Hey guys here is the first chapter of the third arc, hope you guys like it. I'm hoping to keep up the D.A.D resurgence for the next couple of days. Anyway, enjoy the chapter.
Gravity Falls, Oregon
Prime Timeline – Timeline C
Dipper, Mabel, Steven and Lila watched as the large eye in the front of the warship was staring down at them. "CLEAN-UP PROTOCOL INITIATED." They could see weapon ports opening up on the front of the ship.
"Why weren't we warned about this!?" Mabel screamed.
"Well we shouldn't just stand here!" Lila yelled.
They four began running to avoid being hit. As they ran, they could hear missiles being fired at them. Steven looked back and when the projectiles got close. He stretched his arms out to make a bubble shield that surrounded all four of them. The missiles made their mark. The four had bounced around inside his bubble. Smoke surrounded them as Steven's bubble popped.
"Everyone ok?" Steven asked in a dazed stupor.
"I think…" Mabel replied rubbing her head.
Once the smoke cleared, the warship had red lights flashing all over and there was a machine that fell from the ship. It was shaped like a four-legged spider tank. The metal housing on top of the legs was rotating as it moved. The large walker was menacingly walking towards the four.
"RUN!" Dipper fearfully yelled.
They all ran down the road as the large walker followed them, quickly catching up to them. Suddenly there was a bright blue pulse of energy that had spread across the entire area. The pulse had rushed through the walker and there were blue crackles of electricity that was shooting out through the walker. The warship had hovered back away from blue pulse.
"Whoa…" they watched the walker falling down to the ground with a huge slam. Dipper had a feeling about what that was. "Was that an electromagnetic pulse?" it wasn't long before a car pulled up to them. It looked like there was steel plates that were tied to it with rope. The door opened and, in the drivers, seat was a teenage girl with long-bright brown hair. There were freckles on her cheeks, and wore a green checkered shirt with dark blue jeans with boots covering her feet. Finally, there was a pine tree cap on her head.
"Get in!" she yelled.
"Wendy?" Dipper and Mabel asked in shock.
"That's my name, don't wear it out. Now come on!" they all leaped into the car and Wendy quickly turned around to drive into Gravity Falls.
As they drove in, Wendy looked in the back mirror at Steven, Mabel and Lila who were in the backseat. "So… how are we doing?" she asked in a calm tone while smiling.
"Oh, we're not dead, so we're good!" Mabel said.
Dipper who sat in the passenger seat, looked to her. "Um, Wendy. What's going on? What happened back there?"
"Maybe it's better if I let Ford explain everything. He's been waiting for you guys to pop up, though I didn't think it would end up like this." She also noticed Steven and Lila. "Nice meeting you guys, as you already know I'm Wendy."
"Nice meeting you, I'm Steven Universe." Steven introduced himself.
"I'm Lila, I… got tied into this somehow."
"Hey, the more the better. Especially now, the others are waiting for us."
…
As the car was leaving, the warship was watching the car drive into Gravity Falls. The person in the bridge watched it leave and get out of their range. "Hmm…" the person in the seat hummed to himself, suddenly there were heavy steps that were walking to the bridge.
"I'm sick of all this waiting!" Jasper angrily stomped to the bridge. "They are right there! Why are we just sitting here?"
"Patience." The figure said, he calmly folded his arms. "Our technology won't get past their shield. It surrounds the entire town. And besides, that shield will block our advances."
"And that's where I come in!" a figure in green skin with white hair combed back into a mullet. He had black, square shaped sunglasses covering his eyes. He wore a long black coat with green buttons and pockets, there was a light blue-grey cape that covered his shoulders and is held closed at his neck. He had black boots and green gloves. "Because I, Nicolai Technus 2.0 will cripple their defences." He took a look to Jasper. "Then you can do your thing. I on the other hand have been waiting to get my hands on that sixer's tech."
Jasper huffed in annoyance. "Just do what you can to get me in."
"They don't have a ghost shield." The figure at the bridge said. He stood up and his large, muscular frame was revealed. "Technus should be able to get in fine, and once he does. We'll unleash our new pets, and we'll give Maltruant a show, worth tuning in for…" he chuckled to himself. His bright yellow, monstrous eyes opened and looked straight ahead, ready to execute his plan.
Destroy All Dimensions II: Temporal Destruction
Arc 3: Multiverse War
Episode 17: As Time Passes Part 1
The sky was red, and there were Maltruant's robot soldiers were blasting laser rifles. They were fighting against Plumbers and they galactic enforcers were on the losing end. Stacy was fighting through many soldiers and slashing through a couple of them with her Proto-Tool, and Candace was fighting alongside her with an electric bo-staff.
"This is weird, we should have seen Maltruant by now!" Candace said.
"Oh no, he'll come, trust me!" Stacy assured. "He wouldn't waste an opportunity to take us out, especially when we're so close to his HQ."
"This is a bad idea Stace!" Candace said. "If he knew our plan, then we are done."
"It will work, trust me!"
There was a bright explosion of red light and Maltruant appeared in front of them. "Right on time!" Stacy said with a smirk.
"I should say the same thing." Maltruant said.
"NO!"
The area around Candace turned black, then stars appeared around her. She appeared to be floating in space. "Sounds like that was going to end badly."
Candace looked behind her to see an apparition in the shape of a yellow triangle with a single eye, top hat and a cane, and it had black limbs. "Who are you?"
"Who am I?" the triangle closed his single eye and hovered close to Candace. "I'm glad you asked, I'm Bill Cipher! I can see into people's dreams, and well we both know how that dream ended."
"Shut up." Candace said and looked away. "Are you going to tell me why you are here…?"
Bill hovered back, spun his cane and opened his eye. "Well, I can see everything. And you should know you and I have ambitions to take out Wind-Up-Toy, just like you want to do. And, I have a way to do it! In fact, I'm already helping your friend Christiana."
"You're helping her…? Why wouldn't she tell me about you?"
Bill started to rotate around her. "Kid, there are a lot of things that Christiana won't tell you. Everyone has secrets, everyone has something to hide." He got closer to Candace. "Now… about my proposal…"
Candace turned away. "I'm not going to trust something that just appeared in my dreams. Heck you're probably not real!"
"Tough customer. But what if I could tell you, I could bring them back!"
Candace then angrily stood in front of Bill. "You better not lie to me you, stupid triangle!"
"Why would I lie? Personally, I'm offended. I just need to be reincarnated into the material world, then I can do what you need."
"Yeah, right! I've learned not to trust anyone. So, what's in it for you?"
"Oh, that will come at a later date, but this offer doesn't come to just anyone. I can even send you back to your timeline and return everything back to normal."
