Aeon starts looking for the voice, whilst wondering that the hell did all this.

C'mon, gotta find out where that shrine is...!

Aeon then suddenly finds The Shrine!

Aeon starts to look for the place that the Met who mentioned Nova was at.

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Alternate Aeon checks the statuses of the remaining Sol Needles.

Wait.
Some guy called GRAND NOVA managed to nuke the universe?
[ THAT *REGGAE'D*(https://i.imgur.com/5cPk4Rq.png)HOLE!!]]{none_time}
Hey, not gonna take those SOUL Frags?
Eh, may as well take 'em, don't see why not.

Parallel Aeon 1 tries to grab one of the Memelord SOUL Fragments from Tomline 1, when suddenly...!

PLZ GIT RIDA ALL UR SOOPAH GEARS 2 CONTINYOU.
Wait, what?
Oh yeah, I forgot.
Forgot what?

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Get ready, because I'm about to pull one hell of a lore dump on you.

Anyway, I've been doing research on things that could beat someone with all 7 Super Gears, and found out about these things called Memelord SOUL Fragments. Long ago, a race which I'm going to all the Ancients™, were one of the greatest empires, despite living on one of the most heccish planets. See, the Ancients™ created lots of cool stuff. You know, things like clockwork stars, weapons designed to repel stuff that look like they'd come out of your worst nightmares, things like that. However, even the Ancient Empire™ had its fair share of enemies. One of these was a super-powerful rebellious, Ancient™ sorcerer called the Memelord. See, the Memelord had access to VERY dank magic, qhich gave him abilities that made even marvelous stuff like Ancient Technology™ powerless against him, since even the Ancients™ can't kill memes. In other words, the Memelord was basically a one-Ancient™ army since the technology didn't exist to stop his meme-y ways. That is, until a scientist discovered the Clockwork Castle on another planet.

There were 7 gears, and when that scientist took the gears, time started freezing. However, he was able to get the hecc out of there with the gears. These gears had the power to combat the Memelord, but only slightly. The Ancients™, however, would find a way to make the gears even STRONGER. Through blood, sweat and tears, they were able to make artificial versions of these gears called the Super Gears! Each one had a unique ability related to time. Well, most of them, at least. Also, as a security measure, the Ancients™ made it impossible for someone with even a single strand of the Memelord's DNA couldn't use their power. This is why you can't collect Memelord SOUL Fragments if you have a Super Gear, and vice versa. Anyway, a hero used the Super Gears to siphon the Memelord's magic and contain it in the High-Quality Core, making him just a normal guy who spouts memes occasionally. Later, the Ancients™ had one of their clockwork stars destroy the Memelord's SOUL, breaking it into 14 fragments. THEN the Ancients™ decided to just toss the Super Gears down to Earth and hope time unfroze there. And it did. However, the Memelord's SOUL's fragments eventually became more and more resistant to the Super Gears' effects, to the point where if the Memelord were somehow be fixed entirely, his magic would be too dank to siphon, and he'd be able to combat the Super Gears.


And then the Ancients™ got torched by some giant dragon. The end.
Wait a sec.....! The Ancients™!
I think I know how I'm going to stop GRAND NOVA. Beta Shadow, teleport me to U1! I think something may exist back there that'll help us win.
Ugh, whatever. You go do that, I'm going back to U2. Somehow. you know, if Beta Shadow doesn't plan on teleporting me there.

Collateral Aeon, who isn't cool enough to have his own sprite yet, starts trying to track down the next Alpha Seed.

Okay, so next time Aeon tries to use Made in Heaven, C-Moon will pop out instead because that's the closest thing.

Suddenly, Parallel Aeon 1 breaks out of the timefreeze and clocks Parallel Beta Shadow in the face! He happens to be able to move normally in accelerated time thanks to his Super Gears! Afterwards, he activates an ability that totally isn't the Power Gear, and uses a powered-up version of ANOTHER forbidden ability, Defense Haste, increasing the Aeons' defense!

