Cherunga took a second before continuing to operate the machine, staring down at Sans with a blank stare. "Did you seriously make a pun as I was just starting to pull levers?"
Sans was all smiles as he stood with the rest of the dimensional travelers, along with Dipper, who suited up into his black cat form, Plagg right next to him. They were all in the ring, and they all noticed Mabel and Pacifica stepping off to the side so they could hide and transform themselves.
Cherunga screamed as he scratched his head harshly, ruining his hair more than it already was. "I hate puns with the burning rage of the flames of hell!"
Dipper was leaning into his spear as it was stabbed into the ground. "That's a lotta hate."
Alastor scoffed at the two. "Actually, Hell doesn't have as much lava, brimstone, and flames as you would think. They do advance with the times, and while some of the dead enjoy having relics from the time period they lived in, it actually mostly takes the form of a city. You can take that with a grain of salt, seeing as the only place a sinner that has gone to hell usually sees is the outermost ring, that being Pride."
Cherunga shrugged, "huh, the more you know."
The rest of the villains looked barely interested in the conversation, each of them impatiently tapping their foot as they waited for Cherunga to continue activating the machine. The scientist finally rolled his eyes and continued to operate the levers, "no matter! My invention here shall duplicate what your own does, allowing us to enter another timeline so that we may destroy Rumble in person, and once we are done there, we shall rule the world as it should be! And then, we can do it all over again! Ya ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
The many versions of Dipper each flinched as they rubbed their temples. Alastor scoffed, "never really appreciate there being no voice acting in a game until you hear them laughing in person."
As the others were nodding in agreement, Ladybug and Queenbee dropped into the ring and prepared to fight. As the machine began to rumble, a dome covered the villains within as a light shined down on the ring and those within, before there was a large flash of light, and everyone left there showed concern over their heroes being gone.
Dipper was feeling confident in his plan, Rumble would scare Robbie away and he would be safe and healthy, no bruises gained, and he keeps his life. This plan however was crashing and burning as Rumble was walking towards Robbie to kill him, ignoring him as he did his best to talk Rumble out of murdering the guy.
Rumble was distracted as there was a large flash of light, giving Robbie the chance to run and create distance between the psycho and himself. Dipper was caught by surprise as well, though the big surprise for him was how he saw a group of guys that looked just like him, along with his sister and Pacifica. The biggest shock however, was the group of villains from the Fight Fighters game.
After the group of alternate versions stepped back, he also took notice of three others, Black Cat, Queenbee, and Ladybug. Each of them had a different style than the ones he knew, but they were obviously his alter ego and the others.
Rumble gasped dramatically, pointing at both his villains and Robbie. "This is proof of your villainy, Robbie Valentino! To have each of my greatest foes, all of which are foes of great evil, only proves your evil, there is no doubt now, for as I defeat these villains, I shall avenge this boy's father!"
Alastor and Rosie stared long and hard at Rumble, slowly turning to Sans, who looked down in shame, along with Ink and Chiron. Silence prevailed for all of ten seconds before Alastor and Rosie broke down into hysterical laughter, collapsing to the ground as they lost their balance.
While this had the added effect of drawing attention to them, stalling the fighting and banter. Alastor was the one to pull himself together enough to ask. "Are you telling me, you guys were the ones to summon the game character to help you, against Robbie!?"
Sans was the one to answer as the other two were feeling more ashamed of themselves. "Hey, we were a dumb weak kid that was told horror stories from everyone about how teens were. Though we have no real excuses, seeing as even without the help, we could have won. The only thing that caused fear was the whole three years of age he had on us, grow and learn and all that."
As those two got themselves under control, Mike made an announcement. "This little competition is growing, we are bringing in all the losers to fight, bashing up that game machine was not as satisfying as we had hoped, so we decided to hunt down and beat you in person. So you better get ready to fight Rumble, because we are starting up our own little tournament here, and you're the guest of honor."
