The Ancient Ones: Age of Nothingness (IC)

[Prusselanden]

Kongou
"Not only zhat, but because of our love, I guess, Shifu vas able to snap out of zhe Reaper's corruption for a vhile und let me und Tyrone kill him." Ignis added in. "If he could do zhat vizh some of zhe strongest forms of mind control in zhe vorld controlling him, Jacob can definitely break out from Infinity's grasp if Clairus connects to him enough."

"But we shouldn't rely on emotional connection too much, maybe?" Konny shrugged. "I mean, no offense, but I really don't get this power of Love thing. It doesn't exist in my world. By the way, do you think someone should go talk to Calyx?"

[Legokiller]

Kongou

"I doubt Jacob can hold out from Infinity's grasp for that long." Shepard told the group. " At best we can use the moment to strike fast and hard, freeing him from this nightmare. However, we need to stick with the plan and do our part. Clairus will decide what team she should be."

"Well, sure Konny." Selene replied to Konny. "That poor guy might be taking what happened very hard. As for the love thing, we still have to fight Infinity and save Jacob out of this possession. I didn't have any magical powers to free Lusamine from a ultrabeast jelly, no offense."

"Selene, I think you should explain that once we're out of this mess." Serena said to Selene, who was very confused by it.

"It's a long story." Selene said.

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Kongou
Octavius chuckled at Touko. "Of course you can learn it! But it vould kill you as soon as you used it due to your pesky nature of existence. Only beings of zhe void can manipulate it vithout dying." He told her. Then he looked at Ty. "Yes, but I promise you zhat your bond could never break zhe vill of an Ancient One, just like Jacob's won't." Next he looked at Simon and sighed. "I cannot join you because if Infinity saw me he vould go all-out und murder you. Your only hope of victory lies in Infinity's overconfidence in himself, vhich vould be shattered zhe moment he saw me." He explained to him.

Then all the love-talking finally made Octavius snap, and with a thunderous roar he screamed. "VILL YOU ALL SHUT UP?! JACOB IS WEAK, UND SO IS YOUR ARCHAIC EMOTION!" Octavius sighed deeply in an effort to compose himself. "Now... can someone fetch zhe kitsune so ve can get on vith zhe plan?" He asked.

[The Palmetto]

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.

Ireland

Secesh, being Secesh, actually realized that he felt uncomfortable with Terry being alone with Cascabel. So after giving Ignis a quick kiss on the cheek, he rushed to go put his his bulking armor, and equip his weapons. After that, he ran outside as fast as he could in the massive suit of armor, and stopped in his tracks as soon as he saw the vortex.

"GOD DAMN IT, TERRY!" Secesh roared with anger, before continuing to stomp his way towards his daughter. He was infuriated by her decision to try and go back to the future, and felt that Terry had violated the trust he had put in her hands. He loved his daughter with all of his heart, but couldn't help but feel disappointed that she would set their lives in turmoil again.

Inland

The shark pup, a sleeping smile on its face, responded by rolling over and exposing it's soft belly.

"It's one of my powers, actually. It allows for me to have fish or any other marine life orbit around me and float while still being able to float on land. They're granted some of my durability, too," he responded to her, looking at the small pup. Even after studying marine life for 3.5 billion years, he was still fascinated by nature's creatures, no matter how big or small.

"Well, I don't require nourishment, but I can try some," Aestus replied, pouring himself a small amount of tea. He noticed that she wanted to make sure she gave him something in return, so he decided to try her tea. He slowly but surely dipped it into his armored head, and drank it all. Due to his unusual physique, he merely absorbed it into his ghastly form, but nonetheless, he could still taste it.

"This tastes wonderful, I must say. Thank you for having me here, so far, I am enjoying my stay," he replied, setting the cup of tea back down. He was enjoying his stay here, it was one of the first times in years he had been able to truly clear his head.

Resturaunt at the End of the Multiverse #FR

A portal formed in the resturaunt, and a small, armored figure fell out. The portal popped out of existence, and the 4ft figure rose to her tiny feet. She dusted off her small cape, before noticing all the violence occurring. She saw all the bodies, and heard all the loud noises, and scrambled over to hide under a table. She was scared, and started to softly crypts she curled up into a ball.

This was, of course, before Aetherus found her.

Noticing his daughter's presence, he opted to change forms, and snarled as his bird like form turned into a 10ft tall completely armored being. He kept his formidable eyes, and his faceplate was cut in the half at the middle, with several jagged "teeth" making it look like a mouth. He sped around looking for her, before finding her under a table.

"It's ok, do you need some help?" Aetherus asked gently, reaching out a hand to help lift her up.

"Y-yes...," It was rare that her father was ever gentle, so she sniffled and unfurled from her ball.

Aetherus just laughed, kicking her in the face as she flew into one of the walls. She was lodged in place, and struggled to get out.

"Can the little baby Higher God not get herself out of a wall? Let me help," Aetherus teased again, grabbed her by the head and throwing her to the other side of the room. She fell onto the floor, her momentum throwing her up and down as she rolled into the other wall.

"Stop..please...you're hurting me!" She cried out, slowly getting up before being kicked to the ground again.

