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.

1. Prologue 1: The day they rises (part 1)

After a displaced and revived David Martinez led an omniversal alliance to help the Continuum Exploitation Authority end the massively vengeful Zerobreaker's final attempts at destroying the Zero Point, the Zerobreaker herself were revived alongside some of CXA's past enemies as members of the Order of the Pariah, founded by the Dark Multiverse versions of Pariah (Dark Crisis) and the Darkest Knight (Death Metal) and then-currently led by a former future daughter of Alice and Jack of the World of Mary Skelter, the Queen of Hearts herself. With the One Reincarnated Army Corps. led by the reincarnated Akuyaku Reijou and O.M.A.C. taking advantage of the modded Mobius Chair to expose the Order and Kado Thorne using his time machine to continue what O.R.A.C. originally left off, the CXA and co. were able to get together and successfully deal with the then newly-created Anti-Imagine Equation, culminating in the successful recreation of the new Big Bang of the omniverse (Fortnite), and so, the corrupted Equation were buried in the deepest corners of Retconnian. But one day, the Equation were dug out, and a mysterious force sent what originally were the Shatter-verse counterparts of Sonic the Hedgehog through transporting an overclocked Phantom Ruby from yet another alternate timeline, the resulting Shatter the Hedgehog went his way out with all the powered stuffs and mass-produced Unity Engines, ultimately leading to the Hyper Genesis Wave which compressed and sucked many multiverses into one single, broken, unified world where Sonic and the unified army were trapped in, and the quest to take back their multiverses ended up leading to the Zero Point in the past, which were sucked by the Divine Throne to empower the changed Shatter who figured out his craving and thus created his divine Law. The unified army, with the help of Shinra and co. and System No. XX (veteran of both Zerobreaker war and the original Anti-Imagine incident by that point), destroyed Shatter once and for all, and saved all of existence for the same fate as the Prime timeline once suffered.

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BGM: Green Hill Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog)

One day, Sonic the Hedgehog is rushing around the Green Hill zone, as usual (*1). Right now... nothing out of ordinary. But Sonic, while dashing, he has some thoughts...

Shatter the Hedgehog... Originally Hot Shot, Wild Blur, and Tidal Wave... from the Shatterspaces. In an alternative timeline, I accidentally erased them from existence. Breaking the Paradox Prism, and then some mayhem later, culminating the Grim incident which prevented him, then, from existence... Sonic thought. He caused the Hyper Genesis Wave by bringing on several inter-dimensional setups, which shattered my multiverses and shoved many others into a single, unified world...

Sonic went loop-a-loop. The only thing unusual is Sonic remembering some crossed stuffs...

Mega Man, overclocked Ruby, Merlina, the gods..." Sonic sighed. "I remember everything. Everything that stopped happening because it's... cleaned? I... fused with Shadow and destroyed Shatter- *brakes* "Woah!"

BGM stops.

Sonic stopped. Some spliced terrain stood in his way. Calcified, marbleized slices pastiched from the Green Zone platforms. A forcibly patterned parody of the homeworld of the hedgehog, in front of him himself.

"It looks like both order and chaos sandwiched together!" Sonic complained. What's this effect? Never seen that one before.

The Flash of the ruined, having run from somewhere, finally arrived, stopping in front of Sonic.

"Barry Allen of Flashpoint. (*2) You see..." The Flash looked back at the calcified lump. "This is the Final Shape (*3), thrown to this world of yours."

"What!?" Sonic is shocked.

"Sonic the Hedgehog, we learned how you and your unified army destroy Shatter the Hedgehog. The CXA knows what happened now. It's been 3 days since the end of Shatter (*1). We also got to learn about everything that happened. The Hyper Genesis Wave. And the... rumor. That rumor indeed, as confirmed by the CXA-" (*4)

"What the hell are you talking about?" Sonic is confused. "Also, why would outside forces would leave this effect to ruin my home?"

"It's complicated. There's a lot of things happening all at once." The Flashpoint continued. "Let me recall your unified incident while we go."

The two then dashed off, using the Speed Force to leave the Green Zone.

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BGM: Welcome to Verdansk (WesleyTRV: Warzone)

"Uotan! Look! Prismatic spiking of powers... everywhere!" A Canon Bringer reported to Nix Uotan, the Superjudge (*5).

"What is this?" The Superjudge checked in. "Lyla (*6), do you have any info on the... Prismatic?"

"I don't know that existed." Lyla Michaels, the Harbinger (*6), have no idea about the 'Prismatic'.

"The paracausal surge of power spread through several worlds and timestreams already." The Canon Bringer reported. "Earth-1610 (*7) has been overrun with Light corruption. The Kanai Ward (*8) has been calcified!" (*3)

"Call the Earth-6160 (*7) reinforcement, please." Kyon (*9) is frustrated. "Do it!"

"We tried, but there's too much continuum noise. Must be the smearing (*10) from the Zero Point." The Canon Bringer then checked out. "Crackshot Cabin... calcified!" (*3)

"What about the Anti-Imagine?" Ms. Continuum checked in. (*0)

"It's going rampant again, just as we feared." The Canon Bringer confirmed. "It's driving victims across realities insane. No better than when the Order of the Pariah had its hand on it." (*0)

"Superboy-Prime of Infinite Crisis (*11), how's your raid- I mean, your expedition?" Welcome, Crisis-Prime (*11). "Glad you survived."

"Some of the OG people (*12) got infected with the corrupted Equation in front of my eyes. I saw them... going batshit nuts." Crisis-Prime reported. "Still far more insane than I ever was."

Sonic and Flashpoint arrived.

"It's Sonic the Hedgehog. What's up?" Sonic quipped.

"Sonic! So much's wrong!" Ms. Continuum complained. "Just look at the visuals!"

Sonic saw the holograms and got suspicious as well. How did Shatter get the benefactor (*13) like one behind the sudden corrupted blight.

"That's so suspicious. Who's that benefactor? And why connect Shatter with the so-called Prismatic?" Sonic questioned. "Also..." *points at Kyon* "Who're you?"

"Kyon. Kamen Rider Next Decade." Kyon revealed. "But I'm not a main timeline Kyon. In fact, my timeline's completely purged." (*9)

"Huh. Did someone splice the platforms and blocks?" (*3) Sonic recalled.

"Violence wherever the Anti-Imagine infects." (*0) The Canon Bringers reported. "Also, we have datas-"

Suddenly, all the lights, even the holograms, in the mothership all turned off.

BGM abruptly stops. Cue horror whispers.

"Damnit! Pitch black!" The employees complained.

Suddenly, the holograms appeared again, only glowing in gradient of cyan, magenta and purple, in a rather jewelry and crystalline shine. (*14)

"What?" Ms. Continuum looked around. "What the hell?"

"Hello? Who's behind this... blackout?" Sonic echoed.

Hello, strangers from other worlds. A menacing voice echoed through the mothership. On the behalf of our friend... the king from a kingdom far, far away... (*0)

"The voice..." Ms. Continuum recognized that voice. (*15)

We have an offer. To save all realities and all of existence in each and every single one. We have an alliance who would help you. But first, we have some takeaway for you to learn.

"What is it?" Crisis-Prime called.

The so-called rumor is true. (*0) Because it's actually a warning to all those who would reject our alliance. The voice continued. Indeed, this alliance is led by a king from a kingdom far, far away.

"What do you want?" Sonic questioned. "Also, why would Shatter the Hedgehog work with that... king!?" (*13)

Wait... Sonic the Hedgehog... The voice is surprised. Damn.

"Huh?" Sonic is confused.

But back to the matter... the Anti-Imagine Equation. We have that Equation that you have buried deep into perpetual discontinuity and forced non-existence. We dug it out. If you want to erase that Equation so much... (*0)

"We wanted to erase the Anti-Imagine, but we would've been corrupted trying." Ms. Continuum dismissed. "Sealing it within Retconnian was our best choice. What do you think would be able to erase it altogether?" (*16)

Just work with us. We would then be able to erase the Anti-Imagine once and for all. Only then would our fellow king would spare all of existence.

"That king let Shatter do whatever he needs (*0). This is a trap." (*17) Sonic warned Ms. Continuum. "Miss, just deny them. And demand knowing who they really are."

We cannot reveal our king, but we can reveal ourselves. We are the Second Knife (*15) (*18). We are salvation itself.

"What? Salvation? To us all? Itself, just... salvation itself?" Kyon is baffled.

"Yeah... right. That's even more vague." The Flashpoint chuckled.

This is not a laughing matter. We are salvation itself. No, really. The voice scoffed. We have been legends for the longest time (*19). To help a powerful king out (*0) is one of our upmost pleasures.

"That's too suspicious of you, You-" Ms. Continuum got suspicious.

SILENCE! You dwell into too much too fast without our consent!

The voice went up, and the holograms flashed. You only need to know enough about us. We are salvation itself. We are legends (*19). We helps everyone. You must work with us if you wish to erase the dreaded Anti-Imagine Equation (*0).

"We will think about it. Thank you." Ms. Continuum answered. "But do neither eat your words nor betray us. Live up and hold up to your end of the deal."

Noted. The voice approved. As for you, Sonic the Hedgehog...

Suddenly, the holograms each shows a circle streaked with triangular-oriented zones alternating symmetrically and somewhat evenly, with almost-circular base between diameter and bottom, and meeting at the top as a tip slight above the circle's radius. (*14)

You killed one of our collaborators (*0) (*1). You destroyed some of our alliance's valued assets. The voice blamed Sonic. We were going to scavenge existence as a festival! (*20)

"Because he refused to accept that he stopped existing!" (*21) Sonic rebutted.

Fine, we'll give you a chance of mercy and pardon. If you and your fellows and existence... if they work with us. Only then, we would spare everything. Every single one. Including you, Sonic. If you all work with us, the Anti-Imagine Equation would cease to be forever, and you would all be spared. Any resistance will be cut off, and if the majority is resistance... we go war.

"Why?" Sonic got suspicious.

We are salvation itself. And we have our own fate (*22) to do. All you need to do is collaborate with us. All of existence will be spared. If you don't... there will be no mercy.

Alright, Prismatic (*14). Another voice, similarly menacing but at the same time jovial. We have work to do. It's their choice to accept us.

"Prismatic... I knew it!" Ms. Continuum noted.

Call Shocker (*23). They bails- uh, nevermind. Just get back to the work.

Suddenly, the holograms turned back to normal, and all the lights went back to normal.

"Prismatic... what?" Sonic have no idea. "The only thing we truly learned... is that the rumor is 100 percent true!" (*0)

"Shatter the Hedgehog works with some king..." Ms. Continuum thought about. "That king leads an alliance opposing us... that alliance has some familiar warriors... They offered us to collaborate with something... in return erasing the Anti-Imagine..."

"But the way the so-called Second Knife (*15) (*19) claimed... that's suspicious." Kyon facepalmed. "Alright. Gather everyone."

