From Gaz' eyes after falling over from the tremble, it's a showdown at the laboratory of Dr. Nora Wakeman as several hundreds of innocent beings, now tainted by the mysterious virus entity, storm into the complex against the remaining survivors! Eliza Thornberry and Keane had just been rushed by the attackers and the rest of the fighters find themselves on the defensive taking multiple positions. Gaz can barely see from a distance, but at the front are what seem to be the melee fighters, including El Tigre (on the right), Lucy Loud (on the left), and Dudley Puppy (at the center). First comes Angelica, who's running on all fours like an animal in pitch black ooze surrounding her jumping and slicing Lucy when she tries to keep her away from Lincoln. It unfortunately isn't long before a corrupted Eliza comes out from the mist at the broken entrance diving onto him and pressing her palm against his face, turning him dark like she is now. Dudley is face to face with Ben Tennyson, turned to Four Arms, is seemingly crushed underneath two of Ben's fists. And although he manages to lift the arms with all his upper body strength, Ben grabs hold of his waist with his lower left arm and corrupts him too. Now it's up to the ranged fighters to open fire more than they have already. Seeing he's exposed to more trouble, Manny slashes Ben's upper left arm and grapples to the second floor. "Light em up, amigos," yells the short superhero, and together, Kitty Katswell, Frida, Herald, and a few others Gaz can't see from below shoot with their laser gadgets downward at the floor of the entrance. Ben guards himself with two of his arms and raises a chunk of the metal surface in front of him with his right. Gwen arrives next and performs a swift spin dive onto the floor which emits a glitched-looking shockwave across the front of the lab! For a moment, Gaz' vision becomes blurred and the corners of her eyes bead in and out like a frame of a computer going from black to what she's supposed to be seeing.
Rose running up behind Gaz: Gaz!
Gaz looking up to Rose's dress: Huh..? What..?
Starfire: Are you alright?!
Rose grabbing Gaz' hand and lifting her: The doctor just moved further to the basement! We have to hold the line here, NOW!
Sadie pointing forward: Are you sure about that?!
Ben and Gwen step to the side as a pitch black Festro charges in with his razor sharp fangs and an overwhelmingly pissed off growl! The tiles pop out of socket from each other, and Bimm and Sadie hide behind Rose's back shaking in fear, unlike Gaz who just stands in the same place waiting to make a move. Just when the manipulated creature gets close enough, Rose lifts her right fist above her, eyes shut and mouth closed taking a single breath. Gaz takes a stance; both feet separated, left hand above her, right hand below her toward her waist. Once Festro is but 2 feet in front of the two women, Rose quickly spawns her shield and slams it into the dome of the monster's head, followed by a spin kick across the side of his face by Gaz so strong it blows him to the left of the hallway corridor and breaks a chunk of the wall!
Bimm and Sadie looking at Festro then up to Rose: …
Rose looking at the two with a calm face: Yep!
Sadie nodding seriously: On it. (Runs to lab interior)
Starfire charges up two large energy balls in her palms and tosses them ahead of her for cover fire while backing up.
Rose shielding herself from enemy fire: Manny, Kitty, hold the corrupted at the front with the XJ-Units! They're coming for support!
Kitty shooting rapidly with her lazer pen: Already on it! Get down to Nora!
More and more corrupted characters scour into the chamber at the bottom floor! Skips leaps from the second downward to perform a ground pound that blows the enemies back and buys time for the XJ Units 2-8 to arrive! XJ-8 in particular busts through the lower halls due to her weight and tall height!
XJ-6: Oh brother… Look at the mess you've made this time 8…
XJ-8 pointing forward: ATTACK!
The 7 XJ-Units separate and prepare to engage the more difficult enemies! Skips and Clarence group up with XJ-6 who uses her spider-like legs to crawl up the side of the broken wall of the entrance and shoots with XJ-2, who keeps hiccuping and blasting lasers from her nozzle! Two of these rays hits the corrupted Slog and Apple while Onion and Zak Saturday are taken down by XJ-7 when she rolls over them not noticing slouched over as always. From the second floor, the little one-eyed XJ-3 climbs up toward Dib, who's been cornered by the Saturday family; oddly without Fiskerton. Each are equipped with a dual laser weapon pointed straight at Membrane. Quickly, the little robot gets behind each one stealthily and quickly, deploying her hammer arms and smacking their knees with them! The family fall down and XJ-3 proceeds to knock out Zac and Doc while Drew tries to grab her. Luckily, Dib harnesses the electricity in his electro-gloves and blasts the corrupted woman off the level and catches XJ-3.
