Onboard Stellar Imperium, Isabella, Venessa, and Amanda were calling their respective husbands. Phineas, Ferb, and Milo respectively. "I am so jealous of you guys. You get to explore a whole new galaxy." Phineas gushed.
"Well, it's not all fun and games," Isabella said. "We've still got to get to Cy'tar and talk to Consoles Indominus and Invicta. Then we'll probably have to wade through some kind of quest that would prevent them from helping us right away."
"Sounds better than being cooped up in a bunker. Only venturing out to get supplies with the fear of death at every step... almost like the C-Pandemic of the early 2020's only without time-traveling alien monsters." Milo said.
"Any good news?" Vannessa asked.
"Well, the good news is that Doombringer and Ty'raka took all of there forces after the Eternal King established a forward base," Ferb said.
"The bad news... well he's also been summoning temporal copies of some of our former enemies," Phineas said. "King Pistachion and his Pistachion forces, his son Derek chief among them."
"Dios mip. Has anyone been hurt?" Amanda asked.
"Well I stubbed my toe last week while we were building an underground trade net... oh, well yes some people have been hurt by the Pistachions. But so far we've only encountered a few pockets... although where they've been found suggests that the Eternal King is looking for something." Milo said.
"But enough about us. How're the kids doin'?" Phineas asked, borrowing his wife's catchphrase.
The three women each shared a grim look. "Well... there fine. Except for Beatrice she... let me start from the beginning." Isabella said.
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Beatrice inside of a cell in Stellar Imperium's hold without any vents that she could use to escape. She was shaking like a leaf and sobbing. "Okay... that was the most intense chase. In, my life." Mathew said in exhaustion. "And believe it or not, I've chased after Vampires." He and the rest of Bea's friends were in the hold.
"Bea... we may not know what exactly is going through your head. But hiding away in SI's superstructure is NOT how you deal with your problems." Daniel said. "We know you went insane while on the Vigilant of Ic'thao's ship."
Beatrice just kept sobbing and shaking. "SI, let us talk to her." Bethany, Beatrice's younger sister said. She was holding her baby brother's hand.
"Pwease." Thomas said sweetly.
"Well... okay, but only because he used manners." Stellar Imperium then made an opening for the two siblings.
They then sat down with Beatrice. "Why is Beatwice sad?" Thomas asked.
"Look... we're used to you being upset." Bethany began. "But this... this is the first time we're actually afraid of your... mental problems. You've been hiding like a rat since AUTO's Shipyard. You've been eating scraps, you haven't been sleeping, and we... we just want to know your okay."
"And Cricket has been criticizing every choice I've ever made... PLEASE get him out of my data-network." Stellar Imperium piped in.
Beatrice looked up, her eyes red from the crying. "I've been examining my memories... try to find out where I went wrong." She then displayed the relevant memories. Including her creation, Bethany's birth. "I don't hold that against you, I just felt a conflict in my programming." Follow her time in the YSL and her teammates being lost in time. Her first destruction by the Sym'ian Princes. Her adventures between then and her first days of High School. The rising danger of the Eternal King. And at least one incident where Jennifer ate the last piece of pizza. "And before you say anything. I wanted that piece of pizza, and Jennifer didn't even ask me if I wanted it first."
"Well it does look delicious," Bethany said sympathetically. "But Bea... your the best big sis we could've ever asked for. It hurts to see you beating yourself up like this."
"We wove you Beatwice... in spite of evewything." Thomas said as he and Bethany hugged there robotic sister.
"I... I should have been better." Beatrice sobbed. "Heroes... they don't break spines. Not even to the worst of there enemies. And If... if Cricket didn't stop me, we'd all be dead, and the universe doomed."
"Making mistakes is part of being human," Thomas said sagely.
Beatrice sniffed. "You know... I'm actually more Human than I ever gave myself credit for." She said as she looked over her hands in a similar manner to when she was originally born. "All these years... and that never once occurred to me... I need to get on the Vow of Vindication. There's something I need to do, that I can no longer put off."
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An hour later, Beatrice was in the Vow of Vindications medical bay. "So... you want to see the heresiarch?" The blue-skinned Yoral medical expert said.
"How's his back doing?" Beatrice asked.
"Better, but you really did a number on his spine. We had to replace his spine altogether... I didn't even think something like that could ever happen." The blue Yoral said.
"Can I talk to him?" Beatrice asked.
The Yoral doctor then brought the still healing Ty'raka to Beatrice. "You've come to finished the job?"
"Yes... I want to bury the hatchet." Beatrice said ominously. "I'm... I'm sorry for-" She then swallowed a mouthful of bile. "Wow... this is actually harder then I thought." She then cleared her throat and took several cleansing breaths. "I'm sorry for breaking your back." She then passed out on the floor.
Ty'raka then groaned in pain. "If it's any comfort... I'm sorry for... everything really. Since our first encounter, all the way up to chasing you across the galaxy." He said earnestly. "But I must ask... did you know that the Eternal King was behind all of this? The Earth-Fellowship War?" Beatrice nodded, and Ty'raka groaned in annoyance. "Of course, that dreg played us all for fools... and I am the Yoral of fools!"
"Look... everything we did to each other is in the past, and there are bigger threats out there then just each other," Beatrice said. "So... truce?" She held out her hand.
