And I'm back with the next arc of Meta-Verse. I am so very excited to do this arc. Arc 3 did took a short time, now Arc 4. Yippee! So now, the series will now focus on two new characters, but don't worry, Konata Izumi will still be here in this series, so don't worry on that. Well, now it's time to meet the two cave raiders that we're all anticipating for.

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters appearing in this fic.

Desert

It is very hot and boiling in the desert. Nothing but sand and the hot sun. Unfortunately, a purple portal opened, and two people came out of it, with the second person's hat being thrown to the ground. The portal closes. The hat that is thrown on the ground appears to be a helmet with two asymmetrical horns protruding out of the sides and what appears to be a glass lens in the front. Dark brown gloves grabs the helmet. The person gives the other person the helmet, to which, when put on, a purple symbol appeared on the lens for a moment, then disappears. The first person turns around to see where they are, revealing to be a girl.

This girl has long blonde hair styled in two ponytails and green eyes. She wears a brown delver jacket, black leotard, brown hat with a flashlight built into it, dark brown gloves, purple thigh-high socks and black shoes. She also has a red whistle on her neck. This is Riko.

"Where do you think we are, Reg?" Riko asked.

The second person, a boy, sees what Riko is talking about.

This boy has light brown skin and has red patches of skin on his cheeks and on either side of his rib cage and has dark hair and yellow eyes. His arms and legs are mechanical and grayish-black and he wears a black helmet with the glass lens and horns on it. He also wears a tattered red cape and washed-out baggy green and purple pants. One of his arms has been torn off. He also has a red whistle on his neck. This is Reg.

"I can't quite tell myself. This isn't the Abyss, I can tell you that much." Reg said.

"This isn't the 6th Layer." Riko said.

"No this isn't." Reg looks behind him, and notices something. "Where's Nanachi?"

"You mean she isn't here with us?" Riko looks to see that Nanachi isn't here. "That's weird. Where did she go?"

"I'm not quite sure. This is bad."

Riko turns to Reg. "We might wanna look for someone, maybe they can tell us where we are."

Reg nodded. Then they started traveling the hot desert. Hours later, Riko comes across a cactus.

"What is this thing?" Riko touches it. "Ouch!"

"Are you okay?" Reg asked.

"I'm fine. Man, those things are spiky." Riko said.

"By the looks of it, I can tell." Reg looks at the cactus.

They then continued on. More hours later, Riko felt hot and exhausted.

"Man. At this rate, we'll never find anyone here." Reg thought.

Riko tries to stay at it. Then she saw a trailer. "Reg. I think we found something."

Reg looked and saw the trailer. "Finally."

Riko grabs Reg's hand. "Let's go!" She drags him with her.

"Um, Riko, wait!" Reg said.

A minute later, they got to the trailer. Riko knocks on the door, only to see that it's opened. "Hello?" She opened the door, got into the trailer, and saw no one there.

Reg got in as well. "I've never saw anything like this before."

Riko has gone to a poster, saying Wanted: Dead or Alive, with the Wanted man being someone named William Fisk, with a bounty of: $10,000 "Never saw this before." She looks at the poster.

Reg saw a rocking chair, then sat on it, and rocked on it. "This is comfy."

Riko walks to Reg. "I guess we should wait here. Hopefully this person doesn't mind."

"Let's just hope so." Reg said.

Riko nodded.

Hours later, they passed out and slept. Reg is on the rocking chair while Riko is sleeping at a bed at the end of the trailer. Someone came in. Reg wakes up and notices the person. It was a girl.

This girl has light brown hair and green eyes. She wears a brown hat, light brown sleeveless jacket, light blue long-sleeve shirt, brown shorts and brown boots. This is Lirio.

Reg gets out of the rocking chair. "I'm sorry about all this."

Lirio just smiled. "Don't ya worry, partner. I don't mind."

Reg sighed. "Riko is right. She didn't mind at all."

Lirio walks to Riko, who is still sleeping. "Is this yer partner here?"

"Yes. That's Riko." Reg said.

"Riko, huh? I see." Lirio shook Riko slowly. "Time to get up, partner."

"Just 5 more minutes." Riko said in her sleep.

Lirio sighed. "Always run into that all the time."

"May I ask who you are?" Reg asked.

"Certainly, partner. My name is Lirio. And I'm what ya call a bounty hunter."

"A bounty hunter?" Reg asked.

