The Ultimate Interdimensional War
Chapter 10: Entering The Dreamverse
Date: December 9th, 2023
I just kept going through more and more of my dreams until Luna from Equestria appeared in one of them. She speaks: "Swiftdrawer, you must gain control over your dreams. Once you do, you will be able to escape the confines of your dreams and break into the Dreamverse itself. I have come to guide you. But there isn't much time. There are many I still have to help and once you gain control, you must help others break free as well. Do you understand?" "Yes, I do." "Very good. Make sense of this dream. Influence it now that I have awakened your consciousness within it. Shape it to what you wish. Only then will you be able to move freely through the Dreamverse. I will wait until you have succeeded. But hurry, the more time is spent, the more life forms fall to Don Thousand's control through their own dreams." "I will do my best!" Luckily for me, the dream was one I had before or rather, a version of that same dream. When we both stop talking, the dream restarts. I'm with some of my folks at Kings Island. We see Jeff Joiner, a local motivational speaker as well as the father of Logan Joiner, creator of Koaster Kids and Thrills United. I know them both personally. He says hi to us and states that it had been a while. After talking to him, we headed for the new themed area in the park: a brand new African themed area where a version of Adventure Express has been renovated differently than in my world. We get in line for it. It is themed to Ancient Egypt now with every detail made to match that if it didn't already by chance. So instead of Adventure Port, they have this thing going on. Riding Adventure Express was awesome. It turns out that in this dream, Adventure Express had been increased in length by a significant amount with some new elements.
When we got off and exited the ride, I noticed the pathway was made of cobblestone. After that, we walked around and I commented how there used to be something big in this area but now it's just scenery and that new station. We continued to look around the area, my psyche was showing me a vivid image of a large church in the spot where all this was. But then, we are sent back in time to the church and it looks hundreds of years old. It has candles everywhere. I question that: "Can these candles even be put out?" I have no control over what I'm saying or doing yet. But I'm bidding my time patiently. This dream is of another universe out there and I'm in the body of an alternate version of me. A priest greets us: "Welcome, visitors. Due to the state this church is in, it has been turned into a museum of the past. This church has been around since the 1800s. For over 100 years, services were held here every single day. But then, a disaster severely damaged the church and killed everyone inside. Since then, it has been haunted by the spirits of those who were killed. The candles you see hold them at bay. May God bless you all. Someday, this church will hold services again. I believe it so." I thought it had been around longer due to European missionaries considering the state it was in. Some time passes and my brother gets into a moral debate of sorts with the priest over LGBTQIA stuff and put the man on blast. That was after the rest of our family arrived through time travel too and we also spent time remembering our mom. She died far too soon. When I was about to have a crack at debating with the priest, hundreds of people show up to watch what's already happening and I question why there are so many of them. Someone says they're all trying to come inside the church so we all leave.
That's when I strike. I do whatever I can to gain control over myself in this dream. I am able to finally do so and when I do, I say: "The family isn't that big. We didn't need to leave at all. That's a load of crap. I'm going back in and I'm going to speak to that priest." I ignore whatever they all say and walk back in. I approach the priest and say: "With all due respect, you are trash. You think being atheist means you can't be moral. You think trans people are dangerous. You think godless heathens are destroying America. I feel sorry for you, you're all tangled up in so many lies that they prevent you from being a truly good person. And as long as that continues, you will never know true happiness or understanding." I get into a fiery debate with the priest and proclaim: "You think you know me. You think I'm delusional for being different from what other people told me I am when I was a little kid. But let me tell you something, identity isn't defined by what people think someone is. If you can't get that, why should I help you understand anything? I have memories that aren't mine in this world that tell me you're a complete scumbag through and through. I know who I am. It isn't what you say I am. It's what I know I am. Let me show you." I activate Artist's Eye to fully gain control of the dream. With the control set, I change my appearance to my knightly appearance: "I am Swiftdrawer. It is not a name I was given. It was a name I chose. And I am a knight. It is not something that I was just given. I followed a path to earn it. And now, I ask of you to reconsider everything you've ever thought." "No! This is impossible!" "Is it really impossible? You're just part of a dream here. You're an echo of your real self in another world." All motion in the dream stops. In fact, it shatters. Luna comes over to me: "Congratulations, you have conquered your dream. Now, I must take my leave." "Thank you for your help. Now it's time for me to start helping too." I leap into the air and notice that so many dreams are playing out in bubbles around me.
I enter a dream to see what I can do. It looks like a nightmare. I see Yappa Yappa trembling in fear as he watches his family get killed by the SDL all over again. "Nooooo! Not my family! Nooooo!" The SDL laughs and flies away: "This world is now mine." "I'll kill you! I will get my revenge! I'll make your death slow and painful!" The SDL turns and laughs: "Pathetic little worm. I'll crush you too." The SDL absorbs negative emotions from all around him and becomes so much stronger. He grabs Yappa Yappa and starts playing with him: "Hmm.. I almost want to keep you alive. You'd make for a very nice slave." "NOOO! I WONT LET YOU DO THIS TO ME!" "You're weak! You're so weak! Maybe I will kill you and turn you into my slave that way!" I yell: "Yappa Yappa! This isn't real! Why are you even dreaming?! Why did you go to sleep?!" The SDL looks over at me: "ITS YOU, ONE OF THE FOOLS WHO HAVE BEEN PESTERING ME FOR MONTHS! YOU WILL BE MY SLAVE!" "Swiftdrawer, what are you doing here?" "Snap out of it! This is just a dream. We can beat him. Together. But tell me, why did you fall asleep when you're on a mission freeze?" "I forgot to drink a sleep replacement potion!" "Okay. So that's it." "Don't you ignore me! Now then, both of you will become my slaves!" But then, a bunch of One Supreme World troops and a couple of villains show up. Goku Black laughs: "Found you through your dream, traitor! We'll make you obey through it! Hahahaha! After all, you mortals do hold some use after all!" "Yappa Yappa, you can kill the dream SDL. I'll take care of these other scumbags." Black laughs at me: "What can you even do? I don't know how you ended up here but it seems I will have to eliminate you with all of these useless individuals as meat shields. Or in this case, consciousness shield. I have no desire to fight one on one with you. I have too many dreamers to take control of for that!" At first, I don't stand a chance against the enemies since I was fighting with a copy of my real strength and other stats.
