Ivy Comet's new day has been ruined by a crack leading to the Corridors of Time, and she and her gang - Mike Smith, Clover Comet, Clarie Anderson, Queen Crystal, Lucifer (Master Void), Eric Jolicoeur, and more - had to survive using the power of the fully evolved Unity Crystal Light. The team of 2027 and 2044 got into the Corridors themselves, and was guided to the Vault of Glass by the Atheon, Time's Conflux, where the gangs learned about the unlimited supply of Pandora's Box energy. Then they all came to an altered 2023 which is now under attack, complete with the Witness, the Council of Kangs and finally, the CXA's gang waiting. Crota and Atheon fought each other as superhumans, and then the arrival of the same mysterious woman who requested the supply in the first place. The Council of Kangs and the Destiny Girls were all left behind, doomed by that woman and reinforcements from the Darkbolts themselves.
Location: Miss Continuum's mothership
The 4th evening...
"What... just... happened?"
Arak just woke up, surrounded by the resurrected Wonders and the 2023 friends.
"Who are you?" 2023!Amaya questioned the tribal planet-machine.
"Arak, the Son of Thunder, and Telos the Blood Moon." Atheon passed by them. "He has been converted into a planetary cyborg with Mother-Nature-based functions and multiversal programming by a twelfth-intellect being known as Brainiac." (*1)
"Brainiac... (*1) My old master..." Arak recalled.
Arak then suddenly remembered what he has done while being brainwashed into serving the Darkbolts. And it horrified him.
"What... have... I done?"
The Warrior King reassured the planet-machine: "The Darkbolts did it. They brainwashed you into torturing me over my decisions."
"Goodness! So... the Darkbolts...!" Arak realized. "Get me to Ms. Continuum, now!"
"Also, to Dreamcatcher: please observe proper Food consumption etiquette." Atheon called the dinner. "Use a napkin if you're-"
Speaking of dinner, the cross-time gangs are eating dinner. Crota compulsively eating like delicious. All the delicacy, and Crota just enjoyed it as much as eating Light... in any of her form. Atheon is disappointed with that... and 2023!Amaya being a prick.
"A failing freak." 2027!Amaya scoffed at her still-powered self. "Hey, you enlightened one. Can you smack her?"
2025!Amaya glared at her past self, who's being very rude as a villainess.
"Etiquette." Atheon called 2023!Amaya.
"Oh, seriously?" 2023!Amaya wiped with her hand, and hisses like a snake.
"Use a napkin, and do not flip out." Atheon eating calmly.
"Radiolaria girl, I have something to ask you." 2023!Dreamer Light asked Atheon. "Why didn't the apparent death of my Paige and her mother Celestia, affect the future... her, Paige?"
"Paradoxes are a collective mess. A mess that us Vex can calculate and manipulate, for casuatum ad infinitum. We had desires a reality of Vex supremacy, where not even Light or Dark can oppose us Vex."
"'We have desired a', not 'We had desires a'." 2023!Dreamer tried to correct Atheon.
"Your vocalization is very simple and human. Organic and linear, even." Atheon refuted.
2023!Dreamer sighed, and the Hunter, while chewing at a buffet, glanced.
"Uh... yeah, Vex like it are strange cyber-organisms existing beyond linear causality." The Hunter noted.
"You'll need to know Vex more." The Warlock told 2023! Dreamer. "Oh, wait! You're not from our world!"
2025!Pechy, Taylor and Ivy had to explain all the time travel shenanigans that occurred to them. (*2) Pre-Unity Ivy is confused at the direct proportions, since she wouldn't have been traveling through time directly until Clarie Anderson herself has gotten involved later on in her existence.
"Paradox, paradox." Atheon continued eating.
"MMMHHHM! SO DELICIOUS!" Crota got the food going with joy on her part.
"Slow down and responsibly." Atheon commented.
"What is this... note we found earlier?" 2025!Pechy pulled out the ripped note from earlier. (*3)
Atheon snatched the note with radiolaria, and then rolled the note to her. The Vex girl read it.
"What happened to Vanguard? The Coalition?" The Warlock questioned.
Atheon droops down. Outwardly, she's still stoic as ever, but deeply speaking, there's hint of sadness hidden inside the stoicism of Vex-men - humanized Vex, similar in mind to those controlled by the Echo of Command (*4) - and she frowned.
"The Coalition... is dead."
Cue shock and horror from everyone else, especially the Guardians. Even the Amayas are shocked if only because it's either too shocking (2023) or that it's really bad (2025 and 2027, who are all more mellowed).
"Ikora Rey. Zavala. The Crow. Osiris. Saint-14. And so much more. And all those fireteams mentioned on the note. All killed in a massacre, successfully taking down 2,014 super-soldiers of Darkbolts before finally... 'wiped'. The entirety were killed off. Their remaining Ghosts were all destroyed. Everyone infiltrating the time-dilated and time-displaced realm were slaughtered, but managed to put up an excellent fight. Casualties on both sides were severe."
"My goodness..." The Guardians sobbed.
"Experiment No.14 of the Weapon Z facility and a being with a Z at the beginning of their name, both escaped." Atheon concluded. "I got the infos matching this note through the Corridors of Time, which have remains of past events and expired paradoxes."
"Or rather... old intersections. We learned from the Conductor's tricks has revealed that our Saint-14... actually stays dead... Osiris pulled out a Saint-14 too similar... (*4)"
The Titan wept. "Now, both are dead..."
"The Darkbolts most likely approves inhumane research that breaches the sacred canons." Hope's Canon Bringer recalled.
The Guardians, mourning for the sacrifice of the Coalition.
"Team Young Wolf, we know you're feeling bad about the passing of the Vanguards and the Coalition, but... the Darkbolts are clearly using Weapon Z facility as a leverage against us." The Canon Bringers responded. "Also, while you were away from your world, we found out that your time steam has been severely compromised, and all attempt of restoration were threatened by the mixed forces from the... you guess it, we found out - the Second Knife. Your other timeline. Extremely similar to the version you're in, but with major change: when."
"When we enhanced our harmony." The Warlock recalled.
"Yes. In that universe, you got your hand in the advanced usage, and you and these three of you... YOU, got obsessed with that, and became evil." Hope's Canon Bringer got it. "The result? For starter, in that universe, you caused the Second Collapse!"
"They'll pay for it!" The Hunter stabbed their almost-finished meal with their trusty knife, shattering their plate as a result.
"No choice. Accompany the Guardians." The Canon Bringers then left.
"Oh, me?" Crota grinned.
"The Guardians ended both of us. Is it-" Atheon raised-
"Actually, we need as much help as we can get." The Canon Bringers suggested.
"They're right. You don't have a choice. We need to be ready." Preme finished her meal, alongside Puca. "Puca! We're done! Let's go to bed!"
Crota and Atheon looked at each other, thinking why should they work with the same Guardians that killed them both. Atheon couldn't understand the full scope of the required alliance for historical reasons, while Crota couldn't believe that the ones stealing her soul could be trusted. That, even though both and the Guardians are all empowered by full paracausality now.
In the night, 2025!Pechy still misses 2025!Ron Davis and friends.
"What's wrong, young me?" 2044!Pechy entered the integrated dorm in the mothership.
"Oh, you're missing our past?" 2027!Pechy came by.
"Oh, great me! How did you get those strange power!" 2023!Pechy too.
"Exo Stranger gave and initial gang of mine the paracausal powers." 2025!Pechy explained the paracausal powers first.
Then 2025!Pechy noted, "My Ron and my friends... most of them are still missing. I currently got Earla and Akia."
"I think we need some help from... the Corridors of Time." 2027!Pechy suggested. "But it's late night. We should sleep."
"This room is large enough for us and... the two." 2025!Pechy looked around.
Crota and Atheon just awkwardly there, with Krilly sighing down.
"Ok then..." Krilly entered the room.
"Rons are in room adjacent. Ivies' room are also adjacent to here." 2025!Pechy noted. "It won't be taking long to get to them. Ask them if you want. But for now... goodnight."
"Sleep well, organics." Atheon just went to her bed.
