The Cartoon Continuum

Chapter 3:

Smashin' and Rockin'

A/N: Hm… Who do I chose for this chapter, I guess I'll go for Epic and save Ace for the next one. Luckily this one isn't too centric with another show, in fact I'd say this is completely Fusionfall +Ben and whoever I decide on.

A/N2: The Dexter's part'll be important later trust me.

A/N3: Bonsai is the name of Ace's imaginary friend who had died.

A/N4: I know Puffy Ami Yumi don't actually look like that, if they're still around? Maybe in Japan… But I wanted to stick to the look of the animated series with of course Fusionfalls realistic appearance and such.

A/N5: I gotta stop these, but they're important. My design of the nanocom is like the original Ipod on like a watch strap. And has a blue screen and sets up holographic projections.

A/N6: Yeah, I think it's official I need to go over Ace's personality. I'm mostly giving him one word lines, so I need to go over Evan's stuff with him as well as my own details.

A/N7: The Rankings'll come later. I haven't forgotten about them.

Epic's POV:

We all walk through the doors of the Dex Labs time travel room. There we see Dexter at his console with a hologram of XANA standing by Computress behind him working on their own clipboards. I don't really like looking at XANA he kinda rubs me the wrong way as creep, and I'm pretty sure all of us feel the same about him. When I realized how creepy the dude was I couldn't help but wonder if we've credited or doomed the earth by bringing him here with us. At least I don't have to worry about the weird Lyoko stuff in the Factory Infected Zone anymore.

Nonetheless Dexter stands with Computress and XANA. Also leaning against a time capsule is Ben as well as Samurai Jack and Chase Young. I didn't expect to be doing this kind of thing with a renowned super villain.

"Hey Dex." Kenneth starts. "What's the mission?"

Dexter doesn't even turn. "Well that's a fine hello." I grumble.

Dexter sighs still working at the console. "Computress debrief them."

"Will you be able to continue on your own XANA?" She asks.

XANA scoffs. "I am more than capable of completing such a task myself." He waves her off. "Go on."

She then hovers over to us. "Greetings Cartoon Network Universe Defenders and congratulations for your last successful mission."

We all give our thanks to her.

A small screen then hovers over to her. "Your next mission will be to apprehend and contain the Fusion ambush at the Puffy Ami-Yumi/Drama Brothers/Sunny Bridges Collaboration Concert at Townsville Mall five months ago."

"I remember that." Liv says.

"Yeah," Ace smirks. "Wasn't that the one that hospitalized a ton of people."

"And gave Dexter a major headache?" I add with a smirk, getting some hardly concealed chuckles from the group.

"Affirmative." Computress confirms. "You're mission will be to make as little noise as possible and not alert the public of your presence."

"Then why do we have Ben with us?" Kenneth asks. "I mean he can't go in a crowd like that without being noticed."

"Kenneth's right." Ace agreed. "If this is a stealth mission then Ben and his alien transformations won't do us any good."

"Ben will be wearing an ID mask throughout the mission and only using a Plumber's Riffle. The main reason for him going with you is so that you have a method to get back to the present. Ben will be accompanying you on each mission until we can develop a way to recover you and whoever else is assisting you." Computress explained.

"So when will we be arriving?" Liv asks her.

"Right at the beginning of the concert." Computress explains. "You'll get in and act like normal people out to see the concert."

"But won't this alert us?" I ask.

"What do you mean?" Computress asks.

"I mean think about it." I start. "The whole thing is gonna be on national television, I remember watching this whole thing play out on TV afterwards. The four of us were busy hunting down Fusion Numbuh 5 inside of Fosters, during this. If we see us at this thing, it might cause us to jump to conclusions, especially with how much trouble Kenneth's Fusion causes."

"Dexter was able to relay a message to his past self via Professor Paradox to control the broadcast, it'll show to the public what originally happened as well as CGI to add to it." Computress explained.

"Alright thanks Computress." Kenneth says.

We all go our separate ways. Kenneth goes to Jack and Chase no doubt to talk strategy. Liv goes to Dexter probably wanting to know more about the time machine and how it works. Ace and I head to Ben who looks bored.

However as we're walking to the boy Chase then gives me a sort of glare. I don't really understand why he would do that but I just try to ignore the stare down the man is giving me.

"Hey Ben." I say to the teen.

He looks at us. "Hey Ace, hey Epic what's up?"

"Same old, same old." Ace replied. "Kicking globby butt, taking names. The usual."

"Cool." Ben replied.

I can't help but still notice Chase's steady gaze. "Does Chase always do that?"

"What?" Ace asked.

"Stare at people like that?" I ask.

"Chase is like the biggest creep around." Ben tells us. "I wouldn't worry about him. He comes off like that to everyone. "

"Besides, he usually stares at no one in particular." Ace replied. "So it's probably best to leave him alone."

"Have any of you been on a mission with him before?" I ask.

"Jack; I've been on tons of missions with." Ben replied. "But Chase; I've only been on like five or six missions with him. He tends to work alone but'll appear on a mission when he sees fit. He's a very skilled fighter and usually says all kinds of creepy yet strangely wise things to people. He's pretty much an evil version of Jack, just without the sword."