Candace looked away. "Something that sounds too good to be true, probably is, especially if it comes from a sentient triangle who knows way too much!"
Bill slowly floated away from her. "Alright, but remember… I'll always be watching you! And my deal will always be open! Now you should probably wake up."
"Wake up?"
…
The Black Keep
Timeline C
Future Candace woke up in her bed, right after her dream and her brush with Bill Cipher, she was slowly panting and was revealed to have bandages on her shoulders, arms and wrists. "Ugh." She slowly stepped out of her bed and looked in the mirror.
"If what that… Bill said was true… then why didn't Christiana tell me about him." She thought.
Then she remembered Bill's words. "Kid, there are a lot of things that Christiana won't tell you. Everyone has secrets, everyone has something to hide."
"If that is true… I need to watch myself around her… and that triangle!"
Vale, Patch
Timeline C – 5 Months Later
There were loud bangs of gunfire that reverberated around the deep forests of Patch. Amethyst was seen sliding back on her feet, she then ducked under a slash from Ruby's scythe. This was enough to slice the tree down.
"Whoa…" the purple gem said. "Looks like we're being serious." She summoned two whips from her gemstone. She flung her whips towards Ruby, but they missed as Ruby avoided them. The girl in red was aiming Cresent Rose at Amethyst. She was firing shots but Amethyst was rolling around her shots using her spin dash.
The spinning Amethyst was closing in on Ruby, but as she got close, June leaped in front and threw a punch to Amethyst. The purple Gem flew back to another tree. "She's pretty fast!" Ruby said. Out of the bushes, surprising both of them was Yang. Ruby backed away while June blocked her punch.
Yang had a confident grin on her face. "Alright, now Ame!" in the confusion. A whip had wrapped around Ruby's weapon before yanking it from her.
"Huh!?" Cresent Rose went flying to the hands of the small Gem.
"Oh, sorry did you need this?" Amethyst mocked.
Juniper leaped away from Yang in order to support Ruby, but as she leaped back, Yang was blasting shotgun blasts from her gauntlets. "Oh shoot!" Juniper was blocking the blasts with her arms resulting in scorch marks appearing on them. Ruby then turned to rose petals, shot forward and tried to get Crescent Rose from Amethyst, but as Ruby got close, Amethyst's legs turned to springs which allowed her to leap up into the sky and out of Ruby's reach.
"Sorry, girl. Not going to be that easy!" Amethyst yelled.
"Ruby!" June yelled. "Focus!" she yelled as she was busy in a brawl with Yang. Both of them were exchanging fists with each other, blocking each other's strikes. Amethyst then landed back on the ground. And she transformed in Ruby, only her purple traits took most of the appearance. Her Amethyst gemstone was on her chest.
She swung around Crescent Rose wildly, disregarding the technique that Ruby would use for her weapon. "Yeah, this is a pretty good weapon you've got here!" she winked at her. "Hi I'm Ruby Rose and I like milk!" Amethyst mocked in a mock light voice.
"HEY!" Ruby yelled while embarrassed blushes appeared on her cheeks. "That's not funny!" she turned to rose petals again to get close to Amethyst but the purple gem was side stepping Ruby's advances. Ruby only grew frustrated as she saw… herself avoiding her own advances.
Juniper had watched Ruby's troubles and took her eyes off Yang for a second and she took a punch to her face, causing her to fly back into a tree. The blonde brawler cracked her knuckles. "Looks like my plan is working out great. Between you and me, Ruby isn't exactly the best without her weapon. So, all I had to do was get Amethyst to yank Ruby's precious 'baby' away from her." Juniper watched Ruby in a bad game of keep away with Amethyst.
June leaped up on Yang's shoulder and sped towards Amethyst and Ruby in order to help out her fighting partner. Amethyst saw June flying towards her and she leaped away from the Te-Xuan-Ze. While June looked at Amethyst who smirked at her.
But from behind, Yang aimed her gauntlets behind her and she shot forward at high speed. She speared into Juniper from behind.
"June!" Ruby yelled. She shot to Yang, but her sister saw her coming and she rolled to her side and Ruby collided into June and they were both sprawled on the ground.
"Ugh…" Both girls grunted.
From a distance Weiss was watching and shook her head disapprovingly at June and Ruby. They both got up, they watched Yang and Amethyst standing tall. "C'mon we don't have all day!" Amethyst said as she transformed back into her regular form while still holding Ruby's weapon.
June stood side by side with Ruby, when she suddenly had a plan, she glanced at the silver eyed girl. "Ruby… lets fuse!"
"U-um... alright!" Ruby took a breath and saw that June held out her hand. Ruby then took Juniper's hand and they both tried to calm themselves. The crystal on June's hand was shining magenta and there was a small red glow coming from the center of Ruby's chest.
"Whoa… are thy going to fuse again!?" Amethyst asked.
"Um… I'm not sure how I feel about this," Yang said.
Both June and Ruby's bodies were covered in a bright white light and all that could be seen through the light were the gleams from the two crystals. Their light forms were coming together, but the then single body of light rippled and both June and Ruby split away from each other roughly.
"Oh man!" Yang sprinted over to her sister and took her hand. "Sis, are you ok?!" she asked with a scared tone.
Ruby was very dazed but she shook her head to regain her vision. "I'm fine… I'm still me, right?"
Yang pulled her up into a hug. "Still light and adorable! Yep you're still my baby sister!"
"Yaaaaang! Let go!" Ruby comically cried; Yang let go of her sister.
Amethyst walked to the pair of them. "Hey, sorry dude." She put Crescent Rose down in front of Ruby. "Yang's idea not mine!"
"I have no idea what she's talking about. Maybe she hit her head too hard!"
June stood up and leaned on a tree. She saw Yang giving her specifically, an angry glare as Ruby was talking with Amethyst.
…
Inside a log cabin, not too far from the forest, a man with short blonde hair and blue eyes was enjoying a cup of coffee in his kitchen. "I didn't think we would be meeting like this again, Qrow."
Qrow Branwen was in the kitchen with the man and of course he had his metal flask in his hand. "Trust me, this isn't my idea of a reunion, Tai." He was talking to Taiyang Xiao Long, father of both Ruby and Yang. "And unfortunately, since Beacon fell, there isn't really a better place to lay low."
"So, did you find any leads?" Taiyang asked.
"On the guy that basically took out, me, James and Oz? Malevolence? No, not since Beacon. And that is a problem. We've been twiddling our thumbs for the past 5 months and still nothing. I tried every contact I knew, and still nothing. But even our 'off-world' allies can't find him."
"They aren't that bad, Qrow."