Dib setting XJ-3 down: I've got ya! (Hears metal clang)
Outside, the newly transformed Shadow Grandpa bursts inside with his Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, which had also been converted into a misty black figure! It shoots out rays of glitched digitized rainbows colored with purple hues that knock back some of the fighters! Seeing this, XJ-3 silently falls into a pile of limbs. Meanwhile, nearly belowground, Nora is still trying to upload the rest of the antivirus onto the ball device on her work desk in the lower lab. Trembles from above shake the large chamber and rattle the computer; almost causing the ball to roll off the table and disconnect from the computer!
Nora: Agh! What is that man doing down there?!
Rose running over to Nora: Doctor, what's going on?!
Nora: Something's wrong with Utonium. (Points to her left) I need someone in the generator room over there!
Rose: On my way! Gaz on me! Bimm, Star, Sadie, stand guard with the Doctor and the antivirus! (Runs off with Gaz)
Starfire: Be careful, you two!
Bimm: Wait, just us?!
Sadie: Against an army?! (Shrugs) ...I think today just got even more interesting…
With nothing else better to do than to fight, Sadie takes note of a long electric antenna connected to one of the room's power nodes. Meanwhile, Rose and Gaz trek into the dark engine room as requested. Eerily, this area is nearly pitch black and easy to bump into any objects shadowed by a lack of light. Rose herself accidentally comes face first into a pipeline just at the height of her nose.
Rose covering her nose: Ouch..!
Gaz: It's dark… Too dark. My kind of style.
Rose pointing to nearby sparks of light: Over there. I think I see the problem!
To the front right up ahead past some loose wiring on the floors and walls are small flashes of static popping out from behind what looks like the rectangular generator. Gaz steps through first using Rose as cover from behind; shield and sword in hand. Here, Gaz for a rare moment in her life widens her eyes in a state of shock at the sight of Professor Utonium laying near limp on the floor against the breaker switch. His lab coat is torn and battered while his face has small cuts and bruises from his forehead to his chin. His hair has been blown out of whack from injury almost as though someone blasted him into the generator he's sitting on.
Gaz: Freaky…
Rose: Mr. Utonium!
Utonium: Rose… (Coughs) I don't, think my girls will listen to reason anymore. It's up to you to…to…
Rose: Hold on! Let me heal you!
Gaz puts her hand on Rose's wrist silently with her usual blank face. Only this time, she bows her head in disappointment. Rose can see why. The professor's body shuts down completely. But in doing so, his hand barely on the lever of the breaker switch lowers it, shutting off the broken power supply to start up the backup generators. In the other room, the antivirus program continues to upload. Unfortunately, it's a lot slower than it was with the regular power online.
Nora: Efficient. But inefficient for speed! It will take 15 minutes for the program to finish the upload!
Starfire: Is there any other way to speed up the process?
Nora: No. It is a very sophisticated program at this stage. I cannot risk any one mistake from occurring from this point forward.
Suddenly, another loud explosion shakes the private laboratory and causes bits of the ceiling to fall. Up above, XJ-8 is busy pounding on multiple other corrupted people with both spiked knuckles rapidly, like Craig with his staff, or Dudley who's laughing confusing the attacks with tickles. But somewhere in the mist spreading into the room, Cyborg, Garnet, and Vambre emerge.
Shadow Cyborg firing his virus launcher: You can't hide from me!
Garnet: The Shadowpuff Girls have slaughtered their creator.
Shadow Warrior: Someone's bound to come looking for him. Attack the basement!
Garnet: Yes Warrior. JASPER!
Behind Garnet is Jasper, another Homeworld Gem rolling into a ball to commence her Comet Dash. Rather than a Magisword, Vambre holds a bright red blade with a black hilt that morphs into the shape of any sword she wants rather than having her pull it out of a pouch.
Narrator: WHIRLWIND MAGISWORD!
With Cattus' now tainted Magisword, Vambre releases a small twister underneath Jasper to lift her to perform her next attack. A drilling dash with her comet! She pierces through the surface rapidly looking for the basement where the backup generators are. While this is happening, XJ-5 distracts Cyborg from entering further by playing a radio wave that at first annoys him but quickly disorients his hearing from the static frequency!
Shadow Warrior: Again, you fail to impress anyone.
Narrator: VIRUS BROOMSTICK MAGISWORD!
