With A Snap
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Chapter 46: The Story Continues
0000
EARTH ML-9115
PARIS, FRANCE
The City of Light seemed darker since the Great Cataclysm happened. Marinette hated that was the name they were going with.
She hated that so many were gone.
She hated that she didn't understand.
She hated she couldn't do anything about it.
She hated she wasn't Ladybug any more.
She jumped off the building as Lady Noir and eventually landed on the roof of her house. She climbed into her room and made her way down the house into the kitchen below.
She hated how quiet the house had become. Only a week ago, even late into the night, the house would seem alive and warm. After all, it was a bakery, they had to wake up early often to make their sweets, but no one had come into the store since it happened. Not that it mattered, she was the only one left to make anything, and she wasn't in the mood.
Her grandfather was confirmed to be gone just like her parents, and there was no news about her grandmother. She was on vacation when it happened, and international travel and communications were a bit blink and miss.
"Plagg Claws in," She whispered, she reverted into her regular clothes and a small creature named Plagg formed and flew and settled on the nearby table.
Marinette went into the kitchen and pulled out a small tub of cheese.
The cheese wasn't the usual cheese that Plagg cared for, it was sweeter often used for cakes, but Plagg didn't have it in him to complain.
She settled the tub in front of Plagg so he could eat.
Marinette rested her head on the table.
They had been exhausted; she had spent almost every waking moment helping around the city. Some people needed help; some people were scared. She was trying to do everything she could to help.
But her presence was a problem.
She wasn't Ladybug; people did quickly realize she was the same girl as Ladybug but had understood that if she was Lady Noir and there was no one else, it meant Chat was gone.
Because of Chloe and Alya, people knew that some creatures and items gave them her powers. It was a little slow; after all, there was so much happening, but people figured out that Chat was gone.
They never said anything, Alya never posted a video about it, but Marinette saw it in peoples eyes they lost a bit of hope knowing one of the heroes was gone.
"Marinette?" The young girl looked up to find seven other kwami floating towards her.
After everything went wrong, she went to Master Fu for help but found Wayzz there alone. She couldn't leave the kwami alone and brought them all back to her home. Marinette had now become the unofficial master of the miraculous.
Wayzz floated over to her, "Marinette, maybe you should try to relax. You are tiring yourself out."
"But, people need help."
"And so do you," Trixx added.
Pollen float around her, "Maybe it's time you got some help."
Marinette shot back, "But Master Fu always said it was too dangerous to have too many miraculous out at once."
Wayzz nodded, "I agree with that sentiment, but this is a level of disaster that even in all our time we've never experienced, we can't do the same thing as we once did."
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Chloe was sitting in her room, looking at her favorite teddy bear, her father was gone. Her mother was doing her best to hold things together, but it was hard on all of them. Chloe felt alone; her best friend was gone.
"Chloe?"
"Ah!" Chloe quickly hid her teddy bear and turned to the balcony, "Whose there?"
Chloe turned to see Lady Noir.
"Ladybug?!" Chloe caught herself, "I'm sorry, Lady Noir."
The black costume seems fitting; Lady Noir's eyes seemed so tired and sad. She looked ready to go to a funeral.
"Is it true?" Chloe let out before she even knew it, "What everyone is saying? That Chat Noir is gone?"
Lady Noir paused for a moment, "he is."
"…and your kwami…?"
Noir just looked away.
Before Chloe could say anything else, she found a sealed envelope being pushed towards her.
Lady Noir just said, "Read it, don't tell anyone what's inside of it. Memorize it and destroy it. Follow the instructions."
Without another word, the hero jumped the building onto the next.
Chloe just looked at the envelope for a moment.
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EARTH MHA-714-2
MUSUTAFU, JAPAN
Ochako Uraraka was working a sweat in the gym of U.A. High School, the gym was empty. Ochaku was busy working out on the bench press. Ochaku continued her worked out as she huffed, currently she was pushing nearly five times her previous limit, and that was without her gravity powers.
Her body was filled with pain as she pushed herself, her muscles straining.
All Might had sat her down and explained to her the quirk he had passed onto Deku. The quirk that he at his last moments passed onto her.
That kiss.
She what to think about it before.
In all honesty, she still didn't now.
But she did know in his last moments Deku had passed onto her the most precious thing he had, the dream he held since he was a child crystallized. Yes, it came with great responsibility, but Deku trusted her to carry it on. She wasn't going to fail him.
Her muscles ached, so she pushed herself more, a few sparks of lightning cracked off her.
All Might did his best to explain this quirk to her. She had a few things up on Deku when he first got the quirk. Ochako was in reasonably good shape already and did regular exercise, Deku had to get in shape quickly before getting the quirk. Ochaku already had quirk training and thus new how better to control a quirk. This was afar different quirk than hers, it worked differently, but there was a base to work off. She had a handle on it.
Still, she was struggling to learn to control it.
She needed to improve her muscles, her body to bring out its full potential.
All Might warned her; her body would take time to use it if she pushed too far; she'd blow off her body parts.
It was about finding the balance, learning what she could handle right now, and move beyond that.
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EARTH SU-521
BEACH CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Rose Quartz sighed as she sat in front of the Temple as she looked at the ocean. The air felt cold, much colder than she had remembered.
She wondered if this was what it felt like to be a ghost.
She was supposed to be gone; she willingly chose to give up her life for her son's life.
It was strange she sensed the shift in time, over a decade was gone. In that time, Steven had done what she had failed to, he healed the corrupted gems, made peace with the diamonds, and even found out her secrets.
Though that all seemed short-lived.
Half the healed gems vanished with the rest of the populations, and several more poof-ed during the incident, the sheer shock and terror were enough to destabilize them.
The crystal gems looked at her differently, and they had every right too.
She spotted something down the beach was a familiar looking van. Rose, without much thought, walked towards it. Opening the door her mind was flooded with memories.
Spending hour wit Greg, spending nights curled up together in there and in her last few months choosing baby names.
Greg was gone. The words felt so strange.
Steven was gone, Rose still tried to cope with it. She had accepted that she would be gone and never to meet Steven, but it was something else to return after he was gone.
"Steven's mom?"
A youthful voice nudged her out of her thoughts. She turned around to find a young girl standing before her.
"Oh, hello," Rose began. "Your name is Connie, right?"
"Yes, I am- I was a friend of Steven."
Rose didn't speak right away, "I'm sorry, I'm a little out of sorts. Everything still feels so unreal. I'm not sure how it happened. I shouldn't have been able to come back."
Connie knew for sure that removing the gem from Steven shouldn't have brought Rose back; she saw what happened when White Diamond did it.
"I think I have an idea," Connie surmised, "You're basically light and data stored in your gems. If it's like a computer hard drive, then not all the data can just be erased or written over. Usually, bits of data survive, Steven even had a dream once of seeing things through your eyes, as Pink Diamond."
Rose gasped at that, Connie scratched her cheek she left out a few details such as she was fused with him at the time.
