F-11. The Thanos Problem

Hivebent

The Sandmobile made it back to Hivebent after escaping through the Heartless fleet. Midna carried Dillon in her Hair Hand while Kayla helped Yuki walk. "It's Dillon and the others!" Aurora said happily. "And they got Midna!"

"They look pretty beaten up." Haylee said. "What happened?"

"We fought Madara Uchiha." Midna answered. "We destroyed his main body, and I have his shadow under suspension."

"So, that's another Darkness down?!"

"Hey – not to be a party pooper, but my heart kinda got stabbed- COUGH!" Yuki coughed, clasping his chest. "I'm using ice to hold the wound shut, but I could use some healing medication."

"Come on, I'll take you to Melody's room!" Haruka gestured them to follow. "We'll patch you up!"

"DAMMIT! Why couldn't you guys have captured Madara ALIVE?!" Karkat shouted.

"Under the circumstances, we weren't too concerned about following the 'no killing' rule." Nolan stated.

"You Don't Understand." Kanaya replied. "I've Intercepted One Of Bill's Calls, And He's Ordered Thanos To Revive Madara As Soon As Possible."

"You're kidding me!" Vanellope protested.

"We only survived that battle out of luck." Midna said. "I doubt we could do it a second time. Why haven't you done anything about Thanos?!"

"Because he's fucking powerful!" Chris proclaimed. "Remember when he destroyed the Earth and brought it back to life just for fun?! That coulda been the end of us, just like that! I mean, YOU guys don't have any ideas, do you?"

"Not Us." Kanaya answered, still viewing her computer. "However, According To The Phone Call, 'Thanos Has No Time For Weaklings, And He'll Revive Madara When It Matters To Him.' Before That Matters, We Need To Take Him Down Now. And It Seems Those IDA People Sent The Very People We Need!"

They heard a noise in the hangar and ran to see who was landing. It was a red and white jet with multiple cannons. Nolan, Dillon, and the Gilligans were in awe at who climbed out of the jet: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Bruce Banner. "You call this a base?" asked Tony Stark, his mask opening up. "I mean, I'm all for simplicity, but a few high school photos would do wonders."

"HOLY slag, it's the Avengers." Nolan tried to contain himself.

"Please give me your autographs!" Artie pleaded, hands folded.

"Our fame has spread far, it seems." Thor said. "Though, if I may ask, do any of you know a woman named Phosphora?"

"Okay, save the fanboy orgasms for later." Karkat stepped forward. "Give us the good news, Team Tights, the IDA sent you to tell us how to beat Thanos, so what's the juice?"

"Riiiight… Thanos." Bruce Banner smiled and nodded at memories. "Ahem, kids, there's only one thing you need to know about Thanos, and once you know it, the rest will come easy."

"And that is?" asked Aurora.

"Thanos is invincible. You should stay away from him." Cap finished.

They all collapsed anime-style. "I'm afraid he speaks the truth." Thor followed. "There was never anyone like Thanos in our universe. We teamed up with every hero we could find—all the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy… and at the end, Thanos was standing on a pile of our bodies."

"That part was so amazing." Artie was crying at the irony.

"If Thanos kicked yo' butts, then why are you still alive?!" Harry questioned.

"All of a sudden, Thanos just disappears." Iron Man shrugged. "But it wasn't long after that, our universe is tearing apart and this 'IDA' is saving our asses."

"So, you have NO idea how to beat Thanos?!" Chris complained.

"Calm yourselves." Thor said. "Now that we are here, we will not rest until Thanos falls. Other denizens from fallen dimensions are gathering to help us battle the Titan."

"Unfortunately, Thanos' Keyblades give him the advantage over inter-dimensionals." Karkat said doubtfully. "It'll be as easy as a flick of the finger. The only chance we'll have at defeating Thanos is using what's probably the most powerful Firstborn we designed."

"MR. CRYSTAL!!" The kids heard Haruka and Melody's voices.

Team Sandman were the first ones to head to Feferi's room where Yuki was being treated. He was lying dead on the jelly bed, his expression frozen agape. "Y…Yuki!" Nolan choked.

"H-His heart turned to solid ice and BROKE!" Melody stuttered. "Like, we closed the wound, and I was warming my water… It just BROKE and completely disappeared, and I can't heal him like this!!"

"Yuki… was fighting another icebender." Carol remembered. "I wonder if she did something…"

"Yuki…" Nolan sighed in remorse. They shared a moment of silence over their second casualty.

"Suki and Miyuki will be heartbroken." Dillon said. "We better call them, anyway…"

"So, who's the powerful Firstborn you designed?" Chris asked impatiently. "If it can beat Thanos, we need it now!"

"SH3 H4S 4LR34DY GON3 TO COLL3CT H1M." Terezi assured.

Land of Wind and Shade

Planet Indo was a peaceful planet that hadn't yet been touched by The Thirteen. A gentle breeze whisked across this world. The entire planet was a deep blue, and its salamander denizens bathed under a sky of golden stars.

Vaati and Wendy POOFED in the middle of a field, scaring the nearby salamanders. "DAD, please take me back!" Wendy pled. "My friends really need me, I have to go-!"

Vaati grabbed her daughter in a hug. His left eye leaked a tear. "Wendy… I thought you were dead. I felt the piece of my soul that was inside you shatter."

"Um… the Fairy Sisters helped get rid of my curse."

"The Fairy Sisters?" Vaati glanced at her hand. "THE FAIRY'S TAIL!" He gaped ecstatically, snatching the legendary wand. "You actually have it?! You went to Fairy World and took it?!"

"No, Princess Mavis entrusted me with it!" Wendy snatched it back. "Dad, the trolls said that you were possessed by Lord Voldemort! Please tell me that isn't true!"

"Hmmm…" Vaati bowed his head. "I am not possessed, so to speak… but I am sharing this body with Voldemort. We worked out an agreement and decided, with our powers combined, we could learn unstoppable and countless forms of magic."

"But why? Isn't he the kind of person you despise?"

"He is. And it sickens me. But it's for the greater good." Vaati smiled. "By working with The Thirteen, I have finally been able to access the Original Worlds! The very realms I sought for ages! I even found YOUR Original World! I found the Original Wendy and Charle! The resemblances are uncanny!"

