Opening GrimmFall Database

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Opening File: Rex Salazar

Born in a parallel dimension Rex Salazar came to the 'GrimmFall' Dimension, tracking a criminal named Van Kleiss. He is called an E.V.O.( Exponentially Variegated Organism) with the power to create a variety of machinery, control machines, and cure most E.V.O.s infected with the nanites that have mutated them. According to him, in his dimension there was an incident known as the 'Nanite Event', an explosion that spread microscopic machines known as nanites into the atmosphere where they eventually descended and bonded to the molecular structure of every living organism on the planet. Under normal circumstances the nanites are completely harmless until they activate, turning their host into an often monstrous creature called an EVO In response to the threat posed by EVOs, Providence was founded. The land in the five mile radius of the explosion was infused with large amounts of nanites.

Van Kleiss later established his EVO kingdom of Abysus there after he discovered that he was turned into an EVO with the ability to control the nanites in the soil. Also during the Event, Earth's magnetic field funneled a huge concentration of nanites into the city of Kiev, turning nearly everything that lived there into EVOs. Prior to the Nanite Event, and during the Nanite Project which his parents and brother worked on, Rex was critically injured in an industrial accident caused by a dispute between the many scientists about how the nanites were to be used. The scientists—among them Violeta, Rafael, Caesar, and Gabriel Rylander—injected Rex with the original batch of fully programed nanites, hoping to save Rex's life and to make the other scientists see that their ways were for the greater good.

It was a major success as Rex was able to be saved. However, Rex's new abilities, courtesy of the nanites, only reinforced their beliefs. While Rex, Gabriel, and Caesar were able to survive the Nanite Event by blind luck, Rafael and Violeta were killed as a result of the massive nanite explosion. A few years later, Rex transformed into a giant bio-mechanical form and went on a rampage in Mexico.

Providence sent a group of soldiers—including Agent Six and White Knight—to contain the menace. After sustaining heavy damage, Rex crashed into a building and reverted to his human form, forgetting everything that happened before he turned full EVO Six discovered the young boy beneath the wreckage and helped him to safety, not knowing that he was the EVO that had just attacked him. Although Six was initially reluctant to look after Rex, he felt sympathy for him when he discovered that Rex was suffering from amnesia. After Rex saved Six from a dangerous EVO by curing it, Six took Rex to Providence to show his incredible curing capabilities to Dr. Holiday, who had been trying to find a way to revert EVOs' mutations instead of killing them.

While hopeful by the discovery, Six did not trust the current head of Research and Development, Doctor Fell, and his then partner, White Knight, and asked that the discovery be kept under wraps. Six's suspicions were confirmed when White kidnapped, interrogated, and later caged Dr. Holiday to discover the reason why Six had brought Rex to Providence. White, with Dr. Fell, kidnapped Rex while he was sleeping and attempted to dissect him molecule by molecule to reverse-engineer his unique curing capabilities. They failed, however, when Rex's nanites subconsciously reacted to the danger.

In the resulting struggle, White was trapped in the chamber during an overload, and Fell was later fired and replaced by Dr. Holiday. With White Knight's body bleached and his nanites destroyed, he was declared head of Providence. Rex was inducted into Providence for his curing powers. Eventually Rex came into contact with Van Kleiss and the two would clash over the course of the next few years. Rex eventually discovered a way to shut down all the nanites on the planet however Van Kleiss and his cohorts escaped through a dimensional portal but by a twist of fate had somehow appeared in our dimension.

Rex Salazar would later duplicate the process that brought Van Kleiss here and has begun his search. Further details will be required on his abilities and the possible threat this Van Kleiss represents.

Close File

Xxx

"The thing about most super hero stories it almost always starts with an accident. An explosion in a lab that somehow gives a scientist or some random kid who had been hanging around super powers after being exposed to some sort of chemical or gamma ray or being bit by a radioactive animal. That's the norm with most super hero stories. Others involve a great tragedy that emotionally and mentally scars the soon to be hero that motivates them to become something that will ensure such pain will never be repeated." TOM lectured, closing the 'Salazar Rex' file. "Super powers or not these kind of stories can happen anywhere and they always mean a time of great change. So, if you ever experience something like that how do you think you would handle it? Some drown themselves in depression and sorrow. Others use it as an excuse to inflict pain on others and others fight back and try change the world for the better, becoming their own heroes."

