78. The Girl With Blue Hair

Washington

"President Jessie, we've evacuated all the citizens to the underground shelter!" Richard Teague reported.

"Make sure they stay safe." Jessie stood beside Kimaya, Suki, and Sheila. "I think we're going to be here awhile."

The four Lights were facing the Inferi of Carter Pewterschmidt, Prince Hans, and James McGarfield. "Man, I wish I was at Mariejoa with me mates." Sheila complained. "But 'ey, it's best not to have all the Lights where the World Leaders can grab 'em."

McGarfield turned his fist iron and charged at Sheila, who spun her Light Fist and collided it with his. "Ouch!" Sheila jumped back, shaking her fist. "Dang Haki!"

"This beats the Lazarus by a mile!" Carter laughed as he threw punches against Kimaya's Keyblades. "Why drown in that filthy hole when I can have an invincible zombie body?!"

"This time, I don't intend to lose what's mine." Hans assured.

"NO you WON'T!" shouted Suki. "I mean… YES you will! Er, right?"

"Just fight them." Kimaya told her.

GKND H.Q.

"HEY, GUUUUYS!" Revan announced to the prisoners in the dungeon. "Did ya miss me?!"

"Wa-ha! NO WAY!" Control Freak screamed.

"IT'S BRAIN!" Mad Mod exclaimed. "'e's back from the dead, he is!"

"In the sort-of-flesh!" Revan used Force Lightning to destroy the cells' terminals and disable their barriers. The villains cheered as they escaped and gathered around their leader.

"Serves Wuya right for running off!" Jack Spicer proclaimed.

"Come on, villains! Let's get revenge on those Kids Next Door the old Revan way!" Revan Bane captured them all in a massive teleport.

"BIIII!" Upstairs, Celebi and Team Vweeb were trapped in Tallest Dirk's Fear Scream. Emperor Palpatine was about to strike Force Lightning, but Jerome opened a wormhole to catch it and redirect it at Dirk. Tronta tossed his bladed Light Discs to slice around the zombies' bodies. "Someone oughta call Earth and ask them if they know anything about this."

"I don't know why Nebula hasn't come, yet." Jerome said. "I'm going to Star Haven. If you cannot kill the zombies, try to detain them." He warped.

The Noah

"NYAAAA!" Big Mom gnashed at Mandy and Azula, who both pushed their sword and flaming foot up at the giant's teeth and poured great strength to keeping her aloft. The lady pirates jumped away as Big Mom's teeth loudly SNAPPED. "Using fearbending on her only makes her worse." Mandy observed.

"Ma ma maaaa! Azula, your blue fire looks tastyyy! I want iiiiit!" Big Mom drooled poison acid on the deck. Azula set fire to make a great explosion, but Big Mom's bulbous body was only slightly bruised before it self-healed.

Sherry Linlin had long pink nails that she swiped at Augustus and Henrietta, and they avoided in fear of catching the Candy Virus. "This is a beautiful ship you've found. Perhaps if you showed this to the family, they would forgive your betrayal, darlings."

"I'm not coming back, lady." Augustus told her. "All your family was trying to do was infect the Earth with your virus."

"Sorry, but there were way too many creeps over there, anyway."

On Captain Slag's ship nearby, the Hyrule Slag was clashing swords with the Inferius of his Terminan counterpart. "Hyrule Slag… I'm sorry for not responding to your email. Ay've been dead, you see!"

"It's okay, Termina Slag!" the former cried. "All is forgiven!"

The twin Rusty Petes sniffled. "That's so beautiful!" they chorused.

Inside the Noah

"If you Nel… you… me?" Nel asked her older self.

"Augusus take Nel back home." Older Nel replied. "Nel no know why she back… but Nel want talk to Augusus. Will Nel take Nel to him?"

"Um… Nel guess she help Nel." replied the younger, confused cavechild.

KND Moonbase

Ruby pelted Gaul with rapid punches using her mech fists as rockets, and Sapphire caught him in psychic to throw him toward the main bridge. When Liberty Belle ran to the Ape King sword drawn, the ape slashed one of his own, but Libby jumped off it to slash Gaul in the face. "AHH!" The ape punched Libby across the bridge, but was hit by light rays cast by Hibiki Lates.

"Why on the moon are you trying to destroy Cherry's body?!" Bon Clay yelled as he kicked his slippers at Lexi's hammer and cane. "Do you think he's alive after all?!"

"I don't understand why, but my masters ordered it!"

"SCREW your masters! How can you still work for them after knowing King Andrew's being controlled by that Octo-thingy?"

"Because they are right! All of history's tragedies happened because some fool was too drunk on power to control himself. It would be better to live in a world where no one could possess the kind of godly power benders can develop."

"And you're putting your faith in a bunch of fools who became so drunk on power, they passed out without remembering where they slept. You're right about power-hungry fools, Lexi, but your faith is in entirely the wrong place."

"And YOUR faith was placed in the hands of this boy! My masters know how he died, Clay: he was trying to attempt the God Tier, a transformation known only to the unstable First Dimension. He tried to do the unthinkable and shed his mortal coil. He was so hungry for power that he believed such a lie and killed himself without a second thought. Tell me why I should follow a boy so foolish?!"

"Because Cherry did it for us! Everything he's done has been for us! And if there's even the slightest chance his soul's still kicking, I'm putting every ounce of faith in him!"

"You're disgraceful, Clay! Even if his precious transformation managed to work, he would be beyond every one of you. He would have the arrogance of a god no mortal should have, sitting high in Heaven and watching millions of mortals clash and die beneath his feet. And yet, even though his intention has failed, you still idolize him as if he WERE a god! You SICKEN ME!" With a forceful swing of his hammer, Clay was smashed on the floor.

