. Even if they're not plaigerizing, they're helping it! GUILTY!!
Celia:Belle, this trial was about whether or not we copied the PPC!! That's the rules of the trial!!
Tinker:Oh, really? Well, I, as the judge, declare that Belle's vote counted. 1-1, little Sue-stabbers!
Undyne:Now that I think of it, it's only the TERRIBLE fanfiction that they come in to stop. Maybe with them around, fans will know to DO IT RIGHT!!
Belle:Undyne, the PCW has only one viewer. It's not helping the bad fanfiction.
Delinae:That's not even the point of the trial!
Meggy:In order to find out if they're guilty.. We find out if they're using FAIR USE! The first factor is a no-go, as it doesn't progress the arts or knolwedge. It does things in a different way from the PPC, but we don't learn anything from the PCW that we couldn't learn from the PPC.
Meggy:However, the differences in the system does make the use more transformative.
Meggy:Given that the PCW only has one viewer, it has not harmed the market of the PPC in any way. No actual text from the PPC was used, just ideas, so the third factor swings in favor of fair use as well.
Meggy:From what we've gathered so far.. The PCW is likely fair use.. Though it might not be. What matters is simply this:Was this supposed to ride off of the PPC's success, take away from their success? This is a copyright case, not a plagerism case. Citing the author is enough to not plagerize.
Meggy:Copyright doesn't protect ideas, but the exact expression of those ideas. But they have yet to prove that it's fair use, and the burden is on the defendant when using an affirmative defense-Given the prosecution has proven that it WOULD be infringement had it not been taken into account.
Tinker:So, two for guilty? Okay, then..
Undyne:I don't see the problem. The Anti-Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society also does similar things.
Delinae:They are less similar, however. The power of ACMSES agents are more like the power of Mary Sues. And don't worry, I'll go after them next.
Undyne:Yeah, I think I'm going to have to go for Not Guilty.
Tinker:And that's two-for-two!
Avia:Look.. I don't think DESTROYING the organization will work. We're all fictional, right? Why should we get them for being ripoffs? I get why you'd want to reprimand Gabriel, though she probably doesn't know herself if she ripped the PPC off or not.
Avia:So far, all I've seen are similarities. Not a single actual thing stolen. I'm going with Not Guilty. But if the verdict does end up being guilty, please, only reprimand Gabriel, and nobody else.
Belle:Avia, THEY'RE the ones that made you stop being so powerful!
Avia:It's not like I like how that story ended. The story clearly doesn't seem to understand how analysis actually works. And if we want to get them for bringing me back to normal, we can do it another way. Putting them out of existence won't get me my power back.
Thera:They haven't proven themselves.. So why should we accept the defense of fair use? If they get voted guilty, then they won't kill me, and Undertale's world can continue to stay in great hands..
Tinker:Well, three and three! It seems as though it all comes down to Ava!
Part 15:Ava
Ava:..Me?
Tinker:Yes, you. You'll be giving the final vote, to decide the fate of the of our defendant! Will they vanish into oblivion, for copying the PPC, or do they turn out to be innocent, and let out?
Tinker:It's all down to you. The fate of the PCW is in your hands. So, go on.
Ava:Okay. Remember what Gideon told us.. So.. these people are the protectors of the light..
Delinae:That's not what the trial is about! Did they infringe upon the PPC's copyright?
Ava:Copyright? What's that? I don't see them doing anything wrong..
Delinae:The similarities between the PPC and the PCW?
Ava:There's nothing wrong with making two worlds that are similar..
Delinae:It's not that! They TOOK the world of the PPC and said it was theirs?
Ava:But.. there are differences? And they credited Jay and Acacia?
Delinae:Not for everything they didn't! Come on, look at the copyright laws, and see how Gabriel is GUILTY!!
Ava:I still don't know what copyright is.
Delinae:Oh my GODS! The right of an author over their work! Why'd they have to send someone from old times?!
Ava:Hmm..
Part 16:End of Trial
Ava:Okay, it doesn't seem like the law is well.. well defined. There's so much gray area, it's really hard to tell whether or not it's a fair usage of it. But t-these guys are only helping to fight the bad fanfiction.
