"Hey everyone." TOM greeted as he sat down in his captain's chair. "Now, you know by now I've taken a break from sharing with you my own wisdom but that doesn't mean my work is done. In fact, I am here to show you what we've got planned for Halloween."
He pressed a button on the arm of his chair and the camera turned to the main screen as trailer for the GrimmFall Halloween Special started:
This Halloween…
"Everyone, the city is under attack!" Major Glory flew into the room. "Justice Friends, assemble!"
Prepare yourself for the newest form of horror
"You will not escape us!"
The situation was bleak.
Unlike anything that has been seen before
Until one brave Son of a Shepard stepped forward. "Not so fast, they who are as hard as Diamonds!"
White Diamond laughed. "You? What can a small human like you do against a Diamond?"
"Rolf is no ordinary human, She-Who-Shines-Too-Bright-White Diamond. Rolf is the Son of a Shepard and you will see soon enough!" Rolf declared.
Prepare…
"Do you know who the Snake is?" Chief Fizz asked.
"No." Eddy answered while being hooked up to a lie detector which flashed red.
For…
Carlos blinked back into existence. "Ah!" He looked around his new surroundings…which appeared to be a back yard birthday party.
"Oh my Glob it worked!" An excited young boy said, dropping a mirror. "I didn't think it would really do it!"
"Do what? How did I get here?" Carlos asked.
"We looked in this mirror and said 'Carlos Hunter' three times." The boy pointed at the dropped mirror.
Carlos sighed. "Not again…who told you that?"
"Some guy with weird spiky red hair and sun glasses."
Carlos shook a fist at the sky. "DAM- I mean DARN YOU KURT! DARN YOUUUUUUU!" He paused and looked at the fourth wall. "Censoring."
GRIMFALL:
"HONEY I'M SORRY!"
"YOU'RE GONNA BE SORRY! GO OFF INTO SPACE AND LEAVE ME TO WATCH THE KIDS, WILL YAH?!"
CHIBI!
"Our time to shine, Kevin!" Jonny 2/4 ran into the room, dragging Kevin with him.
"Jonny, I don't think-" But Kevin was interrupted.
"COME ON!" Jonny yelled.
Both pulled out rings from their pockets and pulled them on their fingers as they fist bumped and touched each other's rings.
"Wonder twin powers, ACTIVATE!" Both kids said in unison.
"Form of…T-REX!" Jonny yelled and transformed into a T-Rex.
"Justice Friends, assemble!"
Everyone then removed rings from their pockets and Krunk was the first to point a green ring up into the air. "Let our powers combine!"
"….Guys? I think that's the wrong cartoon."
"This is Rolf's Super Weiner form!"
Coming this Halloween to a screen near you…
"That's right." TOM said as the trailer ended. "We're finally going there. So get ready for comedy and the chance you might fall over laughing. Because what is life without a little comedy to get us to smile and laugh when our spirits are down?"
"We're machines and we're all for a good laugh." SARA said, appearing next to TOM in holo-form.
"That's right. We love action but we don't mind taking some time off to entertain ourselves with some good old fashioned comedy." TOM chuckled. "So get ready to laugh."
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Accessing Global Security Satellite System
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Accessing Grimm Horde Approaching Nowhere Kansas
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Accessing Sectors:
13 – Darklands
8 – Wilds
4 – Nowhere
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Estimated Time to Arrival in Nowhere: 6 days, 2 hours, 57 minutes, 12 seconds.
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"So much to do, so little time."
In the depths of the Nightmare Realm, Bill Cipher mused over the current events, staring a chessboard floating in front of him.
"So, on the one hand, Sixer is back and he's working to Me-Proof the Shack and those brats will do the same to Grandpa Winner and the rest of the town." Bill flicked a chess piece resembling Ford, putting next to the ones resembling Stan, Dipper, Mabel, Frida and Zoe. "And on the other hand, Sammy boy is making his move for the first of the twelve, Heart. I don't mean that fleshy organ I would love to rip out of those brats for interfering with me."
A chess piece resembling Sammael appeared, surrounded by more resembling the Invisible Hand, the Fallen and the Hydra Grimm.
"And the goodies are on the move to save their buddies' only chance to go home." Bill looked to the side representing Sebben and the Justice Friends along with the Legendary Warriors, Superboy, Artemis, and Miss Martian.
