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Accessing Grimm Horde Approaching Nowhere Kansas

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Accessing Sectors:

13 – Darklands

8 – Wilds

4 – Nowhere

12 – Monkey Mountain

11 – Foothills

10 – Upper Catacombs

9 – Forgotten Falls

7 – Lower Catacombs

6 – Really Twisted Forest

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Estimated Time to Arrival in Nowhere: 4 days, 18 hours, 36 minutes, 45 seconds.

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Evacuation Protocol For Sectors 6-8 In Effect

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Logging Off Global Security

Xxx

"Hey, there everyone."

TOM was standing in the Media Room of the Absolution, looking at the main screen(you).

"Don't know if you noticed by now by we're reaching chapter three hundred in the GrimmFall series. That's a long road but we hope it's been a fun one for the last five years, showing this brave new world and daily struggles. A single series crossing over with all the classics and we're not slowing down one second. In fact it's spawned multiple spin-offs from multiple writers and we keep moving forward. And trust me, we are not slowing down." TOM announced grandly. "Plenty of more action, showing the struggles of our favorite characters against the ultimate evil, bad guys in general or your average neighborhood crook as they make their way through this new world. Many things have changed from what they originally but change is the number one constant in the universe, we are always changing, adapting, growing and whether or not that's a good thing is up to our friends. No matter what though, we'll keep chronicling their adventures, showing them rising and falling, traveling all across the world in whatever quests or heroic adventure they end up on."

SARA appeared next to TOM. "And maybe we'll have an adventure or two of our own to show you guys."

"Yeah, why not?" TOM chuckled. "Here's a little gift from us to you that gives a hint in what is to come. Hope you enjoy it."

Xxx

(Colourwave by Valiant Hearts Starts)

A single white flame is shown as the song starts, followed by the appearance of a red flame, a yellow flame, an orange flame and so enough the screen was filled with multi-colored flames.

(Don't you wish that you could see in colour just like me)

Then one by one the flames all come together, forming into a multi-colored crystal eye that stares directly at the screen.

(When it all turns grey and your vision starts to fade)

The crystal eye then shatters and suddenly multiple events and people are shown.

(00:22 – 00:44)

Major Glory is show flying up into the air.

Valhallen is playing his Mighty Axe.

Krunk roars as he smashes a Deathstalker.

Scotty roars as he slices an entire pack of Grimm in half.

The Legendary Warriors were shown, fighting side by side against a hoard of monsters.

Rolf holds up the Shepard's Cane.

Nigel, Abby, Ed and Julie summon the power of the Elementals, their eyes blazing with the colors of their Auras.

Nier and Omnimon slash their blades.

Steven Universe lets out a scream as his gem glows bright pink.

Dipper and Mabel run for their lives.

Phil Ken Sebben turns and faces the screen as a light flashes underneath his eye patch.

An eight headed dragon Grimm is shown roaring.

Sammael's head pops up and he grins at the screen, his eyes flashing red.

The members of the Invisible Hand are shown gathering, standing in front of an army of Grimm.

Billiam Milliam fused with the golden castle roars.

Crom Cruach is shown with half of his face turning reptilian.

Monkey Fist appears, grinning maniacally.

Granny grins as wooden tendrils emerge from her back.

General Skarr snarls, brandishing his rifle as it shifts into its broadsword form.

The Ice Queen lets out a shriek as ice explodes around her.

From the city of the Earth, Nergal laughs as red electricity illuminates his skeleton.

Nyx looks up with her eyes glowing bright purple.

Van Kleiss grins as his eyes glow gold and he holds up his gauntlet.

And a tear in the sky reveals the shape of Bill Cipher that then morphs into GOLB whose gaping maw engulfs the screen.

(Well, we roamed the seven seas)

Steven Universe and the Crystals Gems are shown walking through the dried remains of their stolen ocean.

(Mapped the lands with old cartography)

Major Glory is shown flying over the many lands of the Earth.

(Tell me where's left to go but a place unknown were we can't breathe)

From the Gem Outpost on the moon, General Lunaris stares at the Earth with clear contempt.

(Oh, we're running far away from all that we hold dear)

Cree Lincoln is shown running from her sister, disappearing into a dark forest, leaving behind her sister and the remains of their family while Abby has her back turned to her fleeing sister.

(All our worries melt away and vanish in thin air)

Nigel, Abby, Wally, Ed, Rolf, Nazz, Jonny 2/4, Kevin are in the Hall of Heroes, looking out the window as the Justice Friends, the Legendary Warriors and Omnimon appear behind them, watching as the sun rose.

(Looking out to the distance, we stare)

Phil Ken Sebben is shown standing on the roof of City Hall, looking across the city of GrimmFall.

Where do we go (where do we go, where do we go from here)

He looks up and stares at the stars filling the night sky.

(Paint the world in vibrant hues)

Billiam Milliam grins as streams of gold come from everywhere, painting the Earth in a golden hue.

(Let the colours sway, let me be your muse)

Crom Cruach is grinning as a red sun shines over Avalon.

(You paint the ocean the deepest blue)

The Ice Queen spread her arms out, sending ice and snow in all directions, freezing the ocean surrounding Antarctica.

(As the colour wave washes over you)

A dimensional tear opens in the sky, showing a multi-colored light from it comes Bill Cipher.

(Well I'll be waiting on the dark side of the moon (dark side of the moon))

On the moon, Vlad Master kneels before Tso-Lan, ruler of the moon.

(While serenading all these stars I've caught for you (stars I've caught for you))

The scene shifts to back on Earth with Danielle Fenton-Phantom playing in the backyard of the Sanban Estates with Kuki and Mushi Sanban and also with them are Frosta and Miku.

(Been thinking lately that I live in a cocoon (live in a cocoon))

Genki and her husband watch the children play with small smiles on their faces.

(A chrysalis lonely, waiting to be born anew (born anew))

Then a green portal appears and leads into the Ghost Zone, a pair of green eyes opening from the dark interior of a floating castle, seeing this new world.

(Where do we go from here)

Danielle stops as she appears at a crossroads, her friends and adoptive family appearing on one side and one the other was a familiar person, dressed as a king who holds out his hand to her.

