S1-121
A X-ing(crossing) of events
11:27 AM
04/02/3272
Yionus's moon, Zuter - IMC testing site Echo-918
Chamber 137
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Briefing Room & Ambience Theme
As Michael and Error Sans worked with a few extra communication devices and some Vex tech reverse-engineered by the Shadow, they somehow managed to unlock extra-dimensional communication.
"I think that should do it. Seems like it's stable so far. Should we test it?" Error Sans asked.
"Well, this IS a testing site, so what do you think?"
"I'm already in the right place to do so. Let's try it." Error Sans went back through the portal as Michael closed it, then tuned his helmet radio to the new frequency.
"Error Sans, this is Michael. Do you read me?"
Error Sans could be heard over the radio, but it was all distorted. "Thi- ~static~ -ror Sa- ~static~ -chael, I- ~static~ -lear."
Michael retuned his helmet radio, trying to clear up the communication channel. "Say again."
The voice was clear, with degrading traces of static. "This is Error Sans. Michael, I read you loud and clear."
"My end of the channel seemed to be experiencing major difficulties."
"That's odd. My end seemed to have a little bit of static in the background, but that was cut off when you spoke."
"This is a monumental breakthrough! Communication with other dimensions! You, my friend, are directly involved in the creation of this technological achievement. How does that make you feel?"
"Like the most famous person on the planet, but I'm not letting that go to my head."
"Good man, uh... skeleton."
Laughter could be here over the channel, as if from a good joke. "{Is he... laughing?}"
"Knock knock." Oh boy...
"Who's there?"
"Doctor."
"Doc- PfpfpfHAHAha!" Error Sans laughed. "Doctor Who! That's a good one."
"Favorite TV show."
"I'll bet."
"So what now?"
The Shadow came in, holding a new Dimension Key. "How about this?"
Michael reopened the portal and allowed Error Sans to return. The new Key had a dark background with two shades of red lines crossing it twice. "I have a very unusual feeling about that one." Error Sans stated.
"Yeah, I'm getting that too. The Key looks cracked, I've got a bad feeling about that."
"The Dimension Key to my world looked like it was cracked. Did you have a bad feeling about that?"
"That was the first Dimension Key ever made. I didn't know what to think."
"Fair enough. Should we try it?"
"Death, you know what to do."
The Shadow saluted. "Yes, sir." With the new Dimension Key in place, a portal opened, but something was different about this one.
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Corrupted Phazon Pool
"OK, why is it red?" Michael was right. This portal was comprised of rushing red energy.
"Is that normal?" Error Sans wondered.
"{The portals created and opened by the Dimension Keys are usually blue, sometimes green. But this one is red. This is NOT normal.}"
"This dimension must be unstable." Before Michael could reach for a Chrono-Extractor, Error Sans went through the red vortex. After a few seconds, he came back out. "Are you OK? What did you see?"
"It's just like my world, but it looks like there's already someone in there."
"What?"
Dimension 6
UNKNOWN
Music
none
Michael stepped through the red rift, seeing another white void. "He's right. This place is empty." Error Sans, Rocco, and the Shadow followed him in, but there was literally nothing to see... other than some strange entity with an odd black and white jacket, and next to the figure was a massive blade.
The Pilot silently approached the entity, Andromeda Cannons at the ready. Just as he got close, the entity attacked.
Music
Metroid: Other M - Sudden Enemy Attack!
The large sword sliced through the air itself as Michael braced himself. The only thing that was heard was the sound of metal breaking.
Music
Titanfall 2 - Down to Business
The entity's blade had shattered, and through the new cut in Michael's suit, the plating of his Spectre Combat Drone prosthetic was visibly undamaged, despite a new scratch in the paint job.
Metal fragments littered the ground, as well as the top half of the blade, completely fractured, damaged, and cracked. "Whoa! OK, that's not what I expected. Alright, you're hostile, so I guess it's time to get down to business."
