(To be updated with changes)

After the events of Ethan’s Multiverse of Lore, Vincent decides that it would be a fun adventure exploring the outer, less-known parts of the multiverse. This expedition leads him to find a strange planet with drastically different environments and creatures, as well as a light in the center. Knowing this is undiscovered, Vincent decides to use this place as a research center for the landmarks and entities, until one day, an accident occurs, and Vincent obtains some new kind of power that makes him even more overpowered!

Big List Of Characters (Thus Far)

Vincent: The Protagonist, First found Utopia after the events of the Multiverse of Lore, and mixed with the electrical energy. He also founded a company known as Vinvy’s protected Services (VPS) which uses the unique technology forged in Utopia. Vincent has certain “evil spirit” powers and a Trace (that’ll be relevant later on) a sheriff’s pistol with unlimited ammo, reload, and limited anti-jam technology, it also has a radar jammer. It can interact with Vincent’s special cowboy costume, which consists of a laser-proof suit, belts, holsters, baton holders, the hidden jetpack, a cloak, a hat, and boots that have energy saws for spurs, and finally, the overpowered lasso, the infrared glasses, and the cool face covering.)

Ethan: DIDN'T Create the story this time, and is currently only using 1% of his full power. Always busy with ideas. (He will make cameos)

Remy: Second in command 1.4. A powerful wizard who can control the elements. An expert dragon tamer. Has a duplicate, Remy-CLASH, (Robotic Eagleye Managerial Y-Class Cyborg L-Series Android Super Humanoid). He shares Remy's mind and can speak telepathically with him. He can also teleport to Remy wherever he is. (Also, Matt, Hank, Ayan, Yash, and Joe will appear.)

Rob-lock CO (yes this is a character): runs a billion-dollar corporation called Row-Bow Studios, has spies everywhere, and is very evil.

Anthony: Vincent’s brother who doesn't have much relation with Ethan or his multiverse. He lives in the Legacyverse, where many people who prefer to live without the REBOOT reside. (He kind of is more critical of some of Ethan's stuff, so Ethan doesn't like him.) Role: Overpowered Wrestler (He'll ‘never’ be nerfed.)

The Exploration Arc: Prologue 

6 months in the future... no wait, 3 months... 2 years? 5 minutes? I don’t know just some time in the future after the Multiverse of Lore seemingly became quiet and peaceful, Vincent became interested in the ends of the Multiverse. For most, a long time has passed, but for one guy, it didn’t feel like that, not at all. It seemed almost impossible for there to not be something, since, throughout the course of human history, more and more and more get discovered, and It feels great when you first discover something. Also, in most cases, an explorer’s motive is factored by their dissatisfaction with their current world, seeing how humans as a species have brought many disappointments. Having this thought, Vincent spent most of his days in an underground bunker. It has a large whiteboard with many different theories, speculations, and whatnot, a full map of the MANCM universe, and a strange space forklift since Vincent’s a big fan of wacky ideas. But most importantly, the times in the bunker were hours of planning, pondering, and what could possibly be at the end. a giant wormhole? the other end of the universe? A black hole? Or something else? Before going on his expedition, he got in a regularly shaped spaceship to go visit his ally, Ethan, in Orthanos III, who was taking a break from all of his hard work. Vincent lands his ship on Orthanos III and walks over to Ethan, who is peacefully looking out towards the horizon and playing some relaxing music on his phone.

“Hey, Ethan, how’s your vacation going?” asked Vincent.

“It's been alright so far, It's weird to not be piloting a ship or fighting aliens after doing it for so long,” replied Ethan. “I’m tempted to go blast some asteroids or something. I’m BORED!!!”

“Yeah I’ve been there before with school, sports, all that stuff, this is one of the brightest parts of life, right? Finally being free and going to explore,” stated Vincent with some glee.

“I don’t know about the last part though, this is peaceful and all but this is gonna get boring, I’ve already checked off most of the stuff on my vacation plan, now what?” said Ethan again. After staring at the horizon for another minute, Vincent remembers why he came to visit.

“Oh yeah Ethan, I was actually planning to try some exploration with the end of the universe and stuff to see if I could find some otherworldly stuff, and maybe colonize it too,” exclaimed Vincent. The calm music on Ethan’s phone suddenly cuts.

“Umm... what? You’re being serious?!” Ethan responded, confused and afraid. “That’s surprisingly the least confusing thing we’ve tried to do yet, but honestly, having to constantly deal with new villains after multiple years gets exhausting. You sure you want to find the latest galactic threat for us?”

Seems like Ethan wasn’t all that interested in whatever Vincent was trying to do, which Vincent was okay with. “I mean I’m not turning your idea down I just don’t want to put myself in danger like that.” explained Ethan looking over to turn his music back on, “But if you find anything cool, tell me, and Remy, and we’ll be glad to help out!” 

Ethan turns back around and immediately finds Vincent already gone and going to begin his journey. 

“Well damn, I didn’t know he was that excited about his new ship,'' said Ethan to himself. Vincent goes back to his bunker and walks towards his glorious flying space forklift. 

“There must be something out there interesting,” said Vincent to himself. “If there is anything out there. Fermi paradox and all...” 

It had been clear Vincent was the only one who was going on this mission. Of course, Kaiden, one of his close friends, would have gone with him, that is if he didn’t die on a fatal mission in the repaired Excalibur II.  It was a tragic loss, but he’s gotten over it. Vincent starts the ship, or should I say, lift, up. Vincent watches the various components of his creative power go online, and a see-through protection surrounds and protects him. 

Vincent then goes through his checklist and tries to imitate a cool sci-fi scene. “Let’s see here... steering systems, check. Rocket thrusters, clear. Radome... functioning. Ludicrous sci-fi swirly hatch closed. Universe map, ready, laser cannons, prepared. Light speed, works... I’ve tested it. Comms secured. Alright, I’m ready for this.” 

The protagonist now begins the expedition. 

The forklift drifts at ultra-speed, but the system is not secure and quickly fails, stopping the ship many miles away from the end.

 “Oh come on! Why does this keep failing!?” angered Vincent. For some reason, his ship can only handle a few seconds of light speed, which made the journey to the outer end a lot lengthier and frankly, more boring. There’s not much in the void of space besides some asteroids, some cool stars, and maybe some broken parts of Earth -(0.1)... but that was all a long time ago, it’s time to move on now. After some boring driving, his GPS says that he's arrived at the end. “Hey finally I’m here!” exclaimed Vincent, facing a seemingly black wall of nothing. “Well, time for the moment of truth, this is what I've been waiting for right? I sure hope this is worth it”. Alas, the ship finally pushes through the barrier of the universe, which works surprisingly, revealing the purple interior of the barrier. As Vincent passes through, he notices some white orbs of light move through the inner barrier, like blood cells traveling through the body. Some of them even bump into the forklift but don’t seem to damage it at all. Vincent immediately gets this on the recording to show Ethan and Remy. The shields hold, but something is decreasing their power... Vincent looks in the back and sees the minideer messing with the rear controls. The forklift drifts out of the barrier and Vincent ends up in... a different universe. Vincent glazes “So this is what lies beyond my world, This expedition is gonna be great!” For the average person would find Vincent to be crazy, maybe even a bit stupid to say that, and would say something along the lines of ‘this is the same universe you’re wasting your time’. However, Vincent notices a lot of vibrantly colored stars, some glowing space rocks, and even a large purple mass of geometric shapes. He gets a little lost staring into a beautiful yet empty space of nothingness “Y’know, It’s a wonder how no one else tried thi-” Vincent’s sentence gets cut off when strange, otherworldly entities materialize in front of Vincent’s Space Forklift. (Outskirts roamers). These creatures look like something out of an old arcade game, with a red outline and black overalls, and quickly classify Vincent as an outsider. They quickly begin firing at the forklift, making some very strange sounds doing so. These strange bolts begin to rack up some hits on Vincent, which probably explains why nobody who ever tried to explore the outskirts of the multiverse never returned, but Vince wasn’t going down without a fight. While making his ship he designed it to have swift dodging capabilities as well with a super quick fire rate and piercing bolts. Our hero retaliates with the forklift’s double laser cannons and quickly blasts down each of these ruthless enemies. More and more enemies gather around to shoot down Vincent, which quickly escalates into a total brawl. Vincent kept on fighting like he was playing a first-person shooter with 9 hours of sleep, which allowed him to keep up with the madness. Seeing this fool try to act like a cool main character, the roamers start teleporting every few seconds and shoot at a quicker rate, but Vincent still holds his ground with high movement speed and charges up laser blasts. The charged laser pierced through multiple aliens at once, thinning out their numbers almost instantly, the roamers teleport away, or so it seems. “ATG!!! Are They Gone? Finally I can go explore that purple mass” Vincent said, dropping his guard. Suddenly, a portal opens up in front of him, and a larger, more menacing alien appears. This outskirt roamer has two white hollow eyes and a large jaw. “This must be their leader,” spoke Vincent, and the true battle begins! Vincent uses his fast-fire lasers, while the Leader uses powerful orbs and a huge jaw, He also sends more of his goons to aid him in the fight. Vincent charges up a high-powered blast that will pretty much instantly kill the thing, even though he’s being hit by the smaller Roamers. Vincent notices something, a planet! And one he hasn’t seen before and is curious to see what’s in it. The boss thing fires a solid beam at the protagonist, he dodges and fires a fully charged blast that crippled and neutralizes it significantly. Vincent guard let’s down for a bit which allowed the Roamer to damage his forklift. “Well that ain't good. Maybe I should remember what happened today so I can upgrade my ship for later. Mental drawing go brrr-” Vincent prepares for a crash landing on the new planet, while the roamers presume him dead and vanish.

TEA: Funny-Looking Planet

Around three seconds pass and Vin-scented candles has fallen into the confusing geography of Earth-64 (later cataloged and named), or whatever this place is. Thankfully, due to his “Specially Crafted” forklift’s plastic semi-fluidic ballistic armor (Canon power! Whoo! Gotta love it when it lets you survive until one of those pesky cutscenes comes along), nothing got damaged severely, but it’s damaged enough that he can’t go home.

 “Ow... I got past those aliens!” Exclaimed Vincent. “I barely made it out... but at least I'm here.” Vincent jumps out of the forklift and looks around. The land seems... normal? He’s not too sure what this place is but it’s a large grass field with some trees and a few rocks, something he would see from Earth-0. “Man, this place looks amazing, oh wait, the forklift!” Vincent focuses his attention on the forklift, where he was fortunate enough to still be under some control of the ground mode. He ejects virtually the whole carrier-sized portion of the ship and steers his main forklift out of his armored forklift, which was inside the mech, which was nestled inside a lot of failsafe vehicles Vincent, Remy, and Ethan had kitbashed.

 “This thing’s a little damaged... communication systems are still up, but the engine seems to be busted. Well, I guess it’s not too bad, Ethan and Remy should be able to get me out of here. I’ll just give them a call and tell them to come over here, this is gonna be a great place to explore!” Even after the rough crash, The comms on Vincent’s ship are very well put together, they are put in the middle of extremely reinforced armor, and can operate over (who knows really how many) light years away! Vincent is about to start a call with his friends, But before being able to call Ethan, who was back at Earth-0. he hears something in the bushes, which instantly strikes him with fear. “Oh shoot, something hears me! What am I gonna do?!” What jumped out was a being that can only be described as literal polygons. Vincent speed-dials his friends, 

“Hey guys, I’ve found a new planet we should check out!" Ethan picks up the phone. “Like really? Your operation was a success?!” said Ethan excitedly, Vincent responds with, 

“For the most part, the forklift kinda crashed on the way down... so can you guys help me out?”

“Oh yeah Don’t worry about it, we’ll be on our way to repair it” responded Remy as he started up a smaller Excalibur to get there “Yeah, and uh... come quick, one of the inhabitants is investigating my crash...” Said Vincent worryingly.

“Oh... we gotta go quick! You better survive till we get here! We’ll see you in about a week!” exclaimed Ethan. After ending the call, Vincent is tasked with facing the geometrical-looking creature that’s native to this stupid planet. Fortunately, this thing is just as confused as Vincent and doesn't try to attack him. Vincent gets a chance to photogrotize this strange entity and get its appearance. From his photo Vincent can get the following: Has a spherical-shaped head and a lack of facial features besides two hollow ovals as eyes. Has rectangular prisms for legs and goes on all fours, and has a larger rectangle for its torso.

“This thing is just like me, confused yet persevering, it won’t stop wandering unless I show myself.” Vincent gets the courage to stand up and reveal himself. The strange rectangle considers Vincent to not be a threat before scurrying back into the field, squeaking the name. Shortly after, Vin-scented Candle’s buddies, Ethereum, and Removal-service drift into the vacuum of space and out of the border of the universe.

 “Uhh, what is this?” asked Remy, very confused. “Some strange purple wall in the middle of nowhere that we just happened to find now, I guess” Responded Ethan with some confidence.

 “It seems like Vincent is on the other side of this wall, so let's just fly through it and see what happens.” While going through the barrier they also gaze at the orbs floating through them and enter the unfamiliar realm. However, the outskirts roamers make their appearances once again to guard access to the otherworldly places, avenging their leader which Vincent blew up with a giant laser. What they didn’t know was that Ethan and Remy, unlike Vincent, who’s somewhat careless when handling literal otherworldly beings from across their realm, Remy actually know what he was doing, so the two beat them up real quick with the equipment meant to upgrade Vincent’s carry-rig frame-forklift. (Which was then never seen again.) After that ‘fight’, it was more like a beatdown than a brawl... They then see the giant light beam piercing through the planet of Utopia, which is a great excitement for both of them.

“Wow, that’s... strange” Said Remy trying to comprehend such a place. 

“Stuff outside our universe doesn't follow rules I guess” Explained Ethan, entering the atmosphere. Vincent sits down on a rock (he’s been in the same area for a week) and looks through his camera roll, excited to show the world his findings, but he also has a gloomy look on his face when he goes through some images of his old friends,

 “Matt, Ayan, Yash, Joe, Hank, I hope they're okay, somewhere in their universe. All those battles, all the adventures, come to now I miss them” Vincent ponders to himself about a new adventure and new thing to strive for, it seems that everything goes back to normal, really isn’t normal to Vincent, or any of the old MANCM members, but the past is the past, this could be the new future of humanity. Meanwhile, Remy sets up a place to land his much larger ship on the grass, while Ethan scrambles to find where Vincent is. After 15 minutes of pacing around and doing nothing, Vincent notices Remy’s Mini-Excalibur (which looks more like a spear or jousting lance than a sword) lands somewhere near him. Vincent welcomes the arrival of his allies. “Hey, guys! Good to see you’ve finally arrived. I’ve been a bit bored with only taking photos” exclaimed Vincent. 

“Good job on arriving safely, well not safely but here anyway,” said Remy. “I see you didn’t use my astromech for directions. So... What exactly IS this place?” 

“Probably another Earth, from what it looks like, I’ll just say Earth-64!” Ethan said with confidence.

“Earth?” Vincent argued “What kind of Earth is located in another dimension? Also, why did you leave so many gaps in the Earth catalogue??? Plus we’re one of the few people here anyways.” Remy told them both, 

“Hey guys, let's just lay off what we should call this place, we’ve only explored this one field, so let's get going.” Ethan and Vincent shook hands and nodded, then the three friends went on a peaceful walk through the field. While walking through the beautiful landscape of grass, flowers, trees, and bushes, Remy notices that the plants here are chemically identical to the ones back at home. 

“Maybe this could be a change in the timeline, or a mirror Earth, or a half of one as we saw with one of the Earths, you know, that one...” proposed Remy. 

“Mirror Earth? If this was a mirror Earth there wouldn’t be a giant purple barrier in front of it” said Vincent.

 “Wait guys be quiet, I think I hear something,” said Ethan steadily. And once again, that strange entity appeared from the bushes.

 “What the heck is that?” Asked Remy. “It looks friendly!” stated Ethan excitedly. It tried to communicate with our protagonists, but could only make incomprehensible hmm sounds. 

“So, do we just follow this... polygonal thing? We can't exactly understand it,” asked Remy, 

“It seems quite trustworthy, I say we give the little guy a chance!” Cheered Ethan. Even though it made no sense, it was able to lead the three into what looked like a dirt path, whereas it suddenly turned into an orb and floated through the ground to somewhere else in the distance, where it rematerialized and scuttled off.

“Hey, this can lead to somewhere, like a civilization!” proposed Vincent getting very excited. Remy responded with a counterclaim.

“I don’t think we should stay here for very long, I dread the consequences, and that thing just left; it could be afraid of something,” feared Remy. Vincent cheerfully replied,

 “Oh come on, guys, it's not like going down this path is going to lead us having to fight otherworldly god-like entities which put our lives, friends, family, and the universe on the line, and having to deal with extremely evil figures, being under exploitation, and fighting in entire wars more costly than the campaigns of Titanus, the moons of Tetanus and Ticanus, and the dreadful, dreary campaign on Orthanos III. Oh, and I just foresaw all of that occurring. Don’t worry! Looks like we survive, not sure about our allies...” Remy and Ethan stood there in shock and surprise at Vincent's perseverance (aka sudden foreshadowing) and ultimately decided to follow Vincent’s plan. All of them continued following the strange entity into a small cave. (After Ethan ran back and shrunk all of their ships and supplies, stuffing them into his four-dimensional pocket). In this cave, there were some of its peers, who upon entering the cave shared different reactions and thoughts to the colonizers/travelers.

 “These rectangular things are social too? I never would have thought they could do any of this?” Said Ethan, who may have offended the creatures. One tried to insult him and told him to leave, but just like the others, it can only make sounds with its nonexistent mouth. The trio ignored this one’s harsh accusations and arrived at the main rectangle finishing a conversation with another. Interested, Vincent squatted down to talk to him, “So where can we learn about you?” asked Vincent “Do you have any kind of map my friends could use?” The thing thought for a second, nodded, and went to go get something. Remy tapped Vincent on the shoulder, “Hey Vincent, you know that these things speak completely differently than us, you probably shouldn’t try to communicate with them like that, just look at what Ethan’s doing” one of the rectangles started ‘shouting’ at Ethan, and more of them joined in. “Uh... hmm hmm?” worried Ethan. The entities gasped in offendedness and started to use a more violent approach to Ethan, who was in pacifist mode and wasn’t trying to injure anyone. Remy and Vincent backed away from Ethan and tried to ignore the fight going on. Even though Vincent knew his idea was a little dumb, he tried regardless. The two noticed the main entity return and gave Vincent a map of the planet. Remy stood there in disbelief and Vincent smiled in success “Thank you, good sir, we shall be leaving now” said Vincent respectfully, “come on guys let's go, oh yeah” Vincent walked over to Ethan being pummeled by rectangles and apparently, some triangles and other -gons. “Hey, concede your violence this instance, for my allies wish to make their departure” The entities, although a little confused, let Ethan go from their grasp. “Wow, thanks for helping me out there Vincent” thanked Ethan, “now I know not to mess with those guys... when I'm not up for a fight.”

“My pleasure for the acknowledgment, my steadfast acquaintance” forenamed Vincent “for we shalt commerce our... okay yeah I'll stop,” Remy asked to see the map Vincent got, which he agrees and hands it over to him “You sure we should trust this thing? I don’t know if this is worth it” concerned Remy once again. “I mean, do you see me getting punched nearly to death?” confidently stated Vincent. Ethan commented with a ‘Hey!’. “Plus, this gray tower is the only thing marked with a sad face, we’re gonna be fine, don't worry” The trio continued their Journey on the dirt path, hoping to find some answers about this place. “So according to the map, if we continue down this path, we reach this area marked by some wheat grains and Zs.” Stated Remy. “and shortly after passing there, we will reach a spot marked by some houses and a smiley face, hmm. It looks like we’ll be reaching a split path, one goes to the sad gray tower, and the other one leads to the small happy town.” “Hey guys you that light in the sky is supposed to be the sun?” asked Ethan. “Because it’s kinda weird how this place has a sun and moon, just like Earth huh? I know that’s like all Earths, but some have that and endless day, night, or something in between.”

 “I don’t know, let’s just focus on reaching the town” requested Vincent, “we still have some time before nightfall” During the time of their walk, Ethan tried to get the rest of the gang informed about this planet, but Vincent firmly rebutted this. “Ethan, it’s best if we just keep the knowledge of this place to ourselves, this is supposed to be a private expedition for the three of us, and I’d like to keep it that way.” Stated Vincent with an unhappy look on his face. Ethan, although a little disappointed, agreed to him anyway. “I’m not too sure how I feel with Vincent leading us, He might bring us straight into our deaths,” Ethan thought to himself. Remy walks towards the split path a few minutes later, with 2 very large hills blocking what’s on each trail. However, Remy didn’t notice this because he was staring at the map.