(Paint the world in vibrant hues)

The heroes and many Huntsmen are gathered in the Nowhere Mountains and Van Kleiss' fortress, watching as the Grimm army approaches.

((Let the colours sway, let me be your muse))

From the dark clouds emerges the eight headed Grimm Ghidorah who causes the sky to flash with golden yellow lightning.

(You paint the ocean the deepest blue)

Lightning destroys the tower but Living Bullet shoot forward, moving so fast that time begins to reverse as he moves to save everyone.

(As the colour wave washes over you)

A battle begins between the heroes and Grimm, Van Kleiss shooting up into the air, followed by Major Glory and Blake as they confront Sammael who waits for them atop his flying Galleon with a taunting smirk.

(2:33 – 2:44)

Van Kleiss then vanishes and appears in a strange world, with rock pillars and old manmade structures. Multi-colored crystals stuck out of the ground in random places and there were also massive floating rocks. In addition to that was what appeared to be a hybrid of coral and plant life that glowed a beautiful shade of blue and green.

(Oh, my radiant and colourful star)

Behind him appears Rex in a flash of green light and both stare each other down.

(I'll never get tired of just how beautiful you are)

Bell opens her eyes and looks up with a hopeful expression.

(Oh, my radiant and colourful star)

Sebben closes his eyes as the ghost image of a woman with long red hair appears before him and offers him a kiss on the lips.

(I'll never get tired of just how beautiful you are)

Steven and the Crystal Gems sit on the beach, joined by a reluctant Connie as Steven holds out his hand to her.

(Oh, my radiant and colourful star)

Greg Universe smiled as Rose Quartz appears behind him, her back facing his.

(I'll never get tired of just how beautiful you are)

Agunimon and Kazemon appear next, their backs to each but both look over their shoulders.

(Oh, no (oh, no)... I won't (I won't))

The sun begins to rise over the Nowhere Mountains.

(Just so beautiful you are)

Just before it is blotted out by dark clouds.

(Paint the world in vibrant hues)

Twelve Gems, each of them glowing a different color, appear and line themselves along the shape of a spiral.

(Let the colours sway, let me be your muse)

They then spread out as Sammael appears, grinning as they appear around him.

(You paint the ocean the deepest blue)

Sammael then stands in a landscape with multiple galaxies spanning the sky.

(As the colour wave washes over you (watches over you))

He grins as many shapes and silhouettes slowly approach him.

(Don't you wish that you could see in colour just like me)

One steps forward, revealing itself to be Scotty Blake who lets out a roar as he charged forward, brandishing his sword.

(When it all turns grey, you'll see the forest for the trees (for the trees))

Sammael grins, watching as they all charge at him.

(Don't you wish that you could flee to a place so far out to sea)

He spreads out his arms, welcoming their attempts to defeat him.

(Follow the compass and you'll be free)

There is a flash of light before it faded away, revealing a beautiful night sky as the title appears:

GRIMMFALL

(Colourwave by Valiant Hearts End)

Xxx

Ed had settled nicely in at Rolf's but he made a point of going over to his house every day to check and see if Sarah had come back.

The Son of a Shepard could only watch as Ed returned to his shed, having found his house once again empty.

'Rolf wishes to heal Ed-boy's pain…' Rolf thought before seeing Aisling sitting on a branch in the one tree out in the backyard of Rolf's house and then looking to the cane resting against the wall of his room. 'But Rolf has other problems.'

Just as Rolf turned away from the window, something flew in the air over Peach Creek.

Aisling opened her eyes and looked up at the sky, seeing something moving at high speeds. 'Metal armor flying in the sky, bound with a mystic energy…Humans, why must you always tamper with that which you don't understand?'

Xxx

"Eureka!"

While Genki and Tiburon were left to fight Grodd and Pardus, Baron along with Li, Albert and Mars entered the chamber where Van Kleiss was holding his prisoners. Albert had just managed to open the door, leading inside.

"By Glob." Li whispered.

Inside the lab were rows of capsules, some of them holding people, a few were humanoid but others were mutated.

"How many are there?" Li asked.

Albert walked over to what looked like the main computer and looked over the files. "He's got six more locked up here, all of them female with five of them being from another universe and another…The missing Powerpuff Girl."

"Found her." Mars called out, looking into one pod and seeing the Powerpuff Girl known as Buttercup sleeping inside. "We can't open these pods or the sudden decompression might kill them."

"Worse than that, he's been experimenting in slicing these subjects with alien DNA." Albert continued. "They've been modified."

"Can the process be reversed?" Li asked.

"I have no idea. I have never seen something so complex before." Albert said as he ran through the DNA files. "All of these DNA codes here are beyond anything in this world…which kind of the point I guess. Hang on…The Bagge family."

"Where are they?" Baron asked.

"…They escaped their cell." Albert said, sounding surprised. "There was some sort of commotion going on, involving…the spirit of King Ramses?"

Everyone stopped and looked at him.

"What?" Mars asked.

"I'm not joking. This spirit is really King Ramses. He's here because of a stolen slab…" Albert trailed off.

"The lost cursed slab of King Ramses. I heard about that theft." Baron recalled. "But who would steal a slab and bring it all the way here?"

"According to the file it was taken by thieves who fled overseas and brought it here to hide." Albert answered, reading the file. "The thieves then disappeared…No trace of them."

"I sense a dark intent regarding this slab." Li said ominously as he walked up to Albert and looked at the screen. "I have sensed the darkness this fortress holds but something about the events surrounding this slab tells me that there is an even darker power at work here. Who would risk summoning the wrath of an undead king of Egypt here of all places?"

"…Sammael." Everyone looked at the one who answered, Mars. "What? When Feral recruited me he informed me about Sammael and the Fallen."

"Great, another thing that will be needed to be straightened out." Baron rolled sighed and his eyes. "So why does Sammael want to bring Ramses here? King Ramses spent his life defending Egypt from the Grimm and even put in safety guards to help protect his kingdom long after he died."