Alexei stepped over and marched for Cheren, only for Clay to kick and wrap his slipper's neck around Lexi's leg, perform a flip, and slam the teenager on the floor. "Cheren was born as a mortal being, and he'll always have the heart of a mortal! Because even if we're different on the outside, we share the same heart. Cherry will love us forever and he will never abandon us! You hear that, Cherry Pie?!" Clay faced his leader. "Wake up as soon as you can!"

God's Domain

Yuki Crystal found himself dodging spells cast by Rumpel Stiltskin's Inferius while Nolan was exchanging punches with Dracula's. The Sandman's Armament Haki was able to bruise the vampire's diamond skin, but it didn't change the fact he was a regenerating zombie. "You know, a vampire zombie is plain unfair on its own." Nolan commented.

"It matters not to me, as long as I attain vengeance." Dracula hissed.

"My, they play together so well." Henry Churchill floated above Crystal with papers orbiting him. The low half of his body was simply papers in the breeze. "Just like we used to, Hairstress."

"But you were better than this, Henry." Crystal stated. "My brother said you became the most respected Sector Leader in the Kids Next Door, so respected that all the other European sectors signed up under you."

"That is all true, and to this day, I still cherish my memories in the Kids Next Door. That is why I couldn't ignore King Reggie's proclamation. The Spirit World Project will save the Kids Next Door and let their reputation continue. If your love for them is as strong as you say it is, you'll understand."

"I can't understand why I should put my faith in some crazy adults who woke up a zombie army. Sorry, Henry, but this has to end."

"I'll say!" Vaati flew at Henry and stomped him in the face with an Armament kick, his Logia body reassembling and bouncing on the ground. "Thanks for rescuing me, Wendy!"

"Oh dear, this isn't fair at all." Henry patiently stood up. "You fellas need to put family first." He made a whistle.

"Wendy, behind you!" Carla yelped when Voldemort appeared and cast the Death Curse, only for Vaati to take the blow for his daughter.

"You shan't lay a finger on Wendy!" Vaati stated. "Horcrux or not, she is still my flesh and blood!"

"If you had a shred of love for her, you would-" Carla began.

"Carla, we can talk about that later!" Wendy said. "Dad, just keep them busy. I'll fight Henry."

"And Crystal, I was referring to you, too." Churchill said as the Inferi of Travis and Ellen Wickens rose from the grave.

"Travis! And… I suppose you're one of my ancestors as well?" Crystal inquired.

"I never had any children." Ellen corrected, blasting magic at Crystal against her own will. Just as well, Travis leapt to kick his now-elder sister, who blocked with her staff and cast flames at Travis's head.

Rachel Uno used Haki to strike Andrew with her sword, but His Highness needed only little pressure from his fist to defend. "Fighting me is a hopeless effort." The King spoke. "In the past, I outmatched you. In the present, my power is beyond you."

"What about ME?!" Chris Uno landed several feet on Andrew's left, and Rachel jumped away when her son fired a Combustion Beam. Andrew punched the beam as his armor went undented by the explosion. "You're that Sir Knightly guy that was with the Big Mom Pirates! I think you owe me a rematch."

"Chris, don't get close to him!" Rachel yelled. "I don't want him to hurt you!"

"What, like YOU have any better shot at beating him?!"

"LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER!" Fanny Drilovsky shot down at Andrew as a fiery drill, missing her target as The King predicted her action. "This boy may have his fancy 8-ball, but our kids ain't worth pittin' against him."

"LIIIIIGHT!" Jennifer Bush created a giant sun and set all the shadowless fighters on fire again.

"AAAAAH!" Sectors SA and IC screamed.

"If we keep going without our shadows, we'll be vulnerable to sunlight!"

MaKayla cried.

"HUH?" Suddenly, the flames vanished, despite the sun was still shining bright.

"Huuuurrr…" Midna had connected numerous Shadow Possessions to all allies on the field. "I'm using my power to become everyone's temporary shadow. It kind of hurts, so do something about that woman. Quickly!"

"With pleasure!" Mika grew into a Psycho Giant and squished Jennifer flat. The sun vanished as the woman lay in a shoe-shaped crater. "Ooooaaa…" Jenny was revived by the angels' chorus.

"Jennifer kept herself alive through Palutena's God Chi for 2,000 years." Diancie recapped. "No matter how many times she's killed, she comes back to life."

"That's like an infinite lives cheat code." Sunni stated. "Totally not fair."

"I'll tell you what's unfair is using Firstborn to win!" Jenny argued. "That stupid Shadow Princess needs to burn-!" She tried to shoot a beam at Midna, but Morgan grabbed her former master in psychic and threw her across the town.

"Midna can't safely release her hold as long as Jennifer is standing." Mika said. "Sunni, wanna try and pin her down?"

"Sure thing, Mom!"

"Mew, Mew!" Mew cheered. The three psychics plus Morgan flew to where Jennifer landed. She hadn't apparently died this time, but she held malice intent as she recovered.

"Her body may be really old, but it's biologically younger than all the other World Leaders." Morgan explained. "Keeping her down should be easy."

"WRONG, MORGIE!" Jennifer threw Crosses at Mika, Morgan, and Mew. "Holy Crucifix Sealing!" The Crosses shone with light and slightly penetrated the three's bodies.

"Ack!" Mika grunted. "I… can't move!"

"The Crucifix Sealing binds you in place even if you're a Logia!" Jenny smirked. "And if you try to use chi, you go STABBY!"

