Sheriff Woody was looking pretty bad shape when Bigby arrived at Metru Nui's Coliseum. A lot of the others already there. Simon stood with a young woman with white hair, a red-haired girl argued with Shinji about something or other, and Dante, Takanuva, Superman, Rex, Po and the Furious Five were gathered around. Even Omega Supreme was there, peering over the wall of the coliseum at the others.
"What happened to you?" Asked Takanuva.
"It's a long story." Woody said.
"Well, we have time." Said Dante. "It's not like anyone will attack us in here. We're miles out into space in a robot the size of a planet."
"Fair enough." Woody acquiesced with a grin. "It all started back in the hangar, where we last met..."
"Peter, any time now is good!" Woody yelled, as Razor's team closed in around them. "Summon a portal and get us out of here!"
For a moment, Peter thought he felt something crawling up his back. But the moment passed, and he quickly summoned a portal behind his remaining allies.
The group fled through the portal, Spawn snatching up Grimlock's huge sword before joining them.
"Peter, where is this?" Asked Buzz as they stepped through the portal into a white-panelled corridor of some kind.
"I… don't know." Peter stammered. "I just summoned it by instinct and..."
His statement was interrupted when Blackheart stepped through the portal. The rest of his team were making their way through as well.
"Close that portal!" Shouted Buzz.
"Not yet!" Spawn barked, hurling the sword at the group.
To traverse the quickly-narrowing portal, Blackheart, Sigma, Inferno, Vergil, Razor and Murlough were forced into a convenient line, and the sword was able to stab through them one by one, hurling them back through the portal.
"Now you can close it." Spawn hissed with some satisfaction. And it closed.
"It appears we have lost them." Said Jack.
"Along with any idea where we are." Snake pointed out.
"Hey, at least we're out of that chaos." Peter said, getting younger by the second.
"I never did ask." Samus said, very curiously. "Why is it that Peter gets younger and older like this?"
"It's an effect of the timestream breaking up." Explained Mickey. "Before then, Peter had gained the ability to never grow up. That's changed now to him growing younger and older seemingly at random."
"Let's keep moving." Buzz commanded. "We seem to be on some kind of spacecraft. We might be able to contact whoever's in charge here..."
"Halt!" Ordered a voice from up ahead, as soldiers in white armor flooded in to surround them. "Drop your weapons!"
Woody put his hands up, hoping to demonstrate that he meant no harm, but Ghost Rider walked forward.
"I'll take no orders from the guilty." He said, drawing his hellfire chain. Within moments, all the white-armored soldiers lay dead.
"Was that really necessary?" Mickey asked.
The group heard a slow clapping sound, coming from the room at the end of the corridor, which they walked into. Then the doors slammed shut and the lights went out, the room now lit only by Ghost Rider's flames. A huge armored figure faded into view.
"I see those Stormtroopers were no match for you." Said the stranger. Menacingly, he raised a large two-bladed staff. "But maybe we can still come to an agreement. Hand over the Orb now."
Ghost Rider lashed out with his chains. He could see the inherent evil in others, and this being was virtually made of it. Before his attack could hit, a second chain weapon deflected the attack at the last moment, the blade at the end of the chain pinning Ghost Rider's chain to the wall.
"You would defend this monster?" said the Ghost Rider as the pale-skinned man wielding the chain blades stepped forward, coming into the light cast by Ghost Rider's flames. Ghost Rider walked over and grabbed the man, preparing to use his Penance Stare, but the white-skinned man pulled a sword from his back and roared as he thrust it through Ghost Rider's chest.
"FALL BEFORE THE BLADE OF OLYMPUS!" Bellowed the pale man, pulling the blade upwards. The hellfire surrounding Ghost Rider grew hotter, melting through the floor and sending Ghost Rider and his enemy falling into whatever lay below.
With Ghost Rider gone, there was no longer any light in the room, a factor Mickey quickly remedied as he summoned six floating orbs of light that lit up the entire room. Spawn rose into the air, preparing to attack the dark-armored Titan, but a hand grabbed his leg. Stitch pulled Spawn off his feet and threw the hellspawn into a wall.
"Stitch! Where the hell did that come from?" cried Woody, but when Stitch turned to face the others, he wasn't looking like himself. His eyes had a red glow to them, and his fur looked darker. About a dozen slug-like creatures faded into view on his back as he grabbed Woody by the throat.
Stitch grinned. "Nothing personal, old friend, it's just that Lord Teridax here needs you to die now..."
A laser shot through the room, frying one of the slithering creatures on Stitch's back. He dropped Woody and turned to Buzz.
