Meanwhile, in the Zalgo Dimension, the Multiverse Initiative and the Amazons of the Galaxy were dealing together with what looked like the apocalypse: chunks of moon falling over a unstable part of a already unstable dimension. Amethyst, one of the only ones left unconscious, and still holding Pucca, goes to the rescue of her comrades by wrapping them in her whips.
"I got ya! I got ya!", Amethyst shouted as she wrapped Pucca and Liddell in her whips. "I'm sorry that I can't really care about everyone's real names!", she said, as she (with some disdain) aimed one of her whips at Kebako.
Zalgo escaped from sume rumble as Garnet hopped down from one of the rock formations still intact in that..."location" of the Zalgo Dimension. Garnet remembered about the only victorious timeline, and how she should act in that moment so it could be achieved.
She summoned her gauntlets again and plunged them into the ground, right over a line of rocks. A electric blast went through the rock, ready to hit Zalgo, but before it could actually happen, Zalgo leaped in the air and threw a blast from the Power Stone.
Garnet transformed the blast into a large wall of ice, and pushed it so it would go straight to Zalgo. Zalgo punched through the wall of ice, and it began to melt, forming a large, large fireball. He threw it at Garnet, who in time, extended her gauntlet hands forward to transform the fireball into a innofensive, aerial blaze in the...shape of a heart.
The Hivemind of Chaos couldn't help but feel stunned, and Garnet leaped forward to make a sequence of precise, fast punches with her gauntlets. Some of those punches even hit the gauntlet hand, making Zalgo struggle before activating the Power and Soul Stones, crumbling down the gauntlets once more. Then, Reality and Space were used to bring Garnet, who was held by her neck.
"You're a brilliant fighter, fusion.", Zalgo grinned, revealing the true nature of the gem, as he began to pull her by the arms to opposite sides, making it look like he was going to rip her in half. "But if you two are separated...you both are nothing."
Suddenly, in a burst of light, two gems, tinier than Garnet, appeared in Zalgo's respective hands: Ruby, a red gem with afro haircut, and Sapphire, a blue gem with lips, a single eye, and long hair covered behind now-messy bangs. He threw both of Garnet's components away agains't a piece of debris, knocking them both out.
Right at the moment, a blue diamond was thrown agains't the Infinity Gauntlet, and the shards were responsible to keep Zalgo's palm wide open. NiGHTS enters in, stomping the ground fiercely, but gracefully.
"You throw another moon at me...and I'm gonna lose it!", NiGHTS stated, with fury, putting her fists on her hips. However, deep inside, she was scared that this last stand she was about to do would kill her...just like how her brother Reala tried.
"NiGHTS.", Zalgo said, holding nothing but quiet disdain for the first level Nightmaren.
"For real, calling me by the name?", NiGHTS said, with unhideable surprise; she sweared Zalgo first met her when he...attacked Nightopia.
"Yes. You're not the only being plagued with bravery."
"...my only curse is you.", NiGHTS stated, with tranquil fury. Then, she summoned a pair of Maren Ballons and, doing a backflip, threw them both at Zalgo.
"Come ooon!...", Zalgo growled, accepting NiGHTS' challenge.
The Maren Ballons explode agains't Zalgo in colorful dust, but NiGHTS know it's not enough to take down the Hivemind of Chaos. She has to try harder.
NiGHTS spins like a drill towards Zalgo direction, hitting him with full force. Once she is levitating near enough to the ground, she shapeshifts her arms to drum-like shapes, and uses them both to punch Zalgo agains't a stone wall. Zalgo, once recovered of the initial shock, smacks her down with the non-gauntlet fist.
Once the Nightmaren is down in the ground, Zalgo pulls out the blue diamond's shards out of his hand, and uses the Power Stone to send a beam of energy agains't NiGHTS. She summons a larger blue diamond to use as a shield, and just get pushed back further with each effort of strenght.