Xxx

"So, villain you think you can come and attack American citizens? Well, I am America, mister! Do you think you can contend with the speed of America, the strength of America, the Constitution of... America?" The man said slowly and dangerously.

"Who is this guy?" Rex asked, watching as the caped man faced Vilgax.

"One of the world's strongest heroes." Max answered. "Major Glory."

Major Glory was a tall light-skinned man whose true face was concealed by his iconic golden mask. His only visible facial features were his large chin and pearly white teeth. His attire was very patriotic and had several references to American symbolism, especially the US flag. His helmet was golden and was made in the image of a bald eagle.

His suit was mainly white but comes with a red belt and the top has a blue color-scheme with white stars like the US flag, making it truly star-spangled. His cape was long and flowing with red and white stripes like the flag. He also wore blue boots and gloves.

"Major Glory? As in the Major Glory?" Gwen whispered in awe.

"Who is he?" Steven asked with Greg's arms still around him.

"He's one of the world's stronger Hunters but he is labeled a hero because he's more powerful than even dozen Huntsmen, able to slay over hundreds of Grimm with his bare hands." Max Tennyson answered. "I am honestly surprised he showed up. He's usually stationed in GrimmFall."

Major Glory landed on his feet, watching Vilgax glaring at him from the burning beach. The tyrant roared, summoning more streams of lava from the earth that fell back onto the humans.

Major Glory inhaled and blew.

His breath was a blast of freezing that turned everything to ice, spreading down the beach and even froze Vilgax himself before he could react.

"Whoa…" Ben, Gwen and Steven marveled in awe at the frozen beach.

There was a flash of red light and Vilgax shattered the ice he had been encased in. Major Glory readied himself and shot at Vilgax like a rocket. Both forces collided, creating a massive shockwave that shook the entire town and shattered the ice around them. Major Glory and Vilgax grabbled, both struggling to overpower the other.

Vilgax's eye flashed yellow and his body surged with electricity before releasing a massive energy blast that sent the American hero flying back, skidding across the beach several times but he quickly recovered and went on the attack again. Vilgax blocked a punch aimed for his face and fought back, the two of them trading blows and creating shockwaves with each punch.

"We got to assist." Garnet looked to Opal who nodded.

A moment later there was a flash of light and Alexandrite leapt into the battle, forming a massive war hammer that she swung at Vilgax, knocking right into the ocean. Vilgax emerged from the water a second later with a loud roar, his body growing even larger as he called upon more of the power that he stockpiled with his Semblance.

"He's getting bigger." Ben said as the fight continued.

"Vilgax's Semblance has made him more powerful than I ever imagined." Max glanced to Rex. "You have control over machines, right?"

Rex nodded. "Yeah."

"Can you enhance this?" Max held up his cannon. "It's keyed to Vilgax's bio-signature. I hoped it would finish him off for good but he's too strong for it now."

"I can give it a shot." Rex said, grasping the blaster and connected with it.

His nanomachines flowed through the blaster, sharing information with him, allowing him to understand its function and took a step forward, integrating it into his arm, creating a large arm-cannon.

"What do you think?" Rex asked, hoisting the new cannon over his shoulder.

Ben, Steven and Gwen had stars in their eyes as they stared at the cannon. "So…cool."

Major Glory shot forward, slamming into Vilgax and sending the tyrant flying into the sky over Beach City and onto the outskirts of the town. Alexandrite jumped after them, summoning her war hammer again that she swung down on Vilgax as he emerged from the crater formed from the impact of his landing. Vilgax however created another energy blast that knocked the Gem Fusion back and then projected heat beams from his eyes, slamming directly into Alexandrite's chest, throwing her back even further.

Alexandrite grunted, feeling herself about to unfuse but managed to stay together. "Keep it together…"

Major Glory flew at Vilgax, firing his Star-Spangled Eye Beams at the tyrant who responded with his own heat beams. The two beams collided with each other, both forces struggling to overpower the other. Major Glory let out a scream as he poured all the power he could into his attack but Vilgax still overpowered him and blasted him out of the air. The hero slammed into the ground, groaning but managing to stand up.

"It's been…A long time…" Major Glory rubbed a bit of blood from his lip. "That I have faced such a strong opponent."

"Surrender now and I will mercifully grant you a quick death." Vilgax stepped forward, unsheathing a large sword from his back.

Major Glory stood up, readying himself. "Do not mistake my words for surrender, villain! I still have plenty of fight left in me!"

