In the depths of the Multiverse space, a ship travelled through it...but definitively, without it's original owners, neither a taste of victory inside it. Actually, it was the bitter taste of defeat that took the minimal atmosphere inside the ship. NiGHTS, Frisk and Steven Universe were using it, after losing all the allies they got on the Zalgo Dimension for the corrupting snap.
For some minutes, the only kind of fun NiGHTS and Frisk had together was playing chess, with Steven working as a sort of commenter. However, it didn't last long, as their spirits, most of the time optimistic in each of their own ways, were far too crushed. The Nightmaren jester isolated herself from the youngsters and summoned a blue diamond, with the intend to leave her voice recorded in. She laid her back agains't the metal and sighed.
"Owl? And...Helen, Will...if you two are there?...If you found out this crystal here...don't spread it to the Nightopians. They'll probably spend the rest of their lives crying. I don't know if you guys will ever get it. I...really hope so...I just...hope.
Today is...either 21 or 22. If it wasn't for the fact I'm trapped in space, I'd say it would be a cool day. I gotta thank the blue sweater kid for saving me, and Steven. You'd love her. A pacifist. Only fights without a choice. Sadly, the two's oxygen will run out tommorow...and about me, I'll end up crashing in something. And that's it. Guys...I didn't wanna pull out anymore surprises but...well, you can guess what the situation looks like for me.
Don't feel too bad about this. Just remember of me, you three. Because if I somehow meet my ending know, understand, that I will be thinking of your three. Always you three."
NiGHTS gently places the diamond aside and flies to check over the youngsters. Steven and Frisk are already sleeping, to what they theorized to be their last night, and NiGHTS just gently picked them both up. She wanted to weep, mourn over them so much, but she had to be strong, even in this obvious death case.
That is, until a light shined on her face.
The light went brighter. Brighter. It forced Steven and Frisk to wake up from their probable last sleep, and gasp in a mix of happiness and surprise. The source of the blinding, almost godly hopeful light, was revealed to be the conjured ship of the three remaining Diamonds, also filled with eleven people beyond the three of the most powerful gems in existence, ready to save them.
In the Multiverse Initiative's HQ...
Sonic was in the bathroom, shaving any beard that could begin to grow on him, and changing his scarf, from the previous fierce design to one that showed the depression, the harsh emotion he and the others felt with the failure of stopping Zalgo's goals. He sighed to the mirror he was looking at, before gasping as he realize it began to shake. Violently.
He ran outside at the speed of sound, in time to watch along with Pearl, Star Butterfly, Dipper and Mabel Pines, and Pacifica Northwest, the ship of the Amazons of the Galaxy being carried by the one-piece incomplete ship of the Diamond Authority.
After the blue and yellow hands gently laid down the Amazons's ship, the Diamonds, Steven's best friend Connie Maheswaran, Stanley and Stanford Pines, Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy, and Frisk's monster friends (Toriel and Asgore Dreemurr, skeleton brothers Sans and Papyrus, Undyne and Aphys) got outside the Diamond Ship. Meanwhile, NiGHTS helped Steven and Frisk walk as Sonic rushed to join with his purple ally.
"I couldn't stop him...", NiGHTS informed, bitter taste of defeat still in her voice.
"Neither could I.", Sonic replied.
"I lost a kid...", NiGHTS said, holding back the wish to cry for Cream.
"NiGHTS, all of us lost.", Sonic said, a little bit firmly.
"Is...uhm...", NiGHTS said, reluctant to ask if her oldest friends besides Owl were safe from the corruption snap.
"NiGHTS!", both Helen and Will cried together, rushing to hug their jesterly friend, that gladly returned the hug.
"It's okay...", NiGHTS assured them...even though she wasn't so sure about this statement, herself.
Everyone was taken inside, for a equivalent of the living room in the Multiverse Intiative HQ, so NiGHTS could get properly healed from her injuries.
