Chapter 8: Recruits
"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, November 20th 2109"
Back in the arcade, Felix was taking a walk around Niceland. He didn't have anything to do at the moment, so he had decided to walk around the game.
"Felix, there you are!" a voice said.
Felix turned to see Taffyta and Tamora approaching.
"What's going on?" Felix asked, confused.
"Something destroyed Fashion 101, and now Surge wants everyone to evacuate their games for a few hours while he investigates what happened." Taffyta replied.
"Does anyone know what it was?" Felix asked.
"No, we don't. But I do know that we need to go." Tamora replied.
"Sarge, there's a problem in our game!" a voice said.
Felix, Taffyta, and Tamora turned around. Kohut was entering the game from Game Central Station, disembarking the trolley before it even came to a stop.
"Kohut, what's going on?" Tamora asked.
"We just found out that there was an intruder in our game earlier today. Stora did a check on all of the cameras in the game a few minutes ago and noticed someone who wasn't supposed to be there. But neither of us could tell who it was. We need you to see it right away." Kohut replied.
Tamora nodded.
"I'll have to check out those videos. In the meantime, are the soldiers and Cy-Bugs out?" Tamora asked.
"Yes, ma'am." Kohut replied.
Tamora nodded and turned to Felix.
"Fix-It, you need to get the Nicelanders out of here." Tamora said.
"I'll help too." Taffyta said.
"No, Taffyta. You go with Tamora and Kohut." Felix said.
Taffyta raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms.
"Felix, in case if you've forgotten, I have powers. I can help." Taffyta said.
"Yes, but in case if you've forgotten, your not from this game. If something happens and your caught in it, you stay dead." Tamora said firmly.
"Um, don't you fall under that category too, Calhoun?" Taffyta asked.
Felix sighed.
"Look, Tammy's right. I can get the Nicelanders out. In the meantime, you get to GCS and make sure that the rest of your team and everyone else in your game are okay." Felix said.
Taffyta sighed and glared at Tamora, who smirked triumphantly.
"Fine." Taffyta said reluctantly.
"Location: Arendelle, The World Of Disney, November 20th 2109"
The skeleton army finally came to a halt once they came across Elsa's magnificent ice palace and the little bridge that led to it. Despite the fact that the ice that made up the palace was transparent enough for those inside to see what was happening outside, Anna and Elsa were too busy gleefully building a snowman to notice the massive skeleton army that surrounded the palace, preparing to attack.
"I'm really worried about Kristoff, Elsa. He hasn't been back for a while, and he never takes this long when he's out harvesting ice." Anna said as she put the final snowball on the creature's head.
Elsa put her hand on Anna's shoulder to comfort her.
"It's alright, Anna. They'll be back soon." Elsa said reassuringly.
Anna sighed.
"Do you think they..." Anna started to ask.
"Wait." Elsa replied.
"No, I..." Anna started to say.
"No, really. Quiet. Something's not right." Elsa said.
The light in her fists started to turn blue. She could sense that something wasn't right, and prepared to attack any possible intruders that might harm her and/or her little sister.
"Anna, get to the balcony and wait until I say it's okay." Elsa ordered.
"But I can..." Anna started to say.
"Anna, I cannot lose you again!" Elsa shouted.
The ice that formed the palace started to turn red, as it does whenever Elsa gets emotional.
"Well, you don't know what's out there. And you need my..." Anna started to say.
"Anna, just do as I say and get to the balcony!" Elsa ordered in desperation.
Seeing the angry protective sister look on Elsa's face made Anna realize that she was dead serious. And so, she sighed and simply headed for the balcony, so that her sister could deal with whoever was at the main gate and not have to worry about her safety. Upon going outside to the balcony, Anna gasped and clenched her fists to her chest, once she saw flaming hot smoke coming up from somewhere beneath the mountains.
"It can't... oh no." Anna thought.
She raced back down to the gate.
"Elsa!" Anna cried, just before her sister opened the gate.
