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Metsubo looked Erion up and down, then said a few bone chilling words. "You know you will die if you fight us further."

Erion look at him and sighed at this, shaking his head.

"You think I didn't die once before... long ago..." he said in a dark chilling voice also... before sensing his energy, the type he was using, analyzing him right now. If it was chaotic energy, he could do something about it.

When Erion went to sense Metsubo's energy, it was not chaotic or harmonic in nature. The energy was that of the purest destruction. Metsubo retorted with more chilling words. "So you have made peace with your imminent demise?"

Ulti shakes his head, replying, "Well your plan is flawed. The glitch isn't afraid of me. He told me the whole thing of his own will. He made amends. I've changed since the time he was talking about, and he can see that." He takes aim at Silver with his shotgun, finger on the trigger. "I'm giving you one last chance, Silver. We can find a place for you if you'd only see reason. Otherwise, we will be forced to defend what we love, which will only end in your destruction."

", sans-serif">The two women defending the doors both send blasts at Cerberus as soon as he enters the bar, just as the fox had ordered them to do. The blue one, Sonya, fires a high-powered stream of water out of her cannon while the orange one, Charmy, launches a fire blast out of her palms. Sonya is quick to notice the familiarity of the one that had just entered and moves her water stream to douse Charmy's fire blast, saying, "Hold it, Charms. I think this one's friendly. He was here a few minutes ago." The orange one stops her assault and calms down, taking a breath.

The glitch appears to be gone, as he's already gone into the system to work internally. Julie stands by the bar counter with a holographic screen in front of her, working with the complex coding of the bar's systems. Error messages pop up everywhere and she can't seem to take care of all of them at the same time.

", palatino, serif">Arith's eyes widen a little when she hears her world is in danger, but then her face grows serious. "I'll need a way to get there. The door back to the bar is probably a day away on foot, maybe a few hours away by helicopter. I won't make it in time going that way."

Silver actually appears to glitch, as his body in random places changes colors to a more static grey in random intervals and then back to normal. The power within him is seeping out, but he can't control it. "Even if I d-die here, you're t-too late. Amon just g-gave the signal to be-e-egin erasure of all of existence. Not even you can stop that, f-fox-x."

Drake readies himself for battle and draws forth two blue dagger like weapons.

Amon and Draisoko turn to the battle to begin. Draisoko looks the fox in the eyes. "I will handle the fox. You can have all of the fun you want with the timewalker."
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The blasts fired at Cerberus don't affect him. He turns to give a dark and menacing glare to the Charmy and Sonya. "Normally, I would be pissed at these actions. But I have a lot more to deal with at hand."

Cerberus walks over to Julie and looks around. "So what exactly are you trying to do here?"
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The girl takes out her sword and slashes a rift into the world. "This can take you to your world. I can't go with you however. I will soon return to my place of holding. Go save your world, then help the fox." The girl fades out of reality.

Seeing Silver begin to slowly corrupt from his power, Ulti grits his teeth. He doesn't seem to want to give up on helping Silver see reason. "Dammit, man! If you don't stop this, you're just going to destroy yourself! Do you think she'd want that? Do you think she'd want you to destroy yourself and everything around you?" The fox then hears Draisoko's talking and shifts his aim upwards to the being, firing off a pinpoint round right at his eye. The sand that blasts out of the shotgun shell forms the shape of a drill and spins rapidly as it flies towards its target. The fox pumps the shotgun and keeps talking to Silver, despite being distracted by the other being of destruction, saying, "I know how it feels to want revenge for what people have taken away from you. I assume you heard the story from the glitch. But you have to stop to think what those you lost would want you to do. I don't claim to know your sister, but if she was anything like my wife, she'd want you to move on."

While still concentrating on her work, Julie seems a little annoyed at Cerberus' attitude, saying, "You shouldn't chastise those two. My father did say to blast anyone who entered without identification. You didn't identify yourself." She sighs and continues, "Anyways, I'm trying to fix the systems so the bar can go back to being between universes, but something at the core is being weird. That guy that kinda looks like my father is telling me someone's gonna have to go to the core and stabilize it before it before it has a meltdown. I can't do that because I'm busy working with the system controls trying to bring down every other error that pops up."

