Issue 24: Invisible Threads
Little Planet, The Dragon's Table
With no time to spare before Grima's resurrection, the united heroes run as fast as they could inside the mysterious dragon altar, heading deeper to find the center point of the whole temple. "This place gives me the creeps." Tails commented, feeling a little spooked of his quiet surroundings.
"I'm sensing a HUGE disturbance in the force. It must be Grima. I can feel him rising. Getting stronger." Hummingbird said, using her telepathic powers to slowly sense the ritual is starting to begin.
"Then we have no time to waste. Let's find those punks and beat them to a bloody mess." Scarlet Spider said, web-swinging even faster now.
Not far behind Spider-Man and Chrom, Robin stays completely silent, dreading what's to come in the coming moments. "Are you ready, Robin? We're about to change history for the greater better." Spidey said to his tactician friend to cheer him up.
Robin doesn't reply immediately, taking a few seconds before he starts speaking. "Peter, Chrom, first I have a favor to ask…"
"As long as it's not a request to leave you behind." Chrom replied.
"It's not…though I did consider it." Robin said. "I can't hurt you if I'm not there in the first place. But…I can't run from Validar forever. And if I'm going to overcome him, my best chance is with you by my side."
"That's more like it." Chrom smiled, happy to hear those words.
"Yeah. With us together, there's no way we can lose." Spidey responded.
"But therein lies the favor..." Robin looks to the floor, looking a little depressed from what he's about to say. "If Validar somehow does gain control over me... Promise me... Promise me, you'll cut me down." He requests from both Chrom and Peter.
While Chrom looks in shock upon hearing Robin's request, Spidey chuckles, believing Robin's just messing with him. "That's funny. For a second there, I thought you were being serious about killing you if you lost control." Spidey takes another stare at Robin's serious face, slowly starting to realize he means it. "…Oh."
"You can't mean that. You can't ASK that!" Chrom said to Robin, thinking he's out of his mind to request such a favor.
"I'll resist him with all that I am. I promise you both. But there are other people involved here, too many people to ignore... You have the responsibility to protect them as well." Robin replied.
Chrom thinks about this for another moment before reluctantly agreeing to Robin's selfless request. "…You're right. The words burn my tongue, but you're right."
"And how about you, Peter?" Robin turned to his other best friend.
"Honestly, let's wait 'til we cross that road, huh? I'm still pretty indecisive. Just promise us you'll try everything in your power to make sure Validar won't take control over you. If some of the friends I know can overcome mind-control through sheer will alone, I know you can too." Spidey said some encouraging words to Robin.
Robin nods. "I'll try. You know I will." He replied before they head out through the Dragon's Table.
Dragon's Table Central Altar
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-"Run all you like, you can't escape fate!"
Dr. Doom, Salem, and Validar stand front of a dragon statue at the center of this great altar, waiting patiently for their adversaries to arrive with the "key." And as expected, Chrom, Spider-Man, Ero, Robin, Sonic, and all members of Team RWBY run up to interrupt their plans of world domination.
"Validar!" Chrom shouted as he stops on his tracks.
"Doom!" Spidey shouted, performing the same actions as everyone else, braking before his inter-dimensional foes.
"Heroes…Doom is glad you have traveled this far, through space and time of this little world, just to witness your own failure." Doom taunted the heroes while he summons the Genesis Stone to his right palm and Validar summons the Fire Emblem into his left. "We have the Fire Emblem, as well as the Genesis Stone. The Dragon's Table is now set to feast. With all ancient items in hand, we will awaken Grima to this world, and beyond."
"You'll DESTROY the world! Lucina has seen it!" Chrom stated.
"We do not wish to see this world destroyed as much as you do, prince. Instead, we're going to conquer it, after we take control of Grima." Salem said.
"Control Grima? What are you really planning with him?" Ruby asked them.
"The fell dragon possesses incredible power that even it doesn't know it's full potential. The Genesis Stone, power that distorts time and control fate, will allow him to use that full potential. But as you are aware, Exo Stones are dangerously intense to master, especially for those not born from the linked worlds. With him by Doom's side, Grima will turn into the perfect weapon to control ALL OF TIME." Doom explained his intentions with the fell dragon.
"Control all of time?" Blake repeated, a little worried.
"I doubt that'll work. Hasn't Eggman told you the last few times he FAILED to control gods? What makes you think controlling Grima will be any different?" Sonic asked the united villains.
"Through the Awakening rite. It's not only for exalts and Naga, you know." Validar finally spoke up. "With it, we'll arouse Grima! The fell dragon needs only a mortal vessel, which you so kindly brought along…" He maliciously chuckles as he points to his sacred son, Robin.
"…Oh, gods. He means me." Robin said, a little stunned in the face.
"You ken quickly, Robin. That's my boy." Validar said.
"No! Never! I'll die first!" Robin rejected becoming Validar's puppet for Grima.
"Robin. Haven't you forgotten?" Salem asked him. "You carry your father's blood, which in reality, is the blood of the fell dragon. Similar to the Other, his soul slumbers within you. And now, the time has awaken you both!"
"What did she say?!" Weiss shouted in incredible surprise after what they learned about Robin.
