New Vestroia…
The resounding sound of a Reaper horn blared into the air as a Destroyer moved forward before coming to a stop, opening up its frontal armor plating as its beam weapon powered up and fired in an arc, causing several explosions as flames erupted into the air from the forest it was firing at. From some distance away, the Reaper Destroyer can be seen as it slowly turns towards its left and begins moving on again to cause death and destruction elsewhere.
Just then the video recording of this event is paused.
"And this is what's happening right now on New Vestroia?" Runo Misaki, a girl with light blue hair tied into two pigtails, wearing a white shirt, blue waistcoat, red tie, and khaki shorts asks as she looks up at the video, a worried look on her face.
Earth...
Bakugan City…
Battle Brawlers Headquarters…
"Unfortunately yeah. And things were not looking good one bit." Dan Kuso answers standing beside his girlfriend, as he also looks up at the recording he had captured during his short time in New Vestroia before splitting up from Drago to warn the other Battle Brawlers to what was occurring on the homeworld of the Bakugan.
In the main gathering room for the Battle Brawlers, all of the original members, Marucho, Shun, Julie, and even their friend Alice who was visiting from Russia, watched this video footage on the holographic screen with absolute shock and horror.
"This is terrible." Alice says holding her hands together.
"Is there anything else you can show or tell us about who or what we're dealing with?" Shun asks with his arms crossed.
"Not much really. There were those things and then a couple of bigger ones we could see off in the distance from a high vantage point. And then me and Drago even had an encounter with what we could only guess were their foot soldiers." Dan explains.
"Guess?" Marucho questions.
"Well they were definitely these things' soldiers. But at the same time I questioned how they worked those giant squid machines because they were literally almost like zombie creatures." Dan says.
"Zombies?! Oh no! Is there a zombie apocalypse going on in New Vestroia?!" Julie questions in terror.
"No, no. They weren't zombie Bakugan, in fact it looked like these things didn't even have any Bakugan of their own. But what I'm trying to say is that whatever these things were, they were almost zombie-like in how they acted. Some of them seemed to be pretty smart since they were ordering some of the others around, but I don't think smart enough to pilot one of those big things. Even creepier was how some of them almost looked like humans." Dan says.
The Battle Brawlers all exchanged concerned looks with one another upon hearing all of this information Dan was telling them "So once Drago fought these things off, you decided to split up and come back here to tell us and get help?" Shun asks.
"Pretty much. Whatever these things are, they seem really hell bent on not taking New Vestroia, but destroying it and all of the Bakugan that still live there! And who's to say they won't come here, or anywhere else next! We need to get all of our friends and allies together, the Vestals, Nethians, Gundalians, and fellow Earth brawlers and take the fight to these things before they can destroy New Vestroia!" Dan says with a determined tone in his voice.
"It's not going to be that easy Dan." Marucho speaks up.
"What? Why?" Dan asks turning to him.
"Because New Vestroia isn't the only place under attack." Runo says as Dan turns to her.
"Huh?" Dan says confused to be hearing this.
"Mira left several hours ago because she got a call that Vestal was under siege by these strange alien machines. The same ones that you just told us are also invading New Vestroia." Shun says.
"And not just Vestal. Right as we were about to leave to go and help her and her people, we got a call from Fabia and she told us that both Neathia and Gundalia were under attack as well and they needed help." Marucho says.
"And that's when you messaged us that you were on your way here with important information. Mira left to go back to Vestal, and we had to tell Fabia to try and hold on until we could figure out what to do." Runo says.
"And now you say New Vestroia is under attack and the reason you came back here was for help." Alice says.
"That's going to be a problem when we barely have any help as it is." Julie says.
"The most we might be able to do is contact all the Earth brawlers and we can form teams from there to head off to the different worlds, but considering how spread out everyone is all over the world who knows how long it would take to gather everyone. And the last we heard from Vestal, Neathia, and Gundalia, they weren't doing too well against these invaders." Marucho says.
"Not only that, if things are as bad as they seem, I feel like even if we were to gather everyone we still wouldn't be able to make too much of a difference." Alice says.
"And it's as you said. Who's to say that these things won't come here next? Well who's to say they aren't already on their way here now? Whoever or whatever we're dealing with, they have the numbers to be invading four planets simultaneously, even with all of them having Bakugan on them. Not only that, attacking and driving their defenders into a corner. We're dealing with someone new, and very powerful. And unlike before, they've already succeeded in cutting us off from the majority of our allies and friends. This is already looking very bad for us, no matter how you try and look at it. If these things are already on their way here, then we need to prepare ourselves for the impending attack." Shun says.
"But then what about everyone else?" Dan questions.
"Do you have an idea on how we can defend ourselves and help our friends?" Shun asks.
Dan opens his mouth to say something, but after a few seconds he closes it and grunts in anger. Runo puts a hand on his shoulder to try and comfort him as Dan looks at her with a saddened smile knowing what she was trying to do "Even if we were to prepare Earth. Do you really think we'd be able to stop their attack when even the others who's races are far more advanced than ours couldn't? And Drago…"
"At the most we can at least not be caught off guard. And maybe if some time passes and these things don't show up, maybe we can plan on trying to help our friends out somehow." Shun says.
"Even then...we're going to need a miracle." Marucho says lowering his head and looking at the ground.
All of a sudden there is a loud crash like glass breaking that echoes throughout the house catching everyone's attention "What was that?" Julie asks.
"Was it Kato?" Dan asks.
"It can't be. He just left for grocery shopping only a few minutes ago." Marucho says as he begins walking towards the door.
Suddenly the door is blasted open by a powerful shockwave-like attack, sending Marucho and the other Battle Brawlers all flying back to the ground as they cry out. A Cerberus assault trooper rushes in with his assault rifle raised, Shun is able to quickly recover as he sees the attacker with a strange-looking gun and looks to his left, seeing a stand with a vase on top of it as he quickly grabs it and lobs it at the assault trooper just as he looks over. Hitting the assault trooper in the face as he is slightly stunned by the impact allowing Shun to get back on his feet and rush the intruder as he closes the distance rapidly and jumps up, kicking him across the face sending him flying to the ground landing right beside another figure as they calmly enter the room.
Shun grunts as he spots the new enemy and stands up ready to engage them when suddenly he finds himself frozen in place as a strange blue aura surrounds his body "Well, someone sure has some fight in them."
More Cerberus troopers move into the room and surround the Battle Brawlers, training their weapons on them as Dan and the others slowly recover, a group of Cerberus assault troopers surround Runo, Julie, and Alice, two Engineers join a few other assault troopers in keeping their weapons aimed at Marucho, while Dan finds himself surrounded by assault troopers with a Centurion right in front of him. "Unfortunately for all of you, you have no idea who you're dealing with." Clone Shepard says with a sinister smile on his face as his Clone team stands behind him.
Several Hours Later…
The TARDIS materializes in the opening of a forest, the doors open up as Shepard and the others exit and check their surroundings "Normal looking trees, normal looking rocks. Yep, definitely back on Earth." James comments.
Drago, in his ball form, hops up onto Shepard's right shoulder "Alright, all you have to do now is just throw us and we can return to our normal forms."
"So whenever you leave New Vestroia, you turn into these little ball forms and the only way to return to your normal forms is by throwing you?" Tigress questions as Tigrerra sits on her left shoulder.
"It's best not to question it." Tigrerra says.
"If I may suggest, perhaps we can use this to our advantage." Chief speaks up.
"Care to elaborate on that Chief?" Shepard asks.
"It's safe to say your Clone knows we're coming. He just doesn't know when. He'll most likely have heavy security guarding the Battle Brawlers and definitely have sentries keeping their eyes out for the Bakugan. If we can reach the Battle Brawlers without getting spotted, then deploy the Bakugan, we'll have a higher chance of rescuing them then if we deploy them now." Chief explains.
"Especially since they're not exactly inconspicuous with being you know, giant creatures." Marvelous says.
"Plus we deploy them right on top of the Cerberus soldiers they'll be too caught off guard to even think about trying to use the Battle Brawlers as human shields." Troy says.
"And worse comes to worse me, Troy, or Marvelous can always just speed in there with one of our other forms and rescue them." Tsukasa says.
"Hm~, that's actually not a bad idea. It could definitely work better than storming the place." Drago says.
"If you're alright with it. Then that's the plan. You can direct us to where we're going right?" Shepard asks.
"Yeah, I know the city pretty well." Drago replies.
Preyas jumps up onto Po's right shoulder "Then what are we waiting for we already got an invitation! Let's get going before something bad happens to Marucho and the others!" he yells.
"Stay safe Doctor! And be ready to pick us up when we call you!" Shepard calls back into the TARDIS.
"You know I'm always ready!" the Doctor calls back out.
With that Shepard and the others enter the forest and begin their trek through it towards the city. Several minutes go by as they cautiously walk along a dirt path in a single file line, keeping their eyes and ears peeled for anything just in case there were any Husks, Collectors or Cerberus troops by chance in the forest. Several quiet minutes went by, in fact, it was way too quiet. "The Doctor did land us near this Bakugan City correct?" Javik asks aloud.
"Affirmative. That is what he said." EDI answers.
"Hm, then it is strange we have yet to really hear the sounds of chaos and destruction the Reapers would usually be doing about now." Javik says.
"Well that could be either really good, or really bad." Ashley says.
"How bad or good are we talking about here?" Elfin asks from Troy's right shoulder.
"It could mean the Reapers have yet to attack. Or that they have already been here for several hours and sent any survivors into hiding." Liara says.
"Let us hope it is the former." Skyress says from Chief's left shoulder.
"There have been universes where we've arrived either before the Reapers did, or they just never came at all." Tali says.
"Don't suppose they outweigh the number of universes you've been too that have already been under siege when you arrived?" Gorem asks from Garrus's left shoulder.
"You don't want to know." Garrus says.
"You're basically saying no to that you know." Hydranoid points out from Tsukasa's left shoulder.
"Well even if they attacked surely all of the Bakugan that live in the city would be deployed to fight back right? You guys did say how Bakugan City both humans and Bakugan live together in peace and every human has a Bakugan partner and whatnot right?" James asks.
"Yes, but not all Bakugan are fighters. Same as humans. And if a human runs in terror without deploying their Bakugan, there's not much that Bakugan can do without their human partner." Ingram says from Marvelous's right shoulder.
"What you're seriously telling us that you guys don't have some sort of "Bakugan Defense Force" or something like a joint Human-Bakugan military group in Bakugan City?" Ashley questions.
"Any sort of Bakugan related problems have always been dealt with by Dan or the other Battle Brawlers and us. And there's never been a planetary wide-invasion by someone or something like the Reapers to give reason for the need of a "Bakugan Defense Force"." Drago explains.
"So you guys and a bunch of kids have pretty much been this universe's primary defenders when the shit hits the fan in any sort of way." Garrus concludes.
"You say that, but we've already been to the Digimon universe where things are pretty much almost the same thing. Creatures and human children teaming up to protect their worlds. Not exactly a sane idea, but it worked out in the end." Troy says.
"This coming from you when you're still in High School kid." Marvelous points out.
"Trying to make another point here." Troy states in an annoyed tone.
"The thought of needing some sort of Human-Bakugan military group has never really come to mind before because as I said, there's never been the need or even a thought for one." Drago says.
"So all the times before where the Earth has been attacked, you, your fellow Bakugan, and your human partners were just there to answer it. And what would happen if something were to happen to all of you?" Chief asks.
Drago grunts as he looks back at the Chief, a hint of sadness in his tone as he lowers his head "Ease up a little on them guys. It looks like their method had worked this far, and it's as he said, they never could have expected something like this. If it wasn't for the Reapers, I'm sure they'd still have no need for such a military force." Shepard says trying to calm the situation down.
After just a few more minutes of walking through the forest the heroes finally emerge from the trees out onto the edge of a hill and come to a stop. Pillars of smoke rose from Bakugan City, fire could still be seen burning in certain areas, the tower at the center of the city was completely toppled over, all of the battle arenas were nothing but rubble and pieces of the monorail system had also been destroyed. A lone Reaper Capital ship could be seen wandering around in the background near the ocean.
"Bakugan City…" Elfin says in shock.
"Those bastards…" Tigrerra says seething with anger.
If Drago was in his real form he would be clenching his hands tightly and gritting his teeth in absolute anger as he stared at this scene before him "They're going to pay for this…"
Even after so many worlds, so many universes they had been too that had been in similar states, the other heroes were still not used to seeing such a sight, they still couldn't stand to see it as sadness and anger coursed through their veins. It was then however that Javik seemed to take notice of something.
"Hm~." he hums.
"What is it?" Shepard asks.
"Strange. All of this destruction, and yet there is only a single Reaper. Where are the others?" he questions.
"Maybe they moved on to bigger places than this?" Ashley says.
"Doubtful." Chief says.
"I sense a trap." Tigress says.
"I don't need to sense it, I can see it clear as day." Marvelous says.
Shepard narrows his eyes "My Clone wouldn't be this idiotic. They have something planned for us, something big. We need to get these Battle Brawlers and any other civilians we can out of the city and quickly. Just because there's only one Reaper doesn't mean the city won't be crawling with Husks, and Collectors. Any Cerberus troops will most likely be guarding the Battle Brawlers. Let's move people!" Shepard says.
Bakugan City…
The crackling of fire could be heard as Shepard with his assault rifle out peeked out around the corner of a building. Looking down the street he saw no signs of movement, only the burning remains of a few vehicles, spread out piles of rubble from the destroyed buildings, and even a few bodies ranging from humans to basic Husks. Shepard looked behind him and gestured with his head to the others to move out, as everyone quickly and quietly rushed out from behind the building and spread out, Shepard, his team, and the Chief keeping their weapons raised as they scanned around to keep their eyes peeled for any signs of movement or the enemy.
Shepard, Chief, and Troy got behind a wrecked car as the others all found cover elsewhere "Alright so once we get down this street. We make a right down that one, a left down the next one and then where from there?" Shepard quietly asks Drago as he hovers by his head.
"You'll continue down that third street for several blocks until you reach a restaurant called "The Burger Joint". You'll take the next right street after that and go on for several more miles until you reach the "Bakugan City Bank"." Drago explains.
"It's way too quiet. If we even knock a trash can over every Husk within the city will know where we are." Troy says.
"We need to keep noise discipline high. We don't have time to fight every Husk in the city and then rescue the Battle Brawlers from Cerberus." Chief says.
Shepard turns his head and looks over at where Tigress, James, and Tali are taking cover behind a pile of rubble, pointing at Tigress, Shepard begins making hand signals "Scout out the street up ahead. Warn us if you see anything."
Tigress nods her head and moves out of cover keeping crouched to the ground. Tigress presses up against the wall of an alleyway and peeks around the corner, seeing the coast still clear she then moves behind another destroyed car before jumping over the front hood and dashing behind some rubble and a knocked over street light.
Shepard continues to watch her all the while the others keep scanning around the area, looking at rooftops and windows to make sure they weren't spotted in case there was any Cerberus snipers, Husks, or Collectors on watch. Tigress looks through a gap between the rubble and light pole and after a few seconds doesn't see anyone or anything. With some distance between her current position and another destroyed vehicle Tigress moves out of cover and while still crouched quickly rushes towards her next cover spot.
Just then a Praetorian pops out from around the corner down the street, still looking down the street it was currently on it didn't notice Shepard and the others as Shepard's eyes widened in shock as did Tigress's. With only a split second to act Tigress took notice of the large broken window to her right and quickly dived in, all the while Shepard and the others got down behind their respective cover. The Praetorian turned to its left and looked down the street the heroes were on, everyone silently waited where they were as Chief looked over to his left and noticed a small broken mirror lying on the ground. Shards of reflective glass scattered around it as Chief took a decently-sized piece and held it around the vehicle, angling it in a way he was able to get eyes on the Praetorian.
The Praetorian hovered a few feet down the street, stopping right next to the building Tigress was hiding in as inside Tigress pressed herself up against the wall beneath the shattered window. The Praetorian slowly turned its head back and forth in an arc as it scanned down the street, looking for signs of any life, back in the building Tigress held her breath in and gritted her teeth as sweat ran down her forehead. Suddenly Tigress got the strange feeling she was being watched and looked in front of her. Staring right at her was a little girl with brown hair tied into two side pigtails, the little girl was hiding down the aisle directly in front of her behind the left metal shelf, a look of terror on her face.
