The Ancient Ones: Age of Nothingness (IC)

[Legokiller]

Borg World

Calem kept calm and simply commanded his royal sword pokemon, “Now Aegislash!”

Insticically when faced with a soul destroying blast of energy, the Pokemon returned its sword back into its stealth, activating a hardly hexagon comb barrier to protect itself. The shield stance pokemon leaped to brace the impact, and would block the entire powerful bolt, undamaged thanks to the barrier. “Now Starlight, use metronome!”

Starlight the Clefable smiled as she performed a bouncy dance, waving her figure around as a random move was summoned. All a sudden, the Clefable knew what to do and generated a violent burst of sharp pink diamonds, and fired the diamond storm at 00-1.

The petal dance of a blizzard slowly halted as Roserade made a high classic disappointing hmph at the monster. She ate the Lum berry to help stop the dizziness and confusion, returning her focus on the battlefield. “I know! Rosy, use hidden power!” Serena ordered. Roserade nodded as she summoned red orbs of intense fire from her Bouquet hands, and send them off to 00-1.

“Your pain shall come to an end, and with it, your existence fiend!” Alice announced as her tone began to shift tone. “Behold the song of the moon!” Alice cried out a bizarre echo, sounds of the moon itself from space, fused with the opera of the glamorous Serena-Gardevoir, unleashed into a hyper voice wave. The voice was empowered and pixilated by the holy moon, transforming it to a fairy power, and far more powerful.

Mei finally came out of the Tardis with Glaceon, and began to fire icicles. “Snow Queen, use blizzard!” Mei announced with excitement. The Glaceon’s chilly mouth opened fire a fierce highwind winter storm at the monster, and countless harden small snowballs in the snowflake mix.

[Legokiller]

Ockham's Razor

“Yeah, they make games and there is a branch back in Unova.” Iris crossed her arms, and figured it is best not to tell Muffet about what Game Freak is. If she does, then it will be looking at two mirrors side by side, and create an infinite inception. Like people play Pokemon back home in real life, video games doing what Pokemon trainers do, and the video game characters play pokemon too and so on. Add the multiverse as a cherry on top, and Ta-dah!

Iris turned to the Ice King and raised an eyebrow. If Finn the human and Jake the dog ever show up, he’s going to have a ridiculous and badd time. Where’s Gunter anyway? He probably didn’t meet his little companion yet.“Hey bud. I believe you’ll do well with a penguin pal one day.” Iris chuckled.

“Sounds like a plan Tadoyoshi.” Iris lowered her expression but turn that frown upside down.”me and dragonite will bash those fighters to the ground. Not a problem!”

As the pretty dressed champion head out to the rooftop airlock, she mused on how if the Star and the rest of her comrades from Unova were here, such task would be a bit easier. Iris knew she is up to the task, but this isn’t really a Pokemon battle and the foes are using fighter craft. But this isn’t really too bad, as her trustly and tough Dragonite can get to speeds up to mach two. Iris petted her sweet dragon, who then surprised her as he picked her up in his arms.

“Wow there Dragonite, easy now.” Iris chuckled. “We have a lot of baddies to beat down, but careful alright?” She fondles his head. “I’ll be riding you like in one of those fantasy movies, or Game of thrones to be exact.”

Dragonite huffed and smirked, ready to charge and meet the enemy head on. Iris climbed her dragon and took a seat on his back. There was one minor adjustment; quick and easy rope safety saddle, all strapped on. “Alright Dragonite, let’s go! Oh, I got your wing mate right here.” Iris grinned as she held Hydreigon's ball.

The dragon princess and Dragonite swoop out of the ship, and landed next to Gold and Ty. The black skinned girl enjoyed the wind blowing against her long ponytail, and she quickly tossed out Hydreigon into the field. Just as the brutal Pokemon came out, Iris’ Sylveon gleefully existed her pokeball to snuggle her boyfriend’s cheeks and mount him. The fearsome dragon stopped his sinister roars, blushing as Sylveon simply smiled, and Iris getting a good laugh out of it.

[Naval Monte]

Brasília

"Yeah that would be me." The man stated. "I made sure the ambient energy of this world was big enough for you all to detect, I accidentally caught in a few world jumpers that I didn't want but I say my plan succeeded since you two arrived and with no black hedgehog to which makes everything better." Marie nodded in agreement. The man didn't look threaten by the destroyed pen, if anything the large grin on his face showed that he found James attempt at threatening his life amusing. Marie unwarped the flag and let it fall down as she held the spear of destiny.


Marie felt something was off with the spear. "Where is its power?" She glared at the man with anger, suspecting that they were being tricked. The man pulled out a crystal that was fainting glowing. "I had to contain it in this because if I kept it in the spear the Archons would know I have it. To have the power back in the spear all you have to do is stab the crystal with the spear. But I suggest we do that somewhere far away from the Archon's sphere of influence."

Marie didn't question the man's judgement since she met one of them before and would not want a repeat of that meeting. "So said that you want to break free from your masters and since you keep mentioning the Archons I guess that would make you an angel. Elizabeth once said that your kind were nothing more but robots yet you display a lot more intelligence to be just a divine machine." Marie soon realize something. "We also never got your name angel."

The man looked offended at Marie for what she said about his kind but sighed, resigning to what she said. "You're right, some of us are like robots; built only to serve that one specific purpose and to be shutdown until we are needed once more. But some of us come with much more advanced hardware and software and you can say that I fall into that latter group. Those on top have more free will yet we are still nothing more but servants to the Archons." he explained moving close to the edge to look down at the city streets.

"I want to change that. I want to free my people from their control and in return free humanity from both the Archons and Daevas. So long as they exist both man and angel are slaves to them." he looked back at Marie and James. A strange guts blew in and while their hair and clothing blew against it both party would stand strong against it. Marie faintly heard the sound of gears turning and would hear it more stronger from the angel standing in front of her but as quickly the noise came it vanish.

Once the wind was gone the angel walked away from the edge. "As for a name I can't give you my real name. In a world where sympathetic magic is a reality the last thing I want is my name being used against me so you two can call me Manny for the mean time." Marie asked how she and James can be sure that Manny won't use sympathetic magic on them. "Because I don't know how to use that form of magic as a weapon. At best I can use it to track and spy people but nothing more. I was meant to get the upgrades for that but at the last minute I got shafted because they decided to put more priority towards more combative angels since the Daevas felt that now was the excellent time to begin plans for a multiverse invasion."

Marie was surprised by what Manny said, the angel looking at the group with surprised and asked if they were aware of the plan to which Marie shook her head. "Strange. I thought the Doctor or Jacob would told you. No matter, right now we need to find the sword before we can focus on the demon." Marie had to agree with Manny. There wasn't much two half bloods can do against an army of demons right now. "You know where the sword is?" Manny nodded.

"Yeah I know where the first piece of the sword is." Marie shouted what when she heard that the sword was in pieces. "Sorry about that but the sword was split into multiple pieces to insure that no one would use it after YHWH decided to no longer use it. We are going to go after the grip and pommel of the sword. Both pieces are together and they are in a dimension you two were in for a short time. Do you remember the city you two entered when one of the Archons appeared after that fiasco in this city during 1994?"

Marie remembered clearly on that day and the strange dark city she, James and Elizabeth were thrown into, after nodding Manny created a gate. "That is our first location. I should warn you that not only do the Archons now own the city but there is plenty of dangerous native and foreign life in the city. Plus time and space don't behave like in this universe. Are two sure you want to enter the city again?" Marie was ready to go back to the city and was just waiting for James to say yes.

Once the two half bloods agreed to enter the city them and the angel went through the gate. At the other side the three would find themselves standing on top of a strange vehicle that may have been a truck. Around them they found many black skyscrapers all down on the ground with water down at the ground with tall trees and patches of grasses breaking through the water. The blades of grasses would sheen like metal and the bark of the trees were fused with a strange metallic substance and the branches of the tree form a sphere. From the building Marie and James can see floating piles of junk that act as islands floating in the wetlands.

"Before we go any further I have to make sure the angels won't be able to track you two." Marie asked what was his plan for that. "I crave enochian sigils on your ribcages so that way no one won't see them." Marie understandably didn't like that plan. "Can't you just give us tattoos on our flesh and not carve up our bones?" Manny shook his head no. "Tattoos would just make you two more noticeable, besides if those tattoos were destroyed than they will loss their powers and destroying skin is much easier than breaking bones. However I can do that with a sigil that would protect you two from having sympathetic magic being used against you two since your names are known in heaven."

Marie thought of the options and said. "Give us the sigil to protect us from sympathetic magic first and we'll deal with the rib sigils later." Manny agreed and he placed his hands on their chest, causing them to feel intense pain from their body. "There, I hide the ward somewhere discreet on your body. Now let's get moving." The moment the two half bloods blinked Manny was gone, the two hearing wings flapping and gears and other clockwork turning and spinning. Marie shrugged and jumped off the truck, splashing on to the water that submerged her but in a second she came out, the water reaching up to her waist. "By the gods this water is freezing cold!" she shouted, shivering as the armor only made it worse for her.

Marie didn't bother waiting for James to catch up as she saw a mound of broken concrete and rusted steel acting as a small patch of land that she figure can help her get away from the freezing water. What the two half bloods fail to notice was a disturbance on the water close by them, the source of the disturbance swimming towards the pair.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 50
Kanegi
第50宇宙
金木

Asano Clan Main HQ
浅野一族総本部

Lieutenant General
Shūichi Arima
有馬　秋壱
One of the Three Demons of Sangū Division


Lieutenant General
Sōsuke Sangū
三宮　奏介
One of the Three Demons of Sangū Division
Younger Brother of General Takekai Sangū

"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu! It's been a long time."

As the two Lieutenant Generals walked through the entrance of Kanegi's massive gates proudly, all the soldiers standing guard bowing to them as they went past, Tadashi Sakakibara emerged from the inner gates of the castle to greet the two men.

"Congratulations on your new post, Lord Sakakibara", said Arima, firmly shaking Sakakibara's hand. "Unfortunately, General Sangū is unable to turn up in person right now. He, I believe, is interrogating somebody found to have connections with Alvin Crawford."

"I see, I see..." Sakakibara shrugged. "In any case, your presence here is something we are very much grateful for, and we await Lieutenant General Numasawa's arrival with the convoy, too." He stopped and shook Sōsuke Sangū's hand too. "Do send my congratulations to your elder brother too, Lieutenant General Sangū. He has pulled off a mission of incredible importance to our cause, and has dealt a violent blow to the Chimaera. He shall be rewarded greatly when the conflict is over."

"Yes, yes, I know." Sōsuke's face seemed to darken somewhat at the mention of his elder brother. "I'll tell him."

"Come", said Sakakibara, turning around and walking back inside. "We shall discuss our future plans now."

...

"So it seems that two of Sangū's demons have arrived, eh?"

Tsuji and Matsushita sat in a balcony, the former drinking water and the latter sipping at a can of Asahi beer. '

"That's going to make things a little harder", said Tsuji. "We know Sangū is on our side, but we can't be sure about his three generals. Not even Sōsuke Sangū." The retainer sighed and adjusted his tie. "Little brothers can be quite the wild horses, I believe. Sadly, I was an only child, so... I have no experience dealing with any of that."

Matsushita sipped at the beer and continued looking out at the sunset.

"I thought they were going to be forever stuck in the Outer Rim planets", Tsuji bemoaned. "Now it seems they'll be here till God knows when. Hell if that old bag Sakakibara decides to execute us all and replace us with those three."

The bespectacled general slammed his palm on the wooden table.

"Let's not incur all this bad luck now", he shot back. Noting Tsuji's confused expression, Matsushita sank back into his seat. "Not when I've made the biggest gamble of my life on a ragtag bunch of dimensional travellers."

"Ah, yes, those guys you told me about", said Tsuji. "Any way you can track their progress?"