"As for me, I ran out of meatbags when they were caught and stopped being useful." Cipher glared at the pieces representing the Blind Eye that were disintegrated a second later. "And Klarion, your witch pet has ideas of her own."
"She may be a rebel but she knows she can't hurt me." Klarion grinned. "Besides, she knows to be ready when the tear opens and you and I can enter her world."
"She better stay on track then." Bill replied, holding up the piece resembling Nyx. "So far, she's gone and made a wonderful mess but she still thinks she is acting on her own. As long as her memories of her fat tubbie and little spawn remain gone she'll keep on making a mess which is what we want."
"Yes." Klarion nodded, seeing several new pieces surrounding Nyx. "She lost the Te Xuan Ze but that is hardly a problem. She is already working on a replacement. The problem is, a new Sorceress Supreme working along the current one means double trouble for us. They could very well be on their way to summoning a Lord of Order to help them."
"They would need a vessel." Bill reminded.
"And there's no shortage of magical hosts for that." Klarion frowned. "I did not go through the trouble of trying to find a universe where the Lords of Order could not follow and prevent me from spreading a bit of chaotic fun just for one to show right in the middle of the plan."
"Yes, the plan." Bill narrowed his eye. "On top of that, GOLB wants in on the fun and he's probably for revenge."
"And Canaletto has been silent for a bit. He's still betting on us letting him out when the time comes." Klarion recalled. "And of course we need him to deal with those Magic Commission idiots when they jump in. This will be a mess but one we don't want cleaned up."
"Canaletto can deal with them. The problem is Sixer's group Me-proofing the town. If I am cut off from everyone in that dust pile I can't influence anyone to get the rift." Bill got back on track. "If GOLB gets there before we do, bye-bye reality also known as the party never ends."
"And if Sammael gets the first of the twelve, he'll be on the road to Armageddon and the Spiral Gems together when brought together would make him even more powerful than us. At best, his unlimited magic makes as powerful as a Chaos Lord." Klarion remarked. "So, who do we send to get the rift?"
"Nyx?"
"They'll be on guard against her and she's got to work on crippling the flow of magic from the elders." Klarion shook his head.
"Then…" Bill's eyes widened as he remembered. "That's right. The sock-shell head along with tubs aren't the only geniuses I invited. There is also…"
"Jackie boy?" Klarion raised an intrigued eyebrow.
"Jackie boy." Bill's eye curled upward, his impression of a smile. "I honestly forgot about him. I pretty much left him to have fun in my little corner of oblivion but I kept him around just in case I ever decided to make him a play toy."
"Sounds like we got a job for him." Klarion grinned.
"Oh yeah." Bill's single eye shifted into the shape of Jack Spicer as a scream was heard. "The biggest job of all."
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"Solomon, if you're hearing this, then you know what I've done, what Honey Island was really about. I'm sorry, Solomon. My conscience knew it was wrong, but it took me too long to listen. I destroyed enough of our research to cripple the project, then fled to the Bayou. My colleagues fled into hiding, but I knew they'd never give up on our work.
So I left Honey Island as it was, hoping that if they ever tried to revive the project, they' do it here where my new friends would be waiting. Whatever this work means to you, Solomon… "
Doc and the rest of his family gathered every bit of work regarding the Honey Swamp Island Project and proceeded to destroy them with Lancaster's cryptid friends destroying the machine now that it was no longer needed.
"It needs to be destroyed. There must never be another machine like the one I built."
In the meantime, Scotty Blake arrived through a portal created by his sword, followed by the rest of Team SEKR and met up with Superboy, Artemis and Miss Martian.
Miss Martian began explaining what had happened to her and Scotty nodded, adding a new member to the team.
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Dr. Lee and the rest of Lancaster's former colleagues were then transported to a maximum security prison with the information regarding their work:
Illegal experiments, including human experimentation.
Secret weapon design without authorization of the World Council.
Kidnapping.
Blackmail.
Attempted murder.
More than enough to put them all away for life.
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"You're the only legacy I'm proud of, Sol. I hope you're a better man of science than I was. But I know…."
Doc placed the picture of him and Lancaster in his family album before looking outside and seeing his son playing with Komodo and Fiskerton.
"I know you're a better man"
Doc smiled.
