77. Grand Inferius

This chapter takes place after Chapter B-35 of the Side Stories, so if you didn't read that, prepare to have it ruined. :P

KND Moonbase

Cheren Uno was placed on a bed in the infirmary. Many of his loyal operatives, including Anthony, Aurora, Chris, MaKayla, and newcomer Wendy stared at his body in remorse. Diancie examined him closely, but was sad to report the news. "I can't determine why, but… his vital signs have completely stopped. There aren't any fatal wounds or traces of poison…"

"Was he hit with the Killing Curse?" Wendy asked in horror.

"We were with Cheren the whole time." Miyuki replied. "The Zoni shocked him and Zanifr to sleep. But only Zanifr woke up…"

"It was all a trick to KILL HIM!" Panini stomped the floor with a flaming boot, crying tears. "He wanted ta kill Cheren the WHOLE TIME! And he put that Vriska person up to it!"

"I don't think Zanifr meant to do it on purpose."

"Why do ya say THAT?!" Pan stomped toward Miyuki. "Still have feelings for him?!"

"…I…" Miyuki bowed her head shamefully.

"This isn't the time." MaKayla came between them. "Kid… if Cheren is dead, wouldn't his spirit have appeared in the Underworld?"

"It was supposed to." Kid replied, a hint of regret on his normally scowling features. "But I can't feel his spiritual presence at all. It's as though his soul disappeared the moment he died."

"W-What are we supposed to do?" Wendy whimpered, leaking tears. "Elect a… new leader?"

"The next runner-up is Panini." Francis sighed. "You were his second-in-command."

"Well, Panini?" Maddy faced her.

Panini lay one hand on Cheren's bed and clasped her racing heart with the other. I didn't wanna be the one to do this… I acted like his rival, but Cheren's always been better than me. I was ambushed by Majora like a '90's girl in the alley… Big Mum ate me like a sausage, and I couldn't defend myself. I thought Cheren was gonna be the one to… lead us to the New World. I didn't wanna have to do it… I CAN'T do it. I haven't done anything all month. I…I'm a terrible vice-leader…

Harvey Harper could feel the inner turmoil inside her heart. He bowed his head and spoke. "I think we put too much faith in Cheren."

"What do you mean, Harvey?" Sally asked.

"We can't expect everything to go the way we want them to." Harvey thought of Madotsuki as he spoke. "Bad things are going to happen. All we can do is make the best of a bad situation. We have to finish what Cheren started… and that's this quest."

"It's okay, Panini." Aurora placed a hand on her shoulder. "You don't have to do anything. We'll take it from here."

Some of the operatives returned to the bridge to think over their possible plans. Shade noticed Maddy staring at the Earth from the glass wall. "I don't need Haki to know what you're thinking." Shade said.

"I'm the only one that has a chance at beating King Andrew." Maddy stated. "I have Conqueror's Haki. I can take the Octogan from him."

"I admit you mastered Haki faster than anyone I know… but King Andrew had years of training. He must have had plenty of time to adapt with the Octogan. It'll be too much for you."

"I still have a promise to keep to you, don't I?" Maddy faced her.

"Maddy, that doesn't matter to me, anymore. You were never the Chosen One. My clan was fooled and WE were fooled. That boy is right… not everything goes the way we expect them to."

"That's what it means to have an adventure." Sheila Frantic marched forward, her Keyblade arched over her shoulder. "You don't know what you're gonna see… you just see it and keep goin'! We have to show the World Leaders they don't own our world. Let's go to Mariejoe and beat the CRUD out of them!"

"I admire your passion, Sheila." Dillon said. "But except for Daphne, we don't know what they're capable of."

"Yes we do!" Wendy spoke up. "Before coming here, my father held a meeting with all your parents. They're planning to fight the World Leaders with you. They think you can win because… you have the Firstborn."

"We Firstborn can enhance our Guardians' abilities." Midna confirmed. "But we only do so to their full potential when combating a god, not mortals. Even against very strong mortals, it's against our virtues to make our masters too powerful."

"But we CAN help!" Meloetta grinned. "It all comes down to how good our masters are at what they do."

"And I don't know about you guys, but I FOUGHT one of the World Leaders!" Anthony proclaimed. "I'm ready for him!"

"I fought one as well." Wendy mentioned. "Henry Churchill. If it's okay with you guys, I would like to face him first."

"Why?" Nagisa asked.

Wendy looked at the boy curiously. Behind him was a barefoot girl with magenta hair. Her hair is blue like mine… and that girl looks like Chelia. "Because he captured one of my friends."

"Good enough of a reason for me." Goombella 'shrugged.'

"But what can the other World Leaders do?" Chris asked. "We know Daphne's a shadowbender and Stonebuddy's an earthbender…"

"Henry is a paperbender, Jennifer Bush is a lightbender, and Felius Umbridge is a wordbender." Wendy recapped.

"I remember Felius!" Meloetta perked. "Her vocabulary was the tops!"

"We know what they do, but fighting them won't be easy as CP10." Aurora figured. "And we couldn't beat them without a few bruises."

"We can always get Mocha and Ururu to stomp around their base." Jinta snickered.

"Absolutely not!" Mocha stated. "My legs still hurt from when CP10 cut me!"

"I guess that was my fault." Carol admitted. "Mocha helped level the playing field, but I didn't expect CP10 to gang up on her."

"I hate to say it, but we may have to rely on the Firstborn if we want to have a shot at beating them." Dillon said. "Especially if we're gonna take the Octogan."

"All I need to do is get close enough to Andrew." Maddy said.

"I'll be behind you in case you can't." MaKayla followed. "I am a timebender."

"There's something else." Wendy spoke. "My father said the World Leaders were going to use something called a Grand Inferius."

"I know what that is!" Index shouted. "It was in a book called Fairy Sisters. The bad guys created an army of zombies that were indestructible."

"How can the World Leaders do that?" Aurora asked.

"My father said he wasn't sure if the Leaders could do it, yet." Wendy said.

"We should probably assume that they can." Chris inferred.

"Then what's our plan?" Mason asked.

Silence followed. There was too much to be prepared for, and they didn't know how much time they had. "Everyone here needs to rest." Everyone turned to face Panini. "Return to your treehouses and be ready for tomorrow. Because tomorrow… we attack the World Government."

"Do you think we're ready?" Dillon asked.

