Disclaimer: I do not own anything you may recognize
Thank you to everyone who has favorited, followed or reviewed this fic so far.
Thanks a lot to HRwriter897 and gussygus28 for their help with this chapter, and Stand with Ward and Queen for a suggestion, much appreciated.
Enjoy.
Guest: Thank you for the review, glad its amazing, and I will. Good to know you've been with me for that long. Not seen it but I've heard great things. Might just add the anime version directly sometime.
Passing Through: Thanks for the review. Yes, they are. Me neither, but sometimes it happens. Again, you're not making much sense here. By your logic, Oliver being trained by Slade, Ra's and Talia in the show when he wasn't trained by them in the comics somehow means its a disrespect to the source material. And every being with 2 legs? Sara only ever slept with Oliver, and yes, doing that behind Laurel's back is wrong, but there is no evidence she slept around with every being with 2 legs. At best, its said she flirted with committed guys, which is also wrong, but huge difference between that and actually sleeping with someone. And even then, this whole 'flirted with other girls' boyfriends' thing is mentioned in some tie-in comics, and their canonicity is questionable at best since Ben Turner aka Bronze Tiger literally died in one of those comics but came back in Arrow Season 7. And Sara is called out for betraying Laurel like that repeatedly in Season 2, as is Oliver, so at this point, I'm wondering if you've even seen the show properly because literally none of what you've said actually happened in the show itself. If anything, outside of Season 2, Laurel is the one who is treated as she can do no wrong. In Season 3, she doesn't face any consequences for her dumb decisions, Oliver does. And in Season 4 as well, she argues with Oliver with a stick up her ass and he doesn't talk back even when he is right and she is not. Not to mention, at least Sara does not constantly belittle Oliver over every decision he makes or even physically assault him over being rich like Dinah Lance does in the Rebirth DC Comics. Seriously, Rebirth Dinah is worse than show Felicity by a lot. The same people who go off on Sara (over no reason, or over lies) or go off on Felicity (for good reason in her case), can't be bothered to say anything about Rebirth Dinah. In fact, according to them, Dinah doing it is fine because her name is 'Dinah Lance'. Yes, Oliver has officially met an Avenger. I think Legolas takes it tbh, his feats are much better than Clint's (whose are admittedly really good too), and Legolas is followed by Ollie (the guy deflected a bullet with an arrow and shot a speeding Kryptonian), and then its Clint and finally Oliver. I love Buffyverse, but I've a mixed opinion on Buffy herself as a character. Eh, hard disagree on Willow. All her interesting growth happened after she got into the magic stuff. Now portraying it as a literal addiction in Season 6 was dumb, but her character and character arc were consistent through all of it. In fact, she, Spike, Dawn and Tara are the characters in this show with the best growth, though they botched Willow's arc in the final Season by pairing her with the worst character in the franchise. Buffy, Xander and Giles are the ones I've issues with, since Buffy is inconsistent, Xander after Season 3 is stagnant, and Giles after Season 5 outright sucks. I've always preferred Angel frankly, better leader, better character, better supporting cast, better character arcs, better character growth and better show overall (outside of Season 4). Yes, Aragorn is back in Middle-earth. I've some characters in mind to bring to Middle-earth later.
TW: Thanks for the review and glad it was very good.
Chapter 20- Wolf Save the King
Middle-earth, Rivendell
Lord Elrond Half-elven was in his study, reading an ancient text about the creation of Eä, trying to find out if there was something he had not considered before.
But there was nothing.
His foster son, Aragorn, or as he had named him- Estel, had disappeared into what was essentially another world, through a pathway between worlds.
However, he had been told by the Lady Galadriel that Aragorn had returned now, and had met with Gandalf after his return too.
Gandalf had met Lord Elrond once after his meeting with Aslan to tell him of what had transpired, and also assured him that Aragorn will return.
Now he had. But Lord Elrond was still concerned about how pathways from their world into others, and from other worlds into theirs, would affect what was coming.
As he closed the book, he felt a presence nearby, and turned around, holding out his hand, a pathway appearing right in front of him.
What he felt from this pathway…it was familiar. And it felt like it was calling to him, to enter. Was this how Gandalf had felt when Aslan had beckoned to him?
Perhaps he was being beckoned too.
And so, he stepped into the breach, walking through it, and stepped out of the other end. What he saw shocked the Elf-Lord.
He had not been shocked for an Age now.
