11:38 P.M.
"This is the leader... I met her one day after the Zero Point's destruction." Ma examining the few images she got. "And there's Marle, Squares, and... who?"
"There's... Pariah kneeling down, as well as... Nigen holding... what?" Ms. Continuum noticed. "What are these?"
"It's a few images that Decade man left behind." Ma replied. "I recognized those images to have been captured by him."
"Upon meeting that leader girl, I never learned her name or her other identity, but she provided me with a goal: to make all of existence submit, so the Order can seize all realities across hypertime." Ma explained. "There was the Netherrealm turned into the new Beach, apparently the third one."
"When I got there and recruited by that leader girl, I started working." Ma continued. "I helped with preparing and executing the enablers. I made sure of the preparations during my time affiliated with the Order."
"There are people known as the 'Realitiers' who help to facilitate everything leading to the leader declaring war." Ma talking about the infos. "Our next mission from the Beach was to bring back powerful perpetuators worth hypertime. Everyone thinks I was just from another world, and part of our job was to make sure the Order is hidden from plain notice, clear and good."
"But... during the missions, especially ones spanning across dimensions, we're being watched the entire time, and we'll be killed if we hinder the Order in any way even in the absolute slightest without any meaningful advantage overweighting it, remotely or not."
"Is Netherrealm where that girl is?" Ms. Continuum heard it.
Ma then quickly doodles everything she knows this far about the Order.
"Besides CXA's past threats...?" Ms. Continuum asked. "So these are the Realitiers?"
"Many of them died, both before and after I left." Ma continued. "I remember Twiright and that one god. Our job was... to make sure everything went wrong right the way the Order wanted it. And we joined in." *sigh*
"And we made sure every resisting members died on our watch." Ma kept. "Because of us, many worlds and timelines got targeted every day."
"I couldn't take this anymore." Ma sobs. "We break realities, tampers with the hypertime, probably avoiding lending our energies, and definitely gain powers. It's far too much for even me, the Sorceress of Time craving for existence, or even all the completely depraved men, 'Complete Monsters', for that matter, 'cause I don't even know how many events I've..."
"I couldn't do it anymore." Said the Sorceress of Time.
"This should all be a dream." Ms. Continuum understood. "It's all right. We're going to purge this shared nightmare sooner or later." *hugs Ma*
"I want it to be all over..." Ma hugs back again.
Meanwhile...
"Oh phooey..."/"ばたんきゅ〜..." Renegade Amitie is defeated.
"Well, that was surreal." 7!(Altered) Amitie responded.
"And a bit disturbing." Shou commented.
"Yeah. Thought that Ecolo possessed that Amitie as well." Possessed Ringo conceded.
"Woah! We need to move!" 7!Amitie told everyone, hearing sirens around.
So the entire group left, leaving Renegade Amitie.
"Hiding from the cops from Ringo's Japan..." Ecolo discussed. "Aren't there any good guys here?"
As the group walks around, they found a mysterious girl who looks like Ringo.
"There just might be..."/"あるかもしれない..."
In the meantime...
"Nothing yet?" Regime!Arle asked.
"The magic from Primp doesn't match anything in the database." Regime!Atari on her computer.
"Why don't we just scan the powers and follow them?" Demonic Sig suggested.
"Because we don't know if they went somewhere dangerous-" Regime!Arle replied.
"Or if they went anywhere at all." Regime!Atari finished the sentence for her Arle. "Arle's right. It's too risky."
"Too bad none of us was there to catch them in the first place..." Demonic Sig is disappointed. "We'll find them. We have to."
Meanwhile, in this timeline's Intral City...
"A pleasure most rare, your Highness." A butler greeted Count Roquier (清ロキアー).
"I need information on inter-dimensional governance." Count Roquier requested. "History and current structure."
"Ah. For the treaty negotiations with the other Highness?" The butler responded.
"Yes." Count Roquier confirmed. "The treaty discussions."
"I'm afraid our resources are limited." The butler reported. "Arle Nadja has been less than willing to reveal her dynasty's inner workings."
"Tell me what you know." Count Roquier suggested. "Recount the events of her fall and ascension. A thorough review might illuminate new strategies for negotiation."