"I'll stop once you make me. Now come on you worthless piece of shit, I may have use for you on this little quest of mine," he told her with a bitter voice, watching with disgust as she struggled to get up. He didn't care for her at all, and over the years, had grown to enjoy watching her suffer without any hope of escape. She was just a tool, a toy, to him, that he would use to mske himself more powerful. Who shows remorse for a toy?

[Prusselanden]

Inland
Julian rubbed the epaulette shark's belly with her finger gently. "That's amazing. I bet they'll enjoy what experience life on land is like."

Her smile grew further as Aestus stated that he enjoyed the tea she prepared. "I'm glad you like it. It's the least I can do." She got up and went to the bathroom to put on her prescription sunglasses. She could manage without them, but by now her blurry vision was giving her a terrible headache.

Julian suddenly noticed a shadow flit across the dark windowpane. She narrowed her eyes. She walked back to the living room and sat down, watching and hearing alertedly.

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Alex's Apartment

"That is-" "-just-" "-fucking-" "STUPID!!!" Eric and Pobeda shouted to what Secesh and Irwin had both said. Eric looked to Irwin "Alright, you stupid piece of sushi, listen here. We aren't facing "savages" here, we're fighting against advanced killer robots. And where the fuck do you suggest we find 20,000 men who can defeat an army of killer robots? Do you have some sorta Space Marine Legion on speed dial?! You gonna call up the God-Emperor of Mankind to descend from the heavens and lay waste to all our foes with the flick of his wrist? Because if so then do tell us now so we can save a lot of time and energy." At the same time, Pobeda addressed Secesh's idea "Robot's don't feel fear, genius, and they could easily track us down with motion sensors and Infrared scanners. Add to that the fact that we should be doing this as fast and efficiently as possible to keep Abakelia's bots from causing more harm, and I'd say guerrilla warfare is not possible. There's also the fact that, with a few exceptions, most of the fights you've been in through your life have been against an enemy that can't fight back, which is less fighting and more a massacre with extra steps." he sighed and rubbed his eyes "Alight, so here's my plan. I say we make a diversion, a distraction to draw the enemy away from the base while we sneak in." Eric mulled over this before saying "Hmm, Question. How will we get this distraction, are we going to have a volunteer here do it? We'll obviously need it to be a big distraction if we want to draw away as many of the death bots as possible." the two paused, thinking about this for a second, before both suddenly stopped and turned to look at Secesh.

Kongou

Kadoor walked up to Clairus, putting a hand on her shoulder "Trust me, meditation will help ease your mind when you're stressed." she shook her head a bit "But anyways, if you are feeling better I say we should rejoin the main group."

[Arkeyana]

Raptor 12

The pilot grabbed the raptors mic, he had received the strike teams distress call. He quickly established a link with galactica. "The strike team's in trouble" he started.


"cheesy fast forward music"


Galactica CIC

Enraged, Adama slammed the mic down. He tried to think of a way to stop this. Suddenly, it came to him, he ordered the Galactica to face the station in a broadside manner the ship's turrets slowly towards it, ship-to-ship missiles were armed, and vipers launched and circled the station. He then sent a warning to the station, and I quote, " This is commander Adama of the Battlestar galactica, give the strike team safe passage to the hangars, or we will open fire"

[Prusselanden]

Ireland
Terry gulped and froze as her father stormed towards her. This was what she feared. She wanted to disappear right now-if she never existed, then he wouldn't be in such pain. Her mother wouldn't be in such pain. No one would...

But what could have been...a better future.
GODAMMIT TERRY!

Terry clutched her head for a minute and yelped. She never wanted to choose, but Ignis had told her before, she would have to make unavoidable sacrifices in life.

Ignis herself was climbing the tree, her hand stretched out, ready to grab her daughter to snap her out of her madness.

The girl grabbed Cascabel and leapt through the portal, closing her eyes as it shrunk behind her.

"NEIN!" Ignis screamed as her hand barely missed the portal by inches, watching it close up. The snake demon fell from the tree. The air was knocked out of her as Ignis landed on her back hard.

[Naval Monte]

Kongou

When Octavius told them that they can evade Teridax's gaze Elizabeth let a stream of blue and purple energy appear in her hand. "You forget that some of us here can use magic and invisibility is possible with it so I can cast an invisibility spell on those on the stealth team without relying on the void." the woman doesn't trust Octavius since the reason she was even dealing with the whole drama with the Borg world is because of him and his void particles.

When he mention that his powers are much easier than her Elizabeth smirked. "Yes I go through a lot for my powers but at least my power doesn't turn people into freaks of nature nor does it sound uncomfortably close to using the powers of the abyss even if it isn't." When Elizabeth heard Ren voicing in with having invisibility potion she walked over to her and began to pet the neko's head. "From what we gather Teridax shouldn't have any ways on seeing arcane energy so I doubt he can see use if we use magic to be invisible."

When Touko began to ask the Nothingness about the void particles the witch was also willing to her the explanation but she was not going to use that power. There was no way she was going to use it after all the grief the powers brought from the void particles caused both her and everyone back in the Saturn. She rather use abyssal magic than Octivaus's method.

