AN: Ahem, okay. Um, let's see.

Well this is the end. Here we are, after almost a year of this...it's come down to this.

I didn't think as many people would be interested with this story as they would, but I'm so glad they did, so thanks. Thanks, huh?

Well I wanna thank people like "Middle Name Redacted", "soldado350' and "Youtoberz" for giving me inspiration...but a HUGE thanks to "Redlikeroses7" for being the spark for me to start this fun ride, as his fanfic was the first one I ever read.

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Right, can't hold this off any longer.

Ladies, Gentleman, possible sentient Apache Attack Helicopters...thank you, gracias, arigatou.

Without further ado. One last time...

ENJOY.

CHAPTER 110

One would notice the clouds high up above them, these were the very same quality of skies that welcomed two individuals, a duo who had found themselves stumbling into this new world.

And it was today, in fact.

Today, was the anniversary of the day Natsuki Subaru and Bruce Wayne, had been summoned to this parallel world 18 years ago.

Petra kept her feelings in check as she watched her friends and acquaintances arrive by the dozens but this comfort did nothing. Nothing, but to slowly remind her of...how it happened.

How Bruce, Subaru and Frederica were slowly, but surely, being eaten away at.

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..

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The first signs were small.

Subaru having restless nights.

Bruce losing balance at incredibly important times.

Frederica sometimes feeling dizzy.

In Bruce's case they thought it was old age catching finally up with him, at this point in his life, Bruce had reached 51 years old, even if he looked quite young for such an age. Only a few wrinkles, white hair and a mustache proved his aging whatsoever; making him only having to use a red metal half mask to hide the signs from the civilians.

Still, there was indeed cause for concern, especially when Sarah complained that it was getting, harder, for her to focus on tasks around the complex they lived in.

All of this was as if, as if all of them, were getting weaker.

They all visited the doctors of Lugnica, with Ferris still nowhere to be found, that was their best option. Beatrice had tagged along, showing some signs that she knew what was going on.

After some examinations...the results were in. And the female lizardman doctor got up from her desk...

"I have...no easy way of telling you all this, and so I'll leave it to the Great Spirit to let you know. I feel it's best if someone close to you, delivers the news."

The doctor left the room, seemingly shaken herself, leaving them alone with Beatrice. Petra who just arrived, sat next to Subaru, while the others sat nearby as well.

Beatrice took some time to collect herself…

"Beatrice."
"Bruce…"
"...We're sick, aren't we?"

The room went silent in suspense as everyone hoped that wasn't the case.

And yet…

"It's worse than that, I suppose."
"Damn, how bad is it?"

Beatrice got up from her seat and walked over to get closer in front of them. Subaru ready to respond to her statements, all the while focusing his strength for the worst.

"During the battle at the Algol Tree...And saving Bruce from the void he was trapped in...the dimensional flow inside their, in essence, fractured your Od."
"Od...the energy that makes up our lifeforce?"
"Yes Subaru, I suppose. All of our Ods, anyone who journeyed into the deepest parts of that infernal tree or into that void...has had their Ods, I suppose...OUR LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS DROPPED."

Frederica's eyes widened, while Sarah stared at the floor with a somber expression.

Petra held Subaru's metal hand tightly, while Bruce sighed tiredly.

"Beatrice, how long do we have?"
"...A…"

Beatrice hesitated as she gripped her dress tightly.
But taking a deep breath, she answered.

"Each of us, have different life expectancies, I suppose. In Betty's case, since I am a spirit, I have about 10,000 years left now. Emilia and Rem will be fine as long as they are frozen...but once freed, the clock will begin ticking for them."
"Beako...and us?"
"...You want the truth, Subaru?"
"Please."

Subaru pleaded with her, until she had no choice, but to say the truth, made the little spirit begin tearing up, a pained smile formed on her face.

"The one with the longest life expectancy is...Sarah...and the one with the shortest, the one who is going to die first...is BRUCE."

"..."
"You stayed too long in the void, and combined with the fatigue your body has accumulated over your years as Batman, your form cannot take much more."
"H-How long do I have?"
"...L-"

She held back a sob and took another deep breath.

"L...No...No more than 3 years."

Frederica sobbed hearing the news, learning of her husband's life ending results.

Subaru held his head, unsure of what to think of the situation...that soon, they'd be dead.

The news was spreading a sense of delirium and panic amongst the room.

Beatrice was forming a thousand ways to try and counteract this horrible situation.

And-

"No."

Everyone was stunned into abject horror.

Sarah just said no. A word she had never used in her entire life.

"No...NO."
"Sarah, please-"
"-I, I will go find Ferris. Yes. YES! I'll go right now!'

Sarah stood up a crazed, tear filled expression. She was desperate.

"I won't let this happen! I cannot let you-"
"-Sarah!"

Bruce held her in an embrace as she trembled in his arms.

"I don't think we can fight this."

"BUT-!"
"Sarah...I had a feeling that the time would come when something like this would happen. A gut feeling, but a real one."
"...I don't want to lose you."
"...I know."

She held him tightly, as did Frederica…

Subaru took a deep breath and spoke about the matter.

"Then let's all agree on something."
"...Hm."
"This information does not leave this room. That doctor from earlier was one too many already."
"But the kids have to-"
"-No Petra."
"We can't just-"
"-If we told them, they would dread every single day. Wondering anxiously of when our time would end. I don't want to do that to them or any of our friends."
"...It's not fair."
"...Fate always isn't I guess."

Subaru let her lay her head down on his lap, trying to recoup her mentality after hearing such devastating results.

"Right now, we're on a countdown to zero. Once there, we can't go through it or around it, we just have to accept it and face it head on. But when we do that, it'll be over."
"I know."
"But that has nothing to do with our kids."
"HUH?"
"Petra, just because my life ends at zero, or any of ours for that matter, our lives will end. But our kids won't. No. At that zero, they can move ahead of it. They can move beyond that zero point."
"Su-Subaru."
"I know it sucks. But I want my kids, and Bruce's kids, Garfiel's and everyone else's to continue even when me and Bruce are gone. We'll need you to do it."

Petra nodded.

"I will."
"Okay…"
"...BUT I STILL HATE IT!"

She found herself to Subaru and sobbed into his chest. With no more words he could muster, Subaru just hugged her, Beatrice joining in as well…

Everyone made a promise then and there to continue their lives as normally as possible, even if it wasn't finite. They would survive…

Then, two years later, Batman was gliding back to his home after a night of patrolling the streets. It was like any other night...then he felt a sharp pain in his chest.

He decided to stop on a rooftop just across the street from the complex...he gripped his chest tightly as he panted and heaved.

"No...not now…"

He fell to the ground, trying to create a tear in space, but the pain was making him lose focus. Then the tear broke apart and Batman rolled to lay on his back...looking up at the night sky.

The stars shined like jewels to him, with the two moons up above shining radiantly, like it was all just for him.

"...Hahhhh...So tired…"

The memories of his adventures around the world in his childhood years, well, he had no real childhood after some point...then of the enemies, the friends, the lovers and the grand scale battles he had.

Then, the memories of coming to this world, of his encounter with Linnea, then of Felt...Subaru, Emilia, Ram, Rem, Roswaal, Puck...everyone in the cities, Gusteko Empire, Elsa, Petelgeuse, everyone...He was reminiscing his entire existence.

"So much...to…"

Then, his mother appeared and squatted down next to him. She held his hand and smiled down at him. Tear drops went down his mask.

She then patted his head.

"It's okay Bruce. The time is here."

"I don't...the others…"

"Your wives will be fine, so will your friends. You'll see them again."

"Y-Yeah…?"
"Of course...now it's time my love. Say goodnight."

"Oh, that story."

His tired breath still allowed him to spin the last of his words.

"Goodnight moon."

His muscles were getting less and less heavy.

"Goodnight Lugnica."

His eyes began losing their sight.

"Goodnight Frederica. Goodnight Sarah. Goodnight Felt."

His hands were losing their strength.

"Goodnight Emilia. Goodnight Rem. N-Night Ram."

He then felt no more pain in his chest.

"Goodnight Petra. Goodnight Beatrice. G-G-Goodnight. E-Enemies. F-Friends...S-Subaru...Goodnight…"

Then he thought as he looked up at the moon shining its splendor.

"Goodnight...my sons and daugh-...my...mmmm...y…"

There was silence.

Martha Wayne began to disappear as she softly whispered to him a poem by Mark Twain...

"Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here,
Warm southern wind,
Blow softly here.
Green sod above,
Lie light, lie light.
Good night, dear heart,
Good night, good night."

At that moment, Linnea Helena appeared and reached her hand out.

"Let's go."

They both disappeared.

And Bruce Wayne, known to all, as Batman, great hero of two worlds.

Died.

His body was found the next morning.

Running through the streets of the city, Flash dodged some hover cars as his violet streams of electricity pushed out of his back. As he turned a corner...he felt a hand touch his shoulder. Startled, he stopped his run and looked around.

"What was that-"

Then he felt it...he felt his cheeks, they were wet.

"Huh?"

He was crying, but he had no idea why.

With his League of Assassins, Damian Wayne looked at the bathroom mirror and saw that he had tears streaming down his eyes. He wiped them away, confused on the matter, but continued his mission as he began an assault against Deathstroke and his Titans.

Diana high on the Mountain of Olympus was also wiping away tears, confused as to why it was occuring. So she continued her survey of the world as the newest Goddess of War.

