With A Snap
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Chapter 75: It's the End of the World
EARTH TI-01
CLASSIFIED
TEMPLIN INSTITUTE
The Templin officers held their weapons at the Curator and his Daemon. Dr. Julian hit the alarm alerting everyone that the Curator was there.
Alexis looked at the guys, "Okay, I know what you're thinking, but this isn't me."
They pulled the trigger, but Scarlett was smarter than him and raised her hands and began to heat the guns. Scarlett was not in the mood to play, so she heated the weapon, and as they pulled the triggers, the guns exploded, knocking the guard back.
The redhead yelled, "When was saying you didn't do it helped!?"
Dr. Julian pulled out a gun and tried to fire.
"Fine," Alexis conceded, "Dormir!"
With a quick spell, he made the doctor sleep. Alexis moved over to the open active computer with high-level security clearance and looked at all the data coming in.
"Shit!"
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The Templin soldiers quickly pointed their weapons at the others as they were alerted about their friend. They had only been distracted by the planet-level earthquake.
Sam stood in front of Sakura to protect her, and Tony prepared to activate his armor. Before Tony could do so, however, two blasts of energy moved past him striking the soldier. They dropped to the ground, and Tony looked back to find Sam Carter holding a snake-like weapon.
Sam was surprised, "They didn't react to me reaching for it."
"Well, why would they?" Alexis' voice rang out, "I put the same spell I put on Scarlett on your stuff. Did you expect them to let you walk in with magic stuff and weapons?"
"What's going on?" Tony asked.
"Yeah, things have gone bad," Alexis confirmed.
Sam sighed, "Your plan didn't work?"
"Yeah, because the world is tearing itself apart. My mask fell off."
"What?" Tony looked on.
Alexis displayed images on their computer with access to everything. "I can't explain it, but space quakes are hitting us. Space itself is shaking, the tremor of causing untold damage to the planet. Yellowstone has already exploded, there are reports of record-breaking tidal waves, super volcanoes, and I haven't even figured out what's the deal with the sky. "
"Forgive me if-"Tony began, but as the building shook, he decided just to get to the point, "I thought the TDS that you were a major part of designing was supposed to have a fail-safe to teleport us back if we were in danger."
"Yeah," Alexis held out his finger. "One issue turns out the whole planet is covered in a field that makes it impossible to teleport or open any sort of breach. The only space that is an exception is where we showed up. You can't even open a hyperspace window near the planet without it ripping apart any ship."
"You could have mentioned it before," Tony told him.
"How do we fix that?" Sam urged him for an answer.
"I'm sending into your devices directions to a room I found in the institute. It powers the field, I wish I could turn it off, but it needs to be done in person. You shut it down. We get teleported away."
"Can't we just get back to where we came in?" Tony offered.
"Yeah, it's full; hundreds of people have swarmed it to try to escape. People are taking ships off the planet, having some issues with a lot and the field. This … this planet is gone. It's sad, but this gives us the best chance to survive, and bonus, it gives millions of other people a chance to escape too."
"Okay, how do we get there?" Tony asked. "Everyone in this building is going to be looking for us. If the building crumbles before we get there..."
"This institute is the most secure place on the planet; it will hold out a lot better than anywhere else. It will be flooded with people looking for safety, and the troops won't be coming for you."
Alexis looked to the side where Scarlett was welding the door close. "I'll make sure of it."
EARTH M-199999
HOUSTON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DOCKS
Deadpool teleported onto the docks, "The only way to travel,"
Deadpool strode onto the docks, following the device on his wrist, hoping to find some cool weapon or something. He soon found his way to a large steel container. "Well, this looks like the spot." He quickly found a lock-in front and took out his gun to shoot it out. "Well, this is almost too easy." He double-checked it on the device, confirming the source of the strange energy was right there.``
He pulled open the doors, and the most horrible smell hit him. Wade had been in battle, he'd seen a lot of terrible things, but this one would stick with him for a while. He found the container full of corpses of men, women, and children. He knew people were snuck into the country like this; they gave everything they had for a chance at a better life. And more often than not, they were left to die. He didn't see any dust, and they must have been left to die under the hot sun and died before Thanos even snapped his fingers.
