Xplodin Archives

Xplodin Archives is a fan story series that is currently being written by Endermen295 (and formerly BossHunt), where it depicts the Xplodin Crew in various adventures, traveling through video game worlds in order to either stop evil threats, or to rescue their friends from imminent danger.

Whilst the story does include a majority of the crew members, it also adds in several fictional characters as well as the introduction of Urti to the crew. The story currently spans over 4 separate instalments and over 30 chapters.

There are plans to refurbish the story with visuals, better writing as well as longer chapter, but a date has not been confirmed for when this will be taking place.

As of now, the 4 instalment has just finished, and recently, plans have been unveiled for the original chapters to be rewritten.

## Chapter’s by Endermen295

### Chapters 1 to 8 “Xplodin Archives”

The first 8 chapters mark the beginning of the Xplodin Archives story. The crew embark on a strange journey across various video game lands and worlds in an attempt to defeat the ultimate threat against them. Throughout their journey however, other forces are at play...

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4.1

Chapter 4.2

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7.1

Chapter 7.2

Chapter 8

Epilogue

### Chapters 9 to 20 “Decend of Madness”

The 2nd instalment. This time, the crew embark through the video game landscapes once more, in hope of rescuing their fellow crew member Jdogg who was mysteriously kidnapped. This instalment also introduces the crew’s newest member Urti, a dainty female equipped with special cybernetics and a troubled and dark past...

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20 + End

### Chapters 21 to 25 “The night hanging demon”

The shortest entry in the series, a majority of the crew is kidnapped by an unknown force, leaving only Irl.Skelo, Endermen295, Urti as well as an unknown figure to locate and rescue their fellow crew members from the being dubbed, as “the night hanging demon” before it’s too late...

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25 + End

### Chapters 26 to 36 “Fractured”

The most recent instalment to the series. Fractured takes the story on it’s head when Urti begins to fracture and completely break down, with the fear that if nothing is to be done, then she would ultimately shatter, removing her existence from everyone’s memory, as if she never stepped foot on ear. The crew ventures through the various game worlds once again in a race against the clock to save her; both from her fractures, and a new threat from long ago...

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Epilogue

## Featured characters

### Primary Protagonists

Jack Sullivan - The leader of the crew. Was not a primary protagonist during most of the 3rd instalment. Had a speaking roll in almost every single chapter, and is often the one who initiates the adventure.

### Protagonists

Toxic - One of the crew’s primary members. He has a running gag in the 1st instalment of being constantly stuck by a door. This gag was given a minor mention at the end of the third instalment.

Irl.Skelo - One of the crew’s primary members. Known for her use of longer range weaponry as well as lightning based attacks. Is known to generally be one of the more serious members of the crew.

Endermen295 - One of the crew’s primary members. Known for having lower than average intelligence and commonly makes jokes/odd comments as well as showing erratic like behavior. Is known and commonly associated to be partnered with Urti.

Jdogg - One of the crew’s primary members. Is commonly seen along side Toxic, and much like him, is known to be sarcastic and cocky, though is much quieter. He has a partner named Karina.

Urti - The crew’s first fictional member. Introduced in the second season, and is known to stutter in every sentence she speaks. She is known to be extremely shy, cautious, bashful, and kind hearted. Has a very irrational fear of anything involving fire. Also is the only crew member that does not have vulgar language.

BossHunt - One of the crew’s newer members. Known in the first instalment to appear whenever he felt necessary. He does not have a speaking role in every chapter, and is often seen as heroic and kind, those this has sometimes resulted in forgetting what goes on around him. Is known to be partnered with Queen Stacey.

Glitch - A formerly evil counter part of Endermen. Glitch leads the crew during the 4th instalment and carefully guides them to ensure the plan stays in action. He was formerly an antagonist during the first 2 instalments, and turned during the 3rd.

## Secondaries

Lily - One of the crew’s newer members. Is known to be an owner of her own hospital where she handles and cures thousands of patients a day. Appears occasionally.

Ary - A former crew member exiled for their behaviour. Only appeared during the 2nd chapter, of which the majority of the time, their opening line usually involved the mother of whoever asked as a running gag.

Tank - One of the crew’s newer members. Tank in the story hosts a boot camp of many normal foot soldiers. Has not made an appearance since the start of the third instalment, though has later reappeared nearing the end of the 4th instalment.

Monika - From DDLC and was active during the first 2 instalments of the series. Commonly associated to be in a relationship with Toxic.

Bupperoni - Active during the third instalment and assists the remaining crew members.

Night Slasher - One of the crew’s newest members. Occasionally appears in some chapters and mainly used in humorous parts.

## Antagonists

Glitch (formerly) - Was the primary antagonist during the 1st and second instalments. Turned to assist and help the Xplodin Crew during the 3rd instalment.

Nyx - Was the primary antagonist during the 3rd instalment and played as a false person into leading the remaining crew members to his location.

Dr Wolski - Is dubbed an antagonist in the 4th instalment. Applied Urti’s cybernetics to her and tortured her in the lab for several years, and is responsible for her fear of heights as well as her shy personality traits. As of chapter 36, his name is now known. Whilst attempting to regain control over both Subject Insanity and Urti, he was shot directly in the head by Urti using his pistol after she remarked on what he had done to her. It was revealed in the epilogue of the fractured instalment that he did not survive the shot to the head.