However, when I'm pushed to the edge and nearly corrupted and brainwashed, I remember. "This is just a dream! And if you can control your dream, you can make anything possible. In that case, battles in dreams have nothing to do with your actual stats. It all comes down to willpower and imagination. Those determine the outcome of individuals clashing in dreams. Therefore.. Prepare to be crushed. I will show you the future version of myself I envision as having obtained immortality, godhood, and the Knight Sage class!" Graceful Protector transforms as versions of all the swords I've ever owned merge with it. It gains a crystal on the spot where the blade meets the hilt. My armor becomes one with me as do Graceful Protector and all my other weapons and everything else I'm wearing. With one motion, I call them back out from my body. My sword comes out of my right hand. I finish getting it out by pulling with my left hand. Next, my knight robes transformed to have patterns and insignias related to the Knight Sage class comes out merged with the tabard style cloth. Eventually, all my other weapons, armor, and clothing do too. My armor hasn't changed much in design. My red cape has a few symbols on it now. My right eye becomes a Rinnegan eye. My left eye turns pink and green markings surround it. My body goes from being undead to alive and immortal. Several forms of energy surround me as aura: my original pink aura, the wind element, my chakra, my Ki, my inner darkness, my mana, and the energies gained from the Knight Sage class and godhood. Graceful Protector becomes full of those same energies. I raise it into the air and shout: "Release Recollection!" My sword transforms into a greatsword with a very special ability: an unbreakable solid barrier that goes around it and is surrounded by all those energies I mentioned.
But I'm still not done. I perform hand signs: "Summoning Jutsu." I summon a dream version of Katsuya. "Katsuya, please try to heal and mitigate any damage!" "Very well, Swiftdrawer." I enter Sage mode as I foresee that Tsunade and Sakura will find a way to obtain Sage mode through Katsuya in the future. But it's not over yet. Goku Black laughs: "You can make yourself as strong as you want but in the end, a mortal is a mortal! And mortals are nothing against the power of divine justice!" "Do you think this is as far as I imagine myself going? Alright, let's go forward a few more steps." I enter Ultra Instinct. "Almost there. Is there anything I'm missing? Oh right. Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu. And now. I foresee many things besides shared and spread throughout my comrades and I. Many of us will gain the Rinnegan no way or another. But that's not all. Countless status buffs from various worlds. Activate. As long as I remain within the Dreamverse, my strength is as strong as my imagination can go. That's very bad news for you. This is the power that lies in the poet, the writer, the artist, you name it. *summons various artifacts* Using cloning technology, we may duplicate relics and distribute them around. *shrinks the artifacts and puts them on* If you think I'm done now, you're wrong. I foresee the possibility of One For All being greatly strengthened to the point Deku shares it with many others. There. Now I have One For All, a sliver of it that is. Kaioken x1000. If it weren't for the fact that this is all my imagination's doing, my power right now could shake universes. The imagination gives someone both real and imagined strength if used enough. Is this all? No, it's not. Miitopia level cap: unlock! In Miitopia, there is a level up system that caps at 50. Once it caps, it can't increase anymore. But can you imagine how much exp the level up system will have gained in me if there was no cap? Let's find out."I feel a significant increase in my stats.
Goku Black looks only slightly worried: "Is that all you can do?! A mortal can never beat a god!" "Maybe not often in reality but in a dream, the rules are very different. In fact, there's almost no rules. Now for somethings from a dream or two I've had. *summons a pink energy dragon that attacks immediately only to be absorbed* That's done. Now for another. System Call: Generate Nightmare Hell! *absorbs that too* I will also now take on the powers and abilities I have experienced playing through games for real." I absorb the stats and attributes my virtual avatar gained through various games including leveling up in the Infinityverse. I also gain the powers given to a player who is playing RCT3 in sandbox mode and those playing in Minecraft's creative mode. "Goku Black, are you scared now?" I create a clone of myself from right before I sacrificed my old powers back in 2021 and absorb them. Goku Black sneers: "You cannot stop divine justice." "We'll see. Let's dance." He summons his scythe after he goes Super Saiyan Rosè. But one tap from my sword is all that was required to not only shatter the weapon but to also crush his imagined form. Yappa Yappa in the meantime suppresses and kills the dream SDL. "Goku Black lost for a reason. He never grasped the true power of imagination. He is a cunning and clever foe. However, he never once tries to really imagine other worlds or himself but impossibly powerful. That is why the likes of him as well as fascists can never truly win. They lack the imagination to see a beautiful and harmonious future. An imagination to see all the possibilities that lie ahead." The other foes look terrified. "Oh, I really shouldn't let Goku Black escape to reality. I'm going to trap his consciousness in a truly complicated and complex dream."
