In a void, beyond space, beyond time, beyond existence, was a council table with all the inter dimensional beings and watchers. There was Death, Manny, K, The White Wolf, the Axolotl and The Guardian.
They were all sitting across from one another while the Axolotl sat in between the three separate seats with one notably missing.
They were currently sitting with a plate of bagels right in front of them. Everyone but K was impatient since he was busy trying to come up with a marvellous potentially life threatening concoction. The bagel was stacked in-between waffles, chocolate, nachos, rocky road ice cream and jelly beans.
"Say hello council members." K declared. "To the Heart Killer. A bagel stacked with all my favourite life threatening treats…" He then deep fried The Heart Killer in a deep fryer he had nearby and then pulled it back out, to reveal his concoction covered in deep batter. "Mmmm." He took a bite out of it and exhaled happily. "Mmmmmm….Ooooooh."
"Uh! Where is he?!" Death exclaimed. "We have a lot of issues we need to discuss and he is late!"
"Patience, Death." The White Wolf said. "He will be here in a few minutes."
"Oh, so you can tell me how long someone will be yet you can't tell us what was going to happen to Belos?!" Death asked angrily.
"What is he doing?" Manny asked The Guardian.
The Guardian closed their eyes. "He is annoying the King of the Mewman Underworld."
"Again?!" Manny sighed. "I feel really sorry for him. Being a Dad and the king of a place of eternal damnation does not sound easy."
"He is really making him self conscious." The Guardian sighed.
"Poor guy." Death shook his head. "But still, we don't have time!"
"We do." The Wolf retorted.
Death groaned. "When will they attack?!"
"Soon for us to finish." The Wolf replied.
"How soon?" Death asked.
"You can't foresee time like I can."
Death growled in anger and began to eat his plain bagel. "Unbelievable! Sometimes I swear you're messing with me."
And suddenly, with a pop and a fizz, The Beyonder appeared on the empty seat. "Sorry I'm late." The Beyonder said. "Dealing with Devil Boy."
"Time is off the essence, Beyonder!" Death exclaimed while he put his feet on the table.
"Yeah! Yeah! Hey Manny, how you doing?" The Beyonder asked.
"Fine." He replied while shrugging his shoulders. "Little terrified."
Then, the Axolotl began flowing upwards as a means to get everyone's attention. "Hear ye, hear ye. Guardians one of all, it's time we stand tall. For what I fear will return. Beings who only seek to burn. The Archivists."
Everyone, including the Beyonder looked fearful. "Ooooh boy, so it's come?"
"Three mortals from the same universe died via power beyond their comprehension and coming back." The White Wolf said.
"Sweetheart, the readers know already." The Beyonder said.
The Guardian coughed. "Axolotl, the humans known as Anne Boonchuy, Luz Noceda and Dipper Pines all were resurrected from great power."
"And why did you go with that ultimatum again?" Death asked.
"I thought it wouldn't happen, ever!" The Guardian exclaimed.
"But the inevitable arrival took longer than I expected." K remarked. "Fourteen years."
The Axolotl sighed. "We shall discuss that as our final discussion before I get a concussion. Summoning from the Mewman underworld, King Tom Lucitor."
Then, a fire emitted from an empty seat and a light purple man with red stubble, three eyes, two horns, a black tuxedo holding a baby carrier. And beside him was a woman with dark blue hair, tanned skin, a black pyjama shirt and a pair of red pyjama shorts. The man appeared to be wearing a baby carrier with a black haired baby in it.
"Seriously Janna, couldn't you have dressed something a bit more formal?" Tom asked his wife.
"I would have if there was more preparation." Janna retorted with a deadpan expression.
"Look Janna, just say something formal you can wear and I'll snap it into existence." Tom said.
Janna smiled smugly. "Well, at least you're getting me to decide. Okay, that black dress."
"Which one?" Tom asked. "Your whole wardrobe is black."
"The one that shows a little skin." Janna suggested with a grin. "A little chest, a little butt, a little midriff, a little thigh, a little ankle, a little back, a little stomach…"
"Alright! Keep the pyjamas on." Tom sighed.