Connie decided to continue, "when- when that happened to Steven, the gem was the last thing to vanish. He cried, and his healing tears fell on it. If at that point there wasn't anything left of Steven, there might have been some of you left. His tears brought you back, restored you."
"Steven had healing tears?"
"Oh! Yeah, he got a lot of your powers, Mrs. Universe? Uh, Miss Quartz? Diamond? Steven's Mom?"
Rose managed to work up a soft if sad smile, "You can call me Rose."
"Okay, Rose."
"Can I ask you for a favor?"
"Uh, sure, what?"
Rose sat in the Van, "Can you tell me about him? Tell me about Steven?"
Connie smiled and sat beside her, "Sure, I guess I should start with how I met him."
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EARTH BT-12705-2
BELLWOOD, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
Plumber's headquarters wasn't exactly the best place for guests.
Though, it could be a stretch to call them guests.
Max and the other plumbers agreed not to arrest the Frightwig, Rojo, and Charmcaster, mostly because they had bigger fish to fry.
Gwen's father had found her brother. He was fine and helping out at a shelter. Her dad decided to drive down to check on him and help.
Since she was home alone, she decided to let them stay with her, her grandpa Max was more than a little worried about letting three people who had tried to kill her stay with her.
Though Gwen did point out that they were pretty harmless, the Vanishing, Gwen could only guess that seeing so many people around them just vanished.
They were greedy and dangerous but were far from being pure evil. They were scared, and Gwen did her best to help; after all, sometimes that all anyone could do was try.
They were asleep in the rooms she lent them, she assumed her family wouldn't mind it.
Gwen sat on her bed with books tossed around her; she desperately continues her search for something.
She didn't know what she was looking for, something. Some sort of spell to tell her what was happening. Something to undo it and bring everyone back.
She flipped another page before letting out a long, drawn-out breath and pausing to rub her eyes. She opened her eyes to find the Omnitrix still sitting on her wrist.
No, this couldn't be any spell. She knew how far-reaching this was, something like that would take an enormous amount of power. Maybe something with a sorcerer's engine, no that would take a tremendous amount of sacrifices to get started someone would have noticed it.
"Still working?" Pushing the door a bit, Charmcaster let herself in.
"I have to," Gwen focused on her books, "Somewhere there has to be a clue."
"What if there isn't?"
"There has to be; things just don't happen. I just got to keep working at it."
"You don't plan on giving up, do?"
"No, after everything that happened, how can I? I can just sit back after watching so many people just die like that."
"You can't," Charmcaster told her, her voice softened and weak.
Gwen looked away ashamed, "I'm sorry, I forgot this isn't the first time you've had to go through this."
Charmcaster shook her head, "Yeah, but what Addawaitya did in Legerdomain just seems so small compared to what's happening here," She scoffed bitterly, "I never thought I'd say that. I never hoped I would."
Charmcaster sat down on the other side of the bed.
Gwen could only ask, "How do you live with it? How can you -?"
Charmcaster looked at Gwen and saw a bit of herself when she was younger and found herself in a new world after losing her father, "It breaks you, it breaks you somewhere deep down, somewhere you didn't even know existed. Losing someone so fast and you can't do anything, it scars you, and it never really heals. Yeah, so I did what you're doing. Scrapping at anything you think might help. Dig up any power to help you claw back what you lost." Charmcaster sighed, " But it doesn't help, one day you look at yourself in the mirror and barely recognize yourself enough more. You don't know when but you start losing yourself a little at first, but more pieces of yourself fall off as you keep trying. So you are barely sure who you are anymore."
Charmcaster's hands were shaking.
How far had she fallen? Her uncle and her came to this world to escape from Addawaitya. They hoped they could scrounge up enough power to go back and fight back. It wasn't easy to get power; they found they had to fight and steal to get every bit they could. They hurt people.
She had hurt people.
She went home, she beat Addawaitya, but there was no victory. Her home fell to war, and all she wanted was her father back. She kept going; she went into darkest magic; she took the life of everyone in her dimension just to bring someone back — even Gwen, who had just wanted to help.
She got to see her father again, but when he saw her and what she had done. Even now, Charmcaster could perfectly see the look in his eyes. He was horrified, the man who raised her was terrified of her. Everything she did to get him back, and he just couldn't stand it. He let himself die again to bring everyone back.
That just let her alone again.
She didn't even know if her uncle was alive; she looked for him but didn't find him. Though with something like this happening, he could have gone into hidden to make sure he couldn't be found.
Did it matter? He couldn't help. He had lost himself too. He had given up on ever getting home.
She was alone, and nothing would change that. Her mind flashed back to watching people around her turn to dust. Suddenly she was a small girl in her uncle's arms as the world seems to rip apart around. She saw people around her die around her, then her father telling them to run. She remembered stealing and hurting to get what she wanted. For a moment, she saw the monster her father saw in her.
Her hands finally stopped shaking as she could another hand slid into hers and gave her a firm squeeze.
Through blurry vision, she found the red-head holding her hand.
"It's going to be okay," Gwen said, trying to reassure her, maybe to reassure herself too.
Charmcaster now felt warm tears streaking across her face moved overhand, hugged her.
"…Gwen… if you're going to keep at it… don't lose yourself… know when you have to give up…"
Part of her mind scolded herself for showing weakness in front of an enemy, but with everything that was happening, she couldn't care.
Gwen looked at the watch on her wrist and turned away, the constant reminder of her cousin felt too much right now.
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EARTH DLSK-7416
HIDARI WAKIBARA, JAPAN
Kusano Saiki's eyes blinked open, the morning sunlight streaming through his curtains.
The house was quiet; by now, his mom would have come to wake him for school. But she was gone, along with his father, and school was closed with half their students and staff being little more than dust.
Saiki felt something shift beside him, turning to his side, he found Mikoto Aiura. The gyaru slept quietly beside him.
Saiki raised his hand, and slowly his glasses float to him.
Ever since his brother's failed attempt to seal his powers, he found he had more control when they came back. Though there was the chance, he could still turn someone into stone without having something covering his eyes; it was an almost non-existent chance. That and no longer seeing everyone as skeleton and muscles was much better.
As he fixed his glasses, he took a moment to look at the sleeping girl.
Saiki wouldn't say he was an expert on human beauty; he did agree that Teruhashi was cute. With Aiura, it was different; she was cute too but differently. Saiki couldn't put it into words. Teruashi was naturally beautiful and worked very hard to keep up appearances. Aiura was beautiful and passionate, and she didn't seem to care much about what others thought about her. She confident in herself, and though it could annoy him from time to time, she wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted.
Maybe it was a case of the grass being greener, while Saiki regularly worked on hiding his psychic powers she was open about them and not seen as a freak or anything. She stood tall to who she was and didn't hide it. She even seemed to have a much easier time making friends with people.
They were both psychics, but they were so different.
In many ways, she was better than him; she'd was openly trying to help people. He tried to avoid people, and he hated to admit it, but he would help from time to time, but she didn't hide behind anything she just did.
