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Decade suddenly recognized the voice. He remembered when a new recruit was to infiltrate 'Beyond the Edge' to prevent the victory of the alliance, only to be defeated by the Shinra duo and co...

"Nigen!"/"二元!" Decade recognized the former double agent. "And there are both..."

It's both Marle and Squares, both beaten up, bleeding, tied up by Nigen and brought to the dreaded grace of the leader of the Order of the Pariah, and in front of Kell Mossa himself. Decade captured a couple of photos of all this, as Nigen pushes Marle and Squares down in front of the dressed armor-over-stocking (as Decade puts it bluntly, in that armors in limbs only, and dress in-between for the body) masked woman.

"This is the worst..."/"これは最悪だ…" Squares kneels. "This isn't right!"/"正しくない!"

Marle is crying in kneel-down, and it amuses the leader. This madly upsets and utterly disappoints Decade, once the Destroyer of Worlds, who were used to destroy worlds and do ambiguous involvements with heroes for some time.

"Oh, but it's the nature itself." The leader mocked Squares. "And we're to seize all existence across all hypertime, right or wrong."

-*sobs* "Please... please... don't kill us!" Marle pleaded and begged. "We are good gods! We don't want to be erased!"

"Very well, if you serve me and obey the Order." The leader responded. "Rule 1: You must always obey my commands and everything I order all the associates. "Rule 2: You are free to conquer, destroy or mutate any realities and any existence from any timeline as your wish. Rule 3: Death to all traitors."

Decade recorded the entire things as well. "This is beyond catastrophic, even by the standards of the Destroyer of Worlds, as by myself."

"Gather the Hegemony Gods for the next stage." The leader commanded.

Marle and Squares is final free physically, but is now forced to do bidding to the Order of the Pariah themselves. Decade is done, so he took an Aurora Curtain to get away. However, the leader was able to notice the Curtain, but not the subject spying around.

"Mind not." The leader shrugs it off. She sits in the throne.

Meanwhile, Possessed Ringo branched off from the newly-split timeline, and now assuming the form of a dress with wispy hoodie and protruding detail based on Ecolo, and made of amorphous space matter, black but highlighted pink and a bit of others.

"It's really better with this than Arle, after all."/"やっぱアルルより、こっちの方が動きやすいや" 7!Ecolo inside 7!Ringo, with her eyes now shining unnaturally die to the possession. "Her mind can allow me to put up her lost magical outfit as a limiter, then I can release it and let loose, achieving full power!"

"It's really fun!" 7!Ecolo laughed inside. "Ok Ringo, but you let me win. Sorts of, actually."/"わかりました、りんごちゃん、でもあなたは私に勝たせてくれました。実際にはそうです."

"Whoa~, that was so~so fun~! SO-SO-SO-SO-F-U-N!"/"あ〜、楽しかった、かった〜！K・A・T・T・A、T・A・N・O・S・H・I・K・A・T・T・A〜!" 7! Possessed Ringo mused. "Perfection has never been so much fun!"/"完璧はとても楽しいではありませんでした!"

Suddenly, a rift appeared in space, and she inadvertently flew into it, accidentally entering.

"Ow, that hurts!"/"あいたーなぁ〜!" 7! Possessed Ringo crashes into the present Suzuran.

"Aaugh!"/"ほえー!" And Mipuyo finally got defeated. *losing SFX* "Oh no..."/"ばたんきゅー…"

"Perfection has never been so much fun!"/"完璧はとても楽しいではありませんでした!" Possessed Ringo wins. "Tee-hee-hee-heh-yeah!"/"ぐふふふふふ...にゃははははー!"

-*eyes both blue* "You beat me this time... Awww..." Mipuyo admits defeat. "I struggle if you get pushed to the edge!"

Then Mipuyo curled down, turning into the Puyo form twice the size of what would be a big Puyo.

"You... Puyo so giant!" Possessed Ringo makes fun of the form. "Is that another form of yours?"

"Yes." Mipuyo turned both green, having calmed down. "I'm half-Puyo, and changing is kinda scary."

