The Continuum Exploitation Authority (CXA) spent 3 days of theirs cleaning up the mess Shatter the Hedgehog made, but is interrupted by a strange broadcast led by a party just known as the Second Knife. Meanwhile, Pechy Comet wakes up in a beach of the Middle-earth, and was chased by the Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack super-soldiers, and was rescued by Cure Supreme and the Warrior King. They brought her to Tartarus, but as she explained what happened before her fall, the princess fairy Dawn did a distress call on Verdansk, and the group (with Puca) flew to the place, and so Pechy reunited with Beta, but one of the Shocker super-soldiers, Shocker Cure Prism, the Prismatic Hive God, fled at a salvation wish...
BGM: perfect cell (EDGE)
Damn it! Nijigaoka Mashiro, the Prismatic Hive God, hid in a building above, far from the notice.
"Who are you!?" The Prismatic Hunter (*1) is baffled.
The darkness faded out, revealing someone familiar... and somewhat deranged.
"Y-y-you..." Pechy recognized her, and is horrified. "No... you're... a savior..."
"Golden Gun of the Solar. I kid you not." The Hunter pulled the flaming gun. "If you don't kneel first, I will-"
"Who?" The woman blurted.
A red-dressed woman with a messy hair and dark red eyes, clearly annoyed. "Where. Am. I."
"Verdansk." The Warrior King called. "This place is... sus..."
The woman looked around. All she recognized is...
"Amaya Shadow..." Beta grinned in frustration.
"You... you turned Beta evil... tried to destroy our multiverse! For nightmares and insanity!"
Pechy is riled up. She couldn't believe that her arch-nemesis can even be considered any hero, let alone being a savior. She remembers all that happened. The war on dreams, Beta's corruption (*2), the Emerald incident (*3) and attempted genocide through the wishing and the Destiny Girls (*4).
"Amaya... you psycho..."
Pechy, previously not brawling before without her magic blasting, suddenly clenched her fists.
"Damn you..."
"Get rekt!" The Hunter pulled the trigger.
BGM abruptly stops, gunshot goes.
The burning bullet was deflected by Pechy's own magic, resulting in a fiery explosion.
"What the!?" Beta is shocked. Pechy... is getting furious!
"Fuck off, Hunter."
Shit! Pechy's swearing as well! Beta.
What!? The Hunter is caught off-guard.
Suddenly, Pechy threw her wand right to the Hunter in such way like a spear or a javelin. The stick end of the wand pierced through their throat, causing the Hunter to fall down, immediately wriggling in lethal pain.
"Warrior Dreamcatcher... Smashing LIGHT!" Pechy rudely shouted.
The wand shone, burning the Hunter down, disorienting their Ghost (*5) and distracting Amaya.
"Pechy... You..." Amaya recognized all of this shit.
Cue the nightmare woman getting punched in the face. The hand of the Dreamcatcher princess is frail and weak, but the magic more than made up for it. As a result, Pechy's hitting like a heavyweight wearing plaster-padded gloves (*6) swinging full force. Clearly the first punch was enough to easily knock a tooth clean. The next punch, Amaya spouted blood. Another punch, her eyes started swollen.
"Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!"
Her hands was about to be splattered with blood, as Amaya couldn't fight back.
"STOP!" The Warrior King yelled.
Pechy stopped, having landed quite a few punches. Amaya groaned, and darkness aura covered her face. It seems Pechy nearly gave her greatest enemy ever faced thus far a traumatic brain injury in the process.
"Stop it. You wished for a savior (*7)." The Warrior King noted. "So... your old enemy, Amaya, may be a savior against this omniversal crisis. Let her live. We have to work with her. The Dreamcatcher and the Emerald-Diamond said so."
Amaya's head turned back to normal, and the aura dissipated. At the same time, Pechy's wand stopped, and the Hunter is left a burned corpse.
"Wait... Thanks! I got my powers back!"
Pechy threw Amaya to the ground, and she didn't want anything good to do with her. Amaya is the greatest threat of her multiverse and Pechy's greatest enemy, with a vendetta from an origin Dreamer had yet to tell her about. How could Pechy bring herself to let Amaya get away this time?
"Pechy... couldn't you just keep punching?" Beta shrugged.
Pechy then looked at her hands. Amaya's blood on her knuckles. "Hah! No..."
"Amaya Shadow, right? A villain weaponized nightmares to bring ruins to universes..."
The elderly King confronted Amaya with his own vigor. "I am the Warrior King. A wanderer from a lost world. Perhaps..."
"Huh?" Amaya has no idea.
"I am Preme. This is Puca. We're best friends, best partners."
Cure Supreme herself is so friendly to even a psychotic nightmare-slinger (huh?) Amaya.
"Pechy? She's all we must get." Puca told Pechy. "If the wish itself call this woman a savior, then roll with it."
"Amaya... I lost a choice..." Pechy sighed.
"Oh, look at you. Oh, there's more. Now we're stuck in this strange, new world." Amaya looked around. "Pechy. I'm back. What a wonderful plot."
"Amaya... So I really have to join forces with you..." Pechy couldn't believe it. I hate this...
Pechy detransformed.
Few hours later...
BGM: Disce libens (Dies Irae)
Camping in Verdansk...
"Amaya... Do you hate the so-called Darkbolts?" Pechy asked Amaya. "You know, we barely even knew it. Only the name and the suspects working on it, apparently."
"Darkbolts? Never heard of that one."
"Beta, where did you get the rifts from?"
Beta simply groaned in annoyance. "Fine. I'll tell you the two words: Big Bang (*8)."
A brief flashback showing Beta drifting across galaxies of gateways (*8)...
"I freaked out when I saw stuffs orbiting in and out."
"That the Big Bang... Oh, I know it..." The Warrior King recalled. "And these LEGO pieces (*9) also swarmed some space."
Pechy took out the Emerald-Diamond - the green one showing the past and the future of the user - to see her past adventures and the backstory. Pechy confirmed that it's exactly real and happened, meaning that Pechy here is real - she's not a clone like her Ivy.
"Amaya, try this out." Pechy gave the Emerald to Amaya. "This time, DON'T. DO. ANYTHING. RIDICULOUS." (*10)
"Fine... you dreaming weakness." Amaya touched the Emerald. "My past... Am I..."
Amaya's backstory is shown. Amaya was born through an union of a dream warrior and a magical woman of high status. Dreamer, Kimi and Amaya were born of them, but while the former two daughters manifested dreams as power, Amaya due to being the troublemaker ended up manifesting nightmares instead. Eventually this drove a lot wrong, with Amaya eventually corrupting Beta, engineering Liam's break-up with Dreamer, trying to steal the Emerald-Diamond the first time, and finally starting a war that split up the nations and got Amaya and co. exiled.
"Right..." Amaya confirmed.
"So... not a clone either... No!" Pechy only frustrated.
"Pechy... Seems like I was given a mission from an outside context." Amaya got it. "You wished me, a nightmare bringer, for salvation. To help save all of existence."
"I only thought about any savior to help me and friends out. I never thought you would be the one summoned." Pechy grumped. "Even better, you got your full power back!"
"Then Pechy and Amaya, work together alongside us. The Another Dimension Pretty Cure (*11) and the Warrior King are to be trusted." Dawn suggested. "And down the line, we fight against Darkbolts, we save all reality, and we go back home."
