With A Snap
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Chapter 77: Consequences
EARTH PR-93
REEFSIDE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OLIVER HOUSEHOLD
Ilana woke up with what she'd describe as the worst headache she had ever had. And she had a major one after she got turned into a frog monster and died. Ilana was in a child's bedroom and quickly found a glass of water by the bed she was in. She got up and started towards the door, although she wasn't sure how she got there.
She carefully opened the door and noticed that the hall was empty. She had to be careful. Lance had drilled in some basic stealth training just in case after G3 took them. She could hear voices and needed to be careful.
"Moon hair!"
Someone tackled Ilana and started to drag her away before she had a chance to react.
"She's awake!"
Ilana was dropped on the floor.
"Thank you, Taokaka, but for future reference, please be a tad more gentle; she has just woken up."
Ilana found herself looking up at a blonde girl in a black coat. "You will have to forgive her, she can be quite energetic."
"Oops, sorry," Taokaka apologized to Ilana.
Ilana blinked as she found herself looking up to a tan girl in a hood; she couldn't make out her face but saw a small smile and eyes.
Ilana quickly found a familiar hand of Solomon helping her get up. "Are you alright?"
"I've been better, but what's happening?"
She looked around to see several people working, and then a dog man walked in with some people and Octus.
"Good to see you up," Octus greeted her.
"What happened?" The princess asked.
"During our trip, I had to shut down. The strain took more out of me than I expected."
"Proper shielding," Billy spoke up, "the strain of multiverse travel can discharge electronics without it."
"Luckily, they found us in time and brought us here."
Dr. K tried to explain, "Our associate Wes was investigating a lead for us when he found you in inter-spatial space and brought you here."
"And where is here?" Ilana asked.
"Another universe," Octus told her,
"About that," Kat came over, "there were factors that neither of us foresaw. We were both following signals that you happened to be chasing too."
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The power rangers were always happy to help but could not correctly track which universe the other had come from. They hoped that the people who sent out the signal might be their way home or help them. They might also have some info on their current situation.
Billy, while working with Doctor K and Octus, was fast enough to make a connection.
Scout was quick enough to make friends and explain the situation.
Yeah, things are bizarre at the moment. We are still trying to locate Thanos and find a way to defeat him to undo this Decimation. We can help you try to locate your homeworlds. We can give you any information we can to try to help.
And, we'd appreciate any help you can give us.
Octus explained to Ilana and Solomon, "I think we should go; it is our best bet home."
Ilana nodded.
Solomon sighed, "Agreed,"
Rachel looked over to Taokaka, who had fallen asleep during the explanation, "I think we should go as well,"
The rangers were looking over at each other, trying to come up with a decision.
"What do you think, Dr. O?" Kira asked him.
Jason looked over to him, "Yeah, I think we have to try. I'm not going to lie; this could be a trap. We've seen enough people trying to take advantage of the situation but not sure what else we can try."
"Right," Tommy agreed, "Give us a few minutes to get ready."
I can open a portal for you, and I'll open it up in your location in ten minutes.
The Rangers came up with a plan. The device Wesley used to jump dimensions could be taxing on the morphing Grid. Billy was going to study the tech and see if they could perfect it or find a way to get a large group across. If they did find this Thanos, they might need everyone they could get. They couldn't all go at the moment, still too much to do in their worlds.
A team would go to this new world and see if they were legit. Wes was coming, so if it was a trap or anything, he could use the device to bring them back. Tommy was going to since he became the de-facto leader already, he should go to represent them. Kendall and Gemma were both going as well, mainly to represent their worlds. Doctor K wanted to go too as their scientific expert, so if they were trying to hide something, she'd be able to detect it. Udonna and Rita volunteered to go along if these new people were trying something with magic, and if they were being honest, their power might help locate Thanos. Kruger, along with his team of Kat, Syd, and Z, volunteered to go. Their team was from another time, so they didn't have much holding them there. Kira and Lauren volunteered to join up. Tommy had a feeling that their abilities would be helpful.
Tommy was delighted to find out two of his old teammates, Jason and Adam, were coming along.
The portal soon formed in the room, and the team got ready to go. It felt strange to leave the world when it was still pulling itself out of this tragedy. Tommy got comfort knowing that the other rangers were there to pick up their slack.
They walked through it and found themselves stepping into the Avenger's Compound and greeted by Steve Rogers, ready to explain everything more in detail.
