In the World of Legend... Advancing into the bunker fast enough meant the Starstorm rescued both Kamen Rider Revice and Kamen Rider Legend just in time. It was the black Zenkai Magine - corrupted by Bad End Shocker-Zangyack X-Alliance - who forced Revice and Legend to play a roulette minus-one game. Coming back also reunited the Igarashi (but the parents are still missing), only for a Zein to notice and report. Thus, the "Red Light, Green Light" paused. Zyurai and Gaoza as Black Zyura-Gaon came to clean up the mess made of the Dreamcatcher promises... only for the team to unite the powers of all Sentai and Power Rangers until Cosmic Fury and No.1 Sentai, and so the Zyura-Gaon fell. The Jamen-darkened Kiramagers went to the crashed "Red Light, Green Light" game, and they too felled by... Ms. Continuum using Daigo's Splinter Blades.
And so... the Starstorm not only lives another day, but are expanded and got some of the Ride-Loopers (Loopers as Ride-Players) back...
Location: Oninoshima (鬼の島), Reality-783
Day 10. After an over-the-top run-in with the White House and the "Red Light, Green Light", the full alliance has finally liberated all the Islands of yore as well as the World of Legend (レジェンドの世界).
"This is a gorgeous scene! Beautiful!" Kaguya was just goofing around, in his own way.
"So previously we were turned into barons of that ridiculous realm, huh..." (*1) Kagero recalled.
"Eh... We did get experimented on, causing us to be fully fused with our demons. We clearly were not the only ones." Ikki recalled. "It even applies to prior to that so-called 'Battleworld 52'..."
"Shocker Riders..." Daiji wondered. "Why did Shocker... Why do we have to be bragged, compromising... I don't know, because NOBODY EXPLAINED IN DETAIL!"
"They've scrubbed us with the Cross of Fire, hijacking the concept to turn us into Shocker Riders." George Karizaki (狩崎博士) revealed. "But no... it's the X-Alliance that did it, not simply Shocker."
Sakura... with the cobra hoodie of Lovekov and the limbs appearing exactly as Kamen Rider Jeanne, making her look like her own Rider form(s) without anything overwriting her torso to chest and head at all, making the legs and arms sticking out like a sore thumb to indirectly match the hoodie, clearly indicating she too has been fused with her own inner demon (a la Invincible Jeanne). The yellow eyes that normally would be Lovekov's (but transformed into Sakura's actual eyes) and Sakura's now forced hairdo - golden front hair and long golden ponytail that's also bladed at the tip - are another signs, in line with Ikki flickering between his own body and Vice's (only retaining his human head) and Daiji and Kagero sharing the same body all the time (EvilytyLive).
"Kari-san, the appearance of those Sentais suggest Shocker had taken over many rangers." Sakura pointed at... the kidnapped Kiramagers.
The (Dark) Kiramagers - now restrained under the order of the commander Ms. Continuum - are still pissed. They're all currently unmorphed, just as all the Riders currently are.
"Get us... out of..." Takamichi seethes.
"Nope." Sakura denied, already saw through the corrupted Kiramagers' intentions.
"No way, you're still not yourself!" Vice called the Kiramagers out.
"It's actually true. The Bad End Shocker-Zangyack X-Alliance."/それは本当です。バッドエンドショッカーザンギャックX族だ" Karizaki pointed it out. "They used us as their own super-soldiers to suppress resistances. Even the two-in-one detective from Futo (*2) tried to assassinate our dear Dreamcatcher princess!"
Cut to 2025!Pechy reloading her Tommy SMG.
"How about you... Oh, Jeanne, you look so gorgeous with this-" Kaguya came back, and is immediately captivated by Sakura's-
"Don't do anything weird to us!" Sakura is creeped out, seeing the response.
"Ahhh... By the way, I, Kaguya, have uncovered something in the skies. From the ground of..." Kaguya then glanced at the space Island at the sky floating - codenamed "Asteria".
"I have an idea!" Vice got an idea. "Use that one to lure those in the stolen mothership!"
"No." The Night Rose disapproved. "Magnifico stole it. So he uses it, meaning Ms. Continuum would-"
"Yorubara!"/"夜ばら!" (*3) "How are you doing?" Karizaki waved.
"Oh, I'm better than ever. I am free, and now I even get to control those who used to control me!" The Night Rose smiles at the fact. "That one is my new pawn. He's not here because we had to fix him."
"You're controlling Shogun X? Oh, nice!" Ikki caught on. "Vice, I think she can fix the Kiramagers too!"
"WHAT!?"/"何!?" The Kiramagers are shocked.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt!" Vice cheered upon Kiramagers, hoping for their restoration.
"I think we have some primordial forces we can use." Sakura got an idea.
Lovekov just pinged "Kov! Kov!".
"Which one?" Ikki and Daiji both asked.
"Fucking Kinetic Ore! Here we go!" Karizaki ran to the "Asteria" to get the supply of the Kinetic Ores.
"Alright... which one?" Vice asked.
"Let's call our commander!" Sakura then rushed off to see Ms. Continuum.
"Hey, Night Rose..." Pechy called The Night Rose. "So you control the now-undead Shogun X? I thought you hated-"
"Not when I'm being controlled." The Night Rose clarified. "Puppeteers behind me got their medicine back."
"As in... oh yeah, Mister Daigo killed the shogun with the Splinter Blades!" Pechy got it. "Chapter 6, Season 1, 5 days before changing to the next. February 15th, 2025, at 3 P.M. ET..."
The main Pechy then patted at the horn. "So you actually have the Splinter Blades ready. Great act. But then, that portal at the Warrior's Watch... splat gold? Wait... I think I know what comes next..." (*4)
"We're going to refine the Kinetic Ore so much it will allow us to mass-produce the Splinter Blades!" Kaguya pointed at the floating "Asteria".
Location: "Asteria" Island, Reality Zero
The extreme refinery of the Kinetic Ore at Shattered Slabs commenced, Chya using both the glimmer and the Blue Diamond to facilitate the process, while Houtaro and Nijica (Nijigon's girl form) transmuted the Kinetic Ores. The process is overseen by Jones and the multiple Dreamers.
"He used to be a newbie, but he managed to transmute an entire planet in the finale of his stuffs." Jones scratched the fourth wall. "Kamen Rider Gotchard, you know?"
"His alchemy made it much easier for us. Just look at the gliders he gave us!" 2023!Dreamer showed off a glider from earlier. "He even transmuted... time! Not exactly by himself, but still..." (*5)
"He can transmute space-time with the help of Nijigon and OTHER DIMENSIONS?!" Jones is baffled.
"I think we did it." Nijica perked up because of a glowing slab, looking like Ms. Continuum glowing, but in form of a crystal block.
"Did we refine it enough?" Houtaro squinted, even in Rider form with extreme vision capabilities.
"Great. Let's continue while this is taken for examination." Chya then continued the process.
That slab is taken to the IO bunker in...
Location: World of Legend
...no more pink guards - the bunker has already been completely taken over with the liberation of this world (Even fused Bayonetta had killed off the remaining pink guards). The slab are brought to the underground facility, now owned by Ms. Continuum, who has the Splinter Blades that Daigo used to kill Shogun X.
A few hours later... outside.
"The time elementals (*6)... arrested?" Clarie reading a newspaper. "Who are these rigid-material time elementals?"
"Uh... no, I don't know them either." Souta shook his head.
"I think we should ask Mr. Wade." Jouji suggested to ask Deadpool. "He knows pretty much everything, and he's actually a nice guy despite his mannerisms."
"Darkbolts... Darkbolts used Ranger sentries to either brainwash their reality's police forces and upon Alinavious..." Clarie knew it. "Darkbolts want to control the situation, trying to take away all possible help we might seek."
2027!Pechy and 2044!Pechy descended down from riding the stars with their magics, and...
"I feel that you're reading the previous possible newspaper." 2044!Pechy spotted the newspaper. "My Dreamcatcher powers pointed, and I myself read that news before."
2027!Pechy took the newspaper and flipped it out, showing... the news of the Lostbelts in Desire Royale. (*5)
"Right..." 2044!Pechy got it. "You may think that this means you have somehow stolen this newspaper... But actually, we have a BREACH!"
"Not only the newspaper have some editorial shits, but the time elementals are invading the Islands!" 2027!Pechy warned everyone. "They're trying to take our bases back!"
Location: OG "Athena", Reality Zero
"Darkbolts now, Darkbolts forever." Said time elementals started breaching the Loot Lake.
"C'mon! Why of all fiction, there are beautiful genderbent rigid-skin humanoid creatures all the sudden!" Deadpool keeping a bronze ballerina with slick body and the gaps in her face.