"What is the Darkbolts anyways?" Supreme have no idea.
Great question.
The hell is that mind? The Warrior King noticed.
"Who said it?" Amaya noticed.
Not again! Pechy realized.
We are the one bringing existence itself to it's knees. Now back, better than ever. As an all-new lineup, much more powerful. We are everything you think you must defy. But no. We are being your comprehension. We must be, because we're the most powerful of all. Fourth wall? Nonsense! Zero Point (*12)? Laughable! How many timestreams? Answer: infinite. And not even the non-existence that is Retconnian is safe. Ever. For we are an omniversal empire on a mission: revenge. Revenge against timestreams. Revenge against galaxies (*8). Redvengers (*13) razed us all. The CXA purged our definition and existence. Now, we rise against all our oppressors and traitors. If you resist, we don't care and we will break you. In hindsight, none of this shit would've transpired if you just gave up in the first place. Oh, and that once-benevolent Officer Knights (*14) are but just a bumper that happened to cause further desecration. But now, with all the past oppositions gone and our lineup renewed and changed, we are ready to-
What? Amaya interrupted with her own nightmare power. "Seriously?"
Oh... nice play, preemptive traitor. You could've been part of our lineup. Our alliance of force. But you chose to stand and fight beside your greatest enemy. Your dream mastermind. We know what you did. Intentional betrayal will not be tolerated.
I defeated Amaya Shadow to save my world from weaponized and corrupted nightmares. Pechy added onto the mental contact.
Oh... so you are letting Amaya Shadow be? And still defy us?
Who are you, Darkbolts? Dawn looked up.
"Darkbolts"? That name? Right... You must have gotten that name from our properties. Yes, we ARE the Darkbolts. We are to bring all of existence to its knees. We have had enough of our ancient oppositions, but now that they're gone, we're free to torn your existence asunder. But to do so most efficiently, we've become war itself. Look around.
BGM stops.
A bunch of sky rifts (*15) spontaneously appeared above Verdansk.
We Darkbolts will commence Operation: Last Wish. You will be doomed. Mark our words: WE. WILL. RAZE. YOU. And you in particular, Amaya Shadow... You will be Taken (*16). You, Pechy Comet... you stole Amaya Shadow! And you, the poor Warrior King... You should've taken that orb yourself. Ironic. You've forgotten what you fought for, and you still don't admit it.
Suddenly, the Warrior King showed his PTSD about his past and his chase (*17). He thought he didn't forget about his lost homeworld, but now he's shaken about it's fate and how he wandered off instead of taking the orb away despite Oasis.
Rifts (*15) burning existence, coming in! Soldiers, evacuate! We, Darkbolts, shall sign off!
Cue a laughter projected mentally for the gang to hear.
"I-I-I actually... deliberately forgot my home!? I failed... my world...!?" The Warrior King have PTSD "No... No... It's can't be... I've... let my homeworld... rot!?"
"Calm down, mister!" Beta pleaded.
"Damn." Amaya isn't amused.
"The Darkbolts..." Pechy muttered. "Amaya... being considered savior is due to... desperation?"
"The Darkbolts is burning all of existence with their warfare." Dawn noted. "Which means that the wishes and the circumstances are desperate. Desperate enough to deem Amaya a fellow savior."
"Exactly what I thought." Pechy agreed. "Amaya... you know that we hate you... but we need your help. To save all of existence. Save your butthurt. Save my multiverse again."
"I don't wanna do that. But those strange messagers have a bit on me now. They're hunting us all down, even me!" Amaya shrugged. "Which means... finally, we get to fight alongside each other, not against."
The Ghost has regenerated the Hunter.
"Look like we must join forces. Without the likes of you, all of existence get ruined. Not just my multiverse... but others', too."
"Bullshit." The Hunter recovered.
"What?" The two opposite noticed.
"You Hunter stay away." The Warrior King pulled himself up and pointed his gun towards the Hunter.
"Darkbolts told me, a super-soldiers, out of this way... and your wasting my time." The Hunter pulled out their knife. "If you survive... may the Second Knife take you."
"Supreme! Puca! Get something to rift us out!" Beta screamed.
Supreme and Puca ran off to find means to rift everyone out. Pechy transformed once again and took back wand standing (Marvel Mjonir much?), while Amaya whipped up her own dark scythe.
"I'm in." Beta brandishes her dark wand.
BGM: Whatever the trailer song for Fortnite's April 2024 Crew trailer is (yes, the one with the Looped version of Ares, the God of War from Greek mythology).
The three out of four combatants charged to, while the Warrior King stands and shoot the Hunter. The Hunter deflected the bullets by turning their knife into a green dart rope (Strand), and they then transitioned to "Silence" and "Squall" two frozen kamas (Stasis) to brawl the three. The Hunter dual-slash on point-blanl, Amaya swings off, Pechy shoots dream to the Hunter, Hunter backflips and transitioned to electric pole-and-blade combo (Arc), and arched with electricity. Beta shoot alien blast from her wand, Hunter stomps down the ground and pulled a shadow bow-and-arrow combo (Void) and load some ice (Stasis) onto the shadow. The Warrior King finally charged, and the Hunter shoots, the frozen projectile (Void/Stasis) hurled through. Beta used petrify on the projectile, causing it to explode into orbiting ice shards (Stasis/Void), slowing and freezing down her. Pechy blasted her dream on the frozen anchor (Stasis/Void) to free Beta, and then blasted the Hunter with the same dream magic burst. The Hunter pulled the Golden Gun (Solar) and shot on Amaya, but she deflected the flaming bullets which leading to brief explosion. Cue a clash between Amaya and the magic threads (Strand).
"Where's your little machine spawn?" Amaya giggles.
Cue a dark smoke bomb (Void) and a set of tether trap (Strand) to get rope the gang, tripping Pechy down. The Hunter lands "hero"-ically behind the Warrior King and electrocuted him.
"Dang!" The Hunter then pulled their Golden Gun (Solar). "Any regards before I shoot you and then-"
Beta tried to petrified the Hunter, who used freezing super-physics (Stasis) to break off and break free. And the trigger is on...
"Beta, no!" Pechy reached Beta with wand.
Gunshot. The flaming bullets fly to Beta, but thankfully, Pechy's magic deflected it within centimetres. The bullet ricocheted elsewhere and exploded mid-flight.
"I'll be damned." The Hunter sarcastically remarked (*18), and then kicked the Warrior King to the sides.
Pechy somehow pulled off the fusion rifle she found; she has already hid it with her magic to keep it so concealed.
"What? Telesto?" The Hunter is baffled. "Where did you get it from (*7)!?"
"Mister King, watch out!" Pechy pulled the trigger.
Several of purple energy orbs fired from the rifle, quickly reaching the Hunter. The Warrior King rolled away.
"Hmph."
The Hunter alternated between the electric pole (Arc), the kamas (Stasis) and the rope darts (Strand) to quickly, stylishly and easily destroy the orbs. Then immediately they pulled out their Golden Gun (Solar).
But just before they cloud pull the trigger... BGM abruptly stops. Verdansk quakes and glitches. The rifts widened.
"Hunter! We have to get out! This place isn't safe anymore!" Prism, now detransformed back to her civilian form.