"Dad, Lord English is destroying the universe! How can you work for him, this goes against everything you-"

Vaati cupped a hand over her mouth. He leaned closer and whispered to his daughter, "Voldemort and I have another understanding, too: we despise Lord English. Based on Bill's information, a creature dwells on this planet; a creature that Lord English fears. Its name is Typheus, and it is a wind spirit. He ordered me to this world because he wanted me to destroy Typheus. But what I want you to do instead is harness its power."

"But why is Lord English afraid of Typheus?"

"I do not know the exact reason, but if it is a secret to his destruction, we need Typheus' power. And a powerful airbender like yourself will be unstoppable with it."

"No, Dad." Wendy turned away. "I…I can't trust you. You lied to me about my mom. You abandoned me. And now you're working with the enemy!"

"I know I have done terrible things, but above all my ambitions, the one I love the most is you. And I have done all I could to protect you and your friends from evil. I won't ask you to forgive my past decisions, but I would like you to trust me now. We and all your friends… we will destroy Lord English. Please."

"…" Wendy remained silent for a moment, secretly fiddling with her wristwatch. Then she turned to her father with a smile. "At least I know you're always looking out for me. And you wouldn't do anything to hurt me. I can trust that much about you."

"Of course, Wendy." Vaati smiled. "No matter what, I only want the best for you, and I will protect you from anything. So… shall we be off?"

"Lead the way, Dad!" Wendy grinned.

"I'm… not actually sure where Typheus is." Vaati scratched his head sheepishly.

"Oh. Well, it's a good thing we're fast! I'll find him first!" Wendy dashed off.

"Wait, Wendy!" Vaati raced after her.

Xehanort had been watching from behind a jagged rock, smirking. "Mmmm… such an innocent girl. And such a lovely young heart."

The Galactic Sea

The Galactic Sea was an expansive realm that seemed to take up 70% of the First Dimension. It may have seemed like water, but it was really a cluster of billions of little stars, glittering for light-years and light-years. It was more vast than the planets that loomed above them, so an ordinary ship would be impossibly tiny, never to find one end of this sea to the next. The only ship that would have a chance would be the great Noah itself.

"Alas, my crewmen, it seems that a pirate's life is never to be satisfied." Augustus Fizzuras spoke sadly from the helm. "Just as I thought Earth's blue sea was endless, I remembered there was an endless universe beyond my gaze. How I would've loved to sail this galaxy, for both my fallen mate Sunny-Fist Sheila, and all the pirates who've perished before their time. Were I only immortal, I would happily-"

"I saw you makin' out with a picture of Penelope." Rallo interrupted him.

"Hmph. Brat. Uh-oh, it looks like we're coming up to some islands. Time for a little detour."

"Hold on." Nebula spoke from the deck. "He's here. Jirachi is here, I can feel it. If he's really our only shot at beating Thanos, I need to find him." (Play "Rainbow Resort" from Kirby: Nightmare In Dreamland!)

Stage F-8: Star Cake Archipelago

Mission: Find Jirachi's Egg Chamber!

Nebula flew off the Noah and landed on the first star-shaped island. Five Cosmic Embers (flaming star spirits) brimmed into being, spiraling around Nebula before casting flames at their center. Nebula dodged and shot Starbursts at the spirits, but this caused their flames to expand as they shot mini fireballs. This was followed by the Embers bouncing on her, but she withstood the attacks and flew higher, pelting them with more Starbursts. The Embers grew so big, they POPPED.

Nebula bounced on a series of floating stars that led to a bigger island, which looked like a purple hill-shaped cake with gold icing. Three Heartless that took the form of three-layered cake appeared, ramming Nebula with spiral flame shields. Nebula caught the cakes in Space Blocks and exploded them, but the Heartless survived and attacked her with candle fists. Nebula splorped one of the cakes upside-down above the other to make them splat, and when the third cake punched at her, she quickly made a portal for the fist to go in and punch itself.

There was a purple star tree with a Catch Card stuck in it. She flew up to get the card, and the person inside was Tiff, a light-yellow girl with a ponytail. "You know, before this, I told my brother that he was gonna become a trading card if he kept obsessing with them."

"Did he?" asked Nebula.

"Nope, they turned him into a bobble head."

"Oh, dear. Well, I'll keep an eye out." She put Tiff away. Nebula crossed the island to a spire that looked like a giant candle, its purple and white stripes spiraling upward. She made a Space Block stairway going up the candle, and from the top, she could see a tall, distant blue isle with orange icing. Nebula ignited the giant candle with Space Lightning, causing a glittery path to lead to said island. The path turned sideways and upside-down, but Nebula could make it a Gravity Path to stay on, keeping balanced on the narrow path and avoiding the Li'l Sparkies that looped around some parts.

When she arrived at the blue and orange isle, she was ambushed by a Mega Solrock and a Mega Lunatone. The Solrock had wide open eyes and was burning while the Lunatone was a brimming full moon. The Solrock made balls of fire appear around the isle that would fly at Nebula, who dodged and cast Starbursts back. The Lunatone made Psycho Spheres rain down, forcing Nebula to defend with a Space Block. Both Pokémon created a giant fireball and Psycho Sphere to collide into the platform, but Nebula splorped both forces behind the opposite casters and KO'ed them like that.

More star platforms appeared to take Nebula to the next landmass, which was bigger with large red mushrooms that had white icing. Dark Ztars rained around the field, with one of them aiming for Nebula every few seconds. The Ztars could pierce through her Space Blocks and hit her, so the only safe havens were under the mushrooms. A glittering river traveled through the middle, coming from a waterfall at the end. Nebula decided to dive in the river, finding a secret cave under the waterfall.

Inside was a Catch Card, containing a big-headed boy named Jimmy Neutron. "Say, you look like a strange one! Are you a denizen of the virtual world?"

"Not to my knowledge." Nebula put Jimmy away. She swum back to the mushroom field, where she jumped up a stairway of shrooms to get onto the waterfall's cliff. From there, she rode a slide down to a purple glass field on the surface of the sea. She slid across it like ice, but it seemed that shark fins were cutting across it on their way to her. She shot Starbursts at the Star Sharks when they jumped out, leaping over the broken parts they had cut as she kept skiing. By the time she was skiing through a more vast area, the sharks stopped appearing. (End song.)

