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The gang put up a really good fight, but Tabuu was so powerful, it's a good struggle. Thanks to synergy and teamwork, the gang were able to keep up. The gang knows Tabuu has Off Waves, which could defeat any of them in, you guessed it: one fell swoop.
"It's best we don't let him do the Off Wave!" Gladiolus Amicitia warned the gang. "Be could fell us all at once!"
"I think because the Anti-Life has evolved to make them worse... a single Off Wave could blow us up into gibs and gore!" Omegarok corrected.
"Uh oh." The Class Zero realized.
Waldi barked, and Noctis warp-struck Tabuu on the back. But it barely worked.
"Damn! He's tough!" Fuleco (Brazil 2014) realized.
Then spikes protruded from Tabuu's back, nearly stabbing Noctis. The True King was able to evade.
"He's mutated!" Noctis realized.
"Wait, I think I know how to grab a gun..." Miraitowa recalled, and looked at the OG Pass.
"Huh? Don't tell me..." Lil' Split holding a Drum Gun.
Tabuu floats up, and is about to prepare the Off Waves. Then Miraitowa, having snatched the Drum Gun, headshot the being, stunning him.
"You remember the trigger? I learned it from a late soldier, fighting an evil Forgotten Four!"
"Dark-side unite us all." Tabui got up and charged. "Anti-Life Is."
"We seriously need some reinforcement! Why are them taking so long!?" Class Zero complained.
Meanwhile, the Omni-Godmodder is extremely disappointed. Titan!Shang teleported to him.
"It's me, being spied on by those you're... watching right now." Titan!Shang reported. "And I am sure you're asking yourselves 'Can we not activate Project Mobius till it's ready?' But the true question you Order must ask is: 'Can we activate Project Mobius now?'"
Having no idea the Etro lookalike and Titan!Shang was one and the same (due to having never met the lookalike and thus not having any knowledge about the words), the Omni-Godmodder had no idea what to respond.
"Oh, and tell me that Shang Tsung wants to show off Brainiac... as a wedding gift." Titan!Shang whispered to the Omni-Godmodder. "Keep it a secret until the project is ready."
"Master Hand cannot speak, and is too simple to do sign language. Which is why universal translator devices are needed." Ms. Continuum fits an universal translator device to the Hands. "Same goes for Crazy Hand. All this is to make it easier to understand what they're doing."
"Thank you, miss." Master Hand thanked for the device installed inside. "I can finally talk!"
"Now bring them and co. down to subdue Tabuu." Liu Kang commanded. "Oh, and rescue Galeem and Dharkon. They working together would make us stronger!"
"Yeah, but normally, they fucking hate each other, and tends to attack one another. I have seen them gouging each other originally." Crazy Hand commented. "In fact, their squabble led to their downfall. Now, I bet they've finally been captured for real, because they failed to cooperate by themselves!"
"Great. It seems that without anyone to threaten and force them in the light of united threats, they will simply fight each other instead of working together." Master Hand is disappointed. "We can't imagine just what will the Realitiers do to them..."
The Hands and the Canon Bringers dropped by to assist the gang, who is about to be annihilated by Off Wave (OFF波動).
"Are we going to die?" The Fuwas (Beijing 2008) panicked.
"Over there! We're coming!"
"Who?" Lightning looked back.
"Go!" The Canon Bringers, riding all the Rider Machines borrowed from Kamen Riders themselves.
Tabuu ignored them... until a Canon Bringer fired a rocket straight to him. This knocked down the being, breaking the charge.
"I think we're saved now. Yay!" The mascots shouted.
"How!?" Tabuu then threw the Chain of Lights (軽鎖) onto the Hands, trying to repeat what he did to Master Hand, as he recognized them.
But the Master caught the Chains of Light all in one fell swoop, like a badass.
"Not today!" Master Hand declared, having avoided repeating the moment he got on Subspace. "This time, we're here to save you!"
"Master Hand? He can talk?!" Team Fabula Nova noticed.
"Fuck your corruption, we're fixing everything!" Crazy Hand whacked Tabuu down.
"We are here to help you. Wait... what happened to-" Master Hand came by.
"Titan Shang Tsung is back, which is way beyond the impossible." Lightning responded. "He impersonated my goddess, Etro, and plans to do... something about the Order. All of them are bad news."