“So I think we go right, actually wait left, wait was it right? No, It was definitely left” Remy babbled on, while Ethan looked on in disappointment. Vincent started to get a bit paranoid like some mysterious figure is watching him and his friends. He walks towards Remy who is still trying to decide which direction to go in and gets more paranoid, Vincent gets the overwhelming feeling of a sniper scope watching him. He taps into his foresight powers and hears a sound of a bullet followed by a painful scream, and he notices a red dot directly on Remy. 

“GUYS GET DOWN!” Vincent blurted out and pushed his friends to the ground, dodging the sniper shot. 

“Oh shoot, we're under attack! We gotta leave now, hurry!” shouted Ethan. Remy stood up beside him, “No, we’re gonna have to fight our way through these guys”

“I think you’ve been taking too much advice from Vincent, but I don’t have a better plan” admitted Ethan getting up from the ground. Vincent equips his cowboy revolver with unlimited ammo & anti-jam and fanfares the oof out of the snipers with the head-pain-noise-blast horn function.

Ethan also retaliates by using his shrunk-down laser cannon on the palm of his hand, and Remy uses some good old wizard wand-and-staff magic to paralyze the baddies as well. A camouflaged division of spies tries to ambush the allies from behind, which Vincent, fortunately, sees coming and whacks them in the face, effectively ambushing the ambushers. Ethan engages in a sniper duel and wins! (Which he was very proud of as he had no scratches on his outfit.) Remy builds a brick cube around himself, which perplexes the baddies so hard that they collapse on the ground. Ethan finds one of the enemies knocked down with no scratches and scans his spy outfits for later, finding decent technology. Vincent rolls some D20s (D4 x5 times the explosive strength is a thing made by forcibly phasing four of five D20s into the remaining one) and gets lucky, instantly vaporizing some of the spies. Remy bonks a guy on the head with a brick and finishes the fight with his fire attacks. The three look around for any other enemies.

“Yep, that’s the last of em’” announced Vincent. After a moment of silence, the gang takes this time to escape the area.

“C’mon, guys this way! We can’t let them follow us! That path leads to the tower we were warned about, so this must lead to the fields!” Shouted Ethan, who got the trio sprinting far away from the battlefield. A mysterious figure from the top of the tower seems to be watching Ethan from a strange broadcast. The figure chuckles, “Heh heh heh heh heh... those strange boys held their ground well, I don’t need to interfere any longer, they’ll be crawling back eventually.”

Sometime Before Sunset

Our friends kept on running for a long time, all the way before they could barely see the tower. Vincent helped out Ethan, who was having some trouble running that far. 

“Yeah I guess that’s as far as we should go, they’re not following us,” Said Remy, about to pass out. Vincent taps into his foresight powers again, “Yeah they’re not coming back, and the sun is about to set, you got our stuff, right Ethan? Ethan?” Vincent looks behind him and sees Ethan in a sleeping bag taking a nap. Vincent Sneakily takes the shrunken supplies and gets to work. As the day passes, Remy looks for a place to set up camp, Ethan starts a campfire, and Vincent looks for any possible danger and some food. The three get a very large tent and make a temporary base there. Remy finally passes out from exhaustion and all that work, which was needed. Ethan un-shrinks some of the items he held onto so he could sit down and watch some tank cartoons that had aired life (Ethan saved them on a tablet before leaving) on a 3D screen-enhancer, just a curved piece of plastic. Vincent got his night-vision super spyglass to see what was ahead of him. After finding nothing noteworthy, Vincent sat down near Ethan and Remy. 

“Did you find anything?” asked Ethan

“No, nothing yet, but I know we can reach that town soon” Determined Vincent, 

“Alright that saves us some time, I want to have a discussion about those spies, oh and also get Remy up, I gotta get my scanner” Requested Ethan, scrambling through the many supplies he brought to this trip. Vincent lightly taps Remy on the head to wake him, which does not work. He tries to shake him lightly to wake him up, which also does not work. He then just slaps Remy in the face full force which really got him up and going.

“AH WOAH EH, what’s going on?” shouted Remy suddenly. Vincent gave Ethan a thumbs up, and he projected some images he uploaded to his computer. 

“Hey, Remy, sorry to bother you but we just wanted to have a talk about the battle near the tower” Explained Ethan. Remy Got his bed into ‘Movie position’ and listened to Vincent and Ethan’s discussion

“So who exactly are these spies, why are there so many, and why did they try to attack us?” asked Vincent with a firm voice. 

“Well, we really don’t know, they don’t have any resemblance to Mr. Ancona or any of the guys we used to fight.” stated Remy. “they’re not that skilled in combat but they did come in large numbers” 

“There’s definitely someone behind all of this, the spies are probably grunts to a much more dangerous force” proposed Ethan, “Could this be the revenge of Orthodontist Amos?! Oh wait, he’s gone...”

“What? No! Didn’t we get rid of him already?” Said Remy out of confusion. Ethan ignored him and kept rambling on. Vincent zoned out for a moment, 

“Hey Ethan, this is cool and all, but I’m just gonna go find that town, just for a bit”, he informed Ethan. 

“Uh, you sure, you didn’t find anything the last time, what makes you think otherwise?” asked Ethan. Vincent shrugged it off and went outside to find the town. Truth is, he wanted some time to himself, he sat on a rock and admired the stars. Maybe he was lied to, and maybe there was no such thing after all. After nearly giving up, Vincent gets his spyglass to do one last check to make sure. Suddenly, he spots something out of the corner of his spyglass, nearly trembles with happiness, and rushes back to his friends. Ethan however was still theorizing about the spies while Remy tried to keep track of it all on his notes. “Which actually means that this guy is super evil which makes- possible to be a Mr. Ancona clone-”

“Guys! Guys! I found the place” shouted Vincent and got the two outside to see it.” Ethan gasps in shock, and Remy slaps himself to confirm this isn’t a dream and also slaps Vincent for what he did earlier...

“Alas, The Happy Town!!! And it looks like there are people there, we gotta learn all about them!” Said Ethan with so much excitement.

“But first, we sleep, I’m getting really tired” suggested Remy, “Agreed,” the boys said.

The Happy Town and Elemental Tribes - Part 1

Vincent walks down a dark hallway, with flickering lights on the ceilings. He’s very frightened and is trying to get out quickly. He encounters a door with the word, ‘soon’ on it. He opens the door slowly, to see some kind of twisted basement with a strange figure at the end. He nervously walks towards it, the figure turns around, with its bright white eyes staring directly at Vincent. It walks forward with progressively louder stomping, but Vincent suddenly cannot move, as much as he tries to. The figure then lunges towards him and attacks, Vincent feels himself vanishing, and crumbling into dust. 

“Hey wake up, come on man wake up,” a faint voice whispers. “You think I should do it? Alright, I will,” Remy aggressively shakes Vincent, who suddenly comes back to life and rises from his bed.

“Vincent! There you are, we were worried about you!” smiled Ethan. “Umm, is now a bad time? Well, I'll see you in a bit, we got a big day today.” Ethan leaves Vincent on his own. Vincent's nerves re-appear from his nightmare, which confuses him a lot. After shuffling to get dressed and pack everything up, he greets Remy getting some food ready. 

“You feel alright? You seem puzzled” asked Remy. Vincent just stood there for a second and took a minute to figure out what he was gonna say. 

“I don’t know, I had some weird sleep paralysis demon infestation, but I’m feeling alright though,” Said Vincent, as Ethan suddenly appears behind the two in a shaman costume (with a ghost-banisher, just called a banisher, and a garlic/ginger launcher) and waving two dream catchers.

“Well get your stuff and let's head out, we have a lot planned for today!” responded Remy. He borrows Ethan's shrink ray and shrinks their supplies, and now the boys are on the road again. In the distance, they spot the Town and the people living in it, who share a lot of Human qualities and features. Vincent inspects the town with his spyglass. 

“These people are almost living the same lives as us, professions, a lot of living space, helpful technologies, it’s almost like a Utopia,” commented Remy, mesmerized by the citizens.

“What are you waiting for Vincent? Shouldn’t we go talk to them?” asked Ethan. 

“I’m just making sure they’re not spies, I don’t want to run into them again,” said Vincent. “It seems like the coast is clear, let's go guys.” Although it was going to be a long time until the trio reached the town, they knew their goal was within arms reach, which significantly improved their morale. Remy does notice some things while going there like more plants blooming, the air feeling fresh, and the sun seems more glimmering than usual, he shrugged it off as just another day. The trio goes up a large hill, where they get an even better view of the town, Ethan takes some more photos to take back home. Even though Vincent wanted to frontwards roll down the hill, Remy vouched against that for obvious reasons and thought they should just walk down the hill. Whilst going down the hill that leads to the town, the citizens noticed and watched the travelers walk towards their homes. “Who are those guys?” asked one of the townsfolk. “I don’t know, what should we do?” asked another. The strange travelers became more apparent as more people gathered around to observe them. The people were still deciding on what they should do about the protagonists, then Vincent reached into his pocket for his sheriff pistol, frightening the citizens and making them get defensive. 

“Vincent, what are you doing? They’re friendly!” whispered Remy. 

'I know what I’m doing, trust me, ' whispered back Vincent. He holds it up to the sky, then drops it and puts his hands up, showing that he’s not going to harm them. The people exhale in relief, but some of the townsfolk still live in confusion, others continue their normal lives, while a few go over and listen to what the trio has to say. Remy began a speech. “Hello there, my name is Remy and I’m here with some of my friends. We are from a distant universe with far greater technology, but we are not here to harm any of you. My good friend Vincent, unfortunately, crash-landed here a couple of days ago and is trying to learn about your planet. Although you don’t have to, we would like it if you could give us some info and we’ll be on our way.” Although Remy was welcome for any volunteers, the citizens were quite shy and weren’t as accepting. It took a while but eventually, someone dared to volunteer.

“Well I’ll volunteer for this, what would you want to ask?” said a citizen.

“Why do you guys live here instead of that big city down there? Seems a little silly to me,” asked Ethan. One townsfolk explained. Some citizens frowned looking over to the city, mainly the gray tower.

“Those ‘people’ there are greedy, ruthless rulers, they forced many of our people to do their bidding, we are the lucky ones who stay far away, and aren’t controlled by them at all.” Vincent nods in sadness, Ethan takes a look at the distant city, then glances back at the town.

“Hey, I think I can call in an air fleet or something if they don’t have an energy shield or anti-elemental powers - oh right. They can’t get through the barrier. Completely random and really inconvenient size restrictions on what can pass through the wall.” (A complete lie, lol.)

Do they have a Canon dampener? Remy quietly interrupts. “We have a few photos of some strange 4-legged rectangles, what are these things exactly?” asked Remy politely. The townsfolk explained, “Oh those? Those ‘rectangles’ are known as Vins, beings of pure innocence whose souls travel throughout the multiverse. They are basically elementals like us, but we here control more than one element, so we started our village place. Vins however seem a lot less humanoid, with all of their potential powers sealed. Many have been domesticated with an exceptionally great one known as Prizey, a fantastic warrior but hasn’t been seen anywhere lately. Unlike Utopians, Vins can be hurt, but cannot be killed, and come in a variety of forms as you keep exploring the multi-”

“Wait wait wait wait wait... hold on hold on,”' stopped Vincent in confusion, “You’re telling me there’s an entire darn species named after me and only me? And about the whole ‘multiverse’ thing, if these Utopians are everywhere in the multiverse why haven’t I seen any until now? Also, there was a Vin that kept saying Prizey, Queasy, Prizey, Prizey.”

“Do you not know about the... Also, Utopians can only be seen here. Anywhere else, even if you happen to have phase tech, they’ll, or we’ll, I should say, we’ll pass through you. Y’know, let me get my map.” said another citizen, going into his house to find said map “Alright here, so the Utopians/Vins can travel among the eight center-bordering universes via the barrier in the form of white orbs, once reaching a surface, well now Utopia only, they rematerialize into their prism forms. These prism creatures also were made by our Maker, Karrat Shauul, to whom we give praise. And as for that Vin... Prizey should be long gone...”

Everyone’s confused, they can’t believe what they’re hearing. “So how long have these universes been bordering us?” asked Remy.

“During all the chaos coming into your universe, the Maker wanted to protect you and his apprentice, pretty neat, huh?” said a citizen. “Normally when a being like you, humans, crosses the barrier, they get disintegrated almost instantly, but the apprentice can cross this barrier, and once he does, this marks the saving of this planet and the downfall of our corrupt rulers. Considering that you, Vincent, were here only makes you the one capable of a certain task. It is worth considering though that this powerful thing you call Canon might have something to do with your ability to breach the universe barrier. This planet was once a peaceful abode for the elemental tribes and us pures. That was until a wretched individual, Rob-Lock, used his power to trap the tribes in their homes, breaking the once peaceful balance between us and the elements, and eventually being able to control the nine universes. This is why we need you, Vincent, our Maker has promised someone will end this once and for all.”

The trio was standing there confused, dazed, puzzled, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, perplexed, bamboozled, bewildered, befuddled, and “habituaried”, Vincent, in particular, was getting a headache from this sudden surprise, which was too good to even be true. Vincent looks at Ethan and Remy, Ethan just bumps Remy on the shoulder and Remy just shrugs. He looks back at the citizen.

“Excuse me, can you give us a sec?” asked Vincent before getting his friends into a group huddle, “What the heck is this guy talking about, he must be trippin',” whispered Vincent. “Yeah, it makes absolutely no sense for an unknown creator we’ve never heard of to cast Vincent in the role of a savior,” agreed Remy. “Not to mention there were EIGHT OTHER UNIVERSES we just didn’t know about at the time...” Ethan cried out, “THIS IS RIDICULOUS! I know the one Creator personally quite well, and he certainly didn’t tell us about these Utopians and Vins! Not to mention nine universes and a whole set of elements, which our elemental powers at home barely measure up to! The best we had was in one of our pre-restart origin stories!” “So what do we say? Should we just pretend we are some heroes? proposed Ethan. Vincent and Remy look at him with strange looks. “Actually, I think we should just tell the truth.”. Vincent nods in agreement and gets out of the group huddle. He clears his throat, “Yeah if you’re looking for a savior to free your people from a cruel ruler, you’ve clearly got the wrong guy because just look at me, do you think I’m capable of doing that? The crowd looks down in sorrow, some a little disappointed 

 “However, I am interested in these elemental tribes, do you know where to find them?” 

The citizen points in a direction, “The plant tribe is located east of here, they know the full history of Utopia and all the other universes, I’d say you should go there first.” 

“Thanks for the information, sir, we’ll be leaving now,” said Ethan. And just like that, the trio left the town. With another very long walk toward the plant tribe. Vincent sparked up a conversation in the meantime 

“You think that guy was just spreading some misinformation or was the whole thing about some tribes or are we actually going to find some information about this place?” 

“I don’t think we should be so skeptical about it, this seems really promising,” Said Ethan. “It should be worth it considering how long the walk is.” Suddenly Remy thought of something 

“Hey, guys can’t we just unshrink some of our vehicles to save time?” Remy asked. Vincent stopped for a second and realized how stupid he was for not thinking of that. Ethan unshrinks some stuff, like a time-traveling teleporting school bus, a super cool (stolen) motorcycle, a floating hyper-scooter, and a golf cart car. (The forklift was somewhere in Ethan’s pocket but everyone would forgot about it until the post-battle dialogue rolls along.)

“I call the golf cart!” said everyone at the same time. And all decided to take the golf cart car of all things. 

Remy inserted the car keys and Vincent immediately called shot-blaster, Ethan wasn’t very happy about this, but at least he was able to lie down in the back. Some more uninteresting driving happens until Remy notices a sign and hits a speed bump. Ethan, confused, looks at the front to see what was going on. 

Vincent read the sign out loud “You are now entering the Plant Elemental’s tribe, to protect nature, we ask for you to halt using motor vehicles for the time being.” This confirmed there are other inhabitants on the planet. Vincent uses his trusty foresight powers again, which reveals something sprouting out of the ground. 

“Well I guess we exit now, we shouldn’t be messing up their property,” concluded Remy, Vincent agreed and exited too. Ethan rolled his eyes and jumped into the driving seat anyway. Vincent tried to stop Ethan from damaging another town’s property, but Ethan clearly didn’t listen. Suddenly, four large vines sprout out of the ground and tangle the wheels of the golf cart. 

“Oh by the Turtle! Blast! What underworldly Grim Reaper courtesy of the Demon King is this?!” shouted Vincent out of fear. Ethan tried to drive through the vines anyway, but they had already surrounded the wheels, trapping the cart in the ground. Ethan got the memo and dodge-rolled out of the car. 

“Yeah, let's not mess with nature again, especially if that happens,” vowed Remy. Luckily, a path was laid out for people to reach the large jungle area, where the supposed Plant Elementals live. Along the way, the grass seemed greener than usual, birds chirped harmonically, and even some exotic plants began spontaneously blooming out beneath the ground. 

“You think these are edible?” Asked Vincent, clearly interested in the plants 

“Probably not, don’t try them before feeding them to the GOAT or mechadeer.” The minideer chirped, having been stowed away in the cargo bay. Some strange green-lit spirits began floating around the area as well, which was the cause of all the strange plants. At the front of the Jungle, some thick leaves act as a door to the entrance, Vincent pushes the leaves and enters the domain of the Plant Elementals. Lot’s more man-made structures, plants, animals, and more were located here, it was packed to the brim with a ton of leafy greens. The trio couldn’t believe their eyes, only something this amazing should be kept behind a barrier. Some strange folk with bush-like robes and flower-covered hats make their appearance, Remy gets a notepad and starts writing down some noteworthy features about these strange creatures. Vincent notices another rectangle creature walk by, this time in a plant form with a similar green and flower appearance as some of the other plant people. 

“Hey look it’s another one of those ‘Vin’ things” stated Ethan. The Vin walked over to the humans and waved, Vincent waved back in a form of respect. The creature held one of its square-shaped fists up as it began to glow, then it lightly hit the ground, sprouting a lovely flower from the soil, and handing it to our protagonists. 

“Alright. Impressive, impressive...” noted Remy, writing a bunch more stuff. “This must be the same kind of magic we saw before, Yes? Except for this time, we got a nice flower instead of some giant vines.” This wholesome confrontation was shortly interrupted by the roars and screams of battle that are happening just a short walk away, the team scrambles to a plant person battling various ghoulish fiends. 

“You shall die by my staff, corrupted!” shouted the elemental. “Feel my wrath, nature’s wrath!” It slams its staff into the ground sprouting a lot of thorns that stabbed through the enemy like spikes. Another ghoul attacks from behind and smacks the staff out of the elemental’s hands. “Dear Aloe Vera, I've been disarmed! I need some help, quickly!” The gang quickly rushes to the scene to help out the weary fighter, Remy goes over to heal him with his own plant magic (aka a potion of fertilizer as the group hasn’t had to use their own element powers for a while) while Ethan takes another photo of the fighting and clubs a Corrupted with a nearby branch. (It did nothing but annoy the thing, which tackled Ethan, but he slapped it so hard it exploded.) Vincent steps on the scene and once again fanfares the living sheesh out of the rest of the enemies until Ethan notices a strange portal, then the plant elemental casts a spell. 

“By the will of the plants, let the corruption be gone!” he shouts, summoning more thorns that shatter the portal. He takes a deep breath, “Thank you for saving me, whoever you are. You guys seem new around here.”

The other plant elementals notice and welcome the new travelers, 

“Ahh, you must be the “humans”(nice), all the elemental folk have been talking about your arrival” The plant person spoke, “Come now, I shall show you our leader.”

The three looked at each other, knowing they have pretty much nothing else to do, and reluctantly agreed to visit the king of plants or something. Remy thought he would meet some overgrown mutant cactus.

“So where are you guys from?” the Plant asked. 

“Earth, well, one of the Earths, mainly Earth-1111, but we like to visit all the other ones,” said Remy, as Ethan brandished his flamethrower at some plant Vins, which made them all retreat to an owner that looked up in disapproval.

“Well... salad. That’s totally not going against all our so-far-established science. What’d you do before moving here?” The plant asked again. 

“We didn’t really ‘move’ here per se,” said Ethan “One of our friends crashed on the planet and we’re checking it out.” 

The plant arrived at the overgrown palace of the Plant Elementals, where their leader resides. Vincent took a knee and bowed in honor, then Remy and Ethan did the same.

