In the Zalgo Dimension, a reddish portal emerged in the middle of it's (seemingly) most desserted place, as the owner of this dimension itself appeared. Zalgo was still sad over the death of his former best friend, that he looked down a bit like a daughter...but he had to focus. He had to see if Wizeman was successful in his goal.
But all he found was a african-looking, purple-skinned woman with a star-shaped visor, sitting on a formation of rocks that looked like a staircase.
"Yes. You're much more of a "Zalgo".", Garnet said.
"I take it that the Wicked is dead.", Zalgo said, with a audible lack of emotion; he had a feeling one of his new underlings would be dead by the end of the day. "This day is a harsh knife...still, he completed his mission."
"You may regret it.", Garnet said, without rising her voice. "He brought to you a fusion of two gems, made of love."
"Where he took you off?", Zalgo asked, not caring for the threat. Unfortunately for him, Kebako was hiding behind some rocks, her blaster ready to shoot, while Cream, Cheese and Steven looked above them. The other Amazons of the Galaxy and NiGHTS looked like they vanished.
"...your home?", Garnet said, adjusting her visor.
"And my refuge.", Zalgo positively replied, with a nostalgic smile that slowly faded into a frown. He curled his gauntlet fist to activate the Reality Stone, revealing a strange new envoirment."My reputation among other beings of immense power were always..."
"Horrible.", Garnet guessed.
"That's putting it out in a soft way. I was known as a madman and foolish god. Never got the respect I had.", Zalgo said, un-fisting his gauntlet hand so his Dimension could be seen again.
"So, you want to find respect.", Garnet said. "By destroying countless worlds."
"With a snap of my fingers, I could take control of more than one universe, with no pain. I call it...mercy.", Zalgo said, dreamily.
"And then, what?", Garnet questioned, standing up cross-armed.
"I'll finally rest. And watch the moonlight on a universe that accepts my existence.", Zalgo replied. "The toughest choices require the most powerful wills."
"I believe...that our will is even, greater, than yours.", Garnet stated, as she moved her arms in a dance-like rhythm and summoned her pair of gauntlets.
"Ours?", Zalgo said, too late to realized he was surrounded by heroes. He looked up to see a rock degree descending towards him, carried by NiGHTS. Before he could react, he was already crushed underneath it...or so it seemed.
"That was too easy, Kebako.", NiGHTS smirked a little, gracefully flying and leaving behind cyan dust.
"I don't think the guy's over yet, genius!", Kebako stated, as she pulled her single holographic visor and her angel wing and bat wing propelled her in the air.
The rock that crushed Zalgo shattered in purplish-glowing fragments, as he gave out a inhuman roar of rage. With the Infinity Stones, he transformed it into a horde of predator birds that swarmed at NiGHTS, forcing her to take care of them on her own.
Cheese punches Zalgo in the red, snake-pupil eyes, as Cream turns into a spinning ball in mid air to smack his forehead. Liddell swinged her pumpkin umbrella like a sword in Zalgo's legs. Amethyst hopped in along with Garnet, and the trio began to duel with Zalgo.
Zalgo finally kicked Liddell and Amethyst away, before holding Garnet's gauntlets in place. He broke them with a double punch, but Garnet kept herself firm as she was pushed off.
Kebako, with more mild acrobatics, shooted Zalgo from behind, as Garnet made ice platforms for her to reach Zalgo without being hit by the Power Stone's blasts. Once she reaches the detached head of the Hivemind of Chaos, Kebako plants a bomb right on top of it, falls down and gives her middle finger to Zalgo.
"BOOM.", Kebako screamed before doing a backflip, as the bomb explodes, leaving Zalgo dizzy.
Garnet whistled, a signal for the attack of the youngsters.
"Cream attack!", Cream cried her move out, hitting Zalgo's head with a spinning ball form. "Shield bash!", Steven cried, as he levitated above ground to hit Zalgo's head twice with his pink shield. "Cheese kick!", Cream said, and Cheese surely kicked Zalgo's face hard.
"Collabor-", Cream and Steven were about to yell together, but Zalgo held their necks just with two fingers and pinned them agains't the ground.
"Foolish children.", Zalgo said, with a cruelly poisonous voice, before throwing them both at Garnet, knocking three heroes down.
Then, NiGHTS throws her Mare Balloons on Zalgo, which explode colorfully upon contact with him. At first, it seems Zalgo is defeated for sure, but it's revealed he absorbed all the colorful, Nightmaren energy into the Power Stone and used it agains't NiGHTS, who failed in avoiding.
