"When I was a kid, my father used to tell me something. 'There are no forks in the road of life. You just walk along, feeling your way through the grass, and leaving a faint path behind. But if you turn around to look, you may get the strange feeling you've walked that path before-or that someone was walking along with you, lending you the strength to press on.'"

IN UNIVERSES OF LIGHT, DARK, AND CHAOS, INTERTWINING IN UNTOLD LAYERS…

Just then a full moon came into view as the woman continued narrating.

"I'd always believed there was only one truth. But- What if some other version of me on a distant world was searching for all possibilities?"

The familiar sight of a pair of dual red guns with gems in the center came into view before being blown back, showing a familiar Umbran Witch in the outfit from her first journey being attacked by an unknown force, except she's not the same witch many are familiar with.

Bayonetta β0

The Indomitable Witch

B0 was sent flying by an unknown force as she was seen falling towards what seemed to be a destroyed New York City in the form of a pink comet alongside a green comet.

"And what if, when all the possibilities were overlaid, the path that stood out the clearest was the real truth?"

The two comets then crashed with the green landing behind the Statue of Liberty and the pink crashing into it as the head fell onto the streets with B0 rolling across the ground in front of it before weakly sitting up and turning her head behind her quickly as she saw a shadowy figure descending.

(Cue- Beginning of the End- Bayonetta 3)

B0 slowly stood up and turned to the shadowy figure as she waved her arms behind her hair. "AVAVOGO!" she called as she danced and summoned a large draconic beast as it manifested from a red magic circle and let out a roar.

A hi-tech scroll of some kind then materialized in the shadowy figure's right hand. "Cumulonimbus!" they called, tossing it up as it opened, a large green and white colossal humanoid materializing from it before it and Gomorrah charged at each other. The shadowy figure then waved their hand as reality distorted around them and B0 before the figure descended before B0 as she aimed her guns at them with a determined glare.

"I barely understood what he was saying, but for some reason, it really resonated with me. And every time I thought about it, I looked up at the sky and daydreamed. What if somewhere, some version of me was walking along through the grass just like me? Could we be following the same path, taking the same journey? That idea had its hooks in me more powerfully than any anime or sci-fi novel. And even after growing up, I still believed it could be true. I just knew that someday, a version of my father from some other world would appear and pull out a strawberry candy just for me, like he always used to. But the visitor from another world that appeared to me…was a nightmare that had come to crush all hope like blades of grass beneath his heel."

As the woman narrated, B0 put up a valiant effort against the mysterious figure and tried to use her witch time against them, only for them to be immune and unleash an energy blast as it sent her flying, cracking her umbra watch as she rolled across the ground before being grabbed in a chokehold by the shadowy figure as reality returned to normal, one of B0's ribbons falling to the ground.

(end song)

"Let's end this now." the figure said.

"I'm not done…yet…" B0 said, firing one of her guns and freeing her from the figure's hold before they kicked her onto the ground as she weakly stood up despite her injuries. "What's wrong? Having…trouble…running the numbers? Well…don't…count me out…just yet. I'll…be the one… Who decides…what the truth will be." she said weakly, trying to attack the figure to no avail before being blown back by a wave of pressure as she rolled across the ground before weakly sitting up, putting her right arm behind her as she held one of her guns in it. The figure then sent forward a clone as it flew towards B0 as she quickly pulled out the hidden gun and fired, the bullet phasing through the clone before the figure countered with a beam attack, sending B0 flying once again as she was then held up in midair by rubble, red cracks appearing across her body.

As this was happening, two figures were watching the events unfold, a man and a young woman. The man wore military clothing and had his mouth covered by a mask and goggles on his head.

Connor Sigurd

The woman was thin with a colorful pixie cut hairstyle, consisting of blonde bangs with violet streaks and a pink undercut. She has grey eyes and wears vibrant purple and blue eyeshadow with magenta lightning bolts at the corners of her eyes, as well as blue lipstick and two piercings on her left ear. Her outfit is composed of a black leather jacket adorned with spikes and buckles around the shoulders and wrists, and a white graphic shirt depicting a character from the popular television show "Torture Cats" with the word "stake" beneath it. The jacket has a holster for her sword along the back with a katana sheathed and the inside of the jacket contains slots for her spiked darts. Her belt has numerous blue tartan pouches and her pants have a red and black plaid design. Lastly, she wears a pair of black knee-length leather boots.

Viola

The Untested Firebrand

"No!" Viola cried out, trying to go help her before Connor Sigurd pulled her back.

"Stay back!" Connor Sigurd said, stopping Viola. "You have a job to do, soldier!" he said before placing a strange mechanical sphere that emitted a purple aura in her hand and a small white cube as it changed shape and formed into a necklace around Viola's necklace. "This is our last world bridge."

The two then heard B0 cry out in pain as the cracks spread across her body the more rubble was added as her umbra watch cracked even further.

"No!" Viola cried, running out to B0 with Connor Sigurd following.

"Viola…" B0 weakly groaned, holding her right hand out to Viola as small purple sparks flowed from her hand to Viola, a constellation sign appearing on Viola's left leg unaware to her. "Go…now…" B0 breathed last before crystallizing a blood red and shattering away.

Viola cried out in sadness as Connor Sigurd opened fire on the shadowy figure to no avail as the bullets shattered as soon as they closed in before the figure raised their hand and succumbed Connor Sigurd to the same fate as he pushed Viola out of the way before the rubble could trap her.

"Viola! GO!" Connor Sigurd ordered. "You know…what to do…!" he said before he met his end as well.

"Sigurd!" Viola cried before looking at the shadowy figure with anger. "Bastard!" she cried in anger and sadness. "Damn it!" she said before grabbing the cube as it floated up.

The figure sent out another projection as Viola pulled out her sword, only for it to catch the blade and grab her in a chokehold. She broke the figure's grasp with a fire-imbued slash from her blade and threw a dart of some kind only for it to be shattered within the figure's space.

"I'll be back for you…asshole!" Viola said, pointing her blade at the figure as they summoned an array of spheres, the cube glowing all the while as Viola vanished, the spears missing their mark as Viola was seen falling through a portal, the figure shattering the cube away.