Issue 25: Exalted Awakening

En Route to Mount Prism

BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Spirit

Having left Little Planet, the United Heroes, along with their temporary allies, the Masters of Evil, walk through a beautiful forest area as they make their way to the altar of Mount Prism to perform the Awakening Ceremony to help them stand up to time-corrupted Grima's might.

"How much farther is it?" Lissa asked, tired of all this walking around.

"Only a few more minutes away, child. Have patience." Doom replied, leading the united team to the top of the mountain.

"Couldn't we just use Chaos Control to warp ourselves there already? My feet's getting tired." Lissa complained.

"Too risky considering the fabric of time is unraveling. We're lucky enough we found a wormhole that took us close enough to our destination." Shadow answered the Ylissean princess.

"I'm kinda glad for that. I think I saw cowboys fighting giant robots while riding dinosaurs on the way here. Time is surely messed up." Ilia remarked on how messy time is getting with all these open time rifts.

"Grima must be feeding off those open time rifts to make himself stronger. Soon, time itself will collapses and disappear into nothingness." Doc Ock explained.

"The instability of time caused by the crack in the Genesis Stone." Shadow said.

"Correct. If we want to restore time, we must retrieve the Genesis Stone from Grima. However, in his new transcendent state, he exists in the past, present, and future. Defeating him, in the here and now, would amount to nothing." Ock said.

"I won't give up. There has to be a way. If you say it exists in the past, present, and future, I'll destroy them all at once!" Lucina said, determined.

"Hope for all our sake, this Awakening will provide us the edge we need." Ock replied.

Spidey sighed at the thought that he feels responsible for Grima's awakening to new, dangerous heights. "Once again, my bad luck brings doom and chaos to the world. The actual term "doom," not the person." He said, annoying Dr. Doom. "Why does everything I get involved results in the fabric of reality collapsing? My life totally sucks."

"Hey. Don't feel bad, Spidey." Weiss said to cheer up her web-headed friend.

"This isn't first time we had to fix time." Sonic said to Peter.

"But I was summoned to this world to save it, not give Grima the power to rule over time. And here I am supposed to be some "Hero-Spider of Legend" the people admire." Spidey berated himself.

"Don't be like that, Spider-Man. It seemed inevitable Grima was going to awaken even if you didn't intervene. All that matters you tried your best. Thanks to your efforts, we changed history to the point of giving us a fighting chance against him now." Chrom talked to his inter-dimensional friend.

"Your legacy gave me the courage and strength to keep fighting in my world, even when all seemed hopeless. As long as we keep moving forward, victory is assured. YOU taught me that through your actions, both in the past AND future, and I know for certain, we can save both today!" Lucina gave Peter an encouraging pep-talk to bring him back to high spirits, which seemed to have did the trick.

"Thanks for the little pep talk, Lucy. I needed that. Yeah, we will beat Grima, for sure this time. He's not gonna terrorize anymore futures after today." Spidey said with a smile.

"Just make sure to ease up on the time puns." Lucina told him.

"Oh sure. Give me time. I'll stop." Spidey quipped, getting a little laugh from his friends, but an annoyed grunt from his enemies.

BGM End


Mount Prism

Eventually, the heroes arrived at the beautiful fields that cover the divine lands of this holy sanctuary. "Whoa. This place is so peaceful. So beautiful." Knuckles commented about the divine area they're standing on, reminding him of his home in Angel Island.

"The divine dragon's power flows through every blade of grass here." Lucina said with a warm smile.

"It's the complete opposite of The Dragon's Table. Everything's so calm and warm." Cinder said.

Suddenly, her's and Spider-Man's spider-sense triggers to imminent danger approaching the sacred fields. "Something doesn't feel right." Spidey said as Cinder immediately puts on her Toxin Symbiote.

"Nngh…" Robin senses something's amiss. "We must prepare for battle! Grima has sent servants here. I can sense it. They'll be on us soon!" And when he means "soon," he means now, as multiple time rifts tear through the sky to drop down a small army of Risen to deal with heroes.

"Or now!" Sun exclaimed.

"How could Risen infiltrate this sacred place?" Lucina asked as she draws her blade for battle.

BGM-Spider-Man: Edge of Time OST-Cause and Effect

"Their power must be linked to Grima's. We must destroy them!" Salem answered. The Dark Witch stands beside the Latverian King to unleash a powerful volley of mystical energy, wiping out a good chunk of the incoming invaders.

