Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
"Ask the guards there." Charlotte suggested.
"What?! What are you mumbling about!?" The guard noticed.
"Oh shoot, forget it. Someone just noticed." Charlotte facepalmed.
"Nothing." Rex replied to both.
"Ok... if you act too suspicious and contact like so, you'll be..." The guard threatened the Founders.
"Geez, chill!" Matthew responded.
"Then behave." The guard left.
"Oh well... We're nearly caught." Na'el sighed.
"And we cannot escape by ourselves. Using our powers will only lead to our electrocution, regardless of who did." Matthew continued. "Also, we're plucked from a plane of existence, when we're not supposed to be born again until after the world's restored. Does that make us and the Ouroboros and then all those born in Aionios... paradox persons now?"
"Then we'd be referring to the spoilers of your games." Charlotte sighed. "Anyways, what else do you know-"
"Well, nothing yet. But we'll ask the guards whenever our Irises become inactive." Matthew concluded. "Meanwhile, keep an eye on your business." *hangs up*
The eight hangs up.
"It's working." Angelique exclaimed for that matter. "We've got a way to find out!"
The love interests celebrated at the success of the test.
"Refine the communication device, while I get a Rift Device." Charlotte to the engineers. "This is an order from the princess!"
Team O.R.A.C., as now dubbed, went to the DeLorean still enhanced by the red crystal, except O.M.A.C. and the Sinners who keep an eye on the Night City and the people rescued from the now-destroyed game world.
"It'd be a while for us to get used to this world..." Outis sighed. "Are you sure we can do a good job?"
"This is an order, and you and O.M.A.C. are to prevent the Night City fron being invaded." Angelique explained. "We have to act fast, lest we be in the actual dark when they undergo to their plans!"
"The destination is around Reality Zero." Charlotte starts up. "88 miles per hour, and we're ready to go. Wear some seatbelts, I need you to stay safe."
The DeLorean turned around and then accelerated to warp away.
"Back to the Future... past?" Some inhabitants of the Night City noted.
As the DeLorean rides through the space-time continuum, the princess ponders about the life of the girl named after her in-game role, and the murder that led to the reincarnation in the first place.
"For sake of both of the lives... I must press on...!"
As the DeLorean goes, a few rifts stood out in the way.
"Why are the rifts on the way?" Irked, the princess dodged the rifts.
Suddenly, a ominous message accompanied by elliptic imagery of the omniverse (specifically images of omniversal moments) went straight from the infotainment as the villainess dodged.
"O children who flow through the currents. On behalf of the Order of the Pariah, I have an omniversal message to you. Remember the moment the Anomaly nearly waged war upon the Charter? Or when Barry Allen accidentally breaking his universe by saving his mom, with varying but equally disastrous consequences? Or every time Shinra has to clean up Ouma's messes?"
"What the hell is this message, we're trying to find the Rift Device, damnit!" A friend complained.
"The omniverse and its super history, where existence itself lives and dies. Worlds live, worlds die, each multiverse becomes memories. Remember the Crisis on Infinite Earths? Thanks to that Crisis, all pre-Crisis moments collectively... became a memory, even after its restorations years later, even to this day."
"What? They're talking about Crisis on Infinite Earths?" Angelique is confused.
"Project Mobius is our salvation, presented to you by the Order. With this, nothing will ever be a memory. Not even the Last Stop project. All your average One-Above-All cosmic retcons be damned, and to hell with the Zero, the Project Mobius, helmed by our beloved multiversal variation of the Queen of Hearts herself, will be your only solution."
"Is this... the murderers' real plans?" Angelique questioned.
"You asked about this? Then this means we're closer to finding out the truth." Charlotte replied.
"The first stage of Project Mobius is coming soon. Until then, off with the Retconnian!" The message ends, but the imagery continued.
"Connected to O.M.A.C. already, so Brother Eye should get the record by now." Charlotte reassured. "And here's some."
In Reality-3DO-T, a few Realitiers masquerading as IO Guards, and holding a Rift Device. Then a black portal appeared in front of them.
"Excuse me, I'm well..." It's Johnathan Ohms of Earth-1610B, the Spot, peeking from his portal dimension through a portal of his. "Just learned out that the portals of mine connect... the multiverse, huh?"