Lirio nodded. "Ya see, I was with a bounty hunter named Ricardo once. He's a nice guy. But he and I part ways, and I started hunting bounties on my own. And here I am. In this place that I established for myself. Interesting, isn't it, partner?"

"I see. So you live by yourself then." Reg said.

Lirio nodded. "Now, could I ask who ya are?"

"My name is Reg. And I'm an Obot."

"An Obot, huh? Some sort of robot, I'm assuming?" Lirio asked.

"Yes." Reg said.

"I see. Ya're quite odd, partner." Lirio said.

"This guy has a weird type of speech pattern." Reg thought.

"I never saw a type of robot like ya before. What type of robot are ya, partner?" Lirio said.

"That's the problem. I can't remember." Reg said.

"Ya can't remember? That's bad." Lirio notices something. "Why is yer other hand missing, partner?"

"I got experimented on by Umbra Hands. Led by Bondrewd, the Novel." Reg said.

"Bondrewd, huh? Interesting name. He sounds bad if ya say so yerself." Lirio said.

"He is." Reg said.

Riko wakes up and saw Lirio. "I'm sorry. Must have dozed off."

"I understand. Ya might be in the desert for quite some time now." Lirio said.

"Hours." Riko said.

Lirio is shocked. "My God, hours? That's too much. I'm glad ya decided to be here."

"Well, the reason why we're here, is because, do you know where we are?" Riko asked.

"Is that yer reasoning? Well, ya're in the desert of Mexico." Lirio said.

"Mexico?" Riko asked.

"Mm-hmm." Lirio nodded.

"We're not in the Abyss anymore, are we?" Riko asked.

"The Abyss?" Lirio asked.

"The Abyss is a gaping hole that, from what we can tell for now, is 25,000 meters down." Riko said.

"My God. That's a lot of meters. Ya're be glad that ya're not dead." Lirio said.

"It was painful. But I got one goal in the Abyss. My mother is waiting for me down there." Riko said.

"Yer mother? Waiting for ya? Down in the Abyss?" Lirio asked.

Riko nodded.

"Huh. That's what the thing said, huh?" Lirio grabbed out a piece of paper with strange writing on it.

Riko recognizes that paper. "That's my mom's sealed letter. Where did you get it?"

"Huh? Well, I found it lying on the ground." Lirio hands the letter to Riko.

"How did I drop it?" Riko wondered.

"At the Netherworld's bottom, I'll be waiting. What do ya think that supposed to mean, partner?" Lirio asked.

"It means that my mother is waiting for me down in the Abyss." Riko said.

"Is that so? Well, I might help ya guys out. I think I know what to do." Lirio went outside.

Reg and Riko just looked at the door.

Outside, Lirio turns on what appears to be a portal machine. A portal opened, but blue then purple. "There we go."

"Will it take us back to the Abyss?" Reg asked.

"I won't promise ya that, since there is more worlds then these." Lirio said.

"What are you saying?" Riko asked.

"I mean, there is such thing as the multiverse, in which the multiverse has multiple of universes all in one. So, it might take ya somewhere else in the multiverse." Lirio explains.

"Alright then. Thanks for your help." Reg said.

Lirio smiled. "No problem, partner."

"Let's go, Riko." Reg said.

Riko nodded. Then the two cave raiders gotten into the portal, then it closes.

Lirio sighed. "Well, I'm sure that we'll meet again. I'm sure of it." She then went inside the trailer.

New York, Year 3145

The portal opened, and the two cave raiders are sent into a futuristic world of New York. The portal closes. They looked around.

"Definitely not the Abyss." Reg said.

"Then where are we now?" Riko asked.

"Maybe we can go in there." Reg points at a building.

They went into the building. Minutes later, they have gone to what appears to be some sort of laboratory, but only with computers and a robot suit.

"This is quite remarkable." Riko said.

"This is all new to us. And it is." Reg said.

Riko looks at the computers. "I wonder what these are."

Reg looks at the robot suit. But inside, he saw a spider. He screamed.

"What is it, Reg?!" Riko has gone to Reg.

"There's something in there!" Reg points at the suit.

Riko sees what Reg is talking about, and saw the spider move. "Yeeks! Is that a Silkfang?!"

"It's too small for it to be a Silkfang." Reg said.

"Sorry about that. Did my spider scare you?" A person lands on the ground behind them.

They turned around, startled. They saw that it was a female.

