Chaos Effect

Chapter 90 - 90

Chapter 90: Chapter 90

~Some time in the past...~

"I knew that bastard was too good to be true! Never trust someone that can bop their heads on a ceilin' just by standin' up! Even his fuckin' stew was shit! That should have been our first clue!"

"is... is that what you are really focusing on?" Sindri asked his brother. "Some guy from another UNIVERSE shows up, tells us that Tyr is really Odin and, oh yes Brok, he's going to KILL YOU! And you are focused on his food?"

"Hey, I'm used ta people tryin' ta kill me. But insultin' the host's cookin'? That's just bad manners." The blue dwarf let out a huff. "Bet ya even them rectum lickers that Kratos slaughtered back in his homelands had the decency ta not insult a host's soup!"

Sindri threw his hands up in the air. "You... you are impossible!"

"Come now gentlemen," Ratatoskr stated from the window he was standing in, "let us try and work together. Master Edwin has brought us important news!"

Edwin, for his part, merely watched on as the brothers bickered. "I'm assuming that while I'm tall I'm just short enough when compared to gods that I am trust worthy."

"Fuck ya!" Brok proclaimed. "Hurts my fuckin' neck ta look ya in the eye but ya at least sat down as quick as you could. And ya didn't insult my food!"

"Its simple. I like simple." He cut into the sausage that Brok had given him. "I don't need my food to feel like it's a puzzle that will take twenty steps to solve."

"...can we keep this one?" Brok said with a laugh.

Sindri though wasn't amused. "Odin is Tyr! And he's going to kill you!"

"He did in what I saw," Edwin confirmed. "But... that doesn't mean it has to happen." He waved off Brok who pushed a bottle of mead towards him. "Water only, please. I like a clear head."

"Okay, now I'm liking him a bit more," Sindri admitted, coming over to the table and setting two glasses of water down. "So we're going to tell Kratos and let him kill the All Father?"

"No."

That made the dwarf pause. "What do you mean, no? He's going to kill-"

"Me!" Brok exclaimed. "Ya ya, we all have heard ya remind us! Seriously, gonna give me a fuckin' complex if ya keep this up!" He looked over at Edwin. "Still, he brings up a good point. Why ain't we killin' the crow cocksucker?"

"Here is what happens," the blond man stated. "Kratos will kill Heimdall."

"No loss there," Brok muttered.

"I quite agree," Ratatoskr stated. "You know that I met him once... suffered a clear case of emotional distress due to his father's less than stellar ability to develop a well developed emotional bond with the man. I almost felt sorry for him... until I realized he was also a twat."

Edwin continued on. "Atreus will return to Asgard in hopes that he can gather some more information about a mask that Odin wants. He'll have to flee because Sif uses her monstrously huge tits to convince Thor to do something stupid and Atreus ends up back here. That's when you put it all together Brok."

The dwarf blinked. "Me? And put what together?"

"That Tyr is Odin. Everyone else... Atreus, Freya, Kratos... they all fall for his lies but you see through it. Push him on it. Follow the thread until he makes his mistake-"

"And kills me." Brok rubbed his chest.

Sindri glowered at that. "I knew letting those two stay here was a mistake. Atreus... he-"

"Now knock that shit off!" Brok snapped. "Only fucker who is at fault is Odin for stabbin' me and me not bein' quick enough ta dodge! Are ya still moody about them? I thought we got that talked out!"

"That was before I learned he got you killed!"

"Sindri has a right to be upset," Edwin said diplomatically. "But he also should remember that he cares for them. Tell me... if Atreus was killed by Odin... would you feel anything?"

"I... of course!" Sindri looked horrified at that. "I would mourn him!"

"Remember that," he said firmly. "Remember that it is easy to cut someone out of your life... very hard to come back together again. And every second they aren't there is wasted." He gazed hard at the dwarves. "You two fought for a long time; do you regret that now that you know one of you might be gone?"

The two dwarves grew silent as Edwin rose and walked over to Ratatoskr to quietly talk with him.

"...I... you don't think I..." Sindri swallowed. "I mean... I'd be mad but-"

"I don't know," Brok admitted, for once not gruff and boisterous. "I hope ya wouldn't. I'd hate it that you were alone if I were gone."