Subject Insanity - The active antagonist in the 4th instalment, described as a melted human spider hybrid that is chasing after the crew, mainly after Urti for her not suffering the same fate as she have, believing that Urti deserves to have the same suffering pain as her. As of the end, Insanity appears to have run off, with no one knowing her location or where she went.

## Previous discontinuation

Upon the release of the final chapter of the original series (chapter 25) Endermen decided to depart from Xplodin Archives.

When asked why he had left writing Xplodin Archives, Endermen295 stated the following:

”It get’s rather boring, writing about the same ground of people again and again. That was why in the second segment I added in Urti and in the third segment, Nyx. Of course, you can only really do so much before you run out of ides, and unfortunately... Writers block got the better of me”

After his departure BossHunt briefly took his position in writing a second series though after writing the story for several months, decided to stepped down, feeling that we was not up to the task, as well as the second instalment receiving a lot of harsh criticism for the story not heading in a direction that felt like the original story, with them also stating that it moved and took away too much from the original premise of the story. Boss has since then abandoned the roll, and removed all chapters that he created.

Since then, Endermen295 had began working on his own series, Galactic Galaxy Explorers, featuring a unique cast of characters. This series has since been taken down due to all the files going missing, as well as Endermen295 stating that he did not feel satisfied with it.

As of the 2nd of June 2020 with the public launch of the wiki, Endermen has chosen to return the series with the launch of Chapter 26 as well as the beginning of the 4th segment “Xplodin Archives: Fractured”, with many being happy for his return, with his other series being put on hold as he once more began working on Xplodin Archives. It is not yet known how long he will be writing for before taking yet another departure. When asked if Xplodin Archives was finished or not, Endermen295 said.

”For now, the 36 chapter there are what I call a complete story for now. As much as I would want to continue it for a 5th instalment, I’m currently not in the favourable position to be able to write the series, due to time constraints on Uni, as well as having to manage other projects”.

This confirms that at the moment, Xplodin Archives is unable to continue forward, though is not directly cancelled.

## “Reploded”

As of recently, Endermen has confirmed that the original 36 chapters will be rewritten and updated. When asked why, he stated that most of the chapters felt too short and that not much really happened in the, both in terms of action as well as character dialogue. He also plans on completely overhauling the 3rd segment of the series, claiming that not only was it way too short (at only 5 chapters in length) but it also felt out of place, rushed, and generally did not fit the general flow of the original series)

Around March 2021. Endermen has stated that each rewritten chapter will have at least 3,000 words in it, with him stating that he felt that the original chapters, whilst some did have a lot to offer, often felt minimal, and sometimes half-done he said. This was also done as to ensure that more detail would be put towards certain things that hardly any was put towards.

## References/gags

Through the Xplodin Archives series, it has used many references to various forms of media, mainly in referencing other video games with a majority of the chapters taking place in other video game worlds as well as a number of running gags throughout the instalments. A list of said references and gags will be shown here along with which chapter it was featured in.

### Instalment specific running gags

#### Xplodin Archives

In the first instalment throughout every single chapter, Toxic would be struck by some sort of door either nearby, or just simply because. This gag lasted throughout the entirety of the first instalment, and was also mentioned once at the end of the third instalment when Toxic was struck by a door that blasted him out of the hospital. The reason why this gag takes place, is unknown, thought it’s probably to add flavour to the story in the forming of a running joke. This gag was given a brief mention in the third instalment.

#### Decent of Madness

Though out the second instalment in the majority of the chapters, Ary would commonly open with a line often referring “too busy dealing with” and would mostly make a jokey statement regarding the mother in the statement. Towards the end of the instalment, however, this gag was dropped due to complaints from Ary themselves in expressing that they felt that was their only purpose (though if this segment was to be completely rewritten then this gag would be removed entirely due to Ary being exiled from the Xplodin Crew).

## Trivia

* The original series spanned over 25 Chapters in total (excluding chapters separated into 2 parts). This has since been expanded with the introduction of a 4th instalment to the series known as “Xplodin archives: Fractured”. It is unknown if he will continue the series with a 5th instalment.
* The end of the first instalment is a reference to the end event in fortnite.
* The 2nd instalment is the longest in the Archives series, spanning over a total of 12 chapters in length. The instalment directly after it however is the complete opposite in it being the shortest at just 5 chapters.
* The first and a majority of the second segments each had their own separate gimmicks that would happen at least once a chapter. Within the first segment, Toxic would get hit by a door every chapter, and in the majority of the second segment, Ary (former crew member who has since been removed due to violations) would say along the lines of “too busy dealing with your mom”, though this was dropped later on due to complaints from said former crew member.
* Xplodin Archives marks the official debut of Urti, Endermen’s first true OC as well as the first (unofficial) fictional crew member. This also applies to his 2nd OC known as “subject insanity”, his first antagonist based character.
* Throughout the first 25 chapters, there have been several references to Xplodin Apples videos as well as others throughout, such as Night taking the elevator rather than a flight of stairs. It is unknown if this trend will continue in future chapters, though it is highly likely.
* Some time in the future, Endermen does plan on coming back to it and redoing it, fixing errors, adding in additional small details and adding in visual illustrious to help tell the story. When he plans on doing this is unknown. In a private talk, Endermen has stated that he may end up completely redoing the 3rd instalment entirely, since he stated that he felt it looked and felt rushed, and didn’t fit in with the rest of the Xplodin Archives instalments.

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