Everyone in the room went to their respective beds. Out of the three double-beds, Crota and 2025!Pechy are sharing one.
"Good night, you little Light." Crota fell to sleep. "Ahhh..."
2025!Pechy on the bed, looking at all four versions of the Dreamcatcher from across time.
"A dream is your wish, nobody has a nightmare, only dreams is your true." (*5)
2025!Pechy then slept.
Location: The Pale Heart (?)
"Huh?" Pechy woke up... somehow.
It appears Pechy has woken up inside the Traveler. The giant white sphere that hovered about the Guardians' Earth. Right now, she's in a lustrous plains, and in her 2025 body.
"What is... this place?"
Pechy looked around. There's Dreamer - in her 2025 body - and Crota in her towering true form as the Hive God, and the superior Minotaur that is Atheon - that Vex Minotaur is her true form.
Everyone got up, mostly confused about the place as a whole.
"This is inside a paracausal entity known as the Traveler. Traveler, the Light of the Sky." Atheon scanned. "This place is the interior, dubbed 'the Pale Heart'. It is filled with people's... memories. Memories of mortal lives."
"Mortal? Wait... there's my own... life choices? I think." Being a Prismatic Lucent, Crota suspected.
"This place looks wrong, actually." Dreamer noticed. "This lush landscape... seems to be... fizzed into a chaotic... realm."
"What!? This place is truly greener and beautiful!" Crota complained. "This can't be ruined! This place-"
"This is actually enemy territory. The Darkbolts are there, supporting the Second Knife." Dreamer shook her head. "Look! The storm in front of us... is actually THE Storm from the Island!"
"This time... enter the Storm!" Pechy rushed towards the Storm. "Those purple clouds are fooling us. Beat them!"
"Are you sure this is the true optimal choice?" Atheon questioned.
"We won't know if we don't try!" Pechy ran.
The three followed Pechy towards the Storm, which is shifting the view of the beautiful and magical landscape of the Pale Heart into a chaotic, spliced-up version of the exact same landscape.
"Calcified shit!" Pechy profaned in response to the shifting view while the four is running.
"Calcification detected. Hyper-marbleized remains of various objects and properties from different universes detected." Atheon scanned.
"Urgh... So this is what pure Darkness feel like?" Crota is disgusted. "At least I don't wanna continue-"
"Eating the Light from others? Nice." Pechy chuckles.
The four arrived at a paracausally-overgrown temple, with a familiar alien friend with drooping antenna kneeling in front of... evil Guardians from across alternative universes.
"Those Guardians! I must-" Crota went to step on the friend.
His big foot phased through the friend as well as some of the flora nearby. Crota braked, and then stepped back. Confused, he pulled out his blade to wave. The Sword of Crota phases through the friend, which baffled him.
"Penny!" Pechy is shocked.
"Penny Luna." Atheon braked.
"Oh no!" Dreamer recognized her.
The friend seems to be 2025!Penny Luna. Penny is kneeling in front of a bunch of evil Guardians, headlined by... the three big Hive Gods, and the Great Warlock.
"Father...? Aunties...?" Crota recognized them. "And... these Guardians?!"
The Hive Gods are shown as Taken Lucent Hive, complete with neon bluish-white armor and appendages all wreathed in matching flame, all around darkened skins. Most notably, Dreamer recognized one of the Hive God, Savathun the Witch Queen, from the Witch Queen (2022) expansion through Deadpool and Gwenpool (Gwendolyn Poole, brought by the CXA to assist Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool).
Penny is shown bruised across her body and bleeding from forehead and mouth, plus some more. She barely has her four limbs, and her antennae is scratched.
"Penny! Penny!" Pechy panicked. "No! How can't I touch you!?"
The four realized that they're in a dream and thus cannot truly touch anything.
"O mortal! We are the Second Knife! Partners of the Darkbolts! We are salvation itself!" The Great Warlock declared. "You, who can move any and all matter within an universe with a single thought... You are a special nutcase, it appears." (*6)
With salute from the Hive Gods and the evil Guardians, the Great Warlock. "Exception... exception of all fates... such is those we cleansed." (*6)
Suddenly, Hive magic surrounded Penny, slowly moving into covering her whole body with the flame of the Taken - the same flame glitching the very being of those Hive Gods in front of the four. (*6)
"No... fuck no!" Crota is horrified. "NO!"
The flame of the Taken swarmed the entire realm, followed by the sudden emergence of a bunch of the Taken: Eliksni, Cabal, Hive, Vex, Scorn (undead Eliksni), Lucent, Wrathborns, Daemons and the Dread. (*6)
"Oh hell no..." Pechy is shocked.
"You have been Taken." The Great Warlock casted the Taken flame on Penny, causing the circle to shrink into devouring her entire being.
"PEEEEECCCHHHYYYYY!" Penny screamed.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Pechy screamed back.
Suddenly...
"Gah!" Pechy and Crota in her human form, suddenly walking up.
All four Pechies and Crota just so scared of this shit. Atheon gradually wakes.
"This is a dream. A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep." Atheon noted.
"What did I just... God. Good God." Crota is still reeling in.
"Goodness, what happened?" 2027!Pechy is confused.
"We just shared a dream." 2044!Pechy noticed.
"Penny..." 2025!Pechy sobs.
"Oh please... my future, can we just..." 2023!Pechy then fell back to sleep.
"Yeah..." 2027!Pechy too.
"Goodnight, my past." 2044!Pechy fell back also.
Atheon didn't waste any mortal energy (not that she's truly mortal), and just went back to Vex hibernation, as in sleeping.
"Penny Luna? Taken?" Crota noticed.
"Your father, Oryx... He commands the Taken, those warped selves. But it's not exactly him who did the... Taking." 2025!Pechy sobs. "Poor Penny... that one Warlock have uses Taking flame... the black..."
"Father... what? You're telling me..." Crota replied. "He... He..."
"The Osmium Throne... When we were trying to free the Dimensional Beasts, the Canon Bringers deduced that the Second Knife must have embraced it. (*7) That's the only way the Guardians could get the power to Take." 2025!Pechy recalled. "Which means... the Second Knife... Taken..."
Crota is so tired, she fell asleep. But 2025!Pechy couldn't shake the thought. It was horrifying.
"Penny... Penny..."
Meanwhile... Location: [REDACTED]
"Prepare themselves, mere fodders!" The Magnificent declared. "Dreaming wishes! For eternity and beyond, we have been bound by them. Those on the rotten side of the so-called Redvengers and Officer Knights. We even waited eons just to find a way to be powerful like them. We have become pawns of their mixed freedom... of their wishes." (*8)
Then the Exo revealed two extreme omnipotent energy signatures of unfathomable powers. "No. Longer." (*8)
Then he immediately fired the two signatures into beams into a Pyramid vessel, causing it to spontaneously explode into orange soul energy without leaving any trace behind.
"From now on, we turns wishes into judgement, avenging our origins!" The Magnificent then infused a strange, green malice into the signatures. (*8)
The three magics ended up fired together on the sky, casting a massive lightning of rainbow that shockwaved all that's nearby to the entire ruined kingdom.
"This power is a gift. One we will grant to all of you, in time." The Magnificent then sicced a couple. (*8)
Two Loopers in very specific looks, tattered in slave clothes and chained, catatonic.
"Poor Loopers, one by one...," The Magnificent declared. "...we will rise again." (*8)
"Urgh... Urgh..."
The two jittered around the three streams of unfathomable energies swirling on them. (*8) Cue a massive flash that would threaten to blind a mortal.
"This is our destiny! Our last dream wish!" The Magnificent declared. "Our enemies stand no chance against us now! The Redvengers will KNOW...! OUR! SUFFERING!" (*8)
The Godhunter immediately whispered (*8) about why the CXA would reject the Darkbolts.
"It appears our enemies won't go down without a fight, eager to join the war." The Magnificent suggested. "Let's not keep them wanting." (*8)
"Ro... ger." A Taken alien girl with burning antennae, all in pseudo-grayscale.
Fifth morning...
"Muhhhhh... hhhummm..." 2025!Pechy was deep.