Tigress put her left index finger to her lip and gestured to the girl to remain quiet. The Praetorian continued hovering in place scanning back and forth in the direction of the hiding heroes, after about another minute the Praetorian seemed to finally be satisfied as it turned and hovered away. Everyone remained hidden and quiet just in case the Praetorian decided to do a double take, Shepard stared at the Chief waiting for him to give the all clear as then Chief looked back at Shepard and nodded his head. Getting the all clear from Chief, Shepard slowly stood up with the others following a few seconds after, looking over at where Tigress hid, Shepard, Chief, and Troy see her rise up from her hiding spot and begin waving her arm for them to come over to her.
Wondering what was going on the three begin heading over followed by the others "What's wrong, you alright?" Shepard asks.
"Yeah, I'm fine. But we got another problem." Tigress says as she moves aside and looks down the center aisle of the store.
Shepard and the others follow her gaze and spot the little girl just as she pulls her head back behind the shelf "Shit." Shepard says.
Troy steps into the building and jogs over to where the little girl was, peeking around the end of the aisle to see the girl still sitting against the shelf, a blank stare in her eyes as she cowers up against it while holding a stuffed teddy bear toy, its right arm completely torn off.
Seeing she was scared Troy kneels down on his right knee "It's okay. We're not going to hurt you." Troy says as he reaches up to his helmet and takes it off "We're going to help you. Okay?"
The girl remains silent as she stares at Troy's face "Are you alone?"
Without saying a word the girl gets up and runs away from Troy, stopping at the last shelf a few feet away and turning back to look at him. Getting a feeling she was trying to lead him somewhere Troy gets back up and places his helmet back on as he follows after her, Shepard and Chief exchange looks with one another before they along with the others begin following after them.
The little girl pushes the doors to the back room open and runs in, a few seconds later Troy follows her in and comes to a stop. Shepard and the others enter not that long after and also come to a stop, Shepard moving past Troy to look at the sight before them. The girl was held in the arms of what was most likely her mother and father, dirt and grime covering their faces with some wear and tear in their clothing, and they weren't the only ones. The heroes looked before them at what appeared to be at least a group of twenty or more people, a number of Bakugan in their ball forms among them as well as they all stared at the heroes with blank expressions. Men, Women, Children, Elderly, there were a number of them here, all of them hiding from the Reapers obviously, either left behind or were just unable to escape during the chaos. After all any attempt to escape now would be quite dangerous.
Closer examination at some of the people also garnered notice that some of them had injuries which would hinder their escape progress even more. If there were any Bakugan fighters in here, use of the Bakugan would do nothing more but draw more attention to them if they were attacked. There was nothing these people could have done to escape now that everything outside had calmed down.
"We can't leave them like this." Drago says standing on Shepard's shoulder.
"And we won't." Shepard says folding his rifle away as he approaches the little girl and her family and kneels down in front of them "Don't worry, we're going to get you out of here." Shepard says before then looking at all the other survivors "All of you."
"Liara, EDI, check-up on the wounded. Everyone else out front." Shepard says as he gets up, Liara and EDI get to work and begin checking on the wounded as everyone else moves out of the back room to the front.
"So what now?" Po asks.
"If Cerberus does have the Battle Brawlers heavily guarded, and we're walking into a trap which both are more than likely. We're going to need everyone to rescue them and escape the sprung trap." Tsukasa says.
"But we also can't leave these people to fend for themselves." Ashley says.
"We can't split ourselves in half either. If we are to have another team lead the civilians back to the Doctor, we need to have it be a small group. Two, maybe three at the most." Javik says.
"And on the off chance that this group and the civvies run into a massive group of Husk?" James questions.
"The team that will lead the civilians to safety will have to be both small, as well as effective in combat that they'd be able to handle a large number of Husks on the chance they do run into such a problem." Shepard says as he crosses his arms.
"So what you're saying is, who among us can kick a lot of ass without trouble for them and the civilians?" Garrus summarizes.
"Pretty much." Shepard says.
"Right, so that about narrows it down to~... about four or five, maybe six of us?" Tali says.
The large group of civilians are now outside of the building, Chief, Troy, and Marvelous in front of them "Get them to the Doctor and rendezvous back with us as soon as you can. Preferably before the shooting starts going down, but it probably wouldn't be bad if you showed up afterwards either in case things go wrong for us and we need a second outside group to assist us out of the tight spot." Shepard says.
"Will do. Troy, Marvelous, let's move." Chief says as the three turn and begin to lead the group of civilians out.
"Let's hope sending those three off doesn't affect the mission all that much." Ashley comments.
"As long as there aren't any major surprises waiting for us. We still have Tsukasa, and Tigress. Plus the Bakugan. So if there are only Cerberus soldiers, along with a few Husks and Collectors, we should be fine." Shepard says.
With that out of the way Shepard and the others continue on "Dragon Warrior, in my universe I'm known as a Legendary Kung Fu Master but outside that name means nothing. Don't even consider me in that group of six potential people able to take on a large group of Husk." Po says in an annoyed tone while standing in place.
"Ah, so you're that guy in the group just like me. My panda friend, you best get used to it. But on the bright side, we do get the chance in the spotlight every now and then. We're not completely in the dark all the time." Preyas says.
Outside the Battle Brawler Headquarters…
A few squads of Cerberus troopers stand or walk around out front of the Battle Brawler Headquarters.
Shepard pulls his head back behind the building he and the other heroes are hiding behind "Figured as much the front door would be a no go. Still didn't hurt to try." Shepard says.
Garrus and Tali suddenly run in from behind the others with Elfin and Gorem floating right behind them "Had some trouble sneaking through the trees without being spotted, but learned that they got the rear entrance heavily covered as well. In fact they've pretty much encircled the entire building. Even have a few defense turrets set up." Garrus reports.
"Not only that, but we had a few close calls with snipers in the windows as well. Luckily Elfin spotted one of them before they saw us. Had to be extra careful after that." Tali adds in.
"Don't suppose there's a secret entrance you guys built for situations like this?" Shepard asks Drago.
"Unfortunately, the headquarters being assaulted by a futuristic terrorist organization was never on the list of things to watch out for when the place was being built." Drago says.
"Why don't we just throw out the Bakugan already and have them plow through the defenses?" James asks.
"Because we don't know where the Battle Brawlers are. And while the defenses outside are taken care off we still don't have an idea of what the defenses inside are like. All they have to do is grab a hold of the Battle Brawlers, hold them at gunpoint and we lose." Shepard replies.
"Tsukasa, don't suppose you have anything up your sleeve? Couldn't you just speed in there and rescue them?" Tigress asks.
"As easy as that would be, Shepard's right. We don't know what could be inside. They might have countermeasures for Kabuto and Faiz in there. Hell with what happened on New Vestroia with the Decepticons, who's to say they don't have some of their allies in there with them." Tsukasa says.
"He isn't wrong. In fact it's probably a good thing he brought that up since they might have some of their pals with them." Po speaks up.
"We have to figure something out." Shepard says as he peeks around the corner again. Unfortunately he couldn't see an opening anywhere in the Cerberus defense, there were stationary guards at every entrance he could think of and not a gap anywhere in the guards that were walking around. Not to mention there was nowhere they could break in that wasn't out of sight of the Cerberus soldiers.
As easy as it could be to sneak in through the forest that surrounded the building from the rear, as per Garrus and Tali's report they had every side in there covered as well knocking out any possibilities there. Things weren't looking good right now and if they didn't find a way in then they would have no choice but to go with an all-out attack. Sending the Bakugan in to take care of the outside defenses, send Tsukasa in to secure the battle brawlers in hopes that they didn't have anything or anyone inside to counteract his speed abilities, and then get the kids out of there before any more enemy troops arrived.
Out of curiosity Shepard looks up at some of the higher level windows, and spots something as he squints his eyes to try and make out what it is. One of the windows on the center floor had a medium-sized hole in it. An idea immediately began circulating in Shepard's head as he pulled back into cover.
"I think I got something. It's a 50% shot. But it's the only shot we have right now." Shepard says.
"It's better than nothing. So what is it?" Drago asks.
Several minutes later Drago peeks his head through the broken glass and looks down both ends of the hallway. Not a Cerberus trooper in sight. "Good thing I can fly in ball form now. Otherwise this would have been a lot more difficult." Drago whispers to himself as he floats into the building and heads down to the right of the hall.
"Alright, while Drago does that. Everyone else get into position around the building. When you see the signal, throw out the Bakugan and we'll get the party started." Shepard says as with a nod everyone separated into groups except for Tsukasa, Ingram, and Gorem who stay with Shepard.
Marvelous looks around the corner of a building, down the street he sees a few Husks, two Cannibals, and a Marauder just as they turn and walk down another street. Looking over his shoulder Marvelous gestures with his head to move up as Troy walks around the corner followed by the group of human and Bakugan survivors as they cautiously look around out of fear. Bringing up the rear is the Chief as he continues watching their six with his assault rifle out, once everyone's clear of that street he turns around and continues following the survivors with Marvelous joining up alongside him.
"Is it just me, or how come all the Husks we've seen since we started escorting these people have been turning back in the direction Shepard and the others went? It can't be a coincidence." Marvelous says.
"It isn't. Ever since we left the building with these people I've got the feeling we're being followed. But I still haven't seen or picked anything up on my motion sensors. I don't like it. I know there's a trap set up for Shepard and the others when they rescue the Brawlers, I just wish we knew what it was so we could be prepared to rescue them if need be." Chief says.
"Yeah, would be nice to know how big of a trap it is that's about to be sprung. Not helpful for us to go help them out if we can't do anything about the bad guys that are a part of the trap." Marvelous says.
As the two continue walking down the street keeping the rear of the survivors' safe, several feet away in the darkness of an alleyway two small ball like objects, very similar to Bakugan in their ball forms are seen atop a trash can. Watching the three heroes lead the group of survivors to safety.
A Cerberus assault trooper walks down a hallway and turns the corner to be greeted by another assault trooper "Anything?"
"Nothing yet."
"You sure about that? I don't want to end up like all those other guys who got their asses handed to them by Shepard and his hero friends."
"You have seen what we have outside right? No way are any of those heroes getting by unless they can turn small, and maybe even fly just to throw something else in there."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
The two Cerberus troopers part ways and continue on their patrol route, the former trooper absolutely oblivious to Drago as he floats right behind him. Drago looks around trying to find out his next move, spotting an air vent Drago quickly flies up and enters it. For several minutes Drago floats his way through the ventilation system, keeping his eyes and ears out for any opened vents as any he comes across he looks through to see where they lead.
Coming across another opened vent Drago looks through and finds himself looking into the meeting room, where in the middle of the room Dan, Runo, Marucho, Shun, Julie, and Alice are seen on their knees with cuffs on their wrists. Also in the room guarding the main door were two assault troopers with their rifles out and lowered, the two of them both leaning up against the wall and looking up at the ceiling out of boredom.
"When the hell is our shift over? I'd rather be out there walking around then in here watching some stupid kids."
"Shouldn't be much longer I think."
Drago lowers himself into the room, Dan stares at the two Cerberus troopers with anger in his eyes "Look at those guys thinking we're nothing more but kids. We'll show them. If we could just get out of these things-"
"And then what? There are still probably a hundred more or so out there not just in the building. But also in the city. Without our Bakugan I don't think there's much else we can do." Shun says.
"Talk about a bad time for both Radizen and Jaakor to take a stroll through the city when all of this went down. I really hope they got out okay with everyone else as much as I would like for them to have tried and find a way to us." Marucho says.
"I don't think there's much they would have been able to do for us though with all of these soldiers here. They would have been captured, or worse." Alice says.
"Unfortunately guys now's not a time for us to rely on our Bakugan. We need to find a way out of this ourselves." Dan says.
"That could take a while, and it would be dangerous." a familiar voice suddenly says.
Dan's mouth drops open as he looks over his right shoulder as do the others as they spot Drago in his ball form hovering right behind Dan's shoulder "DRA-"
"Sh~!" Drago quickly whispers before Dan can blow his cover.
Dan immediately shuts himself up "Drago what are you doing here? More importantly how did you get here?" Dan asks.
"It's a long story. Short version, I had some help. And I'm not the only one here. Tigrerra and the others are all waiting outside with our new friends ready to get you guys out of here." Drago explains.
"Tigrerra?" Runo says happy to hear her Bakugan partner's name.
"Gorem too?" Julie asks.
"What about Hydranoid?" Alice asks.
"If it helps clarify, the original gang, plus Elfin, and Ingram are all here with our new friends to get you out of here." Drago says.
"Great. So now what?" Dan asks.
"Well...unfortunately this is as far as we got in terms of an actual plan. There wasn't a lot else to do without putting your guys' lives at risk. From here we need to come up with another plan, fast!" Drago says with urgency.
"Hey! Quiet over there!" one of the assault troopers yell catching the Brawlers' attention as they turn to see both of them looking over.
"I think I got something, Drago in my pocket, now." Dan whispers out of the corner of his mouth
"I hope you know what you're doing." Drago says as he does so flying right into Dan's right pocket.
"Hey Mr. Evil Guys!" Dan yells.
"What is it?!" the other assault trooper yells in an annoyed tone.
"Listen I know we're your prisoners and all for whatever it is you guys are doing." Dan then closes his eyes as a look of embarrassment comes to his face "But I don't suppose it would be too much trouble if maybe one of you could take me to the bathroom? I got to go real bad."
"THAT'S YOUR PLAN?!" all the other Brawlers including Drago think in their head trying to contain their looks of shock from showing.
Both assault troopers seem to be visibly taken aback by the question as they turn to look at each other "Do we allow prisoners to use the restroom?"
"Look there's ladies in the room, I would prefer not to say what it is I need to do in the bathroom all I'm saying is if you want the room to smell for a couple of hours…" Dan drawls out.
"EW~!" Julie cries out in disgust as she, Runo, and Alice close their eyes.
"That doesn't help we know what you're implying by that!" Runo yells also in disgust.
The two assault troopers look at each other once more "Wouldn't be our problem."
"Yeah but on the off chance the sergeant decides to extend our shift for who knows what reason it will be our problem."
"Fine, then you take the damn brat to use the restroom, someone has to stay in here to guard these other kids!"
"Why you!" the assault trooper sighs in anger and begins heading over to the Brawlers.
Walking over to Dan the assault trooper picks him up by his cuffs "Get going!" he says as he shoves Dan forward.
"Hey!" Dan yells in an annoyed tone as he stumbles at first before regaining his footing and continuing on.
Shepard, Tsukasa, Ingram, and Gorem continue staring at the Battle Brawler Headquarters waiting for the signal from Drago to begin the attack. "I hope Drago's alright in there." Tsukasa says.
"He knows the layout of the building, if he uses his current status of being in ball form well, he should be able to sneak his way through the Cerberus soldiers inside no problem." Ingram says.
"That's if they aren't also keeping their eyes peeled for Bakugan in their ball forms as well since they probably know about us in this form as well." Gorem says.
"There's nothing more we can do. It was the only idea we had and he volunteered to go in there by himself because if we sent all of you in there a larger group could potentially be spotted more easily. If Drago's gotten the job done in the past before he can do it again now. Besides, it can't be any shittier in there than it is out here." Shepard says.
The assault trooper guarding Dan pushes the door to the bathroom open and steps aside "Well, what are you waiting for? Do your business and get it over with." the assault trooper says.
"Dude" Dan says as he holds up his handcuffed hands "You really think I'm going to be able to do a whole lot with these on?"
"Don't push it kid! You're lucky we're letting you do this as it is!" the assault trooper retorts in anger and annoyance as he points at Dan "Now get your damn shit done! And just figure the rest of it out on your own!"
Dan is now standing in the bathroom as the assault trooper slams the door closed. Drago flies out of Dan's pocket "This is officially, no pun intended, the shittiest plan you have ever come up with." Drago whispers.
"It worked didn't it? Well...almost." Dan says.
"What was your original plan anyways might I ask?" Drago questions.
"What? I needed a reason to get these handcuffs off if I was going to throw you. But now it looks like I'm going to need to think of another way of get you back to your original form." Dan says as he immediately begins thinking of what to do next.
Dan looks at the far wall and then back at the door "I think I got something. Follow me." Dan says as he runs over to the wall, Drago floating right behind him as Dan turns to face the door again.
"Now get in front of me, and when I say now, change back into a ball." Dan says.
"Dan, what are you going to do?" Drago asks.
"Just trust me on this. I think it'll work." Dan says.
