Dreamcatcher: Warzone

by Absolute Rainbow

("The tales between worlds" multi-cross) Pechy Comet is locked out of her multiverse, and found herself in worlds she never before imagined, let alone enter prior. She and her companions now have to deal with a returning catalyst to CXA's origin: the Darkbolts, now reimagined and led by a robot king.

7. 5: IVY: The Crack of Time

Mission accomplished, but in a strange way. Pechy and the gang dropped in the now-apocalyptic Earth-2, the homeworld of the Wonders of the World. In the Boom Realm riled by James Olsen, the Earth-2 Doctor Impossible, who has been freed by the Darkbolts and turned into a Lightbearer, used the Hive magic for himself and befriended a brainwashed Arak. Taylor Jolicoeur is back, now joined by Lily Pilgrim, the AWESOME daughter and Crota, the Son of Oryx, alongside the original Guardians. The gang has slain Doctor Impossible, took away his Ghost, calcified the Whispers and defeated Arak and also-brainwashed Valda, and in the process shattered the realm. Now the gang found themselves surrounded by the now Darkness-wielding Council of Kangs, led by Kang the Conqueror of the cinematic 'verse, now the newest Disciple of the Witness. Meanwhile...

---

Location: New York City (2044), Dreamcatcher awake universe, Dreamcatcher reality

-*yawns* A brunette girl woke up, wearing blue.

Then, after brushing, rinsing and then styling, she then changed her clothes: it's white sleeveless shirt, blue jacket with shoulder cut-outs, a crystalline star necklace, a black frilly skirt, white knee-highs and blue high-top sneakers.

"Looking great, Ivy Comet!"

Then she put a red knitted beanie on top.

Ivy then rushed out of her room, and slid through the stairs. She went to the kitchen and went to her family: Pechy Comet (pink cardigan, white shirt, cold shoulder and jeans), Ron Davis (very short and neat beard, blue sweater and some beige) and her sister, Clover Comet (green cardigan, multicolored sweater and jeans, dark blonde and green eyes).

Ivy Comet, age 18, is a body-plus-soul come of the deceased Ivy Jolicoeur, made through Dreamer's magic as requested by Taylor Jolicoeur (also making Ivy herself Taylor's goddaughter), alongside her first best friend Mike Smith (another body-plus-soul clone). She's adopted in the Comet familia, alongside the biological daughter Clover as Ivy's sister (Pechy gave birth to Clover herself).

It was a good day. This time, Ivy and Clover went together and invited Mike Smith (red-end brown hair, teal eyes) and the former bounty hunter Claire "Darkwidow" Anderson (shaven hair, beige eyes) back to the Future World, through Ivy's Dreamcatcher which allows for teleportation into the Future World and back.

Yes, it was a good day... until...

BGM: Paraiso (Senshinkan)

"Uh... why are the people panicking again?" (*1) Clover is confused.

The four looked above. A massive white crack in the sky is slowly widening.

Meanwhile, the real world is experiencing a strange quake all over the globe. Pechy and Ron immediately begged Ivy's Dreamcatcher to do something about it.

"Ivy... Clover... please be safe..." Pechy glowed up while begging.

Meanwhile, in 2027...

"Help us, Dreamer! Help us!"

The residents of the Dream Land and co. are panicking over the appearance of the same kind of crack as what appeared in 2044's Future World.

"Oh shit! We have to find help!" Clover rushed.

You think the Pandora would save your little ass? It's too late. I'm already far ahead from everyone but my benefactors. The stars have fallen already. Now, the genesis rises.

A strange voice has emanated, seemingly out of nowhere, heard from all time. (*2) It has begun!

Suddenly, the cracks widened much further.

"Oh no!" Ivy rushed.

The four reached Queen Crystal (identified with her white and purple palette), the redeemed Lucifer (that risen hair and heterochromia), the robot boy that helped the four, and Eric Jolicoeur, the knight (in white armors).

"Everyone! The crack in the sky is a problem!" Queen Crystal cut to the chase. "We have to do something about it!"

Ivy sighed. "Why is both worlds and the entire universe... suddenly... shaking with those cracks?"

"We don't know. We only heard about a strange voice and the crack above." Lucifer responded. "My old adopted daughter, how do we..."

"Hmmm... Oh!" Clarie got it. "Those portals. We know it. And these were left."

The seven went back to the ground, where Pechy and Ron were searching.

"Ivy! Clover! The worlds are... shaking! Quaking!" Pechy, still glowing, is panicking.

"Who could've caused this... strange effect?" Ron looked up.

Indeed, the crack is slowly showing the Corridors of Time. Suddenly, a bunch of almost mecha-like monsters emerged from the crack in 2044.

"This place is cracking down and twisting!" A bunch of little mechanical units followed.

"Not... not again!" Clover screamed in horror.

But Mike vaguely recognized some of those beasts. But an unit noticed the nine people... and Dawn, who now has slightly more elaborate dress and a green gradient on her wings.

The unit met Dawn. And instantly, it recognized her.

"It's me! Simon the Digger, from Dai-Gurren!" (*3)

"Huh?" Dawn is confused. This Dawn has never seen a Ghost before.

"I'm currently a Ghost, but you... You're Dawn Comet! The CXA told me about you! We've been turned into Taken Lucent Dimensional Beasts, and has just been recently freed from the Darkbolts' control by your friends!"/"私は現在ゴーストですが、あなたは... あなたはドーンコメットです！CXAがあなたについて教えてくれました！私たちは宿られたルーセント次元獣に変えられ、つい最近あなたの友人たちによってダークボルトの支配から解放されました!"

This shocked Dawn, whose past self is now coming alongside that Pechy, without her even knowing.

"What?" Pechy caught Simon.

"Listen to us!" Simon then explained everything that the mechas and pilots experienced until 2025!Pechy and friends freed the beasts.

The Dimensional Beasts aren't there to rampage. They are there to help the residents evacuate.

"I am not amused. I am PISSED." Ron is infuriated.

Suddenly, a familiar yet strange portal appeared.

"Everyone, the portal!" Queen Crystal rushed.

Location: Prism Land

"Finally! The United Crystal Light!" (*4) Ivy barged in. "I know how to use it. I already know about my past adventure. Come on, let's-"

"Hurry! The Corridors of Time is approaching fast! I search it from a now-classic game, Destiny 2!" Mike called. "The Dimensional Beasts are from 2nd Super Robot Wars Z, another old classic game!"

"Be careful, Ivy!" Lucifer warned Ivy.

"I know. I already saved the world. Now I'm prepared to do it again." Ivy touched the Crystal Light.

Cue a massive glow from the Prism Land, which was about to be consumed by the Corridors of Time.

"Unity guardian, transform!"

Ivy's whole body glowed, now wearing a combat gown with long sides and short front, a pair of arm guards, and armored boot, all white with rainbow accents. Ivy got three crystalline pairs of wings, an elaborate crystalline tiara, and a recolored face, with the red and blue gradient for hair and matching heterochromia.

"Unity angel, at your service!"

Ivy has returned to her Unity form. And because the evolved Crystal Light has spatiotemporal traces from both the time machine Clarie used to have and the magic of Dreamer, she can now conjure a portal herself.

Suddenly, the castle is quaking.

Dimensional Quakes incoming! The sounds of the beasts' Ghosts is picked up by Ivy's Unity, causing her to hear all of it.

"Dimensional Quakes..." Ivy muttered.

Meanwhile, in 2027, Pechy and Ron are protecting the infant Ivy. Pechy's friends fled the Dream Land, and virtually everyone else evacuated to deeper places.

"I'm tasting my own medicines from nowhere... Yuck." Amaya Shadow complained.

Suddenly, a woman in an elaborate white-gold dress and beautiful makeups and pristine crown. It's pretty much some great form. 2027!Pechy noticed it, and immediately shocked out.

It was 2044!Pechy as the Goddess of the Wishing Star.

"WAAAAAAAAAA!" The 2027, including Amaya, were brought out.

BGM ends as the 2027 version of Dream Land collapsed into becoming one with the...

---

Location: Corridors of Time

"Ugh... wake up already!"

Amaya in a royal red dress with golden trims kicked Ivy.

"Uh... Why...?" Ivy woke up.

"Amaya, still a troublemaker and psycho even after all those years." Dreamer picked on Amaya for her existing villainy.

"Dreamer?" Ivy got up, already detransformed.

"It's... Ivy." 2027!Pechy recognized Ivy. "My... baby?"

2027!Ivy was lying there, crying.

"It seems you were such a crybaby before I were even born." Clover was caressing and keeping 2027!Ivy "Why? Why should I care?"

"It seems... we're stuck at the Corridors of Time." Mike revealed. "Those infos and the white background checks out."

"Holy shit." Amaya facepalmed.

"WHAT!?" Two versions of Ron Davis is shocked at each other. "It's us!?"

The 2027 and 2044 has met each other. Ron is freaked out. 2027!Laelynn to see her more mature and motherly future self on the scene.

"Where are we?" 2027!Miranda Miller is confused. "What exactly is this 'Corridors of Time'?"

Eyes up, Guardians.

Everyone looked up in response, out of curiosity. And the morbid stuff...

It's the original World Trade Center site. Specifically, the South Tower (WTC2) about to be hit by United Airlines Flight 175. (*5)

"OH MY GOD! WHAT THE!?" Everyone except Amaya is shocked.

Amaya simply shrugged, but Dreamer responded with a blast on her face.

"9/11 is horrific." Dreamer corrected Amaya.

"Urgh..." Amaya got back up.

"The terrorists are horrible." 2027!Pechy commented. "Right... me?"

2044!Pechy simply nodded, while still in her Goddess of the Wishing Star form.

"I wasn't even born back then... My birth was 2005, the attack shown here happened in 2001." 2027!Pechy sighed.

"Mom? Dad?" Clover called.

The two versions of the couple came together. "What's up?"

"Who brought us here?" Clover asked.

"Dunno. Something happened." Ivy shrugged.

Eyes up again.

"Nothing. Let's go." Amaya simply left.

Stop, don't trust the threat. A different voice.

"Huh? First, our world quaked. Then, we were pulled out. And next, we're stuck here." 2027!Penny Luna complained. "And now, we're under a moment of terrorism. I don't feel safe."

"Me neither." 2027!Diana Jackson agreed.

Don't worry, mortals. Radiolaria will guide you.

"Radiolaria? You means Vex." Mike left. "Miss, over there!"

Everyone left the WTC frozen site, and followed the pasted radiolaria.

"Everyone, those strange milk..." Ivy rushed.

Ivy and 2044!Pechy assumed their Unity and Goddess forms, respectively. "Follow us!"

"Damn..." Lucifer groaned. "If only we were able to take my spaceship with us..."

Mortals, go through the radiolaria.

