A mass of living ball formed by NiGHTS, Sonic and Meta Knight crashed through trees until finally they felt faceplant on the ground, making three holes with each of their faces. All of the got up, angry and annoyed at each other.
"Hey! The hell both of you were doing?", Sonic asked, pointing his finger at Meta Knight and then NiGHTS. "You! You bolted without warning and stole our target! And you! I actually didn't suspect you really were of the same kind as Reala all along!"
"I came here to protect Dreamland from that monster.", Meta Knight stated...before noticing a really hurt-looking NiGHTS right at his side.
"Me too!...but...despite the fact we are disowning each other, we are still family. We still are Nightmarens. But I gotta stop him, because he doesn't understand my point. No matter what. And talking...didn't work."
"Ok, I got it, he's your brother but you gotta stop him...", Sonic said, ina understanding but still disappointed tone, before turning his knife glare to Meta Knight. "Now...prove you didn't come here to put chaos. Put that sword down."
"Uhm. Bad call, he loves that sword-"
A sword slash from Meta Knight shutted up NiGHTS' mouth and sent her behind him.
"You want me to put Galaxia down?", Meta Knight asked, before leaping forward.
Sonic blocked the blow with the same snowboard(?) he used to fall down and the connection caused a explosion with a blinding flash of white light, that knocked the trio backwards. After getting up, they tried to come together.
"Are we done here?", Sonic asked, and Meta Knight looked around him.
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The helicarrier flied through clouds.
Reala, who managed to get a glimpse of the brief fight between his own sister, the blue hedgehog and the puffball swordsman, was being pushed through the halls by a troop of guards, all prepared to attack in the case of resistence. The red jester saw through the window Star Butterfly herself, working. He smiled to her through the windows' glass, and the Mewman girl couldn't help but find this weird, but kept focus.
Finally, Reala was trapped in a glass case shaped kind of like a gazebo. Just like the one back in the Night Dimension that he used to trap his sister NiGHTS for the rebellion.
"In case it's unclear, you try to escape- or simply scratch this glass...", Bendy began to say, before pushing a button. The button caused the floor of the case to crumble into nothing. "Fallin' straigh to a steel trap. Ya understand? Ant. Boot."
"Impressive case.", Reala complimented, in a way that wasn't clear if he was being sarcastic or not. "Seems built for my kind."
"Nope. Was built for people stronger than you."
"Oh, I've heard. A mindless beast makes play she's still a girl...and how desperate are you, that you call on such ppitful beings to defend you?"
"How desperate am I? You're threatening my world and other with a bloody battle, you have a gem with a power you can't control, you mouth says peace but your hands say war. You made me very desperate, and you'll wish you never did, pal."
"Oh, it burns to be so close to you, to have endless power...and for what? A warm light for whole civilization to share? And then, to be reminded what actual power is."
"Well, I wanna see if this actual power wants a actual show.", Bendy said, sassily smirking, before going away.
In the conference table of the carrier...
"He's really growing on her, right?", Star said, after listening about the meeting between NiGHTS and Reala.
"Reala's gonna drag this out.", Sonic stated. "Meta Knight, what's the guy's deal?"
"He has an army called Andinn. They're not from Nightopia, NiGHTS and Reala's homeworld, nor any world known. He is leading them agains't all of your worlds. They will give him those worlds, in return, for the blue gem."
"So, outer space guys?"
"And he's building a second portal.", Star stated. "That's why he need Selvig."
"Selvig?"
"He's kinda from the two's worlds, and astrophysicist."
"So, a friend."
"Reala trapped them in some sort of brainwashing. Along with one of our allies.", Pearl explained.
"But why this Reala is letting us take him down? He never got a army from any of our worlds.", Sonic asked.
"Guys, focusing on Reala's brain is like focusing on a garden of rose but without the petals.", Star expalined. "He is cruelty and insanity in one thing. You can see it in his eyes."
"Take care of your speech.", Meta Knight mildly scolded Star. "Reala is beyond reason, but he's not that different from NiGHTS. Both came from Nightmare, yet NiGHTS became a hero on her own. We never said Reala never had a chance as his sister had."
"He killed eighty people in two days.", Pearl pointed out.
"...we should check NiGHTS to confirm if she's really not adopted.", Meta Knight said.
"But the real question...why they need this Iridium thing for?", Star asked, right on the time NiGHTS and Agent Stein came in the room. The jester whispered something to Stein and left the room, leaving her free to approach the Knight of Dreamland.
"To keep the portal steady, it seems.", NiGHTS answered Star's question, before turning her attention to Meta Knight. "Don't worry, you're fine with me. Still got a meany streak with that."
By "that", NiGHTS meant Meta Knight's mask, shaped like furious eyebrows, that only exposed his eyes. Meta Knight simply gave a look to the purple jester, who graciously and lightly flied to the control panels.
"That also means Reala can keep the portal as big as he wants.", NiGHTS stated, speaking in a way that didn't look like she was talking about her own brother. "Press the longest combination you can!"
The words confused a specific personeel from SHEILD, who looked at the jester strangely.
"That man is playing Street Fighter!", NiGHTS explained. "Thought we would never notice, but we did."
Afterwards, the jester proceeded to the control area of the ship, covering a single eye to sort-of poke fun over the eyepatch Bendy wore to cover the ink-dipping, missing eyeball.
"How Bendy even see that?", NiGHTS asked.
"He turns!", Alice Angel answered.
"Sounds boring!", NiGHTS said. Although she wasn't so much the girl of technology, she began to use her gloved hands to mess with the screens and stick something under a desk. "This Agent Lucitor can get his hands on the rest of the stuff easily. But he needs something of high energy to...start off the portal."
"How did you even become a thermonuclear astrophysics expert?", Alice Angel gasped, surprised at the magic jester's knowledge in science.
"Contact with lots of dreamers. And visits.", NiGHTS pratically replied.
"Reala needs a specific power source?", Sonic asked.
"To break the Columb barrier, only if he manages to lit the blue gem on fire.", Star stated.
"Unless if Selvig figured out the higher power.", NiGHTS said.
"Well, there are alot of Mewni magic that could serve as the limit.", Star explained.
"Finally! Someone who speaks English!", NiGHTS cheered, with a big grin.
"What? Really?", Sonic said in surprise to the others, as NiGHTS shook one of her mildly detached hands with Star, carefully, to not cause her to accidentaly dualize.
"It's nice to meet you, Star Butterfly.", NiGHTS greeted. "You have a potential nearly nobody is yet putting faith enough. And I actually like alot when you- well, suddenly become a humanoid insect that webs things."
"Thanks...", Star said, with a mild blush.
"Star Butterfly is only here to track the blue gem.", Bendy said, entering in the room. "I was hoping you could join forces with her."
"Hey, I'd like to share my word on that!", Sonic protested. "It's magic, but it's like Eggman Empire the second."
"Indeed.", Bendy agreed. "And I really need to understand how Reala turned some of the guys with the most willpower I know into his personal Goombas."
"G-gums? No- Goombas?", Meta Knight said, VERY confused. "I don't understand-"
"I do!", Sonic enthusiatically yelled, making the room enter in entire silence and turn their eyes toward him. "Well...I understood that reference."
"*rolls eyes*... Let's go, Star.", NiGHTS said, not really one-hundred percent amused.
"This way!", Star said, as the two leaved the room.
And the personeel from before resumed to play Street Fighter II again.
