The Ancient Ones: Age of Nothingness (IC)

[The New Earth Federation]

Multiverse Restaurant

Victoria
While trying to calm down the manager Vicitora was greeted my new soldiers, who where lightly armed and armored. As she looked up them she made a tsking sound and stood up on she was about a head taller then most of them. Distracted the manager tried to shot her and one of soldiers hit her causing her to fall to a knee and knocking her helmet off to revival her face to the strike force, she wiped some of the blood off her face and she slowly got up and started to laugh.

"Really? Really?" She said standing up she also pumped her shotgun and aimed it at one of soldiers. "Who wants some?" She said in 'come and get some manner' Chris had barged in and saw the strike team and Victoria who had dropped to one knee, he rasied his rifle too. Victoria was the first attack in a blinding motion of speed she was upon of the strike force members and entering CQC with her combat knife in one hand and choking the soldier with the other. Chris was also now engaging in CQC using he butt of his rifle to knock soldiers around. After all the two where cybernetically enhanced giving them increased reflexes, speed and agility, also their armor was powered which game them even more speed and any bullets that where fired at them seemed to harmlessly fall to the ground as the shielding they where given as standard stopped most calibers to be on he safe side both actives their hypershield abilities slowing them down but increasing their shielding. The two could only think what is going through the heads of these poor bastards seeing these basically super soldiers throwing them around like it's nothing.

Chris

It seemed as Grevious was about to answer a gunshot rang out, this caused Chris to immediately draw his rifle and sprit to the sound, as he did so he flipped anything that in his way chairs, tables, etc. what it sounded like the shot was from a pistol but her couldn't determine the type nor the caliber. Nevertheless he continued and hoped that Victoria wasn't injured, upon arriving at the door where the shot came from he approached the door and took a breath before kicking it open with his boot leaving a noticeable impression upon it, also knocking it off its hindges. Seeing Victoria drop to one knee he began to feel rage and worry, with reflex he raised his rifle aiming it towards the soldier to the leaders right. Well.....then we know what happened....

[Prusselanden]

Ireland
Quetz glared at Secesh as he made the innuendo about Ignis needing protection. Just when he thought the old cyborg had matured enough, he just had to make another joke about copulation. However, he knew deep inside that no matter how many years, Secesh would never change.

Quetz sighed. "Alright, alright, Thank you anyways."

Cascabel clutched his head. "If I hear another mushy romantic thing between you two, I am going to burn this fortress down."

"Please don't..."

"That depends on your parents' behavior." He answered as he put his plate away with Terry. Konny had also finished her food and followed the two to the dish deposit area.

Kongou
"You better put him down...I have much experience mit die pover of memes, und zhey can commit terrible damage." Ignis gulped as she backed away a good distance from Frucc.

"Is that so?" Quetz looked at Frucc again and put him down. "Very well, little one. You are free."

[Legokiller]

Kongou

Alice opened her eyes after the long period of silence. “I see a dark future in your proposed plan Tadayoshi. While the Kongou’s abilities are impressive, she will not hold against Infinity once he discovered we passed over the city’s defenses and will destroy the ship. Many will perish in the crash. Casualties will sky rocket during the final battle.”

Alice grimaced. “As for Serena’s plan… As long as our ally forces are with us, the losses will be minimal in the fight to Infinity. We must stay vigilant, otherwise a similar amount of casualties would happen before and during the final battle. Despite this, I foresee a glimmers of light in both futures. The key to our success is Clairus.”

“I believe the Toa will have advise for traversing this city. They know this universe better than anyone else, and we should take their word for it.” Commander Shepard recommended and gestured to the Toa. “Tahu, you have idea what lies within the city, and the best approach to the Coliseum?”

Serena knew nothing was easy with this battle. In fact, entire fleets gathered here to save the multiverse and back up the heroes, so it would have been better for them to help out. But the Clairus part confused her. "Alice, what do you mean by Clairus is the key to victory?"

"Love." Alice answered.

Serena pondered for a moment. "Hmm, maybe Jacob feelings to Clairus might changed. Ahem." Serena looked at Tadayoshi. "We can avoid the risk of Infinity destroying the Kongou if we have the ship beams us down to of the main roads leading to the Coliseum. However, we do need advise from the Toa."

[Petrokovia]

"Preposterous." Kongou blurted out. "Anything powerful enough to take me out of the air would easily destroy the entire city many times over, nevermind kill all of you in the process. Against such an attack, your best bet would actually be inside my ship, protected by the shields from most of the blast."

Tadayoshi nodded.
"If Infinity was going to destroy the city, he would have done it by now. I don't think he's going to do that; He seems to like theatrics more than pragmatism. If we approach the way you propose, then we might be able to fight through, but it would take a long time, and we'd be far too tired by the time we got to Infinity do fight him. If we fly straight to his position, then we can bypass unnecessary fighting. Infinity being strong enough to one-shot Kongou doesn't matter if everyone dies or is too tired to fight before we even get to him."

"Read the Art of War!" Ty shouted from the entrance to the room, having overheard the two arguing while he entered.
"'To fight and conquer in all your battles in not supreme excellence.' I think Sun Tzu knows more about this shit than you guys, and he'd say to avoid unnecessary fighting. What's the point of a ground battle, really? Like, the fuck do we need to fight all of those guys for?"
"When did you read the Art of War?" asked Marguerite, confused.
"It's popular among serious Pokemon trainers. Pretty sure every champion reads it. Er, in our world, anyway."
"You're not one to avoid fighting."
"Well, I won't back out of a fight if it shows up, but jeez, I sure as fuck would like to avoid dying."

