I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, you keep up with this destructive trash and you're gonna be dead meat. I dunno what you're made of, so I'm just gonna go with the metaphor there.
Y'know what everyone and their mother does in a spot like yours? Wander around and figure things out. You'd be surprised at the kind of folks whose lives turn around just from that.
Long story short, put the guns down and do what you want.
...
Hey, that doesn't sound half-bad!
See ya!
Heh. That was almost too easy.
Wait, no, that was way too easy.
...Hrgh.
Something... new?
A future is now visible. The everlasting doubt has been lifted.
...Fate itself has changed... outside forces have turned the tide of this battle.
Indeed...
VICTORY IS MINE! YOU COULD HOPE TO STAND UP TO MY POWER!
!?
...YOU IDIOOOOOOTTTT! IT'S GAME OVER FOR YOU!
(D-dad...)
Thanks to Walter, your viral crutch is gone! You have nothing else to put your faith in!
MY FAITH IS NOT YOUR CONCERN!!
Unreal...
The hope I've inherited from Walter... the hopes of everyone who's fought against you... and the hopes we've polished across enemy to enemy.
That's why... Once more!
For the sake of everyone you've made suffer! For everyone you've murdered! I will fight..
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
...
And beat you!
*sigh*
"Do what you want"...never thought about how much less of that there'd be when I can't go on the offense...
You kidding me? They worked me with a remote control. Only reason I got to quit was because some random tinkerer found my scraps after I got wrecked trying to attack some buildings*.
Oh no, it's way worse being barked at to do stuff. I barely even got to stop for food with K. Rool! I even tried stealing some bulky bomber guy's pizza just to get through the day once†...
...
(...I bet nobody knows who they are. I bet nobody cares.)
(I'm the only other one here. I could blast both of 'em to bits and nobody'd be the wiser.)
Could you just leave me alone?! I'm doing what you said, I-
And I said anything but this! You can't just do this to every rando on Earth!
It's what I did before! It's what I did my whole life!
And you had no reason besides someone you don't care about told you to!
Why don't YOU tell me what I should do instead?!
BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW!!
(It all doesn't make sense... what's happening to everything I know for certain? New PSI, missing people, what's also there I never knew...?)
Hey maaaan Good to see ya!
Ugh... what's going on this time...?
I-*sigh* I won't lie, if you didn't stop shooting to listen 4 days ago, I would've just wrecked you then and kept going on with my day.
But you sounded like someone who could do more with your life. If the Fleet or whoever the hell didn't hard-wire what you do into your brain, you wouldn't have just stopped to think when I asked you why you're still trying to do this stuff.
It just...I guess it seemed like a habit you could break. Like you could find something that made you happy, and nobody'd have to deal with you causing trouble, but you'd be free too.
You said you didn't know what I should do. How don't you know?
...I...guess I've been stuck where I saw you stuck.
I was built to be an assassin, and that was about it until...look, I'm not gonna babble on about the whole thing, but I got to a point where the guy who built me wanted to do other things, and I was just kind of...there.
I haven't been doing much but trying to help when people want me to. "Schmitt, I need you to get some artifacts", "Schmitt, we need your help stopping the demon guy", whatever.
Then when nobody has anything to tip me off about, I just kinda...do what I did before. I just look for troublemakers and get them outta everyone's hair. Nothing in between.
So you listen to what other people want you to do? Why should they matter?
I mean, it's less they're giving me orders and more...I dunno, maybe we're friends? We barely talk, but we trust each other. And pretty much all of us have something we do when we don't need to do some team job. Besides what I do.
And they've met people who were being real dolts at first, and...they've told me way better things about what they're like now compared to when they first found them.
...well, I dunno what to do, and you dunno what to do...but they do?
They probably would if they were here.
...
Can't we just go see them?
You said you don't wanna stick with the Fleet. Why would you wanna listen to the folks I know?
I never heard the Fleet do any of the stuff you say these people do. I dunno if I'd listen to 'em all day, but they don't sound boring.
...you might be onto something there.
Ugh... Where are we?
I don't know...
Wait, where's model PK?
We can't let it fall into the wrong hands! We have to find it!
Okay, that singing robot got to be around here somewhere?
Where is she anyway?
I don't know, but that singing is very suspicious.
...Yes... no we still haven't found where Gyro and the others went.... Yes i KNOW we've found where Knight and Gemini went but that's different! everything's vanished! the only trace we have of any link to where those morons went is the messages we managed to send through star, alongside the fact that cloud just vanished in a similar fashion! How are the parks holding up? still functioning? yes? good, we'll keep searching and we'll let you know if we find anything. Alright, goodbye Plant,
Time! galaxy! we aren't paying you to stand around writing and playing games! do we have any new information on anything?
...Aside from the giant orange blur we've spotted? nothing, its the same as before, cloud just... Vanished.
Please stop narrating everything I do time.
Ah, my apologies.
Alright let's see...wait, orange blur?
The time is currently.... 00:49 AM on Wednesday the 22nd of july, 2022, Your current universe has been labelled the "T verse", welcome to the planet.