"Nope", the general replied matter-of-factly. "There's no way we can peer into the Manichean Plane. We'll just have to stall for as long as-"

"Sir!"

Matsushita whirled about swiftly in the chair, to see Captain Takasaki dashing into the room, his katana clinking as he went along.

"Sir, Lieutenant General Arima would like to have a couple of words with you regarding our defence strategy."

"Hmm..." Matsushita finished the rest of the beer and threw the can into the empty can dustbin. "Tell him to meet me here. Would it be okay if Tsuji sits in in this meeting?"

"I don't see why not, sir", the captain replied.

"Okay, then. Call him in."

...

[Naval Monte]

Greater Multiverse
Dimension 5
Bonacci Hotel
Hex's Ship

The alarm system of the ship activated the moment the AIs inside the computer systems picked up a heavily armed force entering the hotel. The ear piercing blares of the alarm can be heard throughout the ship and all of the corridors were had red lights flashing on the grey and white metallic walls. The crew all ran throughout the corridor with Hex running into the bridge which thankfully was an easy trip since everyone on board moved out of the way as to not get in the woman's way and the door slid open on it's own. "How many ships we have?" Hex ordered one of the officers. "No ships ma'am but we detected a large army entering the dimension."

From the radio they all heard the ultimatum was heard throughout the ship. Hex walked to the commander seat and fell on it, thinking on what to do as she lean her face onto her raised left hand, resting on the curled up ball that she had her fingers in as the fingers on her right kept tapping on the chair as she thought of a plan to escape from her current predicament.

Her main goal was to make sure that her team leaves this place alive as this quest was not their main mission but a side activity, as such it would be so easy as to hand the men over but she doesn't like losing objectives and missions, her stubborn will would make sure those men will stay in the ship unless there was nothing she can do to insure the survival of her crew and the ship.

In the bridge some of the officers were already talking about throwing the men to the army to insure their safety while others doubted the general would keep her world and would blow them and the hotel after getting the men. This would be the state of the bridge with many voicing out reasons why following through the demands of the general is the only move they can do and others saying that she couldn't be trusted.

Hex wished she could order in reinforcements and have them gate into the hotel but she knew that doing so would cause the enemy to blow the place along with them. Just as she thought of gating in back up an idea appeared in her head. "How many gates can the generator of this vessel create." The officers looked at Hex and one mentioned that twenty can be open at once before the generator starts experiencing problems. "I want you all to open those twenty gates underneath the soldiers and linked them to the reality #696." The officers knew which reality she was referring to with that one.

The officers got back to their seats and began to type on their keyboards as they active the Janus Gate System, pushing the generator that was in their ship to the limit as the one on-board was never meant to be used for combat. Inside the gate generator room the engineers and technicians would hear the machine almost roaring to life as it was being activated and used beyond it's normal capacity.

In the ranks of the army some of the soldiers would scream as gates appeared beneath them. Before the others can respond large towers of flames would jet out, a terrible odur of rotten meat, sulfur, burnt metal, boiling chemicals and burnt ozone hit the soldier's noses. From the portal terrible biomechanical monstrosities and abominations rose from them and began to attack them, the demons of Inferno have come through.

As the soldiers began to attack them more of their numbers grew as they came through the gates, many of the demons having bodies being much tougher than human flesh and as a result bullets weren't doing as much damage to them. The Aquila's engines sprang to life and the ship began to vertically take off, the gauss cannons on the ship became active and fired metal slugs at the soldiers as the ship lifted off the ground, assisting them are gatling guns.

The ship soon began to fly forward and gradually ascended up to the sky. The officers would find missiles heading their way. "Activate plasma shields and open more gates to send those missiles to hell. Let the demons handle them." The officers followed her orders. Some of the missiles were swallowed by gates which caused more demons to flew through them after the missiles went through, others hit the shields of the ship.

Unlike the shields on warships the shields on the Aquila were not meant to be on constantly so they have a time limit for how long they can keep their shields on. As more missiles came towards them Hex ordered the deployment of their flares. From the sides of the ships flares began to fire out, the smoke making the ship look as though it has angelic wings. Hex ordered a gate to be open to get the ship out of the hotel's dimension.

More gates were open to let loose demons and to send the gates to other dimensions when another was open for the Aquila followed by some of the missiles. The Aquila fired off another deployment of flares to confuse the missiles and all but one followed the flares, the one that didn't hit the ship but was saved by the plasma shield.

The crew inside looked outside and saw that there were in a city. Surrounding the ship were skyscrapers made of black stone and metal, most of them being impossibly tall and as they look down they couldn't find the street below. "Status report." One of the engineers from the gate generator room reported that the generator would need to be fixed in order not to break down and those from the shield generator room stated a similar message. Hex didn't need to know where she was since she has been to those realm enough times to know some of the blocks.

Hex got up from her chair and walked off but not before giving her crew some orders. As everyone onboard was preferring their duties Hex entered the room where her guests were in. The door sliding open she walked inside. "We are in a realm called Metropolis by most people. For now we are stuck here because the gate generator is undergoing repairs as is the shield generator. Now tell me, who was that woman and why did she wanted you three." she demanded.

[Kaidou]

Greater Multiverse
Dimension 5
Bonacci Hotel
Lobby

The sudden arrival of the otherworldly abominations from the ground was coupled with a large number of the Chinese soldiers collapsing onto the floor and dying instantly, so great was the deathly stench that rose from the depths. Generalissimo Zhou, however, was unmoved; she drew her jian and, with a grunt of rage, lopped off the head of one of the biomechanical monsters which had crawled across.

"It seems that they're not intending to hand those three over", the Generalissimo snarled, as she turned around and walked off, ignoring the fact that her men were suddenly forced to engage with bizarre demons from another dimension. "Blow up the hotel." She created a portal with her portal device.

"Ma'am", pointed out the officer, "there are still approximately 640 civilians in this hotel."

"Who gives a shit?" The Generalissimo whirled about and inquired sarcastically. "It's their fault for getting tangled up in my mission. Blast them all to hell."

"... Yes, ma'am."

...

Lunes' and Tanakamaru's room

"Holy crap balls on a skewer, Gönad, you're finally here at last."

The instant Gönad threw the door of the room open, he was greeted to the sight of Lunes and Tanakamaru clutching the suitcases filled with the money they had gotten from Matsushita.

"WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?"

"They're sticking dynamite all over the walls", said Lunes, as he hurriedly exited the room, dragging two suitcases with him. "We need to GTFO right now."

"WHO'S STICKING DYNAMITE???"

"The Chinese Army", Tanakamaru interjected.

"Yes", added Lunes. "Nobody really knows what's going on, but I say we have to get out."

Gönad shrugged and, reaching into his pocket, withdrew his portal device. He created a portal, but then stopped.

"AREN'T WE GONNA HELP GET THE CIVILIANS OUT OF-"

"No time", Lunes said, as Gönad configured the portal to open to a grassy planet. "We need to get out before they blow up this whole building."

...

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The Metropolis
Hex's Ship

It had all happened too fast for either Singh or Yuen to tell what exactly had just happened. All they could do was sit down and answer Hex's questions as best as they could. She didn't seem happy, after all, and they weren't planning to get thrown out of the ship any time soon.

"That", said Yuen to Hex, "was Generalissimo Zhou Yu-ke, the current Chief of the Chinese Army. Now, I'm not a Chinese citizen, but based on what I know, she overthrew the previous democratically elected leader 48 years ago, and has been ruling the Chinese territories as an absolute dictator ever since.

"Recently, I heard that the Chimaera invaded her lands, and she struck a deal with them that she, along with the entire Chinese Army, would work under the Chimaera in exchange for her own safety."

"That witch is rotten to the core", Nekoma said, without turning to face either Hex or his two comrades, as he gazed out of the window at the scenery. "Rumour has it she sold both her sons to an extremist army in exchange for information, though she denies it."

"Anyway", Yuen continued, "I have a feeling the new Manju is sending her after us as revenge for us outing the previous one. And yes; Alvin Crawford just died. I just received the news. Takekai Sangū of the Japanese Army killed him after raiding his mansion."

...

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Greater Multiverse
Dimension 5
Bonacci Hotel
Lobby

Five minutes after Zhou Yu-ke had gone back to the safety of her base, accompanied by her highest ranked subordinates, Bonacci Hotel was blown to bits.

The total death toll amounted to 1,623. Colonel Chen Ju, who had also died in the blast, had grossly underestimated the civilian numbers; 708 guests died in the blast, as did 548 staff. The remaining deaths were the Chinese soldiers who were standing guard on Generalissimo Zhou's orders, awaiting further instruction.

None of them had been informed that the bomb unit was going to blow up the hotel.

...

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Derse, Incipisphere

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"Ugh, I feel like everything is falling out from under us right now." Poeda's voice echoed through the halls of the former Dersite Palace, now mostly vacant due to the death of the Queen. The young Troll now walked its purple halls with his most trusted companion, debating their next move.

"It can't be that bad. I know a few things went wrong, but I just think you're blowing things out of proportions right now." spoke Kadoor beside him. Their group had run into some problems recently, namely two of their more uncooperative members throwing a proverbial wrench into their plans in a major way. "They set our plans back days, maybe weeks! Now the Prospitans will never help us with a murdered monarch and a destroyed palace! All because two idiots decided they needed to overthrow the "tyrannical" Queen and free the people of Prospit! The plan hinged on us getting Prospit on our side and they ruined it!" he then rubbed his brow in frustration. "But you didn't have to beat them up like you did. Now those two will probably hate you even more." Suddenly the room seemed to glow, and when it faded the two were gone.

Japan, Earth

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There was a bright flash of light, once it faded the figure of Pobeda stood in the field as snow fell. The Olive Blood looked around and saw a battle beginning in the skies far above. "Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I get dropped in the middle of a warzone." Pobeda stuffed his hands in his jacket pockets started walking, seeing what seemed like a crash site in the distance, along with some soldiers. As he closed in on the wreck he noticed the snow near the cockpit red with blood, and a small trail moving away from it.

The TARDIS, Borg Planet

---

A bright flash of light appeared in the TARDIS, fading to reveal Kadoor now aboard. The Troll glanced around the TARDIS quickly, confusion painted on his face. "Wh-what? Where am I?" she shook her head a little and noticed someone else there. "Uh, hello. Who might you be? What is this place? And uh, how did I get here?"

[Naval Monte]

Manichean Plane
Realm 0
Timere


"Why I can create some servants to help you with work on the inn." Cain explained. "Granted it would take time for me to make them and I would need some resources for their creation but once they are made you will be grateful for me making them." the old sorcerer stated. Strange stated something similar that his magic can make the man's workload much easier.

Just as Cain and Strange were planning on how to use their magic for more mundane activities Henry rushed into the room and warn them about the Yakuza wanting to massacre everyone at Yasutei. Just as Strange was going to tell everyone to get behind him to make the portal they all ran off before he can say a word. "They know I can make portals right?" Strange shook his head as he sighed.

When Henry said he was going to stay behind to protect the money Strange didn't say anything to him as he turn his right hand, the one that had the sling ring, around in a circle and created a portal. "We will appear in Yasutei and hopefully be there before the Yakuza." Both Strange and Cain walked through the portal.


Some hour pass...

Just as the group return to the inn both Strange and Cain would come back as well, both men worn out and sweaty. The two sat down and overheard the story being told, Strange was furious to hear that the old man was a monster while Cain was glad to know to remember him for the future.

Strange made a fake cough to get everyone's attention. "So now that we know we can trust Matsushita I have some disturbing news. No doubt you are all aware that me and Cain were absent for Yasutei, there was a reason for that." Strange made sure that everyone was listening to him so he searched everyone present.

"We traveled to another plane parallel to this one and we found a legion of demons heading towards the this dimension. Me and Cain fought them off and we eventually defeated the general leading the army but not before he told me that this invasion wasn't the only one. There are more happening as we speak." the sorcerer spoke in a grave tone. "I will stay with you all to make sure those super weapons are not taken by the wrong hands but after that I must go and deal with this invasion." he told them.

