SMG0's Universe

**SMG0's Universe**, otherwise known as *Mage*, was the universe where SMG0 lived with his avatar, Fred, along with the very first memes where they played every day by shooting fireballs at each other and living their best life.

However, due to the meme life cycle having not existed at the time, SMG0 and Fred were helpless to stop the eventual corruption of memes, which turned against the avatar and his guardian, backing them into a corner until suddenly SMG0's Guardian Pod descended from out of the sky and brought SMG0 back to where it was summoned from and by whom: the God Box. Realizing he had been summoned by the magical box, SMG0 prayed to it for a way to save his world and the God Box responded by creating a partner for him, but as a negative version of Zero who was named Niles.

After bringing Niles back to his universe, he helped SMG0 and Fred by working with them to create the Internet Graveyard as a haven for dead memes in order to neutralize them and prevent their destruction, thus creating the Meme Life Cycle and restoring peace to their world. Unfortunately, the God Box's directive stated that it must recreate the *Mage* universe to become perfect to satisfy the wishes of its own creator, thus it began to influence Niles through a psychic link and told him that he needed to perfect his world and granted him the power to do so, only for him to fail and accidentally kill Fred and dooming the *Mage* universe.

Realizing its own mistake, the God Box made a last-ditch effort to save the *Mage* universe by fusing SMG0 and Niles together into a massively corrupted state, thus creating a virus that theoretically had enough power to convert another universe into the perfect *Mage* universe, thus beginning Niles' quest to find another avatar to return Fred to life and restore their destroyed universe.

## History

The history of Mage has a different version from the *NØ Null series*, and it is similar to the canon history.

### What If Niles Won?

In this alternate timeline where Niles, as **Eldritch Ax0l**, succeeded in defeating SMG4 and his gang, he declared their attempts pathetic before he noticed Mario's crystal beginning to rumble before Mario's life was sacrificed to recreate Fred's form. This caused SMG3 and SMG4 to shriek out in pain as their textures began to corrupt due to losing their avatar and the shadow form of Mario (**Mari0**) realized its own life was over since Mario was gone, accepting its fate as it vanished and Niles held all of the harvested meme energy in his hand and realized he had everything he needed now: a new form for Fred and enough meme energy to grant Fred's form new life and reconstitute the *Mage* universe.

Smiling, Niles spoke to SMG0 and claimed they did it as he intended: together. With that, he directed the energy towards Fred's lifeless form which granted it life and thus caused their old universe to begin reconstructing itself at the price of overriding Mario's universe, where SMG4 weakly apologized to Mario for failing to save him as he and the rest of the gang were blown away in the shockwaves as Bob, regaining consciousness, swore that he would avenge Mario as he and the others were sent back to their now dying world.

Meanwhile, Niles smiled as he surrendered his virus power to return himself, SMG0 and Axol back to their true forms, as he took SMG0 with him into the new universe as the unconscious Axol was blown back to his universe as well before all of the energy imploded on itself and darkness was all that remained...

...until a bright light shown as Niles found himself standing in the newly, perfect *Mage* universe, admiring the familiar sounds of his world as he finally realized that he completed his quest and returned his world back to how it was ages ago. Suddenly, SMG0 began to awake behind him and asked Niles what was going on before he suddenly remembered that his last memory before being assimilated by Niles was seeing Fred's lifeless body but to his surprise, he looks to his right and sees Fred, once again alive, chasing after a meme and laughing all the way.

Niles assured SMG0 that there was nothing to worry about as everything was finally perfect, as it should be. Despite this, SMG0 had a moment of pause as he thought back to Niles forcing him to merge in the ruins of their old home and seeing Fred's corpse become a textureless stick figure until he realized that since Fred was okay and that their world was normal, he must have simply had a bad dream before running over to join Fred as Niles watched on, content to finally see his two buddies okay in their perfect universe. However, he then looked up to the sky and declared out to his creator, the God Box, that he would no longer be its pawn and despite being granted his god-like power from it, refused to be its pawn anymore as he finally got what he wanted: a perfect world for himself, Zero and Fred, and that he was his own god for having created this perfect form.

He calmed himself as he walked over to the giant tree in the center where he watched SMG0 and Fred play off in the distance, reassuring himself that things would finally go back to how they were supposed to. Unfortunately, the after effects of destroying Mario's universe in exchange for their new one still lingered and Fred realized that something was amiss as he suddenly found himself in a dark void where a red-colored man he didn't recognize had their back turned to him and despite Fred calling out to him, he didn't answer and this worried the avatar until Zero brought him back to reality and Fred told him everything was fine before he proceeded to teabag the fallen meme as Niles continued to watch on in peace.

SMG0 began to feel his doubts return again but shook them off as simply paranoia from his lingering "nightmare" that would eventually go away on their own before he went to join Fred and Niles...

## Appearance

Being made in 1982, Mage appears to be way smaller than Spudnick and Mario's Universes that came after it. It has a large grassy meadow with a giant tree resting on top of the hill (most likely SMG0's old treehouse). It also has a pine forest resting near the edge with 3 mushroom-like houses. The first two served as Fred and the second player's houses, but it is unknown what the third house is used for.

After Fred was accidentally killed by Niles, the universe had lost all of its texture and it became a glitched wasteland with walls of binary codes running to the sky, and lots of fire burning everywhere.

## What Is Mage?

Mage is a 1v1 shooter game that is released in 1982. The game features Fred and a customized second player in a beautiful meadow where they shoot fireballs at each other and block the enemy fireballs with shields.

The objective of Mage is to score the most points by hitting your opponent.

## Former residents

* Fred
* SMG0
* Niles
* The Memes

## Trivia

* The GMOD map used for both the *Mage* universe and the incomplete version inside of the God Box is the inner world of the Moon from *The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.*