But before Elsa could even open the gate though, the gate itself opened for her. Or rather, a Ghostly Wail did. It blew both sisters to the ground and knocked Anna out. Elsa looked up and saw Dan grinning wildly. She got up and tried to tell the ghost to leave, only for him to knock her away to the opposite wall with an ecto-blast. Elsa tried desperately to get up, but then froze when she saw that he was not alone. There was an army of at least a thousand skeletons in armor armed with swords, guns, crossbows, spears, and axes, along with Death Phantom, who was behind Dan and clearly ready to strike at her. In an attempt to save Anna, who was still lying catatonic on the ground, Elsa mustered all of the energy that she could, creating an icy tornado that prevented Dan, Death Phantom, and the army from reaching either one of the sisters.
"LEAVE!" Elsa yelled.
Elsa's scream echoed through the castle and the area around it. Suddenly, a giant ice monster with sharp icicle teeth and claws, seemingly having heard her call, dropped to the ground from the very ceiling, shattering it while the icy tornado was still swirling around. It was Marshmallow, summoned from the mountains by his creator to fight off the invading forces. Indeed, by the time that the air cleared, Dan and Death Phantom, unable to get the skeletons to ignore Marshmallow, headed for the balcony, while their army was busy cutting off the ice creature's limbs. In the midst of the confusion, Elsa quickly grabbed Anna's unconscious body.
"You definitely need to stop eating all that chocolate." Elsa said as she carried her little sister.
Anna opened her eyes.
"So do you." Anna said before closing her eyes and falling into unconsciousness.
Elsa carried her to the balcony and opened the doors, and then she stomped on the ground with her foot and created a linear downward path made out of ice so they could get back to Arendelle. Elsa gasped as she saw smoke coming from what was undoubtedly Arendelle, but then she realized that Dan and Death Phantom were right behind them. Seeing no other option, Elsa slowly rotated the path until it became sort of a slide. Jumping onto the icy slide with Anna in tow, Elsa's magic created sharp icicles behind her on the path as she slid down, preventing the villains from following her to Arendelle. Death Phantom tried to go after them, but he was restrained by Dan.
"Don't bother, Death. Our ally is waiting down there." Dan said.
As Elsa slid down, she quickly realized that she wasn't being followed and let out a huge sigh. But much to her horror, she saw a massive airship with dangerous machinery right in front of her, crashing the rest of the ice slide below and knocking both her and Anna to the nearby ground. Elsa tried to get up, but was immediately struck in the head by the golden handle of one of a smiling Jin Stryker's swords, becoming unconscious on the ground.
"Location: Bikini Bottom, The World Of Nickelodeon, November 20th 2109"
Twistella was watching as the rest of the villains left for the different worlds when SourCog 8 approached her.
"The Master wishes for you to report to the throne room." SourCog 8 said.
Twistella nodded, and she and SourCog 8 entered the warehouse. They made their way into the room with the machine that Jubilee had set up, and Jubilee had made the room her throne room. Jubilee sat on a black colored throne that she had made on a raised dais with SourCog at her side. She had changed her outfit so that she was now wearing a long fancy-looking black robe that had red trimming, but she still had on her mask and the Reality Gauntlet.
"Ah, Twistella, so good for you to join us. We have much to discuss. I'm recruiting some new soldiers for our forces." Jubilee said.
"Okay, but the forces that we have are sufficient for any task." Twistella said in confusion.
"Yes, but the army is just a bunch of skeletons. They have no imagination for cruelty or destruction. I want some ghosts from Danny's world who will really bring terror to my enemies and put up a real good fight. Luckily, a few have come here and decided to join us." Jubilee explained.
She waved at the door of the throne room, and Aragon, Hotep-Ra, Archer Ghost, and Executioner Ghost floated into the room. Twistella looked at the newcomers with a bit of disgust before turning back to Jubilee.
"This is just the beginning, which brings up our next topic of business. Dan has told me about the Observant's courthouse, where some powerful ghosts that have committed some tremendous crimes against humanity are locked up. They sound like my kind of people. We're going to break them out." Jubilee explained.