“Greetings travelers, I am Chimki, word is you are our saviors, what brings you here to our land?”

“First of all, I’m not a savior, don’t get me wrong,” said Vincent, “Second, we’re here to learn about this planet, which uhh, do you guys have a name for it?” 

“This planet is what we call ‘Utopia’, rather cliche is it not?” asked Chimki. “But the time for talk is not nigh, I would like to assign you to an important mission” 

“Well I’m Listening, go on then, what shall we do?” Asked Remy formally. Chimki handed him a map, 

“Recently, evil forces have been uprooting themselves all over Nature’s Peace, and with very little outside help, we are struggling to hold them back. Considering you are not from our universe, you three would not be affected by their most harmful magic, and thus be the most fitting” Chimki explained. And thus, the trio was assigned the mission, the calm sounds of plants growing and filling the empty ambiance were shortly interrupted by the sounds of more ghouls who leaked into the realm of plants. The plant elementals were planning out their attack from inside some bushes along with the protagonists. 

Remy asked in his wizard outfit, “So fellow mages, how shall we begin our attack?” 

“Okay so, we’re going to need you and your buddy Vincent to hold off the ghouls while you buy us time to seal off the portal” stated the plant mage, he then pointed to Ethan, “I honestly have no idea with this guy so he’ll be a distraction.”

“Oh come on?! What is it with otherworldly lifeforms constantly bullying me? I’m supposed to be the protagonist-” shouted Ethan, the plant mages ignored him and prepared the attack. 

“Ready comrades?” asked the mage, the rest of the group nodded, “Three, two, o-” Vincent ignored the countdown and just started blasting away, “Well alright then, I guess that works too!” Vincent continued firing so much lead at the enemy they all combusted, then Vincent smiled and gave a thumbs up. To finish off the “fight” one of the mages sealed off the portal.

Ethan screamed at the top of his lungs (practically destroying his windpipe for the next ten minutes), “ROLLING FIREBALL CANNON LAUNCH!” He bowled through a bunch of plants with his hover-powers out of control before wheeling into an enemy ghoul and sending a fire chain down the poor thing’s throat, making it sneeze uncontrollably before combusting into dust. Meanwhile, Ethan was now mowing down everything with fire and a comically large spray of bullets coming from every armor segment on his suit (wasting almost all of them at once), but Remy tossed a water bucket at Ethan and forcibly shut down the runaway living chain reactor before the lasers started going too and Ethan would turn into some assorted vehicle with dozens more spilling out of his pockets and expanding to full size.

“Well that was comically easy, good job gang!” said Remy, “On the map that is one out of eight... seven as the eighth is in space... wait, nine as the eighth one is partially in space... we should wrap this up quickly!” 

“Indeed, however, we must discuss something once we get to the last one, but for now, move out mages!” stated the head magician.

“Excellent!” shouted Ethan, and someone threw a tree branch at him for no apparent reason. Going over to the other portals, Remy taught some of the mages to use their staves as spears for some melee combat as well as some advanced plant magic like exploding spore and grass-blade maelstrom. 

“Alright mages, so first, you wave your staff in an arc to create these orbs, then move them towards your opponent, and Exploding Spore!” shouted Remy, demonstrating his magic attack. The orbs violently exploded, leaving behind an unbreathable gas. The plant people applauded and Remy thanked his audience. Ethan went to study the picture of a ghoul. The ghoul seemed cracked and old, floating without legs, and used large claws to attack. 

“Hmm,” smirked Ethan, writing down some more notes in his big binder. The next mission began and the team found two portals nearby each other, Remy used another advanced plant attack. He slammed his staff to the ground, collecting all the small plants in a nearby area and making them circle himself.

Remy then launched all the little plants at a very fast speed like pins and needles, slowly but surely stabbing nearly all the ghouls in the area to death. Vincent already cleared the area to the next portal, meaning the mages can get to sealing them off, but they stopped when they noticed Vincent still continuously firing his revolver at the portal like a complete moron. 

“Uhh, what are you trying to do Vincent?” asked Ethan nervously 

“I’m trying to break the portal with some firepower, I'm confident that this will break it” explained Vincent, focus firing on the portal. Ethan stood there dazzled 

“You have to be kidding me, Vincent, are you really stupid enough to believe that?” shouted Ethan in frustration, then suddenly the portal lost power and got closed off. Vincent blew off the smoke from his revolver. 

“See, I told ya,” said Vincent. 

“Every minute I spend on this deity-forsaken planet, everything makes less and less sense,” thought Ethan out loud. 

“Don’t worry kid, It’ll all make sense eventually,” reassured one of the plant mages. A group of investigators returns from their scouting session. 

“Sir Remy, we have some news to share, we reckon you will pay attention to our findings” announced a scout. Remy says down on a tree stump to listen. “These images were taken near the next portal, we have reason to believe that there are now ghoul ‘variants’, each specializing in a certain hunting strategy. And also, one of them seems to be bullet-proof” 

Remy hmmed at this newfound information, the mages were slightly worried about this, Vincent was having a fit that he can’t just fanfare everything until it explodes anymore. 

“It's okay guys, we can still beat them, I’ve faced far worse before” stated Ethan firmly 

“Who gave you the talking branch?” angered a plant mage 

“OH COME ON WHAT DID I DO?!” shouted Ethan who was tired of being deemed insignificant to everyone in Nature’s Peace. Remy stood up from the tree stump and made a speech.

“Gentlemen, do not fear, this does not mean the fight is over. Even if we tremble at our enemy, we can still attack and fight it, and in our case, this enemy doesn’t make us tremble. Doubt is a weapon we use against ourselves, once we get past it, we have no weaknesses. Together, we shall march towards our enemy unphased, as people, as mages, as warriors, and take back the land for ourselves and our comrades.” Everyone applauded Remy for his courageous speech and gathered for their next battle plan. 

“So who are we up against?” asked Vincent excitedly. 

“So, the first variant of the ghouls is one with a lot more teeth but overall less strength, they appear to move fast so watch your backs. We’ll call this one the ‘speedy’ variant” stated the head scout. “The next one seems to be the opposite of the speedy variant, with a lot more arm and jaw strength but less speed and accuracy, we can call this one the ‘Tank’ variant. The third one seems to be a lot less threatening but can turn invisible, I’ll call this the ‘stealth’ variant for now. The fourth one seems to spawn miniature ghouls from inside itself, this one will be called the ‘Hoarder’. Number five doesn’t attack directly, but acts as a tripwire to unleash underground spikes, this is the ‘Trap’ variant and moves carefully around portals. The sixth one is protected by a large shield but uses a ranged attack, this is the one that’s immune to bullets, so this is the ‘bulletproof’ variant. Finally, we have the ‘mage’ variant that looks and fights like a mage, these guys are at the topmost priority and should be taken down first.” Once the scout finished, the mages now thought out plans to counter each one, Vincent also thought of a way to defeat the bulletproof variant, and now it was time once again to close down the portals again. 

Near the last portal, the variants became more apparent when skimming through the battlefield, but the team wasted no time and abused the portal and ghouls. Remy picked the mage ghoul and had a nice time sword-fighting with it, Vincent does what he does best and once again fanfares everything until they die. A small group of mages found a bulletproof variant and spammed exploding spore until it physically could not move anymore, then used some other exploding magic to finish it off. The mages were careful not to fall into any traps and found the weaknesses in each of the variants. Vincent went to take cover from the bulletproof variant when one of the stealthy ones took his revolver out of his hands, but Vincent just whacked it with a stick due to its hilariously low defense. He then looked back at the bulletproof variant.

“Wait, are you sure that thing’s bulletproof?” asked Vincent 

“He’s bulletproof, just fire at him if you’re not sure,” said the mages. Vincent shot approximately 243 bullets at him until he eventually stopped. 

“Okay yeah, he’s bulletproof, but what do you want me to do? I’m a soldier, not a sorcerer” said Vincent

“Just break him with spells, it's easy for us” stated the mages reassuring Vincent. 

“Okay, but what if you don’t use bullets, what if you just punch him reeaaalllly hard?” asked Vincent again, which stumped the mages. 

“I mean yeah go ahead, but if you die horribly that's not my fault” snapped a mage as Vincent ran from the cover and charged at the ghoul, dodged its laser beam, and went for a punch with his ghost hunter (no TM) gear that he, Remy, and Ethan all have. To nobody's surprise, he actually hurts it, knocks it really far back to hit around 6 other ghouls, and back into the portal. The mages stood there completely awestruck.

“... Okay, for the record, no part of that should’ve worked, someday your idiotic ideas are gonna backfire on you” stated another mage angrily surprised. 

Ethan was taking a very stealthy approach by disguising himself as a bush and then stuck a giant cork-portal-generator into the portal, which broke it, but was oblivious to notice every single one of the ghouls behind Ethan ready to pummel him into non-existence. However, Remy was able to tangle all of them with vines before they could damage his friend as the rest of the squad got the remaining three portals. “Alright, now we have one portal to go!” happily stated Remy. “I remember you saying something once we get here, what are we gonna do?” 

“Alright Sir Remy, to truly hold back the ghouls’ force, we need a few people to go inside the portal and destroy them from the inside out. Since we’re element-bound, we’ll cease before we cross this point, so you’ll have to do it.” explained the chief. He looked over to Ethan, “Hey you! How about you make yourself useful and go with them since you’ve done nothing this whole time.”

“Oh, my turtle... HAVE I BEEN INVISIBLE TO ALL OF YOU THIS ENTIRE TIME, I’VE LITERALLY BEEN HELPING ALL OF YOU OUT AND SOMEHOW YOU DON’T SEE THAT?!?!?!” angrily shouted Ethan about to explode and extremely fed up with being ignored. Ethan, with his eyes closed, waved his anti-ghost laser beam cannon around and fired it at a random ghoul behind an elemental, actually aiming right and hitting the ghoul, which screamed and disintegrated.

“Yeah, yeah, shut up and take this,” said the chief. He gave Ethan a strange box with a small button on it. “It's a gift from our friends in Electricia, you’ll love it I’m sure” he shoved Ethan into the portal but let Remy and Vincent stay for another word. “Your goal is to seal off the portals and smite a glowing orb to fully stop the ghouls. The world of plants and more depend on this, good luck boys,” finished the chief. The two saluted and walked on, ready for battle. Once they walked into the portal, Ethan was right there and brought them down to ground level under some protection.

“Guys be quiet! There are hundreds of bad guys over there!” loudly whispered Ethan. Vincent peaked over and saw the large cave of ghouls, portals, and more, he looked back for the second-ever group huddle. 

“Now what?” asked Ethan concerned, “do we just merk/murk all these guys and scramble out of there?” 

“You see that scepter with the purple orb? That's our target, we just have to destroy that thing!” stated Remy. “Also, didn’t you get a box of some sort?”

“Oh yeah, I got this...” said Ethan, showing off the small, metal box. “I have no idea what to do with this thing,” Vincent noticed something inches away from Ethan’s thumb, 

“Hey Ethan can I get a look at that thing?” asked Vincent politely 

“Yeah sure, knock yourself out,” said Ethan mildly annoyed. “Okay, I can see a lot of covers behind those portals but a lot of space for us to fight them... hmmm.” 

When inspecting the strange cube, Vincent noticed a small button on the top of the cube, he handed it back to Ethan stealthily and moved his thumb on the button. 

“So are we going in loud or keeping it quiet?” asked Remy. Ethan pressed down on the button quickly and unexpectedly, which opened up the box. The compartments expanded and changed shape, revealing the box to be a giant mini-blaster that proudly had the words emblazoned with the “Electricia” Klaxon insignia. “Insert special component for repurposing here.” Ethan happily linked his own ghost-banisher tech up to it. The back of the box had a plug, which Ethan linked back into his own tech and melee sidearms he currently had equipped on his body armor’s hardpoints (not counting the ones in the four-dimensional bag/pocket), the Brrr (Blast Retcon Reflecting Resolver), which was a right-handed glove with a short dagger with a flamethrower, harpoon, and beam shaper (shields, whips, anything made of plasma) and the PRFL (Pencil Rapid Fire Launcher); Ethan had the PRFL (basically an automatic repeating hand-held semi-gatling blaster rifle with a laser pistol and scope stored in the storage part of the blaster, in the back) in his left ghost-hunting glove hand, which had a repulsor that was currently linked to the new mini-blaster that was now giving anti-ghost energy to all of Ethan’s other stuff as well. Two-photon blades gleamed as they extended from the sword hilts. “Neutrons fully charged. As always, don’t generate power edge arcs.”

“Nice, now I don’t need to find my ruler or Flashlight (of Doom)! I can wreck stuff anyways!” thought Ethan to himself.

“Y’know what, never mind. This works too. Thought it was a portal generator or explosive or something.” said Remy, shocked at this occurrence 

“Oh, what the fu- fridge?” said Vincent out of shock. Ethan nearly trembled happily at the new arms kit. 

“Yeah, I’m using this thing! Dibs on splash potions!” shouted Ethan with a malicious grin on his face. 

“Well then, REBOOT members, roll out!” shouted Remy. Ethan skated down a cliff to the enemies, and the battle began. The ghouls noticed the trio and went to attack, but Ethan spun his mini-blaster and blasted them down very quickly, making Ethan laugh so manically that he sounded like a cartoon villain. A small group of bulletproof ghouls makes their way onto the scene, preventing Ethan from doing any more damage, but Vincent was already sprinting over to them. 

“Get that armor out of my face, goofy!” shouted Vincent, who punched them so hard it knocked them into a wall which destroyed more ghouls and sealed off another portal that ended in a large explosion. Vincent put on some cool sunglasses and stood in front of all the exploding things while Ethan continued his manic laughter. Remy was sitting in the back before getting jumped by some ghosts and enemy mages, 

“Now you're gonna get it, that's right! You and me, right now, fight me, stick!” boasted a mage, Remy rolled his eyes and whacked him with his staff... Before the corrupted pulled out a cannon... only to be met by Remy, who spawned in a hammer so large it was four times his size. It didn’t end well for the ghoul. Remy also charged up a short-ranged fire explosion to wipe out the rest while sitting in the back spamming homing magic missiles at any ghouls causing trouble. Meanwhile, the plant's mages from outside the portal were noticing the chaos and ghostly/ghastly noises radiating from the portal.

“You think those guys are okay?” asked a plant mage worryingly, then Ethan’s slight pseudo-mad and quite maniacal laughter was muffled by the portal as more explosions, screeching, screaming, and bolt sounds came out. 

“Yeah... they’re doing alright” informed the chief with a smile on his face. Back to the mayhem, Ethan was so caught up in frying baddies with the mini-blaster he just remembered why he was sent for the mission and ran to the other portals to seal them off, which took ten times longer than it should have because he was carrying the blaster. Remy figured out that a small crystal needed to be broken to seal off the portal, he didn’t tell anyone else this so Ethan just destroyed the crystal via blaster. 

“Vincent!” Shouted Remy, “go for the orb! We got your back” Vincent saluted and faced the orb. He did not walk, jog, run, or sprint to it, he just straight up skedaddled so fast while flailing his arms around like those air sticks in front of stores. He quickly trampled every ghoul in his way and bumped into the scepter. Vincent tried taking the orb out of the scepter, but it didn’t work so he picked up the scepter instead. Vincent tried repeatedly slamming it onto the ground and blasting it a few times before eventually giving up. Meanwhile, Remy was charging up a super magic move thing... as Ethan fended off all the ghouls he could with the mini-blaster. 

“Wait! Comrades!” an enemy mage shouted, “the orb!” They all faced Vincent who was sitting near the orb waiting for Remy to do something, then noticed the hundreds of ghouls staring at him, frightening him tremendously. Vincent desperately tried to break to orb while the absolute tidal wave of purple-colored enemies approached. Remy finished charging up a hand-magic attack directly on the orb, popping it out of the scepter while Vincent punched it super hard into a nearby wall with a karate chop as Ethan pose-cringed some ghouls by dabbing before kicking one in the shin while Ultra Cosmos kind of swept the others off their feet. A few white beams pierced through the cracked orb, charging up a very deadly and powerful explosion, panicking Vincent even further and worrying Remy as well. Vincent made his second-ever hyper skedaddle to the exit, running over all the ghouls in his way and climbing up walls at a worryingly fast speed, but it may not be enough to beat the clock. By the time Vincent got too near the entrance with Ethan and Remy, he had run out of energy to keep running, struggling to get to the exit. Remy used a vine rope spell to bring him back up, while just barely clutching the time. Ethan threw his mini-blaster at Remy, knocking him through the portal and keeping him alive.

“Sorry man I can’t help you, just make it out of there! You’re almost there!” reassured Ethan as he got to safety too. Vincent looked back at the orb as it exploded into a blinding-bright explosion.

“Oh what the?!” shouted Vincent before being nearly blinded by the brightest explosion in existence that

 impacted him, but knocked him back towards the portal from the said explosion. As the ground around Vincent began to vaporize, disintegrating alarmingly fast, Ethan and Remy stuck their upper halves into the portal, with Ethan firing his grappling hook and going for a grab, catching on a chink of Vincent’s armor, while Remy generated a little Canon shield that protected Vincent and kept the portal open... Vincent came flying out of the portal and made it into Nature’s Peace face-first and slightly sizzled, everyone gasped, but Vincent gave everyone a thumbs up, assuring that he was fine. The portal behind him, instead of closing up as usual, brightened tremendously and shot up to the sky into the cosmos to never be seen again. The plant elementals applauded, 

“Thanks to you three, the realm of plants is safe again, for agreeing to help us out and banish the ghouls we give you the titles of saviors” announced the chief, “May the rest of your journey go safely.”

“Well about that” stated the now Sir Remy, “We also seem to know about your world, your universe, and your realm. It seems dangerous and we need advice.” 

“Oh, that? Rest assured my friend you can learn all that and more at Kimchi’s palace.” stated the chief, pointing towards the trail to said palace. Remy nodded and led the trio back to Kimchi’s palace and flew open the doors to Kimchi watering some of his plants. 

“Oh hello again humans,” stated Kimchi, “What troubles your adventures now?” Remy took a deep breath but Ethan started rambling before he could speak. 

“Yeah, can you please tell us WHERE THE ACTUAL —- YOU PEOPLE CAME FROM?!?! And don’t say the beaver thing like everyone else!!!” demanded Ethan whose voice echoed through the entire temple. 

“Well, beaver dam, calm down dear, all of your questions and more shall be answered right here and now, lights please!” announced Kimchi slightly startled and ready for a show. The sunlight from the temple dimmed until there was only a small amount of light radiating from Kimchi’s staff. He began his woe tale.

“It was a long time back, such a long, long time back. Back in the days when the grass was still green, the ponds were still wet, and the clouds were still clean, and the dog-like creature, some Vin that almost knew how to walk on two legs on four, still occasionally decided to chew on my seat, and yes, most of these except for that Vin is still present today, it’s simply just not like what it is these days.” began Kimchi, the trio got some sleeping bags and snacks out of their 4D pockets to listen to the story. “However, if you truly want to go back to the root of our origins, let us go back to before we Utopians as a species ever thrived, back to where it all started.” Kimchi used his staff to use light to paint a story, which he uses to make a small little earth. “We all started here, in the first world we know of. I’m sure you three can recognize it well, the first-ever paradise for sentient beings, a serene paradise for the first forms of life. The creation of such a thing also gave birth to a great Maker, who wanted to have individuals and conflict besides himself, created the seven- eight, eight natural elements, Plant, Water, Fire, Ice, Air, Rock, Electricity, and Soul all found refuge here.” Ethan interrupted with “IT’S NOT EIGHT?!?! IT MUST BE EIGHT! That’s the lore of the multiverse- Ok, that’s better.”

