Story/Season 2

## Current Timeline (Third Timeline)

### The Server Begins

The Mikachu SMP began on June 23, 2021, with Pokemaster, Mikachu, and several other players joining all at once for the server opening. The players quickly spread out, looting the spawn village and heading into the Nether to get far from spawn. Pokemaster moved into his Cave House, which he lived in for the next several weeks. A shopping district was established, and diamonds were declared the official currency of the server. Mikachu also built his potato farm during this time, making him the largest producer of food on the entire server.

### The Dragon Fight

On July 1, the players got together to fight the Ender Dragon. After Mikachu activated the end portal, the players traveled to the End. The players easily dispatched the dragon, only for Mikachu to steal the dragon egg for himself. Mikachu quickly became nauseous from having the dragon egg in his inventory, then blacked out, waking up in his bed back at his house.

### Mikachu Rises To Power

After finding the dragon egg, Mikachu realized that he had enhanced physical capabilities, possessing increased strength, speed, and durability, among other abilities. Using his newfound power, he enacted laws to seize control of the server. Mikachu created many authoritarian laws over the other players. One law placed him and his allies above the law, and another granted his business a monopoly over the sale of potatoes.

### The Lake Alliance

On a far corner of the server, Pokemaster, Maro, Hippo, and Monkeyz built houses around a lake and agreed to be allies and protect each other from Mikachu's reign. Pokemaster began construction of a prison and a laboratory in this area. These structures would be the only structures to remain in use when the area was later abandoned in favor of an ocean monument.

### The Guardian Alliance

Due to Pokemaster needing Elder Guardians for the construction of his prison and Hippo wanting to dry an Ocean Monument, the four Lake Alliance members moved to the ocean, where Pokemaster built the Skyblock Oasis. He then moved out of the cave house, leaving it abandoned.

### Mikachu Creates an Empire

Using the powers of the egg, Mikachu constructed a huge fortress above his potato farm as a symbol of his power. However, he neglected to build an interior, so he continued ruling the server from his underground home.

### J.R.'s Death/Pokemaster's Imprisonment

After Mikachu's parrot J.R. was killed by a skeleton, Mikachu held a funeral at the newly created grave for J.R., which was attended by almost every player. Following this, Mikachu declared a 24-hour silence order. During the silence order, Pokemaster broke the silence by attempting to message Hippo. Since Mikachu was attempting to get a Silk Touch pickaxe, he ordered Pokemaster to make him one. When Pokemaster refused, Mikachu fined him hundreds of diamonds, then locked him in The Lantern. After spending the day antagonizing Mikachu, who was determined to break him, Hippo and Maro paid his bail (despite Mikachu's attempts to increase Pokemaster's bail beyond what Maro and Hippo could pay), which infuriated Mikachu. After learning firsthand how Mikachu treated those he ruled over, he vowed to end Mikachu's reign of terror.

### James's Imprisonment

During one of Mikachu's patrols, James began picking on Mikachu and mocking him for his authoritarian actions. As a result, Mikachu locked him in The Lantern, where he attempted to break his will over the next two weeks.

### Prison Break

When Mikachu found an anonymous note informing him that James was hiding illegal items, Mikachu visited the prison to interrogate him. During the interrogation (in which James successfully escaped multiple times) James bantered with Mikachu, annoying him. The interrogation was interrupted by an unknown figure spawning a Wither. While Mikachu was distracted with the Wither, James broke out of prison and fled. Shortly after James's escape, Mikachu realized he wasn't yet strong enough to assert his control, so he sealed himself inside his castle so he could train and hone his powers.

### Grand Opening of Grillby's

Following Mikachu's departure, Pokemaster and Ocramboi decided to build a shop resembling Grillby's from Undertale. The pair spent the next two weeks building the shop. Once it was complete, they threw a party to celebrate the shop's completion. Several players showed up, including James, Maro, and Hippo. During the event, however, a rift opened in the middle of the room. Pokemaster managed to evacuate everyone from the shop except Maro, who was standing directly in front of the rift when it opened. After the rift disappeared, the players (including Maro, who was unharmed, albeit shaken) left the shopping district and went back to their homes.