"My, my, what have I walked into?"
Saiki blinked and found his older brother Kusuke standing at the doorway, "As your older brother should I be proud or-?"
Saiki teleported behind Kusuke and pulled him away. Quickly they found themselves in the dining area.
"What are you doing here?" Saiki's words echoed in Kusuke's head.
"A disaster of unparalleled magnitude has happened, why wouldn't I seek out my family?"
"Okay, good point."
"I take it our parents have been…"
"…Yes"
"So are our grandparents."
"…"
"So, as the oldest member of the family, I think I have to watch over you, I must say I'm a little concern about you having a girl spend the night in your bed."
"Wait! You have the wrong idea!"
"How so?"
Saiki sighed, "She was with me when it happened. She was scared, we all were, and… well, there no one waiting at home for her now. I'm sure you can understand why someone might not want to be alone right now. I let her stay with me in another room, but she had trouble sleeping. I let her sleep next to me, but that's it! Nothing else happened. So, don't - just don't."
Kusuke leaned in as studying his brother, "Fine; it's not like I can stop you. Just use protection, or maybe not, we are suddenly in the middle of a population deficit."
Saiki was doing everything, not to kill his brother.
"Saiki!" A panicked Aiura rushed in.
"Hi," the psychic said.
"There you are, I woke up and you weren't there and- I just thought maybe-"
"I'm still here." He assured her.
"Good, okay, who's he?"
Kusuke just smiled, "I'm Kusuke, Kusano's older brother."
Aiura blushed, realizing she was meeting his family, and she was just in a baggy shirt and shorts that she borrowed, "I'm Mikoto Aiura, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"It's a pleasure, now let's have breakfast. We have lots to do," Kusuke told them, "something strange happened; it's impossible, I intend to figure out what happened, and you two are going to help me."
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EARTH DP-4304
AMITY PARK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"Danny, please explain it to me again."
Maddie Fenton was having a rough time. Everyone was really; half the population of the known universe was confirmed to be missing, including her daughter and husband. The world had fallen into chaos. When she found out that Sam's family was missing; she wasn't about to let the girl stay at home alone, she invited to stay with them until something could be done.
So, she was letting her son's girlfriend live with them for who knows how long.
She was going to have to stay on top of that.
And then, there was this girl that she had never seen before but looked so familiar.
Dani, she looked to be about twelve, she had long black hair done in a ponytail and blue eyes just like her son. She wore some shorts, a blue hoodie, and a red hat.
She sat nervously in a chair next to Danny.
Clockworks had brought her to them when in a panic, he tried to warn them about something before he took vanished.
Danny took a breath and tried to explain it again. "Okay, so a while ago, Vlad got a sample of my DNA."
Maddie already felt her blood boil. She, for a long time, had a strange, unsettling feeling about Vlad, just something always felt off. Plus, he flirted with her knowing she loved her husband Jack, so that was red flags.
Then he revealed himself to be a half-ghost villain holding the world for a hostage. His plans were foiled, and the world was saved thanks to Danny, but there seemed to be more.
"He took your DNA?"
"Yeah, I think he used some sort of small drones or something."
"Okay, what did he do with those DNA samples?"
"Well, I don't know the specifics, but basically, he created clones. Dani here is one of them; the rest didn't exactly make it. He kept trying, though, said he wanted his own half-ghost son, and he knew I wasn't going to leave you and dad."
Danny saw a look in his mother's face, one he couldn't accurately describe. Maddie was in a rage, this man stole her son's DNA and violated it, and created something out his twisted sense- she couldn't even twist her mind around it.
If Vlad didn't die already, from being stranded in the space or the dusting and he ever found his way back to Earth, she wouldn't hesitate to rip him apart.
Danny felt the rage radiate from her and tried to continue the conversation, Dani here, was his best clone but still a failure in his eyes. She was slowly disintegrating into ecto-goo. I helped him to save her, but Vlad betrayed us. He was going to just make a new clone, one loyal to him. He knew Dani was already working against him so."
Maddie looked at Dani, causing the girl to shiver.
"We destroyed the lab and everything he got, and we managed to stabilize her, eventually."
Maddie asked, "There where have you been since."
"Uh," Dani gulped, "I've been traveling around on my own, eventually got into the Ghost Zone and sort of finding my way to Clockworks. He gave me a place and food for helping him around, so that was pretty nice."
"You've been alone this whole time?"
"…"
Maddie leaned down to look the girl in her eyes.
Dani trembled, she could only imagine the woman hated her, she was a poor corrupted copy of her son made by a madman. She probably wanted her gone.
"I'm sorry about that," Maddie's voice was soft, "I'm sorry you've had to go through all that, I'm sorry you had to be on your own so long."
Maddie rubbed the girl's cheek softly, Dani didn't even remember someone being so tender with her before.
There was a lot of stuff in her life missing.
Dani trembled as her vision got blurry, and before she stopped it, a sob escaped her mouth.
"It's okay now," Maddie pulled her into a hug and let the girl cry into her shoulder.
"I'm just a copy," Dani cried out, "Something Vlad made to be a place holder until he got things right. Just a something to toss away." He was getting hard to breath,
Maddie felt her tighter, the little girl clinging to her, "I'm sorry," she whisper, "it will be okay, I promise, honey. You don't have to worry about any of that; you're home now."
For the first time in her entire life, Dani felt the love of a parent, the safety of having a home, and having a place to call your own.
It was too much for the young girl, and all she could do was cry into her mother's shoulder.
From the hallway, Sam watched, at least one good thing came from this disaster.
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EARTH ML-9115
PARIS, FRANCE
Marinette stood in front of the gates of the Agreste Manor. This had been the home of Adrien.
Plagg stuck his head out of her bag.
Marinette only asked, "Is there anything you need to get?"
The kwami looked on and said, "No, are you sure you want to do this?"
"No, but it's something I have to do."
She tried to the buzzer, but no one answered.
Plagg didn't hesitate to fly out and phase through the lock, and it swung open.
They repeated it at the door, and Plagg hid.
"Hello, anyone here?" Marinette walked along.
Haering something Gabriel Agreste bolted out, "Adriene?"
"I'm sorry, no," Marinette told him.
The fashion designer was a mess and looked like he hadn't slept in days.
"You're Adrien's classmate?"
"Yes, sir."
"Adriene isn't here,"
"I know I came here to tell you something. I was with Adriene when it happened."
"…"
"I'm sorry, but he didn't make it."
Gabriel looked at her, and his whole presence changed, his shoulder slumped, and it looked like the life ebbed from him. He had been going on with the hope that his son was alive somewhere.
He hit the floor.
Marinette ran to his side.
"Thank you," Gabriel said, tears flowing out of his eyes, "I've been waiting for days expecting him to come back. This is not the news I hoped for but …its better than living in false hope." He turned away from her, "Please leave now."
Marinette couldn't fight against it; she came there to pass a message.