"You AREN'T going to be gone though," Sindri stated. "We know what is going to happen. We can stop it."

"Stop?" Edwin called out as Ratatoskr scribbled something down. "Yes and no." He paused, looking at the drawing. "We need everyone to think Brok is dead. And we need everyone to think Sindri has given into rage. Because-" he grimaced, "and Brok do not get a fucking big head over this... your death motivates Kratos and Atreus to fight Asgard. You cause them to unite the realms."

"...me?" Brok whispered in shock. He opened his mouth only to snap it shut.

"He'll crow about it later," Sindri stated. "Okay, so Ragnarok happens but-"

"Odin dies. Asgard falls." Edwin looked at Sindri. "You slay the All Father."

Now it was Sindri's turn to be shocked. "I... how?"

"I'll tell you once you agree. But with Asgard fallen the Realms need help to rebuild. Kratos does that. He becomes the new All Father, the Rebuilder. In a hundred winters he is beloved in the Eight Realms as the god who helped lift all back up."

"Oh my," Ratatoskr whispered. "All that... for the cost of Master Brok's life?"

"...fuck," Brok whispered. "I guess-"

"I said they need to THINK you are dead," Edwin cut in. "You two were able to make an axe with the power of the winter storm, a hammer with the might of a thunderbolt, and capture the winds to create a spear that can be thrown again and again." He shot them a level stare. "You can't find some spell or figure out a way to fake a death?"

"Well, no," Sindri said. "That would be-"

Brok chimed in. "Unless we used the-"

"Oh! And with a bit of-"

"Now yar talkin'!" Brok proclaimed.

"Also I need something that can rip a soul fragment out of a lake!" Edwin said happily.

Sindri frowned at that. "What do you-"

Edwin held up Ratatoskr's drawing. "I know what the Well of Souls looks like. My Millennium Key will let me create a doorway to it. I can open it, stick whatever box you make in there-"

"And get my fuckin' soul back together!" Brok exclaimed. "Fuckin' hell we ARE keepin' this one!"

Edwin though shook his head. "I have a bounty hunter I need to deal with. So if I could scan some of your blueprints that would be wonderful."

Sindri though shook his head. "No. Sorry but no." Before Edwin could say a word he began to move towards their workshop. "You think for all this we are giving you a cheap knock off? No no no... you deserve something special."

"Ya thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" Brok asked.

His brother nodded. "Go get Gleipnir."

~The Eternal Gate: Present~

It should have been that introducing three giantesses and a small squadron of Power Rangers would turn the tide of the battle.

But Wyatt Chaos wasn't merely the best bounty hunter in a country. He wasn't merely the best in the world. Nor in his own galaxy. Even more beyond his own universe. Wyatt was one of the greatest bounty hunters to have ever come into existence in the entire multiverse.

A trio of giant women wasn't going to stop him.

"Hmmm," he murmured to himself, tilting his head as he took in the three massive women before he waved his hand in the air. Two portals formed thanks to the Millennium Ring, one beside him and the other right in front of Tea. She barely had time to blink behind her mask before Wyatt shoved his hand inside the portal near him, his arm emerging from the other one so gigantic that it could have wrapped around Tea and throttled her. But his fingers weren't free... instead they were clasped around his Millennium Revolver. "Pitiful."

"TEA!" Yuri shouted, tackling her sister just before Wyatt could fire on her. Instead his shot raced out into the realm beyond. The Gardner sisters couldn't consider what damage that might have caused because in the next moment Wyatt pulled his hand out before creating more portals that sucked up several of his Cylon minions, the robots reappearing the same size as Tea and Yuri and Mai.

"Oh this is going to suck!" Mai shouted before she threw a punch at the Cylon, her foot crashing down nearly on top of Renard.

"That's the problem when some of your allies are so big," Wyatt informed the man. "Sometimes they forget that you exist."

"They do not forget that I exist. They trust me to handle myself."

And with that Renard lifted up his sword.

~In the Past~

"Why do you wish for this power?"

The Sorceress didn't seem shocked to find Renard there, having seen through the glamour and tricks that hid the castle and its true power. Instead she merely looked at the man that had managed to get inside and had politely asked her for an audience before explaining, with no grand trick or twisting of his words, that he needed her help.

