"Getting back control wasn't easy... The following days were brutal. Dr. Amp devised traps to contain the criminals, but the damage was already done. Protos was decimated."
Alas, the glitching within the chimerized sprites' programming kept us from separating them back into their original personae. They were stuck as they were, and their peaceful NPC sides seemed to have all but vanished.
"Shamefully, we got rid of the criminals the only way we knew of: We opened up a portal into a game, dropped them there, and left them to disappear with the collapsing ROM."