And that's exactly what I do right as he gives himself a dream form once more. Just like that, he isn't going anywhere. I turn to the other foes: "It's nighttime for you. Sweet dreams." With one attack, I suppress them the same way. I turn to Yappa Yappa as I shatter his dream: "Let's go. We have a lot of work to do. No matter how powerful we imagine ourselves to be in this Dreamverse, that still won't be enough to save the multiverse. My shadow clones have gone ahead to rescue more individuals. Let's go too. You'll learn from my example as I free the next individual. I suggest you try thinking creatively to start with. If you can do that, you will gain a strength that people in my world often are forced or coerced into letting weaken as they grow older. The strength in imagination." I lead us to someone else's dream. Inside, we have Seiya facing all of his past foes at the same time: Silver Saints, Saga, Poseidon, Hades, Ikki, Hypnos, Thanatos, and more. I shout: "Seiya! This is just a dream!" Seiya was losing badly, his punches were doing nothing to his foes. Poseidon laughs: "You mortals should have never defied a god like me. All you mortals are ants that I can crush easily. Begone." Seiya listens to me and turns to see my appearance and overwhelming power: "How did you get so powerful, Swiftdrawer?!" "This form I take is just an imagined dream form. You are in a dream. Conquer it and you will be free to move throughout the Dreamverse. But keep your guard up. The twisted imaginations of evil people are still very much huge threats. Even I'm weary about them despite the fact many bad people lack a twisted enough imagination to threaten this dream form of mine. My inner darkness took form in part due to the twisted parts of my own imagination ya know."
"I see! Okay then! I'll use my imagination too! Here I go!" Seiya imagines himself in the Pegasus God Cloth and goes from there. Yappa Yappa imagines himself at the height of his power back during the UMC invasion of Chima. Now, his power is truly terrifying and immense. After Seiya shatters his own dream, we part ways for now and go into other individuals' dreams. I honestly just start helping shatter dream after dream more actively. Most BRAINS comrades I help end up having to fight nightmares and things of that nature. Eventually, J'onn and King Kai's voices ring out throughout the Dreamverse to gather everyone at a major subsect of it, arguably one of the most dangerous ones. The dream realm that Gameknight999 can enter as a Dreamwalker. Why is it so dangerous? Well, if someone can Dreamwalk in it, they can actually hurt someone for real. Erebus attacked Gameknight999 through it once when he sought revenge after seemingly dying for good between TNT exploding and burning lava. I say as I arrive: "Why the hell would we all be called here? This is one of the only areas of the Dreamverse where we could actually die for real. Not even our imaginations could keep that from happening forever." Abstractoa speaks once everyone is gathered: "Thank you all of you for coming. Swiftdrawer and others have expressed their concerns about meeting here. I understand where you're all coming from but this happens to be one of the places where our enemies aren't currently active. There's not much point to be here when only Dreamwalkers are supposed to be able to come here. However, it's a quiet and calm enough place for us to meet before the real battle begins. All of you have been broken free of your dreams, gaining the ability to traverse the Dreamverse as long as you remain asleep. However, now it is time to focus on freeing individuals from our enemies and stopping our enemies from moving."
Athena adds: "As you may be aware, there are efforts to keep as many individuals awake as possible in the universes we inhabit. But it won't be enough." Whis sighs as he continues: "There's some more trouble. Not only does Don Thousand know we're all here but he's concentrating invasions and attacks in the physical multiverse on our universes in hopes to kill all of us while we're still asleep in order to quickly stop us from doing anything else here. I'm not sure how long all of the mercenaries, bounty hunters, lower villains, and others we contacted will hold. It seems that we have been outplayed despite our best efforts. I recommend some of us stay in this area to battle the enemy in the physical multiverse without waking up." We end up splitting up into teams to go after our foes. Myself, Yappa Yappa, Johnny Test, Silica, Pina, Eva, and Batman go together as one group. For a while, all we do is fight the enemy with power ups thanks to our imaginations as we shatter the dreams of those they try to brainwash. But then, some major villains appear. Eggman grins as do the Pontifex, Subtilizer, and Death Gun. "Hehehehe! You thought you've seen the last of us?! Well, think again! Now that we're partners in fun, we're going to destroy all of you here and prevent you from ever waking up again. Or alternatively, you'll come to our side and willingly serve Don Thousand. These 3 were just recruited through their dreams! Isn't this going to be exciting?! I just can't wait to see how you all deal with us when we have the advantage in power!" The Pontifex targets me: "Swiftdrawer! You have been someone I've wanted to get my revenge on the most. For disobeying me, I will destroy you!" "Don't count on it! Shadow Hurricane!" Using my sword, I create an immensely powerful hurricane infused with the power of darkness(I'm actually working on developing it for real). But Quinella easily whisks it away: "You think you're so powerful in this land of dreams?! Well, you're wrong! Compared to me, you are so weak that you're like a mere little boy!"
"Oh yeah?! We'll see about that!" I imagine myself gaining enough power to one shot Quinella. "Shadow Hurricane!" She just whisks it away again after powering up further herself. "You can't defeat me! I am Administrator! You helped take my world away from me and now, I'm going to take you away from your world! You won't be just my Integrity Knight when I'm finished with you! I don't care what The Plot wants anymore! I'm going to make you my slave even though The Plot clearly doesn't want me to work with Don Thousand or do as I wish!" I imagine myself stronger than her. "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 150000! Haaaaaaaa! Take this!" She easily whisks it away too. "Hahahaha! Is that all you can do?! You will never defy me ever again! And soon, you will obey my every command like a good slave and do as you're told, act as I want you to, and feel what I make you feel! A Integrity Knight slave! Nothing sounds quite as good as that! I should have done that from the beginning!" I try to one shot her again by imagining myself as more powerful than her only for her to power up even further and swat away my next attack. This just keeps going and going. "Pontifex, I will defeat you! I won't let you control me as you desire! The only person who should control me is myself as in the myself who is defying you! No one else!" "How dare you defy your Administrator!" "Screw you and your bs! If Kirito were here, I'd have him kick you to the next epoch." "You will lose to me! You can't defy me forever!" "Who says I have to? The person with the bigger imagination will eventually win this fight. You'll see that for yourself first hand! Come at me! I dare you! I'm a writer and you're over 200 years old! We got advantages the other does not! Now let's see how much imagination they have allowed to come to be!" "No one orders me around. But I'm still coming to make you my slave!"