'All I have to do is shoot all those sluglike creatures off Stitch's body.' Thought Buzz as Stitch leapt towards him. His amour's wings flicked out as he flew back. 'Maybe then he'll return to normal...'
The eyes on one of the slug creatures, this one orange with a black tail, began glowing. A plate from the side of the hallway tore itself off the wall and hovered in front of Stitch like a shield, deflecting the laser.
Another sluglike creature on Stitch's left shoulder, this one yellow with a green tail, fired a pair of similar lasers back at him.
Not expecting the slugs to have their own powers in addition to controlling Stitch, Buzz only narrowly dodged the lasers, the beams cutting a corner off one of his armour's wings. He had no time to think about this before Stitch leapt at him, sending them both rolling over a railing and down out of sight of the others.
Woody's sharp eyes caught something. He slowly, quietly, raised his gun. There were two others standing atop a higher balcony. The man in the black helmet and cape they saw in London stood to the left, his breathing clearly audible. Next to him stood a huge man. He wore spiked shoulder pads, shin guards and gauntlets, a skull medallion in the centre of a cross of belts across his chest and a red-eyed skull-shaped helmet.
But Peter, who had sharper eyes than most, due to dueling pirates, recognized him immediately.
"You're the one who invaded Neverland!" he shouted, flying toward the skull-masked man and drawing a dagger. The man in black raised a hand, and an invisible force threw Peter back to the ground. Woody shot at them, but his bullets did no good.
"Enough!" Said the skull-masked man. "I'll deal with this annoyance myself."
"As you wish." Said the man in black as the man standing beside him drew a huge warhammer and leapt over the railing and down onto the floor below.
"You know me as the man who invaded your pitiful realm, but do you know who I really am?" He asked, as Peter got back to his feet, his age settling in around his mid-twenties.
"I don't know and I don't care!" Peter yelled. "No-one messes with Neverland while I'm around!"
"Your Neverland is no more!" The man shouted back. "I am Shao Kahn, Konqueror of worlds! And your world has been conquered! It was merged with Outworld long ago! So will all worlds be! I am unstoppable!"
With a hiss, a trio of floating triangular projections bound Shao Kahn.
Mickey finished his incantation. "Now Peter!"
Peter flew at the demonic conqueror, dragging him up higher up into the piping that filled the roofspace, but Shao Kahn freed himself and brutally smashed Peter out of the way with his hammer.
Peter recovered, barely, and ducked aside to avoid Shao Kahn's next strike. With Shao's wide, brutal strikes, and Peter's quick and efficient parries, they both soon flew out of sight.
The man in black glided to the ground, and Mickey stepped forward. "I'll take you on."
"Your mere parlor tricks are no match for the power of the Dark Side of the Force." Said his opponent.
"We'll see about that." Mickey boasted. As the black-armoured man leapt towards him, summoning his red glowing blade in one hand, a huge green glowing circle appeared at Mickey's feet. Lightning crackled around it, before, in a brilliant flash of light, Mickey and the stranger vanished.
"Come on guys!" Cried Woody. "Even if he has seperated us from the others, it's still five on one!" Woody, Spawn, Snake and Samus loaded their weapons.
"Do you truly believe your powers and equipment will be enough against the power of a Makuta?" Teridax smirked. "Then I will show you the difference in our powers."
Spawn was the first to attack, firing a beam of necroplasmic energy at Teridax, but he was gone before the beam even reached him. A hand shot out from behind him, grabbing him by the head, and Spawn began to feel his energy sapping away.
Teridax was now standing at the other end of the room, his arm stretching about thirty feet across the room. Woody, Samus and Snake opened fire, but their bullets and energy blasts did nothing to penetrate Teridax's armour.
Jack leapt toward the Makuta, but he was cut down in mid-air by lasers from Teridax's eyes, cutting off both his arms. He landed on his feet, perfectly balanced as his arms clattered to the ground, but Teridax simply touched him and he shattered, his bones flying across the room in different directions. He raised the hand still holding Spawn before it started to crackle with electricity.
"How many powers has he got?!" Snake cried out in exasperation, as Woody was swept aside.
Samus suddenly found herself pulled by her armor towards Teridax's hand, as the magnetic force interfered with the readings on her helmet. As soon as she reached his hand, she felt her body and armor begin to become unbelievably heavy, before she was thrown, hitting Snake and knocking him back into the wall behind. Snake's legs were crushed under Samus's now immensely heavy armor.
Teridax dropped Spawn, the once-unstoppable hellspawn falling to the ground. Only half-conscious, Woody watched as Vader and Kratos returned to the room. They were followed by Stitch, who was dragging Buzz and Mickey.