"How brave." Vilgax praised sarcastically.

Alexandrite climbed back onto her feet and lashed out with her mace whip that slammed into Vilgax but the tyrant brought both arms up, blocking the attack.

"He's strong." Major Glory admitted but remembered something he had heard earlier with his super hearing.

"My Semblance allows me to absorb the power of anything, including Aura that grants me the powers of others and the elemental powers of Dust. With it, I don't need to rely on Dust like you pathetic Earthlings. Their power is already MMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"Dust, he absorbs the power of Dust like almost everything else." Major Glory muttered, realizing that he might have found Vilgax's weakness. "By Washington's wig! That's it!"

Just as Vilgax blasted Alexandrite again Major Glory flew past the Fusion Gem, grabbing onto Vilgax and shot off into the sky. Vilgax was stunned for a second by sheer speed from Major Glory but recovered and batted the hero away, only for him to shoot back up and slam Vilgax even further up the atmosphere.

"What's he doing?" Ben asked.

Max's eyes widened. "He's trying to launch Vilgax into orbit."

"Okay, that's kind of cool. But isn't that risky?" Rex asked.

"Risky but it's the best chance to take him down." Max answered, confusing everyone who was listening. "Vilgax mentioned he used his Semblance to absorb and stockpile power from Dust and Dust can only work so as long as it remains in close proximity of this planet. If Vilgax were to leave Earth…"

"He'd lose all his Dust powers!" Gwen caught on, looking very surprised.

"Right. Dust and the Earth share symbiotic bond. Without this planet it would be worthless." Max nodded.

Meanwhile back on the beach, Johnny Bravo managed to swim back and crawl back onto land. "I'm okay! I made it…Hello? I'm still alive here."

Vilgax grunted, calling on the power of gravity Dust he had absorbed, allowing him to fly and battled Major Glory as the hero continued pushing him further above the planet's surface.

"What do you hope to accomplish?" Vilgax asked as they grappled, still traveling into the sky, reaching the point that they were almost completely out of the atmosphere. "In space or on the ground I will still be victorious."

"On the ground maybe." Major Glory smirked as he let go, starting to fall back to the planet. "But not in space!"

He inhaled and blew, unleashing another freezing gust that slammed into Vilgax and sent him straight into orbit of the planet.

'Foolish human! I'll-' Vilgax was cut off mid-thought as he suddenly felt himself losing power. "What is happening?!"

The amount of power he had stockpiled with his Semblance was rapidly declining and it showed as his mass started to shrink until he was back to his original size. Major Glory fell back to the surface, having remained close enough to the planet that he didn't lose the majority of his power. The hero landed back on the surface, panting slightly from the battle and the flight up to near space. Looking back up he spied an object falling back down to the planet, watching it impacted the ground a mile away.

Everyone waited with baited breath as Vilgax emerged from the crater, still alive but looking badly wounded as his Aura shimmered and his size returned to its pre-empowered state but he looked furious.

"You…" Vilgax growled, looking at Major Glory with pure rage.

"Surrender, villain!" Major Glory pointed at the tyrant. "You have lost much of your power. You cannot hope to win now."

"Vilgax surrenders to no one!" Vilgax roared, activating his Semblance that manifested as green glowing octopus tentacles that lashed out, able to stretch without limit.

Major Glory shot back into the air, dodging the tentacles while Alexandrite used her mace whip to attack from the distance but to her surprise the tentacles grabbed the whip and pulled her towards them, grabbing onto her. The Gem Fusion cried out in pain as the tentacles began draining her energy.

"NO!" Steven cried and ran towards the battle.

"STEVEN!" Greg chased after his son.

Vilgax grinned deviously as he felt the energy of the Crystal Gems rejuvenate him, restoring his Aura. "Yes."

Alexandrite vanished in a flash of light, de-fusing back into Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst but the tentacles kept hold of them and continued draining their energy.

"Let them go!" Steven summoned his shield which he threw at the tentacles and cut them, saving the Gems but they looked very weak.

"What?" Vilgax looked at Steven as he ran over to his caretakers. "How annoying. Though, I have managed to regain enough power to win."

"You fiend!" Major Glory shouted, flying towards Vilgax. "Draining strength that is not yours! Have you no shame?!"

"Shame?" Vilgax asked, blocking a blow aimed at his head that created another earth shattering shockwave that made him slide back. "Never heard of it. Now it's my turn!"