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Kongou
Octavius sighed at Alice. "You really think zhat love vill breach through Infinity's control? Vhat do you think this is; a fairy tail?" He asked the Gardevior in a cynical tone. "Und Kongou-zhat is your name correct?-vhat makes you so sure you can survive an attack from an Ancient One? I think you're underestimating just how powerful zhe Infinity Force is." He said to Kongou. "In case you've forgotten, he passed through your shields und came on board vithout you noticing. Vhat's to stop him from appearing inside of you again, und destroying you from zhe inside? Our best chance is to attempt a covert approach, rather zhan knocking on Infinity's door."

Octavius then narrowed his eyes at Tadayoshi. "Oh, und one more thing: my dagger isn't magic. I vould never use such an archaic technique. No, it is something beyond magic: void energy; zhe very manifestation of nothingness. Not even an Ancient One can survive such power." He told him. Meanwhile, Clairus simply shrugged at Kadoor. "I don't know... maybe?" She said softly.

[Legokiller]

Kongou

"Wow, you're mocking your own allies with the Art of War? The book is simply common sense, and that alone doesn't give you the knowledge of how to save the multiverse. " Yoko crossed her arms. "But to be honest, any approach will work. If you want to besiege the city or sneak into it, do it. But you people are more interested in trying to make yourselves look stupid and prove who is better. Why is that important? Who gives a fuck!" Yoko stopped when Serena interrupted the kitsune.

"Holy crap, this is getting absurd! Enough of this, all of you! We're doing the covert mission and that's final." Serena ordered. She was already getting tired of this stressful, now frustrating, and nonsense that was happening in the Kongou right now. "Now please calm down. Don't worry about the Saturn coming in, Star will keep the ship and the Forerunner fleet on stand by. We're going to approach the city center by water through the canal. That can be either done by boat, Pokemon, or portal travel. If you have any other suggestions, tell us now. Invisibility spell or anything like that would be most appreciated. If the Kongou can do such things, we'll do it that way. Now, I hope we can be civil and not start a toxic fight."

Alice coughed and looked at Octavious calmly. "The power of love works in ways you don't expect. It will surprise you."

"Ahem." Serena looked at Alice and Octavious. "Let's stay focus okay?" In Serena's heart, she believes in Jacob will somehow find the strength and courage to fight for Clairus in the up coming battle.

[The Palmetto]

Ireland
Quetz glared at Secesh as he made the innuendo about Ignis needing protection. Just when he thought the old cyborg had matured enough, he just had to make another joke about copulation. However, he knew deep inside that no matter how many years, Secesh would never change.

Quetz sighed. "Alright, alright, Thank you anyways."

Cascabel clutched his head. "If I hear another mushy romantic thing between you two, I am going to burn this fortress down."

"Please don't..."

"That depends on your parents' behavior." He answered as he put his plate away with Terry. Konny had also finished her food and followed the two to the dish deposit area.

Kongou
"You better put him down...I have much experience mit die pover of memes, und zhey can commit terrible damage." Ignis gulped as she backed away a good distance from Frucc.

"Is that so?" Quetz looked at Frucc again and put him down. "Very well, little one. You are free."

Ireland

Secesh only chuckled in response, the old cyborg's face lighting up with laughter.

"Not sure what you expected, I've still got the touch," he said, before looking to Cascabel, then at Ignis.

"Speaking of the touch......," he replied, smirking at the female snake demon.

[Petrokovia]

Kongou's eyes narrowed.
"I would teleport him off of my ship." she said. Throughout the ship, Koungou used her nanomaterials to make cameras, allowing her to see everything that happened inside.
"And this time, I won't be caught unaware."

Tadayoshi mostly ignored Octavius's bit about Void particles being different than magic; How the dagger wasn't magic but still worked like magic wasn't very important, as long as it worked.

"If it's common fucking sense, then why do all of you suck at strategy?" Ty asked, mostly directing his words at Yoko (of all people). He seemed to have jumped a notch in aggression. "And we're not trying to one-up each other. We're trying to figure out how to get into the city in a way that we won't all fucking die! Is that not important? Do you want to fucking die? You're attitude of jumping in blind is stupid! You haven't faced Infinity before, but we have! Maybe you should leave this to the people with actual fucking experience in the matter."

Tadayoshi seemed more stressed.
"Wait up." he told Serena. "Just a minute ago, you were advocating a direct ground assault. No shit we should do a covert operation if it were an option, but you're pulling new intelligence strait out of your-Well, out of thin air. I even asked you if the stuff you told me was all we knew, and you chose not to clarify that stealth was even an option. From the information you gave, it seemed like the city would be constantly patrolled, and from the plan you came up with, it seemed that stealth wasn't going to be an option. You should really do a better job of giving all the information possible next time."

He thought for a moment.
"Kongou does have stealth systems that would cloak her from all manner of electronic and sound based detection, such as radar and sonar, as well as visual cloaking, but assuming there's an overhead light source like whatever is imitating the Sun in these biomes, then it wouldn't work well. She'd still cast a shadow, which would give her away... Plus, Infinity's forces will be expecting us. If we all went with the stealth plan, there's a good chance that some patrol might spot us..."

"How do we avoid that?" asked Chase, joining in on the conversation.
"Maskirovka." Tadayoshi clarified. "The art of strategic deceit. We send a small covert group through the canal as in Serena's new plan, along with another, false group, whose job it is is to be intentionally found, acting as if they are the main group. This group will have to be good at lying, and will have to possess a fake version of the dagger, supplied by Kongou."

He held out his hand to Kongou, who after a brief pause, realized what he was getting at. Kongou used some of her nanomaterials to make a fake replica of the dagger in extreme detail.