This female has black hair and brown eyes. She wears a black shirt with white short-sleeves, black checkered skirt, black almost-to-the-knee socks and black shoes. This is Peni Parker.

"You're saying that that thing you keep in there, is a spider?" Reg looks frightened.

Peni sighed. "Come on. He doesn't bite. He's quite nice."

"Why do you keep such a thing in there?" Reg asked in disbelief.

"Well, alright, here's the scoop. I've been bitten by a radioactive spider, which is the spider in my suit, and we have grown some type of connection between each other, and so we're best friends. Forever." Peni explains.

"So, he's your friend then?" Riko asked.

"Yep. He's also my companion as well, as we fight crime together." Peni said.

"I've never saw a person grown a connection with a different species before, especially something that can be monstrous." Reg thought.

"So, why are you here?" Peni asked.

"Well, because we have gotten ourselves out of our world." Riko said.

"And what do you mean by that?" Peni asked.

"You see, we're from the world where the Abyss exists, to which it's a gaping hole of about 25,000 meters from what we can tell. We were about to reach the 6th Layer of the Abyss, until some sort of purple hole just came out of nowhere and we ended up in a different world." Riko explains.

"Hmm." Peni thinks. "Portals."

"Portals?" The cave raiders asked.

"You see, there are portals to different dimensions. I have that happened before. I was brought out of this dimension and into Miles Morales's dimension. That was not long ago. And even though my robot suit, SP/DR, got destroyed, me and my spider managed to fix it. I thought it was over. Now, it seems more dimensions other than the Spider-Verse seems to exist. Which is quite odd, I might say." Peni explains.

"I'm still trying to make sense of this multiverse thing." Reg said.

"It's confusing. But you'll get the hang of it. I'm sure." Peni said.

"So, what now?" Riko asked.

"All I can say, is hang tight. You might be here for a while." Peni said.

"Alright." Riko said.

Peni notices Reg's missing arm. "What in the world happened to your arm?"

"I got myself experimented on by Umbra Hands." Reg said.

"And you lost that arm. Huh." Peni thinks. "Can you show me what you can do?"

"I guess I can." Reg said.

"And I mean, everything that you can do." Peni said.

Reg nodded.

They're now in the training room, where Reg gets tested by Peni. He extends his arm, to which he made it reach the ceiling.

"He can extend his arm." Peni wrote this down on her notepad.

Reg then points his hand at a target practice dummy, to which a light shined in the middle of his hand, then a powerful blast came out of his hand, destroying the dummy and hitting the wall. It gone one for a few minutes, then it stopped.

Peni smiled. "THAT. WAS. UNBELIEVABLE! That was incredible!"

Reg turns to the duo. "Thanks."

"That was a big amount of energy he blasted. I've never saw anything like this before." Peni wrote this down on her notepad.

"That's all that my arms can do." Reg said.

"Alright." Peni said.

"He's always there for me when I needed help. Not just me, but some others as well." Riko said.

"I can tell." Peni said.

"So, what now?" Reg asked.

"Wait and see." Peni said.

Reg nodded. Later, they reached to Peni's quarters again, but the robot boy felt dizzy, then fell to the ground.

Peni notices this. "What was that?"

Riko turns to see Reg unconscious. "Whenever he fires his Incinerator, that's what I call it, he tends to pass out for two hours straight."

Peni thinks. "That's new."

"So, what are you gonna do with those notes, anyways?" Riko asked.

"Create a new arm for him." Peni said.

"What?" Riko asked.

Break

While Peni works on Reg's new arm, she has given Riko her quarters for the night, and so the cave raider goes in there, takes off her hat, gloves and jacket, then sat down on the bed, thinking to herself.

"I never knew that there was more than just one world out there." Riko lies down on the bed. "I mean, is it okay? To be out of the Abyss for a while. Can I trust myself to think that my mother might be okay for now?" All of this bothers her. Then, all of a sudden, she heard a buzz. She can't quite point her finger on it, but she heard a buzz. "Hello?" She gets out of bed and walks around, trying to find the source of the buzz. "Hello?" She notices something flying around the table with her hat and gloves on it. She walks to it.

"Don't eat me!" The thing flew behind Riko's hat.

This shocked Riko. She then walks to the table, then crouches down. "What are you? You don't have to be afraid. You can come out. I won't hurt you."

The thing reveals to be a fly.

This fly is green and has large yellow eyes. He has black legs and translucent wings. This is Findley.

