(crash bin?)

Peony.exe looks confused at the sudden encounter, but begins moving quickly between panels, waiting for the opponent's move

---

Somewhere on the net, a still recovering plumeria.exe feels like her prank letter was misread

ARISE FROM THE CYBER WORLD, RETURN TO LIVE, CYBERSPACE FABLES



Peony.exe has been zoned out for who knows how long, she finally just decides to shuffle out of the Crash bin before anything weird happens, and begins to try and retrace her steps in order to rejoin with Omega and Beastman, how long was she gone for anyway? surely that couldn't have gotten that far from where she was.

A row of spiked brambles sprout up from the ground, creating a wall surrounding the battleground, Plant T raises his hands to the sky, as red petals begin falling from the sky, scattering across the enclosed area, At first Limstella attempts to ignore them, using the time to close the gap between them and Plant T, only for one of the petals to fly past their cheek, causing a small cut to form. Limstella then moves backwards, producing the morph Fimbulvetr, casting a large Icy tornado that sucks up the petals and launches them towards plant T, who promptly pulls up a plant barrier in order to nullify the attack! As the two stand still, Plant T makes a desperate plea

I didn't want to have to fight you, I feel like you are my only hope in trying to find the people i care about! I saw that TV show! I saw My gyro man! I saw my friends! I know they're out there still! So please! can we just talk about this rather than fighting?

♫ Softly with grace - fire emblem 7 ♫

Limstella stares down Plant T, unmoving, but in a split second, hundreds of Eldritch cannons appear out of thin air, all pointed at Plant T, Limstella then raises their hands up in the air.

Nothing you will do can bring them back, perish.

Suddenly, Every single eldritch cannon fires on plant T, completely bombarding the area he is standing upon, the surround plants Begin to shrivel up and die as the cannons continue to fire without mercy.

But within the smoke and the cannon fire, Limstella spots a green glow, that proceeds to grow stronger over the next few seconds.

♫ Rockman minus infinity - Critical boss theme (Off to war - Fire emblem 3) ♫

A loud scream of anger echoes across the battlefield, as a maximum powered Nature overdrive bursts out of the smoke, Obliterating every single Eldritch cannon in a single strike, The overdrive then strikes Limstella, knocking them back, but still managing to keep their footing

..... That is until they are struck with a wind overdrive immediately after, Knocking them off their feet and knocking them out.

♫ Ambience - Wind ♫

As an injured plant T gets back up, He deploys another plant barrier in order to fix the damage from the eldritch cannons, He walks over to Limstella, and looks down at them, Saying nothing.

So you made a deal with a goddess of death...so you could live in exchange for defeating your enemies? Is that correct?

Yes, that's exactly what's happened...I'm surprised you're all taking this so well, It's...a lot to think about really.



You'd be surprised. Nonetheless, you are someone Soleil clearly trusts deeply, and for that, we'll try and help the two of you return back to the world you were in, by any way we possibly can. We'll send a message to Hoshido to see if we can access their great library, but for now, we should all head to the Great library in Nohr, I'm sure my father once told me about someplace called the "Outrealm gate", which might be out best hope.




...Theres something i need to give you, When I was making my deal, I was given this.



She called them Arcane weapons, I don't know who made them, but she told me that the power they hold is similar of that to other Legendary weapons, and would give us a fighting chance against the Dice council...I want you to have this one, your the best swords swinger i know, and my closest friend, there's nobody I trust more than you.



Of course! with a weapon like this, we'll crush those dice losers without breaking a sweat!

---

Just like elsewhere, almost every single member of the order of heroes has vanished, right now, only one remains, Jamke, The prince of Verdane, He holds Breidablik in his hand, which is starting to show signs of damage from whatever caused the mass send home.

Alright jamke, you can do this, It's all up to you, Tailtiu,Alfonse,Sharena,The summoner, they're all counting on you to fix this

As he grabs the last of the supplies, he heads towards one of the still open portals within the castle. Before walking through, he looks back.

Alright, here we go, Lets get everyone back.

Jamke runs through the portal.

Ah, there you are, i figured that with all of these fading memories that i would find a lost soul not far from it.



yes, However, this is a strange one i will say, i’ve never seen them so…Vivid before, Nonetheless, Name please.



