"So, you want off this train?" A talking…cat said to the group of kids in front of her. "Well, the only way you can is by working on your issues and perhaps journeying through the car. Perhaps they might be with the conductor."
"We can find our other missing friends." Nazz suggested to her fellow Peach Creek kids and friend they had made on this train.
"Fine, we'll go on this stupid journey." Eddy groaned and with that they set off through the mysterious Infinity Train.
It's been about several more minutes, around thirty until Jonny started to ask the famous, 'Are we there yet?' question.
"Are we there yet?"
"Not yet." Samantha answered.
Twenty more minutes passed and they entered a new car.
"What about now?" Jonny asked.
"Nope." Tambry answered.
Twenty more minutes passed and they entered the next car.
"Hey, are we there yet?" Asked Jonny.
"No..." Rolf said annoyed.
Fifteen minutes passed and they entered a new car.
"Are we there yet?"
"No!" Dipper yelled.
"Are we there yet?"
"Yes." Eddy answered.
"Really?" Jonny asked.
"NO!" Eddy yelled furiously.
New car only after ten minutes.
"Are we there yet?"
New car.
"No!" Samantha yelled.
More new cars.
"Are we there yet?"
"No we are not!" Yelled Kevin.
Same as usual.
"Are we there yet?"
"NOOOOOO!" Everyone yelled in unison.
Only another second passed as Jonny asked yet again, only to have Eddy speak over him, interrupting Jonny. "Hey, are we there yet?"
Jonny noticed Eddy copying exactly what Jonny was saying and speaking over him. "Hey, that's not funny-"
"You know this is really immature-" Dipper, Kevin, and Tambry dragged their hands down their faces.
"See? This is why Plank doesn't like you-"
"Alright, we're lost-"
"I'll just stop talking!" Jonny yelled, this time NOT being interrupted by Eddy.
"Finally!" Eddy with a relieved look on his face.
"But this is taking forever guys! We don't even have a place to charge up our tablets to listen to music or nothing!" Jonny complained.
"It's called the Infinity Train, Mr. 2/4... There is literally no end to the cars aside from starting with the conductor's car. THAT'S where we're going and it just so happens to be... Very, very, far... AWAY..." Samantha said, literally whispering the last word with a pained look on her face.
"Fine, okay I get it! I'm just so darn bored!" Jonny crossed his arms.
"Well, find a way to entertain yourself!" Eddy yelled.
Jonny sighed in sorrow…
Only to smile a couple of seconds later as he started cracking his fingers, visibly making everyone incredibly annoyed and uncomfortable.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
"Oooohhhhhhh!... For FIVE minutes, Jonny... Can you just, y'know, NOT be yourself?... FOR FIVE FREAKING MINUTES?!" Eddy yelled at Jonny as he turned back around to walking.
Jonny remained silent for a while, until he brought his hand back to the front where Dipper, Eddy, and Samantha were. Dipper and Samantha saw this and they braced for impact.
Crack!
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! ARE WE THERE YET!?" Eddy yelled, putting his hands over his ears.
"No, but I see something up ahead." Dipper pointed forward. "It looks like an army…of dogs."
"Correction." Samantha said uneasily. "Those are corgis."
GRIMMFALL
IFINITY TRAIN ARC
COMING SOON…
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Accessing Global Security Satellite System
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Detecting large buildup of chronoton energy in Horn Mountain
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"Star? Star, are you there? Star?"
A single mirror had the face of Queen Moon, calling out to her daughter but every time she called for her daughter, the only answer she got was silence.
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"So it's finally happened."
The Grim Reaper stood over a cliff, watching as the Grimm army assembled by Sammael continued its journey to Nowhere, unhindered by the time field now enveloping the Earth.
"That guy is really starting to bug me." Grim grumbled.
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"Nyx, do you see it?"
Nyx turned to a mirror on her wall that showed Gravity Falls and noticed one particularly concerning detail. "They are all frozen."
"In time." Pericles finished for her. "The time field seems to be coming from Nowhere."
"Van Kleiss?" Nyx waved her hand and the image on the mirror change to show the mountains of Nowhere instead. "What does he get from freezing time?"
"I am not sure but the time field has expanded beyond what I would think was possible." Pericles answered. "Fortunately we should be protected."
"Should be?" Nyx frowned. "I'm a Lady of Chaos, Pericles. I am immune to the powers of science."