Stahl and Nowi work side-by-side, decimating the Risen in their path. "Outta the way!" Eggman shouted at them, stomping down on the fields with his upgraded Eggwalker. The mad scientist laughs maliciously while mowing down the Risen with his Volkan Cannon mini-gun. "You undead parasites! Go rot back to your grave!" He said, pressing a button on the cockpit to destroy them with a missile barrage.

Doc Ock pierces through the undead soldiers' hearts with his tentacles, throwing away their corpses to the wind as more just keep coming through the time rifts. "We won't get anywhere with this? Grimadoom! Close off those rifts!" He ordered his ultimate creation.

"Got it, Doc, but it'll take some time!" Grimadoom said while blazing through a horde of Risen.

"Now's not the time for jokes!" Ock shouted at his unneeded time pun.

After defeating that group of Risen, Grimadoom stands in place and charges up a magic-empowered psychic energy through his hands, because thanks to being created by the Exo Espeon Stone, he should have no trouble closing down these time rifts. Once he gathers enough energy, he directs his attention to the four rifts in the sky and closes them with his power. "Alright. Four down…" He pauses for second after seeing more time rifts open up hiding more trouble. "20 more to go." He said with an annoyed look and fights against the new-coming Risen.

Toxin-Cinder leaps through the air, forming flaming-sword hands to slice up the Risen in a grandiose fashion, burning them away with a flame slice, but after cutting down a mob of those undead soldiers, her attention is focused to a new threat from the time rifts: Flaming lava-harden Grimm from an alternate timeline. "What kind of Grimm are those?" She asked Salem as she passes by.

"Not anything I've ever seen. They seem to be possessed by some "fire entity" that Grima summoned from either an existing or destroyed timeline." Salem proclaimed to the best of her knowledge.

"They honestly look pretty familiar to me, but I can't say why." Sonic said, as these "Iblis Grimm" does look familiar to something else he can't remember. "Can you control them and tell them to shoo?" He asked Salem.

"It's meaningless. Grima's in control over them. The best option is to eradicate the creatures before they be a nuisance." Salem suggested.

"That's a plan I love executing!" Sonic grinned. He spins himself to a ball just as Toxin forms a flame baseball bat to hit the hedgehog as a fast flaming ball that instantly obliterates the incoming Iblis Grimm.

Nearby, Chrom and Dr. Doom work together to vanquish the last of the Iblis Grimm. Doom traps the lava creatures of darkness in a magic bubble, leaving them open for Chrom to slice them off the earth. "Is that the last of them…?" Chrom asked, but is immediately pelleted by numerous energy blast belonging to green-colored purple robots from a distant future. "More machines from another world?!" Chrom said, thrusting his sword through one of the robot's energy reactors.

"I recognize these robots." Doom said, knowing the creator of these machines judging from their futuristic exterior and design, which closely resembles another villain he knows from his world.

"Victor von Doom."

Dr. Doom turns around to be greeted by the one of many, Kang the Conquerors of the 30th century. "Kang the Conqueror."

"ANOTHER wannabe conqueror?" Basilio said while slicing a few of Kang's droids.

"Kang the Conqueror? Spider-Man once me about him. Said he's also a time-traveler from the 30th century and has conquered many worlds and timelines." Chrom said.

"That is correct, Prince Chrom, and I am here to investigate the sudden abundance of time rifts in reality." Kang said as he walks towards him. "Doom. Your quest for power has damaged the timestream. I am here to fix it AND destroy the troublemakers that distorted my timeline."

"Return to your timeline, conqueror, knowing this one belongs to Doom!" Doom blasts Kang with mystic blast from both hands that Kang counters with his own science-based energy blasts, overpowering Doom and flinging him away. Spider-Man suddenly shows up, firing multiple web balls to get Kang's attention and lands on his shoulder pads.

"Long time no see, Kang. Are you here to tell me who wins the next 10 World Series?" Spidey quipped.

Kang casually throws Spidey to the ground with his telekinetic powers thanks to his highly futuristic armor. "Spider-Man. I've been looking forward to this. I will now have my revenge for the time you trapped me aimlessly in a temporal void."

"Can't we let bygones be bygones and discuss this over cupcakes?" Spidey quipped, but is forced to dodge an energy blast from Kang. He tries to tie up the time-traveling conqueror with his webbing, but Kang telekinetically throws them back and ties up Spidey instead. "Oh man. So this is what it feels like." He quipped while trying to break free from his own webbing.

"Hey, Kang!" Yang shouts as she runs up to the 30th century villain. "If you're from the future, how many times will I punch you?" She quipped, lunging herself to attack Kang. Without even trying, Kang activates an electric force field dome around himself that shocks Yang upon contact. The same force-field protects him from the transformed Tiki's flames and redirects her attacks right back at her so hard she's knocked back to her humanoid form.