"Alinavious demands. Darkbolts protects. We serve. All praise the End."
The bronze one's movement easily matches the ticks of seconds, yet remains elegant and natural. Accompanying her is a blue one in an impossibly skin-tight suit made of literal technology, showing the time right in cleavage and some two devices on her ear that appears as alarms. This one's orifices glows cyan.
-*buzz* The blue one casted electricity on the Loot Lake, not only electrifying the flow of water (which would zap any poor saps at any time), but also forming a makeshift gateway to let more come barging in.
"Damn it!" The Loopers could damage them at all; they're completely rugged, the bullets cannot affect them, not to mention their time powers. "They could hyper-age us at any time! We would be compromised!"
Another one have literally hourglass body grafted perfectly within her magenta body, and wearing desert-bases clothes and wielding a specter made of sand. She rewinded the combat to protect all the rest of those so-called time elementals from sustaining any sort of damage at all.
"Duh! There's no normal way to damage these girls!" Deadpool realized. "Everyone! Save your bullets! They're too tough-"
Cue the bronze one knocking the Merc With A Mouth away, far.
"Bridget, you know what to do with a surprise we had, yeah?" The cyan one giggles.
"Bridget?" 2023!Pechy has arrived, with the Legendary Mobilates Ultima and the Hyper Shinken Red Ranger Key.
Thankfully, all versions of Pechy Comet had already learned of multitude of fictions through Deadpool, so she vaguely recognized the time elementals.
The hourglass one briefly froze the past Pechy in time, allowing the blue one to intercept her. This allows the digital time elemental to steal the Ranger Key as well as pushing 2023!Pechy way back.
"Akita, you really know the schedule!" The bronze laughed. "Sorry, dear guests, but Darkbolts are eternal!"
"Argh!" 2023!Pechy dropped down to water.
"Stop!" 2027!Diana aimed.
"Get out!" 2023!Diana aimed.
A big volley of arrows flew fast forward the electrified splash that Akita's using to bring over others, but Lavini the hourglass froze them down. Akita threw the key...
"Bridget, use the Ranger Key you received." Lavini turned around to deal with the Ride-Players. "Akita, keep on those splashes. It has the nexus in it."
"You mean Zero Point?!" Deadpool got up. "This ain't Fortnite! This is fucking war!"
"Bridget the analog mechanical Prima Ballerina of time, Akita the digital High Priestess of time, Lady Lavini the hourglass keeper?" Deadpool noticed the splash. "What's next? Cassiopeia the nun of time? Zexa Xeza Zexa duo? Even-"
Unit Kaidyn detect a gap. Stabilizing rift procedure begins.
BGM: Rokunin no Samurai
"C'mon, we're so close!" Akita smirked. "We're almost there!"
Bridget smiled in a femme fatale tone, and pulled out... a Mobilates. Good lord, fucking Mobilates.
"That's Gokaigers' morpher!" Ivy Jolicoeur caught on, having used a sniper scope to spot the time elementals. "Penny, float us so we can move fast across!" (*7)
All of Pechy's friends floated with the Pennies, who are all carried by Kendo, Hope and Storious (yes, Storious did learn how to ride a motor through Fortnite) riding motorcycles to arrive fast.
Bridget swivels and poses in accordance to literal synchronization of time, and...
"Alinavious, come to Darkbolts." Bridget gives out a shady grin.
She inserts...
Super Ranger!
The transformation blown away all very nearby, revealing... princess Hyper Shinken Red.
"Hyper Shinken Red." Bridget approached the gangs, ignoring the Ride-Players for now. "Now, it's time we must correct course."
"Oh night no..." 2023!Pechy noticed.
"That's our key!" Kendo jumped in, performing a dashing slash.
"Oh no!" 2025!Penny bounced away.
The three motorcycles drifted to Bridget and Akita. The former as Hyper Shinken Red armed with the Kyoryumaru easily sliced down all three, causing them all to explode into several sharpnels. Beta managed to use Stasis to block the sharpnels to keep the Starstorm members safe - the Ride-Players, not so much.
2023!Pechy entered 3-3-1-7. (*8)
Super Ranger!
"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light! Samurai Edition!" 2023!Pechy as Hyper Shinken Red coated her Kyoryumaru with her own dream magic.
Cue both Princess Shinken Red (姫シンケンレッド)s clashing with the Kyoryumaru. It was a quick and balanced clash, but the past Pechy has a trick up her sleeves - something the bridal Pechy was counting on.
"Alright!" 2027!Pechy waved. "Go go go! Dreamcatcher Warrior!"
2023!Pechy nodded, and immediately sicced her Kyoryumaru to push Bridget away. Akita noticed this but decided to to ignore that, instead focusing on trying to connect the rifts. Lavini had to step in.
"Enough. We will not tolerate any further distortion." Lavini tried to kill 2023!Pechy and her friends.
Kendo managed a great slashing combo, consisting of Kinetic Blade and Typhoon Blade - both katanas added to the Japanese-based seasons of Fortnite. (*9) He performs a quick dash attack with the Kinetic Blade on an awkward angle so Lavini cannot counterattack in time (pun unavoidable), then he immediately executes a Cyclone Slash to her, knocking her far away before she could freeze him in time. He hit both, and Lavini's wounded hard, cracking in her hourglass body. Kendo's that skilled with swords.
"Past Pechy, now!" Kendo called.
In an ironic burst of fighting spirit (more pun hidden in plain sight, damn!), 2023!Pechy set Bridget aflame with Solar. Because Bridget's actually metallic, this compromised her movement due to sudden thermal expansion interfering with her own beautiful body and lustrous innards and joints. Bridget tried to rewind herself to extinguish the flame and get back to proper sync - Bridget couldn't use her Kyoryumaru at this moment.
"Smashing, Smashing Light!" 2023!Pechy ignited her dream powers, turning the blade of her Kyoryumaru into a literal lightsaber beam made of dream itself - emblematic of the power of Dreamcatcher princess.
The past Pechy struck down the mechanical priestess, with no hesitation whatsoever. A hot-spotted-all-around-all-body Bridget de-morphed, and passed out from extreme heat from the combined power of Solar Light and Shinken Red's flame.
BGM ends.
"Bridget! Lavini!" Akita is horrified.
Don't worry, Unit Kaidyn has stabilized the makeshift rift. Mass dimensional phasing engaged.
"Oh crap. They're coming!" Deadpool heard it. "Cassiopeia, Zexa, Xeza, Julia, Kaidyn, catgirl Parii Else, Bwyki bird-woman, Oria goop, Tilli... Even Ysera the water priestess, Rylla the mecha-mermaid, cosmic Hestia (*10), Nyela the anti-virus... The QTZ too!? Oh my god, the time elementals are coming!"
A massive rift is opened straight within the Loot Lake, revealing a bunch of time elementals. Bridget cooled down and managed to rewind, allowing her to get back up completely physically intact now. Lavini meanwhile had to rush back herself - she too is completely healed, thanks to both the sand's material and the time power.
All the time elementals gathered together right in the opened rift, facing everyone.
"You're up against our precious and glorious Alinavious, further blessed by the misunderstood divinity of the Darkbolts." Bridget defended all other time elementals.
By this point, the 2025 editions of Pechy and Ron arrived, as did the rest of friends as well as surviving gang. (*11)
"NYAAAR! Why are ye invading us!" Nyanja called the time elementals out.
"Alinavious demands. Darkbolts protects. We serve. All praise the End." Bridget chanted again.
The time elementals repeated this chant once, before trying to...
"Domain Expansion: Time Compression!"/"領域展開・時間圧縮!"
"I KNEW IT!" Deadpool figured it out. "Absorbing infinite existence! Compressing past, present and future into singularity, sucking away all feeling of concepts!"
"They have sorceress power!?" (*12) Pechy noticed. "Great... Emerald-Diamond, help me out!"
2025!Pechy went Goddess of the Wishing Star, and immediately"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light!", briefly enhanced by the space-time blessings of the Emerald-Diamond, to stop the time compression spell from properly working. It's a rigged domain clash, and Pechy's dream pierced through to stun the time elementals.
Unable to cast a domain upon the spell to destroy at all, the time elementals quickly passed out, collapsing on the water of the Loot Lake.
"Thanks, Earla." 2025!Pechy gave a thumb-up to 2025!Earla, before reverting back to normal.
"Holy shit, you actually ended it so fast." Deadpool is surprised. "What now? The only thing left before our next mission is this... rift."
