Tales of The Cosmic War EXE Vol: The Secret War Beyond Good and Evil!

by Darth Necron

Five years after Ben Auro saved the universe from Chaos Zannacross Necron he is still helping try to guide the people to a better place alongside his lover Lacus Raystar. However they must reunite with their friends Mario,Cloud Strife, and others as everything they work for is threatened to unravel at the hands of the reality-destroying Incursion at the hands of the Beyonder!

5. Chapter 205: The Link Between Dimensions

Chapter 205: Realignment of the Fractured Paths, the Deep Dive to the Link Between Realms.

After just a few more minutes of waiting Ben and Lacus lead everyone to the main audience chamber of the Enji Knights. From their Ben said hello to King Atem and others, before everyone made sure that no one was secretly listening in to make sure no one would leak the news and cause the masses to panic.

As everyone got seated Ben got ready, and with Lacus, Hiryuumon, Zelda, Megaman X, and a few others at his side he cleared his throat before smiling to everyone. " Hey everyone, thanks for coming on such short notice. I promise the urgency is warranted, hate to say it but we got a big problem that we all have to take care of before everything we worked for is endangered."

Atem was one of the many who tensed up at hearing that before the leader of the Lylat Kingdom cleared his throat." Ben…I know your intentions are sincere but I admit we are more than a bit disturbed hearing that there is a crises that might be on the level of Chaos Zannacross Necron. How…is that even possible? Did we assume wrongly about the totality of are victory over evil with Zannacross 's defeat?"

"No, your majesty, we were not misled. All off the people in the history of the universe that were dominated by the darkness in their hearts are indeed gone, there is no hidden group of demons causing trouble if that's what you're thinking.

But, there is still a grave threat, a threat no one expected because it has been inactive since before the universe itself was fully formed. However, even if this threat is not technically a being of darkness, it's still the biggest threat to the universe since Zannacross.

That's because in about one week, this threat, the first offspring of Cosmos and Zannacross, the being called the Beyonder, will attack the universe, and will destroy it, along with Heaven, and everything else there is in existence."

As the owner of the Star Sword expected, more than half the room quickly looked pale. A few others like Doug reacted casually to the revelation, while Ezan's formed squad mate the blond man with a monkey tail Zidane Tribal just raised an eyebrow before he burst out laughing. "Man…that's a good one Ben! You can drop it though we all know you guys really came here to announce you and Lacus are getting married at last, right?

Right? I mean, that's just crazy, five years of peace and some random dude shows up and is powerful enough to just blow everything that exists up like that? And, that nearly sounded like you came back from the future! C'mon man that's going to be a fun story at the wedding but you put too much effort into it! Am I right guys? Right?"

Zidane looked around and saw few looked humorous at all before Lacus sighed and walked forward. "Sorry Zidane…I know it's a lot to take in but this is the truth. Me, Ben, Hiryuumon, and a few others are back from the future. Its only because of the efforts of Cosmos's agents like the Supreme Kai of Time seeing that the situation was so dire that they risked turning back time for us to advert the apocalypse."

As many of the two's friends exchanged troubled glances a pillar of light appeared before Gabriel, The Supreme Kai, Thor, Alcor, and a few other angels stepped out of the holy vortex.

As they did Gabriel sighed. "I assure you this is no exaggeration my friends. Because of Cosmos's blessing we angels could retain our memories despite time's regression. I know it's hard to accept but the existence of the Beyonder, and the grave threat he presents is very…very real."

From there the celestial ones retold the story Cosmos told everyone before about the Beyonder, his unstable nature, his power, his banishment, and the theories of how he awoke. When they finished Doug just tipped his hat." God damn it, you angels and your kill joy secrets really love to kill the mood eh? That does sound like it would be a rather big pain.

Can't even image someone being able to destroy everything faster than Zannacross after how he was supposed to be the biggest nastiest villain there is. Unless that was just a joke to eh?"

Before anyone could go on T4-X5 walked up to Ben before swerving its head around." It's understandable that such an outcome is hard to swallow Doug Fitter. However, the Tri-Edge recorded some of the battle that took place when the Beyonder's forces attacked, and miraculously the footage is intact even after traveling through time and space. Not everything was captured but it's enough to give you all the gist of it. "

Max's former droid proceeded to have a large monitor materialize, before it showed the battle with the Beyonder's forces. Everyone got to see glimpse of the battle, including Super boy Prime, "Goku" Midora, and the other Black Swans and Dimensional Nihilo Generals.

Only glimpse of the Chaotic Comedian could be seen, before the focus was on the Beyonder.

Even though most of the Enji Knights were those who were no strangers to horror, many of them could not help but feel despair as the Beyonder easily overpowered everyone and shattered the universe.

Squall Lionheart saw the recording end and just closed his eyes." So there really is someone as powerful as Zannacross and can just create his own minions out of thin air? Well…that's…really annoying."

Cloud grasped his fist tightly before the man with Mako eyes got up. "I give you credit for keeping your cool Squall but that's putting it lightly. Ben…Lacus…you guys went through hell and back yet again it seems. At least, now we know what's in store. But, do we know how to stop this Beyonder Ben?"

Ben winced before he looked down. "Well as you heard…the Beyonder has power on par with Cosmos and Zannacross, but not skill. Cosmos said it did not fully understand the nature of the universe, we managed to escape because he thankfully does not seem to understand time well.

He was defeated before by getting in essence lobotomized, but somehow or another that seems to have worn off. To be honest…its clear something changed with all he did but, we just have to be careful. We only have one shot, and everything is on the line."

Ezan eyed Ben carefully before his expression hardened." If that's the case, I assume Cosmos gave you and Lacus your full power to ensure you could have the strength to properly oppose this Beyonder?"

Ben looked troubled before Lacus walked forward. "Regretfully…as big a threat as this is, the fact remains that if the Divine Mugen Nova or the Golden Imperia Crystal are moved from where they are there is a good chance that Zannacross could break free. The risk of ending one nightmare only for another to take its place is too high, but Cosmos is working on a backup method, it's just not ready yet."

James winced as he glanced at the data he was given so far." So, we don't even have our best cards so to speak? To be frank Ben, that's not a lot to work with."

"No kidding man." Doug threw out as he snickered." Crossing your fingers that everything will work out is dandy when the stakes are not high, but it's a rather sick joke when everything is at stake and you're just winging it! To be honest Ben, not sure what's the use telling us doomsday is knocking when you don't seem to have any way to stop it or hell, even any idea where he is planning this doomsday party?!"

"C'mon Doug give me some credit." Ben countered as he threw out a sly grin." Our odds are not great but it's not hopeless. For one, we do have a lead. It's not an absolute lead but it's something."

Ben glanced at Alcor, before the white-haired angel nodded. "The Shinning One is correct. It's not a direct lead to the Beyonder himself but the previously seamlessly harmless activity on the world of Rieze Maxia might be a lead."

The angel went on to explain what Cosmos told Ben's group before, about how the various corporations were working together to use the machine Access Ark to travel across realities for peaceful purposes.

After the angels finished their explanation James looked at the data intently." I've worked with both Reed Richards and President Bisley, both men are passionate about science. Haltmann can be a bit eccentric but, he is not as consumed with greed as someone like Weil Zabi."

Doug snickered as he leaned forward." Guess he would have to be since every bad dude and gal went poof when we owned Zannacross right? Still, if one of these egg heads let this Beyonder punk in to wreck everything maybe that's not the case."

Master Myers grasped his sword carefully before he sighed. "It's entirely possible they opened some sort of gateway by mistake. Regardless…we must go to Access Ark to find whatever lead we can. A Enji Knight Milla Maxwell is native to Rieze Maxia along with a few others.

Also, the Enji Knight Reiji Arisu has been ensuring that the people were safe as well. We will contact them to get an understanding of the situation, and quickly mobilize. We could use more Intel…but alas this time speed is of the essence."

Doug shrugged before he cracked his neck." Sure, as hell seems like we don't have time to mess around. That being said, if this dude really is strong as Zannacross then when it comes down to it what the hell are most of us going to do other then be cannon folder?"

Ben winced before he went up to Doug." C'mon man you know it's not like that. If the Beyonder unleashes those generals again, we will need people having to watch our backs."

