"..." They had arrived in the dead of night to Anistar Ciity and and now they were all eager to warm up from the cold they were exposed to on the way here. Route 17 was a snowy land of no real importance their goal, as nothing but riding Mamoswines occured, of which Reimu fell off of hers.
Now she had complaints of snow being in places it should not be and her being glad it was not sand. But he was not focused on that, due to the limited rooms in the Center, having them draw straws and share rooms.
Who was Ziden sharing a room with? Well, he was glaring at the purple clad woman, merrily relaxing on the bed next to him, seemingly ignoring his presence for now.
" Alright, I've known you for long enough tto know you did this for some reason, what?" Ziden asked while sttarring down Yukari who simply shrugged.
" I've been rather...nosy and been messing around, peeking in your dreams. You seem to have been having a dream about an alternate world for a long time now, no?"
"...Yeah, was weird, there I didn't remember anything here, so it was like being in a whole new world. A world destroyed by nukes but they made it work. Until she left..." Ziden said while sighing.
" Well, it is another me, if that world truly is me but severely uh...broken, she may have not died but found a way to another world." Yukari stated. " So you may see her again but that is not what I did this for."
" Oh lemme guess, blah blah blah, be mine blah blah youkai morals?" Ziiden said before earning a full faced smack to the nose.
"...Do you still feel burdened by what Rankyogan said to you? About why you are a hero?" Yukari asked before he was heard clicking his tongue.
"...My memories are all fuzzy and gone, so many patches and spots missing...I dunno why I am a hero and why I do it...so being asked that...well, feels odd not knowing why you do what you do."
Yukari simply thinks for a moment before sighing. " Well, no doubt the more you fight, the more your memories return. What an odd system that is..."
Ziden simply tapped his finger on his knee before sighing. " Alright, that is not what you came here for either, if that was the case, those two wouldn't be here either." Ziden pointed to the other two on the bed, Kanako and Eirin.
" Well, since we are so close to the end of the Liberation of these towns, we decided to put the smartest people in Gensokyo, and you for comic relief, to put out thoughts to figure out, why are they doing this to this land." Eirin said before Ziden grumbled at her.
" Indeed, what they are doing iis odd, they conquer, yet they do not reclaim any of the land we've taken back... and all these endless carnage and deaths...they aren't done willy nilly. They are done for a reason." Kanako stated, softly rubbing under her jaw, thinking deep on the situation.
" Of course they arre, they are doing this to strike terror and quell any hopes of a rebellion to overthrow the regime they are bringing here." Ziden said, rather confident in his answer.
" Not at all, you buffoon. If that were the case, they've failed drastically as many still hold hope in their eyes and not only that, they allowed this Pokemon League to continue, so that makes me wonder if something is going on behind the scenes we are unaware of...a grander war scheme." Kanako thought while tapping her jaw, Ziden was merely grumbling at that insult he was given.
" Hmm, a bunch of dead bodies and souls being freed...perhaps they have something to harness death and weaponize it? Or perhaps it is simply fuel for something far worse?" Eirin wondered while sighing.
" The Dark Youkai Army and the Remnents of the Ultima Brigade working under Shocker...so much is going on here that no doubt a grand scheme is underway but the Armies don't seem to be working together, in fact it seems the opposite." Yukari thought.
" If they were working together, we'd have seen their forces mixed together, so perhaps they don't team up or have plans to or could they be enemies?" Ziden asked himself while tapping his arm.
" The next town is the final one, the last to be freed, once we do that, we will head back to Lumiose to check on things and then head back to Geosenge to group up with the others." Eirin declared.
" Yeah, we need to find out about these Team Flare guys too. They're the team of this place so they probably have a stupid idea like expanding land or something." Ziden said upon digging in his ear.
" REally? That's not a bad idea if done right. Have it controlled and more people have places to live but you can't go overboard." Kanako warned. " OTherwise you will not have much sea left."
" But then, i have noticed something, this Seiga chick, what is her deal?" Ziden asked while Yukari looked silent.
" Well, while you were comatose and out of Gensokyo, or rather the simulation of it, incidents occurred and one happened involving the Miracle Mallet and a descendant of Issun; Seiga was rather...upset with things and decided to severely stir up trouble in the lands. She was sick of the weak being oppressed so she wanted to break that cycle."
