Opening File: GrimmFall
Founded by Mayor Phil Ken Sebben along with the top Heroes and Hunters of America GrimmFall is one of the largest and most well-known cities in the United States and considered the hometown to many famous warriors such as Major Glory, Valhallen, the Infraggible Krunk, Birdman and Blue Falcon. The city is a concrete jungle of skyscrapers and is the forefront of industrial and technological progress thanks to the contributions of DexLabs and the Fulbright Corporation. The city is also home to Faunus and Mobians with prejudice considered to be a minority thanks to the effort of Phil Ken Sebben who was a powerful Huntsmen before entering the realm of politics. He and his brother, Bill Ken Sebben worked to build a place free from the negative influence of prejudiced politics or hate-filled opportunists from the Satyra who have set back relations between Humans, Faunus and Mobians for their extremist activities.
Built in Kansas, next to the state of Keystone and neighboring Empire and Beach Cities GrimmFall is home to many advancements and strange activities, mostly from Nowhere Kansas which resides in between Keystone and GrimmFall. The site which would become the future tri-state city was originally a gathering for Hunters to protect civilians transporting cattle. It is said that the ancestor of Mayor Phil Ken Sebben began the first stage of building a city dedicated to equality and unity. Due to the numbers of Grimm slain here that was said to number in the thousands to millions the city was named GrimmFall, a name in direct defiance to the Grimm Horde.
Close File
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"Names often are taken for granted but they can have great meaning in some places. Look at me. My name is TOM but you think that doesn't mean something important? Obviously you've never been host to an intergalactic show that broadcasts the best programs in any universe." TOM said, once the GrimmFall file was closed. "Names can often tell you a lot about the person or place you are learning about. Names can represent what a person is meant to be and what they could become. History is full of famous names and if you do a few things right yours can go down in history with all the others."
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"So we're popping over to GrimmFall to help out in an earthquake. Can I just say it's a bad idea to pop into a place with a name like GrimmFall? Especially with the word 'Grimm' in it?"
The person speaking was a young blond haired teenage boy with brown eyes and a freckled face. He wore a black T-shirt, black gloves and cargo pants with black shoes. He was sitting in the back of an airship, seatbelt on of course to keep from flying out if the hatch opened.
"Come on, Ron. GrimmFall is just another city, a tristate city like Triton. And it's a place with famous Hunters and Heroes, even more famous than Go City and Team Go." The girl said.
Sitting next to him was a girl the same age as him, with large bright green eyes and long fiery red hair which came down to her shoulders, and when seen from behind was in the likeness of a heart. She wore a black midriff-baring mock turtleneck, dark gloves with a thin cuff, green cargo pants, a utility belt, and black shoes.
"So why aren't they dealing with this?" The boy named Ron asked, sitting back in his chair.
"Who says they aren't? GrimmFall is a big place and I'm sure they're moving to help. It's a good thing we're coming in by air though." The girl replied, looking at a small device. "But they'd still need help with rescuing anyone caught up in the earthquake and that's what we're going to do."
The airship flew over the wrecked neighborhood and landed down on the street.
"Thanks for the ride, Mr. Bell." The girl said as she unbuckled from her seat.
"It's the least I can do, Miss Possible after you pulled me out of the way of that exploding engine." The pilot said before lifting his jump-ship back up into the air.
"This should be easy, Ron." The girl looked around. "The area has been mostly evacuated. We just need to check a few houses since it's a Sunday so the kids won't be at school."
"Okay, Kim but I still think we're going to run into some kind of crazy trouble. I mean, we're in a city called GrimmFall after all." Ron said, looking down the street.
"Ron, for the last time," The girl named Kim Possible rolled her eyes. "This city is not a bad place because of its name."
Kim Possible was a very famous name nowadays, a high-school student who also happened to be a freelance Huntress/Vigilante. Despite her status she maintains good relations with various law enforcement and even military agencies. She started as an ordinary young girl leading an ordinary life in Middleton that was part of Triton, a city that maintained a heavy defense system against the Grimm and did not have as many Hunters. By her preteen years she was wishing to supplement her allowance, so she decided to start up her own babysitting business and set up her own website: " ", under the slogan, "I can do anything" to advertise her services.