The PK Egg still hits Aeon though, making him unable to use stands until the curse is up.

Wow, what an hole.

Aeon still attacks Beta Shadow with his rapiers.

「The Speed Lord」 isn't a stand, so Beta Shadow's curse has no effect on him! He starts comboing Alpha Miser! However, it only does about 10 damage per hit, since being fast is the only thing 「The Speed Lord」 is good at. That, and comboing. MEANWHILE, Trimarc decides to kill Beta Reaper with fire. Also, he's immune to Attack Burn since the 14th Memelord SOUL Fragment doubled his resistance to Flame-type attacks, making him immune to them.

Trimarc then does just that, causing 「The Speed Lord」 to come forth, complete with his own theme music!

Aeon gets one hell of an idea, and switches to Made in Heaven, and starts accelerating time once again!

Alternate Aeon uses PK Offense Up Ω, boosting the team's attack by about 2 stages!

Alternate Aeon Then swings at Parallel Beta Shadow over and over with the Second Needle!

ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI!

16 HIT COMBO! PRETTY NEAT!

Trimarc then has the crabs gang up on Alpha Miser!
Aeon follows up by taking out two Manyulynn Rapiers with Nether Quartz-tipped Manyullyn Rapiers with Bane of Arthropods X, Fire Aspect I, Smite X, Unbreaking XC, Bad*REGGAE'D*erry MCCCXXXVII, and Luck of the Sea XII.

Can't believe I forgot these bad boys even existed.

Aeon then starts charging one hell of an attack.

Alternate Aeon uses PK Counter! He then rams into the sun and takes a crapton of damage, but the damage goes back to Alpha Miser!
Trimarc summons a bunch of dancing crabs because that's apparently yet ANOTHER thing the Memelord SOUL Fragments can do! Also, here's a list of the abilities provided by each one.
Aeon considers equipping some of the crabs with BFGs, but he remembers that the crabs are too small to lift BFGS. He instead gives them really small versions of BFGs called TFGs.

Parallel Aeon 1 fires a Galeem-style beam of light at Bass, instakilling him.

Trimarc pulls out a Coconut Gun and fires it in spurts at Alpha Miser!
Alternate Aeon used PK Shield Omega, mitigating the damage from the hail!
Aeon fires a rocket at Beta Miser!
Parallel Aeon 1 then activates an ability that's totally not the Speed Gear, and starts... wavedashing?

Alright people, it's time, to DU-DU-DU-DU, D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DESECRATE THESE THOTS!

Trimarc then pulls out two cans of Flex Spray and sprays them at Parallel Beta Shadow!
Aeon pulls out a BFG and fires it!
Parallel Aeon 1 erases time and stabs Parallel Beta Shadow in the face with The Weapon With No Name, a legendary weapon he made himself on the spot that can turn into pretty much any weapon!

Aeon and pals then get warped to the center!

Wait, why am I here all of a sudden? And- WHAT'S WITH ALL THE MES!?
No clue. Apparently though, Miser is still alive. And Purple. ...And talking to another one of himself.
...Why the hell is there another me sitting there?
What are you talking abou-

Then, it starts to set in. Turns out, in a Homestuck-level plot twist, Trimarc is actually the future version of Parallel Aeon 2!

Oh *REGGAE'D* this is the same area where I was hit with a spacetime anomaly.
Hey kid, QUICK! How many SOUL frags ya got!?
All 14. Why?

Suddenly, Parallel Aeon 2 gets hit with the temporal anomaly caused by a slap from quite some time ago! Then Alternate Aeon, whilst nobody was looking, went back in time and attacked Beta Shadow with PK Hax Gamma before he could get to Grand NOVA!

(Edit: Pretty sure I made a bunch of sprites and prepared an entire post days ago in anticipation for a fight between the misers and aeons, not so I could skip it.)

