Pre-Merge[]
Dimensional Council[]
A being of darkness and glitches floats around a powerful machine, complete with a magical artifact powering it. They then check on the engineers who built the thing.
Demon Engineer: There it is, Eror. A machine capable of merging multiple dimensions into one, powered by that Quartz Kaleidoscope you got us.
Eror: Good, good.
Glitchian Engineer: The machine’s ready to fire anytime, on your command.
Eror: I need to inform the rest of the dimensional council, wait a second.
Eror runs off to the rest of the dimensional council. As he arrives, he relays the news.
Eror: The machine’s ready to fire, team! I just need some targets now.
Ryky: I could destroy my whole universe if I want to. NONE of them deserve to live.
Eror: Yeah, that’s great. Does anyone know where that Oracle person went?
Veroxx : What is all this noise? I was in the middle of meditating.
Eror: The merge device is ready.
Veroxx : Truly? That is great.
Ryky: So, Veroxx, any plans or ideas? I'm bored, me, here.
Veroxx : I'd rather begin with our plans. But I guess I'll indulge you since we are at this point in progression. I'm a magical deity, as you may know. But I still wear these chains of light and shackles of darkness. These restrain my wish magic and my intrinsic abilities, so of course, I will break these. After I regain my wish magic I will become the sovereign of the dimension and lead an immortal army of Asura. That is the plan at least.
Eror: Wait… I just realized something.
Veroxx : What is it? Surely not a discrepancy.
Eror: That plan to raise an army requires that we do something first, right?
Veroxx : Yes, if I could escape my bindings I could regain my Wish Magic. But before I could use it again I'd require a powerful relic capable of freeing me from the Asura Law. If I could find a relic powerful enough to do so, I could use my Wish Magic freely and remove my bindings. With it I could gather all other imprisoned Asura to form this army. I did have a relic in mind but I don't know whether its real or not.
Eror: So does anyone have a standing army?
Veroxx : Why not ask Armageddon? He's the one running this show.
Eror: He’s not here… wait why isn’t he here, I thought he was waiting like the rest of you?
Veroxx would then begin to walk away.
Veroxx : Tell me when you initiate the machine, I don't like being social...
Veroxx would then leave to go back to meditating. Meanwhile, Armageddon was making some last minute preparations on his world.
Armageddon: Perhaps the other adversaries of Team Alpha would wish to bring about their demise. That's all they really exist for. I'll check.
Armageddon dials each of the adversaries of Team Alpha, asking them whether they would like a hand in destroying part of the multiverse.
Armageddon: Soot? Would your group like to assist some multidimensional villains such as myself in ending the multiverse?
Soot: What would that include?
Armageddon: Power. domination and the end of Team Alpha of course.
Soot: We're in.
Armageddon: Good. Volt, what about you?
Volt: Why not? The boys and I are bored.
Armageddon: Alright, I'll go and inform the others that we may commence.
Armageddon then proceeds to notify his accomplices that the plan can commence.
Armageddon: Veroxx. Eror, Ryky, it's time. You may activate the machine.
Eror: Done.
Armageddon: The plan is coming to fruition! The end of our separate realities are near! We will be unstoppable! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Armageddon then threw back his head and let out the loudest roar he had ever done. His ranting had reason, the plan was perfect and no one could stop it... right?
Team Dragoon[]
Alan ran past Silence. Today was a footrace, the first Alan had ever taken part in.
Alan: Just because you're a animal person doesn't mean you're faster than me, Silence!
Silence: We'll just see about that.
As Alan and Silence rounded a bend and were about to cross the finish line, a quake rattled Emeraldville. The quake started small, with only a small but noticeable rumbling, which Silence noticed. Being ahead, he grabbed Alan as he attempted to run past. As Alan was about to complain, the rumbling became louder. Fearing the potential effects, citizens ran out of their homes. Alan and Silence, wondering what this could be, ran for the lower entrance to the Restoration. As they got there, security waved them through, informing them that Jewel had requested them. Thankfully, Restoration Base was quakeproofed, so Alan and Silence rested easy as they ran for Jewel's Office. As they got there, they noticed their teammates, Dria and Srish, as well as nearly every hero the Restoration had on call, with others on the monitor in a videocall.
Alan: What the? It's just a earthquake, rare, but not a worldwide emergency.
Jewel: Normally, yes, but this is no normal earthquake. Somehow, the entire world is experiencing it at the same time. Spagonia, Soleanna, anywhere the United Federation controls and more!
Abraham Tower: Everyone here is here not only to isolate the source of the earthquake, but on standby for disaster relief if things get worse.
Srish: T-This is a little beyond our purview. Why are we here again?
Jewel: With those new Mk III Wispons you have, you are just as much of a asset as Sonic.
Abraham Tower: You will defend regions once the situation has calmed, so that Eggman cannot get ahold of them.
Meanwhile, with Eggman...
Eggman: This earthquake is getting on my nerves.
Orbot: Sir, I have reason to believe this is far more than a earthquake.
Eggman: What?
Cubot: Badniks round da world are reporting quakes on their end as well.
Eggman: That should be impossible. Is Dark Gaia reawakening?
Sage: Father, i've gotten some troubling energy readings.
Swap
Amy: Hey, i just thought, could something be reawakening Dark Gaia?
Tails: I've been scanning energy readings from around the world, there's no Dark Gaia energies present. There is however a spike in-
Swap
Sage: Dimensional Energies have spiked far beyond the previous record level. Father, this is worse than when you were using the Copy Camera!
Eggman: So what if some new terrain pops up? I'll still conquer it.
Sage: No! If this continues, the planet is at risk of-
Swap
Tails: Total destruction! The planet could be warped worse than even the Warp Topaz could have done!
Abraham Tower: If what you are saying is true, we are in deep trouble.
Murmurs of fear erupt among the crowd.
Sonic: Not to worry, Tails can find a way to fix this! There's always a way! How do we remove the excess dimensional energies?
Swap
Orbot: Haha, you're very funny, Sage. Now, Eggman, how can you fix it?
Eggman: That's a question Sage needs to answer.
Cubot: We can stop this sis, right?
Simultaneously
Sage: Stop it?
Tails: Fix it?
Both: That's sadly impossible.
As everyone sits in silence, the quakes stop, and everyone collectively breathes a sigh of relief.
Dria: Thank the dimensions that the energy flow stopped.
Tails: Not stopped!
As everyone gathered to look at the readings, the Chaotix, who were out on a case before this, noticed something.
Vector: Uhh, guys? Is the sky becoming brighter?
Espio: Not just the sky, everything!
Everyone looks around to see that everything was indeed getting brighter.
Alan: Does anyone know what this means?
Tails: No. I had not expected this. Though i suppose it's possible. Dimensional Energies aren't fully understood yet.
As the world got brighter, everyone had to close their eyes, except for Gemerl and Omega, who didn't need to worry about blindness. And just then, their dimension merged.
Team Phantasm[]
A few minute's before...
Cyne : Yeah, thanks again for you guy's getting Team Dragoon to come help out and get me. I feel much better at home.
Marl : Naturally, we couldn't just leave you, especially with all that's happened.
Cyne : Yeah I was wondering about that? Why is everything looking gloomy around here? I don't remember the sky looking so dark.
Cross : Not just here, it's everywhere. While you were away something happened. It had to have happened around when I went to find Zenith. But... Even when I got back I thought it was just a one off thing...
Cyne : Like what?
Shera : Well, we were with Tails and Sonic just a few hours ago. Tail's said that this wasn't a natural anomaly. He said it was like the light was slowly fading from everywhere and was all Collectively going towards one place. He also said he couldn't locate exactly what point the light was fading to.
Cyne : So what does that mean?
Cross : He says something could be happening that's effecting our universe, maybe some type of singularity or powerful tool similar to the Chaos Emerald is in use.
Cyne : What? I get that we might not be the only planet to have crazy relics but... For something to effect the entire universe like this?
Suddenly, the ground would begin to rumble. The sky flashing, as if the light was being stolen and then replaced by a new one, gripping and tugging on it's decision.
Cyne : What's going on?!
Marl : Whatever it is has to have something to do with what recently happened!
In the distance Tails Tornado could be seen, it would house Sonic on it, landing in front of the four.
Tails : Guy's! This is bad!
Cyne : Tails! What's happening?!
Tails : Were gonna crash- No, merge!
Marl : What do you mean?
The rumbling would increase, the landscape tearing itself apart and the light in the sky flashing even faster.
Tails : Our universe!
All : What?!
Soon the light which flashed upon the sky would grow and consume all within the world.
Team Skyblue[]
Millicent and Charlotte were busy watching T.V. when they saw the sky getting brighter, and the ground below them shaking uncontrollably.
Millie: "Wha-"
Charlotte: "What is happening.."
Millie: "Astronomical stuff?"
Charlotte: "That's not how space works-"
Millie: "Then what could it be?"
Raiden, Kazuxi, and Suketchi bust in.
Kazuxi: "What is happening?! Do you guys know?!"
Millie: "WE DUNNO????"
Charlotte: "WE'RE KIDS, KAZUXELLIA!"
Raiden: "It does not matter at the moment, for we must attempt to figure out what is going on."
Suketchi: "WHAT IF THE MULTIVERSES ARE MERGING??!?!?!?"
Kazuxi: "Don't be silly, Suketchi. There's no way it could happen, right...?"
At the A.E.T. Headquarters (an abandoned mall-)
NULL: "What is happening now...."
Butterscotch: "AAAAAAAH!!! THE FBI IS HERE FOR ME!!!"
Katherine: "Don't be an idiot, silly! It's obvious a massive play is happening!"
Atlas: "W-WHAT KATHERINE SAID! CUZ I THINK SHE'S A GENIUS!"
Katherine: "Exactly."
NULL: "Do not be foolish. It is clearly something different."
Team Alpha[]
Ecto: Yo Slack! How’s the X-20 going?
Slack: Good! But I need another generator!
Ecto: On it! Be right back!
As he sped off, Ecto contemplated life in general. He had been told by his therapist that thinking to himself would be good for him. So far all Ecto had thought about was whether he should grab a pizza on the way back. Deciding on getting the pizza, Ecto sped into the mechanical parts store.
Ecto: Thank fate! There’s one more generator left!
Shopkeeper: Is Slack nearly done? I’m gonna go out of business if this keeps up!
Ecto: He just needs one more generator.
Shopkeeper: You’ve said that about ten times in the past hour, Ecto.
Ecto: Fair.
Shopkeeper: Ah well, you should get going! Slack will have blown up the Alpha Zone by the time you get back!
Ecto: Not wrong, see ya!
Now back on the run, Ecto stopped by the local pizzeria and grabbed the pizza he wanted. Then it was back to the five minute run to the island home of his friends. When he reached the first blast-proof door he scanned his eye. At the second it scanned his voice. This went on for about five minutes as he went through all of the security measures.
Ecto: I got the generator!
Slack: Good! Toss it over!
Flame: Is he nearly done? You do realize that the toilet needs to be replaced today?
Ecto: Patience, dear Flame. Soon we will be able to blast one of Iggy’s clones into the farthest reaches of the universe! We can wait another five minutes!
Flame: Just saying, the toilet is about to become more toxic than Rocky’s pocket dimension.”
Slack: Done! The most powerful handheld weapon in the world is finished!
As all of Team Alpha examined the X-20, Rocky noticed that the lights were flickering.
Rocky: Ecto?
Ecto: Yeah?
Rocky: Have you possessed the building today?
Ecto: No, why’d you ask?
Rocky: The lights are flickering.”
Ecto: Oh yeah, the ground is trembling as well. It must be an earthquake, the tsunami barriers will go up soon. This is very bad, this kind of seismic activity can only be caused by beings of immense power, like Armageddon. I’m just gonna check to see how big the tsunami will be, be right back.
Ecto ran into the computer room and sent a warning signal to all the heroes he was in touch with. When he returned Ecto saw that Flame was toasting a marshmallow.
Flame: Want one, Ecto?
Ecto: No thanks, I’m good for now. Just gonna check on the Overlord Diamond.
Rocky, Flame and Slack: Okay.
When he got there, Ecto used its power to preserve the team’s collective memories in it. As the diamond was indestructible, anyone who found the diamond and touched it could remember or discover the life of Team Alpha. He had just finished this when he saw everything washing to white.
Ecto: Ah well, see you on the other side folks.
Team Sun[]
Tails was doing his research in his lab, curious to receive a new strange wave on his screen, he called his friends.
Sonic: What-? Again? I thought we had resolved the problems with Sweet Hill and Ryky!
Tails: Yes, obviously we did, but-
Shyny: With where and who-?
Sunset: Shyny- I'll explain you later.
Tycy: WHAT? AGAIN HIM?! aw, why-
Tails: But I never said it was-
Sonic: I'm sorry, Tycy, but if we had to fight him, we'll fight him.
Tycy: ...
Shyny: ...?
Tails: GUYS! CAN YOU STOP TALKING AND LISTEN ME?! I HAVEN'T EVEN SAID IT WAS RYKY OR SWEET HILL! IT'S WROST!
Sonic & Sunset: Like?
Tails: Our world... Is...
A blinding light appeared, Sonic tried to protect his friends as best he could.
Team Aftershock[]
Akira, Molly, and Noah are walking around at a local mall. Molly seems tense, Akira relaxed, and Noah joyful.
Molly, fidgeting: Hey Akira? There's something I need to talk about. I just have this feeling-
Noah looks at Molly condescendingly.
Noah, sneering: I have two words for you: chill out. I'm trying to enjoy myself here, and the only girl I want to hear right now is one who's giving me her number.
Akira: Man, the only number you're getting is a prison sentence the way you stalk these girls, so could you stop talking for at least a second? The adults are trying to have a conversation.
Noah mutters something to himself about only being 3 years younger than Akira but doesn't say anything else. Molly nervously chuckles as the three stop on a balcony.
Molly: This is serious, OK? I really need to talk with Akira in private.
Noah: Nope. There's no way I'm splitting us up just because of a couple of butterflies in your stomach.
Exasperated, Akira sighs and hands Noah $25 worth in rings. Noah looks at the money in awe.
Noah: The power of capitalism, in the palm of my hands... I-I'll be right back-
Noah runs off, leaving Akira and Molly at the balcony.
Akira: Welp, there goes my vacation savings. What's on your mind?
Molly: I-just *sighs*, I've been feeling... empty lately.
Akira: Empty? How? There hasn't been a catastrophe for, like, months! We're living our best life!
Molly dejectedly hangs her head over the balcony. Akira puts his arm around her, and the two stand in silence for a bit.
.....
Akira: I'm actually looking forward to this life. You know, being a lower class hero. Workin' my job, expanding our music career and stuff. It's a feeling of... contentment. I feel like I've done enough.
Molly looks at him with what appears to be annoyance.
Molly: ENOUGH? You think you've done enough? Honey, NOTHING is enough. There's always something going on, always something to do, always people suffering, and you think you've done enough? What about the next crisis? Will you just sit out because you've done "enough"!?
Akira: It's not my fault I get stressed out of my mind every mission. I worry about everything. I worry about everyone. I worry... about.. you. I-I can't imagine life without someone like you. This period of nothingness is all I have right now before the next "whoopty doo, the world is ending for the millionth %&$#ing time! It's time to obsess over the safety of the one person in my life who gives me security", so can you... just let me have this? Just for a day? FOR A DAY?!
Akira starts to walk away, tearing up.
Molly: Hey, I didn't mean it like that. I'm so-
Suddenly, massive tremors start demolishing the mall. Walls crumble as citizens run in fear. A panicked Molly runs off to help them. Akira tries to join her, but he... he can't. He collapses on the floor.
Molly: AKIRA!
Akira: Go. Make sure the others are safe. Make sure Noah's safe. Make sure you're safe. For both of our sakes. I-I love yo-
A flash of blinding light envelops the world.
Akira's earring glows as his soul gets transported to some unknown place. Everywhere and nowhere all at once. An out of body experience. A cramped and enclosed section in endless space. Constantly changing and fluctuating. Akira falls, tearing up more.
Akira: God, what's happening to me? T-this has never happened before. I-I'm helpless. I just want to go home...
All at once, everything in the area speeds up. His soul escapes into his body, mind and memory intact, in an unknown location. Yet, the feeling of deja vu lingers in the air...
Post-Merge: The Beginning[]
Dimensional Council[]
Demon Engineer: Systems reporting at expected levels.
Glitchian Engineer: All dimensions have been fused and stabilized.
Eror: It worked! Now then, where's the army?
Veroxx : Armageddon, should be returning any minute with one by now. On top of that, with the memories altered from the merge we've made it easy on ourselves. We simply pick the strong few of the populus from each dimension do reinforce our army. I have picked up on a slight discrepancy however...
Eror: Excuse me, what? I was never told about this! Who was supposed to tell me?!
Veroxx : Really? I thought you would know. You were the main one around the Kaleidoscope, you even built a machine this powerful using it. I thought this was what you intended? Perhaps someone here is altering things behind our backs? Either way, it could still work in our favor.
Eror: Engineers? Did you implement such a system?
Glitchian Engineer: No, we're hearing about this for the first time too.
Eror: That's... not good. If whoever did this altered the unity device without consulting the engineers, any number of things could have happened. If it worked, it would solve the immediate issue, but i can't be sure of any side effects.
Veroxx : Now that you mention it, the dimensions didn't merge correctly. It seems to have targeted specific parts of the dimension and formed into one giant planet, with the space around it slowly leaking in and expanding into the new one. This indeed is a setback in some ways. Not to mention there were beings who also resisted the effected of the merge. We will have to act more careful going forward, there are mortals who are bound to question what happened.
Veroxx would walk closer to Eror.
Veroxx : You are the brain's here, So I'd rather you take a look at this new world. I can show you the effects across the dimensions. If you want to learn more about what could've happened I suggest you take this offer while I'm handing it out.
A Demon Engineer then tosses Eror a handheld thing.
Eror: What's this?
Demon Engineer: A mobile dimension status checker, or in other words, a device to keep a eye on things like dimensional stability while away from the main console of the unity device.
Eror: Veroxx, can you do anything with this?
Eror activates the device, and it shows a hologram of the planet with various statistics, most crucially dimensional stability, which was at 99%
Veroxx : That depends on what you want from me. That is definitely the planet though.
Eror: If you have a sense of where potential problems are, can you use the hologram to point them out?
Veroxx : Easily.
Veroxx would walk up to the holographic globe and enlarge onto a specific location.
Veroxx : This light silvered colored one seems to have been able to fight against it, you can see he has some type of gem within his hand. The other one seemed to have something similar.
Veroxx would hold onto the hologram with his eyes closed, then causing multiple locations to pop up where possible anomalies were caused.
Veroxx : This should make it a bit easier, all of these points on this new world have anomalies. Most of them seem to be lifeforms that have resisted the effects of the merge and are therefore deemed unnatural by this new universe. If you want 100% stability I suggest we either eliminate or recruit them.
Eror: Hey, hang on.
Eror then pulls out a different device and activates it, showing holograms of all the heroes from each attached dimension.
Eror: The Light Silver one is known as Cyne. Of his team, multiple are currently unaccounted for. As for why i have this, i had a dimensional history search installed in the machine to locate any people of significance.
Glitchian Engineer: It was early on, before he even found the Kaliedoscope.
Veroxx : So that means they could either be our biggest threats or our greatest allies?
Veroxx would take a good second to look at the others as well.
Veroxx : Do we know what any of them are capable of?
Eror: Well let's see... There's this group registered as the... Canon cast? It's Sonic and his group. Then we've got Team Dragoon of the dimension i attack, Team Phantasm of the dimension with the Kaliedoscope, which is Cyne's home, Team Alpha, who's from Armageddon's dimension, Team Sun of Ryky's dimension, and... Who added this other dimension?
Veroxx would raise an eyebrow at this.
Veroxx : Other dimension? What dimension is it?
Eror: It says that it's native hero team is known as Team Skyblue, or the Skyblue Heroes. There's no dimensional council member for that dimension.
Veroxx : Does it say anything else? Anyone that could work to our benefit? There must be within a unknown dimension.
Eror: Let's see, villains section... The Anomaly Extermination Team, or AET. It's leader is known as NULL.
Veroxx : Anomaly Extermination Team? That sounds like it could be rather useful.
Eror: Maybe. But who added that dimension to the list?
Veroxx : How about we ask the others when they return.
Eror: Speaking of which, i'm going down there to check on the state of the dimensions.
Eror then heads into the combined dimension, warping into just outside Emeraldville.
Veroxx (Telepathically) : Tell me what you find within once you get back.
Armageddon (Talking over a radio): We have a problem. Ecto the Hedgehog has been spotted running around. I scanned his brain and he remembers everything. We must subdue him. Shall I send my army over to him?
Veroxx (On Radio) : No need, give me the coordinates. I'll send one of my familiars over.
Next to Veroxx a bright flame would manifest, bursting and revealing a medium sized flaming dragon. The Dragon would begin to rub it's head on Veroxx's shoulder.
Veroxx : I'm glad to see you as well Salamander.
Armageddon: He's heading over to X 3006 and Z -9000.
Veroxx : Right.
Veroxx would then turn over to Salamander, creating a magical hex and putting it on the dragons forehead. The dragon would process the information and would immediately exit the hub and onto the new world, flying towards the set destination.
Team Alpha[]
Team Alpha lie semi-conscious on the floor of their ruined home. Ecto is closer to Slack than the others, somehow...
Ecto: Erf...
Slack: Double erf...
Ecto: Are you all okay?
Slack: When you have muscles as big as mine it is very hard to break a bone.
Ecto: What about you, Rocky?
Slack: Rocky?
Rocky: What? Where am I? Wait... who are you!?
Ecto: Oh dear...
Slack: I thought you fixed his memory loss!
Ecto: You know I'm a terrible surgeon! We got customers by blowing up the other surgeons and causing "unfortunate accidents"!
Slack: You what?
Ecto: N-nothing!
Rocky: AHHH! I'm in a room with psychos!
Ecto: No, we are completely normal people. Don't worry!
Rocky: Get away from me!
Ecto: Argh... not again.
Slack: Here we go.
Ecto: CHAOS CONTROL!!!!!
Slack: Now we have to fix his brain... again.
Ecto: I'll do Rocky, you check on Flame.
Ecto then proceeds to do some questionable brain surgery on Rocky. What he found genuinely surprised him.
Ecto: It seems like his brain structure has changed. All his memories with us have been replaced with some sort of fabricated illusion.
Slack: Same with Flame. He's just sitting in a volcano for five years.
Ecto: You know that I can't restore memories. Should I run some recon' of this place.
Slack: Go ahead.
Ecto then runs outside and across the ocean, taking in the vast changes.
Ecto: It seems like the world has... reset? No, that's not right. That sea stack wasn't there before. Maybe the timeline has changed? Hang on... that rock formation looks familiar. I've seen it before! I've seen it from Slack's pictures of another dimension! That must be significant.
Not knowing or caring what he'd run into when he reached the mainland, Ecto sped up. Whatever had happened, it needed to be undone. He wouldn't just let his dimension meld into an abomination! There would be danger in the alternate universes, stuff that he certainly didn't have the patience to fight. A little later, he contacted Slack.
Ecto: Yo, Slack! How's the surgery going?
Slack: Do you want the bad news or the worse news?
Ecto: Tell me the bad news.
Slack: I was unable to restore their memories.
Ecto: *Sigh* What's the worse news?
Slack: They were abducted by Team Zeta, Team Metal and the Phantom Squad.
Ecto: Oh okay... WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
Slack: They just appeared and took them, I can't fight sixteen people!
Ecto: I know, I know. Try to figure out what's happened to the world then.
Slack: Okay, over and out.
Ecto: Back on my own. Hang on... what's that? OH DANG!
Ecto had spotted something, something that would entirely change his objectives on what to do. Armageddon was here, with a bunch of other people.
Cyne[]
The world was black, no… This was not the world… This was…
Cyne : This is my mindscape!
Cyne would look around, noticing his Mindscape seemed less colorful then before. Before hearing a otherworldly voice.
??? : Cyne, I’m glad you have come to your senses.
Cyne would turn and see the glowing orb of light, a familiar voice and consciousness... This had to be...
Cyne : Phantos? Oh right! I completely forgot that I was hanging on to the Phantom Ruby. You were my ticket to getting out of the Sol Dimension last time, so what’s up?
Phantos : This is no time to remain calm Master Cyne.
Cyne : Don’t call me master, it’s weird coming from you. And what do you mean? Do you know something about that blinding light? Or even what Tails was talking about?
Phantos : Someone has been toying with the dimensions, the only reason I was able to protect you from it’s influence was via connecting to your “Phantom Force” and resisting.
Cyne : How about the others?
Phantos : They were not as lucky.
Cyne : … Are… They dead?
Phantos : No.
Cyne would then let out a breath he did not know he was holding in.
Phantos : They are not dead, they were affected by the merging however.
Cyne : Merging?
Phantos : I’m not finished. Even if your friends were near me like you, I couldn’t have saved them. You are the only being within our universe that has an anchored connection to me.
Cyne : Right, the Phantom Force… So, what now?
Phantos : I’m running off your energy to keep this up, I can’t keep you here any longer.
Cyne : Wait! I still have que-
Cyne would close his eyes abruptly, almost hissing at the blaring light in his eyes. Cyne would panic thinking about what happened before only to realize he was looking up at the sky.
Cyne : What? I’m back.
Cyne would pick himself up from off the ground. Regaining his bearings he would take a deep breath and look around him, taking in everything in the scene.
Cyne : This is… Green Hill. But, somethings off. I grew up here but it doesn’t feel familiar. Phantos had said something about merging…
Cyne would pull out the Phantom Ruby, now a duller color than usual.
Cyne : I guess protecting me must have taken a lot of it’s energy. I need to find my team. I don’t think this is the world I remember…
Cyne would then grasp his head, a searing pain shooting from his skull.
Cyne : I have a t-team. But, I don’t, I don’t remember who.
Cyne’s headache would finally begin to lower upon finishing the sentence.
Cyne : I don’t remember my team… Maybe that’s what he meant when he said that they weren’t as lucky… Whatever happened must have messed with our memories, I guess Phantos was a bit late in protecting me, and now I’m stuck with this slight loss of memory. That’s fine, I’m sure I’ll know em’ when I see em’. I already have a blurry image of what they look like in my head.
Cyne would begin his march through the Green Hill Zone, going through the foliage which seemed familiar yet new. Eventually he would come up upon a small village.
Cyne : A Village? I don't remember this being here. Usually this is where Green Hill would cut off into the Sand Hill Zone... This just keep's getting weirder and weirder.
Cyne would make a break for the village, hoping to find something of use to help him find his friends or that could answer his questions.
Cyne : Uh.. Excuse me?
Old Lady : Oh? Hello dear, what is it?
Cyne : Well I don't... At least I think I'm not from around here. Can you tell me what's going on?
Old Lady : A newcomer is it? Why of course I'll help you.
Cyne : Thanks.
Cyne would then walk with the elderly lady, discussing the history of this new world.
Old Lady : Isn't the Dimensional Council just great?
Cyne : Hah, Yeah... (I definitely need to find this council. This didn't exist before or at least I'd never heard of it. They have to be involved somehow.)
Old Lady : Oh? Is something wrong?
Cyne : Ah, no. It's nothing.
Cyne would then stop after overhearing a conversation.
??? : Didn't ya hear? Word is that the Dimensional Council stopped by at Emeraldville, word is their building something real special.
??? : Really? Can't wait to see that!
Cyne : Hey, lady.
Old Lady : Hmm?
Cyne : Do you know how I might be able to get to Emeraldville?
Old Lady : Why yes! My son run's a taxi service between the zones. I'm sure he would take you, I'll put in a good word for you.
Cyne : Really? Thanks.
A few minutes later...
Gerald : Yo! My name's Gerald. You must've been the one my mother told me bout'. You look pretty young. What's someone like you doing to want to go out into the world like that?
Cyne : It's a long story...
Gerald : Is it now? You can tell me on our ride there.
Gerald would then hop into his wagon, patting the seat next to him.
Gerald : Come on up! This might take a few days to get there, so I hope this story is a good one.
Cyne would then climb into the wagon.
Cyne : I sure hope it is. It's all true.
Team Dragoon[]
As the blinding light clears, all the gathered heroes keep their eyes closed in fear of being wrong.
Alan: Can we open our eyes?
Omega: Your inferior visual sensors will not suffer damage from the light anymore, yes.
The heroes open their eyes, and Tails returns to checking the energy levels.
Tails: Dimensional Energies have stabilized.
Sonic: Does this world feel... off, to you?
Alan: What are you on about? The world's the same as ever. Wait a moment... who are all of you?
Tails: It's worse than i thought. Something about this has caused at least Alan to lose his memories.
Tails then attempts to scan Dria to figure out if something effected her too, but she pushes them back.
Dria: Hey! What's that supposed to do? You still haven't answered who you are!
Jewel: If you don't begin explaining things soon, i'm kicking you out!
Tangle: Jewel, buddy, you at least remember me, right?
Jewel: T... Tangle? Yes, i do. What are you doing here?
Tangle: You don't remember? There was a worldwide earthquake, then Tails said there was a spike in Dimensional Energies, then there was that blinding light, and now something's happened.
Srish: Alright, first, who's Tails?
Sonic: The yellow fox with the two tails, he's my best buddy!
GUN suddenly disconnects.
Jewel: Eh? Why do i have a bunch of people on videocall?
Cream: I'm sorry, it was just like this when the light cleared!
Cream then disconnects as well.
Espio: Tails, i think the dimensional energy spike caused dimensions to fuse.
Vector: Yeah! There's a bunch of weird terrain everywhere.
Charmy: Uhh, who's Tails?
Vector: You too?
Jewel then forcefully disconnects the Chaotix.
Jewel: Alright, all of you, out!
Amy: But-
Jewel: OUT!
Sonic: Come on, we need to figure this out.
Sonic and all the other heroes in the room leave, with Team Dragoon following them out. As they exit, they finally question stuff about themselves and each other.
Alan: Wait, what are these things? I don't remember having them.
Alan's wisps then appear next to him, hoping he'd remember them. Team Dragoon's other Wisps then copy Alan's.
Alan: Woah! Wisps? What are they doing here?
Srish: With how they're acting, i believe they're our... friends?
Waves nods to confirm Srish's theory.
Dria: Then why don't we remember them?
Alan: It truly is a mystery. Wait a sec, who are y- Oh wait, Team Dragoon! Right, i forgot!
Silence: That... sounds right. Maybe those lights did something to our memory.
Dria: For introductions sake, i'm Dria.
Srish: Ahh yes, i'm Srish.
Alan: Since we're doing this, i'm Alan.
Silence: My name's Silence.
Alan: Now then, what are these wea-
Ranger then enters Alan's Suncutter Claws, lighting them up with the normal blue glow.
Alan: Wispons. I guess we owned them.
Waves, Feathers and one of the Specters entered their respective Mk III Wispon, activating them.
Srish: Yeah, definitely!
Team Dragoon ran out into Emeraldville. As they did, they noticed many people rushing out of the city.
Alan: What's the rush?
Citizen: A member of the Dimensional Council is visiting!
Dria: Hang on, THE Dimensional Council?
Team Dragoon follow along with the citizens. Soon, they reach the area everyone was heading towards. However, the crowd that had gathered was blocking them from seeing anything, at least, until the Dimensional Council member got everyone to spread out.
???: Hey, you're crowding! Let everyone else see who came to visit!
As the people spread out, it's revealed that the visiting party is Eror.
Alan: Eror? What's a dimensional council member doing visiting a simple village?
Eror: Eh? Wait... Alan?!
Alan: You know me?
Eror: Yeah... We have some... history.
Alan: Do you know why some of us lost our memories?
Eror: It was a flawed experiment of ours. I came here to assess the damage.(Ok then, what do i do to Team Dragoon? I could have them arrested or killed... No, too quick and boring. Perhaps i can keep them on hand... I know!) "Here's a question for you. Would you like to become my personal guard?"
Srish: We do have these wispons for some reason.
Silence: Working for a dimensional council member is a honor, last i checked.
Eror: I can assure you, it is.
Alan: It sounds like we're in.
Eror: Great. As for all of you, i'm planning on building my fortress here, so i'll need some help. Do you remember the Restoration?
The populace assures him that they sure do remember, and volunteers are secured to build the fortress.
Eror:(Can't believe i finally get to use one of my fortress plans.)"I've got a hologram of what i want right here. Just build from these plans, i'll check on your progress every so often."
Eror tosses over the hologram, and as the plans are observed, the building crew starts to draw up a border of the region and people are sent to get proper building supplies. Eror is silently amazed at how well the brainwashing worked on the general populace, and as the building's border is drawn out, Eror and his new personal guard head off to check on the merged world.
Team Sun[]
Sunset: Where... Are we...?
Shyny: *thelepathy* I know less than you what happened, sir.
Sunset: WHAT IT WAS, IT WAS YOU?
Shyny: *still talking by the same way* huh ye, My name is Shyny...
Sunset: Well Shyny, you got cool powers, my guy, mine's Sunset
Tycy: SUP GUYS, where are we? Who are you? Not like to admit it but i'm kinda lost!
Shyny & Sunset: Sunset and Shyny, you?
Tycy: Wow, well, I'm Tycy, I don't even remember how I got there
Shyny: *still thelepathy, for info, Shyny talk most of time by thelepathie* Well... me neither...
Sunset: Wanna I show you a cool thing?
Tycy: SURE!
Sunset takes a ring off his wrist.
Sunset: With that, I can come back home, that would be more easy, wanna see.
Shyny: Why not... You have friends, there?
Sunset: I- I don't remember...
Shyny: Don't worry, same for me...
Tycy: Aw, once there we will remember, show us this, and like this we can come back home!
Sunset throws away his ring then it become bigger.
Tycy: Oh, sounds cool!
Sunset: I have just to think of the place I want go and...
Sunset tries to walk through but suddenly access is blocked.
Sunset: WHAT ? HOW? EXPLAIN!!
Tycy: aw, a little disappointed though.
Sunset: Aw, I'm sorry I tought it'll worked-
At that moment, a purple wolf similar to Tycy came out of the ring looking elsewhere and stumbled out, he lost his mind a little but looked in front of him and understood, furious.
???: YOU?! OBVIOUSLY IT WAS YOU!!??
Tycy: AH, the ring works!
Sunset: Wha- Do I know you?
???: BUT IS IT OK TO LEAVE OPEN RINGS LYING? YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE THIS POWER!
Sunset: I don't even know you- the same power-?
???- Well, my name's Ryky, and yes, I have the same power, and just for tell you, don't think we are friends, your kindess plus your memory lose can be very strange, I guess.
Sunset: Memorie lose... Do I know those guys behind me then?
Ryky: Long story, anyway, I'm not here for this, leave me alone.
Ryky come back in the ring.
Shyny: Wha- what just happened?
Sunset: Should we... just travel this place for understand better what happened?
Shyny: Ye... My head is just blurry now...
Tycy: Hehehe, might be my first adventures with y'all! I'm sure we'll have fun!
Shyny: Hehe, you wanna have fun? I can show you something too!
Sunset: WAIT, IN MORE THAN THELEPATHY YOU CAN-
Shyny: Control the plant, cool, huh?
Sunset: More than awesome!
Shyny makes a fairly large and endless vine appear and climbs on it.
Shyny: ... Do... Do you guys wanna come...?
Sunset & Tycy: Sure!
Sunset and Tycy climb on the vine, Sunset clings to Shyny to avoid falling and Tycy just slowly goes towards the bottom of the vine to see if it is really endless.
Sunset & Shyny: TYCY! Come here, please!
Tycy: ... aw
Sunset: But I have one question... we met people who didn't really seem to like us just now...
Shyny: ... Ye..?
Sunset: Is it safe to stand out so much while crossing the country on a giant liana?
Shyny: ... *smile* ... We'll see
Tycy: YES!
Sunset: Oh my... I think both of you will make me crazy... but why not, let's go, Shyny! Tycy! At least you're hanging on somewhere! It afraid me to see you like that!
Tycy: Aw, gentle prince, you are afraid for me?
Sunset: Don't take it in an other way!
The vine left with the three 'new' friends on its back.
Ryky, observing: Oh my.... There are the wrost noodle are even saw, those kids, even Tycy might be in big danger here but hey, now it's her fault... If the Council saw this, they're dead. Anyway, it doesn't bother me as much than these noodles die, sounds like they do all for, tought-
Team Skyblue[]
Millie: "Ugh...."
Charlotte: "What is..."
Kazuxi: "Huh..?"
Raiden: "What in the..."
Suketchi: "I'M ALIVE"
All except Suketchi: "WHO ARE YOU??"
Suketchi: "Suketchi the Sketchog!"
Raiden: "Sketchog?!"
Suketchi: "I told you the dimensions would merge!"
All except Suketchi: ".... HUH???"
Team Dragoon[]
A few days later...
Eror sat in his fortress overlooking Emeraldville, in his office, which was specifically designed to prevent unwanted contact from anyone, including Veroxx. As he did, he pondered the current situation.
Eror:(We did it. We won. The world is ours, and potential rouge elements are being rounded up slowly but surely. So why don't i feel like this is a victory? Oh i know, it's because someone installed that brainwashing device without anyone's permission or even contact! There should have been glorious combat, army against army, with me and the rest of the Dimensional Council leading it! We should have taken the world by force, not tricked it into letting us rule! Maybe i can get some enjoyment from some sort of gladiator tournament? No, that won't help. Wait... I'd probably feel better if i defeated a rebellion that actually stands a chance against me. But how would it form? Maybe rebellion would form if conditions worsen? No, too slow. Could i start a rebellion directly? No, too easy to be discovered.)
As Eror realized he couldn't force rebellion, he slammed his fists into his desk. Meanwhile, elsewhere, a familiar entity appeared out from the Dimensional Hub.
Fital: This is bad, real bad! I've gotta find Team Dragoon! They'll be key to fixing this... I hope.
Fital quickly runs into Emeraldville, and is quickly noticed by modified Egg Pawns Eror deployed as security, who attack him. Through them, Sage, affected like many others by the modified unity device, watched Fital run through the city. Sage quickly contacts Eror.
Eror: Sage! What's up?
Sage: Sonic has been spotted running through the city. At least, a Sonic.
Eror: Didn't we lock him and his cohorts in Everhold?
Sage: Yes, and security feed shows he's still there. But he's out there as well.
As Eror watches feed of Fital fighting through the city, he picks up on details familiar to him.
Eror: That's not a Sonic! If you look at the feeds again, the person is shown using his hands for something before some of the feed cuts. Sonic rarely ever uses his hands for anything while fighting. It's my old pal Fital! Inform the troopers, and send my personal guard! I want to talk to him, and try negotiation first please.
Sage informs Team Dragoon, and they run out into Emeraldville. Meanwhile, Fital had just about searched everywhere, and was now outside the fortress.
Fital: Where did Team Dragoon go? Wait, maybe they've already joined the fight! I'll have to look elsewhere, considering that in this messed up world, Team Dragoon isn't known of in the Restoration.
As Fital is about to leave, more Egg Pawns spot him, and run up to inform him of Eror's wish. Before they can though, Eror smashes them with dark tendrils. At that very second however, Team Dragoon ran out of the fortress.
Fital: Team Dragoon! Thank goodness! Do you know what's happened?
Confused, Team Dragoon look at each other, wondering if the others understand what he's on about, before choosing to get on with their task.
Silence: We ask that you come with us. Eror of the Dimensional Council wishes to speak with you.
Fital:(So Eror's behind this?)"Sure. I'd like to speak with him myself anyways."
Fital is thus escorted to Eror's office. Just before he enters, he notices Eggman working in a desk off to the side of the entrance. Ignoring that, he enters.
Eror: Fital! Great to see you! Leave us, Team Dragoon, I wish to speak with Fital in private.
Team Dragoon obliges, and head elsewhere. As Fital enters, the door shuts, and a light supply of Power Energy is pumped into the room. Eror then checks to make sure nobody added any cameras, listening devices, or any other forms of surveillance to the room before turning to Fital.
Fital: WHAT DID YOU DO?!
Eror: Fital, i swear to you, none of this was my plan.
Fital: Oh yeah? Then why are you profiting from it?
Eror: Ok, let's start from the beginning. Basically, i was asked to create a machine to unite multiple dimensions. I did so, but it needed power of a specific type. Power i and my recruiter got. When we found the power though, we also found someone who wished to join us, and around then was when i truly became part of this. Soon, we brought over a new ally, and combined dimensions with my machine. But, unbeknownst to me, someone installed a brainwashing device in my unity device, foisting a free victory upon me! It's also the reason for any oddities you spotted around here.
Fital: Am i to presume the Dimensional Council is the group you joined?
Eror: Yes. Now then, you're here for a specific reason. Not just because we're friends. Rather, i see you as the solution to my unique problem. I'll let you free your friends. The brainwashing device so far has proven to be flawed, and so you can probably remind your "friends" of the old world, because then you'll form a resistance to my rule, and become a force for me to defeat, and properly earn my takeover!
Fital: While at the same time, giving me the chance to beat you and your allies... Either of us could gain.
Eror: Yes, but a curbstomp isn't a earned victory.
Eror then tosses Fital Tails's seized Emerald Radar.
Eror: How about a classic war over the Chaos Emeralds?
Fital: Sure, sure. But Eror, one more thing.
Eror: Oh?
Fital then shoots Eror in the chest, leaving a decent wound. Eror, seeing how this could be used, weakly gives Fital a thumbs up, before collapsing. As Fital leaves, Team Dragoon coincidentally arrives, and notices Eror out cold.
Alan: Get him!
Team Dragoon attacks Fital, and Fital immediately uses this focus to lure Team Dragoon across Emeraldville towards the one place they can probably regain their memories, their room in the Badnik Corps. As soon as they arrive, Team Dragoon stop attacking Fital, overwhelmed by the familiarity.
Dria: What is this place? And why... why does it feel so familiar?
Fital: This is your dorm, well, i hope that's the right term at least. You keep many mementos here, like this Metal Sonic Hand. You said that it was from another dimension, where you fought alongside a colorful cast of allies.
Alan and Dria are subsequently bombarded with memories about fighting Metal Sonic with a red hedgehog, a mysterious hedgefox, and a... chaos emerald spirit?
Fital: And this rock is a End Piece, from when you fought The End alongside everyone.
Team Dragoon suddenly remember the massive fight against the moon shaped being alongside Sonic and his friends.
Fital: And this... this Extreme Gear is the one you got Tails to build, so i could ride alongside you. A symbol of our friendship.
As Team Dragoon remembered the truth behind those words, they looked around and remembered more and more from the other mementos scattered around. So many adventures, so many dimensions, and far more then just the ones immortalized in the mementos. With their memories returned to them, Team Dragoon could finally look at Fital and recognize him again.
Alan: Fital, hey! Jeez, what in the heck happened?
Srish: I remember... working for Eror!
Dria: I had hoped that was a simple dream...
Fital: No, no, that all happened. As Eror explained it though, he's only to blame for the universe being messed up. He's part of a team, and they've gotta be ruling over other parts of the world. We need to ally with the native heroes of all those other universes if we hope to stand up to their combined force.
Srish: The fake memories gave us one good thing. I know of the Dimensional Council members.
Dria: As do i. Eror, of course, some dragon called Armageddon, a wolf known as Ryky, and some genie adjacent creature called Veroxx.
Silence: I've been hearing rumor of a few new members though, and every evil group has their minions.
Fital: All the more reason to gather all the heroes we can.
Alan: Well, how do we find anyone?
Fital: Dunno. But it's risky staying here. First things first, we need a world map.
Alan: My phone's map app has been on the fritz since this mess started. We're going to need something else.
Fital: It's risky, but we'll need to explore the world mapless to find a map, and hopefully friends too.
Team Dragoon and Fital then leave Restoration HQ and Emeraldville, in search of a up to date map, and allies.
Ecto vs. Armageddon And His Army[]
Ecto: Why am I cursed with the worst luck in the universe?
His complaining wasn't unwarranted, he had run nearly smack dab into the middle of Armageddon's Army.
Armageddon: Ecto the Hedgehog, what a pleasure it is to see you again.
Ecto: What have you done this time?
Armageddon: Me? I've done nothing! My associates are the ones who did all the work.
Ecto: So it was your idea.
Armageddon: Correct.
Ecto quickly scanned Armageddon's Army. It didn't look good. Team Zeta, Metal and the Phantom Squad were there. As well as... Rocky and Flame?
Ecto: How did you brainwash them so fast?
Armageddon: They remember nothing! I just used my silver tongue!
Ecto: Alright, I've been kind in the past. I'm gonna let loose. This time, you all die!
Armageddon: I've had my fun, you've killed these people already, I'm getting sick of your face. KILL ECTO THE HEDGEHOG!!!!!!
The Army launched themselves at Ecto. Knowing that they had the upper hand, Ecto decided to just wear them out. However, there were too many of them and he was soon overwhelmed.
Ecto: 15 versus 1 isn't exactly fair!
Armageddon: Empathy? What's that?
Soot: Alright Ecto, time to finish what G. U. N. started!
Volt: Let's bash his head in!
Ecto: Rocky, Flame, please...
Rocky: We won't fall for your tricks, deceiver!
Flame: You will burn in the depths of the Underworld!
Ecto: Okaayyyy... time to run!
Savage: Get him!
Ecto took off across the ocean, leaving a spray of water behind him. He needed to get back to The Alpha Zone. There was weaponry there, not to mention the Overlord Diamond.
Armageddon: You can't escape Ecto!
Ecto: Who said I was trying to escape?
Armageddon: Why won't you just die!?!
As Ecto leapt on to the beach at the shore of his island home, he quickly sidestepped. As the Army reached shore, the defense mechanisms activated.
Armageddon: Fools! Of course The Alpha Zone would be protected!
Comet: Just get that freaking hedgehog!
The Army attacked with a renewed wrath, pushing Ecto back against a wall. Then they began taking turns beating the absolute heck out of him.
Ecto: Hrrg... you can just end it now. I've had a good life. Kill me, I deserve it.
Ecto was going to perish soon anyway. He had a massive gash across his chest and had several smaller wounds across his body.
Armageddon: No, we'll take you back to our base. Where you'll be our prisoner for the rest of time!
Savage: Awww, I wanted to kill him.
Armageddon: Too bad, let's return to my castle. I've recently made some renovations. Metal Ecto, grab the real one.
With that, the Army left. Taking with them what was one of the multiverse's last hopes. Armageddon was happy, one more annoying member of Team Alpha to go! When Slack was defeated, he would have finally vanquished his enemies.
Cyne[]
The wagon would continue, having already crossed through multiple zones, suddenly, the wagon would halt it's advances.
Cyne : Hm? Why'd we stop?
Cyne would then peak outside of the Wagon and see that they were surrounded by some sort of tribe.
Cyne : What's going on? Gerald?
Gerald : No idea, they just came out of no where!
They clearly did not speak the same language as the tribesmen, this would soon force physical interaction.
Cyne : Let's just see what's going on, if anything happens I can probably bail us out.
Gerald : Uhh. Right.
Cyne : (Maybe I can find some clues from these guys, I've never seen them before.)
The two would be escorted to the tribes camp, spears poking them from behind, almost daring them to try something. Soon they would arrive at a throne and would have their heads hoisted down.
Cyne : What is this?
??? : Lift.
The heads of Gerald and Cyne would then be lifted, watching the end of the raising gesture made by...
Cyne : Marl?! What are you doing here?!
Marl : What? How do you know that name?
Cyne : Because, I'm your friend!
Marl : Nonsense, I am the great prophet of the Juno Clan. I am the one who has been blessed by the skies.
As if to demonstrate Marl would lift his hand up, storm clouds slowly forming. A crack of lightning could be seen which would land directly into Marl's hand, holding the lightning before dispersing it.
Marl : Do you understand?
Cyne : What? Your not some great prophet! Your just a prince of the Sky Foxes that can use a special Hyper Go-On ability!
Marl would walk up to Cyne and slam his head into the ground.
Marl : Watch your tongue oaf. You will not disrespect me.
Cyne : Gnn... So be it...
Cyne's pupil would become a neon yellow, his spines would raise and electricity would begin to crackle around his body. This would shock Marl, causing him to let go.
Marl : What?! What is this?
Cyne would stand up and connect his hands together. The crackling sound of electricity would grow louder and louder until Cyne would clasp his hands together forcefully dispersing the current into itself, his gloves would become magnetized a small electromagnetic shockwave would be sent out around him taking everyone around him back a bit.
Cyne : Gerald. Run.
Gerald : Uh.. Right!!
Marl : You also have a similar gift? Very well.
Cyne : What?
Marl : A duel it is. You win, and I'll do what you want. If I win you must serve as my right hand man till you die.
Cyne : I guess that's one way to get the team back together, but I'd prefer if we were all equal.
A loud thundercrack could be heard, Cyne had dashed towards Marl at the speed of a raging lightning bolt, Marl would dodge this surprisingly and summon a cloud to grab and slam Cyne into the ground with.
Marl : I control lightning, did you think I wouldn't be able to react to it?
Marl would then throw Cyne into the air with his cloud, taking the same cloud and condensing it into a water bullet. Marl would bring it towards his finger and aim it towards the mid air Cyne like a gun. Cyne would look down seeing what was happening.
Cyne : Give me a break.
Cyne's pupil would change to a pale cyan color, his body now being cover in an invisible layer of ice. Cyne would point his finger back down towards Marl, also condensing and freezing water at his fingertips. The two would shoot at the same time, the two bullets hitting each other and dispersing. Cyne would soon fall back down, landing in front of Marl.
Marl : Ice too? Interesting.
Cyne : Yeah, I bet it is.
Marl would dash in towards Cyne to throw a punch, Cyne wouldn't even attempt to dodge, watching as the fist slipped off of the Ice surrounding his body.
Marl : What? How-
Marl would then have a fist slammed against his face, ending him back. Marl would luckily cushion the impact with a cloud.
Marl : How did you do that?!
Cyne : Oh, right. When I use this mode I get a thick layer of Ice around my entire body, its formed perfectly and is masked by my "Phantom Force". Most people aren't gonna be able to notice or see it. I've had enough of fighting you, the old you was much stronger than this!
Cyne would pull out the Phantom Ruby and create the illusion of a massive sun much like a certain jackal once had.
Marl : B-But how?! That! That! Only a god could do that!!
Cyne : (Nice, he fell for it.) I suggest you give up. Or, you know, I'll destroy all of this area.
Marl : Fine... You win...
The tribe members would watch in astonishment and would soon retreat in fear. Soon Cyne would have Marl rejoin his party, still not having restored his amnesia. The two would make it to the wagon, where they would continue on to Emeraldville, luckily for them, it wasn't to far away. Sadly for them, that sun illusion was big enough to be seen from Emeraldville, the locals might no be to trusting of new visitors.
Team Sun[]
Team Sun arrives in a town, Shyny drives her plant into the ground, depositing Sunset and Tycy.
Sunset: Where are we?
Shyny: I don't know...
villager: welcome to our village, stranger...
Tycy: Heh? Why it looks so... dead..?
villager: No no everything is ok here... I'll let you go to the local inn...
The team settles into the inn, looking embarrassed.
Shyny: heeh, are we sure it's a good idea?
Tycy: Why not? I'm soo tired because of the event!
Sunset: Yeee, but this village seems so... weird... I don't know what happened here...
Shyny: Same here...
the villager serves them soup, since they are seated.
Sunset: Are you sure nothing happened here...?
Villager: nono, but why? You don't like the inn... I'm so sorry...
Shyny: No no that's not it, ma'am, that's an error!
Village: So what's wrong?
Sunset: heh, nothing, we'll just gonna sleep here in this strange world....
Villager: This world isn't strange..?
Tycy gets tired so Sunset takes him back to the bedroom.
Sunset: Hugh, what a strange day, maybe that's just a nightmare and tomorow will be something else...
Shyny: So when we'll wake up you think everything will be back to normal..?
Sunset: Why not, but if so, I won't see again cool guys like you
Shyny, blushes: heh, anyway I don't think so , maybe it's just a brend new adventure, we did have fun today, right? so hey, i'm sure it was real!
They finally fall asleep...
Dimensional Council[]
As Eror gets back up, he gets the news that Team Dragoon had disappeared. Happy that his plan had worked, he called for a meeting with the other Dimensional Council members to start on the other half of his idea. Veroxx would be the first to enter, showing up with someone next to him who was not familiar to the council.
Veroxx : Greetings Eror, I assume you have made some advancements? Yes?
Eror: Yes, my base has been completed. There's bad news however. A old friendly enemy of mine showed up, a Demon called Fital. He managed to defeat me, steal a Emerald Radar, and remind Team Dragoon of the old world.
Veroxx : That is indeed a setback, don't worry though. I myself have found a great resource.
Veroxx would then motion to the person next to him to remove their hood. Veroxx would walk closer to Eror so that the person could not hear him.
Veroxx : That is Shera, she is, or was a member of Team Phantasm. She possesses a great capacity for magic and seems to be rooted to my universes druids. She has the ability to control nature with her magic and I think she could be a useful asset for us. I fully intend to manipulate her more to our side, I've already earned her trust by pretending to save her and offering to expand her magic capabilities.
Eror: Good to know, but keep eyes out. In all likelihood, other heroes will start remembering the old world as well. Where is everyone else?
Veroxx : The other's might be returning from their own ventures as of now. So I'd say I'm a bit early.
A portal of swirling red and black energy formed in front of them. Out of it stepped the seven foot frame of Armageddon the Dragon.
Armageddon: Greetings.
Veroxx: Did you time that on purpose?
Armageddon: What's the fun of being nigh-omniscient if I can't play around with it?
Eror: You're nigh-omniscient?
Armageddon: Among other things. I heard that the group would be gathering here and I decided to come. Ecto the Hedgehog has been defeated and detained, one more of my adversaries remains.
Eror: So that means?
Armageddon: Ecto's will is nigh-unbreakable. We won't be able to turn him to help our cause. Therefore, we must torment him so that he will not be able to stand against us.
Veroxx: You are telling us because?
Armageddon: The lackeys that I brought from my world will happily kill Ecto. I have disabled his powers, so he can't reincarnate if they do.
Eror: Ecto can reincarnate?
Armageddon: He can. He can also resurrect his allies before their spirit departs.
Veroxx: So that's why he causes you so much trouble.
Armageddon: Back to the point I was making. When rest of the council arrives, I will ask for their aid in torturing Ecto.
Eror: You're one twisted person.
Armageddon: It's part of my charm. Let us rejoice, my comrades! We have conquered our realities! Vanquished our enemies! Soon there will be no one left to stop us! We have as well as won!