Soon after her site went live Kim was accidentally contacted by Mr. McHenry who was in trouble and was trying to contact a different group of heroes, 'Team Impossible', but because of a typing error he contacted ' ' instead of ' .' After the rescue, Kim's fame as a hero grew until she was being contacted for help by people all over the world, including governments and royalty, as a matter of daily activity. This lead to a long and successful career as a teenaged heroine and a success rate which only added to her fame.
Knowing the dangers of traveling around the world Kim had her and best friend's Aura awakened and trained to control their powers but they often avoided missions involving the Grimm, resorting to smaller and less dangerous missions. With her was Ron Stoppable, her best friend from her childhood and his pet naked mole rat Rufus who offered emotional support but helped in any way they could.
"What about the massive hole where a house is supposed to be?" Ron suddenly asked. "Does that count?"
"What do you mean?" Kim asked.
Ron pointed at where a house was supposed to be but saw only a large hole. "…Still think a place named GrimmFall doesn't spell trouble?"
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"This is crazy." Johnny Bravo complained as he followed Pops through the ruined neighborhood.
"Quite your belly-aching, Johnny! And keep an eye out for anyone who might need help!" Pops barked, looking around the neighborhood, noticing a massive hole where as a house used to be. "Looks like a house got pulled under."
"What do we do, Pops?" Carl asked.
"We call it in." Pops pulled out his phone. "And then we're going down to check if anyone or anything is down there."
Xxx
The blue and black jet landed on the wrecked street and the pilot hopped out, seeing the houses had been evacuated.
Except for a house that had been reported that it sank under the ground.
The house in question was home to a couple with two kids and the parents were out on an errand while the kids were supposedly home since it was a Sunday.
He better move fast if they were still alive.
Xxx
Monty Uno could not believe what was happening.
He had gone out on an errand with his wife, trusting the kids back at home to look after themselves and suddenly this earthquake happened. Now he was listening to the radio detailing an earthquake hitting the neighborhood where the Uno Residence was located and was reported to be missing.
And both Nigel and Abby inside it.
Now he was speeding home with his wife, determined to rescue their kids before something terrible happened.
"Monty, you can move faster without the car. Go ahead!" Jennifer urged him from the passenger seat. "Go and save our kids!"
Monty nodded as he pulled over. "I won't fail."
He leapt out of the car and readied himself. He thrust his hands behind himself and fire blasted from the palms, propelling him into the air like a rocket.
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The Yeti Cryptid known as Skips looked out the window of his house, seeing smoke rising downtown. "So after so long it has begun again."
He had been expecting this for a very long time now. His bloodthirsty brother, Argost and his quest for the ancient Cryptid Kur was only the tip of the iceberg of what was to come. He sensed a power behind the sudden earthquake.
A very ancient and familiar power.
"I shouldn't be involved." Skips closed his eyes. "But if the Elementals are in danger, I have no choice."
He sensed two of the Elementals in the midst of all this chaos.
The Ice Elemental created by Jack Frost and the Candy Elemental created by La Muerta.
He turned away from his window and walked down to his basement where he picked up a large chest and opened it.
Inside was a pair of large golden gauntlets.
These gauntlets was forged in a very ancient time and used against the forces of darkness and evil that nearly led to the world's destruction. They were given to Skips as a gift and as a weapon to use when the time was right.
"You tried to end the world once. That will not happen again." Skips vowed.
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The Rustbucket drove down the wrecked street, careful to avoid any large cracks or pieces of debris.
"Wow. What hit this place?" Ben asked, looking out the window.
"Whatever it was it was not an earthquake." Max answered, carefully driving the van.
Ben and Gwen had learned much about their mysterious grandfather in the last few weeks. How he used to be a Hunter that specialized in dealing with alien threats like Vilgax who was Max's most dangerous enemy back in the day. He was even friends with Jasmine Lee, a former 'magical' guardian who dealt with magical threats while Max dealt with alien threats. It was amazing to listen to the two elders recount their days along with Jasmine's granddaughter Juniper Lee who was just now taking up the mantle of the 'Te Xuan Ze'.