Cream had to save her using her hook-parasol; she even tried to pull the Gauntlet out of Zalgo, but as a fragile (although inhuman) 5-years old, she was easily picke dup and thrown away by Zalgo. Suddenly, a yellow, bright light shaped like a star appeared some inches above his head, forcing him to cover his eyes.
Once the one responsible for the light leaps in his direction, he simply side-steps, looking as a sword and shield made out of Determination emerged in her hands.
"Greetings.", Zalgo sarcastically greeted the newcomer.
"You can stop. You still have a chance.", Frisk said, in a way she was indirectly saying she would fight him if he refused.
"My friend couldn't stop me. What makes you think you can?", Zalgo said.
Without answering, Frisk began to fight, parrying Zalgo's blows with her shield and trying to slash him with her sword.
"Where's Chara?!", Frisk demanded, more sad than angry, before being pushed away by Zalgo in the blink of an eye.
Taking the chance Zalgo was distracted, Garnet stomped her feet, creating spikes of ice that trapped the gauntlet in place. Liddell rushes in to kick Zalgo's leg, forcing him into a single knee, and she holds one of them. Kebako shoots a electric trap that traps Zalgo's other arm in place and Amethyst helps by using one of her whips. Cream uses her hook parasol to keep Zalgo's chest in place, but needs Steven's help to keep herself steady.
NiGHTS swiftly comes back and, as the ice melts, she quickly tries to pull off the Gauntlet. She was having a struggle of hell, despite being a Nightmaren powerful enough to carry things 4x of her size. Garnet threw Pucca at Zalgo's head, and she hanged on thanks to his horns. Garnet helped Amethyst on keeping the other arm secured and, soon, Zalgo feel into a near unconscious state.
"Steven! Cream! Help, she won't be able to hold on!", NiGHTS pleaded, as Cream removed the hook out of Zalgo and rushed to help in pulling the gauntlet along with Steven.
Kebako flied over to join the rest of the group, and couldn't help but giggle in a taunting way towards the Hivemind of Chaos. "I really thought you would be a hard bounty. By the way, I planned everything. Not a God of Death anymore, huh? Now...where's Chara?"
"My...Chara...?", Zalgo said, in a slow, sleepy, but scared and sad voice.
"No shit, Sherlock. Where's she.", Kebako replied.
"Wait...Pucca, what you mean?", Liddell asked, noticing Pucca was crying her eyes out. "He's anguishing...and...mourning?! What does this monster have to mourn?"
"Chara...", Frisk quietly realized.
"What?", Kebako asked, raising a eyebrow.
"He took her to another dimension. He came back with the Soul Stone...but she didn't.", Frisk said, in a way that made her look like she was ready to cry along with Pucca. Kebako could just look in disbelief and rising anger at the Hivemind.
"Don't...don't engage!", NiGHTS demanded, understanding perfectly how this feeling of revenge was. It was horrible, painful, and destructive. "Don't do this, we almost got this off!"
"Tell me she's lying...", Kebakos said, breathing to contain her incoming anger, as Frisk was paralyzed by disbelief and sadness. "...ASSHOLE! Tell me you didn't do it!"
"I...had...too...", Zalgo replied, even more weakly.
Kebao refused to believe...first her mother, and then Garry, and then Shantae, now Chara? She refused to believe that, as tears run down like a waterfall.
"No...no, no you didn't...No you didn't!...", Kebako quietly said in sadness, before contorting her face into pure fury. Then, logic disappeared from her mind; all she thought was on hurting Zalgo in the worst way possible, make him feel the pain she was feeling. "NO, NO YOU DIDNT!", she screamed as she smacked her blast on the demonic being's face the hardest she could.
Before she could hurt him further, NiGHTS immediately held her back, as Pucca's grasp on Zalgo lost it's strenght. Waking up with eternal fury in his eyes, Zalgo pulled the gauntlet back on his fist, knocking down Steven and Cream, and threw Pucca away like thrash.
"Oh boy!", Amethyst cried, before jumping after Pucca, covering her with her whips so she could be safely landed.
Zalgo knocked down the Amazons of the Galaxy and pushed Garnet away. NiGHTS goes for a kick but is easily swated away. Before Steven, Cream and the Amazons can attack him again, Zalgo blasts them unconscious with the Power Stone, and once NiGHTS tries to attack him, he headbutt's her to the ground.
As NiGHTS got up, she got to witness a scene that was...horrific, in a way. Zalgo clenched his fists and activated the Power and Space Stones, making what's possibly the moon of his world crack in half. One of the halves shattered itself out, and Zalgo threw those smaller shards at the battlefield, like a rain of comets.
NiGHTS did what she was born to do best; fly through the debrees, doing acrobatics. However, the debrees slowly before harder and more overwhelming to avoid, and she's caught by one, half of the size of a basketball field.