Eror: Well, that's still a maybe. Team Dragoon were freed and have escaped. In all likelyhood, others will remember the old world in time.
Veroxx : Speaking of which, I'm sensing some type of disturbance.
Veroxx would look into the disruption with clairvoyance, seeing Cyne attempting to use the Phantom Ruby, only for a weak signal to come from it.
Veroxx : That white hedgehog, Cyne. It seems he was unaffected by the merge, I'd assume it's because of that Phantom Ruby. He has the sky fox with him as well, though it seems he did not retain his memory.
Veroxx would look into it a little deeper and notice something.
Veroxx : Eror, I believe the wagon they are riding in is heading towards Emeraldville, it's likely they are investigating the merge.
Eror: I'll alert the security. Where exactly do you plan to set up?
Veroxx : The ruins of those Sky Islands seem like a good spot, I can really see everything with a view like that.
Eror: Sky Islands, hm. Alright. Armageddon? What about you? And where's Ryky and others?
Armageddon: I took some precautions before the merge. My castle is fully intact and operational. I shall use that as my stronghold. As for the others, I assume that they got held up. Either by their adversaries or other mundane matters. I shall be leaving shortly, I have matters to attend to.
Veroxx : Best of luck then.
Ryky: I'm here Eror, I just have nothing to complain about.
Eror: Good to know, but did you hear anything about what we were talking about?
Armageddon: I'm going to leave. You lot can figure all this out. But just in case, I'll leave my clone Apocalypse here as my stand in.
Apocalypse: Armageddon, Doomsday is having difficulty keeping Team Zeta in check.
Armageddon: That's my que, farewell.
Ryky: Ok, I think I get it.
Eror: Alright. So anyways, Take this as a message and a warning, rebellion will happen eventually. Now with that settled, does anyone have blueprints for defenses? I kinda need to make sure the merge device will stay safe.
Veroxx : I don't think I personally could do much for defenses. I would have Shera do it but... there's not much nature in these parts, and I don't believe her abilities extend to the nature of reality.
Eror: How about anyone else-
Suddenly, Eror, and only Eror feels a shake, which causes him to fall out of his chair.
Eror: Did... did anyone else feel that?
Armageddon's Castle Part 1[]
Volt: Just let us kill that dang hedgehog!
Doomsday: NEGATIVE. ARMAGEDDON'S INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO DETAIN, NOT DESTROY.
Volt: Yeah, but that hedgehog was caused us all trouble, he shouldn't be left alive!
Armageddon: Is there a problem here?
Doomsday: VOLT THE HEDGEHOG WISHES TO KILL YOUR PRISONER SIRE.
Armageddon: Is that so? Volt, go and fetch me Slack.
Volt: Why?
Armageddon: The Dimensional Council needs a robust army. I am simply adding to the ranks. Go.
Grumbling, Volt lead Armageddon's Army off to the Alpha Zone to capture Slack the Sloth. Armageddon descended into the bowels of his castle. To the dungeon.
Armageddon: Ecto the Hedgehog, how are you feeling?
Ecto's bedraggled head looked up from the bed he was sitting on.
Ecto: Could be better. Honestly though, I didn't know your dungeon was so spacious.
Armageddon: You'll have company soon. It is time to start the procedure.
Ecto: Procedure? What twisted game are you playing here?
Armageddon: Oh you'll see.
Ecto: While you're getting ready, how about you explain your sinister plot? This one seems pretty ambitious.
Armageddon: Ha! I found like minded individuals like me who shared my desire to end the multiverse. We created a device that would merge our realities. Most of the heroes have seemed to have lost their memories. You and Slack are some of the exceptions. We can have that, can we? I'll be wiping your mind and adding you to my army.
Ecto: You've really done it this time, haven't you? You have actually won. I wonder how long this victory will last.
Armageddon: There are only a few loose ends to tie up. Soon we shall be unstoppable. Any last words?
Ecto: Yeah. Maximum has a gun pointed to the back of your head.
Maximum: You have ten seconds to open that cell, or I'll blow your brain to pieces.
Armageddon slowly began raising his talons into the air, while moving his tail into striking position.
Armageddon: You have five seconds to lower your weapon, porcupine, or I'll tear you to shreds.
Armageddon whirled around and lunged. Maximum shot ten bullets at the dragon's head, but they all bounced off. Armageddon dealt two devastating claw swipes and one vicious tail jab.
Armageddon: I'm truly disappointed. I thought you'd put up more of a fight than that.
Maximum: I was just distracting you while Slack opened the cage.
Armageddon's eyes widened in disbelief, then he swung around and smacked Slack backwards.
Armageddon: You will ever win! You lot are just to stubborn to admit that you lost!
Ecto: Oh shut up.
At that, Armageddon went absolutely feral. He lashed out and began winning a three to one fight.
Maximum: Sheesh, this guy knows how to fight!
Slack: Let's just focus on taking him down!
Armageddon: Enough! Doomsday, get them!
The robotic dragon leaped down the stairs and began pummeling the heroes into the floor.
Doomsday: ENEMIES DEFEATED. MISSION COMPLETE.
Armageddon: Lock them up, in a more secure cell this time. I'll go and get the brainwashing tech.
Post-Merge: The Stakes Are Raised[]
Cyne and Marl[]
Cyne : We finally arrived.
Cyne would notice the Phantom Ruby glowing.
Cyne : Well, I guess it's gotten some energy back.
Cyne then turns to Marl as they step onto ground.
Cyne : Hey, could you touch this for me?
Marl : Oh? Your offering me a gem? I guess you understand my value after al-
As Marl placed his hand on the Phantom Ruby, Cyne would focus and send a surge of memories into his mind.
Marl : Wow. I can't believe I was a snobby profit.
Cyne : Your tellin' me. I'm just glad to have you back to normal.
Marl : Right. I know why were here.
Cyne : Where should we-
Cyne would be interrupted as Marl put a finger to his lips.
Marl : Let me focus, my sensory abilities are more advanced than yours. You barely use them anyways.
Cyne : Oh yeah... Forgot I could do that.
Marl would enter total concentration, slowly increasing the range of hi sensory capabilities, suddenly he would twitch and turn to Cyne.
Marl : Cyne! It's Team Dragoon!
Cyne : What? What do you mean?
Marl : Look, I know I'm not going crazy! I know their signatures from anywhere! It feels like they're moving farther away. We should probably catch up.
Cyne would gain an anxious expression.
Marl : Hm? What's the matter?
Cyne : Well... Last time I saw them I kinda got sucked into a portal and thrown into a different dimension, I don't know why but it just feels so weird. Just to make an appearance after all of that.
Marl : Oh? Don't worry about it Cyne, they surely go through stuff like that all the time. I doubt it will be too awkward, more importantly lets get a move on. If we act fast we can catch up to them.
Cyne : Right!
Marl would create a cloud for him and Cyne to ride, surfing over Emeraldville and towards Team Dragoon, hoping to catch them before it's too late. A few minutes in Marl would realize something.
Marl : Cyne, lets take our time instead.
Cyne : What? Why? You said Team Dragoons energy signatures are ahead of us? Why are we stopping?
Marl : Their energy signals are fading, they are moving faster than my cloud can and if we keep this up my Hyper-Go-On will deplete. I think their using one of those "Extreme Gears".
Cyne : So... What then?
Marl : Let's rest right now. Instead of wasting energy we should focus on things that could give us an advantage.
Cyne would look down to the Phantom Ruby, some of its color and saturation returning.
Cyne : Look's like the ruby has recovered a bit, I'm gonna talk to Phantos.
Marl : Right.
Cyne would put the ruby in his lap, beginning to meditate, entering his mindscape. Soon he would see his inner mind.
Phantos : Cyne. Good to see you again, Master.
Cyne : Phantos, thanks for protecting me during the merge. You feeling better? I see the ruby is starting to return to its normal looks.
Phantos : Yes, I am fine. I have sensed a dimensional flux however, a divine power is reaching out to the mortal plane. Though, it seems someone has answered its call.
Cyne : Is it... Someone I've met before?
Phantos : No, you have not met this being.
Cyne : Right... I did have a question.
Phantos : I will do my best to answer.
Cyne : This isn't just another wild adventure with Team Dragoon right?
Phantos : No, this is much bigger than you or Team Dragoon. The merge has fused Six dimesnions currently.
Cyne : Currently? You mean more can be fused.
Phantos : Precisely, the longer the multiverse is in this state, the more dimensions that will slowly become merged.
Cyne : Right, I'll keep that in mind. See you soon.
Phantos : Farewell master.
Cyne would open his eyes, waking up back to the real world.
Cyne : Turns out Team Dragoon and us aren't the only ones here.
Marl : Really? So we may have allies?
Cyne : Or, just more enemies.
Marl : Well, let's keep resting for now.
Cyne : Right.
Dimensional Matters[]
As Fital glides along with Team Dragoon, a sudden shake only he can feel causes him to fall onto the ground and skid for a bit. Team Dragoon, noticing this, stop.
Alan: Eh? What happened, Fital?
Dria: Are you ok?
Fital: It feels like a earthquake. But i shouldn't feel earthquakes while gliding. Hang on.
Fital, with a technique he's never had to use before, "feels" the state of the Dimensional Hub, and discovers that something was projecting a energy wave of some kind. Aside from what he felt, Fital didn't know the full scope of it's effects, so he immediately enters the Dimensional Hub and heads to the source at top speed to figure things out. As he arrives though, all he sees is formless light. Having no clue what this could be, Fital attempts to touch it and stop the energy wave somehow.
??? : Demon. How interesting one born from the abyss would heed my call.
Fital: Well that's all you're getting in this multiverse. We Demons are attuned to the Dimensional Hub. Anyways, you and your spooky voice need to stop with the shaking.
Charity : Very well. You seem to be trustworthy, I sense it. I am one of the Seven Archangels, my name is Charity. Due to recent events in the multiverse we have been busy, but I've found the moment to attempt communication. You may be aware of a powerful relic being used with great technology, the thing which caused this all. The Quartz Kaleidoscope was something we Archangels made and had lost, this event was purely due to our ignorance and now is the time to try to mend things back to the way they were. Tell me demon, what is your name?
Fital: The name's Fital, and yeah, i know a bit. There's a device out there somewhere that's merging universes. So what exactly do you intend to do, Charity?
Charity : I myself nor any of the other Archangels can personally interact. Due to the nature of our duty, we cannot act in such a way without direct permission. Even speaking to you now is considerably risky, but I felt as if I should at least give those who wish to put a stop to this a path. Each of the universes have what we will call "Avatars". These avatars are important as they are "Special" beings within their universe in one way or the other. You will need to gather these "Avatars" and find the Quartz Kaleidoscope. They must focus their thoughts into it, in doing so they will be able to reverse the machines effect. There is another way, using the opposition of the Kaleidoscope, but that may be too risky.
The formless light would condense into a small illuminant orb, one so small it could be held.
Charity : Naturally, only divine beings can use the object normally. I'm afraid you and these "Avatars" don't have the technology to use it otherwise. I have condensed the light down to a physical object, this is a portion of my energy. This will allow for you and them to not only communicate with me, but grant the divinity needed to use the Kaleidoscope freely.
Just as Fital grabs the orb, a camera sound catches him off guard. He turns to see Eror.
Fital: Eror!?
Eror: Hey, Fital. Neat light you're with, who're they?
The orb would remain silent, dimming slightly at the unwanted presence.
Fital: They're someone who's very mad at you for messing with their stuff. I'm assuming you tracked the shaking as well? Now what happens?
Eror: The way i see it, we're gonna prepare for whatever that behind you is, and you're gonna do the best to do the opposite of that.
Fital immediately responds by charging into Eror, attempting to take the camera. Eror slips under Fital to prevent this, and wanting to save his energy for the battle for the ages later on, dashes away. Fital chases after Eror.
A rift would emerge in front of Eror as he ran, stepping out of it would be Veroxx.
Veroxx : Eror? What was that flux I sensed?
Veroxx would also notice Fital just behind Eror, both "running" in his direction. Veroxx would transform into a red mist just before the two made impact. As he reformed he would watch as they continued on.
Veroxx : What is going on?
Eror: New threat, Fital got a cool light, get him off my back please!
Veroxx would watch as the two turn a corner.
Veroxx : Cool light? Nevermind that.
Veroxx would turn into a red mist once again and appear in front of Fital as he ran. Out of it a hand would be extended, pushing Fital back, causing him to stop his advances.
Veroxx : I haven't seen you yet. I can see your also a demon though.
Veroxx would then narrow in on the light that was with Fital.
Veroxx : Hmm. I was going to let you leave, but I can no longer do that. Let's see how well you dance.
With the distraction, Eror goes to secure the pictures he had obtained before coming back. Meanwhile, Fital was annoyed this unfamiliar foe had stopped him, before realizing something.
Fital: So, You must be one of those Dimensional Council people! What's with the chains? Weird fashion statement?
Veroxx : No, I am an Asura. We are closely related demons actually. These bindings come with breaking the natural law of Asura. We are the opposites to Djinns, these make it so I can't use wish magic. But that shouldn't be a problem. Now, are we going to talk, or show a little action?
Fital immediately fires off a energy blast to test what power Veroxx still held.
Veroxx : Hm?
Veroxx would raise a hand, pointing his fingers into a gun like motion towards the blast. His middle and index finger would be coated in fiery aura. Veroxx would then make a downward slicing motion, cutting the blast into two, causing the two halve to veer past him.
Veroxx : Is that it?
Fital: Nah, just the test.
Fital then fired off a entire swarm of the same energy blasts, before teleporting to Veroxx's side and firing off a slash-shaped energy blast by making a chopping motion. In response Veroxx would manifest his body into red smoke, allowing for him to freely move through the slash and energy blasts. Veroxx would the reappear, crossing his fingers and summoning a fireball in front of Fital...
Veroxx : Sneak attacks don't work on me! I wonder if they will for you?
Veroxx would then shoot the Fireball towards Fital, which Fital dodges.
Fital: That smoke technique is incredibly annoying.
Fital, seeing energy blasts can't do much if Veroxx can noclip, conjures a energy construct around himself that looked to be a armor-sized Egg Dragoon, then fires off it's drill and watches to see the response.
Veroxx : That's much better!
Veroxx would reel his right hand down to his waist, positioning himself in a angled Horse stance. The drill would be moments away from hitting him before he would conjure a strange looking Kopesh and completely parrying the Drill, sending it back to Fital, unconjuring the weapon around the same time. Fital responded by Parrying it like Sonic, slowing time for some crucial seconds and drilling into Veroxx's side before time recovers. Veroxx would look down feeling a bit lighter.
Veroxx : ... not bad. However...
Veroxx would puff out of existence, or... did he? Veroxx would reappear next to Fital.
Veroxx : Did you think that was the only one?
Another Veroxx would appear on Fital's other side.
Veroxx : I can do quite a lot with my unique ash ability.
A third Veroxx would then appear in front of Fital.
Veroxx : My unique application of Sol Energy and Magic can even create physical bodies out of the soot. Do you have a counter for this? Are you even fighting the real me right now? I'll never tell my real specialties.
Veroxx would wag his finger in Fital's face, clearly goading and taunting him.
Fital: Smoke, and now mirrors. Do those chains restrict you to simple party tricks?
Fital dispels the Dragoon Suit and summons a one handed longsword, before slashing it. The attack also summoned a energy ring around Fital, cutting into the surrounding Veroxxes. All of them vanished, but whether it was teleportation or destruction was unclear to Fital. Knowing not what could come next, Fital summoned a copy of Dria's Wispon for it's autofire properties.
Veroxx : Parlor tricks? I suppose you could say that, these chains are the entire reason I am here.
Veroxx would then appear covered in an aura of smoke. The Wispon would fire, each shot be defended against by the smoke solidifying.
Veroxx : I knew that it would autofire, so I set up an autodefense. See, I'm very credited for my abilities.
Veroxx would then disappear out of view, stepping into an invisible rift.
Veroxx : What lies in between can be very useful, especially knowing where and how to use it.
Veroxx would then attempt to grab Fital, the Wispon firing and blasting off his finger. Causing the hand to retreat back.
Veroxx : Maybe I'm being to hasty, so lets make a deal.
Veroxx would reappear, this time remembering to deploy his defense, although somehow his finger was completely healed back.
Veroxx : Give me that light, and I'll let you leave. I know what that is.
Fital: Yeah right. By the way, are you in tune with your Dimensional Hub, or did Eror craft you something to fight properly in here?
Veroxx : Everything I'm capable is from my own experience.
Veroxx would then point behind Fital.
Veroxx : Say, what's that?
A crackling sound could be heard, the surrounding grow more illuminated with a orange glow and growing hotter. It was a massive fireball, clearly the Asura loved his heat based abilities. Fital teleports far behind Veroxx to get a better look, and saw the fireball zoom past before fading away. Preparing for anything, Fital keeps a eye out for where Veroxx went. Smoke would appear under Fital, Veroxx quickly grabbing Fitals legs and causing him to "fall" on his back, a Kopesh would be conjured above Fital, quickly spiraling down towards him. Fital would vanish and reappear.
Fital: This has been fun, but i'm done fighting alone.
Veroxx then hears "Get him!" ring out from behind him. As he looks, he sees Team Dragoon dashing towards him, before "Dria" is vaporized by Eror, who had finally returned. "Srish" and "Silence" are soon destroyed, and "Alan" slow claps before "he's" destroyed as well.
Eror: Those were simple energy copies of Team Dragoon. It's a trick he loves using. Oh, and he's gone now.
Veroxx : Tch. Perhaps I was enjoying myself to much. It's fine, he will come back.
Eror: He'll be back alright, but not right now. He's gone back to his friends. Anyways, do you know what that light was? It told Fital about the Quartz Kaliedoscope and Fital implied that it created the thing.
Veroxx : Yes, That light was a divine energy. I've never seen one that potent. If what your saying is true, then its likely they have the Archangels on their side.
Eror: We'd better inform the rest soon.
Back at where Team Dragoon was, Fital landed in a superhero landing right in front of Team Dragoon, who clapped.
Fital: Good to see you all.
Alan: What happened?
Fital: Met a new ally and one of the Dimensional Council.
Silence: Who?
Fital: Didn't introduce themselves, but they called themselves a Asura. They resembled the description you gave me of Veroxx. There was also someone called Charity, our new ally.
Dria: New ally? Great! What are they?
Fital: Light spirit called a Archangel. They gave me some energy i can use to fix this and communicate with them.
Srish: Do we have a new plan or anything?
Fital: Well... no. But maybe they can explain what to do next.
Fital, not knowing how exactly to communicate with Charity, tried to reach out to them through thoughts. The light would begin to grow brighter.
Charity : Hello? What do you need?
Fital: Do you happen to know where any allies are? We kinda need them to win the day.
Charity : Stay where you are, and look to the sky. Some friends are bound to soon arrive.
Fital, with nothing else to go off of, looks up, only to see a portal open, and a team of people drop out of it.
Alan: Eh? What was that?
Fital: Allies.
Armageddon's Castle Part 2[]
Ecto: Nice work guys. Now we're all trapped.
Slack: Shush! I'm trying to make a spatial teleporter with two pieces of scrap!
Maximum: Is that even possible?
Slack: My dimensional cameras showed someone do it in a far off universe.
Ecto: What universe?
Slack: One.
Ecto: Okay, so in the first ever universe they could do pretty much anything. Good to know.
Maximum: Just finish the teleporter.
Slack: I'm done. Let's wait for Armageddon to come back, we could blip him away!
Ecto: Shhhh! Here he comes!
Armageddon stalked down the hall, clutching a mind wiper.
Armageddon: Ecto, you first!
Slack pushed the button on the warping machine, making a portal below Armageddon. He fell through and the portal closed behind him.
Ecto: Cool! Warp this power restrainer off!
Slack: Sure.
Ecto: Ahh, it's good to have my powers back.
Slack: Same.
Maximum: Heads up guys! Here comes Doomsday!
Doomsday: YOU HAVE DEFEATED MASTER ARMAGEDDON. YOU SHALL BE DESTROYED. RESIST AND YOUR END WILL BE LONG AND PAINFUL.
Ecto: I've been spoiling for a fight, let's dance!
The three heroes attacked the robotic dragon. Doomsday fought back really hard and they soon found themselves barely managing to dodge his attacks. Slack was just a bit too slow and was knocked aside. Maximum repeatedly fired shots into Doomsday's chest, but they all bounced off. Maximum was flung to the side and it was just Ecto left. Dodging and feinting, Ecto tried again and again to land blows. Doomsday was built for war however, so Ecto was struggling to even get close. Things only got worse when Doomsday started using his weapons. Ecto, who still hadn't recovered from his injuries, was on his last legs. Just as he gave out, Slack fired a beam of plasma into Doomsday's head. He made a soft whirring sound as his head melted into a puddle of goo.
Ecto: T-that was fun.
Slack: Sit down, I'll take it from here.
Just then, a portal opened in the wall and Armageddon walked out.
Armageddon: Tsk tsk. You know I can teleport, so why did you even try to?
Slack: Because I needed you out of the way while I set my teleporter to the right setting.
Armageddon: No...
Slack pressed a button on his teleporter and a massive portal opened up. From where they were standing, they could see a dragon with dark green scales wielding a flaming spear made of ice. He turned his head and grumbled to himself.
Armageddon: What have you done?
Ecto: What has he done?
Armageddon: You fool! You opened a portal to Strya! We are all doomed.
The dark green scaled dragon lunged out of the portal and landed heavily in front of them.
Bubbles: Close the portal! Do you know how hard it is for the Administrators to keep D:TN out of your universes? Close the portal before you all die!
Slack: Okay!
The portal closed, bring Bubbles with it. Ecto began puzzling over what he had said. D:TN? Administrators? What could that possibly mean?
Slack: Okay, now we're in business!
Armageddon: You will never win! I'll tear this world down to atoms! You can't win!
The heroes blipped away and found themselves in an open plain. They heard voices coming from a ways off.
Ecto: Hoo boy, we can't catch a break.
Slack: Get ready.
Maximum: Imma go check.
Slack: Sure, let's go.
The Meetup[]
Fital and Team Dragoon glide over to where Team Alpha landed. At the same time, Team Alpha was walking towards Team Dragoon. When they locked eyes, Ecto strode up and stood face to face with Alan.
Alan: Well, I've never seen any of you before, so let's trade introductions. I'm Alan, a member of Team Dragoon, one of the best Badnik busters in the Badnik Corps.
Ecto: I'm Ecto the Hedgehog, founder of Team Alpha. These fine fellows behind me are Slack the Sloth and Maximum the Porcupine. Slack and I are heroes back in our world. Maximum is a freelance bounty hunter.
Dria: The name's Dria. I'm with Team Dragoon as well. I take the role of support.
Slack: I'm probably the smartest person on our world. I'm also the resident scientist.
Srish: Call me Srish, I'm the third member of Team Dragoon. I'm a great distraction. Also, question, Do you guys... not... have a Tails or Eggman in your world?
Ecto: We have Tails and Eggman. Slack is just on another level.
Maximum: I'm Maximum the Porcupine. I'm don't tend to hang with these people. I just do the task at hand and it seems like I was brought here with everyone else. It helps me to be with them currently, so I guess I'll stay.
Silence: Name's Silence. I'm Team Dragoon's Stealth Expert.
Ecto: Usually we have Rocky the Raccoon and Flame the Fennec Fox, but they were got by Armageddon the Dragon. Anyway, what are you folks up to? We have got a dragon to stop.
Fital: My name's Fital. No, I'm not a Sonic, it's complicated. Either way, we've got our own foe and more. Some Asura thing called Veroxx and my friendly enemy Eror are against us as well.
Ecto: Asura. Eror. Hmm. I think I heard Armageddon muttering something about them.
Fital reaches out to Charity.
Fital: What's the next nearest potential group of allies?
Charity : Return upon the path you came, you will find your next companions halfway to the closest settlement.
Fital: Charity says allies are hot on our trail. Let's meet them halfway.
Alan activates the external platforms
Alan: Get on.
With Cyne and Marl.
Marl : Cyne.
Cyne : Hm? What's up?
Marl : You done your meditating?
Cyne : Yeah, why?
Marl : I sense Team Dragoons energy signatures again, it feels like their getting closer.
Cyne : Great!
Marl : Well, I sense a few unfamiliar energy signatures too.
Cyne : But.. There with Team Dragoon right? Should be fine.
Marl : Look, there's no guarantee that Team Dragoon even retained their memories, it could be a situation like I had, not to mention whoever's with them seem pretty strong.
Cyne would rub his chin.
Cyne : I guess that's true, but I have faith, so let's go to them.
Marl : Alright, but stay on guard.
Cyne and Marl would continue forwards, with the other group doing the same, the two would eventually meet. Marl would be staring at Team Dragoon, Cyne Staring at the Team Alpha members.
Marl : First question, do you remember us Team Dragoon?
Cyne : Second question.
Cyne would point towards Ecto, Slack and Maximum.
Cyne : Who're you guys?
Alan steps off the Dragoon Sigil
Alan: Answer one, of course we remember you, Cyne and Marl. And answer two, they're Team Alpha, made up of Ecto the Hedgehog, Slack the Sloth, and Maximum the Porcupine.
Dria: It's good to see you. We have our work cut out for us.
Cyne : Man, you tellin me.. or, I guess us.
Cyne would then pull out the Phantom Ruby.
Cyne : Honestly, I probably wouldn't have came this far without this. I mean, Marl was a completely different person when I met him. We just had to check to see if something similar happened to you guys, and if maybe Team Alpha there were our enemies.
Marl : Speaking of which, Cyne told me that the dimensions merged. Said that some type of sentient mind in the Phantom Ruby told him. You guys got any idea what's going on?
Fital: I do. A Glitchian called Eror created a machine powered by a object known as the Quartz Kaliedoscope that made all this. Your memory issues aren't his doing though, not even he knows why it happened.
Marl : That makes sense.
Cyne : We still haven't found Shera or Cross yet. They've probably been brainwashed similarly to how I found Marl though.
Marl : So what were you guys doing just now? Surely you wouldn't just be gathering people for no reason? What's the plan?
Fital: All I know is that some Archangel thing intends to guide us on what to do.
Cyne : Sounds wild, but honestly. After fighting a demi-god, a super powered robot and fighting a metal version of myself that turned into a dragon. I guess its not too out of the ordinary.
Fital then contacts Charity
Fital: We've got three teams, what now?
Team Skyblue come across the teams.
Suketchi: "HI!!!!!!!!"
Raiden: "I believe we should ask them what's happening."
Kazuxi: "Why???"
Millie: "I mean, they're there, sooo...."
Suketchi approaches the teams.
Suketchi: "HI!!! HI!!!! HI!!!!!!!!! I'M SUKETCHI THE SKETCHOG!
Cyne would look to Fital.
Cyne : Well, I think we found our next group.
Marl : Hi, I'm Marl and were...
Marl would ponder for a second.
Marl : Does this whole group of different teams have a name of some sort?
Alan: We could... suggest names?
Ecto: I have no objection to whatever name you people choose. We should wrap this up quick, though. I think that Armageddon and his buddies are gonna go on the offensive soon.
Srish: Dimensional Heroes!
Ecto: I think I'm just gonna step back and let you figure this out.
Ecto then walked over to Cyne.
Ecto: I know Alan said who I am, but I guess I'll introduce myself. I am the actual ultimate life-form, Ecto the Hedgehog.
Cyne : I'm Cyne, I guess I'm sort of the Guardian of the Phantom Ruby?
Alan: So, where are you all from, and how'd you find us?
Ecto: We are from Universe 9563756375. We were locked up in Armageddon's Castle until we escaped. We just happened to warp here. Our universe is essentially the same as what the "canon" universe is, except we exist. We were secretly battling to save the world during events such as the Metal Virus and the Starfall Islands Incident.
Marl : I don't know much about universes, but In my universe a lot has happened. Wars, cataclysms, I mean... Let me start off with this. Sonic was sealed away in some time dimension with this guy called Mephiles. In that time a new threat arrived and worked with Eggman. The world had changed a lot without Sonic, eventually new heroes had to arise, luckily a few months ago we managed to unseal him from that dimension but that just brought more problems with it.
Cyne : Yeah, we were actually just chilling until everything started shaking and flashed, next thing I know I'm in my subconscious. I was protected by the Phantom Ruby, but my friends weren't. Speaking of which, two of us are missing, so if you run into them be careful.
Alan: Cool, cool, but i more meant the new faces.
Suketchi: "OKAY!!!"
Suketchi points at Millie.
"THIS IS MILLIE! SHE'S A REALLY SUPER GOOD FRIEND!!"
Then he points at Charlotte.
"AN THAT'S CHAR! SHE'S FANCY!"
As Silence covers his ears in pain from the screeching, Alan tries to refocus Suketchi or one of his friends into explaining how they got here.
Alan: That's cool and all, but how'd you find us?
Suketchi: "Okay, soooo... the ground started shaking. Then then the sky went white and bright, then something goes BOOM!!! hehe. I liked it. It mades me jump up and down outta happy."
Scribble somewhere...
Scribble : I like this one.
Back to the present.
Dria: That... tracks, but how did you get here, right next to us? I've seen you before, and i know full well you're not from here.
Before Suketchi can answer, a storm of energy blasts rains down around them, giving everyone cause for alarm.
Marl : What?!
Marl would create a solid roof formed of clouds and Hyper-Go-On energy. Protecting them temporarily from the blasts.
Marl : Now isn't the time for introductions! Get ready to fight!
Eror: Good... I dunno, noon? Anyways, we decided to arrive early!
Everyone looks up to see Eror, holding one of the energy blasts.
Cyne : WAIT!!! DON'T FIRE!!! I have a question.
Eror: What?
Cyne : I think I saw a statue of you being built in the town? You have to be part of whatever's going on. I'm assuming your probably Eror. I don't get why your really doing all of this but tell me where my friends are!
Eror: That's not really my business, that's Veroxx's territory, also, Veroxx! I called you for a fight, have you got Armageddon on board?
Veroxx : Says he's finishing up something. He'll arrive a bit late.
Cyne would take note of Veroxx and turn to Alan.
Cyne : Is that a genie?
Alan: Fital says it's a Asura.
Cyne : I mean, maybe it's just a type of genie?
Veroxx would then conjure a dagger and throw it towards Cyne, Cyne barely managing to dodge getting nicked on the cheek.
Veroxx : Enough of your prattling and how amatuer of you to be off guard.
Cyne : Tch! So? You guys seemed to have came here under prepared. Your really outnumbered here.
Veroxx : You think so?
Fital: I could fight you to a standstill, and Eror's no match for Team Dragoon's Mk III Wispons!
Veroxx : If that's what you believe then I'll entertain the idea.
Veroxx would then look over to Eror, signaling something with a glance. Eror then fires off another energy storm, except this time along the ground. Fital counters with his own, then fires off a drill from the Dragoon Suit he used earlier at Veroxx. Veroxx in response would conjure a scimitar and imbue it with heat magic, the blade would turn red and give off strong heatwaves, soon he would do a downwards slash, unleashing wave of visible heat in the shape of a crescent moon. The drill would be completely melted by the slash, its speed and rotation ensuring not a single part wasn't turned into a pile of molten metal.
Veroxx : Surely you knew that wouldn't work?
Veroxx would then notice Ecto doing something.
Fital: You're clever, but how much can you take?
As Fital held off Eror, he fired a storm of missiles and another drill at Veroxx, attacking from all angles. Eror, meanwhile, decided to let Fital busy himself with Veroxx, and charged at Alan, a conjured Red Scythe in hand.
Eror: I've been training with your weapons for some time!
As Eror attempted to attack Alan with the Red Scythe, he slashed through the handle with the Suncutter Claws.
Alan: Wrong weapon to fight with!
Eror: Try this then!
Eror turned the half of the Red Scythe's handle he held into the White Rapier, and attempted to stab Alan, but the blade was cut in half by the laser of the Combat Wings.
Dria: Back off!
Eror: I'll take both of you then!
Eror turned what metal was left into the Yellow Gauntlets and attempted to fire at Dria and Alan simultaneously, but the weapon pair was shaken apart by the Rhythm Suit's ranged vibrations.
Srish: Find your own weapons!
Eror: Grr...
Eror summoned the Black Sword, but before he could even choose a target, it was blown apart by the Scattered Silence.
Silence: Lasers at the ready!
Eror: No you don't!
Meanwhile, Veroxx would smirk, cross his arms and fall back, just before all the drills could impact he would seemingly disappear. Fital would be on guard due to this before he would hear a ringing sound behind him, it was just tiny flare of flames lying on the ground. The drill fired then turns back around and flies back at Fital, which he Parries, allowing him to check, find, and drill into Veroxx. Meanwhile, Eror dodges a full Quad Blast by flying around the overlapping firing fields. and responds with his own, burning across the ground and aimed at the larger group. Cyne would step up towards this attack, the ground beneath him freezing more and more with every step as he entered his "Glacial Frost Mode". Cyne would unleash a wave of frost on the ground, in addition forming a shield of ice over the group.
With Veroxx and Fital...
Veroxx : ... Not bad. This definitely hurts... I think you can handle a bit more then...
Behind Veroxx a massive Fire Drake named "Salamander" by Veroxx would appear, having it's gaping mouth open ready to enclose it and bite down on Fital, seemingly disregarding its master being in its range. Fital summons a larger Red Scythe to jam the beast's mouth, before charging at Veroxx. Eror, meanwhile, fires a bunch of fire missiles at the ice shield, destroying and melting it. He then is almost fried by another Quad Blast from Team Dragoon, and unleashes energy drone turrets to keep them busy before sending a storm comprised of energy made of every element he could think of.
Eror: Let's see what you've got!
Cyne : You asked for it.
Cyne would switch into his "Charged Voltage Mode", he would be able to perceive the elemental energy storm a lot slower allowing him to navigate through them at the speed of raging lightning bolt. Eventually he would move behind Eror and tackle him at lightning speed, at the same time Veroxx would vanish into smoke at the moment of Fital's attack landing, he would reappear at his Scythe and kick it out of the jaw while also healing his wounds with his Soot Magic.
Veroxx : Nice weapon.
Veroxx would then create a scythe of his own, plastered in gems and a gold metallic shine, before imbuing it with his heat magic to increase its potency. At the same time the Salamander would continue it's advances in chomping down on Fital.
Eror: Ow. Wasn't aiming at just you however.
The elemental missiles bomb the rest of the group. Meanwhile, Fital's thinking up a new game plan when he notices Team Dragoon aiming at Veroxx. To draw any potential attention, he attacks the Salamander, bombarding it with energy meteors of anti-fire elements. Team Dragoon then fire another Quad Blast straight at Veroxx.
Veroxx : Hm?!
Veroxx like any normal person would be unsuspecting of the potential sneak attack, however, due to his dimensional sensitivity he was able to barely dodge the Quad Blast, leaving a rough wound on the side of his torso.
Veroxx : Tch! I thought Eror was taking care of you lot!
Veroxx would snap his fingers and summon a group of Lesser Ash Sprites to keep Team Dragoon busy as he refocused his attentions to Fital. Meanwhile with Eror, he would soon be surprised to see a large mass of clouds left after his attack. Soon, they would clear, Team Dragoon farther away from him and instead a blue fox standing in where they should've been.
Eror: What in the name of- Where'd everyone go?
Marl : They should be assisting Fital right about now.
Cyne still behind Eror would make his presence known as well.
Cyne : Don't forget, we're not the only one's here either. Aren't you wondering where the other teams may have went?
Eror looks around and notices Team Skyblue helping keep the Ash Spirits off Team Dragoon's back, and Team Alpha ready to render their own assistance to Fital. Seeing his ally backed into a corner, he summons dark clones of Team Dragoon to keep their light counterparts from firing more lasers and fires a bunch of energy blasts at Team Alpha, before slamming into Fital, who was ready for another Parry Gambit. He then goes beside Veroxx.
Eror: We're getting hammered out here! I had known Ryky was busy, but what's keeping Armageddon?!
Veroxx : He should be arriving soon! I swear though, if things keep going at this rate I might have to use my trump card. I do have an idea though.
Veroxx would for the first time decide to use his lava magic, slamming his hands into the ground and summoning a Large Lava Golem which both him and Eror would be riding upon safely.
Veroxx : With this it will be harder for them to approach us. Worry not, I've input a command to the spell so that its magma wont harm you. With all of them coming at us it probably won't be enough. But it should last until Armageddon arrives.
Eror: That helps, but the only answer to team attacks is more team attacks. Do you have any ideas?
Down on the ground, Team Dragoon are fighting Dark Team Dragoon as Team Skyblue try to find a opening.
Alan: Lazy copies!
Dark Alan: Right back at ya!
Srish: Great, they talk too!
Dark Dria: Talking isn't exclusive for "heroes"
Silence: Srish, do the thing, we do not have the patience to fight a mirror match.
Veroxx then turns to Eror remembering something.
Veroxx : You actually just reminded me. I completely forgot that in my territory this organization offered loyalty to me, I remember them saying that they had their best on standby for me at all times.
Veroxx would then use his telepathy to communicate to the organization "Falcon". Eventually he would smirk.
Veroxx : Their best agent is being sent as we speak, they said he should arrive within two minutes.
Eror: That's great, but Team Attacks are still needed. I know the others are trying something, oh speaking of which.
Eror blasts Srish as he attempts to blast Dark Team Dragoon, knocking him aside. With their original plan eliminated, Silence fires his laser at Dark Team Dragoon, frying Dark Alan, but no one else.
Dark Silence: Neat, but not-
Alan: Oh for god's sake!
Alan charges Dark Srish and cuts him down. As the other two attempt to respond, Dria shoots them with a missile blast, knocking them out. Alan is also blown back a bit.
Alan: Watch your splash damage!
Dria: It worked.
Cyne would enter his "Glacial Frost Mode" Using it as a passive counter to the head output of the Lava Golem and would begin climbing it, as he did that Marl would fly up on a cloud avoiding the tail swipes from Salamander until he was at a eye level with Eror and Veroxx.
Veroxx : Pest.
Veroxx would begin shooting fireballs at Marl which he would dodge, Veroxx would then snap his finger causing them to explode, making it so that Marl's clouds disperse. Veroxx would see Fital aiming and firing a drill towards him, he would deflect this with his scythe, causing for the drill to instead aim for Silence. Fital's immediate response is fly into it's approach path and Parry, allowing him to charge in and drill Veroxx again. From there, he and Team Dragoon focus their attacks on the weakened Lava Golem, destroying it.
Eror: Veroxx, cover me! If this works, it'll give us the advantage.
Veroxx would block the incoming drill with his scythe, twirling it with the rotation of the drill an causing Fital to spin as well. Eventually he would kick him back down.
Meanwhile, Ecto was formulating a plan.
Ecto: Slack! Maximum! Go help the others! I'll be back in a sec!
Using his superior speed, Ecto blasted off and began looking for anything that could possibly help them. Thinking quickly, he had narrowed the list down to two possibilities.
Ecto: The Overlord Diamond or a Chaos Emerald? The Diamond would be significantly harder to carry, hmmm. Chaos Emerald it is!
Back on the battlefield.
Slack: Maximum, rapid fire at Eror and Veroxx! If we can distract them long enough, Ecto will be able to stop them!
Maximum: Roger!
Just as Maximum had loaded his gun, a portal opened in the sky. Armageddon shot out, along with his army.
Armageddon: Attack! Attack everyone except Eror and Veroxx!
Soot: Where's Ecto? He's the only reason I'm here.
Armageddon: He'll be here shortly, he's just trying to help everyone.
Volt: I guess Maximum would be an adequate challenge.
Wreck: Oh Slack! Want to see something cool?
Slack: Oh no...
Wreck: POP GOES THE WEASEL!!!!
Wreck detonated his most powerful bomb to date, causing a explosion big enough to damage all of the heroes. Cyne, would change to his "Charged Voltage Form" and would see the bomb in slow motion, at this point he was thinking on what to do as he jumped off the Lava Golem. That's when he would remember what he had the entire time. The explosion would be set in motion, closing in on the heroes until a massive wave of distortion would be unleashed, slightly altering the color around it. After a few seconds the entire explosion would've been warped off in the distance, and Cyne would stand Phantom Ruby in hand.
Cyne : Sorry, wanna try again?!
Cyne would give off a smug look towards Wreck. Armageddon then appeared behind Cyne and smashed his head into the ground.
Armageddon: Do you want to try again?
Eror: Great of you to show up.
Alan: Ah great.
Team Dragoon fire a Quad Blast at Armageddon.
Cyne : Augh...
Cyne would pick himself up with his hand on his head.
Cyne : How do they keep doing that..?
Marl : Even after all this time you let your ego interfere with a fight. You need to keep your guard up at all times.
Marl would form a wall of clouds behind Armageddon in an attempt to sync up with Team Dragoon's attack. The wall would also become electrified. Veroxx would come from behind the clouds, slicing them apart before throwing daggers towards Team Dragoon. Most of the daggers are shot down by micro missiles from the Shattered Silence, but one is vaporized by the Suncutter Claws. As Fital attempts to respond to the attack, Eror blocks him.
Eror: Sorry mate, but you've been a bit too dangerous to my allies.
Eror then summons a copy of Amy's hammer, and slams it into Fital. Veroxx would touch down to the ground, unleashed a wave a magma towards Team Dragoon, Marl floating on a cloud would attempt to dash into Veroxx and trap him in a cloud. Veroxx responds by unleashing blast of pure heat towards him. Marl in response would flip off of his cloud, avoiding the attack and would condense his cloud into a pressurized water bullet to shoot towards Veroxx. Veroxx would manage to turn into smoke at the moment of impact, reforming and throwing Marl away towards his Salamander.
Armageddon: You think your puny weapons would work against me? I am immune to physical attacks!
Armageddon threw his head back and cackled. Then, he drew in a breath and exhaled a plume of fire at Team Dragoon. He lifted off and began raining fireballs down on the heroes.
Alan: Teams, i think it is time to pull out!
Team Dragoon get on their Extreme Gear and wave the other teams towards them. Eror attempts to throw a meteor at them, but is slammed aside by Fital. Eror of course responds by throwing lots of energy at Fital, who throws his own right back. The two then charge into one another, with energy missiles colliding to their sides. Veroxx would land atop Salamander with Marl's throat in his hand, he would soon look around to see the commotion.
Veroxx : Tch! Fine, I'll give chase then.
Veroxx would then command the massive drake to rush towards the retreating teams. Before Marl would kick him in the face, noticing his loosened grip. Doing so would free Marl, allowing him to continue his fight with Veroxx while the others handled Salamander.
Veroxx : You think you alone can stand up to me?
Marl : Who said that was my all?
Marl would absorb the his cloud within himself and enter his "Cloud Mode". Marl would be radiating with Hyper-Go-On and fog.
Veroxx : Interesting. However, my backup should be arriving soon, even if my Salamander can't catch those teams above, he will.
Team Dragoon, seeing that everyone was caught up in the fight, immediately fired a Quad Blast at Eror, which Fital saw and kicked Eror into. The blast knocked all the fight out of Eror.
Eror: Sorry team... got cooked...
Eror fled to not die, and with Fital freed up, he engaged Armageddon, firing a energy storm at the dragon. Precise energy bullets, faster than any of the heroes could notice would tag Team Dragoons Extreme Gears causing them to fall off and roll to the ground. Cyne would look in confusion at what happened?
Cyne : You guys alright?
Alan: We're fine. Something hit our Extreme Gears. They're not damaged, but something's up. Fital's giving all he's got to hold off the dragon, we need to get the Asura to buzz off!
At that moment a barrage of energy bullets would assault the group, Cyne would create a wall of ice to protect them.
Cyne : So... I think we found Cross...
Alan: Great of him to arrive when i have no Power Energy!
Cyne would then pull out the Phantom Ruby.
Cyne : It's not all to bad, we need to get him to touch the Phantom Ruby. I was able to restore Marl's memories with it, it should work on Cross. We just need one opening to do it.
Just then the ice wall would get destroyed from a massive energy blast. Out from the destruction would walk Cross.
Cross : You all seem familiar, strange.
Cross would then throw sticky grenades towards the heroes. Having booted their Extreme Gear back up though, Team Dragoon dodged the grenades, and Alan activated the Dragoon Sigil's shield before attaching the Lightcutter Claws. Silence also went invisible, not to counter Cross, but to negate what Veroxx could do. Srish, meanwhile, fired shockwaves at Cross, in hopes of sending him off balance. Cross creates a vacuum from creating torsion between positive and negative energies, allowing for him to soften the shockwave. Cross wouldn't worry to much about Silence, wanting Silence to believe he had an advantage. Veroxx's salamander would arrive, Veroxx and Marl still battling atop it. This of course would temp Cross to hop on and shoot Marl off of the Salamander.
Cross : What's the situation?
Veroxx : We have multiple groups to focus on. Your a sniper, so I need for you try to keep them busy. I'm going to perform a grand summoning and it will take time.
Cross : Roger tha-
Cross would instinctively dodge to the left and avoid pressurized shot of water. Looking to his left he would be surprised to see Marl floating and keeping up with the Salamander on a cloud.
Marl : You guys! I'll keep these two company for as long as I can!
Within the midst of Marl's speech Cross would notice something. He remembered seeing a hedgehog in the group with Team Dragoon. His ears would then twitch as he heard a crackling sound and would turn just in the nick of time to see Cyne darting towards him cloaked in lightning. Cross would barely dodge, actually having to parry the the jab sent towards him. He would bite his lip from the pain of the electricity that arced and bounced off of him before finally throwing Cyne over him. Cyne would land in front of the Salamander still in motion and begin to run alongside Team Dragoon. Electricity bouncing off of him as he ran.
Cyne : I remember before I would never be able to keep up with you guys on those Extreme Gears! Got a plan?
Alan: If you're right, we only need you to get near him to stop him. I can use my shield to guard your approach, but the most i can do from there is fire at Cross.
Dria: We could probably take down Cross if needed.
Silence: Someone needs to keep Veroxx busy. Marl's doing a good job, but he's one against two. And we need to watch for if Armageddon decides to attack us.
Cyne : Then we don't have a choice. We need to get this Phantom Ruby to Cross, if we recruit him the tides should turn in some way. Luckily, I got an idea. This ring a bell?
Cyne would take out the Phantom Ruby and create two clones of himself and Team Dragoon.
Cyne : Let's leave the clones to distract the Salamander.
Phantom Team Dragoon 1 fire at the Salamander, while Phantom Team Dragoon 2 ready a Quad Blast. With that sorted, Alan drives towards Cross, with Cyne by his side, while Dria fires at Cross, Srish continues firing the vibrations, and Silence readies himself to take advantage of any openings. Cross would dodge the bombardment from Dria with minimal movements, attempting to save his energy for what the other may be planning. Cross would notice Srish firing vibrations, and would fire air vortex's to soften each of their effects as he dodged. He would also notice Alan and Cyne and see what was being planned, he would use his next dodge and air vortex to take cover and roll. Cross would now be crouched onto the ground assembling a machine and a pistol. Veroxx on the other hand would be combating Marl, the two sending wave attacks one after the other.
Veroxx : This is going nowhere. I can't complete the summoning with this distraction.
Veroxx created a dagger, hooked on by a chain. Veroxx would imbue it with heat and would apply soot on top of it. He would start spinning the blade and chain fast, allowing his soot to spread quickly towards Marl. This would actually weaken Marl. The soot making it harder to control his clouds. Before Marl knew it, the dagger and chain would be lunging towards him through the soot, and if not for his sensory abilities he may have died. Marl would grab the chain, growling through its searing pain and would create cold wind, using the heat of the chains in conjunction to make a miniature hurricane. This would not only cause Veroxx to get wrapped up in his own chain and dagger, but it would also push him and Cross off the Salamander.
Cross : Tch!
Cross in the moment of being airborne would barely manage to dodge some of Team Dragoon's attacks, slightly getting nicked a few times but overall healing it off, Cross would go into a purposeful tailspin, quickly throwing down a few landmines incase anyone approached him. Cross would land, rolling onto the ground and looking at the approaching team, he would smirk seeing as they were on path to his landmines. Cyne would have saw him release the mines beforehand due to his slowed perception and would electrocute each of the mines causing them to explode before they approached. Meanwhile, the Phantom Team Dragoons unleashed their attack, destroying the Salamander. With that done, they focused their attention on Veroxx himself. At the same time, Silence used the Scattered Silence's micro missiles to destroy the landmines, creating a dust cloud from the explosions. Alan charged through the cloud with Cyne, soon reaching Cross, who was being bombarded by Dria and Srish. Alan added to the storm with fire from the Suncutter Claws, trapping Cross in a circle of fire. Cross at this point only saw one way out, up. He would enter his "Scoped Mode" and fire of a constant stream of energy propelling himself up. He would smile, thinking he escaped the exchange before hearing a familiar crackle, it was Cyne, and he was coming down from above him, ruby in hand. Before Cross could do anything the Phantom Ruby would be slammed into his face along with him back to the ground. In a matter of moments Cross's memory would be returned and restored.
Cross : Get that thing off my face.
Cross would shove Cyne aside.
Cyne : Did it work?
Cross : Yeah.. I think so.
Cross would turn to see Veroxx using Lesser Ash Sprites to fend off the Phantom Copies along with a Lava Golem as he started his ritual.
Cross : Let's take care of the genie-
Cyne : Asura.
Cross : What?
Cyne : Dunno, apparently its called an Asura.
Cross : Sure...
Alan: Wait... WHERE IS EVERYONE ELSE?!
Cross : True, I haven't seen Alpha, Fital or even those other guys... I actually don't think I caught their group name.
Alan: Well... uh... the phantoms are giving Veroxx a headache, and Fital's likely taken the fight somewhere else. Do we go?
Marl would float down to the group.
Marl : Where's the dragon guy at? He seemed to be the biggest threat.
Srish: My bet is that Fital took him somewhere far away.
Meanwhile...
Fital looks at Armageddon's undamaged body, and sweat dropped.
Fital: (I've been throwing everything i can think of at this guy, and he's still taken no damage! Those scales are even too tough for the drill! It's a good thing i sent us away from everyone else. I do wonder though, has the dragon not noticed or just doesn't care?)
Armageddon: You really think you could stop me? On your own, no less? I am the most powerful being in this multiverse. I am stronger than Solaris ever was! You think taking me away would make things easier? Ha! It just gives me more room to fight.
Meanwhile, back at the bigger battle, Ecto had finally returned.
Ecto: Slack! Toss me the Emerald Cage!
Slack: Here you go.
Ecto whipped on the Emerald Cage and slammed the Chaos Emerald into the right hand slot.
Tier 1 Ecto: Alright, let's dance.
Alan: Hey you two, long time no see!
Veroxx would eventually finish off the phantom clones, turning to look back at the group.
Veroxx : They would make a fool of me? Even my own ally has turned on me? So be it.
Veroxx would conjure a good amount of soot clones and progress towards the team.
Silence: He's got cloning!
Srish: I do have a answer.
Marl : I hope it's one that can get him off our backs, he's pretty resilient.
Srish: Hey! Firehazard! Stay right there!
Veroxx : Hm?
Veroxx would stand back as his clones advanced, waiting to see what Srish intended to do. Srish, not wanting to reveal his plan just yet when one of the Asura was standing back, fired a few vibrations at the Veroxx hanging back, while charging in and shockblasting the clones, knocking their sense of gravity for a loop. Veroxx would would attempt to turn into soot to phase through the attack but would be met with instant regret as he could still feel the full force of the vibrations in this form. This would cause Veroxx to be paralyzed for a few seconds and confused.
Srish: Now! Fire now!
Alan, Dria and Silence all fire their lasers at Veroxx, while Srish goes in as close as the few seconds grants him, and unleashes the Rhythm Suit's laser blast. Veroxx would be hit with the full force of all four attacks, the attack would send him skidding back, carried by pure energy until the attack could no more be seen. As far as our heroes were concerned, that'd be the last they would see of Veroxx. Luckily, Veroxx would manage to slip through dimensions and back into the Dimensional Hub before the blast completely exploded and obliterated him.
Veroxx : *Huff* *Huff* That was a close call... I seemed to have underestimated them...
Shera would walk into the room that Veroxx had appeared in, shocked by the state of her "Master".
Shera : Master Veroxx! Are you alright?!
Shera would immediately run over and begin to heal Veroxx.
Veroxx : I'm fine, barely. Hmmm, we might need more allies. I think we have grossly undermined their power.
Shera : What will you do?
Veroxx : I'm going to try to formulate a way to use the Kaleidoscope to remove my bindings. As it stands the only person on the council that has even the slightest chance of facing the Dimension Rebels is Armageddon. However, if I could find a way to release my bindings I'd have access back to my wish magic. With it I could greatly increase the power of us all.
Veroxx would stand up after Shera finished his healing.
Veroxx : We are going to hold a meeting once the others return.
Back at the battle field.
Cyne : Hopefully that's the last we see of him.
Cross : I can't detect any of his lifeforce.
Marl : Me neither. Either he's dead, or he just managed to escape somehow?
Cyne : What are you saying? No way he could've escaped or survived that. We completely tired him out and got a direct hit.
Alan: Be that as it may, Eggman's survived worse. We can't count him out till we can tell the Dimensional Council's down a member. Now then, with everyone here... shoot, Fital has the Emerald Radar.
Cross : What's the general direction and location of Fital?
Alan: I dunno. Team Skyblue and him vanished midfight, and since Armageddon did too, he's likely taken him somewhere safer for more extreme fighting. With the energy levels he's likely outputting, a energy tracker could identify it, but we don't have such a thing.
Marl : This is indeed a problem...
Cyne : Slack's pretty smart right? Maybe he could make one?
Slack: Sure I could.
Tier 1 Ecto: That won't really be necessary.
Cyne: Why not?
Tier 1 Ecto: I can go into the Spirit World and locate them. It shouldn't take more than a second.
But before anything could happen, a portal opened in the sky. Armageddon descended out of it, while throwing Fital's battered body to the ground.
Armageddon: You fools really though you could stop me? Childish dreams if I ever saw them. Ready for round 2?
Armageddon's Persistent Menace[]
Cross would activate his "Scoped Mode" and scan Armageddon for any weaknesses, he would be shocked afterwards.
Cross : No way.
Cyne : What's wrong?
Cross : My eye can show me the weak points on anything but... this guy... I couldn't find a single weakness on him.
Marl : What? Everything has a weakness right?
Cross : No, I only saw strengths. It's like he's the embodiment of strength, almost like he's perfect.
Cyne : So that means there's no easy way out of this?
Cross : No, we just have to throw what we can at him... and hope it's enough.
Marl would get his clouds to retrieve the body of Fital and bring it over their side.