"That might have been the point, Baron." Albert turned around. "Magic and science do not mix well together, like oil and water. In fact, one or another usually disrupts the other so completely it's almost impossible to recover. Van Kleiss has built his power on utilizing science to its maximum potential but is still bound by the same laws of our universe, no matter how advanced or powerful it is."

"And magic allows one to circumvent those laws, considerably in some areas, making it a very dangerous power even against someone like Van Kleiss." Li caught on. "Ramses was able to disrupt Van Kleiss' entire operation in this fortress just by himself."

"And that's why Sammael would bring him here." Baron nodded. "He threw a wrench into the cogs, just long enough for us to get here and catch Van Kleiss of guard. What has happened to Ramses?"

"Still on the loose and he deployed someone named Valerie Grey who has been modified with anti-ghost technology to hunt him down." Albert answered.

Xxx

Valerie walked down the hallway along one of the lower floors of the tower, her scanners picking up a ghost signature nearby.

GHOST SIGNATURE DETECTED

COMBAT SYSTEMS READY

SIGNATURE LOCATED

She readied her blasters as she came upon the nearest door and opened it.

And inside was a swarm of locusts that immediately attacked.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

The locusts surrounded Valerie as she tried blasting them and for a moment it seemed like it was the end for her…

BLAST!

Just before a shield appeared around her and blasted all of the locusts away, the remaining ones burning on contact with her shield. She looked inside and saw the entire room had been wiped clean with the locusts having eater everything inside while waiting for her.

GHOST SIGNATURE DISAPPEARED

SCANNING

Valerie simply turned and walked out of the room, intent on continuing her mission.

Xxx

"That's the downside. Science can be used to form a counter-measure, even against magic. So I guess it's not surprising Ramses was only able to have the upper hand for a short amount of time."

"Then we better get moving."

The group turned to see Genki and Tiburon entering the lab, both looking rather wore and weary.

Samedi turned to the two who they had left to face off against the two Faunus. "Man, it looks like those two gave you guys' hell."

Tiburon and Genki both glared at him.

"Either way, they're gone now. We already got all these people out on an airship back to GrimmFall." Albert said. "While finding a way to move them without upsetting the stasis pods they are in."

"I think I can handle that, Baron." Genki walked forward and pulled out her Tablet. "Sayoko, we'll be sending some pods your way. Use the mark I left with Sebben to take them to GrimmFall."

"Hai, my lady."

She placed her hand on the nearest pod and a portal opened up underneath it which both she and it and fell through. A second later Genki emerged back out and moved on to the next pod.

"How is she doing that?" Baron asked.

"Her top maid, Sayoko has a Semblance that opens portals. She does it by placing invisible tags on people or places she has been to." Tiburon answered as Genki and the next pod vanished into the green portal. "The tags are linked by special network made of her Aura so she can transport Genki and anyone or anything with her to any place she has marked."

"That's handy." Mars commented. "I see now why she is hailed as the top Huntress in Japan. She not only has the skills but the brains to go with it."

"You got that right." Tiburon said as Genki finished removing all the pods with people inside them.

"Okay, so we're still on one of the lowest levels. I think the rest of the group is on one of the upper levels, so we'll need to get there fast." Samedi recalled.

"What about the elevators?" Albert suggested as everyone slowly turned to him.

"What..." Mars asked.

"Umm, yes. There are several dozen elevators throughout the tower." Albert responded.

"We went through a hundred floors of hell, we were almost crushed in a trash compactor, and Samedi was almost eaten alive by a tentacle monster, and you only tell us this NOW because..." Tiburon asked slowly.

"Well, actually it will take a little while for me to hack through their firewalls. Basically, the easiest way to work them is to give them the hand scan of one of Van Kleiss's forces." Albert explained. "Unless of course..."

"We get a hand scan of somebody who works here." Li finished.

"Right, but where can we possibly-" Albert was interrupted.

"Will this do?" Tiburon asked as he held up one of Pardus' severed arms and everyone just stared at him. "Well... Will it do? Yes or no?"

"Umm, yes... Yes it will." Albert answered as Tiburon walked forward. "Then what are you waiting for?"

As Tiburon walked away, everyone followed as Li leaned over to Samedi. "I know we are on the same team... But Tiburon still startles me..."

"Hahaha... Me too..." Baron laughed as the two followed the rest of the group to the elevator.

Xxx

"Mabel! Mabel!"

Dipper had been wandering the woods, looking for his twin sister for the past hour or so, sure that he would find her crying and having ice cream. Only what should have been a simply search and find, turning into a hour's long search with no sign of Mabel anywhere. As the time went by, Dipper started wondering if something bad had happened to his sister.

Eater by Grimm?

Abducted by Gnomes, again.

Taken by possible remnants of the Blind Eye Society?

Stepping into a portal leading to an alternate universe?

All of these ideas and so many more floated to the top of Dipper's head and he became more frantic in trying to find her. Not only did she have something that could potentially end the world but Mabel was his sister.

He felt bad for upsetting her but he felt this chance with becoming Grunkle Ford's apprentice was a once in a life time opportunity and he wanted to have the chance to go and see the universe like Ford did.

What was wrong with that?

He saw a flash of light and ran towards it, thinking his sister would be there. "Mabel!"

Only when he got there it wasn't Mabel.

It was Double D in his Armatae armor.

"Double D!" Dipper called out, running up to him.

The Armatae armor around him receded as Double D watched the boy run up to him. "Dipper, it's fortuitous to see you again."

"Yeah, back at ya." Dipper greeted. "I thought when you rescued your parents you were done with Gravity Falls."

Double D's face showed a brief flash anguish before he took a deep breath. "It's not that simple, Dipper."

"What's the matter?" Dipper asked, seeing something was wrong.

"…My parents are dead."

Dipper gasped, his eyes going wide. "…No."

"I'm afraid so. The injuries Preston inflicted on them when he tortured them were enough that they couldn't survive. The hospital could only keep them alive for a few more nights when they were admitted." Double D explained. "Preston, he…He used the power of Bill Cipher to inflict horrible trauma on them."

