After scolding Nebulus and trapping him with so many spells, the Mysticons and Astromancers teleported into Astromancer Academy via Arkayna's and Proxima's twin bracelets. Specifically; The Star Chamber.

When they got there, they were expecting to be attacked by a horde of Spectromancers. Instead, the entire room was filled with Spectromancers littered all over the floor.

"I hope this means Howlette and the others escaped." Zarya wondered.

"Or Necrafa isn't in a very good mood." Arkayna countered.

A small cry alerted the rescue party.

"Over there." Proxima pointed to the direction the cry came from, prompting the group to head to that direction.

The group ran through the halls of the Academy until they found themselves outside on the highest floor. They had to stay hidden behind the walls so that Necrafa and Dreadbane wouldn't spot them. Even if they had their backs turned on them.

"When you said soon, I thought you meant you'd return sooner." Necrafa argued.

"I believe we have different definitions of soon, my queen." Dreadbane argued back.

As the two kept arguing, Arkayna saw no claw, wing nor hoof of the Baby Beasts. Now that she thought about it, the cry they heard earlier sounded...

"I don't think that was any of the babies crying." Arkayna whispered out her thoughts to the others, "It didn't have Runeford's cute, little clicks."

"Yeah." Zarya silently agreed, "Howlette howls, not cries."

"Whenever Gemdrop cries, even when you can't hear her adorable neighs, you know something's wrong when your heart begins to ache." Em sadly clutches her heart.

"Lucy..." Piper hesitated for a bit before smiling nervously, "makes you not get tired?"

"That explains a lot." Malvaron narrowed his eyes at Piper.

"Then who-ooooooohhhh...?!" Tazma's eyes widened in shock, alerting the others to return back to the two undead.

A red cloud of smoke was just blown on Dreadbane's skull. As the Specter waved the smoke away, Necrafa turned, revealing a small bundle in her arms with glowing red eyes.

"He agrees with me." Necrafa teased.

The baby began to cry, the same cry the group heard earlier.

...

Wait... Necrafa's a mother?

"There, there." Necrafa gently rocked her newborn child in her arms, calming him down. She gently shifted her arms so that she can look him straight in the eyes, "Soon you will bring chaos and destruction to the realm! Just like your mother and father."

The newborn happily cooed as he reached out his small, skeletal hands to touch heads with his mother.

Dreadbane was still a little upset about the little smoke trick, but when he saw his son's red glowing eyes, he couldn't help but touch his little hands, "Well. He's off to a great start."

"Our Little Apocalypse." Necrafa cooed.

The group was speechless. So speechless that Nova Terron and Piper took out their spellpads and glyphed their reactions to the others. (It's a good thing they set their spellpads on vibrate.)

When the others opened the glyphs, Nova Terron's message was revealed to be filled with a lot of exaggerated emojis while Piper's mostly consisted of repeating patterns of "AAHH! AWW!".

"When did THAT HAPPEN?!" Tazma exclaimed as silently as she can.

"How could we not see the signs?!" Arkayna added.

Everyone thought back to the last battle they had against Necrafa; For some strange reason, the evil queen seem to have a glitch in her powers, causing them to activate and fluctuate against her will. Then just as she was about to destroy the Mysticons, she suddenly fainted without even making a tiny glow from her staff, allowing the Mysticons and their friends to retreat.

Glitch in her powers...?

Sudden faint spells...?

...

Ohhh!

"Should've seen that coming." Zarya silently remarked.

Em recalled the last line of the prophecy and shook her head in disbelief, "Aw no. 'Death brings forth an apocalyptic birth'?!"

"Necrafa is Queen of the Undead and I'm pretty sure 'death' and 'undead' are two different types of dead." Arkayna pointed out.

"And I thought it was just 'doom' and 'chaos' and all. NOT, ANACTUAL BABY!" Zarya complained.

"I never thought they'd even go through it." Nova Terron shivered uncomfortably.

The next thing they knew, the group was surrounded in red energy and were brought before the Queen of the Undead.

"We were whispering too loudly weren't we?" Arkayna asked.

"That, and someone's senses are developing." Necrafa replied as she looked at her child with pride.

"Huh. Smart kid." Em remarked.

"He does have his father's eyes." Piper gushed.

Apocalypse let out a small burp. The next one released a large wave of dark energy that destroyed part of Astromancer Academy.

"And his mom's scream." Malvaron added in surprise.

"Look's like someone is ready for his vitamins." Dreadbane grinned before snapping his fingers.

In a flash, everyone was transported to another location in Astromancer Academy. Arkayna gasped in shock upon seeing Runeford and the other Baby Beasts trapped in separate cages made out of Necrafa's dark magic. The Beasts were scattered in four corners of a magic circle.

"By the way;" Necrafa addressed Nova Terron, "You would make a terrible godfather."

Nova's eyes briefly widened with horror as memories flashed before his eyes, "I wished you didn't say that."


"You know you'd make a great godfather." Nessira teased.

"Just marry him already." Nova Terron talked back.