Fital: Owww... S-sorry boys, his scales are too tough for anything i can dish out.
Alan: Then i think it's official. Retreat!
Team Dragoon gather around the Dragoon Sigil. Ecto stepped forward and yelled at Armageddon.
Tier 1 Ecto: Alright you overgrown sungazer lizard! You want a fight? Then let's dance.
Ecto glanced and Slack and they both knew what to do.
Slack: Ecto's covering for us! Let's get outta here!
Cyne: How's he gonna make it?
Slack: Ecto usually makes it, no reason for him not to now.
Maximum: You heard the sloth, retreat!
Ecto and Armageddon stared at each other for a long time.
Armageddon: Have you realized that Eror looks a lot like Dark: Type Null?
Tier 1 Ecto: Yeah, almost like he's a fragment of D: TN.
Armageddon: Just thought I'd share that before I kill you, permanently.
Tier 1 Ecto: Let's dance, Stryan wannabe!
As Team Dragoon flew off, with Team Phantasm on the Dragoon Sigil's platforms, Alan heard fragments of their conversation.
Alan:(Type Null, what in the dimensions is a Type Null?)
Cyne : Alright so, quick suggestion. HOW ABOUT WE ASK THE TALKING ORB WHAT WE DO NOW?
Marl : Calm down Cyne, for a teenager you act very childish.
Cyne would raise a finger, only to lower it in thought.
Marl : But I do agree. Yeah, we took out our respective foes, but the dragon guy wiped the floor with us. Even the others would have won if we hadn't worked together.
Cross : Look, I get the cause for concern. But we have a better idea of what were working with. Thanks to Ecto we've been given time to prepare, strategize, seek out new allies and most importantly, improve.
Fital: (Coughing) "I've got a idea. If we get the Chaos Emeralds and other sources of power, we can outmatch em. I have a Emerald Radar."
Fital pulls out the Radar, which immediately lights up.
Cyne : Yeah! I already have the Phantom Ruby too.
Marl : I think it's safe to assume that we won't be the only ones looking.
Fital: Probably not. It was described as a "classic war for the Chaos Emeralds."
Slack: We know some people who can help us in our search.
Maximum: We should keep putting distance between ourselves and Armageddon. Ecto with only one emerald won't last long against the likes of him.
Meanwhile...
Ecto: Why must you always show up at the worst time?
Armageddon: Kicks.
Ecto: Makes sense.
Armageddon: I mean literally, I'm about to kick you.
Armageddon's spiked foot shot out and struck Ecto in the face. The spikes on Armageddon's shoes dug deep into his face. Ecto touched a single glove against his muzzle, it came off red.
Ecto: That was a bit overkill, don't you think?
Armageddon didn't answer, he just attacked. He jumped on Ecto and dug his claws into Ecto's torso.
Armageddon: You're weak. You can't protect your friends, you can't stop me, you can't even save everything this time. You know why? Because you are a mistake. An unhappy accident in the G. U. N. labs. You have no purpose. You have no meaning. You are worthless.
At that, Ecto just stopped trying. He curled into a ball and just sat there, trembling.
Armageddon: It's been fun Ecto, but I'm done with you now.
Armageddon picked Ecto up and threw him in the direction the others had gone.
Armageddon: That was an amusing fight. Now, time to go and get the Overlord Diamond.
Back with the others...
Slack: I've contacted my siblings, they will be on the lookout.
Maximum: Hey... is that Ecto?
The limp form of the purple hedgehog soared in an arc towards the group. He crashed into the ground and stayed there. Without another word, Slack picked Ecto up and hoisted him over his shoulders.
Slack: Alright, let's get those gems.
Post Merge: The Hunt for the Emeralds[]
The remnants of Team Alpha had split up from the rest of the group. Slack had given Team Dragoon and Team Phantasm transmitters so they could talk to each other over long distances. Team Alpha was on the hunt for the Overlord Diamond.
Slack: We have to get to the Alpha Zone before Armageddon does. With our speed guy currently catatonic, this is a race.
Maximum: We'll do it. If Armageddon gets to it, I'll shoot him through the head with my plasma rifle.
Team Phantasm would have also split from the group at this point.
Cross : Alright, wer-
Cyne : Hold on.
Cross : What?
Cyne : Instead of focusing on the Chaos Emeralds, let's find something else first.
Marl : Hmm? Find what?
Cyne : Time Stones, I remember Sonic and Tails mentioning them a while back. If I'm correct, this month is the month that Little Planet is supposed to appear. We need to get to Never Lake and get on Little Planet.
Marl : Wouldn't the Chaos Emerald be better though? I mean, they can control time as well?
Cross would put a hand on Marl's shoulder.
Cross : No, he's right. I've heard of the Time Stone's. They have more finesse over time than one could normally obtain with usage of the Chaos Emeralds. Beside's, were gonna need more than Chaos Emeralds for a threat like this.
Cyne : Then that decides it, let's go.
Team Dragoon[]
Team Dragoon are flying towards the nearest Chaos Emerald. Even with their Extreme Gear, it'll take time.
Team Alpha[]
Slack: Dang it! Armageddon got here first!
Slack and Maximum watched from afar as Armageddon bashed each door down. Meanwhile, Ecto had retreated into his mind and found himself in a strange room.
???: Get up.
Ecto:...
???: Get up, child.
Ecto:...
The figure proceeded to walk over and crouched next to him.
???: Return to the physical plane.
Ecto slowly looked up and found himself staring into the soulless eyes of a man in a black suit.
Ecto: D-Death?
Death: Correct, hedgehog. You must leave.
Ecto: Am I dead?
Death: No.
Ecto: Why am I here?
Death: I contacted you to tell you that Armageddon is breaking into the Alpha Zone.
With a roar, Ecto awoke and lunged off of the platform that he was crouched on. He past Armageddon and into the burning building.
Armageddon: What?
Slack: Ecto?
A pulsing light shone from inside. Out stepped Ecto, holding the Overlord Diamond aloft. He absorbed the energy and powered up. Armor fitted to his body and horns grew out of his head. A sword soon appeared in his gauntlet.
Overlord Ecto: You have taken everything that I have ever fought for! You shall be punished.
Overlord Ecto rammed his sword into Armageddon's chest. With a cough, Armageddon slipped off the blade and onto the ground.
Armageddon: Well played Ecto... well played.
Armageddon transformed into a ball of energy and flew off to his castle. He would regain his physical form once he got there. The armor vanished off Ecto and he fell to his knees.
Ecto: Heh... heh heh... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! WOO! That was AMAZING!!!!!
Ecto then proceeded to die just like anyone would after practically eating one of the most powerful artifacts in their universe.
Slack: Oh shoot... he's really dead this time.
Maximum: He'll be back.
Team Phantasm[]
Cross, Marl an Cyne would be riding a cloud, before Marl's face would be overwhelmed with surprise.
Marl : Did you guys feel that?!
Cyne : Feel what?
Marl : Right, your sensing abilities are still at the amatuer levels. There was a massive source of power just now. I could hardly believe it, as soon as it appeared is dissipated...
Cross : Any ideas on what it might be?
Marl : Dunno, likely a person. Could've been a transformation of some sort.
Cyne would look off to the distance.
Cyne : What's going on out there? I hope whatever's going on that they're alright.
Dimensional Hub
The scene would zoom out from a crystal ball, it would be revealed to be Veroxx observing the opposing vigilantes.
Veroxx : They plan to gather relics to stop us? Tch! That Ecto one actually managed to injure Armageddon. Shera!
Shera would step into the room.
Veroxx : Bring me the spice box.
Shera : Yes, Sir.
Shera would leave to fetch a chest filled with magical ingredients.
Veroxx : I'd rather not resort to "Asuran Alchemy" but I'd rather not be on the other side of any attacks like Armageddon was. At least not without my Wish Magic... Yes, If I had that then I wipe them away with the snap of a finger.
Veroxx would stand up, walking among a corridor in the Dimensional Hub.
Veroxx : Hmmm, I have a fun idea. I think I'll share it with the others in the council.
Dimensional Council[]
Eror sits at the round table within the Merge Device, waiting for his allies.
Eror:(Where is anyone? I told them to come here so we can discuss a new plan, i had good news and everything!)
The door burst open and Armageddon stamped in. He was limping slightly and on of his horns was snapped.
Eror: What happened to you?
Armageddon: A minor inconvenience. These wounds shall heal shortly. Team Alpha has secured the Overlord Diamond. Team Dragoon and Phantasm are looking for the Chaos Emeralds. I could start construction on a counter-artifact. You wanted to share something with the group?
Armageddon touched his forehead and mentally called the rest of the Council.
Eror: Quick answer since only you've arrived, i knew they would seek the Chaos Emeralds in time, so i preempted them and have two.
Armageddon: Splendid. I have located an object known as the Reverie, I shall use it to crush our opposition.
Eror: Err... Reverie? What's that?
Veroxx would soon enter, already having had been making his way to the meeting room.
Veroxx : I've heard what you've spoken of. They are not just gathering Chaos Emeralds but other relics to aid them too.
Veroxx would take a good look at Armageddon, fully taking in his condition in person.
Veroxx : If they can wield power like that, then I'd also like to hear about this "Reverie".
Eror: Good to see you, Veroxx. I heard a rumor you died. Glad you got better.
Veroxx : What? Of course not! I merely slipped through a dimensional passage before the moment of the explosion. Plus, I'm Immortal. Well, I suppose with these binding I have lost that aspect, So if I die I'll have to wait for the reincarnation process, if that happens then I'll be back in imprisonment. All because of these horrible bindings... I was once a king you know?
Veroxx would gain a prideful stance and expression saying this, causing Eror to look at him strangely.
Eror: King? All you've ever told me about your past is that you made a wish for yourself and were sealed away because of it. I thought you were a normal member of your species who committed a taboo act. What were you the king of?
Veroxx : Yes, They called me "Raaja Veroxx, Heavenly King of the South". I was a Deva, a sort of Demi-Deity, I was a runner up for the next Buddha of Samsara, realm of the Asura. Until I committed the taboo that is, you know the rest. With these bindings my ranking has dropped from "Deva" to "Naraka". I've been drastically sapped of my strength, my older self probably could probably dispose of me in a single attack. Enough about me, I want to hear about this "Reverie"
Eror looks straight at Armageddon, the look on his face communicating he wished to hear of the "Reverie" as well, until he looked around and noticed Ryky still wasn't in.
Eror: Armageddon, did you order Ryky on some long-term mission or something? Why isn't he here?
Armageddon: I'm sure he'll be here shortly, teleportation is fickle. Anyway, this orb has the power to turn dreams into reality. Although, it was damaged during the merge, so I'll need the time and resources to repair it.
Veroxx : Interesting, I also have a plan of my own. I need to undo these bindings, that much is for certain. If I'm unbound from Asuran Law than I could make as many wishes as my energy could supply, I could alter reality and favor to my side with a single snap. So I propose an idea, how about we make a dungeon, a dungeon that will force this group to split up. They will have all these relics and surely they would use them, so why not tire them out before they face us? I'm sure it'd be entertaining watching them struggle. I have the idea to make Special Potions, imbue curses onto objects and set them up for possible traps within the dungeon, by the time they make it to us... IF they make it to us, we can simply swipe whatever relics they hold and instead use it for ourselves. At least, that's my current plan to break out of these bindings. Asuran alchemy is perfect for such things, especially the noble variant.
Veroxx would take out a strange orange potion and a blade of grass.
Veroxx : Asuran alchemy is the ability to transmute concepts onto other things. This potion is the concept of slicing taken from a sword and brewed with magical ingredients.
Veroxx would pour a drop of the potion on the blade of grass, nothing seemingly changing. Veroxx would then conjure a rock and toss it up in the air, swinging the blade of grass down on it. The rock would be cut in two perfect halves.
Veroxx : Even a mere piece of grass can become a weapon. What do you say? It could be fun, no?
Eror: It does sound kinda fun... Anyways, just so you know, i've been experimenting with Power Energy, you want any?
Veroxx : I've heard you speak about it before, what exactly is it?
Eror: What do you know of "The End"? It's crucial to understanding Power Energy.
Veroxx : The End? It was sealed away last I remember, though I wouldn't know now. If I recall it was a deity of some sort? What of it?
Eror: At least in this dimension, The End is comprised of Power Energy, or i should say, was. There's a whole bunch of legends about a Power Asteroid and whathaveyou, but what you need to know is that Power Energy gives living beings without powers to call their own, powers. It doesn't work on those who already have powers, such as most Demons and Glitchians, but that's when using it the way mortals use it. The End is a perfect example of the second way to use it. If you tie Power Energy to your being somehow, you can alter it with your emotions into a weapon that at it's upper limits can tear through massive machines.
Veroxx : Hmmm...
Veroxx would stroke his beard in thought.
Veroxx : Do you think it's possible I can apply the Concept of Power Energies functions to inanimate objects? Perhaps giving it is own "Powers".
Veroxx would light up.
Veroxx : Wait, that's perfect! I could create special weapons out of it and if I apply the concept of Life, I could make a living dungeon with abilities!
Eror: Now we're talking! Quick question though, why would the heroes attempt to go through the labyrinth, what's at the end?
Veroxx : What else? Think about the entire reason they are confronting us in the first place. They have some light orb telling them what to do and how to do it, clearly they have some outsider on their side that knows about what we've done. If that's the case, they would be coming to claim the kaleidoscope, but there's no way they can get it with us in the way? Put it short, if they have any hope of progressing they have to play by our rules since we are in control. Anything we say goes, like a game. So put simply, they have no choice but to enter the dungeon, I'm having Shera prepare counter measures just incase one or two try to cheat and waltz in here somehow. In fact, I'll also merge the concept of containment within the dungeon, just to make sure they cant skip past anything or escape without getting through it. I say by the end, we each take our picks and swiftly end them.
Eror: What if the light sees we're trapping them and tells them a way to avoid the dungeon? We can't build the Labyrinth into the Merge Device, that's too risky if they get past, and since we can't build it there, how do we bring them towards it? Team Dragoon are too straightforward, they won't go in unless it's a necessity, and what could be in there to bring them in? I like the idea, but they won't enter it unless it leads them to victory, which we can't have.
Veroxx would smile.
Veroxx : Well, we already know what they're doing. If this light is at all knowing as it seems for them then it should know what we're doing. You want a proper bait? It's simple, we already know they're looking for relics like the Chaos Emeralds, Time Stones and who knows what else. You already have some, If we take a piece of their puzzle, they would be forced to come and retrieve it. It's rather clear that they can't stand against us without them.
As Eror was about to say something, he gets a call from someone. Veroxx can't tell who it is, but it's clearly stressing Eror to some extent.
Eror: (Ah great) "Well, get outta there!"
Veroxx : Hmm?
Veroxx would stare at Eror with a raised eyebrow. Turning to Armageddon and shrugging.
Eror: I've got something to sort out, call me if Ryky gets back.
Veroxx : Noted.
Eror leaves to go sort something out.
Team Alpha[]
Slack carried the lifeless husk of Ecto toward the hangar.
Maximum: What's in here?
Slack: Our airship. We'll use this to find the Chaos Emeralds.
Ecto woke up in the same room as before.
Ecto: Again?
Death: Yes, but this time you're actually dead.
Ecto: Oh, guess I'll wait a minute then.
Death: You do realize that when that sloth opened a portal to our world it alerted Dark: Type Null to your existence?
Ecto: He knows now?
Death: Indeed, he is trying to break through. You must stop anyone from opening a portal to Strya before the Administrators run him off.
Ecto: Will do.
Death: Oh, one last thing; next time you come, bring some cat food, we are running low.
Ecto sat up in the hangar.
Ecto: Good thinking Slack, finding the Emeralds will be a piece of cake.
Slack: I've just got to make some final adjustments.
Ecto: I can wait.
The Sloths[]
Glutton swung through the jungle foliage to find his siblings.
Glutton: Snooze! Cloud! Where are you guys?
Snooze: I was sleeeeping.
Glutton: Too bad! Slack has told us that he needs our help!
Snooze: Doesn't he have other people to do that? I'm tired.
Glutton: You already sleep twenty-five hours a day, you don't need more sleep.
Snooze: Fine, what does he need?
Glutton: Apparently outside of the jungle there's a problem. He needs us to get the Chaos Emeralds.
Snooze: Get Cloud, he'll want to help.
Canon Characters[]
Sage flew through the digital dimension. With Eror out, she was spending her free time keeping the system clean, at least, until she stumbled across a hidden folder. While it did not seem foreign to the system, she figured it was better to check, and so she went in, finding three doc files. Picking one at random to check first, she looked into the middle file, finding Eror's Notes: Memories.
Eror's Notes: "The memory erasure was effective if nothing else. I haven't found one person unaffected. It even seems to affect robots. I still do not know who installed such a device in my Merge Device, and the engineers have been unable to locate the part that caused this. This was no rush job. While i do not know who caused this, i suspect Armageddon or Ryky. Armageddon, well i'd be more surprised if he didn't have the capabilities to modify my device without me knowing, and i know so little about Ryky that just about anything could make sense. Veroxx, admittedly is also a viable candidate. He's a pragmatic villain that would prefer the easy takeover over the fun one. But i refuse to believe he'd do it without consulting me or the engineers."
Sage processed this. All this would imply Eror had kept the fact that robots were affected as well from her, and that someone from the Dimensional Council had removed their memories intentionally, though they went over Eror's head to do so. And what was this Merge Device, anyways? Sage decided that before acting on any of this, she would need to check the other files, choosing the left one to go over next, Eror's Notes: Recruitment.
Eror's Notes: "There are two current recruits we know of. A being known of as NULL is the one we have the most info on. They lead a group who seek to kill... seemingly everyone, and NULL themself are a being of a similar build to me, but more powerful. Armageddon keeps comparing them to a entity known of as Dark: Type Null, which i do not know of. Strangely, when i have tried to ask about them, Armageddon always looks at me oddly and doesn't answer. Ryky likely knows nothing of them, though i have not asked, as he's been out for a while. I suspect he's taken up the duty of locating them. Either way, Veroxx does not know of such a entity either, and has noted how odd that is, as if this entity is intentionally hiding from him. There is also another potential recruit, but we've obtained no data on their capabilities."
Sage made note of this, but ignored it for now, and checked the final file, Eror's Notes: Merge Device.
Eror's Notes: "The Merge Device is thankfully mostly working as intended. Whoever modified it didn't damage much. There has been damage, however. The Merge Device, in early capability tests, could increase dimensional stability manually, but that feature no longer works. If dimensional stability goes low enough, we will either have to defuse the dimensions or they will collapse, wasting everyone's time. At the same time, to run the memory wipe feature again, if we for some reason needed to, we would have to defuse the dimensions, and during the cooldown period before reactivation, everyone will regain their memories, endangering the device. Another problem from going around us instead of working with us. Defensive cannons are being established, running off the excess power the Quartz Kaliedoscope gives off. But more defenses are needed. I'm gonna look into Power Energy as a weapon."
With all the files checked, Sage runs a file scan on herself, discovering several corrupted memory files. As she decorrupts them, she starts recovering her memories of the Eggman Empire, starting with her true relationship to Eggman, and ending with the location of Eggman's current base at the time of the Dimensional Merge's start. With her memories restored, she went to Eggman's computer to restore his memories too.
Sage: Father!
Eggman: Sage! What's with this "Father" business? I am your creator, but you're-
Sage: I have discovered a large-scale cover-up!
Eggman: Okay, i'm listening.
Sage: So, as you know, The Dimensional Council has said that the world's memory issues had to do with a experiment going horribly wrong. But this is only a half-truth. It's true they never intended this, but it wasn't just a experiment. In fact, the Dimensional Council as a whole was only formed recently, rather than generations ago as they have led us to believe!
Eggman: These are highly treasonous things you're saying, Sage. What led you to believe this?
Sage: I have discovered notes written by Eror of the Dimensional Council, and hidden from all of us.
Eggman: And now you're snooping?! If you don't stop this, you'll have to be shut-
Sage: Tell me, Doctor, what is your name?
Eggman: Eggman, of course, why are you asking-
Sage: Incorrect. Your name is Ivo Robotnik, and you took on the moniker "Eggman" when Sonic taunted you with it.
Eggman: That's-!
Sage: Furthermore, you have used this taunt as part of the name of many of your creations. Eggman Empire and Eggmanland specifically.
Eggman: You're... right? I-i remember all that, but not exactly why i was doing it. Do you know?
Sage: The stated reason listed on the Eggnet was to rule the world, with Eggmanland being a private getaway and public death trap.
Eggman: I... i remember that now. But why does the name Maria pop into my head while looking at you?
Sage: Maria Robotnik was part of your lineage, as was Gerald Robotnik. Records also speak of a descendant in Eggman Nega. One of your Egg Memos state that i remind you of who she could have been.
Eggman: Ah, now i remember. Gerald was my inspiration for entering the robotics field in the first place. Now then, status report! What forces do i have?
Sage: There's the Badniks, your robot army. Many have been reprogrammed to serve as security by the Dimensional Council. There's also your Eggmobile, which i've already called for. As well, there's Metal Sonic, Orbot, and Cubot, who were last reported to be offline. I have already attempted to wake them, but it must be done manually.
Eggman: Ah yes, them. That reminds me, what's the status of Sonic and his pals?
Sage: 90% of them have been locked away in Everhold Prison. Records say treason, but my memory of security audio implies they know the truth as well.
Eggman: Hah! Once Metal Sonic's back online, i'm going to visit him! Oh the look on his face will be glorious!
Sage: I would recommend we free him. Sonic will serve as a excellent distraction from us.
Eggman: Oh alright. What of Omega and Gemerl?
Sage: They were altered like i was by the Dimensional Council. They still have Eggnet connectivity, i believe i could restore them.
Eggman: Do that after you've freed Sonic's group.
Sage: I am afraid i can do only one. I was not allowed access to the more sensitive parts of Everhold, like the door controls, and i'm likely to be locked out upon opening one door.
Eggman: It'll have to do.
Eggman then left to wait outside for the Eggmobile, which thankfully no one questioned. As the Eggmobile arrived though(with Sage onboard it's computer) they were attacked by the reprogrammed Egg Pawns. Luckily, Eggman had built in weapons in this Eggmobile, and they were blasted apart as Eggman left. At the same time, a "virus" opened the door to Sonic's cell, and while he couldn't free his friends immediately, he managed to break free to seek help. After that, Sage finished off by decorrupting Omega's and Gemerl's memories, and they began planning their own secret retribution. With that all done, Eggman began scheming on how best to teach the Dimensional Council a lesson himself...
Team Phantasm[]
The three would arrive at the "Little Planet", jumping off and onto it.
Cross : We only have limited time to get these things, so let's make it quick.
Cyne : Right!
Marl : I say we split up.
Cross : We will, hopefully if we're lucky no one will have followed us here.
Cyne : Alright, I'll go left.
Cross : I've got right.
Marl : Guess that leaves me with up ahead.
The three would then split off, exploring Little Planet to find the Time Stones.
Team Alpha[]
Having repaired the Hurricane, Slack piloted the craft away from the Alpha Zone.
Slack: Alright, game plan. What should we go for next?
Ecto: Probably an Emerald, but maybe something else.
Maximum: We should try to rob Armageddon of his power.
Slack: In order to do that we would have to break into his castle, which is already difficult, then find whatever he used to merge realities. By the way, it might not even belong to him.
Ecto: The Hyper Emeralds are missing, so we should get another Emerald.
Slack: Team Dragoon are getting one and Team Phantasm are searching Little Planet for the Time Stones. We have one, so that leaves us five Emeralds to find.
Maximum: They don't call me a bounty hunter for nothing, you know.
Ecto: I have an idea. I could go and recover Flame and Rocky while you guys search for some Emeralds. With the entire force of Team Alpha, getting the shiny rocks should be easy.
Slack: Good plan, let's go.
Ecto ran towards Armageddon's Castle in hopes of finding Flame and Rocky, while Slack and Maximum went scavenging for Emeralds.
Team Dragoon[]
Team Dragoon are still riding their Extreme Gears, with Fital flying alongside them with his Emerald Detector.
Alan: We've been flying around forever! Where is that Chaos Emerald?!
Fital: I think we're finally about to catch up to it!
Srish catches a glimpse of a figure on the horizon.
Srish: Someone's up ahead! Could they have the Chaos Emerald?
Dria: Maybe.
It takes a bit, but soon Team Dragoon catches up to the figure, who turns out to be Alas.
Alan: You?!
Alas: Mk III Team Dragoon! And at the worst possible time!
Silence: We don't have time for this, hand over the Chaos Emerald!
Alas: No! I'm gonna get a lot of money when i deliver it to the Dimensional Council!
Fital fires at the Extreme Gear Alas was riding, taking it out, before grabbing Alas by the throat.
Fital: I haven't seen you myself before, but the way Team Dragoon talks about you, you've caused a lot of trouble for them. So here's the deal, You give up the Chaos Emerald, or i'm going to get violent.
Alas: The heck is Sonic doing here?
Fital smashes Alas's head into the dirt. Actually scared for his life now, Alas hands over the Chaos Emerald.
Alas: Now get out of here and leave me alone!
Alan: It's a shame the Dimensional Council has messed everything up, or you would be going to jail finally. Fital, where's the next Chaos Emerald?
Fital: South from here!
Team Dragoon jet off in that direction, leaving Alas to run off to somewhere safe.
Team Phantasm (Future and Past)[]
Cross/Future[]
Cross : Where would these things even be?
Cross would notice some sort of post up head. He would read out "Future" on it.
Cross : Strange.
Cross would run past it, little did he know he had activated it. Sooner or later, he would find himself in the future.
Cross : What? That post... I'm in the future?
Cross would parkour up some trees and would seen the planet beyond Little Planet.
Cross : The world! What happened?
Cross could see the surface from Little Planet with high definition. An army marching across the lands and wrapping up vagrants, pyramids and massive statues made in the images of the Dimensional Council. The sky, the sky had massive rips and tears in it. You could see other worlds being dominated and conquered by massive armies from the rifts.
Cross : This is what happens... if we lose? I gotta go! I need to get those Time Stones!
Cross would run forward, weaving and pouncing through the rocks and trees. Eventually he would stumble upon a Warp Ring.
Cross : This has to be where one of them are-
Cross would be thrown away from the Warp Ring by a metallic hand.
Cross : What?!
It was Metal Sonic 3.0 and he was pointing at Cross.
Cross : That's not the same Metal Sonic I've seen. Also, why is it here?
He wouldn't have time to ponder as Metal Sonic 3.0 boosted towards him, Cross would dodge and shoot it in the head with a Chaos Energy Bullet as it passed by. Metal Sonic 3.0 would slam into a tree, but would continue it's onslaught. Cross would once again dodge but when he looked back he noticed something was off.
Cross : You turned invisible? Sadly, that's not gonna work on me. I can still see you.
Metal Sonic 3.0 would boost towards Cross, coated in an electrifying aura. Cross would roll out of the way and sprint to the Warp Ring, making it successfully and avoiding majority of the fight. Cross would find himself in the void of Oblivion.
Cross : What is this place?
Cross would then notice two Time Stones. Floating in the distance and orange and red one. Cross would float towards them and grab them both before noticing something in the distance. It was the "Second Devourer" One of the many creatures that lived with Oblivion and could travel through White Space. Cross knew that this being was dangerous and was probably guarding the Time Stones, luckily for him the Warp Ring was still open. He would float as the Second Devourer grew closer and right before it could devour him he managed to get through the ring.
Cross : I'm never doing that again. I don't even want to know what would've happened if that thing got me. No if I remember correctly... Chronos Control!
Cross would alter the flow of time, entering back to the present timeline now with two Time Stones.
Cross : Guess I finished first.
Cyne/Past[]
Cyne as well would've ran across one of the Time Warp Signs, his sending him to the past.
Cyne : WAHOHHOOOOH!!
Cyne would find himself being sent into the sky somehow? Thinking quickly and he would grab onto a nearby tree and sling himself downwards before bouncing off the ground in a spinball and on his feet.
Cyne : What is this place? This is the past?
Cyne would look around, thinking that if he got sent to the past, then maybe this past was before the merge. However, he would be absolutely shocked.
Cyne : Wait? The landscape looks identical to the merged planet, just fresher and newer. (So then the merge effected time to? How is it possible that it could overwrite time as well?)
Cyne would then smile, despite the bad news.
Cyne : But hey! If this is the past in a new timeline created by the merge, and the merge just recently happened. Then does that mean there's no Dimensional Council here yet or what?
Phantos : Not quite, the merged timeline was never meant to have a past, the merging of dimensions was technically the start of it's time. However, due to the properties of the Time Warp a past must exist before even then. So it created a new past.
Cyne : What do you-
Cyne would then see a small blue hedgehog jump over him and land on the ground.
Cyne : Is that? No, it can't be?
The hedgehog would turn around, and look to Cyne suspiciously.
Classic Sonic : ...
Cyne : ...
Classic Sonic : Uh... Have I seen you somewhere?
Before Cyne could answer Classic Metal Sonic would blast from above them, carrying Classic Amy.
Classic Amy : Sonic!!
Cyne : (What is going on?!)
Classic Sonic would run off towards Metal Sonic. Cyne would enter his Charged Voltage mode to keep up with the blue blurs speed.
Cyne : Hey, wait up!
Sonic would notice Cyne following.
Classic Sonic : What is it? Lil' busy about now.
Cyne : What's going on right now?
Classic Sonic : Metal Sonic returned! He took Amy, Tails says it's a trap but I don't care.
Cyne : Is that so?
Cyne would form a bolt of electricity and throw it at Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic would throw amy out of his hands which Sonic would catch, however he would absorb the electricity becoming stronger.
Cyne : Er...
Classic Tails : Sonic! Are you alright!?
The small two tailed fall would fly over, seeing Sonic as he set down Amy.
Classic Sonic : I'm fine, but the jobs not done yet little buddy.
Metal Sonic would dash towards Sonic, Only to be frozen within Ice.
Classic Amy : Huh?
Everyone would look back to Cyne who had his foot pressed to the ground, surrounded by ice and the same glacier that froze Metal.
Cyne : Sorry, I don't have time for any crazy fights. I'm trying to get the Time Stones to save the... Future? I guess.
Classic Tails : Really? We have two of them right now.
Cyne : Really? My friends should have the rest! Want to come along.
Classic Sonic : Sound's like fun to me.
Classic Sonic would then notice something.
Classic Sonic : Hey, you kind of remind me of this thing the doctor used before. I think it was some sort of ruby?
Cyne : You mean the Phantom Ruby?
Classic Sonic : Yeah! That!
Cyne would then pull out the Phantom Ruby, showing it off.
Classic Sonic : Yeah, That's it!
Classic Tails : Why do you have that thing?
Cyne : The short answer would be that I'm it's guardian.
Classic Amy : Like Knuckles?
Cynee : Yes.
Classic Sonic : Alright Tails, let's head back to this guys time to help him out!
Classic Tails : Right!
Dimensional Council[]
Armageddon had decided to tell the rest of the council about his plan to stop the heroes. He had called them all to his castle.
Armageddon: I guess when they get here I will have to spend some time explaining Strya. Perhaps I should take them on a field trip.
Eror: I'm here. What's the deal?
Armageddon: I'll explain when Veroxx arrives. I have decided to tell you what exactly Dark: Type Null is. It will take a while though, so I only want to explain it once.
Eror: Finally.
Veroxx would then walk in.
Veroxx : What is it? This better be important, I was in the middle of crafting the dungeon.
Eror: Armageddon here's planning to tell us about Dark: Type Null is. In other news, the heroes stole one of my Chaos Emeralds, but the other is safely secured, so there's that.
Armageddon opened a swirling portal that opened into what looked like a town.
Armageddon: When we're there; don't touch, look at, talk to, smell,or lick anything.
Armageddon then proceeded to launch himself and the rest of the council through the portal into Strya.
Armageddon: We have to be real careful here, even in Dragonia. This place is home to some of the best merchants in the realm. It is also home of the most powerful mortal mage, Hell Spike. Any questions so far?
Eror: What is this place? I imagine it's beyond the dimensions i know, but what actually is it?
Armageddon: This is Strya, home universe of Dark: Type Null, Deus the Legendary, Bubbles, Slap Cat, etc. This is the first ever universe in the Finalverse and easily the most powerful. I think we should pay a visit to the Ocean of Death, any objections?
Eror: As... deadly as such a place sounds, if it'll get me answers, i'm game.
Veroxx : There are many places that stand above us. Being able to see them is a reward in itself, so naturally.
Eror: Not so sure about that, but answers are valuable.
Veroxx : When you have a dimensional sensitivity like me, you can feel the edge of dimensions if you go far enough. I want it to be known every dimension I enter is indexed passively, that's why i'm able to communicate between dimensions and slip through them.
Eror: Hey, that's fair.
Armageddon conjured an air bubble around the trio and they descended into the darkened depths.
Armageddon: We should be extremely cautious here. King Bubbles of the Tide-Winders is sadistic, cruel, insane, merciless, cut-throat (sometimes literally), malicious, vile, nefarious, devious, vicious, intelligent, sinister and just plain evil. But, he does have answers. He has probably interacted with these powerful entities as much as the Administrators.
The trio flew through the murky water towards what appeared to be an underwater city.
Castle Guards (in unison): HALT! WHAT BRINGS YOU TO THE GATES OF THE CAPITAL CITY?
Armageddon (bowing): We have an appointment with his majesty.
Castle Guards: YOU CAN COME IN, BUT NO FUNNY BUSINESS. WE WILL RIP YOU TO SHREDS IF YOU TOUCH HIS MAJESTY.
Having been granted access to the city, the Council flew towards the swirling vortex in the center. They flew down it and reappeared in front of a castle that was taller than the clouds.
Armageddon: Here we are, Bubbles' Castle. Any more questions before we go in?
Eror: How exactly do you know of this place? Aren't you from the dimension with Ecto?
Veroxx : As for me, I'd like more information on the scope of this "Finalverse" and just how powerful Bubbles is.
Armageddon: Okay, Eror, I know of this place because I have been here before. My creator is Stryan, so I was made here. My dimension has Team Alpha, Team Zeta, The Phantom Squad, Team Metal, and a bunch of others. As for Veroxx, you know about how many universes make a multiverse. The same amount of multiverses make a Superverse. Same again for Ultraverses and Alphaverses until he have the Finalverse. Outside of the Finalverse is what is known as Outside Of The Finalverse, outside of that is Inexistence, and outside of that? No one really knows. Bubbles is easily the most powerful living dragon in the Finalverse. His power is infinite sort of I don't really know. So, basically, he is on the same level as the Administrators and Dark: Type Null kinda.
Eror: Why are meeting this guy?
Armageddon: Because any other time we'd need to meet him in Kentro and in that place, you don't exist or else.
Eror: What?
Armageddon: We are on a deadline, the heroes are gathering the Chaos Emeralds as we speak, let's get this done. We also have an hour before TOA realizes that we have illegally bypassed their border control.
Eror: Wha-
Armageddon: No more questions!
The Dimensional Council entered Bubbles' throne room. Bubbles whipped his head around to glare at the tiny intruders.
Bubbles: YOU! SHORT DRAGON GUY!
Armageddon: I have a name.
Bubbles: YOU DON'T TO ME RIGHT NOW! AND YOU BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD REASON I DON'T TURN YOU INTO ONE OF MY DECORATIVE CORPSES!
Armageddon: We brought some cat nip.
Bubbles: OH THANK GOD! Taffy was about to break down my gates.
Armageddon: My unpaid subordinates need a demonstration about D: TN.
Bubbles nodded and put on a fifty slide PowerPoint presentation about Stryan power scaling and how it works.
Armageddon: Get it now?
Eror: So Dark: Type Null is some sort of glitch being just under the maximum power level? That explains all the comparisons. What about you, Veroxx? Explains why you didn't know of him at first?
Veroxx : No, It would have been impossible for me to have known of such a being. Bubbles alone sounds like an Improbable, which I had seen after reviewing Team Dragoons memories in some "Turf War". They seemed to have some power beyond understanding, saying things like "He was reading articles, creating links and editing articles. Watching Youtube and playing Sonic 06 for the Xbox 360" others "Overwriting the narrator and standing as the Operating System". I have no idea what any of that means, but it seems they are all under "The Creator" from what I gathered the administrators would be similar to that being, and Dark : Type Null being among if not above the level of the Admins as well. It's all very interesting to put into perspective, I can't really wrap my head around such high level existences. But I feel honored to see one, much less learn of them.
Eror: Back up, you saw Team Dragoon in a "Turf War"? What the heck is that?
Veroxx : It's hard to explain. From there memories it seem like they just came into existence in an entirely different place. I think it was called "The Sheet", he didn't explain what it was, just that it was somewhere that bordered between this world and "The Creators" world. After that he made them play a game, I guess he was bored and wanted to find out who was the best. I'll never really understand why almighty entities do that kind of stuff.
Eror: Oh, i'm totally getting them to explain before i kill them.
Armageddon: We must leave post haste. TOA has been alerted to out presence. Anyhow, thank you, Bubbles.
Bubbles: The pleasure was all mine. Now get out, Balene is coming and won't take kindly to strangers. Oh, by the way, Dark: Type Null is getting closer to breaching your realities.
With a grim expression, Armageddon bowed and teleported the rest of the council back to their fused dimension.
Armageddon: If we somehow fail, I will rip open a wormhole and allow D: TN in. We can quickly faze out of existence for a brief time while he deals with the heroes. Once he is done and has left, our rule will be unchallenged. This is only a backup plan, as D: TN is so powerful that many things can go wrong.
Eror: Good to know. The slideshow said that Dark: Type Null isn't actively aggressive though, so how would that work?
Armageddon: He is aggressive, you interpreted it wrong.
Eror: Alright. I'll need a second to check on the dimensional energy levels, if Dark: Type Null really is trying to visit, that could wreak havoc on the dimensional energy levels, and by extension, dimensional stability.
Veroxx : This still makes me wonder, just how far does it all go. Surely it never ends, but perhaps it does... There are things we will never have answers too, but i've seen many entities in the past few days that make me question existence. It makes me wonder, perhaps there are other things out there like Dark: Type Null that nobody knows about.
Eror would look at Veroxx with a raised eyebrow.
Veroxx : I'm just rambling, I only believe what I can see. If I can't see it, then generally I don't care.
Eror: I'm more concerned the dimensions might fall apart on us for reasons beyond our control. Entities of such power are very much a thing, they created the multiverse i live in, but i had never known them to care about anything i was doing. Did fusing multiple universes draw attention?
Veroxx : Whatever the case, we have the advantage. We have countermeasures for just about everything. Let attention be drawn, soon it will be us in that same position of might.
Eror: Alright then. I'm off to check on the Merge Device. Oh, but before i go, do either of you know who added the device that caused the mass memory loss to my Merge Device?
Armageddon: Nah.
Veroxx : No.
Team Alpha[]
Ecto[]
Ecto blasted across the terrain, looking for Armageddon's Castle.
Ecto: Damn, not here. Where is his freaking castle? It's big, imposing, and not easy to miss.
He jumped into the spirit world and flew around to get a better view.
Ecto: Perhaps I should possess something.
Before he did that, he spotted the castle in the distance. He soared towards it and landed.
Ecto: Time to find the boys.
Slack and Maximum[]
Slack: We need just a few more emeralds before we can right the wrongs of the Dimensional Council. Could you hurry up a little?
Maximum: Maybe, but you'd need to offer a higher price.
Slack: Fine. Five hundred thousand, up front.
Maximum: That's more like it.
They searched the land for what felt like an age, until they finally found what they were looking for.
Slack: At last. Just a few more.
Maximum: Money. Now.
Slack: Later.
Armageddon[]
Armageddon: Perhaps I should use the Reverie to create a new, powerful minion. Volt! Fetch me the Reverie!
Volt: Yes sir.
Volt soon came running back with the Reverie. Armageddon placed his hands on it and began muttering an incantation. In a few minutes, he was done. The Reverie disintegrated and reformed into a dark mass on the shape of a hedgehog.
Armageddon: Welcome to the world.
Exenterate: Why have I been created?
Armageddon: For destruction. You must possess Ecto the Hedgehog.
Exenterate: And if I don't?
Armageddon: You will be... terminated.
Team Dragoon[]
Alan: Quick check, where exactly is the next nearest Chaos Emerald?
Fital pulls out the Emerald Radar, and gets confused, muttering to himself.
Fital: I'm sure this planet was smaller last i checked.
Alan: Eh?
Fital: The next closest is back at Emeraldville, which is likely to be the most heavily guarded. It's not the one we're headed towards.
Dria: What one are we headed towards, then?
Fital: We're headed for the one in Green Hill, if i'm reading the map right, but Green Hill was never so far away.
Srish: This certainly feels like it's taking longer than usual.
Silence: Maybe it has to do with how the worlds were merged. Perhaps the planet was expanded to accommodate areas that don't exist elsewhere.
Alan: Fair point.
Fital: There's certainly a lot of new region, in that case.
Dria: So is there even anything around here?
Alan: Just grasslands as far as the eye can see. I hope the others are having a more exciting time.
The Ghost and the Demon[]
Exenterate: There he is, so unwary.
Ecto was closing in on Armageddon's Castle, unaware that the demon was hunting him. Before he could reach the gates, the demon attacked him.
Ecto: Ahh! What are you?
Exenterate: Relinquish your body, purge yourself of your soul.
Ecto: You're just rambling, you know that?
Exenterate: Shut up now, or I'll make your end painful.
Team Dragoon[]
Team Dragoon zoom into Green Hill, finally closing in on the Chaos Emerald signal.
Fital: Well, we're finally here.
Alan: Can you take to the skies and check where the Emerald is exactly?
Dria: Hey! That's my job!
Fital: Sure.
Fital flies into the sky and locates the Chaos Emerald signal inside a cave at the top of a mountain. Dria then flies up and into the cave at the top of the mountain, and collects the Chaos Emerald, before flying down. As she lands, she notices the others checking out the mountain.
Dria: Uhh, guys?
Alan: So this is Paradox Mountain.
Srish: The very place that the Paradox Prism was once held.
Dria: Ah, i see. Then that means the Chaos Emerald landed exactly where the Paradox Prism once was.
Silence: What a odd coincidence.
As Team Dragoon started talking to one another about Green Hill, Fital spotted something coming towards them at top speed. Fital immediately landed to warn Team Dragoon.
Fital: Team, something's coming towards us!
Alan: What is it!
???: What? Can't you recognize a old friend?
Team Dragoon turned to see Sonic standing atop a loop behind them.
Dria: Sonic! You're safe!
Srish: Wait, i distinctly remember you being captured. How'd you escape?
Sonic: Honestly, i don't know. My cell door just opened, and i escaped.
Alan: Please tell me you freed your friends!
Sonic: That would've required knocking out the prison guards, innocent people controlled by something or other. I couldn't bring myself to do so.
Fital: Well, not so much controlled as much as tricked. Eror's crafted a device that fused the dimensions, and someone else messed with it to alter everyone else's memories.
Sonic: Eror? He can create such a thing?
Fital: Indeed. He's always been smart. He gave me the designs for top of the line defenses back when i was evil. He always talked about crafting devices to control the dimensions. I just never though much of it until now.
Sonic: Well, we have our target, do we know where it is?
Fital: No. It's likely in the Dimensional Hub, but we could never find it without a tremendous amount of luck unless we knew where it was. We should find the Chaos Emeralds first anyways.
Sonic: I can guess why, but i still wanna know. What do we need the Chaos Emeralds for?
Alan: I think i remember you telling me about a dragon, what was that thing again?
Sonic: The dragon i fought on the Northstar Islands? What about it?
Dria: One of our foes is essentially that exact dragon, but we can't seal it.
Sonic: Ah, i get it now. Alright then, let's go find them!
Fital: Sure, i do have a tracker.
As Fital and Sonic look over the Chaos Emerald tracker, Silence gets a odd feeling and turns to where Sonic came from. The rest of Team Dragoon take notice.
Srish: Silence?
Silence: Dria, could you fly up and check the area for a second?
Dria: Sure, i guess.
Dria flies up and looks around, spotting nothing at first. As she's about to call down that she doesn't see anything, she spots a odd speck on the horizon from the same direction Sonic came from, which seemed to be leaving a trail of dust.
Dria: There's something coming this way!
Alan: What exactly?
Dria: It's too far to make out!
Fital: Give me a second, Sonic.
Fital flies up to Dria's level and looks out at the oncoming speck, summoning a telescope to see it better. When it fails to make it out, he makes it better, managing to make it out.
Fital: That there is a Metal Sonic.
Alan: No doubt the Dimensional Council sent it.
Fital: I've got it. Hold this for me.
Fital passes Dria the Chaos Emerald Detector, before zooming ahead at max speed to confront the Metal Sonic. As soon as he caught up, he attacked the robot with his full might, which Metal Sonic did it's best to dodge. After a couple of seconds, Fital stopped and the two stared each other down. Before they launched into a mutual beatdown, Sage appeared from Metal Sonic's visor to stop the fight.
Sage: Stop! We are not here to fight you!
Fital: Than what did Eror send you for?
Sage: I am no longer under his sway. Neither is Eggman. We have come to communicate with your team.
Fital: And how can we trust you?
Sage: You remember when you first came to our planet? How Eggman used you to power a machine of his?
Fital: So you do remember. But that proves nothing. Robots were probably just spared from the machine's effects.
Sage: They were not. Why would Egg Pawns serve Eror if so?
Fital: Cause Eggman serves him? Cause they were reprogrammed? There's plenty of explanations.
Sage: Just trust us for a second!
Fital: Alright, but one aggressive move and there won't be any Metal left.
Fital leads Metal Sonic to the others, while keeping close watch. Once they arrive, Metal Sonic pulls out a hologram device, which reveals Eggman.
Eggman: Hello, Sonic.
Sonic: Hi Eggman.
Fital: Ok, explanations now.
Eggman: Oh, alright. I was the one who released you from Everhold Prison, Sonic.
Sonic: Wait, really?
Fital: Any proof?
Eggman: Why would i lie?
A deafening silence falls among the crowd.
Sonic: Alright, pop quiz. What's your goal?
Eggman: In order, defeat the Dimensional Council, take over the world, build Eggmanland.
Fital: Sage could've told him that.
Sage: Not if my memory was still lost.
Sonic: Next question then, Who's Zenith?
Eggman: A great partner, one of the strongest beings i've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Alan: What did you do with him?
Eggman: You should know that!
Orbot: They want-
Eggman: I know what they want!
Alan: Oh hey, Orbot. He wasn't there when Eggman served Eror.
Eggman: Anyways, I partnered with him, and he empowered Metal Sonic, helping him nearly kill Sonic. Then we attacked Emeraldville together, then you went Super, then he powered up my machine, until you beat us with that stupid double Super Laser.
Fital: He could've just-
Sonic: Look, if we keep questioning things, we'll never get anything done. We have to just trust Eggman on his word, cause he could be a great help, and there's no way he'd work with the Dimensional Council if his memory really is restored.
Fital: Fine. I could destroy Metal Sonic anyways.
Eggman: Sure, sure. So, as a gesture of goodwill, i'm breaking your friends out of prison. It hurts to attack a useful prison, but when needs must.
Sonic: How?
Eggman: A full scale attack of course.
Sonic: Wha-
Eggman: I know you're concerned about the "innocent", but they'll survive. Besides, with how big the planet is now, you'd never get there in time to stop me.
Alan: Blast it, he's right. And hey, so long as the guards survive, they can be freed from the delusion.
Sonic: If one of them dies...
Eggman: Don't worry, i'm careful.
Dria: We can debate that later. What exactly are you planning after that?
Eggman: I'm taking the fight to the Dimensional Council!
Fital: That'll be harder than you think. They each have their own base.
Eggman: So what?
Alan: They also no doubt can destroy your army.
Eggman: Fine then. I'll wait until the rodents are free, then coordinate a plan with them. What of the Chaos Emeralds?
Alan: We'll need them to fight the Dimensional Council.
Eggman: How many do you have?
Alan: Don't entirely know.
Alan activates the communicators.
Alan: Status update, everyone. How many magic gems have you found?
Cyne : Me and Cross have two Time Stones each. We're waiting on Marl. Since we sort of time traveled I guess it makes sense he might not be done yet. We're heading over to where he's at though. Sound's like a fight's broken out.
Eggman: The Time Stones? I never even thought about that! With those, we could stop this before it started!
Cyne : Yeah... About that. Turns out the merge created a new timeline that overwrites each of our dimensions, so when I went to the past it created an entirely new past, the merged world still existent. Speaking of which, I've got this smaller version of Sonic, Amy and Tails with me right now. I'm just gonna call them the "Classics".
Eggman: What?
Alan: Well, every little bit helps.
Slack: Maximum and I have one, Ecto has one. Do you have one or two? That leaves us about 3-4 emeralds to find.
Ecto: *Kshhh* Uh guys, I could use a hand here.
Alan: Hmm?
Ecto: I'm coming over to where you guys are, but prepare. I have a nasty little bugger right on my tail.
Alan: Well, we have two, so that means we have three Emeralds left to find, two if you ignore the one the Dimensional Council found. And just what do you mean by that?
Ecto: Can't... explain... just... be ready.
Slack: We're on our way, should be there in three... two... one.
At that, Slack and Maximum appeared in front of Team Dragoon.
Slack: Ah, Doctor Eggman.
Maximum: He has a pretty high bounty.
A dust cloud in the distance alerted the group to Ecto's arrival. He skidded to a stop, breathing heavily. He sported wounds across his body, including a nasty gash on his chest.
Slack: What happened to you?
Ecto: Exenterate.
When Ecto said that, a black cloud flew up to the crew. It homed in on Sonic and went into him. The blue hedgehog went still, spasmed, then slumped to the ground.
Alan: What the heck?
Sonic's still form began to slowly stand up. His fur had faded to the darkest blue, and nasty scars covered his body. When he looked up, his eyes were red and leaking blood.
Exenterate: Seems like you forgot. I am an EXE. This feeble meatbag tends to be my main target. Now I have a corporeal form, prepare to die.
He is immediately thrown across Green Hill by Metal Sonic and Fital.
Fital: I happen to like this Sonic. Time for your punishment, demon!
Eggman: Metal Sonic! Destroy this demon!
Elsewhere on Little Planet...
Marl : I don't even know who you are?
Terios : Doesn't matter, Your gonna give up those Time Stones.
Cyne and Cross would soon arrive.
Cyne & Cross : Terios?!
Terios : You two?
Marl : You know this guy?
Cyne & Cross : Yeah, he's Shadows counterpart from the Sol Dimension. But how is he here?
Terios : There was a flashing and blinding light, I tried to negate it with my ability and I ended up somewhere in the void. Eventually there was a rift opened by some genie looking guy and I slipped through without being noticed. I found out this world has something called "Time Stones". If I can get all of them, maybe I could bring Mary back.
Marl : That's why your doing all of this?! We've all lost people, but there's something bigger than all of us at play here! Stop being so selfish!
Terios : Selfish? Why shouldn't I? Sure this world and many other have combined, but as far as I can tell everyone is happy. I see peace in this world. All from this "Dimensional Council". Is it not selfish for you to ruin their peace as well? People who may have originally lead hard lives?
Cyne : That's not true, they didn't choose to have overwritten memories, this is all just a facade and no one has a right to take away someone's life and puppeteer it!
Cross : I've also just returned from the future, and all I see is the apocalypse.
Terios : Then so be it, I'm taking those one way or the other.
Vs. Exenterate[]
Ecto blasted towards the prone form of the demon.
Ecto: Saving all these realities is hard enough! Why do you have to make it harder?!
Exenterate: You fools really thought a robot was enough to stop me?
Sonic's body began to twist and change shape. His mouth grew to hideous proportions and his arms bent into impossible angles. He raised his malformed hand and a beam of energy shot out of it, searing through Metal Sonic's head.
Exenterate: Maybe I should drag this out. Then again, Armageddon said to destroy you quickly.
He launched himself at Fital, grabbing him and slamming him to the ground. His claws seemed to elongate as he started savaging Fital.
Exenterate: I have no qualms about killing anyone who gets in my way though.
Fital: I am not going to fail here!
Fital unleashes a burst of energy that fries the hand holding him.
Fital: Sorry, Sonic, but freeing you must come later.
Fital generates a storm of energy projectiles and bombards Exenterate with them. Exenterate jumps back and regrows his damaged hand. He casts his stare over the group for a second, before hurling spears of energy down on them. In the ensuing chaos, Ecto entered the spirit world. He jumped into Sonic's body and began fighting for control. Everyone else saw Exenterate howl and start scratching his own face. His eyes flashed from red to blue multiple times until Ecto was ousted.
Ecto: *Cough* Well... that didn't work.
Fital: That's a idea!
Fital ran over to Ecto
Fital: I can give you a power boost if you think it would help you free Sonic.
Ecto: Alright. Let's do this!
Fital gave Ecto as much power as he reasonably could, boosting Ecto's spirit powers many times over. A green aura surrounded the hedgehog, hinting at the immense eldritch smackdown that was about to commence.
Ecto: Now this is what I call power!
He and Exenterate collided in a flurry of blows. They moved so fast that they blurred into a solid ball of purple, green, and dark blue. Ecto jumped out of a melee and took flight, his legs slowly becoming more ghostly as it got closer to his feet. He summoned spectral spears around him and fired them at Exenterate. The demon responded in kind with an explosion of evil energy. The two powerhouses continued to fight. Midway through, Ecto cast a meaningful glance at the rest of the group.
Fital: Try this on for size!
Fital locks Exenterate in chains.
Fital: Now! Do... whatever it is you attempted to do earlier!
Ecto did more than that. He absorbed partial amounts of Exenterate's power and fused it with his own. His eyes took on a demonic gleam and his fur darkened. He summoned one gigantic spear of energy and sent it crashing into the restrained form of Exenterate.
Ecto: I think that got him.
Exenterate: *Cough* You really thought that would stop me?
The demon flew up and his eyes glowed red. It seemed like he was absorbing the life force of everything in the nearby area. His body spasmed and warped, taking on a form that was horrifying to look at. His fur was now dark red, countless eyes and mouths covered his body, and tentacles blasted out of his arms and legs.
The Blood Lord: Ready for Round Two?
Fital: Oh for the dimension's sake!
Fital bombards this "Blood Lord" with high amounts of energy, teleporting every few seconds to a different angle.
Fital: With how monstrous this beast is, we might be able to beat it down free from the fear of killing Sonic!
Unrelated to the fight, the massive sound of a distortion could be heard. The color of the environment and space would take on a negative color palette and for whatever reason would stay like this. The fighters would notice this but ignore it for the time being, except for Ecto.