"Great... It's an almost-robot girl against me yet helping us with those strange voice." The robot boy complained. "Wait for me!"

The entire gang went a long way, literally. Soon enough, they arrived at a strange circular vault-like gate.

That opened as soon as everyone got in the close proximity. Everyone enters, and went down a passageway. There, they carefully sneaked through a zone - previously a dangerous zone with dangerous puzzles and stuffs, now converted into some sort of construction size.

"This place used to be dangerous. And tricky." Mike checked the web. "But for some reasons, some workers turned this place into a site for... uh..."

Sliding through the area within minutes, the gang immediately went to a series of shafts and makeshift doorways, and eventually, a room with a note "Aegis wuz here" on the door. The stairs were wide, so little congestion.

After passing the stairs and doorways, the gang them had Ivy and Pechies to get them all magical floating that the three of them mastered.

Location: The Gorgons' Labyrinth

A strange cavern filled with dead mechanical monsters and scrapped parts of some construction. The gang walks on the the cavern with unease, due to creepy atmosphere and a bunch of corpses and... dead Ghosts alongside them.

"Oh god... these are some strange... corpses of strange... Guardians." Mike is creeped out.

Minutes later, they arrived at what used to be a jumping puzzle. Instead, it's a massive dump of orange-to-green swirling river seemingly boiling (*6), and calcified platforms as the bridge.

"What in the hell?" 2027!Ron stepped on.

The gang walked the calcified bridge with blocky supports, and a bunch of digging tools and explosives left over.

Then finally...

Location: Vault of Glass

The triangular gate opened, revealed a strange pipeline of energy, running alongside blocky grounds.

"This raid is compromised by construction of... that damn burning lake!" (*6) Mike pointed out. "But at least it's accessible... in the time corridor, which, uh... doesn't feel safe."

There's a metallic throne, and a girl is sitting there. She has long white hair in blunt bangs, bright cyan-to-pink gradient eyes with radiolaria-like sclerae, and glassy minotaur-like horns glowing bright blue and a mechanical glowing piece floating just above her forehead. She wears a black metallic bodysuit with mechanical detached sleeves, all so seamlessly made as if she's really a human. She has a large breastplate on her small breasts and a bunch of separate armor plates from floating in her shoulders and over the continuous thigh-hip-vents as well as symmetrically all over her legs and transitioning into high heels, all which is translucent blue that glows bright, making all those plates looks like neon brite-blue in extremely fast motion. She is just sitting there, with a calm and neutral expression in her face.

"Passion and paradox. Aid the vision. Simplicity requires complexity. Resent the joke. Glimpse the chasm." (*7)

"Holy shit!" The gang is shocked. "She's monotone and salad-words!"

"Welcome, mnemo-magical ragtag of time-displaced rangers from an universe made of dreams of gods and crystals, of varying morality from a multiverse of hopes and dreams with a preference of time travel and inter-dimensional warfare and designated themselves to classify dreams and wishes in one place without break."

The gang if confused by the wordings.

"Uh... You needs to say it more like layman." 2044!Ron suggested.

"Irrelevant to the accuracy of my observation." The girl refuted. "Your arrival here is proof that despite your preference to inter-dimensional hiking of extended reality and multiple worlds in order, and the paradox adventure of your run against the temporal nemesis that is timestream, your predilections-"

"Messy words, lady." Dreamer refuted.

"Perhaps you should expand you linguistic lexicanum before requesting I reduce the complexity of my vocalization." The girl stood up. "I, the mind is Atheon. Time's Conflux, girl, but Vex. I bleeds radiolaria like all other Vex."

"Finally, a little bit better." Mike sighed.

"I am always out of time. Your aging is perpendicular to my existence. I am no causality." Atheon gave a soft smile.

"Then tell me about the burning river!" Ivy cut to the chase.

"The river smell like literal smoke and fire. A magma hidden in a soul water. The undead fuel yet pollutes. Coming from the divine myth of a country known as Greece, yet completely... forbidden and foreign."

"What's with the pipelines?" 2027!Penny asked.

"Pipeline of burning soul energy made of mythical evil from a jar dubbed the Pandora's Box. A nexus jar. Jar. Jar jar blink (*8). Blinking evil, closes down hope." Atheon recalled. "Two main confluxes caches the supply, causing the main energy to be fully replenished. Infinitely, infinitely." (*9) "That info, I optimally intercepted it. One evil Guardian and one girl whose power don't normally appear in my... simulations."

"Simulations?" 2027!Ron shrugged.

"The Corridors of Time fused this home of mine, even when the construction ruined it. Now I can freely subliminate everything, all Vex, every simulations, turn all mine into reality, whenever I want." Atheon revealed. "But I needed you here... because my observation helped leading you here. And I know it."

"Do you know about the burning water we're talking about?" Ivy asked.

"Yes, it is for an unlimited supply of unimaginable power that I cannot yet quite explain properly for this one is being my current knowledge. Two confluxes to caches the energy by shifting the liquid between the real myth and the burning river drained in, and repeated. Two confluxes enforcing two paradoxes out of my control, both of which cancels each other's effect out to stabilize and secure the supply." Atheon explained. "The constructors and that so-called magical girl called the nigh-inexplicable power... irresistibly supreme and hyper-powerful, to the point of interference to me."

"By your wordings, then apparently you cannot handle the burning river." The robot boy commented.

"It heats the Vault up like convection, schmonvection, boiling over nearby radiolaria. It's smokey, and has toxic coefficient-"

"Yeah yeah, can you fix your vocalization?" Clover complained. "Your says are all over the place. We have to parse and purge just to understand fully. Thanks goodness you seems to be legible."

"I am a Vex. Simply requires complexity." Says the Time's Conflux.

Cue the gang facepalms.

However, Atheon was scanning during the initially strange conversation. She's surprised by the history of all those.

"You're all strange. You are so complex." Atheon is shocked... except she's a Vex, and strong emotions like these may not be expressed properly. "You also are very similar... yet very different... kind of interlopers..."

"You mean the Guardians?" Mike showed Atheon the wikis. "Anyways... we wasted enough time here. Everyone, let's go back!"

"My home..." Atheon droops down gently. "Leaving this place in its suboptimal state... it's..."

The gang has already started backtracking. Atheon had to join them and follow their rush, leaving her Vault.

Wait... none of you are true Guardians! What? Did I just mess up?

"Mortals! The voice of the distrustworthy!" Atheon caught up.

Atop the gate and atop the corridor...

"Shoot! It seems I'm becoming senile!" Magnificent is surprised, even as a tyrannical Exo.

"It's ok. You were old. But your newest body can hold it." The Godhunter reassured. "Oh, it seems humanism affected even you. That's an Exo thing, and I know it. I'm a best friend with Cayde (*10), so why not enjoy it?"

"I'm trying my best. But damn... old age from old days alone does sure make everything different..."

"Alright, wanna eat something?"

"Give me some radiolaria. It's a milk only the Prismatic Fleet will enjoy, and I loved it."

"Vex milk? Sure thing!"

The Godhunter then blitzed out to get radiolaria for the Magnificent Exo to drink.

Meanwhile...

"I'm on the sky of time now. It's so paradox and magnificent." Atheon, a humanized Vex just breathed out.

"We're out!" Ivy panted.

The gang has just left the Vault, and it's seeking for the next direction. But both Pechies asked Atheon about the wiretapping.

"In the construction, someone left a pool of crystalline glow which touched the burning river, and from there, risen a smoky being in metal clothes like mine, dubbed 'the Witness', escaped like we just did." Atheon recalled. "Currently, the Witness is not within my relevant knowledge. Needs more observation and findings."

"Use the wiki!" Mike complained.

"The time in corridor... oh no. Oh no. Oh no." Atheon is distracted.

There's a corridor marked by none other than Amaya's twisted universe, created from a bloody wish that razed the gang's main multiverse. (*11)

"It's an altered 2023!" Both Pechies and even Ivy recognized this universe. "Amaya and the Destiny Girls are there!"

However, there's also another mark, that is bleeding through. It's a strange coliseum.

"Realities may be bleeding right now. Like this!" Mike pointed it out.

"Everyone! Let's get in!" Ivy and 2044!Pechy both flew in.

---

Location: Destiny Girls' studio (2023), Dreamcatcher awake universe, Dreamcatcher reality

"Haaah!" Gasped.

A strange young witch with dark blonde hair, crimson eyes and bloody dress and dark tiara.

"Where... am... I? At? Hello?"

It seems she's in what appears to be her own dark castle.

Stepping out of her throne, she walked around the castle.

"Guys? Where are you at?"

"Pechy, what have you done?!" A guy spoke up.

The witch was actually 2023!Pechy Comet. 2023!Ron Davis is crying and forcibly disowning her.

"Ron? Is that you...? What are you doing here at the castle? I thought you were with your friends!" 2023!Pechy is mortified. "What's going on there!?"

"Enough, Pechy! Just shut it!" 2023!Ron refuted. "You've betrayed us! Why didn't you tell anyone about your secret!? Why were you so mean to Renee, your old friend!? Why didn't you tell your future daughter that she's a clone!? What have you done, Pechy Comet!? You've completely betrayed me and my friends!"

"Look, Ron... I didn't mean to! I never did anything wrong! You must've had been manipulated be Renee Jaillet, not me!" 2023!Pechy pleaded. "It's just Renee! Please listen, Ron! Please! I know Ivy is still her original self in a new body! She got killed by Amaya Shadow from across worlds! As for Renee, she decided to stop be friends and start bullying me and hurt my feelings. And I never told anyone else about being hero for 2 years! I'm sorry guys. I'm so sorry!"

Atheon is hiding behind the doors behind 2023!Pechy.

"Sorry, not sorry, Pechy! For what you've done in the past. Now, look at you! For letting Renee Jaillet and Amaya Shadow destroy the universe, I'll challenge you for a battle!"

"Yeah, Ron!" 2023!Diana Jackson goaded. "Challenge that witch! She just betrayed everyone!"

"No please!" 2023!Pechy "Let me explain, guys!"

"Never! Challenge her!" 2023!Diana denied.

"You betrayed us!" 2023!Miranda Miller refuted.

"You are a witch!" 2023!Penny Luna mocked 2023!Pechy.

"You're not going anywhere!" 2023!Ron declared.

"Traitor!" 2023!Gary Jackson called 2023!Pechy out.

Wait a minute... I knew it! They all got brainwashed! This is a trap! "A nightmarish trap... My friends got trapped here too..." 2023!Pechy figured it out. "But this isn't real... I'm not an evil villain. This can't be the future!"

2023!Akia is just standing here, also brainwashed as well. But Queen Crystal and Lucifer together whispered what happened to 2027 and 2044, as well as the existence of the Corridors of Time.