All of the heroes of the world seemed to have had this happen to them...but none of them, knew why…

Superman was flying over to hand some supplies to Hideri, having found himself working in this cafe as punishment for crashing through their roof. But as he handed him the supplies, Hideri pointed at him.

"Supa-san, are you okay?"
"Sure, why?"
"...You're crying…"

He felt his face and realized it as well, he wiped them away.

"Must be tired or something."
"Oh, well if that's all. As long as Supa-san is alright then."

They continued their work...but Superman still felt a sense of loss in his heart, he had no idea why though.

Dr. Fate wiped his tears off his helmet and gazed up at the starry sky.

"Sleep well...old friend. That long night has finally ended for you."

At the funeral there was not a single dry eye in the crowd. And within his closest friends and family, Subaru could be seen holding his face as his sobbed his friend's name.

"Bruce...Bruce…"

Frederica was crying into some tissues as Sarah hled herself stoically, but it was obvious she was losing her composure as she could hear Alejandra crying for her father. Sekhmet was there, but suddenly turned around and began walking away, seeing this, Fredrica stormed after her. Catching up in the hallway, she had her back turned towards the former maid.

"Where are you going?!"
"I can't be here is all, what's the issue here?"
"It's Bruce's funeral! How can be so cold-"
"-I'M NOT COLD-HEARTED!"

She was shocked by her outburst.

"Hahhhhh...I….Really did love him….I loved Bruce."
"Sekhmet."
"Maybe not in the beginning, but in the end, hahhhhhh, I did love him."
"Then why are you-"
"-Because everyone knows, hahhhhh, me as the lazy almost uncaring fixture of this family...so how can I-?"

Frederica instantly see drops of liquid hit the ground in front of Sekhmet. She knew it.

"How can…"

"HAHHHHH...HOW CAN I LET THEM SEE ME LIKE THIS?!"

She turned her head, showing Frederica her messy face from constant crying. She held her face as she tried to stumble away...but Frederica leaped to her and hugged her...Sekhmet tried to struggle against it, but of course she was too tired to do anything.

She accepted it and cried into her arms.

The funeral continued…

After the large public funeral was held...that night, Frederica looked out the window and gasped, catching Sekhmet's and Sarah's attention. They all looked out the window and became teary eyed, but also happy.

Every single citizen in the Capital took magic gems of light and put paper in front of them, shining the lights up into the sky….countless spotlights of the bat symbol shined in the starry setting above, celebrating the life of their hero. On every February 12th, they would hold the Festival of the Bat; in honor of the hero known to them all and respected the world over.

Three months later, Subaru showed his daughter how to do some origami pieces, fascinating even the steadfast Vega. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong.

"B-Beatrice, can you take over? I got to do something."
"Huh? What makes-"
"-Please."

Sensing the seriousness in his voice and the alarming look of worry on his face, Beatrice accepted. Then he quickly got up and patted her head.

"Thanks."

Beatrice was stunned seeing the peaceful look on his face as he headed out of the room. Beatrice distracted the kids with some magic, anxiously hoping what was happening was not...it.

Subaru rolled onto his bed, clutching his chest tightly.

"Fuck! I think...I think it's...augh! I think, it's happening."

Subaru tried to fight the pain in his chest, but nothing he did was helping. He figured his Od was running dry and now...now his life was surely ending.

"Subaru?"
"P-Petra?"

Subaru saw the door slam open and then shut closed, as Petra ran to his side.

"Subaru...please, don't tell me this is-"
"-I...I think it is…"
"No..NO!"

She got into the bed, laying next to him and hugged his head, kissing the top of his hair.

"No! Not now! Subaru, please…"
"Petra, h-honey."

Petra was surprised, definitely, Subaru would only call her that in truly intimate moments between them, so she looked down to see his tired, smiling face.

"Petra, I need you to look after Flora and Vega. They'll need someone to guide and teach em', while I'm-"
"-Don't say that! You can't go! I already lost Bruce, I don't want to lose you too!"

"I'll be...watching no...doubt about...it."
"Subaru...PLEASE!"

She began to truly cry as she feared his departure from this world.

"...I…"
"Huh?"
"I only regret that...I couldn't save them."
"Subaru…"

Subaru also began to cry, gritting his teeth as he hugged Petra back.

"God...I just, I just wish...I could've saved them."
"...You and Bruce did everything to try and free them, let someone else handle it now."
"...But, they'll-"
"-If they wake up, someday in the future, I'll be there to welcome them first! Me and Beatrice-chan will continue! All of us will keep working on the ice. You have my word!"
"...Thank you, petra."

His eyes began to falter in their blinking. So Petra pulled him up to her and landed a deep kiss to him. She then held his cheeks, looking into his hazel eye and the very menacing cybernetic one he was gifted years ago, rubbing her hand on his mechanical hand.

"Subaru, I love you."
"Me too. I love you too, Natsuki Petra."
"...I…"
"Tell Shaula...Vega, Flora and Beatrice...I love them too."
"Su-"
"-Petra...don't forget to keep the mayonnaise love going on in this...house…"
"D-Don't talk about dumb things like that!...that's not important…"
"...Hehe.."

Subaru had a wry smile form, so Petra gently brushed his hair.

"Do you regret this life, Subaru?"
"Ah."

Subaru had a flash of memories flood out at him. Every moment from the time of his birth, his childhood, entering this new world and meeting Batman.

The silver haired beauty, the sky blue maid.

All of his triumphs and failures.

The trust he gained, and lost.

Friends who had grown old alongside him and the ones who passed on too early.

The deaths he had suffered.

The other versions of himself.

The conversation he once had with Bruce...

While trapped in the Void, Bruce was able to witness these last things...Two multiverses outside their own, one where Subaru was in the Pleiades Watchtower with no memories of his past and being constantly killed by someone or soemthing; and the other where he had just battled Sirius in the Watergate City.

Referring them as Alpha and Beta Universes.

...Or a Winkle Nano Timeline. And a Lava Nano Timeline…

Or the WN Universe and LN Universe.

Subaru thought how he was quite lucky. He didn't have to deal with the troubles of the world, but still wished his other selves all the best.

As he his thoughts shifted back on this single moment between them. Subaru smiled up at his wife, mother of his child, and let tears drop down his cheeks. His left eye began darkening and his hand began to go almost as cold as his metal one...

"Are you kidding me? I'd die to live like this all over again."
"Subaru…"
"I...I just, love-"

"Subaru…?"

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.

Nothing.

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.

.

Natsuki Subaru was dead.

"SUBARUUUUU! UWAAGHhhhhhHHHHH!"

Petra wailed and cried profusely.

In the other room, Beatrice suddenly began to have tears escape her eyes.

"Beatrice-nee chan? What's wrong?"

Beatrice couldn't speak, but instead fell to the ground and began clawing the ground. Crying and sobbing.

"You promised...YOU PROMISED! I...Betty is going to be...lonely, I suppose."

She raised her head, crying even as Vega and Flora hugged the weeping spirit.

"NATSUKI SUBARU!"

Her scream echoed all throughout the halls, sending out a breeze out into the city. Giving everyone a sense of painful loss. Shaula returned to see the sight before her...but all she did was stare at Subaru as her eyes lost their splendor, tears flooding out of them. Her reaction was the surest sign of a broken spirit.

Afterwards, a few months later...Sarah went to check on Frederica, who was despondent the whole time in her room. She gazed out the window of the rainy day…

"Yes, it's still pouring isn't it?"
"Yes."

Sarah felt around the room with a stick, helping her navigate the room. Yes, she was blind now.

An after effect of her own Od being slowly eaten away.

She sat next to Frederica patting her head. Yet, she felt Frederica begin leaning on her.

"Where are the kids?"
"They went off to visit the Natsuki household."
"Even after all this time, we're still so close."
"Yes, we will always be close to that family. That's what kept both sides going hasn't it?"

Frederica then turned her head and saw the smile on Sarah's face, though her eyes showed that they could process anything in front of them.

But…

"Sarah, thank you for everything."
"What are you…?"

She was hugged tightly, surprising her, but also bearing her heart for the one thing, she dreaded.

"F-Frederica?"
"...Please take care of them."
"Huh?"
"Sarah, swear to me you will take care of my son and daughter. Swear to me on your family's honor, you'll love my children like they were your own."
"...Idiot."
"HUH?!"
"I've always done that. They're my family, and until my dying breath I'll do anything and everything for them."
"...Thank you, Sarah."

She hugged her tightly, making Sarah giggle at her affection.

Then she saw it.

See it...

Saw it...

In the darkness she was able to see alone, a being of light came forward. It wasn't human. In fact...yes, she recognized the shape of it.

She knew who it was.

"P-Patrsche-chan?"

The light shaped as the Ground Dragon was followed by other figures, they walked over next to her, nodded their heads and reached their hands out...helping up a feminine figure.

The figures looked over at Sarah.

The first one waved at her, flashing a peace sign.

"S-Subaru?"

He disappeared.

Patrasche wagged her tail and bowed her head.

"Wait."

She disappeared.

The feminine figure gave a courteous bow and seemed to blow a kiss.

"No...NO this is…"

She disappeared.

The final one, a tall and imposing figure, kneeled down a bit and touched her cheek. She felt nothing from it, but the emotions welled out of her.

"BRUCE…"

The light disappeared. She was alone again in the darkness. Sarah now would weep openly as she hugged tightly her friend. She wasn't moving. Not breathing. But Sarah felt, at least, she was at peace.

Now, it was only Sarah and Beatrice left to care for them….