Dipper was blushing as he looked between the two that were laughing and Rumble. Dipper had not thought something like this would ever happen, but then again, he never thought he would become a superhero either. Dipper stepped back, planning on sneaking away to pop back up as his alter ego so he would be of help, since he didn't think anything of the group of kids would be able to handle all these villains.
Sans scoffed as he stepped back, jumping out of the ring, pulling out his mic once more. "Well, this competition is gonna be taken seriously then. Everyone get your worthless hides out of the ring, leaving Alastor and Mike, since they started up this little game."
Rumble stared in shock at Sans. "Listen here young boy, these guys have challenged me to a fight, and as a Fight Fighter, I will fight!"
Sans frowned at the man, before a brilliant idea popped into his head. "Okay, we are going to do this thing right. All the guys step away from the ring, because this whole thing is starting over from scratch."
Sans pulled out one of those small square notepads, writing out every boy's name, he started to fold all the papers in half and place them into a tophat that no one noticed him having before.
"Okay, first we will get the girls out of the way, Rosie vs Sasha. Now get in the ring and fight, I will say that you are not being encouraged to remove the other's clothing, but there will be no penalty for doing so."
Rosie giggled as she got back into the ring, while Sasha glared and growled as Cherunga landed his machine, allowing the woman to stomp over to the ring. "So you're going to have me bloody up your ring girl, you're going to regret this shorty, because after I deal with her, I plan to break your skull between my thighs."
Rosie raised her brow, smirking as Sans hit the bell, signaling the start.
Dipper and Ladybug, who had gone to suit up when she noticed Rumble aiming to kill Robbie, watched in shock as Rosie kicked Sasha in the chin, dazing the fighter, before she jumped forward, grabbed Sasha's head with her shins, dropped her upper half behind her, and tossing the Fight Fighter villain into the air.
Rosie landed in a roll, ending in a handstand, where she straightened with speed as Sasha was coming down, causing her toes to stab into Sasha's back. The Fight Fighter was tough, so Rosie's toes didn't pierce right through her, but Sasha was folded in half as Rosie bent enough to bring the woman's face down right next to her own. "All this trouble for an idiot like that? Maybe if you had behaved, me and my brother could have shown you a better world of pleasure. Instead, I get to welcome you to Final Fist High."
Rosie stood on a single hand as she carrassed Sasha's cheek as she licked the other. Rosie finished her move by pushing off the ground, swiftly flinging her feet downwards as Sasha was still hanging from them, flinging the girl hard enough that the magic of the ultimate code showed her life bar deplete to below a third of it. Rosie gently landed near the edge of the ring. "Still think you can bloody me up bitch?"
Rosie spun towards the gathering crowd as she ran her hands along her body and flirtily winked at the men that were drooling over her. Sasha did the Fight Fighter thing where she scootched back as she stood, to try and keep her distance, keeping more on guard than before. Her body following the rules of her game was the only thing that kept her from being split in half, as she stood there staring at the girl across from her, as her fists began to quake, the fear she felt throughout herself showing.
Rosie smiled cruelly as she moved forward, spinning on a single foot, she lowered herself and by extending the other, Sasha was slapped back into the ropes, before Rosie uncoiled the leg of the foot she spun on, sending her into a spinning jump, Sasha grabbed the rope subconsciously, to keep herself from being flung back into the combo she regretted doing so, because as soon as she looked to see what Rosie was planning, Rosie was dropping down as she planted her heel into the game woman's face, flipping her over the ropes and out of the ring.
As Sasha landed face down, Rosie grabbed the rope, and with a short pull of the rope, she flung herself out of the ring, slammed her feet into Sasha's spine, before the springy recoil pulled her back in.
As Sasha's life bar depleted, the woman began to dissipate into pixels. Rosie did a celebratory strut around the ring, a spin here or there, a little dance and wiggle as a bunch of the boys there just hooted and hollered.
Dipper and Ladybug were still standing there in shock, watching who looked like an older Mabel curbstomp a game character, before strutting around in a skimpy outfit and being flirty with entire crowds. Stan and Mabel stepped up next to Dipper as they joined them, just as shocked as the other two.