"Sigh… At least I get a break." Nebula sat on the ice for a rest. "My spacebending's not what it used to be ever since I shrunk the planets… took too much energy. Once Jirachi's back, I'll be good as new. WAAAH!" A giant red tentacle burst up through the glass near her left, followed by another one further back.

A massive octopus erupted from the sea, and upon its head was its squid-faced tamer. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Davy Jones laughed. "Arceus could only have been thinking of ME when he conceived the idea of a Space KRAKEN-AH!"

"Davy Jones! So, you are alive after all. I'll fix that." She shot Starbursts up, but the Kraken caught them on his tentacles.

"This beast feeds on stardust, Lassie! With him under my command, I will sink all who sail upon the Galactic Sea. Starting with you, Nebula. Your soul will be MINE!" The Kraken smashed its tentacle down at her, Nebula jumping away as the glass shattered.

Nebula hurriedly skied across the sparkly field, watching for the tentacles' shadows and dodging away from those spots. Tentacles began to spring up in front of her, requiring more evasive maneuvers and leaping over broken areas. The ice took her across a narrow, snaky road, the Kraken smashing several parts and forcing her to make careful jump-turns. The ice was ending, so Nebula had to make Space Block stairs up to a straight, long isle over the sea. The path sloped up and down, and when Nebula looked back, the Kraken was charging a powerful beam. She was safe from the beam while hiding in the down slopes, but the beast was crushing the path as it followed her.

When the path sloped up, Nebula had to quickly shoot Cosmic Embers obstructing her, again filling them with Starbursts until they popped. The Kraken was charging another beam, and Nebula barely made it to the top in time, taking cover in another ditch to evade it. The path ended, but Nebula could continue fleeing over a series of floating star platforms. They were far apart and scattered, so Nebula had to float to them, but without warning, the Kraken would whack random platforms away, forcing her to redirect her flight path before she would tire.

The platforms led her to a floating rainbow slide, in which she had to maneuver around Kraken tentacles that sprouted up in random parts, then make a great jump to following slides before running off the current ones. She then landed on a star-covered road along the surface, running as fast as she could on high-heels as the Kraken chewed along the path. Jirachi's Egg Chamber was resting on the top of a rainbow fountain. "RAAAAAH!" It seemed she would not reach it before the Kraken had dinner.

"VEERM!" Augustus mimicked the sound of a speeding car when he RAMMED the Noah into the behemoth. "You know, animals gotta stop jumping in front of gigantic vehicles, we can't see 'em!"

"Just this once, I won't report you to PETA!" Nebula smiled in gratitude, making the quick sprint to the rainbow fountain and jumping up to the Egg Chamber.

Nebula slapped her hand on the chamber's hatch, a blinding light flashing out of it. It could be seen for miles over the Galactic Sea, shining like a mini sun. After the light faded, Nebula reopened her eyes. Jirachi's body drifted out of the egg, wrapped in his golden cape like when he was a baby. He opened his eyes and unwrapped his cape – which was now a whole cape instead of divided in two halves. His 10-year-old face was human, his star head was now a hat on white hair, and the rest of his white body looked like pajamas.

"Jirachi…" Nebula smiled.

"Hiya, Nebula!" Jirachi greeted energetically. "BOY, I slept greater than I did in 100 years! I don't even have that after-stiffness!"

"That's wonderful, Jirachi! I thought giving me your chi would've made you a little exhausted."

"Nah, I had plenty to spare! In fact, I might even have too much. WOO, I just wanna burn it off like a sun!"

"In that case, I know the perfect way." Nebula turned to the Noah and called, "Augustus, play with Jones later! We're setting a course for Emera!"

Planet Emera

The landscape around the Diamond Palace was a warzone—the Avengers fought alongside other heroes to battle Gem warriors, Heartless, and robotic Akuma. "Hm hm hm hm. How pathetic." Thanos chuckled, watching the conflict from his throne. "None of them even bother to face me. The least they can do is destroy my soldiers. But I can easily revive as many soldiers as I want. And if I wanted to… I can obliterate them all." Thanos frowned and stared at the colorful knuckles of his gauntlet. "Just like I did to the Avengers. Sigh…"

The Cipher Hotline rang. Thanos boredly answered. "Big guy, I'm still waiting on that Madara resurrection. I'd like it now, before we get interrupted by something else."

"Why should Thanos concern himself with incompetent underlings?"

"Because if we run out of incompetent underlings, then a certain Mad Titan ain't going to get the world of his dreams."

"Have you forgotten? Thanos already has the power to create the world of his dreams. And yet… it would feel so empty if I did. Sitting at the top of the cosmos, all the power I could ever hold… it feels lonely."

Bill poofed before him in a burst of flames. "Did you forget it was thanks to LORD ENGLISH you were able to have this much power?! You had better show your gratitude and do your part!"

Thanos flicked him away. "You are lucky Lord English is the only one stronger than me. Otherwise, you would not enjoy yourself so much. But as long as Thanos sits upon this throne, this universe is mine to control. No power can challenge me."

"Grrrr!" Bill rubbed his eye. "Listen you stupid oaf, you're about to bite off more than you can chew! If you don't revive Madara now, we won't be able to do the same for you-"

Thanos aimed his gauntlet as the Soul Stone glowed. "Shall I reduce you to your meager pre-existence, Child?"

Bill gulped. "Er… Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you." He poofed.

Kimaya and Sector KB landed on the grounds close to the Diamond Palace. They watched as a small pod designed like a kitty head crashed near them. Nepeta stylishly flipped out of it, swiping her claws at two Pearls upon landing. "Thanos hasn't bothered to notice us, yet. He must be too busy staring at his claws. ;3 The rest of you should scat and battle the enemies. I'll lead Kimeowa to the- BIRDIE!!" She tackled Bon Clay Jr..

"YOWIE! I'm flattered, darling, but I gots allergies!" Clay frantically pushed her off. "Fellas, these ladies need their private time! Make sure these fools know it!"

"Agh! Guys!" Ruby grunted, clasping her head. "I think something's trying to control me! I feel—ERAAAH!" Her eyes went blank as she threw a flaming punch at Libby, who channeled Haki to her sword to block it.

"It looks like ve are having other plans!"