At the funeral, Garfiel was crying, with his wife Mimi and his children group hugging him; as they walked on, next to Sarah, was the children of Bruce. Alejandra with her short black hair covered her mouth with a tissue, crying openly about her mother.

Kerberos soon looked over at thw woman who was like his second mother.

He himself looked like a combination of Bruce's muscular physique and his mothers lovely beauty.

His sharp fangs twisted as he had a hard time speaking.

"Sarah-kaa san...what do you think my dad would say?"
"Yes, knowing Bruce, he'd tell you to be strong."
"Right...but can I ask for something?"
"Go on."

He stopped his movement, making Sarah and Alejandra stop as well.

Alejandra could see Kerberos...tearing up.

"C-can I have just this one moment? Of weakness?"
"Kerberos…"

"Please...I'll…"

His scrunched up as he couldn't contain the pain he was feeling.

"After today, I'll never be weak again. Please, Sarah kaa san...Let me be weak this once…"

Sarah grabbed him in the most tightest hug she could muster.

"Kerberos, this isn't being weak. It's alright, let it out."

"...Mom...Dad…"

He wept and wailed into her chest as he fell to his knees, but Sarah kept up with him, comforting him. Alejandra joined in the hug, everyone there knew to let the family be…

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Now, Petra was waving at the first arrivals to come.

"Kerberos! Alejandra!"

Alejandra waved back, her short black hair tied down with a red headband shining elegantly in the sunlight. She had on a simple black dress with red buttons and adorned red gloves.

Kerberos nodded to his aunt. He was wearing a simple black sleeveless shirt that showed off his muscular physique and some green shorts, matching his eye color.

Next to them, using her cane to get around, Sarah smiled ahead, now she wore an elegant light blue wrapping over her now unusable eyes.

"Hi Sarah."
"Yes, it is good to see you again...Ah...poor choice of words."
"No, no, I understand what you mean."
"Hmmmm...Beatrice."

Beatrice walked over and shook her hand.

"Greetings Sarah, I suppose."
"Yes, it's been a little while."
"Betty has been busy with all sorts of things."

Kerberos squatted down and shook her hand.

"Hello Aunt Beatrice."
"Kerberos, you're shaping up to be a fine young man. Almost like...him, I'd say, I suppose."
"That is truly a great compliment Aunt. I'll take it to heart."
"Ahahaha, and so serious…"

She looked up at his green eyes with fondness.

"You are his son."

Kerberos closed his eyes and smiled at her words. Alejandra then patted her head and smiled down at her.

"Aunty, did you get taller?"
"Stupidity! Betty is a spirit, this form is the only form I can have, I suppose!"
"Well, if you were taller you'd be able to get into adult places no problem, I mean...if Aunty is into that sort of thing, Kehehehe!"

She laughed into her hands, making Beatrice blush immensely.

"Disgusting, I suppose! It seems you picked up some bad qualities whenever Bruce took you to the city with him!"
"Nahhhh, Dad always made sure to keep a close eye on me. I picked up this talk from Uncle Su!"
"Even after his passing, Subaru is causing such mischief, I suppose!"

She imagined Subaru sticking his tongue out at her while giving a peace sign, all the while Batman was winding up himself for a quick jab to the back of his head.

It made her happy.

Then, more arrived and Kerberos waved at them.

"Brother! Welcome."
"Hiiiii, Ker-aniki."

Shambling over was an elegant figure of pure feminine charm, slicked back magenta hair that stopped at the back of the neck, and the eye color was purple, forming that way over the years and a orange jumpsuit, with several gold chains adorned around the neck.

This was the kind of person that would be hit on by any man who saw them...yet they didn't know.

This wasn't a girl. It was Nemesis Wayne. A guy.

"Soooo, we're not late for once. Hmmmm, that's good then. Look momma, we made it."
"Hahhhh, I guess that's something then."
"It's aaaaa miracle!"

Sekhmet was walking right behind him, wearing a much more traditional formal dress than her old one she would wear and now she was walking instead of shambling around; the results of Bruce's rehabilitation courses. Her job was the bookkeeping of residents who lived in the complex.

They made it over and Sekhmet was hugged by Flora.

"Aunt Sekhmet! How are you?"
"Fine child. Hahhhhh, It's good to see you again."

She patted her head and looked over at Vega who was dusting herself after finishing things up. Sekhmet nodded to her and she flashed her a thumbs up, with a quick smirk to boot.

Sekhmet turned her head.

"Well look it's the Juukulius Clan."

Julius walked ahead of the family to bow respectfully. He still owre his knight uniform, but now had a 'man bun' haircut to show his own passage of time.

"Sorry for the late arrival, we had to prepare somethings with Kaya."
"Is she not coming?"
"Maybe later, her duties as Prime Minister are quite stacking."
"Hm, I guess so."

It was true, Kaya Juukulius was always swamped with work as Lugnica's second democratically elected Prime Minister. Lugnica was able to change to this political structure thanks to Felt using her royal abilities to change the structure of the kingdom, or country, at least.

It was still ever so grateful to the Dragon, but now the country was referred to the Dragon Nation of Lugnica.

Much like how Gusteko was now the United Union of Gusteko.

"Anyways, it is excellent to see you all."

Right behind him Carmilla nodded and said hello meekly to everyone, all the while cradling their baby girl Hailey, and all the purple haired, yellow eyed cuteness that she was.

Carmilla did seem to smile when she looked down at her baby girl. Julius saw this and smiled, giving a small kiss to the top of her head, making her blush immensely and actually use the baby as shield to hide her face, making the others laugh.

Their handsome son, Justice, who had his hair slicked back, but with spiked ends arrived, he wore a suit similar to his father but had on a long green scarf just like his mother and he had a sheathed rapier sword. He smiled, but kept it as that, he was known as being a person who hardly ever spoke...due to his voice sounding quite feminine and alluring, something he had issues with, himself.

Tivey arrived as well, now wearing a quite nice suit to show his changed status, alongside him was Joshua who was fixing his monocle. They both bowed respectfully-

"YO! HERE WE ARE!"
"HEY! HEY! THE PARTY HAS ARRIVED!"

Everyone sighed, but it was one of comfort and not annoyance. They all turned around to see Felt and her daughter arrive. Felt was wearing black coat that went down to her feet...standing next to Boudica, who was clearly taller than her.

Boudica was a pretty girl with a chignon hairstyle held by a kerchief. Still, this went against her clothing sense; as she wore men's clothes and was stated to have an athletic figure with her muscles being tight and easily seen. Indeed, one would say she was a tomboy.

Kerberos went over and nodded to her.

"Heya! How my siblings doing?"
"Fine Boudica, I see you haven't skipped on your practice then."

"Are you crazy? Dad would kick my ass in the afterlife if he found out either one of us did something like that!"

She patted his back, making even him grunt from her strength. But he smiled back at her...then all of the others ran over and got into a group hug, dragging even Justice and Nemesis along, but they didn't mind...all that was missing was.

"Hi guys."
"OH! LOOK! It's Otto and Laura!"

Otto waved as his grey haired, blue eyed daughter bowed a bit, but she was soon grabbed and forced into the group hug, startling her and making her face tomato red. Otto sighed as he was the sole guardian of this bundle of pride, having been abandoned by his fiance long ago...thus making him a single father. Still, he cared for his daughter, even if it ate up his non existent energy.

Indeed, these group of teens knew each other well and grew up together, facing hardship, learning about the world and training to become strong.

An extended family, not by blood...but still a family nonetheless.

Just then, more people were coming, making Boudica grin happily.

"Hiya guys!"
"Uncle Garf! Aunt Mimi!"

The two waved happily as well as their children…

"Now say hey kids! That means all ya. Perry, Dorry, Ebin, Zhivago, Kuri, Hato, Kimi, Gao and Kashu. Go on."
"HI-YA!"

Everyone was never used to the fact at the amount of kids Garfiel and Mimi had, and everyone fondly remembered the scoldings Frederica would give her little brother about it.

Soon enough everyone turned their gazes to the small lady Mimi...and prayed for her.

"Hey! Wha's wit' th' prayers fer? I trea' my wife jus' alrigh'!"

"Teheheehehe!"

Mimi couldn't help but hold her husband's hand and laugh wholeheartedly.

"Uncle Garf, how is Anastasia-san doing?"
"Hm...good, she's still havin' t' decide on whether she's gonna marry a suitor or nah."
"What do you think?"
"If she doesn't love em' she shouldn'. If she's worried she can make her adopted kid take over da company as head.."
"Her kid...Alzbeta-chan right?"
"Yeah, cute kid."
"Well, as long as she's healthy."

Just behind them, Minerva arrived, wearing a white cloak covering her body. She winked at them, just as Typhon walked by. She had grown to be a lovely young lady and her hair was now a bit longer and waved down. Next up...was Meili…

"Hi~! Hope everyone didn't wait too long~!"

She was beyond gorgeous...with Garfiel being reminded of Elsa in terms of beauty...and body proportions, though Meili didn't think anything of it.

The three ladies were known as The Three Maidens of the East, known as being the most gorgeous adventurers known to mankind. Still, in terms of strength they were just behind an adventurers group known as the Skull Band. But that was another matter.

Right after them, Liliana made her way to them all...looking the same as she ever did. It was quite shocking when one thought long and hard about it.

"Well well, looks like everyone is here! Nice nice!"

When she said that, Vega put on a sad expression.

"But…"

Flora patted her shoulder softly.

"One day, she'll come. Give it time."
"Sure."

