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Evie passed out, and Thunder continued vomiting. The girl then threw Brainiac down to the ground.
"No!" Stellan objected.
The Anti-Life girl gazed upon the warden, and with it cast the power of the Phantom Ruby to keep him distracted. However, Brainiac stood up and proceeded to combat.
"I am the Collector of Planets. I have the knowledge and strength of 10,000 Worlds. I am the terror of Kandor. A twelfth-, no, thirteenth-level intellect!" Brainiac unleashed his tentacles to attack the girl.
However, the girl simply stand there, not even blinking or shifting, let alone reacting against the tentacles and integrated weaponry thereof.
-*giggles* "This struggle of yours right now is equivalent to a fight between a normal human versus some typical gods we can easily annihilate." The girl no-sold. "A mortal can't realistically stand a chance against an average deity, let alone a force like me, much less the Order."
The girl then kicks Brainiac in the face, knocking him down to the ground. She then used her staff to stab the living supercomputer. Cue the psychotic laugh, while Thunder finally passed out. However, his remaining satellites then attacked the girl, allowing Brainiac to wind up punching in her face. His fist - that's more than capable of crushing primitive skulls - was quickly broken.
"Hmph. Good work, but we're not your correct enemy. A certain Krypton is." The girl freezes the satellites (with Phantom Ruby) and continue stabbing Brainiac.
As a last ditch effort, the tentacles grabbed the magical girl's body, but she effortlessly ripped them off and continued. Powerless, the Brainiac gets the powerful beating fitting for the analogy the girl just spewed out... except there's a rift that's sparking, unbeknownst to everyone in the island.
"Ok... we pull our island into the destination..." Ma suggested.
Pulling the altered Asteria, the Mecha Fusion Overlord proceeded to charge and lead the way un-shrunken, ripping open the micro-rift pinpointed by the Gate exploded earlier. This resulted in the micro-rift becoming a shaking Sideways Rift in the same place, with some players in right edge of the prime (such as Evergreen biome and Slappy Shores) noticing.
"Look! A rift shaking!"
"Yes, yes, yes, what?" Ma noticed something strange before the destination.
Modern Sonic woke up, and found some strange but familiar phenomena. And the mecha.
"Uh, great, now I ask!" Modern Sonic then blitzed towards the mecha, but a rope caught his legs and tugged Movie!Mario down.
"No! No! No!" Movie!Mario is pulled.
Mario is flabbergasted, while SMG4 caught up to the latter.
"This seems suspiciously like in real life..." SMG4 recognized the movie dude.
Modern Sonic spin-dashed to the mecha, thus getting in the close range of a radar in it. Ma decides to warp Sonic into the cockpit, accidentally bringing Movie!Mario into.
"No, why are you pushing ahead?!" Modern Sonic confronts Ma.
"Remember when the Prism Shatter is connected into a portal, allowing it to affect the Zero Point and destabilizing the hypertime?" Ma pushed Sonic aside. "Turns out, that kind of event as well as the 'Quantum Gate' exploding are known as paradox event horizons."
"Wait, what?" Modern Sonic is confused.
"Oh no! Who are you?!" Movie!Mario freaked out.
"No times for introduction, I will explain the matter right: a paradox event horizon is when two or more reality-breaking and/or reality-rending phenomenas collides directly, and create a reaction that destabilizes at least a good chunk of existence itself." Ma explained instead. "Thanks to the nature of the Quantum Realm and the Zero energy, the rift now can tamper with now already messed up Shatterspace and..."
"No! This isn't possible!" Movie!Mario deduced. "Don't tell me that..."
"Prepare for a lot of all-color clouds wave... Warp out!" Ma pulls the throttle... "Angela, watch!"
The girl stabs the metallic armor clad the Brainiac, and it's going to be dead end for the com. "Die, die, die! When I kill you, I will take your fucking brain!"
"Wait... This is too slow." Suddenly, the girl realized that the armor is slowing this process down. "Why don't I use my magic and tear that alien down?"
However, the rift is widened and leaking substances and debris from a dimension known as Warp Zone, including a falling warp pipe.
"Wait... aren't these from Super Mario? Specifically that the hit movie?" Some Loopers recognized these.
"What?" The girl finally noticed. "Why there's a rift-"
The rift exploded, sending a mixed and lit reality shockwave to the entire island.
"Argh!" The girl is knocked.
