Outside the city limits of Paris, both the older and younger Bunnyx arrived. The younger Bunnyx stopped all of a sudden. "Did you feel that?" she asked her older counterpart.
"You felt it too. Good, your powers are improving. Some of your friends are engaging some of the newer anomalies that came through the portals." F-Bunnyx said, unsurprised.
"Shouldn't we be out there helping them?" Bunnyx asked.
"It's easier to cut down the anomalies at the source, to prevent bigger ones to keep coming in. First thing you do with a leak, is to cut off the flow after all." F-Bunnyx said as she continued onwards. She saw lights in the distance. "And I can see where it is now…" she said as both versions of the Rabbit here approached it.
Several bluish green portals of various sizes. Bunnyx looked through some of them. She saw a futuristic Paris in one of the portals and wanted to move closer as she was being held back by her future's self parasol.
"Nah-ah! There are spoilers in that one." She said as she aimed the tip of her umbrella at the portal, a beam came out and the portal closed itself. "Now, I have to show you how to do this so that…" From one of the smaller portals a living origami butterfly with two wide eyes came flying through and F-Bunnyx smacked it in between her hands like a gnat during the summer time. The origami thing, dazed floated towards the ground. F-Bunnyx skewered the thing on her Umbrella tip and threw it back into the small portal it came from.
"What was that?" Bunnyx asked;
"A small Sentimonster from a world that is no longer relevant to this one. But small enough for you to practice. Now, aim you umbrella at it and do as I say…" F-Bunnyx said. The younger Bunnyx did as told. "Now, remember the energy you feel when you open a portal? Try to call upon that energy, but instead focusing it on opening one, simply convince that energy with your will to do the opposite…Right now your portals do it automatically, but these anomalies need a bit more…by lack of a better term 'convincing' so you need to be a bit more forceful about it."
"Okay…" Bunnyx took a few deep breaths, did as her older counterparts said and focused. She tapped into her inner Miraculous magic energies and focused it. 'Close portal, close portal, close portal…' she chanted in her head. A short burst of energy came from her umbrella tip and hit the portal. The small thing vanished. "I did it!"
"I forgot what a fast learner I am sometimes." F-Bunnyx noted as she saw the handiwork of her older self. "Now, we are going to build up up to bigger and bigger portals until…"
She was interrupted when the both of them heard clapping. They turned around and saw Multiversity, clapping. "Bravo, little timekeeper! You got it right on the first try. You are growing up so fast." They said in a condescending tone.
"What are you supposed to be?" Bunnyx asked.
"From what I can gather from first glance, the source of the increase in anomalies." F-Bunnyx noted.
"Oh, how observant of you. Was it the fact you met me near these anomalies or the fact my armor is clock-themed…No shit, She-lock Time-Holmes!" Multiversity said, sarcasm obviously in their voice.
"I rather see myself as a combination of the Prince of Persia and the Doctor." F-Bunnyx noted.
The younger Bunnyx looks at her like "Really? The Prince of Persia, that I get. But how the hell did they convince you to watch that Doctor Who show?"
Her older self then says: "I lost a bet. Not saying which ones. It wasn't actually that bad as it helped me further work out the Burrow and I like the outfits…Though I wouldn't advise scarves, they get caught up in everything."
Multiversity was still there, growing annoyed. "I am here you know!" they said.
"Oh right! Speaking of, who are you again?" Bunnyx asked.
"I am Multiversity." The villain said with an exaggerated bow.
"Never heard of you." F-Bunnyx said.
"You didn't? But are you not the overseer of time, can you not see the future? You are here, so it means we should have seen her, faced her and won, when you were me." Bunnyx asked.
"That's the thing, I have no memories of them. I remember meeting my older self when I was your age, and taught me about the anomalies, but not…" F-Bunnyx replied, she tried to wrack her brain, but it only gave her a painful headache. "She isn't supposed to be here. Why can't I recall this? How do they evade the eye of a timekeeper?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Multiversity mocked.
"What do you even want, what are you planning?" Bunnyx asked.
"What every so called 'supervillain' would want, Unlimited and absolute power." Multiversity explained as they made air quotes.
"What would you do with it?" F-Bunnyx asked.
"Basically whatever the heck I want." Multiversity replied.
"So you basically want them because you think it would be fun to dick around with them?" Bunnyx wondered.