Kimchi looked at Ethan, quite annoyed, because he interrupted the story, and gave off a moment of silence, then continued, “Now, of course, they existed before, but were ultimately scattered in the cosmos, especially Plant and Electric, before Karrat decided to go voyaging to bring us home. Was it created purely by accident? Was this the creation of one almighty god? Questions like these are truly never answered no matter how far Utopians like me searched. This also made a chain effect on many other places which created the different universes you’ve only just heard about, creating other lifeforms in those places, too. The people themselves were powerful rulers of the world, quick, strong, and strong beings dominated every land mammal, the largest things in the ocean, they were all no match for the indomitable human spirit. Like this Earth, members of all the universes slowly built themselves up into the great feats of the multiverse, and throughout their development, several mighty demigods kept watch of these places and hoped they would flourish peacefully, it must have been really sweet for them.” Said Kimchi with a warm smile. “However, with all golden ages, they did not last like this, there eventually was a large universal event in one of the universes, the destruction of the very first Earth. Sometime around this period, the humans possessed never before seen space travel technology, that Canon stuff that is both good and evil, and somehow created multiple earth clones, disrupting the general order of things. Around this time, we discovered that our little multiverse, not counting your “time streams” and whatnot, is put into three layers, the cosmos, the digiverse, and the glitch. The cosmos layer is where we live, it's where all life forms dwell peacefully, or at least, supposed to be peaceful. The digiverse is a realm containing a mighty supercomputer and the ongoing data brawl with the firewall and programs versus the viruses and malware, but the virus and malware aren’t really teams. The third layer is the glitch, the emptiest place... ever, it's a very cruel damnation for all living beings and programs. Remember these places, I may come back to them,” Remy got out more notes and wrote the names down. Kimchi shined a bit more light and started explaining again, “Meanwhile, humans took advantage of their technologies to make and find the other earths in their system, as well as some other realms and such with other earths, while Utopians outside that 1111-universe had decided to live in peace. However, what the Utopians lacked was one true leader, there has been evidence of an old Meme God deity-like being that was actually a metaphysical alien with some other buddies ruling over the realm together; it was mainly the first one doing the ruling but the others didn’t seem to listen to him, probably because he wasn’t very strict on the order of things, he was a very forgiving god with no uppercase requirement as he was quite chill on that, which would’ve worked if the humans actually paid attention to his teachings. He did snap and lose it a few times though, along with his buddies, and they punished the world so many times with natural disasters and whatnot. Some event broke out where all the deities destroyed one another, and only Karrat was left... I digress. Like human nature, Utopian nature is a confusing and split topic, some are free-thinkers, some prefer the ways of old, but most agree that most of them, without Karrat’s blissful guidance, sought power, dominance, and willingness to trample others in their way, this meant that there was no one true leader, and anyone who tried to rise would be trampled by someone else. And thus, the many, many battles of the human world began to take place.” Kimchi used his staff to depict many people being destroyed by some kind of ongoing war, with illusions of screams in the background. 

“Wait, no that's not entirely accurate” stated Remy, “What about the MANCM, we have a stable government.”

“Exactly!” angrily stated Ethan, “How dare you depict us as such savages!” Kimchi sighed, 

“Well, there must be SOME reason why every single kind of eldritch horror thoroughly decides to attack your universe of all places, am I wrong?” Vincent sat there and paused for a second. All the while, Ethan’s screeching into Remy’s ear, and Remy is sympathetically nodding.

“Okay yeah I guess that makes sense, they just want us to finally shut up for 12 seconds, continue,” admitted Vincent. (With Ethan shaking his head.) Kimchi went back to the story. 

“During the many wars and conflicts as your MANCM rose, yes, a portion of humans had gone into quarantine and waited for the conflicts to end on the sidelines, as they had been asked to do so after intervening in one mighty battle at the request of one. Many were quiet and were hopeless for their realm, but one who went into quarantine had other plans, he knew that there was much more out there, other universes that deserve the humans’ attention, but nobody knows when or where to start. However, he knew that nobody in the world of the Legacyverse would take him seriously or support his idea and that if he were to go, somebody else would take his title and get credit for his findings, so he decided to evacuate at the heart of a particularly bad winter using an alien saucer, or as it basically is an orb pod. It was a risky opportunity, but it did work out. This man of genius and bravery was Sir Tushaar.”

“Hey I know somebody with that name, do you have a picture for reference?” asked Vincent politely. 

“Oh sure, we’ve kept track of most of the universal events thus far!” said Kimchi who walked over (His legs were quite organic and humanlike, as Utopian’s body type is very similar to humans even after they choose elements. The only difference is that the bodies are then covered in that element. In Kimchi’s case, he got something that looked like walking-assist vines wrapped comfortably around him, with some bark decorative armor and a flowing leaf cape, with some vines sticking out in places.) to get a portrait of “Tushar/Tusharr/Tushaar”, who, somewhat surprisingly, looks exactly like the quite recognizable Tushaar Vincent knew from the Legacyverse, where Sameer, Arjun, Sameer, and Anton also resided, along with Anthony (who got banished to stay there by Ethan some time ago before his ban got lifted under universal calamity), Tre, Kaiden, and the GOAT.

“What... How?? Where the heck did you learn about this guy?” demanded Ethan confused, 

“Very old records of video tapes recovered from his early expeditions. Apparently, he got tired of being left behind by three others named Arjun, Sameer, and Anton,” answered Kimchi. 

“Oh really? Beaver dam... Sounds like the person I know,” said Vincent, amazed. Kimchi cleared his throat to continue the story. 

“Tushaar, along with the others, had a massive transfusion of this Canon in him, and that allowed him to survive passing the barrier. You owe some of your technology to us, and therefore, to him. Tushaar knew that it would be dangerous to travel alone and he needed some kind of ally to assist him to write his journals, so when searching for a companion, he found a rectangle creature, a being of pure innocence. Tushaar was astonished by the beauty of this creature and named him Prizey, an intelligent four-legged animal that could use its soul to travel between realms. The lands Sir Tushaar and Prizey, who was keeping communication with Tushaar through some machine while supplying Tushaar’s ship with never-before-seen levels of speed, found... were worlds of the most ethereal possibilities, rows of Earths, lands of rubble, massive animal kingdoms, a mechanical dimension, a universe of emptiness, and a gigantic planet, which were all just a piece of the distant lands from the Human Realm. The two wanted to find a way to keep the Human Realm, which I suppose has a different name now, in peace and went on a large and eventful journey to do so. The journey lasted several long-lasting months and eventually ended in a universe called the Terra Worlds, once completing this quest they were able to contact/manifest the incredible figure known as Karrat Shauul, the great deity-god of a flourishing realm. Karrat, also known as the Maker in the old paintings, had used his power and took eight universes and made them border the Human Realm to protect the humans. These nine realms would become known as the first layer. Karrat also made the universal barrier, a giant purple wall separating each universe from the others. Then he made the other two layers by accident, but being unable to undo its growth, he made something other layers to counter it, finally making his own place to live in, layer 0, after dropping another eighteen phase universes to protect the main world, which would all overlap with the -1, -2, 2, and 3 layers. And thus, this unified multiverse was born, each with their own equally powerful demigod with their own personal journey. Some seek glory, others redemption, and one is just really attracted to their apprentices. That’s kind of it... mostly. I’ll tell you more in time.”

Vincent interrupted surprisingly

 “Wait what the fu-” Kimchi ignored him and continued anyway. 

“Before we say anything, Tushaar did go home after six months. Few missed him, but he never got the time to find the barrier again, since somebody apparently gave him a lot of makeup schoolwork, and his “employer” gave him a lot of side projects... Apparently, he went home as there was some issue with an evil space cloud that was attempting to eat planets. Anyways... Yememotus, the master, molder, and sculptor of The Terra Worlds, is a stern, serious, powerful archmage. He is not physically existing right now, however, during his life, told us he had a second body hidden inside a moon somewhere, and he trusted us not to tell anyone. The Vin known as Prizey had awakened his powers using that Canon of a mortal from your world, that Tushaar, and conquered Yememotus for preparing to attack the Legacyverse, which I believe is your given name to that dimension, for Tushaar had changed the cycle of Utopian life forever. Prizey in his soul form also attacked Yememotus along with other reasons such as... Yememotus is an authoritarian ruler and not feeding him during the Great Feast year. As punishment, Karrat sealed Prizey’s power and his memories before leaving Prizey somewhere. We can’t recognize him though, because most Vins look generic before they choose an element. Karrat Shauul (Once Karat Soul), the one who took the existing elements of Plant, Water, Fire, Metal, Air, Rock, Electricity, and Soul to make a paradise known as Utopia, the planet I and my people dwell on. Laser Devil, the ruler of a Desolate Wasteland, worlds of rubble and deadly creatures. He has been broken into pieces for generations but is still deadly as he was before. Plasmonkey, the strongest fighter of the Land of the Primitives and animal kingdoms, is usually the one who saves the day. The Creator of the Human Realm, a forgotten hope for most of his universe’s inhabitants, still forgives and is hopeful for them. Giganticus, a master of a gigantic flying machine, constructed his own universe manually. He calls it Universe: Remade and wants to keep it for all living beings. Humoros, the King of all jokes, the master of the hee hee’s, the lord of comedy who has kept a large gallery of every single joke... ever. JPX is a so-called slow developer of the Asylum, a large freakish game show-like world where everyone kills each and respawns, making it very strange indeed. True Djungels God, the ruler of a comically large planet with giant teddy bears called ‘Skogs. He is one god that makes every one of its followers tremble at its might and challenges any opposing him to a duel. We are not quite sure of the histories of these realms, but we do know the history of the planet of Utopia, a world Karrat made, the one we live on. He made a place for all the rectangle creatures to be born from, a giant pillar of light. The elements got their own elementals and their own tribes in different parts of the world, all bordering each other and living peacefully. From those elements the sub-elements were created, these include Plasma/Steam, Shadow, Metal, Crystal, Poison, Lava, WInd. These new sub-elements could not survive on their own, so they each bonded with a natural element and became their known counterpart, the ones that came later on just made their camp in some tucked-away underground area. Besides this minor inconvenience, everything in Utopia was doing fantastic, it was a perfect place for all elementals, and the only thing missing was someone to rule the planet, so Karrat created the elemental guardian to watch over the naturals and subs. But something strange happened when nobody was looking, something deep down below, the aching corruption down from the glitch was preparing to strike Utopia. We aren’t quite sure how, but they somehow managed to ascend to the upper layers and eventually reached the surface world, probably some kind of high-speed blast (Ethan had his suspicions that Kaiden had done something fishy when he disappeared, but now they came back) destroyed part of the barrier between the three layers, leaving room for infiltration. These new corrupted forces brought down the elemental guardian and converted it into a corrupt powerhouse, threatening all the life in Utopia. However, we elementals weren’t going to give in to this unknown force and united to defeat a common enemy, and Karrat himself panicked and helped out too. He also brought along two legendary figures known as Thantrick, who manifested under universal calamity, and the Watcher to fight alongside him. This battle will go down in multiversal history as the greatest fight the gods have ever seen that ended with the guardian being sealed off somewhere underground and its corrupted status temporarily dampened, not removed. Not even the Utopians and Vins that live or venture deep underground know of where the guardian could possibly be now. Since the guardian was supposed to be the ruler of Utopia and now it's gone, we didn’t have anyone else to lead us, but Karrat for some reason didn’t really notice, he must have been weakened by the dark guardian. He was off in the unified, not united, unified multiverse rebalancing stuff and was trying to find the source of the corruption, and the planet broke into states, starting the elemental war. These were very dark times, elementals fighting each other to rule the others, especially the fire elementals who had developed a sort of hatred for other, weaker elementals, it was madness! Karrat soon came back, looked at this in horror and remembered the pillar of light in the center of Utopia and used it to create a lot of new “pure” elementals or ‘soul’ as some, well, most, call them. These new pure Utopians quickly realized what was going on around them and made the elemental tribes listen to a higher power. These fellows were able to charge up powerful laser beams that vaporized anything caught in the blast, which made everyone listen to them. They also got a little carried away with their power and accidentally nearly drove the element of crystal to extinction even though they were neutral, which was sad for some of the elements. Oh, but apparently, those survived somewhere, as we would feel if the last remnant of them went extinct. One of these pure Utopians, named Rob Lock, had some kind of superiority complex and became the one ruler of Utopia instead of all the pures taking care of the tribes, which displeased Karrat greatly. Rob Lock refused to listen to Karrat, he had created a powerful scepter that was even more powerful than most Utopian's soul energy and didn’t care for any of his ramblings. He threatened his own people and the tribes to work for him and grow his empire or they shall be executed via scepter-launched death ray. Even Karrat now lacked the strength to stop him, having had its power sapped and thoroughly drained by evil space cloud beings, which were defeated by some mysterious deities that looked like a giant chonk and something that was later explained to us by Karrat as a generational Vigatorian ship, those who settled somewhere near your worlds. Meanwhile... a small group of pure Utopians were fed up with Rob’s ego and managed to break the scepter, meaning Rob had to fix it, and fled to a faraway field, where they made their new base and are now called the Happy Town. They have been given word from Karrat himself that one day, somebody will arrive in Utopia to crumble Rob’s empire and restore peace onto Utopia, but until then, we are all still waiting for a change. We have all played our part, and now it’s time to play yours, get some allies from the distant tribes, and go back to fight Rob-lock to save us all, that’s why people are calling you a savior.” 

“We met those guys shortly before arriving here, they seem very highly of us, we’re pretty good at making friends I guess,” said Remy, who stood up and was willing to take a stand

“Then it is settled, you boys go out there, for all elementals, and don’t forget to get some new allies from the tribes! The tribes are mostly all connected, so just keep driving north and you’ll reach the rest of them,” announced Kimchi one final time

“Okay, we will, REBOOT, move out!” shouted Vincent confidently. “Also... can you un-vine our cart so we can get going, I frankly don’t want to run all the way back there.” 

“Oh yeah, sorry about that,” said Kimchi politely, who threw the golf cart from the entrance of Nature’s Peace all the way to his temple without damaging it. Remy started up the golf cart car again and drove out of the plant elemental’s tribe, ready to go great the rest. Ethan looked around to make sure nobody was looking before leaving a bag of the best fertilizer he had. A plant Utopian came in and smelled it, dazzled by the amazing nutritional scent. Kimchi rushed over to check it out himself. He took a handful and placed it on a baby seed. Suddenly, a massive vine grew up and touched the clouds. “Guess he wasn’t so bad after all,” Kimchi thought... before seeing the “Made from artificial fiery chemicals” sign.

The Happy Town and Elemental Tribes: Part 2

Remy drives the Golf Cart out of the Plant tribe and out into the open plains again, with minimal trees and rocks to fill the mostly empty landscape, Remy drives North to find the second tribe to discover....

Error 010: Elemental_Tribes_P2.txt missing. Skipping ahead...

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TEA: The Incident

“Alright!” started Ethan in the backseat of the golf cart, “All we have left is the Electric Tribe to properly visit again since it’s so big, hmmm.” 

“You think that constantly driving out to reach all these tribes is a big waste of time? With y’know the entire planet depending on us and stuff?” asked Remy, carefully driving on the golf cart on an aligned dirt path, Vincent looked at him strangely. 

“Oh come on, these people have been waiting for people like us for turtle knows how long, I think we should tell them that we’ve finally arrived, and plus they make for some really handy allies!” argued Vincent, 

“Well I suppose that’s true” admitted Remy, hitting a small speed bump on the dirt road. “Wait, what was that?” Vincent looked outside the window and noticed the path changed from dirt to concrete, a small change but also noticeable at the same time. Vincent looked outside the window.

“Is that a... parking lot?” asked Vincent using his spyglass, “are they into tourism or something?” 

“It seems to be so,” said Remy, “But it’s unsurprisingly empty, I don’t expect a lot of pure Utopians coming here anytime soon.” Remy parked the cart in the empty parking lot (Ethan shrunk to model size and stuffed the car in his weightless 4D pocket) and exited his vehicle while the other two followed suit. Remy stood in front of some strange metal gate that seemed to work as an entrance, Remy was still very confused and walked toward it. Vincent quickly caught up and found a sign near said entrance saying, “Electrical surfaces are dangerous! We recommend wearing protective rubber on any exposed parts of the body.” 

“Yeah they’re definitely into tourism,” concluded Vincent, but Ethan was doubting the use of the need for the rubber and walked past anyway, unaware the entire surface was coated with 300 volts of electricity, electrocuting Ethan and sending him flying. Thankfully due to plot armor, Ethan was for the most part unharmed, but he still shouldn’t make stupid mistakes like this. He immediately began fiddling with the suit's few thousand settings to make the Canon change properties. While he did that, Vincent put on a rubber suit and walked over to a weird administration stand near the entrance, and tried to start a conversation with the receptionist. 

“Uhhh, do you know how to get a tour of this place? Y’know we're like tourists from another universe and we want to know what this place is?” asked Vincent to the receptionist. 

“Why yes, we don’t get many visitors around, I’ll get one for you guys in a few, you guys can just wait here” responded the receptionist, releasing a compartment from behind the booth, creating a bench. Ethan recovered from the knockback and quickly got over to the new bench with his friends sitting on the bench. 

“Huh, these guys seem pretty darn advanced, just look at all those fancy billboards and light shows!” stated Ethan amazed by the work of the electric elementals. 

“Makes sense, I’m betting these are very smart engineers, plus considering that they are made out of electricity they could easily make all this stuff” concluded Remy, ending Ethan’s discussion. Vincent got a message from his brother Anthony on his phone, 

Vin, where are you? 

I’m doing some stuff with the REBOOT gang, it's a long journey.

Dude, you can’t just keep breaking the fundamental laws of the universe because of sheer boredom. Ethan grabbed Vincent’s phone from his hands and furiously texted

YES, WE CAN, WE ARE THE LITERAL GOVERNMENT OF YOUR WORLD, WE CONTROL THINGS! REMEMBER, I BANNED YOU ONCE, AND I CAN DO IT AGAIN!!!!!

Vincent forcefully grabbed his phone back from Ethan, Anthony texted him back

Aight bro stop being sped and just come back, you know how much mom and dad miss you 

“Oh yeah, Vincent actually has parents. I forgot about that,” said Remy (sadly). 

I know that, but I’m gonna be here for another day or two. If I’m not back home in a few days you’ll know something’s up. 

Alright, see you bro. Vincent put his phone away and thought about being away from his family, they probably think he’s growing up too fast and leaving too soon, but he can’t worry about them right now, he’s got other things to do. (Ethan glances around before using his deep subconsciousness, or a portion of it anyways, to call the actors to tell them to cut the wifi to their place so Vincent can’t just track the signal even if he wants to. Lore power. The parents don’t exist, that’s just Vincent having his old memories being subconsciously triggered. Ethan also has an Anthony stand-in. Anthony, Kaiden, Tre, and the GOAT are about to set out for their journey of getting to this planet from the Legacyverse (practically a quarter of the ‘verse away from the barrier), and the Legacyverse crew of Anton, Arjun, Sameer, and Tushaar are also on their way.) Around eight more seconds pass and the lamp near the summoned bench lights up, meaning the tour is now ready. A person on a hovering platform descends, 

“Greetings... Weary? I guess so... Travelers, welcome to Electricia, the tribe of electricity I will be your tour guide today any questions before we begin?” asked the guide 

“How did you make all this? Like the city and the lights and stuff?” asked Vincent in awe. 

“You humans have always tried to perfect large cities but unfortunately struggle to get large amounts of electricity, but us electric elementals are made out of 100% electricity, allowing us to power cities and start-up machines.” (Ethan muttered, “Vin-scented Candle-Seller, if you were in my portion of Earth, you would have noticed bio-fluorescent jellyfish cells integrated as our lighting system. Instead, you went to Joe’s.”)

“So you’re master engineers, very interesting I must say.” respected Remy

“For the most part, yes, but there was a time when we weren’t aware of our true capabilities, I can show you right now!” said the Guide, who brought the trio on his platform and fast-traveled to a new destination. “This is the ‘Ancient Town’, a civilization of Electricia preserved long ago where electricity was mostly obtained from lightning rods during common thunderstorms. It took a while before we started engineering and used metals for machines, but it lead us to the perfect city you were seeing a while ago.” Answered the guide. “Looking back at the city, advertisements and skyscrapers were plentiful, after all, what are we going to use our electricity for, someone else? Hehehehe.” The trio looked at the guide weirdly, he ignored them and continued on. “From my understanding, you humans have always strived for a city like this but ended up damaging your environment. We would love to pay you a visit if we knew how space travel worked... but I’m hopeful that we will.” The guide then fast-traveled to a high spot above the city for a good look of what life is like there. 

“The city itself is where everything noteworthy goes on, from Restaurants, Hotels, Schooling, shipping, maybetheconstructionoftermonuclearbombsaswellbut lets move back onto ground level. The guide teleported the team to a safe spot, in a local park with electric-like plants, weird.

 Suddenly, a device from the guide’s pocket rings, “Oh wait hold on I have to attend something, just wait here okay?” asked the guide flying back to the HQ, leaving the team alone. 

“So…we’re not gonna question that someone might be building nuclear bombs right beneath our feet?” asked Remy, concerned, 

“Nah, the elementals are gonna mostly use elemental magic, so we shouldn’t worry that much.” informed Ethan who was trying to sound normal

Vincent then notices a screwable square on an electric wall and goes to analyze it, for whatever reason the person working on this left a screwdriver behind so Vincent could open the square. 