NiGHTS does a acrobatic trick to get over the blue diamond and flies to Zalgo, ready to attack. She swiftly kicks him down with her left foot, and shapeshifts it to a vine-like formation so the Gauntlet is kept trapped. She, once again, makes one of her fists a drum, and uses it to smack Zalgo the hardest she could.
And indeed, the Nightmaren managed to do what nobody even got close to doing: make Zalgo, the Hivemind of Chaos, bleed his dark gray mixed with scarlet blood, even though it was the smallest of cuts.
"All that for a drop of blood?...", Zalgo grinned in mockery for NiGHTS' efforts, before kicking her upwards, sending her with spins towards the ground.
Afterwards, he began to punch the jesterly Nightmaren. Repeatedly. Even when NiGHTS blocks the blows with her arms, it proves of as fruitless, when Zalgo picks her by the head's back and blasts her chest with the Power Stone. He did a harm no Nightmaren (not even Wizeman, NiGHTS' creator) even managed to do agains't NiGHTS; she had cracks all over her body, like she was purely made out of porcelain, and she began to bleed. A universe-appearence blood.
But she didn't give up, even with such heavy injuries. She got up to one "flying knee" and began to try and blast Zalgo with purple bolts of thunder coming out of her hands. However, even that doesn't work, as Zalgo uses the gauntlet to deflect it like it was sunlight agains't a mirror. Once the two are close, NiGHTS briefly struggles before having her left hand caught by Zalgo.
NiGHTS remembers about the trick Reala used...stabbing him with a knife didn't work out with him, so why she should hope it could work with her? Nevertheless, she tried, purely out of lack of choice, shapeshifting her open hand into a blade, and aims it at Zalgo. But something even worse than Reala's case happened.
Zalgo caught the shapeshifted arm and violently ripped the part until the elbow, using it to stab through NiGHTS, as she screamed in pain and horror. Zalgo began to guide NiGHTS until she was in a sitting position, and...strangely, laid his gauntlet hand over her head, almost as gently as a father with his child.
"You got my respect, NiGHTS. When I'm done, half of the multiverse will still have conscience."
Zalgo lets go, gets up and steps back, to see his opponent one last time. "I hope they remember you.", he said, almost in a mourning tone, as NiGHTS began to experience for the first time on her life the (for her) alien sensation of getting a blood-filled mouth. She tried to breath, her cat-pupil eyes looking in horror over her doom; Zalgo was clenching his fist, activating all the Infinity Stones at the same time...
"Stop!", a youngish voice came, and both Zalgo and NiGHTS (the latter, painfully) turned their heads to see Ruby, the red gem, helping Sapphire get up.
"Spare her life...and we'll give you the stone.", Sapphire said, souding shaky.
"No tricks, or...", Zalgo said, as he turned his gauntlet aim to the components of the Crystal Gems' de-facto leader. "Stop!...", NiGHTS screamed the best way she could, but it felt on deaf ears.
Out of Sapphire's triangle-shaped gem, a white light of oval shape emerged...it was the Time Stone. It began to float towards Zalgo, who picked it with the tip of his fingers and putted it on the thumb slot of the Infinity Gauntlet. Zalgo winced as he felt the gauntlet actually jolt him a bit. "One more left."
"AAARGH!", Kebako's voice cried, as she suddenly began to fly with her wings and hit Zalgo with her blaster, repeatedly. However, instead of answering the attack, Zalgo simply summoned a portal and left, making Kebako hit face-plant on the ground, pitfully. "...did we just lose?", Kebako realized with dread, as NiGHTS tried to remove her disembodied half of arm out of her body.
"Why did you do that?...why you gave it to him?", NiGHTS asked, with disappointment, to Ruby and Sapphire, but in a way like she was just talking to Garnet...which wasn't exactly wrong.
"We are...sorry...", Ruby quietly apologized.
"We are in the final level now.", Sapphire said, in a calmer tone than her partner.