A while later...

BGM: A New Era (Mortal Kombat 1)

"We have some suspicious threats on the horizon, playing around with the Anti-Imagine and calcifying some resistance." Liu Kang, the Fire God noted.

"The king took away my fellow..." Ingrid recalled. (*0) (*24)

"A kingdom far far away..." Crisis-Prime thought.

The Justice League Incarnate and the Wonders of the World (*25) pondered the potential connection between the rampage of Earth-2 and the suspicious Prismatic party.

"There's a whole lotta conspiracy!" Captain Carrot is baffled.

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BGM: Until the Stars Aligned - FASSound (Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake) - instrumental, distorted and slowed down

Ugh... A blonde-haired girl with golden starry eyes and casual clothes tattered, ended up in a mysterious world. Where... am... I...?

She woke up, initially recognizing that world to be the Earth that she knew. But as she started orienting herself and stand up, she felt... something wrong.

This is... Earth? But... The girl is confused. Oh wait!

A pink staff with some sort of dreamcatcher attached in it with a pair of small angelic wings on that end, appeared besides her.

Might as well take the wand. I'll need it to survive in this mysterious place. She picked it up.

She then walked down the place, and found a bunch of... scattered skeletons and some long decayed corpses. The sight were as horrifying as it seems. One of them seems to be holding a strange fusion rifle (*26) that the girl haven't even seen before.

The girl doesn't even know how to use guns, so she picked the rifle up for potential diagnosis. Meanwhile, some shadows loom...

I... I feel like I'm being watched. The girl moved forward. "So many... so strange. Never recalled anything I expected from my home. My Earth."

"Alright... time to count up... (*27)" One of the shadows smirked. "Hey, girl. We get this naive child down."

The girl ran across a strange version of a place on Earth which she knew. She periodically looked back and went further against the shadows. But the shadows were slowly catching on.

No, The girl ran as fast as she could. I need to run away! They're trying to...

But she isn't exactly used to running so fast for an extended period of time. It also didn't help that the rifle is weighing her down, due to its construction. Even worse, she was a bit worn down by the time she woke up.

Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack Cross-Alliance (*0) (*23), any updates? A mysterious voice contacted the shadows.

"We found a girl with a dream wand, and who just picked up a Telesto from a dead man." Another shadow reported.

The girl was slowly exhausted. She couldn't keep running much longer and further. "Nonononono-"

BGM stops.

Suddenly, the girl gotten a strange vision... of a fallen kingdom, used to be prosperous, but suddenly ruined after some disaster. Cut to a view of some mysterious alliance (*0), led by a robot man in a robe and a glowing cape, and with glowing green eyes and wielding a red-painted SCAR (the assault rifle). Lightning briefly illuminates the dark sky, while the rest of the alliance bowed down to the robot.

"All I really want is just a little respect..." The robot somberly claimed.

The vision ended, and the girl tripped. "Ahhh!"

She fell, dropping the rifle.

"No..." The girl is shocked, as she falls to the ground.

"There you are." A suited man from the shadows, came. "Alright. Get 'em."

The girl found herself caught up by the shadows she tried to run away from. "No... And what did I just... see?"

The suit's eyes glowed red (*27), while the other - a girl in magical pink frilly - walked out. Others came to surround the girl - these ones are the similar kinds to the two (*28) - a bunch of magical girls and another armored suit.

"Who are you!?" The girl is horrified. "And where am I!?"

"You're in our territory." The dark blue one (*29) smirked. "Anything to regret?"

No, no... The girl held the wand. Why... No...

The girl raised the wand up. "Warrior Dreamcatcher..." (*30)

"What's she doing?" The golden one is confused.

"Smashing LIGHT!" (*30) The girl screamed.

The wand erupted light which blinded the ones surrounding her, much to their shock.

"The light of dreams... it's hindering us!" The suit's complained.

"Return to your darkness!" (*30) The girl struck her wand down the ground.

Cue an explosion of light and a quake, overwhelming the ones targeting her. The light can now barely be seen in the lower space.

-*pants pants* "Oh my star..." (*31) The girl is exhausted, though the wand is intact. "What did..."

The light cleared out, and the quake stopped. The hunters recovered though.

"Now, count up your sins!"/"さあ、お前の罪を数えろ!" The original suit declared. (*27)

The hunters rushed to the girl, trying to kill her for the happenstance. However, a mysterious darkly iridescent magical girl (*32) flew to the place.

"Die!" The dark blue girl (*29) went for a hard punch. "JUST DIE!"

The hunters were suddenly caught off-guard by that mysterious magical girl... by a blast to the ground. This caused them all to turn their attention from the girl with wand to the mysterious one (*32), frustrated and shocked.

"Shocker Riders and Shocker Cures, huh?" The mysterious magical girl scoffed as she descends. "Sky (*29). Precious (*33). Summer (*34). Tomorrow (*35). No, that's Shocker. That's not it."

The other armored suit (*36) went for a roundhouse to the magical girl, but she just blocked him with her hand.

"What do you want, brainwashed Shocker soldiers?" The mysterious girl sighed. No... That's the Pretty Cure... What's with them? "Stop it. Stop."

Accel, Maximum Drive!

Revving on the hacked Acceldriver, Accel engulfed himself in orange flames, and then immediately executes a jumping spinning heel kick on the opposite direction. She just blocked him with her bare hands.

"What the!?" Accel is shocked.

Cue the mysterious girl throwing the red one away, leading to crashing the dark blue Sky girl.

"What are you doing to our Sora!?" The pink one called the mysterious out. "SUPREME (*32)! What the fuck!?"

"Wh-wh-who are you!?" The Dreamcatcher girl is overwhelmed.

"Precious (*33), what are you up to!?" The mysterious girl rebutted.

Precious just laughed it off. "We wanted you to become our friend. Our comrade. But no, you broke free..."

Nagomi Yui... What's wrong with her...

"So we want to actually eat you instead. We'll flay you down and slice your alienating flesh, and cook, cook, cook..."

"Uegh!" The Dreamcatcher girl is disgusted. "That sounds like from over-the-top omnivores, if not outright cannibal!"

"You too!" Precious showed off her green, plants-covered tongues, showing off her... inhuman state. "We'll actually eat you once we're done!"

While Summer (the white one with rainbow accents, *34) enjoyed the mockery, Supreme and the Dreamcatcher girl did not.

"Hey, girl!" Supreme called the Dreamcatcher girl. "Get in the Tent (*37)! NOW!"

A purple tent (*37) opened, and a persistent interior is available for the Dreamcatcher girl to get in. Supreme threw it in.

"Uh... thanks, mysterious stranger!"

The Dreamcatcher girl picked up the fusion rifle (*26) and ran with her wand. She then rushed to the tent, entering it and closes it off for the time being.

"I and Puca (*38) don't care. Now get lost!" Supreme then snapped her fingers.

BGM: Fuel - Metallica

Explosions spontaneously happened, keeping the tent and the confrontation separate for the time being. The resulting fire surrounded Supreme and the Shocker hunts.

"Bring it on, you traitorous bitch!" Summer violently declared.

The hunters charged to Supreme, who started out with a blast from her hand, forcing the hunters to evade. The Riders, Double (*32) and Accel (*36) performed the Double Rider Kick (too literally, but duh), though Supreme evaded and blocked Sky instead. Sky brawled close against the extraterrestial Cure, who recognized the form she's in as Dark Cure Sky. Complete with dark Undergu Energy (*39). But Preme simply blocked and jabbed back, impacting on the body of the Shocker-brainwashed Sora. Precious and Summer joined in violently, and the three tried to take advantage of their boost plus their numerical advantage, only for the Supreme to jump up and blast them all up.

Oh dear, beating up Pretty Cure again? But they're brainwashed by Shocker, so I don't have a choice...

Preme lands down on Accel, who was recovering from the prat fall from missing the kick. Double brawled with wind-imbued strikes, but Preme just dodged and dodged. As graceful as the superior Pretty cure, Preme then blasted Double out herself, seemingly vaporizing them.

"Hmph." Supreme scoffed. "I'm a god. I and Puca (*38) are gods. You cannot-"

Cyclone Maximum Drive!

What!?

Preme immediately turned around, spotting Double, as CycloneJoker, doing an unsplit version of Joker Extreme: they as a whole descends on her, as Rider Kick. The massive cyclone followed as the Double hit Supreme, who blocked with her hand. The result not only extinguished the flame ring, but immediately caused a very strong gust that blew the tent away easily, as well as knocking the other hunters away. Turns out, Double had killing intent, and so didn't bother to split themselves apart at all. (*40)

"Nice job coming back, Double." Supreme whacked Double out of the way. "But I'm a god. You cannot hurt me like that."

Damnit! She really is a god-alien! We could've had her as Shocker's! Thought the Joker side of Double.

She's gone rogue. When we first needed her most, she fled. no proper tuning. Just... nothing. The Cyclone side of Double sighed. Shotaro, we have no choice but to kill her. At least we're Lightbearers (*41) as well as Kamen Rider.

But Supreme could hear those thoughts. She got suspicious of the hunters. What!? They're...?

Summer, being a Gurongi, performed a violent slaughter on Supreme just so the alien is dead. Supreme immediately recognized her as a Shocker-mandated Gurongi - as part of the N Group, even. Summer casted a violent tsunami on Supreme, who was thinking about the tent where the Dreamcatcher girl is in.

"No!" Supreme is horrified.

Summer was finally able to punch Supreme in the face. A brutal hit.

"I'm coming!" A mysterious man rifted into the sky and dived to the tent. "Finally! Another survivor!"

Supreme retaliated by noggin' Summer on her chest, and then blast her off.

"Helheim (*42), I'm starving~!"/"ヘルヘイム、はらペコった～!" Precious cracked open a portal.

A green, lush but strange forest appeared, shown by the portal which looks like basket zippers. A horde of monstrous animals were brought out of the forest and into the scene.

Inves (*43)! Nagomi Yui is an Overlord Inves! Supreme recognized them all.

The Inves immediately charged upon Supreme, who simply cleared them all out with a blast. But the tsunami nearly reached the tent.

"My goodness!" The man stored the tent and then surfed with a Driftboard (*44). "Supreme, get out!"

"Nope." Tomorrow flicked.

BGM abruptly stops.

Suddenly, time stopped. Only the hunters were moving now.

"Finally!" Sky laughed.

"Kome-Kome, bring me the watch (*45)!" Precious summoned her fairy, Kome-Kome (*46).

"Here it is-rice!"/"これだ~コメ!" Kome-Kome in turn, summoned the Heart Cure Watch (*45).

Precious wears it, and tapped the screen which lights up. Using the light from the screen, Precious draws a triangle and then charged up (*47)... Though Supreme vibrated out in the frozen time tomorrow made.

"Pretty Cure! Precious Tria-" (*47)

"Fuck off!" Supreme punched Precious in her stomach.