7!Possessed Ringo fell down to the scene, landing in a Puyo between Mipuyo and Possessed.

"Whoa! Did I teleport into the Puyo Purgatory?" 7!Possessed Ringo is surprised.

"What!?" So is/are (main) Possessed Ringo. "You're..."

Both possessed looks at each other, looking nigh-identical. Any major distinction is depicted by the respective artstyle (i.e.: 20th-onwards of the present, 7 as from the past). Mipuyo freaks out by having two of the same opponent meeting each other herself.

"Waaahhh!"/"うえぇぇぇぇぇー!" Mipuyo freaks out. "Two versions of one person meeting each other! What is this!?"

"What!? You're... me!? What!?" 7!Possessed Ringo to her original future.

"You...! you are me... What!?" Possessed Ringo is caught off guard. "Where did you...?"

"You felt like a future version... oh no!" 7!Possessed Ringo is caught off guard.

"You look too much like past me, both ways!" Possessed Ringo feels horrified.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"/"あぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁーーー!" Both possessed screamed and freaked out.

Three peoples and a Puyo is searching for traces of other Puyo-based life to rescue. These three are Daichi, Shou and Marin.

"I swear there are a lot of parts Puyo!" Daichi is frustrated. "Where did the parts go!?"

"All we got here are all Puyos." Marin recalled. "And those Puyos are redundant, to boot, unlike Puyorin."

"Sorry. We should get our mechs and get out of this redundant place." Daichi suggested.

"Can you hear it?" Shou eavesdropping. "Someone's screaming."

"Please! Stop it!!!" Mipuyo in Puyo form, rolling against the panic attack of two possessed apple girls. "Stop!!!"/"やめて!!!"

Mipuyo had enough, just in time as present Possessed Ringo nearly steps into her. The half-Puyo turned to human form and grabbed the possessed, and went for a martial throw towards the 7-self. Both versions of Possessed Ringo knocked out as a result, just as the three arrived.

"あいたたたたた〜!" Both Possessed falls down.

Mipuyo chopped by hand, striking both selves and forced both Ecolos to leave Ringos.

"That hurts!"/"痛いなぁ!" Ecolo and 7!Ecolo knocked down.

"What are you doing!?" Shou yelled.

"Huh?" Mipuyo looked behind. "You... Oh, hello there!"

"Mipu! You're alive!" Marin reacted. "How did you..."

"I did remember Ecolo, so while you went to save our world from that brother Angol, I chased after him across space-time." Mipuyo explained. "I didn't notice that I was rifted until I stepped into the a certain prison tower."

"Yeah, and I finally found Ecolo. Not one, but two of him!" Mipuyo turns her eyes green and yellow. "And the reason why I remembered him, a creature that will easily be forgotten by many, so clearly is because I'm half-Puyo, and he uses Puyos for battles."

"Marin, I'm glad you found me. I'm your half-Puyo guest or em, I don't remember, but-"

"You're a half-Puyo!" Marin ultimately understood. "That's it! We're trying to rescue you and other parts Puyo! Thanks goodness we found you!"

"Who's those apple girls though?" Mipuyo pointed both Ringos. "They kept holding some sort of apples in their hands."

"Oh... you got me." 7!Ringo got up. "I'm Ringo Andou. Nice to meet you."/"安藤りんご です。会えて嬉しい"

"Nice meeting you. Ringo Andou."/"よろしくん。安藤りんご です" Ringo got up. "Wait... this girl seems to be... my past self?"

"They seems to be the same people from different point in time." Shou examined. "And that's coming from the friends who barely even know what's the timestream or alternate timelines."

"Ah... you got to be screwing me..." Ecolo got up. "Wait... I can sense the chronological discrepancy here..."

"You're me from the past, aren't you?" Ringo asks her past self(?).

"You're suspiciously like me." 7!Ringo raises her 'brows. "Ugh, my head..."

"Ah, I kinda got it." Ecolo remembered. "I tried to possess Ringo. I had a liking with her, especially that she can remember me easily."

"Huh?"/"おや？" 7!Ecolo is confused. "I actually did possess her. She technically let me win, in that she didn't do good enough against me. She gave in."