"We have a purple midget that pretty much eats anything, a living weapon, a living shapeshifter, not to mention we have the Schnee heiress here with us. This situation is all kinds of messed up." After he took a swig from his flash, he placed it inside his coat and walked over to where his weapon, Harbinger leaned on the wall. "I'm going back into the field, there has to be someone who surely has seen where that guy is."
"And what will you do if you find him?"
"Heh, simple. I'll end this myself. No need to get anyone else involved in this." he stepped out into the living room. "Also, thanks for giving them a place to crash Tai."
Taiyang chuckled. "Well, up until a few months ago, it was just me alone in this house. So, things are interesting to say the least."
Qrow gave one more nod to Taiyang before leaving the home.
…
"RAAAAAHH!" a loud, high pitched scream echoed through the forest. Nora was high in the air and slammed her hammer, Magnhild down on Rex's Smackhands which he used to defend himself. The EVO quickly backed away. "C'mon you going to hold back?"
Rex stepped back to take a slight breather. "Fine, but I'll make this quick." Watching the fight between Nora and Rex was the rest of team JNPR and Ben who watched while his arms were folded. Rex generated his Punk Busters, ran forward and aimed to deliver a giant kick to Nora, she quickly rolled away, but saw Rex swing his leg in the air.
His large robotic leg made contact, but he felt his leg's movements stop. He saw that Nora managed to catch his leg with both her arms. She smirked as pink bolts of electricity danced around her arms. "What did-" she lifted Rex off his foot.
"Up you go!" she lifted him by his leg before slamming him to the ground, and repeated the action one more time before tossing him into a tree. She picked up her hammer before she folded it into its smaller weapon; a grenade launcher. "Hey, Rexie! Bombs Away!" one by one she fired three grenades that were speeding to the EVO.
Rex crossed his arms and built The Block Party, his shield generators. The blue energy barriers did enough to lessen the damage from the grenades, but the energy wall shattered after taking the third grenade. "How tough is this girl?" Rex asked himself. He built his Boogie Pack and flew up into the air, to give himself a break and to plan his next move.
Nora wasn't going to give him that time as she transformed her weapon back into its hammer form before running forward, she slammed it into the ground, shooting her into the air. So high that she met Rex in the skies. She winked at him and threw her hammer down on him, sending him back to the ground.
After his impact made a small crater in the grass, Nora fell back to him. Rex rolled to his feet and jumped back, Nora's hammer hit the ground and made a pink electric shockwave that threw Rex back. After he got up, he slightly growled to himself and built his Smack Hands, and allowed Nora to run towards him. She had got close and swung her hammer, Rex blocked with his left fist and struck hard with his right sending her sliding back far.
Away from the fight, Jaune glanced at Ben. "So, this place you guys are from 'Earth'. It's just full of these 'Nanites'."
"Pretty much, but on their own. They are harmless unless activated." Ben explained.
"And if they are activated, they turn into monsters." They heard Ren say.
"Pretty much." Ben said.
"Must be nice, to live on a world without Grimm."
"Uh, well Earth has its own troubles. Instead of black monsters that threaten our way of life, we have people to do that for us. That's why Malevolence must have come here, a fresh start on a new planet, with endless people he can manipulate to his side."
"But if we haven't seen or heard about him in the news for months. Maybe he just decided to leave?" Jaune suggested.
"I highly doubt that. He's someone who likes to plan ahead, which means we have to somehow need to keep up." Ben pinched the bridge of his nose. "But I still don't get it, why here of all places? But… he seemed was different." He remembered the different voice and the glowing eyes. "That person, it was Malevolence, but it also wasn't… like someone different was in there."
While Ben pondered his thoughts, both he and Jaune saw a shadow looming over them. They noticed too late as Rex crashed into them.
"YES!" Nora cheered as she pumped her fist in victory. "Who's next? What about you Jaune?"
"I-I'll hard pass on that… thanks."
Nora folded her arms. "Hmpf you boys are no fun. C'mon watch boy!" she yelled goading Ben. "Give me the biggest alien you've got!"
Ben whispered to Ren who was lucky enough to sidestep the flying Rex. "Remind me how you're friends with her again?" Ren silently chuckled to himself while Ben and Jaune struggled to get back to their feet.
…
About an hour later, Blake was all herself, surrounded by nothing but the forest around her. She had been isolating herself like this since they had left Beacon to come to Patch. She considered running away, and given what she and the others were told, she justified it. She was training to become a huntress, not a powerful person capable of travelling through different planets.
Was this really her fight to take on? But then again, where would she go? White Fang? Not even worth considering. Menagerie? Perhaps, but she'd need to slip past the others. But what would she do after that? Whoever this Malevolence was, did they even stand a chance against him?
Her cat ears, hidden by her bow had twitched, she quickly spun around, aimed her weapon in its gun form at the figure that had approached her. The footsteps were unrecognizable from the rest so she was suspicious.
"Who are you?" she sternly asked.
"Oops!" the figure said in an upbeat tone. "Guess I should have expected that." The figure was someone that looked around her age, if not a little younger. She was fair skinned with olive green eyes, her hair was reddish brown and was very unkempt. She wore a torn, short sleeved brown shirt with green pants that were cut to shorts. Her noticeable feature was that she had fur on the top of her hands and bare feet, as well as a black three clawed necklace that hung from her neck. She had a black pack that hung from her back. "Though I was warned that you'd be jumpy as a-" she stopped herself before making the obvious cat metaphor. Blake's bow twitched again and sensing she knew too much, she folded the blade, turning her weapon to its katana form.
"I won't ask you again!" after Blake noted the fur on her hands, her stance lowered but kept her guard up. "You're a Faunus? Who sent you? The White Fang?"
"Well, I'm not a Faunus, but I'm not Human either… I can't explain, but I'm not here to hunt you down. But I'm here for a very important reason!" Blake still kept her sword aimed at her but allowed the mystery figure to continue. "Right… I'm actually from the future, of another timeline."
"First aliens, dimensions, fusion? Now alternate timelines? This is way too crazy even given what I've heard. Plus, if you're from the Future as you say, why didn't my future-self come instead."
"Well the Blake Belladona of that Timeline is… well. Look that doesn't matter right now, you've been told of Malevolence, right? Well he's about to do something big, and we've got to stop him."
"Why we? You should know there are others here, right?"
"Yes, but sending in a huge attack force would be a bad idea. We still don't know what his plans are. We aren't going there to beat him, just to stop him. There will be a better time to stop him, trust me."
"But why come to me?"
"I can't explain too much. You need to come with me, we're about to miss our window!"
"So far, all you've told me you're not a Faunus nor a Human. You need me for a very important reason. And I know nothing about you. So, I'm more than a little suspicious."
