The Past

The Past is a section in the Strange Tale of Classic Sam Videos, where everything said to have happened in the past is recorded. In this wiki, it counts as "Episode 0" for archival purposes, while not being an actual episode on YouTube. This is being done so that the lore descriptions in each episode article make more sense, as past stuff has been intentionally left out due to it already being recorded. Also, unlike in the document, the section has been split into parts for organization purposes.
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=== Chapter 1: The Beginning ===
Roughly 12,000 years before the events of Arc 1, Microsoft Mike creates the universe with the help of an otherworldly being known as Caliborn Serkess Vierria. The surface code of the universe is located in a special program called the Universal Command Prompter, which is similar to normal Command Prompt. The main place the program is at, is on Mike’s computer. Otherwise, it can be accessed via the Orb of Light and/or the Orb of Darkness, which automatically came with the creation of the universe. The source of the other colors comes from a third orb called the Rainbow Orb, which doesn’t have this functionality.
As the creators, Mike and Caliborn have a holographic code-seeing power by themselves, which can be used to manipulate stuff that’s already in the universe, although only if they know of the file names. Certain things can have certain settings, like turning it on or off, or, if it is designed to destroy, creating an opposite clone of it. Also, if an object is near them, it automatically shows up in the hologram. However, anything to do with direct non-premade cloning or actual breathing persons can only be done in the Prompter itself. The hologram has one stunning benefit, though, and that’s the power to change the hard-coded settings at will, which the Prompter can’t do. Though, doing so may or may not provide the risk of corruptions, depending on what’s being changed. The two main Orbs can also bring up all three of these menus, so they are very convenient for the creators.
Mike and Caliborn found this too convenient, however. They realize that these two Orbs need to be protected, so they start brainstorming ways that a citizen can’t just grab them, whether alive or dead. Mike ultimately clones himself. When doing this, a light form and a dark form comes out of him, creating Mr. Afterlife, the light side, and the Dark One, the dark side. Mike appoints them as the overseers of the Afterlife, with Mr. Afterlife getting his name because he is intended to be the face of this realm. The Dark One is never given an official name, but he acts as the supporting godhead. Mr. Afterlife's essence is then assigned to the Orb of Light, and the Dark One's essence is assigned to the Orb of Darkness, granting them the power to revive anyone from the Afterlife as they see fit, as anyone who has these Orbs can naturally revive themselves. They can also commune with forces that are outside the universe, and enter/exit the Afterlife at will. Their existence automatically conceals the Orbs so that they can’t be used by anyone. Mike cannot make any more clones of himself, since the balance would be broken if there are more than three parts of the creator. This means that the three Orbs are very much connected to Mike’s creator status, since he finalized the creation process in the end, and not Caliborn. ‘Three’ is the magic number.
Moreover, once someone reaches God status, they unlock the ability to see further or earlier in the main timeline of the Universe. Whoever else gets these powers is determined by either Mike or Caliborn. They can not only see the timeline, but they can alter the current future by doing things that directly contradict future events, as the timeline itself assumes that no one knows about it. Finally, since these two clones are technically just the two halves of each other, Mike makes it so that Mr. Afterlife and the Dark One's powers are linked, which means that they share the exact same level of power at any given time; if one gains something, the other does, and if the other loses something, the other does. He decides to add this directly in the hard-coded settings, and he removes their code-seeing power, since their only purpose is to watch over the Afterlife, and protect the Orbs in a way. This means that even they cannot use the full potential of the Orbs anymore, but they can still do everything else that is said they can do. Mr. Afterlife and the Dark One are given a pep talk from Mike about how being artificial makes no difference when you can think like the others, and to cherish every moment of your lives.