"Think?" Drago questions not very enthused to be hearing that word.
"Just-Hey guard, the toilet paper roll fell out of my hand and rolled over to the door! Don't suppose you can get it for me?!" Dan shouts.
"What the hell am I your servant?!"
"Look, just close your eyes and walk in here it's behind the door when you open it! I can't really do a lot in my current position!" Dan yells.
Outside the door the assault trooper growls in anger and annoyance as he pulls the handle down and pushes the bathroom door open "Now!" Dan yells as without question Drago shifts back into a ball and begins falling to the floor.
Dan throws his right leg outward and kicks Drago "BAKUGAN BRAWL!" Drago soars right over the head of the assault trooper as he is completely taken aback and confused by what is going on right no. Drago lands in the middle of the floor in the hallway and opens up "Oh shit." the assault trooper says.
The Cerberus soldiers outside continue going about their routine patrols when suddenly the building explodes to pieces with Drago, back in his true Bakugan form emerging with a mighty roar sending debris flying in all directions. Inside the building the entire place violently shakes as small pieces of debris fall to the floor and cracks begin forming on the walls and ceiling. The other battle brawlers closely huddle together as the lone Cerberus assault trooper looks around trying to make sense as to what was going on.
Just then his communicator goes off "Red alert! Red alert! One of the Bakugan heroes are here! All forces outside now and engage the monster!"
"About time for some action." the assault trooper says as without a second thought he turns to exit the room, when suddenly a large part of the ceiling collapses above him. The assault trooper looks up only to be crushed by the debris.
"There's the signal. Time to give it to them!" Shepard says as he and Tsukasa hold out their right hands. Ingram and Gorem shift back into balls and fall into their hands as the two pull their arms back and toss the Bakugan into the air.
"It's one of the Bakugan heroes!"
"Where did he come from?!"
Just then Ingram and Gorem land in the middle of the group of Cerberus soldiers as they all take notice of this and look down, seeing the two balls shift open and begin glowing bright green for Ingram, and orange-brown for Gorem. In a bright flash of green and orange-brown lights Gorem and Ingram explode upwards from the ground as their transformations send any and all Cerberus soldiers close to them flying into the air crying out in pain.
"Look two more of them!"
"Bring the launchers up!"
From their position behind some destroyed buildings, Javik and Tigress toss Hydranoid and Tigrerra out towards the Cerberus troops in front of them. At the same time Ashley, who is with Liara, and James on the opposite side also behind the ruins of a building throws out Skyress. While Garrus, and Tali who are with Po back in the forest throw Preyas and Elfin at the Cerberus soldiers.
Flashes of multiple colored lights erupt into the air as one by one the rest of the Bakugan heroes transform back to their original forms sending many Cerberus soldiers into the air. The rest of the troops begin going into complete chaos as they try to reorganize and figure out what is going on and how many enemies they are being attacked by.
"Stand your ground! Regroup! Regroup!" one of the Centurions shouts.
"The bigger they are the bigger targets they are!" another Centurion yells as he walks over and picks up a fallen assault trooper "Aim your weapons and start hitting them!" the Centurion continues yelling as he throws the trooper to the side to get back into the fight.
Suddenly a high-velocity slug goes right through the head of the Centurion courtesy of a sniper shot from Garrus as he reloads his sniper. Gorem swings his hammer across the ground destroying the concrete and blasting away a large number Cerberus troops, from the sky Skyress fires her Lightning Talon attack taking out another large number of Cerberus soldiers. A few Cerberus soldiers mange to regain their wits and begin firing at the gigantic Bakugan, with their backs turned to them however, from their positions Ashley and the others open up on the Cerberus soldiers to give their Bakugan friends some assistance. Firing a few shots from her rifle Ashley shoots down one assault trooper, the trooper next to him notices this and turns around only to be shot before he can do anymore.
Holding Dan and the others in his hands Drago walks out of the ruins of the Battle Brawlers Headquarters and heads over towards Shepard and Tsukasa as the two come out of cover. A centurion rushes them in an attempt to kill them but is instantly put down by the two.
Drago stops in front of them and kneels down on his left knee as he lowers Dan and the others to the ground, the Battle Brawlers jumping out of his hands as Shepard and Tsukasa run up to them "You!" Dan yells in shock and anger upon seeing Shepard as Shun gets ready for a potential fight while the others are a bit frightened to be seeing him.
"Easy there, I'm on your side." Shepard says.
"Oh yeah? Than what, that some evil clone of you or something that attacked us before?" Dan sarcastically questions.
"Actually yes, it was." Shepard nonchalantly says.
"It's alright Dan, it's true. This is the real Commander Shepard. In fact if it wasn't for the Commander we wouldn't even be here right now." Drago explains.
Dan and the others look back at Shepard "There'll be a time for explanations later. Right now we need to get out of here." Shepard says.
"There they are!" Shepard looks over to his right as Tsukasa and the Battle Brawlers follow the voice to see a squad of Cerberus soldiers rushing towards them.
"Move!" Tsukasa says as he gets in front of everyone "Attack Ride: Blast!" aiming his gun Tsukasa fires a rapid burst of bullets taking all of the Cerberus soldiers down in just a few seconds.
"I think that would be a really wise choice right now." Marucho says.
"I agree. Let's get out of here!" Julie nearly shouts.
"Tsukasa, help me get these cuffs off them." Shepard calls to the Kamen Rider.
"Yeah." Tsukasa says as he turns around switching his Ride Booker to sword mode. With a few strikes from Shepard's Omni-blade, and Tsukasa's sword all of the Battle Brawlers are freed from their handcuffs.
"This is Shepard to everyone, time to take our leave people." Shepard says over his communicator.
Shepard, and Tsukasa turn and start running but only make it a few meters before suddenly a familiar face walks out from around the corner of a half destroyed building making them and the battle brawlers stop.
"Oh you wouldn't happen to already be leaving now would you?" Clone Shepard says with a smirk on his face.
"Whoa, it really is an evil clone!" Dan says actually taken aback by what he was seeing.
"You!" Drago shouts in anger "You made a poor decision showing yourself here. I'm going to make you, your allies, and especially the Reapers pay for every innocent life they've taken!" Drago yells.
"Hmph" Clone Shepard hums as his smirk changes to a grin "Is that so?"
All of a sudden a blast of dark purple energy slams into Drago, causing an explosion that blasts the Pyrus Bakugan back a few feet while Shepard, Dan, and the others cover their faces from the following shockwave. Dan lowers his arm and spins around "Drago!" he yells out.
Drago cries out in pain as he is sent crashing into the Battle Brawlers Headquarters bringing the rest of the building down as this also catches Ingram and Gorem's attention "What was that?!" Ingram questions as he and Gorem turn around. Only for both of them to be hit by the same attack as multiple dark purple energy blasts come flying towards and impacting into them as they are hit five times each, causing them to cry out in pain before Ingram is sent flying and Gorem falls backwards to the ground.
"That doesn't sound good!" Garrus says as he, Tali, and Po get up from their position and begin running towards the front.
The others, including the Bakugan who have just about finished mopping up the remaining Cerberus soldiers all head towards Shepard's group upon seeing the multiple explosions and Drago, Ingram, and Gorem go down.
Tigrerra rushes over to Drago and helps him up "Are you alright?" she asks.
"Y-Yeah. What was that?" he questions.
"You have changed a lot over the years I have been gone it seems." a sinister voice speaks out drawing everyone's attention forward.
Drago's eyes widen as he gasps in shock, followed by the other Bakugan and the Battle Brawlers.
"It can't be." Drago says.
A large shadow appears over Clone Shepard as then something big lands directly behind him. "Hello, Drago."
"No way." Dan says in disbelief at what he was seeing. "NAGA?!" both Drago and Dan shout out at the same time.
Standing before the heroes was a revived Silent Naga, the Battle Brawlers' very first true enemy that they had defeated years ago. "But...that's impossible." Runo says while shaking with fear.
"We defeated you!" Dan yells.
"You did. You did indeed human. That I remember, as it was the very first thing that came to my memory when I awoke." Naga says.
"Hate to break it to you kids but these guys have recently had a habit of bringing back old enemies that were defeated a long time ago." James says.
"Wait what?" Julie asks since she and the others still had no idea as to what was going on.
"Sheesh I thought you were exaggerating when you said old enemies but this is just ridiculous!" Preyus says still in disbelief.
"So this is Naga." Ingram says.
"He doesn't look so tough. I mean didn't you guys defeat him all those years ago before Drago went through all of these evolutions? I'm sure he can handle him now no problem." Elfin says.
"Elfin's right! Don't you guys remember, Naga doesn't have the Silent Core anymore! He's just a normal Bakugan now!" Marucho says trying to raise everyone's spirit.
"Yeah, you're right. No way we can lose. He may look like he did when we defeated him but no way he still has the full power of the Silent Core within him. We can take him!" Dan says as his demeanor changes to a boisterous tone.
"Don't get your hopes up. After all, you're outnumbered." Clone Shepard says.
Suddenly a dimensional wall appears in front of the heroes and slides back as from it the rest of Clone Shepard's team appears, and on either side of Naga some more familiar enemies to the Battle Brawlers and their Bakugan appear. Naga's Hybrid Bakugan, Centorrior, Druman, Tayghen, and Hairadee.
"It's those Hybrid Bakugan!" Alice says.
"Ah~ it's good to be back." Hairadee says.
"You fools got lucky last time. This time, things will end differently!" Druman states pointing at the heroes.
"Okay? So the rest of the evil clones are here and so are a few other Bakugan bad guys? How are we still outnumbered?" Po asks.
"This is how." Clone Shepard says as he extends his arms out to his side.
Another dimensional wall appears behind them, followed by two more on either side of the heroes as they all slide back. From them, a massive army consisting not only of Cerberus troops, Collectors, and Husks; but also of foot soldiers, monsters, super villains, and other kinds of enemies from the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai universe, the Power Rangers universe, the Digimon universe, the Justice League universe, the Avengers universe, the Ninja Turtles universe, the Gargoyles universe, the Transformers universe, Ben Tennyson's universe, Rex Salazar's universe, and Harry Potter's universe, appear.
Shepard's team, the Battle Brawlers, and the Bakugan are all taken aback by what they see as they find themselves completely surrounded by the forces of evil from multiple other universes. "You just had to ask." Garrus directs to Po.
All of the enemy foot soldiers and villains growl lowly in anticipation to attack the heroes as they surround Shepard's team, the Battle Brawlers, and the Bakugan from all sides. With the ruins of the Battle Brawler Headquarters to their back the heroes had nowhere to go.
"I think now would be a good time for Chief, Marvelous, and Troy to return right now." Tigress says in a battle ready stance along with Po while Shepard and the others all have their weapons held at the ready.
"Question is would them being here even change anything." Tsukasa says.
"Maybe if we're lucky we'll get another miracle like last time?" Tali questions.
"Take them down!" Clone Shepard orders as he points at the heroes.
With multiple battle cries the army of foot soldiers and villains charge forward towards Shepard and the others. "EDI, get the kids to safety! Everyone else give it all you got!" Shepard shouts as he raises his rifle and begins firing.
The rest of his team raise their weapons and join alongside him as they unleash a barrage of high-velocity slugs on the oncoming enemy horde. One Cerberus Centurion goes down immediately and is followed by a multitude of other enemy foot soldiers from Gormin, to Dai-Shocker Combatmen, to X-Borgs, and HYDRA soldiers. James fires a burst from his assault rifle before turning to his right and firing again this time hitting the Rikugame Yummy a few times stunning the monster for a few seconds as it recovers almost immediately and continues charging forward.
"Quickly, follow me!" EDI urges to the Battle Brawlers as they begin running and following her without question.
"Po, Tigress, let's go!" Tsukasa says running his left hand up his blade.
"Right!" the two Kung Fu Warriors say simultaneously in agreement as they charge forward.
"Let's show these people what Bakugan are made off!" Drago states as the other Bakugan shout in agreement as those with weapons unsheathe or hold them at the ready.
"DRAGO~!" Naga roars in anger as he launches himself forward.
"Leave Naga to me!" Drago says as he launches himself as well.
Both dragon-like Bakugan extend their arms forward and slam their hands against each other upon contact creating a powerful shockwave. "Get them!" a Sugormin orders pointing at EDI and the Battle Brawlers as a group of enemy foot soldiers move towards them.
Before they can get anywhere close to them however a massive footsteps in their path, making them stop as they look up to see Gorem standing in their way "You're not getting anywhere near them." Gorem states as he pulls his massive hammer back. Out of terror the enemy foot soldiers begin to cry out as they turn and start to run, with a battle cry Gorem swings his hammer striking the ground including the enemy troops sending all of them flying.
To their right more enemy soldiers come at them as EDI and the Brawlers continue heading towards the ruins of the HQ, until then another large foot slams down in between them and the enemy soldiers preventing them from getting at the group. The enemy soldiers look up to now find Hydranoid standing in their path "Guess again." Hydranoid says.
"Death Trident!" Hydranoid yells as he powers up his attack from all three of his mouths and fires beams of dark purple energy downward. Causing massive explosions that take out numbers of enemy foot soldiers as they all cry out in pain.
Back with Drago and Naga both continue their attempt to overpower the other through sheer strength but find themselves equal in raw power. Seeing this struggle going nowhere, with his more flexible body Drago slams his left knee into Naga's stomach causing him to gag out in pain as he then grabs a hold of his entire left arm. With a mighty roar Drago lifts Naga over him and tosses him sending Naga crashing into a nearby building.
EDI manages to find a small opening at the edge of the ruins of the Battle Brawlers Headquarters, suddenly at the top of the ruins a lone Death Eater appears and attempts to cast a spell. But EDI is quicker as she raises her submachine gun and fires a few times shooting him dead "Quickly hide here, and don't come out until it is safe." EDI says as the Battle Brawlers get behind the rubble and crouch down.
EDI turns around to see Shepard and the others continuing to fire their guns while slowly backing up. Shooting down enemy foot soldiers with ease while the monsters and villains from the various organizations and groups continue closing in on them, the high-velocity slugs having barely any effect on the monsters and a few of the villains as some of the other villains use said monsters as sort of meat shields to help themselves get close to the team. Reloading her submachine gun EDI rushes off to help her friends.
Shepard, Garrus, and Liara reload their guns as the others continue firing at the villains who continued getting closer and closer to them. EDI runs up next to James and joins in on shooting the villains. Just then from the group of villains Star Sapphire flies up a few feet into the air and fires a beam of energy from her crystal. "Look out!" Tali yells as everyone quickly jumps or dives in different directions to avoid the blast.
Shepard lands literally at the feet of a red Elementary Inves as the creature rears its right arm back, quickly shooting up Shepard raises his rifle just as the Inves brings its arm down blocking the attack. Shepard pushes the arm away and activates his Omni-blade driving it right up into the Inves as he pushes himself all the way back onto his feet causing the monster to roar out in pain as Shepard kicks it away before it suddenly explodes. Shepard looks to his right and quickly ducks as a Gormin's bladed cudgel comes swinging at him.
Ashley slams the butt end of her rifle across the face of a Foot Ninja as behind her James wrestles with a HYDRA soldier who attempts to take away his gun. James manages to overpower him and yank his rifle free, headbutting the HYDRA soldier sending him to the ground as he raises his rifle and fires a few times into his body. Garrus ducks to his right to dodge an attack from a Dai-Shocker combatman and swings his rifle knocking the combatman aside, suddenly a whip wraps itself around his assault rifle and yanks it from his hands. The villain Whiplash throws his weapon away and pulls her whip back as she swings it again at Garrus who quickly falls to the ground to dodge the attack. Whiplash tries a downward swing making Garrus roll to his left as he then pushes himself to his feet and rushes forward.
Whiplash retracts her whip and swings again making Garrus duck and then jump to his right following another downward attack, Garrus closes the distance and throws a punch but Whiplash dodges to her right and wraps her whip around Garrus's arm. Pulling it behind his back tightly making him grunt in pain, Garrus throws his head back smacking her right in the head stunning her and freeing him as he spins around and uppercuts her right in the chin sending her flying up and back a few feet. Yellzor throws Tali aside sending her flying a few feet to the ground and rolling across it a few times. Tali groans in pain and attempts to recover from the attack but finds herself pushed back to the ground as Yellzor steps on her back.