EARTH M-199999
NAMWON, SOUTH KOREA
OUTSKIRTS
Touma wasn't thinking so much about why girls would be holding his hands and more than they were. They were pretty teen girls, and he was an ordinary teen boy. After a moment, he snapped out of it, telling himself that it was dark, so it made plenty of sense to hold hands so no one would get separated.
That's what made the most sense to him.
The boy is pretty dense in any reality.
As they walked through the woods, they continued when they heard gunfire followed by screams.
The three teens rushed forwards towards the screams but found themselves far too late. They found bodies torn apart. While not forensic experts, it looked like they could tell there were at least several people most were wearing body armor of some sort.
Before they could deal too much with that, they heard something rushing away.
"Give me my armor! Now!" Tomago ordered.
Honey Lemon pulled out the suit from her power purse, and Tomago quickly slipped into it. She didn't hesitate to rush after the monster.
Honey Lemon was a scientist at heart. She studied and investigated the remains. Something was wrong. They were going off on the assumption that a hero was fighting a monster. This was different, they had standard military weaponry. She considered the idea that maybe they were military dealing with a threat, but why the news story? She doubted the government wouldn't make a statement or try to quiet the story, which would have been easy considering the state of the world.
And, she knew governments around the world had long since prepared to deal with enhanced individuals. It had actually become standard practice after the accords, every government had something ready in case something showed up, some better than others but-
These guys weren't properly prepared, they were using nothing more than standard tactics. Maybe it was because a kitsune was part of her culture. She knew if you fought them it would be best to fight at a distance. A drone would have been ideal and not have risked anyone.
Maybe they didn't know how to deal with magic; while Honey was firmly on the science side of things, she was from Japan, and there were hundreds of stories of youkai and spirits. The Japanese government was more than aware they were real. Since the time of the Shogun, the spirits and youkai population had been in decline. Now they rarely interacted with modern civilization, but the government was keeping eyes on them. She had to deal with a troublesome kappa a year ago.
Maybe they didn't know what they were dealing with. That was when she noticed something, she hadn't looked too close but she saw it, but saw they weren't even Asian. Why would South Korea bring the military from outside to help? How could they? Governments were bolstering up their own territory with everything that was happening—either way, why bring in outsiders if they weren't specialists?
Honey began to look for a patch for any way of telling where they were from.
She didn't notice that Touma had run after Tomago.
Honey did find what she was looking for, a patch. She'd focus more on it except she saw a faint glow drying out, right on the cut flesh.
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Tomago wasn't sure what she found. It was a teenage girl in red shorts and a blue shirt. That alone made her sound normal except her hair was white and glowing faintly like a full moon. Her nails turn into claws. She was on all fours like a rabid beast growling, her eyes little more than white orbs. A pair of fox ears sprouted through her hair, a long fluffy white tail wafted behind her. A long scarf wrapped around her neck hung loosely.
She had blood splattered on her, her claws coated crimson and blood was around her mouth. They hoped to come to find a hero but found a monster.
Sparks of electricity shot off Tomago's fist and she started to run towards her.
"Stop."
That word was little more than a whisper, but they rang in Tomago's head louder than any scream had ever done. It was almost like that one word came from inside her own head. She had stopped, her breathing was slower and more even.
As the fox woman stood up she moved towards the hero; her arm moved up, "Stay still, don't move,"
Tomago knew that she should try to move, but she couldn't make herself move even a finger. As the fox girl raised a bloody claw, she couldn't try to move.
"No!"
Before the attack, Touma rushed through the forest towards them.
The fox paid little mind, "Stop"
There was a sound like glass shattering, and Touma kept moving forwards.
"Stop!"
Shatter.
"Don't move!"
Shatter.
"Halt!"
Shatter.
This had never happened to her, some people with stronger wills could resist, but they all lost to her powers.
Touma took a leap, and as he reached close he let his right hand brush against Tamago, and she heard that familiar shattering sound in her head and found she could move.
The fox girl had no idea how her mesmerizing abilities were failing to work but she didn't care. Her claws outstretched, she charged at the boy. Touma reacted and pushed her back with his right hand and with a touch the claws were withdrawn. She pulled away unsure, she felt her powers vanish all of a sudden but away from him.
Suddenly Touma reacted by pushing the fox girl behind him.