"Not all of it, Nyx. You would do well to remember that." Pericles pointed out as Nyx turned from the mirror, walking into the living room of the little house Nyx had built in her pocket dimension. "Science can be made to defeat magic under the right circumstances."
"We'll see about that. I've already brought back to life someone who was made by science and fixed all the imperfections and mistakes science had made in creating her." Nyx scoffed, looking out into the field to see a brunette haired girl in a purple dress playing. "My own perfect little girl and I wasn't the one who originally made her."
Pericles looked back at the mirror, his eyes narrowing. "Science has made leaps and bounds since the Lords of Order and Chaos first appeared into existence. They might represent a fundamental balance but they are not the absolute power in the universe."
"Says the familiar of a Lord of Chaos or rather a Lady of Chaos…" Nyx retorted. "Even if I was originally born female these technicalities mean nothing to the actual beings themselves. We choose what we look like no matter the gender. Magic is our lifeblood, our source of power and we control it in all form. Anything a mortal can do, we can do better."
"Even the Fallen?" Pericles suddenly asked.
Nyx looked back at Pericles who was looking at the mirror again, seeing something else. "What is that?"
"It looks like the army of Grimm continuing its march, even though it should be frozen like everyone and everything else." Pericles answered stoically.
The mirror did indeed show the Grimm army that had been assembled in the Darklands and was continuing its trek, just now entering Nowhere Kansas and lead by the flying shape made from wood and Grimm.
"Sammael…" Nyx narrowed her eyes. "He's placed some sort of time barrier over himself and his army, protecting it from the time displacement field."
"And thus, will arrive faster at Nowhere than predicted." Pericles stated. "Especially if the field lasts for three more mortal days."
"I don't believe it…" Nyx turned from the mirror and marched around the room. "He's buying time and if we don't do something he'll be ahead of us! I thought we could have everything we needed long before the army reached the mountains!" Nyx clenched her fists as they sparked with purple electricity and her eyes purple as well. "Did he play us?! He had to know we were stalling for time ourselves when we made the deal with him! And how can he even place a barrier that powerful over his entire army?! Even if he is skilled in time magic, he can't be that powerful without something to help him!"
"The deal that would end in consequence for either of us if we interfered in each other's affairs." Pericles recalled. "Only this minor time freeze does not count since we are still free to search for the remaining disk pieces. It's possible he gained access to a magical artifact that deals in time but we have no clue what it could be. Even so, we can still move in and out so long we have our own protection."
Nyx's eyes returned to normal. "And if we don't get them before Sammael arrives at Van Kleiss' base, he'll probably get the Gem of Heart. He's powerful enough without one of those gems but if he gets all twelve of them…"
"Then you admit, even a Lord or Lady of Chaos has powerful enemies outside of the Lords of Order. After all, isn't that why you offered a deal to Sammael rather than face him?" Pericles questioned which earned him a glare from Nyx. "You weren't wrong though. He's more than experienced in the arts of magic that he likely ha ways to defeat us. We cannot challenge him openly unless we have a way to even the odds."
"And we will." Nyx glanced out the window. "If Sammael is forcing the timeline to change, we'll change with it."
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In the middle of Prime Earth, a white portal opened, allowing Raven to exit and was followed by Team SEKR and Rex all of them landing perfectly on the ground. The group looked around and was amazed by the landscape of this version of Earth. It was a clear landscape that stretched long and far with rock pillars and old man-made structures sticking out of the ground. Addition to that, multicolored massive crystals stuck out of random places in the ground, there were floating massive rocks due to the different laws of physics in that universe.
And there were what appeared to be some kind of hybrid of coral and plant life that glows a beautiful shade of blue along with green. The sky presented different star coordinates and different noticeable colorful galaxies light years away. Wherever this Earth is, for some reason it wasn't in its orbit any more.
"Fascinating, isn't it?" Asked the cold voice of Van Kleiss.
The group turned around to see Van Kleiss standing there a dozen feet away as he was still typing into his machine's control panel. "I guess I should welcome you to the prime universe. Believe it or not, this is the Earth where everything began. Your universe, my universe, and every other universe in all of existence was born. This... is the singularity. Or at least, was."
Scotty, Rex and Raven narrowed their eyes as he started to slowly pace.
"With every decision we make it will create an alternate universe. The reality where something DID occur and the reality where something DIDN'T occur. Trillions of beings, creating trillions of choices, creating infinite universes... Some so incomprehensibly similar that you can spend millions of years trying to find the differences, and some so radically different it can drive a person mad just by looking upon it." Van Kleiss said while Extor looked past his hand and at the control panel, memorizing the codes Van Kleiss was putting in.