Everyone Starstorm looked at the 360-degree rift that Akita and Kaidyn made. It's showing a relative familiar sight of a patchwork reality very distinct from anywhere in Battleworld 52, but nonetheless feel very same.
"Look! I think we've found the place!"
Location: World of Light (灯火の星)
"Where's our dear clock girls!" The Prismatic Fleet fireteams are panicking. "We need them! Why did they take so long to bridge this area with the Zero!"
"This shouldn't have taken more than hours! It's been over half a day!"
"Damn it!" "What will our glorious Second Knife think of this!?"
"Move! Watch out, the resistance-"
The evil fireteams were freaking out because the time elementals are being late, not knowing the Starstorm managed to knock them down and arrives at the area. This world is in the process of outright calcification, under the orders of the Second Knife themselves. But the fireteams needed the time elementals to connect the Islands from afar with the calcified world to speed up the process safely. Of course, the Ride-Players throughout the areas are no longer the only fully major party to deal with the twisted fates of the landmarks that were.
(Lily Pilgrim note: I'm back! There you are, readers! Why weren't I in the so-called Battleworld 52? It's simple: Subspace. So subspace does exist in both the fourth wall and the patchwork multiverse those terrorists made. That allowed me and the poor fireteams to avoid detection. Of course, it's not surprising that there are outright eldritch monsters from several realities trying to kill us all. The swordman who plays - yours truly - actually slain dozens of these along the way, and finally, just in time for the sudden restoration of all, we all infiltrated the ranks of the Prismatic Fleet to end the terrorism that has been happening for one-and-a-half weeks already! And don't worry, I didn't forget-) (*wipe out*)
The Warlock shushed Lily. "Quiet."
"Does the fourth wall make a direct sound?" Lily shrugged.
"Doesn't matter. If we make any sort of nose and those evil counterparts of ours notice us, they'll hunt us down." The Titan carefully step in. "Let's go. We have existences to save."
Lily's extended fireteam - consisting of Lily herself, the trio of Young Wolf, Shayura the Warlock, and 7 other non-evil Guardians from other timelines originally affected by the Second Knife - sneaked around. Acting like the members of Prismatic Fleet would, with Lily even disguising herself as a Prismatic Hunter to not gather any suspicion. And also, they gathered a lot of intel regarding the Second Knife. Indeed, it would be foolish to fight the strongest, most powerful evil Guardians, especially when they can enslave both the Traveler and the Veil. (*13)
A very familiar Hunter - with restored body and a gleaming pair of eyes like the Taken - watched at the lower rungs, and in her direct vision - Lily's fireteam infiltrating the Prismatic Fleet, disguising as the evil Guardians that serves the Second Knife. She hasn't found out the identity yet, but she's still keeping an eye on the whole scene.
Any updates? The Great Warlock called.
"Only one at the moment. Our time soldiers has just opened the reality... but I'm not detecting any more action or reaction. Instead..."
Very well... Look up at the sky. We'll be there shortly.
Lily's fireteam arrived at an open area so they spotted a massive rift where the Starstorm members came from. "Look! There it is!"
The Light Realm (光の世界), guarded by the Prismatic Fleet, has been commanded to...
"Guardians, go lock away those primordial snots away. We cannot risk them wrecking us and-"
"Yes, lady!" The Prismatic Fleet immediately bowed, before leaving their areas.
"Good." The "mysterious" Hunter commended.
"Good? What?" The main Hunter, through the gears of the Prismatic Fleet, heard it. "Couldn't this-"
"No, we've found our allies! Let's GOOO!" Lily rushed, taking advantage of the command as well as being excited at the return.
Because the "mysterious" Hunter is too caught up with the mission, she has still yet to notice Lily's fireteam. So said expanded fireteam and Starstorm finally reunited in person, much to delayed rejoice. The "mysterious" one simply calcifies any traces of rebellion to make sure the Second Knife get as much advantage as they could, with the help of the Vex.
"Finally! You're back!" Both side went back to being one.
Lily cheerfully, yet not without some snark, explained what she and the fireteam were doing during Battleworld 52. She expressed relief that falling back into subspace actually saved her and the Guardians, preventing the Darkbolts from ruining their existence to sculpt the patchwork multiverse. Conversely, Pechy recapped everything since P-1 Special. (*14)
Just in time, a supply of... something arrived.
"No way..." An evil Titan noticed a bunch of Supply Drops. "Why did these spill from the rift?"
"Glad you're safe! Oh, is that a newcomer?" (Lily Pilgrim note: this newcomer looks like Ms. Hope with makeups)
"N-n-n-no, it's me, Commander, Miss..." Ms. Continuum waved in embarrassment, seeing as Lily didn't recognize her human form.
"She's actually a sentient rift." 2027!Pechy giggles. "Her combat history dates back to the mythical founding of the CXA. Redvengers dying, Officers Knights going insane, all that."
"Sup!" Deadpool greeted Lily. "How are you doing?"
The evil Titan prepped up a paracausal sniper rifle while the alliance having a chat. That didn't was a cordial one that relieved of the fighters' horrific adventures for now, but it just infuriates the evil Guardian - not just because they're out in the open while on the mission to end Darkbolts, but also because they're still surviving. The "mysterious" Hunter taking her eyes off the landscape to oversee the imprisonment of certain forces didn't help matter.
"Fuck off." They pulled the trigger.
Bang, a Prismatic caliber went off, ready to wreck havoc on everything near the impact. This should be deadly, even without headshot. Flying at extremely high speed - rivalling your average speedsters - it was about to hit Jade straight in her chest. And it's hitscan so it doesn't fall off and retains speed.
Suddenly, a massive corpse moved on its own, drawing out THE Typhoon Blade. That demon deflected the bullet just in time.
"What?!" The evil Titan is baffled. "Is that!"
"Uh oh. Something just snapped." The Night Rose noticed. "Thanks, old one."
"Shogun... X!" The evil Titan is pissed.
The big zombie swiveled his head, evading an actual headshot. That second bullet completely missed, and ended up exploding into utter horror of twisted calciform of an explosion, made of both the Light and the Dark. This tipped out everyone at the area.
"What?" 2025!Amaya not amused.
"Sniper." Ms. Continuum pssst.
2025!Pechy noticed the sniper glare - subtle due to the protections used in the sniper scope itself - but neverthel brought enough in a backdrop dark enough - thus contrast-y enough for the glare to be visible. Barely visible, but it's there.
"Shit, an evil Guardian is sniping us!" 2025!Pechy is disappointed. "I'mma counter them right away. Loop!"
The Dreamcatcher princess took from the male main a freaking semi-auto-version Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (*15) - she loaded it with her own magic ("Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light!"), and quickly scoped wherever that sniper glare came from, max zoom.
Through the scope, the evil Guardian identified the Accuracy International, and so they complacently thought it's just projectile when they have hitscan to begin with, not knowing Pechy actually pulled hitscan on a projectile gun using her own magic and is going for *bam*
"URGH!" The evil Titan collapsed, having been hit by the concentrated magic exploding on his stomach.
They barely managed to keep themselves standing up, now they have to wall themselves and heal off. So they wholly put down the sniper and immediately remotely reported to the "mysterious" Hunter.
"My lady! I have been sniped by-"
Pechy headshot the evil Titan with the second bullet, leaving only their Ghost. Said Ghost panicked, only for the hitscan to befell it precisely with the last concentrated bullet Pechy prepped, killing the evil Titan.
"Move! Act fast and we'll get our way fast enough to matter!" 2025!Pechy dropped the sniper and rushed.
"What?" That Hunter noticed.
"Okay. But I don't think 'Starstorm' is going to cut it anymore. But no time-" Lily turned to follow 2025!Pechy.
"Sorry. But some definitely have noticed us." 2044!Pechy realized what's up. "We're in the open. Somebody definitely spotted us!"
"Everyone, scatter!" Jones and Hope ran away. "Get other routes to the ultimate beings!"
The alliance scattered up into many groups, just as that someone spotted them. Members didn't forget about the Supply Drops.
"Oh fucking Traveler, you have to be kidding us!" The Hunter screamed. "And then... no way..."
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world...
"Right, brother? We've been targeted by tons of those we didn't get to bring..." The leftie is freaking out. "This isn't fair nor it is good!"
"Alright, who are those un...invited?" The rightie shrugged with a single palm. "Let me check in the fighters of ours. Where are they?"
A bunch of evil fireteams crashed into the scene, suggesting that this realm contains at least the remains of two primordial enemies that both hands were tired of.
"We are the Second Knife. We are salvation itself. To make own fates is to obey the flow. We shape the flow. We cut down those who cannot. We-"
"MORE UNINVITED GUEEESSSTTTS!" The leftie are horrified.