Acting quickly Tali activates her Omni-tool and summons her combat drone, the drone appears right in front of her and immediately fires at Yellzor shocking him with enough electricity that sends him stumbling off Tali who gets up and pulls out her Katana shotgun firing point blank into him. Blasting the Armada General away as sparks fly from him. Getting back on her feet Tali barely gets time for a breather before she gets a feeling and spins around to see a Death Eater land in front of her and fire a spell, making her dive to her left as she fires her shotgun again literally blasting his whole body away.
Liara raises her arms up forward and casts a biotic sphere around her blocking an attack from the bounty hunter Sunder as his axe rebounds off her sphere, Sunder recovers and swings his axe again striking the sphere as his attack is blocked once more. However cracks begin forming around where Sunder's attack hit, Liara notices this as she gasps in shock. Sunder swings again and this time breaks through the biotic sphere as the force of the impact sends Liara falling to the ground; Sunder walks up to her and raises his axe but before he can finish her off Javik jumps in from his right and delivers a biotic punch right across his face sending the bounty hunter flying to the left and sliding across the ground.
EDI casts Incinerate hitting a Collector captain as it screeches out in pain and falls to the ground burning up, Po pushes away a punch from the Denki Gamma before hitting him with his belly sending him flying onto his back. Turning around Po raises his right arm and stops an attack from a Sugormin and punches him across the face spinning him around as he then follows up with a kick to the back. An explosion erupts behind Tigress as she jumps off a pile of rubble landing back on the ground, standing up she is immediately greeted by Grumblemon as he swings his hammer at her. Tigress falls back to the ground on her hands and sweep kicks him off his feet, sensing someone behind her Tigress launches herself into a backflip just barely dodging Tsukuri's sword as she flies right over and lands behind her.
Tsukuri swings her sword as she turns around making Tigress jump back a little to dodge it and quickly rush forward to re-close the distance between her and the villain. Reaching her Tsukuri brings her sword back and attempts another slash attack on Tigress who ducks and then swings to her right to dodge another attack. Tigress elbows her in the back sending Tsukuri stumbling forward a few feet, the villain recovers and turns around with her sword raised only to find Tigress no longer in front of her, she then looks up to see Tigress coming down at her with her leg raised in the air as the Kung Fu master delivers a powerful axe kick.
Tsukasa swings his sword striking down multiple foot soldiers as they all cry out in pain and go down with sparks flying. Suddenly Hun drops in behind him making Tsukasa turn around as the leader of the Purple Dragons swings his massive fist at him, hitting the Kamen Rider and sending him flying to the side. Tsukasa recovers mid-air and manages to land back on the ground sliding back several feet as he looks back forward to see Hun charging him "Let's see who the strongest one here is." Tsukasa says taking out the Den-O Axe Form Card.
"Form Ride: Den-O Ax! (Den-O Belt Ax Form Transformation sound)"
"Attack Ride: Tsuppari!"
Tsukasa bends down as Hun reaches him and throws a fist, Tsukasa counters with a powerful palm strike that blasts Hun's fist away as he then continues with a flurry of palm strikes hitting Hun multiple times across his body with the final strike sending Hun flying far back through a large store window shattering the glass. "Darkus Riot!" Naga yells as he spews dark purple fire.
Drago soars through the air dodging the attack and retaliates with his own breath attack that hits Naga causing an explosion that causes Naga to roar out in pain "Times have changed Naga. I've grown a lot stronger since our last encounter. I'm sending you back to the grave before you can do harm to any of my friends!" Drago states in anger.
Suddenly an energy blast hits Drago from the side causing him to cry out in pain as the shot sends him crashing to the ground "It seems you have yet to fully recover from your recent revival. You are weak, Naga." Megatron says as he walks over to Naga with his right arm transformed into his primary weapon.
Naga gets back on his feet and looks at Megatron "I said that Drago was mine! Stay out of this machine!" Naga angrily states.
"You had your chance! Besides, I have some unfinished business with him that I need to pay him back for." Megatron says.
Drago groans in pain as he pushes himself back up to his feet "Drago is MINE!" Naga roars in anger as he spews his Darkus Riot attack once more. This time hitting Drago as he still hasn't fully recovered from the attack as the dark purple fire slams into him causing Drago to cry out in pain.
"DRAGO!" Dan yells in shock and horror.
Tigrerra raises her blades to block an attack from Centorrior's spear, when suddenly a robotic hand grabs her by the left shoulder and pulls her back, revealing the Decepticon Shockwave as he punches Tigrerra in the stomach causing her to gag out as Shockwave pushes her back slightly. Centorrior calmly walks over and strikes Tigrerra with his spear before Shockwave raises his cannon and shoots her in the chest blasting her back several feet sending her flipping over a few times and crashing to the ground.
"Tigrerra no!" Runo cries out.
Druman fires dark energy from his wings at Ingram who spins around in the air to dodge the attack, not that far away Skyress fires her Lightning Talon attack at Hairadee who counters with Freezing Wave as the two attacks collide mid-air causing an explosion. On the ground Decepticon Protoforms along with several other enemy foot soldiers fire up at the Bakugan, some of the attacks which impact into Skyress causing explosions all over her body as she screeches out in pain.
Ingram finds himself spiraling all over the sky in an attempt to dodge attacks from both Druman as well as ground fire "There's too many people shooting at me! I can't dodge everything!" he shouts.
A transformed Starscream flies through the air before transforming back into his robot mode, shoulder ramming right into Ingram sending him crashing to the ground as both he and Druman proceed to fire a barrage of missiles and energy attacks down at him causing explosions all around him as Ingram cries out. Gorem swings his hammer taking out three Decepticons, suddenly Bizarro flies in from beneath him and then shoots straight upwards delivering an uppercut right to his chin sending Gorem toppling right over to the ground.
"Aquos Shotgun!" Tayghen yells fires a barrage of blue energy from the mouth of the sea creature half of her body.
"River of Power!" MetalSeadramon shouts firing a beam of energy from his snout cannon.
Both attacks slam into Hydranoid causing him to stagger back before he topples onto his knees in a weakened state. Preyas punches a Protoform across the face and then spins around kicking away another Decepticon, as the Decepticon falls he spots Abomination flying right towards him as the Gamma mutated human launches himself towards the Aquos Bakugan. Before Preyas can even react Abomination slams his right fist into Preyas's face knocking him straight to the ground. Elfin kicks the ground in front of her sending a number of enemy foot soldiers flying into the air, as she looks several feet down the street she sees Giganta running towards her.
Not thinking much of her Elfin smiles as she prepares for another easy target, that is until Giganta enlarges herself right up to her height taking Elfin aback as Giganta takes this moment of shock to deliver a punch right across Elfin's face followed by another punch to her stomach knocking the wind out of her as she falls to her hands and knees. Giganta puts her hands together into a fist and raises it above her head before slamming it down right onto Elfin's back sending her straight into the ground.
"Everyone!" Marucho cries out seeing all of their Bakugan friends getting hurt.
Shepard ducks under a Husk claw and activates his Omni-blade slashing the Husk across the chest taking it out before hearing Marucho's cry and turning around to see the Bakugan all in trouble. This leaves him wide open as all of a sudden Voldemort apparates behind him with Shepard hearing this as he turns around "Crucio!" Voldemort yells hitting Shepard with the Torture Curse.
Instantly intense, excruciating pain courses through Shepard's body and he is unable to take it as he cries out and falls to the ground writhing around in absolute agony.
"Shepard!" Tsukasa shouts as he takes out a Rider Card, only for his hand to get grabbed as he looks to find Vrak holding it looking straight at him.
"I don't think so." he says before pulling Tsukasa's hand away and kicking him sending the Kamen Rider stumbling back a few feet. Recovering from the kick Tsukasa then looks off to his left to see both Ackdos Gill, and Doktor G gather together side by side as both of them unleash energy blasts at Decade causing explosions all around him as Tsukasa flails his arms around and cries out in pain.
Tigress slides across the ground crouched down on her right hand, in front of her a number of enemy foot soldiers as well as a few villains slowly move towards her. Tigress looks behind her and sees the same thing "Ah!" she hears Po cry out in pain as she looks off to her left to see Hyena slash Po diagonally up his body forcing him back, followed by her brother Jackal kicking the Dragon Warrior sending him flying back several feet to the ground.
"PO!" Tigress cries out as she rushes over to him.
"I'm fine." Po says, even with blood soaked fur from several open wounds on his body as he pushes himself onto his knees.
"There's too many." Tigress says as she looks around.
"Yeah, getting a sense of Deja vu right now." Po says.
Garrus, Tali, and Liara find themselves backed up against each other surrounded on all sides, Rampage picks up Ashley by the throat as she struggles to break free from the villain's tight grip. Damaras keeps James pinned to the ground beneath his right foot while Matacore holds EDI at sword point and Redker surrounds Javik with two Royal Guards.
Shepard continues to writhe around on the ground as Voldemort keeps the Cruciatus Curse cast on him, just as Clone Shepard walks over to him and looks down "As much as I would like to gloat. I think enough time has been wasted. So I'll just kill you now before some kind of miraculous bullshit occurs ruining all this hard work." Clone Shepard says as he takes out his pistol and aims at Shepard's head.
Suddenly Clone Shepard and those around him hear something and turn around looking up, seeing a small red tornado spiraling in the air towards them as quickly everyone moves or jumps back to avoid the tornado as it lands between them and Shepard. The tornado disperses revealing Troy, Marvelous, and Master Chief as Troy brings out his Dragon Sword, Marvelous brings out his saber and aims his gun, and Chief raises his rifle towards Clone Shepard.
"Sorry to disappoint you then." Marvelous remarks.
Clone Shepard glares at the three heroes as Chief helps the real Shepard back up to his feet "Apologies for the lateness." he simply says.
"So what? You three are here now. You really think that's going to make a difference? In fact I'm glad you're here. Now we can get rid of all of you in one go!" Clone Shepard says.
At this all of the villains and foot soldiers suddenly begin backing up away from the heroes, releasing those who were once held and also giving some breathing room to those who were injured and down as all the heroes just look on. Taken aback and confused by what was going on.
"What'd I miss?" Po asks.
"I don't like this." Drago says as he slowly gets back on his feet along with the other Bakugan.
The ground begins to shake and a loud booming sound can be heard. From their hiding spot Dan looks to the ground to see small pieces of rubble shake and jump around slightly from the powerful quakes that were occurring, the way they were happening, it didn't take Shepard and the others long to realize that this shaking and the loud booms. Were being caused by something gigantic coming towards them, and it didn't take a genius to know what exactly it was. The heroes all turn around, to see the lone Reaper Capital ship from before, towering over them as it slowly walked over towards them.
"Well that's not good." Preyas says while holding his stomach.
"Well that's sure one way to take us all out in one go." Garrus sarcastically says.
"So that thing's going to take us all out huh?" Marvelous questions while shouldering his gun.
Clone Shepard takes notice of this question as he looks down at Marvelous "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" he now questions.
Troy, Marvelous, and Chief all turn to face Clone Shepard as the real Shepard takes notice of this and turns around looking at all three of them "Then it seems it was a good thing…" Chief says.
"That we didn't return alone." Troy says.
All of a sudden multiple massive explosions erupt all over the Reaper Capital ship, catching everyone's attention as after several more explosions the Reaper shuts down and begins toppling over now full of holes. The Reaper lands with a resounding boom! Kicking up dust and debris everywhere around it "What?!" Clone Shepard yells in shock.
"TOH!" someone yells out from the rear as a number of enemy foot soldiers turn around to see who it was.
"RIDER KICK!" Kamen Rider Ichigo shouts with his right leg extended forward.
Ichigo comes down at the group of enemy soldiers and impacts into them causing a massive explosion that engulfs all of them as the enemy soldiers cry out. Clone Shepard and the others all turn around upon hearing this.
"Red Bute!"
"Dragon Dagger!"
A white whip extends and flies in from out of nowhere striking down multiple enemy foot soldiers alongside a barrage of green energy blasts that decimate a large number of soldiers in the rear.
Three figures jump up into the air with battle cries, soaring over all of the evil forces below as they land right in front of Shepard and the others, revealing Kamen Rider Ichigo, Akaranger, and the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger.
Clone Shepard grunts in shock upon seeing them "But how?" he questions.
"Let's just say a little birdy told us. Or more precisely, some little Bakugan friends told us." Troy says as then two Bakugan in their ball forms appear on Chief's shoulders. An Aquos Bakugan on his right, and a Ventus Bakugan on his left as the two open up "Hello there!" the Aquos Bakugan says.
"Radizen!" Marucho yells in happiness.
"Jaakor!" Shun yells but more in surprise.
"What?!" Clone Shepard says again taken aback by this.
Chief takes a couple of steps forward "Lucky for us, these two happened to overhear your plan when they attempted to rescue the Brawlers by themselves. But when they couldn't, they headed back into the city to try and find another way." Chief says.
"Just so happens that they managed to spot us while we were escorting some trapped civilians out of here. Once they figured out we weren't with you, they asked for help and after telling them who we were, they spilled the beans on your little trap for us." Marvelous says.
"From there, it was countering your trap once it was sprung. And what better way of countering it, then by evening the odds and bringing in some of our new friends and fellow heroes to help out!" Troy says.
On the rooftops and ruins of the surrounding buildings, Kamen Riders, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, the Digimon, the Justice League, the Avengers, the Ninja Turtles, the Gargoyles, Ben Tennyson and his team, Rex Salazar, Harry Potter and his friends, the Assassins, and Ryu Hayabusa appear. From the sky Omnimon, Magnamon, Gallantmon, EmperorGreymon, ShineGreymon, Superman, Green Lantern, Captain Atom, Orion, Stargirl, Steel, STRIPE, Iron Man, Thor, Ms. Marvel, Vision, War Machine, and Skyrider float down and stop several feet in the air.
Save for the Digimon, and Skyrider as they rejoin their respective groups with the Digimon returning to their rookie forms, and EmperorGreymon becoming Agunimon. Down the street several vehicles turn the corner and speed their way towards the villains. Closing the distance quickly the vehicles all then begin to transform, revealing themselves to be the Autobots as they finish their transformations back into their robot forms with Optimus Prime at the lead. A second later Lance, and Ilana, in their armor fly over the Autobots and land in front of Optimus.
The enemy foot soldiers as well as a few villains are taken aback by their sudden appearances, especially by certain heroes they had never seen before. Several others are more than glad to be seeing their respective enemies appear as smiles, smirks, and grins come to their faces ready to fight them. Smiles come to Shepard and the others' faces glad to see that once again lady luck is on their side "Like you said Po, deja vu." Tigress says.
"Yeah...though I'm kind of questioning where our friends and the other heroes from the ancient era universes are." Po comments.
"Whoa~." Runo says as the Battle Brawlers are in awe by what they see.
"Who are they?" Julie asks.
"It looks like they're friends with these people." Alice says.
"Hey if that means they're on our side then let's get it going!" Dan says in excitement.
"So these are the other heroes." Tigrerra says.
"I like the look of this." Drago says.
"Heard you could use some help Shepard." Tommy says.
"We gathered everyone we could once Chief told us the situation." Takeshi adds in.
"Now then, everyone. Let's go!" Tsuyoshi shouts.
The Kamen Riders, Super Sentai, and Power Rangers all strike their pre-battle poses while all of the other heroes draw their weapons or stand ready for battle. "Take them down!" Clone Shepard orders.
With a battle cry all of the forces of evil begin to charge toward the heroes, the heroes who were on top of the buildings jump down while those who were standing atop the rubble of destroyed buildings rush down them. Those who were in the air fly down towards the enemy, and a few of the heroes on the ground who could fly take off into the air.
"Come on!" Shepard yells as he and his team join Tommy, Takeshi, and Tsuyoshi in charging towards the enemy.
With battle roars and cries the Bakugan join their fellow heroes and charge forward.
Kamen Rider Amazon launches himself forward through the air and grapples with a Marauder, wrapping his arms around the Husk and bringing it down with him to the ground as the two roll until Amazon is on top of the Marauder. Amazon swings his left claw across the Marauder's face taking it out. The Red Samurai Ranger raises his Spin Sword blocking an attack from the Foot Elite armed with the twin bladed sword before twisting both their blades around, pushing his aside and quickly striking him with an side slash.
Lance in his Manus armor fires a barrage of missiles that impact all over taking out a number of enemy foot soldiers, as he is focused on this Crimson Dynamo flies up off to his left and fires lasers from his gatling cannon. Lance hears this and looks but finds himself unable to dodge in time "Defend, Please!" suddenly a wall of fire erupts in front of him blocking the shots.
