The image of the planet Earth was shown in the crystal ball of a Grimm Seer.
"Each race, each culture, whether they are sentient or not, are different."
The Seer then shows images…
Humans
Faunus
Mobians
Gargoyles
Fae
"Each and every species that lives on this world and even beyond is unique."
Now, images of extra-terrestrial races were shown, such as the Gems, the Plutarkians, Cybertronians, Glorft and more.
"It is the uniqueness that challenges the warriors who seek to do battle with them."
The Diamonds are shown, followed by the King of the Fae, Oberon.
"Often, the warrior who challenges the uniqueness of other races and cultures are let with little clues to the goals, skills, and tactics of their opponents."
The Gem Rebellion is shown with Gems fighting each other, Grimm and Racing Drones.
"Whether it is on the battlefield or even worse, politics."
Sebben is then shown scolding the World Council over the attempted attack in Nowhere.
"The greatest danger of any battle is misreading an opponent's goals, what they seek and how they aim to claim it."
Feral is shown banging his fist on the council table.
"In the battlefield, you can at least ensure to have a platoon of your greatest warriors marching behind, trumpets echoing through the air like thunder."
The mysterious councilor Solomon is shown next.
"But in politics you have no such advantage. You can only count on your ability to read the room, attempting to locate the hidden danger and even if you do, there are no weapons to be allowed in the room of politics. No, that game is even more insidious then simply scheming to defeat or even kill your opponent on the battlegrounds of a bloody war."
Reinforcements arrive in Nowhere to reinforce the tired Huntsmen and Heroes that had already fought in Van Kleiss' fortress and were now up against an army of invading Grimm.
"Too soon, as one battle ends, another already begins. And at the very least in war, you can only die once."
Sammael stepped out and stared down at the crystal ball with an amused smile as his eyes emitted a soft red glow.
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"We are coming up on Earth now, my Diamond."
Yellow Diamond sighed as she sat up straight in her chair. "About time."
Earth.
The planet she hated most in all the universe.
The planet where…she was shattered.
"You have the coordinates where we are supposed to meet with Cipher?" Yellow Diamond asked her Pearl who nodded. "Good. Bring us down."
Yellow Pearl nodded and was about to do so when something on her console attracted her attention. "My Diamond, there appears to be some strange readings around these coordinates."
"Of what kind?" Yellow Diamond questioned.
"Massive spatial distortion. I have never seen anything like this before." Yellow Pearl answered with a surprised look on her face. "I am also detecting an advanced mech down there."
Yellow Pearl brought an image for Yellow Diamond to see who raised an eyebrow.
A blue pained…mech fighting Cipher and winning…
"So, Cipher has finally manifested himself in our reality." Yellow Diamond narrowed her eyes. "And he's losing to some sort of Earth mech?"
"The mech has some sort of energy field around it that's seemingly negating Cipher's power." Yellow Pearl stated.
"This is what White sent me and Blue to observe?" Yellow Diamond scoffed. "I always suspect this alliance was a bad idea."
"Shall we continue on course?"
"No. Put us in high orbit and open the Diamond channel to Blue ship." Yellow Diamond answered. "I will not have us be brought in the middle of another Earth mess."
"Yes, My Diamond."
A second later, a screen showing Blue Diamond appeared. "Yellow, I take it you have seen what I have?"
"Indeed, I have, Blue." Yellow Diamond nodded. "Looks like Cipher has some unexpected problems."
"Should we assist?"
"No." Yellow Diamond answered immediately. "I was never in agreement with this alliance in the first place, despite White's insistence. If anything, she suspected he would attempt to betray us once we were no longer needed in his eyes-I mean eye."
"Won't White be upset that we chose not to intervene and assist Cipher?" Blue questioned.
"Not if Cipher falls before the humans. Falling in battle to a lower lifeform would just prove Cipher was a liability from the start in White's eyes." Yellow answered. "I'm more interested in the mech that is fighting Cipher at the moment."
Yellow watched as the mech continued fighting Cipher, even punching him in the eye, earning a smile from the yellow matriarch.
"It's clear the humans have quickly advanced and in only five thousand years." Yellow noted.
"They were always a resilient species." Blue noted, a sad but nostalgic smile on her face. "It's what fascinated Pink so much."
Yellow frowned but said nothing.
Blue was letting her past with Pink consume her which was one of the many reasons Yellow wanted the Earth destroyed.
"It doesn't matter, the Cluster should be emerging soon." Yellow waved if off. "Though I am wondering why the Peridot that was sent here with the Jasper and the Lapis we assigned to her has not reported back. They were sent off several cycles ago and I am not detecting any sign of their ship."