"Just do what you gotta do, girls!" Hibiki shouted.

"No prob, dancin' dudes!" Kimaya drew her Keyblades. "Lead the way, Catgirl."

Stage F-9: Diamond Grounds

Mission: Seal the Heart of Emera!

Kimaya and Nepeta raced through a crystal fissure, slicing Pearls that jumped out from the corners. The fissure led to a chasm area with a narrow bridge, where three Amethysts were rolling across in their ball form. They unwrapped as the first one punched at Kim, who blocked while Nepeta leapt to the furthest back one. She stabbed her claws in its eyes and pushed it off the bridge. Kimaya used one Keyblade to block an Amethyst's fist and used the other to shoot it in the eye, afterwards knocking it off. Kimaya slashed the middle Amethyst from the front, Nepeta pushed it from behind, then Kimaya knocked it off during its imbalance.

Past the bridge, the girls were in a trench path, where a gem cannon was blasting giant bombshells from a platform at the end. "Stay by me!" Kimaya yelled. As she and Nepeta crossed the valley, Kim crossed her Keyblades in an 'X' to form a barrier that would block the bombshells. They drew closer to the cannon a few steps at a time, and when they were just below it, Nepeta pounced up and entered the cannon, attacking the soldiers inside. Nepeta peeped out and gave the claws-up. She and Kim climbed over the cannon and exited the trench to an open field.

Gem saucers flew over the field, shining attraction beams along the ground and trying to catch the girls. Kim and Nep were caught in one, and were quickly forced into a battle with two Pearls and three Amethysts. Nepeta zipped around the room and left a slashing claw trail that damaged the Gems, then Kimaya finished them by putting her Keyblades together, channeling Poison Chi, and blasting Gas Bombs. With the enemies dealt with, the ship dropped them back on the surface. They took care to evade other saucers to not waste time fighting. There was a Catch Card inside one of the green crystals, so Kimaya broke it free.

The person in the card was a tall, lanky man named Sheldon Cooper. "You know, it's bad enough that geology is considered a science, but the best thing about rocks is they had as much intelligence as a gun-slinger on crack."

"Yeh, and the best thing about cards is they shut the *** up or get bent." Kimaya put him away. The girls crossed the field to another entrenched route. A tall crystal pillar towered on the edge of a cliff, and Nepeta climbed to the top of it to make it lean toward a foothold. Kimaya crossed the chasm with the crystal, and when Nepeta hopped off it, it would stand back up. They would have to cross a series of crystals sticking out of the left trench wall. Nepeta stuck her claws in that wall, listening for vibrations with her keen hearing. She began to leap over certain crystals, telling Kimaya they were safe.

The girls made it to a tall crystal and had to climb it out of the cliff, changing position on it to avoid falling Li'l Sparkies. At the top of the cliff, one last field lay between them and the base of the Diamond Palace. A swarm of Akuma floated down to obstruct them. Nepeta's claw swipes and Kimaya's light bullets couldn't penetrate their armor. Suddenly, green energy blasts shot the Akuma—a white-haired boy in a blue coat and a girl dressed in black and red landed before the duo. The boy's left arm was a cannon and the girl wielded a scythe.

"Hi there! You kids on your way to that castle?" the girl asked.

"Don't try to fight the Akuma." the boy told them. "Only we can damage them. If you're trying to stop Thanos, we'll give you a way forward." He charged a laser and burned a hole through the Akuma swarm.

"Yo, can I try that gun one day?" Kimaya asked the girl.

"I don't see why not!"

"Hold ya to it." With that, Kim and Nepeta made a break for the palace, and every Akuma that tried to attack them was shot away by their new allies.

"This way! Down here!" Nepeta slashed open a crystal patch on the ground, revealing a deep dark hole. Kimaya shot a beam of light from her Keyblade to light the way down. "It's safe, don't worry." Nepeta began to Wall Jump down the hole, and Kimaya stabbed her Keyblades in the side to scrape down.

The two set foot on the bottom and progressed through the tunnel, Kimaya using her Keyblade light to see. "You really sound like you know your way down here."

"I did reconnaissance around this area a few times and found this tunnel. Karkitty mew it would come in handy."

There was a neon light at the end of the tunnel. Kimaya dispersed the light when they arrived at the chamber, gazing at the colorful shining heart floating between two crystals. "That's the Heart of Emera, where all the Ether comes from."

"Ohh, i'n't it… What's Ether, again?"

"Magic, silly! :33 The Diamonds all harnessed their power directly from the Heart, but now Thanos is using it. If you seal the Heart with your Keyblade, it'll block his control over the Gems. Of course, with no one stabilizing the Ether, this planet might explode. Hopefully, Crest has been rescued by now."

"'Hopefully'? If it's dangerous to seal, shouldn't we wait?"

"We need to beat Thanos as soon as pawsible, otherwise he'll k33p reviving the Darknesses. Besides, it's only a matter of time before the Heartless find this room. Just seal it, hurry!"

"Ah right!" Kimaya aimed both Keyblades at the Heart and cast a beam that sealed the Heart inside a rectangular barrier consisting of bright white, crossing bars.

Outside

"Huh…?" The blankness in Ruby's eyes went away. "Guys, did I just black out?"

"Ruby?" Hibiki lowered his guard. All around the planet, the Gems were regaining a sense of conscience, with no memories of recent actions.

"Something's happening." Thanos observed, flashing his Power Stone. "I can't call energy from the planet, anymore. OOF!" A hammer crashed across his face.

"You look elsewhere, Thanos." Thor said as the Aven-Jet hovered close. "Perhaps this altitude has made your mind clouded."

"It's been a long time, Avengers. But it seems you have not learned from your mistakes." Thanos jumped and destroyed the Aven-Jet with one punch, but after flying through the smoke-

"Getsuga TENSHŌ!!" An orange-haired boy in a black robe slashed a black wave from his sword, cutting Thanos' face. "Guuh!" Ichigo was sucked into the Soul Stone. Thanos slowed his descent before touching the crystalline earth, and was approached by Naruto Uzumaki, Monkey D. Luffy, and Natsu Dragneel.

"Gum-Gum KING KONG GUN!" Luffy hurled his enlarged iron fist.