2023!Pechy channeled her dream powers, and it broke the trap. The main gang for now, went to hiding, while the 2023 gang were freed.

"Pechy?" 2023!Ron caught on.

"Ron? Is that you?" 2023!Pechy noticed. "Is that really you? What's going on there?"

"Yes, it's me and it's, Pechy. We're trapped in nightmare by Cecile Bernard of the Destiny, errr, Sweet Nightmare (*12) Girls!" 2023!Ron realized. "Renee Jaillet brainwashed us into hating you! We don't have time to lose!"

"Ron is right! Renee and Amaya is about to use the Wishing Star on their show tonight!" 2023!Diana warned 2023!Pechy. "I know this is going to be the end, that were going to disappear forever! You better save us, Pechy!"

"But how?! How am I going to do it?" 2023!Pechy is worried. "I can't leave you guys! You're all my good friends I have! And I cannot do it without my friends! I can't! I'm sorry!"

"Yes, you can, Pechy! You can't be alone!" 2023!Ron encouraged Pechy, as he and friends is smiling. "You always helped people around the world! You saved the world and everyone 2 years ago! You never have up your last dream wish! This is your destiny, Pechy! You need to save the universe, save us, stop Amaya Shadow and Renee Jaillet!"

2023!Pechy's friends encouraged Pechy, except for 2023!Akia who's paranoid from the whispering. As she's told that Corridors of Time exists, she couldn't help but bring that info to the friends, especially Pechy.

Nonononono-

"I love you, Pechy Comet, but before you go, take my hand!" 2023!Ron have his hand to 2023! Pechy.

"Yes. Akia Shadow of 2023. I am here, to help you, you're friends and existence." Atheon is suddenly behind 2023!Akia.

"Hah!" 2023!Akia is creeped out.

As the light holds in holding hands...

"The darkness will never get you. The dream will see you, including your best friend, our future, you and me. It's not the end of the world. You've been my last dream, including your future daughter Ivy. You better be freed as a dream, and escape your nightmare."

Ron then pulled his hands off.

"Ron Davis is right. Just escape your nightmare, and free you're Dreamcatcher." Atheon had to impersonate 2023!Akia.

"Okay... I promise, Ron." 2023!Pechy declared.

As the nightmare trap got broken, 2023!Pechy passed out.

A short while later...

"Hey, my 2023. Wake up!" 2044!Pechy woke up teenage up.

"Huh...?" 2023!Pechy woke up.

"It's us, from the future. Your mother and grandmother, Paige and Celestia, are safe." 2027!Pechy gave a hand to her past self.

2023!Pechy gasped at her future selves. "You are..."

2027!Pechy pulled 2023!Pechy up, and...

"My future... has arrived." 2023!Ron is shocked.

Meanwhile...

"It's 9 o'clock! Get ready!" 2023!Amaya, still with her powers, called.

The powerless 2027!Amaya is sneaking behind, calling Atheon to infiltrate the show.

"Mom? And... ME!?" Yet another Ivy watched the scene.

Ivy noticed her pre-Unity self seeing all the versions of Pechy, and is shocked. "What!? WHAT!?"

Title card: The New Adventure of the Cheer Girls: 100-Episode Special

"Live at Hollywood, California, it's the 100-episode special of The New Adventure of the Cheer Girls! With your favorite special host: Renee Jaillet!" The narrator in the show declared.

Renee Jaillet is on the stage, waving. Strangely for her, she's forced to hold a Vex siege cannon - dubbed the Torch Hammer (*13) - on her other hand. "Well, hello everyone!"

"Welcome, everyone to my 100th episode special of The New Adventure of the Cheer Girls!" Renee on the mic, still holding the Torch Hammer. "I'm glad you made it on time! Now, before we start the celebration... I will show you a bunch of cool things from galaxies far, far away!"

Those watching the live episode recognized the strange gun on the screen, which some gamers even recognized it as the Torch Hammer. Cue the confusion among watching gamers.

"First up is this so-called Torch Hammer. With considerable range and fire-rate, it fires elemental bolts that explodes in a radioactive volley that explodes to keep enemies away. Said enemies, such as Pechy Comet, should be wary of standing in the open when one of these weapons is on the field." Renee explained, much to further confusions of the games watching the show, who wondered why these guns would end up in an otherworlder's possession, assuming it's real.

Renee them showed the Wishing Star. "And behold... the Wishing Star! This Wishing Star will give everything you want and you like, such as wishing to become rich or become popular."

"That's right!" 2023!Amaya ignored the Torch Hammer. "It will give you anything you want. But now, it's time for celebration for a reveal from my good friend, Renee Jaillet."

"And then some." Atheon sneaked like a ghost, using Vex power to make her invisible to cameras. "Renee Jaillet? Hello."

The Time's Conflux whispered on the girl's head.

"Passion and paradox. Aid the vision. Simplicity requires complexity. Resent the joke. Glimpse the chasm." (*7) Renee spoke like Atheon's own thinking. "Huh? What did I just say?"

The studio is taken over by relative future, preventing anyone from commending technical difficulties. 2023!Amaya finally realized something's wrong.

"Yes. I am the time's conflux. The mind is Atheon. Of the Vault of Glass." Atheon snatched the Torch Hammer and the mic both, and pushed Renee down.

The Vex girl held the Destiny Girls at rotating gunpoint.

2044!Pechy in her Goddess of the Wishing Star got to the stage, took the Wishing Star and shared the mic with Atheon.

"Out there is the Corridors of Time. Atheon helped us hijack this show to send you a message: reality is bleeding." 2044!Pechy declared. "I am Pechy Comet, the Goddess of the Wishing Star, from the future. This is 2023, and I'm from 2044. It's a 21-year gap. About 21 years after this show gets erased normally, my adopted daughter, Ivy Comet, saved both the real world you're in and the Future World, by redeeming Lucifer, a.k.a. Master Void. Now, we've all noticed the reality bleed. There will be a ton of chaos."

"What!?" The collective viewership is shocked.

"My observation led me here. My processing led to this moment. You know me from the Vault of Glass. The first-ever raid, debuted in 2014, 30 years before the Crystal Light incident, and about 9 years ago." Atheon continued. "This world and this time point is being consumed by the now ever-expanding Corridors of Time. And a strange realm is colliding with the timeline. And also, those burning river that I'm struggling to process, has been made for unlimited supply of an unfathomably powerful energy from a mythical property known as the Pandora's Box, from the real myth of Greece. And some being is on the run, and the constructors seems to be searching for that being. Can you guess who that being is?"

"Hint: I smell strange magic on the jumping puzzle turned burning river site." 2044!Pechy hinted.

Cue the viewership panicking. It's even worse than originally, when Renee had to wish for the universe's destruction (*11).

"Oh. A Vex and a bunch of lost time." A strange echo reached the studio, even reaching the mic and thus causing telegraphed audible speech. "These are crude... situations."

"That seems like... some sort of being from..." Atheon looked up. "High probability. The source smells the same as residues within the burning river, based on prior observations."

"Who are you, that echo?" 2044!Pechy looked up.

2044!Pechy then looked back to the cameras, and called. "By the way, those 100 episodes are evil, from the so-called Cheer Girls, a.k.a. the Destiny Girls. Amaya Shadow and the Destiny Girls are behind this. Your were being manipulated into thinking I'm evil. But no, they ARE! Thank you for watching. Now you're watching... chaos itself."

"Oh my god! OH GOD!" The viewership panicked even more.

"Call us the Witness. The first knife, carving purpose unto beings." The voice declared. "We declares the Final Shape. You only need obey."

"Finally! Subject confirmed. The name is a perfect match to my prior observations." Atheon confirmed.

"Atheon... Time's Conflux... One of the Vex." The Witness recognized Atheon's stuffs. "Kang. Dispatch this place."

"Holy shit!" Ivy looked up.

"What the...?!" Pre-Unity Ivy looked up.

2027!Ivy just cried.

"This is it. Some bleeding of fabric of reality!" Clover noticed.

Suddenly, the rooftops is calcified, exposing all the interiors of the studio. A coliseum looms.

"Kang the Disciple has arrived!" A man in a strange, geometric accent, shaped armors in greyscale and some resonance, descends. "Behold! The Witness!"

"Kang the Disciple?" Mike captured the scene.

"Hey! Get us!" 2027!Ron called.

"You look like... changed but same-ish versions of those..." The Witness looked down.

2023!Dreamer Light came to the scene, having just been freed just like pre-Unity Ivy. "What the-"

Outside of that universe, the corridor is melting the fabric of that universe down, slowly teaching the studio. But the strange coliseum has come.

A mysterious woman - those dress and limbs, eyes and all - came to the corridor. She noticed the distance between the Vault of Glass and this corridor.

"I smell... sparkling radiolaria. And some... hope-making." The woman squinted.

2023!Amaya's twisted universe is slowly being consumed. But most importantly, a strange coliseum has fallen to the universe. The woman then noticed a multitude of footsteps on radiolaria on The way to the Vault, making everything even more suspicious in her eyes.

"Hmph. Must be those... who got away... with my existence."

The woman walks to the mark, entering 2023!Amaya's twisted universe. Meanwhile...

"Enough of this... Enough!" Thanks to the interruption of the show, 2023!Pechy snatched the Wishing Star.

Suddenly, 2023's Wishing Star suddenly shone.

---

Location: Arena, Council of Kangs (Marvel Cinematic Universe version)

"I need you to fight, fight, fight my Sword!" Crota laughed.

"Dreamer, when am I seeing Ivy again?" 2025!Pechy Comet asked 2025!Dreamer Light (Dreamerine, experiment No.23). "Ivy Comet... I haven't seen her since the Hyper Genesis Wave..."

"Amaya Shadow... you're the only one willing to fight?" Crota gleefully called 2025!Amaya Shadow.

"Yeah? Let's." 2025!Amaya transformed into her enlightened form, and pulled out her scythe.

"Fight! Fight!" The Council of Kangs goaded the two into fighting.

"Stop!" Jones shouted.

"Stop it!" Hope's Canon Bringer blocked the two.

The other Canon Bringers then leapt in and started dispatching the members of the Council, even the greater Scarlet Centurion, Rama-tut and Immortus, among other Kangs.

"Freeze!" Those Canon Bringers suppressed the Kangs. "You're conspiring civil violence amongst omniversal alliances!"

"You know, looks like we're having a suppression." Beta is bored.

Suddenly, Ivy and her past selves appeared. Pre-Unity is holding the 2027 infant, while the main Ivy from 2044 is still in her Unity form. Ivy detransformed and noticed 2025!Pechy.

"Mom?" Ivy and pre-Unity Ivy both noticed.

"Ivy... IVY!?" 2025!Pechy noticed. "You're...!"

"Mom! But..." Ivy reeled back. "You're... past? From the past? But..."