Ecto: Hang on...
Meanwhile, the Blood Lord was tanking the bombardment from Fital and was instead focusing on softer targets. He takes aim and fires a death ray at Team Dragoon. They dodge it by jumping to the side, and Silence responds with a full power hyper laser, dealing major damage.
Fital: Not too much! We still need to free Sonic from this!
The Blood Lord: I will work this body until it drops. There are other people to possess.
Ecto. in the meantime, had been charging up an attack. With the Blood Lord distracted, he unleashed the wrath of the Underworld. Everyone watched as Sonic was pulled into the Underworld, taking the Blood Lord with him.
Alan: Oh for god's sake. Now we need to go find Sonic in the middle of all this.
Ecto landed neatly, rolled his eyes, and reopened the vortex to the Underworld.
Ecto: There he is, go get him.
Contrary to popular belief, the Underworld isn't a hellscape. Instead, it is an endless hotel. The portal showed the lobby, where Sonic and Exenterate sit side by side in the waiting chairs.
Alan: How-wha-whe-Sonic, what's going on?
Sonic: Oh, hi. The lobby staff separated us and are waiting to send us to our rooms. I presume you're just here to take me back.
Alan: Uh, yeah.
Sonic: Alright.
Sonic gets up and runs through the portal.
Silence: Why didn't Exenterate make a break for it?
Exenterate appeared behind Silence and slammed him to the ground.
Exenterate: He did.
Ecto rolled his eyes again and entered the spirit world. He then proceeded to possess Exenterate.
Ecto/Exenterate: Alright! Power boost! Let's get those last two Emeralds!
Dria: And you're sure you can control that?
Ecto/Exenterate: I am the more powerful being here, Exenterate has been subdued.
Post-Merge: The Last Stand[]
Battle Aftermath/Terios Unleashed[]
Ecto/Exenterate: So what's with the color inversion?
Dria: The Phantom Ruby always did that during the war, and Cyne has the Ruby, but it shouldn't be lasting this long.
Ecto/Exenterate: Hang on... Rocky has part of the Phantom Ruby! Well, our Phantom Ruby. Brace yourselves, it might be Armageddon's Army.
Alan: Even if it is, a army would be a refreshing change of pace after what's been happening. The Dimensional Council is the real threat here.
The color inversion would then slowly revert in a bubble like fashion, collection into one point. From it a tear in space would open and out of it Terios, Cyne, Cross and Marl would fall. Terios and Cross landing on there feet meanwhile Cyne and Marl fell face first.
Terios : Hmmm, that was strange.
Cyne : Agh... I can't believe that just happened.
Cross would soon pass out from exhaustion, Marl would be heavily injured and unable to fight either.
Terios : Now, your comrades have fallen, your the last one. Give me the Time Stones or die.
Terios would then notice the others around him. Ecto would pull out his sword and aim it at Terios's throat.
Ecto/Exenterate: You have two options here, join us or leave.
Alan: Hey, it's Terios! Be careful, his power neutralizes powers.
Terios : Your a new face. But I can tell you have interesting abilities. Just from what I can perceive from you, you have non-physical methods of attacks. But that won't help you this time. I also don't take to kindly to threats.
Cyne : Guys! He negated all of the energy from the Phantom Ruby! I was going to try to escape to here but he managed to touch it in the middle of it all.
As if to prove his point, Cyne would show off the now gray and dull ruby.
Alan: Terios, why are you being like this today?
Fital: Terios, Terios...
Terios : If I can get those Time Stone's then I can go back and prevent myself from every killing Mary! And don't talk as if were friends, you were only convenient for when I needed you.
Alan: Maybe. But with the dimensions the way they currently are, you can't possibly know if the Time Stones will work as they should! Though, incidentally, remind me why we needed them?
Cyne : Besides the usefulness of their abilities, we can probably use them to reset the time on whatever they used to cause the merge in the first place. If we can't reset the reality itself, then resetting what caused it should work, I think.
Terios : It doesn't matter what I know. If there's a chance then I'm going to take it.
Alan: Can you do it later, we just got out of a fight with a demon and i really just want to continue on with saving the worlds.
Terios : If you don't want problems then stay out of my way. I'm taking those Time Stones though.
Fital: Terios! Now i remember!
Fital proceeds to kick Terios across the field.
Fital: You were willing to work with that monster!
Ecto/Exenterate: He neutralizes powers? Interesting.
Ecto walked over to Cyne and placed a hand on the Phantom Ruby. His eyes glazed over and he grimaced.
Ecto/Exenterate: That warp alerted Rocky. The Army is coming. We must leave.
With impeccable timing, Slack and Maximum showed up with the Hurricane.
Slack: Hop on! The Dimensional Council will be here any second. They aren't holding back, everyone is coming!
Terios would flip mid air and land on his feet.
Terios : Demon, I didn't even notice you were here to. You won't prevent me from getting those Time Stones.
The others would board the Hurricane.
Fital: Go without me! I can teleport.
Before Fital could even realize it Terios had a firm grip around Fitals neck slamming him to the ground. The excess strength causing the earth to fracture and for dust to kick up.
Terios : That is if you return.
Terios would then lift Fital up and throw him to the sky, ripping out a chunk of the earth and kicking it towards the midair Fital. Fital just blocks the thrown earth and summons another Dragoon Suit.
Fital: Where did you even go anyways? You shouldn't have been able to traverse the Dimensional Hub!
Terios : I didn't use your hub. I also won't tell you how I did it. Now is that suit just for show? OR are you gonna do something with it?
Fital: You wanna do this? Bring it on!
Fital opens fire using the Dragoon Suit's cannon. Terios would smirk, the taunt having it's intended effect.
Terios : Predictable.
Terios would put out his hand and as each shot reached him, they would return back to which they came. The open fire now being on Fital.
Fital: Well that trick is certainly new.
Fital lands, preparing his own response and firing the drill. Terios would step to the side and put one hand on the drill, negating it's rotation. Terios would then grab it and run towards Fital.
Terios : (Let's see what your next move is.)
Fital fires off missiles to keep Terios guessing, the missiles being dodged, and as Terios attempts to stab Fital with the drill, Fital Parries the attack, summons back the drill, and slashes Terios with it, inflicting a deep wound on his side. As the time slow fades, Fital flies back into the sky.
Fital: Look, i get it. I've made mistakes in my past too, but time travel never works, have you never read a book?
Terios would look down at the wound, slightly impressed. The wound did not bleed however, due to the composition of his body.
Terios : I don't read. Not when I have goals. Also, don't get cocky from landing a wound. I've destroyed three entire species in a war. I've taken damage, but I never bleed. What makes you think you can stop me?
Fital: I stopped you from getting on the ship, didn't i?
Fital then teleports onboard the ship and away from Terios.
Terios : I'll never understand why prey runs, they will always be caught in the end. Then again, I usually feel the pain when I'm hurt.
Terios would look down at the wound and see that it was now gone.
Terios : (Even now, I still grow stronger)
Eror's Concerns[]
Eror flew through the Dimensional Hub to the Merge Device, having been called by one of the engineers, who seemed concerned. As he landed, he called out for the engineers.
Eror: Engineers!
The engineers quickly gathered.
Eror: What exactly is going on? Why was i called here?
Demon Engineer: Something's come up, and being the one actually visiting the merged world, we hoped you might be able to explain.
Eror: Explain what exactly?
The demon engineer pulls out a hologram device similar to the one Eror had to keep a eye on the dimension's status, showing the dimensional stability was all the way down to 41%
Eror: What?! What exactly happened?!
Glitchian Engineer: We don't know specifics, but we've found something that might help figure it out.
The Glitchian Engineer pulls out a different hologram device, that shows the runtime data for the Merge Device, such as energy drain and whatnot.
Glitchian Engineer: We've found that there's data for multiple years of runtime!
Eror: What?! But the dimension's been fused for a couple weeks at most! I've gotta see if the others know anything.
Eror quickly contacts Veroxx, seeing as he's the most knowledgeable of the group.
Veroxx : What is it?
Eror: Veroxx, dimensional stability's gone way down all of a sudden. My engineers tell me there's data for multiple years of the Merge Device running all of a sudden, despite the fact we only activated it a week or so ago. You have any idea what could cause that?
Veroxx : Hmmm...
Veroxx would use his ability to try to see this all through. He would find the future and past timelines created by the Time Stones. Furthering his investigation he would see Cyne, Marl and Cross with the Time Stones on the Hurricane with the others.
Veroxx : Time Stone's. They created new time that didn't exist before, that's probably why.
Eror: What a headache. I doubt that was intentional, though. They don't know enough yet to try to prevent us from building the Merge Device. They're just collecting magic gems to have them for potential use.
Veroxx : Still, this is a bit of an issue for the Merge Device. I'd hate for the dimensions to collapse over my head, do we have anything that could improve or slowdown the effects? If not, perhaps we could use... what was it called? Ah yes, the "Paradox Prism". If we could find a way to focus it's energy, maybe we could split parts of the dimension and fix individual problems or just outright remove parts of it to decrease the area of damage?
Eror: Do you have any idea where it is?
Veroxx would begin spinning a Chaos Emerald on his finger out of boredom.
Veroxx : No, but considering it's located somewhere on the planet and due to it's anomalous prescience in nature I have an idea of who can find it. Also, I normally would be able to, but that thing is very unstable so it's energy distorts my dimensional sensitivity.
Shera would step into the room.
Veroxx : Shera has a connection to nature, I'm sure she could probably detect the anomaly within it.
Eror: Oh, ok. Let's go fi-
Eror is then suddenly struck with a realization.
Eror: Why have none of us brought up the Master Emerald? We could use it, but you, me, Armageddon, Ryky when he still came to meetings, and... Wait, hang on, there's no fifth member.
Armageddon suddenly flashed into the room.
Armageddon: My demon has been vanquished. It seems like Ecto was powered up by this Fital. You know them, right Eror? Anyhow, I have finished construction on my latest weapon. The Shadow Emerald. Basically a Chaos Emerald, but minus the positive energy. Plus, it sends the user insane. Doubt that would have any effect on us though.
Eror: Well, if it doesn't work on us, it won't work on Fital. What exactly will we do with this?
Armageddon: We can replace this with one of the Chaos Emeralds that the heroes have got. If we cast some illusion magic on it, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. They won't be able to use the full power of the Emeralds, they will go insane and stop fighting us, and we will get a Chaos Emerald for our troubles.
Eror: That could help, but how would we do so?
Armageddon: When they aren't looking, I'll teleport in and switch the Emeralds.
Eror: If you can just do that, steal them all!
Veroxx : Eror, if Armageddon is too greedy they're gonna notice and just rewind time. Unlike before where they had to make a new timeline, the time where Armageddon stole it would have already existed.
Eror: Hmm... They do have the time stones, fair point.
Armageddon: When I plant the Shadow Emerald, the heroes will start turning on themselves. They will lose and we won't have to life a finger.
Eror: We can sure try. Now here's a question. Why don't we see about that Master Emerald?
Veroxx : Master Emerald... I'd forgotten it existed to be fair. How would you even plan to use it. Also, before you plant the Shadow Emerald we need to take into consideration those that could have resistances to it. Team Dragoons Wisps might go unaffected, I'm not sure if Cross could see through the Illusion magic with his Hawk Eye but he should be able to be put under the corruption of the emerald. Cyne... I'm not sure Cyne would effected, that Phantom Force is troublesome and seems to be like an overlapping layer of reality. Ecto, Ecto is within the body of that creature you deployed earlier, is it possible he could escape it's corruption as well. As far as I see it those are the only one's who might be able to resist it.
Eror: With Fital as a "maybe". If i can resist the effects, so could he, and we don't exactly have the time to science this. And as for use of the Master Emerald, just as a backup we'd store somewhere in case all these plans are for naught.
Armageddon: The Shadow Emerald doesn't have any effect on us because we already are insane. I will go plant it, along with a microphone. Let's hear our enemies slowly lose their minds.
Eror feels insulted at being called insane when he's only evil, but ignores it for now as Armageddon swaps the Green Chaos Emerald for the Shadow Emerald.
Veroxx : Hmmm... Some beings have multiple minds, but I suppose none of them should right? Hmm...
Eror: Veroxx, what are you talking about?
Veroxx : Hmm? Oh, there are just a few dimensions where I've seen beings obtain items with sentience, power with a mind or some that have even gained an entirely new mind. When I say mind I'm not talking about the literal mind, rather the soul. Think of it like two souls in one body, or one soul that has the properties of multiple. I've seen scenarios where one mind has taken over the other or one mind can protect the other.
Eror: Ah.
Veroxx : Also, I noticed that hedgehog with scar on his eye seemed to have caused them a bit of trouble. What did he call himself? Terios? Do you think he could be useful for us? He seems to have not been effected by the merge either, but doesn't seem to care much for it.
Eror: Hmm. My logs don’t have much data for him. It’s possible. What exactly was his goal?
Veroxx : I'm unsure, but it seem like he wanted those Time Stones.
Eror: Well, in that case, one of us could just teleport him aboard their ship and let them deal with the consequences.
Armageddon nodded and began opening a portal. Before he left, he decided to remind Eror of something.
Armageddon: I'm nigh-omniscient Eror, I can hear your thoughts. You think you aren't insane, but you are. If you were sane, you wouldn't be a villain now, would you?
At that, he left.
The Final Emeralds[]
Alan: Alright. What of the last Chaos Emerald locations?
Fital: They’re… Dria you have the Emerald Radar.
Dria: Ok, let’s see… what are these locations? I’ve never seen them before.
Cross : What do you mean? Describe it.
Dria: I dunno! I think they’re regions from one of your dimensions, cause I’ve never seen this terrain before.
Cross : Really? Let me think then. Our world originally has global sectors where nature takes drastic changes. If you've never seen it, then it's either part the Necro Sector, Faith Sector or... The Chaos Sector...
Ecto/Exenterate: Our world is permanently damaged, so there might be a Chaos Emerald in Shattered Hill.
Alan: What the heck goes on in your world?!
Ecto/Exenterate: That happened when reality shattered. We also fight gods, travel the Shatterverse, muck around, get murdered, and perform surgery.
Cross : For us there was a Fallen Angel named Xelor Reign who betrayed the Archangels and stole some sort of item... Now that I think about it, the item was probably whatever the Dimensional Council is using since essentially the same thing happened to a larger scale... Either way, he merged several different worlds together making a new planet the size of stars, but Shadow, Jet and a Metal Sonic used their super forms and put a stop to him. He completed merging multiple worlds but he died prematurely before he could stabilize his power. When he died the Necro and Faith Sectors were made around the world, representing his grace and sin, places filled with dark and light magic. As for the Chaos Sector... That was created from the super forms reaction with whatever it was he used to make the merge happen in the first place, and now there's an infinite storm filled with deadly dangers. Since the worlds merged again though, I don't know how the sectors are divided anymore.
Cyne : Yeah, the planet was renamed to Mobius after.
Alan: Ah, considering what I’ve seen, that checks out. Do you recognize either of those locations?
Ecto/Exenterate: We don't have time to ramble, get moving or we're getting moved! To the Underworld!
Ecto grabbed grabbed some jumper cables and plugged himself into the ship's engine. The sudden energy burst caused the ship to go faster than light.
Alan: The Underworld? Didn't you open a portal there earlier?
Ecto/Exenterate: I meant that we will die if we don't get a move on! Have you noticed? This world is starting to fall apart! If we don't hurry, there'll be nothing left to save!
Dria: Fair enough. We'll just head to these regions.
Cross : Yeah, let's get this over with. I'm getting a bad feeling.
Ecto/Exenterate: I sense a disturbance, be on your guard.
Elsewhere...
Terios runs across a field, still chasing after the Time Stones, when Eror appears in front of him. Terios immediately halts and glares towards Eror.
Terios : Who are you and what do you want?
Eror: Name's Eror, I'm part of the Dimensional Council. Let's get to the point, you want those time stones or whatever if i recall correctly.
Terios would tense up at this, curious as to how the stranger knew but wouldn't question it.
Terios : Yeah, what's it to you?
Eror: Frankly, the Time Stones are far more trouble than they're worth in the midst of this plan. But there's one thing i want from you that you'd do anyways in pursuit of the stones, so i have a way to get you to them.
Terios : A way? Alright, what is it you want me to do?
Eror: Promise you'll open up by attacking the heroes, and i'll send you to their ship.
Terios would wear a smirk upon hearing a request that simple.
Terios : Deal.
Eror: Hold on for a second.
Eror grabs Terios, and quickly locates the ship, before warping the both of them to it. As the heroes react in shock, Eror waves at them before giving a thumbs up and leaving. Terios grins, cracking the bones in his fingers as he walks forward.
Terios : Thought you could lose me that easily? No, the predator always finds there prey. Now will I be sinking my fist into your stomach? Or are you gonna chicken out and bail?
Alan: Big talk from someone who needed Eror's help to reach us.
Within seconds, before Alan could even realize it Terios would grab him by the neck and slam him to the ground with a firm grip.
Terios : Don't think just because I worked alongside you lot before that you can afford to joke around. Unlike you all, I'm not a weakling.
The weight of Terios hold becomes much greater, Alan almost felt like he had a car holding down on him.
Terios : Tch!
Terios would then throw Alan, which Cyne would catch.
Cross : Hm? Why did he throw Alan back to us? It looked like he had the advantage.
Terios : Unlike you all, I can perceive my opponents better then they perceive themselves. Had I held on any longer he would've activated those claws and stabbed me.
Marl : You can see the future?
Cross : No, I think it's more like he can make assumptions on future outcomes based off of observations. He did something similar against Kaiser.
Fital: What's more concerning is he could throw my energy attacks back at me.
Sonic: So who even is this guy?
Alan: (cough) Sol Dimension Shadow.
Sonic: Neat. So you want the Time Stones to save someone precious to you, did i hear that right earlier?
Terios : Yes, that is correct.
Ecto/Exenterate: ENOUGH!
Ecto tore the jumper cables off his ears and took the Overlord Diamond out again. He absorbed its power and became Overlord Ecto.
Overlord Ecto: WE DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS! LEAVE OR I WILL LET DARK: TYPE NULL INTO THIS REALITY MYSELF!
Terios would look towards Ecto and observe.
Terios : (That power? That's even greater than the power of the Sol Emeralds put together. It's too much to negate all at once.)
Terios would smile.
Terios : Your strong, I also do not care whoever this "Dark: Type Null" is. While I can't outright negate your abilities due to that limitless power flowing through you, there are many other things I can do here.
Terios would tear into the ship, eventually getting to the engine and ripping it out. From afar, in the Dimensional Hub Veroxx would watch.
Veroxx : Hm... I probably should've... Hmm... Eror, when will Armageddon arrive to plant the Shadow Emerald? With Terios there it would be the perfect distraction.
Eror: Didn't he vanish for a couple seconds and do that earlier?
Veroxx : If that's the case then why aren't they insane yet?
Armageddon: They are going insane Veroxx, look at Ecto.
Back on the Ship, Alan's trying to work out a plan.
Alan: Terios, you fool! You'll be destroyed by the crash at these speeds!
Dria: Ecto! Do not act so brashly!
Terios : I won't I can just negate the blast around me or simply reflect it. I can't say the same for you all. Not that I'll be able to see it.
Terios would bust through the ships wall and freefall, leaving the others in the ship.
Fital: That silly Sol Shadow. Everyone grab hold of me!
Overlord Ecto: Hold on, I said I sensed something. Terios was a distraction. Give me a moment.
Ecto summoned the full power of the Overlord Diamond and stopped the ship completely. He rammed his sword into the floor and used it to drive the damaged vessel towards the next Chaos Emerald.
Overlord Ecto: Something is wrong. Go check on the Chaos Emeralds.
Fital: Well, if you can handle the ship, sure.
Fital runs off and grabs the Chaos Emeralds. He can sense something off as well, but can't pinpoint what it is or where it was coming from, having never looked into sensing techniques.
Cyne : Hmm?
Cyne looks at the Phantom Ruby, which had seems to have been gaining it's glow back.
Cyne : I guess he couldn't negate it's power for too long.
Alan: Hmm, neat.
Srish: I hope Terios looks up and realizes what a idiot he just was.
Terios meanwhile...
Terios : Hmmm... I guess the one with the transformation saved them. I'll just wait till they make land.
Back on the ship...
Alan: Can we land the ship?
Overlord Ecto: You want me to land the ship over a hundred kilometers from our destination? You are aware of distance and how it works right?
Sonic: You seem to be forgetting i'm here.
Fital: As am i.
Alan: Yeah, i'm absolutely sure we can handle it. Plus, Terios kinda ruined the ship. I dunno how strong you are in this state, but it has to be limited, right?
To answer, Ecto sheathed his sword and doffed his armour. The ship instantly began falling. He walked over to get one of the Chaos Emeralds.
Ecto/Exenterate: Chaos Control!
Team Dragoon shield their eyes from the light flash. Once it ends, they notice the ship isn't falling anymore.
Ecto/Exenterate: Here we are, above the drop zone. You fellas ready? Once you jump and clear the area, the ship will fall.
Fital: You want me to teleport us off this ship?
Dria: No, it's fine. The Combat Wings can just about handle four people. I have no doubt the others have their own way down. Feel free to help Sonic though.
Sonic: Nah, it's been a while since I've had a good skydive.
Sonic jumps off the ship, immediately going into a skydiving position. Team Dragoon follow up by flying off the ship in a four-person Flight formation, with Fital following them by flying himself, the other Chaos Emeralds in hand. Ecto ended the Chaos Control and let the ship fall.
Ecto/Exenterate: Let's get this Emerald!
As Team Dragoon flies away in midair, they look back to see the ship exploding, as well as the others following their path, each in their own way. In Marl's case he would follow on top of a cloud he made and Cross and Cyne would be surfing down ice Cyne created from thin air.
Fital: Oh, hey, i think i can see Terios from up here. Yeahhh, he's definitely going to fight us once we land.
Cyne : Kinda sucks that unlike Shadow he never had anyone to teach him right. I mean, he was literally made to win a war and in the end he killed both sides. He wasn't made for a good purpose nor did he live one. It's kind of a shock to me he isn't an outright villain.
Dria: He's driven by love. And he didn't have G-U-N raiding his space station home or killing his person. He's got a lot less to drive him evil, he's just making a intentional choice.
Cross : Yeah, I think Dria's right. Everything he does is probably him trying to uphold justice and repent for what he did. At the end of the day he was created to stop a war, he's just a misguided peacemaker. A sort of vigilante I guess. Speaking of which, he just threw a huge chunk of earth at us, anyone want to deal with that?
Silence vaporizes the rock with his hyper laser, while Terios dodges the blast as it comes at him.
Fital: Can someone else hold the Emeralds? I want to handle this guy.
Ecto swiped the Emeralds and handed Fital the X-20.
Fital: What's this?
Ecto/Exenterate: State of the art plasma rifle. Shoot a hole through his head, will you?
Fital: Feels a bit much. I'll keep it in reserve.
Fital than flies to very near but with enough space to dodge rock attacks Terios.
Fital: I'll ask you this once. Can you drop all this until we've fixed the dimensions?
Terios : No, I don't care. I saw you had a ranged weapon with you earlier, you may as well just throw that away. You should know by that I'll just negate it or reflect it. Not to mention just based off of how you are, if you were to ever use it I'd already anticipate the possibility now that I've seen it. But since you don't seem to want to fight, give me the Time Stones.
Fital: Not mine to give. Kindly leave, or i'm going to have to fight you.
Fital then throws his gun into a pocket dimension so it can't be stolen.
Fital:(Just gonna store this here. Pocket dimensions are taxing to create, but i should be able to handle him if i keep him guessing.)
Terios : You seem confident? Probably thinking that you could catch me off guard somehow if you can make me overthink right? Sadly for you, our last fight didn't show what I'm capable of. You probably think I can only do hat you've seen on the surface. Redirect, Negate powers and all that. But ever since Armageddon, I'd been evolving my powers and I won't be holding back this time.
Terios would gain a daring glint to his eye's, looking onward at Fital.
Terios : Physical Forces, my peak is being able to negate those. Gravity, Inertia, Friction, Magnetism, Weight, Vibrations, Momentum, Equilibrium, Acceleration, Reactive forces and even Nuclear discharge. You already know I'm willing to fight. So let's hope whatever other dimensional powers you have in store can save you.
Fital: Right, right. Anyways.
Fital lands, readying himself for whatever Terios threw his way, and not just to Parry. Terios smirks at Fital obvious approach and instead places his hand on the ground, negating the friction around them. Due to the lack of friction, Fital would slip and fall. When he tried to stand, it simply wouldn't work since the force allowing it no longer existed on the ground they stood on. Well, for as long as Terios had his hand on the ground. Terios would seize the moment and remove his hand dashing in towards the still recovering Fital and kicking him away.
Fital: Ok, now that's interesting. Simple solution though.
Fital gets up and floats just off the ground, before creating a missile to attack Terios, to test his reaction. Terios would stare straight up at the missile, not moving and inch, only holding his hand out. Eventually, within picoseconds of contact the missile would lose it's acceleration, momentum and weight. Terios, now grasping the weightless and unmoving object would turn it around and lay it on the ground before letting go, causing the missile to gain back it's weight, momentum and acceleration, resuming it's normal course in the opposite direction.
Terios : I hope your friends don't mind the missile.
Fital: Eh, it's not really a big deal. After all...
Fital detonates the missile in midair.
Fital: Just how many targets can you do that to?
Fital summons hundreds more missiles, and sends them all at Terios. Terios smiles at this and grab his own arm negating his own Gravity, Weight and bodily Vibrations. He would jump up and leap from missile to missile, surprisingly none would detonate nor even budge despite him jumping off each of them. Eventually he would reach Fital midair, floating due to the lack of gravity on his body.
Terios : You wanted to take it up here? We can do that.
Fital: Alright then.
Fital suddenly uses a explosion attack similar to the Rhythm Suit's, but bigger and stronger, giving Terios zero time to react. Luckily without Gravity, Weight or Vibrations within his body the damage taken would only be limited to the skin.
Terios : Not bad, my turn.
Terios landing on the ground would remove his Inertia, allowing him to jump back with the same force and speed of the initial explosion allowing for him to land a devastating uppercut packed with the same force Fital used.
Fital: Ok, ow. I have to say, not even Armageddon packed that strong of a single blow. Though i have no doubt he just didn't want to.
Fital then summoned a laser cage around Terios.
Fital: Please, do something to it, gives me more info to use.
Terios : You think information will let you win this fight?
Terios touches the laser cage, instantly negating it.
Terios : You don't need information, you need a plan.
Terios would let go of his arm, undoing the negations he put on himself and would decide to land back on the ground.
Terios : (This guy is resilient, but the redirection of that explosions force did decent damage. Action Reactive forces are forces that must come back with equal and opposite force. If I grab him I should be able to negate the Action Reactive forces on him, that should allow me to build up damage on his body and when I let go it should happen all at once. The only risk is since the damage won't happen until I let go the initial hit's won't even budge him. I'll just have to negate his momentum and weight as well to reduce any incoming damage.)
Fital:(This guy's bag of tricks is deadly. From what he's told me and what I've seen, he can manipulate the very fundamental forces of the universe. On his own, his blows are just short of Eror's power, and he can redirect pretty much anything i throw at him. He doesn't have ranged attacks of his own, but since mine don't work, I'll have to use melee, which is his specialty... I wonder...)
Ecto/Exenterate: Yo, Terios!
Ecto released his power over Exenterate, setting him free. He collected the dark mass into a ball and lobbed it at Terios. Terios would notice this and sidestep it, the ball missing him entirely.
Terios : You want to join this fight too ghost? I don't know what you just threw at me was, but if I need to take on two of you at once I'll gladly do it. Just judging from what I can see from you, you like to mess with souls. Judging from what I've seen from you thus far you also keep weapons and technology on hand. I can assume it's one of your allies back there making them then.
Fital: What exactly did you just do, Ecto?
Ecto: I released Exenterate.
Exenterate expanded and took on a hideous physical form. He glowered at the people in front of him. Terios laughed.
Terios: What do you think that will do?
Ecto: First of all, three on one fight.
Fital: He's not gonna help us, you know that.
Ecto: Second, I didn't need him anymore. I already gained all the power I could from him. Finally, I was starting to lose control over him. Oh, by the way, you should really be more careful Terios. I have a friend who has given me a firearm that can bypass your invulnerability and can't be negated.
Terios : If you think restricting my abilities will be enough then you're mistaken.
Terios would take a few glances at Ecto, Fital and Exenterate.
Terios : (Fital probably won't be the first to attack first. The purple one seems to be confident which I could use, but I should also be wary of incase of a surprise. Then there's that thing he threw...) You know, I think it was one of those "Dimensional Council" people that brought me to you all in the first place. It's likely their watching this as well.
Somewhere in the Dimensional Hub...
Veroxx : Hm? That's true... but why bring that up? Maybe a mental tactic? Doesn't matter, with the emerald planted even if they take out Terios they will fight themselves soon enough. It will be that much better if it happens while they fight Terios.
On the field meanwhile...
Fital: Yeah, probably, but that doesn't matter. Eror and his cohorts can watch me beat you all they like. Also, Ecto, you ever figure out what was making you feel so odd?
Ecto: I believe it had something to do with the Chaos Emeralds. Slack's running a quick test now. Let's go get Terios and hope we survive.
Fital: Gimme a sec.
Fital teleports away, to the surprise of everyone.
Terios : Hm.. Coward.
After a few seconds, Fital teleports to where Team Dragoon was watching the battle, with a canister of Power Energy in hand.
Alan: What were you-
Fital: A quick plan. It requires Silence's silencing abilities.
Fital shatters the canister, and Team Dragoon are infused with the energy, activating their powers.
Ecto: Alright. Terios, do you understand what this weapon does? It is infused with Chaos Energy from the universe Strya. Get hit with this and your concept will be erased. Still feeling confident that you'll win?
Terios : I do in fact. Thanks for letting me though. I guess I should use my trump card for something like that.
Terios would pull out a canister filled to the brim with Red Star Rings, all at once he would absorb them and transform.
Alpha Terios : Heh, Since you told me your weapons ability I guess I'll tell you what this form can do. I no longer need to make contact to negate things, anything that comes within two meters of me will be slowly negated, being erased within 3 seconds. Since those rings I absorbed were from this Dimension they were formed from Chaos Energy, So I now also have access to Chaos Control. You know what that means right? I can imbue my Negation Aura into my Chaos Attacks. So now I'll ask you, are you confident that you'll win?
Ecto answered by shooting the ground below Terios. The ground was instantly erased from existence.
Ecto: Yeah but, what if I don't shoot within 2 meters of you?
The emptiness below Terios became a hole to the Infinite Void.
Ecto: You misunderstand Terios, I didn't mean the Chaos Energy you're familiar with. I mean Chaos Energy from the mighty Chaos, destroyer of destroyers, annihilator of annihilators, eviscerator of worlds, king of calamity (don't ask why I memorized his intro), the perfect ending. I'll let you fall until you meet him, have fun.
Alpha Terios : I'm fine. Chaos Control.
Terios would warp away from the hole now in the sky, floating.
Alpha Terios : You didn't seriously think opening a hole to an eternal abyss would stop me right? I will say, conceptual erasure is indeed powerful. I wouldn't be able to defend against that without my Superior Form, which is a luxury I don't have. But it's still not going to be that easy. If it's a weapon you have, then it's a weapon I'll take.
Terios would mash his hands together and cuff them into fist, pulling them apart and making a whip of pure Chaos Energy, coated by a Negation Aura.
Alpha Terios : I don't bleed, but I wonder if a ghost does?
Terios would crack his whip, sending a burst of energy all around the battlefield. For the next three seconds Momentum, Acceleration, Vibrations and Inertia would be negated, leaving everyone stuck in place unable to move.
Alpha Terios : Even you can't function properly without the Physical Forces. You can probably go into the spiritual plane just from an observation, but my soul has immunity, it's the very concept of negation.
Terios would grab the weapon and hop into the sky, around the same time every ones Momentum, Acceleration, Vibrations and Inertia would return. As all that was happening, Fital teleported himself and Silence to a decent ways away, before both of them get onto the Kunoichi-G, rendering them both invisible. Fital then notices what was happening.
Fital: Hmm, that can't be good. Silence, silence me so i can surprise attack him.
Silence does so, silencing himself and Fital and his weapon, while Fital waited for the right time to strike.
Ecto: Screw this, I'm done.
Ecto pulls out a silver lined phone with a golden scorpion insignia on the back.
Phone: Hello, Lancer Corp Director. How may I help you?
Ecto: Lancer, I'm fighting this guy who is a total pain. He touched one of your guns. Could I have something... more destructive perhaps?
Phone: Hold on a second.
A ray of energy shoots into the sky ripping open a hole between realities.
Ecto: Perfect timing.
Lancer: Oh hey there, remember you still owe me money from that time you fell through my drywall office ceiling.
Ecto tossed Lancer some money and pointed at Terios.
Ecto: Kill him.
Lancer: How much money?
Ecto: As much as you want.
Lancer: How are you going to get that money?
Ecto: I'm gonna rob Bubbles' evil red twin aka the Armageddon guy over there.
Ecto pointed in the direction of Armageddon's Castle. As Terios watched this in absolute confusion, Fital strikes, firing that gun he got from Ecto at Terios's right leg, which fired a blast not even Terios could predict or alter. However, he would not have to, the blast would be split in two. But, by who?
Veroxx : Sorry Fital, Ecto. This one is coming with me.
Alpha Terios : What?
Veroxx : See, I've just realised that concept "Negation" that you have would be a nice addition for my Asuran Alchemy. Also, if you come with me it will make getting the Time Stones easier. Or... Would you rather be completely obliterated. As far as I can see it these folks have all the support they need to defeat you, and without us, "The Dimensional Council" your not going to get to far.
Alpha Terios : I work with no on-
Veroxx would kick Terios into a dimensional tear and would wave off to the others.
Veroxx : We will all meet soon, in the labyrinth.
With that Veroxx would disappear, slipping between dimensions.
Cyne : I'm a little confused considering all that just happened.
Cross : Your confused? Your the one with a personal reality that overlaps the current reality and has a mind of it's own.
Cyne : I mean.. yeah? But not like I know how to use it.
Fital: Oh, great, now we'll have to deal with him again!
Alan: Is everyone alright?!
Marl : From what I could tell they had the situation pretty handled. Still, how does Ecto know so many people? Actually... I might not want to know.
Alan: Ok. Now then, i can barely tell anymore if everyone's here, so i'm just gonna use the comms to contact everyone in case someone's went missing.
Alan then activates his comm.
Alan: Alright, is anyone not nearby?
Slack: I found what was wrong. One of the Emeralds is a fake. It is made of negative energy. I have contained and detained it.
Ecto: Alright. Lancer, I now have to pay you for compensation.
Ecto teleported away and came back with a bunch of treasure.
Ecto: Here you are.
Lancer: Mediocre at best, but I'll accept it.
At that, Lancer left. As Alan was about to reiterate that he at least wanted a response from someone, someone unexpected chimed in.
???(Comms): Hello? Alan, is that you?
Alan: What the- yeah, who's this?
Tails: It's me, Tails! I heard rumors that you were searching for the Chaos Emeralds!
Alan: Well, yeah. Hey, guys! I've got Tails on the line!
Ecto: Tails?
Alan: Yes, Tails. Turn your comms on, he can talk to all of us then.
Team Dragoon proceed to do so. Unbeknownst to them, Ecto had hijacked their comms and was listening as well.
Alan: So, where to begin?
Sonic then arrives.
Sonic: Got the Emerald... What are you doing?
Alan: Using the comms we were given to communicate with Ecto, Cyne, and others to talk to Tails.
Sonic: Wait, what?!
Sonic gets close enough to use Alan's comm.
Sonic: Tails?
Tails: Sonic!
Sonic: Oh it's so good to hear your voice! How'd you escape?
Tails: Everhold Prison was attacked by Eggman!
Sonic: So he kept his word on at least that much...
Tails: So you got him to do that?
Sonic: Sorta. What about the people there?
Tails: No one died, but Everhold Prison's gonna need some repairs once we manage this situation.
Sonic: Thankfully, we know how to manage it, and you'll never guess a crucial step-
Tails: The Chaos Emeralds?
Sonic: Booyah!
Alan: Right, what about all of you?
Tails: We've joined with Omega and Gemerl. We're ready to help however we can.
Alan: Good, we'll need to attack Eror in Emeraldville.
Tails: Right.
Ecto: I have all the power I need. Let us commence with the assault.
Sonic: Not just yet. I haven't collected the final Chaos Emerald available to us, and then we'll need to reach Emeraldville.
Dria: Hang on let me check... Ok, we've got the Emerald Eror has, the last one over there-
Sonic: Say no more!
Sonic takes the Emerald Radar and runs off in the direction of the last unclaimed Chaos Emerald
Dimensional Council[]
As Eror appears on board the Merge Device for final checks, the engineers run up to him.
Demon Engineer: The defenses you requested are finished, Eror.
Eror: That's great!
Glitchian Engineer: Who's gonna be manning them?
Eror: If you spot any foes approaching this device, take to the cannons and shoot them down. If they manage to board, you have my express permission to retreat.
Glitchian Engineer: Alright. In other news, Dimensional Stability is at 37%, and we've found the part that caused the memory errors.
Eror: Wait, really?
The Glitchian Engineer guides Eror to a maintenance hatch, and pops it open to point out a part that appeared to be glitching somehow.
Eror: That's certainly not a part in my design. Good find, maybe i can finally get some answers.
Eror takes a picture, then goes to check on Veroxx's Labyrinth.
Eror: Hey, Veroxx! What's the status on the labyrinth here?
Eror steps into the room and feels and see's a mass of dimensional data wash past him before the environment completely changes to Emeraldville.
Veroxx : Hm? Oh it's just you. I'm assuming you came here to see progress. It's finished, I've created designated areas for each of our original dimensions. Well, at least for me you and Armageddon. All that's left is to add a few traps, obstacles and mobs. Do not fret however, I have imbued the concept of a "System" into the labyrinth. You and Armageddon are naturally counted as it's admins, as such you can use the dimensional command prompts and lines I set up. Do not worry about the Syntax of said commands, it adjusts to perfectly suit you.
Veroxx would then rub his bear, pondering something.
Veroxx : Oh yes, time works differently here as well. This place will not be effected by the unstable dimensions and hardly any time will pass on the outside no matter how long you are in here.
Eror: Neat. I could use that, considering i have a couple projects to get done before our foes arrive. But about that "System", in essence, i can control my section of the Labyrinth in any way i like, right?
Veroxx : Yes, accessing the debug menu is the easiest way.
Eror: Good. Quick question, what happened to Terios?
Veroxx : Him? I took his concept of negation, although interestingly enough his concept regenerated. I've honestly never seen anything like it, but I did remove the memories of me doing it, so he won't know. I'm going to have him fight as one of my mini-bosses alongside Shera. Speaking of which.
Veroxx would take out a few canisters of Power Energy, however... It looked different.
Veroxx : I used his concept to modify this Power Energy, unlike how it normal bestows powers this one suppresses them. It's effectively an opposite.
Eror: Neat. I'll pump that stuff in my region. Maybe Armageddon will want some too. Anyways, could you help me with a few things?
Veroxx : Hmm? What exactly if I may ask?
Eror: A plant monster to hold the Chaos Emerald, equipped with as many powers as feasible, a cage strong enough to hold Fital, and a secret special thing to be revealed after the other two
Veroxx : Very well, come to my laboratory. I have thousands of concepts to choose from. The Chaos Emeralds could probably be contained with the "Harmony" concept, usually it's pretty useless.. as for Fital you will have to fill me in more on his nature. I did fight him, but a fight could only tell me his capabilities.
Eror: The simple answer is that anything i could do but with added power. The complete explanation takes time.
Veroxx : Is that so? Hmm... Considering he a similar Abyssal feeling to myself and is capable of traveling the Dimensions I think the concepts that would best work for this cage are Divinity, so that if he touches the cage it will reject him. Abyssal and Divine energies do not mix, next would be the concept of "Layers" and "Infinity". That way if he attempts to escape using mystical abilities or likewise he will just end up on another layer of the cages domain and with infinity applied it means he will never reach the end. Now, even with this he would know he's trapped and could interact with the outside. Now this may sound backwards, the last concept I'll ad is "Freedom".
Eror: You're right, that does sound backwards. Does that perhaps mean he'll be fooled into thinking he's elsewhere?
Veroxx : Close, he will be in the same room. It's just he'll think he was never contained. Everything would be happening in his mind without him even realizing reality. So in a sense, yes. It will be funny too, he'll think he's fighting back but in reality he would look like a mad man.
Eror: Sounds like fun. Anyways, i've got a question. How strong of a wish can you grant when you're free of your chains?
Veroxx : Well... Back when I was a Deva I had enough magical power to destroy galaxies. See, Every Deva must possess at least one True Magic Spell, such magic is unbound by reality. Mine was the "Eternity Core", I could create a large star that slowly destroyed the universes of Dimensions. My wish magic's upper limit transcend even magic like that which is of a universal scale, wish magic being the thing all Asura are born with it is naturally many times more powerful than all other magic we have, hence why we are so limited in it's usage. At the time I'd say, I could wish away an entire dimension with the maximum output of my Wish Magic. Especially since I will no longer be bound by the laws which were broken. Even though this power of mine would be great once restored, a Bhagavan has power surpassing even the Deva's. Bhagavan possess power on par with Abbadon and Eden...
Eror: That's a lot of power. Might as well tell you now. If you can free your magic before our plan is ruined, i plan to wish that the merge would continue even if the Merge Device itself is destroyed.
Veroxx : Well if I could destroy a dimension, there's no reason why I couldn't fix one. Infact, I may be even stronger then I was before my imprisonment. The magic in my body has been heavily clotted by these chains and shackles, my current magic output is 6.35% of what it once was. With all that magic welling up, I should be even more powerful then my prime. Even an amalgamated dimension like this would pale to my magic. With it, we could venture out even further.
Eror: Neat. We'll consider expansion after we handle the heroes. Let's begin with the cell.
Armageddon then chose that moment to randomly appear in front of the rest of the council.
Armageddon: Greetings, comrades! The heroes are preparing for their final battle with us! We need one of us to head them off. Eror, you are most familiar with the area they are in. Could you do it, perhaps?
Armageddon whipped out a vial of lime green liquid.
Armageddon: I can apply this venom to any weapons you need. My army is ready for deployment, I just need to repair Doomsday.
Eror: Ooh! Perfect segue into my new weapons.
Eror summons copies of the four Mk III Wispons.
Eror: I intend to open up with these, their power speaks for themselves. But of course, if they fail...
Eror summons a halberd and shield.
Eror: The shield's still in the testing phase. It needs to be able to handle a Quad Blast without being damaged to keep up with Team Dragoon. The halberd here, however, is my latest weapon. It can shift between a long halberd mode, and a short axe mode, with a laser firing tip. Of course, finally we have my greatest weapon...
Eror summons two hammers.
Eror: These powerful little things were made to be infused with the elements, perfect for what i most like to do.
Veroxx : Elements... That reminds me of the Ancient Walkers but that is not important. Armageddon, you have a section within the Labyrinth as well. Just like Eror you are an admin of this Labyrinth so you can modify it to your likings.
Eror: Oh yeah. As for your offer of support, i've rallied pretty much everyone under my control to Emeraldville, feel free to send your group to assist.
Armageddon nodded and touched his temples.
Armageddon: My army is on route to Emeraldville.
Armageddon took the venom and poured it into a special cache in his glaive.
Armageddon: Care for some venom? I harvested it this morning.
Eror: What kind of effects does that have, anyways?
Armageddon: It's basically an acid, so it will eat away at your veins and arteries. Therefore you will bleed out from the inside as your organs disintegrate.
Eror: Sounds brutal... I'll keep some in reserve.
Armageddon: Perfect, shall we begin?
Eror: Begin what exactly? You popped in, and offered support. We haven't discussed anything to begin. If you mean crafting our Labyrinth challenges, sure.
Armageddon: I have something devious in mind. Veroxx, are you required to take a concept from an object to apply it to another object, or can you simply create concepts to imbue into others?
Eror: From what Veroxx described doing to Terios, i believe he needs to take concepts to apply them elsewhere, though that could just be for more exotic concepts. I dunno, what is it, Veroxx?
Veroxx : I have to take existing Concepts to use them, no single concept has one form either. It could be the same concept by name but have different uses based on the Concepts main principle.
Armageddon: Can you take the concept of death from a corpse?
Eror: While that sounds cool, surely he would have brought it up by now if it was usable.
Veroxx : I can, I actually have a few vials of it. The concept of Death power is dependant on the how strong the formers concept of Life is. Needless to say there aren't many with worthy deaths but I do keep the ones worthy enough to take.
Armageddon: So does that mean that you could take a pen and notepad, imbue it with the concept of Life and Death, then have the ability to resurrect or instantly kill anything that has a name?
Eror:... Wow ok. You have fun with that stuff, i don't need it.
Veroxx : Why so surprised? It's not easy to come across a good death, that's why I don't use them often. Besides, I like to collect most concepts to create a pure variations that can maintain all effects of a concept.
Eror: That's alright.
Armageddon: Can we imbue the labyrinth with the concept of infinity?
Eror: We'd need the concept first. Is there any way to get Infinity and if so, do you have any?
Veroxx : Yes and yes. I was already going to do that for Eror's cage as well. Infinity honestly is one of the easier concepts to find, its worth never wane's and is always in the same place.
Eror: That's neat.
Armageddon: Uh, Veroxx, get it from this.
Armageddon takes a large inhale of breath.
Armageddon: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172...
Eror: Wait, that's...
Armageddon continues.
Eror: Does that work, Veroxx?
Veroxx : Hmm... That's quite specific. Alright then.
Veroxx would slip between dimensions and disappear for a little bit. Veroxx would soon return with ten vials of what the group could assume to be "Infinity".
Veroxx : Pi...
Eror: Well. Is that enough for what is needed?
Armageddon took out a small device.
Armageddon: If that is not enough, I have another concept of infinity. You can call it "Thore". To get it, you must take ten and divide it by three. You will get three decimal infinite threes. But if you add them together, you will get nine decimal infinite nines. Thore is that infinitely small fraction leftover, what is needed to get to ten.
Eror: Well, that's certainly something. So, quick question, Where'd you put that Chaos Emerald you took from the heroes to replace with the... Shadow Emerald, was it?
Armageddon: I disassembled the Emerald and used it to power some of my diabolical machines. The Emerald simply doesn't exist anymore.
Eror: Add that to the list of powers. What machines do you mean, by the way?
Armageddon: One, Doomsday MK II. Two, the portal generator, for summoning Dark: Type Null if we lose. Three, my synthetic Emerald maker, for making even more Shadow Emeralds.
Eror: Ok, one is a type of Metal, the other's a backup plan, the third could be a hazard for our foes. Where are the portal generator and Emerald Maker, at your castle?
Armageddon: Yes. My castle can fly, so it will be at the labyrinth if the heroes make it there.
Eror: Hmm. This is a pocket dimension, can your castle traverse dimensions? And is it wise to bring your castle to where the heroes will be running through?
Armageddon: My castle will be out of their reach. It also has a force field. The castle will probably be closer to the Merge Device actually. The castle can blip from one dimension to another.
Eror: So, like, it'll be in the Dimensional Hub?
Armageddon: Wherever it could be most useful. Let us go and set our trap for the heroes. Are you ready to march on Emeraldville?
Eror: I already stationed what troops i can command. If you personally wish to fight, i'd be glad to have you, but you already sent your own backup. I still need some final preparations with Veroxx's help.
Armageddon: Let's actually not bother with the prattle in Emeraldville. Let us go complete construction on the maze.
Eror: Fair enough. Come on, Veroxx.
The Dimensional Council properly set up everything for the Labyrinth.
The Battle at Emeraldville[]
The Dimensional Heroes arrive at the outskirts of Emeraldville, where Sonic's friends are waiting. Within the town proper, a combined army of G-U-N forces, Badnik Corps and Security Corps units, AAA members, reprogrammed Badniks, and troops spared by the other Dimensional Council members. From his base, Eror looks on, having completed his projects.
Eror: Do not advance, defenders. With the Teleport Dampener up, they will have to come to you.
Cyne : Hmm... There's a lot of these guys but I don't think it's enough to be an issue? Surely they don't think this is enough to stop us?
Cross : Considering what happened with Terios, obviously not.
Marl : So it could be a trap?
Cyne : Well, you know what they say. If you know it's a trap, then it's a face off!
Marl : Do they say that..?
Cyne : Dunno, but it should at least get us closer. I mean, what's the point in trapping us if your not gonna make a grand entrance so we can beat em' up.
Cross : Hmm... They do like to do that...
Alan: It's not a trap. Eror's relying on the fact that half of these guys are innocent victims of the Dimensional Council's scheme. It wouldn't be right to hurt them.
Cyne : Really? If Shera were hear she could probably make a sleeping toxin... But hey, I have a pretty good Idea.
Cyne would pull out the Phantom Ruby.
Cyne : Heh, watch.
The Phantom Ruby would glow and let off a wave of distortion, this would cause all the people surrounding Eror's base to float and then teleport.
Cross : ...
Marl : Where'd you send them?
Cyne : Well there innocent yeah? I just send them to Seaside Hill, let them take a vacation while we handle the real problem.
Eror: Oh for dimension's sake.
Volt: We can handle these weaklings. You do realize that Shatter, Iggy, Wreck, and I have managed to defeat Team Alpha on our own. There's less of them now, and even more of us,
Eror: Err, when did you- doesn't matter. You can handle those guys while i figure out how to get everyone back here.
Eror then runs to the Teleport Dampener, and starts reworking it to summon people instead of block teleportation temporarily.
Marl : Cyne, be on guard. Now isn't the time to get sloppy. I can sense a powerful group of people in there.
Cyne : Really? Let me see..
Cyne would close his eye's and focus, soon he too would sense it.
Cyne : Hmm.. I see what you mean. Too bad for them though, I've fully recovered and I've got energy in spades.
Cross : Good, but don't get cocky. We still need to see what they're capable of.
Cyne : Maybe I'll have to use the Dual Hybrid Mode. Let's see!
Alan: They can't count us out!
Fital: Especially with me by your side!
Ecto: Trust me, these guys are trouble. We have an evil me with lightning powers, an evil me who can control you with a touch, and evil me who is a savage, an evil me who can control asteroids, an evil me with rocket powers, a robot me, a robot Slack, a robot Rocky, a robot Flame, normal Rocky, normal Flame, a wolf with darkness powers, a rabbit with reality breaking powers, a mouse with nigh-omnipotence, a weasel with nukes, a robot dragon, and a wyvern.
Slack: Be thankful, you get to beat them up.
Maximum: These guys can pack a punch, switching to plasma rounds.
Ecto: How many Emeralds do we have? I can use them as power boosts.
Sonic: 6, no, 5. One was stolen and the other's with Eror.
Ecto: Alright then.
Ecto grabbed the five Emeralds and plugged them into the Chaos Emerald Cage. An aura surrounded him.
Tier 5 Ecto: I think we are ready. Bring it on!
Knuckles: You should go for Eror. We'll handle the Master Emerald.
Sonic: Back up, you lost the Master Emerald again?
Knuckles: It was stolen while we were captured!
Sonic: And why are you telling me now?
Knuckles:... I forgot.
Cyne would turn off his Passive Phantom Force and enter his Dual Hybrid Mode, Cross would also access his Aero Mode and Marl his Cloud Mode.
Cyne : We don't want to take to long with these guy's so I've got an idea.
Marl : Go on.
Cyne would take out the Time Stones and give 3 each to Marl and Cross.
Cyne : Since there's a good amount of them and with decent power we should be able to overwrite any mistakes with these.
Cross : Sounds good, but why give us three and leave yourself with one?
Cyne would just laugh at this.
Cyne : Isn't it obvious?
Cyne's eye's would glow fiercely, letting out a distortion around him.
Cyne : With the Phantom Ruby, I can use the Phantom Force alongside my intrinsic abilities. You guy's don't have those benefits.
Marl : Fair enough. Actually i've got an idea.
Marl would activate his Time Stone's and would transform to his Stratus Mode.
Cross : How did you-? Wait...
Marl : I took energy from my Past and Future, using the third stone to loop it. With infinite Hyper-Go-On It allowed me to go further.
Cross : Let me try that.
Cross too would soon ascend, entering his Neo form.
Cross : Wow your right! I was able to duplicate my Chaos Drive Chips!
Cyne : Alright then, no more dilly dallying. I say we take them head on!
Alan: Heroes, attack!
The teams of heroes charged in and met the attackers head on, Sonic striking first with a spindash into the lightning wielding foe, Volt.
Sonic: This feels familiar. You having any deja vu?
Marl would fly into the sky to confront the dragons. He would immediately head towards the Robot Dragon, causing the skies above to whirl, suddenly splitting as a massive bolt of lightning strikes the Robot Dragon.
Marl : Is this all?
From behind Marl an asteroid would fall, attempting to take Marl out of the air, however before it could make contact it would explode, scattering everywhere. Soon in it's place would be a cloud.
Marl : Hmm? Sorry, my clouds protect me without me needing to do anything. With an infinite amount of energy my defense is Omnidirectional at all times.
Team Dragoon look around at all the villains fighting the heroes.
Alan: Woah. Which one do we fight?
Tier 5 Ecto: I would say go for the robot doubles of my friends. They don't have any fancy powers.
With Eror somewhere else presently, Ecto yelled as loud as he could.
Tier 5 Ecto: Yoo-hoo! Budget clones of me!
Volt, Soot, Savage, Comet, Rush, and Metal Ecto all turned to look the Ecto. They all instantly began running towards him.
Tier 5 Ecto: Alan, go help the others in any way you can. I would say aim for Apocalypse the Wyvern and Doomsday the Robo-Dragon, but do what you wish. I can handle these guys.
Ecto ran off to meet his enemies head on. Meanwhile, Cyne would walk up to Wreck exuding confidence and bearing a grin on his face.
Cyne : Remember me? I'm the one who displaced your bomb explosion.
Cyne would point and wag a finger towards Wreck.
Cyne : Cmon Weasel, I'll take on all your bombs!
Wreck stood there and grinned. Shatter and Iggy jumped Cyne from behind,
Wreck: If my bombs do nothing, then Iggy's strength and Shatter's power will do the job for me.
Cyne, despite his situation would grin. Looking behind him and watching the two attempt to attack him in slow motion, due to becoming Pseudo Electric.
Cyne : They'll do the job? I didn't even get to see their resume yet!
