Despite their best efforts, Ma, magical Viola, and System No. XX wasn't able to beat the Zerobreaker - she's just so tough and is constantly healing. Seeing that they're are exhausted and thus losing...
"Stop!" Scaramouche throws himself in front of them.
"Mr. Wanderer!" Viola noticed.
Zerobreaker's giant mech limb grabs the wanderer. The real Zerobreaker, in a recreation of her original body and beneath her mechanical shell, reaches out to try and siphon the wanderer.
"This is supposed to be the second chance, yet you choose to deny all of it without reason?And now, you're acting like you'd sacrifice yourself for someone you can't have trusted..." Zerobreaker grabs the wanderer. "Are you having fun proving a false sense of heroism to yourself, Scaramouche the Balladeer?"
The Zerobreaker briefly got out of the shell, rams her hand through the wanderer's chest, much to the horror of Ma and Viola and System.
"No!" The three screamed.
As they look upon what seems like a destined defeat, they suddenly felt a strong sense of déjà vu. The surroundings start to collapse as the rift appeared in the floor from the fight.
"What's going on?" Ma is shocked.
"Ugh!" The wanderer slipped off.
The place there exploded, forcing the wanderer and the three females there out into the Shatterspace. As a result, all four adrift into another rift placed by the Paradox shattering, this time leading to them falling into a mysterious version of Apollo. A while later...
"Ugh... Where..." The wanderer got up.
Ma and Viola got up as well, the latter lost her transformation.
"Oh... I'm not a magical girl anymore..." Viola noticed. "I detransformed..." *retrieves her katana*
System No. XX behind Ma, and is now in her machine form and toppled in it. "Argh! Some
"The Zero Point calibration is almost complete." An alternate Jones reported. "I can't survive this, but I can fix the Zero Point, and undo all the damages the Terror Tree has done."
A tendril is spawned from the center island place on Apollo, destroying the building in that center island. Another tendril spawned from the Loot Lake, right on the Collider edge on the east side of the said lake (where the Zero Point would be found typically). The former tendril straight out directly attached to the Hidden Henge (Asteria), breaking the gate and hit its own Zero Point in underground, while the latter tendril attached a massive rift above, connecting to the Shatterspace.
"We just connected portals to portals in attachment connection, and the Zero Point oscillator is on Overdrive." Alternative Jones reported. "Did you know that, in the effort to initiate the Loop Breaker Project, I added some attunement anchors to the tendrils on Zero Point? 168 safety control algorithms per anchor, each updating 22 times per second."
"What?" The wanderer noticed the tendril in Apollo. "Why is a Zero Point line... go from there?
Ma, Viola and the wanderer looked up, and noticed Asteria, shown very clearly. Meaning the dual island is only a few kilometres away from the current island. The cavern that hold Apollo and Artemis has crumbled, and the epicenter holds a cracked Zero Point floating in-between.
Apollo tendril holds the sphere containing Zero Point at Asteria, slowly lifting it up or of the underground. This caused the newer, more recent island to shake.
"The Loop Breaker Project... When did this caught on me?" The Zerobreaker used the rift to contact the four and then some. "You can't truly defeat me, ever. What do you hope to achieve with this little trick?"
"Come, Loopers, to save the reality..." Alternative Jones declared. "Allow the reality to awaken the memories in your dreams!"
"All that battle experience! And all the forcefully and magically locked memories then!" The wanderer noted.
"It's far more than that!" Alternate Jones might have heard it. "Compile infinite dimensions and possibilities in the name of the reality!"
The alternative Zero Point pulsed repeatedly, trying to fill the island with rifts embedded, causing the elder islands to stay morphing from inside, using the tendrils into the insides the terrain and oceans. The rest slowly glows, as does the Spire in Asteria.
"That is the power of the Loop Breaker Project." Alternate Jones responded. "I've sent every single realities that is, coming to the this island in the form of the powers..."
"I've asked them... to help you find a way to liberate the Loop, fix the island and the save the reality." Alternate Jones continued. "Now, all of existence is at our disposal."
"Meaningless tricks won't save you!" Zerobreaker retorted. "Heh... Are you done with your tricks? Can I finally take this as a real war?"
"Either way, who are you?" Alternate Jones doesn't know her.
"Hmph! I'm your love that you casted out from existence!" Zerobreaker started to break out of the rift, specifically the one that the foursome has crossed just before.