"Fire Dragon's BLAZING FIST!!" Natsu formed scales and charged Thanos in a flaming fury. Thanos warped away with the Space Stone, easily dodging the fearsome attacks and reappearing above to smash them into the ground.

"MASSIVE RASENGAN!" Naruto was ready to smash a giant energy sphere in his Nine-Tails form, but he was rewinded by Thanos' Time Stone until he was in his depowered form. Thanos then used the Mind Stone to put Naruto under submission.

"It's useless! I am the most powerful being in the entire multiverse! I have destroyed hundreds of worlds with a single punch! I ask anyone, who believes they have the power to truly challenge me?"

"THANOS. YOUR TYRANNY ENDS HERE AND NOW. SURRENDER TO ME OR FACE ANNIHILATION."

"HA HA HA HA! EMPTY THREATS! Who dares speak?!"

"I DO." Thanos looked up and gaped. Nebula D. Winkiebottom's face took up the entirety of the sky and more. "I AM NEBULA, THE GODDESS OF THE UNIVERSE. I AM THE RULER OF ALL BEINGS AND DESTROYER OF THOSE WHO DISRUPT SPACE AND TIME."

"She, is, fucking huge." Ruby stared.

"Goddess Nebula? What an honor to grace your presence." Thanos bowed on one knee. "If you mean to challenge me… what power have you to display?"

"MY ARMY." A fleet of ships suddenly splorped around the sky. They were piloted by Glomourians, Kateenians, Harnitans, Amazonians, mermen, Nimbi, Mushroomians, and many more. "THE COSMOS'S DENIZENS ARE MY POWER. WE ARE KIDS NEXT DOOR. AND WE WILL DESTROY YOU."

Thanos grinned. He aimed his gauntlet, flashed the Soul Stone, and the goddess vanished from the sky.

Nebula, having been shrunk to normal size, landed on the Noah's deck. "That didn't last long." Jerome commented.

In seconds, Thanos warped up onto the Noah. "Very well, Goddess Nebula… I'll destroy you and the pitiful universe you protect!"

Play "Final Boss 1" from Sonic Colors!

Boss fight: Thanos

Thanos punched the deck of the Noah, unleashing a burst from the Power Stone and blowing Nebula miles away from the ship. Thanos warped above her for a mighty punch, but Nebula warped away herself and blasted rapid Starbursts against his face. Thanos sported his smirk after the small amount of pain, using the Soul Stone to fire Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshō, which Nebula blocked with Space Block—Thanos punched his other fist through a portal that came out on Nebula's left, then up, down, punching her from all directions. Thanos warped behind, grabbed her, and threw her in a portal that crashed her on the Noah.

Thanos landed behind her, charging for a punch with the Power Stone. The second the fist flew, Nebula whipped around with palms raised and opened a vortex that vacuumed all the released power. She struggled to keep it open with how much Thanos released, but eventually he stopped. Nebula closed the portal, flew higher, then reopened it, blowing all the power back at Thanos. The force blew him all the way down to Emera's surface, so fast that he cracked miles of gem ground.

"That had to hurt him, Nebula!" Jirachi said excitedly.

"I don't think it's over, yet."

The GKND fleet closed on the area where Thanos crashed. The ground broke into shards as Thanos burst out—the ships bombarded him with cannonfire, but he caught the bullets in portals and redirected them at the ships, taking some down. "AGH!" An airwave cut him. The Glomour Princess, Liaziana landed on the surface and sliced a string of slashes across the air, making light cuts on Thanos' face.

"YAAAAHHR!" Chrysundra, the Amazon Leader, tackled Thanos from behind. "Come on, girls, teach him what gender is in charge!" A band of Amazons gang-piled on him, but Thanos pushed himself up and knocked them off easily. He began to punch away charging Amazons, but one bumped him forward, then another bumped him, and another, Amazons punched him one way and the next.

"GRAAAAAH!" The Reality Stone brimmed with its ghastly red color. Thanos began to grow until his glory could be seen for miles. "Haven't you learned, YET? Puny-minded fools. I have not even used a quarter of my full power! I can bend space, time, reality, and make mush out of your mind and spirit! With a few mere thoughts, I can do THIS!" He channeled power to his brain from the Mind Stone.

Thousands of chunks of crystals ripped out of the ground and swirled in a maelstrom under Thanos' telekinesis. Before he had the chance to wash the fleet under the sea of crushing crystal, the gems were slurped inside a giant vortex conjured by a more massive Nebula. "You think yourself a goddess, Nebula?! Your mind is powerless before mine!" He focused the Mind Stone on her, and for a moment it seemed her mortal mind succumbed to his power.

"Think again, Thanos. I warped my brain to a pocket dimension. The dimensions are linked so I can still think, but the gateways push out other forces like your powers."

"I'll just make use of the OTHER puny minds!" Thanos spread his power and brainwashed the GKND army. They all flew up to Nebula's face and shot at their goddess, so she had no choice but to splorp away. "You dare to hide from Thanos? I will find you…"

Nebula had made herself Kateenian sized and warped into Thanos' godly nostril. "Fortunately, I read Marvel Comics, so I know what each of his stones does. It seems the Mind Stone gives strength to his own mind, and with it he can manipulate others. So, it's the brain I should hit!" When she arrived at the humongous brain, it was sparking with psychokinetic power. Aware of her very presence, the brain zapped lightning, which she slurped into vortexes. She formed Space Blocks against the brain and exploded them, feeling the head quake under Thanos' pain.

"You dare attack the brain of Thanos?! Insects, snuff this vermin out!"

"As you command, Your Godliness!" The Kateenian fleet came flying up the giant nostrils, shooting gas puffs in order to suffocate Nebula like a bug, but the gas was easy to slurp into vortexes.

"I don't wanna crush you, Minks, so step outside for a minute." She warped the Kateenians out of the head and expanded her own size. Nebula stormed Space Lightning upon the brain and could hear Thanos screaming outside. A light burst from the brain, followed by the sound of thunder. (Pause song.)

"Nebula, pass the ball!" Baby Tronta yelled.

"Wuh?" Nebula was a baby as well. She and her fellow operatives were in a kindergarten room, colorful and full of joy.

"Pass the ball, I said!"

"Oh… This one?" She was holding a ball with a star on it. She rolled it to Tron.