Ezan grasped his sword tightly before throwing out a cold," A true warrior does not run from a challenge Fitter. Or have you forgotten your warriors pride?"

This caused Doug to burst out laughing before throwing out a brash, "You forget I never had a warrior's pride dude? I'm no coward of course. I have my pride as a man. That being said…just not keen on a sucker's bet yah hear? Still…your barking mighty hard Ezan, trying to hide how rusty you gotten with nothing to do?"

The sliver haired man gave Doug a frosty look before he walked forward." It's true I was in a weakened state after recovering from the gene altering operation. But if you forgotten the difference between us Fitter I'll be all too happy to remind you as a warm up for the mission."

"Funny…I was thinking the same thing Ezan. But I'm all too happy to make you see you can't look down on me forever!"

Ben tensed up seeing the anger in Doug's eye before Aqua got between the two men." I know we are all tense but don't be such men about it! Doug…Ezan…we have only one enemy to focus on, right?"

Ezan paused before Doug just snickered and throw out a wry," What can I say Aqua other than being guilty for being a man? I know who I am, do you know who I am? Just not fond of people who don't know what they are acting like they aren't eh?"

The red colored midget Enji Master Zoda walked up before clearing his throat. "Rusty…many of us are. But even if we are not all in are prime, do what we can, we must."

Myers nodded before he walked forward. "Indeed, old friend. I know not all of us are in the shape we were at the end of the war. I must concede that even I lowered my training regimen when I thought there would be no more serious fighting. Never the less…we must all do what we can to ensure justice prevails. My fellow warriors of light, can I count on you to do what we can to protect all that we have fought for?"

The Enji Knight from the Kingdom of Baron, Cecil Harvey, looked determined before he stepped forward. "With all our homes on the line we don't have much real choice in the matter yes? No matter how powerful this enemy is, no matter how far beyond his power is to ours for the sake of everything we have to at least try!"

Megaman grasped his fist tightly before he patted X on the back. "You and my brother may have had to fight these crazy guys alone before Ben, but this time we got your back!"

Cloud nodded before he went up to Ben." I can't let Tifa…Tiffany and everyone else down no matter what. Ben…I'll do what I can to help ensure the mission is complete."

As the two shook hands the former student could not help but grin."So, I guess this makes for an official Squad 7 reunion eh?"

Ben saw James nod, before he, James and Cloud all looked at Doug. The blond-haired man just shrugged before forming a half-lopped smile. "What the hell, if this is going to be a pain might as well get the band back together."

Master Myers saw how excited Ben looked before he took a deep breath." Glad to know you all are still willing to act on behalf of the order's creed. May the force of light be with us all.

Alright, I will contact Milla, Renji, and the other Enji at once and we will formulate a plan. Get ready to leave within the hour everyone.

The angels will use their magic to warp us to Rieze Maxia nearly instantly, every moment counts since we don't know how far along the Beyonder is in his plot. Yet at the same time, we must be precise as much as we be swift. We don't want to alert are foes, or get the people to become alarmed and start packing."

Atem nodded before he looked down. "I'll alert Bisley to inform him that I want the Enji to have a photo op to showcase to the universe how much progress we have made since the war is over. That should surface to keep most people calm."

Doug saw Ben and the others nod before he chuckled again." This effects everyone but the common folk are too dumb to know what's going on eh?"

Myers saw a sudden hostility in Doug's eyes before he stroked his beard." It's not like that Doug. After all we went through you must understand how knowing something that they are powerless to change won't help most.

It could be as disastrous as during the time when Zannacross declared his countdown to Armageddon, though at least this time no one would hopefully transform into a Necrocalcous out of despair."

"Tsc…so treating people however you want is just ok if it's for their" "own good""? Nah I get you Grand Master, most would freak out when a doomsday comes knocking. No matter how hard you want to change people, people are people. Might as well just quit the grandstanding and accept it."

"We must always hope for the best, even when people time and again give in to their weakness. After all, to lose the ability to hope for a better tomorrow would mean…GAH!"

Myers suddenly felt something and started to cough violently. In an instant Ben was at his side before the chosen warrior blurted out a worried." Master Myers! Are you ok? What's wrong?"

The leader of the Enji stopped coughing after a few seconds and after catching his composure smiled weakly."No worries, just got the throat tickled. A bit embarrassing but I suppose in the past five years I allowed myself to think we really reached an era void of fear and lowered my guard."

Doug grimaced before throwing out a strained." Take it easy Master Myers, stressing over what you can't control never helps right? We just got to roll with it."

"That's right," Ben added confidently as he grasped the man he seen as a second father." We will just react to how fate unfolds best we can right? Even if it's slow, some day we will get people to truly change, and have society evolve to where we solved everything. Just can't lose are way, and let madmen from outside the universe wreck everything!"

Doug rolled his eyes before throwing out,"I'll agree on not letting some punk kill me for now. Eh, we have enough time to eat, right? Hope the café has not slacked off after the war's over."

The blond-haired man waved before walking away. Ben saw him and Aqua start to talk before James walked up to him." Well…can't help but feel a tad nostalgic. Let's just hope this reunion is not a tragic one."

"We got hope," Lacus said as she walked up. "And we are not as much in the dark as we were previously. This time we will be the one to give are enemy a surprise."

"Indeed." James added." We will send teams to Bajor and the other planets that were listed, and triple security around here. All that remains, is to see if knowing what's coming will be enough to change things."

Ben saw that Doug and Aqua were arguing, before he saw Doug about to shout at Axel before the three saw others were looking at them before Doug marched off. He and Lacus looked at each other before they grasped their hands." Guess we will see James…despite how pressed for time we are, we got to make sure we understand things as best as we can. Something tells me, just one mistake will be enough to ruin everything."

The three proceeded to catch up with their comrades and get a bite to eat before getting ready to once more try and save the universe.

After calling both of their parents to make sure they were ok and to tell them they might be too busy to call for the next week, before heading to the docking bay. There the couple saw their friends waiting for them near the Neo-Highwind, and as Ben once more saw Cloud and many of his other friends the owner of the Star Sword tried to look in control as he looked around." How are things looking Cloud?"

"Things are looking good to go unless there is something on your end." The former member of AVALANCHE retorted."

"Ah good just checking. The Tri-Edge is docked so let's get going everyone." Hiryuumon looked excited before yelling out," Alright we get to do super-hero stuff again!"

Ben's Digimon pal high fived Yoshi Cloud's friend the blond haired ace pilot Cid Highwind walked off his airship's docking plank." Alright boys and girls, better make sure you have everything you need because this bird's ready to fly!"

Ben and Lacus nodded before they went with the others into the ship. Soon the Enji Knights and their allies begin to take off, and went to space so that the angels could warp the fleet to Rieze Maxia.

As the ship left the capital planet's atmosphere Ben noticed Doug looking outside one of the windows, and noticed he was looking anxious. Ben saw no one else was around before he went over to his friend and cleared his throat." Hey Doug, where is Aqua and Axel?"

Doug shrugged before throwing out an indifferent." Aqua wanted to catch up with some of her friends so she went on that Mega-Fauna. We already talked about everything worth talking about so figured why the hell not right?"

"Fair enough. So…how things been going? Ah that's right…last time we talked your brother had a kid right? Hope he is doing well."

"Thanks man, his kid's growing well."

"Glad to hear it. That's right, you were trying to find some of your family, right? Any luck with that?"

"Depends on what you mean as luck dude. I found where they are…and found out everyone aside from my brother on that side is dead."

Ben saw how casual Doug was as he said that before he winced." What, really? My god…I'm so sorry Doug. How is that possible?"

"Heh…think no one is going to feel pain in your new world dude? Before you start freaking out Ben…found out they all died right when things were going down with Zannacross. Not like I was their but…sounds like they just panicked and let their emotions get the best of them.

But hell…not like I was that close with my folks on that side since they ditched me and my mom and hid halfway across the universe just to not have to pay child support. But, that's life. C'mon, forget how much I hate drama right? Just missed out on getting to gloat that's all."

"Well…sorry all the same. Oh right, how has Gouken been? I remember last time your master's health was getting worst."

