Pechy and gang's infiltration of Elyos was successful. Soyle is purified, Dreamer is rescued, Amaya is enlightened, the Timemaster is finally killed off, and the Device is compromised. However, the Elyos is calcified, and Pechy's mother, Paige of the Dream Land, has return wounded and had to be healed quick. Now it's the 4th day of the Darkbolts' rampage, according to the CXA. But there's the Dimensional Beasts that Soyle recently sent, and they're... no, they were many of our favorite mechas and pilots!
Meanwhile, Earla Sky and Akia Shadow found themselves in the Corridors of Time. From there, they got to the displaced Plenty Valley, received Prismatic paracausal powers and met Jouji Minami, the Kamen Rider Black Zi-O, now the newest driver of the Battle Bus. But how did the Dimensional Beasts became the Taken and then arrived at the Island while Doctor Doom is working?
In the 3rd morning...
BGM: Crest of "Z"s (Super Robot War Z)
"What!?" Masaki Endoh in his Cybuster, shocked at the sight of some timestreams infested with bluish-white flame.
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 for... 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, 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! 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 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, lost contact and connection with the others, as Saizo hear a mysterious voice...
You have been Taken.
"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, 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, 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 Sideways Rift 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. And inside the points that the Storm emerged from...
"Good. This better work."
A Titan is standing on a custom jumpship - a Guardian's personal spaceship used to traverse through space - doing a badass armfold with the hands burning in blue and white. Their body armor is basically a medieval-space hybrid space marine combined with a certain tormentor-looking arches, with a Sparta-themed helmet, all in crystalline texture and glowing small spikes all over. Following this Titan is many other Prismatic Titans on their own spaceships.
"Yes. You have been Taken."
The consumed mechas is glitched out, and started fizzling into some eldritch shapes. The far larger ones, such as the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, were compressed down to even sizes.
"We've Taken." The main Titan contacted.
Finally! Now they won't be as easily able to go giant. The more advantage we take away, the easier it will get. For us The Second Knife in particular, and the Darkbolts in general, is destined to overrule everything.
"I think we should contact the Fell Dragon. She knows the plan to aggravate the likes of Doctor Doom from afar. Or at least... take over the Island, so we could-"
Wait, you know the Wanderer is Doctor Doom!?
"Clovis-45 showed me the footage of Doctor Doom overlaying the leather coat on top of his shit. He absorbed the power of the Pandora's Box."
The Titan was able to project the footage to the call's mind. "See? Rumor confirmed!"
I'm surprised this is not Geno of the Imagined Order. (*1) In fact, we are surprised.
"Me too. We though we were going to directly... Whatever. My job is done here. Where should we head next?"
Return to the Pyramid.
This dimension was ultimately Taken, and all the consumed quickly got mutated into zombies powered by Dimension Energy Crystals through the Gertilan's Revive Cells. The result? The Dimensional Beasts are born. And this time, because it's instigated by the Taken power of the Darkness, all those mechas have been Taken.
Soyle was charged with sending those Dimensional Beasts to the Island. But they have check Dreamer.
So in afternoon, few hours before the Device get activated in Elyos, Soyle and the Timemaster rigged a strange bomb capable of forcibly change one subject's timeline. (*2) The bomb was modified to target another bomb that also can break the timeline: the Space-Time Oscillating Bomb. (*3)
"Tag the Island, new Reality Zero." Soyle fiddles with the STOB to time it to the other. "Continuity bomb ready?"
The Timemaster places the continuity bomb, and set it up. Everyone else in this room and this place we're killed off, and Soyle giggles at the explosion about to come together, which would cause chaos that hopefully would crack open a way straight to the Island itself.
How? The explosion would hopefully result in a massive Dimensional Quake that would create a lot of Sideways Rifts all over the sky of the new Reality Zero - the one first created with the new Big Bang. (*4)
"Target: Battle Royale galaxy."
Pechy's mom, Queen Paige, is crawling on the ground. Some Dimensional Beasts were breaking down the dimension Paige is escaping from. Paige is seriously wounded, and just lost one of her eyes.
Paige was able to spot Soyle finishing the setup.
"Ugh! Those Dread guy (*5) didn't do the job!" Soyle is annoyed. "Damnit! I thought we've got her!"
"Paige Comet from Dream Land, from Dreamcatcher shit?" The Timemaster recognized Paige. "From the web. Can't believe an otherwise fictional bitch can get here, surviving the Dread!"
"She cannot have survived that. That's it! The oncoming explosion should take her out once and for all!" Soyle is annoyed.
The two forgot that the continuity bomb can only affect one subject, meaning Soyle's meddling merely accelerated the fused, not connected to Paige.
"Fuck it, let's go back to Elyos!"
The two fled, leaving Paige to die in the aftermath.
Both bombs exploded and collided with each others' blast, causing the entire dimension to crack down and collapse. Paige was the nearest humanoid to the blast, but the continuity bomb was only tuned towards the Island and nothing else; it cannot affect more than one targeted subject.
As a result, Paige nearly fell down to the literal void.
4th morning...
The Storm there shrunk so much. Deadpool and Wolverine together did so well, finally down to two versus two. The other finalists were two other chaotic fighter trying to shoot the two.
"Build up!" Deadpool boxed in and used heals.
Unbeknownst to the four, Dreamer and Amaya has arrived. The Storm was surrounding a point between Doomstadt and Reckless Railways, near the large rail bridge. Amaya swung her glowing scythe, firing a Void blade which swiped out the bottom structures of the builds. The result was all four of the supposed combatants falling down, with Deadpool and an opponent receive enough fall damage to get them knocked down.
"What!?" Wolverine barely survived the fall.
Dreamer suspended Wolverine with Strand, and threw him to the remaining opponent. The dreaming woman then revealed her claws.
"Uh oh." The two about to get slashed out.
Cue the two triplets slashing down the two. While Dreamer growls almost like a break, Amaya simply left out a psychotic laugh like she has commonly been since her childhood, indicating she's learning towards her own villainy and is enjoying beating down the last two.
VICTORY ROYALE!
Wolverine and the last opponent were finished off at precisely the exact same time. It happened at the very center of the eye of the Storm.
The Storm closed down quickly, consuming the two triplets. They just snatched a literal Victory Royale from all 50 duos. The intervention is strange for all. But then...
A while later...
"The Storm is not coming. What just happened?" Deadpool finally noticed.
Pechy and gang has arrived.
"We kicked the 'Victory Royale' out of that match, so now the Loop is completely stalled." Dreamer explained. "The Loop last roughly fully 22 minutes. The Loop erases fighters' memories and speech."
"Huh." Deadpool got it. "So you just malfunctioned the game."
"We have to, to keep us safe from the effect of the Loop altogether." Dreamer continued. "By the way..."
A lot of exposition gave the gang's perspective and happenstances to the Loopers involved, including Deadpool and Wolverine playing Fortnite. That exposition decided that the entire Island must know what's going on, as well as powers like paracausality, Emblems and the Weapon Z facility.
"So the rumors we heard were completely true."
The Loopers finally caught on. Some of them became paranoid as a result.
"Calm down, everyone!" The Canon Bringers arrived. "We're here to help you. Please calm down. We have a ton of loot so you-"
"Yeah yeah yeah, give me a lever-action shotgun that spreads wide and fast on hipfire, but slow and precise when aiming down sight." Amaya shrugged.
The Canon Bringers bypassed the Battle Bus and teleported everyone to the actual Island. It was just in time when a massive flood of bluish-white flame covered the entire full spawn island.
"Yeah... We're sorry. I was brainwashed when I sent the Dimensional Beasts here." Soyle regretted.
A Dimensional Quake suddenly happened, spawning several rifts appeared in the sky, above all over the Island. Some extra-Loops - those outside of the actual Loop - noticed them.