Mabel nudged Ladybug. "Aren't you going to do anything about this?"
Ladybug stared in surprise for another second before looking at Mabel. "What can I do? They are all just standing there setting up these fights between each other and the game characters."
Dipper rubbed his shoulder as he looked at Ladybug. "Yeah, they are all from the game Fight Fighters, and I am starting to think that none of this would have happened if I had just had the guts to take a beating from Robbie."
Ladybug frowned at the boy. "You don't deserve that, and you should never just tell yourself this is all your fault. Obviously you got dragged into something, and your fear of the situation was what forced you into doing what you did to protect yourself. I understand that in order to face your fears, you cling to something you find comfort in. Like your videogame."
Dipper smiled as he looked into Ladybugs eyes, though before they could say anything else, they were interrupted by Black Cat. "Either give the lady a kiss, or take her back to the shack. It is awkward watching this for everyone."
Dipper and Ladybug blushed as they finally took notice of the alternate versions of themselves. Ladybug looked over the dress her other was wearing, "why are you dressed differently then me and my partners?"
A-Ladybug shrugged. "I got a magical influx of power, which upped my own magic, which caused my outfit to flare in appearance. It happened to all of us."
Dipper shifted slightly as he acted like he was unaffected by the conversation. Even as he looked at the Black Cat from across him, who smirked back. Mabel had to do something that caused a headache to form. "If Ladybug is flirting with my brother, does that mean Black Cat is available, because from what I am seeing, rawr."
Queenbee had a twitch in her eye, especially when Rosie and Alastor once again began to laugh. Before anyone could say something, someone decided to interrupt. "Actually, right now, you guys have taken a hit to your power."
Suddenly, the three Kwami jumped from the three alternate heroes, Plagg having been the one to speak up. "Our strength has been cut off, and you are lucky you put your mask on before we popped over here, because we can no longer feel our connection to our elements. You guys won't be able to unleash the full might of our power. So no calamity."
"No Stinging."
"And no Lucky Charm, or Miraculous Recreation." Pollen and Tiki finished respectively, as Dipper widened his eyes as he took notice that the other heroes hadn't transformed back as the Kwami were flying around freely.
Thankfully, Plagg was all for answering without prompt. "You are all lucky that you did gain those power boosts, or else you wouldn't have even had the chance to stay suited up. We are only able to stay here, because we are connected to you, or else we probably would have flown back to our boxes, so you will have to rely on your extra powers until we return home."
With that, the three kwami turned into auras as they flew into the chests of the three heroes. Dipper looked to have so many questions, and later would be happy that he could just say he was learning something new, and wanted to ask so many questions of the mystical beings.
"A Fight Fighter must accept all challenges, and I was challenged, so please allow me to fight!"
Sans groaned as he shrugged. "Fine, pull a name from the hat."
"Black Cat."
Sans nodded at the Cat that came with them as he jumped into the ring, the group of villains grouching and complaining about him being their opponent to face. Dipper looked nervous as his alter ego, though with a power boost, before he got nerfed, was facing one of the greatest Fighters of fictional history, the hero never loses.
As Sans rang the bell to start the fight, Cat jumped sideways as Rumble rushed forward with a straight punch. Rumble was as straight forward and honorable as always from the game. Black Cat would admit that this is a rather enjoyable battle, even as he was able to jump around and easily dodge every punch.
As the crowd was gathering and cheering on Black Cat, the hero took a minute to turn and add some flare to his dodging, by adding puns. "This is such a purrfect day, wouldn't you say?"
As Rumble continued to take the fight seriously, Cat wasn't deterred. "What, cat got your tongue?"
Rumble stood back for a second. "My tongue is within my mouth, not the hands of a feline. I must request that you fight seriously."
Black Cat pouted as he ducked under the next attack, before sending an uppercut right to Rumble's chin. Black Cat proceeded to get into a boxing stance that was recognized by only one man there. Stan rubbed his chin as he looked between Black Cat and Dipper. The other Dippers that came from somewhere, and just smirked.