Shaula was once again a no show. After Subaru died, she fell into a deep depression and decided to get her mind in check. Even at protest of Petra and Beatrice, she left the Estate and went on a journey of self-discovery. It was now years later, and she was nowhere to be seen, though rumors stated she was in Vollachia. Vega missed her mother, but decided to move on without her, even if she did want her by her side.

She would always be welcome back though.

"That's right, Petra."
"Hm? What is it Minerva?"
"I stopped by the Complex to see Daphne, she said as soon as she finishes her work she'll be here, but she also gave me this."
"Hm? A letter."
"Yeah, it arrived just now."

They all gathered around and took a look, seeing the envelope was pink colored. Petra opened the letter and read the contents.

"Dear all who are reading this,

Though I could not be there, I wish to give my condolences to the three in question.

Bruce Wayne.

Natsuki Subaru.

Frederica Baumann Wayne.

I pray for their peace and hope for all of you to be well.

We may meet again someday, but not today.

When the time comes, please, save me a seat.

With love,

An old friend…"

They all paused after a small pink petal fell out of the letter and landed on the grassy ground.

"Momma, who sent this?"

Petra looked over at Flora a bit surprised, but then looked over at Garfiel. He smiled and nodded at her, then she looked over at Beatrice who did the same.

"Like it said Flora...an old friend."

On the other side of the world, a long pink haired woman with a business suit on was watching the sakura leaves dance around in the wind. She heard the door open and like any good receptionist, she bowed and answered accordingly.

"Welcome, how may I help you?"

Her red eyes reflected the image of a certain dog faced fellow.

"Not going?"
"And you?"
"Didn't get permission, so nope."
"Well that's too bad."
"But what about you?"
"...Not yet. Someday I'll go, but it isn't the time or place just yet."
"So complicated, but I guess that's what's kept you going huh?"
"Of course, you shouldn't underestimate a powerful person like me Halibel-san."

Halibel laughed...but then turned a bit cheeky.

"Coming from the 'Hurricane' herself, I should take this seriously."
"And words from the 'Admirer' should be taken with a grain of salt."

She smiled at him, even if she longed to see her old friends again, she had one friend make a promise to her, and until she had it fulfilled, she would remain in her new home…

Now the festivities had begun.

This was biannual event in which these families would party in front of the graves of their old allies, lovers and comrades. Feeling that they would want to see how much they have gotten along, especially Subaru himself.

Liliana sung a tune as Laura got closer to sit next to Kerberos, even if it looked like she was going to pass out doing so.

Nemesis was conversing with Typhon who would slap her knees, finding his words funny.

Minerva was cradling Hailey as she smiled up at her aunt of sorts.

Meili was drinking a glass of milk mixed with rum as she was clearly poking fun at Garfiel being the submissive type in his relationship, even if feabley tried to deny it.

Beatrice rested her head on Flora's lap, as she softly played with the spirit's hair.

Alejandra handed a cup to Sarah who patted her head as thanks.

Sure enough, the time came for Liliana and Alejandra to sing a song for them, everyone cheering them on.

First they decided to sing a song Bruce seemed to sing to himself when he thought no one was looking or when he was putting his kids to sleep, and it was 'Rockin Robin by Bobby Day'.

After that, a song Subaru taught them, 'Time Out of Mind by Steely Dan", which did make Petra tear up, remembering Subaru singing the song to her on one of their anniversaries.

And finally, they sang the 'L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole', a song Frederica seemed to like to hear Bruce sing to her on their own anniversaries.

There was a swell of emotions as everyone could sense the memories of happy, sad, endearing and heart wrenching moments swirl around their minds. Even so, they continued the festivities, they continued the happy moments...because it's what they would all want.

Kerberos looked over the joyous events as Laura rested her head on his shoulder.

It was peaceful, even if the skies grew dark.

"HUH?!"

Everyone got up immediately, noticing the sky growing darker. They all turned back to look at the capital…

Only to see a colossal being made of what appeared to be metal standing in the middle of the capital.

"The hell is that?!"

Melili screamed this out, as everyone could see the shining green eyes emanating from the being, and the green mouth it had as well, it's face almost skeletal in appearance, steam escaping it. Garfiel pointed at it suddenly.

"Wai' a fuckin' sec! I know tha' thing! Righ' Julius!"
"You're right Garfiel. That's is without a doubt, Gallipoli Umbra!"

Without even a second, Kerberos answered back.

"Wait, Gallipoli?! Wasn't he part of that coup d'etat in Vollachia two years ago?!"
"Yes Kerberos, he and six other generals tried to take over the kingdom and kill Priscilla-sama, due to her friendly attitude towards Lugnica and the treaty we signed years ago. They lost thanks to the intervention of Zulu Creed and the Great Spirit Gustav. But...they were imprisoned."
"Well, now they aren't and I assume that the other six generals are probably here as well!"
"Indeed, no doubt to vent their anger on our country!"

Now the festivities were over, Kerberos and the others looking at the gravestones, as if speaking to them.

"What was it you called it? The never ending battle?"

He smiled and they all bowed apologetically at the graves.

Flora put on a somber look as they began to move out.

"Next time, it'll be better. I promise poppa."

Seeing that the giant was about to launch a punch to very ground, Boudica pulled out her weapon, gifted to her by her own father.

The God Slayer Sword.

She looked over at Nemesis.

"Fast Toss!"
"Weeee haven't done that in a while, are you-"
"-Just do it!"

He nodded and used his levitation magic to lift a piece of earth up from the ground and shoot her forward. She flew across the air and was now careening towards the giant. Gallipoli saw her coming towards him.

"That's! Grr...The Star Smasher, Boudica Wayne."

He shifted his fist upwards now, leaving the citizens below it safe, but now aimed it at Boudica. But she actually kicked the air and ran across his arm and dashed to him. His green eyes began to shine, making her kick off him again and he fired eye beams out and they sliced two nearby mountains in half. But now she kicked the air again and landed a kick on his jaw. Making him lose his balance.

Watching the punch land and the resulting massive shockwave, everyone made their move to head into the fight. Julius kissed Carmilla softly.

"Take care of the others, okay?"
"Sure thing, be safe Julius."
"I will."

She the patted her son on the head and he nodded to her worries.

Thus the fighters had gathered near Nemesis:

Julius Juukulius.

Galexia.

Justice Juukulius.

Garfiel Tinsel.

Kerberos B. Wayne.

Alejandra B. Wayne.

Natsuki Flora.

Natsuki Vega.

Beatrice.

Julius unsheathed his blade as Galexia got to begin shining brilliantly.

"Nemesis, tell us how many there are!"

Using his Divine Protection of Mind Strength, Nemesis used psychic abilities to scan the entire city and found the giant and six individuals in the city.

"Giant aaaaand six others."
"Okay, that means it's just the Generals. Get us over there."
"OOOOOOKAAAAY."

The earth lifted under them and now they were floating on a piece of the ground. THey all looked down at the others who were staying behind. With a quick reassuring nod, Nemesis had the piece of earth levitate away at dazzling speed.

Petra put a hand on her chest and made a sour face.

"Honestly, jumping into trouble like that."

She turned to once again to look at the gravestones, smiling with Sekhmet and Sarah.

Now passing through the buildings, they all decided to split up and take down the forces, but also…

"Something is bothering me about the attack."
"Wha' da ya mean, Kerberos?"
"Uncle Garf, doesn't this attack stink of the Anti-Life Society?"
"...Itda make sense."
"Then let's send some to the Estate, make sure everything is fine."

Nemesis agreed and continued the rock forward, all the while, Kerberos, Vega, Beatrice and Justice got off to face the invaders; the rest of them headed for the estate.

Kerberos landed on the ground and looked at his metal bracelet.

'Time to work."

Pushing on it, it began covering his entire body in a silver metal suit; hands now had claws and a green flaming cape sprouted out of his back. A helmet formed covering his entire face and all, and left only two green blazing eyes to see around, once they did, two horns stuck upwards, like pointed ears.

Finally on his chest a shining green symbol appears; a bat symbol.

THE BATMAN HAD APPEARED ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Jumping up he leaped around the rooftops and kicked off the corner of a nearby ledge where he saw a dark hooded spindly man, comprising himself in a skin tight suit with metal pads covering certain parts of his body, physically he was gifted with sharp claws, teeth and long lanky legs. The adversary was running through the streets slicing apart knights and guards trying to stop him. So Kerberos dashed forward and the two adversaries faced each other. The strange hooded person pulled out double edged sword and sliced away, but Batman dodged each strike and used a palm thrust to bash him into a carriage. The man rubbed his lips as he spat out blood, his hideous yellow spiral eyes narrowed.

"Ahhhh, Batman."
"And you...If I recall you are the Twin Blade, Mathrafal."
"Even here we're famous!"
"Famous for being traitors and criminals...and I think you know what I do to criminal scum."
"HA! Ahhhhh, but I heard the original Batman died already, you, you're just a bum wearing his title!"

As he zipped forward, he saw how Batman's green cape transformed into a swarm of bats that attacked, biting, pricking and slicing him. Mathrafal growled as he sliced around himself rapidly pushing away the bats and cutting some nearby buildings into pieces, but as he grinned, he saw the bats return being a cape...for a Batman who was now only inches away from his face.

Before he could react to those blazing green eyes, he was socked across the face and his body blasted through several buildings. Slamming to a halt into one, he roared as he spun around his two sided sword, both blades glowing red. Batman kicked around the side of buildings, zig zagging around the street.

"Fire Magic huh?"

Mathrafal dashed forward as well, but he saw Batman pull out two small compact blades out and made his knives shine light green.

