What remains of Heat Man is crumpled into a ball and dropped to the ground. It starts to heat up...

Heat Man eventually stops bouncing around.

Without Stuttering
With Stuttering

Suddenly, Heat Man ignites the recording tape and envelops himself into a ball of flame. Afterwards, he proceeds to bounce around in the energy barrier, acelerating with every bounce. The barrier meanwhile becomes weaker and weaker with every bounce.

The figure, which turns to be Heat Man(although looking slightly more armored) burns past THE LETTER L and attempts to run up the stairs.

Before Mighty could acquire the tape recorder, an unknown figure inside of the room with the explosions grabs it and uses Atomic Crasher to push past Mighty, leaving a trail of white-hot flames in its path.

A tape recorder surrounded by pieces of metal...no, wait, not metal. Explosives. They each go off in a single blast.

The Sniper Joe appears to be heavily damaged with a large gaping hole in its chest. Even so, its core appears to be intact, making it possible for repairs to be made.

The scent of embers is in the air...

Going down the stairs reveals a poorly lit square room with only one doorway to the east. Even more machines are scattered about. The doorway seems to be barricaded by a fallen Sniper Joe, although it's unlike any Sniper Joe Aeon or anyone from the previous universe for that matter had ever seen.
"He---lp"
The voice is none other than a cry for help coming from the doorway.


For clarification, the capsule was inside GRAND NOVA, hence why the smoke was going thru a ventilation shaft that GRAND NOVA would potentially have.

Aeon and Beta Shadow enter the shrine and discover a set of stairs leading underground. The voice seems to be coming from there, albeit distorted when compared to before. However, multiple machines seem to have fallen on the stairs. These machines also have burn marks...

Without spoiling too much, the smoke seems to have unknown properties that prevent it from being deleted. As for the capsule, when it was destroyed, the smoke inside it was set free. Speaking of the smoke, it is currently heading to a unknown room.

Or at least what's left of the shrine. It appears to have been attacked by an unknown force. Fires seem to dance all around the shrine. Various machines, from Mets to Flying Shells, are scattered about, each with holes and burn marks in them.

A voice can be heard from inside the shrine...

The purple smoke goes thru one of GRAND NOVA's ventilation shafts...

The capsule mentioned on Page 28 breaks, causing a sinister purple smoke to rise from it.

Meanwhile the Mets, confused by the rapid teleportation, decide to find the home base of this universe so they can regroup with the Mets of this universe.

An onyx-colored figure chose to remain behind. It plants a strange capsule inside GRAND NOVA then proceeds to jump to the new Universe.

My preferred way is to go to Light Chapter 5 Battle 1. Enker is a Shield core machine and can summon Beaks. Furthermore, both units are weak to Impact and Explode, so I would advise using Astro Crush since it hits both units and KOs both units. However, if you're farming for specifically Laser cores, just stick to using 1-target moves since Enker sometimes spawns Beaks in, thus increasing the chances of getting a laser shard per battle(you can get more than 1).

A Met pipes up saying that the messages are likely prerecorded...

The Loudspeaker announces the following:
"T Minus 1 Minute to activation of security defense alpha. You should probably either hurry up with that activation code or run as fast as possible unless you wish to see the afterlife."

To everyone but Bass, it sounds normal. To Bass it sounds nothing more than a weird low creepy voice due to the effects of the Time Stopper.

A barrage of Mets are fired towards the entrance. Meanwhile, 3 droppods are launched.