"Fine, I'm Lila. Where I'm from? Well Earth, five years in the future. Why am I here Well in my Timeline, Remnant was run by a powerful dimensional overlord! And guess who his name is?" Blake let out a loud gasp. "Darn, now I said too much!"
"W-what?" They both saw Pyrrha walking to them, who was also surprised by the revelation. "Did I hear that right?"
Future Lila had shaken her head. Right then and there, a bright pink portal had exploded in front of them. "Listen Blake, Pyrrha. I know you don't trust me… but I don't have time to gain it right now. We will only have one shot at this." She looked at Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, you remember when a white-haired girl saved you 5 months ago? Well she's on the same side as me." Pyrrha gasped, she indeed did remember when Dani had saved her from Mad Ben's radiation when he was NRG. "We're trying to save this timeline so it doesn't end up like… well ours."
Pyrrha thought about Future Lila's proposal. "How long will we be gone?"
"We will only have an hour to get in do our thing and get out. The portal back to Patch Island will appear close to that area."
Pyrrha then looked to Blake. "Blake, I think we can trust her for now."
Blake still looked conflicted but lowered her katana. "I still will keep my guard up."
"Great, then follow me!" Future Lila leaped into the portal as it was beginning to close. Pyrrha followed, Blake looked at her surroundings to make sure that they weren't being watched. When all was clear, she walked into the portal, following her two allies.
But behind them, someone heard their conversation and followed them into the portal.
Black Providence HQ
Timeline C
Christiana was standing in the hangar of Black Knight's recently built new HQ. She looked at the three Colossuses that stood tall, all of them shut down, but ready for activation if need be.
The colossuses were the three they acquired some 5 months ago. Christiana found Heidi observing them from a close distance.
"Oh, Heidi. Have you completed your analysis of our three super weapons?"
She turned back to Christiana with green glowing eyes. "Yes, after scanning each of their Power Drives, I have determined their origins. As well as their primary uses in the field."
They both started to walk through the long halls of the HQ, Christiana leading the way. "It's good you have been working so hard, and how have you been?"
"Me? I suppose I have been operating at regular parameters. If that is what you are asking."
Christiana chuckled. "That's right, I'm talking to a nanite that has gained sentience."
"Yes, while this body has been… troublesome to maintain it does what is required."
They stopped in front of an automatic sliding door. Christiana slid allowing it to open. The room itself was shaped like a conference room, there was a long table with many notable people sitting there.
Mainly, Vlad Masters, Brother Blood, Black Knight as well as some other notable rich men. "You already know Masters, Blood and Black. But we have other guests, our 'investors' you could say. They used to be known as the Consortium." Christiana said.
She looked to one of the business men who had the appearance of a Southerner. He had blonde hair and a blonde moustache. "Roswell, he works with oil and minerals."
"Pleased to meetcha, little lady." Roswell greeted while tipping his cowboy hat.
Next was a clean man in a black business suit. His hair was aging as it was slicked and dark brown with a white stripe going across the sides. "He is Reddick, he works with real estate and construction."
Unlike his compatriot Roswell, he was more stoic and looked on with a serious expression.
Christiana moved onto the eldest member of the Consortium; he wore a blue suit with an old-fashioned tie. He had grey hair and side burns, it is unclear of where he had gained his wealth from. "He is Anthony Haden-Scott."
She moved on to the last member, a dark-skinned bald man with a black and blue business suit. "Lastly, he is Xanubian, works in arms dealing and the shipping industry. Basically, we get all our weapons from him." Xanubian had his arms folded and nodded his head.
"Mind if we get on with it?" Roswell asked. "Apparently you guys gots something special to show us."
Heidi stood at the front of the room, her eyes shone bright green and suddenly the lights in the room flickered off, thanks to her flicking them off with her powers.
The projector in the room activated and it was showing a photo of the three Colossuses that were in the hangar.
"Yes, all of you are brought here to see the progress we have made on the colossus project. As of right now, we have acquired 3 out of the 5 available to us. I have analysed the three colossuses and their primary source of power: their Power Drives. Some of the drives are powered differently. I will go into each of them in detail. But as for their purpose, they seemed engineered to stop a world ending threat.
The slide changed to a video of the red colossus, Omegatron fighting the heroes that were trying to stop it months ago. "This is the first Colossus we have found. Codename: CX1M02 Omegatron – This colossus was unearthed in a timeline parallel to ours, Specifically Timeline C-091. It has an advanced weapons system, and it has the unique ability of detecting threats and or future threats to its existence and it will act accordingly to this information. It can also relay order to other Colossuses, regardless of where or when they are in the multiverse. This Colossus is powered by Dark Matter."
She moved onto the jet-black Colossus that attacked Echo Creek. "Codename: CX2M05 Cerebretron – This Colossus is more focused on attacking from the backline. It has a wide array of ranged weapons and unique flight capabilities. This Colossus's Power Drive is fueled by what is known as a 'Dust Reactor' from a power source known as Dust that can only be found on a distant planet called Remnant. Plus, it is one of the very few machines in the universe that can generate an aura… a thin barrier of energy if you will that can be made by something with a soul. And it can use this power to generate a near unbreakable energy barrier for defensive purposes. It was built by the Atlas Military in collaboration with the Schnee Dust Company, this machine was built in the Timeline V-290. Its purpose, well… for killing an unkillable witch apparently.
The slide changed to the last colossus in their possession. The white, nimble colossus that attacked Danwood. "Codename: CX1M04 Velocitron – Currently the fastest of the Colossuses in our possession, while it is limited in its weapon system, it makes up for that in its close combat capabilities, it can leap high and far distances. This makes it suitable for fighting against similarly sized opponents."
The slide turned off and the light switch turned on. "And that concludes our presentation." Christiana said.
"Excuse me." Reddick looked at Heidi and Christiana at the front of the conference room. "You said that you only had 3 out of the 5. Where are the other 2?"
"We lost contact with one of them on Remnant, as for the other one. It hasn't appeared, which means it may still be on our way to this timeline. But as for why you are here." Christiana looked ahead. "A war is coming; you may have already noticed that Maltruant has already staked his claim to many places on Earth. We aim to use the colossuses to destroy him. They were engineered to take out threats that were world ending. So yes, if you rich business men still want to be gods, we'll need your funding to take out another god in Maltruant.
The members on the Consortium looked at each other. It wasn't long before they nodded to themselves in agreement.
"Oh excellent, so what's the plan now?" Vlad asked.
Christiana turned to Heidi. "We lost the other one on Remnant unfortunately, but we believe another one will be coming to Earth soon. We will watch out for it and make sure Maltruant doesn't get his hands on it."