"You don't think those surviving rebels destroyed the ship, do you?" Blue pondered.
"If they did, perhaps I should hunt them down myself." Yellow answered, clenching one hand into a fist. "I still don't understand how they could have survived our attack. A blast from all three Diamonds should have blasted the planet clean of all traitorous Gems."
"These rebels held their ground for over a thousand solar cycles and even blasted down White's ship before forcing her into her Gem, no matter how short it was." Blue reasoned. "Perhaps they somehow prepared themselves or they had help."
"Help…From Asgard or those accursed drones." Yellow Diamond narrowed her eyes. "In that case, perhaps it is time we turn our attention back to this planet, especially since they embarrassed on the galactic stage when they snuck into Homeworld itself and liberated the Elemental prisoners from us."
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Pacifica snarled but kept attacking, her rage overcoming any sense of reason in her.
POW-POW-POW!
"You shouldn't have used and manipulated Hoagie the way you did." Double D continued. "And you should have hurt everyone in this town."
As this continued, up in the sky, Bill Cipher was about to be thrown back into the Nightmare Realm by MEGAS.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NONONONONONONONONONONONO!" Bill struggled desperately to break free.
MEGAS fired its fists holding Bill and rocketed up towards the rift when they were close enough.
Back down in Cipher's castle, Pacifica paused and looked up to see her 'father' being flung back into the rift. "FATHER!"
Bill looked down and saw Pacifica staring up in sheer terror, holding her hand to him.
A flaming hand.
He held out his hand to her and both snapped their fingers just before Bill Cipher vanished back into the Nightmare Realm.
And Pacifica…
She was about to change, and things would never be the same for her again.
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As all the fighting was happening, a daring plan to rescue Mabel from the prison Cipher had placed her in was in action.
"From what it appears to be, this prison he's trapped your niece with is some kind of pocket dimension." Kiva said as the scans from MEGAS gave a detailed description of the energy sphere that Cipher had trapped Mabel inside.
"Another pocket dimension? We just got back from one." Stan groaned.
"Focus Stanley." Ford scolded, taking a closer look at the screen and noticed something. "There's a lock."
Indeed, there was.
A literal lock with chains wrapped around the glowing sphere.
"And if there is a lock, there must be a key." Ford leaned back. "Cipher must have designed that sphere to make it impossible to enter by any other means."
"So, what do we do? Dipper's up there about to be married to something than a pig in a wedding dress and Mabel's trapped in that…thing." Stan gestured at the screen. "We can't do anything until we rescue the both of them."
"Why are you so worried? Take down Cipher and those kids should be fine." Jamie remarked from the passenger seat of the car.
"It's not that easy, Jamie." Kiva scolded. "If either child is still in that fortress or in that sphere when Cipher is defeated, both will return through the rift as with anything unnatural by rules of physics in our dimension."
"Meaning if Cipher wins, we lose and we win, Dipper and Mabel lose. They'll leave with the monsters." Ford clarified. "I survived over thirty years out there, but I was already an adult when that happened. Dipper and Mabel won't stand a chance, even if they are together."
"So, we wait to rescue the kids before we go after the triangle." Stan said, throwing a dirty glare at Jamie who flinched. "So what do we do?"
"First, we have to make sure Bill is distracted while we infiltrate that fortress and rescue Dipper. The next step is to find the key and then use it to open that prison so we can rescue Mabel." Ford held up his hand, counting the objectives with his fingers. "Once the kids are rescued, we send Cipher back through the rift and reverse Weirdmageddon."
"Sounds like a plan." Coop nodded with a smile. "So, who does what?"
"I think I know someone on the way who can help." Everyone looked out the car to see Scrooge McDuck standing on the shoulder of MEGAS, looking up with a smile.
They followed her gaze and looked up see several people with parachutes falling towards them.
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"NO!" Dipper shouted as he ran at Pacifica who glanced at him.
To her surprise, Dipper's form begam flat as paper that then shifted into…a rhino?!
POW!
SMASH!
The paper rhino slammed into Pacifica and sent her crashing into a wall.
"Whoa." Abby and Nigel said at the same time as Ed smiled.
The paper rhino then morphed back into Dipper who let out an exhausted gasp. "Never turned into anything that big before."
"How'd you do that?" Nigel asked with a pointed finger.
"It's my Semblance." Dipper answered with a smile.
"He unlocked it on the train." Ed added.
"That what?"
"Oh right, you two weren't here for that side-arc." Ed remembered with a chuckle.
Meanwhile, as Pacifica was getting back up, a pair of eyes were on her, one of them staring through the scope of a rifle.
The eyes narrowed as they spied a necklace with a key around Pacifica's neck. "There you are."