A giant white wraith with plasticky chitinous armors and yellow eyes descended down from one of the rifts, followed by a giant humanoid red dragon with crystalline accents and green eyes and veins, and a giant black-and-white zombie with spiky red chest and demonic wings.
"Must be Gundam, Mazinger and Getter Robo." Deadpool recognized those monsters as the Holy Trinity of Japanese mechas.
"Oh no. These Dimensional Beast!" The Warrior King is shocked.
The Dimensional Quake shook the entire Island, causing more of these Dimensional Beasts to arrive. Among them is a bunch of veiled Lilith-forms, a red monster partially armored with green glowing drills, a gorgon with golden crown in its deformed and crystallized head, a rhino-horned real corrupted, a reflective silver silicon giant, a red and radioactive colossal golem, a orgasmic skeletal giant, a mechanized Scub Coral, another plasticky chitin giant, a flying wraith, another silver silicon giant, a humanoid monster with golden spiky chest, and so many more.
A particular trait that every single one of those giant monsters share are of course, a bluish-white flame as aura for each.
"Oh no. We might be screwed." The Loopers crapped out.
"I will wish them off so they won't hurt us." Pechy got an idea. "I don't think these monster are evil to us right now without those... influence."
"Pechy Comet?" Soyle noticed. "You're..."
"The Dreamcatcher princess!" Pechy revealed her Dreamcatcher to everyone. "I need the Emerald-Diamond!"
"Why?" Supreme pulled out the green emerald.
Pechy whispered to her gang and then took the Emerald-Diamond. At first, it once again showed her her own childhood, but then...
"Warrior Dreamcatcher... Smash LIGHT!"
The monsters immediately started attacking, bombarding all the places with their own eldritch rendition of the various Mecha attack, all which the Canon Bringers recognized. This forced the Canon Bringers to whip out a shared dome that protect the entire Island.
"What! Going! ON!?" A man in a patriotic suit whipped a circular shield with striped base and a star center.
At the same time, the Emerald-Diamond glows off, pinging all of the monsters. Pechy actually plans to at least tame the monsters and turn them against the Darkbolts.
"Let me in!" Amaya knocked the golden emerald to its green counterpart.
This resulted in the Legend Emerald being pinged as well. As a result, a golden wave passed through the dome and distracted the monsters, causing some of the attacks to land on each other monsters instead.
"Oh hell no!" Beta is shocked. "What if the golden Emerald got destroyed!?"
Both Emeralds were intact though. Paige just shrugged.
"Mom, I pinged the whole fabric of space-time here." Pechy revealed. "This time, we wish together. Star light, star bright."
"What!? Why!?" Paige is shocked, knowing both Amaya's villainy and the fact only one person at a time has ever wished.
"I don't think I'll work with only one wishing subject. This is an entirely different multiverse!" Pechy noted. "The more people wishing the exact same wishes, the more powerful those wishes will be!"
"How?" Paige is confused. "Pechy, you're-"
"I'm the Goddess of the Wishing Star! And these monsters could break the protective shield above at any time!"
Paige sighed.
The entire Fantasy Dreamer team, Pechy and Amaya together held their hands around the same stuffs Amaya used to pursue and use. The Dreamcatcher. The Wishing Star. The Emerald-Diamond. And the magic Smash Ball.
"Star light, star bright, first star we see tonight. We wish..."
The Dimensional Beasts finally cracked the dome.
"Gosh! The protection is failing!"
"...to tame and free them."
The wish seemed somewhat vague, but the Dimensional Beasts were stalled.
"What have we done?" Soyle got it.
The fused Fell Dragon recalled when they and the now-erased Timemaster brought a continuity bomb and then synced it and the Space-Time Oscillation Bomb (*3) so the Dimensional Beasts can slip to the Island and destroy the reality. Thankfully, the beasts stalled and jerked out, no longer allowed to destroy the Island.
The beasts roared in mental pain and total agony.
"Oh my god... and if sending the Dread (*5) to try and kill me wasn't enough!" Paige kicked Soyle down.
"We're sorry! We're so sorry! We've redeemed, so now we regret sending those monsters!"
"You just put this cherished alternate reality in danger!"
Paige is pissed. She just helped to boosted the wish up, and she knows what Soyle did as brainwashed by the Darkbolts. However, Soyle no longer have any intent on villainy whatsoever. Soyle is purified and is back to their senses. They're now on the gang's side, but Paige still hates them.
"Mom! What're you doing?" Pechy pulled her mom back.
"Pechy, this creature is evil!" Paige retorted.
"WAS!" Kyon shouted in front of everyone.
"You're... an armored eye guy?" Paige have no idea what a Kamen Rider is.
"I purified Soyle, so they don't do evil anymore. Also, they're Nel and Rafal." Kyon cut to the chase. "Oi, why do you even best up someone who's been redeemed, just because-"
"Ask Amaya." Dreamer facepalmed.
The blonde patriot and an operator in black and blue with cat ears both came to the scene.
"Finally, those monsters are just panicking. That's a close one."
"Jones, who sent these strange creatures here, interrupting the war?"
Paige is confused, and stops trying to beat Soyle up. The queen of dream just saw the two, with no idea that they even existed, let alone who they are. However, the Canon Bringer that saw the Taken Storm did recognize the operator.
"It's Hope! The Hope! Of the Underground! Last time, I brought her to the mothership! It's her! A hero!"
"It's... it's you..."
She hugged the robot. She recognized as the one guide. The Canon Bringer was so happy. (*6)
"Ugh! Yield down, mechs!" Beta took control.
Cue the Dimensional Beasts stay attacking each other.
"A Heroic Hope. The same one... What exactly happened to your past self?" The particular Bringer recalled.
"She became... me. I'm a leader of heroes now." Hope clarified. "I think I remember when us Underground and the Society had to unite to help you guys. And I... you helped me navigate out of the shattering. I owe you."
"Thank you. But we have a far more pressing matter. Part of which, you're seeing here."
"Really? And what about Jones? Or Nisha? Or the Underground?"
"John Jones,"
The Canon Bringer just called the blonde patriot. The man immediately recognized the robot.
"A long-time secret ally of ours. Welcome back to the CXA."
"Ok, what is going on that is intervening all of us?" Jones looked around. "Why does it has to be-"
Cue a ton of Soyle's confessions quoted. Jones is confused - not only he ever seen or even heard neither Nel nor Rafal/"Nil" before, but he doesn't even know what the Fell Dragon or the Dimensional Beast is.
"This is the guy from... what royale is this?" Pechy finally noticed the duo.
"It's Fortnite!" Deadpool confirmed. "The 100-player Battle Royale! Turned metaverse? What? People hate Tim Sweeney's solo vision? Shouldn't Donald Mustard has forced him to respect his parts of the full vision, such as the lore? Who changed the-"
"It's complicated, so here's the simple part: Jones had to rejuvenate the Zero Point by sending Kado Thorne's time machine onto it within the time of the good old OG 'Athena'. Get that?" Said the Bringer.
"You mean the entire Chapter 4 finale!?" (*7) Deadpool facepalmed.
Wolverine growls, while the Loopers facepalmed. The forced civil-brawl was still extremely dangerous and vicious, as most of the mech- er, the Dimensional Beasts, were destroyed by each other's attacks, and virtually all other seriously damaged. It's both wild and mental insanity, as Paige put it. Soyle is seriously ashamed and horrified at the sight that thankfully was at least subverted for now.
But the strange thing is the beasts ended up getting regenerated through a burst of bluish-white glow of light.
"What!? Not only the beasts responded to wish by letting themselves attack each other... but they regenerates upon destruction!?" Pechy is baffled.