"I'm humbled, Count." The butler bowed down. "Nearly a week ago, Feli went insane and deceived Rulue into killing the Dark Prince, Schezo Wegey, Carbuncle and nearly Arle, as well as herself destroying Primp Town. Consumed by grief, she took the latter four's powers and abilities, and killed Feli."/"ほぼ一週間前、フェリは正気を失い、ルルーをだましてサタン、シェゾ ウェゲイ、カーバンクル、そしてほぼアルルを殺し、プリンプ タウンを破壊しました。悲しみに打ちひしがれた彼女は、後者の4つの力と能力を奪い、フェリを殺した"
"Yes... we all remember what we saw that day..."/"はい...私たちは皆、その日見たことを覚えています..." Count Roquier conceded.
"Afterwards she showed no restraint."/"その後、彼女は自制を示さなかった" The butler continued. "Judge, jury, and executioner, she and other like-minded opponents quickly create a new dynasty in her legacy."/"裁判官、陪審員、死刑執行人、彼女と他の志を同じくする反対者たちは、彼女の遺産に新しい王朝をすばやく作成します"
"Which made her infamously popular." Count Roquier responded.
"The worlds of Puyo was desperate for fun battles, but..." The butler explained. "Arle consolidated her power. She created the Rukasazo dynasty. Democratic institutions and light-heartedness were all swept away."
"The envoys await you in the throne room." A rookie detective told Count Roquier.
In the throne room of what used to be the HQ, Roquier met Demonic Sig and this timeline's Skeleton-T.
"Sig. Skeleton-T." Counter Roquier greeted. "Welcome."
"Tea!"/"お茶ー!" Skeleton-T greeted back. "It's an honor to meet you! Your Highness!"
"And to be the dynasty first to visit Spacetime Detective Agency since creation." Demonic Sig greeted.
"Yes. We have important matters to discuss." Count Roquier responded. "The treaty."
"The final draft." Demonic Sig showed. "Arle is glad you've agreed to her terms."
"May I?" Count Roquier suggested.
Demonic Sig gave the draft to Count Roquier so he can review it. A short while later...
"Is there a problem, your Highness?" Skeleton-T questioned.
"This is complete subjugation." Count Roquier revealed. "Arle will tale over Spacetime Detective Agency!"
"It's what you agreed to." Demonic Sig argued. "It's what we expect."
"You threaten us?" Count Roquier refuted. "Tread carefully."
"We have our orders." Demonic Sig replied.
Demonic Sig and Skeleton-T leaped to catch Count Roquier, but the latter evaded. Then the Puyo-fist fight ensued, with Count Roquier having to fend off the two Rukasazo representatives at once with both Puyo chains and actual fighting.
"You can tell Arle..." Count Roquier targets Demonic Sig. "She will not have Spacetime Detective!"
Shrugging Skeleton-T away, Count Roquier went full Puyo and proceeded to litter every single Garbage Puyos at his disposal, beating the Revived Demon of Tome of Sealing. "Your orders be damned."
Skeleton-T reached by throwing a cup of hot tea onto Count.
"Let's not take this any further." Count Roquier is pissed off. "I want to talk to Arle Nadja."
"You don't 'talk' to the sorceress." Skeleton-T is enraged. "You do what she wants! And you're doing what you promised!"
Puyo battle to finish this fight. Count is surprisingly skilled with Puyo, while Skeleton-T wasn't been that impressive, so...
"You two make sorry diplomats." Count Roquier defeats Skeleton-T.
"There he is!" Some clients of original Spacetime Detective Agency (時空探偵社) has appeared, followed by the main Roquier (ロキアー).
"Well then... Another timeline it is." Count Roquier spots his counterpart.
"Who do you work for, alterer?" Roquier questioned. "Ecolo? Time Paradise?"
"I'm the great Knight of Spacetime Detective!" Count Roquier scolded his counterpart. "I answer to only Spacetime Detective men. Unlike you."
"Watch out." Roquier shrugged his counterpart's words.
"You would give away the spacetime investigation like a pair of worn boots?" Count Roquier criticized his counterpart in response. "To a sorceress!?"
"The treaty requires Arle to maintain the agency." Roquier explained how. "And recognize our business."
"You put your clients at her beck and call." Count Roquier responded.
"A necessary compromise." Roquier defended.
"More like appeasement." Count Roquier refuted.
"I'm tired of this." Roquier is pissed off. "Take him!"