The Andromeda Cannons released their massive beams as the entity, who was somehow blocking the energy, but it was too much.
With the entity distracted, Michael sent a roundhouse kick straight to the chest, the impact of his Spectre leg sending the disarmed individual flying.
With his target staggered, Michael formed two more Andromeda Cannons and advanced. The four wolf skull-like constructs of Light surrounded the entity, ready to completely disintegrate it.
"Time to see who you are under that hood." Michael grabbed the hood and pulled it down, revealing quite a surprise.
It looked like a white version of Error Sans's black skull head, but with a red scar-like marking under the right eye socket. The eyes themselves were the same, instead of being different like Error Sans', but they were still different colors; white on left, red on right.
"Identify yourself!" Michael demanded.
Error Sans called out. "I know who that is! It's Cross Sans!"
"Hmph. Seems like the recently semi-repaired bug knows who I am."
"You're new, and you're disturbing. Time to end this." Unbeknownst to Michael, the broken pieces of Cross Sans's blade were putting themselves back together, fixing the sword.
With a single swipe, the battle had entered a second phase as the Andromeda Cannons narrowly missed their target.
"Michael, let me handle this!" Evading another attack, Michael retreated to the group, with the Shadow taking his place.
Music
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - Forgotten Challenge
This was it. A new battle. The Shadow was facing Cross Sans.
As protection, Michael formed a Ward of Dawn around himself and Error Sans.
"Ready to die?" The Shadow taunted.
"I was going to ask you the same thing." Cross Sans replied, pointing his massive blade at the Shadow. "But it looks like you're already dead."
"I am neither living, nor dead, nor undead. I am the Shadow. I... am... Death."
Cross Sans attacked, but the Shadow turned into black particles, reforming right behind him before kicking Cross Sans to his hands and knees. With that, the Shadow dissipated, the particles converging on the hostile's skull, with the black half of the Yin Yang Switch strapping itself to Cross Sans's right shoulder.
"This is a new trick. I've never seen him do THAT before." Michael stated.
Error Sans shuddered as Taken miasma started seeping out of Cross Sans's eye sockets. "I don't know what he's doing."
"Me either."
They looked at Cross Sans, who began crying and babbling incoherently, clawing at his skull and suffering a terrible amount of spasms. He fell to his knees, hands clutching his scalp, before screaming loudly into the air.
Cross Sans's mind
Music
Prey - Typhon Voices
The Shadow had torn his way into Cross Sans's mindscape, and it was reacting to his presence, but was unable to do anything about him.
Eventually, he made his way to the center of the mental world, where what seemed like two beings were located. "That... THING! It got into our head! I mean it LITERALLY got into our head!"
"I'm guessing that's who you're talking about?" The human-like being questioned, pointing to the Shadow.
"Greetings. I am the Shadow. You can call me... heh heh... Death." It was then that the Shadow created solid silhouettes of Taken Vex Minotaurs. They apprehended the two beings, rendering them powerless, even within their own mind. The Shadow then created a silhouette of a Taken Cabal Psion, which headed off into the depths of the mind, eventually coming back with a purple sphere in its hands; a sphere which held the worst fears and nightmares of the two beings.
Using his dark powers, the Shadow mutated the monstrosities within the sphere, causing it to crack and fracture more and more until it shattered, unleashing all sorts of corrupted demons within the mental world.
Dimension 6
UNKNOWN
Music
none
Cross Sans suddenly cried out in pain, with black particles erupting from his skull head as the Taken energy coming from his eye sockets receded. The particles reformed, revealing the Shadow with a hand on Cross Sans's forehead, just as the skeletal entity became silent and fell over. "Time to put these two with the others."
"Two?" Michael questioned.
"There were two beings within that mind."
"What did you do to... them?" Error Sans asked cautiously.
"Short and simple? I broke their mind. Michael, the portal."