Three men walked over, having heard the gunfire, and found Wade standing there.
"Who are you supposed to be? Some superhero?" They held their guns to shoot him before he could-
Bang. Bang. Bang.
"I'm no hero,"
The bodies dropped, Steve would probably be upset, but Wade couldn't care less.
That's when the device began to beep, and the bodies began to stir. A weak hand pushed to pass the bodies reaching out. Wade could barely make out a small cry for help.
"Someone's alive!" He jumped across the dead, reaching out for the hand. "Oh! Sorry- but alive!" Wade hurriedly pushed the bodies aside and grabbed the hand. He found a teenage girl, who was barely staying conscious.
"Come on, stay with me." Deadpool pleaded, maybe with the girl or with the world itself.
Wade held her hand and pressed the buttons on the TDS. They were teleported away and appeared in the Medical wing at the Avengers compound.
Martha looked surprised, "Wade? Wh-"
"Help her!" Wade pleaded.
Martha quickly picked up the girl and placed her on a table and her to machines. "What happened?"
"I found her in a container… she was the only one alive…."
Martha nodded, "FRIDAY! Get Rose and Katara here!" Martha went to work on trying to stabilize the girl to give her a chance.
Wade took a step back and let her do her work of saving a life, something he couldn't do. He paused as the device informed him the energy he had been searching for was still before him.
EARTH DP-4304
AMITY PARK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FENTON WORKS
Team Fenton and the Doctor looked at the strange phenomena of another dimension bleeding into this one.
"Funny," The Doctor remarked, "this is the second time I have gone to a universe where things have gone screwy. Is it me?"
The others didn't pay much attention to the Doctor.
They didn't get much of a chance to do much else as the ground gave in beneath them. Danny and Dani could fly, but others couldn't. Maddie grabbed Sam and pulled her close.
Danny yelled to Dani, "Get the Doctor! I'll get the others!"
Dani didn't argue; Danny was stronger and faster. It would be easier for him to catch two people as they both flew down into a green abyss. It looked like the Ghost Zone, though it felt strange. While it certainly shared the empty void feel of the Ghost Zone, it looked like the real world but stretched out and green.
Cars and pieces of the street floated in the air unaffected by gravity while other things seemed to have been free falling. Dani quickly spotted the Doctor pulling herself up on a piece of the street.
"Are you okay?" Dani flew over to the Doctor.
The Timelady stretched out before pulling out her sonic screwdriver, "This is very strange; something like this doesn't just happen." The tip of the device glowed brightly. "Dimensional fissures? Rifts forming?"
A tear of green energy formed behind them, and a pair of bright eyes showed through it.
EARTH PR-93
REEFSIDE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OLIVER HOUSEHOLD
The Oliver Household was busy as various rangers and allies worked on dozens of things to try and solve this puzzle. Thanks to Billy and Kat Manx, they had connected with every other ranger team on the planet. Most teams were on active duty to protect and help out in any number of horrors that sprung up. Plenty of thought-gone bad guys were crawling out of the dimensions they were thought trapped in.
Dr. K mainly stayed out of the spotlight for years but had come back to deal with this crisis. Dr. K wasn't eager to leave her world, but the population was still small and having survived the robot apocalypse recently, they were ready to pull together. Dr. K came to this universe as it was the one that she could do the most good.
Kendall Morgan was helping out representing her universe, her world had a large ranger team, but they were about it. They didn't have a lot of people to spare.
Even Udonna and the Mystic Mother were working around the clock to try divine something.
Billy and Kat were working on a device, the former Blue Ranger asked, "The thing I still can't understand is where everything went."