Pechy and her dream-mentor Dreamer both squinted. It seems such regeneration were caused by... a tiny point of a unit.
"You're telling me that some point is spraying revives over?" Deadpool heard it? "Hey! Someone confirm to us!"
"Fine. What a mess." The Canon Bringer helped Hope has unenthusiastically scanned the surroundings.
While the collateral damage slowly cracks the dome, the Canon Bringer recognized some twisted signature.
"No... It's..."
Those units looked like floating shells with a technical glowing eye.
"The Ghosts! THE SECOND KNIFE'S MASS-PRODUCED GHOSTS!"
Dreamer got it. She immediately reached for her own eye beam, but Pechy stopped her.
"No... those Ghosts... there must be other ways around! To save those poor ones!"
"Huh?"
The Canon Bringer nodded. "She's right. If we destroy a Ghost, the chosen subject would become Lightless and can no longer be resurrected by that Ghost! But those beasts seems to be empowered and boosted by Light. So it's even worse if we just destroy their Ghosts!"
"I know they're Taken and coverted into Dimensional Beasts. They cannot exactly be rampaging the way they tried to do to us by their own free will." The Warrior King noted. "The Taken is by themselves, a torture to each major member of its kind. Those are warped victims, after all."
"Who in the hell is in the Osmium Throne (*8) now?" Deadpool is confused. "It's not like the Guardians would be interested in after slaying Oryx, the Taken King!"
"Wait... normally the Taken would have any active Ghost. But strangely enough, the Taken Dimensional Beasts are clearly being regenerated and revived by active Ghosts. And the Taken are warped by Darkness corruption and paracausally altered to serve their given purpose." The Canon Bringer figured it out. "Which means... that Osmium successor had to be someone who knows how to harmonize between the Light and the Dark. Only those wielding Prismatic powers can do that, and the Witness is completely dead. The Guardians of today are the only ones left as of this time!"
"And...?" Deadpool heard it.
"What?" The Warrior King is suspicious.
"The Guardians wouldn't normally take the Osmium throne. They would've already left it vacant. But no, instead, some Guardians finally took Oryx's throne. That couldn't be canonical. That couldn't be happening."
The Canon Bringer them connected the dots on the fly. "This... must be the Second Knife's doing. They are the paracausal villains after the Witness, the one mastering the powers natively instead of just using Echoes, like Sundaresh or Fikrul would have. The Guardians mastered the harmony between the Light and the Dark. Therefore, only they would be able to convince the Taken powers from Oryx with their own nature, allowing the Taken to be chosen as Lightbearers! It's a convoluted power combo!"
"Light and Darkness..." Logan looked up at the sky. "So... they are those so-called paracausal beings?"
"You should be meeting with the real Young Wolf and their fireteam. They know all sorts of things from their experience fighting divine-equivalent level beings." The Canon Bringer suggested. "These Guardians already mastered paracausality, but they haven't found a way to do the tricks the Second Knife did yet."
"So maybe we should meet Elsie." Beta suggested. "She's in the TVA's Void." (*9)
Suddenly, a rocket punch smashed through the dome, both leaving a big gaping hole crashing down to some Loopers, instantly eliminating them. Cue the other Loopers freaking out.
"No! Calm down and stay safe!" The Canon Bringers spread out to keep the Loopers on the line.
The Dimensional Beasts slowed down and recovered, and started winding back. They were about to resume on attacking the Island. The Taken warping has absorbed the influence of the wish the Fantasy Dreamer made.
"Oh hell no! Why can't those monsters truly stop!" Amaya is annoyed.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Soyle waved out, trying to hold on their control. "No!"
You've strayed from the Darkbolts. We have no need of you anymore, for you've become a traitor. Face the consequences.
Soyle suddenly puked out... a Ghost, much to Pechy's and Paige's disgust.
"Argh... I'm done for..." A gruntled voice spewed out from the Ghost.
"Sombron as a Ghost?" A Canon Bringer noticed the voice.
"Xenologia..." Soyle saw the Ghost jerking.
Seconds later, the Ghost exploded. Soyle also had their fused body flashed, with brief aura of paracausal elements dissipating quickly.
"Hey," Pechy called. "What's wrong?"
"Xenologia... our Ghost..." Soyle slumps down, seeing the Ghost's remains on the ground. "Now we're Lightless... and Unshaded."
Pechy bursted her right hand in flame, thus manifesting Solar, even though Pechy doesn't have a Ghost. And then she clenched that right hand, freezing it - that's Stasis.
"Try using Stasis." Then Pechy relaxed her own right hands, causing the Strand to float around it. "Or Strand."
Soyle immediately clenched their hands down, acting on self-discipline just to manifest Stasis. It doesn't work - their hands are still tender and warm. Then Soyle immediately relaxed out and flowers their hands - the Strand did not spawn, and no Threadling were created.
"No more Ghost. No more blade power." Soyle sobs. "No more Light. No more Dark."
"What!? Lightless motherfuckers could still wield Darkness!" Deadpool is shocked. "How can the power of the Darkness be stripped away!?"
More attack remains have landed down, one of which whacked an area near the gang and co. Few more Loopers were eliminated.
BGM: Crest of "Z"s (Super Robot War Z)
"I never thought reality-breaking threats are so common!" Jones facepalmed. "Hope. Let's get to The Raft. Cannot risk anymore than survival. We can only-"
"Alright, heroes and villains uniting against a common threat." The Canon Bringer who helped Hope has been sitting on a chair (non-trope by itself?). "CXA cliche, but we'll take it. Call Emma Frost and Mysterio over there."
"Roger that, nice one." Hope left the scene.
The response relieved the Canon Bringer, whose act at the tail end of the Hyper Genesis Wave incident helped save Hope and her past self - perhaps one more reason Heroic Hope decided to lead the expanded Underground to fight Doom as the prophecy has foretold?
Meanwhile, the Dimensional Beasts slowed down and turned to where Pechy and gang is. Pechy and Amaya responded by transforming into their enlightened super forms.
"Damnit! Do it again!" Pechy as the Goddess of the Wishing Star, urged Beta and Dawn to join.
"Let's." Dreamer held hands of Pechy and Amaya, together.
The Dreamcatcher props glowed and floated.
"Star light, star bright, first star we see tonight. We wish to tame and free them."
An even larger burst wave of wishes blasted through the Dimensional Beasts, once again stalling them all. At the same time, a Battle Bus flew from seemingly nowhere, crossing through some of the beasts. The Battle Bus got hit by the same burst wave as well.
The beasts roared, stopping the rampage once again.
"Please. Hear me out! Do not trust the Darkbolts. Do not serve the Darkbolts. Do not be possessed by their forces. You're all better than that, whether you're good or evil. The Darkbolts are more evil than all of you." Pechy called the Dimensional Beasts, using the wish as a makeshift mental microphone. "You're some giants that can fight the largest of possible threats. Together, we will stop the Darkbolts and their forces, and save all realities everywhere, everywhen, and everytime, once and for all! I am Pechy Comet, the Goddess of the Wishing Star!"
Pechy Comet... How dare you...! The Taken don't get to directly-
"Who are you?"
I am the Arch-Titan of the Second Knife. We are salvation itself. We have become legends from far long ago. You, Pechy Comet... how did you even hack these so-called Dimensional Beasts...
"You have to be kidding us."
You're a goddess nowadays? So are we since millions of timelines ago. Don't tell us-
"We are paracausally empowered now, and we also want those poor ones to be free. You're not going to prevail. May the Light and the Dark defy you... asshole."
Pechy finally sweared. The profanity frustrated the same Titan that led the Taken Storm to take over so many mechas in the first place, even though Pechy has yet to learn about super robots and real robots at all.
BGM stops.
The Ghosts of the Dimensional Beasts finally noticed everything.