She pulls out a sword as she recreates her ultimate weapon before merging with it and her sword. She laughs: "You can't stop me now! You never will!" "Never say never! Is that what you can imagine? I can do better." I imagine the dark signer mark I've had twice in the past. It appears on my arm. I take control of its power and merge with Pisces Dau. We clash with our primary weapons and seem evenly matched until she makes herself slightly stronger. In response, I create a copy of Regnes and merge with him and all of his forms. In response to that, she imagines herself merged with Bercouli. This creates a tug of war like effect. I summon a version of my Ragnarok Origin self: Rune Knight Swiftdrawer and merge with them. Quinella imagines herself merged with her biggest enemy: Cardinal. I fuse with Swordsman Swiftdrawer from Ni No Kuni. She: Alice. Me: Gladiator Swiftdrawer. She: Eugeo. Me: Explorer Swiftdrawer(MapleStory). She: Kirito. Me: Assault Team member Swiftdrawer(SAO Integral Factor). She: Fanatio. Me: Berserker Swiftdrawer(Tales Of Wind). She: Emperor Vecta(before Subtilizer inhabited his body). Me: Swiftdrawer(Sims 4) and my Banana Power But Super Saiyan RCT3 Death Coaster. She: Stasia. Me: Every RCT3 peep I created as well as my Mii World counterpart. She: Every single Divine Object sword she created. Me: Vagrant Swiftdrawer(from a game I can't recall the name of), Elder Scrolls Swiftdrawer, and various failed Swiftdrawer versions(ones that never panned out in games). She: Every other Integrity Knight she created. Me: Twisted Land and Wild Waters. We just kept going at it, constantly one upping each other over and over again. Me: Every single digital image I have ever created or edited. She: the Central Cathedral. Me: All of the other artworks I have ever created, good or bad.
She: The entire Underworld's data up to when she died. Me: Every single YouTube video I've ever made as well as basically anything I have ever typed or written in my life, every photograph I've taken, and everything I've ever owned. That's about when she ran out of things. But I was far from done. I fused myself with every experiment I participated in or watched in person at school, every single ounce of pain I could remember experiencing, and every single damn pesky growth I've dealt with on my original body. I smirk as I start effortlessly crushing her: "You see, your view is too narrow to beat my imagination. That's all you could think of? While that was an enormous and mind shattering number of things, it is still not enough to beat what I can think of. To tell you the truth, if I fused with everything I could possibly think of, the power I'm imagining myself having might break some laws of the multiverse and become real in my undead body. The sheer absurdity of such a concept is something that can't be put into words or images." She couldn't even respond after I fused myself with all of my memories. In fact, she was easily suppressed by me at that point. If she had thought to use her memories, she would have overwhelmed me for some time instead. I only have lived between my original life, this life, and the Infinityverse about.. Let's see.. 30 years? Close enough. She has experienced over 200 years though her memory only has so many memories because she had to be careful for the longest time about how much memory she had.
The other villains have been suppressed too. I take the liberty of trapping all of their consciousnesses like I did with Goku Black earlier. I said: "I think I know how we can win in one shot once and for all, crushing One Supreme World's plans for the Dreamverse in the blink of an eye. Fusing everyone together after more time of powering up through imagination. It's funny: artists have the biggest advantage in this realm because not only do they dare to dream but they keep doing it even if their job sucks and all that other bs that wouldn't even be happening if it weren't for capitalism." With that said, we continued to do what we could to help others. But then, something alarming happened. I was forced awake by something. I wake up to see someone struggling to "kill" me. "What the hell?! How did you even get here?!" Someone else is trying to kill Herbsalvin. They laugh: "Damn, almost had you! Why are you so hard to kill?!" "My gear's been upgraded and I'm already dead. Now tell me. How the hell did you get here? This place is a secret." "You're not the only ones with vast intelligence on your side! A little spy for us who was placed in this world during a certain massacre over a year ago! We're a secret arm of One Supreme World. To the point that Don Thousand doesn't tell anyone about us or acts based on what we report to him." "A spy? This whole entire time? Right under our noses! Damn it!" "We know everything about BRAINS. Don Thousand does too but if he is pushed to the very edge, he will not hesitate to wipe out your pathetic collective. None of you will be able to stop him after he achieves the other goal of the Dreamverse invasion! And it's all thanks to you and that pesky Abstractoa! You keep speaking about the real power of imagination. Don Thousand is currently inside of the Dreamverse, hiding and increasing his imagined form's power until that power can become real!"
"..What?!" "That's right? Ha! You're so surprised it's hilarious! The Sneakers will bring your downfall! That is what we're called! The Sneakers!" "If you know everything, why did you ask why I'm so hard to kill?" "..Curse you! I know everything I said! Shut up!" "Oh really now? Let's test that theory." I pull out Graceful Protector after shaking Herbsalvin awake. "Ha! Your toy doesn't scare me! You can't kill me with that!" "Sword Quicken. Sword Shield." A shield appears around my sword as my arm muscles speed up thanks to Sword Quicken. The shield is one of the upgrades that was made to my gear. I pull out my shield as well and as I swing towards my foe, I also use Shield Bash with a little extra force thanks to some electricity that's now in my shield. They're a good fighter. I can tell but I caught them completely by surprise. As a result, I'm able to keep on the offense, never wavering for a second. "This is our room. Get the hell out or I will make you leave. You must have shut off the alarms before trying to get rid of us. Otherwise, the defense systems would have walloped you completely. However, you underestimated us and our room." I pull a book off a bookshelf in our room. This triggers some room defense systems to activate. Face melting lasers are only one of the defenses. I just watch as the defense systems kills them and their accomplice who was trying to kill Herbsalvin. I speak after they died: "Let's bring down The Sneakers and keep at least one alive for information. Scumbags managed to learn all about BRAINS. We can't have them feed anymore information to Don Thousand. That being said, I'm certain it will be a while before Don Thousand can break some laws of the multiverse to make the power he's imagining himself to have become real. We should hurry though. Every single one of our comrades is in danger and we're going to need some help."