Actually, It doesn’t really matter, you’re all the same in the end, another soul for the cohort.



Don’t start blubbering about how “unique” you are, let me guess, you’re… Part of a group of three people in the same fighting style, you’re the middle one, and because your stuck between the more naive but optimistic younger one, and the calm and collected older one, you’ve taken on a more stubborn role, desperately wanting to be different whilst deep down caring about your allies, am i wrong?



...Alright, fine, give me your name then if that makes you feel any better. And how you died, i want specifics if i'm gonna find out which Blue haired pegasus knight you are.






...I am going to cut you a deal, Thea. I may hate the order for what they did to Lady Hel, But i am willing to look past that and bring you back to life Again If you promise to bring those council members to me,Do we have a deal?










I turn around to see a bright flash of light in my room, squinting to adjust my eyes as the light fades.



I see light blue standing out in front of the dark castle walls



Is this an hallucination? I call out to be certain

Soleil?

Thea?

It is her, my friend

…A swordswoman sits atop one of the towards in the castle, her legs dangling over the edge,But she isn’t looking out at the kingdom beneath her, instead, she’s looking down at a small hairpin, fashioned to look like two pegasus wings, a knock at the door can be heard

Soleil? Are you in there?

...

Look, i know what ever happened when you vanished is a lot, but everyone’s worried sick about you,ever since you vanished and reappeared you’ve just been hiding away in your room, what happened in that time?

...

...If you don’t wanna talk about it it’s alright, but we all just want to know if you're ok, and if there's anything we can do for you. Just, come find me when you're ready, ok?

...I hope she's ok…wherever she is.

Letting glass make the first strike, Steve raises their blade in the opposite direction in an attempt to parry the attack.

Steve: ...Glass, it will be an honour to duel with a swordsman of your calibre, let this battle be your greatest work of art...or your last.


At the same time, Tedd's screams of anger echo and Icos' forced laughter echo across the battleground as the two clash, the two then break off from the scuffle, The dice heads taunting laughter continues as they seemingly pull two weapons out of thin air, two warped lances, before charging directly towards Tedd! at the same time, the cracks on the summoners arms seem to fade slightly, and he manages to conjure up an ice mirror seconds before the attacks land, in the heat of the moment, Icos scowls at tedd, before the Ice mirror promptly explodes, launching them back into the sky!

At the machine, Mighty's tomfoolery seems to be having some sort of effect as the machine begins to groan and spark, the sound of the noise catches Icos' attention, who drops any pretence of niceness, and points at Mighty, screaming

Icos:BRING ME HIS HEAD, IMMEDIATELY

While Icos is distracted, Tedd manages to strike them with the blunt end of the scythe, knocking them down onto the floor, at the same time,A barrage of Caltrops, poker chips, sharpened Halberds, and chains begin to bombard mighty as the injured council attempts to close the gap again


At the same time, a fist slams against the pod on the machine from within

A fist of someone who's been forced into being a human battery.

A fist of someone who just wanted to protect the people he cared about.

A fist from someone who's just seen their sister be brutally murdered, and would very much like to repay the favour to the omnipotent asshat who killed her

A fist of despair, and rage..

There's a crack in the glass.

---

With a flash of light, Tailtiu appears, landing on the sand, she looks around, confused, until everything comes crashing back in her mind, She looks over to her side, there's another person, one with red hair, laying in the sand besides her, she helps him up to his feet, and the two sit down on the rocks lining the bottom of the cliff. The two of them are silent, both for different reasons entirely, only the sound of crashing waves to give them solace. Soon though, the silence is broken by two more flashes of light, appear, causing both Narcian and Kempf to fall into the water, the two generals squabble and flounder as they swim to shore, They begin to argue, but upon spotting Tailtiu and what they can only assume is someone she knows, they both give a small smile of relief, and join her in sitting on the rocks, as the sounds of history begin echoing above them.

---

Lindhardt appears back under the tree he was sleeping, Was it all just a dream for him?, it was a strange dream, filled with Animal detectives and Daydreaming fairies and and a big monstrous version of the future em-

Lindhardt then looks over, and sees said monstrous version of the future emperor looking over a Fódlan from her past, one that she can’t help but feel nostalgia for. Alongside her is another mage, who's looking around excitedly, waving at the ever growing crowd of curious students. Lindhardt groans, but can’t help but feel sad that the dream that came to life was one he might never see again.