"I'll just kill you and remove them myself!" Sunni drew her lightsaber.

"DON'T EVEN THINK IT!" Jenny wagged a finger. "Those Crosses are meant to stab them if I die, even though I'll come back to life. I'm getting sick of getting killed, so this time, someone will die with me! Maybe I can't kill the Firstborn, but I sure bet it's gonna hurt him a lot."

"So, you can't fight by yourself, so you're forced to threaten people, huh?" Sunni inquired.

"I can fight perfectly fine on my own! Especially against a bubbly little psychic like you."

"My mom is the bubbly one here. You may be a sunbender, but I can be a real hothead, too. Why do you think they call me SUNNI?!" (Play "The Thieving Magpie" from Batman: Arkham Origins!)

Boss fight: Jennifer Bush

Power Levels: Sunni – 4350. Jennifer – 7700

Sunni formed a bubble around herself, launched skyward, and dropped to Jennifer like a giant bullet, but the World Leader jumped out of her high heels and evaded. Sunni rolled her bubble to Jennifer, but the Leader called "FLASHY-FLASH!" and became a blinding sun. Sunni shut her eyes and dropped the shield, then was stamped in the face by Jenny's foot. Sunni grabbed her lightsaber and used Aura Sense, but the light penetrated her lids too strongly and allowed Jenny to kick again without being seen.

"I thought your name was Sunni, is it too sunny? WAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" The psychic listened for the cackles and slashed her saber in that direction, but she merely cut through thin air. "OOOF!" Somebody else landed a flying kick on the adult child and knocked her away.

The light faded, and Sunni's blurry vision cleared to reveal her sister. "Darcy!"

"You're lucky I learned Observation Haki. Let me help fight her, Sunni."

"TWO AGAINST ONE'S NO FAIR!" Darcy barely dodged Jenny's Sun Beam, and when the woman flipped to shoot beams from her feet, Sunni tried to bounce one back with a barrier, only for it to burn. "Ah ha ha ha! There's nothing hotter than the sun! Your measly barriers won't block it!" Sunni chucked Psycho Spheres that Jennifer nimbly evaded, the woman dancing like a child in a flowery meadow as she made her way to the psychic, ducked, and grabbed Sunni's arm. Jenny whirled around and around before throwing Sunni skyward, spawning a sun that she would crash into.

"Sunni!" Darcy used psychic to pull her sister to safety.

"Darcy, I appreciate the help, but I can take her alone."

"Not without Mew's help! And if you hit her too badly, Mom and the others are doomed."

"But what can you do?"

"If I get close enough, I can chi-block her, and you can mind-trick her to-"

"What are ya TALKING ABOOOUT?" Jenny erupted a sun between them, making the sisters shut their eyes and step apart, and the Leader followed this with a circle of suns around both. The suns whirled around, and despite their attempts to fly, they followed at their level. The psychics teleported out just when the suns closed in, then Sunni grabbed Jenny in psychic to throw her at Darcy. Sunni kept Jenny bound by psychic, but this didn't stop the Leader from Flashing and blinding them with her sunlit body.

The psychic bind burned off, leaving Jenny to leap and stamp Darcy's head to the ground. When the light dimmed slightly, Sunni ran to her sister's aid, noting the bruise on her forehead. "Hum hum hum, hum hum…" Jenny was innocently dancing not far away, so a furious Sunni tossed a Psycho Sphere, but it bounced off the mirror and back to its owner, Sunni quickly kicking it skyward. "Refraction makes me anywhere, even though I'm nowhere!" Jenny sung.

"Ugh!" Sunni growled at the dancing Jenny clones around the field. "And I can't even hit too hard or else she'll die. I… What do I do, Mom?!"

"I really don't know, Sunni." Mika replied. "Even if we were willing to be sacrificed, she'll keep coming back to life."

"BOO!" Jenny popped out and kicked Sunni from the side. She jumped on Sunni's chest and kicked her across the face with each word: "I – don't – like – being – ignored!" She jumped off before Sunni could retaliate.

Sunni rubbed her cheeks and stood, glaring at the dancing Jenny Refractions. "Hmmm…" She decided to try something: "I don't see why you're worth my time, Jennifer. You're just a child that doesn't know any better. Beating some sense into you would be pointless."

"I am NO CHILD!" The Refractions faced her angrily. However, they were all facing random directions. "As you can see, I'm 25, not 5!"

"Yeah yeah." Sunni kept her saber raised and navigated the mirror maze. The Refractions were turning to "face" her. "That's why you're playing these games instead of facing me like a grown-up."

"Not MY fault you can't find your way around a hall!" The mirrors shot beams that Sunni swiftly deflected with her saber.

"You probably couldn't find your way to your classrooms! It's a wonder you haven't grown up."

"Well, excuse me." Sunni noticed a reflection facing her direction. Behind her was another one. "But how many children have a big blossoming chest like-"

Sunni chucked a Psycho Sphere at one, it bounced off, so she ducked and watched it collide with the real Jennifer. "The bigger the target, the easier." Sunni retorted. The light faded, so Sunni grabbed the Leader in psychic and yanked her over. "Perhaps this'll jiggle some knowledge in your brain!" Sunni held Jennifer upside-down and shook her.

"U-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u…" Jenny babbled like a bobbling child.

"Hee hee hee!" Mika giggled. "You'll make a great mother, Sunni!"

"Hey, you got her!" Darcy beamed after recovering.

"Now's your chance, Dar. Do a mind-trick."