"A perfect 1-to-1 replica. Anyway, the final part of the plan is to make it appear that we want Kongou to take us strait to Infinity, as I had discussed earlier. We will make it look like we are transporting the dagger crew to Infinity directly, but our real purpose will be to distract the various forces, thus limiting the patrol around the city, and allowing a far greater chance of success."

"So... The plan is to pretend like we're pretending not to do a stealth mission, but still do a stealth mission, then pretend like the stealth mission was caught, when it actually wasn't?" asked Terrell.
"Exactly. It should make sense, if I've conveyed it correctly."
"Seems a bit complicated." Simon spoke.
"Simple tactics only work in Hollywood. This is the kind of planning it takes to really win a war."

He turned to Kongou.
"You have active decoys on board, right?"
"Yes, Captain."
"Great. To add another layer, it won't actually be Kongou firing, but one of her active decoys. She can even make nanomaterial clones to crew it, and use her stealth systems outside of the city, high in the air to minimize her shadow."
"That will take a lot of processing power to accomplish."
"Oh... Sorry. Can you do it?"
"I'm a Fog Battleship." she said with pride. "Of course I can do it."
"Sweet!" Tadayoshi exclaimed, before clearing his throat.

Kongou smiled; She could see why many of the other ships sought captains of their own.

[Legokiller]

Kongou

Yoko waved off Ty's aggression. In her eyes, Ty is simply being a child who waves the Art of War as magic and reading it will somehow makes you better. "You misjudged me. I never suggested to jump ahead blindly to begin with, and neither did you friends. One of your friends can teleport and make a portal for us to get into the front door where we need to go. Why are you mad again? If I did die, I'll come back to haunt you as a spooky ghost."

Serena pointed directly to the detailed holographic map of the city Star made earlier and still exists. It had other details like messages and an almost surrounding the entire city with proposed ship locations and armies to be positioned there. In fact an claim of outnumbering the defenders. There was even eyes and other officers holographic hands appearing now and then. Messages do apart, in a strange alien language while others translated in English. "Star made that holographic map for us from scans the Saturn done on Metru Nui and the Forerunners are helping us with providing intel. I can see the Forerunners and the Saturn's officers suggested the siege with a lightning strategy to give us a chance to the roads without long lasting fights from this message here." Serena opened ups letter and read it. "Well, they did wanted to see us heroes being heroes. Also there is another message one saying 'I'm listening to everything you said - Oberon, King of the Forerunners.' And yes, this is all we know so far. I hope the Toa can explain more about their universe and anything else in the city we need to know about."

Star looked at Tadayoshi. "The Forerunner's home world was attacked and more than 300 million people died in the first battle against Infinity. They want retribution for the crimes done to their empire. That's means pay back against Infinity and his allies, starting with the Rahkshi here in the city. They have far more advanced technology than our worlds, and armies capable destroying the Rahkshi easily. The first wave is made out of Clefables and Clefaires, who have a variety of moves to help clear the Rahkshi out. The Forerunner will provide awesome giant mechas as well. Our allies can even do it swiftly and their fleet can flatten the city less than an hour at best. Hence forward, a ground assault might be advisable to liberate the city from Teridax's oppression. This operation will send a message to our enemies and show them never to tread on us again. While your plan to avoid fighting for us from exhaustion is commendable, the Forerunner Royal Guard and the Marine Task Force would have cover us so this won't been much of a problem. Once we arrived at the main road or a clearing, Elizabeth or anyone else with portal creation can take us to the center of the city. It's my job to provide the information needed."

Star then added. "The Forerunners defeated many space faring empires who were at war with them in a short period of time in my universe. Many of those empires who went to war with the Forerunners don't exist now. Do not understatement the power of the cute pink face of destruction Tadayoshi. "

Serena sighed. "Look Tadayoshi, I'm willing to comprise and change the plan, and avoid fighting too much as well. Or not at all. This is why I take Alice's future predictions seriously during this time, and suggested an alternative. However, it was unaccepted to throw insults and degrade each other. I won't tolerant that behavior." Serena looked at Ty and Yoko, clearly displeased. "Now, this 'not a stealth mission but actually is a stealth mission' plan will work. We just need to appoint the right people in false team, and I think Yoko will do that job well."

The older kitsune cringed a little. "Okay, fine by me."

LEGO Batman went up to grab the replica of the dagger, and stared at the leaders. "I'll lead the false team. I'm the best here is, and I can handle it. I even defeated every villain Gotham in one epic singing showdown, so an army of patrolling Rahkshi won't stop me."

"Okay hold up!" Selene looked at Elizabeth and the Ashwoods. "Can Elizabeth make a portal and teleport us to the center of the city? If so, everything will be simple as pie."

[Wheatley Laboratories]

The Resturaunt at the End of the Multiverse #FR

The large quail himself had noticed the gunshot, and his eyes lit open. An angered Lightspeed then looked at Sine, and realized that now was the time to escape. Letting out a ferocious screech, he broke from his restraints, and landed steadily on the floor.
"What's your plan for us now, mammal?" He asked the sith, standing much taller at her side.

Grievous had walked over to where the manager was, and was quickly followed by his scuttling sabotage droid. The cyborg was quick to notice the manager, and shoved anyone he needed to out of his way before approaching the manager. Seeing his actions as hostile, he threw it from his hands and grabbed the poor man by the throat with his mechanical hand before holding up high.
"What do you think you're doing with that?!"

