Reality's Bane (IC/Open)

[Petrokovia]

Bloodfyre watched the destruction of the city, then yelled out.
"I challenge the leader of your group to a duel!"
He held his longsword aloft as he spoke.

"Right here, right now. If thou may defeat me, I shall leave, but if I am victor, you lot will go far from this place" Far from this universe!"

He stared the Decepticons down.
"May the leader of your clan step forth now, or the group suffer dishonor of the highest degree!"

[Aeternabilis]

Beach City
What was left of the crowd screamed and ran in terror away from the giant murderous robots. They then began to run and scream a little harder when the fighter descended towards the ground.

Cluster Site
They got to the Cluster's depth, and the drill broke through into a massive cavern. Pearl stopped the machine and opened the hatch, and the heroes got out.
"It's so hot and heavy down here," Steven said, panting. "Is this where the Cluster is?"

Aebrenata
"Hmm.." Zarall said, looking into the distance. "Something is clearly wrong. Baldr should have reported back by now. Okay; I'll send a reconnaissance team to Earth Prime and see if they can-" He cut himself off by closing his eyes for a moment, very clearly bothered by something. He snapped them back open and looked at the heroes. "One of my relics is in very imminent danger. The Steven Universe Earth is being heavily assaulted by Asteraoth's forces, and what heroes we have there need immediate aid lest they be destroyed. But," he continued, "I still need to know Baldr's status. There will have to be two teams. A small and stealthy force to go to Earth Prime and find Baldr, and the rest to travel to Beach City and help defend. Very quickly, who wants to be on the recon team?"

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Aebrenata
The peaceful environment was disturbed by the sound of the TARDIS materializing near the group. Once it was finished The Doctor stepped out, along with the still limping Shadow. "Ahh! Sorry we're late everyone. The TARDIS was acting up a bit, she does that sometimes. I had to figure out just how to please her so we could be on our way. Anyway what's on our to-do list?" He asked. Shadow winced as he walked, and he sighed. "I need to recover after that last mission. It wont take long." He said simply, walking away with an annoyed look on his face.

The Doctor shook his head. "Well, nice to see his mood has stayed the same!" The Doctor said.

[Petrokovia]

"I'll go to Earth Prime." Tadayoshi said. "As long as I wear gloves, no one would know I have metal arms. Besides, getting back into some detective work would be good for me."
He stood up, carefully getting out of the chair. He seemed to be able to stand normally, though it was clear he was not used to the new limbs.

"I'm going to fight." Tatsumaki said. "All of this standing around is too boring."

"We'll go fight as well." Gold said. "I doubt they have 5'7" badgers on Earth Prime." he joked, referencing Ty.
"Yeah... Plus, my skills would be better put to use in combat."

[The States of Balloon]

Aebreneta

"Hmm.." Zarall said, looking into the distance. "Something is clearly wrong. Baldr should have reported back by now. Okay; I'll send a reconnaissance team to Earth Prime and see if they can-" He cut himself off by closing his eyes for a moment, very clearly bothered by something. He snapped them back open and looked at the heroes. "One of my relics is in very imminent danger. The Steven Universe Earth is being heavily assaulted by Asteraoth's forces, and what heroes we have there need immediate aid lest they be destroyed. But," he continued, "I still need to know Baldr's status. There will have to be two teams. A small and stealthy force to go to Earth Prime and find Baldr, and the rest to travel to Beach City and help defend. Very quickly, who wants to be on the recon team?"

Clover approached Zarall, the bottles on his utility belt(which he had recently retrieved from the buffet table) clinking together as he walked."I shall travel to earth prime and gather information. For I am a master of stealth, and one who wishes to avoid conflict. I'm sure that I can be in and out without causing too much trouble."
That other place
"What is wrong with you?" Blare shook the bag of goods Itchy stole from the Pokemon center. "We were in a brand new universe and your first instinct was to rob the nearest building? This is unbelieveable."
"Stop making stuff up. Robbing the Pokemon Center wasn't the first thing I did." Itchy was slumped on a couch, unaware of his mistake.
"Yeah, the first thing you did was give a taxi driver the finger."
"Says the guy who willingly beat up a defensless animal."
"The damn thing was covered in spikes. Plus, I had to catch one somehow. You can't walk around the Pokemon universe without a Pokemon."
"Yeah, and you can't walk around ANY universe without money."
"I'm pretty sure Pokeyen aren't worth anything in LITERALLY EVERY UNIVERSE OTHER THAN POKEMON. And...are these Pokeballs? You stole Pokeballs? What are we supposed to do with these?" Blare had raised his voice to the point where he was screaming at Itchy as he shoveled the bag's contents onto the table.

