Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.

Morning, day 18...

"It's morning. This would be my free time." Ariem called the unified army back to waking world. "Wake up!"

Everyone got up, all survived the ruins of the Reverie.

"Alright... I remember I fixed the Dormancy Protocol." Tails recalled. "Sounds like you're good. You now have the dream powers back, but the existing limitations still retained."

"Alright, with the shutdown, my powers became inert, even with you allowing creatures to enter." Ariem noted. "Now I remember it clearly! That false Amy Rose beat me up by taking advantage of the power inertia while the time limit goes!"

"Just how quickly did Nightmare Rose cripple you during the sleep?" Amy groaned. "That evil me also killed Wizeman, and she took his power! Most likely she used said power to break you."

"That's personal." Reala admitted.

"Ok, time to create breakfast." Volnutt got the Prismatic Zapotron, and created the breakfast meals. "Anyways... I didn't tell any of you about how the dream serum are made."

"Cyber-corrupted Magination... that amber liquid being duped by Cyber Space..." Ariem revealed. "She found out how to create and extract them by... merging Cyber Space with the dream worlds. Even Reverie."

"Nightmare Fuel absorbing the cyber-corruption..." Sage took note.

"Ugh..." Prime!Shadow woke up.

"Shadow!" Prime!Rogue hugged her Shadow.

"Well, now we know how to extract those serum." Nine got himself the dream serum which glitched into the waking world, contained in a bottle. "The more you know."

Nine then forced Prime!Shadow into consuming the serum, and then got the remaining to Nimona.

"I dunno, but thanks." Nimona drinks the serum.

Everyone got a breakfast, while Nightmare Rose wanted to vent.

"You ruined it all! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING I'VE MADE!" Nightmare Rose kicked the cage, knocking the robian and PDA on the sides.

"Evil Amy! You already killed people with your bullshits!" Sally objected. "Why are you with Shatter!?"

"SONIC's have to clean up your mess!" The false Amy whacked the cage.

"We're Freedom Fighters, and you're just a bitch!" Nicole went straight out sincere.

"What. Did. YOU. JUST. SAY!?" Nightmare Rose is offended.

"Exactly." Sally scoffed. "And we've purified the Dreamweaver, so now that she's on our side now, there's no stopping her or us."

"You're gotta be chopped." Nightmare Rose pulled her axe.

"Amy! We found the coordinates!" Miles reported.

"Finally, some good news!" The Dragon Quarter stowed her axe on her back, and left.

Meanwhile, Mercurius and Reinhard shared their last moments...

"This is it... the finale..." Reinhard lying down on the ground alongside his Apoptosis origin.

"Acta est fabula, indeed..." Mercurius then relapsed.

"Hey... Gold, Mercury..." Ren called.

Both looked at the Moment, and both are nearing final infection.

"My boy... what do you want?" Mercurius for the last breath.

"I'll guide the unified army... even though by the time they meet us, we'll all have become Zombots." Ren suggested. "From the regards of the Twilight..."

"Ah... I see..." Reinhard is too tired.

The two both relapsed in front of the divine highschooler, their body fully turned metal. Marie saw this too, and is horrified by the sight.

"Marie... I'm afraid you're next..." Ren then slept off. "Good luck, Shirou..."

The Shin Yatsukahagi walked by. Marici glanced at the Hegemony Gods, and then left as well.

"Ugh..." Akuro/Kai/Tubal Cain suddenly got glitched. "What's this!?"

"Cyber corruption." Tails revealed. "We've been there before. But for you, its effect partly split you off.

"What?" Kai Sakurai realized, as the body's eyes turned back to normal.

"Wait..." Akuro, the eyes became blacked-out again.

"Huh?" Kai in the mind, and the left eye got back again.

"You! Sharing the..." Akuro caught on.

"THE SAME BODY!?" This Tubal Cain got a bug.

"Do I remember being two peoples?" Morei's right eye turned back to normal. "Who... am I!?"

"Is that you with my hair?" Kei Sakurai is just as confused. "Beatrice? What's wrong?"

"There's so much wrong with it." Beatrice is in denial.

"Isaak? I'm one with you?" Even Rea Himuro is... "How did WE in the same body!? What's this... mix of us!?"

"Nonononono-" Tokoyo panicked.

The LDO bunch and their Tenmas ended up confused at their minds and respective stuffs in their bodies, leading to an identitiy crisis among themselves.

"Judas! So this is still our fused body!" Zurvan called Judas out. "So we really are-"

"Fused with yourselves." Sage revealed. "Please calm down and make up your differences."

"Explain this to us!" Ootake threatened Sage. "Or I'll-"

"Stop. Listen to me." Sage evaded. "You became this because Team Shatter messed with you, tough you'll need to explain the specifics, now that you've come back.

This shook the Tai-Aztiluth.