"I just heard a report that one of the houses was taken underground with the possibility of two…No, three kids inside." Max spoke up, shaking his grandchildren from their thoughts. "This was definitely no earthquake. More like an abduction."
"Well then." Ben activated the Omnitrix. "What are we waiting for?"
He slammed down on it and after a flash of green light a blue blur shot out of the Rustbucket and shot down the street.
"You could have at least waited for us!" Gwen shouted even though she knew her dimwit cousin couldn't hear him.
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"Wow. GrimmFall…Nice looking place despite the name." Rex Salazar commented as he and his partner, Agent Six looked around the city.
"This is one of the largest cities in this dimension. We'll find people here who can help us." Agent Six noted, taking note of the urgent message on the message board.
DANGER!
EARTHQUAKE PROTOCOLS IN EFFECT
ALL CIVILIANS RETURN HOME OR TO THE NEAREST SHELTER
Both of them stopped, seeing a familiar van going down the streets.
"That's Ben!" Rex said with a big smile and took after the van.
"Rex wait!"
Xxx
"So many Hunters and Heroes coming to me. It has been so long since I have had any…Excitement."
Xxx
"So let me get this straight. We're down here because someone or something is after you guys because of this Elemental stuff?" Wally asked, chewing a few jellybeans that Abby had made for him to prove what she had told him was true. "…Okay."
"Okay?" Nigel asked, pulling out his sunglasses and looking them over for any damage. "That's it?"
No one bothered to ask why he still had them, especially since Abby retrieved her hat before leaving the Uno House.
"You showed me proof so I believe ya." Wally shrugged. "So, what now?"
They had stopped for a second to explain everything to Wally, even telling him about the Elementals and Abby's origins with her family. Now they were traveling through the cave they had found and found it to be really hot.
Nigel held up a hand and conjured a frost-flame, cooling him and the others down. "We keep following the voice I guess. Though, if I know Mom and Dad they'll be rushing back to find out what happened to the house."
Wally smirked and the brunette haired boy. "Wishing you stayed home?"
"Not when I was almost crushed." Nigel shook his head, not going to let Wally accuse him of being a chicken.
"Just wish you could do something about the smell." Abby sighed, feeling a little queasy. "That smell of ash and sulfur is really bugging me."
"Right, your nose is ten times more sensitive than mine." Nigel remarked with a small smile, even as Abby glared at him.
"So why does this guy want us to come to him if he was after you guys?" Wally asked as they came to the end of the cave…
And came upon a pool of magma.
"You have gotta be kidding." Wally complained.
It was a huge cavern with a large island in the center of the magma lake with a bridge leading to it.
"This is like the start of every boss fight in every adventure game we've played." Wally said, walking down the bridge.
"Wally, wait!" Nigel called out but the blond Faunus ignored him and continued walking forward.
Abby sighed and simply followed after Wally. "Come on."
Nigel reluctantly followed them both onto the black rocky island. Just as they stepped onto the platform lava burst out from the center of the island and from it emerged a giant made of pure black rock. Lines of red energy traveled along the ground and into the giant's body, forming red lines in its body and a pair of red eyes opened, staring down at the shocked children.
The giant took a step forward, shaking the island and held out a hand that morphed into a mace that it held and spoke in a gravely voice. "Welcome Elementals, to your doom!"
Nigel gulped and stepped back, trembling at the sight of the giant monster. Wally and Abby were shaking as well, their Faunus instincts screaming at them to run but the bridge behind them sank into the magma.
"It has been a long time since I have gazed upon an Elemental, let alone two of them." The giant continued to speak. "I believe I last encountered the Ice Elemental in the kingdom of Arendelle a long time ago."
Nigel stepped back, crying out as he grasped his head.
A kingdom in flames as a giant lava monster loomed over a familiar woman who spread her arms out and was engulfed in an explosion of ice and snow.
Nigel shook his head and focused back on the matter at hand.
"And the Candy Elemental…" The giant's gaze shifted to Abby. "I attempted to find you more than a decade ago but I failed. You slipped through my grasp."
Abby clenched a fist, glaring up at the giant. "It was you…You sank my home into the ground with my parents!"