Then a bullet rang out and struck Touma in the head, he fell backward. The smell of blood almost distracted her, the fox girl turned to find a man rushing through the forest. He was torn apart, wounds on his flesh glowing a burning golden orange as he rushed over.
Tomago quickly pulled Touma behind a tree and the fox girl rushed the man avoiding the last few of his bullets. The man tossed his gun aside, his hands glowing brightly as heat radiated from them.
She took no pleasure in killing anyway, but these people could heal from any wound unless it was fatal. They had been chasing her for days now, and they were unstable. They killed anyone who could have helped her. She had to keep running, staying where no one was around.
Honey Lemon arrived as Tomago tried to help Touma, Honey Lemon quickly joined her. They didn't know to call it lucky or unlucky but Touma wasn't dead. His skull seemed to be in pieces and blood was dripping out.
Honey looked over the TDS on his wrist, which should have teleported him back should things get too dangerous. While ideally, it would teleport him if it sensed great danger some things come too fast to calculate. Still, sensing a problem with his vitals it should have taken him away. Honey inspected the device and it was glitching out; it somehow got broken. She didn't know, maybe his powers were affecting it, it supposedly had some magic in it.
"What rotten luck," She hissed, "call Martha to tell her we have an emergency," Honey Lemon took out a first aid kit, "we've got to stabilize him."
A portal started to form behind them, and Deadpool stepped out of it with a red-haired woman.
"Hey the-" Deadpool stopped, "what the hell?! I was expecting a bite! Not a gunshot!"
"What the bloody hell?!" Elsa yelled out, she looked at the Kumiho fighting a glowing man.
Honey Lemon barked orders, "Help her while we get him ready to move."
Both newcomers were a little confused, Deadpool finally voicing his thought, "I thought we were after the fox girl."
"I don't have time to explain," the young spy told them. "If I'm right it's too late for her to kill him, but he can still kill all of us."
Deadpool looked over the situation, "Well, it doesn't look like she shot the kid."
"Makes it easy to see the monster" Elsa loaded her gun.
The glowing man grabbed her arms and started to burn them with his touch.
"Bad touch!" Deadpool yelled out.
BAM!
BAM!
Two shots pushed him back, both started to unload their gun forcing him back but to their surprise, the wounds began to seal themselves up with that weird energy.
"He heals! That's just unfair," Deadpool remarked.
"I don't think you're one to talk," Elsa pointed out.
The man tried to move back to them but started to shake as heat radiated off him, and cracks formed over his body.
Honey Lemon opened up a portal with her TDS as Tomago helped carry Touma through it, "Time to go! All of us!"
"Come on kid, time to roll," Deadpool helped the fox girl up.
Elsa covered them as they stepped through the portal. The portal closed up behind them just in time for them to miss the man explode in a huge blast of energy.
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"Wade!" Martha yelled, "That's what the-"
Deadpool tried to argue, "Okay, I know it seems bad, I've brought you three teenagers in need of medical-" he stopped, "Yeah, there has to be a way to sound better."
Katara was there to help Martha since they had a head's up, as they put Touma on the bed she tried to bend the water towards him to heal him. But as she moved the water towards his head and it started to glow Touma's hand twitched towards her and suddenly she found her bending gone and the water just splashed him.
"I'll look after him," Martha motioned to the fox girl, "see if you can help her,"
"Who is she anyway?" Katara noticed the ears, "A spirit?" She'd seen a lot of weird people in the last few days but this was a bit new.
"…Ami.." The white fox fell into unconsciousness after running for several days.
They helped settle her into a bed to be looked after.
"Okay, so what happened?" Deadpool asked.
Honey Lemon held out a patch with three letters, "AIM, the Japanese Government has heard chatter that they are still around after Stark took out their leader. It looks like they had sent agents with Extremis after her, she killed them quickly so they didn't have a chance to heal. But, if they don't die they tend to explode."
Elsa noticed as Katara started to heal her, that Ami had a load of wounds ever her body, bruises, cuts, and burns. "She must have been running from them for days."
They decided to let her heal before they questioned her, but things weren't looking great at the moment.
EARTH M-199999
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AVENGER'S COMPOUND
Morgan Le Fay worked on adding new crystal tech into the computer system they had built to hold all the data on other worlds and everything involving the Snap.
Dendy was trying to connect a cable to Shannon.
"Hey, watch it!"