### Mikachu SMP Olympics

With Mikachu still off training, Pokemaster took the opportunity to host the Mikachu SMP Olympics, a competition to see who the best player on the server was. The first event was parkour. Pokemaster explained the rules - each player would have 15 minutes to get as far through the course as they could. Preple challenged the course first, followed by Maro and Ocramboi. With Maro in first place, Hippo, the final contestant, took the stage. Halfway through Hippo's time (in which he came close to taking the lead several times) Maro, who had snuck away from the stadium unnoticed, flew in with an Elytra and began attacking Hippo and the other contestants, catching everyone by surprise. Hippo was knocked off the course and gravely wounded, but was healed by Pokemaster, who instructed the contestants to run for the Shopping District.

The contestants and Pokemaster met at Grillby's, where Preple surprised everyone by revealing his secret bunker, which he had built underneath the shopping district. The group headed into the bunker and sealed themselves inside an obsidian cube. Unfortunately, Maro arrived soon after and followed them into the bunker, forcing them to turn their obsidian box into a makeshift Nether Portal and flee into the Nether. Despite the best efforts of Pokemaster, Maro followed them into the Nether, but after a short chase through the Nether, they were able to lose Maro by escaping to the bedrock roof of the Nether.

After their narrow escape, the group headed to Preple's base on the Nether roof. Preple gave them a tour of his base, then began helping the rest of the group hollow out underground rooms to stay in for the time being. While they were building, Hippo asked Preple out, to which Preple agreed, marking the official beginning of their relationship. Once their rooms were complete, the group began planning what to do next, with Pokemaster still wondering about the reason for Maro's sudden change.

### MagicMover joins the group/Maro Attacks

With food running low and Ocramboi out of batteries, Hippo, Preple, and Pokemaster venture out of the bunker for the first time in order to get supplies that might help them stop Maro. After venturing into the forest to collect wood, the group encounters MagicMover, a wizard who lives in the forest near the bunker. After telling MagicMover about the impending threat of Maro, he joins the group and offers his magical abilities. Shortly after this, Maro attacked the group, forcing them to retreat back to the bunker. As Pokemaster held Maro at bay with a bow, MagicMover (at Pokemaster's direction) teleported them to the Skyblock Oasis, where Pokemaster gathered gear that could help him make items to fight Maro. With MagicMover's powers temporarily drained, they decided to head back to spawn in the hopes of finding some food at Grillby's.

The group traveled to Grillby's, only to find it had been vandalized by Maro following their escape from the Parkour Tower. Finding no food, the group turned to leave Grillby's only to run into Maro again. However, instead of attacking, he appeared frightened, not knowing why the group was hostile towards him. Since Maro appeared to have no memory of attacking them, they took Maro back to the bunker, where they imprisoned Maro in an improvised cell made of obsidian and "canonical one-way glass". Now that Maro was locked up, the group gathered in Pokemaster's room to decide what to do next, with Pokemaster commenting that Maro appeared to have some sort of split-personality.

### The Trial of Maro

Now that Maro was contained, the group disagreed on what to do next. Following the discovery of a secret tunnel that had been built underneath the cell, the group fell into chaos. Eventually, Pokemaster revealed that he had built the tunnel to protect Maro in the event they decided to kill him, and in response, the group locked Pokemaster in the cell along with Maro. With the group still relentlessly arguing about what to do about Maro, Preple intervened, saying that he would hold a trial to determine Maro's fate.

On the Nether roof, Preple called the trial to order, explaining that each player would be able to speak their opinion, and then they would vote on what should happen to Maro. Pokemaster pleaded with the others that Maro could be cured, and that he just needed some time to study Maro's condition. Hippo, on the other hand, argued that Maro was dangerous and needed to die before he hurt anyone else. After more arguing, they began to vote. Pokemaster voted for Maro to stay in prison, and Hippo voted for Maro to be killed. With the vote tied, both players were trying to convince MagicMover to vote with them. After debating with himself for several minutes, MagicMover voted with Hippo. Pokemaster was devastated, and begged Hippo to see reason. Eventually, they came to a compromise--Maro would stay in prison and Pokemaster could work on a cure, but first, Pokemaster had to create a weapon that could kill Maro in the event that he couldn't be contained. Pokemaster agreed, on the condition that the weapon could only be used if all three of them agreed to use it. With the trial concluded, Maro went back to his cell, and Pokemaster began work on the weapon.

### Maro's Escape

A few days after the trial, Pokemaster called MagicMover and Hippo over to his lab area. He had fulfilled his part of the deal, creating a weapon that could kill Maro--the Death Potion. The group constructed a vault that could only be opened by three people, then Pokemaster placed the Death Potion inside.