"Thank you." Janna sat on the seat and began to eat a bagel. "Oooh, this is a good bagel."
"Alright." Tom sat down on his chair. "This is my first time here so tell me what's going on. I have to visit her in-laws at some point today. And trust me, they're really excited to see Sindy again."
"Oh, Tom." Janna said. "It's Sindy's feeding time."
"Right." Tom handed his daughter to his wife, whom began to make some cooing noises.
The Axolotl cleared his throat. "King Lucitor. Do you know what you're here for?"
"Some of the damned souls I have in the Underworld have suddenly vanished." Tom replied.
"And is that bad?" Manny asked.
"Well, depending on the soul they might just wanna leave because they're tired of being tortured." Tom said. "And I'll be honest, I'm a planning to rehabilitate those souls after seeing some streaming show that my wife made me watch."
"Correction, you made me watch it." Janna retorted as she began to lift her shirt up to feed Sindy.
"Right, right, I do have a list on the souls who have escaped." Tom handed the list to Death who began to read the names out loud.
"Okay…Bill, Odalia Blight, Granem, Barry 'The Candy Frog' Greenwood, Adrian Grey, Jacob Hopkins, Jane Kikimora, Aldrich Leviathan, Hugo Malsacc, Preston Northwest, Tibbles Pigsty, Comet Prestige, Terra Snapdragon, Tarok, Philip Wittebane, Clyde 'The Shapeshifter' Xylbit and Jonathan Yohan." Death sighed. "Wow, that's a lot of souls. How did they escape?"
"I don't know, that's what we're trying to find out." Tom replied. "It's like one minutes they were there and then the next, they vanished without a trace."
"Most odd." The Axolotl remarked. "Why wasn't it a guy named Todd?"
"Okay, are you actually asking or do you just like rhyming?" Janna asked as she breastfed her daughter.
"Do you need to do that here?" The Guardian asked, looking disgusted. "I'm eating my bagel."
"You try being a Mom and your baby is constantly hungry." Janna retorted. "Don't shame me."
"Is there anything else we need to discuss?" Manny asked.
"With the Archivists incoming, we should bring them in with a little bit of summoning." The Axolotl replied.
"Again with the rhyming!" Janna complained.
"Where are they right now?" K asked The Guardian.
The Guardian's eyes wandered a bit making them look a bit durpy. That was until, they got back to being straight and nodded their head. "He is on PartAy!"
"Oooooh, PartAy!" Beyonder exclaimed. "The party planet of the multiverse! They have beads as well. Though I had to flaunt some of my stuffs to gain them."
Janna's eyes lit up. "Can I come?"
Death groaned. "Are you done breastfeeding?"
Tom sighed. "She sometimes likes to breastfeed to make people uncomfortable. Never knew Death was the uncomfortable type."
"Let's get back to business." The White Wolf said. "Beyonder, summon him."
The Beyonder snapped his fingers and from the sky fell a familiar someone. They crash landed on the table with a thud. It looked like a 13 year old boy with a half yellow and half blue face with star and moon crescents all over their face.
It turned out to be The Collector, whom appeared to have some whipped cream around their mouth. "I don't know what I did but I have no regrets!" He stood up on the table and looked around the people that were now staring at them. "Um…Who are you?"
"Listen Collector, time is off the essence so here's a character sheet so you're all caught up." The Beyonder summoned a sheet of paper that he handed to The Collector.
The Collector quickly read the sheet and smiled. "Okey dokey. Thank you Beyonder. So, why am I here?"
"Collector, time is off the essence. Your brothers are about to make their presence." The Axolotl said.
"My brothers?!" The Collector exclaimed in shock. "I haven't seen them in almost thousands of years! How are they?!"
"Pissed?" Janna guessed.
"Oh yeah, they're totally mad." K replied.
"Being imprisoned for thousands of years will do that." The Guardian remarked.
