Most Evil

by darknessDemon

Hundreds of individuals from a plethora of worlds are sent to a dark dimension where they must work together to fight villains, recruit allies, and explore the land. Along the way they must figure out the mysteries of this place if they ever want to go home.

18. Luminous Void

Chapter 18

Luminous Void

After their close encounter with Marx, Pride, King Boo, and Crisis, the group consisting of Molly, Steven, Zach, Frog, Jake, Kirby, Sai, Stranger, Maxwell, Yoshi, Link, Chowder, Miroku, Gaaranooki, Ivory, Rotom, Killdra, Locke, Luigi, Knuckles, Mumbo, Horton, Launcher Spider, Perry, Patrick, Pit, Deidara, Abe, Tour Guide, Anjren, and Vampire Lady traveled through the barren wasteland and eventually reached a location of interest.

It was a small town of buildings with alleyways of gravel paths weaving along the spaces between them. All of the buildings were abandoned and dilapidated with missing windows, crumbling frames, and dusty interiors. It was as if the town hadn't been inhabited for decades. Looming over the town on the opposite side were two tan silo-like buildings with black walkways weaving in and out between them. A large gravel path cut straight through the middle of the town to the silos, which the group was looking down.

"What the heck IS this place?" Pit wondered.

"I do not know, but there are plenty of places to find out. We should split up into groups and conduct a search." Locke said. Locke was a woman with long, zig-zagged, white hair that hung over her face wearing black gloves, boots, a black outfit, and a red trenchcoat with yellow highlights.

"But where do we even start?" Chowder asked.

"How about those silos? They look pretty important." Jake suggested, pointing ahead.

"Its like they are looking over the whole town, hm? Sounds like our first stop then." Deidara said.

'Let's get awesome!'

Before the group could even move, a blue and purple limo spaceship hovered down from the sky. A techno beat and flashing lights were going off from inside of it.

Tour Guide whistled in awe. "Sweet ride!"

"Where did that limo even come from?! Whats it doing here?!" Zach exclaimed. Zach was a boy with black spiky hair wearing a green tank-top, blue jeans, a water droplet necklace, and black fingerless gloves.

"Something doesn't seem right here." Abe said.

The limo turned sideways and landed, kicking up a cloud of dust and gravel. When it cleared, it revealed the limo had transformed into a concert stage with a series of gigantic speakers behind it.

Standing center stage was a muscular tanned shark-man wearing a turquoise shirt with a medallion on it, wristbands, magenta pants, a purple cape, white boots, and red lipstick: Emperor Awesome.

An army of Fist Fighters, who were short humanoids with fists for heads wearing white gloves and boots, turquoise shirts, and magenta pants were taking up the rest of the stage.

"Oh what the HELL is this...?" Sai said in confusion.

"Whattup, losers? Emperor Awesome here, and I'm about to liven up this boring and lame town with one of my amazing planet-destroying parties!" Emperor Awesome announced over a microphone.

"Hooray! I LOVE parties!" Patrick cheered.

"Uhh, did he just say 'planet-destroying'?" Anjren asked. She was a girl with light-purple hair tied in two long pigtails wearing a white shirt, a blue skirt, and a red bandana around her neck.

"Destroying a planet with a party? How do you even DO that, exactly?" Horton wondered.

"Its probably just an expression on how rad his parties are." Tour Guide said.

"So is this guy a GOOD guy or a BAD guy? Or is he just annoying?" Molly said. Molly was a black girl with short black hair wearing an orange shirt with a yellow ribbon around the middle, a purple dress with light-purple waves along it, and a yellow hibiscus flower in her hair.

"Fist Fighters, PUNCH IT!" Emperor Awesome ordered.

The Fist Fighters marched forward and got in row formation in front of the stage. Emperor Awesome went over to a giant dial and turned it up to 6, playing a techno beat from the gigantic speakers and shooting out sonic blast sound waves, which broke all the remaining glass of the windows of the abandoned town.

"THATS how he destroys planets! With sonic blasts!" Gaaranooki exclaimed.

"Kind of a cool way to go when you think about it." Jake said.

"We need to shut off that speaker system, if it has that much power at 6, then it can't go much higher before it has the power to destroy the town, alongside any secrets it could hold." Locke explained.

"Rotom! You can take over electronics! What if you take over the speaker system?" Steven suggested. Steven was a young boy with black hair wearing a light-blue headband, a light-blue shirt with a dark-blue sash around it, and blue shorts.

"Rotom ro rotom!" The Electric/Ghost-type Pokemon flew way above the Fist Fighters and was unaffected by the sound waves due to his ghostly form.

"Oh I don't think so, shrimp!" Emperor Awesome snapped his fingers and a cybernetic T-rex jumped from behind the speakers. It had long arms, red eyes, a metal horn, a metal spikeball tail, and a throne built atop the metal plating on its head.

The dinosaur fired red lasers from its eyes at Rotom, knocking the Pokemon out of the sky and onto the stage. The dinosaur lowered its head, and as Emperor Awesome hopped onto the throne, it roared right at Rotom, scaring the Pokemon to retreat all the way back to the others.

"What a coward." Killdra said. She was a black-haired girl with bangs hanging over her right eye wearing all orange and a chain necklace.

"I can't blame him for being scared." Luigi said.

"Listen. We need to separate into two groups. One group takes on this guy, the other half looks around this place." Stranger said.

Jake, Kirby, Sai, Stranger, Link, Miroku, Gaaranooki, Locke, Knuckles, Mumbo, Launcher Spider, Pit, Deidara, Perry, and Anjren stood by to fight Emperor Awesome.

Molly, Zach, Steven, Vampire Lady, Tour Guide, Abe, Patrick, Horton, Luigi, Killdra, Rotom, Ivory, Chowder, Frog, Maxwell, and Yoshi went on to explore the town.

"HEY! Thanks for waiting until we were all set up! We're ready to fight now!" Pit shouted, waving his arms.

"Whatever, nerds. LET'S KICK SOME ASS!" Emperor Awesome shouted.

His army of Fist Fighters charged forward, except for one who stood by the stereo system dial, and Emperor Awesome on his dinosaur were following behind them.

"Hey ya bunch of mooks, HERE'S a fist for ya!" Jake extended his arms and enlarged his fists, punching a group of Fist Fighters backward.

"And heres ANOTHER one!" Knuckles punched a couple Fist Fighters backwards, then jumped up and performed a downward punch above a group of them, creating a small shockwave of earth and knocking them in all directions.

A group of Fist Fighters surrounded Perry and started punching him with their fist heads, and the egg-laying mammal performed a leg sweep with his tail, knocking the Fist Fighters down, then drop-kicked each of them.

"Your lackeys are a buncha chumps." Jake said, knocking away more Fist Fighters with his enlarged fists.

"Chump THIS, pooch!" Emperor Awesome retorted, and his dinosaur breathed out a stream of fire at Jake, burning him and allowing Fist Fighters to overwhelm him with punches. Gaaranooki created a series of sand hands, lifted up all the Fist Fighters around Jake, and threw them through the windows of a nearby building.

"Pwah!" Kirby spun around, a yellow star flew out of him, and was now wearing a red headband. He was Fighter Kirby.

Fighter Kirby started punching forward rapidly, creating white circles in front of him that hit a Fist Fighter like a series of punches. He grabbed the minion, jumped up high into the sky, and dove downward toward the horn of Emperor Awesome's dinosaur.

"Shoot it." the shark-man ordered. His dinosaur fired a series of lasers at the pink puffball, causing an explosion that threw Fighter Kirby and the Fist Fighter he was holding through the window of a building and out the other side.

"Haha! Hope that one fighter was worth it, marshmallow!" Emperor Awesome exclaimed.

Launcher Spider shot a flurry of missiles at Emperor Awesome's dinosaur, who blew them up in mid-air with its lasers.

Locke jumped right at the dinosaur at a nearly-unmatched speed and her fists were vibrating vigorously.

"What is she-?" Anjren didn't bother finishing her statement, and created small storm clouds in front of the dinosaur.

"Clouds?! You really ARE a bunch of losers!" Emperor Awesome said. His dinosaur fired its lasers, but Anjren's clouds shot streams of water that held them off. Locke suddenly burst through the clouds and delivered a powerful punch with both her fists at the dinosaur's metal horn. The speed at which the albino delivered the punch, which was elevated by storing up energy and speed with rapid vibrations, bent the dinosaur's horn almost all the way backward. Locke ran along the horn up to Emperor Awesome while winding up a punch to deliver him.

"Comin' at me directly now? You must really want this!" Emperor Awesome narcissistically said while flexing. Locke said nothing and punched, but to her surprise, Emperor Awesome caught her fist, then knocked her off the dinosaur with a punch of his own. Locke landed on the ground hard and the dinosaur crushed her beneath its foot, but Locke had enough resilience to not suffer any truly devastating effects, other than extreme pressure.

"Mumbo help albino woman." Mumbo started chanting and waving his staff. Fist Fighters closed in on him to interrupt him, but Stranger knocked them to the ground by firing Thudslugs: large, dark-purple, pill bug-like critters with red eyes. Mumbo slammed his staff on the ground and the dinosaur became cloaked in a faint light-pink aura. Locke could feel the pressure on her weaken and she pushed up the dinosaur's foot, making it stumble backwards and nearly knocking Emperor Awesome off the throne.

"Could she...ALWAYS do that?" Pit asked.

"No. Mumbo use spell on dinosaur. Make dinosaur much lighter for short time." Mumbo explained.

"That is perfect!" Knuckles dug into the ground and traveled underneath the dinosaur, emerged behind its tail, and grabbed into it.

"Tryin' to do what Hatey did, huh? Nice try!" Emperor Awesome said. The spikeball on the dinosaur's tail exploded like a bomb, throwing Knuckles backward, and it regrew. The sound waves from the speakers sent Knuckles back the way he came in mid-air, and Emperor Awesome delivered a precisely-timed uppercut right into the echidnas stomach. A painted hawk created by Sai swooped down and retrieved Knuckles before he hit the ground, and carried him back to the group.

"Time to kick this party up a notch! Or rather, TWO of them!" Emperor Awesome exclaimed. The Fist Fighter operating the dial turned it up to 8, and the sound waves were strong enough to start making the buildings crackle and making the heroes have to stand their ground.

"I guess things are starting to pick up." Sai stated.

OOO

Tour Guide, Frog, Ivory, and Yoshi walked into an electronics store. Shelves were knocked over, TV and computer screens were busted, broken CDs and smashed phones were scattered about the floor, and there were sparking wires hanging on the floor and ceiling.

"I hope nobody was looking to pick up a new phone here!" Tour Guide joked.

"This looks really dangerous! And I don't wanna step on some glass!" Frog said fearfully. Frog was a small, bipedal, green critter with his face on his gumdrop-shaped body, webbed hands and feet, and a big, round, white, nose.

"Yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi gestured to his back and Frog hopped on.

They slowly walked along the first isle, which contained dismantled cameras, looking for any clues or any danger that might pop up.

OOO

Meanwhile, a group of 5 was at the back of the store where the games were, filled with short-circuiting game consoles and dusty game cases.

The first was an anthropomorphic blue cat kid wearing a tan sweatshirt and black jeans: Gumball.

The second was an anthropomorphic goldfish kid with 2 long legs wearing green shoes: Darwin.

The third was an anthropomorphic pink rabbit kid wearing a yellow dress and white shoes: Anias.

The fourth was a short school bus with eyes for headlights: Bus.

The fifth was a floating jester in a purple outfit and hat with white sleeves and pant-legs: NiGHTS.

"Ooo! A copy of Shadow of the Colossus! I've heard this game is really-!" Gumball's excitement quickly vanished when he opened the case and saw it did not contain any game. "Oh come on!"

"Dude, this is like the hundredth time you've opened a game case and found out there wasn't a game in there, you should realize by now that there aren't any games in any of them." Darwin told him, deadpan.

"You're right, Darwin, you're right. I should-" Gumball then noticed a copy of Skyrim. "Skyrim?! And this is the PC version! That means we can have mods and-!" Once again, he opened the case, noticed there was no game, sighed, and threw it across the store.

"Get it NOW?"

"...Yes."

"Good."

"Besides, why would an evil dimensional overlord even BOTHER with games for is prisoners anyway?" Anias snidely asked.

"Okay! I get it! No games for Gumball! Yeesh!" Gumball aggrivatedly said, throwing his hands in the air.

NiGHTS took a look over the shelves and noticed Frog and the others. They flew through the air with their arms stretched out like an airplane, leaving a yellow ribbon-like trail behind them, and landed in front of Frog's group. They pointed in the direction of their group with one arm, and waved the other wildly.

"Skullcrobat, is that you?" Tour Guide asked.

"I think he's a fool." Frog said.

"Well, yeah, he's banned for a reason. Now he is just jumping and pointing and waving for no reason..."

"No, a fool like the kind who tells a king jokes."

"Oh...Well he needs a new routine, because I'm not even cracking a smile."

Yoshi walked up to NiGHTS and waved at them, catching their attention. "Yoshi yoshi yoshi?"

NiGHTS nodded and pointed in the direction of their group with both hands.

"I think he wants us to follow him." Tour Guide said.

"Following some mute fool through an abandoned store? That is NOT a smart idea!" Frog said with crossed arms.

Ivory played the three-note bad event notice from 'The Oregon Trail'.

"You two got any better ideas?" Tour Guide said, rolling her eyes.

"Uhh...no." Frog admitted. Ivory slowly shook its body left and right.

"Then stop being such chickens!"

They followed NiGHTS to the other side of the store and met up with Gumball, Darwin, Anias, and Bus.

"Oh, so THATS where the jester went." Darwin said.

"I didn't even notice he was gone." Gumball said.

"Thats not at all surprising since your observation skills are about as effective as a grainy security camera with a lens cap on during a power outage..." Anias said.

"BUS! Boy am I glad to see YOU!" Frog exclaimed, jumping from Yoshi's back to Bus' hood. Bus honked softly two times in response.

"So the school bus' name is Bus, now all we need is for someone to recognize the jester, cuz I'm pretty darn sure its name isn't 'Jester'." Gumball said.

"That jester was our tour guide who led us to you. I myself go by Tour Guide from the Underworld, but call me Tour Guide for short." Tour Guide greeted.

"You are named after your profession?" Anias asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Thats correct!"

"You look more like you should be named Flight Attendant from the Overworld." Gumball commented.

"Ugh! Gross! I was a flight attendant one time. It was TERRIBLE! Its like being a maid for a crowd of people! I-I didn't even get to experience the cool places I traveled to!"

"That bad, huh?" Gumball said semi-sarcastically.

"Anyhoo, these are my travel partners: Ivory, Yoshi, and Frog!" Tour Guide said, gesturing toward each of them.

"I'm Darwin, thats Gumball, and thats Anias." Darwin said.

"So have you guys found anything unusual around here?"

"Besides these cases having no games in them? Not at all!" Gumball said aggrivatedly.

The whole time, the group hadn't realized NiGHTS wasn't there, and when they came back, they were holding the box of the PC game Black and White.

"Black and White?! Sweet! Thank you, Jester! You at least found ONE working game!" Gumball excitedly took the box, opened it, and screamed like a girl from seeing whats inside and threw the box on the ground.

Anias groaned in annoyance. "What, ANOTHER empty case...?"

"No! There is a...THING in there!"

Yoshi trotted over to the box, wrapped his tongue around it, and shook it until two things fell out. One was the CD case, which was empty, and the other was a creature. It was a lime-green one-eyed critter with a gooey cell-like consistency and a red nucleus was in the center.

"THATS what scared you? Its so cute!" Darwin said.

"Yeah, so was Kenneth, and remember how HE turned out?!" Gumball replied.

"You might have a point there, but its still too soon to assume that its evil."

"But what IS it? It looks like something that crawled out of the sewer!" Frog said. Ivory played the tune of 'Toxic Caves' from Sonic Spinball.

"I think it looks like a level 1 Tuner monster." Tour Guide said. Ivory played the tune of 'World 1-1' from Super Mario Bros.

"Yoshi yoshi yoshi yoshi." Yoshi said.

"A Slime Drop? What is a Slime Drop?" Gumball asked.

"Yoshi."

"You know what? I should've expected that answer...If we're not gonna kill it, then one of us is gonna have to keep track of it, and its certainly not gonna be ME."

"Thats fine, we weren't about to trust you with it in the first place..." Anias snarked.

"Good."

"I'll keep track of it." volunteered Frog.

"Yoshi?" Yoshi said to him.

"Yeah, ME! If I have the blob, I won't have to get in any more danger!"

"I like your fatherly instincts, but watching after a blob is not like watching after a baby." Darwin said.

"You're giving Frog too much credit, fish! He's using the blob as an excuse not to fight or look around or anything!" Tour Guide said, laughing a little.

"Oh, so he's a coward. Thats fine, he's not alone."

"Because he is surrounded by allies?"

"No, because Gumball is a coward as well." Anias answered.

"Just put the blob in the bus! And the frog too, if he doesn't wanna help!" Gumball growled.

"On it. Bus is my bud, anyway." Frog said, picked up the blob, and got inside Bus.

"MY bus is cooler than YOUR bus, just so ya know." Tour Guide said, sticking out her tongue.

NiGHTS, who the others didn't realize was gone again, came flying towards them, waving their arms frantically.

"Looks like the jester found something bad. Glad I'm in here." Frog said, peeking through Bus' windshield.

"Jester, whutcha see? Was it an enemy?" Tour Guide asked, and NiGHTS nodded in response.

"So what do we do? I'm a lover, not a fighter!" Gumball exclaimed.

"No, thats DARWIN. You're just a quitter." Anias said.

"Yes, and I LOVE quitting!"

"Well you can't quit now!" Tour Guide walked over to Bus and stood by his doors. "AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL aboard the School Bus of the Underworld!"

"What are you doing?" Anias asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm a tour guide! We ham it up to attract more tourists!"

"I think you're overdoing it a bit. You sound like a train conductor."

"I'm having fun! Its whimsical! Demons and zombies and ghosts and witches get a kick outta it! Now, please step into the vehicle, you're holding up the line, kid."

"...You know what? I can respect your passion."

"I love what I do; its in my name." Tour Guide said with a tip of her hat. She got inside Bus, sat in the drivers seat, and started to frantically dart her head looking for a speaker phone.

"Speaker phone?! Where is the speaker phone?!" she exclaimed, beads of sweat jumping off her head comically.

"We gonna take off here?" Gumball asked, not caring about the Duel Monsters freak-out.

"No! I need the speaker phoooooone! How else am I supposed to communicate with the passengerrrrrrrrs?!" Tour Guide whined, tears comically streaming down her face.

"Tour Guide, none of that matters." Frog said, jumping on the back of her seat.

"Of course it matters! What if there is some disaster that the passengers don't know!"

NiGHTS started shaking one of the magenta-haired girls shoulders in response to this, since that is exactly what was happening.

"No, I mean none of that matters because Bus is self-driving."

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaa...?" Tour Guide slowly turned her head toward him in shock.

"How...how is that a shock to you?! You said you had demons and zombies as passengers in your tours! How is that any more believable than a sentient bus?!" Gumball exclaimed.

After a pause, Tour Guide regained her demeanor. "Good point!"

NiGHTS flew over to the door and knocked on it, which Bus opened, and the jester flew up ahead of the vehicle to guide him.

Bus followed behind NiGHTS, weaving through isles, over electrical cords, and across fallen TVs.

"How long does it take to get to wherever the jester is leading us? This store isn't THAT big!" Gumball exclaimed.

"Its like he's taking us on a tour!" Tour Guide happily exclaimed.

"Well how long is this 'tour' gonna last?"

"Hopefully awhile." Frog said.

NiGHTS stopped near the back of the store where all the thick power cords were, some of which were sparking with exposed wires.

"Last stop: The perfect place to get strangled and zapped! Oooooooor the perfect place for masochistic se-!"

"YOSHI YOSHI!" Yoshi shouted, cutting Tour Guide off.

"Right! Sorry! Not used to children being present!" she said sheepishly, blushing in embarrassment.

"Guess we gotta go see whats out there now." Darwin said uneasily.

"We aren't cut out for this at all." Gumball said.

"Of course not! What kid IS ready to go into a dark world filled with horrible things that should not exist in wherever you once lived!" Anias said to them.

"Wait a minute, that sounds just like...the Void!" Darwin said in realization.

"Oh, wow, you're totally right, Darwin!" Gumball said.

"Whats the Void?" Tour Guide asked. Ivory started to play the tune of 'Distortion World' from Pokemon Platinum.

"Its this world where all bad ideas get sent, basically." Gumball explained.

"And its also the reason we have an arch-nemesis." Darwin added.

"Yoshi yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi said.

"He's-he's right, you guys have to leave and see what this danger is." Frog said.

"'We'. WE have to leave and see what this danger is." Anias corrected.

"But the blob-!"

"Just leave the blob under the seat or in the glove compartment or something!" Gumball exclaimed.

"...Fine." Frog set the blob down, and it slithered under one of the seats.

The group finally got out of Bus, and NiGHTS was waiting for them with an annoyed look on their face.

"Sorry, we had some cowards we had to convince." Anias said.

"So where is this bad thing?" Frog asked, shaking. NiGHTS pointed over to the counter ahead of them.

"We need a sneak attack." Gumball said. Ivory started playing the tune of 'Forgiving the Plow' from Treasure Adventure Game.

"Shh! We're planning a sneak attack, and that means no background music!" Frog loudly whispered, and Ivory stopped playing.

"You guys need a sneak attack? Ooooooon iiiiiiiiiit!" Tour Guide sang, and clapped twice.

The Tour Bus from the Underworld suddenly appeared and loudly crashed right through the counter, turned around, and stopped in front of the group.

"That wasn't so much of a sneak attack as it was a sudden ambush with a bus." Anias said.

"Yeah, if we knew you were going to do THAT, we could've just used Bus." Frog said.

"Well it worked, didn't it?!" Tour Guide said defensively.

"Nope!" a nasily bratty voice said.

"Of course it did!" Tour Guide exclaimed, not realizing that voice belonged to the danger NiGHTS meant. The Tour Bus drove forward, phasing through Bus, making a U-turn, and stopping behind Tour Guide. Bus winked and honked twice at the underworld vehicle.

"Sorry, Bus, but mine isn't sentient! Its more like a haunted vehicle ghost." Tour Guide told him, and Bus honked long and softly.

"Yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi exclaimed, pointing to a rainbow puddle that was underneath Tour Bus.

"I think your bus sprung a leak. And why is its oil rainbow?" Darwin said.

"My bus does NOT leak! It is kept in peak physical condition because its a ghost!" Tour Guide shouted.

"Thats cuz its not OIL, its PAINT!" the unknown voice said.

From the paint puddle, a yellow dinosaur that resembled a child version of Bowser with an orange rat-tail haircut, black dots for eyes, and large bumps for scale spikes. He was wielding a large paintbrush, and around his neck was a white bandana with a fanged mouth drawn on it: Bowser Jr.

"Who are YOU?" Frog asked, not really feeling scared anymore.

"Bowser Jr, son of Bowser, the King of Koopas!"

"Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi YOSHI!" Yoshi shouted.

"Yoshi, YOU'RE here, huh? That must mean Mario is nearby!"

"Yoshi yoshi."

"I don't believe you!"

"Um, why are you HERE, exactly?" Tour Guide asked.

"My dad was promised ultimate power to rule the Mushroom Kingdom by Tenebris, and me and my brothers and sister are here to help him with that! Now get ready for a fight!"

"Um, how would fighting us help your dad, exactly?"

"It helps TENEBRIS, and helping Tenebris helps my dad! Plus, it gets more of you do-gooders outta our way!"

"Well at least he's a kid too, so I think we can take him." Gumball said.

"But this kid has a magic paintbrush." Anias said.

"Then we just gotta get it away from him."

"And how exactly do we go about doing that?" Darwin asked.

"I-I don't know! But we've got a bus, a jester, a weird tour guide, a piano bug, and a dinosaur! And Frog. I'll bet THEY could help with this!"

"Ha ha ha, good luck with THAT one!" Bowser Jr. rapidly swung his paintbrush in front of him, flinging large globs of rainbow paint at the group.

"Whats a little paint gonna d-? AAAAHH!" Gumball's face became covered in paint and he was thrown backwards into a broken TV behind him. He was electrocuted by the exposed wires and managed to pull himself out and crawl back to the group, covered in burns.

"Still think the paint is harmless?" Darwin said smugly to him.

"Shut up. Why aren't YOU GUYS covered in paint?!"

"Because we have a bus shield." Anias said, pointing to Bus and the Tour Bus that were parked sideways in front of them like a barricade.

What looked like a black red-eyed version of Mario suddenly phased through the two buses, and he smacked Tour Guide into the side of Bus with a horizontal swing of his paintbrush.

"What the what?! Where did HE come from?!" Gumball exclaimed.

"Yoshi yoshi yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi explained.

"Shadow Mario? So thats just Bowser Jr. in disguise?" exposited Frog.

"Considering he hit me with the same paintbrush, that makes sense!" Tour Guide moaned, rubbing her back.

NiGHTS flew right at Shadow Mario, leaving a yellow ribbon-like trail behind them. Shadow Mario flung globs of paint at them, but Ivory flew in front of the jester and spattered the globs with colorful shockwaves while playing the tune of the Battle Victory music from Splatoon. NiGHTS spun circles around Shadow Mario, surrounding him in a ring of ribbons, then grabbed it, held it in front of themselves, and yanked it, tying Shadow Mario up.

Yoshi got inside an egg and rolled towards Shadow Mario, and the two buses drove forward to ram him. Shadow Mario melted into a puddle of black paint, making NiGHTS' ribbon fall limp and Yoshi, Bus, and the Tour Bus to run the ribbon over. Shadow Mario slunk along the ground as a puddle form, leaving a trail of dark-purple paint behind.

"That...is going to make things trickier..." Tour Guide said.

"Maybe not." Anias said, having an idea. She grabbed a wire and stuck it right in the trail of paint, sending electricity throughout it and zapping Shadow Mario, forcing him to emerge. The doppleganger was still recovering from the shock, which left him vulnerable.

"Take THIS!" Frog shouted from the top of the shelf behind Shadow Mario, and pushed a broken television off of it, which crushed and electrocuted him.

"Nice job, Frog!" Darwin said.

"Thanks! Now Bus, do your stuff!"

Bus honked once, stretched and squished, and spun around like a tornado.

"WAH! Whats happening with the bus?!" Anias exclaimed.

"Thats normal. He's just transforming." Frog said casually.

Bus transformed into an ATV Jeep version of himself. He had a drill for a grail, his wheels turned into tank treads, and his roof and the top halves of his walls were replaced with a red and white striped canopy. Bus was in his Drill Tank form.

"Cool, a magic school bus!" Tour Guide said. Ivory started playing the tune of the Drill Wisp Theme from Sonic Colors.

Drill Tank Bus drove towards the TV that Frog pushed on Shadow Mario; spinning his drill as his tank treads wiped away the dark-purple paint. He drilled right through the TV and ran it over, destroying it in an electric blast.

"Did that do it?" Darwin asked, and NiGHTS shrugged.

"Not a chance!" Bowser Jr. said from the top of Tour Bus from the Underworld.

"So he snuck away this whole time and formed back away from us." Gumball said, annoyed.

"To be fair, we probably should've seen that coming." Darwin said.

"You guys are better than I thought, but that doesn't mean you can beat me!" Bowser Jr. withdrew into his shell, but leaving his paintbrush sticking out one of the holes. He started spinning and scattering globs of paint all around.

"Take cover!" Gumball exclaimed. He, Darwin, Anias, and Frog dove inside Drill Tank Bus and hid under the seats. NiGHTS and Ivory simply flew high up out of range, and Yoshi got inside an egg.

"I've got a bus of my own!" Tour Guide ran inside the Tour Bus, and after a moment, she ran back out with a green-eyed humanoid creature made of red fire. Tour Guide was pelted with paint upon emerging.

"Owwwwwww!" the Duel Monster whined as she was knocked away down the isle. The creature she took out of her bus floated over to her and she jumped up.

"Time to kick it! I use myself and Possessed Dark Soul to Xyz Summon...Wind-Up Zenmaines!" Tour Guide and the creature turned into 2 balls of light that spun around rapidly, and transformed into a monster.

It was a machine with a V-shaped yellow body that had purple plating on the two edges, and a small head sticking up out of the point in front with red eyes. Two purple metal squares with two gigantic black claws on them floated independently from the body: Wind-Up Zenmaines.

"Whoa, you can transform too?" Frog said.

"Thats right! I overlayed myself with Possessed Dark Soul to become Wind-Up Zenmaines!" the monster said with the voice of a robotic version of Tour Guide.

Bowser Jr. continued to spin in his shell and went down a nearby isle.

"Is he running away? REALLY?" Gumball said in disbelief.

NiGHTS and Ivory were already on the Koopas trail, due to their flight and birds-eye view. As they swooped down on him, Ivory played the tune of 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good' by Shania Twain, and NiGHTS performed corkscrews to increase the length of their ribbon. NiGHTS stopped in mid-air, grabbed their ribbon, and whipped it at Bowser Jr., knocking him out of his shell onto his back.

Ivory dive-bombed right into Bowser Jr.'s body, knocking him in the air and onto his stomach, and Bowser Jr. quickly painted a puddle with his paintbrush and sunk in it. Ivory flew up in the air and dive-bombed again, but just splatted into paint. Drill Tank Bus, Yoshi, and Wind-Up Zenmaines caught up to them.

