Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
The volcanic debris from the Zero Point exploding into a volcano in the midnight devastated the lake near the Anvil Squares and the ice top of Cold Cavern, destroyed most of Shattered Slabs from center and all of Autumnwood and the fields southwest adjacent to Frenzy Fields, struck the distance gap between the Citadel and the Warden's Watch tower, utterly cracked the Icy Islets, blasted away Lute Lake and Breakwater Bay (thus almost completely destroying it) and the southwest chunk of Lonely Labs and most of the southern half of Slappy Shores (alongside much of the Beached Bit by the west), and also hit places such as the Herald Tree at northeast, the Pleasant Passage at southeast, the Hall of Whispers at south, Secluded Spire near the river intersection, Forest Forge at the small lake from east, and the gap place between the mountains and near the Brutal Bastion. The volcano creation pretty much completely annihilated Hidden Henge, leaving only the 7 stone pillars stuck and partially submerged in lava made of Zero Point Liquid. The liquid flowed through the Faulty Splits, turning the place sooty but shiny with rift energy throughout. The earthquake caused by the Portal Device countering the rift spark has shaken the whole island, damaging some minor buildings across and creating a few sinkholes, caving the remains of the Hall, the remains of the Forest Forge, the Crackshot, Beep'N Bounce, Hitches and Ditches, Feudal Fuel, the head in Cuddle Cross Track, Royal Ruin and what remains of the southern half of Slappy to the ground.
The Volcano geyser-ed and emits smoke, and then the volcanic debris exploded, each sending a Reality Wave to very wide of an area. That's what triggered the smoke into accumulating into a Reality Wave.
It's day 14 of the Anti-Life evolution.
"No!" The Tetra crew and the Primp all screamed (but Ai screaming like dog, and O screeches, Carbuncle shouted "Guuuuu")
"Damn, no!" The rest in SS Tetra noticed. Zerobreaker roared.
"Get out!" Zerobreaker throws the Tetra into the Reality Wave.
The Reality Wave quickly approaches the remaining debris, and is about to strike the starship. However...
"Chaos Control!" Shadow the Hedgehog, coming off from after Prism Shatter, made contact with SS Tetra and used the power of the Chaos Emerald.
Shadows start teleporting the SS Tetra, and thus everyone in it, just in time the Reality Wave struck it. The powers collided, and caused the entire starship to get rifted away alongside Shadows.
The Reality Wave then almost immediately passed the psychotic Zerobreaker, and then nearly reached the debris.
"No... Uh oh..." Dapper Bones is stuck.
"Loneliness plus Alienation plus Fear plus Despair plus Self-Worth divided by Mockery divided by Condemnation divided by Misunderstanding times Guilt times Shame times Failure times Judgment, N equals Y where Y is Hope and N is Folly, Love equals Lies, Life equals Death, Self equals Dark-Side." The Seven chanted. "Self equals Dark-Side! Self equals Dark-Side! Self equals Dark-Side!"
Dapper Bones is fuzzy, and is about to give in. However, Shadow rifted himself to here with Chaos Control, and...
"Extreme... Chaos..."
"What!?" All of the Seven are shocked.
"...Control!" Shadow bursted with the power of the Chaos Emerald!
"The Chaos Emerald! No!" The Seven is then teleported away by Shadow.
Primp Town then collides with the spawn island, and at the same debris is involved in the impact, and all is buffered by the Reality Wave. As a result, the floating chunks of lands exploded and immediately rifted.
"Behold! Reality Zero is mine!" The Zerobreaker declared.
The rift then travel down to near the island, and inside of that...
"Where... where are we?" Akuma of Precise Museum woke up.
A woman in people, dressed like Arle but more detailed, and look like her but with long hair. She gasped, and look exhausted.
"Huh!? Who're you!? Kumaa!" Akuma (bear) has no idea.
"Arle? Where's her?" She asked.
"What? You mean that girl who occasionally visits my museum to read... some archives of her past adventures." He scratches his head. "You're..."
"Lilith. The Will of the Worlds has spoken." She revealed.
Everywhere around them seems to be filled with purple fogs and blue hazes.
"Please... Marle... Squares... needs... you... all..." Lilith cried.
"I barely even knew them, but I'll ask some students instead." Akuma (bear) replied.
