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The alliance is forced to deal with the brainwashed Cube monsters, going to the building and tactics. They're fed up with such horde, but two Seven-armored people flew to the rescue. It was the Mecha Strike Navigator and Mecha Strike Defender.
"Hey, we're back. Sorry for the wait!" The Navigator shouted.
"It's two of you!" The Cube Queen noticed. "Here to defy me again!?"
"It's you! You're both alive!" The Paradigm noticed. "We thought you all died!"
"This is your resident Looper trusted, times two?" Reiji asked.
"So they're the playable Looper you can customize!?" Deadpool is shocked. "Cross-reference incoming!"
"Armor on!" They put back armor with button push, becoming Mecha Strike Sentry and Mecha Strike Sentinel.
Then they landed stylishly, near the secret entrance which the Seven, Geno, and the Cube Queen just happened to be near to.
"That is our way in." Sentry spotted the entrance. "Hold them off!"
The alliance then went near to the entrace, which is exactly East of the (currently guarded) main entrance.
Both the Loopers revealed their battle prowess, being able to beat up multiple Cube Fiends at once, without too much effort.
A minute further, Sentinel threw four balls and have it cut through a large hole, opening the entrace and revealing a hatch leading to a (chromified) bunker. Anticipating all this, Thanos used the (stacked) Infinity Gauntlet to turns all the mechas and anything large than the said hole into a magical toy version far smaller in size, while the Ultras scaled themselves down to human size.
"Alright, everyone, fall back!" Sentinel told the entire alliance.
The entire alliance, sans the minor players, the soldiers and the (robotic) Canon Bringers, all entered.
"Area secured." Mecha Strike Sentry reported. "See you on the next stage."
The Sentinelflies off whileThe Sentryfollows the alliance into the bunker to safety.
"Zero Bomb, activate!" Then Sentry threw the Zero Bomb, made of Zero Point energy, and detonated it, blowing the entrace and destroying a lot of Cube monsters.
Everyone entered fell down to the bunk, which is really large.
"Everyone follow me, and be safe." Mecha Strike Sentry commanded.
"Now you're commanding us Seven." The Scientist noticed. "Also, how did you come here?"
"Agent Jones suddenly sent me a message, so I took note. And then, I suddenly saw you all in danger as well." Sentry explained. "I thought all of us died. And then, somehow, I got teleported with my Spawn Drone stuck in another world."
"Wait... Agent Jones!?" The agents of Shinra and Ouma are shocked.
"Agent Jones, one of my friends. He's indeed killed by a woman by the name of Genjitsu-no-Omnia." Sentry revealed. "Through the message, he told me that he has been brought back as a ghost, and is possessing a man named Gene, who's currently wielding the God Hands, the Imagine Breaker, and a Seven-type armor just like mine but implanted with the Zero Shard."
"He's back as a ghost!?" The alliance is shocked.
"Currently, he's evacuating various survivors, including the surviving Loopers, those people one would realistically find in crossover fanfictions, and of course, all while intercepting the project." Sentry continued. "He's currently accompanied by a Commander and his random omnipotent being."
"A Commander and his ROB?" Deadpool heard it. "Sound like something from certain self-insert fics."
"By the way, I survived every single cycle of Zero Point's destruction." Sentry revealed. "In nearly all the cycles, Omnia messes with the omniverse before she do the destroying."
"Have you seen Kyuju Kyu and Byaku Shin?" Saya asked. "They disappeared after the last cycle."
"You saw the Embryo entities!?" Sentry is suprised.
Parappa the Rapper shows Mecha Strike Sentry the original livestream. The agents pointed the appearance of both Embryo entities, while Saya explains the Embryo 101 project herself.
"And to boot, in the end, they merged into one being just to protect the Reality Tree." Reiji concluded. "Speaking of which, the Zero Point was destroyed because the said tree burned, detonating the energy and thus destabilizing the core itself."
"Oh, it's 15 minutes gone already." Sentry noticed it's 8:38 A.M.
"Zero Point exploded at the exact moment the being unleashed the Song of Rifts." Saya concluded.
"In other world, Zero Point exploded because it destabilized from the ignition of its energy, and the Song of Rifts had no effect against it." Sentry concluded. "Kyuju Kyu and Byaku Shin together are broken into 101 pieces, just like its initial defeat."