"Pathetic. Just as expected from this primitive timeline." Kang mocked, summoning an energy sword through space-time to do battle against Silver Samurai. The two have an intense sword fight, with neither letting up until Harada powers up his blade with Tachyon energy. He tries to break through Kang's blade, but to his shock, it's made of Adamantium, the only substance he can't cut through. Kang blasts the samurai away, leaving Chrom to do battle against the conqueror.

"We defeated one conqueror before! We can do the same to you!" Chrom said while clashing with Kang.

"I am from a different league AND time from Walhart. You can't possibly beat me." Kang replied, not seeing Shadow teleporting right behind him.

"Not alone he can't." Shadow backhands Kang away from the prince. Before Kang could counter attack, Ilia wraps her electric whip around his waist and with a mighty tug, pulls Kang to a nearby time rift that Frederick slams him through completely, sending the conqueror to an unknown timeline.

BGM End

"How many more villains from other worlds will we encounter?" Frederick asked.

"Hopefully nothing that's too big or scary." Ilia replied.

BGM-Sonic Rivals 2 OST-Final Boss: Ifrit

To her bad luck, something like that monstrously roars its way through a large time rift, revealing to the inter-dimensional fire monster, Ifrit that has made its way out of its Chaotic Inferno dimension, igniting his chaotic flames around his body. "The Ifrit…" Sonic recognized the previously-thought destroyed dragon.

"THAT'S the monster that eats those "Chao" you mentioned?!" Lucina asked in absolute shock and horror to meet a beast just as terrifying as Grima.

"Just what we needed, another monster dragon." Weiss said with her deadpan eyes.

And accompanying the released Ifrit is an egg-shaped, laughing scientist that looks INCREDIBLY similar to Dr. Eggman but rocking different colors and his own Egg-Mobile. "I'M BAAAAACK!" He laughed maniacally.

"EGAD! Eggman Nega!" Eggman instantly recognized his sinister descendant from 200 years into the future, who was originally trapped in the Ifrit's dimension after so long.

"Well, if it isn't my pathetic ancestor. I don't exactly understand what's going on, but thanks to the time rift, I'm free from that infernal dimension you fools trapped me in! Now Ifrit, destroy them all!" Eggman Nega commanded the beast to kill the heroes and his ancestor, letting out a loud roar and begins his path of destruction.

"Hold on! He's really your descendant from the future?! That means you actually get married?!" Grimadoom asked Eggman, laughing at the doctor. "Who's crazy enough to marry you?! Salem?!" He joked, angering the two villains with his teasing.

"Nega DOES seem to take a few quirks from them." Sonic joined in on the teasing.

"Would you two be silent and deal with the current threat at hand?!" Salem ordered the hedgehogs.

"Alright, Mr. and Mrs. Egghead! We're on it!" Sonic joked before joining Grimadoom and the rest to deal with the Ifrit.

"I hate that hedgehog." Salem commented, annoyed by Sonic's constant teasing and jokes.

"You and me both, sister." Eggman agreed.

Sonic side-steps from the many fire balls the Ifrit blasts him with, leaping up to the air for a spin attack to its head. Meanwhile, Grimadoom is up in the air pelleting the fire beast with hundreds of energy blasts that seemingly have no effect. Grimadoom grunts in annoyance, "His body's too durable. We need another solution!" He said before spotting Ruby and Lucina riding on Sumia's pegasus in an effort to defeat the beast.

"How about we lure it back to its own dimension before closing it?" Ruby suggested to Grimadoom.

"That might work, kid." Grimadoom agreed to the Ruby's plan.

Grimadoom and Ruby shoot the Ifrit to get its attention. "Hey! Over here, ugly!" Ruby taunted the beast to follow them, which it does.

"You sure this will work?" Lucina asked her.

"I have no clue." Ruby nonchalantly replied as Sumia directs her pegasus into the Ifrit's chaotic, flaming dimension filled with destroyed cities and lava oozing everywhere.

"This place seems…fine." Sumia said, having no other way to comment this alternate world.

"Is this how pretty your future looks?" Grimadoom joked with Lucina.

"P-Pretty? S-Similar, yeah." Lucina replied, confused of the hedgehog's sense of humor.

"Pretty hot." Grim quipped.

The Ifrit roars its way back to his own dimension so he could destroy those that taunted him. With a powerful punch to the back, Grimadoom pounds the Ifrit to the lower levels of its own home. "Sit, boy!" He quipped, following his allies back to Mount Prism, with the hedgehog clone about to close the time rift before the Ifrit could escape again.