"What happened to Bowser Jr.? Did you guys get him?" Darwin asked. NiGHTS shook their head and pointed at the paint puddle.

"You know, if he wanted to get away, he probably could've just done that in the first place instead of getting inside his shell. Just saying." Gumball said.

"That kid isn't going to get away!" Wind-Up Zenmaines fired a red beam from one of its claws, blasting through isles and blowing up electronics. Drill Tank Bus honked loudly, which made Wind-Up Zenmaines stop.

"Are you crazy?!" Anias exclaimed.

"No, I'm annoyed! I've had it with this kid, he's as annoying as someone who can't be targeted by card effects who also stops you from doing stuff when he battles!" Wind-Up Zenmaines complained, which looked rather silly pairing a destructive robot with Tour Guide's childish attitude.

"Well you can't just blow up the store without any concern for anyones well-being!" Darwin exclaimed.

"I just figured if I went full Red Dragon Archfiend on this place, I would be able to destroy him!"

"Well that was a stupid idea!" Frog exclaimed.

"Yeah, thats like something I would come up with." Gumball added.

"Well that kid is probably coming up with something actually GOOD, so we need a good plan too." Anias said.

"We STILL need to get that paintbrush from him."

"Ha ha ha ha! That WOULD be the best plan to beat me...NOT!" Bowser Jr. said, flying towards the group in a white cup-shaped hovercraft with an orange-lipped clown face on it, and a green propeller underneath it. He was in the Clown Car Jr.

"Oh crap." Frog said.

"All he has is a dinky little hovercar. Big deal." Wind-Up Zenmaines fired a beam at Bowser Jr., who strafed to the left. The mouth on the Clown Car Jr. opened up wide, a cannon extended from it, and shot a cannonball at Wind-Up Zenmaines. The robot was able to move its claws in front of itself for defense, and blocked the cannonball, which blew up one of the claws in the process. Its eyes slowly started to glow brighter and brighter, and the cannon in the Clown Car Jr. retracted and the mouth closed.

"Ha ha ha! Thats right, you aren't the only one with a car that transforms!" Bowser Jr. taunted. Ivory started to play the tune to the main theme of the first Transformers cartoon.

The blob creature slunk up the side of one of the seats and looked up at Bowser Jr. to see what is going on.

Bowser Jr. gasped upon spotting the blob. "Wuh-where did you get that?!"

"We found it in a video game box." Gumball said.

"I don't know how it got there, but I'm taking it from you!"

NiGHTS narrowed their eyes at the Koopa and shook their head.

"Well too bad!" Bowser Jr. threw a robotic wind-up Koopa, a Mechakoopa, at NiGHTS, who caught it. The Mechakoopa suddenly exploded, sending NiGHTS spiraling through the canopy of Drill Tank Bus.

"Hey!" Frog exclaimed.

"The drill isn't going to do us any good right now anyway. It needs to turn into something else!" Anias said.

"Yeah, something that can fly." Darwin added.

Bus honked once and stretched, squished, and spun into a new form. He looked like his normal form, except he was covered in planet decals, had the side-wings and dorsal fin of a spaceship, and 4 rocket exhaust ports where his backdoor was. He turned into Spaceship Bus. Frog, Gumball, Darwin, Anias, the blob creature, and NiGHTS were still inside him.

"Ha ha ha, thats not gonna help you!" Bowser Jr. flew up above Spaceship Bus, retracted his propeller, extended a big drill, and drove downward towards Bus with the drill spinning.

"Ah ah ah!" Wind-Up Zenmaines shot a beam of electricity from its brightly-glowing eyes at the Clown Car Jr.'s drill, destroying it. Bowser Jr. slammed into the Bus' roof harmlessly, and slid off onto the floor.

"What happened?! Why can't I use my drill?!" Bowser Jr. whined, fiddling with the controls of his vehicle.

"Since you tried to destroy ME, I got to destroy something of YOURS!" Wind-Up Zenmaines explained.

"Fine! I don't need that drill anyway!" Four orange tires and two exhaust tubes extended out of Bowser Jr.'s vehicle, and he sped towards Wind-Up Zenmaines.

"You MUST be kidding, kid..." Wind-Up Zenmaines fired a red beam from its claw at Bowser Jr., but his car jumped high in the air and right over Wind-Up Zenmaines. Bowser Jr. spun 180 degrees and fired a cannonball at the robot from behind, and as if its claw had a mind of its own, it swiveled around behind Wind-Up Zenmaines and took the hit. As the Duel Monster started to turn its long body around, Bowser Jr. fired another cannonball, but Yoshi grabbed it with his tongue and swallowed it.

"Wow, your tongue must be real fast if it can stop that cannonballs momentum instantly and then gobble it up." Wind-Up Zenmaines said.

"Yoshi! You should've been the one I take care of first, anyway!" Bowser Jr. drove right at Yoshi and 2 boxing gloves on long robotic arms extended from his car.

"Yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi encased himself in an egg and rolled at Bowser Jr.

"Time to break an egg!" Bowser Jr. prepared to punch Yoshi with the boxing gloves, but Yoshi leapt right over him, swiveled in place, broke out of the egg, and threw an egg at Bowser Jr. The egg left a rainbow trail, and as Bowser Jr. turned around, he was hit by the egg and knocked out of the Clown Car Jr.

"Now get him! Don't let him get back in that car!" Wind-Up Zenmaines exclaimed.

NiGHTS swooped downwards and threw their ribbon trail at Bowser Jr., wrapping him up. Spaceship Bus blasted forward and rammed into the tied-up Koopa, knocking him right through the wall on the other side of the store.

"Now is our chance!" Gumball got out of bus and ran towards the Clown Car Jr., then noticed Wind-Up Zenmaines preparing to fire at it with eye lasers. "Wait! Don't! We can totally steal this thing now!"

"But I have to destroy SOMETHING!" Wind-Up Zenmaines retorted.

"Then destroy a TV or something!"

"Okay." Wind-Up Zenmaines fired its eye beams at a TV across the isle, blowing it up. The robot faded away, leaving Tour Guide in its place.

"Aww, I wasted one of my materials..." Tour Guide pouted.

"Aha! Here it is! The paintbrush!" Gumball exclaimed, lifting said object out of the Clown Car Jr., and Darwin, Frog, and Anias got out of Bus and walked over to Gumball.

"So we DID end up getting the paintbrush after all." Darwin said.

"Darwin, you want this? Because I'm taking his car now!"

"First of all, you aren't old enough to drive. Second of all, you don't know HOW to drive. Third of all, this is a non-sentient transforming vehicle and is likely a thousand times harder to operate than a normal car." Anias said.

"You think YOU could do better, Anias?!"

"I KNOW I can't do better, because I'm in the same position as you are. Someone else should drive this thing. How about you, Frog?"

"I can't. I can barely SKATEBOARD, let alone DRIVE!" Frog replied.

"What about Tour Guide?" Darwin asked.

"No way! I only drive my Tour Bus!" Tour Guide said, crossing her arms in defiance.

"All that leaves is the jester, since I'm pretty sure the flying piano and Yoshi can't do it." Gumball said. NiGHTS shook their head, so Yoshi hopped in the vehicle.

"Maybe Yoshi CAN drive." Darwin said.

"Well thats settled. We got the blob and now we stole Bowser Jr.'s stuff." Anias said.

"Yep. Nothing left to do but regroup."

Tour Guide was already back inside Spaceship Bus. "AAAAAAAAALL ABOOOOOO-!"

"Stop. Just...don't." Gumball said to her as he got inside. Darwin, Anias, Frog, Ivory, and NiGHTS got inside as well. Yoshi turned the Clown Car Jr. back into its normal propeller form.

"Okay Bus...BLASTOFF!" Frog shouted. Yoshi quickly got out of the way to give Bus ample room. Bus revved his engine as flames built up in the exhaust tubes, and then took off upward at an angle. As he ascended, he turned straight up, then blasted through the ceiling. Yoshi followed him through the hole he created, making sure to stay away from those flames.

As they left, Bowser Jr. peeked out from behind some rubble; his eyes narrowed in annoyance. "You think I'll let you take my toys from me and get away with it? NO WAY!"

OOO

Zach and Molly walked into an old and abandoned library. Dusty bookcases with tattered and torn books on them were arranged like a maze on top of a dirty red carpet. The ceiling was low enough that it touched the tops of the bookcases, and the bookcases were large enough that they could not be moved.

"All this is is the typical 'bookcase maze' thing? Thats pretty stupid." Zach said.

"It might not be thrilling, but the point is to find information." Molly said.

"So are we seriously expected to look through each and every one of these books?" Zach said sarcastically. He took out a book and opened it, but the couple of pages that were still intact were completely blank. "There isn't even anything written in here!"

"Duh. The clues aren't going to be written in any old book; the book has to be somewhere important."

"Like the checkout desk?"

Molly sighed in frustration at his remark, but then realized he might be on to something. "Actually...you might be right! Good one, Zach!"

"I was actually being sarcastic, but if you thought it was brilliant, then cool." Zach muttered.

"Maybe so, Parker, but it was useful."

"Well we wont find out HOW useful just standing around here. But shouldn't we have gotten more than two people in our group? Who knows what the hell we might run into here."

"Its not a group of TWO, its a group of EIGHT."

"...What the hell?"

"You're forgetting Parker, I'm not ONE person; I'm SEVEN. TRANSFOOOOOORM!" Molly turned into a ball of light and separated into her 7 alter-egos: Kaisen, Meichen, Kane, Sora, Jade, Sirias, and James.

Kaisen was a male with white spiky hair who wore a gold coat with large sapphires on the sleeves, a white shirt, and white pants.

Meichen was a girl with long brown hair, a dark-green vest, a white shirt under a wire mesh shirt, and a green skirt.

Kane was a male redhead wearing a red shirt and orange shorts.

Sora was a girl with very long orange hair wearing a white shirt that looked two sizes too big on her, and a long lime dress.

Jade was a brown-haired male wearing a black shirt that had a white collar and spikes on the shoulders, and blue jean shorts.

Sirias was a girl with black hair who wore a grey tank-top, black wristbands, and baggy black jeans.

James was a male with spiky black hair who wore two spiked wristbands, a red shirt, a black leather jacket, and grey pants.

"Oh, right, you guys." Zach said.

"'Oh, right, you guys.'" James mocked.

"Don't belittle us like that!" Jade shouted.

"I don't think he was belittling us, Jade." Meichen said.

"I wasn't, I wasn't! I just kinda...forgot about you guys." Zach said, looking away.

"Oh, you FORGOT about us?! How about I give you something you'll NEVER forget!" Sirias shouted.

"I don't wanna agree with Sirias, but...thats a little hurtful, Zach." Sora said; her lips quivering.

"I didn't mean it like that! I forgot about you guys, but that don't mean I forgot you guys TOTALLY! Give me a freakin' break here!" Zach exclaimed.

"Oh I'll give you a break...GLADLY! How about your NECK?!" Sirias exclaimed.

"...What?!"

"She is saying that she'll break your neck." Meichen stated.

"...Oh."

"Yeah, I didn't really get that, either. I get that you were trying to be cute, Sirias, but that was clunky as hell." James said.

"Fuck you, James! And fuck you again for calling me 'cute'! I will MURDER you!" Sirias shouted.

"Thats an empty threat, Sirias, and you know it. If one of us dies, we ALL die."

"Maybe so, but that don't mean she can't beat the living shit out of you." Jade stated.

"Jade, don't be an instigator." Kane said to him.

"Please! Just be nice to each other!" Sora begged.

"Sorry, Sora, but that goes against their nature." Meichen said.

"Well just drop it, then." Kane said.

"You got a cute way to twist what Kane just said, Sirias?" James said to her.

"FUCK YOU! NOW YOU'RE GONNA SUFFER, JAMES!" Sirias shouted and lunged at him.

"ENOUGH! All of you!" Kaisen bellowed, which made the other alter egos immediately straighten up.

"I wish I had that sort of control over the Chaotics." Kane muttered to himself.

"Molly wants us to look for clues to the mysteries of this world, and somewhere within this maze, we just might discover some."

"So should we split up so we can cover more ground?" Zach asked.

"Splitting up is how you get KILLED!" James said.

"...So, yeah, we should TOTALLY split up. We will go one way, and Zach, you go another." Jade said.

"Theres strength in numbers. It won't be as quick as if we split up, but it'll keep us safe." Kane said.

"We wouldn't want any of us to die, after all." Meichen added.

"...Except for Zach." Sirias muttered.

"Then lets roll!" Zach said.

The group waved around bookcases, backtracked from dead ends, and peered through shelves. However, they could not find any sort of clues, or even anything else besides more shelves.

"We are going to DIE in here! We aren't finding SHIT!" Sirias shouted and fired her beam of darkness at one of the shelves, blasting a gaping hole through it and all of the shelves behind it.

"...Wow. I can't believe that actually DID something!" Zach said in shock.

"So if it wasn't for Miss Insane in the Fem-Brain here, nobody would have ever thought to just blast right through it?" Jade said.

"To be fair, that usually doesn't work in magic mazes like this." Meichen stated.

"In any case, that was a real big help, Sirias." Sora said.

"What-the-fuck-ever, Sora. I was just pissed off and annoyed." Sirias said defensively.

"What-the-fuck-ever...?" Zach repeated, having never heard 'whatever' phrased that way.

"Sirias just can't accept it when she helps in a non-violent way." Kane explained.

"Destroying bookcases is KINDA violent, right?" Sora said.

"No. They are fucking bookcases. They don't feel pain or anything like if I used it on Zach or some shit." Sirias said.

"Come on, lets continue." Kaisen said.

The group walked through the series of holes the Insane Chaotic created, and reached what looked more like a normal library. The shelves and floors were made of grey wood, the bookshelves were arranged in rows like normal, stairs along the borders of the room led up to the second floor that wrapped around the border with more bookshelves, and the front desk was made of black marble.

"Now THATS more like it!" Zach exclaimed.

"You were right all along, Zach." Meichen said.

"He was being sarcastic and stupid, so a broken clock is right twice a day..." James murmured.

"Just let him have this, James." Kane told him.

"We should be able to find something here. Lets split up in groups of four." Kaisen said.

"Could I go with you, Meichen, and Sora? You guys seem like the ones less likely to kill me." Zach said.

"Hey! I won't kill you!" Kane exclaimed.

"In fact, Kane, Meichen, and Sora should go with you. Sirias, Jade, and James are coming with ME." Kaisen said.

"Oh, aren't WE in charge!" James sneered.

The group suddenly heard footsteps on the second floor, which were getting closer.

"Shit! There are people already here." Meichen whispered.

"Now THIS is what I was hoping for!" Sirias said with a sadistic grin.

"They could be friends, though!" Sora told her.

"Your point...?" Jade said with a raised eyebrow.

"We don't want to make enemies here!" Kane said.

"Kane is correct. We need all the help we could get, and we do not want to invoke any unnecessary conflict." Kaisen added.

"Whose 'we'?" James said.

"Molly is."

"...Touche, Kaisen..."

OOO

Meanwhile, a group of 6 was in a maze of bookcases just like Zach and Molly were when they first entered.

One was a very short young boy with curly orange hair, thick glasses, a lab coat, and purple gloves and boots: Dexter.

One was a very lanky young girl with blonde hair tied in pigtails, a pink dress, white stockings, and pink ballet shoes: Dee-Dee.

One was a muscular boy with grey jeans, a dark-purple tank top, very spiky blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and wielding a gigantic sword: Cloud.

One was a boy with white hair that was combed slightly to the left wearing a black mage robe with gold highlights over a dark-purple outfit: Robin.

One resembled a teal Gameboy with blue arms and legs with a face on the screen that had black dots for eyes: BMO.

One was a floating black cube: The Black Cube of Darkness.

"I thought that there would be clues inside one of these books, but they're all useless." Robin said as he flipped through yet another book of tattered blank pages. He sighed, tossed it over his shoulder, and it hit BMO on the head.

"Hey! Watch where you are throwing those books! You just hit BMO!" BMO whined.

"Oh! I'm sorry BMO, its just a little frustrating seeing all of these books go to waste."

"You're telling me! What is the point of this library if there is no actual literature?!" Dexter exclaimed.

"Because its a trap. We aren't going to find anything in these books. If we want to find anything useful, it's not going to be in this maze." Cloud said.

"Well thats at least better than looking through all of these dumb old books forever." Dee-Dee said.

"But how are we supposed to get through the maze?! My friends Finn and Jake went through a maze once to get wishes, and Jake nearly stretched himself to death!" BMO exclaimed.

"How'd he do THAT?" Dee-Dee asked, despite having no idea what BMO even meant by that.

"Jake is a magic dog who can turn into anything and stretch himself like rubber. He stretched himself starting from the beginning of the maze so they would not lose their way, but the maze was so endless and dangerous that he almost died! But he and Finn are great adventurers, so they made it!"

"Well we're great adventurers too, BMO. I'm sure all of us have been through some rough times in our lives, only to overcome it in the end. We can make it through some old maze!" Robin said encouragingly.

"Yay! Teamwork speech!" Dee-Dee exclaimed.

"Well its not much, but we could at least put these books to use by leaving a path behind us as we venture into the maze." Dexter said.

"Just like Jake, except it won't kill any of us!" BMO said.

The group walked around shelves, backtracked from dead ends, and weaved in and out of crossroads. They had plenty of books to leave behind them, but strangely enough, they never passed over books they had left earlier, except when they needed to backtrack.

"I'm starting to think this maze has no end. We haven't seen any of the books we've set down." Cloud said.

"Maybe its just a REAAAAALLY big library." Dee-Dee said.

"Even if that were true, it is statistically impossible to have not come across any of our book trails, based on the amount of time we have spent wandering this maze." Dexter said.

"Oh no! Are you saying we are trapped forever?!" BMO exclaimed.

The Black Cube started shaking violently with rage, spoke in booming distorted Latin, emitted an orange aura, and started ramming into books and knocking them off the shelves in frustration.

"Black Cube! Please! Get a hold of yourself!" Robin exclaimed.

"He's not going to listen. Esuna!" Cloud pointed at the Black Cube, causing light-green balls of light to surround and go into him, which calmed him down.

"Amazing. What spell was that?"

"Esuna. It cures negative status, like Berserk."

"Hmm...Actually, the Berserk Cube might have the right idea." Dexter said.

"And how's that?"

"This maze is intentionally unsolvable, but there must be a point to it, otherwise this library wouldn't be here. We will never find that point by solving it the natural way, we have to use brute force."

"Well in that case, I've got just the thing." Robin took out a yellow tome, flipped through it, took a deep breath, and held his arm out. "THORON!"

A huge beam of lightning shot out of his hands, breaking right through the bookcases and revealing the second floor of the lobby Zach and Molly had discovered.

"Oh, so the answer was the Flame Princess way then!" BMO said happily.

"Well now that we've discovered the goal, we need to proceed with caution. It could end up being another trap." Dexter said.

"Alright everyone, here we go." Robin said.

The group slowly walked into the second floor of the lobby, but stopped when they heard voices from below.

"We've got company." Cloud said, taking out his sword.

"Hold on, we don't know if they are friend or foe. We don't want to jump the gun on this." Robin said to him.

"But what are the odds that someone who could help us had the brains to figure out the puzzle in this library?" Dexter asked, sharing Cloud's suspcions.

"To BMO, it seemed more brawns than brains, really." BMO stated.

"I end up breaking stuff all the time, so it wouldn't even take someone like YOU to figure it out, Dexter." Dee-Dee said.

"Oh really? Then how come YOU didn't figure it out?" Dexter asked, feeling insulted.

"Because brain-things are what YOU do, but that don't mean brain-things are always hard."

"None of that matters. We aren't going to find out just by talking about it." Cloud said.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"Yeah, the Black Cube is correct. We'll just have to see for ourselves what these guys are all about." Robin said. His group jumped down from the second floor and went right towards Zach and the alter-egos.

"Are you guys GOOD guys...or BAD guys?" BMO asked, trying to sound tough.

"I would say about a 70-30 good-to-bad ratio." Meichen stated.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"Oh so THAT is the evil one on THEIR side." Jade said.

"A tiny dark square of blackness is their equivalent to the three of us? Stupid." James said.

"Actually his name is the little Black Cube of Darkness." Dee-Dee corrected.

"You can just call him the Black Cube for short." BMO added.

"Look here, NOBODY here is evil. Sirias, James, and Jade here are...chaotic and dark, but they aren't outright malevolent." Kane explained.

"How did you guys get here?" Robin asked.

"Sirias got ticked-off and blasted a hole through the maze. You?" Zach said.

"I figured out that the maze was unsolvable on purpose, and since there must be a point to it somewhere, the goal had to be hidden away because the whole library would be pointless otherwise. Robin shot a blast of magical lightning, and thats how we discovered this hidden lobby." Dexter explained.

"Have any of you discovered any secrets or information here?" Kaisen asked.

"No, but we haven't looked much. You guys got here about the same time WE did." Cloud said.

"Welp, lets go and look around." Sirias said, not sounding like she even cared at all.

The group started going down the isles of bookshelves, looking for anything that would have any information or clues.

Dexter was meticulously flipping through books on the bottom shelf, which was all he could reach due to his very short stature. "There is nothing written in any of these either! Why in the world would you have library books with no print in them?!"

Dee-Dee was quickly taking books off the shelves and throwing them over her shoulder.

"Dee-Dee, what do you think you are doing?!" Dexter said.

"Looking for the secret entrance." she replied.

"What are you talking about, woman?!"

"Ya know, like your lab! One of these books have to open up a secret entrance where this treasure or whatever it is has gotta be at!"

"That is crazy! Even if you are correct, there are thousands of books here! The odds of you finding the right one are incredibly low!"

"Not if we all help!"

"This will never work." Dexter grabbed a thick dictionary from the bottom shelf and struggled to try and pull it out, but he was too weak.

The Black Cube, who was on the other side of the shelf, pushed up against the dictionary and it landed on the ground with a loud thud. Dexter turned open the cover and jumped back in shock, seeing another one-eyed blob-like critter within a hole created through all of the pages of the book.

"Ooo, whats that thing?" Dee-Dee wondered.

"I dunno, but its kinda cute, right?" Sora said.

"Sure, whatever, but its not quite cute enough to have its life spared." Jade said semi-sarcastically, preparing to shoot the critter with the lightning-bolts from his hands.

"Wait! You can't just attack a sweet and innocent creature like that!" Dee-Dee objected, standing between the Action Chaotic and the critter.

"Sure I can; watch this." Jade casually replied, and pushed the girl aside. The creature started shivering with fear.

"Jade stop!" Sora exclaimed, grabbing one of his arms.

"Let go of me!" he said, shoving the Thoughtful Peacekeeper aside.

"Hey! Quit pushing innocent women!" Robin exclaimed.

"Take that political-correctness and shove it up your ass." Sirias interjected.

"I don't need you to back me up, Sirias." Jade said lowly.

"I wasn't backing you up, JADE! I was telling white-hair here to stop white-knighting!"

Sora waved her arms, trying to get the attention of the two Chaotics. "Sirias! Jade! Please don't-!"

"Stay out of this, Sora!" they shouted in unison, which made the orange-haired girl tear up a little.

"DAMN you two are annoying..." James said.

"Thats pretty hypocritical of you, James." Meichen stated.

"How so?!"

"Because you can be just as cruel and violent as Jade and Sirias." Kane explained.

"I didn't ask YOU, Kane!"

"I thought you said they were GOOD..." Cloud whispered to Kane, suspicious of Sirias, Jade, and James.

"He said they weren't malevolent, not that they were good or heroic." Meichen corrected.

"Well they need to get their acts together; they are way too mean to be a part of our team." BMO said.

"The only one who can straighten them out iiiiiiiisssss..." Kane began, gesturing towards Kaisen and leading him on.

"Hm, you make a valid point, Kane." the Observer said with a slight smirk. "SIRIAS! JADE! JAMES! ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE!"

"But daaaaaad! I mean, Kaiseeeeeen!" Sirias mockingly whined.

Kaisen just stared at her right in the eyes with a serious expression, which made her feel slightly uneasy.

"...You guys think you should merge back into Molly?" Zach suggested.

"I believe that is the best solution for now, Zach." Kaisen said.

"It reduces our numbers, but we have Robin and the others now, so it works." Meichen said.

"It'll stop all of this fighting, at least..." Kane said.

"Fine, its not like there is anything worth fighting, anyway." Jade muttered.

"Well who am I to question Kaisen...?" Sirias said sarcastically.

The 7 alter-egos turned into balls of light that grouped together and faded into Molly.

"Whoa, what? If you could turn into little suns and combine into a girl, why didn't you do that when they were being so mean?" Dee-Dee asked.

"They all have to agree on it to merge back into me, and they don't always get along." Molly explained.

"Clearly." Cloud scoffed.

"So what is this little guy?" Molly asked, looking at the blob creature.

"We don't know, but it doesn't look like anything dangerous." Zach said.

"Unfortunately, without my la-BOR-atory, I can't run any tests on it to figure it out." Dexter added.

"Well you shouldn't run any experiments on this cute little thing anyway, Dexter!" Dee-Dee said to her brother, shooting him a glare. She picked the creature up and hugged it.

"Well that little blob can't be the only thing that was in here, right?" Zach said.

"Only one way to find out." BMO said.

The group started looking through the area once more, and Robin noticed something shimmer ever so slightly right underneath the front desk.

"You guys, I think there is something underneath the front desk." he said, and the others walked over to him.

"BMO doesn't see anything." BMO said, looking into the empty compartments behind the desk.

"No, I mean literally UNDER the front desk."

"How are we supposed to get under there?" Dee-Dee asked.

"I've got this!" Zach created a small puddle of water around the front desk, which seeped under the air pockets, cracks, and holes around it. "Everyone, get back." he said, and the others did so. Zach threw his hands upward and a huge spout of water shot up from the desk, tearing it off the ground and throwing it through the ceiling. The water almost immediately dried up, and there was a passage in the floor that emitted a faint white glow.

"Good eye, Robin." Cloud said.

"And good idea, Zach." Molly said.

Robin opened the hatch and the white glow erupted into a large pillar of light.

"Ooo, pretty!" Dee-Dee said.

After a long moment, the light faded and all that was there under the hatch was a small crevasse in the floor with a faded marking in the shape of Tenebris' eye.

"...Is that it?" Dexter said with a puzzled look.

"No, there HAS to be something special about this marking." Robin said.

"You're right. It was a seal, and you released me from it. Thank you very much!" a calm female voice said from behind the group. They turned around and there was a fairy wearing pink boots and gloves, a white outfit, golden rings around her arms, large blue eyes, and a pink helmet-like headpiece with 2 large nubs on the top like ears: Lumina.

Dee-De gasped loudly, "A fairy! Can you grant me a wish?! I wish for a unicorn!"

"Exactly who are you?" Cloud asked.

"My name is Lumina. I was Lumiere's personal assistant." she said.

"Were you sealed away by Tenebris?" Zach asked.

"Yes, but in spite of that, I have been helping you all this whole time. Not just the 8 of you, but each and every hero that is here in this dimension."

"How have you been helping us?" Cloud asked.

"Well, I'm the one who brought you all here in the first place, and who has been bringing more of you heroes here ever since."

"Wait, wasn't Lumiere the one who did all that?" Zach asked.

"Yes, but I am an extension of Lumiere herself."

"Whaaaaaaaaat?" Dee-Dee asked, slowly tilting her head in confusion.

"Its like me and my alter-egos. They are all a part of me, but they still have their own personalities and ambitions." Molly explained.

"Okay, that makes sense...sorta."

"Oh! I see you have found one of the Guardian's components." Lumina said with a surprised look, noticing Dee-Dee holding the blob creature.

"You mean this cute little blob thing?"

"Yes! Yes! That creature is very important! Protect it and keep it safe."

"Well I've done a pretty good job on that so far; my brother wanted to do some science tests and stuff on it."

"Good! Keep at it."

"What is exactly so important about that thing?" Zach asked.

"It is one of the keys to free the Chosen One and face my brother in battle."

"Are you serious?! HOW?!"

"That creature is not the only one of its kind. These creatures combine to form the Guardian, and there should be 10 in total. Find 5, and they combine to awaken the Guardian. Find 10, and they unlock the Guardian's true power."

"Looks like we have to find more dictionaries." BMO said.

"No, I'm afraid it is not that easy."

"No, it never is..." Cloud murmured.

"The one in your possession is the only one in this location. I believe there are 5 of these creatures in this town."

"So hopefully those other guys in our group can find them, and we'll at least have the Guardian awakened." Zach said.

"Thats good information to know, but what about yourself, Lumina?" Robin asked.

"Certainly. Like I said before, I am Lumiere's assistant and an extension of herself, but Tenebris sealed me away. Luckily for all of us, my seal was nowhere near as powerful as the seal on Lumiere. As he does with all of us heroes, Tenebris underestimated my power. Since my seal was weaker, more of my strength was able to break through, and I used that strength to transport you heroes to this dimension." Lumina explained.

"So does that mean you can summon more heroes since you are now free?" Cloud asked.

"Yes, but I can not just call upon a bunch of people to this exact location. I can only call so many heroes at a time, and when I do, my power has to...recharge in a way before I can call on more heroes again. Even if Lumiere was released and I was at my full power, I still would have...recharge times on this power, but they would be less frequent and I could call upon more heroes per usage. You see, even though I am her personal assistant, I have nowhere near the power that Lumiere has."