"Collector, we need you to assist us." The Axolotl said. "So please do not fuss. But your brothers will turn all life into dust. So, you need to do what you must."
The Collector looked alarmed. "I feel like I was thrown into this unexpectedly. Francois is probably waiting for me."
"Collector, the entire multiverse will be doomed by your brothers unless something is done." The Guardian said. "They will destroy everyone. Luz, Anne, Dipper, Eda, Amity and King. They will be destroyed unless we can do something."
The Collector looked unsure about it but when he heard that their friends would be in danger, their eyes lit up. "They might be my family, but if anyone hurts my friends then I will teach them some manners."
Janna pulled her shirt down implying she had finished feeding her kid. "Wow, friends over family. That's some bold stuff."
"What if there's a chance you can't beat them?" Tom asked.
"Beyonder." The Axolotl said.
The Beyonder summoned three gemstones, similar to the Calamity gems. One of them was blue while the second was white and the third was purple.
Everyone's eyes lit up with awe at the sight of the stones. "Woooah!" Sindy exclaimed in her baby carrier.
"Wait, those are my stones!" The Guardian exclaimed in anger.
"No! No! No! The blue one is yours." The Beyonder said. "The purple and white are mine. Purple represents ingenuity and the white represents resistance. I shall send these out in case our battle with the Archivists doesn't go well. Speaking of, White Wolf, think you can tell us how the battle will go down?"
The White Wolf sighed. "I can't."
Death sighed. "Of course you can't. You always keep everything from us!"
"No, I can't see the outcome." The White Wolf replied.
Everyone looked surprised. "What?!" The Guardian exclaimed. "What do you mean?! No outcome?!"
Death nervously laughed. "You're kidding, right?"
"But you see everything." K pointed out. "You saw how Hailey saves the future."
"Abruptly I might add." Manny said.
"Please, for the sake of my daughter, tell me you're joking." Tom pleaded.
"No. Something more powerful is blocking my vision." The White Wolf replied. "All I see is darkness after Tom and Janna leave due to the Archivists arrival."
"So, now you tell us something?!" Death yelled out angrily.
"Do you have any idea what is blocking your vision?" Manny asked.
"Something powerful." The White Wolf replied. "Something that doesn't want us to see how it will end."
"That will be the writer." The Beyonder replied. "Seriously man, just tell us the outcome!"
"Wait, why do me and Janna leave?" Tom asked. "I could stay and fight!"
"A: You want to watch the Earthni underworld to prepare for battle." The White Wolf replied. "And B: Your daughter will make a mess in her diaper."
Janna's eyes went wide and she picked up her daughter from her carrier. She sniffed her and pulled a disgusted look on her face. "Uh…Yup! She crapped herself."
Suddenly, they heard a noise coming from above them. Up above were a bunch of stars, galaxies, quasars, black holes, supernovas, suns and random bits of space debris. And around them, was a strange swirl that was a mix of yellow, purple, orange and green.
"They're here." The White Wolf said. "The Archivists are here."
Tom stood up as he narrowed his eyes at the portal. "We have to go."
"Good." Janna said. "Because I didn't bring the diapers."
Janna stood next to her husband while holding her smelly daughter and turned to the council. "Farewell council. Hope to never come to one of your meetings again."
"Janna!" Tom chided towards his wife. "Not to their face!"
"Remember, this is why you fell in love with me." Janna reminded her husband.
Tom soon summoned the flames that sent him, his wife and his daughter back to the underworld so they could protect it.
Once they were gone, everyone in the council stood up as they stared at the swirling portal right above them. Manny and K looked to the Axolotl with worry.
"Get to hiding." The Axolotl commanded. "Or otherwise your organs will be grinding."
Manny and K nodded their heads before making their way out of the chamber by running down the stairs.
"That last sentence did not make sense." K said.
"I swear, he's always desperate to rhyme." Manny remarked.
Once K and Manny left, it was just The Beyonder, Death, The Collector, The Guardian, The White Wolf and the Axolotl. The remaining celestial beings looked up to the swirling colourful portal with determination and readiness.