"The Second Knife?" The rightie noticed.
"Master Hand and Crazy Hand, you're to stop!"
The evil Guardians froze both Master Hand and Crazy Hand in place. "Your light and darkness will be ours. You cannot do anything against it. And if you wishes to be free..."
"You want to enslave us? We knew what it feels and we will not submit." Master Hand objected.
"HAHAHAHA-no." Crazy Hand rejected. "There's no way we'll yield, you fucking uninvited terrorists!"
The evil Guardians laughed at the Hands, and briefly danced emotes to mock both of them as well as... take a guess...
"OH HELL IN THE SMASH!" Master Hand is pissed.
Crazy Hand roared at the Prismatic Fleet, which only merely force them to stop singing and dancing. Instead, the evil Guardians chained the two with Strand just as the suspense stopped freezing, this keeping both trapped.
Just before the ultimate realm that the evil Guardians just took over, the Pechies and the gang were the first two groups to reach the portal, having evaded all the shits and went quickly thanks to the small rifts.
"I've been turned into your physical species a few times, thank you." Jones shrugged. "But alright. We're here now. Just wait for the other groups."
With the same star platforms as that of the Pechies, the Ivies arrived.
"Mom, these blades are rad!" Ivy Comet approved: the mass-produced Splinter Blades!
Ivy Jolicoeur peeks into the ultimate realm. The guardian angel found Master Hand and Crazy Hand both restrained by none other than the Prismatic Fleet. The Stasis great-walls also covered the...
"Galeem and Dharkon!"/"キーラとダーズ!" Ivy Jolicoeur noticed the walls. "The evil Guardians imprisoned the two primordial ones we're finding!"
Within 20 minutes, the alliance were fully regrouped and survives, leaving less than 2 minutes to spare - that familiar yet somehow corrupted Hunter that the fireteams now misses took 22 minutes to fully figure out the current situation and call the Second Knife of it.
"What happened to Elsie?" 2027!Laelynn noticed. "We don't see her at all."
"I'm sorry, but we need her to help us out." 2025!Laelynn sighed.
"Thank you for asking fast... It's an unfortunate answer we will give you." Hunter immediately weeps out in response. "She's... She's... She's been..."
The main Hunter cowers down in despair. "She's been captured and rebooted! We lost her!"
"Elsie-2 calling." That Hunter appeared behind them all.
The monarchs were the first besides the Guardians and fourth-wall-breaks to notice the evil spotting them all.
"I don't flatter or suck up to anybody. No matter who I'm dealing with, my guts and brains will be enough to break through." Yanma, seeing as she didn't really know about him, introduced himself. "That's how the president of Nkosopa, Yanma Gast rolls!"
"I am the queen of Ishabana, Hymeno Ran. I will do as I wish, and stride down my own path." Same for Hymeno. "Now you shall witness the pride of the flower that will never wither!"
"My people are my life, and you are not going to destroy them any further. For their sake, I will cover myself in mud and dirty my hands!" Kaguragi too. "That is who I am: the lordly king, Kaguragi Dybowski!"
"The law is a spear that slays kings, and a shield that protects the people. That is why Gokkan stands resolute!" Rita. "The earth may shatter, and the heavens may fall... but I, Rita Kaniska, shall not waver!"
"I am Jeramie Idmonarok Ne Brasieri, ruling over man, Bug Naraku, and everything else. The fate of the world is my story to dictate." Jeramie. "The king of the in-between, and what he is here to do... all shall speak of it forevermore!"
"Now fear me and tremble in your boots! I will show no shred of mercy nor restraint, and spare no effort nor intent! The name of your demise... is Gira Husty!"
Gira's eyes briefly glows red.
"So you actually got rid of your true selves. How pathetic." She dismissed the monarchs. "How sad. You're still restraining yourself, not bothering to find the right way-"
We are the warriors clad in crowns!" This was actually a roll call. "Ohsama Sentai: King-Ohger!"
"No... This is... our...!" The fireteam noticed.
QUA-GOD!
TONE BOY!
COME AND KICK IT!
POP IT ON!
HATCH IT!
GUYS GO! (解放!)
"Royal Raiment!"/"王鎧武装!" The monarchs called.
You are the a King, You are the- YOU ARE THE KING!
Kuwagata Ohger!: "The king of evil! Gira!"
Tombo Ohger!: "The wise king! Yanma Gast!"
Kamakiri Ohger!: "The brilliant queen! Hymeno Ran!"
Papillon Ohger!: "The immovable sovereign! Rita Kaniska!"
Hachi Ohger!: "The lordly king of bounty! Kaguragi Dybowski!"
Spider Kumonos!: "The king of the in-between! Jeramie Brasieri!"
"Once again!" Gira as Kuwagata Ohger.
"The Ohsama Sentai: King-Ohger!"/"王様戦隊キングオージャー!" Roll-
"Woah woah woah, hold on!" Kaito intercepted. "Change Zenkai!"
BANG! BANG! BA-BANG! BA-BANG! BA-BA-BA-BANG! Zenkaizer!
"The secret power! Zenkaizer!"/"秘密のパワー！ゼンカイザー!"
"Us kings and a super-powered peasant! It's time we-" Kaguragi declared.
"Elsie! What have you become!?" The Titan is shocked.
"Miss! You taught some of us the pretty of paracausality! Of the Light and Dark!" The Pechies reacted in horror.
"Why have you forsaken us!" 2025!Amaya got angry.
"Based on the witnesses' live testimony, it appears you have become guilty of treason and terrorism." Rita calls the former Exo Stranger out.
"It's obvious! The Second Knife did it!" Lily spoke up. "They rebooted you!"
BGM: The Final Destination (Super SMASH Bros. series, mashup of all five versions, up until Ultimate)
(Yes, the Second Knife rebooted her. Now she's Elsie-2, the first reboot.)
"You dare continue your masquerade against our glorious shapes!?"
"We will conquer the Traveler and the Veil as well!" Gira charged up. "Everyone, charge!"
The King-Ohgers and Kaito charged towards the former Exo Stranger, who's been rebooted and then reconditioned into serving the Second Knife. Since the senshi lacks the power of paracausality, Elsie-2 simply froze the monarchs over without even flinching, but Kaito still got the god in him.
"Zenkai Punch!" Kaito punched the Exo.
The Warlock casted a bunch of Threadlings right from their hands, firing the live Strand towards the former Stranger. She burned the Threadlings down with Solar and evaded like an actual Hunter that she has been from the start of her original journeys.
"STOP!" Hunter main rushed, loading up their Golden Gun and Arc knife.
Beta casted a massive Stasis wall surrounding the area around the portal leading to (the remains of) Galeem and Dharkon, with 2027!Penny curving said wall and spread it to prevent Elsie-2 from escaping. Elsie dodging stuffs also inadvertently freed the monarchs, allowing them to freely fight her alongside Zenkaizer and co.
The Fortnite gang open fire, 2023!Penny used her telekinesis to supply some spare ammos for them all. The Dianas reached for Shadowshots, while 2023 and 2027 versions of her brother took the Gokaiger morphers for a fight.
"Gokai Change!"
Gokaiger!
Gokai Silver, Gold Mode!
2023!Gary and 2027!Gary became Gokaigers. 2027 became Gokai Silver/Super Megaforce Silver Ranger Gold Mode, 2023... well...
"What the hell is this form?" 2023!Gary is confused.
This Gokaiger has the wear of the Red, but with Blue right hand, Green left hand, a compressed version of girls' rainbow-striped skirt with the colors of the classic Sentai palette (used for Gorengers and Gokaigers, among various other, *16) more fitting for the boys, Pink right leg and Yellow left leg. The helmet is colored white and shaped like that of Red. "Are you serious?!"
"We dreamed up of this." Clover shrugged, revealing that 2023!Gary used a fused Ranger Key.
The key of the Gokaigers. This baffled the younger Gary.
"The showy power!"/"派手にパワー!" 2025!Gary introduced the form. "Behold! Gokai Five! Also known as... the Super Megaforce Fused Ranger!"
"Gokai Five?"/"ゴーカイファイブ?" 2023!Gary now holding both the Splinter-Bladed Gokai Saber and Overclocked Gokai Gun - both made with the same material as the mass-produced Splinter Blades.
"Damn you!" Elsie-2 clashed against the Hunter. "You're pushing me!"
Final Wave!
Without thinking further, 2023!Gary initiated his finishing touch himself, using the Zenkaizer Ranger Key on the Gun and Zenkai Zyuran Ranger Key on the Saber.
"Gokai Blast and Slash!"