After that, Mike and Caliborn have to figure out how life and death would even work for the future inhabitants of the universe. As said before, in the Universal Command Prompter, the hard-coded settings cannot be changed, including the existence of the orbs. However, their essence can be used to help with the coding. They decide to fork over essences of the Orb of Light and the Orb of Darkness to control how the universe behaves when an inhabitant dies or is revived. Of course, here the Orb of Light's essence represents life, and the Darkness's essence represents death. If an inhabitant is alive, they will show up in the list of inhabitants. For example, the code will say ">get [inhabitant.exe]", and if they die, that code is automatically removed due to how the system works, unless the inhabitant is revived. Removing the code of the inhabitant manually, also brings them to the Afterlife, but Mike chooses not to do this at all, unless the person is a complete danger to the entire universe. Mr. Afterlife, the Dark One, Caliborn, and Mike himself do not show up in this list, because since they are the creators or related to the creators, they appear in the hard-coded settings. As for the Rainbow Orb, it does not have the essence of life nor death, nor can a citizen make it do anything by itself if obtained. However, when absorbed, the inhabitant can be ultra-powerful, and such power is predicted to make the inhabitant go insane. As such, the essence of the Rainbow Orb in the Prompter would be pure power. Thus, its essence remains unused, because Mike does not want to mess with that and risk disasters.
Finally, again with the help of Caliborn, Mike creates a little thing called the Killing Machine, which instantly kills anything that is a huge problem in the world. This is the one thing that can kill Mr. Afterlife and the Dark One. When they die by this, Mr. Afterlife is turned into the Orb of Light, the Dark One is turned into the Orb of Darkness, the souls themselves go back to Mike, and they cannot revive themselves in those states. This is a failsafe in case a God goes rogue, and it’s purely meant as a last resort. However, both can turn into their respective orbs whenever they want, but they still cannot use their full potential. It's only if they die from the Killing Machine, do they go in that state permanently. If one ever wants to revive them, a special word must be uttered for them each. For Mr. Afterlife, the hard R N-word. For the Dark One, "Cracker." Also, if one clone dies, the other doesn’t end up dying too, because by the universe’s logic, being in an immobilized state does not count as having any powers removed.
Meanwhile, Sam and Mary enter the universe, not knowing who actually created it, and they start living in it, too. Caliborn, Sam, Mike, and Mary all move together in the same house, and Mike puts his computer in, too. Due to Sam's ego, he doesn't get along with the other three most of the time, especially Mike and Mary. One day, Sam decides to purchase his very own private island so he can have alone time. First, he uses money to build a special helicopter called the ROFLcopter, capable of being a hologram for 10 seconds, or as long as it’s in some sort of hitbox.
After he finds the place and spends some more money building a mansion, he takes advantage of the ROFLcopter’s power by building steel walls around the island, which reach up to space. Then, he realizes that he wants a computer. However, since he spent almost all of his money doing this, he finds out that he can only afford a Windows 95 computer. Because of this, he only goes to this island in case of emergencies, as he uses Mike’s computer using a separate Windows account.
At the same time, an established government is formed for the land of the living, and for some reason, so does a military unit. Even though there doesn't seem to be any universes looking for war, they still start to create very high-tech weaponized structures to make themselves look cool and tough, such as the laser-powered tank. A construction company is formed, too, which is the one most responsible for actually creating such things. There's also a process where third-party architects can go to the military for approval on their own blueprints, if it happens to be a weaponized structure, as they aren't allowed to do anything with those plans otherwise. If the military approves, a consent form is signed, and the architects can take it (and their blueprints) to the construction company so they can build it, provided that the architects have the money to fund it. This is because the military uses their own money to fund their own projects, and they can't just fund things for random architects who may have no money to back their projects up. Finally, the military rarely emails the company or gives them any warning about what architects are interested in what project.
And so, years and years go by. The sky of the universe pretty much remains as a white space. Mike thinks that it's gotten too boring, so his next step is to figure out how the sky of the main world should be controlled. He then appoints Ashley Egbert as the patron saint of light, and Shadow Freddy as the patron saint of darkness. The saint of light can turn the dark sky into light, while the saint of darkness can turn the bright sky into darkness, and vice versa. As long as the light and darkness orbs exist as separate objects, this little power remains.