Stitch dropped them to the floor. Buzz's helmet was smashed and neither had made any movement; unconscious or dead, it was impossible to tell at this point. Peter's status was left far less ambiguous when Shao Kahn returned with his body.
Woody held in a tear.
"Which of them brought us the other half of the Orb?" Asked Teridax.
"That would be me." Said Stitch, handing the Makuta the half gold, half silver ball. Teridax took the sphere, the silver half fading as he produced the original other half.
"At last, the Orb of Continua is complete once more." Teridax said, momentarily sounding in awe of the Instrument before him, before tossing the completed orb to Vader. "Lord Vader, summon us a portal. Take this starship to Planet Earth. We have four more Instruments to claim."
"Of course." Said the Sith Lord, who strode off down another corridor.
"Kratos, take what remains of our guests to the prison deck, and ensure the highest security."
"Most of them are dead, and the ones who are alive could be killed in an instant." Shao Kahn pointed out. "Why take prisoners when it is far easier to simply destroy them?"
"I have plans for them." Said Teridax. "We managed to convert the convicted experiment into a fine pawn. Though he has proven able to resist the Kraata ever so slightly, when he had the Sheriff by the throat and merely dropped him instead of breaking his neck, his existing powers make him powerful in combat, doubly so with the Kraata's powers added to his own. The others could prove similarly useful. As for you, Shao Kahn, inform our armies that we shall be heading out to claim the other instruments."
"Roodaka will be pleased." said Shao Kahn.
Keep an eye on previous chapters, I'm going to be adding in the two missing fights soon; Sora and Riku vs Vanitas and Superman vs Rex.
Here's the updated locations for everyone:
(Past) Darth Vader, Kratos, Makuta Teridax, Sephiroth, Shao Khan, Stitch: On board an Imperial Star Destroyer. Has half the Orb of Continua
(Past) Woody, Buzz, Mickey, Spawn, Samus, Snake, Jack: On board Teridax's Star Destroyer. Mickey and Buzz status unknown
Cloud, Ezio, Tahu, Takanuva, Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme, Grimlock, Microice, Kernor, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Sohryu, Deadpool, Dash, Dante, Po, Tigress, Simon the Digger, Princess Nia, Godzilla, Gamera and Sheriff Woody: On Mata Nui's body. Currently listening to Woody's story
Trafalgar Law, Zig-Zag, the Preacher, Jigen: Missing after vanishing whilst travelling down Hotel 1's stairs
Larry Koopa, Wrackle, Stupid, Oddish, Minomon, Mushroomon: Location unknown. Last seen in Rabanastre
Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan, Jack Skellington, Spawn, Ghost Rider, Samus, Snake, Buzz Lightyear: Location unknown. Last seen in Woody's story
Stitch: In Jurassic forest. Controlled by Teridax's Kraata
Sherlock Holmes, Skulduggery Pleasant, America, Edward Elric, Dave Strider, Axel: Location Unknown. Last seen in Rabanastre.
Biollante, Deathwing, Relius Clover, Juri, Metus, Fawful, Gorilla Grodd, Demona, Syndrome, Doctor Octopus, Gollum, Baldor: Last seen in Biollante's Cave. Have the Key to the Past
Calvin: Captured by Maleficent
Nightwing: Location unknown
Zero, Metaknight, Ryu, Larten Crepsley, Sora, Taskmaster, Kairi, Rayman, Sparkster, Kari Kamiya,
Gatomon, Sly Cooper, Omega: Heading to medieval France
Tintin, Namah, Klaus Baudelaire, Kurt Wagner: Jurassic Laurasia
Dogbert, Sweet Tooth, Johan Liebert, Wesley "The Killer" Gibson, Murlough, Judge Doom, Xehanort, Vanitas, Clockwerk, Sigma, Sebastian Shaw, Vayne Solidor, Saruman, Baron Dante, Cobra Commander, Black Heart, Vergil: Dogbert's HQ
Albert Wesker, The Master, Freddy Krueger, Lotso, Carnage, IT, Naraku, Obsidian: Last seen in Wesker's laboratory
SpaceGodzilla: Last seen contacting Wesker's laboratory
Lord Muu, Zarbon: Last seen raiding Dogbert's base
Lupin, Cole McGrath, Nathan Drake, John Marston, The Dragonborn: Jurassic Laurasia
Groove Guy, Pichu, Wheezy, Pumpkinmon, Time Eater, Doctor N. Brio: Seeking The Joker
James Heller, Gaara, Batman, Riku, Brom, Sirius Black: "Running an important errand". Location unknown
Maleficent, Sasuke Uchiha: Working for Galbatorix; last seen in hotel 2 and 1 respectively. Location unknown and somewhat irrelevant due to transportation methods