“Vincent, what are you doing?” asked Remy nervously, “Don’t touch these people’s stuff.” 

“Don’t worry about it guys, it's only for a second” assured Vincent, opening the square to reveal a large complicated array of wires. Vincent got some tweezers to study it further

“Okay but seriously please do not touch that, you’re going to destroy something,” warned Remy again, but Vincent didn’t listen. 

“Alright so most of these wires are dangerous to touch but they all don’t seem connected. SOOO that means the wire not connected to anything is the least dangerous which means if I cut THIS wire I can safely disarm and study it. Vincent cut one of the wires, which did the exact opposite of what he proposed, charging up a large amount of electricity, “Oh sh-” uttered Vincent at the last second who got caught in a massive explosion worth 9000 (times about a trillion) volts. 

“Oh splat, what just happened?!” shouted Ethan running over to the explosion, “is Vincent okay?” The guide quickly flew back over after hearing this and tried to better the situation. Vincent lay on the ground with some rubber parts broken off and static electricity emitting around him. Vincent regains consciousness and tries to get up but forgets about the conductive surface. Ethan runs over there but Vincent lets some of the non-rubber touch the ground with surprisingly zero repercussions. 

“Wait, the surface wasn’t conductive?” asked Ethan, confused by this phenomenon. Ethan just shocks his finger to test it out, “Yeah never mind it's still conducive” Vincent then makes some small sparks in the palm of his hand which he doesn’t notice right away, and the guide is surprised by this as well.

“Did he just... gain elemental powers? From the blast??” questioned the guide. “The only creatures that can do that are Vins and Utopians! (They don’t know of their shared heritage with the Vins though.) Did something happen before you came here?” 

“Wait, I have powers now?!” shouted Vincent, confused about what just happened, he then emitted another spark from his hand, “Ah sweet this is awesome!!” 

“Uhhh, did something happen to Vincent before, because I think he might have gotten into contact with...” proposed Remy who was trying to come up with something. Vincent, Remy, and Ethan have a Flaaaaaashbaaaaaaaack to their journey in Nature’s peace where they narrowly escape the large explosion of pure energy, 

“I was briefly caught in a blast of light explosion when fighting somewhere else, does that explain anything related to mutations?” asked Vincent. 

“I’ll assume that in that light you may have some biological genetic changes so that you were then susceptible to elemental bonding?? I have no idea but that’s pretty neat.” said the Guide. “In HQ I heard you made allies with the others and are going to take down Rob, so It's best you learn how to use that static electricity.”

“Okay, I’m listening, but I want to try something,” said Vincent, making two finger blasters and fake shooting them into a wall, which shot out small fast-firing bolts. Then Vincent tried to make a huge arc with both wrists, but the line disintegrated. (Remy and Ethan thought about Ethan’s proto-lightning conduction gear and grinned at each other.)

“Very nice, Vincent, but you still have much to learn before you fight with your newfound powers, so I shall help you train your sparks.” Impressed the guide, beginning Vincent’s small training arc. Ethan proceeded to get very annoyed and began to montage with Remy over how he used to be the dominant electro-force user in their group.

An electrica engineer walks over to have some small talk with Ethan and Remy who were standing there observing.

“Those guys are gonna be there for a while, but if you want I can show you around our workshop.” asked the Engineer politely. 

“Aw cool, I get to see dangerous weapons of mass destruction, perfect for inspiration for my postcards for the people- not dudes, back at home!” shouted Ethan getting excited, people looked at him strangely as they went into another teleporter to a nice engineering business. Ethan and Remy walked through a dimly lit lab-like place with all types of engineering equipment, wrenches, and blueprints. There was also a large cabinet titled, ‘Plans to stop Rob-Lock’ filled with piles of crumpled-up paper, meaning the Electric Elementals were, and had been, trying to stop him for a long time. Making it very unique were the large amounts of mechanical helpers and machines with hidden compartments, similar to that reception desk from before.

“Yeah this is where we work and stuff.” began the engineer, “pushing the limits of electrotorium and engineering we can make literally anything. From computers to generators to gigantic world-ending laser beams, it’s all made here.” Ethan got his camera and started taking pictures of all the cool stuff there but forgot to turn off the flash, annoying everyone there. 

“Hey, can you cut it out? I’m working on something...” asked another engineer, but Ethan still flashed his camera at him, “Okay but seriously I don’t want to mess this up and that camera is kinda getting in the way.” asked the engineer again, Ethan still didn’t listen and still flashed his camera at the engineer’s work. “Alright now you're just being annoying, literally just go away, go back to your friend, and get that thing away from me, okay?” asked the engineer, clearly annoyed. Ethan thought it was pretty funny to see some dude get angry at him. Ethan went to go flash his camera again, but this time the engineer noticed and grabbed Ethan by the neck. “DO YOU HONESTLY THINK ITS FUNNY TO HARASS AND ANGER WORKERS FROM YOUR PLANET KIDDO?!?!” shouted the engineer furiously. Ethan flashed his camera directly into his eyes for one final prank. The engineer looked deep into Ethan’s eyes, and the soulless reflection in there simply showed one word across both pupils. “Yes.” The engineer grabbed Ethan’s camera and dropped him on the ground as he quickly built another, more advanced camera and placed it next to Ethan’s. He brought up a laptop to scan the old camera and upload all the data to the new one, he angrily looked back at Ethan, “Happy?” the engineer asked, Ethan took the camera and went back to Remy... smashing the old and new one on the way and scattering the pieces as he went to be annoying. A broom-bot that was suspiciously disc-shaped rolled along and cleaned up the fragments with a broom, dustpan, vacuum, and magnet.

 “You two down for a little history lesson?” asked the head engineer oblivious of Ethan’s new camera. Remy and Ethan shrug and listen to another tale about the tribes. 

“In the beginning, once we first tapped into our engineering potential we built stuff that helps the other tribes like teleporters, assistant tools, and whatnot which really did improve our bonds as a whole. But when the guardian broke and everyone started fighting we developed battle mechs to literally demolish our enemies. We also negotiated with the fire tribe and joined forces to further enhance our fighting capabilities, and NO, our battle tactics do NOT just boil down into ‘big robot funny’ you have no evidence to make you think so whatsoever! But nonetheless, we were having lots of fun until those light guys showed up, always having to ruin our good times, such jerks... so now we just chill here and try to plot some way to defeat them, but it looks like you guys are the candidates so we shall provide!” said the engineer politely. (Meanwhile, a giant steel or iron door is closing to conceal the rows upon rows of quality hand-made custom airbrushed vehicles, ranging from V-TOL craft to jets, mechs, trackless trains, and giant rail cannons...)

“Oh cool really?” questioned Remy, “We are kinda in need of a land vehicle, but we already have one so-” 

“Perfect!” shouted the engineer, “Thursday! Get these men a road vehicle! Preferably an e-hybrid hoverdrive!”

“You got it, boss. Should I say boss?” answered Thursday as he and other wheel-assembled automation systems (each clearly labeled with a day of the week) speed-built a cool electricia car for the team. 

“Wow, that's impressive. Reminds me of our labs back home.” (Ethan, of course, is in the background waving his typical “I did better, remember?” sign.) stunned Remy seeing how they constructed an entire vehicle with an interior, black & blue stripes, a fully functioning radio, a lot of wireless functions, Redjaw (the in-universe equivalent of that blue mouth-thing that’s like wifi), a sunroof, and environmentally resistant tires (really important for the changing terrain here) on a car that runs on 100% electricity, IN FOUR SECONDS. Vincent slid over to the scene, 

“Hey guys, how’s it going in here- what the?” surprised Vincent, witnessing the new electric car (Car manufacturers got nothing on this beauty here!!!) “Well I got to learn some cool fighting moves with the new electric talent.” Vincent practiced his moves on some random air while also channeling some lightning power. 

“Fast learner, very nice!” complimented the engineer, “Well enjoy the vehicle boys, I suppose your Exploration Arc is completed, but now you must face the tower...” 

Vincent, Remy, and Ethan get into the vehicle in the same spots as before, but Remy notices that there isn’t a steering wheel in the car, nor a car key. 

“Um, sir? I think you missed something,” said Remy, the engineer walked over and made a correction. 

“Yeah, some electric power is needed for that.” answered the engineer. Vincent noticed this and cast a small bolt in the gap, which caused the steering wheel to appear. “Weird, but that's pretty cool!” said Remy, surprisingly didn’t crash into the first obstacle he saw and drifted off to the gray tower, it was finally time to face Rob-Lock... or not. Remy crashed into the second obstacle after driving for about a million miles... The parked Excalibur V. Ethan went, “Oh, you did not just scratch that paint job I spent days doing-” but Vincent slapped Ethan’s mouth off into the distance, so he realized it was a good time to be quiet. The three went about unloading supplies into the cargo bay and parking the car. Remy decided to use a magnetic Ferro-lift beam array, but he put the car in SIDEWAYS. Ethan grumbled and used the turntable. “I thought I had said not to make more of these ships after the second one.” “Well yes, but nobody cared anyways,” thought Vincent to himself, unaware Ethan could basically read his mind waves as he had practiced.

Exploration Arc Finale: REBOOT VERSUS Rob-Lock Co

The trio begins their car ride back into the city of the ‘impure’ Utopians in their awesome electric car. A couple of days ago they were feared and were not worth fighting, but after picking up some new talents and getting a free mini-blaster, the team of REBOOT made their way back for the betterment of the elements and for the multiverse as a whole. Ethan was psyching himself up for the greatest battle of his life, Vincent chills in the front seat and notices the Happy town from a few miles away. Remy drifts onto the neutral grasslands and sets the electric car on autopilot. He then tries to take a short nap but gets a call from Electricia, 

“Hey gang, how’s that car been working out,” he asked enthusiastically. 

“A lot better than expected, I would have thought this car would have crashed right now, we’re heading over to the tower right now, and it seems pretty foggy outside,” responded Remy, ready for something to appear from the fog. 

“Good to hear, we will be joining you in this battle, we want that guy dead no matter what.” assured the head engineer, this gave a boost to the trio’s morale and established an alliance between the two. “However, we won’t be able to make an impact on the battle until you guys make a push, so try to infiltrate as soon as possible.” ordered the head engineer. 

“Roger that sir, Reboot, out,” answered Remy, who was driving slowly because of the large amounts of fog. “Why is it so foggy outside? And why is this across the whole planet?” Vincent shrugged off this occurrence and tried to find the entrance to the city with his super-spyglass. 

Remy stopped the car outside the big city and engaged in the third-ever group huddle. 

“All three of us know damn well that if we reveal ourselves we’ll get ourselves disintegrated, so sorry Ethan, no miniblaster,” whispered Vincent, upsetting Ethan, whose trigger finger was seemingly starting to become sentient enough to want to fire at something.

“Well it's okay, at least we have this stealth mission to compensate for less fighting time.” assured Ethan, “Since you claim you have the greatest stealth and you seem quite ok and sneaking up behind us anyways, you can be stealthy, we’ll have to find some way to catch up though...” thought Remy. A pure Utopian walks over to a nearby corner, The trio stays quiet to avoid being caught, it then uses an inhaler while standing by the corner of a local clothing store. Vincent grabs him and does a stealth takedown. Remy retrieves a cool jacket and hat from the Utopian and throws him back into the city corner to bump into someone else. 

“Watch where you’re walking, scrub.” angered a citizen. 

“W-What? I didn’t see you man...” the other one pleaded.

“Maybe if you get off some of that air you keep smoking you’d have some eyes you punter.” angered the other citizen, greatly insulting the other 

“Well look, pal, not my fault that the air in this place has less oxygen than a compressed greenhouse and I need to breathe!!” 

“You tryin’ to get snippy with me seedling?” shouted the taller Utopian, “We’ll fight right here if you want!” 

“Aight bet!!” answered the other Utopian, “I’ll steamroll those boney limbs of yours, big shot!” The two Utopians went into a fistfight with several other citizens cheering and watching along. The trio uses this opportunity to sneakily walk past the Utopians in their new disguises while Vincent uses his natural stealth to travel from the rooftops. A shopkeeper notices the commotion outside and attempts to break up the fight, 

“Oh please, gentlemen! Refrain!” begged the shopkeeper, “I have a business to do here, just find somewhere else!” The shopkeeper does break up the fight and the rest of the citizens go about their business again.

“Surprised they call themselves ‘Pure’ am I right?” whispered Ethan to Remy, they both chuckled at the situation.

“Did someone say something?” asked the shopkeeper, sending several chills down the duo’s spines. They quickly tried to walk out of the situation without revealing themselves, but they seemed… very suspicious to everyone around them. Meanwhile, Vincent does a lot of cool stealth moves while humming some cool stealth music. While jumping through the seemingly endless amount of tall buildings it seemed impossible to find Rob’s base. Ethan hummed some boss battle music and found a corrupted Vin following him, so he turned and vaporized it with a portal cutter. (Dunno how he suddenly got that.)

“Dammit, I can’t find this darn base, maybe the base is hidden underground?” Thought Vincent as he jumps down from the roof but clearly didn’t watch what was below him and clangs his head on the rim of a garbage dumpster, making a lot of noise. Remy and Ethan hear this from afar and go over to the noise. 

“So much for a ‘stealth’ mission am I right?” Vincent chuckled to himself. Fortunately for Remy and Ethan, there is enough darkness for them to take off their disguises, so they take Vincent and head through the alleyway and through a small shack. 

“Sigh, are we EVER going to find this guy’s silly little camp?” asked Ethan annoyed. Vincent kicks down the door of the shack and finds a sign that literally points to the direction of the base. Vincent looked at it strangely and turned his head in the direction the sign was pointing to, noticing one of those spies from a previous battle. The spy notices them and is afraid of them because of the previous battle, so he runs away to inform the rest of the crew

“Wait those are the,” exclaimed Remy, pointing at the spy. Making a fast getaway. “Oh no…”

The spy frantically ran over to Rob’s headquarters where all the employees were peacefully minding their own business. The spy threw open the doors to exclaim his fear 

“THEY’RE BACK!!!” He yelled, “EEDUWADAWIDIDIIIIEEEEWITUHWABBUDAWOOO” He was frantically trying to explain who was outside but nobody could decipher his incomprehensible rambling. He ran over to another worker and started yapping at them as well. “HOOOOOO,WO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O” he screamed

“How ‘bout a mint???” the other person asked, intimidated. 

“Wait, what's going on outside?” asked another worker 

“I-Its the... those are the… it-just, the... uhhh, doh, dowa!!!!” The first spy uttered.

“What did he say?” asked the commander. Another employee quickly drew a lot of signs with someone else translating

“It’s the, those are the, it's just, the... uhh, doh, dowa!” He said smiling. 

“Alright let me see what's outside,” said another worker, “What could possibly be- SWEET JUMPIN JEHOSAPHAT IT REALLY IS THEM!!!” 

“Who’s there? Some Crazy Chemist?” mocked the commander, one of the soldiers informed him with fear, “It’s them, the REBOOT gang.” 

“Oh, my Shauul... DEFENSIVE POSITIONS!!!” announced the company commander, terrified as well.

“I am scared,” admitted a soldier. The commander asked ‘Why?’ 

“Because those things…” pointed the soldier at the protagonists, both knew about the last battle. “They frighten me like nothing I’ve ever seen, not even my family members scare me like that,” causing everyone to laugh, but then Ethan’s laughs also echoed in from the distance, and everyone knew they were in danger.

“The big E is five hundred meters away and approaching fast. Start running,” advised the base computer. The commander slammed a hidden button on the wall, signaling a lockdown and defensive barricades. The trio watched as the tower was sealed up and two walls piled with soldiers appeared, ready to fight them. Ethan rolled his eyes as he put away his portal cutter and materialized a handheld energy-shell ballista, demonstrating its mighty power by devastating the nearest town, which was behind him.

“Beaver Dam! They found us, looks like there’s no choice now!” exclaimed Remy who brought out his wizard staff, Ethan with his extra-sharpened ruler of decisiveness (he suddenly found it), and Vincent with his newfound Electric powers. The team quickly puts on basically unbreakable phone armor on their regular armor so they don’t die instantaneously.

The company commander and a spy with binoculars watched them get ready for battle, 

“Darn monsters, I hate you...” spited the company commander. “OPEN FIRE!!!!” The soldiers fired a gigantic flurry of blasts at the trio, but the phone armor had so much resistance that most of the blasts seemingly deflected off them and ricocheted very strategically. A few soldiers realize this isn’t working, so they try using grenade launchers, but Vincent protects himself by quickly zapping the grenades before impact. A soldier gets a rocket launcher from their surplus of supplies and fires it at the trio, actually making a hit and covering them in smoke. The soldiers stopped their ongoing fire, 

“Did we get ‘em?” asked a soldier. 

“I don’t know, prepare some more rockets just in case...” ordered the company commander, while the other soldiers followed suit. However, Remy was shielding the team with bricks and waited a while, planning something quite mischievous. Remy let off a few sparks from his magic staff, Vincent knew where this was going and started sprinting towards the enemy base. The soldiers fired off some more rockets at Vincent but Remy used a super cool move in which he supercharged Vincent with a bolt of lightning, making his hyper skedaddle even faster than before, chilling the spines of the soldiers and commander. The soldiers used all of their might to stop him, but it was all very futile as he kept on rushing, so the commander ordered the deployment of a 35ft tall mech that was probably stolen from Electricia. It fired really heavy blaster cannons at Vincent and blocked the way, Ethan, Remy, and Vincent jumped up and unleashed a flurry of punches at a monstrous speed, but the mech retaliated by uppercutting Vincent up into the air. While airborne, Vincent casts a small lightning bolt onto the mech, using it as a grappling hook and flinging himself back into combat. Ethan teleports to the frontlines and slices the soldiers with his super-sharp ruler. Remy suddenly appears out of nowhere and breaks the inside of the mech, blowing it up which sends Remy flying through the air whilst T-posing for some style, and somehow landing unscratched and unphased. While immobilized, a guard nervously snuck up behind Remy, Remy turned his body 180o and faced the guard menacingly, it fired a lot of blasts at Remy but his works were futile and all got deflected, the soldier emptied his magazine and looked at Remy again. There was an eerie pause, and Remy (Tokmcvvd Pgrrla Ukm Mel Uozctn. Eoctw mel pvssa cta ulvm mel pstln) the guard to death. 

“Remy, we must go!” informed Vincent, pointing towards the entrance of the base 

“Yes.” answered Remy, “The fate of Utopia cannot wait much longer.” while walking towards the base, he caught a strange scent of a few remaining soldiers, he slid all over the middle of the battlefield, 

“Remy, where are you going?” asked Vincent, scared and confused. Remy ignored him and kept spinning in random directions, somehow finding and erasing several hiding soldiers. 

“Yes,” said Remy facing nobody, the gang walked over but then Remy felt the presence of a hiding soldier, he slid his way back over to a cardboard box, lifting the box revealing one last enemy. It realized the danger it was in but was confused to see Remy walking away from it. Remy then came back sprinting and jumped really high into the air and went to shoulder-slam the enemy into the ground, he/she let out one last cry before the “elite unit” was crushed by REBOOT. Meanwhile, a second battalion of guards boards an elevator to act as reinforcements, unknowing that the previous battalion died horribly. They made their way over to a large gate, prepared their blasters, and slowly opened the gate. The trio stood there menacingly without any movement, frightening all of the guards and leaving them fearing for their lives. While most of them ran away, ONE guard stayed behind and fired off rounds at Remy, dealing almost 0 damage but patiently shooting.

“Can you stop?” asked Remy, T-posing and not flinching. The truck freak clearly didn’t listen and went to reload his blaster. Remy takes action and kicks his weapon out of his hand and breaks it as well. 

“I AM BLASTER-PROOOOOOF!!!!” shouted Remy, charging up his staff to unleash the equivalent of a Utopian laser, disintegrating all of the guards trying to escape. Ethan laughed maniacally at this carnage and felt empowered. Vincent went over to the elevator, whose doors were closing, meaning there were still some witnesses. He pried the door open with his bare hands while one of the last guards aimed an RPG directly at Vincent’s head, which was still futile in the end. Ethan notices that the elevator does not get up, but can only go down, 

“Uhh, is this elevator functional?” asked Ethan, worried about reaching Rob

“There’s probably some elevator down there that leads to the top or some comically long flight of stairs to get there,” concluded Vincent, descending into the HQ. 

“Alright so I got this new TV plot,” said a guy on the phone, “Basically there’s this space-fighting girl, except she has a HUGE arsenal, some serious weaponry, a real set of face blasters, packing some 50mm Gatlings, massive weapons of mass destruction!” 