Elizabeth stopped petting Rin walked to where Tadz was and when she got near Tadz she whispered next to him. "Encase this plan fails do you have a plan B? So far my plan B is to just gate us all out of here and I can try to make one for Kongou but I should tell you that I have never tried to make a portal the size to fit a battleship before so this would be new for me."

Alexandria walked up to Clairus. "I have a power that can help out encase you feel overburdened by your powers. All though the power I have only affects you based on emotions but I think it would still help you." the wraith told her. She and everyone else were startled by Octavius snapping. "Jeez I thought I would have to worry about my bloody eardrums ruptured because of Infinity's laughter but your screaming is even worse than that!" Elizabeth complained as she rubbed her ears.

"I think it's best if you stop talking about the power of love Serena so we don't make Octavius go insane while he is with us." Aja advice.

[The Palmetto]

Inland
Julian rubbed the epaulette shark's belly with her finger gently. "That's amazing. I bet they'll enjoy what experience life on land is like."

Her smile grew further as Aestus stated that he enjoyed the tea she prepared. "I'm glad you like it. It's the least I can do." She got up and went to the bathroom to put on her prescription sunglasses. She could manage without them, but by now her blurry vision was giving her a terrible headache.

Julian suddenly noticed a shadow flit across the dark windowpane. She narrowed her eyes. She walked back to the living room and sat down, watching and hearing alertedly.

Inland

The small fish squealed with delight as Jules rubbed it's belly, and gave her a cute smile before floating into Aestus's hand.
"I'm sure they well, this will certainly be quite the adventure for them!" He replied with a small laugh, petting his pet before letting it go. It took off, and slowly orbited around Aestus, interacting with several other small fish too.
"I'm glad that you made it for me. Don't feel any obligation to help me, I'm happy to assist without anything in return," he added, looking her in the eye. She saw that she looked rather anxious, and that something must have caused her unrest.
"What seems to be the matter? Is there something wrong?" He asked her, looking around warily as well.

The Kongou

Calyx, has had been predicted, was brooding over his actions. He had did what he viewed as necessary to finally kill his hated foe, but he would always wonder if this was the right choice. He had been acting on impulse instead of thinking it through, and could only help but curl up against the wall. He had to, as well, considering that his massive height made it hard for him to move around in the ship.

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Kongou
Clairus smiled at Kadoor. "Yeah, I guess so." She said to her. Then she walked with her friend to rejoin the group, and arrived to find Alexandria telling her that she could help her if needed. "Really, what is this power?" She asked the android. Octavius in the meantime narrowed his eyes at Elizabeth. "You really trust your powers to protect you from Infinity's gaze? My void cloak is not just to hide you from zhe insane robot god, but also your main target. Don't you trust me Ms Ashwood?" He asked. Then at that moment, several portals opened up beside Kongou and the Forerunners, and Zodiac vessels warped into the area joined by none other than the Traveler.

Octavius noticed this, and then without a word he vanished. As the six Toa looked at the newcomers, the Traveler hailed Kongou. "Kongou, this is Aicy aboard the Traveler, please respond. We have Mata Nui on board, and I suspect you all wish to speak with him." Aicy said over the intercom, which shocked the Toa. "What, they have Mata Nui?! How can this be?!" Tahu exclaimed, as his fellow Toa began having similar reactions.


Coruscant
Cinder glared at James after he told her that Asura and Serena asked for this. Asura suddenly went limp as Gamicloth's illusion struck him, and he fell to the ground with a loud crash. Cinder screamed in rage and suddenly her tail split into three tails. Then her body began to vibrate as she sped her atoms up, and she suddenly phased through Jacob's arms and out the window. "Cinder, no!" Jacob screamed. Cinder landed on Gamicloth's shoulder, and then she drew her gun lance and embedded it deep into the Daeva's shoulder. "You piece of divine trash! Why won't you just die?!" She exclaimed, pulling the trigger and firing an explosive round into Gamicloth's shoulder.

Asura in the meantime struggled to fight the illusion, but part of him wanted to just give in. Mithra was here, and so was his wife, so why would he want this to end? Then he remembered what had really happened to them, and who was responsible for their deaths, and it filled him with rage. With a scream, he freed himself from the illusion, and jumped onto Gamicloth's leg. He then delivered a mountain-shattering punch to the Daeva's knee, and then he jumped to his other leg and repeated the process there.

[Wheatley Laboratories]

Kongou
Clairus smiled at Kadoor. "Yeah, I guess so." She said to her. Then she walked with her friend to rejoin the group, and arrived to find Alexandria telling her that she could help her if needed. "Really, what is this power?" She asked the android. Octavius in the meantime narrowed his eyes at Elizabeth. "You really trust your powers to protect you from Infinity's gaze? My void cloak is not just to hide you from zhe insane robot god, but also your main target. Don't you trust me Ms Ashwood?" He asked. Then at that moment, several portals opened up beside Kongou and the Forerunners, and Zodiac vessels warped into the area joined by none other than the Traveler.