He perform a supercharged Gokai Blast posted by Zenkaizer and the Gorengers and J.A.K.Q., augmented with a Gokai Slash energy blade flung from the Saber with the power of Zenkai Zyuran and the Zyurangers (OG Power Rangers), in one fell swoop. Surprisingly, the attack hit Elsie-2, knocking her down and crash her into the Stasis wall.
The Stasis wall expired and dissipated, while the monarchs pointed their blades towards the rebooted Exo, accompanied by Lily's fireteam aiming close on her head.
"Unbelievable! You seems to have fallen apart!" Gira is pained in response, showing both his real true nature as a kind tyrant as well as realizing what the former Stranger has become.
"Guess you're utterly outnumbered." Hope tsk tsk tsk. "Not only that, many of us have some paracausal powers already, protecting all of us and leveling this play."
"Enough is enough, Stranger!" 2025!Amaya pushed by and choked Elsie-2 with Strand. "We have to fix you!"
Elsie-2 poofed, casting a Hive miasma in a literal instant. This obscured the vision around the entire area that was previously covered by the Stasis wall.
"What the hell?!" The Amaya's grouped up.
"Not fair!" Deadpool complained, only to be calcified by Elsie-2.
Bayonetta just finally recovered her magic, she's rested well. So she started with a literal bang - a gunshot clearing the miasma... exposing some sort of Vex glitch. Vex radiolaria splattered through the surroundings.
"Expecting the prince and the time to save you?" (*17) Elsie-2 appeared in front of the portal and besides. "They have already brought to their own place. I have them."
A third eye opened right on Elsie's forehead - and it's Vex eye. Cue a bunch of Vex Oracles. The Riders finally transformed...
Scramble! Open the Grimoire! Subete no monogatari no owari da! Kamen Rider... Neo Storious! Fuhahahahahahahahahaha! Go over.
MULTIVERSE: DIMENSION!
Dimension Time! Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun!
Chou Kaigan! Watcher! What if? Ghost, Ghost! What if? Go-go-Ghost! What if? God gotta Ghost!
Gotchanko! Gotcha & Go! Rainbow Gotchard! Gotchard! Ultima! Ultima!
Gotchanko! Metcha! Gotcha! Together! Miracle Gotchard!
Aku to onaji chikara o motsu zen! Cross of Fire! Aitoheiwa no tame ni! Love and Peace! Kamen Rider~ Juuga! Zein! Let's go! Come on! Cross~! Cross~! Cross of Fire~!
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER BLACK! ZI-O!
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER SHADOW MOON! ZI-O!
Final ChemyRide! Le-Le-Le-Legendary Legend!
Synchro Up! Ohing! OK! Shonin! Rex! Rolling! Kamen Rider! Revi! Vice! Revice! Shin! (シンクロアップ！オーケー！承認！レックス！ローリング！仮面ライダー！リバイ！バイス！リバイス！真!)
Perfect Up! Hehehe-Hahaha! Kamen Rider EvilytyLive! I'm perfect!
Hyper Liberal Up! Ah! We are! We are! Kamen Rider! Invincible! Ja (蛇)! Ja (蛇)! Ja (蛇)! Ja (蛇)! Ja (蛇)! Ja (蛇)! Jeanne! Haa! Ha!
FINAL KAMENRIDE: DECADE COMPLETE21!
Yes, even the alien Decade is back to action.
The Riders simultaneously destroyed the Oracles, and long-range-jabs with their stuffs at Elsie-2, who blocked the hits with the goddamned cleaver - the Sword of Crota!
"Crota! Atheon!" The Laelynns finally noticed.
"They're done for. You are next." Elsie-2 tried to suppress everyone with Void Light.
Witch Time! Bayonetta blasted on the former Stranger and then immediately slashed with her faerie strikes, similar yet distinct to Singularity's possession movements from earlier. (*18) This acted as a flurry of boost whacking on the rebooted Exo, knocking her right down.
"My Veil!" Elsie-2 briefly collapses.
Landing acrobatically, Bayonetta smiles over the corner Stranger, letting her know that Singularity was wrong to possess the fused body. Elsie got up, picking the thoughts up with the Strand...
"Oh Traveler, you're telling us our dear friend used you?" Elsie-2 dismissed. "Oh well... rogue vessel, begone!"
The hybrid of Umbra Witches, Lumen Sage and faerie didn't take any bait. She instead fired a volley on her with her own witch legs, followed by King-Ohgers' joint assault, still with their respective fighting styles.
Justice Rebellion!
Ultimate Finish!
"Double Rider Kick!" Onodera and Karizaki bounced up and kicks.
Elsie-2 blocked with the Silence and Squall (*19), but the double kick was powerful enough to knock her and send her flying, dropping the cleaver with Yanma pragmatically snatched. What a mistake - the Sword of Crota has been entangled, giving the Exo a free grappling to get back over, leading to an attempted counterattack.
Shogun X saved Yanma (and his ass) with a Cyclone Slash.
The Warlock froze Elsie-2 mid-air with the power of the Final Shape.
BGM stops.
"Urgh..." Elsie-2 is keep alive through countering the Final Shape, but she's still completely suspended.
"I knew it. We knew it!" The Titan sighed. "So you really not only have been resetted and then reconditioned into serving that ironic excuse of gods... but you had two of personified tools killed!"
"Sure, we don't really like Crota or Atheon, but this is horrible!" The Hunter vented. "You have to recover your memories! Of us! We can fix you, just lend us the Strand-"
"We are salvation itself. The only way to make your own fate is to be enlightened." Elsie-2 refuted, having subscribed to the twisted viewpoint of the Second Knife. "Our glorious shapes are coming."
The Pechies de-calcifies Deadpool and together immediately casted, alongside Ivy Comet in Unity form.
"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light!" The Pechies switched to Goddess of the Light and immediately fired, leading to a spiked blast of dream powers.
Ivy Comet and Ivy Jolicoeur fired an Unity beam to multiversally augment the blast, right at Elsie-2.
Elsie-2 tried to escape, having rolled out and was going to fall down to the ground, free from the blast. But the Gotchard duo wouldn't have it.
Cue the rainbow trapping the Exo, leading to her taking the full bring of Unity "Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light!"
-*BANG!* A very big explosion rang through the landscape, just visible in a lot of the realm.
"Yes! Now let's fuck then before they fuck us!" An excited Bayonetta then jumped down the portal.
"Hey! We haven't celebrated this small victory yet!" Kaito noticed.
The elegant fused witch dropped down in acrobat right at a random Hunter, causing the Prismatic Fleet there to notice. Being a fused Umbra Witch as she is, Bayonetta immediately went Witch Time coupled with the proliferation of faerie magic to slash and blast the evil Guardians, without the need of paracausality. She's just that skilled and stylish - it helped that the last time all those evil Guardians saw this body, she was possessed by the Singularity himself.
After leaps of beauty that which in the process slain the evil Guardians, she slides down and unwound her hairs and erupted faerie magic to burn down much of the rest, followed by faerie spectral demons - equivalent to Singularity's blasters (*18) - killing the evil and wiping the Ghosts.
The alliance came down the portal, now seeing almost all the evil guarding the Stasis lock-wall dead.
"Thanks for the rush!" Kaguragi laughed. "Also, maybe these guys are foolish, thinking that this beautiful body of hers are still used! Hohoho! A beautiful subversion!"
"Rocket Launcher, go!" The two Loopers pulled out two, each one... Rocket Launcher.
Two tickets flew to the wall, cranking it with an explosion.
"Oi, is that all they could muster?" Bayonetta dresses her entire self, winding her hair back.
The senshi and most Riders laughed at the comment. Storious and both Decades didn't, they instead simply shrugged.
"Gorgeous work, everyone! I, Kaguya, is pleased this has gone so soundly." Kaguya as Legendary Legend. "Beautiful witch from a different reality, you even..."
Kaguya couldn't find any further words to describe Bayonetta's work here, partly because he came a bit too late but also because he couldn't perceive much of that.
In the mixed realm, in addition to Galeem and Dharkon being locked away, there's a tired duo in the ground - Master Hand and Crazy Hand - weeping non-exactly-verbally, but it's clear both were horrified.
"Master Hand! Crazy Hand! Help us!" Pechy and friends shouted together.
"You... you have... saved us..." Master Hand noticed.
"Master, Crazie, you two have to help us end Darkbolts. Not only Darkbolts returned from ashes under King Magnifico, but now... look!" Ms. Continuum cut to the chase. "We have to save and then force Galeem and Dharkon to work together, as usual per every time I and CXA came here."