"We already know that, Van Kleiss. As a scientist, I am not unfamiliar in the multiverse theory." Extor stated.
"Well... I just thought I would remind you. Just in case you've somehow forgot." Van Kleiss said with a smile. "It's a good thing I put a force field around us because with the physical properties of this Earth, we would be simultaneously crushed and torn to shreds by this gravity while burning and freezing to death at the same time. Very interesting, isn't it? I thought this would've just been a waste land. But I'm surprised life managed to somehow thrive here, even with the extreme conditions and the planet hurtling out of its orbit. I truly wonder... what could've made this Earth hurtle out of its orbit like that?"
"With the physics of this universe the possibilities can be endless. Perhaps an extra dimensional being, aliens, some sort of uncontrollable cosmic anomaly, perhaps the Earth itself formed at a different area near the sun that's orbit was too weak that it just spiraled away one day? Or even-" Extor reasoned but was interrupted.
"Don't be a fool, you know as well as I that there was only one thing that was the most likely candidate to cause this. Humanity." Van Kleiss said knowingly.
"You can't be sure of that. Anything in existence could've done this. Besides, perhaps humanity long died out and animal and plant life just evolved." Extor suggested.
"Possible. But, shall I present the more darker universes that spawned from this?" Van Kleiss suggested as he held his arm out and projected several screens with pictures on them.
The group's eyes widened in horror as he looked upon the pictures.
Each one representing a dark reality.
Raven saw a reality where an older and darker version of her was sitting on a throne of human skulls with her father, Trigon grinning behind her.
Another one showed a village filled with severally malnourished people who are dead and dying.
Another reality shows Rex in his original EVO form and an army of EVOs were attacking a city and killing civilians.
Another reality shows a barren landscape where an old Ed was sitting as he pulled his legs to his chest and sat in the fetal position, looking over the dead and empty landscape with a sad expression.
Another reality shows a dark and burning land where Sammael stood and millions of Grimm walk and/or flew over the corpses of hundreds of humans.
Another universe showed an abandoned GrimmFall where zombified and horrific versions of its people walked down the streets.
Another reality depicted Van Kleiss sitting on a throne with Raven, SEKR and many others killed and brought back to life to serve Van Kleiss, standing around him as mutated EVOs.
And there were many more, countless other single pictures that showed depictions of somber and dark realities.
"All of these realities exist. And all of the people and/or beings that were hurt or killed were real. And all of these realities were caused by humans... Even if you cause world peace to occur on your world, another reality can spawn from that we're it completely fails and the world goes to war. When these nanites get expelled, they will infect whatever life is on this Earth, thus causing a domino effect and affecting all other forms of life on every other Earth. Making each reality work as one, no crime, no more sickness, and no more suffering. Only order and obedience." Said Van Kleiss as he pressed one last button on the machine he was next to, activating it as the machine moaned to life and presented a vertical series of shut off lights that were very slowly turning on, one by one, showing when the machine will disperse the virus. "This will be the only thing that matters..."
"You're crazy." Keanu stated, hand on his sword as Van Kleiss walked towards the group.
"None of that matters. Though, I will have to admit. The only thing I will really miss is when I could feed on nanites of anyone and anything around me." Van Kleiss held up his gauntlet.
"All right, I've had enough." Scotty said as his Aura flared around him.
"Agreed." Extor then suddenly launched himself forward as he formed two massive laser cannons on his wrists as he charged at Van Kleiss.
As Extor charged in he blasted his laser cannons at Van Kleiss who lifted his hand. Activating his blue force fields, blocking the energy attacks as Extor collided with Van Kleiss. Extor tried to punch him but Van Kleiss just caught Extor's punch as he head-butted him, then pressed his wrist blaster to Extor's chest and blasted him, sending him several feet back and into the air. But Extor halted as he used the jets in his back, feet, and hands as it stopped his propulsion.
As he turned back to Van Kleiss he launched a barrage of missiles that headed straight for Van Kleiss. But as they were only a few feet away from colliding with him, Van Kleiss simply held up his hand as it telekinetically held the missiles in mid-air, only for Van Kleiss to turn the missiles in the opposite directions as they headed back towards Extor. As Extor charged up his visor blast and blasted the missiles into smithereens.
KAPEW!