Then, the Pechies appeared. 2023!Pechy was in Goddess of the Wishing Star form, having just attained it thanks to both her memories, Laelynn and the hatred against 2023!Amaya. 2027 and 2044 version is in their civilian forms though.

"What!?" 2025! Pechy is shocked.

"Pechy Comet... and Pechy Comet... and THE GODDESS OF THE WISHING STAR!?" Hope's Canon Bringer noticed.

"Oh... great. So this is my past and future and... future. And my child." 2025!Pechy is confused.

Mike, Clover and Clarie got transported here, next!

"Uh... children. Hi." 2025!Pechy is nervous.

"Mom!" Pre-Unity Ivy hugged 2025!Pechy, and then patted 2025!Dawn as well. "Oh, hi there, Dawn! Wait..."

"My little past, I'm the Unity angel. And because I got my transformation back from the fully-evolved Crystal Light, I was able to conjure portals to... multiverse and timelines. And oh... mom." Ivy looked around. "Anyways... this has gone too far. All my friends and allies got knocked down during the collapse. Found ourselves under a moment of terrorism." (*5)

"Wh-Wh-What!?" 2025!Dreamer noticed.

2023!Dreamer and 2027!Dreamer has both teleported, followed closely by 2023!Amaya and 2027!Amaya. 2023!Amaya is infuriated by not only 2023!Pechy like originally, but also by what just happened.

"What the fuck!?" 2023!Amaya flipped out, and attacked her 2025 self. "Oh wait... not again!"

2025! Amaya blocked her past self with the scythe, which 2027!Amaya just laughed it off.

"I've failed as a villainess." 2027!Amaya recalled.

"Ugh! No!" 2023!Amaya is so enraged, that she transformed into her nightmare demon form...

...only for Hope's Canon Bringer to restrain her. "Freeze!"

"No! No! No!" 2023!Amaya is ridiculed, much to her future selves' amusement.

"I think I need my power." 2027!Amaya approached her villainous non-enlighten self.

The 2027 touched the 2023's horns, which caused a dark shockwave to knock 2027 off. But it didn't do it fatally. Instead...

"I'm just got my power back. It's reawakened." 2027!Amya floats up. "Oh my... Look, Dreamer! Show-"

"Stop!" Taylor shouted. "What's going on!?"

Quickly enough, basically everyone else is brought to here. The biggest major exception is the Destiny Girls, who were calcified by the Witness.

"Oh my goodness!" 2023 friends and 2027 friends except Laelynn saw each other all at once."

2044!Ron walked by, and is suspicious about this place. "What is this strange place? And why all those paradoxes are happening?"

Atheon appeared in her true form: a large Vex minotaur with true horns and crystalline brite-blue glow all across the glassy body.

"Oh fuck!" The Guardians flipped out.

Nearly a hour later, Kang and the Witness have returned.

"What have happened? Who took my people away!?"

"Freeze! For real this time!" The Canon Bringers did it again.

"You are not observing this incident properly. Why are you insisting on all the suboptimal routes?" Atheon called Crota with a neutral gaze.

"Oh really? Sword Logic." Crota scoffed. "Are you sharp enough?"

"You're an organic blade that needs to be cleaned." Atheon spoke in monotone, with wordings that annoyed Crota.

"We will kill you both." The Warlock threatened the two.

"We have already implanted Light-detonation explosion inside your mind. If you step over the line, the dissenting veils inside your consciousness will be burned in Light, and you will decay into Echoes, akin to how Guardians destroyed you." Another Canon Bringer warned the Witness. "There's nothing you can do against the Continuum Exploitation Authority. If we need your help, comply once you do. Betrayal will not be tolerated."

The Witness immediately tried to calcify the robots, but only the robot boy got calcified. The Canon Bringers were immune, and Hope's Canon Bringer used the Light to put the robot boy back to normal.

"No. This can't be." The Witness is disappointed.

"So-called bringers, what's your deal!?" Kang the Disciple accused the Canon Bringers.

"Seriously?" Deadpool shrugged.

"We can and will nuke the Witness's collective consciousness with the Light. We already set the nuke up." Hope's Canon Bringer warned the Council.

"Fine..." The Kangs submitted to the robots.

"Oh yeah!" The robot boy clapped to the Canon Bringers.

In response, Hope's Canon Bringer have the robot boy a thumb-up.

The Pechies gathered together, starting to get used to timelines' properties gathered together.

"Ok, Mom and mom and mom and mom... ah... I'm gonna explain my adventure." Ivy called. "Oh, you too, Deadpool and those robots. Wanna listen?"

"I know analysis. Total analysis. Unlike the organic with a blade-minded brain inside those chitin forms." Atheon heard it.

"Ok... so I was going with my friends and while my parents, that's you the mother, going to Ms. Laelynn's daughter's wedding, I came to the Future World. I was tasked by Queen Crystal to get the Crystal Light back. You know, Master Void has been trying to destroy it. Then I met Clarie for the first time, who was kidnapping my sister Clover Comet, and fought her across dimensions, until a robot boy here beat her up. I found out Clarie was taken in the past after losing her grandmother Ichika in the foster home. I and Mike then got to the Void Castle, and mistook the Crystal Light. Clarie came to help save the day through combat, but I accidentally broke her time machine, causing me and Clarie to fall down into 2027, on the day of the wedding. You married worth Dad, Ron Davis, and I got to learn about my past, motivating me to ask Clarie, while Dreamer reconstructed the machine. That machine went haywire at first, but I did get to know about Clarie's past, so I went back and found her real, birth parents. I, Mike, Clover and Clarie had to contend with alien guards, and so on, but by the time we got to the Prism Land and dived deep into its garden, turns out Master Void had the real original Crystal Light. He destroyed it, and left all four to die. I and Clarie was saved by the new, triple Crystal Light. But I thought Clarie betrayed me for telling everything, so I went back and talked to Dawn. I came back and warned Queen Crystal, only for me and her to be caught. I pleaded Master Void to spare Mike, who were kidnapped earlier, and in return, Void destroyed the new Crystal Light and left me to die for real. That could've been it. That could've been the end."

"Wait... You nearly DIED!?" 2044!Pechy is shocked. "OH MY STARS!"

"Thankfully, the power of the broken Crystal Light reawakened Unity itself. I was back, and became the new Unity angel. You remember our collect ancestor, Luna Comet?" Ivy continued. "Anyways, I and Clarie combated, while Mike and Cover got the evolved Crystal Light back. I was able to redeem Master Void and complete the Crystal Light, saving both Future World and the real world."

In return, 2025!Pechy explained everything that happened since Hyper Genesis Wave, in her and gang's perspectives. She even told about the Dimensional Beasts and the Weapon Z facility, among others.

"Wait... aunt Dreamer's past... was turned into an intended killing weapon!?" Ivy is shocked. "And Amaya of all people... got ENLIGHTENED!?"

"Amaya is what we got. Crota is what we got. The Witness, too, is what we got." 2025!Pechy sighed.

"You are a crude blade. So crude, I struggle to understand your own being." Atheon is confused, because Sword Logic is explicitly messing with the calculating ability of the Vex, let alone a super-scientist like her.

Crota simply blew a raspberry, believe that she could cleave the Vex girl at any time if Crota wants it.

"The Witness must comply." The Canon Bringers then bowed down to the Guardians. "We're sorry for bothering!"

"What?" The Council of Kangs are confused.

The woman flew across space, approaching the Earth of the twisted universe the coliseum is stuck in.

"Oh hell no!" The Titan clenched their fist. "Two slain threats trying to mess in front of us!? First, we have to accept Crota, and now we have to watch Atheon raze this place in time!?"

"I agree. Should we beat them up like we did years ago?" The Hunter suggested.

"Two strong beasts versus three weaker warriors? Are you serious?" The Warlock questioned.

2027!Amaya surrounded the three with her own scythe. Said scythe is made of pure nightmare power innate to her for years.

"What are you doing? Indecisive?" 2027!Amaya questioned back.

Because of this particular interaction, the Guardians failed to noticed that the beef between the God-Knight and the Conflux has just been escalated.

"Two Kuroda-Vanitas design bases are being pitted against each other this time!" Deadpool noticed. "That would be brutal! They're raid bosses!"

BGM: Chronologies (Destiny)

"WHO DARES?!" Crota roared raising to her feet, steam rising from her shoulder, stomach and face the three points the Void orbs of energy had impacted her.

"As typical, you vermin of the Hive breach the nexus of reality," Atheon ordered, in her normal stoic manner, as she strode free, her Torch Hammer levelled towards Crota as it began charging up another shot. The 2027 friends shuddering at the look in Atheon's eyes.

While her eyes were normally calm, cold and calculating. This time they were filled with pure uncontained rage, rage, if he had to guess, was directed at the girl who had attempted to murder him. "It will be gratifying to consign such odious vermin to your legitimate station." Without giving Crota a chance to respond, Atheon opened fire again striding toward her.

Each shot fired landed hit its mark, exploding across Crota's flesh in sparks of green and purple, forcing the now-Lucent Hive God to keep her sword protectively held in front of her in an attempt to block as many of the shots as possible. Atheon knew exactly how Crota would respond from the compiled data and simulations received long ago form Quria, Blade Transform (*14), and those Axis Minds that had further studied, simulated and collected data upon the Hive Gods.

Now one was before her, the very ignorant child that had torn its way into the very core of the Vex consensus so many aeons ago was before her, and it sent her synapse into a wild spin as complex chemical signals bounced around her brain. Pure unparalleled rage, rage at what had been and what could be should Crota be allowed to continue to wander beyond the reality they all came from.

The thought of allowing anything from the Hive, especially one of its Gods to stand in front of those from entirely different worlds, to simply be allowed to exist near that which she studied and observed. No that did not feel right, deep within her mind, a singular series of thoughts and memories blurred into one message. One conclusion that to Atheon was never something any Vex had conceived as a possible outcome across the entire infinite curve of possibility, the kindness and personalities with warm friendly words from most filled her frontal lobe as Atheon saw the images of what she had come to understand as partners and eventually, friends.

Through Strand, 2025!Pechy read the thoughts from Crota and Atheon during the brawl. Strangely enough, it's a conflict between the Sword Logic and the Vex simulations.

Despite initially actively trying to dumb down her speech, the future Dreamcatcher gang had been instrumental in the understanding of standard social conventions and would still have such a well of knowledge to offer. Atheon had come to enjoy their presence and the very idea that something could upset her new "pattern" would be ruthlessly crushed. Yet it was the prospect of realities far being the Vex's normal reach that held itself first within Atheon's mind, something about the personality of all those from the worlds, whether it be good or evil, when warfare and fun were involved caused an imbalance of the chemical composition of her radiolaria-based brain. This imbalance only occurred whenever she thought of anything other than the world of Destiny garden (*15) and it vexed Atheon that she could not understand it, nor the odd feeling it generated in her chest. In time Atheon knew she would be able to analyse and fully understand the impact anomalies like those were having on her chemical balances.