Later, Pokemaster began research on Maro, attempting to figure out a way to force Maro to switch forms. After giving Maro a helmet to monitor his brain activity, Pokemaster splashed him with a Weakness Potion in order to weaken his blue form. To his surprise, it worked, and Maro immediately turned orange and attempted to break out of the cell. After the group asked him a few questions, they left to see Pokemaster's findings. Pokemaster discovered that the two personalities seemed to be entirely separate--Maro's orange form didn't remember anything that happened in his blue form, and vice versa. Pokemaster grabbed another Weakness Potion and returned to the cell to bring Maro's blue form back, only to discover that Maro had broken through the obsidian floor of the cell and escaped. Panicking, the group found that Pokemaster's secret tunnel had never been filled in, and Maro had used it to escape. With Maro loose in the world again (and whose powers, according to Pokemaster, were growing stronger), Preple suggested that they find the one person with the power to beat Maro--Mikachu.

### Mikachu Vs. Maro

With Preple and Ocramboi nowhere to be found, the group was unable to unlock the vault containing the Death Potion. Agreeing that they would attempt to use Mikachu to unlock the vault instead, the group headed to Mikachu's castle without the Death Potion. On the way, Pokemaster noticed smoke coming out of the chimney of Pweeter's house. Believing that Maro was inside, the group proceeded with caution, only to find that Pweeter was, in fact, alive, and had been living peacefully in his house for the past several months. Pweeter agreed to help the group, and they used Pweeter to unlock the vault. With the Death Potion now in their possession, they once again headed to Mikachu's castle.

After attempting to yell up to Mikachu's castle, Pokemaster summoned him by having the group break some of Mikachu's potatoes. Mikachu exited his castle, immediately angered by the group's actions. He drew his sword to kill all of them on the spot, before Pokemaster interrupted him and explained the situation with Maro. After hearing what Pokemaster had to say, he reluctantly agreed to help the group, albeit making Pokemaster go first, still suspecting a trap.

Upon arriving at the Shopping District, Mikachu was shocked at the destruction, but didn't get truly enraged until he saw his shop, which had been completely destroyed. Demanding to know where Maro was, Pokemaster commented that he "[didn't] know, but he might be in that building with the giant sign that says 'Maro's Evil Lair'". Mikachu flew up to the top of the Lantern, which had been converted to Maro's lair. He prepared for a fight against Maro, but found only an empty room with a barrel full of BIG SHOT potions (which were later revealed to give a powerful Levitation effect when Hippo drank one and immediately flew hundreds of blocks into the air.) Furious that he had interrupted his training for nothing and suspecting a setup, Mikachu turned to attack Pokemaster, but not before Pokemaster equipped his elytra and flew away. As Pokemaster landed, Mikachu prepared to finish him off, only for Pokemaster to point out that Maro was now standing on top of the Lantern.

The group watched nervously as Mikachu landed on top of the tower and confronted Maro. Mikachu ordered Maro to stand down and said the server was his, only for Maro to respond, "not anymore". Mikachu flew directly at Maro and began attacking, and the two flew around the Shopping District, trading blows. As the battle progressed, it became clear that Mikachu was far more powerful, with Maro being unable to even damage him despite having superpowers. Mikachu finally knocked Maro to the ground, where Hippo hit him with the Death Potion, finally killing him.

After the battle had ended, Mikachu ordered the group to rebuild the Shopping District and "return [his] prison to its former glory".

### Maro's Funeral

Following Maro's death, Pokemaster, Pweeter, Ocramboi, Mikachu, James (who was wearing a mustache as a disguise), and Hippo gathered at the graveyard for Maro's funeral. Ocramboi attempted to give a speech, but Mikachu interrupted, insulting Maro and then destroying his grave, which upset the others. After this, James grabbed J.R.'s feather out of its item frame and threw it into lava to get revenge against Mikachu. Mikachu then swore he would plunge the world into eternal darkness for this insult.

### Mikachu SMP Olympics (Again)

With Maro dead, Pokemaster decided to redo the SMP Olympics, with the competitors being Hippo, Pweeter, Ocramboi, James, and Maro's fifth cousin (who is also named Maro).

The first event was parkour. Ocramboi went first, and despite multiple glitches and movement errors, Ocramboi managed a strong run, which remained unbeaten by James, Hippo, and Pweeter. However, Maro's fifth cousin managed to beat Ocramboi's run by a single jump, just as the clock ran out of time.