Inves blood spat out of Precious's mouth. Urgh!

"Precious!" The rest of the hunters is shocked.

Precious is knocked down, rolling on the ground. Supreme blasted Tomorrow off...

BGM resumes. ...cancelling the time freeze.

"Supreme! We have to get out of there!" The man screamed.

"What are you doing to Supreme!?" Double called the man out.

Supreme joined the surf with the man, who used a trigger with a clear ball of floating shards (*48) to open a portal and get out. The tsunami hit the hunters just as Tomorrow is respawned. It cleared much of the terrain, shore and all.

BGM ends.

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In an another reality...

BGM: Tartarus Block 1 (Persona 3 Reload)

"Hah!" The Dreamcatcher girl left the tent. "Where am I now?"

"We found you in a beach of the Middle-earth (*49). Welcome to Tartarus (*50)." The man revealed. "Oh... you're holding a fusion rifle (*26)."

"I found it on my way trying to get out. I also thought I'm in a strange Earth." The girl confessed.

"That's because Middle-earth is similar to the typical earth, but not actually one." The man explained. "And you probably have never seen it before."

"Now that you told me... that's why I felt like uncanny valley (*51) swallowed me."

The girl took her wand, and muttered,

"I miss my..."

"Who are you?" Supreme asked. "You seem regretful."

Supreme detransformed, reverting to a hot pink, icy green, magenta hooded, and black hoodie with red and yellow patterns, purple, orange, and yellow chest pocket. She also sports black hair clips, a white blouse, a black bolo tie with a green emblem, a black and pale green-colored skirt, cyan and pink leggings, as well as white, red, and dark blue accented sneakers.

"Puca, where's the loot?" She whispered.

"Preme, your fairy (*38) is burning our copies of the O.R.A.C. (*52) docs so no one but CXA can take advantage of it again." The man explained. "The Order of the Pariah (*0) was dangerous. They perverted many of the messed up powers into one single, fused factor: the Anti-Imagine Equation."

A girl who looks like Preme - magenta eyes, light pink mascara, pale yellow eyeshadows, grey hair with pink tints, cyan highlights at the front and even more elongated rabbit-like ears. She wears the same clothes as Preme, only brighter and softer, most notably the pink and lavender in place of icy green and magenta respectively.

"Hi there!" Puca greeted the Dreamcatcher girl. "This is Preme, my partner. And this is-"

The mysterious man removed his cloak, revealing an elderly face and a scuffed and scratched but otherwise intact armor. He as a very long hair that is now all grey, and adorns a horned crown on top of his head. He also have grey beard. "I am the Warrior King (*53)."

"Warrior... king?" The Dreamcatcher girl have no idea.

"Yes. And I used to pursue an orb of great power that sustained my world. An enemy knocked the orb into a portal my wizard advisor casted. I chased it throughout worlds." The Warrior King recapped his backstory. "But I found out that the orb must have chosen another world: the paradise planet Oasis. If I took it, Oasis would've rotten back into a wasteland. So the cadets (*54) convinced me to stop and leave the Orb. So now, I wanders."

"Until recently. The Oasis were destroyed, and that orb is missing. A mysterious force did it, but we don't know who." Preme added.

"Yes. And I barely escaped one of them... a long-coated one (*55), masked with crystalline glow (*14) and... slicing their own hands (*3) for some messed up lightshow (*14)."

The Warrior King sighed. "Should I have taken the orb?"

"I don't know." The Dreamcatcher girl doesn't get it. "In fact, today is the day I know you. I don't know Oasis. Not really. So I cannot answer that."

"You're a magical girl, but not Pretty Cure?" Puca spotted the wand.

"I'm not a magical girl. I'm a princess of sorts. But I protect dreams from evil and nightmare." The Dreamcatcher girl revealed. "My name is Pechy Comet. I thought that was it and it was all back to normal when I saved my universe (*56) ... but..."

What did she underwent? The Warrior King heard further.

"I saw a wave of shattering (*57), taking over my Earth. I didn't see that coming. At all." She sighed. "And the next thing I know... I was just... in that so-called Middle-earth."

"And so you met the Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack (*23) while you were running with..." Preme checked the rifle. "Deadpool wuz here" (*58)... "This one... huh..."

"What are you?" The Warrior King asked.

"I was born in the Dream Land (*59). A daughter of Queen Paige. Alongside her neighbor, Dreamer, and an alien used to turn evil, Beta, we lived peacefully, and coexisted with the Emerald Land (*60) and Crystal Land (*61). Mom, Dreamer and Beta were the Fantasy Dreamer, friends of the princess fairy Dawn. Dreamer got this very wand on her 16th birthday, and when I was age 16, I got it too. Legends had it that the Dreamcatcher filters out the bad dreams and empower the good dreams, keeping people's sleep safe. One day, Paige, Mom and Dawn shared the Dreamcatcher... but not Beta (*62). That's why she went insane, and became an alien monster. People became horrified of her. So she left, even though dreamer wanted to help. Years later, Dreamer retired and gave this wand and Dreamcatcher to my mom, who would eventually pass it on to me. Me, a Dreamcatcher princess... my family became a target by Beta, who tried to take over my universe, taking back both the gifts. Dad got petrified fighting the forces, and Mom had to fend off the nightmare that befell worlds... turning the whole into a nightmare-land. I was just 3 years old."

Suddenly, Pechy received another vision: that robot man in that robe, with a two-finger mystical ring (*63) with the glowing stones in a red-green-blue array (*64), on his left hand. He used it, tracing his right hand in an anticlockwise circular pattern while focusing on a destination beyond the space directly front of them. A circular inter-dimensional portal appeared before him and those behind.

"What?" Pechy is shocked. "A vision... Ok, must be interruption from nowhere. Let's continue..."

"I can sense the vision. I feel..." The Warrior King felt something wrong. "While I take notes, you go on."

"I got the wand after the Beta and her forces started attacking Earth and devastated my city. My mom was wounded, but she was still standing. She also gave weapons to my friends. Then the guards found out, and I was entrusted with the Dreamcatcher itself. A dream is your wish, nobody has a nightmare, only dreams is your true. That's what the dreamcatcher taught me since I was little. Not long after Ron encourage me, I was brought to Beta's prison room and forced to see the petrified remains of my parents. Queen Beta did it, but my friends rescued me. We, which I don't mean you, but my friends (*65), all confronted Beta who found us out. Beta demanded me to give me the wand and the Dreamcatcher - the gifts the shared ancestors passed onto my family and Dreamer - claiming that she herself would free my parents. So despite my friends' warnings, I gave in... only for she to petrify all my friends right there, except Ron Davis, my crush, who got stabbed by her. He was dead, I was grief, Beta was winning. But I never gave up. And so, for the first time, I got my Dreamcatcher form, and defeated Beta, and brought my Earth and my allies back to normal. I met Dreamer - the real Dreamer Light - and the princess fairy, Dawn, as my companion. The first time I saved my world, and then I woke up."

BGM abruptly changes.

BGM: Justice - Heavy Metal x DVNO - instrumental

The Darkbolts (*66)... They're coming!

Pechy heard that. "What?"

It's me, the princess fairy, Dawn!

"Dawn!? Is that you!?" Pechy recognized the voice. "Where are you!?"

The Darkbolts... *glitches* They're... actually- *glitches* waging war...

A fairy calling girl... The Warrior King eavesdropped. No... I can hear her now?

Please... h- *glitches* h- *glitches* HELP!

"Dawn!? What's going on!?" Pechy panicked.

I finally found the Dreamcatcher- *glitches* Go to Verdansk (*67), NOW!

"Verdansk?" The Warrior King got an idea. "Ok... get to my ship!"

"How do we leave?" Preme shrugged.

"This place is actually Gekkoukan High School (*68), and I parked my ship near there, outside!" The Warrior King rushed out. "Maybe we have some useful loot and stuffs!"

"I'm going with you. All the while, I'm continuing my tale to you." Pechy picked the wand.

"Preme! Don't forget the tents! It has our stuffs in it!"

The four brought the tents and quickly moved out, leading to the school ground and then out. The King's spaceship is fairly simplistic but advanced, and it's however one-seated... but it's strapped with a circular, broken capsule (*69) on top.

"I ride. You get in the capsule." The Warrior seated in. "That capsule normally don't reopen at all. This one is broken though, so you can enter and leave. It'll still protect you."

The three girls entered the capsule, bringing the loots in. the space was both cramped and ruined, but could still do the job.

"Ok... apparently, this one protects us from the outside, but it would only reopen if it was broken." Preme explained.

The spaceship immediately flew up to the sky, not too stable due to the capsule, but still space-worthy. The Warrior King used that shard device (*48) to teleport the whole spaceship and the capsule out of this world (*67).

BGM ends.

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In Verdansk (*67)...

BGM: Welcome to Verdansk (WesleyTRV: Warzone)

"What's this blue-dressed, blue-winged, blue-eyed, blonde fairy doing here?" A veiled speedster (*70) found a fairy.

"The name is... Dawn..." The fairy held on a luminous dreamcatcher. "The Dreamcatcher... is ours... not yours..."

"It's ours now." The speedster tried to overpower Dawn altogether in their hand, while the other hand touched the Dreamcatcher. "Miss Prism (*71), may I destroy this fairy?"

"Sure." A magical girl in white... the Shocker Cure Prism.

She walked across the devastated Verdansk and approached the Dreamcatcher, where dawn is holding on. "That insolent fairy, give me that d'catcher (*72)."

On the way, Pechy continued, with Preme mentally broadcasting to the Warrior King.

"Prince Floyd, my childhood friend, called me while I was sleeping one day, informing me that Beta escaped. I and Dawn conjured a portal to get to the Crystal Land (*61), where the pirate Sadie of the Galaxy Land helped me by the horse Clara, which I rode to get to the castle. But Beta got the Winter Crystal of the Northern Lights (*73) and turned Floyd into an icy dragon (*74)! I ran away, but it caught me and trapped me to Beta's front. Turns out she still wanted the Dreamcatcher for herself... and she said she wanted to become beautiful... didn't wanna hurt people herself. That's the evil power preventing Beta from being gifted with the shared Dreamcatcher in the first place. I saw Beta crying in front of me, feeling so hurt and so horrified... as if she's actually manipulated all along. So I let Dawn deal with Beta this time. She encouraged Beta all the good things, and comforted her right then and there, calling her the most beautiful alien. A friend of the Fantasy Dreamer team. And it worked. We got the Dreamcatcher and the Crystal help reform and redeem Beta, then back home, I told Mom about Beta's redemption and purification. I also, of course, got to save Floyd and report to Dreamer about all-"

"No, please no..." Dawn is slowly being crushed by the veiled (*70). "Dreamcatcher..."

Suddenly, the Dreamcatcher glowed so bright, it's blinding the entire area.

"What!?" Prism covered her eyes.