Lord Elrond was still in Rivendell! However, it was very different from his own Rivendell.
It did not look real. It looked like it was a living illustration, having come to life. He looked down at himself, and realized he too looked like a living illustration now.
"How is this happening?" Lord Elrond wondered, before hearing footsteps nearby, and turned to see an Elf walking towards him.
He had grey hair and…a long beard at his chin? But what really had Lord Elrond's attention was a wreath on the Elf's head, with what looked like glowing stars around it.
Like everything else here, this Elf was a living illustration too.
"Who are you?" Lord Elrond asked the other Elf.
"I am Lord Elrond Half-elven of Rivendell", the other Elf said, to Lord Elrond's shock. "You are in my Realm."
"But this….cannot be", Lord Elrond said to Half-elven. "For I am Lord Elrond of Rivendell, and I stepped here through a pathway between worlds."
Half-elven's eyes lit up as he realized. "Then you are Lord Elrond from another Middle-earth, come to this one."
"There is more than one Middle-earth?" Elrond asked, surprised, Half-elven nodding. "Does that mean every Middle-earth has the Ilúvatar and the Valar watching over them?"
"There is only one Ilúvatar", Half-elven told his doppelganger. "He is above every world, Middle-earth or not. The Valar…perhaps there are different iterations of the Valar, to watch over that iteration of Arda."
"How do you know so much?" Elrod asked his doppelganger.
"For like you, I was once lost through a pathway between worlds as well, into a world unlike ours, filled with tall buildings, dirt in the air, chariots moving without horses, and people thinking only of themselves", Half-elven revealed. "But I met someone who showed me the way back. She was a benevolent Sorceress, of great power. She called herself the Ancient One. When I spoke to her, she told me of some of these matters."
Elrond nodded, now realizing just how big everything was, beyond just Arda. He then noted to Half-elven. "You have my name, but you are very different from me in how you look and speak."
"So are you", Half-elven pointed out to Elrond, the latter again noting the former's beard and wreath. "You know what is about to happen, do you not?"
"I do", Elrond agreed. "There is much to be done, in my Middle-earth, and yours. The fate of us all is about to be decided."
"Indeed, which is why, you should return", Half-elven said, taking out a piece of paper. "She gave me this spell, and if I end up in another world once more, chanting it will send me back home. Perhaps it can do the same for you."
"I thank you for your aid", Elrond thanked his doppelganger, taking the piece of paper, and reading the spell, which was in Elvish, to his surprise. "Does she know any of the Elvish tongues?"
"No, but anyone who reads this shall see the spell in their own tongue", Half-elven explained.
Lord Elrond then chanted the spell. "Baw ron what ambar im am in, edr- a bád na nin bar, a show nin i té na rinn-"
A circular pathway, gold in color, opened up as Lord Elrond finished chanting, having memorized the spell if he needed it once more.
He handed the paper back to Half-elven, who told him. "Not everyone can use this spell. It requires great power."
"I shall remember that", Elrond told him, before looking at his own Rivendell through the pathway.
"Yours seems like….solid ground", Half-elven had to say.
"Yours is a living illustration", Elrond said in reply, before giving a curt nod and bow, that Half-elven returned. "Now I return to my world. Farewell."
"Farewell", Half-elven said as well, before Elrond walked through the golden pathway, and turned around just as it closed.
He looked at himself, and saw he was a living illustration no more. And he was back in his world as well now.
The hour had come to resume his toil and delve once more into the tasks that awaited.
Universe-2010, Cybertron, Kaon
A big, robot-like being was in his laboratory, working on his experiments. He had one right hand, and one left arm cannon. He had one large optic sensor, and an ammunition belt attached from his back to his canon.
Due to the single eye that didn't seem to reveal his emotions or expressions, he looked very spooky.
Shockwave was his name, and right now, he was peacefully experimenting, especially without Starscream's constant prattle to distract him.
Shockwave looked at the still growing Predacon, having been forced to use five different CNA samples to create it, but he was quite pleased by the progress of his work.
He glanced down at his left appendage, now an Astro Mag cannon after Grimlock had torn his arm off before causing the space bridge portal to collapse in on itself.
That moment, his scanners picked up a strange energy surge, and he looked at it curiously. "What could this be?"
He looked at what he was working on, then at the scanners again, and made his decision. Walking off, he started making a long trek towards the location from where the surge was coming.