"Sorry," Dendy apologized, "but we need your computer to help translate the data while we transfer it."
"Fine, just be more careful, that stung"
"Don't worry in a few hours we'll have everything sorted, I hope,"
Looking over to the side The Doctor and Missy were adding data to something they found in the Luthor files. They hadn't even finished decrypting it when Missy found something and needed more data. Apparently the Doctor and her found something of the same nature.
Dendy wasn't sure what to make of it, those aliens seemed very strange to start.
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Tony sat down in his room looking over all the data they had collected.
Pepper's voice echoed to him. "Any luck today?"
"Missy is very happy that she didn't rip out any eyes from royalty."
"Oh, that is good,"
"Well, until we told her they were royalty, she was kind upset she never finished her collection."
"What?"
"I didn't ask, she was working on something. I think she's trying to help."
Tony looked at a file photo from the Templin Institute of a teenaged Alexis, Scarlett, and Beatrice, they looked normal and just normal kids playing ping pong. There were dozens of pictures of them in crazy adventures and battles but he kept turning to one of them just trying to play a game. As inhuman as the legends said they were, he couldn't help but see them as people trying to do something good.
He opened the files the institute had on pretty much all of them, and he saw their victories and their failures, and how even some of them got close to causing so much pain when trying to do good.
Maybe they all were humans who got a little broken along the way.
"It's a long day,"
"I'll let you rest, I love you,"
"I love you too, Pep,"
As the call ended, Tony opened the files on Infinity. It showed him as a savior in many worlds, some him as a prophet or a harbinger of disaster. Those orbs of his were maps that were said to be left by him. So that one day heroes would find them and use them to gather for what he called the Battle of the End. One where the battle for the Fate of the End would be decided.
Though the Institute could never figure out what was meant by The End, they noted it was likely nothing good.
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The following morning they all gathered up for the daily meeting. It was a little hectic and more than a little crowded but keeping everyone updated seemed to help morale. People could speak to the group at large if they had something to offer. Made everyone feel like they were equals.
Alexis kept drinking from a water bottle, Martha had insisted that both he and Scarlett not only try to take it easy, but that they drink water throughout the day. Considering what they endured, the fact that she hadn't handcuffed them to beds and IV was a mercy.
Martha was having a rough day, she'd had a number of strange ailments to treat all of a sudden and some tests were worrying her.
Gwen sat down in her usual chair to find Charmcaster sitting next to her.
"You look…" Charmcaster tried to mince words, "You don't look great."
"Ah, yeah, didn't sleep too well," Gwen told her, still unsure how to tell about what the orb had told her. The thing about Hope was getting deep under her skin.
Alexis insisted on doing this because he wanted to share some good news. He took another large drink from his bottle.
"Okay, so, yeah, special thanks to the science team and their working on the new computing system."
Three fake coughs from the back.
"And extra special thanks to the Box-More bots! We couldn't have done it without you, at least not as fast."
The room was getting awfully grounded, CPU had to expand it a fair bit but now they had screens showing this in other rooms. The Autobots were watching outside while they could fix things up for them.
"Okay, we've managed to decipher a lot of the data, Missy and the Doctor are working on something. But anyway, we found some tactical data. Luthor recorded the battle that took place on Thanos' Garden right until the end. As we assumed, Thanos recruited survivors of the battle into his new army."
Alexis motioned to the screen, "There was an old man with an army of machines-"
"Davros!" Martha shouted.
"And the Daleks," Mickey added.
"Oh, so you know them?"
Jack nodded, "They're trouble, world-ending trouble."
"Okay," Alexis squeaked, "well, we'll talk to you about them. Guess, it's kinda lucky we got some people who know about them. But let's get some detail about every individual we managed to identify as Thanos' new commanders,"
Alexis motioned to screens summoning up another image, of a young woman, with purple hair, "Speaking of someone we know-"
"Evil Sari" Sari shouted looking at the image.
"Yeah, we all probably have evil doubles somewhere in the multiverse. I've met enough of mine that- well, at least it's a surprise that one of the evil us's ended up with Thanos."
"I saw her the other day, she attacked our home city before she vanished," Sari explained, "I thought she just found a way to jump universes and wanted to attack me."
"We will need to talk about that," Alexis told her, obviously he hadn't been informed of all the recent details for obvious reasons.
"But-" He motioned to the image of a woman with black hair.