“What happens next?” asked the second person on the phone, the first guy kept going, unaware that his comrades were being murdered by the deadly intruders.

“THIS OTHER PERSON SHOWS UP WITH EVEN BIGGER ORBITAL STRIKES AND PLANET-DESTROYING GIGANTIC SPACE LASERS!” He shouted. Suddenly, the lights in the facility dim, shutting off some power and leaving the one guard alone. He turns on the flashlight on his blaster and starts to investigate the place. Now with the power out, the guard feared for his life at every corner of the dark, eerie, ominous hallways of Row-Bow HQ, for only the deities know what horrors lie behind the corners. While exploring the aftermath, he notices Vincent dancing enthusiastically behind some glass as a weird light flashes on and off, (eerily giving the place a certain ambiance very familiar to OG horror gamers...) a very rare and confusing sight. The guard aims his blaster at Vincent and starts firing, but for some reason, it doesn’t even break the glass of Vincent’s chamber. The guard reaches into his pocket and calls some of the other guards in the upper areas.

“Hey, I’m at the underground floors and I really need some lights... and while you’re at it get some reinforcements, I don’t want to be in darkness much longer.” the guard requested. A few seconds after calling, he hears a faint opening of one of the blast doors a few hallways back which he panics and frantically crafts a hiding spot. To his surprise, nothing actually walked over towards him, so he got up and made a swift but steady walk towards a blast door into the safety of his comrades. However, upon opening the door awaited Ethan who also did the same thing, except wanting to kill the last witness of their storming operation. Ethan gracefully strutted over to the guardsman who was fleeing for his life, desperately trying to get away from the many deaths his comrades had to endure. He was able to get far enough away from Ethan by finding a hiding spot and waiting for him to pass by, but then all of Ethan’s sounds deafen and silent. The guard sprinted towards the gate knowing that Ethan wasn’t going to catch him, and once he entered he had to walk through a thick cloud of smoke. Once that ended, he witnessed Vincent aggressively breakdancing in the middle of a large corridor, the rarest sight of all. He scoped around the area, seeing how fancy this corridor is, he probably ended up in some different area, maybe an entirely new base. The guard slowly turned around to find a T-posing Remy who just stood there, menacingly. The guard jumped back a bit and aimed his blaster, waiting for him to do something, but Remy just stood there without any movement. Without him realizing it, Vincent snuck up from behind and WWE slammed the guard on the floor, taunting him and laughing at his misery. (The guard woke up in a portal dimension in full-on pitch-black, and Ultra Cosmos’s face, flashing in the form of a large head, began to appear in front of the poor person in the chair, with Ethan grinning in the shadows, only seen by a dim outline and a somewhat crazed or even demented grin. As U.C. came back out and threw the unconscious guard out, Ethan wondered what the guard had seen, unaware of the fate of the victim. 

Vincent stole the guards’ 05 level clearance council keycard and everyone walked over through the aftermath as well as powering that portion of the facility back up.

“Alright, now we can get out of here!” exclaimed Ethan, who found his way back to the giant door. He input the card into the door which opened a brand new set of hallways, which seemed like dumber walking until the trio found a map. 

“I honestly have no idea where I’m going so this map better comes in handy,” said Vincent, getting tired of all the walking. The trio inspected the map with great eyesight, but still couldn’t tell where they were supposed to be going, which is exactly what Vincent didn’t want to see. 

“So…do you guys know where they keep Rob’s office?” asked Ethan with caution. Remy studied the map again and pointed towards a spot. 

“I think the office is over here!” Remy concluded, pointing towards the ‘you are here!’ spot on the map, making both Ethan and Vincent mildly infuriated. 

“What? Can you even read?!” angered Ethan

“Yes, I can!” assured Remy, “We are supposed to go here!” Remy then pointed towards a door that was right next to the ‘you are here’ spot, angering Ethan further. 

“Remy! This isn’t helping!” angered Ethan 

“Hey! I’m trying!” snapped Remy again. Suddenly, a large herd of footsteps marched over to their location, bringing in more guards and some type of rare unit. 

“Stand down, you swashbuckling swine!” the unit shouted in a funny accent, making Vincent burst out laughing. He noticed Vincent laughing and was very confused, “What must be tickling your funny bone, heretic?!” he shouted again. Everyone stopped because of Vincent’s excessive laughter.

“Yo... this random dude beatin’ my ash, he unironically said ‘swashbuckling’ in a serious manner now I can’t stop laughing!!” laughed Vincent, barely able to get his words out. 

“Wherefore are you, not sober, worthy tapestry!” demanded the unit, “Thy plus myself shall take you living from your spirit!” 

Because everyone was focusing on Vincent’s stupid laughter, nobody noticed Remy already snuck behind and crushed all the soldiers with a massive pile of bricks. 

“Well, that was weird, let’s not waste any more ti-” Remy’s sentence was cut off when the rare unit burst out from the pile of bricks ready to fight. 

“Perchance thou must be tougher than expected…” the unit stated, “Very well, for thee, the Left-hand man shall kill thee where thou dost stand!” 

Vincent finally stopped his laughter after realizing that the unit isn’t just a joke and everyone got their weapons out to fight. Ethan charged first with his sharpened ruler and knocked the left-hand man onto the ceiling. He used the ceiling to his advantage however and came back stuffing Ethan’s face into the ground, then violently threw him at his allies. Remy safely landed Ethan on the floor without damaging him, this really showed how underpowered Ethan is to the opponent and why he’s not the main character. 

“Ethan! What’s happening? I thought you were stronger than this!” cried out Remy, shocked to see Ethan tossed around like this.

“I don’t know, these new foes are just... better,” Ethan responded, worried as well. Remy began hurling bricks at the Left-hand man which quickly overwhelmed him and he panicked. 

“Well then, time to unleash my abilities..” he began, “First Script: AUTO-PARRY!!!” The left-hand man began glowing several green rings around him as Vincent used a flurry of punches which all got reflected and hit Vincent instead which was very surprising.

“What?! This is cheating! That’s cheating! Uh... HIB!!! THAT’S HARASSMENT!” shouted Vincent in anger and stopped attacking. 

“I shall let you know that I am thy master of the art of fisting.” announced the Left-hand man who punched Vincent into a wall and struggled to get up. “Tired already?” smirked the Left-hand man, “Fair enough, I’ll go fight this other one.” He looked over at Ethan who didn’t know what to do, but Remy stood up against his opponent and used dragon breath against him, sending him flying. “Oh... the hack system crashed.” said the Left-hand man facing Remy and turned one of his arms into a metal hammer. While Remy was now able to fight him, he was still being pressured and backed into a corner, about to be crushed. While the left-hand man wasn’t looking, Ethan used his ruler to slice his entire arm off, leaving him vulnerable. They got a couple of hits on him before he teleported away to a nearby location, taking a breather and trying to recover.

“Very well, we shall be going now!” announced Remy to his wounded opponent.

“I am not finished yet!” announced the Left-hand man, converting his other arm into a double whip. The two retreated in fear and went back to their corner, Ethan tried to cut off his other arm but got tangled by the whip, smashed to the ground, and used it as a weapon against Remy. Ethan had a moment to attack so he made a troubling choice and threw his ruler into the Left-hand man’s eye. Remy used his staff and swung it at the whip-arm but he solidified the area Remy swung in, scaring him and making him retreat back to the corner. Vincent slowly woke up from being punched into a corner and quickly acted on this situation,

“HAHAHA!” Shouted the Left-hand man, “I AM INVINCIBLE!!!” Vincent quickly acted and swung his leg so hard it sliced off his other arm, effectively disARMing him and leaving him defenseless. However, REBOOT decided to spare him and just move on to finding Rob, so they just turned their backs to the Left-hand man and faced the map again.

“Okay, now we’re done…” exhaled Vincent who was getting tired of fighting the Left-hand man. Vincent suddenly got kicked in the face and knocked down again and saw the Left-hand man still retaliating without either of his arms. 

“Why are you still fighting when both of your arms are gone!” exclaimed Ethan, confused.

“Tis but a flesh wound,” coughed the Left-hand man. Ethan saw his ruler next to his opponent and ran over to pick it up. Without skipping a beat, the Left-hand man swings himself to his ruler, does some wild tricks to retrieve the ruler, puts it in his mouth, and then stabs Ethan in the chest. Ethan brutally screams his lungs out and collapses on the ground while rolling.

“W-w-ho-....WHAT?!” shouted Remy, “You can’t just kill off a main character!!”

“I’m okay~~~” Ethan painfully uttered, just before he fell he left a note that said, ‘I’m dead for two minutes. (In his mind: “I thought my ruler had the safety switch on!”)

The Left-hand man chuckles  “Second script: Utopian Torpedo!!” then began spinning so fast he began flying through the air, occasionally hitting Vincent to make him furious. Remy couldn’t tell where he was moving so he just lays down some exploding spores in the general direction of where the human torpedo is and quickly detonates the bombs, which was a success. The Left-hand man made a non-safe landing, then Vincent ran over to slice one of his legs off leaving him practically immovable. 

“Okay…NOW we’re done…” Concluded Vincent again, facing the map again but then kicked by the Left-hand man. 

“Hey, hey, hey!” shouted the Left-hand man, “Did thoust forget about thee!?” Vincent was so tired and so furious he just ripped off his last remaining limb, leaving him unmovable. 

“Although I had almost won…thee shalt call thoust a draw.” stated the Left-hand man. “Final script: METAL MAN!” the rest of the Left-hand man’s body was covered in a large coat of steel. Remy rolled his eyes and threw him out the window into a vat of acid, finally finishing him off.

“Okay, NOW we’re done…” concluded Vincent for the third time. Ethan woke up from being dead and unleashed another painful scream (but it was fake this time as the suits do have built-in painkiller spray systems) from his wound, Remy gasped and tried to comfort him. 

“Ethan!” shouted Remy, “Are you okay?!” 

“Yeah, I can still run but this wound really hurts,” answered Ethan. (Who proceeded to whisper like a true warrior, “Sike,” but got gut-punched and slapped for his heroism.)

“Well, I suggest you stay out of fighting for the meantime, we’ll deal with all the baddies that come forth,” suggested Vincent who pulled him back up and walked him over back to the map. “So I finally figured out that we’re supposed to go left where the Left-hand man was coming from and we’ll find a split path. Remy and I will lead the way, just stay behind and provide any support you can,” ordered Vincent. 

“Wait, look!!” shouted Remy. The others looked over to a nearby door labeled, ‘Executive members only’ All three of them looked in joy and walked over to the door. 

“Do you think this is where Rob is hiding?” asked Remy. 

“Most certainly,” answered Vincent.

“Perhaps it’s a trap! Time to find out without taking proper safety precautions anyways,” commented Ethan, walking behind his friends. Remy examined the door and the hallway to make sure this wasn’t a trap, he also noticed a button next to the door that was supposed to open it, but Remy did not have access to it. 

“Access Denied.” beeped the computer pad, “Please validate that you are Utopian.” The pad then brought out a captcha for the trio to answer, reading “Theism or Logic?” The three stood there for a second and all looked at each other. 

“Both?” asked Remy

“Both,” answered Vincent 

“Both, both are good. Or none, y’know,” answered Ethan 

“Yes,” said Remy again, entering both on the captcha bot. However, the captcha did not like this response and sent an error message saying, “This is not how a captcha works”. Remy was getting irritated from all of these roadblocks and points one of his blasters at the computer, it gets scared and simply responds with, ‘Okay, I guess, the alarm will ring in five seconds as soon as you enter’ and opens up the door to a very dark room. Ethan remembers he has a ruler and bashes the keypad to vent. Vincent takes the first few steps and Ethan follows suit until they are both covered by darkness, then the door they came from closes shut. The lights in the room turn and the three notice a very short person adjusting what seemed to be a powerful mech suit who quickly noticed the protagonists. 

Vincent tried to say something but the figure was able to speak first. 

“Well I do not like little girls breaking into my office unannounced…” it stated in anger. 

“Yeah, whatever, we’re here for Rob-Lock, where is he?!” demanded Remy. 

“Exactly! We’ll kill you too if you even dare try to get in our way!” yelled Ethan also, “we just want to destroy this stupid corporation from the inside out and go home, so why don’t you-” 

“LISTEN UP YOU ORPHAN KIDS!!” the individual snapped. “THIS IS NOT YOUR HOME! YOU ARE NOT DISRUPTING ME RIGHT NOW!!!” Remy tried to reason with this strange person.

“Look, you don’t understand-” calmed Remy but got quickly cut off. 

“No YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!!” snapped the figure again. “I am trying to make a MOVEMENT here but nooooooo, YOU PEOPLE JUST HAVE TO KEEP RUINING EVERYTHING!!” The trio looked frightened at this small person’s temper, Ethan nodded to Remy and ran away to actually find Rob while Vincent and Remy continued to debate with the figure. 

“What type of movement is this? The purging of several elemental races?” confused Vincent. 

“A movement of returning order to this planet. Freeing our own people from the brainwashing of that wretched Karrat Shauul, ALWAYS trying to make us listen to HIM instead of basic logic and reasoning. Rob and I hated being bound to some ‘higher’ figure and started to rule on our own terms, to hopefully convert others into this mindset…” the figure explained. 

“And this is your way, massacring thousands of innocent lives for your own being?! Have you no shame?!” angered Vincent. 

“We tried to negotiate, convince, violent approaches such as this we’re never planned beforehand…but since everyone clinging onto their religion, it was hard to cooperate with them. What can I say, if people cannot listen to reason, then that was our only option to influence our cause.” The figure stated again, “I and Rob have been fueling this for a long time, so I feel obligated to be a leading hand to our cause.” 

Remy chuckled slowly, “So who are you supposed to be?”

“To most, I am just a simple soldier, for my enemies, I am just Sauldier.” he answered, “I’m just like every sentient being before me, but I don’t think a lot could agree... MY PEOPLE NEED FREEDOM!”

Vincent noticed Ethan nodding enthusiastically in agreement, 

“Y’know the guy’s got a point…” he stated like a complete idiot and Vincent gut punches him before Ethan can completely start agreeing.

“Listen,” informed Remy, “We wish no harm on you, it just looks like you’re serving the wrong master, you can just tell us where he is and there won’t be any conflict, okay?”

Sauldier stared angrily at Remy but noticed the genuine concern on his face, he rolled his eyes and sighed, 

“The Boss Man’s a few blocks down, just make a right the first thing out of here and you’ll be fine,” answered Sauldier. Vincent was surprised that it was that easy, but was willing to not fight for once. 

“Just a few blocks?” asked Ethan, “Very good!! Thanks, King! We’ll be going now!” The trio began walking back towards the entrance of Sauldier’s office, Ethan cheerfully marching towards the door without a care in the world. While letting their guard down, Ethan nearly got crushed by a set of lockers thrown by Saul, Vincent, and Remy realized that they had been tricked and faced back toward Sauldier who climbed into his mech suit. “OW!” Shouted Ethan from the other side of the lockers, “What was that!” 

“Ethan! Don’t worry about the enemy, just go find Rob!” ordered Remy facing back at Sauldier. 

“Huh, should’ve known some shenanigans like this would happen,” commented Vincent to Remy. 

“Haven’t you forgotten we are still enemies!?” asked Saul with anger, “I will always respect you as a fighter but I won’t accept your human nature!” 

“What IS human nature?!?!” angered Vincent, “I have heard those words hundreds of times but nobody knows what it is?! You can’t categorize a population of sentient beings! The human mind is far too complicated to find one clear answer.” 

“Oh really?” Challenged Sauldier, “When a baby is first born, want to know what the first thing it thinks? I…Want, ever since their first breath a human constantly wants everything their peers can give to them, they want to rule, conquer, and kill, just to please their own stupid brains. You think you can escape it, by learning morality, by deluding yourself that you wouldn’t kill a man? Of course not, everything a human, person even, does in their existence is tied to pleasing themselves by doing very selfish deeds, THAT’s human nature.” 

“Yes, people act selfish,” admitted Remy, “But that doesn’t mean they’re bound to some dirty sin! People change, we admit when we’re wrong, even if we don’t think so I’ve seen people change for the better! Like us! We actually succeeded in making a semi-socialist society, we just needed semi-deity powers! You just refuse to listen or use your powers for good! Since you want you’re so eager to fight we won’t back away from that.”

“Well, I’ll show you who’s boss of this facility!” asserted Sauldier who used his mech suit to vanish from sight. Vincent and Remy were stumped by this approach and looked in many different directions in an attempt to find him. 

“Where did he go?” asked Vincent worried, Sauldier reappeared and kicked Vincent and Remy into a wall, beginning the battle. Vincent lays on the ground after being kicked but Remy wasted no time rushing his opponent, Sauldier swung a punch but was too slow to catch Remy who punched him back. Remy grabs Sauldier and bashes him into the ground several times using some magic strength before Saul grabs onto Remy as well. They both tried throwing each other at the same time, causing them to very quickly spin around mid-air, breaking at least 20 laws of physics as well. While quickly spinning, Soldier covers Remy’s face, Remy gets it out of his way but Saul repeatedly punches Remy in the face and pokes him in the eyes.

“GAHHH MY EYES!” Remy shouted as the spinning circle of flesh slowly descended onto the ground, causing both fighters to slide back away from each other, Remy adjusted his eyes and waited for Saul to do anything. Meanwhile, Vincent also begins accelerating onto the floor with electricity, he spins really damn fast and launches himself onto Sauldier, breaking even more laws of speed. Vincent quickly slithers all over Sauldier at hyper-speeds before attacking with a wrestling takedown, pinning and immobilizing his opponent which also grants him two points. Remy straps several pounds worth of C4 onto his chest and runs over to the wrestle-off between Sauldier and Vincent, causing a very large and unnecessary explosion. Meanwhile, Ethan was frantically trying to find Rob’s office and aimlessly ran all over the place and found a nice cafeteria that unfortunately had no staff. Vincent, Remy, and Saul burst in out of nowhere and started fighting in there instead, Ethan panicked from this sudden scare of fighting and ran underneath a table. Saul and Remy were taking turns duking it out with swings and kicks and Vincent landed leaning on a lunch table, quickly using it to his advantage. Vincent grabs the table and uses some electric power to pick it up and throw it at Sauldier, he then lets out a battle cry and charges over to the wreckage. However, Saul was waiting for him underneath the thrown table and launched himself out of the wreckage, kicking both Remy and Vincent into another room. After some confirmation, Ethan got himself out of hiding and scouted the area for anything useful, he then looked in the kitchen and found a small hand blaster and a frying pan.

“Finally, something useful!” concluded Ethan who needed a secondary weapon alongside his miniblaster (which he also forgot about randomly). He also noticed a magazine (not weapon-related) right on top of a nearby rollable desk, interested, he picked it up and examined the cover. 

“Hmm this looks interesting…” concluded Ethan, “Maxi... topia? What a strange brand, I wonder what their business i-” Ethan flipped to the pages of the magazine and was horrified by what he was witnessing, Ethan produced a convenient death ray from nowhere and obliterated the thing before riddling the ground with his beam-vulcan/mini cannon from 200 pages ago. (Vincent’s lawyer has advised him not to elaborate further???)

“(panting) You... cannot... hurt... anyone... anymore...” Ethan struggled to say to an inanimate object (the ground, which no longer existed).

 Meanwhile, Vincent, Remy, and Sauldier were tumbling through a very large room, Saul and Vince quickly got back up while Remy was still ricocheting off the walls, Remy goes for a drop kick but gets nullified and countered by Sauldier. Vincent kicks Sauldier up into the ceiling but he pulls a Left-hand man backhand slap and comes back, slamming Vincent’s face into the floor, which does almost nothing because Vincent has body armor made of indestructible phones.

“Dammit how does that keep working?!” questioned Vincent out loud, who probably saw this coming. Remy ran up to Saul while he wasn’t looking and choked him with his staff, immobilizing his actually very small body. Vincent quickly pops up and hits a powerful electric combo on Sauldier before he wrangles Remy off him and pushes Vincent back. 

“You are going down you Colonist!” asserted Sauldier to Remy, he punched Remy really hard in the chest but it seemingly did nothing, 

“Wait what?” worried Remy. Suddenly, some gigantic gust of wind made Remy violently fly back. Then, out of nowhere, another gigantic gust of wind flew Remy in the other direction, making him fly to Sauldier which suplexes him through three floors of Rob’s HQ. “I’m not a colonist-” Remy gasped, poking his head out of the rubble before more ceiling fell on him. “~What’s a colon- oh right.”