"Do you have enough power to bring heroes here right now?" BMO asked.

"Certainly, but I can not simply call them right to this area. Any time I bring new heroes to this world, Tenebris tracks them and positions his...what he calls, his 'pieces' accordingly. He is unaware of my current whereabouts, and even with my seal broken, he has no way of currently tracking me."

"Thus, if you do not call heroes to your location, he has no way of finding you, so you can remain hidden from him, right?" Dexter said.

"Precisely."

"So he can't track YOU, but what about US?! Can't he just see us talking to some mysterious thing and then figure it all out on his own?" Zach asked.

"I have a veil that hides those who I am around, so as far as Tenebris is aware, this library is completely vacant. This cloak was in effect even while I was sealed away."

"Is there any information on Lumiere or Tenebris that could give us a major edge?" Cloud asked.

"I'm sorry, but when Tenebris wiped the important bits of Lumiere's memory away, it wiped away those bits of memory from myself as a result. The only reason I even knew of the Guardian was from seeing one of its components...unlocking the memory that was wiped away."

"So if we just show you a bunch of pictures of stuff, you might remember something new to help us?" Dee-Dee asked.

"I don't think you will find anything else of importance in this place."

"Oh thats a tad harsh, now isn't it?" a creepily-cheerful voice said.

"Who said that?!" BMO asked.

"It is I, Dimentio." a two-dimensional jester wearing a harlequin mask, a purple and yellow spiky outfit, and black gloves and shoes suddenly "flipped" into view: Dimentio.

"What happened to your mass?!" Dexter exclaimed.

"I never had any to start out with. I hail from a world of paper."

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"Oh my, aren't YOU just a little black cube of sunshine?"

"Whats your story, Dimentio?" Robin asked while flipping through a tome, unsure of the jester's alignment.

"Tee-hee, book puns." Dee-Dee said.

"My story? I am here to battle you heroes for my own enjoyment, as if you are all a bunch of toys. Achieving the Chaos Heart that I am after is like a bonus, because I trust Tenebris about as much as anyone else should trust ME. In fact, ol' Tenebris has already done some of my work FOR me! This dimension of madness is almost MORE perfect than the Void, and it didn't even require any power of love nonsense nor incompetent Counts to manipulate!" Dimentio explained.

"Thats all we needed to know." Cloud said, and held out his sword.

"My my, you think you can best me in battle with a sword like that of a stale baguette? Ha!"

"Do not underestimate them, Dimentio." Lumina said after flying up from the group.

"Lumina! Why what a surprise to see you, like a birthday party without cake and presents!"

"The way this dude talks in similes is REALLY annoying..." Zach mumbled.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"The Cube is right! Less talking, more fighting!" BMO said.

"Here we go!" Robin quickly flipped through a tome and created many slashes of wind around him and shot them at Dimentio.

"Your slashes of wind are like a breeze in falls day." Dimentio "flipped" sideways into a two-dimensional line and the slashes passed right by him, then he "flipped" back forward.

"Now its MY turn!" Dimentio created a bunch of purple and yellow energy balls and shot them at the group.

Dexter dove into a space in one of the bookshelves.

Lumina simply flew up out of range.

Dee-Dee was knocked backward to the ground, but shielded the blob critter in her arms.

"Wall!" Cloud held out one of his arms and a large, star-shaped, multicolored shield appeared in front of him, which blocked the energy balls sent at him.

BMO was knocked onto his back, but was now small enough to avoid the energy balls entirely.

Robin waved his hand in front of him and blocked the energy balls with a wall of fire, and Zach did the same with a wall of water.

"Wind Sorceress transformation!" in a flurry of autumn leaves, Molly became a woman with orange hair like leaves wearing a wreath of branches and purple robes. She was in her Wind Sorceress Form.

Wind Sorceress Molly quickly surrounded herself in a tornado, which deflected the energy balls sent at her.

The Black Cube did nothing and was not even affected by the energy balls that hit him.

"Some of you are worthwhile; some of you are useless. Allow me to separate the two!" Dimentio surrounded Dexter, Dee-Dee, BMO, The Black Cube, and Lumina in transparent turquoise boxes.

"Ciao!" Dimentio prepared to snap his fingers, but the boxes faded in bursts of bright light. "Oh?"

"Just because Lumiere can't break seals, doesn't mean I can't!" Lumina said triumphantly. "...With all due respect to her." she added with a slight blush.

"Looks like I will have to dispose of YOU first." Dimentio opened up a portal to a green checkered void, then teleported right in front of Lumina.

"What...what is that?"

"Just a portal to a dimension I created like a signature dish! A dimension from which there is no escape, like a corn maze made of red hot magma, called Dimension D!"

"I am not going to be trapped again." Lumina teleported backward in a flash of light-blue light.

"You want to play the game of teleportation? Very well, I'll join...ALL of me." Dimentio created hundreds of clones of himself and they teleported everywhere throughout the library. Lumina tried teleporting whenever a Dimentio clone tried to grab her, but eventually they were able to predict where she would appear and grabbed her.

"I win." Dimentio said and opened up a portal to Dimension D. "And I'm afraid your friends are a bit busy with myself."

"Get your clones outta my face!" Zach exclaimed, and threw a group of Dimentio clones backward with a large blast of water.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin, stealing the souls of the Dimentio clones around it. The pupils of the clones turned black and dilated to cover their entire eyeball, then they dropped to the ground.

"Kuuuuah!" Wind Sorceress Molly created a large twister that sucked up Dimentio clones while leaving everything and everyone else immune.

Cloud slashed Dimentio clones apart with swings of his huge sword.

Robin took a deep breath and thrust one of his arms forward, "THORON!" The mage fired the lightning spell from his hand, demolishing Dimentio clones.

"Somebody has to save that fairy!" Dee-Dee exclaimed.

The red core on the blob creature started to blink rapidly, and it slunk out of the girls arms, slithered forward, and started shapeshifting. It took the form of a black doberman with a lime-green scarf-looking structure around its neck, and blank hexagon-shaped eyes.

"Now the blob is a dog now?" BMO said.

"Its a doberman with a scarf." Dexter corrected.

The doberman fired a bunch of green arrows into the sky, which left hexagon-shaped particles behind them, and right when Dimentio was about to take Lumina with him into Dimension D, he is bombarded with these arrows. He dropped Lumina and fell on his knees to the ground.

"Looks like the little one has tricks up his sleeve like a crafty magician." Dimentio said, not showing much of a reaction to the assault.

"Thats the cell tapping into the Guardian's power and using its tenth of it to take on this form! It is able to take that form under drastic conditions, but it can't maintain it forever!" Lumina explained.

"Hmhmhm, so only a tenth of its potential lets it fire arrows? This Guardian must truly be a power like that of those troublesome Pure Hearts! Looks like Lumina is not the only one I should have my eye on."

"Yeah, it should be ALL of us!" Wind Sorceress Molly enveloped Dimentio in a tornado, but while it spun him around, it did not lift him off the ground. "Uhh, what the heck?"

Dimentio tried to levitate, but the jester was unable to get off the ground. "Whats THIS?"

"Looks like whatever the Guardian hit you with has grounded you." Cloud said.

"That means no TV and no leaving the house." Dee-Dee said.

"Not THAT kind of grounded!" Dexter said, facepalming.

"Hmm, how interesting..." Dimentio said, keeping a calm composure.

"Now you're an easy target." Cloud said.

"Oh, is that what you truly believe?" Dimentio taunted. He flipped into a two-dimensional form and also turned invisible.

"Yes, Dispell!" Cloud held up one of his hands and a red flash of light appeared around the spot where Dimentio was, and reversed his flip and invisibility. "And Quaga!" the swordsman threw out one of his hands and a brown sparkle flashed from it. From underneath Dimentio erupted a group of rectangular pillars of earth, which knocked him backwards across the floor.

"Huuuuah!" Robin sent out projectiles of large ice chunks, which exploded into icy needles upon contact with Dimentio.

Wind Sorceress Molly sent out huge slashes of wind, and Zach backed her up with a wave of water, both of which hit Dimentio.

"All of that had to kill him, right?" BMO asked.

"After that whole deal with Crisis, I've learned to NEVER assume the enemy is dead." Molly said.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"Wait, why would you volunteer to just go up to somebody so dangerous? That is nonsensical." Dexter said.

The Black Cube spoke in booming distorted Latin.

"Even if you are invulnerable, I-I still think I should go with you." Lumina said.

"No. If you go with him, Lumina, Dimentio will come after you." Cloud said.

"...You're right..."

The Black Cube slowly floated to where Dimentio had been knocked away to, but he didn't see him. At the same time, a transparent turquoise box was appearing around him.

"NO! Black Cube!" Lumina held out her hand to break the seal, but she was too far away and the attack happened too quick. A series of explosions erupted from within the box, then it faded. Out of the smoke, the Black Cube floated back to the group without a scratch.

"Holy SHIT! That would've KILLED us if Lumina didn't cancel it out last time!" Zach exclaimed.

"I guess it was a smart idea for the Black Cube to go alone after all." Dexter admitted.

"We shouldn't just use him as a decoy. That doesn't do us any good in defeating Dimentio, and its also pretty inhumane." Robin said.

"What do you mean that its inhumane?" BMO asked.

"It means the Black Cube isn't a human, its a SHAPE." Dee-Dee replied.

"That is not what THAT means, either!" Dexter said, facepalming again.

"Because we are sending the Black Cube out to die, technically speaking. We're taking advantage of the fact that he is invulnerable; its as if we are using him as a tool and not a teammate." Cloud explained.

"When you put it that way, it DOES sound pretty bad." BMO said.

"Ohoho, if that is what you consider 'bad', then what might you consider myself?" Dimentio said, turning visible in the air above of the group.

"How are you floating?! You are supposed to be on the ground!" BMO exclaimed.

"Good question, perhaps it has a little something to do with losing your guard dog Guardian?" Dimentio replied sarcastically, pointing to the Guardian, who had reverted back to its blob form.

"Oh, yeah, forgot to tell you guys...While you were talking about how human the Black Cube was, the guard dog turned back into a blob." Dee-Dee said awkwardly.

"Remember, the Guardian segment can only hold that form up for so long." Lumina reminded them.

"Crap! We should've been fighting instead of questioning our morale!" Zach exclaimed.

"You say that like you could've found me. Unlike the lot of you, and like an elephant, I never forget. I remember every detail, and that includes the details Lumina gave about the Guardian. Its dog form was on a time limit, as if being baked in an oven, so I theorized that the effects of its arrows would wear off when that time was up. I turned invisible and waited to see if my theory was correct, and it turned out to be so. See? It would've been like finding an invisible needle in a maze of corn." Dimentio smugly explained.

"You already used the corn maze simile, ya jackass!"

"Parker, stop missing the point." Wind Sorceress Molly stated.

"How do we stop this madman?!" BMO exclaimed.

"We fought him without the Guardian's help before; we can fight him without the Guardian's help again. Just keep going!" Robin exclaimed.

"Your persistence is strong, but does no good against I. You are a raging river, but I am a fortified dam." Dimentio said casually.

"Yeah, well DAMN you to hell!" Zach fired a sideways whirlpool of water at Dimentio, who just teleported to the side. The powerful attack tore through the bookshelves behind the jester and through the wall on the other side.

"All of those books! Ruined!" Dexter exclaimed, dropping to his knees.

"You can't make moves so predictable. Raw power means nothing if there is no strategy behind it." Cloud explained.

"Ohoho, words for the wise, swordsman." Dimentio said.

"...Then its time for me to take this to the next level." Zach said.

"What are you talking about?" Wind Sorceress Molly asked.

"Remember when I told you I was a water deity and you didn't believe me?"

"Now you're gonna prove it?"

"Thats right!" Zach enveloped himself in a bubble of water and a large orange clam shell appeared and clamped shut around him. After a moment, the shell opened and the top-half of Zach's body was sticking out of the violet bottom of it. Zach was shirtless, tall, had gills, bulky green hands like a sea monster, and very long dark-brown hair. He was in his Water Deity form.

"Woooooow!" BMO and Dee-Dee exclaimed in amazement.

"Hmm, quite the drastic transformation..." Dimentio said.

"There is more to it than just LOOKS!" Water Deity Zach raised his arms up and walls of water rose up all around Dimentio, enclosing him in a dome of water. He clapped his hands and the dome exploded, creating a short-lasting downpour throughout the entire room.

"All of those boooooooks!" Dexter mourned.

"That was impressive, but how can you tell if it even did any damage?" Robin asked.

"Because I will remain unscathed, thats how." Dimentio said, appearing behind the group.

"You aren't going to make a fool of ME, Dimentio!" Water Deity Zach waved his hands and giant bubbles appeared throughout the room.

"Oooooo!" Dee-Dee slowly reached out her finger to pop one nearby her.

"DON'T! Touch that and it'll probably kill you!"

"So how did you plan on preventing that?" Dexter asked, since Zach had set the bubbles in the first place.

"Guys, quit underestimating him. He's impulsive and headstrong, but he isn't crazy enough to put his teammates in danger on purpose!" Wind Sorceress Molly said in Zach's defense.

"Thanks Molly." Water Deity Zach enveloped his teammates in domes of water and stared at Dimentio.

Dimentio was not intimidated at all. "Take your best shot at me, huh?"

"You're gonna regret saying that!" Water Deity Zach closed himself in his shell, and in a near instant, the entire room became flooded up to the ceiling. Dimentio thought quickly and created a portal to Dimension D, trying to drain the water, but even though it was flowing through the portal, the water level wasn't going down.

The jester decided to retreat into the dimension, but Water Deity Zach could sense his movement and made all of the bubbles burst. Shockwaves of air were created from the power of the burst, turning all of the water into vapor, with the exception of the domes around his teammates, and throwing Dimentio hard against the wall with the impact force creating cracks in the wall. Dimentio fell straight onto the ground, and Water Deity Zach emerged from his shell and extinguished the domes.

"Wow, go Zach!" Wind Sorceress Molly said.

"Amazing job." Robin said.

"You maniac! You blew it up!" Dexter exclaimed, looking at the demolished and soaked books everywhere.

"Just remember, Dimentio could still be alive." Cloud said.

"You're right, Cloud. We've seen how resilient and crafty Dimentio is." Robin replied.

"I prepared for that." Water Deity Zach surrounded Dimentio's body in a bubble and levitated it. "Now if he escapes, we'll know, and if he doesn't, he'll drown."

"But did you ever take into the account that I might just dimension-hop?" Dimentio thought with narrowed eyes. He opened up a portal to Dimension D behind him and quickly slunk in.

"I...I probably should've factored in Dimension D, huh?" Water Deity Zach said in embarrassment, which made Dexter, Wind Sorceress Molly, and Cloud facepalm.

"At least we weakened him enough to force him to retreat." Lumina said.

"But for how long?" Robin said ominously.

"Well for now he's gone, and we need to go help the rest of our team with a fight." Wind Sorceress Molly said, and she and Zach turned back into their normal forms.

"Then we better not leave them hanging."

A few moments after the group left the room, the portal to Dimension D opened up again, and Dimentio floated out.

"They believe they have the advantage? They are as clueless as a blue dog without pawprints." he said.

OOO

Jake, Kirby, Sai, Stranger, Link, Miroku, Gaaranooki, Locke, Knuckles, Mumbo, Launcher Spider, Pit, Deidara, Perry, and Anjren were still outside fighting Emperor Awesome and his army.

"This guy is tougher than he looks." Pit said.

"He's tougher than he ACTS, too..." Anjren added.

"We need to put a stop to that speaker system. Without those sound waves almost literally holding us back, he'll be far easier to deal with." Sai explained.

"And how do you suppose we do that? We tried that already and it failed!" Knuckles said.

"There are 15 of us and we have a wide list of skills, I'm sure we can figure something out!" Gaaranooki exclaimed, trying to keep everyone together.

"Gaaranooki is correct. We must stand together and work as a team." Locke said.

"I think I've got a plan." Link took out a pair of metal boots and put them on.

"Dude, why do you have cement shoes?" Jake asked.

"They're Iron Boots, and they'll weigh me down from these sound waves, so while you guys keep him busy, I can sneak up and destroy that stereo system."

Launcher Spider made some machine noises.

"Uhh, I think you're too big to help him with that." Pit said.

Launcher Spider made louder machine noises.

"Hey, take that 'tude out on those fists, dude." Jake said.

Link slowly trudged away through an alley to get to the stereo system from behind by going around the back of the buildings.

"Fist Fighters, PUNCH IT!" Emperor Awesome ordered, and his minions charged forward.

"Shit, I thought I was just seeing things, but they WERE getting further away! These sound waves are moving us backward!" Miroku said,

"So how are THESE not affected?" Knuckles asked incredulously while punching out Fist Fighters.

"We were trained for it." one of them said before getting punched out by Knuckles.

"You losers can get in on that training too! TURN IT UP!" Emperor Awesome ordered, and the Fist Fighter operating the speaker system turned the volume to 10. The sound waves became strong enough to knock the heroes to the ground and blow off chucks of the buildings.

"Whats wrong? Too intense for ya?" Emperor Awesome taunted, jumping off of his dinosaur and strutting up tot he group.

"So you're truly arrogant enough to think you can take us on face-to-face? Fine then." Locke hopped up onto Launcher Spider's back, who was unaffected by the sound waves, and he marched up to Emperor Awesome. Any rubble that flew at them was either shattered against Launcher Spider's metal frame, or shattered by a powerful punch from Locke.

"You should've stayed on your mount." she said threateningly, and Launcher Spider fired a barrage of missiles at the shark-man. Emperor Awesome performed a series of backflips, sidesteps, and dives to avoid the missiles, making it look like he was breakdancing.

"Sorry babe, but I'm too fast for that." he said smugly.

"And so am I." Locke said in the same threatening tone as before, and appeared behind him in a near instant with her arms and legs vibrating vigorously. As Emperor Awesome turned around to face her, she delivered a mighty punch to his face, knocking him backward through a building. Locke pounced after him in a single bound and punched him through the building behind that one.

"Wow, she is hardcore." Anjren said.

"Yeah, and thats kinda hot!" Miroku perversely added.

"What is taking Link so long with this sneak-attack?!" Pit exclaimed.

"He is sneaking with cement boots on, you ever tried something like that?" Sai said.

"You got a point there, but I'm just ticked that I can't fly or fire arrows in these conditions!"

"I know that feeling, hmm. Except replace 'arrows' with 'art'." Deidara said.

Meanwhile, Link had reached the back of the stereo system.

"Theres no plug? Alright, that makes things a little trickier..." he thought. As he studied the stereo system and formulated a plan, there was a loud roar behind him.

The Hero of Time didn't need to turn around to know what it came from. "Oh shi-"

Emperor Awesome's dinosaur fired its eye lasers at him, exploding against the ground and throwing Link right out of his Iron Boots and through a shattered window on the second floor of a nearby building.

Locke prepared to throttle Emperor Awesome, but let her guard down for a moment because of what happened to Link. In that moment, Emperor Awesome delivered an uppercut to her that knocked her off her feet.

"You...!...You...!" Locke was angry at the shark-man for what he was doing, but mostly angry at herself for letting her guard down. She jumped to her feet to again, but was knocked right through the wall of the building by a swing of the spiked ball-tipped tail from the dinosaur, who had approached her and Emperor Awesome after dealing with Link. Emperor Awesome quickly jumped back on the throne on his steed and it faced the other heroes, who were having more trouble with the rubble and the sound waves than they were with the Fist Fighters.

"Ugh! I gotta weigh myself down here!" Anjren took out a small microchip, touched it to her chest, and became encased in a blocky dark-red robot suit with a black visor and black highlights. "I can't use my rocket boots, but at least I don't-!" A chunk of rubble suddenly slammed into her face, cracking her visor and knocking her backwards.

Fist Fighters surrounded Perry and he tried jumping up to tail-slap them, but was blown backwards. Jake stretched out one of his arms, wrapped around the platypus like a rope, and stretched his arm back.

"I think the key here is we have to make ourselves bigger." the magic dog grew to twice the size of Emperor Awesome's dinosaur. Perry stood his ground on the shapeshifter's hand, not wanting to fall from such a height.

"Mumbo can arrange that." Mumbo began chanting, and with a wave of his wand and a burst of sparkles, a bus-sized golden humanoid statue with a triangular bird-like head appeared in front of him. The statue picked up the witch doctor and placed him atop its head.

Sai tried painting something on a scroll, but the ink was blown back into his face. "...Easier said than done..."

Deidara tried molding something with his clay, but it got stuck and mushed-up against his hands and the mouths on his palms. "...I hear ya, hmm..."

Stranger knew any critters he would shoot would just get blown away, but he had enough resilience to stand against the sound waves and started punching-out Fist Fighters.

"Wind Tunnel!" Miroku tried sucking up rubble into the miniature black hole created in his palm, but it had no effect because the sound waves were more powerful than the vacuum of his move.

Gaaranooki's sand could not hold together against the sound waves, and his petit size made it very difficult for him to hold his ground. His only option was to encase himself in a grey sandstone statue that was slightly larger than himself that had no legs, circles for arms holding a staff, a dull expression with its tongue sticking out, and a heart on its forehead.

"This music...is so...ANNOYING!" Pit exclaimed, flapping his wings madly in trying to stand his ground and surrounding himself with 2 floating shields to deflect the rubble.

"I knew you losers couldn't handle the awesome!" Emperor Awesome taunted.

Suddenly, the large stereo system exploded, putting an end to the music and the sound waves.

Emperor Awesome turned around with a look of shock and annoyance. "WHAT happened?! Who killed the music?!"

"Oh just a little group of assassins..." a male voice casually said.

From where the stereo system was stood a group of 8.

The first was a boy with light-brown hair that went to the bottom of his neck with a long strand sticking out the top, a cream-colored sweater vest, grey jeans, and brown boots: Tatsumi.

The second was a red-eyed girl with flowing black hair that nearly went down to the back of her knees, a black tank-top with a red scarf, a black skirt, black gloves, black boots, and wielded a long katana: Akame.

The third was a blonde girl with an Amazonian build, blonde hair that was slightly curly, a large chest, a very short black belly shirt, black shorts, a flowing white scarf, and long black boots: Leone.

The fourth was a muscular man with a black pompadour wearing a green shirt, white jeans, and a leather jacket: Bulat.

The fifth was a green-haired guy with bangs that hung over his left eye, a white shirt, a leaf-green trenchcoat, dark-blue jeans, and red fingerless gloves with metal wire wrapped around a spool on top of each: Lubbock.

The sixth was a girl with pink hair tied in two very long pigtails, a pink shirt, a flowing pink dress, very long black stockings, and wielding a silver rifle that resembled a grenade launcher: Mine.

The seventh was a girl with somewhat-long purple hair, square-framed glasses, a light-purple gown with matching arm covers, long white stockings, and wielding a gigantic pair of scissors: Sheele.

The eighth was a yellow-green insect-like humanoid with two short tentacles for a mouth, orange eyes, futuristic black armor, goggles, and jagged brown claws and talons: Krombopulos Michael.

"Who are YOU party-crashers?!" Emperor Awesome exclaimed.

"A group of assassins out to rid the world of corruption known as Night Raid." Akame said.

OOO

Killdra, Rotom, and Maxwell were walking through the lobby of an abandoned university. All of the leather lounge seats were stripped down to the frame, a thick layer of dust covered the stairs, desks, and tables, and many of the floor tiles were either broken apart or completely missing.

"Now THIS is a school I'd like going to." Killdra said.

Maxwell summoned a 'giant flying tidy feather duster', which started floating around and cleaning the dust off the tables.

"Yeah, your stupid duster should finish up its job in a few centuries, dude..." Killdra said.

"Rotom rotom ro rotom ro!" Rotom said.

"Yeah, sure, let's go up."

The trio climbed up a flight of stairs, and right at the top step, Maxwell held his hand up and they stopped. There was a very thick line of orange ink between the stairs and the hallway.

"What the hell? Is this supposed to pass off as some sort of graffiti? Lame. Its just a line." Killdra said.

"Rotom rotom tom rotom ro!" Rotom said.

"Well if something doesn't want us to go there, then we obviously HAVE to go there..."

"Ro rotom ro!"

"Fine. Rooster boy, you got something that can clean up this ink tripwire?"

Maxwell nodded and summoned a 'hovering absorbent octopus'. The cephalopod floated across the line and started sucking up the ink like a vacuum. Suddenly, an orange triangular bomb was flung out of the ink, stopped in front of the group, and started flashing.

"Shit!" Killdra quickly dove at Maxwell, they fell down the stairs, and Rotom flew down the flight following therm. Right afterward, the triangular bomb exploded, scattering blobs of ink all around.

Maxwell got up, dusted himself off, summoned a 'healing potion', and drank it. He summoned another one and offered it to Killdra.

"No, no, I'm very fine." she said with an almost pleased look from the tumble down the stairs.

"Rotom ro rotom ro rotom?" Rotom said.

"No idea where the hell that came from, guess it was booby-trapped after all...And now I'm all dusty and feel gross." Killdra complained as she shook her shirt. The 'giant flying tidy feather duster' Maxwell had summoned before flew over to her and started dusting her off.

Another triangular bomb was flung off of a splotch of ink, rolled down the stairs, and stopped in front of the group. Maxwell quickly summoned a 'bomb disarmer', and a man with dots for eyes in a hard hat and wire cutters appeared. A speech bubble with a wrench in it appeared above his head as he walked over to the bomb, sort of rubbed his arms against it, and both he and the bomb disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Alright, that trap is more than boobies, someone is hiding in that ink. Who the hell is it?" Killdra guessed, although she didn't sound very incredulous.

Out of the ink rose a cutesy squid with huge cartoony eyes and nubs for tentacles, with the exception of the two long tentacles.

"Rotom rotom!" Rotom happily exclaimed.

"Eew. Squids aren't supposed to be cute." Killdra grumbled.

The squid turned into a glob of ink that quickly morphed into a little girl with black rings around her yellow eyes, and orange hair with two pigtails that resembled long squid tentacles. She wore a woven sunhat with a blue military pattern, dark-blue boots, and blue riot gear with fingerless dark-blue gloves: Squilly the Inkling.

"Hey kid, did you lose a bet?" Killdra said, examining her wardrobe.

"You either look fresh or wear the most efficient gear, you can't have both!" she said defensively, then pulled out a lime-green sniper rifle-like weapon, the Splat Charger, with the aiming laser pointed right at Killdra's forehead.

Killdra smirked. "What are you gonna do with that Super Soaker, kill me?"

"Not if you tell me what you are doing here!"

"Is that a threat...?"

"A MAJOR threat!"

"More like a MINOR one. Ya know, cuz you're a kid..."

"I'm also a SQUID, what of it?!"

"So you're a kid now, but you're also a squid now?"

"No, I can BECOME a squid now! Then I'm a kid, I'm a squid; I'm a kid now! Its shapeshifting!"

"Okay squid-kid, what are you doing here anyway?"

"NO! Thats what I asked! Don't flip this on me! You're on my team's turf right now!"

"Oh, so its a gang thing? You part of a turf war or whatever?"

"NO! Now is NOT the time for turf wars! There is a crisis at hand!"

"Yeah, we've already MET him, total nasty bastard. How did-?"

"Rotom rotom ro rotom rotom rotom RO RO ROTOM RO!" Rotom angrily exclaimed, having heard enough of their arguing.

Squilly put away her Splat Charger. "Thank you, thats all I wanted to know. So you three are part of a larger team and are exploring this area for clues about this whole crisis going on? Then there is someone who you need to meet. He is my superior and you will give him your utmost respect, ya got that?!"

"Whatever..." Killdra mumbled. She, Maxwell, and Rotom walked up the stairs and followed Squilly, stepping over and jumping across ink puddles along the way. Squilly led them down a hallway to some locked double-wide doors.

Squilly turned to face them and took out a navy-blue shotgun-like weapon with a white base; the Splattershot Pro. She turned into her squid form and slunk under the door like a liquid and turned back to her normal form on the other side.

"Yo, Rotom, go through those doors. You're a ghost or something, right?" Killdra said.

Rotom shook its body left and right. "Rotom ro." it said firmly.

"Maxwell?"

Maxwell shook his head.

"Damn, what the hell is with you guys and this kid..."

There was some talking between Squilly and someone else on the other side, but it was muffled. After a moment, Squilly kicked the doors open and motioned the trio to step inside.

The room was a large library, but nowhere near the scale of the one Zach and Molly were in. Bookshelves were along the walls, filled with tattered and dusty books. Chairs and tables with missing legs were here and there.

From the shadows of the back of the room stepped forward a green humanoid creature wearing dark-purple mage robes. He had 3-fingered clawed hands, a head like a squid, big eyes, sharp teeth, large purple horns, a purple gem on his forehead, and purple dragon wings: Major Threat.

His gem was glowing, his claws were outstretched, and he had a menacing scowl.

"Aww fuck." Killdra took out a chain, which grew to links the size of basketballs.

Electricity sparked around Rotom, and Maxwell summoned a 'bazooka'.

Major Threat held his arms up and surrounded the group's weapons in a purple aura, then ripped the Splattershot Pro, chain, and bazooka from the groups hands with telekinesis. He gathered the weapons together in the air above him and crushed them into nothingness.

"Once again, aww fuck." Killdra repeated.

"Rotom rotom ro?" Rotom asked scaredly.