"We don't have anymore time to train. The Firstborn will have to help their Guardians fight the Leaders, the other operatives will provide support, and Maddy and Kayla… if you really think you can, take the Octogan from King Andrew." Both girls nodded. "GOT THAT, FIRSTBORN?!" Panini screeched at the baby gods. "You better stop sitting back and do your part, because as far as I'm concerned, YOU'RE operatives, too!"

"YES, MA'AM!" they yelped. ("Mana-Mana!") (Midna saluted with her Hair Hand.)

Dr. Strange's Lab, the following day

Hugo Strange placed the God Fruit inside a small cauldron and squeezed the juices out of it. "Oooo-oooo-oaaa-aaaa…" Felius Umbridge sang a song like an opera star, her notes flowing into the pot as the potion bubbled and brimmed. The Elixir of Life was created.

"Your voice is lovely, Master Umbridge." Dr. Strange said admiringly. "I cannot believe you were never in opera."

"It was my mother's suggestion, but I felt my duties lied with law enforcement. –Felius Umbridge replies truthfully."

"Jennifer dearest, please keep your hands out of the potion." Henry Churchill told her without looking up from his book.

"But it smells so yummy." Jennifer replied bubbly. She was beside a boiling magic cauldron with King Andrew.

Dr. Strange came to pour the Elixir of Life into the larger cauldron. "With this, the Grand Inferius can commence." The King spoke, raising his Octogan. "Using the Soul Stone inside the Octogan, I have collected an assortment of souls from the Spirit World and hid them inside the portions of Lazarus delivered with the milk bottles. Thanks to Sandman, we have lost some, but there is still enough to make an army. With the Fire Chi taken from Malladus's soul, this potion is the correct temperature, and the souls can be imbued with Underworld darkness. Now, all Daphne must do is command the shadows to pass through the potion and possess the bodies who have consumed the Lazarus."

"I'll send a shadow to find the first subject." Using her bending, Daphne Anderson called one of the shadows inside the glass capsules. It flew through the cauldron, and traveled across the world faster than the wind.

"AAAAAAHHH!" An innocent child playing on a farm was engulfed by the shadow, molding and transforming his body. Under Daphne's command, the child sunk into the Underworld and rose from the floor in the laboratory.

The boy standing before them had purple hair, black clothing, and a purple scarf. His eyes were black sclera with green pupils, but Andrew knew the color they bared before the Inferius. The King knelt before the boy, staring into his eyes. "Travis?"

The boy stared wide. "Andrew? Where…" Travis looked around. "Where am I? Who are these people?"

Andrew channeled energy into his fists and smashed Travis between them, breaking the zombie into pieces. In seconds, the pieces reassembled, regenerating Travis to normal. "Andrew, what gives?!"

"An Inferius can roam with free will and controlled will." Dr. Strange aimed a hand at Travis and used magic.

"AAAH!" The black sclera turned white in Travis's eyes. He stood still, awaiting his next orders.

"With most of your chis imbued into the potion, My Masters can summon Inferi to their side." Strange continued.

"That will not be necessary. Felius Umbridge needs naught more than words. This is the last time she wants anything to do with magic…"

"Start activating the rest of them." Andrew turned to leave the room. "The Spirit World Project will be complete. I just have one last matter to tend to."

In the central throne room, Abram Johnson was writhing in pain on the table. His father approached him and said, "The Inferius is starting now, Abram. By the end of this month, we will have everything under control. The Inferi will slay everyone, and with the power you and I possess, we can organize all the world's denizens into a divided Spirit World. You should have finished adapting to him by now."

"This isn't going to work, Dad!" Abram grunted. "Cheren will… stop you!"

"Cheren is dead, son. Perhaps, if I can find his soul, I can revive him as an Inferius."

"Do you really think… you'll actually be able to make your own Spirit World?!"

"Our ancestors have been building the perfect world for generations. For the rest of existence, the Dimensional Fusion will be nonexistent. Our worlds will have the undisturbed peace they originally had. There's nothing that can stop this, Abram. The Grand Inferius starts NOW."

"Misser King Andrew." The Hispanic maid, Consuela approached them. "You no have no more lemon pledge in God's Domain."

"REALLY?!? You're talking to me about this NOW?! You waited RIGHT before I started the Inferius?!"

"Inferi leave a filth… I need lemon pledge."

"Ugh…" Andrew walked off. "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the attic!"

The shadows soared across the planet and claimed all the souls unfortunate enough to be their targets. Genki Sanban transformed into her late daughter Kuki, Monty Uno turned into Nigel Uno, Agatha Uno became Eva's blood-mother Mamare, Inferi good and evil were rising from the graves. All were confused by their own return, but a strange and terrible impulse told them to obey the World Government.

"95,829 shadows went out." Daphne announced. "94,123 became Inferi. I command them all… ATTACK." (Play "Protocol 10" from Batman: Arkham City!)

Los Angeles

Inferi comprising of Davy Jones and his Dutchman Pirates emerged from the streets. "What is the meaning of this-ah?!" questioned the Heartless Captain.

"Oi, Captain! I feel as spry as a young'un!" Maccus exclaimed.

"Why do ya suppose this happened?" Koleniko asked.

Davy Jones viewed Sector L's treehouse not far away. "If I am cursed to walk upon this earth once again… I will have my REVENGE-AH!"

"YAAAAAAHHH!" The pirates ravaged the town, more undead than they have ever been, making up for 20 lost years.

Quahog, Rhode Island

"Holy freaking slag." said Sandman. From Quahog's rooftops, his trio of heroes watched as the zombies of fallen Kids Next Door operatives plagued the streets. They broke into restaurants and devoured food that couldn't satisfy, and all the sodas in the world could not quench their thirst. "This is even worse than the Brotherhood."

"Took the words right out of my mouth." a voice said behind them. The trio turned, finding Dillon Simmons alongside Koda Shrieves and Corey Sanderson.

"Dillon… Corey! You, too?"

"I'd love to catch up, Nolan… but I'm not in the right spirits." Dillon grabbed a S.C.A.M.P.P. and blasted the heroes with Corey's assistance. Koda Shrieves rolled forward and swiped a knife at Yuki, who froze Koda's arm with a single touch and snapped it off.

"Didn't hurt a bit!" Koda wrapped his other arm around Yuki and jumped off the building, aiming to smash the icebender against the concrete. Yuki aimed both hands down and weakened their fall with blasts of ice.

Nolan took Dillon's weapon and threw it elsewhere, exchanging fists with his old friend. "Why are you fighting me, Dillon?!"