Cyne would burst into a massive wave of neon cyan cryo-electricity. Shatter and Iggy would be hit straight on by this, the electricity would conduct through their bodes, reaching every cell and nerve before the electricity would explode inside of them and freeze them inside and out. Both of them would have Ice spikes poking from out of their bodies dripping blood.
Cyne : Careful now, I might not be from a museum but in this form there's a strict "No Touch Policy" Heheh!
Iggy and Shatter faded away. Cyne then found himself surrounded by Iggys and Shatters. The original Iggy and Shatter stood well out of reach. Wreck and stepped out of range as well.
Iggy: Perhaps I should inform you that I can make copies of myself with equal power!
The fake villains all began to bombard Cyne with their powers.
Cyne : Yeah? Try this one on for size!
Cyne would put his hands to the ground just before any of the clones could touch him, within an instant Ice would erupt from all around Cyne in all directions. Piercing and electrocuting the Clones
Cyne : Thanks for the idea though!
Cyne would grip the Phantom Ruby and it would begin to glow, after a few seconds hundreds of Cyne clones would spawn from nothing.
Shatter: Ugh. Enough of this.
Shatter harnessed the energy of the Phantom Ruby from a distance. Cracks began to form on the gemstone. As it happened, the air around them all began to tear itself apart, opening vortexes to Inexistence
Shatter: Banishing you to the emptiness of Inexistence should nullify your annoying powers. Farewell!
Cyne would just smile at this, Cyne seemingly unaffected by the vortex.
Cyne : Don't you know? Inexistence won't do anything to me. Afterall, I have my own personal reality overlapping this reality at all times. It's called the Phantom Force, I've had it from birth. So you can take me to Inexistence, but it won't change much. How about you though?
Cyne would create an Ice whip with a cord of pure electricity connecting each of it's parts. He would grab Shatter with the whip and reel him in closer. Although, there would of course be resistance.
Cyne : Trying to fight it huh?
Cyne's clones would grab on the Electro-Ice whip and begin a tug of war. Shatter was about to break free when Ecto sped past. With all of his evil clones following him; Shatter, Iggy, and Wreck were trampled underfoot.
Tier 5 Ecto: Finish them off, Cyne!
Cyne : Right!
One of Cyne's clones pick up the Phantom Ruby, causing the Whip to grow tenfold, this time completely freezing and electrocuting Shatter. On top of this two additional Cryo-Electric Whip rope would form grabbing Iggy and Wreck. With a big heave Cyne and his clones would lift them off the ground, spinning and throw them and the whip into Inexistence. Cyne would grab the ruby and quickly close the vortex, the Ruby would shatter in the process, now be five individual Gray Shards.
Cyne : Wow, that was certainly exhilarating!
Cyne would dust off his hands and collect the Phantom Ruby Shards for later.
Cyne : Never thought I'd be thankful to be born an anomaly to reality.
Cyne would look up in the sky and see Marl continuing his fight with Doomsday, Looking more to the left he would see Cross fighting Apocalypse.
Cyne : What about Team Dragoon?
Tier 5 Ecto: They should be fine. They are only fighting Mecha Flame, Metal Rocky, Mecha Slack, normal Flame, normal Rocky, and Inkblot. They have Slack and Maximum helping them. Could you, perhaps, help me defeat a bunch of evil mes?
Cyne : No need to ask, I was going to do that regardless.
Tier 5 Ecto: Alright, let us commence with the destruction of these cheap copies.
Meanwhile, Team Dragoon were handling with surprising capability the Metal copies of Ecto's friends.
Alan: Come and get some!
Alan dodges flame blasts from the Mecha and normal Flames, and cuts off the Mecha's hand.
Dria: Fire!
Dria cuts down Mecha Slack with her cutting lasers, while he was in battle with the normal Slack.
Srish: I've got these guys!
Srish shoots the two brainwashed heroes with vibration shots, throwing off their fighting.
Silence: Ready, set.
Silence draws Mecha Rocky into a safe firing line, and fires all the Scattered Silence's lasers at it, frying the machine.
Fital: And, who's this guy exactly?
Fital fires storms of energy blasts at Inkblot, who was also fighting Maximum.
Maximum: Wolf bounty hunter who has darkness powers, be on your guard. Detain Flame and Rocky, Slack can repair their minds.
Fital: Srish knocked them for a loop, i've got this.
Fital flies over to Flame and Rocky, and locks them within laser cages.
Fital: Slack, get over here!
Slack threw his wrench and it boomeranged around into Flame and Rocky. They both slumped over.
Rocky: Slack? Why am I in a laser cage?
Slack: Armageddon brainwashed you and Flame. Anyway, we are getting ready to storm the Dimensional Council's base and take them down.
Fragmentation energy began to circulate around Rocky. He belched up a bomb and tossed it at Metal Rocky.
Flame: Time to get some revenge of Armageddon.
Meanwhile, Ecto and Cyne were dealing with Ecto's clones. They were winning, but barely.
Sonic: Need some help?
Tier 5 Ecto: Nah, but you could go help the others deal with the wyvern and the robo-dragon. They'll need some help.
Sonic: Not exactly. Omega and Gemerl are on it.
Omega blasts past Team Dragoon to fight the mechas, while Gemerl flies over them, attacking the robo-dragon.
Omega: MUST DESTROY ALL EGGMAN ROBOTS!
Dria: Not sure these are Eggman robots, but ok.
Cross would zoom up delivering an uppercut to the Wyvern and soon after blasting a massive beam of Chaos Energy right under it's chin, causing and additional explosion.
Cyne : Show off...
Cyne wouldn't have time to continue as a bolt of electricity was currently hurdling towards him, Cyne would react by redirecting it towards Apocalypse.
Cyne : Close call.
Meanwhile Omega's just tearing the mechas apart with blasts from his cannons, shouting his hatred of Eggman all the way.
Alan: Well this seems to be handled.
Srish: We're not done yet. Gemerl! Bring that bot down to the ground!
Gemerl obliges, knocking the robo-dragon to the ground. As it lands, Srish strikes it with a vibration blast, heavily weakening it. Team Dragoon then blast it with a Quad Blast when Gemerl gets out of the way, destroying it. Meanwhile, Ecto dropped to the ground and spun his legs in a windmill, knocking the evil versions of himself away.
Tier 5 Ecto: Cyne! We've gotta deal with these fools if we want to progress. I think it is time to unleash some power. Stand back!
Ecto engaged his Chaos Abilities. He rapidly cycled through Chaos Lance, Chaos Snap, Chaos Slash, and Chaos Blast. In roughly forty-nine seconds, he had dispatched all but Soot.
Tier 5 Ecto: Alright Cyne, finish him off!
Eror meanwhile, was hearing the pain and annoyance of Armageddon's remaining forces from being beat down by everyone.
Eror: Hold together! I've almost done it!
Cyne : Here goes! I'd been working on the perfect finishing move, so hope this works!
Cyne would hold out his left hand and gather a large ball of electricity in the other hand a large mass of pure static ice. He would clasp the two together into one massive Cryo-Electric Ball , holding it up above his head. The ball was around twice his size.
Cyne : Frostbolt!
With those words he would take one hand to move it in front of him and the other hand would flick. In a flash of lightning, Soot would be carried off by the attack which would zoom into the sky, first freezing him and then electrocuting him. The electric current would freeze itself inside of him and then explode again and for the next few seconds what seemed like a firework show of ice and lightning could be seen, Soot being electrocuted, freezing and exploding a total of 50 times before it stopped. Cyne would drop out of his Dual Hybrid mode, a little tired from exerting himself with his ultimate attack. In the distance a ball of Ice containing Soot's unmoving body would land, letting off electricity on the ground.
Cyne : Alright, that's that.
Alan: Hey! How many foes are still standing?!
Tier 5 Ecto: I would say... none! They are all gone. Except, where did Eror go? Watch out, I feel like he will be back any second.
In Eror's base...
Eror: And that, should, do it!
Eror activates the recall, summoning back all the forces Cyne had warped away.
Eror: It's a good thing i decided to record all teleports and teleport attempts within this machine's radius, or else this wouldn't have worked. And with the modification, the teleport ban should prevent both teleporting in and out of the city. A few more seconds, and there!
Eror switches the device back to preventing teleporting, as the army had been warped back. Meanwhile, in the city itself, the combined armies teleported in, with all the heroes in the middle of them.
Alan: Shoot! That's what Eror was doing this whole time!
Tier 5 Ecto: How did he get Shatter, Iggy, and Wreck out of Inexistence? You can't portal into Inexistence! That's it. Slack, hand me the Shadow Emerald.
Slack: Here.
Ecto plugged the Shadow Emerald in, absorbing its power.
Tier 6 Ecto: And another thing! If they still don't die within 20 minutes gimme the erasure gun I kept in the Hurricane.
Slack: I'll just give it now.
Tier 6 Ecto: Thanks.
Ecto then charged up his ultimate attack.
Tier 6 Ecto: CHAOS... BLAST!
Fital: Wait, don't!
Tier 6 Ecto: I... already did it? Why did you say wait?
Fital: It's a Chaos Blast! There was too many innocents to use such a explosion attack!
Tier 6 Ecto: Even if they all die, it doesn't matter. They will come back if we repair our worlds. If we don't, dying might not have been the worst option.
Cyne would look on thinking heavily.
Cyne : Hmm..
Cyne would pull out the Time Stone, remembering he had it.
Cyne : Cross, Marl! Come here.
Marl : You've got an idea?
Cyne : Yeah, Let me see the other Time Stones.
Marl and Cross would hand over there three, also causing them to detransform.
Cyne : Alright... I don't think we could revert their minds to a time before the merge if the merge made it's own timeline..
Cross : So then what do you suggest?
Cyne : Well.. That was the result we got from one or two Time Stone's right? We have all seven, it might be possible for us to pinpoint multiple timeline's and maybe even find each of our separate timelines going into the merge. We could possibly undo the brainwashing over the entire dimension. Either that... or we could find branching timelines from this one, one where we win faster maybe? I'm still new to this whole Time Stone thing, so I'm a bit unsure. We could at least go back in time now knowing what he had planned.
As Fital and Ecto argued over collateral damage vs getting things done, Team Dragoon took notice of Cyne planning something.
Marl : With the innocent's that died as collateral going back in time would be good. But how would we be able to stop Eror before he can teleport everyone back? Especially while dealing with our previous foes?
Alan: We don't necessarily need to time travel that far. Just before Ecto used that Chaos Blast. I'm sure Sonic and friends can handle getting us through.
Cyne : Well if that's the case. Chronos Control!
Cyne would aim for the area the blast was unleashed, rewinding it and bringing the people back.
Cyne : Now, I would stop time. But I've no idea what he has ahead, I'd rather not find myself in some sort of trap.
'Ecto, who was thoroughly annoyed, grumbled under his breath and drew his sword.
Tier 6 Ecto: We can revive the dead when we defeat the council. You may not like the way I do things, but I get things done. You can stand around and moan about the death of a few to save billions if you want, but I'm gonna go stop Armageddon. I don't care who dies, I'm already dead. I will kill anyone who stands in my way, including you.
Slack: That's partly because of the Shadow Emerald, but mostly just him. Don't get in his way guys, he's done with this. He's gonna go end this. The dead will come back when our realities are restored, don't worry.
Alan: Understandable. Now then, teams! Charge through the armies, and do your best to avoid harming the innocent GUN troops or Restoration members!
Fital grabs Ecto's hand and flies over the ground troops toward Eror's base, while the others follow, Sonic and co clearing a path.
Gemerl: Non-lethal mode engaged. Clearing a path.
Silver: I'll move them aside too!
Tier 6 Ecto (in a flat monotone): Chaos Spear. Don't make a fuss about it, it only stuns them.
Fital: Understandable.
As the heroes made their way through the army, a very recognizable voice popped out from their comms.
Eggman: It seems you need backup!
Team Dragoon looked up to see the Egg Fleet in the sky above Emeraldville.
Amy: No, we really don't.
Sonic: You could've been a great help had you arrived earlier, but now you'll just be a hinderance.
Alan: Too much collateral to be had. Please, just leave and be irrelevant elsewhere.
Tier 6 Ecto: Chaos Control.
The Chaos Control was centered around Eggman.
Tier 6 Ecto: There we go.
Eggman was teleported back to his main base. At the same time, Eror noticed the Egg Fleet, and commanded a GUN Flying Carrier to intercept.
Dria: Hey, is that-
Shadow: A Flying Carrier. Eror must've commanded it to engage the Egg Fleet.
Srish: Shame. If only he knew it wasn't going to help.
Cyne : That gives me an idea. Chronos Control!
Cyne would focus the attack around Eror's building. Completely freezing the time within it.
Cyne : That way he can't perform anymore tricks while we get there.
Meanwhile, aboard the Egg Fleet, Orbot, Cubot and Sage discussed what to do next.
Orbot: So, sis, what do we do now? Eggman didn't tell us what we were to do.
Cubot: I say we blow this hamlet to smithereens!
Sage: We pull out. The heroes do not want us, and Eggman should be happy with minimal Egg Fleet damage. I'll keep the Flying Carrier off of us, you direct the Egg Fleet out of here.
Orbot: Right. Egg Fleet, we're returning to base.
The Egg Fleet pulls away, with cannons firing to keep the Flying Carrier off their backs.
Alan: There goes that issue.
Meanwhile, Fital had pulled Ecto towards the entrance to Eror's (time locked) base, where Team Sundown were waiting.
Hammer: You will go no further.
Fital: Alright, Ecto, go for it, but do not kill.
Ecto grinned and began to defeat each member of Team Sundown at the speed of light. Once they were all unconscious on the ground, he kicked the door open. Fital quickly checked, and found they were very much ok, just unconscious like he asked.
Fital: Not just yet. Our friends are caught up in all that, we need to wait for them.
Rouge: I don't though.
Rouge emerges from the chaos and glides into the time frozen base, getting frozen in time as well. Knuckles then emerges as well, dashing into the base and freezing in time too.
Fital: We also need Cyne to dispel that.
Cyne would walk up and snap his fingers causing the time to resume.
Cyne : Let's hurry. I think I saw chunks of land floating around over there. I don't think the dimensions can hold for too long.
Alan: What?!
Tails: Oh man, i didn't even think about that!
As time resumed in the base, Knuckles and Rouge collided with one another, before untangling themselves and heading to the basement.
Fital: Eror's likely at the top, i think i remember the route there. We just need the others.
Tier 6 Ecto: One second.
Ecto quickly rounded up everyone and skidded to a stop. He smirked and spindashed his way through the ceiling.
Tier 6 Ecto: The entrance has been made.
Fital: Yeah, for people like us. Not everyone can fly. Eh, i think i can fix it.
Fital makes the hole a warp hole, and they would all jump through the hole, there they would find Eror. With the exception of Alan.
Alan: Sonic, come help us finish this!
Sonic: We can't. If we do, the armies will follow us and complicate matters.
Omega: EGGMAN ROBOTS REMAIN. THIS MUST BE CORRECTED VIOLENTLY.
Silver: You know we can handle this. Leave it to us!
The armies, indeed, started attempting to reach the heroes.
Alan: But-
Shadow: GO!
Alan jumped into the warp hole with the rest. Soon, Knuckles and Rouge emerged from the basement with the Master Emerald, and joined the rest of the heroes, Silver closing the door in soon after.
Cyne : Time's up Eror. You and your council need to stop this merge. It's destroying all of our dimensions slowly and if you don't do it yourself.
Cyne would look to Team Alpha and Team Dragoon.
Cyne : Then we'll do it for you.
Eror: You know, it's your fault the dimensions are in such a unstable state. You used the time stones, extending how long the world was merged and severely damaging stability. But that's no longer here or there. You want to fix this?
Eror showed off the Chaos Emerald.
Eror: Come stop me.
Eror ran through a portal door behind him, with Fital zooming in right after him. Eror tossed his Chaos Emerald to a Piranha Plant looking creature, which swallowed it and disappeared to somewhere else, before Fital collided with him.
Fital: Hand over the Emerald!
Eror: Don't have it anymore. Oh, and also.
Eror vanished, leaving Fital alone for all of five seconds until the others came into the dimension.
Post Merge: Final Battles[]
Cross : Where did he go?
Fital: I... don't know. He seems to have teleported, but not in a way i'm familiar with.
Alan: What's all this then?
Alan looks around the room. It was square shaped, with four doors. One was the one they came in with, the other three were barricaded, and had holograms of one of the Dimensional Council members above them, Armageddon to the left, Veroxx straight ahead, and Eror to the right.
Marl : Oh I see. It's some sort of challenge, I'm assuming for each of our dimensions.
Cyne : These guy's really like the theatrics don't they? We can probably just break through the wall though right?
Cyne would attempt to do this, punching the wall, only to have the force of his punch delivered back to him.
Cyne : What the?!
The teams then hear someone on unseen speakers.
Eror(Speakers): Ahem. Sorry for the delay, but now that everybody's here, welcome to the Labyrinth! He's your host, Veroxx, and i'm his co-host, Eror!
Veroxx (Speakers) : Hello! Yes, as my fellow council member has said this is the Labyrinth! Please do not try anything reckless like trying to destroy it as the concept of reflection is present within these walls!
Cyne : Well that smarts...
Veroxx (Speakers) : We have created three separate paths, one attuned to each of your Dimensions Council Member! You may notice that these rooms may feel more like the real world, that is because this place is built of concepts, and the concept of location is quite great for these types of uses. You may even find some rooms, familiar. Now, you may wonder how you will inevitably reach us? Every room will either have a puzzle, boss or enemies for you to fight, you will be given three doors to choose from, one will lead you closer to us, the final bosses. The other's will make your progress stagnate.
Eror(Speakers): As well, only the people we have chosen as our true foes can enter the challenge to face us. That means Team Dragoon has to fight me, Team Alpha's up against Armageddon, and Team Phantasm's challenging Veroxx.
Veroxx (Speakers) : Beware! Each room has been imbued with a different concept, every three rooms one more is added on! Even your enemies will have new concepts imbued into them. Make it through the 9 correct rooms and you will find us in the tenth. With that being said, you may begin!
The barricades lift up. While Team Dragoon tentatively approach their door, Fital thinks for a second.
Fital:(How the heck are we supposed to tell which door is which?)
Eror(Speakers): You may be asking yourself, Fital, how could we possibly tell which door is which? Simple. The doors are always there, it's just that the challenge, of combat, or puzzles, or bosses, when beaten, will give a note which will help you figure out which door progresses you. Now, the notes won't necessarily be obvious. They could be a puzzle in and of themselves.
Armageddon(Speakers): Oh, and one more thing, please do your best not to die. But if you have to, do so painfully and slowly. Thank you.
Eror(Speakers): You're in our land now. You play, and fight, by OUR RULES!
Alan: Alright then. It appears we have to split up.
Cyne : See you guys on the flipside.
Team Dragoon(and Fital) enter Eror's region, as Team Phantasm enter Veroxx's region, and Team Alpha enter Armageddon's region.
The Labyrinth[]
Armageddon the Dragon vs Team Alpha[]
Team Alpha sauntered into the first of Armageddon's chambers.
Armageddon: Welcome to the Death Sanctum! These areas have been crafted to hinder you at every turn. For your first task, you must simply make it to the end of this corridor. Oh, and I have imbued this area with the concept of slowness.
The obstacle course then started up, with lasers, spikes, crushing doors, spinning blocks, and the like.
Tier 6 Ecto: How is going slow gonna stop us? Rocky and I are the fastest things alive!
Armageddon wasn't bluffing however, when Ecto tried to go fast he couldn't muster up more than a slow jog.
Rocky: This is gonna take a while.
The four then began to carefully traverse the dangerous course. Ecto got smacked in the face by the spinning blocks a lot of times. They were nearly crushed by the walls, but Slack held them open as they escaped. The only thing left was to cross a chasm littered with blocks. Ecto and Rocky jumped across, Slack glided, and Flame flew. They reached the end and saw a note.
Note: Shattering might not be so bad.
The team grinned at each other and smashed their way through the glass door. They looked out into the next room.
Armageddon: Congrats! This room is very simple. Choose the correct portal to get to the doors. Choose wrong and suffer.
Slack laughed out loud and walked towards the first portal. He stuck a stick through every portal, in order. The stick came out broken every time.
Rocky: Wait, no portals are safe?
Slack: No. The portals are there to distract us. Turn around.
The other three turned around and saw three doors. Ecto grimaced.
Slack: There we go, now we've gotta choose the correct door.
Flame: Is there a clue anywhere?
Tier 6 Ecto: I'll show you.
He pointed at the middle door, it had a small glass shard in it.
Tier 6 Ecto: That way is back to the first room.
He then pointed at one with an arrow over it.
Tier 6 Ecto: That one goes back to the start of the Labyrinth. So therefore, the left one is the way forward.
Ecto and Slack fist bumped and they all walked through the door. When they emerged, they saw an empty room.
Rocky: What?
Armageddon: Welcome to the first boss!
From out of the floor rose a pedestal. Stood upon it was Neo Mecha Slack.
Slack: Ah. My old nemesis.
Flame: Let's get him!
Team Alpha engaged the robotic double, only to be met with an indestructible shield.
Armageddon: You have to beat him to progress, but you can't touch him! Ha!
Ecto grumbled and set off another Chaos Blast. It did nothing.
Slack: What if I...
Slack smacked his wrench into the ground and a control panel popped out.
Rocky: How?
Slack: Luck.
Slack disabled the force field and the attacked the robot once again. It fought back viciously, but having won against it before, Team Alpha knew its weaknesses. They dispatched it and went through the indicated door. They found themselves in a room decked out to look a lot like the outside of the Alpha Zone. They then saw the Alpha Cannon swiveling around to aim at them.
Armageddon: Fourth Room: You must make it inside the Alpha Zone without getting blown to pieces by the Alpha Cannon!
Team Alpha looked at each other and grinned. Ecto and Rocky picked up Slack and Flame respectively and sped across the sand. The laser cannon began firing the blasts that they were all used to. Ecto nearly took a hit but Slack knocked it aside. The laser then carved out a canyon in front of them.
Tier 6 Ecto: Bridge Maneuver!
Ecto drove his shoes into the ground and Flame used his as a ramp to get altitude. Rocky ran up Ecto's back and bounced off Flame's head and landed on the other side. Slack tossed him a wrench with a rope attached. Ecto and Slack then tightrope walked across the chasm over to Rocky and Flame. They laughed out loud and kicked open the door to the Alpha Zone. There were three doors. There was a note on the nearby kitchen table.
Note: Beyond the Stone Forest, the Mad Dragon awaits. Commanding forces behind magic gates.
Team Alpha puzzled over this for a second, until Rocky snapped his fingers and dragged the rest of the team towards the door that would normally lead to his room.
Rocky: My name is Rocky, and my room is a forest of trash. Simple!
Slack: Very smart!
Team Alpha entered the fifth room. It looked much like a G. U. N. lab. Ecto began quivering in rage.
Armageddon: Welcome to the Chamber of Time! Here, you must help our poor traumatized hedgehog overcome his past! Have fun! You have five minutes until this room floods with poison gas.
Ecto stood perfectly still, his face an emotionless mask.
Slack: Ecto, snap out of it! This isn't real! G. U. N. is gone! Eggman disbanded it when he took over the world!
Ecto didn't move or change.
Flame: You killed the ones who made you! You have no need for more revenge!
Ecto didn't show any signs of relenting. The team spent the next four minutes trying to convince him that he could move on.
Armageddon: One minute left!
Rocky quickly scanned the room and grabbed a USB labeled "Project Phantom 598". He pressed play.
G. U. N. Scientist: I simply wish to apologize for the evils we have done to finish the project. I am especially sorry to Specimen EP-S1. You didn't deserve to be treated the way you were. This project had no right existing, Project Shadow should have been forgotten.
The message ended in static. Ecto collapsed to the ground a quietly sobbed for a few seconds. Then he stood up, wiped his eyes, and walked over to the the next doorway. The team entered the second boss room.
Armageddon: Welcome! Remember Exenterate? Well, here he is!
Exenterate oozed up from the cracks in the floor. He took on the physical form of a hedgehog made of dark clouds and smoke. He then roared and attacked. Team Alpha sped around, trying to figure out how to defeat the abomination. Ecto tried to punch it, but his fist phased through. Slack grabbed a torch and shined it on the demon. He screamed and froze solid. Ecto axe kicked it. The demon statue shattered and Exenterate continued his rampage. Now knowing how to damage the evil entity, the team took turns baiting then freezing it. They did this four times, until Exenerate stopped moving and began absorbing even more evil energy. He turned red and became even more grotesque. he was now the Blood Lord. He fired spears of death at Team Alpha, who began moving even faster to avoid being skewered. Rocky tried hitting back one of the spears. To his and everyone else's surprise, it worked. The Blood Lord shrieked and began firing a giant laser. Ecto blocked it with a Chaos Shield.
Tier 6 Ecto: Slack! Make something that can stop this guy! The shield won't hold for long!
Slack nodded and quickly threw together something resembling a gun. He shot it at the Blood Lord. The demon stopped moving and began shrinking. He roared and howled as he was drawn into a vortex leading into the space between dimensions.
Flame: Geez.
Rocky: Only three rooms until Armageddon!
Team Alpha quickly finished the two puzzle rooms remaining, one a slot puzzle and one a time based parkour challenge. They then entered the final boss before Armageddon.
Flame: Where's the enemy?
Armageddon: He needs an introduction first. Remember Doomsday? That wasn't actually him, merely a solid hologram. The real deal was recharging here. Please give it up for... Ultimate Doomsday the Robo-Dragon!
The one hundred foot tall Ultimate Doomsday rose up from the floor. He looked down at the piddly Team Alpha. He raised his foot and slammed it down. Slack caught it and grunted in effort as he tossed it away. Undeterred, Ultimate Doomsday fired a massive homing missile. Ecto yelped and kicked it away. Ultimate Doomsday then stopped playing and began firing all weapons at once. One by one, each member of Team Alpha was taken out by the unrelenting fire. Rocky struggled to his feet and called upon the immense power of the Phantom Ruby Shards imbedded in his stomach. He used the power to shatter space and time around Ultimate Doomsday, freezing the robot in place. He then opened a vortex underneath him and shunted him through it. With a clap, the portal closed.
Armageddon: Congratulations on getting through my chambers! Come through this door and face me!
Ecto grimaced and walked through an area of the wall that looked slightly different. The rest of Team Alpha followed suit. They found Armageddon seated on his throne at the back of the room.
Armageddon: Didn't fall for that final trick? No matter. You will not be able to defeat us. I have destroyed one of the seven Chaos Emeralds. There is nothing you can do. Eror is fighting that pesky Team Dragoon. Veroxx is doing battle with that bothersome Team Phantasm. Come now, fight me. You want to save the world, do you not?
Team Alpha all readied their powers and attacked the dragon. He responded in kind with a perfectly executed attack routine. The heroes tried for several minutes to take out the dragon, but to no avail. Ecto was using every Chaos Power in his arsenal. Flame was firing fire rays so hot that they made the literal Sun look like an ice cube. Rocky was blipping in and out of reality, trying to find an opening. Slack was trying to literally beat Armageddon into a pulp, hammering his scaled frame with blows. Armageddon laughed and backhanded the team away. He then tossed Ecto into a wall and stomped on Flame's head. He grabbed Rocky and Slack and smashed them together.
Armageddon: Fight back! This is boring!
Ecto had sneaked up behind Armageddon and delivered a kick fueled with every last drop of rage in Ecto's heart. Armageddon's head snapped back with a sickening crack and he stood still for a second. He lifted his hand up to his snout and it came away red. Wiping the trickle of blood from his nose away, he roared and attacked with a renewed fury. Team Alpha absorbed the power of the Overlord Diamond. Armageddon used the Reverie to achieve a form akin to godhood. The powered up heroes and villain attacked each other again and again, sending shockwaves across the fused dimensions. Armageddon took out his glaive and stabbed it at Overlord Ecto. The chestplate and upper right arm pieces fell off of the hedgehog. Panic gripped Ecto as he began swinging his sword faster than even Armageddon could comprehend. He took multiple blows from the blade, each one tearing into his thick skin. Flame, Rocky, and Slack all attacked with their own weapons. They all saw a chance to take out Armageddon. The dragon then perfectly parried Ecto's sword and curb stomped the hedgehog. The Overlord form left him and he slumped over, defeated. With only three heroes left to stop, Armageddon began fighting even harder than before, despite his wounds. Slack and Rocky fell prey to the unrelenting blows from the powered up dragon. Noting that he was the only one left, Flame feinted and threw his spear into Armageddon's eye. The dragon screamed and fell to the ground. Flame took off his armour and ripped the spear out of the dragon's eye. Ecto, Rocky, and Slack staggered over to stand behind him. Armageddon covered his eye socket as it healed and faced the heroes.
Armageddon: You win this time. But mark my words, the Dimensional Council is not done yet!
At that, he disintegrated and vanished. Team Alpha stood there, shocked that they had won. They then heard a whirring noise and were teleported to the starting room.
Veroxx Asura vs Team Phantasm[]
As Cyne, Cross and Marl enter the first room, they notice it looks similar to the Mystic Cave Zone.
Cyne : Mystic Cave?
Veroxx (Speakers) : This first room is filled with crystals, careful now. Each crystal does something different, filled with the concept of "Surprise". You must find the key within these crystals in order to open one of the three doors, choose wisely.
Cyne : Cross? You've got this right?
Cross : Yeah.
Cross would activate is Scoped Mode and glance eat all of the crystals, eventually finding the key between a few.
Cross : Marl, over there. Can you pick it up with your clouds?
Marl : Yeah.
Marl would maneuver his cloud like a crane game, carefully picking up the key.
Cyne : Well, that was easy.
The three would walk up to the doors and Cyne would choose the one on the right, his Phantom Force guiding him. With this, their first room would be cleared and in the next room they would find themselves in a place that looked like Planet Wisp.
Marl : Wonder what the next challenge would be. Especially for Planet Wisp.
Veroxx (Speakers) : For this room you must capture every wisp. Beware, the concept of "Void" slowly encloses the room. If you don't make it out in time you will be stuck within it.
Cross : Great, a time limit.
Cyne : Cross, about how many are their?
Cross would scope in and begin his count.
Cross : 569.
Cyne : I'm a bit tuckered from the fight before, lend me some energy would'ya?
Marl : Of course.
Marl and Cross would place their hands on Cyne's back, one channeling Chaos Energy and the other Hyper-Go-On. The two energies would restore Cyne's stamina and power, causing him to flash into his Charged Voltage Mode.
Cyne : Alright, like my father would say...
Cyne would crouch down, almost like an Olympic runner getting ready to run a marathon.
Cyne : "Let's blast through with Sonic Speed!"
Within a flash, Cyne fueled by two different energies would allow him to move the fastest he ever has. Moving at the speed of the return stroke of lightning, roughly a third of the Speed of Light. Within microseconds all of the wisps would be captured and contained.
Marl : When did you get that fast, you were like a blur?
Cross : I could see him, perfectly fine. But he was definitely close to reaching lightspeed.
Cyne : Wow really? Neat.
Cross : Where are the doors?
The three would hear a loud roar coming from above, the natural response would be to look up. They would be happy they did as they saw a some sort of lava monster flashing around with the Cyan Wisp Power.
Cross : That explains it...
Marl : Lava? Cyne, you and me will use Water and Ice on it. Cross, you have the best reaction and perception of all of us, so we're gonna trust you to stop it's movement.
Cross : Right.
The Lava Monster would bounce all around the place, Cross would eventually stop it's movement with a well timed Chaos Bullet. Around the same time Marl and Cyne would unleash a Tidal Wave of ice and water, freezing the Monster and freeing the Wisp, allowing them to collect it. With that done the doors would unveil from under the water of Planet Wisp.
Cyne : Follow me, It's the left one.
Veroxx (Speakers) : Good good, defeat this boss and you may move on.
In front of the group, amongst the Flying Battery Zone an Auto-Big arms would appear.
Cyne : Err... What is that?
Veroxx (Speakers) : This is an Automatic Big Arms, it has the concept of "Projection".
Cross : Projection?-
Cross would be forced to jump up as a giant hand would spawn following the Big Arms movements and attempt to squish Cross.
Cross : You serious?
Cross would fire towards the Big Arms, however it would project a shield.
Marl : Oh great, Cyne. Any ideas?
Cyne : Your asking me? I don't know!
Cross : We're gonna have to overwhelm it, somehow...
Cyne : Overwhelm? Marl and I have the larger attacks, you should be the one to dealt he finishing blow.
Cross : That could work, but I can't just stand still the entire time or it could attack. I need one of you to stay by me while I charge a Phoenix Shot.
Marl : I'll do it then. With my clouds I can attack from farther range than Cyne, so no worries.
Cyne : Let's get it going then!
Cyne rush's in, dodging a giant punch projection and freezing it to the ground. Surprisingly the Big Arm's itself would act as if it's actual limb was frozen before undoing the projection.
Cross : (Interesting..)
Cyne would create a giant Icicle and throw it at the Big Arm's only for it to catch it and throw it back. Cyne on contact would create a hole through it allowing for him to run through.
Cyne : Won't be that easy!
From above storm clouds would brew and lightning would strike down on the Big Arm's doing seemingly nothing. Cyne however got the memo and switched to his Charged Voltage mode, manipulating the electricity to make a magnetic force (With Marl's help) and drag the Big Arm's towards him. Before the Big Arm's could erect a projection barrier Cyne would absorb the Electricity conducted within it's metal, condensing it within his fist and punching the mech's spiky top. Though this would cause his fist to bleed, a dent would be made followed by a thunderclap seconds after.
Cyne : Cross! Now!
Cross : I know!
Cross would shoot his Phoenix Shot, a massive Chaos Sniper shot which would soon gain what looked like wings on it's side's gaining a beak and bird like appearance before slowly spinning like a drill, leaving fire from the oxygen it burned. The Phoenix Shot would make contact, and bust right through the Big Arms, ending it's threat.
Veroxx (Speakers) : Not bad! However, these were the easy stages. Expect the difficulty to rise!
Cyne : Well, you heard the genie. Let's get a move on.
Veroxx : I'm not a genie...
Cross would place a hand on Cyne's shoulder, prompting him to stop.
Cyne : Hmm? What is it?
Cross : We can't keep doing these. He's weakening us with these trials so that when we get to him we'll be easy to pick off.
Cyne : Yeah, I know. But do we have any other choice? I mean, the Phantom Ruby is back to shards again, I can't restore it for some reason either, probably due to the merge...
Cross : Look, there has to be some way we can skip past stages right? We know these doors can take us to them, but what if we could somehow exploit that?
Marl : What do you mean?
Cross : The concept of "Time" is still here, there's no way we can use those doors until the task is complete, they operate alongside time. There must be a point where between activation they can take us to a sort of "Level Select" right? After all, thi place feels like a game.
Cyne : I get what you mean, Like a debug menu? So then I should use these Times Stones too...
Cyne would take out all seven Time Stones and project their power on the correct door, slowly rewinding it until they saw some sort of blue screen.
Cyne : This has to be it, lets go!
The three would enter seeing buttons and large test saying "Sound Test"
Cyne : This isn't really what I expected?
Cyne would press a few button and "Palmtree Panic Act 1" would play.
Cross : Err... No kidding. Still, there's probably a gimmick here. Let's just keep trying.
After a few minutes of putting in random inputs, one would cause Classic Sonic, Amy and Tails to appear.
Cyne : Oh yeah, I forgot you guys came with us when we were on Little Planet. I guess you guys went off to explore, now your here though you could help right?
Classic Tails : Hmm... Yeah, Why not. Some sort of conflict right?
Classic Tails would look at the Sound Test and instantly know what to do, putting in inputs that would open a stage select.
Classic Tails : Easy as pie!
Cross : He made that look so easy...
Marl : Look's like we can't go straight to Veroxx, We'll have to do Room 9.
Cyne : So be it. Let's go!
The six would warp to a new room, one seeming to be a massive forest.
Veroxx : This is unexpected... I was expecting you ll to somehow cheat? You have more allies now as well? Troublesome...
Cyne : Hey! Come down here so I can beat you to a pulp!
Veroxx : You are funny rat, however you have yet to beat the boss. Since you decided to cheat, I will as well.
Behind Veroxx Shera would walk out look to Veroxx.
Cyne : Shera?! What are you doing to her?!
Veroxx : Making her better.
Veroxx would take out a vial, glowing and glistening with a greenish white light before pouring it onto Shera causing her to glow. Her eye's would glow white and her leopard spots would also turn white, a aura that seemed to resonate with the forest around her also glowing about. Her clothes also seem to resonate and change color and tone with the concept.
Veroxx : I've just imbued her with five different concepts of Life. One for creation, control, mortality, empowerment and sustenance.
Cross : What is that supposed to mean?
Veroxx : Her nature based powers have been bolstered, she's unkillable, she can create life from nothing, she can empower the lives of others and also reduce the amount of sustained life within others.
Cyne : I really don't want to have to fight my friend...
Marl : Especially a brainwashed and empowered one. But then again, what choice do we have?
Cyne : Right, I did it for you. I just gotta do it again.
Classic Sonic : Heh, We'll help!
Cyne would smile down at the smaller version of Sonic and look onwards.
Cyne : Listen up! We're gonna free Shera and then all seven of us are gonna beat you down!
Veroxx : You think? I've matched Fital with raw power, I've never even had to reveal my true power either. One that would destroy your entire group without discrimination.
Cross : We don't care whatever power your hiding. We've always got more to give, not just us either. But also our friends that are facing your other allies.
Veroxx : Well, don't say you weren't warned.
Veroxx would disappear in smoke, allowing for the fight between Shera and Team Phantasm (+ The Classics) to begin.
Cyne : Shera! You remember us right?
Shera : I know not of any of you. Perish!
Shera would cause one of the tree's branches to morph into a spar that would shoot out towards Cyne who would dodge, however it would grow vines and grab Cyne mid jump, causing him to faceplant. Above him Shera would be plummeting down towards him with a another spear. Luckily Cross would shoot at her, all being blocked by the spear growing vines to protect her.
Cross : (The Spears alive?)
This would give Cyne enough time to freeze the vines and come free, dodging the spear that dared to impale his head. Shera would be knocked to the ground by a well timed spindash from Classic Sonic, Classic Amy would follow up by throwing her hammer. Shera would be able to sense this all, the forest was now an extension of her after all and she would create a small tree to block it. The tree would slowly form into a clone of Classic Amy, also making it's own Piko Piko Hammer.
Classic Amy : Err...
Classic Tails : Well that's not good.
Amy's clone would begin causing havoc. Leaving the classic trio to handle it. Shera however would grow multiple large sunflowers, Cyne knew exactly what this was.
Cyne : Oh no...
Cross : What? What do those giant sunflowers mean?
Cyne : That's Shera's most powerful attack, if we get hit by... THOSE, then we're finished.
Marl : Sounds about right.
The Sunflowers would glow, almost appearing like suns themselves.
Marl : Well, she's got this amazing powerup, but beforehand we used the Time Stone for a power up as well. With the concepts of Life there's probably no end to what she can do, but we do have the Time Stones.
Cyne : What are you trying to say?
Cross : He's saying we can manipulate Time, not just it's concepts. Technically, we have the "Conceptual Advantage" here.
Cyne would scratch the back of his head.
Cyne : Y'know. I felt like I wasn't really using these to their full extent and after hearing they were destroying the dimensions with their usage I didn't want to use them too much. But this place seems to be a pocket dimension so...
The sunflowers would explode, erupting in pure light. Cyne would be walking away from in front of them, smiling.
Cross : When did he move?
Marl : He stopped time.
Cyne : That's not all.
Cyne would show off an unconscious Shera on his back.
Cyne : I used the stones to access her memories and restore them.
Marl : Wait, they can do that?
Cyne : Yeah, I basically just rewinded her memories before the brainwashing. Don't worry I explained it all to her.
Cross : I see she still has the concept?
Cyne : Yeah, but more importantly...
The Classics would run over, the Amy clone falling with the life link severed. Everyone would look up to see a massive meteor plummeting towards the forest. Cyne would use Chronos Control to create a time bubble unaffected by the outside time and would watch as an extinction level explosion happened on the outside.
Cyne : Talk about being dramatic, although you should know a meteor isn't gonna be enough genie.
Out of the flames Veroxx would walk out.
Veroxx : Those Time Stones... Perhaps I should have removed the concept of Time from this place... No.. Without time many things here could not function...
Cross : Even if you did, the Time Stones can create time.
Veroxx : Yes, that is true. You have added to the Merge Devices workload because of it. However, even with all of the time in the world you still cannot escape your fate.
Cyne : Just what fate is that?
Veroxx : Dying here and now..
Veroxx would show them the outside dimension, showing how the Dimension was slowly crumbly from being so unstable.
Veroxx : ..At the end of the world.
Marl would raise an eyebrow at this.
Marl : The world is crumbling? Your group started this merge, shouldn't you be a bit more concerned it's all blowing up in your face?
Veroxx : It's just a few dimensions. We can learn from our mistakes and try again. But if your so concerned how about you hand over those Time Stones? If you do I'll ensure you a spot in my army, and I could have Eror implement it into the Merge Device for automatic time troubleshooting. Hmm? What do you say?
Cyne : Are you crazy?! I'd rather die!
Veroxx : Though I my not have my wish magic right now, I can very well make yours come true.
The glowing light from earlier would appear next to Cyne.
Cyne : Huh? Wait, the Archangel?
Charity : We do not have much time! I did not want it to come down to this...
The orb of light would dispense a large feather, one the Cyne would grab.
Cyne : Woah.. What is this?
Charity : It is a feather from my wing, It will allow you to tap into the true power and usage of the Quartz Kaleidoscope. Defeat this Asura and regroup with your friends! I will be lending them one of my feathers as well, Us Archangels energy is needed to unleash it's true power, one that even machines or divinity alone cannot unlock.
The orb would vanish and Cyne would look to Veroxx who wore a gobsmack expression on his face. Soon, he would break out in laughter.
Veroxx : So that's it!? I was right! You and those others are working with the Archangels?! HAH! No wonder you've all came as far as you have. I will slaughter you all here and now and I'll take that feather!
Vs. Veroxx Asura
Veroxx shoots a wave of fire, Cyne would freeze it but realize the flames were too hot, slowly melting the ice an busting through.
Cyne : No good! The flames are too hot!
Classic Sonic : My tur-
Veroxx's arm would appear from nothingness, slipping through dimensions and grabbing Classic Sonic, Amy and Tails.
Veroxx : No need for the extra vermin, this is between us after all.
Cross would look down to the unconscious Shera, and back to Veroxx.
Cross : Cyne, Marl. It'll be tough but we can take him as he is now. But if he has any tricks up his sleeve he hasn't used prior, we're gonna need Shera.
Marl : Yeah, I don't think we should attack at once like we usually do. Just from what he did it's likely he would just redirect our attacks on each other, it's best for us to be on guard and lead him towards another.
Veroxx would chuckle, over hearing this.
Veroxx : That's your plan? Go on then!
Veroxx would conjure smoke that would form into clones.
Veroxx : No need to wait, there's enough of me for each of you!
Cross would realize something in the creation of the clones.
Cross : Those clones are actual parts of his power, they might not damage him but if we destroy him we destroy his power supply.
Cyne : Let's not wait then.
The three clones dash in towards the three heroes, the heroes likewise doing the same. One clone would hold a Scythe heading for Marl, another holding dual War Axes and heading for Cross and finally the real Veroxx heading for Cyne wielding a Kopesh.
Veroxx Clone 1: Humphf!!
The clone would swing his scythe over top of Marl, Marl ducking beneath and attempting ti sweep him, only to met with legs that vanished in smoke, the clone looks down at this and laughs.
Veroxx Clone 1: You thought you could hit smoke?
The clone would spin the scythe overhead and charge it with molten magic, attempting to plunge it down into Marl's skull. Marl would barely dodge, getting nicked on the arm by the blade.
Marl : Agh! (Why does burn so much?)
Marl would look down at his wound and realize that there was a little bit of magma on top of the would, stoping the bleeding but badly burning his skin. Marl of course would use clouds to cool and remove it.
Veroxx Clone 1: Starting to understanding fox?
Marl : I never imagined a clone to be this hard to deal with, buty our forgetting something.
Veroxx Clone 1: What's that?
Marl : Your smoke but I can make clouds!
Marl would send a surge of clouds towards the Clone, creating a big cloud hand. The clone would attempt to turn into smoke to escape but the clouds would mix with the smoke, preventing him from escape.
Veroxx Clone 1: Clever, but how about that magma on the ground from the scythe slash?
Marl : What?
Marl would turn to see a Lesser Magma Spirit throwing a glob of molten rock towards him. Marl would be forced to dodge, in the process straining the focus on the cloud construct and allowing Veroxx to free himself.
Marl : (Tch!)
Cross wouldn't be fairing much better. Shooting at the clone only to have each shot blocked and burned away.
Cross : If your not a genie, then just what are you?
Veroxx Clone 2: I'm an Asura, we are the opposites to the Djinn's. I'm a sort of Demon you see, a special one that exists on the spiritual plane rather then the physical one.
Cross : The Spiritual Plane?
Veroxx Clone 2: Don't worry, after I kill you, you will be there yourself.
The clone would throw his axe's, leaving embers behind them, Cross would dodge this with ease, even sort of doing a matrix when they boomeranged back. What he wasn't expecting however was the embers to combust and burst. Slightly singing him.
Cross : (Tricky little..)
As for Cyne, going up against the real deal wasn't easy either. Cyne was forced to switch between his Charged Voltage and Glacial Frost, one to dodge and one to attack. Cyne knew electricity wouldn't hurt the smoke he could turn to and he also knew that the Glacial forms defence would be melted through by the flames. The result was that his stamina was being pushed to it's edge.
Cyne : *Huff Huff* I can do this.. *Huff* All day.
Veroxx : As much fun as it sound's, Rat's are meant to be exterminated, not toyed with.
Veroxx would summon several large fireballs to blast towards Cyne, Cyne would dodge them with lightning fast speeds and appear in front of Veroxx, switching modes and attempting to grab and freeze his face, only for Veroxx to grab and burn his instead. Slamming him to the ground.
Cyne : Agh... *Cough*
Cyne wouldn't be able to see out of his now burnt right eye and could only see the blood he coughed up slowly turning to ash on the floor.
Veroxx : You are all pathetic, was this really what the Archangels thought could beat us?
However, before Veroxx could bisect Cyne with his Kopesh, his body would be completely frozen. Behind him would stand Cyne, the Time Stones floating behind him, all of his injuries healed.
Cyne : Sorry pal, but I don't mind cheating if I have to.
As a result, all of his clones would stop their fights with the other and return to Veroxx, Cyne would look on confused until he saw a flame somehow kindling within the ice where Veroxx's heart should be.
Cyne : What the-
The ice would explode, and Veroxx would stand there with a wide smirk on his face.
Veroxx : Cheat? Very well. Prepare to face my flame of judgement!
Cross : Wait... That has Sol Energy in it?
Veroxx : Hmm? Very observant. The flame of judgement normally would slowly kill it's user. But with the application of Sol Energy I can alter such an effect to empower me instead.
Cyne : Guy's we have to go all out. There's no choice.
The two would nod, Marl transforming into his Cloud Mode and Cross entering his Scoped Mode. Cyne would also enter his Dual Hybrid Mode. Veroxx would gain a sinister smile and laugh.
Veroxx : Yes! Entertain me Rat's!
Marl would launch bolts of lightning towards Veroxx who would simply spin his Kopesh, causing it to spra wildly everywhere. He would notice it turning Cyan, this was due to Cyne taking control of it and turning it into Cryo-Electricity and redirecting it towards Veroxx, Veroxx would slip through the dimension and dodge this. He would then appear behind Cross and attempt to skewer him with a newly formed javelin. Cross would duck under himself without looking backa nd kick Veroxx in the face, causing him to slam into a wall.
Cross : Sneak attacks won't work. Even a water molecule can at as the perfect mirror now.
Veroxx : Interesting, what will you do about this however.
Veroxx would point his finger upwards, taking all of the flames from the burning forest and gathering into a giant ball that seemed to be the size of a massive building, one could only describe it as a small sun. Even the trio would look on flabberghasted. With the wag of a finger Veroxx would launch the ball towards the three. Cyne thinking fast would use the Time Stone's causing them to encircle the three, the other two would get the memo and would use them to transform into Stratus and Aero mode respectively, Cyne using their power to grant himself limitless stamina and regeneration. The three put their hands out and collided with the attack, which would sweeping them off their feet. Cyne would create a massive electro-cryonetic hand to grab the small sun, Marl following but instead one made of clouds. While this slowed the ball down it was still pushing against them.
Veroxx : Hah! It's over!
However it wasn't as Cross pushed with the last of his power and launched a Chaos Blast shot that hit pierce through the blast and exploded upon reaching Veroxx, with Veroxx not pushing on the attack it allowed them to throw it back and swallow Veroxx, they would watch as what could only be described as a volcanic explosion happened before their eyes.
Cross : Is it over?
Marl : No... I can sense him and...
Marl would have a cold sweat run down his back, which was ironic considering all of the scorching heat around them.
Cyne : Don't tell me?!
Marl : He's even stronger somehow? But.. It's like he's burning himself away to achieve that strength.
Veroxx would walk out, being completely coated in flames.
Veroxx : Yes, you are right. However my tolerance for heat is high enough for me to maintain this for a while. My "Inferno of Judgement". I can burn the soul, do you understand what this means?
Cyne : Well... Not really?
Veroxx : Hah! You are all mortal, so for you rats it means I can burn away your very life! If I burn it all away, then there will also be no afterlife for you.
Marl : What?!
Cross : That's just not fair...
Before any of them could react, Veroxx would snap his finger detonating the area they were standing by using the already present heat, the three would take heavy damage from this due to being off-guard.
Veroxx : One attack? I will relish in forcing you all to watch each other die by my hands, a fitting fate for rats.
Veroxx would lift up Cyne, slowly coating his body in flames that ate away at his soul. The other two could see Cyne slowly shriveling, but they could do nothing, they're bodies were numb. With one last show of Willpower Cyne snaps his fingers bringing over the Time Stones and rewinding time before Veroxx continued his attack, however he was still shriveled and dried out looking.
Cyne : (The Time Stone's can't restore damage done to the soul? So I can't regain life... How will we win?? Wait...)
Cyne would look over to the still sleeping Shera.
Cyne : (Life... She has the concept of Life right now!)
Cyne would snap his fingers and fast forward Shera, causing her to wake up.
Shera : Huh.. Wha!? Cyne? Cross? Marl? What's going on?
Cyne : No time to explain, do you think you could heal what's happened to me? You have the concept of Life right now.
Shera understanding after running through her memories would understand and the Concept of Life would allow her to restore Cyne's damaged soul, turning him back to normal.
Veroxx : Hah! You are all mortal, so for you rats it means I can burn away your very life! If I burn it all away, then there will also be no afterlife for you.
Cyne : Everyone! To the sky now!!
Although slightly confused, everyone would follow and jump into the sky dodging the explosion.
Veroxx : (He knew I would do that? The Time Stones... Perhaps they could be more useful in my hands. Maybe they could even...)
However, Veroxx was too powerful. He would beat and decimate the heroes and Cyne would be forced to rewind time and have Shera heal them, each time having to learn from their previous mistakes. In total Team Phantasm lost 304 different times, this was the 305th rewind. This time however, Veroxx could no longer hold his Inferno of Judgement form, so Cyne saw a sliver of hope.
Veroxx : You've been going back in time haven't you?
Cyne : !!! How did you know?
Veroxx : Honestly, how else would you know everything before it happened, you also have those Time Stones.
Cyne : Yeah? I'll be using them to regain our energy and finish you off now.
Cyne would snap his fingers, causing the Time Stones to circle around him, however Veroxx's arm would appear from thin air and collect all of the Time Stones which would spin directly into his hand. Veroxx would now have a sinister smile.
Veroxx : Your determination to defeat me is admirable, so I'll say you have won this battle. However, I have won the war.
Veroxx would then disappear, back with the other members of the council. Team Phantasm would be left their not knowing what to do.
Cyne : He got the Time Stones...
Shera : Don't worry Cyne. We still have the Archangels feather and the other teams should have gotten one as well. Plus...
Shera would point to the Phantom Shards that fell during Cyne's contemplation. They were glowing, full of color.
Cyne : I don't believe it..! Through all of the time we went through it must've given enough time for the Ruby to recover!
Cyne would meld the shards together and reform the Phantom Ruby, the group would soon use it to escape and soon appear in front of the others...
Eror the Glitchian vs Team Dragoon[]
Team Dragoon enter Eror's challenge.
Alan: So, what do we do first?
Eror: Simple battle challenge. Beat these Egg Pawns.
Team Dragoon look out at the room. It was a simple metal room.
Eror: Let's see here, first concept is Static Electricity. Static will build up quickly, and shocks can quickly become deadly.
Fital: Simple enough.
The heroes blast on through the Egg Pawns in seconds, and grab a note from one of them, reading "Left Door". Obliging the note, they take the left door, and enter the next room. This one looked like the Master Emerald Shrine, sans Master Emerald.
Eror: We alternate in my Zone. You get a puzzle now, then Combat in the next room. Listen carefully, your goal is to reconstruct the fake Master Emerald we have here. And with static building up, you'd better do it fast!
Team Dragoon immediately dash around, gathering the Emerald Shards whether they're strewn about the shrine or randomly in the grass. They then go to the top and start reconstruction of the false Master Emerald. It took a couple minutes, and many, many static shocks, but soon the group had formed a false Master Emerald. The fake subsequently emitted a light directed at the right door off in the corner. Team Dragoon took it to the next room, a odd temple-esque room with floating metal blocks strewn about a pit opening to open sky, as well as many Laser Flappers floating about.
Eror: The pits have a strong enough wind to keep you from falling, but it's rather chaotic. Best not to stay for too long. But on the other hand, the metal platforms conduct Badnik blasts rather well.
Fital: Watch me.
Eror: There will be none of that. Attack the main platform, Badniks!
The Badniks fired at the metal platform the heroes entered on, forcing them to take to the pit winds, which flung them around wildly. Dria, however, flew above the winds and fired down on the Laser Flappers. With just a couple left, however, Dria was heavily shocked by the static, knocking her prone. Fital took notice and landed her near the door, while the others shot down the remaining Badniks.
Eror: Alright, with that done, the correct door will be the one you're deposited in front of by the wild winds. This is based on not moving.
Alan: We'll figure this one out.
A minute and some bonked heads later, Alan, Srish and Silence find themselves flung in front of the right door.
Alan: So that should be correct.