"I'M Grima? I'M the fell dragon?!" Robin responded, absolutely shocked at this reveal.
"My new friend is the reincarnation of Ero's greatest enemy?!" Spidey said, shocked.
"The Grimleal have worked for generations to create someone like you..." Validar said to the still, shocked Robin. "A vessel worthy of our master. Simply having Grima's blood in your veins is not enough... My father was not worthy, nor was his father before him. Even I was not able to accept Grima's most sacred gift. But you? You had all the makings. You were perfection!"
"E-Ero…Is he speaking the truth?" Robin asked the ancient spider-warrior.
"I had my suspicions about you since the very beginning, child…But yes. You ARE the reincarnation of that bothersome beast, down to his "disgusting" black cells." Ero answered, bluntly.
"N-No…" Robin knees to the ground, trying to deny this is what fate had in store for him.
"If your damnable mother hadn't been seized by weakness and fear..." Validar resumed his little story about Robin's origins. "She betrayed us, stole you from your crib, and fled with you in the night! I know naught of your life thereafter; but all that matters is your return. That you are here is PROOF of your purpose! It is why you still draw breath!"
"Tch. Fate sure doesn't play fair, does it?" Sonic asked, annoyed by all of this.
"Fate never plays fair." Validar replied with a devious smirk.
"Guess that means we should start playing dirty. Punch fate in the face, along with your ugly goatee." Yang responded.
"You've proven nothing but your own madness. This can be stopped. YOU can be stopped!" Chrom said to the mystic villains.
"Do not underestimate us, boy." Doom replied.
"You may have killed me in some future past, but I am stronger this time! With the power of the Dragon's Table flowing through me, and the Genesis Stone controlling your fate, we are unstoppable." Validar stated.
"I dunno. You don't look like the Juggernaut. This will be easy! Right, Robin?" Spidey asked his friend, but he seems to be developing a strange headache. "…Robin? You okay, man?"
"Nngh…" Robin grunts as Validar starts to take over his mind again.
"Stay with us, Robin!" Sonic said to help him break free from Validar's influence.
"You can't let him get control over you! You can fight it!" Ruby said.
"We've all seen how strong you are! We've seen what you're capable of! Don't let him shake your resolve!" Chrom told him.
"G-Guys, I…I don't know." Robin slowly replied, clenching to head to resist.
Doom chuckled at the amusing resistance Robin's putting up. "How long can you refuse your calling? Doom wonders. Mere words from your friends won't be enough to alter what destiny "WE" have in store for you."
"They're more than just words!" Robin replied, fighting back against Validar's control.
"Be still now, my son…" Validar said.
"My life did not begin with you. It began the day Chrom found me in that field. I have been all over the world below, and I have helped change it, for the better. I have fought and laughed and bled with my friends, and THAT is what matters! The ties we forged, the bonds we share, they are of a power greater than Grima and that Genesis Stone." Robin stated, making his friends very proud of resisting his father's control.
"A ludicrous idea, as you will know better than anyone soon enough..." Validar said.
"We do agree on one thing: my life so far has all been in preparation for this moment... When I beat you or die trying!" Robin retorted.
Salem chuckled. "He definitely has your courage, Validar."
"Yes, but he sadly possesses his mother's judgement." Validar replied.
"It's no matter. Do your worst, empty vessel! We won't kill you, but let me assure, you will suffer astronomical wounds that transcends time!" Doom stated with absolute certainty.
"Enough with the time puns! Only I have time to say them during a fight!" Spidey retorted, annoying the villains to start attacking them right that instant, which the heroes are more than happy to oblige.
BGM End
As soon as the destined battle starts, Doom uses the Genesis Stone to put up a "Dark Time Barrier" that breaks them off from the rest of their teammates. "Looks like we're not needed." Kaine said. Fortunately for him and his allies, they're not gonna be sidelined from this epic showdown. A number of the Master of Evil's minions and the Grimleal are teleported into the room to deal with the remaining heroes.
"Everyone! Follow my lead!" Lucina draws her sword and leads her friends to battle against the small army.
Meanwhile inside the barrier, while Team RWBY deals with Salem, and Sonic and Spider-Man clash with Dr. Doom and his Exo Stone, Chrom and Robin are left with Validar's dark magic. Similar to some alternate timeline, Chrom battle-cries his way towards Validar for an epic showdown close-quarters while Robin charges up thunder magic in his palms, but before he could fire, the dark sorcerer teleports to the air.
"Up there," shouted Chrom, just seconds before dodging the sorcerer's gigantic dark magic blast.
Robin was able to fire a Thoron at his father but misses when he teleported while saying "You fool," to his adversaries. The malicious sorcerer stuns the swordsman with his lightning magic, preparing the killing blow in the form of a dark energy sphere. "Die!" Validar launches his magic blast for Robin to intercept with an attack of his own, saving Chrom's life. As the smoke clears, they both see the dark-colored magician grunting, impressed by their perseverance.
BGM-Final Fantasy 9 OST-Dark Messenger
Chrom and Robin stand prime and tall, ready to end this battle once and for all. "This is it! Our final battle! You're one of us, Robin, and no "destiny" can change that. Now let's kill this dastard and be done with it!" Chrom said to his best pal in the whole world, before they rush back to battle against their destiny.