Cue the clients attacking the Count, but he swiftly fend them off. Then Roquier went for Puyo and striking both at once to beat down his counterpart. This resulted in both spitting blood, and all clients defeated.
"I had planned to offer you help." Count Roquier started chaining. "I changed my mind."
A while later...
"Now let's discuss a revised foreign policy." Count Roquier defeats his counterpart.
"Kill him!" As Roquier notices the clients getting up.
The clients attacked Count again, but then... they suddenly froze.
"What now?" Count Roquier is confused.
Seo appears. Still black suit and appears possessed...
"Seo?" Roquier noticed.
"They do tend to fight first, don't they..." Seo walks. "Though I may have stoked the matter a bit..."
"Seo? Why are you here?" Counter Roquier questioned.
"Just wandering around and freak them out." Seo responded. "Because business is just as fun. Coincidentally, I sought here..."
"You did more than that." Count Roquier refuted. "You brought us here."
"No." Seo denied. "But I can guess who did."
"No margins, Seo!" Count Roquier went straight to the point. "Tell me who."
"You presume to command me, a CEO?" Seo is disappointed.
"I must!" Count Roquier engaged. "This time, you will obey!"
Roquier watches the Puyo fight. Not only he had no idea whether this Seo is from his timeline, but the involvement of his counterpart made things even harder to understand, even by Spacetime Detective standards. Count Roquier ultimately defeats Seo.
"You're possessed, Seo." Count Roquier concluded.
"So Arle from your timeline has reigned and is subjugating the worlds she visited." Seo explained. "That was interesting to step in."
"So if you didn't bring us here, who did?" Count Roquier questioned.
"Those who would end Arle's dynasty." Seo revealed. "The Insurgents."
"Renegade, resistance?" Count Roquier responded.
"Only one." Seo revealed. "Seems like all other members of the resistance has either been eliminated or undergone a change of heart."
"So she broke all of them, killed some of them..." Count Roquier noted. "And the only ones left are those who joined her?"
"Along with the small carde of former clients, world travelers, etc., whose loyalty was bought... or coerced." Seo continued.
Roquier got up, and stood in his counterpart, needing to join him in the cause.
"We need to join our colleagues." Count Roquier decided.
"They're with the Insurgents as we speak." Seo hinted.
"Send us to them." Roquier requested.
11:55 P.M.
Dapper Bones (おしゃれコウベ) has changed. He became Doomsday, for he was infected with the Doomsday Virus. So when he is seen, he appears as a skeletal version of Doomsday wearing a tail coat and a long hat.
"Doomsday! Oh!" Dapper throws a tantrum.
"Great. He got Doomsday Virus! He touched the spores, and now he's all spiky!" An IO Guards holding Dapper, screaming in agony.
"Hold him down! Hold him down!" Ms. Continuum yelled.
A television, the same one broadcasting countdown to the Herald back then.
"So... you got this CRT-TV from scavenging the broken part of the remains of old islands?" Ma asked. "I set it up, to test broadcasting something."
"There you go." Ms. Continuum is surprised.
Ma turns the TV on, and it's static right now. However, the both in black has appeared from behind, wanting to watch the announcement of sorts.
"You actually turned it on." The woman in black. "As expected from those we have high hopes for."
"How did you get here?" Ma has no idea.
-*shows the technological scroll* "While we were wandering across dimensions, we found out that the island some just escaped has been linked to this town we're all in now." The woman explained. "We thought we get to know the next answer one day."
"I have never felt anything so much like Borderlands outside of it." The man noted. "By the way... so Ringo from the past has been possessed by Ecolo. Things are mostly proceeding as Liu Kang has planned. 'He must win', indeed."
"You actually changed the past because Liu Kang says so?" Ms. Continuum is surprised. "Why?"
"He has something in mind of." The man replied. "And as you know now, there's someone above them."
"You meant all the threats returned to existence and the Realitiers, magical girl with Anti-Life included?" Ms. Continuum questioned.
"Right. Just who could it be?" The woman wondered, not knowing that Ma figured it out a bit for much earlier.
"Who knows?" The man shrugged.
At the same time, Ringo's home, recently repurposed with monitors by the resistance's police. She turned on, and alongside the group that found her, watching.
"If I remember correctly, there will be a mysterious announcement at midnight." Renegade Ringo noted. "Just a couple of tens of seconds, and we'll get there."