"Urgh... Damnit... So much wrong..." The Warrior King got up. "My home... Was I wrong?"
"Prism. I'mma go..."
The Hunter stowed the Golden Gun, threw a ice-and-fire grenade and then grappled out to Prism's side. "May the Second Knife take you. Transcendence signing off!" *crazy laughter*
"We got a Sling Ring! The two-finger creating portals one!" Puca came back. "Specifically, this one is adorned with Zero Point Crystal. It can get us out!"
"Puca, wear and circle."
Not long after, and an anti-clockwise move later, an inter-dimensional portal appeared on the ground. But the grenade started erupting (*19).
"What the hell!?" Amaya noticed the area got caught in a cold storm. "They're still trying to put us down!"
The grenade started burning, and is pretty damn close to the portal.
"Everyone, jump!" Puca jumped down, also bring the tents loaded with loots.
Pechy and Amaya packed all their McGuffins into the tent Supreme has. The grenade burns.
"Dreamcatcher, Emeralds, Smash, and the Wishing Star. Close." Dawn closed the tent.
The gang jumped into the portal, leaving the Warrior King's spaceship behind. Just as the portal closes, the grenade ignites, and the storm quickly turned into a burning cyclone scorching the entire area.
BGM: 02 LIFE GAME (Anonymous:Code)
The gang landed in yet another world.
"Ahhh..." Preme detransforms.
"Yikes..." Puca detransforms.
"Whew... We're alive..." Pechy is relieved. "And my wand too."
"Pechy... Beta... we're on way outside context to our world." Amaya got up.
The Warrior King got up, and looked around. It's both strange and familiar. "I've been... here before."
"Mr. King? You... have seen this place?"
"Time Variance Authority, or TVA for short, used this dimension to store pruned stuffs so the existence eater, Alioth, can... eat." The Warrior King recalled. "I recall that those erased by Alioth fall straight into Retconnian. Y'know, the realm of absolute non-existence. This place here is the void."
"This place... look so barren." Amaya is delighted. "Exquisite."
"While I was walking around, I saw some pruned hobos bringing Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Chris Evan- no, I mean Deadpool, Wolverine and old Human Torch (*20), to some place I don't remember anymore."
Pechy, I wished that your multiverse fell into... No no no, because I'm working with you now. They would just force me to work with you. And besides...
Amaya, I think this place... Pechy looked around. It's haunted now.
The void's haunted. A mysterious robot girl mental-lized this scene.
"Who said that?" The Warrior King noticed.
It's dangerous to get going without any enchantment.
"Where should we go?" The Warrior King looked around.
The Gi-Ant Fortress (*20), identified by the corpse of Giant-Man, forged into a fortress. Cassandra Nova, pruned sister of Charles Xavier a.k.a. Professor X, used this place as her hideout. She left and then went for a... Time Ripper (*21). Now, this place has... transformed. Not corrupted, not-
"Yeah yeah yeah..." Beta shrugged. "Who are you?"
I am an exile. Exiled from my own timeline, watching others' being taken over. You will learn about me soon. Just arrive.
"Time to use something I remember pruned... somehow." The Warrior King suggested.
"May I just... use another portal?" Puca suggested.
"No, give me the ring." The Warrior King denied. "I know more. And besides, it would be pretty hard to keep our profiles low when so much wrong could happen!"
Puca reluctantly gives the King the Sling Ring. He wears the ring but doesn't use it. He instead shouted "Oh Pouchy!" (*22)
"Have you gone insane after the PTSD?" Amaya insensitively rebutted.
"Oh Pouchy!"
Silence, and not long after, a whimsical xylophone tune is heard.
"Hi everybody! I'm Pouchy!" A living fanny pack appeared, floating up. "Oh, you have some new friends too? That's everybody you've got?"
"It's been a while, Pouchy, especially since we last met." The Warrior King candid. "You remember? I knew of your existence when I was a guest, watching Bloofy's stuffs alongside a little girl named Riley Anderson. That how I could summon you... in a reality-neutral setting that is."
"I was pruned by some freaks called the Darkbolts. You come to rescue me?" Pouchy suggested.
"We need your help. The corpse of Giant-Man is waiting for us. And someone is there. We're currently in the Void of TVA's watch, and thus place now is messier than when I last visited. Which was so long ago by human's standards, actually."
"I have lots of items! Which one do you think will work the best? A roll of tape, a rubber duck-" *gags as Amaya drags him down and shoves her hand in Pouchy's mouth*
"What is this bag?" Amaya pulled some... flower. "A starry flower. What exactly is this?"
"It's... a Wonder Flower (*23)!" Pouchy explained. "It transform stuffs into surprises!"
"I'll take it." Pechy took the flower. "I drop it on my star."
Pechy channeled her powers down below, forming a glowing star platform below. She then harnessed the Wonder Flower, causing the star platform to become much larger, covering the nearby ground that the rest of the gang stands. A bunch of Wonder Seeds are lined in such a way that seems to lead to the fortress.
"Good." The Warrior King wears Pouchy. "Time to get going."
"Brace yourself." Pechy leaned forward.
The star platform blitzed along the lane lined by the Wonder Seeds, quickly bringing the entire gang to the fortress. But one more has fallen - an exotic-dressed metal-faced woman (*24), falling down to the ground.
Maya Sundaresh, the Conductor (*24). You have been pruned. You only have two. If you kneel down and obey, you have been Taken (*16). If you resist altogether, get erased. Vex research, Echo of Command, accept the changing blade, you bitch.
It didn't take long for the star platform to reach the fortress - now ruined with some sorts of spliced mess with exotic foliage and flora in-between (*25), with the gates gone. A glowing well of gradient of cyan, magenta and purple shining in crystalline light, is seen at the compound exterior, trapped in the large hub walls.
Pechy braked. "Here we are. Just us and this one... robot."
A cloaked robot, looking like a woman on the run, opened up the remains of the "helmet" door of the compound. The robot walked down to the ground, just as the gang stepped down.
"They says I never have had time to explain that I don't have any time to explain (*26). But the truth is... it's a massive tragedy."
The robot has feminine curves covered in a similar kind of garbs as the Hunter the gang encountered, and the face is similarly curved (well, sorts of). But said face is very reflective and somewhat melted down unevenly, and the hands are unevenly molded as well, but otherwise the robot is still fully operational. The eyes are glowing blue, and the voice is the same as what the gang picked up earlier.
This really is the robot girl that contacted them.
"Let's cut to the chase. I am Elizabeth Bray, granddaughter of a mad scientist from my Golden Age, Clovis Bray the First. I'm an Exo - a robot with human brain and blood made of Darkness-infused radiolaria (*27) - and I come from... another universe. I was wielding Stasis for the longest time, but now I'm Prismatic (*1). They called me the Exo Stranger, and the last time I met them in person, they turned me Prismatic, gifting me the harmony between Light and Dark."
"Who is they?" Beta shrugged.
"The Second Knife." Elsie confirmed. "By the time I became Prismatic, they and their fireteams all have become... eldritch. Even more so than the Vex ever was, for not only they've conquered millions of timelines at this point, much like the Vex... the Second Knife abuse the harmony. Hoarding the Echoes, taking over all they got known, and... so much more. They've become so eldritch, even if what they did won't deal you out. Not immediately. If you see the damage they themselves did... How can you comprehend?"