Ty'raka looked apprehensive. "I'm... I'm not sure if I'm ready for that. But I accept your offer all the same."
"Fair enough." Beatrice pointed out. "Frankly I'm not ready to shake hands with you either."
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Beatrice returned to Stellar Imperium. "So... we're doing better Bea?" Isabella asked.
"Yeah... yeah, I think I'm doing better," Beatrice said. "Now, Stellar Imperium. How much longer until we get to Cy'tar?"
"A few days at the least." Stellar Imperium said. "And kid... it's good having you back."
Then something occurred to Beatrice. "Oh no, Stellar Imperium open a com channel to Ty'raka now!... please!" Then a hologram of Ty'raka appeared before her. "Ty'raka, I need to know what Doombringer is doing out there? Where is he, and why haven't we encountered him since we got into Fellowship space?"
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Nidavilir emerged through the Gate of Flesh into the Andromeda galaxy. Along with the rest of the Doomicons. "Finally... we're back." Doombringer mused. "And this time, no force in the universe will be able to stop our triumph. Not even Indominus will be able to stymie my conquest."
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"-so on top of everything, we've got a robot warlord on our tails Fleetmaster Golo Aragin." Beatrice said in frustration to a hologram of a Yoral.
"He will pay for the lives he snuffed out this day." Said Fleetmaster Golo Aragin, the leader of the Fellowship fleet that volunteered to join Stellar Imperium on his journey to Andromada. "And every day from the War of the Cleaved House, and everyday hereafter."
"Agreed, we need to add this to the growing list of things going on," Beatrice said.
"Of course we need to attend to Console Indominus and the Andromada Federation before we can turn our attention to Doombringer... and of course Earth but one thing at a time," Aragin said.
"Don't remind me... seriously, don't remind me it just makes me more anxious," Beatrice said. "There's no telling what the Eternal King is doing right now... is there anything on Earth that he could be looking for?"
"Not that I'm aware of. Although... no, it's merely a rumor, a legend at most." Aragin said.
"Then tell me what it is. Even if it isn't true, it might help." Beatrice said.
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The Eternal King had found what he had been looking for. The latchkey to restoring Chronous to linear time. "Yes... YES!" The Eternal King proclaimed as he looked upon some manner of an ancient temple within a massive cavern. "The Last Temporal Ziggurat!" He then made his way to the Ziggurat. And using his wrench-staff, he made his way to the great temples' inner workings.
"Finally... my hour is here." Whispered a voice from the Eternal King's pendant.
"Yes... finally, we'll reclaim our rightful place as rulers of this universe." The Eternal King said as he approached a device atop a dais in a chamber at the center of the Ziggurat. "After so many long eons of plotting. So many timelines altered just to get the right figures into the right place, or create them from whole cloth where otherwise they would not exist..." He then placed his pendant into the device.
The temple shook violently, as it ascended through the earth until it hung over Danville. Then inside the innermost chamber. A portal opened, and out stepped a figure... who was about two-and-a-half to three feet tall. "Chronous... has... RETURNED!" The small red-headed man said.
"My lord..." The Eternal King knelt before Chronous. "I have made all of the initial preparations. This world, Earth as it's native inhabitants call it. Shall serve as your capital as we retake the universe for the-"
"Are there any others of our kin with you?" Chronous demanded.
"I am sorry. But no, my lord." The Eternal King said. "I have however drawn together a number of forces. Naturally, they don't hold a candle to a purebred-"
"Then you have failed." Chronous barked. "But then again, I suppose that with your fiance running around throughout time and space, hither and yawn not even fully aware of our ambitions half the time. It'd be impossible to find any who would be worthy of serving the great Chronous."
"Yes... not to mention that since the war, your legacy has been dragged through the mud." The Eternal King said.
"INSOLENCE!" Chronous bellowed. "No matter... I've waited for eons for my freedom. And nothing... not the Yoral, not the Cy'tarian's. No one will stop my long-awaited revenge."
"There is a problem though." The Eternal King then explained at length about Beatrice and her friends and family that were actively working against the plan.
Then Chronous fell to the floor and spent roughly six hours laughing. "WHEW! I knew there was a reason I chose you as my... wait... your serious? You're seriously afraid that a neurotic robot from a pre-FTL species could- HA! HAHAHA!"
The Eternal King just rolled his eyes. Then thought to himself that it would be in his interest to try to remove Beatrice... which he already tried to do by going back to when Bea was first traveling with Stellar Imperium. Abducted her, and gave her to a crime lord on Ecuminopolis Prime. "We cannot underestimate her, or her company. Her own father, SOMEHOW reverse engineered our technology. And he's leading a resistance against the current occupation."
"Then I shall personally bring him to heel," Chronous said. "Today Earth, tomorrow the entire universe."
"You do understand that phrase is hyperbole my lord?" The Eternal King asked. "We cannot conquer the entire."
"Just shut up, muster my armies, and bring this pathetic mudball to heel," Chronous said ominously.
THE WAR FOR EARTH CONTINUES... AND BOY HAS IT TAKEN A GRIM TURN. CHRONOUS IS FREE, BEATRICE IS NOWHERE NEAR DONE WITH HER QUEST. ANYWAY... I'M RAMBLING, SORRY.