"Hold on! He's still in need of a playmate!" Scarlet Spider said to Grimadoom before he could close the portal. After Nowi destroys Eggman Nega's Egg-Mobile, Kaine ties him up to a web-slingshot to fling the evil doctor back to the fiery dimension.

"W-W-Wait, wait, wait, wait! Don't send me back there! I don't like it there! It's too hot!" Nega frantically retorted, not wanting to be sent back to that flaming hell forever.

"Go hide in a freezer." Not caring, Kaine flings Nega back to Chaotic Inferno Zone so Grimadoom could close the last time rift just seconds before the Ifrit could return.

BGM End

"Whew. Okay. One world-ending fire dragon down, one TIME-ending fell dragon to go." Spidey said, now no longer under the threat of time rifts for the time being.

"We will stay here in case of reinforcements. Hurry and complete the Awakening." Doom proposed some of the heroes and villains will stay behind in case of any more time disturbances.

"Thank you, Doom. Let's head inside the altar." Chrom said beside his most trusted allies and heads inside Mount Prism's Holy Altar.


Mount Prism's Holy Altar

Chrom and Spidey, along with some of their friends and Ero, arrive inside the holy sanctuary of Naga, which looks to be the complete opposite of the dark altar inside The Dragon's Table, but still has a similar dragon statue at the end. "This place hasn't changed a bit." Ero commented, as he was here, in this sacred altar with the first exalt a 1000 years ago.

"Wait here…I'll be back." Chrom said to his friends.

"Be careful, Chrom…" Lissa said in worry for her big brother.

"We must believe in him, Aunt Lissa." Lucina comforted her aunt.

"You're coming too, Spider-Man." Ero turned to his human other.

"I'll never catch a break, will I? Alright, fine. I'm coming." Spidey said before begrudgingly following Chrom and Ero.

"Good luck, Spidey." Sonic said his best friend.

"Don't break time any more than you already have." Ruby gave some "encouraging" advice to Peter as he walks away.

"Thanks, Ruby, I needed that." Peter replied, subtly being sarcastic when saying that.

The greatest warriors this world could ever ask for walks up to the ancient dragon statue. "So how does this Awakening work exactly? Do you chant some ancient gibberish while walking in circles like a monkey for 24 hours?" Spidey wondered, much to the confusion and weird looks of Chrom and Ero.

"…No. Urgh. Chrom should know what to do." Ero replied after a moment of silence.

Chrom takes out the Fire Emblem and shows it to the statue, allowing all five gemstones embedded into the shield glowing their respective colors before speaking the sacred words. "Hear me, Naga! I bear proof of our sacred covenant! In the name of the exalted blood, I ask for the divine dragon's power! Baptize me in fire, that I may become your true son!"

Suddenly, much to his curiosity, the spider-pendant wrapped around Peter's neck, which was created by Naga, starts glowing a bright red-and-blue color. "Uh, Ero, why is my pendant glowing?" Peter asked. At that moment, both Spider-Man and Chrom are covered in radiant flames of the divine dragon. "AAAAAAAAH! I'M ON FIRE!" Peter shouted.

Ero groans in tiredness, wondering what sort of game Naga is playing with his host. "Why do you do this to me?"

"Father! Spider-Man!" Lucina shouted for their concern.

"We're…We're all right!" Chrom said, not feeling the pain of the sacred flames anymore. As the fires start to distinguish around his body and the Falchion, Chrom notices his sacred blade glowing a bright divine color, enhanced to its full potential thanks to Naga's blessing and the Fire Emblem.

A similar phenomenon happens to Spider-Man after the flames dissipate from his body. While his overall appearance hasn't changed a bit, his special aura is now a mixture of the original calm purple and the sacred green radiance of Naga's flames. "Huh? I'm not dead? And why does my aura feel part-dragon now? What's happening?" He asked, greatly lost and confused at his new power, but all that quickly vanished the moment the light-blue Chaos Emerald formed itself in front of Peter. "Hey. It's the last Chaos Emerald! We were wondering where you've been hiding, you sneaky little gem."

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-"You have power... like mine"

"Be welcome, Awakeners." The beautiful leader of the divine dragons, Naga, graces the heroes with the presence of her radiant humanoid figure. "Your heart has been tested and deemed worthy. Cleansed in my fire, your desire has proven to be the stronger."

"So she's Naga, the sacred divine dragon of this world?" Tails said in awe, just as his friends are as stunned as him.

"She's beautiful…" Weiss commented on Naga' majestic divine presence.

"Naga! What the hell did you do to my host?!" Ero argued, angered that Naga upgraded Peter's powers without the Other's permission.