"Hela" Thor got up from his chair, "My sister"
"You have a sister?" Tony asked.
"Didn't know about her until recently, and I thought I killed her when Asgard was destroyed."
"…"
"Let's just move past that," Alexis made an image of a catgirl appear.
"Catra!" Adora shouted.
"And, you?"
"We grew up together," Adora tried to explain, "We- we had a falling out when I realized the Horde that raised us was evil."
"It's called the Horde, kinda evil-sounding name," Alexis pointed out.
"Well- I left it and joined the rebellion and she didn't and- well, things got worse after that. She's been going into some bad stuff but I didn't think she'd do something like this."
"Yeah, dealing with exes can be hard,"
"She's not my- ah- we aren't-" Adora stammered.
"Really? I'm getting an ex-girlfriend vibe."
"No,"
"Then definitely moving on," Alexis flinched at the image of the alien with tendrils on its face.
"Vilgax!" Gwen interrupted.
Alexis just let out a long tired sigh and sipped on his bottle.
"He's a warlord, he's been after my cousin for years and been after the Omnitrix," She tapped on the device on her wrist.
Alexis just flipped through the images of a flayed looking man, "And-"
"Lord Zedd," Tommy spoke up, he and some of the other rangers looked downright horrified, the Mystic Mother looked on shocked.
"He's one of the toughest opponents we've ever had to face, he's conquered worlds and- we thought he was beaten."
"How about?" Alexis switched the images to a green robot. "Anyone know her?"
"Vexus" Jenny Wakeman spoke up, "she's someone I've fought for years,"
"I've fought her before that," Dr. Wakeman added.
"Yeah, I had some runs in with her too," Sheldon added.
"When?" Jenny asked, "During the time you sent me off to space to be raised by pirates." He said that with a bit of a bitter tone.
Alexis just threw his hands in the air and showed the next image of a dark mist.
"Anubis." Sam Carter told them.
Teal'c didn't sound as surprised but explained, "He was one of the Goa'uld system lords banished for acts even the other system lords deemed unspeakable. He found a way to ascend to a plane of higher existence and gain greater power. We believed him trapped." The Jaffa warrior looked towards Morgan, who looked on only in confusion.
"He attacked our world," Ilana spoke up,
"Okay, does someone know this guy?" Alexis showed the final image, of a white and purple alien, with some images of them in gold.
No one replied right away. Alexis was actually happy about that, he was going to go on about all the stuff the science team had deduced and discovered from the footage.
"Frieza," Rachel spoke up.
"Yeah, Freaky Face," Taokaka chirped up.
"He attacked our world," Rachel explained, "he was why we had to escape when we did. But, I have never seen it before and I certainly would have noticed him."
"There are no coincidences," Alexis mumbled.
He and Tony locked eyes, Tony smiled at that, he had been right, someone was manipulating things. Tony got up from his chair to explain what he had discovered when both the Doctor and Missy rushed in and panicked.
"We have trouble," The Doctor stated grimly.
DC-63038
THE BLEED
HOUSE OF HEROES
President Superman was walking into the room. They managed to pull out all the villains from the cube, and were treating those hurt. They had to make sure that Doomsday's remains were isolated and contained. Even dead he'd only return stronger, all the damage he managed to take was only a testament to that fact.
Some of them were knocked out and had begun to wake up. The Luthors weren't talking, only stating that the heroes had made a massive mistake.
But they found someone that Superman thought might talk.
In a holding room, he found Poison Ivy.
"Dr. Isley, I want to talk."
The green-skinned woman let out a single harsh laugh. "Ha!"
"Do you think this is funny? You were about to destroy an entire universe. While you've been a criminal, recently it seems like you've been trying to do good. Even at your worst your goals have the noble intention of protecting nature. Why would you join an organization whose goal was to destroy an entire universe?"
She laughed, "You really don't get it? We weren't trying to destroy a universe, we were trying to save all the others."
EARTH M-199999
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AVENGER'S COMPOUND
Booster Gold was shocked, "Are you saying Luthor was right?"
"No," Missy waved him off, "There was nothing right in what they did."
The Doctor explained, "Looking over the data they had it showed that this universe was the center of an omniversal event. This had wide-reaching effects, the dusting and the breaking of the barriers between realities. But there are delayed effects, the stress is too much. When Thanos used the stones at their full power it damaged this universe and all the others."