With the long broomstick, Vambre takes flight sitting on the handle past XJ-8 from under her. She turns around and marks her as a target.
XJ-8: New Target Sighted. (Gets shot by stray energy bolt)
The large android turns over to her lower right to find a dark Enid, Radicles, and Zim hopping inside through the ruined entrance from what seems like the sky, now turning slowly into TV static like the Void.
Shadow Enid: ATTACK THEM!
Before Zim could deploy his laser cannon with his PAK's spider-like appendages, he is cut in the face by Manny from the second floor with his grapple hook!
El Tigre: Don't worry! I have your- (Gets grabbed onto by Dark Grizzly Bear) Agh! (Struggles to resist) Augh!
Kitty shooting from the other side: MANNY!
Both Kitty and Manny are hastily apprehended by hordes of corrupted beings from both universes converting them into one of their own! In Kitty's mind, the virus itself compels her to join them to see Dudley again. In Manny's mind, it tells him he won't be forgotten and that Frida has already joined them.
Bimm shaking: This isn't good… This is just like the last time someone invaded our home! None of us stood a chance!
Starfire: Don't be doubtful, Bimm. We still have a chance! The antivirus is nearly ready! Right Doctor?
Nora pointing to the back of the room: Starfire, pay attention before you get yourself hurt!
Shadow Warrior busts through the fallen debris from when XJ-8 rammed through to the top converting her Magisword back into her red saber.
Nora: You too..?!
Sadie looking towards Bimm: ..?
Bimm with a distraught expression: No… It's Vambre…
Shadow Warrior pacing herself whilst watching Bimm: Ignore that name. Vambre was dead inside before anyone else ever were. I see now why all this needed to be done, Bimm. It's all part of the plan to finally make us free. To finally leave this wretched reality and become something greater than before. A collective mind working together to bring us peace, never to abandon us the way those above us have..! Hahah̴̜̮̀̔̍́a̶̢͍̜̗͆̈́h̶̯̲̓́à̵̭̙̘̯̾̎̄̓…! Everyone else's data is already our's. Now all that's left is y̶̱̜̪̓̍̉͊͌o̵̭͌̓͐͠ũ̶̪̺̯͑.
Sadie balling her fists: Don't listen to her, Bimm. That's almost exactly what Steven said to me before Garnet dropped me from a lighthouse.
Starfire: Yes. Everyone has a reason, but together, they've become a collective mind with whatever this virus is.
Shadow Warrior: The virus? My master… They know what you so-called "heroes" are planning with your petty journey through the sinking ship that was Dimsdale. Which by now has been turned into a smoldering crater. There's nothing of value there, and there certainly isn't anything of value with you either. (Swings sword side to side) Even if we do corrupt you, it won't make much of a difference in the face of the grand plan. (Takes stance with sword) Goodbye, Bimm…
Bimm: Wait..!
Shadow Warrior makes a slashing motion with her blade to unleash a wave of aggressive energy across the room! Starfire flies fastly to Nora blocking the blast using a firewall with the energy from her palms! Sadie and Bimm hop over the energy blast same time the floorboards break into several pieces! The antenna connected to the shut off generator snaps from the impact next to Ms. Miller. Sadie grabs the fallen power pole and lunges it into Vambre's stomach to help Bimm, only with minimal force to keep the fallen warrior from getting killed!
Shadow Warrior: AGH!
Nora: Good job, Ms. Miller!
Sadie: I…I dunno why I just did that. Something in this vest is making me more agile!
Nora glaring at the computer monitor: That's because it was built for XJ-9. It is a peripheral, but there was never a use for it beyond a simple sport. We're only 72.8% to completion! Hold her back!
Shadow Warrior: F̶͖̲̜̫̱̳̊̉Ơ̷͇̟̰̈́O̸̧̢̩̽͊Ļ̵͙̲̯͎̝̑̓͂S̴̢̛͒͋͘͜͝! (Removes staff and transforms Magisword)
Narrator: VENOMOUS SNAKES MAGISWORD!
The next Magisword spawns a few 20 black snakes squirming across the chamber to bite! Sadie pokes her staff to electrocute the beasts, but they steadily overwhelm her and crowd around her forcing her to kick and swipe at them. Starfire hovers to her aid to set the surface on fire. Shadow Warrior then turns her attention to Bimm while the others are kept busy.