The veil grappled out with green energy strings (*75).

"You know, Dreamer has a twin sister: Amaya Shadow (*76). After Mom seeing my aunt Queen Charlene's Emerald-Diamond from the Emerald Land at age 18, Amaya just tried to steal it, but was caught and then exiled. 2 years after saving Floyd and Beta (*77), Amaya and her childrens, having superseded Caitlyn of Taylor Jolicoeur (*78), still wanted to see the future with the Emerald-Diamond (*79), and so had her own family - her husband Liam Shadow and their twin daughters, Akia and Kumi - to steal the Emerald-Diamond. Just as Dreamer and Dawn feared... doubly so as Amaya previously manipulated Beta (*62) by taking advantage of the alien friend's doubt and fear. Amaya wanted revenge. There's also the Destiny Girls (*80) at Amaya's behest. I got a honor from my aunt Queen Charlene, to see the emerald to see my time of existence. But Renee sent Victoria and Arianna to beat me up instead. Thankfully, Ms. Sland saved me and suspended the Destiny Girls on my last day at high school. Charlene and her princess daughter, Earla Sky, my cousin, prepared the ceremony, and I and my friends arrived for my past and my future. I touched the Emerald-Diamond, and it was glorious and beautiful, and nostalgic even... but I felt something's wrong, and ran away. But when I came back, Amaya and family already got the Emerald. Akia was unmasked, and turns out she bumped Earla and then got to compliment. Charlene still jailed Akia anyways." Said the Dreamcatcher princess. "My uncle Liam told me that after retrieving the Emerald-Diamond and getting back to Amaya's castle, Amaya celebrated Akia's imprisonment - he wasn't happy about that betrayal. Liam already lost Dreamer by Amaya goading him to break up with Dreamer, and now Amaya herself had proved to be an abusive mother and a psychotically evil queen, she ordered him to stay in the castle and on her side, forever. His ultimate realization and epiphany was why Liam redeemed himself and disowned Amaya. While Amaya celebrated Akia's imprisonment, Earla freed Akia, while me and my friends all went to find the Emerald. At night, I found Akia and Earla conversing with each other, with me intending to find out the truth. I forgave Akia and got to infiltrate Amaya's castle, but Amaya found out and sent Kumi to kill Akia. I and Earla saw the start and ran away for safety, but Akia ended the fight with a redemption speech that moved Kumi. Later that night, Earla was going to eat a poisoned apple, but Liam kicked Amaya down, but Earla ate it anyways, so she died, and Amaya retaliated as well, leaving Akia off. Michael slept on Earla's corpse, baffling me and friends, though Akia finally admitted her crush on Earla, and kisses Earla herself, reviving her and lifting the deadly curse from that one apple. But of course, a storm interrupted everything!"

Shocker Cure Prism saw the glow subduing, and slowly approached the Dreamcatcher.

"You'll regret this..." Dawn fell down. "Whatever... your... Darkbolts (*66)... are..."

The princess fairy then passed out and faded away. Prism smirked, and continued stepping to get the Dreamcatcher for herself.

"The world was ending. Amaya used the Emerald-Diamond (*79) to hijack the very fabric of space-time itself. That legendary Emerald was so powerful, it could easily destroy my world if fell in the wrong hands. So Dreamer entrusted me to go alone, but Akia rushed alongside me."

"Ms. Comet, we're coming to the world of a warzone!" The Warrior King interrupted. "Brace yourself!"

BGM: The Apex of the World (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

"What is this thing?" Prism finally picked the Dreamcatcher.

"We've finally looted the warrior's magic of some dreamy world, along with a crystalline star and a some emeralds (*76) (*79)!" Some soldiers is moving a chest. "We also have an icy crystal that glow iridescently (*73)."

"What do it has to do with this one?" Prism squinted.

"These are suspicious items dreaming about... our fall. Apparently so." A soldier suspected. "However, we've detected that these comes from the same universe."

The chest's opening glowed a line of light, which only perplexed the soldiers. The glow was cyan, which shocked the soldiers.

"Open the chest!" Prism commanded the soldiers.

Cue the chest creaks as the soldiers open it. And then, a sudden burst of dark energy erupting out of the chest. It's not Undergu Energy (*39) though...

"HAAAAAH!"

Cue the soldiers getting petrified immediately. A blue-skinned, dark green-eyed, alien with antennaes for forehead, wearing casual stuffs and shaved sides. A dark wand in her left hand. And most importantly, she (*62) is pissed.

"What have you FUCKING DONE to my fucking SOLDIERS!?" Prism is shocked.

"Was that the rift that spawned me?" The alien winked. "Oh. Right. Anyways, I'm here because I had to get out. This is Queen Beta, confronting some strange people around here."

"Wha?" The veiled speedster (*70) returned. "Fuck?"

They grappled back and confronted Beta.

"I infiltrated the castle, spotting Amaya holding the Emerald-Diamond, and I turned to my Dreamcatcher princess form and fought her. Akia got in the castle and tried to find me, while I was overpowered and stripped of the Dreamcatcher. Amaya, broke my wand and rose up to make a dangerous wish: becoming powerful enough to destroy my universe. Akia picked up the light, and we found Amaya as the Nightmare Demon (*81). I was attacked by Amaya, while Liam woke up and found himself near the ruins of the castle. The light chose Amaya's redeemed relatives in the form of a new Legend Emerald (*82), literally enlightening them and turning them into guardians of the Emerald. Akia repaired my wand, and helped me defeat Amaya and take back our stuffs. Cue Amaya getting trapped into a mirror. With both Emeralds and the Dreamcatcher back, we got back to Emerald Land and celebrated, only for the mirror to somehow get back and Amaya break free, joining forced with the Cheer Girls turned Destiny Girls, who broke into our graduation party and met me and my friends. Renee stole my wand, while the rest of the Girls took the Dreamcatcher and kidnapped Dawn, and won Amaya the day by wishing an apocalyptic wish which transformed the wand and the Dreamcatcher and the Girls. We lost and we wiped out... but we survived. My multiverse (*78) was razed, and I got to reunite with Ron, meet my future daughter, Ivy Comet, and learn how to channel my dream and magic without my wand. But first, I saw the Destiny Girls rebooting their own show (*83)." Pechy continued. "Ivy and Dreamer greeted us back in relief, and my friends were back. Did have some nightmares about me and Ron though. I ventured through some spaceships, where I found a girl named Taylor Jolicoeur (*84), from another universe. She was finding her own Dreamcatcher and her Smash Ball (*85) after defeating Crystal Robinson (*86). So just like you guys, we joined forces and alongside my friends, rode the spaceship to get our stuffs and the Wishing Star. While I was sleeping, I dreamt another of my childhood friend, Laelynn Star. The following morning, our spaceship crash-landed. Us friends quickly came to the scene, where Taylor had to fight a revived Jared Robinson (*86), who's then kicked by his ex-wife, Crystal Robinson herself. Hazel arrived too to banish him, much to my further surprise. An affiliate of Fantasy Dreamer, Kimi, another of Dreamer's sister, came to the scene too, having brought Crystal to apologize for what she did in Taylor's last 3 years before portal. On my way to the Crystal Land, I daydreamed and met Laelynn again and were told about Ivy by Beta and Dawn... no, I was probably hallucinating at that point. It showed that the daughter that I met may have been a clone of the now-dead Ivy Comet. I, Taylor, Hazel, Kimi and Ivy pressed on the journey, and arrived at the Crystal Land, where Dreamer and Floyd both awaited, and all us well to the Crystal Tree, bringing the Emerald-Diamond (*79) and the Wishing Star, so I decided that I wish... but something was wrong with the Crystal Tree itself (*87). And so, Amaya and Renee both took both of the crystalline stuffs we brought away, corrupting them and the Crystal Cave, even calling Ivy a clone, which Taylor called them out for the situation prior involving Ivy herself. Ivy lashed out and started going insane, succumbing to her secret and believing that she's just a mere come of my future daughter who's killed by Amaya. She left, while Taylor grieved and blamed herself, but I pulled ourselves up in front of danger. And so, Renee put my Dreamcatcher, the Emerald-Diamond (*79), the Wishing Star and Taylor's Smash Ball around her, and made an omnicidal wish. All seemed truly lost, as we were caught by her. She became a literal god. But Dreamer just rushed, and she got stabbed right through by Amaya. I dragged Dreamer out of the Crystal Cave, and Akia was watching it all."

"You're hoarding my friends' stuffs!" Beta found out.

"Next up, Ivy got epiphany through the connection between her cloned self and her original from Taylor's universe, and so she pulled herself back up, while Dreamer recovered from her wound. Dreamer talked about Eric Jolicoeur and the Jolicoeur-Comet shenanigan caused by Amaya getting both Ivy and Mike killed, and Dreamer confessed to me that she brought the clones to life into my universe by using the partially-swapped hair samples. So technically I co-mothers Ivy alongside Taylor because Ivy is her original self in a cloned body..." *sigh* "Anyways, I realized I could get back to my Earth by channeling my powers without my wand. So I did, by calming myself down and embracing myself. The three of us did the channeling themselves to create starry board to fly us to Earth, with Akia even flying herself to accompany us. The four of us flew back to our now-altered Earth, and went to crash the 100th episode special ceremony (*83). The three allies got caught, while I was brought into nightmare itself, but Laelynn appeared again and I appeared as a villainous witch, facing against my forcibly-manipulated friends. I still was able to see through all of it, and channeled my powers again, this time conjuring a purifying glow to free Ron and other friends. I wasn't alone at all. I handed with Jon and cultivated a glowing light, and asking with the encouragement from friends, the nightmare dissipated and I unleashed the glow. I found my grandma, Celestia Comet and Mom Paige, learning that I escaped my biggest nightmare. I was glad I reunited with Mom and grandma, and we were even more determined. But it was 9 o'clock, the show was starting, but I decided I must do it alone I once again assumed my Dreamcatcher princess form, this time without even using the wand at all. The 100th episode reveals that the universe - no, actually, eventually my entire multiverse - was going to be erased for good. I came to the broadcasting view just in time, and Amaya and the Destiny Girls were pissed. So I briefly fought Renee, with my wand on her hand - my power belongs to me. I snatched by the corrupted Wishing Star and convinced Renee to stop. Amaya retaliated, but I defended Renee by taking that swipe of a scythe. Amaya forced Renee to wish off the destruction, but I... metamorphed. I floated, and got carried by a big glow, and I just... met Laelynn again. She actually was a light message after her death at the hands of Amaya. I thought I lost my website universe and more and that Amaya just won, but Laelynn reassured me, hailed me as the Goddess of the Wishing Star for the next generation. I handed with Laelynn and embraced the glow of the wishes, fusing with her and became the Goddess of the Wishing Star myself. I found Amaya trying to erase Taylor's world after erasing mine, and got the Wishing Star back, emerging from it as the Goddess. I was counterattacked, but Taylor and Ivy both emerged as my warrior guardians. The three of us reminisced and then blasted Amaya off, finally defeating her for good. Ivy found a dying Renee, and she apologized to me, and I forgave her despite everything. Laelynn appeared in front of me in reality, showing me how to revive Renee as well as my universe. I used the purified Wishing Star to reverse all the damage Amaya did to my universe. Finally."

