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"I am a ghost...?"
A ghost appeared in Genjitsu-no-Omnia's newest hideout. He's transparent, and he's... blonde? Wait...
"Where am I?" "Why I am teleported to this place...?"
The ghost traversed around, in the process finding out he can willingly phase through things and float himself. When he floats, his legs dissipated into an indistinct tail, but when he's walking, his legs is back.
"Oh, I can use that to advantage."
A while exploring the hideout, he found several unwanted stranger to him. None of them noticed him at all. He simply left.
Then he found Genjitsu-no-Omnia sitting around, typing on a certain computer...
"She's...!" The ghost recognized her.
Genjitsu-no-Omnia looked behind and around, but no, she didn't find anything. So she kept typing and... uh...
The ghost hid himself under the chair Omnia's sitting in.
"I can't let her notice me." The ghost whispered.
"Next step is... restore Reality Zero by reconstructing Zero Point." Genjitsu-no-Omnia then giggled, as she works on something.
Suddenly, Gridman appeared on the screen. The computer was the Junk used to summon Gridman in the need.
"What? Gridman!?" Genjitsu-no-Omnia is shocked.
"Stop toying with everyone's existences! What have they ever done to you to that point!? Why!?" Gridman questioned in desperation. "All they wanted was their existence to be taken granted of... You turn everything into a mess! Treat them all like garbages! These are our existences, and our will there! They're not some shit you can just mess with!"
"You shit." Omnia then casted Gridman away and kept working.
The ghost snooped behind, and looked at the screen. He's shocked to see it.
It was for the ultimate event... Operation: Zero Hell.
"Cast the Corrupted Apollo and fuse Reality Zero with the Last Reality." A note stuck on the computer screen.
"No way... She's actually abusing the Zero Point... as we know it!" The ghost realized.
The computer screen just then showed Agent Jones' face in the 'wanted' profile, alongside, all the members of Seven, Doctor Slone, Geno, the Cube Queen, and all the surviving Loopers.
"No... It's me..." The ghost looked at the profile, specifically Agent Jones'. "That's my face..."
Turns out, the ghost is actually Agent Jones, a.k.a. Jonesy. He's there because he's wandering as a ghost.
"So she's going to abuse Zero Point to no end..." Agent Jones realized. "Alright... I have to save the reality, no matter what!"
Agent Jones flew away without Omnia noticing.
Night, day 18...
"Oh, it's you, the ones who pushed me into Zero Point at one point..." Geno in recovery.
"Father, we have some... suspicious news." The Imagined reported.
"According to the calculations between what we found out, virtually all results so far all points to Genjitsu-no-Omnia planning to reconstruct Zero Point." The Order reported.
"Oh really!?" Geno is excited.
"This isn't good news." The Order corrected her father. "She reconstruct Zero Point to... abuse it."
"What!?" Geno is shocked. "Abusing the Zero Point!?"
"Based on what we extracted, the next step for her is to merge Reality Zero with the Last Reality." The Imagined discussed. "She's doing this as a step for her to seize the omniverse to rule it all as an exceedingly transcendent figure."
"Yeah, and the accuracy for this one is surprisingly..." The Order continued. "... insane, at over 90.00%!"
"Unbelievable..." Geno responded.
The alliance, Shinra and Ouma working with the Continuum Exploitation Authority, has learned of Genjitsu-no-Omnia's next plan.
Day 18, the alliance went to the remains of Reality Zero, and used the stacked Infinity Stones and the eight Crystals to create a orbiting island that doubles as the mothership for the alliance to set in, report and observe the things there. They dubbed it Beyond the Edge, naming suggested by David and the Investigation Team and Elizabeth. The orbiting island took inspiration from Athema, Apollo and Artemis for the terrains and layouts, complete with various locations created from salvaging various remains of Reality Zero, plus enhancements by the Last Reality. At that day, the scavenging is complete and various iconic and important locations and landmarks from Reality Zero was recreated. The same black sphere found in Athens Daybreak was reconstructed and repurposed for observation of realities, and the Library was integrated as well.
Day 19, the alliance finished construction, recruited more peoples and creatures, and started observing. The new Investigation Team also decided to search for the surviving Loopers, with Kirby, the Sephira and the Seven joining in.
"Lucy, I swear we will save the reality." David vowed.
"Ok, so we're going to find the surviving Loopers." The Foundation discussed. "We've found two potential rifts that potentially yields survivors."
Kirby is amused, though the Imagined calls it down. "C'mon!"
"The two potential rifts are around the certain coordinates." The Paradigm suggested. "Which should lead to either Dr. Manhattan or Ikue Higashi."