While the Ylissean duo reenact their battle with Validar, old rematches begin starting with Team RWBY versus Salem. The Huntress Avengers go into their respective "Maiden Style Change" and fire a barrage of energy projectiles that Salem deflects with a magical shield. Ruby decides to go full frontal, switching to her silvery powerful "Lunar Maiden Style Change" and crushes Salem's shield with the destructive force of her dual-wield energy scythe, staggering the dark queen temporarily.
"Urgh. Once again, we face each other in combat, Ruby." Salem said while fighting close-quarters with Ruby.
"And once again, you'll lose big time. Get ready for your close up." Ruby quickly slides under Salem, double-kicking her in the back before vanishing away from a mystic blast.
"You won't be so lucky this time. Fate and time is ours to command. We've seen the future, and your future leads to a terrifying defeat." Salem replied.
"Just because you have the Genesis Stone doesn't mean you can control our fate! We choose our own destinies! They're not pre-determined by a magic rock! As Robin said, our bonds will bring us to a brighter future!" Ruby stated with determination and confidence.
"Why do I waste time talking to insolent children still learning about the world around them? Very well. Come, and face your future." Salem taunts the girls to keep fighting her, which they promptly follow. Yang strikes Salem with a variety of heavy punches that Salem is able to parry and counter by summoning the head of a symbiote monster and commands it to eat her. Yang drills it away with a powerful energy punch, just as Blake shows up to slice up Salem's right arm. Salem senses this and elongates her hand to grab the faunus. As she starts crushing her, Salem notices the devious smirk from Blake before she explodes into ice, revealing to be a clone that partially freezes Salem's right hand, giving the real Blake enough time to slice up that frozen arm.
With her symbiote, Salem recovers just in time for Weiss to surround her inside a thick icy fog created from the mystical Vapors of Valtorr that starts barraging the dark witch with icy Lancers trying to stab her. Salem quickly blows them and the fog away with a simple magic blast, but was caught off-guard by Ruby's ISO-Proton Cannon, blasting her straight dab to the Dark Time Barrier.
"Geh. You've improved a bit." Salem praised the girls' strength as she slowly stands up from the pain she endured. "But I just can't say the same for your friends. They seem lost against time and look confuse." She directs the girls to Spider-Man and Sonic's battle against Dr. Doom and his time-freezing Genesis Stone.
"Guys! How're you handling Doom?" Weiss asked the red-blue tag team.
"It's going peachy!" Spidey said so sarcastically before falling victim to Doom's constant time-freezing, which gives Doom enough time to blast him and Sonic away with his powerful magic and tech.
"It's useless. Doom commands time, and now you're running out of it." Doom stated, teleporting with the Exo Stone to attack his foes by manipulating the earth itself with the Genesis Stone's secondary elemental power, flinging large boulders and uses them as projectiles.
"I move faster than time! You can't slow me down!" Sonic boasted at light-speed.
"Be careful what you say, hedgehog." Doom uses the Genesis Stone to actually slow Sonic down but speed himself up immensely, kicking the slowhog back to Spider-Man with a lightning-fast foot dive.
"Ugh. This isn't working at all." Sonic said, holding onto his right arm as he stands back up, starting to feel exhausted.
"My Spider-Sense is useless against his time-powers. It's like he's skipping through its radar, it's range. That or he froze it somehow. How can one BEAT time? It sounds scientifically impossible." Spidey remarked.
"No, it's not! We just gotta keep pushing forward!" Sonic said to his spider-friend to never give up. "If he's using an Exo Stone to give us trouble, then let's do the same. We'll show him our combined might can surpass even time!"
Spidey takes out the crimson War Stone and stares into the small galaxy embedded inside the crystal. "I understand. Okay. Let's transcend the limits of time and kick Doom's butt, together!"
"Now we're talking!" Sonic bumps fists with Peter, and they both loudly rush head first right at Doom.
"Haven't I told you fools! It's useless!" Doom freezes time around him and prepares to annihilate them while they're stuck in time, but to his great surprise, Sonic and Spidey were able to move through sheer force of will and power thanks to using the War Stone to enhance their strength, strong enough to break free from time itself and kick Doom straight smacking to a dragon statue.
"What's the matter, Doom? Ran outta time?" Spidey quipped while he and Sonic are surrounded in a staggering cosmic, crimson aura.
Irritated, Doom teleports next to the heroes just for Sonic to kick him aside and starting striking him from all sides in his War Stone enhanced Light-Speed Mode. "Told ya before! My speed can transcend the limits of time! There's no way you can win!" He homing attacks Doom towards Spidey so he could web throw him stuck to a wall.
"Try any trick on Doom! You'll never escape your inevitable defeat!" Doom said after teleporting himself from the wall.
"Yes I can! I've been doing it with my house bills!" Peter joked before resuming the fight against the time-warping Doom.
