Well, all I'd really need to do would remember the types of each mon. Luckily, the majority of the Robot Masters in 2 have Types I can associate to them... Woodman = Grass/Rock, Heatman = Fire, Bubbleman = Water, Airman = Flying/Ice (I'll explain in a second), Metalman = Steel.

The three I'm not sure of would be Flashman, Quickman and Crashman, but I have ideas for them too that could fit. Flashman's power, Timestopper, could be equated to Psychic, given it's abnormal abilities. Quickman would be Fighting type in my mind, both weak to the Timestopper and effective against Metalman. That just leaves Crashman... Who, as the most devastating of the group, I would suggest getting the Dragon element. Crashman's only weakness being Airman's weapon... Ice.

The only one in this equation that doesn't have a built in weakness is Flashman, but this mon would be comparatively weak, and a powerful type in general like Dragon or Steel would easily beat it.

I know that in Duane and BrandO's Megaman 2 rap, Quick Man was taken out with the Crash Bombs. Then again, creative liberties were taken in that song…

Alright... So apparently this idea in my head has blown up into another entire arc idea -I really need to stop letting these get so big- Though it can be placed aside other arcs.

The Basic Idea.

Giratina, our resident bored gamer extraordinaire and possibly troll on the level of Mew is... bored. So, to pass the time when he gets bored watching Cyrus, he decides to make up a little game using some choice people from the regular world he can bring into the Distortion Realm. Thus, however many cast members want to can join in a diabolically twisted version of a Pokemon game. This is the False Region Arc.

In more description:

Giratina, by his own choice, constructs a fake region within the Distortion Realm, and kidnaps/requests the help of certain people within the real world to make it a proper game. There is no world-shattering consequence to this arc, and though the players will believe otherwise as per Giratina's decisions, no lives will really be on the line. This is just Giratina deciding to have some fun on a bigger-than-average scale.

By a fake region, I mean just that. A region with towns, brainwashed NPCs standing in place waiting to say their one line, and 8 Gyms with badges. *Where Giratina goes more overboard is in the way he plays his game. By default, it appears to be a Nuzlocke Challenge, as in if a mon faints, it dies. And in the False Region, that goes for NPC and Gym Leader mons as well.* Furthermore, each Gym Leader (called a Pokemon Master by Giratina) is actually a very high-class trainer from the real world, typically a League Champion or legend in their own right. I'll explain this more later.

This is meant to appear like a darker than average arc to the players, so naturally it's not meant to be for everyone. This is merely meant as what can be a side-arc during another arc, so RPers can pick in advance if they want to be a part of it.

The Gym Leaders/Pokemon Masters.

Now, the main reason I planned to give for why anyone would want to play Giratina's game in the first place was to release all the other players who are trapped in it. As Giratina's promised, when the game is complete, everyone inside (except Cyrus) will be released back into the real world. Most of these trainers are meant to be high-class trainers, so yeah.

Each Pokemon Master will be thoroughly brainwashed, though. After all, Giratina doesn't want them to just hand the win to any challengers. Each Master will, in turn, be sporting a twisted personality according to whatever inner issue Giratina decided to bring out and use as the focus of their brainwashing. Some will be out for non-descript revenge, others following a deluded sense of justice, and some just want to destroy everything [read: Cyrus.] These 8 Pokemon Masters will also be parallels to the 8 Robot Masters of Megaman 2, another game Giratina is currently into. (Subtle it isn't, but then this whole idea isn't subtle.) Besides the usual badge, each Gym Leader will also hand over one Mon they used and represent in the game when beaten, to use on the others.

The current (up for debate, changing, et cetra) list of trainers and their parallel Robot Masters are as follows.

• AirMan: Lance.

• MetalMan: Blue.

• BubbleMan: Wallace.

• Wood(Wo)Man: Green.

• HeatMan: Cyrus.

• Flash(Wo)Man: Cynthia.

• QuickMan: Steven.

• CrashMan: Red.

The reasoning behind this is meant to be because their individual personalities can be twisted and warped to fit the molds of their Robot Master counterparts.

Speaking of, Giratina is never one to half-heartedly attempt something like this, so each and every gym will be akin to the stage the Master is part of. So you'll be flying high above the sky in Lance's stage, dodging numerous metal deathtraps in Blue's stage, and having to out-run instant death lasers in Steven's stage. Fun times, but you can always use your mons to help.