"Here, Kavy." He rolled it to Makava.

"Heere, Vwee." She rolled it to Vweeb, but his pea-size baby body got flattened under it. "Oopsie."

"Let us get!" Minksman and a squad of baby Kateenians helped push the ball off and back to Nebula.

"Uhh… Why we heere?" Neb asked.

"'Cause Mom and Dad gots work." Vweeb answered.

"But we fighting Thanos."

"Why fight?"

"Because Thanos bad."

"But fighting bad. I no wike fighting."

"But Thanos bad. We gotta to."

"Do you really think you're in such a position, anymore?" Thanos himself appeared, towering like a terrifying grown-up in the innocent playroom. "You should be a good girl and stay in this alternate reality I constructed. You would be happier… wallowing in your own drool."

"No! I beat you!" Nebula shot little baby Starbursts at him. "AAAAH!!" She felt horrible pain when they struck.

"In the reality I create," said stone was glowing on his knuckle, "when Thanos feels pain, YOU feel pain! For example:" Thanos bit his other hand.

"OOOOOWW!" Nebula felt it in hers.

"Picking on defenseless babies? That's low." Sunni Chariton teleported in the room.

"Who are you?"

"About to get rid of this dumb reality!" Sunni focused, and with a burst of Psychic Chi, everyone was back to Emera. (Resume song.)

"What's this?! You hold powers over reality, too?!"

"That world was just an illusion you created. I just countered with a stronger mind and erased yours!"

"Danks, Sunni! Now we can… WAH?!" Nebula panicked. "WERE STILL BABEHS!!"

"Oh yes, have I showed you the Time Stone?" Thanos cocked a brow. "Here's another look." A bright green brimmed from the stone, further reversing the army's ages until they were zygotes, seedlings, or whatever pre-birth form the various species took. "Now it's only a matter of walking around and crushing each of you."

All the zygotes levitated to the air just then, collected in gravity fields that the Lunarian operatives conjured with their moonbending. "You missed a few of us!" Pyler, the violet-flamed leader of the Solarans, stood with Ruby and the fiery army of the Solar KND.

"Use that stone as much as you want!" Ruby fist-palmed. "We won't age a day before we WHALE ON YOU!" The flaming army rocketed toward Thanos, pushing him backward, then flying all directions around to burn him from all ends.

"Did somebody call us for a war?" George King announced as Sector IC arrived on their S.C.A.M.P.E.R..

"What are those eggs everyone's holding, Miyuki-chan?" Suki asked.

"He's transformed all the other operatives into eggs!" a Lunarian told them.

"I'll fix this." Miyuki declared, channeling her timebending. "You might feel a slight aging, you guys." A huge gray bubble grew around the field, aging everyone in its range until they were back to normal. "Huff…huff… Okay, I'll fix you now." She reversed her friends' ages, since they turned into adults in the process.

"Minions that alter reality, minions that control time…" Thanos observed with interest. "Your collection is more diverse than mine. How did you manage to acquire so many followers?"

"Well, here's your first hint!" Vweeb pounced up to Thanos' face. "It wasn't from making stupid YouTube videos." He punched the Mad Titan with enough force to make him stumble back.

"I have so many because I don't think of them as 'minions.'" Nebula stated. "I built my army with the promise of peace throughout the universe. But what do you prefer, Thanos? Pieces? Allow me to help with that." She opened portals at the bases of Thanos' limbs, severing them from his body.

"I'll hold onto THIS!" Mocha pinned the gauntlet arm down. "Ready, guys?"

"GOT IT!" Sind grabbed the gauntlet, and the rest of his Giant Squad grabbed him from behind, tugging the armwear with all their strength. "It's not… breaking… free! …"

The severed arm blew the giants off with a pulse from the Power Stone. "Did you not think I wouldn't see around such an obvious trick?!" Thanos said as the gauntlet hand formed its Keyblade. "With my Keyblade, I have locked the Infinity Gauntlet and the Infinity Stones to my very arm! I am one with the stones, which means I will forever be invincible!" The Keyblade glimmered, bringing Thanos' dimensionally-severed limbs back together.

"And that's not all it can do!" He raised the Keyblade skyward, contributing power with the Soul Stone. Mocha and the giants screamed when spiritual essence flowed out of their bodies, and the same thing happened with every other operative in attendance. He severed the souls and had them fly into gem shards, the ships, objects inside the ships, as well as their own weapons. All those lifeless objects grew faces and began to attack the kids. "I broke your souls into pieces and am now controlling the fragments! You can only reclaim those pieces by destroying the objects, but without them, your lifespans have diminished!"

The kids quickly began attacking the monstrified objects, but Thanos was slinging energy blasts from the Power Stone to mow down the forces. Nebula trapped Thanos in a Space Block to blow him up, but he withstood the attack and leapt for a godly punch. Nebula whipped open a portal to suck Thanos into the vacuum of Paradox Space, and she would follow him and expand in size. Nebula fired giant Starbursts, but Thanos punched them away and used Reality Stone to grow bigger than her. He followed this with the Mind Stone to telekinetically grab comets and other strange, beautiful features in the space, hurdling them at the child goddess.

Nebula opened portals to catch the objects, grew herself bigger than him, and reopened the portals to shoot the enlarged objects against Thanos. During his weakened moment, Nebula clapped the Titan in both hands and charged Space Lightning. However, Thanos broke out of her hands, flew up to her face, and PUNCHED the gauntlet with enough power to send Nebula flying, blood squirting out of her nose. "Now then… Goddess… time to destroy the worlds you protect!"

He warped to the Noah's deck and stormed inside the ship, searching each corridor. "Shrinking the planets was clever, but it was foolish to leave them so utterly vulnerable! I will crush each one in my godly palm! Ahh, this must be it." He punched open a door labeled Planet Storage.

"Get out!" Jirachi teleported Thanos outside the ship—a giant Starburst banished him further.

"Simple-minded Thanos. Don't YOU understand?" Nebula descended, mismatched hair blowing in a breeze. "My power is harnessed from the faith of the worlds' denizens."