Back with Chrom and Robin, they really are reenacting the battle they had with Validar back in Lucina's timeline, down to how they use their attacks in battle. "Robin, why insist on these games?" Validar asked his son. "You only delay the inevitable. And besides, the alternative? Have you considered what happens should I fall? These followers of Naga and the Spider will spurn you now that they've learned what you are. Kill me, and you incur the wrath of the Grimleal as well... Would you truly choose to be so utterly alone?" He asked a really good question that got even Robin silent for a moment. "Humans are weak, pathetic creatures... Your "bonds" with them will bind you. You are destined for a greater purpose! The GREATEST purpose! You are to be a GOD!"
"…Not your god, not today." Robin replied, putting on his hood and fires a destructive fire blast that leaves Validar open to some of Chrom's sword swings.
"Heh ha, are you so eager to meet your end, little Prince? You WILL die here. Your future is already written." Validar proclaimed, blasting him and Robin away with an intense shockwave blast.
"I tell you again: I make my own future. And it's one you'll not live to see!" Chrom responded, throwing a silver sword to knock Validar's dark tome from his hand, leaving him wide open for a clean horizontal slash through the chest, giving Robin enough time to charge up a critical thunder magic that severely weakens Validar's life, practically close to death.
BGM End
"Heh heh…Even this…was meant to be…" Validar spoke with his dying breath. As the dark mage's body starts to dissipate, collapsing to the ground while doing so, Chrom looks back to his best friend with a victorious smile, not sensing the dark wizard still strong enough for one final attack. "This isn't over…Damn you BOTH!" The villainous wizard fires one last dark magic blast at Chrom to take him down with him, but thankfully, Robin shoves him out of the way, taking the hit instead.
"Are you all right?" Chrom asked after he hurried back to Robin's side. "That's the end of him." He said, looking back to see Validar disappear into nothingness. "Thanks to you, we carried the day. We can rest easy now. At long last…" But while Chrom's talking, Robin's vision grows red and bloodshot, getting worse by the second, much to the swordsman's worry. "…What's wrong? Hey, hang on-." Then, just like in the future, a possessed Robin stabs Chrom in the heart with his thunder magic just as the tactician regains his visions and looks in horror at what he done. "This is not your…your fault…Promise me you'll escape from this place…Please, go…"
Seemingly with his last breath, Chrom collapses to the ground motionless as an evil laughter is heard. "Chrom! You alright?!" Ruby asked when he sees Chrom's "dead" body. At the same time, Spider-Man managed to knock the Genesis Stone off of Doom's hands, sending it flying to the ground so hard it sparks an enormous flash of bright light that's enough to encompass the whole chamber, blinding everyone and destroying the Dark Time Barrier separating everyone. After the light vanishes, Robin sees the Genesis Stone and slowly approaches it to pick it up, and the moment he touched it, he felt a swarm of its cosmic powers coursing through him, making the returning Validar laugh even harder than ever.
"Darn it! That creep's still alive?" Sonic questioned, but then he, Spidey, and Team RWBY are blasted away by the combined magic of Salem and Doom.
"We told you, didn't we? Salem smirked at her enemies.
"Try as you might, the future will never change. Not while we're in control." Doom stated.
As the D-Avengers slowly get up from the ground, Lucina runs up to check on the corpse of her father. "N-No…Father! No!" She cried.
"With the five Gemstones in hand, my magic knows no bounds. Robin is powerless to resist me. Do you see now, Son? Human bonds are leaves in the wind. They offer you nothing." Validar said to his son as the mind-controlled Robin looms over Chrom's dead body.
"This can't be happening. We were supposed to change this! Everything I have done is...worthless." Lucina starts to feel all her efforts instantly becoming crushed since she didn't change anything that would lead to this destined day. Now she stands hopeless, wondering what's going to happen next that would lead to their demise. Fortunately for her, there's still a small chance for the future to change, starting with the return of a certain warrior.
"The hell it was!"
"Huh? I know that voice…" Lucina turns to find a VERY alive Basilio walking up to meet her and the D-Avengers, surprising the united villains of his sudden return.
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "Don't you put any stock in this destiny hogwash!"
"Don't you put any stock in this destiny hogwash! Let the dead whine about their fate... As long as I draw breath, I choose to keep fighting! That's what life is all about!" Basilio stated, sounding very alive.
"Khan Basilio! I-I thought... We all thought you were—." Lucina responded in shock to see the khan alive and well.
"Worm food, back in Valm? It almost went that way. But I scraped by, thanks to you." Basilio replied.
"I don't understand." Lucina said.
"Once I took a couple hits from Walhart, I knew he was too strong for me. Normally pride would've had me dead before I'd even thought twice about it. But your warning gave me the courage to be a coward, hah ha! I played dead like a big, bald opossum! It wasn't hard. In truth I almost WAS dead. You saved my life, Lucina. Had you not said anything... I'd have stood my ground against that monster and died on the spot." Basilio explained.
"Oh, Basilio!" Lucina smiled, relieved to see one part of her future didn't come to pass.
Doom snarls in anger, as he somehow didn't saw this coming a mile away. "How is this possible?"
"You REALLY want to know, metal face? Fine, I'll tell you. You've been tricked." Basilio replied.
"What?!"
"Robin and Spider-Man predicted everything that would happen here. Said they say it in a dream. Saw this very fight with you." Basilio told the Latverian King.