"I was once on a mission with him before I joined the team." Ace confirms. "It was me, Robin and Omi. Then he just appeared and helped us out."

"So did he just waltz in on this mission?" I ask.

"For once he didn't." Ben answered.

"Really?" Ace asked.

"Yeah," Ben confirmed. "Dexter actually asked that he come here, asked me to fly over to his lair as Jetray and it wasn't any fun to be attacked by a bunch of cats as soon as I got there."

"Chase is a cat person?" I ask.

"Technically," Ben replied. "If you consider having Lions, Tigers and Leopards a cat person."

"Oh my!" Ace exclaims. The two of us look at him strangely. "What? You know the Wizard of Oz? Um, never mind I can't win with you people."

I open my mouth to respond and am quickly cut off. "Perhaps you children shouldn't converse about your superiors without their consent."

"We weren't talking about you." I defend.

"Is that so?" Chase asks.

"Yeah," Ace says. "We were talking about… Kenneth's hair it's quite strange that he and Ben have the same hair color but still manage to have different hairstyles."

"Really?" Ben asks. "That's your excuse?!"

"Nevertheless you three shouldn't be conversing about your superiors." Chase continues.

"Dude, I am not under you." Ben says. "Last I checked I outrank you!"

"Care to explain child?" Chase asks.

"Ya' know! The leaderbords that were set up by the Council of Ten!" Ben says.

"Ah yes the petty scoreboard, I am well aware of that." Chase replied.

"If anyone outranks me it's Jack and those Golden Explorer guys!" Ben replied.

"Seriously?" I ask. "Dexter's favorites outrank you?"

"I know right?" Ben asks quite flabbergasted by that. He then turns back to Chase, "Last I checked you were so low that even Coco outranks you!"

Chase smirks. "Just because I refuse to engage in your petty competition in hopes of encouraging you to strive for better results in the war, but in the end causes recklessness and poor decision making which only hinder our advancements on the Fusions."

"Why I otta!" Ben shouts, his hand hovering over the Ultimatrix.

"'Otta' what?" Chase mocks. "Use your useless doohickey to engage in a fight with a skilled warrior which will only end in your humiliating defeat."

"Leave him Ben." Ace says holding the celebrity superhero back. "He's not worth the effort."

"Yeah." I agree. "Besides I wanna see this leaderboard can you send it to my nanocom?"

Ben sighs. "Sure Epic." He then begins tapping buttons on his Ultimatrix but looks up at Chase every once in a while to see the warriors smug grin.

Chase continues. "See this is your problem Ben Tennyson, you choose to use your alien technology to engage in battle and hope that your petty transformations will do your fighting. Metamosians, Tetramands, Necrofiggians, even the mighty Tokustar would fall at the hands of a skilled warrior much like myself. The strength of a true warrior does not only lie in their physical stature but also in their will power and you Ben Tennyson are much too short tempered and hotheaded to achieve that strength."

Ben clicks a final button on his Ultimatrix. I feel the vibration on my nanocom but ignore it. Ben rears his hand back, the utter rage radiating off of him. "That's it! Get ready for Humongosaur!"

"That's enough!" Dexter shouts, stopping Ben abruptly before he slams his palm down on the Ultimatrix. "Chase Young; I have told you time and again that you should not speak to anyone like that during this war! I do not need you deteriorating the mental stability of the people who could save this world have left otherwise I will have no choice but to let Grim and Adam Lion run their little therapy sessions that they have insisted on starting! Benjamin Tennyson; you are a very close friend of mine and I am quite disappointed that you would want to engage in a conflict with Chase Young! Ace and Epic; I know that the two of you are responsible for gathering Chase's attention, do not do that again do you hear me!"

We all open our mouths to say something in defense before Dexter repeats himself. "DO YOU HEAR ME!"

"Sorry Dex," Ben says.

"Humble apologies Commander." Ace replies, going into Providence's military mode.

"Sorry Dexter." I simply reply.

"Hmpf." Chase scoffs.

"Good," Dexter sneers as Liv, Kenneth and Jack walk up to us. "Now I want you to get into these capsules right now and that's an order!"

Ben, Kenneth, Liv, Ace and I run to our capsules knowing not to anger Dexter when he isn't in his calm and collected state. Chase and Jack simply walk to their capsules. Dexter returns to his controls and the open capsules close over us.

"Now get out of my sight!" Dexter yells. "And I swear that if you seven don't do the mission correctly you shouldn't come back at all!"

With that we are enveloped in a flash of a bright white light.

Dexter's POV:

I type at the console and like that their capsules are empty. I slam my purple gloved hand down on the console. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look to see Computress, XANA stands behind her continuing to work on the digital clipboard his Avatar displays he shows his usual board and uncaring expression.

"Dexter," Computress starts. "I feel you were a little hard on them."

"Computress…" I sigh. "Perhaps. But still you know that we cannot have them arguing as I'm trying to avoid catastrophic events like this."

"Perhaps you overwork yourself." XANA says looking up from his keyboard. "From the conversations Computress and I have had it seems that you've been working constantly since the beginning of this war."

"I do not overwork myself!" I try to insist the two AI's.

"Dexter do not lie to yourself." Computress tells me. "You work day and night on efforts for this war, you hardly have any sleep and Doctor Noah Hafez has told you time and time again that you need to get some rest. "

"Computress," I start. "This war needs me to work as hard as possible."