O Mecha, destroy those paracausal freaks who defy our conquest!
The beasts were moved against all wills and intents, clearly being controlled by their respective Ghosts. The beasts were forcibly targeted the gang. The gang retaliated by wishing it off in unison again, causing yet another wishing burst.
The Ghosts were finally hit. Soyle leaned back and looked up in shock, seeing as if her mistakes is starting to be corrected by the saviors. The Dimensional Beasts roared in agony, clearly being forced into succumbing to the gang's wishes.
And suddenly...
"Huh?" Pechy woke up in a dreamy realm, shown in her Goddess dress.
"Hello there, Pechy Comet. It's nice you're back." A brunette in divine dress of light has appeared. "Oh, you too, Earla Sky."
"Laelynn?" Pechy recognized her.
It's Laelynn Star. "Welcome back, Pechy."
"Huh?" Earla, in her green-themed hoodie and still with her shield.
"Where are we?" Akia, still in her angelic form. "Huh!?"
It's not just the three in the dreamy realm with Laelynn. Amaya, Dreamer, Beta, Paige and Dawn are also there. Furthermore, somehow the Warrior King, Deadpool, Wolverine, the Canon Bringer, Jones and Hope also found themselves here as well.
"My cousin! You're alive!" Earla hugged Pechy in relief.
"Laelynn. I have a few problems since we're dealing with infinite universes." Pechy cut to the chase.
"Ok, I will have to tell you everything, since apparently, I and Deadpool know the most perspectives. Wolverine, please best with me..."
The Canon Bringer explained just about everything thus far that the gang and the co. knows, plus some tidbits on what Hope has been up to. The explanation easily overwhelmed Laelynn, who never heard of those things except the Dreamcatcher stuffs. So Wade Wilson himself had to slap her - he didn't explain because the Canon Bringer has already explained it all.
"C'mon! How about... wait, how do we show the internet-"
Laelynn is so confused. Deadpool is frustrated, and begged the Canon Bringer to do something.
"We're not here to whine. We're here because of our own wishes." Wolverine threatened Deadpool. "Stop it and think. I tell ya."
"Logan, this girl doesn't know about other worlds' stuffs!" Deadpool complained.
"I'mma spawn context." The Canon Bringer deliberately gave infos about whatever the gang's talking about, to let Laelynn understand everything.
It's complicated, partly because there's so many worlds out there. But the robot was able to finally get Laelynn to know. Finally, Deadpool is relieved, and got to pick up...
"We're in Dreamcatcher reality. A multiverse of dreams, protected by true dreamers!" Deadpool got it.
"We know how to break the fourth wall with precision. While you're yapping about everything. Maybe at least give infos about the origin points of each, so the job get easier for us?"
"Yeah yeah yeah, but you've already explained."
"You breaks the fourth wall every time, so you got to pinpoint the home properties for each stuffs. For instance, the Traveler of Destiny, the entity of Light."
The Canon Bringer then focused on Laelynn. "You're Laelynn Star?"
"Yes. I am." Laelynn nodded.
"And you unlocked Pechy's goddess form?" Deadpool asked.
Laelynn nodded.
"Pechy, I and Akia were in the Corridors of Time, found the notes from a Marie from the so-called Core Timeline, got the Captain America's shield myself from a Marie from that same Core Timeline, both gotten ourselves paracausality, and fought those strange fireteams we never even knew existed." Earla revealed what happened to her and Akia. "A man named Jouji Minami, as the Kamen Rider Black Zi-O, brought us to the Battle Bus and drove to some island. And then... some familiar signature hit us, and we're all here. Must be your signature."
"I had to burst wishes off to try and tame the Dimensional Beasts. The Canon Bringer explained it in some details, did you listen it?" Pechy responded.
Akia quickly connected the dots, and is surprised about the fact. But furthermore, Amaya is in her enlightened nightmare form - complete with angelic details - is standing in front of Akia, her own daughter.
"How dare you return..." Akia is aggravated.
"I am enlightened, just like you. Finally, that mean I could be with you again, useless daughter." Amaya boasted her enlightenment."
"You fucking... abusive, psychotic mother... You evil one!" Akia is infuriated. "How could you..."
"Stop! Pechy's wish chose Amaya. She may be evil, but she's on our side!" The Warrior King called.
"I needed Amaya, and I never wanted her to come to tag along, but she's what we've got!" Pechy clarified. "I had no choice! My wish called for her without I even knowing, and that meant she must be with me! Also, she's enlightened just like you nowadays!"
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Akia had enough.
Akia charged against a shocked Amaya, but is dragged down by none other than Laelynn herself.
"There's a light in each and everyone that shines as brightly as the strongest star in the sky." Laelynn preached.
"That's my line modified." Pechy shrugged.
"Yes." Laelynn gently responded. "Same goes for even the evil like Amaya."
"Are you sure? Not all have any light." Deadpool denied.
"Oh. But Amaya still have her light, and it seems she even gained even more light." Laelynn replied.
"And we need her." The Warrior King called. "Amaya is important."
"Huh. This is a dream, huh?" Jones looked around. "And wait... there's some dark white or dirty white of something... flame? Is that... from another reality!?"
The Taken Storm is circling the area, leaving the dreamy realm as the eye. Multicolored souls flew around, barely visible to humans.
"Poor mecha pilots. They and their mechs got Taken, warped into Dimensional Beasts with the Dimension Energy Crystals through the Gertilan's Revive Cells spread by the twisted harmony between Light and Dark... like the Taken Lucent Hive, with the Taken... Ghosts." The Canon Bringer noticed. "And only the Second Knife... the alternative timeline versions of Young Wolf and fireteam... would do. Our beloved Guardian of normal timeline would not take the Osmium Throne."
"Damn... so the evil Guardians are the... new master of the Taken?" Deadpool noticed
"Not meant to be." The Canon Bringer shook their head.
"So this isn't canon." Deadpool shrugged.
"This is actually dangerous instead. We know what an evil Guardian can do. They still are Lightbearers capable of wielding Darkness. Light and Dark aren't moral, they are part of the Guardians' world. Paracausal forces depends on the users."
"Darkness doesn't corrupt by itself. Wait... I think we need the Witness."
"For what?"
"This time, let it collaborate with the Guardians. Fight light with light!"
"Seriously? It tried to enact the Final Shape, the forced sliced stillness of a reality that it envisioned and intended, all because they utterly failed to find a greater purpose the first time around!"
"Yeah yeah yeah, spoilers, I know. But we have no choice. Give full Prismatic on all parties we get. The Witness have to seek help from the same Guardians that originally unmade it! Everyone there know how to harmonize!"
The Taken Storm closes down, and the eye shrinks.
Help us...
"Please. Free yourself from the Darkbolts. We're helping you." Pechy looked up.
"Amaya the bitch mom! You must die!" Akia tried to break free.
Earla electrocuted Akia with Arc Light, and then bonked her with the shield. "Calm down!"
"It's Weave time." Pechy brandished Strand. "Everyone, go Strand."
"Why?" Akia is disappointed, but then gave Strand just to help Pechy. "Pechy, Amaya must die. But this has to do."
Pechy, Dreamer, Beta, Dawn, Amaya, Earla, Akia and the Warrior King manifested Strand together, which tagged and hooked all the souls flying around. Pechy, Amaya, Fantasy Dreamer team and the lesbians then held hands together.
"Star light, star bright, first star we see tonight. We wish to tame and free them."
A gigantic burst pushed the Storm out.
Location: [REDACTED]
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Super-soldiers of Darkbolts, including Shocker Lightbearers, is cheering on the Dimensional Beast. This entertainment was brought to buy a Hunter with a sleep, asymmetrically crystalline armor covered in paracausally luminescent scales, and a smooth glass visor with a a sharp, acute-angle cutout balanced from one eye all the way to the edge.
