It must've been weird to see that our timeline wasn't originally like this, infact we discovered among a different part of our timeline that extended to 2745, I guess that's where all the games retelling the stories were at.
But we found something a bit stranger then modified versions of our timeline, we found even older iterations of our world and timeline as we know. One of these was an older iteration that was drastically different. Not just the world itself it seemed, but the timeline and events seem to be much less than events back in our timeline. Even some people were different from ours.
We've documented many things from this iteration, which we dubbed "Collapse". Out of the world itself, Morning Star didn't exist, the VIRUS, Emma and Entity 01 didn't exist at all. It just seemed like an old witch's curse and not some malicious entity. Out of the events, the curse's existance stopped at 2017 back in the McRoy house, but this time it actually had a cellar despite Secure Inc. employees never finding it. Stuff like the Mario Entity's existance didn't exist here either. Some people were different, turned to regular citizens, or just no longer exist in this iteration: Rosalina is now a goddess instead of being Christopher's wife, James was actually killed by Wario in 2014, etc.
It just felt all so strange that this iteration is not only drastically different, but much less hectic then the world we have and I am not sure if that's for better or for worse.
Either way, we dragged James' now dead body in this iteration back to our timeline and revived him, he sounded younger, but looked the same. We're unsure of what these older iterations of ourselves and our world could possibly mean, but our timeline was not the first, that's for damn sure.