"Then meeting adjourned." Black Knight said, announcing the end of the meeting.
…
Minutes later, Christiana was in her room and she fell on her knees and looked forward at a shrine. Which looked like a stone statue of Bill Cipher. After she closed her eyes, she reopened them almost a second later the room around her was greyed out.
"About time you showed up!" She was staring at Bill Cipher who was walking on thin air and twirling his cane, was looking at Christiana. "Now about what happens from here. You already lost one of those things, and I was clear we need all five of them."
"Apologies, if we activate Omegatron, we may be able to locate the missing Swarmatron, but before then. We need to make sure Maltruant doesn't get his hands the last one."
"Good, and what about, Malevolence? Is he still a problem?"
"It is inevitable that those on Remnant will get involved in our matters. Luckily, we've got the Consortium and 3 Colossuses on our side, so it's not like we are lacking in power."
"Remember, we need all five to find the Original. Once that happens, Weirdmageddon is coming back! Make. It. Happen!" Bill told her in a threatening tone.
…
The chest of the Omegatron was open, revealing that Heidi was inside as her eyes were glowing brightly. Her hands were touching the insides of the Colossus. There were green hovering screens that detailed the status of the Colossus as well as other details she could find on its hard drive.
While she was sifting through information. Another hovering green monitor popped up which got her attention which was a line of text that read.
'44617461206F6E202D204358304D30313A20546865204F726967696E616C20'
"A Hexadecimal value?" Heidi said to herself, she stretched out her hands in front of the monitor and the value was being translated into a much longer binary value.
'01000100 01100001 01110100 01100001 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 00101101 00100000 01000011 01011000 00110000 01001101 00110000 00110001 00111010 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001111 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100 00100000'
"This translates to: 'Data on - CX0M01: The Original' Based on the model number it is definitely a colossus… but also based on the numbers it could also be-"
"Hey!" Heidi looked outside of the colossus to see Future Candace calling out to her as the girl recently returned from the Black Keep that docked with the HQ. "Can we talk?"
The screens disappeared from her view and she leaped out of the Colossus but she broke her fall by discharging a green electric pulse from her feet. "What is on your mind?"
"I need to ask you about something, namely an entity named Bill Cipher."
"Bill Cipher?"
Gravity Falls, Oregon
Timeline C
Once the car pulled into Gravity Falls. Wendy was the first to step out. "C'mon guys don't be shy." Wendy said. They all stepped out, and Lila stopped to sniff the air.
"I don't know about you guys, but something feels… off about this place." She said.
"Oh, we know about all the weird stuff." Dipper said matter-of-a-factly. "Mabel and I vacationed here last Summer, and we dealt with a lot of stuff."
"Yep, crazy times." Wendy said. "Now c'mon, we got to go."
Wendy led them over to a tourist trap which had a large sign that spelt 'Mystery Hack' the 'S' was hanging on the roof away from the sign.
"So, you mentioned that Grunkle Ford is here, I thought he and Grunkle Stan were going to sail around the world?" Dipper asked.
"They did..." Wendy said. "Soos now owns the place, but those old geezers need to sleep somewhere. It isn't permanent, but Ford said you guys would somehow get here."
"Huh, I wonder how he knew?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" Wendy opened the front door. "Hey!" she yelled through the house. "I brought the twins!"
"Huh! Ow!" there was an old gruff voice that came from upstairs. They saw an elderly man wearing a tank top and boxers, his nose was red and he had glasses. He nearly fell down the stairs as he saw both Dipper and Mabel. "KIDS! You're alive!" he gleefully yelled before regaining his composure. "Um, I mean… you're alive. That's great."
Both twins hugged the elderly man after he approached them. "We missed you too, Grunkle Stan." Mabel said.
"So, you brought two extra twerps with you?" Stan said looking at Steven and Lila.
"Well I'm Steven, Steven Universe."
"And I'm Lila, we were kinda brought here along with them."
"Hey did you know that there is a giant, floating spaceship outside!?" Mabel asked, immediately changing the subject.
"Yeah… we noticed. It wouldn't leave us alone. But it hasn't really done anything. Those things have been showing up all over the news lately. But my brother said you guys would have a plan."
"Us, have a plan?!" Dipper asked in shock. "We thought you'd have a plan; we can't take that thing down! We just got here!"
"Not to worry." They all saw someone looking very similar to Stan, accept his clothing was different. He had a coat with worn brown pants, there was what looked like a laser pistol holstered on his right side, his feet were covered by combat boots. Also, he - like his twin had grey hair. His most noticeable feature was that he had six fingers instead of five.
"Grunkle Ford." Both twins ran to hug him, he bent down to hug them back.
"I am glad you two are ok. Now we should get ourselves up to speed on what has happened. When were you sent forward in time?"
"When Maltruant attacked the Plumbers… apparently." Dipper said, still not fully grasping the role of the Plumbers.
"Ah yes, that would put us at 5 months you were gone. Well in that time, Maltruant has taken over other world governments. We'll bring everyone together and I'll explain everything. Maybe we'll form a plan to take that warship down."
"Hey Dudes!" they all saw a plump man who wore a suit that was tied with a thin bowtie. He had an eyepatch over his left eye, and had a fez on his head that had a symbol of a fish on it. "Welcome to the Mystery Shack!"
"Soos!" Mabel gleefully said. "Nice suit! The eyepatch is also a nice touch!"
"Yeah, since I'm taking over from Mr. Pines, I have to look professional. My girlfriend Melody works at the counter now."
"So, what do you do now Wendy?" Dipper asked.
"Me? Well I give tours around town… and the forests, and everywhere else." she winked at Dipper and pointed at her pine tree cap. "But only the weird stuff. Someone has to keep up with all the weirdness while you were gone. We fell down the bottomless pit about a week ago!" she looked to Soos. "Speaking of which, Soon. Can I get a raise?"
"You've worked so hard, you deserve it, Wendy." Soon kindly replied.
Wendy fist pumped, pulled a chair and casually sat on it. "I love this new management!"
…
Going down into Ford's Underground laboratory, were Ford, Stan, Dipper, Mabel, Lila and Steven.
"So how did you know we were going to be here?" Dipper asked.
Ford picked up a small skull that was surrounded by green smoke from his desk. "While Stan and I were in the ocean months ago. We suddenly found this."
"What is that? A creepy skull?" Mabel asked.
"It was a transmission," he said. As he said this. A green smoke cloud in the shape of Mandy appeared above it. "Ford Pines, don't ask how I got this to you, but in a couple of months from now, your great niece and great nephew will appear from a time anomaly. This is all to stop a being called Maltruant, I'm sure you're aware of him since you've travelled dimensions before. So, it is very important that when they get back, you better help them out because they have a very important task."