"There's a bit more than that, but if you want to simplify it…yes!" Multiversity said.
"You do realize the damage these anomalies can do? To time and space and the multiverse, if left open for too long! Those things are not toys!" F-Bunnyx bit.
"Ah, you timekeepers can be so uptight. You think time has to flow linearly and branches need to be pruned, that time needs to be orderly. But I learned long ago it doesn't work that way. I've been messing with time and space and while the multiverse isn't the same afterwards, it will endure and spread again. Between the paradoxes, it became clear to me, the more you mess with time, the less the rules will apply to you. Basically you can become a god!" Multiversity cited.
"Great, another one of those insane types. Gabriel Agreste had a screw loose and Latombe is a fruitcake, but a god complex is a whole different type of insane." Bunnyx huffed.
"Don't think you are getting away with any of this, Multiversity. Because not only are mini-Me and I going to stop you, we got a whole team backing us up." F-Bunnyx said.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Multiversity said. "I have caused some distractions. Some of the key players plus the crazy batgirl are getting some quality time with themselves while I provided some distractions for the rest."
"Why would they have quality time with themselves in a crisis?" Bunnyx wondered.
"Alternate counterparts." F-Bunnyx deduced. Her younger self stared at her oddly. "It's much more common then one might think in this line of work, you'll see in a few years."
"Mama Bunnyx is right about the former…not so much about the latter, none of you will make it to live a few more years." Multiversity replied. A clap of the hands and the projection of a huge clock appeared behind them. From each of the numbers a huge blade-like projection resembling clock hands came from each number and was aimed at them. "Your time is up!"
"Out of all the puns…" Bunnyx said a she and her other self dodged aside to prevent the bladed clock hands from impaling them. Then the numbers from the clock projection were shot at them, exploding all around them, not hitting them but the shockwaves knocking them down. Multiversity shattered the body of the clock projection in a series of glass shards that she then shot at the two.
F-Bunnyx and Bunnyx raised both of their umbrellas and spun them around to deflect the shards. Then they both raised their hands and the glass shards retracted and reformed partially into the clock, through reversing time. They fired beams from the tips of their umbrella at the partially reformed clock, which was no longer in flux and instead pelted Multiversity with the glass shards. However, Multiversity instead snapped their fingers and reversed time to rebuild the clock and heal their wounds. The gear parts of the costume detached and formed around the clock, which Multiversity attached to. It began flying through the air like a gear/clock-shaped buzzsaw/Frisbee thing.
Both Bunnyxes leapt to the side, through some red hairs (or pink-dyed red hair) floated to the ground, glad that not more then that was cut off. F-Bunnyx jumped up, went through a portal and vanished through it. The portal re-opened above the spinning buzzsaw and F-Bunnyx jumped out, kicked the spinning blade somewhere on the flat surface, away from the blades and made it spiral out of control and onto a crash course.
It was fast but Bunnyx activated her time slow to be fast enough to dodge it in time. Multiversity detached, recalled their gears but the clock projection was destroyed once again. Multiversity dusted themselves off. Both Bunnyxes jumped out from a few portals behind them. Multiversity quickly summoned a few blade weapons, with a clock and gear encrusted in the handle, and blocked the blows of the umbrellas aimed at them.
It was two against one, and you'd think that for the Bunnyxes, it would mean that they had the upper hand. Multiversity seemed even with F-Bunnyx, but not our Bunnyx. Bunnyx was struggling as the blades and umbrella's clashed and more then a few times and her future self had to prevent her past self form being skewered or slashed several times. They were at a standstill.
As they kept clashing, they also saw the portals behind Multiversity growing, some smaller ones even merging. "We are being stalled." F-Bunnyx deduced. She opened up her umbrella, and thrusted it forward, pushing Multiversity back.
"Oh, so you finally noticed?" Multiversity explained as she slashed at F-Bunnyx, whom jumped back and stabbed at her, but she was blocked by one of Multiversity's blades. "No matter, you won't be able to stop me in time from the biggest anomality forming that will wipe you from the face of the universe."
"Why would you want to destroy my world? What do you have to gain from it?" Bunnyx asked them. Bunnyx opened a portal beside her and stuck her arm through.