Like Major Glory did before Vilgax inhaled and blew, unleashing a powerful gust that hit the surprised hero and sent him flying back. The tyrant then lunged forward, unleashing his Death Wave on the hero before he could recover and his energy tentacles grabbed Major Glory, proceeding to drain him of his power.

"Hey, squid-face!"

Vilgax looked up just in time to see Rex fire the upgraded version of Max's blaster that slammed into him head on, blasting him across the country side.

"Bull's eye!" Rex pumped a fist.

But to his surprised when the smoke cleared Vilgax was still alive, his Aura having protected him.

"Seriously? What does it take to bring you down?" Rex mumbled in frustration, aiming to fire again.

Vilgax dodged the blast this time, shooting towards Rex and smashed the cannon with a swing of his arm. "I have absorbed just enough power that I can finish you all off now."

Vilgax then kicked Rex away, watching as the annoying human hit the floor with a loud cry of pain right next to the Universes and the downed Crystal Gems. His eyes glowed red, preparing to finish Rex off his with heat-vision. Six ran forward, readying his magna-blades but Vilgax blew him away with another gust from his breath before turning back to Rex. Steven watched as everyone fell to Vilgax, his eyes starting to water from seeing so many people being hurt.

"Hang on!" Ben quickly chose Upgrade and slammed his hand down on the Omnitrix.

Vilgax fired his heat-vision and Steven couldn't take it anymore. "NO MORE HURTING EVERYONE!"

There was blast of light, blinding everyone for a few seconds before it was over…

And Steven collapsed after having protected Rex and his family with his shield.

Vilgax narrowed his eyes. "Again? What sort of human is this?"

Upgrade had rushed forward while Vilgax was distracted and latched onto Rex, oozing all over his body and merging with the nanites inside him, forming a bodysuit colored black with green lines.

"Oh yeah." Rex grinned as he stood up, activating his hyper-jet. "Time to finish this."

Thy Hyper-jet move propelled Rex forward at Vilgax at high-speed and he morphed his hands into giant fists, charging them with green energy. Vilgax blocked the first fist but the sheer force of the blow knocked him back. Rex went on the attack, remembering this power he had gained from his merger with the other Ben's Upgrade that had made him strong enough to easily take on Alpha-Omega. Vilgax tried to punch him but Rex was smaller and much faster now, gracefully evading the tyrant's fists and punched Vilgax back with a charged fist again, then changed his fist into a large sword that when Rex swung it the blade easily slashed through Vilgax's Aura.

Vilgax finally lost his remaining composure and kept on trying to hit Rex with his fists, only for Rex to dodge each attack while shifting between his fists, sword and many more weapons such as axes and saws that cut away at Vilgax's Aura and caused the alien menace to stumble back.

Until Rex finally had enough and formed his Blast Launcher, aiming directly at Vilgax's chest. "And don't come back!"

A large green energy beam shot from the cannon, hitting Vilgax head on and launched him back into the sky.

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Vilgax howled as he was blasted off the planet and directly into space.

All was quiet for several moments.

Everyone waited to see if Vilgax would fall back down to Earth like he did before but nothing happened.

Upgrade detached itself from Rex and changed back into Ben. "You think we got him?"

"I think so. Knowing him, he'll probably be back." Rex admitted with a small smile. "Nice thinking."

Ben smiled back. "Just doing what you asked me to do, Mr…"

"Call me Rex. It's what my friends call me."

Steven tearfully hugged the three Crystal Gems, their bodies looking very pale from nearly being absorbed by Vilgax's Semblance. "Guys, I was so scared. I thought I was going to lose you."

As his tears fell onto them, Steven's Gem glowed and the pale Gems seemed to heal with their colors being restored to normal.

"Steven…" Greg watched in awe as his son healed the Gems.

Everyone was taking a moment to take a breath, relieved that it was finally over.

Xxx

"So wait, this laptop belongs to an author who wrote the book you found on all the weird stuff here in this town and now if you crack the password you'll learn who the author is." Hoagie said, trying to remember everything Dipper told him.

"Yes." Dipper answered, pacing back and forth. "And Mabel promised to help me but of course she's obsessing over some boy she'll probably forget about next week."

"Right…"

"I mean, she's already dated a guy who turned out to be a hundred gnomes, that creep Gideon and that merman guy." Dipper kept going on.