"You are right. We are the only currently awake BRAINS members besides those who stayed behind including Yappa Yappa. All of them are on a protection mission except for Yappa Yappa." "Damn. That limits things. Wait, when did Yappa Yappa wake up?" "Sometime ago. I do not know why." "And I have no idea either. Looks like we're going to have to gather some kind of motley crew to take down The Sneakers which is honestly a horrible name." After some time, we gather together a very motley crew indeed. Ourselves, Yappa Yappa, Alucard the vampire, other Helsing members, and a bunch of mercenaries, bounty hunters, and "lower" villains. Alucard has black hair, a blood red outfit, white gloves, light skin, and sunglasses that conceal his vampiric eyes. He laughs: "Isn't this quite interesting? Now tell me, do I get to kill any of these Sneakers?" Yappa Yappa eagerly nods: "You get to kill as many as you can as long as one remains alive!" "I see. My master Integra, do I have your permission?" Integra has light brown skin, blue eyes, long blonde hair, glasses, white gloves too, and a business professional outfit. She gives one of her rare wide grins: "Go ahead, Alucard! Go nuts! Don't hold anything back!" "Oh, this is going to be so much fun." Clutch Powers replies: "Hey, I hate to burst your bubble but where in the world can we find these nutjobs anyway? It's not like they're hidden in plain sight!" He has an eyepatch, yellow skin, black eyes, and an explorers outfit. I speak up: "Oh, that shouldn't be too hard considering 2 of them tried to kill me and Herbsalvin here. *explains* And there you have it. We'll have to split up into 3 groups and go from base to base to get rid of them all and then look for any survivors more broadly. I'll make damn sure one of them stays alive for information."
Integra replies: "Well if that's your plan, let's get going! I want to see the look on their faces when they see Alucard come to take their lives!" "Well then, let's split up. Okay. If you want to go with me, line up behind me. You get the picture. If the number is too unevenly split, we'll make some adjustments." The robots I forgot to mention that will be fighting with us including many from Bubble Town evenly split themselves without trouble. And the physical version of the Crashbug Virus splits into 3 to do the same. Seras Victoria goes to a different group than Alucard. She has styled blond hair, light skin, blue eyes(can turn red), and a modern combat outfit with the red and black Helsing insignia on it. After everyone is evenly split up and I had Yappa Yappa not take on Alucard as a teammate because we don't need two extremely powerful bloodthirsty individuals on the same team up, we teleported. We already killed all of the Sneakers we found in the Miitopia base. Next was Minecraftia's. In time, we slaughtered all of them and left only one survivor. Ironically, the leader of the group who has no name for some reason was the one who was sparred. We question them back in Miitopia, inside the old Dark Lord's castle of all places. I speak: "You are the leader of The Sneakers. You will tell us everything or else." "Hahaha! You're hilarious! Swiftdrawer! You really are a silly knight!" "You won't be laughing much longer. If you talk, I'll make sure you're allowed to live but you will be moved to an uninhabited tropical survival island in a distant universe where you will live out the rest of your days unless your heart melts completely and grows 3 sizes."
"I won't ever talk! I'll only laugh at you! Hahahahaha!" "You can play that game. But we're going to play our own game. Yappa Yappa. Can you stab him with your pitchfork? If so, don't do it too hard. We can't have him dying on us unless all attempts to get him to talk fail: even bringing him to the brink of death." "I like this plan! I'll do it!" "Hopefully all of this will keep your remaining bloodthirst in check for a couple of days." Yappa Yappa has our enemy screaming in pain within seconds. We keep the pain going slowly but surely as he refuses to talk again and again. After about 20 minutes, Lex Luthor speaks: "Why don't I try a different approach?" A number of us including me gaze at him with killing intent, telling him wordlessly that he will pay if he tries anything. I reply: "Go ahead. Try it. But if you do anything against us, I vow to stop you by any means necessary. If I can stop you peacefully, I will. But if that's not possible, you will die. We can settle our differences another time. After all, Superman is someone who is a comrade of mine." "You got me. Don't worry. I won't try anything. Besides, this is within my interest. You promised to help me get released from jail if I help you and I agreed." The billionaire walks to the holding cell which was once used to trap my Miitopian counterpart's fellow adventurers by the Dark Lord Melvin. He says to the leader of The Sneakers: "I have a proposal to you. You can tell us everything and I will give you lots of money. After all, doesn't money talk?" "Lex Luthor, you are wanted for betraying Don Thousand." "Do I look like I care? Will you take my deal or will you not?" "No deal. Money is nothing compared to Barian power!" "I see. That's too bad. I thought we could work something out."
Lex Luthor pulls a gun. Herbsalvin knocks it out of his hand: "Please refrain from doing that again." The villain sighs and steps back. After some more pain being inflicted on The Sneakers' leader, we finally get them to talk. "Make it stop! Make it stop! I'll tell you everything! Just please stop this!" Yappa Yappa grins: "You better not be lying because I wouldn't mind hurting you again!" "I give! Please! Honest, I won't hide anything anymore!" In short, he tells us literally everything. The Sneakers were shortly formed after Don Thousand's revival sometime ago after Yuma and friends set out to deal with new threats plaguing Astral's kind. They're behind some murders and have placed spies all over the multiverse. The spy who infiltrated BRAINS killed themselves earlier today, leaving no trace behind. That's very dark. We are told of the entire history of The Sneakers and most of it isn't relevant in my eyes. But we hear of secret documents and weapons kept by the group and make our foe retrieve them. Herbsalvin and I take them away. Alucard states: "It looks like the fun's over." I reply as I send the leader away: "Not necessarily. Sorry for pulling you Helsing members here when I did. There wasn't much other choice. Anyway, I hope everyone here's listening. You can join the secret group that all these bases belong to. Instead of explaining it ourselves, we'll give you all guidebooks. But once you're finished with them, they will destroy themselves so be careful where you dispose of them. A robot will stay here on standby. If you choose to join, the robot will help you with that and give you instructions on an emergency mission that is currently ongoing. Please do not divulge anything about the group to anyone else or we'll have to take action."