"So... how did you escape?" The Warrior King asked.
"I tried. I was so close." Elsie shook her robotic head. "I crash-landed into Vex territory from an alternative timeline, and the radiolaria provided me the way. So I left, and dived in while they were chasing me. I got into the Corridors of Time (*28), where I wandered out of the way, and I got lost. Eons later, I survived all of it, but suddenly an extremely exotic Exo I've never met before dumped me into this reason we're standing in right now."
Wait... Exo is a robot with human brain... The king I saw in my visions is... a robot... Pechy suspected.
Elsie projected a bunch of green glowing strings, and she plucked a few. Suddenly, the robot girl was able to precisely and fully read Pechy's mind at that moment.
"Ah, Strand knows what you're thinking."
Pechy gasped. "What?"
"I fully grasped the Weave since I got the Strand from the harmony they gifted." Elsie clarified. "Speaking of harmony, how about I tell you about the Light and the Darkness?"
The Exo Stranger herself then proceeded to do a quick yet concise explanation about the Light and the Dark. The Light and the Darkness are two opposing paracausal forces from two paracausally-connected entities - the Traveler (Light) and the Veil (Darkness) - existing in Stranger's multiverse since before the dawn of time and space. Neither force are good or evil, somewhat intelligent, but morality and usage depends on users. Light terraforms and shift reality itself, embodies the physical matter, and can be used to properly resurrect a dead host body, and Light is commonly utilized in three elements: Solar for heating and nuclear fusion (it also heals), Arc for electricity and electromagnetism, and Void for gravity and space-time distortion. For all the corrupting potential, Darkness simply embodies mental and metaphysical stuffs, can also be utilized for clairvoyance, memory and literal reformation, and may be weaponized as: Stasis brings cold and entropy-reduction from atoms to macroscopic but requires authority and self-control, and Strand that weaves psychic to connect and pull life and minds together but requires flowing along the threads instead. Prismatic is a transformative force combining and harmonizing the Light and the Dark.
"EEEEEEEEEEHHH!?" Pechy and Puca is shocked.
"Shady Lightbearers. Very well." Amaya shrugged. "Pechy, when we save all of existence, I will annihilate you with this schismatic power!"
"No." The Warrior King shook his head.
"Fuck! I want the nightmares to win!" Amaya is frustrated, still clinging to her villainy.
"I think the Second Knife is a part of the Darkbolts." Dawn sighed in disappointment. "I think I got it. But we must tap into all of these, all at once."
"Let me try..." The Warrior King closed his eyes, and stepped in the center of the well.
His left hand started burning, and yet it doesn't hurt. This is the sign that the Solar Light is being adopted, and he's embracing it. Then quickly enough, his right hand froze, but still moving: it's just the Stasis being controlled for the first time in his own existence. He clenched his right hand, and transitioned from Solar to Arc, complete with electricity flowing through.
Oh my god. Oh my god. A robot's about to gift me... this much power? Amaya grinned in excitement.
The King's right hand is imbued with the green glowing Strand. And finally...
"In the name of the Valence..." The Warrior King hold a palm-sized black hole that doesn't suck by the sheer gravity that would've normally required - a manifestation of Void. "This lightshow is finally mine."
His body erupted a crystalline aura, which faded away gently.
"Transcendence." Elsie then clapped her hands.
"Bravo!" Dawn went "Yay!"
"Hee-haw!" Amaya exclaimed. "Let me in!"
"We're doing it together." Pechy stepped in.
"We're fine. We're Pretty Cures, after all." Preme denied.
"Are you sure?" The Warrior King rebutted.
Pechy tranced herself, and the paracausal power immediately flowers through her. As a result, not only Pechy quickly found herself holding the same black hole the King just held early, but her right hand is frozen but also scorching, while her left hand is filled with green threads sparking electricity throughout.
"I did it!" Pechy exclaimed and excited, with the elements dissipated from her hold for now. "I got it!"
"Oh! Power!" Amaya laughed, having also channeled the same way as Pechy. "Thank you for the power you gifted me! I'm finally blessed-"
Beta glared at Amaya, and then nonchalantly stepped in to receive the Prismatic power herself.
"I think I can tag you." Pechy fired all five paracausal elements onto Preme and Puca both.
Preme and Puca is suddenly filled with Transcendence aura.
"Pouchy, get a load of paracausality." The Warrior King put his hands on Pouchy's mouth. "You're gonna spawn Prismatic well on our way, for others to get it."
"The Second Knife is permanently Transcendent. That allows them to freely use the harmony and schism to put the likes of us down upon resistance." Elsie then turned back. "But that's not the only thing that make the Second Knife an eldritch force nowadays. Watch this."
Elsie blasted a brief torrent of Light with her left hand, made of combined Arc, Solar and Void. The torrent hits the gate, resulting in electrified paracausal flora sprouting from the place, filling the zone with distortions throughout. The sight baffled the gang.
"What the hell!?" Beta is shocked.
Elsie's left hand in this state is made of void surrounded by electricity and flames in the same space, plus a bit in negative space that is the void itself. The combination glows an iridescent white light. Elsie then quickly stopped, and once so, the hand turned back to normal... sorts of, because radiolaria were briefly boiled afterwards but cooled back down. It's weird, and Amaya is confused. Then Elsie pulled out an ordinary apple on the ground, amongst a dozen of those apples throughout the compound.
"Watch this." Elsie holds the apple in her left hand, and pulled out her knife on her right.
She tilted her knife, and the apple got marbleized and spliced out, misshapen into a mix of roundness off typical apples with the hardness of geometry itself, clashing into a horrific parody (*29).
"That one behind is paracasual complex distortion of Lucent (*30) effect, combining Arc, Solar and Void. You can also forcibly resurrect anybody with that. This one, that I'm holding... is the power of the Final Shape. It calcifies stuffs and forcibly reshape everything affected into an effectively perfected, maximally simplified end. To weaponize the Final Shape, combine Stasis and Strand."
"The Final Shape?" The gang have no idea.
"The Witness tried the Final Shape. They wanted to reshape everything in my universe into something that have purpose. They want calcification. They wanted to crave it all. My timeline stopped it (*32)." Elsie recalled. "But not even a week later. Something changed. All of this snowballed, no pun intended, into a journey to eldritch... yeah. You've got to see them in action."
"You're saying that the so-called Second Knife are... eldritch horror nowadays?" Puca asked.
"YES! THEY FUCKING ARE!" Elsie suddenly shouted. "And if you ask, no, I'm no match to them. They're many, and I am only one myself. And damaged by excessive radiolaria. The Vex could've erased me - not that the Vex have any chance of survival fighting against the Second Knife."
Awkward silence...
"How's your sister?" Amaya half-jokingly asked.
"You mean Ana? My sister, Anastasia Bray?" Elsie sighed. "She got corrupted into the same person I killed in the original timeline I came from (*33), albeit survived and Prismatic. The Second Knife turned her into a psycho. So I lost. I lost Ana. Again. It couldn't be. But it's true."
"I didn't know Ana, but I guess." Amaya shrugged.
"You're going with us. We work together. We save all of existence, free ourselves from the Darkbolts and the Second Knife." Pechy offered. "Together."