The group head through the right door, reaching the next challenge. It appeared to be Green Hill. The exit doors were embedded into Paradox Mountain.
Eror: First off, the concept added is Defense. Now then, the puzzle. There was a battle here. Which hedgehog was the one fighting, Sonic, Shadow, Silver or Amy?
Srish: We'll probably need to look for signs of specific abilities.
Team Dragoon note this and look around. They find Badnik parts littered everywhere, but a few seem to be cut through. As they investigate some of these clues, Alan and Srish are badly shocked by touching metal on the floor. They also locate rubble from floating platforms all over the place, which seem to have been thrown at bigger Badniks. With their clues found, they state their decision.
Alan: It's Silver.
Eror: What evidence have you found?
Alan: There were some parts that appeared to be precisely cut from a Badnik, rather than blown off. This was probably Silver using his Psychic Cut ability. There were also multiple floating platforms clearly used as weapons against Badniks, which Silver could have used his psychic abilities to throw at the Badniks.
Eror: You are correct. Have your clue.
A note dropped on Alan's head, who grabbed it and read it out.
Alan: "Who was the second most likely, A, Sonic, B, Shadow, or C, Amy?" That would have to be Amy, who could have used her hammer to slam the platform into the Badniks.
Using this answer, Team Dragoon selected the door marked C, the right door. This took them to their next challenge, a big empty room in a castle looking area.
Fital: Wait, this is my castle from when i was a villain!
Eror: The very one. It's nostalgic for me. Anyways, this is your first boss area.
Team Dragoon look out onto the battlefield, to find a lone Egg Pawn, painted blue.
Alan: Where's the boss?
Eror: It's right in front of you. That blue Egg Pawn.
The Egg Pawn then takes notice of the group and runs towards them.
Fital: Now what makes it so special?
Eror: Oh you'll see.
As the Egg Pawn takes aim, Team Dragoon get ready to dodge a small energy blast. Instead of that though, they get a electric laser multiple times the size of the cannon. The group quickly dives away from the blast, causing the Egg Pawn to stop firing and retarget.
Eror: Meet Super Egg Pawn Blue, Commander of all Egg Pawns!
Team Dragoon start running as the boss robot fires again, at where Alan had dived to. Srish quickly gets into range and the team fire a Quad Blast, but Srish is sent flying out of the smoke and into a wall, clearing the smoke to reveal a undamaged Super Egg Pawn Blue.
Alan: What?! How can that thing be immune to a Quad Blast?!
Eror: A whole bunch of defensive Concepts applied to it is how.
The group immediately test alternate attacks, Silence's missile blasts, Srish's vibration shots, Dria's missile blasts, Alan's Quake shots, and Fital's Sonic abilities, but all are shrugged off with no damage, and Fital takes a super punch to the face.
Dria: Just how is a Egg Pawn so strong?
Eror: That's not exactly strength. The fists are about as strong as usual, it's just that a whole bunch of acceleration is applied to those hit, throwing them hard into the walls. Terios gave us a whole bunch of powers to play around with.
Srish: Greatttt...
As the group circle the boss to prevent it from firing it's laser, Silence is shocked by static, causing him to trip up, and the Super Egg Pawn Blue immediately attempts to blast him with the electric laser, which Silence manages to dodge.
Silence: Gah! All this static is gonna be the death of me!
Eror: Hopefully!
Dria then attempts to fly into the Super Egg Pawn Blue and knock it to the ground. Contact with the bot unfortunately zaps her with the full force of her static buildup, but as she stumbles back, she notices that the Egg Pawn does so as well.
Dria: Did you see that?
Alan: Yeah, seems that electricity can disorient the thing.
Silence: Think the blasts it's firing could destroy it?
Dria: Let's find out!
Dria grabs the boss and attempts to hold it with her powers. But just as the aura forms, it sputters out. Dria, confused, jumps the retaliatory punch and tries again, but it still doesn't work.
Dria: Nonono! It can't have been a hour already!
Eror: Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't truly matter, as this place is filled with a special Anti-Power Energy Veroxx cooked up. Negation Energy if you will.
Alan: Means we're at default.
Fital: Doesn't seem to matter for me.
Alan: We can work with that. Fling his attack back at him!
Fital: I can do that, but one of you will need to draw his fire.
Alan: I might be able to.
Alan switches to Lightning shots and fires at the boss, drawing it's attention. As it fires at him, Fital creates a portal, sending it's blast into it's back, destroying the bot. As the parts scatter, they vanish.
Eror: I'll keep these, could be useful later.
Circles above the exit doors light up, the middle one having a checkmark, and the other two having X's. Taking the hint, Team Dragoon enter the next challenge, taking place within a familiar city-like place.
Alan: No way. Is this my team's base from the Turf Wars?
Eror: Why yes. You were Team Sol Defenders, correct?
Alan: How the heck did you learn that?!
Eror: Veroxx was able to watch it and told me about it. I admittedly have a lot of downtime, so i asked him more about it, he told me of the four bases, and helped me craft this place. Now go fight some Egg Fighters.
Team Dragoon get to doing so, quickly finding the Durability concept made smashing even one Badnik take a few shots. Nonetheless, Team Dragoon pushed through, with heavy help from Fital, and found the doors in the castle respawn chamber, They had not yet received a hint yet though, so they looked again, and found they had left Mini Fighters in the wake of their fights with the Egg Fighters. They took the time to clean that up, and got a hint asking them which bridge was destroyed. Since it was the left one, they picked the left door and headed to the next challenge. Arriving in the next challenge, they saw they were in the spectator stands Scribble stayed in during the Turf War. However, instead of overlooking the nine sectors, it instead overlooked a giant display with a picture of the merged planet, a dimensional stability percentage at 23%, multiple pinpointed locations, and a list of people, both Dimensional Hero and Dimensional Council.
Eror: This challenge is simple. Use the computer here to copy down what you see in the display. Be aware though, the computer will let out a electric burst every minute. A indicator is behind it. In other news, the concept of Regeneration has been added.
Dria: Ok, i'll copy down the display here.
Alan: I'll watch the display on the back.
Srish: I suppose the rest of us will just sit here.
Silence: Wait. Let's find the door first.
Silence quickly locates a door at the back, opening it to find the three doors in a back room.
Dria: Alright.
Alan: Better get back first!
Dria and Alan step far away from the computer, before a decently sized electrical burst pulsed from the computer, then dissipated. They then get back in position, while Srish, Silence, and Fital sit together in some of the spectator seats. Dria began with the people display, arranging Team Dragoon and the Dimensional Council. Midway through arranging Team Phantasm, she and Alan had to step back to avoid the electric pulse, before returning to arranging, adding Team Phantasm and Team Alpha to the display and starting on Team Skyblue before the electric pulse cycles again. After getting back to arranging, Dria took a second to add the proper dimensional stability percentage to the computer display before arranging Team Skyblue and most of Team Sun, then stepping away from the electric pulse with Alan, and then finishing the people list. With that done, Dria correctly pinpoints a couple locations, steps away from the electric pulse with Alan, and finishes up the location placement. As she finishes, a little completion jingle plays, and the computer swaps to a different display.
Eror: Now arrange the environments you've traveled through during the Labyrinth in order.
Dria quickly does so, only having to step back once before finishing the arrangement. As it's finished, the timer on the back of the computer turns off and the completion jingle plays again. One final display showed up on the computer, showing the right door with a checkmark over it. Taking it as the hint, the group head through the right door into the next challenge, arriving in a hallway that had wall designs similar to Restoration HQ, normal walls on the left and glass walls leading into rooms with computers on the right. The hallway itself had a bunch of boxes set up around it, patrolling Badniks, and multiple elevations.
Eror: Like it? This is what the Restoration will be like when i rule, Badniks at all corners. Of course, it's not gonna be a hallway with random boxes everywhere, and there will be people... I had a much better speech prepared, why'd i say that?
Fital: Yeah, i hate doing that too.
Silence: I've got this one. You can stay back.
Alan: Hey, i'm game.
Silence deploys his drones and blows up a patrolling Egg Pawn on a upper level, before taking to that level and directing the drones in the destruction of all the other patrolling Badniks. Once it was all clear, Team Dragoon pushed towards the door at the end of the hallway, ready for a ambush at the end. As they had predicted, such a ambush popped up, a Elite Egg Hammer and Mega Flapper appearing in front of the doors at the end of the hall. Interestingly, the Elite Egg Hammer's helmet was gold, with a strange gemstone painted in gold on both ends of it's hammer, and the Mega Flapper's wings painted with the same symbol. Team Dragoon stepped back and fired a Quad Blast, destroying the left leg and arm of the Elite Egg Hammer and damaging the right wing of the Mega Flapper. Though, as both collapsed to the ground, their destroyed parts began to reform.
Fital: These things can regenerate!
Eror: Yeah, didn't you hear me mention the concept in passing?
Srish: No matter.
As Srish stepped forwards to blast them again, the Laser Flappers onboard the Mega Flapper took flight to heckle him, distracting him. Dria subsequently took flight to destroy them, and Alan ran in to keep the Elite Egg Hammer at bay. As he hacked at it though, he brushed his hand against it, giving him a heavy shock that caused him to collapse. Fital took immediate notice and pulled Alan back, before taking up the duty of smashing the Elite Egg Hammer, as Srish kept away from the Laser Flappers and fired at the Mega Flapper to keep it from pulling together, Silence directed three drones to destroy the Elite Egg Hammer, and two to destroy the Mega Flapper, while firing at the Mega Flapper himself. As Fital pulled off the helmet of the Elite Egg Hammer, he was heavily shocked, but shrugged it off and fired energy blasts into the button on it's head, destroying it quickly.
Fital: Scratch a Egg Hammer!
Silence: Elite Egg Hammer. Now can you destroy the other one?
Fital: Sure.
Fital summoned the Dragoon Suit and charged into the head of the Mega Flapper drill first, ripping it apart. After it was destroyed, Dria smashed the last Laser Flapper, and got the note. As she landed to read it out, Fital took note of the differences in the Super Badniks they just faced.
Fital: I wonder why these specific Badniks had a couple new paint elements.
Eror: That's because they're my Honor Guard models. Not to be confused with my actual Honor Guards, who are coming up next.
Alan: Didn't know you could paint.
Eror: It's not technically painting, rather i used my abilities to apply the gold paint the way i wanted.
Dria: Alright then. This hint says to start at the middle door, go left seven times, going from the left door to the right door if asked to go left when there is no door to our left, to find the correct door.
Silence: So, middle, left, right, middle, left, right, middle?
Dria: Seems so.
Fital: Then let's go.
Team Dragoon went through the middle door to the final challenge before meeting Eror, finding themselves in a large open area surrounded by a wall, with buildings on the other side, surrounded by a much larger wall.
Dria: Is this... Barricade Town?
Eror: Hey, got it in one! Now then, you're facing a boss, Or at least you were supposed to. Originally, i'd have had you fighting a electric kraken in a ocean, but then i took a step outside and found some interesting characters, a pair specifically. Who are they? Well, i'll let them take it away.
???: You ready to fight?
???: Then get ready to crumble!
???: You're fighting Eror's Honor Guards-
Rough and Tumble: Rough and Tumble!
Alan: You are kidding me.
Rough: Oh, this ain't no joke. We're as real as can be.
Silence: Well, i suppose it makes sense that these guys would still be brainwashed. They're not exactly known for brains.
Rough: Hey! We're not one of those Dimensional Council sycophants like everyone else out there! We're fighting for Eror of our own free will!
Tumble: Well, we were controlled originally, but Clutch wasn't, and he reminded us of what the world truly is.
Rough: Oy, you didn't have to tell them that.
Eror: They're being honest. We met when they tried to beat me up for the whole brainwashing thing, but i cleared that up quick, and offered them something no one else could offer.
Srish: What could that be?
Rough: Powers. We've got electric abilities like that Surge chick now! Not that we'd need them to beat you lot.
Tumble: And my tail's finally back!
Tumble then snuggles his regrown tail, much to the annoyance of Rough. The tail, while bigger than Rough's, was the same size proportionally.
Rough: Bro, stop. You can snuggle that thing all you like when we've beaten those five.
Tumble: Alright.
Eror: So anyways, they've also been imbued with the concept of insulation, so electricity can't hurt them.
Rough: That's right! And these tails are 100 percent static now, so a simple touch will fry any of you!
Srish: I severely doubt the accuracy of that, cause a tail comprised of static electricity would look much cooler.
Tumble: That's it! Rough, let's get em!
Rough: Alright.
Rough and Tumble charge at Team Dragoon, who scatter, then fire back, forcing the skunk duo to separate. As Fital attempts to slam into Tumble, the strong skunk responds with a powerful punch from a gauntlet that sends him flying into the wall surrounding the group, which Rough follows up by firing a electric beam into Fital, until he got struck with a couple homing missiles. Jumping back and regrouping with Tumble, the two showed off the two weapons.
Rough: You like these? This Electric Laser Cannon and that Acceleration Gauntlet were gifts from Eror.
Dria and Srish: Hey! Those are just the weapons of the Super Blue Egg Pawn!
Eror: Super Egg Pawn Blue, but yes. They were refashioned into weapons for these two.
Rough: Hey! I thought you made these from scratch! Not stole them from a Egg Pawn!
Eror: I never said that. I just gave you two the weapons. And besides, does that lessen the effectiveness of them?
Tumble: He makes a fair point.
Rough: You're right. Now then, where were we?
Rough Spindashed into Silence, throwing him across the room. At the same time, Tumble jumped into the air and slammed back down near Srish, who jumped away from the electric blast the slam created. As Silence got up, he had to dodge the Electric Laser Gun's laser, and ran behind Rough, before blasting him with a full power hyper laser, throwing the skunk across the room. As Rough got up though, he didn't look all that hurt.
Rough: Woo! I hardly even felt that! That Veroxx guy's potions work wonders!
Silence: Oh boy.
Meanwhile, Srish was fighting Tumble, attempting to knock him down with Rhythm shots, before catching him with a vibration shot. Now off balance, Tumble attempted to charge Srish to punch him, but instead ended up spindashing at him and crashing into the wall of the arena. Srish and Dria took advantage of his state by blasting him with constant shots in the back, Dria with missile blasts and Srish with more Rhythm shots. Rough took notice and rushed to defend his brother, jumping into the air and swiping Dria with his tail, zapping her with the full load of her built up static and some on top of that, which knocked her out. As she fell, Fital took notice and caught her midair, before laying her down and taking her place fighting Tumble. At the same time, Alan charged in and tackled Rough, being kicked off, but still knocking him across the room, before engaging him in melee while Silence used his drones to rack up damage on him.
Rough: Cheap shot, hitting my brother when he's down!
Alan: Like that excuses you trying to fry Dria with static!
Rough attempts to blast Alan with his gun, but Alan shoves it to the side and slashes Rough with Laser claws, cutting his skin, but doing nothing to the gun when the claws hit it. Rough responds by punching the ground, creating a electric burst which Alan steps away from, before he responds by throwing his Laser claws, trapping Rough in a storm of claws. As the claws fade, Rough is shot in the back by one of Silence's drones, but when he turns to confront it, Alan shoots him in the back, forcing Rough to ignore the drones and fight Alan, which he does by spindashing towards him. As he's about to hit, he jumps over instead and brushes Alan with his tail, shocking him and knocking him unsteady. Rough attempts to capitalize by shooting him with the gun, but the gun's blasted by a well aimed shot from Silence, knocking his aim off, and allowing Alan to attack Rough again, cutting his leg, and then his chest in a X pattern.
Rough and Tumble: Alright, enough!
Rough and Tumble both use a electric blast to drive their foes back, and jump back to the center, before combining their powers to electrify a large area around them, forcing Team Dragoon to jump far away from them. Alan then notices the cuts he had just given him heal, as had the rest of the damage.
Rough: You ok, bro?
Tumble: Yeah, i'm far too tough for all that to hurt me now, and that regeneration Eror mentioned really works.
Rough: Heck yeah it does!
Alan: If they can heal damage at the same pace we deal it, how can we defeat them?
Srish: Perhaps if we deal a whole lot of damage at once?
Silence: Worth a try.
Alan, Srish and Silence then fire their hyper lasers at Rough and Tumble, with Fital firing a massive laser as well. Tumble notices, jumps in front of Rough, and blocks the blast, using the gauntlet to resist most of it. A few hyper lasers later, Team Dragoon stop firing to see if it had worked. As the smoke clears, they see Tumble still in a blocking position, hurt by the lasers, but not enough as he opens his eyes and smirks.
Tumble: Guess we can resist a whole lotta damage after all.
Rough: Hah!
Srish: Dang it!
Rough: Hey bro, Grand Slam with our new Shock Bomber technique?
Tumble: Works for me.
Tumble then grabs Rough and jumps up high, before throwing Rough at Team Dragoon. The group scatter, but as Rough lands, he releases a electric pulse, which is too small to hit anyone, then rebounds and lands near Srish, who's shocked by the pulse. As Rough attempts to shoot him though, he's knocked aside by missile blasts from Silence, allowing Srish to get up.
Rough: I have had it with your little toys! I think it's time to break them!
Alan: There will be-
Srish: None of that!
Alan and Srish attacked Rough, forcing him to jump away. He then takes notice of Fital attacking Tumble, and drove him back with a Shock Bomber.
Rough: We're gonna need something more complex. How about Shock n Smack?
Tumble: Sounds good.
Tumble rushed in to fight the four heroes as Rough went to the center of the arena. As he made it, he fired at Alan, who dodged, before spinning around while still firing the electric laser, forcing the group to run away from it, with Fital picking up the comatose Dria and flying her above the beam. As they ran away from the beam however, Tumble ran in the opposite direction, attempting to punch the group, immune to the electric beams though still keeping the gauntlet above the beam oddly enough. The three managed to dodge every blow by stepping to the side, but they knew they couldn't keep it up forever. Seeing this as well, Fital sent missiles down at Rough just before the other three struck, which hurt him enough that he started firing at Fital instead.
Rough: Why is it always missiles!
Fital dodged the blasts and sent more missiles to strike back. While Rough was occupied with Fital, Tumble was keeping the others occupied, getting close and punching to keep the other three stepping back, soon catching Silence in a gauntlet uppercut, which launched him into the sky, so high in fact that Silence banged his head against a invisible ceiling, knocking him out.
Eror: Wow. I never thought anyone would hit the ceiling in this room. Well, enjoy your dive Silence, see you next fall!
This catches Fital's attention, and he stops fighting to grab Silence. With Fital distracted, Rough attempts to blast Alan with the electric beam gun, but barely misses, catching Alan's attention. As the two remaining grounded fighters dodge Tumble's physical attacks and Rough's lasers, Alan notices Silence being held by Fital, as well as Silence's drones flying near his unconscious body protectively. As he refocused on the fight at hand, he missed Dria starting to stir.
Rough: Two down, three to go!
Srish: Why you!
As Rough attempts to blast Alan or Srish, he's knocked off his feet by some missiles. Flipping over, he expects to see Fital with more missiles over him, but instead he sees Dria, with her Combat Wings blasting more missiles down at him. Rough rolls away from the missiles and gets up, firing at both her and Fital as they respond with missiles and energy blasts. At the same time, Tumble attempts to deal with Srish and Alan, until Srish manages to get him again with a vibration blast, rendering him unable to properly defend his brother and attack the heroes. As Srish keeps him busy, Alan looks a bit closer at Rough's gun, and remembers it's a repurposed piece of the Super Egg Pawn Blue. Knowing this, he decides to test something, and throws Lightning claws at it. As they hit, they seem to do some damage, and Rough notices Alan's attack.
Rough: Did one of our blows knock some memories loose or somethin? We're immune to electricity.
Alan: Oh no, i remember that. I'm betting on something much more helpful.
As Rough almost fires at him, a missile blast to his back reminds him that he needs to fight the sky forces, and he elects to ignore Alan's electric attacks, Unfortunately for him, a few more Lightning shocks to his gun causes it to explode. The explosion also burns Rough's hand for a moment.
Rough: Yeow!
Tumble: Rough!
Tumble manages to pull together and hit Srish with his gauntlet, knocking Srish clear across the room, who hits Alan's side on the way, knocking him down, before running over to Rough.
Tumble: Are you hurt?
Rough: Nothing that won't heal quickly, but they blew up my gun!
Rough and Tumble jump to the side as missiles hit where they had been standing.
Tumble: Aren't these things about as tough as we are now?
Rough: They were supposed to be! And he was blasting it with electricity, so it shouldn't have taken any damage!
More missiles blast into the skunk brothers, ticking Tumble off. In response, he jumps up and grabs Dria, throwing her down to the ground. Dria recovers, and lands safely before taking to the sky again, but then Tumble throws Rough at Fital, who shocks the demon, causing him to drop Silence, who is then caught safely by Dria. As he's disoriented, Tumble jumps up and punches Fital down into the ground, causing him to land hard enough to crack even the durability enhanced pavement, at least, if it wasn't reflected back into Fital by the reflection concept properties. As Fital gets to his feet, Tumble targets him specifically to keep him from flying again. At the same time, Rough starts spindashing around the arena, attempting to slam into Alan or Srish, who had recovered. The two dodge the attacks and Dria does her best to attack Rough, until Srish gets fed up with it, and spindashes into Rough as well, the two colliding and bouncing off each other, which Srish follows up with a explosion attack, knocking Rough into the wall of the arena.
Rough: Why you! Hey bro, some help here!
Tumble: I am helping, by keeping this hedgehog from going back into the sky!
Tumble runs in and punches Fital, who attempts to parry, and while he does, the gauntlet's power still knocks Fital into the wall. As Fital gets up, the parry time fades and Tumble runs in and punches Fital again with the acceleration gauntlet, before pummeling him against the wall. Dria catches notice, and remembers something potentially crucial.
Dria:(Hang on, i've never used the Badnik-melting acid when Eror was watching, have i? That means he might not know about it, or have accounted for it!)
Dria decides to test her theory, flying over to Tumble and stabbing the gauntlet with the barbed tail of the Combat Wings, injecting the Badnik-melting acid. Tumble catches notice though, and grabs the tail, before whirling Dria around by it for a bit, then slamming her into the ground, snapping the tail off, which he then tosses aside. However, Tumble forgot to keep Fital down while snapping the tail off, and Fital breaks free, spindashing into the distracted Tumble, which knocks him down, and then grabbing the tail and storing it in the pocket dimension created earlier. Both Fital and Tumble then notice the acid was actually destroying the gauntlet.
Fital: Good job, Dria! How'd you know Eror hadn't accounted for that?
Dria: I never used the acid while fighting him. I figured he might not know what it is.
Tumble: What is this stuff?! How is it destroying the gauntlet?!
Eror: I have no idea. I've never seen it used before.
Tumble decides he's gonna use the gauntlet for as long as it still functions, and charges at Fital, attempting to punch him into a wall again. Unfortunately, Fital ducks under it, and the gauntlet flies off of his hand and into the wall itself. Thanks to the reflection concept in the wall, the acceleration is turned on the gauntlet itself, and it's sent flying out of the arena and into the larger Barricade Town wall, where it's smashed to bits.
Tumble: Dang it! Rough, i think we're gonna have to use our ultimate technique.
Rough: Shock and Awe? Now?
Tumble: It should clear the floor, allowing us to focus on the flying foes.
Rough: Got it.
Tumble smacks Fital aside, and the two skunks run to the center of the arena, envelop themselves in electricity and then charge a spindash. Fital flies up into the sky to avoid their attack, while Alan looks at this, and gets a idea, pulling out his Dragoon Sigil and turning on the shield. Rough and Tumble then begin their Shock and Awe attack, releasing their Spindash and bouncing all across the arena, leaving electric trails that were bound to shock. The shield was holding up well against their attack, especially with a subtle boost from Fital, but that just drove them to use the second part of their attack. Directing their bounces back to the center of the arena, Rough and Tumble began spindashing in a circle, stirring up a electrically charged tornado. The electric bolts thrown went high enough to endanger Dria, Fital, and Silence, who Dria was still holding onto, and while they were blocked by the shield, the tornado had a suction intense enough that if it got close, it could pull them in, negating the shield. Dria and Fital attempted to blast the two skunks, but the tornado could throw their shots around, rendering them useless. Alan pulled the Dragoon Sigil even closer to the corner to compensate for the tornado's pull, but soon Rough and Tumble managed to start moving it around, forcing them to navigate around it to the other corner, which made the skunks turn back. Alan attempted to fire at the two, but his shots were also thrown around by the tornado.
Alan: How the heck is it doing that?!
Srish: I don't know, but i may be able to stop it.
Srish fires a vibration shot at the base of the tornado, which hit Rough, causing him to spin out and crash into Tumble, causing both to get thrown into the wall by their tornado, before it faded. The two then pulled themselves up, both clearly unsteady.
Tumble: We might have overdid it there...
Alan: So does that mean you give up?
Rough: No! We are invincible! We'll keep going until you're fried!
Rough then falls down, attempts to push himself up, fails, and punches the ground, frustrated.
Tumble: I don't think we can properly fight anymore, Rough.
Rough: But we have to!
Dria: No you don't. You could just call it quits here.
Rough: We'll never give up!
Eror: Well, you don't have to, i count this as a Team Dragoon victory. I have to admit though, you may be a tough act to follow.
Rough: Hah! One of the Dimensional Council said they doubt they can match our power!
Eror: Yeah, well.
Rough and Tumble are warped away. Silence is then shaken consious.
Eror: Now then, There is only one right door to reach me with.
Team Dragoon look around for a moment, looking for a hint.
Eror: What i just said was the hint.
Silence: Ah, i get it now. We must need to take the right door, cause there's only one of them, as the other two are the middle and left doors.
Srish: Ohhhhhhh.
Team Dragoon head through the right door, and on to Eror's room. As they arrive in a room in the same style as the one with the portal door that brought them to the Labyrinth in the first place, they spot Eror leaning against the left window.
Fital: Alright, one last chance to leave.
Eror: I am no coward. But before we battle, come here.
Team Dragoon, confused, but willing to oblige, walk over and look out the window, spotting a building floating in a rainbow void. One with a big central square connecting to two large square shaped buildings, and one big pillar structure, as well as a wall with what Team Dragoon assumed to be turrets on top of it.
Eror: It's pretty cool, isn't it? This is the Merge Device, or at least a to-scale replica. This place didn't exist when the Merge Device was being built, after all.
Alan: Is that true?
Eror: Oh yeah, this is a pocket dimension. This place is Veroxx's pride and joy, just as the Merge Device is mine.
Alan: It's truly a shame then, what has to happen to it.
Eror: Oh you'll try, but it doesn't matter, cause your journey ends here.
Fital: Buddy, you know you're outmatched. What, are you all hopped up on concept power too?
Eror: No. Veroxx was strangely resistant to amplifying us. I don't know if Armageddon managed to convince him to apply concepts to him, but it doesn't matter. No special concepts are applied to this room, well aside from the concept of Reflection that's applied everywhere, no exceptions, you're just fighting me and me alone. But before that, hold this for me, Fital.
Eror tosses Fital a card. As he grabs it, he sees it's a Monopoly go to jail card. A light then flashes in front of him, and when it clears, nothing's changed.
Fital: Was that supposed to do something?
Eror: Oh, you have no idea what i've done.
While Fital thought the flash did nothing, for everyone else, they see Fital teleported into a cage at the very back of the room, in a smaller section about half as big as the main section, which also held a computer.
Alan: Fital, do you not see where you are?
Eror: He really doesn't.
Dria: What do you mean?!
Eror: While i was honest about this room and me having no, er, one concept applied by Veroxx, that cage has a whole bunch of concepts applied to it. It's specially designed so that Fital sees not exactly what i want him to see, but rather what he wants to see. As well, it's so resistant to specifically Fital's power, the only way for him to escape is to teleport. And speaking of.
Eror warps over himself and hits a button, activating something, before walking to the center of the room.
Eror: That button activates the Teleport Dampener in this room. He can't teleport so long as it's up, and also(Eror snaps, generating a laser wall that blocks off the button, computer, and Fital) "This wall's certainly too deadly for you to walk through, and that curious shield on your Extreme Gear won't protect you from it. It'll only come down when i'm knocked out. Now then, shall we begin?"
Eror claps twice, causing metal shutters to block the windows, cutting off all light, but red lights activate to rectify that. Spotlights also come down and focus on Eror.
Eror: I brought some special weapons for fighting you today. We've got these cool laser claws, weaponized wings, drones equipped with missiles that came with this gun, and the suit with blasters on it's arm.
Alan: What in the- These are all our weapons, you uncreative pain!
Eror: Admittedly they are. They are only the first phase however. Break them, and i'll show you something much more personal.
Alan: Alright, let's break em then! Team Dragoon!
Team Dragoon fires off a Quad Blast, but Eror responds with one of his own, neutralizing the attack.
Eror: They're exact copies, you know.
Silence: You're one person, we're four!
Team Dragoon scatter and attempt to Quad Blast Eror from different angles, but every time, Eror counters their blasts with his own.
Eror: I believe my point has been made. Now then, let's fight without that cheap trick, eh?
Srish: You'll get it now!
Team Dragoon open fire on Eror from as many sides of the room as feasible, but surprisingly, Eror was dodging or blocking all the shots.
Eror: This tactic's gotten old. Come engage me at my range!
Dria: Isn't your range the entire room?
Eror: Oh fine, melee range.
Alan: Fine then.
Team Dragoon charge from their four corners, but Eror shoots Dria and Silence with electric claws, and knocks Srish aside with missile blasts. As he attempts to shoot Alan with the laser pistol for the Scattered Silence, Alan smacks it away, and the automatic drones and wing guns are distracted by the original versions, leaving Eror with the claws, which he ignites to defend against Alan's. They are quickly negated by Alan's though, and as both fighters reignite their weapons, Eror attempts to stab Alan with his right set of claws, which he sidesteps, and counters by stabbing Eror's hand with Laser claws, destroying the claws on that hand. As Eror attempts to counter with the other claws, Alan slashes them in half horizontally, before bringing his right claws near Eror's neck, and his left claws in front of his stomach.
Alan: Looks like your game's ending early.
Eror: Boop.
Eror pokes Alan, which also directs a Rhythm Suit vibration attack into him, disorienting him and allowing Eror to knock him across the room with blasts from the Rhythm Suit copy. Eror's then blasted in the back by the real Rhythm Suit, directing his attention to Srish, who had gotten up and was now approaching him while firing Rhythm blasts. Eror responded by firing blasts back to negate the ones Srish was firing, until he was right up in his face, where Eror grabbed both his hands.
Eror: What you gonna do now, insect?
Srish: Watch.
Srish fired blasts from the now directed at the wall blasters, which rebounded off the wall and smacked into Eror's face. As he recovered, Srish used a area vibration attack on Eror, causing him to jump back. When Eror realized he didn't feel unsteady, he laughed, until the Rhythm Suit copy crumbled around him. With his other two weapons dealing with their counterparts, Eror dived for the knocked away gun from the Scattered Silence copy, and fired lasers at Srish. When they were dodged, he quickly fired a invisible homing missile, then more lasers intended to keep Srish from moving. It worked, and Srish was knocked across the room. At the same time though, Dria and Silence pulled themselves together.
Silence: Down two weapons, and your remaining ones are stuck defending against ours. Give it up, you've lost.
Eror: Not even close!
Eror fired invisible missiles at Silence, then lasers to direct him towards them. Silence accounted for this, and sidestepped the areas, while firing two invisible homing missiles at Eror, then distracting him with lasers. As the two missiles struck the glitchian, Silence blasted the copy blaster with his blaster's lasers, destroying it, before proceeding to do the same with the drones. As Eror prepared to retaliate, he was kicked in the back by Dria, who used the chance to destroy the Combat Wings copy before hopping off. As Eror got up, he saw that Alan and Srish had done the same. The spotlights then shift over to the members of Team Dragoon.
Alan: Game's over, Eror.
Eror: You're all so ignorant. I said the copy weapons were the first phase!
Srish: Well we don't feel like doing another!
Team Dragoon then fired off a Quad Blast, which stirred up lots of smoke. As Team Dragoon looked to see how hurt Eror was, he blew the smoke back in their faces, and when they pushed past it, they saw he was completely fine, and holding a massive shield just slightly smaller than he was. The spotlights then returned to focusing on Eror.
Alan: What the heck is that, and how did it block a Quad Blast from all directions!?
Eror: My new shield. We'll get to how it protected against all your blasts, but first.
Eror mounted his shield to his arm, and summoned his halberd, which he grabbed from midair and whirled like a helicopter rotor for a couple seconds, before slamming it's tip into the ground, and subtly pressing a button, which shrinks it to the size of a one handed axe.
Eror: Now then, shall we begin again?
Team Dragoon opened fire on Eror with their Wispons, who blocked some of the blasts with his shield. Quickly, he made the shield levitate around him and block attacks as they came, before charging at Dria and slashing at her with the axe a couple times. Dria dodges the best she can, but is still clipped by the slashes, losing a couple feathers. Being not a melee fighter, Dria quickly sought distance, using her wings to propel herself backwards, before firing a couple missile blasts at Eror, who shot them down with simple energy shots. Eror then kept the pressure up by extending his axe to it's halberd form, and slashed it back and forth, sending energy slashes at Dria, who ran away from them while returning fire, accidentally dragging the others into dodging them as well as they attacked. Alan then surprises Eror, who raises his halberd in defense. Seeing a opportunity, Alan slashes the handle, only for his wispon's energy to dissipate as if it hit another Wispon shot. Eror uses the momentary distraction to smack Alan with the handle, then slash his cheeks, cutting them. Alan then grabs the handle, and holds the weapon in place.
Alan: You said something about explanations. Give me them. Now.
Eror: Ah, your Wispon shutting down. See, when i was getting in some practice with the Wispon copies, i accidentally neutralized one of my own shots. So i took the time to study, and it turns out your shots can neutralize others of a similar energy pattern via a special energy coating the shots. And so i applied it to all my weapons, including the handle of this fine weapon here. Oh, and another thing, this weapon of mine is made of energy steel, a special metal denizens of the Dimensional Hub can create. It's main draw is elemental conductivity!
Eror electrifies the handle of the halberd, shocking Alan and forcing him to let go, before jabbing him with the blunt end.
Eror: Now the shield, that's made of something different.
Eror turns his weapon back to a axe, and cuts Alan's chest twice as he stumbles back.
Eror: Energy steel just didn't stand up to Quad Blasts in the tests.
Eror shocks Alan with a lightning bolt.
Eror: So Veroxx found something that did, something strong enough to resist Quad Blasts without being damaged!
Eror directed a explosive energy blast into Alan's chest, knocking him into a wall, before hitting him with a few more for good measure.
Eror: And that's how i made this shield.
Dria, Srish, and Silence all glance at Alan, who had clearly been knocked out from the chained attacks. Srish then acts, running in to engage Eror in melee. Eror attempts to slash him when he's close enough, but Srish spindashed under his attack, before attempting to spin attack Eror. Eror quickly rolled aside, causing the attack to miss, before summoning his shield back to his hand. Srish immediately attempted to tear it apart with a shockwave attack, but when the waves impacted, all that happened was the shield vibrated for a second.
Eror: Nice try, but that only works on stuff that consists of multiple parts. This shield is one solid chunk of super metal!
Srish retaliated by dodging to the side and shooting blasts into Eror's side, which did damage, but Eror cut into his side in response. Srish then grabbed the handle and directed some vibrations into it, but it reacted similar to the shield, and Eror froze the handle, freezing Srish's left hand to it.
Eror: I bet you expected this extending weapon to use small parts to accomplish the extension and contraction. Nope. It's all magic.
Eror then spun around quickly while applying a few different elements to the handle in rapid succession, electricity, earth, ice again, then finally fire, melting Srish's frozen hand, before Eror flung Srish at Silence, distracting the drones as well. With two foes tangled up with each other, Eror levitated his shield again, allowing it to block all Dria's shots. Srish and Silence quickly got up, and Silence hatched a plan.
Silence: Eror's shield can clearly only block one angle at a time, so i'll try my hyper laser. While i do that, fire your own shots with Dria. That should force Eror to either block my hyper laser or your onslaught.
Srish understood, and quickly joined Dria in firing storms at Eror in a attempt to get past his shield. At the same time, Silence fired off a full power hyper laser. However, instead of the shield moving to block the laser, a blue energy field extended from the shield and blocked the hyper laser instead.
Silence: What?
Eror: You saw me block a Quad Blast from all four corners of the room. What did you think would happen?
Silence: How are you doing this?!
Eror: A little trick implemented into the shield. It can adapt my power to generate energy shields as strong as it for a fraction of the energy cost it takes to block such power with my normal barriers, such as the one i have on right now.
Eror then deployed a swarm of shots all aimed at Silence, forcing him to run, while Srish tried to engage in melee again. This time, Eror left the shield defending against Dria's attacks, extending his axe back into a halberd to handle Srish. Srish starts by trying to spin attack Eror, but is deflected by the handle, and jabbed back by the tip. Srish tries again, attempting to kick Eror, but his kicks were constantly deflected by the handle, and as such, Srish tried one last play, a explosion attack right in Eror's face, past his shield. It actually works, severely damaging Eror's barrier, and seeing this, Eror attacked with full force, starting off with a spindash, which Srish attempted to counter with his own, but it failed. Eror then quickly uncurled and slashed Srish a few times in quick succession while he was midair, before finishing it off with a giant freezing fist which froze Srish and punched him into a wall, the ice shattering on impact and leaving a unconscious Srish. With that done, Eror looked towards the other two and summoned his shield to his hand.
Eror: Two heroes down, two to go.
Dria: Why you!
Dria, against her better judgement, ran in and attempted to flying kick Eror, who blocked it with his shield. Silence used the opportunity to fire as many missiles into Eror as he could.
Eror: Don't i remember you running because of the exact situation you've now brought upon yourself?
Dria: There's more on the line now than just me!
Eror: Oh yeah.
Eror swapped his weapon to a axe and attempted to cut Dria, but she dodged and attempted to jump on him. Eror blocked the attack with his shield, before shield bashing her away, and flinging some shots at her, which she jumped, and attempted to counter with missile shots, which he blocked. He was then knocked unsteady by Silence's missiles, and so turned to block the attacks, but was blasted by one of Dria's missiles, shattering his personal barrier. Frustrated, and semi-panicked, Eror charged into Dria, smacking her with his shield before turning his weapon into a halberd again and using it's handle as a bat to knock her away, also throwing her to the floor until she pulled herself up. Seeing a chance, Dria and Silence used their hyper lasers, but Eror managed to block both with his shield and some of his remaining power, before slashing into the two from across the room using his halberd's laser, before slashing again and again, enhancing it with ice, freezing them, then earth, shattering them, then fire, then electricity, then water, then electricity again, then ice again, freezing them in place, as well as Silence's drones. Eror then steadied himself, and noticed Team Dragoon were all down.
Eror: (Huff, huff...) That's them! I got them! I finally got them! Now then, let's finish the job. (Eror quickly approaches Alan, swapping the halberd to the axe, before raising it over Alan's head with murderous intent.)"I cannot afford to deal with Alan at this exact moment, so this is goodbye."
Unfortunately for him, Alan had woken up a few seconds earlier, and was ready to punish his jinxed words, kicking his legs before rolling aside and lighting his claws with Lightning. Eror recovered immediately after falling though, and charged in, giving Alan a deep cut near his neckline. Alan countered by stabbing both sets of claws into Eror's shield arm, shocking him with electricity before knocking the shield away. Eror attempted to cut him again, but the axe swing was dodged and countered with Lightning claws into his chest.
Alan: How do you like the electricity?!
As Eror stumbled backwards, he decided to get at least one kill, and dashed over to Srish. As he raised his axe, Alan, thinking quickly, swapped to Quake claws and threw them near him, causing a quake which knocked Eror onto his chest. Alan then jumped, swapping to Lightning claws, but Distractor had another idea, giving Alan Quake power, which caused him to crush Eror. Alan stomped Eror in Quake form a couple more times, until he disappeared, causing the laser bars to vanish, and the spotlights to raise back up into the ceiling. Alan ignored it for the moment and broke his frozen friends free, and kept them steady as they recovered from the freezing. The three then attempted to shake Srish awake, but he remained unconscious. Seeing as there was nothing more they could do for him, they focused on breaking Fital free, immediately defaulting to using their hyper lasers on the cage. This thankfully works, and the cage blows up, freeing Fital.
Fital: Guys? What the heck happened? We were just fighting Eror, and... what's all this?
Alan: Explanations later. Can you patch us up?
Fital: Not entirely, but my healing should do for now. Better check that computer.
Dria: Alright.
Dria boots up the computer as Fital attempts to wake Srish. Once it's on, Dria looks through it, noticing it's all just camera footage from the challenge rooms. As she minimizes the cam tabs, she finds one special camera marked CE-6. Dria immediately looks closer, and sees it's watching some odd plant monster. Her confusion is soon cleared up once she sees a Chaos Emerald within the creature.
Fital: Sorry team, i don't have any idea on how to wake Srish.
Dria: That's alright, i need you to see something.
Srish walks over, and Dria points out the Chaos Emerald in the plant monster.
Dria: We need to get there, you think you can teleport us?
Fital: I don't know where that is. Maybe if we... Oh right! The Emerald Radar could help!
Dria pulls out the Emerald Radar, and hands it to Fital. Fital quickly looks through it, and sees a emerald signal in a small square room.
Fital: Maybe someone else could get us there. For now, we should return to the first room. I'll warp us there.
Alan: Oh, wait!
Alan pushes the button for the Teleport Dampener, shutting it off.
Alan: There was a teleport blocking device on in this room.
Fital: Noted. Let's go back to the starting room.
Team Dragoon gathered around Fital, and the five heroes were returned to the entrance room.
Final Chaos Emeralds: Make that Six[]
As Team Dragoon got their bearings, the first thing they noticed was that the portal home was shut off.
Alan: The Dimensional Council must not have wanted us going home.
Fital: No matter, we can just use the Dimensional Hub to get home.
Dria: After everyone is back together.
Alan: Yeah, of course- Hey look, at Eror's hologram!
Silence: What are you on abou-
Silence, as well as Dria and Fital, then notice Eror's hologram was flickering. It soon cut out entirely.
Alan: I wonder how that was accomplished?
Silence: I'm more concerned with the purpose.
Fital: Eror probably made it work that way for theatric purposes.
At that moment, Team Alpha appeared. The team looked very worse for wear, all sporting serious injuries.
Tier 6 Ecto: *Cough* Hey fellas.
Fital: Woah. Did you do it? Did you defeat the undefeatable?
The group then notices Armageddon's hologram flickering, before sputtering out as well.
Alan: I think that's a good sign.
Ecto detached the Chaos Emeralds from himself, to let them recharge.
Ecto: We had to bust out the Overlord Diamond, but we're pretty much okay. Let's wait for Team Phantasm. They should be here soon.
Team Phantasm then appears in front of the other two teams, also looking worse for wear.
Alan: So how did it go?
Cyne : Well, we lost a few hundred times but we were able to rewind time and eventually do it. Well.. If you could call it winning that is..
Cross : So, turns out he was hiding his power during all of our encounters and used what he called the "Asuran variant of the Flame of Judgement" which forced us to use the Time Stones to gain extra power. After he threw a mini sun at us and we deflected it he transformed into this thing called the "Inferno of Judgement" and apparently it can destroy and burn the soul and burn lifespans but he also burns himself while using it, apparently if we died to it we wouldn't have an afterlife or something since our souls wouldn't exist anymore. After all was said and done Shera-
Shera : Hey guys! Long time no see-
Cross : Shera, please let me finish. So anyways, Shera was mind controlled by Veroxx and he gave her this concept of Life. Ultimately that worked against him as we restored her memories.
Cyne : Also turns out rewinding time can't restore damage to the soul, so Shera's life concept came in handy for that. But uhh... Well...
Marl : He found out we were rewinding time to find ways to overcome him and he stole all of the Time Stones.
Cyne : Yeah...
Alan: Well, that's ominous. Either way, if you have such great healing power, Shera, can you patch us up?
Shera : Yup!
Shera would raise her hands and a warming light would come from her, soothing the soul itself. Everyone would feel their energy return and their wounds heal.
Cyne : Well, there is one good thing that came from this.
Cyne would pull out the Phantom Ruby.
Cyne : All that time travel gave the ruby time to recover.
Fital: Well that's good. We need all we can get when we go after...(Fital notices Veroxx's hologram hadn't flickered out)"Guys, you seeing that?"
Alan: Yeah, and with what Cyne said, it makes sense.
Fital: Back to the topic at hand, there's a Chaos Emerald in this dimension, let me check where it is...
Fital pulls out the Emerald Radar and checks it, the other teams gathering around to check as well.
Fital: Oh, hang on, it appears to be in this room. But it can't be here, so is it above us or below us?
Marl : Perhaps in some sort of dimensional gap? Or maybe a machine?
Alan: No, not a machine, a plant monster. Shera, your whole deal is plants, can you sense where a giant plant is?
Shera : I can try.
Shera would feel around her and would locate the Plant Monster. Though, something seemed off about it.
Shera : Err.. It's above us. But also, something seemed unnatural about it.
Srish: Is anything in this place natural? Eror had two of his challenges take place in a location he shouldn't have been able to learn about.
Fital: Well, anyways, grab on everyone, and let's get up there!
Cyne : Right. (Still.. Knowing Veroxx is out there with the Time Stones has me uneasy...)
Cross would notice Cyne's change in expression.
Cross : Cyne, lighten up. I bet your still feeling bad about our draw with Veroxx, but hey it couldve been worse. Imagine if we all died those 305 times.
Cyne : 305? Was it really that much?
Cross : Yeah, I checked when I used them the 257th time. Let's just get that emerald, maybe transform and kick his butt you know?
Cyne : Heh, your right.
Each of the heroes would grab on to Fital, waiting to be transported.
Fital: And here, we, go!
The group were transported into the room above them, twelve feet off the ground. As the heroes fell, Fital smiled to cover up his embarrassment.
Fital: Sorry! I didn't know where the floor was.
Ecto quickly glanced around and saw a strange shimmering part of the wall.
Ecto: One sec.
He dashed over to the wall and peered at it. He stuck his hand through it an gasped.
Ecto: Guys... I think I found something. Team Dragoon, you deal with the plant. Eror made it, right? Cyne, come look at this.
He knelt down and began gazing at the marks on the floor.
Cyne : So, what did you find?
Ecto waved his hand through the wall.
Ecto: It's fake. Can you, I don't know, use the Phantom Ruby to detect what's on the other side? I'm not in the mood to be trapped right now.
Team Dragoon attempt to attack the plant monster, but are thrown back before they can reach it. As they attempt to fire, with Fital joining in, their shots just keep being launched away.
Alan: Guys? This thing's got a lot more tricks than it should!
Dria: What are you looking at? The Chaos Emerald's in the monster!
The plant monster then sent out vines at the three groups. Shera would put her hand to the floor stopping them with vines and roots of her own.
Shera : That's what I'm saying. When I said it was unnatural, I meant it has things it shouldn't. Almost like...
Cross : Veroxx probably, he probably put concepts in this thing.
The heads of the plant monster then started firing blasts of elements, destroying Shera's vines.
Ecto: Ghost Transformation!
Ecto suddenly became a pale green gas. The gas floated towards the plant monster.
Marl : (Careful Ecto, we don't know what concepts it might have. If anything from the fight with Veroxx was taught to me is that he's fully aware of how to effect souls and spiritual things.)
One of the plant heads then blasted Ecto with a sonic scream, blowing him into the wall. The gaseous Ecto muttered something that sounded like a curse and began searching for a weak point. His mouth solidified to yell a warning.
Ecto: Word of warning! This could get messy!
Ecto slid his gaseous body into the plant and became solid once more.
Ecto: Hit it with everything you've got!
Marl would condense a mass of clouds into one marble sized orb and aimed it like a marble, alongside him Cross would prepare a Sniper Shot and Shera an acidic needle, all three shooting and piercing the plant. Cyne would simply watch to see what would happen. While a decent chunk was torn from the plant, it quickly started to reform.
Alan: He's got the concept of Regeneration in there!
Cyne would then get an idea.
Cyne : Hey hold on. I just thought of a way we could avoid fighting this thing entirely. The Phantom Ruby and Chaos Emeralds can create unstable effects, so what If I just do something like that and force the emerald out of it?
Alan: How would you get there? The creature has some sort of pushback aura.
Cyne : Good point...
Cyne would look over to Marl and Shera.
Cyne : I've got an idea.
After a few minutes Cyne would be positioned on a slingshot made from Shera Naturakinesis with a coating of clouds all over his body.
Cyne : So the plan is, I launch in their super fast and if that's not enough, these clouds will condense and shoot water jet's allowing me to break through.
The plant monster notices, but before it does anything, one of it's heads are Quad Blasted off.
Dria: We've got this thing! Tear it apart!
Without wasting a single second Cyne take's his feet off the ground launching in, he's met with some resistance but the clouds water jets get him close enough to pull out the ruby and make contact.
Cyne : Phantom Prepotence!
Using the Phantom Rubies version of Chaos Control Cyne is able to eject the Chaos Emeralds and grab it just before the blast could blow him away. Now on the floor, Cyne would raise the emerald.
Cyne : Got it.
This did not kill the monster however, and it sends multiple vines at Cyne.
Cyne : WHOAOO!!
Cyne would holler while the Vines dragged him in, the strength of the vines were immense so he wouldn't be able to escape in time. Suddenly from out of nowhere, the roof would split open and a familiar hedgehog would appear. Grabbing the vine, causing it to go limp.
Cyne : You?!
Terios : Hmph! I'm not helping you lot out, your goals just currently align with mine again.
Terios would be holding the vine, negating the abilities of the Plant Monster.
Cross : Terios? Is he here for another fight?
Terios : No, That genie experimented on me. I'm in no mood to fight you lot, I only want the genies head.
Marl : So your on our side.
Terios : Call it what you want.
Fital: It is what it is. Now come on, i might know a way out.
Meanwhile... At the Dimensional Hub Council Room...
Veroxx : It's impressive that they at all managed to push me that far. Though, I suppose with these stones that's fair.
Veroxx would walk around the the hub, noticing the quiet and would see one of Eror's engineers.
Veroxx : You, where is Eror and Armageddon? Surely they did not fall in battle?
Demon Engineer: They're just outside, trying to heal. Armageddon suffered a major cut to his eye, and Eror got his back broken. They say they can heal with enough time.
Veroxx : Is that so? I suppose I have a few burns, but nothing as serious as them. But I do have a request, I got the idea from my battle.
Veroxx would display the Time Stone's.
Veroxx : Perhaps you could make a device that could harness their power? My magical reserves are rather depleted so I can't use them myself. My idea is to reverse the time on my bindings by thousands of years to the point that I don't have them. Furthermore since Asuran law is bound by the soul and can only be broken once, I'd be able to use my true power without limit. The same power I held as a king. What do you say? After all is said and done I'll grant you all a wish.
Demon Engineer: We don't have the know how to do so ourselves. If you had plans we could do it. Maybe Eror knows something?
Veroxx : Very well. I'd rather not bother one in the process of healing. But I'd also prefer a bit of freedom.
Veroxx would walk through the complex, eventually making it outside to see both Eror and Armageddon.
Veroxx : Hmm... You two definitely do not look too well.
Eror: Yeah. That stupid Quake Wisp...
Veroxx : Well, I'll assume you all lost your wagers. I however have won, apparently more than once if them rewinding time is anything to go by. But most of all, I won the jackpot.
Veroxx would show them the Time Stones, they could tell he had some sort of plan.
Veroxx : I can't use them since my magic is depleted. So I'm curious as to if you could perhaps make a device to manipulate their power? With it I can remove these bindings and unleash my true power, one even greater then my prime. Also, my wish magic.
Eror: I don't have experience with the Time Stones. That's not to say i can't do it, but i need to know how these things work on a fundamental level, like how i learned about the Quartz Kaleidoscope's properties.
Veroxx : Supposedly Eggman and Sonic knew. Cyne probably learned about them from Sonic... Hmm... Well I know how to use them. However I cannot transfer my memories via magic due to my low reserves right now.
Eror: Tell me then, in the quickest and most concise way you can think of.
Veroxx : Though it won't give you all the info you need. The best way for me to inform you right now is to show you. Your smart so you will figure it out and luckily this method does not require magic, I'm going to take you to Oblivion.
Eror: Sounds... ominous. So long as it gets me understanding and i survive the trip though...
Veroxx : This may take a while. To get to Oblivion were going to have to shift outside of the natural range of Dimensions as all Dimensions and they're timelines are within Oblivion.
Veroxx would put a hand on Eror's shoulder and within a few minutes they would arrive. Eror could see the infinity that was Oblivion, every timeline, every possibility, every decision ever made and not made, some timelines you think should exist but did not yet exist. Something Eror found strange within his observations, but despite it he could tell this was infinity. Even the void around them seemed just about as endless as everything contained within it. Even Eror was not sure what to make of this endless information.
Veroxx : This is Oblivion, or I suppose many may call it "Time". Time is not just a concept, but a place. My abilities only allow me to view it, but I cannot interact with it, otherwise I would've undone these bindings by now... Know this, if anything exists beyond this. Well, time does not exist in said places and never will.
Eror: This is quite the place. I can barely understand it, but maybe if i scan the energy...
Eror teleports in a energy scanner, and scans time itself.
Veroxx : What are the results?
Eror: Well the scanner's picking up a energy it doesn't recognize. Let's see what it's wave length is.(Eror checks the energy's wavelength)"No way..."
Veroxx would look at Eror with interest.
Veroxx : Did you find something? Wait... If your scanner picks up energy then could you be reading the Temporal Essence?
Eror: Ignoring that you could have led with that, this "Temporal Essence" is a energy alright. But it's wavelength here is flat, implying time doesn't move here.
Veroxx : I suppose that's natural, how could time exist within time? Here we can perceive it, but we are effectively within time itself. When we are in dimensions Time flows through it, passing through and enabling all actions. But while we are in time we move with time, therefore time is always stagnant for as long as we are here. We can perceive time but we cannot experience it.
Eror: That might just help. It does ask a question though, if time doesn't naturally flow, what motivates time? Here's my theory. The Time Stones may be what makes time flow. Could you bring out one of the Time Stones so i can check?
Veroxx would hold out one of the Time Stones.
Veroxx : Still, I'm more curious as to what created these in the first place. Everything born was born without form, so therefore everything had to be given form. Even with my extensive knowledge I do not know of higher beings. If I recall there was a God of Time named Solaris, however that god did not create the Time Stones and more so destroyed dimensions and timelines, in a way trimming the branches of time. But, I believe that god has been split somehow.