♫ Event - End of despair (Fire emblem 4) ♫

Glass then finds himself face to face with Steve, who draws his sword, no words are exchanged, but Steves request for a 1 on 1 duel can be felt in the air.

As mighty collides with icos' torso, he then proceeds to just, go right through the dicehead, sending him flying into the machine, the impact of the strike causes the machine to shudder, and the pod cracks ever so slightly, The council minus Icos turn their attention towards Mighty, and begin flying towards him, attempting to strike him, But at the same time, Thea just...begins to slowly fade away, struggling to stay standing, she attempts to throw the maltet at a smug looking Icos, only for both her, and the spear to completely vanish just before the attack lands, Sharena and Tedd both look at where their ally was in shock.

W...What did you do?

Icos floats right infront of Sharenas face

Icos: I sent her home! alongside every other hero you three had summoned! it just seemed so so wrong for you three to be dragging poor, innocent people from their universes and forcing them to help you! shame on you for bringing that poor girl harm! she'll be thankful that we've saved her from her cruel fate!

Icos then looks to the side, slightly breaking their facade

Icos: Of course...for some reason your grand heroes weren't hit by that attack...No matter, We'll destroy them later-

Sharena then swings her spear at Icos, blinded by anger, Only for Icos to grab the head of her spear, and rip it out of her hands

Icos: Nuh uh uh! You shouldn't impale your future leader! lets see how you like it!

Icos then grabs the spear, turns it around, and proceeds to impale Sharena with it, before a large beam of dark energy bursts from the sky, utterly destroying both the princess and the ground around her. Before Icos can make a passive aggresive statement, they are struck by a Furious tedd's scythe, and the two begin to clash.

---

Saias and Julius both feel a mild pain as they begin to cast another wargod's tome and Loptyr channel towards Yo. C. Tsune, But otherwise are unaffected by Icos' magic

---

Limstella proceeds to duck, dive and dodge each of Plant T's attempts to grab them, they feel a very minor headache, but it doesn't stop them from beginning to blast the vines with fire magic, causing Plant T to begin trying to grab the Tome from Limstella once again

---

In a split second, Both Morgan and Lindhardt fade away, just like Thea did, but as Tailtiu begins to fade away, Both Kempf and Narcian quickly grab onto her to try and stop the fading, This instead, causing Kempf and Narcian to fade away aswell, the three's squabbling slowly growing quieter as they all fade away as one group, leaving just Mirabilis looking very, VERY confused.

...Where did everyone go?

---

Sharena wakes up in an endless grass field, spear at her side, and somehow lacking the large wound in her abdomen that she had before, Sharena looks around, spying numerous familiar ruin-like buildings, each overgrown with flowers and plants,The princess of askr gets to her feet, and begins to walk through the ruins, it felt just like the fields of askr where her and her brother used to explore when they were younger,Eventually though, sharena came across a small set of ruins, with a table inside with four seats, one was free, a man and a woman sat in two of the seats, and in the third, and looking right at her, was....

Sharena? is that you?

♫ Club Penguin - Pizza Parlor Theme (Charlie's Here) ♫

As Tailtiu and Narcian sit at the bar, catching each other up on the events that have happened, Lindhardt,Morgan and Mirabilis all come down and sit in the section of the bar, sitting in a booth nearby, The Thunder mage and Wyvern general look over at Mirabilis, who appears to be wearing...well..

...Why are you wearing a christmas outfit?

Mirabilis raises her hands lazily in the air, talking in a tired, yet excited tone

Christmas soon.... Gotta get ready for it early...

She then flops on the table, falling asleep.

....Its the middle of may-

Narcian rolls his eyes as tailtiu chuckles, before looking at both narcian and kempf

Y'know, it always feels like you two should've had a third member to your little team

hm? you mean like Kaard, Or vyers? Or those two guys who followed along with us for a while?

Tailtiu shook her head

No, no, I mean someone more permanent! you two always seem like your missing a third guy to complete your trio!

A trio? like Thea and her sisters?

Exactly! you need a third to complete your weapon triangle! another asshat of a general with a lance or using thunder magic so you can be the trio of self obsessed know-it-alls!