Inland

"Electronics? I have much to learn indeed. Say, Friday, what are these things like on the inside?" A confused Aestus asked Friday, while confusing to eye the electronic device. He continued to wonder about the nature of such a device, before they had arrived at Jules's house. Needless to say, Aestus was awestruck. The aesthetic was completely new to him, and he had never seen anything quite like it before. He had to duck in order to fit in properly, but it was good enough.
"This is quite the humble abode you have, my friend. You must be quite rich to have such a nice house, you said you were some sort of scientist, right? Those do make a lot where I come from, so that makes sense," the old god said, slowing piecing the details of his surroundings together.

The Kongou

Meanwhile, Frucc was still screeching and flailing his arms around, before he stopped to give Quetz a glare of hatred.

"Yes! If you don't put me down THIS INSTANT, I will be forced to use my most powerful weaponry on you! Do NOT underestimate the power of my memes!" He continued to screech, trying to sound sinister but failing horribly.

"Well, there's no magic inside them, that's for sure." Friday laughed. Her brother would suddenly run inside the house and jump onto a sofa and lay there on his stomach. Friday sighed and muttered something. "Anyway, they're powered by a different kind of energy, called electricity. The phone's main section is a circuit board, it's brain if you will..."

As Friday continued explaining, her brother would fall off the sofa onto the floor and just curl up, falling asleep. He had also managed to kick his loincloth off, the small scrap of fabric lying next to him.

[Prusselanden]

Kongou
Konny stepped forward towards Tadayoshi and Serena.
"Um....if you guys want, I could also join the false dagger team. I don't know what I can do, but my powers of necromancy could come in handy some time in the battle." She suggested to the group.

Ireland
Cascabel groaned and stormed out of the room.
Terry sighed and followed him. "I'll be back in a while."

Ignis stared. "Good luck Honey. Cascabel, if you hurt her, I can und vill kill you."

He waved nonchalantly as he walked out.

Ignis then turned to Secesh and Quetz. "Ve might go home tomorrow...."

[Naval Monte]

Kongou

"Can someone shut the robot up? His screaming is extremely grating on my ears." Elizabeth said as she scratched her ears. With the plans being tossed around Sans coughed, appearing right next to Kongou. "you forget about me but i'm willing to let it slide since you never saw me in battle." Then Alice warned Tadz on his plan being doomed to fail and Tadz reaction to it only made most watch the back and forth as the others thought on who's plan was the best. Tadz may be the captain but they were still willing to pick a plan that sounded more beneficial to the group and themselves, even if it means going against the captain's orders.

"I hate to say this but I actually agree with the freak here, stealth should be our main objective here." Elizabeth stated. Cade responded to Kongou. "Well Infinity destroyed a planet so I think that is more of a reason for us to prioritize stealth for this mission." When Ty mention the Art of War the witch looked at the pokemon with intrigue. "That book exists in your world? Interesting." was all she said as she looked at the map that Serena projected.

When Serena mention that love can be used against Infinity most cringed a little at the plan. "no offense serena but last time we tried a plan with using clarius love as our main weapon well..." The skeleton didn't need to say much on how that plan ended since almost everyone was present to see that rematch against Infinity.

"Funny that you are calling magic archaic when by your own words Void energy is even older but hey at least we can use magic and not turn into monsters." Elizabeth. Soon everyone was fighting again which made Alex sighed. "How did you people manage to defeat Infinity the first time around as a team is surprising." Elizabeth turn to her mother. "We didn't have as much baggage on our hands to deal with when we fought against him nor did we have to worry about a universe size robot and him using one of our friends as a meat puppet." she explained to the wraith.

When Tadz suggested his new idea the witch smirked. "Finally an idea I can fully agree with. I was thinking of a plan similar to this but I think I should be in the actual stealth team." When Selene asked if she and her family can make portals all of them nodded. "We can but I think for this plan it's best not for us to appear in the center right away. No I can take use close to where he is but I won't lead is to the city since I have no idea where we may appear in. We can be lucky and appear in an empty room or be unlucky and appear in the barracks filled with his soldiers." Elizabeth pointed at an alleyway close to where Infinity was located in.

"This will be our entrance. I can make a portal there and we can sneak into the Coliseum while our decoy team distracts Infinity and his forces." Reaper and Snake stepped forward, both agreeing to go with the true stealth time. "i'm going with the old soldier and edgelord here since you guys would need my speed for help if i have to use the dagger." Mercy chose to stay with the false stealth team. "I thinks the other team would need a good healer considering their job is to distract Infinity's army and someone needs a doctor encase they get shot."

Cade also chose to stay with the false stealth team and Aja joined that team simply because she needed to keep an eye on her younger brother and because she has faith that her mother can do the mission on her own. "I'm actually going with my daughter on this one. I can leave this shell and move around as a wraith which would be more useful for the true stealth mission." Alexandria stated.

Frisk and the monsters all chose to assist the decoy team. "Besides I know I suck with stealth." Undyne admitted. Asgore also agreed that he wouldn't be good with stealth. "It's hard to miss a giant, white, goat monster after all." Papyrus soon spoke. "THE GREAT PAPYRUS CAN BE AS STEALTHY AS A NINJA SHOULD HE PLEASE BUT IN THIS OCCASION I WILL PLAY THE ROLE OF DECOY AS I WILL ALLOW MY BROTHER TO TAKE THE SNEAKY ROLE OF A STEALTHY ROGUE TO DELIVER THE DAGGER OF BOTH JUSTICE AND VENGEANCE UPON INFINITY."

Frisk mention that while it would be least likely for Infinity to suspect them ever using the dagger it was also that reason why Frisk can't join the stealth team as they don't feel comfortable on stabbing Jacob with the weapon even though it was Infinity in control. "Well we can act as a big flashy target to keep Infinity's attention away from you guys." Tony said as most of the Avengers agreed to be on the decoy mission, the two exceptions were Black Widow and Fury. "Me and Widow will accompany your group as we are more trained for covert operations." Fury explained.