Kat asked, "What do you mean? Breaks in barriers of reality—strange power surges. I can understand that to some extent." The cat-like alien explained, "Side effects of this decimation wave."
"What I don't understand is what happened to everyone? Whatever happened struck everything at the same time. That would require an enormous amount of energy and spatial-temporal factors in play. But what of the matter? People turned to dust. Much too small amount of dust to compose whole bodies."
It clicked for Kat, "Conservation of Mass and Energy. It's a basic law of reality. Nothing can ever truly be destroyed, so where did everyone go? That matter had to go somewhere."
Billy nodded, "Exactly,"
Kat practically purred, "Wow, our historical record wasn't kidding when they said you were a genius. Did you build a flying car because you were bored?"
"Bored and had some pieces laying around." Billy mused, "More importantly, that's why Dr. K and I have been trying to find the source of this."
Dr. K walked over to a device, "Mr. Cranston is correct. Since matter and energy cannot be destroyed, they have to be somewhere. Our theory is that the weakening of the barriers between reality is not just a side effect, but something to facilitate their transfer."
Kat nodded. She was likely one of the few people who kept up with these geniuses.
Billy continued, "That's why we sent Wes out with a device. He's currently between our universes. Our hope is he can pick up some latent trace of an energy signal."
Kat smiled, "If we can trace it, then we can follow it, maybe even find where everyone ended up."
"It's a brilliant plan, Mr. Cranston." Dr. K was impressed.
Billy shrugged, "You can just call me Billy."
Kat looked over their equipment, "Let's not pat ourselves on the back yet. It's getting stranger to travel across the barriers."
Wes' voice rang out over the speakers, "I'm coming in hot! I found-! Get a med team ready!"
Wes, as the red ranger teleported back at the base and collapsed to the ground. The others came to aid him and found strangers with him. A girl in a black dress, her hair in pigtails. A young woman in a cat hoodie. A man in a black coat and a big hat. A teenage girl with short blond hair. And an odd machine.
Wes explained, "I was tracing something- I was far- I was so- far away. I got to where- I don't know- cracks. Just so many cracks. There were flashes of light, and I could see ships, and things come in and out. I saw some destroyed—some pushed past. And I saw people there and- they didn't make it. I don't know what happened, but they both showed up and collided. It must have been a one in a million shot, but so many people were showing up that it was going to happen." The red ranger tried to calm himself, "I grabbed them before they got pulled in. I had to they were unconscious without any protection-"
"You did the right thing," Tommy assured him. None of them would have questioned him for trying to save someone.
Udonna and the Mystic Mother both seemed hesitant at the girl.
Udonna spoke up, "We might have a problem, this girl… she has a great deal of magic in her."
The Mystic Mother slowly moved the girl's lip to reveal a pair of small fangs. "She's a vampire."
Tommy sighed, "Okay, help her, and the others as well. We don't know anything about them, yet."
Billy leaned down and picked up the machine, "Maybe this has some answers. It looks like some sort of core."
EARTH M-199999
NAMWON, SOUTH KOREA
OUTSKIRTS
Touma, Leiko, and Aiko found themselves walking near the forest late at night.
Leiko had her Gogo suit stowed away in the power purse. She wanted it on, but Aiko pointed out that having a metal suit might alert a certain fox.
Aiko couldn't help but joke, "Teenagers lost in the dark in a forest… this whole thing just screams horror movie."
"Don't say that," Touma lamented, "you're going to jinx us."
Leiko chuckled, "What do you have to worry about? Your hand cancels out magic. If that fox shows up one-touch, and it's gone."
Touma frowned at the thought, "I- it's not as simple as that. If something is too powerful, it only weakens it, and if it's alive, I don't know if I-"
"The dragon," Aiko asked, taking his right hand in hers. "You saved us from the dragon. We got blown back. How did you do that?"
Touma flashed back to the fight in the fairy tale forest where a dragon had manifested at the end of his arm.