Crimson Dynamo is taken aback by this as the wall of fire then lowers revealing Kamen Rider Wizard and Gargomon "Try this on Gargo Lasers!" Gargomon yells firing a barrage of green lasers at Crimson Dynamo hitting him multiple times as he cries out.
"Avada Kedavra!" three Death Eaters shout as streams of green light shoot forward from their wands.
Doctor Fate raises his arms forward and creates a gold magical barrier in front of him blocking their spells as he then extends the barrier sideways and pushes it forward. Slamming it right into the Death Eaters sending them flying. Ezio blocks a Dai-Shocker combatman's sword as the two retract their blades and swing again cancelling each other out, Ezio elbows the combatman in the face stunning it as he then delivers a downward slash finishing the combatman off. Suddenly he hears someone behind him and turns to see an X-Borg charge him with its weapon raised "Expelliarmus!" a red flash of light hits the weapon blasting it out of the X-Borg's hand.
Allowing Ezio to cut it down with ease as he looks off to his right afterwards to see Harry, the young wizard having of cast the Disarming Charm as Ezio gives a two-finger salute as thanks before running off to fight elsewhere. An evolved Shika Inves throws its fire engulfed right fist to the ground forcing Connor to roll, Donatello to jump, and Angela to dive away to avoid the attack as it impacts leaving a small crater where it hit. A roar resounds through the air and the Shika Inves looks up just as the Hulk brings his fist down on top of its head smashing it right into the ground. From the dust that was created Hulk emerges and looks off to his right to see a Brute slowly moving towards Shining Knight, Titanium Ranger, and FivePink as they are engaged with other enemy soldiers.
FivePink throws her Cutie Circle baton forward striking a Cerberus assault trooper in the chest sending sparks flying from him as he goes down, a shadow appears over her and FivePink turns around to be greeted by the Brute as it backhands her sending her flying into the Lightspeed Titanium Ranger knocking them both to the ground. Seeing this happen Shining Knight turns around and holds his sword at the ready to engage the Brute when all of a sudden the body of an evolved Shika Inves flies in from out of nowhere and strike the Brute. Sending both crashing into a damaged building which brings the whole place collapsing down on top of them. Hulk just dusts his hands after having thrown the Inves.
Bellatrix Lestrange fires a spell at Gwen Tennyson who creates a mana shield in front of her to block the attack, countering with an energy blast that Bellatrix also blocks with a Shield Charm. Nearby Rex Salazar jumps high into the air with his Smack Hands balled up into fists and as he comes down he slams his left fist into the center of a group of monsters and villains consisting of Sevenseven, Yuffo, and Angle Man blasting them away.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yells.
"Mega Burst!" GeoGreymon yells.
The two Greymon's release their respective fire blast attacks as they impact into a group of five Decepticon Protoforms taking them all out in a massive explosion sending pieces of them flying in all directions. Wasp flies through the air in her shrunken down form firing her stingers away, hitting multiple enemies stunning a few allowing her fellow heroes to finish them off and outright taking others down with a couple of well-placed shots.
"Hurricane Wave!" Kazemon shouts throwing long, thin tornados from her fingertips at Giganta who charges towards her.
Giganta is hit by the attack but manages to power her way through as she gets close to Kazemon and swats her away before she can escape, Wasp sees Kazemon slam against a building and fall to the ground, angered by this she turns to Giganta and flies towards her. Wasp fires off a rapid barrage of her stingers as she flies low towards Giganta's legs before turning and beginning to circle up around them as she heads towards her head, hitting Giganta in multiple areas of her body before finally reaching and flying in front of her face and firing a powerful blast of energy right into her forehead. Actually managing to send Giganta stumbling back a few feet before the gigantic villain manages to recover.
Her face lowered to the ground, Giganta then lifts her head and looks at Wasp with a highly pissed off look on her face "Uh oh." Wasp says slightly taken aback by this.
Giganta charges Wasp and swings her right fist in an attempt to hit her, Wasp easily maneuvers over this and is then immediately almost hit by Giganta swinging her left hand forcing her to dodge again. Wasp begins flying around Giganta to avoid these attacks as the giantess continues swinging her arms around to try and hit her. Kamen Rider J raises his left arm blocking an attack from Yabiker and then punches him in the stomach knocking him down, he then looks off in the distance and notices the situation Wasp has gotten herself involved in as he quickly takes off.
Giganta swings her right hand followed by her left "Hold still you little-" Giganta stops as she sees someone else coming towards her on the ground.
Red Time Force Ranger clashes with a Collector captain while Red Galaxy Ranger locks blades with Shredder, J runs by them and continues towards Giganta as he closes in towards her. Giganta grabs the top of a nearby building and rips a chunk of it off as she then throws the rubble at J, the Kamen Rider jumps to his right to dodge it and continues forward. Giganta raises her right foot as she prepares to crush the new hero, that is, until J is surrounded by a aura of green light and suddenly enlarges right before her. Growing just several feet more over her taking Giganta aback as she falters back a few steps while looking up at the more gigantic J, Giganta's mouth hangs open in absolute shock as then Wasp hovers next to her head with a wide smirk on her face "Yeah~, and he's not even at his full height." she says.
Giganta eyes Wasp out of the corner of her eyes before looking back up at J "You wouldn't hit a woman would you?" she asks with an embarrassed smile.
J's answer, he raises his right fist as it is engulfed in green energy "Rider Punch!" he yells throwing it forward.
The Blue Space Ranger swings his Astro Axe but Ultimate Aggregor strikes him first across the chest with his left claw knocking him back, the Black Space Ranger jumps to his right behind Aggregor before swinging his Lunar Lance forward. Aggregor turns around and catches his weapon, Aggregor's eyes begin glowing red as he then fires beams of radioactive energy from them blasting the Black Ranger back. Two pairs of white boots appear several feet away off to his left as he turns towards them.
"Star Slinger!"
"Satellite Stunner!"
The Yellow and Pink Space Rangers shout simultaneously bringing out their respective weapons as they fire a barrage of yellow energy pellets and pink energy rings at Aggregor managing to hit him multiple times making him stumble back a few feet. Aggregor spins around and nearly falls to the ground but catches himself, as he looks back forward to then see the Red Space Ranger and Kamen Rider Fourze running towards him. Aggregor stands up and throws his arms forward sending blasts of blue electricity forward "Now!" Fourze yells as both he and Red Space Ranger stop and jump up into the air dodging the blasts.
Red Space Ranger presses the button labeled 01 on his Battlizer Gauntlet covering his right fist in red energy while Fourze presses his Rocket Switch.
"Rocket! Rocket, On!"
"RIDER ROCKET PUNCH!" Fourze yells out now equipped with the Rocket Module on his right arm, both he and the Red Space Ranger throw their right arms forward and slam their punches into Aggregor causing him to cry out in pain as he is sent flying.
"Electro Shocker!" Kabuterimon yells firing a ball of electricity sending it into the Decepticon Blackout as it impacts and sends him flying back to the ground.
Bumblebee and Ironhide fire their respective cannons sending missiles flying downrange impacting into groups of enemy foot soldiers taking a number of them out.
"Giga Cannon!" Machinedramon yells firing a barrage of powerful energy blasts into the air as they fly a few feet into the air before arcing downward. A few of the energy blasts impact around a group of heroes consisting of Hawk, Dove, and the Jetman causing them to cry out in pain and flail their arms around. Machinedramon continues firing as another shot impacts bringing a building down as Winter Soldier and Ezio run for cover, another explosion sends Kumamon, Michelangelo, and Ron Weasley flying a few feet into the air.
"Clear a path!" Sideswipe shouts as he rolls down the street while skillfully maneuvering his way through all the fighting that was going on.
Machinedramon fires again, Hudson locks blades with Baron Zemo when one of Machinedramon's shots impacts next to them sending them both to the ground. Sideswipe transforms both of his hands into rocket launchers and fires away, one rocket goes right by Machinedramon's head catching his attention while the next impacts into the side of his head catching his attention as he turns to his right.
"Come and get some!" Sideswipe yells transforming his weapons into blades now as he jumps and spins towards Machinedramon.
Machinedramon raises his arm blocking the blades as they strike him multiple times, Sideswipe flies past and lands next to Machinedramon as he quickly turns around and transforms his right hand back to normal following up with a punch across his face.
Blue Devil fires an energy blast from his trident but is then punched in the stomach by Absorbing Man sending him flying back a few feet, a second later something slams into the side of Absorbing Man's face injuring him as he turns to his left to see a familiar shield return to Captain America's hands.
"Go ahead Captain. Throw that again. All I need to do is touch it and you just made me one of the strongest people out here." Absorbing Man says.
"This is true. Or I could make my new friend here one instead." Captain America says as then Kevin Levin drops down beside him and stands up.
"I heard from my new pals you're main specialty is absorbing stuff." Kevin says.
"Yeah? So what?" Absorbing Man questions undeterred by the appearance of this teenager.
Kevin touches Cap's shield as suddenly a large white star appears on his chest followed by a blue ring that surrounds it and then multiple red and white alternating rings around that as his whole body turns into a human-shaped version of his vibranium shield.
Absorbing Man is taken aback by this "So is mine." Kevin says with a large grin.
"He's all yours." Cap says before running off to fight elsewhere.
Absorbing Man changes his right hand into a giant mace head, and his left hand into an axe head as he charges towards Kevin who transforms both of his hands into large blades and charges back. The two close the distance between each other and swing their respective right arm forward as their weapons collide mid-air.
Vigilante fires his left revolver before looking over to his right and firing his other revolver taking out a Collector soldier before it can fire its gun. Behind him Kamen Rider Ghost brings his Gan Gun Saber down striking back SixSix "Let's go, Billy the Kid!" Ghost says as he takes out the Billy the Kid Ghost Eyecon and activates it, placing it into his Ghost Driver.
"Eye! Batchiriminā!" the Billy the Kid Ghost Parka flies out from the Ghost Driver and strikes back both a charging SevenSeven and EightEight as Ghost pushes his lever "Kaigan: Billy the Kid! (Bullet ricochet) Hyakupatsu! Hyakuchū! Zukyūn! Bakyūn! (Electric guitar; bullets ricochet)"
Ghost raises his Gan Gun Saber and Bat Clock both in gun mode and fires away taking out a number of enemy foot soldiers in front of him. Vigilante fires again before turning around to look at Ghost "Partner might I just say you look snazzy in that form of yours." he compliments.
Human Torch casts a stream of fire from his hands while in the air down towards Killer Frost who fires back with a stream of ice as the two elements collide in mid-air between the two. Wrecker swings his crowbar down as Go-On Green raises his Bridge Axe to block the attack. Green Lantern flies down and stops several feet in the air as he fires a green energy blast from his ring taking out a group of enemy foot soldiers along with Elekibas, and the Dragon Orphnoch. Raphael kicks away a Death Eater before jumping and spinning around in the air to kick away the Tofu Hermit monster.
Cheetah has the Yellow Jungle Fury Ranger pinned down before suddenly Bronx leaps in knocking and pinning her to the ground as he barks away. Lobomon and Biowulf clash as Lobomon brings his light kendo sword down which Biowulf blocks with his claws. Gokai Pink and Ilana stand atop a large pile of rubble as Gokai Pink fires both of her Gokai Guns off to the left while Ilana fires laser rays from her headplate off to the right, a few seconds later a Decepticon Protoform falls to the ground as Wonder Woman lands on top of it and slams her fists into it.
Drago punches Naga across the face before turning to his left to see and dodge an attack from Megatron as he swings his bladed cannon at the Bakugan, this opens him up however as Naga swings and scratches Drago across the side of his face sending him faltering back as he cries out in pain.
"Darkus Riot!" Naga yells as he fires a beam of dark purple energy while Megatron fires his cannon.
Hitting Drago and sending him flying back several feet and sliding across the ground. Drago groans in pain, Megatron and Naga both begin to walk and hover forward when they are hit multiple times by bullets and missiles. Sending pieces of Megatron flying while sparks and explosions fly from Naga.
"Need a hand?" Drago looks to his left to see a hand extend down to him.
Drago accepts it and is pulled up by Optimus Prime "Thanks. Name's Drago."
"You can call me Optimus." Optimus replies.
"Prime!" Megatron yells in anger catching both of their attention as he and Naga recover.
"Hey if it'll get this guy off my back you can go ahead and take him." Drago says.
"Finally, I can finish you off myself Drago." Naga says.
"Yeah cause you've been doing well so far by yourself Naga." Drago says as he and Optimus take battle-ready stances.
"This ends today, Prime." Megatron says.
"We shall see about that, Megatron." Optimus says.
Naga roars out as he blasts himself into the air, Drago follows almost immediately as then both Megatron and Optimus transform their arms into close quarter's weapons and charge forward.
Shepard blocks a punch from his Clone and then blocks another punch from his right fist, Shepard ducks and pulls his Clone over his shoulder as he twists around attempting to slam him into the ground but his Clone manages to plant his feet stopping him from doing so. Clone Shepard throws his left foot back into Shepard's stomach knocking him back a few feet as Shepard recovers, around them Shepard's teammates all fight in hand-to-hand combat with their clones. Both sides now seeming completely equal as Ashley throws a punch followed by a roundhouse kick both of which her clone blocks, while Garrus jumps at and throws a punch down at his Clone who raises his arms to block the attack as it still sends him stumbling back a little.
"Look around you." Shepard says.
Clone Shepard does just that as he looks around, Kamen Rider Super-1 jumps forward and punches a Cerberus Centurion to the ground, Leonardo strikes down a Dai-Shocker combatman before turning around and slashing a charging Husk across the stomach.
"Didn't Kai Leng tell you how his plan, almost the same as yours, ended up going for him?" Shepard sarcastically questions.
"Might have mentioned it. But it doesn't matter. Because this time, things will end differently." Clone Shepard says as he powers up his biotics and sends a shockwave at Shepard.
Shepard dives to his left to dodge it and then powers up his biotics as he casts Charge, disappearing and reappearing in front of his Clone as he slams right into him blasting him back several feet as he hits and jump rolls across the ground a few times before coming to a stop.
"You sure about that?" Shepard questions with a small smirk on the corner of his lips.
Clone Shepard groans in pain as he begins picking himself back up "Yeah, I am." Clone Shepard quietly says to himself as a small grin comes to his lips.
Someone stares through a binocular as they scan through the battle that rages some distance away, looking around they come across Clone Shepard as he stands back up and turns to face his real-self. The Cerberus Centurion using the binocular lowers it and looks to his right "Sir, the battle isn't looking good for the Clone and his army."
"Just as predicted." the former dead Spectre, Saren Arterius says with his hands behind his back.
"How the hell did this happen again? Seriously, how lucky can these people get?" the Centurion questions.
"Apparently very lucky lieutenant. But we will be putting that luck of theirs to the full test. Which is why we are here after all." Saren says as he turns and walks back a few feet. Coming to a stop as it is revealed he is standing atop the ruins of the knocked over Bakugan City Tower.
Before him, was a massive army of foot soldiers made up from every faction they had gathered thus far, not just the Cerberus, Collectors, Husks, and the ones fighting the heroes right now, but also from the ancient era universes as well. The Centurion walks up to his right side "As much as I dislike him, the Clone was wise to bring us and this army in as support should another "miracle" like what happened to the assassin on Fishman Island occur again here. His army is sizeable and should be wearing the heroes out now even if they are winning. Once the signal is given, we move in and the heroes will be too tired to take on what remains of his army and the full force of ours. We will wipe out Shepard and the majority of the heroes right here, and now, before they can do any more harm." Saren says.
"They won't see it coming sir." the Centurion says.
"That they won't." Saren says.
Shepard powers up his biotics and leaps into the air, coming down and slamming his fists into the ground creating a shockwave that blasts his Clone back into the wall of a building. Clone Shepard gets back up growling in anger "Do it." he quietly says into his communicator.
The Centurion nods his head and looks at Saren "Sir, it's time."
"Good." Saren says as he then throws his right hand out to the side "Destroy the heroes!" he shouts.
All of the soldiers let out a joyous battle cry, ready for the battle as they begin to charge forward. Saren turns and begins to walk "Stop!" a strong, female voice yells out as the voice seems to echo through the air.
Making Saren and even his army all come to a stop as all of the foot soldiers begin looking around wondering who that was and where the voice came from "We're not going to let that happen!" the female voice speaks again as Saren begins looking around. His face unchanged from his serious expression.