"Do you know what it's like to be plucked out of Heaven and forced to return to this hell? I do." Dillon kicked Sandman and rolled his wheelchair back, then Corey grabbed the hero's neck from behind.

"S-S-Sorry, Nolan. We're u-under their c-control." Corey stuttered. Crystal bashed the zombie off with her staff, but Dillon tackled the Sandman and fell off the building with him. Nolan struggled and punched the undead off, activating the chair's glider to make a coordinated landing. He saw Yuki wrestling with Koda and chose to ram his wheelchair over the zombie's head.

"I don't even know where to begin!" Sandman yelled.

"What did you do last time?" Yuki reminded. "You said 'Screw all these villains, I'm going for Brain.'"

Crystal Wickens glided down and asked, "But do you have any idea who the Brain is in this scenario? AAAAH!" Lightning struck from behind, causing Crystal to fall.

"I found you again, Crystal!" Jonah Icarus hovered above with lightningbending. "I won't let you escape this time!"

"I don't even know you!" Crystal argued.

"Then let me give you a refresher: I am-" A purple-haired boy flipped up, planted a M.A.R.B.L.E. in Icarus' ear, and exploded him.

The boy landed on his feet as Crystal gasped, "It can't be! Travis?!"

"Crystal." He faced her. "You're not gonna believe who's behind this."

"AAAAAH-!" Koda Shrieves charged Nolan from behind, but Yuki froze him and shattered the ice. "Will you take us to him?" Nolan wondered.

"Yes." Travis twitched. "It's the World Leaders on Mariejoa. Though I'm not in my free will at the moment."

"We know the way." Yuki froze Travis up to his head. "But we can't just let these zombies wreck everything."

When Icarus regenerated, another M.A.R.B.L.E. was thrown to destroy him. Sector Q appeared on the scene. "If you know where to go, get to it!" Drake Puncture ordered. "We'll protect this city!"

"Be careful. Let's go, team!" Sandman called his Sandmobile, the trio hopping in and taking for the sky.

"Crystal… put some sense into him." Travis said to himself, watching from his ice trap.

"AAAIIEEEEEE!" Jar Jar Blinks ran for his life. "I sorry, Legy-Wegy! I sorry I no share the tofu!"

"We'll SKEWER YOU!" Legion's Inferius chased with a desire for long-awaited vengeance.

GKND H.Q.

"Numbuh 250 Trillion, incoming objects heading for the cafeteria!" a Wisp reported.

"Are there signs of life?"

"It…It can't tell."

Five Inferi crashed through the glass wall. "YAAAAHOO!" Red and Purple cheered. "The Almighty Tallest are BACK, baby!!"

"GIVE US YOUR SNACKS!" cried Purple.

"Red and Purple?! It can't be!" Makava exclaimed.

"TEAR THEM UP!" Tronta declared. The operatives bombarded the Tallests with a storm of lasers. Their bodies were turned into confetti, but that confetti reformed into the annoying Irken emperors.

"Still ALIIIIIIVE!"

"STOP messing around and CRUSH THEM!" the tiny Tallest Dirk ordered.

"Awwwwww!" the twins cooed. "He's adorable!" said Purple.

"I'm not adorable! I AM Tallest Dirk! Conqueror of 24 galaxies and 1,015 planets!"

One of the other Inferi, Revan Bane Sidious, marched down the hall. "Where are you going, my son?" Revan turned. He glared at his Inferius father, Emperor Palpatine.

"My Brotherhood of Evil is imprisoned in this base's dungeon. I'm going to tell them the boss has returned. Why don't you go see if your old Sith buddies are still around?"

"This is our second chance, Revan: to rule the universe as father and son."

"NOT WITH YOU!" Revan shot a Psycho Sphere to blast Palpatine away. "As soon as I rescue my old friends… I'm coming back for NOLAN."

The Noah; somewhere in space

"Captain!" Rallo Tubbs pointed at the sky. "There's a big-ass meteor coming straight for us!"

"Relax, Ralls." Augustus sucked his lollipop with a confident smirk. "Nothing can damage this—THAT'S NO METEOR!"

A big round mass crashed on the Noah's deck, along with a smaller round mass. "NYAAAAA HA HA HA HA!" Big Mom was alive and in the artificial flesh. "AUGUSTUS… what a big piece of CANDY you found! NAAAAH!" Charlotte sunk her teeth into the Gummi Ship, but it was too strong for her teeth.

"BIG MUM!" Henrietta exclaimed. "But who is…"

"So, YOU'RE the newest sweets in my bloodline." Sherry Linlin observed. The Linlin ancestor had strawberry hair, red swirls on her white cheeks, and wore a dress that could have been made of sweet pink gum with lollipop lace. "Or should I say a couple of them."

"I don't understand! How are you two alive?!" Augustus questioned, his lollipop nearly falling out from talking.

"The World Leaders revived us, Augustus…" Big Mom drooled. "They want us to EEEAT this ship… and I say, YEEEEEES!" Her bulging red zombie eyes swelled with hunger.

Mandy McKenzie leaped and struck the Candy Pirate with her sword. "I regret not having the chance to duel you, Big Mom." Mandy's body brimmed with an aura of fear. "I'm thankful for this opportunity."

While Nel was innocently wandering the ship's hall, she heard something crash through a hatch behind her. "Oh?" She turned to face a tall Inferius: an 18-year-old with long cyan hair, a skull mask on her head, and strong bare legs going into a green loincloth dress.

"Hi, Nel." The Inferius glared at her. "I Nel."

"You… Nel?" The cavegirl was royally baffled.

Mariejoa

♪ "Destroyyyy, destroyyyy, destroyyyy…!" ♪ The chaos brought joy to Jennifer's childish heart. "The Rapture has come, and God makes the sinners fight for Him!"

"This is no time for celebration, Jennifer." Lucas Stonebuddy spoke with one hand on the ground. "Here they come now…"

A humongous stone arm erupted from the earth of the marble town and crushed Stonebuddy and Jennifer under its palm. Lucas stomped a hole for himself and defended, but when Jennifer was crushed flat, the sun over Mariejoa vanished. The hand lifted off: the angels chorused as the Holy Light brought Jennifer to her feet once more.

The base of the stone arm opened, and out stepped the White Lotus: Red Eye Vaati, Rachel T. Uno in her samurai garb, Fanny Drilovsky, Danika York in a black leather jacket, shorts, and sneakers; Eva Jackson in her vacation wear, Angie McKenzie, Matthew Dimalanta, and Mikaela Chariton.