"Abby…" Nigel whispered, glancing at his best friend.
The giant laughed. "Yes, I remember now! The Candy Elemental, supposedly living in the Twisted Forest. I brought the house down but the Candy Elemental was not there. The ones inside refused to speak and save their lives."
"What did you do to them?!" Abby shouted, refusing to back down as she looked up at the giant with hate.
"They refused to speak so I made them vanish…Into the magma of my home!" The giant gestured to the magma lake surrounding them. "They paid the price for their defiance!"
Abby screamed in rage as she charged at the giant, swinging her candy cane sword.
"Abby!" Nigel and Wally shouted but their voices fell on deaf ears as Abby slashed at the giant.
Her candy cane sword shattered on impact and the giant laughed. "You think you can harm me? I have faced and dealt with Elementals before! You have not even begun to understand your powers! And you never will!"
It raised its mace, ready to bring it down on the children just before a flash of black and blue slammed into the giant's chest, knocking it down.
The three kids gasped as a tall muscular man with dark blue hair stood on the giant's chest. "Perhaps I can provide a challenge."
Xxx
"You sent Drago to kill the Ice and Candy Elementals?"
A pair of red eyes glinted from the dark throne the person they belonged to resided, regarding the glowing eyes of the shadowed form appearing before them. "Kill is perhaps a strong word. But in order to see just how far they have progressed it is necessary for them to face true danger and death. Drago failed to find the Candy Elemental last time so now he's due for a chance to redeem himself."
"Drago has always been the most effective of your Elemental Hunters but he is also very destructive and unruly. He has been that way since you imprisoned him in that rock body."
"He asked for power and I granted it to him. I warned him that to achieve the power he wanted he would have to sacrifice everything in order to gain it."
"It was a miracle he didn't succumb to madness in all those years he spent trapped in the crystal. What's ironic is that it was the same punishment you bestowed on his enemy."
"And from that prison he was granted immortality and an indestructible body, allowing him to travel underground anywhere on the planet, thus making him the best hunter for Elementals. He can slip into any country, city or state and bring it down with a simple earthquake or even create an instant volcano to wipe out any enemy stronghold."
"The best at tracking them but he is not the only one. If Drago fails again it could galvanize the enemy."
"Fortunately there are preparations made."
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The rock giant, Drago growled as he stood up, glaring down at the man who attacked him. "You…You are Hego of Team Go."
"And you are?" Hego asked, ready to attack again.
Drago grinned. "Your death!"
He swung his mace down on Hego who launched his fist up, his super strength allowing him to bat the mace aside. Drago grunted and swatted at Hego who blocked with both arms, skidding across the ground.
Drago pulled his fist back and slammed it into the ground. "You think you can challenge me here?! I am master of the earth and fire!"
A pillar of magma exploded from the ground, threatening to hit Hego but Hego held out both hands and clapped them, unleashing a powerful shockwave that blasted the magma back towards its master. However Drago barely even blinked as he unleashed heat beams from his eyes. Hego took off running, avoiding the eye beams as they trailed after him. Drago grunted as he stopped using the beams and lashed out with a hand, shooting crystal shards from his body.
Hego leapt back as the shards hit the ground, showing how sharp and powerful they were.
"I have slain warriors, Elementals, and even Hunters!" Drago roared. "You cannot harm me!"
The sound of a gun firing echoed through the air and a projectile slammed into Drago's right shoulder, making him stagger back as it exploded, leaving his shoulder frozen in ice which immediately began to melt.
"WHAT?!" Drago roared.
"Boy, someone loves to talk." Pops remarked, standing at the entrance with his rifle smoking, having loaded it with Ice Dust. "Nice place you got here, bud. Not my kind of vacation spot though."
Drago growled and prepared to launch a barrage of crystal shards to skewer Pops when something landed on him from above and slugged him in the face so hard his rocky face cracked. Drago roared and tried to swipe at whoever punched him but they jumped off his shoulder and landed on the ground.
It was Skips, wielding his golden gauntlets. "You are no Grimm…I sense your Aura. You are a Human inside a rock body. You work for him, don't you?"