"You're not gonna eat me, are you?" Findley asked.

"Of course not. I'm not the one to eat bugs. Yeck." Riko said.

Findley then comes out his hiding spot, crawling closer to Riko. "Thank goodness. I thought I was gonna be eaten for sure, but no. I assume that to almost everything, except for non-living things."

"Odd." Riko only said.

"I'm Findley, and I'm your typical housefly."

"Riko. And I'm a cave raider."

"Cave raider? Ooooo, caves are scary." Findley shivers.

"The Abyss will be more scarier. It has monsters and curses." Riko said.

"Monsters?!" Findley just screamed and flew behind her hat again.

"Um, Findley?" Riko looks confused.

"Monsters are scary!" Findley shivered in fear.

Riko sighed. "That tells me you might not want to enter the Abyss."

"No." Findley shook his head.

"Oh well." Riko gets up. "I wonder how Reg is doing."

Meanwhile, Reg wakes up in a storage room, where he looks around, then saw a weird chibi person in front of him, panting like a dog.

This chibi person is a female that has brown hair and green eyes. She wears a white long-sleeve shirt and blue skirt and is barefoot. This is Harukasan.

Reg's eyes widened, then screamed. Then he panted. "What in the world are you?!"

"Awwwww, scared of me?" Harukasan walks to Reg, climbs up to the top of his head, then, "Nom." She is biting the top of his head, not with her teeth.

Reg screamed. "Get off of my head!"

"No." Harukasan said.

Reg sighed heavily. "What the hell did I gotten myself into?"

"My name is Harukasan, and I'm a Puchidol."

"Puchidol?" Reg asked.

"Mm-hmm."

Reg then has a feeling hit him. "You know, we forgot someone." He looks in the mirror and sees himself and Harukasan still biting on the top of his head. "We forgot Meinya."

"Who's that?"

"He's Prushka's pet." Reg then felt sorrow. "She died though. She's now a cartridge."

"Prushka?"

Reg nodded sadly.

"I'm sorry, vaai."

Reg sighed. "She's okay as a cartridge, though. But, I feel like I'll miss her."

Harukasan gets off of his head and walks in front of him. "Listen, if you're sure that she'll be okay, then think that she'll be okay. Besides, I don't think you lost her yet."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. I'm not kidding."

Reg sighed again. "I guess."

Peni came into the storage room. "Oh, I see you found Harukasan here."

"You know her?" Reg asked.

Peni nodded. "She's from a different dimension, as you can tell."

"I already figured that one out as much." Reg said.

"Vaai." Harukasan said.

"Anyways, I want you to come with me." Peni said.

"Alright. How come?" Reg asked.

Later, the trio got into Peni's lab, and she grabs Reg's new arm, then she puts it on Reg.

"Perfect fit. Yes. I was correct on length and width." Peni said.

"Can it extend?" Reg asked.

"Go on. Try it." Peni said.

Reg sees a pipe on the ceiling, then he extends his new arm, and it reaches the pipe. "It can extend."

"See? What did I tell ya?" Peni said.

"What about the Incinerator?" Reg asked.

Later, they're in the training room. Reg tests his new arm, and instead, he shot a small blast of energy and it hits one of the target practice dummies.

"I made that new arm of yours from Stark Technology. Tony Stark is a cool guy." Peni said.

"What is Stark like?" Reg asked.

"He's a millionaire. No. Billionaire. Lot of money." Peni said.

"He must be famous then." Reg is shocked.

"He is. All over the world. Everyone knows of his technology." Peni said.

"I would like to meet him, kakka." Harukasan said.

"You will. Eventually." Peni said.

Reg looks at his new arm, then looks at Peni. "I can take it."

Peni smiled. "I'm glad."

Reg nodded. Then they heard a noise.

"What was that?" Harukasan asked.

"Coming from the storage room." Peni said.

"There was nobody there, other than me." Harukasan said.

Later, they reached the storage room, and they saw a strange alien creature sleeping on the side of the wall.

This alien creature is blue and wears a translucent blue globe-like helmet. He wears a white long-sleeve suit, red gloves and red boots. This is Starky.

"Oh, that's Starky. He's a Star Child. Type of alien." Peni said.

"Type of alien?" Reg asked.

"Mm-hmm." Peni nodded.

"Wow. This thing is so cool." Harukasan looks at him, excitedly.