"Double D, I'm so sorry…" Dipper said, unsure of what else he could say. "We all had some pretty close calls and I was sure they would have made it…"

"I had hoped the same, Dipper." Double D said sadly before narrowing his eyes. "That's why I'm back now."

"What are you here for?" Dipper asked.

"To defeat Bill Cipher, once and for all." Double D answered with finality in his voice. "I need to see the portal machine under the Mystery Shack."

"Well, that's going to be a hard thing to do." Dipper rubbed the back of his head.

"And why is that?" Double D questioned stoically.

"Grunkle Ford dismantled the portal after Grunkle Stan used it to bring him back." Dipper answered.

"…Can you please elaborate in more detail?"

Xxx

Samedi looked at Mars who was looking at a Scroll he found on the way, while trying to find a way to nearest elevator.

"Okay, Mars! Have you found something yet?" Asked Samedi as Mars then looked at Samedi, very annoyed while looking away from the Tablet.

"Don't you see I'm trying to! Don't rush me, okay!" Mars yelled as the group kept walking.

However before anyone knew it, suddenly something big jumped in front of Samedi, Mars, and the rest of the group. It was a being that over four times the height of a regular human, made seemingly of pure energy that was reinforced with blue rock like armor that covered its head, chest, shoulders, and some on its forearms and shins. The rock near the top of the body had a green moss-like pattern on its surface. It carried a large rod in both of its hand.

Samedi looked at him a little surprised while Mars looked at this with a bored expression and the rest had varying expressions.

As the strange create walked in a bit closer and stopped, Samedi started to speak a little surprised. "...Holy crap! That's one big SON OF A BITCH..." Yelled the Huntsman as he recovered from his surprise and then started to pull out the blade from his cane while running to attack the undead monster. "...But, like they always says! The bigger they are, the harder they-"

But as Samedi was about to attack the creature, it smacked Samedi away. "-FAAAAAAAAALL!" While Samedi said that, he finally crashed on the ground as it left line cracks running through the ground.

As the creature walked and ignored Samedi. The finally he was standing face to face against Mars who still stared at him, unimpressed.

"Hahaha...So you guys are supposed to be these Huntsmen, the so-called heroes of this world." The alein laughed a deep laugh, very confident and started to crack his neck.

And then the giant started to hold its rods in front of Mars, emerging crackling around them as they were pointed at the former soldier. Mars sighed and aimed his wrist mounted plasma cannon at the giant and fired a red beam that pierced through the alien's torso while killing him in the progress.

VZZZAP!

Mars walked over to and looked at his Tablet again like nothing happened as Samedi started to get from the ground, Mars and the others walked past him. "Are you coming or what? We don't got all day, you know!"

Before Samedi left with Mars and everyone else, he saw the Draugr lying there on the ground, dead while having the big hole on his torso, as the smoke from the beam was still present. Samedi then started to smack his head and said.

"...Damn...why didn't I not think of that?!" Samedi stood back up and followed Mars once more.

"Wouldn't have worked anyway, the monsters muscle fibers is too dense... Very high powered particle beam. Anyway, there seems to be an elevator at the end of the hall." Mars said as they continued to walk down the hall.

"How convenient, let's just hope we don't run into any more obstacles along the way..." Samedi said as the group kept walking.

Genki and Li's senses screamed at them and they quickly pulled everyone out of the way as a blast of lightning shot past them. They looked back and saw the alien standing up, the hole in its chest slowly healing.

"That…hurt." The alien growled.

"It's still alive?" Samedi asked, looking surprised.

"Obviously." Genki placed a hand on the hilt of her sword.

"You really aren't like the heroes from my world. They wouldn't have tried killing me like that." The alien said as the hole in his chest finally healed.

"You're from another world?" Li asked, carefully holding his bamboo staff.

"I am…or was called Weather Wizard." The alien answered. "Brought here after being saved from certain death. I was mutated into this, an alien made of pure energy…with the upgrades to my weather control rods. I can now control and manipulate the weather to an even greater degree, to the point I could cover the entire world in a single storm."

He held up his rods as they started to glow and a large cloud appeared over him, actually creating wind that caused most of the Huntsmen to cover their eyes.

"Now I am not just a Wizard anymore. I am the Master of the Weather." The alien villain formerly known as Weather Wizard declared. "And I'll have my revenge on the Justice League, Luthor and everyone else in my way."

"He's definitely got the villain vibe down." Mars projected a shield from his arm to protect himself from the window.

"Yep." Samedi nodded.

"Now." Weather Wizard pointed his rods at the group. "Let's see you fry."

"Try it." Mars stepped forward.

Weather Wizard unleased a powerful blast of lightning straight at the group but Mars held out both hands and to the surprising of everyone, rather than being fired his suit projected two rods from his arms that lightning was absorbed into the rods, powering Mars' suit as he fired a larger red beam that hit Weather Wizard and blasted him down the hallway.

"You think we didn't come prepared?" Mars called out as he walked down the hall towards the downed villain. "My suits been modified to take on large scale threats, like what we were expecting when Sebben was provided a full report on the kind of monsters your boss was making."

Weather Wizard grunted as he stood up, the blue light energy that made up his new body flaring brightly.

"In addition to my suit being a form of battle armor to take on the best Huntsmen and Grimm in the world it has also been modified to absorb any form of excess energy it comes into contact, even the lightning produced by whatever storm or energy being I come across." Mars finished as he aimed and fired again.

Weather Wizard hastily fired a lightning blast that collided with Mars' energy beam, lighting up the hallway and scorching the floor, walls and ceiling as the two powers struggled for dominance. Weather Wizard snarled while Mars grunted, both of them pushing to overpower the other. The rockets in Mars suit ignited and he shot forward.

"GET OUT OF HERE! I'll HOLD HIM OFF!" Mars shouted to the others as he flew at Weather Wizard, while keeping the plasma beam up.

Samedi reluctantly sighed and turned to the others. "He's right. We got to move."

The others agreed but hated leaving an ally behind, even if it was Mars and took off towards the elevator. As for the former soldier he came upon the beams colliding…and immediately switched his off before spinning out of the way. The lightning shot down the hallway, past the Hunters who ducked and moved out of the way just in time.