"This feels more natural." Danika said regarding her clothes. She was tired of being a housewife.

"I know, right?" remarked Rachel, her katana drawn. "Look out above!"

Two giant statues of Jesus flew over on Stonebuddy's control with intent on crushing them, but Angie erected a rock platform to lift her to the statues and shatter them with a single punch. She gasped when nine gray stone cubes flew in and surrounded her. When they collided on her, Angie found herself struggling to push them away with her bending. "Your Logia earthbending cannot meld with my stonebending." Lucas observed. "You are not pure enough."

A large gush of water reached from the river and smashed down on Lucas, who jumped away, only to be grabbed in Mikaela's psychic. "You try raising two kids and see if you're still pure at the end of the day."

"I'll save you, Lucey!" Jennifer declared, preparing to conjure a sun. "OUCHIE!" Vaati stomped down like a rocket and pinned the Leader down.

"Our White Lotus Revolutionaries are already combating the Inferius around the world. Once we dispose of you Leaders, they will be gone and your plans will fail. Hm?" Vaati cocked a brow when blank papers orbited around his light breeze.

"That's always been the way you work, Mr. Red Eye." Henry Churchill materialized above in a cluster of papers. "Violence solves everything, Captain America, hum di da la. Unfortunately, only the controllers of the Inferius can stop the Inferius, and we have no intent on doing so, yet."

"Don't forget how it was thwarted the first time." Vaati smirked as the papers were slowly attaching to his form. "Fairy Princess Mavis inherited Zeref's power and stopped the Inferius herself. I'm positive she will do the same… and that's also when I plan to give my daughter the greatest gift of all." Vaati BURST a gust of wind and scattered the papers. "And I'll have you know Captain America is the 4th person I most admire!"

"You know the person I most admire?!" Jennifer shouted. "IT'S GOD! And GOD SAYS GET OFF ME!" She squirmed like a child under Vaati's feet.

Vaati stomped her in the face and knocked her out. "Jennifer Bush, the woman who keeps Resurrecting." Vaati drew the breath out of her with his bending. The angels sung, pulling the breath back inside her as Jennifer blasted Vaati off with light. "Perhaps there is only one way to end you: Resurrecci-"

"SILENCE!" ordered Felius Umbridge, taping Vaati's mouth with the very word. "You dark mages repulse me! Have ignominy, wisen up!" Words shot at Vaati like bullets, but he swiftly dodged and used nonverbal magic to cast Reductor Curses at the hag.

Stonebuddy protected Umbridge with stone pillars, having chucked a stone block at Mika. The woman merely expanded into a pink body of psychic and punched down at him. "Huh?" She faced left when the twilight sun mysteriously appeared over the mountain's horizon.

"There you go, Daphne! Teach 'em a couple!" yelled Jennifer.

Gray slithery shadows swerved all around the marble buildings, binding Danika, Matthew, and Rachel to the ground. Daphne Anderson rose out from the shadow of a building, three black roses in hand. "When a black rose withers… a gray rose blooms in the garden."

Danika broke the Shadow Possession on her friends, using Veil to slither over to Daphne and grab her out of her Veil. "You're the Daphne my mom always talked about. You're my aunt, aren't you?"

"So, you're Bella's daughter." Daphne spoke tonelessly. "She wouldn't stop talking about you."

"You know where she is?! What about my dad, where's he?"

"Before they left you, I paid a visit to your mother in secret, asking her to come to Mariejoa for a special project. She was delighted to introduce me, but I told her not to. She was happy to fulfill a request for her long-lost sister… In truth, I wanted her Shadow Chi to enhance my powers so that I could complete the Inferius. I took her chi using the Sun Chi Lantern, which only worked thanks to the bond we still shared. My second intention… was for your family to be left alone."

"Why would you do a thing like that?!"

"To teach you a lesson I learned: if you depend too much on someone, you will face disappointment and be left in gloom. There was someone that I admired and trusted in the past… but he vanished, and the memory of him vanished. I wanted you to know that feeling. It would have made you stronger."

"Where are my parents now?"

"Behind you." Danika gasped and whipped around. Isabelle Anderson had wrinkled skin, but her patterned emerald dress and green high-heel sandals were the same. Her eyes were that of an Inferius.

"Mom…" Danika released Daphne and almost cried.

"I guess I didn't know what I was getting into when Daphne called." Bella giggled. "She killed me… and your father was sacrificed to revive me this way. It was worth it at least… You're so grown-up, Danika."

Bella approached and gave her daughter a warm hug. Danika said nothing and returned the hug. "Mom… I have so much to tell you. I have a husband and a son…"

"That's wonderful, Dani! Will I get to meet them?"

"Of course! I'll introduce you."

Daphne made a sign with her fingers. Isabelle's sclera turned white: she lost her love for her daughter and quietly swiped one of Danika's daggers. The zombie raised it above her daughter's back. Cheshire gnashed at the zombie, pulling her master away and taking the blade back. "Mom!"

The soulless Inferius showed no resent and sent her shadow, Akita to wrestle with Cheshire. An angered Danika whipped around to Daphne, but the ghost woman retreated into her Veil and fled somewhere in the town.

Vaati cast a spell to destroy the word taping his mouth. Felius Umbridge was retreating to the castle, so the wind mage flew high and rocketed for her. "You won't escape me-!" A beam burst from the castle and sent Vaati crashing to a building. Everyone turned as the mighty King Andrew leapt from his home and dented the street with his armored feet.

"I fear I will need to get more lemon pledge." The King said through his helmet.

"ANDREW!" He faced Rachel Uno on his left. "Is this how you want to be remembered?!"

"If the prophecy is completed, no one will be around to remember. I have every intent on keeping the memories of you and your family young… Rachel."

"I don't need you for that! My children are legacy enough!"

"So, you are not aware… Your beloved Heir of Courage is dead."

"W…What?" stuttered Rachel.

Twin rays of emerald fire blasted Andrew, who blocked with his right hand and repelled them at Fanny Drilovsky. The woman absorbed them with Logia and spat a comet from her mouth, another easy block for Andrew. "Don't listen to him, Rachel! This stoopid boy will try anything!"

"But I was one of few you idolized, Fanny."

"Not anymore!" Fanny pelted rapid fireballs at Andrew, and while he was blocking, Rachel ran to slice at his cape, but His Highness sensed this with Observation Haki and dodged, punching Rachel with Armament.

