Interlude: The Clockblockening
Vista and Clockblocker were both glaring at Shadow Stalker, not for the first time, as Kid Win finished an illicit modification to the Wards' Television, patching through a line to the cameras and bugs being used to monitor the latest incident with Akuma.
"Will you stop glaring at me!" the former vigilante demanded.
"Look at that!" Vista declared as she pointed to Akuma and the villains she had been given to reform as they began to fight Lung. "They are letting Akuma get away with murder-almost literally. I looked it up, Hellhound has killed at least three people and they're letting her get away with it because her team works for Akuma now."
"I don't know what you did to her," Clockblocker continued from where the Geomancer left off, "but she was almost a Ward. If it weren't for you, we'd be the ones getting away with everything."
"Why are you assuming that I did something to her?" Shadow Stalker countered.
"Becuase she had a panic attack when you showed up and recognized her," Gallant offered, "and then she told Director Piggot she had a history with one of us. Honestly, whatever it is you did you should probably apologize for it."
Shadow Stalker stomped off.
"Dennis?" Vista said, "does this count as movie night? Becuase if it does it's your turn to get the popcorn."
"But the girl in the penguin suit just said something about cyborgs," Clockblocker protested, "I want to see where that goes."
"It is your turn," Aegis reminded him. Sighing in defeat, Clockblocker got up from the couch and immediately stumbled into a patch of shimmering air that had not been there a second ago. The white armored hero felt a strong sensation of falling as he heard Vista swear, and then nothing.
Sometime Later
"I think he's waking up," said a voice that was dripping in heavenly cuteness. Dennis opened his eyes and noticed that his helmet had been taken off.
"Good," came an odd voice. Like the person was trying to be cute and gruff at the same time. "Ask him where he came from and why he landed on top of me."
"Beep boob beep," came a machine like voice, "scan complete, he's from a different Earth."
"I still can't believe that there's more than one," came yet another voice, somewhere between a mature woman and a brat.
"Is it really that surprising Ms. Etna?" came the cute voice again, "I mean, there are billions of netherworld's and human world, so is it really so strange that there'd be more than one Human World with the same name?"
Dennis sat up. "Um... Hello?" He took in the odd collection of characters around him-and noticed that two of them had the same demon-eyes and elf ears that Akuma did. "Um... I don't know what, exactly, happened but..."
"But you assaulted me," said the gruff but cute voice, belonging to a blue-haired boy... with a ridiculous haircut and a big-ass scarf. "Even if it was an accident, assaulting The Overlord cannot be forgiven so easily." Dennis did not like the look in the boy's evil eyes. "I'm looking for someone, and you'll pay for your crime by helping me find her."
And then something strange happened. Words appeared before Dennis's eyes: "Clockblocker became Overlord Laharl's Vassal against his will."
"Well, shit."