"Only for you to kill yourself in the process?" Computress asks. "I do not think so! The war- no the world, needs you and it needs you alive!"

"You are not a computer Dexter." XANA says. "Computress and I are Artificial Intelligence Programs meaning we can work until the end of time as you humans say. But you are a mere human you need rest. Computress and I have even considered that I take possession of you to get the rest you need but after looking over your last biotic scan from Doctor Hafez quickly declined the idea."

"So we came up with a different idea." Computress confirms.

"I do not need rest!" I insist.

"Where are you and Blossom right now?" Computress asks.

I gasp. "What do you mean?"

"How is your relationship with the girl?" Computress asks.

I quickly lie. "We're good friends."

"That's not what this security footage shows." XANA replies. An image then pops up of the night after a long mission together. "Surely this shows more."

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" I deny.

"We know you do Dexter. Everyone does." Computrss replies.

*Flashback*

I had woken up in the infirmary of Dex Labs to find myself connected to many antibiotics. I wondered what I was doing there but quickly remembered the earlier events.

It had been a very tough mission out in the Wilds, when the Fusions of Ben, Blossom and I had made an attempt to create multiple Fusions of Ben's aliens in Fusion Dexter's lair in the Pimpleback Mountains. Ben, Blossom and I had led a ten man strike force to stop this catastrophic event. I had been struggling with the controls of the machine with Fusion Dexter but I had turned to see Fusion Blossom send a devastating blow to Blossoms head. She called out to me and beyond my better judgment I ran after her I ran to her and had requested a Scamper come and pick the two of us up and made a run for it only thinking of getting her to safety. We ran out of the lab and made it to the Scamper. I set her inside but had felt the pain of an electric blast to the back as I fell inside of the Scamper.

This had refresher had immediately refreshed my memory and I looked frantically for Blossom only to find her lying on the bed next to me. I had relaxed but then noticed that blood was seeping out of the bandage on her head. I had then gotten up and removed the wires that connected me to the biotic scanners.

I quickly got a washcloth as I knew where they were. I had run it under cold water and turned to the downed heroine gently removing the soggy bandage. I then dabbed the washcloth on the wound.

Blossom stirred due to the contact and her eyes slowly fluttered open. She looked into my eyes and lightly smiled. "Hey… Dexter."

"Blossom." I had sighed relieved that she was okay. "How are you?"

"A little shaken not stirred." She had smiled at me.

"Blossom don't lie to me." I replied.

"Okay…" She sighed as I walked to get another bandage. "I'm really hurt. Can you make it better?"

"Of course I can Blossom," I replied. "You're my best friend."

I then finished applying the bandage and looked into her beautiful pink eyes. She chuckled giving me a fluttering feeling in my stomach. "I thought it was Ben. You don't think he'll be jealous?"

I laugh at this. "I think he'll be okay. There all better?"

"Yeah." She smiled.

That smile, I loved that smile and had grown to enjoy it more and more. I'd known Blossom for a long time, we'd gone to Poakey Oaks Elementary and Jr. High together and had gotten closer and closer over the years as I was one of the few people to like her as a person, not a hero. After I'd left Jr. High to start Dex Labs I had her and her sisters visit me often as they were some of the few friends I'd made before the war. Buttercup and Bubbles were both great friends but everyone knew that I was closer with Blossom.

I looked into her eyes, those beautiful pink eyes I'd learned to love each day. I looked at her hair though matted with blood still managed to glisten in the dimly lit infirmary. She was a fighter and a friend, I love her dearly and then leaned my face closer to hers and kissed her. She was surprised at first but eased into it. Her soft lips against mine were the most amazing thing I had ever felt. We pulled away and she smirked.

"About damn time," She painfully smiled. She then joked. "Think Ben'll be jealous of that?"

My face had flushed a deep red at that. "I don't think he'll mind."

She sighed. "I need to rest."

"You're right." I sighed.

"But we are not done talking about this." She says.

After that we started a relationship and I only told Ben whereas she only told her sisters. Ben and Buttercup kinda blabbed about it and everyone ended up knowing which Blossom was okay with but embarrassed me a bit but nevertheless we were together, but it was hard to see each other during the war.

*End Flashback*

"Dexter," Computress starts. "We've looked over a lot of your time with Blossom for your own good."

"That is an invasion of my personal privacy Computress!" I cry out.

"Actually everyone's privacy is of my knowledge Dexter." XANA replies. "I know things about everyone who lives where any piece of technology with visual or audio receivers are present. For example; William Harangue has several bodyguards set up around his house and studio in fear of Fusions and various heroes; Buttercup Utonium whispers obscene things about Rex Slazar in her sleep; and the latest news that Blossom invited you to a weeklong couples retreat in the Pimpleback Mountains complete with your own cabin to share, a shield from Fusions much like the ones to contain infected zones and a candlelight dinner which you declined in favor of continuing your efforts for the war when you already overwork yourself."

"Who gave you such authorization?" I ask.

"You did smartass." XANA replies still keeping his calm and quiet composure, with a hint of sarcasm. "One of the duties you had given me was round the clock surveillance to watch for any Fusion disturbances."