"Oh no... the Zerobreaker is breaking in!" The wanderer noticed.
System No. XX morphed back to her human form.
"Here we go again..." System No. XX facepalmed.
The Zerobreaker emerged from that rift, fully realizing the look that the wanderer found in his dream, roaring and imposed.
"I am the all-powerful god!" The Zerobreaker declared. "Infinite realities, mine to dominate!"
The Loopers at Asteria already having to deal with the quake through Zero Point phasing thanks to Loop Breaker, now saw something that turns out to be the rebirth of the threat that they were forced to protect the island from. They later realized what's happening to the dual island floating on top, which doesn't help matters. Understandably, they all freaked out and panicked.
Zerobreaker jumped into a 3-part slam combo consisting of a stomp with his foot and then 2 slams with her arm towards the four, causing a pressured shockwave treated across the desert biome, knocking them all away and cause the dual island to flip.
"Warning! Warning! Warning! Interruption of operation!"
"Oh no! If the portal gets trapped between these islands, it will all be broken!" Alternate Jones noticed.
"Tendrils temporarily retracted." Cue the tendrils retracting themselves for now, freeing the Zero Point in rocked shell in Asteria, leading to the latter one fall back down to underground, stabilizing the more recent island. The four in mid-air gonna themselves floating with counter-gravity.
"What the!?" Ma realized something. "What's going on between all the islands!?"
As Apollo side forcefully ascended, the for then fell towards the Steamy Stacks. The Zerobreaker roared and have mechanical jaws open creepily, revealing the replica body.
"Help! Something complicated is happening, and the Zerobreaker is taking it for granted and attacking the reality!" System No. XX reported. "Reinforcement! Reinforcement! All the reinforcement!"
"Re-calibration complete. Tendrils extended." Tendrils extended back. This time, Artemis tendril attached the Zero Point of Asteria, carrying it out again (and thus shakes the newer island again), while Apollo tendril shot into the massive rift above.
"Heh... Continue the operation!" Alternate Jones responded.
All four landed on Steamy Stacks, specifically crashing into one of the towers.
"Argh!" All cracked that tower and then slided down.
The Zerobreaker roared with the mechanical jaw opening hard, exposing the replica body the creepy way. The mech then charged straight into Steamy Stacks.
"Kneel before the rift!!!" Thrusts two pairs of massive lances into Steamy Stacks, the Zerobreaker shattered the two towers that's backbone to the factory and energy harnessing for the place. The landing nearly struck the four, who all barely dodged.
The lances is powered by corrupted rift powers, and it shockwaves the entire Steamy Stacks and then exploded into thousands of dark Zero Point sharpnels which then exploded upon contact, which is what just caused the destruction of the two towers.
"Ywahhhh!" The wanderer is struck by a sharpnel exploding.
Ma and Viola shouted the given name, and turned back to the wanderer.
"Falling... into the abyss..." The wanderer is fuzzy, greatly injured by the Zero Point sharpnel.
"What have you done!?" Ma called out the Zerobreaker.
"Not surprised." System No. XX isn't amused. "You're still insane, still felt disproportionate after your original punishment and the reality."
Ma hastily healed the wanderer to keep him from disintegrating in death, ensuring his survival.
"Burn to oblivion!" Zerobreaker scattered several rift bombs all over Apollo, and then conjures countless sparks that strike the ground randomly across the whole side.
"No!!!" Viola is hit by a spark, and her left arm blew up.
"Viola!" Ma noticed.
-*turns around and conjures dozens of paradox spheres that are then shot at the four* "You filthy bugs!" Zerobreaker turned around and tried to explode the four.
The Zerobreaker flew straight to tendril, trying to sabotage the Loop Breaker Project. Meanwhile...
"What?" Alternate Jones noticed Asteria. "That island... no, because it doesn't exist! What's going on!?"
A few Henchmen arrived at the perpetuating place, the Bridge burned by the Zero Point fighting against the Terror Tree: it's the Rift Bearer.
"Hey, you!" A Henchman spotted alternate Jones. "You're trying to kill yourself just to... save the reality!?"
"I don't know what's really going on, but it seems that the hell is coming loose." Another Henchman noted. "We'll have to help you."
"I have to sacrifice myself for this. Take the Zero Point, overpower the Terror Tree, and fix the island with the entire existence itself." Alternate Jones explained. "If I fail, not only will the reality end forever, all of existence will be destroyed."