The Beyonder cracked his knuckles and then his eyes lit up. "Fellas, I just have an idea." A lightbulb suddenly appeared over his head. Then, he took the levitating lightbulb and attached it to a nearby Vespa. "I should have thought of this sooner."
"Are you really about to use a Vespa as a weapon?" The Wolf asked.
"Nope, as a getaway vehicle!" He jumped on it and revved the engine.
"Hey! Where the hell are you going?!" Death exclaimed.
"I'm important!" Beyonder replied before him and his Vespa shot up into the cosmos, disappearing from sight.
The rest of the Celestials froze in shock and horror over what The Beyonder just did. "Did he just abandon us?" The Guardian asked.
"What a jerk!" The Collector exclaimed.
"We can take them." The White Wolf said.
"Everyone here. Quiet down and get into gear." The Axolotl said. "They are here."
And from the portal came four figures of different varying colours. They landed in front of the four with a ginormous blast. As the smoke cleared, the Archivists were revealed. Each of them appeared to be wearing different coloured pyjamas that each represented their One of them had a half yellow and half red face with black hole freckles and quasars on their pyjamas.
The one with the half purple and white face had what looked to be a supernova as freckles and a drawings of galaxies as pyjamas.
The one with the half orange and half black and had galaxies as freckles and a full moon on his pyjamas.
And the one with the half green and half brown had a solar system for freckles and what looked like an explosion on their pyjamas.
"Hi, Beyonder here! Just taking over writing to explain who's who. The one with the half green and half brown is the Architect, the one who will redesign your Face if you insult them; The one with the half orange and half black is the Analyst; They're the more analytical members who prefers to see every fight through geeky analytics. Ooooh, we could have them and Luenella in a chess game! But this one…Ooooh yellow and red over here is The Soverign, the leader of the Archivists. Anyway, I best be off. See you in the next chapter!"
The Soverign gave a childish laugh. "Axolotl, Axolotl, did you think you could keep us trapped? I tell ya, it was rather cramped." The Soverign groaned. "That's you! That's you, Axolotl. The rhyming gets really tedious."
"Soverign, you and your brothers are too chaotic." The Axolotl said. "Your personalities are too neurotic."
"Gggggg, there you go at it again!" The Anarchist screamed in anger.
"I could redesign your brain to diminish your rhythmic dialect." The Architect suggested.
The Collector narrowed his eyes at his brothers in anger. "Brothers…"
The Anarchist grinned. "Brother, you've escaped. Impossible. Only a Titan could have done that."
"Unless, one of the Titans happened to have left an offspring in an environment where we can not touch it." The Analyst theorised. "There was a 11% chance of that happening after all."
"You will not claim his soul." The Guardian said as they narrowed their eyes.
"It might please Death." The Soverign remarked.
"I wouldn't have given a damn if it was anyone else." Death said. "But, since it was you four, I felt sickness taking their souls."
"You were disappointed when you couldn't claim Craig's soul." The Wolf remarked.
"I still had a job to do." Death responded.
"We will stop you. There is nothing you can do." The Axolotl said.
"Let's put it to the test." The Soverign said before tossing a black hole freckle to Death's head, causing him to be turned into a puppet.
Every celestial gasped in shock. "Oh my frog!" The Guardian said.
"You just puppetfied Death himself!" The White Wolf exclaimed.
The Soverign flicked the Death puppet into a nearby black hole. "That way things would be fair for either of us."
"Liars, you don't play fair!" The Collector shouted.
"What's so fun about being consistent?" The Soverign asked.
"Detain them before they cause harm. For once in my life I am not calm!" The Axolotl exclaimed.
Then, The Collector summoned his star and began flying upwards in the cosmos sky. The Sovereign grinned before hovering upwards, following their brother.
The Axolotl began flying upwards in a swimming motion and began firing laser beams from the tentacles on their head towards the Architect.
The Wolf pounced towards the Analyst, whom just took a step to the right, somehow causing the Wolf to miss them.