"Dear Godhunter..."/"神のハンター殿..." Two magical girls, one black-pink (no pun intended) and one white-blue, bowed down.
"Misumi! Yukishiro!"/"美墨なぎさ! 雪城ほのか!" The Hunter called. "You're are late!"
It was Shocker Cure Black and Shocker Cure White.
"We've found a goddamn note and a stray Prismatic well..."/"なんとメモと迷い込んだプリズム井戸が見つかったんだ..." White reported.
Black gave the Godhunter the note that Captain Mari wrote and Earla and Akia got.
"We identified that the Prismatic well is from a fireteam, specifically a Titan."/"プリズムの井戸はファイアチーム、特にタイタンのものであることがわかった" White revealed.
"What!?"/"何!?"/"なに!?" The Godhunter is shocked.
"We're sorry that someone..." Black growled, and released six Ghosts.
"Damnit! How could this be!?" The Godhunter is frustrated. "First, the CXA didn't yield. Then-"
"We couldn't identify the perpetuators." White shook her head. "But we can guess that the perpetuators used Prismatic to take down the fireteam."
"That's the danger of leaving our powers for random ones to use!" The Godhunter facepalmed.
Suddenly, the fellows stopped cheering and started freaking out. The footage is showing POVs of the Island... shaking by. And the screams of the Taken pilots, too.
Pechy and gang has broke the Dimensional Beasts and the Ghosts free.
"No."/"いいえよ" The Godhunter noticed. "Titan!"/"タイタン友達!"
"Shit..." Sky (Sora Harewataru) is pissed.
The Godhunter left the room.
How dare you... use us as your drill!?
BGM: Libera Me from Hell
"It's... Simon the Digger... of the Dai-Gurren!" Black recognized one POV.
"He's not the only one!" White called. "Everyone! Get out of here!"
"Titan! Titan! The beasts have been freed!"
Everyone cheering for the Dimensional Beasts have fled, scared from what Pechy just did to the beasts. That the CXA were finally able to bypass the very advantage the Darkbolts' Guardians took away from just yesterday.
"What!? I can't feel them!" The Arch-Titan noticed something's wrong.
"Titan! We have a problem!"
Location #2: "Helios" (Chapter 5)
"We... did it?" Earla woke up.
The Battle Bus crashed down at the Nitrodrome, not far from Pechy. The Dimensional Beasts calmed down, and stopped rampaging. The souls inside them and Ghosts are now pissed off, and is ready to blame the Darkbolts for all this.
"Hah..." Amaya detransformed.
"Titan! The Dimensional Beasts...!" The Godhunter got to the ship.
"It's too late for these. We've just lost them." The Arch-Titan groaned. "Someone set them free. We only got them for one day, and now it's all gone wrong."
"Yeah... fuck them." The Godhunter spitefully refuted.
"Hunter, report to our good old Warlock." The Arch-Titan sits down and took a break. "I'm tired. All our efforts are being... resisted."
"Finally... You're finally back, everyone." Pechy detransformed.
Laelynn landed down. As the girl from stream descended, the Dimensional Beasts now bowed to everyone in the Island.
"Thanks goodness. This island could've been burned to crisp or shattered like glass by now." Jones is relieved.
"Oracle," Hope summoned in her hand a floating blob of water shaped like an arc. "Some wacky stuffs just interfered with your own prophecy. And I thought Doom stealing the Pandora's Box power from me was bad enough."
"Earla and Akia is still alive. We're meant to be grateful." Pechy patted Amaya.
"Those mechas... I fear their rise!" The mysterious woman learned.
"You're afraid of that cringe-worthy Zero Point robot (*10)? I understand." The Godhunter sympathized. "Unfortunately, someone just stole them back from us. The Taken Storm worked, but whoever subverted everything... They took the giants away."
"No... What if they... No... No! We can't let that!" The woman is pissed.
"With Pechy Comet's help, our efforts are slowly subverted. But we can annihilate." The Godhunter reassured. "The Magnificent friend of ours suggested an unlimited supply of Pandora's Box energy. The orange one, that is."
"Oh, I'll be pleased."
"We have to do everything we could so the Darkbolts can finally prevail for real."
"Hahaha... John Jones will so regret putting us in danger."
"Wait... have we met Jonesy in person yet?"
"The Hypertime, a.k.a. the Gallifreyan Mean Time, gives me a stone to hit all possible targets with. I desire Pandora, thanks Doctor Doom, and also... I am the only one to be able to channel the full power of the Zero Point by myself without no assistance."
"You're welcome. The Brainiac Queen (*11) has stuffs you need to put those timestreams into submission."
BGM ends.
"Good luck, miss." The Godhunter left the room.
4th afternoon...
Location: Center lake, "Helios"
"I'm a diamond, my own best friend!" Emma Frost, one of Doom's fellow and a mutant villainess, laughed. (*12)
Mysterio (Quentin Beck) is playing Fortnite with his own duplicates, all playing their very own skin. Deadpool found it amusing.
"So Doctor Doom isn't our only threats anymore. There's the Darkbolts, which I only heard from the CXA's brief history recap." Jones recalled. "Also, I stopped vengeance, We're on a justice streak. Hey you, villains, were still stopping you on our own time."
"Redvengers, a ragtag of varying heroism, united together for freedom. Officer Knights and co., the secretly selfish and villainous gangs delusionally thinking they're good, but they have been fighting manipulated enemies and then some, I don't know. And of course, the Darkbolts." A Canon Bringer recalled. "One narrator getting beat up by all sides - one which we are friendly to - that moment of beatdown only served to make the already-horrific war worse. As a result, the Zero Point eventually died. Without the infinite Big Bang like the one creating all of existence or the one freeing the Loopers from the future's end (*7), all would be doomed forevermore, and no more would be able to exist anymore."
"What?" Deadpool is confused. "And went are you inserting YouTubers and Discord users and their multi-fandom (*13) into? More fictions? This isn't a self-insert story."
"No, I mean that the Zero Point died. Only a full omniversal Big Bang, did the war finally end. It was devastating. It's like the Deus ex Machina having to defuse a rocking hydrogen bomb in front of a coughing, sick baby that said Machina had to protect. Not a laughing matter." The Canon Bringer shook the robot head. "The Continuum Exploitation Authority, which you might as well call us as the omniversal expy of TVA, was founded to combat Crises and secret threats like those wars such as the original war I just described."
"A strange origin story y'all have got." Deadpool shrugged. "Anyways, how's the omniverse now?"
"The omniverse are currently being vandalized and ransacked by the resurgent Darkbolts. Especially after the CXA rightly denied those terrorists."
"Cool! First, the Time Ripper averted (*14), and now this? Great! I do REALLY matter!"
"Wade, everything matters."
"What's about the Dreamcatcher by NeonStarFlower?"
"Whoever we have right now are fine."
The Canon Bringer pointed at Pechy and Laelynn.
"Oh. You seems worried." Laelynn noticed Pechy drooping.
"Many of my friends are still missing. Ron, Miranda, Penny, Gary, Floyd, even Taylor and Ivy." Pechy confessed. "I couldn't yet find them anywhere. Not yet. I'm worried that any of them will..."
"You still have memories of your friends."
"I do. But this world and so much more... all those worlds... all those alternate universes... they're all beyond vast. You just got in here, while I had to help stall the Loop."
"Wait... Taylor and Ivy?"
"Yeah. Where are they?"
"I don't know." Laelynn shook her head. "If anything... the Corridors of Time..."
"What!? Earla and Akia told me about!"
"There's a secret behind the trashing of that place. For I feel like... I have met some large figures before... even though I never knew any of them."