Octavius noticed this, and then without a word he vanished. As the six Toa looked at the newcomers, the Traveler hailed Kongou. "Kongou, this is Aicy aboard the Traveler, please respond. We have Mata Nui on board, and I suspect you all wish to speak with him." Aicy said over the intercom, which shocked the Toa. "What, they have Mata Nui?! How can this be?!" Tahu exclaimed, as his fellow Toa began having similar reactions.


Coruscant
Cinder glared at James after he told her that Asura and Serena asked for this. Asura suddenly went limp as Gamicloth's illusion struck him, and he fell to the ground with a loud crash. Cinder screamed in rage and suddenly her tail split into three tails. Then her body began to vibrate as she sped her atoms up, and she suddenly phased through Jacob's arms and out the window. "Cinder, no!" Jacob screamed. Cinder landed on Gamicloth's shoulder, and then she drew her gun lance and embedded it deep into the Daeva's shoulder. "You piece of divine trash! Why won't you just die?!" She exclaimed, pulling the trigger and firing an explosive round into Gamicloth's shoulder.

Asura in the meantime struggled to fight the illusion, but part of him wanted to just give in. Mithra was here, and so was his wife, so why would he want this to end? Then he remembered what had really happened to them, and who was responsible for their deaths, and it filled him with rage. With a scream, he freed himself from the illusion, and jumped onto Gamicloth's leg. He then delivered a mountain-shattering punch to the Daeva's knee, and then he jumped to his other leg and repeated the process there.

Zeta padded after Clarius, a little annoyed that he was being ignored. He didn't let it show however. He stood by Ignis again as normal when he spotted her and smiled as the new ships arrived. He whistled appreciatively. "Niiiiice...!"

[The New Earth Federation]

Multiverse Restaurant

As Victoria punched one if the strike team members in the gut the message came over about safe passage. She and Chris stopped their advancement and looked at each other under his helmet Chris gritted his teeth and then jerked his head toward the opposite door and left the room, both had drawn their weapons and slowly backed up towards the door. Victoria then turned and faced the door and opened it slowly before taping Chris shoulder and the two exited. As the two exited they noticed the four foot armored woman drop down, they where about to casually walk over but then a person walked over and started to rough house with her.....in a brutal fashion. The two cautiously walked over to her.

"Hello, are you alright?"

Beginnings
New London Military Academy, 7 years ago

A few months passed by and the seasons began to change, snow was starting to fall through New London. The Academy had closed due to the large amounts of snow fall and for the upcoming winter holidays of Christmas (for the human cultures), Nas Teldum (Dracoian Christmas...kinda there is a large celebration however gifts aren't the main part of celebration it's the people you hold dear), and other winter holidays. As usual Chris was hanging out with Victoria however they weren't at their houses but rather in the park on one of the steeper hills, they where making snowmen, snow forts, snow angels and with some help a small snow igloo (like only one person can't fit into it. As for the two, Victoria was building her next snow man while Chris was making a snowball, after he was done he walked over and tapped Victoria on the shoulder scaring her.

"Nice snowman!"

"Thanks" she said turning her face away from him she was about to continue but then Chris planted the snow ball on the back of her head. Amused she then tackled Chris to the ground and the two rolled down the hill towards the bottom, stopping and now out of breath the laid there panting

"So.....that was fun" replied Chris slowly getting up and then catching some snow to the face as Victoria scoped some up and placed it on her face. "Ah! I guess I deserved that...."

"Yea.....you did" she said giggling they laid there for a an hour just looking up at the sky and talking, it seemed that there was an attraction between the two where too scared to tell the other as they might say no to a date....also it seemed like it wasn't time to express there feelings to each other.

[Legokiller]

Kongou

“Yeah, that sounds great.” Touko sarcastically replied. In truth, it seemed like an impossible task and coming from this guy to be her supposed ‘teacher’, very unlikely. Not to mention this villainous freak is the one who manipulated everything on the Borg world and made it into a disaster. Very likely in fact. What other reason 00-1 was there with Borg technology and him suddenly appearing in the Borg complex.

Everyone was startled by the shrieking roar of Octavius. Serena, of course, shook her head slowly and turned away from the Nothingness being. Jacob isn’t weak, he needs help. Nor the power of love is weak. In Serena’s heart, it was a pure quality.

Then the announcement of Mata Nui was found, Serena and the others found themselves surprised. “Thank goodness for that Aicy. I’m very proud of you and the others for finding him.”

Coruscant

Rosa saw Keldo hitting the window, which she used her telekinesis to stop the pony. “Hope! Not a good plan.” Rosa rubbed her head a little. “Oh! Mom did gave me a memory about those spheres…” She glared at James for a moment, angered at what he said about her mom and thought about the memories she witness. “Yes James. Mom understands you won’t enjoy another easter egg hunt to save the multiverse again. I’ll use my psychic powers to show it once we’re out of here!”

Rosa rubbed her eyes when the kitsune decided to get out there. "Cinder!" The psychic girl quickly tried to think of something to help out. But how?

Back in space, Suriel activated her staff to create light barriers to protect her bare skin from the acidic slime of the tentacles. However, the Archangel puffed her feathers when her clothes got burned off, flaring off a censor bright light over her body. “How indecent of you to define me!” Suriel blushed a little and groaned. “Unbelievable!”