Ziden listened to this explanation, it does sound like the kind of thing he'd aid out with.
" She lost to Reimu and the others and lost the trust of her ally after it was learned she was using her completely. Normally when it comes to incidents, its a harmless thing where after Reimu beats someone, they become her friends and bug her but Seiga...I can safely say is the most wicked being we have had in these lands since Mima. She tried another coup, but this time, she had aid of illegal cheating items and well. I dunno how but we came out on top." Yukari stated before sighing.
" Though, that is not the only thing you have missed...the Earth has gained some new additions in those two months you were outcold." KAneko said, softly reaching into her robes and pulling out a phone, holding it out as a hologram of the Earth showed.
It looked...completely normal, the same massive size it was after the Collapse and rebuild and creation of the multiverse. That was, until she hit a button on the phone and the Earth gained alot more islands and landmasses along the sea. " While you were asleep, an unknown oddity occured and two worlds fused into it but...those two worlds were consumed by the heartless."
The image soon changed to show a flag of sorts, 5 dots connected into a Cross. " Hold on, where have I seen that image before?"
" It is the symbol of something called the World Government. from the same world that Luffy and others came from. It is the main sign knowing that they are now on Earth, though their world is separated from ours by a form of Dimensional Wall, so their whole world is now with ours, somehow not expanding the size of our world but."
" But?" Ziden asked, looking over at Yukari.
" They attempted to enforce their rules upon this world when they found out, the UN made sure to let them know, they would not back down and well, they showed that seriously when they showed the weapons your world possesses, even the Admirals did not wish to face off against that, so the World Government is now a simple part of the UN, allowed to speak now and then. But there is another issue. Your bounties are back in full force." Yukari threw out a Paper and several of them. Zidens bounty was indeed back, at a strong 250,000,000 Berry.
" TRch, oh come on, I save the Universe from being destroyed and i get a bounty put on my head again?" Ziden clicked his teeth before Eirin spoke.
" It seems the new Fleet Admiral is aware of what you did but you did attack a Marine outpost so he reinstated and rose your bounty up. That man believes you still need to be captured and executed." Eirin stated before sighing. " Those nobles of that world are beings I cannot even call human, one dared to try and enslave my student. So I made sure they could not do anything ever again." Eirin points to her bounty poster, a powerful 300,000,000 Berry. Killing a Celestial Dragon does get a massive target painted on you.
" What a pain...but you said there was another world, what were you referring to?" Ziden asked, looking at the new image, a world of many continents but tall towers of sorts.
" Indeed, from what I have been told, it is the world of Remnant, a place where huntresses and hunters rise up to face up against an odd threat to their world known as Grimm." Yukari showed the image of one of them, watching them rise out of dark muck.
" These things...kinda remind me of-"
" The heartless? They should, after Yen Sid got a good look at them, we discovered that the Grimm are simply a subsect of the Heartless family. Meaning keyblades will work upon them. I made contact with one of the teachers of these hunters and filled him in, as thanks, I can call up a favor of sorts if something major happens."
" Hah, Grimm, I'm wanted again, man this is one hell of an info dump...wait, how do you guys know about all of this?" Ziden said before looking at them looking away from his gaze. "...Don't tell me you guys were slacking off on a beach somewhere."
" Well...in all fairness, it has been some time since I've been on sand." Kaneko stated.
" ANd I have never been to an Earth beach, vastly better than the Moon beaches by a large margin." Eirin answered.
"...Don't even say anything, I know you went there because you could." Ziden said, looking at Yukari.
" Well, thanks to that, we know of what occured and we know why, Nick Fury was the one who convinced the Fleet Admiral to reinstate you as a criminal."
And that made Ziden mad. " Seriously!? I save the damn universe and that jackass with a missing eye marks me as a criminal!?"
" You should have saw this coming, we attacked his ship and left it to be attacked by Destroyers, no clue why you are surprised.' Yukari stated before sighing. " Though that is my fault as well...but we had to."
Ziden sighed at this as well. " But this is also a bigger problem, thanks to some unknown benefactor, the Marines now have the tech to be able to chase us through space on their own."
" What? Seriously!?"