Tailtiu chuckles to herself as Narcian begins to ponder, perhaps his co-worker had a point-

Narcian then began to pull out a piece of paper and begun to scribble, catching the attention of Tailtiu and Kempf, who had began to wake up-

---

As the figure from before began to move in their direction of choice, a flower seemingly blooms out of nowhere right infront of them, they pause for a second, looking down at the flower, before walking over it, crushing it beneath their boots, soon after, another flower appears, and then another, before the entire hillside is covered in various flowers, The figure looks down at the flowers, face showing no emotions as they begin speaking.

How interesting, I can only assume that the sudden blooming of these flowers means that i am not alone, Reveal yourself, now.

Limstella then turns around, to see a figure, despite the sun shining brightly, a shadow is cast over their face by the plant life.

Oh hello! Don't mind me, i was just wondering if i could ask a few questions to you? you see i need to reunite with someone i care a lot about, and i have reason to believe that you know wh-

The figure is cut off by Limstella seemingly blasting them with a magic tome.

I have no time for your idle chit chat or your friend, i have more important tasks.

♫ Undertale OST - Heartache ♫

As the smoke clears, Limstellas eyes widen slightly as a spiked vine shoots out, ripping the tome out of their hands, and tearing it to shreads, the figure is clearly unharmed.

...I should've understood you wouldn't be willing to help me, If you won't help me find Gyro voluntarily

I'll get your help by force.

Seeing the sudden influx of blades, Saias begins to channel a warp to get everyone out of the way, only to be pushed back by a clearly furious julius, his hair now wild and crazy as he points at both "someone" and "A"

I refuse to be outdone by the likes of you two,Come loptyr! blood shall rain upon the battlefield!

Lighting crackles from julius as he draws dark magic from the tome, the ghostly appearance of a dark dragon appears behind him, which promptly vanishes when the dark magic attack is launched at YO.C.TSUNE from another angle!

---

Tailtiu is still sat at the same bar as before, she sighs, before the sound of footsteps heading in her direction causes her to look up, staring at the door, waiting for what she could only assume was another asshat from a different timeline who wanted her dead-

but no,It was just a very bedraggled Narcian and Kempf, the two generals walk over and sit down on stools next to Tailtiu, and Kempf promptly faceplants the bar, Narcian and Tailtiu both look at each other, staying silent, before both speaking at the exact same time

You look like you've been through hel and back

Saias just groans as both the silence staff misses, as well as having his own energy drained, he pulls out the Thoron sword and assumes a more defensive stance

It could be worse saias....You could be fighting alongside Limstella

Julius cackles as the dark energy lands, although one of the spinning spears lands in his shoulder, causing him to grimace and scowl at Yo.C.Tsune

You dare bring harm to the Loptyr bloodline? I'll crush you to pieces!

Julius then raises his arms up into the air, and calls down a wrath boosted meteor on the target!



A portal opens up, as one singular person comes through.

they sneeze.

someone has mentioned them

They look to the left, and then to the right, before cracking their neck, they have work to do.

Seeing Yo.C.Tsune making the first strike, Saias and Julius both jump into action, Saias attempts to cast slience whilst staying a fair distance from the swords wielder, meanwhile Julius....

Excellent.

Julius closes the gap between himself and Yo.C.Tsune, throwing out the dark magic orb he had charged earlier towards his target!

♫ VS the dice council (Another Domination ~ (Magolor Epilogue)) ♫

The Zenorpse's hand quickly raises up, batting back the laser beam towards mighty, at the same time, Vier appears at sharenas side, mumbling an apology before attempting to grab the princess, only for Thea to strike at them, causing Vier to retreat back to the rest of the dice council, The schestorpse then sugglishly turns, setting their sights on Tedd, and raising their hands, as numerous poker chips begin falling from the sky. Tedd goes to unleash a magical counter attack, but due to the injuries sustained in the previous battle, he's unable to conjure up anything!

of all times of course it had to be now! damn it, damn it,damn it!

In a moment of anger, a scythe materialises Infront of tedd, the summoner grabs it and swings it with all the rage he can muster, batting back the chips towards the schestorpse, causing the dice head to be launched backwards, landing on the ground, before rising yet again.