Computress started. "That's why you're going on the retreat with Blossom."

"Unnaceptable!" Dexter shouted. "I cannot leave my post!"

"Dexter," Computress starts. "You work to hard! You're relationship with Blossom is only going to end if you continue to put your work over her! She's an understanding girl but honestly how much can she take Dexter? You're going!"

"How will things get done around here?" I argue.

"Computress and I will be able to handle it on our own including the next time travel mission, we've already asked DexLabs to clean your hovercar packed with her favorite chocolate covered strawberries." XANA replied.

"That was my personal touch." Computress smiled. "Now when they get back you're getting ready for your retreat with Blossom. She's arriving promptly at 19:00"

I wanted to argue some more but was cut off as a green portal appeared in the room and new memories were added to his mind.

Epic's POV:

I awake to find Liv, Kenneth, Ace, Ben, Chase and Jack awake on a concrete slab.

"I'm the last one to wake up?" I ask.

"You are a heavy sleeper." Liv shrugged.

"I could sense that you would awaken shortly." Jack confirmed.

"Thanks Jack." I reply. "So where are we?"

"We arrived right behind the Mayors City Hall." Chase replied not moving from his meditative position.

"Who's got the tickets?" Liv asks.

"I do." Kenneth says taking tickets out of his pack. "The four of us can go together with Ben, but Jack and Chase are gonna need to be alone cuz it'll look weird with them coming with us."

"Well, at least this mission gets us a free concert." I say.

"Yeah," Ace agrees. "Couldn't be any better!"

"Ben put on your ID mask." Liv tells the boy.

Ben nods and taps a couple buttons on his Ultimatrix, a green light comes out of the Ultimatrix before the ID mask appears before him. He slides it over his face and a ring of light travels down him transforming him completely. Now standing before us ifs a teenager with sleek black hair, chocolate brown eyes, he wears a short sleeved ocean blue shirt, blue jeans, and a pair of dark sneakers. He leans down and picks up the green riffle with the plumbers logo in the middle of it.

"What an improvement." I laugh.

"Shut up!" Ben defends.

"Let's go." Kenneth says impatiently.

We then begin the trek to Townsville Center which isn't far from City Hall. Jack and Chase have no doubt opted to take a slightly longer route to avoid suspicion.

"Ben?" Liv asks. "Weren't you at this concert?"

"Yeah, I was." Ben answered. "I was pretty surprised when the Fusions showed up but with the help of Fourarms and all the other people at the concert we were able to clean up."

"Then why are we here?" Ace asks.

"There were tons of injuries and not to mention deaths at this concert." Ben explains. "Dexter was devastated by this attack, it showed Fuse could win and you know how much of perfectionist Dexter is."

"So Dexter wants us to clean up his mistakes?" I ask. "Isn't that a little shallow?"

"Well this is Dex we're talking about." Ben starts. "Besides now that we have a chance to reverse these casualties Fuse brought us."

"I think Dexter's right on this one." Kenneth agrees. "The idea that we can bring back people from the dead is too great, I know I wouldn't think about it twice."

Ace nods. "I think so too, if I could bring back Bonsai, I'd do it in a heartbeat."

"We can change the world Epic," Liv says. "When this war started we vowed to save the world from Fuse's rath and this definitely counts."

"It's not that I don't want to save these people." I sigh. "It's just I think it's a little selfish of Dexter to do this, part of me thinks that he's doing this in order to remain this perfect jewel of perfection?"

"Maybe you're right." Kenneth says. "Maybe you're wrong. The point is we were given a mission and we have to follow it to the best of our ability, whether it's by the book or not."

I smile at Kenneth's words and we reach the front of the concert. There stands a bodyguard he's a man wearing a black short sleeved shirt with a grey one under it and blue jeans with nice black shoes; he had flowing black hair and brown eyes. On his upper arm was a yellow arm band that had the word Security on it. It was none other than Kevin Levin. "Ticket please." He asks.

"Kevin?" We ask surprised.

"Yeah, yeah. I've gotten that a lot tonight." He answered. "I needed a little money and the people performing needed a bodyguard I was happy to offer my services."

"Seriously Kevin?" Kenneth asks.

"Hey a guy needs to make a living," Kevin raises his arms in defense. "Even in these tough times."

"Who was your competition?" I ask jokingly. "Argit? Or worse Sierra?"

The others chuckle at this. But Kevin then says. "Maybe…" We look at him. "Don't look at me, Argit get's these crazy jobs all the time, last I checked he was Eddy's 'muscle' in the Cul-de-sac. Then that Sierra chick from Total Drama wanted an excuse to get to the Drama Brothers, obviously to perform some kinda stunt with Cody."

"Incredible." Ace deadpanned.

"Can you just take our tickets and go?" Kenneth asked.

"Sure." Kevin responded. He then took the five tickets from Kenneth. "Enjoy the show."

We walk into the huge crowd. "So what song does the surprise attack start?" Ace asks.

"During Cody's big solo of their 'Condor' Cover." Ben replies.

"They seriously made a cover album of the Total Drama Songs?" I ask. "I thought that was a bad joke?"

"You'd be surprised how many people loved that album." Ace replies. "I have it on my IPod at home."