Leiko took the chance to grab his free hand. "How about you start by telling us about your world?"
Touma was pulled from his stupor when he realized these two pretty girls were holding his hands. "…Uh, I don't know what to say. Your world has actual superheroes."
Aiko huffed, "Come on, according to the record by the blue coat, your world has an entire city filled with people with superpowers."
"Academy City?"
"Come on, how about we just talk? We tell you about our world, and you tell us about yours."
Leiko smirked, "You give us a little something, we give you a little something,"
As they talked and walked deeper into the forest, little did they know a blue and white shape with a tail, and a pair of glowing eyes looking at them.
EARTH T-A-2007
DETROIT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SUMDAC TOWER
The Evil Sari looked at the Space Bridge on top of the tower. She was joined by the evil versions of Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Bumblebee. Along with their recruit Slipstream.
"Everything sent ahead?" Sari asked.
"Yes," Optimus replied. "We might have missed something at the Blackrock Building but seeing you dropped it, not sure you want us to dig it out."
"Worth it," Sari smirked.
Optimus hated working for her; the collar she put on him didn't give him much choice and even less with the Thanos business.
Sari was messing with the gate, "Okay, just let me finish here. I'll build up the power and let this thing blow. This is a quick job, so not sure how big the boom will be. It might take out the building or Detroit. I'll take it as a win."
Prowl just looked on, "Or cause the machine to break down."
Sari shrugged, "Yeah, I'll take that too. They have been talking to someone that might get them out of this universe. I'd rather keep her trapped in this burning cage."
Sparks shot out of the machine forcing Sari to pull back. The space bridge activated, and it was filled with energy.
Sari told them, "It's not me. Someone is coming."
As the portal formed, three Autobots jumped out. The tall, sleek yellow and black spotted Cheetor, the brown rusty-looking Rattletrap, and the lovely green Botanica.
Botanica was a member of the council on Cybertron, and with Sentinel taking over, he wasn't willing to stand for anyone who disagreed with him. Not that the snap hadn't taken most of them. So as Botanica became more outspoken, he turned against her. Feeling that she might be in danger, some people decided to get her off the planet. She refused to leave without her boyfriend Rattletrap, and the cop-bot Cheetor helped escort them to the space bridge.
"Who are you?' Cheetor was the first to realize something was wrong. "None of you look right."
"They're not," Bulkhead told them; close behind him were Ironhide and Professor Sumdac. "They're dangerous."
Sari smiled as armor sprouted around her, "Oh, this universe's Bulkhead. I killed my other self and might as well kill him too."
There was a flash of light, and a portal formed above them. A flying motorcycle with a metallic figure with a horned head descended. A tattered red cape flapped behind him as he looked at the group. He held out a device that beeped, "You're connected to the power that causes the universal decay. Yes?"
"Ah, what?" Sari flinched at that.
Death's Head took out a gun and prepared for the fight.
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Optimus and Ratchet had seen the fight and rushed towards the building, hoping to pull the good Sari out. Ratchet used his electro-magnetic to lift some of the debris off the building as Optimus dug.
"Sari!"
They moved a beam, and to their relief, they found Sari. Sari had managed to pull out her shield to block the worst of it.
"Hey…" Sari managed to let out, and she opened the helmet to better look at what was happening.
"Kid?" Ratchet asked, "You still with us? Not sure what I can do to help you. We have to get you back to your dad."
Nearby there was a blast of energy tearing through the ground.
"What was that?"
Someone crawled from the rubble; it looked human though their bones looked broken and twisted. Their body was midnight black as a glowing blue circuit-like pattern started to grow over their body. Sparks of electricity were shooting off their form. They turned and looked at Sari, and their body twitched. The skin-tight material over their head stretched out and morphed into something like a helmet. The rest of the material shifted around, conforming to their body as it changed. There was a sickening crack as they shifted back into their shoulder.
"A robot?" Sari asked.