Bentina Beackly narrowed her eyes, activating her Semblance which befitted her former status as a secret agent.
Her Semblance went by the name X-Axis, allowing her to strike anything she desired, penetrating any obstacle between her weapon and her target. The bullet would become intangible, traveling through any obstacle, a wall, a vehicle, even various people and would only become solid upon reaching the target.
Except the key wasn't her target.
She adjusted her sniper rifle so that the bullet would strike the threads of the necklace around Pacifica's next.
She just needed to wait until she had the right moment.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Pacifica emerged from the hole she had made, blue fire illuminating her enrage form. "WILL ALL OF YOU JUST DIE ALREADY?!"
That was it.
Bentina pulled the trigger and fired. The bullet shot through Pacifica who was too enraged to notice, cutting the thread of the necklace. In the midst of the fighting, the key went flying and Bentina dropped her rifle and held up a grapple attached to her wrist. The grapple fired, shooting through the wall Bentina had hid behind and hit the key, latching onto it.
The grapple retracted with the key that fell into Bentina's hand.
"Objective One complete." Bentina muttered, holding up the key to the Prison Bubble holding Mabel prisoner. "Now for Objective Two."
She placed the key in a modified capsule and pulled out another rifle, one larger than the sniper rifle she had previously used. She placed the capsule inside the rifle like it was bullet and then aimed in the direction of the Prison Bubble. Bentina's Semblance kicked in, allowing her eyes to see through the walls.
This was why Bentina was perhaps the best agent in her time.
Her Semblance allowed her vision and weapon to strike any target, no matter the obstacle. Her vision settled on the Prison Bubble, and she could see Stan Pines holding up one hand.
A hand with a baseball glove.
"You were always hopelessly theatrical Stanley Pines." Bentina rolled her eyes momentarily. "That was why Scrooge looked you, allowing to get the drop on him."
She aimed…
And fired.
The capsule shot through the walls, completely intangible to everything that was solid. The trajectory was aimed right at Stan Pines' hand and thanks to Bentina's X-Axis, nothing, not even the distance would matter. Bentina had spent years honing her Semblance to account for everything, including distance to ensure she completed every mission assigned to her.
And she was satisfied to see the capsule hit Stan Pines' gloved hand with such force it knocked him down and broke his Aura.
"I am sure Scrooge will still want his money back." Bentina lowered her rifle. "But I think this considers us even."
She then turned back to watching the fight between Pacifica and the people gathered to fight her…
Including the Elementals.
"Ice, Candy and Slime here at the same time. This can only be a recipe for disaster." Bentina frowned. "And given the events in Nowhere, I am sure you know what this means, Scrooge. Even if we get out of this mess in one piece, if what I think is truly hidden in the center of those mountains…Then our troubles have only just begun, even if you have officially retired from the Huntsman business."
She looked up at the sky, seeing the battle between MEGAS and Cipher along with the demonic boy…A Chaos Lord continued.
"Hurry and rescue your niece, Stan. I don't think we can afford to drag this fight out for very long."
Xxx
"DANG IT, BENTINA BLEAKLY!" Stan cursed, rubbing his sore arm as he held up the rubber capsule with his gloved hand. "You said you wouldn't break my arm!"
"She technically didn't, Grandpa." Zoe knelt down and looked over her grandfather's arm. "In fact, the bones are only mildly rattled."
"Kid, at my age, mildly rattled could mean my bones have gone to dust." Stan complained, groaning as he tried to stand up.
As part of the plan, Stan along with Zoa, Frida, Soos, Wendy and her mentor Rufus Roughcut were to wait by the Prison Bubble that Cipher had locked Mabel for Bentina to get them the key that allow them to enter.
Wendy knelt down and picked up the key. "Okay, we have the key. Now let's hurry and get Mabel out of there."
She turned to the Prison Bubble, specifically the lock with the chains covering the entire weird thing. Wendy inserted the key into the lock and turned it. The lock fell off the bubble along with the chains into the canyon below.
"Okay, let's go." Wendy turned to the group, nodding to all of them. "Rufus, if we're not back out in ten minutes. Come in and slash everything until you find us."
"Got it, Wendy." Rufus nodded.
With that, Wendy along with Stan, Soos, Frida and Zoe entered the Prison Bubble and they planned to leave with Mabel.
Xxx
Bill Cipher was flung back into the very rift he had emerged from, thrown out of the world he had intended to corrupt and plunge into fiery chaos…
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"Uh, wasn't something supposed to happen?" Coop wondered, seeing nothing had changed.
"It's impossible." Ford leaned forward with a critical look. "As soon as Bill was thrown back into the Nightmare Realm, everything should have returned to normal."