"Actually, it's been Ero who's been having those dreams, and they've been bothering the heck out of me I started asking what they were all about. And once we learned they were visions of a battle similar to this one, we took EXTRA precautions right away." Spidey said with a smirk behind his mask.
Ero appears and mocks his enemies with his evilish laughter. "You should know nothing gets by me, not even fate."
"Guess what else was in the dream? The five Gemstones." Basilio resumed the talking. "When Flavia gave my stone to Chrom, Robin and Spidey saw what fate had in store. They knew Chrom couldn't bring the real Gemstones here to Plegia. That would be like swinging a big, juicy steak right in front of destiny's choppers!" He compared.
"Gya ha ha! A worthy bluff, Feroxi fool, but ridiculous all the same. I've had your merry little band watched since Carrion Isle. Your every move! So I know Robin or the Spider hasn't touched the stones, they hasn't been near them!" Validar said.
"You watched our party, yes, the members your men knew about; the live ones. But they weren't watching dead men, were they? ...They weren't watching me." Basilio said, slowly causing the villains to worry a bit.
"You mean…" Salem speaks, sweating a bit.
"Heh, looks like it might be finally starting to sink in…" Basilio replied.
"That is not possible! These have to be... They must be..." Validar really starting to look worried, slowly realizing his plan is crumbling.
"Validar…" Doom stares at the nervous sorcerer with killing intent, blaming him for this miserable miscalculation.
"What's the matter, guys? You look surprised. I thought you KNEW this would happen. Unless, you were too over-confident in your "destined" victory you didn't bother looking into the future to see you've already lost before the fighting began!" Sonic smirked as he knows the egotiscal conquerors are too stubborn to use the full potential of the Genesis Stone to seal their fate.
Basilio laughed to further mock the malicious villains. "Robin and Spidey had your destiny beat days ago, when they came up with this plan. The expression on your face…it makes all those long nights in hiding worth it. Hah!"
"Damn you! Damn you to all the hells! None of this matters! Chrom is dead! Your fates sealed! Grima will...Eh?" Suddenly, the villains are attacked from behind by Robin's thunder magic as Chrom stands up, alive and well.
"No…" Doom said, weakened.
"Father! You're alive!" Lucina said, extremely happy to see her father is still alive.
"How was your little nap, Chrom?" Yang quipped.
"Electrifying…" Chrom punned while smiling at his little joke. "Robin…spared me…He weakened his magic…just before the strike…Still hurts though…"
"Sorry." Robin shamelessly apologized, no longer under Validar's control and now possessing the Genesis Stone in his palm.
"And now he has the Genesis Stone. This could get ugly." Salem said, looking worried.
"GRAAAAAAGH! Damn you all, and your stones! I won't need them to kill you!" Validar proclaimed.
"Hey, Robin. Ready to end this, buddy?" Spidey asked his pal.
"Let's do it. I'm ready to see what our true future has in store." Robin replied.
BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic's Fight
"We will. Now. Together!" Chrom points the Falchion to the sky and joins Robin for round 2 against Validar, this time holding their destinies in their own hands.
At the other side of the large chamber, Scarlet Spider and the other heroes and warriors are still dealing with the villains' hordes of minions and are slowly starting to become overwhelmed, but to their amazement, a good portion of the mooks were cut in half thanks to the timely arrival of the Silver Samurai and Say'ri. "Say'ri and the Silver Samurai?" Kaine is surprised to see their old allies here to help them save the world.
"Long time no see, Sir Scarlet Spider. You don't mind if we cut in on your fun?" Say'ri asked with a teasing smirk.
"Heh. Be my guest." Scarlet replied.
"Let us end this farce." Harada powers up his blade with Tachyon energy and proceeds to clean house, mopping the floor with the scared goons with his katana.
Currently with Doom, without the Genesis Stone, he has lost his time advantage against Spider-Man and Sonic, who are now working together with Basilio and a returning Flavia to finish him off while he's vulnerable. "Give it up, Vicky! Without your time stone, it's only a matter of TIME until we kick your metal butt!" Sonic stated.
"Actually, the time stone is TOTALLY different." Spidey said.
"Whatever. Same difference." Sonic shrugged.
"Insolent children! You DARE underestimate the might of Doom!" Doom fires an irritated mystic bolt at his enemies, forcing them to dodge and scatter.
"Compared to Walhart, you're nothing! Now eat my shiny, Feroxi axe!" Basilio mocked, attacking Doom with his silver axe.
After receiving that disrespectful swing and comment, Doom punches Basilio with an electrified fist to the face. And before beating him to a pastry, Spidey webs up Doom's gauntlets just before Flavia damages his armor with her silver sword. "Let's put this dastard down, for good this time!" She said.
"Way ahead of you!" Sonic grabs Peter's web line, and while Doom is distracted with Flavia, he quickly spins around the dictator so fast, tying up his entire body with Spidey's webbing, leaving him completely vulnerable and defenseless.
"You're outta time, Doom! Remember to set your alarm to your next beating!" Spidey quipped as he kicks the webbed-up Doom to a wall, knocking him out.