"Exactly. Akia was right. The Canon Bringers confirmed the location of the corridors. And also, the TVA's Void..."
"The Void?"
"Yeah. Elsie is in the compound. Let's-"
"Hey!" Deadpool interrupted the two. "I know the way. I've been in the Void before. Wait... did you watch my 2024 film yet?"
"The #1 biggest movie?" Wolverine chuckled.
"The highest-grossing R-rated movie to date! Not counting inflation." Deadpool laughed. "Anyways... Loki, Season 1 episode 5... thingy."
Less than a hour later... Location: Ant-Man Compound, the Void, Time Variance Authority
"Dreamer, here it is!" Pechy showed.
"I'm back!" Amaya shouted.
"Oh wait... the Void is now being assimilated into the Corridors of Time from Destiny 2!?" Deadpool noticed. "How much radiolaria is being spayed into!?"
The Corridors of Time is spilling far and wide into the Void.
"Oh shit." Exo Stranger, still with her metal skin melting through lingering radiolaria. "The Corridors has reached here."
"I told you to accompany us." The Warrior King facepalmed. (*15) "Guess what? The Void doesn't seem to be able to... handle this mess that's coming."
"And I bet the Corridors of Time has members of the Second Knife in it, as the Prismatic Fleet conquered timelines." Deadpool warned the Stranger. "If you don't leave... you will be caught. I know what Pechy Comet explained. You know, you seems to be indefinitely Transcendent."
"The Second Knife gave me the harmony. I uses it for the good, just like the Guardians in general... used to be." Elsie revealed. "Like any known versions of me you know, I came from a time loop. Born in a timeline where the Darkness would win because Guardians would end up be tempted by the Darkness. I was finally able to realize a better future, by simply being there with Ana, while the Guardians self-discipline themselves to wield Stasis. Eris stopped becoming evil. Eventually, the war was won. The Witness were eventually unmade."
"The Witness?"/"目撃者?" Puca doesn't know it.
"Here's a problem: the Second Knife has become worse than the Witness."/"問題は、第二のナイフが目撃者よりも悪くなったことだ" Elsie continued. "The Witness desired stagnation. The Second Knife desires madness. They want to carve destiny itself, so nobody would have had any fate ever. Yet the Second Knife called that... make own fate. They still insisted making their own fate, and yet... What they have been doing instead destroys the concept of fate and destiny art a face value."
"Good for those who kept defying fate?" Deadpool shrugged.
"The Guardians as the Second Knife became while new Warlords. Petty thugs abusing their own power!" Elsie refuted. "They wanted me to be like what they turned Ana into. I cannot let anything like that continue."
"I know." Beta agreed. "But if you stay, the Corridors of Time Will consume the Void, and you will be caught!"
"Why should I leave? This place has my well and my stuffs!" Elsie complained.
"Canon Bringers, pack her stuffs and get her out of here." Preme commanded. "On behalf of Miss Continuum!"
The Canon Bringers quickly scoured the compound, taking all the Stranger's loots and stuffs, including her own rifles. The Canon Bringer who helped Hope, Hope herself and Jones surrounded Elsie.
"What are you doing?" Elsie got suspicious.
The Canon Bringer suspended Stranger with Strand, and then threw her into the portal the Warrior King created through the Sling Ring.
The Corridors of Time moved up and in, covering some of the ground in the process and nearly reaching the compound.
"Everyone! Get out!" Soyle called.
"Oh... you're really on our side now?" Paige is confused.
"Mom! We're leaving!" Pechy pushed her mom to the portal. "The corridors are coming!"
Everyone left the compound, and then the King closed the portal. The Corridors of Time reached the compound, sucking the calcified remains of Giant-Man corpse into a pool of radiolaria. Only the Stranger's Prismatic well was left.
A Warlock with a glowing metallic armor rippled and shifted seemingly of its own accord, an ethereal longcoat with combined crystalline glow of Echoes and shaded resonance of Darkness in one, increasing towards the end which floats gently on air. Their visor seems to be made entirely of clear glass shaped with a V-shapes accent symmetrically repeating throughout vertically.
The Warlock found the Prismatic well, and...
"Elisabeth-1." (*16) The Warlock muttered. "You're still out there, escaping from our legend."
The Warlock then received a call.
O Great Warlock! (神のウォーロック様!)
"What's up?"/"どうしたの?"
Good news is we've found the Pandora's Box energy and a way to create unlimited supplies of it. (良いニュースは、パンドラの箱のエネルギーとそれを無制限に供給する方法が見つかったことです)
"Wait... there's bad news?"/"待って...悪い知らせがあるのか?"
The Witness is back! (目撃者が帰ってきた!)
The Warlock is confused. "The Witness? I thought it's just a fodder of a former arch-nemesis."
I mean your Witness, the one that's the first that you destroyed. The Pandora's Box energy reacted strongly to the Prismatic well that one of your Warlocks, causing the Echoes implanted to create the well to suddenly... reform the Witness, in the meta-flesh and mind.
The news shook the Great Warlock, whose expanded fireteam previously unmade the Witness and ended the war between the Light and the Darkness.
And the Witness said that... it called you a more extreme and fallen, even compared to the Penitent that combined all their own minds! (*17)
"No... That can't be! Our evil Witness couldn't be returning! My fireteam and co. unmade it! It was the END! How can it use the Pandora's Box energy to revive its own being!?"
I think we underestimated the power of the Pandora's Box of the Island's story. Those orange-soul streams of energy should not be supposed to empower anybody other than us Darkbolts!
"The Pandora's Box is powerful, Extremely powerful. The Zero Point is, too. Our woman knows that."
The Great Warlock then pointed at the well. "By the way, I found this Prismatic well. It therefore means that the stay Elsie is still alive and running."
It's a miracle she even ran away for so long.
"I know right! Echo, how did you and your crew pump the energy?"
Thanks for the Vex then. We hacked the Greek mythology, where every single versions of the Pandora's Box originated. Originally, it was a jar. That jar, we stuffed some jugs of green Styx River mixed with Nitro (*18) and shaken, not stirred. Then a conflux ignited the Pandora's stuff, and it's locked in precise moments so it can repay forever and forever, shaking all the time. And finally, leave that to be distributed through all kind of cultures and depictions, according to the fourth wall.
"So you shattered the fourth wall just to replenish the energy."
Yep. And then we track down the instances spawned from the mixture and the conflux interacting with each other, and now we get endlessly replenishing copies of energy, infinitely yet hidden from even the Loopers' sight. And to prevent the stuffs from vanishing, the Vault of Glass required Nitro-fied Styx River. Another conflux constantly shift to flicker between the two set of contents, so Pandora could only free the evil stuffs originally came from the jar, not the water mixture! The result is the Nitro river comes down to the Vault of Glass, and two paradoxes counter and cancel each other out, securing the supply! With just two confluxes, we get unlimited Nitro, unlimited soul powers, and the infinite Pandora's Box!
"Creative! Our woman definitely will find this artificial glitch useful."
Unfortunately, once the river fell, a Warlock's set up Prismatic well got doused in Pandora's liquid, causing an arcane reaction that remade the Witness! (残念なことに、川が落ちた後、ウォーロックが設置したプリズム井戸がパンドラの液体に浸かり、神秘的な反応が起こり、目撃者が生まれ変わりました!)
"That Warlock just failed the safety check. Hmph." The Great Warlock is disappointed. "One mistake can send an entire campaign down to oblivion. Echo, kill that Warlock. They're done for. They have failed the basics."
Location: The Vault of Glass (Destiny)
"Fine! Thank you!" Echo hung up.
Ayumi Sakagami (坂上 あゆみ). Shocker Cure Echo.