He just hoped Stan and the others rescued Mabel in time.
BOOM!
"What the heck was that?" Coop asked, looking down at the floating stone pyramid that was Cipher's castle, seeing an explosion of blue flames erupting from the inside.
INFINITY TRAIN ARC
"So, this abomination is finally ready?"
Sammael was smiling in satisfaction as Xaiver was now resting on the ground, in the center of red glowing glyph. "Yes. The dark essence of Mordred has been bonded with him and along with that, a trace of the Spider's power. Now he'll be able to circumvent the rules the Spider and the other animal guardians have to abide by and with any luck he'll find his way onto the Infinity Train."
"Where he will hopefully find the Gem of Creation." Moloch stated. "Of course, that's not the only reason you did this."
"No. I want to test the full limits of this new hybrid and if he succeeds in destroying the Infinity Train, so much the better." Sammael turned away. "The Infinity Train exists to help mortals work out their own personal problems. That in turn, gives them a chance to grow and become the best versions of themselves. Against what we plan to unleash, that can be detrimental."
"And that is why you recruited me." Moloch stated. "For just as the Infinity Train allows one to work out their problems and rise above the despair…"
"You seek to down mortals in their despair, bury them deep in the dark soils of the Earth and watch as they succumb to the worst parts of themselves." Sammael finished, walking past Moloch but stopping right behind him. "Where the ones who leave the Infinity Train leave to live the best parts of their lives-"
"The ones that I meet in the Unknown are left to give up their lives, becoming nothing but Edelwood trees, forever petrified until they are chopped down and fed to the lantern containing my soul." Moloch threw an arm out and there was a flash of light, showing his true form.
And the many, many faces on his body.
Faces of those who lost hope, who succumbed to the despair and seeing the true futility of life.
"Exactly." Sammael's lips curled into a smile. "The Infinity Train and the Unknown, two different plains of existence and yet function as two side of the same coin. Perfectly balance, as all things should be. However, should one side tip and fall over…"
"Then the other side is the one that endures." Moloch finished, satisfaction in his voice. "And thus, humanity is brought closer and closer to defeat without the positive influence of the Infinity Train to guide the lost souls back."
"And thus, those lost souls will fall into the Unknown." Sammael continued walking. "There is no need to pity the dead, my friend. Pity those who cling to life and are unable to rise and meet its challenge."
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The blackness continued to spread, its only directive now to consume everything in its path.
The problem was that the reason the train was called the Infinity Train was that it had a near infinite number of cars.
Still, it would eventually reach the group as it came out of one car, stopping to see a blackness spreading over the next car.
"Holy Nightosphere!" Stan Pines exclaimed, pulling Mabel off the bridge as the dark water like substance slowly began to approach. "What is that?!"
"It looks like Grimm matter." Ford took a step back.
Mabel was struggling in Stan's arms now. "Let me go, Grunkle Stan! Dipper is up there!"
"Kid, if you go you might be killed!" Stan argued.
"He's my brother!" Mabel cried out, becoming hysterical. "You spent thirty years trying to save your brother!"
Stan paused, looking at Ford who helplessly stared back.
What could they do?
If they go on, the Dark Substance would likely kill them.
If they don't then Dipper would…
If he wasn't already.
Ed emerged from the car behind them. "Mabel, guys. What's going on? Why have you all stopped?"
Ed then froze when he saw the dark liquid slowly coming over the bridge to the next car, towards him and his friends.
Darkness…
Evil, snarling Grimm rampaging…
Evil…
Humanoid figures could be seen, their eyes glowing red.
Grimm…
The monsters let out a collective roar…
The Fallen…
And in the center, their master, the King of the Grimm himself grinned.
Must stop…
Ed was trembling now, the memories of the past Slime Elementals flashing in his mind, instinctively knowing what was happening.
The Grimm and by extension their masters, the Fallen were taking over the Infinity Train.
Name: Bentina Bleakly
Race: Mobian(Duck)
Aura: Lavender
Semblance: X-Axis
Description: Bentina Bleakly's Semblance allows her to not only see through any obstacle like a X-Ray vision but to even shot through them. The object she fires will be intangible until making contact with the target and can traverse longe distances, even longer when she is able to see her target through the scope of a rifle.
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Name: Mason 'Dipper' Pines
Race: Human
Aura: Minty Green
Semblance: Origami
Description: Dipper's Semblance allows him to morph his body into paper and can manipulate it to take any form he chooses. However, despite being able to take the form of objects larger then himself, Dipper's strength remains the same as his body. Thus, he does not gain the strength of any animal form he might take, such as a rhino for example.