As she left, Gabriel pulled out a small item, a peacock shaped broach.
His son was gone, his wife was gone, and it seemed that at least one miraculous was gone, and so was his chance to bring either of them back.
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EARTH FG0-2017
CHALDEA, ANTARCTICA
Chaldea wasn't in the best of shape. They were already short-staffed, and finding half of their numbers suddenly gone didn't help. It was easier to get things from the outside world now, but with the incident overhead, it made it nearly impossible.
The Servants were doing their best, but even heroes could only do so much.
Lancer Cü Chulainn sat on the floor of a hall, the lights had gone dead a while ago, but he continued to sit there.
"What are you doing?" A red-coated Archer walked by.
"Get out," No witty remark, just an order.
"There is usually more bark to your comments."
"I'm not in the mood, just leave."
Archer hesitated but pressed on, "Lancer, everyone is working hard to try and be of us; you can't just feel sorry for yourself."
"Feel sorry for me?" Lancer scoffed bitterly, "Please, you know how many times I've died over something stupid? If one more thing killed me, I wouldn't have cared." He shook his head, "How do we fight it? I get it; we're heroes, we fight and do the impossible. But whatever just happened didn't give us a shot. Not a single attack was throw. Not even Goldies treasures managed to slow it down. No single mage here could do a damn thing. My Teacher… all she's ever wanted was to die. To die fighting someone stronger than her, she didn't even get that. I was there with her; she had the gall to smile at me when she died!" He was angered, "She freaking lied to me in the end, pretending she was all right with it! When that would be the worst thing for her. It didn't matter. That crazy nurse was burning through her noble phantasm to try and heal people right until the end; she didn't even realize she was breaking apart! Why do we still get crazy killers when the saints went down! This thing makes no sense!"
Archer leaned against the wall, "This thing has really gotten to you."
"Yeah, this isn't a fight we can win. This isn't a fight at all! The master has been trying to re-summon people who vanished, and not a single one has been brought back. Whatever did this hit the throne too. Anything with that kind of power isn't playing."
Archer wanted to argue that, but he felt it Alaya was weaker, it was hurt.
"I don't mind fighting impossible odds; I don't mind dying for a good cause. Hell, it's a better death than most get. But this doesn't care; if it wanted to, it could kill all of us without a second thought. It just doesn't want to, we don't matter, or it can't bother. So what's the point?"
Archer didn't have anything to say; he could see the Irishman's points.
"Let's go to the kitchen; I'll make you something to eat. I think I got something to drink, hidden away."
"Is that the best you got? Let eat and drink our problems away."
"No, our problems aren't going away. We can eat and drink to those we lost, and wait for a chance. Maybe we can't kill it, maybe we can't stop it, but if we get a chance, I'm going to try and hurt it."
Lancer chuckled, "Uh, I can drink to that."
The two servants walked off, and in another room, Da Vinci studied a particular crystal sword, and she looked at a nearby computer screen that showed some bizarre readings.
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EARTH ETMR-2007
MIRACLE CITY, MEXICO
Manny was watching the news; he went pale, seeing reports from all around the world that people had vanished.
He was on the phone talking to him, "I'm okay. Just stay where you are. The Library Convention sounds a lot safer … then anywhere right now. I promise I'll be okay. Just stay safe. I love you."
Saying goodbye, he hung up the phone.
"Come on; I know it's around here somewhere." Frida rummaged through a nearby closet. Not finding what she was looking for went to another room.
Many glanced at her; she wasn't happy about the events. Her family fared better, her mom Carmela was gone, but the rest were still running around. They were all police and doing their best to keep the peace.
Chief Suårez had instituted a curfew, so no one was allowed outside.
"Breaking News!" The reporter on the TV said, "Santa of the Dead is missing."
"Who cares?" Manny let out, "A gross moldy living skeleton was already half dead. What does it matter when half the planet is missing?"
"It matters a lot, her grandson Django of the Dead, has taken her evil mystical guitar and gather what remains of her army. Molding them into a giant skeleton bent on destroying Miracle City." The reporter pointed to the volcano behind her, where the giant skeleton crawled out of with Django riding on top.
Manny looked out his window seeing the giant, "Huh, how did I miss that?"
"With only half of the police department, it doesn't seem like much can stand in his way."
Manny reached for his belt buckle with a T, and spun it, with a roar and green mystic flames he transformed. His clothes were changed, and he was back in the tiger themed El Tigre costume.
"I gotta stop him!"
"Not without me!" Frida ran into the room, carrying a silver glove.
"Wait, the Plata Peligrosa Glove! You can't use it! You know it drives you crazy after an hour!"
"For your mom, I've always been a bit nuts. I can usually use it for about three hours before I get really nuts."
"Still, my bones still hurt from the last time you went nuts with it. So-"
Frida pulled out a second glove.
"Another glove?"
"Yeah, I always wondered why there was only one, gloves come in two."
"Where did you get it?"
"Totally random, I found it while on tour some little old lady was selling it. She said it turned people into superheroes, but they were total pushovers. I figure with both gloves. It should be fine."
"I guess-"
Frida was already putting on the gloves.
In a flash of bright lightning, Frida's clothes changed, and she was wearing a silver outfit with matching boots, red cape, her goggles now resting on top of a silver Sombrero.
"Plata Peligrosa Lives again!" Frida announced.
"I guess I can't stop you," Many smirked.
"Never could, never will,"
Manny Shrugged, "Okay, Plata Peligrosa care to come with me to beat up Django?"
"El Tigre, are you inviting me to go beat up my ex-boyfriend?"
"Yeah,"
"Ah, you know how to spoil a girl." Frida took his hand as they both jumped off the building, and El Tigre shot out his chain claw.
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ETHERIA (JUXTA-DIMENSION: DESPONDOS) S-RPP-1113.03
BRIGHT MOON
"I Present you Queen Glimmer of Bright Moon," Castaspella announced to the crowd.
Adora stood beside by Glimmer; the trial was easier than she expected. The biggest issue was when Glimmer confessed she hadn't been charging up her powers with the runestone. Adora did get her to finish the quest, and it was worth it, Angela left her message, and it helped.
Glimmer now stood much more confident in front of the crowd, "I'm here because Queen Angela, sacrificed herself to save all of Etheria. We can't let her bravery be in vain. I know that people are missing, our friends, our families torn from us."
Adora couldn't help but wish that Bow and the other Princesses were there. Entrapta bowed her head sadly, noting people she wanted would be there.
"I know we wish to mourn all out losses, but there is still so much to do. There is a mysterious power out there, and the Horde army right here. We can't give up, not after all we lost. The Horde is out there preparing for something. But I promise you this won't be the end. We will defeat the horde and find out whatever did this. This, I swear, together, there is nothing we can't do. Together we can stop them and reclaim our home!"
The crowd cheered at the brand new queen.
0000
EARTH MLATR-81
TREMORTON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr. Wakeman was asleep in her chair.
Misty just walked by, "Keep sleeping, old-timer."