"It wouldn't destroy anything, it would merely reset everything." Multiversity explained, as the portal opened up beside her head but she leaned out of the way to avoid the punch. She reached out to the portal, Bunnyx retracting her arm before it was cut off by Multiversity forcefully closing her arm around it. "Unlike what you think, I don't need the Miraculouses to bend the universe to my will. The timeline once reset, allows me to guide the timeline to where I want it to go. It creates the future I want for myself." Multiversity explained.
"What power source do you wield that would allow you to pass up the Miraculouses?" F-Bunnyx said as she opened a few portals where a few other Bunnyxes jumped out, but Multiversity kicked them off of them, as they were thrown back into their portals.
"Oh, just a little something that has been in my family for a long time." Multiversity said as they snapped their fingers and a Timebreaker clone appeared and rushed at them.
"How dare you to mock us with those!" Bunnyx said as she anticipated the move of the Timebreaker, keeping her at an arm's length with the umbrella, grabbing her hand and twisting her arm behind her back.
"Did I hit a sour spot, Alixandra Chione Kubdel?" Multiversity asked.
"How…I never told anyone outside my family my middle name." Bunnyx wondered as she destroyed the skates of the Timebreaker effigy and it shattered like it was made of glass.
"Don't forget about me!" F-Bunnyx said as she shot a time bubble at Multiversity. Multiversity raised her arms, but Bunnyx rushed in and lashed with her umbrella, distracting Multiversity long enough for the bubble to catch up to her.
"This time bubble slows her down so much she is basically frozen, she…" F-Bunnyx said.
"Oh how drole…" Multiversity said. Still stuck in a bubble, but not slowed down at all. "Though I can speed up my own time, but right now we are in a flux."
"How can you do this? These are Timekeeper techniques, nothing inside the bubble should be immune unless…" F-Bunnyx "No it couldn't be."
"Are the gears turning in your heads? Man you really have gone rusty in your old age." Multiversity mocked.
"What is going on here?" Bunnyx asked. "How does she know so much about us?"
"Wait a minute…I need to confirm something" F-Bunnyx said as she pulled out her copy of the Rabbit Miraculous and projected some images on it. She saw the images of Ladybug fighting Miss Fortune, Chat Noir vs Chat Blanc, Carapace vs Shellshock, Rena Rouge vs Rena Rage, Queen Bee vs Miracle Queen and Pipistrello vs Volpina. "Of course…I know who you are now."
"You do?" Bunnyx asked her older self.
"Great knowledge of the Miraculouses, enough to identify our friends and bring twisted counterparts of them in. A great knowledge of the anomalies and the timeline which only should be known by a Timekeeper." F-Bunnyx noted.
"I don't see how…" Bunnyx said before her eyes went wide. "Wait, that means that Multiversity…Is us?"
Multiversity touched her helmet, the faceplate melting away to show their own face, the face of an alternate Alix looking back at them. "Took you long enough to figure that one out. I know we used to be jocks, but that we were that slow." Multiversity said with a grin.
Her face looked a lot like the de-transformed older Bunnyx, only that she had a dragon tattoo that was on her face, unlike her older self's arm. Her hair was almost much shorter, nearly shaven to easier wear her new helmet in. Her eyes lacked a shine and looked more dulled rather then vibrant. She had dark circles across her eyes, looking both tired and mad.
"But…why?" Bunnyx asked. "If you are us, you are not supposed to be…" Bunnyx waved her hands around in disbelief. "Well, a bitch!"
"Not in every timeline." Multiversity said. "Or not for too long. I did what I was supposed to do, watch over my timeline like every Bunnyx in the multiverse. Though I could not prevent the great disaster that turned my timeline to hell. I did everything, went back hundreds upon thousands of time to change things, but it still went down. My timeline was destined to vanish…" Multiversity said.
"Like evolution in nature, the timeline rejects the ones that are to die and the other timelines becomes more likely an occurrence, it's like pruning a sick branch on a tree so it can grow healthier." F-Bunnyx explained.
"It wasn't fair. I did my best, I did everything but I still lost it all, powerless to prevent it despite everything I gave! I did right by the Miraculous and as a timekeeper. But…" Multiversity said, her face in a scowl of anger and sorrow. "While the other branches of the timeline flourish. While I didn't do anything different; It is unfair!"
"So you destroy other ones because things didn't go your way? Let others suffer through the same as you because you are hurt? Becoming like Hawkmoth?" Bunnyx bit back.