"NO NO!" Jennifer Flashed again and escaped. "Try to catch me!" With light on her feet, Jennifer zipped all around God's Domain as a white blur. "Over here!" She appeared behind Sunni—zipped when she swung the saber. "Now here!" In front of Darcy, but gave her no time to prepare a psychic grip.

"Hee hee ha ha!" Jenny ran all the way down Mariejoa and back up, and from far away it looked like a white line spiraling up and down the mountain. "Wheeeee!" Jenny zoomed for Sunni so fast, she may just cut through her. "WAAACK!" Mary Goldenweek leaped in front and KICKED Jenny in the face, zapping her with a surge of electric. "HEEEEY! You can't do that!"

"I can, too!" Mary showed the yellow crayon colored under her shoe. "I use Shock Crayon to run super fast!"

"I run faster than you!" Jenny zipped off, so Mary pursued. A white blur raced a green-and-yellow blur from everyone's vision, it was a race between Light Feet and Lightning Feet. The two forces began to bump into each other, with Jennifer being stronger than Mary and knocking her down. "You don't deserve to have my mother's name!" snapped Jenny. "Stupid Imaginary!" She leapt forth to stamp the painting child, but Sunni pulled her away.

"You okay, Mary?"

"I am! Let me go at her again!" Mary colored Glue Crayon on her hands and zipped around again. She and Jenny chased each other, and when they were going to collide, Mary leaped and clamped her hands onto Jenny's eyes.

"WAAAAH! I can't see!"

"Don't hit something hard!" Mary grinned, directing Jenny toward a building. Jenny pierced through the marble like it were nothing. "Huh?!"

"Nothing blocks the Light of God!" Jennifer allowed Mary to control her, not stopping at any building or statue she crashed through.

When they passed by the castle, Mary glanced at King Andrew. "Let's see for sure!" She drove Jennifer toward the bad man that killed Cheren's dad, but Andrew easily saw their movement and dodged. Mary directed Jenny to Andrew three more times before The King used the Octogan to Stop them.

"Thank you!" Sunni hovered above and used psychic to pull them toward, flying away, and Andrew couldn't retaliate when Chris shot a Combustion Beam at him.

Sunni dropped Jenny and Mary beside Darcy before the latter pelted Jenny with physical chi-blocks. When the Stop wore off, Mary pulled her hands off Jenny's face, and the Leader's body bumped in the places Darcy hit, a delayed reaction to the chi-blocks. Darcy bound Jenny with psychic as the woman-child kicked her feet. "Let me goooo!"

"You will calm down." Sunni waved at her face.

"No I will not!"

"You will calm down…" Sunni did it more softly.

"I will… calm down…" Jenny stopped squirming.

"You will remove the seals from Mika, Morgan, and Mew."

"I will remove the seals from Mika, Morgan, and Mew."

Darcy released the grip, and Jennifer calmly approached the three prisoners. She raised both hands—and clasped her fingers. "AAAHH!" The three screamed when the Crosses pierced.

"HA HA HA!" Jenny laughed. "Physical chi-blocks don't work on me, and I have God to protect my head from brainwashing! But I'm going to punish you for trying to cheat! Time to spurt blood!" Jennifer tightened the bonds.

"MOM!" the girls cried.

"Huh? Wait a minute!" Jenny noticed the pink auras on the Crosses. Mew was the one responsible. "You can't do that! My Crosses should've stabbed you!"

"It looks like Mew used his psychic to keep the Crosses away from his vitals, then he focused his chi around Mom and Aunt Morgan's." Darcy observed with a bright smile.

"Talk about delaying the inevitable!" Mika laughed nervously.

"NOOOO it's not fair, it's not fair!" Jennifer stomped her feet. "No one defies God's will, I'm gonna-" Before she could strengthen the Crosses, Sunni leapt and sliced the Leader's head clean off.

Mika, Morgan, and Darcy gaped as her head bounced on the ground and her body fell. Mew focused his power to keep the Crosses out of their flesh. "Ooooooaaaa…" The Holy Light shone, bringing Jenny to her feet, levitating the head, and reattaching it with spiritual glue. Sunni grit her teeth and sliced Jennifer to pieces, but her parts reattached. "Dang, you really are unkillable!"

"MEW MEW MEW!" Mew cried as more pressure was added to the Crosses, forcing him to use stronger psychic.

"I don't think Mew is going to hold them for much longer!" Darcy yelled.

"Ah ha ha ha! That's what you get for messing with me!" Jenny lit her feet with light and leaped to the top of God's Castle. "But if you wanna see someone be killed, I'll just kill ALL OF YOU!" A massive sun appeared in the sky, raining smaller suns upon the mountaintop. While all the combatants were defending their selves, the Great Sun was slowly lowering toward the town. "I BURN! Caaaan't hooold meeee doooowwn…"

"What's that crazy girl doing?!" Anthony yelled as Diancie blocked the suns. "She'll burn herself and her friends!"

"Fortunately, my Octogan has the power to undo what has been done." The King said. "I will revive my allies and restore this mountaintop."

"Man, you are the royal King of Trolls!" Chris remarked.

"GRRRR!" Sunni flew up to Jennifer and sliced her head off, the sun vanishing as it fell. The angels sung as the head reattached. "Not uhn!" Jennifer respawned the sun, so Sunni chopped off the arms and kicked her down to a lower roof. With another heavenly song, the arms reattached again.

"MEEEEEEEWWW!" The Crosses grew stronger each time Jennifer died.

"Sunni, stop killing her!" Darcy cried.

Sunni clenched her teeth, looking between her mom and the descending sun. She couldn't just let everyone die, but she would hate to let Mom and Morgan die. "…Wait!" Sunni flew down to them and cut a Creative Summons, calling Ghost Dude from Foster's.