Twistella frowned.
"Okay, if this is what you asked me to join you for, then count me out. I did not join you just to play recruiter. I joined you so I could have my world. You may go forward with your silly project, but I now want no part in it." Twistella said.
Jubilee glared at Twistella and stood up. She raised both hands and struck the virus with a burst of crimson lightning. Twistella fell to her knees, screaming in pain.
"Will you come and assist us now?" Jubilee asked as she continued to strike Twistella with lightning.
"Yes... Jubilee." Twistella replied in pain.
The lightning stopped, and Jubilee smiled.
"Good. We have an understanding." Jubilee said.
She walked out of the room, with SourCog, SourCog 8, Aragon, Hotep-Ra, Archer Ghost, and Executioner Ghost following her. Twistella stumbled to her feet and followed Jubilee and the others out of the warehouse.
"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, November 20th 2109"
When Tamora, Taffyta, and Kohut left Fix-It Felix Jr. and entered Game Central Station, they saw just how much chaos was around. Shouts were heard as the various game characters were hounding the Surge Protector with questions.
"What's going on here, Surge?" Bowser asked angrily.
"Yeah, what gives?" Chun-Li asked, more politely then Bowser.
Taffyta glanced around at everyone and then turned back to Tamora.
"Tough crowd, huh?" Taffyta asked.
Tamora nodded in agreement. Suddenly, the other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Toxika, Damon, Crepe, and Ralph pushed through the crowd to join Tamora, Taffyta, and Kohut.
"Hey, guys. We were practicing at the castle in Sugar Rush and Ralph had just shown up to visit when we had to leave." Sticky said.
"Where's Felix?" Ralph asked, glancing around.
He and everyone else in the group then noticed Felix coming out of Fix-It Felix Jr., with the Nicelanders and the bonus level characters following him.
"Everyone's out." Felix said. He then noticed the crowd and said "Woah.".
"Yeah, it's a riot in here." Candlehead said.
"I know, we can see that." Gene said, his arms folded.
Minty glanced around at the crowd.
"I wonder what happened to cause this." Minty said.
Cinndon prepared to form cinnamon spikes, ready to bring order to the station.
"I don't know, but we need to quiet the crowd down. All of this panicking is not helping anything. And Surge isn't really doing well at calming them." Cinndon replied.
He pointed over at the hologram at the front, who was still trying to calm the rioting characters. The Cinnamon themed boy raised his arms into the air, firing cinnamon spikes into the ceiling. The entire arcade fell silent, all eyes on Cinndon, who headed toward the front of the crowd.
"Alright, people, you all need to stop the panicking because it's not helping you at all! I know that things aren't great right now, but you must keep your heads together as we get through this and find out the cause of this. Kohut, from Hero's Duty, believes that he has found something that might be connected to what happened to Fashion 101." Cinndon said.
"And BurgerTime!" a Hammer Bro added from the back.
"Wait, there was another game?" Rancis asked in confusion, having followed Cinndon to the front.
"Yes, earlier this morning, to be exact. Fashion 101 was the second game to be destroyed." Surge Protector replied.
Crumbelina frowned and placed a hand on her chin.
"Someone would have had a lot of time on their hands to plan this. There's no way that anyone could bring down two games in the same day." Crumbelina said.
"And they probably weren't alone in it, Crumbs." Felix added.
Swizzle raised an eyebrow.
"You think that it's more then just one person doing this?" Swizzle asked.
"I'm not jumping to any conclusions, Swizzle, but that could be the case." Felix replied.
Citrusella frowned.
"Do you guys think that it could be Jubilee?" Citrusella asked.
Vanellope shook her head.
"No, this is beyond what Jubilee could do. She's not exactly powerful enough to pull off something like this. But no matter, this means that things can get worse later if we don't get to the bottom of this.".
"But we need to find out who's behind this first." Rancis said.