"Alright! I'm all fired up!" now a male voice yells out as his voice echoes through the air.
Saren slowly continues looking around, until suddenly his head shoots upward as he looks to the sky to see six golden balls of light appear and zoom towards him. Saren quickly jumps back off the rubble while the Centurion is hit by all six of the golden balls and is blasted off the rubble rolling down it, the balls of light travel towards and begin striking down multiple enemy soldiers at the front of the army as sparks fly and cries of pain echo out into the air. Eventually the lights stop and fly back towards the ruins of the tower before stopping atop them as the lights then die down, and from them six people drop onto the rubble crouched down. The six people stand up at the same time as Saren and some of the soldiers who managed to survive the attack do, while the rest of the army regroup behind Saren and the others holding their weapons at the ready.
"Newcomers I see. I take it that light show wasn't just for that. You aren't from this universe are you?" Saren questions.
The six individuals turn around, and Saren is slightly confused by what he sees as he narrows his eyes and turns his head a little to the left.
"You could say that." the male voice from before says with a large toothy grin. The voice belonged to a lean, muscular young man of average height with a slightly tan skin tone with black eyes, and strange pink-colored spiky hair. He wore a gold trimmed, black overcoat that was open-collared and only had one sleeve that covered his left arm leaving his right arm exposed, a faux leather brown armband around the sleeve at the top of his arm, and a thick black wristband around his right hand wrist. A gold sash around his waist, white knee-length trousers with black ribbon ties, black open-toed sandals for footwear, and finally a scale-patterned white scarf.
Standing on his right was a young woman with large brown eyes, and blonde hair tied into long side ponytail with a blue ribbon. She wore a rather revealing blue shirt with white trims, a white collar, and gold buttons as the shirt covered her entire front but left most of her back and some of her side beneath her arms exposed; she had a white scrunchie on her right wrist, and wore a black fingerless arm glove on her left arm with a silver band at the top. A white skirt with silver buttons on either side of the middle, brown leather high-heel boots, a white sash around her waist, and finally a brown belt with silver buckle that had a brown pouch attached to it.
On his left was a toned, muscular young man with black spiky hair and dark blue eyes. He wore a white and blue trimmed, buttoned up coat with a high, opened collar, and dark blue pants that were held up by a brown with silver buckle belt on his waist, and black boots.
And next to him was a tall, muscular young man with long, spiky black hair which is slicked back, red eyes and no visible eyebrows as instead there are three metal studs above each of his eyes. He wore a dark green sleeveless coat with silver trims, a dark green V-neck shirt also with silver trims, brown fingerless gloves with metal cuffs around his wrists, a piece of a sleeve on his left elbow, tan pants with a metal belt around his waist, and black boots. Beside the studs over his eyes, there were also two studs on both sides of his nose, two on his chin, and four studs on both of his forearms.
Next to the blonde-haired girl was another young woman but with long, scarlet red hair and brown eyes. She wore silver plated armor with a large dark silver cross-like image at the center, her right shoulder sported a pauldron while her left shoulder was missing it, elbow guards, and gauntlets that went up to her elbows. She also wore a blue skirt, a brown belt with silver buckle around her waist, and black boots.
Finally, there was another girl, this one the youngest out of the entire group as she literally looked like a child with her petite appearance. She had dark blue hair that was held into two long pigtails that reached down to her waist by red animal ear like attachments, with two bangs framing her face, and brown eyes. She wore a flowing dress with a triangular pattern near the top, the first triangle from the bottom was yellow, followed by light green, and then light blue at the top; and a crossing pattern around the rest of the dress as the rest of it is dark green in color with the black crossing lines. She also wears a thick yellow band around each of her arms and ankle tied sandals on her feet.
"Children? You are nothing more than human children? What trickery is this?" Saren questions not believing what he was seeing.
"Don't go mistaking us as just mere children, evildoer. It'll be the last thing you regret." the scarlet haired woman says, her voice being the one from before as well.
"Oh trust me I'm no fool. You're here from another universe, and it can't be some coincidence. That makes all of you heroes from an alternate universe no doubt." Saren says.
"That we are!" the blonde-haired girl proudly says with her hands to her hips.
"Then allow me to introduce myself. My name is Saren Arterius. What are yours?" Saren asks as he then notices something that all of these human children have.
They all possessed a strange symbol of some kind on different parts of their bodies and of different colors. The little girl had a light blue symbol on her right shoulder, the young man with metal studs had a black symbol on his left arm just below the shoulder, the scarlet haired girl had the symbol in blue on the middle of her left upper arm, the dark-haired boy in the white coat did not have his visible which meant it was most likely beneath his clothes. The blonde-haired girl had a pink symbol on the back of her right hand, and finally the pink-haired boy had his symbol red and located beneath his right shoulder.
"Natsu. Natsu Dragneel." the pink-haired boy introduces.
"Lucy Heartfilia." the blonde-haired girl says.
"Gray Fullbuster." the black-haired boy in the white coat says.
"Erza Scarlet." the armored girl says.
"Wendy Marvell." the young petite girl says.
"Gajeel Redfox." the black-haired boy with metal studs says.
"Good. Now I know the names of the heroes I am about to crush. Reckon they'll disappear once this encounter is done and over with. Destroy them." Saren says.
The army of foot soldiers roar out in a battle cry and charge forward.
Natsu slams his left fist into his right hand "Don't go underestimating us." Natsu says with a serious look on his face as he and his friends all jump off the rubble and land on the ground "Because we're Fairy Tail wizards!" Natsu shouts as he and the others all charge forward.
Natsu literally blasting himself forward into a full sprint as he charges straight towards the enemy. High-velocity slugs, magic blasts, and other projectile attacks are fired at the charging pink-haired wizard, many of the shots missing him while Natsu does dodge a few of them. Natsu continues closing the distance as he then lifts up his right fist which is suddenly engulfed in flames, Natsu then launches himself forward into the air "Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells as he throws his fist forward.
Slamming it into the lead Centurion as an explosion erupts blasting him and many of the other enemy soldiers around him into the air and away.
"Surround him! Go! Go!" another Centurion shouts as enemy soldiers begin to surround Natsu from all sides.
"Big mistake." Natsu says as streams of fire engulf both of his hands "Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Natsu yells as he spins around blasting the streams of fire out from his hands, creating a tornado of fire that impacts into and engulfs many of the enemy soldiers around him blasting them into the air as they all cry out.
"Burn him!" a Death Eater yells as he and four others aim their wands forward and produce powerful streams of fire from their tips. The fires combine in the air forming a massive stream that travels towards Natsu who has his back turned to them, at the last second before it hits Natsu turns his head around slightly to get a glimpse of the inferno. The fire completely engulfs him, seeing this all of the enemy foot soldiers around him begin to cheer out in victory "We got one of them!"
"How do you like that!?"
"Not so tough are you!"
The five Death Eaters lower their wands with satisfied smiles on their faces, when all of a sudden they all gasp with their mouths dropping open. All of the cheering stops and the enemy soldiers look on, the eyes of a Haradrim soldier are widened in absolute shock at what he and his allies are seeing. The fire all of a sudden begins getting sucked in by something, or more precisely, someone, with that someone being Natsu as he has his head raised into the air with his mouth wide open. The fire that engulfed him, now swirling around into his mouth as the pink-haired young man appears to literally, be eating the fire!
"Wh-What?" one of the Death Eaters say.
"What magic is this?!" another Death Eater questions.
All of the fire is sucked into Natsu as his stomach bloats up, and then returns to normal after a few seconds with Natsu letting out a satisfied sigh and lowering his head with his right hand to his mouth "Thanks for the meal."
All of the foot soldiers continue staring at him in absolute shock as Natsu raises his head, looking right at them with a smirk on his lips "Fire doesn't work so well on a Fire Dragon Slayer. So thanks for the meal." he says.
A few of the enemy soldiers whimper and even take several steps back "He's a monster!" one of the Death Eaters cry out.
"Now then" Natsu says as he raises his right fist which is engulfed in fire once more "Let's get back to business."
"Blast him!" a Stormtrooper yells as once again enemy foot soldiers unleash a barrage of gunfire, arrows, and magic blasts.
"Ice Make: Wall!" Gray yells throwing and planting his hands on the ground as suddenly a massive wall of ice erupts from the ground in front of him blocking all of the shots.
The enemy soldiers continue firing "Out of the way!" a Mixmaster Decepticon clone yells as he leaps forward and transforms into a giant stationary gun. Firing a shot that impacts into and destroys the ice wall, revealing Gray who not only has a giant bazooka-like weapon made of ice held in his hands, but for some reason was also half-naked as his shirt was missing.
"Ice Make: Ice Cannon!" Gray yells firing a massive ice cannonball right at the Decepticon as the shot impacts into and blows right through the Decepticon's body. Taking him out as the lifeless body falls to its side crushing a few unlucky soldiers beneath it.
"Ice Make: Arrows!" Gray yells creating a giant ice crossbow as from it he fires hundreds of ice arrows, shooting down multiple enemy soldiers as they all cry out in pain with weapons and pieces of armor and clothing going flying into the air.
An Uruk Berserker swings its sword which is then caught by Gajeel "Gihi, thanks for the meal." he says with a toothy grin as all of a sudden Gajeel takes a bite out of the sword.
The Berserker pulls back and looks at what remains of its half-eaten weapon "They don't call me the Iron Dragon Slayer for nothing. Iron Dragon Club!" Gajeel yells throwing his left arm forward as it transforms into a large iron club and extends forward.
Slamming into the Uruk Berserker and pushing it across the ground through more enemy troops knocking a bunch of them into the air. Gajeel retracts the club and spins around, throwing his right leg outwards halfway as he then transforms that into a large iron club and extends it slamming it into the enemy and kicking a bunch of them into the air.
"Fire! Fire!" A Centurion shouts as multiple enemy soldiers continue firing at Gajeel. A squad of Gormin and X Borgs rush in and form two firing lines, with both of them unleashing their explosive projectile from their weapons at Gajeel as they impact into and around him.
"Don't let up! Make sure he's dead!" the Centurion yells as they continue firing into the smoke.
Several seconds later someone begins emerging through the smoke, sure enough it is Gajeel, though with his skin now covered from head to toe in iron scales as the shots that do hit him harmlessly bounce off or shatter on impact. "Come on now, whose next?" Gajeel taunts.
A number of enemy soldiers surround Wendy "Keep your distance!" a Centurion shouts.
"What can she do? She's just a little girl!" an assault trooper yells.
"Don't underestimate me because of that." Wendy says as she then takes in a deep breath "Roar of the Sky Dragon!" Wendy shouts as she shoots out from her mouth a massive tornado-like blast of air, taking out a number of enemy troops in front of her.
"Holy shit!"
"Light her up!"
The enemy soldiers behind Wendy open fire sending high-velocity slugs and other projectiles flying towards the young Sky Dragon Slayer, until suddenly a massive shield appears behind her blocking all of the shots "Erza!" Wendy says glad to see her.
"I'll take care of these guys Wendy. Watch my back." Erza says in her Adamantine Armor.
"Right!" Wendy says.
"Requip!" Erza yells as her body is engulfed in a golden light.
The light shoots upwards as the enemy troops follow after it with their weapons, the light travels some feet into the air before it explodes outwards revealing Erza in one of her armor "Heaven's Wheel Armor!" she shouts.
"It is time to dance, my blades!" Erza says holding her arms out to her side as she summons hundreds of swords around her.
"What the hell!" a Cerberus engineer shouts as all of the enemy soldiers are taken aback by this.
"Circle Sword!" Erza yells swinging the swords in her hands down as a command sending all of the other swords around her flying downwards at top speed. The swords impact into and around the enemy soldiers below taking many of them out as cries of pain echo out into the air.
Erza flies towards the ground "Requip!" she yells flipping around as she is covered in golden light "Lightning Empress Armor!" she lands on the ground crouched down and immediately gets back up. A Rhun soldier comes at her from behind and swings his pike at her with a battle cry, Erza spins around knocking the weapon away with her Spear of Lightning and strikes him back across the helmet.
A Bruiser attempts to attack her from behind but Erza throws her upper body back and strikes him in the chest with her spear sending him twirling around to the ground. Erza then jumps sideways and spins around, firing multiple beams of blue lightning from the tip of her spear at a number of remaining enemy soldiers taking many of them out as explosions erupt all over from the impacting lightning. Erza repeats this a few more times before coming to a stop, which is when a growl from behind catches her attention as she turns to find herself about to be crushed by a giant armored troll with a mace "Sky Dragon's Crushing Fang!" Wendy yells.
Flying at the troll with her right hand covered in a whirlwind as she swings it and slashes the troll across the face with her fingertips, causing it to roar out in pain as it falls to its side "Thanks Wendy." Erza says as Wendy nods her head.
Lucy jumps over a slab of concrete stuck in the ground and pushes herself against it as enemy fire flies around her. A number of enemy foot soldiers move towards her while firing their weapons "Time to call in some long range support." Lucy says to herself as she opens her pouch and reaches into it. Bringing out a gold key as she throws her right arm forward "Gate of the Archer, I open thee! Sagittarius!" she yells as the key begins to glow.
Suddenly an Orc and a Genlock are both shot with arrows and go down, a few of the enemy soldiers look at where the shots came from to see a tall, black-haired and lanky man in a horse costume wielding a bow with a quiver of arrows on his back.
"I am ready to assist, moshi, moshi!" Sagittarius yells as he pulls back on three more arrows and releases them.
Sending the arrows into a Wolf soldier, and a Unggoy while the third arrow is blocked by a Death Eater's shield charm. "Destroy that fool!" a Storm Sangheili shouts as he raises his Storm Rifle and fires along with a few other foot soldiers.
Sagittarius jumps to his left to dodge some of the shots as he begins running sideways along the top of the tower ruin while releasing arrows taking a few more enemy soldiers down. "Now it's my turn. Star Dress! Sagittarius Form!" Lucy yells as a glow of light erupts from her hiding spot catching a few enemy soldiers' attention as then Lucy jumps out from cover into the air.
Almost immediately multiple enemy soldiers are shot down this time by gold energy arrows, as a few seconds later Lucy lands back on the ground and stands up in a completely different outfit, that of her Star Dress Sagittarius Form which granted her the powers of her Celestial Spirit as she now wielded an ornate bow. Lucy raises her bow forward and pulls back on the string, causing an energy arrow to appear on the bow "Star Shot!" she yells as a large star appears in front of her bow and unleashes a heavy barrage of energy arrows into the enemy forces in front of her.
A Darkspawn Hurlock Alpha charges Lucy from behind with a maul and raises it "Star Dress!" Lucy yells as she spins around, once again covered in golden light as suddenly the Hurlock Alpha is sent flying into the air.
"Taurus Form!" she yells now in her Taurus Form Star Dress armed with a whip.
"Earth Wave!" Lucy yells swinging her whip and striking the ground, causing it to rupture sending many enemy soldiers flying into the air.
Lucy giggles as she straightens herself and holds her whip, failing to notice the shimmering outline of a invisible figure moving behind her. The cloaked figure slowly and quietly approaches Lucy from behind while taking something out, as suddenly an energy sword activates and hisses to life. Lucy hears this and turns around to see a Sangheili Zealot de-cloak as it roars at her and raises his energy sword, until Natsu flies in from nowhere and punches it right in the face with a fire engulfed fist sending it flying and crashing into a pile of rubble.
"Thanks Natsu!" Lucy says.
"No problem." Natsu replies.
Just then Natsu looks to his left "Look out!" he suddenly shouts pushing Lucy out of the way as he is hit by a biotic shockwave sending him flying.
"Natsu!" Lucy cries out.
Natsu recovers mid-air and lands on the ground sliding back a few more feet before coming to a stop. He looks forward with anger in his eyes and teeth gritted to see Saren calmly approaching him "Figures if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." he says.
Natsu stands back up with a serious look on his face as he gets into a battle ready stance "Come and get some." he says with a grin.
Saren quickens his pace and powers up his biotics, soon going into a full sprint towards Natsu as the Fire Dragon Slayer launches himself forward "Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells throwing his fire engulfed right fist forward.
Only to strike the ground as Saren launches himself over Natsu, Natsu turns around but Saren casts another shockwave blasting Natsu into the ground. Saren lands and immediately follows up by casting Lift on Natsu, levitating him into the air as he flails around helplessly trying to regain control over his body, Saren then follows with a Slam sending Natsu right back into the ground. From this Saren casts Throw turning around and throwing his left arm out as this sends Natsu flying past him and crashing into a destroyed car, Saren raises his Geth Pulse Rifle and fires a concussive shot right into the vehicle causing an explosion.
