The story so far....

We find our hero, PJ, sitting at his computer designing new pixels. Intent on finishing his new masterpiece, he barely notices the power surge and sparks that come from his hard drive.

His screen flickers with the image of the evil Dr. Automation saying to nobody in particular, "You are mine now! Bwahahahaha!!"

PJ barely has time to register this occurance before his hard drive shoots out more sparks... though they now seem to look like... pixels? The screen wobbles and suddenly PJ is sucked through it into the world of PixPax.

He blacks out.

Minutes or hours later he awakes to a blurred vision of someone shaking him.

"Are you okay?" The blurred vision asks.

PJ tries to focus and finally he sees the face of a beautiful girl. Shaking his head to clear his vision some more, he sits up slowly. He finds himself in a bed in a strange home.

"You poor thing," she replies. "Let me help you up." She helps him sit up on the bed. "My name is Simone."

PJ blushes at little as he becomes enchanted by her beauty. He stares out the window saying this and sees an assortment of strange wonders: oddly shaped trees, bizzare people walking bizzard animals, etc, etc. His eyes gape at the sight.

Simone takes a good at PJ and comments, "Your clothes do look a bit strange... you're not from this world are you?"

PJ shakes his head.

"This is PixPax, Land of the Pix. Do you think you can manage to stand up?"

He struggles a bit to get up. Loses his balance for a moment then regains his composure.

A sonic boom stops their conversation short.

"Oh no! He's come! Dr. Automation is here!" Simone rushes to the window. PJ joins her to see what is going on. Outside they see a number of ships in the sky from which robots and other creatures drop. They rampage the village and find their prey, Sedgemonkey. They shoot him with a stun gun and drag his body to underneath the main ship. A tractor beam shoots down and they beam up their prisoner. All the ships speed off somewhere.

"They took Sedgemonkey! Nooooo! Not again!" Simone cries.

PJ looks confused.

"Don't you have any idea what is going on here?" The blank expression on PJ's face tells her no. "You just wanna get home don't you? Well let me tell you the horrors that have been going on around here..."

Simone sits down at the kitchen table and begins her story.

"It began a few months ago. The scientist, Dr. Automation went completely mad. He believed the world needed to be purged of all Pix and built his AntiAliasing Machine. This machine would destroy all the power of the Pix by giving him their strength and skills. He began kidnapping random Pix, leaving them lifeless, and gaining their power. Then he began kidnapping the world's greatest Pix and brainwashing them into helping him with his evil plan.

With the Brainwashed Pix on his side, the takeover gained more momentum. Sedgemonkey was the last of the Great Pix and now he has everything he needs to rid the world of all life.

Sedgemonkey could get you home. His knowledge and wisdom of the surrounding dimensions reach far beyond that of any other. If it weren't for the fact that he was just taken he could've done this for you.

It looks like the only way for you to get back is to find where Dr. Automation has taken Sedgemonkey and the others. It is a long journey filled with many dangers but you look like you could handle it."

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PJ begins his quest to rescue Sedgemonkey from Dr. Automation. Along the way he must find and fight the other Great Pix: Brian the Great, Shark, Pixelblink, Istvan, Bisque, Peppermint Pig, Blueberry Pie, RandomBlink, and then finally defeat Dr. Automation. Each Pix/Boss he defeats, he gains their power to use against the evil doctor. 

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I'm open to suggestions and rewrites of this story.

I dig the story. I mean, its been done before a bazillion times, but thats the whole point- it relates well to video games, also combining a nice mix of pixel themes and familar PJ names. NICE.

I can just imagine the pixel sparks and screen wobble at the beginning...

iSTVAN: My idea on the whole thing is that it should relate to pixel art but have to totally obvious to outsiders of this site. I think that Dr. Automation's name could also be changed to something not so obvious... any ideas?

Jalonso: Simone (name up for changes) isn't a "damsel in distress"... PJ is in distress and he is trying to get back home.

Everybody: If anyone has objections or changes they'd like to see made to this script, please let me know ASAP. I want to break it down into storyboards so we can start accepting submissions for those. More to come on storyboards in a day or two

No, I like that the Doctor's name is obvious...you could probably go even more obvious like Dr. Render, with a PhD in PSP. It would also be funny to make reference to the big villian 'not understanding' pixel art- because I know many people out there don't.

Youre definately on the right track! Looking forward to seeing the story board suggestions. 

I'd be very pleased if the evil guy had some relation to JPEG images. Hahaha...hahaha...ha...

But yeah, the story sounds pretty neat so far. I love the way you've portrayed Sedgemonkey. The bit with Simone and PixPax is reeeaally cheesy though, but i spose thats ok. Heheh, it'll be great.