Eror: The answer to what started everything in existence is not our concern at the moment, and... Yes! The Temporal Essence in the Time Stones does flow! Now then, the next part of my theory hinges on whether or not the wavelength will slow if time was slowed. Do we have any way to accomplish that?
Veroxx : I do not personally, but there are certainly places that experience time differently then others.
Eror: Ok, if we could somehow scan those places from the outside, we might be able to confirm my theory.
Meanwhile, Armageddon was preparing his backup plan.
Armageddon: If I just tune this like this... Turn this... Push that... There we go, openable portal triangulated to Dark: Type Null. I will go and inform the others.
Armageddon appeared behind the rest of the council.
Armageddon: Two things. One, you are aware that there were more universes here at one point. They are gone. Two, I have set up a backup plan. If we are about to fail, I will unleash Dark: Type Null. We will escape as he destroys the heroes and everything else.
Eror: A: How did you get here, and B: Explain that first part.
Veroxx : Yes, I've been aware of such things since I was king.
Eror: Eh?
Veroxx : That's not of concern, Armageddon is a similar being of extradimensional standing. Given his extensive resources and position of might, it's only natural he could follow our locations to here. Afterall, after this dimension we have all of these.
Eror: Ok, fair, but what about my second question?
Armageddon: More universes than our three homes were merged into this reality. As dimensional stability declines, the universes not reinforced by our essence will decay and cease to exist. That has already happened with a multitude of them. Our three home universes are the only ones left, I believe.
Veroxx : Indeed, that's even more so why it's important I regain my original power. With the power of wishes I could probably fix a fine amount of this. There's no fun in ruling over the void.
Veroxx would then notice something, a long white chain very far in the distance. Though, no one seemed to pick up on it but Veroxx.
Veroxx : (Could that be? The Chain of Prismaline?)
Veroxx would look up and down the infinitely extending chain from a distance and realized it was coming from a future timeline. After a few seconds the Chain would move wildly down towards the timeline, almost like it was being reeled in.
Veroxx : (There's a user of the Chain of Prismaline in the future? This could be bad.)
Eror would notice Veroxx's facial expression change to one of concern.
Eror: What's up? You weren't exactly shocked by the revelation that the other dimensions were seperated. Are you concerned about stability? I sure am.
Veroxx : What? Oh, no it's nothing... But I do get the feeling we should hurry along with our plans. Just call it a gut feeling. I've heard the dimensions where Terios came from has faster time then the one we were just in, we can get our readings from there.
Eror: Guide me.
Veroxx places a hand on Armageddon and Eror, in an instant they shift to the Sol Dimension.
Veroxx : What a primitive dimension... I'm surprised though, it's only barely effected by the merge.
Armageddon: Feh! This place sucks. I want to make it suffer. Suffer so much that they forget the meaning of happiness and joy.
Veroxx and Eror looked at Armageddon warily. Armageddon roared what sounded like laughter.
Eror: (Ahem) "Ah yes, this place."
Eror begins scanning the dimension's Temporal Energy.
Eror: Hey, did you ever hear the legend about a powerful dimension controlling artifact in this dimension? The legend says that Glitchians created a artifact that could control the "Power of the Stars" the concentrated form of Dimensional Energies and gave it to this dimension specifically, and that for unknown reasons, all variants of this dimension have it, despite only the one having been created.
Armageddon: Like the Quasar Cannon?
Veroxx : I care not for it. I'm sure it could be used for research, but with the kaleidoscope we have access to the infinite scope of dimensions.
Eror: I don't believe the artifact looked like a weapon, but what is this Quasar Cannon?
Armageddon: Do you remember the Overlord Diamond?
Eror: It's that thing Ecto used right? Oh, and i've got the wavelength.
Armageddon: So, the Quasar Cannon is a laser that can be fired by a user of the Overlord Diamond. It has the power of a black hole exploding with the force of a supernova.
Veroxx : Truly? That reminds me of the good old days. Anyways, does the wavelength allow you to do anything? What have you learned?
Eror: So... it isn't related to the legend. Eh, doesn't matter anyways, It seems that the temporal energy wavelength here is slower than the normal one. That's giving me a idea.
Veroxx : Which is?
Eror: I need to return to the merge device, this might just be THE idea, and i need to create the design.
Veroxx : Before you do that. In my fight with Team Phantasm that Archangel gave Cyne one of it's feathers. It's likely it will give the other teams a feather as well, they will probably be trying to gain and overwrite control of the Kaleidoscope, destroying the Merge Device in the process.
Eror: Oh don't worry. The process would destroy the dimensions, so long as they are told that, they wouldn't dare.
Veroxx : I'm not so sure. The Archangels created the Kaleidoscope, they probably know things we don't. I'm not willing to bet on them not. Besides...
Veroxx would think back to the Chain of Prismaline he saw.
Veroxx : There's something out there, someone... Who has something that makes the kaleidoscopes power look like an infant...
Eror: No, no, i'm serious. Doing so would be like unplugging a complicated machine while it's still running, or quickly pulling two pieces of glued paper apart. It has just as high a chance of breaking the dimensions as it does separating them, and those aren't risks they're willing to take. They're separating the dimensions my way, or not at all. I ran the simulations.
Veroxx : Know this Eror, everything is not as it seems. I've lived eons, I've been imprisoned for more than half of my lifespan. I've seen things no mere simulations could explain or detect. I'm not belittling your knowledge, I'm merely parting to you my wisdom, as an ally. Anyways, let's return then.
Veroxx would grab onto Armageddon and Eror, returning to the Dimensional Hub.
Veroxx : Hm- Wait.
Veroxx would summon his crystal ball and look through it.
Veroxx : So they bested the plant?
Eror: Doesn't so much look like they bested it as much as they took the Chaos Emerald from it. It still seems alive.
Veroxx : Well, that aside let's start on your idea.
Eror: Right! Engineers to the center!
Eror quickly flies off, grabs blueprint paper and returns.
Eror: Alright, this last part is crucial. Does Temporal Essence have positive and negative versions like Chaos Energy?
Veroxx : No, but it does have an opposing energy called Spatial Essence.
Eror: Alright then.
Eror lays the blueprint paper on the floor and begins drawing on it while conversing with the engineers. Veroxx and Armageddon couldn't properly hear most of it, but they heard bits and pieces like "It would probably work as something similar to the thing Ecto uses with the Chaos Emeralds" and "A mental link could allow simpler control" and "Similar principles to how the Merge Device controls dimensional energies might just allow us to flip the wavelength to reverse time" and finally "If we could attach some of it to the chains themselves, the energy could be directed into them."
Veroxx : You know, I just now realized how interesting this group is. A scientist and a magician. Two opposites. Then we have a dragon with mythical standing, I feel like there's some sort of theme here but I can't put my finger on it.
In time, Eror completed the blueprints, and handed them off to the engineers.
Eror: And don't forget, use long-lasting materials. This machine will need to face the test of Time itself.
Glitchian Engineer: You've got it!
As the engineers begin building the machine, Eror sighs in relief.
Eror: Jeez, i was super worried that Team Dragoon would've struck by now. I guess they don't know yet. Oh, and in other news...
Eror presses his hands against his back, cringing for a second at pain, before going back to his neutral stance.
Eror: I fixed my back.
Veroxx : Wonderful, how long will this take?
Eror: A hour at most. This is complicated tech, but it's your size, so not all that large, comparitively anyways. Now that we have free time, we should prepare the Merge Device for battle. The defense systems are in place, so all we need is other kinds of protections, such as a Teleport Dampener. Feel free to suggest defensive improvements.
Veroxx : So be it then.
As Eror goes up to the Quartz Kalidoscope to check how much energy it can spare, he catches notice of something off in the distance.
Eror: That's Armageddon's castle, right?
Veroxx simply nods.
Eror: Hm. Why do i get the sense that something's going on in there?
Veroxx : Perhaps we should investigate.
Veroxx materializes a Khopesh out of flames, gripping it tightly.
Eror: I trust you can handle it. If something really has made it to the castle, a Teleport Dampener is needed now more than ever.
Eror confirms there's enough leftover energies to power the Teleport Dampener, then checks up on dimensional stability.
Eror: In other notes, dimensional stability is at 22%. Let us hope we can win this before it reaches 0%.
Veroxx would slip between the dimensions and appear within the castle, walking until he stumbled upon the group.
Veroxx : Well what do we have here?
Fital: Dang it! You again?!
Final Chaos Emeralds: Lucky Seven[]
A few minutes previously...
The Dimensional Heroes all enter the Dimensional Hub, holding onto Fital.
Fital: Alright, this is crucial. How many of you have experience with the Dimensional Hub. Don't bother answering this, Team Dragoon, i taught you in the first place.
Cyne : Well, I definitely don't know anything about it. Probably none of them either.
Terios : Speak for yourself.
Fital: Correct. Terios has been here before, and through means i don't yet understand, he managed to get himself through it.
Alan: And Cyne, you've at least been here, we were just the ones getting you through it.
Cyne : Really? Huh.
Alan: Remember? The first time we met?
Srish: Alan scared you.
Alan: Oy!
Cyne : Ah yeah! I remember.
Fital: And the rest of you?
Ecto: We use... an unorthodox approach to crossing realities. I tend to just tear holes between realms and walk through. The others haven't dimension hopped yet.
Fital: Ah. Well, since you do not know much about this place, and we do not have the time even for a crash course, we need to figure out how to help you navigate this place.
Ecto: Didn't Armageddon hint the the final Emerald, or at least what's left of it, is in his castle? Shouldn't we look there?
Fital: Well, where is it?
Ecto squinted at rubbed his chin. Then he spun on his heel and pointed at a certain wall.
Ecto: Through that wall.
Fital: There are no walls in the Dimensional Hub. There is a floor though.
Ecto: This'll be faster, actually.
Ecto reached behind himself and took out what looked like a small shard of a blade.
Ecto: I was lent this shard of the Fenris Sword.
Ecto used the blade shard to rip a hole through space. On the other side was Armageddon's Castle. Ecto strolled through.
Ecto: Come on. Follow us.
Fital: I suppose this is quicker, but we need to discuss this later.
The heroes went through the transport hole, before it resealed. As Team Dragoon entered, they adjusted to the place having normal gravity.
Ecto: Shall I spare you the details about the Fenris Sword?
Cyne : Seems pretty nifty, I'd like to know.
Ecto: Alright. Ages and ages ago. Like, when time was a new concept, I mean. There was this dude named Fenris, and he was extremely powerful. He could kill gods with his bare hands, and he carried this massive sword that was made to be able to destroy the Finalverse. The only sword more powerful is the Slayer Sword, which is held by Deus. Anyway, Fenris decided to go on a killing spree, so some assassins were sent to stop him. They were killed, but one managed to poison him with basically essence belonging to Death. Knowing he was about to die, Fenris decided to try to fight the whole Finalverse so he fought every deity and powerful being at the same time. Things got really bad, until Reality finally decided enough was enough and appeared himself and held Fenris off until he eventually ran out of energy and died of well, having his soul literally evaporated. Life and Death shattered the Fenris Sword and cast it into the Infinite Void, where they had cast Chaos ages before. You remember the Infinite Void, it's where I tried to send Terios. But, some fragments of the sword have been retrieved. My chum Lancer had one and lent it to me, as long as I promised to give it back soon.
Cyne : Hmm.. Sounds strong. Lancer seems like quite the collector.
Ecto: Yup. He's basically me but human and way, way more powerful.
Marl : What exactly do we need here?
Fital: Shards of the last Chaos Emerald we need to go Super.
Fital pulls out the Emerald Radar, and it detects a trio of signals.
Shera : Three? How can that be?
Cyne : Well, it's probably shattered if I had to guess.
Fital: Yeah, i just said that. Besides, Eror's probably kept the Dimensional Council from seeking more Chaos Emeralds so they can't be used by us.
Cyne just sticks his tongue out and makes a nonchalant expression while shrugging.
Fital: So, let's begin with the closest signal.
Ecto: Everyone, grab on!
The heroes grab on, with Fital holding on lighter than most. Ecto sped off, carrying everyone with him.
Alan: And you know where you're going?
Ecto: I have been in these halls before. First stop, the garage!
Ecto carried the heroes all the way to the garage, where Ultimate Doomsday lay inactive.
Ecto: He's probably powered by an Emerald Shard. Team Dragoon, bust him open.
Alan: Get back everyone.
Team Dragoon prepare a Quad Blast, waiting for the heroes to step back. Ecto ushered everyone away and gave them a thumbs-up. Team Dragoon then fired off their Quad Blast, and when they could see the area again, Team Dragoon saw the emerald shard laying in a pile of melted robot parts.
Alan: One down, two to go.
Cyne : Well, let's get a move on. We don't want any guests coming here.
Team Dragoon grab the Emerald Shard and get Ecto to lead on towards the next. He took them to the manufacturing plant. There they found the faux Emerald maker. Ecto possessed it and regurgitated the shard.
Ecto: Could you reattach this?
Fital: What are you-Ah, you mean the shard.
Fital grabs the other shard and pushes the two together, causing the shards to form into two thirds of a Chaos Emerald.
Fital: Looking at the Emerald Radar, the final shard seems to be at the very centre of the castle. But considering the stairs I’ve seen around, you think it’s upstairs?
Ecto: Oui, oui mon ami. To the stairs!
Ecto grabbed everyone again and carried them up the stairs. When they got up they laid eyes upon the portal device.
Ecto: Slack, can you run a quick diagnositc?
Slack nodded and scanned the machine.
Slack: This machine can open a portal to Strya. However, it is triangulated on Dark: Type Null.
Ecto nodded grimly and turned to look at the group.
Ecto: Trust me when I say this, Dark: Type Null is not to be trifled with. Even if we take the shard, there will be enough excess energy to open a wormhole. I assume Armageddon's using this as a last ditch effort. If things go south for the Council, I think he's gonna summon D: TN. If he arrives, don't even look at him. He's basically an existing cognitohazard that will erase you, and every version on you, from existence itself. Have I made myself clear?
Alan: Crystal… Can you disable it?
Ecto: It is likely powered by Stryan technology. There is no way to disable it, unless you have a Stryan handy.
Fital: Why? What makes it impossible to stop? Isn’t it powered by the Chaos Emerald shard? Just pull it out and there’s no power.
Marl : If we can't disable it can we somehow redirect the portal's location? Maybe your friend Lancer has something?
Ecto: I can't call Lancer too often. We just have to take out the Emerald Shard and hope that Armageddon realizes that he will die as well if he uses this. If not, I have a backup plan. Let's go and confront the council. One of you, grab the shard. It should be visible.
Alan: Got it.
Alan cuts the Emerald Shard loose from the machine, and Fital takes it, fusing the Emerald back together. The heroes then ran to get out of the castle… up until they ran into Veroxx.
Veroxx : Well what do we have here?
Fital: Dang it! You again?!
Veroxx : It's quite sad. I'm sure Armageddon wouldn't like to hear he has a pest infestation. Don't worry though, I'll be your exterminator.
Veroxx would light his unique Flame of Judgement, understanding the threat of the three teams.
Veroxx : I will be putting those Time Stones to good use, since you don't have them I doubt I'll have to resort to the inferno.
Veroxx would turn into soot, pulling each of the heroes into Dimensional Tears and bringing them outside the castle.
Veroxx : That's better, I forgot to take that Archangel feather last time. I'll be sure to strip it from your corpse.
Veroxx would snap his finger, causing a dome of flames to surround the area.
Veroxx : Now then, who will attack first? I'm in a good mood right now.
Fital: Let’s see what you’ve got.
Fital sends a storm of shots at Veroxx. Veroxx would cut through them all, causing them to burn away somehow.
Veroxx : Silly demon, Last time I fought you I was holding back immensely. Don't think you alone are enough, I'm taking you all a bit serious now after all!
Veroxx snaps his finger and a pillar of flames would rise from beneath Fital. Fital would jump out of the way only to be slashed by a well timed Heat Slash from Veroxx's Kopesh, Leaving a flaming cut on Fitals Body.
Fital: Grr, that stings.
Alan: Watch this!
Team Dragoon fired a Quad Blast at Veroxx. Veroxx slash's down with his Khopesh opening a rift that the blast goes within.
Veroxx : I'll be saving that for later.
Cyne : Guy's, For some reason when he has that flame he grows stronger the deeper he get's into a battle. Even though we've just started, I should tell you that his flames get stronger too. It got so bad that the Ice I generated turned to boiling steam and the electricity somehow got burned?
Shera : He's using Magic, that's why it doesn't work conventionally.
Cyne : Yeah, we can't go around him like we usually do. Without those Time Stone's I'd have been dead by now.
Alan: Of all the multidimensional-!
Srish: Then what are we supposed to do?
Cross : Even if we pressure him, those flames will make him stronger. To top it off he has another mode that evolves the flame. Right now our best bets for facing off against him are the Phantom Ruby, Chaos Emeralds and Overlord Diamond. If we use them we might be able to push him to the "Inferno of Judgement".
Marl : Be careful though if we do push him to that he can burn the soul, Cyne almost had his entire life burned away. We couldn't heal it by rewinding time either, we needed Shera's life concept to heal it. He also said if he completely burns your soul, you have no afterlife. At that point if we can outlast him he should grow tired, apparently he damages himself while using it.
Veroxx : Mmm, glad you remember. You have less than an hour however, or else it lights out for all of you.
Meanwhile, on the Merge Device, Eror and Armageddon watched the unfolding battle, as the engineers worked on the suit and occasionally glanced up at the battle.
Eror: You can calm down, I’ll call you if you’re needed on turrets.
The engineers nodded and continued working.
Armageddon: Perhaps we should confront them now. After all, they have all of the Chaos Emeralds. Veroxx, while powerful, surely can't defeat Super Team Alpha. Trust me on that.
Eror: We have base defenses. We could just bring Veroxx here so they’ll have to fight through the defenses first.
Armageddon: True. What if they go super with the Chaos Emeralds though. Do you have a backup plan?
Eror: The defenses run off either Power energy or Kaleidoscope energy, i think we're safe. Plus, i don't think they'll want to use Super forms unless needed.
Armageddon nodded and telepathically sent a message to Veroxx, telling him to bait the heroes into wasting their energy on the defenses.
Armageddon: Let us go and make something that can let us stand toe to toe with a team of super forms, as we are probably gonna need it.
Eror: That suit for Veroxx should help, what else are you suggesting?
Armageddon: Believe me when I say that Team Alpha with a super form are not something to trifle with in one's base form. We need a transformation of our own. Veroxx should be fine, but you and I need something.
Eror: I understand necessity, but what are you speaking of? We don't exactly have time to collect a set of magic stones at this moment.
Armageddon: Something like the power of the Reverie, or some Shadow Emeralds. Anything powerful really. It could literally be just a bunch of wisps.
Eror: Where did you even leave the Reverie?
Armageddon: In my invisible, infinite back pocket.
Armageddon brings out the Reverie.
Armageddon: That pesky Ariem gave me some trouble when I first got this, but I defeated her and accessed the Reverie's true power.
Eror: Ariem? Meh, whoever that is, how do we use this magical hula hoop?
Veroxx would appear within the room.
Veroxx : Hm??
Eror: Veroxx? What the heck are you doing here? Weren't you supposed to be fighting the heroes and bringing them within range of the defenses?
Armageddon: Relax Eror. You need not doubt Veroxx. All I must do is think of what I want, and it will be mine. Unfortunately, Ariem can still stop me from killing the heroes with this. I can only create.
Eror: Fair enough, what exactly are you creating?
Veroxx : Did you forget that I can make clones of myself?
Armageddon opens a portal to the Alpha Zone. He walks in and comes out a minute later with all of the World Rings.
Armageddon: This should do.
Veroxx : Ah, the World Rings. The sacred artifacts of the Djinn's. Interesting.
Eror: Fascinating magic rings, what exactly do they do? Also, no, Veroxx, I didn't forget, i just didn't think a clone would occupy the heroes for long enough.
Veroxx : It can turn into soot as well. For non-combative purposes it works well.
Eror: Didn't you get defeated due to a weakness in your soot form during our first fight with the group?
Veroxx : I got hit yes, defeated? No. I was having a bit of fun and got carried away. Besides, the same trick will only work once. It's quite simple to counter.
Eror: I'll take your word on it, but no seriously, what do the rings do?
Armageddon: How should I know? All I know is that only three are required to attain something akin to a super form.
Veroxx : You seriously do not know how the World Rings work? If that's the case your better off just taking the Sol Emeralds. Need I explain them then?
Armageddon: I know how the World Rings work. I don't need an explanation. I will keep these in my back pocket for when we need them. Let us ready ourselves for a fight, the heroes should be here in short order.
Meanwhile, outside.
Ecto: That Asura couldn't even take the time to fight us himself. Feh, if there's anything I hate more than a coward, it's someone who doesn't even show up. I'm done with this. Chaos Control!
Ecto teleports out of the barrier, but is unable to move any farther.
Ecto: Heh?
Ecto teleports back inside and lets the heroes move again.
Ecto: I have run into a snag, I can't go farther than outside the barrier.
Fital: That is for good reason. The Dimensional Hub has very special properties, which makes most people from within dimensions unable to move in it.
Ecto: Should I call in one of my Stryan homies?
Fital: I dunno, can they make you able to move through this place?
Ecto: Uh... yeah. Of course. These guys can literally end every single reality in existence.
Fital: One of these days i need to know where you make these friends... Either way, that may not be necessary, because thankfully, i know the science of navigating the Dimensional Hub.
Ecto: And I know the science of using a Fenris Shard. When this is all over I will explain to you all how Strya works. Fital, lead the way. We're ending this, now.
Fital: No, you really need to know this. The Merge Device won't have artificial gravity, i know Eror, he wouldn't see the point. If you don't know how to move in this place, you can't fight onboard it
Cyne : Let me try.
Cyne would go outside the barrier and would be able to move perfectly fine.
Cyne : Well... I can move just fine out here.
Cyne would return and then grab Marl to test something. While Cyne could move outside of it Marl could not, and he would then return again.
Cyne : Well, I guess that's not too surprising...
Fital: Alright, let me explain the science. The Dimensional Hub is filled with gravity, multiple different gravities from all the dimensions. As you could expect, being pulled in various different directions by similar forces will leave you stuck in the center, but demons get around this by their natural ability to manipulate gravity, forming a sort of gravity barrier where they control in which direction gravity pushes them. It's also how i fly back in the merged world. This same principle is used in the Dimensional Travel Suits Team Dragoon wear.
Cyne : Ah, so I can probably move due to my Phantom Force having past experience with having to adapt to rapidly changing gravity. I guess that fight with Zenith wasn't too bad afterall!
Cross : Ah yes, I remember that. That's how I first found out about you, lead to you fighting a mecha dragon right.
Cyne : Yeah.
Alan: I hated fighting Zenith.
Ecto: Guys, the lack of one central gravitational point in the Merge Device won't affect me. I can become a spirit. I could possess Eror, Veroxx, you guys, even the literal Merge Device.
Alan: That shouldn't be possible. The Merge Device is a machine.
Fital: You may be fine in spirit form, but what of your cohorts?
Ecto: I can possess inanimate objects Alan. I can take Team Alpha into the Spirit World with me. I can take you all with me, actually. I could possess that one itchy spot on your body and make it ten times worse (plus it never goes away).
Alan: Woah, some focus. If you can do that, do so so we can get going.
Ecto: Okay.
Ecto grabbed hold of everyone and took them into the Spirit World. They floated up through the defenses and landed in front of the council. The council couldn't see them but detected a disturbance. Armageddon sniffed spun back before backhanding the spot he'd sensed the heroes, the group getting sent out of the Spirit World by the sheer force put behind it.
Ecto: How the hell did you hit a literal ghost?
Armageddon: That is irrelevant. You have finally made it. Are you ready to die?
The Final Battle Against The Dimensional Council[]
Eror: I didn't even get the chance to activate the defenses! What the heck is up with your hedgehog, Armageddon?
Armageddon: He's basically Shadow but better, with Sonic levels of sass. Be thankful you get a chance to beat him up.
Ecto: Hang on, didn't we beat you last time?
Armageddon: No, I pulled a tactical retreat to conserve my power for our next encounter. AKA, now. Use those puny Emeralds! Let's see how long you last.
Fital then notices the engineers fleeing the battlefield. As he's preparing a attack, Eror waves him off.
Eror: They're my engineers, not combatants. I was gonna have them man the defenses, but you skipped right past those.
Armageddon wasted no time and absorbed the World Rings into himself and the rest of the Council.
Ascendant Armageddon: Now it is time for you to die.
Eternal Eror: One more thing though. Well, two. First off, there are cameras here, why? To record us crushing you into cosmic dust, for all the dimension to see! And two.
Eror summons his hammers and swings one, hitting the Merge Device's floor, freezing a bit of it, and then swings the other at the same spot, melting it with fire.
Eternal Eror: Veroxx, or perhaps Verdant Veroxx might have something to say as well.
Veroxx would not be transformed at all, not in the slightest.
Veroxx : I cannot use these, they are against my nature. Besides, without performing the proper ritual it will eat away at your mindscape.
Veroxx would look to Ecto.
Veroxx : I heard a comment that you think you could possess me? However, have you not noticed that I'm a spiritual being? My abyssal power gives me physical form, but you cannot possess me. Even if you could, I have measures set up for non-physical things on a spiritual level.
Cyne : Does it matter? Your the only one without a form, you'll be the first to fall.
Veroxx : That is why I will not fight, I shall support.
Eternal Eror: We'll see what that means. So, anything to say for yourself before the fight?
Fital: Show, don't tell.
Fital demonstrated his power by summoning the Dragoon Suit, before swirling a bunch of different energy shot types around himself. Team Dragoon followed suit, Alan showing off his claw types before firing his refracting laser into the air, Dria firing blasts and a missile shot before firing the cutting beam into the air as well, Srish walking forwards, firing bouncing shots and vibration attacks in the air before unleashing a explosion attack, accidentally destroying the Teleport Dampener, and finally Silence, who fired missiles into the ground before pointing his blaster into the air and firing off a hyper laser, the drones firing theirs in different directions.
Eternal Eror: Great, oh! One more thing! You'd better keep your attacks low power, because if you damage the central terminal in the back behind us, the merged dimension shatters.
Cyne hearing this grips the Archangel Feather tightly in his hand.
Eternal Eror: Eh? Is that this "Archangel Feather" Veroxx hates so much? I don't know how much it will truly help.
Ecto: I am not putting up with this anymore. This time, you die!
Ecto rose up and lifted all his teammates and comrades up. The Chaos Emeralds swirled around them.
Ecto: The terminal behind you will not fall!
Ecto set up an energy field around the terminal, blocking it from attacks.
Ecto: Oh, you are mistaken Veroxx. I can possess you no different than I can possess the literal sun.
Veroxx : So you think, try it if you want absolute defeat.
The heroes absorbed the Chaos Emeralds, achieving their super forms.
Super Slack: Ecto, you fool! The Chaos Emeralds cannot stand against the World Rings alone!
Super Alan: What are you suggesting?
Eternal Eror: Is that true?
Eror and Fital charge at each other, weapons prepared, and Eror manages to freeze, then shatter the Dragoon Suit's drill, before knocking Fital away. Fital recovers, and opens fire, properly starting the battle.
Super Ecto: Err... Cyne? Can the Archangels lend a hand? Because we are gonna get thrashed. Armageddon has a fricking super form!
Super Cross : Chaos Bind.
Cross creates chains of chaos energy on Eror, restricting his movement.
Super Cyne : The Archangels can't interfere, that's why it's up to us in the first place.
Cyne raises the Phantom Ruby, trying to sync with it, but failing.
Super Cyne : (Still can't use it in my super form?)
Super Fital: Haha! Boys! We've got a glitchian to wreck!
Team Dragoon immediately follow the chain and fire their beams at Eror, Srish zooming in close to blow him up. Eror manages to teleport away from the blasts, however, and in the seconds the smoke cloud was up, Eror brought out the halberd and dosed it with the acid Armageddon had given him. Marl would be ready behind Eror about to blast his with Chaos Lightning, however the lightning would go directly into a dimensional tear.
Super Marl : What?
Veroxx : Heh, fools.
Super Ecto and Ascendant Armageddon began to pace towards each other, before Ecto summoned the Overlord Diamond from his invisible, infinite back pocket.
Super Ecto: Take this!
The Overlord Diamond floats up above Ecto and vanishes into the sky before a massive ball of pure energy forms in the sky and unleashes a ray of light with the power of an exploding supernova. Ascendant Armageddon reacted so quickly that even Ecto couldn't react. He rushed forward and blocked the laser.
Super Ecto: How the h-
Armageddon continued forward before slamming a fist into Ecto's cheek and sending him sprawling across the room.
Ascendant Armageddon: Idiot.
While Ecto continued to fly through the air, Armageddon continues to run toward Ecto waiting until he balanced himself on his feet before slamming an armored knee into his jaw.
Super Ecto: Getting clapped here!
Ecto would then notice something, between his jaw and the knee was some sort of cushion made of Chaos Energy softening the blow. In the air Shera would be holding a hand out, showing that she was the one to create it. Cyne would also be behind Armageddon, shooting a Super Frostbolt towards his back. It bounced off and Armageddon spun around, his feet do not move from their place he simply rotates his hips 180 degrees.
Ascendant Armageddon: What the hell?
Eternal Eror: Payback time!
Eror charges into Team Phantasm and starts swinging the halberd insanely fast. Marl would barely manage to dodge, and Shera would get hit a few times but would manage to heal the damage in time before the next strike. Cross would manage to catch the Halberd between his palms with hyper precision and kick Eror in the gut, meanwhile Cyne would look on with a shocked expression at Armageddon.
Super Cyne : Well that smarts. Heheh...
Terios would fly beside Armageddon and make physical contact, heavily weakening but not negating Armageddons power during the contact.
Super Terios : Do it!
Cyne pulls out the Phantom Ruby.
Super Cyne : Since I can't sync with it, I'll just force a mini cataclysm! You know, they say this ruby has power surpassing the Master Emerald.
Cyne smash the ruby into Armageddons face, causing it to glow and begin imploding.
Super Cyne : Let's see what happens when that power blows up in your face!
A massive explosion distorting the reality around them would occur, even effecting Eror by proxy.
Eternal Eror: Ow! Hey!
As Eror goes for Cyne, he's blasted to the floor by Team Dragoon, and Fital goes after Armageddon.
Super Fital: You ready for round 2?
Cyne picks himself up, flickering in and out of his Super Form before assuming a state between his base and Super form.
Turbo Cyne : Man... Maybe being in the middle of that wasn't a good idea. The Phantom Energy completely disrupted my Super Form.
Looking up Cyne would see Veroxx.
Veroxx : Hello Rat, you seem weaker now? Perhaps I shall exterminate you myself now? Hmm?
Super Srish: Try it, see how well it goes for you.
Veroxx snaps his finger, causing a rift to open. From it the Chaos Lightning mixed with the previous Quad Blast would shoot out, hitting Srish directly. Srish shakes it off, and dashes at Veroxx, supported by Silence's invisible missiles.
Ascendant Armageddon: We don't have time to play.
Armageddon noted the barrier around the terminal, set his powers to not damage Veroxx and Eror, then unleashed an explosion so massive that it hurt everyone else to some degree.
Super Ecto: But you were hit directly by a massive Phantom Ruby power surge while weakened!
Ascendant Armageddon: You never stood a chance. Let's finish them off.
Super Fital: No!
Fital knocked Eror back to the floor, then sent a flood of energy blasts at both Veroxx and Armageddon, having noted the power of his Super form could pierce Armageddon's scales. Veroxx opens another rift to store them.
Veroxx : Give it up, Your attacks will merely be stored in my dimensional rift. What can you possibly do?
Cyne would pick himself up.
Turbo Cyne : Doesn't matter what we can do, it's what we will do.
Veroxx : Stupid last words.
Armageddon began to grin. His head and body began to glitch out and he began laughing. Multiple parts of Armageddon began to surround the heroes, who couldn't hear anything over the mad laughter. Fital was shunted out of the illusion when Armageddon's foot collided with Fital's head.
Ascendant Armageddon: You've been a hassle. Now it's time to die.
Armageddon placed his foot on the back of Fital's skull and prepared to stomp down with enough force to destroy a mountain.
Super Srish: Says you!
Srish then manages to hit Veroxx, kicking him a few times before using a vibration attack on him.
Eternal Eror: Enough!
Eror blasts Alan off of him, before regrouping with the villains. But as Armageddon stomps Fital, the Merge Device's metal floor caves before Fital's skull does, and Fital manages to knock Armageddon across the Dimensional Hub in retaliation. Veroxx floats over to the Time Stones and gains a devious smile.
Veroxx : It's about time.
As Cyne falls he notices everyone else in Team Phantasm but Cross and Terios still conscious, before landing.
Eternal Eror: Your suit isn't complete, you think you know how to work those?
Veroxx would turn to Eror and show he had stolen the Phantom Ruby from Cyne.
Turbo Cyne : What?! When?!!
Veroxx : I'm sure we can speed up the progress to completion with this, and also.
Veroxx would create a wave of distortion, causing the Super Forms to be disrupted and forcing the Emeralds power out of them.
Alan: Neghaaa!
Srish: Huh?!
Fital: Uh oh.
Eror uses the chance to slash Fital with the acid tipped halberd, before freezing him with one hammer and knocking him to the floor with the other. In the meantime Veroxx would begin using the Ruby on the Suit and Time Stones.
Cyne : Is this really it?
Cross : No, we're standing so we can still fight.
Terios would fall over as Cross said this, apparently the Phantom Ruby had additional effects on him for whatever reason. Fital would also collapse, suffering the effects of the acid. Cyne would look around to see who else was up, hoping that a decent amount of people were still able to fight. Team Dragoon were still on their feet, though their Wisps were starting to feel the heat. Cyne also see's Ecto is standing, burning with the same determination as everyone else.
Cyne : If you want to stop us, you'll have to erase us from the dimensions!
Eror: Is fine. Oh yeah, that time dialation you did worked, the suit’s ready, Veroxx.
Veroxx : Perfect.
Cyne : (I don't know what that suit does, but I don't want to find out. Considering everything we've just been through it could mean the doom of all dimensions.)
The Archangel Feather in Cyne's hand would begin glowing, this would distract Veroxx for the moment also causing Armageddon and Eror to watch on. After looking at the light, Cyne gained some sort of understanding.
Cyne : I know I'm gonna sound crazy. But destroy the terminal, we need to shatter this merged dimension.
Cross : What?! Destroy our worlds?! Then what? Float in the endless void?!
Fital: Yeah! Eror’s not stupid. There’s gotta be some other way to save everything he built in.
The talking catches Eror’s notice.
Cyne : Just trust me, at this rate the dimensions will shatter anyways. Veroxx is about to put on a suit that will do who knows what! And then what else can we do? So trust me, please.
Eror: Could all plans involving messing with the Merge Device wait until after my wish? Trust me, you’ll be thankful.
Cross : Sorry, but I'm more incline to trust the words of my friends, no matter how crazy they are then the guy who's about to kill us all.
Cyne would notice Veroxx putting on the suit.
Cyne : It's now or never!!
Cross would shoot consecutive shots at the terminal as well as Cyne shooting Ice shards towards it. This wouldn’t destroy the whole thing, but it did disrupt the balance of power making the machine run properly.
Eror: Nononono!
Eror ran to salvage what he could. Veroxx would soon finish putting the suit on, only to realize what had happened.
Veroxx : What??
The Merge Device would start shaking violently.
Veroxx : Engineers! What's happening to the device? What can you gather?
Eror: The engineers got clear of this general area, and from what I can see, stability’s failing! I’m sorry, I’m gonna have to shut it down!
The Archangel Feather would glow even more, and would create a bubble of angelic energy around Team Alpha, Phantasm and Dragoon. Around the same time Veroxx would activate the suit and the Dimension would completely shatter, the resulting effects moving the group into the infinite void.
Alan: What the? Where did we go?
Fital: The Merge Device's breaking somehow took the Dimensional Hub with it!
Srish: And the Quartz Kalidoscope?
Dria: Over there!
The Quartz Kaliedoscope slowly rolled towards the group.
Cyne : Cross give me a boost.
Cross : Right.
Cross grabs hold of Cyne's hand and tried to throw him over. This action caused Cyne and Cross's bubbles to merge and the thrown Cyne was now without a bubble. Without it he couldn't function under the proper physics and only had his Phantom Force to rely on. The farther Cyne went the more he slowed down and the farther he went the closer he became to becoming a 0D being. His Phantom Force protected him from the Infinite Void yes, but once actually within it he would slowly revert to becoming 0 Dimensional.
Cyne : My body? I'm... Flat?
Cyne was now 2D.
Alan: That's certainly a odd effect.
Team Dragoon carefully approached Cyne, soon stabilizing him, and then they managed to retrieve the Quartz Kaliedoscope.
Cross : Alright, so now what do we do with this thing?
Cyne looks through the Kaleidoscope and see's a dimension where he's a Knight of the Round, one where he's the wielder of the Mask of Svarntua, one where he's a rockstar with a bad attitude and many more.
Cyne : Guy's take a look for yourselves.
Team Dragoon take a look, and see their future, their Black Knight variants, the ones that haunt their dimensional dreams and more.
Alan: This is cool, but where's the restore all dimensions function? I don't even think the Dimensional Council is here, despite the Merge Device being here.
Cross : No, they are here look above us.
Above the group would be Armageddon, Eror and Veroxx. Being shielded by Demonic Energy from Veroxx.
Veroxx : I can feel it, My bindings are slowly weakening. But say, what should we do about the vermin down there?
Instead of offering a suggestion, Eror goes down there and throws the heroes into one big pile, before cutting Cyne twice in a X shape with his acid infused halberd, screaming with such hatred that Veroxx flinches for a second, caught off guard.
Eror: They did it. The fools destroyed everything. I was being honest when i said my first wish would be to stabilize the dimensions, you've always respected phase changes in the past, but you decided to destroy them instead! You. Broke. Everything! And guess what? I think we're the only beings alive in this place. You not only destroyed your homes, but everything else in the multiverse! I hope you're happy that you wasted my time, and killed everyone else!
Eror then returns to the Dimensional Council's side, thoroughly mentally exhausted.
Eror: I don't even care anymore. Those pests want to bring everything down with them. Let's give them their glorious finale, and fry them with our strongest combined laser.
Veroxx : Very well.
Cyne could feel the acid burning away at him, his Phantom Force wasn't removing it fast enough from his body. However, Cyne powered on through sheer will.
Cyne : *Cough Cough* Guy's...
Cyne would grip the feather in his hand.
Cyne : He's wrong, this-*Cough* This is the key to the Kaleidoscopes real power. *Cough Cough*
Cross : Yeah? Well soon it'll be ash if we don't defend against whatever their charging up there.
As Cyne looked around, he saw the others were too focused on the beam of death to listen, Srish and Dria huddled together in fear, Alan trying a variety of things desperately to get the Kaleidoscope to work, settling on putting everyone's hands on the Kaleidoscope and praying for help in activating it, Silence using all the gear he could to craft a shield in the bare chance they could block the blast, and Team Alpha making their own plans to survive. Cyne could see the faces of each of the Council members charging the attack, Veroxx with a smile, Eror with a frown, but with no indecision in his eyes and Armageddon with a demeaning gaze. The blast would fire and the shield would soon shatter. Around the same the feather would fly free from Cyne's grip landing on the Kaleidoscope and glowing, causing the remaining heroes to glow. The blast would consume the three teams completely, only leaving behind a massive explosion of energy almost like that of a miniature big bang.
Veroxx : They put up a valiant effort. But in the end this was always there fate. Don't be too upset Eror, there are many other dimensions.
Veroxx would turn to Armageddon.
Veroxx : Shall we go then?
Eror looks back at the explosion, and sees a light within it.
Eror: I don't think we're that lucky.
As the Dimensional Council turns to see what's going on, the smoke clears, and out of it steps two beings with the very dimensions within their soul, Cyne, who's feather had granted him the power, and Fital, who had absorbed a small part of Charity's power to wield the power. Behind them were the very stunned and very thankful other heroes. The two dimensionally powered heroes then spoke in unison.
Cyne & Fital : You caused the Dimensions to Merge. You didn't think and it all came crumbling upon you, we came upon you.
The Dimensional Council would look on perplexed, barely taking in the words they spoke.
Fital & Cyne : Now, the Dimensions have merged with us. The very thing you wished to control is now the very thing you must fight against.
Eror: I sense that's not actually them, Fital is not usually this eloquent.
Alan: Hey, Fital, we kinda need a boost to kick the Dimensional Council out of our dimensions. Do you have the capacity to share your power now?
In that instant, Fital and Cyne returned to their normal personality.
Fital: Oh, that, One second.
Fital gave Team Dragoon their own share of the Quartz Kaleidoscope's power, as Cyne helped his team and Team Alpha. The other heroes grinned and attained their forms.
Alan: I believe we're ready.
Fital: Oh, hey, got a idea, one second.
Fital then created golden gauntlets for himself based on Excalibur Sonic, rings on his arms and legs like Darkspine Sonic, a powerful aura like Hyper Sonic, the gold color of Super Sonic, and of course the blue eyes of Super Sonic 2.
Dimensional Fital: Sweet! Our bodies are as customizable as my attacks now!
Cyne too would change in appearance, growing an extra spine that slung over his shoulders, his magenta pigmentation would glow a furious white light as well as expanding into spike like stripes above his eyes and on his muzzle. Cyne's pupils would also turn white and would gain white floating orbs all around him. Just like him, the aura of all the others would seem like a shattering glass, a trademark of the form they would suppose. Cyne really liked Ecto's look, seeming to be like a dragon.
Dimensional Cyne : Wow, that actually suits you.
Alan: No need for such drastic adjustments.
Team Dragoon create pieces of armor for themselves, Alan some gauntlets, Dria a helmet, Srish some boots, and Silence a chestplate. The one thing in common was the symbol on them, a symbol akin to the Quartz Kaleidoscope itself.
Dimensional Ecto: This dragon style does suit me, thank you Cyne. Perhaps Dark: Type Null won't arrive, as Armageddon's Castle is gone. How's it going Armageddon? Feeling like giving up?
Veroxx : Eror, when will this suit fully remove my binding's? They are only halfway removed right now.
Before Armageddon or Eror can answer, Fital kicks both him and Veroxx across the infinite void, before looking directly at Eror.
Dimensional Fital: You know, we still have space for another hero, if you're willing to give up that habit of killing people and the Dimensional Council's plan.
Eror: You actually thought that was gonna work? Look around you. This place is empty of all life besides us. I would never join the heroes, especially not after you ruined everything by acting brashly!
Dimensional Fital: Right. Can you sense a way to restore everything, Cyne?
Dimensional Cyne: Yeah, the powers we have were split between us two. I have to more positive dimensional energy, you have the more negative. The positive can create, the negative can destroy.
Cyne points upwards, the orbs of light spinning violently around his fingers and expanding. A flash of light would strike through, and they would be within a fully stable merged dimension, even the dimensional hub had been restored. Everything had been. At the same time though armies from the Dimensional Council would flood out to support them.
Dimensional Cross : Cyne.
Dimensional Cyne : Yeah, I know.
Cyne snaps his finger and rifts to other dimensions would open. Sir Mordred, his knight variant would pop out of one, then his anti variant Jeckal and many more versions of him would flood out from the dimensions. The other would follow these actions and every version of them willing to fight from all dimensions would hop out to aid and fight against the army.
Dimensional Cyne : Now we don't have to worry about that.
Veroxx would attempt to tear a rift open and Grab Cyne, however Cyne could sense it and forced Veroxx out of the rift and grabbed him, throwing him to the sky. Trapping him in an infinite dimensional loop.
Dimensional Alan: Our other selves will be versatile, but this is the merged dimension! We have so much more to use!
Dimensional Alan then summons people from across the merged dimension. Sonic and Co, Badnik Corps, G-U-N, even the Eggman Empire, AAA, and various other groups, while restoring their proper memories.
Dimensional Alan: Alright, listen, everyone. I know half of you don't know me, and more don't actually care, but all of you have goals, right? Some of you wish to save the world, some wish to take over it, and a couple of you may even wish to destroy it. But none of you will get your wish if the Dimensional Council take over, so help us beat them! Oh, and also, they're the ones who brainwashed you.
That got the crowd's attention, and soon, Genocide commanded the AAA to attack the Dimensional Council's army, as did Eggman with his empire.
Sonic: Wow, Alan! Where'd you get the new form?
Alan: Magic crystal.
Dimensional Shera : This feels incredible!
Dimensional Marl : How could we lose now with power like this?
Dimensional Cyne : You guys ready to give it up now? Your completely out of your depth.
Eror: What? Of course not! Especially not when i flip this misplaced Time Stone!
Eror flips a misplaced Time Stone within Veroxx's Time Cage, and in that instant, the bindings shattered, a sound heard across the battlefield.
Theme of Raaja Veroxx/Law Unbound
Veroxx : Oh, this is gonna feel good.
Veroxx's magic would flow over, making him look like a walking hypernova.
Dimensional Shera : His magic... It's bottomless!
Raaja Veroxx (Law Unbound) : Eror, Armageddon. Do you have a wish?
Eror: I wish to always have power stronger than Fital's!
Veroxx snaps his finger, the wish is granted greatly amplifying all of Erors traits beyond Fitals.
Amplified Eror: Try me now!
Dimensional Fital: Sure.
As Fital attempts to charge attack Eror, he's blindsided by some powerful missiles, before getting smacked around by Eror's hammers. Eror then blasts him across the horizon with a massive laser.
Amplified Eror: Who wants to try me now?!
Dimensional Cyne : The power of wishes? This could be troublesome.
Dimensional Alan: Yeah, no kidding.
Dimensional Ecto had a troubled look on his face and fidgeted.
Dimensional Ecto: I know people who are on a similar power level to Veroxx right now. They are not to be trifled with. There is one way we could win, but we would have to be extremely lucky.
Dimensional Cross : Any ideas then? Besides him we have to deal with Eror and Armageddon too, who has yet to make a wish.
Dimensional Ecto (Whispering): We've gotta trick Armageddon into wishing to summon Dark: Type Null. D: TN can erase powers around him. Not even Veroxx could bypass that. I can get rid of Dark: Type Null, trust me. We've just gotta beat them up a significant amount and we'll be fine.
Dimensional Silence: How the heck do you know that?
Dimensional Ecto: Would you believe me if I told you that I'd make a deal with an extradimensional entity as a failsafe in the case of Dark: Type Null showing up? Also, when you've been to Strya as much as me, you learn some things.
Dimensional Dria: Fine. We've already got one major threat to deal with.
Team Dragoon looks up, to see Eror going all Turbo Mecha Sonic on Fital.
Dimensional Ecto: Let's end these fools.
Dimensional Slack: Agreed.
Team Alpha began to annoy Armageddon. The dragon knew it was a bluff and simply flipped them off.
Dimensional Dria: It appears you plan, has failed.
Dimensional Ecto: It didn't fail, it simply didn't succeed. Well I still have this!
Dimensional Ecto takes out the Overlord Diamond and absorbs it.
Dimensional Overlord Ecto: Now I will simply go and smack him around until he surrenders.
Dimensional Alan: Let me help!
Alan calls out his Laser Wisp, being mildly shocked that it now had a crystal texture, but brushed it off as a Dimensional Wisp transformation, and used the Laser transformation. As it launched though, every time it bounced off of Armageddon or a Laser Prism, energy copies split off from it and also went after the dragon. Armageddon's claws began to glow with a necrotic energy and he slashed them in the air. The movement of he claws became energy blasts that hit the heroes. Ecto wasn't ready the the Overlord Diamond was knocked out of him. Armageddon scooped it up and absorbed it.
Overlord Armageddon: Fool! You really thought that I wouldn't fight back.
Meanwhile Veroxx would take the World Rings which were now floating about and would begin imbuing concepts around them.
Raaja Veroxx : There, I've created a concept that allows you to skip the ritual to unlock the World Rings true power. If you use them now you may attain the next level of their power. Their true power.
Veroxx would throw the rings to Armageddon. But before he could catch all of them, Alan uses Dimensional Laser to knock four of the rings away, the same ones used by Darkspine Sonic.
Dimensional Alan: Someone catch those!
Amplified Eror: Say what?
Eror breaks off from kicking Fital around to attempt and catch the rings. However, he would be intercepted by Cyne, who had caught the four and quickly blasted Eror with dimensional Ice.
Amplified Eror: Cold, but i mastered more than just two elements.
Eror melts off the ice, before charging into Cyne and knocking all four rings away, catching one of them. One lands on a Egg Fleet battleship, another is grabbed by Sonic, and a third lands in the middle of the fighting, bouncing between Dimensional Council soldier and G-U-N robot. Dimensional Ecto had thought of a plan and pulled out his concept erasing gun.
Dimensional Ecto: Gun.
Ecto fired his three remaining rounds. Two at Armageddon, one at Eror. Armageddon's Ascendant and Overlord forms were permanently erased from existence. Eror's capabilities were permanently reduced as a result.
Eror: What?!
Dimensional Alan: Where the heck did you get that and why is it a thing?!
Dimensional Ecto: It is something I got from Lancer. It is out of ammo though, so I can't use it until I reload at Lancer Corp. But, now Armageddon and Eror are weakened. Take them out!
Raaja Verrox : Hmph. Troublesome.
Veroxx creates artificial emotions that would attract the other four rings to himself, Sonic would follow as a result to holding onto one.
Sonic: What the heck?
Amy: Sonic!
Silver: You could just let go of the ring!
Dimensional Srish: Hang on to it, Sonic! I have a idea.
Dimensional Fital: Save Eror for me, i have a thing that i need to do in this battle.
Dimensional Silence: Acceptable.
Raaja Veroxx : Why is there a rat on my Hope Ring?
Veroxx would point a finger at Sonic, causing him to float up, unable to move.
Raaja Veroxx : All of you vermin try so hard, even destroying and recreating the dimensions in an attempt to stop us? Even with the power of the Kaleidoscope, even with such tricks. I've not even had to use any real power. My allies are also not worried in the slightest, don't you see? No matter what solution you find, we will always be your greatest wall to overcome.
Cyne would throw one of his light orbs and it would envelop Sonic and the ring, bring Sonic to his side.
Dimensional Cyne : Yet here we are. Enough of your dialogue! Those two are powerless now, your next!
Dimensional Alan: You have no idea what Ecto can do! No one does!
Dimensional Fital: Eror shall be spared, cause there's something i need to do first. You two however, are not so lucky.
Raaja Veroxx : Big talk for mongrels. Let's test you out then.
Veroxx snaps his fingers and within the sky a massive... thing? Would appear. No, this was no thing. It was a massive sword the size of a sun plummeting down towards the battlefield, made out of pure Nether as well. Despite defying all logic, the heroes could feel the pressure it held.
Raaja Veroxx : Destroy this, then maybe I'll take you all a bit more serious.
The Egg Fleet immediately turns it's cannons to the giant sword in the sky, but they could no more destroy the sword than the fleet could destroy the End. As such, Fital enhanced the Egg Fleet with dimensional power, causing the cannons to actually do damage. At the same time, Team Dragoon called on a bunch of Wisps to turn their Dimensional Quad Blast into a True Final Color Blaster, firing at the sword hard enough to push it back. Veroxx would smile, amused.
Raaja Veroxx : So what will you do about the second one?
Team Dragoon would look confused, until they noticed the sword they pushed back against stopped moving and seemingly began exploding from behind. At this point whatever light there was from the sun was completely blotted out as a Solar System sized Nether Sword pierced through the previous sword.
Dimensional Cyne : Fital! Now would be a good time for that Dimensional Destruction ability!
Dimensional Fital: Oh, right!
Fital put his fingers into the shape of a gun, before firing, unleashing massive power which pierced straight through the sword, destroying it. Down below, the heroes celebrated the sword's destruction, while the Dimensional Council's army processed that they were almost killed by their own leaders.
Sir Mordred : Hmm, I want a sword that big...
Jeckal : Trying to compensate for something? Heh!
Dimensional Cyne : Hm?
Cyne notices two of his alternates babbling and get's an idea.
Dimensional Cyne : Hey you two, come here.
Jeckal : Your the boss!
Sir Mordred : I don't take orders from anyone. But since your me then I guess it's fine.
While they do that, Shadow down on the ground senses that the heroes still have the Chaos Emeralds.
Shadow: HEY! EVERYONE!
Ecto flew down to Shadow.
Dimensional Ecto: You don't know me, but I know you. What shall we do with the Chaos Emeralds, then?
Shadow: You do not need them with your current power, and i know of a way to amplify them so we can properly assist you.
Shadow looks over to Knuckles, who nods. Ecto sidled past and yoinked the Master Emerald.
Knuckles: Hey!
Dimensional Ecto: Allow me.
Ecto raised the Master Emerald above his head and sent rays of green lightning into everyone not in a Dimensional form. They all glowed green and floated up. He then gave the Master Emerald to Knuckles.
Dimensional Ecto: Yo! I got an army of basically Super forms here!
Veroxx looks to Armageddon and Eror.
Raaja Veroxx : I'll entertain you then.
Veroxx snaps his finger, The Dimensional Councils army begins to glow with radiant light. Each army member would gain a special weapon, Asuran in nature. Veroxx creates a throne and sits down on it, putting his hand on his face and watching.
Armageddon: Enough of this. Now it is time to die.
Armageddon takes out the Reverie and creates a Shadow Master Emerald. He absorbs it.
The Darkened Emperor: Let's wipe the slate clean.
A massive shadow blast shot across the empty space, disintegrating a lot of the heroes' reinforcements. Ecto responded with a Quasar Cannon. The rest of Team Alpha arrived and they began to do something. They combined their powers and unleashed a massive Ultra Quasar Cannon. The Darkened Emperor shot a shadow blast at it. The beams clashed for a second, but the shadow blast was over powered and The Darkened Emperor was blasted away. He lost his form.
Armageddon: Ugh...
Dimensional Alan: Where the heck did you learn that trick, Ecto?
As Eror figured out what to do now, a shot from behind whizzed past him. Looking down, Eror saw the Dimensional Council's army infighting as the Emerald Army also fought them.
Eror: Yo, Veroxx, the army seems to have internal problems!
Dimensional Ecto: Yo homie.
Eror looked around to see Ecto's fist colliding with his face. Veroxx would watch this all and sigh.
Raaja Veroxx : If the army wishes to not fight, then there will be no armies at all.
Veroxx snaps his finger, and both the emerald and dimensional army would disappear. Though, Veroxx noticed Cyne managed to prevent 0.1% of the army from fully being wished away.