Misty couldn't blame her; she'd been up for the last few days helping Skyway Patrol with tech and just helping them organize. They complained afterward, but they took her help, any other free time she had she was working on trying to figure out this mystery. They even talked to Vega on Cluster Prime trying to solve this.
It was the first time in who knows how long that several alien species were trying to work together for something.
"Here's some mocha, Shell." Misty walked over to Sheldon and offered him a cup.
Sheldon with bags under his eyes took it, "Thanks,"
He usually didn't drink too much caffeine, but here he was sitting at a computer looking at every bit of data he could.
Misty sat in a chair next to him and put up her feet on the table, "Any news?"
"No," Sheldon rubbed his head, "the closes thing I can describe this is like a warp drive. A warp drive twists and contracts space to make someone move faster than light. Normally you can't move that fast, but space can twist faster than that. Everything got distorted for a second, and this is what happened. But why? There's something I don't get. What could they be trying to do?"
"You think someone did this by accident?"
"Well, who'd be insane enough to want half of the population gone? "
"Yeah,"
"This has to be some byproduct of something; it's the only thing that makes sense."
"Maybe someone is trying to do something big, shouldn't there be signs or something."
"I thought of it, I've been scanning space and haven't found anything out of the normal. I'm getting some weird readings coming from a Scrap Asteroid. I think Vexus lives there, must be trying to build a weapon or something to try and take back Cluster Prime. I've already sent warnings. I don't know,"
Misty sighed, "Shell, do you know why I agreed to train you to become a hero?"
"Because I paid you."
"Exactly," She winked, "but there were other reasons. You got good determination; you just don't know when to give up. I mean, you should totally give up on Jenny, but when you focus that right, you can do pretty amazing things. I'm sure you'll figure it out."
"Thanks,"
Alone together, they continued to work on a mystery beyond them.
0000
EARTH'S MOON DC-63038-7-00
WATCHTOWER
Damien Wayne looked up through the large bay window at the sky; he could see the Earth from there. It looked peaceful.
"Damien?"
The young Robin looked around to find John Kent, Super standing there.
John looked on sadly, "I heard- I'm sorry about your dad."
Damien looked at him, "I'm sorry about your mother."
In the other room, Selina Kyle sat at the table as both Superman and Wonder Woman talked.
Superman was shocked to hear that Bruce was gone.
He didn't have any power, but he seemed to be far more resilient, they used to joke he'd outlast them all.
Through one of the walls The Martian Manhunter phased through, "I have updated,"
A holographic screen came up showing them population charts, "The governments are scrambling to run a proper census. As it stands now, it seems that half the population of the world had vanished. Our Mystic allies have failed to find a source for it, as have Star Labs. Hal Jordan reported the same thing is happening in all known sectors of space. It's even seemed to have affected the Immortal Guardians. "
"Oh, don't sugar coat it," Selina snarked.
"It does get worse," John admitted, " We have received calls from allies in other universes, and it seems like they too have been affected."
"What do we do?" Wonder Woman asked, "This is scale has not been seen since the Blackest Night,"
"We do what we always do," Superman said, "We protect those who are still here, and we do everything we can to find out what caused this. What did Bruce always call it?"
"The Endless fight?" Selina responded, "Whenever he tried to explain it, he'd only say it wasn't a war to beat, just one you keep lasting against."
Superman smiled; he wasn't one to give up.
0000
EARTH MHA-714-2
MUSUTAFU, JAPAN
The dorms were quiet; half their friends were gone, so people were not as outgoing as they were.
Iida left for the day, he was going to check on his family, but he had to make a stop. Tsuyu made a request of him at her last moments, and he intended to fulfill it.
The class was depending on each other to keep hold of this new reality.
Momo Yaoyorozu sat at the living room couch by herself. By all reason, she had come out rather lucky, both her parents had made it.
But she had lost so many of her friends.
Even now, she barely realized she was acting on her emotions. Her quirk allowed her to make anything; the first item she made was a matryoshka doll, and since then had always been something she could make easily. As she sat, more dolls popped out of her skin, they would usually have her face, but these all had the faces of her lost friends.
Tsuyu, Ojiro, Denki, Kirishima, Tokoyami, Sero, so many and then she blinked and saw one of Eri.
That poor girl she had been through so much. Now any chance of a happy life were taken from her.
She struggled to hold back the tear, "No, not now,"
Momo tried to be strong; she tried to be supportive, tried to be there for her friend when they grieved. She sat with Mina when she cried in the morning; she held Jirou when she broke down when she heard her father was gone, she sat with-
It was too much.
"It's just too much," Momo tried to stop crying.
"Yaoyorozu?"
She flinched at her name, turning around she found Todoroki.
"Are you alright?"
"No, no, I'm fine,"
"Do you want to talk about it?"
At the moment, she couldn't even muster the words. She just shook her head.
"Do you want me to leave?"
She shook her head.
"Okay," Todoroki sat down beside her.
There was a strange silence.
"My father is gone…." Todoroki filled the silence, "My mother, my brother, and my sister are okay. I have… a strained relationship with my father. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel. I don't feel good that he's gone, and I think I'd prefer it if he were still here. I don't think having him in my life would make it better, though. It's confusing."
Momo paused and looked at Todoriki; he didn't talk about himself a lot.
"When I was younger… my brother died. I barely remember it… I didn't talk about it. I think it would have been better to talk about it." He sighed, "What I'm trying to say is that if you want to talk, you should? I'll stay with you."
Momo took his hand and smiled through her tears. Having someone there helped.
0000
Ochaku struggled with the weights; sparks danced off her skin; she felt it her muscles straining. She was trying to push more, but she felt her body screaming, telling her to stop, or it would snap.
She couldn't hold on.
"I got you!"
Suddenly All Might showed up and struggled to help her lift the weights.
It was enough, and she managed to settle it down safely.
"Uraraka, what are you doing?"
Her body was shaking from the strain she put herself through; she struggled to get back up. "I'm training." She groaned out a little, "I need to get stronger to use One for All."
"I understand," All might began, "But you can't force it; your body is still getting used to it. Midoriiya had barely started to control so it wouldn't destroy his body when he used it."
"I have to, Deku left his dream to me. I can't just- Ochaku got up and tried to start to get up again but stumbled only to be caught by her teacher.
"He wouldn't want this," The retired hero told her, "You were his friend, and if he left you with One for All, he must have thought you could wield properly. But he didn't get from the start; he couldn't imagine anyone to get from the start. It's okay to take your time."
"I can't! The world is a mess; if Deku were here, he would be doing everything he could to help. I can't just sit here. I have to get ready for whatever I can do. I'm not like Deku; I can just know everything about people's quirks, I can't come up with strategies on the fly or anything like that. I can train and get stronger and get used to this quirk faster!"
All Might chuckled to himself, "You don't have to do everything yourself. And maybe Midoriya can still help us."
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Mei Hatsume was working on support items; she'd pretty much locked herself in the workshop.