"He's getting slower but, he's a old dude so what you expect? Even the more hard core old dudes start feeling old over time if they ant cheating. Honestly, I have not talked to him in a while. For all Gouken helped me, we were never tight as you were with Cloud, Master Myers and your other teaches Ben, not everyone clings to the guy they want to be their father yah hear? Some don't need a father, I never did.

Besides he never stops ragging on me to be his official successor to his dojo. Dude just can't expect that was never what I wanted out of life. Tsc…he's just one of many who can't expect how I want to do things."

"I see…well hope you guys can reach a understanding before it's too late. So… how's the business been going? You and Aqua making any progress?"

"Progress? How many times I got to pound it through your thick head that it's not about progress with me man. I'm not like you and Lacus…I'm not out on some never-ending quest to make the perfect world I'm just out to have a good time from one job to the next with as little hassle as possible! Damn it you keep spouting the same better tomorrow stuff that it even got into Aqua's head!"

"Huh? What are you talking about with Aqua...Doug?"

Doug winced before he turned around." Nothing worth talking about man. If you don't mind, going to hit the can before we do some warping."

Ben nodded, and as Doug left he heard footsteps before he saw Ezan walking up from his right. He then realized Doug saw Ezan to and just grinned." Hey Ezan…I am glad to see your looking back to your old self, I can feel it. But if you want to ask for a rematch I'll have to ask to wait till we complete the mission. Think of it as an extra incentive to live eh?"

"Despite what you may think I know my priorities." Ezan threw out dryly." And it sounds like this mission will be more than enough to test how rusty I really am. I in fact came to want to know just how much you know about are enemies."

"Heh…with your eyes you want to study on your opponent before the match eh?"

"Well if studying helped a fool like you it clearly does wonder for a true super elite."

"Can't beat the facts. Well I did not have time to see everyone with how fast it was. As the data showed…some of this Beyonder's minions looked like guys we fought along side with. One guy was like a younger punkish Kal-El, another was a guy who looked like Goku...but acting nothing like him.

They were both powerful, and I'm not sure they were going all out. I only saw one other minion for any long period of time, the Chaotic Comedian. Aside from the Beyonder, he might be the most dangerous of them all so far."

"His power was that much greater then yours?"

"Not quite…if I was not already worn down fighting the others I should have been able to defeat him. Ezan…the recordings did not show it but right before the Beyonder himself appeared we damaged the Chaotic Comedian enough to destroy part of his mask.

The face…the face looked like Doug's. He was bald, and his skin was pale white nearly like how I was when…when Idious had control of me. But, I could see his face was the same."

Ezan eyed Ben carefully before he glanced at the direction Doug left." Your saying Fitter was fighting to destroy everything? For as poor as his temper is…I'll admit it's a stretch to think he would suddenly want to see everything burn.

The angels had the theory that the Beyonder could recreate individuals based off their memories yes? It's entirely possible a clone of Doug was created, or that he was powerful enough to brainwash him."

"It is possible but, there was something else Ezan. Not only did he fight like Doug in ways, he fought like he had a real grudge. It could have been artificial, forced form an outside influence, but the rage felt so real. I don't know, it happened so fast that I admit I can just be overthinking things as usual."

Ezan closed his eyes before he took a deep breath." Perhaps…but your thoughts may not be as aimless as you may think Auro. I did not want to bring this up with all that's going on but, there have been some issues with Fitter over the past year."

"What? What are you talking about Ezan?"

"As your aware Fitter's job is delivering whatever his client wants him to get. Sometimes, he has clients that want him to get things even if it's not a…ethical request. My father has gotten reports that Doug has stolen various things from various worlds. Most of the time its trivial, an object from one rich individual's vault or another. However, he has also "nabbed" landmarks.

When pressed on the matter he says he is only giving people back what was taking from them in the past by oppressive individuals like Weil Zabi. It is true that Weil robbed from millions in the name of securing the power of the Zeon Federation.

However,…even if it's true that people were wronged there is a proper protocol for such things…and Doug's methods are crude to say the least. All the truly evil individuals died when we defeated Zannacross, those that Doug pillages for the sake of his business contracts may be greedy but, not ruthlessly so.

He is causing needless trouble; my father has been trying to not bring to much attention to it to not cause a public debacle. However, if he keeps being brazen about instigating people in the name of his "own" justice then at some point he will have to answer for his callous behavior."

Ben tried to not look to shaken as his rival revealed some of what Doug had been up to, but as Ezan finished Ben could not help but look troubled." Doug is really robbing things from people and causing incidents? Why? Why would he be so careless?"

"Fitter always was reckless but this does seem to take it to a whole new level. I…inquired to some of the other Enji he still talked to. From what I gathered from those like Yuri Lowell…they said that Doug is keen on living by his own justice…even if it contradicts what those around him see as justice.

Aeris talked to Aqua recently, it would seem she is frustrated as well, and that Doug seems keen on pushing what he can get away with to feel "alive". Says life's a joke if you're not afraid to live it on your own terms, the usual rantings about freedom really."

"I did not need to have Sharingan eyes to see that Doug's relationship with Aqua is looking a tad…stressed...at the moment. I guess Doug's pushing things at the moment, pushing things far more then he would like to admit. Still…I would hope even those bad things would not be enough for anyone to suddenly decide to think universal genocide is a laughing matter."

"No sane person would have such dark humor. Fitter may run his mouth, but as vulgar as he can be at times, we all know where his loyalties lie. Don't lose sight of what's at stake Auro. If this Beyonder could create clones just from looking at the memory of the universes timeline, it's entirely possible this is all an act to shaken your resolve.

That being said…Fitter's behavior is erratic enough to be cause for concern. Even if he would not do something willingly, it's within the realm of possibility he could cause something devastating out of one rash action."

"True…but I don't want to condemn my friend just because its possible he could do something wrong. Just…keep an eye on him during all this ok? Don't want to tell to many and all."

"Mission…accepted."

Ben smirked and was about to say more before he saw his surroundings turn white and realized they had entered hyperspace. Cid then came up on the intercom to boom out." Don't you all sit down for lunch or something, thanks to the angels we are going to start landing in about a minute! If you need to use the can better use it now!"

Ben just chuckled before he looked around." Guess I'll have to cut down on the inner monologuing…there is no time for that. Alright, time to see just what is going on in this Spirius Corporation. I…oh?"

Ben saw a planet appear as the Neo-Highwind emerged from the turbo hyperspace portal the celestial ones constructed. For a moment, he thought he saw the world's moon. Then he realized what he thought was the moon was a giant sphere like machine with five large drill like tentacles with green bits at the end.

Ben braced himself as he eyed the contraption carefully. "So, that's Access Ark eh? Guess it requires a lot of power to open a link to another dimension. Well…I give them credit for thinking big. Time to see if they thought a little too big to fast."

Ben rejoined Cloud and the others as the Neo-Highwind descended to the world of Rieze Maxia, to the capital city of Elympios where Spirius was located.

Ben was relieved to see Doug join everyone as they moved out, but saw that despite grinning there was still an edge on the blond-haired man's face. The leader of the Justice Force made sure everyone was they're before he descended into the world.

As soon as the group stepped foot into the planet they saw an advanced city with local police keeping people making sure the masses were kept back. Ben saw a woman walk up with long blond hair with one green bang. She had ruby red eyes and was glad in a blue and white colored mini-skirt blouse combo attire with long stylish white boots.

She was Milla Maxwell, a girl groomed by summon spirits to the point where she thought she was a summon sprit herself for most of her life, till she found her humanity thanks to the comrades she met and helped unite the warring nations of Rashugal and Auj Oule and get the respect of King Gaius and President Bisley to united to fight off the Zannacross Empire.

To her left was her comrade and the man that helped her find her humanity, a man with short black hair in a black coat with black pants. The man was Jude Mathis, a man from the town of Leronde who studied at the city of Fennmont to become a doctor, till he ran into Milla by chance while she was trying to destroy the hidden Lance of Kresnik weapon before the terrorist organization Exodus could use its power, and free the sprits that were converted into spyrix. Jude's passion for Millia was enough for him to become a Enji Knight.

To Millia's right is another female Enji Knight, although she was not from Rieze Maxia, but the world of Wasteland. She had extremely long and black hair which dropped to floor-level; towards the bottom her hair is plaited into big braids that were tied off by a bandage-like band.