"Just another Villain of the Week, huh?" And cue the Realitiers laughing. "You must be Spot, the goddamn portal man!"
"Are you sure?!" The Spot is frustrated.
Then the DeLorean appeared, and crashed to the Realitiers, barely missing the Spot. That one then braked.
"What?" Spot is confused.
Charlotte steps out, and then retrieved the Rift Device from the Realitiers... only for one of them to shoot.
"Missed!" The princess was able to avoid the fire.
That one then pulled the trigger again, but Charlotte simply activated the device, causing the bullet to disappear into another world: Reality-52's Earth-Prime, hitting the now-matured Clark Kent, Kal-El, the Superboy-Prime.
"Ouch! A bullet hit me!" Though the boy isn't injured or anything (he's a Kryptonian, after all).
Cue the Realitiers screaming in response, especially the one that shot. The villainess then used the Kinetic Blade to kill all of them except one, much to Spot's brief disgust. She also took all their cross-dimensional gizmos, even the spare ones.
-*gasps* "Someone from another universe-"
"Another another multiverse." Charlotte turned back. "But by the time you get back to your world and use your mini-collider to reactivate your powers before you steal a super-collider from another universe, you will have forgotten about my presence here."
"What?" Spot is confused.
"I already watched the story you're in. Across the Spider-verse at least." Then Charlotte pushed the Spot back inside, causing him to drop a mint pack and back into Earth-1610B.
-*portal closes*
technically Across the Spider-verse spoilers: Spot doesn't remember anything about his peeking at Reality-3DO-T afterwards. He moved on to reactivate his powers and then learns it...
Then the villainess, stocked with dozens of goobers, used the Rift Device to stock them into the DeLorean, and then get back to. The remaining Realitiers, meanwhile, is horrified, and teleported out of the way.
Returning to the Night City...
"Eye am detecting the return of the princess." O.M.A.C. sensing.
Dante tried to have a conversation with O.M.A.C., but for canonically obvious reasons, the Sinners are the ones to interpretate.
"They're ask whether you would let the corps call the Founders again." Faust told O.M.A.C.
"Yes, eye will. But eye waits until the princess and co. come back."
"Yeah, but we wonder whether she actually survives." Heathcliff responded. "Also, they may just have finally get used to this cyberpunk city."
Dante agreed, even though nobody other than the Sinners was able to get it.
"They are telling you that the city's safe right now. That, coming from us ragtags." Sinclair reported. "Maybe the cyberpsychos aren't so dangerous to us, after all."
The DeLorean came back, and the co. packed the gizmos and a Rift Device.
"Maybe the Rift Device isn't as hard to find as I used to remember based on the history." Charlotte shows the Rift Device. "Took it and a bunch of gizmos from some mooks from the Order, at Reality-3DO-T. On the other hand, there's a mysterious message I got on the way..."
"Eye received a message from you-"
"Wait, that means you actually received it!"
"Ok. Eye will show everyone the message."
The same message Charlotte got is broadcasted all throughout the Night City. Not only this revealed what's known and called the Project Mobius, but the imagery accompanying it actually showed a brief frame of David Martinez, who got revived from the wake of the last cycle of Zerobreaker war to lead an omniversal alliance against the eponymous threat. Cue a memory trip...
"That was when the Night City... got destroyed by dragons from other worlds."-"And there it is: that alliance!"-"Arasaka Desert..."
The masses then quickly started speculating about Project Mobius, and its connection to the Zerobreaker war in general. The O.R.A.C. returns to the communication device, and contacted again.
A little while later, the signal reached RNFL-X3000.
"Hello? We have an update." Matthew called. "We asked the guards, and now you called just in time!"
"Uh, what else now?" Na'el called.
Suddenly, another signal got caught by the communication device Charlotte is using. And since the device is calling the Irises, the latter ended up accidentally contacting with this signal as well.
"What's this signal?" The Founders are confused.
"Could this be? Another signal?" Angelique noticed.
"Hey! So good to see you." A purple streamer called. "Oh wait, who are you exactly? Earthers?"
"Who in the flame is this?!" Glimmer has no idea.
"I'm Tracking Error, my pronouns are they/them, and every week, normally I make videos about Convergence conspiracies while I get ready for my day." The streamer introduced themselves. "I'm normally posting Techstream or investigating conspiracies and looking great."