Mandy disappeared and all four of them looked on with shock. "I thought it was just a stupid prank." Stan said, breaking the seriousness of Mandy's message.
"And I might have believed you, had I not known that this girl, Mandy is an evil overlord in another universe! And I know about the threat Maltruant poses."
"Whoa… this really just got serious…" Steven said holding his head.
"But we don't know what Mandy told you to do in particular."
Dipper walked forward. "She told us to find something called the 'Infinity Codex'."
Ford's eyes grew very wide. "The Infinity Codex?" Ford repeated.
"Is it that important?" Lila asked.
"Whoever holds the Infinity Codex can potentially learn anything and rewrite anything in the entire multiverse! The book is so powerful that no one knows who wrote it, or who is currently in possession of it. It is rumoured that whoever is in possession of it right now is writing things down in real time." Ford walked to his desk and put the skull back.
"Wait…" Mabel said. "Let me see if I got this. If someone… not saying me! Would get this infinity book and write that… a certain merman would fall in love with someone… that happens to like sweaters…? It would happen?"
Ford shook his head. "Well technically yes, but that's not what it's used for… I mean it is a very powerful piece of literature, but simply thinking of it as an 'artificial love potion' is pretty inefficient."
Mabel then shook Dipper's vest. "BRO-BRO! We need to find that book!"
"Yes, but only to return everything back to normal… and nothing else!" Dipper said.
Ford let out a sigh. "But we have a big problem… no one knows where it is. It could be in possession of a dimensional overlord, or in the vacuum of space for all we know. No one knows for sure where it is and those that do know will probably never reveal its location because it could destroy the fabric of the Multiverse."
Lila looked to be thinking about something. "Well… surely there have to be more books made like this… like maybe we can at least find the place where it was made."
"Hey, maybe the girl with the messy hair is onto something…" Stan said.
Ford looked like he was hatching a plan. "There are ways we can find out where it is… but getting there would be difficult."
"So, what's the plan?" Steven asked.
"I can explain it later, but first… we need to commandeer that warship outside the town."
Stan chuckled. "Hehe, I knew you'd come around sixer! We're going to steal a spaceship!" he brandished a baseball bat and hit it on his free hand.
"But… how will we get on the ship?" Dipper asked.
Ford smiled as he walked to his desk. He revealed that he had a large laser rifle, he cocked it and smirked. "You let me worry about that, Dipper."
"YES!" Mabel cheered. She revealed her Grappling Wand. "Space Joyride!" the wand shot a pink energy blast that drilled through the ceiling. "Oops…" she whispered.
"You've got to learn how to control that, Mabel." Dipper said with his arms folded.
While they were distracted by this. The invisible ghost form of Technus flew into the lab and he saw all of the tech and monitors in the room. He flew into them and suddenly all the monitors in the room powered on and green electricity was surging all over the room.
Everyone was shocked. "HAHAHAHAHA!" they all heard. Technus' face appeared on every monitor in the lab. "Greeting fools!" he yelled. "I am Technus 2.0. All of your tech belongs to me now! Including that pesky EMP Shield that kept our technology at bay."
"Oh no!" Ford breathed. "You're from that warship?!"
"Oh yes!" Technus yelled. "And after the shield goes down, we will take down those pesky kids. After that, there will be nothing to stop our overlord from taking over this miserable planet!" Ford tried to type on the keyboard of his console. But he got shocked. "Nice try, Sixer. But everything, all this information and tech is mine now!"
Lila found the power box, she ripped open the door and the panel behind the switches and revealed green glowing wires. She ripped the wires out and suddenly the power in the whole shack shut off. "Hehe, nice plan kid." Stan said to Lila.
"It… seemed obvious…" Suddenly green bolts of electricity shot out from the power box and Lila was hit with a tremendous shock which shot her to the wall.
"LILA!" Mabel yelled.
The wires in the box repaired themselves. "Nice try, meat sacks!" his eyes grew wide. "What's this, an interdimensional portal. How interesting…" the portal in the other room behind the glass was surrounded by green electric bolts. "There is so much power in this thing, what if I, overloaded it!"
Ford's eyes grew wide and he was sweating while his skin turned pale. "Run…" he said, he needed to repeat it because he knew exactly what Technus was going to do. "RUN!"
They ran to the elevator, but Technus had closed it shut and locked them in. "Nah, ah, ah! You're not going anywhere!"
Steven looked around. "Quickly, get around me!" after Stan picked up the unconscious Lila, everyone got around him. He made his bubble shield to protect them from the potential explosion.
"This won't work, we're underground. We will be buried alive!" Ford noted.
"Not just that!" Dipper said. "Wendy, Soos and the others are still inside!"
…
Elsewhere inside the Shack's gift shop, everyone could feel themselves becoming light as they were floating in the air thanks to the absence of gravity at that moment.
"Whoa… what's going on!?" Soos yelled.
Wendy looked out of the window to see objects hovering up. "Soos, get your mother out of here, like as far away from the shack as possible!"
Soos nodded and left to get to his Abuelita from the upper floors. Wendy looked to Soos's girlfriend, Melody who was at the counter of the gift shop.
"What's going on?"
"Trust me, it's better if I explain later, we need to get out of here!"
…
Underground, the portal was reaching critical mass. Alarms were going off all over. Steven tried to keep his shield up and Technus was laughing. "How does it feel? Knowing that that you're going to perish down here?" Mabel's grip tightened on her Grappling Wand and she raised it over her head. The hooks became straight and a ball of white energy formed. "Huh what are you doing?"
The blushes on Mabel's cheeks were glowing pink. "Teleportation Raven!" a white raven shot out from the grappling wand, wrapped everyone inside the bubble shield, it let out a loud screech before it disappeared in a white flash, taking everyone in the shield with it.
"WHAT!" Technus yelled.
…
Outside the shack, the group appeared in a white flash. They hovered in the air due to the energy Ford's dimensional portal put out.
The windows of the shack were letting out bright blue lights and before long
*BOOM*
The entire shack had exploded, sending out a strong, blue energy shockwave that blew everyone in the radius back. Gravity returned and everyone who hovered had landed on the ground hard. They watched as a wild fire was engulfing what remained of the shack.
"Guys!" Wendy approached the others. "Are you all ok?"
"Um… I can't say we are." Dipper replied, still in shock. "But what about you and-"
"Don't worry, we got out in time…" Wendy said, as she gestured to Soos, his grandmother and his girlfriend. "What happened down there?" she asked.
Dipper rubbed his shoulder. "I-I don't even know…"
Mabel was taking deep breaths and looked at her Grappling Wand which ultimately saved them from a fiery demise. "Whoa… grappling wand…" she whispered with stars in her eyes. Steven quickly approached her.
