Wrong Warp

Wrong Warp is the first episode of Season 1, and the first episode of Meta Runner overall.

Plot
The Episode begins with an unnamed Narrator speaking about Silica City and videogames. When explaining about Meta Runners, he states that they are the best of the best, "Until the world sees what I have planned." It's revealed that the Narrator is speaking to somebody named Tari.

Tari wakes up with amnesia. She sees that one of her arms a cybernetic Meta Runner arm. She tries to leave the building, but finds herself in an alley. She walks through Silica City and sees many people playing videogames. Somebody notices her Meta Runner arm and questions her about it, drawing in a crowd. She makes up an excuse that she's from "Tascorp" and that she needs to go there now.

When Tari arrives at the Tascorp Store, a Tascorp Robot explains that Tascorp is a company who develops gaming enhancements and peripherals, and also has the "world's greatest ESports Team". He tries to sell her one of Tascorp's products, but Tari is drawn to a large crowd of people in the Speedrunner's Arena

They are spectating a Meta Runner named Belle Fontiere, speedrunning a videogame called "Ultra Jump Mania", currently at record pace. She attempts a recently discovered skip, called the "Coconut Burst Jump", which requires her to clip into a wall and fling her self out of the wall, aiming herself towards the flagpole, to complete the final level. Unfortunatly, she fails to land on the flagpole, causing her to fall into the lava and fail to get the record. The crowd surrounding Belle leaves, and in her frustration, she throws the game controller on the floor.

Curiously, Tari picks up the controller and begins to play the game. As this is her first time playing, Tari isn't very good, excited and proud she avoided objects which an experienced player would find easy. Belle walks over to her and informs her that she need skill to play in the speedrunners arena and turns down Tari when she asks for Belle to teach her about "how to make Coconut Boy go as fast as you did" and tells Tari if she ain't any good, she shouldn't bother.
 * But as Belle begins to walk away Tari begins gets better and better at the game at an unusual rate, with Belle thinking that she had actually played the game before. All of a sudden Tari freezes up. All of a sudden, she wakes up on an island beach. After further inspection, it's the island from Ultra Jump Mania. She gets hit in the head by a coconut shell and finds out it was Coconut Boy who threw it.

Meanwhile, Belle sees Tari frozen still, holding the controller. The TV which was displaying the game has gone to static. Confused, she runs up to her manager, Lucks, but before she could tell him about Tari, he complains about Belle's poor performance, threatening that he could "decommission [her] in an instant". Lucks shoves Belle out of the way and walks up to Tari and ask about what happened. Suddenly the static starts to disappear revealing that Tari has warped into the game.

Trivia

 * "Wrong Warping" is a glitch used in speed runs where the player uses an item or walks through a doorway designed to take the player to a certain location, but by performing certain actions, it takes them to a different location than originally intended. This is typically used in speedruns to skip to places further ahead in the game, thus skipping large sections of gameplay and lowering their time.
 * This is reflected in the episode by Belle Fontiere speedrunning, with speedrunning being a primary use of Wrong Warping, and Tari warping into Ultra Jump Mania, where she ended up somewhere (in the game) which she didn't intend to go.


 * This is the only episode of Meta Runner so far to not have an intro.


 * The term "decommisioning" is used in this episode, without a solid explanation, leaving the terms true meaning vague.
 * The term's actual definition is revealed in "Deleted Scenes from Meta Runner Season 1", the official commentary on all the cut-content. Kevin explains that "decommisioning" is the act of removing somebody's Meta Runner arm, thus making them no-longer a Meta Runner.

Deleted Scenes / Cut-Content

 * Instead of the scene with Tari waking up in the lab, there was originally a different scene, when Tari woke up in a dump. It was cut due to not knowing why Tari was there in the first place, and the scene that replaced it having story impact.
 * There were originally posters for "Warlock Warfare" (which later in production was renamed to Tempest)
 * Bo, Tascorp's Mascot, originally had a much larger presence in the episode.
 * There was originally a scene in the Tascorp Store when Tari saw "Powdered Food for Gamers". This originally served as world-building, but was cut.