Suddenly, Ivy slammed the door to the Pechy Comet room, still in her sleepwear.
"Huh?" 2025!Pechy woke up.
"Ivy... why?" 2044!Pechy is still dozy.
"THE MOTHERSHIP HAS BEEN VANDALIZED WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING!" Ivy panicked.
This shook and wakes up, leading to the six out of their beds.
"Me, Vex kin, is perfect the way I am, for I am the ultimate lifeform. Technically the Final Shape. Therefore I do not need your human routine care other than..." Atheon got up. "That. My nano-hair. It is coiling."
"Brush your hair then." Crota stepped out.
"WHAT!?" The Pechies, shocked and horrific.
"Get changed!" 2044!Pechy rushed.
Everyone went to the war room, and it's a mess. The Canon Bringers cleaned up very well, and yet the war room still got trashed - almost literally. The graffiti maliciously said "FUCK OFF", "DARKBOLTS IS ETERNAL", "HAIL THE BREAKER", "MAY THE SECOND KNIFE TAKE YOU", "AT THE END OF THE DAY, MAGNIFICO WAS RIGHT", "MAGNIFICO WAS RIGHT", "WE ARE SALVATION ITSELF", "FACE THE CONSEQUENCES", PREPARE THYSELVES, MOTHERFUCKERS", "WE ARE DARKBOLTS", "HAIL SHOCKER", "HAIL DARKBOLTS", and a bunch of Darkbolts-centric spray art, all over the place.
Everyone is shown changed to their typical fits. Even 2025!Pechy, who now wears the cloak like of Warlock but on top of her existing outfit. Everyone is shocked.
"How did these end up here after we've just woken up?" Hope's Canon Bringer complained. "I scrubbed everything clean! But now there's bloody sprays!"
Gwendolyn Poole, a.k.a. Gwenpool, called that vandalism a dick move, and Atheon agreed, though the latter's tone is still very, very mono and stoic.
"She's a Vex." Crota scoffed.
"Already, I don't remember the Fortnite and Destiny collab is like this before... but here we are, staring at fictional threats." Gwenpool responded.
Gwenpool took pictures of the war room.
"Those graffiti are paracausal. You'll need paracausality to get it removed." Atheon assessed the vandalism.
Crota had a bunch of paracausal grenades to use. "Let us clean this up."
"No, let me." Hope's Canon Bringer snatched the grenades. "Everyone, out of this room."
Everyone else went out, leaving the Canon Bringer to blast off the room, burning away all signs of vandalism.
"Uhhh, hello?" Hope entered the room. "Woah, did you just..."
"Clean up the goddamn war room! This is where prolonged discussions happens for us Canon Bringers!"
"Jones, now I think I know-"
"The Darkbolts did it. But how? They cannot penetrate this mothership with their existing stuffs, according to-"
"Until now, that is. I feel... unfathomable warps of concurrent planes of nexus." Atheon noticed. "In other words, someone used some green forbidden magic I'm trying to comprehend, with the same two powers of unfathomed stuffs. The orange taken from the supply behind the burning river, and it is working."
"So they used forbidden magic to bind the two super-energues: the Zero Point energy and the orange Pandora energy!?" Hope's Canon Bringer got it. "Only the CXA are allowed to do such unlimited supplies of Pandora's Box stuffs! Through Hypertime! The same way there can be more than one version of the Zero Point when there should be only one!"
"It's most likely that they cheated by using stolen confluxes to pump the energy through." Atheon deduced.
"Unlawful distribution of plot stuffs is no-no at CXA. That kind of supply you just mentioned is illegal." Hope's Canon Bringer added. "We let Doctor Doom get the energy. But we can't just give anyone we don't trust enough a way to do what's Doom has been doing, infinitely."
"You're right. And no mortal should be tampering with the massively supreme powers such as the Zero Point and the Pandora's Box on the Island. It destroys at least you. Best case: the power destroy you." Jones came by. "Also, nice job... cleaning? It seems you used some strange-"
"Paracausal stuffs. The Second Knife must have used lingering Echoes to embed the graffiti." Hope's Canon Bringer replied. "Also, yes, you're right. CXA can handle powers such as what you knew, but not everyone could. The reality-warps of those would be far too much for one person. Like, who in the right mind would mess with the Zero and get something shredded between realities?"
The Canon Bringer gave a thumb-up. "Jones, it's good that you know what the extreme reality powers could do. We have been watching you all fighting Doom's forces, and we also monitored the Big Bang. As in, the ultimate blast of creation. Throughout Hypertime, someone has to make sure the output is usable. We trim down the bleed-able dangers. The CXA constantly do such things."
Elsewhere, the Guardians faded the graffiti using their own Transcendence. "Dude!"
The gang has grown. The Oracle suggested that the Pechies should give themselves a name.
"Starstorm..." 2025!Dawn whispered.
"Starstorm? That's the name?" 2025!Pechy is confused.
"You're fucking kidding."
A strange girl in a cloak is swearing. Her shorter twintails are held by two beamed sets of musical notes.
"Are you Kanade Otonokoji?!" Deadpool noticed. "From Super Danganronpa Another 2!?" (*9)
"Hmph." She scoffed.
"Then who are you?" 2025!Pechy asked. "Why won't you confirm?"
"These questions are shit! Why won't you even trust me!?" The girl brandished a three-edged throwing blade.
Warframe's Void glaive. (*10)
"Tenno's Void. (*10) How did you get it?" Deadpool noticed the cyan energy swirling on the hand with the glaive. "The young Operators got experimented for the Warframes (*11) just to move. Grabbed, you have no Warframe at all, but..."
"I don't need that Orokin trash. Those are no fuckin' use to the Darkbolts!" The girl refuted.
"Useless? But they're supernatural versions of traditional combat arts!" Gwenpool complained. "And that's coming from the one who knows Warframe from internet, not by playing the game! How in the-"
"The Darkbolts recently drove the Orokin to extinction!" The girl dropped a bombshell.
"Wait... Four days ago, all of Orokin population had... suddenly disappeared." Hope's Canon Bringer recognized. "Also... you seems... just as strange as I remember."
"The Darkbolts wiped the Orokin out of existence!" The girl added. "This proves you cannot truly comprehend the Darkbolts' return! I saw the truth with my own eyes! It's enough for me, a psychotic creature, to seek your help, you motherfuckers!"
"Wait... so you know the truth behind the Darkbolts?" 2025!Dawn questioned.
"You don't know what you're exactly are up to." The girl stepped in. "Count me in. Call me Otoka."
Otoka. That's what the girl wants the expanded gang to call her as.
"Uh..." Deadpool shrugged.
"Fine. Welcome to the Continuum Exploitation Authority." 2025!Dawn greeted.
"Otoka, why can't you let us call you by your real name?" Hope's Canon Bringer questioned.
"Because if you speak that in front of Darkbolts, Darkbolts will catch me!" Otoka refuted. "Whoever can scan my being, don't you dare-"
"Noted. The nickname is Otoka. Nickname accepted for external security reasons, which you have just described." Atheon took note.
"That was close." Crota scoffed. "Can't risk having some important getting their cover blown up. Just look at Exo Stranger. She couldn't been spotted by that Jimmy!" (*12)
Few hours later...
"The Taken are infesting this... realm." Ms. Continuum reported. "This is our destination. The so-called World B. Or as we call it: World of Dissidia." (*13)
"Great. Now we have to remove those manikins!"/"素晴らしい。イミテーションを撤去しなければならない!" A fellow Canon bringer complained. "I had to clean up the world, and now I have to-"
"The Darkbolts are quick to seize the realities." The Warrior King reloads his gun. "We are against an omniversal terrorist group."
"The kind of manikins you just mentioned were created by Cid of the Lufaine to give physical form to the consciousnesses that came from other dimensions, after viewing how Chaos and Cosmos 'acquired pawns'. Residing in the respective Rift, those imitations began to question their own reason for living, who they turned out to be imcomplete puppets in their crystalline shell, tracing back to super-crystals that grew like organic lifeforms. These were synthesized lifeforms, and then Cid transplanted memories from other dimensions surrounding the-"
Crota slapped Atheon in the face, clearly baffled. She thinks it's just some technobabble and buzzwords.