From where she was standing, Candi nodded in agreement. Just then, she saw movement out of the corner of her eye. She looked in that direction and saw a silhouette moving along the wall towards Fix-It Felix Jr.
"Okay, that's strange. But it could be the person who destroyed Fashion 101 and BurgerTime. I should go investigate. I won't have mom, Gloyd, or the rest of the team get involved and get hurt." Candi thought.
With that, Candi ran after the shadowy figure, quietly sneaking off to the Fix-It Felix Jr. game's port while everyone else continued to talk.
"You don't suppose whatever happened to those games was an inside job, do you?" Deanna asked.
"We don't know, Deanna. But we do know that their plugs weren't pulled, so..." Gloyd started to reply.
The Halloween themed racer trailed off mid-sentence when he noticed that Candi was gone from his side.
"Candi?" Gloyd asked in confusion.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Toxika, Damon, Crepe, Ralph, Felix, the Nicelanders, Tamora, and Kohut glanced around, looking for the 9 year old Confederate Queen.
"She was right next to you a second ago. Where did she run off to with this huge crowd?" Norwood asked.
Gloyd glanced over the crowd, searching for any sign of his wife.
"Where did she run off to in this crowd?" Gloyd wondered.
"Location: Arendelle, The World Of Disney, November 20th 2109"
When Anna woke up, she was chained to the ground in Arendelle's now burning public square. Struggling with all of her might to break free, she was greeted by Dan, Death Phantom, and Jin.
"Ah, so this is the beloved Princess Anna of Arendelle." Dan said with a wicked smile.
"W-Who are... where..." Anna started to ask.
"We're having a little... bonfire here in Arendelle." Death Phantom replied.
He gestured a few feet away to reveal Elsa right in front of Anna, fully conscious, gagged, and tied to a wooden log that had a lot of hay under it. Elsa and Anna looked at each other with worried looks.
"Elsa!" Anna cried.
Elsa, in a last ditch attempt to save her sister, froze the rope that tied her to the wooden log, broke free, and began whipping up a winter storm that circled around her and Anna. Ice suddenly sprouted from all around them and Elsa made them into icicles, each as long and sharp as a spear, floating in midair, and each pointed at every single living soul that dared to attack them. Death Phantom took the time to summon the airship.
"LEAVE! Now!" Elsa angrily ordered with her fierce and intimidating eyes dead set on Dan.
Anna protested, believing that the three villains should be arrested or killed, but Elsa was far too stressed, angry, and tired to have any of that. Trying to do something other then stand there, Anna tried to move towards the ghost, demon, and mercenary, but was blocked by Elsa's hand.
"Anna, mercy is what separates kings and queens from tyrants and dictators." Elsa said as Dan, Death Phantom, and Jin boarded the airship.
"Papa told you that, didn't he?" Anna asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice
"Yeah." Elsa replid uncomfortably.
However, once the villains boarded the massive ship, Elsa could sense that something was very wrong. Immediately, Jin raised the sword that he had used to knock Elsa unconscious.
"OPEN FIRE, MEN!" Jin yelled.
Elsa quickly created a giant ice barrier, protecting herself and Anna from the ship's attack, and trying to find an opening big enough to cripple the ship in the process amidst the continuous barrage of cannon fire. There just wasn't one ice barrier because the ship was firing at them while it was in the air. Buildings already burned down were now toppled over, thanks to cannon fire, and even the castle itself was now destroyed. The sisters had nowhere to hide. Unable to attack back at the airship, the Snow Queen eventually couldn't keep it up anymore and a cannonball shot right through her protective front barrier, shattering it and knocking her to the ground as a helpless Anna looked on.
Dan got out of the ship with his comrades, and he once again started a bonfire with Elsa in the middle of it, except this time, she couldn't escape. The carbon monoxide started to suffocate her and woke her up, allowing her to see Anna, desperately crying and trying to break free to help her, but unable to because she herself was being restrained by Jin. Too weak to do anything, all the Snow Queen could manage was a soft apology.