Hearing who was going with the actual stealth team and who was acting as decoys Elizabeth said. "I think our decoy team should open fire at Infinity's troops once their mission "fails"." she looked at the group. "I suggest that after they failed they should resort to hit and run tactics to further pester Infinity's forces and to move them further away from the city. We may even have a use for that army but I don't want the full force coming down, just a small detachment if we can even allow them in and we must bring in the Saturn to make the attack phase of the plan more convincing. Before you say anything Ty even with the small backup the plan remains the same, we hit the enemy and run for it"

[Mundeo]

Coruscant

"I think there are some chapters that are missing in this story." Marie replied back. "If Kether was screwed from the start why would he still be fighting against Gamicloth? I don't think he would still be here unless you somehow has a way on defeating him." Marie can feel that the Archon was holding on to some sort of trump card. When Rosa shouted that her own sister was out Marie wish she can join but she can't since she knew her chances of survival was non existent and if she died here her kids will be erased, she couldn't let that happen. Victoria wish she can fight with her friend but the moment she joins she knew she would drag her whole family into the fight and she doesn't want to get them all killed because of her reckless action.

Coruscant

"Yes. There's something missing" Damian repeated before turning to Blake. "What are these 'spheres'? How come we knew nothing about them until now, especially as Gamicloth apparently has them?"

Nearby, the group was able to hear James moan, "I swear, if we have to collect something else..."

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Kongou
Octavius laughed loudly at Alice. "Oh you foolish creature. Zhis isn't a Disney movie, zhis is real life. Und in real life, people don't have magical princess powers zhat can break through zhe influence of one of zhe strongest beings in existence." He said to her. Then he turned to Kongou. "You're so very certain of your abilities aren't you? I vouldn't bet on your prowess over his, because he has zhe very language of reality on his side." Then the group began to discuss what the plan would be, and Octavius laughed softly. "Und how do you intend to hide zhe real covert group from Teridax's omnipotent gaze? To put it simply; you can't, not vithout my help of course."

"If you haven't already noticed zhis Kongou, you can't detect me vith your scanners. Vant to know why? It's because I exist in a constant state of nonexistence. No scanners, or in zhis case god vision, can spot me because my very existence is a contradiction. My point is: I can impart a bit of zhis power upon the covert group to hide zhem from Teridax." Octavius told the group. Octavius then glanced at the fake dagger created by Kongou, and narrowed his eyes at it. "Hardly perfect. Anyone vith a basic knowledge of void particles could spot it as a fake easily. But it should be enough to fool Infinity." He said to Kongou.

Then the groups started to form, and Hanzo volunteered to join the stealth group. Then Hana (who had been quiet this entire time) spoke. "I'll go with the distraction group. I want to shoot that jerk." She said in a bitter tone. Octavius looked at Elizabeth. "Yes, but my powers are far easier to control. You have to go through such hullabaloo to use yours." He said to her.

[Legokiller]

Kongou

"Um, guys, Alice mention that love part is in the future and while I do intend on bringing Clairus with us, we're not doing that plan again." Serena clarified to everyone. "Now me and Calem will stick with the Stealth Team as Alice will help make sure the dagger is stabbed into Infinity, and Calem's Greninja can do the same thing. Now that a portal taking us close to the center makes thing more simple."

"Sometimes the multiverse can surprise me." Commander Shepard commented on how capable the Kongou and the tools able is such a shocker. Not to mention an entire fleet to help out. It's pretty envious, since Shepard wanted to do a ground attack on Virmire with such power. "Sadly, the Normandy would have to drop us down to the city and we had to work our way into the center. It's a simple lack of luxury, resources, and technology in our part. However, I'll volunteer in the false stealth team and support the team. If we're being overwhelm, I'll call in the Normandy and my crew will back us up. My team is the best in galaxy and survived the Collector Base. That's our small detachment force. Of course, a few Forerunner ships, the Saturn, and men will help as well."

Iris glanced at Guzma, who was already getting impatient. "Sounds good Shepard. Also I can tell those officers heads might rush in, and while we can take an advantage, probably a better idea not. Star, don’t pressure Serena into using armies.” Star nodded. “Me, with Touko and N will help us in the false stealth team.” Another part is Iris wanting to get out of this stinking ship.

Selene wasn't having much of a good time in the Kongou. Sure, it was cool to see the army rolling in, but at the same time, Selene wasn't sure about that and she can tell Serena wasn't either deep down. Also the fact of sitting around, listening to Tadayoshi, Ty, and Yoko being jerks. No thanks. Not the place to hang around strangers acting like that. "Me and Lillie will help out the Decoy team. I suppose that will help."

Ren yawned. "I'll be in the stealth team to help Elizabeth, and do have some handily invisibility potions."

Alice chuckled a little. "You forgot Sailor Cosmos Octavius. She saved the multiverse from Sailor Galaxia, who was close to being as an Ancient One, and had a pure heart. I suppose you should say is some realities don't have magical princesses of love, while others do."

Touko coughed. "Okay Octavius, I'm curious about this void particle powers of yours. Like, what's the basics to conceal our position from Teridax's glance and what is needed to learn such power of Void particles? Can a psychic person like Serena and myself can use it?" Apart of the absent of such knowledge of void particles in her world is simply doesn't exist. Like the nature of Octavius as well. Touko knew this power is dangerous and can chew down anything quickly. How big is the price for this power is the most important part. "Unless, you're simply going to assist the stealth team and bugger off once the final battle happens."

