"What are you doing, Ms. NiGHTS?", Bendy asked, with a calm snarl, as he stepped inside the carrier's wishbone lab to find NiGHTS, trying to hack into the SHIELD's personal lifes.
"I was about to ask the same to you.", NiGHTS replied in a chill way, turning to face the cartoonish being.
"You're supposed to be traicng the blue gem...and your own brother."
"We are!...", Star Butterfly protested. "The model locked up and now we are trying to find the signature. We'll get the location once we get a hit."
"And you'll get the gem, with no resistence.", NiGHTS reluctantly added out. "What the fudge is this Phase Two thingy?"
The answer came with Sonic the Hedgehog. The blue anthropomorfic hedgehog entered and immediately slammed a large cannon from the Eggman Empire on the table. "Phase Two is SHEILD using the gem to make weapons.", Sonic bitterly replied NiGHTS' question. "Also, excuse me, ma'am. Computer was slower than me at my best."
"Sonic, we gathered all related to the blue gem.", Bendy said, trying to cease the fire. "This doesn't mean we-"
"Sorry, Bendy.", NiGHTS cutted off, nearly shoving a screen showing the plan for a powerful missile in Bendy's eye-patched face. "What were you lying 'bout?"
"I was wrong, Director...the world isn't any better than mine.", Sonic said, in a kind of mournful way, right as Meta Knight and Pearl dashed into the room.
"Did you know about this?", Star, with worry charging her voice, asked to Pearl.
"I'm sorry, but...you want to get out of here before things spiral out of control?", Pearl sympathetically and softly asked.
"Haha! I was pretty removed last time."
"Reala's manipulating you."
"And what you were doing, Miss Gem?"
"You didn't come here because you want to find better ways to control your wand."
"Yup. And nope, not leaving because you're getting hysteric. I just wanna know; why SHIELD is using the blue gemy to build mass destruction weaponry?"
"Because of her, and him.", Bendy answered, pointing his finger towards NiGHTS and Meta Knight. Immediately, the purple jester's sassy and confident ruse faded, as she visibly struggled to not rage over the cartoon demon, or even breakdown in furious tears, cursing her brother.
"Her...I, can understand.", Meta Knight said, trying his best to be soft enough to not hurt the Nightmaren's feelings. "But why me?"
"Last year Mobius had a visitor from another universe, that had a match nearly destroying a single small town...we learnt that we, and the universes we protect are not only alone, but stupidly, hilariously out-gunned.", Bendy explained.
"My kind doesn't have any ill to your protected universes."
"But you're not the potentially-dangerous kind of the multiverse...and surely, not all of them are pacific. The multiverse is infected with beings, monsters, abominations that can't be contained."
"Like you want the blue gem!", Sonic acussed.
"Reala, and all of his allies, are drawing your interest with the blue gem he got.", Meta Knight warned. "It's the signal a shard of the multiverse that it should prepare itself for a higher form of war."
"A higher form?!", Sonic yelled in disbelief.
"You forced our hand! We had to come with a bit of-"
"NUCLEAR BOMBING?!", NiGHTS realized, with a scream that filled the room from inside out. "...you're stupid if you think it'll calm everybody."
It was enough to snap a matching war inside the room. Everybody began to cut each other off, in a hostile way.
"Remind me again...", Bendy said, his voice now a cold hiss. "How the hell did you even become a rebel anyway, NiGHTS?"
"Yeah, good question.", Sonic said. "If her superior-I-don't-care-about-the-name-off found out then-"
"HEY! When did the cannons aim at me?!", NiGHTS yelled.
"I really though you were wiser than this.", Meta Knight said, disappointed.
The shouting match continued, one trying to speak with each other but their voices only getting higher. It even looked like they weren't in control of their own emotions at all...which was true, in a way.