Reg walks to the Star Child, then crouches down, then he pokes at his helmet. But this woke up Starky, who revealed to have black eyes.

"He's awake!" Harukasan said.

"Um, I didn't mean to." Reg hold his hands up high.

Starky curiously looked at Reg. "What are yoou?"

"Um, I'm an Obot." Reg said.

"Oboot?" Starky asked.

Reg nodded.

"Never saw a roboot like yoou beefore." Starky said.

Harukasan just ran up to Starky, looking excited. "You're the most coolest thing in the world. Tell me, do you ever invade humanity? Had you come in piece? What's your ship like? What planet are you from?"

This concerns Starky. "Calm doown. I can't answer all thoose queestions all at oonce."

"You're right. I'm sorry. I got carried away." Harukasan scratched the back of her head.

"Uh-huh." Starky said.

Then they heard an alert.

"What was that?" Reg asked.

"Oh no. Something's wrong." Peni went out of the storage room.

"Can we check it ouut?" Starky asked.

"Yeah." Harukasan said.

Reg nodded.

Later, they reached to the lab, and saw multiple purple portals opening all at once.

"Here it comes." Peni said.

Then, 11 females came out of their respective worlds and into this world, then the portals closed.

The first female has brown hair with a slight tone, layered past her shoulders and turquoise eyes. She wears a pastel yellow dress, teal cropped long-sleeve jacket, black garter belt on her left thigh, black socks and caramel boots. This is Nozomi Moritomo.

The second female has light blue hair that falls just above her shoulders and blue eyes. She wears a blue, pink and white cap, black long-sleeve jacket, white skirt and white boots. This is Yukino Kosaka.

The third female has seaweed black-green hair that is styled in twin tails and green eyes. She wears a pale purple long-sleeve jacket, white bra, blue denim shorts, ripped purple tights and black boots. This is Ai Hibiki.

The fourth female has wavy blonde hair which is half styled into braids and pastel pink eyes. She wears a gray jacket, green long-sleeve coat, black leggings and pink boots. This is Chiaya Misono.

The fifth female has bushy bright red hair that reaches her shoulders and blue eyes. She wears a red long-sleeve shirt, blue skirt and brown boots. This is Mary Smith.

The sixth female has blue hair and blue eyes. She wears a red and gold headpiece with white wings on each, red and gold bikini top breastplate, red and gold arm-guards, a red piece near her crotch, white bikini-like suit, black thigh-high socks and red and gold boots. This is Mirim.

The seventh female has mid-thigh length black hair tied into two twintails which reach down to her mid-thighs and blue eyes. She wears a white mini-dress, white gloves and is barefoot. This is Hestia.

The eighth female has short purple hair that is worn in a bob with tufts of hair sticking up on each side resembling cat ears and mauve eyes. She wears a single-sleeved black and white striped mini-dress with a split that reveals black panties and black thigh-high boots with one having white stripes. This is Sako Katagi, twin sister of Yuko Katagi.

The ninth female seems to be a cat girl that has brown neck-length hair that is tied up by two cat-themed hair clips into small twin tails on the opposite sides of her head and brown eyes. She also has brown cat ears and a striped cat tail. She wears a white t-shirt, blue skirt, white socks and black dress shoes. She also has a gold bell on her neck. This is Azuki.

The tenth female has pink hair and blue eyes. She wears a blue and white long-sleeve maid dress, white gloves with black fingers, white thigh-high socks and blue shoes. This is Kurumi.

The eleventh female has very long purple and pink hair and teal eyes. She wears a black and white long-sleeve Gothic Lolita dress, blue and black striped stockings and black shoes. This is Stocking Anarchy.

"Okay, who the fuck can tell me where the fuck we even are?! And who the hell are you people?!" Stocking gets angry.

"This place is more bizarre. Never seen one like this before." Hestia said.

"Not only that, but my master!" Kurumi puts her hands to her face.

"I think we're in the future." Chiaya said.

Nozomi, Yukino and Ai looked behind them to see Chiaya. "Chiaya?"

"But, but, you have gone to space, not coming back." Yukino said.

Chiaya scratched her head and laughed nervously. "See, there is a problem with that."

"Let me guess, that portal sent you here?" Ai assumed.

Chiaya nodded.

"Well that's great. What now?" Nozomi said.

"You guys look too strange. Including the one without her clothes on!" Mary notices Mirim's clothing.

Mirim blushes. "T-t-this is my armor, okay?!"