"What about us?" A Henchman questioned. "And of the others?"
The agents, Rig Guards, Catty Corner Guards, Spire Guards, and quite a lot more followed suit, to care about Jones and the Loop Breaker Project.
"You actually open the files and did the work for us." A guards commented. "Mind if we join?"
"Ok then... Don't make me regret this." Alternate Jones entered the Zero Point. "Zero Shift commence."
Team Nexus followed, entering the Zero Point, and several surviving Loopers also joined in. The Zero Point is loaded, and began to fuse with the dual island with the tendrils unleashed. However...
"Watch out!" Ma shouted.
The four all crouched into protection, as the bombs exploded, leading into rift energy burst across the four as well as Apollo, devastating several parts of the buildings, including but not limited to destroying the Steamy Stacks and partially leveling Mount K. This also serves as an additional distraction and attack, allowing the Zerobreaker to intercept the tendril.
-*giggles* "It's mine now..."
Suddenly, a Zero Point-powered rocket emerged, and flew straight to the Zerobreaker. She simply caught that with the mechanical palm.
"This rocket isn't surprising." Then the Zerobreaker tried to throw the rocket away.
However, the rocket extremely firmly sticks to the palm. It's frozen.
"Ugh! Why isn't it away!?" Tm Zerobreaker noticed.
"The siblings... brother injected with DNA of all those K-fire... sister infused-" Someone left from the rocket, alongside a sister. Both has white highlights on their hair.
"What!? You defects!" Zerobreaker recognized.
"Being forced to live like a weapon for nefarious purposes sucks." The man, with brown base hair. "Me, Kyoman Kusanagi, and my beloved sister you called as K/Dia, have both suffered and been manipulated into helping to destroy the omniverse as all knew it..."
"A woman named Zerobreaker, we're now coming to beat you up for your treatment." KD (short for K/Dia) targeted the Zerobreaker.
The Zerobreaker broke the frost and crushed the rocket, then threw it away. The K-type siblings climbed into the hand, amd them jumped straight to the jaw, entering the (eldritch) interior of the mechanical shell.
As a result, the head of the mech caught on insane, caused by KD's fire and Kyoman. Technically losing the control of the mech, the Zerobreaker is beat up by the siblings, KOF-style, and screams in agony. The mech is partially paralyzed and fully tumbled, and roll down trying to extinguish the whole flame, to no avail.
"What!? A strange mech is trying to sabotage!?" Alternate Jones noticed. "And... no... that other island... it also has Zero Point, and ours is connected to that! Another Zero Point... what!?"
The Terror Tree in the meantime, tried to counter the Zero Point by corrupting all of Artemis, causing the remaining Loopers there to go insane. As for the four...
"Ugh... You... saved me?" The wanderer woke up.
"Thanks Evillious! You're alive!" Ma is relieved. "However, Reality's breaking down. Fast."
The wanderer quickly got up, and spotted the Zerobreaker, who's currently rolling down against the flame, just missing the tendrils.
"That big cross-roach over there." The wanderer spotted the Zerobreaker.
The combined stress caused by the Terror Tree and the involvement of the Zero Point at Asteria caused the Zero Point here to pulse, attacking Apollo by restoring its terrains and buildings, and...
"Oh no! The Reality Wave!" Viola noticed.
The Reality Wave struck the four, turning Ma into herself in Kayo's original body but retaining the tech, turning the wanderer into the Balladeer but retaining his Anemo Vision, and turning Viola back into her magical girl form last shown in the Ley Line Disorder phase against Zerobreaker.
"What? My body... it's my past body!" The wanderer noticed. "I feel... transcendence, as if I just have become a god I and the sages sought to create and get... plus the wanderer's extra. I feel... dangerous!" *laughs*
"I'm a magical girl... again." Viola noticed. "What!?"
"Since I already forced into this body while caring around the technology to synthesize my powers, I am not too surprised to be so again." Ma commented. "However, something's wrong with that so-called operation..."
"Go to the center bullshit." System No. XX then flew straight towards the tendril.
The rest followed, while the mech-shell is still burning. Shortly afterwards, it spit Kyoman and KD out, stopping the flame altogether.
"Urgh... It's literally scorching hot!" Zerobreaker then got up. "That's dangerously useful. You should never have betrayed me and defected my u-"
"Dystopia." Kyoman mocked the Zerobreaker. "You're existence is already over, you only came back because hypertime is broken."
To be continued...