She was never that good with people; gadgets were her thing though that didn't mean that she didn't mourn for those lost. She just stayed in the workshop and worked; she worked on items to protect those who remained. Every once in a while, she'd notice herself mindlessly making a support item for someone who was gone.
"Hello?" The door swung open as Ochaku walked in, followed by All Might. "Hatsume?"
"Hello, can I help you?"
Ochaku cringed; she had forgotten about her again. "Yeah, I was hoping you could make some improvements in my hero costume."
Before she could blink, Hatsume was in her face."What do you need? I got babies for everything you could need."
"Yeah, you see, my quirks changed up a bit. I can make things weightless."
"You're the floating girl!"
"Yeah, " the young hero decided to push past that, "my power has changed."
"How? Quirks don't do that."
All Might step in, "Stress and shock, from the event."
Hatsume pondered it, "Okay, I guess I could see that."
"Well, now I'm also super strong." Ochaku stepped towards a wall of steel they used for testing. Spark flew around her arm as she punched it, creating a dent.
Ochaku shook a little; it pained her; she didn't break anything but still.
"Oooh~!" Hatsume awed, "You know that reminds me of the quirk of someone," she rubbed her chin, she started to check Ochaku's arm,
"Yeah, I still don't have all that much control on it. I'm also afraid if I push myself too hard, I might hurt myself."
"I think if I work on support items I've already have, I might be able to adjust some babies I already have I might be able to get you something real quick."
All Might smiled, they were taking steps forward, and he couldn't help but think Deku would smile at that.
0000
EARTH ML-9115
PARIS, FRANCE
Chloe was the first to arrive at Marinette's home; she couldn't figure out why Lady left a message telling her to be there. There wasn't anyone there.
Alix arrived next and was dodgy about where she got her envelope.
Max was next, followed by Kagami.
Kim was the next one to arrive, "I'm so glad you two are okay!"
Kim grabbed Max and Alix and hugged them tightly.
Kagami just took a step back.
"You guys here?" Nino arrived with Alya at his side.
Chloe was starting to fume.
"Did you get envelopes from the new Lady?" Kim asked.
They all went stiff, hearing that.
Chloe yelled, "Oh! I don't know what she could be thinking!"
Max sighed, "I believe we aren't supposed to say anything about it."
Alaya mused, "Okay, so Lady Noir sent us all to Marinette's place… has anyone heard from her? I haven't been able to reach Marinette."
Chloe shrugged, "No one answered."
"Did she get…?" Nino questioned.
"Oh, hello," Marinette arrived, late.
"Marnette?" Alaya asked.
The group bombarded her with questions, but she didn't listen and took out her keys and walked in, letting them follow.
"Please close the door behind you," Marinette said.
Kim closed the door, not that anyone else stopped asking her questions.
"Plagg Claws out!" Marinette yelled out.
Plagg floated out and sighed. Before her, she transformed before them, shocked they remained quiet.
Lady Noir spoke, "Ta-dah!" She sighed at her lousy attempt at a joke,
"Cool!" Kim was the first to bounce back.
Lady Noir sighed, "I used to be Ladybug, but when everything happened, we lost Chat Noir and the Kwami that let me transform into Ladybug." She motioned, and other Kwami showed up carrying their miraculous.
"I called you all here because, at one time or another, I've called you for help."
"Well, not me," Alix said as the rabbit Kwami handed her the pocket watch.
"I still trust you, " Lady affirmed, "Plus, your future self put in a good word."
Lady looked on to the group, "Normally I wouldn't be allowed to reveal my identity or any of yours, but the world is facing a threat. One we don't understand, I need all the help that I can get. I won't force you-"
"You got us!" Nino took his miraculous.
"You need help all you have to do is ask." Kim happily took his.
Kagami smiled, or tried to, "You are my friend in need, of course, I'd help."
"Alya asked, "Marinette, who was Chat?"
Chloe paused as she put on her miraculous. She glanced over at Lady Noir; she still could barely wrap her mind that her Hero was also that dorky clutz in her classroom that she picked oh. Oh god, she was bullying Ladybug
"It was Adrien; I only found out when it happened."
"You were there when it happened?" Chloe asked. "With him?"
"…I saw it happened, I couldn't-" Tears filled her eyes, and Alaya hugged her. It was the first time in days she let herself cry.
0000
INCARCECON BT-12705-2
LEVEL 42
Some of the other inmates fled as quickly as they could. Half the staff and prisoners vanished suddenly not too long ago, yet they feared him more than that.
After all, Vilgax was a terror across the galaxy.
A floating robot shot through the hall as the alien-like Psyphon walked behind it.
"Sire," Psyphon greeted his master.
"Psimon, it took you longer than it should have."
"A million apologies, The Galatic Enforcers and Plumbers both worked to ensure it would be difficult for me to reach you. If not for this strange phenomena-"
"I noticed," Vilgax growled.
"Of course, I haven't discovered much about it. "
Vilgax walked ahead of him, "You disappoint me if we can control these phenomena, we could conquer the galaxy with ease."
"I apologize, but there is some hope. I was able to gather data from your time with the power of the Dagon. There were similar extra-dimensional radiation signals."
"Another dimension?"
"Yes, there is also a unique patina of radiation, I've begun to trace its source. I've even managed to secure some technology that should allow us to follow it to its source."
"Good," Vilgax felt content, he saw his shuttle waiting for him.
0000
EARTH OKLBH-81
LAKEWOOD, ORIGINAL COUNTRY
Grief was strange, and people often sought some sort o comfort after experiencing it. Some seek normalcy, some busy themselves, and some seek something else.
Enid looked up at the star-filled sky as they sat on top of the bodega.
"So, since we have a few moments," Elodie said softly, " I've been meaning to ask about you and Red?"
"What about her?" Enid sipped on her canned drink. "Gonna say something about my girlfriend?"
"No, no, never, perish the thought," Elodie shook her head, "I have met her before, in that battle back then. She's lovely, if a bit rough around the edges."
Enid scoffed, "Is that your fancy talk way of saying as not as prissy as you?"
Enid saw Elodie blush, and she herself felt a tad dizzy. Strictly speaking, they probably shouldn't be drinking the stuff, but sometimes they felt like letting loss a little. They were young adults, but still teens, so why couldn't they act like other teens every once in a while.
The blushing Elodie, "Why did you choose her?"
"Huh?" Enid asked, "What do you mean?"
"That's to say, what drew you to her?"
"Oh, I don't know how to explain it. We liked stuff; we liked doing stuff together; we like being together. I don't know, I just sort of knew, and things clicked into place. I don't know; it's wasn't exactly easy. We had some issues, but it kinda was easy once I knew I liked her. At some basic level, relationships should be easy. If everyone in it wants to be together, then- you know."
"Hiya!" Reed burst through the roof access door, "I brought more drinks!"
Red quickly sat next to Enid and passed around a few more cans. Elodie opened up a can and started drinking; Red cuddled against Enid.