Cain was silent as Strange told everyone of the news. He didn't know that the forces of Inferno were going to invade this universe as there are many planned for invasion. But he had to fight against his own faction since not doing so would seriously risk breaking his cover. He needs to get the super weapons first and after that he can leave the group.

"I think now we can try to bring in Hex's ship since if anyone can use the hotel no doubt the demons would be using it as well." Cain stated, knowing full well that they would use many methods with the hotel just being one of them.

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The Metropolis
Hex's Ship

Hex listened to what the men told her about the general that invaded the hotel and threaten to kill them all and her mutiny and dictatorial control over he country. "So she rules China for another world. What else can you give me about her and her army? If I'm going to help you people I need to know much about about her even if what you know are rumors because where I'm from rumors have a funny way of being true." she told the men. She was clearly frustrated on getting the ship invaded with an army hunting down these men.

Hex sighed. "So far we can all rest a little knowing that Crawford is gone and we don't have to deal with him anymore. I just wish I was there when he died so that way I can avenge the deaths of my people." Hex lean back on the chair that she sat and closed her eyes, glad that Crawford was gone.

She was startled when the ship began to shake violently. "What is going on?" she shouted at the bluetooth ear piece. "An anomaly in time and space has struck us ma'am, we are being taken somewhere else in the city." the panicked officer told her at the other line. Hex and everyone would be flung forward once the shaking stopped, making the woman fall off her seat. Everyone would hear the ship striking something from outside.

"Alright who isn't dead yet?" she moaned out, rubbing her face in pain as she got up. She looked out on the window and saw that the ship struck a down building and down below they can see many destroyed building along with strange planet life and plenty of water with piles of junks acting as small islands. "I should let you know this city has some strange time space anomalies and one of them just send us into a new region of the city. We appear to be in some sort of wetlands." she told everyone in the room.

In the current flight path of the ship it would eventually find both James and Marie as they traverse through the ruinous wetlands. Down on the ground Marie's enhanced hearing picked up the roars of the engines. "James do you hear that?" Marie face plamed just as she said those words, she forgot that her hearing was far greater than James. "I can hear a ship coming towards us." she told him and sure enough the two can make out the Aquila coming towards them.

The crew of the ship shine down lights at the two half bloods, surprising the crew to find life in the city that was actually human. Hex soon got word of who they found in the city. "Got yea, I will be on the bridge shortly." She turned to the people on the room and explained to them that they found some possible new guests before she left the room, before she left she told them if they want to see the bridge to follow her.

Once she made it to the bridge she sat down on the chair and actives the com systems to speak to the two half bloods. "This is the Aquila. We are surprised to see two half bloods in these ruins. What reason do you two have for being here?"

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Greater Multiverse
Dimension 5
Bonacci Hotel
Ruins

Once the hotel was blown to kingdom come many demons near the explosion were slain by it yet surprisingly some were resilient enough to survive the explosion but were still injured by the blast, the kinetic shockwave of it and the shrapnel that flew out. Many people died from the blast and while their lost was tragic many of them had a disguised blessing as many demons began to enter the ruins of the hotel as more gates began to open, the Inferno invasion that the Doctor was warned about had begun.

The Nepharite known as Zodd the Immortal flew down to the ground, stepping on the charred ribcage of a fallen Chinese soldiers. "Those cowards chose to destroy this structure instead of fighting for their right to keep it. Such cowardice would never be forgiven." Unsurprisingly Zodd has the wrong idea of what just happened in the hotel.

["background=black]I doubt heavily that these men chose to destroy this building simply to deny us access to it Zodd. The human species may be mentally deficient creatures but I doubt they would forget to save their soldiers and civilians. No I believe this army had no care for the hotel and simply destroyed it for their own reasons. But no matter for this have helped us greatly in that act.[/background]" Zodd turn and bowed before the being standing before him that descended from the heavens.

"Lord Gamchicoth, I was not expecting your presence for this conquest."

Daeva
Gamchicoth
The False Savior

The Daeva gestured for the nepharite to rise with a simple raising of his hands. "Such a shame that a beautiful place like the Bonacci Hotel had to be destroyed but that is humanity's never ending lust for destruction. Not even realms like these can be spared from that dark impulse of man."

The twin longswords of coated in both the fires of Inferno and the darkness of the abyss dissolved into their respective elements and enter Gamchicoth, greatly enhancing his powers. "Man needs someone to Shepherd them, to help guide their wayward sword and tempered their instincts. To show them enlightenment." The Daeva rose his arms and before the demons the rumbles and debris of the hotel began to rise and morph, changing into something new as the Daeva not only wish to reconstruct the hotel but change it to what he sees fit.

From fires of destruction and the ashes of tragedy a new haven shall be forged. This one haven shall be both the hub for travelers and sanctuary for our infernal kind. This day will not be remembered as the death of the Bonacci Hotel, this day is it's rebirth!" Gamchicoth told the demons, preaching to them in the same fever as a preacher talking to his folk of believers.

The demons and Daeva saw as the concrete, steel and glass began to change shape and color, some bending in unnatural angles and growing in either length or width, some all two or even decreasing. All the pieces flew around as though invisible spectres were constructing the building. Once the construction was done Gamchicoth backed away from the building, the twin powers that entered his body flowing out and turning into his swords as he grabbed them.

"[background=]Zodd go and conquer more worlds in the glory of Inferno and tell Slan that she is to guard the Bonacci Hotel from our enemies[/background]" Zodd agreed with the orders and flew up and went to a gate that he made to the next world to invade. Gamchicoth felt that one thing must be done for the grand reopening of the new hotel and the Daeva knew what must be done. The dark god vanished and appeared inside a room very much expected of a cathedral.

Pew of dark wood with the sides being covered by a smooth metal shell that seems close to becoming organic with teeth like growths biting into the pews were found at the Daeva's left and right, on the walls columns of dark metal can be seen with the base and top of the pillars having screaming faces craved to them. The daeva walked on top of a blood red carpet leading to an alter. Besides the podium which like the pillars was made of metal and seem to have grown from the ground as shown by the base which had the grey floor around it being stretched upward and darken to form the podium.

Inside of a cross the altar had the nine pointed star, the symbol for the black sun, at the center being held by rusty chains. At the center of the circle was yellow eye, around the circle smaller arrows can be seen growing from the empty spots of the larger ones. On top of the first floor was a second floor that had an organ on top of the nine pointed star. Gamchicoth teleport to the massive organ.

The Daeva appeared before the organ and after much adjustments to it he took his seat and cracked his fingers. "I proudly announce the grand reopening of the Bancci Hotel!" the Daeva shouted, his voice being heard throughout the hotel. The Daeva began to hit the keys of the organ and smoke bellowed out from the pipes.

the music being played can be heard throughout the hotel.

From the premium hotel now stands a gargantuan and ominous cathedral. Combining Gothic and Baroque architectural styles with some aspects of both Neoclassical and Renaissance facades one can not say that the new hotel was not a complex structure. Painting on the supports were gold and red but with the statues they would feature actual gold and hematite, the more reddish hematite gave the impression that the statues were either leaking blood from their body or were covered in dried blood.

On the entrance were stairs leading to a large portal leading to a dark red metal door and surmounted by twin towers. Throughout the sides of the cathedral were more towers but much thinner and smaller compared to the two on front, all of them would have buttress around their corners and the towers at the side would be connected to the main building by flying buttresses. Interesting the flying buttresses have iron fences suggesting that they can be walked on to enter the towers by alternatives means. Around parts of the towers and cathedral one can spot gargoyles

Sharp, angular, pinnacles grow from the buttresses, all having serrated teeth around them along with holes through them showing even minuscule teeth inside the holes. The windows were all made of stained glass depicting scenes from Inferno's history. Once inside the cathedral one would see a lobby for a premium hotel. The pillars in the lobby had what seem like strange serpents growing from the top with the heads of the victims of the explosion, all screaming in terror.

The corridors of the hotel were dimming lit with a red glow, at the ground a fog up to one's ankle would make traversing through the hotel difficult along with the dim lighting. The corridors of the hotel has many long, wide hallways. The ceiling is composed of red stained glass panels adorned with the Inferno insignia; looking at them for too long would cause nausea, profuse bleeding and a gradual decline of one's sanity. However to destroy your sanity only look what lies behind the glass for it does not show the reality that the hotel is in.

There many changes throughout the rooms and halls of the hotel, making all know that the hotel is under new management and that the old days of the hotel are now over. The Bonacci Hotel is the first realm to have fallen to the forces of Inferno.

[Kaidou]

OOC Note: As per Prusselanden's request, I will be controlling Frederick and Ackerman for the duration that she's away.

Manichean Plane
Realm 0
Timere

Barely had Strange and Cain finished their explanation on what was going on when a swift rapping on the door jolted everybody out of their almost trance-like discussion. Henry quickly responded with an inquiry. "Who's that? What do you want?"

"It'th me, Bleedjen", came the voice of the innkeeper from the other side of the door. "You guyth have got... a very important vithitor."

Henry got up and opened the door. By the time the door was opened completely, Bleedjen had disappeared, and the only one in the door was a tall man, almost the same height as Henry, clad in a set of shabby black clothes and with a restless monkey perched on his shoulder, attempting to nibble at his long, greasy hair. By his side, he carried a long sabre.

"Who are you?" Henry asked, confused.

"I am the Guardian of the Sea", the man answered.

Guardian of the Sea
Gehrnam

"Holy..."

"Ithil sent me here", Gehrnam explained. "He told me that you are all trustworthy people, and that I can open the third gateway to the Greater Multiverse for you to bring your ship through.

"There's... a third gateway?" Samuel scratched his head.

"Yes", Akita Sr replied on behalf of Gehrnam. "It's hidden because the Guardians don't fully trust most of the people trying to come through."

"Basically", explained Gehrnam, "we three guardians each protect one gateway. Ithil, Guardian of the Sky, protects the Sky gate, which is the one you three came from. I, Gehrnam, protect the Sea Gate, the only gate that's large enough to bring ships through. And Balta, Guardian of the Land, protects the Land gate. He's long since resorted to simply killing anybody who comes through his gate, because pretty much everyone who comes in from that end is a crazy terrorist."

Henry and Samuel nodded in affirmation.

"Tell us, Gehrnam", asked Frederick calmly. "When will we get to bring the ship over?"

"Tomorrow morning, at 10am", Gehrnam replied. "I'll be waiting at the beach for you guys. You'll know which one. Do not be late."

With that, Gehrnam tipped his hat to the rest, and then walked out, closing the door behind him as he went. The room fell into silence for a moment.

"I think I like Ithil more", Henry said, half-jokingly. "And I won't even bother to try and imagine what Balta is like."

"Let's just go sleep", said Samuel tersely, standing up, taking off his hoodie, and tossing it onto a chair, before climbing onto a sofa and lying down supine, his arms coiled round his cello case. "We'll all have to wake up at 6am tomorrow so we won't be late. I don't think I want to piss him off." By the time his last word had left his mouth, Samuel had already fallen asleep, snoring loudly and drooling to boot.

"Think I'll do just that", declared Henry, yawning loudly and heading for the shower room. "First, a quick rinse."

...

11:45 PM

"Yocchi... go to sleep."

With everybody else asleep, only Akita Sr was left awake. He had stood up, left his makeshift bed on the floor (consisting entirely of a pile of bathrobes and the floor's carpet), and was about to leave the room when he noticed Seishirō, sitting upright on his sofa on the other side of the room from where Samuel was sleeping.

"I can't sleep..."

Akita walked over to where the boy sat, sitting down on the other end of the short sofa and looking him in the eyes, his own eyes glinting peacefully in the moonlight.

"All of what you said... about my real father, and all that... why are we going through all of this?" A tear formed at the corner of his eye.

