Wesker was the first to act, dashing towards the rift, followed by the Master and Lotso. Rainbow Dash tried to chase after them, barely noticing the area around them beginning to glow blue, but found her path blocked by a wall of red symbiote spikes. Carnage wasn't letting them go that easily.
Wesker, the Master and Lotso vanished from view as the spikes were fired in all directions.
"Tact", said the newcomer in the black-and-white hat, pointing upwards with one hand as a chunk of the ground tore itself up and got in the
way of the attack.
"Thanks Trafalgar", said Bigby as Carnage leapt towards them. "Leave this part to..."
He didn't get to finish his statement as suddenly everyone present was blasted with the force of a hurricane. They were tossed against a wall as five beings approached.
Those are the creatures who attacked us in the warehouse, thought Bigby as five of them strode into view. But who's leading them?
His questions were answered as a man wearing all black stepped to the head of the group. He wore a mask which obscured his face and a long cape.
"Dispose of them", Vader ordered the Rahkshi as he walked on towards the rift.


Dante fired round after round at the skeleton, but he dodged every bullet. Despite being a skeleton, Jack seemed to be able to move as if he had no bones at all. Seeing as how his attacks weren't effective against Jack, Dante drew his sword and ran towards his adversary, He swung his sword in an arc, intending to cut the skeleton in half, but Jack leapt over the blade and landed atop a nearby lamppost.
Lighting the end of a stick he was carrying in the old-fashioned street lamp (had they walked through a time crack into the Victorian era? The bulidings around them certainly looked older), Jack raised his new burning torch above his head, and ate the flame like a fire-breather. As Jack suddenly burst into flames, Dante leapt up to slash at him, but the Pumpkin King leapt towards him, kicking Rebellion from his hands.
Dante narrowly dodged a barrage of acrobatic blazing kicks, drawing his handguns again. Normally, Jack wouldn't have been worried about bullets, but he could sense a strange energy coming from the bullets these guns fired, so he leapt back away from the silver-haired man, landing in a nearby fountain.
Retrieving his sword, Dante watched as Jack rose out of the fountain. The flames had gone out and it seemed as though they had done no damage to Jack's suit at all.
"Ready for another round?" asked Dante.


Pennywise approached the corridor at the back of the shop to find the grey-skinned girl not running from him, blocking the corridor.

"Have your friends all run off and left you here all alone?" asked the clown mockingly.
Kernor shook her head. "I stayed behind to fight you".
The clown gave a laugh, before lunging at her with a clawed hand, stabbing her through the chest. He pulled his claw out, now covered in blood, and continued on his way until he felt a hand grab his leg.
"I'm not done with you yet", said Kernor, the stab wounds to her chest gone.
"So you heal quick, interesting", said the clown, turning round. "But what if I was to tear your head off and eat it or..."
He was interrupted by the wall next to him exploding as a panda was launched through it. Pennywise quickly grabbed and was about to stab his claws through his face when his hand was cut off by Kernor, now wielding an energy sword of some kind.

As Po fell from the clown's grip, he saw bodies at the clown's feet. Tigress, Master Shifu, Monkey, Mantis, Crane, Viper Lupin, Jigen, Dante...
"This can't be happening..." said Po in shock.
"It's not", said a familiar voice, as Mickey entered the building. "He's just changing forms to match your worst fears. He's like a Boggart".
Pennywise darted toward Mickey as the sorceror whispered an incantation. Mickey realised too late that he wouldn't have time to finish the spell...
Just before the claw reached him, Po caught one talon between his finger and thumb

Is that... the Wuxi finger hold? said Mickey in amazement. I thought it was just a myth...
Pennywise tried to break free, but he had no chance to escape before Po acted.
"Skadoosh!"


The tan Rahkshi watched as Stitch and Tigress fought each other on the street below as Woody's gunfight with Lupin and Jigen raged on. Dante and Jack had disappeared, possibly through another Time Crack, and Po and Mickey had crashed through a building and vanished from sight.

If anyone had been there to see it, and known enough about Rahkshi, they would have been able to identify this as a Rahkshi of Illusion. Vader had sent it with the purpose of slowing down others who might be trying to acquire the Instruments. All it had taken were a few well-placed illusions depicting the opposite team striking down or kidnapping their allies and they were fighting each other like mortal enemies.
"Don't look now, but there's a skull-faced spiked monster watching us from one of the rooftops", whispered Stitch to Tigress as he blocked a punch from his feline opponent. "I have a feeling it might be behind this whole fight".
Tigress caught a glimpse of the Rahkshi out of the corner of her eye, not looking round in case it saw her.
"Say I believe you..." began Tigress.
"Keep fighting", interrupted Stitch. "It'll flee or attack or something if it knows we've seen it".
"Fine", said Tigress, as she attacked again, trying to punch Stitch only for the alien to duck below her fist. "What do you propose we do?"
"Simple", said Stitch, grabbing her by the leg. "Go get him".
And with that, he hurled Tigress toward the building the Rahkshi was standing on.
Thinking fast, Tigress was able to spin round and land safely on a window ledge before leaping up after the creature, only to see Lupin standing at the top.
"Lupin? What are you..." began Tigress, but before she could finish, Lupin lunged at her with a bladed staff.
Of course, Tigress had known something was up from the moment she saw Lupin on the roof, and was able to dodge the attack, and kicked "Lupin" back with enough force to not only knock him over, but also to shatter the illusion, revealing the Rahkshi underneath. As it fell, the Rahkshi folded its legs in front of it and swooped up from the ground with a humming sound.
"That thing's bothered us long enough", said Stitch. "I don't want it making us believe another set of allies are our enemies, or hiding Carnage and whoever he's working with from us. Buzz, shoot it down"
Buzz fired his laser at the creature, but it managed to swerve to the side just soon enough to make the shot non-fatal. Even so, a line was burned across its armour across its left eye.