U-UGH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
B-BLASPHEMY! YOUR FATES ARE TO END! I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE! YOU CANNOT DEFY WHAT HAS BEEN SET IN STONE!
DO NOT CONSIDER YOURSELF VICTORIOUS! I AM THE WILY OMEGA, EXISTENCE'S LAST! MY POWER IS ETERNAL!
I SHALL HARBOR WITH ME INFINITE PUNISHMENT, AND RETURN TO BRING DEFINITIVE MASSACRE! HEEED THESE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
....And that's what this is all about.
...
Like clockwork.
Woah... I was convinced we were boned.
(Dad!!)
He did it.... he really did it...
It still doesn't feel real to me...
...Heh.
(Looks like we managed to avenge Soul, after all...)
No... impossible.
There's like twenty plus another one per month on average. Anyway, as I was saying, at the same time K. Rool and Pirates Jones were dueling, Beta reveals that he is in the possession of the dreaded Anti-Omni Meme. This will be relevant later. And then again laterer. And latererer. And it's never good.
...
...
...
...Of all of the people I'd expect to kick the bucket... that guy was one of the last.
...
It... it takes a brave man to do what he did with no hesitatiion. I'm sure of it... the sacrifice he made will forever be immortalized.
...
...
What in the name of--
Is it an impersonator!?
Oh, woah, woah, woah woah! Wait! Don't shoot! You guys know me!
...
...Start with the how.
For the sake of brevity, I'll skip over some parts, but... after I vanished, I met someone-- Or rather, something, if you will.
It sounds out there, but it turns out that was the incarnate of all our-- all your adventures, all your battles, and all your day-to-day lives.
We had a bit of a heart-to-heart... and later, he said to me stuff about "gaining closure", and told me I had been "granted permission to return to the living" or something like that. So for all intents and purposes, I shouldn't be here right now. But... I am.
I dunno, that probably sounds confusing. Sory.
...One more question... what's that white ball of light standing next to you?
Ball of...? When I made my way here, I didn't see a--
Greetings.
I am the one which your Walter conversed with..... his words gave me some pause.
Then there should be a purpose to your arrival here.
Indeed. Victory has been yours, and you have won... and I have a another order I shall restore. next is a life free from villains, free from antagonization, where you all can follow each of your destinies. No longer shackled by the burden of terrorization left unbeaten.
...Then....
...This really is the end.
Not for yourselves. Your lives will go own however way you which to pursue them. Rather, another place with conflicts shall rise. One with far less dangers...
Huh....
What do ya'll think...?
If it keeps the world safe, sure.
...What he said.
...
...Go ahead.
It was the end this entire time... but not by this Omega... and not for the spirits of those in battle.
True. Where one tale ends, another tale shall rise... those who existed in the past shall once again be there as well. Different, yet same... connected, yet detached...
Very well...
Then I shall make it so.
...of course, that's just what Lulu has told me about Mega City. She's certainly more up and about where I am, so she'd probably have more advice on how to spend time there.
Would she know if it's weird I have this?
Uh...well, if all else fails, she surely knows when the town's less busy.
And I can lend you some things if you need ways to spend time more out in the open. I'd say these are some good reads, and this last thing...it was a gift, but I've never been good at figuring out how these games work.
Been great catchin' up, Elf.
My pleasure. It isn't often that you come to visit anyone in the Crew.
Kinda surprised I got the idea myself.
Well, Re-Class, you know how to find us if you want anything.
And you know how to find me if try opening fire again!
Heh...let's keep that an "if".
Yeah, about these strange people and monsters that have been appearing.
So uh... how do I learn this Bound thingy I've got?
Well, we will have to start with the bare minimum basics, we will try to create an object!
Hey uh-
First, we will try to make a square. Try to concentrate your mind to your finger position, and draw a box shape-
Um, excuse me uh... I assume Sensei Creant, we're not here to learn about creating things, we're just here to try and use it to fought off against evil
Evil? There is no such thing in our land, and not from where I've seen
No shit, you've been sitting in a dome for who knows how lo-
*whispering and gritted teeth* SORNSHUDIFUKUP! Anyways, you don't understand, there is someone trying to take the Dark Shard and we need to be able to use the Light Shard!
Oh please, I suppose they are trying to help take care of the Dark Shard aren't they?
(does this bozo have memory loss or smth smh)
I BEING SERIOUS HERE! SOMETHING. IS. WRO-
Ha! Naive as all the other evil dwellers from the past, you can't break matter, but if you so pleading need my teachings, I'll break you!
holy shit what is wrong with old people like seriously they are so fucking stupid-
QUIT RAMBLING AND STOP HIM FROM MISTAKING US!
hhhrrrRRRAAAAGGGHHH!
ngh!
Shrug, take-a this!
Alpha Blast!
*monstrous roar*
MMPH!
*panting* (gee, I guess I ain't ready for this!)
You SERIOUSLY think you're gonna beat me by just swapping around the colors of the mooks you create? We both know that doesn't automatically make them stro-
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