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", palatino, serif">As Arith steps through the rift, the other side opens up right inside the UNIT-5 control room. When she steps through, she finds several guns trained on her from her five top team members. One is a twin-tailed female canine. One is a male white wolf with a mechanical right arm, left leg, and an extra mechanical limb coming from the pack on his back. One is a huge male brown bear in an ABS (the big "juggernaut" suits that a bomb squad member would wear as protection). Another is a male calico. The fifth is a human female. (I can go into better detail when I'm not quite as short on time)

", palatino, serif">All five have their guns trained on Arith until she reacts, putting up her hands and saying, "Whoa, at ease soldiers. It's me. I heard there's danger here from someone who knows Ulti. So what's the situation?"

", palatino, serif">The soldiers lower their weapons with relief that it's their commanding officer. The twin-tail, Sergeant Major Mikaylah Nicole Vale, speaks up, having a South African accent, "I guess that rules the terrorists out of the question. If that weirdo fox is involved, it makes sense." She pulls up a holographic model of the huge being that casts a shadow on the nearby town just outside of Black Mountain, Kentucky. "This thing seems to be the one giving the orders to the ground troops, if you can call those monsters that. For the first hour or so, they just sat there while the smaller troops appeared out of those rift things and gathered in a few remote spots in the mountains. That is, until a few minutes before you arrived. Up until this point, they've just gathered together, but it seems now they attack. Regular military has started mobilizing troops and is about to shell the areas with artillery. Jets are being scrambled to attack their commander. Did the fox tell you anything about these things?"

", palatino, serif">Arith shakes her head in response, saying, "I haven't seen him in a bit. It's my understanding, if my guess it correct, that he's fighting whoever it is organizing these attacks. I get the feeling ours isn't the only world in trouble."

Erion looked at Metsubo and sighed at this, shaking his head at this.

"I never said that... well.. considering your energy..." he says, before concentrating and then taking his seraphim form, before moving his head a bit, a slight crack.

"Time to do this..." he says... before pure energy was created around him as he move quickly to the side and send a mixture of dark and light energy towards Metsubo, actually concentrating to make it more like creation energy, trying to blast him hard with it before disappearing in a puff of blue smoke and appearing to the other side, actually going for a strong punch at a very fast speed from the side, trying to punch him away and possibly onto the blast.

Cerberus looks around the bar and pulls out a strange spike. He walks to about the center of the bar and plunges it into the ground. He begins to tap on it, causing it to glow and change. "Hey, girl. Get yourself and everyone out of the bar. Unless you can survive an energy blast like the one that created the universe." Cerberus pulls another spike similar to the other out and begins to head outside.

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Draisoko is taken somewhat by surprise and is struck through the eye. He screams in deep pain before getting ready to charge. Silver halts Draisoko. Silver glared at Ulti, his energy forming spikes of distorted flesh off of himself. "You don't know a damn thing. My sister isn't even my sister. These aren't even my memories. This wasn't even my life. I was just another reincarnation of that damned timewalker. This time, I can make a whole new life for myself as the supreme god of all of existence! And that starts with your demise, fox."

Silver's spikes solidify further into more of a bony structure. He launches off a mass of the energy like lightning bolts directly at Ulti.

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As the commands reach the Vex in other worlds, the Vex begin to distort beyond control. The trees begin to bend and buildings begin to fall. Eventually, things would start to erase from the sheer distortion.

In Arith's world, the Vex Sentinel looks as the minor Vex carry out their orders. The Sentinel feels the military presence on their way. He holds out his hand and a small blue rift opens in it. From the rift, a strange woman emerges. The Sentinel nods to the woman as she leaps off of his hand. When she makes contact with the ground, it turns to sand around her. She begins to walk in the direction the military are headed from. All of the Vex within a massive area around her flee away.

Metsubo focuses more on Erion than the energy. He backs away from the punch as it comes at him, forgetting about the energy. As he is struck, something falls off of him. Metsubo emerges from the cloud of the explosion back to his original look, bloodied up and his eyes the correct color. He laughs with victory. From the cloud, the thing that fell off of him emerges, starting off as a clump of the negative energy, then taking form of a writhing mass of eyes and tentacles.

Ulti quickly grabs something from his pouch in response to Silver's bolts. A small device that creates a hexagonal shield in front of him, which reflects the bolts a few moments after impact. He positions it in a way so they'll reflect towards Draisoko. "I can see there's no hope for you, then. I must protect my own and to do so, you must fall." He pulls some of his sand back towards him, creating a disk that he can stand on and fly around on. The bullet in Draisoko's head starts to expand and vibrate, heating up to red-hot temperatures before finally bursting and each sand particle finding the quickest way back to the fox.