The Archangel flared up with burning holy flames, surround her body to roast the tentacles. When it seemed to be successful, Suriel was thrown away towards the arrows. However, she quickly reacted and disappeared in sight, only to reappear moments later away from the arrows.

Once Serena was freed from the hand, she quickly used her psionic infused divine power to vaporize the hand into nothing. Better safe than sorry. Now she better hurry, as those poor deformed gods won’t do as much to Gamicloth. Serena took flight in a hashy speed to catch up with the others.

Serena summoned her old, shadowy, dusty, worn down, and unrecognizable scepter-like staff tiare from the last days of her world and charged her power to renew it. The tiare burst into life, reformed in a cosmic life, and shaped form as a glowing silver light that arches up into a winged heart shape like top. This will do. Serena focused her powers to warp and twist the space around Gamicloth to unleash a strange cosmic psionic storm, striking him with a vortex of lightning and warps. Thankfully, she composed such devastating power to not land on Asura.

Serena quickly used her powers to cast a protective shield over the kitsune to save her from Serena’s own attack. Camille growled in frustration, firing more energy spinning star and an energy comets at Gamicloth. Suriel fired a barrage of scared fireballs at Gamicloth.

[Prusselanden]

Kongou
Ignis scratched Zeta's ears assuringly.
"It's ok, Zeta. You did a good job already." She smiled at him like a proud teacher. "Oh, and zhe Traveler's here again! Hello, Aicy." Ignis looked up as the Traveler soon joined the two ships. "Man, I haven't seen it since, forever."

Konny walked up to Calyx and sat down by him quietly. Even though she really wanted to comfort him and probably give him a few words of emotional support, Konny herself was not much of a talker. Furthermore, her words tended to hurt more than heal most of the time.

Therefore, she merely sat in awkward silence by him, hoping her presence could at least make him feel not alone.

[Legokiller]

Kongou

"Finally, that shady guy is gone girl." Selene sighed in relief. She and Lillie followed Konny down the hall to meet our good old trauntized friend Calyx. However, Star darted out as there was something worrying her. Selene carefully approached Calyx and placed a hand on his armor. "Excuse me Caylx, are you feeling okay?"

Star found a door to burst open in front of Tadayoshi and Serena. "Houston we have a problem. Eridan has escape his prison cell!"

Serena gasped in surprise. "What!? How did that happened?"

"Power surge in his body, but I can't track the exact source." Star said. "Security protocol is activated. I'll restrain him soon. For now, we have to continue on with our mission."

Saturn
Area 51 Prison Ward

Eridan found himself escaping into a row of cells, with one pointing where the exit is at in the right towards the security offices, armory, and check points. He can see the other random guest that Star never reported to everyone, and for good reason! The small lighted windows shown unspeakable evil, creatures, insane people, and monsters! Most noticeably an evil Ash, zombie Pikachu, grey aliens, and a Banshee Husk named Morinth. All locked inside of their own special cells.

The sirens rang about the breech, and the local security guards rushed in. "Freeze!" The head android officer, Officer Jenny, ordered Eridan. She pointed her laser pistol and held a pokeball. "Put your hands down."

[The Palmetto]

Kongou

Calyx had noticed the much smaller human, and raised his head up to look at her. He wasn't sure why she was there, but didn't mind her presence. He just tapped his leg with his claws anxiously, and let out an awkward sigh before noticing Selene. He moved his eyes from Konny to her, and then began to speak.
"Uh..yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit..startled, that's all!" He replied in a rather odd tone. He, of course, was lying. Killing a Makuta is one thing, but eating them alive and going berserk isn't something to be proud about. But, he knew he would have to move on at some point, and let out a long sigh before reluctantly admitted the truth.
"I'm not feeling okay. I acted on primal impulse, and hurt everyone because of it......," he told Selene, rembering the traumatized kitsune.

The Traveller

"All these years wishing I could go off world, and my dreams have finally come true," Kiina said with a longing sigh, overjoyed by the fact that she was traveling in a spaceship to another world. She had always wished to leave Bara Magna, and others had called her crazy for this desire. Yet, here she was, traveling with her companions Ackar and Gresh.
"We can not thank you enough for your assistance, Mata Nui is a trusted friend of ours, and we will do anything to help him," Ackar told Aicy, making sure that his weapons were ready for battle. Mata Nui had helped him regained his fighting spirit, and for that, he would be forever grateful.
"We won't let him or anyone else down, and you can expect the best from us. Our gifts, both from birth and from Mata Nui, were granted to us so that we could protect the weak, and do that we will," Gresh added, loading his thornax launcher.

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Traveler
Aicy nodded at Ackar. "Yes, of course. The safety of his universe is important to him, and I know my Captain would have wanted to help Mata Nui. Speaking of which, I should probably inform him that we've arrived." She said. "That will not be necessary, Aicy. I already know." A voice then said. Aicy turned to look at where the voice came from, and the gleaming golden form of Mata Nui himself met her holographic eyes. "Ah, there you are Mr Mata Nui. I've taken the liberty of informing my allies that you are on board. I'm sure they'll want to speak with you." Aicy said to the former Great Spirit.