"This universe is cracking," Missy told them, "it's like a hard-boiled egg about to burst in the microwave. And when it does the damage will spread across every other universe and carry on."
"Luthor was trying to destroy this universe to prevent that. Like cutting out a frost-bitten foot to save the leg and the rest of the body. They hoped destroying this universe before the damage could spread into the other universes would not only kill Thanos but would limit the damage."
Steve was the first to voice their thoughts, "It sounds like you're saying we should have let Luthor destroy this universe to save the others."
"No!" Missy shouted. "We've been telling you that's not it! It's already too late for that. I spotted it when we were decrypting the data. The Luthors were too focused on themselves and their universes. The laws of physics are a bit different from universe to universe and they used their universes as the basis for their theory."
"It's far more malleable," The Doctor agreed, "it can take more damage and shift and rebound. Honestly, it's rather unstable-no offense," The Doctor looked at the heroes from those universes, "It looks like it could bend on itself and reshape itself if someone punches it hard enough."
"Yeah about that," Missy cocked her head, "Did someone dump something at the big bang, contaminate it? Because the level of instability I noticed on my scans say the damage goes back a long way."
"Never mind that," The Doctor continued, "what they failed to calculate, was that the damage has been done, it has been spreading before they arrived."
A silence filled the room.
EARTH DB-1984-7
THE LOOK OUT
Vados and the newly minted god of destruction Kefla arrived at the lookout. The God was annoyed by the lack of action but it looked like the angel had finally found something.
Dendy, Earth's guardian, walked towards them.
Vados was about to introduce him when Kefla shouted, "Hey! Vados told us you know something about where everyone went."
Vados sighed and Dende tried to explain, "I don't know anything about that, it's just a few days ago I noticed some strangers I've never seen before arrive and disappear. They were followed by a strange many winged creatures."
Vados explained, "I've looked into it, there were strange energies at play. I think that by taking a closer look-"
The angel paused as the staff began to beep. She looked at the orb on top and her usual stoic mask was broken.
"Universe 5 is gone."
"Gone? What-"
"Universe 6. Universe 1. Universe 9. They're all vanishing one after another."
The world seemed to shake as the sky turned white. Vados raised her hands creating a bubble around them for protection, but soon everything around them began to fade. The bubble fell into an empty void of nothingness.
EARTH STSG-11
AKIHABARA, JAPAN
FUTURE GADGET LABORATORY
Makise Kurisu was finishing up the device. She had sent Daru away to be with his girlfriend, he'd already hacked SERN for her and she just needed to finish up. It didn't matter much now, it was almost time. She placed the headset on and turned on that microwave. As the beeping started the ground began to shake as bright light filled the room.
As the world twisted around her she suddenly found herself sent back.
Holding out Dr. Pepper the self-proclaimed mad scientist Hououin Kyouma studied her." Christina? Are you alright? You seem-"
She took the drink, "I'm just tired."
She needed a moment, she couldn't look at him just yet, not look at her Okabe…
She was back just before everyone vanished. Daru was working on the computer in the corner, Mayuri was working on a cosplay.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
"Of course," She gave him a practiced smile, one not too eager and not too annoyed.
Weeks after it happened everything fell apart and she was barely lucky to jump back. She had sent her mind back several times to try to discover why half the population vanished- why they had vanished. Try to solve this mystery.
After fifty jumps back, she gave up, she couldn't figure out, she would never find out. And Okabe could see it, in her eyes the every growing despair and hopelessness. She learned to hide it, even from someone who'd gone through it.
She had an option now, to just wait out the end and die with the world or go back. For some reason she couldn't go back any farther, something had changed and she didn't know what. Just another mystery she couldn't solve. No time-traveling daughter of a friend to show her the way.
She jumped back, just to be there a half a day before they vanished. Then they would and she'd start to build the Phone-wave again. Then she'd jump back again. She didn't know how many times she'd live the same couple of weeks, she gave up counting after 200 leaps. She simply didn't care anymore. The world was going to die, at least she could repeat a few hours with her friends until she was ready to let go.
EARTH M-199999
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AVENGER'S COMPOUND
"What happened to Danny, to Marinette, to the Templin worlds was this. The damage is manifesting in different ways, different aspects of reality breaking down." The Doctor explained,
Missy nodded, "If I have to wager, I imagine that's what happened in our sleepy beauty's world. Our readings suggest an unstable spatial warp entered the wormhole and created a rift in space which was already weakened and spread. It engulfed that whole reality."