In summation...

This idea is still a WIP. I am using The Megas' songs for inspiration on a lot of these characters, but I'd like to hear any thoughts on this. Personally, I think it would be a good test of world-building skills to make this world from scratch, a dark shadow of a real Pokemon region. But that's just my opinion. Floor's open!

While I've never played Mega Man (not that I've ever played like any of the games we base plots on), I like the idea.

And, reading the logs… If it does get combined with Evil!PEFE, it might give me incentive to join in on that plot, because otherwise I have zero interest.

It mostly depends on how it's executed; I'm fine with darker stuff, but super-over-hammy-parody grates on me somewhat.

Oh, this sounds FUN, but...

We kinda moved away from NPCs being "automatons" later in the RP (writing it off as EIW) and now they're just people who simply aren't the protags. Slouch was kind of a special case, anyway.

So I'm not sure it would work. Your previous idea might, though, with the tweaks we put on it.

Hmm... Still. Would the basic plan beneath it, -bond with Uxie, erase/rewrite history according to villains whim, with/without trying to mind control the protags, maybe- be a valid plan for a Team, or villains in general?

Yeah, Cyrus CREATED the AU (and by extension PMD-B) by trying to rewrite history.

Still a bit too much like what Cyrus did. I recommend Archive Bingeing the end orf the AU (Massive grimdark warning) to get a feel of what happened there.

*pats* You'll come up with something better soon, I know it.

On another note altogether... DUN DUN DUNNNN!

I... HAVE... THE TRUUUUUTH! ...Kind of.

Ahem... Earlier, I was discussing the idea of a possible future arc regarding Deoxys being connected to Mew in some way. Multiple ideas were tossed around, and eventually I just decided to investigate the matter myself.

The main theory goes that Deoxys is, in a fashion, a kind of "alien Mew." Not a direct clone of Mew, but a being identical to it in purpose... For another planet. Now, what caused Deoxys to become split up, what exactly is the deal with the meteorites, how Deoxys would react to contact with Mew, these are all questions for another time.

Right now, what I intend to provide evidence toward is simply that Deoxys is, and always was, a Mew for another world.

First off, lets start with the basic properties and similarities. Both Pokemon are Psychic, with an innate ability to levitate at all times purely by the power of their minds. In addition, they both carry the ability to read minds with merely a thought, both of which are apparently unbeatable by any telepath, human or Pokemon. Deoxys' own brain scan ability is even harmful, while Mew's is merely infinitely deep.

However, their shared abilities go deeper than that. Deoxys has the innate ability to shift it's bodily form, typically through the use of the meteorites, though it's also able to regrow any damage not including it's core. Mew actually has an identical ability, as it's able to shift it's own form to use moves it's body wouldn't normally be able to use. This is detailed in the PEFE on TV Tropes. This shared ability to freely shift their body at will implies a shared natural trait, though the limitations Deoxys has implies that it's own version is weaker for some reason.

Diet is a more questionable matter. Deoxys has no actual means of consuming food, while Mew happily eats sweets and so forth that it finds or is given. However, Mew's own apparently perfect body can provide the answer for this. While Mew can eat sweets and so forth, it doesn't need to. It would be perfectly fine without, but enjoys the sense of taste from sweets anyway. This also explains why it's a herbivore... Because it sees no purpose in eating another mon, when it doesn't need to eat at all.

Finally, they have a similar behavior set. Both are likely to simply flee enemies that don't pose a threat, or swiftly deal with them if they do. The reason Mew is more comfortable with playing with it's foes, however, is because it effectively is invincible, while Deoxys' imperfect form has a weakspot in it's core. This explains the slight shifts in their personalities; Deoxys fights only for survival. Mew fights when it's bored.

So let's go over this... Physical abilities, psionic abilities, diet, behaviour... Anything else? Oh, right. They both have the underlying trait of being super-beings based on their genetic code. While Deoxys is more unstable and less complete than Mew, they both draw their power from the infinite possibilities locked inside their DNA. As far as I'm concerned, Deoxys is, and always was, a Mew from another world.

The above was found directly from the PEFE articles on both mons, which should be canon to the RP if I'm correct.