Though for the moment the very notion of anything relating to the Hive being here to threaten, even if by indirect means, this incident in general stirred a singular reaction within Atheon. Something that indirectly overrode her ingrained need to analyse, study and simulate, the need to keep virtually everyone else safe, somehow including even the Witness (who turned the Krill into the Hive) from the Hive, even if Crota wasn't meaning to harm anyone else. It was something she could not explain or offer any logical reason as to why such a need was dominating her mind, but it was something she would see fulfilled with the level of tenacity and perfection only a Vex axis mind could.

With each step toward Crota, Atheon unleashed a withering hail of Torch Hammer blasts into the greenette, each shot impacted Crota forcing her to bunker down using her sword to an attempt to block the incoming blasts. Coming to a halt just outside of the effect range of Crota's blade, Atheon glared into the haze of dust and smoke that had been generated from the explosive discharge of the Torch Hammer bolts.

Atheon scanned the haze trying to pick out any silhouette that would show we're Crota was, predicting that it was more than likely Crota would have used the haze to move then continue to suffer a withering barrage of void energy. Her mind raced with possible paths of the future, outcomes likely based on prior knowledge of engagements with the Hive and keenly the being before her now.

Choosing the most likely outcome Atheon begin to generate tendrils of radiolaria in her legs, sending them down and across the churned up dirt, it was simple logical deduction to know that in close proximity Crota would hold every advantage. So to rob Crota of such an advantage Atheon would simply turn the very battlefield against her.

A scream of pure rage ripped through the haze as Crota shot forward sword held high ready for a downward strike, she zeroed in on Atheon effortlessly closing the gap between the two of them. A sickening smile of malicious spread across Crota's face as she reached the perfect striking range, wasting no time quaking the coliseum with her swings.

Bringing her Torch Hammer up Atheon used the bulbs upper curves of the weapon to deflect the blade strike to the side just enough so it would impact the ground and kick up another dust cloud, still the impact of the blade on the Torch Hammer sent shockwaves running across her arm and down her spine causing her synapses to flare in response. She knew this feeling, that was something the Vex had simulated and long come to understand as an organic response to something harmful to the survival, it was pain.

Pushing this new unwelcome sensation aside for the moment as something to dwell on later, Atheon used the dust cloud as cover to rotate herself around Crota and slam her foot into the enraged girl's side. The impact sending the cascading energies of Atheon's Temporal Shockwave rocketing across Crota's back sending explosive ripples of blue lightning arcing from the impact zone and launching Crota out of the dust cloud and into the ground several feet away.

Slowly with a growl of anger Crota rose to her feet turning a glare of pure unrivalled hatred towards the now dissipating dust cloud, her gaze locking with Atheon's own glare of cold and calculated anger. She gripped the hilt of her blade tighter a snarl escaping Crota's lips as she rolled her shoulders to loosen the tension that was building between them.

"I am going to enjoy cutting you on my blade and feeding my worm your strength." Crota spat from between clenched teeth. "As the Eater of Hope, I will enjoy breaking you."

"Devoid fulminations from an overindulged suckling." Atheon shot back, her voice still with its neutral expressionless tone. "It seems your progenitor omitted to illustrate the folly of disputing those who exceed your." Atheon paused to give Crota single condescending smirk, "Mental deficiencies. It appears I shall have to facilitate such material."

Meanwhile, Supreme herself brought out the 2025 props: the Wishing Star, the Winter Crystal, the Emerald-Diamond, the Legend Diamond and that Smash Ball. While 2023!Amaya and Taylor are suddenly enamoured (*16), the Canon Bringers got suspicious.

"My ball! The Smash Ball!" Taylor got it. "Thanks!"

"What?" Hope's Canon Bringer is suspicious. "Why are you holding such strange version?"

"C'mon! It's mine!" 2023!Amaya knocked that robot off.

Cue them suspending her in Strand.

To say Crota was enraged was wrong on just about every level, she had surpassed simple anger to reach such heights of rage it would be thought to be impossible to reach. The source of her rage this tall and silvery white-haired girl had to be mocking her, had to be a Worm-forsaken to be able to survive and put up such a fight.

When this girl had fired her clearly very Vex-like weapon the shots had hurt had stung and left marks along Crota's Hive-flesh, this had to be the work of the cursed Light for nothing else had the power to harm a part of the Hive pantheon save another member themselves. Yet to be strong enough to challenge her, it was an odd experience something Crota had not been exposed to since when she had accidentally torn into the home dimension of those accursed machines of the Vex.

But the thoughts on the similarities between how the Vex had fought and this girl were something for her to possibly deal with in the future, right now she was more focused on trying to figure out what her opponent had just said and why it was so infuriating.

"I have no idea what you just said." Crota snapped bringing her sword up again widening her stance reading herself for another charge towards Atheon. "It'll be a pleasure to shut your mouth for you!"

"Such vulgarity from an entity postulating about being the devourer of aspiration." Atheon snaps back keeping the Torch Hammer aimed squarely at Crota.

Rage boils inside Crota at the snappy comeback, she knew she was being mocked even if she did not understand what exactly she was being mocked for. Crota would not stand for being made a fool, she would show this uppity self-righteous cow her place. Broken beneath her heel.

With a scream of pure rage, Crota shot toward Atheon, swirling her blade around to deflect the incoming response shots from Atheon's weapon. A sickening smile graced Crota's lips as she brought her blade down towards Atheon at a frightening pace.

Her blade impacted something causing a shockwave of energy to explode from the pair kicking up a dust cloud concealing them and all nearby members of the gangs and the Council of Kangs for the moment from view.

"What have you done!?" The Hunter blamed the 2027 and 2044 friends except the unassuming Laelynns.

"Crota decided to tag with us." Lily refuted. "It seems that so-called... Atheon?"

"Atheon? She tagged alongside us." 2027!Diana complained.

2027!Earla Sky and 2027!Akia Shadow facepalmed, while the Titan simply charge their fist with Arc Light.

"You have to have guts to bring our raids back into annoying us, and then let those so-called protectors deal with it, without our consent." The Titan threatened with their fist. "What if Crota or Atheon ended up killing one of us or yours? Would you feel safe right now?"

"Calm down, Guardians!" The Canon Bringers restrained the Guardians.

"But a brawl between a close-ranged juggernaut and an overwhelming firepower of a living computer could-!" The Warlock complained.

"Better to divert the bosses than to let the bosses kill." Hope's Canon Bringer suggested. "Also, did you read Sun Tzu's Art of War? Military philosophy and all."

"Oh, a violence cloud! A big ball of violence!" Pouchy is shocked.

"Can't you tolerate violence?" The Warrior King facepalmed.

Crota grinned having felt her blade impact on something hard, oh finally she'd feed her worm and regain the full measure of her strength. A victorious laugh let from Crota's mouth oh she would enjoy savouring "the Light" of this.

"Such a valiant effort, but like all those who dare challenge The God-Knight of the Hive, your Light will sustain my worm." Crota continued to laugh as the dust slowly began to clear and the laughter began to die out only to be replaced by a growl of rage and shock.

Instead of being neatly embedded into Atheon's secretly-mechanical shoulder down to the bone, her blade was instead trapped within flickering blue cubes of radiolaria. A sense of rising familiarity began to dawn within Crota, she knew of only one race that could form and use such structures. They were the bane of her entire life, the reason her father had cast her from the Ascendant realm. Every problem in her life was from the "fault" of the Vex and even now it seemed very likely being here was very likely in some way the result of the Vex.

"How?!" Crota demanded attempting to wrench her blade free of the radiolaria structure. "How are you a Vex?!"

Slowly Atheon rose from her crouched position, her eyes remaining stoic as she glared at Crota. Atheon snorted lifting a wrist to wipe away the slow trickle of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth, turning her gaze down to the blood now coating the back her wrist.

While she had analysed the Collective data stored within the Vex Nexus as far as The Hive was concerned, it was a novel experience to find a singular entity that could match a Vex Axis Mind blow for blow. Yet even with Crota's ability to match Atheon, her combat style showed no adaptation from when Blade Transform had first recorded and analysed the subtle nature of The Hive's ways of war, it was something Atheon was going to exploit.

"Though Blade Transform was conquered by your progenitor." Stepping forward Atheon raised her free hand high into the air, radiolaria gliding across the arm in sharp angular lines slowly taking shape along her arm. Sleek angular curves of bronze faded into reality from the radiolaria it's aesthetic matching that of the Torch Hammer, the sleek curves flowed like water around her wrist and hand fixing itself into place as slowly, at the very tip of the now formed bronze arm guard, a long sleek pointed chisel crafted from the radiolaria took shape its core pulsing with energy of a binary singularity. A paradoxical energy source only the mind creatures like a Vex could truly comprehend.

"An analogous causatum I elect to halt!" From deep within the swirling vortex of her mind, the rage that had surfaced began to seep deeper into the clinical thought processes of her mind. Infecting it like a virus spreading, whispering to make this petulant child of monstrous god suffer. Her stoic mask cracking as the rage truly gripped every facets of Atheon's mind.

Wasting no time, Atheon slammed the tip of Binary Edge, a weapon born that never seemed to exist before. The rippling energy's of time locked singularity exploded forth from the chisel time into Crota's stomach, forcing her to let out a wheezing breath of pain as every muscle across her body spasmed.

The grip on her blade loosening as it felt like Crota had just been gut-punched across her entire timeline by the essence of creation itself, with a gasp of pain something she had not felt in aeons rolled across her body exploding outwards in millisecond before falling back into the point the chisel had struck only to explode in violet waves of energy.

Rocketing backwards in a heap Crota slammed into the ground sucking in ragged breaths. Slowly she rose to her feet only to notice her sword was still embedded within the radiolaria she had struck, a growl of anger left her lips as she saw Atheon stride past the blade her Torch Hammer aimed squarely at Crota.

"Time's Conflux will rectify the singular error in Vex calculations!" Atheon unleashed another hail of shots into Crota, forcing Crota to raise her arms in an attempt to protect herself from the incoming impacts.

Crota in anger Crota took the shots focusing her mind, the welcoming embrace of the darkness flowing from deep within filling her limbs with rippling energy. Black flames edged with green energy exploded into life along Crota's arms, smirking Crota threw her arms outward hurling jets of black flame toward Atheon forcing her to roll to the side.

Seeing this Crota shot forward towards her blade, reaching it in only a few seconds before wrenching it free from the radiolaria sending radiolaria shards across the clearing. Sword in hand Crota turned to face Atheon, she fixed off the white hair Vex with a look of pure disgust.