The scepter glowed, brighter than ever, influencing the verbal war to keep going. NiGHTS and Sonic themselves, who already were more like reluctant allies to each other than proper friends, instantly began to shout agains't each other like enemies. Star, who was most of the time a peppy and friendly individual, suddenly yelled for Meta Knight to handle her.
...
Sadly, the hero's verbal fight between themselves left them exposed for a jet, transporting the mind-controlled Tom Lucitor and a bunch of unknown soldiers, also mind-controlled, preparing themselves to free Reala.
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"You speak of control, yet you court chaos!", Meta Knight yelled, his eyes now truly flashing with blood red anger.
"IT'S HIS MO, RIGHT?!", Star yelled. "I mean, what are we, a team? Not at all. We are a bunch of weirdos that'll explode together. We- we are a ticking bomb!"
"You need to step away.", Bendy said, the only one remaining that was trying to keep himself cool.
"Why shouldn't we let her take off steam?", NiGHTS suggested, voice dipping with venom.
"You understand why! Back off!", Sonic commanded.
"Oh yeah? I think I'm having fighting thoughts involving you now."
"Yeah, a clown that can fuse with people. Take that off, what are you?"
"Uhm, genius. Acrobat, guardian, strongest Nightmaren."
"I know people that don't have that, yet are more valuable than you! I saw the footage. You only fight for the sake of your own freedom. You are not the girl ready to sacrifice yourself, so other people can go ahead."
"I think freedom is great, okay hypocrite?"
"*tch*, you aren't a threat like your brother, but I don't think you're fit for being a hero."
"A hero? Like you? Sonic, you're just a silly legend. Everything special about you came from a pair of shoes. Also, if I were to listen to somebody, I wouldn't prefer a rodent less taller than me."
"Well, come on then! This rodent can kick you butt around town. What ya say, fly girl? Let's go a few rounds."
"Your people are so petty...and foolish.", Meta Knight confessed.
"Yeah, greatest team ever. Ladies and gentlemen.", Star Butterfly sarcastically clapped as she said that.
"Agent Pearl?...", Bendy said, as the Multiverse Initiative member's swore for the rest of their varied kinds of lives they saw ink dipping from his horns and dropping into the floor as his face began to grow more genuinely stressed. "Can you escort Ms. Butterfly back to-"
"YOU RENTED THE ROOM SUPPOSED TO BE MINE!"
"But the cell-"
"IN CASE YOU MUST END ME. I TRIED, YOU KNOW, BUT YOU CAN'T NOW!"
Everyone began to give their looks at the now-furious Star Butterfly. For them, it was pretty obvious that, with those strong feelings, she would soon become the Incredible Mewberty. Yet, they remained apprehensive, both because of Star's alter-ego's massive power, and for the sight of a purple heart popping over her skin (the signal for Mewberty's arrival).
"I got low. I didn't see a way to end the Other Girl, so without my best friend looking, I tried to blast myself with the wand, only for her to absorb it. So I didn't give up; I focused on being myself and learning. It was fine, until you people dragged me to be your freakshow's main attraction at the risk of everybody, including my ex. Hey Pearl, you wanna know how the heck I stay chill all the time so she can't come out?!"
As the rest of the group watched the shouting Star, Pearl slowly reached one of her hands to her forehead, prepared to pull a spear if necessary, and Bendy immediately began to search for his gun.
"Star. Drop that scepter.", Sonic ordered, much to Star's surprise, who didn't get yet she unconsciously picked up Reala's scepter. As the monitor beeped, Star putted the scepter back on the table and walked to the screen, on the room's other extreme.
"Sorry guys, you won't be able to see my greatest trick.", Star kind of apologized.
NiGHTS turned around and prepared to fly away out of that helicarrier, but before any of that could happen, Sonic grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back.
"Nope! Not leaving!"
"You wanna stop me?"
"Let's find it out!"
"I ain't afraid to hit a rat."
"Let's. Find it."
"Oh-boy.", Star Butterfly gasped, looking at a beeping dot on the monitor.