"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"

click*

Onto the next channel Rory went - they'd just watched fifty episodes of Spongebob, it was time to watch something else.

"We are the Winx, We are the Winx-"

click*

Bianka had been the one to change the channel that time -she'd just finished season 3 of the Winx Club, and wasn't interested in seeing another episode now.

"..When will my life begin-"

click*

Whether Konrad or Teresa had been the one to change the channel, no one knew. But everyone had watched enough frozen in the past few weeks to simply not want to see it again.

On and on the siblings went, changing between channels, trying to figure out something to watch. Eventually, though, they realized that wasn't going to happen, leading to them turning off the television in defeat.

"So, what now?" wondered Elisha.

"...Go see what our parents are doing?" offered Cassidy.

"I don't think it's going to be that interesting," remarked Sophia.

An alarm promptly went off.

"...But I could be wrong."

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"Pod, what are we fighting."

"Unknown. Machine lifeform does not match anything in YorHa database and...warning: I am unable to contact YorHa command."

2B frowned in annoyance. "Try again."

"I cannot - my systems register YorHa command as not being in range...and with no indication for how far away they might be."

"So you mean that we're fighting blind?"

"Affirmative, 9S."

Only half paying attention to the conversation, 2B turned her attention toward a quartet of oncoming quadrupedal machines. 2B prepared to charge, only for an unknown android to breeze past her, swirling around with its sword drawn, carving through each of the machines. Without missing a beat, it pulled out a bow of all things and fire off an arrow, which pierced right through one of the spider-like machines, taking it offline.

"Pod, is there any information available regarding this type of android?"

"None that was present on the database before we moved out of range."

A mechanical roar turned 2B's attention toward a massive, somewhat spiderlike machine. Beneath her blindfold, the Executioner series's eyes widened in shock, though only for a moment. Steeling herself, 2B readied to charge...only for the other android to put a hand on her shoulder, stopping her.

Then things got weird.

The new android, alongside several others, walked in front of the machine and froze. A moment later, somehow, smaller androids emerged from frozen ones, with each being the size of a human child, according to the Pods' approximations. Without hesitation, the androids pulled back their hands, then shoved them forward...releasing a beam similar to her pod's charged attack. The swarm of beams overwhelmed the machine, causing it to explode.

As the last of the machines was disabled, the YorHa androids turned their attention toward the new androids. "Pod, can you examine our allies of convenience?"

"Affirmative. It appears the subjects possess unnaturally high amounts of biological components and...oh."

9S turned his attention toward the pod, a worried expression on his face. "What is it, pod?"

"...Subject is a human."

"...What?!" shouted both androids.

"Correction: all of the smaller subjects are humans."

"WHAT?!"

2B's mind practically shut down at that remark. These were...humans?! How was that possible?!

"What are you doing here?!"

One of the humans was caught off guard by 9S' response. "Huh?"

"You're supposed to be on the moon!"

"I was. Then someone tried to destroy it."

'...Does not compute,' went the minds of both the androids and the pods.

As the new arrivals tried to make sense of what they perceived as insanity, Etran turned toward the Commander. "How many more portals are opening?"

"Putting it simply? A metric fuck-ton."

"Aw crap. So what do we do now?"

"Synais speaking: I have located a form similar to the one utilized by the machine that ended up trying to kill our commander with a suicide attack. I think that jackass is the one in charge here."

"Then send us the location and let us kill it," remarked Vivian, itching for a fight.

"Well, I hope you can fly."

Etran turned back toward the androids and their sentinels. "Hey, do you two have a way to fly?"

"Affirmative: 9S and 2B arrived to this location with flight frames. Both are still intact and operational."

"Then get in them and get moving - we've got somewhere to go."

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Exiting the portal, Thalya and her forces found themselves in a strange world, occupied by human tribes living side by side with animalistic machines. Suddenly, another portal opened nearby, popping out a strange looking man who-

"Who the bloody hell are you?!"

Wait, are you talking about me?

"Yes, you! Whoever is using the big voice in the sky! Where the hell are we?"

...Well, we're currently in an alternate version of your earth where humans live side by side with animal robots...

A missile exploded nearby, causing Thalia and Captain Poise to turn toward the oncoming Eclipse Horde.

And those humans and machines want to kill everyone else. So, can we declare a truce, Captain Poise?

"...Fuck it, let's do this. ATTACK!"

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The dragons knew not where they had ended up, only that people here were plagued by beasts of metal.

Well, time to change that.

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"Picking up another portal ipening, Commander."

Oh joy. I wonder how Coeus is handling this."

"He's retreated his humans into the hub. He's also sent in a demolition force to demolish the remains of the Metal Devil near him."

Nice. What of our enemy?

"Aside from the machine hareassojg thos etime travelers vanishing into a portal with sole inactive Faro machine? Nothing."

Well fuck. "How are Aloy and her companions doing?"

"Fairly well - they've already routed much of the Carja forces, and even slain Helis. HADES has reached the spire, though."

Fuck. Time to take him down.

"Not so fast - Aloy can beat him on her own. Focus on the reinforcements."

Fine. Viv, how are 2B and 9S holding up?

"Aside from kicking the tar out of some glinthawks and storm birds? Excellent."

Huzzah. What's our main target?

"Marking position of the enemy commander. Fill him with lead."

You didn't need to say that twice.

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As soon as we reached the target, I cast off my arcwing and fell toward the Earth. My sword impaled through the machine, carving up a portion of its head. My companions soon followed, and the enmy forces were deciamted. While the Androids remained in the sky, the others tore aprt the enemy on land.

I, mwanwhile, contined to hammer my opponent, ripping and tearing at him, not guving him a chance to escape.

A portal opened above me. On instinct, my vampiric claws rammed into it, drainjng itd energy and closing the rict before something could pop out. I really hoped thst wasn't going to make me explode.

It was only a matter of minutes before Aloy finally bested HADES and stopped him from awakening the Faro Plague. Coeus team was almost finshed with destroying the Metal Devil, and my foe was just about dead.

"If you were trying to gain the Eclipse of the Faro Plague for you forces, looks like you failed."

"On the contrary, Commander."

Then, without waring, a portal opened and sucked us inside. I ended up hitting thr groud first, woth the machine panding on top of me, breaking a few of my ribs and my vertebrae.

As I struggled to get up, I heard the machine shooting at something. Turbing toward it, I blanched - it was stnading before the Metal Devil. And had just executed the demolition bots.

"Your allies may have stopped the face of extinction...but they did not stop its will."

Before it could elaborate further, the machine placed a palm on the remains of thr Horus and concentrated. A moment later, it fell over, offline...while the massive machine began to shudder...

...Oh fuck.

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AN: For those wondering, the settings chsracters came from that were shown were Nier: Automata, Dungeons III, Anomaly: Warzone Earth, and War Dragons.

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