[Prusselanden]

Inland
"Yes, I'm a doctor. I treat people's ailments."Julian answered Aestus. She went around her house, turning on the lights and heading into the kitchen. The house would be plain for a suburban family home, but luxurious for one person living in it. Paperwork was stacked in high piles on the dining table nearby, and a lamp faintly shone from the nearby study.

Julian came out of the kitchen. She brought some tea in a pot and cups as well as sugar and cream. Julian set them down in front of Aestus, Friday, and her Brother. She went back and came again with some sweets and cookies.

"Help yourselves to these. As for Friday, why don't you come and take a hot shower while your clothes get dried?" Julian suggested to the girl, while putting a blanket over her brother. "I haven't gotten visitors in a long time. Well, welcome visitors, that is. I hope this is good enough for you guys."

[The Palmetto]

Ireland

Secesh planted a kiss on Ignis's cheek, chuckling at Cascabel's response. He found the genocidal snake demon to be quite a hilarious companion, and enjoyed seeing his tantrums.

"Try not to get killed, sweetheart!" Secesh called out to his daughter, before finally sitting down back beside his lover.

"Oh, but seriously though. If you even hurt her I'll make sure you die in the most painful way possible," the cyborg said, following Ignis's threat towards the rattlesnake. He spoke in a carefree matter, feeling confident that Terry wouldn't be harmed.

Inland

"Hmm...interesting. I will remember to keep note of that. And tell me, you can control these 'electronics', correct?" Aestus asked Friday, gently setting himself down on the couch. He was too large for a normal chair, so he would have to use this human couch to accommodate his size. While the house seemed rather small to him, he still found the overal appearance and function to be ideal.

"This is a nice place of residence you have, Jules. If you wouldn't mind, could you tell me what those stacks of paper are for? I assume some sort of documents or results, but I'm curious as to the specifics," he inquired, noticing the drinks and food but politely gesturing that he didn't want any. Instead, a tiny Epaulette shark pup appeared from behind his scarf, and floated over to the refreshments. With large eyes, it examined the cookies, determining that they would be quite a meal. It floated even closer, before munching down on one and swiftly consuming it. It released a silent yawn before slowly crawling on the table, falling asleep beside the heat of the teapot.

"This is more than good enough, thank you," Aestus replied softly, gently stroking his sleeping pet.

[Aeternabilis]

Alex's Apartment

"Ve make plan first, zhen ve go find girl," Ivan said as the two got up. "No good to rush out vithout thinking, da?" "Da," Joshua agreed. "Thanks for the training, Bloodfyre. I think I'm ready for some spells, you should teach me some when we get back." "Yes, yes," Ivan said, waving his hand in a 'let's go' gesture. "You can learn all magic you vant later. Now ve plan." He led the two back downstairs, where the rest of the heroes had already gathered around the coffee table- Eric and Ann & Marcus and Alex sharing the couch, Sylph and Pobeda occupying chairs opposite each other, Secesh on the floor with Antony on his shoulder, and Irwin hanging from the ceiling. Alex's computer, attached to the antenna, was sitting on the table in the middle. The three from the roof took their seats on the floor, and the meeting was brought to order.

"Okay," Marcus said, trying his best to not look like he had just woken up. "Now that the program has downloaded, we'll be able to find Abakelia's base. The question is, when we find it, what do we do? How do we go about getting to the doctor without being murked by ten thousand deathbots and, uh... what was her name again? Dar es Salaam?" "Dal Ji-Yeong," Ivan said, rolling his eyes. "Right, right. We need a plan to deal with her, so thoughts, people?" "I have idea," Ivan said. "Glowing girl believes she is doing good, da? Vhat if ve could convince her ve vere good guys instead of Dr. Fuckface?" "How do you expect to do that?" Alex asked, crossing her arms. "None of us speak Korean, and she doesn't speak any of our languages." "None of us, maybe," Ivan agreed. "But ve know someone who does, and who is already in base: Jack Masters." "Oh yeah, Jack!" Sylph exclaimed. "He speaks Korean, and he's good with words! But, isn't he, like, mind controlled or something?" "Well, that shouldn't really be a problem," Joshua chimed in. "From that hologram, it looked like Jack was being controlled by the metal band on his head. Get rid of that, and he should theoretically be good again." "Vith him free, he could talk to Ji-Yeong and convince her to betray Science Douche. Zhen, ve vould be more zhan powerful enough to blow entire base to hell."

"I do like the idea of the girl pulling a Zuko," Marcus said, rubbing his chin. "But, there's still the matter of getting to Jack in the first place without being blasted into oblivion, by either her or the legions of deathbots. Any ideas on that front, guys?"

[The Palmetto]

Alex's Apartment

Secesh was drenched in sweat, and looked both tired and relaxed. He let out a small sigh, and Antony looked rather disgusted. Irwin just let out an octopus shrug, and listened to the plan closely. Both Irwin and Secesh had tactical minds, and listened to the situation closely as they thought of their own plans.

"Ten thousand? I reckon we might never be able to take them on head on," Secesh remarked, thinking for a moment. He had dealt with similar operations before, and had an idea on what they might be able to do.

"With ma' war experience, taking down that many soldiers is easily possible. I'd just hide in the swamps around their bases and launch aggressive raids whenever they were tired or vulnerable. Sometimes I'd stalk them for weeks, waiting for the right time to shoot those yanks. Sometimes they'd even lose moral and surrender, could we do that here?" He asked them, sharing some of his war experience. He wasn't aware that the robots lacked fear, or any other form of emotion, because he'd never really faced any before.

Irwin himself had heard the conversation as well, and he was quick to get in closer to speak.
"Ya need to win against ten thousand savages, huh. Well I'll tell ya this, gits, and ya better bloody listen. We'd see those ten thousand, and we'd fight back with 20,000! Ya just gotta find men braver than a lion, and even stronger and deadlier! The best way to fight a big army is to summon an even bigger one!" The octopus said, speaking boldly.