"That's not for us to know", said the old man quietly, shifting closer to the boy. "But remember this; I love you regardless of all that. Regardless of who your biological father is, what he's done, what Gōmasa Hayashi has done. I don't care about any of that any longer. You are my son."

Silence fell upon the entire room. Samuel continued snoring on his couch; still, even in sleep, he clutched his cello case tightly.

"Thank you..." Seishirō smiled weakly, and allowed the tears to roll down his cheeks. "...for everything..."

"Sleep, now", Akita commanded lightly, lifting the blanket over his son's body. "Tomorrow, a new future awaits us with these men whom Destiny has sent our way."

...

6:00 AM

Despite the restless air of anticipation following the words of Gehrnam the previous night, most of the group had slept very well. Their biological clocks (and Henry's smartphone) didn't fail them the next morning, and save for Samuel, who tossed and turned till around 6:10 AM, everybody woke up and showered on time.

By 6:20 AM, Henry had returned the keys to Bleedjen, and the group, now consisting of nine people, was on its way.

First of all, just as the sun began to poke above the horizon, Akita Sr headed back to his restaurant to check on Rinjirō Sakakibara and Ueda.

His fears the night before had been confirmed. Ueda was nowhere to be found, as was Rinjirō Sakakibara. The only thing that gave Sora Akita some idea of what had happened was the fact that a pair of severed hands lay on the ground in a pool of partially coagulated blood. Judging from the skin tone and the wedding ring (both of which Akita had taken note of earlier), the two severed hands belonged to Sakakibara.

It seemed that Ueda had cut off the zaibatsu boss' hands and sent him off somewhere. What really happened was a mystery. No doubt, though, whoever had sent Sakakibara was going to come after them, sooner or later, once he had caught wind of what was going on.

Once Akita had returned to the group, after closing down the restaurant for good with a few planks across the door (but not before taking two bags of food supplies and extra clothes both for himself and for his son), they set off for the beach Gehrnam promised to meet them on.

10:00 AM

"Gentlemen! You're just on time!"

As they arrived at the beach, Gehrnam emerged from the waters, his monkey still perched on his shoulder, standing before them with his feet planted deep into the sand.

"Now, unlike the other gateways, the Sea gate has no fixed location on the other end", Gehrnam explained. "Rather, I am the only one who can create portals here. So all you need to do is to give me a description of your ship, or preferably a picture of it, and then you sit back and wait for ten minutes."

...

[Kaidou]

Greater Multiverse
???

Eiichirō Sengoku, former general of the Asano Clan's personal army, woke up chained to a chair in the middle of a massive domed hall, with red walls and a black and white checkered floor. The disgraced general raised his head, looking around in confusion, and then down at his own body. He was wearing nothing but a pair of soiled underpants. Only then did he notice the stench that rose from his own body.

"What... what the... what am I doing here?"

Sengoku's question to himself was swiftly answered when the door was thrown open with a loud, creaking noise, and a rhythmic flop and tap repetition heralded the entry of the scarred, slightly hunched over Biel Bielag, clutching his walking stick on the side of his good leg and grinning in a sexually perverse manner.

"Good morning, Eiichirō Sengoku", said Bielag in a hushed, cooing, mockingly caring voice, as Sengoku struggled against his handcuffs and shackles in his seat. "The time now is 7:30 AM, and the temperature in this room is 26 degrees Celsius. You are completely naked except for a pair of underpants, and your hips and thighs are completely covered in diarrhoea."

"What the hell do you want with me?" Sengoku spat at the Senju, as Bielag chuckled to himself and put on a set of surgeon's scrubs and gloves over his bespoke maroon suit. "What am I doing here?"

"Oh, nothing much", Bielag answered with a childish chuckle. "You see, after Nevesco captured you, she realised that she didn't want anything to do with you. So she passed you to me, and I offered you to Ohm and Aruen, but it seems that they don't have any use for you. So you're with me now."

"What do you mean???"

"I mean", said Bielag, with a salacious grin, as he raised a pair of garden pliers and a syringe filled with a yellowish, bubbly liquid, "that we're going to have a little bit of fun now. So do enjoy yourself..."

"No, you perv", Sengoku protested. "Get away from me! I don't want you here!"

"See this?" Bielag said, holding up the needle with the yellow fluid. "This is dinihonium-trichloropentylene-arsenoiodide. It enhances your eyesight, smell, taste, and hearing to beyond superhuman levels. Unfortunately, there's only one place where your body can accept it. Namely, the frontal sinus, inside your nose."

"Stop!" pleaded Sengoku, now becoming genuinely terrified.

"Brace yourself", sneered Bielag sadistically, as he slowly inserted the needle into Sengoku's nostril. "It'll sting just a little bit..."

...

[Naval Monte]

Borg Planet: Battle!

The energy bolts caused the dome of light have a massive crack form around it while many of the bones that made the wall all shattered into pieces while those at the sides only were shattered in half with the ones behind forming cracks with some pieces coming loose as they weren't directly attacked. Papyrus lifted his left hand in the air and made the all the bones, even the tiny pieces that came off the larger ones, rise into the air.

The cracks around the dome continue to move until the entire doom shattered but Frisk following Papyrus's lead made all of the pieces float around them inside of falling down to the ground and disappear. Both thrust their left hands forward towards the monster and the bones flew towards the beast and began to tear through it while the fragments of light all flew around the beast's limbs and neck and form an armor of light on it, only instead of protecting the beast from attacks it kept it from moving those limbs.

Inside the TARDIS Reaper and Snake both kicked open the doors of the TARDIS and ran out of the ship. Snake firing off rounds from his assault rifle while Reaper turn into smoke and soon form behind the beast, firing off shot gun rounds at it from behind. Widowmaker used the doors of the TARDIS for cover and began to open fire at the beast's' eyes. Jack was also outside and like the other gunslingers he was firing at the beast, trying to hit areas he think were vital.

"Anyone knows what this thing is weak to? Because we can use that information now." Jack shouted, reloading his gun. Elizabeth created twin orbs of darkness and slam them down, yet instead of the usual beasts of shadows new creatures emerged from the darkness. The first creatures to come out were beings that can fly yet made no sounds as they flapped their membranous wings.

They had a vaguely human shape, but are thin, black, and faceless. Their skin is slick and rubbery. They sport a pair of inward-facing horns on their heads, a long barbed tail, and prehensile paws. Next beings were huge, slimy worm-like creatures, at least several hundred feet long, covered in viscous goo, their features are nearly impossible to discern.

The next creatures summoned were huge, scaly, birdlike creatures with batlike wings, slimy skin, and two strong talons with the head resembling the skull of equines. The next being was one vaster than any train. A shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming. The dark amoeba-like creatures slithered towards the beast and wrap themselves around it, steam coming from the beast as the very body of the entity was acid to it.

The final creature to rise are enormous ropy, black serpents or worms with bat-like or umbrella-like wings. Their forms are continually shift and change, twitching and writhing, making it impossible to get a clear look on their appearance. Some may have only a single large wing rather than two.

The creatures that can fly all flew around the beast and began to take bites at it, ripping off chunks of it's flesh with their teeth while one used it's own hands. The vaguely humanoid ones all grabbed the beast and manage to lift it off the ground, carrying it many feet of the ground with the protoplasmic beings still clinging on to the creature. The beings would soon let go of the beast and it would plummet down to the ground forming a crater. The worms would have dug underground and they would pop up to take even more chunks of flesh from the beast with one even dragging it underground.

Eventually the ground would explode with one of the worms throwing the beast in front of the group, the worm not liking the prey too much due to it struggling to much and injuring it.

[Prusselanden]

OOC Note: As per Prusselanden's request, I will be controlling Frederick and Ackerman for the duration that she's away.

Manichean Plane
Realm 0
Timere

Barely had Strange and Cain finished their explanation on what was going on when a swift rapping on the door jolted everybody out of their almost trance-like discussion. Henry quickly responded with an inquiry. "Who's that? What do you want?"

"It'th me, Bleedjen", came the voice of the innkeeper from the other side of the door. "You guyth have got... a very important vithitor."

Henry got up and opened the door. By the time the door was opened completely, Bleedjen had disappeared, and the only one in the door was a tall man, almost the same height as Henry, clad in a set of shabby black clothes and with a restless monkey perched on his shoulder, attempting to nibble at his long, greasy hair. By his side, he carried a long sabre.

"Who are you?" Henry asked, confused.

"I am the Guardian of the Sea", the man answered.

(Image)
Guardian of the Sea
Gehrnam

"Holy..."

"Ithil sent me here", Gehrnam explained. "He told me that you are all trustworthy people, and that I can open the third gateway to the Greater Multiverse for you to bring your ship through.

"There's... a third gateway?" Samuel scratched his head.

"Yes", Akita Sr replied on behalf of Gehrnam. "It's hidden because the Guardians don't fully trust most of the people trying to come through."

"Basically", explained Gehrnam, "we three guardians each protect one gateway. Ithil, Guardian of the Sky, protects the Sky gate, which is the one you three came from. I, Gehrnam, protect the Sea Gate, the only gate that's large enough to bring ships through. And Balta, Guardian of the Land, protects the Land gate. He's long since resorted to simply killing anybody who comes through his gate, because pretty much everyone who comes in from that end is a crazy terrorist."

Henry and Samuel nodded in affirmation.

"Tell us, Gehrnam", asked Frederick calmly. "When will we get to bring the ship over?"

"Tomorrow morning, at 10am", Gehrnam replied. "I'll be waiting at the beach for you guys. You'll know which one. Do not be late."

With that, Gehrnam tipped his hat to the rest, and then walked out, closing the door behind him as he went. The room fell into silence for a moment.

"I think I like Ithil more", Henry said, half-jokingly. "And I won't even bother to try and imagine what Balta is like."

"Let's just go sleep", said Samuel tersely, standing up, taking off his hoodie, and tossing it onto a chair, before climbing onto a sofa and lying down supine, his arms coiled round his cello case. "We'll all have to wake up at 6am tomorrow so we won't be late. I don't think I want to piss him off." By the time his last word had left his mouth, Samuel had already fallen asleep, snoring loudly and drooling to boot.

"Think I'll do just that", declared Henry, yawning loudly and heading for the shower room. "First, a quick rinse."

...

11:45 PM

"Yocchi... go to sleep."

With everybody else asleep, only Akita Sr was left awake. He had stood up, left his makeshift bed on the floor (consisting entirely of a pile of bathrobes and the floor's carpet), and was about to leave the room when he noticed Seishirō, sitting upright on his sofa on the other side of the room from where Samuel was sleeping.

"I can't sleep..."

Akita walked over to where the boy sat, sitting down on the other end of the short sofa and looking him in the eyes, his own eyes glinting peacefully in the moonlight.

"All of what you said... about my real father, and all that... why are we going through all of this?" A tear formed at the corner of his eye.

"That's not for us to know", said the old man quietly, shifting closer to the boy. "But remember this; I love you regardless of all that. Regardless of who your biological father is, what he's done, what Gōmasa Hayashi has done. I don't care about any of that any longer. You are my son."

Silence fell upon the entire room. Samuel continued snoring on his couch; still, even in sleep, he clutched his cello case tightly.

"Thank you..." Seishirō smiled weakly, and allowed the tears to roll down his cheeks. "...for everything..."

"Sleep, now", Akita commanded lightly, lifting the blanket over his son's body. "Tomorrow, a new future awaits us with these men whom Destiny has sent our way."

...

6:00 AM

Despite the restless air of anticipation following the words of Gehrnam the previous night, most of the group had slept very well. Their biological clocks (and Henry's smartphone) didn't fail them the next morning, and save for Samuel, who tossed and turned till around 6:10 AM, everybody woke up and showered on time.

By 6:20 AM, Henry had returned the keys to Bleedjen, and the group, now consisting of nine people, was on its way.

First of all, just as the sun began to poke above the horizon, Akita Sr headed back to his restaurant to check on Rinjirō Sakakibara and Ueda.