"Why? Because just like when CXA arrives, existence are in danger!" Jones explained.
"Please... Please!" Taylor Jolicoeur kneeled before the Hands.
Clarie, Earla, the Shadow familia and the Fantasy Dreamer teams bowed down before Master Hand and Crazy Hand both. While the two Hands struggled to get up afterwards, the Second Knife is about to arrive at the World of Light.
"My goodness... what in the dino..." Zyurai got to the Loot Lake.
"Damn it... Nu-nu-nu..." Magini is a bit fuzzy for now.
"Are you alright, everyone?" A blue man with glasses and a Geartozinger. "I know what happened. I'm here to update."
This is GoGoi - actually Vroon, corrupted by the X-Alliance. "Come. We're going to settle the business soon enough."
"Wait for us!" The Kiramagers followed.
"Ugh..." The time elementals woke up.
Several of Pyramid ships and even more jumpships arrived, casting a humongous Sideways Rift, summoning... the Traveler with Veil itself. The current alliance - except Ms. Continuum, who's healing the Hands and helping free Galeem and Dharkon - came outside and saw the whole scene... calcified in front and around them.
"This place is getting calcified. They've found everything!" Paige looked up.
"There you are." The Great Warlock descends.
Alongside the Arch-Titan and the Godhunter, they came down themselves as if gliding with feet alone, stepping down towards the alliance - as if the Witness has returned but back to being the antagonist that pretty much tortured the Guardians' homeworlds and so on for eons (Lily Pilgrim note: Look! It's the Final Shape, staring right at us! Again? You're not the Witness!). This sight shocked the members, but horrified the Guardians.
"No... You're... us?" Gasped the trio.
"Who are you?!" Yanma noticed.
"Those grand Guardians..."/"神のガーディアン..." Hymeno is apprehensive.
"We know how you came to be." (*13) "You're a bullshitty Guardians who caused the Second Collapse in your timeline!" 2023!Amaya called the Second Knife out. "You appeased to your temptation! You're-"
"Hahaha, nice, mortals." The Godhunter cringed, albeit in a tone similar to Rhulk. "You think you can stop us. We are salvation itself, you cannot fight us. Why? Because you don't know how to-"
"Make your own fate! Yeah yeah, I get that! We get that!" The Hunter snarked. "Then why did YOU cause the Second Collapse!"
"Where's the Witness again? Have you destroyed it once again?" The Warlock questioned.
"You fools! Traitors! Real traitors!" Shayura is pissed. "You abused the Light and Dark! You shed away your restraint for THIS!? This crapsack case of a... reality! Let alone-"
"Ah, yes, timelines and universes. Thanks the Sundial." The Great Warlock calcified Shayura, then flung the calciform up in the air.
The other Guardians of alternative timelines immediately spewed out profanities as a volley of insults, only for the Arch-Titan to grab said alternates and their Ghosts with Strand and then crushed them with Prismatic powers, leaving the main trio and Lily as remaining.
"No! How dare you!" Beta is horrified.
"Good riddance of annoying Shayura. And now... we and Darkbolts can crush everything. This is what you all and Redvengers gets for not only against the glorious Darkbolts, but also for disturbing the fate of all." The Great Warlock gloated. "We are salvation itself, and if you don't know how to make your own fate... YOU ARE UNWORTHY!"
Arch-Titan thrusted their fist to cast a massive shockwave that forcibly calcify everything in the way by Light and Dark flying past, only for Pechy and Ivy Comet to cancel it out immediately using the Prismatic powers.
"You learned these from our Elsie, didn't you?" The Godhunter noticed.
The Fortnite gang except the demons rapid-fired at the three. Arch-Titan completely shrugged it all off, the Great Warlock remotely stops the bullets, while all rounds ended up phasing through the Godhunter.
"Should've loaded those guns with paracausality!" Deadpool facepalmed.
"Fine." Jones quickly loaded Prismatic magazines in his guns.
Just as others started reloading paracausality into their guns...
"ENOUGH!" The Great Warlock boomed in the tone shockingly - perhaps horrifically - similar to that of the Witness.
The reality cracked between the alliance and the Second Knife, followed by the Arch-Titan punching the crack, creating a massive shockwave that pushed the alliance members far away. Thankfully, the Pechies quickly casted a massive star platform to catch everyone... only for that platform to be spliced not long after, turning that into just a gigantic cushion for the fall down the ground, courtesy of the Godhunter's knife.
"You're the splicer and rifter of life!" Bayonetta used a brief word salad to mock the Second Knife.
"Maybe. But we are beyond that pitiful... Witness. We are gods. If we can make our own fate, we can make sure everyone and everything actively tries to do the same. Those who can't make own fate are not worthy." The Great Warlock declared.
"They are right!" The Arch-Titan supported with the tone similar to Nezarec. "It's your fault if you-"
"No, you're the one who can't make your own fate anymore!" The Titan objected.
"That's not how it works, dirtwads! Even I, Deadpool, knows that!" Deadpool objected. "You don't see it? Remember when you finally destroyed the Witness?"
"You are wrong." Cue a volley of Lucent Threadlings and Frozen Threadlings - Threadlings stuffed with Light (Arc, Solar, Void) and Stasis respectively - flying towards the alliance.
Install. The green light bullet on fire. Shurikenger.
A massive Stasis wall blocked the Threadlings, protecting the members from the ensuing barrage.
"I am Ninja of Ninja! The green light bullet, Sky Ninja Shurikenger, on stage!"/"I am Ninja of Ninja! 緑の光弾、天空忍者シュリケンジャー！参上!"
Arch-Titan swiftly smashed the wall, only to find... Shurikenger (Evol Mode) boosting T'Challa and Shuri with his technique. They noticed the Vision Driver he's wearing. The evil blocked the Shurikenger's bat-sheath - the same one some Zein used earlier. (*5)
"Shoot!" The gangs unloaded their guns at the Arch-Titan. Shurikenger pulled out a dual combo of an one-handed pump shotgun and a small SMG (*20), and hailed on the evil Titan.
"My god. Who would've thought fireteams together trying to strike us down directly? LET ALONE DEPRECATING OUR...!" The Godhunter leapt to the scene.
The Great Warlock remotely planted a dozen of Bleak Watcher turrets shooting all kind of paracausal elements at random, - Hellion mortars, Void tethers, surges of Arc, the weave - all trying to throw everyone but evil Guardians off while also... siren to call for the others. The Prismatic Fleet.
"Ugh, looks like somebody has breached!" The Prismatic Lucent Hive noticed.
("Exterminate the invaders!") The Vex phased into the realm, starting a witch hunt.
Amazing Despair! Storious summoned the Seikens to destroy the turrets, while the tethers are flying all over the place.
"Not so fast!" The Godhunter restrained the Seikens with Strand and poked Storious with a makeshift polearm... made of calciforms stretched by the Light and Dark.
"Be grateful that we'll fix you instead of destroying you right away." The Godhunter tried to calcify Storious.
"HIIIYAAAAA!" All the Miranda Miller ambushed the Godhunter with their staffs each now transformed into Arc Staff. (*21)
Meanwhile, Shurikenger finished off the load of pump and spray (*20) to destroy a turret, and ninja immediately quickly reloaded, imbuing the Sky Ninja himself with reality petal from nowhere around his suit. The ninja blitzed off using the reality petal, thus teleporting a small distance that also briefly amplified the momentum, giving him an ambush against the Arch-Titan faster than they can backhand with Sentinel Shield. *knock!* Arch-Titan is knocked out of balance, but they simply get up. A calcified Hammer of Sol is thrown and then flew - akin to the Thor's Mjonir - and it's going to whack down members and get them down.
"Hammer of Sol flying!?" The actual main Titan are shocked. "And it's calcified too!? Who are you!"
"Shoot... I forgot to tell you all the truth and you censored yourself!" Lily shrugged, but then immediately swung her blade to deflect the hammer. "They're you from an alternate dimension! Think of the Sundial!"
"Alright. You remember whenever intersection of space and time happened in your world?" Deadpool recalled. (*22)
"WHAT?!" The Titan heard the shit.
The Arch-Titan laughed like Nezarec, before pulling out two full-sized submachine guns (*23) to lead down the members with no discrimination in sight, even with the Witch Time and the protection of the armors in the senshi and the Riders.
The Titan is too enraged, and so knocked their evil counterpart down, grabbing them in rage. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR TIME!?"
Miranda's and the King-Ohgers got the Godhunter strangled by their good (and canon) counterpart, who saw the entire Second Knife and Prismatic Fleet as a disgusting perversion of what the Guardians normally stood for.
"Disgusting freak! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FATE!"