Black Cat stood his ground as he continued to use a boxing stance to fight Rumble, who was rather surprised, along with Mike, who was still grumpy over not facing off against Rumble himself. The villains had planned to fight against Rumble all at the same time so each could get their hits in. But these idiots were taking this whole thing out of their hands. They would just have to do it all again after they got through this.
Sans smirked at the villains as Cat was knocking Rumble for a loop, his health bar wasn't draining as fast as Sasha's had, but it wasn't taking too long, and Cat was showing some pretty rad skills from when Stan pulled him aside and taught him some moves. Sans had already looked at his machine and was very angry with these idiots, because in order for their machine to work, it had to interfere with his, and that included messing with his current project with it.
Cat threw a final punch right into Rumble's nose, causing the game character to flop back in defeat. Getting the villains to shout in anger over having their victory stolen from them. Sans spoke up in a chuckle. "Hey, this is how things go, your target was weak, you are all weaker, this is just the way the fighter pixelates."
The villains each looked at one another, as Mike took the lead in speaking. "Well, since our plan fell through, I guess we no longer need to follow the rules."
Sans scoffed at them. "Like you were, you only didn't interfere with Rosie's match because she was against one of you, and the less you there are, the more you can get release on Rumble without sharing him."
While the villains didn't notice, Rosie and Alastor both snickered at Sans' innuendo, the chuckles getting worse as the villains didn't respond to it. Apparently, the villainous intellect and knowledge only extends to the events within the game lore, and doesn't translate to them knowing about other dark and dirty things.
Cherunga's laugh ruined the humor the evil twins had gained, as he spoke up. "The only thing we need from you is your machine, I was able to interact with it using my own, but I demand vengeance against you for ruining my lever pulling with terrible puns."
Sans gained a twitch in his eye as he stared down Cherunga. "Yes, let's just get the fights over with then, because we have a schedule to keep. Especially since you altered some calculations on my machine from your stunt."
Kenny roared before he pointed at the group of Dippers. "Enough talk, I can't beat Rumble for beating me, so I beat you!"
Kenny rushed forward as the Dipper in his sights was the smallest, Chiron. While Ladybug prepared to intervene, she was the only one to do so. And she wasn't fast enough, having been on the opposite side of the ring as the boys were pretty much across the park.
Chiron was just in his thirteen-year-old, short stubby horns, regular clothed self. Chiron was glad that Alastor and Rosie helped him learn to pocket dimension his clothing, because every transformation would have left him naked when he changed into his human looking self.
The random thought wasn't enough of a distraction, as Chiron simply grabbed the fist Kenny was aiming at him. "Maybe next time, try for an easier target."
Chiron spun low, sending a foot straight up into Kenny's gut, launching the fool into the air. Chiron was quick to jump after him with a magic boosted leap that allowed him to get above his target. Chiron kicked Kenny right in the face, launching his foe downward, before he released his magic and turned into his cervitaur form, before small meteors began to swirl around him, and he began to fall at a controlled speed. Just as Kenny was about to hit the ground himself, Chiron slammed his hooves into his chest, creating a large dust cloud. Chiron stepped from the cloud as Kenny had already turned to pixels.
Everyone shared a shocked glance at what they just saw, while the rest of the villains began to look a little nervous. Sans suddenly stood on the hood of Cherunga's machine as he smiled right in the mad scientist's face. "Nobody, fucks, with my shit."
Cherunga screamed in fear as Sans released his hold on his power, taking on his full seraph form, and impaling the scientist with his scythe-like tail, ripping the man in half, though the guy being the weakest, he just disintegrated into pixels quickly.
The heroes that belonged to this timeline were all shocked over what they were seeing, Dipper had never shown violent tendencies like this before. The next fight that drew attention was Jerry, who wound up in a fight with Queenbee and A-Ladybug. When Jerry sent a straight kick, the girls spun away and both kicked his knee joint from both sides, A-Ladybugs heels and Queenbee's gogo boots had done a good deal of damage, the only sign of it was the chunk that dropped from the Fighter's health bar.