His fears the night before had been confirmed. Ueda was nowhere to be found, as was Rinjirō Sakakibara. The only thing that gave Sora Akita some idea of what had happened was the fact that a pair of severed hands lay on the ground in a pool of partially coagulated blood. Judging from the skin tone and the wedding ring (both of which Akita had taken note of earlier), the two severed hands belonged to Sakakibara.

It seemed that Ueda had cut off the zaibatsu boss' hands and sent him off somewhere. What really happened was a mystery. No doubt, though, whoever had sent Sakakibara was going to come after them, sooner or later, once he had caught wind of what was going on.

Once Akita had returned to the group, after closing down the restaurant for good with a few planks across the door (but not before taking two bags of food supplies and extra clothes both for himself and for his son), they set off for the beach Gehrnam promised to meet them on.

10:00 AM

(Image)

"Gentlemen! You're just on time!"

As they arrived at the beach, Gehrnam emerged from the waters, his monkey still perched on his shoulder, standing before them with his feet planted deep into the sand.

"Now, unlike the other gateways, the Sea gate has no fixed location on the other end", Gehrnam explained. "Rather, I am the only one who can create portals here. So all you need to do is to give me a description of your ship, or preferably a picture of it, and then you sit back and wait for ten minutes."

...

Ackerman sniled at Seishiro when he arrived and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "You ready, kid? We're off to new beginnings now."
Despite being cheerful in the surface, Ackerman had not been sleeping the past night, only worrying about the parents xe hadn't seen in years. Ackerman found it easy to empathize with
Another who had an adoptive parent.
Frederick sighed and breathed in the ocean air deeply. His trance was cut short by Gehnman.
"Our ship? It appears fairly large and...futuristic, I guess. I dunno...I didn't see much of it before. " he shrugged.

[Cybraxia]

Alistair's Scimitar
Tokyo, Japan

---

As the strike team entered the landing craft one-by-one, they would be met by another Warframe sitting seiza style in the center. Dresdas' voice came from the on-board speakers. "Please, sit wherever you feel most comfortable. In a moment, the bombing run will commence, and the Operator will kill everyone at the drop-point they choose. Oh, it's been so long since we've had a person that wasn't the Operator on board!"

When all of the strike team was aboard, the ship moved with a lurch, causing those still standing up on the ship to stumble back. "Please, come back covered in blood! Preferably not your own, but whatever works!" A series of explosions were heard, as bombs detonated against the enemy ship. After a moment, the sitting Warframe stood up and rushed to the entrance compartment, and locked herself onto its magnetic clamps, and it swiveled down. After a moment, screams were heard, along with the sounds of gunfire. The ones who would come after would see the remains of her bloody trail of violence.

[Mundeo]

Metropolis

"But for the time being, I'll take this" James said as he reached for the spear and grabbed it, pocketing the crystal afterwards. "I need something to defend myself with" He wrote a reminder in his mind to stab the crystal the first instant he is out of this universe.

After the man– Manny –explained how he was an angel that wanted to free his people from bondage, the conversation turned to a magic called sympathetic magic, which uses one's name against them. Although one's name is powerful, it did not worry James at all. "I understand, but I have no reason to worry. I thought you already knew, Marie, but James Butler is not my real name"

Just like his old friend the Doctor, James always went by an alias, of which he had many: the Jumper, the Nomad, the Maverick, and now the mundane James Butler. "And I don't plan on revealing any time soon. A Timelord's name on it's own is powerful, and this 'sympathetic magic' gives me less of a reason to reveal it" That didn't stop Manny, from casting a protection sigil on them, and the Halfblood had to bite his lip to keep himself from yelping like a fox.

The two Halfbloods soon found themselves back in Metropolis, where they will find the first magic McGuffin: the hilt and pommel of the sword. Hopefully it wasn't broken into too many pieces, and whoever is going to repair it will repair James' pen as well. He followed Marie by teleporting from one patch of land to another until they encountered some unexpected guests: a spaceship who apparently knew that they were Halfbloods. A voice from the ship asked what they were doing here.

"We?" James motioned to Marie and himself. He knew that he couldn't say what they were doing, or what they were looking for. "We're just tourists. Nothin' like a good city to sightsee, no? How about what you are doing here?"

[Naval Monte]

Metropolis

"But for the time being, I'll take this" James said as he reached for the spear and grabbed it, pocketing the crystal afterwards. "I need something to defend myself with" He wrote a reminder in his mind to stab the crystal the first instant he is out of this universe.

After the man– Manny –explained how he was an angel that wanted to free his people from bondage, the conversation turned to a magic called sympathetic magic, which uses one's name against them. Although one's name is powerful, it did not worry James at all. "I understand, but I have no reason to worry. I thought you already knew, Marie, but James Butler is not my real name"

Just like his old friend the Doctor, James always went by an alias, of which he had many: the Jumper, the Nomad, the Maverick, and now the mundane James Butler. "And I don't plan on revealing any time soon. A Timelord's name on it's own is powerful, and this 'sympathetic magic' gives me less of a reason to reveal it" That didn't stop Manny, from casting a protection sigil on them, and the Halfblood had to bite his lip to keep himself from yelping like a fox.

The two Halfbloods soon found themselves back in Metropolis, where they will find the first magic McGuffin: the hilt and pommel of the sword. Hopefully it wasn't broken into too many pieces, and whoever is going to repair it will repair James' pen as well. He followed Marie by teleporting from one patch of land to another until they encountered some unexpected guests: a spaceship who apparently knew that they were Halfbloods. A voice from the ship asked what they were doing here.

"We?" James motioned to Marie and himself. He knew that he couldn't say what they were doing, or what they were looking for. "We're just tourists. Nothin' like a good city to sightsee, no? How about what you are doing here?"

Hex didn't buy the lie James told her. "We know who you two are. You are the two half bloods that are a part of the Traveler Alliance from the Infinity Crisis." Marie looked at James. "The fact they know about that incident helps narrow down our guesses on who they can be." she thought to which faction this ship can belong too. "Are you working with Project X or Aegis?"

the person speaking to them through the com system was silent for a moment until she finally responded back. "This ship is a property of Aegis and as for why we are here." Hex told the two half bloods an abridged version of how the ship was assisting a group to fulfill a McGuffin quest (though she never stated what they are) and told them everything that happened to the hotel and what lead to the ship being here.

"Until both our shield and gate generators are fully repaired we are stranded in this city." Marie instantly had an idea. "We are also looking for something in this city. My partner knows how to fix machines, if you can assist us on finding what we are looking for James can fix those two generators for you." she turned to James, hoping that he would accept the deal.

The thing under the water was swimming ever closer to the half bloods. It's eyes were covered by transparent eye lids and it saw the male teleporting all over the place, it knew that should it attack the male he would escape. Thous it chose to target the female who was still on the water, giving it an advantage as it can drown her.

The Aquila's sensors couldn't pick up the strange being swimming as it had an unusual ability of being impossible to detect so long as not a single part of it's body got out of the water. Yet the crew was still alert on making sure that none of the hostile wildlife would ambush them. Manny saw what was happening with the two half bloods and the ship and decided not to get involved, it was best for him to not be seen by crew of the Aquila.

[Kaidou]

Manichean Plane
Realm 0
Timere

"Hmm..." Gehrnam put his hand to his chin as he thought, everybody else in the group remaining quiet. "This raises a little bit of a problem, because I'll need a good description or a picture of the ship in order to bring it through. The only other option for me would be to mind probe, but..."

"But what?" Henry asked.

"Me mind probing any of you will reduce your remaining lifespan by a year", the Guardian replied.

"Then I volunteer", Henry declared, stepping forward and stretching his arms out wide. "We need to finish this mission. Besides, I have an extended lifespan anyway, so it'll be fine."

"Very well..." Gehrnam walked over to Henry, gazing into the orange-skinned man's eyes for about thirty seconds, and then walking over to the shore of the beach.

"That's it???" Henry shrugged in confusion.

"A lot less fancy than you'd expect, yes?" Gehrnam replied with a chuckle, as he crouched over and dipped both his hands in the water. "Now sit back and relax; those guys on the other end should see a portal opening in front of them in... I'd say... ten minutes."

...

[Aeternabilis]

Alistair's Scimitar; Hokkaido, Japan

Somewhat unnerved by the voice from the ship's seeming glee at blood and death, Ann followed the Warframe down and out of the landing craft. She became immediately queasy upon sight of Tenno's handiwork; Ann had never seen that much blood before. She decided to hover the rest of the battle to avoid stepping in the puddles of the stuff, and once she got into the air, she soared toward the Warframe and joined the fray. "Hey, uh, Tenno?" she asked, deflecting a bullet into the ground with a blast of high-speed air and slamming its shooter into the wall with another gust. "Do you have to be so, I don't know, brutal about it?" She blew back a whole line of enemies and threw their weapons away from them. "I mean, look at me! I'm not, uh, slicing anybody up, and it's working just fine. See?" A miniature cyclone now tore down the way, knocking enemies into each other and against walls, leaving them unable to fight. Ann smiled. "Totally nonlethal."

Project X Headquarters; Tokyo, Japan

"They're in!" Alex said, watching the fight on her GPS from the camera on Ann's uniform. "Oh, Ann's gonna need therapy." Marcus said, watching from over Alex's shoulder. "Everybody ready to go? The way they're blasting through those guys, it won't be long before the safe zone is established." "Got my laser gun and Kevlar, so I'm as ready as I'll ever be." "Ya soglasen." Ivan said. "I am ready for fight." "So am I." Joshua half-growled, and left it at that. "Alright then," Alex said, looking back at the livefeed of the battle. "Now we just have to wait for a signal."

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Borg Planet - Outside TARDIS
What?! How dare this little creature deflect its attack! 00-1 screeched in annoyance at the sword Pokemon, and it lunged at it violently to keep up the assualt. However the combined assault of diamonds, mystic soundwaves, and snow blew it backwards. It recovered from the blow, shaking the ice off of itself, only to be met with fire from the Roserade.

00-1 roared with furry at the group of Pokemon, and then it unleashed a blast of sound that would feel like a physical blow, knocking them all backward. It followed up its attack by firing another huge energy blast from its mouth at the Pokemon. Next the beast was hit with the combined power of Frisk and Papyrus. With annoyance it struggled against the light armor entraping several of its arms, all while growling at the people shooting it with their guns.

And then madness broke out when Elizabeth's creatures struck. When their assault ended, 00-1 rose back up, the same dark smoke poring out of its wounds. Then something strange happened. The smoke began to gather over the wounded areas of the beast, and then quickly manifested into new flesh. The beast was healing itself!

Hanzo growled in annoyance while D. Va screeched at the beat in her native tounge. "Dirty heal-hacker!" She yelled at it in English now, pelting it with fusion cannon shots, while Hanzo nocked another arrow."Clear away from it now!" The former Shimada lord ordered, causing the Judge to quickly scamper away from the beast as fast as his little legs could carry him. Hanzo drew his arrow back as mystic energy flowed into it.

"Ryu ga wagga teki wo kurau!" Hanzo shouted as he let his arrow fly. As usual it exploaded in mid-air and two blue dragons spiraled out of the explosion, engulfing 00-1. The beast cried out in rage and pain as its flesh desolved from the force of the Shimada dragons. However even that was not enough, as it healed just as quickly as the dragons destroyed it.

Hanzo gasped."N-not possible.... NOT POSSIBLE! How could it survive the dragons?!" He demanded. "This thing is like no creature I've ever seen before. I'm not sure how we can stop it!" The Doctor remarked, suddenly turning when he heard a new voice near him. "Oh! Hello there! You picked a bad time to pop in I'm afraid, as we're most likely about to die." The Time Lord said to the newcomer, earning a panicked look from Hana."Not helping!" she exclaimed as she went back to desperately pelting 00-1 with shots.


Planet Popstar
What a curious place this was.