TVA M-199999
The golden door portal formed and Death's Head walked out, few around looked at him. They both respected him and feared him. He was one of the few individuals allowed to know about the existence of the TVA and wasn't officially a part of the TVA. The Time Keepers allowed it, using him to hunt down particularly difficult time criminals. He was allowed to follow criminals who jumped time periods. He did this in addition to hunting down regular bounties.
He made it to the door and knocked and was quickly allowed in. He found Judge Renslayer drinking behind her desk, the usually orderly woman was a mess. Not that the bounty hunter could blame her. He didn't care much about their mission about the sacred timeline or anything but did know that their mission was failing.
"Please tell me you have some good news."
He shared the data he had, "Thanos?"
"It looks like it."
She took a long tired breath, "He was a prime suspect but we lost track of him,"
"I thought your lizards were supposed to be able to track everyone,"
"Hah! I went to talk to them- they're not there- or they are- we found three broken robots. We can't prune the timeline anymore. The charges are no longer working. Hundreds of thousands of diverging timelines are forming all down the timeline. And- and-the future is lost to us. No matter what we try we can't go into the future" She laughed before taking another drink, "Countless other realities we had no knowledge about appeared on our radar, and the area around the timeline has increasingly become unstable."
Death's Head looked at the scared timeline screen and saw how several divergent timelines formed.
"If you can't prune anymore what's happening to those,"
Renslayer looked up and to her confusion, several of the diverging timelines had just vanished.
EARTH BOY-03
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
VOUGHT INTERNATIONAL
The sky was on fire and the world was shaking, Homelander looked on in horror.
The rest of the seven had vanished and that pretty much left him in to keep things in order.
The city was on fire, riots happened and people weren't listening and he sort of snapped and set a lot of people on fire.
In his defense, he was under a lot of pressure. As much as he believed that he was a heroic symbol that people looked up to…he wasn't it. He was in essence a sociopathic little child in the body of a man with the powers of a god.
He was alone in the building, the employees either left to be with their families or left when he went on his little freakout.
Then things got worse, a white light shone through the red sky. He looked out through the windows and saw white engulfing buildings tearing them apart before they vanished.
Homelander tried to run, didn't know where to as everything was falling apart. As the nothingness reached him, his nose was filled with the smell of his own urine.
EARTH HS-2003
NISHINOMIYA, JAPAN
KYON'S HOME
Kyon stumbled into the living room, he found it harder as the days passed to keep positive. Schools were closed and his family was literally dust in the wind. Kyon didn't know if any of Koizumi's esper friends were still active or not. Nagato's bosses or boss, he was never sure about that, well, they were gone.
He might have been scared about that alone but Haruhi who was supposed to be a big bad reality warper got dusted too.
He didn't know what to do with his life, he didn't know what the next day would bring or if there would even be a next day. He turned on the Tv and the news was on, he thought the signal was coming in scrambled, he could barely make out words, and images seemed more surreal than real. He sighed and got dressed. He was going to check on Nagato. He hoped she might have a solution, that somewhere in her galaxy brain she had the secret to this mystery.
He decided to get his jacket when he noticed how the wind was moving the trees outside. As he was about to reach the door, it exploded before him.
Nagato was there with an expression that did nothing to hide her fear.
"The Dimensional barrier of this universe have been breached,"
It took him a second before the words started to make sense to him, "As in, someone from outside our universe is here. Oh, now we get the slider."
"We need to leave,"
"Nagato, what's wrong?"
The ground started to shake and Kyon looked outside, and it was horrible. The sky looked like it was a shattered mirror and in the dead center of the crack was a black and red world with one massive yellow looking down at the world.
As he looked up to the hellstar he knew it was hungry, as its mouth opened up and a huge tongue snaked out.
EARTH M-199999
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AVENGER'S COMPOUND
"Even as we speak worlds are-" The Doctor didn't know how to explain it.
"Disasters," Missy suggested, "like what happened on Aang's worlds, little pieces of the workings of the gears of reality grind against each other. It's stretched to their limits and, well, if Jenny and the others hadn't stepped in- Whoa boy!" Missy smiled at Jenny, "Good work on that by the way dearie."
Jenny didn't know exactly how to react to that, but took it that Missy was trying.