"Got that before. Now where's my sister?" Sako said.

"Who the hell is your sister?" Stocking asked.

"Yuko Katagi, my twin sister." Sako said.

"Twin sister? Pfft. Boring." Stocking said.

"Says you, you dumb ass!" Sako shouted.

"Did you just call me a dumb ass?" Stocking makes an angry face.

"Guys, calm down. I can explain this." Peni said.

"Finally, someone can talk." Stocking said.

Peni makes an angry face, then sighed. "You guys are from different dimensions."

"Dimensions?" Mirim is confused.

"You see, there is such thing as the multiverse. Multiple universes all in one. You might call them worlds, perhaps, or realms." Peni explains.

"Wait, so you're saying, we're not in our world anymore?" Mirim asked.

"That's what I'm trying to say." Peni said.

"Well that fucking sucks. Where's a cheesecake, I might get my sweets in for the day." Stocking looks for some cheesecake.

"So, is there a way of getting back?" Mary asked.

"I don't know." Peni said.

"Is it actually your suit?" Nozomi looks at Mirim's suit.

"Well, this isn't mines, actually. I was a normal village girl before I became a warrior unwillingly." Mirim said.

"I see." Nozomi said.

"Yeah. Well, do they have to make armor that perverted?" Reg thought.

"Hey, Reg, look who I-" Riko came in and saw more visitors. "Who are these guys?"

"Oh great, another one. And who the hell are you?" Stocking asked.

"I'm Riko. I'm a cave raider."

"Cave raider? Yeah, suit yourself." Stocking said.

"Well that was mean." Findley said.

"You said it, bug." Stocking said. "Why does the bug talk, anyways?"

"Maybe there's a world where bugs can talk. Be very interesting though. Might not see myself going there, though." Ai said.

"Yeah, have fun trying." Stocking looks for cheesecake. (Is she actually gonna find some, who knows)

"We should start introducing ourselves." Findley said.

"We have time for that." Peni said.

"Well, I'm Riko. I'm a cave raider."

"I'm Reg. I'm an Obot, and also, cave raider."

"Peni Parker. Got bitten by a radioactive spider, and me and my spider fight crime together."

Stocking laughed. "You're a bitch to say that!"

"It's true though. Me and my spider has grown a connection between each other." Peni said.

"Nice that it's friendly to you." Mary said.

"He can be friendly to anyone." Peni said.

"Alright. That's new." Mary thinks about this.

"I'm Findley. I'm your normal housefly."

"Harukasan. Puchidol. Vaai."

"Starky. Star Child."

"Nozomi Moritomo. I'm just normal, but helped out Maccha Green."

"Yukino Kosaka. I'm with Nozomi."

"Ai Hibiki. Also, with Nozomi. You might call us the Rolling Girls. Because, we drive our bikes to the ends of the earth."

"We did not do that!" Nozomi said.

"Chiaya Misono. Alien. I'm also with Nozomi."

"Mary Smith. I am a normal girl, but has become a witch."

"A witch?" Stocking's eyes turned into evil glares.

"Why are you looking at me like that, I'm not a witch anymore! In fact, I gave up being a witch." Mary said.

"Had you ever thought of ever becoming a witch again?" Peni asked.

Mary thinks. "Not sure."

"Mirim. I am a normal village girl before I became a warrior unwillingly. By the Iron Strategist Ymir. You can call me the Hyper Vibration Valkyrie."

"Hyper Vibration Valkyrie? Huh. That's interesting." Reg said.

"Is Ymir a nice guy?" Stocking asked.

"No. She isn't. She always take control of this armor I'm wearing." Mirim said.

"But you're in control of it now." Peni said.

"I'm not sure. I'm away from Ymir, so hopefully." Mirim said.

"Hestia. I'm a Goddess."

"Goddess of Death?" Stocking asked, sarcastically.

"Well that's rude! I am the Goddess of the Hestia Familia."

"Lame." Stocking said.

"Sako Katagi. Prisoner from Hell."

"How did that go?" Stocking asked.

"Would you mind?!" Sako sighed. "After my twin sister, Yuko, went missing, I felt desperate to find her."

Reg puts his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure we'll find her. You have my word."

Sako smiled. "Thank you very much, Reg."

Reg nodded.

"I'm Azuki, and I'm a cat girl. Seem to be the responsible type."

"I'm Kurumi. A Steel Angel."