Meanwhile, a police force forms in the universe. It is called the UtubeTrollPolice, and it is meant to fight crime and maintain order in society. The governor (and possibly founder) is Jane Crocker, and the two figureheads are Rog Parkinson and Thomas "Tommy Parky" Parkinson, because Jane is choosing to hide her identity from the public. Even though the Universal Command Prompter is supposed to be on one computer, Mike decides to give a copy to Tommy Parky on a separate computer terminal, so that Parky can quickly remove anomalies (dangers to the entire universe) when Mike or Caliborn aren’t already either using the one copy of the Prompter or wielding the one copy of the Killing Machine. 
Over the years, there have been two major rumors about the UTTP. One of them is that they conduct intensive electroshock therapy on criminals. The practice in question is sort of like a long-term lobotomy, where the criminals slowly lose their minds. The other, more serious rumor is that they are the sole cause of the infamous genocide, and that sometimes, people still die from them. This rumor also suggests that the mysterious governor is actually Adolf Hitler, who has been widely cited as the cause of this tragic event by the force themselves. Despite these rumors, the police force is known for doing many noble things.
At the same time, a group called The Hellfire Demon Trolling Corporation (known by initials as the THDTC) forms, which opposes the UTTP and the entire universe because of the rumors. The group chooses to operate in separate sectors across the land of the living. One particular sector becomes relevant later, which consists of DaveLastTrollers, Boris the Teeth Guy, Fuck Stephen Hillenburg, and last but not least, Sherbase12. Sherbase12 is an evil clone of a guy known as King Sherman. As for what the THDTC often does, they claim to be UTTP members, they harass people on the Internet, and hell, they may have the balls to harass the UTTP themselves. DaveLastTrollers is the second most problematic one, because he has the power to summon hurricanes and tornadoes that can devastate entire areas. However, he has trouble finding a good excuse to actually use them, even if he threatens to do it over the Internet. The most problematic is S12, who hacks things using a regular hacking menu. He also goes a step further by trying to invade the ranks of the UTTP themselves, using a disguise. But his disguise has a flaw, which is the discolored hand that does not match his skin color in the slightest. This is probably how he gets caught so many times, and he can only do this so many times, too, so he eventually stops. Luckily for him, he learns enough information so that he can be able to hack the entire headquarters; potentially setting criminals free, looking in the private database, all that. He's also different from the other THDTC members because he seems to know the truth about Jane, while the others just think that the UTTP is associated with Hitler, except whoever started this whole thing, maybe.
As for the Rainbow Orb, it ends up being passed down from generation to generation in a family known as the Fonts. They are generally trustworthy, and they are meant to protect the Rainbow Orb, which means that they are not allowed to absorb it, as that's the kind of thing Mike is trying to prevent anyone from doing. Mike didn’t want it to stay in the Afterlife, either, just in case one of his clones goes rogue. The plan all goes well, until Gaster's son, Sans Tyrone, is born. Sans is a natural-born sociopath and megalomaniac, who eagerly awaits the arrival of the orb so he can absorb it and rule the universe with an iron fist. Meanwhile, Microsoft Anna enters the universe, and Windows Vista is released. As a consequence, Sam meets her, and they become rivals. Unlike his "friends," Sam has always been honest about hating her, and it's only because Windows Vista sucks. It's also because Anna thinks that Vista is better than Windows XP, too, which is Sam’s favorite OS. Anna's side of the coin is more friendly, while Sam has much more disdain due to his ego. Later on, Caliborn decides to disappear for unknown reasons, and throughout the many years, Sam slowly forgets about his existence.
=== Chapter 2: Another Dimension ===
One day, Mike decides to test how portal magic works, and manages to open one to another dimension entirely. That dimension happens to be Maytown, which is run by Anshine, and has entrances to areas where Power Stars float around. At this point in time, the town has just had its grand opening, and there are no star doors in sight. Mike quickly befriends this fellow, and they go on a tour through the areas, too. Meanwhile, as soon as the portal opened up, Cyalm, Anshine’s brother and a higher god of this dimension, became aware of its existence, but leaves it alone since it does not forebode immediate danger. Anyways, Whistling Woods is an especially popular attraction because of it being the most habitable. But others have decided to curiously check the others, with some being brave enough to explore. Those who are brave end up dying by kill bricks because of having no idea what to expect, and Anshine recognizes this as a huge problem.