"No, I have to stay. Guarding this Prismatic well." Elsie denied. "Not only this well have to be replenished, thanks to my permanent Transcendence, but I must lay low. You want the Second Knife and their Prismatic Fleet to catch me and even spot all of you?"
"Prismatic Fleet?" Preme have no idea.
"Prismatic Fleet is the replacement to both Vanguards and the Black Fleet, led by the Second Knife themselves!" Elsie dropped one more bombshell. "They hoarded the Echoes! They enslaved the Vex! They took over the Sundial (*34) and they conquered millions of timelines!"
"Ok, stay safe." Pechy turned back in trust. "We will save the existence itself. Together. We'll be back!"
"Please, just survive and win." Elsie blessed off.
The Warrior King circled his hand, letting the mystic of the enhanced Sling Ring open another portal. Elsie threw the calcified apple away, with it shattering into Darkness corruption itself which spread out on the ground. As the gang enters the portal, Pouchy remarked:
"Don't worry! We still have our own loots!"
A funny pack... containing stuffs inside? Elsie chuckles.
Elsie entered the distorted interior, to guard the Prismatic well, while the gang takes the leave.
BGM: Crest of "Z"s (Super Robot War Z)
A massive storm is devouring entire timestreams, and a bunch of mechas (*35) are trying to stop the phenomena. Very many of piloted robots from several different worlds and timelines blasted away some of the artifacts resulted from the storm, and cooperated out of survival, but the storm still went on. Spilling through barriers between realities, the storm rot the fabric of existence down as the mechas struggled to fight off. Amidst the utter chaos, a voice from the robot king...
We Darkbolts are not entertaining your shit. We had such hope... that you would wish that... you never stopped us. But you... you managed to suppress our wrath all this time. Across continuities. Across canon. Across all that was. You've been resisting eternally. Now it is time we strike back. Enough of your Redvengers (*13), for now they're no more. Forget about-
"Shut up!" One such pilot, Shu Shirakawa, in his mech, Granzon. "Enough of your intervention! We're destroying you!"
The biggest reasons we didn't come until now is because of the Redvengers and outside forces! But everything aligned so we as Darkbolts could've had a glorious return! Your final grave... will be Retconnian!
Some of the mechas - and thus the respective pilots - were quickly caught in the storm and lost contact with others.
"It's... No! Z-BLUE (*36)! Gone!"
"What!? NO!"
"Hibiki! Suzune! No!"
Oh dear. Did it hurt? Good. This is just the start of our... nexus.
The mechas slowly started despairing, as the storm couldn't even be slowed down at all.
Run, or keep fighting defeat itself. It doesn't matter. We've already won. All we need is the final straw to secure our victory forever. There, we could finally get true revenge against not only the Redvengers... but all of existence. We have transcended, and in order to survive, you should too... Too bad the only way left to transcend is to... KNEEL BEFORE US!
More mechas got consumed, making it clear that the storm is unstoppable so long as the Darkbolts thrive. And it didn't help that none of the pilots even know what the Darkbolts even are. The mechas all tried to escape to survive, but more and more were caught by the storm. And once each got consumed, other pilots complete lost contact of them each.
Kneel before Darkbolts. May the Second Knife take you. May our wishes rule over. We overrule all.
Soon enough, almost all of the mechas were consumed by the storm. Not even the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (超天元突破グレンラガン) or the Getter-Ten (*37) could escape the storm.
"It'll be the end of us all!" Saizo Tokito panicked as he and his mech falls down.
He fell to the storm, getting consumed by the bluish-white flames of the storm itself. His mech (*38) lost contact and connection with the others, as Saizo hear a mysterious voice...
You have been Taken (*16).
"Nonononono- NO NO NO- NOOOOOOOOOO!"
He passed out quickly, as his mech gotten consumed by the flames.
"We're too late... The flames have spilled here." A Canon Bringer seeing the scene. "The flames of the... Taken."
A few bunch of mechas crashed and collided with each other while trying to escape, and some ended up getting consumed as a result. The Canon Bringer quickly received a call...
Get to Chapter 5 Season 4 (*39), now! NOW!
"Why?"
Get there and meet us there! We have more pressing matter to do!
"A storm filled with the flames of the Taken are consuming mechas and those poor pilots across worlds. These are Super Robot Wars stuffs (*35), and they're now... slowly being caught, one by one..."
Yeah yeah, we know. Those storm came suddenly. But for now, we have something to talk about. Get to Chapter 5 Season 4. We'll wait.
The Hucklebein 30 passed by the Canon Bringer, trying to outrun the storm. The robotic one from CXA, under CXA, under the orders, has left the scene. But no mechas had time to notice, for the storm is quickly approaching.
BGM stops. And a massive rift (*15) appeared.
"Yes! Finally!"
All the remaining few-for-the-army mechas left entered the rift, with the Hucklebein 30 and the Sainklaus siblings (*40) were the first to enter and thus escape. Those few but dozens of mechas, along with their respective pilots, finally entered the rift, and just as the storm was about to reach, the rift closed. But one mecha was too late.
"No... No!" Axel Almer cried, for his Soulgain was too late.
The storm them finally reached Soulgain, and so he fell in flames...
You have been Taken.
The storm them proceeded to take over the rest of the dimension.
BGM: Passage to Eden - Ivan Torrent
The gang ended up in yet another world. A barren wasteland, almost filled with skeletons of other lifeforms.
"Without the orb of mine, this... is this... Oasis." The Warrior King clarified. "And it seems the Darkbolts stole it."
"How long have you been?" Pechy just asked.
"I've been for over 40 years already. So it's been centuries since the orb first disappeared. For me, anyways." The Warrior King revealed. "For the 40 years after giving up the orb, I wandered between worlds. Not long from the start, I found so many other worlds. A couple of years later, I found out each of the worlds have timelines and connections, formed in dedicated realities and different timestreams. And above all, a whole ass cosmology. An infinite cosmology, containing all of existence ever."
"Now I think about it, you seem like..." Pechy squinted.
"Yes, USA Network itself showed my chase." The Warrior King indirectly broke the fourth wall. "The first time I saw myself and my adventure on real-life internet, I was... shocked, to say the least."
"What?" Amaya shrugged. "Who?"
"Ask those from real life." The Warrior King rebutted.
"Time to camp." Preme dropped the tents.
"How did was the orb missing?" Beta asked.
Suddenly, Beta got a shocking vision about the Warrior King. He is shown running his homeworld, the Warrior World, and is beloved by his people.
"My people, you have the today we have thanks to me using this orb to revive you."
This appears to be an alternative timeline, where instead of throwing the orb away to let Oasis live, the Warrior King ignored the cadet's suggestion and took home the orb, leaving the Oasis to rot in the process.
"What?" Beta is confused.
The people of the Warrior World rejoiced, and saluted the King. And there's one journalist of sorts, who looks exactly like Beta herself, which creeped the real deal off.
"What!?" Beta is shocked.
"Are you enjoying it?" The mysterious "journalist" spoke with Beta's voice.
"Who... who are you?" Beta is horrified.
"I am what you want me to be." The mysterious one spoke suspiciously.
"No. No. No!" Beta froze her wand with Stasis. "Just no!"
Beta stuck her wand on the ground, freezing the ground. Nothing else was affected though, not even the figure.