"AHHHH! Don't make a fool out of me, Wannabe Batman!"
"I. AM. BATMAN!"

They traded slices as the very ground began being sliced apart by their competing strikes. But it was when Mathrafal stabbed into the ground, and caused an explosion, that made most of the block collapse into a massive crater.

Jumping out of the smoke and debris, Mathrafal laughed to his heart's content.

"Ahhh, did the wannabe Batman get-"
"-I'd ask you to refrain from breaking any more of my city...but it'd be a waste of breath."

Hearing a voice behind himself, Mathrafal turned around.

Only to be punched with such force, it dislocated his neck; killing him.

Batman had his giant green wings of light flap once, as he only caught the two sided sword and let Mathrafal's body plummet back into the ground.

"Justice has been served."

He then flew sideways and headed for the giant fighting his half sister.

Justice ran through a destroyed storefront, confronting a lion demi-human who had two dual wielding axes. He roared as slammed the ground, causing the very ground around them to cave in, for a display of power. Justice got his rapier ready, the lion demi-human tried to cut him in half, combining wind magic with his slice, but only cut two buildings in half. Justice looked down as he was already over him...and stabbed downward, with such precision, such power and speed, one would have thought he stabbed straight through the very world itself.

The lion demi-human, who was actually named Owain, dropped his axes and slumped face first into the ground. Slamming his head into some debris.

Justice finally touchdowned on the floor with grace and sheathed back his sword.

The Impaling Grace, Justice Juukulius, had finished his task.

Flora carefully looked around as she was cautious about her approach...then she saw Batman fly through the air, assuring her his fight was over. She happily sighed, but then noticed a shadow, so she back-flipped away from the strike.

From a destroyed building, a woman with two staffs appeared, though her demi-human blood was evident, showing that her ears were wolf ears. In her hands were drill like javelins.

"Sorry, but I just can't trust any Lugnican right now, not even one as cute as you."
"That is a nice compliment, if it weren't for the fact that you're attacking my home."
"Right, but your country is such a curse upon the world, it sort of deserves it."
"...Is it now?"

Flora gave a surprisingly dark look to her opponent, pulling from her dress, a sword hilt...with no blade attached to it…

"Hahaha! What the hell, you going to toss that at my face or something?! Useless!"

She stabbed into the air, and using wind magic and water magic combined, fired a spiral bullet-like shot out at her. But Flora focused and from the sheath was a flexible sword, but it was incredibly thin and seemed almost more like a whip than anything. It was so long it could go around her three times, and she used it to break apart the attack, sending pieces of it through the building behind it, littering it in holes. Flora stared at her as she readied another strike.

But Flora twirled, just like Sarah had taught her, keeping her feet firm, like her father had taught her, and keeping her power and balance in check, just like Bruce showed her. She visualized and in sudden bursts of speed, she spun the whip like blade around and around, slicing apart the air and any attacks that came close to her. Seeing no choice, the woman dashed forward intending to pierce through her.

She did, laughing...but Flora sighed and she turned into a puff of smoke.

"THE FUCK?"

Flora emerged from her shadow and stabbed through he shoulder...removing herself from the blade she fired back, but her shots were blocked by some small blades Flora kicked off the ground. She then made her way to Floar, seeing that the whip's end was too far away now to stab her, so she used her strength to try and pierce at Flora's skull.

But Flora blocked it.

"WHAT?!"

She had a small compact shield with her, and used it to great use, she then side stepped and actually made the blade move somewhat have the flat side onto her shoulder, using it as almost a battering ram and tackling her away. Once again, she tried stabbing her, but Flora used a free foot to place it on another flat side lifting it in a ballerina pose shifting it over and blocking the strike, then using a free hand...she pushed her hand up and spun in the air in a fierce display of skill. Slicing the area to bits.

The woman backed up...but found herself losing her footing, realizing too late that her left foot had been cut off.

"GRGGH!"

She fried a barrage of shots at Flora but she seemingly dnced as elegantly as one could, using the movement to have the flat blade knock away all the hits, all the while kicking off her boots.

What infuriated the woman most, was the fact that Flora looked so calm and collected, as if this was easy to her.

She kicked off the ground and had the drill like spear glow blue and vast gusts of wind surrounded it.

"TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! YOU FUCKING NATSUKI BASTARD!"
"...Saying that...I have no choice but to."

Flora sighed harshly as she glared at her quickly arriving opponent. That was when the woman, named Iora Namu, saw Flora's feet. Covered in scars, too many to count, a sign of the ardorous training she put herself through to master her signature weapon.

"Now...I'll have you dead. Even without my 'Skycalibur'...I can end you."
"Fuck off-"

Yet! Flora scraped her feet forward, and had the blade swirl around her in rapid spins, dazzling the opponent, but she shook her head, realizing she was heading towards doom. She jumped back, but the end of the blade blasted ahead and stabbed through her uninjured shoulder, then, using the shield around her arm...Flora used her shield to have it rub against the blade, sliding forward with such force that the ground was giving way with her movement. Unable to do a thing...she watched as Flora made it to her, and had her feet press down, making the pavement crack immensely. The last thing she was looking at were those pair of cyan eyes, reflecting her panicking face.

"Fu-"

Flora backflipped, but using her feet, and only her strong steel like feet, she kicked off Iora's head.

Landing safely, she focused and the Skycalibur, a name given by her own father to the blade in question, returned to its hilt.

She then...quickly checked her dress up and down, sighing as she dusted it off.

"Momma worked so hard on this too! Jeez. I'll have to wash it later, at least no blood got on it."

She then saw an explosion nearby.

"Oof...Hope sis doesn't destroy the city more than the bad guys."

Beatrice and Vega were staring at two girls in white cloaks, both twins with brown hair and jade eyes.

"Look dear Anya, our opponents are the Great Spirit and the child of the former Great Sage."
"Yes dear Maya, though possibly tough they are no match for us."

Both gave an annoying giggle, as Vega simply walked closer and Beatrice stayed back, crossing her arms as if she was beyond bored.

"Oh? Does the Great Spirit, think we are no challenge to her?"
"Oh? Does she underestimate us? Or overestimate this girl?"

Beatrice scoffed at them as she fixed her pink scarf.

"Betty has not enough time to be playing with children like you, I suppose. My contracted partner is more than enough for you two."

Vega cracked her knuckles as her hair danced in the sudden breeze, most likely from a nearby stomp by the giant.

Anya pointed and laughed at Vega.

"HAHAHA! As if a girl who holds the title of Light and Shadow could ever take us on. That means you only specialize in two magics!"
"Yes sister, in out case...We were BOTH born with the Divine Protection of Sorcery. We are masters of all magic!"

Anya stepped forward having orbs of different colors float around her, showing she was capable of using all six elements.

Beatrice raised her brows for a moment, being reminded of Roswaal...but smirked.

"It won't be enough, I suppose."
"Foolish spirit! Watch as we-"

Anya had her head punched to blood chunks by Vega.

Her sister watched in horror as her sister was killed so quickly, not even being able to finish her sentence. Vega looked over to her, as blood blessed her lovely face.

"That was the problem. You two rely too much on magic, just like the others back in the old days."

"C...CUNT!"

Maya fired a plethora of magic attacks out destroying entire blocks in front of her.

She panted and heaved as she fired enough magic to wipe entire armies...but noticed Beatrice was standing there dusting herself off.

"HK!"
"Little girl, I hope you know...that your time has come to a finale, I suppose."

Beatrice instantly disappeared, making Maya panic as she looked around trying to find her opponent. Now just noticing, in absolute terror, that she took her eyes off of Vega.

She felt the surge of mana behind her, slowly turning her head and seeing Vega aiming a large spear of light right at her, easily three times her own size.

"A….A…"
"Stumped for words? Well better pick some last good ones, if you don't want your last moments to suck."
"A...A-AL GOA!"

She fired a ball of fire, twice her own size...only for Beatrice to swat it away with a shockwave, now that she was standing in front of her partner, a promise she had made with Subaru to help take care of his daughters in his place.

She did so, intending to take care of the Natsuki Family, for the next thousands years left of her life.

Vega tossed the spear at such speed, steam escaped from under her feet. Maya watched as her barrier broke into pieces, eyes turning white she spoke.

"Oh, dear, G-"

She was blasted to smithereens, leaving not even a speck of ash left of her, only a crater that formed there was evidence of her existence. Vega stared at it, only quietly fixing her cloak, the very one her father gave as a gift, one month before he died.

Beatrice walked over and held hands with her.

"Beatrice?"

"It's nothing to worry about Vega, they were in the wrong, I suppose."

"I know, but thanks Beatrice."

They let a small breeze blow by them as the watched the giant fire more eye beams, but still missing his intended target, and further witnessing the giant get hit by something and fly over the walls that protected the capital and straight atop of the woods.

A truly unbelievable sight.

Garfiel found his target, an ogre...very rare species in any place, using a warhammer to break apart several buildings. The ogre instantly knew his foe well.

"Grr! Kararagi's Strongest Shield! Garfiel Tinsel!"

"Yup! Didn' expec' ta see my amazin' self here did ya!"
"Kararagi is very well known for being chummy with Lugnica! No surprise you're here! GRR!"

He swung his warhammer at him, but Garfiel stopped it with one arm and motioned it away from him, kicking off the ground and landing a knee to his chin, sending him up into the air, but the ogre let out a yell and shot out a sonic roar. Garfiel smirked at the that.

"URYAH!"