So Anshine came up with the idea of the star doors, with each having a set value. Only he can open them without any stars, and he can tag someone so that they can enter a door without stars, too. Mike ends up being the first one tagged to go through the door locking the entire town specifically, since he’s the first unique fellow Anshine saw in this dimension. After Mike leaves the place, he cannot figure out how to close the portal, so he just throws it in the Retcon Room, which is the second and final layer of death, after the Afterlife. This room is used to store things that are either useless or dangerous, and the door is always locked. Meanwhile, Maytown quickly becomes a tight-knit community with no one else really wanting to live here that much. The only place in Maytown itself that’s not locked is Pharaoh Falls, because he trusts the citizens old and new, which is why they got tagged to go through the star door locking Maytown in the first place.
For these people, it is uncertain if getting a set amount of stars actually unlocks the door permanently or just unlocks it for the user. Even Anshine is not really sure, but no one really has any reason to go to all that trouble to get the stars anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Still, the latter is actually the case. If a person collects a star, it can’t be collected again by that person, but it can be collected by someone else. Although, it works a bit funny for people from other dimensions. If a person from another dimension collects stars and unlocks star doors, they are actually unlocked for every other person in that dimension ever. This comes from a bug in the Maytown universe’s code, which makes it not know how to behave correctly if the person is not in the inhabitants list. However, what does behave correctly is separate groups having a separate amount of power depending on the amount of stars they collected. 
=== Chapter 3: A Scotty Out of Universe ===
Roughly a thousand years before Arc 1 now, Radar Overseer Scotty suddenly pops up in the world. Caliborn decides to appear again and greet him. He realizes that Scotty has the memories of every Scotty from every other TTS universe. So, he decides to give Scotty the power to consult the timeline for the hell of it. However, over the years, he, too, slowly forgets about this event, and totally forgets how he came here in the first place. Also, at this point, Anna has stopped caring about her rivalry with Sam with a loss of her own ego, and she figures out that she likes women. Anna and Mary start hanging out way more often. Meanwhile, Sam is pretty much the same as before, still hating Anna and sort of disliking his "friends."
=== Chapter 4: Cleaning Up ===
More and more, the universe becomes lively, to the point where roughly a million people are currently existing in it. As such, there's more careless people who leave trash and stuff, and as more buildings are built, more stuff needs to be fixed. Thus, a job called the Cleanup Crew is born. Their entire purpose is to clean up after people, tend to old or current buildings, all that. As such, the pay is extremely good, which is every week. Two paychecks can already pay off the average monthly bill for a middle-class home. As a teenager, an incidental named Jesus volunteers there for the experience, finding it to be pretty fun. As an adult, he later has a child, simply named Based Tradwife.
=== Chapter 5: Megalotragedy ===
A woman with a ridiculously long name, but is known mostly as Single Mother, is born and later becomes friends with someone known as Shaneequa. They later have benefits in the future. In high school, SM meets and falls in love with Drew Pickles. Presumably early in senior year, SM starts talking about wanting to have a baby. Drew tries convincing her that she isn't ready to no avail, and SomeGuilStuff is eventually born. SGS is named that way because she wanted to impress Shaneequa with a cool “black people name.” However, Drew and SM eventually have to drop out of high school in order to take care of Guil. To make matters worse, they both struggle to get by. But then, when Guil is only 1 year old, SM meets a guy named Sans. Sans promises to give her wealth, but only if she gives him sex in return. Even though Sans isn't lying, he's lowkey just looking for a compliant sex slave. So, she is successfully manipulated into cheating on Drew.
They both end up running off with Guil, who ends up believing that Sans is his biological father. SM and Sans have a wedding party, which SM later states to be an absolute nightmare. Later, they have their own baby, that being SOS, Guil's sister from another father. As Guil grows up, he keeps hearing loud moaning noises coming from his parents' room. This makes him not want to get up at night, even if he really needs to use the bathroom. Sometimes, he wets the bed, and SM yells at him. In fact, whenever Guil does something bad in general, it's always Sans who decides the punishment, and it always involves Guil getting beat up or tortured in some way. SM is pretty much getting abused too, so whenever she has time by herself, she confides in Shaneequa. Speaking of Shaneequa, her brother, The Black Guy Inside Your House, lives up to his name by breaking into people's houses and giving their literal meats a good ol' rub. However, before that, he went to Harvard, one of the best universities in the universe, and majored in African American Studies. Meanwhile, Shaneequa is pretty open to him about what she and SM do together.