Suddenly, the same genre-saavy Looper (who talked about the Godmodder) has been rifted into... here. "Whoa!"
"What!?" Both else are surprised. "Who's this!?"
"What... happened?" Said the Looper. "Huh? You're..."
"We don't know." Lilith embarrassed, covers her face.
"No... this must be from Puyo Puyo!" The Looper pointed it out. "Madou Monogatari as well, if I count this lost goddess-"
"What!? You know us!?" Lilith is shocked.
"We're from the same plane of existence!?" Akuma (bear) freaks out.
"That one teddy bear you are have the same name as a certain Satsui no Hadou man." The Looper continued.
Cue the roaring, attempted jumpscare by Akuma.
"Whoa, whoa, chill! I'm rifted to here for no apparent reason!" The Looper tried to calm them down. "What's up?"
"Please help us before the corruption befell it all, and then null!" Lilith hugged the Looper.
"Rumors from the CXA that a double agent of Shinra and Ouma, named Nigen, kidnapped Marle and Squares into the Phantom Zone, as a revenge." The Looper told the two. "It was said by a magician by the name of Lemres, which I know also happens to be from Puyo Puyo."
"What? The comsic mage... You know him!?" Akuma (bear) is even more surprised.
"I also know quite a bit about the current crisis." So the Looper told both about the Anti-Life evolution so far, and its current influences and consequences.
"Wait... Does that means there's now a real possibility that... Arle failed the-" Lilith questioned-
"No, someone's still gonna break all of existence, but that someone definitely isn't Arle." The Looper interrupted. "Also, there's a reason she chose to use your power to save Schezo as opposed to ruling and changing her world."
"Oh." Lilith is surprised.
"Finally, someone's calling for help since crisis." It's Johnny Silverhand who is approaching.
"Silverhand! Finally, a cyberpunk!" The Looper knows about Cyberpunk 2077 as well.
"Are you sure? What if he's a demon in disguise?" Akuma (bear) questioned.
"I won't harm you. In fact, I have been pulled into here for no reason." Silverhand replied. "But I can see in the fog."
The four agreed to group together, and went around. Turns out, they're currently in Precise Museum, but it's... different.
"The scanner sensed so much wrong. That means this place has become different." Akuma (bear) commented. "I'm struggling to recognize it. Kumaaa!"
"This place seems to be amalgated..." Lilith commented.
The four walked around, and eventually found where Oshare's Shop should be, which is west to the museum, but...
"No. This is Retail Row, and the actual shop is integrated." Silverhand commented.
"This changed as well!?" Everyone else except the Looper are shocked.
"Then the Primp Town has fused with some other places." The Looper figured it out. "That's it! The Zerobreaker intends to manipulate the island, creating a volcano to have a debris go to collide with the collision!"
"What!?" Lilith is shocked.
"Are you serious, Kumaaaaa!?" Akuma (bear) freaks out again.
"If I'm here, the Arasaka Tower has been grafted into this land!" Silverhand then has the four go to the desert far northeast.
"See?" Silverhand shows off upon arrival. "This even is the same desert where we found the Azure trapped in a crystal zone!"
This is Arasaka Desert as described by Silverhand, which is Arasaka Tower stuck in a desert in place of the urban areas surrounding it. Now it has replaced the tower that Hoho used to be in.
Next up, the four went to what should be the playground the Tetra crashed in, which is far south to the desert, and far west to the museum. However, they found out that the playground has been assimilated into the Green Hills Zone which turns out to extends to the center of all, with the Suzuran shopping district Ringo lives in are stuck in-between, surrounded by palm trees.
"Palm trees, loops, land ramps... all Green Hill!" The Looper commented, and the four just arrived at what turns out to be the center.
The center is just a lake shaped like an island. The Looper walked around, and immediately recognized the shape.
"That was the island before my current place as! You names it: Artemis!" Said the Looper.
Town Hall is on the rough north to that center lake, but it's fused Coney Crossroads on the north (replacing the north buildings except the gas station), nearing the north edge at middle.
"Where did the ghouls go?" Akuma (bear) is surprised.
The fog clears out, revealing all of the land. Clearly some of the remnants of the past islands as well as bits from various realities fused with Primp Town and the spawn island. Finally, there's the school...
"The magic school... and Ringo's!?"