[Naval Monte]

When the witch and the brothers heard about what was going on with Earth Prime and the Steven Universe worlds both of them have different ideas on what to do. "I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, SHALL GO TO THAT WORLD IN GREAT PERIL TO SAVE THE SOULS WHO ARE BEING INVADED BY THE FORCES OF EVIL AND MAKE SURE THAT YOUR RELIC OF SUPREME GOOD IS NOT DESTROYED BY THE DARK LORD'S FORCES." Papyrus boasted loudly, raising a bone like a mighty sword and non existent wind blowing against his scarf like a cape for dramatic effect.

i'm going with my bro because i know that going to earth prime is going to cause trouble for me and i rather not have my brother alone in a battlefield" Sans said with his usual grin on his face as he looked bored to everyone, his hands in his shorts as he scratch his ankle with the back of his foot. Elizabeth also kept her hands in her coat pocket and like him also kept her grin as she spoke to Zarall.

"If Earth Prime is like my world than I'm going there. I'm always hiding who I am in my world and I like human compared to half of our team so this mission is good for me, hell I've done recon before and investigation is a major part of my job. Plus I rather not have to deal with a bloody battlefield after fighting against to godmoders in a previous world that I was in."

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Beach City
Bombshock stopped and turned when he heard someone shout, he scanned around and saw Bloodfyre pointing "What in the Pit are you talking about? Do you really think I'd waste my time with a dual?" he walked up to Bloodfyre and looked down at him "Let me tell you something, short-stuff. Honor is a lie. A lie made by cowards who are too scared to do the dirty work. You think I'd care about a great dishonor on my "clan"? No. And beyond that, why do you think a flesh-sack like you could take me on? I've torn my way through some of the toughest battles in my kind's history. I've seen hundreds gunned down where they stood because they believed in little lies like "honor" and "mercy". On top of that I kill spawn of glitches like you for fun." Tracer looked up and saw the unidentified fighters above the city "Sir, we've got bogeys in the air, and it doesn't look like the flyboys we came with." Dropshot looked up "How can you tell?" Tracer pointed at the fighters "Well those planes are black and red, the flyboys with us are garish neon colors. Remember?" Bombshock sighed "Alright, we'll need to hurry up our schedule. Crankcase and Ruckus will look for the artifact. Tracer, you go to the ship to inform the Predators and Windsweeper of these arrivals. I've got something to attend to." as the other 3 left to do their jobs Bombshock turned back to Bloodfyre "Now, where were we?"

[Petrokovia]

Beach City
Bombshock stopped and turned when he heard someone shout, he scanned around and saw Bloodfyre pointing "What in the Pit are you talking about? Do you really think I'd waste my time with a dual?" he walked up to Bloodfyre and looked down at him "Let me tell you something, short-stuff. Honor is a lie. A lie made by cowards who are too scared to do the dirty work. You think I'd care about a great dishonor on my "clan"? No. And beyond that, why do you think a flesh-sack like you could take me on? I've torn my way through some of the toughest battles in my kind's history. I've seen hundreds gunned down where they stood because they believed in little lies like "honor" and "mercy". On top of that I kill spawn of glitches like you for fun." Tracer looked up and saw the unidentified fighters above the city "Sir, we've got bogeys in the air, and it doesn't look like the flyboys we came with." Dropshot looked up "How can you tell?" Tracer pointed at the fighters "Well those planes are black and red, the flyboys with us are garish neon colors. Remember?" Bombshock sighed "Alright, we'll need to hurry up our schedule. Crankcase and Ruckus will look for the artifact. Tracer, you go to the ship to inform the Predators and Windsweeper of these arrivals. I've got something to attend to." as the other 3 left to do their jobs Bombshock turned back to Bloodfyre "Now, where were we?"

Hmm. An experienced warrior... This should make for an interesting battle.
"I, too, have great experience and power in my Universe. It is never wise to think a battle won before it is even started. You may be surprised."
Bloodfyre brought up his shield, and aimed his sword pointed between Bombshock's eyes.
"Impetum Mortis Manu!" he shouted, and a large and powerful red bolt surrounded by fire was let loose to strike Bombshock. Bloodfyre stood ready in a defensive position, waiting for a possible counter from his foe.