"Mabel, how did you do that?"
"I don't even know… I just thought I had to get out of there… and the words suddenly came to me…"
Ford stared at the fire and fell on his knees. The very shack that was his home for his early time in Gravity Falls, Stan's home, Dipper and Mabel's home last Summer. The building that was used to fight against Bill Cipher during Weirdmageddon, now it was destroyed, turning to ashes.
Stan silently put his hand on Ford's shoulder as he still held Lila.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Technus' laugh echoed as everyone watched the EMP shield fading away.
The giant warship was closing in on Gravity Falls and Ford turned around to face the incoming invasion force. He silently grabbed his energy rifle. "Who can fight?" he simply asked. "If you can't, help evacuate the towns people. Get everyone you can to either help or leave. This is our last stand which means we have to stop them here!"
They all looked at the warship which was approaching them, the eye at the front of it opened and a loud hum was heard from the ship as it started it's advance to Gravity Falls.
Unknown Location – Remnant
Timeline C
A pink portal had opened up on top of a look out. Blake, Pyrrha and Future Lila had appeared outside the portal.
Future Lila looked up at the sky, and apart from the numerous vortexes that littered the sky, she saw that things were going as they were supposed to. "Right… the time is just right."
Blake gave a suspicious glance to Lila. "Just right for… wait a-" Blake recognized the area almost immediately, she saw a huge compound in the distance. "This is the hidden compound for the White Fang!" she gasped. "Why in the world did you bring us here!?"
Future Lila looked forward. "I'll explain later, but right now we need to move quickly, while we have a head start."
"No! I am done with all of this! Now you take me to White Fang territory, if you knew me, you'd know I'd want to stay far away from this place."
Future Lila looked down. "Right, you deserve to know… something bad is going to happen. Something that will tip the scales in Malevolence's favour. You see as good as Malevolence is, he wants an army behind him. He's been planning what he's going to do for months, now he wants to take over Remnant. Where to you think is a good start for him to find people to do his bidding?"
"But it wouldn't work, the White Fang would listen to… him, he's not a Faunus, he's… Well I don't even know what he is!"
"Yes, and he's on his way here. If he isn't going to given leadership, he's going to take it."
"He's going to kill Sienna." Blake said as she figured out what would happen.
Lila nodded. "Exactly, if that happens. Who knows what will happen? Well I kinda know, but still it's very, very bad news." Blake still looked conflicted. "Yes, Sienna is bad, but think about this, it could be a whole lot worse if the White Fang was without a leader."
Blake was thinking about what she wanted to do. "How sure are you that this is going to happen?" Pyrrha asked.
"Well our leader has been watching this timeline, we're from the timeline where… well Malevolence beat you, and things were even worse on Earth." She then slung her pack over her shoulders and dug into it. "Before I forget." She handed Pyrrha what looked like a short staff that was coloured black and gold. "Since your old one got destroyed, it was probably a good idea to bring you this." Suddenly, two blades jutted out from either side which gave it the appearance of a dual bladed javelin. "Like it?"
"I-I don't know what to say. Thank you"
"You don't have to say anything, just say you'll help me."
As the portal behind them was shrinking, someone had leaped through to the other side before it could close. The three girls were surprised at who it was.
"Ben?" Future Lila said.
He got up and dusted himself off. "Yeah, it's me, I overheard what you talked about, if what you said is true and Malevolence is about to do something big, then we have to stop him. At any cost." Right then the portal closed.
Future Lila then looked at what looked like a digital watch, but there were more attachments to it. "Right the more the better, we don't have long to do this. We only have less than an hour, and if we don't stick to it, well we're going to be walking back."
Before long, they heard the sounds of explosions that were being heard down at the compound below. "They are attacking already?" Pyrrha asked.
Future Lila looked down and held her head. "No, no, no… I was told we'd have plenty of time before the attack started."
"Looks like your timing was well off." Blake said.
"Then we need to get down there, fast!" Ben said. He activated his Omnitrix before he landed on his alien of choice, a bright green flash surrounded them after he slammed the watch core. His skin turned red, his muscles quadrupled in size and grew an extra set of arms. He grabbed the three girls with each of his arms. "Hold on!" he used his strong legs to leap across the air and down to the White Fang Compound.
…
Deep within the compound, there was a long, dimly lit hall and outside of it. Sounds of fighting could be heard, guards were grunting in pain.
The door to the hall opened suddenly and the body of Malevolence walked through. Though he maintained his regular, human form as opposed to his ultimate form, which comprised of all of the powers he absorbed in full display.
His eyes were shining green as he walked in. A White Fang guard screamed from behind him and tried to impale him with a lance, but Malevolence turned his head, 180 degrees, with an audible neck crack and a few vein lines in his neck. He grabbed the guard and threw him into the hall. "Come now, how else did you think that was going to end?" his eyes returned to their hazel colour. His voice sounding less ominous but more maniacal. "Ugh… finally, now it my turn to take over. Oh, nice to finally meet you in person." His face turned to the very person sitting right at the end of hall was his target. "Sienna Khan."
The woman in question stood up from her chair to face down Malevolence. Being the High Leader of the White Fang, she was a Faunus. She had a dark complexion with orange glowing eyes and dark short hair. She had dark tattoos on her body that resembled tiger stripes. She had an extra set of tiger ears above her regular ones, gold ear-rings hung from her normal ears. There was a small, red jewel on her forehead. She wore a form fitting black dress with most of her back open, there were splits in the dress which revealed black shorts. Over the dress she had a brownish red cape with gold accents that revealed her back. She had a long fingerless glove on her right hand.
"Hmm… I've got to say, for what its worth, you're much more attractive in person." An irritated hum was heard from Sienna, prompting Malevolence to continue with his business. "Right, onto business. The name's Malevolence. I am proposing something that will greatly interest you, a super-villain team up, if you will. I've got plans to take over this planet, and the White Fang is armed to the teeth with warriors willing to take the fight to humanity." He pointed at the horns that jutted out from his forehead. "We're not necessarily human, are we? Now there are… certain obstacles that you and your forces can help eliminate for me."
Sienna gave a fierce glare to Malevolence. "You come here, decimate my people, and you think you are in a position to propose some kind of partnership."
"In my defence… they wouldn't let me in the front door." He playfully said.
"Tell me, how well did you think this was going to work? The White Fang aims to demand respect from the Humans who put down Faunus. I don't believe we would be furthering our cause by allying ourselves with someone as clearly insane as you."