Jerry pulled his leg back, favoring it by putting it in back, only for the girls to take initiative by spinning into their own straight kicks that connected to Jerry's stomach, knocking the man down. Queenbee rolled her eyes at the man. "Attacking the most adorable girls here? From behind nonetheless? How rude."
Frank shouted, acting as if he were singing, sadly he was worse then Robbie. "I shall steal the show, watch me glow!"
As Frank dropped down from his jump, having jumped randomly, he wasn't actually going to hit anyone. Ink wound up grabbing his leg, having moved so the attack would be aimed at him, rather than just in the middle of the group so he could be the center of attention. Ink's body exploded into a bunch of tentacles with sharp edges as they clamped down on the guy, causing him to scream in pain and fear from being eaten by a pitch black void with multiple rows of fangs.
The pixels that formed Frank seeped out between the teeth of the void beast, as he retook a form that looked more like his usual appearance of a twenty-two-year-old Dipper. Ink nodded at the girls, "please, don't mind the crazies."
A-Ladybug and Queenbee wouldn't admit it, but that scared them. They turned back to Jerry, who was also quaking in fear over what he just saw. The girls shrugged as they tapped into the magic they gained from their alternate selves, A-Ladybug's celestial caused a rainbow glow around her hand as some stars began to encircle her fist, while Queenbee's corruption swirled around her fist as black and red smoke trails. The double fist to the chin was enough to pixelate Jerry.
Mike had honestly been trying his best throughout the other fights, the entire time Alastor acted more entertained by those fights then he was dodging and blocking his attacks. Alastor finally turned his attention back to Mike, and smirked.
"One fool left now, it's almost time. Show what your determination's worth, you should prepare to just die. Like all your friends, you'll have a really bad time."
Mike growled, "You're starting to act like Frank, this is a fight, not a song and dance number."
As Mike lunged forward, Alastor ducked under his grapple as he shot a kick into the Fighter's gut, knocking him up. "Then shut me up. Guys like you are always just fools. Come at me, try to kill for all your worth."
Alastor jumped up materializing his pinetree mic, swinging it in a constant twirl, starting to pull off a juggling combo as they do in the game, after a short twirl, he raised his weapon straight into the air, before jumping as he spun, causing the mic to release dark soundwaves in the shape of a pine tree, that caused more pain to Mike.
Mike managed a couple words as the tune Alastor somehow projected, had a wordless section. "I will not lose, this combo can't last forever."
Alastor merely smirked, with him being above Mike, he curled into himself as the dark energy from his mic curled along his spine, imitating a certain hedgehog as he spun downward as the corruption magic sawed away at the man. Mike looked to be in a lot of pain, even as Alastor continued his song, which allowed Mike to fly backwards a bit.
"This is where it stops, this is where it ends. You keep telling yourself those words in hopes to keep up your stand. But my attacks keep coming, I just won't relent. Can you just not see the truth, can you not see what this all means?"
Alastor threw his mic forward as Mike neared the ground, causing a soundwave to stun the man, before Alastor appeared next to it, grabbing it, before he thrust it upward to stab it into Mike's back. Twisting his mic to drill it into his back, Alastor shoved the man upwards again with a pulse of corruption, giving himself enough time to enter his demonic form, his eyes catching on fire, his entire mouth of teeth becoming fangs, as corruption lines formed along his forearms, and along his temples.
"You think I might stop if you just stay patient, but your friends have all disappeared, erasing what is left is what I'm doing here."
As Alastor raised his hand, black and red miasma rose from the ground and began to pierce into Mike, slowly breaking him down to pixels as he finished his song. "I am just stronger than you."
Alastor shifted back to his mortal form as Wendy stepped over to see what was going on. "Dude, what is going on here?"