"Guess that leaves me. Stocking Anarchy. Fallen angel."

"Well, that's everyone. Now, what do we do?" Peni asked.

"I thought you're the one with the plan here." Stocking said.

"Well, I did not expect this." Peni said.

"You dick wad. Oooo, cheesecake. Found it." Stocking opens a refrigerator and found (Yep, it's random) cheesecake, then starts eating on it.

"Soo, what is the plan heere?" Starky asked.

"Hmm. Maybe we can find something here that might take us back." Findley said.

"And how much of a chance will that be?" Mary asked.

"50/50." Findley said.

"That scares me." Mary said.

"Wait. I do have one thing." Peni goes to her storage cabinet, then finds a square box-like machine. "Found it." She grabs it out, then puts it on the ground.

"What is that?" Hestia asked.

"This is a dimensional box. This thing can open more than just one portal into dimensions." Peni said.

"Is it functioning?" Chiaya asked.

"Let's hope so, since I did not used it yet." Peni tries tampering with the thing, but got electrical bolts instead. She sighed. "Nope."

"Maybe it needs fixed." Findley said.

"Maybe." Peni said.

Reg senses something.

Harukasan notices this. "What's wrong, Reg?"

"I sense someone is here." Reg said.

Riko caught onto this. "Who?"

"I'm not sure." Reg said.

Peni's spider sense triggered. "Get down!"

An explosion has been caused on the side of the building they're in.

"What in the world is that?!" Kurumi asked, frightened.

"Goddammit. Someone's outside." Stocking said.

Later, the group got outside, with Peni riding her robotic suit, SP/DR. They then saw a girl flying above the sky.

This girl has grayish blond messy hair and blue eyes. She wears a greenish-brown long-sleeve shirt, black gloves, greenish-brown pants and black boots. This is Tanya von Degurechaff.

Tanya smiled. "Now that I have your attention. Sako Katagi. I thought I picked up your signal. You want to see your twin sister again, hmm?"

Sako gets angry. "You bastard! What did you done to Yuko?!"

"Oh please, don't give me that. I thought you would be happy to see her." Tanya said.

"And who are you?" Reg asked.

"I am Imperial Army 203rd Air Mage Battalion Second Commander Tanya von Degurechaff. Daughter of the Nazi Warlord, Irene Engel."

"Irene Engel. I heard about her." Peni said.

"Oh, so you do? Well then, she'll make good slaves out of you all." Tanya said.

"You're making me mad!" Kurumi said.

Tanya smiled sadistically. "Let's see how dead you all can be." She laughed sadistically. The young commander aims her gun at them and fires her bullet, to which it caused an explosion and the heroes are blown by the force of the explosion.

"I've never saw any gun like that before." Peni gets up, so as SP/DR.

"Give up yet?" Tanya asked.

"Pour some water on me." Harukasan said.

"What? But why?" Reg asked.

"Just do it!" Harukasan demands.

Reg looks at Harukasan in disbelief, then found a jug of water that is on the ground, then tosses the water inside the jug onto Harukasan.

"Multiply." Harukasan then multiplies into god knows how many Harukasans.

"What the hell is this? Well, doesn't matter. I'll kill you all then." Tanya grabs out her rifle and shoots at the Harukasans, to which some exploded.

"Come on! Fight!" Harukasan commands.

The Harukasans jumps up to Tanya, to which some of them bit on her, but she managed to knock some of them out, then throws them to the ground.

"You have to have more guts then that." Tanya laughed.

Hestia jumps up high, then calls upon the Holy Blade. "By the name of the Gods, give me the strength to wield the Holy Blade." A sword known as the Holy Blade is being made for Hestia.

"What the hell are you?" Tanya asked.

"I am the Goddess of the Hestia Familia."

"Goddess, huh? Interesting. I might kill you instead." Tanya points her rifle at Hestia and shoots at her, but she dodge every explosion, and then she strikes at Tanya, but the young commander dodged.

"We got to do something." Kurumi said.

"We already are." Harukasan said.

"Thought she needs some help." Someone came to them.

Mirim's eyes widened. "Is that...a ghost?"

It is a porcelain doll that wears a white long-sleeve dress and has dark red hair and dark eyes. Her face is almost darkened.

"I am the demon of Hell. I am...Annabelle Higgins."

"Hmph. I'll take care of you easily." Stocking takes off her shoe, then takes off her sock, then puts back on her shoe, then her sock transforms into a katana.