"Let's go to Dr. Manhattan." Jumpson suggested. "There's something mysterious about his appearance."
"Why else?" David asked.
"Oh, during the incident directly involving Aionios, Dr. Manhattan seems to have spotted the Herald." Jumpson discussed about Dr. Manhattan's appearance in Aionios. "He said the Herald as a magical girl?"
"Well, then yeah. We have to find out." David concurred. "As for Ikue Higashi... well, she most likely hunts whoever Dave any Loopers so..."
"I find Dr. Manhattan to be far more trustworthy then that Cure that never existed." The Origin concluded. "Combined with the mysterious truth and the likelihood to find survivors, we're going to find Dr. Manhattan."
"Ha! I'm completely correct for once!" Jumpson exclaimed.
"Huh?" Malkuth looked at Viola, Hoshimatsu, new Ben Tennyson, K.O. and the Cube Queen.
"Sorry, we're late." Hoshimatsu apologized.
"Don't worry, you're welcome." The Foundation told them.
"We're here because we're told to accompany you all." Viola explained. "Rodin gave us that mission."
"Oh, so the Infinite One?" David noted.
"Yeah, and you, once promised to destroy Reality Zero..." The Origin responded to the Queen.
David took out the phone. "This was Miss Urashima's phone, but she entrusted it to me."
David turned the phone to Pixel 7, and 'Hey Google' to open a portal.
"I'm using the coordinates we decided." David shown. "Let's go."
They all entered the portal.
At those coordinates...
"Yukimura Sanada! We have more mysterious... cube!" A German solider from year 1942 warned Yukimura.
Several soliders from year 1942, mainly World War II, is approaching various Cubes.
"Another mysterious Cube." Yukimura noticed.
Yukimura then noticed a shade and then wore it before he approached a Cube.
As the solider approached those purple Cubes, the said Cubes suddenly activated, and rolled one step, crushing some soliders in the front.
"What's these cubes?" Yukimura has no idea. "Never seen those cubes before."
Dr. Manhattan appeared behind Yukimura.
"Yukimura Sanada, this is what happens when some Cubes corrupt a world." Dr. Manhattan told the brave Samurai Warrior. "That world may go berserk."
"However, because of the recent rifts occurring in nearly three weeks, the Cubes became more volatile and thus corrupts even worse." Dr. Manhattan continued. "These Cubes basically overclocked themselves since a threat took control of it."
Yukimura looked around...
"I am Doctor Manhattan, in case you don't know who I am." Dr. Manhattan introduced himself. "I'm not from your world."
Members of Wei are shown fending off the Cube Fiends, with Sima Yi and Masamune Date assisting in the survival. Dr. Manhattan pointed at this scene for Yukimura to show the struggle.
"This is like Fortnite again, but over the limit." Dr. Manhattan described.
A Cube Field attacked from behind, but Yukimura countered.
"Good luck with your survival." Dr. Manhattan is about to teleport away.
"I have a question... where am I?" Yukimura asked Dr. Manhattan.
"Gamindustri." Dr. Manhattan teleported away.
Yukimura then joined in the survival and destroyed the Cube Fiends in the way. In the meantime, an mysterious goddess in shades of orange, red and purple in standing on the top of a Cube, watching over the whole thing. She's holding two crystals: a golden and dark red crystal, showing things from Koei-Tecmo, and a multicolored crystal showing things from Idea Factory, Compile Heart and Nippon Ichi.
"I wonder how will they handle this..."
Out there, the group has arrived. They looked around and saw a lot of Cubes.
"These were my Cubes..." The Cube Queen recognized. "Those Cubes was among the instruments for me to invade that one reality and bust the island. However..."
Cue the flashback of the moment Apollo flipped to reveal Artemis. The Origin and the Foundation understood the meaning and the time of it.
"This is the first time I seen the Cube in person since the destruction of Zero Point." The Cube Queen took her staff and...
"Wait, wait!" Go-Tsu as Zenkaiser caught up.
"That Goshikida... Hey, Go-Tsu!" David noticed.
"Who are you?" The Cube Queen doesn't know.
"Goshikida-Tsuiker." David replied. "One Zenkaiser."
"Jason Voorhees is chasing some peoples from the Three Kingdoms, and I need you to capture him!" Go-Tsu told them. "Because I need informations about what happened to the Goddess-"
David activated Sandevistan and ran to Jason Voorhees. Moments later, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Jason Voorhees are offered to Go-Tsu.
"Tokugawa shogunate as a bonus?" System No. XX responded. "Nice."
David took a picture from Jason, and saw something unsightly.