"Why the hesitation? You two beat down that being." Raven Team Leader pointed at Tabuu. "We-"
Suddenly...
"Not again-" Lil' Split is blasted.
Tabuu blitzed up and eliminated the OG Pass on the spot. He attempted to destroy the spawn drones, but is flicked by Master Hand.
"I'm not as weak as I used to be." Master Hand tracked. "And I'm still the master of the world."
"The Smash world, to be exact." Fuleco and Sohoorang added.
Tabuu mutated again, and went against the Hands. The Canon Bringers immediately stepped out and dispatched the Realitiers in case any of them assist Tabuu and hinder the Hands.
And the two was able to match the being, despite the latter used to be stronger and now is even more so by the Anti-Life. This is due to both working together, improved skill since the Subspace incident, and stuffing those Spirits extracted by the CXA to empower them.
"What the shit is going on?!" The queen left the scene. "We need to gather!"
Trading blows with the Hands, Tabuu is exhausted and had enough, so he once again resorted to Off Wave.
"Not so fast!" Master Hand knew it. "Go, Master Core!"
Crazy Hand threw a very large (happens to be proportionally sized to the Hands) Pokeball made of black particles, which then transformed into an one-headed version of Cerberus. Those black particles, called Swarm, surrounds the actual Core itself.
"Master... Puppy?" Crazy Hand calls out... its form's name?
"Oh god..." Master Hand is exasperated.
The Master Core form then proceeds to chew away Tabuu (owing to its current size), with obvious killing intent. Which broke the wings and crippled the being.
The best then spits him out, and then retracted into a single, proportional (and large) katana for the Hands to use. Tabuu immediately crawled for help, but the Hands would instead respond with this...
"Master Slice!" The Hands posed the sheath, with the Master Hand holding the grip, ready to draw the sword.
"Is... Is... Is..." Tabuu still crawling.
Cue a powerful swipe, destroying Tabuu with a single slash. A large explosion where the being was, create a large crater near the Hands.
"Good boy." Master Hand stores the Core and the 'Swarms' down to him and Crazy Hand. "We did it."
"Thank you! You saved us!" Serah thanked the Hands.
Master Hand gave a thumb-up in response.
"The Hands actually fought and just won. I have to report to the queen." The Omni-Godmodder retreated.
"Tell her about... me." Titan!Shang disappeared.
"Hurry, everyone!" Master Hand fled.
The gang and co. fled back to the mothership. With the 'Apollo' side up, the alliance used the same cognitive filter Malal had used for the girl and co., and they all gathered.
"To move and control an army that's truly countless in number, they'll need a big portal or rift, yes?" Alt!Jonesy asked. "After all, some of you know how to pull things like these off."
"More than one. They'll eventually need nexuses of portals and rifts and gateways." Ms. Continuum replied.
"Well, we can we hijack them?" The Godmodder asked. "We follow them, they will lead us to it."
"Alright, that's correct because it's one of the steps to the project." The girl sitting down.
"Agree, the Rebooted." Liu Kang agreed. "But we cannot strike until we analyze the entire Beach."
"And not even us insiders have every single parts known to us." Valda continued.
"This is but the new chapter in an ultimate war, in front of the big bang." Liu Kang affirmed.
"What? I feel like... I have done some thing of that..." Alt!Jonesy felt a deja vu.
"Titan Shang Tsung, the X-Alliance and the Order have prepared their existence for it." Liu Kang continued. "We cannot match its strength."
"Zero Point, Hypertime, Retconnian, the fourth wall,... how do we know who's in each point?" Travis wondered. "If everything's connected, why not bring everything that's left now?"
"Why the thought experiment, boy?" Riane gleams her golden eyes.
"The Fire God said we lacked strength. Same thing in the New Era when he realized Titan Shang Tsung was back." Travis recalled Mortal Kombat 1. "We might find it everywhere else, just like across the entire kombat-multiverse back in the day."
"How would we do this?" Geno asked.
"We gather allies and collaborators across fictions, and unite with our creators from real life..." System suggested. "Other ideas... to build an overwhelming force, and then supercharge them with Overdeity-level powers through Cross All."
"If they're easily accessible." Ms. Continuum added. "We need to make sure we can gather everything we need in a true instant."
"We must fight the battle in front of us." Laserhawk commented. "We can't stake our survival on pure conjecture."