When Julie hears Cerberus speak like she was just some lackey, she seems visibly annoyed with him, "Don't you dare call me 'girl'. I'm not just some chick who happens to be here, I'm the fox's daughter. If I wasn't busy keeping the Multiverse from ending, I'd kick your butt. If you want to help, creating a blast is only going to make things worse. You have to go to the core itself and repair the dampening fields. A simple patch job that'll last maybe an hour will suffice. That should give the bar some time to get back where it's supposed to be so it can repair itself."

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Mikaylah continues her briefing, stating, "Since their appearance, the nearby cities and towns have started evacuating. They're not done yet. The Army is trying to slow or halt their progress towards major populated areas. Unfortunately, they've already hit some small hunting communities out in the forest, either as they were gathering or when they started their assault. Very few made it out unharmed. I say this because some survivors seemed to have mutated just from proximity, based on eyewitness reports. Close-quarters is not recommended."

Meanwhile, outside, the Army has set up heavy artillery in a nearby town that has managed to get fully evacuated because of how small it is. Soldiers occupy abandoned buildings and homes, machine-gun nests swiftly built and snipers placed on roofs. As soon as the Vex are within range, the artillery cannons let loose their volley of high explosives. Up in the skies, several high-speed jets have taken off from the nearby Air Force base and are inbound to the Vex Sentinel. As they approach, they each fire a missile at the giant to test the effectiveness and pull out to circle around it and inspect the damage.

(Oh, and this is Mikaylah. Except she's wearing clothes.)

Erion looked at mass that formed from Metsubo, as he looked him.
"God your one ugly thing..." he says... before concentrating right now, a gray mist forming all around, making visibility though to see for anyone else as Erion closed his eyes and concentrated on what energy he was sending before disappearing and appearing right on top of Metsubo and sending a wave of energy right bellow himself, aiming to hit him hard and possibly cut off more parts of him. If he was going to have creatures like that.. maybe the better idea would be to make sure he would not be able to access those weird creautres.. but that one would be more complicated to do. For now he needed to do damage.

Draisoko dodged in fear, being clumsy and allowing one of the bolts to blast off his arm. As he turned to Ulti, his head burst open as sand flew out, sending Draisoko to the ground. Silver looked to see this and all of his deformities lessened as he fell to his knees. Amon could only chuckle at the situation. "Such inexperience. Fighting merely for vengeance and greed."
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Cerberus looks back to Julie and smiles. "Well, miss, I am trying to get the bar back into its own space. I can put some dampeners onto the transference modules, but the energy release will still kill a few people."
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The artillery does destroy the minor Vex. As the air force assaults the Sentinel, the explosions do minor damage. If any of the military pay close attention, they will notice that any of the minor visible damage dealt heals itself within seconds. The Sentinel seems to not react to the damage, merely watching over all around itself.

The strange woman Vex approaches the town set up with military resistance, about a mile and a half away.
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As Erion sent his energy loose at Metsubo, Metsubo seemed to let loose a volatile explosion off of himself, eliminating the energy blast and sending a wave of destructive power at Erion. He cackled with madness.

The creature looked around and saw Metsubo and looked around for something to grab onto. He saw the body of Draisoko and headed towards it.

Erion saw the blast right there as he backed up, sensing the energy as he get hit slightly, but still holded on He looked at Metsubo... but also saw the creature trying to leave... that... he could not let that happen.. He tried his best to get in front of that creature and blast ti as hard as he could with harmonic energy, concentrating hard on his energy. If that thing was important for Metsubo... it was best to get rid of it before it can do anything. He hoped that the hit would be hard enough to possibly kill it or send it away.

"Destruction energy.. geez.... " he says annoyed, trying to keep his energy stable right now.

The hit on the creature did a bit of damage, but it seemed to completely regenerate from the damage, now turning its attention to Erion. As the creature headed at Erion, Metsubo grabbed it by what could be assumed as the head, and kicking it off into the distance. He turned to Erion. "I don't know what that was, but I am the one playing with you. You're pretty fun."

Erion looked at Metsubo, annoyed right now. This would not be easy, that is for sure

"And you think... I will just let you go and destroy people.... fun or not... I won't let you hurt anyone else..." he then says, before orbs of light and dark formed around him, before he quickly turned and threw the orbs onto Metsubo,trying to hit him and make the energy seep itself inside of him. When both a orb of light and dark ends up hitting, Erion made it that creation energy was created inside of Metsubo possibly to weaken him.