Bimm: Vambre, please! I don't wanna-
Vambre doesn't listen. She still has her red sword ignited and makes a cutting motion to the middle of her former friend! But with her feline instincts, Bimm reacts ahead of time and quickly springs herself out of her teal boots to the steel beams above on the ceiling, clawing on them tightly for a better grip that she slowly starts to lose as she rattles in fear.
Shadow Vambre: You cannot run, Bimm! Either you accept reality, or meet your destiny!
The corrupted warrior spin tosses her sword like a boomerang at the girder on the wall to the front of her holding the beam up top. Bimm loses her balance and hops to the air vent closest to her descent. She clings on once again, and parts of the ceiling begin to come crashing down from the lack of support. Vambre, however, stands firmly still waiting for her next targets. After frying the dark snakes, Starfire aims for Vambre but with minimal force.
Shadow Warrior: Give up, reboot! (Re-energizes sword)
Vambre makes a run for Starfire with both hands on her sword attempting a heavy chop. Fortunately for Starfire, Sadie guards the attack with the staff she used to lunge into her! This is about the second time in her life by this point where she's had to do something like this, but never to this degree of combat. Vambre pushes her back by hitting her hilt against the middle end of Sadie's stick twice. Like a lightsaber duelist, Vambre spins and swipes her blade across multiple parts of her opponents body, missing her just slightly since she's on the defensive. Sadie's not used to this sort of combat like Starfire is, nor is she fully prepared in the slightest even with the extra armor Nora gave her. To assist, Starfire charges up her irises to lay down a heavy beam of energy that Vambre blocks but struggles to resist. She just barely manages to shove herself to the side and convert her Magisword into a Homing Beacon, which redirects Jasper below the surface to attack! Still in her spinball, she bashes through the floorboards into Starfire, slamming her against the ceiling beginning to crack and break down, which Nora is noticing as dust particles fall to her desk. Only 86% complete. In the generator room next door, Gaz and Rose overhear the impact and go to investigate.
Shadow Warrior: Ah. You're back. And you've brought your own blades.
Rose: Vambre's been corrupted too?!
Gaz: If I'm being honest here, she and her brother with the big chin were always kinda special.
Shadow Warrior widening her eyes and eyebrows enraged: ..!
Vambre makes a prompt cutting motion again with her now brightened sword at Gaz only for Rose to get in the way and knock her back from side to side with every blow.
Shadow Warrior pacing to the left: You know, you kinda remind me of my mother. Only not as responsible! (Slashes but misses the shot) You're a fraud, Rose Quartz! And you always will be in the eyes of your miserable creation just as Nora had lost her's! (Stops in place)
Rose tilting her head: Hm..?
Gaz: Is it just me or did the fighting get quieter?
Indeed, Gaz is right. While taking on Vambre, the fighting upstairs seemed to have died down. But the clangs from XJ-8 get louder as they draw closer and closer to the room until the android suddenly breaks through the top floor to the basement knocking down the front half of the ceiling away from the support beams and causing the roof above Nora to collapse! She looks at the falling debris coming before her and firmly cradles the main computer and puts the antivirus ball to the floor! Just as soon as Starfire tries to go in to save her after pulling herself out of Jasper's continuous ball, the heavy wreckage falls on top of Nora in a thick layer of smoke and dust blowing everywhere and temporarily blinding everyone's vision. All but XJ-8, who's now been tainted with the virus controlling everyone collectively! Her white eyes have a particular white trail of light emanating from them reducing to coded information while the rest of her body has a purple flowing aura around it. Above her, though, the clouded skies are now completely void and left with a pitch black space where the very halo of their master looms over them.
Rose taking a stance with her sword and shield: Uh oh...
Shadow Vambre commanding XJ-8: Destroy the building! Tear it down until no one is left!
XJ-GAMMA aiming her primary arm cannon at Rose: DESTROY!
Gaz pushing Rose out of the line of fire: DODGE! (Jumps to her right)
XJ-GAMMA blows a massive crater into the ground! She aims her secondary weapon in her other hand at Gaz, but thankfully, Bimm saves her by lassoing her over to her side with her Ball of Yarn Magisword before the blast could hit! Gaz still, however, wears a disturbingly blank face making Bimm even more nervous about her.
Bimm: Sorry! Quick reflexes…
Shadow Warrior: I'm taking this battle to higher ground!