He let out his own sonic shout and the two attacks canceled each other out. Garfiel landed a punch into his abdomen, making the Ogre retaliate by punching him into the ground, but Garfiel spun himself in a display of physical prowess, and to show he took no damage. The ogre, named Hurtur aimed his warhammer downward, intending to crush Garfiel. Garfiel saw his moment and, decided not to use his twin shields. He grabbed the ground and tore it from the earth, taking with him a giant slab of rock and dirt. He tossed it up, making Hurtur break it apart, but he did not see Garfiel blasting through the debris.

Garfiel punched through his chest and then used a sonic yell to scream into his ear, breaking apart his brain inside his skull. Garfiel then launched his body into a nearby fountain, destroying it and burying Hurtur's body further into the dirt.

Garfiel landed with his feet to the ground, forming a crater underneath his feet, he then proceeded to hop on his toes and yawn.

"Tha' was kinda pointless."

He then turned his head and saw in the far distance, the giant Gallipoli, swat down Boudica...only for her to jump straight into the air slice upward, knocking him back.

Now arriving at the Estate, everyone jumped off the floating piece of earth, just in time for Nemesis to toss it to the side of the building, showing a man wearing armor covering him from head to toe.

"Stuuuupid, I could sense your thoughts nearby."

"Hmph!"

The armored man, easily recognized as a member of the Anti-Life Society blasted fire magic forward...only for it to be broken apart by Alejandra.

"TSK! The Red…"Blazing Darkness, Alejandra Wayne!"
"Hey there, I'd so love it if you didn't attack my lovely brother, okay?"
"And what!? Take a killing blow from the "Imperceptible Reach" himself, Nemesis Wayne?! As a member of our society, I'm not dishonoring us enough to die of such incompetence."

He created a whip of ice and swung it around himself, using an glacier to launch himself and swing the whip out. This annoyed Alejandra as she used fire blasts underneath her feet and launched herself forward, past the end of the whip. Nemesis sensed another Society member coming close, to easily assassinate him.

"When you tryyyyy to kill someone, you should have your mind clear of unnecessary thought."

He then levitated a piece of the earth up and launched it at the invisible assassin. Forcing the attacker to jump back and removing his invisible cloak, showing he was a fox demi-human, wearing an extravagant kimono.

"Damn!"

He tossed several throwing knives, but they stopped right before his face, floating in mid air. Nemesis sighed as he used a tired wrist swing to have them fly back. The fox demi-human used expert flips to get away from them, but noticed it...Nemesis used a flat piece of the earth to make him fly forward and rain pieces of sharp rock down at him, the fox did everything to dodge them...but two pierced his shoulders.

"GAhh!"
"Sorry, but I reaaaaally don't have to play around...I have to finish this. I'm reaaaally hungry."

He then reached into his jumpsuit and pulled out three metal orbs, just small enough to fit in his palms. He then had them spin around in his hands rapidly before they began floating just above his hand…

They flung forward and began dancing around...through Nemesis's opponent. Through his stomach, hands, legs, shoulder, mouth and finally all three of them curved around and round through his head and face. Finally they shot through his neck, obliterating it, and flew back into Nemesis's waiting palm.

"Hahhhhh."

Nemesis did as his mother would, as the opponent fell to the ground, covered in countless holes.

Alejandra sung a loud screech as fire spat out of her mouth covering a large section of the area. The armored society member then kicked off the ground and created spikes all around his arms, intending to finish her off with several slices across her pretty face.

He stomped the ground and an ice spike shot out of the ground right in front of her. She tilted her head and dodged the attack, but now the armored man punched across the ice and had his fist careening towards her. She then backed her body into an arch and swung her fist as well, but her arm transformed into black fur and claws...the claws of a panther.

The hits collided, creating a crater underneath their feet.

But her clenched clawed fist began breaking the ice fist, the armored man grunted as he prepared to have his other free fist to punch her sides. But Alejandra saw the fist coming towards her and had her tail grab on his arm and using her own free arm she fired a big sphere of black flame out straight through his chest.

"HYAKKK!"

She motioned herself by pushing away both of his fists and pulling out a retractable bo staff, spinning it around a bit before hitting him twice in the shoulder, jabbing him in the neck...before jumping lightly off the grassy terrain and whacking him on the head. The squishing sound she heard from the strike, proved to her that he was indeed dead. His body slumped to the ground in utter defeat.

"Whew! All this sweating is going to ruin my complexion."

She then breathed in and out doing a simple fa-ri-ma-so test with her voice.

"Didn't use any of my voice magic, but that's good."

Nemesis walked over and noticed they could hear a commotion coming from inside the easte.

"Alejandra!"
"Yeah, let's go bro!"

They both made their way inside the estate.

Julius was with Galexia, running through the halls, when they saw three society members, all of their faces hidden by hoods and custom masks, they wore masks...that at time would remind Bruce and Subaru of the dreaded Anti-Monitor.

All of them pulled out staffs and charged forward. Julius exchanged strikes with one, while another one ran across the wall and got behind him, but Julius ducked down and dodged his swing, then using his training from Bruce, he did a flip kick and forced him back while impaling the other in the hand. But his opponent only grunted and and actually did his best to grip the impaling blade and focus his sight on Julius.

"Look. At. Me."

Julius felt himself being lost into his eyes…

"No...GR!...Evil Eye Tribe."

The Evil Eye Tribe were a race from Vollachia that could bewitch and control others with their eyes, though thought to have been destroyed, much like Onis, there seemed to actually only be a handful left.

Julius though, would not fall from this.

"Not today!"

His eyes shined, connection with his spirit was established and he broke through the attempt into his mind. hgrunt clicked his tongue as he focused again...his eyes glew pink.

"Al Kuvar!"

Beams of light shot out of his eyes, slicing and burning the walls and ground, but Julius masterfully dodged them all, before using a speed boost spell to get in front of the grunt and slice his head off.

But remembering the other one, he was hit across the chest with a staff, before headbutted to the wall. Cornered, Julius flipped his body and then kicked off the wall, his sword swing clashing with the staff. Julius then had his sword glow white…

"AL CLAUSIRIA!"

The force pushed the attacker back, but not before he too tired firing eye beams at the knight in question. Still, his shining white blade split apart the beam, making it slice into the floor, walls, and ceiling around him. But before he could do anything, the grunt turned around to face Galexia, she swung her hair and he disappeared into it. She then walked forward stoically...before swinging her hair and having the grunt return...shivering and covered in ice.

He tried to get up, but his trembling body proved otherwise...Galexia aimed her palm at him and sighed.

"Ul Fula."

Slicing wind strikes carved him into pieces.

Galexia ran over and hugged her partner.

"Julius are you okay?!"
"Of course! I wouldn't someone like that get the better of me."
"Ha, I know. Just worrisome is all...I hope Justice is okay."
"...My son should be doing just fine."

His smile reassured her, but then they noticed the third one, the other one they paid no heed to making a run for the hall...only for holes to completely destroy the walls, and then eviscerate him to a bloody pulp. Julius and Galexia both sighed.

"Nemesis-kun, you didn't have to go that far."
"Right? Me and Julius could have taken care of that."

Nemesis peeked out of the corner and had his three metal orbs return to him.

"Sorry I kindaaaaa panicked."

Alejandra poked the dead corpse with piece of the wall.

"Blegh. You really did a number on him."
"Like I said, I paaaaanicked!"

She smiled a bit, before they all heard screaming.

They all dashed to the place they suspected they were heading to.

They soon saw a fourth grunt screaming inside of a room, holding his head as he fell to his knees. They all instinctively knew not to go into the room while this spell was activated so Alejandra aimed her fingers at him.

"Goa."

Small shots of black flames fired out and shot through his head and back, sparing him from the attack on his mind.

"The room's defenses are still are working well."
"Yeah, good thing he seemed weak willed, otherwise he would have made it through the first defense."

Unless one went with Beatrice or was taught the proper procedures, one would have their mind attacked by the torrent of illusion runes woven into the outer walls of the room.

All the defenses.

Spells.

Counter spells.

Teleporting doors and more.

All of it to protect what was inside.

It made Julius silently murmurs to himself.

"Emilia-sama...Rem-dono…"

The room was well known between all families. Bruce and Subaru's own children knew of it, but did not know of the contents inside...until Frederica's death, when Bruce's will gave them permission to enter freely within it. In hopes that the new generation, could continue their work, and find a way to bring those two and the lives inside of them back safely.

Looking at the ice block; one would see Emilia and Rem, in the same position as all those years ago, having not aged a day.

Now seeing that the room was safe, and Nemesis detected no more intruders they closed the door shut and...saw the Anti-Life Member's body burst into flames...then smoke arose from it, and two orange eyes and a hideous monstrous mouth formed in the smoke.

Everyone recognized it.

Alejandra especially did.

"SCARECROW."
"My...you were...able...to protect them…"
"Yes! And we're always going to keep Emilia-san and Rem-san safe from you!"
"Keep...safe?...Didn't...your...parents...FAIL?"

His stinging words left everyone in a bad mood, wishing the actual thing was here so they could teach him a lesson. Then again, with strength rivaling any one of the Five Great Spirits...it would be dangerous thing to even pretend to wish for.

"See...you...all...again...ha...ha….ha~..."

The smoke dissipated and Scarecrow's eyes and mouth were gone, leaving only a smoldering skeleton.

Nemesis began walking forward, staring at the smoldering corpse.

"Sooooo, this was a distraction. To get to Emilia-san and Rem-san."
"Horrible. Just the worst."
"Beeee that as it may Sis...We have to help the others with Gallipoli."