"Merman guy? A hundred gnomes?" Poor Hoagie was lost now.

"And then this triangle guy shows up in my dreams, offering me help." Dipper just continued on, as if Hoagie wasn't talking at all.

"Triangle guy?"

"And now I am here by myself trying to find the password Mabel promised to help me find but she sends one of her 'friends' to help me instead."

"Uh…Do you want me here?" Hoagie asked, feeling a little insulted now. "Cause I can just go help Nyx with helping Mabel."

"It's just so…Ugh!" Dipper sat down in front of the laptop. "Frustrating. Why does my sister have to be so selfish?"

"Um…"

"I mean, who ditches an adventure to understand the secrets of this town to go on a date?"

"Uh…"

"And someone who has had so much rotten luck with her other dates?"

"Oh…"

"Almost all her dates were not even human."

"Bubba-Blubba?"

Dipper just stopped and looked at Hoagie with a confused faced. "Bubba-Blubba?"

"Sorry, I had to see if you actually knew I existed." Hoagie shrugged. "I mean, I am good with computers and better at it than puppets so I offered to help you instead. I was only helping your sister because Nyx asked me for help."

"Oh…" Dipper trailed off, feeling like he had just been blabbing like an idiot in front of Hoagie for the last twenty minutes.

Which he had been.

"Wait, who are you again?" Dipper asked.

Hoagie had to resist the urge to smack himself in the face. "I'm Hoagie Gilligan, I'm here because of some sort of contest by the Northwests but I am also friends with Nyx and kind of a friend of your sister's."

"Oh. Right." Dipper rubbed his head. "Sorry."

"So your sister has dated gnomes and a merman." Hoagie said, trying to remember everything Dipper had said.

"Yeah, I'd rather not get into that again." Dipper glanced away for a second. "Look, can you really help with this password? Or were you just trying to weasel out of helping my sister?"

"…Would you make me leave if I said both?" Hoagie chuckled nervously.

"…So can you help me or not?"

"All right." Hoagie looked at the laptop. "Man this is an old model, I didn't even know these were password protected."

"Hang on. I got a few I'd like to try." Dipper typed in his guess. "Mabel. Is. Useless."

'Too many failed entries. Initiate data erase in five minutes.'

"No! No-no-no! I'm gonna lose everything?! I only have one more try?!" Dipper cried hysterically.

"Hang on, there might be a chance. Do you know anything specific about the author? Like his name, birthday or something like that?" Hoagie asked, trying to calm Dipper down.

"No! I don't! I have no clue!" Dipper clutched the laptop. "I was trying to crack this dang password so I could learn more about him!"

"Calm down, man."

"Calm down? Calm down?!" Dipper grabbed Hoagie and shook him hard. "I'm about to lose my one chance to learn everything I've been trying to find since I got here!"

Everything suddenly turned black and white and at the window appeared Bill Cipher.

"Well, well, well. Someone's looking desperate." Bill commented.

"You?" Hoagie asked, making Dipper look at him.

"You know this guy?"

"Relax, kids. Friendly neighborhood Bill here to lend a hand." Bill floated off the window and towards the two.

"I thought I told you to leave me alone." Dipper retorted.

"I can help you, kid." Bill's hand lit on fire. "You just need to hear out my demands."

Dipper looked at the computer, which was at 4 minutes now. "Uh, what crazy thing do you want anyway? To eat my soul? To rip out my teeth? Are you gonna replace my eyes with baby heads or something?"

"Yeesh, kid, relax. All I want is a puppet!" Bill answered.

Dipper was confused. "A puppet? What are you playing at?"

"Everyone loves puppets. And it looks to me that you've got a surplus." Bill explained.

"I don't know, man. Mabel worked really hard on these." Dipper said hesitantly.

"Seems to me one little puppet is a small price to pay to learn all the secrets of the universe." Bill's voice echoed on the last word. "Besides, what's your sister done for you, lately? How many times have you sacrificed for her, huh? And when has she ever returned the favor?"

Dipper looked at Mabel playing outside with her friends, and the computer, which now had 30 seconds on the clock.

Bill's eye became a clock while reaching for him, hand still on fire. "Tick tock, kid."

"Uh, just one puppet? Fine!" Dipper reached out and shook Bill's hand. "So what puppet are you gonna pick, anyway?"

"Hmm, let's see. Eenie meenie mynie..." Bill's voice turned low and echoed. "YOU!"