"Techstream?" Angelique then searched on the internet. "Wait, aren't you from Meow Wolf's!?"
"Convergence Station, yeah." Tracking Error admitted. "Anyways, I was streaming at Techstream, and then suddenly I connected into you instead."
"You're an alien... posting some sort of... contents?" Matthew is confused. "Well... I'm Matthew Vandham. My sister, Na'el Doyle, and more."/"そうですね...私はマシュー・ヴァンダムです。私の妹、ナエル・ドイルなど"
Charlotte then quickly spoiled her game to Tracking Error, and then told them about her search for the truth about her reincarnation, the Order and the murder of her past life's family.
"Oh, Akuyaku Reijou, I see. A former Earther, killed by an... anomaly outside of Convergence." Tracking Error responded. "Reincarnated into a game world... that you escaped."
"Tracking Error? That's a weird name." Matthew replied. "And you're an alien?"
"O.M.A.C., connect to Tracking Error, so we can upload our proofs." said the villainess. "And the Founders, tell us the update you got."
"Here's a refresher: after the successors successfully rebooted the Origin and properly merged the two worlds once and for all, we became a ghost, looking out at our ancestors and co., reuniting and then suddenly got into the amphitheater that Z was in, and then, we Founders, Shulk and Rex got imprisoned." Matthew explained. "We could not escape by ourselves. Using any powers other than communication actually electrocuted all of us, regardless of the one who did it. Then we got contact from a reincarnated villainess, and now this."
"We've got a Rift Device, and the Tracking Error also joined the call too. We also have Brother Eye as O.M.A.C., the Sinners, and my past life friends and the love interests." Charlotte reported. "We also have a message that I and O.M.A.C. got, so check this!" *plays the message*
"They mentioned the Last Stop project..." Tracking Error found out. "What in the Convergence did they... say about it now?"
"What?" Nikol is confused.
"Oh well, Convergence, eh? Sounds like poor man's Aionios." Future Shulk heard it.
"Yes, thanks to me and QDOT and even Numina, interestingly, the Convergence was saved. The Traveler used memories of the Forgotten Four to foil the Last Stop." Tracking Error revealed. "Chya is the Forgotten Four fused into one woman. That bootlicker got her memories scattered, hence the name of the four. Those were to be weaponized by Oleander, the Superconductor General who's a forgotten Chyadelin, to open gateway for the Last Stop, destroying every single memories and all form of remembrance in any living being and psyches throughout an entire timeline!"
"Thank you for spoiling the QPASS journey for us..." Angelique scratched her head.
"Anyways... the Queen of the Beach, the current leader of the Order, is preparing to use the so-called Anti-Life Equation to vandalize the entire existence itself." Matthew reported.
"That Equation... that's Darkseid's ultimate goal..." Charlotte took note.
"That's the first stage: 'Successor of Anti-Life'." Na'el revealed. "We asked about it and the second stage, 'Crises End'. That second stage would be started by both amassing and evolving the Anti-Life in the first stage and a so-called paradox event horizon involving the Paradox Prism, Cross Gates and Zero Point, all at once, spreading across the divine continuum: the greater omniverse and the entire hypertime."
"Oh my god... that's terrible..." Angelique is terrified. "These powerful things forcefully interacting..."
"Spreading both influence and exposing the Equation to existence, then the Crises goes off the rail throughout the second stage." Future Rex continued. "And the third and final stage, only known as the 'Dark Retcon'... involving the Dark Multiverse, a Mobius Chair, hence the project's name, and finally... tagging an almost powerless Zero Point by that."
"And they're trying to control everything that could prove dangerous to Project Mobius, like us, the Convergence itself, you reincarnated villainess, O.M.A.C., and whoever played a major role in quelling the threats preceding the Order." Future Shulk warned everyone.
"Alright, note taken." Tracking Error got it. "I could share everything we discussing on Techstream."
"The guards is coming, Teacher!" Panacea warned. "Bye to you guys!"
The Founders and co. hangs up, leaving Tracking Error in contact with team O.R.A.C. Tracking Error then told about Mijo Miho, to subscribe and like and follow, and then hangs up.