"Rachel, you were not meant to wield a sword. And Fanny, you were never meant to command fire. These powers you all have inherited are steadily destroying the universe. Every day, the Dimensional Fusion continues growing… until one day, it will implode upon all of us. The only way to stop this fate is to divide us into separate worlds. With the limitless power of the Octogan, the solution is at hand!"

"Is it really your solution?" Morgan Uno softly descended and set her feet on the ground behind Andrew. "Or is it the Octogan's plan?"

"Morgan… won't you join me? I can finally give you the life you wanted… I can make everything your way."

"You promised you wouldn't hurt me, Andrew. I don't think you would have. But it was never you in control. It was always… that thing in your eye."

"The only puppets here are all of you. All your efforts will merely lead to Lord English's return. You are dooming the entire multiverse. I will not let that happen! I'll destroy anyone in my way! Including… those little nuisances you shrunk to fit under your coat."

Morgan braced herself. "Did you really think I wouldn't expect you to help them? Open your coat, Morgan… let me see the New Generation."

"…If you say so." Morgan threw off her labcoat and revealed… a miniature Helmaroc King hugging her waist. (End song.)

"What?!" Andrew gasped. That was not what he had foreseen at all.

"Quack quack." Helmaroc sang. "Quack quack. Quack quack, quack quack quack." The masked bird let go of Morgan and marched across the street, jigging his tail and flapping his wings to the rhythm. "Quack qua-ack! Quadda quack quack, quadda quack!" A parade of birds appeared one-by-one and followed him. "Quack quack… qua-qua, qua-quack quack quadda quack." Helmaroc King slowly grew to his giant size. "QUACK quack! Qua-quack quack… quadda quack."

With that, Helmaroc folded his wings and faced The King. His body trembled… and instantly exploded into feathers as KND operatives popped out, ranging from Sector V, W, IC, SA, GF, and Global Command. "Kids Next Door, BATTLE STATIONS!" Aurora screamed.

"Everyone, spread out and find what's causing the Inferius!" Dipper ordered. "If you encounter a World Leader, don't engage until a Firstborn user arrives!"

King Andrew gripped his helmet when the Octogan began reacting to the trick. Several operatives sprinted past him to head into the castle. "The Octogan was deceived again?! But it was such a petty trick, how did it not see?!"

"Perhaps you should've studied." Morgan tossed a Psycho Sphere that Andrew kicked skyward. "I remember this one kid that used a magic 8-ball to solve multiple choice questions. (Though it did get him past 3rd grade.)"

"Uhhhnn…" Vaati had a slight headache after the blow. When he woke up from the rubble, the one standing before him was his daughter. "Wendy…"

"Hello, Father. I told the Kids Next Door all the information from the meeting. The Firstborn Guardians are going to combat the Leaders."

"You're brilliant, Child!" Vaati leapt to his feet. "Victory will soon be ours!"

Six Inferi sprouted up around them. They consisted of Bellatrix Lestrange, Mad-Eye Moody, Sirius Black, Dumbledore, and much to Wendy's horror, Lord Voldemort. "Chapter 15 of Destroying Your Enemies." Henry Churchill formed from papers in the air. "Give them no advantage. Hello, Miss Marvell. Come to kill me, have you?"

"I want you to tell me where Chelia is!" Wendy aimed her wand threateningly.

"I don't believe you deserve to know. We have yet to sap the God Chi out of her."

"What is the point in having more power?!" Vaati questioned. "There will be no need for it assuming your precious Spirit World comes to be!"

"The World Government will need to remain at large to keep our world in balance. We haven't overlooked any possible threats, ergo it's wise to prepare ourselves with more power. Voldemort, eliminate them."

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort shot a Killing Curse, which Wendy narrowly dodged as it struck Vaati.

"DAD!" cried Wendy.

"I'm okay, Wendy!" Vaati smirked. "As long as you are my Horcrux, I will not die!"

"Horcrux?" Voldemort cocked a brow.

"That's the one I told you of, My Lord." Bellatrix whispered in his ear. "His soul is scattered. If we kill the girl, you can have his body."

Vaati kicked them as fast as lightning and cast Reductor Curses at the other Inferi. He faced up at Henry and shot up with an Armament kick, but the World Leader dodged and formed a spinning circle of papers above the Minish. Vaati was unable to escape from their pull. "Vacuum Trees sap the oxygen from the nearby air and sends it under the sea to create long-lasting air bubbles." Henry explained. "A Logia airbender will find it difficult to escape."

Inside the castle, Don Quixote Sugar was sprinting through the posh halls on bare feet, Meloetta gliding by her side. The singer was clothed in a flowing magenta dress with a music sheet design and notes. "Are you sure we didn't need to bring all the Firstborn?" Sugar asked.

"Too many enemies are here." Meloetta reasoned. "Just throwing all the Firstborn in front of them is asking for trouble. But I'm positive we can win with the numbers we have!"

"I hope you're right." They were coming to a sealed double-door, and Sugar pushed it open with both hands.

They came to a halt inside a bright blue, cylindrical room with a stain glass ceiling. It had a flower design, and the light made the room sparkle. Sugar and Meloetta kept their faces up in wonder and awe at the beauty. "How DARE you surge into my private quarters like uncivilized frat boys! –Felius Umbridge hopes you will take my criticism to heart." They faced down at the elderly hag, whose voice echoed in the chamber.

"You're one of the World Leaders." Sugar knew.

"Correct. And you are Don Quixote Sugar. The traitorous Dressrosan princess who aided her father's dark designs for a toy empire. Your family is DISGRACEFUL!" A soundwave burst from her mouth and struck Sugar.

"I'm different now!" Sugar declared. "I realized my true passion was singing."

"Singing? How utterly meaningless. Are you quite enjoying your Japanese pop and 'Snoopy G', or perhaps the dreadful rubbish in your wasteful TV games? The world has ruined the poetry that was once oper-ra." She rolled the 'R.'

"Maybe you're to blame for that. I may have done bad things, but those are nothing compared to what you Leaders are doing right now. How can you call me disgraceful with those zombies attacking everyone?!"

"We World Leaders desire a perfect world with order and no evil. We wish for everyone to be in our control as the Inferi are. With we, the pure-hearted saviors, there shall be no more unrest!"

"How can you not be disgusted by your own words?! All souls in this world deserve the freedom to follow their own paths. They deserve to speak with their own voice."