Her hair-strands curve towards the left-side of her face and she has mid-length hair which is plaited and tied by a smaller bandage-band resting on her left shoulder.

Her outfit consists of a revealing ruby-red corset which reveals her midriff. It is possible her clothes have been torn during her adventures. The red corset has an insignia visible below the belt which it hinders below.

The same belt rests on her hip and above her torn, black jean trousers, which now look like shorts. The jean trouser has a chain, multiple belts wrapped around her right leg and a few which spiral towards the lower half of her left.

Over her corset, she had a black jacket in the form of a robe with red-velvet lacing; the jacket was ripped towards the bottom and is tightened towards her chest by the belt.

She wore protective armor on her footwear as well as one extra armor plate on her right shin. She wore the same armor in the form of an arm protective gauntlet which rests above the same material as her coat; the material arched its way up to and wrapped around her middle finger, highlighted by a rhombus-shaped piecing.

She was Velvet Crowe, a woman who had the powers of a demon forced into her by the fallen Enji Artorius Collbrande, a man who shared the extremist methods of Kira Myers. On behalf of the shared vision he and Kira had, he caused the deaths of Velvet's entire family and townspeople in the events of the Scarlet Night massacre, all for the name of "true justice."

Consumed with pain, for a while she was obsessed with getting revenge on Artorius no matter what it took, but calmed down a bit before she was consumed with darkness, and killed Artorius before he could complete his plan to use dark magic to forcefully purge the entire planet's population of their emotions to bring "True" peace.

Lacus had befriended Milla, and as she saw the native Enji walk up she smiled." Milla…how good to see you again."

"It's always a pleasure to see a fellow Enji Lacus. I admit, I did not think I would see so many comrades any time soon."

Ben nodded as he saw everyone look around. He then tried to play it cool as he waved to the crowds in the distance." Well I would love to say this was just a publicity stunt but sadly its far more serious than that. Thanks for arriving on such short notice. You guys get the memo?"

Jude looked around before he nodded. "We did Mister Auro but I admit I'm confused about all this. The memo was something about a high priority crises? Is this related to those cosmic anomalies you and miss Raystar have been fixing?"

Doug chuckled before throwing out a crass," No offense dude but we sure as hell did not come here in the hurry for the booze! Now that I think about it I did get a job offer for this place a few days from now. Guess I'll see how much of a pain things are here before deciding to take up that offer."

James saw Jude flinch at Doug's gaze before he sighed." Sorry for the secrecy, we just need to know all the facts and don't want to cause a panic. But the truth is we must see just what is going on with this Spirius right away. Have any of you seen anything to be wary of?"

Velvet shrugged as she looked up at Access Ark hovering in the sky." I'm still getting use to all these advanced machines so, it all seems crazy to me. Still, there have been times when it seemed like those scientists were going to blow up the world."

Before she could go on another male voice uttered a collected," The experiments being conducted have made for some interesting fireworks…but I assure you that they have all been doing everything within the guidelines, so far."

Ben and the others swerved around to see a man black and white hair with a red jacket and red and black pants. The man had two swords, an energy shotgun and a beam magnum holstered, and as Ben and the others saw him walk up he nodded." For those that have not met me I'm Enji Knight Renji Arisu. Sorry to be curt but seems we have things that need to be dealt with.

All the people involved on project Star Dream have seemed to have noteworthy intentions but as most of us are aware, scientists can get carried away with their research at times. Still…they are all professionals and seem keen on not making mistakes. So far they seem to know what they are doing."

Cloud saw Renji looked confident and nodded." The angels would not have trusted them if they did not know what they were doing. Still…something that no one could have predicted may have gone wrong. You sure nothing noteworthy has happened?"

Renji turned around before responding with a cagey,"There were times when the scientists went into different dimensions and we did not see them, but it was never more than a minute and they were fine when they returned."

Jude nodded before throwing out," I was with Bisley and Haltmann when they entered the dimension that Reed Richard's dubbed the Negative Zone and while it looked bizarre, nothing happened to us."

"We don't doubt you, but we know something is going on and we have to figure out what before it's too late." Ben uttered as he tried to keep his cool." Hope everyone is ready, cause ready or not we are coming."

Before the other Enji could respond another male voice uttered a collected, "The president knows you are all very busy men and woman, and that's why he wants you all to know he is ready to see you right now Enji."

The group saw a new man walk out to greet them all. He had long black hair with fringe, two long bangs with white tips at the sides of his face, and amber eyes. He wore a yellow short with a black vest over it, and his neck was tied with a purple scarf.

His attire consisted of red pants, a red jacket with black stripes, and red gloves. This look was completed with a black and purple fluffy scarf, as well as white and brown shoes.

The long-haired man bowed before uttering a wry,"I'm Rideaux Zek Rugievit, and on behalf of President Bisley and his collaborators he would like to meet you all at his office to give you the reception such esteemed individuals deserve. If everyone is ready this way if you please."

Before they could go on a young female voice suddenly screamed out an urgent,"WAIT!"

An attractive woman with auburn hair suddenly ran into the chamber from the confidence room looking out of breath. She had a white shirt covered by a yellow coat with a blue scarf around her neck. She also wore a black cap on her head, brown shorts and black and white tights that stop about halfway above her thighs.

Jude saw the woman panting before he raised an eyebrow."Leia? What are you doing here?"

Jude's childhood friend and fellow Enji Knight just smirked as she looked around." Not going to miss the biggest photo op this planet's seen Jude! I would have been here with you guys but I was busy interviewing King Gauis! Alvin had to be a punk like always and not tell me you guys arrived! Its to bad Elize and Rowen could not make it but their was not enough time for them to get here. It's cool…I just got a massive bonus interview!"

A man in a business suit with a beard, Jude and Milla's comrade the former mercenary and now Enji Knight Alvin strolled out behind Leia with a calm look on his face." You're the one who said not to bother you during your work Leia so blame yourself. Well, yourself and Gaius for dragging an interview forever. "

A new man stepped up behind Alvin. He had a stoic manner to him and had long black hair with piercing black eyes and is the powerful and stoic King of the warrior like nation of Auj Oule. He was Gaius, a man who started out as an enemy to Jude and Milla and the others till he in time joined them to fight the Zannacross Empire.

Gaius saw Alvin and Leia looking tense before he cleared his throat." A ruler does not skit on the details. You wanted me to give my thoughts on current events and so I have. Anyway…Enji Knights, don't mind me please resume."

Rideaux saw Gaius eye him carefully before he shrugged." This way if you please."

Lacus saw that Rideaux looked polite, but had a slight eagerness to him and looked at Milla. The Enji from Rieze Maxia nodded to approve of the Spirius employee's actions and the large group followed Rideaux into the city. Everyone was on guard but as they went to the Spirius corporation building they only saw a mix of happy and cautious locals.

Ben, Lacus, James, Cloud and the others talked with Milla, Velvet, Jude, Renji, Alvin, Leia, Gaius, and even Rideaux to gain more details and still found nothing that seemed related to the horrors Ben would see a week from now.

As the Spirius building approached Cloud went up to Ben." Well…so far I've seen a few people anxious about are arrival or worried the experiments will blow up the world but, nothing that seems to be what we are looking for."

"True but be on guard Cloud Sensei…trust me things can go from normal to a nightmare in an instant, like last time."

Ben was about to go on when they were suddenly cut off by a screaming woman. Everyone turned around to see a woman slapping a tall man with black hair in a pony-tail.

Ben was about to charge in till he heard the woman scream about the man named Voltaire cheating on her. The two shouted more and more at each other till suddenly two local law officials walked over.

The male asked if there was a problem while the female took out a high-tech pistol that was glowing a neon blue. The couple paused as the man tried to explain himself. The woman officer's gun suddenly chipped out,"Target's Crime Coefficient is level two hundred, action strongly advised."

The couple froze before the woman quickly panicked and pleaded for the cops to not do anything. The woman cop checked her gun again before she nodded. Link eyed the couple before he walked over to Ben." I've been getting more use to machines since we met Ben but, I don't get what that gun did to make the two stop."

Ben grinned before he crossed his arms." Don't feel bad Link, it's a new system that's been testing across a few dozen planets in the past year. Those are the new guns that measure a person's mental Crime Coefficient. That's…a numerical measure of said person's probability/propensity to commit a crime. It is calculated and determined by the target's stress level and other biological readings via cymatic scan.