"Anna, I'm sorry." Elsa said weakly.
Elsa finally closed her eyes and breathed her last, succumbing to the fire and the smoke that it created.
"ELSA!" Anna cried out in horror.
Struggling even more now to break free, Jin angrily slammed Anna to a nearby wooden column with his hand and then put a knife around her neck, preventing her from moving and making her effectively stick to the wooden column, but giving enough room for her to breathe and talk at the same time while she was essentially incapacitated. Once Jin calmed down, he smiled half-crookedly.
"Why, that reminds me. I don't believe that your in on our little game." Jin said.
Dan grabbed a silver mirror from one of the skeletons nearby. He showed it to the incapacitated Anna, who began to see that it was no ordinary mirror. Indeed, this was a mirror that Jubilee had based off of Prince Adam's enchanted mirror and the Magic Mirror. Jubilee had thought that magic mirrors could be useful for her allies, as it had been for Gaston and Grimhilde during their movies, so she had manufactured some for her allies. It started glowing dark green with electricity around the edges, before showing something that really was anything but funny.
"You see, we came here to deliver a message from someone most dear to you." Dan said.
The vision started to move backwards, showing Arendelle being burned to the ground, Kristoff getting shot at, Olaf melting, Sven having his throat slit, and finally something that wasn't even a vision from the past to begin with, but something much in the present. Staring at her right in the eye was a smiling Alternate Elsbeth, who looked all too eager to see Anna get what was coming to her.
"Hello, Anna. It's been too long. How are you? I hope you haven't forgotten about me." Alternate Elsbeth asked.
"Other Elsbeth? Y-Your behind this? But your in..." Anna started to ask in shock.
"Oh, you'll be surprised what a few good friends can do. I'm sure that you'd know all about that, but now that Olaf and that ice harvester are gone, as well as Hans, the Duke, and the Trolls, who I killed earlier, I bet your really lonely right now, you and Elsa being locked up for so long in your own castle after all. But now that she's dead too, I guess that you have only the townspeople for com... oh, wait, I'm sorry. You don't." Alternate Elsbeth replied.
"Y-Your lying!" Anna shouted in disbelief.
"Am I? My friends would be more then glad to end your suffering right now, of which I'm sure I'm doing you a favor. I mean, from what I've learned, you were always so pathetic that I never really saw a purpose for you to live anyway." Alternate Elsbeth said.
"When I get out of here, your going to wish that you never hurt Elsa!" Anna said angrily.
"Oh, sweet, simple Anna. You never learn, do you?" Alternate Elsbeth asked.
"Other Elsbeth, you..." Anna started to say angrily.
Anna was slapped on the face by Jin to make her shut her mouth. Alternate Elsbeth sighed before moving from the frame of the mirror to reveal that she had kidnapped and tied up Adgar and Idun in chairs in some sort of building. They were gagged and didn't seem to be having a better time then Anna was, and when they saw Anna, they looked surprised and horrified. Alternate Elsbeth formed an icicle and put it near Adgar's neck, as if she was about to cut it.
"Now, I'm really sorry that I can't be there myself to see you, but I hope my friends can make you comfortable." Alternate Elsbeth said.
She grinned and proceeded to stab Adgar's chest with the icicle in a most gruesome fashion, killing him instantly and prompting Idun beside him to scream hysterically. Anna saw that all happen before her very eyes through the mirror, her eyes opened as wide as humanly possible. Eventually, Idun calmed down, but she trembled worriedly in her chair. Alternate Elsbeth then looked at Anna.
"Don't worry, Anna. Your dear mother here has some unfinished business with a friend of mine. She won't be dying... yet. You on the other hand..." Alternate Elsbeth started to explain. She looked at Jin, who was incapacitating Anna with both of his hands, and asked "Mr. Stryker?".
Jin simply smiled.
"The pleasure is all mine, your highness." Jin replied.