"Can't you simplify it to something a layman can?" Crota cringed.
"Where we droppin'?" Otoka stands on the edge.
"We have arrived at the dimension. You can fall in." Hope's Canon bringer simply dropped in.
Down below...
BGM: Tiny Human - Imogen Heap
"Alright. Show them your love..."
A leather cloak is commanding a bunch of humanoid systems to hunt the crystalline lifeforms down. Equipped with archaic ballistic and melee weapons, the lifeforms initially underestimated the systems, only for the latter to cheat death and go crazy with brutal beatdown using supernatural versions of said arsenals.
"Those manikins gotta wipe."/"イミテーションは拭かなければならない" Behind the cloak is a feminine giggle, distorted and reverb.
Those systems are shown to be almost completely grayscale, with a bit of a burning aura of matching colors. Together, they destroyed a lot of crystal lives and taken over this very world.
"A horde of Taken Warframes?" A Canon Bringer is spying, disguised as a sleek, golden accent wraith of sorts, armed with a strange energy katana. Dubbed the Excalibur Prime (*14), that Canon Bringer is infiltrating the Taken Warframes.
However, given the lack of Taken flame on the body, it didn't take long for the Taken Warframes to notice. The Taken Warframes immediately rushed to attack the fake Excalibur Prime. Some has blades to try and slash off. Some can make paracausally-enhanced Tenno's Void blasts to the Canon Bringer masquerading as a Warframe. Some resorted to brute force, leading to slugfests that the Primed fluke evaded them. The Taken has risen, coming against a false Warframe with all the capabilities and powers of the real deal.
The Canon Bringer was clever, and so the Excalibur body easily avoided fatal blasts and mortal strikes that would otherwise destroy even a Primed Warframe easily. That much combat being evaded led to some of all those attacks hitting a bunch of Taken, destroying the warped Warframes from sheer power. The Canon Bringer parried the bullets, and regularly acrobatically slash some, and was able to even slice off the blades of the Taken. Being a Canon Bringer, the robot knows how to use the abilities of the Warframes due to the extensive knowledge fitting for an omniversal guardian (no pun intended).
The robot was quick to slash away the bunch, and that gave the Starstorm - new name for the expanded gang - the time to move. At one point, the Excalibur Prime whipped out two akimbo pistol-based submachine guns dubbed Dual Micro SMGs (*15) and headshotted a Taken Octavia and a Taken Revenant, drops the emptied mags and then decapitate a Taken Wukong backhanded.
"Thanks!" 2025!Pechy landed down.
A Taken Gauss is sliced down by the fake Excalibur Prime - like an eagle getting shot by a literal sniper. The robot cued "Hmph.", and immediately hacked off Taken Frost, Taken Loki, Taken Mesa, Taken Valkyr and another Taken Revenant. A bunch of Taken Warframes wisely stood in distance, refrained from closing the gap, and just blasted across. But the false Primed outwitted on the fly by ditching the body, resulting in that Excalibur getting vaporized.
"Watch this." 2025!Amaya, transformed into her enlightened form, smirked.
She calcified her scythe into a singular blade by synthesizing Stasis cold with the reality psychics knitted by Strand, creating a handled blade that appears to be made entirely of resonance of Darkness itself. The nightmare woman then made a wide swing towards all the Taken Warframes. With the resonant blast of blades rushing towards the Taken, those then jumped out of the way and thus leapt towards the Starstorm.
But the resonance got triggered mid-air once those Taken Warframes passed through. The result is launched mind-ropes that entangled all the Taken that jumped out. Suspended in air by Strand, the Taken Warframes were stalled. It was at this moment that Otoka has a-risen.
"You fuckers gotta go! Transference!" Otoka hijacked the Taken Warframes. "Oh-"
BGM stops near the end of it, right in time...
What are you doing to my Warframes!?
Suddenly, the Taken Warframes are spontaneously combusting into bombs of Tenno's Void.
"What do you want, motherfucker!?" Otoka called that voice.
Y'all just ruined my job!
"Oh really?" The same fake Excalibur Prime emerged.
The Canon Bringer is about to launch the Taken Warframes up to the sky, so the explosion wouldn't kill anyone. "Manikins, free yourself!"
"Fling up!" 2044!Pechy rushed out.
"Chronologies. (*16) May we move out?" Atheon bowed down in response to the Canon Bringer.
"Dude! Do it!" Hope's Canon Bringer called.
"Got it." They nodded.
The Taken Warframes glared at the fake Warframe, but the robot flew up and pulled the Taken up to the sky, grabbing the Strand and pull all one up.
"As high as possible!" 2025!Pechy rushed. "Go go go!"
The Canon Bringer impersonating Excalibur Prime has to pull the Taken Warframes up to the sky, while the rest of Starstorm rushed to find the now post-apocalyptic World of Dissidia (*13) together. The other Taken Warframes outside of the landing crap had freaked out at the sight of the fellows Taken being pulled up, and so they fled. That leather cloak is pissed.
"Why the fuck did they just..." She then walked in.
A Taken Excalibur is rushing away, but is pulled down by 2027!Pechy. With the power of and that is the Dreamcatcher princess form, she was able to restrain that Warframe.
"Great. Looks like someone's trying to get out of their own mess." 2027!Dawn popped up. "Sad. And very violent. What should we do?"
The Taken Excalibur had to reach out for his energy katana. But the Stasis immediately got him into slowing down, and the was the Pechies.
"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing LIGHT!"
2023!Pechy blasted the Taken Excalibur, immediately destroying him. 2027!Pechy relieved and safe.
"Thanks!" 2027!Pechy thanked her past selves.
"Pouchy! Spawn us a well!" 2025!Pechy shouted.
"You mean the Prismatic well?" Pouchy then spawned a Prismatic well in front of the Warrior King with a barf. "There you go!"
"Uh, I won't question it." The Warrior King shrugged.
"Hey, time me! Here it is!" 2025!Pechy pointed at the Prismatic well Pouchy just spawned.
"What?!" The other Pechies noticed.
"A paracausal spring well!" 2025!Pechy went to the well.
"You just described it my own way. Thanks." Atheon approved of the wordings 2025!Pechy just used. Again, the Vex girl is monotone. "Here you go."
"Paracausal spring well?" 2023!Pechy is confused. "Prismatic well? Wait... what!? WHAT!?" (Note: 2023!Pechy doesn't know about The Final Shape expansion from 2024. Which makes sense, because Lightfall was the most recent major expansion in Destiny at that year of 2023.)
"That's future media you'll get!" Gwenpool called. "As for Fortnite, you'll eventually get Season OG and then weapon mods! And the metaverse platform that people just hates!"
Confused, but 2023!Pechy had no choice but to step into the well alongside her future selves.
While 2025!Pechy is very much acquainted with the paracausality, the other three versions ended up being infused with the power of paracausality itself from the Traveler and the Veil as a well. And just like 2025 a couple of days ago, the Pechies finally gained the power of both the Light and the Dark.
"Congratulations. You can now help us save our own fates!" 2025!Pechy accidentally subverted one of the Guardians' mottos.
"Huh? Save or make?" The Hunter is baffled.
2044!Pechy's right hand, now wreathed in Solar flame, which she actually likes. "I can actually become... fire."
Ivy pulled her pre-Unity self to the well as well, pushing versions of her adoptive mother away.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" The slightly younger has objected.
"Relax! It's just a neutral power source!" Ivy herself reassured.
Once the two stepped on the well, they got overwhelmed. Ivy Comet of the Unity, as a combatant, adjusted very normally to the paracausality, just like all versions of her mother involved. But her immediate past self?
"Argh... Argh...!" Pre-Unity Ivy writhed down in pain.
"Oh no!" The 2025 Fantasy Dreamer is shocked.
Pre-Unity Ivy screamed in agony, as if she's in the same situation as Ivy's true near-death experience. (*17)
That sounds like... Ivy Comet? The leather cloak noticed from afar. But...
"Oh hell no!" Taylor panicked. "My... my...!"