Sometime later, Sans's father, Gaster, goes missing, and is presumed dead. Because of this, the Dark One is supposed to make a show about passing down the Rainbow Orb to the next generation of the Font Family. However, he gives it to Drew Pickles instead, because Sans is untrustworthy and he somewhat has wronged Drew directly. The Dark One knew that if Sans got access to the orb, he could tap into its power and, like the megalomaniac that he is, take control of the entire universe. After that, the Dark One lies to Mike, claiming that he actually gave the Rainbow Orb to Sans. This lie is told because he saw further in the timeline that Sans would die at the hands of both Drew and Guil, and he wants to make sure that this event is jeopardized as little as possible, even though Mike ends up giving Sans the power to see the timeline because of the Dark One's lie. Meanwhile, Mike seldom checks it, both because he assumes that nothing can go wrong, and because all that knowledge overwhelms him. He accidentally changes it every day as a result, anyway, which is a side effect of having this power, but these changes are usually minuscule.
After Sans gets that power, he decides to tell SM all about how his family kept the Rainbow Orb as a family heirloom, and how each of the holders get the power to consult the timeline because of this responsibility. In the back of his mind, though, Sans knows that something isn't right, because he does not actually HAVE the orb! Meanwhile, Drew pays the police and other people good money to fabricate evidence about him being a serial murderer rapist. In a small part, he does this in order to punish most of society, giving the system something to fear with seemingly good evidence to back it up, probably because of the alleged evil of Jane Crocker. But most of the time, it's all to make sure that the Rainbow Orb doesn't fall in the wrong hands. However, Sans inevitably finds out through seeing the timeline or other means, and he has been waiting for the right time to steal it back ever since.
Sometime later, Sans kills SOS for unknown reasons. When Drew Pickles is on his way to a friend's house, he sees Sans shoving SOS in the trunk. He hides so that Sans doesn't spot him, and he sees him drive away. Her body is later found in a lake by Radar Overseer Scotty. After he turns the body he found to the police station, Drew ends up hearing about this and goes there as well. Scotty learns about what Drew is actually doing, and the two become good friends. Then, the police notify SM about this. When SM asks Sans what happened to her, he claims that she died in a freak car accident. This is supported by the fact that Sans’s car was found in the lake, not far away from the body at all. The police assume that SOS drowned trying to escape the lake, and since there is nothing to disprove Sans’s story, they let it go.
Sometime after, Caliborn appears once again to give Single Mother the power to see the timeline. With this, she ends up seeing far in the future. She not only finds out that Drew has the Rainbow Orb, but she also sees that Sans will apparently kill Drew, obtain the Orb, and take over the universe. The reason why this is different from what the Dark One saw is probably because of Sans doing things to alter the events, and this is probably why Caliborn decided to give her this power in the first place! She makes up a plan to eventually tell Microsoft Mike, because she thinks Mike is the only one who can stop this. Before disappearing once again, Caliborn meets up with Mary and tells her the truth about Drew Pickles and how Drew has a son. He tells Mary not to tell anyone else, as this information won’t become relevant until much later, and she shall remember his words then.
=== Chapter 6: Betrayal and Adoption ===
During all these years, Mr. Afterlife mulls over the fact that Mike can apparently kill him with the Killing Machine whenever he feels like it. He starts to fear Mike, feeling like he should make him proud. He also becomes jealous of how Mike seemingly gives the Dark One special treatment. So, one day, he takes the first step to "trust" and power. He accuses the Dark One of committing some kind of crime. Luckily for Mr. Afterlife, he must've made it somewhat believable, because Mike doesn't bother checking the timeline. So, Mike uses the Killing Machine to turn the Dark One into the Orb of Darkness. 