Killdra stepped forward. "Sure. Hey psychic psycho, who are you?"

Major Threat narrowed his eyes and telekinetically lifted Killdra up, then held his arms out.

"Shit fuck fuck FUCK!" Killdra exclaimed, preparing to be crushed to death. After a long moment, Major Threat quickly brought her toward himself and...hugged her.

"My names Jeff." he said, having a calm and chill voice.

Killdra was confused and pushed herself back from him. "What the FUCK?"

"That is my superior; Jeff AKA Major Threat, but call him Jeff." Squilly said.

"Sorry, can't call him Jeff. What if we decide to add a stoner or a giant spider to this story?"

"What?!"

"Squilly, don't worry about it, its fine. I'm used to being called by my old alias." Major Threat explained.

"Major Jeff, sir, I have recruited these three as part of our team!" Squilly said like a trained soldier.

Killdra rolled her visible eye. "Recruited...? We freaking followed you here and your dude pulled a major bait and switch on-"

Squilly whipped Killdra across the face with one of her ponytails to shut her up.

"Rotom rotom ro?" Rotom asked.

"Of course there are more members than just us! One of them is out scouting as we speak!" Squilly explained.

There was a knock on the door and Squilly quickly pulled out a Splat Bomb, the triangular bomb from before, and turned around with pure militaristic instinct.

"Whoa, take it easy there Squilly!" Major Threat said as he telekinetically lifted and crushed the Splat Bomb.

"For fucks sake, Squilly..." Killdra flung open the doors and there stood a swordsman.

He had white hair that was combed to the side, wore white armor with a dark-blue cape, had bare feet, and was wielding an orange chainsaw-like sword wreathed in red flames: Corrin.

"Major Jeff, sir, I...found nothing, I'm sorry." he said with a bow.

"Don't worry about it, its fine, Corrin. Nobody has found anything yet in this old place, except for these new recruits that came in." Major Threat said.

"Oh, hey, nice to meet you three. My name's Corrin!"

"Yeah, 'sup. I'm Killdra, thats Rotom and thats Maxwell." Killdra said, not really caring.

"Oh, so you're part of the team?"

"...Oh, yeah, totally! Go team Jeff!" she sarcastically exclaimed.

"Great! Well there is still a floor we have yet to search, so come on everyone!" Corrin said eagerly, completely missing Killdra's sarcasm.

"Woosh..." she muttered.

"CORRIN! Remember your rank! Major Jeff doesn't take orders from you!" Squilly shouted.

"Squilly, you gotta chill, man! Theres no ranking on a team. Everyone has their part to play, and besides, Corrin's got the right idea!" Major Threat said.

The team made their way back to the staircase.

"So Corrin, did you lose the boots to your armor, or are you just barefoot guy?" Killdra asked, being snarky.

"Not at all, barefoot is just how I am, Killdra." he replied.

"...Why? Don't you ever step on glass or sticks or Legos?"

"It has to do with my connection to dragons, and I tread lightly."

"WOW...You must have some dainty-ass feet!"

They proceeded up the stairs and heard some banging noises from a room with double push doors.

"SHIT! I'll go scout the scene!" Squilly threw down a bomb-shaped water balloon that burst into a blotch of ink in front of her; a Burst Bomb. She turned into a squid, sunk into the ink blotch, and emitted a sound like a submarine radar. Three black arrow symbols went right through the doors, then back into the ink blotch, and Squilly emerged.

"What the hell was all that?" Killdra asked.

"I used the Echolocator so we can track the positions of whoever is in there without worrying about a sneak attack. How else do you think I found you three so quickly?" Squilly said.

"You don't need any of this echo bat bullshit for this. Just walk the hell in and deal with whatever is on the other end."

"Thats...not a very safe plan, Killdra." Corrin said.

"Thats not even a PLAN, Killdra!" Squilly snidely shouted.

The goth girl didn't care. "Whatever." Killdra threw open the doors, which turned out to be to a cafeteria.

Tables were missing legs, there were broken plates, shattered glass, and rusty silverware on the ground. Old and rotten food was scattered everywhere and smeared on all things.

"Whoaaaaaa, I thought cafeterias were a grade school thing." Killdra said to herself.

She heard some shuffling behind the salad bar and took out a chain with basketball-sized links. She slowly crept over to the salad bar, and held her arms up to swing down her chain and crush it. Suddenly, a scythe was swung out from the other side of the salad bar, and cut her chain from the link right above her hands.

Killdra tossed the small bit of remaining chain. "Oh I've totally got more where that came from."

"So do we." a similar-sounding deadpan female voice said from the other side.

"Wow, that voice. Its like I'm talking to myself."

Rotom came flying through the door, shouting as it flew towards Killdra. "Rotom rotom rotom ro rotom ro rotom ro ro!"

Killdra rolled her visible eye. "I don't NEED you guys here if you're going to be paranoid about everything..."

An 'invisibility potion' suddenly appeared in mid-air and Maxwell faded into view, holding it.

"Oh, great, why don't we invite barefoot guy, squid kid, and their hippie leader while we're at it...?"

"Done and done." Corrin said as he and Major Threat floated to the ground; the latter using psychic powers and the former using dragon wings he sprouted.

"Wait, you have dragon wings, barefoot guy?" Killdra asked with a slightly surprised tone. She was hit in the side by a Burst Bomb from Squilly.

"You are to treat Corrin with respect, just as you would Major Jeff! Ex-except you are to treat Major Jeff with MORE respect than you-"

Killdra put a hand over the little girl's mouth. "For some military-trained paranoid squirt, you sure suck at sneaking up on shit if you always act like this."

"Rotom ro rotom ro." Rotom said in a deadpan tone.

"Whatever. I actually got the first attack in. If you hadn't come in screaming like that, I would've had them."

"It didn't matter because you blew our cover by barging in anyway, dumbass!" Squilly shouted.

All of this commotion made the three people who were behind the salad bar come out in the open.

One was a skeleton in a black cloak with a Jamaican accent wielding a scythe: Grim.

One was a little girl with a pink dress with a flower on it, a black headband, no nose, a large unibrow, and blonde hair that resembled devil horns: Mandy.

One was a little boy with blue jeans, a blue and white striped shirt, a tiny red baseball cap, dots for eyes, and a gigantic pink nose shaped like an egg: Billy. (Speaking of eggs and Billy, the other Billy will now be known as his full name: Billy Hatcher!)

"Boy you kids are annoying. And I already have to put up wit dose already." Grim said.

"Hold on, if you're the one with the scythe, why do you have a Jamaican voice instead of one like mine?" Killdra asked.

"AKA, a dull and boring one." Squilly added with an eye roll.

"Oh! Thats Mandy! She's dull and boring!" Billy exclaimed, who had a loud and almost lispy voice.

"Shut up Billy." Mandy said.

"Rad. Now its time to bring on the chain pain." Killdra said.

"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Killdra, we can't fight children!" Corrin exclaimed, waving his arms.

"We can't?" she and Squilly asked in unison.

Major Threat stepped forward. "No way, man! Listen, I think we all are just getting off on the wrong foot here!"

"Especially Corrin..." muttered Killdra.

"Call me Jeff, and these are my buddies Squilly, Corrin, Rotom, Maxwell, and Killdra."

"I'm not your buddy..." Killdra muttered again.

"We're a team looking for clues on how to get everyone back home from this bummer dimension, and maybe try to mellow out this Tenebris fella'. Would the three of you want to help us with that?"

Grim was not interested. "And WHY would we bother ta do dat?"

"Why because it never hurts to help! Thats what my ol' pal Tumbleweed taught me."

"Waaaaaaaaait, aren't tumbleweeds those round stick thinga-whatzits that roll around in tha' wild wild west?" Billy asked, imitating a cowboy. Maxwell nodded and summoned a 'tumbleweed', then handed it to Billy. The boy ripped off a chunk of the tumbleweed and ate it.

"Heh, his IQ is in the single digits, isn't it?" Killdra said.

"Worse. Its negative 5." Mandy said.

"...Nice."

"Anyway, what do you 3 say?" Major Threat asked.

"Fine, whatever. Tenebris did a decent job so far, but I'm the only omen who is going to bring about the end of the universe." Mandy said.

"...Nice." Killdra stated.

"YEAH! Lets go save the universe!" Billy cheered.

"While I actually enjoy tings here, I don't got a choice in da matter anyway." grumbled Grim.

"Ro rotom?" Rotom asked.

"Because he's our best friend forever." Mandy explained plainly.

"Wow! Thats amazing to hear, Mandy! Its always so great to see people so different become so close!" Major Threat said happily.

"Believe me man, its not da amazing gig dat you think it is..." Grim said, deadpan.

"How come, man?"

"Grim promised to be our best friend forever in a game of limbo for the soul of Billy's pet hamster. We won." Mandy said.

"And now he is always by our side and does so much for us! We LOVE him!" Billy exclaimed, hugging a groaning Grim by the legs.

This hug brought back memories to Major Threat. "Heh heh, boy that takes me back! Tumbleweed used to give me that exact hug! It drove me NUTS, man!"

"Once again, mon, its a preddy bum deal. I spent most of moh time fixing whatever mayhem dey cause by messing with moh stuff, and da other parts of moh time doing dishes and dat crap." Grim lamented.

Killdra started giggling a little. "So...so the two of you basically have the Grim Reaper as your own personal BITCH! That is HILARIOUS!"

Grim's scythe glowed and held it right at Killdra's head. "Look, I may not be able to kill DOSE TWO, but deres no rules about doing da same ta YOU!"

"...Point taken."

Squilly was getting tired of all the squabbling. "So are you three with us or against us?!"

"...Fine, lets do dis." Grim said.

"Great! So have you guys found anything interesting?" Corrin asked.

"I found this cool booger!" Billy put a finger in his nose and picked out one of the Guardian's components, who looked a bit uncomfortable.

"Billy, where did you find that?" Mandy asked.

"The same place you find ALL boogers."

"Not even YOU could pick out a booger like dat, child..." Grim said.

"Rotom rotom ro ro ro rotom ro ro rotom ro rotom ro!" Rotom explained.

Killdra looked at the Pokemon in confusion. "...What? Zie-Guard-Day? Did you sneeze mid-name or something?"

"Ro."

"So is this what Zoombabwaye's boogers look like?!" Billy asked.

"Roooooo..."

"Rotom is saying thats a semi-sentient creature you have there called a Zygarde Core, and its actually a piece of a very powerful creature called Zygarde. There are more pieces out there, and if we find them all, we can assemble it. At half power, it takes the form of a giant snake, and at full power, it takes the form of a giant." Corrin explained.

"Soooooo...Zootopiary is made out of living boogers?" Billy asked, still not getting it.

"H-huh?"

"Don't bother trying to explain things to him, you'll just hurt yourself." Mandy said.

"Wellllll maybe there are more of Zippertray's boogers around here!" Billy said.

"Wellllll when you filter out all the stupid in your statement, thats probably right." Killdra said.

"So how much of this floor's turf have you three covered?" Squilly asked.

"Not much else besides dis cafeteria. We haven't cared enough to look very hard." Grim said.

"My kind of people." Killdra commented.

"Then lets MOVE OUT!" Squilly ordered, and after a pause, she blushed. "If...if that sounds like a smart maneuver, Major Jeff, sir..." she said quietly.

"Sounds like a great plan Squilly!" Major Threat said.

"Thank you Major Jeff, sir! And..I'm sorry for speaking out of turn, sir."

"Boy, even when you're not a squid, you're toothless." Killdra said.

"Would you mind repeating that into my MICROPHONE?!" Squilly pulled out a red and white oval-shaped gun with a lollipop-looking protrusion above the barrel, the Luna Blaster, and pointed it right at Killdra's face.

"Boy, you people just can NOT stop flaunting your weapons at me, huh?"

"Thats because you keep antagonizing them, Killdra." Corrin explained.

"She knows that, Corrin, she's being a bitch on purpose." grumbled Squilly.

"How much more time are you idiots gonna continue to waste?" Mandy said as she, Billy, and Grim walked to the exit.

Rotom was tired of it all too and flew forward to join them. "Rotom ro."

Maxwell summoned a 'dependent comfortable floating birdcage' and had the Core get inside of it. The birdcage followed Maxwell with a green speech bubble with a white flag in it appearing above it. The others joined them, and as they proceeded through a hallway, a very loud and menacing hissing noise echoed throughout it.

"Ro rotom rotom tom?!" Rotom exclaimed fearfully.

"Maybe it was Zombieray's other boogers in its snake form!" Billy said.

"No, its some sort of creature, and I don't think its on our side!" Corrin said.

"Good." Mandy said, narrowing her eyes.

"I'll scout it out." Squilly took out a small robotic squid with a beeping light on it, a Seeker, and placed it on the ground. She was about to activate it, but Maxwell ran in front of her and held his arms up. He summoned a 'luminous potion' and used it on the Seeker, making it glow brightly. The Seeker drove forward, leaving a trail of ink behind it, which Squilly trailed by swimming into it in her squid form.

"Ooo! I wanna play with that remote control squid too!" Billy eagerly chased after the Seeker, trudging through Squilly's ink like it was thick mud.

Killdra pointed at Billy in amusement. "Dude's so stupid he can't even RUN right!"

"Hey, words hurt now, Killdra. Its nothing that Billy is doing wrong, thats just how Squilly's ink works. When SHE runs though it, its like walking on puddles, but if anyone else does, its like wading through syrup." Major Threat explained.

"This stuff is SYRUP?!" Billy exclaimed excitedly, then he knelt down and licked the ink. "Doesn't taste that great, but its got a unique texture to it!" he said with his tongue stuck in the goo.

Killdra was giggling now. "Oh my Kismoto, this can NOT be real! This stupidity is on a different SCALE! I-I needed this, I haven't had a laugh like this in EVER!"

"Believe me Killdra, da novelty wears off REAL quick." Grim said.

"MAJOR JEFF! CORRIN! Others! Meet my position! Follow the Seeker's ink trail!" Squilly desperately shouted from far away.

"Lets go everyone!" Corrin exclaimed. He sprinted forward, and Major Threat levitated and followed him.

"Why does he even HAVE those wings if he can just float...?" Killdra said to herself.

"Lets go, pinhead." Mandy, who in no hurry, grabbed Billy by his nose and dragged him out of the ink with his tongue drooping down to his waist. Grim followed the two of them.

"Rotom rotom!" Rotom flew forward and Maxwell followed him on a 'motorcycle'.

"Alright, guess we gotta bail the kid out..." Killdra mumbled.

Corrin burst through the door and Major Threat crushed the door using telekinesis.

"THAT was unnecessary..." Killdra said, "Whoa."

The room was a gigantic classroom with a shattered skylight, broken and missing desks and chairs, two exit doors at the back, and a chalkboard covered in drawings of Tenebris' eye.

Squilly was trembling as she pointed a Splat Charger at a gigantic snake creature. The creature was a naga about the size of Manda, had purple skin with a yellow belly, two red-eyed dark-blue snakes for arms, a red breast, had long dark-blue snakes for hair, and piercing red eyes: Vennominaga- the Deity of Poisonous Snakes.

"Now DATS a snake." Grim said.

"Squilly, you gonna shoot that thing or are you gonna stand there and ink yourself?" Mandy sarcastically asked.

"Ha." Killdra stated.

"I-I'm SCARED, alright?! L-look at that damn monster!" Squilly exclaimed.

"Besides, we don't need to FIGHT this thing, man! It hasn't done nothin' to us." Major Threat added.

"Right, silly us, what were we thinking?! Why don't I just give this thing a big hug instead?!" Killdra sarcastically exclaimed.

Corrin could tell exactly what she was doing. "Killdra, I don't think thats the point Jeff was trying to ma-"

"No, no, lets try your hippie approach." Killdra walked up to Vennominaga, "Yo, snake monster, wanna join Team Jeff?"

Vennominaga responded by smacking the goth through the wall with a swing of her huge tail.

"Dat fool deserved dat." Grim stated.

Mandy nodded in agreement. "Totally."

"Whoa! Hey! There's no need for any of that now!" Major Threat said to Vennominaga.

Vennominaga's snake-arms hissed loudly and grabbed Billy and Mandy.

"Rotom rotom!" Rotom exclaimed.

"Grim! You have to save them!" Corrin exclaimed.

"No. Stop. Let dem go." Grim said in a deadpan tone. "...Well I tried."

The two kids managed to get the arms to let them go. Mandy by punching the arm in the snout, and Billy, finding the tongue ticklish, sneezed and covered the arms snout in a glob of snot.

"Way to throw us under the bus, bonehead." Mandy said to Grim.

"Yeah! Best friends don't let their best friends be eaten by snacks!" Billy added.

"'Snakes', Billy, not 'snacks'. Your getting it confused with Nigel Planter."

"Oh yeah! He's a partial-tongue! Talking to snacks would be sooooo cool!"

"No it wouldn't. I learned dat from dat stupid talking burrito I made you." Grim said.

"Hey, that guy had some cool ideas, Grim!"

"You guys, we need to stay focused on this creature!" Corrin said.

"With that power of love garbage?" Mandy sneered.

"The power of love isn't garbage, Mandy! Its real!" Billy sternly exclaimed.

"Real useless. At least against dis ting." Grim grumbled.

"Major Jeff, I apologize for speaking out of turn, but I think Grim is right. We're going to have to battle this monster!" Squilly exclaimed.

"I think Squilly is right. I know it is against your philosophy, but some people, or creatures, can't be reasoned with, Major Jeff." Corrin said.

By this time, Killdra stumbled back to the group. "Does fighting stuff ALWAYS take this much persuasion for this guy? Seriously..."

"Do NOT speak of Major Jeff in that way!" Squilly exclaimed, pointing her Splat Charger at Killdra.

"Hang on there, Squilly. If fighting this is what the group wants, then I won't stay in the way, man. I'll protect you guys, but I can't help you guys hurt that creature." Major Threat said hesitantly. Maxwell decided it was best if Zygarde Core's birdcage followed the former galactic conqueror instead, since he would stay out of the fray.

"So are you...giving us the okay signal, Major Jeff?"

"...Thats right, Squilly."

"So you are finally ready to take her seriously." a formal-sounding male voice said

"Rotom rotom ro rotom?!" Rotom said.

From behind Vennominaga came a green anthropomorphic lizard in a grey suit with long leaf-green hair that was combed downwards: Toffee.

"Greetings." he said.

"Lizard lawyer!" Billy exclaimed and hid behind Grim.

"So YOU'RE the one behind this thing?!" Corrin said.

"DUH! Didn't you just see him step out?"

"Billy, shut up." Mandy stated.

"So whats the big idea man?" Major Threat said.

"There is no 'big idea', Jeff. Vennominaga simply provides some muscle while I conduct my research." Toffee explained.

"Rotom?" Rotom said.

"Precisely. Not on the lot of you, but on Tenebris, Lumiere, and this world."

"You know about them?! Please, will you tell us what you've found out?! We need to know all we can so we can free Lumiere, stop Tenebris, and get back home!" Corrin said.

"He's obviously not going to help us if he sent a monster after us." Mandy said.

"You are correct. My research is for myself alone." Toffee said.

"Not even Tenebris?" Corrin asked.

"Especially not. I would sooner tell the lot of you of my findings than him. If you are looking for any information on him here, I am afraid you will be disappointed."

"Because you either disposed of it or confiscated it." Squilly said.

"Correct."

"Yeah, as a member of the military, we know better than to leave critical info to the enemy!"

"Well I guess we're done here then." Killdra headed towards the door, but Vennominaga blocked it with her tail.

"Unfortunately, I can not let the lot of you leave." Toffee stated.

"Okay, stop calling us 'the lot of you', we're Team Jeff, get it right." Killdra said snarkily.

"We're not calling ourselves dat." Grim said.

"It is noting personal, the lot of you just need to be disposed of." Toffee said. Vennominaga gently grabbed him in one of her arms and placed him atop her head.

"You know sniping points work better if the other team doesn't already know where you are." Squilly said.

"Then by all means, hit me with everything."

"Major Jeff, you said you don't want to hurt them, but would you be willing to hold them in place?" Corrin asked.

"Sure thing, man." Major Threat's crystal lit up and Toffee was restrained by a telekinetic force with a strand of energy between him and the crystal.

"BOTH of them, mon." Grim said.

"Sorry bud, but my powers aren't working on that snake for some reason."

"That is because Vennominaga is unaffected by anything but direct attacks on her." Toffee explained. "Now show them what you can do, Vennominaga."

Vennominaga grabbed the telekinetic strand with one of her arms and yanked it to the side, which threw Major Threat to the ground and lost his telekinetic hold.

"Major Jeff!" Squilly exclaimed.

"That psycho string is grabbable? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeird!" Billy said.

"Don't...you mess...WITH MY LEADERRRRRR!" Squilly transformed into a giant Kraken about the size of a real-life squid and "swam" on the ground right towards Vennominaga. Kraken Squilly leapt into the air, spinning like a drill, and gored the snake in the belly.

Vennominaga hissed in pain and grabbed Kraken Squilly by the tentacles and threw her across the room. She slammed into the wall and started "swimming" along it, looking for the opportunity to make a drill-jump right at Toffee.

"Take THIS!" Corrin's arm morphed into a dragon mouth and fired a forceful stream of water at Vennominaga's belly wound. She blocked the stream with one arm and stretched the other at Corrin and prepared to bite him. Grim fired a beam of energy from the tip of his scythe at the arm's eye, making it recoil. Maxwell summoned a 'colossal flaming anaconda', which was about half as long as Vennominaga, was dark-orange with black spots on it, and was on fire. He hopped on the creature, suffering no effects of the flames, and it coiled around the arm Grim had zapped.

"Perfect." Toffee said to himself.

Vennominaga swung at Corrin with her tail, but Major Threat lifted him in the air with telekinesis before he could be hit, resulting in a bunch of flung and destroyed desks instead.

"Thank you, Major Jeff. I'll be more alert." Corrin said as Major Threat set him down.

Vennominaga grabbed the colossal flaming anaconda by the head and crushed it, making it disappear in a puff of smoke. The snake deity felt a surge of energy flow through her, and she grabbed Maxwell and continuously smashed him into the ground.

"Rotom rotom rotom!" Rotom fired Shadow Ball after Shadow Ball at Vennominaga's arm to free the Scribblenaut, but they did absolutely nothing.

"I'm afraid you're going to need a stronger move than that, especially after Vennominaga had killed that serpent of yours." Toffee said.

"So killing things makes her stronger." Mandy said.

"Not quite. Killed REPTILES make her stronger, and after Tenebris corrupted your dimensions, death runs rampant."

Major Threat was starting to get the gravity of this situation. "H-how much death?"

"With reptiles? Well the Earth dimension alone contains tens of thousands of them, and Tenebris' creatures will destroy anything. The death in total? Countless. Billions upon billions of lives are in eternal danger, and until the lot of you can overthrow Tenebris, there is nothing you can do about it."

"So I'll have my work cut out for me when I get back, just great...Being with dose two kids is already a massive pain in de ass." Grim grumbled.

Major Threat clenched his fists and held Toffee with telekinesis again. Vennominaga prepared to cut the strand again, and as she did so, Major Threat quickly changed his target to Maxwell and yanked him out of her arms mouth.

"Oooo, he faked you out good, snake lady!" Billy exclaimed.

"Maxwell, you alright, buddy?" Major Threat asked.

Maxwell nodded a little and summoned a 'doctor', who was a black-haired woman in a doctors outfit wearing glasses. A red speech bubble with a white heart that had a red plus in in appeared above her head and she touched Maxwell for a moment. The Scribblenaut was healed fully in a puff of smoke, and the doctor jumped for joy before disappearing in a puff of smoke herself.

"Sooooo, could you ALWAYS do that?" Killdra asked irritably, bruised from being hit by Vennominaga. Maxwell looked a little guilty and prepared to write down 'doctor' in his notebook again, but Killdra stopped him. "No, no, I was just asking. I like me this way."

"Soooooo how do we beat up this giant monster?" Billy asked.

"Yeah, and that huge snake too." Killdra added.

"I think we only have to take out the lizard-man." Corrin said.

"Tell me, why do you think that? Do you believe Vennominaga is some mindless monster? Do you believe Vennominaga is under my control? Assuming the above two were true, do you believe you would suddenly be able to defeat Vennominaga under those conditions?" Toffee asked condescendingly.

"If she isn't some dumb creature, then why the hell is she listening to you?" Killdra asked.

"Probably for the same reason Grim listens to Billy and I: She is under some contract or obligation." Mandy guessed.

"Clever girl." Toffee said.

"Does this contract have to do with Tenebris?" Corrin asked suspiciously.

"Indeed, but not in the way that you think."

"This lizard man speaks in riddles!" Billy whispered loudly to Rotom.

"Rotom rotom ro ro ro rotom." Rotom replied.

"YEAH! We gotta kick the riddle answers outta his butt!"

"Ro?"

"Rotom and I will go after Toffee since we can fly, and Squilly is still waiting in the wall. The rest of you will have to handle Vennominaga, and Major Jeff will provide protection. Right, Jeff?" Corrin said.

"Thats right, man." Major Threat replied.

"You're sticking us with Vennominaga like we get the easy part, twinkle-toes." Mandy said.

"Only because you guys can't fly on your own." Corrin replied.

"Oh, and YOU can...?"

"You bet." Corrin sprouted blue dragon wings from his back, and the blade of his sword spun like a chainsaw and the red flames flared up. "Lets go, Rotom!"

"ROTOM!" Rotom exclaimed, and then turned to Maxwell. "Rotom rotom ro ro ro."

Maxwell nodded and summoned a 'refrigerator', which Rotom possessed. The appliance turned orange and Rotom's face and electric aura appeared around it, only the lightning was purple with blocky "arms". Rotom was in its Frost form.

"I dunno about you guys, but I sure am glad a living fridge is part of Team Jeff." Killdra said sarcastically.

"Me too! Hey, got any food in there?!" Billy tried opening one of Rotom-Frost's doors, and was electrocuted on contact and became charred. "I'll...take that as a nope!"

Corrin and Rotom-Frost rocketed straight up, and Vennominaga swung her arms at them.

"Nope!" Killdra swung a chain that quickly increased in length and size, growing to links the size of car tires. It wrapped around Vennominaga's arms and she yanked downward, locking them together and restraining them. Major Threat reinforced the restraint by using telekinesis to hold Killdra to the ground and the chains together.

"Your snake might be unaffected by my powers, but the things around it AIN'T, man!" Major Threat said.

"Hmm, the lot of you are more clever than I thought." Toffee said.

"Not ALL of us..." Grim pointed to Billy, who was picking his nose.

Rotom-Frost opened its doors and created a blizzard around Toffee that nearly knocked him off of Vennominaga's head. While the lizard man was distracted by Rotom, Corrin dive-bombed and gored Toffee right in the heart. He performed a corkscrew motion and slammed Toffee against the wall behind him. Then he slowly dragged his chainsaw-like sword all the way down Toffee's body and tail, and kicked him down to the ground.

"Brutal." Mandy stated.

"Hardcore." Killdra stated.

Vennominaga swiveled her body to look at Toffee, and thats when the group noticed something under her hair.

"Rotom rotom?!" Rotom exclaimed.

Maxwell narrowed his eyes, summoned some 'X-ray goggles', and put them on. His eyes widened a little and he looked at Mandy.

"What is is, chicken-head?" Mandy sneered.

Maxwell wrote something down, and the object he saw behind Vennominaga appeared. It was a metal orb with a long dark-purple drill attached to it.

"Dats definitely not good." Grim said.

"Hmm..." Major Threat used his psychic powers on the metal object in Vennominaga's head, in addition to holding down Killdra and the chain. Vennominaga jerked her head back and hissed loudly, clearly in pain. "We've gotta remove that drill from her head!"

"On it, Major Jeff!" Kraken Squilly said, who was still laying in wait on the wall.

"Its time to end this battle, Rotom!" Corrin flew in front of Vennominaga's face, his hands morphed into dragon mouths, and he fired jets of water in her eyes while Rotom-Frost used Blizzard to turn the water ice-cold.

Kraken Squilly slunk along the walls until she was behind Vennominaga's head, jumped at her while spinning like a drill, and scored a direct hit on the implant. Kraken Squilly continued to drill on the spot, slowly causing the implant to crack and dislodge slightly.

Vennominaga started to flail, and surprisingly, speak. "KYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! GET! THIS! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!" she shouted in a raspy voice. She tensed up her snake-arms and broke the chains, then smacked Corrin and Rotom-Frost to the ground with them. She swatted Killdra away with her tail, and her hair-snakes bit Kraken Squilly, slowed down her spinning, and threw her to the ground.

"WHOOOOOAAAA! I thought Voonoominana couldn't talk!" Billy exclaimed.

"This...PAIN! WHAT IS THIS PAIN?! WHY DO I FEEL PAIN?!" Vennominaga shouted and her snake-arms hissed loudly.

"Don't worry, I'll help ya, but you gotta chill, man." Major Threat said.

Vennominaga tried holding still, but was trembling with anger and pain. "This SEARING PAIN coarses through my entire body that is NOT OF THIS WORLD! REMOVE THIS ACCURSED DEVICE!"

Major Threat grabbed the drill with telekinesis and was prepared to pull it out. "Sorry about this, man, but this is probably gonna hurt."

"JUST DO IT!"

"Alright, one...two...THREE!" Major Threat telekinetically pulled the drill as hard as he could, but it was a gradual process. Even with his phenomenal psychic powers, the drill was just being pulled out very slowly.