This world's atmosphere contained a substance that caused it to glow bright yellow from space, yet it was like any ordinary world on the surface with oceans, landmasses, and oxygen. Another strange feature of this world was its shape. The world looked like a giant five-pointed star surrounded by two rings. This was a truely curious place.

And it was lovely... So very lovely.

The female-shaped android that was known as "The Patron" scanned the horrizon of an orange ocean, admiering the glorious sunset that was taking place before her optic sensors.

No... My eyes. The Patron reminded herself. Her creators had made her to think, to feel... To love. She had to remind herself constantly that she was no mere machine.

She was alive.

Her people were known as the Altenians; a nobel and peacful race of science and discovery. At least until a great tragedy struck that is. A virus previously unknown and lost to time had accidentally been released from an ancient cave system from long ago, and it quickly wiped the Altenians out. But not before both The Patron and her companion were created and sent away, filled with the knowledge of the once nobel Altenians.

And so The Patron and her companion "The Codex" wandered throughout space, exploring every corner of reality and learning. They learned many things both from the universe around them, and from eachother, including the ever-so-complicated emotion of love.

How could it be possible that two machines could fall in love? Because we're not machines. We're living beings, The Patron reminded herself, gazing up at the now dark sky filled with clouds.

It wouldn't be long until her companion and lover returned from the other side of the planet with the data he had collected from this world, and The Patron could think of nothing more enjoyable than sharing the knowledge that they had both obtained from their travels.

Yes, this world truely was curious, and so very lovely.

[Truth Incarnate]

Borg Planet - Outside TARDIS
What?! How dare this little creature deflect its attack! 00-1 screeched in annoyance at the sword Pokemon, and it lunged at it violently to keep up the assualt. However the combined assault of diamonds, mystic soundwaves, and snow blew it backwards. It recovered from the blow, shaking the ice off of itself, only to be met with fire from the Roserade.

00-1 roared with furry at the group of Pokemon, and then it unleashed a blast of sound that would feel like a physical blow, knocking them all backward. It followed up its attack by firing another huge energy blast from its mouth at the Pokemon. Next the beast was hit with the combined power of Frisk and Papyrus. With annoyance it struggled against the light armor entraping several of its arms, all while growling at the people shooting it with their guns.

And then madness broke out when Elizabeth's creatures struck. When their assault ended, 00-1 rose back up, the same dark smoke poring out of its wounds. Then something strange happened. The smoke began to gather over the wounded areas of the beast, and then quickly manifested into new flesh. The beast was healing itself!

Hanzo growled in annoyance while D. Va screeched at the beat in her native tounge. "Dirty heal-hacker!" She yelled at it in English now, pelting it with fusion cannon shots, while Hanzo nocked another arrow."Clear away from it now!" The former Shimada lord ordered, causing the Judge to quickly scamper away from the beast as fast as his little legs could carry him. Hanzo drew his arrow back as mystic energy flowed into it.

"Ryu ga wagga teki wo kurau!" Hanzo shouted as he let his arrow fly. As usual it exploaded in mid-air and two blue dragons spiraled out of the explosion, engulfing 00-1. The beast cried out in rage and pain as its flesh desolved from the force of the Shimada dragons. However even that was not enough, as it healed just as quickly as the dragons destroyed it.

Hanzo gasped."N-not possible.... NOT POSSIBLE! How could it survive the dragons?!" He demanded. "This thing is like no creature I've ever seen before. I'm not sure how we can stop it!" The Doctor remarked, suddenly turning when he heard a new voice near him. "Oh! Hello there! You picked a bad time to pop in I'm afraid, as we're most likely about to die." The Time Lord said to the newcomer, earning a panicked look from Hana."Not helping!" she exclaimed as she went back to desperately pelting 00-1 with shots.


Planet Popstar
What a curious place this was.

This world's atmosphere contained a substance that caused it to glow bright yellow from space, yet it was like any ordinary world on the surface with oceans, landmasses, and oxygen. Another strange feature of this world was its shape. The world looked like a giant five-pointed star surrounded by two rings.This was a truely curious place.

And it was lovely... So very lovely.

The female-shaped android that was known as "The Patron" scanned the horrizon of an orange ocean, admiering the glorious sunset that was taking place before her optic sensors.

No... My eyes. The Patron reminded herself. Her creators had made her to think, to feel... To love. She had to remind herself constantly that she was no mere machine.

She was alive.

Her people were known as the Altenians; a nobel and peacful race of science and discovery. At least until the great tragedy struck. A virus previously known and lost to time had accidentally been released from an ancient cave system from long ago, and it quickly wiped the Altenians out. But not before both The Patron and her companion were created and sent away, filled with the knowledge of the once nobel Altenians.

And so The Patron and her companion "The Codex" wandered throughout space, exploring every corner of reality and learning. They learned many things both from the universe around them, and from eachother, including the ever-so-complicated emotion of love.

How could it be possible that two machines could fall in love? Because we're not machines. We're living beings, The Patron reminded herself, gazing up at the now dark sky filled with clouds.

It wouldn't be long until her companion and lover returned from the other side of the planet with the data he had collected from this world, and The Patron could think of nothing more enjoyable than sharing the knowledge that they had both obtained from their travels.

Yes, this world truely was curious, and so very lovely.

Eridan was sitting in his respiteblock; the faygo-soaked memories of last night slowly, and unfortunately, fading back into focus. His memories were like angels, and his focus was like Ahab's Crosshairs; following and focusing. Why couldn't he think of anything else?

He likely would have lay there forever reminiscing about his life: his unfortunate blackrom pursuits, his moirail who abandoned him, his no-good conniving "bros" who, in no particular order, abandoned him on his planet to fight a whole load of angry, incredibly powerful angels; stole his (ex) moirail and potential matespirit from under his nose; burnt his favourite cape in a proceeding duel; and basically turned into a juggalo. He hated the juggalo the most platonically, just out of principle.

A sharp pain in the back of his head, and a sharp pain between his legs was the least of his worries. What hurt most was his shame-globes; filled to the brim with soggy memories of clutching empty filial pails to his chest, and the smell of copious amounts of sweat. Luckily, the other senses that were supposed to accompany those particularly somatosensorily-based memories were absent.

"ERIDAN."
Oh shit. Was that Kar?
"ERIDAN, WHAT THE HELL?! NO, HANG ON. WHAT IN THE NAME OF TROLL JEGUS ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
"That depends on the question, Kar. Wwhere's, "HERE"?"
"FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK. PUT THAT WORTHLESS MIND OF YOURS TO WORK FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, AND WORK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF."
"I'm in your hivve, right?"
"NO. YOU'RE IN MY FUCKING RECUPERACOON."

Eridan opened his eyes to the sight of Karkat drenched in green goop, standing over him.

"Oh. So I guess I really did take that dare."
"WHAT DARE."
"Ask T.Z. Not me. I havve enough problems already. You wwouldn't fuckin' understand."
"I DON'T WANT TO. GET OUT OF MY RECUPERACOON, OR I'M FILMING THIS AND SENDING IT TO FEFERI."
"I don't givve a shit."
"SOLLUX AND KANAYA, THEN."
"Ugh. Fine."

Eridan clutched the edges of Karkat's recuperacoon, and slowly pulled himself upwards. He felt so heavy... So... Sticky; like the slime was pulling him down.

"HOLY SHIT DUDE. WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS."
"Wwhat?"
"WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS."

Eridan looked down, just in time to see his body burning away. A burst of purple and white sparks followed. He wasn't quite sure what happened, but he was fairly certain he was falling now. Like... Like he'd fallen asleep inside a recuperacoon that just so happened to have a portal at the bottom. You never knew what kind of mad shit could happen these days; falling asleep in foreign beds.

Eridan fell out of the sky, into the middle of what seemed like a huge firefight. Blue dragons and various other projectiles flew. This was his moment. He was probably somewhere on a foreign planet; amidst a battle between trolls, and some other species. The latest in conquests and subjugglations! Maybe it was the faygo going to his head, but he felt ALIVE! Strong! Like the leader he was always meant to be!

Eridan drew his rifle from his coat; a pulsing blue energy travelling along the "barrel"; the diamond-shaped crystal at the end crackling with energy, and steaming. He half-held down the trigger; the tip of his rifle (no-innuendo) bursting into light, as the intense heat turned the air around it into plasma. His cape billowed around him; the stench of war filled his nostrils. Less grandiose than he'd have wanted, but a location nonetheless.

"Alright, lowwbloods! It's time to shape your sorry asses into a fightin' force, and to take down these primitivves! I want a threshcutioner escort to me, on the double!"

[Naval Monte]

Borg Planet - Outside TARDIS

The worms summoned by Elizabeth all began to spew out nauseous inducing stream of acid at the beast, making the flesh bubble and melt off the beast's body. The shoggoth all jumped at 00-1 and as their body began to melt the creature they began to plunge their tentacles inside of 00-1, the tentacles destroying everything they touch without having to crush or rip anything due to alien matter making normal matter corrode around it. The flying creatures saw the flesh regenerating and they all swoop down to tear and bite off the newly healed pieces of flesh.

"Oh great we are dealing with a regenerator, I really hate fighting against those guys." Jack complained. "Less bitching and more killing." Reaper told the captain as he replaced his shotgun rounds with grenades and fired them at 00-1. Frisk created more armor of light to try and trap the beast to keep it from moving, this time the lower half of the beast was trapped.

Papyrus summoned more bones and had all of them fly towards 00-1's head to headshot the beast thinking that without a brain the beast would die. Widowmaker began firing at 00-1's chest to destroy the creature's heart. Snake took out a rocket launcher and began to fire missiles at 00-1. Elizabeth rose her hand and a swirling beam of dark energy came out hitting the beast, causing the part of the body to blacken. The blacken patch of skin began to spread and the parts of the body blacken soon became so burn that it was charred black.

Seeing the skin of the beast still blackening as it was being burn inside out everyone with firearms began firing at the growing darken parts of it's body. The creatures that can fly began removing the black parts of it's skin which was so weak that it was sloughing off the monster. The worms, known as Dholes, continue to spray acid at the beast as the Shoggoth continue to try and devour 00-1 alive.

"You know that spell would have been handy when that thing was chasing us." Snake shouted at Elizabeth as he fired another rocket at 00-1. "Well I had other things in my mind like the fact that I needed to find a make a spell to get us out of the facility." Elizabeth created a gate and jumped into it and appeared behind Snake. "I'm gonna borrow this for a moment, I'll give it back to you later." she told him as she took his knife. Before Snake can say a word to the woman she jumped into another gate and appeared behind 00-1.

Elizabeth began to chant in a strange language while making gestures with her free hand, soon she would stab the knife deep into her right forearm, biting back the pain as she kept chanting and using right pointer finger to trace several fingers in the air. Eventually the pain would pay off as the curse she casted took into effect as 00-1 would be to suffer excruciating, crippling pain. From it's eyes blood would begin to drip out and cloud over, blinding 00-1, it's skin blisters and drips hideous ichor and it's entire body is seized with convulsions and horrific pain.

Papyrus soon quit firing his bones and used his soul manipulation to turn the soul of 00-1 blue to slam the beast down to the ground and resume with his bone assault with it still lying on the ground. Snake began to call for backup to have a chopper fly in and perform an aerial assault on 00-1. The attack helicopter can be seen arriving to the battlefield and while the pilot was terrified at the monsters present followed his orders and began to fire both the gatling guns and missiles at 00-1, making the shoggoths leave the body of their prey to avoid being blasted by the rockets but leaving behind missing chunks of 00-1 body.

Elizabeth used her gate to fall through it and land inside the TARDIS, where she noticed the new arrivals in the ship. "Who are your new guests? Anyway I have a plan that may get this thing away from us if our attacks do nothing to it but I need you to get everyone away from that thing. I already screwed up today and the last thing I need is accidentally killing my allies." she told the timelord. The wound she delivered on to herself was already healing and surprisingly the blood on the blade of the knife wasn't corroding the blade, Elizabeth can control how her blood behave to an extent and it would be in poor form to return a broken knife to Snake.