"Ha, you wanna fight me?" Annabelle asked.

"I am a fallen angel, bitch. And I kill demons and ghosts to redeem myself." Stocking said.

"Really? Is that how that works?" Annabelle then notices what Riko is carrying. Lyza's White Whistle. "The whistle. I hear it contains powers beyond imagining."

Riko looks at the White Whistle.

"Yes. Hand it over." Annabelle insisted.

Riko shook her head. "I'm not giving up my mother's White Whistle to you."

"Then die then." Annabelle said, demonically.

"That's it you damned piece of trash!" Stocking charges at Annabelle, to which the porcelain doll throws Stocking to the wall with supernatural force.

Annabelle then throws her hand to the air, to which thunder comes out of her hand, then clouds formed, to which a portal is about to opened.

"That's not good." Findley said.

"She's opening a portal to the ghost world." Stocking said.

"What do we do now?" Reg asked.

"You might need us in times of need."

Riko turns around to see who's saying that. "Who is that?" Then she felt a funny sensation on her right leg, then she turned around to see her leg. "Well hey there, little fella."

"What?" Reg goes to Riko and saw what's on Riko's leg. "What the-?"

Who's on Riko's leg is none other then Katy Caterpillar.

"Sorry about that. Thought you need some help. That's all." Katy said.

"How about getting off my leg?" Riko asked.

"If that's what you say." Katy crawls off of her leg.

"Kurumi." Saki came to Kurumi.

"Saki." Kurumi said.

"Let's go fight this off." Saki said.

Kurumi nodded, then the two Steel Angels goes to fight Annabelle off.

"Want some more?" Annabelle shoots out lightning bolts at the Steel Angels, but they dodged.

Mirim charges at Annabelle, then she swiped her Hyper Vibration Sword, to which it generated a strong wind, and it did hit Annabelle indeed, stopping the opening of the ghost world.

Stocking came to Annabelle. "Repent, motherfucker." She was about to stab Annabelle, but Tanya blew Stocking off with the bullet.

"Stocking!" Reg said.

Tanya grabs Annabelle. "You will not see the end of the daughter of Engel, Tanya von Degurechaff." She flew off with Annabelle in hand.

Paiman came to the heroes. "That's one misconcpetion here."

"Indeed it is." Katy said.

Reg and Riko turned to see the two.

"Who are you guys, anyways?" Reg asked.

"We're the Meta-Verse Department Agency." Katy said.

"I've heard of you guys before." Peni said.

Katy nodded. "There's a lot to do. Are you guys ready?"

"We are." Riko said.

"Then after that, that's when our journey begins." Reg narrates.

Ending theme

Daremo ga sakaraezu ni mogutte iku

Sono me o tomoshibi yori kagayakasete

Mesazu saki wa fukaku

Massugu ni mayoikomu

Kuchiaketa naraku no wana

Shinjitsu no ato o oikakeyou

Ima kotae ga mitsukaru nara zenbu nakushite mo ii

Sono koe o hanasanai you ni kodama ga mada hibiiteru

Rashiban wa zutto

Yami o sashita mama

Nigeba no nai hou e

Sore ga noroi demo

Kodou wa honmono

Nido to akogare wa tomaranai

These are the characters that appeared in this chapter:

Reg and Riko from Made in Abyss

Lirio from El Cazador de la Bruja

Peni Parker from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Findley from Lucas the Spider

Harukasan from Puchimas! Petit Idolmaster

Starky from Chrono Cross

Nozomi Moritomo, Yukina Kosaka, Ai Hibiki and Chiaya Misono from The Rolling Girls

Mary Smith from Mary and the Witch's Flower

Mirim from Queen's Blade Rebellion

Hestia from Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Sako Katagi from Criminal Girls

Azuki from Nekopara

Kurumi from Steel Angel Kurumi

Stocking Anarchy from Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt

Tanya von Degurechaff from The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Next time: Future World

And that's a wrap! That was fun introducing these new characters, especially Reg and Riko. That was the most fun I have. And yes, Tanya von Degurechaff is the new antagonist in Meta-Verse, so keep that in mind. The ending theme used in chapter is Deep in Abyss from the anime series Made in Abyss. Expect it as an opening theme to this arc soon, since it does fit since MIA characters are here. So yeah. Next time, there will be another portal incident with more people. And they're about to meet a certain magical plush toy.

See you all in the next chapter of Meta-Verse.