Kenneth shrugged. "I was wondering why you were singing a weird slow version of 'Come Fly With Us.'"

"Let's just try and enjoy the concert." Ben said. "Puffy Ami Yumi's gonna come on soon."

On the stage rises a man with wavy black hair, beady eyes and stubble on his chin; he wore a jean jacket with many pockets and beige pants along with sneakers to compliment it. The reality show host wore his usual cheesy grin but as I know would later be revealed to be the biggest coward of the night thanks to Marceline's Talk show: The Lately Bite. He was of course Chris McLean.

"Now are you guys ready to rock!" The man shouted. The crowd screamed and I joined in due to that contagious atmosphere a concert gives off. "Now you've come to see a legendary combination between Puffy Ami-Yumi!" The crowd filled with loud screams. "The Drama Brothers!" The crowd screamed louder at this. "and The one, the only, the legendary Sunny Bridges!" The crowds cheers were almost deafening at that one. "I know, I know you're all excited. Now give it up for Puffy Ami-YumI!" The crowd screamed at this and the mop headed host walked off the stage.

At that moment the two girls walked on stage. First there was Ami the sixteen year old girl was very curvy and wore the usual eighties gogo dress that slightly showed off her figure as well as the large white hoop earings she wore accompanied by the white boots she wore; she was well tanned with blue eyes and long hair that was clearly dyed pink. She blew kisses to the crowds as she held her guitar by the strap. Next to come on stage was Yumi who was the complete opposite of her partner, being in punk-rock attire, she wore a purple shirt with a skull on it (not very dissimilar to the one I usually wear) along with a black skirt that ended an inch or two above her knees accompanied by black stockings that led into her black boots; the girl like Ami had a good figure as well but was more covered up, she was of slightly paled skin, had purple eyes which were no doubt contacts to add to her image, make up under her eye that added to her whole rock star appearance and lastly purple hair also clearly died that hung down like Ami's but shorter and much messier obviously to add to her appearance. You could also notice the nanocoms on their wrists of their respective hair colors.

Ami and Yumi now took their positions on the stage, Ami at her guitar and Yumi at the drum set. Interestingly enough the drum set which was originally plain white changed to a purple and had a large black skull on it, no doubt illusionary effects created by Dexter.

"Hello Townsville!" Ami shouted. The crowd cheered. "For our first song, we were approached by Disney to create a song for the movie Wreck-it Ralph!"

The crowd cheered as a holographic protection of the movies pro-er-antago-er-Antihero was shown behind them. Never knew the movie got that much attention. "This is the theme for Sugar Rush!" Yumi confirmed.

The crowd cheered and the screen behind them changed to show the candy racing games logo as the Japanese singers played their instruments with accompaniment in the background for what the two did not play.

I smiled at this, I actually enjoyed Puffy Ami Yumi unlike the Drama Brothers, despite actually knowing the latter of the two bands. The two sang their song and I enjoyed it as they played. Kenneth just smirked with his head bobbing up and down, Liv tried to dance: despite being a genius in the garage he could use a few lessons in this subject, Ace listened intently but didn't show any emotion from it, Ben was listening intently dancing a bit (much better than Liv for that matter).

The girls continued to sing and play their instruments while a confetti canon was shot by Chris releasing various Candy's in the crowd. The crowd cheered while many people in the front reached up to grab the free Candy's.

"SUGAR RUSH!" The girls finished, and the crowd cheered.

Chris threw the Confetti canon backstage where a high pitched 'ow' was heard. Chris smirked as he licked a lollipop "Wasn't that 'sweet' guys?"

"Really McLean?" I ask. Despite that the crowds still cheer. "Who in the hell rights your lines anyways?"

"No idea." Ben replied. "But whoever it is could've been more original."

"What's next saying that Condor was a high flying song?" Ace joked. No one laughed at this. "Seriously guys? Nothing."

"Maybe it's the concert." Liv suggested.

"Yeah, you're just not that funny today." Kenneth said.

"Oh look it's the Drama Brothers!" I say pointing to the stage where the four classic Total Drama competitors stand on the stage.

The first of which was a man who had tanned skin, blue eyes, well stylized dark brown hair and well toned features, he wore an ocean blue muscle shirt, a purple scarf and blue pants. He held a tambourine in his hands and gave the crowd a winning smile that made many girlish shrieks escape from the crowd. This was Justin Komminsk who competed on seasons one and two of Total Drama and is the bands percussionist. The next was a boy with short black hair, green eyes and a decent build, he wore a white turtleneck sweater and tiny black rectangular shades that lie on the bridge of his nose as well as white pants. This was Trent Baker who competed on seasons one and two of Total Drama and was the bands guitarist. Next was a slim ginger with many freckles and a small goatee developing, he wore thick glasses that couldn't show his eye color, he wore a jumper, hat and sweatpants all in the color of black, along with that he had a massive amount of jewelry around his neck. This was Harold Foster who competed on the first three seasons of Total Drama and was the bands rapper/beat boxer. Lastly there was a scrawny boy who had nice chocolate brown hair, teal eyes and a gap between his two front teeth, he wore a nice white shirt with a red stripe running through it, khaki pants and a red hat that was turned backwards. This was Cody Anderson who appeared on the first and third seasons of Total Drama and was the bands Pianist. They all wore nanocoms as well: purple for Justin, green for Trent, blue for Harold and yellow for Cody.