"You know what happened to those!?" Sheath is shocked.
"I read the files." Sentry responded. "Now, about the Zero Point..."
"Why didn't it automatically reconstruct itself, like every time before?" David asked bluntly.
"This time, at the end, the Bridge was completely destroyed for real, and neither the Imagined Order nor the Seven were there to control or counter it." Sentry revealed. "Without the Bridge, the Zero Point cannot contain itself in any way, and thus that spells the true end of Reality Zero. As a result, it's the Nothing that's left."
"Thankfully, we took the measure and held out the omniverse, so we managed to limit the damage to the rift itself." Ms. Continuum replied.
"Good job, the Continuum Exploitation Authority." Sentry responded back, and collapsed his helmet. "And now, we only have 5 minutes left."
"That's 8:40 A.M. already!" K.O. realized. "We have to act!"
Everyone ran together across the hallway beyond the bunker. A couple of tens of seconds later, they suddenly got teleported to Dr. Manhattan, who turns out to have just caught the Chrome magical girl.
"Dr. Manhattan!"
"Finally, I, and now we, caught you!" Dr. Manhattan told the Chrome magical girl.
They're in the bottom floor of the original Sanctum, just above the underground base. Peely recognized the place, and then, the alliance looked closely at the Chrome magical girl.
"You look like the Herald from the Nothing..." The alliance admitted. "Also, Cure Union is Ikue Higashi, who turns out to be... Fusion!"
"You...! Ugh! You know what!?" The Chrome magical girl have had it. "Fine! I'll reveal the truth!"
"I am the Herald. That Herald." She revealed, confirming the suspicion. "I spied this treacherous threat, pretending as a companion to Fusion, intending to liberate the reality from the inside out."
"I only acted like a threat I used to be because of two things: one, I got blessed and became a magical girl;" The Herald explained. "and two, I didn't want my cover to be blown up."
"Jones' watching you." Sentry revealed. "He's back as a ghost, and he's in a rescue spree."
"Heh, so you're the one who chromed so many of us." The Scientist told the Herald.
"Because all the remaining realities, Last Reality included, are all in danger..." Ms. Continuum offered. "You need to join us, the Herald from the Last Reality. You'll prove to be useful."
"Normally, you're not welcome." Mecha Strike Sentry told the Herald. "But just like us, you decided to destroy the one who broke the omniverse. Get ready together."
"The Nothing is broken, I have to fix all." The Herald detransformed, reverting to her usual form. "I'm going."
The Herald and Mecha Strike Sentry shaked their hands, and the former joins the alliance.
"20 minutes has passed. It's 8:42 A.M." Mecha Strike Sentry and Reiji both noticed. "We have 2 minutes left."
"Wouldn't it be faster to teleport?" Dr. Manhattan suggested.
"So be it!" David yelled.
Dr. Manhattan summoned all the Pretty Cures involved against Fusion. They have all recovered, and is ready to fight again. The entire alliance then teleported away.
On the outside, the black hole created by opening the crack has been agitated, and now pulsing. The winds is now as strong as the strongest of hurricanes. It is sucking the energy and the matter, including various terrain nearby not affected by the Chrome. Beyond the Edge, being protected by the atmosphere created with Zero Point energy, is immune to all this. However, several portals in the sky appeared near and alongside the main portal, has the terrains and energies there sucked by the black hole altogether. Zero Hell is coming to shape.
In addition, a rocket, like the ones that crashed into the Sideways Rift, emerged from the Chrome on top of the castle from Sanctum, and is about to launch.
"Zero PointOscillator on, Setting coordinates. Engaging quantum field accelerator."
"Blast off. To the Zero Hell."
"Destination: Another Artemis."
"Target: the Zero." *rocket aims to the black hole*
The rocket is about to launch. It's about to be 8:44 A.M. The alliance anxiously await the moment, looking at the updates through, all while teleporting across the base. (and destroying those sentries based on the Last Reality, wherever found in the way). Jonesy, Flame and Vivian finished the rescue, and is done with the current stage.
Soon enough, it's 8:44 A.M., the countdown started. The rocket is being warned up to fly.
"60... 59... 58... 57..."
"Less than a minute left..." Mecha Strike Sentry and Agent Jones said coincidentally. "Almost time...!"
"... 51... 50... 49... 48... 47... 46... 45..."