Lupin, Jigen and Woody saw the whole thing from a distance.
"What do you think that was?" asked Jigen.
"I haven't seen anything like that creature before, but I think we can safely say this whole fight has been caused by its smoke and mirrors"
"I was thinking the same thing", said Woody. "Besides, out of all the shots you fired, not one seemed to be aimed to kill".
"Then I guess we're allies, at least for now", said Lupin, holding out a hand.
"Yep. Allies", said Woody as he shook Lupin's hand.
They looked across the city towards the tower. Smoke was rising from the area.
"Let's go get that Instrument", said Woody seriously, as the six of them set off.

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"Is it dead?" asked Kernor.
"No; a being like him is near impossible to completely kill", said Mickey. "But that should definitely slow him down. I've added a few extra wards to the area to make it as long as possible before that monster comes back".
"So you don't want to, you know, kill me any more?" asked Po nervously.
"Anyone whose greatest fear is the death of their friends is probably not my enemy", said Mickey. "Besides, things seemed a little off from the moment the smoke appeared. Jack's posture was all wrong when that silver-haired man cut him down".
Po sighed. "I didn't know there was anyone that could do things like that"
"If you like, I could cast a memory charm to get the images out of your head".
"Could you do that?" asked Po in surprise.
"I'll leave the memory that you saw something terrible, but wipe the images of what it was", said Mickey. "That way at least you'll be aware of it if it happens again".
"Guys", said Kernor, looking out the window. "I think those people at the rift could use some help".
Po and Mickey rushed to the window.


It was as if Vader had chosen each Rahkshi to counter abilities like those of the group outside the tower now. The blue and purple Rahkshi now fighting Rainbow Dash had perfect accuracy with every action it made, no matter how fast she flew. The black and white Rahkshi facing Twilight Sparkle could create cyclones that deflected her every spell. Trafalgar was fighting a green and brown Rahkshi able to create and grow plants, even when cut up and stuck all around the area by the power of his Ope Ope fruit. And the maroon Rahkshi now standing over Deadpool had presumably caused him to fall into a deep sleep, nullifying the advantage of his healing factor. Bigby was currently trying to fend off the attacks of Carnage as the symbiote and its host attacked him with all manner of weapons formed from symbiote.
"Well, come on then", said Mickey. "Let's go help them out"


Wesker, the Master and Lotso passed along another identical corridor. The place the rift had led them to was like a huge maze.
"So Lotso", said the Master. "What do you think we should do first when we get the orb?"
"We should get rid of those annoying troublemakers. You know, the ones who..."
Lotso narrowly managed to jump aside to dodge an energy beam. "What the heck was that for?"
"That's not the right answer", said the Master. "You're not really Lotso, are you?"
They had a security question, thought Tobias. I should have thought of that.

"So who are you r..." began the Master, before being flung off his feet by and invisible force. Tobias fled as a the newcomer approached, changing from Lotso's form into his usual falcon form quickly.
"Go after him", said Wesker. "I'll take good care of our guest".
"So be it", said Vader, drawing his lightsabre

I was planning to bring the "Orb in London" Arc to an end in this
chapter, but I guess there was so much packed into it as it was that

it just wouldn't fit. Once again, thanks to Shneider-man, Mata Nui,

Italian Shizoid Boy, PEJP Bengtzone V2 and StrangePointOfView for the

teams involve in this arc. Especially StrangePointOfView, as he also

Beta-reads this story for me. Not today though, I think he's on holiday or something and I wouldn't like to keep everyone waiting.

Thanks to Ian Greene for his recently added teams. They'll probably
appear in the arc after next.

Apologies for the long update time, I had exams. My last one was about a week ago, and since the absence of revision has left a rather gaping

hole in my day, I'll be able to update more frequently. In fact, I plan to get four chapters a month; one per week. The first shall be for
Instruments of time, the second shall be for The Psychic Jinjuuriki,
the third for either Marvel vs Jump or Remnants of Galaxia, and the
last shall be for another story, either existing (such as Dankey Kang
Country 6, The League of App Game Heroes or The Heroes of Darkness) or
brand new. Hope you enjoy the quicker update schedule, and apologies in advance if I can't keep to it.