[Mundeo]

Metropolis

It looked this this random crew was also looking for something; hopefully not the same thing that James and Marie were looking for. They're ship was from Aegis, too– not a group that James was particularly fond of. They were stuck in this city until their generators are repaired, and Marie was quick to make a proposal, one that involved James fixing the generators. Although he knew that he would be able to fo do, he still smiled sheepishly. Without his sonic pen, that job was going to be much more arduous.

"I can do it" James responded with a nod.

[Forever Neutral]

<< DIMENSION G >>
Somewhere in Capital City

"According to the G-System, it says that the shipment I just made contact with was something called Lythite. I don't know what it is, but they seemed hellbent on getting it to where it needed to be. Why?"

>G-System > Lythite
> Conduit for advanced systems.
> Query this? y/n

"No. Give me a list of strange cases involving it."

>Lythite > Strange > Circumstances
> Jumper device
Query this? y/n

"Yes."

>Jumper Device --> 1 result. Show?

"Show me that result. Read aloud."

'In 20XX Frank Dolin was found guilty of extreme tampering, violation of public safety and manipulation of unregistered advanced technology in a raid by CPS this morning, following an anonymous tip that a low-level street thug was working on plans to manipulate technology that was unregistered with the Corporate Innovation Initiative. Chief Executive Officer Layla Langley made a statement regarding the raid, citing it as further evidence that the city needs tighter limits, a stricter curfew and more Peacekeeper presence. Following the Great Rebellion ten years ago, in which--'

"Hm. So what would a small time criminal like Dolin want with this stuff? G-System, show me relations between Lythite and the Corporate Peacekeeping Service."

Lythite + CPS --> 10 results found. Show?

"Isolate the most recent entry and read that one aloud."

'Ameila Burns escaped from Wayside Mental Health Recovery today, leading CPS on a six-hour chase all over Capital City. Once a high-profile citizen known for her work in the advanced engineering field and her innovations coming out of small start up company NextTek, she claimed that she went crazy following a 'black deal' with CPS where they solicited her to work on a type of technology that would allow transportation between two points of space. Since her entry into the programme she has undergone special conditioning and no longer acknowledges her past, but is living a normal life somewhere in the Old District. The CPS nor Corporate Congress have made an official statement.'

"If you're dealing with CPS, you're likely to go crazy eventually. I wonder what she was working on. In any case, I need to do more digging on this stuff. This is not something I'd let my dog play with, let alone an idiot like Dolin or scummy jackboots like the CPS."

[Kaidou]

Dimension 50
Kanegi 
第50宇宙
金木
Asano Clan Main HQ
浅野一族総本部

上城　吉壽
Yoshihisa Kamishiro

"Sir, Lieutenant-General Arima is here."

Matsushita and Tsuji turned, as the sliding door was pulled open by the captain, bowing to Arima as he stood in the doorway. The tall, broad shouldered Arima, with a body of sadistic muscles hidden under his silk kimono and a katana in a silver sheath hanging from his side, bowed even deeper (for the two in the room were his superiors), before reverently entering the room.

"May I humbly request, General Matsushita, with all due respect, that we keep the contents of today's discussion top secret?" Arima glanced at Tsuji and Matsushita slightly furtively, without turning his head.

Could it be...?

"Of course", Matsushita replied, gesturing to the table in the middle of the room. "Have a seat, Lieutenant General."

Arima deferentially nodded and assumed a seiza position on one of the cushions, with Matsushita and Tsuji doing the same on the other side of the table. As Captain Takasaki took his leave and shut the sliding doors, Tsuji poured out three glasses of tea and offered one to Arima, along with a manju cake wrapped in fine paper. Arima accepted the former and declined the latter.

"There are two matters I should like to discuss today", said Arima, as he tested the temperature of the tea with the tip of his tongue. "Firstly, a Chinese general by the name of Huang Jing has recently defected to Sangū Division, and offers to give us information regarding Generalissimo Zhou's whereabouts and other related information. We intend to share that info with Matsushita Division, so we can launch a joint assault on Generalissimo Zhou and, hopefully, eliminate her. She is, after all, the only thing connecting the Chinese Army to the Chimaera."

Matsushita nodded and sipped his tea.
"Secondly..."

Here, Arima shifted closer to the two whom he was talking with, reaching into his kimono and withdrawing a folded up document, handing it to Matsushita.

"Lieut. Col. Yoshihisa Kamishiro, 47 years old, Chief of XIX Medical Battalion, Sangū Division", said Arima, as Matsushita opened the document (a dossier of LTC Kamishiro) and scanned it. "Double recipient of the IXA Medal of Taigaria, three times decorated with the Red Ribbon. Executed without trial under the Emergency Act on grounds of suspected collusion with enemy forces and the attempted spreading of seditious materials."

"I'm beginning to think that Tadashi Sakakibara is losing his mind." Tsuji gulped down all his tea at once.

"Either that", interjected Matsushita, "or he's making use of Asano's favour to consolidate his power."

"Tell me something", said Arima. "With all due respect, sir, are you one of... them?"

Matsushita didn't reply.

"You have to trust me on this, General", Arima continued, his tone becoming more hushed as he spoke, "but you cannot trust General Takekai Sangū. Not because he is an agent of Sakakibara, which I don't believe he is, but... I've seen him confiding with shady individuals. People who are not part of our army. People who aren't even part of the Chimaera, for that matter. I have a feeling that he is plotting something else outside of his interests as a general of the Clan."

Matsushita scowled in confusion and leaned close. "What do you mean?"

"Sangū may be collaborating with the D", said Arima. "I've secretly read some of his letters. Something is not right."

"That's impossible. Nobody even knows who the D is."

A swift rapping on the door interrupted the conversation.

"Lieutenant-General Arima, General Sangū has arrived. He intends to speak to you and Lieutenant-General Sangū as soon as possible."

Arima nodded at Matsushita and Tsuji, beckoning to the former to keep Kamishiro's dossier, before standing up and straightening out his kimono.

"May I also humbly request, Lord Tsuji", Arima added as one final afterthought, "that you support LTC Kamishiro's family for me? He was a widower, and he's left behind an 80 year old mother and a 14 year old daughter. I don't have the money to do so, and I believe that man has been done a great injustice..."

"Rest assured", Tsuji replied stoically. "I shall do what I can."

With that, all three men stood up and bowed to each other. And Arima left the room.

For another minute or two, both Matsushita and Tsuji sat in the room in silence, neither man speaking to the other. Then Matsushita slowly walked towards the door, nodding at Tsuji, and then leaving the room too.

...

Elsewhere in the castle

General (defected)
Huang Jing
黃鏡
Former Senior Advisor to Generalissimo Zhou Yu-ke

As he silently say in his cell, his eyes closed and his brow furrowed, the guards stood outside sleepily and chatted in half drunk tones, evidently eagerly anticipating the change in shifts.

After all, Gen. Huang Jing was a scrawny 70 year old. What could he do?

Of course, all of them jerked into motionless attention the moment Shirō Matsushita stepped into the corridor and headed for the one occupied cell in that entire level of the second basement level, his maroon-sheathed katana hanging from his belt at almost 90 degrees. He quietly acknowledged the guards with a nod, and headed straight for the cell which housed the defected general, followed by Captain Takasaki, anxiously fiddling with the keys as he followed.

"Qing zuo", said Matsushita to Huang from across the bars, in perfect Chinese, as Takasaki unlocked the door. "Wo shi Songxia Shilang Jiangjun. Ni you xie dong xi yao gen wo men tan yi tan, shi ma?" ("Please have a sit. I'm General Shirō Matsushita; I believe you have some things to discuss with us?")

"Nihongo o wakarimasu", Huang replied, in perfect Japanese. "Hajimemashite, Matsushita-gunchō." ("I understand Japanese. A pleasure to meet you, General Matsushita.")

The two sat at the table in the cell facing each other awkwardly. Each had spoken in the other's native language perfectly, unwittingly.

"In that case", continued Matsushita after an awkward silence, this time using English, "let's begin. I believe I can trust you."

"Let me make it clear first", added Huang, also in English, "that I am not betraying my country. I am betraying my boss, who is strangling my country for her own survival."

"I understand", said Matsushita, nodding at the old man deferentially. "Do continue."

Reaching into his jacket's pocket, Huang withdrew a little white thumb drive, barely the size of a human thumb, sliding it across the desk to Matsushita, who took it.

"In here", said the old General, "I downloaded Zhou Yu-ke's entire communications database. Every single email she's sent... every single chatroom conversation she's ever had for the last 10 years... it's all saved into this thumb drive."

This is huge...

Matsushita held the thumb drive up and inspected it, before beckoning to Takasaki to come closer.

"Takasaki", said the General, "please tell the chief groundskeeper that I would like to use Meeting Hall III from 8:00PM tonight to 6:00AM tomorrow morning. Don't give them any details, even if they ask; just direct them to me. Get Tsuji and Arima, and tell them to bring anybody whom they are absolutely sure we can trust with this information."

...

[Petrokovia]

Ockham's Razor

“Yeah, they make games and there is a branch back in Unova.” Iris crossed her arms, and figured it is best not to tell Muffet about what Game Freak is. If she does, then it will be looking at two mirrors side by side, and create an infinite inception. Like people play Pokemon back home in real life, video games doing what Pokemon trainers do, and the video game characters play pokemon too and so on. Add the multiverse as a cherry on top, and Ta-dah!

Iris turned to the Ice King and raised an eyebrow. If Finn the human and Jake the dog ever show up, he’s going to have a ridiculous and badd time. Where’s Gunter anyway? He probably didn’t meet his little companion yet.“Hey bud. I believe you’ll do well with a penguin pal one day.” Iris chuckled.

“Sounds like a plan Tadoyoshi.” Iris lowered her expression but turn that frown upside down.”me and dragonite will bash those fighters to the ground. Not a problem!”

As the pretty dressed champion head out to the rooftop airlock, she mused on how if the Star and the rest of her comrades from Unova were here, such task would be a bit easier. Iris knew she is up to the task, but this isn’t really a Pokemon battle and the foes are using fighter craft. But this isn’t really too bad, as her trustly and tough Dragonite can get to speeds up to mach two. Iris petted her sweet dragon, who then surprised her as he picked her up in his arms.

“Wow there Dragonite, easy now.” Iris chuckled. “We have a lot of baddies to beat down, but careful alright?” She fondles his head. “I’ll be riding you like in one of those fantasy movies, or Game of thrones to be exact.”

Dragonite huffed and smirked, ready to charge and meet the enemy head on. Iris climbed her dragon and took a seat on his back. There was one minor adjustment; quick and easy rope safety saddle, all strapped on. “Alright Dragonite, let’s go! Oh, I got your wing mate right here.” Iris grinned as she held Hydreigon's ball.

The dragon princess and Dragonite swoop out of the ship, and landed next to Gold and Ty. The black skinned girl enjoyed the wind blowing against her long ponytail, and she quickly tossed out Hydreigon into the field. Just as the brutal Pokemon came out, Iris’ Sylveon gleefully existed her pokeball to snuggle her boyfriend’s cheeks and mount him. The fearsome dragon stopped his sinister roars, blushing as Sylveon simply smiled, and Iris getting a good laugh out of it.

Gold and Ty looked at each other, Ty squinting slightly.
"Ty, use Sunny Day! This'll be a lot easier with a bit of a boost!"
"What!?"
"Sunny Day!" Gold shouted. To be fair, the amount of wind on top of the ship made it difficult to hear.
"Sure!"

The flames on Ty's back flared, and soon the snow stopped, clouds parted, and a bright sunshine filled the sky.
"Solar Beam!"
Ty opened his mouth, and almost immediately, a harsh white light beam shot out. The light-based attack struck one of Wilfre's fighters, vaporizing it entirely.
"Fuck yeah! Got 'em!"