Renard could have said many things. For the coming battle. To save the innocent. To be stronger. Better.

He did not say any of those things.

"I want to protect my friends."

The Sorceress smiled at that, reaching over and patting his hand.

"Then the Power is yours."

~MC~MC~MC~MC~

"By the power of Greyskull!" Renard called out, hefting aloft his copy of the Sword of Power. "I have the power!" Energy blasted from Renard, blinding and radiant, and when it finally dimmed he was nearly 8 feet tall, his muscle mass increased and his ranger outfit sporting a more barbarian look. His helm was gone but it didn't matter as he smiled, swinging the blade several times.

Wyatt merely shrugged before he reached into his coat, grasping a golden handle and yanking it out. He gave it a few swings and a blade of shadow energy formed, crackling with dark power. "Hmm... neat trick."

"Renard!" Josiah cried out, the blasts that had been holding him back finally lessening enough for him to focus on something more than his own survival. "That is the Millennium Sword!" Edwin's brother threw his shield at one of the Clone Wars era droids, shattering it even as he clipped Star-Lord's element gun to his belt "How did you get that?"

"You think yours is the only world where the Greeks were the ones to create the Millennium Items? You aren't unique having that little shield."

Josiah nodded. "Maybe... but I have a few more surprises."

~In The Past~

Princess Zelda trembled as she stared at the swirling cloud of red and black that moving towards the castle at frightening speed. Something had felt off about the day but she had kept chalking it up to nerves or her leaping at shadows. Looking for a threat that wasn't there.

Then... just as she had been preparing to head to Mt. Lanayru to visit the Spring of Wisdom... the ground had shook, cracks had opened up along the main roads, and from it the Calamity had begun to rise up.

'No... its too soon!' she thought in horror. 'We were...'

"Princess!" one of the soldiers cried out, rushing towards her, panting hard. "The... the guardians."

She felt her stomach fall. "What of the guardians?"

"The Calamity... it has released Malice upon them when they moved to intercept it. It's... its..."

There was an explosion and Zelda turned, seeing her greatest nightmare come true: the Guardians were turning their powerful blasts upon Castletown rather than the Calamity. The dark monsters that thrilled at the destruction that the Calamity offered roared out in celebration before moving to rush the city, the walls crumbling and the defenders left in a panic as the Guardians that were supposed to be their ultimate defenders turned against them. Already she could see the towering Moblins raising their bone clubs and letting our battle cries before lumbering through the broken passage.

There were hurried footsteps behind her and she turned to see her protector, Link, rushing up to her, the Master Sword in hand. He came to a stop at the battlement and stared down at the coming carnage, his face twisted into only a slight frown but that was, for him, as good as a scream of torment.

"We must try and reach the Champions," Zelda said, taking a breath and steeling her nerves. "We must tell them to get to their Divine Beasts... if they haven't already. The attack may be focused here but I imagine the other domains are facing their own dangers." She shut her eyes. "It is cruel to tell them to ignore their own people but if we don't stop the Calamity here then it will only spread out further, making those strikes grow all the stronger."

Link nodded and turned to get the messenger hawks... only for him to stop when there was a blue glow. Zelda gasped and Link prepared to attack only to blink when he saw the other champions standing before the two, looking just as confused, and a new figure in a short brown coat, blue pants, and with a golden shield strapped to his back.

"Woah," Daruk said, shaking his head, "that was a rush!"

"You commonly go rolling about to get around, how did that make you dizzy?" Revali said with a dismissive sniff.

Mipha smiled softly when she spotted the two. "Princess, Link... we are here as you requested."

"As... we requested?" Zelda said, confused. "I-"

At once Urbosa drew her scimitar and pointed at the stranger's chest. "I knew there was something wrong with you, I just knew it. Trying to keep us from our Divine Beasts. Who are you... Yiga Clan?" Link pushed Zelda behind him while the other champions moved to encircle the stranger. "The Calamity cares nothing of you... you've pledged your loyalty to an unthinking monster!"

"I am not Yiga," the stranger said.

"Then why bring us from our Divine Beasts?" Daruk grumbled darkly, taking a step forward.