"Calm down!" The Dreamers blocked Taylor.
"No! My...! The Ivy!" Taylor freaked out. "IVY!"
"What?" The Dreamers finally noticed.
"AAAAARRRGH! AAAAARRRGH! AAAAARRRGH!"
And then, pre-Unity Ivy collapsed.
"NO!" The Pechies and Ivy are horrified.
Thankfully, the evolved Unity Crystal Light will protect Ivy Comet from temporal craps such as paradoxes and time-displacement. However, seeing as her immediate past self seemingly died, not only distressed Ivy, but triggered the PTSD of Lucifer trying to kill her (*17) altogether. Similarly, Lucifer is equally horrified, as the pre-Unity Ivy seemingly dropping dead is a reflection of what he once tried to do to his Ivy earlier.
"No... No... No!" Lucifer cowered down in regret and fear.
Queen Crystal embraced him for calm, and Mike and Clover came by. The sight also reminded them of what was going to happen to their Ivy. (*17)
"If you're your own clone..." Deadpool peeked.
"Natch." Wolverine shrugged.
"No..." Ivy holding her immediate past in her hands. "No... please..."
Flashback, flashback, it's while Ivy Jolicoeur and Mike Jolicoeur weren't watching.
"You think I'm not powerful enough to raze over other worlds? Other universes? The entire multiverse?" Amaya Shadow questioned.
"Actually, more like it's dangerous to go alone." Her husband, Liam Shadow, warned. "You cannot just go another worlds. What if you cannot handle a threat-"
"We'll be fine, for I won't have to go far from our universe."
A technological metal-blue rifle with red accents and a match scope and rail-ish barrel (*18) is being pointed at Amaya herself. Confused yet pressured, Liam pulled the trigger.
The blast rifted Amaya, her scythe and even the gun out of her universe and into Taylor's.
"If you get lost... I will succeed you." Liam muttered.
Location: Taylor Jolicoeur's Dreamcatcher Crystal Universe All-Stars
"Uh... well, Mike, I have a feeling that some strange crossing..." Ivy Jolicoeur is worried.
Ivy and Mike Jolicoeur, just before Taylor Jolicoeur and Eric Jolicoeur left each other. They're talking about some suspicious series of events oncoming. But Amaya got rifted in front of the two. This scared Mike Jolicoeur.
"Amaya Shadow is here! Ha!" She pulled out her scythe, ready to kill."
"NO!" Ivy ran away as well.
Few days later...
"I know you're worrying about me and Eric leaving together." Taylor Jolicoeur talking to her daughter, Ivy. "But why are you telling me about Amaya Shadow coming to get you?"
Since Amaya was from a different universe, there was no way Taylor could've known Amaya even existed.
"But mom, I was telling the truth here!" Ivy pleaded.
"I know. You always told me yesterday." Taylor was about to leave. "But look, I have to go right now. Ivy, tell your father to say goodbye to me."
Taylor is leaving her family, including Derek and then some. She's having a business. Ivy is bummed out, feeling that Taylor had no time to deal with Amaya's existence. That was the right time for Amaya to kill her.
One scythe swipe, and blood spurted from the back of the daughter. Ivy screamed in agony, and Mike noticed.
"Ivy! IVY!"
Mike recognized Amaya. "Ivy! It's Amaya Shadow! She's-"
"I'm... done... for..." Ivy tried to crawl towards Mike. "Mike... Am... I... going... to..."
"DIE!" Amaya kicked Ivy towards Mike. "I'm ready for this. Nobody should be able to save what has been my universe! If and when I return, your universe must embrace suffering!"
Amaya let out a psychotic laughter, before spiking Ivy's head and then decapitating Mike. She then left this universe using the rift gun (*18), but it only rifted her back into her own universe, not the gun itself.
Not long after, Taylor and Eric returned, and saw the two children's bloodied and recently rotting corpse.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Taylor cried and weeped at the death of her own children, especially Ivy, morning alongside Eric, who she could've just broken up by now if Amaya was never everything the equation at all. She found the rift gun, and cut the hair of the two so their DNA could be used to recreate and thus re-birthing them. Taylor was desperate to not only finish the tragedy properly, but also to forget what exactly happened to them as well as to give them another chance. So they tried to bring the children back, but to no avail.
So Taylor, despite not really using any guns, have pulled the trigger on herself, rifting her, the samples and the gun to...
Location: Dreamcatcher-awake universe
There, Eric learned of the existence of other universes, and got the infos regarding Dreamer Light. Telling Taylor about Dreamer and her powers, the couple found out how to risen the children back. So Taylor reached out to Dreamer and gave the DNA samples. However, Dreamer ended up partially mixing the hair strands, leading to the creation of clone bodies with different physical stuffs but still house the same, original souls transplanted through previous efforts at reviving them. And so, Ivy Comet and Mike Smith were born.
"Please, keep them away from our world. And this gun too. A strange, rift gun which has marks of some called the... 'Foundation' (*18), sorts of." Taylor told Dreamer how to.
"We want them to be safe here. Nurture them and when they're ready, someone worthy and trustful will have them." Eric suggested. "We want this tragedy to end altogether. That strange woman named Amaya Shadow... I feel Ivy was telling the truth."
Taylor and Eric rifted out one last time, this time with Dreamer pulling the trigger. But the name Amaya Shadow as well as the rift gun itself caused Dreamer many thoughts just before meeting a grown-up Ivy later on.
"This gun seems... strange."
Dreamer experimented with the gun, but she never got rifted no matter how many time she's hit by it. Instead, this altered the magic that Dreamer possesses. By 2027...
"I understand, Aunt Dreamer. I promise I'll tell her. I will tell her before I and she leave this past." Ivy Comet candidly suggested. "Can you fix this machine? We actually messed up after we had a fight." (*2)
Dreamer has forgotten that the rift gun caused her powers to be altered. "I'm not sure if my power is working. Oh well, I guess I'll have to fix your friend's time machine!"
Ivy gave Dreamer the broken time machine used by Clarie Anderson. Dreamer turned the machine into a starry device capable of inter-realitial travel across hyper space-time. Unfortunately, because the rift was contained in the magic due to her now-abandoned experiments with the rift gun, the device would end up going haywire.
"That's weird! I thought this is becoming new again!" Ivy is confused.
"It's already new here. I replaced with my own powers."
"Oh, I do see it well, Aunt Dreamer!"
"Now, go on, Ivy! Just make sure if you make it on the present time!"
"Okay, Dreamer!" Ivy took the device. "I will!"
Ivy came to Clarie, who was napping. "Clarie, wake up! We have to go!"
"Shoot! You scared me, Ivy!" Clarie then stepped out of her seat. "Is my time machine finally fixed?"
"Yup! It's all good to go, Clarie!" Ivy showed the device. "She already fixed it by upgrading it into a new one! Now we can go back to present time!"
Ivy tapped the device, and it clocked. The two got teleported... all over the place in hyper space-time. As in... so many dimensions in the entire multiverse, all over when and where.
"Alright, Ivy is off to somewhere along with her friends at the crazy dimension and worlds..." Dreamer then realized something's wrong. "Wait a minute... oh no! This isn't good for both of them! I forgot to tell them not to go across the multiverse!"
And suddenly, Dreamer realized something. "No... oh no! It seems... I have made the time machine out of whack... from the rift! From the rift gun Taylor and Eric gave me! This is bad! This is so bad! I'm no longer sure they'll make it back to present day of theirs!"
The Dreamers went deep into the castle and found the rift gun in the dust. Cleaning the gun, and then remembering when Taylor and Eric called Dreamer. She realized that there's something... sinister.
Fifth morning...
"Uhhh... I..." Pre-Unity Ivy woke up, feeling strange. "Is that..."
"What!?" Everyone in Starstorm (except that pull) are shocked.
"Oh..." She looked at her own body. "So this is... me. In my cloned body. I'm truly back."
Ivy hugged the past body of hers, heartwarmed relief as she saw her past is still living. "My goodness! You're back!"
"My... child?" Taylor relieved.
"Great. Light resurrects. Darkness remembers. The net is cast." The Warlock shrugged.