[Cybraxia]

In the skies above Beach City:

"Alright, all wings, hold fire until I give the command." The fighter craft in command opened a channel to the Decepticons.

"Listen, I don't care who you are or who you think you are, but generally soldiers don't intentionally fire on civilians. Because, and I can't believe I need to say this, that constitutes a war crime. And I don't think that fancy purple emblem is a gang symbol. So we're going to give you one chance before we shoot you down: Put down your weapons. Because if you don't, we will be shooting to kill, and you all look like targets ripe for the taking."

With that, he cut comms to the robots. "I already know they aren't going to take it. Back off, and come around, line up your shots, and get ready to kill these fuckers. If there's one thing that pisses me off, it's war criminals." Five red diamonds winked in his HUD.

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Beach City, City Center
Bombshock brunted this blast, stepping back a bit "Why you little puss-pile!" Bombshock then fired his Concussion Rifle at Bloodfyre.

Outside Beach City, Decepticon Ship
Tracer landed and entered the cloaked ship "Lieutenant Colonel Skyquake! Lieutenant Colonel Skyquake! 6 unidentified fighters above." Skyquake sat in the captain's seat, slowly turning "I know, Stalker just picked intercepted a message from them, and we had already detected them. They want us to stand down." Tracer nodded "So, sir. What's our next move?" Skyquake chuckled "Now the REAL fun begins. Stalker! Patch me through to these assailants!" Stalker nodded and patched through to the fighters "This is Lieutenant Colonel Skyquake of the Decepticon Empire, we have been sent here to begin the sterilization of this inferior world and we shall not be interrupted. I suggest turnaround and run, for we are ready to attack and we ALWAYS shoot to kill." Skyquake stood and looked at the troops still onboard "Tracer, Stalker, stay here. Windsweeper and the rest of the Predators are with me. Alright? Move!" the six Cons ran out and exited the plane "You know what to do. Swat them out of the sky! Decepticons! Transform and rise up!" the Cons then jumped and transformed into their jet modes and took off. Skyquake took center formation in his large jet mode as the other brightly colored jets formed up around him, all heading towards the fighters.

Beach City, the Gem Temple
The Triggercons rolled up outside the large statue house and transformed "SO THIS IS THE TARGET? I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A BIT MORE HIDDEN!" Crankcase sighed "It's a fragging temple, why the hell would a fragging temple be hidden?" Ruckus elbowed Crankcase, clearly annoyed "WELL LET'S BLOW THIS SCRAP UP AND GET GOING!" just as he was folding out his cannons when Crankcase stopped him "Wait, if this place is a special temple, imagine the wicked-aft loot we could find in there! Let's break in and pick the building clean before blowing it up." Ruckus gained a devious smile and nodded "OFF ROAD IS GOING TO BE SO JEALOUS THAT HE DIDN'T JOIN IN ON THIS SCOUTING MISSION." the two then smashed into the front of the building and began wrecking the place up in search of stuff.

Asriel's Mind
Bill looked, clearly bored "Ugh, you guys are no fun. You're supposed to be screaming in terror!! Y'know what?" he snapped, the nightmares disappeared "I'm going to do this in a more direct way. I'm going to fill your mind with images of all the worst atrocities across the multiverse, let's see how you can handle thinking about every genocide ever! the kids' minds were then filled with unspeakable horrors, billions of deaths all being shown at once.

[Flarbinia]

In The Skies Above Beach City
"Sorry I am late to the party, Comrades! The repairs took longer than expected, but I am ready to shoot down any who oppose the Decepticons!" Sasha said as she joined the formation, her voice full of eagerness as she detected multiple hostiles, her head filling with the joyous thought of burning this "Beach City" to the ground. "Will you walk into my parlour, said the spider to the fly?" Sasha whispered to herself as her targeting systems locked onto the human jets, her weapons ready to fire as soon as she received the order to attack from Skyquake.