"Ludicrous! If such freedom is the true balance, perhaps you wished for your father to continue his actions. Perhaps you wish the ne'er-do-wells to roam free. But instead, you thwart their actions, like you intend to thwart me! HYPOCRITE!" Sugar's heart cringed with the force of Felius's voice.

"Don't let her words affect you!" Meloetta encouraged. "You have good in your heart, Sugar! Fight with all the passion in your voice!"

Sugar smiled and stood straight. "You must have had good intentions too, Umbridge… but somewhere along the way, you lost sight of what was important. Meloetta, play me a tune!" Sugar spun with her feet sliding along the polished floor. "I will free this lady's soooouuul!"

Boss fight: Felius Umbridge

Power Levels: Sugar – 1900. Umbridge – 6623

"I've enjoyed this venture… the moment since it started." Sugar sang the first verse with passion in her voice. Music notes soared like a whirlwind around her. "But all things must come to end, my friend. Your fa-il-ure WILL be charted!"

"CEASE your irrelevant singing, you silly slipshod!" Felius unleashed a soundwave that Sugar evaded with a graceful flip. The elder sang with vocals of an opera star, her flowing words flying at Sugar like the wind. Sugar used the sound to carry her feet across the floor, swaying her arms and making the notes fly at her opponent. "Poor! Improper!" Felius blocked with a barrier of words. "I laugh as you fall before your sorrows. TUT, TUT, TUUUUUT!" Her words shook the ground and caused Sugar to lose balance.

The princess decided to flip and continue sliding on her hands. "I already fell, I already cried! Too many of my friends have died. I'm not going to LOSE here. I'll walk with my friends tooo neeext YEAR!" Flipping back to her feet, Sugar slid at Felius, crouching down and swinging a kick at the lady's legs, but Felius twirled elsewhere.

"Be gone from my presence NOW. DICTIONARY STORM." Felius took flight to the air and unleashed a cyclone of words.

"Be careful, Sugar!" Meloetta dodged the words. "If they hit you, you'll be babbling like a soulless librarian!"

"Oooooooaaaaaa…" Sugar sang a Song Road that would spiral up into Umbridge. The elder's words turned the notes into nagging old hags, so Sugar stylishly leapt between lines on the road to continue the rhythm. "YOU – WILL – FALL!" The princess stomped Umbridge in the face, sending her falling to the floor.

Felius scowled at Sugar surfing down the Song Road. The elder sung, "I see the fears inside your heart. Your skin tingles and jingles to the bone." Sugar felt a powerful vibration overcome her, the Song Road waving rapidly until she fell.

"AAAAH!" Sugar landed on her front, unable to stand from the vibration. As Felius marched closer, Sugar felt her very bones vibrate.

"You thought I was all talk, but you have been mistaken! Your soul will crumble as your body is shaken. TUT TUT TUUUUUT…"

"SILENCE!" Sugar sprouted a barrier that muted the sound around her. With Felius's words blocked, the vibration stopped, so Sugar hopped up and glided away. "A silent soul is a soothed soul." she sang calmly. "I will not fear, I will stay whole. There is much more I want to see." She closed her eyes and touched her heart, easing the pain from earlier. "Your words will not get to me."

"Ludicrous, how ridiculous!" Felius's words could not penetrate the Sound Barrier.

Sugar kept her eyes closed and herself silent. She danced across the room and let her mind flow with the gentle notes. She felt free and peaceful, and imagined the beautiful peaceful world, where the Inferius was not happening and all her friends were happy. But outside this pseudo reality, the world was in chaos, her dearest friend was gone, and if they did not win, everyone would die. Sugar cried at the ideas, and the ease in her soul was gone. "WHYYYYYYYYYYY…" Through her pain and tears, Sugar unleashed a devastating soundwave at Umbridge.

"How could you relish in this pain?!" Sugar's notes struck Umbridge with her very sadness. "How could you play this game?! Can't you see all this hate and hurt?! I'll bury you in the DIRT!" When Sugar unleashed her soundwave then, she gasped when Felius sucked it into her lungs.

"Your words are sweeeeet like candy… yet, they hold no health or soul. I SPIT AT YOU!" Felius literally shot a glob of spit that hit Sugar like a baseball, smashing her nose as blood shot out. Sugar fell on her back.

"Sugar!!" Meloetta flew over her on the verge of tears.

"She attacks with the fer-r-r-rocity of a beast." The rolling of her R's created an extending string of the letter from Felius's mouth. "She cannot g-r-rasp my intelligence… but it will wr-r-r-rap thee!" The R's roped around Sugar and slammed her around the floor and walls. Felius set Sugar on her feet, keeping her tied. "Do not forget your sins… let them burn you." Her words flowed into Sugar's ears.

Sugar remembered the 12 years she spent turning people into toys, trapped in an unaging body. Every victim she touched would be forgotten. She touched Cheren, and everybody forgot his examples. "AAAAAHH!" These memories created a feeling like fire on her skin. Sugar fell, rolling helplessly, but unable to extinguish the raging fires.

"Sugar!" Meloetta touched her Guardian's heart. The unseen flames dissolved. Meloetta projected an unbreachable Silence Shield around her and Sugar. Meloetta's dress turned ice-blue as her hair became a light-blonde ponytail (like Snow Queen Elsa).

"Sugar… what is this feeling I'm seeing inside your sooouul…?"

Sugar was silent for a moment. "Meloetta… I am afraid. Afraid of what my future will beeehooold… What sorrows will uuunfoooold? How can we go on without him? It's as though we lost a sun. The world is now more dim… I forgot what it means to have fun."

"COWARDS!" Umbridge's words rattled the shield. "You cannot hide from your fate!" She approached, intending to pass the barrier physically.

"Have you forgotten what he wanted?" Meloetta smiled warmly. "For us to live, to breathe, to sing and dance. Will you let that woman crush you? Or fight with the song of a thousand ants."

"FAUX GOD!" Umbridge grabbed Meloetta through the shield and threw her fro. "TUUUT!" She was hit by a Song Beam from behind.

"I will fight with the song of a thousand ants!" Sugar danced.

"ERRONEOUS! Ants have no VOICE, hence they cannot SING!"

"Your ears have withered, so you cannot listen!" Sugar remembered the Music Pikmin that sung in her ear on that day. "The singing ants whose tunes I'm missin'! But I hear them like the voices of the mountain! They paint me like the colors of the wind!"

