Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
In an alternative timeline, Kronika fully won against Liu Kang, decapitated him, and went back to sculpting her timeline. No true New Era happened in this case, except her design.
Still with her crown, Kronika continues to do her duty... of perfect the timeline, of course. Then she saw... something forbidden.
"Bring the Hourglass. You're welcome." It was Travis Touchdown viewing before Liu Kang.
"How? How could this be?" Kronika is shocked. "Let's me check back my timeline..."
Kronika checked the logs inside the Hourglass, but nope. Nothing's too aberrant even for any threat's standard to her.
Relieved, Kronika continued her duty. Some (literal) time later, Kronika saw the next vision...
"Welcome to One Reincarnated Army Corps. We're here to help the CXA save the existence from the Order." Turns out, it was the O.R.A.C. recruiting the Fire God and his champions.
The sand receded (again), but Kronika is freaked out. Even more than previously.
"What!? How could this?!" Kronika is in denial. "Liu Kang... meeting up with further aberrations? How?"
Kronika checked the Hourglass again. Nothing's wrong, apparently.
"You've got to be freaking me up." Kronika dismissed, and resumed work. "If Liu Kang, the 'chosen one', don't exist... those strangers cannot exist."
Completely unaware of the multiverse before her, let alone it being on the fritz when Titan Shang Tsung attacked Liu Kang's New Era, Kronika continues to shape her timeline to her image.
Then again, she eventually got this: Liu Kang and co. joining the CXA, bringing Kado Thorne and co. to them, and upgrading their Hourglass.
"The Hourglass... those aberrations... How!?" Kronika panicked. "No. It can't be!"
Kronika checked yet again, but the Hourglass didn't malfunction. Nothing's wrong with the making of her timeline.
"Phew! They don't exist, that's why." Kronoka resumed work. "If I see anything like that or these again, I will... ugh!"
Kronika did for a while. The Hourglass was okay... until this, after a while, is shown.
"That's why we must unite! The Order is like a reality unto themselves, but in the form of a deranged army of-" Titan!Kitana is kicked down.
"You're right... but so is Kitana." Liu Kang got up. "Isn't that a key is?"
Superboy-Prime blitzed to Liu Kang and prepared a punch. "What?"
"Superman." Liu Kang spoiled the old secret. "All he is... a shot in the dark."
Antenna started firing, the 'fork' engaged, both at the same time Superboy-Prime ready...
"Retcon... PUNCH!!!!!" Superboy-Prime punches Liu Kang.
-*crack* A tiny stream of sand briefly spurted into Kronika's face.
"NOOOOOWWW!!!!!" Titan!Raiden is burned with the original Anti-Life Equation, courtesy of Darkseid who won. Titan!Lao activated the device and jumped.
Feeling jumpscared, Kronika panicked and wailed. The Hourglass vibrated, and the sand floats. And... *surges* A rift bursted the Hourglass, exploding it and riding the entire timeline as a result.
"No! No! No no no no no!" Kronika picks up the crown and fled.
The rift exploded, bursting her reality and sent her out. There she is now, in the same space filled with purple and clouds... and littered by things from several points of worlds and time.
"What the..." Kronika, with her hand hooking the crown. "No. What?"
"The battery's still going!" A man using a Macbook Pro with M3. Cue a rift bringing him out.
"Huh?" Kronika floating.
A few dozens of pieces of Geno flew through the Titaness, and then she saw Lyra Osstrand of Ossuary bumping on an ATK (All-Terrain Kart) occupied by a Looper, and a Rocket on its way sunder Athena the Island (Chapter 1), then a rift spawning a Smash Ball.
She reached for the Smash Ball, but it flew out and then a cardboard box filled with comic books - originally housing the power of Access - carried by the Infinite Drift Unit.
Kronika floated through a window, and tried to use her powers. She couldn't, because it went haywire due to a combination of both the rift and the breaking of the Hourglass, the latter of which would've eventually killed her for good.
"Oh crap!"
A few stupid monkeys trapped in a Baller (the vehicle) crashed at a piece of the Mothercrystal, and then a butterfly about to be crushed has flew straight into an alternative Loot Lake island never got the chance to liquefy... that rifted Kronika out of the way and onto middle of a ton of ball-crystallized wishes.
"Hi." Garfield the cat floating around, greeted.