"You Vex are all the same." Crota spat bring her blade around into a guard position before her. "I'll be sure to gut you for my Worm." (*17)

"No, Crota! You don't have Worm anymore!" Krilly corrected Crota.

"Fine. I'll still gut that Vex!" Crota smirked.

The Hunter shot Golden Gun towards the two raid bosses as an act of supposed defense, but the Canon Bringers restrained them further. Both were hit, but both regenerated easily: Crota simply had Solar Light to heal her, while Atheon used radiolaria to re-pump blood and fix her body.

"You and your duplicate female siblings failed to overcome Blade Transform." Atheon scoffed, albeit ignoring the Guardians. "You must truly lack higher cognitive function if you presume you can lambaste a more advanced Axis Mind."

Grinding her teeth in rage Crota shot toward Atheon her blade held high as she screamed in rage, fully intent of gutting Atheon.

Both Crota God-Knight and Atheon Time's Conflux had entered a new state, both insurmountable forces had become enraged. The Guardians could no longer do anything but watch as they themselves has been restrained and the two raid bosses were duking it out, just as intensely as the gang's fight against Doctor Impossible. (*18)

Another explosive impact sent a shockwave of energy out, forcing nearby everyone else to cover their eyes like a cloud of dust was kicked up. Remembering that 2025!Amaya has been chosen as a savior and Crota too were accepted, 2025!Pechy came to feel sorry for Atheon for all that's going on, and almost literally everyone nearby had been watching Atheon and Crota fighting for the past few minutes it was intense. Whenever a blow from Crota landed on Atheon, it worked her and the future friends even more (except the Amayas, whose villainy didn't let them feel any sympathy), she could not place why but seeing the bruises, the cuts that had formed across Atheon's skin caused an ache in her radiolaria-mixed chest. At this point, Atheon is seen briefly coughing radiolaria-mixed blood, right from her mouth. Crota as a Lucent Hive God has been able to match the Vex girl in combat, and so far neither has assumed their true forms - the same forms the Guardians originally fight each of them as.

Atheon ducked under a high swing from Crota's blade before following up by slamming the tip of Binary Edge again into Crota's stomach, another Shockwave erupting from the impact point launching Crota backwards.

"Someone's adapting somebody's fighting scenes, but I won't comment because... uh..." Deadpool shrugged. "Anyways... the Witness, please wait!"

The Witness was however, watching the night sky. The mysterious woman is flying towards this Earth, and that made the being get suspicious. It doesn't know what's coming, but it sensed that coming. (Lily Pilgrim note: Watching who?)

Atheon slams the tip of Binary Edge into the ground forming a massive impact crater as the explosion of energy wrenched the earth into the air, the outward burst of rapidly moving debris cloud forcing Crota to shield her eyes leaving her open to Atheon launching herself out of the cloud and slamming Torch Hammer into Crota's stomach.

Suddenly, brilliant explosion of violet energy forced her to turn away, the intense light threatening to blind her. Turning back to look into the clearing she noticed Neither Atheon or Crota present, panic briefly gripped her insides twisting her stomach into a knot at the idea Atheon had vanished completely in the explosion. 2025!Pechy's gaze was then drawn upwards as she saw what looked like random cubes of radiolaria forming, each cube was higher than the last, the speed with which they were forming was new.

Gasping as she watched as the highest formed cube, 2025!Pechy was able to make out the true form of Atheon, the relief she felt overseeing she had not simply vanished was soon replaced with fear. For the form is just... a large Vex Minotaur with actual sharp horns and translucent shells that glows.

Atheon then brought back Binary Edge and slam the point into Crota's spine, a shockwave of violet energy followed by displaced air shot outward from the point of impact. Such a strike had only one intent, an intent clear to almost everyone watching the fight.

Such a move was designed with the single goal of permanently crippling its target. Even worse: Atheon's in her true form, while Crota hasn't transformed yet. Crota let out a low moaning growl as she slowly rose to her knees, picking herself out of the crater she had made after taking such a cheap shot in the back.

Crota knew she had struck Atheon all over, leaving several painful and on someone much weaker crippling injuries yet still the Vex has stood and fought. Yet Atheon had only struck her in the chest, it was likely some ridiculous strategy designed to beat her. Crota snorted at the very notion yet there was a nagging feeling that it was working, with the near-crippling pain in her stomach from the repeated impacts she could not overlook it as a possibility.

Looking down at her stomach Crota snorted in irritation at the large purple bruise that was forming, the repeated impacts were taking their toll, already Crota could feel her hands rapidly clenching and opening. It felt wrong to be this affected by such simple bruising, yet this bruise felt like it ran deeper than an injury to her flesh and blood body. Almost as if it was connected to her tangibility of reality itself, that was concerning.

Crota remembered how it had felt when she had fought the first Vex Mind, one designed to combat her and her twin sisters. The memories of outnumbering that accursed thing three to one and being fought to a stalemate only for her father to have to step in and turn the tide, it was her greatest shame and embarrassment as one of the Hive pantheons.

And now here she was struggling to keep her grip on her blade, she was not this weak to be simply undone by that which could never hope to utilize Sword Logic. At this point, with nobody to help her, she would need nothing short of a miracle to turn this fight to her favour.

Looking up from her bruised stomach Crota was met with the sight of Atheon's right foot swinging round to slam into the side of her head, the feeling of the footing connecting across her entire existence forced a sharp gasp of pain to leave her lips before she was propelled rapidly into the dirt.

Slowly pulling her face up from the dirt Crota came face to face with the charging barrel of Atheon's Torch Hammer, a look of contempt visible on her face. "You should remain in the detritus were you belong." Gritting her teeth Crota glared up defiantly at Atheon, oh now would be a good time for the worm to drop the miracle she needed.

"Atheon!" Ivy shouted as she burst towards the Vex girl, her face wrapped with a concerned expression as she flicked her glance from Crota to Atheon. "Whatever your problem, with her is you can talk it outright?"

Crota watch as Atheon slowly turned back to her organic female form, and from looking at her to stare at the incoming Ivy Comet, her attention no longer focused on where the threat was. A sickening smirk slowly spread across Crota's face, this was the miracle the Son of Oryx needed. Atheon knew she was on her metaphorical last leg when it came to energy for prolonged combat, she had pushed her to the very brink this organic body could sustain without crippling itself. Combined with the injuries that had been afflicted it was all adding up to a singular conclusion for Atheon, having Crota at her mercy was the most effective way to end with her victory and the protection of what she was studying in an attempt to understand.

That was until Ivy had stepped out into the open and spoke up, voicing the idea of talking out their problems. The very concept of doing so was laughable you did not talk with The Hive, removed them from polluting the very fabric of existence with. Turning her gaze to Ruby with the intent of explaining this very concept to the Unity-powered girl, Atheon had fallen victim to one of the most organic concepts that the Vex had ever studied and culminated vast amounts of data on. Hubris had wormed its way into her actions, a concept Atheon had overlooked in every combat simulation she had run.

Before she could respond to Ivy and explain how anything related to the Hive was (to the Vex) a viral infection of reality that needed to be sterilized, a wrist wreathed in etherized green fire slammed into her side. Having been caught off guard by this sudden attack Atheon had not been braced for the impact she was sent flying off to the side. A pain that bored down to what could loosely be defined as her soul rippled from were Crota had landed her punch, it felt almost as if it was trying to steal something fundamental to the composition of what made Atheon cognisant. Could this be what the Vex had hypothesized on how the Hive influenced their odd notion of sword logic?

Whatever this feeling was it would have to be something for Atheon to analyse at a later time, right now she had a maniacally laughing Hive God to put down. Rising back to her full height Atheon turned to face Crota watching as Ivy tried to talk the Lucent Hive God down and convince her to simply talk out her issues. Atheon watched with mounting horror as Crota raised a hand and backhanded Ivy - who wasn't in her Unity form at the moment - out of the way, sending the smaller girl crashing into a wall in the ground of the coliseum. Feeling the boiling rage that had filled her spike higher than before Atheon shot towards Crota again, Binary Edge low down, catching the literally womanized Hive God by surprise, Atheon slammed the tip of Binary Edge hard into Crota's exposed side twisting as the tip of her weapon made contact and pulling Crota down towards the ground. Before the shockwave of both the impact of Binary Edge's tip with Crota's stomach and Crota with the ground could disperse Atheon drew Binary Edge back again slamming it once more into Crota's stomach earning a pained scream from the Hive God as the ripples of the impact seemingly spread across her time stream.

Pulling back for a third and likely fatal strike Atheon found her arm wrapped in a thick pillar of earth and rock stopping her from striking again, Flicking her gaze around trying to find who would be so foolish as to interfere with what amounted to, in Atheon's honest analysis, as "vermin control".

"Who's that green-haired Guardian?" Without waiting for Mike to search on the wikis, 2027!Laelynn asked.

"An incorrect assumption about our amiability pedagogue," Atheon replied, her voice returning to his stoic nature, "This inconsequential adolescent, was and in the same vein still is a fragment of a deified hereditary pedigree of the Hive."

An exasperated groan escaped the Laelynns' lips at the realisation Atheon was referring to the green-haired girl as another god-like entity, it sounded like the set up to a terrible novel.

"And what is her name?" 2044! Laelynn kindly asked.

"Crota, The God-Knight and Eater of Hope." Atheon snorted delivering a sharp kick to Crota's ribs rolling the girl over as she let out another pain wheeze. "A superfluous sobriquet for something scantily exceeding vermin."

The Dreamcatcher friends of all time got it, and all shared a glance at Atheon saying Crota's titles were excessive, finding it hypocritical when the tall white-haired girl called herself Time's Conflux. Stepping forward to looking down at the wheezing green-haired girl, 2025!Amaya fixed Atheon with a stern glare.

Before Atheon could voice her own suggestion, Ivy got up and raised a hand to stop her, "Can I do with some help?"

Without missing a beat, Atheon's head span towards where Ivy had been launched, concern clearly etched on her face. Crota's wheezing turned into sharp rage, as she morphed into himself. Now towering like a Hive God he is, Crota immediately swung down one last time. The Vex was going to get to Ivy, but she was distracted in the process, and the Sword of Crota reached...

And it cleaved her head in middle, causing blood mixed with radiolaria to spurt from her girly head. This led her to jerking down. It's not something that Atheon was able to predict, for not only Crota's Hive magic up until that point, but Crota assumed it just late enough to deal it.

"PASSION AND PARADOX. \ AID THE VISION. \ SIMPLICITY REQUIRES COMPLEXITY. \ RESENT THE JOKE. \ GLIMPSE THE CHASM." (*7)

Atheon collapsed. Crota is satisfied, knowing that for all the beatdown that put down, he at least did the last blow. Crota degenerated down on the ground and expired, much to Krilly's shock and the Guardians' relief.