The tears remained for only a moment before rocketing out, cutting through the droid and causing it to letting out a whine that could only be described as 'pain' before it fell over dead.

Not deactivated.

Dead.

"Where... where did you get that from?" Koyo began to edge away from Brom as the man turned towards him, the blade still exposed and its edge making Koyo feel like he had just walked through a graveyard and seen a tombstone with his own name on it.

"From the home of a death god who wanted to just lay down his burden," Brom said softly before sheathing the blade. "Come, we have work to do."

~MC~MC~MC~

Edwin swung his bladed staff, driving it into the heart of one of the droids, causing it to sputter and groan before it shut down with a shower of sparks. He only took a moment to make sure that it was down for the count for good before he ripped his staff out and moved to take on the next of his foes.

Only to be spun about as Wyatt fired at him twice, hitting each of his shoulders and causing him to spasm before he fell to the ground.

"So I want to see if I understand this correctly," Wyatt stated as he slowly marched towards Edwin. All around him more of his robotic minions were flooding the field, forcing the others to not be able to rush for his help. "You managed to do what so few have ever done and actually get away from me. And rather than actually take that win and live out your life with merely the fear that I would find you again... you decided on this." He pressed his foot down on Edwin's wrist, applying pressure until he let go of his staff. "You decided that it was brilliant to come racing here, to my stronghold, and try and take me on? I have been traveling the multiverse for decades, never aging, growing stronger as I collected Millennium Items you've never even HEARD of in order to augment my power. You thought you could take me out with some Super Sensei bullshit?" He shook his head. "You disappoint me, Chaos."

"I... aim to please."

Wyatt froze.

That... was not Edwin's voice.

The figure he had pinned reached up with their free hand and caused their helmet to disappear, revealing Edna Chaos' face.

"Oh... if you could only see your face right now. Can you see your face with those orbs in your eye sockets?" She was trying to sound brave but he could hear the sheer terror in her voice.

"What is-" He turned back towards the Eternal Gate. "A distraction."

"Yeah," Edna admitted. "Damn impressive, right?"

Wyatt brought his gun around, pressing it to Edna's forehead.

"So I have several different forcefields running at the moment to protect me," she commented, not looking as confident as she sounded. And she didn't sound that confident. "Now... maybe your gun is able to burst through all of them. But it might also take a while for it to do so. And during that time I'm not going to be making it easy for you. Still... you can try but know I am going to do all I can to make life painful for you... and Edwin will STILL be in that prison."

She swallowed.

Wyatt's finger trembled but after a moment he let out a snarl and stormed away, forming a portal. "The Chaos of Earth 1 has breached the Eternal Gate. All internal forces move to intercept."

Edna flopped her head back onto the ground before reaching for her comm....the terror of facing Wyatt finally making her sob even as the battle raged around her. She'd failed... and she'd given him up, like a coward.

"Edwin! He's on to you!"

~MC~MC~MC~

"Edwin! He's on to you!"

"Fuck," I muttered as I ran down the hall, the Pharaoh in the Solaris Knight ranger armor turning to look at me. "Wyatt knows about the swap."

Slash frowned at that; she had been the one to get us into the prison; the Pharaoh and I had used Pym particles to shrink down and she had flown the three of us in through a side entrance before sending her Charizard back out to help deal with the madness of the main battle. "They couldn't have delayed him any longer?"

"Apparently not," the Pharaoh said, "but we must not dwell on that. They have given us the time we need to hopefully find the prisoners and release them. We can only work to ensure that we use that time properly."

"I'm just saying we have no idea where to go!" She pulled off her helmet, returning it to the morphing grid, the Pharaoh and I doing the same. I was thrilled that I hadn't needed to give up my morpher; Edna had used Des' duplicator to create a copy of my Red Sentry Ranger Costume and thanks to us being the same size along with its more armored front Wyatt had fallen for us swapping out when I'd done my morph. A battle was coming, I could feel it. "Sorry, sorry," she said as he moved down another hallway, this one like the last looking more like some germ-free lab than a prison, "I'm just worried about NONE."

"We will find your friend, I assure you of that," the Pharaoh stated. "You must have faith."

