Yay! 64 again! After Part 47 comes 16 more chapters, read in sequential order (the rest of the reading order can and must be found on the starting point of Part 47). This is Part 64, and while I reached part 64 before (please refer to "Beyond the Edge" if you're curious), thing are going to be nuts from here on out. Part 64, start! The Big Bang, ready! (As of late 2023)
Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
"Once we put an end to the CXA, we will be unopposed." Niles' lookalike continued. "We will take pleasure in bringing the existence down to our toes, for all eternity."
The lookalike and the apparent Clive both attacked the Titans. And they have unusual powers: of course Clive would be using Eikons... if not for those Eikons feel like straight from his ultimate enemy, Ultima (as Ms. Continuum noticed); Niles' lookalike is essentially something else entirely, despite being a meme guardian of sorts.
"We fight how we remember. We know what we've been doing since the old era." Liu Kang told his Titan friends. "But them?"
"Never seen these two before. Let's put them before our wrath." Titan!Kitana engaged.
The Titan focused on each of the strangers. The overall experience and the divinity speaks for themselves, but the two were able to catch up with corrupted version of whatever their main template is. And Ms. Continuum was able to recognize that.
"An artificial Meme Guardian? And... Clive Rosfield has..." Ms. Continuum realized.
Cue an Eikonic Strike right to Ms., only to be interpreted by Titan!Raiden.
"How we've missed fighting by each other's side." Titan!Raiden subdues the Eikonic.
The Titans were able to subdue the two... only for the artificial Meme Guardian to blast the Hourglass. At the same, two Eemian Realitiers arrived, likely lost their ability to willingly remember.
"Let's rip the flesh from their bones."
"Who are they?" Titan!Kitana have no idea who they are.
"It appears we're greyed by those two rows by the Last Stop." Liu Kang replied. "The Forgotten Four told me of the Last Stop itself."
"I'd like to hear her or them, should wr survive this battle." Titan!Kitana responded.
The two Titans fought the Realitiers, who're obviously enhanced to divine levels as they're 'blessed' by the Order. Therefore, the fight was quite even. Both Titans were then able to finish them off with Fatalities.
"Are you the best ones the Order have?" Liu Kang confronted the Meme Guardian.
"Actually, I am SMGX. Super Meme Guardian the Cross. Username: supermarioglitchyX." The Meme Guardian smirked. "Look at your precious." *blasts the Hourglass* "It has begun!"
The Hourglass started cracking, and because the Zero Point upgrades connected it to the omniverse, all the Titans and Geras are shocked literally, and "Ugh!" down in pain.
"Protectors!" The champions reached in worry.
"Titans!" Ms. Continuum as well. "We must stop them."
"If this Hourglass is emptied, our multiverse will be destroyed, and all of us there will cease to be." Liu Kang noted.
Titan!Lao knocks Clive(?)/the Eikonic down, and then he and Liu Kang briefly healed Geras.
"Heal quickly, my friend." Liu Kang helped Geras recover.
Another Realitier arrived, and ambushed Geras, who dodged.
"Sorry for interrupting, but this battle ends with your multiverse obliterated and you and your people all erased." This Realitier is a former Looper, who got corrupted with Anti-Life. "Your final moments will be torture and pain!"
"We do not fear your bravado." Liu Kang engaged. "I alone have bested aberrations no less evil than you."
The Titans (except Titan!Raiden, who had to subdue SMGX) attacked the Realitier, who already had Chug Jug consumed. The latter actually treats them like felliw Loopers, and mostly shot the Titans; they did build constructs to cover them and blocks the Titans, but a strike was enough for each Titan to tear each 'object' down.
"Get eliminated, Looper." Liu Kang finishes the Realitier off with a Brutality.
"We have little time. The Hourglass is failing, and the Zero Point upgrades is inside it." Geras got back up.
"Then let us end this now."
SMGX broke free, and knocked Titan!Raiden down and continued the blast, only to be surrounded by champions.
"Be good and surrender, won't you?" SMGX went even harder.
"Or else..." A few more Loopers-turned-Realitiers came by.
"Us Titans will fight them." Liu Kang commanded. "You and Miss save the Hourglass."
"Yes, Liu Kang." Geras obliged.