Delinae:They're not the ones on trial, GABRIEL is!
Ava:Gabriel? Well, I'm not actually sure about her.. Do we know why she did this?
Tinker:Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But I'm afraid I can't answer that question. That's for you to decide!
Ava:Yeah, I don't think it's fair to say Gabriel has stolen a concept when we haven't even shown how they did.
Delinae:We DID show that!
Ava:Okay.. then. But if we haven't shown whether or not it's fair..
Delinae:By the rules of the court, the burden of proof for defenses fall onto the defense-We only get the burden of proof for showing infringement. And we did! "Fair use" counts as an affirmative defense!
Ava:What do you mean? We can't do this!! We just can't!
Tinker:..Oh my! Seems like bringing you along was the best choice for me after all! Heehee!
Ava:Why did you bring me here to a show trial? Why do we need to follow Delinae's rules?
Tinker:..Hey, who said you had to?
Delinae:That's how TRIALS work!!
Tinker:Maybe where you come from, but here, I've thrown a hint of chaos into the mix. It makes things so much more interesting.
Celia:..Can any of you guys actually make good points? I don't even know who to side with anymore...
Deric:The side that keeps us alive would a good side!
Celia:R-Right..
Celia:Look, what are we trying to accomplish here? Either we continue to exist, as if there was no trial.. Or we vanish into oblivion, never to be seen again.. Is it really just to do the latter, when we don't know what happened?
Delinae:We DO know what happened!
Ava:We know of the similarities, and nothing more. Seriously, if you guys keep this up, you might be the ones that result in the darkness overcoming us all! Needless fighting that never resolves!
Tinker:Actually, the darkness already came. We survived. 
Celia:Wait a minute! Tinker! You're not supposed to know about that! That was only a thing in the Fosiverse! And the Fosiverse is not canon to your continuum! I knew it! This is badfic!!!
Tinker:Oh, I wouldn't say that. A little friend of mine told me all about it.
Celia:WHO. Told you? Whoever did that we need to let Management know about. Nobody's supposed to tell people about our existence, or the exisence of anything beyond the trivoid, because that's not canon!!!
Tinker:Oh, I think you know exactly who I'm talking about. Speaking of which, I take it you vote Not Guilty?
Ava:If that'll stop all of this nonsense, then yes, I am!
Tinker:Well, a vote's a vote! The PCW is declared Not Guilty!
Delinae:ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?!
Delinae:I've presented a COMPELLING AND REASONABLE CASE, PROVING that they STOLE from the PPC, and THIS is what I get?
Delinae:That coconut boy letting them off just because "They up baaaad guys", Undyne citing LESSER INFRINGEMENTS surviving to defend our ripoffs, Avia saying they stole nothing when THEY STOLE EVERYTHING
Celia:Uhh, how long will this go on for?
Deric:Probably a long time..
Delinae:And Ava completely DISREGARDING THE RULES because "it doesn't feel right".. THIS WHOLE TRIAL WAS OUT OF ORDER!!!
Tinker:They all voted as they will, and that was the only rule.. Though, if you'd like to make an appealment, please fill out this sheet.
Delinae:OH COME ON, WHY'D YOU HAVE TO WRITE IT IN "BEANISH*", YOU KNOW I DON'T SPEAK THAT!!
Tinker:Don't understand Beanish? Oh, sorry, I guess you're out of luck.
Celia:..Well, now that we don't have to worry about staying in Ignotus.. We really need to find out who was behind all of this. ..Preferrably before Delinae destroys the courtroom.
*Beanish:The alien language that can be found in xkcd's "time" comic.
|-|The Epilogue=
Part 17-Who Did it?
Tinker:Seriously, guys. Think hard.
Celia:Is it that same Sue-entity that created those anomalous tapes?
Tinker:Who said it was a Sue?
Celia:Something, somewhere, MUST have destabilized canon! That must have been a source from outside canon, as canon cannot warp itself.
Tinker:Oh, it was destabilized far, far earlier than you think...
Celia:Will you just spit out who this traitor of the PCW is?
Tinker:Okay, fine. I'll tell you what happened.