Nearby, Lucina joins Team RWBY in a final fight against Salem. "Ready to end this, Lucina?" Ruby asked with a smile.
"Yeah. I'm with you all the way." Lucina returned with her own smile.
"Impudent child! You have failed to change the future at every turn. What makes you think this time will be different?!" Salem asked the time-traveler.
"Perhaps it won't…But either way, it's no reason to spare your miserable life!" Lucina replied, determined to defeat Salem and the Masters of Evil's diabolical plans.
"Bumblebee!" Ruby shouted to Yang and Blake to perform their team attack. Yang quickly latches on to one end of Blake's Gambol Shroud as the cat Huntress swings her around to create momentum and throws Yang, and a couple of her own explosive clones, at Salem, blowing her up for Weiss, while standing on an airborne glyph, to fire a mystical blast at the vulnerable witch. And even though Salem was able to counter the blast and enter a stalemate, this gave Lucina and Ruby enough time to dive-bomb her from the air with one, last combined slash attack called "Future Slayer," defeating the Dark Queen of Remnant once again.
"Im…possible…" Salem stuttered as she falls to the ground in defeat, with all five girls high-fiving each other in success.
With most of his allies already defeated, Validar is left alone to confront his enemies and demolish them, starting with Chrom and Robin, who has been a constant thorn in his side across time. "Rrgh... F-fools... Destiny cannot...be...unraveled...!" He stuttered before taking a sword beating from Chrom.
"Quiet! You're as ear-grating as Spider-Man! Let's say we end this, Robin?" Chrom asked his best pal.
"Yeah!" Robin nodded, charging up a magic blast mixed with the Genesis Stone's power.
With a jaw-breaking kick, Chrom sends Validar to the air for Robin to defeat his father once and for all. "It's over, Validar!" Robin blasts his father with a magic time blast, which causes Validar to visibly crack from across the body as his essence starts to disappear across time.
He screams in pain as he could sense his end. "WHY…WHY WOULD YOU SQUANDER YOUR BIRTHRIGHT…ROBIN…MY SON…" He screamed as he disappears into nothingness, ending the threat of Validar for good.
"What did you to him? Is he dead?" Spider-Man asked the tactician.
"No, but thanks to the Genesis Stone, he'll be forever scattered across time, never to be a threat to anyone ever again. You could say he "ran out of time"." Robin made a clever time pun.
Peter laughed at his funny joke. "Man, that was well-timed." He quipped, giving the laughing Robin a fist-bump of victory.
"I think I prefer being dead to hearing your ill-time jokes, you two." Chrom joked after hearing all these time puns, but laughs at them anyways.
BGM End
With Doom and Salem incapitated, and Validar scattered across time, the threat of Grima can finally be laid to rest, with the world never having to worry about his resurrection. "We did it! We did it, everyone! We won!" Tails said happily, joining his friends after his part of the team defeated the remaining goons blocking their way.
"Was there ever any doubt we couldn't?" Yang asked with a smirk.
"Not at all. We've managed to alter our destiny." Chrom said, but the very next moment, they all hear a familiar-sounding laugh haunting the halls of the altar.
"Ohohoho! Are you SURE about that?!"
"The endgame has only just begun!"
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- Id (Dilemma)
Teleporting right in front of the heroes are Eggman, Doc Ock, and the mysterious Robin seen a while back with Validar, this time wearing a high-tech, slim chest plate styled after a dragon. "Eggman! Doc Ock! And…" Spidey is taken aback a bit when he notices the Robin look-a-like.
"You!" Robin finished for Peter, recognizing his clone.
"You may have altered the course of history, but not its destination." The Robin clone said.
"What do you mean?!" The real Robin asked.
"It is still written that Chrom died here at your hands. Or, perhaps to be more precise…mine." The clone replied.
"Who are you, really?!" Chrom demands an answer, the true identity of this Robin clone.
"I told you, I'm Robin. The Robin that murdered you and became the fell dragon, Grima." He then points to Lucina standing next to her father. "When this "Marth" of yours decided to come back in time…I came with her, though I unfortunately lost the Genesis Stone I had in my possession during the travel between time periods, but thankfully you brought it back for me."
"So in other words…" Ero materializes to meet his long, lost nemesis. "The bothersome pest that doesn't know when to stay dead has return. It's been a long time, Grima."
"Ahhh, the Other. It truly has been too long since our last encounter. I've heard you've grown soft. Didn't think you've become so weak that you've resorted to bonding to such a flimsy vessel." Grima insulted Spider-Man.
"Hmph. Like you're one to talk. Look at the thin flesh you've taken over. So bony to the bone. Not to mention possessing such a punchable face." Ero insulted Grima, and to a certain extent Robin.
"I-I'm sure he didn't mean that." Spidey nervously assured to Robin.
"I'm having a hard time believing that." Robin said, looking completely unconvinced, then returns to the main topic at hand. "So another version of me, huh? But how…?"
Grima sighed. "I can be so daft sometimes…It's really quite simple. I am you. Our only difference is the decisions we've made... Those vivid dreams you have; those are my memories. We share those memories because we share the same heart...Grima's heart." The Fell Vessel answered.
"Th-the headaches... The voices... It was you!" Robin responded.