The second event was PVP, and since there were an odd number of people, Pokemaster joined in the competition. The first 1v1 was Hippo vs. Ocramboi, with Hippo taking a decisive victory. Next up was Pokemaster vs. James, which Pokemaster won after critting James twice with his sword. Lastly, Maro's cousin fought Pweeter, with Pweeter just barely managing to win. This meant the championship 1v1 would be between Hippo and Pweeter (Pokemaster dropped out of the competition after the first round so the tournament bracket would work). After a long fight (during which Hippo accidentally hit himself with his own harming potion, almost killing himself) Hippo just barely came out victorious.

The final event was a custom game made by Pokemaster, called "Skyblock PVP". In this game, players fought for resources floating in the sky. Players had infinite lives, but were eliminated if they were killed by a Netherite weapon. Since the game was for 4 players, the last-place competitor (Ocramboi) was eliminated from the Olympics.

Each player started on their island and quickly began gathering resources. As each player bridged toward the center (besides Pweeter, who never left his island for the entire duration of the game), they gathered stronger resources. After a few skirmishes, Hippo realized he couldn't win, and sacrificed himself to kill Maro before dropping out of the competition.

After several fights between James and Maro, during which both players lost all their items multiple times, James agreed to let Maro kill him. Both of them worked together to get the items for a Netherite Sword. However, after James crafted the sword, he betrayed Maro, quickly killing him with the sword and eliminating him from the game.

As James bridged over to Pweeter's island, Pweeter readied himself to fight off James. Pweeter was prepared to fight his hardest to stop James in his tracks, only for James to crit him twice, easily killing him and winning the event along with the Olympics.

### Maro's Revival

A few weeks after the Olympics, Pokemaster gathered James, Pweeter, and Hippo at his house to ask for help with Ocramboi's rapidly deteriorating condition. His glitching, which first started during the Olympics, had only gotten worse, rendering him mostly inert. Nobody present had any idea how to cure Ocramboi, so Pokemaster decided to table the issue for the time being and led the group down to the basement, where he presented his newest invention - a working chair. After showing off the chair, the group headed back upstairs, only to find that Ocramboi had disappeared.

The group checked the entire Skyblock Oasis and his volcano, but Ocramboi was nowhere to be found. Having no success so far, the group decided to check the Shopping District.

Meanwhile, Mikachu was in his castle talking about new powers he had developed, when he was interrupted by Ocramboi, who had traveled to Mikachu's castle after leaving the Skyblock Oasis. Ocramboi explained that he was actually Maro, and that he was possessing Ocramboi's body. Maro explained that he could take full control and regain his powers if Mikachu performed a ritual with the Dragon Egg. Although skeptical, Mikachu agreed to help, on the condition that Maro would join his side and obey all commands he gave. The two then departed to the ritual circle Maro had built underneath the Shopping District.

As Pokemaster, James, Pweeter, and Hippo arrived at the Shopping District, Pokemaster saw Mikachu and Maro heading into Grillby's, and warned the others to hide. Mikachu and Maro headed down to a secret chamber undearneath Grillby's, and Pokemaster and the others followed him to find out what he was up to. When Pokemaster's group reached the ritual chamber, Mikachu greeted them, then showed off the newly revived Maro. With Pokemaster in disbelief, Mikachu led the others up to the surface, where he commanded Maro to create permanent nighttime.

Following Mikachu's victory, the two departed back to Mikachu's castle, and Pokemaster showed James the revolution base he had created for him, explaining that a revolution was the only way to get rid of Mikachu once and for all.

## Previous Timelines

### Original Timeline

The original timeline played out similarly to the current timeline (with the exception of Pweeter dying in this timeline), up until the days following J.R.'s death. Following J.R.'s death, Bionic joined the server, and proceeded to grief most of the server. After Bionic stole and accidentally destroyed the Dragon Egg, Onionsmells reset the timeline, erasing Bionic from existence in the process.

### Second Timeline

The second timeline proceeded the same as the current timeline (it is unknown if Pweeter died in this timeline), up until James's imprisonment. During the first interrogation, Mikachu placed an end crystal. James accidentally detonated it, instantly annihilating himself, Mikachu, the entire prison, and the Dragon Egg. Following the Dragon Egg's destruction, Onionsmells reset the timeline again. This also undid all of the events that happened the day of James's imprisonment, with the exception of the imprisonment itself.