[One revelation later..]
Celia:Wait. SERIOUSLY?!?!?
Deric:How is this even possible..? What?!?
Tinker:Maybe you should be a little more careful around gods. Ciao! *warps the agents back to HQ*
Gabriel:Um.. Tinker? What about me?
Tinker:Oh, you? Oops, I forgot to send you back to the real world. ..Right.
Avia:Hey, you forgot me too!
Tinker:Oh, please, we all know it's boring staying in a frozen world.
Avia:I had people WITH me! And I was still able to level up! There's plenty of things for me to do!
Tinker:Okay, fine. *snap*
Undyne:And I need to get back up with Alphys!
Tinker:*snap*
Theo:And I have friends too!
Tinker:You have someone here too!
Theo:BELLE? No way!
Tinker:Okay, fine, both of you can go back. *snap*
Meggy:And I have to train my team for the next Splatfest!
Tinker:*snap*
Ava:I'm really not sure what this place is, but I do have places to be.
Tinker:*snap*
Thera:..Well, now that everyone's gone, I'll purify this cursed room, and bring everyone together, much as I did for the humans and monsters.
And then the agents warped in from behind Thera, and shattered her with Asgore's trident. They then warped to the triverse's version of Undertale, to return the trident.
Celia:..Hey, we weren't just about to leave the Sue alive!
Credits
The Protectors of the Canonical Worlds-The Copyright Catastrophe!
Director:Gabriel █████
Excecutive Producer: Gabriel █████
Edited by: Gabriel █████
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Delinae:I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, COME ON!! WHY DID THE TRIAL END LIKE THIS?! ..I just can't have any of this!! Why does everything have to go wrong?
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Story by: Gabriel █████
Producers: Gabriel █████, Susie █████, Fritz █████
Artists:None (this is a text story, lol)
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Celia:Wait, Deric.. Isn't fair use a special kind of affirmative defense? ..The courts have held that the prosecution actually has to take fair use into consideration before making the charge..
Celia:After all, fair use is explicitly permitted by the law itself. ..So.. we could have avoided this entire issue if we just showed that Delinae didn't take fair use into account! Why didn't we think of that?!
Deric:You're right.. Then again, I'm sure Tinker would find a way to make sure the trial still happens.. So I'm not sure if it'd work or not. I guess we'll have to leave it to the fandom.
Celia:No, no, NO!!!
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--Cast--
Gabriel █████ as Undyne (made by Toby Fox for Undertale)
Undyne:Yeah!! I'm finally back! Hey there Alphys!
Alphys:Um.. W-Who are you?
Undyne:Oh, stop teasing.. You know your Undyne!
Alphys:U-Uh, Undyne? T-The police force?
Undyne:W-What, THAT'S all you know me as? Don't you remember me? We'd go on watching Mew Mew Kissy Cutie and bondong over how much the sequel sucked?
Alphys:W-What? N-No, I a-actually think the sequel is far superior to the original..
Undyne:NGAAH!! TINKER WHAT DID YOU DOOO?!
Alphys:W-Who's Tinker? I n-never saw him here in Hometown...
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Gabriel █████ as Theo (remixed by Gabriel █████, original Theo by Luke Lerdwichagul)
Gabriel █████ as Belle Fontiere (remixed by Gabriel █████, original Theo by Luke Lerdwichagul)
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Belle:Theo seriously defended them? If this keeps up, TASCORP will go bankrupt! *growls* ..Oh.. I know exactly what I'll do, now that I have the game cartridge.
Belle:Wait, where'd it go?!
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Gabriel █████ as Thera Amythest of the Delta Kingdom (created for The Rise of Asriel)
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Slowly but surely, canon in Undertale returned to normal. ...Except Undyne was missing.
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Gabriel █████ as Meggy Spletzer (remixed by Gabriel █████, created by Luke Lerdwichagul and Kevin Lerdwichagul)
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Meggy:And it's TIME TO TRAIN, GUYS!!
Mario:..You don't look too good, Mr. Meggy.
Meggy:*looks at herself* WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!