"YO! If it isn't my favorite kidney carrier!" the cool skateboard ghost flashed a grin.

"Ghost Dude, can you make those three intangible? We need those Crosses to get through without killing them."

"That's gonna be tough, dude. But I'll try!" Ghost Dude brought the three close and wrapped arms around them. He focused his ecto energy around them without touching the Crosses sticking partway in their flesh.

"EVERYONE, KEEP THE SUN BACK!" Sunni and Darcy projected a psychic shield, MaKayla and Miyuki cast Rewind on the sun, Wendy cast a pink shield at it, and Index contributed her own lightbending. After a minute, Ghost Dude managed to make the psychics intangible.

"MEW!" Mew released his psychic and the Crosses shot through without hurting them.

"IT WORKED!" Sunni shot up and STABBED Jennifer in the chest. The sun disappeared, but Jenny Resurrected.

"You little cheater! I'll just use another Sealing!"

Sunni beheaded the Leader before flying to the pavement before the castle. "I think you need a spanking!" Sunni cut another Creative Summons. She channeled a great surge of psychic, and a tremendous red dragon with two mouths burst into being.

"SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON?!" Morgan gaped.

"Oh, didn't you know?" Sunni cocked a brow. "I tamed him a week ago! Lucky I didn't sic him on you."

"Grrrr- hu!" When Jennifer recovered, she gasped at the humongous dragon. Slifer charged a mighty beam in his mouth and burned it against Jennifer's unending body. She was in a soot-filled crater on the castle's roof, but the light revived her again. "OOF!" Slifer struck her. She came to life. "OOF!" Slifer struck her, she came to life.

"Slifer the Sky Dragon attacks all enemies in its wake, and doesn't leave until they're all gone." Sunni smirked. "Which means as long as you keep coming back, Slifer will NEVER leave you alone."

"OOF!" Jennifer died, she came to life. "OOF!" She died again, but was brought back on her feet.

"Have a nice eternity, Jenny." Sunni sheathed her lightsaber.

"THAT'S my little girl!" Mika cheered.

"WOO, Sunni!" Darcy followed. "I guess I wasn't much help after all…"

Sunni placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled bright. "I missed having your help, Darcy! After this, let's train together again!"

"He he!" Darcy blushed. She glanced up at Slifer, who now created a rhythm between his breath attacks and the angel chorus restoring Jenny. "So, we're just going to listen to that the whole battle?"

"SILENCE!" Meloetta appeared and cast a Silence Shield over the two. "There! That should make it less annoying."

"Works for me." Sunni shrugged. And so, the war continued, with Jennifer trapped in an endless loop of dying and Resurrecting. (End song.)

"Huff!" Midna dropped the Shadow Hold. "I hope she stays out of the game a while. Dillon, we need to locate Daphne and get the others' shadows back."

"Dillon, watch out!" Danika yelled when Isabelle sent Akita to attack him, but thwarted by Mario. When Isabelle wrestled Danika for her dagger, Nolan York tackled the zombie. "Nolan!"

"Hey Dani, sorry to interrupt, but I'm dealing with an issue of my own."

"Danika!" The woman looked up in terror to find Dracula. "My love! Fate brought us together again…"

"You led DRACULA here?!" Danika shouted.

"It wasn't my fault!"

"Danika… are these the people you were telling me about?" Isabelle looked at Nolan and Dillon. "Are they your husband and son?"

"Yes, we are." Nolan answered.

Bella smiled. "You've been taking care of my daughter all this time… Has she been happy?"

"More happy than I've ever been." Danika said.

"…I'm glad to hear that." Bella closed her eyes. "I hope I get to see the others soon." Her body glowed with a soft light. Nolan climbed off, staring in awe as Isabelle's spirit rose to Heaven, her green eyes beautiful and full of love for her children. The Inferius body crumbled, exposing Daniel's corpse underneath.

"What… just happened?" Dillon stared.

"So, the Inferi DO have a weakness." Andrew observed. "If the souls feel a great sense of joy or relief… the spell on them breaks. But it is such a minor weakness that will become irrelevant soon."

"And what will relieve YOUR soul?" Rachel asked. "Seeing everything you used to love crumble apart by your hands?"

"Everything was ALREADY crumbling before my eyes! I am the only one who can stop it!"

"Look us in the eye and say that, Andrew. Take off your helmet and let me see you say that with your own lips."

"Hmm…" Andrew bowed his head and placed both hands on the helmet. Chris, Aurora, and other operatives watched with great suspense. The King removed his helmet and crown: he had messy brown hair, slightly tan and dirty skin, and a single blue eye, while the left was replaced by the Octogan. His hairstyle was extremely recognizable by his biggest fans.

"I…I knew it." Chris gasped as memories returned to him. "I kicked your helmet off… and saw your face. …Numbuh 100…"

"It really is him…" Eva whispered.

"But… why?…" whispered Aurora.

"When I was young, I resented this life." Andrew spoke. "I was born as Prince of the World… My father chose me… Every day, he put this… THING in my hand and forced me into pain worse than any kid can imagine!" He seethed and cupped a hand over the Octogan to ease the rage. "I didn't want to follow my father's… insane beliefs. All I wanted… was to lead the Kids Next Door." His right eye teared. "They… were my true family! I wanted to lead them forever. I wanted to leave Mariejoa and live with my brother and Mom in their average little house. But after my fake decommissioning, I used the Octogan and continued to watch them. I was proud of the progress they were making… but it was all for nothing!