"What? Why are you so... sus?"
"What!?" Beta is in disbelief.
"The Warrior World, forever in glory, not vain!" The Warrior King.
It was a vision turned into nightmare, distorted by something that must have been Darkbolts' doing, one way or another. But by the time Beta realized it, the mysterious figured turned to look.
That figure has black sclerae and red inner irises. Exactly like Beta when corrupted by Amaya.
"Nonononono-"
"True wish granted." The figure smiled creepily.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Out of this vision, Beta screamed in horror.
"Beta!" Pechy and Dawn.
"What's wrong!?" The Warrior King.
"Oh no!" Puca.
Beta immediately in panic, explained what she saw and heard.
"U-u-uh..." Amaya is nervous, getting known about Beta's looks upon being corrupted.
"Amaya, not you this time." Beta shook her head.
"A what if... I kept the orb for myself instead?" The Warrior King sighed. "A selfish timeline. I wanted to get the orb back, but there was already friendly creatures calling Oasis home..."
"You fought for the Warrior World, so it was hard-pressed of you to reject. But you also didn't want to... sacrifice the lives of other who relied on a powerful stuff that gave prosperity to them." Pechy noted. "And there are some stuffs that claimed that you've failed the Warrior World because you spared the Oasis."
"Now the orb is stolen by something we don't really know, and this world's rotten." Preme shrugged.
"Exactly." Dawn agreed.
"The Darkbolts want me to believe that I failed my world. That I failed my people." The Warrior King thought about it. Why? Why? Why am I apparently supposed to take the orb for myself and leave the Oasis to rot back into wasteland? Why would the Darkbolts want me to regret throwing the orb away? Exactly why am I being targeted now, in one way or another? And who stole the orb? Who turned the Oasis back into a wasteland it originally was?
"Let me try Strand." Pechy summoned the Weave on her hand. "You're resident of Oasis?"
No response from the dead.
"Nope. No response. So they've died so long ago. Somehow." Pechy shook her hand. "Mr. King, everyone's here is dead long ago. There's only us at the moment."
"I know. In only one year, according to my estimation when I first got back here... Mass extinctions all at once. 40 years later, and it's back to square zero. Not one, but just... zero."
The Warrior King then looked at where the orb used to be when he first got into the scene. "40 years ago, I stood the chance at finally getting my world back with the orb's power. I know the ruined ecosystem destroyed my people and places, but the other creatures and lifeform, and then the cadet themselves, all convinced me not to take it. I was tempted, but I realized that taking the orb away would steal away the future of Oasis."
"For you, the orb was stolen by some forces related to Darkbolts. For me... well, I, Dawn, Beta and Amaya are somehow all locked out of my world. The Galaxy World and my Earth... none of us could go back."
"If I'm still on Earth, could I have any chance?" Amaya smirked.
"Your nightmare nearly destroyed my multiverse!" Pechy facepalmed.
"Seriously, Amaya?" Beta is disappointed.
A massive distortion on the sky appeared.
"The CXA. Through the reincarnate, we got to help out and destroy the Queen of Hearts and end the Order of the Pariah (*41)." Preme looked up.
The distortion went solid, revealing itself to be a massive mothership. A quickly blue blur dropped down, and then dashed out to the scene.
"Speedy and neat!"
"Who?" Pouchy spotted it.
"Huh?" The Warrior King squinted.
The blur revealed to be a blue hedgehog wearing red-clad shoes, and wears white gloves on the hands. This hedgehog has spiked hair as opposed to all-spiky quill.
"Is that...?" Puca noticed.
"It's Sonic the Hedgehog. Welcome! And I'd like to tell you about some strange-"
"Hi, Sonic! I'm Pouchy!" Pouchy greeted. "This is Pechy Comet, this is Amaya Shadow, and this-"
"Wait... aren't you caught by the Hyper Genesis Wave (*42)?" Sonic shrugged. "I have read some of the databases."
"Hyper Genesis Wave? I saw a shattering wave that consumed my whole Earth, where I was! And then..." Pechy recalled. "I woke up at Middle-earth. Could this be..."
"Wait... Pechy Comet... You..." Sonic realized. "You... you have..."
"Now you've told us again... I saw a destructive wave tearing through space itself. And a lot of cracks in-between, showing some flashy, seizure-making glows inside." The Warrior King recalled. "I was barely able to escape. That was 3 days ago though."
"It's... the Hyper Genesis Wave." Sonic revealed. "Pechy Comet... Thought a be fictional, but is one victim... Your world was destroyed by the original Hyper. Shatter used the setup to clump realities into one singular, unified world. You... died."
"No... No!" Pechy is shocked.
"You too, Ms. Beta. Alien queen, disintegrated by Shatter's super-plan. All of you, killed by a wave." Sonic then looked at the Warrior King. "And you, looks like you saw the Zero Point hijacked by-"
"Who?" Dawn is confused.
"The world we resides was... quaking." Preme recalled.
"Exactly! Shatter the Hedgehog did the Hyper Genesis Wave, razing all of existence! And then when me as part of unified army fought him, he tried to do it again!" Sonic continued. "Shatter hijacked the Throne (*43) and sucked the Zero Point!"
Sonic then did a big exposition on the Hyper Genesis Wave incident, explaining Shatter's backstory, his true desire, and everything that happened in Sonic's own perspective.
"EEEEEEEEEEHHH!?" Preme and Puca, both shocked.
"Pechy, thank you for the respawn (*7)!" Amaya then left out an evil laughter.
"Stop!" A bunch of Canon Bringers landed down. "Wait..."
"Is that the Warrior King?"
"He's old now!"
"Must have been wandering for several years. A few decades, even."
The Canon Bringers recognized the Warrior King and immediately called the gang.
"Let me in!" Amaya raised her hand.
"Open sesame!" Puca exclaimed.
Soon enough, the gang is brought to the mothership.
"This is alternate-timeline Kyon, the Kamen Rider Next Decade (*44)." Kyon, with an incredulous voice. "Who are you?"
Pechy explained everything about herself, Dawn, Beta and Amaya. She then suggested Kyon to keep an eye on Amaya, but he didn't care.
"Sir, we've kind of found out what Darkbolts are." The Warrior King prepared this bombshell. "For starters, they're omniversal alliance hell-bent on making all of existence suffer. They're trying to burn the omniverse down!"
Ominous sound effect from Super-Showdown-Bowl!
In the remains of a kingdom, the Greater Leader of Shocker from the World of Kamen Rider greeted back some of the super-soldiers.
"Sky. Prism. Precious. Summer. Tomorrow. Double and Accel." The Great Leader (大首領) welcomed. "Update?"
"Great Leader..."/"大首領様..." The super-soldiers kneeled. "We've found a pink magical girl and Supreme herself, but both escaped."
"Great... We have a mysterious problem. A problem child and a traitor." The Great Leader sighed.
"The pink girl's name is Pechy." Prism revealed Pechy's.
"Pechy? What?" Sky looked in confusion.
Pechy... that magical girl, huh? "Well, have you located her?"
"She was in Verdansk. I was with a Hunter." Prism recalled. "I had to transform into a Hive God (*7). But I didn't count on Pechy calling a subject named Amaya Shadow!"
The Greater Leader facepalmed.