Ever since then, the orb has just been floating around in the Afterlife, with Mr. Afterlife keeping watch over it to make sure that no souls touch it. Mike tells him not to mess with anything in the code, because he will know if there’s changes, and he will see it as a breach of trust. Mr. Afterlife obeys this, but only because he’s already scared of Mike as is. He may not be allowed to wield its power, but he is starting to have a more stealthier plan in mind, which involves a certain someone that he’s always disliked. Meanwhile, an event called the Bite of '87 happens in the place where Toy Freddy lives. The place shuts down, and with nowhere else to stay, Shadow Freddy decides to let him stay in his own house, as some sort of adoption.
=== Chapter 7: Taking It in Stride ===
Flower and Flowey Strider are born from two girl flowers in the fields, with Flowey being the elder sister. When Flower is really young, both of their parents die, and the two siblings end up living together for all of their lives. Flowey ends up finding a house for them to live in. As Flowey grows up, she becomes VERY skilled in fighting, and she gets her hands on the miraculous Lil' Cal puppet that can literally just swallow gigantic monsters whole, and walk on his own when no one is looking except her. It later turns out that in Caliborn's home universe, Lil' Cal is a modified version of a Lil' Pal puppet that Caliborn made and put part of his soul inside of, which is where Lil' Cal gets the power from. It is later given to Flowey by Caliborn himself. 
Meanwhile, in an effort to make her sister, Flower, be as tough as her, the sisters often have rooftop training sessions, some being way more intense than others. Despite this, Flower often has trouble remembering most of the techniques, much to the annoyance of Flowey. Also, Flowey is quite the ladies' woman, flirting with other lady flowers. Flower ends up learning a lot of sex jokes from her, and she often repeats them and makes her own, but only if she thinks it's funny. The truth is, Flower is not only asexual, but she does not want to have sex at all. She later ends up making friends with Microsoft Anna, and Mary, by extension. Anna has also been living in her own house, which Mary visits regularly.
=== Chapter 8: Bloom and Doom ===
In the Plants vs. Zombies dimension, a person named Edgar is born as the first zombie to ever exist in the dimension. He then takes up the surname "Zomboss" and becomes a scientist. He later tries infecting someone else, and it works. This Zombie Virus makes the infected’s internal organs fail, but keeps their look similar to Zomboss himself without too much decomposition. They are ghosts possessing their own bodies, unlike Zomboss, who is more alive and can enjoy such quality foods like pineapple on pizza. Soon, there is a zombie curse going on, because these zombies can infect others to turn them into zombies. However, a company known as Bloom and Doom Seed Co. makes genetically modified plants that can sufficiently kill every type of zombie. 
Edgar soon recognizes this as a huge problem, and decides to go to another dimension, specifically Mike's universe, but not after doing research beforehand. However, Crazy Dave, his arch-nemesis, follows him in the portal, and defeats every single member of the zombie army with the plants, including Edgar himself, who doesn’t die unlike the others. Because of that, Edgar goes into hiding. Meanwhile, Crazy Dave meets Chinese Guy, and they both become good friends. Later on, Dave meets someone known as Anita Sarkeesian, and they get married. Anita is basically a ninja who once stole secrets from the National Security Agency.
=== Chapter 9: Based and Lazypilled...? ===
The all grown up Based Tradwife meets Soyjak and marries him, with BT intentionally wanting to be a part of a traditional family, by American standards. They later have a baby named Bailey. Despite what BT's name implies, it's not actually a traditional family. Soyjak literally just lets Tradwife do all the work around the house, never pitching in even once. He even lets Tradwife go to the grocery store for him. All Soyjak does is watch football, argue with people on Reddit, and other crap. He's so lazy that he manages to have welfare checks as his only income. He doesn't even love Bailey, and often gets angry whenever she suddenly becomes his problem.