The Anarchist zipped towards The Guardian and tackled them straight into space. The Guardian began shooting the colours of their gemstones from their eyes, trying to shoot the Anarchist.
They however, just kept zipping left, right, forward, back, lengthways, sideways and width ways. They tossed what looked to be a train chugging towards the Guardian, who just their power to turn into some kind of wall, causing the train to explode on impact.
The Anarchist grumbled and snapped his finger, tossing waves of what looked to be supernovas straight towards them.
Then, the Guardian turned into a wormhole that sucked up the supernova. The Anarchist dived into the wormhole intent on getting to the heart of the Guardian.
But instead, the wormhole shape changed into what looked like the Owl Beast who then spat them up into an owl pellet.
"Give it up. I created you after all." The Guardian said.
Meanwhile, the Analyst was still continuing his duel with the wolf. The wolf growled at the Analyst, whom was sitting on the table eating a bagel.
The Wolf growled in annoyed anger. "That's my bagel."
"Did not see your name on it." The Analyst retorted as he began to analyse the wolf's next move.
"White Wolf. Age: Over a billion years old. Powers: Foreseeing the future yet they're not in effect at the moment. Contrivance? Or something else? Analyse fighting pattern. Eyes narrowed forward, it's likely I'm the intended target. Hind legs, slightly bent, pouncing possibly imminent. Teeth are showing with a spec of drool dripping from their gum, possibly intent on tearing me to shreds because they know the danger I pose. Good, they aren't underestimating me. It's more fun when they underestimate me. Emit powerful blast from chest, sending her flying backwards. Or perhaps she lands on her feet. Ironic, considering she's a dog. Let's see which calculation is correct."
The White Wolf pounced in the direction of the Analyst, who fired a powerful blast into her chest. She flew backwards, where she crashed on the floor with a ear piercing screeching scrape.
The Analyst grinned. "I like it when my predictions come together."
Up in the cosmos sky, the Axolotl and the Architect were staring at each other with either intense stares or just blank emotionless stares.
"I'll rearrange your voice!" The Architect exclaimed.
"You know you cannot beat me." The Axolotl said. "No matter how much you want it to be."
"How about I rearrange your voice?" The Architect twirled their finger in an attempt to rearrange him, but they couldn't. This caused the Architect to be annoyed at how inefficient his powers were against him.
"Uh! Why can't I stop you?!" The Architect yelled.
"Because I'm far more powerful than you realise." He replied before blasting a powerful blast from his tentacles that they dodged.
Then, the Architect span their finger and pointed it towards the cosmos where a meteor shower came crashing towards the direction of the Axolotl, whom was mainly impervious. The Architect groaned in anger before they went to tackle the Axolotl.
Meanwhile, The Collector and the Sovereign were staring each other down. "You know we're equally as powerful?" Soverign asked.
"I don't care!" The Collector's eyes flashed red. "Because you'll pay for what you intend to do to King."
"So, they have a name?" The Sovereign grinned. "You care for them."
The Collector clenched their fists before emitting what looked like a wave of water towards their direction. The Soverign caught the water before turning it into a ball and freezing it.
He tossed it at their brother who just summoned a baseball bat. He hit the ice with a powerful strike that sent the ball flying into the Soverign's open mouth.
They made a choking motion for a brief moment like he was choking on every last bit of life on them. Then, they opened their mouth and sprayed fire out of their mouth like they were a dragon.
The Collector deflected the fire back at them with a powerful force push. Then, the Sovereign snapped the fire into smoke and shaped the smoke into what looked like harpoon spears.
The Collector then turned the smoke of spears into what looked like a cloud that shot lightning towards them.
The Sovereign lifted their robe to reveal a mirror that bounced the lightning towards the Collector, causing them to get hit.
The Collector in anger, spread his hands out and then extended their size so they could clap his brother into his grasp.
They let them go to reveal that the Sovereign's entire body was mangled and broken. They eventually cracked their body back into position and growled.
"We are definitely equally matched." He said. "As one anyway."