"I watched my organization become filled with benders and nonhumans, not knowing they were slowly rising to their own destruction. I should've been proud the organization was becoming more respected and more diverse… but the Octogan showed me it was never meant to be that way. The Kids Next Door were not meant to evolve beyond shunning healthy food and eating candy. They were not meant to combat powerful entities or BECOME powerful entities… All this chaos was destroying the universe. That's why… I need to undo what the ancient gods have done and separate the worlds."

"Andrew, it was never our fault these evil powerful entities appeared." Rachel stated. "But the only way to stop them was to become stronger than they were. We had no choice but to grow up. That's exactly how we're going to stop the Apocalypse. What you're doing isn't going to work, Andrew. Please… take the Octogan out and join us."

Andrew looked at the ground and panted, contemplating. …He scowled and faced up. "My vision is greater than all of yours. I can't stop now."

"Then I guess we'll need to force you." Matthew Dimalanta drank Purple Flurp and blasted a huge cloud of gas over Andrew. The King blew it away with a gentle outpour of energy—Maddy Murphy leaped forth in Haki Fury to seize the gem in his eye.

At that instant, Andrew vanished and was replaced by Rob Lucci, startling Maddy as the assassin punched her away. Lucci stepped toward Maddy with rage in his sharp green eyes. "You didn't think I was dead, did you?"

"I saw that trick coming before you even conceived it." Andrew said. "Just now, I froze time and went to bring Lucci for a rematch. And speaking of reunions," He snapped his fingers and summoned the Inferi of Nigel Uno and Don Quixote Doflamingo, Sr..

"Fufufufufu!" Doffy grinned. "I heard the news that Cherry was dead! A student is only as good as his teacher." He slashed strings at Rachel, who blocked with Haki in her sword.

"I'll help ya, Lass!" Fanny stomped Doffy with a Fire Torpedo, doing little to scorch his body.

"Dad…" Chris felt emotional, facing his undead father.

"Chris… I'm sorry I couldn't train you as well as Fanny." Against his free will, Nigel turned into a dragon and spat flames at his son. Chris regretfully blasted Combustion Beams that wouldn't damage the dragon's immortal corpse.

"Ahh, reunions happening all around!" Henry beamed with glee. "I suppose you know how it feels, don't you, Wendy?"

"You're not planning to tell me where Chelia is, are you?" Wendy asked seriously.

"Section 6 of Not Fearing Your Foes is don't comply with their demands. You can run all around the world and cry an ocean of tears, but still I won't tell."

"I'm done with crying." Wendy said firmly. "I'm done with feeling bad or feeling pitied. I'm a wizard, and I'm going to fight you!" She raised her Lamia Scale.

"So be it. Then it's time I be rid of my fears once and for all!" (Play "Power-Hungry Fool" from Smash Bros. Brawl!)

Boss fight: Henry Churchill

Power Levels: Wendy – 3030. Henry – 6973

Wendy ran from the swarm of papers pursuing her and cast Incendio behind her, but Henry spawned in front and cast paper shurikens to lightly cut her skin. Wendy cast an Aero shield around herself to breeze any papers away, only for Henry to sap the shield away with Vacuum Papers. "When you're as rich as me, Wendell, you can afford all sorts of exotic papers. Who says dead trees don't retain an ounce of life? Even poison oak." Henry unveiled papers with purple poison tips. He shaped them into planes and sent them at Wendy, who cast Incendio to burn the planes.

"The only thing that can hurt him is fire." Wendy figured. "I guess I'll have to keep using Incendio." Papers glided around and tried to latch onto her, so Wendy burst an air bubble to push them off. She ran circles around Henry to form a tornado, the paper man's body scattering and swirling in the vortex. "Ventus Tria Incendio!" She cast a fiery tornado that was sucked into the larger one, setting fire to all papers inside.

When the flames eventually dispersed, there was a ball of soggy-looking papers floating in the center. "And they thought a paper man wouldn't last in a world of superpowers." Henry's wry face peeped through the bubble. "But a paper man with fire-resistant Sea Tree paper is a different story."

"Then I'll try Glacius!" Wendy cast ice at Henry, but the Leader easily sent Sun Papers to counter the cold. Through the steam that resulted, Maple Papers glided down and stuck around Wendy's body, including her face. Wendy blew a strong breath to push the paper off, then saw a paper with a Japanese symbol coming.

"CHILD, JUMP AWAY!" Carla cried.

Wendy gasped and jumped far back with an air boost before the Paper Bomb exploded. Wendy fell on her back and had a hard time getting up with the papers sticking her to the ground. "Transfiguro!" She turned the papers into mice that scampered off of her, just in time to dodge the large Paper Drill Henry dried to impale through her. "Papers are like ants." Henry said. "One is nothing to fear, but put a bunch together, they're simply backbreaking." Henry shot textbooks from his body, pelting Wendy's face three times before she cast Reditio to shoot the books back, but they merely reentered his body. "Why, make a cluster of ants big enough and they'll crush your bones." Henry expanded his body to terrific size as a giant textbook emerged.

Wendy and Carla gaped at the Textbook History of Textbooks, 20 feet tall. They ran 30 feet away and narrowly avoided when Henry threw it. "How many papers can you possibly HAVE in that grotesque body of yours?!" Carla shouted.

"As much as the imagination is limitless." Henry extracted ten rolled-up Paper Bombs and threw them around Wendy, who sealed her and Carla in a Protego to block the explosion.

"WENDY!" Vaati yelled, having shattered Voldemort and Lestrange with Reducto. "Logia benders have infinite spaces inside their bodies! They're able to contain enormous amounts of their own element! But I'm sure he has a limit. Paper isn't as common as air." He refocused on his fight when the two Death Eaters respawned.

