Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
Marle's and Squares' voices suddenly rang throughout the space. "We're still here, only blessed. Fun and orderly battle awaits. Fun and orderly battle awaits. Fun and orderly battle awaits."
"Marle? Squares?" Ex noticed.
"Fun and orderly battle awaits." And so on, the voices repeated and repeated.
"What is this?" Ex is fuzzy. "My head..."
Shortly thereafter, everything is back to normal. Tetrimidion disappeared, and the voices stopped.
"Ngh... What? Where?" Ex is tired. "I'm... back here? No. Is this..."
"This is real reality, Ex. Your true reality." Argimed responded. "I didn't expect you to be able to see you come back, Keeper of Dimensions, let alone do an impressive job on fighting against it all by yourself. It was a truly wonderful show, wasn't it?" *evil laugh* "Oh, both great powers, before we've even synchronized it, let alone tune it! Just as I hoped! It's unrivaled!"
"Not even that counter-memory blob will be able to stand any survival against me now!" Argimed then laughed.
"Ecolo... What are you plotting?" Ex is about to collapse.
Argimed kept laughing, but Tee, the current Tetris King, reconnected.
"Ex? Ex! Finally, the connection's back!" Tee called. "What are you doing!?"
"Tee? Well..." Ex then recapped everything that happened in the illusion zone.
"Ugh, forget it for now." Tee responded. "Get away from there as soon as you can! There are rifts, paradoxes and explosion going off all over! That dimension's about to collapse!"
"What's the meaning of all this?" Ex got up, and started leaving.
A while, Ex arrived at the destroyed Verdansk, and sat down. Dead corpses of corrupted Helghan everywhere.
"Tee... are you telling me the truth?" Ex questioned.
"What's the point of lying about it!?" Tee angrily replied. "Somebody got a bead on Marle and Squares and mounted a insanely collosal assault."
"I mean, sure. A for effort, but it's nothing to worry about." Tee continued. "We've got a bit of the advantage now. Marle and Squares must be somewhere between the worlds, so we don't think it's a big enough deal for you alone to head out."
"Not even gods will be able to survive against us now!" A voice echoed.
"I can't imagine anyone would do something like that without..." Ex complained.
"Ex! Get over there!" Tee shouted.
Suddenly, Ex is rifted away.
Meanwhile, at Primp Town...
"I miss Ringo... It's been over a week since we last saw her..." Amitie is sad. "It's also over a week since we last visited Suzuran..." *sigh*
"Amitie, we never have had any contact with Ringo for the past week." Raffina responded. "And I thought commoners like you all used to be out of reach..."
Sig is still catching bugs, but with his demonic left hand (as a gentle touch challenge for him), while Klug just facepalmed.
"I'm kinda worried about the apple girl you're talking about..." Klug isn't amused. "10 days without contact or visiting the urban districts..."
"At this point, let's ask Feli." Raffina suggested. "Puyo battles can let us hop between places. And yet, after all those battles for the past 10 days, we couldn't quite... get back there."
"Awww, what's with Suzuran? Ringo is missing, and nobody remember a certain possessing blob-like creature!" Amitie suddenly mentioned Ecolo. "He's missing as well."
"Dark Prince"/"サタン" -"remembers that creature, but even him didn't see it for 10 while days." Amitie continued. "Let's find Feli. She's the only one who can help us now."
"Mr. Goody Two Shoes, let's go!" Raffina pulled Klug. "Yeah, and since school day has just ended, we can't waste much more time!"
"Oh." Sig noticed. "Time to go then."
The magical four went to the playground, and they saw Feli treating her... bloody wound.
"Oh, you found me..." Feli noticed. "The nightmares in the past ten days are coming true, and they wouldn't-"
"Hey, a junior who's another fan of Lemres!" Klug shouted. "Your dream!?"
"I have had nightmares for the past ten days, and more of it came true..." Feli explained. "One of them are... worlds collide, not just merge..."
"What!?" The magical four of Primp are shocked (Sig's not visibly so, but still).
"The worlds far beyond Tetra and far exists, and...!?" Amitie is in disbelief.
"Everything completely foreign to even something called the Will of the Worlds can now reach this town." Feli replied. "Yesterday, I saw one of them with Lemres..."
"It's near the tower." Feli pointed it out.