The four found out that the magic school from Primp Town has fused with the Suzuran high school that Ringo (and her friends) attends, with the respective buildings and roads adjacent and connected to each other, all of them far northwest of the center lake and the district, albeit more west than north, placing it north of the shopping district and far northwest of the museum.
Akuma is baffled by this.
"At least the Anti-Life didn't corrupt any of this." The Looper concluded.
"Stop!" A few IO Guards blocked. "Who are you?"
"Those guards we're seeing are from the Imagined Order." The Looper told the rest. "Introduce yourself to them."
"I am Lilith of Madou, the Protector of Man." Lilith introduced herself.
"The cyber name's Silverhand. Johnny Silverhand!" Silverhand did the same.
"Akuma. Librarian and curator of thePrecise Museumin Primp Town. -ma!" Akuma same.
Note: In Japanese, Akuma (of Puyo Puyo) ends his sentences with -ma, the second half of "kuma" (Japanese for "bear"). To simplify the way of translation, I'm not directly adding this, but if you're trying to read this in Japanese, make sure you're adding that for Akuma.
"It's 3:00 A.M. now. We're testing the Battle Bus for troubleshooting." An IO Guard told them.
The Looper told the order of visited places here, but the IO Guards calls those places as: Pleasant Museum (south of lake), Fused Mall (southwest to lake, west to museum), Arasaka Desert (yes, that one, far northeast to lake and some), Green Hills Zone (covering much of the rest of the south and east land, southwest to lake), Rifted District (in Green Hills, east to lake), Eye Lake (center), Haunting Crossroads (north to lake, west to/of desert), and finally, the Arcane School (far north to mall, northwest to lake, southwest to crossroads, and far south to desert).
And there's two notable places that the four has yet to fully visit: Chaos Shrine (east to lake, south to desert, and northeast to shopping district) and Fever Woods (a mixed forest, west to lake, north to mall, and south to school).
"And we're all in the Arcane School." An IO Guards revealed.
"I can't believe both school from the so-told Puyo Puyo merged together!" Akuma (bear) freaks out yet again.
"We saw the island behind the buildings here, and it's covered in the Storm, slowly cleared away." Another IO Guards suggested. "Go take a look."
Everyone went behind the building, finding the fragments of the spawn island that was, but fused with chunks of the past islands.
From there, they can all see the island, still smoked by the expelled Storm, but clearing away. The island looks noticeably larger out of distance, showing the land series The Looper and co. are standing is much closer than originally in spawn island.
"Is this... the one!?" Silverhand is surprised.
"We're sent by the CXA a couple of hours ago, and placed the Rift Beacon for detection." An IO Guard revealed. "We have diffcultly interacting with the real island, Asteria though, it has to be cleared out of any smoke."
"Can you say it again?" Lilith doesn't seem to understand.
"This is what'd be like to be a former outsider of the matter." Silverhand whispered to Akuma the bear.
"We're sent by the CXA a couple of hours ago, and placed the Rift Beacon for detection." The same IO Guard repeated. "We have diffcultly interacting with the real island, Asteria though, it has to be cleared out of any smoke."
"Oh, goodness!" That IO Guard finally recognized the genre-savvy Looper. "I thought you're a generic Looper!"
"Welcome back, IO!" The Looper hugs the IO Guard.
The other IO Guards realized, and then cheered up.
"Who're you?" Lilith worryingly asked.
"I am a Looper. A Looper refers to anyone who is caught inside The Loop." The Looper revealed. "The Loop is that every match of Battle Royale that takes place, alongside the island and everyone fighting inside are trapped inside an endless time loop, which resets every 22 minutes."
"Reality Zero is the only one that directly involves the Loop, through anyone can be affected and someone tried to break it and escape forever." The Looper continued. "It's created by the Imagined Order. Every 22 minutes, the Storm slowly closes in on the island, resetting the loop when the last person survives. This last survivor escapes the loop. Upon entrance, inhabitants are mute and the loop begins to deteriorate their memories, but it does not reset the environment of the island, nor does it reset any deeper thoughts of feelings or emotions. Loopers can still communicate via non-verbal means though."
"Welcome to the Prime Town." The IO Guards declared. "Will you serve the Continuum Exploitation Authority?"
"For all space-time. Always everywhere." The one Looper uses a slogan, showing his alliance with CXA.
"Thanks...!" Lilith now crying in joy. She hugged an IO Guard.
Let's go.