"Get a load of this!" Prism grabbed Beta in the throat like dirty fight. "Get lost!"

Shocker Cure Prism smacked Beta on the chest a few times.

"ARRROUCH!" Beta screamed.

"Finally... we're in Verdansk. Also, thanks for telling us your adventures, Pechy." The Warrior King lands down at Verdansk. "The distress call must be somewhere around... here."

BGM fades as the spaceship brakes.

No! Prism found the spaceship approaching the area. They're approaching fast! I must kill this alien fast, and take the dreamcatcher and the loot!

"What a distraction." Beta smirked.

Cue the alien slicing Prism's hands off and kicking her down.

Dawn! I'm coming! Pechy opened the broken capsule (*69) and bounced off.

"MY HAAAAANNNDDD! NOOOOOOOOOO!" Prism screamed in extreme pain. "HOW CAN YOU!"

Beta just laughed off, thanking for the distraction.

"Prisma! Fix my hands!" Prism yelled. "PRISMA!"

A small, prismatic floating machine with one glowing light pink "eye" (*88) is summoned. "May I help you?" in Prism's voice.

"Fix my hands." Prism bluntly commanded.

"Let me pick up and hold." The veiled took one disembodied party of a hand to its place.

Preme, Puca and Pechy got to meet Beta in person. For Pechy, it's reuniting with a reformed villain she fought (*62) years ago, during her first major adventure (*89).

"Are you alright, Beta?"

"Pechy... I thought you're... truly dead again (*90)..."

"Beta, this is Supreme girls. Preme (*32) and Puca (*38), some Cures. And this is the Warrior King (*53)."

"And we're from another worlds." Preme added.

"Alright." Beta natch, while Prism get her hands reattached.

"You could've just kicked those thugs." The veiled suggested. "You have your legs. Oh, and I have a knife."

The Dreamcatcher! Finally! Pechy got the Dreamcatcher back. "Beta, thank you!"

"Some shard spewed my being into the chest, and I broke out, seeing off stuffs. That Emerald-Diamond (*79) I recalled... showed me my past. Manipulated (*62) by Amaya Shadow (*76) into a monster."

"It's ok, Beta." Pechy hugged Beta. "We want to go home, but first, something's up behind the scenes."

"Pechy..." Dawn remanifested, still injured. "Please..."

"Dawn!" Pechy picked Dawn up.

"They... tried to... crush... me..." Dawn coughed.

"Dawn... please be safe..." Pechy embraced Dawn with her hands.

"Girls! Watch out!" The Warrior King warned the girls.

"He~ro~gi~rl! PRISM SHOT!"/"ひ～ろ～が～る！プリズムショットっっっ!" (*91)

Prism, with her hands properly reattached, tried to kill the gang.

"Warrior Dreamcatcher Smashing LIGHT!" Pechy pulled a fast one.

Two glowing big balls of energy - one pink (Prism) and one fully iridescent (Pechy) - collided with each other, cancelling it into a big explosion that winded the area. Followed by a glue that revealed Pechy in a light blue dress of ornamental design and glow, alongside blue starry eyes and beautiful makeup made of dream magic itself. Her hairdo also got refined.

"That's the Dreamcatcher princess form, you?" Preme squinted. "Puca. We can do like her too."

You're a magical girl. What the fuck. Prism is baffled.

"Don't fuck with the Dreamcatcher." Beta declared. "I know how it feel to be defeated and then fixed. Behold! The Dreamcatcher princess!"

"Oh c'mon!" The veiled speedster is frustrated. "Why are you feeling so brutal?"

"Could've just dealt with it faster and more handily like you normally do to normal monsters, my Hunter friend (*70)." Prism dismissed. "This Dreamcatcher gang is gotta be purged."

Cure Supreme and Cure Puca, floating on top, alongside each other.

"Bring it on!" Supreme taunted Prism and the Hunter.

"But she has some creature (*88) healing and fixing her!" Puca realized. "Its name is Prisma. It has one glowing eye!"

"Hmph." Prism brawled it out against Supreme and Puca. "Traitor!"

The duo blows and blowed the Shocker Cure, resulting in a rapid flurry of martial strikes of serious impact each.

"We already know how to deal with godlike beings since before The Second Knife (*18) even became a thing." The Hunter whipped out a sun-lighted radiant gun (*92). "Kablam!"

The Hunter pulled the trigger, and then leapt to Warrior King and Pechy, with the burning bullet going straight to the King's head. Pechy blocked the bullet with her dream powers, but a barrage of green rope darts (*93) to slice them down. Pechy knocked the rope away, while a suggested King dodges.

The Hunter then pulled the rope darts into one rope dart, and swung that down to a wave of slicing movement, dancing like an elegant freak. They almost immediately transitioned to an electric pole and an electrified blade (*94) together, and struck the Warrior King, who brawled back with both his own martial arts and his space gun. Pechy intercepted the combo, but the Hunter were being graceful, and so the current danced off and tried to electrocute the princess as the Hunter slashes.

"Alien, protect the loot!" The Warrior King called Beta.

The Hunter retaliated by backflipping and firing a purple-glowed bow and arrow (*95) downwards, intending to rain gravity bursts on the two that tether them down. Cue Pechy being slowly dragging on the ground, but still standing. The Hunter immediately ambushed, pulling out their crystalline-glow (*14) knife to try and stab Pechy down. Meanwhile, Prism is still rapid-blowing, and still dancing around as evasion.

"Damnit!" Beta targeted the Hunter. "Leave the Dreamcatcher princess alone!"

"Oh no!" The Hunter threw two frozen kamas (*96) at once with one hand to Beta.

Beta used her dark wand on those kamas, literally stopping them dead on track. The kamas fell down to the ground and shattered on the impact.

"Fuck!" The Hunter realized that Beta stopping the kamas turned that Hail Mary of theirs into a mere distraction.

Pechy broke me, knocked them away, and... "Warrior Dreamcatcher... Smashing LIGHT!"

Cue a big burst of light that overwhelmed the Hunter. It also distracted Prism.

"HAAARGH! HARGH! HAAARGH!" The Hunter is briefly blinded out and also burned by the dreaming light.

"What the!?" Prism stopped.

"Get them." Beta smirked.

The Warrior King aimed his gun right on the Hunter's head, and rapid-fired. Supreme went for a physical and brutal beatdown on Prism.

"That Hunter from another world is dead." The Warrior King clapped.

"Urgh!" Prism is whacked down by Supreme.

Cue the alien Cure blasting her off.

"No!" Prisma panicked.

"Stop!" Puca caught Prisma.

"Y-y-you...!" Prisma is pissed.

Another small entity (*88) emerged, looking angry by the look of its "eye" expressing. Pechy and the Warrior King checked the chest and took out the loot.

"Dreamcatcher, check. Emerald-Diamond, check. Winter Crystal (*73), check. Oh, Taylor's Smash Ball too." Pechy took the loot. "The Legend Emerald that our Shadow-family had been guarding? Nice! And finally, the Wishing Star."

"Wait a second... these are used rifts (*97)!" The Warrior King recognized the stuffs that spawned Beta. "Must be how she teleported to there."

A cracking sound suddenly played nearby, just behind the Warrior King and Pechy and the chest.

"Uh oh." Puca saw it in a rather shocking manner.

"What's in the... HOLY SHIT!" Beta is shocked.

Prism - Nijigaoka Mashiro herself (*71) - is undergoing a metamorphosis right of the bat. White and light pink and deep blue with iridescent accents, the chitinous armors and tissues all growing over almost her entire body, bypassing her civilian form. And she's floating in the air.

"KYAAAAAAAAHHH!" Puca screamed in horror.

A Cure Prism-themed chitin skeletal monster with three green glowing eyes (*98) emerged, and descended down to the ground and stands up.

"I am the edge that reflect infinite rainbows. I am the knife that slices the spectrum. I am the light that soars gently, and then slash down the shades of weakness." Prism's voice is distorted as she speaks. "I am Nijigaoka Mashiro, the Prismatic Hive God. Bring me your tithes."

"Shocker Cure Prism... becoming a monster..." Prism saw the gym transformation with her own eyes. "How... can be?"

"Nonononono-" Beta panicked.

Pechy looked at the Wishing Star. "Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish..." (*99)

Prism's left hand glowed with bluish-white flame (*100), and she directed her left palm on Pechy and the Warrior King.

"...Any savior..." Pechy muttered.

"Huh?" The Hunter is confused at the wishing.

"You have been Tak-(*100)"

Suddenly, a lightning struck both threats as well as the petrified soldiers, killing the latter ones by shattering. It also followed by a very loud thunder that echoes across the Earth this area of Verdansk is set in.

"Urgh..." Prism, struck by the lightning, kneeled down in impact.

The Hunter simply got annihilated, with their own Ghost barely evading the lightning. Then another lightning - also followed by a similarly loud thunder - struck the ground in the middle of confrontation, right in front of the party. The glow from the lightning then suddenly darkened as it lingers, and then...

"Huh?" Pechy looked at the figure behind the glow.

The glow subdued, revealing a familiar villain. Prism is infuriated at the sight, and she fled the scene.

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Note:

I combined my accumulated experience through the 2,400-word set of the previously properly-released fanfictions which are the blueprint for what the plot of "The tales between worlds" are but can also be enjoyed independently (both with continuity and without), with the elements of the notable fanfictions of both old and new. Most notably, The Infamous Man's Rediscovered Frontiers continuity (a crossover between pre-SGW Archie and IDW continuities, and spoilers warning, a part of Sonic Prime Overclocked story) and Multiverse Learner 101's Kamen Rider Century King Zi-O (already incorporated since Sonic Prime Overclocked epilogue, with for instance, that timeline's Kyon being the Next Decade), in particular.

And as for the length... well, I moved out of the 2,400-word formula and straight out freed the length limitation I imposed myself. That means significantly longer chapters and less need to churn out more chapters. It helps that by the time this fic is made, I graduated from high school, and the web accomodated the problem with the app's Document Manager (apparently FFN is treating the device-save-only approach except for renaming document are a feature, not a bug).

Speaking of continuities, this is of course... more than a multi-crossover. It's a part of a whole ass breadth. Make senses since "You can't un-connect your favorite franchise from Fortnite" meme by Snowfoot on Twitter/X definitely use the rift collaboration, both in IPs and in lore (Zero Point connects all of existence, in particular). Then I leaned in the timestreams, such as with DC Comics' Hypertime, and so those timestreams is how there can be multiple Zero Point (only one nexus orb itself can exist in each timestreams). Then we have the Continuum Exploitation Authority, or CXA for short, which protect the Divine Continuum (DC term; basically infinite connected timestreams each have just the Zero Point as the ultimate singularity, and underneath is the Retconnian).