"I'm... I'm sorry...!"/"ごめん...ごめんなさい...!" The wrong well's owner, a Warlock in custody, shivered. "It's because of our Echoes, not directly my fault! I'm sorry! I wasn't looking!"
"You just remade the Witness. Unacceptable!"/"あなたは目撃者をリメイクしたばかりです。受け入れられません!"
"Please... Nonono..."/"お願いします…ダメダメ…"
"Vex-chan! Kill this Warlock."/"べックスちゃん！このウォーロックを殺してよ"
Echo commanded an army of Vex to assimilate the owner. The other evil Guardians did not sympathize, they instead let the targeted Warlock die and be assimilated. To them, this is what the Warlock gets for leaving the Prismatic well on the way of the Pandora's liquid and thus remake the Witness by accident as a result.
The targeted Warlock tried to put up a fight, but Echo compromised that by taking away the Ghost by her own hands, and then smash said Ghost as a (brainwashed) Pretty Cure. That Warlock became compromised thanks to loss of their Ghost, and was surrounded by the Vex, which beat them down and eventually assimilated their bloodied and wounded body.
"Disregard for safety is not worker-ethical. You just make a grave mistake by remaking the Witness."
As the wrong well's owner is erased, other Guardians minded their business, checking on the influx of the Pandora's Box energy. Nothing else was wrong and problematic - the Witness was simply the sole mistake that happened, albeit a large one for the Prismatic Fleet. The river worked completely perfectly as expected.
Unbeknownst to the Great Warlock or Echo, however, their call has actually been wiretapped by some mysterious Vex. And right now, the Witness moves out of the Vault of Glass and into the Corridors of Time.
"This is the Vex's realms, and it seems to be... crashed. Nitro. Styx. Pandora's Box... We're back."
The voice of the Witness woke a naked black conqueror.
"Huh?"
"A human. One that doesn't appear to have... any Light."
"Who... are... you..."
The metal-scaled robe shifted psychedelically in black that the being wears. "Call us the Witness."
"The... Witness?" The man got up.
The being with the white smoke on the head towers over the man.
"I'm... Kang the Conqueror... Your ants... No... no! You're not Ant-Man!"
"We are your... salvation. Come, and be our... new Disciple."
"Disciple?"
"Yes. We can tell you're suffering from an ultimate pain. We know pain. And suffering. Our purpose is its end."
"Ant-Man... And that Council of He Who Remains... They must pay..." (*19)
The Witness doesn't know where this Kang came from, but it does accept him as a potential Disciple. (*20)
"Fine... get me back..." Kang growled. "...to the... Council..."
Note: The next mission is to deal with the Dimensional Beasts in the Island world, and the Chapter #2 showed where Pechy and gang started the mission. This one is where the mission for done: turns out those Dimensional Beasts are the Taken Lucent mutation of all those mechas and pilots throughout Super Robot Wars, Taken with the Taken Storm by the Arch-Titan. Soyle and the Timemaster used the Dalek continuity bomb (like the one used in the Four Doctors comics (2015, by Titan Comics)) and the Space-Time Oscillation Bomb from Orguss to cause a Dimensional Quake that lead to a pathway straight to the Island. The Dimensional Quakes are caused by the STOB, so it's nice to implement that particular plot detail from 2nd Z (2011-2012) into a mission of the Darkbolts.
The Ghosts assigned to the Dimensional Beasts manages the souls of respective mutation, tagged into each mecha. For example, Shinkiro from Code Geass would have Lelouch vi Britannia as its Ghost. It's a nice decision on Pechy's part, as she instinctively learned that destroying a Guardian's Ghost would take out (not just away, but out) their resurrective immortality, potentially leaving them Lightless (like when the Red Legion attacked the Last City in the base campaign for Destiny 2 (2014), with Ghaul taking the Light); Dreamer was going to blast those Ghosts with her Cyclops' eye beam. Instead, Pechy and the Fantasy Dreamer, joined by Amaya and now Earla and Akia as well, wished out to have the Dimensional Beasts freed from the Darkbolts' control. It eventually took Laelynn and the dream realm too, but finally Pechy tamed the Dimensional Beasts, gave the original personalities back, and mission complete. Too bad many of Darkbolts' super-soldiers (one of which is Shocker Cure Sky) were watching and cheering on the rampage.
Once again, Hope's prophecy got interfered, and she's forced to ally with Doom's forces. (Don't worry, within the confines of the canon, the Underground is still against the villainous forces led by Doctor Doom) We also see the Void of the TVA from the Multiverse Saga again, now finally got the Exo Stranger to leave, albeit by needing the Canon Bringer to throw her out of the place. This is because they noticed the Corridors of Time spilling into the Void, and the Warrior King informed the CXA of the Exo Stranger. It will turn out that the Exo Stranger seen first in Prologue #2 is revealed to be from yet another timeline. (As if the Stranger isn't already an alternate Elizabeth Bray...)
The mysterious woman got the way to get the Pandora's Box power and energy endlessly, and it's in a very complicated setup described by Shocker Cure Echo. It involves both the Vex and the actual Greek mythology itself (yes, C5S2: Myths and Mortals (2024) checks out), and the Vault of Glass seems to be described like caches, in computer terms that Echo herself did not describe. While the infinite Pandora setup was successful, an evil Warlock left a Prismatic well, which reacted to the mix of River Styx water and Nitro (the magmatic drug from C5S3: Wrecked (2024)) caused the Witness to be remade through soul power. The reason why it's the original Witness that the Guardians that would become the Second Knife unmade and not the designated fodder from another timeline (like the one in #1 which was Taken and dissolved into Echoes by the Great Warlock) is that the technology behind deployable Prismatic well are drawn from the original Echoes from their timeline are mixed with radiolaria and paracausal binder, and the OG Echoes (like the original Echoes of Command used by Maya Sundaresh the Conductor) that the Second Knife took were from their timeline's Witness. It's complicated, but basically the Echoes from the same timeline as the Second Knife were used as unlimited ingredient for the Prismatic well allowed that well to specifically react to the Pandora's Box liquid in a way which connected to the Echoes from the Witness, thus accidentally and paracausally recreating the Witness. This is basically a burning version of how Cayde-6 was revived by the Light on the road to The Final Shape (2024).
I'm delighted to reveal the three leaders of the Second Knife: the Godhunter, the Arch-Titan, and the Great Warlock. It's pretty surprising that I revealed those three so early on, but I will not dwell into their backstory until later on. And yes, one of the three is the Young Wolf, the player character of Destiny games. Of course, more of the Darkbolts will be revealed, such as the identity of the mysterious woman, how did the Kamen Riders and Pretty Cures for brainwashed, why Shatter might have been a major member of Darkbolts, and so on, so on... and finally, the Magnificent himself and the new Darkbolts as a whole. Not exactly in order, but all will be revealed in time. And in #2, Jouji told Earla and Akia to find the truth... then ultimately, it's up to the gang to find out the truth. Next chapter will be Kyon reacting to his timeline's ally's return, as Jouji reveals himself as the driver of the Battle Bus Earla and Akia used to escape the Corridors of Time.
And finally, Kang has returned! The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards), played by Jonathan Majors, found himself in the Corridors of Time, seemingly surviving a deadly blast of power core attacked by Pym particles as seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) film. Now he's about to become the newest Disciple of the Witness. Hoo boy, virtually all the remaining members of the entire Council of Kangs of the MCU are going to be assimilated into the Conqueror! The Witness's not the only anomaly bugging the Second Knife in the Darkbolts' conquest: the call between Cure Echo and the Great Warlock was secretly wiretapped through Vex conflux by a Vex Mind. Hmmm... what could it be? And also, how exactly the Witness fit into the gang's adventure?