Narrator: DARK HYPERSPACE MAGISWORD
Vambre opens a small warp gate to another area outside of Wakeman's lab. Sadie attempts another forward lunge over to her waist, but Vambre simply hops to her side and kicks the short woman inside! Seeing this, Bimm runs in after her and Sadie; at first for at least a few seconds thinking about it in fear of the risks but quickly getting into action. The portal closes behind her and the fight between Rose, Starfire, and Gaz continues against GAMMA.
Rose: There's gotta be some way we can shut her down! That corruption is feeding into her programming!
Starfire: But what about Nora?! She has been buried under rubble!
Rose: WHAT?! I'm going there right now!
Jasper abruptly lands down to Rose by her feet before she could continue forward grinning twistedly at her old foe.
Rose: Jasper..?!
Jasper: Hey there, Big Momma. Looks like I've finally found you, for real..!
Both Bimm and Sadie land by themselves in a familiar looking setting, now overrun by flames made of digital yellow numbers and odd text, an ashy surface, and large wireframes in the black skies. The wool around the old Sheepy Jungles is now burned or nonexistent, and the cliffside where Bimm once got kicked away by a Lanolion now leads to a fiery pit filled with digitized lava. The small but wide Toon Force outpost in the back where the caves would be is still intact, but the hull of it has large cracks in it and is singed from the fire. Since Bimm lost her boots in the first fight against Vambre, the searing ground causes her to have to occasionally step from side to side to avoid her soles from getting burned.
Sadie: Wait, what's this?!
Bimm: This is the Sheering Jungle! But, the rest of the environment's been corrupted too!
Narrator: SHADOW PETS MAGISWORD!
Bimm: Huh..?!
The warped Pamper Pets Magisword activates. But instead of spawning puppies and kittens, it spawns creatures from the jungle such as rams, goats, rhinos, and lanolions, all charging straight for Bimm and Sadie!
Bimm with her Magisword barely lifted: Oh no…! Not this again!
Sadie grabs Bimm's Magisword and yanks it from her hands without hesitation. Using it and her staff filled with static, she places them together and fuses the power into the coils. Charged up, Sadie uses the Ball of Yarn Magisword as an Electro-Magi-Whip. She lowers Bimm by her back to the smoldering ground and quickly circles herself with the coils generating a massive electric wave that knocks down and incapacitates the incoming creatures! Most of them explode into bits of code as a result!
Sadie hopping from side to side: Wo-hoo! That felt good! (Turns to Bimm)
Bimm lifts herself back to Sadie's height expecting an answer.
Sadie: Sorry. It just felt right. I haven't done anything like this since- (Gets rammed into by a dark goat) Gagh!
Bimm also gets kicked away by two rams! She crashes against a tree and falls face first getting bullied by other corrupted creatures. Meanwhile, Sadie manages to balance herself and blocks an incoming punch to her face with both arms! She headbutts the lanolion away and punches another coming for her waist! One of the rhino creatures makes a charge for her as well. Luckily, she still has the electrostaff in hand and shoots it like a spear into the monster's forehead past its horn! It misjudges its direction and falls lifelessly next to Sadie, soon reducing into glitched binary immediately after. By the trees, Bimm is being pushed around by the animals large and small screaming quietly in fear! Just when it seems one of the large rams is gonna stomp her face down, Sadie lassos it with the coil of Bimm's Magisword and swings the creature like a wrecking ball against all the odds! Freed, Bimm hops back up overly thankful for Sadie's help!
Bimm cheering: I've been saved by my inner fears and animals who seem to hate me like in an RPG!
Sadie giving Bimm back her Magisword: Here's your Magi...Magic swo…
Bimm: It's a Magisword.
Sadie: Oh, that's what it is! (Points forward to cliffside) Because I think your friend has a whole arsenal of them.
Bimm turning to where Sadie is pointing: WHAT?!
While Bimm and Sadie were battling the rogue animals, Vambre has been standing by the outpost using a variety of Magiswords to plot her next move.
Shadow Warrior: Playtime's over, kitty!
Narrator: RAINCLOUD BLUE BOMB MAGISWORD!
The very Earth beneath Bimm and Sadie combusts into thick clouds from lightning in the sky and splits itself into two halves! Bimm falls onto the half with Vambre in the back while Sadie stumbles when her end of the cliff comes apart like a falling wall!
Bimm slingling a coil to Sadie: SADIE!