Pops cut off any conversation by shooting Drago in the chest with another Ice Dust bullet that hit Drago in the chest, knocking him back a few feet as ice spread across his chest but like before it quickly started to melt. Hego charged forward and punched Drago in the chest, knocking him off his feet. Hego then jumped up and landed on Drago's chest before beginning to rapidly punch through the rock giant's chest.
A grappling gun was fired and down into the chamber slid Kim Possible from a hole made in the roof, stopping to look at Drago as Hego attacked him. "That's not something you see every day."
"Kids!" A voice shouted from above.
Nigel, Abby and Wally looked up; gasping in awe as Monty Uno slowly hovered down onto the rocky island, white flames bursting from his hands.
"Dad?!" Nigel gawked at the sight of his father landing in front of them. "Wow!"
"You can gawk later! We're getting out of here!" Monty said, picking up all three kids.
Taking a glance back at Drago the man shook his head and shot up into the air, white flames bursting from his feet, propelling him up like a rocket.
Drago's eyes shot open and he roared, knocking Hego off of him. "NO ONE ESCAPES ME!"
"Wanna bet?"
Drago looked up at a green diamond…thing that landed down on the ground and leapt at him. It slammed its fists into his cracked chest but Drago quickly swatted it away, moving to fire his heat beams at the fleeing Monty who just reached the top of the chamber, making it back to the surface but luckily Pops fired another ice blast that hit Drago in the face, knocking him back down.
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"It seems Drago has failed."
The red-eyed figure didn't even blink to acknowledge the blunt statement. "Skips, the Immortal Cryptid, blessed with the power of the Guardians and outcast of the bloodthirsty Yeti from the Himalayas. Hego, former leader of the now disbanded Team Go along with few experienced Hunters. GrimmFall has yet to run short of warriors that can move quickly."
"What shall be done about Drago?"
"We cannot afford him to be captured by the enemy. Retrieve him."
Xxx
The ice around Drago's face had just melted away when a portal appeared underneath him that he fell into, vanishing from sight.
"Uh…Okay." Ben Tennyson in the form he labelled Diamondhead commented. "What was that about?"
Skips stared at the portal as it vanished. "So, you've finally made a move."
But it wouldn't be the last.
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"That was a reckless move. Sending Drago gained attention and now GrimmFall will be on full alert." The glowing eyed shadow remarked the red-eyed man. "You were careless."
The being smirked. "Was I?"
"What do you mean?"
"We now know that the Ice and Candy Elementals have not awakened their true powers. And it is now more than likely that the Fire and Slime Elementals have been reincarnated by now as well."
"Of course. The odds that they had not reincarnated by now would be impossible."
"It is even better this way. The Ice Elemental has a different set of powers compared to the previous ones, no doubt because of his bloodline that has now fused two great powers as one. And in the short time we have been tracking the Candy Elemental we know she has been hiding her presence, yet she was able to find the Ice Elemental." The red eyes glinted. "Unfortunately for them since the dawn of the Huntsmen no Elemental has been able to utilize their full potential, having to hide and silence themselves. The strongest Elemental in the last century was Queen Elsa of Arendelle. Well, we all know what happened to her."
"It takes over a full century for an Elemental to fully reincarnate, born in separate seasons. The Ice Elemental born in the season of Winter, Fire in the season of Summer, Candy in the season of Spring and Slime in the season of Fall. As you said, with two Elementals discovered and awake the other two will have reincarnated by now as well."
"Which is why we will wait. Right now the two are weak but they will be driven to become stronger. And eventually they will locate the other two Elementals." The red-eyed figure explained.
"Because the Elementals can not only sense each other but they are driven by instinct to seek each other in times of great conflict." The glowing eyed shadow stated, now understanding what its master had planned. "You sent Drago, not to kill the Elementals but to show them what they are up against. This will force the enemy to better protect the Elementals, training them and taking them under the wings of their best warriors."
"And in the process they will learn more about themselves, driven to seek the other two Elementals who are still hidden. I need them to bring them out, convince them to shine bright enough for us to see." The red eyes flashed with amusement. "And when the time comes if they are still ready to fight that is exactly what we will give them. In the meantime we will deal with Bill Cipher and make sure his goals do not conflict with ours."