These Regulators guns and other gear can scan a person's hue…their emotional level to see how much of a risk they are to both themselves and others.

In other words, it's a way to see when people are going to do something wrong and act before they do it. It's not perfected yet, but it's one of the steps we been doing to evolve society to something better."

Doug snickered at the sight of the Regulator gun before he gave Ben a dismissive look." All this time to dream and all you come up with was machines that tell people they are guilty before they do something? Sounds a bit messed up on my end bro to be honest."

As Ben winced James sighed and walked up." It's not judging someone for something they have yet to do Doug. We are aware that the Sybil System has the potential for abuse and we been careful. We molded the system to scan a person's Psyco-Pass, a person's state of mind to read their hue.

More or less a Hue is a person's stress level. Every citizen in Sibyl's database is assigned a certain color depending on the state of their Psycho-Pass. Clear colors such as light blue or pink indicate a strong and healthy Psycho-Pass. While colors such as medium green or steel blue indicate a deteriorated Psycho-Pass.

A clouded Hue is usually occurring because of stress. For example, violent urges or nervous reactions an individual may feel can cloud the Hue. When a person's Hue is reaching risky levels, they can be sent therapy. And if they neglect that advice…law enforcement can be aware they might be a risk. It's a way to help people before their emotions cause them to make a mistake they can't take back."

"You know I'm not as big on the science stuff but did you two ever even stop to think that this stuff sounds a lot like all that nano-machine stuff Kira was using with that Sons of the Patriot system?"

Doug blurted out with an edge. Ben saw Doug's tension and sighed." We are aware Doug, and trust me the last thing we want to become is something like Kira.

That being said…when someone does something horrible it does not mean everything he did was wrong. We are trying to take the good parts and cut out the misguided parts to try and truly make progress."

"I'll be first to admit that the process is far from perfected."James added"We still have to fine the right balance with the way a Psyco-Pass is scanned so that people are not judged merely for having random thoughts or judged because of a system glitch.

There are many things we still have to perfect like how to best implement the Area Stress Level, the way someone reacts to a Psycho-Hazard, and to make sure one can't abuse being criminally asymptomatic.

It might take years, or even decade but in the end it will help people be able to better understand each other, thus implementing many of the factors that cause people to have conflicts with each other."

Ben grasped his fist tightly before muttering a confident,"It's just one of the many things used to make sure that the despair we went through will be a thing of the past one day Doug."

Doug merely spat on the ground before his face hardened."Is freedom one of those things to Ben? Sure as hell sounds like your trying to make it so that everything is decided for everyone!"

"Not everything Doug! I know societies used systems like this in the past to decide a person's job, lover, and everything else but we are just using this to detect if a person is going to commit a crime before they make a mistake."

"Tsc…you know some people want to make their own mistakes to define their own life dude! A man has a right to make his choices!"

"He does Doug, but does a man or woman have a right to make a choice that will harm those around him? Protecting people from harm, is the most important part of my job Doug, and I plan to do just that."

"Well you sure are taking it seriously Ben. But if this Beyonder dude wrecks everything your working for then I guess it would all have been one sick joke eh?"

Ben paused, glanced at Lacus, and Ezan and Aries in the distance before his eyes flared with resolve." That's why I'm not going to let that happen Doug."

As the two friends stared at each other tensely Rideaux chuckled before cutting the silence with a wry,"Well I'm far from one to judge the best way to evolve society Savior, but I will say the President seems to enjoy the use of the Regulators and the whole Syble system, its rooted out many who would have cheated him and the business in the past.

But don't take my word for it ask him yourself for here we are. Welcome to Spirius Headquarters! "

Everyone saw that they were indeed at the entrance to the tallest building in the city before Ben glanced at everyone." Is everyone ready?"

The dozens of heroes nodded before they all went inside. As they entered a woman was waiting for them, a metallic woman with thin limbs and pink hair. As she turned around she showed she had no mouth, and only round blue eyes.

The woman glanced at everyone before bowing." Oh my there is a lot of nonnatives entering all of a sudden! Oh right, they did say we had an impromptu meeting with many important guesses so where is my manners? Let me introduce myself. My name is Susie, executive assistant of the Haltmann Works Company.

While this building is owned by are co-partner for are current project we wanted to assist as they focused so much effort in to making are dreams become reality. Are you the ones that wanted an urgent meeting with President Haltmann and President Bisley?"

Ben saw that many of the human employees were trying to be casual but some looked nervous, and he just gave a warm smile to everyone." Yup that's us. On behalf of King Atem, ruler of the Lylat Kingdom I Ben Auro, many of the other Enji Knights and some of my friends want a meeting to, make a publicity moment if possible. Could you lead us to your president?"

Susie paused for a moment before a collected male voice uttered,"I'll escort you their Enji."

A new man walked out of an elevator with a younger man behind him. The older man had short, light brown hair on the top of his head, with short, dark brown hair on its back and sides. He had blue eyes and worn rectangular glasses. His attire consisted of a white shirt, light blue vest, and white coat with blue underlining. He also had dark blue pants and white shoes.

The man behind him had blue dress shirt with folded sleeves and brown suspenders, yellow necktie, and black trousers, with a blue, feather-like decoration hanging on the back. He had green eyes with yellow rings circling his pupils. His silver hair with black ends on the right.

The man with glasses gave everyone a bow." I'm Julius Will Kresnik, and this is my brother Luger Will Kresnik, we are two of President Bisley's top body guards. Nothing personal, even in this peaceful era accidents do happen. Good to see you again Jude."

Jude smiled before nodding at Ben." Don't worry I trust the Kresenik brothers Ben. We fought together during the entire war with the Zannacross Empire."

Ben saw the confidence in Jude's eyes before he nodded, causing Lacus to wink at the new male duo."We understand Mister Julius." Lacus uttered as she gave a radiant smile." Lead the way."

"Thank you for understanding. President Bisley was not expecting to entertain so many high-profile guests today but, he did not rise to become the President of a pan-galactic corporation by not being prepared. We have a special elevator ready for you so you can all ascend at once."

Julius, Luger, and Susie led everyone to the entrance of the lobby, which quickly glowed purple. Ben's group saw a few employees run out of the way before the part of the floor programmed to be a large elevator glowed brighter, and swiftly begun to burst upward.

Ben saw countless office rooms fly by and looked at his comrades, who all got ready for anything despite how friendly the reception was so far. Susie proceeded to give a brief history of Spirius Corporation, Haltmann Works, and the Future Foundation.

By the time she was done the elevator made a dinging noise and Ben saw that they had ascended so high that they were pass the planet's atmosphere. Everyone saw they were around a large dome like chamber filled with computers and holograms.

In the north part of the chamber was a large pillar like machine, that had lines of energy constantly shifting from a red to purple color, with a giant yellow eye on top and with metallic wings at its sides. On the left and right side of the room were giant metallic faces linked to the wall with giant wires.

As Ben and many of his comrades looked around tensely a confident male voice chuckled."Does my unorthodox working quarters make you anxious? I mean no harm but...for a project as ambitious as this...traditional norms do not always apply."

Ben saw a man confidently walk up to them. He was wearing a long red coat and a black professional suit underneath, bearing a white goatee and hair that was neatly swept back. The man chuckled before throwing out an eager." I'm President Bisley Karcsi Bakur, CEO of Spirius and one of the pushers of the Star Dream project. But I suppose you knew about that, yes Enji Knights? I'm honored to have so many esteemed individuals visit me at once."

Bisley gave Ben a hardy hand shake, and as the Enji stood his ground he reacted with an unassuming smile." The pleasure is all mine. I heard you're doing some great things and wanted to get a firsthand view."

"That's quite an honor. But I must admit, I find it odd for not only the savior and his girlfriend, but for so many esteemed hero's and Enji Knights to come make a visit, and a visit on such short notice on top of that."

"I know it's a bit of a rush but you see…we were having a reunion at the castle and King Atem wondered if we could have a photo op here to give everyone in the universe a cool news story. Hope you don't mind."

"Not at all…I'd never refuse something that would be good for business. And while unplanned…the timing works fine with me. We are about to try and make another breakthrough in are research."