"I just blessed him with some of my power. Is that so wrong, O holy spider of the Great Web?" Naga teased the irritated, divine spider warrior.

"Yes, it is! You don't grant him power without my asking!" Ero replied.

"Don't "I" get a say in this?" Peter asked the gods.

"No!" They both replied at the same time.

"Awwwww."

"So this power…will grant us the power to defeat Grima? …The power of a god?" Chrom asked the divine dragon.

"Hmph. Does she look like a god to you?" Ero asked him, not joking judging from his stoic demeanor.

"But isn't she the divine dragon?!" Lucina responded.

"So do sons of man name me. But I am no creator. I am not like the divine spiders. I possess not the powers of making or unmaking. And neither does Grima. Neither of us bears the power to destroy the other utterly." Naga reluctantly shared with the mortal heroes.

"Not even you, Ero?!" Spidey asked his other.

"I thought I told you already! The Fell Totem's immortal! Not even my power could keep him down forever!" Ero retorted, sounding annoyed.

"Then what power did you grant us?" Chrom asked the divine dragon.

"With my blessing, thou may draw forth Falchion's true might. The blade of the exalts shall again strike like the dragon's fang. Your strength will then be my equal" Naga answered.

"And what about me? You didn't give me the power to turn into a giant dragon, did you?" Spidey asked her.

"All I did was simply enhanced your Aura, Hero-Spider. The unique mixture of spider and dragon is now yours to command as you see fit. Your strength now surpasses even my knowledge." Naga stated, implying that Spider-Man is now stronger than her.

"But still not enough to put ol' scaly face out for good, huh?" Spidey replied.

"Alas, like the Other said, Grima cannot be slain. Sleep alone can be your victory to save all our worlds. Just as the Other and Chrom's ancestor put the fell dragon to sleep a millennium ago. But you must weaken him first. Only as the final blow can my power be used to bind his." Naga said.

"Isn't there ANY way to destroy him for good?" Amy asked the divine dragon.

"There is, perchance, a power that could end Grima. However... 'Twould be his own, or by the hands of an Inheritor." Naga explained.

"He has to kill himself?" Frederick responded.

"Either that or by Morlun's hands. Where IS that animal-sucking vampire anyways?" Yang asked Grimadoom who's been standing beside them the entire time.

"I don't keep track of him. He does his own thing. He's probably hunting deer people or something. And I doubt he would kill Grima for us. And I seriously doubt the big dragon would kill himself, but that would make our job easier." Grimadoom answered.

"I worry that Morlun and Grima may be up to something, as they were a millennium ago." Naga said, referring to how Grima and Morlun did team up all those years ago to bring ruin to the world. "As we speak, Grima is continuing distorting time to add to his power, which will bring ruin upon the world as we know it. Now come. There is little time…"

"Where is Grima now?" Chrom asked her.

"The fell dragon takes refuges in a corrupted Little Planet, residing in a zone of his doing known as "Volcanic Vortex"." Naga revealed Grima's current location.

"Thanks, dragon lady. Now it's time we go trounce your evil clone. You know how that feels, right Scarlet?" Spidey teased his own clone standing behind him.

"Fuck you!"

"Thanks for the encouraging words, bro!" Spidey replied with his happy-go lucky attitude, much to the annoyance of Kaine.

Naga chuckles to see that even during dark times and the end of the world, Spider-Man always finds a way to make light of situation. "I look forward to your splendid victory, O legendary Spider-Man of 616." With upgraded abilities and all seven Chaos Emeralds in their possession, the heroes make their way back to a fully corrupted Little Planet to decide the fate of time itself and save the world.

BGM End


BGM-Rockman EXE Beast OST-Next Episode Preview

Spider-Man: Sup! It's your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! This is it! We're coming for ya, Grima! No more messing with time! It's after your curfew!

Morlun: First you have to attend to me, Spider.

Spider-Man: Morlun! Are you and Grima working together? Whatever you're planning, it ends here! After today, no more spiders will serve as your breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Not even your snack or dessert!

Next time on D-Avengers: The Fell Awakening:

Inheritors of Reality

Spider-Man: Let's see how YOU feel like being hunted!


KFX Here: We're close to the finale, boys and girls. Next chapter the heroes face off against Morlun in a final showdown. How will they defeat an all-powerful, not to mention immortal Inheritor? Stay tuned and find out.

To answer Great Saiyaman54's question: Most of my stories won't always involve the whole universe at stake, hence why the next story after this will be incredibly simple and nothing too "world-ending," hopefully. And also, I have NO plans for a Spider-Man/Dragon Ball crossover, not for 20 years. Ask someone else.