"Your recollection begins the day I entered this world. I intended for us to unite then, the first moment I found you. But your heart was still too weak to contain Grima's power... The shock of my attempt wiped your memory clean." Future Robin explained.
"So how was it I possessed your memories, cockroach?" Ero asked him.
"Probably had to do with the Genesis Stone. We do share a "friendly" connection, after all. The both of us aren't so different, if you think about all our similarities." Future Robin said, seeing himself and Ero are quite similar, especially because they are both powerful totems possessing an extremely-worthy host.
"Oh really? I don't remember using my host to destroy the world. That's usually reserved to his bad luck." Ero replied while joking with Peter.
"Can you cut me some slack? My life just sucks, okay." Spidey remarked before Grima continues his little story.
"I knew if Lucina managed to rewrite history and recruit you, Spider, Grima would never be resurrected. And I, in turn, would cease to exist. So I had to step in, now and again, to keep my future secured. Like when Validar was almost killed in his attempt to assassinate Emmeryn... But that is the past, now. We have our future past to think of. All that remains is for you to become Grima, as I did. Then you and I will become as one, and we can reclaim my power." Future Robin explained.
"We are not yet the same?" Robin asked his future self.
"...You were supposed to choose godhood over your pathetic band of servants. But if you'll not claim the sacrifice laid at the Dragon's Table... I will claim it in your place!" Future Robin replied.
"And we're gonna need the Genesis Stone to hasten the process!" Ock yanks the Genesis Stone right off Robin's hands and place it inside Future Robin's chest plate to work as a conduit for the stone's power.
"The Genesis Stone!" Robin shouted.
"With this new high tech armor we improved from the prototype we gave Walhart, Grima's power will be maximized then further boost to greater heights with the Genesis Stone's power!" Eggman explained that he and Ock were really using Walhart as a test to better regulate an outworlder's control over an Exo Stone, but to also test controlling their victims out of there free will.
"What?!" Spidey replied while Future Robin laughs, forming a dark aura around his body.
"The fell dragon and I are one! And though my journey through time has diminished my power…the life force here shall renew me!" Future Robin said as his powers starts to increase immensely.
BGM End
"Nah-ah-ah! No feeding until 6:00! It's time for your bed time, pal!" Spidey launches himself towards Future Grima in a last minute effort to stop the ritual from reviving the Present Grima. He pounds his fist at the barrier the Fell Reincarnation put up with the Genesis Stone's energy, so Peter decided to power himself up with the War Stone's power.
"You fool! What're you doing?! You're going to mess everything up!" Eggman shouted at the spider.
"That's the idea!" Spidey retorted, further increasing his power to breach through Grima's barrier, and with one loud strike, he punches the armor and its reactor so hard with the War Stone's destructive power, the Genesis Stone actually cracks and destroys the armor, leaving Grima dazed and confused.
"Spider-Man! You did it!" Lucina shouted happily.
"Chalk one up for the Amazing Spider-Man! Haha!" Sun chuckled.
"Ah yeah! Who just saved the future?! I did!" Spidey boasted his increasing ego.
BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST- Merlina: Her Wicked Smile
"You IDIOT! Look what you've done!" Ock shouted as if he's about to pull his hair out.
"Huh? What're you talking about?" Spidey asked the frightened doctors.
"You've cracked the Genesis Stone! And without that armor controlling his power…?!" Eggman hurriedly replied.
At that very moment, Spider-Man's Spider-Senses goes off the charts to something big and its directing him towards a dazed Future Grima. "You've interrupted the ritual…All this power…the Genesis Stone…" Said cracked stone ominously hovers in the air and forcefully merge with Grima's dark energy right in the chest, corrupting the pure white color of the Genesis Stone, which in turn, starts to corrupt Grima with uncontrollable power. "…Can't…control…It…It…FEELS GOOOOOD!" A corrupted Grima speaks in a dark voice, as his body turns a corrupted dark-reddish color, with his pure red eye's gaining two black lines that go from the bottom of their eyes.
At that moment, the whole altar shakes violently, causing the ceiling to collapse from Future Grima's corrupted power and the resurrection of the Present Grima. "SPIDER-MAN, WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Chrom shouted at the wall-crawler.
"How 'bout you yell at me AFTER we escape certain death?!" Spidey hastily recommended as all heroes and villains hurry themselves out of the crumbling Dragon's Table so they won't get caught in its destruction.
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "Grima. It's all over…"
As Grima awakens, a large pillar of dark energy burst into the sky from The Dragon's able, causing multiple time distortions to appear all across the world. As Chrom and Lucina flee the scene, they are saved by Spider-Man from a lightning blast, but then turns to the sky once he heard Grima's fully resurrected roar, flying ominously over the altar with his extremely large body. "Oh boy…This just got bad. Really, really bad…" Spidey said after noticing the multiple time distortions in reality.
"All right. Now what?" Chrom asked, having no clue what to do next.
Meanwhile, Lucina shivers in fear as her worst nightmare has been reawakened into this world. "Grima. It's all over…"
BGM End
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "The life force here shall renew me!"