Everyone nodded in agreement and they all rushed off to finish off their last and obviously most powerful opponent.

Once outside they saw that the giant was now miles outside of the capital walls and trying his best against both Boudica and Batman, Lugnica's two strongest swordsman.

Batman used his blazing bright wings to glide past a powerfully fast punch, before launching several yang beams out at the being. Only to watch them bounce off his metal skin.

"Mana resistant skin."

He then rolled in the air dodging three more fast punches, causing nearby treelines to sway from the resulting bursts of wind. Batman felt like communicating…

"Enough! Gallipoli! This fight is over, your forces are defeated!"
"NO! I will not rest until I kill as many of you as possible!"

His big booming voice echoed for miles.

"This whole battle was a set up the Anti-Life Society! Don't die over something like this!"
"FOOL!"

He kicked several times in the air, but missed every hit, Batman maneuvering around them in the air. When Lithium landed he had the earth shake around him and caved in the ground.

"Lugnica will pay for the destruction it has wrought into the world! First with Satella...and then...and then that giant that attacked us 15 years ago!"
"Giant? 15 years ago?"

Beatrice was watching the fight from atop the wall, getting ready to join in with Vega.

She held her breath into her throat as the memory of a certain blue armored being, one of the parties responsible for the state of this world. Batman tossed several explosive shurikens at Gallipoli, only aggravating the giant in question.

"Imbecile! That giant you are talking about is the very one that helped Satella right?! That monster was from the realm of Gotham, just as my father, Deathstroke-dono and Pamela-dono were as well! Lugnica had nothing to do with it attacking your nation!"
"Then the sin lies with Lugnica's heroes for bringing that beast into our world! And thus, since they are dead, I shall submit justice upon their descendants and allies!"

He tried again and again to strike with jabs and punches, but eventually Boudica rebounded in the air and kicked him across the cheek, even being so small compared to the giant; her kick sent him tumbling to the ground.

He picked himself up as his green eyes shined.

"If I had the strength back then...I would have defeated that giant...I would have defeated it and saved my home from the devastation that befell it-"

Minya spears rained down like a downpour and riddled the giant down to the ground.

Floating high above was Beatrice and Vega.

"Idiot, I suppose."
"HUH?"
"Gallipoli...even with the strength you have now, to say that you could have defeated the Anti-Monitor is so laughable, it makes me cease from even cracking a smile."
"A Great Spirit like yourself...much like Odglass, who allowed that being to free Satella and jumpstart that grueling unknown war, should be quiet!"

Picking himself up he stared up at the two, still the Great Spirit looked down at him with pity.

"At least Betty and the others tried to stop the Society and Envy from having their way, I suppose. And you, well..."
"Ah!"
"You were nowhere to be found were you?"

Her narrowed eyes, showed her disapproval over not just his actions for today, but also his inaction from the Forgotten Conflict, taking out his own weakness from back then and the frustrations of his current endeavors out on others.

She disliked his actions.

He disliked her words.

"GUAAAHHHHH!"

He quickly jumped into the air, making trees uproot from the ground and the terrain around him to break apart...only for him to be bombarded with boulders and a piece of the city wall, sending him to crash through several miles of trees.

Nemesis was floating on a piece of earth as he levitated more pieces and shot them out at him, keeping him busy.

Vega then had herself and Beatrice fly forward as they met with Batman…

"Vega! Operation Ocean Down!"
"Really?!"
"Yes! Now!"
"G-Got it!"

The two flew ahead as the giant got up, only to eat a straight on kick to the face by Boudica, this hit cracked his face and made blood fly out of his face. That very blood drenched the trees nearby.

Vega and Batman focused aiming their palms at him.

"ULTRA ERMAC!"

A gigantic tear in space appeared behind him, so he stepped his feet into the ground to prevent himself from falling in. But as Boudica was falling back into the ground, she saw Alejandra using her fire magic to fly towards her.

"SIS! GIVE ME A TOSS!"
"OKAY!"

She grabbed her hands and spun around and around in the air, before she was in position to fire herself forward and toss her sister, with that action, Boudica kicked the air. That very moment sent her to Gallipoli at such a velocity, it was like she was a literal rocket.

She slammed into his abdomen, cracking the steel again and making him have no choice but to begin falling into the void, but he stepped one foot outside of it, desperate not fall for whatever plan they had.

However, Boudica emerged from the blood and steel skin, roaring with fervor as she clenched a fist and began punching with all her might. The pain surged through his body as he tried balancing on one foot. But soon, Julius and Galexia mad eit where his foot was and caved in the ground he was standing in, Gallipoli's eyes shined in rage.

"JUUKULIUS!"

He fired his eye beams at him, but they were blocked by Garfiel who arrived with his twin shields, making the beams bounce off and slice several trees in half instead.

Garfiel then launched himself at the foot and turned his arm into the bestial form punching the foot downward, breaking several toes from the sound of it.

Finally that was the last straw and Gallipoli fell through the tear in space.

Once his feet hit the ground...he felt they were wet.

"What...wait..this is…"

A large body of water, he could see the sun in the sky, but also the sky was not blue and was devoid of clouds, the water stretched on as far as the eye could see, and behind him, it looked as though...the water was going downward.

He realized where he was …

"THE GREAT WATERFALL?!"

He began running forward, trying to get away from the death sentence behind him, to avoid certain doom. But Boudica roared as her eyes shined red as she finally began using her God Slayer Sword to proper use and sliced and diced at his stomach. He coughed out blood as he tried screaming out in pain. But ahead of him, was a giant light.

"AHK!"

He saw it.

There Vega was, holding a light spear clearly too big for her to carry it, it would honestly seem fit for Gallipoli to hold that kind of spear instead.

This was an impossible sight for him, but watched as it fired out to him, parting the waters as it carenned at him.

"AGGHHHH! NATSUKI!"

He grabbed it with both hands, but the force was pushing him back, so he planted his feet as it continued to struggle.

As he saw this Batman held his hand up and-

"Al Ermac."

A tear in space opened above him and he quickly jumped through it...then not even a few seconds later he flew out of it.

Pitch Black.

Blood Red.

This armor was and still is an armor feared by all, especially since it was the very armor his father wore. The armor that earned him the title of one of the 15 Swords of the World, as one of the most powerful warriors on the planet.

...15 Swords of The World. A title only held by individuals known for being the strongest in all the known countries.

Kararagi had four.

Vollachia had three.

Gusteko had four.

Lugnica had four as well.

Then, there were the titles of Heavenly Kings among those individuals, of which there was only a handful.

Halibel of Kararagi.

Zulu Creed of Vollachia.

Baba Yaga of Gusteko.

Kurvash of Gusteko.

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.

.

Boudica Wayne of Lugnica.

Natsuki Vega of Lugnica.

Batman of Lugnica.

And Gallipoli was fighting three at once, and while he was once considered part of the 15 Swords...he was dead last. Dead. Last.

"Time to finish this."

The Hellbat Armor was here.

Using his giant bat wings he shot forward, just as Gallipoli was on the edge of the waterfall...he broke apart the spear, sending fragments of it all around them and making parts of the sea splash upwards, like bombs landing in the sea.

But through that sprinkling of water...Batman dashed to him, punching out his right eye.

"AGHHHKK!

Batman then had his wings turn into giant hands that clawed at his neck.

This was a chance.

The magic resistant skin around his neck, broke.

"Vega!"

Vega flew over and fired a spike covered Minya blade at him, which exploded on his neck. He held his neck in pain….but Beatrice also got involved.

"Time to show a child like you what a spirit with Betty's title can do, I suppose."

She made gestures with her hand, as she mutter a canto.

Then, the halo on her back seemed to multiply and and floated around her, circling the spirit in a dazzling display.

She then sighed as she waved her hand out at him.

The halos zoomed ahead, growing giant as they did. Each halo wrapped itself around Gallipoli's wrists and ankles, pulling with an unseen gravity force until he had his arms and legs stretched out. A dangerous situation for him.

"DAMN YOU! YOU'LL PAY! ALL OF YOU!"

"...!"

"I'LL BURN YOUR ACCURSED NATION TO THE GROUND! I WILL BE THE HERO! NOT YOU! NOT THE NATSUKI OR WAYNE HOUSEHOLDS! NOT JUUKULIUS OR THE SWORD SAINT! ME! I-"

Boudica ran up his abdomen, having her sword change into one that was five times her size. Finally with great speed she made it up to his neck and-

"HAZAHHHH!"

She sliced his neck in half.

Blood shot out of his haf neck, coating the ocean itself in it.

He tried breathing, but hideous high pitched slurping sounds were the only thing heard.

His eyes stopped showing their glimmer, before his head slumped down.

Boudica kicked him, sending his gigantic figure back, another example of her overwhelming strength.

As she was free falling, Batman caught her and they flew next to Beatrice and Vega.

They saw a giant section of the ocean, turn into a sea of blood, but it was being drained away by the Great Waterfall.

And Gallipoli's body began falling off.

Then his metal body broke apart, the magic keeping him that way was gone.

There, they saw his true form, the tiny human he actually was.

Short, skinny and barely any muscle to him…

His body disappeared into the darkness of the waterfall.

The battle had come to an end.

However, before returning back to Lugnica...they made a quick stop in, Vollachia.

"My, to think you stopped those criminals, you have our thanks."
"Bet you didn't even try looking for them in the first place, I suppose."