Props from both Vandelay Industries and Vandelay Technologies flew past Kronika, followed by a coffin of Riku, the original Kuuga, and then cyberpsycho getting chased by a Looper riding a (literal) rocket missile, and Pariah's machine and a Niflheim soldier wearing a World Cup outfit (for some reason)... and finally...
"Cetrion?" Kronika recognized her, and... "Shinnok?!"
Cetrion angrily showed Shinnok's head to her mother, as the latter then falls straight to a rift.
Kronika falls down, east to the actual Loot Lake, and lands on top of an ATK, and bounced off, dropping her crown.
Not long after, someone picked up the crown and woke her up.
"Miss, it's your... toy. Wake up." It was a royal boy with spiky hair. "Are you sleeping?"
"Ugh..." Kronika woke up.
The Island is briefly shaken. The boy looked at the way leading to Dusty Divot, and Kronika got up.
"What the..." Kronika then noticed her crown. "Hey, it's mine!"
Kronika snatched the crown back, and the boy then took a blade out of thin air: an engine-attached sword summoned from mere shining nano-crystals of sorts, accompanied by a glowing rune on the boy's back.
But the boy didn't fight her back. Rather, he's prepared against whatever caused the quake. The Island quaked again, and Kronika looked back to the Lake. It was actually still Season OG, and the Zero Point is still there, under the mini-island with Kevin the Cube attached (like the one on the space, after all), albeit again with the past things on top of that.
"Oh well... there's so much..." Kronika then looked at the boy. "Who are you, punk freak? I am Kronika, the Titan, Keeper of Time. I was forging a timeline in my own image... then a rift broke the Hourglass. And then, I floated into here, and fell down on a... kart with roof."
"Follow me." The boy rushed to the Dusty.
"Fine." Kronika wear the crown and followed.
The two ran to Dusty, and saw something peculiar for all standards here: 'a giant dimensional running fork' is in the middle of the massive crater, all the tree in the crater has been destroyed completely, and... three figures are fighting each other, which caused the quake and destroyed the tree. The rocket and construction and the meteor are still there, but has been littered with chunks of Kronika's Earthrealm around the former's construction and on top of latter, respectively.
"I recognize these chunks. Earthrealm. Mine." Kronika spotted them. "My goodness... my Hourglass is gone!"
"I'm not even sure... I just saw some darkness decaying the trees there..." The boy replied. "I sees light... the souls of the dead. They-"
The Island quakes yet again, this time also causing Kronika to briefly hallucinate.
"What? These..." Kronika had a flashback of the three great Crises: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis. "Some of these... I dealt with."
"I feel like... a memory storm." The boy commented. "Let's get down there."
"Dark-sided matter, fan matter, no no." It was Anti-Monitor who erased all of infinite for eternity.
"You are nothing in front of Darkseid. Reality Is." It's Darkseid who won and destroyed all 52 and ruled over the remains for eons.
"You're a bunch of walking Crises!" And it's Superboy-Prime who defeated the heroes and got his way. "Why won't you yield at my world of hope!"
This three way fight is screwing things up, though the fight hasn't lasted long enough to affect anything outside Dusty, especially the rocket (with the Time Machine strapped).
"Oh my god..." The boy is surprised, as he teleported near the fighting. "Could we... warp off... oh no..."
"This area is full of matter!" Anti-Monitor then spotted the boy. "There they are! Another being of matter!"
"MATTERRRRR!!!" Beings made of anti-matter charged at the boy, who immediately... warped.
The boy teleported to evade the beings, while the three fight each other. Kronika is unnerved, and teleported to the site.
"I can use my powers again?"
So Kronika froze everyone in place, in time. The beings are frozen, and appeared as a statue of white void. The three Crises bad-guys are frozen as well.
Kronika approaches the boy, and unfroze him, saving the spiked hair one from anti-matter.
"Thank you, miss Kronika." The boy formally responded.
"Damn. Let's get out."
The two then teleported and paused, resuming the beings. This annoyed Anti-Monitor.
"Now we get to the meteor." Kronika conjured a wave of sand around her and the boy.
The two teleported to the meteor, and landed on top of it... or more precisely, a mixed chunk of suburban and country. The two then met... a precious blonde girl.
"Noctis!" The girl, as the sand cleared up.
"You're?" Kronika noticed the girl.
"Stella Nox Fleuret." The boy introduced the girl. "I'm the Prince, Noctis Lucis Caelum, of Lucis, Insomnia."