The main CPUs in their human forms... except with dull eyes.
Note: The CPU in Neptunia/Neptune stands for Console Patron Unit, not Central Processing Unit. (Similarly, HDD in that franchise stands for Hard Drive Divinity, not Hard Disk Drive.)
"Neptune, Noir, Blanc and Vert..." David looked at the picture. "I don't even remember they look remotely as lifeless as that."
"I can sense it." System No. XX knew it. "This picture must be the Dark CPUs in their human form."
"What!?" The others are shocked. "We thought the Dark CPUs are freaking large!"
"Those unusually dull eyes indicates Negative Energy potentially flowing through the subject, as of the moment of this picture being originally taken." System No. XX explained. "Dark CPUs existed because Kurome Ankokuboshi has Negative Energy."
"The human forms are basically human-sized, so this can't be right..." Go-Tsu commented.
"Now we got a new mission." Viola responded. "Not just finding the surviving Loopers, but also to find the CPUs!"
"Remember, the Cubes devours and corrupts." The Cube Queen shouted, warning everyone.
The group then traversed together, on the way and found various solider and warriors from several points in historical time.
After a while of travelling, the group met another group. It was the Three Kingdoms warriors and the Warrind States ones gathering together. And a certain Ultraman...
"I met those when I approached Pandora." Go-Tsu noted.
"Ultraman Zero!?" David is surprised to see it.
"Hey, cyberpunk!" Ultraman Zero took notice.
The group gathered around and settled here. David decided to show the picture of CPUs.
"We've heard of rumors of the so-called Dark CPUs taking over the Gamindustri and spawned some... cubes to corrupt that world." Cao Cao explained the rumors.
"That's my cubes, from the Last Reality!" The Cube Queen revealed.
"You... you know about those!?" Cao Cao is shocked.
"We're trying to find the CPUs." System No. XX continued. "Neptune, Noir, Blanc, and Vert. And friends."
"We're trying to find out about the rumors." David continued.
"Wanna join forces?" Angela offered the warriors. "And let's blend in the soliders."
"You can control the cube monsters, preventing them from attacking and destroying unless told to, can't you?" Gebura questioned the Cube Queen.
"Very well. I have the power, and that's what you'd need." The Cube Queen replied.
David gets a phone call from Captain Velvet Meteor.
"Hello?" David picked up.
"Do you have Jumpson accompanying?" Velvet Meteor asked.
"Here." David let Jumpson make the call.
"What's up?" Jumpson asked.
"We found the coordinates for the Reality-2147483647!" Captain Velvet Meteor reported. "That's where Genjitsu-no-Omnia is hiding, based on the calculations, and its 99.99% accurate!"
"Wait... I decided between two coordinates, and I chose one that led to Gamindustri, which is where I am alongside my pals." Jumpson replied. "So... you're talking about the coordinates that I saved for later!?"
"Wait, how did you know?" Velvet Meteor asked.
"The Foundation, the Paradigm, the Scientist and the Origin calculated the coordinates for us to find the surviving Loopers." Jumpson explained. "The two coordinates we got are the most prolific ones for the time being."
"Which means... Ikue Higashi is in Reality-2147483647!?" Jumpson is shocked.
"Wow! Holy moly!" Jay-P is surprised.
"We'll get more infos later, as we research the hideout on the Velvet Wonder and more." Captain Velvet Meteor is about to hangs up. "For now, see ya!" *hangs up call*
David takes back the phone, and... *awkward silence*
"Basically, the next reality we will explore turns out to be where Genjitsu-no-Omnia is currently hiding." System No. XX noted. "Reality-2147483647."
"Apparently our current road apparently involve Dr. Manhattan, who was involved in Aionios." The Foundation noted. "Has anyone met him?"
Nobody admitted, except Yukimura, who aaid that he met Dr. Manhattan a couple tens of minutes ago.
"Go find CPUs and the survivors!" The Sephira shouted.
The group then continued to search for CPUs and the surviving Loopers. Unbeknownst to them all, the same mysterious goddess is watching from afar.
"Damn... they're finding the survivors..." The mysterious goddess reported to Genjitsu-no-Omnia.
"Well then! Stadia, the Streaming Heart..." Genjitsu-no-Omnia commanded. "Take the Dark CPUs and exterminate those threats and all the survivors!"
"I'll do it." Stadia, as Streaming Heart. "I'm going to wake all the Dark CPUs up."
Streaming Heart then ran and jumped across on top of the Cubes, and speeded toward.
"The CXA... that alliance... Empress Zero shall exterminate all and rule everything as one truly transcended supreme omni-deity!" Stadia went away.
To be continued...