"It's been 23 days since Zalgo's success over the multiverse.", Pearl began to say. "Forms of ruling are crumbling, and other people are trying to find out what's going on. And it looks like he did...exactly what he said he was going to do. He took control...of half of the multiverse's lifeforms."
"Where did he even go?", NiGHTS asked, nearly screaming out of pain.
"We have no idea.", Sonic regretfully informed.
"He just went through a portal and boom, done.", Coraline said, making NiGHTS meet the remaining members of the Amazons of the Galaxy; Coraline, Ami & Yumi and Cornet Espoir. Both were standing besides a window that showed, on the outside, Meta Knight and the Delta Warriors sitting on a bench, in deep thought.
"What happened with them?", NiGHTS asked.
"They're angry.", Cornet answered. "All of them think they failed, in their own ways. We all failed, but they're probably taking this the hardest."
"...Wait. Are those two a girl band?", NiGHTS asked, pointing to Ami and Yumi.
"Sure.", Yumi said, not really interested in a talk after losing her companions.
"We were hunting Zalgo for three weeks. We scanned every universe we know, and we got nothing.", Pearl explained.
"NiGHTS. You battled him.", Sonic stated.
"Who even told you that?!", NiGHTS snapped, much to the shock of everyone in the room. "I never fighted him. I failed just like Reala, who died. Meanwhile, Zalgo threw his own moon at my face and a lovely-dovely gem mashup gave the stone to him. That's what happened. There was no battle."
"He didn't even give any clues to where he lives?! You were probably in his world, for freak's sake!", Sonic kind of snapped back.
"Pfft!", NiGHTS hissed. "I saw this years ago. I had a vision, that I didn't want to believe. Everybody, including me, thought it was a silly dream!"
"NiGHTS, calm down and focus.", Sonic said, trying to be more gentle.
"I needed you. In the past. That trumps whatever you need...sorry, it's too late now. You know what I need.", NiGHTS said, before pushing things off the table with a simpel arm swipe, much to everybody's shock. "I believe I remember telling you, Soni."
"Woah woah woah, NiGHTS, slow down!", Dipper nearly ordered, standing between Sonic and NiGHTS.
"Otherwise what we needed was power orbs boosted by dreams! Remember that?!", NiGHTS said, slowly rising her voice to a scream. "That's what we needed- no matter if our freedom got lost forever!"
"That...didn't work out, right?", Sonic said, feeling very sheepish inside himself.
"I said, "we are gonna lose". You said, "we are going to do this together".", NiGHTS said, mocking Sonic's voice. "And guess what? We lost, Sonic. You weren't there. But that's our job, right? Our best work after this fact? We're the Multiverse Initiative, we're the Multiverse Initiative. Not the Monoverse Initiatve, right?"
"Okay, we get it. Now...please, sit.", Dipper said.
"Nah nah, nah.", NiGHTS growled, pushing Dipper out of the way. "Here's my point."
"Calm down!", Mabel almost desperately cried.
"They're great guys by the new.", NiGHTS suddenly said in a more amicable tone, motioning to the newcomers that saved her and the youngsters from space. "We need you all. You guys are new blood or...minerals."
"NiGHTS!", Pacifica yelled.
"Argh, you...irresponsible jerk! I GOT NOTHING FOR YOU, SONIC! I GOT NO PROPER INFORMATIONS, NO CLUES, NO PLANS, NO OPTIONS. Zero! Zip! Nada! No trust. LIAR!", NiGHTS screamed from the top of her lungs, shaking for the second time in a while the blue blur.
Afterwards, for the shock of everyone, NiGHTS ripped her own Ideya Diamond from her chest and threw it at Sonic's hands, her emotions making her forget that she pratically needed it to properly live without her Nightmaren blood.
"Here, take it. You find him, put that thing on, and hide.", NiGHTS said, her raw emotions taking over her, before she began to get weak and drop to the ground. Everybody began to gather around her and a hurt Sonic.
"NiGHTS!", Sonic cried, horrified.
"I'm fine...I...", NiGHTS began to protest, before falling in unconsciousness.