[Truth Incarnate]

Eridan

Eridan continued to play around with his abilities in the confines of that ship. The room was sparse, bare, medically bleached. Sterile and calm, just as the mind had to be. As he felt power surging through his body, his heart warm for the first time in so long, his mind began to grow as well. He was no longer bound by a necessity to be the strongest or the best. He no longer needed to prove himself to anybody. Tzeentch whispered thoughts of encouragement and weaved sinews of patience and calm among Eridan's mind, sending him into a dazed trance.

And so, he walked. He turned in a circle, letting the Hope linger in the air for a little while. He listened to the screeching of the Angels, no longer harsh and hostile, but instead soothing and pure. He understood the nature of Hope now. It was an unstoppable force, something that could never be directly opposed. He looked at the wall, such a simple creation - meant to hold back those who weren't strong enough to break it. Eridan reached out, and blasted it open, an enormous cascade of white ripping it to shreds, like teeth and wings. He looked out into the corridor of The Saturn, sighed, and began to look for an exit.

Vriska

The ongoing conversation was just getting dumber and dumber. There were people attempting to get the entire team on the ground killed, people trying to get the ship blown to pieces, and more often than not, people who tried to put previously discarded plans back on the table. If she didn't have so many irons in the fire already, she'd have whipped this motley assortment of jackasses into a real fighting force by now.

"If it doesn't get in the way of any of your theatrics and "volunteering", then I'll go with the stealth team. I can 8e quiet when I want to, and there's no way I'm standing around fighting some cockroaches while the rest of you murder that 8ig fucker over there."

[Prusselanden]

Ireland
Terry sat outside in a tree, while Cascabel paced around on the ground. She was fiddling with the medallion in her hands, going over Secesh's words over and over again.

Please don't ruin this with any foolish shenanigans, we've already been through enough.

"But still, I wonder what could have been..."

"What are you doing, always blabbering to yourself?" Cascabel snarked. "You humans and your unstable mental conditions..."

She yelped in frustration and loaded the medallion, powering it up, causing Cascabel to leap back in shock. "I need to go find that lab."

"Are you crazy! Where are you going!" He leapt onto the tree and tried to grab the medallion from her hands. "What is this thing!?"
"Something to help us get back to the future...." She closed her eyes shut, staunching the mixed emotions in her stomach. Theresa knew her parents were going to freak if they found out she was gone. But still, she needed to do something the than abandoning her timeline for good.

Ignis felt a bad feeling in her gut and ran outside, witnessing the portal that Terry was opening.
"Vhat...Terry! Terry NEIN!" The snake demon sprinted towards her daughter frantically, her eyes fixed on the vortex before the girl.

[Wheatley Laboratories]

Julian's house

"Yeah, I can." Answered Friday. She would gratefully head upstairs to find the shower.
She would sigh happily as she showered. Ah, that's better...

[Petrokovia]

Ty looked at Yoko, confused.
The fuck is she even talking about now? Ghosts?

He turned to Octavius, walking up next to Alice.
"I dunno. I wouldn't discount the Disney shit 100%. Back in my world, the bond between a trainer and their Pokemon is really important; It's what allows them to get so strong. If I didn't have Gold by my side, I couldn't mega evolve. So, there's something to be said for that stuff, even if it doesn't work in your world... Uh, wherever the fuck you come from..."

Tadayoshi's entire crew seemed confused by some of Serena's words.
"Wait up, when did anyone insult each other?" asked Terrell. He paused, glancing at Ty. "Er, anyone actually from the crew?"
"I think the point was the badger." Marguerite explained.
"Wha? ...Eh, I get what you mean." Terrell responded. "I guess there's not a whole lot we could do about that, though..."
"We could ask Gold about it."
"Nope, that's just how he is! I ain't gonna fuck with his freedom of speech!" Gold shouted across the room from is bean bag, not bothering to turn to face the group, or pause his game of Smash Bros.

Tadayoshi turned to Elizabeth.
"Uh, what? I never argued against a covert operation. I think some clarification is in order... The plan Serena originally proposed, that I disagreed with, was an open, full frontal ground assault; The least stealthy option, and the one least capable of succeeding. With the amount of intelligence that was originally given, I assumed from their plan that stealth wasn't an option. Therefore, I proposed that we just avoid as much of the fighting as we could by flying over it; Considering the Rakishi won't have anything capable of taking Kongou down without also wiping themselves out, we wouldn't need to worry about getting shot down. It wasn't until just now that stealth was revealed as an option, or that Star decided to give us all of the information available."

He turned back to Serena.
"But, now that we've got all of the information, and we've settled on a plan, let's drop it."

He then turned to his crew.
"Kongou, load an active decoy into torpedo tube 1 and launch it. We're going to transfer the drone launching system and Miyu's arwing into it. Miyu, you'll go along with your arwing, and launch from off the decoy. Marguerite, you'll go with the real dagger team, Chase and Terrell, you'll go with the fake dagger team. Marguerite, Terrell, and Chase, pick up some weapons from the armory before you go."

All of the crew nodded, and left to do their own things (aside from Kongou, who could control her actions without moving her mental model). Outside of the ship, a torpedo launched, and a large shape seemed to expand from it, almost as if being inflated like a balloon. However, once it took shape, its exterior soon hardened, a perfect replica of Kongou-At least, from the outside. It was considerably lacking in physical armor, and didn't possess any of the systems the real Kongou did, aside from a rudimentary propulsion system.