"No don't!" Piper cried as Necrafa walked towards the circle, "You can't just drag your baby in your evil plans! He'll be scared!"

To Piper's dismay, the baby gave out an excited coo as he reached his hands out for the Beasts.

"Not helping, Kid." Zarya called.

Necrafa happily hummed as she looked at her child lovingly, "You know; I never thought the prophecy would foretold this. But I'm glad it did."

"We missed you just trying to kill us." Em remarked, crept out by Necrafa's, (shudder) motherly behaviour.

"And you trying to destroy him." Zarya added. Dreadbane growled at her in return.

Necrafa stood in the middle of the magic circle, causing it to glow and making the Beasts roar/neigh/shriek in pain as they felt the energy drained out of them. Necrafa gave her child one last loving glance before levitating him high into the air.

Just as the baby was about to be endowed with the powers of the Beasts, someone struck Necrafa from behind with a powerful blast before levitating Apocalypse into his hands.

"Nebulus?" Proxima exclaimed in surprise.

"How did you manage to survive our traps?" Tazma angrily asked.

"This abomination must be destroyed for the safety of the realm!" Nebulus proclaimed.

Something inside Arkayna clicked. All those years... she thought she was an only child...

Arkayna let out a angry roar as she summoned her staff and sent a powerful wave of energy that dispelled Necrafa dark magic on them. Once she was on the ground, she blasted Nebulus before knocking him down to the ground and grabbed the baby.

"It's alright, Little Guy." Despite seeing the baby as her enemies' child, Arkayna didn't want him to suffer the same fate she and her sister had to go through all those years ago.

"Uh, Sis?" Zarya tapped her shoulder and pointed to Necrafa and Dreadbane.

Both undead beings were glaring at the Mysticons, a horde of Spectromancers hovering behind them.

When Arkayna turned to Apocalypse, the infant was reaching out for his mother and father.

Oh...!

Now since she can't just toss the baby who will bring chaos and destruction to the entire realm to her friends, she ran. That also meant she has to be chased by the Spectral Hand.

Lucky for her, the others got her back.

"Not to worry, Runeford. We'll have you out in a minute." Proxima assured as she and Tazma began to work on releasing the Baby Beasts, blasting a Spectromancer now and then.

Arkayna blasted the Spectromancers that stood in her way in order to retrieve their Prince of the Undead. Just as she could take a step further, Necrafa appeared in front of her in a puff of red smoke.

"For a Mysticon I never expected you would take someone else's child." The evil queen remarked as she sent a ballistic shriek at the Dragon Mage who managed to move out of the way just in time.

"As a mother, I see where you're going with this;" Arkayna dodge again, "You want what's best for your child. But you also have to think about the good for others."

Necrafa chuckled darkly, "You of all people should know that I no longer have the heart for that nonsense. After all; My heart rotted, thousand of years ago."

The two blasted each other simultaneously, their magic clashed in order to overpower the other.

With extra help from her willpower, Arkayna managed to push through, knocking Necrafa down in the process, and upsetting the baby.

Apocalypse cried for his mother. Arkayna attempted to gently rock him in order to calm him down. Unfortunately for her, the baby glared at her and surrounded her in red dark magical energy, telepathically separating him from her.

As Arkayna struggles to break free, she was suddenly struck to the ground while Little Apocalypse levitated himself in his father's arms.

"That's my boy." Dreadbane beamed with pride before sending a powerful roar that knocked down Arkayna once again.

Just as Proxima and Tazma were about to free the Baby Beasts, they were knocked out by Dreadbane's sword. When his father stood in the center of the magic circle, Apocalypse levitated himself up, ready to finally receive the power of all 4 Beasts.

The Baby Beasts cried in pain once more as they were surrounded in dark red auras. The auras shot at the center of the circle, filling the Spectral Prince with intense power.

Everyone stopped to watch only to shield their eyes from the intensity of the growing dark magic. The baby grew and grew until it was as tall as Astromancer Academy.

Finally, the light died down, and everyone's eyes widened in shock and horror at the sight of the Beast in front of them;

Twice or more the size of the Spectral Dragon, Apocalypse bore the skull of a dragon. On his shoulders were skulls of phoenixes while his gauntlets were made from the skulls of unicorns. On his chest was the skull of a wolf. From his back emerged a pair of black dragon wings and a pair of gray-feathered phoenix wings.

Apocalypse set his eyes on the ground until he spotted his first prey; The Mysticons.

As Dreadbane helped her up, Necrafa watched with pride and glee as her child let out a mighty roar and sent a wave of black flames at the Mysticons. The Mysticons managed to evade the attack, but Necrafa knew it won't be long until they are finished.

"Don't tell me you're about to cry." Necrafa turned to her lover who was watching his boy with a sad look.

"They just grow up so fast." Dreadbane replied.

Necrafa rolled her eyes, but she couldn't wait to finally purge the realm in complete chaos and destruction.

And once she does, she can finally spend the rest of her eternity with her king...