"SHUT UP!" The Godhunter tumbled themselves and their counterpart down the ground.
The Great Warlock hastily speeds up the calcification of the realm, only to be headshot with a Golden Gun. It was 2025!Pechy as Goddess of the Wishing Star, and she immediately performed Stormtrance on them.
"You're still in denial of salvation!" The Great Warlock angrily glared.
"We only knew who you are because you threatened all of us!" 2025!Pechy objected. (*24)
"Why did you give birth to a devious psycho?" 2044!Pechy objected. (*25)
"The Witness!"/"目擊者!" Rita dropped a bombshell. "And you are worse than it. The surviving victims has already informed us, and we-"
"Checked that log!" Vice laughed at the Great Warlock.
"Damn you...!"/"貴様...!" The Great Warlock flew to the Pechies.
Elsie-2 got back up just as reinforcements came. She realized that the Second Knife themselves have come to act.
"The reinforcements have come. I must get in."
Zenkai Vroon!
A mechanical warrior in black and purple came with red eyes and secret scowling. "We're already on it. The resistance won't be able to overcome so many gods all at once."
"GoGoi, we have the resistance team who breached into this very realm. And now... it seems-"
"Alright. We've received the signals from the Second Knife. Tell the great Magnifico about this."
"No need. If the glorious Second Knife called, Magnifico will know. He's our omnipotent and omniscient benefactor. Now let's get going."
Magini came between the two. "The same resistance got me beaten up yesterday!"
"Magine! The resistance are still standing!" GoGoi rushed. "Go go go!"
"Uh! Nu-nu-nu-Magine!" Magini used magic to float her following GoGoi.
The Stranger used a Strand grappling to latch on Magini. The three rushes to the scene.
"YOU'RE AN ANOMALY!" The Warlock clashed against their corrupted, evil counterpart. "You're drunk with Light and Darkness!"
Titan and Arch- version shotgunned each other, and immediately backed up with the help of their respective Ghost. This led to the main noticing the... very reluctant Ghost of that timeline cowering in fear as they regenerated the Arch-Titan.
"My goodness..." The Titan spotted the other Ghost. "That's my Ghost!"
"What!?" The Titan's Ghost are shocked.
"You think you can stop us!?" The Arch-Titan went for Bladefury, forcing the normal (canon) one to block.
The Hunter used flame to reload their Golden Gun, and disarmed their counterpart's knife off them with an improvised shot, blasting the shoulder clean off. The Godhunter's Ghost peeked, and they and them together instantly attached the arm back, regenerating the whole limb in a few blinks of an eye. Cue the evil one launching another Strand grapple - grabbed by the Frost Armor on the normal guy/girl.
"What's in the Traveler was that?" The Hunter noticed. "It's that... YOUR GHOST?!"
The Great Warlock's Ghost lasered down the ground trying to melt the members, so noticed by Bayonetta and the real Warlock. She shot that Ghost, only for the projectile to be blocked... by air?
"What?" Bayonetta braked.
"We can't damage their Ghost!?" The Warlock is shocked.
A Void bomb detonated then spontaneously combusted near the Warlock with melting heat.
Pechy's friends are run by the Lucent Threadlings, aggressively latching then injecting the dose of Light and Dark mix to calcify them all - Penny does fling those away with her telekinesis, but more and more spawned in their wake.
"Nooo!" 2023!Gary screamed in horror.
While Hope is reloading, a bunch of Acolytes and Psions tries to ambush her. The undead Shogun X came to rescue, again.
"Everyone! Keep your guards!" Hope shouted.
"There you are!" The Lucent Hive arrived.
The Lucent, the Taken, the Dread and all kinds of Vex are in sight now. Hope being the leader she has been alongside her mentor Jones and her Loop friends, signaled the Fortnite gang to watch out. It ended up happening so fast, because...
"ARGH!" Houtaro (as Gotchard) is struck down.
"Stop!" Takeru (as Ghost) blocked the Psions, through the power of the Watcher.
"No!" Nijica in desperation transmuted some of the Vex, turning these against the remaining nearby, like the freed Vex.
The humanized Nijigon defended Houtaro, who did manage to get back up. More Psion came, and they're under fire despite Takeru with Watcher Damashii - Uatu's ghost - keeping them at bay.
"You're doomed! We will cleanse you of your bullshit!" The Knights gathered up in front of Takeru.
"This is the end!" The Wizards trying to bombard Ghost.
"Oh no!" Takeru stepped back.
"We're severely outnumbered and they're still coming!" 2023!Ron then got grabbed by an evil fireteam.
"No!" 2027!Ron struggled to free his past self.
2025!Ron, with the Infinity Armor on, flung some fireteams to save his past self. He pulled out the Infinity Sword and landed down a swing.
You are, I am, We are the- We are the KING! KING-OHGER!
King Kuwagata Ohger!
President Tombo Ohger! (*26)
Queen Kamakiri Ohger! (*26)
Sovereign Papillon Ohger! (*26)
Lord Hachi Ohger! (*26)
"You're against us monarchs!" Gira charged ahead like a tyrant entering a battlefield.
All six 'Ohgers charged against the evil humanoids for a massive fight. It's clear however that the current alliance is severely outnumbered and fought rather evenly each, leading to serious difficulty and struggle all across the board, and that's before Elsie-2 got back to the fight and the evil senshi coming.
"No. At this rate, only... no, no, no..." Ivy Comet looked around. "Jolicoeur, call Ms. Continuum!"
"Ivy, watch out!" Ivy Jolicoeur evaded the Tormentors.
"I knew it!" Ivy Comet shredded a Vex Hobgoblin with her powers. "We need Ms. Continuum now! She's the butterfly-rift goddess commanding the CXA, we need her help!"
Ivy Comet then diverted to all four versions of her mother, Pechy... "MOM! We have been outnumbered!"
Meanwhile...
"Fuck this shit, the Second Knife did it this time!" Ms. Continuum stumped down, unable to free because the Second Knife calcified the realm, shutting the portal off. "I can't risk detection, so NO!"
A mysterious light and a colored void circling behind the imprisonment wall, pulsating while the commander is disappointed. Disappointed at that the exit is completely blocked off now and cannot be broken out without pinging Magnifico in the process. Unbeknownst to her at this moment, the members are being attacked by the Prismatic Fleet but both Ivies are finding a way to get around with everything.
"Everyone! We're going out to find a way!" Ivy Comet flew out, bringing her past life along with her. "Don't worry, I'll be back soon!"
"Be safe!" Deadpool shouted.
"Damnit! Even the subspace are surrounded!" Lily opened the subspace only to find out that the Prismatic Fleet have taken over the entry. "We can't escape this way!"
"Ah, we knew... Turns out you have infiltrated within our ranks to compromise all of us!" A Subjugator called Lily out.
"Everyone! They blocked the subspace!" Lily closed the subspace and continued fighting.
"Hello!" Ivy Comet and Pouchy synced.
The Unity form immediately wears Pouchy mid-flight.
"Alright, Pouchy, let's get out of here and find a way out."
"They're flying away! Stop them!" A Subjugator using a Grim as her glider noticed the two.
Cue an army of the Grims chasing the Ivies, who entered the Loot Lake rift that the time elementals helped opening earlier.
Note: I have taken breaks again, but I still have plans to do with the whole thing. Let's not dwell into my behind-the-scenes this time around and get to recap!
With the Islands of first six Chapters of Fortnite: Battle Royale (2017) and the World of Legend liberated, about a quarter of the missing Ride-Players were rescued. We have the mass production of the Splinter Blades - originally used by Daigo to slay Shogun X - and the return of Shogun X himself as a zombie, controlled by his former victim, the Night Rose herself. (She's satisfied to be free, to help Jones and Hope and co. out and to get back at the Puppeteer!) We also learn about the Showa (昭和, 1926-1989)-like explanation of Shocker: as usual, Shocker experimented on Riders before and after, just as they used to do with the Double Riders themselves. And just as X-Alliance twist the teamwork and friendship themes on its head with Sentai, the Cross of Fire concept (where the powers of heroic Riders are somehow based on their evil enemies) are corrupted in Shocker's favor, hence the experiment and the name of Riders replacing the "Kamen" with "Shocker", equivalent to the Shocker Riders instead. Personally, I'm intrigued with my writing on the metaphorical table that dictates the plot, that in the plot, the Shocker had to forcibly remove the sense of justice and morality and restraint of Kamen Riders just to have them on their side (it's not like we never saw the Shocker successfully totally brainwashing the Riders - and that's not getting into the late-arrival spoiler that Tsukasa Kadoya was originally the Great Leader of Shocker) so... yeah.