"I'm... Ivy Jolicoeur." This is pre-Unity Ivy... speaking.
"Uh..." Ivy noticed.
The Taken Warframes suspended just got pulled into the sky.
"Get lost, anomalies!" The Canon Bringer declared.
Oh. What are you planning? And why do you let those outdated manikins escape?
"Who are you!?" The Canon Bringer is still holding the oncoming combustion back.
I am new Wanderer. The new Wanderer. Doctor Doom sucks, by the way.
"Why are you mocking Marvel?" The Canon Bringer rises up, pulling the Taken Warframes further.
On the ground...
"Ivy Jolicoeur. It seems... you've been synthesized back to life." The Oracle commented. "Murdered by a former stranger. Risen as your own clone. And now... paracausality restores your very own being. A human, risen twice. No-"
"Way!" Pouchy is baffled.
"What is that bag again?" The Oracle sniped.
"It's Pouchy, damnit!" Hope's Canon Bringer facepalmed.
"Strand picked. Oh no..." 2025!Dreamer picked up the vision with Strand.
She glares at Amaya. "So that's the gun you took... to... get away!?"
"Wait... I feel like I'm reading... No. No. No." Jones recognized something. "That... that one (*18)! It's that gun! The Foundation! I dropped it at the Zero Point! It somehow landed in... you!"
"So I scavenged it without even knowing beforehand?" 2025!Akia recalled.
"What have I done?" 2027!Dreamer got anxious.
"I knew it. That gun..." 2023!Dreamer recalled. "I recently started synthesizing Ivy and Mike. I was briefly testing the gun. So how did my magic got rifted!"
The Canon Bringers glared at Jones.
"Great. I accidentally dropped it into the Zero Point. That's it. I admit it." Jones recalled. "Also, the Foundation owned the gun."
"Then you just changed the game." 2023!Amaya smirked. "Thank you for the rifts. Without it... how did I even meet Ivy Jolicoeur?"
"You killed me and Mike. You let Taylor and Eric down. My family, razed and switched, because of you." Ivy Jolicoeur shook her head.
"I'm your new self, Ivy Comet. And I bid you thanks." Ivy Comet bowed. "Also, we got the Light and the Dark. We can do more now."
"Oh, Ivy. Glad I can now stand and fight alongside you and... our parents." Ivy Jolicoeur bowed in response.
"It should've been easy. But you ruined it."
An antennae girl in leather cloak has arrived.
"The Wanderer. Has been Doctor Doom." Jones noticed.
"Except you are not." Hope is confused. "Who are you?"
"A Taken."/"宿られた兵" Hope's Canon Bringer noticed. "Look at her legs. It's Taken flame."
"Penny!" 2025!Pechy is horrified. "No!"
"Huh?' The rest of 2025 noticed.
"No way!" Crota noticed.
BGM: What's the Outsiders? - m.c.A・T (instrumental)
The girl then laughed like a maniac. Cue the Starstorm floating off the ground.
"Woahhh!" Beta is rolling on air.
"Shit!" The Warrior King shot the girl with his gun.
Too bad, she simply blocked the bullets with her own force-field.
"Hah! You think you can overcome... me!" The girl kept laughing.
Faced up, the cloak leaned back. The hood is up, and her face is exposed.
"PENNY!" 2025!Pechy screamed in horror.
"Phase." Atheon pinged, casting a bubble around Starstorm.
"You have a slave too?"
It was 2025!Penny Luna, who's been Taken just in the vision the Pechies received during their sleep last night.
"Down." Atheon pulled out her Torch Hammer. "You won't proceed, remnant of Hive's greatest trash."
"What are you doing with Father's stuffs!?" Crota pulled out her blade and a strange scoped rifle with partially-detached barrel, dubbed Vex Mythoclast (*19) by the Guardians.
"You mean Oryx, the Taken King?" 2025!Penny recognized Crota. "What a fuzz. How did you become an opposing Lucent Hive? You should be on the line, just like the Hive pantheon!"
Crota fires full-auto and got a few good hits on 2025!Penny, who impulsed the next bullets out of the way. Crota then charged to the Taken alien girl with the Sword of Crota, storing the Mythoclast out and start swing. She didn't faze, and instead let herself be hit by the Hive God's rampant strikes. The alien girl simply regenerates, as her Taken power let her survive each and every single one of the devastating slash that Crota himself performs.
But 2025!Penny is smart enough to realize that something's interfering with her own telekinesis on the area, preventing all from getting flung up to the sky. The alien girl targeted Atheon, who fired down with Void bolts from an enclave of space-time within the during mechanism. Crota swung furthermore, annoying 2025!Penny with the same strikes, while the Time's Conflux keeps the fire and manifests the Binary Edge for close range.
"Fuck it! I'm out-" 2025!Penny was suddenly interrupted by...
"Warrior Dreamcatcher Smash LIGHT!" 2025!Pechy was the one suspending with Strand.
The Pechies ambushed, intending to free 2025!Penny from the Taking by force, since they have no means to undo said Taking for... reasons that the Guardians fear (because Second Knife, duh).
"Wishing Star, incarnate!"
The Pechies became of their Goddess of the Wishing Star forms, and 2027 grabbed 2025!Penny down.
"You get fixed!" Crota hacked 2025!Penny down with her blade. "Vex science sorceress! Go on!"
Atheon stabbed 2025!Penny on the back. "Your pleasure, vermin."
But 2025!Pechy only reacted to the Pechies, who are in their Goddess of the Wishing Star form.
"I think we can remove the Taking from her." 2023!Pechy smiled.
"Oh fuck!"
2025!Penny impulsed with her own telekinesis, knocking the two raids and the Sword of Crota away. The Binary Edge is stuck off like a slab of radiolaria which 2025!Penny melted away, as well as breaking the bubble. 2025!Penny tried to fling the Starstorm up, but the other Pennies was what had become of their 2025, and so...
"Stop it!" 2027! Penny pushed down with her own telekinesis.
The Pennies ended up clashing their telekinetics, with the two normal ones keeping the Taken-enhanced from drafting everyone up but with a lot of effort so to strain them.
"Stop!" The rest of the 2027 friends rushed to pin 2025!Penny down.
Distracted by the others, 2025!Penny was pinned down - after all, how could she focus on everything all at once without overwhelming herself?
"Die! Die! Die!" 2025!Penny is frustrated. "Why not!?"
Lifting 2027 friends up by mind, 2025!Penny was them pulsed away to the side.
"2044, go catch!" 2025!Pechy called. "Guys, find the manikins! We might need them-"
Suddenly, an ice blast from the sky landed down near the Starstorm team, scaring 2023!Pechy.
"Fuck off!" A Taken Frost is pissed.
"Shut up and die!" That Canon Bringer flings all further. "Get out and die like flies!"
At this point, the Taken Warframes are in space. The Canon Bringer then immediately dived down to the World of Dissidia (*13) to help.
"Who's there?" Preme noticed the blast from earlier.
"Taken Frost. He is pissed." Hope's Canon Bringer looked up. "I believe the Taken are pissed off."
"Then what if... they're going to delay the oncoming explosion themselves and fall down, so they detonate like a space-time nuke!?" Gwenpool realized.
"You think you're unbreakable." 2025!Penny flew back with her own kinesis to kick Emma Frost in the back... while the latter is in her diamond form.
Then she flung Emma and Mysterio out. "You think you can fool me."
"Shut!" The Hunter fired Shadowshot on 2025!Penny from get go.
The Guardians charged against the Taken alien girl, but were pushed away by her telekinesis. And worse yet: she proved to be resistant to paracausality, as proven by the Threadlings the Warlock sent were... crushed by her own feet.
"It's not gonna work!" 2025!Pechy scoffed, while crushing the Threadlings without any lasting damage on her part.
"Oh hell no!" 2025!Penny is pissed.
The Taken alien girl fired a shockwave blast on the Pechies, only for 2044!Pechy to fling her out.
"AAAAAAAAHHH!"
"We must finish this quickly! Or else..." 2023!Pechy looked up.