One last thing: Soyle has been a crossover Guardian. Her Ghost is Xenologia (a play on Xenologue and "logia"), a gruntled Ghost who, now due to Soyle no longer serving the Darkbolts, is destroyed, leaving her Lightless and Unshaded. Lightless, sure, Guardians lose their Light like so, but Unshaded? As Deadpool noticed, the Lightless can still use Darkness. The Second Knife has to be stripping Soyle of paracausality as well, not just losing themselves the Light for effectively betraying the Darkbolts. The Darkness has to be taken (no pun intended) and purged from the Lightless, and in the end must have stripped away all paracausal powers from one. Simply destroying the Ghost and rendering the subject Guardian Lightless isn't enough for the Second Knife and their Prismatic Fleet (besides, the Guardians, evil or not, wouldn't allow their discarded opponents to be any powerful unless otherwise decidedly noted, assuming the Guardians don't just kill said opponents), the tyrannical neo-Warlords abusing the harmony of Light and Dark. And now Soyle is both Lightless (duh) and Unshaded (equivalent to Lightless, in that one cannot wield the Darkness anymore even while still has working body and mind), and the Dread (calcified monsters made of integrated Pyramid technology and combination of both the Light and the Darkness) she commanded is still there, running amok but without matter anymore, now that Soyle's considered a traitor.
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Until next time...
Cross-trivia:
(*1) - Between the aftermath of Chapter 5 Season 2: Myths and Mortals (2024) and the Refinery event ending the Chapter 5 Season 3: Wrecked (2024), it's been commonly theorized that the Wanderer is actually Geno, the founder of the Imagined Order. There's also, however, hints through verbal usage leaked from then-future updates, showing it's Victor von Doom instead. The modified version of Doom logo as seen during the Refinery event finally confirmed it's Doctor Doom all along.
(*2) - A continuity bomb was a Dalek weapon developed during the Last Great Time War. The bomb was programmed to target one individual, altering one event in their main timeline and changing their "continuity" to one of the billions of alternate timelines they existed in. Ideally, the end result was to create Dalek Slaves, as was the demonstrated effect in a possible timeline of the War Doctor. Individuals who would not second guess their decisions and were noble in their actions had no useful alternate timelines to the continuity bomb.
(*3) - From Super Dimension Century Orguss (超時空世紀オーガス, 1983-1984). The Space-Time Oscillation Bomb is the cause of the whole mess that is the World of Orguss. Detonated prematurely by Kei, the bomb shattered all of Earth's realities, mixing them into a hodge-podge that Kei found himself in after the first episode.
(*4) - Omniversal explosion from Fortnite, bringing creation of all existence. The new Big Bang is from the eponymous event ending Chapter 4 (2023) of Fortnite Battle Royale.
(*5) - The Dread are an army of Darkness-powered entities created by the Witness with its paracausal Pyramid technology of the Black Fleet from Destiny 2 (2017), late into the Light and Darkness saga (2014-2024). The Dread are comprised of beings reshaped by true Prismatic wielders (such as the Witness) into their "perfected" form, with (say, the Witness's Disciples) serving as a genetic blueprint for some of the Dread units to have descended from their lineage and remnants of other subjugated species transfigured into its army using stolen Light from the Traveler.
(*6) - Last few chapters of Sonic Prime Overclocked, where Hope (in original Battle Pass form) and her past self (an Society boss) met a Canon Bringer, who brought them to the mothership and gave notes on Shatter the Hedgehog (the antagonist). Previously, Hope had to unite the Underground and the Society (the latter of which she left before the events of C5S1: Underground (2023) to help founding the former) late into Successor of Anti-Life (took place before C5S2: Myths and Mortals (2024)), and by the time C5S4: Absolute Doom (2024) started, Nisha reluctantly joined the Underground to help the Marvel heroes fight Doctor Doom's coalition.
(*7) - The Big Bang event, capping Chapter 4 Season OG (2023) and ending the Chapter 4 (2023) as a whole, in December 2nd, 2023. Featuring the new version of the eponymous event (the one creating all of existence for the first time), and also notable for being an advertisement for the new game modes added to Fortnite and so on.
(*8) - Oryx's throne, previously assumed by his/her Krill father. Oryx intended those who vanquished him to take the throne and become the next Taken ruler, but the Guardians (including the player, the Young Wolf) not only left the throne, but would even slay everyone who tried to assume the throne.
(*9) - Where pruned ones and the eater Alioth resides. The Void in Marvel's TVA is also where the more-mysterious than even canon Exo Stranger hid in as of Prologue #2.
(*10) - Tengen Toppa Zero Point (天元突破ゼロポイント), the ultimate Mecha at the end of Beyond the Edge story, made of countless copies of the Island put together through the power of Everything (including the Zero Point itself) and Nothing plus more. Can be supercharged into the Omni Super Saiyan form by itself. The mecha was used to slay the empowered Zerobreaker.
The mention of the mecha implies the identity of the mysterious woman herself.
(*11) - The Brainiac Queen is an extremely powerful, homicidal android built by Brainiac Prime for Superman: House of Brainiac (2024). An enemy of Superman and the Superman Family, she is later made a member of the Bureau of Sovereignty and as of Absolute Power (2024), views Amanda Waller as her mother, becoming part of the Trinity of Evil (consisting of herself, Earth-0 Amanda Waller and Failsafe).
(*12) - Referencing the loading screen for Organic Emma Frost, from Chapter 5 Season 4: Absolute Doom (2024).
(*13) - Yes, WesleyTRV, realtommyvercetti9 (Tony Hamashi), FireKingVA (Julius Raymore) and more exists in real life, and have conceived my fictional inspirations such as WesleyTRV: Warzone and Officer Knights of Hyper Heroes Universe stuffs. My relationships about all these are a long story. Also, Deadpool breaks fourth wall all the time.
(*14) - Referencing the stakes involved in Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) film.
(*15) - Referencing a moment in Prologue #2, when the gang was about to leave the Void. The Exo Stranger declined the leave herself and instead kept guarding the Prismatic well, mainly on the ground that she might get caught.
(*16) - Exo Stranger's Exomind name in Destiny canon. The number 1 denotes that Elsie hasn't yet received a reboot or reset on her mind.
(*17) - Referencing the Witness's origin.
(*18) - Nitro in Fortnite comes from the Pandora's Box. It is used by Megalo Don and the Wasteland Warriors to fuel and boost themselves, their weapons and vehicles.
(*19) - Finally, I wired "Kang will return", to cover the loss of the role of Kang the Conqueror as one knew it after originally bring planned by Marvel Studios for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Multiverse Saga (2019-). This writing specifically accounts for the uncertainty of Kang and the Council from the MCU, due to Kang's actor Jonathan Majors's domestic assault trial, which led him to probation and Marvel dropping him from the MCU, which in turn led to Robert Downey Jr. (previously playing Iron Man for the entirety of the Infinity Saga (2008-2019)) returning to play Doctor Doom, the next villain for the Multiverse Saga. As of this time of this specific fiction (2024), it remains to be seen what happened to the Council of Kangs and when is ever would Majors return. Not to mention the changes resulting from trying to at least put Kang out of focus due to dropping Majors out of MCU after the domestic drama took place.
Also, MCU!Kang is referring to his own demise from the exile from the Council (led by He Who Remains, a Kang variant who would lead the TVA) all the way to the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), where he would be defeated and presumably killed with his own power core.
(*20) - The Disciples of the Witness are a powerful group of entities that follow the teachings of the Witness and command its forces of the Black Fleet. Little is known about these beings, only that they are originally from a variety of species and backgrounds reshaped into powerful paracausal wielders of the Darkness, are completely devoted to their leader's beliefs, and oppose the forces of the Coalition. Allegedly, if the Witness successfully achieves the Final Shape, its Disciples would be spared from the fate the rest of the universe would suffer.