" Indeed, it has to be someone who has a massive grudge against you but who woul-" Her words were cut right off, the shaking of the area was now the center of focus, it was no earthquake, it was the working of a machine.
The group of four soon raced outside while the others slepth through the raging earth before the saw a giant shadow soon land down on the Sundial, spider like limbs stabbed into the stone and began to syphon off the energy coming from it. " Hohoho! So this is the energy of the Sundial? No wonder that man took an interest in it!"
That voice was one that Kanako knew well, as she stomped out and fired one of her pillars right at the spider machine, it soon leaping down onto the platform, being illuminated in red and yellow.
" Those colors...that's one of Eggman's mechs!" Ziden noticed before seeing the famous glass riding mech known to hold eggman, not holding him at all, but a bearded Kappa instead.
" Grants...why are you inside of that machine?" Her voice was strong and booming, like a raging storm ready to be unleashed, Grants laugh soon began to ring out.
" Is it not obvious, my former Goddess? I am now one with the DArk Youkai Army, allowed to build things you refused to let me build before you had me banished!" Grants was wearing the typical Kappa wear, blue attire with many pockets adorning them, that green beret as well and his eyes were covered by his bushy eyebrows.
" Again with those people!? Why do you keep bugging us!?" Ziden askeed, soon drawing his sword.
" Enough on that...You joined these monsters solely because of me not letting you make war machines to harm humanity?" Kanako was not happy at all with this.
" A war goddess complainintg against my war machines, as foolish as you were a year ago, you are still foolish now! You should be happy I wanted to make weapons to reap human lives, like a War God would love! But the new War God I serve is more than happy to love what I make!"
" WAit, new War God? Even gods side with your damn army?" Ziden asked, watching Eirin notch an arrow up onto her bow.
" The Army is not just Youkai you fool, Demons, Monsters from many worlds and even rogue Gods ally under the banner of the Charismatic man who brought us all together! I was shunned for my ideas so I stole this blueprint from an Ultima Brigade base and contructed this Egg-o-Legs!" The machine was your typical giant spiders but purely mechanicle, even had the mouth of one but made of pure steel, various eyes for decor only.
" I see, its just called the Dark Youkai Army for giggles then, no matter! You alongside the Shocker group will be taken down!" Ziden pointed at him as the sound of footsteps was heavily rushing to reach the area.
" Shocker!? Those fools who wish for World Domination!? Hah! They will be struck down by us when the time comes!" Grants soon slaps on the machine as one of the red and yellow legs shot forward and stabbed into the ground as the newcomer arrived.
" Eh?"
Ziden saw the male, he wore a school uniform, obviously Japanese in nature and damn, what a pompaduer he had as the male wiped it back.
" Wohoo! I thought I felt something but it was a machine and a bunch of new faces! New Friends Kita!" The male was damn excited, soon running over to group up with the heroes. " My name is Gentaro Kisaragi! My goal is make friends every single Superhero in Japan! Pleasure to meet ya!"
This man was exceedingly friendly but Ziden quickly kicked him out of the way, causing the bullets from the Egg-O-Legs to miss its shots. " Tch! I missed my first victim of the night! No matter, my duties as a Soldier is to kill and slaughter the innocents to inspire fear in the masses to keep our troops strong!" Grants soon laughed, stroking along his beard, the group ready to battle.
Trivia:
1. Nick Fury is known for not trusting anyone and often using people for his own designs, so this is not something new for him
2. Yes, like in Ultima Brigade War, the timeskip has occured but the world fusion occured after Punk Hazard.
3. RWBY fused with the world before Volume 3 and due to the many glaring plotholes of RWBY, some things will be rewritten and even pointed out by the chars who are genre Savvy
4: Grants is a Touhou OC who seems to have a past with Kanako but what is it?
5 Gentaro Kisaragi is the main char of Kamen Rider Fourze and he will show off his skill in the next chapter
6. Egg-O-Legs, though named differently, is based off of an eggman mech from Sonic Comics made by Archie and later used in Sonic Mania, though in the comics it had a very dark moment behind it
Author's notes: Gonna be honest, the reason the chapter uploads have been so sporadic has been because of my keyboard having major issues and now i have a new ones, so weekly to bi weekly uploads will finally continue, this was uploaded so late due to family emergencies and me almost having a panic attack because of it but i am back to normal!