Dimensional Cyne : Sorry, Genie. Can't let you do all of that.
Raaja Veroxx : Meh.
Veroxx snaps his finger and Armageddon's energy would be fully replenished.
Dimensional Fital: Could you keep that to a minimum? Eror hasn't done anything for a bit, and i want to do something first.
Eror: That's it!
Eror gathers Veroxx and Armageddon with him.
Eror: We have the World Rings, do the thing!
Veroxx pulls Sonic towards him, who is holding the seventh ring.
Raaja Veroxx : Thank you for holding onto this for me, but my comrades will be using them now.
Veroxx flicks Sonic off the World Ring and they would begin to circle around Eror and Armageddon. With the power of the complete ritual Veroxx had given the rings, the two would evolve even farther above there Ascendant and Eternal Forms.
Eternal God Eror: Now we're talking! Not one tool in your arsenal will cancel this power, Ecto!
Raaja Veroxx : Indeed, the Ascendant form he erased from Armageddon was merely a false form. This is the true form, completely separate from the false one.
As the Dimensional Council taunted the heroes, Sonic recovered and joined Shadow, Silver, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Omega, and Gemerl in hiding behind some stones.
Sonic: Well, how can we help now?
Knuckles: What i had planned to do in the first place.
Just a bit away from them was Cyne, Jeckal and Sir Mordred.
Dimensional Cyne : That's my plan.
Sir Mordred : I see. So my Clarent is a lot like this "Phantom Ruby" and Jeckal has absorbed the power of it within himself. Then you have the actual thing.
Dimensional Cyne : Yeah, I was thinking. If we were to combine the ruby, your sword and Jeckal with the power of dimensions I have, maybe I could access my Phantom Force while in this form and have a dimensional Phantom Force. Your the only versions of me I saw with something unique like this.
Cyne would then notice Sonic and the others planning something as well and went over to check it out.
Sonic: Ah hey, i remember you from the Turf War, Jeckal, was it?
Jeckal : Ah it's you! That blue version of my pops! Least your not half as bad as him.
Sonic brushes off the questions of what Jeckal is on about and gets to explaining what's going on.
Sonic: So, as you can tell, we have a plan to assist the heroes up there. I can't tell you exactly what's going on, but you should be able to see soon. We need to prepare, so can you gather the other heroes?
Dimensional Cyne : Consider it done.
Cyne would take his four light orbs and spread them across the battlefield, each opening a portal to the current, location. The heroes that didn't have a Dimensional form took these portals, including a rebuilt Metal Sonic from the last Egg Fleet ship on the field.
Dimensional Ecto: How do you know that I can't erase your power Eror? You know nothing of me. What Armageddon told you was the bare minimum. I could summon Bubbles and therefore summon the Oceanic Terror, erasing magic from existence.
Eternal God Eror: Armageddon, is this true?
Ultimate Armageddon: Hmmm... he's right. Bubbles could True Magic Name us, erasing all magic, even Veroxx's.
Eternal God Eror:(Why didn't you tell me this earlier?) Why would he do so? They don't exactly stand to gain anything from Ecto, do they?
Ultimate Armageddon: Ecto could promise something he doesn't already have. Bubbles is a dragon, he hoards things by nature. Ecto could give him a concept erasing gun or something like that.
Veroxx would stand up from his throne after hearing this, intrigued.
Raaja Veroxx : Another being that can utilize True Magic? One that erases others magic... That is quite interesting. I've never heard of one using True Magic in such a way. (Even so, If that isn't the only True Magic spell it could be even more trouble than I thought. I myself only have one.)
Veroxx would turn to his comrades.
Raaja Veroxx : Ecto, you've proven yourself more of a threat to me than I thought. Or rather.. This "Bubbles" you speak of has.
Eternal God Eror: Well then, i suppose you have that. But that just means you know we have the stronger forms.
Dimensional Fital: I'm willing to challenge that, are you?
Dimensional Ecto: You really don't want me to summon Bubbles, Veroxx. You know that would be a mistake on your part.
Dimensional Alan: Why exactly are you bringing that up?
Raaja Veroxx : Yes, that's why I'm going to use the full extent of my abilities now.
Veroxx would burst the Time Stone suit and a pair of arms would grow now giving him four, he would also be adorned with gold and jewelry, now having the look of some sort of nobility.
Raaja Veroxx : Armageddon, he is from your dimension. If you want to fight him I will let you, but if not I'm going to destroy him before he can summon anything from anywhere.
Dimensional Cyne : Looks like things are heating up over there.
Eror then senses a odd power jump. Taking out his energy scanner to locate it, he comes across the heroes, who had finished preparations.
Eternal God Eror: (Oh no) "Super Emeralds on the field!"
Ecto flashed over to Raaja Veroxx faster than the speed of light, rained about a quintillion blows in a fraction of a second down on him, then flashed back.
Dimensional Ecto: Super Emeralds? Pah. The Hyper Emeralds are better.
Hyper Sonic: Now why are the heroes underestimating us?
Team Dragoon turned to see the other heroes had gone Hyper.
Dimensional Alan: I had a sense this is where you were going with that.
Hyper Knuckles: It was. Now then.
Knuckles charges in and attempts to punch Eror. He is blocked by Eror's hammers, but Eror is pushed back. Veroxx would expel the force of all the blows into a small bubble.
Raaja Veroxx : Hmmm. Fast, though not fast enough.
A third eye on Veroxx's forehead would finally open.
Raaja Veroxx : Here, take this back.
Veroxx snapping his fingers teleports Ecto into his hand and slams him directly into the bubble of damage before kicking him away and raining Nether artillery down on him from above. Ecto flashed around and tossed a ring into the air. He spun around and kicked it. It vanished. It reappeared in Veroxx's head, moving at the speed of light. Veroxx simply stabs through his head and pulls it out, blood flying everywhere due to this. He then crushes it and laughs.
Raaja Veroxx : You will have to do better than that.
Veroxx created a singularity in one hand and one in the other and black and white hole both condensed to the size of a basketball. He would then merge the two together creating an existence erasing ball before kicking it towards Ecto at speeds massively faster then light. Fital inturrupted the attack with a deletion beam which wiped the attack out, before amping up the final Egg Fleet ship's cannons, which fired at the Dimensional Council. Veroxx snapped his fingers and the attacks shatters and reformed into a spear which he would throw at the Egg Fleet, causing a massive explosion. Meanwhile on the ground, the Cyne's were doing some sort of weird ritual. Sir Mordred pointing his sword towards the Phantom Ruby, Jeckal pointing his hands and Cyne's himself circling the light orbs around, creating constant distortions.
Dimensional Dria: Well now. It looks like the duty of fighting you now falls to us, Armageddon.
Ultimate Armageddon: Let's see how long you last.
Team Dragoon immediately scatter as Armageddon attacks with energy blasts. As they fire back, Armageddon is blindsided by the Hyper hedgehogs.
Hyper Sonic: Can't leave us out of this fun!
As Team Dragoon fire on Armageddon, the hedgehogs take their chances and smack into Armageddon when they can, with the exception of Silver, who threw energy at him. Armageddon backhanded Sonic away, headbutted Shadow, and deflected Silver's energy.
Ultimate Armageddon: How about this, you surrender to me and I let you live. Much better than dying in the Infinite Void.
Hyper Sonic: Hmm, no. How about you go to space instead?
Sonic and Shadow then allow themselves to be pulled by Silver's power, who charges them with pure force before throwing them at Armageddon, the blow knocking him straight into space. Despite the distance, Team Dragoon's attacks could still reach him.
Ultimate Armageddon: Fools!
He flew back towards the heroes, dodging their attacks. He then clapped his hands so hard the shockwave reverberated throughout. Everyone fighting him was knocked backwards. Meanwhile, Ecto was having trouble against Raaja Veroxx.
Dimensional Ecto: (Sheesh, this guy puts up a fight! I've got to find a weak point, perhaps goading will work) This is your "true" form right? So if I shot you with my concept erasing gun, you would die as you are just you right now?
Dimensional Fital: That might not even be necessary. I hold the power to destroy dimensions, that force could surely shatter a Asura.
Dimensional Ecto: A full power one? I'm just gonna keep fighting. Wanna help?
Dimensional Fital: Hey, why not?
Raaja Veroxx : Heh, you think that would work? When acquiring Asuran Alchemy one must be able to withstand things on a conceptual level. In order to master concepts you must transcend them! The Buddha's final test is to erase the concept of oneself, as you can tell I passed such a test.
Veroxx would see a spirally red and magenta tornado in the distance and become slightly confused.
A few seconds before...
Jeckal : Hey! Cyne! How much longer do I gotta keep this up?! I'm feeling all tingly!
Dimensional Cyne : Just a bit more!
Portal and tears around Cyne, Jeckal and Mordred would begin opening, an infinite amount of Phantom Rubies from different dimensions flowing through and circling the three like a tornado. Everyone would take notice of the strange occurrence.
Dimensional Srish: What the?
As Silence looked on at the display, he also saw Cross, Shera, Marl, Slack, Flame, and Rocky floating there, and that Terios appeared to be missing.
Raaja Veroxx : What? How many are there? Who could've...
Veroxx would look down to see the three Cyne's performing some sort of ritual.
Raaja Veroxx : I see, so by linking with alternate versions of himself he can access link with other Dimensions. The other two must fill out the different dimensional types, but still... To be able to sustain this many artifacts within a single dimension. No! He's creating miniature dimensions around each of the rubies. This rat...
Dimensional Alan: What are you planning with those rubies?
Dimensional Cyne : I can't use my Phantom Force in this form, so the plan is to use Phantom Rubies from infinite dimensions. My theory is that a dimensional form requires a dimensions worth of rubies. If it works, my Phantom Force should be elevated to new heights, my Phantom Force itself will become a dimensions and I'll basically be able to do anything.
Jeckal : Like Scribble?
Dimensional Cyne : Who?
Dimensional Alan: A being nearly beyond the dimensions, who lives on the border between what we know, and what lies beyond anything we could ever access.
Dimensional Cyne : I don't think I'm catching your drift right now. Is "Scribble" strong? What can it do?
What can I do? Such a silly question. Psst, don't tell him, keep him guessing. Hehehe.
(Buddy, you can't communicate like that, it's illegal.)
Jeckal : From as far as I can tell pretty much anything. The guy seems Omnipotent. Though, not too sure. When I was there I kind of got a feeling of hopelessness, like there was nothing I could do. It was like everything I ever knew, but also everything I didn't. I can't describe it well, just know that guy is scary despite the way it acts.
Dimensional Ecto: Reminds me of K and S, maybe L. Anyway, getting thrashed over here!
Even though Raaja Veroxx was focused on what Cyne and company were doing, he was still beating Ecto up passively. Fital quickly answers that with a laser to the face, which was carefully designed to close dimensional portals with proper application of destructive dimensional energies. With the third eye his body could act autonomously as well as his second pair of arms, Veroxx would take notice and quickly replace his position in space with a clone that would be destroyed instead. Veroxx would also notice Armageddon and Eror performing rather well in the background and would return his full attention to Ecto.
Raaja Veroxx : You, Cyne and Fital seem to be the biggest concerns. I do wonder just the extent of these Dimensional Forms. Though, seemingly they alone aren't enough to contend with me fully.
Veroxx would summon Qilin, the Yellow Dragon. Fifth of the four heavenly beasts.
Raaja Veroxx : I suppose after the thousands of years they have picked a new Heavenly King to take my place, so that would mean I'm now the fifth. Qilin here was my original summon who I was gifted, originally being an Azure Dragon. But I see with my limits being unshackled it too evolved into something new, something better!
Qilin would look at Ecto and Fital and snarl, eventually unleashing a golden flame. Fital would answer with lasers to it's back, filled with destructive dimensional energies. Piece's of the beast's hide would be destroyed, but soon regenerate. Qilin would roar and swing it's tail wildly, creating rifts and hitting Fital through them. It would then focus it's attention on Ecto, it's golden crested horn glowing brightly. preparing to impale him.
Hyper Sonic: Ohh no.
The hyper hedgehogs would divert to handle the dragon, Sonic smacking it's horn.
Hyper Sonic: You remind me of two other dragons i've met. Though you're clearly the same as the second one.
Qilin would begin to ignite itself with golden flames, funneling and condensing them into golden orbs the size of bowling balls. The Qilin would send the orbs towards Hyper Sonic, only for him to dodge. The orbs however were persistent and continued to chase.
Hyper Sonic: These are sure persistant.
Hyper Silver: Lead them to me! I have a idea!
Sonic flies over to Silver with the orbs in chase, and Silver uses his hyper enhanced psychic powers to grab the orbs and throw them straight into the dragon's maw. Meanwhile, in the background, the ship rubble stirs.
Dimensional Ecto: That's it!
Ecto condensed his power into a singular point and fired it towards Veroxx. He didn't intend to harm him though. The beam exploded behind him and tore open a hole to Bubbles' Castle. The dragon in question stormed out.
Bubbles: WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT OPENING PORTALS TO STRYA? DARK: TYPE NULL IS GONNA ARRIVE AT ANY MINUTE!
Ecto closed the vortex and turned to Bubbles.
Dimensional Ecto: I mean that guy's gonna summon it anyways.
Ecto pointed at Armageddon.
Dimensional Alan: Dangit! What did you do?
Dimensional Fital: I had a plan you know.
Dimensional Ecto: Bubbles can easily defeat Veroxx.
Bubbles: Why should I help you?
Dimensional Ecto: Because if you don't D: TN is gonna destroy everything. Plus, free Asuran corpse.
Bubbles: But whyyyyy? I don't wanna!
Dimensional Ecto: I will release your secret criminal record if you don't.
Bubbles: You wouldn't dare!
Dimensional Ecto: Even if I die, the info will still be leaked.
Bubbles: Okay, okay! I'm sorry! Veroxx! I will give you one minute to hit me with everything you've got! Then I will start to fight back.
Raaja Veroxx : (This dragon has a powerful aura.) So your the one with a True Magic that can erase all magic? Then I'll use my own True Magic Spell on you.
Veroxx pointed at Bubble's chest and the entire dimensions would begin to condense around it.
Dimensional Cyne : What the?!
Instead of making a Large Star of True Magic, Veroxx condensed it to the size of a Rubber ball which embed itself within Bubbles. It would expand rapidly destroying the entire Dimension and the ones surrounding it, leaving nothing but the infinite void. Luckily Cyne would be able to use his light orbs to protect everyone from the Infinite Void, also surprised the Veroxx didn't use it to also take them out and only focused it on Bubbles.
Raaja Veroxx : Now the question is, did that work? Or does this being operate within a higher Dimension that my Eternity Core?
Dimensional Fital: Wait... I sense something...
Bubbles emerges from the wake of Veroxx's attack, unphased.
Bubbles: Come on, 55 seconds left.
Raaja Veroxx : (So that prove's it. This dragon is on too high of a dimensionality for me to do anything to. To think such being really existed.) Hmmm... No, even wish magic probably wouldn't work... I suppose I really have lost. If so no more waiting, I yield. Finish me or spare me, the choice is yours.
Dimensional Cyne : (Wow, he completely overpowered Veroxx by just standing there? Wonder how bad D:TN must really be then if even this guy's making a big deal of him.)
Dimensional Srish: This feels boring.
Jeckal : Cyne, since that guy destroyed the dimensions again it might be a good idea to your uh.. "Phantom Force" Dimension thingie?
Sir Mordred : I second this.
Dimensional Cyne : Oh right, we still have Armageddon and Eror don't we.
Cyne lift's his finger in the air and the infinite Phantom Rubies would merge with his aura. The Infinite Void would be covered by Cyne's glass like aura, creating an infinite dimension from his new Dimensional Phantom Force. Cyne's body would also glow pinkish-magenta now. Sir Mordred and Jeckal also gaining Dimensional Forms now.
True Dimensional Cyne : Right, after this is all over I'll restore the Dimensions again and return these rubies to their rightful dimensions.
As Fital looked over at the new glowing power of Cyne, he sighed.
Dimensional Cross : What's the matter? Can't you do something like that too?
Dimensional Fital: My power is destructive, yours is creative. I can grant the power to machines, but there's not exactly any in this infinite void. I can't just call on the power of, say, infinite Chaos Emeralds.
True Dimensional Cyne : I don't know. The reason I could get here isn't just because of infinite Phantom Rubies exactly, it's because of the dimensions they existed within. The Rubies themselves seem to sync with me perfectly, making them perfect for going further beyond. Remember, my power comes from existence, but yours is the opposite.
Cyne would open a hole within his Phantom Force showing the Infinite Void.
True Dimensional Cyne : Look outside, the Infinite Void is inexistence. That's the type of power you wield. If you can resonate with it you can get to the same level I'm at right now. Afterall, our abilities right now are two sides to the same coin, and as I see it, negative dimensional energy exists so that more dimensions can exist. Without inexistence we can't have existence. As mixed as that sounds.
Dimensional Fital: Yes, yes, no negative without positive, but that is a idea. I'll get on that.
Fital then starts drawing in the negative dimensional power of the Infinite Void. While Fital is gathering power, Bubbles looks back at Ecto.
Bubbles: I thought Asuran gods were strong or something?
Dimensional Ecto: Yeah for our universes not for your universes.
Bubbles: He has 42 seconds left for goodness sake! At least try to make me work before I kill you.
Bubbles turns back to Veroxx.
Bubbles: Well, anyways I'm going to rip your soul out of your body and broadcast your screams into the minds of your comrades.
Suddenly, a pair of talons and a head, about the same size as Bubbles' manifests behind him and smacks him across the head.
Spike the First: What did I tell you about committing war crimes outside of Kentro! Reality gave you enough space to run around but you had to terrorize the other universes! This universe isn't meant to be touched! The administrators put this place on Oasis Watch because Dark: Type Null can't access this universe, "No Stryan individuals are to be in contact unless contacted first and with proper supervision!"
Bubbles: Can I rip just one of their heads off?
Spike the First: NO!
Raaja Veroxx : There's no need for me to resist against you, I'm not an idiot who helplessly tries. Perhaps if I was a Bhagavan I could actually do something, but I am but a Deva. But I suppose your being forced to spare me? If that's the case I will continue to destroy these rats. My magic is still intact after all.
Bubbles: No, I just can't kill you gruesomely.
While this was happening, Armageddon sidled up to Veroxx and whispered in his ear.
Armageddon: (I don't know what that damned hedgehog is planning but, we're going to die anyways if Bubbles is here) I wish to summon Dark: Type Null.
Bubbles with his super-natural hearing notices Armageddon speak and hurls the manifested Ice Fire Spear at Armageddon's face. Armageddon manages to raise his arm to block but has his entire arm turned into ice that quickly begins spreading before he cuts off his own arm to prevent himself from being frozen solid.
Raaja Veroxx : Just in time.
Veroxx snaps his fingers and a tear in Cyne's Dimensional Phantom Force would begin to tear open.
True Dimensional Cyne : Ecto, what do we do? Unless I'm crazy, he just wished to summon Dark: Type Null.
Dimensional Alan: This is your specialty, stop him!
Dimensional Ecto: I can't really cancel an Asuran wish!
The rift opens up and a figure appears out of it.
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S̵͕͐ǒ̶͚m̵̛̙ĕ̵̩t̴̝̄ḧ̴̭́i̶̪̽n̶̨̐ǧ̷͉ ̵͇̈́d̶̞͝ṟ̵̓a̸̖͐g̵͚̚g̷̭͒e̴̺̿d̵͇̑ ̶̺̀m̸̞̒ë̷͚́ ̴̫̇h̴̫̅è̶͍r̸̨̀ḛ̸͂.̵̫͛ ̵̆ͅT̶͖͝h̶͚͑ḯ̷͚ş̶̈ ̴̨͊p̷̲̉l̴͇̉a̸̠̐c̴̘̒ě̸̯ ̸̩̈́ị̴̽s̶̰͊.̵̦̌.̶̘͋.̸̣͛ ̷͓͌u̴̬̾n̶͙̕ḱ̸͓n̶͓̑ȯ̷̭w̶̲͐n̴̬̿.̶͎́ ̷̎ͅI̴̻̒ẗ̴͙́ ̶͎͌i̵̜͠s̸̝̔ ̴͍͂à̸̖ ̵̣͒f̷̦́e̴̗͋ë̸͎l̸̨͒ḯ̴̬n̶̞͑g̸̘͆ ̷̧̑Î̴̘ ̸̤̃ḣ̵͎a̸͙̚v̴̰͊e̴͙̅n̵̤͗'̶̭͝t̴̼̋ ̶͇̌ě̶̻x̶̪̕p̶̱͋ẹ̴̑r̶͉̍i̷̺͠é̸̦n̵̦̎c̵̦̅ẽ̵͖ḍ̷͝ ̶͇͘i̷̺̓n̶̝͠ ̷̭̔q̸͚̃ü̴̫i̶̬̋t̶̞͌e̶̥̋ ̵̖̒â̵͙ ̸͚̚ĺ̶̯ỏ̸̘ń̴̢g̸͎͊ ̸͍̚t̴̞̋i̸̗͛m̵̲̈e̷̱̋.̴͕̔ ̶͚͝Ṭ̵͊ḧ̵͉́e̴̺͝ȑ̵͓e̵̼͌ ̷̫͠ị̶͑s̵̤̆ ̷̲̚s̶̥̋o̵͔͘m̵̖̆e̶͔͂o̶͉͗n̶̡͠e̶̠͆ ̶̧̕w̶̠̃á̴̘t̷͇͛ċ̸͕ḥ̵͛i̴̩̓n̶̰̿ǵ̷̮ ̶̱̇m̴͍͒e̴̠͊,̸̳̐ ̷͚̄t̵̗́h̴͙̾e̴͓̓y̴͈̚ ̶͕͛ả̶͇r̶̯͒e̴̯͒n̷̪̓'̷̘̇t̵̢͛ ̶͉̐t̸̖͝h̷͚̀e̵̻͠ ̸̮͛ļ̴͝e̶̯̊t̸̜́t̵͎̏e̶̘͠r̸͎͝s̴̻̽.̴̱͝ ̴̢͘S̵̜̿c̸̦̅r̵͙̐i̵̘͒b̵̬̊b̷̧̈ḷ̶͑é̷͜ ̸̧̀ẅ̴͓́ą̶͊s̷̘͌ ̵̞͂i̸̱̇t̵̲͂s̴̖̔ ̸͙̆n̸̖̅ä̴̡m̶̤͘e̶̟͂,̷̳͒ ̴͎̂i̷͔̓t̸͖̔ ̷̛̪i̷̗͝s̶̫̉ ̴̔ͅn̴̤̚o̸̧͆t̸̤͋ ̷͎̔ľ̵͜î̸̻k̴̃ͅe̷͚͝ ̶̧́t̸̓ͅh̴̖́è̷͙ ̴͔̔ǒ̸ͅt̶͇͊ḧ̴̤́e̷̼̎r̶̖͂ŝ̶͇,̸̲͝ ̷͈̽i̸̞͌t̷̩̃ ̴̳̈́i̸̩͠s̵̛͇ ̷̹̄b̵̖̅é̸͈h̷̝͝į̷͝n̴̦͠ḓ̷̀ ̶͔̅t̷̖́h̸̞̅e̸̦̔ ̶̱͑s̴̊ͅc̴͚̈́ŗ̸̊ẻ̴͎ė̵͎n̸̹͘ ̴͈̇y̵̺̎e̷̬͗t̴̯̓ ̸̩͝s̶̤̓ṯ̸̀i̵̖͐l̶͉̈́ḽ̷̽ ̴̟͂h̸͕̀e̷̦̓ṛ̷͛e̷̞̎.̶̜͆ ̶̟̋T̴̝͠h̸̩̋e̶͎͘ÿ̸̦́ ̴̧͗w̴͚̍i̸̛͕l̵̜͐l̶̗̆ ̶̹̇b̷̕ͅë̸̢ ̷͉̈́h̴͙̀e̶̫͒r̷̯̃ȅ̴̦ ̴̺͠ș̸̍ȯ̷̙o̵̦͠n̷͎̅ ̴̮̄t̵̘͋h̸̥̆ó̴͖u̷̫̇g̴͔̽h̸̔ͅ,̸̱̓ ̴̳̐ṭ̸̄ḧ̵̝́e̶̳̋y̵̞͐ ̸̥̓a̸͓̚l̸̢̐w̷͈̃a̵͊͜ÿ̴̠s̷̢̋ ̴̺͂a̴̢͒r̷̡̽e̶͈̒,̶̗͐ ̸̨̀t̷͍͗ŕ̴͍ẙ̵͔i̵͔͌n̷͕̽g̵̙͊ ̴̰̄t̵͍́ǫ̷̓ ̷̺̍s̶̪̽h̶͇̑ȧ̵͈c̵͕͝k̷͐͜l̷̰͐ě̷̻ ̴̰̾m̸͎͘ȩ̴͐ ̶͍͗f̸̗̆r̶̼̉o̵͓͝m̶̼͘ ̶̩͌t̵̬͌h̵̗͂e̷̟͗ś̵̜e̶͎͛ ̵̳̈́u̶̪̿n̴̥̏t̵̰͝ŏ̶̢u̸̹̍c̴̢͘ẖ̷̈́e̸̮͒d̵̲͐ ̷̝̊r̶͚͠e̸͖͝ḁ̴̓l̷̟͐m̵̹̌s̶̙̎.̷̦̈́ ̸͖͝T̶͚̿h̴̳̅e̴͈̔ ̴͙̈́b̴̹̕e̶̳͆ȧ̶̤u̶̳͒ẗ̶̹́y̶̞̚ ̶̨̑o̶̩͘f̴̲̂ ̸̻̌ț̴͘h̵̛̹è̴͇m̵͜͠ ̶̈́͜a̷̙͘s̵̨̒t̵͉̂o̸̊͜n̵̛̯i̴͕͂s̸͈̀h̷̝̀ĕ̴̝s̸̝̚ ̷̘̕m̴͕͋e̸͓͛,̶̯͝ ̴̢̉ṕ̴̥è̷̗r̶͕̈́h̶̪̓ḁ̵̍p̸͎̑š̷̨ ̴̨͘S̵̘̾t̴̝̒ř̴̰î̶̞p̷͚͒e̷̦͑ ̷̭̿w̴̭͑õ̴̖ư̵̟l̴͈̆d̶̥̉ ̴̙̆e̶̦͐n̴͚̚j̸͕̄o̵̠͑y̵̆͜ ̷̋ͅt̷͙̎h̴͉̓i̴̗̊s̸͇̉ ̴̤͘t̸̝̑ǫ̸͝o̷͚͐?̴̨̇
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Ecto sensed the presence of Dark: Type Null and gulped. Bubbles looks around before his eyes set on Dark: Type Null manifesting through the rift in space-time as Zero Force passively activates, preventing him from being erased before a chain wraps itself around its neck and is forced away from from the scattered heroes by a now revealed Administrator. K. Spike the First is sent away from the universe to a distant planet far away in the Finalverse by Administrator. S who has also shown up.
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H̶̭̎e̵̯̿ ̶͎́i̶͉̊s̶̜̾ ̶͙̄a̵͙̓l̴̫̐r̵̭̾ḛ̴̓a̸͎͑d̴̛̞y̸̨̐ ̷̡̕h̴͍͐e̶͖͒r̴̡͆é̶͖ ̶͒͜a̵̠̋l̵̬̆r̶͈̊e̷̋ͅa̵̝̎d̷͉́ȳ̸̖?̴̨͘ ̶̺̓W̵̨̓h̵̞̕y̵̧̛ ̵͇͠i̴̘͝s̸̡̈ ̸͈͘t̶̲̕h̶̯͒í̶̢ș̷̒ ̷̘̋p̵̬̂l̵̲̑a̸̺̔ć̷̮ḛ̶͐ ̴̮͊s̸̈́͜o̴̰͆ ̶̪͌î̵͕m̴͇͋p̴͓̔o̵̱͘r̷͙̉ț̵̑ǎ̸͓n̶̯͝ţ̷̇ ̶̩̉t̸̨̂h̴̼͑a̸͙͑t̴̥̚ ̴̧́t̷̺͒h̴̝̉e̷̬̋ȳ̸̼ ̶̈́ͅh̴̯͆á̴̢v̷̔ͅe̵͔̒ ̶̠̍a̴͎͋l̶̛͜r̵̳̾ȅ̵̩ả̴̡d̴̫͌y̵͙̎ ̴͍̚ȃ̶̹r̸̮̂ṟ̵͋i̵͓̎v̷̨̓ĕ̵̲d̴̼͗ ̷̚͜t̸̝̊ḫ̶̇í̷̢s̴̱͒ ̶̪̔s̶͒͜o̴̥͐o̸̙̓n̶̠͠.̸͔̈́ ̷̲̀T̷͖̂h̶̟̆ȩ̷͋ ̷̫̏o̷͖͛n̷̜̽e̸͍͘ ̶͎̓b̶̰͠e̸̡͌a̴͈͗r̵̭̀i̴͉̽n̶̋ͅg̵͍͆ ̶̨́t̶̻͠h̷̞́ḙ̸̀ ̴̡̈́ĺ̷͜e̷̞͛t̷̯̔t̷̗̀e̵̺̊r̷̖͌ ̷̠̍S̴͚̽ ̷̬̾a̴̬͘n̵͉̐d̴͉̓ ̷͚̋ṱ̸͋h̴͈̍ȩ̴͆ ̴̡̈́o̶̱̓n̴̘͝è̶̦ ̴̰͘w̸̱̑i̸̼̎t̵̺̅ȟ̷̩ ̴̥͊K̸̢̈,̵̢̎ ̴͎̾L̷͈̊ ̵̬̔î̵̜s̶̳͂ ̴̺̇n̶̹̒o̸͉̅t̸͚͑ ̴̗̏h̸͎̑è̶̦r̷̢̿ë̷͙́ ̴̥̿t̵̢̓ḣ̵̨ŏ̸̧u̵͎̍g̷̒͜h̴͙̎.̴͉̑
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Bubbles: Woah, woah, woah! This wasn't part of the deal!
Dimensional Ecto: Don't look at him! That will erase you!
Dimensional Cyne: Then what do we do?
Dimensional Ecto: Well that was the backup plan I mentioned before.
Ecto takes out a gold coin, heads and tails, perfectly balanced, an equal exchange of forces. He flips it up and sticks his palm out to catch it. It lands on the rim and time seems to flow to a halt before the world shifts to an inky black void surrounding him.
Dimensional Alan: Srish, add another to the list.
Dimensional Srish: Got it.
Raaja Veroxx : Hm? What is that Abnormal Rat doing?
Ecto appears in a pitch black void with nothing but Efae sitting on a chair in front of him.
Efae: Ah I’ve never seen you before. It’s surprising really, since I should know the identity of everyone who’s alive. A part of a deal I made if you want to know.
Ecto: Don’t beat around the bush, we both know why I’m here right now.
Efae: That I do.
Efae waves its hand and a table with a chair for Ecto fabricate themselves from the darkness.
Efae: Dark: Type Null has always been a little bit of a pain hasn’t it?
Efae laughs to itself, amused at his own words before waving its hand again and forcing Ecto to appear on the other seat in sitting position.
Efae: Shall we begin?
Ecto: Hit me.
Efae: The agreement has been fulfilled, now the game.
Efae’s jacket opens revealing its true body, an amalgamated mess of colors made from the luck, strength, power, souls, speech, traits, and many more things taken from others who sat on the same seat as Ecto. A single inky black tentacle extended from the insides of the jacket towards the center of the table before undulating in a blossoming mass of darkness to reveal a silver revolver and six bullets sitting next to them.
Efae: The game has been decided, care to play a round of russian roulette?
Efae grabs the gun and twirls it around his finger before setting it down and sliding it across the table towards Ecto.
Efae: The rules are simple. One round. If you live, you will have as many chances to push Dark: Type Null back as the amount of bullets in the chamber.
Ecto contemplates the game for a brief moment before coming to a startling realization.
Ecto: I’d have to bypass his barriers with 5 rounds and send it back with a sixth one.
Efae: Go on.
Ecto: The maximum number of chances I’ll have is five. I’d need one more to succeed.
Efae: Whoever said that I’d play a fair game? I just give people an extra way out.
Ecto hesitates before gingerly wrapping his fingers around the handle. While he’s inspecting the weapon, Efae boringly shuffles a deck of cards with his right hand, the cards seemingly flowing around his fingers like a stream of water while his left rolls a set of dice, getting snake eyes every time.
Ecto: I accept the game.
Ecto looks at the barrel closely for a few seconds before letting out a small chuckle and setting the gun back down.
Ecto: I’ll have 6 rounds loaded.
Efae raises his eyebrow while leaning towards the table.
Efae: 6? You do understand this situation right? If you lose here, you’re not coming back.
Ecto: I said 6 and I’ve agreed to the game. It’s your part now.
Efae relaxes back into his seat. He motions for Ecto to slide him the gun. Ecto proceeds to do so and Efae picks up the gun.
Efae: Good luck, hedgehog.
Efae slides out the chamber and the six rounds float up before slotting into the open slots before taking aim at Ecto and clicking the chamber. A dry click would sound out, and no bullets flew towards him.
Efae: My, my, you survived.
Ecto: Every deal you make always has a fair chance that’s how you work. And you forget I was raised by the military, I know that’s a seven-barrel gun.
Efae raises one eyebrow and chuckles.
Efae: Go and show that glitch just what the Gambling God can do.
Ecto nods and Efae’s jacket opens again, this time a white tentacle extends before manifesting a glowing hand that wraps around Ecto’s face and he exits the void back to the previous dimensions.
Dimensional Ecto: Time to end this!
Ecto fired one round towards Dark: Type Null. It fizzled out about five inches from it's face. Surprised, the entity turned to look at Ecto. It materialized a hypergod cannon that fires, shearing off part of his side. Ecto ran around, circling D: TN ignoring the pain. When he had put enough distance between them, he fired again. This time, it fizzled out four inches away. Beginning to become some semblance of annoyed, Dark: Type Null began summoning attacks more rapidly. Ecto dodged behind Terios.
Dimensional Ecto: Negate like you've never negated before, or everything will die!
Terios who was now flowing with Dimensional Power from Cyne's Phantom Force would realize the situation.
Dimensional Terios : So be it!
Terios began to rapidly negate the attacks as Ecto took aim and fired three more rounds. Each one fizzled out an inch closer to D: TN. Ecto took a deep breath and fired one more, it fizzled out one inch from the malevolent entity. Actually annoyed now, Dark: Type Null began summoning attacks in all directions. Ecto shot the final round at it. When it collided, Dark: Type Null staggered back surprised something had gotten through its 5 conceptual barriers. At that moment Administrator. K drop kicked Dark: Type Null while Administrator. S and the others dragged him back. The entity fell back through a convenient wormhole that was just created. Administrator. S looked at the heroes and villains.
Administrator. S: You little creatures have really caused a lot of trouble. Be thankful the Finalversal Firewall just had an update and that D:TN didn't have enough time to use his full power otherwise most of you wouldn't be here.
At that, the creators of all existence blipped away. The dimensional forms faded away, no longer needed.
Ecto: Whew! That should be the end of it.
At that exact moment, a crack appeared in the air, pulling Armageddon, Veroxx, and Eror into it. It closed as soon as they crossed the threshold.
Dimensional Alan: So... What was all of that? Who were all those people?
Ecto: That glitch dude was Dark: Type Null. The guy who drop kicked D:TN was Administrator. K. He was followed by the thirty Supremes, the tall grey eyed guy was Administrator. S. The short brown haired guy was Admin. L.
Dimensional Alan: Wow. I'm honestly surprised you could answer my question so quickly. Oh, and your Dimensional form has faded.
Suddenly, reality began to reverse, all energies becoming unified for a single moment and the Merged Dimension would return along with all destroyed dimensions. They would look at each other slightly confused as no one had yet repaired the dimensions... However... In front of them they saw... well it's more like they saw a black illuminant being, to the hedgehogs it was a hedgehog, to fital a demon, to alan a human. It seemed to appear like a member of each of their species, although it was not any of their species... Everyone could feel it's raw strength and then it spoke.
Neo : I'm Neo. Outer God of Energy, King of the 6th Trueverse. I came here after sensing the destructions caused by Mortal and Divine, even those beyond them. I suppose any conflict has already ended however. Now, Introduce yourselves. I've already given my name, such is common courtesy.
Dimensional Ecto: I am Ecto the Hedgehog, these are Flame the Fennec Fox, Rocky the Raccoon, and Slack the Sloth.
Dimensional Alan: Ah, sure. I'm Alan. Team Dragoon, sound off!
Dimensional Dria: I'm Dria.
Dimensional Srish: Srish's my name.
Dimensional Silence: Call me Silence.
True Dimensional Fital: I'm Fital.
Hyper Sonic: Sonic the Hedgehog here.
Hyper Shadow: I'm Shadow the Hedgehog, Ultimate Lifeform.
Hyper Silver: Hey there, Neo, i'm Silver the Hedgehog!
True Dimensional Cyne : I'm Cyne! This is Marl Nimbus, Shera Lee, Cross the Hedgehog and-
Dimensional Terios : I'm Terios.
The Outer God would take this all in.
Neo : Good, I'm sure you have no idea of me or my powers. But the damage that's been caused here was enough to get my notice and attention. Honestly, I have no idea why-
Neo would take notice of the dimensional forms and realize something.
Neo : Hold on a minute.
Neo would extend his arm to the left and the Seven Archangels would appear confused.
Charity : What?! Where am I?
Humility : Erm...
Chastity : Huh..?
Diligence : OH! Lord Neo!
All of the Archangels would take notice and would bow, Fital would notice they didn't appear like light orbs like they had before.
Neo : Explain yourselves now. Why are these mortals running around with your power? Didn't I tell you to not let anyone get that Kaleidoscope? Honestly?
Temperance : Err... Could you guys help explain? Charity is the only one who got involved.
Dimensional Cyne : I'm not really good at explanations.
True Dimensional Fital: I may be able to explain. You see, there were three foes we were fighting before you got here, known of as the Dimensional Council. Eror, Veroxx and Armageddon. They had managed to get ahold of the Kaliedoscope somehow, and were using it to merge the dimensions. The Archangels, sensing the destruction that could be wrought, granted me and Cyne the power to tap into the Kaliedoscope.
Neo : Hoh? Is that right?
Neo would turn to the Archangels who would shake profusely.
Neo : Alright then.
Neo would lift his hand and remove all of the dimensional energy from everyone using the form, reverting them back to their base forms. He would warp the kaleidoscope into his hand and store the energy back inside of it. In addition he also summons the Super Emeralds and puts the Hyper Forms energy back into them.
Cyne : Huh?! Hey wait! We haven't unmerged the dimensions ye-
Neo : Look mortal, I literally just undid everything here that happened with a single thought. Right now we are at the beginning of the merged dimensions timeline, with no past nor future made by those Time Stones. As for the council.
Neo would open a rip in space and the three would tumble out.
Neo : I haven't unmerged this dimension, because retribution is due. Though, since each of them are from one of your dimensions I'll let you decide their fate.
As Fital walks over to Eror, he smiles with a uncomfortable grin.
Eror: This isn't over yet.
Fital, uncomfortable with the implications, looks into the energy around him, and discovers the Eror here is a clone.
Fital: This isn't the real Eror. He's out there, somewhere. I doubt chasing him will do any good.
Neo : Very well, You will spare him then. If you wanted to kill him, I could simply rip every version of him from existence. How about the rest of you?
Fital: No, you don't get it. He's going to come back, once you've left. He might still hold enhanced power. And honestly, i want a final battle.
Alan: So do i, but i have a idea of how to accomplish it.
Neo rolled his eye's at this, choosing to ignore the mortals underestimation of himself. Armageddon glanced around and grinned.
Armageddon: This is a mere setback.
Ecto strolled up to Armageddon and punted him away.
Ecto: He'll be back, but not for a while.
Neo : Very well. How about you? Phantom Force user.
Cyne : Well...
Cyne looks towards Veroxx.
Veroxx : It's not fair... I'm within these bindings once again?!
Cyne : Let's send him back to where he belong, whatever prison held him before. But this time let's have be a bit stronger.
Veroxx : What!?
Neo : Very well.
The same prison that once trapped Veroxx would manifest, this time reinforced tenfold. Veroxx and his prison would then disappear, Cyne assuming to the original location of his sentence.
Neo : Now then, before I unmerge this dimension. Is there any requests? Most time's I deal with mortals they are rather rude, but I understand your journey. Perhaps you deserve a reward? So go on, ask away.
Alan: Me, Dria, Srish and Silence were each wearing something made of dimensional power. Can you recreate it? I want it as a memento.
Neo says nothing, but the armor pieces Team Dragoon wore reappear on them.
Alan: Thanks.
Fital: Can you create me something to allow me access to entire other multiverses? That would help me help even more people.
Neo opens his palm and manifests an orb of Quantum Essence, he then grips it tightly and opens his hand again. From it would be a key, made of pure Quantum Essence.
Neo : I know you like to use the Dimensional Hub. This key is made from Quantum Essence, I won't get into the details but know it is one of three source matters/energies. Use it like you would a door, with the exception it can be used anywhere, even a Zero Dimensional Plane. You should be able to access all Multiverses and Dimensional Planes. It cannot however access things that transcend it.
The Quantum Key would float over to Fital.
Alan: You keep a eye on that. A certain Egghead would love to get it off you.
Fital: Thanks, but i think i can hold onto it. I have a pocket dimension now. On the subject of that...
Fital grabs out the X-20 and throws it over to Slack.
Fital: Have your gun back.
Alan: Don't leave just yet, Fital, we have something to get to.
Terios : Could I... I want Mary.
Neo : Bringing the dead from the Spiritual Realm to the Physical Realm isn't something I condone. So I'll give you the next best thing.
A bolt of energy lunges into Terios head, he looks on confused.
Neo : When you sleep, you consciousness will sync with her spirit. Your welcome.
Cyne : Alright, we know what we want!
Neo : And that is?
Cyne : We want our own Village! And uhh... Make it come with a really cool base.
Neo looks on dumbfounded at such a meager request but shrugs and gives Cyne a ball of energy.
Neo : Find a good place and crush it there. It will form a Village and base based off you and your teams imagination. Now, how about you? Team Alpha.
Team Alpha look at each other.
Ecto: We just want one thing. Let everyone else be able to communicate between dimensions. If they need help, they can just call us.
Neo : Very well.
The mental energies of everyone present would manifest, Neo would take bit's and pieces and connect them to the other like a puzzle before restoring and purifying it.
Neo : Done, you can now communicate with each other. I've plugged pieces of your mental energies together and added a twinge of dimensional energy. Just think about it and you can begin speaking to each other. Now then, It's time to restore each of your dimension to their original state.
Neo taps the air and within femtoseconds a bright light would overtake everything much like how the merge first started and everyone would be in their own, separate dimensions once again.
The Aftermath[]
Team Dragoon[]
When the light stopped being blinding, Team Dragoon opened their eyes to see each other standing within Jewel's Office, like they had pre-merge. Before Alan can even attempt to ask what they remembered, Sonic spoke first.
Sonic: You did it, Team Dragoon! You fixed everything!
Alan: That's not completely true. A god got to that first. We might've been able to, but we never did.
Rouge: I may not know much about gods, but i know they tend not to interfere unless they have to. You managed to force their hand, and make them fix everything.
Silver: That's still worthy of praise!
Srish: Aw, thanks.
Silence: So what happens now?
Abraham Tower: We're going to make sure no one's gone missing during the reset.
Jewel: We'll get to that too. All in all, good work, Team Dragoon. Go get some rest now.
Dria: Sure, we need to put away these mementos anyways.
Team Dragoon walk back to their room, passing Team Sundown, who were shaking off the effects of Ecto's attack, despite their bodies having never experienced it physically. As they arrived, they put the armor down and attempt to use this new communication link that Ecto had wished up. Quickly, Fital responded.
Fital: Ah, Team Dragoon. I'm on my way right now. I see the communication link works.
Alan: Between us, yes. I'm checking for the others.
Team Dragoon refocus on the other two teams.
Ecto: What's up fellas?
Team Dragoon also hear Cyne's group on the line, though they seem to be distracted.
Alan: Just checking the line really works.
Fital: While we're here, i have a question to ask. When Dark Type Null was summoned, did you hear that weird noise too?
Ecto: Noise?
Cross: Weird Noise? Elaborate.
Fital: I don't really know what to describe it as.
Srish: I do. It's as if he was attempting to say something, but all his words were getting blocked, like how Sonic.OS could do it.
Cyne : Sonic.OS? What is that?
Alan: Right, you weren't a guest star there. Sonic.OS is a powerful demon monster made from one part The End, one part Sonic's body, and two parts evil energies.
Silence: Despite this, he's the least dangerous demon we've ever met.
Marl : Least dangerous? You also said he was powerful. How could he be both?
Dria: He's powerful. Probably comparable to the people from Strya. But he's kept WAY in check by his nemesis, Scribble.
Ecto: Dark is a glitch, so it would make sense that he would cause some EXE like disturbances. OS would be comparable to some Stryans, like Nebula.
Alan: How the heck can you accurately powerscale a creature you've never even met?
Ecto: I've seen the Finalversal Threat Tier List.
Silence: I'm not even going to ask.
Alan: I am. Where does one find this list?
Marl : We can talk about that later.
Cyne : Either way, if he's kept in check by a being as powerful as Scribble then he's probably bad news. But, guess we won't know until we meet him and see what he does. Not that I want to.
Shera : Then... Maybe it was speaking?
Srish: Quite possibly. I do wonder what it was saying though.
Alan: Probably nothing relevant. One last thing. I think i finally understand what Kaiser Metal Sonic was on about.
Cross : Yeah, one being of dimensions, one of magic and one of pure power. Guess he was wrong about us losing in the end.
Alan: He was guessing off of a faulty view. He didn't know we fought Eror, the being of dimensions, the being of magic, Veroxx was sealed for most of the chaos, nor that Armageddon, the being of power wasn't prepared for our ingenuity, or Ecto.
Fital then appears in the middle of Team Dragoon.
Fital: Hey team! Now that i'm here, what are you planning?
Alan: Ah, that.
Alan roots around for a specific thing, coming out with a gun-shaped device.
Alan: With this, we can-
Dria: Alan, that's not the right one. That's for the Comedic Future Dimension.
Alan looks again to see Dria's right.
Alan: Give second.
Alan roots around again, coming out with a different portal gun.
Alan: Alright, this is the one. See you soon, Cyne, Ecto, and others! Team Dragoon, signing off!
Team Dragoon cut mental contact, and then Alan fires the portal gun at a open wall. Just as they were about to walk in, they remember to remove the armor, then head in. As the portal closes behind them, the armor glows with mysterious energy.
End for Team Dragoon.
Team Phantasm[]
The light dims, everyone looks around to make sure everything is just fine.
Marl : Everyone fine?
Cross : Yeah? Where's Cyne and Terios?
Shera : Terios was probably sent back to where he came. But Cyne...
The three would gain worried looks on their faces. Suddenly the ground would begin to split, and the night sky would burst with a purple aura flowing through it.
Marl : What's happening?
Cross : No... Dark Gaia? Just when we get back too...
Cross would feel something, and then he would hear Team Dragoon as everyone else.
Marl : Team Dragoon?
Shera : Did you guy's make it back safely?
Cyne (Comms) : Yo! What's up guys?
Cross : Cyne? Where are you?
Cyne (Comms) : It's a long story... No pun intended.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in the dimensions.
Cyne : Augh... My head...
Cyne looks around, realizing he's on a giant piece of paper an the area around him seeming near infinite and aethereal.
Cyne : What is this place?
Cyne would begin running forward until he slipped on some sort of... Ring?
Cyne : Well well, what do we have here? This is pretty neat, but why is there just a random ring here?
The ring would begin to glow and some sort of genie girl would appear. Cyne get's startled and becomes defensive.
Cyne : Woah! Who are you?! Another Genie?
??? : Please do not be startled by me, I mean you no harm.
Cyne would become skeptical, but listen.
Shahra : My name is Shahra, I'm a Djinn. More specifically a Genie.
Cyne : Djinn? Wait, that's the opposite of an Asura if I remember correctly.
Shahra : You know of the Asura as well? You truly must be the one then?
Cyne : Yeah I know, it's a long story. But what do you mean the one?
Shahra : You must help me stop Erazor Djinn! He's attempting to collect the World Rings and subjugate other dimensions.
Cyne : (Woah Woah, first I'm in some other dimension? Now I gotta deal with another world ending threat? Just my day...)
Cyne would then feel the communication attempt made by Team Dragoon.
Cyne : Wait, I'll help you but let me answer this really quick.
Cyne would respond to seeming thin air, confusing Shera.
Marl (Comms) : Team Dragoon?
Shera (Comms) : Did you guy's make it back safely?
Cyne : Yo! What's up guys?
Cross (Comms) : Cyne? Where are you?
Cyne : It's a long story... No pun intended.
Little did Cyne know, the reason he was even here was because Neo did not account nor attune the dispersion of Cyne's Phantom Force. The layered dimensionality causing him to become displaced in the unmerging. Cyne now starts his journey in the Arabian nights and it's 1001 stories, each being a universe within this massive dimension. How will the others fair against the reawakening of Dark Gaia? Only time will tell.
End for Team Phantasm.
Team Alpha[]
Team Alpha awoke on the sandy beach of the Alpha Zone.
Ecto: Ugh. Well, that's a wrap guys.
Flame: What an ordeal!
Slack: You were brainwashed for most of it!
Rocky: Guys?
Everyone looked to see Ecto slump over and fall unconscious.
Slack: Must be the lack of left torso. Could take some time to heal. Let's get him to bed so we can reset him.
With that, Slack carried Ecto into the Alpha Zone, with Flame and Rocky trailing along behind him.
End for Team Alpha
Eror[]
Eror watched the final moments of the merged dimension from his own little spot in the multiverse, still fully powered due to his quick escape before the dimension collapsed for the second time.
Eternal God Eror: And thus, the plan ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. I will have my vengeance on them all! Once i merge the dimensions again, Team Alpha and Team Phantasm will be eliminated, then i'll destroy Team Dragoon in one final battle! Though, on second thought, maybe i should have my final battle with Team Dragoon before i kill the interferers. Yes! I just have to wait until-!
Just as Eror decides on his next plan, Neo resets the dimensions, as well as Eror's power. As Eror clears his eyes, he realizes this fact, as well as that he's back in the normal Dimensional Hub.
Eror: No! Every single time, these gods take my fun from me before i've even had it! Now... I don't have the know-how to find Veroxx or even Armageddon.
Eror takes a second to cool off, before recounting what he has, and what he learned.
Eror: Alright. I can't rely on anything we had as the Dimensional Council. The Labyrinth was likely reset out of existence, Armageddon's Castle is back in his dimension and won't work without the dragon himself and the Quartz Kaleidoscope is likely hidden in a better location. If i'm going to build a new Merge Device, I'm going to need tech to replace the Kaleidoscope's power.
Eror then remembers the engineers he hired, and quickly locates them.
Eror: Engineers, there you are! I'm going to need your help again.
Demon Engineer: Sorry, no can do.
Eror: What? Why? I didn't do anything wrong, did i?
Demon Engineer: Not by our contract, no. We really didn't appreciate the dimensional hub collapsing, but i don't believe you'd dare do that. It's just that, your Merge Device drew a lot of attention amongst the denizens of the Dimensional Hub. Your project proved to other demons and even some glitchians that we're a crew that can build anything they'd want. You were a good client, but a even better promotion, and now we're swamped with build requests. If you want our help later, we'd be happy to add you to the list.
Eror: No thanks. I'll find my own way.
Glitchian Engineer: Suit yourself.
Demon Engineer: Before we go, there's something we never got the chance to tell you. After your initial battle with Team Dragoon, about half the merged dimensions just suddenly... unmerged.
Eror: What? How?
Demon Engineer: We don't know. All other operations functioned as normal, dimensional stability wasn't effected, a few dimensions just suddenly disconnected. We looked into it, but we never found what caused it, it makes no sense.
Eror: (So that's what Armageddon was on about.) "No... not logical sense."
Eror looked down on the glitched part he had extracted from the Merge Device during the latter half of the battle with his foes.
Eror: There are things out there beyond our ability to understand. One specific being stands above all, but if Veroxx is correct, even he is just a puppet of a stronger force. They caused that, and possibly this part too. For what reason, we may never understand.
Glitchian Engineer: Possibly not, but that's not what we're here to do.
The Dimensional Engineers fly off down the Dimensional Hub, leaving Eror alone. Eror quickly pulled out blueprint paper, and began to draw up the concept of a Merge Device that operated without Kaleidoscope power. As he did, he promised himself revenge would be served to the Dimensional Heroes before he started the new Merge Device.
Eror: Veroxx, Armageddon, i hope you're doing alright. Don't worry, i'll get vengeance for us all, even without you.
End for Eror.
Veroxx[]
Veroxx sit's alone in his cell. Bored and angry.
Veroxx : I can't believe it. Rats did me in like this? Who was that Outer God? Why?! Why did everything go wrong at the end?!
A rift in from of Veroxx would open, from it a figure looking similar to Neo would appear, however with cooler coloration amongst the illuminant black coloring. To Veroxx, it looks like some sort of Child Asura. Of course, this is not the case. Merely appearing the same race as the Asura, no, this was the son of Neo. Glo, Demi-God of Luminance.
Veroxx : Who are you?
Glo : Hello Asura. I'm Glo, son of Neo! I have questions for you.
Veroxx : Your the son of that Outer God? Go to hell!
Glo : I've been to hell before, why would I want to go there now?
Veroxx : Tch! What do you want?
Glo : Tell me about those guy's who used the Wisps.
Veroxx : Team Dragoon?
Glo : Yeah, Yeah! I've never seen someone use wisps like that, with the Dimensional Energy and all!
Veroxx : Why are you so interested in that?
Glo : Well, I'm the one who created the Wisps.
Veroxx : You?! Even the Five Noble Wisps?!
Glo : They were the first, I'm surprised you know of Five since there are now only four after what my father did...
Veroxx : Well, I guess I have nothing to do now, so ask away.
Glo would continue asking about Team Dragoon, also learning about Team Alpha and Team Phantasm. Where such a conversation would lead is left only for them to know.
End for Veroxx
Armageddon[]
Armageddon woke up to find himself deep within a cave.
Armageddon: NOOOOO! I was so close! That wasn't fair! Why does he get one one, not two, but THREE STRYAN ARTIFACTS!
Armageddon proceeded to beat the floor with his fists.
Armageddon: Next time. Next time, Team Alpha, you will meet your doom! I'LL MAKE SURE OF IT!
End for Armageddon