"Hasta la Vista! Wahoo!" The mecha emerged from the explosion.
"What the infinity?!" The girl was shocked. "Report! A rift has just exploded and is sending suspicious subjects into this realm!"
"Gotcha!" The mecha takes the floating island.
"What is this... mechanical thing in front of the tide?" Empress Mizuki of the River Guard noticed everything.
"Sister, so we are not just facing a potential inter-syndicate war," Stray (Special Ops of Fox Clan) replied.
The shockwave rippled and shook everyone, and the past altered island exactly adjacent to the current original, overlapping oceans between (original) Slappy Shores and Cuddle Cross Track among surrounding, not touching lands. And everyone sucked in has been spawned on the sky of both Asteria as well. And the mothership. And the mainland of Centipex now south to both Reality Zero islands.
"Oh my fucking god!" The syndicates realized.
"What in the world is this?!" Triach Nox is caught off guard.
And the ocean overlapping caused a very big tsunami to hit the east edge and then south of the OG land, splashing the Loopers there.
"Good news: we've reached the correct destination." The man in black fell down. "Bad news: we've accidentally brought the altered island into the OG zone! And then some!"
"Slow fall, activate!" Ma fired her magic and diffuse it across the lands with mecha, slowing this Reality Zero fall down to universally safe speed.
The Anti-Life girl groans, and pulls Evie and Thunder to her side, trying to make sure they've fallen into the Equation. However, Stellan managed to fend off the hyper-illusion and attacked the girl.
"Yeah, so Phantom Ruby from another reality, eh?" Stellan proceeded to take Evie and Thunder back. "Maybe you should consider surrending to Oathbound."
"It's too late. They have already succumbed to Anti-Life." The girl refuted. "They're mine. In the name of the Order, we ask who's our god: Anti-Life Is."
The Stellan from the altered has landed in a Moon-like way, and so did LeBron Raymond James, both in the floating island the necha now holds.
"What? Me?" This Stellan noticed his counterpart.
"I'm LeBron, the kid from Arkon, Ohio, house 330." LeBron confronts the girl. "Oh, so you're the magical girl who took Anti-Life from a guy called Darkseid?"
"The king of basketball? More like insects from NBA." The girl looks down on him. "And why did you bring an entire island into here? Fuck!"
"Actually, as I have learned from that reaction I fell into, turns out bringing a rift into the Quantum Realm has... some interesting consequences." LeBron replied.
"You're not a Looper... what!? We're the same!" Both Stellans realized.
"You look kind of hurt." MEGA!Stellan to his counterpart.
"Where's this place anyways?" Stellan asked.
"Oh my god, I remember! Right now, we're inside Chapter 4 Season 2 of a certain game!" LeBron heard it.
"This strange mecha, and now you three!?" The girl is frustrated. "I'm just going to kill you!"
Anticipated this beef, LeBron proceeded to do basketball maneuver and attack taken from his NBA tenure, whelming the girl who's just a teenaged girl who doesn't know how to play basketball - hence her resorting to magical impulse to beat LBJ down.
"You big, black meanie!" The girl tries to beat LeBron up.
The Stellan (from altered island) then immediately aided LeBron in fighting, while MEGA!Stellan retrieves the now-comatose Brainiac. Everyone else lands down.
"Brainiac, no!"
"Fuck off!" The girl pushed LeBron out of the floating platform in moment and down to the lake below. *focus to alt. Stellan* "If you can't be blessed... You don't deserve to exist."
The girl then took out a certain beam sword and bisected the alternate Stellan.
"NOOOOO!" MEGA!Stellan witnessed the killing.
The magical girl, splatted in blood, glares at the warden. "Evie, Thunder, undo you current alliance. Resume the inter-syndicate war and attack this warden."
Evie and Thunder gets up with ominous attitude, and approaches.
"Kill him. And show him the Anti-Life." The girl then flew away.
"Hello? Hello?" Ma megaphones for Stellan. "Hey! Can you hear me?"
Thunder hisses and reveal the omega-red eye, showing the influence of Anti-Life Equation. Evie bobs up to show the same kind of eyes.
"Anti-Life... It's Anti-Life!" The warden himself then dropped out of the loot island.
Evie laughed psychotically, creeping those in that cockpit out.
"Use the Life Equation!" Angela warned Ma.