The Titans assisted the champions to against the Realitiers, while Geras, aided by Ms. Continuum thanks to buffs, blasted the Hourglass with sand to fix it. SMGX is still laughing, as he's still currently standing strong; the artificial Meme Guardian saw Geras fixing and Ms. powering him up by touch...
"Fools. You cannot save it." SMGX dismissed.
As Geras and SMGX blasts for the Hourglass, the Titans and Liu Kang's champions had to contend with the Realitiers.
"I don't know which of them is the worst." Raiden have no idea. "Like, they're all Loopers gone wrong!"
"They became abominations." Liu Kang reassured. "None of them will survive this fight."
This battle is then the same as the last, except it had to be split between each Realitier, and that all those Titans leading the way. The kombatants eventually won, and those for eliminated for good.
"Once the Order is finished, you will be too." Liu Kang then rushed to the Hourglass and blasted.
The other Titans joined, and all these and Geras, buffed by Continuum herself, saved the Hourglass and exhausted SMGX, just as the Eikonic got up. With the Hourglass repaired, the Titans quickly recovered.
"This is over, you Titans the Keepers of Time." The Eikonic threatened. "Bathed in light I stand above you, my rebirth complete. And you, for your defiance, shall pay the proper price; an eternity of anguish."
SMGX and the Eikonic left the mothership. Ms. Continuum finally fully recognized the latter.
"Thank you, everyone, for your aid." Liu Kang thanked. "This battle was won together."
"These two are gone, but they're not defeated, and the Order's still going strong." Tiran!Kitana noted. "They'll be back to further their plans and renew their approach."
"Not only against our multiverse and thud all timelines, but all of existence." Titan!Lao as well.
"Our choice is clear." Titan!Raiden concluded. "We must help the alliance and take the fight to the Order. Destroy any chance of them properly unleash their opis magnus."
"Agreed. The Order are likely gathering the existence as we're gathering it." Liu Kang concurred. "We must best their efforts before it's too late. Assemble an overwhelming army from across all realities."
Liu Kang opened a portal, and all the kombatants was to enter.
"Hey, take these!" Ms. Continuum threw five of O.R.A.C. gizmos to the Titans and Geras. "You'll need these. And besides, I know who that Clive actually is."
The Titans and Geras stopped, and picked up the gizmos.
"Well, thank you." Liu Kang wears it. "But what do you want to say?"
"Ultima. Check the logs, and you'll definitely see him among the Final Fantasy folders." Ms. Continuum revealed. "How could he, the Lord of the Akashic, possess First Shield of Rosaria, Clive Rosfield, when the latter cannot contain all the magics? Ultima should've just eventually died out in Clive's ruined body not long after he succeeded in dining Valisthea in his timeline, and yet... well, you should find out how the body was able to survive."
"Oh really?" Titan!Kitana got it. "Thanks for the correction. Now, can we go?"
"Let's go, everyone. Miss, you guard the Hourglass while I'm away." Geras then left.
The Titans and Geras entered the portal, which then closed. Ms. Continuum covered the Hourgl with a huge invisibility cloak, and then built a Battle Royale cell made of steel completely surrounding that, then covered all that into another, even larger invisibility cloak. Meanwhile, at the throne room...
"We've being raided by the alliance of the reincarnated and the CXA!" N complained. "This is what happens when the reincarnated villainess get away with her existence!"
"Why so angry? And why saying that the reincarnated can ruin our plans, especially in the long run?" Titan!Shang (as Etro) asked.
"You don't know, the death goddess?" N vented at Titan!Shang. "I killed her family, then she committed suicide through singular-vehicular collision. Then she got reincarnated, and tried to avoid doom flags... only for her devices to somehow come back, and her to meets up with some sort of rift encounter, leading her to find us and expose the Order, thus aiding the three traitors and some prisoners to leak all our infos!"
"You killed her, and then she got crashed with a car or something?" Titan!Shang heard the detail. "Then it's you two's fault that she even rose up beyond reincarnation in the first place."
"Silence!" N yelled in front of Titan!Shang. "You don't know why did we killed her family and took an automatic bounty of her in the first place!"
"What? Because you fear she would..." Titan!Shang responded.