The four quickly went to the originally unfinished tower, and found something... and Ms. Accord is examining it.
"Ms. Accord!"/"アコール先生!" The four called Accord. "This seems to be some sort of nightmare coming true!"
"Huh? You, four in the class, suspect that this has to do with someone's dream?" Accord asked. "I was just studying about this mysterious... arm of something. Or two. Or four."
Turns out it's a(n mostly identical) set of four custom handguns that, according to a note that came with the box they came from, were crafted by the famed weapon-smith Rodin.
The note also said: "...Tuned for usage in the Umbran combat style called 'Bullet Arts', they are not only guns with incredible stopping power, but also function as devastating melee weapons. Furthermore, as they were created to channel the power of Madama Butterfly (Bayonetta's most frequently summoned Infernal Demon) and/or Gomorrah, their destructive power increases exponentially when combined with the advanced magical art of Demon Masquerade. For example: when merged with Madama Butterfly during Demon Masquerade, Bayonetta gains even more powerful attacks and the ability to glide. For the special return just in time for the dimensional crash threatening all versions of the Trinity of Realities, the guns are customized to be lighter and stronger, with even more stopping power, better firerate, better control, better precision, and of course, the ability to channel the powers of the aforementioned Infernal Demons even better."
"These guns are made for Bayonetta, rather Cereza, so if you're not her, not as powerful or skilled as her and you don't know what to do with the guns (other than basic gunning), don't use them. (gun safety applies)"
The four read the note, and they're surprised.
"Oh... what? These are... guns?" Klug is confused.
"Guns... these aren't exactly what I was expecting to find in the box." Accord replied.
"Awww, let's me try it!" Amitie took a gun.
The triple-barrelled, large-caliber gun is surprisingly large, but it's very lightweight.
"Oh, so this is quite large, my palm looks a bit small... kinda." Amitie hold the single gun. It's the right-hand model, which is green-jeweled.
Raffina takes the left-heel model (white-jeweled), Sig takes the left-hand model (red-jeweled), and Klug takes the right-heel model (blue-jeweled). They're surprised to see the weight and the size, even Raffina who is secretly bulky (for a snobby Ojou).
"Oh well, my hands feels like a teenager holding this damn thing!" Raffina is interested. "Apparently, this must be..."
Raffina sticks the gun into her left heel, and she managed to without anything else: the gun just sticks on and stay on the foot with her. Raffina also finds it pretty easy to remove the gun from it, and then sticks it again.
"A new way to... pop Puyos?" Amitie wondered about the guns.
Hearing that, Accord quickly prepared a stack of Puyos, and told Amitie to chain. Amitie cleared the chain the usual way (involving magic to manipulate Puyos and pop them, like in basically every Puyo battles imaginable) as a baseline, and Accord recreated the exact same stack.
"I'm not so comfortable using guns. Perhaps as you have known, I do Puyo battles using my and our kind of magics, so..." Amitie aims a Puyo in the stack with the gun. "I hope it turns out okay." *pulls the trigger*
Amitie shoots a Puyo, making an explosion which forcefully cleared the stack, leaving only gummy-like remains of the Puyos. And the combined shockwaves of the gun firing and the explosion forcefully rang through the ears, striking the hearing of the four and Accord.
"Ahhh!" So they yelled.
It takes a while for the hearing to stabilize, possibly thanking to the magic they have (Raffina still have her magic pouch, otherwise she might have gone deaf afterwards). However, the Puyos weren't just merely popped - they were destroyed. Amitie falls down and drop the gun.
Amitie whines: "うわぁぁぁぁぁ…"
"My ears hurt..." Klug is fuzzy. "Ah... crap!"
"Oh... a gun can be that loud..." Accord commented.
A short while later, in slight doubt with the gun firing, Raffina prepared to kick with her left foot, with currently have the left-heel gun attached.
"There are some garbage lying around, from when Amitie popped Puyos normally." Raffina correctly spotted the garbage Puyos. "Ciel Arc!"
Raffina's strongest spell, applied as a kick to a garbage Puyo amongst the garbage stack. The gun reactively fired, causing the garbage Puyos to explode and (thus) be destroyed by the sheer blast from the gun alone. Same shockwaves, similar hearing strike... except this time everyone else covered their ears.