"Then I just need to destroy all the papers I can!" When Henry shot rolled-up textbooks, Wendy cast Incendio on them, but the World Leader threw Sea Papers to douse the flames and reuse what remained of the books.

"I hate to treat literature in such a manner." Henry opened a copy of Fairy Sisters at Wendy and shot each individual page to deal papercuts. "Unless they consist of colorfully-haired characters like these girls."

Wendy cast Ventus Tria Incendio to burn all those papers in one fell swoop. "What do you mean by that, anyway?"

"When I was little, I had a terrible fear of those with colorful hair, due to a nightmare wherein a blue-haired witch boiled me alive. Now I realize that nightmare was the very prophecy the Octogan predicted. The only one I have to fear is you, Girl With Blue Hair. But I will not allow you to kill me."

"I don't WANT to kill you, Henry! Please, tell me where Chelia is and I'll leave you alone."

"If that is your promise… I will let you see her." Henry's body expanded as a lump emerged from his papery chest.

Wendy was horrified to see it was a slumbering Chelia. "Sh-She's been… inside you?!"

"Sleeping like a baby." Henry pulled Chelia back in. "We planned to have Daphne's scientist alter Chelia's brain so she would consider us her friends and then take her God Chi with the Sun Chi Lantern. Sadly, we had a delay in that plan, so I chose to keep Chelia inside me and use her as my trump card. So, if you are able to strike me with a fatal blow, she may share the pain."

"GIVE CHELIA BACK!" Wendy leapt and dove at Henry, only to go straight through and pull some papers along.

"I know what your greatest fear is, Wendell: to end up alone and be responsible for the deaths of your dearest friends. You now know what a monster your father is, the dark powers you inherited from him. But I'll be glad to end your cursed life." He launched Poison Papers, which Wendy burned with fire.

"Accio Chelia!" Wendy aimed her wand at Henry, but her friend wouldn't come out.

"Child, that spell can't summon sentient creatures to you." Carla reminded.

Henry molded Paper Bombs into planes to send them to Wendy like missiles. She raced around Mariejoa and stayed far enough away from their individual explosions. Wendy gasped when she stepped in a patch of Paper Bombs, but Carla was quick to grab her master and pull her up to safety.

"Psst, Wendy!"

She heard a voice inside her right ear. "D-Dad?"

Carla noticed the tiny Minish in the ear. "What are you doing in there?"

"I managed to Apparate Voldemort and Bellatrix to a desert. Before they return, let me help you save Chelia. Place me inside one of Henry's books."

"Okay, Dad. …" Wendy noticed the History of Textbooks was still on the ground. "Why hasn't he absorbed that one, yet?"

"Perhaps because it is so large, it takes some time." Carla assumed.

"Then I have an idea." Wendy raced back to the massive textbook. "Just so you can't use this one again: Reducio!" Wendy shrunk it to the size of a regular textbook. Her Minish father hid on the top of the cover while Wendy set fire to the bottom of it. "Have a gift, Henry!" She used Leviosa to throw the book back to Henry, but the paperbender wrapped Vacuum Papers over it and threw them elsewhere.

"Silly child, I was keeping my eye on that nasty rebel. Trying to infiltrate me, are you? Not today!" Henry cast more Maple Papers that Wendy burned with Incendio, only for a Paper Bomb to fly in the fire and blow Wendy several feet. Henry glided toward her, but Wendy hopped up and blew her Sky Dragon Roar to scatter his papers. Henry reformed and extracted huge thick paper folders from his person. As Wendy destroyed them with Reducto, Henry announced, "I shan't be absorbing any more papers into my being. As long as Chelia is in my captivity, I'll be safe from your wrath."

"Guess again, Henry." Vaati Apparated a few feet behind Wendy, his arm around Chelia.

"WHAT?!?" Henry's paper eyes nearly popped out.

"Dad!" Wendy was surprised as well.

"After I minimized, I sent a magic clone to inform you of my plan, Wendy." Vaati explained. "That same clone was the one you tried to send inside him. When Wendy blew that Cyclone Roar just then, I seized the chance to meld my Logia form with it and grab one of Henry's scattered papers. I must say, the inside of a Logia's dimension is fascinating."

"Oh, you want fascinating, Mr. Red Eye? Then I'll FASCINATE YOU!" Henry blew high above Mariejoa and opened his Logia dimension. His body growing round and wide, all the battle's participants were gazing up into a vortex of Paper Bombs. "It will be nice to rid these from my insides."

"Seriously, we just did this!" Sunni and the psychics projected a shield.

"Sirius is dead!" Morgan joked.

"No, I'm right here!" the Sirius Inferius stated.

"Oh! Well, never mind then."

"I fear that may not be enough. Child, quick, cast Protego!" Carla pled.

"I can't create a shield that large! Unless…" Wendy glanced down at Chelia's skirt. "…Accio Chelia's Lamia Scale!" She aimed her wand a random direction. The group was growing nervous and impatient at the slowly-descending Paper Bomb Collection, but to her utter surprise, another Lamia Scale flew to Wendy's hand.

"I can't believe that worked!" Carla exclaimed.

"Then I hope this works: PROTEGO ENGORGIO!" Wendy cast the spell with both wands, sealing God's Domain inside a massive pink bubble. The Paper Bombs flashed and lit the mountaintop with the powerful explosion. But thanks to the unbreakable shield, they all went unscathed.

The shield dispelled as Henry descended to the ground. "You're very clever, little Hairstress. But if you are true to your word, then you will leave me alone… won't you?"