"One down." Saren says as he lowers his rifle and turns away to deal with the other heroes.
"Don't count me out yet."
Saren's face remains unchanged as he simply turns around to see Natsu emerge from the smoke, other than a few tears on his clothing and some burn marks he was completely unharmed "Quite resilient are you." Saren notices.
Natsu plants his right hand on the ground and crouches extending his right leg out to the side "My turn." Natsu says lighting his whole body on fire.
Saren doesn't like what he sees as he quickly activates his biotics, suddenly in an instant Natsu propels himself towards Saren at high speed "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" he yells as Saren's eyes widened. Natsu slams headfirst into Saren's stomach, blowing him back and eventually sending the former Spectre flying through the air crashing into a number of enemy foot soldiers as they cry out in pain with a few of them going into the air from the impact.
The biotic barrier and aura surrounding Saren disappears as he lies on the ground, gritting his teeth in pain as even with the barrier up, that combined with his kinetic barrier was still broken through like butter causing Saren to receive some burn marks and damage from Natsu's attack.
"Sir!" a Centurion says rushing over to his side, only to receive a biotic blast from Saren blasting him aside.
Saren sits back up and spits out some blood before standing back on his feet "I see. In that case." Saren says as he closes his eyes, and then immediately re-opens them as they are now glowing bright red. Red electricity begins to surge from his body as seeing this Natsu prepares himself for whatever's about to come.
Until suddenly "On second though." Saren says, as he takes a step back and his eyes return to normal and the electricity stops shooting out from his body.
"Even if I were to use that. I have a feeling there's more to you than what you've already shown. Even using my new powers wouldn't be enough to defeat you." Saren says as he looks down at his left hand.
After a few seconds Saren looks back up at Natsu just as the rest of the Fairy Tail wizards regroup around him, Saren looks around to see almost his entire army decimated. The only ones still alive were the less than a hundred foot soldiers gathered around him "It appears you've won this day, heroes." Saren begins as he slowly looks back at the wizards, Natsu narrows his eyes.
"But we will win the war in the end." Saren finishes as after a few seconds a red portal appears above them and sucks him and his army in before disappearing.
"We'll see about that." Natsu says.
Lucy is covered in a golden light and returns to her normal clothes "You alright Natsu?" Lucy asks.
Natsu turns his head and looks at her with a smile "Yeah, I'm fine. Those attacks of his were nothing." Natsu replies.
"Gihi, more like this "army" of his was nothing. Seriously, this is what we have to worry about?" Gajeel questions.
"The Reaper allies are not our main threat. But the combined might of them, and the Reapers are. Just look around" Erza says as she looks around at the ruins of this city they were now in "The Reapers alone did this. And if they reach Fiore, they will bring this destruction to our home as well."
"This is so horrible." Wendy says in a saddened and worried tone.
"And the only way to defeat these Reapers is with that weapon that Minerva lady mentioned this Commander Shepard has." Gray says.
"Yeah." Erza says.
"NATSU~!" a voice from above calls out catching everyone's attention.
From the sky three small cats, a blue one wearing a green backpack, a white one wearing a light green collared shirt with a black suit coat, black tie with a white paw print at the bottom, a dark red skirt, pink bowtie attached to the tail, and shoes, and a black one wearing green pants with a brown sash wrapped around the waist carrying a small sword on the back, descend. All of them with white wings on their backs.
"Hey! Happy!" Natsu shouts back waving up at his Exceed partner.
"Carla!" Wendy shouts putting her hands on the sides of her mouth.
"Oi, Lily." Gajeel simply says with a toothy grin and his arms crossed.
"Where'd you three fly off to?" Lucy asks as the three Exceeds land on the ground with their wings disappearing in flashes of white light.
"Happy decided to get a look at the heroes while all of you were fighting so he flew over to where the fight was going on and me and Lily went with him so we could keep him out of trouble." Carla, the white Exceed says crossing her arms.
"So, how was it?" Gray asks stepping forward.
"They all seem very powerful, and skilled in combat too. Even though they're outnumbered they're really giving the forces of evil a beating." Lily answers.
"Is that so? Heh, can't wait to meet these people and test that out for myself." Gajeel says.
"Not now, we came here for this one reason and that was it. Now it's time for us to get back home." Erza says.
"Aw~ do we have too?!" Natsu questions in an annoyed tone.
"We need to return to the guild and be with them should the Reapers attack. Gajeel, you need to warn Master and the others so they can send word out to the King and the other guilds. Fiore needs to be ready when the Reapers come." Erza says with a serious look on her face.
"Hmph, she isn't wrong Salamander. We do have some more serious matters to attend to before the Commander and his friends get to our universe." Gajeel says.
"Yeah, you're right." Natsu says realizing what his friends were saying were true. Natsu turns in the direction Shepard and the other heroes were fighting in and takes a couple of steps towards them, as he then raises and clenches his left hand into a fist "We'll leave the rest up to you. Shepard!"
Back at the Other Battle…
Ryu Hayabusa swings his sword striking down the Yokai Kappa, multiple shots impact in front of him making Ryu jump back as he looks to see multiple enemy soldiers coming towards him. Just then NinjaRed, AkaNinger, and the Red Wind Ranger appear on either side of him "Time to help a fellow ninja out!" AkaNinger says.
The three Reds pull out their respective swords as Ryu readies his "Let's go!" Red Wind Ranger shouts as the four ninjas jump into the air and disappear in streaks of red, and black. The streaks travel towards the enemy soldiers as they then begin jumping all over the place while striking them sending sparks flying from all of the enemy soldiers as they are unable to fight back, eventually going down as the four ninjas land several feet away just as the enemy soldiers explode.
Flash runs circles around Skalamander as he constantly tries to shoot the scarlet speedster with his crystals, all of the shots miss however no matter what he does "Missed me!" Flash yells from behind Skalamander making him turn and shoot only for Flash to run off.
"Right here!" Flash shouts again from behind making Skalamander turn and shoot again only to miss.
"You really suck at this don't you?" Flash says in a humored tone.
Skalamander roars in anger and this time turns around to slam his crystal arm into the ground, sending a wave of crystals protruding out of the ground towards Flash who once again just speeds off to avoid the attack. This time however Flash speeds by and punches Skalamander across the face, making the EVO spin around a couple of times before falling to the ground unconscious as Flash speeds right back over to his body and looks down.
"That's a yes." Flash says with a satisfied grin when all of a sudden something hits his legs and he looks down to see them completely frozen in ice.
Flash turns around to see some of the villains he frequently clashed with in his home city approach, these villains being Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Heatwave, and Mirror Master "Oh hey, it's you guys." Flash says in a comedic tone.
"Time to burn Flash!" Heatwave says as he aims his flamethrower gun at him.
Just as someone then kicks Heatwave's gun away followed by kicking Heatwave himself in the chest sending him flying back into Captain Cold knocking both of them to the ground. Boomerang and Mirror Master look back to see Kamen Rider Kabuto walk in between them and Flash "Oh look a bug. Time to squash him like one!" Captain Boomerang says as behind him Cold and Heatwave both recover.
Captain Boomerang pulls out one of his boomerangs and throws it at Kabuto, Kabuto swings his Kabuto Kunai Gun in Kunai Mode simply cutting through the boomerang with ease. Mirror Master, Captain Cold, and Heatwave rush up and fire their respective guns at Kabuto as a blue laser, and streams of fire and ice fly at Kabuto "Clock Up!" Kabuto says pressing the button on the left side of his Rider Belt.
"Clock Up!"
Time comes to a stop just as the three attacks are about to hit Kabuto, Kabuto runs forward and kicks the four villains one by one knocking them all back into the air. Following this Kabuto runs behind the four "1, 2, 3!" Kabuto presses the three buttons on his belt and flips his Kabuto Zecter's horn forward "Rider Kick." he says.
He then flips it backwards sending blue electricity surging from the Zecter "Rider Kick!" Kabuto spins around performing a 180 degree roundhouse kick into the four villains striking all four of them "Clock Over!" an explosion erupts as they all cry out in pain and are sent flying over Flash hitting the ground hard several feet away from him.
Kabuto calmly walks over to Flash "Thanks but now they're going to think I actually have a challenger on my side who's potentially faster than me." Flash says in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Start Up!" Faiz in Axel Form and Red Buster both crouch down as a number of enemy troops run at them.
"Go!" Red Buster yells as both of them speed forward leaving a streak of silver and black, and green digital numbers behind as they strike down all of the enemy soldiers in just a few seconds.
"Drive: Type Formula! (Dramatic music, followed by a Formula One car passing by)"
The Decepticon Barricade fires his machine gun down at Drive who uses his super speed to run around to Barricade's rear, Barricade follows after him but Drive runs between his legs and over to his right to dodge once more. Barricade turns around to locate Drive but the Kamen Rider runs behind him and to his left "Formula-Hou (Cannon)!"
Drive raises his Trailer-Hou in Cannon Mode and inserts the Shift Mantarn F01, and Shift Jacky F02 Shift Cars into the Shutter Gate Panel "Hissatsu! Full Throttle: Full Full Formula Taihou~!" Drive aims his weapon at Barricade as the Decepticon turns around and releases a powerful blue energy blast into the Decepticon causing him to explode.
Green Arrow releases one of his arrows taking out a Collector captain, a Gormin appears behind Green Arrow ready to strike when all of a sudden electricity surges out from behind the Gormin who cries out in pain catching Arrow's attention as he turns to see the Gormin who then falls forward. Green Arrow notices an arrow in its back as Hawkeye drops in "You're welcome." he simply says.
Green Arrow turns around completely and raises his bow and arrow, the trick arrow's head pops open revealing a green boxing glove as Arrow fires it sending it right into the villain Chemistro "You're welcome." Green Arrow says back with a hint of humor in his tone as he turns and runs away.
"Will still never understand those boxing glove arrows of yours old man." Hawkeye says to himself before turning around and releasing another arrow.
Arcee drives through the street firing her machine gun into Skeltox knocking him off a pile of rubble, Leonardo raises his katana blocking an attack from a Foot Tech Ninja as he then kicks the Foot Ninja away. Behind him a few feet Goliath grapples with his clone Thailog as the two attempt to overpower the other, eventually Thailog headbutts Goliath knocking him back a little, Thailog moves into continue the attack when a battle cry from his right makes him turn to see Leonardo coming at him with his right foot extended. The Ninja Turtle kicks Thailog across the face knocking him away and stunning him, allowing Goliath to recover as the Gargoyle leader launches himself at Thailog and punches him in the face sending him flying back.
A flash of green light dies down revealing Ben now as "Heatblast!"
"Agunimon! Slide Evolution! BurningGreymon!"
"Wildfire Tsunami!" BurningGreymon yells releasing a wave of fire from his body while Heatblast throws his arms forward and fires a combined massive stream of fire from his hands. The two attacks impact into BioStegomon causing an explosion that blasts him back.
Kamen Rider Kuuga bends down holding his arms out to his side before charging forward a few feet, stopping and jumping into the air as he extends his right foot forward and lets out a battle cry. Slamming the kick into Atomic Skull causing an explosion that sends the villain flying. Superman rams through three Decepticon Protoforms' chests while Iron Man fires his repulsor rays taking down many enemy foot soldiers around him.
Hairadee growls in pain as he floats back several feet, some distance away from him Skyress and Garudamon gather together "Lightning Talon!" Skyress yells firing her attack.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon yells throwing her arms into the air shooting a pillar of fire upward before it transforms into the shape of a phoenix and arcs forward.
The two attacks fly and impact into Hairadee causing him to cry out in pain.
"Moonlight Slash!" Ingram yells.
"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon yells as the two fly at and slash Druman across his chest causing him to cry out in pain as an explosion erupts propelling him straight to the ground.
"Death Trident!" Hydranoid yells firing his energy blasts from his three mouths.
"Shadow Meteor!" Loweemon yells firing a burst of dark energy from the lion head on his chest. Both attacks impact into Tayghen causing her to cry out in pain.
Tigrerra blocks an attack from Centorrior as the impact still sends her sliding back several feet, just then Gallantmon appears jumping up onto a building beside her "Need some help" he asks.
"If you can provide it I don't mind." Tigrerra says.
"Vortex Dark Pyrus!" Centorrior yells spinning his spear around in the air before throwing it forward releasing a dark energy blast at them.
"Volting Fang!" Tigrerra yells as she is surrounded by an aura of lightning and fires a beam of it at Centorrior from her blades.
"Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon yells releasing a beam of red energy from his lance.
The two attacks combine in mid-air before impacting into Centorrior's dark beam and breaking through in an instant, Centorrior cries out as the attack comes and impacts into him causing a massive explosion.
Chief rolls forward and fires off a few bursts from his rifle shooting down a few enemy troops, Tigress kicks back Cheetah and Po punches away Mercurymon.
"Together!" Troy shouts as he, Marvelous, and Tsukasa raise their swords.
Troy takes out his Morpher and inserts the Megaforce Dynamic card into it before closing the morpher, Marvelous inserts his Ranger Key into the cylinder and twists it, while Decade inserts his Final Attack Ride Card into his Driver.
"Final Attack Ride: D-D-D-Decade!" a row of holographic Final Attack Ride Decade cards appear in front of Tsukasa.
"FI~NAL WA~VE!" Marvelous's saber becomes covered in red energy.
"Sky Power Energize!" Troy yells as his Dragon Sword's blade is covered in red energy.
Doktor G, Emperor Mavro, and Vrak are taken aback by this as then the three heroes charge forward with battle cries, Tsukasa running through his holographic cards as they close the distance between them and their opponents and unleash a flurry of energy slashes onto them. For their final attacks Troy brings his sword down, Marvelous swings his diagonally upwards to his right and Tsukasa follows but swings his diagonally upwards to his left. Leaving large energy slashes in the three villains before they suddenly explode, the three leaders survive but are sent flying back several feet rolling across the ground a few times.
Liara and Javik power up their biotics and release a combined biotic shockwave at their clones blasting them away, EDI hits her clone with an Incinerate attack knocking her back, Tali and Garrus get together and fire their pistols hitting their clones multiple times, while Ashley, and James get together and both fire concussive shots into their clones blasting them back.
Drago flies at and punches Naga across the face, Naga returns the punch with his own fist to Drago's face. Both Drago and Naga launch themselves back away from each other "Dragon Thrasher!"
"Darkus Riot!" Naga yells as both of them release their respective attacks at each other.
Both energy blasts collide in the air between each other but gain no ground over the other, as such both Drago and Naga continue pouring their attack out in an attempt to overpower the other. At first Naga's attack seems to be gaining ground as it slowly pushes Drago's attack back, but that all changes after a few seconds as soon it's Drago's attack pushing back on Naga's. Naga continues trying to give it his all but it's no use, Drago's red energy beam continues pushing back on the dark purple energy beam until eventually it blasts its way through and impacts into Naga causing him to cry out in pain as an explosion erupts.
Shepard punches his clone across the face and then reverse roundhouse kicks him sending him spiraling to the ground. The Clone gets back up but is immediately met by a biotic punch by the real Shepard to the chest sending him flying as he hits the ground and slides back a few more feet before coming to a stop, at this point all of the villains regroup behind him along with any surviving foot soldiers. Both Clones Ashley and EDI help Clone Shepard back to his feet but he angrily pushes them away "Get off me!" he yells.
Shepard's teammates regroup around him, followed by Chief and the others, and then by the rest of the heroes "Had enough." Shepard says.
Clone Shepard looks around, he and the villains were completely surrounded by the heroes on all sides, all of them just waiting to continue the fight as many of them held their weapons at the ready. Clone Shepard gritted his teeth as he grunted in anger, he looked off in the direction of the knocked over Bakugan City tower but saw nothing. No sign of Saren or his army "What the hell happened to that…" Clone Shepard decided to put the thought aside for now since he had more pressing issues to deal with at the moment.
"Come on already, we're ready for Round 2!" Den-O shouts.
"It's over Naga! You lose!" Drago says.
Naga roars in anger at what Drago said.
It was obvious at this point something must have happened. Either that, or that Turian backstabbed and tried to get him killed! Without saying a word Clone Shepard lets out a loud, angered growl while throwing his left arm out to his side. A large red portal opens up and sucks all the evil forces into it as it then disappears.