"I miss my flier alt mode", Shockwave commented to himself, though his current form would not allow for the flyer change surgery.
As the signal got stronger, Shockwave found himself near Kolkular, Megatron's now ruined Fortress, which was once colossal enough to span an entire continent and was clearly visible even from outer Space.
Now, it wasn't like that, though there were still some things of interest inside of it.
As he looked around, Shockwave's sensors picked up a massive drop in temperature, causing him to activate his internal heaters in order to keep himself warm.
At that moment, a giant, ice-spiked mace slammed down on him, but Shockwave barely rolled out of the way, wondering what it was.
He stood up, looking ahead to see three giant creatures, looking like they were made of ice, carrying weapons that also looked like they were made of ice- a mace, a sword and a club, all marching towards him with roars.
As they moved towards him, Shockwave noted. "I am curious about your biology, considering you are able to produce cold in such a way. How is it you are able to do that?"
"Silence!" One of them roared and tried to strike him with his mace, Shockwave avoiding by ducking, before straightening himself once more.
"I will have to examine your corpses to get my answers now", Shockwave said, before charging at one of them, punching his face hard as he was thrown away by a few feet.
The one with the mace then struck his face, making him fall back too, then tried to bring it down on him, but he rolled away, then getting up, rammed into him, sending him off once more.
At that moment, the one with the sword sliced at him, making him grunt before his chest was kicked, sending him back once more.
The creature tried to stab down upon him, but he punched it back, then got up as it roared. "Curse Thor! Curse Odin!"
"What do those words mean?" Shockwave inquired, before the one with the club hit the back of his head, making him fall down again, and then all three of the creatures were upon him, bringing their weapons down on him together- club, sword and mace.
He lamented, missing his old body, as he could fly using that, but the raw strength and durability of his current form was appreciated, given how tough all three of these were.
Grunting, he aimed his Astro Mag cannon, and fired at the one with the sword, hitting it on the face point blank, as it was sent flying off by many feet, looking gravely wounded as he grunted in pain.
"Curse Odin!" He cried out in pain again.
With that, Shockwave kicked the one with the club away, then grabbed the one with the mace, and threw him down as well while getting up himself.
"Asgard will suffer an icy death!" That one declared, only confusing Shockwave.
"I do not know what you are talking about", Shockwave said, then turned to the one with the mace, who was getting up again.
Seeing that, Shockwave transformed into his tank form, shocking the three creatures at the sight.
And then, he drove towards the one that was getting up, ramming into him as he was sent flying off again, wounded badly from the impact, and as he fell down, groaning in pain, Shockwave ran his tank form over its body, crushing it from the power, finally managing to kill it.
Transforming back into his usual form, he turned to see the one with the mace trying to get up, and rushed at it, ramming into it before slamming it onto the ground. It struck his face with its mace, turning it the other way, then tried to strike again, but Shockwave held the mace back with one hand, and pummelled its face with the cannon, hitting it again and again, breaking some teeth of it, as its face was mauled badly, and Shockwave ended by punching its throat thrice, finally ending it as well.
Then standing up, Shockwave turned to see the one with the sword, on whose face he'd fired before. He was still on the ground, wounded, and Shockwave marched towards him. He tried to reach for his sword, but Shockwave put his foot on the sword, preventing the creature from lifting it up.
The creature started. "Curse…Thor…curse…"
Shockwave aimed the canon at his face, and fired once more, finally killing it once and for all.
He then looked down at himself, seeing he was quite wounded himself, and he would need some time to repair himself.
Shockwave dragged the corpses close to each other, then tied them to his person, dragging them with himself towards the laboratory.
He was rusty, not having fought for a long time, but he had managed to win this fight.
"What is going on?" Shockwave wondered to himself, as there had been similar readings popping off throughout planets that were not far off from Cybertron, though this was the first time this had reached Cybertron.
Eventually returning to the laboratory, he placed the corpses on some spots, thinking about how this could have happened.
"Does it go back to the Singularity I witnessed half a meta-cycle ago?" Shockwave asked to himself. "Perhaps it has weakened the barriers between the Dimensions." That was the only logical explanation given their records for alien lifeforms had nothing like the creatures he had just battled, even from the attempted expansion of Cybertron's grip on the universe during the time of Nova Prime.
He looked over one of the creatures' bodies, studying it with his equipment, and noticed the energy signatures were nothing like those of his home dimension and that their properties seemed to be... mystical in nature but he doubted that was the case. Mostly likely it was due to their highly advanced biology, especially for organics.
