Mega Mash Family

***Mega Mash Family***, abbreviated **MMF**, is a video game in *Magical Girl Policy*. It is a popular fighting game franchise, with Rob, Cory, and Eli all big fans. It is the series' equivalent to the real-world *Super Smash Bros.* franchise.

## Description

*Mega Mash Family* is a platform fighter, where player characters do battle and attempt to successfully knock opponents out of the arena. One is eliminated from the match if knocked out a set number of times, with the last remaining player declared the winner. The franchise has multiple games: one of the later games is *MMF: Escalation*, and the most recent is *Mega Mash Family Battle*. The series spans several game consoles, but the controller for the old GameBox system is particularly popular among fans. The game features a large selection of playable characters, with players referring to their mainly used characters as their "mains" for short, which is also used as a verb (ex: "Rob's main is B.I.T." or "Rob mains B.I.T.").

## History

### Weeks 2-4

*Mega Mash Family Battle*, the latest game in the *Mega Mash Family* series, is released, which Rob, Cory, and Eli had been following prior to its release and are excited to play for themselves. SFEERS announces that it will host a tournament for the game, the first event of its kind at SAU. SaltStorm, the tournament organizer and SFEERS's video gaming officer, convinces local game shop the Warp Zone to sponsor the event: the prize is a custom controller painted to resemble a GameBox controller, a very enticing item for MMF fans.

### Week 5

The morning after the Cell-celia battle, Tanya visits Robynne and Vivian's dorm to give the pair a promotion assignment: they are to promote SFEERS's upcoming *Mega Mash Family Battle* tournament with Stacy and Lilly around the Billot Building. This is the first SFEERS event that the cheer team has actually promoted in over a year, as Cammy had been content to throttle the club's growth by limiting its exposure. This sudden change of heart is believed to be Cammy's way of testing Robynne's response to getting a surprise assignment that is in blatant response to the agreement to only be given skippable jobs, to see if Rob is still loyal to the captain after having her extorted computer for a while. After being told by her fellow Spirit Guards that this task will prove vital to the infiltration of the cheer team, Rob begrudgingly accepts the job.

Robynne, as the only one of the group who plays *Mega Mash Family*, coaches Vivian, Stacy, and Lilly on the game so they can properly promote the tournament. Rob is paired with Stacy, who surprises Rob by saying she plans to attend the tournament, as she had enjoyed herself at the SFEERS opening social despite having little shared interests with the nerd club. Among the people Rob promotes the event to are two guys she dubs "Baby-Stubble" and "Shorty", who are surprised to see a cheerleader interested in the game. She deflects the former's advances and convinces the pair to go to the tournament, which she'll be playing in alongside Cory and Eli, who she believes could feasibly win the event. She later runs into a guy she dubs "Meathead", who doesn't care about MMF and instead persistently hits on her. NightKnight notices and intervenes by claiming to be unaware of the tournament and talking to Rob about it. Meathead argues with NightKnight and nearly starts a fight, but leaves after Rob threatens to report this to campus authorities and tells him off.