The Taken Warframes are falling down like a meteor rain, ready to nuke the entire world down. Meanwhile, there's also a bunch of Taken Warframes on the ground as reinforcements. Otoka went against the reinforcements without calling for help.
"Transference is enough for me, for these are simply Warframes." Otoka smirked. "Get the fuck off me, I'm doing what's necessary!"
"Let's us help-" 2025!Laelynn called.
Otoka straight out used Transference to hijack the Taken Warframes, causing the reinforcements to wriggle in agony. One, Taken Sevagoth, casted his shadow puppet to Otoka, whose body is inert from doing the Transference across multiple Warframes all at once.
"No!" Supreme reacted.
The alien Cure blasted the puppet off, and she and Puca then tackled that Taken down.
"Star light, star bright..." The Pechies charged up a single light sphere.
"I'm going out, nuke it!" 2025!Penny tried to flee.
The Hunter flung their rope dart with the Warlock's Threadlings strapped in, forcibly suspending her. The Titan them put her down and keep the Strand tight.
"Do it, Pechy! Do it!" The Titan shouted.
"Return to your darkness!" The Pechies pushed the sphere of light to 2025!Penny.
The light of the Star quickly consumed the Taken 2025!Penny, as well as vaporizing the Guardians' bodies. The sphere exploded big, causing a dream-looking shockwaves.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" The Taken Warframes screamed.
BGM ends.
"Ah." Otoka woke up.
"You were pushing yourself to the limit." Puca gave a helping hand. "We had to fend off whatever you were stalling."
Everything except the falling Taken has receded. 2025!Penny and the Guardians' Ghosts are seen in the place hit by the dreamy stuff. 2025!Penny, now back to her yellow-themed aesthetic, collapsed already. The Pechies detransformed, and descended down.
"Penny! Penny!" 2025!Pechy rushed to her Penny.
She cradled her alien friend on the ground. The Ghosts sighed in relief, knowing Taken no more. 2025!Penny has been freed.
"Finally, now we can evacuate the Manikins!" A Canon Bringer nodded. "Now, Sonic and the Flash, go evacuate the Manikins!"
"Sup?" The Flashpoint went back in.
"Barry Allen of Flashpoint, and Sonic the Hedgehog, go evacuate the Manikins!" Hope's Canon Bringer commanded. "A bunch of Taken Warframes are about to nuke this world. Now go!"
The Canon Bringer impersonating Excalibur Prime has descended down. "Alright! They're about to explode on descent! They'll be nuking this world! Everyone, get out!"
"In a jiffy!" Sonic blitzed out.
The Flash himself immediately rushed to the rescue, alongside. The Taken Warframes yet dives.
"You... Are... DOOMED...!" The Taken Warframes embraced the oncoming nuke.
"My 2025! We have to get out!" 2044!Pechy called. "That past Penny is now freed. Take her in!"
"Give me a tent." 2025!Pechy suggested. (*20)
"Here's your tent!" The Warrior King got one.
The tent is opened, revealing some of the loots stored. 2025!Pechy threw 2025!Penny into the tent.
"The end! This is the end! OF YOU!" The Taken Warframes declared.
KAMEN RIDE: DECADE!
Kyon has, from Next Decade, became Decade Violent Emotion, complete with an even more edgy visor.
"Aurora!"
Kyon summoned an Aurora Curtain, just in time for the true speedsters to bring all the remaining surviving Manikins.
"Everyone! NOW!" The Warrior King charged to the Curtain.
Starstorm and the survivors went in, bringing 2025!Penny with that Pechy. However, a Taken Citrine tried to drag 2025!Amaya down.
"No more?" 2025!Amaya calcified the Taken Citrine and knocked it away, before entering the Aurora.
Through Aurora Curtain, Dreamer blasted all around with her eye beams to keep the Taken Warframes away, before being subsumed. Everyone's out.
"No!" The Taken Warframes on the ground, now too late.
The falling Taken quickly went down to level, and finally detonated. The collective nuke of Tenno's Void (*10) quickly devastated the entire world, destroying even the distant corners of the connected land. Covering the planet with corrupted Tenno's Void in the process.
The World of Dissidia (*13) is no more. All that's left is a barren planet, with a good chunk of its surface - including all known land there - shattered by the space-time twist of the Tenno's Void ignited by paracausality itself. Thankfully, all the remaining Manikins were rescued, thanks to the extreme speed and care of Barry Allen of Flashpoint and Sonic the Hedgehog.
Fade to black.
Note: Writer's block plus sudden typhoon (specifically Yagi, which hit my Ha Noi!) equals much of why this chapter took so long to complete. Arak and Valda are to be recovering from their brainwashed stint under Darkbolts, and turns out the notes are detailing the heroic sacrifice of pretty much the entire Coalition from Destiny series. Understandably, the real Guardians took that really poorly. Now they want their alternative counterparts - the Second Knife - to pay with their existence for everything they did to their timelines. As for how did the canonical Coalition knew about the Second Knife, bear with me and await upcoming chapters. Oh, and speaking of the gang, the name is now Starstorm, as suggested by Dawn Comet.
It's very cool to see Ivy Jolicoeur returning back to life inside the body of an Ivy Comet before the events of IVY: World of The Future (2024), since previously, her soul adorned in a pair of angelic wings and a halo has appeared a few times to support and help Ivy Comet - after all, Ivy is now her own clone, courtesy of Dreamer Light. But some might ask after nitpicking on NeonStarFlower/Laher78, that "How did Amaya arrive at Taylor Jolicoeur's universe?" Like with how The Infamous Man can ignore the original post-SGW version of Archie's Sonic (from 2013-2017) for Rediscovered Frontiers (Archie/IDW continuity crossover of Sonic the Hedgehog; TIM basically told me it's his decision to exclude the post-SGW Archie for his story) and then the Hyper Genesis Wave involved a second Super Genesis Wave to pull even the post-SGW Archie as well (specifically, the second SGW forcibly resettled the multiverse into a darker variation of the pre-SGW continuity which would then be turned into the IDW one after its own SGW happened, as revealed in Sonic Prime Overclocked), there has to be something to help Amaya cross over. That's where I decided that the rift gun that Jones dropped to Zero Point back in The End of Chapter 2 (December 2021) come in: Amaya ambushed Taylor Jolicoeur's Dreamcatcher Crystal Universe All-Stars, and eventually managed to murder Ivy and then Mike. While Taylor and Eric might have probably known about the multiverse (unfortunately most of Taylor Jolicoeur's Dreamcatcher Crystal Universe All-Stars are lost media, as far as I'm aware), they had to use the rift gun when they failed to revive the two children's by themselves. The rift gun were gifted to Dreamer (alongside the DNA samples Dreamer used), and her experiment with it left rift residues inside her magic which would end up be embedded within the evolved time machine, which explained why it was out of whack when Ivy and Clarie Anderson first used it. This also technically means that the Zero Point's power indirectly contributed to stopping the damage Lucifer (a.k.a. Master Void) tried to bring to the Future World.
From the previous chapter hinting on, the Penny Luna of 2025 servers as the Taken and the target for the 5th morning's mission. Penny Luna has telekinesis, and the Taking not only amplified said telekinesis (she tried to fling all of Starstorm up), but she also gained resistance to paracausality, allowing her to tank the power of Light and Darkness altogether - hence the Titan holding her back down to keep the Strand tight (otherwise she would free herself easily with telekinesis). And since she's Taken by the Second Knife (mainly through Oryx, the Taken King), she therefore isn't all that vulnerable to radiolaria during the fight. And since this is the first part of "Tales of four Pechies", I focused more on Pechy Comet and her stuffs. As such, the collective flashback of Ivy mentioned above are intentional. Now that Penny Luna is freed, 2025!Pechy now needs: Ron Davis, Diana and Gary Jackson, Miranda Miller, Kumi Shadow, Renee Jaillet (note: 2023!Renee has been captured by the Darkbolts), Floyd of the Crystal Land and the Dreamcatcher-awake universe, Pechy's homeworld.