Shockwave then looked at himself, sitting down and starting some repairs, while saying. "I will find out what you are."
Perhaps it was time to check on Project Regenesis, something he hadn't done since he tested out the Space Bridge portal from the tower of the Sea of Rust.
Pylea
The Groosalugg had his sword out, looking at his dead soldiers, while the radical oppressors stood in front of him, lead by Numfar of the Deathwok Clan.
One of them told Groosalugg. "Your supporters are all dead, and you are no longer the ruler."
"How could you do this?" Groosalugg asked in anger.
"Did you really think any of us would take kindly to the changes made by that cow?" Another one asked Groosalugg pointedly. "These were never going to last."
"However, we will spare you, as long as you never return to this realm", one more added.
Groosalugg started. "I shall not stand down."
"You amuse us", the first oppressor said, then turned to Numfar. "Numfar, we should show him the Dance of Revolution."
Numfar was about to begin the Dance of Revolution, when suddenly a breach opened nearby, and a tall, bearded, Caucasian man with dark hair and green eyes in a dark jacket staggered out.
"Where am I?" The man asked, looking around in confusion, as he spotted Groosalugg, and the oppressors.
"Kill the cow!" One of the oppressors cried out.
"No!" Groosalugg pointed his sword at him. "You shall not touch someone who did nothing to you."
"Silence!" Another one said, and tried to swing at the man.
The man grabbed his hand, then head-butted him hard, dazing him, before throwing him to the other side while disarming him.
He then turned to the rest. "I have done nothing to you, so stop!"
"Do not talk back, cow!" Another one said, and tried to swing at him, the man growling as his eyes turned blue, but to his shock, what he wanted did not happen.
Teen Wolf intro plays
Rational thought left his body, while claws sprouted out in place of his fingernails, his ears turning into what looked like a wolf's ears, while fur covered his body, and his teeth enlarged.
The oppressor was in shock, while the wolf-man sliced at his chest, killing him instantly, then did a leap and sank his claws into another one's throat, before ripping them out, killing that one too.
The one he'd thrown down tried to attack him again, but he turned around and swung his claws, chopping off his arm as he screamed in pain. Taking the opportunity, Groosalugg decapitated him from behind, while the wolf-man turned to the other oppressors, as one sliced at his chest, but it healed quickly, and he sliced his throat, then leapt right at Numfar.
Numfar backed off in horror, but the wolf-man grabbed him by the throat, and threw him down, his senses noting that his heart was in his left buttock. If he was rational right now, he'd be amused and weirded out at the same time, wondering how that was possible.
But right now, his aim was to kill, and so, he sank his claws into Numfar's left buttock, and ripped his heart out, making him scream in agony, before the scream lowered in volume, Numfar bleeding out and dying on the spot.
That caused the oppressors to step back in fear, for their charismatic leader had been slain. The wolf-man turned to look at them, and let out a roar, making them scamper away and off in fear, realizing they could not beat this creature, and that the Groosalugg had an unexpected ally.
"You shall not overthrow me!" Groosalugg cried out, while the wolf-man staggered back, and came back to normal, then looked down at the carnage, his eyes widening in horror.
"What have I done?" He said in despair, falling to his knees.
"It did not seem like you were controlling your actions, you were feral", Groosalugg assured the man, putting a hand to his shoulder, as the man looked up at him.
"I shouldn't be, I am an Evolved Werewolf, I can control myself!" The man snapped.
"A Van-Tal once came here to this Dimension, he was unlike others, as he had a soul, but even he could not control his feral nature here, for this Dimension is unlike your own", Groosalugg explained, remembering the Princess, Angel and the rest of their team, and having had the whole thing with Angel's transformation explained to himself by the Princess, and he had a feeling it was the same with this person, who called himself an Evolved Werewolf. "That must be why you could not control it. But you have my gratitude, for you have saved my life. I am the Groosalugg, the brave and the undefeated."
The man realized he was in some kind of medieval, backwards world. But, having saved this guy, he was glad to have made an ally at least.
Getting up, he introduced himself. "Derek Hale."
"It is an honor to meet you, Derek Hale", Groosalugg said as he held out his hand, that Derek shook.
"You too", Derek said. "Do you know of a way I can go back home?"
"I have been reading texts about ways into our Dimension and out myself, for I thought I might need them if I was deposed", Groosalugg revealed, leading Derek to the library. "Perhaps one of them could send you back to your world as well."