[Aeternabilis]

Aebrenata
"Wwe'll be joinin the fight too, a course." Eridan said somewhat smugly, speaking for all the trolls. Before they had a chance to protest, Zarall spoke.
"I do believe these are the best teams we'll come up with on such short notice," he said. The Lord of Good acknowledged the scout team. "Tadayoshi, Clover, you'll be sent to the New York City of Earth Prime. Seek out Baldr at the United Nations headquarters. If the worst has occurred, complete his mission in as low a profile as possible and return as quickly as possible. Warriors," he turned to everyone else, waiting expectantly. "You'll be assisting native heroes, as well as Bloodfyre and Stanford and Dipper Pines in the defense of Beach City. Protect the Gem Temple, and protect civilians. You may all now depart." Two portals appeared, one leading into an empty abandoned building in Manhattan and the other to the active warzone just outside Beach City.
"My deepest wishes of luck to you all," Zarall said. "And please, try to stay alive."

[Widgetalia]

"Who cares about orders! Open fire!" Red Baron shouted as he opened fire at anything that moved, laughing maniacally as he moved around for another pass. "This is so much fun, it don't want it to end!" He said as he abandoned his attack and headed for the city center, eager to see if there was anything worth looting before he got back to killing.

[Flarbinia]

"Damn it, Red Baron! You ruined my paint job! We will have a serious discussion about attacking your superior officer if Skyquake doesn't tear you to pieces first!" Sasha said as she barely dodged the missiles, watching as the F-104 with the Decepticon symbol on it flew into the center of Beach City, possibly to loot the city's wealth before the post-battle massacre begins. "Typical insane banker! If I didn't have to deal with these fighters, I would have blown him to smithereens for this betrayal." She added as she began to rejoin the formation.

[Naval Monte]

"Oi, don't forget that I'm joining those two because I have no interest on being killed by space aliens." Elizabeth told the god as she went over with the scout team which was only two people. "WE WILL NOT FAIL YOU ZARALL NOR WILL WE DIE." Papyrus said as he gave the lord of good a salute like a soldier. "yeah if we can survive the end of the world and two god power maniacs i'm sure alien invaders will be a cake walk for us."

The skeleton brothers went to the portal that would take them to the battle and once they saw what was happening they both admit now that maybe it was a terrible idea going to this world, but seeing several civilians about to be shot made the brothers put away those thoughts and summon many magical bones to protect them from the energy shots. Sans summon his blasters and fired them at the flying Decepticons.

Back on Heaven Elizabeth let a cigarette and was walking up to the portal to New York. "Well you two are coming? You don't want to leave a lady all alone on the big bad city right?" she said in a obviously worried tone that just made the fact that she was teasing them all too clear, her smirk only added onto it. Elizabeth was the first to enter the portal and when she appeared inside an abandoned building the witch almost thought she was home since in most of her cases abandoned locations often play a role, however the portal behind her was there to remind her that this was not her world's version of New York.

[Slenderman The CreepyPasta King]

Goku instant transmissioned back to aberentia, and asked,"Hey guys, so, what did I miss?" He was asking truthfully. Sense he had to leave due to beerus showing up, again, he apparently missed a lot. When he heard about a battle he said,"I'll participate in the battle."

[Widgetalia]

Beach City, City Center
Red baron spotted a Decepticon shooting at an human, his insanity fading. "No Decepticon would hold back like that. I will report him to Lord Skyquake once I have looted city treasury, but I must protect the loot." He thought as he transformed and headed towards a building where a few civilians were hiding. If he could get the human to surrender, not only would he be forgiven for his bout of madness, but he would get a promotion and possibly a fusion cannon (he was planning on buying one on the black market with his stockpile of loot, but he wouldn't have been a successful banker if he did not seize every opportunity). "One puny human cannot possibly pose any real threat to a Decepticon, but I cannot take chances." He thought as he approached the building where the civilians were hiding.

[The States of Balloon]

Aebrenata
"Wwe'll be joinin the fight too, a course." Eridan said somewhat smugly, speaking for all the trolls. Before they had a chance to protest, Zarall spoke.
"I do believe these are the best teams we'll come up with on such short notice," he said. The Lord of Good acknowledged the scout team. "Tadayoshi, Clover, you'll be sent to the New York City of Earth Prime. Seek out Baldr at the United Nations headquarters. If the worst has occurred, complete his mission in as low a profile as possible and return as quickly as possible. Warriors," he turned to everyone else, waiting expectantly. "You'll be assisting native heroes, as well as Bloodfyre and Stanford and Dipper Pines in the defense of Beach City. Protect the Gem Temple, and protect civilians. You may all now depart." Two portals appeared, one leading into an empty abandoned building in Manhattan and the other to the active warzone just outside Beach City.
"My deepest wishes of luck to you all," Zarall said. "And please, try to stay alive."