"Those lyrics are not yours! THIEF! INFERTILE!" Sugar swiftly dodged Felius's words, skiing up to kick the woman across the face. Felius hopped back up and encased herself in a whirlwind of words, preventing Sugar from getting close. "Do you truly believe it's productive? This meager rebellion you're conducting? You will go as your leader has gone: his teachings FOR-GOT-TEN!"

The Word Whirlwind flew to Sugar and whirled her around. Sugar broke it and soared across the air to her notes: "What more is your leader than a puppet? I've seen more free will in a Muppet. Cheren will always be our King! He inspired us to do GREAT things!" The rainbow notes created along her path struck Felius simultaneously. Sugar landed and conducted the notes into the woman. "Enjoy your words as they last, because believe me, they will go fast! Your King will fall, and ALL of your, tyranny… will be for naught. Because the Kids Next Door you NEVER fought!"

"TUUUUUT!" One last Song Beam took the World Leader down for good. Felius lay with her skinny arms sprawled.

"And you'd do well to remember that." Sugar stated firmly.

"ASTOUNDING performance!" Meloetta raised a score. "1,000 out of 10!"

"That's as high as my score gets?" Meloetta giggled.

"Well, er, I could make it higher if you want." The Firstborn blushed nervously.

"Nah, I'll wait for the encore. Let's catch up with the others." Sugar began to leave the room, Meloetta joining. (Play "Final Boss 2" from Zelda: Tri-force Heroes!)

. . . . . The two stopped, feeling a terrific rising in Sound Chi. They turned, seeing Felius's body shaking as words brimmed around her in an aura. Her body became a white light as the words shot into her. With a blinding flash, Felius acquired a dress that made her seem 15 feet tall: wide and purple with a white blouse underneath, a gigantic red bow on the back, sparkling bracelets around her wrinkly arms, and a pink heart-shaped crown with a central red emblem. "TUAAAAAAT TUT TUT TUT, TUUUUUT TUT TUT TUT!" Her cackles carried the force of her power.

"So, this is her true power!" Sugar skied to avoid a powerful stream of "Oooooo"s conjured by her singing, but the princess's Song Beams couldn't bruise the Leader's Fury Form.

"You are an inferior being!" Felius quaked the ground and knocked Sugar down, and the O's grabbed her by the ankles and flailed her around. "Before my power, you are a hapless sack!"

"Not with MY power!" Meloetta snapped the O-rope and Sugar landed on her feet. "Sugar, let me help." Her hair stretched into a song wave, wrapping around Sugar's body as she brimmed with a rainbow aura.

Sugar sung a Rainbow Road that wrapped around the room like a ball, sliding all around it and leaving a trail of musical notes. "Planet Collaaaapse!" Sugar slammed her hands together, crushing Felius with the sphere of notes. "All things implode, all things explode!"

"Yes, but the wisest survive!" Felius survived and vibrated the very air molecules with her power. "The fools – they br-r-reak – under the crash – of reality!"

Sugar was being rattled by the molecules, covering her heart in fear it would stop. "My dreams are… reality. My reality was a nightmare. He pulled me… to safety. I will not… go back theeeere!" Sugar expanded a barrier from her heart and blocked the vibrations. She sung and danced freely. "Everything I WORKED for has been for this moment! Every day I breathed has been to see: the very thing I lived to make! A brand New World I will create."

"A child's boloney is unworthy to enter my ears!" Felius corked her ears with her pinkies, preventing Sugar's notes from penetrating her thick robing.

"Am I a child cryyying at your knees? Then direct your eyes and tell me: WHAT ARE THESE?" Sugar pointed at her breasts, which made her music note dress even tighter.

"UCK! COVER THINESELF!" Felius shut her eyes.

"Sugar!" Meloetta beamed. "You've… grown!"

Sugar's body had sprouted into the blossoming 22-year-old she was meant to be. Ignoring the tightness on her chest, Sugar swayed her aquamarine hair, long enough to spiral around her body like a ribbon. "I kept myself from growing! I kept myself from singing! But with wind on my feet, I keep going." Sugar flipped and created three loops with her hair. "I'm off to the future, and my friends I will be bringing."

"Tell meeee… what future have thee? For it is here you will be buuuried!"

"AAH!" Sugar was pressed to the ground by Umbridge's condensed soundwaves.

"Will Heaven allow entry for a monster like you?" The words blasted Sugar to the ceiling. "Nay, you will fall down to Hell." And Sugar crashed to the ground again, denting a crater. "Your soul is bound by the weight of your demons!" Sugar felt a strong compression in her chest.

"My soul has grown beyond that weight!" Sugar released a pulse that pushed the words off her. She jumped to her feet and pulled up her torn dress to cover her breasts. "No matter how much you hurt me… my soul will always be free!" She whooshed around the room on a Song Road, conducting music notes at Umbridge's head.

"I command you to stop!" The word 'STOP' flashed in Sugar's path.

"NO!" Sugar burst through.

"CEASE!"

"NO WAY!"

"DOWN NOW!" Sugar sunk to the ground with a surge of gravity, but she placed hands and feet on the floor, continuing to slide along the song.

"I'm in control of my body! I choose to run or crawl. I can look like a hottie, or have fun or BRAWL!" Sugar slid under Umbridge's dress and kicked her legs. The overclothed witch bobbed for balance. "Meloetta, it's time to close this show!"

"O-kay, Sugar! This hag has got to go!"

Sugar and Meloetta locked hands and soared like a comet. "Friendship, won't you please, listen to my pleas, let's defeat Umbridge with ease!"

"DESIST! END! CONCLUDE! DISCONTINUE!" Umbridge attacked with all the power her lungs could muster.

"Together with my friends, we will go without fuss! The New World is awaiting for us!" The notes became as colorful as Sugar's soul.

"I will not be vanquished by mediocre LYRICS!" nagged Umbridge.

"Tiiime to close the shoooo-oo-ooow." Sugar pierced the Word Witch with passion and Firstborn-powered soundwaves. "The Soooong of the Raaaainboooow!" (End song.)

"WAAAAAAaaaaaahhh…" Like a balloon losing air, Felius's Fury Form dissolved and vanished. The old lady lay defeated on the ground.

Sugar caught her breath, rubbing her throat after such an invigorating song. "I did it…" She smiled. "I actually DEFEATED ONE!" She jumped—her dress finally ripped off, no longer able to withstand her adult form. ". . . . . ." Sugar felt a light breeze. "AAAACK!" She covered herself. "I'm naked in the middle of a warzone!!"