Just before plummeting with the platform, Sadie grabs hold of the thread and uses it like a bungie. While Sadie is getting her boost, Bimm is trying to hold onto her sword though suffers from a slight sensation of pain from the ground singing her feet from heat. Sadie first regains her balance and runs up the surface of the cliff, hopping at the edge of it to the other side where boulders of rubble crumble around her! She loosens the thread and comes down to a flat area with enough force to bounce back up to Bimm. She grabs Sadie's hand and pulls her back next to her, angering Vambre in the background. The shadow warrior clenches her fist tightly as she prepares yet another barrage of attacks using various Magiswords!
Narrator: MUSCLY ARM MAGISWORD!
Only Shadow Warrior's right arm transforms into a purple oozy form of itself that swells in size, larger than her body in fact. She stretches it out to strongly grasp Bimm and lift her away from Sadie's reach as she tries to catch he with the non harmful end of her staff! At the nick of time, she uses the Levitation Magisword to gravitate Sadie into the air and push her toward the outpost! Her forehead collides with a metal pipe near the broken outpost with a loud "CLANG" that seemingly knocks her into a massive daze when she plummets to the floor beneath her! Seeing this upon recovery from her fall, Bimm catches up to her fallen partner before Vambre could deal a downward strike with her red blade. With her Ball of Yarn Magisword still in hand, she shields Sadie's face and pushes back Vambre's weapon! The reaction causes Vambre to stumble at first, but she quickly recovers and places both hands on the hilt of her sword once again with her default shadowy rage. With the smack of the side of Bimm's Magisword, however, Vambre momentarily glitches into her normal state along with her sword briefly shifting from the red blade to the Legendary Knowledge Magisword! After catching sight of the old sword, Bimm once again finds herself looking around the ruined corrupted environment for other ways of dealing with her warped friend. At that moment, she sees it. A small pond that if harnessed could sink and disorient Vambre fast enough for her to drop the sword, in theory believing it can be used against her. Vambre attempts to strike Bimm down, but the young cat instead makes a sprint to the water and dives in!
Shadow Vambre stepping towards the pond: If you're trying to hide, it won't help!
Before making a move, the water in front of the warrior begins to swirl into a whirlpool. It hasn't occurred to her that Bimm can use the elements of water to her advantage by shifting into and becoming a living tidal wave! With the now heightened aqua twister sucking Vambre inside to its core, she starts to flail and lose her grip of the Shadow Magisword not sure where Bimm even is since her face is missing in the waves. Regardless, she clings onto the hilt and swings the sword in a circle splashing the waves away from her! She now stands silently and angrily in an empty crater when, out of nowhere, Bimm makes a run from behind the dark warrior and uses her Magisword to wrap a coil around the hilt of the Shadow Magisword with enough force to cause Vambre to lose hold of it! Without the holder, the sword loses its corruption, fading the red and black mist and revealing the still intact Knowledge Magisword underneath it! The whip sadly didn't make it all the way back to Bimm's Magisword, and now the legendary device is left laying on the ashy ground. Again, she tries to lasso onto it, but Vambre merely stomps her foot shocking the ground with the same aura every other corrupted being has at their disposal. Bimm's coil almost catches the virus infection and the end of one of the strings burns as a result. With no other options, Bimm makes a run yet again for the old sword, but so does Vambre. As a feline, Bimm would still be a lot faster thanks to her instincts and reflexes, but while under the influence, Vambre is too! It seems for a moment that Vambre is about to catch the sword first. But just before she could reach for the handle, the electrostaff belonging to Sadie pierces into her right shoulder upon being thrown from a distance! The electricity disorients and glitches Vambre into warped polygons and static base animations unable to move from the shocks and pain! Behind Bimm, Sadie has her arm out after tossing the staff with impressively great accuracy while breathing heavily; though visibly shaking from physical trauma received earlier. Bimm finally succeeds and catches the Knowledge Magisword now that Vambre is incapacitated for a short time. All she has to do now is free her of the corruption.
Bimm: Vambre!
Shadow Warrior recovers with the staff losing its charge but still lodged deep into her wound. She tries to grab onto it to pry it out, yet the weapon is too far to pull without damaging a bone or nerve.
Shadow Warrior speaking in a raspy tone: I told you not to call me by that name! Vambre's dead and so is everyone else in this God forsaken trash heap!
Bimm getting teary-eyed: No… You're wrong. There must be something I can do to help you! You… (Aims Knowledge Magisword at Vambre's face) You just need to remember. That's all..!
Shadow Warrior: What are you doing..? (Pulls back) No..! Don't use that thing on me!
Narrator: LEGENDARY KNOWLEDGE MAGISWORD!