"I don't really know any of you." Kronika admitted. "I'm the Keeper of Time, perfecter of timeline. My name is Kronika, and I am a Titan."
"I don't know this place. Not at all." Stella admitted.
"Me neither." Noctis(?) agreed. "This works is too strange. "It's neither Insomnia nor Niflheim."
"I can't help it. I don't know this place either." Kronika admitted. "I've never been in this... island before. Not at all."
"Why is this island so weird?" Stella wondered.
Liu Kang climbs onto the chunk, and is accompanied by his Fire and Lightning counterpart. Both are carrying their respective Kitana on the way. The two couples stand up and lands on the freakish remains of Kronika's Earthrealm.
"This was Earthrealm. Seems like it landed on this... meteor." Liu Kang then saw Kronika. "Wait..."
"You... you're..." FnL!Liu Kang recognized her.
"You..." Both Kitanas spotted the Titaness.
"You four... were two I dealt with... How in the..." Kronika is shocked. "You! How could you still be...!"
"Kronika. We meet again." Both Liu's recalled.
"How!?" Kronika is afraid. "How could you survive twofold?!"
"Well... I got a sample of the Anti-Life Equation. For comparison's sake." Titan!Raiden too, accompanied by Titan Kung Lao. "Oh... it's you, Kronika. The Titan."
"Not you too!" Kronika panicked, and neatly trips down off the meteor.
Noctis(?) teleported and carried the Titaness, preventing her from falling.
"Ok... so the device... broke. It blown up, and suddenly, I was on the Island. Yet again." Titan!Lao throws the now-exploded Portal Device away. "Well... Kronika. We're in danger, because of the Order of the Pariah. And we need to work together, assembling an overwhelming army across existence, and fight them like it's literally The End."
"I know how to recruit people. We already assembled a multiverse's worth to fight someone... who'd have had usurped you and fight me." Liu Kang revealed. "He is... my Shang Tsung. And as of late, he's returned yet again. Remember when he took... your crown?"
"What?!" Kronika is shocked.
"Thanks goodness the retcon saved us both." Keeper Kitana giggles.
"We have no choice but to work together as an overwhelming army." FnL!Liu Kang explained. "Normally I'd destroy you and end your era, but the Order is destroying all versions of all existence... with a chair."
"What chair? What does it has to do with anything?" Kronika is dumbfounded.
"The Mobius Chair. Normally giving knowledge and awareness power, it's rigged lately and is to be used with the evolution of Anti-Life Equation." FnL!Liu Kang continued. "I was told of all that and more by my other version. Do I need to give you the files?"
"We don't know, so yeah." Noctis(?) agreed.
"I vouch for this boy. And that girl." Kronika agreed as well.
The three is given the files of CXA about O.R.A.C., its story and findings, and supplements by CXA themselves.
"Continuum Exploitation Authority, or CXA for short." Liu Kang expositing. "Oh wait... my gizmo recognizes two of you."
"What?" Noctis(?) asked.
"You two are similar to both versions of each of you... but you're neither those royal duo nor some pastiches thereof." Liu Kang revealed. "But you're still both from... a fantasy based on reality."
"You mean..." Noctis(?) caught on.
"Yes, you're of Versus epic. Versus, if Noctis will." Liu Kang pointed it out.
"I see... there may be other me... and other Stella..." Versus!Noctis admitted.
"There is two each. You could be the True King, or Yozora." Liu Kang responded. "For Stella, it's Lunafreya the Oracle, or Strelitzia."
"What about the three I and Noctis met?" Kronika pointed at the crater.
The other Titans take a look, and confirmed...
"It's the three. Anti-Monitor, Superboy-Prime, and Darkseid. Who all won." Titan!Raiden revealed. "Looks like we've caught up to them after Prime punched reality itself."
The group teleported down to Dusty, and confronted the three.
"You. Why did you evade oblivion?" Anti-Monitor called the group out. "You're all matter."
"You. How come you group?" Superboy-Prime noticed the group.
"Darkseid don't care, because reality Is." Darkseid attempts to ambush both.
"Stop!" Liu Kang briefly bursts in flame, causing the the to stop fighting altogether. "We have an important matter."
"Just why are you fighting?" Versus!Noctis questioned.
"I am Crisis." The three responded in unison.
"We work together, or we're all doomed." FnL!Liu Kang brought it up. "To the rocket we go!"
To be continued...