But as the dust cleared and Extor was still hovering there with Raven having projected a shield around him. Scotty popped through the smoke and flew through the air, grabbing Van Kleiss by his armored face and smashed him into the ground as he dragged Extor through the ground itself, tearing up the earth.
SMASH!
KRASH!
As Scotty continued to drag Van Kleiss through the ground he tightened his grip on the mad man's face as he then tossed him into one of the massive hovering boulders covered in the glowing plant life.
SMASH!
Van Kleiss grunted but got back up, grinning as a golden aura surrounded him and instantly his wounds healed. "Do you want to know the difference between us? My body is designed to constantly evolve. You can't beat me."
"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Which you possess all three." Extor said as he and Raven landed on the ground.
"Got that right!" Rex shouted as he jumped out from behind the boulder, his hands morphing into giant mechanical fists.
Immediately Rex started to pummel Van Kleiss, Rex got a few good hits in with his spikes managing to pierce through Van Kleiss. Rex punched him back once more but as he was about to hit him again Van Kleiss dodged the blow and shape shifted his arm into a spiked mace and he started beating Rex with it. Van Kleiss then managed to grab Rex by the throat and held him in the air as he started tightening his grip around Rex's throat.
Suddenly Scotty shot in and erupted with soundwaves that blasted Van Kleiss and much of the evolved plant life back, catching Extor in the process.
As Van Kleiss looked up, he was a bit surprised to see Extor's new bizarre mode.
"Have you forgotten how powerful I am as an Ascendent?" Scotty asked before rocketing forward and colliding with Van Kleiss.
The two into multiple nearby pillars and stones, smashing through each one of them.
SMASH!
SMASH!
BASH!
KRASH!
All before tossing Van Kleiss aside and standing back up on his feet. Van Kleiss had major dents and cuts to his armor body that he instantly healed up. Van Kleiss then looked back up as Scotty dashed in and started assaulting Van Kleiss, slashing at Van Kleiss with his sword that caused massive damages and lacerations, and bashing Van Kleiss with one arm, causing parts of his body to go flying. Van Kleiss started to counter and tried to fight back, but as he punched Scotty in the chest he broke his robotic hand from the sheer durability created from copying the powers of many superhumans. Scotty continued his assault by the combo of sword slashes, punches, head-butts, and even blasts from his gatling gun leg.
But as Scotty was about to punch Van Kleiss again, Van Kleiss caught the punch before swinging his arm as he shattered Scotty's sword before unleashing a series of mighty punches to Scotty before knocking him down and grabbing him by his feet, grabbing him by the leg as he rocketed into the air and tossed Scotty into the ground around around several dozen feet away from the machine.
SMASH!
As the dust cleared, Scotty was lying in a crater with his suit of armor in it's original mode. Scotty groaned and coughed as he tried to pick himself back up, but that's when Van Kleiss was suddenly standing over him and grabbed him by the throat as he lifted him off the ground and in the air.
"You don't get it, do you? I can ADAPT to anything. I can scan it and adapt to it. And that is exactly what I've done to your suit. You can't beat me." Van Kleiss said as Scotty continued to cough. "You know, if I hadn't scanned as many beings as I did out in the multiverse, you might have actually won. But... No, not even a so-called Ascendant can stop what I have become."
"Oh sure, start with the evil rant." Scotty rolled his eyes, despite the foot on his neck. "You know, the main reason bad guys lose is because they talk too much."
"No. Good and evil are concepts created by moronic neanderthals who are too foolish and superstitious. To explain what they are too stupid to see. I am only doing what is necessary." Van Kleiss said as he shape shifted his arm into a massive chainsaw to cut Scotty.
However the Scotsman rose his arm and gestured his finger as Van Kleiss sensed something big fly through the air and towards Van Kleiss. Van Kleiss quickly looked back as he saw a massive boulder torn from the ground telekinetically being thrown at him by Raven. As Van Kleiss's attention was elsewhere, Scotty charged up energy in his eyes and blasted Van Kleiss back. He flew through the air for only a few feet before the bolder fell on top of him.
Scotty only had a few seconds as he looked back at Van Kleiss's device as he dashed over to it and started tinkering with the control panel. The bolder that was on top of Van Kleiss suddenly developed cracks in it with red energy seeping out of them as the bolder was shattered into pieces as Van Kleiss with his crevices burning red with anger. He turned to glare at his opponents but his eyes then widened when he saw something.