Jirachi appeared beside her and brought all the planets, rotating around them in a spherical fashion. "I can hear them all. The voices of the worlds." Nebula brought Earth, Avalar, Coruscant, and Mushroom Kingdom to float between her fingers. "They kept me company on that boring old ship for three long years. Most of them feared me, but I would not betray them. And day after day, I could hear everyone speak their deepest desires. …Actually, I couldn't hear anything besides my own name, otherwise I would've gotten a headache. But Jirachi, you can hear their desires, can't you?"

Jirachi closed his eyes and listened to the planets. He heard billions and billions of voices. "I wish I had a thousand pies—I wish Kimaya would come home soon—I wanna get that honey (Peter Griffin)—I wanna be in Fairy Tail—I wanna be in Kids Next Door—I hope Dillon and Nolan are okay—I wish we were there with you, Wendy—I want to become like Shiny Chariot—I HOPE THE UNIVERSE GETS SAVED!"

"And now they trust me to make all their wishes come true." Nebula said. "Jirachi, give me their wishes so that I may crush this fool!"

"As you wish!" Jirachi opened his True Eye and released the Golden Light Wisp. It entered Nebula's body, granting her a gold cape and the mighty Galaxia Sword.

"This sword is created from billions of hopeful wishes from across the universe. When it cuts you, you will know the power of Desire, Thanos!"

"Your pitiful wishes are NOTHING to the power of INFINITY! I will unlock the full potential of the Infinity Stones and CRUSH YOU ALL!!" (Play "Final Boss 2" from Sonic Colors!)

A blinding light shone from Thanos' Keyblade, drawing power from all six stones and coursing it through his body. His body turned black with bright blue outlines, displaying a cosmos inside. "INFINITY THANOS!!"

Phase 2: Infinity Thanos

Thanos punched a massive purple ray from the Power Stone, Nebula blocking with the Galaxia Sword as the energy scattered everywhere. Thanos flew up to swing fearsome punches that Nebula quickly countered with the sword, each blow shaking the universe. Thanos warped behind and punched Nebula 10 miles away, and she dodged in time when Thanos warped up for another. She made 20 Space Blocks to explode him, but Thanos rewinded time to return Nebula to position and squeeze her in the gauntlet.

Nebula spun swiftly, flashing lightning from the sword, and called a storm of shooting stars to rain down on Thanos. Thanos used the Soul Stone to give the stars hearts, followed by the Mind Stone to control and have them attack Nebula. She slashed the Galaxia Sword at lightspeed to destroy the stars, but Thanos had the chance to punch her upward, warp in her flight path to punch her right, then down, then SMASH her between his fists—Nebula had actually warped before this, reappearing behind Thanos and opening a portal that exposed him directly to the heat of a sun.

Thanos warped away and used the Space Stone to open gateways to several alternate universes, moving those dozens of gateways toward Nebula and attempting to collide them against her for a terrific explosion. Nebula clasped the gateways in her own bending and struggled to close them. "JIRACHI! I need… more… POWER!" Jirachi granted his master's wish and transferred more chi, enabling Nebula to close the dimensions. She expanded the Galaxia Sword for more universe-shaking strikes at Thanos.

"MORE THANOS!!" The Infinity Titan used the Reality Stone to create an alternate universe with a thousand Thanoses. All of them lunged at her with gauntlets charged.

"JIRACHI!" Nebula sprung up a Star Shield to withstand their combined might. "Bring them here… to help me!"

Cheren Uno appeared in God Tier form. "Hope this makes up for missing the Dimentio assault!"

Liaziana, Minksman, Team Vweeb, the Giant Squad, and everyone from the GKND Army appeared. "YOU MEAN TO USE THEM AS SHIELDS TO BLOCK THANOS?!" the Thanos Army shouted.

"Space is the Element of Openness! My friends are part of my open space, so they share my power!" Jirachi linked another energy beam with Nebula, who in turn divided it amongst all her operatives. They all attacked the Thanoses with even greater power—the Glomourians sliced them to pieces, the Kateenians zipped into their heads and tore up the Thanos brains, the merkids bent water and the Nimbi bent air into their bodies until they popped, the Bob-ombs exploded them like atomic bombs, and the Amazons could crunch the clones with a squeeze of the hands.

"GRAAAAARRRR!" The true Thanos began to grow beyond comprehension. "THANOS IS THE MOST POWERFUL BEING!"

"NO YOU'RE NOOOOOOT!" Nebula quickly outgrew him and tried to compress Thanos' size. "JIRACHI! MORE!" The Firstborn obeyed and gave Nebula the strength to catch Thanos in a Space Block and squeeze him into shrinking. Eventually, the block EXPLODED, and Thanos crashed down to the surface of Emera.

"GUAAAAAH!" Thanos was stabbed by 10 Glomourians. The Kateenians joined together to make a fist, combining their enhanced strength to SMASH him in the ground. Ruby and the Solarans became a colorful flaming drill that nearly pierced his heart. Toadette and the Toads climbed up on Thanos and jumped on him surprisingly powerfully. Mocha grabbed the Titan, swung him around, and hurled him to the sky, where Cheren and Nebula were hurdling down with their swords drawn. The Master Sword and Galaxia Sword pierced Thanos' heart like a golden comet. The Infinity Titan fell to the surface once more. (End song.)

"Okay… that DEFINITELY had to kill him." Jirachi smirked.

"This time for sure!" Vweeb fist-pumped.

They all waited for the smoke to clear. …Thanos was up on his feet, using the Time Stone to repair the wound. "BULLSHIT!!" Ruby burned.

"Don't you understand, yet?! Thanos can NEVER be defeated! So long as the Infinity Gauntlet is in my hand, I can battle forever!"

Nebula gritted her teeth. …She glanced up at Jirachi, then to Thanos. "It doesn't matter how powerful your gauntlet is, Thanos. In the end, the most powerful being here is Jirachi!"

"YOU bet!" Jirachi posed proudly.

"We kicked your butt just now thanks to his power! He's the strongest Firstborn we have in our possession! As long as we have Jirachi, we'll always be superior!"

"Uhh, thanks, Nebula?" Jirachi was confused by all this praise.

"And to think Jirachi isn't as powerful as he used to be. When he was first born, his power was incontrollable. It could've turned the universe upside-down. Thankfully, my mom was around to keep him stable. That kind of power could've destroyed a hundred universes and made a hundred more."

"O-ho-kay, Nebula, talking me up a bit much now." Jirachi laughed nervously.