Vincent appeared in a prideful stance to challenge Saul in a duel, to which he agrees. Sauldier rushes to Vincent and they start fighting on top of a train delivering cargo to a nearby building (Really? Are we doing this sort of stuff now? Well, ok, don’t say I didn’t warn you), Vincent gets the first hit and tries to form another combo but Sauldier once again blocked it and combos Vincent for a change. Vincent went to combo again but forgot how overpowered Sauldier was which choked Vincent and threw him onto another section of the train. Sauldier rushes Vincent but got perfect-parried his attack, stunning him and knocking him back a few sections of the train, breaking a blaster storage supply. Saul quickly repairs the section and sees Vincent with a really large blaster, however, Vincent was only able to fire this once because of the large recoil but also got a hit on Sauldier. Vincent goes for a slide kick on the other side and throws a sticky bomb at Sauldier’s hand, making him even more irritated. Sauldier pressures Vincent into the front of the train, so he goes for a slide kick and tries to get another item but only has a singular mint he held onto up to this point. Sauldier just about had it with Vincent’s ludicrous amount of tomfoolery so he forcefully grabs him and puts him on top of himself, making Vincent very scared. Sauldier activated his mech’s rocket thrusters which he used to fly all the way up to the city’s rooftops, allowing the train to crash into the side of the tunnel, somehow without derailing. Vincent gets thrown onto the top of a skyscraper and takes massive damage from it but he notices something arriving from a distance and recognizes it as Remy. Remy rushes over sliding on an ice path trying to help out his friend who is currently injured (again). Remy picks up a metal bucket filled with water and slams it on top of Sauldier’s head. Vincent quickly acts on this and electrocutes Saul, making a large electric explosion. It was at this point that Sauldier actually snapped at this amount of stupidity from the REBOOT gang, Remy stood there nervously as the actual 4’2 guy in a 7’0 tall mech loomed over him and beat him with a metal bucket. Vincent tried to help out but also got knocked out by getting smacked down by Sauldier who was about to execute him with a metal bucket of all things 

“You’re done.” asserted Sauldier, striking Vincent with fear. Suddenly, a large barrage of artillery fire rain down on the rooftops, Vincent is relieved at the sight of the allies of Electricia having finally shown up. Sauldier was knocked down from the mech and lost his ultimate bucket weapon, 

“About time you guys and people showed up!” shouted Remy, also relieved at the situation. Meanwhile, Ethan was still searching for Rob’s office when he was confronted by a group of Rob-lock Guardsmen. Ethan immediately put his hands up but then realized he had a weapon on him.

“Freeze! Colonist!” shouted the guards, “You put your weapon down and turn around-” his sentence was cut off by Electricia’s gigantic artillery cannons (which suddenly existed) which were destroying the big city. Ethan panicked and tried to move without accidentally getting blasted, for Rob was (probably) close. The artillery cannons destroyed all the guards as well as the building Ethan was standing on, Ethan hurried his way through the destroyed parts and continued running through the rest of the building. The building was still collapsing though, Ethan ran past several guards and jumped out a window to get away from the artillery but then realized there was no safe spot to land. Ethan then made a giant leap of faith over to another building, smashing the other window and keeping him safe, then continued looking for Rob’s office.

Remy, Vincent, and Sauldier decided to finish off their duel on top of a large building, Vincent immediately rushed first and actually got a working combo for once. He used some sparks in between his swings and kicks to further knock Saul into the air and used an electric ball to finish it off. Sauldier landed safely and punched Vincent to the other side of the Building while fighting off Remy who using snowballs and wind gusts. Both Remy and Vincent took turns bashing Sauldier with their elemental attacks trying to keep Electricia’s artilleries from destroying Rob’s base, whilst also not destroying the tower they’re on. Remy jumps sky high and was going to use a shoulder slam on Sauldier but he uppercutted Vincent up to him so Remy had to change plans. He grabs Vincent midair and launches him back with electric strength, sending him and Sauldier through the floors of the tower they were standing which actually was connected to Rob’s base this entire time. Ethan still kept wandering through the many buildings still looking for Rob’s office when the three goons crashed down from above, scaring him again. Vincent was aggressively sliding Sauldier’s suit across the concrete floor and circling around the room at a very fast rate. He eventually lost pacing and let go of Sauldier, which immediately took action against him and sliced him in four pieces with four blades from his arms and legs, striking Remy with fear as he just realized what he’s done. Ethan was mourning the loss of his confident, quick, and stupid second best friend... (but of course, Vincent doesn’t go out that easily, and Ethan knows Vincent’s life essence, his soul, is perfectly fine. However, he still takes in a deep breath and prepares to OBLITERATE Sauldier instead of toying with him/annoying Sauld out of existence. “It’s full power time”, thinks Ethan’s subconscious personality #?, aka DOOM.)

“Ha! Your friend is dead!” taunted Sauldier, noticing Ethan’s sadness, “and now it’s your turn!!” Ethan was so damn furious at Sauld that he charged up every last fiber of energy into such a powerful punch, penetrating Sauldier’s armor and launching his soul so far it probably ended up in a different dimension. (Plot hint: Our favorite morally gray villain will likely be back later.) Vincent’s dead body parts rebuild themselves like building blocks and somehow have no injuries from being sliced (How the heck does he do that? Well, read the Multiverse of Lore for more details! Self-advertisement...) However, Sauldier had more pressing problems to deal with, as Ethan took a hologram of himself, threw it down, and proceeded to use it to scream in Sauld’s face about morals, family, and such. It went, started, and ended something like this (featuring new never-seen-before completely random eyewitness testimonial evidence from Ultra Cosmos):

“THINK SAULDIER, THINK! I’M NOT AN ORPHAN, YOU ABSOLUTE BLUNDER OF A FOOL! THE POWER OF REBOOT WAS SO HIGH YOU CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER YOUR PREVIOUS LIFE, UNLIKE ME!!! AT LEAST THEY WERE PRESENT IN MY LIFE! YOU DIDN’T EVEN HAVE ANY! OH, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE?! CHEW ON THIS FIRST, DEFLATED BEACH BALL!!!!!” Ethan threw his ruler to Ultra Cosmos, who homed in and smacked the living daylights of whatever was left of the poor ruined thing outside.

“YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE- SEE-” Remy floats back down and stands next to Ethan.

“Well that was weird...” concluded Remy finally relieved that this battle is over, “But we still didn’t find Rob’s base though...” 

“Yeah I know” admitted Ethan, “This place is confusing, how does this guy have the money for all the-”

Wait for Look!!” shouted Vincent, finding a door with an extremely ominous and dangerous aura of evil...” Yeah, that’s definitely it,” said Vincent. 

“Well then,” smirked Ethan, “Let’s get this over with. Computer, play the opening theme music-” Before he could finish, he noticed Remy and Vincent shaking their heads at him.

The Negotiational Arc: The End…Or is it?!?!?!?! 

Ethan slowly opened the extremely evil door which revealed to be a staircase leading up to a chair of some sort not facing the protagonists. Vincent used his phone flashlight to illuminate the room revealing Rob-Lock sitting on his chair for the entire duration of this arc like a crippled middle-aged man. Ethan got his ruler and slowly walked up the stairs to assassinate Rob to end the Utopian conflict and finally go home, but Rob slowly spinning his chair around was so menacing that it knocked Ethan off his feet and made him tumble down the stairs.

“Well well well if it ain’t the heroes…” said Rob menacingly, “I see you have beat my finest guardsmen…but it doesn’t matter, you cannot stop what is about to be started. Don’t even try to step up the stairs... you all know you will only take a step back.” 

“Same thing to you, tyrant!” Spat Ethan, “We are REBOOT! We control... most of our known universe and will make you fall!” 

“Hmmph, how about instead of trying to Reboot the universe, how about you go Reboot some PARENTS!!!” shouted Rob, casting black lightning onto the room, “Stupid runaway foster twerps, when was the last time you took a shower with yo’ dirty ash cargo shorts! With those wrinkly freaking jackets your ripoff reptile and guardian angel brought you.” Ethan was tearing up from these very hard words.

“STOP!!!” Shouted Ethan, but Rob was still spitting his barrage of accurate yet crippling insults, 

“But nooooo, you decided to get stuck here!” Rob continued insultingly, “With your ashy ash kneecaps and yo ugly ash shoes.”

“ROB STOP IT!!” begged Ethan but he was still getting absolutely roasted by Rob.

“Who the heck where’s THAT?!” Rob questions aggressively, 

“No wonder you have no friends, and decided to come be nice with Utopians, you losers. Yeah, I’d be crying too if I had to wear that morning cartoon-styled clothing. Ethan, what I’m trying to say is that your whole fit…is MID…and you have zero…parents, but I digress.” Ethan curled up into a ball and cried his eyes out from all of Rob’s insults, Remy takes the wheel in the argument.

“Have you not realized what you’ve done?! Your best men are dead, the empire crumbling, your followers begging for support yet you refuse to do anything??!” screamed Remy, Rob faced away from the trio and explained himself, 

“War, death, crumbling, you think I’m a stranger to those? Sauldier and I go back a long time ago, during the height of the elemental war, where all of the pure Utopians were born. I’ve made a plentiful of allies but I’ve also seen them all die horribly, death doesn’t scare me anymore. Rest now, Sauldier. I’ll win in the end for you.”

“Woah…that’s deep.” sympathized Vincent, “Well, maybe we shouldn’t just resort to violence…but we could try to negotiate!” 

“Hmm?” intrigued Rob, “Well that sounds neat, what do you have in mind?” Vincent slowly walked towards Rob who also faced him to negotiate.

“Wait, what, no!” angered Ethan, “Didn’t that guy just try to kill me just now?! All I want to do is buy every last stock in his company and burn it all to ashes, not without taking all the good tech!!! I SAID LISTEN, I’M THE DE FACTO LEADER~~~” Vincent ignored Ethan’s warning and went to speak with his enemy in an attempt to appease him. 

“Oh c’mon you don’t be such a baby!” said Vincent, “It’ll only take a few minutes and we’re out of here!” Ethan tried to walk over but Remy took his shoulder and shrugged. Rob exited his room’s shadow and revealed himself using a large, powerful staff. 

“Woah, that’s cool! What’s that?” asked Remy, intrigued. 

“This is just a simple weapon I’ve kept with me for a long time…” answered Rob. 

“No, Vincent! What are you doing!?” screamed Ethan, fearing for his friend’s life. 

“Oh don’t worry about him, guys!” assured Rob with a villainous smile. Vincent also synced up with Rob for an edgy double voice. 

“He…isn’t…in…any….danger,” assured Vincent too, who quickly charged at his friends and went to fight them for some weird reason. 

“Oh my turtle!!” screamed Remy, “Rob what have you done?!?!?” 

“Oh it’s just a new tool I’ve whipped up, you think I would submit just like that?” Remy tried to fight off his friend, but Vincent was much faster than him and effortlessly threw him against a wall. Ethan stood up and reached into his bag for his overpowered weapons. 

“I’m sorry Vincent, but you forced me to use this…FLASHLIGHT OF DOOM-” Vincent kicked Ethan’s flashlight out of his hand before he could even use it, Ethan tried to wrap his head around this situation. “Well, that’s okay…I have backups.” said Ethan, “RETCONNER-” Vincent also kicked the retconner out of Ethan’s hands again and electrocuted him with a large wave of electricity, which caused a tremendous amount of pain to Ethan. Remy knocked back Vincent with some ice and went to help Ethan back up. Remy went over to Vincent as he couldn’t move at the moment in which he found a small purple relic that had been placed on his friend. Remy breaks the purple relic and Vincent goes back to normal and confused, 

“Huh, what just happened?” asked Vincent, “Why am I encased in ice?!” 

“No time to explain, just take down Rob!” ordered Remy, who melted the ice so Vincent could attack. He launched a large electric Orb at Rob, but Vincent’s attack got reflected by Rob’s weird staff, thankfully, Vincent dodged this attack and got even more confused. 

“What even IS that thing?!” shouted Ethan. Rob chuckled.

“This... is what I call a mass production Soul Scepter, one of eight... you already know how I got this name... Deity-slayer. Or, judging from the looks on your faces, Kimchi told you nothing about me.” Remy gasped and Vincent stepped back. “The old gods themselves could not withstand this power, nobody can stop me, not even Karrat... I will become a god myself, and create a new, just order!” laughed Rob-lock. 

“Not if I have anything to say about it, and I do!!!” shouted Ethan who was going for a martial-arts-inspired hand-chop, “YOU ARE HYPOCRITICAL, MR ANCONA WAS BETTER THAN YOU, NOT THAT YOU KNOW WHO HE IS, AND YOU ARE NOT TAKING OVER OUR WORLD!” Ethan shook his joints and pondered on whether to give this new enemy a nice beat/soundtrack while beating them up. Rob-lock frowned, and then his eyes got ever so slightly bigger as the three seemed to grow bigger in front of him, all glowing with overwhelming energy that flowed around the office.

“-brain contents can knock out private/secret- a-!? What have you got in there?” Ethan shrugged and continued his rant. 

“WANNA GO? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY YEARS OF COMBAT I’VE BEEN THROUGH? HOW MANY BATTLEFIELDS? HOW MANY FRIENDS I’VE LOST? HOW MUCH MY MIND HAS BEEN TRAUMATIZED REPEATEDLY? MUCH EXPERIENCE AND MEDALS AND LOOTS AND TECH I’VE GOTTEN? HOW MANY GOD-LIKE BEINGS I’VE HUMBLED PRACTICALLY SOLO?! I’M LINKED TO THE NARRATOR THEMSELF, YOU MORTAL FOOL. Vincent, you have the honors. Remy, throw hexes; weaken Rob!!! Everyone, attack!” The three flew towards Rob... who pulled out his true soul scepter. Rob tried to use his newfound weapon but the power was too much for him to handle, allowing REBOOT to disarm Rob from his scepter. Rob utilized his enslavement shards on Ethan who immediately switched sides and attacked Remy, who quickly removed the shard from Ethan. Rob was getting more pressured and worn down by the minute so he used a shard and his ultimate weapon, an Actual Handgone, also simply known as a proto-blaster. Remy got the shard inserted and given the Handgone, in which he immediately shot Vincent and grabbed Ethan by the neck, turning the tables of the fight very quickly. Evil Remy transferred his shard over to Ethan, who fell onto the ground, he then noticed Vincent still alive and pointed his Handgone at him. Vincent was panicked as he knew that his life could be taken at this very second, and tried to point it away. 

“Oh wait!” realized Vincent, “I know how to counter this after remembering my Urban survival techniques! Okay so first you take the firearm and you point it towards the shoo-” It turns out the weapon that Vincent held was a fake blaster, and Rob pointed the actual Handgone at Vincent who was now defenseless. 

“Ahhhhhh….dammit-” concluded Vincent, who was shot by the Handgone and fell onto the ground… the team of REBOOT had lost the battle, and with it, the war… Vincent wakes up in his mind on a smooth, steel floor and a closed door at the end. He went to open the door, and on the top of it, the door read, “Soon”. Vincent realized this was his nightmare from a couple of nights ago, just before discovering the Happy Town, the door violently closed shut, now with the text reading, “Now”. Vincent was quickly separated from the door, and a set of steel bars began rising all around him, Vincent panicked and tried to escape, but he wasn’t able to outrun fate and was now caged up. Vincent tried using electric magic to escape, but the steel bars were coated in a stronger electric force, rendering his powers useless, now Vincent accepted his fate and gave up trying to escape. On the sides of his cage awoke Remy and Ethan, who were both very scared and confused,

“Vincent! What happened?!” screamed Remy in confusion.

“I don’t know…I tried to escape through that door, but I just ended up here.” explained Vincent, “I’m sorry guys, I caused this…” Meanwhile, in the real world, Rob looked down at the defeated Remy, Vincent, and Ethan. However, all present were unaware of the reawoken evil version of Ethan, the one who would never hesitate to use his powers to destroy the world, Entity... Rob swung his true Soul Scepter, proud of its workings. It had even defeated... them.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, such foolish humans, they don’t know the extent of my powers?!” laughed Rob-lock, “Thinking I would just submit to some stupid argument, why would I change?” Rob put his hands on the now evil Vincent and gave him a quick power boost. The Electria Artillery corps were still fighting off Rob’s remaining guardsmen, the leader saw no sign of Remy or his friends and tried to make a quick call. 

“Remy! Report! We can’t find you anywhere!” demanded the artillery commander, Rob overheard this call with a com badge Ethan had dropped earlier,  

“Oh right... that filth.” realized Rob-lock, “Let me just take out the trash.” Evil Vincent powered up and learned a new skill, being able to use his electricity to fly through the air, which he used to fly toward the artillery. 

“Is that? Vincent! Thank Shauul (Shaoul, lol) you’re still alive!” relived the commander who didn’t realize he had been enslaved. Vincent made very quick work of the artillery cannons and betrayed everyone in Electricia, 

“Finally, all my enemies are gone.” concluded Rob-lock, inspecting the team’s space gear and taking out a map of the multiverse. “But this is only the beginning, there is something else out there, and I’m here to take it. And who was the complete idiot that numbered the Earths like this?!?!”

The End of the Exploration Arc... 

Anthony’s Revengeance 

(Part 2 of Discovery of Utopia)

After Vincent’s exploration and failure to stop Rob-Lock, Anthony realizes that his brother has been gone for a long time (like three months or something, I don’t know) “and decides it’s time to go from the Legacyverse (and he drags four certain people along too to make his journey less boring) to find his brother! Cue amazing exposition?” However, times have changed, and Rob has recruited powerful mercenaries by stealing REBOOT’s technology and already has people ready to fight him…Anthony will have to learn various new skills and befriend an extensive array of strange allies to stop Rob once and for all ever…man who wrote this script?

Intro: Something’s off…

The world government has gone silent for another three months into the future (I think), but surprisingly, a large group of interns is still operating the government. The citizens continue their daily lives (if they don’t, Ethan will exterminate them) but question if their leaders have returned from their supposed short recon to a distant world. One of the REBOOT allies tirelessly gets interviewed about where Ethan, Remy, and Vincent are since nobody knew where they were at the time. 

“Mister, do you know of the whereabouts of REBOOT??” asked a reporter, almost begging. 

“We…do not know where they are. They seem to have disabled their communication systems while traveling, and we can’t track them as of right now…” admitted the manager, 

“So they’re dead?!?!” shouted a crowd member as the rest of the crowd gasped, 

“No! No! REBOOT is very resilient. They should be arriving safely. Just please be patient. They will be back,” replied the manager, but the crowd was still begging for answers, making this highly tiring for the managers. A few meters away from this massive protest is Vincent’s home, or at least Vincent’s home, before their battle on Earth-64. Vincent’s older brother, Anthony, still occupies this place and wakes up at the very standard time of 1 p.m. because of the constant riot in front of the REBOOT’s office. Anthony takes a look outside, 

“Damn, there’s a riot going on? It’s too early for this shish…” concluded Anthony, who stared out the window of the house, wondering why so many depend on a small group of people. Anthony shrugged this off and tried to continue the day, knowing that Vincent was still gone for a long time. Anthony went into his brother’s room, which seemed very normal, until he noticed a string on top of the ceiling fan, which was pointless because there was already a switch that turned on the fan. Suspicious of this having anything to do with his brother, Anthony pulls the rope, which opens up a significant gap in the center of Vincent’s room, leading down to his secret bunker, where he worked on starting his expedition. 

“I figured Vin would do this kind of doohickey. What have they been doing the past month?” thought Anthony as he entered Vincent’s self-proclaimed, ‘super secret bunker.’

Anthony continues to explore Vincent’s super secret underground bunker with all types of strange equipment. He notices the massive wall of plans to explore the edges of the universe and comments on it. 

“Strange wall…looks like space, humanity locked in a cage??” read Anthony, “Past enemies not seen to originate from anywhere, they’re somewhere outside my world…guess Vin was driving himself insane with from Vincent multiple months ago.” he stares at the messages for a moment and realizes that something went wrong and another message he just forgot about. 