Extor was at the control panel as he tinkered with the touch screen and tried to set the machine to overload and self-destruct. But before Extor could press the self-destruct button, Van Kleiss wrapped his arm around Extor's throat and pulled Extor back while the scientist grabbed at Van Kleiss's arm. All the while the light presentation of the machine was at 91% complete.
"No more arguing philosophies. I will kill you now. Then, convert the rest of the multiverse." Van Kleiss said as the loading presentation on the machine went up to 98%.
"You still don't learn, no matter how smart you might be." Extor said as white energy grabbed Van Kleiss's arm and tossed him over his shoulder and into the machine.
Van Kleiss quickly deformed into metal liquid and reformed into his original state with no helmet he stood in front of the machine for only half a second as Raven and Scotty quickly blasted the machine behind Van Kleiss. But before Van Kleiss could attack, he felt his whole body freeze as he stood in place. Only a few more seconds passed before Van Kleiss was magnetically pulled back and was stuck to the machine.
"We fight monsters while you became a monster... But, the difference is that when we fight monsters we see to it that in the process we not become monsters. For if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Extor stated as he picked up the portal device and switched the coordinates to another Earth. "And I believe that's... Checkmate."
Extor threw the portal device at the magnetically trapped Van Kleiss's feet as while Raven summoned a portal to take him and the others back to their Earth. Van Kleiss eventually gained enough strength to tear himself away from the machine, leaving a little bit of his back behind as he tried to rush forward. But before he could, the portal gun generated a portal right above the machine and Van Kleiss's head that fell and engulfed both Van Kleiss and the machine.
On an Earth that was nothing but a wasteland and was burning up as it was being pulled in toward its own sun. A portal opened up on the ground flat as the portal rose into the air and transported Van Kleiss and his machine there. Van Kleiss looked around in panic as the planet that was being pulled in by its sun as he turned back to the machine that was at 100% percent and was ready to activate.
Three options appeared on the screen.
'Abort'
'Activate'
'Halt and teleport to another location'
Van Kleiss moved to hit the switch to take him back to Prime Earth when his hand suddenly froze. "What?! Why can't I move?!"
'I have to admit, you surprised me this time.' A familiar voice spoke in his mind.
Van Kleiss' eyes widened as he heard the voice from…inside his mind. "Sammael?! But how-?!"
'Did you really think I would let you build an android that would allow you to evolve to become possibly a deity like being and not protect myself from your treachery?' Sammael taunted from inside Van Kleiss' mind. 'The reason I control you is because it's hard wired into the programming of the nanites that the android was composed of when you absorbed it.'
"Impossible…." Van Kleiss grunted, struggling to break free. "I made sure you never did anything to hack the android."
'Even after your portal machine briefly failed and almost exploded?' Sammael asked.
Van Kleiss recalled that incident.
He had just opened a way to new reality with possibly someone on the other side having done the same when the portal suddenly overloaded. The main components and Breach had survived but it took time to repair it again.
'You hacked the android during that time?' Van Kleiss questioned. 'But, even if you are intelligent, you couldn't have had the experience needed to hack something as complex as the android.'
'And I didn't. I used the Seer as a vessel to not only look over the android's blue prints, I also used it generate a surge through the android from the Shadow Zone to alter its programming. I had a little help from a scientist colleague once he looked it over.' Sammael answered.
'Kriegar!' Van Kleiss grit his teeth.
'Oh no, it wasn't Doctor Kriegar. I have other associates in the scientific field.' Sammael answered before an obnoxious laugh was heard.
'It worked. You are paralyzed, ya fool!' The voice taunted and laughed. 'Surge by Sammael's Seer, perfectly embedded Trojan horse virus. Van Kleiss not see it at all!'
'Thank you, Di Lung.' Sammael said gratefully. 'And thank you, Van Kleiss. For so long, you have helped bring about chaos on my world in ways I never could have conceived, distracting the heroes and hunters from gathering together against me as well stopping several other threats when the good offwolders you brought stood against Billiam Milliam, Crom Cruach and the Ice Queen. All of these battles allowed me to work in the shadows until I was ready. And now, I say only this to you…Sayonara Van Kleiss.'
"SAMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" Van Kleiss screamed as the Earth collided with its own sun and for a brief second there was blast of great light that lit up the galaxy.
And then there was silence.
Xxx
When Team SEKR along with Rex and Raven returned they were frozen in time as well…Only for Raven to break free a second later.
"What has happened here?" Raven asked as she looked around, finding everyone frozen in time. "I don't like the look of this."
She needed to find the source of what has caused time to freeze for everyone here.