11:42 AM
04/02/3272
The Dreadnaught
The Hanging Crypts
Music
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - Castle Oblivion
With Cross Sans still out cold, the Shadow dumped him into the pits of the Dreadnaught, imprisoning him forever.
"That's... discomforting." Error Sans shuddered, having to endure hearing the screeches of the Taken in that pit.
"You're telling me. And the Shadow is my other half."
"Forgive me for not asking sooner, but... where do the Taken come from?" Error Sans questioned.
"The Cabal Skyburners are still here on the Dreadnaught, but their numbers are dwindling. I can show you." The Shadow offered.
11:47 AM
04/02/3272
The Dreadnaught
Hull Breach
They arrived at the Hull Breach, and a Cabal Centurion was being held down by three Taken Minotaurs. The Shadow built up Ascendant energy in his left hand, then shot it out at the Centurion. The energy enveloped the Cabal soldier, forming a sphere of dark power, which eventually went away, revealing that the Centurion had been added to the Shadow's Taken army. "Whoa! Holy crud! OK, that's not what I had in mind! That is horrifying!"
"You get used to it. Oryx was evil, but by creating the Shadow, he unknowingly and inevitably sealed his fate. While I remain a constant reminder of the Traveler's strength, the Shadow is the new Taken King, but he also serves as a reminder that not everything dark is evil."
As an added detail, the Shadow began a sort of mantra. "Day and night. Sun and moon. Push and pull. Life and death. Good and evil. Yin and yang."
"A philosophical explanation. That's actually quite fascinating. So the Dimension Keys, how do you make them? Where do they come from?" Error Sans asked.
11:53 AM
04/02/3272
Yionus's moon, Zuter - IMC testing site Echo-918
Chamber 137
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Briefing Room & Ambience Theme
They returned to the testing site, and the Shadow led them to a room filled with various members of his ever-growing Taken army. They were the ones responsible for creating the Dimension Keys. The group of Key makers consisted of Taken Vex Minds and Hive Wizards. One of them was different.
SCANNING...
NEW ENTRIES
1: Omnigul
Key Forger
"You... You took Omnigul?" Michael was astounded.
"Yeah, I did. That one was tricky." In the center of the room was an incomplete Dimension Key, lacking an image and outer lining.
"That... interesting. What now?"
"That empty plain of yours, why not make it... not as empty?" Michael suggested.
"I'll see what I can do. I'll contact you whenever I need anything."
The Shadow then spoke up. "I think I know why your weapons didn't work on him before."
"You're bringing this up NOW?"
"Hear me out. You two are from different dimensions, each with their own laws of reality. It's quite possible that, as far as our dimension's laws of reality were concerned, Error Sans was considered dead. You can't kill what's already dead." The Shadow explained.
"Fascinating theory. Here's mine. Monsters never existed in your dimension, so your laws of reality had no effect on me because of it." Error Sans plainly put.
Michael considered this. "Interesting, but I'm gonna have to go with the Shadow on this one. He has a more... solid theory."
"Yeah, I'd choose his theory too. Mine just... doesn't make sense."
Michael opened the portal back to Error Sans's dimension, then used a Chrono-Extractor to take the Dimension Key out once he was on the other side. "I have to say, that was... interesting. What did you do to that one guy's head?" Michael asked.
"It was like two minds were occupying the same space. Kinda weird. I managed to create silhouettes of my Taken, which assisted me. I then acquired the worst fears and nightmares of those two beings, mutated them, and let them run rampant throughout their mindscape."
"You corrupted their fears, destroying their psyche. That's... terrifying." Michael shuddered.
"But effective. Just a new trick I never got to test until now. I wasn't even sure it worked."
"Well, alright."
Yup. The Shadow broke the mind of Cross Sans... and Cross Chara, and the Dreadnaught now holds three, or maybe four extra-dimensional prisoners. I don't know. This one is confusing!
See you next time, dimensional travelers.