"10,000/10!!" Meloetta raised a score.

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED THE SCORE FOR!! Find me some clothes quickly! Before somebody sees!"

Castle Throne Room

Sector GF burst through a double-door. "This looks like the throne room!" Dipper announced.

"Just like the caption said!" Candy pointed.

"Dipper, who's that over there?" Mabel indicated the person squirming on the table. The four kids rushed over for a closer view.

"Nnnn-aaah! Ack-aaa…" The teenage boy grunted.

"No way… it's Abram!" Dipper realized.

"NYAH!" Abram shot up and faced them with madness in his blue eyes. The four stepped back. "T-Tell me… Cheren… is he… dead?!"

"Uhhh…" Dipper stuttered, "Y-yeah… we don't know how, but… he is."

"!!! HOW COULD HEEEE!" Abram unleashed a powerful beam from his lungs, the kids barely dodging as Dipper lost the cover of his hat. "I trusted him to SAVE UUUUUS!" Abram sent another beam through the roof.

Seeing this from outside, Midna gasped. "That energy… it feels like…!"

"Felius has fallen!" Andrew instinctively knew. "Jennifer, Daphne, Code White Flame!"

Before anyone could question what that meant, everybody's shadows suddenly slipped away from under their feet. "My shadow!!" Wendy gasped.

"GOD SAVE US, EVERYONE!" Jennifer cried. "BURN IN THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS!" A thousand suns appeared in the sky, ensuring there was no place for shadows to hide. All the shadowless heroes combusted into white flames, for Loneliness' Toll would take their lives.

In the few seconds it would've taken to destroy them, the Sandmobile WHOOSHED in from the light and crushed Jennifer flat. The suns vanished, eyesight returned, and the flames extinguished. "Did somebody call a fireman??" Sandman announced.

"DAD!" Dillon cheered.

"Why, Hairstress!" Henry Churchill formed above them. "How delightful to see YOU here!"

"Hairstress?" Crystal hasn't been called that since, "HENRY?! YOU'RE one of the World Leaders?!"

"I'm at my limits with colorful hair at the moment. So, allow me to destroy you swiftly." Henry swooped a swarm of Sun Papers at the heroes.

Hidden from view, Sector SA heard the conversation. "What did Henry mean by that?" asked Nagisa.

"He has a phobia of people with colorful hair." Goombella said matter-of-factly. "It was in his data files. He used to be an operative, you know. Boy, I would hate to be you guys."

"Hmmm…" The blue-haired boy was concocting a plan.

Moonbase

Bon Clay Jr. stood by Cheren's bedside. With both hands cupped over Cheren's left, Clay gazed at his leader's face. "Cherry Pie… I know you're in there somewhere. You aren't one to die that easy. Perhaps I could just kiss you and wake you up… but I know you don't love me that way." Clay smiled softly. "I believe in you, Cheren… I always have… And if I didn't have feelings for Alexei… I would keep chasing you."

"I'm touched." Clay gasped and whipped to the entrance: Alexei Abramovici stood with the Inferius of Ape King Gaul.

"Lexi… you came back!" Clay cried tears.

"We're not staying. My master has ordered me to tie up any loose ends. Gaul…" Alexei pointed, "Destroy Cheren's body."

"Yes." The Demon Ape hissed and raised his dual swords.

"PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE!" Ruby socked Gaul with an armored fist and tipped him over. "No one's getting their grubby hands on OUR leader!"

Star Haven

Nebula soaked her feet in the Fountain of Dreams, smiling as Jirachi happily floated in the magic water. Her communicator rang, and she saw her brother was calling. She answered, "Hello? …Zombies? You can't be serious. Fine, I'll be there in a minute." She slipped on her shoes and ran outside. "Mom, you're not gonna believe—hu-!" She gasped.

"Oh! My niece…" Dimentio Z. Winkiebottom smiled warmly. Behind him, Dimentia threatened to shoot him with a Starburst. "I was just telling your mother how I miraculously rose from the dead. Like a flower blooming after a cold winter."

Nebula shot a Starburst, but it was absorbed by his Logia body. "Aha ha ha… If I wanted to, I could slurp this entire galaxy in the palm of my hand." Dimentio clasped the air in his right hand. "But I won't close the show before it even begins. You see, Nebula… you never would have defeated me if I didn't let you."

"You LET me foil your diabolical plan to destroy the universe's matter? You know, there's easier ways to get yourself arrested and killed."

"That's not to say I wasn't trying to win… but I knew I was going to lose. I also knew he would come back for me. And he has. Lord English has come back for me."

"Lord… English?"

"Sister." Dimentio faced his twin. "I spent too much time with Nebula on my last visit. I want to catch up with you as well."

Dimentia trapped Dimentio in a Space Block and exploded it. "I'll wait until the afterlife."

Dimentio merely regenerated. "I can't wait that long…"

The island quaked powerfully when another force made impact: a purple alien titan with black and gold armor, missing his left arm. "Ah, but it seems you have another reunion." Dimentio observed. "I'll leave you to it. Ciao!" He took Dimentia and splorped.

"Mom!"

"No running, dear!" Thanatos poofed before Nebula and used deathbending to put her to sleep (not permanent).

"So, where is this Fountain of Dreams?" Thanos asked.

"In there!" Thanatos pointed at Star Sanctuary. "Say, Thanos, can I call you something else? People are going to get confused."

Ignoring his request, Thanos stomped toward the sanctuary and tore the roof off with his right hand alone. "AAAH!" Jirachi cried. "M-M-MONSTER!"

"I'm more than that, Newborn." Thanos held Nebula's sleeping body. "If you don't want your caretaker to meet a horrible end… you will do something for me." He wiggled his stub.

Jirachi knew what he wished, but with Nebula's life on the line, he was afraid to say no. The Firstborn channeled his magic and made the fountain glow. Thanos knelt down and dipped his stub in the water. A brand new arm grew from it like a plant, the Mad Titan flexing its purple fingers. Thanos placed Nebula down and raised his restored hand: Thanatos fixed the Infinity Gauntlet over it perfectly. The Infinity Stones shone like stars upon the knuckles.

"Thanos is REBOOOORRRRN!!!" The titan raised and flashed the powerful gauntlet. "…?" He realized there was a color missing from the index knuckle. "Wait a minute! Where is the Soul Stone?!"

"We're on our way to collect that, don't worry." Thanatos assured.