(Collateral Aeon:) Sure, nothing about that deal DOESN'T sound promising.

Collateral Aeon then decides to check out this "Mecha Summoning Program". It has exactly two summonable mechas; a Level 2 Met and a Level 1 Ring Ring.

Trimarc then comes right the out of nowhere and sprays Flex Seal at Yoshi2019's eyes!

(Trimarc:) That's a lotta damage.

Suddenly, Trimarc pulls out ANOTHER chainsaw!

(Trimarc:) HOW 'BOUT A LITTLE MOAR!?

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Alternate Aeon starts making his way towards the seventh Sol Needle. However, he suddenly encounters a couple of Territorial Spruces on the way there!

WOAH, where the hell did you guys come from!?
(Territorial Spruce A:) Right from dat bush over there, mate.
But you're A SET OF MOVING TREES! How the does a tree hide in something MUCH smaller than it!?
(Territorial Spruce B:) Uh... th' bush was really, really, big...?
Okay, that sorta makes sense. Now I'll be moving along.
(Territorial Spruce A:) Not until we beat you up n' tear yer stupid hat to pieces you ain't!

Suddenly, Alternate Aeon fires off a PK Hax Gamma, utterly nuking the Spruces, but not before they blow the hell up! Alternate Aeon manages to survive, though.

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Parallel Aeon 2 thinks that the seventh Memelord SOUL Fragment may be in a nearby mountain, seeing as there's a midboss in the way.

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After a while, Dark Frag A FINALLY manages to bring his/her/their boss!

HERE HE IS, BOSS! NOW BEAT THE SNOT OUT OF HIM!
Dully noted. Commencing annihilation.

Suddenly, a trio of dark buster shots is fired from the dark figure's arm cannon, and grazes Collateral Aeon just barely! Just as suddenly however, a triad of yellow shots hits the dark figure!

Oi, oi. Don't go hitting my summoner like that.
Otherwise, stuff's gonna go down.
OH SNAP, BOSS! THE INTRUDER'S GOT A MECHA SUMMONING PROGRAM! LET'S CHEESE IT FOR NOW!

The dark frags and the shadowy figure do just that. Then, Collateral Aeon gets the Rogue Space Sta- wait a minute, this is just a REGULAR space star! What the hell!? Talk about a ripoff. Afterwards though, Collateral Aeon is then teleported back to where he was. He has all the stuff he got from the encounter, too.

WORLDLINE 5 TIME!

Collateral Aeon was just chilling around, until one not-exactly-fateful night, something crashes into his face!

(Collateral Aeon:) GAH! What the hell was that!? wait, what the hell is this?

Collateral Aeon is then warped to a strange place...!




(Collateral Aeon:) Seriously, what is going on.
HI!
(Collateral Aeon:) Uh hello, Mr./Ms., uh...
DARK FRAG A. DON'T WORRY, NONE OF US DARK FRAGS HAVE GENDERS, INTRUDER SCUM!
(Collateral Aeon:) Wait, what do you mean "intruder scum"!? I was WARPED HERE by some strange-looking-
(Collateral Aeon:) WAAIIT A SEC, that thing in the middle! That's the thing that warped me here!
LIKE I CARE ABOUT YOUR SITUATION, BIG GUY! DON'T WORRY THOUGH, I'LL GET MY BOSS, THEY'LL SORT THIS OUT!
(Collateral Aeon:) UGGGGHH.

(by the way, please imagine the dark frags speaking in a Claptrap-esque voice.)

Aeon decides that the gears grinding could be the start of something bad, so he charges up the VBFG.

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Alternate Aeon starts searching for the Seventh Sol Needle.

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Parallel Aeon 1 just goes off and decides to play Cookie Clicker.

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Parallel Aeon 2 starts searching for the seventh Memelord SOUL Fragment.

So what, is everyone just in one big universe now with no extra worldlines?