Thunder reels like a wild reptile, brimming with hostility. Ma proceeded to megaphone right away.
"Companionship plus Understanding plus Assurance plus Joy plus Altruism divided by Respect divided by Commendation divided by Sympathy times Innocence times Dignity times Success times Acceptance, Y equals N where Y is Despair and N is Caution, Love equals Truth, Death equals Rebirth, Self equals Light-side."
Cue Evie and Thunder screaming in pain despite lack of visible injury.
"It's working! Maybe the influence of the evil Equation had to grow in order for it to take real effect!" Angela is amazed.
"Evacuate the subject!" The Canon Bringers took notice and flew to the rescue.
"Good."
A few hours later...
"What is this? This can't be..." Everyone in the MEGA land are confused at the sight of alternates crashing the island.
The Peace Syndicate came to the alternative and is absolutely livid at the differences between the two islands. And while hearing that Evie and Thunder both briefly influenced by Anti-Life, the River Guard, the Fox Clan and the Luminaries all took care of both under the request of now-dizzy Ms. Continuum.
"Ugh..." Thunder woke up. "What..."
"You must be hit by the Anti-Life Equation." Ma is the one to respond.
"Who are you? Are you a stranger who disrupt the tides?" Empress Mizuki questioned.
Evie woke up, and saw the sorceress as a random casual woman with an unusual color hair. Confusion ensues.
"I'll explain this. Don't worry, we will aid you." Said the Sorceress. "I'll keep it as simple as I can. I am the 'Mem Aleph', that one sorceress you could access to from Evillious. Originally a fusion of the souls of three candidates, I needed to Irina and Levia-as-Elluka out of Eve Moonlit and absorb all seven demons of Sin, so I could become a pure being and begin my existence anew."
Cue the Stray banging his head because of all the strange things.
"That daughter Nemesis shot me while I was truly vulnerable, and I ceased to be. However, the next thing I knew, I got what I wanted plus some extras, and transported into an era after. That must be some warping involved that brought me back to existence." Ma explained. "I went to be a hacker working for Evillious dot-net. Until one day, when the reality distorted around me..."
"You mean..." Evie heard it.
"The start of the final cycle of what the Continuum Exploitation Authority calls as the Zerobreaker war." Ma continued. "I ended up in a floating Netherrealm, and met a woman with black armored limbs and sinister red dress, and a beautiful face under some suspicious looking white mask."
"Who is she?" The Fox Clan has no idea.
"She never revealed her name. But she has a plan. I worked for her as a recruit, amd became someone part of 'Realitiers'." Ma continued. "I helped setting up the foundation for her plan, until I started figuring out what it really is. And horrified I became, I managed to get out of her and escaped myself."
And then Ma explained to the syndicate that she had since experienced the blast off from the mech fight against the abomination (Zerobreaker) and the day Anti-Life Equation started evolving (thanks to the Realitiers), as well as her being found by Lobotomy-Ruina and involved in a joint mission that instead brought Prism Shatter to Reality Zero, leading to the fracture of hypertime and the start of the whole schtick, including the travel to this very timeline they're working in.
The syndicates are obviously horrified at this.
"How? How?" Stray panicked.
"And what about us?" Thunder questioned. "Evie too!"
"You've both been corrupted by the Anti-Life Equation, but we was able to save you in time with Life Equation!" Ma responded. "I piloted a mech to do it!"
"Shit!" Evie profanes.
"We have to form an alliance." Ma told everyone. "If we don't, we won't stand a fighting chance against the ongoing upheavel against the entire omniverse, and worse!"
"What about the Unseen? We found out on our own that the saboteur we're searching for is working with the Unseen, who lives to cause chaos." Mystica suggested. "It's unusual that the Unseen would do it so quietly. Maybe-"
"Actually, the saboteur could be targeted by the Realitiers as well." Ma replied. "The woman is manipulating things behind the scenes, and she's already putting the existing Crises into intentionally the wrong places at the wrong times to mess with us!"
"We form an alliance, we grow our forces. Also, CXA will aid you in fighting against the Order of the Pariah." Angela approached the syndicates. "By the way, greetings. I am Angela, the director of the Library, formerly the head secretary of Lobotomy Corporation."
To be continued...
I have returned to work on this placeholder sequel to the "Beyond the Edge" reference storyline, after months of being busy. Both these and the spinoffs to be the standards of my project. Thanks!