Barely.

"He makes it hard to regret leaving him!" Tiburon barked as he leaned against the wall.

Genki frowned as she looked back…

Xxx

Mars flew up and slammed into Weather Wizard before the villain could react and Mars slammed his hands into the energy being's chest. Weather Wizard screamed as Mars' suit began absorbing the energy that made up his new body and frantically fought to get him off but Mars held on as tight as he could.

Just as Weather Wizard tried to grab him, Mars used the extra energy to fire a plasma blast that burned away the villain's right arm. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

With the now useless, Mars kept on draining his power, even as Weather Wizard started to beg for his life.

"WAIT! WAIT, I SURRENDER! I SURRENDER!"

"Sorry." Mars held a glowing hand over the villain's head. "I don't take prisoners."

BANG!

There was a gunshot sound and Mars was knocked off the villain who was now drained of his power in addition to missing an arm.

"That is enough." Genki said sternly as her sword fell from above and back into her hand. "We are not here to become murderers."

Mars growled as he got up, glaring at her. "Are you really getting in my way now? He and the rest of his ilk are trying to kill everyone in the universe and your morals still blind you to what must be done?"

"I will not hear the words of a man so consumed by his rage that he kills without remorse or honor, disgracing what it truly means to be a Huntsmen or Huntress." Genki retorted.

"Never said I was." Mars growled. "I'm better because I do what needs to be done. I am removing these people as threats while you let them live to terrorize people by just locking them up."

Genki scoffed. "I have heard this argument before I found it completely stupid and moronic every time I heard it. You might as be claiming cops are to blame for just arresting the crooks they capture instead of gunning them down when they get away in court. That the prosecutor is responsible when he sometimes fails the case. Those criminals are responsible for their own actions just as you are responsible for yours."

"I used to think that…before my daughter was killed." Mars clenched a fist. "I was weak, not willing to do what it takes to protect her and my wife."

"Or doing what was needed." Genki argued.

"You say that but you have your husband and your daughters. If what happened my family happened to yours you would not take up your blade and cut down those responsible?" Mars argued.

Genki narrowed her eyes. "I would bring them to justice! I would never shame the memories of my family by staining them and my own hands in blood. Don't mistake my refusal to kill in cold blood as weakness, Mars. I have been in situations where I have been forced to take a life but I never outright murdered those I have fought, especially when they lay helpless on the ground.

"I know I would shame them for such horrible deeds."

"The dead feel nothing, Sanban." Mars argued. "And that goes for the same for those they leave behind. All that matters is making the guilty pay."

"The only person guilty here asides from our enemies is you and were it not for the fact our time is limited I would be tempted to bring you in and show you the error of your ways." Genki stated with a hard look on her face. "But we have other matters to deal with. So he's going to be brought in."

"And how-"

A portal appeared underneath Weather Wizard and he fell into it.

"Wha-"

"Sayoko remains on call, even in here." Genki stated as she turned away. "You dare attempt such a thing in my presence again and I'll be tempted to remover your arms."

Mars just glared before following the Sanban matriarch.

Xxx

Superboy was thrown through another wall into another hallway as he fell to the ground, soon followed by Artemis as she was thrown and crashed against the wall as well.

CRASH!

Before he fell down to the ground as Superboy's evil doppelganger, Brandon stepped out of the hole in the wall with a smile on his face. "Is that REALLY everything you got?"

From behind Kryptonian clone, Miss Martian telekinetically grabbed Brandon from behind and slammed him several times into the floor and walls.

SMASH!

SMASH!

SMASH!

"Wow, how cute." Brandon said as he threw a floor piece that had broken free from being slammed nto it and threw it at Miss Martian, forcing her to turn intangible and release him.

He then grabbed and tossed her at the wall as well. When Brandon looked at Artemis who kneeling against a wall in the previous hall, he gave dark smile and started to crack his knuckles while he walked to the blond archer who picked herself back up.

"Don't go home and crying to mommy, when I'm done with you, nerd!" Brandon said walking closer as Artemis glared at him.

She pulled out an arrow and aimed at him. When Brandon saw this, he started to laugh like a maniac while placing both hands on his hips. After several seconds later, he stopped laughing as he then looked at Artemis with another cocky smirk. "Do you really think a little bow and arrow will beat me?! And I thought you were supposed to be the smarter than that!"

Artemis just stared at him as she then pulled the arrow back. "Well, you haven't seen anything yet!"

She released the bow and let the arrow fly. Brandon smiled as he allowed the arrow to him…

ZAP!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The arrow was made of concentrated Lightning Dust that released a powerful electrical shock that actually hurt from the pained scream he was making. His eyes flashed red as he glared hatefully at Artemis who quickly jumped and rolled away as Brandon's eyes released twin beams of red light that incinerated the wall she had stood in front of.

As Brandon pulled the arrow of his chest, he prepared to fire another eye-beam blast at Artemis but the original Superboy let out a battle cry as he tackled his evil twin and both tumbled to the ground.

Superboy and Brightburn picked themselves up as they started circling each other; Superboy was glaring at Brightburn who was smiling back. "So, a weapons, huh? They cloned me to make me a weapon? In all honesty, now I know how Superman must have felt."

"NO, not a weapon, an ASSASSIN! A perfect killer! When I was made they made sure I had none of those pesky morals that made you so weak!" Brightburn retorted.

"Then how about we test that out?" As the two then charged at one another and both punched each other in the jaws, creating another massive shockwave similar to before as both girls were punched into opposite walls of the hallway.

BOOM!

The two pulled themselves out of the wall as Superboy looked at his double, to see that Brightburn's eyes started to burn with the same heat energy as Superman's heat vision. Without saying another work, Brightburn dashed over to Superboy faster than the eye could see as he clocked his opponent multiple times across the jaw at blinding speeds before grabbing Superboy by the throat and holding him over the ground.

"I am better than your equal!" Brightburn yelled as he slammed Superboy against the ground creating a massive dent before picking him up again and slamming him into a wall, shattering it.

SMASH!