"…Yes." Wendy bowed her head. "Now that my friend is safe, I have no quarrel with you."

"Hm hm hm… but that does not mean I will leave you alone, Wendy." Papers stood from Henry's body and threatened to rush at her. "If there is even the slightest chance you are my killer… I will make sure to be rid of you."

"And what is the chance… she isn't?" a voice asked from behind him. (End song.)

Henry turned. He gasped with the greatest horror: there stood Nagisa Shiota, whose sky-blue hair was hanging down, and his blue eyes shining with murderous intent. There was a katana locked firmly in his hand. "It… can't be…" His papers quivering, Henry turned back to Wendy. "T-T-Two… blue-haired girls?!"

Nagisa stepped forward. "Eyah!" Henry flinched at hearing his footsteps.

"I know what your greatest fear is…" Nagisa spoke with a devilish smile. The world seemed to darken in Henry's vision. Only Nagisa's eyes, hair, and smile were visible on his shadowy form. "To think that you can't escape fate… the strong possibility of death. Especially to a cold-blooded person like me."

"No-o-o…" Henry fearfully stepped backward. "It ca-an't be… true…" He glanced back at Wendy.

"You were so fixated on one… you didn't even suspect another." Nagisa was getting closer. "All your efforts to defy your fate gone to waste." He raised the sword.

"Huff-huff, huff-f-f-f. . ." She was as terrifying as the witch from his dream.

"I bet… you taste delicious." Nagisa licked his lips.

He threw the sword up. Henry faced it. Nagisa leaped, grabbed the hilt, and sliced down the middle of Henry's body perfectly. Wendy was struck with horror when both halves of the body fell apart.

After light returned from the dark fantasy, Henry's body halves were revealed to be quivering on the ground as scattered papers. "You… didn't hurt him?" Wendy asked.

"I was eavesdropping on the fight." Nagisa explained. "I study how to knock people out by using fear and wanted to see if I could pull it off. Normally, I only use a rubber knife." He held the katana up. "But since he was a Logia, I knew it wouldn't hurt. Mrs. Uno, you can have your sword back!"

"Thank you, Nagisa!" Rachel Uno ran up, reclaimed the sword, and resumed clashing with Doflamingo.

"That was… really impressive!" Wendy smiled. "You looked so brave when you did that!"

"It was nothin'. So, is that the friend you were talking about?" They looked to Vaati, who was knelt on the ground with Chelia in his arms.

Vaati removed some papers under Chelia's clothes. "It seems Henry was numbing her senses with Powder Paper. Powder Trees make you very sleepy indeed. She should wake up soon."

"Her hair…" Morgiana approached Chelia curiously. Their magenta hair made them very similar. When Morgiana rubbed Chelia's legs, she confirmed, "She's a Fanalis."

"A Fanalis?" Wendy questioned.

"Do you know her, Morg?" asked Nagisa.

"No, but I can tell. We should bring her someplace safe until the battle is over."

"I'm so glad she's okay…" Wendy sighed with relief.

"I bet she'll be glad to see you again." Nagisa told her. "You were awesome just now! I bet you'll make a great operative."

"That means a lot! I sure didn't think I'd meet another blue-haired girl, though."

"I'm a boy, actually."

"Ack!" Wendy blushed. "I didn't mean to call you that!!"

"Ha ha ha! It's no big deal."

Morgiana stared at their playful interaction in silence. The world turned dark around her now. Only Wendy and Nagisa were highlighted. What is this… feeling in my chest? Is it… jealousy? That girl with blue hair… am I to consider her my rival?

Voldemort and Bellatrix Apparated close by. "My Lord!" The latter gasped when Voldemort fell to his knees, his artificial body decaying.

"What's happening to him?" Wendy asked.

"I assume it's his soul." Vaati reasoned. "Voldemort created seven Horcruxes in his time, all of which were destroyed, leaving his soul mortally wounded. It seems even his Inferius body can't support itself."

"It's a sad state of affairs, isn't it, Tom?" Albus Dumbledore remarked. "An eternal life of pain."

"How DARE you!" Bellatrix hissed. "Mocking my master when he is so ill!"

"Half the World Leaders are down." Vaati declared. "Keep doing your best, Wendy, and we will defeat the others!"

"Absolutely!"

Los Angeles

"AH ha ha ha ha ha!" Davy Jones laughed at the three children before him, namely the black-haired girl holding Water Fists and standing beside Manaphy. "So, the Ocean Princess has had a daughter-ah! What luscious fruit they have wrought! Tell me, Melody Jackson…" His beaming tentacled face became a deathly glare. "Do ya fear death?"

"You wouldn't know. I guess my mom didn't kill you good enough." Melody waved twin spirals of water around Jones. The water glowed golden as she channeled spiritbending.

"Aaaaahhh…" Jones sighed and displayed an expression of eternal relief. "BAAAH!" He pulsed and blew the water off, whipping the kids and sending Manaphy several feet. "Spiritbending will not heal MY soul!"

"Mana…" Manaphy weakly recovered. "MANA!" He was grabbed by Truman Kirman.

"Who are you?!" Melody shouted. "What's your problem?!"

"All I need is a single tear." Truman forcefully squeezed the Sea Prince and held a cracked yellow diamond under his tear duct. Manaphy leaked a tear and dripped it into the diamond's crack.

The diamond glowed as the crack miraculously healed. It floated to the air; the kids and Jones gaped as a body of light grew from the diamond. Three times the size of an adult human, the humanoid shape regained solidity and quaked the ground. A giant yellow woman with high-heel boots and a diamond on the chest: Yellow Diamond. "It's about time."