"Annoying magical girl. And now, some traitorous packages." Prism grinned. "Supreme... Puca... and now... Amaya Shadow..."
"What's wrong, Mashiron?" Sky is worried.
"They're gonna try to end us all." Prism sighed.
The super-soldiers got up, and winded out.
"Philip. What else do we do?" Shotaro Hidari is bored.
"Ghost. You know what to do." Philip called his and Shotaro's shared Ghost.
"Ok." A small entity themed after Memory (*45) emerged. "Accessing library..."
"Damn!" Summer is annoyed. "We nearly got her!"
A woman dressed in red and black walked by. That dress is clearly themed after the actual Queen of Hearts, and also, her limbs is armored. Her skin however, is a gradient of human light ivory-porcelain and alien purple. On top the the purple forehead is a shiny but messy hair glowing light rainbow, and her eyes has blooming irises of purple-magenta-red-yellow-cyan-blue gradient, topped by an orange burning four-point star each iris.
"Ms. Caster is so beautiful~" A random Warlock is distracted and then briefly infatuated.
Summer slapped that Warlock. "Hey! Get serious!"
"You hungry?" The woman threw a bloodied paper bag with a disembodied human head, to Precious.
"Thanks!" Precious smiled.
The woman just smirked. "I'm gonna check something... absolute (*46). Any updates to the Pandora Box (*47)?"
"Heh... what Wanderer?" The Warlock recalled.
"You mean... someone blackmailed by my new home?" The woman got suspicious. "That someone..."
"Uh, as the Second Knife has searched the files, we found one suspicious link to your... I don't know." The Warlock revealed the file. "It's spoilers for Chapter 5. Doctor Doom is the Wanderer. Victor von Doom. And a history showing you... uh..."
"Thanks for the spoilers." The woman threw a rift on the Warlock, infinitely shattering them, only leaving behind their own Ghost.
"The Wanderer... Doctor Doom. Last I checked, he and apparently Magneto sabotaged the pipeline just as the Leviathan (*48) being refueled. Cue the pipeline and eventually the refinery exploding."
What Sky just told the woman was quite revelatory.
"I think I've finally caught up with everything..."
The woman then rushed ahead to the tower. "O magnificent! Report! Report!"
"How did you get to August 10th, 2024, at 2:00 P.M. Eastern Time?" Prism asked. "Where even were you?"
"Pesky Loopers." Sky scoffed.
Elsewhere in the kingdom...
"The internet shows off normally-fictious characters that we might encounter given some inter-dimensional and paradoxical circumstances." The same Hunter who accompanied Prism has search on the internet. "Finally... so this is... Dreamcatcher... The Adventure Awake... The Winter of The Dragon... The Legend of The Emerald... then The Last Dream Wish... NeonStarFlower?"
The Hunter did a walkthrough to that series, and finally, finally realized who exactly the characters are.
"Caught in 5G (*49)!"
Downloading all the Dreamcatcher series videos, the Hunter intended to show those footages... but for now, they have another mission to do.
Note: Leading to Chapter 5 Season 4: Absolute Doom is none other than Disney's Marvel themselves, and some scenes are riding off the Deadpool and Wolverine film. I've incorporated both these into this full chapter (no, not the Fortnite kind), such as Cassandra's compound fortress (of course, the Giant-Man corpse) and the revelation that the Wanderer, a villain of Fortnite Chapter 5, is actually Doctor Doom from Marvel media. Oh, and that August 16th (the beginning of C5S4) being the next destination as far as that one Canon Bringer was concerned? Yeah, just wait until you (and probably Pechy herself) see them!
At last, we now know that the alliance is a reimagined Darkbolts, the recurring antagonist team from Wesley's WarzoneVerse which WesleyTRV made... as an concept. The fact that the Darkbolts' rampage eventually led to the founding of the Continuum Exploitation Authority, due to the damage the mythic war due to pretty much all versions of the full omniverse imaginable. The Darkbolts is back in form of other vengeances forming an omniversal alliance who just dug out the Anti-Imagine Equation from Successor of Anti-Life story, and once again wreaking havoc (by comparison, the original Darkbolts were barely omniversal, mainly focusing on Verdansk). And with all that we learned, turns out an Exo with green auras are leading the Darkbolts this time around. (And somewhat coincidentally, August 23rd is one full week after August 16th)
About Super Robot Wars... well, almost all of mechas and respective pilots in existence were consumed by the Taken storm. Which means all the victims would be all Taken, and thost fallen fleets would be horrifically transformed into Dimensional Beast from the 2nd Super Robot Wars. Exactly how will only be hinted in-game (specifically, check the Destiny franchise and the 2nd Super Robot Wars Z for yourself, by watching on the web and/or playing those games yourself). And speaking of the storm itself, the Darkbolts have learned from the Zerobreaker's initial demise (Beyond the Edge) and tried to make sure the Tengen Toppa Zero Point cannot be done anymore, as well as even stripping most pilots of the advantage. Well played, Darkbolts!
Back to Doctor Doom... some conversations and lines throughout Successor of Anti-Life mentions blackmailing some antagonists of Fortnite, starting with the saboteur; for those in the dark and/or wants a refresher, in Chapter 4, some dialogue between Evie and Scrapknight Jules heavily imply they were the ones to collaborate and destroy the Rift Gate themselves. And eventually, the "future" Wanderer. Guess continuity marched on, but then again, the Order of the Pariah can travel to future parts of continuity and canon, which may be how the Wanderer would end up be blackmailed at some point during the events of O.R.A.C. and SoAL. Now it's not just the Doom crap anymore, now the past dread hey to catch up with Jules and Evie as well. Oof.
Finally, while Amaya still clings on her own villainy, the Warrior King are about to be forced to face his past, with Beta even glimpsing an alternative timeline where the Warrior King took the orb for himself. Something wants him to believe that by letting Oasis alone with the orb, he failed his people and effectively erased the Warrior World from existence himself. All the while, the gang finally got paracausal powers! But the Exo Stranger decided to guard the aforementioned compound herself instead of tagging along. Also, the gang's right about the Second Knife working with the Darkbolts (a correct guess!), because in the Prologue #1 (which is extended version of Sonic Prime Overclocked epilogue), the Second Knife contacted the CXA about themselves and Darkbolts.
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Cross-trivia:
(*1) - The Prismatic Hunter is a Prismatic-based Hunter subclass featured in The Final Shape expansion (2024) in Destiny 2 (2017). In other words, Hunter of Solar-Arc-Void-Stasis-Strand custom hybrid.
(*2) - Amaya Shadow corrupted Beta, eventually turning her into an alien monster. By the time of Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake (2022), she angst'ed at the Fantasy Dreamer team (herself, Paige Comet, Dreamer Light, Kimi and Dawn). As of the end of Dreamcatcher: The Winter of The Dragon (2022), Pechy redeemed Beta, and the latter reunited with Paige.
(*3) - Dreamcatcher: The Legend of The Emerald (2023).
(*4) - Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023).
(*5) - 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.
(*6) - Brutal reference to the Luis Resto v. Billy Collins Jr. bout (June 16, 1983), where Resto used plaster-wraps to defeat the then-undefeated Collins, giving the latter permanently ruined vision which cut his boxing career short (Collins later died in a car crash in March 6, 1984).