"I can't promise anything!" Clover hastily rushed to the portal, a small hop in each step.
Earth Prime: Home(?) at last!
Clover was the second through the portal, narrowly dodging Elizabeth's leg as he slowed down. "So this is Earth Prime? It's a bit underwhelming for a universe this important. The first thing we should do is search the area where Baldr was last seen. The United Kingdom Headquarters if I remember correctly."

[Petrokovia]

Tadayoshi stepped through the portal into Earth Prime, and looked around.
"Huh... This place looks a lot like the New York in my world... Been a while since I've been in New York, though."

---

Tatsumaki, Gold, and Ty stepped through the portal into Beach City. Bloodfyre retreated a small distance to join the group.
"Allies! I see you have some new people among your ranks! This city is under siege by giants! Their leader is over there, and I saw some of them make their way out into the other parts of the city."
Bloodfyre pointed out a handfull of directions from the heroes' location.

[Slenderman The CreepyPasta King]

Goku saw Tatsumaki, gold, and Ty step through the portal and decided to follow them. When he stepped through he heard bloodfyre and said,"Ooh, they sound strong, this is going to be fun!" Before flying off to face one of the giants. Not wanting to go into his super sayian form he flew up to ones face and asked,"You seem strong, do you want to fight?"

[Widgetalia]

"Surrender, puny humans, or they get turned into hamburger! Your honor demands that you cannot knowingly let the innocent die!" Red Baron shouted as he moved forward, the civilians trapped in an energon cage that he held in one hand while he pointed his retractable machine gun at the cage, the sadistic look in his eyes destroying any doubt that he would go through with it. By ensuring that that any attempt to rescue the hostages will result in their deaths, he had presented the enemy with a catch-22: forfeit the fight to save the civilians or sacrifice them to win the battle.

[Petrokovia]

"Surrender, puny humans, or they get turned into hamburger! Your honor demands that you cannot knowingly let the innocent die!" Red Baron shouted as he moved forward, the civilians trapped in an energon cage that he held in one hand while he pointed his retractable machine gun at the cage, the sadistic look in his eyes destroying any doubt that he would go through with it. By ensuring that that any attempt to rescue the hostages will result in their deaths, he had presented the enemy with a catch-22: forfeit the fight to save the civilians or sacrifice them to win the battle.

Red Baron would find their body surrounded in a green aura, and would soon be lifted high off of the ground. Tatsumaki flew forward, and addressed the decepticon.

"You seem awfully eager to slaughter humans. But you are also very cocky. You left yourself open."

She used her power to slam Red Baron into the ground hard, causing a crater to form where he impacted the Earth.

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Beach City, Ground
Bombshock looked at the new hero arrivals "Well, well, well. What do we have here? A bunch of little heroes here to save the day by the looks of it. Well you're too late, it's only gonna get worse from here." Meanwhile, Goku came face to face with Dropshot, who was going to take care of Sans and Papyrus "Get outta my face, ugly. I have a job to do." Growl then came upon Red Baron "What are you doing, you cog? We're not taking any prisoners. This is a genocide we're doing. Wait, who the scrap are you anyways?" he then turned to Tatsumaki "Hah, you fools are too late. Crankcase and Ruckus are probably destroying the artifact as we speak!

Beach City, Temple
The Triggercons emerged from the hole in the temple, now carrying everything useful they found in the temple. Ruckus set down his stuff "THAT WAS FUN, NOW WE BLOW IT UP AND THE REAL PARTY STARTS!" Crankcase also set down the stolen items "That's right, we slag the place and go now. Ready?" the two readied themselves "Three. Two. One. FIRE!" the two Triggercons flipped out their shoulder cannons and fired at the temple, causing a loud and bright explosion which could be seen all around.

[Cybraxia]

Beach City Skies:

"All wings, open fire on the mechs." Five beeps voiced their affirmative, and the Wolfen fighters began firing on the Decepticons.

"This is gonna be like shooting fish in a barrel!" one of the fighters gloated.

"Pipe down, Pigma. We still don't know what their shtick is," their leader rebuked. "Just get em off the civvies, firstly."

[Flarbinia]

"Dasvidaniya, puny organics!" Sasha said as she opened fire on the human fighters, effortlessly dodging the missiles. She then headed straight for the leader, machineguns blazing as she got closer.