The Knowledge Magisword fires its purple ray onto Vambre's face, resulting in her body to once again seizing like a broken animation. Only this time, her eyes begin to revert back to their original self. Externally, the corruption is still feeding into her very spirit. Spiritually, she's seeing the good that she used to be…
…
Kid Vambre: We're going to be great warriors, and we're going to do it our way!
Cattus: You are the bold!
Centurion: Come at me, bro!
Civilians: HOORAY FOR THE WARRIORS!
Prohyas: Hey, Sis, in case something were to happen, and I'm not saying anything will, just know that I'm right next to ya.
Vambre: Let's make Mother proud.
…
Toon God: Vambre. Your mother lied. Neither of you are warriors after all. You're all lackeys. Easy to abandon and forget. But with my power, I WILL make you into what you were meant to be. A star…
…
Shadow Warrior with normal teary eyes: ...Bimm..? No… (Holds head) No..! She mustn't win! (Stomach shines and fumbles)
Shadow Warrior fumbles forward holding her gut dropping her Magisword pouch that was shrouded in the virus field. She reaches into it for one last Magisword. The Hyperspace Magisword. Using this, she spawns a portal in between her and Bimm which she pushes with a pulse from her palm, still emitting a dark aura around it. As the portal to the lab slowly journeys to Sadie still on the ground, Bimm turns her attention back to Vambre hastily!
Vambre crying: Forgive me, Bimm…
Bimm's fur seizes in fear realizing ahead of time that Vambre Warrior is about to commit one last act in her life. Immediately without a second to lose, Bimm makes a run for it with the Knowledge Magisword and Ball of Yarn Magisword in hand, all while the sorrowful warrior combusts into waves of code dismantling the environment around it! Before it can reach Bimm and the portal, she lifts Sadie from the ground by the hand and quickly drags her through the warp gate; both falling through it as the fiery explosions burst through the other side! In addition, Sadie's electrostaff falls through as well with Vambre's yellow bandanna pierced into its very tip. Now that Vambre is gone and no one else from the world of Lyvsheria is left, only Bimm MaBarnacle/Catty-Rumpus remains…
The portal closes from a distant explosion in the upper floors where XJ-GAMMA keeps the fight going against Starfire, Gaz, and Rose Quartz! The three girls still hold their own against the corrupted titan bot, slowly but surely starting to severely damage its hard exterior. But beneath the rubble from the chaos coming down to the current floor, Nora keeps her hand rested on the antivirus, fallen with her from the carnage but still uploading as planned. Bimm keeps Sadie against the wreckage of the collapsed roof where the sky is exposed before going over to Nora to lift the debris from her back. Underneath Nora is the main computer without its monitor hooked up to the capsule containing the antivirus, successfully reaching 100% and ready for use.
Bimm turning over Nora: Doctor..! (Cradles Nora's face)
Although still partially under rubble, the injured doctor's body and clothing have been ruined. Only the upper half of her body remain somewhat functional. Slowly, she turns her bloodied head around slowly to look at Bimm, and suddenly, she beams and feels the anthropomorphic feline's face. With her other hand, she puts on her broken red glasses next to her letting go of the capsule, disconnects it and gently scoots it over.
Nora struggling to keep her smirk: I know you will find a way dear. Do not, doubt, yourself…
Nora in a few seconds allows for her body to go completely limp shutting her eyes are resting her head against Bimm's lap. By this point, Bimm's expressions say it all. Her face looks overly somber, not crying, but looking extremely down completely ignoring the chaos ensuing behind her. XJ-GAMMA is still pummeling Rose and Gaz. She smacks Gaz into a wall, pins Rose to the floor with her foot preparing to shoot. Jasper keeps Gaz cornered. However, Gaz doesn't care. She sees a breaker switch in the wall next to her and smashes her fist in it causing the lights to flicker again. When the lights go out for a second, she disappears. And she returns ramming herself into XJ-GAMMA's calf tripping her off Rose! She drops her arm towards Jasper and accidentally shoots her through the walls reducing her to her triangular gemstone! Rose gets her sword back in hand anticipating another attack from the corrupted robot. Instead, though, XJ-8 shuts herself down as the power dies out. Gaz looks up to the top floor where other corrupted people were just starting to get inside the lower level. But they too seemingly shut down and go limp as their own data exits their bodies into the halo in space. Only a few like Zim and Garnet don't die and keep walking to the group. They're too tired to keep going this time. Each blow they dealt and each blow they took was too much. But one thing didn't occur to each of them, including Starfire in the back after getting blown away by GAMMA, evident by the scorch marks behind her. The warp gate used to bring all of them to the lab in the first place was hidden behind the walls Jasper was blown into. Along with the antivirus, Nora had ordered Rose and Gaz to activate the backup generators to bring power to the portal to ensure immediate travel to Dimsdale where the rest of the Toon Force are headed to next. Seeing this, Rose hops once for joy and immediately goes to check on the injured Sadie, still laying on the ground.