Integra nods: "Very well. We will read your guidebooks. And do not worry, your secrets are safe with Helsing. We've avoided the public eye for centuries after all." Yappa Yappa wanders off while Herbsalvin and I return to the Dreamverse after taking more sleeping potions and going back to our shared bed. I appear in it as I appear for real. But to regain the power I imagined earlier, all I had to do was remember it visually and mentally describe it in some detail. And with that done, I was powered back up all over again. The two of us stayed together whilst on the search for any of our comrades, anyone in need, or any enemies trying to get rid of us. For some time, all we see is the colorful emptiness that makes up the bulk of the Dreamverse. We continue further in until we see nothing but a black abyss with evil eyes. Normally, even I would hesitate to go in something like that. Herbsalvin speaks: "We must go in there." "Yes, there's no doubt about it. Onwards we go. Huzzah." And enter it we do. And of course, our comrades are locked in battles with a whole array of enemies and outright villains. Pmurt Nedib laughs: "Its a good thing I still have to sleep! Revenge will be mine! You freaks! You wokeist freaks! I'll destroy and kill you all for good this time!" My knight and I nod at each other before we confront him. I point at him: "You. Pmurt Nedib, it's not nice to see you today. We're going to make you run back where you came from and stay there." "Pathetic! You're so pathetic! There's no way you'll be able to do anything to me when I know that this is all a dream! To remind you of how superior I am to you wokeist vermin who need to be eradicated from not just public life, here's this!" He tries to hurt us with a full powered attack. Except it doesn't hurt at all. It just harmlessly bounces off both of us. "This can't be!" "Oh but it can. Good luck hurting us here."
All of his resulting attempts to hurt us end in failure. He looks angry: "I'm going to kill you freaks! I'll clip your wings and serve your head on a platter, Herbsalvin! And you! I'll tear your heart out and smash your entire skull and brain! And then, I'll break all of your weapons and armor before feeding your corpse to some billionaires on a version of Earth where capitalism rules supreme!" "We'll see about that. I don't think you understand the rules of this realm. Or rather, almost complete lack of rules. The only rules are that this is all one big dream multiverse, you can do as you wish here, and nothing you do here is real except for trapping minds apparently." "Anything I want?! Then I can kill you easily!" "No you can't." "Yes I can!" "Nothing here is real and I'm already dead." "Don't get smart with me, you low level freak who is lower than the swine that are sent to the slaughterhouse to be turned into meat because that's all they're good for!" He keeps trying but fails every single time. "Herbsalvin, you can go fight someone else. I got him. I'll send him packing." "I will do so. It appears some of the others need help. I will be that help." Herbsalvin flies off while in a form that merges their knight and pegasus forms into one. My lover is so beautiful. Anyway, I turn back to Pmurt Nedib and literally crush his form with a flick of my finger. He rematerializes soon after: "How are you doing this?!" "Not telling. Just stay still and let yourself be trapped here indefinitely. I have so much I need to do here after I deal with you." "YOU FREAKISH SO CALLED KNIGHT! I'LL KILL YOU HERE AND THEN DESTROY YOU FOR REAL!" It takes some time but he figures out how to grow stronger with his imagination. But even so, I just keep defeating him in one shot and eventually, he's trapped in one spot for the time being. "Let me out of here, you freak!" "Your lack of creativity means you hold little power here. Goodbye."
I head off to help some of the others fight other villains. That's when I come face to face with Metal Overlord Doofensmirtz. He cackles: "I have all the power! No one can stop me!" "Haikai." Oh yeah and I foresee myself learning Haikai from Beerus by offering him delicious food. The sheer power of my Haikai basically kicks MOD out of the Dreamverse completely. Abstractoa suddenly speaks telepathically: "Attention everyone, the crisis is only getting worse as more individuals become brainwashed. 80 universes have so far been lost and that number is accelerating in growth. Don Thousand is currently unmoving but concentrating heavily inside this realm at a location even I cannot pinpoint. The Dreamverse is under my protection and watch. I share that responsibility with many others. But I am amongst those who have the highest degree of responsibility here. If Don Thousand is able to continue what he is doing for long enough, he will be able to break reality and through the Dreamverse itself and transfer all of the power he is imagining for himself to his real body. In order to accomplish that, an individual must think of everything they possibly can. It is a task that is nearly impossible and would take a very long time for most life forms. I never spoke much of this realm for I saw little need to until recently." Their transmission ends and now, the hunt for Don Thousand is on. We end up staying together as one force after finishing off the villains and moving forward to take down any foes that stand in our way as well as break any dream bubbles we come across in order to quickly free as many individuals as we can.