Next up, revising the newspaper that Sid the Psychic read just as Kamen Rider Chronicle were rebooted and restarted. The newspaper with the same exact date also showed the time elementals that were originally illustrated by ibenz009 (yeah, that one). The "Like Clockwork" girls, now turned into servants of the Darkbolts. It's written that they can use the powers of Super Sentai as well as capable of performing time compression together - the latter feat is at least based off that of Sorceress Ultimecia from Final Fantasy VIII (1999), meaning they have also become sorceresses of sort. Time compression (時間圧縮) is a major plot point in Final Fantasy VIII, being the method by which Sorceress Ultimecia plans to change the course of time, space, and destiny. Time compression is the concept of condensing all of time and space into a single moment, or "singularity". It can be initiated by the casting of a spell, which requires incredible power on behalf of the caster(s) and places them at the center of said singularity. By compressing the entire universe in this manner and placing herself at the center of it, Ultimecia wants to assimilate all of creation into herself, then use her sorceress power to recreate everything according to her desires. In the Japanese script Ultimecia describes the time compression in a more detailed manner than in the English script, explaining the victims' (in that case, the party's) very existences will be absorbed by the time compression, causing them agony as their thoughts would be ripped apart with their memories fading away leaving them unable to do, think or feel anything. Yeah, and the time elementals performed the time compression through... DOMAIN EXPANSION!? Thankfully Pechy is the Goddess of the Wishing Star - she can wish for anything in her power, and this pierced the domain and halted the spell.
Lily Pilgrim and the Guardians are back, sneaking amongst the Prismatic Fleet. This allows them to get insider infos and then get back to the alliance, and yes, I did explain how Lily survived Battleworld 52: she escaped it from the start, but was only able to rescue some Guardians (including Young Wolf and Shayura) with it. The subspace shielded the effect and process of the creation of the patchwork multiverse, and also allowed Lily to spy on everywhere during the very existence of said multiverse. It might have been how the Oninoshima (Chapter 6 Island) was freed from the patchwork, though I'll let you imagination slide and go bloom with that. Either way, once Battleworld 52 is completely destroyed, Lily is back, bringing the Guardians into the Prismatic Fleet as disguised evil Guardians. A lot tipped off... wait, you were waiting for the "alternate" Exo Stranger that taught Pechy and friends the Light and Dark? As it turns out, Elsie of the Second Knife's home timeline was not among the rescued Guardians, so she was captured by the Second Knife themselves - also doubled as a makeshift homecoming for they're the Young Wolf of her timeline. And unsurprisingly, she's rebooted. Elsie-2 is numbered as such because Elsie-1 - the Exo Stranger you players probably know - are the original mind of Elisabeth Bray in her own Exo body, while the number "2" denoted the first-ever reset of an Exo (think of Clovis-n where n is a natural number, up until Banshee-44. This includes Clovis-1 the big Exo-head, btw).
The mission there is to free Galeem and Dharkon from the Second Knife, which had to be imprisoned for the reasons that will be revealed for the next chapter. And as I have planned to bring various characters back to spotlight, we have the expanded alliance stalking through the World of Light, though the scenes are mainly the Realm of Light - this fic takes place after Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズSPECIAL, 2018), though don't ask me why, because Smash Bros. can be summed up as having taken place inside one's imagination and toys (so ask your inner child and/or nerd within instead of your still asking). Unsurprisingly, while Bayonetta and then Ms. Continuum cleared the final realm and freed the two beings, the rest were spotted at the end by the Prismatic Fleet, and now both the latter and reinforcements are going to try striking the alliance down. (No, members stopped calling the alliance the name "Sandstorm" - Redvengers or variant started to fit a little bit more)
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Until next time...
Cross-trivia:
(*1) - See chapter #12.
(*2) - Just after the transitioning point between Sonic Prime Overclocked and Dreamcatcher: Warzone (this very fic you're reading right now), Kamen Rider Double (from Kamen Rider W (仮面ライダーW, 2009-2010) and tie-ins) attacked Pechy Comet.
(*3) - Nickname for The Night Rose. Karizaki and Kaguya tends to use this nickname.
(*4) - Chapter 6 Season 2: Lawless (2025), releases February 21st, 2025.
(*5) - See chapter #18.
(*6) - The time elementals from "Like Clockwork" series from DeviantArt.
(*7) - Chapter 1 (2017-2019) of Fortnite: Battle Royale (2017) and stuffs based on it (by default if UEFN) such as Chapter 4 Season OG (2023) and the Fortnite OG mode (December 2024)'s various seasons doesn't permit swimming at all, so Loot Lake instead is of shallow depth and slows all players walking on foot, a la trenching. May be bypassed by going over the water somehow. Yes, Penny Luna did account for it, she's seen the original Loot Lake.
(*8) - Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (侍戦隊シンケンジャー, 2009) is the 33th Sentai, while accounting the 3 seasons Mighty Morphin' (1993-1995) got and the Alien Rangers being based on Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (忍者戦隊カクレンジャー, 1994), Power Rangers Samurai is the 17th.
(*9) - Kinetic Blade in Chapter 4 Season 2: MEGA (メガ, 2023). Typhoon Blade in Chapter 6 Season 1: 鬼HUNTERS (鬼ノ島, 2024).
(*10) - Not to be confused with Hestia, the goddess of hearth and fire, from Greek mythology. The clockwork!Hestia is actually based on an astrolabe.
(*11) - Note that Daigo disappeared after ending Shogun X and the latter's reign of terror at the end of Chapter 6 Season 1: 鬼HUNTERS (鬼ノ島, 2024).
(*12) - The sorceress power (the "witch embodiment" in the original Japanese script) is the unique power separating a sorceress from a normal human being in Final Fantasy VIII (1999).
The Great Hyne granted the sorceress power to sorceresses at the beginning of time, a mysterious gift that enables a person to use magic naturally without resorting to a Limit Break, a Guardian Force, or a Junction system. The sorceress power is seemingly immortal and inexorable. It attaches to a person and remains with them until their death. They must then transfer it to another sorceress or potential one. The power can also transfer to a new host should a sorceress suffer a near-death experience. Canonically, a potential sorceress can be rare but is identifiable by people who know what to look for.
Whoever receives the power must be physically close to a sorceress at the time of their death. What happens to the sorceress/her power if no worthy recipients are near them is unclear.
(*13) - Detailed in chapter #13 with the backstory of the Second Knife. They caused the Second Collapse just to link the Traveler with the Veil - which all happened in no more than a month (between "Excision" and Episode: Echoes), compared to the Witness taking eons to finally do the job.
(*14) - From #12 (*1) to till the scene where this recap took place.
(*15) - The Falcon Eye Sniper is a sniper rifle in Fortnite Battle Royale (2017), first added in Chapter 6 Season 2: Lawless (2025).
The Falcon Eye Sniper is a semi-automatic, medium damage sniper rifle with 3 shots per magazine. It is equipped with a custom Scope, which has an adjustable zoom of 3x and 6x. In-game, it supports weapon canting. The Falcon Eye Sniper has a 3x damage multiplier against Vehicles. The Falcon Eye Sniper fires a fast-moving projectile that is affected by gravity.
(*16) - Red, blue, yellow, pink and green.
(*17) - Crota and Atheon both haven't been seen since P-1 Special ended. (*1)
(*18) - See chapter #17.
(*19) - She used the properties of Stasis to try blocking the Double Rider Kick.
(*20) - The Pump & Dump is a shotgun and submachine gun in Fortnite: Battle Royale (2017), first added in Chapter 6 Season 2: Lawless (2025).
The Pump & Dump is a combination of a shotgun and submachine gun that can be shot at the same time or separately. The Pump & Dump is a hitscan weapon, with first shot accuracy disabled.
Its Exotic variant, Lawless Blink Pump & Dump (which Shurikenger is using for this scene), grants the Zero Point Dash effect when reloading for 4 seconds. The effect dissapears when switching to another weapon.
(*21) - Arc Staff is a Super available to Hunters that have chosen the Arcstrider subclass from Destiny 2 (2017). The Arcstrider summons a Bo staff infused with Arc energy, which they use to hit enemies with.
(*22) - For example: the rescue of Saint-14; Episode: Echoes (2024).
(*23) - Not to be confused with full-sized guns such as battle rifles or sniper rifles, or many long guns - submachine guns are smaller.
(*24) - Pechy's technically right. See prologue #1. (*2)
(*25) - Referring to Hortus Zankyo (残響ホルタス).
(*26) - As prepped, because Decade clones Gira's OhgerCrown once again.