Metsubo let out an eruption of his destruction energy, erasing the orbs sent at him. Metsubo now glowed with a dark purple energy all around him. He looked puzzled at Erion, then turned his attention to the creature charging at him from the distance. He looked up at it and, like he said, he let his seriousness take over. His energy skyrocketed as he surprised even the creature with his speed. He formed a sphere of destruction and placed it on the creature. "It's over, parasite." The orb erupted, creating a large column of destruction, erasing the creature.

Erion looked at Metsubo, feeliing his energy... so... if that didn't work.... considering he was keeping his energy in control right now. It would not be useful to use all his energy at once here, that is for sure. He saw what he did to the creature... and just stayed there, his energy charging... he had to go for another technique. He had to be ready to fight in another way instead. Attacking right now was not goign to do anything, he had to find a open spot instead. He just stood on his guard before concentrating on harmonic energy, making a blue aura around him, trying to see if he might be able at the same time destabilise the portals... Although it would be hard to do 2 things at once here.

"Tell me this.. why.. why all the destruction... why do you want to destroy everything..." he says, in a serious tone. If going full froce won't work, maybe other ways may work here.

Metsubo turned his attention towards Erion. "Oh, yeah. I was fighting you. But you're not so much fun. I might go help out the fox and the time man down there. As for my reason behind destruction, I am a god of destruction. The closest thing those so called gods up top created since Ragnarok. Call me Metsubo. I only destroy to keep a balance. I should probably apologize for that display. The group organizing this whole assault on existence put a parasite in my mind hole. Thanks for knocking it out of me."

Erion looked at him and sighed at this. A parasite.... Well.. that explains it. He shake his head.
"Balance in destruction... in every creation, there is destruction, probably to make it that there is a constant renewal. In every ending there is a new beginning... but when destruction is too much.. then the balance is gone... " he says, thinking a bit.

"I know your a god of destruction.. but please do not try to destroy this place..." he then says. Sure he took his seraphim form there... but thank god he didn't go full force.

"Now if you excuse me.. I have some dang portals to close..." he then says before quickly teleporting to one of the rifts and starting to close it using his harmonic energy.

The fox pays little mind to Draisoko, being a required casualty of this seemingly pointless battle. Instead, he pays more attention to Silver. Call it a weakness or a strength, but Ulti still doesn't want to fight Silver if there's any hope of helping him. He floats his sand disk over to the distraught man and places a hand on his shoulder, saying, "Look, I really don't want to fight you. I want to work something out. I won't claim to understand you entirely, but I still know the desire for revenge is not the path to go on. Whatever happened, whatever went wrong with Drake's cycle, I'll find a way to repair it so it doesn't break again. And if we both survive this, I'd like to try to give you a fresh start. No memories of all this happening, no time powers, a fresh start to have your own life. It can be right here in this world you've created, if you want. I just think there's some good in you. The glitch told me what you did. Risking your own survival to help the little city in my head was pretty cool of you." The fox's words seem genuine, mainly because they are.

Julie shakes her head and sighs, looking through the holographic displays at Cerberus, saying, "Stabilizing the core, which you have no possible inclination of what it even looks like, let alone how it works, by creating a blast is just about the dumbest thing I've heard in a few years at least. I might not know the bar quite as well as my dad, but my engineering degree tells me explosions do not cause stabilization. And this glitch guy is the expert on the bar's systems about as much as my dad, or even more, so I say we listen to him. And he says someone needs to go down to the core room itself in order to fix it. Once the core is stable, the bar will pull itself back into place with no need for a lethal blast."

The smoke from the explosions on the Sentinel doesn't clear up in time for the jet pilots to witness the damage and repairs, so on the second fly-by, the pilots only see minimal damages, reporting back, "Big negatory on damage. Missiles were ineffective. Permission to return and rearm." To which control replies, "Permission granted. Return to rearm. Let's try something bigger."

Meanwhile, some of the better snipers in the town start targetting the female Vex, getting her in their crosshairs, adjusting for wind, gravity, Coriolis effect, etc. so when the order is given, they can fire. Most of the soldiers have assault rifles on the ground, some of the MG nests have been ready for a few minutes, the snipers mostly have anti-personnel snipers, but two of them have AMRs. (The really big sniper rifles used to take out vehicles and punch holes in rebar-enforced concrete walls.)