"Where am I?" Prime!Shadow groaned.

While Boom!Sticks and Boom!Sonic went to explain what happened, the Tai just... glitched.

"Taikyoku-Aztiluth... I remember it now." Sukuna (the eyes' blackened all again) recalled.

-*flashback*

"What the!?" Shirou Yusa realized that he has been teleported out from the final Battle against Naraka. "Where!?"

Tenma Sukuna realized something's off. "Oh no. The Twilight needs our help! 'Pantheon' needs-"

The hedgehog projected himself on the sky.

"Uh oh." The LDO stepped back.

The entire Army of All Gods - the Hegemonies, Kouha, and all followers of the seven eras and extras, were spotted by the Team Shatter.

"Sorry guys, but Naraka's out of comission. Seems like the Hyper Genesis Wave broke the Throne, and I'm going to fix it when I bring that stuff in my fray." The hedgehog called. "Welcome to the shattering."

This infuriated Hajun, and immediately, cue the Extravagant Destruction/Metsujin Messo (滅盡滅相) to the entire unified world. However... *Phantom Ruby effects*

"Argh!" Ren Fuji/Tenma Yato collapses. "I can't use... my..."

"Wow, never thought it'd work." Then the hedgehog just laughed the Pantheon off.

-*flashback ends*

"And then all those some of Pantheon ended up in this world, got caught. The so-called Team Shatter teleported to us, and kidnapped us. That was the last time we saw the Hegemonies in person." Rusalka conceded. "Mercury... Mephistopheles... the Twilight... Fujii himself... Hajun... all infected with perfected Metal Virus."

"And our body? All fused into our perfected being, same craving..." Shirou added. "Then they erased some of our memories about Team Shatter, but we rebelled just before that could brainwash us. When we're found to be free-willed, that's when they started torturing us."

"Yes, the Phantom Ruby is far more powerful than we thought." Ren's voice rang through.

"Is that...?" Ariem have no idea who Ren is."

"Ren!"-"Zarathrustra!"-"Yato!"

The gang have called Ren, who's doing in to communication.

"You found out what happened to you?" Ren is surprised. "That was..."

"My name is Ariem. I'm the Dreamweaver, busted and shambled into this beast body." Ariem responded. "The so-called unified army saved me and fixed my mind. I was completely conscious and aware of what I did... sorry for the freakish incident."

"So you're the Moment." Sonic called. "Nice to meet you."

"The Truth, the Remorseless, the Morningstar, the Mercury and the Gold have fallen! Succumbed to Metal Virus!" Ren warned everyone. "Next up will be the Twilight... poor Marie... and then yours truly, then finally Hajun and the Dawn."

"Oh my world..." Shirou is horrified.

"Not even Hajun is safe." Ren continued. "And he was gotten back to full, immeasurable power and Taikyoku when we got plucked out..."

"What!? An actual ultra-god... infected by Metal Virus!?" Nimona is shocked.

"You never saw Hajun, right?" Espio glares at Nimona.

"You have to rescue me and kill that monster-hedgehog and his entire empire." Ren added. "He's going to remake the Throne into his image and put it in the Zero Point, and if you don't stop him... all of existence will be shattered."

"All of existence..." Sonic recalled. "The CXA..."

"Alright..." Isaak clapped. "All worlds..."

"Welcome to our unified army!" Mega Man declared.

"Yes! Let's get upstairs!" Marine rushed.

"Good luck. Marie's at her limit..." Ren dissipated.

"Rouge... Let's our revenge begin!" Prime!Shadow got up.

The unified army then went straight to the way to the 31st floor. But the Shin Yatsukahagi is coming to the other side of the way.

"What are you waiting for?" The female Niko now in female Anna Schreiber is excited.

They - the brainwashed and converted Eastern Expedition - walks to the cause, while Sonic auths the gate.

"Here they are." The Muramasa - Soujirou Mibu - called.

"It's time to- WOAH!" Sonic stopped.

"What?" Habaki came to the scene.

The couple and the Yatsukagi-LDO hybrid Tai-Aztiluth are horrified at the opposing team.

"There you are. Look at us." Shiori, now a Tenma, called the expedition. "Look. We have transcended. It's so awesome."

"Soujirou! Shiori! Keishirou! Sakura! Ryuusui! Niko! Teirei!" Rindou is shocked. "What have you become...!?"

"Shin Yatsukahagi." Ryuusui (Onmyodo) "Do you understand?"

"What the fuck!?" Shirou is baffled.

Teirei in Wolfgang Schreiber's height just laughed it off like a crazy mood-swinging madman like the latter has been.

"Holy crap!" Vector is baffled. "We're up against actual gods!"

"Holy about you doing the emanation?" Ariem suggested. "Use the Dream Orbs!"

"How do we use it?" Momiji asked the Dreamweaver. "We don't know what it is."