Elodie wasn't surprised; Red could not go home; all the people of her future seemed to be gone. All the people she grew up with her were gone. Elodie lost people, but she didn't lose everyone.
Just losing one particular person could break a heart, what could losing everyone do?
0000
EARTH T-A-2007
DETROIT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"I think I almost have it!" Issac Sumdac worked on the equipment connected to the Space-bridge that sat on top of Sumdac Tower.
The big Bulking Bulkhead was working alongside him, "We need to boost the energy!"
Sari's hands opened up, extending her robotic fingers, typing away faster. "I'm giving it everything I can, but I'm not sure it's going to hold."
They managed to communicate with Cybertron to figure out that they had been hit too. With Omega Supreme gone, they were told to stay put until things got settled. The space-bridge network was acting up right after it happened.
The other transformers were looking into it; it might have been used to spread the effect. Or maybe it picked something up.
Deciding they investigate it themselves, this group checked into it.
Bulkhead was oddly enough a brilliant space-bridge technician; the transformer was running test. "I don't think it's going to be enough." Bulkhead barked, "I'm running a full spectrum scan, and we are getting results, but it's incomplete. We need more power."
Issac yelled, "The space-bridge was never meant to peer this deeply into space. It's designed not to in case of-"
"Other Universe stuff," Sari spat out, "Just like that time we went into that Universe with those evil versions of us."
"I think I can trace the source of this thing," Bulkhead told them. "We need more power."
Issac scratched his head, "I think I can tap into the city's power grid."
Sari added, " Yeah, it won't last, though. It will also probably blow out the city's power grid too."
Bulkhead look at the flashing screens.
"We need a decision," Sari told them, "The system won't last much longer."
Bulkhead sighed, " Shut it down before it blows."
They shut the machines down.
"We can try again later," Issac told them, "we prepare a little better, get some generators."
"Yeah," Bulkhead admitted, "But the signal might be gone by then, but we can't shut down the city. Things are bad enough now; we can't make it go dark."
"Yeah," Sari admitted looking at the city, it was in chaos already.
The red-haired girl in the yellow dress turned back to the space bridge and wondered if they could still get answers.
0000
EARTH T-A-2008
DETROIT, SUMDAC'S MICHIGAN
Sari looked at the city; it was in chaos already.
The purple-haired girl in the purple and green dress turned back to the space bridge and knew they would get answers.
"Hurry up, you dumb bots! Drain the power!"
The Autobots were wearing control collars and couldn't disobey her. After Issac Sumdac turned into the dust, she managed to remove her real quick and take control of things.
As the bridge started to glow, the city below them began to go dark.
Her dad took over Lower Michigan and made it his empire, and with him gone, it only made sense she could do whatever she wanted with it.
"Come on! Find it! Find who I get to thank for my dear old man's demise!"
The techno-organic girl smiled a wicked grin.
0000
EARTH OKLBH-81
LAKEWOOD, ORIGINAL COUNTRY
The following morning came, Enid blinked away at least the world hadn't ended last night. There was a slight pain in her head as she tried to wake up. Her mind was spinning; as she started to wake up, she realized she was lying down in the back of Red's tank.
Enid stretched a little, welp she was naked under some blankets there was a warm shape with their arms wrapped around her.
"Come on, Red wake up," Enid whispered, pulling the blanket back.
Curled up next to her wasn't Red.
"Elodie?!" Enid squeaked out.
Her mind was trying to come to terms with what happened. Some her memory of the night before was blurry and slowly unraveling.
"...Oh." She went pale, and jolted up, had she cheated on her girlfriend last night?
"Babe," a hand grabbed her and pulled her down, "sleep now."
Enid shuffled to find Red half-asleep, "It's too early."
Red's naked form pulled her close and, in her sleep, kissed her.
Enid's mind tried to figure out what was happening. She suddenly found herself sandwiched between her girlfriend and an old friend.
Enid just internally screamed.
Could anyone have made such a big blunder?
People seek comfort in any form when faced with a grim world. It's even ingrained into humans to find a mate in the face of death.
Carol, the woman, once known as Silver Sparks and once the dutiful mother of KO sat at her table. By this time in the morning, she usually was waking up KO and getting him up to his breakfast.
But he was gone. So was Gar. So we're so many people.
"Morning," Venomous walked in, his hair was a mess, and he was wearing one of her bathrobes.
Venomous was once known as a hero, Laserblast. He was her ex and the father of her son. He faked his death and became a villain before KO was even born. He also got turned purple, made it nearly impossible for Carol to realize who he was.
They both moved on, he even adopted a little girl, but now they were all gone. They were both familiar to the other, a glimpse of better times, and in the end, all the other still had left.
Is it any surprise they went to each other for even a few moments of fleeting comfort?
0000
ETHERIA (JUXTA-DIMENSION: DESPONDOS) S-RPP-1113.03
FRIGHT ZONE
Catra looked at the dismantled Emily, Entrapta's robot. The Horde's tech guys weren't anywhere near Entrapta's level; they weren't even Hordak's level. But they had all the notes and data they left.
Plus, the scrap, some of it was useful.
They were re-building the portal, adjusting for a few things.
The dusting as they started calling them was a wake-up call. All the crazy things that Hordak had told her about his older brother.
Catra had to assume this whole mess was his doing. Was he finally trying to kill Hordak? Was it a message?
It didn't matter; they'd have to answer. The tech guys knowing about other dimensions know managed to locate a trace to follow.
Someone signaled Catra that the portal was ready, "Turn it on."
Behind were an army of Horde soldiers and a much bigger army of robots ready to go. She's playing it by ear, take them out quickly and make a show of it, a lost army formed by Hordak for his honor and we were looking to join.
It wasn't the best plan, but Catra had to do something.
With a bang, the portal whirled into life, in the gate a swirl of energy formed. Catra grinned, she succeeded where Hordak and Entrapta failed, no dimension shattering no nothing.
She was about to get her destiny; she just knew whatever it was would end the rebellion.
"Is it safe?" Catra asked the closes tech guy.
They shrugged, "Okay, testing time."
She grabbed Kyle and hurled him into the portal; she caught in the corner of the eye Lonnie flinching at the action.
"You're tracking him through his armor, right?"
One of the scientists looked over his screen, and he gave them a thumbs up.
"Good," Catra sighed, not that the news made any of the soldiers any more at ease.
She stepped up to the portal and waved the army to follow.
0000
EARTH M-199999
AVENGER COMPOUND
Carol Danvers had explained what she saw, how she saw the Skrulls she was with vanish into dust. How her beeper device got a message from Fury, and she flew back to Earth.
On the way back to her, she saw Ravagers, Shi'ar, Kree, Brood, and any number of alien civilizations falling apart.
It dug into his gut; Steve Rogers hated losing to Thanos; he hated how half of humanity was dissolved for their failing — but hearing the scope and how far-reaching it truly was something else altogether.
"He did it," Natasha whispered, "he actually did it, half of all life."