"And I will show how much better I am than you when I SMASH YOUR SKULL IN!" Brightburn pulled his fist back as he was about to do exactly that, before red arrow blasted Brightburn's wrist causing him to drop Superboy as he yelled in pain again.

The Fire Dust in the arrow actually burned his skin and he felt actual pain as he looked over in the direction of where it came from, only to see another arrow come from the same direction that hit him in the face, blowing up.

KABOOM!

As the smoke cleared, Brightburn was still standing there with a burn mark across his face as he glared hatefully at the one responsible.

"That is for Miss Martian!"

"AND THIS IS FOR SUPERBOY!" Suddenly Miss Martian appeared next to her and she managed to knock the clone back several feet with a telekinetic blast.

Superboy stood back up and rubbed his throat as he glanced over at the two. "What took you so long?"

"How about 'Gee, nice to see you two.'" Artemis answered.

"'Glad you're here to save my life.'" Miss Martian finished.

The three looked over as they heard an enraged yell from Brightburn who started to slowly pick himself up... As his eyes started to glow hellish red.

"I don't think she's very happy." Superboy said as Brightburn fully picked himself up and glared at three.

Without warning, Bright charged at the two as Superboy put his fists up to confront the homicidal clone. But before the clone could reach them, Brightburn was held back in mid-sprint. He looked back to see that it was Miss Martian holding him back with her telekinesis, which she then used to start thrashing Brightburn all around, smashing the clone against the walls, the ground, and even the ceiling creating dents and holes in all of them. However as Miss Martian slammed the clone back to the ground, Brightburn fired his heat vision at her, forcing her to let him go and he kicked her in the face, knocking her several dozen feet back.

It wasn't over yet as Brightburn picked himself up, only to be charged at by his predecessor and start to struggle against each other's forces, until Superboy spun him around and tossed Brightburn into a wall. Superboy just glared back at Brightburn and charged at him again. Dodging one of Superboy's punches as the clone retaliated with his own as he upper-cut Superboy with so much force that he smashed through the ceiling and was knocked into another upper level of the tower, falling on the ground. Brightburn didn't waste any time as he jumped through the massive hole to the same area where Superboy was.

Artemis stood there under the massive hole, looking up as Miss Martian then ran over to her and stood next to her looking up at the same hole. Both of them looked at each other and nodded as they both jumped up the hole to see where Brightburn and Superboy were.

Xxx

Superboy was knocked down on the ground after that massive blow, but slowly started to pick himself back up as he looked around were she was. He was in some large room with what looked like to be Van Kleiss' portal machine, a few cat walks above him, a green looking energy core above the portal, and most noticeable... Dozens upon dozens of people fighting, Van Kleiss' forces and... Ikki, Metabee, Six and Rex!

He was in the Portal room!

He looked over and saw Rex there who was fighting a blue…robot thing. But what Superboy didn't notice, was Brightburn walking up behind him. As Rex blocked another one of Megabyte's claw stabs and slashed back at him with his arm changing into its Big Sword form, that's when he looked over to see Superboy standing there as his eyes widened in surprise.

"Superboy!?" Rex asked as he saw a man that looked a lot like him walk up from behind her, while Superboy saw the tall and scary looking blue robot walk up from behind Rex.

"Behind you!" The two shouted simultaneously as they both pointed their fingers forward.

But before either one of them could react, Miss Martian flew out of the hole made by Brightburn as she quickly flew over to Brightburn, telekinetically lifting him and flying him up towards another area of the room to battle. All the while Artemis climbed up as well and quickly fired an arrow that flew above Superboy and Rex and straight at Megabyte as Superboy tackled Rex back to the ground to avoid a slash from Megabyte.

Rex and Superboy looked in shock and surprise as the explosive arrow blasted Megabyte back but then turned back to each other.

"I guess you guys got by fine?" Rex asked.

"No, not yet, we actually ran into an evil twin that Van Kleiss made from me, so... Yeah. But, what happened to the others?" Superboy asked.

"Not sure…I have a feeling they ran into some trouble." Rex answered and pointed to the Portal Machine. "I think we can use that machine over there to find out before we send you guys home."

"Okay! Then let's go!" Superboy yelled as the two dashed forward towards the inactive portal machine.

But before the two got to it, a small army of EVOs stood in their way, ready to attack…Until massive laser beam raced past them and blasted the evil forces away.

"Kiss your bots good-bye!" The two looked over to see Metabee with a golden aura surrounding him.

"Oh?" The Metabot looked up to see Hexadecimal floating above with an intrigued face/mask. "Well, aren't you the interesting little toy?"

"Lady, I ain't no one's toy." Metabee growled.

"He's family." Ikki walked up next to his Metabot/brother. "And we can handle anything you or your boss through at us."

"Oh my, such convictions." Hexadecimal waved a hand over her face/mask and the interested smile turned into a demonic one. "Let's find out if your claim is true…Shall we?!"

Hexadecimal's nails grew into sharpened claws and she shot forward at the two with a bloodthirsty howl.

Metabee's golden aura surrounded him again. "You stay back, you crazy lady…thing!"

"Didn't your robo-mommy ever teach you manners?" Hexadecimal asked as she fell upon the Metabot.

Metabee jumped back, avoiding the claws that would have likely left deep scratch marks on him. "Missile Launch!"

From the top of his head, the two missile launchers fired two missiles at Hexadecimal who simply conjured a barrier.

BOOM!

BOOM!

The smoke cleared, showing Hexadecimal looking absolutely fine with an amused smile on her face. "My turn."

She held up her hands, the demonic mask with the evil smile appearing again as she flung fireballs at the Metabot.

"Metabee, laser cannons!" Ikki called out.

"You got it!"

Metabee aimed and fired his wrist laser cannons, the lasers hitting and cancelling out Hexadecimal's fire balls. The chaotic viral being cackled as she let loose a barrage of fire balls at Metabee who kept on firing.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

"How wonderful!" Hexadecimal chortled as she flung another fire ball. "Is that all you got?"

"Not even close!" Metabee shouted as he ran at the viral entity.