'Yeah but we might find him when we're sharing a prison cell,' I thought darkly to myself. I had hoped that we'd be able to, no pun intended, cause a bit more chaos before Wyatt wised up to us but at least our group had managed to get inside. That was step one. But Step Two had just become far more difficult with Wyatt knowing we were coming.

"Troy," I said and my Phone's AI popped up next to me. "Any chance of hacking in, finding the prisoners?"

"Of course... if you show me WHERE to hack. I mean, I'm good?" He flashed a smile. "But I'm not that good. Ya dig?"

"I dig," I said dryly.

"Do you need an actual computer or will any wiring do?" Slash asked.

"What are you thinking?" the Pharaoh asked. "Finding something else? Another piece of technology? I suppose that might work but I worry that we might alert someone we are here."

"No," Slash said with a shrug. "I was just going to do this."

And with that she slammed her Shark Fin Daggers into the wall.

"Jesus!" I shouted as sparks exploded from her daggers.

"Oh I love Skyrim upgrades!" Slash exclaimed in delight as she began to rip a hole into the wall, fire burning from her daggers as she created a hole in the metal-plastic hybrid that coated the walls. "There," she replied, yanking her daggers away to reveal a bunch of wires, "your hacking spot."

Troy rubbed his chin. "Huh... that might just work."

"Uh, might doesn't feel me with confidence," I stated.

"Edwin is right," the Pharaoh chimed in. "There is a chance that you might be destroyed if you come up against any security systems."

"Meh, I created a backup copy of myself in the phone. I go poof and I just start back up again."

"...I don't like you talking so casually about your death," I told him.

Troy responded by reaching over and patting my check. "Aw, you do care!" He gave me a kiss on the forehead before flying into the wires.

"You two are weird," Slash commented.

"Fuck you."

"Only if you are a pedo," Slash commented with a smirk. "You get baptized Catholic too? NONE mentioned that... kidding, kidding, I know you hate talking religion."

The Pharaoh frowned, looking about. "Should we not keep moving? Wyatt may arrive soon."

"We don't know if that will cause Troy to be unable to find us," I pointed out. But before I could say more my phone chimed and I pulled it out of a subspace pocket, looking at it to see a Google Maps App... of the Eternal Gate. "Nevermind, he's ready to lead us the way we need to go."

The Pharaoh frowned as we began to follow the path that Troy had set up for us. "Slash... your daggers. I do not remember from the historical documentaries we watched-"

'Aka Power Rangers streaming... including seasons that never existed like Hexagon or Time Force Season 2.'

"-that they could do what you just did."

"Oh... that." Slash smirked. "Skyrim magic merged with my Shark Daggers." She looked at me. "And your dad... he did something with Thunderstrike, right?"

"He's a carpenter... he's most at home with a hammer." I chuckled. "It is good and bad... on one hand it means only having one or two weapons we need to switch from. On the other you have to relearn a lot." I could feel him staring at me. "What is it?"

"Edwin... it is hard for Yugi and I to determine just how long we've been in this place. But... for you it was far longer, wasn't it?"

"...far too long," I whispered.

But before the Pharaoh could comment on me once again aging my soul by far too many years we heard the crackle of magic and turned to see Wyatt exiting one of the Millennium Ring Portals, a golden sword glowing with Shadow Realm magic in one hand and his Millennium Revolver in the other.

"You are smarter than I expected."

I tossed my phone to the Pharaoh. "Go."

"We can help you fight."

"That's not the battle plan. I'll hold him off." I rolled my shoulders, trying to hide the raw fear that was bubbling in my gut that I was going to have to take on someone who had managed to capture other versions of myself. Someone who had at least one Millennium Item I'd never seen before. I wasn't going to delude myself... Wyatt was a powerful Chaos. He had to be to earn his reputation. And in the end he came from a world where the strong battled it out... and I came from one where most people's most grueling task was drawing a card from their deck.

Still... I knew I had to try.

"You heard him," Slash said as she pushed the Pharaoh to move. I turned my back to her only for her to say, "Don't you dare die."

"I'll try not."

Wyatt shook his head at that. "Do you realize how many people have stood right where you are and thought 'I'll be the first to survive him'?"