Seeing this Shepard and the other heroes relax and stand down, a few even falling onto their hands and knees or just knees from exhaustion.
"And another fight ends." Shepard says.
Somewhere in the United States…
Following the battle Tsukasa was able to use his dimensional portal to send all of the heroes back to the UNSC Infinity after getting some thanks from Shepard and his team, including the Bakugan, and Battle Brawlers after there were some introductions between the new heroes and the gathered ones. Now that the battle brawlers were safe, it was time to get them somewhere safer.
The Doctor was able to locate the nearest military safe zone and while bringing the brawlers to it Shepard and the others explained the situation to Dan and them.
"Drago and the others are going to be okay, right?" Dan asks as the heroes and battle brawlers were now standing outside the TARDIS just about a mile or two close to the military safe zone. The Bakugan back in their ball forms.
"Dan, you do realize the gravity of the situation-"
"I know I do! I'm not a little kid anymore! But still…" Dan says cutting off Drago as he looks at the ground with sadness in his eyes. The other battle brawlers were showing the same emotion on their face, they were worried. Shepard and the others could immediately tell.
Shepard and Chief exchange looks with one another as then Shepard looks back at Dan and approaches him, crouching down in front of him "Hey." Shepard says catching Dan's attention.
"I'll do what I can to try and bring Drago back to you. All of your Bakugan. But I can't guarantee it." Shepard says.
"Dan, this threat. The Reapers. They're bigger than anything we've ever faced, the fact that even Naga and his Bakugan are back and working alongside them shows it. You should know by now, I'm going to do whatever it takes to defend your home, and everyone else's. And if it means what it does. If it means giving you, and everyone else a future to look forward too, you and I both know that either one of us would have done it no matter what the other said." Drago says.
Dan remains silent "Tigrerra?" Runo says.
Tigrerra lowers her head "This needs to be done, Runo. If we can make a difference, we need to be there."
"Preyas? Elfin?" Marucho says.
"Doh~! Don't make this harder than it needs to be!" Preyas cries out with tears streaming down his, and Elfin's faces, even in ball form.
"Just think positively and everything will be okay! Yeah, just think positively!" Elfin says.
"Just…" Dan begins to speak as he lifts his head and looks at Shepard "Just try to bring them back to us." he says.
Shepard nods his head as he stands back up "Alright people, time to move out." he says.
The heroes head back towards the TARDIS and enter it, the door closes behind them as a few seconds later the TARDIS spurs to life with the engines making their normal sound before the TARDIS disappears into thin air. "Be careful out there everyone." Dan says as he and the Battle Brawlers watch with saddened faces as their Bakugan friends disappear. Hopefully not for the last time…
Vestal…
The sounds of battle echoed through the air, the once overpopulated planet was now in flame. The bustling streets were quiet, tall buildings razed to the ground, and many other locations destroyed by the Reapers as they now dominated the surface, forcing all surviving Vestals, Bakugan, and any other inhabitants underground where they continue to resist and fight back the Reapers from.
The wall of an abandoned factory breaks apart as two Cerberus centurions are sent flying through it, hitting and rolling across the ground a few times before coming to a stop. From the hole two Cerberus Phantoms, along with Kai Leng jump through as they land and turn around, following after them is the Keyblade wielder Sora as he jumps through the wall and charges forward with a battle cry.
Sora swings his Keyblade at Kai Leng who swings his monomolecular blade causing sparks to fly from the two weapons upon impact. Kai Leng spins back as the phantom on his left swings at Sora who swings his Keyblade upward to knock her attack away only to then do the same with a side swing to deflect the other phantom's attack. Kai Leng comes to a stop and raises his palm blaster firing off a few shots, Sora seeing this quickly jumps back as the shots impact in front of him, Sora plants his feet against a metal pillar that was right behind him and launches himself back forward.
The two phantoms get in front of Sora who spins around rapidly allowing him to strike down both phantoms with his Keyblade as sparks fly from them and they both go down. Sora lands back on the ground and quickly looks up to see Kai Leng swing his sword releasing an electrical slash at him, Sora quickly rolls to his left to dodge this only for Kai Leng to send another electric slash at him forcing Sora to jump to his right as Kai Leng attempts again only for Sora to dodge once more by rolling out of the way. This time Sora recovers onto his feet and begins running, Kai Leng releases another electric slash as this time Sora drops to his feet and slides across the ground, somehow managing to slide around Kai Leng to his back taking the assassin off guard.
"What?!" he says.
Kai Leng turns around and fires his palm blaster, only to discover Sora isn't behind him. Not seeing him anywhere else Kai Leng immediately looks up just to see Sora come down at him with a downward slash from his Keyblade, striking him and sending him flying back into a bunch of metal crates knocking them all over. Sora stands back up and holds his Keyblade at the ready as a few seconds later Kai Leng emerges from the crates pushing all of them off of him as he catches his breath while in pain "Beat it!" Sora says.
Kai Leng continues catching his breath, his face cut up with sweat pouring down it, letting out an angered growl he swings his blade out to his side and is sucked up by a red portal as it appears over him and disappears. Seeing the enemy gone Sora lowers his Keyblade and stands up.
Sora runs out of the factory and over to a couple of barrels where someone lies down against them "Are you alright?" Sora asks.
Revealing the person to be Mira Fermin, one of the Vestal Battle Brawlers and friends of Dan and the other Earth Brawlers "Y-Yeah. Thanks." Mira says as Sora extends a helping hand which she accepts and is pulled back up to her feet.
"Better get to safety. Those guys might return. If you decide to come out, better have some friends with you. It's dangerous out here by yourself after all." Sora says.
Mira nods her head "Thanks again, whoever you are."
"Don't sweat it." Sora says.
With this Mira runs off, once she's gone Sora lets out a sigh of relief "Well that's the second thing done. Guess it's time to return home. And then just wait for Shepard and the other heroes to show up." Sora says to himself.
Sora turns and puts his hands behind his head as he looks toward the night sky.
Meanwhile, in an Alternate Universe…
The Fairy Tail wizards, minus Gajeel, and Lily, walk along an open dirt road. In tow was a cart carrying an immense amount of luggage as Erza effortlessly pulls it along "Pick up the pace everyone! We need to return to Fairy Tail quickly!" Erza says with urgency.
Lucy lets out a sigh of sadness as her head hangs low "So much for that 100 Year Quest." she then raises her head with a serious look on her face "But this needs to take importance over that for now." Lucy says.
"Yeah. As much as I hate abandoning a job, if we don't get ready for the Reapers, there won't be a job to do." Natsu says.
"Hurry!" Erza shouts as they continue on the dirt path.
Meanwhile, in another Alternate Universe…
A large floating circular mountain can be seen, carved around it were the faces of eight animals, a Lion, a Eagle, a Gorilla, a Rhino, a Bear, a Wolf, a Raven, and a Crocodile. A number of waterfalls stream out near the bottom of the mountain as far below, another mountain is seen and at the foot of the mountain was a large city with the head of a lion carved at the entrance above the long flight of stairs. Some distance away from the city, Laval looks up at the floating mountain before turning around with a serious look on his face.
The screen splits up into three triangles, showing Laval in the center, Sora on the left, and Natsu on the right.
Back in Shepard's Universe…
The Citadel…
A fist slams down on the arm of a metal chair "Useless! All of you!" the voice of the Illusive Man yells out in complete anger.
Kai Leng is on his right knee while Clone Shepard leans against the wall, and Saren stands with his arms behind his back. The Illusive Man takes a puff of his cigarette and blows the smoke out afterwards as he catches his breath while trying to calm down "I give all of you one job. A simple job. Kill the heroes. And yet, none of you have even managed to kill a single one of them! All I've been hearing is "I was close" but then this, and that happened. Excuse after excuse after excuse. Why is it so difficult to do?" the Illusive Man questions as he spins his chair around.
"Hey I would have been fine on my end, had just someone" Clone Shepard says as he looks directly at Saren "stuck with the plan!"
"There was a complication on my end must you know. A group of heroes from another universe appeared and destroyed my army before we could move out. Luck was once more on their side." Saren calmly says.
"I told you fools to be ready should this have happened again!" Kai Leng angrily says while still staying kneeled on the ground.
"We were, but we didn't account for another group of heroes appearing from nowhere and taking out the backup army as well. Or perhaps you should have been there as well as a third backup. Perhaps it would have gone a lot more smoother than your operation on Vestal." Saren says with the anger and annoyance in his voice rising.
Kai Leng shoots up from his feet "Everything was going fine until that brat with the giant key appeared." Kai Leng says.
"Him too? What the hell is this crap seriously? It's like watching a kid's Saturday morning hero show where a miracle always happens that gets them out of a tough spot!" Clone Shepard says.
"Enough!" the Illusive Man says raising his voice a little silencing all of them.
"If it wasn't for the fact I don't want to risk any of our allies getting killed out there in the field, some of them again, I wouldn't have needed you three to begin with. Even with you being fully indoctrinated and under our control, you seem to have lost your touch as the "best Spectre our galaxy has to offer" you're just letting Shepard take that title from you at this point." the Illusive Man says to Saren who narrows his eyes in anger.
"And you, you're supposed to be a perfect clone of Shepard. Not only that, I brought you back and made sure you were better than him in every way. I even allowed you to form your own team of Clones made up of Shepard's teammates, all of them are supposed to be stronger, and better than the originals. And now you and your team can barely stand up to them!" the Illusive Man says to Clone Shepard.
"We got fucked over by those other heroes he brought along every time, and then there were times we didn't even encounter them until they had already left with the heroes in tow! And it's obvious at this point they've been training with the other heroes behind the scenes otherwise we would have kicked their ass by now!" Clone Shepard argues.
"And Kai Leng." the Illusive Man says as his assassin grits his teeth in anger "I had such a high hopes for your return. You were one of my best, and yet. You have failed me as well."
"I have and will give no excuses to you sir." Kai Leng says.
The Illusive Man takes another smoke from his cigarette and breathes it out "We are running out of time. It won't be long until they've gathered the necessary allies to assault the Earth with. And if anything has been shown thus far, even these villains and their armies we've recruited are no match for the gathered heroes thus far. Even when we have them outnumbered. We need to take the Commander and his team out. Quickly! We kill them, the heroes and their allies will lose their will to fight, their morale will be hit hard with the loss of their beloved, and heroic Commander Shepard." the Illusive Man says.
"Yeah well guess what, at this point we've tried everything we can and nothing is working. Why don't we just bring the fight to them?" Clone Shepard questions.
"There's a weapon on that planet they're by keeping the Reapers away. Without the Reapers our fleet and our allies' fleets combined won't be enough to put even a dent in their numbers. And I highly doubt any sort of stealth mission to infiltrate the planet and destroy this weapon would work since we don't even know what this weapon is." Saren points out.
Everything quiets down as the Illusive Man, along with Kai Leng, Clone Shepard, and Saren go into deep thought about the whole situation they were in.
"Have we really tried everything?" Kai Leng suddenly speaks up catching everyone's attention.
The Illusive Man looks at Kai Leng "What do you mean?" he asks.
"Sir, every time we've attacked Shepard and his team. They have always been together." Kai Leng says.
"No they haven't dumbass they've splitten up before multiple times." Clone Shepard says.
"Not like you fool! I meant, they've always been together in the same universe. They would split up yes, divide themselves into equal teams as best as possible. But in terms of being in the same universe they're always together. If one team needs help the others will rush right over to help them, or they'll use the Doctor to bring help to them. But what...what if they weren't in the same universe? Not only that sir, what if they were in universes that the Doctor himself didn't bring them too?" Kai Leng questions.
The Illusive Man puts his cigarette in the ashtray next to him and leans forward "Go on." he says with a large grin on his lips.
Since you all voted for it, RETURN OF…
THE Q&A's!
Although based on the other half of the votes that doesn't mean that perhaps the Video Q&A series won't maybe appear in the future alongside these? I don't know but this is definitely going to stay for sure. Who knows only time will tell. But until then, well let's get to it and I will answer all the questions from previous chapters that didn't have a Q&A.
Also HAPPY NEW YEAR! My New Year's Resolution...to try and FINISH THIS STORY! Let's see if I can do it! And by finish I legit mean finish it, Redux chapters won't count but I'll definitely try and get all of those finished as well so this story is more coherent.
To The conmanw - Only seen the 2 movies, never read the books so most likely not.
To Falcon-Rider - Turns out it was something wrong on their end, but everything is all fixed up now and got a new router so hopefully things are good for now.
To trentmillenium619 - Not really, cause with the other stories I need access to the internet to watch the episodes of the series like Fairy Tail and Justice League since certain chapters are based on those episodes. And it's not like I can remember everything the episode off the top of my head. With this story all I need is at least maybe some attack names, and some other stuff but nothing too serious.
To jakesquared - Thank you! That's exactly the sort of feeling I'm going for. Glad you are enjoying it so far!
To Guest - No I will not as I've never seen any of the Ultraman series before.
To mteran305 - Never seen Dragon Ball so there's no need to worry about them being included in this story. Never played any of the SCP games or seen anything related to them so sorry no SCP in this story.
To CT7567Rules - Never really played any of the Dead of Alive games so yeah sorry. Glad you enjoyed the mecha action, originally wasn't going to be in the chapter but it was something I literally thought of at the last second to add in and make it more awesome XD. Never played the Jak and Daxter games, and I'm not really that well versed in Mortal Kombat so probably not.
To Junior VB - Thank you, I didn't even plan that mecha battle to begin with it just came to me XD.
To Everyone Overjoyed About Fairy Tail Being In Here - Yes, that is right they ARE HERE! Originally when I started this story all those years ago I didn't plan on them being in the story (since I didn't know about the anime), but as time passed and I watched the series. Eventually my love for the anime overtook me and I was like LETS GET THEM IN THIS STORY! And now that the manga has ended (in a way) it's definitely a good time to bring them in here.
To TienMaD - I mean, I wouldn't bring someone in just for a cameo and then not even have them appear in the story.
To AmethystPone - But...why would they bombard the Earth when they have people down there? The Resistance and survivors who may be in hiding who knows where? Doesn't sound like a smart idea… Also upgrading armor and stuff here if you would notice. And when the final battle comes around you'll see where the ancient-era soldiers' come into play.
To Hank - Never played Warhammer. Never heard of Armored Core.
To Horrofan247 - Thank you, glad you enjoy the stories! And will Fairy Tail be in here? Hmm…(looks back at the chapter)
To twilightnite13 - Never saw the Slugterra series fully through, unfortunately I only played one Spyro game as a child and don't remember much from that, never played Legend of Zelda, and I don't see Godzilla working in any sort of way in this story. Ben 10's chapter is the last of the chapter rewrites I plan on doing, so I'll definitely fix some stuff up there and the other chapters as well when I get to them if I see something that needs to be fixed or added or deleted. Also you do realize that the DCAU heroes do kill Darkseid and his Parademons right? I'm sure they don't have a problem taking life of monsters and whatnot.
To BrutusPrimus - Thank you! And yeah I remembered it, sucks Sym-Bionic didn't get renewed...it seriously deserved it and it's stupid that it got cancelled cause there was no toyline to go with it!
To Guest0 - If it's good laughing, then I approve as well!
To rmarcano321 - More like just the Universe of the Bakugan in general. And the timeline for the Bakugan series is post Mechtanium Surge so pretty much after the series is over. I didn't include Edward Kenway because they were going based off the ancestors Desmond had visited, in which unfortunately he didn't visit Edward's timeline. I don't think Desmond and his friends have the time at the moment to go fighting against the Reapers? I used the Avatar Aang timeline because I have yet to see Legend of Korra. I'd put my money on Chief. But it would be a close fight for sure. They did recruit some of the other Marvel heroes. I'm pretty sure I included them but I could be wrong and will fix then when I rewrite that chapter.
To CrazyBoy358 - Well...sorry to hear about that. Since you're going to be missing out on a lot of amazing stuff if you're just basing it off of a minute of reading...cause you know...backstory is kind of important…
To ZILLAFAN - I'm only on the fourth season right now I believe. So sorry won't be including them.
To MechR25 - Never played Starcraft.
To Guest - Never played Doom. I want to though in terms of the newest one!
To Guest - Only Fallout game I've played is the recent one, Fallout 76...and that was only for one day…
To Shadow Walker of Fire - Thank you!
To Justpasssingby17 - Never seen those.
To Alpha701 - Unfortunately have never played any of the Tomb Raider Games.