"In the whole freaking universe," Rocket stood on a chair aghast at it.
Steve only a few days ago, would have found it hard to accept a talking raccoon but now.
Bruce meanwhile was looking over the holographic screen of the current census. FRIDAY was trying to locate any friends of the family for the avengers.
Bruce looked on tense; he wondered if Betty would show up on the list of missing she hadn't yet.
It had been years since they spoke, but finding out her father was now a governing power over the avenger brought her back to his mind.
He was saddened to find out his cousin Jennifer was gone.
Thor was in the corner lost in his thoughts, blaming himself and wondering what of his people. Valkyrie would be able to keep them safe, but only if she made it.
Carol looked on with all the things that were happening; she was a little surprised to find a living Legend there. Besides Thor, growing up in America, being in any military branch, she knew the stories of Captain America. And there he was, the beard was surprised but so was the fact that he hadn't aged.
In the end, she shouldn't have been surprised.
"What do we do now?" Rhodey spoke up.
"We need Tony," Natasha tried to stay on target, "The last time he was spotted he was seen following that ship that showed up in New York, that spider kid seemed to tag along."
Bruce spoke up, "They were after Strange."
"Yeah, I think I might be able to help with that." Rocket tapped on a device, " I got a message from Nebula, Gamora's sister. It looks like Quill screwed up, and Thanos got her. Nebula sent a message to the other Guardians telling them to go to Titan, Thanos homeworld, Thanos was going there."
"Good," Rhodey clapped his hands, "We know were to go."
"Yeah, give me a minute," Rocket continued, "I'm still updating my messages. Yeah, I got an alert from the ship, its a distress call. It's been damaged, and it's stuck in the middle of nowhere. Considering everything that just happened, whoever is on there isn't going to get help."
Rocket displayed a space map, a blip showing where the ship was.
"Okay, that might be an issue," Bruce admitted, "Unless things changed a lot since the last time I was here, Earth doesn't have any ship capable of getting us there before old age gets them."
Steve looked like they were heading for Earth, so odds were good that if Tony made it, he'd be on there.
"I can get them," Carol smiled, "Give me the coordinates, and I'll bring them back."
Carol looked over the screen, the screen flickered.
All the screens began to flicker in unison.
"Did someone forget to pay the power bill?" Rhodey looked around.
Hello? Is this working?
"Hello," Steve asked out loud.
Yes, good. I mean not good.
"Okay, who's talking?" Nat started to tap away at the keys to try and trace them.
Yeah, trust me that isn't going to work, Miss Romanoff.
Suddenly pictures of her started to be displayed, and then the rest of the team.
"Okay, I am officially freaked." Rocket cringed at the flashing screen.
How do you think I feel?
You guys got a talking Raccoon and a Thor, which weird mine's a redhead.
"What's going on?" Thor decided to join the conversation.
Okay, maybe we should start.
Sorry for looking through your files without permission. I wanted to know what happened. I think I get it now.
"What are you talking about?" Steve shouted he was getting angry at talking to someone who wasn't there.
Images of the stones, photos from incidents tied to the stones began to be displayed along with data they gathered from Wakanda when Thanos snapped his fingers.
This Thanos used powers that were beyond his understanding.
You think it's bad; it's a lot worse.
I've been trying to follow back it back to it's the source, and it led me back to this Earth. I saw just a fraction of all it.
"Stop talking in riddles." Steve was getting furious now.
Want me to spell it out?
Fine.
Those infinity stones live up to their name. What happened in your universe didn't just happen to your universe; it hit every universe.
"What are you talking about?"
Fine, give me a minute.
The screens all flashed black before returning to their previous state.
"Everything is back in Order," Natasha looked over the screens,
Rhodey asked, "Did we just get hacked?"
"I hope not," Natasha added, "this is Tony's software, and after Ultron, he went overboard with the firewalls."
The air in the room broke with a crash as space parted, a gaping hole in reality. The other end of the hole opened up to what looked to be a messy lab.
On the other end, a young-looking with a light brown completion and bags under his eyes. He adjusted his glasses as he walked towards the group, his blue overcoat swaying behind him.
Walking beside him was a young-looking woman with green eyes and bright red hair. She wore jeans, a simple open white blouse with a black corset. On her hip was a strange black sword and on her back and overly large crimson sword.
At their appearance, Thor summoned Stormbreaker to his hand; Rocket pulled out his gun, Carol raised her fist, pulling energy into them and Rhodey pulled out his gun.
Natasha kept an eye on the two newcomers, like Steve she assumed they hadn't come to attack after all who made such a big show of arriving to make a surprise attack.
The man in the blue coat looked bemused at all the people ready to attack him.
"Hey," Greeted them, he turned to Steve, "nice beard, like honestly," his voice was tired, "I don't think a lot of people make it work, but you do."
"Yeah," The redhead nodded, her voice raspy.
Steve took a second to gather his thoughts; neither one had any body language that suggested they wanted a fight.
The man was holding a strange, almost remote like device that worried him, but he had it firmly pointed to the ground.
"So, I take it that was your message," Steve spoke, trying to smooth things over he motioned everyone to lower their arms.
"Yes, about that," He spoke as he raised a hand again the screen blinked into life.
They started to show images that no one else seemed to recognize. Some showed cities they thought they recognized but had buildings they never saw before. Some showed pictures with creatures they never saw and people with extra body parts. There were robots and other things they never saw before. Several of the people seemed to be enchanced and using their powers openly, and were certainly people they recognize. All the pictures showed some state of distress, chaos, and dust they had become too familiar with.
"As I was saying, it hit every world. Not as in every planet in the universe, I'm talking about every universe. Those pictures are from other universes. Those stones did what Thanos wanted, but it carried out everywhere. I haven't found a place that hasn't been hit. The force of it all broke through the wall of reality itself; it makes it almost no trouble to get into other universes now. Half the population of your universe didn't get blinked out, half of all of existence did."
Author's Notes: Okay, so big update. Next one won't be this big. I just have been sick for a few days and it let me bat this out. I wanted to catch up with some of the worlds who are going through big changes and big character stuff. I hope you all found a couple of worlds you were familiar and interested in. Please leave a review telling me what you guys think and what you like. The story is really getting going now.
Q&A:
msmeow1968: Is that the show about the tanks girl? Never seen it. K-on I like but i'm avoiding slice of life stuff.
thepretenderakajarod: I don't like repeating the same basic character so that why we don't get much in parallels which why no multi batmen. I know of the sixmilllion dollar man but never seen it. I know a bit about the other series but not inetersted, I couldn't come up with any stories. I'm not a fan of trek or wars.
supergodzillasailorcosmos: Yeah, I'm taking any more request. These were some of my own and some requests that I accepeted before I stop taking anymore. As for Hellboy, I'm thinking the animated dvd movies which I think are still in the same universe as the Del Toro movies, they had the same actors after all.
capitalclassship: Yeah, I like them too. We will be seeing more of them too.