He looked down at the floor where he saw the White Wolf charging towards the Analyst for another attack.
"Come on Analyst, you can just turn her into a pup." The Soverign snapped their finger and the wolf turned into a wolf cub.
The wolf cub licked their paws and made a yawn before falling asleep on the floor. The Analyst grumbled like a jealous child while the Guardian gasped.
"I was going to do that." The Analyst grumbled.
"NOOOO!" The Collector was about to help the Wolf. That was until, The Sovereign wrapped a lasso around their neck while the Analyst flew up to start beating him up.
"Hang on Collector!" The Guardian was about to help by shape changing into their true form.
"Oh, no you don't!" The Anarchist made a circle and summoned a black hole.
"Uh oh." The Guardian said before being sucked into it instantly.
"Enjoy being torn into pieces!" The Anarchist laughed before emitting two fireballs from their hands and tossed them towards The Collector.
He freed himself from his ropes and blocked the fire from hitting him. That was until, the Analyst held him by the neck with his arm.
"There is a chance of you escaping my grasp in approximately 15 seconds unless someone holds him by his arms."
The Anarchist grabbed their brothers by his arms causing The Collector to feel like he couldn't escape.
The Axolotl watched on with sadness in his eyes, seeing The Collector struggle like that. The Architect summoned a supernova from their hands and turned into a ginormous fireball that he was about to use against the celestial amphibian.
"I will rearrange you!" The Architect screamed.
"Architect!" The Sovereign interjected him. "Take care of our brother while I'll have a word with the Axolotl."
The Architect, wanting to beat the amphibian, narrowed his eyes at them before floating towards his siblings so they could beat up his brother.
While The Sovereign moved up to the Axolotl, whom was watching the Collector being punched, kicked and blasted by their brothers with a pained expression.
The Sovereign stared at the Axolotl with a glare. "Come on Axolotl, do you have a rhyme to stop me? Don't you have a rhyme to save The Collector?" He laughed as his eyes sparked with electricity.
"I know we are equally powerful Sovereign. I could take you and your brothers on without a win." The Axolotl said. "There will be no victor for this fight. So I shall save him with all my might."
His eyes, tentacles and veins began to glow a bright green before he hovered upwards. The Sovereign stared at the Axolotl with fear which made every one of the brothers stop beating up the Collector, whom was covered in bruises.
The leader of the Archivists tried to shoot The Axolotl with their power but the celestial amphibian was way more powerful than the Archivist.
"Brothers form into one, when they do their battle is won. But when powerful mortals and immortals merge, than they will be a powerful surge." The Axolotl began to hover above the Archivists. "Beyonder if you can hear, pass them the stones that they fear. Collector, you will arrive for when the day is dawning. And when you do, give them this warning. The multiverse is in grave peril. Hurray and prepare before they get feral." Then, the Collector was surrounded by a green energy and began floating, causing his brothers to shiver with fear. "Onward to the Realm you go. Let them heed my warning without a no."
Then, the Collector got swung into the stars like he got flicked with a celestial finger. The last thing the Archivists heard before he vanished with a bright flash into the stars.
The Archivists turned around to narrow their eyes at the Axolotl. "What were those words?"
"Though no one will come out on top, rest assured they will put a stop. A stop on your depravity. Now, watch out for gravity." And just as the Archivists blinked, the Axolotl suddenly vanished.
They were startled by this that they backed up a bit as they heard his mischievous and ancient laughter.
The Sovereign, despite being afraid put on a tough and stoic look and looked to his brothers. "Analyst?"
The Analyst closed their eyes. "I have not a clue. But he was right. I analysed every outcome to the fight, we would have fought for eternity."
"Perhaps he's given up!" The Anarchist laughed. "Thrown away a towel!" He laughed even harder.
"Should we be fearful?" The Architect asked his brother.
"No." The Sovereign replied. "Fear is what he wants us to feel. So, I suggest we just get out, travel to a multiverse and have our playtime." The Sovereign smiled sinisterly while his brothers did the same thing. "Who will even stop us?"