"I...CAN'T...TAKE...THIS...PAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" Vennominaga's snake-arms opened their mouths and sprayed a huge stream of magenta venom on Major Threat.

"MAJOR JEFF!" Corrin and Squilly exclaimed.

"TOO! MUCH! SUFFERI-!" Vennominaga stopped the instant the drill was removed from her skull. She tensed up and her entire body turned grey and crumbled away like bits of paper.

Squilly looked at Major Threat with tears in her eyes. He was covered in venom and not moving. "Major Jeff! Major Jeff! Please be okay! Please don't leave me! JEFF!"

A faint purple glow shined through the poison, which was quickly gathered up into a single point and crushed into nothingness. "Don't worry, Squilly, I'm fine! Holding back all that poison was easy!" Major Threat said. Squilly breathed a huge sigh of relief and hugged him.

"You missed a spot." Killdra said, pointing to a huge puddle of venom that was forming where Vennominaga was.

Major Threat prepared to remove the poison, but he stopped as the body of the 'colossal flaming anaconda' Maxwell summoned rose out of the goo. Teal snakes made of poison slithered out of the puddle, wrapped themselves completely around the anaconda, and they all sunk back into the puddle. The puddle started bubbling and Vennominaga slowly rose out of it. She was completely healed, and she stared at the group with no emotion.

"Uhhhhhhhh, whats up with Vehicloomama?" Billy asked.

"I'm pretty sure we killed you." Mandy said to her.

"Yes, but by banishing the soul of a dead reptile, I can revive myself." she explained.

"Then how come you didn't banish the soul of Toffee instead of Maxwell's snake?" Corrin asked.

"His soul was not there to banish."

"Corrin hardcore sliced him from the heart downward with a flaming chainsaw, and you're telling me he's not dead?" Killdra said incredulously.

"I do not know."

"Well his body is still dere." Grim said, pointing to Toffee's corpse with his scythe.

"Then do your job, Grim." Mandy ordered.

"Which one? Being your best friend, or doing my ACTUAL job...?"

"Quit pussy-footing around, Grim."

Grim scowled and walked over to Toffee. He held up his scythe, which started glowing, but he stopped and gasped when he noticed something. The halves of Toffee's tail started being pulled together by muscle and tissue forming between them, and this steadily started spreading up to his chest. His punctured heart formed back, his muscle and skin formed back, and he opened his eyes wide.

"Yipes." Grim said.

Toffee slowly stood up and whipped Grim backwards with his tail. "I am impressed, the lot of you managed to discover the implant in Vennominaga and destroy it."

"Don't underestimate Team Jeff!" Killdra sarcastically explained and flashed a peace sign.

"As the lot of you wished-"

"Team! Jeff!"

"Shut up, Killdra." Mandy said.

"...Since you have defeated us, I shall share some information." Toffee said.

"Ro rotom rotom rotom ro?!" Rotom-Frost exclaimed.

"That implant? I created it using Tenebris' blood, and it allowed me to brainwash Vennominaga, similar to how Tenebris brainwashes fallen heroes. In addition, if you remove it, you die. Unless you are an immortal monster like Vennominaga or myself, which is exactly why I summoned her."

"How did you summon me?" Vennominaga incredulously asked.

"The same way I discovered how to use the blood of Tenebris: I studied the world of spirits."

"Spirits?" Corrin said.

"Indeed. I have done vast research on the spirit world of this dimension. Every life that Tenebris and his men have taken exists in a void. In fact, I have determined this void is where Lumiere and Tenebris, as well as the Chosen One, reside."

"All 3 of them are in another dimension?!"

"Indeed. As an immortal monster, our fate after we die is something I have gathered vast knowledge on throughout dimensions. In some dimensions, there is an afterlife. In others, you are reborn in a new body. In this dimension, your soul resides in a void of darkness called Desolate Eternity."

"Desolate Eternity, huh?" Mandy said, not impressed by the name.

"Indeed. And unless you enter Desolate Eternity from very specific locations in this world, you will be forever lost in the void. You might catch a glimpse of the Chosen One before you are brainwashed by Tenebris, however."

"So where are these entry points? How did you get Tenebris' blood? How did you get all of this information on this dimension? And why are you telling us all of this?"

"I am telling the lot of you this because Tenebris isn't nearly as invulnerable as he believes he is. As for the rest of your questions, those are things you must figure out for yourselves."

"Why do WE gotta figure out stuff?! Ya chicken Toonearbrush is gonna find out?" Billy taunted.

"You think I would tell the lot of you this if Tenebris would discover it? I have taken the necessary precautions to be sure he isn't even aware of my existence."

"And thats how you got his blood, made that drill, and found out about Desolate Eternity, right?" Mandy guessed.

"Clever girl...It has been a pleasure facing the lot of you, we all have learned a lot from this encounter. I shall leave you on this note: One of you here has encountered the Chosen One before." Toffee walked towards the door he first came through, but Vennominaga slammed her tail in front of the door to block him off.

"You are not getting out of here alive! Now that we have gotten all of the information we need out of you, your are of no use anymore!" she said, and her snake-arms hissed loudly at him.

Toffee was not fazed, and just looked the giant snake in the eye. "Interesting, Vennominaga, because I was thinking the very same thing." He held out his left hand and Tenebris' eye opened up on the palm and lit up. Then, a gigantic rift to Desolate Eternity opened up behind Vennominaga and started sucking her in.

"What is this?! How can this be?!" Vennominaga exclaimed.

"Farewell, Team Jeff." Toffee opened up another portal to Desolate Eternity behind him, jumped backwards into it, and it closed.

"Ah! Ah! He said it!" Killdra said.

Vennominaga hissed loudly and anchored the fangs of her snake-arms deep into the walls to keep herself from being sucked in. The others began to feel themselves being drawn towards the portal as well.

"No! We have to anchor ourselves somehow or we're finished!" Corrin exclaimed.

"We aren't finished yet." Major Threat levitated in the air and held the rest of his team in place using telekinesis. He concentrated and the gem on his forehead lit up brighter, and the entire room was enveloped in a purple aura.

"Major Jeff? What is this?" Squilly asked.

"Since I can't use my powers on Vennominaga, I'm holding the entire room together so she stays anchored down."

Mandy raised an eyebrow. "And WHY are you bothering with that?"

"Yeah, let her get sucked into Timereebus' evil world!" Billy said.

"I will NOT be banished this way!" Vennominaga shouted.

"Rotom rotom rotom ro ro rotom rotom ro!" Rotom-Frost exclaimed.

"The ghost fridge is right. It don't matter if we save her or not, we need to close dat portal if we want to save ourselves." Grim said.

"Or...OR we could use Maxwell to bail." Killdra suggested.

"She might have a point for once." Mandy said.

"Right. Maxwell, can you create something to teleport us?" Corrin asked.

Maxwell nodded and wrote something down in his notebook, but nothing happened.

"Rotom ro rotom ro." Rotom-Frost said.

"Timebirust stopped you from using cheat-code items?" Billy said.

"Oh. Right. I MIGHT remember something like that..." Killdra muttered.

"Curious, what did you write down, Maxwell?" Corrin asked.

Maxwell held up his notebook, showing that he wrote down the word 'portal'.

"Thats what I figured. Alright, now I believe that the only way we can destroy this portal is if we create a portal of our own within it." Corrin theorized.

"And we can just DO that, right...?" Killdra said sarcastically.

"Actually, I can." Grim stated.

"We need to get you in close then. Major Jeff, would you please?" Corrin said.

"Alright, just be careful, man." Major Threat moved Grim right in front of the portal. The skeleton materialized his scythe and slashed, which created a small green portal in the same sport as Desolate Eternity.

Almost immediately, there was a crackling of black lightning and the Desolate Eternity rift closed in an explosion of purple darkness. The explosion destroyed the entire room completely, and threw Major Threat backwards off the building and onto the ground below.

"Oh these old bones can't take a lot of that punishment." he said to himself as he stood up. "At least my buddies are safe."

Major Threat telekinetically lowered Squilly, Corrin, Rotom-Frost, Maxwell, the Zygarde Core, Killdra, Billy, and Mandy down to his location. Everyone was there except for Grim and Vennominaga.

"Major Jeff! Are you alright?!" Squilly asked.

"Don't worry about me, man. I'm fine. How about the rest of you?"

"Wheres Grim?" Mandy asked.

"Did that explosion kill him?!" Billy exclaimed.

A green portal appeared and Grim casually walked out of it. "Don't worry, I'm here. Nothing can end this suffering; I'm already dead both inside and out."

"Give it a rest, Grim." Mandy said.

"Now what about Vroominimama?" Billy asked.

A puddle of venom appeared in front of them, and from it rose a green garder snake with dots for eyes. Venom Counters wrapped up the cute reptile and dragged it down, followed by Vennominaga rising up.

"Well that was pretty twisted. You know you just banished the soul of a little kid, right?" Killdra said to her.

"Are you still looking for a fight, snakey?!" Squilly said.

"No, I would have nothing to gain from fighting you all." Vennominaga said.

"Does that mean you'll join us?" Corrin asked.

"No. I am a snake deity, I do not work with others, especially those who are beneath me! However, I seek revenge on Toffee for what he had done to me, and since the lot of you have fought against him as well, I will monitor you until we encounter him again."

"Sounds like a 'yes' to me." Squilly said to herself.

"Wow. So Major Threat's hippie approach ended up working after all, color me surprised." Killdra stated.

OOO

Abe, Patrick, Horton, and Luigi were exploring an abandoned museum. The walls were made of cracked marble, the checkered floor was missing many tiles, and there were many halls that housed various exhibits. Most of the exhibits were scratched up, damaged, and broken. Those that weren't had Tenebris' eye on it, such as drawn in the paintings, painted on the pottery, or carved on fossils and hieroglyphics.

"Man this is the most boring museum ever! No wonder its closed and nobody works here." Patrick grumbled.

"I don't think its a real museum, Patrick. Tenebris created it to spook us out or maybe hide stuff." Horton said.

Luigi shivered a little. "Well its kind of working. All of these eyes are just...brrr!"

"Well we gotta keep an eye out for any clues." Abe said.

The group walked through the hallways and looked inside pots, behind paintings, and studied murals, but nothing they found shown them anything useful. Realizing this was getting them nowhere, they stopped near a gigantic black rock with pink and green gems on the top in order to think of a new plan.

"Maybe there's nothing in here after all." Horton said.

"Should we try looking somewhere else?" Luigi asked.

"Not yet, Luigi. I just have a feeling that theres gotta be something useful in this place, but we just gotta think of a better plan." Abe said.

Patrick just stood there for about two seconds. "Gah! Thinking is hard! I'm goin' to take a nap." The starfish lifted up the rock, crawled under it, and had it squish him.

"Eh, he wasn't going to come up with any ideas anyway." Horton said.

"Wow, theres a really cool drawing under here!" Patrick said.

"What?!" Luigi exclaimed.

Patrick pushed the rock off himself and flipped it over. "Yeah, see?"

This painting was a carving of 7 of Tenebris' eyes arranged in a diamond that were connected by black lines, and next to him was a warrior no one had seen before. The warrior was in knight armor with highlights, had hair that was spiked in the back and hung over one of the eyes, held a large sword with an aura around the blade, and multiple shockwaves were beneath the warrior's feet. It looked like Tenebris and the warrior were about to face off.

"Whoa! Anybody know who that is?" Abe asked.

"I'd think we would recognize someone who looked like THAT." Horton said.

"Do you think thats the Chosen One?" Luigi wondered.

"That would make the most sense, but where's Lumiere? That warrior looks like a male, doesn't he?" Abe said.

"Maybe she just gave the Chosen One her power, or maybe he isn't either of them." Horton said.

"Or maybe Lumiere's not a girl." Patrick said.

"Well its a start, but we need to find out more stuff about this warrior." Abe said.

"Hooray! Lets go look for more stuff under rocks!"

OOO

Meanwhile, a group of seven was walking through a different part of the museum.

The first was a boy with yellow skin, a unibrow, no chin, and a shaven head with small black hairs on it. He wore a green jacket, baggy jeans, and a red and white striped shirt: Ed.

The second was a lanky boy wearing a floppy black cap, a red shirt, and blue shorts: Edd.

The third was a boy with 3 black hairs on his head, no chin, a yellow shirt with a red stripe down the middle, and light-blue jeans with a white ring on one of the pockets: Eddy.

The fourth was an anthropomorphic gray bunny in a police officers uniform: Judy.

The fifth was an anthropomorphic fox wearing a green coat and a blue tie: Nick.

The sixth was a very muscular man wearing a black vest, short silver hair, and orange goggles on his forehead. He had a black bulky robotic lower-body, a dark-red bulky robotic right arm, and a chain wrapped around his left wrist: Jack.

The seventh was a man with a sleek white robotic body from the neck down that had black highlights. He had dark-brown hair that went a little past his neck with bangs that hung over his right eye a little: Leonhardt.

"Why are we in some dumpy museum? Fixing this place up isn't gonna catch us any suckers, because those are the only kind of people who even GO to these places!" Eddy exclaimed.

"Based on my past life, you're totally right, but some get-rich-quick scam isn't why we're here." Nick said.

"And besides, Eddy, you know that I go to museums." Edd added, not catching Eddy's jab.

"We are looking for Tenebris or anyone who has ties to him and deliver justice." Leonhardt explained.

"As a police officer myself, I'm not too sure someone like him can just be cuffed and detained." Judy said.

"Thats not exactly the kind of justice we had in mind." Jack said.

"So we are on the hunt for ghouls and mutants that want to harvest our souls and banish us to a dimension of infinite blackness?!" Ed rambled.

"Geez Ed, take it down a peg." Eddy said.

They proceeded down a hallway and reached a large dome-shaped room that was completely empty.

"What is the purpose of this room?" Leonhardt wondered.

"Most likely empty space for future exhibits." Edd said.

"Tenebris made this place, and he wouldn't care about that. Lumiere must've left some clues here." Nick said.

"Why would Tenebris let Lumiere leave clues around?" Judy wondered.

"Maybe he doesn't know she wrote on his stuff." Ed said, staring off into space.

"Ed, what are you talking about?!" Eddy asked.

Ed just pointed to the ceiling, and the others looked up. Along the entire border of the ceiling was a message engraved in the stone in golden letters.

"Good eye, Ed." Judy said.

"It says 'The beginning is the start, the middle is near the end, and the end is.'" Leonhardt read.

"What does all THAT mean?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, it sounds like the kind of nonsense Lumpy here spits out." Eddy said, pointing to Ed.

"I wish chickens could cook eggs to have with my buttered toast, Eddy." Ed said with a dopey grin.

"Its some kind of riddle, probably having something to do with Tenebris." Judy theorized.

"Of course, but what about him is it referring to?" Leonhardt said.

"We'll probably find some answers if we keep looking around this place." Jack said.

"Right." Judy said.

They continued through the abandoned museum without any luck, and before they turned a corner, Leonhardt held his hands wide.

"Hold on." he said.

"What is it, Leo?" Jack asked.

"I see 4 others."

"Yeah, and?" Nick said sarcastically.

"Just be alert is all."

They slowly walked up to the others, and Judy spoke up. "Attention! I am Judy Hopps, this is my partner Nick Wilde, and joining us are Leonhardt, Jack, Ed, Edd, and Eddy. We are in the middle of an investigation on Tenebris! Why are you four here?"

"AHH! Its the cops! Run!" Patrick ran in the opposite direction, but Horton stopped him with his trunk.

"Whoa, take it easy there, Patrick." the elephant said.

"Actually, we're here for the same reason you guys are." Abe said.

"Great, come on aboard our little team then." Nick said.

"Have you guys found anything?" Luigi asked.

"Only a mysterious message that said 'The beginning is the start, the middle is near the end, and the end is.'" Edd said.

"We found a rock!" Patrick happily exclaimed.

"So did we..." Eddy grumbled, pointing to Ed again.

"But this particular rock has Tenebris' eyes and a strange warrior carved on it." Horton said.

"Can you show us?" Judy asked.

Abe led Judy and the others to the large rock in question.

"Thats an impressive-looking soldier." Jack said.

"Indeed. And if they are battling what I assume is Tenebris, they must be a very noble soldier too." Leonhardt said.

"We can't figure out what who in the world it is, though. It can't be Lumiere, because that warrior looks like a guy." Horton said.

"Maybe Lumiere just looks like a dude in person or something." Eddy said.

"Well whoever he is, I'm sure that weird message has something to do with him." Nick said.

"All we can currently do is look for more clues." Leonhardt said.

"Is this a clue?" Patrick asked, holding up a Zygarde Core.

"Where did you find that thing?" Nick asked.

"And what the heck is it?" Eddy asked.

"I found it under another rock. He looks like a baby, so we gotta take care of him. I promise I'll be a better daddy than last time I raised a kid!" Patrick said.

Ed picked up the Zygarde Core and looked at it closely. "Aww, look at the little dickens! I'll keep you warm and safe in my coat pocket!"

"Ed, NO! Your pockets are unsanitary and could make this creature sick!" Edd exclaimed.

"Then who do YOU think should watch him, sockhead?" Eddy asked.

"I'll watch him. I have experience keeping little people safe and sound." Horton said.

"Alright, give it to the elephant then." Jack said. Horton picked up Zygarde Core with his trunk and put it behind his ear.

"Now, shall we continue?" Leonhardt asked.

"Sorry, but your show ends here!" a gravely teenage voice said.

"Whose there? Show yourself!" Jack ordered.

A rectangular portal to Desolate Eternity opened up in front of the group.

"AAAAAHHH! Its the dimension of infinite blackness! RUN AWAAAAAAY!" Ed shouted.

"No! We can not run from this encounter." Leonhardt said.

"Exactly, now show yourself!" Jack ordered again.

After a moment, someone walked out of the portal and it closed behind him. It was a lanky gray cyclops kid who looked glitchy and disfigured. His brown hair was made of flat brown squares sticking out, his head looked like a jagged rounded polygon, one of his feet was a green wireframe, and one of his hands looked blocky and pink. The skin on his limbs and parts of his face looked like TV static, which would occasionally flash into glimpses of Desolate Eternity. He wore a yellow shirt, red pants, and was holding a TV remote: Rob.

"Whoa, this freak looks like a living video game character...except all messed up." Eddy said.

"A glitch, Eddy." Edd corrected.

"Whatever."

"I was disfigured by escaping a world much like this one!" Rob shouted.

"Wow, you feel good about yourself now, Eddy?" Nick looked at Rob. "So whats your name, cyclops?"

"Rob."

"Kind of a plain name." Eddy said.

"Yeah, its a name fit for a nobody, isn't it?! Thats how I ended up in that dimension I escaped from!" Rob shouted angrily.

"Eddy, keep quiet." Leonhardt quickly said, and Eddy crossed his arms.

"Rob, would you please help us in our investigation on Tenebris? Currently, we are looking for clues on a mysterious message and a carving of an unknown warrior." Judy said.

Rob chuckled sinisterly. "Help you? Are you kidding me?! Why on EARTH would I help you?!"

"Because Tenebris is our nemesis and turned all our worlds into horrible nightmares? Need any other reasons?" Nick said sarcastically.

"Oh I'm very familiar with being a nemesis and my world being turned into a nightmare. Why do you think I'm standing against you?!"

"Because you don't trust us, but we're here to help you out." Abe replied.

"Yeah Roy, just shut up and help us already." Eddy grumbled.

"IT'S ROB! And I'm here to fight you all! Don't you get it?! I'm not some cyclops in distress, your friend, or a frightened kid! I'M THE BAD GUY!" Rob shouted.

"Sorry, but we can not fight a child." Leonhardt said.

"I'm with Leo on this." Jack said.

"Don't patronize me! I'll make you regret it!" Rob pointed the remote at the group.

"What are you gonna do with that? Throw it at us?" Nick taunted.

"Could you turn on Attack of the Killer Tomatoes with that thing? I've been wanting to see that show!" Ed exclaimed.

"Eject!" Rob pressed a button on the remote and the group, except for Horton, was thrown backwards by an invisible force.

"What...was that?" Horton asked.

"The Universal Remote. Lower Contrast!" Rob pressed a button on the remote and the area became almost pitch-black.

"Looks like we have no choice but to fight this kid...GATOR TOOTH!" Jack said. Two large flaming chainsaw blades extended from the shoulder of his robot arm on either side, and the flames lit up the area around him.

"I've got that too, but its not as cool." Luigi took out what resembled a red portable vacuum with a white nozzle that had a flashlight built into it, and he flipped the flashlight on.

"...So do I...POSITRON BLADES!" Leonhardt, after a moment of hesitation, extended 2 large electrified blades from his wrists and 2 from his ankles.

"Uhh, did Roger run away?" Patrick wondered.

"ITS ROB!" Rob shouted from the darkness. He started shouting 'play' over and over, and a flurry of stone slabs with Tenebris' eye carved on them were shot at the group.

Jack smashed the slabs to pieces with his strength and chainsaw. "Shit, where did those come from?"

"Higher Contrast!" Rob pressed a button and the area became almost blindingly bright. Luigi shut of his flashlight and covered his eyes, and Horton covered his eyes with his ears.

"Bad idea revealing yourself." Leonhardt narrowed his eyes and swiftly charged at Rob, but the cyclops pressed a button and a rectangular portal to Desolate Eternity opened up in front of him.

"I don't think so." Leonhardt leapt over the portal and dove at Rob with one of his arms outstretched.

"Eject!" Rob pressed a button and Leonhardt was thrown backwards through the portal, which closed.

"LEO!" Jack exclaimed.

"I WARNED YOU! Don't underestimate me! I will destroy you all and everyone you hold dear!" Rob shouted. He prepared to press another button, but stiffened up as blue orbs of light spun around his head.

"Kid, I'm not gonna kill you for that, but I AM gonna cut off your arms!" Jack charged at Rob with his robot arm held up high.

Rob held his hands out in front of him. "WAIT! STOP! Its Abe!"

Jack halted right before his chainsaw could slice the cyclops' arms off. "What?"

"I'm possessing Rob! I snuck up on him from behind! I think I can rescue your friend, but I think it'll give Rob back control doing so! Rewind!" Rob, who was possessed by Abe, pressed a button and time started moving in reverse.

Jack charged backwards, the portal to Desolate Eternity opened up, Leonhardt was flung forward, he jumped backwards over the portal, the portal closed, and Leonhardt ran backwards to join the rest of the group. Possessed Rob reset the contrast to normal, pressed 'play' on the remote, time turned to normal, and Rob became unpossessed.

"What the?!" Rob noticed that Leonhardt was back with the others. "NO! I banished you! How could this happen?!"

"You never banished me." Leonhardt stated.

Abe was standing behind Rob and spoke up. "No, he did. I possessed him and turned time backwards with the remote."

Rob spun around. "How DARE you! PAUSE!" He pointed the remote at Abe and pressed a button, which froze the Mudokon.

"Whoa, he just froze that guy in TIME!" Eddy said.

"And we have to disarm him before he does the same to the rest of us." Judy said.

"That's gonna be WAY easier said than done, especially since most of the others here don't have any crime-stopping experience." Nick replied.

"Unfortunately, the three of us are more inclined to COMMIT crimes by scamming people..." Edd mumbled, and gestured to Ed and Eddy.

"Anyone have any ideas?" Luigi asked.

"Hmm...perhaps if we fall back, look for resources in this museum, gather our heads, and maybe even discover more clues on that warrior and that message, we would be better prepared to stop him." Leonhardt said.

"Well, unless anyone has any better ideas, its worth a shot." Nick said.

"Oh! Oh! Ed has a question first!" Ed exclaimed, raising his hand.

"Whats that?" Leonhardt asked.

"How will we gather our heads if they are already attached to our bodies?"

"I also was wondering that." Patrick added.

"...Alright, lets do this thing." Jack said, ignoring them.

"But what about the green guy?" Patrick asked, pointing to Abe.

"Leave him, he's not going anywhere. Literally." Eddy said.

"I'll grab him when Regis is distracted." Horton said.

"IT'S ROB!" Rob shouted.

Jack used his chainsaw to cut down two nearby columns, then smashed them to bits with a punch from both his arms. This kicked up a huge cloud of dust so the group could get away.

"You really think thats going to work?" Rob reached for the 'rewind' button, but he noticed it was wedged and pushed deep in, rendering it useless. "GRRRAHHH! That loincloth alien BROKE IT when he possessed me! You've earned yourself a trip to Desolate Eternit- Huh?" Rob spun around to face Abe, but he was gone. Little did he know, in the dust cloud and while he was pressing the 'rewind' button, Horton had grabbed Abe before he ran off.

"UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! You will all PAY for this!" Rob opened up a portal to Desolate Eternity and jumped in, intending to cut off the group again.

OOO

The group of heroes, with Horton transporting Abe and Zygarde Core, were running through a hall filled with statues. Most of these statues were broken apart, cracked, and chipped, with the exception of the various statues of Tenebris' Eye, which were in near-perfect condition.

"Hey, can you pose that green guy like an action figure?" Patrick asked.

"Nope, its just like carrying one of these statues...Except he isn't broken." Horton replied.

"Or-or a giant eyeball!"

"Yeah what is it with all of these eyeballs?" Eddy asked.

"And why are they the only statues here in pristine condition?" Edd asked.

"And why do they feel like they are staring into our very SOULS?!" Ed asked.

"Its just a bunch of crap Tenebris made to try and freak us out." Nick guessed.

"So...they AREN'T watching and learning our every move as we pass by them?"

"No, but I don't think Tenebris needs statues to do any of that anyway." Jack said.

"What do you mean?" Luigi asked.

"Tenebris, as well as Lumiere, are gods. They can likely monitor everyone located in this dimension, good or evil."

"That really makes me uncomfortable." Edd said.

"Remember, we need to focus on apprehending Rob right now." Judy said.

The group reached another room that was full of dinosaur bones and fossils. Most of the skeletons were missing most of their bones, if not completely in pieces, and most of the fossils had Tenebris' eye embedded on them. There were a few insects frozen in pieces of amber too, which were in hexagonal shapes like Tenebris' eye.

"There we go, more with the eye stuff..." Eddy grumbled.

Edd began to freak out over the state of the room. "These-these fossils need to be properly reconstructed! Millions of years of preservation and countless hours of archeological discovery are completely thrown out the window! WE HAVE TO FIX-!"

Horton shut Edd up by smacking him to the ground using Abe like a bat.

"Thanks, I-I needed that." Edd said to himself.

"Edd might be onto something..." Luigi began. All 3 Eds looked at him quizzically. "We might be able to use stuff in here to fight Ronald."

"ITS ROB!" Rob shouted from the other side of the room.

"Oh, he found us already. Worst game of hide-and-go-seek ever!" Patrick said.

"Me, Edd, and Eddy had worse." Ed said with a shrug.

"This isn't some game, stop treating it like one! You made a fool out of me ONCE, but with your friend paused and the rewind button broken, there is no way out once you are banished to the void of Desolate Eternity!" Rob explained.

"He's right. We gotta be super careful now." Luigi said.

"Be careful of THIS! Record! Play!" Rob pointed the remote at a T-rex skeleton, pressed two buttons on the remote, and the skeleton came to life. Rob jumped on its head, and the skeleton stepped forward and roared.

"Now he's like that Emperor Awesome guy." Horton commented.

"Get ready everyone." Judy said.

Leonhardt extended his blades, Jack extended his chainsaw, and Luigi got out the Poltergust 3000.

The T-rex lunged forward with its jaws open wide, and Judy leapt right through its gaping maw and grabbed onto its upper-spine.

"Oh I don't think so." Rob pointed the remote at her and pressed 'eject'. Judy was thrown towards the ground by an invisible force, and the T-rex kicked her into the wall before she even hit the floor.

"Should've picked a better spot, Hopps." Nick was lounging in the T-rexs' ribcage like a hammock.

"Get OUT of there!" Rob pointed the remote at Nick and was about to press a button, but he felt the T-rexs' head detach and give way. He leapt onto the upper-spine and saw that Leonhardt had swiftly sliced the head off. The head was still sentient as it hopped around and futily tried to bite at the heroes, until Jack casually walked over to it and shattered the head with one punch.

Meanwhile, Luigi snuck up behind the skeleton and started sucking up its bones piece by piece using the Poltergeist 3000.

"Oh no you don't!" Rob pressed the 'zoom out' button on the remote while pointing it at Luigi. This caused the Poltergust 3000 to shrink until its funnel of air was about as strong as an ordinary vacuum cleaner. The plumber still had managed to suck up enough bones that the T-rex collapsed in a heap.

Nick stumbled out of the pile of bones. "Could've used a heads-up for that one..."

Rob pressed the 'eject' button, throwing Nick backwards and scattering the bones across the room. "I still have plenty more to reanimate." Rob said as he pointed the remote at a triceratops skeleton.

"Record!" Rob pressed one button on the remote.

"Patrick! Ed! Now!" Judy ordered. Patrick and Ed grabbed a huge chunk of amber and threw it at the skeleton.

"And play!" Rob pressed another button, and as he did so, the amber chunk sailed by him and he ended up targeting it with the 'play' button. "WHAT?!"

The amber chunk shattered, revealing what looked like two cocoons. One of them resembled a pinecone, and one resembled a door-sized kidney enveloped in a light-blue web.

Rob's surprised look turned into a smug one. "Were you expecting that to hatch those cocoons too?"

"No, we were expecting tubby and lumpy here to grab amber that had something useful inside of it!" Eddy exclaimed.