The Doctor huffed, "That is on the smaller end of things, time could stop, space could break down, any sort of things that will cause the total breakdown of the realities."
"Oh, and that's not the worst of it," Missy said casually.
The Doctor stepped in before anyone could say anything else, "This reality is still breaking, and will break down completely. When that happens everything will fall apart. Every universe, every timeline, dimension, will break apart until nothing is left. Even the past will be gone, the damage will shatter time to the point nothing will have ever been."
"Simply put," Missy hummed out, "if we don't get the stones and use them to repair the damage, we not only lose half of the population, we lose everything. If the Luthors had managed to destroy the universe they would have set it off then,"
The Timeladies used the screens to show the math, and every scientist there quickly looked through it hoping to find some error.
Entrapta grimaced seeing the same mathematical patterns she saw when that portal nearly destroyed their dimension.
Leo Watts felt a shiver go down his soul, remembering how the gods tasked him to be witness to the end of all things.
John Constantine trembled, he had wondered what Heaven and Hell would do when the universes ended when Death put up the chairs on the table and closed the door. He now had the answer, they were doing it. The doors were closing to protect what they had. Something built into the grand scheme so when it was over everything would clean itself up without Him having to get involved.
Various time travelers looked on in horror, no wonder why no one could go to the future, they were all literally gone. All that was left was a short time they were forging that would lead to their end.
Precogs were starting to realize that their visions were becoming clearer because there were so few branches left, and they were all heading towards to the same end.
Tony could only mumble, "The Battle of the End,"
The more people thought about it, the more evidence they found.
Steve finally said, "How much time do we have?"
The Doctor replied, "We're crunching the numbers, we'll have an exact time later today,"
Missy answered, "We may have only a few weeks,"
TITAN M-199999
Thanos stood tall, the gems on his gauntlet glowing. Now that he knew it, he could hear it, the scream of countless realities begging to be saved. He would save them. Only he had the will and power to do it.
He saw his children working bringing tools and supplies to his home. They were arming themselves should anyone try to stop them.
He watched as the Daleks took the gems that Vilgax brought and used them for computing power in their machines. Strange creatures, little more than living computers, with Davros those stones could be used as supercomputers.
Even now he saw Davros working on their grand design. Soon it would be time, soon he'd save the universe, and soon everyone would see. Hey everyone, EndlessPossibilities57 here again. What did you all think of the chapter, I think we're really starting to build up to an exciting conclusion to this story and I'm eager to see what comes next. How did you like it, be sure to voice your thoughts to ADdude in the comments.
Author's Notes: So, yeah been building up to this for a while. I've sprinkled hints that the reality has been broken. I did see some people started to figure it out.
Okay now, onto the notes. Ami or the Fox girl as I've been calling her is White Fox another character from Marvel comics. She's a bit younger here than modern comics, generally this is when she started out and is learning to be a hero but more on that later.
I touched on Death's Head last chapter but here, he is seen working with the TVA as he sometimes does in comics.
So the power ranger entering the fray, yeah I was trying to find an interesting way to do it. Let's face it the rangers have been through some weird stuff and have lots of experts, so they not only would believe the avengers but could verify it.
Not much else to say, Constantine thinks of Death putting up chairs up at the end as how the universe ends. He's right, in the comic Book of Magic the final end of the DC universe has Death as the last person just about to close up the universe.
Otherwise… well, I said Dragon ball universe wasn't going to be apart of this. I do my best to stay to my word.
As for anything else, check out the TV trope page, add if you can. Review letting me know what you guys think and if you have a name for the team of heroes here.
Q&A:
Bloodguy: Ch 69.
Guest 01:
01: Well the farther you go, well foreshadowing and set up got to pay off. Yeah, I liked mixing the two typical introductions. Since yeah, at least someone from each team would have decided just to talk.
02: Senku is pretty resourceful but this world relies on building stuff in a somewhat realistic way. So yeah, going into quantum physics is a bit of his league.
03: Yeah, that counter might have just gone up a few.
04: Not sure how you'd count this as part two or what. We will follow up from her next time.
05: Maybe, I sat down and wrote down everything I planned to add and how everything will fit in. But things do change. I didn't do skull girls in the origional run because i didn't know about it. But then found it and played with it, and did a cameo with it when the story felt a bit repetitive so now i got an idea for them.
06: Hm, still thinking up a name. I am living Multiversal Avengers or something alike.