"What song are they doing?" Kenneth asked.

"I don't know." Ben replied. "My memory of this is fading."

I look at Ben and ask him. "Why's that?"

"I think it's because our presence is causing the flow of time to change as we speak." Liv explains. "We're causing a shift in time making Ben who was here forget the event."

"So when is Condor starting?" Kenneth asked.

He was answered by Justin who sang. "I'm tall, I'm tan, I'm young, I'm handsome!"

"That's Condor!" Ace shouted. "If I remember correctly the Fusions swarmed the place from the rear."

"Let's go!" Kenneth commanded and the five of us move to the back of the room, weapons ready to be taken out at any moment. We reach the back of the mall and find Chase meditating on a table that has long since been abandoned. Jack stands next to him with his eyes closed and lightly bobbing his head to the music.

"So you four have finally made it." Chase smirked. "And here I thought Jack and I would have to defend this silly leisure activity on our own, why you adolescents choose to indulge in such an annoyance I will never know."

"I oooo-ooo-oooh I-I-I I've got problems with Condors!" Cody sung on the stage.

"Uh-oh." I sigh and there many Fusions come out from behind the stands swarming through the mall. Chase smirks and turns to face the Fusions leading the attack. Fuse shows off his irritating sense of humor as we come face to face with Fusions of Sunny Bridges, Ami and Yumi.

"Seriously Fuse?" I ask while drawing my sword. "Couldn't you have been more straight forward and sent out Fusion Ben or Dexter or hell even Harangue's shitty Fusion?"

"Since when does Hurangue have a fusion?" Ace asked holding the drumstick club in his hands. "Probably the biggest wimp ever, next to Chris's of course."

"Trust me you don't wanna know…" Liv replied holding out his KND gumball launcher, he put his football helmet on. "All I know is that we've gotta hold back the Fusions."

"Right!" Kenneth shouted. He then turned to Jack and Chase. "You guys take on Fusion Puffy Ami-Yumi. Ben lead people out of here! We'll deal with Sunny!"

"Make haste young warriors," Jack agreed, unsheathing his sword. "We shall rid this musical event of its Fusions in very little time!"

Kenneth then leads the way as we follow after the fusion of the famed artist who has yet to make an appearance. We run into the throng of people and see all hell has broken loose but seeing as the Fusions were the ones commanding the ambush no one yet to show a major injury.

This battle lets us see many of the people here at the concert; just as Ben stated there was the large gladiator-esque alien destroying Fusions in his wake; Duncan was seen with a broad sword glowing with green fire cutting up Fusions; Rex mowed through fusions using his smack hands; Starfire was firing many starbolts at Fusions; and we passed by Chris McLean running and screaming like an idiot blubbering something about his precious hair gel.

"Sunny's a little silent." I notice as we continue chasing after the Fusion.

Ace looks at me as well and asks. "What do you mean?"

"Like where's the whole evil villain banter?" I ask. "Where's the whole 'you'll never stop us' sort of thing that most Fusion's usually do?"

"We fought Fusion Sunny before." Kenneth said. "Did he ever say anything to us then?"

"Fusion Sunny was more of the strong silent type." Liv confirms. "Even I find it a bit weird that he doesn't like taunting his prey like most Fusions. But I guess he mirrors the real Sunny, after all the few interviews he does whether it be about the war or his music he's usually the sly and cool kinda guy."

We still chase after Fusion Sunny who holds his large green trumpet. Kenneth and Liv attempt to make shots at him but of course miss.

"Alpha strike one hundred seven!" Ace shouts in an attempt to lead us.

I insist. "Nobody understands your whole Providence coding stuff Ace!"

"Fine," He huffs. "Follow my lead!" He then runs forward and jumps his Drumstick club poised high above the Fusion's head. Fusion Sunny sees this and blows his trumpet at Ace sending a small sound wave at him that knocks him back.

I take the chance and make a slash by Sunny running past him. The Fusion matter falls from his side leaving a hole in it that quickly fills itself. The Fusion is down on his hands and knees when Kenneth and Liv return to firing on the Fusion musician.

"Svetlana!" Mike Day sung in his falsified accent flying by utilizing Dexter's technology to unleash all his multiple personalities and suppress Mal.

Ignoring that I turn back to the downed Fusion, Fusion Sunny has his straw hat tipped so we can't see the Fusion's face.

"Let's just finish him off!" Ace says.

"Ace is right let's just do it." Kenneth agrees.

"I'll take care of it." I say spinning my sword in my hands and going for the Fusion still on his hands and knees.

"Wait!" Liv calls out but I ignore him for the time being. I then bring my sword up and let it fall towards him. But the Fusion looks up at me and lets out a sonic scream knocking me back. Liv runs up to me and helps me up. "Sadly, we can't kill Fusion Sunny yet." Liv explains.

"Why not?" Kenneth asks.

"Fusion Sunny's killed by us, Buttercup and his counterpart about a month after this event." Liv explains.

"So?" I ask, getting up and using my sword as a stand.

Ace nods. "If we kill this Fusion now, it'll only cause problems for us later."

"So we can only subdue it?" Kenneth asks. "Great. That's all we need can't make a finishing blow to him."