"A lot," I said as I prepared myself, calling on all the knowledge the Morphing Grid had pumped into my head. It was a good trick to have... and I had other ones I was ready to use. "You think you are Death incarnate, don't you?"

"I wouldn't be so bold..." Wyatt said, pulling up his handkerchief to hide his face. Combine with the Millennium Eyes he had it made it impossible for me to read his emotions.

"No... I think you are that bold. I think you've gone so long without struggling that you've begun to believe the whispers about yourself. You... think you are Death itself. See... that's a very bad thing for you," I growled. "Because Death took my mother from me."

I spun my Power Staff before pointing it right at his heart as I channeled all the rage and anger and hatred that I had kept in me for so long, which normally bubbled out only with my snarky comments and dark looks. I took my pain and shoved it into the furnace that was my heart and felt it explode with flames.

"And I've been looking to get my revenge!"

Wyatt and I rushed forward at the same time.

~MC~MC~MC~

The Pharaoh looked at the walls as the entire building shook. "I understand Edwin's logic but I do feel that at least one of us should have stayed behind-"

"He wants to do this, we let him do this," Slash snapped. "There gets to a point where a person just can't be talked down... they need to take care of things themselves and a person just has to accept that. The best thing we can do at the moment is free the prisoners. We do that and we can end this fight."

"You are sure of that?" the Pharaoh asked.

"My Edwin is basically an Outer God at this point. He can warp reality. He's Q from Star Trek."

"From what?"

Slash blinked. "Dear lord Edwin truly does come from the worst timeline."

Troy's voice came over the phone. "I don't know, pretty sure any one who has to live in the Attack on Titan Universe has it worse. I mean giants but they aren't sexy? Any time you can ruin a man's kink it's a sad day."

The Pharaoh frowned before deciding he didn't want to even know what Troy was getting at. "Are we close?" He asked, looking back down the way they had come even as they continued to run, craning his neck as they moved around a corner. Though he couldn't hear them anymore the way the Eternal Gate was shaking had him very concerned about Edwin and just what was going on in his fight against Wyatt.

"Yup," Slash said, having come to a halt. The Pharaoh turned and looked at the row of sealed doors... including one that was the size of an aircraft hanger. "I'd say we made it. Troy?"

There was some sparks and the hologram appeared. "So normally there are like... twenty different things you have to do to open these cells. Wyatt didn't count on me existing, apparently, so he didn't bother to shield them. Also why he's focused on Edwin... thinks you two are going to stand here like fools unable to do a damn thing." He gestured towards a different spot on the wall. "Want to make him feel like an idiot?"

"Well, he should already by making the final release be a big red button."

"Actually that was supposed to be a trick," Troy said as Slash walked over to said button. It was about as cartoonish as one could get. "You press it and it just sets off alarms. But everything in this damn place is so twisted about... it was easy for me to make it your Big Ol' Salvation Button!" He did some jazz hands.

Slash smirked. "Alright then-"

The Pharaoh caught her wrist.

"Excuse you," she said coldly.

But the Pharaoh shook his head. "Slash... we have no idea who is behind those doors. Wyatt... he went after Chaoses. What if they are like the one Edwin used to defeat Enigma... his dark counterpart Aiden? What if they are worse than Wyatt? We have no idea-"

"He took my friend," Slash snapped. "And if he is behind one of those doors... I'm getting him the fuck out."

And with that she slammed the button as hard as she could.

At once the lights dimmed and the sound of generators powering down filled the air. Emergency lights clicked on, bathing them in red as, one by one, the doors opened with a hiss.

An Edwin wearing gold and blue armor similar to the Stark Armor Seto and Des had only far bulkier and weaponized stepped out, looking around before he put a helmet on his head.

Another dressed in Mandalorian armor... only it was decorated with bones including two great horns rising from the bucket helmet.

One in a simple black jumpsuit... who lifted his hand up, causing a yellow Power Ring to flare as the uniform of the Sinestro Corps blazed onto his being.

A monster that was mostly hidden in the shadows but he was far too big and bulky and when he raised his arms bone blades popped out from the undersides of his wrists.

And finally the giant door opened... and a maroon and golden robotic lion slowly prowled out, towering over the two... before letting out a roar.