"Hawkmoth is a bug compared to me in every sense of the word!" Multiversity snapped back. While I can't recreate my timeline, I can wipe the slate of this one, and guide it like I couldn't for the other timelines."
"You said that in plural, so…" F-Bunnyx noted.
"The ones where my minions came from. They were mucking up their timelines so badly it seemed like a good test of my skills, and helped me perfect them for the big event, their timelines were acceptable losses. They don't know of course, and they are so deranged and desperate they won't care. They don't know they won't gain anything except being erased for good." Multiversity said, showing no regret.
"How…How could you say that, how can you be so casual about the lives you ruined?" Bunnyx asked.
"Ruined? My life was ruined. Those bozo's did far worse then me, but their timelines didn't fade, but mine did. How was that fair. They were not entitled to their successes. Besides, their timelines were doomed anyway, I just helped it along." Multiversity snapped back.
"But in this timeline, these are not like those twisted counterparts. They are actually good people and good heroes." F-Bunnyx said.
"That's the reason I took this timeline. This one has the biggest success rate and endurance rate, it can not only become a great timeline, but it will be one I can call home…" Multiversity said, an insane look in her eyes. At the same time she looked at an orphan kid whom found a loving family and that one kid that was growing up to be a serial killer.
"Well, we won't let you!" Bunnyx said as she prepared herself again. "All we need to do is stop you and the anomaly."
"You make it sound easy. But it's not…In fact it's impossible." Multiversity said.
"You are outnumbered two against one, and I know for sure those flawed counterparts will not be able to top this timeline's heroes." F-Bunnyx said.
"They won't need to, they would need to slow them down. As for you, I know how I can even the odds, to split my attention if you will." Multiversity's helmet reformed as she creates an after-image of herself, and that image shifts into a different form, the form of a Bunnyx…though that Bunnyx was black and Orange and didn't have an umbrella. The Dark Bunnyx instead wielded one of the two clock-blades, the original Multiversity having the other.
"How does she even…" Bunnyx said, wide-eyed.
"Time shifting. Shifting around space and time fast enough to be in two places at once. Though now she honestly is showing off." F-Bunnyx said.
"You are way to calm about this." Bunnyx said. "Is that a good sign?"
"I am just way too used to time and space falling apart every other Tuesday. So it depends if you want to take that as a sign." F-Bunnyx said.
Bunnyx was unsure, but she pushed that aside and focused. "Let's just take them!"
"We love to see you try!" Both Multiversity and the Dark Bunnyx said simultaneously as they charged at both the good Bunnyxes.
All over the city, the heroes were fighting on.
Ladybug and Miss Fortune swung through the city like a pair of French Spidergirl counterparts, stopping on rooftops to do a series of ridiculous shenanigans with random objects like they normally do with their Lucky Charms.
Buildings in the distance collapsed as both Chats Noir and Blanc emerged, barely avoid being flattened, catching their breaths before rushing at one another again, staffs clashing.
An area was filled with orange smoke, as Rena Rage has started to charge through the illusions and jumped at Rena, whose camouflage failed as she rolled out of the way before spinning her flute around and putting it back to her lips.
Carapace putting up his shield as his counterpart mercilessly slammed his huge arms into it. The hero in green rolling aside to avoid one of the buff arms again as he readied his shield for a throw. Shellshock roared and charged as Carapace held his friend and tried soften the impact by grounding his feet.
Miracle Queen, riding on top of her swarm of bees while Queen Bee flew through the air under her own power, Miracle Queen whining about not having wings and determined to have her counterpart skewered.
Pipistrello and Volpina engaged in…whatever it was. It was hard to describe, but it involved a bag of paperclips, seven tapdancing horses and a potato playing polka on a miniature accordion while singing the greatest hits of Weird Al Yankovic.
More sentimonsters flooding the streets, the remaining heroes taking them down one by one only for more anomalies to spawn more to replace them. Right now they took down a Sentimonster that looked a lot like Robustus, as the sun was blotted out by a huge multi-eyed worm/leech Sentimonster that swallowed one of the other creatures and started closing it through its eyes…
All while the Rabbit wielder and her future self fought another future evil self and her duplicate…As the portals grew bigger, or smaller ones merged, and the sky started to look like the world itself was glitching.
TO BE CONTINUED