"What do you want? A death wish?" Soujirou scoffed. "Look at you. Most of you aren't gods."

"We have another way." Habaki pulled out a Dream Orb. "I thought this stuff is only used to create portals between dream worlds. But I figured out some more use... because I have one taking my powers!"

"Good." Ariem approved.

"Futsunushi Futsunomitama no Ken"/"経津主神・布都御魂剣!" Soujirou just sliced off, trying to dice the unified army.

But the Dream Orb just exploded, healing the scene off and countering the slash.

"Good. We have a bunch of them!" Sonic went Spin Dash to Soujirou.

With her infinite mirages, Shiori just blocked Sonic.

"Not fair!" Sonic is baffled.

The Shin Yatsukahagi went to the unified army for a killing.

"Keishirou! Don't!" Habaki is forced to clash with Tenma Kassenka.

"Wither to ashes, O my love. May the world behold your remains..." Keishirou casted the whole night in the entire floor, with Sakuya (now Kessenka) by his side.

The unified army is brisked into the darkness, surrounded by the emanation-powered assault of the Shin Yatsukahagi. Sonic, the one who initiated the first strike, is like in a whole another zone.

"Oh no!" Sonic realized what's going on. "It's time I get the Speed Force going-"

"Hey hey hey, wanna get dangerous?" Niko emerged from the darkest point, alongside Teirei. "Or do you wanna die a freak and an outdated mascot?"

Sonic Spin-Dashed the duo, but they simply evaded, despite the speed.

"You cannot hurt us. You cannot even touch us." Niko laughed.

"My speed can't-" Then Sonic is knocked by Teirei.

Teirei whipped out his guns - a Luger P08 in one hand and a Mauser C96 in the other - to shoot Sonic. The Blue Blur was able to evade the bullets, only to trip into a garden of roses resulting from Wilheim Ehrenburg/Keishirou Kyougetsu's power.

"What!?" Sonic bounced out. "Damnit!"

Sonic went a Cycloop, and then boosted off against Niko and Teirei, but the duo just evaded altogether. Speed alone really isn't enough: Sonic had to stop time altogether.

"Go on, Shin Yatsukahagi!" Elise cheered for the converted Eastern against the unified army.

With the exception of Sonic vs. Schreiber, the Shin Yatsukahagi were able to kill the unified army, only for them to come back over and over again and again, thanks to the Dream Orbs. Quickly enough, the SY realized what's up with Ariem herself.

"What!? Why the Dreamweaver's letting them...!?" Ryuusui is annoyed.

Knuckles punched the caster, even though his Taikyoku is valued literally zero.

"Thanks the Dreams!" Knuckles then tripped Shiori.

The Marici quickly got up, using the infinite mirage of hers to shred the echidna. But another Dream Orb exploded, and Knuckles is revived.

"Why are you..." Shiori is pissed.

"You cannot stop us." Ariem summoned a meteor rain, bombarding the entire darkness garden.

At first, Kassenka/Keishirou and Sakuya were not only able to absorb them all, but use that to force misfortune to threaten the unified army. Then X showed up with the Ultimate Armor, empowered by the Dream Orbs.

"Gotcha!" X blasted at point blank, knocking the artificial Tenma and the darkness army.

"Nope!" Niko and Teirei evaded.

The darkness got broken because of X, fixing the floor and causing Niko and Teirei to be accidentally pinned to a wall by themselves due to sheer evasion.

"Argh!" Keishirou is hurt.

"Chaos Burst!" Both Shadows took out their Inhibitor Rings and bursted off Shirou and her infinite.

"Fuck you!" Soujirou tried to slash off, but is blocked by the Avatar.

The Dynamic Wispon is overclocked by the Dream Orbs, allowing all kind of emanations to be accepted and used, alongside the Hyper-go-on energies. The Avatar used that to copy Soujirou's Taikyoku - Futsunushi Futsunomitama no Ken - to cut Soujirou. The converted Muramasa dodged and stepped back, but because that goddamned emanation can cut literally everything, even concept itself (including distance and miss), Soujirou is hit.

Shiori attempted to crush the Avatar, but they just... disappeared.

"What!? Where are they!?" Shiori is baffled. "How about-"

"Look at your back, Shiori!" Habaki yelled.

Cue the Avatar instantly stabbing the Marici in her back. It was the work of Koroshinmu Marishiten (紅楼蜃夢・摩利支天), copied by the Dynamic Wispon thanks to the Dream Orbs. Infinite also blasted Ryuusui with his own cubes made of illusions.

"The Taikyoku itself is transferred thanks to you... some traitor we never knew we got." Keishirou figured it out. "FUCK YOU!"

In a last ditch attempt to get rid of Ariem and destroy the unified army, the dark Tenma tried to go Taikyoku straight...

To be continued...