"Robot!?" A shrill artificial voice screamed. "YOU! You did this!"
The circuit pattern glowed as the figure pointed their hands at them and let loose a massive bolt of electricity.
EARTH M-199999
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AVENGER'S COMPOUND
Marinette held the Peacock Miraculous as she spoke to Zatanna. They were alone in a side room, sitting on some couches. The French girl looked at the magical item before turning to the woman before her. Zatanna was a confident, skilled, beautiful woman, and Marinette couldn't help but envy her a little. Zatanna was a hero and seemed unflappable.
"Marinette," Zatanna apologized, "I'm sorry, I tried a couple of spells I remembered, but it didn't help to fix it. It's just that powerful magic tied to some ancient forces. I can't even start to work things out without more details."
"That's okay, and it's not like we can find the book or…."
"I'm sorry," Zatanna apologized, remembering how her universe had seemingly gotten stuck in a second.
"It's not your fault," Marinette reassured her. "I should have kept the book with me. I had the history and everything about the Miraculous on a tablet in my bag. I used it to block an attack, and it got eaten."
Zatanna noticed something in her tone, "Don't take it too hard. It sounds like it was an accident."
"It doesn't matter. I'm supposed to be the guardian of the Miraculous. Protecting the tablet and all its information is a huge part of it. With it, we probably could have gotten the Peacock Miraculous, fixed here like nothing!"
"Are you okay?" Zatanna noticed the girl was shaking.
Tears formed in her blue eyes, "…No. I shouldn't be the guardian. Master Fu should still be with us. My parents, Adrien, Luka… the whole universe should …" She let out a sob, "Even if I was still Ladybug, I couldn't fix this-"
"It's okay. It's okay. Take three deep breaths."
Zatanna held her hands as the teenager tried to steady herself. After a few moments of silence, Zatanna spoke up.
"Do you want to talk about it? It sounds to me that this … that's not something new. Recent events have been pushing you further, but it sounds like it's been happening for a while."
Marinette sniffled, "Yeah, I guess. I've had to keep a lot of secrets from everyone. There were things I couldn't even say if I wanted to."
Zatanna said, "If you want you can talk to me, if it helps. I'm a licensed therapist."
"You a superhero and a therapist?"
"My day job- well, night job, is a stage magician, but in case that didn't work out, I did get licensed. I can't prescribe you anything, but if you want to talk, I'm here."
"Talking sounds good."
A girl who had to keep many secrets was given a chance to talk freely with someone.
EARTH TI-01
CLASSIFIED
TEMPLIN INSTITUTE
The Templin guards blasted the welded door, and they prepared to open fire, hoping to strike down the dastardly pair.
They didn't see them...but they did see a melted open window.
The commander sighed, "Stay on guard! They are trying to trick us. They must have found another way to escape. This is the 100th floor; no one would try to jump out of here." The room shook as another earthquake struck. "They don't even have their flyers. They're not stupid. This must be some plan."
Outside Alexis and Scarlett were holding each other as they screamed, falling to the ground. They were smart but didn't have much sense. Alexis clicked his shoes and activated them to slow down their fall, making sure to hold the redhead. Scarlett aimed her hands to the ground, blasting jets of fire to slow their descent.
They kept falling rapidly as they both tried to correct their fall. If they screwed up, they could end up hurled into the building or spiraling into the ground. They depended on Beatrice, whose ability included flight, to control things when they did something of this nature. They crashed into the ground with a heavy thud, it was painful but survivable, and nothing was broken, though plenty of bruises.
They would have loved nothing more than to lay on the ground to try and catch their breath, but that wasn't going to happen. There was another earthquake that felt very unnatural. Then several airships arrived in the area and pointed their weapons at them. People had noticed two long-coated idiots jump out of a hundred-story building.