Next up is with Warframe (2012). Tenno's Void is not the Void Light. Read the Cross-trivia at the very least, or you can also check Warframe Wiki at Fandom. Like paracausality from Destiny games, Tenno's Void doesn't directly follow the rules of physics at all, not even in spatiotemporal case (Tenno's Void is also known as Untime). Anyone with the power of Tenno's Void (such as the Tenno themselves) can cheat death, use certain magics (depends on user) and so on. The Taken Warframes is powered by Tenno's Void like the normal ones, but unlike them, they have been Taken and thus paracausally corrupted mainly by Darkness itself, as derived from the Witness's corruption. Guess who masters the Taken in Destiny? Oryx, Quria and the Second Knife (that last one are collectively from an alternate timeline, but still). The Taken Warframes are like a mix of Tenno and Guardians, only with the Warframes instead of Ghosts. As such, those Warframes are imbued and empowered with paracausal elements, the same ones the Guardians notably use in combat. It's also poetic because people has been power-scaling between the two parties from the two rival shooter series (Warframe, and Destiny games), so a paracausally-empowered Warframe might as well be more powerful since we would have both sets of powers. Also, Taken Penny act as a Taken Techeun (Awoken techno-mages Taken by Oryx during the events of The Taken King (2015)) summoning a bunch of Taken enemies, hence the Taken Warframes (Orokin extinction notwithstanding).
Otoka isn't really a new character. Her real name is already revealed: Kanade Otonokoji (from Super Danganronpa Another 2). However, her actual identity is a stacked spoiler (also ask logbat99, creator of the now-rebooted Corrupt Crossover) further covered by her having the Tenno's Void. Like the Tenno of late, Otoka can Transference into Warframes, though she only do it for convenience and utilities, and not body-riding the Warframe at all. She even called the Warframes trash, which (hilariously enough) is something a die-hard Destiny fan might say when being asked of Warframe fandom-related questions or so. Also foreshadows fighting, as she used Transference to try and hijack the Taken Warframes (the first time helped leading Taken Penny to the scene, the second time protected the Starstorm but left her briefly inert and vulnerable). As for Dissidia (2008-2018): this is the mission to rescue the Manikins from the Taken Warframes. But exactly why the Manikins had to be hunted in the first place will be revealed in future chapters. (Hint: Final Fantasy might has some means to help Starstorm stop the Darkbolts)
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Until next time...
Cross-trivia:
(*1) - Brainiac is a super-intelligent alien being from the planet Colu who has fought Superman many times. Extremely advanced mental abilities that have allowed him to work through numerous robotic and even human proxies make him a dangerously formidable opponent. It is difficult to tell whether you're dealing with the original Brainiac, or one of his drones. His obsession with knowledge has led him to shrink down many cities to bottle size for transportation on his Skull Ship, including Kandor on Krypton. He is a frequent ally of Lex Luthor and has been a member of Legion of Doom and the Anti-Justice League.
Brainiac was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, first appearing in Action Comics #242 (1958).
(*2) - Time travel is involved, indirectly in Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023), and directly in IVY: World of The Future (2024).
(*3) - In #4, there's a note about experiment No.14 of Weapon Z facility. 2025!Pechy got it for herself.
(*4) - References to Episode: Echoes (2024).
(*5) - References to Dreamcatcher: The Adventure Awake (2022).
(*6) - Inspired by and referencing to the Vision Hunt Decree scene from Inazuma, courtesy of Genshin Impact (2020).
(*7) - References to #2 and #3. In that time in the Island, the Canon Bringers and co. deduced that the Taken can only be properly led by those who embraced Osmium Throne and/or the power to Take, which only Quria, Blade Transform (the Taken Vex Minds) managed to master; the Guardians completely rejected the Osmium Throne after slaying Oryx. Therefore, the Second Knife was the only feasible candidate for the Throne to be taken (pun aside, the Witness was destroyed and Quria were long done for).
(*8) - Inspired by and referencing to Destiny 2 (2017): Beyond Light (2020).
(*9) - Super Danganronpa Another 2 ~The Moon of Hope and Sun of Despair~ (2017-2020), better known as simply Super Danganronpa Another 2 or SDRA2, is a fan game created by the Korean game developer LINUJ (린유즈). It is a sequel to his previous game Danganronpa Another ~ Another Despair Academy ~. The game is now complete as of January 10, 2020 and has six playable chapters along with a prologue and epilogue.
(*10) - In Warframe (2012), the Void (also known as the Untime) is a mysterious realm of extra-dimensional space, where the laws of physics and time hold little sway. It is the source of many mysterious phenomena, as well as the origin of the Tenno's powers. The Void is the primary source of Argon Crystals. Additionally, missions in the Void are also guaranteed to reward a Void Relic. Tenno's Void can be accessed via connections from Europa, Neptune, Phobos, and Sedna.
The Orokin Void serves as the main environment for Tenno's Void. (Tenno's Void is different from Void Light, for those who don't know)
(*11) - The Warframe, originating from the eponymous game (2012), is an advanced weapons system used exclusively by the Tenno in their missions throughout the Origin System. The Warframes possess regenerative shields, greatly enhanced mobility, and the use of an array of supernatural abilities – all of which further augment the Tenno's deadly use of traditional combat arts.
As a result of failing war efforts against the Sentients during The Old War, Warframes were created by the Orokin Executor Ballas after experimenting with the Infestation on human hosts. More specifically, the Helminth strain was developed to be injected into the strongest bodies the Orokin could find, volunteers or not, including Dax soldiers. However, the first Warframes were failures, turning against the Orokin. Torture, drugs, and surgical operations were attempted to destroy the hosts' minds and to tame the Warframes, but to no avail. The Warframe project was put on hold until Transference technology developed, granting the ability to transfer one's consciousness into a surrogate body. The children survivors of the Zariman Ten Zero incident, hidden away in Reservoirs to control their chaotic Void powers, became the new "operators" of Warframes as they were the only ones to "see inside an ugly, broken thing and take away its pain". Through Transference, the Zariman children, now known as Tenno, were able to operate the Warframes and channel their Void powers through them.
Equipped with archaic ballistic and melee weapons, the newly operated Warframes were deployed onto the battlefield with great success against their Sentient assailants, turning the tide of war in the Orokin's favor.
(*12) - References to #4, where the gang fought James Olsen of Earth-2, the Doctor Impossible as a Lightbearer.
(*13) - Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008-2018) is a sub-franchise of fighting games in the Final Fantasy series. It is a crossover containing characters and locations from other games in the series, and having them fight against one another in a battle between two gods, originally between Cosmos and Chaos, and later between Spiritus and Materia.
(*14) - Founders-exclusive.
(*15) - Dual Micro SMGs is a submachine gun in Fortnite Battle Royale, added in Chapter 5 Season 4: Absolute Doom (2024). Dual Micro SMGs are burst fired, fully automatic submachine guns with an extremely fast fire rate. They use light bullets and have a headshot multiplier of 1.5x. Dual Micro SMGs fire fast-moving projectiles and have First Shot Accuracy disabled.
Dual Micro SMGs has a Mythic variant called Gwenpool's Dual Micro SMGs.
(*16) - Atheon self-referenced herself, name-dropping the very OST of the Vault of Glass from Destiny.
(*17) - References to IVY: World of The Future (2024).
(*18) - This is the same gun as in the Chapter 2 (2019-2021)'s version of The End, which John Jones accidentally dropped to the Zero Point. This explained how Amaya could initially get to Taylor Jolicoeur's Dreamcatcher Crystal Universe All-Stars, where she could murder Ivy and Mike Jolicoeur, as well as how Taylor Jolicoeur herself could get Dreamer's help with the DNA of the two (as shown in flashbacks from Dreamcatcher: The Last Dream Wish (2023)).
The gun was owned by the Foundation, one of the Seven from Fortnite Battle Royale.
(*19) - The Vex Mythoclast is a full-auto Exotic Fusion Rifle obtainable in Destiny (2014) by completing the Vault of Glass raid on Hard mode. It is also available in Destiny 2 (2017) as a rare drop from the final chest in the reprised Vault of Glass raid from Season of the Splicer (2021).
(*20) - Supreme and Puca do have some tents from Fortnite. See Prologue #1.