Beyond the Edge adapted out of the wrongful betrayal of one of my fallen friends, Julius Raymore (a.k.a. FireKingVA) who thinks I'm always lying since drama started in October 2022 when he was manipulated and I was framed (can't tell you more than that here; contact me for more infos about dramas like these), also giving David Martinez (Cyberpunk Edgerunner, 2022, takes place in 2076) the protagonist role. Successor of Anti-Life and its tie-ins were based around corrupting the already-corruptive Anti-Life Equation from DC Comics (hence the title), and ended with a help of the new omniversal Big Bang (that one serving as Chapter 4 finale in early December 2023, and the event itself advertised Fortnite's eventually ill-received-overall metaverse stuffs) that brought the Realitiers down and got them wiped out once and for all. Sonic Prime Overclocked crosses all 3 seasons of Sonic Prime (2022-2024) and the fanmade Sonic Forces Overclocked, finally bringing the aforementioned Rediscovered Frontiers continuity, post-SGW, Storybooks and cartoons continuities to fight alongside the expanded unified army (originally from Archie crossovers for Sonic and Mega Man, 2013-2015). Now, this is a renewed "The tales between worlds" blueprint fanfic. It's also spoilery as hell, due to both its nature and the sheer amount of spoilery elements from a bunch of works. So for the last time I say: Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.

As for this chapter... yeah, I have planned for Dreamcatcher and WesleyTRV: Warzone to clash (I love Laher78/NeonStarFlower's series, and WesleyTRV is my idol despite him and his community not directly acknowledging). Pechy Comet locked out of her own multiverse, and had to be rescued and recruited by Supreme, Puca and the now-elderly Warrior King. It's been 3 days since Shatter the Hedgehog was killed and erased. Now both the CXA and the party are about to learn that the mysterious forces that have been plaguing all of existence itself... is none of than the dreaded Darkbolts from WesleyTRV: Warzone, still an omniversal alliance, but new and improved. Speaking of Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack Cross-Alliance... yes, they're part of the Darkbolts. And with the rumour about the king fully confirmed (in-universe), a surprise is waiting for you...

So yeah, here you go! I would also really appreciate that you leave a review about what you think about stuffs inside my fanfics, especially if you do your research like I do! Trying to make sure I do research (as always) can be tiring, not to mention other form of media for the crossover project, so help me out! It would be funner if you enjoy!

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Until next time...

Cross-trivia:

(*0) - Please refer to the recap above, as well as the start of Successor of Anti-Life part 47 and the Sonic Prime Overclocked prologue. In-universe, there's a rumor/rumour about a king from a kingdom far, far away, secretly had been a tyrant, and resorted to using forbidden magic - he somehow escaped and is now leading an omniversal alliance. The king (based on green eyes and his line in the vision) is implied to be King Magnifico from Disney's Wish movie (2023), who were imprisoned into the crystal mirror on top of his staff, and that were hanged by Queen Amaya to the dungeon below (where he used the book with forbidden magic). That rumour is proven true thanks to learning about Shatter the Hedgehog's benefactor who turned out to match the rumor altogether.

(*1) - Shatter the Hedgehog's demise (dealt by Shadic the Fused Hedgehog, the Super-army and the Final Color Dragon helped by CXA's correction control) undid all the 3-4 weeks of Shattered Mobius the unified world, thus rewinding the normal time in franchise - and consequently, Sonic's world - by 3 days (according to the Flashpoint's explanation).

(*2) - Barry Allen of Flashpoint, or simply the Flashpoint, is a ruined version of Barry Allen from the world of Flashpoint, based on Dark Nights: Death Metal Trinity Crisis. This Barry became a living paradox due to failing to prevent himself from saving his mother (the pre-Flashpoint Nora Allen), and ruined the entire timestream from his own actions that led to Flashpoint, killing the likes of DC's Pandora (one of the other instigators, having dumped Wildstorm and Vertigo stuffs into the DC Universe) and Dr. Manhattan (instigator from the Watchmen (1989), duh) due to sheer acausality.

(*3) - Final Shape is the goal of the true villain of the Light and Darkness saga of Destiny series, the Witness (and its precursor, the Penitent). It referred to a potential end-state of the universe in which the Witness intended to winnow, carve and calcify the universe into a frozen state of eternal perfection. In this hypothetical state of reality, the Witness freezes and calcifies reality into one perfect moment forever, where all are calcified into a spliced, marbleized reality, and only items and entities with a purpose or structure that the Witness deemed fit for existence will remain. It serve as its (the Witness') eons-long quest to impose its form of salvation to a meaningless, chaotic, and open-ended universe. The Final Shape is the Penitent's response to the Traveler (that giant white orb) not giving them greater many greater purpose despite the Golden Age.

(*4) - The Continuum Exploitation Authority, or CXA for short, is dedicated to protect all of existence across everything, including the Divine Continuum which is of the greater omniverse (by Zero Point from Fortnite), the Hypertime (DC Comics term and concept, bundling timestreams) and the Retconnian (based on Emperor-TTS web series). In this chapter, the CXA were able to connect the dots and learn that Shatter was working with the king.

(*5) - Nix Uotan, the Superjudge, a member of the multiversal Monitors, guarding the DC multiverse against unimaginable threats. He also acts as... well, a guy on his computer. Now he's about to become Ultimate Drift again, and he's just found out the Anti-Imagine got dug out.

(*6) - Lyla Michaels, the Harbinger, splits her body into AI to help oversee the DC multiverse. SoAL established this version with the pre-Crisis body, but she's overwise the post-Flashpoint one.

(*7) - Ultimate Marvel continuity in general. There's two versions of the Ultimate continuity, set in Earth-1610 (2000) and Earth-6160 (2023). The new one, the Ultimate Universe set in Earth-6160, is incumbent as of the time of this fic.

(*8) - From Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (2023). Kanai Ward is a city of homunculi, filled with imperfect homunculi due to the failure of the Amaterasu Corporation's Project Homunculus. Homunculi in Rain Code world are identified by their literally pink blood (also a visual reference to Danganronpa games). Mentioned at the epilogue of SoAL.

(*9) - An alternate timeline version of Kyon (Haruhi Suzumiya stuffs) (real name canonically unknown), who became Kamen Rider Next Decade from Kamen Rider Century King Zi-O (by Multiverse Learner 101). Next Decade is a cyan-black-yellow palette-swap of the original Kamen Rider Decade (Tsukasa Kadoya) (transform also includes watchbands like Zi-OTrinity). Like the new Tsukasa Kadoya (a Skrull impersonating Tsukasa and stealing the Decadriver), Kyon got to transform and use anything through the activation of the Rider Cards - though his timeline has been purged before the Zerobreaker war even began.

(*10) - When you damage the Zero Point, reality's out of whack. The entire Chapter 1 Season X (2019) is a good example.

(*11) - Superboy-Prime of Infinite Crisis. Much like the Flashpoint (*2), this one came from a defeated version of a major Crisis event in DC Comics. Unlike the Flashpoint guy however, Crisis-Prime actually exists in canon, having appeared in Dark Nights: Death Metal crossover.

(*12) - References the Chapter 1 days of Fortnite Battle Royale (including Fortnite OG and Chapter 4 and to some extent, Fortnite Reload).

(*13) - References to Shatter speaking to mysterious voice, which is from the rumored king himself. Learning these references in-universe is how the CXA were able to confirm the rumour.

(*14) - References to the Prismatic element introduced in The Final Shape expansion (2024) of Destiny 2 (2017) which finished the entire Light and Darkness saga (2014-2024). Prismatic is a fusion of both the Light and Darkness. Prismatic allows the user to combine abilities and Supers from all previously acquired subclasses through a customizable loadout and gameplay of 5 main elements (Solar, Arc, Void, Stasis and Strand), and fill up a Light meter and a Dark meter to activate Transcendence, which will modify a grenade to use a Light and Dark element.

(*15) - The voice is identified to be that of the Young Wolf, the player Guardian of Destiny series. This implies something's wrong with the same legend who averted the Witness' Final Shape and unmade the Witness themselves.

(*16) - Due to the power of the Anti-Imagine Equation (a massive combination of all the messiest powers and phenomenons in all of existence, cultivated by the Order of the Pariah themselves), the CXA couldn't erase it, at least not without being corrupted in the process. As such, the next best thing was to bury the corrupted Equation down in Retconnian.

(*17) - Having known Shatter from the Shattered Genesis incident (*0), Sonic connected the dots quickly, so after the voice revealed their alliance with the king, he warned Miss Continuum.

(*18) - The voice (Young Wolf) call themselves the Second Knife, referencing the Witness as the First Knife. This again implies something's wrong with the Young Wolf.

(*19) - Referencing one of Destiny series' taglines, Become Legend.

(*20) - Implying that the king's alliance would have had a far, far easier time if Shatter the Hedgehog had won and the omniverse had gotten shattered.

(*21) - Referencing Shatter's descent into villainy.

(*22) - Referencing the line Guardians make their own fate from Vault of Glass raid from Destiny. (Specifically, damaging Atheon) Due to the prior lines of conversation, this is suspicious.

(*23) - Referring to the Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack Cross-Alliance, first appearing in O.R.A.C.

(*24) - D.D. and Rook, Code Holders by Capcom. They got kidnapped by the king's alliance.

(*25) - From House of Heroes and Earth-2 respectively, all from DC Comics. The Wonders ganged up in the SoAL epilogue because Earth-2 was suffering.

(*26) - Telesto, an Exotic fusion rifle from The Taken King (2015) expansion of Destiny 1 (2014). Manufactured by the Reef, this rifle is unique amongst the fusion rifles in that it charge-fires projectiles that adhere to foes and other surfaces and detonate with a slightly delayed Void blast (Multikills with this weapon will also drop Orbs for allies). Infamous for being buggy and glitched-out, at one point even taking over official Twitter/X account.

(*27) - This is Shocker Rider Double. Consisting of Shotaro Hidari (左 翔太郎) and Philip (Raito Sonozaki (園咲 来人)). Shocker Rider Double first appeared as the brainwashed Double in Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 (スーパーヒーロー大戦グランプリ仮面ライダー3号, 2015), specifically in the timeline Kamen Rider 3 defeated the Double Riders.

(*28) - All those magical girls are the Shocker Cures - specifically the Shocker versions of the expanded SKY TEAM of Pretty Cure All Stars F.

(*29) - This is Shocker Cure Sky. She's literally Dark Cure Sky from episode 49 (Hirogaru Sky!, 2023). Sora Harewataru is one of the five main Cures in Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure (2023), and she is also the group leader. She later becomes a second-year student at Sorashido Academy. Sora transforms into the Pretty Cure of the Sky, Cure Sky. Her catchphrase is "It's hero time!" (ヒーローの出番です！, "It's hero time!"?).