An older voice then threw out a jolly."Quite right old boy! This may have been the costliest venture I made in my life but it's looking more and more like it will all be worth it!"

A man sitting in a hovering golden chair floated out of the back of the pillar like machine. The man was not human, and looked large and egg-shaped, with pale skin as well as disembodied hands and feet. He had solid cyan eyes, a prominent brow, purple hair, and a mustache.

He wore a dark indigo suit with a maroon tie and a pink collar. He also sported a small golden radio piece on the side of his head. His gloves and body were adorned with gold-encrusted rubies.

The man had his hover chair float above everyone before he chuckled." Ah so you're the Enji Knights eh? I'm President Haltmann, my thanks to you hero's for giving my company a massive stock increase!"

"Happy to help out," Ben uttered as he casually sensed the chamber for any unusual energy signatures." but I admit we are primarily doing it to give people a happy story to talk about for a while. And, maybe some cool new options depending on just how far you guys are in your progress."

Yet another male voice threw in a detached," Well the thesis has not been proved yet, but we are getting there."

A new man walked up with a mix of brown and white hair and a white uniform with black stripes around the limbs. James saw the new man and grinned." Ah there you are Reed, I figured making bridges to other dimensions would take longer even for you."

Reed Richards shrugged as he nodded to everyone." Ah hello James glad you could come have a front row seat. I figured this would be one of my more difficult ventures but we managed to make a breakthrough in the past few weeks, the data Star Dream collects makes finding new dimensions easier and easier."

Hiryuumon looked around at all the computers before he winced."So um…this stuff is way over my head so how do you use a machine to find dimensions again?"

"Don't feel bad Hiryuumon." Lacus uttered as she pet the Digimon fondly." It takes understanding the highest levels of science to understand the process perfectly Hiryuumon. I am a bit confused though about a few things.

Troubled to be honest. Xemnas…and in the end Zannacross used Kingdom Hearts to force open a portal to heaven, and used the energy of the celestial beasts as fuel. Are you saying that this Star Dream uses the same process?"

Bisley grinned before he walked up to the large pillar." I'm aware you might have some reservations about a process you were unfairly to close to Miss Raystar. I assure you that while we indeed used the blueprint of are project based off Kingdom Hearts, are experiment is far less barbaric.

I suppose it would be best to start from the top. Even if this is not an official news story yet…I want my guests to be able to inform reporters correctly. Now, at the start I."

Leia winced before screaming out,"Oh hell I forgot to turn on the camera! Wait...ok I got it feel free to start!"

Bisley gave Leia a dirty look before she giggled nervously and turned on her recording gear. The President of the Spirius Corporation cleared his throat before pointing at Star Dream." Since I was a child I dreamed of traveling across the stars. I soon was able to realize that dream, only to entertain a bigger dream, to go where no man has gone before and go beyond the universe itself!

For a while I had to focus on other ventures to meet the bottom line. But after the war, after Zannacross and all the demons were vanquished, I got inspired. While having all of reality be ripped apart was a traumatic experience, it did give me an inspiration for a project!

While the devil may have wanted to merge the realms together to create his cruel world, I just wanted to find the key to breach the barrier between unchartered realms to raise new possibilities.

Thanks to the generously of the celestial ones we could grasp the means to realize that ambition. I created the department of Dimensional Affairs…and worked with Haltmann and Reed Richards here and others visionaries like Dr. Harrison Wells, Carlos Axion Jr, and other visionaries across the universe.

We were allowed to study the remains of the Kingdom Hearts machine that the Dark Enji used, and combined with some celestial relics we found, we were able to combined the Access Ark that Reed and other scientists created with the Star Dream to be able to locate weak points in the universe.

As you Enji Knights are aware, the after math of the Zannacross Empire's defeat is still being dealt with and that many areas of space are corrupted, are still merged with other realms. We visited such spots, and also visited words that have a reputation for being gateways to other worlds.

We were able to get are first success on the world of Sudra, where Access Ark was able to open a portal to the fractured reality we dubbed the Phantom Zone. It, was an unstable hazardous realm, but it was still a successful visit to an entirely new realm! As you may or may not be aware, Kingdom Hearts needed the power of the Celestial Beasts because Heaven was protected. Its…understandable they would not want people to casually be able to warp to the afterlife.

That being said, fractured realms of lesser importance have far less defenses. There is still the difficulty of opening a stable portal, but we are getting better at it. The results may not entice the masses just yet, but we are getting closer to getting something that will really excited people."

Ezan saw the level of excitement in the Spirius President's eyes before he narrowed his own." You are all clearly committed to this. Commendable…long as you don't get to excited and cause a disaster out of carelessness. Just how many realms have you encountered so far?"

Reed Richards looked at some of the monitors before he shrugged."As Bisley said are first success was at Sundra combining my equipment and the Access Ark along with the work we uncovered from lost races like the Chozo, the Forerunners, the Rusalki, the Kryptonians, and others.

It only lasted a few moments though, and we were only able to open a portal large enough to send a probe through. By the time, we improved Star Dream's capacity we were able to open a portal large enough to send humans through.

Right here I, Bisley, Wells, and Haltmann entered what we dubbed the Negative Zone.

A month later, we were able to enter the Twilight Realm in Hyrule large enough so that me, my brother Johnny Storm, my wife Sue Summers and my friend Ben Grim were able to meet with the natives of the realm, the Twili."

Link blinked for a moment before blurting out,"By the fairy's…you met Minda's people? Without the Twilight Mirror?"

"Indeed Link." Reed answered" Oh yes and Minda says hello. We made a few other successful links to other realms like a digital world of sorts that was entirely populated by Digimon and a few others. Nothing goes perfectly but the progress is pleasing."

Cloud saw all the scientists calculating various things before he looked up at Access Ark in the distance."From what I understand so far, your experiments have seemed to have resulted in a machine that can open gateways to the countless splinter realms. Very impressive, I'm sure many would be eager to visit other realms, long as they are safe."

Bisley just looked more excited as he grasped his hand tightly."Oh, I'm sure there will be much profit to be made with are discoveries. However, locking on to the various fractured dimensions are a start, but I'll only truly be content when we move past the fragmented dregs of are universe and make a true pathway between the multi verse!"

Those around Bisley looked at him with various expressions of shock before Kirby rubbed his head and walked forward."Excuse me Mister, what's a multi verse? I thought the universe is everything there is?"

"It's a difficult subject to explain properly but I'll try the best I can pink wonder." Reed explained as he went back to the Star Dream. "The universe is composed of all there is. The mortal realm or the "core" dimension, heaven, hell, and all the realms in between make up the universe. It's understandable why most think this would be all that there is, but there has been some, oddities that translate to valid theories.

The various realms we explored so far with Star Dream and Access Ark all are vastly smaller than the reality we all live in, most of them are hardly the size of a planet. I and others theorized that this is because most of these realities are created by an uneven merger of the true "prime" realms, who's axis point could be called among other things a divergence catalyst.

At first glance these various realms seemed entirely random in their existence. However, with each probe I sent the data that I got back gave me fascinating revelations. One…each fractured dimension is set up as a waymark, like a constellation in the universe itself. I also noticed that each fractured dimension was near a planet where either an abuse of time or energy was conducted, in other words a point of corruption."

Sonic raised an eyebrow before muttering," Wait, so your saying its caused by time travel or something? Then this is just what..."

Tails quickly jabbed Sonic in the stomach before giving him a dirty look. After a moment, Sonic winced before throwing out an uneasy chuckle."Sorry, sure learning a lot of new stuff today. Still not getting how all that means there is a whole other universe! Sounds like it would take a while for even a speedy guy like me to get their! And you're talking to a dude who ran fast enough to time travel!"

Bisley chuckled before he put his hands behind his back." It's a tricky subject but the main thing Richard's is trying to get at is that all of these points are like a beacon, when you properly alien them you can reach a point beyond where the realms of our universe intersect, and link with an entirely different universe. One where history unfolded differently, were people like us might have lived but with entirely different histories, possibility governed by different rules of physics.

If you're wondering this is not just a delusion, the angels try and dismiss it but history is littered with those who have stumbled into what looked like their home only to be a place that looks the same on the outside but is entirely different!"