He leapt up to deliver a punch but with a single wave of her hand, Hexadecimal telekinetically picked the Metabot, waving a finger in front of his face before flinging him away with a wave of her hand, sending him crashing into the wall on the far side of the room.

"Metabee!" Ikki called out.

"Oh dear. Did I break the little toy?" Hexadecimal asked as she slowly floated over to the downed Metabot. "Oh dear."

Metabee's optics flashed gold as he slowly stood up. "I told you…I…Am…Not…A TOY!"

"Oh, what's this?" Hexadecimal now had an intrigued mask, showing her interest in this new development.

He shot forward, now in full battle mode and managed to deliver a fist to Hexadecimal's face that sent her flying back. The chaotic virus was stunned but she quickly regained control of herself and shot back, appearing in front of Metabee with an angered mask/face and delivered a strike that knocked Metabee back just as hard.

Hexadecimal cackled as her demonic face returned with her eyes blazing red. "Now you have really begun to annoy me."

"Trust me, I haven't even started you freak!" Metabee shouted a golden aura surrounded him and Ikki. "Kiss your mask good bye!"

"We'll see!" Hexadecimal said, gathering crimson energy around her form in a similar manner.

"META-FORCE!" Metabee shouted, pointing his cannons forward.

From his laser cannons came a beam of golden light that shot at Hexadecimal as she pointed her hands forward and released her own beam, a crimson beam. The two opposing beams collided with each other and created an explosion of blinding light.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Xxx

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Back below the tower, back in the lava pits... Scotty was crawling along the bridge over a shallow river of lava as he made his way to rocky land. Scotty looked severally beat up and he also looked like he was barely hanging onto life anymore but his torment was far from over as the monster who did this to him in the first place, was several dozen feet behind him as Rampage in her monstrous ten foot tall beastly form was walking towards the Scotsman as slowly as she possibly could, giggling a demonic giggle all the way like the deranged psychopath she was. Raven had been knocked away by the sheer force of Rampage's attacks, leaving the Scotsman to take her on by himself.

"Hehehehe... Looks like you got the high ground... Aww, what's wrong? You have the upper hand now! Hehehe... But it's funny and you know why?" Scotty didn't respond to the maniacs question. "It's because you're dying... And we are too deep under the tower for any of your little friends to help you... You're going to die, here and NOW? Well, the tables have turned... And now I WIN!"

Scotty shook his head. "Battle's not over yet, las-"

But Scotty wasn't able to finish his thoughts as Rampage was through playing around, as she charged at the Scotsman. She slammed into him and crashed him into a wall. Scotty grunted as he struggled but Rampage not only had as much strength as him but she had four arms and her body was surging with the energy of multiple Dust crystals.

But with what could only be called as a miracle... Scotty summoned the energy he needed out of nowhere as he head-butted Rampage back while enhanced by the power of his Semblance.

Scotty then shot forward with help from his Gatling Gun leg, propelling him forward and he crashed into Rampage.

The two rolled around before Rampage managed to get the Scotsman off her. Scotty landed on his feet and swung his claymore at Rampage…

SHINK!

SPLAT!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Rampage screamed in pain as her lower left arm fell to the ground.

Scotty had managed to cut it with one clean swipe. Rampage stepped back, still in pain as she glared hatefully at the Scotsman and letting a pained and hate filled howl. Scotty held his sword over his shoulder, glaring back at the villain.

One arm down, three more to go.

At least that's what he thought before Rampage let out another scream and much to his shock, the arm he had cut off immediately regenerated.

Scotty stared with wide eyes. "….Oh."

Rampage knelt down and picked up the Dust Crystal still embedded in the cut off arm before plunging it into her new one. "Now I am going to break your arms off."

With that she slammed Scotty into the ground and started pummeling him, knocking his sword away. It didn't help that her Dust power was burning, electrifying and freezing him all at once while she was at it.

"The monster form... You need to turn back to human..." Scotty coughed as Rampage laughed at this, stopping her attack. "I know what it feels like... Being a giant rage monster like that, that sense of power, and how exciting...That primal instinct that will take over if you stay in that form... I know how it feels, but you'll lose yourself... And I know you care about nobody but yourself..."

Rampage knew what Scotty was talking about and she knew what he was talking about when he said she'll lose herself if she stays in this form for too long.

The threat of being degraded to a drooling monster for the rest of his life.

But, Rampage just snickered and gave his response. "I like being out of control... It makes me HAPPY..."

She pulled her fists back to finish him off…

But was interrupted as a white light burst out from the ground in front of the two as Scotty and Rampage looked into it to see the silhouette of a woman standing on the other side. Raven held up her hand and from it came streams of white light that wrapped around Scotty. The surprised Rampage was unprepared and not concentrating as Raven managed to pull Scotty free of the monster's grip and pulled him over to her side.

Rampage was stunned and was absolutely surprised but her surprise soon turned to anger as she let out an inhuman roar.

"Lass…" Scotty groaned as he slowly stood up.

"I'll handle her." Raven said as she stepped forward.

"You?" Rampage chuckled. "Handle me? I told you, I've fought the Justice League and that includes beings as strong as Superman. It doesn't matter what you try, I'll just STEP on you like the other moron who thought he could beat me."

Rampage then roared as he charged forward with his claws out, grabbing Raven up before the girl could react. But as she tried to electrocute burn and freeze her like Scotty, she found her power not affecting the girl. Not to mention while she was holding her, she felt something wrong.

She looked up and saw a white surrounding Raven, protecting her from the power of the Dust crystals.

She then kicked Rampage in the face sending her stumbling back. Rampage grabbed her chin and stroked it as she looked back at the glaring Raven. "What the-!? I don't get it! Why aren't my powers working!?"

"Maybe because I can't be hurt by the likes of you." Raven stated.

"Don't know, don't care..." Rampage growled as she charged forward along with Raven as the two collided.

BAM!

BAM!

FROOSH!

BAM!

BAM!

FROOSH!

Rampage immediately went into a melee style hand-to-hand combat as the four armed villain was doing her very best to tear the Teen Titan in half with her bare hands, but Raven was agile and fast enough to dodge her enemy's attacks as she missed with her flying fists making a 'Froosh' sound. All the while Raven was firing bolts of white energy and getting in the majority of the hits as her bolts hit the monster across the face and chest several times. But after one more vicious right blast across the face curtesy of Raven, it created a shockwave with a single blast…

KABLAM!