"So the Fusion'll have to make a strategic retreat." Ace nods.

"Don't most Fusions do that anyways?" Liv asks. "I can't tell you how many times I've seen Ben and Dexter's Fusions."

"Let's get him then!" I say and make a run at the Fusion making sure not to make a fatal blow. I make a jab at the Fusions left shoulder causing its left arm to fall right out of his socket. Sunny's Fusion glares at me before shooting a glob of Fusion matter from his other hand but I spin of the way of it only to receive a sonic scream from the Fusion. I fly back at that once again and hit the ground.

I roll over to my stomach to see Buttercup flying in the sky sending a punch at a Fusion. "Seriously Fuse?" The green themed heroine said irritably. "You mess up my best friend Yumi's concert only to let you Fusion creeps get to it!"

I shrug and get up to see Ace hitting the Fusion with his club. Ace then jumps back to allow Kenneth and Liv to shoot at the Fusion (who now has his other arm grown back), Liv shooting him in the back and Kenneth shooting from the front. We take the chance to run at the Fusion together, I approach from his right, Ace from the left, Liv from behind and Kenneth .from the front.

Fusion Sunny smirks before rearing back with his arms crossed over each other. He then jumps high in the air and we hit into each other. Mildly disoriented we still look up at the Fusion. He then pulls out his trumpet and blasts us with his amplified sonic wave. This knocks us down, we're too winded from the attack to get up immediately.

The Fusion then smirks at us and takes out a green music stand covered in Fusion Matter. He then stalks towards me ever so casually and uses the stand to hold me down. The Fusion Matter on the stand burns as the three spokes that hold up the stand are covered in Fusion Matter, the acidic substance begins to burn through my clothes and threatens to bite through my skin as well. The Fusion smirks at my slight squirming at this and pushes down harder. I let out a painful scream as he pushes it down even more when all of a sudden the stand dissipates into Fusion Matter and the Fusions form melts into Fusion Matter. Out of the corner of my eye I see the Fusion Matter slither away at a quick speed, Fusion Sunny has escaped and I sigh at that glad we were able to keep the Fusion alive for now.

I look up to see the man that stopped this attack that could've killed me. He wore a purple vest over a white button down shirt as well as white dress pants that hung down and was looped by a black belt; these were accompanied by black dress shoes and a straw hat with a white stripe running around it. He was a dark skinned man who wore a casual smirk, had short black hair and chocolate brown eyes his identity was confirmed when I noticed his goatee which was black as well. This was Sunny Bridges and he had just saved me (and very possibly the rest of the team) from his Fusion's wrath.

"Damn Fusion!" Sunny uncharacteristically remarked. "Why you gotta go and ruin the concert before I even get to perform?"

Sunny then helps me up. Once on my feet he lets me stand on my own and immediately I clutch my stomach and fall to the ground, Sunny catches me before I hit the floor. "Ouch, you okay lil dude?" He asks me with concern.

I sigh. "Ya I'll be fine." He then hands me over to Kenneth who's now on his feet and surrounding me with the rest of the team.

"Better use your Blossom Nano." Kenneth explains.

"Yeah," Ace agrees. "She has an antidote ability that'll fix the Fusions Matter."

Liv still looks at me cautiously. "Yeah, but even so you better head to Dex Labs when we're done for a full check up from Noah"

I tap several buttons on my nanocom before a small orb of light shoots out of it and forms into the tiny powerpuff girl. "Blossom!" She smiles.

"Blossom, Antidote!" I command.

She laughs and fires a small orb of light at my stomach where the stinging sensation of the Fusion Matter subsides and I sigh in relief. "Ah…"

I stand up straight and smile at my nano of Blossom. "Thanks Blossom!" I give her a high five before she recedes into my nanocom.

"Well thanks Sunny." Kenneth says to the musician.

He smiles at Kenneth before bowing. "Wasn't a problem, I hate Fusions and I especially hate that horrible clone!"

We look around and see that the fleet is mostly gone but there are still some straggling Fusions that appear to be being apprehended; A green rhinoceros rammed into a group of Fusions quickly turning back into Beast Boy; Alex of the group known as the 'Totally Spies' kicked a Fusion with her high heeled boot; Raimundo flew through the throng blowing Fusions back with blasts of wind; Jake punched a Fusion with his giant fist; it was obvious though that there weren't as many Fusions as before.

"So what now?" Liv asks. "Do we attack? Do we go check on Ben or Chase and Jack? Or do we help out with the remaining Fusions?"

"I say attack." Ace answers. "Fusions need to be taught a lesson."

"Better help out with these last Fusions." Kenneth commands. "Chase and Jack can handle themselves so it would be pointless to go after them."

THUD!

A large green reptilian humanoid falls to the ground and snarls. "Lucky shot!" It says with its distorted voice before running back to face Fusion Puffy Ami-Yumi with Jack.

"Was that Chase?" I ask.

"Yeah," Ace answers. "I know I thought it was kinda scary too."

"Never mind that." Kenneth says ignoring Chase's monster form. "We've gotta take care of these remaining Fusions!"

We run into the battle together. "Epic, don't push yourself!" Liv calls out. "The antidote'll wear off after sometime and it's important that you be careful!"