Mata Nui nodded. "Yes, of course. I'd be happy to speak to them." He told Aicy. Mata Nui then walked over to a nearby window, where he looked down at the world below. "Finally... I can protect my people." He said to himself.

???

"So... you finally return, dear brother..." Teridax said to himself. There was no mistaking the feeling he just felt; Mata Nui was inside his universe. Unfortunately, Teridax couldn't quite place his location in the universe, but that didn't matter; Mata Nui would come to him. "And when you do, dear brother, I will extinguish your light forever, and cast your Destiny into darkness. This, I promise..." Then Teridax's laughter filled the Matoran Universe, announcing his intentions to all who could hear it.

Traveler
Click, the Scarabax beetle perched on Mata Nui's shoulder, let out a series of panicked clicking noises as the laughter shook the Traveler. Mata Nui's eyes instantly filled with concern. "Teridax knows I'm here, we don't have much time now." He informed his friends in a grim tone.

[Prusselanden]

Kongou
"That mad troll?" Quetz's head turned to Serena and Tadayoshi as he heard the news. "If there's a power surge in him, it could be the creature that was possessing him earlier."

"Ach, zhat is bad. Are you sure Star can contain him, Serena?" Ignis asked, concerned. "I could go help her."

"Ignis, no. We don't know anything about this power yet." his eyes narrowed.

Meanwhile, Konny looked up at Calyx silently and put her hand on one of his leg.
"It's ok, it happens to the best of people even when we do not wish to....sometimes it just happens... But you can't look back at the past now."

[Aeternabilis]

Alex's Apartment

"Well," Marcus said, looking back and forth between Eric and Pobeda with an amused smile. "I'd, uh, throw in my own opinion on that plan but I think it's been pretty thoroughly dismembered by you two. I do like that diversion plan, though. A big enough mess near the base or in a different section should draw away a lot of the deathbots. As for the volunteer..." He too looked at Secesh. "It does make sense to send the guy with the explodiest guns and an advanced healing factor." "Now hold on a minute," Alex said, looking indignant. "I know a lot of us don't really like him that much, but we can't just send Secesh out to distract thousands of giant death robots by himself! We're the good guys, not the, uh, guys who send people they kind of don't like out to die." "Yeah, I agree," Sylph said, looking at Alex. "A diversion sounds like a good idea, but he shouldn't go by himself." "Yeah, of course," Marcus said. "Even putting aside the moral problems with just sending him, there's no way Abakelia would consider a single guy to be a threat enough to send all his robots out. We need a team working distraction duty for it to work. Any takers?"

"I'll go," Joshua volunteered. "I'm both tough enough to stay alive and strong enough to do some damage. Plus, having one of us mutant guys being there would probably convince him to send more troops out, considering how much he wants us dead." "I should go too," Alex said. "Wait, what?" Marcus asked, doing a double take. "But... it's too dangerous! You could get hurt!" "So could I," Joshua muttered. "Shut up man, it's different. You've got, like, super-skin and giant muscles and now magic apparently, and Secesh has super-healing or some shit, but she's completely vulnerable!" "Marcus, I'll be fine," Alex said, trying to put as much reassurement into her voice as possible. "I'm way too fast for those robots to hit, remember? Besides, they're going to need a quick way out, and there's nothing quicker than me." "I mean... I guess..." Marcus said, visibly conflicted. He eventually sighed. "Ugh. Fine, fine. Fine fine fine. That is probably the best way to do that. I don't like it in the slightest, though." "I know you don't," Alex said softly, rubbing his arm. She then readdressed the rest of the room. "Anybody else? Bloodfyre, how about you? You're certainly tough enough, and can cause quite a ruckus with that magic."

[Truth Incarnate]

[The Palmetto]

Alex's Apartment

Secesh was listening to the loud ranting with an annoyed look on his face. After seeing that they had picked him for distraction, he just shrugged.
"Alright, well I reckon-," Secesh tried to reply, before being interrupted by Irwin.

"God-Emperor of Mankind? You mean Alfred the Great, blessed be his name? While he certainly watches over all of mankind, we will not need his all powerful gorgeous face to assist us in person. But rather, through him, all things are possible, even such a task as this. Even if we can not build an army, we can build a flawless plan! I'll need duct tape, a small RC jeep, a harmonica, and a tiny gun," he said, grabbing a small gun from Secesh's pocket.

"I'll show you all who's a piece of sushi!" He called out intimidatingly, aiming it at the roof and pulling the trigger.

"NO!" Secesh called out panickedly, as it shot out some confetti and made a party noise.

"That was for my girlfriend's daughter, jackass," the confederate said, angrily mumbling as he snatched it from the octopuses hands.

"Whoops, haha. Looks like I'll be on the distraction team then," Irwin said awkwardly, while Antony face palmed and Secesh continued to glare at him.

Kongou

An angered Frucc was now at Calyx's side too, just quietly watching him.