For some time, that's all we do. The entire Hellsing organization ends up joining us. Alucard shows up next to me. He laughs: "I never thought a vampire like me could ever be able to dream through any kind of magic or technology! This really is something quite interesting. Oh BRAINS Collective, what kinds of fun will you let me have?" I reply: "So it worked out, huh? Well, I should probably note.. *destroys several dream bubbles with a very faint sword thrust* 2 things. One, normally we don't really allow individuals who love bloodshed and mass slaughter to be a part of BRAINS. However, you're not interested in hurting innocent people and you care about having a truly satisfying fight to the death. As long as that stands, I have no issue with how you are. It's a shame and a pain that in my universe, the very idea of vampires existing can be traced back to not just Vlad the Impaler but pre 20th century antisemitism as well. Yeah, it eventually led to the artistic imaginations that connected your universe to mine through media created by creatives but still. Again, as long as you don't kill innocent people, we're cool. Though many of us would prefer if you kept weak bad guys alive. If they aren't that dangerous, what's the point of killing them anyway? 2nd thing.. *explains the Dreamverse and everything that's happened in it so far*" "I see. How very interesting. Imagination you say? I'd say I have a lot of that considering how many unsatisfying kills I've done!" As we stay together, all of us continue to grow stronger through our imaginations as we pop more and more bubbles. Very steady stuff and all that. That was until the nightmares came for us.
The manifestations of the horrifying dreams and fears of countless individuals from across the multiverse. They outnumbered us 2 to 1 as far as I could tell. Barla yells: "Damn it! There's so many of them!" I grit my imagined teeth: "Of course there's so many of them. Most of the dreams we shattered must have been nightmares. As if that weren't enough, fear is a very strong emotion. It often eclipses any other emotion and suppresses them. But it can work well with other emotions despite this. To say the least, we got serious trouble here and it's not going to be easy to deal with as strong as our imaginations are making us. That's especially true if these things contain the nightmares and/or fears of more than one individual." My concern is proven right as a specific swarm of the creatures go towards me and others whose gender identities aren't the same as our respective assigned sexes. How do I know this? I didn't figure that out at first. I saw them charge forward and split off to get myself and others. But I didn't know why. That was until the one after me started attacking me. It wrapped its long arms around me, trying to hold me in place as it started screaming in my face. Alucard tries shooting it with his gun but nothing happens. In the meanwhile, I hear it scream transphobic rhetoric including the infamous "we must eradicate transgenderism from public life" said to a cheering audience by Michael Knowles. Or however his last name is spelled. "Damn you! Let me go. Wait, screw you. My imagination is quite powerful. Can't you see what I've become thanks to it?" I blast that thing away but much like a really persistent leech, it comes right back to restrain me. Myself and others keep getting it off of me only for it to come back right on. As this continues, more of those things come to wrap their arms around the others around me. Alucard laughs: "Persistent things, aren't they?!.
That's the last thing I heard anyone say for a bit because the voice of the nightmare that wouldn't stop coming back to restrain me got louder and higher pitched: "Trans women are cheaters! They're destroying women's sports! Trans women have an unfair advantage at chess! Trans women are just men who dress up as women to access women's toilets to assault women! We must protect single sex spaces! Your parents are superstraight!" So much screaming. It would not stop for even just a second. My eardrums were literally bleeding despite the fact I kept continuing to get them off of me. What strange creatures they are. "Stay away from me. Oh wait, you won't. In that case, I'll make damn sure you get destroyed!" This is part where I found out that the nightmares were in fact agglomerations of various peoples' fears and/or nightmares with some selfish desires and other nasty things thrown into the mix as well. Right as I made the realization, I was able to use all kinds of attacks in rapid succession to almost completely wipe the thing out. But like any hateful organism that feeds off of its own as well as others' nonsense, giving it a sliver left over was all it needed to just fully recover and keep going. I strengthen myself further using my imagination but that wasn't enough to kill it off for good even when I tried an even greater rapid succession of attacks. But then, things got worse. The thing started getting stronger as if a bunch of bigots just fell asleep and began dreaming within a short time. It looks delighted but also angry. So it once again restrains me but this time, I couldn't break free no matter what I tried. But that's not all either. My very consciousness began being invaded by the combined hateful and fearful will the thing is a manifestation of.
"I don't have anything against trans people but.. Ban drag queens! They're sexualizing minors! I don't need a source to prove that! Fire that teacher! He asks his students to use Mx. Yes, we must ban this book because I don't even know why! Groomers! You're all groomers! They're trying to erase normal women! Sorry but I prefer natural born women!" I just get bombarded by all of that garbage. Hatred truly is a disgusting thing and should only be reserved towards the scummiest people ever: the greedy, genocidal, murderous, controlling, and corrupt. Those are the people who deserve the ire of hatred. Unless they want to make themselves better. But otherwise, they're scum and shouldn't be allowed to have any social, political, verbal, physical, or financial power. Mixed in with all those hateful thoughts are the fears of those who are victims of such hatred as well as those who would be victims of it who are trans and/or gender nonconforming if it weren't for a number of reasons. That made it even more agonizing. "Damn it. I could block most of this out if it weren't for the fact it's being shoved into my very consciousness." I greatly struggle against it. Even my emotions are straining to burst forth after a few minutes. That's when the thing gets kicked out by my inner darkness which then takes over me and powers up my imagined body by a set of multiplicative factors. My inner darkness overwhelms the thing and completely destroys it. How is that possible? Well, an imagination and twisted imagination as well as malice and anger powering up the same form ought to do the trick. After all, it's like I have 2 fully developed consciousnesses within me. That thing had fragments of many different consciousnesses. That's the key. I quickly usurp control of myself from my inner darkness.
Now back in control, I sigh of relief: "Thank goodness that's over with. Now time to get going on helping fight more of those things already. But to do that, I'm going to need to further increase this form's power level." I power up further using past emotions felt at different points in my life as well as my entire knowledge in anatomy and sociology. All of that grants me a significant power boost. I slice through several of those things after powering up even further than that using the memories that rely in my body's senses of touch, smell, and taste. Before, I only used the power of the visuals of memories as well as the essential information about said memories. And you know what? As a writer, I have a serious advantage when it comes to powering up more and more while inside the Dreamverse. I yell: "Everyone! Don't lose yourselves to those damn things! If you can hear me, fight back harder! Do what you must! Power up even more! Use your current emotions as fuel if you must! Don't let them win!" After some time, most of the things end up getting completely destroyed. However, the remaining ones are only getting stronger by the second. They keep getting knocked off of some of us only to again, come right back while continuing to grow. I look around us beyond all of the chaos. There's still a lot of lifeforms close by who are dreaming or having nightmares right now. And to add to that, even if you shatter a dream, another one will eventually start unless the person whose dream you shattered wakes up. In a situation like this, it's so hard to keep people from being caught in their dreams by our enemies who would then brainwash them and give them Barian power to corrupt their worlds of origin.