Malevolence let out a sigh. "That is going to be a problem, I have goals to make this planet mine. Now to do that… I'd need to bring down the Hunstman Schools, and possibly the Kingdom of Atlas too. But I've got a track record of domination and I don't mind dropping a body of two. The White Fang seems like the perfect group that would help me do that."
"You seem to be under the impression that you'd be doing me a favour."
"Oh, but I am… you see. Cross Dimensional overlords don't come around too often. Now I'm a nice guy. We could both benefit from the partnership, you help me take over this planet and the Faunus get to be on top of the food chain, where they belong."
"But we will still answer to you." Sienna pointed out.
"You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." Malevolence said. "C'mon Sienna, what if I told you, that you could even take your movement across the stars to another planet. It's called Earth, its basically ripe for the picking."
"I've heard enough." She angrily said.
The four guards that stood beside Sienna's throne had aimed their lances at Malevolence. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! You sure this is the hill you want to die on, Sienna? Because – as the old saying goes, 'You're either with me. Or you're against me.' So, if I were you, I'd think really hard about this, because depending on your answer you could either lead the Faunus to a revolution against Humanity, or die right here at my feet." Sienna chuckled to herself. "I'm sorry, I didn't think my threats were funny to you."
"Whoever you are, you don't understand the White Fang do you? The White Fang is a revolution against the distain of Humanity and their treatment of Faunus, we're not mercenaries for hire! The White Fang aren't looking to dominate this world, but rather demand respect for those that put us in chains. Having the White Fang answer to you would only hurt our cause. So, in-case you are hard of hearing, my answer is no! You may see yourself out."
"Tch!" Malevolence glared at her. "Heh, you're smarter than I gave you credit for. It's too bad, I could have used someone as powerful and influential as you on New Remnant. Oh well…" he looked outside the door. "Hey, Taurus. It's like you said, she would budge!"
"Taurus?" Sienna repeated, she knew that name from somewhere, but couldn't place a face to it, unless she was talking about-
She saw someone walk in through the door and she felt her anger rise when she saw that person. He was light skinned and had brown hair with red highlights. He had small bull horns on his head that were reddish black and were slanted back. His eyes were covered by a mask that had four cuts for eye holes. There were red, tribal symbols on the mask.
He was dressed in an asymmetrical black, long-sleeved, high collared blazer with slits in the sleeves that had red thorn symbols. There was a crest that lined up on his left shoulder. His blazer was only half buttoned, which exposed a red shirt with a black line running parallel to his collar under it. Underneath that were long, black dress pants, black shoes with red soles. He had black gloves, each with a red Omega symbol printed on them. His belt was black with white domino marks on them.
"Adam…" Sienna simply said. "So, have you chosen to side with this mad-man."
"Well duh!" Malevolence bragged. "How do you think I got here? You think I found this place by myself, I'm smart, but not that smart."
"You were a great leader." Adam said. "But your methods aren't enough. Humans deserve the to suffer for what they did to us. We will start a war with humanity, before enslaving every last one of them!"
Malevolence laughed. "See that's why I like him. Adam, sees the big picture! Why hold hands with people when you can enslave them?"
"While I appreciate everything that you have done for the White Fang, your methods aren't enough. We need more violence, we need the humans to fear us, not respect us. They don't deserve it! We instead should rule with an iron fist. And I'm not the only one in the White Fang who feels this way." Suddenly the four guards who stood by Sienna's throne had pointed their spears at her.
"A coup." Sienna realized.
"Exactly." Malevolence said. "Like I said, you're either with me or against me, and you chose poorly. Adam, I'll let you have the kill." Adam looked to unsheathe a crimson red sword from a scabbard.
Sienna was reaching for a handle of what looked like a chain whip, as she prepared to fight against the insurmountable odds.
*CRASH*
There was a hole in the ceiling as a red figure had suddenly fallen through it, carrying three girls with him. They stood between the space between Sienna and Adam "Are we late?" Four Arms asked as he dropped Future Lila, Blake and Pyrrha.
Malevolence's fist was tightly clenched. "Tennyson!" he said while seething in anger.
"BLAKE?" Both Adam and Sienna said in shock.
"ADAM!?" Blake suddenly went pale after seeing Adam, and barely acknowledged Sienna behind her.
Future Lila got out of Four Arms' grip. "Phew, at least we made it on time."
A chuckle escaped from Adam's lips and looked directly at Blake "My love, had I known this is all it took to drag you out of hiding, I would have done this a long time ago." Blake instinctively turned her sword to its gun form and aimed it at Adam.
Four Arms looked directly at Malevolence. "Malevolence is mine! You guys get Sienna out of here!"
"You think you can beat me?" Malevolence asked, though he wasn't given time to answer as he took a quad-fisted uppercut and was sent flying through the ceiling and into the sky. Four Arms followed him to continue the fight.
After Sienna blinked at what she saw, she looked down at Blake. "Blake, what is going on?"
"I really don't have time to explain right now."
Future Lila got in a fighting stance as she glanced back to Sienna. "Basically, you were supposed to die here, but we're here to stop that from happening." Lila looked to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, go help Ben. Trust me, he won't be able to hold off Malevolence for long without help."
"Right." But Adam had other ideas.
"As if I'll let you escape!" Pyrrha prepared to defend with her shield but she didn't need to because Lila had leaped in front of her, clapped her hands, stopping Adam's sword from hurting both her and Pyrrha. She then leaped up and drop-kicked Adam in the chest sending him stepping back.
This gave Pyrrha enough time to escape to try and help Ben. Lila glanced at Blake. "We don't have to win, we just have to keep them busy till that portal arrives, then we get out of here." They suddenly heard guards grunting in pain. Both girls looked behind them and saw Sienna with her chain whip in hand, had dispatched of the guards that betrayed her. She walked towards Future Lila and Blake.
"This, changes nothing." She said, looking at Blake. "Don't think you are forgiven for abandoning our cause, but right now. I'd rather deal with the people who tried to take my life."
Blake remained silent but Lila stayed focused. "Focus, it's three on one." Future Lila said. "There is no way he can-"
They heard footsteps approaching the door, approaching it was Cinder and Emerald. The former with a smug smile on her face. "Guess you couldn't do even a simple job, Adam." Adam growled slightly. "Don't worry, Malevolence made sure to have us pick up the pieces should something go wrong. And so, here we are."
Sienna angrily glanced at Future Lila. "You were saying…?"
"Me and my big mouth…" Lila said with a defeated sigh. Now realizing how hard their task would be since the odds were even.
To Be Continued in…
Episode 18: As Time Passes Part 2
And so we're into the third arc, anyway I've got some great stuff planned for the next couple of chapters, as we're only getting started. Let me know what you thought in the reviews and I'll see you guys in the next update.