Everyone, including the reawakened Doom and Salem, stare in horror at the sight of the resurrected Grima who's bigger than the entire Dragon's Table. While everyone is distracted with Grima's presence, Grimadoom and Cinder appear beside their allies and enemies.
"We heard some rumbling and loud roaring happening here." Grimadoom said. "Did you guys wake up that big, ol' name-taker…HOLY, HE'S MASSIVE!" The hedgehog clone is struck in awe after seeing the enormous fell dragon hovering above them.
"Still smaller than Galactus!" Spidey quipped.
"T-That's Grima…Is that seriously him?" Cinder asked, actually frightened of this beast's size and roars.
"Yes. That's the demon who destroyed my world. And now he is among us…" Lucina answered.
"The terrible size of it...gods! For once the legends spoke true. We can't face him, not in a straight battle, he'd kill us all!" Frederick said.
"This is all your fault, Spider-Man." Doom puts the blame of Grima's resurrection to the wall-crawler who was trying to save the world.
"My fault?! Who was trying to resurrect and control the giant lizard to take over all of time again?! Certainly wasn't me!" Spidey retorted.
"We warned you that those not native to the linked worlds cannot control an Exo Stone without special armor built by us, but you had to destroy the one Grima was wearing with the War Stone, cracking the Genesis Stone so it would corrupt the creature, both present and future Grimas. Now he's out-of-control, attacking all timelines at once, existing in their past, present, and future simultaneously. And he won't stop until ALL OF TIME is DESTROYED." Doom explained.
"Blame us all you want, Doom! You brought this upon yourself the moment you THOUGHT you could control Grima! I have fought him before, and from my experiences, that scaly lizard is too stubborn to be controlled!" Ero retorted.
"We tried you to warn ya, but you didn't listen. Guess Eggman really didn't tell you about his past failures with Chaos and Dark Gaia, not to mention Emerl and the few times Metal Sonic betrayed him." Sonic sassily remarked.
"Would you shut up, you spiny little twerp?!" Eggman shouted at his arch-nemesis.
"Arguing with each other won't get us anywhere! Our worlds are in danger!" Chrom said to break up the tension.
"Prince Chrom is right. We don't have much time until the time distortions get worse and devour our worlds. I propose, for this occasion, we put aside our differences and work together to stop the fell dragon." Salem offered to work together with her enemies if it's for their survival.
"And WHY should we trust you?!" Lucina asked, not believing the witch's words of teamwork for a second.
"I propose we settle this, here and now." Scarlet Spider pops his stingers, looking to kill a few scientists and an immortal witch.
"We don't want to die too, you insignificant twerps. We have worlds to conquer. We don't want to see them destroyed." Doc Ock replied.
"I actually had a dream about this once." Grimadoom spoke.
"That is creepy." Lissa responded.
"What? A hedgehog can't dream? I don't mind doing the classic hero-villain team up. It actually sounds fun." Grimadoom replied, agreeing to the team up.
"Yeah. Same here." Cinder agreed as well.
"Well, I guess we're all in agreement to work together to save all of time, but…how?" Ruby asked, wondering how they can defeat such a huge threat that's in control over all of time.
"We could use the Chaos Emeralds, but we don't know where the last one is." Tails responded.
"If only we still had the Fire Emblem, we could ask Naga for her power. Then at least we'd have a chance." Chrom said.
"But Validar took the Emblem!" Lissa told her big bro.
"And it was lost inside the Dragon's Table…I know." Chrom remembered, starting to lose hope.
"What, you mean THIS Fire Emblem?" Robin reveals the completed Fire Emblem he recovered before the Dragon's Table collapsed in on itself.
"The Emblem! But how…" Chrom wondered as Robin hands him back the family relic.
"I stole it from you once, remember? The least I could do was steal it back." Robin replied.
"Robin, you old dastard. You never cease to amaze! Quickly now! We must complete the Awakening before Grima catches on!" Chrom said to his allies and new allies.
"It's said the first exalt paid tribute to Naga at a site on Mount Prism." Frederick said.
"Where's that?" Spidey asked.
"Follow me. I've been there before. There's an altar at the peak of the mountain. Chrom, if you want to perform the Awakening, it must be done there." Ero responded.
"A small hope is better than no hope at all. Hurry, everyone!" Chrom and his allies hurry off of Little Planet to return to the world below and head to Mount Prism in hopes of finding a way to stop Grima from destroying all of time.
BGM End
Beast OST-Next Episode Preview
Ruby: Hey! It's me, Ruby Rose! There's only one way we can stop Grima from destroying time. We have to perform the Awakening to unlock the Falchion's true power. But will that be enough, even without the last Chaos Emerald's power? Uh-oh! No time to answer that now! Creatures and villains from alternate timelines are converging and they all have a bone to pick with us!
Next time on D-Avengers: The Fell Awakening:
Exalted Awakening
Ruby: Lava-monster Grimm?! What sort of timeline are they from?
KFX Here: You just gotta love the Parker Luck. It's so bad it can disrupt the fabric of time itself. Final battle is approaching, everybody, with both Grima AND Morlun. I haven't forgotten about him. That guy likes to show up whenever he feels like it and doesn't care about anything else unless it involves spiders, not even if time collapses.