The threesome is running across the hallway of the based, while the alliance is teleporting down repeatedly.
"... 40... 39... 38... 37... 36... 35... 34... 33... 32... 31... 30..."
"C'mon...!" The alliance is coming.
"Next stop... The Blossom Portal!"
"25... 24... 23... 22... 21... 20..."
And finally, they and the rescued survivors have all arrived at the same time. This room is directly connected to the Junk room Jonesy sneaked in yesterday. Dr. Manhattan, having hijacked a camera besudes the rocket prior, and then projected the POV, revealing the rocket in near and the portal afar.
The room they're now in has a Zero Point portal in the center at the floor, all looking similar to the Bridge, but with the portal covered in a miniature, realistically-sized version of the Zero Bloom.
"We've arrived! Time to see..."
"... 16... 15... 14... 13... 12... 11..." As everyone watches the projection and the updates. The black hole caused the wind to be sucked in, now at its strongest.
"... 10... 9... 8... 7... 6..."
"... 5... 4..."
"... 3... 2... 1... Zero!" Exactly 8:45 A.M., The black hole finally reached its critical point, the side portals immediately closed, the main portal is left wide open, and the rocket launched.
The rocket flew straight to the black hole, and quickly hit it, crashing the whole void. The winds immediately ceased, and the black hole is temporarily frozen. A portal opposite to the main one appeared, and a meteor (saved by Omnia from a point in time) emerged from the portal (which closes afterwards, and it hit the black hole. This bursted the black hole, causing it to implode. This forcefully reconstructed the Zero Point, which thus spit out Reality Zero, restoring it.
This magically flashed amd recreated Artemis and the corrupted Apollo all at once, and set it in the start of sunrise. The view wowed everyone. Meanwhile, Genjitsu-no-Omnia walked outside, saw the results, and smiles in satisfaction.
"Zero Point... finally back, it's mine!" She rejoiced.
Mecha Strike Sentinel, meanwhile, just resisted the winds, and found Artemis. The island is indeed back, and it's a mixture: The terrain is the same as just before Chrome started taking over; there's the Collider (destroyed during the war between the Seven again the Imagined Order); the weather is the same as in its first day (notable for the west half of the land area being mostly covered in snow); Reality Tree and its root is fully alive, not yet withering; landmarks from eras before the Chrome appeared across the island, in their respective locations.
"The island is back." Mecha Strike Sentinel contacted. "Can you tell the alliance to drop into this island?"
"Whoa, thanks." Sentry replied. "Everyone, drop to the portal, it's showing the island!"
The alliance just finished, and they're surprised by the view.
"Enjoy it while you can. I'll tell you when it's time." Sentry then dropped.
"Ho, time to hang up in this island!" David is ready.
The entire alliance entered the portal below, and dropped to the remade Artemis. They all landed at the different points in the island, and went on to enjoy it for the rest of the day. And because the Bridge is restored, the Seven, Geno, Jonesy, Flame, Vivian and the new Investigation Team settled there for the time being. The island-ship went down and entered the main portal, entering the Reality Zero for the first real time (it still floated and tilted).
Everyone has enjoyed the island, and is happy to hang out with each other in various points. However, none of them are allowed to forget that this time, Artemis will be a temporary placeholder for Genjitsu-no-Omnia's plans, with its next step being flipping back to the heavily corrupted and submerged-to-the-point-of-beinghwashed-out side, Apollo... in precisely exact opposite tilting and falling down as the Cube Queen's original defeat.
At the night, the two main Loopers went to the Bridge. The entire group recalled everything that happened up to that point, starting from the true destruction of Zero Point, to its restoration. And then...
"All that hanging out was fun, but it's almost time." Sentry told the group.
"Yeah, that's right." The Foundation confirmed. "In the next morning, we wake everyone up, and everyone must get to the ship."
"I checked the controls so many times, and not only it's kinda broken from the flip, but it also locked out from us, even me." Geno, having checked the Apollo side. "This can only mean one thing..."
"The island will be flipped back." The Foundation revealed.
"Oh, and the current location of this island relative to this world, Reality Zero..." David noticed. "It's a perfect match to before the Zero Point got destroyed. Any placement deviations is in sub-microscopic levels."
"Wow, that just make the counter-flip even more ridiculous." The Foundation admitted.
"Indeed." Angela concurred.