*CRASH!*

"That took… way too long!" Grif complained.

"Well, Broly's not one for violence. And without a complete connection to the Speed Force, I'm sure as hell not going to risk these compromised defenses."

"That would probably be the old man." Jason said as he ventured into the building, "Knowing him, he probably made it so that those defenses could catch Barry because our world's writers ride his dick harder than that mom from that one Nickelodeon show. And considering that he had full access to the Deus Ex Machina that is the Speed Force, I have zero confidence that you'd be able to dodge them."

"This is the part where you say 'no offense.'" Wally deadpanned.

"Well… I kinda meant more about our writers riding Batman's dick." Jason said, "And don't act as if the Speed Force isn't a retcon scapegoat!"

"Fair enough. Also, the show you're talking about is called Loud House." Wally said, "And I'm 99.9% sure that she doesn't ride Bruce's dick."

"Whatev- Where's Grif?"

"Knowing him, he's raiding the kitchen." Tex grumbled, "Me and Church are going to go into the computer. Hopefully we'll be able to find something."

"Well, it's going to take a bit. Let us try to get this thing back online first." Gwen muttered.

"Crona, if you want to head back to the temp base, you can. Thanks for getting us in."

"Crona left with Grif. I think they… Crona's non binary, right?" Gwen asked.

"Uh, yeah."

"Right. I think they see Grif as an older brother or something. Grif doesn't seem to mind though."

"Huh. Neat." Wally replied.

"Weird… You'd think that the backup power would've kicked in for the computers, since the defenses were up."

"Great. So now we're stuck until we get the main generator back up."

"Ugh… Should've known Wally jinxed us when he said that the portal closed." Grif grumbled.

"At least this one seems to be smaller than the last one. But I'm feeling a weird energy coming from it. Almost as if this isn't the only one…" Crona muttered from behind him.

"Yeah, but I don't like the feel of this. Stay behind me." Grif motioned before taking out the Grifshot, "I have a bad feeling about this…"

The portal opened up, and a darkened claw crept out. And then an entire being.

"What the…" Crona started

"… Hell is that?" Ragnarok finished.

The creature lurched forward towards the control panel and drained it of any remaining it started… sniffing and turned towards the trio and lunged forward.

"AAAHHHHHH!"

"GET AWAY! SCREECH DELTA!"

"That sounded like Grif and Crona!"

"And Ragnarok." Wally pointed out, "What's going on that Ragnarok needed to be pulled out?"

"I'm not sure I want to find out. I'm going in stealth mode." Gwen said as she cloaked herself to investigate.

"Oh boy… Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I guess." Wally muttered, "Hey! Wait up."

"Ugh…"

"Why'd you do that? We didn't need to use that much- Hey! Where's the weird monster thing?" Ragnarok asked.

"I… I don't know…" Crona muttered.

"Urgh…"

"Grif! Are you okay? What happened?"

"WHAT? I can't hear you! I think my armor's systems are down. The HUD's a blank screen." Grif called out.

"Hey, y'know this is our chance to mess with him. We can get him to say crap he doesn't mean."

"Ragnarok, can we not? Grif's the first person since Maka to actually care about us." Crona muttered.

"Fine… We'll do it to that Sarge guy. I don't know what he's been reading, but there are more than two genders, dammit!" He accidentally smacked Crona over the head with his grandiose gesture.

"WHAT?"

"Ow! Why'd you hit me?" Crona grumbled.

"Well… Nice skylight." Gwen uncloaked and started assessing the situation.

"Gah! Don't do that! It freaks us out." Crona exclaimed.

"Sorry. We figured that something happened and that there was some kind of big enemy that we would have needed to ambush."

"WHAT?"

"Well, the good news is that Grif's hearing and armor systems will be back in a few hours." Wally said, "The bad news is that this is some heavy armor that we'd need to take back to our temporary H.Q. So, Gwen, if you please?"

"Yeah, sure. Make the lady carry the heavy thing. Can't you punch supernovas or something?"

"Speed force. And I don't have that available right now. Crona, Ragnarok, I'm going to need you two to tell me what happened."

"There was a portal. I think our attack got rid of it, but we're not sure. If anything, we might've just moved it somewhere else."

"Oh great. I should've known that I jinxed us." Wally grumbled.

"I guess that 10% was what happened, huh?"

"I guess so… Man, Church is going to be pissed when he finds out."

"Oh no, Church!" Crona realized, "The thing that attacked us fed off of electricity! Church and Tex are in trouble! Did you or Gwen run into some weird… Shadow monster?"

"What, like a Heartless?"

"No, you moron!" Ragnarok snarled, "This one ate electricity! Do you know any Heartless that can do that?"

"Probably not? I'll be real: That story always confused me. It could be that these things are merging with other things and are entering our world to create a new hybrid. I'll be back in a few minutes. If that thing survived, it couldn't have gotten far." Flash ran off.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

…