"Exactly." M confirmed. "She loves otome games, so it was possible for her to reincarnate into a villainess. That cliche risked us Order!"
"That's right. And the only reason we want able to kill her after we killed her parents is because she wasn't in that room at the time." N agreed. "Then she escaped before we could rush to her at all. Ultimately, we hoped she wouldn't really reincarnate the way she did. And guess what?"
"You should've checked her house more throughly!" Titan!Shang yelled back at the clone duo. "It's your first failed mission!"
"It is our first major failure, and we could've been punished by the queen for that!" M conceded. "But still!"
"Actually, you guess what?" Titan!Shang walked away. "Maybe she should've punished you later on, instead of continue to have you do major things for the foreseeable time after you've fumbled and ruined."
"What?" N have no idea.
"I'm telling her that your punishment is overdue." Titan!Shang left. "I'm still doing my job. Oh, and your Alpha too!"
"Actually, Alpha got here as a way to make up for the reincarnated incident." N disagreed.
"She's won't listen to us." M admitted. "We've got jobs to do, for sake of our queen."
"I'm sure you'll still be punished... but not by the queen."
"Who's saying that?" M noticed.
"I recognize this voice..." N recognized the voice.
"It doesn't matter if you recognize us. You did this to an innocent otaku, and forced her reincarnation to suffer. Well, guess what?"
"It's you, Malal the Chaos Justice!" N pointed it out.
The remaining members of the old O.R.A.C. appeared surrounding the clone duo.
"Oh, you still remember when we leaked the infos?" Telos as Arak. "You all promised us family, and you kept your words. But at the cost of multiverses, which I regretted from the start. So, I had to betray you and start leaking the infos, because you deserved it. I know fully of how dangerous you are."
"Destroying both fictions and real life is a no-no." Travis called out. "CXA cracks whoever tried to do that down."
"And the founders? Yeah, they're monsters, and they don't even deserve the Retconnian. Not at all." Malal mocked the co-founders. "No wonder why CXA had to deal with you Order. This time is again so."
"You destroyed Trope Pantheon." Decade is in his true, Anomaly-stricken Skrull form, but inserting his card to thr Decadriver. "you and the Order will pay for that. Henshin!"
"KamenRide: Decade!"
"Unacceptable. How dare you deface and corrupt our family's genetics?" Na'el called out the duo's genetics. "You should've never been evil to begin with, let alone conspiring with Alpha."
"The Rebooted condemn you all." Pantheon!Laughs revealed. "I helped this team once, hacking through your ranks. Now I've joined for both revenge and domination, and I present you..."
Cue the girl beating down the clone duo, preventing them from immediate unleash. And yes, dark magic and holy magic were used here.
The duo tried to dodge, but was stuck in liquid metal, courtesy of Telos. Cue Valda and Decade joining in the beatdown. At the same time, turns out Titan!Shang hid himself out of sight, and so have been eavesdropping everything.
"They're getting their revenge because you didn't try hard enough to make sure it stop sticking." Titan!Shang secretly mocked the duo.
"Enough!!!" M screamed.
M has awakened again, causing a shockwave that pushed the members away, and then instantly healed herself and N.
"What the!?" Decade noticed.
"You nearly killed me and both for good!" The girl quickly rebounded.
"Begone!" N unleashed himself, and did a swift slash with the Another Monado...
...but the girl quickly dodges.
"You..." Then N did it again...
...only to be blocked at the guards with her bare hands. Only then did N did notice the cybernetic enhancements... he realized that she's now working at the same level and power as the duo.
"You... How could you..." N stepped back.
"You two got me into deadly perils twice." The girl rapid-fires her darkness. "You two killed my original family and destroyed my game!"
N is struck, and M is then faced with that light bypassing her reality warps. With the duo easily defeated and about to be continued the beatdown, the rebooted girl called Lucky Trinity to help her beat them down. Titan!Shang is surprised that they're about to dominate the duo, so he teleported.
"Take care of your two pals. I have seen them fallen and defeated." Titan!Shang (as Etro) reported to Alpha. "Save them. They're in danger. By someone they're familiar with."
Being a machine he is, Alpha simply obliged and left the room to save the duo. Titan!Shang was then... To be continued...