Sans chuckled as he pointed at Dipper. "Ask him and Robbie."
Sans snapped his fingers as everyone that wasn't supposed to be there up and vanished before their eyes. Leaving Wendy to look at Dipper for an explanation. "What did I miss?"
As the group popped back up in the park, everyone was so glad to see them, they cheered. They also managed to get a real look at the two girls' new appearances. Which caused them all to comment how fabulous they looked. Stan high-fived Queenbee, saying something about how rad her new look was.
Queenbee smiled a little wider at her grunkle's words.
Wendy had wound up showing up here just as her counterpart had back in the other world, though this one was walking with Tambry, who obviously explained everything to the girl. Robbie, Nate, and Lee, each with an extra bruise or two, showing that Wendy had already had a talk with them, were awake, and trying to deny going down in one hit each. The many recordings said otherwise, but they were still trying their best to convince people to little to no success.
Wendy stepped up to Alastor looking slightly annoyed. "Dude, did you seriously agree to a bet over me and Tambry?"
Alastor and Rosie both just raised a brow at the girl, knowing that she knew them better than that. Wendy sighed, seeing their point. "Yeah, okay, pointless to ask. And considering Robbie was the one to start it." Wendy rubbed her temples as she turned and yelled at Robbie, as the boy tried to deny starting it. "Tambry already ratted you out dude. She explained what all went down after you dragged them there, and what all was said."
Robbie glared at Tambry there. Sans cleared his throat. "Robbie also summoned a villain from a video game, probably explained how he did it, allowed the villain the chance to summon more villains, all of whom dragged us off to another timeline to try and murder us all."
Wendy gave Robbie another disappointed look, causing the boy to shrink inward on himself. Sans sighed again as he looked through his phone app and continued speaking. "We are only going to have another day or two here, because of what those idiots did to my machine with their own, it is going to be a bit flitzy this upcoming jump."
Tambry raised a brow. "If you can jump between timelines like you just did without the machine, why do you need it?"
Sans rolled his eyes. "Because I can't 'random jump' with guests. I can do that on my own, but I need the machine to do so if I wanna bring the others with me, because while I could randomly jump through timelines until I find a world that they described to me, it might still be the wrong one. I won't know if we are in the right world without them there to say that it is their world. I could find a world similar, come back and grab them, only to find that the Dipper that belongs to that world had popped back up after I came back with them. Either way, this solves the problem, because we can just explore the world as I remove the current world from our random timeline jumper program."
Alastor narrowed his eyes. "Are you saying that you have been already removing worlds from our list of potential drop points?"
Sans just looked at the guy. "Are you telling me you want to dawdle through every single world I have ever been to, taking longer to get you guys back home?"
Alastor shrugged as Rosie answered. "We would like a choice."
Sans sighed as he looked back at his phone. "Fine, we can take a couple sidequests between each jump, and if you all get tired of doing that, we can stop. Though I had tried to do something new, I was trying to narrow down our search to get you kids home, but Cherunga fried the circuits I added to it to do that. Hope this next world is nice, because we are in for one hell of a time."
Alastor and Rosie shrugged, whatever came their way, they would deal with it like any other crisis. But right now, they had a reward to claim, as they smirked at Wendy and Tambry. Alastor chuckled, "well, you heard the man. We only have another night or two."
Rosie was all giggles as they grabbed Tambry and Wendy and poofed through a shortcut. Sans sighed as he went about closing up the event he started, getting everybody to calm down and head home, distracting Manly Dan with how Wendy got dragged into a simple date, rather than explain what the group was really doing.
Sans was stuck going over the machine and trying to do his best to mitigate the damage done to it. All in a day's work for a Nightmare Catcher. Those that heard his muttering, wondered what he meant by that.
Alright, sorry for the delay FFN users, the site was proving to be a real hassle to use yesterday, and it refused to let me upload docs, so the fault lies with the site, and I am innocent this weekend.
As always, I hope you all enjoy this post, as well as my new story about how Fin lost his marbles for the first time.