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Gabriel █████ as Avia (created for Munchkins and Dragons)
Avia:That trial was quite the something.. But at least I'm back with my great pal Thera, and free from those fanfics as long as she keeps delaying them!
Avia:It's great to have her around.. Though I do need some sleep.. Actually, Thera can fix that, right? Thera?
Avia:..Thera?
Avia:..Okay, fine, I'll get some sleep myself.
|MOVIE SIGN!|
Avia:OH COME ON, I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE!!
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Gabriel █████ as Delinae (Created by Butterflyunicorn for the Triverse)
Delinae:..I REALLY wish I could just send them over to Ignotus.. But apparently I can't!! Stupid Theo!!
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Gabriel █████ as Ava (Created for the Fosiverse)
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Ava:Now, back to the more pressing matter of the state of the world.
Ava:..What do you mean "I don't have clearance for this meeting"? I'm literally the founder of this Union!!
Ava:What? How can I not look like me?
Ava:I'm a- WHAT?! N-No, this can't be true! L-Look, something must have happened to me.. When I disappeared, I..
Ava:Look, did some else claim to be Gula, but looked more like a Guliette?
Ava:Really? Just me?!
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Gabriel █████ as Tinker (also created by Butterflyunicorn for the Triverse)
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Tinker:I'd say, I rather enjoyed this little trial. I think we should mess with these guys some more.. What do you think, ██████████?
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Gabriel █████ as Celia (PCW Agent)
Gabriel █████ as Deric (PCW Agent)
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Deric:Well, looks like everything's back to normal. Guess we get to relax a bit, before we get hit with our next mission.
Celia:Um, Deric.. Didn't we already have another mission?
Deric:Yeah.. We did have another mission before we got summoned by Delinae..
Deric:Hey, look! We got mail!
Celia:I've got a bad feeling about this...
|Dear Celia and Deric:
|Why didn't you do your mission? When the console beeps, YOU ANSWER. We've searched all over, and you apparently vanished. Did you go into the wrong continuum? You guys know better than that, right?
|You will report to us about this. Needless to say, you're probably in trouble.
|From-Manager Starling|
Celia:Oh, no..
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Gabriel █████ as Shrodinger
--Technical Support--
Cassidy █████
--Special Thanks--
Butterflyunicorn, for creating the Triverse, some elements of which appear in the PCW
Jay Thorntree and Acacia Byrd for creating the PPC, the first series involving fixing the canon.
...And YOU!
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On the far side of the trivoid, laid a device. Not canon to the trivoid, yet there nonetheless. This device? It appeared to be the device used by PCW agents to come and leave the canon.
This device, was the very one that sent them from HQ to the triverse, and was being used to send them back to HQ.
One of the gods of the triverse had found something from beyond. And now had a way to come out.
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(Mystery time! Whose device is the one found in the trivoid? Or is it nobody's at all, meaning someone was able reverse engineer the device? How did the trivoid come to know about this device, and how to use it?)
(Also, who is Tinker's "little friend"? And how did knowledge of the Fosiverse and PCW leak into the Triverse?)
(Find out next time! [If there even is a next time. Let's hope Tinker doesn't change his mind.])
(Delinae:I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY GOT ACQUITTED! None of the jurours were being reasonable at all, except MAYBE Meggy! HAS THE COURT GONE MAD? And why did TINKER have to be the JUDGE?)
(This nonsense of a trial doesn't really teach us much. But there are some things we can learn from it. We know that there's a fine line between "inspiration" and "copying". But where is that line?)
(How would this trial have gone if everyone was.. actually reasonable? I don't really know. Yes, I was inspired by the PPC when making the PCW. I'm not sure how much of that went into the PCW, or how much was actually original. As Delinae and Celia together pointed out, there are similarities AND differences.)
(Is the PCW copyright infringement? I wouldn't say that. Copyright protects expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. Even still, it's best that things stay somewhat original. Original enough so they don't look like they're the same thing, ala Asteroids vs Meteors.)
(One thing's definitely different:The history, story, and lore is going to be WAY different. After all, this is my own exploration of the concept. And let's not even get started on the types of distortions!)
(Really, though. I hope we figure out Mt. Coffin. I don't want the PCW to die off.)
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