Lacus thought back for a moment before she looked at her friends."It's not entirely unfeasible I guess. When Zannacross summoned every villain that ever existed, as chaotic as it was I did notice some hero's that resembled each other. Though not like we had time to chat, they could have been descendants or something for all we knew."

Link closed his eyes before muttering,"I do remember seeing a person that looked like how I was as a lad, though odd, nearly, cartoonish. It's one thing if it was a son of mine but, not sure how a son or grandson of mine would look so, cartoonish. To be honest I'm still coming to terms with how this universe works, without something I can see its little more than babbling."

"Understandable…seeing is believing." Bisley uttered as he walked in front of the Star Dream." But as I said, we made gains. Are last experiment landed us in a world that had humans like us, and the readings indicated the size of the dimension was as large as our universe!"

Reed nodded as he pressed a few buttons to make a hologram appear to show numbers." Regretfully I could not join them because my children were sick and I had to see just what was wrong. But my probes still went through and the results were truly fascinating. The data indicated that while a few things like frequencies and what not that were different, it truly was a whole new universe!"

Haltmann rubbed his hands together before throwing out an excited," The prospect of running in to myself in another dimension! The business possibilities are tantalizing."

Bisley looked even more excited before adding," We were only able to stay for around ten minutes, we did not want to risk the portal collapsing so we returned. Since then we been enhancing Access Ark to make a larger, more stable portal. We were about to test it out till we heard about your…sudden desire to have a meeting. Would you like to see are next venture? We could very well use your assistance in case something happens."

Lacus and Ben looked at each other before the member of the Raystar family looked dismayed."Did, you see anything dangerous in your last trip? If it really is a whole new universe, would that reality have its own darkness, or would it to be effected by Zannacross 's defeat? In other words…would are universe be at risk if this "other" universe had hostile intentions?"

"Thinking of the worst, are we?" Bisley uttered." I suppose I can't fault a war veteran for that. Still…we saw no demons or anything like entities of darkness if that's what you're afraid of. I'm not going to be careless enough to just run in and unleash something horrible but, with all due respect progress always requires some risk yes?"

Doug chuckle before he took off his hat." Nothing ventured nothing gained…if your too afraid to live life you're not really living. If you can pull it off, can't hurt right?"

Jude eyed all the machines carefully before he stiffened up." Your sure Access Ark can handle a portal large enough for a space ship for an extended period of time?"

Bisley swerved around before looking at some of the scientists working with Reed."Well…Trace…Cisco…Wells...Rick…what do the calculations say?"

A shorter brown skinned man with black hair near the face like machine to the right chuckled before throwing out an eager,"Don't worry about a thing mister president, we triple checked everything and I'm getting a major positive vibe about this! Right Trace?"

The taller whiter skinned scientist next to him nodded before another, older scientist finished a drink he was finishing before he swerved around from his chair."All the systems are good to go, but if they wait too long one thing or another is going to overheat so let's do this!"

An anxious looking teenager next to the man with short hair saw all the Enji before he gulped."I don't know if this is a good idea Rick. What if you open the portal to big and it collapses the universe or something? I mean those probes did not pick something up but what if they are hiding to take whoever comes back hostage?"

The older man just laughed before throwing out,"Don't wuss out Morty! You wanted to see this so now you have to stick with the choice! C'mon, don't you want to travel the multiverse and see if you're the" Mortiest Morty "? You don't build stuff to not do anything with it unless your insane! Well, some called me insane but the good insane!"

Bisley chuckled before he grasped his hand tightly." Only the mad can break the norms, so let the new era begin!"

Ben grasped the Star Sword tightly before he uttered a composed. "This ought to be a wild ride. You know where the portal will lead to I take it?"

"Indeed Savior. Its set to the same planet we visited before. We did not have enough time to chat with the locals but it looked like a mid-class level civilization farm. The humans did not speak English but they said something like either the word " Shuigang" "Orience" or "Eos". We will see soon enough! Richards, prepare Star Dream and Access Ark to begin! Lock on to the same coordinates as before! Ready the ZONE sphere."

Ben cleared his throat before quietly uttering,"Have the guys in the airships picked up anything yet?"

James made sure the others were not listing before he leaned next to his friend."Nothing yet…just local ships flying around. If these people are linked to are targets, we will find out once the portal opens."

"Just be ready for anything."

Ezan saw Access Ark begin to shift, before the Star-Dream's eye began to glow and its wing like structures begun to extend. Ezan noticed Reed was causally pressing buttons, while both Haltmann and Bisley were looking more and more keen. He then closed his eyes."So…should we get return to are space ships to prepare to travel?"

Bisley did not move as he just looked more and more eager." That's not needed, Access Ark is designed to open a direct platform to the gateway regardless of how big the portal will be. Don't worry…you don't have to wear space suits or anything. We can get right to what matters, entering the next stage."

"Very well then." Ezan uttered as he took a deep breath." Just one thing to address."

In the blink of an eye Ezan used the Flash Step skill to be in front of Bisley in an instant. The sliver haired man suddenly grasped the Spirius CEO's right arm tightly. His eyes suddenly turned red, and glared at Ben's rival's eyes in the red and black mirror like Sharingan state before he coldly uttered,"What is your real end game with this, Bisley Karcsi Bakur? Your very skilled, but while it took some effort I saw through your facade with my eyes.

While less than a second, I could detect tension in your movements, tension that something will be discovered. So, are you going to tell me what you want to do with the button your about to press, or do I have to extract the information out of you?"

Milla looked at Ezan with shock before she stepped forward." What's the meaning of this Ezan? I know we were supposed to be looking out for trouble but the president is a good man!"

"I don't doubt that Maxwell. However…with what we are dealing with its entirely possible this is not the man you knew. So then, do we do this the easy way or the hard way?"

For a few moments Bisley was silent, before he suddenly grinned. "So…it's as we wondered after all. Very well Enji…we will do this the hard way!"

Aries suddenly gasped and stepped forward before crying out,"Ezan look out!"

The sliver haired man heard a laser firing and in the blink of an eye took out Nu-Epyon to cleave the red energy beam in half. As he did Bisley suddenly threw a punch that hit Ezan square in the chest.

The Enji with Sharingan eyes quickly dashed backwards and as he did everyone tensed up as Haltmann coldly sneered, as the laser he fired from his chair, as golden armor suddenly burst out to surround the CEO."How pitiful Bakur…you had a clean shot and you failed to land a decent blow!"

"He is supposed to be one of the strongest warriors in this universe Haltmann." The fellow CEO uttered callously as he just cracked his neck."I heard stories about just how legendary your visual prowess is Ezan Zeon, I see the stories are justified.

What a truly horrible turn of events. If it was just a few more days Battle-World would have been completed…and nothing could stop us. But oh well…all great plans must adapt to face issues; the great wheel will have to turn a tad faster."

Reed saw both Johnny and Sue looking mortified and saw just how murderous his collaborators looked before he backed up."Bisley, Haltmann, what is the meaning of this? The great wheel? Have you gone mad?"

Ben took out the Star Sword as many of his comrades got ready to fight. He looked at Reed with alarm before he had his aura blazed out." You got lucky not going with these two through the portal Mister Richards, it seems to have saved your life. There is a lot to explain…but right now you need to know your comrades might currently be the biggest threat to the universe!"

Haltmann slammed his fist into his hovering chair before he burst out,"How could they know of are true intentions? No one outside of the converted knew what they were!"

Lacus pointed Oath-Keeper at the CEO of Haltmann Works before uttering a grave,"You were very good at keeping your true intentions secret, it took a divine intervention of sorts to be aware of what you want to do. While in some ways that may be cheating…what you plan to do is so horrible it must be stopped no matter what! If even a fragment of what you men where is still in your hearts you have to fight it! Don't you care that your plan will destroy everything you have ever known?"

"Tsc…the originals might have had some…attachments to this reality. However Rabum Alal wants nothing of this tainted reality to remain once the game finishes. Merely replicating the bodies, memories, quirks, and talents of the trespassers were enough."

Zero took out his Z saber before rasping out an angry,"Damn…it's like they wondered after all, this Beyonder freak really can create copies of people huh? It's like what Sigma did for his flunkies on overdrive or something!"