"No, the first time I possessed Ringo was in the end of the war against a dreaded monster, when Ringo was dying and everyone needed Zero Point Puyo to stand a fighting chance!"/"いいえ、私が最初にりんごちゃんを所有したのは、恐ろしいモンスターとの戦争の終わりで、りんごちゃんが死んでいて、誰もがゼロポイントぷよが戦いのチャンスに立つ必要があったときでした!" Ecolo explained. "Not counting the wars, I also tried to possess the Dark Prince, and got involved in the world merger twice!"/"戦争はもちろん、サタンに憑依しようとしたり、2度も世界合併に巻き込まれたり!"

"What are you saying!? None of what you just said has happened for me!"/"何を言っている！？あなたが今言ったことのどれも私には起こりませんでした!" 7!Ecolo replied. "Does that mean... I'm your past self!?"/"ということは… 私は過去のあなた!?"

"And since we were possessed while on our ways, does that also means..." 7!Ringo heard it.

"You and your Ecolo are from the past, branched off by a new timeline!" Ringo figured out.

"Eeh!? How unscientific!"/"えぇぇぇ!? なんと非科学的!" 7!Ringo is shocked.

"Oh no! We're against ourselves in time!" 7!Ecolo is frustrated.

"My world... my friends'... it's done." 7!Ringo slumps down. "Back to square one..."/"出直してきます..."

"Is this even funny in the first place?" Ecolo facepalms. "Ringo?"/"りんごちゃん?"

"Oh, I hear you, Ecolo." Ringo replied. "Turns out we just met our past selves. Look, it's my old uniform, and you looked pitch black."

"Ecolo? So we're facing our future selves?" 7!Ringo tells 7!Ecolo. "This is the wrong-est."/"最強の不正解..."

"Well, I had two Puyo battles with the present Ecolo in Ringo in a row. Then the past selves crashed in." Mipuyo explained the situation. "And they panicked, so I calmed them down... by force, literally."

"Wow, you're still so violent." Marin is surprised.

"I just do what I had to. Also, that depends on my state. Puyo expression." Mipuyo responded.

"Sorry, Mipuyo..."/"申し訳ありません、みぷよ..." Ringo apologizes. "I was just minding my business."

"Same to you, Ringo Andou."/"安藤りんごさんも同じです" Mipuyo returned the apology.

"Now I know who you three are." 7!Ringo responded. "What about the other three?"

"Daichi, Shou and Marin."/"ダイチ、ショウ、とマリン です" Mipuyo introduced. "And Puyorin."/"と ぷよりん" *proceeds to explain the backstory and war to all*

"Oh, I see. You once fought Angol and his army of Fifths?"/"ああなるほど。 アンゴルと彼のフィフス軍と戦ったことがありますか?" 7!Ringo understood.

"We uses mechs to battle. Puyo in the mech, then we pilot and go." Shou explained. "We'll show you the mechs."

"We and that half-Puyo have Puyo battles. You drop some Puyos and stack, go match at least four of the same color. And so by the stack falling you can chain with that. Garbage sent." 7!Ringo explained. "Arle taught me that."

"Arle taught me how to Puyo battle." Said Ringo. "Arle Nadja."/"アルル・ナジャ"

"Arle? Me?"/"アルル？自分？" A mysterious girl, looking practically identical to Arle. She has longer hair, blue eyes, and wears the wings of the Dark Prince. She's holding the Seraphim Orb, and is hearing this conversation from behind, hidden from plain sight.

"They just mentioned me. I remember when my friends, opponents, and battles has brought me fun with Puyos." The girl reminiscing. "But a tragedy befell some of my longtime rivals and friends from my world... and it's sad and horrible. I was traumatized. I cried. But now, it's different. I have become the most powerful person in my world. Ever. But looking back at what made me go this far... I can't help but fear myself. And that thing. That thing that screwed one of my rivals, and started the tragedy in the first place..."

It's getting dark here. A lightning struck behind the mysterious girl, as the conversation ends and the Puyo group go to the mechs to leave the Puyo-filled Suzuran of the present day.

To be continued but...