He took out a pistol from his vest, loaded it, and casually shot the princess in the head. Anna immediately closed her eyes and fell lifeless to the ground. Alternate Elsbeth laughed with delight at the realization that Arendelle was now hers, and there were no air-headed royals to stop her this time.
"Oh, Anna, this never would have happened if you would have just let me take over your universe back in 2066. But now, both of you are gone, and Arendelle is mine at last." Alternate Elsbeth said.
She didn't care how badly Dan and Death Phantom burned down the entire town. She knew that she could restore it back to it's former glory and force everyone to respect, no, bow down to her and recognize her greatness. She grinned in front of Idun and gripped her chin in her hands.
"For once, I think I'll sleep well tonight." Alternate Elsbeth said.
Dan put the mirror away and ordered the skeletons to board the airship, followed by Death Phantom and Jin.
"Location: Amity Park, The World Of Nickelodeon, November 20th 2109"
The Observant's courthouse was mostly empty. There were only half a dozen Observants there, along with fifty security guards and the three prisoners. The rest of the Observants were out in the other parts of the Ghost Zone. Everything was quite, until some storm clouds appeared over the courthouse and the face of Jubilee appeared in them. Everybody in the courthouse stared up in fear and amazement.
"Hello, Observants. I am Jubilee Darkheart. I have come to recruit the prisoners that you are holding here. Give them to me and no harm will come to you. Refuse and I will destroy you all." Jubilee said.
The crowd of guards and Observants looked at one another and then back at Jubilee. One Observant stepped forward.
"This is a place of law and justice! We will not let you come here and do as you please!" the Observant shouted.
Jubilee grinned wickedly.
"I was hoping that you would resist. Now behold the strength of my forces!" Jubilee said.
Her face disappeared from the sky, but the clouds stayed. Suddenly, one of the guards gasped.
"Look out!" the guard cried.
Several purple meteors smashed through the building, crushing several of the guards. One of the walls caved in as Twistella in her virus form, which was a swirling mass of blood red code with her eyes floating in the whirlpool, and Aragon in his dragon form came storming in, followed by Hotep-Ra, Archer Ghost, and Executioner Ghost. The guards desperately tried to push the invaders back, but they were simply to strong. The Observants watched in horror as the battle went on, failing to see that two more Observants had joined their group.
"What should we do?" one of the Observants asked frantically.
"You can simply stand there and die." the first Observant that had joined their group replied.
The Observant's eye suddenly glowed red, and a glow appeared around their body and they transformed into SourCog. SourCog raised her arm, revealing a blaster ray connected to her right arm, and shot the Observant and instantly killed him.
"She's not the only one that you need to worry about." the second Observant that had joined their group said.
They suddenly transformed into Jubilee. Before the Observants could do anything, Jubilee waved the Reality Gauntlet, making ecto-energy ropes appear that bound them to the ground. After that was done, Jubilee turned her attention to the three imprisoned prisoners, who happened to be Vortex, Undergrowth, and Nocturne. She waved her hand and freed the prisoners from cages. The three ghosts looked at their rescuer, sensing the dark energy from her.
"You three work for me now. Join me, and you can have your revenge on the ones who defeated you and kill all the humans that you want until your hearts are content." Jubilee said.
The three ghosts looked at one another and then back at Jubilee with a grin.
"You have our full attention and services." Nocturne said.
Jubilee smirked.
"Wise choice." Jubilee said.
She turned to face the Observants.
"Please, you mustn't release those ghosts! They'll upset the balance and bring chaos! Please stop this madness!" one of the Observants begged.
"That's preciously why I'm doing this. Besides, I have a grudge against you Observants." Jubilee said.
She waved for her forces to exit the building before exiting the courthouse. She faced the courthouse before waving the Reality Gauntlet. The courthouse crumbled and collapsed on top of the Observants, crushing and killing them instantly. Jubilee grinned in triumph before turning to face her forces.
"Come on. We have much planning to do." Jubilee said.
She created a portal and walked through it, the rest of her minions following her.