"GRRRR! Nobody calls me 'tubby'!" Patrick shouted angrily. He punched Eddy right in the face, which knocked him to the ground and gave him a black eye.

"Eddy!" Edd exclaimed.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't forget who the REAL enemy is here, Patrick." Horton said.

"Who?" the starfish asked.

"Me." Rob said menacingly atop the triceratops skeleton. "What? Did you think I couldn't just press 'play' a second time?"

Eddy stood up and crossed his arms. "No. Again, we thought that lumpy and tub-"

Edd cut him off. "Eddy, I wouldn't go there!"

"We'll just get more of those shiny caramel egg things." Patrick said.

"Oh I don't think so!" Rob shrunk the amber with the 'zoom out' button, opened up a portal to Desolate Eternity behind them, and threw them into the portal with 'eject'. "Get them now." he said darkly.

"Okay!" Patrick excitedly ran towards the portal, and Horton tripped him up with his trunk before he could reach it. "Why'd you trip me for?! That wasn't nice!"

"That portal will kill you. It happened to me, remember?...Because, well, I don't." Leonhardt explained.

"I don't either."

"We REALLY need to get that remote before this guy ends up really hurting himself or others." Edd stated.

"You want this remote? Fine, TAKE IT!" Rob gently threw the remote and it slid across the ground in front of the group.

Ed threw his arms in the air. "Yay! Now its our turn to watch the television!" He shuffled over to the remote and reached for it.

"Ed NO!" Edd and Eddy shouted.

Ed tried grabbing the remote, but his hand went right through it. He tried again and again, but it was like the remote suddenly became intangible. "Ghost remote! This is what happens to all of the remotes you lose between the sofa cushions and never find!"

Rob grinned evilly and held out his hand, which the remote instantly teleported to. "Only I can use the remote; Tenebris made sure it couldn't be used against me like last time. And if I lose it, I can have it appear in my hands in an instant."

"Well team, looks like we need a plan B..." Nick said sarcastically.

Zygarde Core suddenly slithered out from behind Horton's ear and looked at the group.

"Hey little buddy, you shouldn't be out here. Its dangerous." Horton said.

"Wh-where did you find that?!" Rob exclaimed.

"You know what the heck that thing is?" Eddy asked.

"Is it your baby brother?" Ed asked.

"We found it under a rock." Patrick said.

"Well you can't reform Zygarde if you don't have all the Cores!" Rob opened up a portal to Desolate Eternity behind Zygarde Core.

"Reform? Zygarde? Cores? Just what are you talking about, Rob?!" Judy asked sternly.

"Heh, it doesn't matter anymore." Rob narrowed his eye and pressed the 'eject' button, but Horton ran up and grabbed Zygarde Core in his trunk. The elephant's massive weight once again made Rob's move useless.

"So this little guy must be really important." Jack said.

"Of course he is! A persons a person, no matter how small." Horton said.

"Fine, keep it! Without all 10 Cores, its useless to you anyway!" Rob shouted.

Zygarde Core squeezed out of Horton's trunk and started to shapeshift.

"Wh-wh-whats happening?" Luigi asked.

"Its good right? RIGHT?!" Patrick asked.

Zygarde Core quickly shapeshifted into the scarfed doberman-like form like the Core that was with Dexter's group: Zygarde 10%

"So...it was a dog this whole time?" Eddy said in confusion.

"Doggo!" Ed exclaimed.

Rob was just as shocked and confused, but managed to hide it. "This...doesn't matter! Zoom out!" he pressed a button and shrunk Zygarde 10%, but being a shapeshifter, it grew back to its normal size.

The Pokemon counterattacked with a shockwave of green hexagons at Rob, who was caught off-guard by the sudden attack and knocked backwards. The triceratops skeleton he was atop broke into pieces too. Right after being hit, the portal to Desolate Eternity Rob had intended to knock Zygarde 10% into closed up.

"What?!" Rob pointed the remote in all directions while pressing buttons to open up another portal, but nothing appeared. "How is this happening?!"

"It seems that move Zygarde hit you with prevented you from retreating through any alternative means." Leonhardt hypothesized.

"Grrrrrr! I still have the remote! You haven't defeated me yet!"

"I know we can't kill the guy, and I know we can't get the remote, but what if we just knock him out?" Eddy said.

"Since he can't open portals anymore, that should be easier now." Luigi said.

"I will handle that." Leonhardt said.

He charged at Rob as his blades crackled with electricity, and Rob tried to figure out what he could do to counterattack, but he wasn't quick enough and was slashed in the stomach. As Leonhardt kept Rob at bay, Jack walked up behind him and hit him upside the head with just enough strength to knock him out.

Upon the cyclops being knocked out, Abe became unfrozen. "Whoa, what uhh, what happened?" he asked.

"Rob paused you, but I guess knocking him out returns everything he used the remote on back to normal." Horton replied.

"So what do we do with him now?" Edd wondered.

"If Abe can possess Rob, we can take him with us, and when he comes to, Abe can smash the remote and disarm him." Judy said.

"That makes sense." Abe clasped his hands and chanted while blue orbs floated around his head, then the orbs flew at Rob and floated around his head. Zygarde 10% reverted back to its Core form and slithered behind Horton's ear, Horton picked up Abe in his trunk, and Jack picked up Rob and threw him over his shoulder.

Patrick pointed to the two cocoons Rob accidently freed from the amber. "What about the giant kidney and the pinecone?"

"Leave them be. The large cocoon seems to be anchored to the ground by webbing anyway." Edd said.

"I want the pinecone, Double Dee." Ed shuffled over to the smaller cocoon and picked it up.

"Well if we've got all our bodies and souvenirs, we should get on outta here." Nick said.

OOO

Jake, Kirby, Sai, Stranger, Link, Miroku, Gaaranooki, Locke, Knuckles, Mumbo, Launcher Spider, Pit, Deidara, Perry, and Anjren were still outside fighting Emperor Awesome and his army. A group of assassins consisting of Tatsumi, Akame, Leone, Bulat, Lubbock, Mine, Sheele, and Krombopulos Michael had shown up to help them.

"You're here to free the world of corruption? Because it sounds more like you're here to free the world of a good time!" Emperor Awesome said to Night Raid.

"You're saying that having corruption in the world is FUN?! You make me sick!" Akame said.

"...No, he literally parties people to death. Its like he doesn't even realize he's a corrupt douchebag." Anjren said with a bored expression.

"SHE gets it, but you and your little club of losers don't seem to! Fist Fighters, pound those party poopers!" Emperor Awesome ordered. His army of Fist Fighters charged at Night Raid, while he and his dinosaur focused on the other heroes.

"THIS is his idea of an army? I'd feel bad for killing them, if how easy to do it didn't piss me off more." Leone grumbled. She clenched her fists and her hands turned into lion claws, and cat ears and tail appeared on her.

"Incursio!" Tatsumi and Bulat exclaimed in unison. A suit of sleek armor with a yellow-eyed mask appear on both of them, and they wielded a large halberd. The only difference was Tatsumi's armor was red with orange highlights, and Bulat's was silver with red highlights.

The other members of Night Raid got their Imperial Arms ready too, and they all charged forward.

Tatsumi and Bulat skewered Fist Fighters with their halberds.

Akame sliced Fist Fighters with her sword, and those who weren't instantly killed by it had red runes spread across their body before dying.

Leone busted open the heads of Fist Fighters with the sheer strength of her punches.

Sheele cut groups of Fist Fighters clean in half with her scissors.

Mine blew holes in Fist Fighters by firing beams of energy from her gun.

Lubbock slit the throats of Fist Fighters with whips of wire.

Krombopulos Michael went around snapping the necks of Fist Fighters without missing a beat.

Some of the other heroes would probably look on in horror, but they had to focus on Emperor Awesome.

Launcher Spider fired a flurry of missiles at Emperor Awesome, but his dinosaur blew them up with laser blasts. It breathed a stream of fire at the group, but Mumbo put up a green barrier around them.

"Boy, you guys really ARE losers if you're taking plays out of HATER'S book!" Emperor Awesome taunted. His dinosaur smacked the barrier with its spikeball tail multiple times, which created an explosion on each hit until the barrier shattered.

"Yeah-yuh! Now take a bite out of 'em!" Emperor Awesome ordered. His dinosaur lunged downward and snapped its jaws at the group.

Link took out a white mallet with a skull engraved on it, the Skull Hammer, and smashed some of the dinosaurs teeth out with it. As the dinosaur reared back and roared in pain, Stranger shot it in the stomach with some Riot Slugs: Large, orange, pill bug-like insects with blue spider eyes. The dinosaur stomped the ground and started randomly firing its eye lasers at the group in a blind fury.

Jake stretched a leg over the group and stretched the rest of his body over to that leg, so he was out of the range of the lasers.

Kirby became Jet Kirby, flashed white for a moment, and dashed out of the way in a blast of jet flames.

Sai summoned an ink hawk, hopped on it, and the bird flew out of range..

Stranger avoided the lasers with his incredible speed by running on all fours.

Link protected himself with his shield.

Miroku used Wind Tunnel and sucked up any of the lasers that would've hit him.

Gaaranooki encased himself in his sandstone statue.

Locke, like Stranger, easily avoided the lasers with her speed.

Knuckles burrowed underground.

Mumbo zapped any laser blasts coming for him with bolts of lightning from his staff, which turned the lasers into multicolored sparkles.

Launcher Spider simply endured the lasers with its strong metal body.

Pit surrounding himself in his two floating shields to reflect the lasers, but was unable to hit them back at the dinosaur or Emperor Awesome.

Deidara, like Sai, summoned a clay hawk, hopped on it, and took to the skies.

Perry used his agility and small frame to avoid the lasers.

Anjren quickly used her microchip to encase herself in her red robot suit, then flew out of the way with rocket boosters from the feet of the suit.

"He's getting reckless, so this is a perfect opportunity for us." Sai said.

"Not sure how you gather being reckless with being a good time to strike, but sure." Pit said.

"Then lets give that shark guy's butt a good kicking!" Jake exclaimed. He enlarged one of his fists and stretched it at Emperor Awesome. Jet Kirby landed on his fist and became Hammer Kirby: He wore a blue and white headband, and wielded a wooden mallet with a star on it.

"Nice try, dorks!" Emperor Awesome jumped backwards off the dinosaur to avoid Jake's punch, which is what Jake was counting on. While the shark-man was still in mid-air, Hammer Kirby threw his mallet at him, which turned the pink puffball back into regular Kirby. The weapon smashed Emperor Awesome in the face and knocked him to the ground. Before Emperor Awesome could get up, he was restrained by sand arms from Gaaranooki, and Sai had a couple of ink gorillas pin him down.

"Now for the mount. Hey, robo-dino! Over here!" Robot Suit Anjren began flying around and firing light-blue energy balls to keep the dinosaur's attention. Stranger kept it distracted further by firing a limbless chipmunk, a Chippunk, from his crossbow.

The small creature hopped around the dinosaur's feet and taunted it. "You sure put the 'stink' in 'extinct'! For such a big guy, you're real good at letting a bunch of pipsqueaks make your life hell! The 80's called, they want your master back!"

"Somebody shut that squirrel UP!" Emperor Awesome shouted.

Launcher Spider retracted the 6 triangular missiles it had in each pod for 3 large rounded missiles in each pod, then fired them at the dinosaur. The bulky missiles traveled much slower than the Machine-type's ordinary missiles, and would be very easy to avoid if its target wasn't distracted.

Pit tapped his foot impatiently. "Those missiles are too impractical!" The angel took out his bow and fired arrows at a missile, detonating it in a huge explosion that also triggered the other missiles to explode. While these blasts knocked the dinosaur to the ground, they also blew apart Anjren's robot suit and threw the battered and bruised girl to the ground too.

"Pit! What the hell were you thinking?!" the girl shouted at him with angry bugeyes and a popped vein.

"Sorry! I thought your suit was more durable than that!" he apologized.

"If it knocked down the dinosaur, why would you think her puny suit could handle it, hmm?" Deidara said.

"My suit is just fine the way it is!" Anjren exclaimed.

"Well lets finish this, hmm." Deidara created a flock of clay hawks, which slammed into the dinosaur and exploded. Link sent blue bombs that vaguely resembled mice with yellow tails, Bombchus, skating along the ground and exploding on impact with the dinosaur. These combined explosive attacks on the weakened dinosaur caused it to blow up in a pink explosion, killing the mount.

"Not again! You losers are going to pay for that! Fist Fighters! Get over here!" Emperor Awesome ordered.

"What Fist Fighters?" Mine taunted. She and the other members of Night Raid were covered in blood, and standing among cut up and dismembered corpses of Fist Fighters.

"What the HELL?!" Emperor Awesome exclaimed.

"My thoughts exactly! Thats really sick and messed up!" Jake added.

"Couldn't you have just knocked 'em out like WE did?" Knuckles said.

"You guys are monsters!" Gaaranooki exclaimed.

"Look, we never said our methods were heroic, noble, or admirable. All we said was we are a group of assassins that fight to free the world of corruption." Akame explained.

"And I just love killin'!" Krombopulos Michael happily added.

"I can definitely see your group's point of view, and your methods are effective, brutal as they are. Pay evil unto evil, but I would save that level of evil for threats like Crisis or Tenebris, not this shark man and his arm army." Locke said.

Mine crossed her arms. "Well we can't change that, now can we?"

"Speaking of Tenebris, I feel like those two silos have something to do with him. They have some sort of primordial dark aura about them." Link said.

"What? You think they're filled with evil grain or something?" Jake said.

"Look, I can't quite explain it. I just get this feeling of evil from them."

"Well, lets go check it out. With Emperor Awesome out of the way, we-"

Sheele cut Miroku off. "Sorry, but we're not done yet."

"She's right. We've still got the shark himself to finish off." Leone walked over to Emperor Awesome, who was still pinned to the ground by Gaaranooki's sand hands and Sai's gorillas. "So how do you wanna die?"

"Please, step on me, babe." he replied perversely.

"Oh just for that, I'm having Lubbock kill you."

"Wait, whats THAT supposed to mean?!" the green-haired assassin exclaimed.

"Just finish this pervert off."

"Alright, alright..." Lubbock twirled some wire like a lasso and wrung it around Emperor Awesome's neck.

"Don't do it!" Gaaranooki exclaimed.

"Do it." Deidara said.

"Aww hell no!" Emperor Awesome snapped his fingers, and he was pulled up into the tractor beam of his space limo. While the heroes were talking with Night Raid before, the Fist Fighter who operated the dial on his stereo system had formed it back into the limo and flew it above Emperor Awesome.

Mine aimed her weapon at the flying vehicle. "If you think you're escaping, you're kidding yourself!"

"LATER LOSERS!" Emperor Awesome shouted, and in an instant, the limo flew out of sight.

"Warp drive." Anjren said to herself.

"Shit!...Well to be fair, without being in any danger, I probably couldn't blow that ship up." Mine said.

"What do you mean by that?" Sai asked.

"Its the ability of Pumpkin, my Imperial Arms."

"You named your gun after a fruit?" Pit asked.

"What? No, you idiot! I didn't name it! Imperial Arms are ancient weapons made way before any of us were even born!"

"So...whoever MADE that weapon named it after a fruit then?"

"Shut up about the name!" Mine shouted with a popped vein. "Anyway, the energy blasts from Pumpkin increase in power the more danger I am in!"

"I never liked guns, but thats an interesting weapon there. What about the rest of you?" Stranger asked.

Bulat slapped Tatsumi on the back. "Tatsumi and I both have Incursio, a kind of instant armor complete with a halberd! Mine can turn invisible, and his can fly."

"My Imperial Arms is Murasame, a cursed blade that kills you with poison if it so much as even grazes you." Akame explained.

"Mine is Lionelle, which gives me increased strength and speed, as well as cat-like features." Leone said.

"So it turns you into a literal cougar, nice!" Miroku said perversely.

"Don't make me make Lubbock kill you too."

"Hey!...Well my Imperial Arms is Cross Tail, razor wire that I can form and manipulate at will." Lubbock said.

"Oh, and mines Extanse, a scissor-like blade that can cut through anything." Sheele said.

Krombopulos Michael took out a black ray gun-like weapon crackling with purple electricity. "I don't have an Imperial Arms, but I do have this gun that shoots antimatter."

"Yeah, and I have boxing gloves, lets go check out those silos now." Knuckles quickly said.

The group walked towards the two silos, and the closer they got, the colder the air became and the darker the already-darkened dimension became.

"I'm starting to think Link was right about that evil grain stuff." Pit said.

Suddenly, a solid black barrier of darkness appeared around the silos.

"Aaaaaaand now I no longer THINK, I KNOW!" the angel said.

"I expected something like this." Link took out his sword and slashed the dark barrier.

"KYAAAAAAHHHH!" Strangely, the barrier screamed in a gravely, almost old man voice.

"Whoa, did that barrier just scream?" Tatsumi wondered.

"Slice it again." Akame said.

Link pulled his sword back for another big swing, but the barrier started morphing. It took the form of a black barren tree about the size of a skyscraper, with 4 curved horns up top where a face was. This face had green lips, 4 curved fangs, very long clawed arms, and a beard and eyebrows made of red fire: Aku.

"Okay, so its not a barrier OR grain, its a shapeshifting monster." Jake said.

"I am Aku, the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness!" he bellowed.

"Thats quite the title." Bulat stated.

"Shapeshifting Master of Darkness or King of Evil, all your title means is you're what the Master Sword was designed to defeat!" Link said fearlessly.

"Sword?!" Aku bent down and narrowed his eyes at the Hero of Time. "So YOU'RE the fool who woke me!"

"Thats right, my sword has a title just like you do: The Blade of Evil's Bane! It was made by one of the Goddesses of Hyrule: Hylia!"

"Oh great, just what I needed, ANOTHER warrior wielding a magic sword made by the Gods..." Aku moaned.

"Hey, I've got divine weapons too! Like THIS!" Pit fumbled with his bow and fired an arrow at Aku. It pierced right through him, but due to his massive size, the wound was absolutely miniscule, and the evil being's regeneration abilities quickly sealed it anyway.

"Hmm, yes, I guess that did sting a little bit..." Aku said sarcastically.

"Th-thats not all I have!" Pit turned to Night Raid. "Well what about you guys? Are your Imperial Arms divine?"

"They are ancient, but not divine." Akame said.

"So of all of you, only the man in green possesses any sort of threat to Aku...EXCELLENT!" Aku gave a screech, which sent out white rings of energy that blew the entire group backwards.

"Link, it looks like its up to you." Jake said.

"What?!" he exclaimed.

"Heh heh, just kidding. I don't know how much we can do to that creep, though."

"That doesn't matter, we have to kill this thing. If Tenebris has someone like THAT guarding those silos, then there must be something incredibly important about them." Sai theorized.

"Right you are, you fool. Its too bad you'll NEVER get that far!" Aku held out his hands and fired countless black spikes at the group.

"Nyaru's Love!" Link slammed his hand on the ground and became encased in a diamond barrier that deflected the spikes.

Krombopulos Michael rolled out of the way, then shot at Aku with his antimatter gun, but it did no damage. "Looks like this guy can't even be killed with antimatter."

Tatsumi and Bulat were protected from the spikes by their Incursio armor.

Leone avoided the spikes with the speed she gained from Lionelle.

Akame, Lubbock, Mine, and Sheele tried their best to counter the spikes, but they were skewered by them.

Jake shrunk down to such a small size that the spikes sailed right over him.

Kirby turned into a pink rock with squinted eyes, which let him endure the spikes.

Sai tried to avoid the spikes by flying up high using a painted eagle, but the bird was skewered and exploded into ink. This sent Sai plummeting to the ground as he was skewered all the way down.

Like Leone, Stranger and Locke were able to avoid the spikes with their speed.

"Wind Tunnel!" Miroku absorbed the spikes in the miniature black hole in his hand, due to it being holy magic.

Gaaranooki encased himself in his sandstone statue again.

Knuckles dug underground to avoid the spikes.

Mumbo put up his green barrier again for defense.

Launcher Spider simply endured the spikes with its steel body.

Pit put out the Guardian Orbitars, deflecting the spikes right back at Aku. However, the evil being simply absorbed them back into his body.

Deidara tried to blow up the spikes by throwing clay spiders, but this didn't work, and he was skewered all over.

Perry avoided the spikes with his small size and agility.

Anjren touched the microchip to her chest, encased herself in her robot suit, and tried to fly out of the range of the spikes. However, similar to Sai, she was skewered all over, causing the robot suit to explode and throw her stabbed body to the ground.

Aku stopped firing the spikes and laughed evilly. "Hahahahaha! Some of you can run, and some of you can hide, but NONE of you can defeat Aku!"

"Oh we'll see about that, Aku!" Link shouted with determination as he charged at him.

"And we'll see about THAT, foolish swordsman!" Aku swatted Link right through the wall of a building with a swipe of his large arm. Had it not been for the shield of Nyaru's Love, Link would've been terribly injured.

"And I didn't forget about the rest of you fools!" Aku's eyes lit up and all of the spikes he shot levitated in the air. The spikes morphed into smaller versions of Aku with the body type and size of a gorilla, but with clawed arms and legs.

"So you wanted an army thats challenging, Leone? Be careful what you wish for..." Sai said, deadpan.

The Aku clones leapt at the heroes while laughing maniacally.

Leone used her strength to punch them backwards, but this did no damage to them and they got right back up. "So even his little clones are only weak to divine weapons...Great..." she said sarcastically.

Krombopulos Michael tried snapping the neck of an Aku clone, but it just moved its head down to the middle of its body, grabbed the assassin by the arms, grew a second pair of arms to grab him by the legs to fully restrain him as other clones slashed him.

Tatsumi skewered a couple of the clones with his halberd, but they stretched their arms and legs to his armor and latched onto it.

"Nice try." Tatsumi's armor sprouted dragon wings and he shot straight up into the sky, but the clones were not letting go.

"I've got this!" Pit switched his bow into two daggers, slashed through nearby Aku clones, switched the daggers back into a bow, and fired a few arrows at the clones holding Tatsumi.

Pit's arrows did much more damage to the clones due to their smaller size compared to Aku, dissolving their lower-bodies. The clones let Tatsumi go, morphed their arms into bat wings, and swooped down at Pit while firing eye beams at him. The angel knelt down, put up the Guardian Orbitars, and shot arrows at the clones from behind the shields to destroy them.

More Aku clones ran at Pit from behind, but Perry knocked them to the ground with a leg sweep using his tail. The clones stretched their arms and grabbed the egg-laying mammal, intending to crush him.

"Shoot!" Pit removed the shield behind himself and pointed out his palm, firing a burst of rainbow energy at the Aku clones and destroying them. "Link makes this stuff look easy..." he muttered.

Akame stabbed the Aku clones approaching her, but her cursed blade had no effect. Sheele couldn't slice the clones with her Imperial Arms either. Stranger rammed into the clones while shooting at them with Riot Slugs to knock them down, but they just got right back up.

"These monsters are unkillable; all we can do is stall until Link or the angel can defeat them." Akame said.

"Well thats gonna be easier said than done." Stranger replied.

"Well its either that or die." Sheele stated.

"On the bright side, these immortal bastards really power up Pumpkin!" Mine fired a massive beam from her gun at a group of Aku clones, which knocked them far backwards.

Jake and Hammer Kirby kept the clones nearby them at bay by the former punching them with enlarged fists, and the latter smacking them with his mallet like a baseball bat.

"Its like fighting the Lich times a thousand!" Jake exclaimed.

"They aren't the only gorillas around here." Sai painted a gorilla on a scroll, and a whole bunch of ink gorillas leapt out of it. The apes grappled some of the Aku clones, but the shapeshifting demons just grew another pair of arms and started strangling the beasts.

"I think you have the right idea." Gaaranooki grappled Aku clones with sand hands, and when they grew more arms to stretch at him, he just grappled those arms with more sand hands.

"We can't just do this forever! Sooner or later, they're gonna wear us out and then we're toast!" Robot Suit Anjren was trying to blast clones away with orbs of electricity from her robot suit, but there were far too many to keep at bay. They grabbed onto the limbs of her suit to restrain her, and started to tear it apart piece by piece.

"We will just have to keep on fighting. We've come too far to give up now." Locke avoided slashes from the Aku clones with her agility, then jumped up and performed rapid kicks to their heads in mid-air.

"Yeah, well like Stranger said, that's easier said than done!" Knuckles was able to barely avoid slashes from clones by jumping and gliding. Pink orbs of energy were spinning around the echidna like he was charging up for something. Then with a 'ping!', he was cloaked in a red aura.

"Why echidna just ping?" Mumbo asked. The witchdoctor was able to keep some of the Aku clones distracted by surrounding himself with his magic barrier, and the clones just couldn't scratch through it. Launcher Spider was able to keep some other clones busy with the same tactic, only with its metal body protecting it instead of a shield.

"Because of THIS! Maximum Heat Knuckles Attack!" Knuckles turned into a ball of fire and rapidly rammed clone after clone in quick succession like a combo move. Of course, this didn't hurt them, but it did knock them off their feet and daze them.

"Wow. Did you name that attack all by yourself...?" Deidara sarcastically asked with a bored expression. The ninja created a flock of clay birds that divebombed some Aku clones and exploded, but this did little in the way of keeping them at bay. "Oh come ON! Why does his stupid-named move daze them, but my works of art do not, hmm?!"

The Aku clones jumped at Deidara, pinned him to the ground, grew another pair of arms that were shaped like scythes, and mercilessly slashed him. "DAMN IT!"

"Oh we are SO damn screwed!" Lubbock said.

"Ahahahaha! 'Screwed'? You fools never stood a chance in the first place!" Aku bellowed.

"How can Pit and I possibly defeat him AND save all our friends from those clones?! If we don't figure out something soon, Aku just might be right!" Link thought to himself.

OOO

Vampire Lady, Steven, and Chowder were inside an abandoned observatory. It was a long, dark, T-shaped hallway leading up to a broken elevator, which would take you high up to the next level where the large telescope is. The hallways splitting off from either side of the elevator led to automatic metal doors that were shut down, and behind those metal doors were large labs filled with broken computers and ripped-up documents.

"So which way do we go?" Chowder asked.

"Hmm, well darlings, since that elevator is broken, either we go left, or we go right." Vampire Lady said.

"But those metal doors are probably broken too." Steven said.

"My vamparic strength and teleportation shall take care of that, darling."

The trio looked to the left and could hear banging, and the group looked to the right and could hear scraping.

"So which loud noise do we choose first?" Chowder asked.

OOO

In the left lab was a group of six.

The first was an anthropomorphic light-blue bird wearing a white shirt and green shorts: Harvey.

The second was a anthropomorphic, pink, cat-like critter with poofy magenta hair wearing a white dress with a rope tied around her waist: Fee.

The third was another anthropomorphic cat-like critter, except orange with a curl atop his head, and he wore red pants and shoes: Foo.

The fourth was a boy with curly read hair and buck teeth. He wore dark-red jeans with a white shirt that had dark-blue sleeves, and what resembles a zero with a line through it on the middle: Penn.

The fifth was an Asian girl with short brown hair tied in 2 short braids along the bottom. She wore high-tech blue shades, a dark-red skirt with white sleeves, and light-purple stockings: Sashi.

The sixth was a tall chubby boy with long brown hair and a big round nose. He wore a light-green tank top, dark-green pants, and a black backwards baseball cap: Boone.

"So how did we get in THIS dimension? I don't remember Phyllis sending us through a portal." Boone said.

"Considering we didn't change form, I don't think this is official business. Anyway, Sashi, check the specs just in case." Penn said.

A green hologram of Tenebris' eye and Lumiere's crystal appeared from her glasses. "Right...Hmm, apparently we have to stop the ultimate being of darkness named Tenebris, who is holding the ultimate being of light, Lumiere, kidnapped in a secret location. In order to do that, we have to ALSO find the Chosen One, who is kidnapped by Tenebris as well." Sashi explained.

"Well who is the Chosen One?" Harvey asked.

"That we don't know."

"And who are these three cute little guys?" Boone asked.

"Well it also says Lumiere has recruited many people across many dimensions to help on this mission."

"And I don't suppose any of them know how to get out of this room...?" Penn asked sarcastically.

"Nope! No clue! We're trapped!" Foo said plainly.

"Yeah, and this room is lame. Where is the fun in breaking stuff if its already broken?" Fee lamented.

"And these papers are completely disorganized and torn up!" Harvey added as he started putting documents in a stack.

Suddenly there was slashing and pounding from the other side of the door, and large dents started to appear.

"Looks like we've got company." Sashi said in a serious tone.

"But we're not ready for company! This place is still a mess!" Harvey exclaimed.

The door was slowly pried open by none other than Vampire Lady, with Steven and Chowder joining her.

"AAH! Its a vampire!" Boone yelped.

"We're gonna need some stakes then!" Fee said, eager to fight.

"Sadly, this is no time for a cookout!"

"Aww, I love cookouts..." Chowder said sadly.

"Darlings, don't fret, we are not here to hurt you." Vampire Lady assured.

"We aren't worried about those two, we are worried about YOU!" Sashi said with narrowed eyes.

"I freed you from this room, did I not? Besides, if I wanted to kill you all, I assure you I would've done so by now. After all, none of you look particularly tough."

"She's kind of got a point. And its not like we have anything to fight vampires anyway." Fee said.

"...Fine, but I'm keeping my eye on you, lady." Sashi said.