"Ahhh! My ears!" Raffina then falls down, her ear ringing.
Even the iconic red Puyo cap on Amitie is shook by the blast effect. The left-heel gun just unstuck itself out of Raffina.
"Ugh... It's so powerful!" Raffina is shocked. "And it's loud too."
"Oh, Raffina! You know, a gun can be that loud!" Amitie replied. "But this one in particular, and these in general are so powerful!"
"Anyways, my hands doesn't even scratch or dent the gun at all." Sig shrugged, still holding the gun.
"Oh. And by the way..." Accord responded. "Why are you after the guns? They're too dangerous, and too loud."
"Because of Feli." Amitie bluntly replied, not being energetic or joyful as usual. "She said she has a dream of the other worlds beyond ours and the Tetra, and that her recent dreams are coming true."
"Is that so?" Accord questioned.
"Ask Feli yourself." Klug suggested. "If I could get the chance to aim... I would do it truly perfectly!"
The magical four removed the guns, putting them into the box it came from, alongside the note. And then, just as all leave the tower...
"Oh, you found that one I and Lemres spotted..." Feli is walking.
"How did you walk? You were very much injured!" Klug spotted the wounds.
"I appreciate your care, that one unsuccessful fanboy of my idol." Feli responded. "Well, I tested my wounds, and now I am able to walk safely."
Amitie took out the note from the box, and tells Feli everything the four found out about the guns.
"Oh, I see. That's exactly what I want you to see." Feli affirmed. "My dreams... no, nightmares are coming true..."
"By the way, who beat you up so hard?" Accord asked.
"Lemres..."/"先輩..." Feli revealed. "He seemed... off."
"Wh-wh... what?" Klug is shocked. "My..."
"And he disappeared afterwards." Feli continued. "That's when I began to have nightmares."
"How... how did you even survive it...?" Klug is in disbelief. "10 days, and you are still alive, let alone heal yourself so quickly...!?"
"Thanks to my powers, I was able to survive long enough to allow myself to recover." Feli seems... physically unstable.
Sig touched Feli with his demonic hand, causing the latter to scream. Feli slapped him, so Amitie hugged her instead.
"I'm not sure gow long can I keep standing... Thanks." Feli responded. "But there's more."
"Amitie, Raffina, Sig, Klug?" Accord asked. "Why did you all ask Feli?"
"Then I'm gonna ask you a serious question..." Klug suggested. "Where's Ringo?"
The question shook Accord. And even more so as Amitie explained about Ringo being missing for 10 days.
"Missing for over a week?" Accord is in disbelief. "The last time... the last time I met her was when she was to hang out with some... creature."
Then Sig briefly looked right up in the sky behind the tower: a crack in the sky. Accord quickly forced Sig into focusing onto the main matter.
"You meant Ringo is hanging out with... a creature named Ecolo." Feli revealed.
Feli made them all remember about Ecolo, and thus hunting about everything the creature did.
"Oh... Ecolo!" Amitie now fully remember the existence of Ecolo, though not exactly for everything that happened that involved Ecolo.
"It's in one of my nightmares, and turns out that's what really happened..." Feli continued. "Let's me tell you about it."
"Mind if I come in?" Lidelle interrupted. "I'm sorry if I have interrupted your business."
Sig then recapped everything that happened today, and he told her about the disappearance of Ringo Andou.
"Oh... I thought she's hanging out with..." Lidelle figured it out.
"Ecolo." The four and Accord bluntly replied.
"Also, we've got a 'Bayonetta' set of guns, but let's not waste time here, commoner." Raffina continued. "It's going to sunset, the sky's about to go dark. Let's listen to the story, shall we?"
"Yes, the sun is about to set." Accord confirmed. "If we don't hurry for the story, the sky's going to be dark and we won't be sure if we know the way home."
"Um, okay. I'll listen to... the girl." Lidelle reluctantly accepted.
Sig briefly looked at the crack again, spotting the bright blue color, and then he looked on the matter, ready to listen.
"Okay, here we go." Feli takes a deep breath.
As Feli prepared, the crack in the sky grew larger and larger, but so far only Sig noticed. He could've warned everyone first, but he's forced to listen in Accord's insistence, so he did not speak up. The crack in the sky... indicating a rift is to appear against Primp Town.
To be continued...