(*30) - The incantation of the Dreamcatcher. Laher78/Sunflower02/NeonStarFlower kept botching the spelling and speaking, commonly calling such incantation "Warrior Dreamcatcher Smash LIGHT! Return Of Your Darkness!" (caps, too)

(*31) - "Oh my god" but it's Dreamcatcher series by Laher78/Sunflower02/NeonStarFlower.

(*32) - This is Preme, a (currently canonically) movie-exclusive Pretty Cure, debuting in Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023). She is a mysterious Pretty Cure known as Cure Supreme, who is a part of the SKY TEAM. It was later revealed that she is actually the movie's main antagonist Supreme.

(*33) - Nagomi Yui (和実ゆい) is one of the four main Cures in Delicious Party Pretty Cure (2022), and she is also the group leader. She is a second-year student at Shinsen Middle School and is in the same class as Kokone and Ran. Her family owns a diner called Nagomi Diner (なごみ亭). Yui transforms with Kome-Kome to become Cure Precious (キュアプレシャス, Cure Precious?). Her catchphrases are "Delicious smile~!" (デリシャスマイル～!) and "I'm starving~!" (はらペコった～!). This Yui (yes, that pink frilly one) is Shocker Cure Precious, and she's a cannibal and an Inves (Kamen Rider Gaim, 2013) (though Supreme haven't realized the latter yet by the time of this chapter).

(*34) - Natsuumi Manatsu (夏海まなつ) is one of the five main Cures in Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (2021), and she is also the group leader. She is a first-year student at Aozora Middle School and is in the same class as Sango and later Laura. Manatsu's alter ego is Cure Summer, and her charm point is her lips. Her catchphrase is "Tropica-shine!" (トロピカってる～!). This Manatsu is the Tropical Gurongi, N-Bazuri-Rabazu (バヅリ・ラバヅ, Gurongi), also known as Shocker Cure Summer.

(*35) - Nono Hagumi (野乃はぐみ), also known as Hugtan (はぐたん), is Nono Hana's and George Kurai's (also known as Jouji Minami in Century King Zi-O by Multiverse Learner 101) daughter and the main mascot for the HUGtto! Pretty Cure series. She is a mysterious baby who together with her caretaker Hariham Harry fell from the sky in front of Nono Hana while fleeing from pursuers from the Criasu Corporation. Hagumi's alter ego is Cure Tomorrow (as revealed in episode 40), who reverted into a magical infant form (the one shown throughout much of the series) when she traveled to the present. The version of Hagumi that Pechy confronted is actually Shocker cure tomorrow, a Time Jacker.

(*36) - This is Ryu Terui (照井 竜), the superintendent of Futo PD's Paranormal Crime Division who transforms into Kamen Rider Accel. In this scenario, he has become Shocker Rider Accel.

(*37) - The Tent is a Utility Item in Fortnite Battle Royale, introduced in Chapter 3 Season 1. It The Tent is a unique item which has several useful functions when placed (healing, item storage). The item can be found as a static prop (known as "Abandoned Tent"), or as an item. A player cannot use another player's tent. If the tent owner is eliminated, however, the tent becomes claimable to any player to take it as their own. Players can claim an abandoned tent as their own for free, or pay another player a certain amount of bars to own the tent. Dropping the item and giving it to another player is free.

(*38) - Puca (プーカ) is a (currently, as of the time of this fic,) movie-exclusive character, debuting in Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023). She is (initially) only able to say her own name, but later gains the power to transform into Cure Puca, her human alter ego. For most of the film she debuted in, she travels with TEAM PRISM, whose leader Nijigaoka Mashiro (虹ヶ丘ましろ)/Pretty Cure of Light, Cure Prism gave her the name "Puca".

(*39) - Undergu Energy is the main power used by villains of Undergu Empire in the setting of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure (2023). Undergu Energy is portrayed as streams or spheres of blackness. It is exclusively used by generals from Undergu Empire to create or even enhance Ranborgs. They can also use Undergu Energy to turn themselves into Ranborgs, with a stronger variant of Undergu Energy called MAX Undergu Energy. However, consuming excessive Undergu Energy can take huge tolls on the consumers' bodies. Undergu Energy can also create illusions to lure people into traps, or to trap opponents in impenetrable domes. They can also be used to disguise users. Undergu Energy can also be contained in bottles. It can also corrupt an individual if infused, such as when it infused with Cure Sky to turn her into Darkhead's vessel. Although rare, Undergu Energy can patch up wounds if being exerted or used correctly. However, an injured Undergu Empire member can't be healed easily by other external means, meaning that they are designated to return to being pure forces of Undergu Energy once they die.

(*40) - Referencing how Maximum Drive really worked. It's revealed in Fuuto P.I. (2009-2017, 2022-) that Double's finishers, the Maximum Drive, were completely lethal, killing the opponent and basically anyone caught in the way. This initially led Shotaro to let the likes of Dopants live and run away themselves, but Philip instead modified the Maximum Drive to make sure those finishers only destroyed the Memory, which necessitated both halves of Double to split apart and perform the move in sync. The Maximum Drive only reverted when actual, genuine killing intent on both halves were active, which because Shocker Rider Double is evil, therefore they don't split when killing targets. In this scenario, Double wants Supreme dead.

(*41) - Lightbearers (or Risen) are individuals capable of wielding the Light. Most known Lightbearers come from the remnants of Humanity, and were resurrected from the ancient dead by Ghosts created by the Traveler during the Collapse. Initially known as the Risen, these Lightbearers were scattered into various warring factions, but eventually most came to be united as Guardians serving under the Vanguard in defense of the Last City. As the Light itself is neutral overall, it's the users that define the morality in these cases (for example, the evil Lucent Brood led by Savathun, the Witch Queen). Lightless ones also exists, being cut off from the Light (mainly by losing their respective Ghosts), and may not be resurrected anymore.

(*42) - The Helheim Forest (ヘルヘイムの森) (shortened to just Helheim) is the place which the Inves call home and where the Lockseeds are grown in abundance. In order to enter this forest, one must have a Lock Vehicle, which can transport an Armored Rider at a sufficient speed, or find a random crack. The Yggdrasill Corporation somewhat also has a portal to the Helheim in their base, which only someone who is from Yggdrasill knows about. It is revealed later that Helheim was actually on another planet, the Femushinmu Planet. The Helheim Forest is a semi-alive place, having devoured entire worlds in its expansion, with its more recently discovered victim located in a valley. It is controlled by the Over Lord Inves, who control the plants and the very environment of Helheim itself. However, DJ Sagara is the very spirit of Helheim itself, making him the true ruler of the forest.

(*43) - The Inves from Kamen Rider Gaim (2013).

(*44) - The Driftboard is a vehicle in Fortnite Battle Royale, introduced in Chapter 1 Season 7 (2018). It seats one player, who has their feet settled on the board's magnets. The board hovers slightly above the ground using anti-gravity propellers, and can move forwards, backwards, jump and boost for a short burst of speed. The driver can also lean backwards and forwards in the air to build up trick score (In-game, this has no effect aside from visuals). Users operating the Driftboard can also shoot their own weapons, heal and emote, all whilst maintaining the momentum they have gathered. (They cannot initiate movement whilst performing such actions however)

(*45) - The Heart Cure Watch is an item that appears in Delicious Party Pretty Cure (2022). It can be used by the Cures to perform their individual attacks, and to help save the Recipepes. It is mostly used to help raise Kome-Kome, and allow the Cures to use their individual attacks. It has a camera function, so the girls can take pictures of things, most notably Hanamichi Ran (華満らん)/Cure Yum-Yum who takes pictures of food and posts them on her CureSta account. It can also be used to communicate with the CooKingdom, notify when a Recipepe is captured by the Bundoru Gang, and locate a Delicious Field. The Energy Fairies can also live inside of the watches, which has rooms for each of them. It is also capable of summoning the Recipepes to learn how to cook the various dishes they represent, as first revealed in episode 3. Additionally, it can also be used to look at restaurant reviews, as demonstrated by Fuwa Kokone in episode 6. It can also show the Recipepes that have been trapped inside the Bundoru Gang's container, as shown in episode 10. It also protects the Cures' memories from being stolen when Narcistoru captures a Recipepe, as shown in episode 14. Likewise, it also prevents their knowledge of certain foods from being erased when Secretoru captures a Recipepe.

(*46) - Kome-Kome, full name Connectal Mochimochitto Fukkurara Glycogen Komex II (コネクトル・モチモチット・フックララ・グリコーゲン・コメックス二世), is a fox-like Energy Fairy from Delicious Party Pretty Cure (2022). She originates from CooKingdom, is the Energy Fairy of Rice, and is Yui's fairy partner. At the beginning of her home series, she could only say her name but after she grows up and starts learning to talk, she ends her sentences with ~kome! (～コメ!).

(*47) - Precious Triangle is Cure Precious' first finisher that can only be used if she has her Heart Cure Watch (*45). It is first used in episode 1 of Delicious Party Pretty Cure (2022). Cure Precious taps the screen on her Cure Heart Watch which lights up. Using the light from the screen, Precious draws a triangle. Precious then forces energy through the triangle, which creates a tunnel of triangles that flies towards the enemy. The enemy happily says that it's full, before joining Precious to say thanks for the meal. Afterwards, the enemy explodes, freeing the stolen Recipepe.

(*48) - The Portal Device from Fortnite.

(*49) - Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Midgard (Norse mythology) and Middangeard (Old English). Middle-earth is the oecumene, in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit (1937, 1977, 2012-2014) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955, 1978, 2001-2003), are set entirely in Middle-earth. "Middle-earth" has also become a short-hand term for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world. Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age, about 6,000 years ago. Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth mostly focus on the north-west of the continent. This part of Middle-earth is suggestive of Europe, the north-west of the Old World, with the environs of the Shire reminiscent of England, but, more specifically, the West Midlands, with the town at its centre, Hobbiton, at the same latitude as Oxford. Tolkien's Middle-earth is peopled not only by Men, but by Elves, Dwarves, Ents, and Hobbits, and by monsters including Dragons, Trolls, and Orcs. Through the imagined history, the peoples other than Men dwindle, leave or fade, until, after the period described in the books, only Men are left on the planet.

(*50) - Tartarus in this scenario is a massive tower that mysteriously appears each night at Gekkoukan High School during the Dark Hour in Persona 3 (2006, 2024 (Reload), takes place in 2009). In that game, SEES is formed in an attempt to discover the true nature of the tower and defeat the Shadows. This location is the only place where the player can fight Shadows, except when they appear in outside locations during a Full Moon Operation. Because it "grows" out of the ground every night, the layout of the tower is assembled randomly, except for certain key floors that never change. The tower consists of 6 blocks divided into subsections, at the end of which there are Arcana Guardians blocking the path to the next subsection. The aforementioned subsection divisions also have controllable teleport terminals that allows one to access the lobby and other previously unlocked subsection terminals in an instant unlike the one-way teleport devices found in random floors. The stairs that connect to the next block will be totally inaccessible until the corresponding Major Shadow is defeated during each full moon phase, making it impossible to reach the top in one attempt. There are 264 (originally 263) floors in total, including the roof and excluding the optional Monad Depths underground dungeon which consists of 10 floors.