"Face it, Thanos. You're in for a life of pain and suffering if you continue to fight us."

Thanos frowned, understanding his situation. "I see… so, even my infinite power falls short to his. …" He smirked. "I know what I must do now." Swiftly, he punched Nebula and Cheren away, warped up, and clutched Jirachi in his right hand. "Let us see your original power, Jirachi: one trillion years ago!" He used the Time Stone to reverse Jirachi's age, reverting him to the infant form he possessed for all those boring billions and billions of troubling years. "And GIVE IT TO ME!!" He touched the Power Stone to the newborn Star Child.

"JIRACHI! NOOOOO!" Nebula cried.

"YEEEEES…" Thanos could feel the incomprehensible energy. "YES! AT LAST! IT IS MINE!" A blinding light swallowed Thanos, and through it, the silhouette of his ultimate form was seen. "THE ABSOLUTE… power?" Thanos had become a baby the size of Jirachi, complete with a star hat made from his helmet.

"Kee hee hee!" Nebula and Cheren giggled.

"Um… Ahem, well, this is embarrassing." Thanos said. "Regardless: POWEEEEERRRR!" He was bursting with so much of it that billions of stars were swirling around him and dimensions were ripping.

"Nebula, what've you done?!" Cheren yelled.

"Trust me!"

"AT LONG LAST, THERE IS NO ONE WHO CAN CHALLENGE ME!" The Infinity Gauntlet had fallen off Thanos' arm. "THANOS HAS TRULY SURPASSED LORD ENGLISH!" Nebula watched through the cosmic storm as the gauntlet transformed into a dark Star Rod. "I WILL RULE ALL UNIVERSES AND ALL EXISTENCE! I WILL CONTROL ALL!!"

"Not so FAST, Thanos!" Nebula shouted. "Aren't you FORGETTING SOMETHING?!"

"Huh?" He looked down in confusion.

"You wanna be a Firstborn?! You GOT IT!"

A divided black cape formed on Thanos' back, along with blue ribbons on his star points. "What is this?!"

"Everything that goes with it!" Nebula grabbed the Star Rod and raised it.

The cosmic energy began to mold around Thanos' body. His cape wrapped around him as a purple shell formed from the energy. "No! What are you doing?! Stop!"

"Phenomenal cosmic powers!"

"I COMMAND YOU! YOU CANNOT HOLD THANOS! NOOOOOOOOO…!" The purple stone finished encasing the newborn Firstborn. Nebula softly caught it in her arms.

"100 years of sleeping in a rock."

"HAH! The 'wish you were a genie' trick! CLASSIC!" Cheren laughed.

"I know it is, Cherry. But we're not done, yet." Nebula raised the Dark Star Rod. "I wish the Infinity Stones would be lost again in their own world, and everything that Thanos did with the stones would become undone!"

The Star Rod glowed and broke into six colorful fragments that ascended to the sky. The worlds of Equestria, the Rugrats World, Bikini Bottom, and all the Gotham Cities – worlds that had been decimated by Thanos – all had their lives restored.

Ichigo Kurosaki was freed from the Soul Stone, the KND Army regained their pieces of soul, Jirachi was restored to 2nd Age, and Sapphire rematerialized. "Wow, Nebula… you… could not have POSSIBLY known that would work!" Cheren remarked.

"I thought of it as a last-ditch plan if we couldn't beat him normally. I figured he would buy into it, considering how much power I ordered Jirachi to give us. When I read more about Jirachi's origins, I learned that the Star Rod was born alongside him—it was a part of him, kind of like how Thanos merged the stones with his hand. The stone was automatically formed by the Star Rod to stabilize Jirachi's incredible power. It was definitely risky on my part, but I wouldn't have enacted this plan if I wasn't sure about it."

"Mmm… You're a great goddess, Nebula."

"I know, Cherry."

When the Infinity Stones' curses had been undone, the stone hatched and freed Thanos in his normal form. "Nnnnngggh…" He awoke in a daze. "Huh?" He looked up to a pair of giant high-heels and one of red shoes. …Nebula and Cheren towered over his miniaturized form. "Oh, damn."

Nebula shot a quick Starburst to KO the mini Titan. "Aww, that was mean." Cheren said.

"That was generous. Cough!" Nebula fell to her knees.

"You okay?"

"All that chi I lent her is having its after-effect." Jirachi noticed. "Her chi-paths are tired. I can't fix them myself without disturbing them."

"Will she be okay if she rests?"

"Yes. But maybe no more wishes for a while."

"Huff… It was worth it to show that bastard who's boss."

"Sapphire!" Ruby ran to her friend's aid.

"Uh… Ruby." The one-eyed Gem awoke. "You're back!"

"You're okay!"

They shared a hug. Cheren and Nebula smiled at their moment. "Sigh… And to think Lord English is supposed to be stronger than him."

"We'll beat him, Nebula. Just 8 more Darknesses to go and we'll be ready. But I think we can rest for a moment. We knocked out their strongest member. I'm feeling pretty good about this."

"Okay, Diwata," Karkat said to the moonbender, "you and Crest need to do your part. Surround this planet with moons and we'll be able to stabilize the Ether."

"You got it, Kittykat! Crest, let's moon this place up!"

"Yeah!" The Firstborn mustered his power and conjured hundreds of moons in the sky of Emera.

"Beautiful!" Kanaya beamed. "Of Course, We'll Also Have Diancie Help With Guarding This Planet As Well. I Would Like It If We Could Get The Gems On Our Side."

Ruby and Sapphire had regrouped with Pyler, the Solaran KND leader taking in the sights. "So, Ruby… this is the place you came from. This is your homeworld."

"It would appear so." Sapphire replied. "Would you like to explore it, Ruby?"

"Heck YEAH, I wanna explore it!" Ruby brimmed with an ecstatic flame.

"Heh, me too!" Pyler replied. "We finally get to see where you came from! And maybe we can even set up a Kids Next Door here!"

"That sure would be swell!"

"Hehe, you three go on ahead and do that." Nebula told them with a chuckle. "We'll probably need to keep defending this place from The Thirteen, anyway."

"Yeah, just wait until I teach these Gems how to fight!" Ruby exclaimed. "Lord English will bite the dust in no time!"