Icos then warps right infront of mighty, and begins to circle him

icos: Oh its no need for you to worry starforce imbued one! we simply had some...unwilling cooperation from a friend of yours!

Icos then motions towards Sharena, whos busy fighting off yet another dice head, this time one with an 8 sided head

icos: The royalty of askr have some fascinating abilities, wouldn't you agree?

Icos lets out a laugh, it feels incredibly forced

icos: It's a shame we don't have more pods on our machine! you and your friends will just have to wait your turns!

Icos then looks over at Thea clashing against steve

icos: Well, the ones that are useful of course, in fact, pulling people from other worlds will be a big no no when we're in charge it's just not fair on the poor dears, no?

Icos then snaps their fingers.

(Editors note: gottem gg, also hello QA in the flesh/metal/text)



Julius stops charging the attack as the smoke clears aswell, looking up at the giant swordsman, before scoffing

You there! You are in the presence of the future king of Grannvale! State your name and intentions or i shall obliterate you!

Saias finally comes to his senses from the portal fall, and awkwardly shuffles over to meandra, glancing at julius and the mystery swordsperson

whoever this person is, it's best we try and keep him away from the children, better safe than sorry

---

Tedd's expression visibly dropped as mighty spoke

Well if he's not with you...then-

Suddenly, the black abyss the group has been standing in turns a bright white for a second, before they all find themselves atop a large platform, the edges of the platform are covered in large cables, with screens showing different events from throughout CZ, on the opposite side of the platform from the party, there is a set of stands, each with a different member of the dice council stood behind it, with two of the stands being completely empty, and behind the council sits the same large machine as before, but this time, the pod clearly has someone inside. At the stand directly infront of the machine, Icos stands,it's difficult to make out an expression, but the sound of their voices gives a feeling of forced politeness.

icos: Oh how wonderful! it seems you've all reunited,how utterly delightful! oh i do love a good reunion, don't you agree zenith?

icos cheerfully turns to one of the empty stands, the silence is deafening

icos: Ohhh yes! of course! you killed them! silly me, of course, that won't matter in the long run, once i break everything down, we won't have to worry about anything as minor as death! infact you're just in time! Just in time to witness the demise of everything you know and love!

Icos snaps their fingers, and the melted remains of Schest, aswell as the practically two fragments of Zenith appear infront of them, the two dice heads seem to reform into their true forms, both both look...off, Shcests head still looks like it has melted, whilst the two sides of zenith's head are floating ever so slightly apart from each other.

icos: Now let us begin with your executions!

All of the members of the dice council raise up from their stands, and begin flying towards the party, all pulling out their respective weapons!

♫ VS the dice council (Another Domination ~ (Magolor Epilogue)) ♫

Upon crashing through the window, ballade T looks around, observing the general area of within the concrete tower

How bizarre... I've never seen anything like it

Ballade T clicks a button on the side of his head, transforming his helmet and bringing a mask around his face

It's probably not the best we split up, knowing this place we won't see each other again, i'll be right behind you

Ballade T begins following TZ up the staircase, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious

Saias lands on the water bubble, coming to his sense from being struck, the owl lands back on his head,watching as the loud screaming figure falls from the portal, bounces on the water bubble before being launched into the air slightly, landing on the ground. The figure growls and grumbles, getting back up on his feet, turning and looking at the owl on Saias' head

You foul beast! I'll obliterate you in an instant!



Julius turns around, Spotting the weird looking robot, a thin grin appears on his face as an orb of dark magic appears in Julius' hand!

As the rift begins dragging everyone towards it, Saias attempts to mass rescue staff the rest of the party before time seemingly...freezes, everything is grey for a split second as a figure steps into view

ah...saias, finally, I can be rid of you aswell!

In one fell swoop, the figure backhands saias, launching him straight into the portal! Within the stopped time though, the owl perched atop Saias' head wakes up, using its beak to peck at the new figure.

Get off me you foul cretin! I'll crush you like a b-

The figure loses focus on the time stopping spell, causing him, and the owl to go flying into the portal

Saias backsteps away from the pillars, motioning to meandra to try and extinguish the flames as he channels the magic power in the thoron sword, sending a lightning bolt crashing down on the mosquitus wreck!