(*7) - Dreamcatcher: Warzone, Prologue #1.
(*8) - The Chapter 4 finale (December 2023). This event introduces the metaverse concept to Fortnite. It also shows Reality Zero transformed to include wide variety of galaxies that leads the greater omniverse, supplanting the original depiction of the Zero Point after the recreation of The End #1 (2019) onto the Fortnite OG (2023) timeline (which is originally Chapter 1).
(*9) - Referencing both LEGO Fortnite (sandbox adventure game mode) and LEGO in general.
(*10) - Amaya got her hands on the Emerald-Diamond in both Dreamcatcher 2023: The Legend of The Emerald (spring) and The Last Dream Wish (summer); both of them involving Amaya getting to... well, get Pechy's universe doomed.
(*11) - Pretty Cure All-Stars F (2023).
(*12) - The nexus orb connecting all of existence together, from Fortnite.
(*13) - A multiversal team led by a man known as WesleyTRV, from WesleyTRV: Warzone. They and Darkbolts are two of the instrumental groups that led to the formation and founding of the CXA itself.
(*14) - Sorry, Julius Raymore (FireKingVA), but I never betrayed you. Darkmage15 exploited me and Uekagame framed me, so you would be forced to trust them.
(*15) - The Sideways Rifts.
(*16) - 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.)
(*17) - "Action Extreme Team" crossover saga by USA Network.
(*18) - This Hunter is mocking a fan-favorite and an old friend of Young Wolf, Cayde-6. The line originated from The Final Shape expansion (2024).
(*19) - Hailfire Spike: Throw a device charged with Stasis matter and Solar energy that attaches to surfaces or targets, then erupts into a slowing storm. After a short duration, the device ignites, creating a deadly scorching cyclone.
(*20) - Deadpool and Wolverine (2024).
(*21) - The Time Ripper was a device composed of numerous Reset Charges capable of destroying an entire timeline in an instant.
(*22) - Bloofy's House, show from Inside Out universe (2015, 2024).
(*23) - A Wonder Flower is a flower power-up that first appeared in Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023). Wonder Flowers activate Wonder Effects when collected, which change some mechanics in the level or transform the player. Every main level has one Wonder Flower, and the Wonder Effect they create always leads to a Wonder Seed.
(*24) - The main villain of Episode: Echoes (2024) from The Final Shape expansion (2024).
(*25) - A combination of the calciforms of the Final Shape (Darkness) and the roots of the Traveler's terraformation (Light).
(*26) - Referencing the meme mocking the storyline of the base version of Destiny 1 (2014), picking on the lack of cohesion. It's based on Elizabeth "Elsie" Bray's remark, and she wouldn't appear in story again until Destiny 2 (2017): Beyond Light (2020).
(*27) - The Vex, with the milky metal liquid that comes. Originally the end result of the original flower garden (Destiny).
(*28) - From Destiny 2 (2017), specifically since Season of Dawn (2019) from the Shadowkeep expansion (2019).
(*29) - This apple is spliced in a way reminiscent of the way the apple dropped did in an opening cutscene of the base campaign of The Final Shape expansion (2024), specifically just before the cut to the scene of a mom and her human child being calcified.
(*30) - The term "Lucent" is taken from Lucent Brood, the Hive Lightbears and their Ghosts (*5). Lucent is combination of Solar, Arc and Void in specific ways.
(*31) - 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. Final Shape can be weaponized by combining Stasis and Strand in specific ways.
(*32) - The entire base campaign of The Final Shape expansion (2024).
(*33) - Prior to the canon of Beyond Light expansion (2020), Exo Stranger was stuck in a time loop where so many Guardians such as Ana and the Young Wolf fell to Darkness through Stasis and now, alongside the now-villainous Eris Morn (Lightless Bladedancer Hunter, Hive God of Vengeance) somehow serve the Witness and the Black Fleet as a result. Originally, Elsie were forced to even kill Ana once she found out the latter's emulating the original Clovis I (Clovis-1 to Banshee-44 notwithstanding). The time loop was complete broken with the Guardians properly mastering Stasis and staying heroic, Eris Morn not falling into villainy, and stuffs and stuffs leading to Lightfall expansion (2023). (Notably, the Traveler flew away in the time loop until broken and Rasputin came)
(*34) - History manipulator device from Destiny 2 (2017), created by Osiris (Lightless one turned to use Strand) to bring back the legendary Titan, Saint-14, by plucking himself out of similar timeline. Stuffs happened since.
(*35) - Super Robot Wars (スーパーロボット大戦) crossover series.
(*36) - The merger of ZEUTH and ZEXIS from the 3rd Super Robot Wars Z (第3次スーパーロボット大戦Z, 2014).
(*37) - That Getter fought at the end of Getter Robo Arc (2001-2003, 2021).
(*38) - Tyranado or Gespenst, depending on who you choose (it's either him or Sagiri Sakurai) in Super Robot Wars T (スーパーロボット大戦T, 2019).
(*39) - August 16th, 2024.
(*40) - Protagonists of Super Robot Wars 30 (スーパーロボット大戦30, 2021).
(*41) - Referencing Supreme's and Puca's involvement at O.R.A.C., and their contributions (mainly the Miracle Lights) in Successor of Anti-Life.
(*42) - The Genesis Wave is a subject that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics (1993-2017). It is a phenomenon created using the energies of a Chaos Emerald to rewrite reality to the user's benefits. The technology was developed by Dr. Eggman and has been used by him both alone and in alliance with Dr. Wily (from Mega Man series) to alter Sonic's World on two occasions and Mega Man's World once. A supercharged variation - one hardly reversible and can reshape an entire multiverse without limits - made possible with the power of all seven Emeralds is called the Super Genesis Wave. In Sonic Prime Overclocked (crossing over Sonic Forces Overclocke, Sonic Prime and Rediscovered Frontiers, among others), Shatter the Hedgehog - a being formed from Prime!Sonic's Shatter-verse counterparts (Sonic Prime, 2022-2024) - later created a new, massively overcharged variant - using the Overclocked Phantom Ruby, the full Paradox Prism, all 7 Super Emeralds, the Master Emerald, all 7 Sol Emeralds, the Jeweled Specter, all 7 World Rings and the Master Engine in a complicated setup - called the Hyper Genesis Wave. (Shatter would try to create another Hyper-GW by using the Zero Point-charged Divine Throne system hijacked by himself, but the unified army thwarted that and killed him at the end)
(*43) - Shinza Bansho franchise (神座万象シリーズ), by Masada Takashi (正田崇).
(*44) - Kamen Rider Century King Zi-O, by Multiverse Learner 101.
(*45) - Main trinkets for Kamen Rider W (2009).
(*46) - "Absolute", Mark Rein's word for Chapter 5 Season 4 (*39).
(*47) - Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's poem "Works and Days" (700.B.C.) Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, with some literary and artistic treatments focusing more on the contents than on Pandora herself. The box (originally the jar) mentioned is specifically the Fortnite version (the ultra-large chest) from Chapter 5, first introduced in Season 1: Underground (2023) and elaborated upon since Season 2: Myths and Mortals (2024).
(*48) - Brutal Beachhead, first added in Chapter 5 Season 3: Wrecked (2024).
(*49) - In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones (as of the time of this fic).