Tomato, a hacker of renown in 2002, is frozen to prevent his death from the Haxiforce-Cannon that was fired against him. Centuries later he awakens, healed, to a changed world. * People with PK Hack badges on the boards have a form of immortality in-game. A PK Hack badge is a sign of supreme power in this time, and few people will refuse the request of someone bearing one. * An evil robot (made for peace but went bad) wants Tomato so it can control him, make him a weapon and hack the world into a place under its supreme control. * PK Hackers are in the tubes at Stonehenge Base, and are fine; they access Magicant, a realm where they can practice hacking, through the tubes. Some of higher power can access it without the tubes. (Think "The Matrix", except precautions exist to prevent death.) * Starman DX's replacement thinks the base is fine, but it's really overrun by enemies. After you fill him in, you access the master controls and shut them all down. When this happens the PK Hackers leave the tubes as part of the emergency system. This is because a lot of energy is needed to wipe the base, and hence they are removed because death could occur from the energy loss. * The base shutdown (see above) works because the enemies are feeding off the base energy. By altering the flow to a different energy, the creatures lose their power source and shutdown. However, the switch requires vast energy, necessitating a full shutdown of all systems, including the tubes (see effects above). * Zero_Diamond is the final boss. * Buzz Buzz is a bot who was activated shortly before you awoke as a reminder system, and his ship struck as Tomato reached full consciousness. He was sent to remind you of who you were and to fill the gaps in your memory, but an underground antihacker destroys him. He gives you an object to collect frequencies from parts of the world to access Magicant, a world made by and for hackers. * Defeating Magicant's Power Idol in the Ocean of Knowledge will allow Tomato to acquire the knowledge stored across the long centuries since the cryofreezing - his own and the flows' knowledge. This knowledge, spread across the world to those who would accept it, created new breeds of Hax0r. They weren't as strong as the originals since they only had a fraction of the original energy, but it was enough. * Defeating the Power Idol lets Tomato realize who he once was. * The Sanctuary Guardians are L33T Hax0rs of old, sent to guard the knowledge until the Great Hax0r of ancient times came to claim a copy. These Hax0rs are: - ? (?) - Falcon24 (Teleportation) - GuyInSummers (Compression) - BlueAntoid (Battle Effects) - MrAccident (Text Editing) - Shyster (Healing and Damage) - Michael_cayer (Event Flags) - Flynman (Map Editing) * Zero_Diamond was a hacker who was ignored, and who turned to the strands of spacetime to try to overpower those who spurned him. He located Tomato's computer, and by taking the knowledge there, tried to make robots to keep peace. It backfired and they tried to destroy the knowledge of hacking by gathering it and trying to hack the world so it was under their supreme rule. Eight L33T Hax0rs rose up and protected the knowledge, thwarting the robots. But the chaos and shattering of the knowledge flow into eight parts crippled the power... it survived, at great cost. And no matter what was tried, the flows would not rejoin. * The robots discovered Tomato was still alive, and began searching for him in the belief that he held the key to global hacking - which he did. * A prophecy was stated after the robots caused this: "The Great Hax0r of old, who founded our Order, shall return and destroy the Robot with the power of the eight Flows of Knowledge." * A Haxiforce-Cannon hit Tomato in 2002, and caused the near death state - he was frozen to protect from death and to recover from the wounds. Z_D tried this first as revenge, which caused mass chaos in the knowledge flows. After the freeze, the core of the flow (Tomato's knowledge) was secretly hidden in Magicant. The rest remained flowing until the robot forced it to be severed into the eight segments. * Z_D's plan with the Haxiforce-Cannon was to disrupt the knowledge flows and grab Tomato's knowledge for his own. It was taken to Magicant, and protected. Barriers to keep Z_D out were formed. Then Z_D discovered Tomato's computer in the spacetime threads... * Each of the Sanctuary Guardians (L33T Hax0rs) provides a kind of knowledge in place of the little scenes Ness sees at Sanctuaries (i.e, Damage Codes, Teleport Codes, etc). * Each Hax0r has varying powers. Shyster would heal a lot, Falc would teleport (making him hard to hit), GIS has various compression style stuff, BlueAntoid would use Offense Up/Defense Down, MrA would confuse, etc. * Poik007 replaces Frank, Atomic Power Tuna IV replaces Frankystein, and the Sharks will look like Manly Fishes (slightly modified). * Colondee replaces Apple Kid. * Y2kmew replaces Orange Kid. * Akuma takes the place of Master Belch. Threed is conquered by lamebots and the Admin Wanted poster replaces the Zombie Paper. Mr_Tenda has offered to be the slime-replacement at the end of the Underground Road. * Tomato has semi-regular memory emergences, kind of like Cloud in FF7. When these occur, they immobilize him and cause him pain. (Homesickness replacement). Tomato can cure these with sedative capsules (available single quite cheaply, or in a large box for a sizable amount of money). GAME EVENTS: - Tomato awakens to the meteor (Ness' head is replaced by a bluish cryosuit helm). - Tomato's room has been locked for a long time, and new homeowners were afraid to enter and find what was inside. - Tracy is replaced by a random Japanese schoolgirl, who is taking a first-level PK Haxing class. ("Who are you? How did you get in my house?!") - The gift box holds an Old Distorter ("A small-scale reality distorter used by PK Hax0rs. This one has a bunch of broken tubes and looks like it just barely works."). She has it because of the class she's taking. - Ness' mom. ("Who are you?" "...I can't remember anything except my name... Tomato." "You have a PK Hax0r badge... alright, you can stay here tonight.") - Ness' mom, second time. ("Wonder what that sound was? I'm a bit busy at the moment... er, 'Tomato', could you check?") - The cops are replaced by average Japanese people. The roadblocks are replaced by laser blockades or debris from the meteor/ship. Some cops are replaced by diggers who are removing said debris. - Picky is a camera-bot owned by a news team that's taken over the currently empty Minch house as a base-of-operations for the reporting. - King is largely the same. - When you return home, you tell Ness' mom that debris was in the way of reaching the meteor. You go off to sleep and awaken to knocking; it's a reporter. He says the debris was removed, but moments after, unreasoning terror hit them. Since a VERY expensive camera-bot was left up there, this one was chosen by drawing straws to get it back. He knew Tomato was curious (from the talking at the hill), so he decided to invite him along. ("Hey kid, wanna see that ship?") - The reporter's attacks: ?, ?, ?, ?. - After getting the Picky/bot ("SYSTEMS ONLINE... Damage report: 0%." "Whew... it's fine and undamaged. I'd hate to have to foot the bill for one of these...") and walking by the meteor, the Buzz-Buzz-replacing drone appears. ("PK Hax0r... after centuries, you have awoken. I am , a drone sent to remind you of who you once were, and the destiny that may be in your hands now.") - The reporter, realizing Tomato has a PK Hack badge (which is a symbol of high power in this time) freak out a bit. - Starman Jr is a higher form of one of the robots that resulted in the hackers dividing the knowledge flow. After beating him, Buzz Buzz says some vague stuff about the division of the flows. - After entering the reporter/Minch house, talk to the head reporter (replaces Aloysius). The reporter who followed leaves, taking the bot upstairs - talking to it yields ("It's shutdown currently.") Replace the sound made after Aloysius/head reporter goes upstairs with a "powering-down" kind of sound. - Following this, the Buzz-Buzz-drone is mistaken for an insect, and is struck. Talking to it after yields: ("I was going to give you a copy of all eight knowledge flows, so you could enter the Hacker Realm of Magicant. But I don't have the energy left to do the telepathic info transfer now. And that knowledge is linked to me: if I die, it is instantly deleted from my circuitry. So taking the datachip with the flows on it wouldn't work. There is one other way...I could modify one of my blank datachips to receive the knowledge flow frequencies, and you could travel to meet the eight L33T Hax0rs of old who guard the knowledge. If you succeed, Magicant will be opened to you. This is the only other chance... goodbye, PK Hax0r. Good luck to you.") ("Tomato got the Datachip.") - The aforementioned Picky-bot replaces the camera guy. - Enemies: Runaway Dogs are ?, Coil Snakes are ?, Spiteful Crows are ?. - Frank is replaced by Poik007, the Frankystein Mark II is replaced by the Atomic Power Tuna IV, and the Sharks look like (slightly modified) Manly Fishes. - B.H. Pirkle is replaced by ?.