"Thanks goodness we don't have to deal with Atheon ourselves." The Hunter is free.

The Guardians are freed, relieved that both the bosses just took each other down.

BGM ends.

"I knew it..." Lily facepalmed. "Both are stalemate... actually."

"Crota... Let me fix her." Krilly scanned both girls.

The Warlock noticed Krilly scanning both raids, and held the Hive Ghost at gunpoint. "A Hive Ghost. Seems like Crota can be back. If this Ghost pull any trick..."

"Encoding complete... uh..." Krilly picked up Vex info from Atheon's terminated body, with the blade partly embedded in her head. "Damn. The Vex is hard. They calculate everything like nothing but simple mini-math!"

"What. Are. You. Doing?" The Warlock questioned.

2025!Pechy and Ivy came together to defend the raid bosses.

"Oh shit." The Warlock down their gun and stepped back. "I'll be damned."

"Oh no, that's Cayde's line." The Hunter facepalmed.

"Fine. You're all spared." The Titan relaxed.

Behind the two major Dreamcatcher warriors, the two bosses were revived. Crota is a Lucent Hive capable of harmonizing the Light and the Dark, just like Guardians. Atheon, though... She couldn't ever simulate Light or Darkness from the likes of the Guardians - Panoptes, Infinite Mind tried to get around that, but were destroyed. (*19) Quria instead (*14) had to be Taken and then taught the Hive magic by Savathun after it got the Sword Logic.

Now paracausally empowered by both the actual Light and Darkness and the Hive magic, Atheon is quickly in shock. "I-I-I... I have become a vermin myself. Causatum of the vulgar power source that is the... Hive magic. And I... I... I... nexus kills... Kill... Nexus kills superfluous weak creatures for survival of the fittest."

The flood of paracausal powers mixed with the Hive magic has boosted Atheon's computing power, but also messed with her mind. Now she's also a Guardian too, sharing the same Ghost as Crota now.

"Hi there, the Time's Conflux. My name is Krilly. I am Crota's Ghost." Krilly introduced herself to Atheon. "I have both Light and Darkness integrated, for Crota is a Prismatic Lucent. This means your can simulate and use the Light and the Dark now."

"So you're that vermin's Ghost?" Atheon finally noticed. "Ah. So that impudent adolescent... were a Guardian all along?"

"Technically. You know about another Hive God... Savathun, the Witch Queen?" (*20) Krilly noted. "You know, the Hive in general, ones that you looked down, were meant to be uplifted by the Traveler. But-"

The Witness felt uncomfortable with the talk. "Why?"

"Yes, that Witness above us managed to subvert the Krill with the Worms and a false disaster, thus turning them into a Hive." Krilly continued. "Savathun herself got chosen for real, and so she and her Lucent Brood got the Light and gained Ghosts like me - they also fooled the actual Guardians into thinking that Hive stole Light, and to return Savathun's memories. (*20) Me myself is of Light and Dark, and thus revived Crota as a Prismatic Lucent. You know, a belated uplifting for the Hive is actually-"

"Yeah, I'm a Lucent now." Crota laughed, showing off her paracausality. "But the reasons I don't really on those Light or Dark is because Light exerts a 'negative pressure' on the tithe system, while Darkness is only interpreted, not synonymously represented. I relied on the Sword Logic there, and that was it."

"Sword Logic is for the vulgar and inconsequential ones who wants to terminate all oppositions to become consequential and uber-powerful, like you vermin of the Hive." Atheon rebutted, still in a rather stoic monotone. "Oh wait. I really can now..."

"Transcended!" The Guardians briefly celebrated, pulling dance moves which Atheon deemed as dumb, cringe and incompetent.

"Got ya!" Crota simply laughed, then pulled the Sword out of Atheon's head, which regenerated with radiolaria.

"Transcendence? As in... the harmony?" Atheon spoke, still very much a monotone with so little inflection.

"Oh finally!" Ivy hugged Atheon's mechanized organics. "You're still here!"

"Uhhhhh..." Atheon, as a Vex, still struggled with proper emotions.

"We got you covered!" 2025!Pechy patted Crota.

"Well, we're really lucky things figured themselves out." The Hunter shrugged. "I won't question it."

"What about... me? The salvation?" The Witness felt ignored.

"Salvation? The Second Knife claimed as such." Exo Stranger suggested. "Also, welcome back... terror of the Light and Dark. You know what this means already."

The Witness finally noticed that nukes powered by Traveler's Light is inside the collective consciousness of itself, ready to blast off and destroy the dissenters' statue there which would render the Witness powerless and allow it to be destroyed again.

"Don't you dare calcify without good reasons." Elsie warned it. "The Canon Bringers prepared for the possibility of you betraying us and doing your wrong things. They too, know about all your crimes against our universe."

"Since you're not fighting us anymore, I'll-" Without any shred of honor whatsoever, Kang the Disciple tried to calcify everyone besides his party on the supposed behest of the Witness.

The Disciple was brought down by the Canon Bringers, much to his rage.

"Fuck you!" Kang the Disciple tried to calcify the Canon Bringers.

It didn't work. Cue a beatdown. The Council wanted to help, but seeing the Canon Bringers were so powerful, being able to easily suppress and even threaten all of them, the Kangs just shivered and cowered in fear.

"They are just as good at beatdowns as... me!" The robot boy dabbed.

Queen Crystal and Lucifer both chuckled, while the rest of the 2044 friends except Clover cringed.

"Ok, sister! I think we have a problem." Clover looked up.

A strange glow which Jones made it out... as the Zero Point covered in Pandora's Box energy. "Oh no..."

Elsie glanced at everyone, and...

"Someone from the Darkbolts are coming, and the Second Knife is part of the Darkbolts!" The Warrior King called. "Lily! Hide Elsie!"

Lily used Subspace for Elsie to hide in. The Guardians followed to Subspace to hide as well, knowing that the Second Knife might find them... offensive in their eyes.

"Nobody else hides, I'm afraid." The Witness finally shrugged, unnatural as it is.

"WHO DARES!?" The mysterious woman's voice echoed to the coliseum.

"Oh no. She has arrived." The Witness realized.

"Who are you?!" The Ivies except the 2027 baby looked up.

"You should've known! I'm the forgotten vengeance!" The woman declared.

"That strange woman is acting like... Aunt Xi!" (*21) Crota noticed. "Even her tone is just as aggressive!"

"She is not Xivu Arath!" (*21) Atheon corrupted Crota. "There's two unfathomably powerful energies in that point in the sky, and Xivu Arath, one of your vulgar fellows, have neither. I checked the orange one, and I have some datas about the cyan one.

"You learned about the Zero Point and the Pandora's Box?!" Jones is shocked.

"Which Pandora's Box is it?" Deadpool asked.

"The Nitro-myth chest." Jones and Hope, in unison.

"From Fortnite. Right." Deadpool got it. "Where's Midas?"

"Which Midas?" Hope's Canon Bringer facepalmed.

"You think it's funny of YOU!?" The woman is psycho.

"Still psycho as ever... and vengeful, when I already completed my vengeance and embraced justice!" Jones raised his shield. "You have to be kidding me. We didn't do anything wrong to you!"

"You still continue to hold on your-" The woman is pissed.

"John Jones is right. Also, who are you?" 2025!Dawn called.

"Why do you have the guts to mock us without realizing it?" 2023!Amaya scoffed. "Unlike me?" *chuckles*

"ENOUGH!"

The woman simply glowed. Suddenly, burning rifts - Sideways Rifts wreathed in soul-burning Nitro - erupted and opened, raining massively-burning large meteors down to the coliseum. The woman laughed psychotically, even more horrifying than any of the Amayas or the Witness ever were.

"No! No! No! No! NO!" The Witness panicked, dropping half of its echoing and a bit of reverb.

"Everyone, get out!" Lily expanded the Subspace. "It's raining meteors!"

The entire gangs and the Witness fell down to the Subspace, but due to Jonathan Majors issues (domestic crap, lack of lore connective, etc.) as noted by Deadpool and the Canon Bringers as well as the fact the Council demanded unnecessary calcification for no good reason, they were left out.

"My Disciple! No!" The Witness realized.

"Do you remember your previous Disciples?" Hope's Canon Bringer pointed out. "Rhulk were the first, as well as among the best and understood your philosophy and stuffs very well, but he was so narrow-minded and killed off the rest of his kind, the Lubrae. Calus, another of your best because he allowed the main Ghost to be possessed by you for the Veil (*22), is a quintessential hedonist and thus struggled to understand your seemingly selfless goal to create a world without pain for your own sake. Nezarec is the Final God of Pain, antithesis to your supposed goal to end all suffering. And so on."

"What?" The Witness is confused as the Canon Bringer is picking off its past Disciples just to make a point.

"Kang the Conqueror? His candidacy is questionable: he's not only a human, but not from your world! He came from an entirely different multiverse, one where your Light and your Dark doesn't exist!" Hope's Canon Bringer continued. "He also have no honor and is just a multiversal bully, and bullies inflict pain to victims. He's too bloodthirsty and warlike, so that's pain you called no-no. Also, like you but also unlike you because reasons, he is seriously lacking any kind of moral fetters to restrain his actions: he will rationalize any mistake or all-out slaughter he commits as the needs of the many so that he can continue to live out his delusion that he's a put-upon science hero - TV Tropes' words, not mine - that just knows better than literally everybody else, even his own alternate counterparts, rather than what he truly is - a dangerously powerful and irresponsible rogue who believes he is the center of the entire multiverse that he came from."

"So you left Kang and his Council not only because of Jonathan Majors, but also because they are not fit for the standards of a Disciple of the Witness!" Deadpool is shocked. "Oh my god! Mind blown! Potential Fridge Brilliance-"

"ENOUGH!" The Witness shouted like an almost-deafening echo across.

"What's happening up there?" Pre-Unity Ivy asked.

At the coliseum...

"Help! Help! Witness help us!" Kang the Disciple couldn't find the Witness anywhere.

The meteor rain is destroying the Earth of 2023!Amaya's twisted universe. Only Renee is spared thanks to a certain fireteam sent by the Second Knife - the others were destroyed as calciforms and thus completely shredded out of existence, dying altogether. The Kangs were quickly ambushed by a certain Time Jacker... (*23) Shocker Cure Tomorrow.

"So you've been turned into a Disciple of the Witness, huh?"/"それで、あなたは目撃者の門弟になったのですね?" Hagumi as Tomorrow. "Freeze."

The Council of Kangs are frozen in time, while the woman - the one wreathed in Zero Point and Pandora's Box energy - descended.

"Cinematic Kang, your role have been expired." The woman grinned like Crota, with an even worse psychosis. "Be our livestock... the Darkbolts livestock."