"Its VAMPIRE Lady to be precise, darling." the Duel Monster corrected.

"And my name's Steven, and thats Chowder." Steven said.

"Chowder? Does that name sound familiar to you guys?" Foo asked Harvey and Fee.

"Actually, kind of...I wonder why...?" Fee replied.

"Yeah, I can't put my finger on it either...Well, anyway, thanks for helping us, you guys!" Harvey said.

"We're not done helping people yet, we've still got a scary scraping noise to see." Chowder said.

OOO

In the right lab was a group of four.

The first was a girl with short, black, curly hair. She wore a tan triangle barrette in her hair, a tan skirt, and a frilly, tan, V-neck shirt with a light-brown shirt underneath that was partly concealed by a tan knotted bow: Lisa.

The second was an odd, very large, tan, snake-like creature made of sand. Its head was shaped like a box with 2 eyes on tubes on the sides of its head, and its mouth was always agape with its long tongue hanging out. The rest of its body was made of horizontal floating lines spaced a little apart from each other, and the tip of its tail was a floating triangle: Sand Snake.

The third was a girl with dark-blue hair with a red stripe on it. She wore a dark-blue schoolgirl uniform with 2 triangular points below the collar that resembled yellow eyes with red pupils. She also had a weapon that looked like a giant red pair of scissors on her back: Ryuko.

The fourth was a woman who wore a black short-sleeved spandex, black high-heels with 2 pistols strapped to the back of them, and 2 more pistols at her sides. She also wore black square-framed glasses, arm-length white gloves, and had very long black hair: Bayonetta.

"Is this really the best this demon god could do...? Trying to trap us in a locked room...? So much for the infinite power of darkness..." Bayonetta snarked.

"Actually, I think it was the angel goddess that trapped us here...which kind of makes the whole freaking thing worse." Ryuko said.

"Well maybe she just ran out of space to put us." Lisa said sarcastically. "Anyway, Sand Snake, lets do what we do best: Crashing things!"

Sand Snake hissed and ducked his head, preparing to ram right through the door, but Bayonetta literally beat him to the punch. The witch created a dark portal in front of the door, and a dark-blue demon fist shot out of the portal and shattered the door.

"My my, what a punch!" Lisa said as she climbed atop Sand Snake's head.

The quartet heard a squishing noise from the back of the room.

Bayonetta took out 2 of her guns and pointed them in that direction. "We're not alone."

"Whoa, we don't even know what it is. It could be another ally. I'll go check it out." Ryuko said. She followed the squishing to underneath a computer keyboard, picked it up, and found a Zygarde Core.

"Oh. Hey." Ryuko picked it up and brought it back to the others. "Its just a blob thing."

"My my! Its adorable!" Lisa half-sarcastically gushed.

"Hmm, looks harmless enough. Who wants to hold onto this thing?" Bayonetta asked.

"Sand Snake, would you mind?" Lisa asked, and her partner nodded in approval. "Alright, just place it on his tail, Ryuko."

Ryuko looked at Sand Snake with a bored expression. "The...triangle at the end?"

"Mmm-hmm!"

Ryuko did so, and the Zygarde Core clung to the triangular tail.

"Great. Lets go." Bayonetta stated.

OOO

At the same time, Vampire Lady and the others were walking down the hallway to free them too.

"Oh. They saved themselves." Penn said.

"Well done darlings! Now we-" Vampire Lady was cut short when Bayonetta took her 2 pistols and shot the vampire with a barrage of bullets.

"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! What are you doing?!" Penn exclaimed.

"You kids stand back. I'm about to finish this bitch off." Bayonetta said. She created a dark portal above Vampire Lady, who was lying on the ground bleeding.

"She's not evil, she's on our side!" Steven exclaimed.

"...Ah, is that right?"

"Damn, that was brutal." Ryuko said.

"Very hardcore Bayonetta!" Lisa said, rather impressed.

"Yeah, that was pretty awesome." Fee added.

Vampire Lady vanished in a puff of black smoke, leaving a pile of ash behind.

"NOOOOO! You killed her!" Harvey exclaimed.

"Its...not like I completely trusted her anyway." Sashi said.

"Well this mission sure is off to a wonderful start..." Penn said sarcastically.

Out of the ash rose a coffin, which opened to reveal a healed Vampire Lady.

"Immortality. Ease up on the trigger and don't judge a book by its cover, alright darling?" she said.

"Yes, I'll try not to kill you so hard next time, darling." Bayonetta snarked.

"...Well with all THAT out of the way, now what do we do?" Boone asked.

"We could see where that elevator goes." Foo suggested.

"But its broke." Chowder said.

"Well we could always climb up the shaft. We'll have to destroy the elevator to do so, but its already broken any-" Lisa was, once again, literally beaten to the punch by Bayonetta breaking apart the elevator with a giant arm from a portal. "...You just can't give Sand Snake and I a moment of glory, can you Bayonetta? Well lets see how you get up that shaft without the help of Sand Sna-"

"You still haven't learned that I'm better than you, have you, hon?" Bayonetta replied. Black fancy butterfly wings sprouted from her back, and she flew up the shaft and through the opening to the second floor.

"So, anyone else have a way of getting up there...?" Lisa said with a little annoyance.

"I do, darling." Vampire Lady teleported in a puff of black smoke.

"So do I. Life Fiber System Synchronize!" Ryuko pulled a pin from a silver band on her wrist, causing her to bleed a little. Suddenly, her outfit transformed into a rather revealing two-piece, connected by 2 red strands. Two large shoulder pad-like protrusions stuck out of the sides, and the eye-like markings below her collar became larger.

"My my! There are CHILDREN here, Ryuko!" Lisa exclaimed.

"Then tell them not to look."

"Heh, thats easier said than done." Boone said slightly perversely.

"Well how does revealing yourself even get you up there anyway?" Lisa asked.

"Like this." Ryuko walked to the bottom of the shaft and pink jets of flame shot from the shoulders of her outfit, allowing her to fly up to the next floor.

"Oh...well what about the rest of you kids?"

"We've got this." Penn said. He, Boone, and Sashi took out microchips, touched them to their chests, and became enveloped in white robot suits. Penn's had light-blue highlights and an energy sword in the back, Sashi's had pink highlights and laser guns on her wrists, and Boone's had lime-green highlights with a bulky helmet with a black visor. The trio used the rocket boots on their suits to fly up to the next floor.

"...Anyone else?"

"I don't...think so." Chowder said.

"Then grab on."

"Like...onto one of those lines?" Steven asked.

"Mmm-hmm."

"Whoa, whats that blob at the end of its tail?" Fee asked.

"Dunno, some quirky little creature we found in the lab."

Steven, Chowder, Fee, Foo, and Harvey climbed Sand Snake's segments like a ladder and held on. Lisa pointed forward, and Sand Snake slithered up the shaft to the second floor.

OOO

The second floor was a massive dome covered in a starry backdrop with a thin winding ramp going around the border of the room. Nine giant spheres hung from the ceiling, which represented the 8 planets and the Sun. In the back of the room was a gigantic telescope, and on the floor in front of it was a green gem.

"Wow! This room is AMAZING!" Harvey exclaimed.

"It certainly is out of this world, darling." Vampire Lady added.

"So what do we do now?" Steven asked.

"Maybe its got something to do with that green gem over there." Boone said.

"Ooo! I've got it!" Foo exclaimed. He ran over to the gem to pick it up, but before he could get close, the gem started to float in the air. Light-green light surrounded it and took a humanoid form, then faded and revealed a girl.

This girl had lime-green skin, was a bit short, and had very light-green hair in a triangular shape. She wore a light-green visor, a sleeveless dark-green shirt with a V-neck collar and a green horizontal stripe along the middle, and green pants with a yellow diamond on each knee. She also wore dark-green gauntlets over her hands with 4 floating light-green fingers, dark-green platform boots over her feet, and the green gem was embedded in her forehead: Peridot.

"Whoa, the gem turned into a lady!" Foo exclaimed.

"And just what are you clods doing here?" Peridot asked incredulously.

"Depends on who wants to know." Ryuko retorted.

"The-the rock lady wants to know. She just asked us." Chowder obliviously pointed out.

"Darling, her point is we don't know if this Gem-Knight is friend or foe, so we don't want to reveal information to her until we know whose side she is on." Vampire Lady explained.

"HA! Like you clods could POSSIBLY hold any info over me!" Peridot taunted.

Sashi narrowed her eyes at Peridot. "I'm starting to think that this one is not on our side."

"HA! Of course I'm not! I know that you all are siding with Lumiere. Why else would you be up here if not to try and release him?!"

"Release who? Tenebris?" Harvey asked.

"Wait...you DON'T know whose sealed he-? GAH! Nevermind! You aren't going anywhere anyway!" A holographic keyboard appeared in front of Peridot, who started typing on it, and 6 floating, giant, green, robotic hands appeared above her. "CRUSH THEM ALL!"

"Good, something I CAN kill." Bayonetta shot Peridot over and over again with 2 of her guns, but all she suffered was a little recoil.

"HA! Are guns really the best you've got?!"

"I assume she's made of crystal, so we're going to need something stronger than guns." Sashi stated.

"How about Sand Snake?" Lisa said smugly as Sand Snake got ready to strike.

"How about THIS?" Bayonetta snidely said, and created a portal above Peridot to stomp her with a giant foot. One of the hands teleported above Peridot and caught it mid-stomp.

"Nice try, clods!" Peridot taunted, and made the giant hand wiggle its pointer finger.

"We're gonna have to destroy those hands before fighting her." Steven said.

"I can work with that." Ryuko said and took the giant scissors from her back.

A hand appeared above Harvey, Fee, and Foo and slammed straight downward at them.

"Giant high-five! Look out!" Foo exclaimed.

Vampire Lady teleported over to them, held up her arms, blocked the hand on the way down, and held it back.

"Whoa lady, you're strong! Awesome!" Fee said.

"And you saved our lives too!" Harvey said.

"Of course, darlings. I have vamparic strength. I advise you three take cover." Vampire Lady told them.

"You got it!" Harvey said, and he, Fee, and Foo ran to the winding ramp.

"You aren't getting away from ME!" Peridot shouted.

The hand Vampire Lady was blocking pointed 3 of its fingers at Harvey, Fee, and Foo, and fired green laser beams from them.

"I don't think so!" Sashi flew in front of the lasers with Penn and Boone. Sashi blocked one of them by countering with her own laser, Penn blocked one by repelling it with his sword, and Boone blocked the third by tucking his head and using his helmet.

"Targeting children? Darling, you should be ASHAMED!" Vampire Lady dug her claws into the palm of the hand and ripped it clean in half, causing it to explode. "...Oh, I forgot how unsatisfying it is to tear into machines..." she said to herself.

"I...feel like we should be worried about her now." Penn said hesitantly.

"Relax Penn, I'm sure if a scary vampire chick wanted to rip us in half, she would've done it by now." Boone assured him.

"Just let it be known I never fully trusted her in the first place." Sashi said.

Lisa was riding Sand Snake, who kept slamming itself into one of the hands, but did little damage. The hand would retaliate with laser blasts, but Sand Snake was flexible enough to move its segmented body so the lasers would pass right between the spaces of the lines.

"Well this is getting us nowhere, but Bayonetta isn't going to show us up again, Sand Snake!" Lisa said with determination.

"Then how about Ryuko?" Ryuko said sarcastically as she ran up Sand Snake's body, leapt off the back of his head, and slashed right through the hand with her scissors and blew it up.

"What in the world?!"

"Easy. Rock doesn't beat paper, SCISSORS does."

"Again, what in the world?!"

"She means your snake, which is made of rocks, couldn't kill that hand, which looks like its throwing paper, but her weapon, which is a pair of scissors, DID kill it." Steven explained.

"This guy gets it." Ryuko casually stated while pointing at Steven with her thumb.

"Only in certain circumstances is that true, though." Bayonetta stated as two giant arms came out of portals from either side of a hand and smashed together, blowing it up. "Her point is that your weapon is bad, hon."

"Sand Snake is my PARTNER, not a WEAPON, you bitch!" Lisa shouted, offended of the witchs' low-regard of Sand Snake.

Ryuko gave Lisa a more sympathetic look. "I know how that feels, Lisa, having people see your friend as a weapon instead of an individual...You see this outfit I'm wearing?"

"Oh please, Ryuko, your outfit is HARDLY the thing people are seeing right now. Same goes for you, Bayonetta. Who are you two trying to impress here?!"

"Would you shut the hell up for just a second?! I'm trying to be nice to you here!"

Lisa held her hands up in front of her. "Right, fair enough, Ryuko, go on ahead."

"This outfit is actually a living being named Senketsu, and to give you the short and simple version, he is made of Life Fibers, which are sort of like parasitic alien threads, and he was specifically designed to fight other Life Fibers used for dark purposes...Some people thought of him as nothing more than that: Just a weapon to kill his own kind."

"Whoa, so right now you're not actually wearing any clothes, you're wearing an alien?" Steven asked.

"Pretty much."

"Same goes for me. My outfit is really just my hair." Bayonetta said.

"My outfit I...bought at a mall from a talking pen..." Lisa reluctantly muttered while glancing at the ceiling.

Another hand kept punching the ground where Chowder was, and he kept barely avoiding being crushed.

"Man I could really use Mr. Hand and that cream-filler machine right now!" he exclaimed.

Sashi flew up and shot the hand with laser blasts, which turned its attention towards her.

"If your arms are just going to go after children, then at least pick the ones who can fight back." she said threateningly.

Penn flew at the hand from the side with his sword held out, and slashed all of the hand's fingers right off, which exploded.

Boone dropped down from high up and slammed into the fingerless hand with both feet, smashing it into the ground and blowing it up.

"Wow! Those are cool robot costumes! Where did you get them?" Chowder asked.

"They were made for us for our final and most dangerous mission in the multiverse." Sashi explained.

"Well, second most dangerous. I think this one takes the cake." Boone said.

Another hand made a sweeping motion at Steven and pinned him up against the wall with its palm.

"Agggh! You bastard! Let me go!" he exclaimed.

"Damn it!" Ryuko ran at the hand and held up her scissors to slash it, but it suddenly exploded and freed Steven. "What the hell?"

Steven looked a bit different now. His body was hunched over, his arms were spread out wide, his hands were in a permanent 'C' shape, his eyes were yellow, his hair was standing straight up and sticking out in front of him, and he was enveloped in blue bubbles. He was in his Level 1 form.

"What the hell happened to you?!" Ryuko asked.

"Sorry, I had to use the power of my demon. This is the only form of it that I have total control over. I don't want to feel like dead weight here." he explained, now having a slightly gruff voice.

"Well you wouldn't be the only one. That bear...hippo...rabbit...raccoon...cat...thing is dead weight too!" Lisa snidely said.

"Like you're one to talk, hon. Without your snake friend, you would be even MORE useless." Bayonetta stated.

"Oh go to hell, Bayonetta."

"Hmm, funny you should mention that."

"Now now, what is this about a demon, darling?" Vampire Lady asked Level 1 Steven.

"Its a demon sealed inside me named Moar. I tap into his power when I get pissed, and I hate doing that, but I don't have any choice in this messed-up world, I guess." he explained.

"And whats this about forms?" Ryuko asked.

"This is my Level 1 form. I can turn into it when I get just a little angry, if I want to, and its the only one that doesn't make me go nuts at all. There's a Level 2 form, and probably more than that, but I don't wanna find out how many."

"HEY! We're in the middle of a fight here!" Peridot shouted.

"You've only got one giant hand left; its best you take five before we kill you." Bayonetta said to her.

"HA! Thats where you're wrong! I can just summon more hands!" Peridot displayed her hologram keyboard and began typing on it again, but she stopped when she heard the loud creak of rusty metal above her. "What the? GAH!"

Peridot had just enough time to look up and see the giant sphere representing Neptune break off its chain and plummet towards her. Harvey, Fee, and Foo were holding onto it, with Fee and Foo looking excited and Harvey looking shocked. The sphere crushed Peridot, making her disappear in a puff of smoke and leaving only her gem behind.

"Man that was so fun!" Fee said.

"Yeah, and we even crushed the crystal lady too!" Foo added.

"Oh no! Do you think shes okay?!" Harvey asked worriedly.

"Lets hope not." Bayonetta stated.

"Yeah, take this, you little green freak!" Fee picked up the gem, tossed it across the room, and down the elevator shaft. Steven reverted to his normal form at this time.

"SCOOOOOORE!" Foo cheered.

"Now to figure out what is so special about this place, and what the heck she meant by someone being sealed here." Penn said.

"Perhaps it has something to do with this telescope then." Vampire Lady floated over and took a glance into it. "Oh! Well there certainly IS something, darlings!"

Within the lens of the telescope was a humanoid sealed in a diamond, not unlike the diamond that contained Lumiere. The humanoid had dark-blue skin, green claws, and yellow jester shoes. His face was pale with huge alien eyes, and his hair was short, teal, and curved forward at the sides.

"What is it?" Harvey asked.

"Someone is sealed within a crystal inside this telescope. Have a look."

Harvey walked over and did so. "Whoa! We have to get him out of there!"

"Let me take a look." Sashi took a peek into the telescope, "He definitely looks like bad news, but if Tenebris sealed him away, he must be important."

"Alright, I'm on it." Ryuko leapt at the telescope and slashed it multiple times with her scissors until it broke into pieces. Then she held her scissors up to break through the crystal containing the humanoid.

"STOP!" shouted Peridot as she flew up the elevator shaft by having the fingers of one of her robot arms spin like a helicopter. "Don't free him! You clods have no idea what you're doing!"

"Sure we do! We're freeing him, you just said it." Chowder obliviously replied.

"And for a less dumb reply, why WOULDN'T we free him? Especially after YOU, a villain, kept us from doing that?!" Penn said.

"Because releasing that creature means certain doom for us all, THATS why!" Peridot retorted.

"I call BS. Why on earth would Tenebris put someone in charge of something that could be a threat to him, instead of keeping it close to him like Lumiere?" Sashi said.

"She's just lying, its what bad guys do! We gotta help him!" Harvey said.

"Besides, how much more doomed could that little guy make us than Tenebris already has?" Boone added.

"HUUUAAAAHHH!" Ryuko drove her scissors down through the crystal at full strength, but the instant the weapon made contact with the crystal, it shattered. Then, time seemed to just freeze and everything and everyone in the vicinity became enveloped in a black aura.

The sealed being, who seemed to be the one to cause the anomaly, floated right through Ryuko like a ghost and to the center of the room.

"What...? Why am I...? How did...? I-I thought I was..." he softly said to himself, feeling very confused. As he started to take in his surroundings, he went from confusion to depression. "Did I...? Did-did he...? Please no! T-Tenebris!" He flinched and clutched his head, and this sudden shift in emotion seemed to undo the anomaly caused by his release.

"What...the heck just happened?" Steven wondered.

"And how is the green guy up there now?" Foo wondered, pointing to the humanoid.

"Whats THIS?!" Tenebris bellowed furiously, speaking to the heroes in a rare moment.

"Oh NOW you clods done it!" Peridot exclaimed, trying to hide her fear.

"Who...whose there...? It sounds...familiar..." the humanoid said, recognizing the voice but unable to pin it down.

"Tenebris, didn't think we would hear from you so soon. Must be a special occasion." Bayonetta taunted.

"T-Tenebris...? That...that can't be..." the humanoid look concerned, but for an entirely different reason than the heroes were.

"Which one of you is responsible for giving this miserable pile of trash the taste of freedom?!" Tenebris demanded.

"Ouch! Thats harsh." Steven said. The humanoid looked extremely hurt by this statement as well.

"It was the one with the scissors, Tenebris! SHE released him!" Peridot said, ratting out Ryuko.

"No! It wasn't just her! It was ALL of us! We're at team, so we're in this thing together!" Penn said with confidence.

"I'm-I'm not a part of it!" Peridot quickly injected.

"You should be ashamed for being so mean! You really hurt that guys feelings!" Harvey scolded.

"Harvey, you're talking to a guy who destroyed everyone's worlds and then trapped us in his own, of course he is going to be a total butt about it!" Fee said.

The humanoid looked down at the ground and looked like he was about to cry. "T-Tenebris..."

A rift to Desolate Eternity opened up above the group and a giant version of Tenebris' hexagonal eye floated out of it. He floated to the center of the room and just stared at the humanoid being, who was feeling guilty and uncomfortable.

"Oh this is REALLY bad!" Peridot exclaimed.

"On the contrary, its about time he shows himself." Bayonetta said.

The witch created 4 portals around Tenebris and two giant arms and legs shot out from them, but stopped right before they could even touch him and dissolved into darkness. After a small pause, Tenebris, in one quick movement, twitched and loomed right over Bayonetta.

"Hmph." Bayonetta showed no fear, and just stared right back at Tenebris.

"BEGONE!" Tenebris' pupil dilated and Bayonetta was thrown backwards by an invisible force. In an instant, before she even hit the wall behind her, Tenebris opened up a portal to Desolate Eternity behind her, then closed it the moment she fell through.

"Holy SHIT! What the FUCK?!" Ryuko shouted.

Tenebris slowly floated back to where he was and continued to stare at the humanoid, treating as if nothing had just happened.

"If I knew it would kill you, I would have done the same to you long ago, you miserable excuse for a living being! To think I had to resort to sealing you up the same way I did to my sister is SICKENING!" he said to the humanoid.

"T-Tenebris..." tears started to build up in the humanoid's eyes.

"Just look at you. How could such a sniveling pathetic mess possibly be an extension of myself? Hmhmhm, or rather of my FORMER self, so I suppose your worthless existence is fitting after all!"

"What-what does this-?! T-Tenebris! N-no! You-you mean you're not-?!" the humanoid started to cry and clutched his head in anguish and turmoil.

"Oh, are you upset that your former master is gone now? He gave into the darkness inside of him and was better off for it! HAHAHA!"

"N-no! But-but Tenebris would never-! I-I thought he..."

"Cared about you? Hmhmhm, if you think someone that allowed you to be thrown away like the piece of garbage you are ever had any shred of compassion for you, Void, then you are even more pathetic and delusional than his sister is!"

"No! No! You're lying! That-thats not true! Tenebris! He-he loved me! He loved Lumiere! He loved Lumina! And-and-and he-he would never-! You-you don't know-! He-he can't-!" Void was beginning to hyperventilate and panic, and he clutched his head with his claws as a searing dark pain coursed through him.

"Tenebris doomed the entire multiverse out of his own selfish desire by giving into me. He never loved anyone, especially not a worthless little insect like YOU!"

These final words really hit Void hard, and with tears streaming down his face, the pain inside him intensified and he began to transform. Black lightning started shooting out of his chest and a purple aura enveloped him.

Tenebris' eye narrowed in delight. "Excellent." he said evilly to himself.

"Things are about to go from bad to worse, aren't they?" Penn sarcastically asked.

In a burst of lightning and darkness, Void had turned into his Monster form. He was now a vaguely-humanoid headless creature with dark-teal skin. His body was shaped like a gumdrop, and on it were 3 black eyes with yellow slit pupils and 5 black ovals forming a mouth. His arms were like thick oars separated into two segments, and his legs were like a horse. His torso and upper-body were completely separated from one another, and floating between them was a golden orb. Another golden orb was floating above his body, and floating behind his body were four, blocky, teal, dragonfly-like wings.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tenebris just laughed evilly as he went through a portal to Desolate Eternity to let the heroes deal with Monster Void.

"My my, THIS escalated quickly!" Lisa said.

"I warned you clods, I WARNED YOU!" Peridot shouted.

"Well maybe if you didn't fucking attack us first, we might have actually LISTENED to you!" Ryuko retorted.

"Yeah, what the hecks your story, Peridot?!" Steven asked.

"What...do you mean?" she asked.

"Well why would Tenebris have someone so impulsive, and honestly not that strong, stand guard over someone who is actually such a threat that he had to make a personal appearance to fucking emotionally abuse them into becoming a monster?" Ryuko said.

"Oh, thats easy. Its cuz shes not totally evil." Fee said.

"What...do YOU mean?" Peridot asked.

"Well you're a huge pain in the butt, but you're not a total evil monster like Tenebris or whatever THIS dude just turned into. If you were, you would've released him yourself because you're a bad guy!...Sure, me and Foo would've done that too, but thats cuz doing stuff we're not supposed to do is fun...Uhh, anyway, and if you were a good guy, you wouldn't have listened to Tenebris and released him anyway, ya know, like what WE just did! But since you're in the middle, you did what he told you to do."

"That actually makes a lot of sense." Sashi said.

Peridot narrowed her eyes. "...Looks like you clods are smarter than you look...Fine, I was never actually in line with Tenebris. I've been trying to collect information on this drab world we were all thrown into, and that means playing for the bad guys for a bit, which I believe you Earthlings call 'the groundhog' or something...He provided me with my Limb Enhancers and put me in charge of guarding this observatory. He actually didn't tell me why, probably because he thought I would just lie down and do what he says like some sort of Homeworld Pearl, so I conducted my research on this place and discovered the creature known as 'the Void' sealed up in that telescope. Sending out some Robonoids to collect information for me, which this little town was stupid-full of, I gathered that the Void was like, Tenebris' Pearl, but the Void posed a threat to Tenebris along the likes of Lumiere, so he sealed the Void away in a similar matter. I figured that was a GOOD thing for us, but I couldn't break character, so I had to just wait for some other good guys to show up and do that work FOR me."

"So THATS why you were so easy for us to beat! You wanted us to free Void the whole time!" Chowder innocuously assumed.

Peridot's eye twitched in annoyance from his unintentional insult. "E...Exactly."

"Well we can't just kill Void outright like we tried to do to you, we have to figure out how to turn him back to normal. I know what its like for parents, or parental figures in his case, to abuse their own children and fuck with their emotions so they become their parent's puppet, rather than living up to their own potential! That shit happened with my sister, but thats a story for another day." Ryuko said, barely containing her rage at both Tenebris and her own mother.

"Well we are going to have to defeat Void in battle either way, darlings. He's passed, what we Duel Monsters like to call, the 'Gogiga Gagagigo threshold'." Vampire Lady casually explained.

Then, just like when he was first released, Monster Void froze time and enveloped the area in a dark aura. He held his arms up and the entire group of heroes were lifted off the ground by a telekinetic force. It was clear that this was going to be an extremely one-sided battle.

OOO

Meanwhile, the group consisting of Jake, Kirby, Sai, Stranger, Link, Miroku, Gaaranooki, Locke, Knuckles, Mumbo, Launcher Spider, Pit, Deidara, Perry, Anjren, Krombopulos Michael, Tatsumi, Akame, Leone, Bulat, Lubbock, Mine, and Sheele were still struggling in their battle against Aku.

Link and Pit had destroyed most of his clones, but weren't gaining any real ground against defeating Aku himself. Besides, whenever he would run out of clones, Aku would just casually spit out a blob of darkness that would form into more of them.

Pit was starting to run out of breath as he kept blasting apart Aku clones with bursts of rainbow energy from his gloves. "Link! I-I don't know how long we can keep this up!"

Link was starting to run low on stamina too as he sliced and diced Aku clones with his sword. "I know, Pit, but we have to fight until the end! We're our friends only hope against Aku right now!"

"Yeah, uhh, sorry we can't be more useful to you two right now. Its not by choice or anything!" Jake said half-sarcastically as he tried to smash Aku clones into the ground with enlarged fists, but they just slunk out from underneath his fists like shadows.

Suddenly, from the sky, Spaceship Bus slammed into the ground and knocked back a few Aku clones, then turned back to normal. Yoshi, who was piloting the Clown Car Jr, flew down from the sky to join the sentient vehicle.

After a moment, Tour Guide stumbled out of Bus in a bit of a daze. "Last stop...THIS place!...Urrrghhh, this is why I'm not Tour Guide from the OUTERworld..."

Gumball, who had Bowser Jr's paintbrush, Darwin, Anias, NiGHTS, Frog, and Ivory exited Bus too in a better shape than Tour Guide. The Zygarde Core they had rescued decided to remain in the vehicle.

"How come you didn't wear your seatbelt like the rest of us then?" Darwin asked.

"I came from the Underworld. We don't believe in safety precautions like that, considering most of us are already DEAD anyway!" Tour Guide exclaimed.

"Uhh, make that ALL of us, because what is THAT THING?!" Frog shouted with a trembling finger pointed to Aku.

Ivory jerked itself upward a little in shock, and played the 'game over' jingle from 'Sonic CD'. NiGHTS shook their head rapidly in fear too.

"Yeah, he's been a pretty big problem on our end too." Deidara said sarcastically.

"Don't worry, we'll defeat him with this magic paintbrush that we stole from a turtle kid!" Gumball said with gusto and pointed the weapon at Aku.

"Are you kidding me right now...?" Anias said, deadpan.

Gumball sighed. "Yeah, I realized how lame it sounded the instant it left my mouth."

"That...weapon wouldn't happen to be divine, huh?" Tatsumi asked with a bored expression.

"Considering we stole it from a little kid, along with his tiny helicopter thing, there is a stronger possibility for it to be cursed than divine." Gumball said snarkily, then switched to a normal tone. "Why, is that important?"

"Well considering divine weapons and powers are the only things that have any sort of affect on Aku, then yeah, its a bit important." Mine said with a bored expression.

"And I'm one of the furthest things from divine. I'm less Lightsworn and more Burning Abyss. By the way, love the hair, and love the weapon." Tour Guide stated.