Reed looked at the undercover agents of the Beyonder with horror as he backed up."Your saying that the men before me are imposters? That some entity cloned them? Impossible, they were only in the other realm for a few minutes at most!"

"Foolish human…are master's abilities are far beyond what the likes of you can comprehend!" Haltmann snidely put out." The so-called rules that bound you don't apply to are master, it's nothing for Rabum Alal to extract the memory of interlopers and create "better" versions that are more useful to him! It's a pity you distracted by your trivial family matters to join us, it would have made the process easier if everyone was in sync. But it matters not, soon the process will be too late for any of you to stop!"

Ben grimaced before throwing out an alarmed,"Richards shut down Star-Dream now! Whatever they want to open up cannot get through!"

Reed went to do just that, when the scientist Wells grinned, and in a outburst of super speed suddenly was in front of the button to press it. As everyone glared at him he grinned." Guess we were not as fast as we thought. But your all to slow to stop destiny. Far to slow."

Well's rotated the ring on his finger, before suddenly in a flash he was covered in a yellow suit. The suit had the symbol of a lighting bolt in its chest and the cap over the man's face also had vertical bolts.

Ben saw the man's entire body was vibrating before he realized where he remembering seeing this guy before in history, and gasped."Wait, I seen you before when I talked with Kai-El over some of his adventures last year! Your, the rival of the super hero the Flash, Professor Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash! But you died centuries ago, everyone in hell has been erased!"

Reverse-Flash just chuckled darkly as his eyes glowed red."Just think of me as a aberration..."hero" Soon...things will be corrected so that the future will be as it should be."

Bisley glanced at his ally and sneered before an aura of darkness begun to seep around his body."You don't really think I would let any outsider have the ability to shut down are objective do you? It may start earlier then the plan called for but it will not be stopped! This universe, this entire actuality will be purged so that the only true existence can take its rightful place!"

Lacus had the memories of the pain she felt when the Beyonder destroyed the universe previously flash through her head before she had her energy explode and she cried out a valiant," That's not going to happen. I'm sorry all the work you done has to be lost but we must destroy Star-Dream before it can open a portal! If you two think you have enough strength to stop us! We…"

Before she could finish Julius and Luger suddenly appeared behind Lacus and grasped her arms and dashed to drag her near Bisley. Rideaux flashed a grin of malice before he took out six knives and pointed them all at the Enji's heart." Who ever said that they were the only two that went to the other side? Even if the numbers are uneven, we were granted power by the most powerful being in existence! Its more than enough to hold back the likes of you! Besides, any closer and your precious angel will be dying painfully!"

Lacus saw the long-haired man point his knives right across her face before she just rolled her eyes."You really don't know who your talking to if you think you can get us to back off with such a weak threat."

"Quite woman, if you want to live don't mock me! I know you're not human but theses knives will do more than just stab you, they will surge so much through your body that before your boyfriend can even get to you before you will, GUH!"

In a moment Lacus used her energy to have her hair become alive, and grasp Rideaux by the throat hard enough to choke him. Lacus saw the two men grasping her look shocked before she suddenly flipped herself upward to land on Luger's arm and twist his arms with her legs, smashing him into Julius. She then swiftly roundhouse kicked Rideaux in the face before she jumped back to Ben's side.

She then winked."I don't need to be rescued by the likes of you. Now you're going to pay extra for looking down on me!"

Ben grasped Lacus's hand fondly before adding a determined, "Guess this time we are the ones who….tsc, let's just say you did not study are world as well as you thought! I feel bad for all the good men lost to your master, but it seems too late to help them at this point so the only thing left is to avenge them and make sure no one else dies because of your boss's insanity!"

Bisley suddenly had his eyes glow red before he growled out,"You underestimate just what your facing, savior! We were bestowed power that far exceeded are originals! Die knowing just how inferior you champions are to the ultimate power!"

Bisley suddenly had dark energy surge out of him before armor formed around his body. Moments later he emerged from the pillar of dark energy looking like a dark knight clad in black and orange armor, with a faceless helmet as wings of pure dark fire erupted around his back.

As Bisley finished his transformation Luger had his eyes glow before he transformed and also looked like a demonic knight. Julius and Rideaux soon went through their own transformations. As they did Haltmann did not transform, but his chair did transform into a giant mech.

Doug saw the five agents of the Beyonder spread out before he spat on the floor." Not sure if you punks are made to be full of it, but even if you got a few tricks it won't be enough to save you from one hell of a pounding! Nothing I want to break more than punks who are all bark!"

The doppelganger of the President of Spirius had dark fire erupt out of his fist before he sneered out,"We can do far more then bark Enji! The resources of are master is limitless! Star-Dream…produce some reinforcements for us!"

The pillar like computer glowed red before booming out."Processing recent data. Executing Ephinea sample Lambda_Theos EXE."

The cylinder on top of the machine shot out a purple capsule. As the capsule fell Star Dream fired a red energy beam at it. Moments later the capsule glowed, before it transformed in mere moments in to a monster that hovered over the hero's.

The new threat was a grey colored being with no legs that had a human head with a large dear like branches, orange tentacles for hands and large purple coral like wings.

James saw the monster growl before he readied his bow."I see that creature before, though not in person. That's the Lambda, a very advanced robot that takes over human souls and nearly concurred Asbel's world before he, Sophia and the others stopped him! He…he should have been erased! Does this Star Dream have the power to create beings out of nothing?"

Haltmann laughed loudly before booming out," We gave the Star-Dream a fragment of our master's power, it was chosen by him vie his Auswählen! Now it can act as his will, and his will is limitless! We can beckon any one in history to serve us! Keep it up Star-Dream…we must overwhelm theses idiots!"

"Administer command acknowledged Processing recent files, executing hellion sample Heldalf EXE."

The super computer once more glowed, and this time forged a demonic looking lion human with a brown beard, claws, and dark skin. Ben saw Heldalf give a bloodthirsty roar before an aura of darkness surged out of him before Ben winced. "If this mere machine was linked to the Beyonder, then it's clear he seems to be able to recreate anyone in history!

We have to shut them down now, no matter how many people they throw at us we have to stop them before they stop being random and bring back someone that can cause real harm!"

Bisley ascended into the air before his wings of dark fire got even more intense."Your already out of time, savior, you just don't realize it yet! Even though you became aware of us by some fluke, it changes nothing!

You're the champions of the inferior reality, and no matter how hard you resist, the winners will get what they deserve! "The wall behind Star-Dream slid down as dozens of Alpeh android walked in, and Ben, Lacus, and all of their friends prepared to fight with everything they had to make sure the agents of the Beyonder were not allowed to go through with their genocidal ambitions, hoping that it was not already too late, for the second time.

Authors Notes: For those who have not played Tales of Xillia 2 I have changed a few things but I felt this was the best way to implement Bisley and his motives from Xillia 2, if he acts differently its because he is a replica created by the Beyonder lol. I in fact liked Luger and Julius a lot in Xillia 2, but I figured I had to have the Beyonder screw over more then faceless guys and gals so those guys got the short end of the stick in this.

Lamdda was the final boss of the normal story line of Tales of Graces, while Heldalf is the final boss of Tales of Zestria. Velvet is the main lead in Tales of Beseria, while that game was a prequel to Zestria, I decided to have Beseria be the one that got in because, Beseria was a much more enjoyable game to me lol.

Renji is the main lead of Project Cross Zone and the game not released in the US Capcom VS Namco.

Cisco was the version from the Flash TV Show, and Reverse Flash is of course from the Flash, figured he fit well for this even if as a cameo lol.

Trace is in fact the main lead from the indie Game Axom Verge. Its a very good Metriod game that's plot's much more in depth then you first would assume so figured it would be fun to throw it a bone.

Rick and Morty are of course from Rick and Morty, the show earned my respect despite it seeming random insanity at first.

The Psyco-Pass stuff is more or less form the anime Psyco-Pass, not everything is the same was it was in that series, I just took elements from that series to showcase the kind of things Ben is using to try and make a better world.

Well, hope you all like how things are going, hope even more at least some of you leave reviews to express what you liked. Tune in next time when Ben and the others frantically fight to stop the Beyonder form being aware of their presence, learn more about their enemy, and descend to start the Secret Wars. Till next time everyone.