"Right!" I call back to him.

We run into the throng and I keep Liv's words into consideration. Immediately I make a slash at a Fusion on my right making sure not to let it get to me. Kenneth and Liv both fire their weapons at various Fusions and Ace clubs one with his turkey leg, looking around I realize that there will be very little time until the battle is over.

I turn and make a jab for a Fusions chest making it dissipate into Fusion Matter. I feel some Fusion Matter fall on my back and turn to see Kenneth holding his weapon triumphantly, smoke coming off the barrel of his null void riffle. I then return the favor by throwing my sword at the Fusion lunging at Kenneth, the sword lands in its chest and the Fusion Matter dissipates into Finn air and drops to the floor.

Kenneth picks up my sword. "Thanks." He throws it back.

I catch it. "No problem."

We look around to see Liv and Ace Shooting/beating some Fusions. We look around and see the shopping complex completely cleared of Fusions and people returning to the concert.

"Nice work." I high five Kenneth.

Kenneth smirks. "You weren't too bad yourself."

"That was fun." Ace smirks.

"Ya it was." Liv agrees.

We smirk at this. "So is that it?" I ask.

"Yeah," Liv says. "I don't think we have any other reason to be here."

"Great so we can head home." A voice says. We turn to see Ben still wearing his ID mask.

The music starts up again and we look to see Fourarms doing the guitar opening of the song 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' with Trent, Ami and Sunny.

"Seriously Ben?" Kenneth asks.

He chuckles. "Come on… Sunny, Ami and Cody invited me on stage. I couldn't help it! Plus, everybody loves Fourarms! He's already rockstar as it is."

I just shake my head. "Sometimes you ask for too much attention Ben."

We are quickly joined by Jack and Chase (now in his human form). "I am disappointed to say the Fusions escaped."

"But that's quite alright." Chase confirms. "We need the two two-bit pop stars alive because they have yet to be defeated in the present."

"Aside from that the songs pretty good, and well fitting." I smile.

"Yep," Liv smirks. "No matter how hard Fuse gets us we still manage to come back out of it stronger than ever."

Kenneth smiles as well. "And one day we'll be able to finish this war."

"Mission accomplished." Ace smiles and we give each other high fives.

"Hit me with your best shot!" Ami and Cody sing together. "Fire away…"

I step through the portal back into Dex Labs to find Dexter crossing his arms while XANA and Computress look rather triumphant. Dexter regains his usual composure and greets us as the rest of us come through the time portal one by one.

Once we've all come out of the portal and it closes behind us Dexter announces. "Well done! I understand that the mission was a complete success with the guests only sustaining minor injuries."

"That's right Dex." Ben says, now with the ID mask off and looking like his normal self. "All that and only Sunny Bridges and a few others really saw us."

"Very good." Dexter smirks.

"Great." I say. "Now listen Dex. I kinda got burned by Fusion Matter so if it wouldn't be a bother could I go and see Doctor Hafez?"

"Yes," Dexter replies. "You may go and see Noah."

"Before you go," Computress speaks up. "Dexter has something to tell you all."

Dexter sighs. "Fine…" He mutters and reluctantly continues. "Due to the unwanted attention of Computress and XANA it has come to their concern that I overwork myself."

"Which you do." Ben and I say together.

Dexter grumbles at this but continues. "This is why I will not be working for the next week and your next mission will be handled by Computress and XANA."

"You're not going to have a replacement?" Liv asks.

"No," Dexter confirms. "They can handle it just as well as I can."

"Alright," Ace says. "Guess we'll see you in a week Dexter."

How was this chapter? Better? Worse? Gimme your thoughts cuz I really wanna make this work. Next chapter involves Scooby!

Also what are your thoughts on Fusion Sunny? Do powers and Weapons make sense? I thought it made sense to add him in there.

Sorry if Total Drama seems a little pushed, I wanted to introduce them in this chapter because this was before I did the whole shows represented thing. They will not be as pushed in chapters to come I just needed to get it in there.

Present Day Ways A/N:
So… This fic is progressively getting better which is a relief. But still not great. I really haven't read this one in a long time but it was kinda fun lol.
I have no idea why I picked Chase Young for this chapter. Maybe this was around the time he was introduced in CNSE and I wanted to write him more? I don't really know? Heck, even Jack's presence is kinda random.
I don't know why the random combination of Puffy Ami Yumi, The Drama Brothers and Sunny Bridges was a thing but it was. I am pretty sure that I didn't want to involved The Gang Green Gang cuz that involves Bella Donna and I didn't want to do that. At least, that's what I'm assuming. And then I probably couldn't think of any major Cartoon Network bands at the time?
I still don't know any Puffy Ami Yumi songs but I liked Wreck-it Ralph at the time.
And uh… The elephant in the room, Blosster stuff. I cringed so hard at the way I wrote both of them. It was a 14 year old's understanding of romance but still, my neck! The cringe! Gah! Okay, no but for real… I uh… Blosster was extraordinarily popular in the FF Community and just general Cartoon Network fandom back in the day. I rolled with that and put it in here. I have a little more to this arc that I'll probably be talking about later but for now it's a thing, it's cringe, but it will lead to a somewhat interesting arc for Dexter. But that's for later chapters.