And 2023!Amaya's twisted universe is being consumed by the Corridors of Time.

---

Note: Ok, finally! IVY: World of The Future (2024) is implemented. And finally, Atheon, Time's Conflux, is now here! This chapter is notably longer, just like Prologue #1. There's quite a lot going on here.

For starters, Queen Crystal and Lucifer noticed the Witness's voice, and Ivy Comet's gang noticed the crack leading to the Corridors of Time. Ivy had to regain the transformation the Crystal Lights gave her, but now those are fully evolved (after all, this fic takes place after the epilogue of IVY). With the portals, 2044 rescued the friends of 2027, including Pechy Comet and Ron Davis of 2027 and their adopted clone-baby, and all survived the Corridors of Time takeover this time.

Notably, about the 9/11 stuffs, is that this chapter is not meant to be hooked about. This is a serious topic. See 2027!Amaya Shadow getting flak for not being horrified about the sight of the South Tower about to be crashed. The gangs were quite properly and understandably horrified of the terrorist attacks, and we know Darkbolts is going to be far worse than 9/11 (Darkbolts are going omniversal). Leaving the site to follow traces of radiolaria (which also explains how the mysterious woman found 2023!Amaya Shadow's twisted universe wished to life in Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023)) to get to the now-compromised Vault of Glass, the place of Destiny's first-ever raid, now the cache site to secure the unlimited supply of Pandora's Box energy the mysterious woman requested from earlier. Atheon (whose human form is partly designed by Kuroda-Vanitas as well) is disappointed in what the Vault has become.

Next up is the coming to 2023! Amaya's universe, and here I recreated the part 8 of Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023). The 100th episode got interrupted, and so Atheon and 2044!Pechy Comet came in to tell about a bunch. This has Five-Second Foreshadowing (the trope) in the form of Renee Jaillet holding Atheon's Torch Hammer. Nice job, future gangs. But the Witness and the Council of Kangs has arrived. And besides, the 2023 gang were tagged along because of this scenario, and even the pre-Unity Ivy Comet (the one from The Last Dream Wish, before she received Unity power in IVY) as well. Poor 2023!Paige Comet and Celestia... (they were calcified)

Another major thing is that I adapted axiosriot's Remnant's Conflux fight between Crota and Atheon, both shown in designs mainly based on Kuroda-Vanitas art, complete with belated beta-read and context change to fit in the scenario of the Council of Kangs. That beta-reading the excerpts help explain why the fight have so many detailed descriptions. Also, since axiosriot didn't finish at all due to necromancy (see SpaceBattles forum for more details) as well as Krilly's existence here, I had to write a stalemate, where Crota, as a last-ditch effort to take down Atheon, assumed her male true form and whacked the Sword of Crota into Atheon's head while the Vex girl was distracted. Also, in keeping with axiosriot, both raid bosses bleed blood mixed with some tainted stuffs (Hive gunk for Crota, radiolaria for Atheon). Not only this is a call-back to SpaceBattles itself (hello Multiverse Learner 101, R.I.P. scriviner), it also part of why this chapter is so long (length-wise). Also, taking notes from the existence of Panoptes, Infinite Mind and Quria, Blade Transform, as well as the conflict between the Sword Logic and the Vex simulations and the actual, proper paracausality that the Guardians possesses, Krilly (Crota's Ghost) serves as a secure connector of sorts. (Lily Pilgrim note: Dude! Raid bosses, take warning!)

And yes, I made Kang as the new Disciple of the Witness so both the present gang and the cross-time gang's to unite (and see Crota and Atheon duking it out at first, before joining in with Krilly's act), as well as giving the Witness to the CXA. Since the CXA already know about what the Witness tried to do (see Destiny 2 (2017): The Final Shape (2024)), so they implanted a nuke that deal the Traveler's Light, to keep the Witness on the line (think of it as an explosive collar specifically designed for the Witness itself!). Also, I deliberately mocked Kang being a Disciple, using Hope's Canon Bringer (I call that robot that because it's the one Canon Bringer that helped Hope at the end of Sonic Prime Overclocked) as the explainer. It's hilarious to see how MCU!Kang cannot be qualified as the Disciple of the Witness (not that he's be from the same world anyways). This is deconstruction as well, and served as a send-off of Jonathan Majors as a whole, as far as Marvel is concerned. Once the CXA is done with this version of Kang and the Council, I'm leaving them to their fates, and for Doctor Doom to be behind the Multiverse Saga. Looking forward to Doomsday and Secret Wars! (written as of September 2024)

And finally, with the cross-time warriors united, it's about time for... "Tales of four Pechies"! The Wonders will be revived and brought back for care, and the Pechies will help find Floyd (Pechy's childhood friend from Dreamcatcher: The Winter of The Dragon (2022)) and the friends of 2025. Of course, Darkbolts is lurking... See next day!

Be sure to promote the entire crossover project as well! Confused? Here's how you can do it: share the project and the fanfiction to social media, TV Tropes pages, appropriate forums and conversations, and get everyone to know and help! (No drama please!)

Until next time...

Cross-trivia:

(*1) - When Lucifer (Master Void) casted apocalypse to the Future World, dark fogs went all over the place and, combined with the warning from earlier on, the residents of Future World were panicking. That stopped after Ivy got Lucifer to redeem himself.

(*2) - The voice is from Shatter the Hedgehog, as shown in the flashback in Sonic Prime Overclocked, specifically in "To the riding". In addition to activating the Hyper Genesis which destroyed the 2023-2025 versions of the Dreamcatcher awake universe (Pechy's homeworld), Shatter was mocking the Pandora spell from anachronauts (2010-2013), which was being casted by Emily Moonthistle and Scott Reinhold. (Of course, the entire RealWare multiverse (by Stefan "twoflower" Gagne) was destroyed by the wave, taking nearly all its natives with it)

The voice emanated due to the aftereffects of the Hyper Genesis Wave, which reverberated through the Corridors of Time from Destiny 2 (2017).

(*3) - Simon's Ghost form returns from #3.

(*4) - The highest form of the McGuffin of IVY: World of The Future (2024). It consists of the power of all used versions of the Crystal Lights, the Unity Power that Ivy gained and possessed (thanks to the encouragement from her own soul), Clarie's time machine and Dreamer's magic (thanks to she reconstructing the time machine).

(*5) - The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and aimed the next two flights toward targets in or near Washington, D.C., in an attack on the nation's capital. The third team succeeded in striking the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia, while the fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt. The September 11 attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the multi-decade global war on terror to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and several other countries.

During the September 11 attacks in 2001, two aircraft were hijacked by 10 al-Qaeda terrorists and were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing massive damage and starting fires that caused the weakened 110-story skyscrapers to collapse. The destroyed World Trade Center site soon became known as "ground zero". Rescue workers also used the term "The Big Momma!", referring to the pile of rubble that was left after the buildings collapsed. Even after the site was cleaned up and construction on the new One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum were well under way, the term was still frequently used to refer to the site, as when opponents of the Park51 project that was to be located two blocks away from the site labeled it the "Ground Zero mosque".

(*6) - The Nitro river that caches the supply of Pandora's Box energy using Vex conflux, as known in #4 with the construction of said energy supply, overseen by Ayumi/Echo herself. The construction also explains why the raid road/passageways are out built and filled with makeshift builds and planted technologies throughout the Vault of Glass (normally and canonically a difficult and immersive raid with a ton of powerful and rate rewards): construction works happened at the full Vault itself, compromising its function.

(*7) - Atheon's last recorded thoughts in canon.

(*8) - A Vex-y joke about the Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks.

(*9) - Basically how the infinite Pandora's Box energy supply works.

(*10) - The Guardian (the Young Wolf) was stated by Cayde-6 to be his "favorite Guardian", especially if they are a Hunter.

(*11) - References to Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023).

(*12) - Alternative group name for Destiny Girls (formerly Cheer Girls), coined in Dreamcatcher awake universe to describe the nightmare-powered transformation of the Destiny Girls themselves.

(*13) - Torch Hammers are devastating Vex heavy weapons that fire explosive Void bolts and deal significant splash damage. The Torch Hammer fires projectiles composed of strange matter, mauling targets with exotic particle decay and deadly radiation. When active, one can see the weapon's energies swirling around the barrels.

(*14) - Quria, Blade Transform, also known as the Dreaming Mind, is a Vex Hydra that was Taken by Oryx, the Taken King. Created to conquer Oryx's throne world and unravel its secrets by gaining an understanding of the Sword Logic, Quria was defeated and Taken by Oryx, but allowed a measure of free will. The Mind was later gifted by the Taken King to his sister, Savathun, the Witch Queen.

Following Oryx's death, Quria was utilized by Savathun to command the remaining Taken and create new ones, with Quria having acquired the ability to Take via paracausally enhanced simulations of Oryx.

Later, Quria would play an integral role as the architect of the Endless Night, and served as the season antagonist for Season of the Splicer (2021). It was ultimately defeated by the Guardians with the assistance of Mithrax.

(*15) - The Garden, as it is referred to by in Unveiling (Destiny franchise), is a metaphor for the probability space from which all possible universes could arise, a mathematical structure that predated time, space, and existence in general.

In the metaphor, the garden was a simulator, using the flower game as a mechanism to iterate different potential universes. This game was overseen by abstract mathematical principles personified as a "Gardener" and a "Winnower", beings of Light and Darkness respectively. The gardener represented the rules that allowed flowers to be placed, to spread, and to sustain themselves over each "tick" of game time, while the winnower represented the rules that culled flowers.

(*16) - References to Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023).

(*17) -

(*18) - It happened in #4, when James Olsen of Earth-2 was confronted by 2025!Pechy and the gang.

(*19) - References to Curse of Osiris (2017).

(*20) - References to Destiny 2 (2017): The Witch Queen (2022) expansion.

(*21) - Xivu Arath, God of War, formerly known as Xi Ro, is a Hive god and youngest sister to Savathûn, the Witch Queen and Oryx, the Taken King. Together with her two siblings, she was a progenitor of the contemporary Hive species and one of its chief gods, having made a pact with the Worms of Fundament. She is driven to become the mightiest warrior in the universe, and her influence is present wherever armed conflict takes place.

Aunt Xi is Xivu Arath's nickname by Crota, since Oryx is her sister-turned-brother and Crota's father.

(*22) - References to Destiny 2 (2017): Lightfall (2023) expansion.

(*23) - The Time Jackers are a group of individuals who seek to alter history, canonically by creating monsters known as Another Riders. There are Time Jackers throughout the multiverse, with Swartz being the most infamous one as he attempted to take the throne from Ohma Zi-O and become king himself. In other timelines and universes within the Kamen Rider multiverse, Tid and Finis executed their own agendas while staying unaffiliated with Swartz.