Ireland

Secesh swiftly followed through, and landed beside Terry and Cascabel.
"Ignis...? She's gone...we've been seperated from each other again....," he thougt outloud, sadness in his voice. Sadness would turn into anger, and he swiftly grabbed his daughter by the wrist and lifted her up to eye level.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO RUIN THIS FOR ME! EVERYTIME I FIND PEACE, EVERYTIME I FIND HAPPINESS, IT GETS SNATCHED AWAY FROM ME! YOU JUST COULDN'T LEF ME HAVE THIS, COULD YOU? CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE, TERRY? TO CONSTANTLY LIVE IN A STATE OF TURMOIL, A LIVING HELL? ALMOST MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN SPENT ROAMING, LOOKING FOR A HAPPY ENDING. BUT EVERYTIME I DO, IT GETS TAKEN AWAY, AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!" He yelled angrily, tears staining his face.

[Naval Monte]

Kongou

Alexandria could tell her but she decided to show her an example of what Keening can do. She began to sing a calming song and with her powers the moment Clarius would hear the sound of her voice she would feel the effect she wanted Keening to do onto the kitsune. Everyone around her who heard the song would feel the effect which helped somewhat with Elizabeth as she looked at Octavius. "I do trust me powers to work with both Teridax and Infinity since we have good evidences to tell us that using your powers will come at a much heavier price than what my magic can do." she replied back to the nothingness.

Alex soon stopped singing and looked at Clairus. "Sorry about that but I think that was an example that was best heard than spoke. Don't you think." Alex tilted her head slightly to her side and gave her a smile.

When the new ships along with the Traveler arrived Elizabeth smiled at the sight. "Looks like the cavalry has arrived." Elizabeth looked back and saw Octavius was now gone. "Looks like your people also pissed off the space elves as well." When Mata Nui was found everyone was glad for the news cause now they were close to ending Infinity. Frisk walked up to Calyx and asked him what was wrong, not showing fear even though they knew what happened with the creature. When he told everyone that was speaking to him what was wrong Frisk told them that they will be there to help them so their fears won't happen.

When news came that Eridan broke out of his cell made Elizabeth and several others sigh, Reaper shaking his head. "Yes we will deal with the pip squeak later. I want to kill this Infinity freak so I can finally get payed and be away from you people." Reaper said to everyone in the room. "We love you to Reaper." Elizabeth said sarcastically to the merc, Tony rolling his eyes at the man.

When Mata Nui appeared the twins felt a pang of disappointment that they couldn't do the summoning ritual but decided that this was for the best as it would speed up their return back home. They can't be gone for too long since they can't have the public know that the royal family vanished without a trace.

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Coruscant

Oh you're right James, these fools are asking for me to coat my blades with their blood. But I do wonder how long you can remain out of the fight? After all, you act like you have no care in the world but we both know that in your heart there is someone, no not someone, someones that have a special place in your heart." The Daeva's words were heard in everyone's heads as Gamicloth looked at Marie. "I wonder if any one of them were to join the fight would you go out and risk your life to save them or would you stay put in that ship and let them perish before your eyes?"

Yet before anything can happen Gamicloth was forced to make a barrier to guard against Kether's arrows. Once he put them down he felt Cinder on his shoulder and the attack. "Oh how adorable. Daddy's little girl thinks she can play in the big leagues.
Don't you think that is precious Jacob?" The Daeva's head titled as he looked at Jacob. "Since your daughter wants to prove how big and strong she is now it is only fair for you to see how much progress you put into her training right daddy dearest?"

From the shoulder that Cinder left a gaping wound from she can see dagger-like teeth form followed by a worm-like tongue and tendrils forming around the newly form mouth. The tentacles all grabbed her and lift the girl up, applying enough pressure to the point that the Daeva heard Cinder's bones crack. he used his powers to make not only Jacob hear the sounds but everyone else along with Cinder's screams of pain.

"Ahhh looks like she was rather fragile just like her mother. Well seeing that she is now broken time for me to toss her away. I'm sure you and your wife can make another...." The Daeva was silent before he realized something. "Oh wait I forget that you don't have a wife anymore. Well that is a shame. So do you want your daughter back? I mean she is bit beaten up at the moment but I'm sure you can fix her up." The tendrils began to lower Cinder down to the maw. "But that is assuming you are fast enough to get to her first old man."

Gamicloth felt his knees break from Asura's punched but as he look down it was the perfect time for Kether to appear and punch the Daeva through his head. Bloody tendrils came out from the Daeva and not only wrap themselves around the Archon's forearm but stabbed themselves deep as the skin began to burn as steam came off the wounds "Enough of your sick games Daeva. Accept death like the rest of your kind."

The Daeva's attention however went to Suriel in her current nude form which was covered in holy light. "If this was a visual media I think we would be stretching the PG-13 rules to their limit." The Daeva commented. The Archon soon tore through Gamicloth's chest with his other hand. "I'm not letting you destroy that Daeva." Gamicloth laughed. "Oh please, that wall has been broken for millenniums. Nothing I can do to it won't be any worse than what countless others have done to it."