(*51) - A jab on the uncanny valley, which is the horror and fear of something that's almost real but clearly isn't. Specifically, the uncanny valley effect is a hypothesized psychological and aesthetic relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. Examples of the phenomenon exist among robotics, 3D computer animations and lifelike dolls. The increasing prevalence of digital technologies (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality, and photorealistic computer animation) has propagated discussions and citations of the "valley"; such conversation has enhanced the construct's verisimilitude. The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting eerie feelings in viewers.

(*52) - One Reincarnated Army Corps.

(*53) - Warrior King is the character from USA Network's "Action Extreme Team" crossover saga, which involved Warrior King visiting Savage Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm and Wing Commander Academy cartoons while pursuing a mysterious orb that could restore his homeworld and his family back to life. He gave up on that quest though, and became a wanderer across all existence.

(*54) - From the Wing Commander Academy. It happened in season 1 episode 8.

(*55) - A Warlock from Destiny games.

(*56) - Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023). This fic takes place after the aftermath, which happened one month after the events of the Last Dream Wish.

(*57) - Hyper Genesis Wave.

(*58) - Referencing Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) film.

(*59) - Pechy's birthplace and the main setting for Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake (2022).

(*60) - The main setting of Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023).

(*61) - The main setting of Dreamcatcher: The Winter of The Dragon (2022).

(*62) - Queen Beta is the villain of Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake (2022) and then some... except she was being manipulated.

(*63) - A Sling Ring is a small two-finger mystical ring from Marvel media with the ability to create an Inter-Dimensional Portal to another location or even a different dimension.

(*64) - The MCU coloring of the embedded stuffs, respectively the Reality Stone, the Time Stone and the Space Stone. These were embedded the same way the former two were in the Sling Ring (*63) used by Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine (2024). Likewise, most likely taken from another timeline on Marvel expanded cosmology and currently used by the king.

(*65) - The friends rode an UFO to get to the space and arrive at Beta's castle. Curiously, both those friends and the duo Preme and Warrior King rescued Pechy from some respective villainous forces.

(*66) - WesleyTRV: Warzone.

(*67) - Verdansk (Верданск) is the capital city of Kastovia. The city is featured in the rebooted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and serves as the main setting for the Special Ops operations and Ground War maps of Modern Warfare. Verdansk was also the original battleground for Call of Duty: Warzone (2020). Verdansk is also mentioned in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2023, takes place in 1981) and is featured in several seasonal intro cinematics. Following the Destruction of Verdansk event, the modern-day version of the map in Warzone was replaced by a 1980s version called Verdansk '84 with the Season 3 (2021) of Black Ops Cold War. With the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard Season One, Verdansk was entirely replaced by Caldera. Verdansk also appears in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) campaign in the missions Operation 627, Deep Cover, Flashpoint and Gora Dam.

(*68) - Persona 3 (2006, 2024, takes place in 2009).

(*69) - The Absolutely Safe Capsule (ぜったいあんぜんカプセル) is a device in Mother 3 (2006). It was designed by Dr. Andonuts and the Mr. Saturns for Porky Minch to protect himself from any threats outside the capsule. A fully-working ASC can never be reopened, and its contents will be absolutely safe inside the device from outside forces forever, for all eternity in isolation; the ASC was not meant to protect whoever was inside from the outside, but to protect what was outside from what was inside. The one ASC strapped on top of the Warrior King's spaceship is broken, meaning that while it retains much of the absolute protection of the inside from the outside, it can be reopened and closed again and so on, at any time.

(*70) - A Hunter from Destiny games.

(*71) - Nijigaoka Mashiro (虹ヶ丘ましろ) is one of the five main Cures in Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure (2023), and a second-year student at Sorashido Academy. She usually lives with her grandmother, as her parents work overseas. Her nickname is Mashiron (ましろん). Mashiro transforms into the Pretty Cure of Light, Cure Prism.

(*72) - Shorthand for "Dreamcatcher".

(*73) - The crystal that conjure the power of the Northern Lights, used to start the Northern Lights Festival and later by Beta to turn Floyd into a brainwashed dragon.

(*74) - The Winter Dragon, Floyd and bloodline's icy draconic form. First shown in Dreamcatcher: The Winter of The Dragon (2022) brainwashed by Beta through the Winter Crystal (*73).

(*75) - Strand is an elemental manifestation of the Darkness, in a similar manner as Stasis. It allows one to manipulate the Weave, a paracausal matrix of psychic energy that connects all things and minds in the universe. It was introduced in the expansion Lightfall as the second of the Darkness-based Subclasses. In this scene, the Hunter (*70) is shown using Grapple: weave a grappling hook, and quickly pull yourself forward. Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. (During and shortly after grappling, your melee attack deals area damage and unravels targets). This is a Threadrunner's trick. (*70)

(*76) - Amaya Shadow is the villain of Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023) and one of the antagonists of Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023). Amaya wanted to get the Mnemo-Spatio-Temporal Emerald-Diamond (or simply Emerald-Diamond) from the Emerald Land's people. She also manipulated Beta (*62).

(*77) - 2-year timeskip to Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023).

(*78) - Taylor Jolicoeur Universe is part of the Dreamcatcher multiverse, originating from the former's namesake (now retired from YouTube) in the 2010s decade. Kaitlyn, an alien villain like Beta and also one of the most notable villains in the Taylor Jolicoeur Universe, were blasted off early on during Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023). Taylor Jolicoeur as a character would join the fray (complete with that Smash Ball from Super Smash Bros. series) in the sequel, Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023). The original name of this universe is Dreamcatcher Crystal Universe: All-Stars.

(*79) - The Emerald-Diamond (*76) let those touching it see both the past, the future and even possibilities, across space-time.

(*80) - The members for the Dreamcatcher's incarnation of the Cheer Girls, a.k.a. the Destiny Girls, were: Arianna Martinez, Betty Lou, Cecile Bernard, Renee Jaillet (unofficial member turned headliner), Victoria Peterson and Violy Anderson.

(*81) - Amaya Shadow (*76)'s enhanced form, after using the Dreamcatcher and the Emerald-Diamond (*79) to give herself the power to destroy the universe.

(*82) - The original, spatiotemporal Emerald-Diamond gained a golden copy in Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023), literally enlightening the post-Shadow family into guardians of the Emerald.

(*83) - Yes, in some cases, the "Cheer Girls" show does exist.

(*84) - Taylor Jolicoeur as a character is one of the main heroes of her namesake universe (*78). She joined forces with Pechy in Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023).

(*85) - The Smash Ball is an item in Super Smash Bros. series, starting with Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008). It allows the user to activate a powerful Final Smash attack when it breaks. It appears in Training Mode, certain Events, standard and Special Smash.

(*86) - Another major villain from Taylor Jolicoeur Universe (*78).

(*87) - Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023).

(*88) - Ghosts are small, sapient machines created by the Traveler shortly after the Collapse. Their sole purpose is to locate and resurrect deceased individuals capable of wielding the Light as Guardians, and to support their Guardian charge in combat.

(*89) - Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake (2022).

(*90) - Amaya Shadow (*76) and the Destiny Girls (*81) tried to destroy the Dreamcatcher universe (and then multiverse) twice in a row. They nearly succeeded both times.

(*91) - Prism Shot is Cure Prism's first finisher that is first used in episode 4 of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure (2023). Cure Prism summons a giant ball of pink energy, which she throws at the enemy. The enemy is then purified with multiple white hearts surrounding them.

(*92) - Golden Gun is a Guardian Super available to members of the Hunter class that use the Gunslinger subclass. Golden Gun forms a Hand Cannon supercharged with Solar elemental energy, allowing it to deal an incredibly high amount of damage with precision. This ability expires after 10-11 seconds or three shots. Upgrades to this super increase accuracy and damage, cause targets to explode upon death, or speed up the Gun's recharge rate.

(*93) - Threadrunner, a Strand-based Hunter subclass first introduced in Destiny 2 (2017): Lightfall (2023).

(*94) - The Arc stuffs depicted is a combination of Bladedancer (Destiny 1, 2014) and Arcstrider (Destiny 2, 2017), both Arc-based Hunter subclasses.

(*95) - Shadowshot is a Guardian Super available to members of the Hunter class that use the Nightstalker, a Void-based subclass. This Super allows the Guardian to temporarily activate a bow-and-arrow like projectile that, when shot, will tether enemies and blind bosses with an anchor of Void Light (appearing as a sphere), suppressing their abilities. The Void Anchors fired from Shadowshot pull targets toward the impact point, which then become traps and wait for prey.

(*96) - Silence and Squall is a thrown Super available to Hunters that have chosen the Revenant subclass. The Revenant summons two Stasis infused Kamas, Silence and Squall, which they throw one after another for a two-pronged attack. Silence creates an area-of-effect flash-freeze blast that freezes and damages targets. Squall creates a Stasis storm that lingers on impact for a moderate duration, which then hones in on nearby enemies; slowing, damaging, and eventually freezing them. Together they can be use for cover and to lure enemies inside its Stasis storm for lingering tick damage.

(*97) - The rifts from Fortnite, usually identified by energized floating shards.

(*98) - The Hive, originally known as the Krill, are a macabre, incredibly ancient species of arthropod-like aliens hailing from the world of Fundament and aligned with the Witness and the Black Fleet. Their entire culture is based around the Sword Logic: a supernatural, thanatological philosophy of competitive survivalism, which dictates that they must destroy other civilizations in order to accrue paracausal power and feed the Worms that live within their bodies. Along with the Witness, they are led by a pantheon of dark gods, who derive power and sustenance from the destruction wrought by the Hive.

(*99) - Referencing both Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) and the Dreamcatcher multiverse.

(*100) - The Taken are Darkness-corrupted entities originating from multiple species that have been warped into the Ascendant Plane and paracausally altered to serve their given purpose. The paracausal ability to Take derives from the Witness and its power to move worlds between realities, although they were (mainly canonically) the personal creation of Oryx as his army after creating the Tablets of Ruin. More recently, they have come under the sway of various Darkness-aligned villainous entities in the wake of Oryx's defeat, including Savathûn, Quria, Xivu Arath, Riven, and Disciples of the Witness like Rhulk and Calus. (The Drifter, a rogue Lightbearer known for experimenting with the Darkness, has also managed to achieve a level of control over the Taken using Motes of Dark, while the Nine can create their own counterfeit Taken out of dark matter.)