"If the recent madness is any indication, the battle in front of us is already lost." Angela denied. "This may be our last hope."
"Geras. Can you join the IO?" Liu Kang asked Geras.
Geras looked at Geno, worried as he already made the sacrifice for Liu Kang to regain the powers of the Keeper of Time, and now had to make another difficult choice. Thanks to his wisdom, he agreed.
Meanwhile...
"The alliance have arrived, and they killed Tabuu. Master Hand and Crazy Hand dealt the finishing blows." The Omni-Godmodder reported to the queen, at the throne room. "They have since fled the scene."
"I too, believe that there's a mothership landed in the Beach. Find it and expose the alliance." The queen commanded. "They threatened everything we do and we stands for."
Meanwhile, Geras inserted himself into the Imagined Order, joining the IO on its early days to allow himself to learn more about the Zero Point, all while further studying the rest of the existence itself. Liu Kang and the CXA watched through the Hourglass.
"Our unity bolster the strength against the Order and co. It is sure to be the great-grandmaster of all battles." Travis told the lost trio.
"I believe this will be roughly the scale of the battles that led to the founding of CXA itself." Riane giggled.
Meanwhile, the krossroads are filled with the remaining and existing Realitiers wearing armors based on the Seven's suits, as well as the mutated victims. They're all being spied by a modified spawn drone, equipped with ultra-high resolution cameras and sensing techs.
"Oh yeah, now that's some techy trick." Inigo Montaya seeing the footage. We can finally watch those Realitiers around!"
"And remember... sometimes, technology can become so advanced, it simply becomes... magic!" Travis watching the footage as well.
"Either way, it's clear what must happen next." The wanderer noted. "The main rifts and the Dark Army have to be destroyed. Miss Riane and co., have you a plan?"
"Teras, what should we do?" The Fi-A asked.
"We must divide our forces." Teras suggested. "Us three and O.R.A.C., Lucky Trinity, Lobotomy-Ruina, Ma, Geno, Access, Viola, Chya will dispatch the rifts. As you and we do, GodCraft Legion, Shinra, Ouma, Oros Phlox, the mascots, the Hands, SCP-239, Kiana, Iudex and Laserhawk will grind down the Dark Army. The rest of us, especially the Canon Bringers, will attack the Realitiers and infiltrate the insides. If we're successful, it will hopefully throw the Dark Army into disarray."
"Unoriginal, but efficient. Pretty good." Travis gave a thumb-up.
"Truly astute. That loser could not have devised a better one." The attorneys applauded.
"Enough talking. We must get moving now." Hoshimatsu called.
Meanwhile, a pure portal was made by the Alears and Veyle, while the Realitiers are training and the corrupted are gathered.
"Our breath will spread. Breath of the dark-side." Veyle activating the portal with the Fire Emblem ring. "Infinite Armageddon... here us Order come!"
Two groups are up above, on the mounts. Viola, who had a Portal Device at the ready (just in case), commanded the other group. The Legion, Shinra-Ouma alliance, the Phloxs, Neuvillette and Laserhawk struck the enemies down from afar. The rest of that group targeted whoever tried to escape, much to the dragon siblings' chargin. The larger group with the Canon Bringers barged to the insides, leaving the main group with the portal. Cue the combined blast with the Portal Device and their things against the portal, just to cripple it and make it safe to close off.
However, the portal is resilient, and glitched to prevent its deactivation.
"C'mon! It could clone itself at any time, so we must..." System fired a laser right at the tendril.
With the Realitiers and corrupted dispatched, the other group came into aid. The portal still eluded the blast, and soon enough, both groups are knocked down.
"That is unfortunate." Master Hand is disappointed.
"You. Why do you interfere?" Turns out, Veyle was reinforcing the portal.
"Get out, except the Hands." Hoshimatsu commanded the alt group except the Hands. "Go with the Canon Bringers and deal with it. We're taking care of this inaugural portal."
"Alear! Veyle!"/"リュール!ヴェイル!" Hoshimatsu responded. "What happened to you?!"
"You will be exterminated." Female!Alear stepped in. "Prepare to die!"
"Attack!" Male!Alear summoned the corrupted Emblems for fighting.
Cue a brawl from the main group and the Hands against the dragon siblings and their Emblems. Being empowered by the Equation, they're able to keep up with the group as a whole.
"You three can't be like this!" The group targeted the ring.