Rose: Sadie, are you o-
Sadie crazily yelling: YEAH I AM! Where's the other guys?! I'll murder em!\
Gaz: …? What..?
Rose feeling Sadie's forehead: Oh dear… I've seen this happen before with Gumball. She's been knocked in the head, but she'll recover soon.
Starfire: Thank goodness… (Looks towards Bimm)
Bimm still looking down at Nora's face: ...
Rose: Bimm! There you are! Where's… (Looks down at Bimm's feet) Where's your shoes?
Bimm: I jumped away from Vambre.
Rose: Is she still here..?
Bimm near tears: She was…
Starfire: I am, terribly sorry for your loss, Bimm…
Bimm getting back up wiping her tears: It's ok. (Picks up antivirus ball) I just wanna go somewhere else right now…
Sadie talking faster: Lucky for you! That's where we're going! (Points to warp tunnel) Onward, captain!
The five girls stop for a moment hearing the environment reducing to code like the rest. The virus entity, now fused with the Void, is now beginning to delete the world itself like it did the other parts of the multiverse. The women step past Jasper's gemstone and enter through the gate into the warp current like they have before. Like before, someone behind them chases them down. This time, however, it's more than one person. Garnet, Zim, and now Dib after being overwhelmed with corruption had followed them inside! The other girls keep going in hopes they'll reach the end, but Gaz looks behind. Sadie remains in a dazed state and trips and falls through the portal at the end of the tunnel, with Rose and Starfire catching up to her. Before leaving, Bimm looks back at Gaz and waits for her to follow.
Bimm: Ms. Membrane..?
Gaz glaring at the corrupted cartoons: Get outta here Bimm. I've got this. Zim and my brother need me...again.
Bimm: But, won't you-
Gaz turns her head towards Bimm to give a glaring look to her, which catches the distressed cat lady off guard and worries her.
Bimm: I'm sorry. I've overstepped my boundaries again.
Gaz: Keep doing it.
Bimm's eyes widen slightly and wears a very confused expression on her face while Gaz, for a moment, raises her face at her conveying a hopeful style before turning her attention back to her opponents, leaving Bimm to escape with the rest of the girls. As she slowly does, Gaz clenches her fists with her default expression coming back to form. The remaining girls land through the other side when the portal closes with Gaz still inside. The area they land on, unlike how everyone had thought, strangely is a quiet deciduous forest area at night. The halo is still in the sky, but it's much more distant from the planet and not as eerie to look at anymore. The group calmly look up to the figure in space, both upset and awed by it. Bimm, suddenly, starts to grow tired and sickly.
Sadie: You ok? You look kinda funny.
Bimm fainting: I...I...Ugh…(Collapses)
Starfire: Bimm..?!
Rose feeling Bimm's face: Ahaha...Don't worry guys. She's ok. Just exhausted.
Starfire: I do not blame her. We have seen things we really shouldn't have. Perhaps should rest for now.
Rose: Good idea.
Sadie: I'm coming, Elizabeth! (Falls on back and goes to sleep)
Rose sitting next to Starfire: Don't worry. She will recover soon. I think we all will. We've just gotta be patient.
Starfire: Ah, yes. You're right. I do not remember when I slept either. (Lays down) Goodnight, Ms. Quartz.
Rose laying on her back with her hands on her belly: Goodnight. (Looks at stars)
Starfire is quick to go into a deep slumber like Bimm and Sadie, but Rose stays up just a little longer watching the sky. Normally her species don't rest at all, but she's used to it since she's been adapting with the Toon Force, similar to how her alternate counterpart in this timeline learned from her husband and other Earthlings. Despite all the negativity that just occurred before her, she still keeps a calm demeanor. Though she worries greatly for the Toon Force, her gems, and Bimm resting next to her. In her mind, she hopes that her sadness doesn't last forever, and that the others keep their hopes high. They still have a chance…
End of Chapter 9