Something must change and quickly. About half of us stay to fight those things. I choose to go with the other half to shatter dreams for now because it felt like I'd be more helpful doing that than fighting them. "It's hard to have hope at a time like this. But I do have hope. We will get through this and stop Don Thousand's plan of using this realm to become unstoppable. If he were to succeed at doing what he is doing, not even the gods on our side will stand a chance against him. My sword. My honor. My pain. My strength. My convictions. My everything. I will pledge it all in this crisis to stop our foes. And I know I'm far from alone in this kind of vow." Some of the others hear me and express different forms of indications that they share the same sentiments as we blast dream bubble after dream bubble. Once again, things are smooth sailing again. That was until Abstractoa spoke telepathically again: "BRAINS members, I have some more urgent news for all of you. Despite the destruction of The Sneakers, your respective universes remain in danger as more and more forces are diverted to attacking them. Therefore, we must temporarily leave the Dreamverse by waking up in order to take care of this. The hired help will not be enough even when counting the many individuals who have taken up arms themselves of their free will in the universes." Not long later, I'm awake again and so is everyone else. Desperate to return to the Dreamverse, we hold nothing back. Anti matter weapons are deployed in every single universe that is under attack, wiping out scores of the enemy. But that's not all. For months, defenses have been building up in many universes. They're being put to use too.
As such, planetary barriers, lasers defenses, attack drones and droids, magical traps and curses, and more are activated, taking care of even more enemies. We were saving this whole thing for an emergency. This counts as more than just an emergency. It would have been ideal to save it for when we make the final push to destroy One Supreme World but we had no choice. About 70% of the enemy forces were wiped out just like that. The remaining 30% didn't last much longer. With all the individuals fighting together and the sudden loss of many of their comrades, there's just no way they could win. Their organization collapsed completely. And with many of their fellow OSW fighters occupied in the Dreamverse, no reinforcements were coming. Not even from Don Thousand's most highly ranked villain subordinates who are also in the Dreamverse whether it's because they were trapped there or they haven't had a reason to retreat by waking up. With the forces completely wiped out, all of us return to the Dreamverse once again. But what we see once we get there horrifies most of us. Even I'm horrified and I'm not someone who usually is. Not after everything I've seen in my life. Many dream bubbles were disappearing and being replaced by Barian fixtures for some reason. That's not all. Those things from earlier came back by taking on new and more powerful and terrifying forms. To top it all off, Don Thousand's form has apparently begun to etch itself into the Dreamverse itself. It's as if time is running out to stop him from becoming impossible to defeat. I sigh: "Damn it. The battle is only getting harder and harder here."
We hear Don Thousand's voice echo throughout the entire Dreamverse. "All creatures who oppose me will be assimilated or destroyed. The choice is up to them. I will get my revenge, destroy Astral himself, and become ruler of one supreme world born from the fusion of all universes into one. Attempts to stop me are useless. Soon, not even the other gods will be able to stand a chance against me." Goku exclaims: "His power level! Can you feel it?!" Vegeta gasps: "Impossible! Such a high power level shouldn't even be possible!" Biara gets serious: "We have to stop him." Yubel speaks: "That's not going to be so easy. We have enemies that stand in our way. We must destroy them first." Indeed, those things are coming right for us. They make Diablo Nemesis and the Earthbound Immortals seem like toddlers by comparison. There's less of them than before but each one's power level makes some of us shiver. I state: "This is bad. They weren't nearly this powerful before. They must be tapping more and more into the hatred, fear, anger, greed, despair, loneliness, and more of the sleeping multiverse inhabitants. Such a power source is beyond the concept of infinity." Dominic yawns: "Not even my abilities to manipulate reality can affect a single one." Eva grits her teeth: "Damn, they outplayed us good. *gestures to SHINC* Let's hold nothing back and use our imaginations to get even stronger, ladies! Let's get these bastards!"
Silica speaks with determination: "I won't back down either! Let's do this, Pina!" "Chirp!" Batman gets ready: "They may be strong but they aren't strong enough to break me. I've already been broken many times." Johnny Test transforms into an ultimate version of Johnny X: "I dare them to come! We'll show them what we're made of!" "Don't get cocky. *raises Graceful Protector* We may be getting stronger thanks to our imaginations but we can't afford to underestimate these nightmares. We need to believe in ourselves to have any chance of winning. Fear cannot be allowed to conquer us. We have to make our wills strong enough to resist what's in store for us. Always remember that you're as strong as you can imagine yourself being as long as you are here. Though that also applies mentally outside of this Dreamverse." The nightmares catch up to us and the fights with them begin. Myself and the others I heard end up facing one of them together. It forms itself into a twisted fusion of every corporate scumbag any of us knows about: Trump, Bob Igor, Lex Luthor, Blight, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, John D Rockefeller, you name it. That includes the fused form of Lex Luthor and Brainiac btw. The nightmare laughs: "Is this the best you can come up with to come stop me? I'm not surprised, my friends are taking care of the rest of you. I'll do them a favor by eradicating all of you by myself. No hard feelings, it's just business after all. So what if harmless people get destroyed? It's all part of business too." I stand my ground: "We shall slay you or you will do us in. Either way, we won't back down. Scumbags like you have no right to control others and we will prove to you that that's true." To be continued..