Kether sensed the attacks and pulled back, the forearm that was grabbed by the Daeva was ripped off the Archon as the various attacks hit Gamicloth. The Daeva was covered in smoke yet a scream of pain didn't come from him but instead from the ship. Inside Marie fell down as her entire body was covered in bloody cuts and bruises, her armor falling into pieces. "MOM!" Victoria knelt down to her mother.

Gamicloth's laughter can be heard in the smoke as it departed from him as he flapped his arms. "Oh man I'm so glad I can send damages to other people otherwise that would have seriously hurt me just now. Oh before you all say anything yes I could have done that any time I want to but I wanted to give you all the false sense of hope that I couldn't do that. But since some people have decided to force my hands here you all now know just how screwed you are."

Gamicloth looked up at the Bakers and the angel. "[background=]Well ladies gonna shower me more with divine attacks so i can send the damages to one of your friends? I wonder how I should send it too? The xenophobic warrior? The dying old man who likes to collect people's swimwear? The time lord with anger issues? the traitorous angel? The furry with a space ship? Or should I send the damage to one of your fine ladies. Though if it goes to Camille I think most of it would go to her breasts cause I bet I can see those twins even in outer space without even needing to bend space to see across vast distances.[/background]" the Daeva laughed at his lewd comment.

Inside the ship Victoria put one hand behind her mother's head as she held on to a healing potion, making her drink it. "Don't worry mom. This stuff will heal you, it always does. Hell you always give this stuff to me and Damian even when we were sick to help us." the girl was in tears seeing her mother in this state. Victoria was worried that her own mother was going to die in front of her, more worried about losing her mother than her own existence being erased by said death. However what the young girl didn't know was that kether was using his own powers to make sure the huntress didn't die. The Archon needed her alive along with the others to finish off Gamicloth encase he fails now and to take out the Daeva's past self and if not them specifically than their allies in the past.

Jephet handed Jacob a vial of curative liquid along with creating a portal and linking it to where his daughter is. "You don't have much time. Go and recuse her now before Gamicloth interferes with the gate. I will try to fight him off if he tries but I can't make any promises that my efforts will do a thing." Back on the fight both Gamicloth and Kether were flying around as they dodge spells fired by the other and forming shields against spells that home on them, sometimes sending the spells into rifts and into other worlds.

However an increased level of gravity forced the two beings to fall down to the ground. From the ground an explosion of energy came from them as they dash towards each other, a flurry of sword slashes surrounding them as they two began to cut each other, Asura being hit by a few due to the chaotic onslaught the two gods were displaying. Each one showing off damage to their body before transfering it to not only the other but to the environment around them, causing large slashes to appear on the ground, buildings and even the clouds.

[Prusselanden]

Yunnan
Terry shrunk back as Secesh lifted her up by the wrist, wincing at every word he said as if they were knives stabbing into her flesh. What had she done? Why was she doing this. This timeline was doomed anyways, what use was there to go back and save it?

She couldn't believe what she would sacrifice for this world. She couldn't believe her own actions. Wasn't that right? What she did was selfish. She abused Secesh, she abused her father's trust. She hurt him and her mother to save this timeline that everyone hated. Terry had ruined the happy ending.

How could she do this to him? He was exhausted. He suffered. Was she going to make him suffer more?
Finally opening her mouth, she managed to croak a few words. They were nearly too shaky to understand.

"I-I'm sorry V-v-vati..."

Cascabel slunk aside, watching the two with mild interest. He was not willing to be involved in the dispite since it did not concern him.

Terry started to shake violently, not daring to look Secesh in the eye.
"Y-y-you can hit m-me...d-do it...y-y-you can do anything to me...I w-won't g-get upset.....g-go ahead, make me suffer...give me what I deserve..."

[Petrokovia]

Back up plan?
Tadayoshi turned to Elizabeth.
"Yeah. Plan B is to beam everyone back on board, and make an emergency jump out of this Verse."

"Captain, we are being contacted by a ship called the TUS Traveler."
"Oh, great! send the message through. That was Conundrum's ship!"
"Conundrum?"
"The guy we're trying to save... Not sure why everyone's using his real name... If I remember correctly, he asked to be still called Conundrum."
"Oh."

Kongou hadn't ever thought of the human desire to be called something different than one's real name before; That concept was foreign to the fog. She supposed it made sense, though, or else her name might have been some series of digits from some manufacturing paper serial code, rather than Kongou.

She shuddered at the thought.

"Captain, would you prefer I called you by something different?"
"Hmm? No, it's fine."
"Okay then."

"We'll take the call on the bridge. Everyone prepare yourselves, we're almost at our destination."
Tadayoshi and Kongou led Serena and the Toa to the bridge, where the call was shown on the holographic screen.

"It's nice to see you again!" Tadayoshi greeted. "And you have the leader of this world, too. That's good."
He paused, turning to the Toa.
"I guess you guys would like to get reacquainted?"

---

Bloodfyre nodded.
"I suppose that would be the best purpose I would lend to. It would be wrong for me to go to the forefront of your personal battles."
He turned to Secesh.
"Besides, someone has to make sure he does not speak ill about the others on the distraction team." he joked. "And I could help Joshua with his training."