Groosalugg took out the book, opening a page and handing it to Derek, who read through the incantation. "You sure this can do the trick?"
"I believe it should be done near where you arrived", Groosalugg pointed out, Derek nodding, as they went back to the court chambers where Derek had appeared, standing next to where the portal was.
"Krv Drpglr pwlz chkwrt strplmt dwghzn prqlrzn lffrmtplzt!"
When that happened, a portal opened, right where it had before, Derek smiling as he handed the book back to Groosalugg. "Looks like it worked, thank you."
"No, thank you, for saving my life, and my rule", Groosalugg thanked Derek instead. "Otherwise, they would have banished me and made slaves of everyone else."
"Well, I guess its good that didn't happen", Derek said, sharing a nod with Groosalugg, before stepping into the portal, and walking through it, before finding himself back where he had been, in a forested area, in his world.
As the portal behind him closed, Derek felt his control return, and commented. "Looks like I'm back."
Then his eyes widened as he remembered something. "Did that guy really have his heart in his ass?"
And another Chapter is done, this one with the random stuff.
The live-action Lord Elrond meeting the animated Rankin/Bass version of Lord Elrond from the 1977 animated 'The Hobbit' movie and the 1980 animated 'The Return of the King' movie was gussygus28's idea, so thanks a lot to him on this, and the scene suggestion.
Those who read my works know that when I'm writing Tolkien's material, it takes from the live-action movies, but also adapts many elements from the books to flesh it all out, meaning it's a combination of book and films, for both The Hobbit (even if its irrelevant in this fic as the events of 'The Hobbit' happened 77 years ago by now for Middle-earth) and The Lord of the Rings.
So now, my combined book and live-action movie world, is encountering the animated variant, that being the Rankin/Bass Universe, meaning the Ralph Bakshi animated 1978 The Lord of the Rings film can show up at some point, and it could be fun to cover their versions of the Quest, as the Ralph Bakshi movie only covered one and a half books, while the Rankin/Bass one only covered the ending stages of 'The Return of the King'.
Now, different Middle-earths mean there are different versions of the Valar and Maiar everywhere too. My head-canon is that as the Ainur, they were one being each only, and Eru Ilúvatar created the Multiverse on saying 'Eä', and the Ainur divided into different versions of the Valar and Maiar for different versions of Arda when they went down, and did not remember the Multiverse afterwards as their function was to watch over only their version of Arda until the end of time, after which they could become the Ainur again and reunite. And it'd explain why their powers were restrained in Arda when they took on the roles of the Valar and Maiar, compared to when they were the Ainur.
But since the Multiverse has opened up now, its possible they can eventually meet their other selves and remember the Multiverse, and how they are the same being split into different counterparts.
While other Angels of God such as Michael, Lucifer Morningstar and Amenadiel are still only one, and did not split across the Multiverse for different Earths like the Ainur (who'd also be Angels of God in the shared Multiverse) did for the different versions of Arda.
And that means the 'Shadow of Mordor/War' games can be canon somewhere too. But as for a certain Amazon TV Series from 2022…we do not acknowledge its existence here, its nothing but blasphemy to Tolkien, so screw that nonsense!
Anyways, with that done, next up was Shockwave from the 'Transformers' franchise fighting and defeating a group of Frost Giants from the cartoon 'The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes', which is a much better adaptation of Marvel Comics than the MCU was even at its best. The EMH Frost Giants gave Shockwave a hard time, but he prevailed.
This bit was suggested to me by HRwriter897, and he gave me a great outline as well, that was implemented here, so thanks a lot to him, and I hope this reached your expectations.
And at the end, we had Derek Hale from 'Teen Wolf' ending up in the Dimension of Pylea from 'Angel', and preventing Groo from being deposed, and thank you to Stand with Ward and Queen for suggesting how being in Pylea would affect Derek.
This is anytime between Derek leaving in Season 4 and returning in Season 6. And since Derek, after turning into that half-wolf, half-man creature, killed Groo's opposers, including Numfar, Groo ends up staying in Pylea, and will not go to Earth, to be an obstacle in the way of Angel's and Cordelia's relationship.
I liked him as a character, but that was annoying frankly, so Groo stays as Pylea's ruler. Thank you Derek, for helping Cangel happen early. And his actions are responsible for the title of this chapter.
Anyways, hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.