Gold continued to point out targets to Ty, who used Solar Beam, until one of the beams simply clipped a fighter. The robotic drone spun out of control, plummeting towards the Ockham's Razor, right where Gold and Ty were. Luckily, the Ockham's Razor's shield were in between them, and the wrecked drone simply bounced off of the shielding; The sight scared the trainer and his Pokemon, who both fell backwards.

"Jesus Christ!"
"I almost shat myself!" Ty said, doing a double take to make sure 'almost' could be used.

Derse, Incipisphere

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"Ugh, I feel like everything is falling out from under us right now." Poeda's voice echoed through the halls of the former Dersite Palace, now mostly vacant due to the death of the Queen. The young Troll now walked its purple halls with his most trusted companion, debating their next move.

"It can't be that bad. I know a few things went wrong, but I just think you're blowing things out of proportions right now." spoke Kadoor beside him. Their group had run into some problems recently, namely two of their more uncooperative members throwing a proverbial wrench into their plans in a major way. "They set our plans back days, maybe weeks! Now the Prospitans will never help us with a murdered monarch and a destroyed palace! All because two idiots decided they needed to overthrow the "tyrannical" Queen and free the people of Prospit! The plan hinged on us getting Prospit on our side and they ruined it!" he then rubbed his brow in frustration. "But you didn't have to beat them up like you did. Now those two will probably hate you even more." Suddenly the room seemed to glow, and when it faded the two were gone.

Japan, Earth

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There was a bright flash of light, once it faded the figure of Pobeda stood in the field as snow fell. The Olive Blood looked around and saw a battle beginning in the skies far above. "Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I get dropped in the middle of a warzone." Pobeda stuffed his hands in his jacket pockets started walking, seeing what seemed like a crash site in the distance, along with some soldiers. As he closed in on the wreck he noticed the snow near the cockpit red with blood, and a small trail moving away from it.

The TARDIS, Borg Planet

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A bright flash of light appeared in the TARDIS, fading to reveal Kadoor now aboard. The Troll glanced around the TARDIS quickly, confusion painted on his face. "Wh-what? Where am I?" she shook her head a little and noticed someone else there. "Uh, hello. Who might you be? What is this place? And uh, how did I get here?"

Marguerite turned around, and saw Pobeda standing in the snow.
What? Who's he?

She walked up to the troll, a somewhat worried expression on her face.
"Hello. May I ask who you are? How you got here?"
I wonder if it's yet another case of 'teleporting' like everyone I seem to meet now. she silently mused. I wonder if he could help us... Eh, it's probably too much to ask. Odds are he's a normal civilian where he's from.

Alistair's Scimitar
Tokyo, Japan

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As the strike team entered the landing craft one-by-one, they would be met by another Warframe sitting seiza style in the center. Dresdas' voice came from the on-board speakers. "Please, sit wherever you feel most comfortable. In a moment, the bombing run will commence, and the Operator will kill everyone at the drop-point they choose. Oh, it's been so long since we've had a person that wasn't the Operator on board!"

When all of the strike team was aboard, the ship moved with a lurch, causing those still standing up on the ship to stumble back. "Please, come back covered in blood! Preferably not your own, but whatever works!" A series of explosions were heard, as bombs detonated against the enemy ship. After a moment, the sitting Warframe stood up and rushed to the entrance compartment, and locked herself onto its magnetic clamps, and it swiveled down. After a moment, screams were heard, along with the sounds of gunfire. The ones who would come after would see the remains of her bloody trail of violence.

Bloodfyre thought to himself, as he summoned his full armor around him, and then summoned his shield and a plain longsword.
My current companions are most unusual... And this one may be too thirsty for conflict. I will have to watch my guard.

The man stepped out into Wilfre's ship-Azalea.

Alistair's Scimitar; Hokkaido, Japan

Somewhat unnerved by the voice from the ship's seeming glee at blood and death, Ann followed the Warframe down and out of the landing craft. She became immediately queasy upon sight of Tenno's handiwork; Ann had never seen that much blood before. She decided to hover the rest of the battle to avoid stepping in the puddles of the stuff, and once she got into the air, she soared toward the Warframe and joined the fray. "Hey, uh, Tenno?" she asked, deflecting a bullet into the ground with a blast of high-speed air and slamming its shooter into the wall with another gust. "Do you have to be so, I don't know, brutal about it?" She blew back a whole line of enemies and threw their weapons away from them. "I mean, look at me! I'm not, uh, slicing anybody up, and it's working just fine. See?" A miniature cyclone now tore down the way, knocking enemies into each other and against walls, leaving them unable to fight. Ann smiled. "Totally nonlethal."

"You are well-intentioned, but I believe this is not the time for pacifist action. We are at war, and as much as one should try to avoid violence, sometimes it is inevitable." Bloodfyre stated, pointing down the hall. From where he pointed, dozens of shadow walkers and robots came bursting down the path, charging at full speed and attempting to overwhelm the heroes with sheer numbers.

Bloodfyre turned his longsword around, halfswording and striking at a robot's head with his pommel. There was a loud slam as the sword impacted with great force, leaving a large dent in the robot and damaging the circuitry inside.

Project X Headquarters; Tokyo, Japan

"They're in!" Alex said, watching the fight on her GPS from the camera on Ann's uniform. "Oh, Ann's gonna need therapy." Marcus said, watching from over Alex's shoulder. "Everybody ready to go? The way they're blasting through those guys, it won't be long before the safe zone is established." "Got my laser gun and Kevlar, so I'm as ready as I'll ever be." "Ya soglasen." Ivan said. "I am ready for fight." "So am I." Joshua half-growled, and left it at that. "Alright then," Alex said, looking back at the livefeed of the battle. "Now we just have to wait for a signal."

"I'm ready." Tyrane said. As he spoke, the two belt-mounted flight jets attached to him twitched, as they sprang to life.

Terrell Anthony nodded, handing a M-16 to Tyrane and grabbing one for himself.
"I think we're ready!" he said, with confidence. "Time to hit back."

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Wilfre stood in Azalea's bridge, and monitored the battle outside. Soon, Azalea's mental model would appear next to him again, with an uneasy expression on her face.
"What's going on?"
"There are people inside me. I've been boarded."
"Hmm. Knowing this, they might be friends of Petro. If they make it through my forces on the ship, I'll deal with them personally. I figured something along these lines would happen, so it isn't too much of a set back."

[Naval Monte]

Manichean Plane
Realm 0
Timere

Neither Strange nor Cain got to see how everyone would react to their news for someone else bragged into the inn. To say that both men were expecting a pirate to walk in would be a complete lie since neither were expecting such a strange character to waltz in and make everyone forget what they warned them, at least that was the impression both got from how they were treating the news. However the fact this man can get the ship to arrive into the planet was good cause to forget their warning especially since they already defeated the invasion force that was coming to the world.

"I swear I saw that man in a movie once." Strange said, getting hit by deja vu from the guardian of the sea. The name was at the tip of his tongue but for whatever reason the name wouldn't come out. As the group began to head to bed Strange and Cain resign to go to sleep as well though feeling somewhat dishearten that no one wanted to even ask an even assurance of their health due to their fight against an invading legions of infernal forces. "If you think about since we already taken care of it I can see why they wouldn't feel bothered and plus our mission had nothing to do with demons." Cain told Strange. "Still I would have liked just a small response instead of me wasting my time explaining to them what could have happen only to be upstaged by a pirate."

Like a light bulb lighting up in his head Strange finally remembered where he saw Gehrnam. "Of course, he looked like one of the characters from that pirate movie years back. I never knew the name because I never cared to watch the movie but saw it plenty of times in commercials and in advertising. I wonder if this one too is undead." He said with a small chuckle, making Cain confused to the reference but he shrugged and walked to his room to go to sleep.
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Morning

As the morning light of dawn shine through Strange woke up. The sorcerer supreme felt restless ever since the encounter with the demonic legion, so much that he spent half the night in the astral realm looking for any signs of demonic incursions that would have slipped through to the world. Strange felt that the number of demons he and Cain fought were too small to be the full invasion force, he had a feeling that the true numbers were waiting for the right moment to attack. Surely it can be that maybe the demons he encounter may have started the attack to early or maybe the interest for this world was little but without knowing for sure it made him feel restless and weary for the fate of this world and it's people.

Cain woke up and seem refreshed, Jahvi couldn't go to the astral realm and risk exposing himself to strange so the Nepharite stayed in his human form to keep up the charade. However in his dreams he manage to gain contact with his lord Gamchicoth and told him everything that is happening on his end. Jahvi was gleeful on not only hearing the news that the hotel was now own by Inferno but his lord's next plan, something he wish to have join and while pleaded to join Gamchicoth deny his request and reminded him that the two super weapons were his top priority.

The two sorcerers met the group down stairs and while some were worried about the two missing men neither of the magic users show much signs of concern since they were pulled away else where instead of dealing with Yakuza thugs. The two men got their belongings ready and left the inn behind to met up with Gehrnam on the location he requested for everyone to met him by.

Soon they reached the beach where Gehrnam wish for someone to describe the ship and both thought of a good way to describe the ship as neither had a good photo of it. However another method was soon brought up and Henry took it, Cain would have lied saying that since he was an old man he should have given up what was left of his lifespan but since Henry volunteer Cain didn't object to the man's reckless waste of his own life span.

When the gate was opened Cain's face looked perturbed, he can sense what realm that gate was opened to and he was worried that they would notice the gate. Cain's worry was so great that he was expressing it, mainly in the form of sweat. "Are you okay Cain?" Strange asked. He turn and began to wipe the sweat from his brow. "I am, I'm just not very well adapted to heat as to why I rarely go to the beach." Strange didn't buy the lie. "You look worried about something." Cain fought back a curse as he tried to come up with another excuse for his bizarre behavior.

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Metropolis

With confirmation that James would agree to help repair their generator the ship began to lower down for the two half bloods to board. The door to the ship open and Hex and a few remaining soldiers greeted them. "Welcome aboard the Aquila half bloods." Hex told the two half bloods. She turn her attention to James. "My men will take you to the rooms where the generators are." her attention shifted to Marie. "And you follow me to the bridge so we can know where to go." Marie nodded and turn to James. "I need to borrow the spear for a moment James since it can act like a compass needle for what we are looking for."

before Marie can get the spear a long, wire-like tendril burst out of the water and wrapped around her, dragging her underwater and to where the tendril was connected to. Hex and the soldiers got their weapons draw and began to open fire at whatever took Marie, sure enough blood began to pool around the water and Marie broke through the surface. Marie got in a few gasp of air before running, more tentacles coming out to snatch her "We need to leave here now!" she shouted, the soldiers pushing James inside the ship as Marie got to them on time, most of the soldiers firing at the striking tentacles and the creature that used them as limbs.

The ship would begin to ascend once everyone was on board. Like stated James and Marie were separated with marie now having the spear but not the crystal. As the ship began to fly off it would find a portal appearing in front of it and before anyone can turn around the ship appeared at the other side in a strange world. It took everyone a few minutes of seeing the world around them to see the group down at the ground, a group that Hex remembered. She ordered the ship to land down as she needs to explain to the crew what happened when they were gone.

When the ship landed Hex stepped out alone. "I thank you for heeding my word on bringing my ship to this world. It would seem that I was correct on my judgment on bring both the ship and crew here instead of leaving them in the hotel." Strange was curious. "What happened in the hotel to make you think that keeping it there was a terrible idea?" Hex sighed. "I hope you people don't mind long stories because the short version won't cut it." Hex began to tell them what happened inside the hotel and ultimately the destruction and daring escape from the Chinese army follow by them entering Metropolis. "We encountered a pair of half bloods looking for something in the ruined city. We agree to give them a ride to their destination in exchange for one to repair our generators." she finally ended her explanation, feeling glad to do so.