An earthquake struck again, and this one was much worse as the ground beneath them cracked open. Steam and gases shot around them, and the smell of sulfur quickly filled the air. Scarlett took out a small mask that covered her mouth and nose, and it was decorated with a demonic visage. She could create fire, but fire ate up the air, and she still needed it to breathe, so having a rebreather was a big help. Alexis tried to cover his mouth and breath through his shirt. He looked over the edge where he could see magma was rising.
Alexis looked at the TDS and the data it had gotten from the computers. "The crust is breaking apart."
"That's bad, right?" Scarlett put her back to his.
"Planet is tearing itself apart."
"That sounds bad," She gave a tired chuckle.
The gases were giving them cover, but the ships could be heard overhead.
Alexis opened up his coat, and from its folds, a large metallic blacksmith's hammer fell out with a thud.
"Yup, bad."
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Tony had to admit they were right, there was crazy panic all over the building, and no one was looking for them.
They just had to reach the elevators; Sakura used one of those cards to turn them invisible as they rushed to the elevators. She couldn't hold it for long, so they just tried to run for it. The halls were pretty empty, most people trying to leave the planet or going into bunkers. Every once in a while, someone would bump into them. Most ignored them and rushed along. A few guards decided to investigate, and Sam would zap them with her zat knocking them out. Tony made a note to study it when he had a chance. Tony himself had his arm covered in his armor, ready to use it if they had to.
Lucky for them, anyone who found a body on the ground just thought it was an accident caused by the worsening earthquakes.
As they reached the elevator, Tony used the codes Alexis sent to open it up, and they quickly stepped in. The doors closed, and Sakura let the card slip off, making them visible again. Kero sat on her head, patting her on an excellent job.
They didn't exactly feel safe as they dropped at incredible speeds, and even now, they could feel the world shake around them. None of them felt any better about going deeper underground as the world was supposedly falling apart.
Soon enough, they reached the bottom, and the doors opened up.
"Oh…" Tony remarked.
Sam and Tony were no strangers to advanced tech, but this was something else. The closest thing they could make out was that the controls were directly connected to the power generator. They had no clue what the generator ran on; it was likely something that packed a punch.
Sensors in the armor beeped, and Tony slipped on his glasses. "We have to move fast; the quakes are messing with this place too. Everything here is reinforced, but that is not going to be enough."
Even now, they could see some of the cracks on the walls start to grow.
Sam moved to the controls but was stopped by an invisible barrier. "Oh, no, how do we get past it?"
Their instructions hadn't come with anything about the barrier; maybe it was a new security measure. It didn't matter as the others weren't responding, and they didn't have much time.
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Author's Notes:
Ah, I see what you did there.
Wade saves someone, I'll give a shout out to whoever can guess who that is first.
With Halloween around the corner, I think it's time for a visit to the Ghost zone. Who dod you guy think we we'll see.
The Power rangers have started to probe the multiverse and found, a cat girl, a vampire, a man in black, a princess and a bot.
The trip in Korea might end in horror if slasher movie troops is anything to go by.
And things are getting worse for Sari and crew. When suddenly two people show up, two people with unique histories with both Hasbro and Marvel. Let's play the guessing game here.
Marinette gets therapy. Which trust me I thought she needed seasons ago, I know the current season has been rough for her but yeah.
Also, Zatanna does have a history a therapist. Two alternate versions of her end up being a therapist so my theory is she has it set up as back up career. And lets face it pretty much every one we've met here probably needs one.
Q&A:
Bloodguy: A little, everyone is missing everyone else. No one is exactly happy or anything like that.
Yeah, well, of course Sakura is a variant of Tsubasa self. That's been canon. And with their world tour the templins would know about her.
darthwolf: I think there are three people with that title in this team. In't Decade in another time period? I've lost track with that set of rangers.
Deltagamer: I've heard of the game but i don't have a system that can play it.
Raxius: Not sure how that will come up , again isn't he in the past or something? Plus again, i think there are at least three people in this fic that are responsible for the dino extinction.
Guess 21: Where else can they go but Earth?