"Is THIS what you heroes consider reinforcements now? A clown, some little animals, a flying piano bug, a little girl, and a magic school bus?! PATHETIC!" Aku bellowed.

NiGHTS gave Aku a glare, not thrilled with being compared to a clown.

"Theres more of us waiting in the wings than THAT, Aku!" Lumina bellowed as she, Dexter, Dee-Dee, who was holding a Zygarde Core, Cloud, Robin, BMO, the Black Cube, Molly, and Zach joined up with them.

"WELL if it isn't Lumina! Finally, someone of interest from this little brigade!" Aku taunted.

"You know him?!" Pit asked.

"Sort of. Aku is actually an extension of Tenebris himself, but not exactly in the same way I am with Lumiere." Lumina stated.

"What does that mean?" Gaaranooki asked.

"Well, long ago, when reality was young and Lumiere and Tenebris existed in harmony with the multiverse, a writhing void of darkness known as the Black Mass appeared out of nowhere in the farthest reaches of the cosmos. The Black Mass was extremely powerful and was a threat to existence across multiple worlds, much like what Tenebris has now become. It took the combined might of three deities to vanquish it: The Nose deity Odin, the Hindu deity Rama, and the Egyptian deity Ra."

"Oh, did Slifer and Obelisk call in sick that day?" Tour Guide joked.

"However, even with their divine strength and teamwork, a small fragment of the Black Mass managed to survive and drift through the cosmos, eventually landing on planet Earth where, through millions of years and a battle against a great Emperor, the fragment evolved into the being you see before you."

"Whoa!...Well that story is banaynay and all, but whats it gotta do with Tenebris?" Jake asked.

"Because that Black Mass WAS Tenebris."

"What?! That doesn't make sense! You even JUST SAID it showed up before Tenebris went all omnicidal psychopath on everyone!" Zach exclaimed.

"I do not know what caused Tenebris' mind to go down such a dark path, but when he gave into the dark feelings inside of him, the sudden shift in the balance of power between he and Lumiere caused a reality-warping ripple effect across space and time throughout hundreds of universes. The universe that contains planet Earth was hit by this anomaly the hardest, because that universe has always been the one he and Lumiere were the most fond of."

"So let me get this straight, you're saying Tenebris' sudden descent into darkness caused such a ripple-effect in the multiverse that it altered events of history up to millions of years in the past for hundreds of different universes?" Robin asked, trying to retain his composure from this overwhelming revelation.

"Thats exactly right, Robin."

"Gonna need a map to follow THAT one!" Pit exclaimed, rubbing his head in confusion.

"So our realities could've actually been very different up until the instant Tenebris snapped, correct?" Akame asked.

"Thats exactly right, Akame. In fact, a number of you would have either been very different people, or not even exist in the first place if it weren't for Tenebris' change of heart." Lumina said.

"Oh THATS comforting to know that I possibly owe my existence to a temper-tantrum thrown by a god...Like the reverse hadn't already happened to my tribe before..." Knuckles said with crossed arms.

"I can't tell you exactly what events were changed by Tenebris' shift of power. In fact, I shouldn't even have told you about the histories of your realities being altered by him in the first place, but I have enough faith in all of you that I can share this information with you. After all, I wouldn't have brought you here in the first place if I didn't think you could handle everything that would be thrown at you."

"Wait...are YOU Lumiere?!" Anias asked.

"Sort of. I am an extension of Lumiere herself and her assistant, but I am still my own person. I am the one who has been bringing you all to this dimension to stop Tenebris and save all of the worlds."

"And before you ask, no, she can't just do it at any time. She has a recharge period whenever she uses the power, and she can only call upon a certain number of us to a location at a time. She also has to make sure Tenebris can't track her, since he calls upon villains wherever she calls upon heroes." Dexter summarized.

"You listen well, Dexter."

"Now if Tenebris can become incredibly powerful by tapping into the darkness within his heart, couldn't Lumiere do the same thing by tapping into the...light within her heart?" Zach asked.

"Parker, that makes NO SENSE at all!" Molly said.

"Actually, Zach is right. Lumiere can become a being of light and holiness with only good intentions, but this would cost her her humanity. Just like Tenebris has become the ultimate symbol of pure evil, Lumiere would become the ultimate symbol of pure good." Lumina explained.

"But isn't that a good thing?" BMO asked.

Lumina shook her head. "Not at all, BMO. You see, morality is not a black-and-white concept; its a very gray area. There are different levels of morality, different motivations people have for doing what they do, and different means they use to achieve their goals. Right now, Tenebris represents the extreme black side of morality, and if Lumiere allowed her powers to take over her, she would represent the extreme white side of morality. This means a lot of you would be sealed away, sent to the farthest regions of your universe, or any other means she has to indirectly destroy you. For example; Night Raid. All of you would be destroyed, because even though you destroy those who are wicked, you all would just be seen as cold-blooded murderers in her eyes."

"To be fair, thats not completely inaccurate." Lubbock said.

"Hate to interrupt here, but we have a little situation going on, hmm." Deidara said snidely, and gestured to Aku.

"Do any of you have divine weapons or powers?" Link asked.

Robin smiled confidently. "You're in luck, Link! Cloud and I both know divine spells."

"Don't forget about me!" Zach annoyedly exclaimed.

"Oh yeah! You've got that...mermaid clamshell form, right?" Dee-Dee asked.

"WATER GOD!" Zach loudly corrected.

"Link and I need your guys help fighting Aku!" Pit said, then looked at Lumina. "Uhh, Lumina, can you do anything to help us? Like, anything at all?"

Lumina shook her head. "I'm sorry, Pit, but I'm of no help in combat."

"Its okay, neither is most of us here..." Anjren said with a bored expression.

"So of the 40-plus heroes in your whole little army, only FIVE of you can even lay a finger upon me? HAHAHA! How PATHETIC!" Aku taunted.

"I know, right? There's A LOT of characters going to waste here..." Killdra said as her group showed up, almost sounding like she was mocking Aku.

Billy, Mandy, Grim, Squilly, Major Threat, Corrin, Rotom, Maxwell, and the 'dependent comfortable floating birdcage' containing Zygarde Core were with her.

"Hey, to catch you guys up to speed, we're fighting a monster made of pure evil, and only divine things can even lay a scratch on him. If you have any of that stuff, have at it. If you don't, step back." Sai explained.

"Divine? You mean like plants?" Billy asked.

"No, you pinhead, he means like gods. Like that psycho Eris." Mandy told him.

"What a shame. We've come up empty-handed in the gods department. All we've got a skeleton man, a squid-kid, a squid-man, and a man-dragon..." Killdra sarcastically stated solemnly.

"Wait! What about Vroomvroomingmoomam?!" Billy exclaimed.

"Who?" Darwin said.

"That isn't even a NAME you're using." Anias said.

"This looks like the sharpest group thats come to your rescue yet! Keep it up and maybe you fools could turn this in your favor!" Aku said sarcastically.

"Alright, I'm enjoying this tree guy WAY more than the lizard lawyer." Killdra said, amused at Aku's snark.

"Well if you enjoyed THAT, then THIS will be to DIE for!" Aku prepared to fire his eye lasers at Killdra's group. Suddenly, something grabbed him around the back of the neck and yanked his head backwards, making his lasers to shoot up into the sky. "GAH! Which one of you dares to try and strangle the mighty Aku?!"

"Only the mightier Vennominaga!" Vennominaga bellowed as she coiled around Aku's body, latched onto the top of his head with her other snake arm, and rose up from behind him by scaling him with her coils.

"See? THATS her! THATS Venuzuelagaga!" Billy exclaimed, jumping up and down.

Tour Guide started to panic. "Oh my Ra! Vennominaga is here?! This is bad! Ohhhhh this is SOOOOO bad!"

"Now now, just take it easy, take it easy. Vennominaga is helping us, man." Major Threat said.

"Yeah, so she can kill us herself! At least Aku isn't unaffected by Divine or Divine-Beast effects! Vennominaga is unaffected by EVERYTHING! And I'm pretty sure nobody here has a Kaiju around, either!"

"You mean like a T-rex or something? Nah, haven't seen Tina in ages. And thats BEFORE we got sucked into this void world." Gumball said.

"And we just finished BLOWING UP a T-rex." Gaaranooki added.

"Its okay, we don't need any dinosaurs anyhow! Vennominaga promised to help us save our worlds!" Major Threat said.

Tour Guide still didn't believe him. "And WHY would she do THAT?"

"Because it never hurts to help! Ol' Tumbleweed taught me that!"

"...FINE! But its on YOU if she decides to destroy us all!"

Tour Guide's statement made Billy gasp in horror. "DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DEST-"

Mandy shut him up by punching him in the nose, which comically squished into his face like a large dent.

"Do you really think that you can defeat me, the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness?!" Aku said as he struggled against the vice grip Vennominaga had on his head and neck.

"I KNOW that I can defeat you! I am THE DEITY OF POISONOUS SNAKES!" Vennominaga bellowed.

"Eh, not sure if thats something to brag about." Gumball stated.

"Link! Robin! Cloud!...Other guy, nows our shot!" Pit exclaimed.

"Its Zach! Anyway, lets do this!" Zach transformed into his Water Deity form, and fired giant bubbles from his hands at Aku.

Robin took out a magic tome and flipped through it. "Divine!" A pillar of light appeared in front of him and shot into the sky.

Cloud tensed up for a moment as a light-green aura appeared around him. "Ultima!" He threw his hands out and a light-green ball of light shot out towards Aku.

Link took out a bow, loaded it up with a golden glowing arrow, and fired it at Aku.

"How come you didn't use that before?" Pit asked.

"Because we were killing those clones, and I didn't want to accidentally arrow any of our friends."

"Then I can use THIS!" Pit took out a golden staff with a round red gem at the end of it: the Ancient Staff. He held it out in front of him for a moment, and fired a large pink energy ball from it.

The divine attacks collided into Aku, who was too distracted by Vennominaga's squeeze on him. Water Deity Zach's bubbles exploded, Robin's Divine came crashing down from above, Cloud's Ultima exploded in a massive dome of green fire, Link's Light Arrow pierced through him with a golden streak, and Pit's Ancient Staff energy ball exploded in electricity.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! You fools will all pay for this!" Aku, in a near instant, shapeshifted into a tiny bat with his face on it. Vennominaga fell to the ground, and Aku fluttered away. "I'll be baaaaaaack!"

The snake deity hissed loudly in frustration. "That is the SECOND villain to escape my wrath like a sniveling COWARD!"

"Hey, whats happenin' guys?" Patrick casually said as his group walked out.

Ed, who still had the pinecone, Edd, Eddy, Jack, who still had unconscious Rob, Leonhardt, Patrick, Horton, who had Zygarde Core and Abe possessing Rob, Judy, Nick, and Luigi were with him.

"We just finished fighting an evil tree thing. You?" Water Deity Zach said.

"We found a weird drawing, a weird message, a weird blob, and a weird guy." Eddy said.

"And this pinecone!" Ed triumphantly exclaimed as he held it up.

NiGHTS noticed Rob looking up from Jack's shoulder and sneering as he held the remote behind his back. NiGHTS waved their arms, trying to get Jack's attention, and tapping their own shoulder.

"Heh heh, this flying clown guy is funny." Patrick said to himself.

"What is he-?" Jack glanced over at Rob, but couldn't even finish his sentence because Rob opened up a portal to Desolate Eternity beneath Jack's group. All of them, including Rob himself, fell in and the portal closed before anyone had any idea what was going on. There was, however, just enough time for Ed to throw the pinecone out of harms way, and Horton to do the same with his Zygarde Core.

"Hey, those guys just fell through a weird trapdoor!" Billy pointed out.

"What?! Where did it take them?!" Gaaranooki exclaimed.

"My guess is Desolate Eternity." Squilly said.

Lumina gasped and flew over to her. "Desolate Eternity?! How do you know about that place?!"

"Taffy told us." Billy stated.

"Who?"

"A lizard-man who has been conducting research on this world. He has discovered a way to hide from Tenebris, and developed these drills made from his blood to control others. He can open portals to Desolate Eternity at will, which is where Lumiere, Tenebris, and the Chosen One are. The thing is, if we don't enter Desolate Eternity through certain points in this world, we'll be lost there and brainwashed by Tenebris." Corrin explained.

"Incredible! I have no idea how he was able to figure all of that out!"

"Hang on, YOU didn't know any of that stuff?" BMO asked.

"No. I'm afraid Tenebris, like he did with Lumiere, has wiped my memory of things like this. However, everything Corrin has said is true. When any of you heroes find something out that Tenebris has made us forget, it jogs our memory. Now, did this lizard-man tell you anything else?"

"Just that one of us has seen the Chosen One before, but I dunno if he means ALL of us or just Team Jeff." Killdra said.

"Team...Jeff?"

"Just ignore her, but what she said was true." Grim said.

"Did anybody else find out anything?"

"Umm, my group did." a voice said from the pinecone Ed had thrown.

"Did that pinecone just talk?" Leone asked.

The head of a light-green caterpillar critter poked out of the top of the pinecone. It had floppy antennae, black dots for eyes, and small rounded mandibles: Minomon.

"Aww! What a cute little bug! AND another cute little blob!" Dee-Dee gushed and picked both Minomon and Horton's Zygarde Core up.

"Sorry for not coming out until now, but there were all of these scary guys out!" the Digimon said.

"Oh believe me, I don't blame you!" Frog said fearfully.

"What did your group find, by the way?" Robin asked.

"Umm, well, I don't know exactly, but it was some sort of message that didn't make sense, and some kind of drawing of a warrior fighting Tenebris. I-I wish I could tell you more, but they didn't find me until later on. They could have told you, but-but they're...you know." Minomon explained.

"Well YOU were a lot of help, hmm." Deidara said with a scoff.

Minomon tucked his head back into his shell a little in shame. "I'm...sorry."

"Deidara, you're a dick." Miroku stated.

A square-shaped portal to Desolate Eternity opened up in front of the group, and Rob stepped out with an evil grin. "I warned you all before! I will destroy EVERYONE YOU LOVE! Did you think that was an empty threat?!"

"I don't know what you're talking about, dude. This is the first time we've ever seen you." Jake said.

"Oh, thats right. I just killed everyone I met before...Ha...hahaha...HAHAAHAHA! I'VE JUST KILLED EVERYONE I MET BEFORE! AND NOW I'M GOING TO DO THE SAME TO THE REST OF YOU!"

Gumball recognized the cyclops and gasped. "What the what?! Is that...RENO?!"

"IT'S ROB! ROB! ROB! ROB! HOW COME NOBODY CAN GET THAT RIGHT?! ESPECIALLY YOU, GUMBALL!"

"He's kind of right. You guys are nemesises...es, right?" Darwin asked.

"Yeah, something like that." Gumball casually said.

"Wait, is HE the guy who was living in our basement and stealing our stuff? What happened to him?" Anias asked.

"Long story."

"Your brother and sister are here too?! This is PERFECT! Now I'll get to destroy you all for a SECOND time!" Rob shouted.

"Wait, what? When did you destroy us before?" Anias asked.

"You don't remember? Well maybe THIS will refresh your memories!" Rob held the remote up high so the group could get a good look at it.

Darwin looked at it in confusion. "A...TV remote? Whats thats about?"

"Its the Universal Remote, you idiots! How do you not-?!...Oh, right, I turned back time and destroyed it...Then Tenebris gave me one that only I could use..." Rob said to himself.

"This kid isn't right in the head." Krombopulos Michael stated.

"SHUT UP! I-I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING!" Rob opened up the portal to Desolate Eternity behind him again, and was suddenly knocked forward and slammed into Bus' grill by a flying kick from Bayonetta coming out of the portal, which closed behind her.

"Gurrrrrrrrgh!" Rob clutched his head in pain and turned around. "WHAT THE?!"

"Don't fuck with a witch." Bayonetta stated and pointed all 4 of her guns at him.

"HOW?! How did you survive in Desolate Eternity?! Thats IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Oh please, that place ain't got shit on some of the worlds I've been to. All I had to do was wait for an exit to appear, and lets just say you should really learn to close your portals behind you, kid." The witch explained and materialized her butterfly wings to show how she got around.

"Well now I've got more than one way to destroy you all." Rob said to himself. He pressed a button on the remote, but rather than a portal to Desolate Eternity like the heroes were expecting, it was a black and light-blue dimensional tear. Roars of mechanical beasts could be heard echoing from it.

"That no sound good." Mumbo said.

Tour Guide started to nervously bite her nails, which was a bit difficult because of her gloves. "Oh I REAAAAAAAALLY hope thats not what I think it is!"

"What is it?" Anias asked.

"You-you kids...and frog thing, need to get inside the bus NOW! Actually, EVERYBODY should, but especially you kids! Since you seem to know this kid who looks like he's met the wrong side of a Qliphort monster."

"You don't gotta twist MY arm!" Frog exclaimed and cowardly scrambled into Bus.

Gumball scoffed. "Come on, how much scarier could whatever Rob summon be compared to Aku?"

"IT'S RO- Wait, you've actually got it right for once...and for last, because I will DESTROY YOU ALL!" Rob bellowed.

"Yeah, you kinda already said that. Just get to it already." Mine said impatiently.

"FINE!...Through the Eye of the Void, I summon Infernoid Harmadik and Infernoid Piaty!"

"UUWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Tour Guide screamed comically and fell backwards.

Gumball just snickered. "I'm sorry, what? Infernoid..Harm a dick, and Infernoid...Pie eighty? What kind of names are THOSE?"

"The harbingers of your ultimate destruction, Gumball!" Rob shouted, annoyed that he wasn't being taken seriously.

From the portal emerged two mechanical bipedal dragons.

One of them was silver with a rounded body, a very thin torso, a long tail, a head like an eagle, short arms with long claws, and two small flat wings broken up into two segments: Infernoid Harmadik.

The other was bronze with a thin body, a long thick tail, bulky legs with red lights on them, very long talons, short arms with red lights on the shoulders, a small head with curved horns on the sides, and large flat wings in an almost crescent shape. It was also wielding a bronze trident: Infernoid Piaty.

Darwin gave Gumball a stern look. "So Gumball, STILL think they are funny?"

"Not so much now, no!" he replied.

"H-hold on. Why didn't you, umm, use this in the museum?" Minomon asked.

"Because I was just granted the power of the Void by sending your friends to DESOLATE ETERNITY!" Rob boasted.

"But Abe said he took control of you or-or something! How did you break free?"

"I put a filter on myself that blocked that possession after he did it the first time. Did you REALLY think the same trick would work TWICE?!"

"Guess not everyone's cut out to survive Desolate Eternity." Bayonetta said to herself.

From behind Rob, rose the corrupted versions of Ed, Edd, Eddy, Nick, Judy, Jack, Leonhardt, Abe, Patrick, Horton, and Luigi.

Corrupted Ed looked like a gray snake with four pincher arms, jagged teeth, and Ed's eyes and unibrow, only his eyes were like Tenebris', as is with all corrupted heroes.

Corrupted Edd looked like a living shadow version of himself half-risen out of the ground with very long arms.

Corrupted Eddy looked like a dark-blue insect with Eddy's face, a bucket-shaped body, and six of Eddy's hands with very long fingers on the sides of it like legs.

Corrupted Nick looked like a black feral fox.

Corrupted Judy looked like a gray fanged rabbit with deer antlers and bird wings.

Corrupted Jack looked like a bulky black robot with black-flaming chainsaws about twice the side of Gator Tooth on either side of both of his arms.

Corrupted Leonhardt looked like a gray sleek robot with black-electric blades about twice the size of his Positron Blades sticking out of his elbows and ankles.

Corrupted Abe had dark-purple skin, his hands were like long claws, and 4 extra arms like crab pinchers stuck out of his back.

Corrupted Patrick was about three times his size, covered in warts, light-purple, had a face like a gorilla with upwards-pointing fangs, and his trunks were a tattered dark-green loincloth.

Corrupted Horton looked like a dark-purple wooly mammoth with 4 huge tusks.

Corrupted Luigi had a burglars mask, his overalls were black, his gloves and shoes were gray, and the 'L' on his hat was black and flipped.

"Wow...Its been awhile since THIS has happened." Killdra stated.

"Wh-what happened to them?!" Corrin exclaimed.

"They've become corrupted by Tenebris. When someone dies in this world or is sent to Desolate Eternity, Tenebris takes over their minds, revives them, and turns them into monsters. However, if you can defeat them, Lumiere can intervene and revive them back to their normal selves." Lumina explained.

"Do you mean 'defeat' as in...'kill'?" Krombopulos Michael asked with a hint of eagerness in his voice.

Lumina nodded solemnly. "Yes. I'm afraid that is the only w-"

"Oh boy, Night Raid, here we go killin' again!"

"Yeah, we've totally got this." Leone said.

"Well...if-if that is the only way to save our friends, then I guess we have no choice. I can help restrain them for you guys, at least. Please set me down." Minomon said.

"Okay!" Dee-Dee said and did so.

"Alright...here I go...Minomon Digivolve to...Wormmon!"

In a flash of light, Minomon transformed into Wormmon. He looked like a caterpillar about the size of a cat with his upper-body raised up, had short pink legs, and a ball-shaped segment on the end of him with 2 pink stingers and a black stripe around it. His head was pretty much the same as Minomon's, only he had big blue eyes, his antennae were longer, his mandibles were purple, and he had a Y-shaped pink crest on his forehead.

"Wow, I never thought a bug could be so cute." Anjren said.

"Alright, we should be able to take these guys down easily." Bulat said.

"As long as they can be hurt by us this time." Stranger said.

"They can. We've fought our corrupted friends before." Link said.

"Just one thing: Where on earth are Steven, Chowder, and Vampire Lady?" Miroku wondered.

"Ah, right. They're probably fighting Tenebris as we speak." Bayonetta casually stated.

"WHAT?!" most of the others in the group shouted.

Lumina quickly flew up to her. "What do you mean they are fighting Tenebris?!"

"Well it was after we freed a green-haired alien sealed away in crystal. Tenebris himself, as a giant eyeball, suddenly decided to make a personal appearance. I attacked him, didn't work, and he banished me to Desolate Eternity."

Lumina gasped loudly. "'Green-haired alien'?! Oh my! Thats Void! And if Tenebris had to confront him, then that means he-!"

Lumina was cut off by Monster Void dissolving the observatory into dark particles. As he slowly floated over to the side of the group opposite from Rob and the corrupted heroes, any buildings he even grazed dissolved into dark particles too.

He was holding Harvey, Fee, Foo, Penn, Boone, Sashi, Lisa, Sand Snake, the Zygarde Core, Ryuko, Steven, Vampire Lady, Chowder, and Peridot above himself with telekinesis, and they still looked like they were frozen in time.

"Well, THIS is unexpected." Bayonetta stated.

Lumina buried her face in her hands. "No, no, NO! This is what I was afraid of happening! Tenebris has tortured and brutalized Void, causing him to transform into a monster!"

"So then Void must be pretty important if Tenebris had to do that in person."

"That is an understatement, Bayonetta. Just like I am Lumiere's advisor and an extension of her, Void is the same for Tenebris. However, even though Tenebris has given into the darkness, Void had yet not. He still had his humanity, just like Tenebris used to. Tenebris couldn't allow any part of his past self to interfere, and since Void would have been detrimental to all of the chaos and destruction he had caused, he had to break Void's spirit. Now an unfeeling force of nature, Void is no different than Tenebris himself."

"What if we can defeat him?" Locke asked.

"Even if you somehow manage that, I don't think that will be enough to restore Void's mind. He and Tenebris are now operating on the same level, so I think the only way to save Void...is to save Tenebris."

"And we can't save Tenebris without fighting him." Corrin began.

"And we can't fight him without freeing Lumiere." Cloud added.

"And we can't free Lumiere without freeing the Chosen One." Anias added.

"And we can't free the Chosen One without finding an entrance to Desolate Eternity." Stranger concluded.

"And before we can even do THAT, we have to save our friends from Void and Tenebris!" Wormmon said.

"I've got the first part covered, man." Major Threat concentrated hard, and ripped the rest of Bayonetta's group out of Monster Void's telekinetic grasp with a telekinetic grasp of his own, and set them on the ground. Freeing them from Monster Void also unfroze them from time.

"Incredible! Your telekinesis surpasses even Void's!" Lumina exclaimed in astonishment.

"Thats because Major Jeff is the best!" Squilly said pointedly.

"Huh? Where are we?" Harvey asked as he looked around.

"Yeah, last I remember, we were in the observatory, Void turned into some kind of monster, and now we're here." Chowder said.

"And whats the deal with THEM?" Sashi asked, pointing to Rob, the Infernoids, and the corrupted heroes.

"Our teammates were corrupted by Tenebris because of that cyclops. We have to kill them to save them." Tatsumi explained.

Boone nodded in understanding. "Cool, cool...So what about THAT thing?" he asked, pointing to the sky.

The others looked up and saw Aku coming down from the clouds in the form of a dragon.

"I have returrrrned, HAHAHAHA!" Aku exclaimed.

"Damn it! I thought we got rid of you!" Cloud exclaimed.

"You FOOL! It takes more than that to defeat the mighty Aku!"

"So we've got Rob, his dragons, our evil friends, Void, AND Aku to deal with?! Anyone ELSE wanna join in?!" Knuckles exclaimed in annoyance.

"I think we are all doomed." BMO stated.

As the heroes looked at the villains before them and tried to figure out how they could possibly come out on top, the red nucleus on the 5 Zygarde Cores lit up, and they all began to slither towards one another.

OOO

In Desolate Eternity, Tenebris was glaring right at Lumiere with a look that could kill, and Lumiere was trying to maintain her composure, although it wasn't because she was intimidated by him.

"You came very close to stopping me, Lumiere, VERY close! Releasing that pathetic excuse for a being could've ended this whole game! And I KNOW that little insect you call a partner is out there too!" Tenebris bellowed.

"Their names are Void and Lumina! I-I can't believe you had done such a thing to Void! Such brutality, even for YOU, Tenebris! He was the last remaining bit of humanity you had!" Lumiere retorted.

"Hmhmhmhm! And that, Lumiere, is precisely why I had to intervene. Now that pitiful weakling and I are one and the same. I had a feeling I would have to step in eventually, but never did I DREAM it would be because of HIM!"

"When you say it like that, I would think you've forgotten all about Void, Tenebris. Just like how I forgot about Lumina until the heroes released her. Perhaps I am not the only one here with missing memories."

"I have no reason to remember that fragile sniveling worm. He isn't even worth remaining a memory."

"You...you can't even say his name, can you? I just...I can't believe how far you've fallen, Tenebris..."

"He doesn't deserve to be acknowledged; even YOU hold more merit than he does, and you know how little I think of you."

Lumiere's sadness suddenly turned into smug realization. "You know...I realized something about you, Tenebris."

"Oh?"

"At first I really DID think you belittled me because you couldn't destroy or corrupt me, so you had to keep me around. And I really DID think you belittled the heroes because you underestimated them...but now with Void, I know none of those things are true...You belittle those who are a threat to you, Tenebris!"

"WHAT?!"

"Void, the heroes, the Chosen One, me? All of us have the power to stop you, and you know it! You not only berate us to try and keep us from moving forward; you berate us to try and convince yourself that there is nothing that can stop you!"

"You insolent FOOL!" Tenebris surrounded Lumiere's crystal with his floating hexagonal eyes. "YOU THINK YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS?! I AM STILL IN CONTROL OF ALL WORLDS; ALL UNIVERSES; ALL DIMENSIONS! YOU HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHAT HORRORS AWAIT YOU AND YOUR LITTLE RESISTANCE!"

Lumiere wasn't scared at all. "And YOU, Tenebris, haven't the faintest idea how close my 'little resistance' is to stopping you!"

OOO

And there we go! What I feel is the most intense chapter yet, with some big, BIG reveals about Lumiere and Tenebris! And yeah, the most MASSIVE chapter too. Even beating out the previous one! I really don't mean these chapters to be novels in and of themselves, but when there is a lot of shit going down with a lot of characters, its going to happen.

So whats the deal with Void and Lumina in the story? Well, I discovered how disturbingly similar the plot of Most Evil is to the plot of freaking Sonic Shuffle, of all things! (a being of good and a being of evil exist to balance each other out, the being of evil becomes corrupted and transforms all of the lands, the being of good is powerless to stop him so she has to call heroes from another dimension to help...) So now they play a big role in the grand scheme of things.

As you might have been able to figure out, its because of Smash Bros that I added Robin, Corrin, Cloud, and Bayonetta. I've never actually played their games (Yep, not even Final Fantasy VII. I've only played VIII, why else would Squall be in so early?) so I had to gauge their personalities and powers based on what I could find in their respective game's Wikis. The same goes for Anarchy Reigns with Jack and Leonhardt. For Cloud in particular, while I usually make brooding, angsty characters into hotheads (as seen with Sasuke, Edward, and the aforementioned Squall), I'll keep Cloud in-character...or as in-character as I can keep someone whose game I never played!

Squilly, like the Denpa Men from the previous chapter, is an OC created just for this story. There aren't any established Splatoon characters that serve as the Inklings you play as...at least not in Splatoon 1. I don't have a Switch, so I dunno what things are like in Splatoon 2.

IMPORTANT: I have now updated my author page to include the descriptions of all the OCs in Most Evil and their forms. Now there is an easy point of reference so you can keep in mind what they look like. You might (not) have noticed a few of the OCs in this chapter have had their outfits updated. This will happen with a few others in the cast too.