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Location Unknown
"Poor idiots. They had it all and then they lost it all."
A single mosquito drone landed in the palm of one Dr. Kriegar and who took it and opened its chest to reveal a small data chip. He then inserted it into his personal tablet and grinned when he saw the results.
HONEY SWAMP ISLAND PROJECT
CRYPTID DNA BASE MAP COMPLETE
"Him and Van Kleiss hoped to get one over on Sammael but they both fall very short. Don't worry, I'll be putting this to good use."
And Kriegar already had a few ideas what to do with it.
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Nowhere
Van Kleiss' Hidden Fortress
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
KING RAMSES!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
KING RAMSES!
"Will someone turn out that racket already?!"
For an old man, Eustace Bagge was able to run pretty fast and had avoided the need for hearing aids but that may change rather quickly if this horrible song had anything to say about it.
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
KING RAMSES!
Muriel grunted as she leaned against the wall, covering her ears as best as she could. "Oh, make it stop!"
It was especially bad for Courage due to him being a dog and having heightened hearing. Alexis was no better off as she tried to pull her parents along to get them out of this crazy place.
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THE MAN IN GAUZE!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
KING RAMSES!
Up in the control room, Van Kleiss had one hand trying to cover his ears as best as he could as he looked for the source of this horrible music.
Thankfully he didn't have to look far.
"There it is!" His relief smile was so big that his face could have split. "It's in the hangar! Biowulf, take it out!"
Ramses had been hovering behind Van Kleiss, simply content to watch him and the others in this place suffer his curse until they returned his slab to him. The undead pharaoh looked at the monitor screens showing everyone in the fortress.
Including the Bagge family who had escaped their cell.
Ramses' eyes widened as he was taken off guard by the beauty of the young woman that was Alexis Bagge.
With a wave of his hand, the music suddenly stopped.
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
THE MAN IN GAUZE!
KING RAMSES-
Van Kleiss turned around, hearing a record scratch and then there was silence. He glared at the undead pharaoh, ready to attack but Ramses was not concerned with him.
He was focused more on the girl.
A pretty face.
Eyes showing strength and intelligence.
Red flowing hair.
'Such beauty.' Ramses thought, becoming smitten.
Could it be after all this time…
Has he finally found one who could be his queen?
"Now that I have found the source of your horrid music that will be two plagues down." Ramses was shaken from his thoughts by Van Kleiss talking to him. "When that barrier suppressing my power is down I'll destroy the cursed slab. See how much you want it after that."
Ramses glared, preparing to summon his locusts but made a slight alteration to his plan.
See to her safety.
This command was sent into a shadow that traveled out from under Ramses as he raised his hands.
Van Kleiss frowned and an alarm sounded a second later. He looked at the view screen and saw massive dark cloud approaching the mountains.
His eyes widened when he realized it wasn't a cloud.
It was a massive swarm of locusts.
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"Finally." Eustace breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought I was going to die deaf from that."
"We better hurry then and get out of here." Muriel suggested.
Alexis nodded, picking up Courage and proceed to follow her parents down the hallway, looking for a way out.
She only got a few feet before something appeared behind her, grabbing her and covering her mouth as she was pulled back. She let out a brief cry as she dropped Courage who turned and saw her getting dragged down the hallway.
The dog let out a scream. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Muriel and Eustace turned around in time to see their daughter vanish. "ALEXIS!"
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Alexis had no time to react as she pulled away into the shadows, trying to scream for help but the shadow kept a tight hand over her mouth. Then she felt dozens of bandages wrapping around her. Her legs and arms were bound quickly with her arms tightly bound to her chest. The hand was removed and she tried to speak but the binds quickly wrapped around her mouth and throat.
She tried to struggle but the bandages felt too stiff. It was like the bandages were coated with a quick hardening resin.
She barely had time to blink before the binds engulfed her head, leaving only her eyes and nostrils free. She was pulled into something, feeling like a…
Sarcophagus?!
She screamed as much as she could and struggled just as hard but it was no use. The sarcophagus was then sealed with a lid, keeping her sealed inside.
The shadow stepped out in front, seemingly satisfied.
"You will be safe here. King Ramses will be pleased with his new queen." The shadow said before melting away.
She would be the only one to survive once King Ramses unleashed his third and final plague.