Throughout her childhood, Bailey's grandfather, Jesus, would have sporadic visits to the Soy family house. For her, it's always a nice day when he's here. Unfortunately, Soyjak almost always manages to embarrass himself every time Jesus is here. Still, Bailey has good times, and he influences some of her humor, which involves how to playfully mess with people. Otherwise, as an escape, Bailey uses her unrestricted Internet access, and also sharpens her drawing, animating, and writing skills. She creates a YouTube channel called "pidgy" and ends up getting a lot of subscribers, while also having a Google+ and DeviantArt, too. Her sense of humor ends up being shaped by the Internet. She also ends up discovering “the birds and the bees” and finds more questionable parts of the Internet. Influenced by these new thoughts, she creates an AO3 account to make a bunch of non-con fics about women, and manages to sneak bits and pieces of these questionable aspects into the world of her OCs.
=== Chapter 10: How Not to Get a Coping Skill ===
An individual named Jay Kizer goes more and more insane as he keeps seeing the faces of kids being censored on television. He then decides to literally steal the faces of random children just for the sole purpose of looking at them to calm down whenever he sees that on TV again. As for the rest of the bodies, they are simply dumped off somewhere. But then one day, his mother finds out what he is doing, and calls the police. Terrified, Jay flees the town, and hides out in another one, taking his Chromebook with him. Whenever the police notice the child death count rising in a town, the police know that Kizer is there, so when Kizer thinks he's in danger, he flees to another town. To hide from the public eye, Jay lives in abandoned shacks, while charging his Chromebook inconspicuously in random establishments that have outlets.
=== Chapter 11: A Rogue Prologue ===
One week before the events of Arc 1 Episode 1, Sam is retrieving something from Mike's room (which Mike borrowed). But then, he notices that the closet is open, and it contains Mary's clothes instead of Mike's clothes. It turns out that there is an ongoing joke where Sam accuses Mike of talking like a lady, and accusing Mary of the opposite, too. Sam confronts Mike about this, and Mike gets really pissed off. During this argument, Mary looks in her closet and finds Mike's clothes in there. Even though Sam claims that he didn't do it, Mike and Mary still force him to put them back in their rightful places, under Mike's threat that he will eat Sam's burritos. Because of this, Sam becomes apathetic when it comes to both of their existence. It later turns out that Mr. Afterlife is the one who did this, because he wanted to not only turn Sam evil, but to defeat him in order to make Mike trust Mr. Afterlife with true immortality. His only fear was that Mike would check the timeline, but Mike didn’t end up doing this. Mr. Afterlife kinda figured he wouldn’t, anyway, but he’s glad nonetheless. Now, he waits…
Some time later, a guy named Mr. B is planning on starting a YouTube channel, with Sam as the main star. Many other TTS universes had things like this happening, but usually to a lesser extent for their own lore. Mr. B had a lot of dead series and dud universes before, but he knows this will be a success. He makes invisible cameras that can reach anywhere and any time in the universe, even the Afterlife and the Retcon Room, which suggests that he is some sort of outsider like Zomboss. He then approaches Sam with the idea that he had in mind; reading funny Windows error messages. To distinguish from the others, he calls the series “Microsoft Sam reads Arduous Windows Errors,” and later comes up with the channel name “ClassicSamVideos,” which, coincidentally or not, has the same initials as Caliborn’s full name. He then upgrades Sam’s computer so that the design can be manipulated, and so that it can downgrade or upgrade to any other Windows OS. Thus, the computer is connected to Mr. B’s tools for the series. He writes the errors using an error generator created by another guy named Barra, and sends them directly to Sam’s computer, where they appear as actual errors that pop up and can be interacted with. Their looks can also change, and they can be manipulated in certain ways.
But during this time, Sam, Mike and Mary all resemble their alternate selves from the Thunderbirds101 universe, and he wants their looks to be more original; Sam's look, at least. Then, he remembers that he can somehow change their looks at will. So, he snaps his fingers and Sam is given a new humanoid look. He realizes that Mike and Mary are going to appear since they live in the same house, but since they aren't the main characters, he doesn't want to waste time making looks for them. So, he settled with something easy; just have them look like the Epic Face. However, there seems to be an accidental glitch where Sam sometimes turns into this form, too. It seems to be mostly when he’s feeling evil, vengeful or prideful, though. Finally, during this time, the sky is black, which is caused by Shadow Freddy. This also affects the walls of the “CSV house” as Mr. B and the others are now calling it, because Mike and Caliborn thought it would be cool to make that setting.