"Transferring payload now." Kongou stated.
"Great. Enter stealth mode, while you're at it."

Inside all rooms aboard Kongou, the light went out. Outside, she would disappear from sight, with her active decoy flying beside her. She would also be invisible to radar, sonar, and other detection systems.

"You can project your Klein Field around other ships, correct?"
"Yes, but only at relatively short ranges, and if I were to protect this vessel as well, I would not be able to protect both ships as well as I could if I dedicated all shielding to a single ship."
"That's fine. In stealth mode, we can't use shields without being seen anyway... Which is actually something I want to warn you about."
"Captain?"
"If there is any reason to believe our stealth has been compromised at any point, during any mission, drop stealth and use your shields to protect yourself. I don't want to risk you getting killed... Especially since this is a temporary arrangement."

Kongou smiled.
"I understand. Don't worry. I do not intend to let harm come to me or you."
"Oh, yeah, how's that search for a new ship goin'?" asked Ty.
"There's absolutely nothing in my price range. Not even old personal fighters."
"There is not hurry." reassured Kongou. "Take as much time as you need. I wouldn't want to end my journey too soon."
"Thanks, Kongou."

Ice King strolled up to the group, and took note of Tadayoshi and Kongou.
"Jeesh... that guy needs to get a massage or somethin'... Too stressed."
He thought for a moment.
Huh. that's weird... How can I see what they feel about each other?
He continued to look around.
Woah, there's like, mad levels of weird stuff around here. Colors and animals and stuff...
"Yo Simon, you with us? You look like you just took LSD."
Ice King shook his head.
"Uh, huh? Wha-? Oh, right. Uh, no. I'm fine." the Ice King said.
This is one of the powers of the crown, Simon. It's called Wizard Eyes. It allows you to see all sorts of things that others can't see; Including certain feelings, auras, invisible beings, ghosts, and more.
This totally feels like I'm wiggin' out... And who the heck is Simon?
He stopped listening to the other Simon in the crown, and turned to Octavius, who, by being the only remotely still thing currently in his vision, actually drew his attention.
"Hey! Didn't you say you couldn't help out 'cause Infinity would know you were here and that would blow our cover? Now you're saying that you're the only way he won't see us? What the hay, man? You got a couple screws loose up in the ol' noggin or what?"

[Prusselanden]

Inland
Julian went to dry Friday's clothes while she was in the shower, and had provided a clean bathrobe for the girl when she got out. As she came back, Julian spotted the small shark sleeping beside the teapot.

"Awwww....hi, little buddy." she cooed as she knelt down and petted the sleeping shark with her finger. "How does he breathe on land?" she asked Aestus.

Julian felt kind of bad when Aestus stated that he did not require nourishment. She really did want to do something to thank the ocean god.
"Is there anything I could do to make your stay more satisfying? Please tell me."

[Legokiller]

Kongou

“Stealth is always an option, however with the greater fire capability of the fleet we would have blitz through enemy lines to the Coliseum.” Star winked. “Of course, this was a result from situation run of the blitz tactics, and the data I collected about our enemies. The Rahkshi have one primary ability and a secondary power. They can also merge into a larger platform for armored support and manipulation of the elements. I believe Calyx has more intel about the Rahkshi that we must investigate further. Now, specific questions are preferable. It’s very unnecessary for me to become an annoying exposition robot about everything. I do mean everything because we have little time to spare. With the multiverse at stake, people and our allies want this to be over quickly before it's too late.”

Serena looked at Tadayoshi. “Sure Tadayoshi. I won’t lie, but this whole mission was never easy and I can tell we both went through at of hardships without a break before coming to this universe. I hope this is the last time we have to face Infinity.” Serena frowned for a moment. “Now, I imagine Infinity wasn’t sincere with his apology after we defeated him a year ago. It’s a pity. Perhaps he could have been redeemed.”

“I doubt we can change the way Infinity is to become somewhat half-decent. Power of this scale belonging to Infinity, his experience, and the scar from your love beam messed him up.” Calem told Serena. “Killing Infinity is the best we can do for him.”

When Vriska told everyone she wants to be apart of the stealth team, Serena had to object. “Excuse me Vriska, I believe your talents are more suited in the decoy team. That goes for Iris, N, and Touko. You guys are heavy hitters and can last longer in the fight. Touko, make sure the psionic shield you can do at least can held up.”

Touko laughed nervously. “Well I can see your point Serena, but I’m not a good psychic to hold a shield up. My pokemon can do a better defensive with Reshiram of course.” She then looked at serena carefully. “Don’t you remember how to do psi-missiles? Not a hard spell to do, and since you sort of fly before, try doing that.”

“Oh right! Of course.” Serena said. “Alright, I think it’s settled. We better get ready.” Serena did have to look at Octavius and Alice. “Look, I still believe Jacob still have the passion and love of not only his friends, but Clairus, that will drive him to fight against Infinity’s control. If he does so, our chances of a successful stab will increase. Honestly, it’s something we have to keep in mind. Sadly, I didn’t know Jacob gets very emotional and depress, a lot, before the whole Earth thing.” Serena then added. "Oh, me and Alice achieved a greater form for what we called Serena-Gardevoir from our love. Also don't worry, I'll keep you and Gold safe Ty."

"Also Nebby loves me and Lillie too, and she saved Lusamine from being nuts about ultra beasts!" Selene added.

"You people are going to give Octavius a toothache from all the sugar at this point." Yoko commented. "You're almost bad as ponies."

Serena curiously looked at Yoko for a second, and wondered how cute of a pony she mentioned.

Meanwhile Star went off to find Calyx. "Nyaa, Calyx, are you there?"

Rin popped her head out."I think he's still brooding about what he done."