‘Oh yeah, BTW, I just left you something somewhere in my bunker in case I’m needed for rescue or something…’

 Vincent typed this a while ago. Anthony reads this over and rummages around Vincent’s bunker for this surprise gift but can’t find anything useful. Anthony punches a wall in frustration, and some strange box falls from the top shelf onto the floor. A video recording from Vincent starts playing, 

“Greetings, this is a prerecorded message for my brother Anthony. If you are named anything else, this gift is not for you, and leave my private secret location bunker immediately,” said Vincent on a hologram. Anthony was slightly startled by this but was interested in this gift, 

“Anyway, I hope you find this during my expedition in case of emergencies, or REBOOT assigns you with any important task.” ordered Vincent on the hologram, “So to gear you up with an important task, I have given you a state of the art cybernetic armor suit thing…yeah, I don’t have a real name for it yet, but hey, you can try to give it one! Go ahead, try it on. I will tell you everything important about the suit.” Anthony, considering that Vincent is probably in danger and that he doesn’t have much of a choice, opens up the box to find a strange chest plate in it. It does not seem that protective until he puts it on. The suit is covered and protects the rest of his body. Vincent’s pre-recorded self reappeared, 

“I’ve packaged a VR training system with your cybernetic armor,” began Vincent,  “we should…go through a short training sequence to have you equipped for battle.” Anthony was quickly transported to a Virtual Reality training system to test his new gear without decimating the house around him. Anthony saw a set of rectangular obstacles in his way. 

“Now, Anthony…” began Vincent, “Your cyber suit is very sturdy yet at the same time very flexible, allowing the user to do all sorts of acrobatic stunts & combos. I’ve also designed an auto-parkour feature for the suit to help with movement. Try it out!” Anthony wasted no time jumping, running, and rolling through the area, quickly grasping the use of the suit’s auto-parkour. Anthony was then transported to a large, open box. 

“Alright, that concludes our first diagnostic. We shall move onto another.” stated Vincent on the hologram, “This is where you’ll demonstrate just a small sample of your fighting potential, the equipment given to you in no joke powerhouse! The suit specializes in close-ranged combat and grants the user mighty punches and kicks to decimate your foes. Take some anger on those dummies, why don’t you?” The VR system generated several human-shaped training dummies for Anthony to test his suit. Anthony swung a punch to test it out, and it made a very harsh sound, just moving through the air. He then turned his arm at one of the dummies, which reduced the dummy to an extensive array of cotton balls. He tried using other combos on the rest of the dummies and got a good grip on the combat system. Vincent reappeared for the following diagnostic. 

“Okay, good, very good,” he complimented, “Here’s a test of air combos. You’ll utilize agility and air punches/kicks to knock out the floating targets. Here we go.” Anthony was teleported onto a very high space and a floating dummy peacefully floating in the air. He made an enormous leap of faith to the first dummy and air-kicked him to the bottom of the training area. He used the force from his first hit to launch himself over to the first Dummy, which he pulverized with ease, then jumped on the second dummy, threw his cotton corpse over to the third dummy, and landed on a safe platform, finishing the diagnostic. 

“Okay, you’re pretty good at this. It only took around 25 seconds to complete the task, much faster than I previously anticipated. Now we get into the good stuff. Now you’ll have a fashionable duel with a real opponent and see how you do! You’ll probably decimate him instantly, though…” Anthony once again stood in a big yellow box, and a melee unit in light gray equipment was spawned and quickly went to attack Anthony. However, this served as a warm-up to Anthony, who promptly defeated the foe. Vincent generated a new group of enemies to fight Anthony. All attacked simultaneously, cornering Anthony. He jumped up in the air and fully straightened out one of his arms, which suddenly slowed down time, which Anthony was taking a moment to process. Anthony went for a vicious slash that sliced all the enemies in the area like butter and landed when time went back to normal. 

“Ah, I see you have figured out that mechanic!” applauded Vincent, “Your cybernetic armor is equipped with an exceptional ability to temporarily slow down time and cut through the armor of your enemies. You could call it ‘blade mode,’ but that sounds bland. This mode can only be used for a few seconds, but there is a solution. Your suit obtains energy by physically cutting through an enemy’s defense and expunging its power supplies. In layperson’s terms, you get energy via guts & gadgets. This power source may seem scarce, but I’ve designed the suit to absorb a variety of cybernetic equipment. By the time you get this, it would’ve become normalized. Oh yeah, one last thing: I’ve given your suit the ability to inherit multiple elements, enhancing your previous abilities and granting brand-new ones. However, you currently have none, but I’m sure you’ll find them somehow. But anyway, that concludes all of the training diagnostics. I’ll teleport you back to the real world now.”

Anthony was transported out of the VR area and back into reality with his newfound skills in punching things hard. “Alright! Now you know how your suit works!” applauded Vincent, “You can come back to me if you need any help with combat or in case I do update this system, but that's all I got, bro. Now, look out for evil. You’re…basically a superhero now.” Vincent’s hologram of himself finally leaves Anthony alone again. 

“Superhero?” questioned Anthony, “Great, now I have to fight alongside Ethan and his goons…” he puts another layer of clothing around his suit to cover it up as it looks rather revealing to the average citizen and wanders outside his house, awaiting Vincent’s arrival, unknowing of what happened before. 

Meanwhile, Rob controls REBOOT and drives back into the MANCM realm. He gazes at all the flying machines and Earths and chuckles to himself. 

“Huh, so this is the human realm?” muttered Rob, “Can’t say I’m not impressed, as this is quite nice. But that doesn't matter. It's time I did a bit of renovation on this place. "He arranged a teleporter to the back of the mini-Excalibur, connected back in Utopia to teleport in his army. In the time between the exploration arc and here, Rob studied the technologies that REBOOT uses to go to the different earths, mainly using the teleporters to teleport between realms. Electria has been moved back to their ‘proper’ place and throws their sheet of the last plan into the garbage next to ‘Plans to stop Rob-Lock.’ 

“Gosh darn beaver dams!” shouted the head Engineer back in Utopia, “That’s like the 45th failed plan so far! How do we keep screwing things up?!” Due to Electria always being up to some form of shenanigans, Rob took one step further and enclosed Electria by locking all outside communication and a large gate to keep them in. 

“I think we should just give up,” said Thursday moodily, “That guy’s just better than us. We have to give it a rest…” 

“Bah! Are you kidding me?!” shouted the head engineer, “We never give up. We are Electria! I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that guy! If we don’t, Karrat will be killed, and we’ll be sorry we never tried.” 

“I mean, do you have any new plans?” asked Thursday, doubting the head engineer. 

“As a matter of fact, yes, I do.” confirmed the head engineer, “We just have to get in contact with the others.” 

“And…how do you go about doing this?” asked Thursday. The head engineer got a pigeon and some other birds and put a letter in their talons, 

“Messenger birds are far more energy efficient than video calls and help us overcome the lack of communication. I’ve been working on this skill in my free time, and now it’s going to come in handy.”  the engineer explained, “GO MY PIGEONS, BRING BACK OUR LAND!!” he unleashed his assortment of birds to fly past the gate and over to the rest of the tribes. Slowly but surely, the birds flew through the skies and gradually gave their letters to the rest of the elemental tribes. The Rock tribe received this letter and ordered a small battalion to Electria, dismantling the gate that kept Electria in their place. The birds flew across to the fire tribe, and the letter got burnt quickly, but they could still help by delivering many of their heat blades to Electria, equipping them in combat. The air tribe received the message next and set up several Sky systems to warn the team if anyone was approaching. They quickly flew into action as always and got there swiftly. The Cold tribe received the letter after seeing the messenger bird struggling to pass through the cold wind. They comforted the bird and found the letter from Electria. They send out many of their elementals to jam any machines blocking the way. The water tribe got the message and wriggled out from the deep ocean to help, but only a lesser assortment of water elementals could go over such a distance without water. The plant tribe got the letter last and sent a squadron of mages to help out Electria, while Kimchi and most Plant elementals stayed behind to keep themselves safe. 

“All hope is not lost. Good luck, my friends.” Kimchi wrote to the bird who flew back to Electricia, where the head Engineer and all of the elemental tribes joined up with another plan to defeat Rob (again, hopefully, they won’t fail this time.) The tribes sprung into action, heading for the city with their combined forces, heading for Rob’s Capital of teleportation. 

“Hold on, we got a battalion in the front!” announced the air elementals, 

“Then let’s cut them up, limb by limb, just like the old days…” commanded the fire leader. 

“No! We cannot suffer any more heavy losses,” warned the water tribe, “Let's try to attack from below.”

“Very well, we will do just that!” said the head engineer, who got several of their massive mining drills and dug a giant hole through Utopia. On their way down, they find a large, undiscovered cave. 

As the United Elements adventured underground, they noticed a vast array of cold ponds and glowing crystals all around the area. 

“I’ve never explored this part of the world yet, and I’m wondering why we didn’t…” commented a plant mage as the rest of the elementals admired the scenery. 

“Rob’s not been down here yet. This dark cave spans for miles.” confirmed an earth elemental setting up a camp for the United Elements as they continue to explore elsewhere.

It was unclear what Anthony was doing during this time, but he felt some otherworldly figure calling his name for some reason. Anthony jumped up and got very defensive. 

“Warrior…” the voice emitted, “The universe needs your help…” 

“Ummm, no?” responded Anthony, “Don’t you have anyone else to help you out?” 

“Why yes, I do have some people, but I still require some assistance…” the voice emitted again. 

“Okay, but why do you need me?” asked Anthony, “And also, who on the great green earth are YOU?!” 

“I am Karrat Shauul, one of the great universal demigods. my realm is in great danger, and I am calling on you to bring back peace…” Karrat explained, but Anthony was still hesitant to accept the mission. 

“Still, there’s no reason why I should be the one to help you, or better yet, even care about your pocket dimension or whatever, so what gives!?” asked Anthony, slightly agitated. 

“I know of your brother, Anthony.” Karat said Anthony took a step back, “he went on this expedition to my realm, which did not end well for him, and now he’s being controlled by a face of evil, Rob-lock, an ever-growing force that wants to conquer the entire darn multiverse. I chose you since I fear our resistance forces are quickly diminishing, and y’know, Ethan kind of fell, too. You have the potential to save my Utopia. Are you willing to accept this challenge?” 

“Uh, is there an alternate way I could save my brother?-” Anthony’s question was cut off. 

“Great! I’ll teleport you to the Agency Against Rob Lock!” shouted Karrat. 

“Wait, I never really agreed to this!!” said Anthony out of panic as he teleported to the secret underground base with a giant, Swan-shaped spaceship in the hangar.

 Anthony landed face-first on the floor of the facility as three people went to greet him. The workers wore monochrome-styled uniforms with a red ‘AARL’ sigil on the center. 

“Welcome, Mr.!” one of the workers stated, shaking Anthony’s hand unwillingly, “I am Anton, and these are my allies, Arjun and Sameer. We are happy to meet you finally!” Anthony took his hand out of the shake because he doesn’t shake hands with people he has just met. 

“Uh…no…do not call me your ally…I haven’t agreed to join your silly little revolution!” asked Anthony in a sour mood. Anton stepped back a bit from Anthony’s response as Arjun stepped in,

“Well, you see, my good man, there’s this big scary bad guy named Rob who’s in this other universe with the planet Utopia and-” Arjun explained, but Anthony cut him off again, 

“Yeah, not interested. I honestly could care even less.” said Anthony harshly, “Okay, Karrat, can you take me back now?” The AARL members looked at Anthony with confusion and slight frustration. Arjun walked back up to Anthony and re-explained what was happening. 

“Dude, a great evil guy is going to take over the multiverse. We’re trying to get all the help we can!” Explained Arjun, “Capable souls are hard to find, y’know, and we don’t want to throw bodies and sacrifice all of humanity for this mission! That’s why we need you, Anthony. You can save everyone, including the great Karrat Shauul and the.” 

“Yap yap yap don’t care didn’t ask now give me an actual reason why I should tag along…” spouted Anthony to the AARL, 

“This guy’s mean. I don’t like him.” whispered Anton, “why did we bring him here?” 

“I don’t know, but we still need him. This is a lot harder than I thought.” worried Arjun slightly. Sameer went over to speak next.

“Seriously bro, listen, this is an actual big deal.” he said, irritated, “We aren’t gonna teleport you back, so can you just go along with it?” 

“Do I have to?” sighed Anthony angrily, 

“We would appreciate the help!” exclaimed Arjun

“DO I HAVE TO?!” Shouted Anthony with even more anger.

“Oh yeah, and also, the big evil scary dude did some mind control nonsense on REBOOT, which includes your brother,” explained Arjun again. “We formed this agency to stop him because I don’t know the moral obligation?” 

“Wait, that’s what happened to that idiot?” Anthony responded, “That explains his disappearance, I guess.” 

“Yeah, I mean…he was seen leaving a few months ago (I think again). Wait, how did you not know about this? Aren’t you part of REBOOT??” worried Sameer, aggravated at Anthony.

“Well, I mean, technically, but not like, actually, part of it…I’m just an ally or something like that. So I guess I just didn’t notice.” responded Anthony honestly. The AARL members looked at Anthony again with frustration. 

“What? Are you serious? How did you not…well anyway, let us disregard that. We have more important things to tend to, like getting over to Utopia.” Anthony immediately interrupted Arjun’s formality again, 

“Yeah, one minor detail: I’m not technically part of REBOOT. They shut off all their comms for some reason, and I just joined this agency like 20 seconds ago. Trying to find them isn’t so simple when they’re on the other side of the universe.” Anthony ranted, and suddenly, another person appeared out of the giant duck spaceship. 

“I beg to differ…” said the strange agent, “we were able to find out where they went, so going there shouldn’t be so difficult. Oh yeah, and I’m Avery, by the way. Nice to meet you.” 

“Okay…what’s in it for me?” asked Anthony, still hesitant to join. Arjun, being calmed down by Anton, finally spoke up calmly. 

“We have to save everyone. Rob isn’t going to be out of hiding for long. In fact, he may be approaching right now, and we have to stop him. Our mission isn’t about you, Anthony; this is about stopping a dangerous force from taking over the universe, and we will shed our blood and tears to ensure doomsday will NOT approach. FOR UTOPIA, I SAY! FOR KARRAT SHAUUL!!!!” Speech Arjun, the AARL members cheered him on, but Anthony was still unphased and unimpressed. Arjun looked up to him again, “Oh yeah, and we’ll pay and stuff like that.” Arjun turned around and noticed Anthony was already in the duck spaceship with an AARL uniform, eagerly waiting to begin.

“Okay, so am I getting my money now, or do we have to wait?” said Anthony, startling Avery, who was right next to him. 

“What the?! How do you do that?!” shouted Avery, frightened by his sudden appearance. 

“Determination, okay, now let's go,” responded Anthony. Arjun, Anton, Sameer, and Avery start up the ship and go through the vacuum of space on their way to Utopia. 

“Huh, this guy’s fast. He fits right in!” Exclaimed Sameer as Avery flew out of one of the Earths, preparing their equipment for when they arrived.

“Wait, I need to do my Utopia landing speedrun…” realized Avery, drifting the ship to light speed. 

“Your what?” asked Anthony as he was caught off guard by the sudden jump in speed. 

“Avery! Calm down! We need to discuss our plan!” demanded Anton. He took control of the pilot seat and stopped the ship from advancing further. 

“Wait, we had a plan for this?” asked Sameer, hitting face first in the front of the ship. The rest of the team recovers, and Avery turns the ship invisible so they can discuss their plan. 

“Alright…okay…now we can discuss…” said Arjun, clearing his throat, “Avery…don’t do that unless I say…but anyway, here is our absolutely flawless plan to save everyone: So we’re going to use the duck ship to use the ship’s invisibility to sneak into the planet and find a spot to infiltrate. Thanks to Avery’s ability to hack into random unprotected security cameras, we’ve found a nice spot underground to make a base.” Anthony interrupted Arjun’s plan. 

“Wait…Avery… so you guys have been watching over everyone all this time?!”Said Anthony, shocked. 

“Well, yeah…how else do you think Ethan knows everything he does?”

“Ï don’t know,” Responded Anthony, “surely Canon has some overseeing abilities.” 

“Yeah…but using hundreds of all-seeing eyes tends to give excruciating headaches,” told Anton, “and also, Ethan can’t watch over us right now cause, y’know, he got kidnapped and stuff.”

“Huh…okay…” said Anthony, unsure if that's true. Avery was getting impatient, just waiting around, and decided to speed down to Utopia without Arjun’s permission.

“Okay,  this intermission stuff’s getting boring. I’m just going to…” announced Avery as he drifted the ship into ultraspace, sending everyone into panic as Avery recklessly descended to the planet. 

Meanwhile, the gray city, which has significantly improved infrastructure, watches as the AARL ship speeds down to the distant surface. 

“Oh dude, look, a random-unnamed spaceship!” announced one of the guardsmen, watching it fall into the distant plains. 

“I think that…” stuttered another guardsman, “I think that's an enemy ship…the last thing that fell down here tried to kill us, remember?”

“Well…we should probably send some units over there and kill all the things in there.” recommended the first guard. 

“You wanna try that mind-controlled dude out? See how fast it murks those idiots?” 

“Nah, standard units should do just fine…they shouldn’t be that threatening.” reassured the other guard. The first guard shrugged and ordered some nearby units to the crash site, ready to take on the AARL.

Once the ship crashed, Avery looked at his stopwatch, 

“Yes! A new record!” Avery announced to the team, which they were not enthusiastic about. 

“Avery!” shouted Anton, recovering from the crash, “You almost killed us all! Be more careful next time!”  

“Yeah, but it's really cool, though…” said Avery, slightly embarrassed about his actions. Anton clearly did not have this and grabbed Avery by the neck. 

“AVERY! YOU CAN’T PLUMIT US INTO ALMOST DEATH OVER A STUPID JOKE!!!” Shouted Anton. “Arjun, how did we let this guy manage our ships in the first place?!” Arjun wasn’t actually paying attention to all the racket going on because he noticed something approaching from the distance. 

“Wait, guys shut up…I think they found us…” Arjun announced, seeing a batch of Row-Bow soldiers going to the ship. 

“Nah, we’ll be fine…” giggled Sameer, slightly worried about the situation. He bumped Anthony with his elbow, “We have this guy we’ll, like, totally not die.” 

“Oh yeah…hey Anthony, you wanna, like, utilize that combat armor you were received?” 

“Yeah, so you can prove you’re not useless and stuff,” suggested Sameer, not wanting to get involved with the fighting. 

“I mean, this just sounds like a fancy execution-” said Anthony. However, Arjun and Sameer couldn’t care less, and shoved him outside the ship to fight the oncoming attackers.

“Okay! Don’t die!” said Arjun, leaving Anthony to die as he shut the door of his ship. Anthony faced the attackers as they approached him. They exited out of their respective vehicles and aimed their blasters at Anthony, who was still processing the situation.

“Freeze, otherworlder!” Asserted one of the troopers. “This is Rob-Lock Territory! Turn back, or we will be forced to fire.” Anthony was unsure what to do. He looked over to the AARL, who were watching him outside a hatch, but they weren’t trying to help him at the moment. 

“Uhhhh…” stuttered Anthony, “WOAH WHATS THAT?!” he shouted as he pointed in the opposite direction of the trooper. Curious, the legion looks over to try to find what Anthony was pointing at, giving him time to knock the enemy out with one punch. 

“What the” Another legion member stated, “Wait, this guy’s hostile! You’re one of those Colonists, aren’t you?!” Anthony paused for a moment, 

“I’m sorry, what? Colon-ist? What?” Said Anthony, Habituaried. A Rob-Lock soldier appeared to attack him, making him focus on the battle again. Anthony used his time-stopping abilities and unnecessarily sharp parts of his combat suit to cut up the attackers quickly. This frightened the soldiers and the AARL, who were comfortably waiting in their ship. 

“Huh, you guys think we should help him?” asked Anton, watching Anthony slaughter Rob’s soldiers. 

“Nah, he’ll be fine. He is one of our most valuable members!” stood Arjun, confident in his victory over Rob.

“Okay, I have to agree with Anton…” rebutted Sameer, “Wouldn’t it be better if we protected our most valuable asset to this multiversal revolution? You’ll regret it if you don’t!” the AARL looked at Arjun’s poor leadership and reasonably shamed him for it. 

“Well, fine, you guys are right, let’s get ‘em!” announced Arjun, opening the door and entering the battlefield blasters blazing. “COME AT ME!!” shouted Arjun, wielding two shotblasters and having a heart of rage. This heart of rage is quickly put out as a rocket gets launched and barely misses him, frightening the poor leader tremendously. 

“So much for a leader to a revolution…don’t make this difficult, boy.” asserted the Rob soldier, intimidating Arjun with another impending rocket. Anton jumps to the scene and hooks the soldier with a grappling hook, telling him to get over here before launching himself over to the soldier, knocking him out with one punch. Sameer enters the fight with his ‘modified’ sub-machine blaster, holding it sideways to maximize his coolness while actively taunting the enemy. Avery appears on the battlefield last, bringing out his old weapons to fight, which still prove to work quite well on fodder, if that wasn’t obvious. 

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To Be Continued...

Beyond The Cosmos arcs will be posted here after completion,