Causing Rampage's face to go flying to the other side, right before she pulled back to Raven by her powers and slammed into the ground several times.

CRASH!

CRASH!

CRASH!

CRASH!

CRASH!

CRASH!

CRASH!

"RAH!" Rampage roared and clapped her four hands, creating a powerful shockwave that caught Raven off guard.

The white cloaked girl grunted as she flew back and hit the ground, hard. Rampage quickly grabbed the young girl by the leg and swung her around before she tossed her through the air. As she was flying Rampage jumped from the ground to grab her in mid-air and attack her even further.

Raven glared at the monster as she pointed her hands and started firing white bolts at Rampage in mid-air which exploded on impact with her. However it left little to no damage as Rampage's monstrous form continued to fly though the smoke.

Raven kept her arms aimed at Rampage. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

A powerful beam of white light came from her hands and shot at the surprised Rampage.

"WHAT-!?"

BAM!

The beam smashed Rampage back into ground surrounding the pool of lava as Raven landed back from the air and back on her feet as she landed gracefully. After a moment Rampage stood back up, looking at Raven furiously, clearly underestimating Teen Titan as she was beating Rampage all around with the four armed villain being on the losing end of this battle. She growled at Raven as she angrily looked back at Sam.

"What's wrong!? Scared you're gonna be beaten by a girl?! Or are you just scared your gonna lose this time just like all the other times a hero has beaten you? Do the smart thing for once in your life and give up or I might just make the pain last for what you have done." Raven snarled.

"Aaaahhhh... Just shut your trap and DIE, YOU STUPID HARLOT!" Rampage roared as she came charging straight back at the girl as Raven readied herself.

Rampage was flinging her massive limbs around in a rage to hit the white cloaked girl, but Raven was just too fast for him as she was dodging every one of Rampage's attacks. As Rampage swung her limb down to crush Raven the girl already flew out of the way as Sam's limb. As right then and there Raven kicked Sam across the jaw sending more of her sharp teeth flying.

"I'm impressed that you still have some teeth left to knock out." Raven said as Sam growled louder.

Right before Raven could react Rampage grabbed her by the head and lifted her off the ground as he started to slowly crush her head. Raven started to struggle in her opponent's massive hand.

"Hahahahahaha! Can't crack your cute little jokes after I CRUSH your skull like an egg, huh?" Rampge asked, laughing evilly as Raven struggling against her opponent.

But that was until she grabbed Rampage's chest and released a blast of white energy that blasted the maniac back.

KAZZZZZAAP!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

KABOOM!

The magical blast sent Rampage flying back and she crashed into a rock wall that collapsed on her as Raven fell back down to the ground. She gasped for air as she stood back up and saw where Rampage was thrown as a huge pile of rocks was piled on top of her.

She looked at where Scotty was and saw him kneeling against his sword with his left arm hanging by the side and flew over to him. "You okay?"

"Aye, just a little winded." He answered with a small smile.

Raven however could see there was more to it. "She broke your aura and left you with broken ribs along one broken arm."

"Well, no one said it was going to be easy." Scotty shrugged.

"And being in this chamber with no Aura has doubt not been good with nothing to protect you from the heat." Raven said as she conjured a giant white raven around them. "I need to get you somewhere to heal."

"That would be nice." Scotty admitted before he and Raven vanished inside the magical construct.

The white raven then took off, leaving the lava cavern and the knocked out villain behind.

Xxx

Courage sniffed the ground for any sign of Alexis. He had her scent and his ears picked up a muffled sound that resembled her voice.

She was close by.

He stopped when he bumped into something and yelped as he jumped back, rubbing his nose. He looked up and saw it was a golden sarcophagus. Pressing his ear against it, Courage could hear muffled sounds and recognized Alexis' voice from inside. Courage immediately tried to pry it open but it was strong.

Courage howled a pink aura surrounded his body and slowly he managed to pull the lid off, opening the sarcophagus and looked inside with a loud gasp.

Alexis had not only been modified but was also dressed like an ancient Egyptian Queen with a golden mask over her face. Courage got to work on slowly removing the bandages with his claws and pulled the mask off of the girl's face.

"AH!" Alexis breathed a sigh of relief as she staggered out of the sarcophagus. "Thanks, Courage!"

Even underneath the bandages, Alexis was dressed like a Queen. It was a simple white dress that reached down to her knees with a golden rope tied around her waist like a belt and hung at the front. On her feet were golden sandals with matching laces around her legs. Around her neck was a blue necklace with red and blue beads and golden earrings on her ears.

Her hair was neatly brushed, now soft and silky and on her head rested an Egyptian headdress in the known style of an asp, even having sapphires embedded around it.

Courage made a few questioning barks to her new outfit.

"I have no idea. One minute I'm running, the next thing I know something grabs me, pulls me into the room and I'm wrapped up in bandages like a mummy." Alexis shrugged, looking down at her new outfit. "Someone said to me that King Ramses wanted me as his queen."

"Huh?" Courage tilted his head.

"I don't know but I am not waiting around to find out." Alexis shook her head. "We need to find Mom and Dad and get out of here."

"No one leaves."

Courage yelped as literal walking shadows, humanoid shaped appeared around him and Alexis.

"King Ramses has decreed you his queen." The shadows spoke as one. "You must remain."

Xxx

"There's no sign of her, Stanley."

"She's got to be around her somewhere." Stanley said, becoming very anxious to find his grand-niece as he and Ford searched through the dark forest. "I'll find her if I have to stay up all night to do it."

"Stanley-"

"Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Ford!" Both Pines turned to see Dipper running up to them, followed by another boy wearing an orange shirt and purple shorts with a sock like hat over his head. "Double D can help us find Mabel!"

"Who?" Ford asked, raising an eyebrow.

"So you're the one who made Armatae." The boy called…Double D said to Ford whose eyes went wide from what he had said.

"Wait, Armatae!?"