Beatrice, Boudica, Vega and Kerberos were now in the throne room of Vollachia, meeting with the Sun Emperor, The Virgin Queen; Priscilla Barielle; her title coming from the fact she swore to never marry or have someone as an heir, letting Gustav select who would be the next emperor. She wore an extravagant royal dress, while sitting upon her throne...next to her were the two strongest warriors in the kingdom.

Zulu Creed. Wearing a golden armor that covered everything except for his magenta eyes. The top of his helmet adorned in antlers and wore a wolf pelt as a cape. He had sheathed a broadsword.

Katy Valuva Wu. A woman adorned in armor reminiscent of Mongolian history. She had her brown hair tied to the side and it flowed down to her hip. She had two dao spears and a glacius sword.

The two warriors nodded, as if they also wanted to give thanks.

"Now, does your country want a reward or something?"
"No Lady Barielle. We just merely came to inform you, though if you wish to reimburse us, you may speak with our leader on the matter, I'm sure she will be of higher authority on the matter."

Kerberos said this, much to the surprise, then amusement of Priscilla.

"You remind me so much of your father."
"I take that as the highest of compliments. I thank you for your words."
"Hehe, well, if that is all, you may all go."

Priscilla fanned herself, showing them the sure sign that the talking was done.

They all gave a respectful bow...but before they left through a tear in space.

"One last thing."
"Hm?"

Priscilla smiled at them.

"Give my condolences to your parents."
"...Thank you."

They once again, gave another bow and made their way out.

Priscilla looked out the window of her throne room.

"Has it been that much time, huh? Hmmm...I will miss those two. They were so...FUN."

She hid her mouth behind her fan as the sunlight basked her.

Now returning home, they were surprised by everyone gathering around them, hugging them in relief.

Once again this humongous surrogate family was together.

Now in the council room, Kaya sat in her seat, her long purple hair rested on her shoulder, her yellow eyes stared down at them, fixing her glasses as she did.

"Once again, we owe you all a great debt. I couldn't see what sort of reward is required of you to-"
"-None is needed Kaya."

Kaya was surprised, but seeing Flora step forward as she smiled, she had a feeling she knew what was coming next.

"Any money you were going to give all of us, please use it in the repairs to the city, they need it more than us."

"...You are all too much. But…my cousin Julius has said that Subaru-dono and Bruce-dono were just the same."

"Yeah."

Everyone, smiled...imagining Subaru scratching his nose in embarrassment while Batman simply shrugging off her comment.

Still…

"There is nothing to worry about Kaya."
"Huh?"

Kerberos came forward, removing the Hellbat helmet and showing his regular steel one.

"As long as the Wayne and Natsuki households are here, as well as the Juukulis and others too, we will defend Lugnica, even if it meant defending against this world or the realm of Gotham. We will do so...because…'

He held his voice, due to a memory of Bruce tucking him in when he was still a child.

"Because this is home, and my father once said, that home was always the most important place to keep safe. First home, then the world."
"...Wise words."
"Yes, that is why we will stand firm and keep this place...no this home of ours safe! I swear it."

Sarah heard this and began to cry happily. For an instant, she felt the presence of someone she had not felt in about a year.

Those hopes from the previous one, now rested in this new generation.

Vega stepped forward to let them know her thoughts.

"And we'll do everything we can to protect this country from three of the biggest threats out there.'
"Yes…"

Kaya closed her eyes as she saw the images of Lugnica...no, the world's three biggest enemies.

"Scarecrow and his Anti-Life Society. The Viboron, a giant tortoise the size of mountain with a large snake like tail. And of course the Wandering Serial Killer; Onomatopoeia. They are the biggest threats plaguing the world…"
"We'll defeat them, we swear on our...our family names."

Again, the hope of a new generation was trusted onto them.

And it did, in Bruce's will Kerberos and the rest of his children were given access to his studies and notebooks. And while combing through them, Boudica found one that alarmed her, labeled E.E.T.

"Yo! Bros, Sis! Look...This is…"

Flipping through the pages, they knew what it was, Kerberos nodded to it contents.

"It may take a while."

Alejandra smiled down at it.

"I'm sure we can get it done."

Closing it, they saw the title again, "The Envy Extraction Theory".

At the Estate, Daphne was visiting, having little to do as she was still studying on how to work on a reliable food source for the world, feeling she was coming close from a suggestion by Subaru and Bruce...now she was munching on some snacks per usual, but noticed the kids were gone.

"Off to find adventure?"

Petra nodded.

"Of course, they are his kids after all."
"Heh."

It continued.

Time moved forward.

Time always would.

Within that state, many things would happen.

Good and bad.

Uplifting and tragic.

Peace and war.

Beauty and terror.

New lives born, old ones lost.

Trust lost, bertyal given.

Discovery of new places and the degradation of previous ones.

The Wayne Family.

The Natsuki Family continued their duties...until….

Twelve Years later…

It looked all around.

But what surprised it was the fact, it did not recognize its surroundings. The pitch black darkness around it, only illuminated by the stars of the sky, confused it to no end. It had lived for many years, seeing every corner of the world it could. It looked into this world, and several others, so why it didn't recognize this place was confounding it.

In fact, it wondered what happened.

The last time it was fully awake...it tried to possess those two children.

Envy kept gazing around, it's amethyst eyes went back and forth. A crater here. A small rock there. White sand.

"...?!"

White sand?

It had never seen such sand before it four hundred years of existence. Where it was it did not know. Then, it decided to move forward. But it bounced off.

It was trapped.

A special glass was in front of it, one that canceled out mana, thus keeping it in place.

"Grrr…"

It tried again and again, it's shapeless form trying over and over to free itself, but to no avail. It grew tired, and realized it needed to conserve its energy. It barely had enough mana to move around. Still, it needed to find a way out. A way to escape and a chance to possess those two again…

So it turned around.

Now there was light.

"...O…."

It saw it. And realized immediately where it was.

"...OoooooOOOOoooo…"

No power.

No magic.

Authorities all gone. And now trapped in a glass dome.

"...OOOOOOooooooOOOOOOoooooO!"

It snarled, forming hideous red teeth under its eyes and….began to cry, tear up, weep, wail, curse, snarl and anything else to voice it's agony over this predicament.

"OOO….OOoooooOOOO….!'

It clawed at the glass but every single time, it was rebounded as if the glass prison absorbed and bounced off her attempts. These were fruitless actions of a terrible being, an amalgamation of two foul spirits into one.

To have it all.

To destroy it all.

This is what it wanted.

"I want Subaru...SuuuuuBAaaaarRRRUuuuu….KILL DESTROY! KILL BATMAN! DESTROY THE WORLD! Love for me...MEeeeeeeeEEeeeeeEeeeeeeee….ANNIHILATE CRUSH! ANNIHILATE THE OTHER WORLDS! CRUSH THE MORTALS!"

Yet. It wanted..

"Let me out."

It desired it.

"Let meeeeeee...OOOOoooOOOOoooooUUUuuuuuuUUUuuuuuuuTTTTttttt!"

And yet.

"Let me out. Let me out. Let me out. Let me. Out. Let me out. LET ME OUT! Let mmMMMMMMEEEeeee Out. Let me out. LET. ME. OUT. LET ME OUT! LETMEOUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME. OUUUUUT! LET ME OUT!"

And in truth. Envy never would.

"LET ME OUUUUUUUUUUUT!"

Envy, trapped in a glass prison that would keep it in place, and even if it did ghet out.

There was nowhere to go.

"NNNNnnnnnnNNNnnnnnNNnNNNNnnOOOOooooOOoOOOOOoooOOOO!"

That very prison had been teleported, directly to the moon.

It was risky move in part by Bruce Wayne, seeing it was truly the only place where Envy could be trapped to the point it would eventually die off, and with no mana in outer space...there was nothing it could do, and with no body to possess, it was truly doomed.

The only thing it could see was the flat earth ahead, so close, yet so utterly out of reach. And there it would remain, it's screams and cries drowned out by the sheer silence of space.

An end to the final sin.

A woman with navy blue hair was passing the street in the bustling streets of this Japanese city.

"Damn, it! Ugh, I'm gonna be late!"

Her red eyes scanned around, hoping to see something that could her, even as she fixed her brown purse over her shoulders. Tapping on her purse, she noticed an alleyway, easily a possible short cut.

"Yes!"

She ran through it, but suddenly felt odd as for some reason the surroundings around her, began to darken...then the end of the alley slightly glow brighter.

"Mmmm...maybe I need more sleep or something."

Running in her dark blue shirt and long pants, she squinted her eyes in the face of the light. Then she rubbed her eyes to clear them up, but she made it to the other side of the alleyway.

But when she opened her eyes...she saw a plaza completely different from what she was used to.

"HUH?"

Then a man with the face of a tan wolf passed by her.

"Huh?"

No skyscrapers, no cars, no modern anything for that matter.

"What the hell?"

She turned around...only to see that the alleyway led to a dead end.

"No..what the-"

Then she remembered her cell phone.

"Right! Got to call someone!"

She picked up her touchscreen phone...only to see there was no signal.

"Wait...that's not."

She began to slightly panic, but soon breathed in and out, trying to think logically about what was happening. Soon she saw what appeared to be a farmer's market and headed over to speak with a cute girl with light blue hair and green eyes. She found this girl with a large bowl cut hairstyle to be otherworldly pretty.

"E-Excuse me!"

"Oh welcome to Risch Market, I'm the owner Plum! Can I help with anything in par-"
"-Can you tell me how to find the nearest police station?!"
"Pul-eece? What's that?"
"Huh?"

The girl, who would usually keep her emotions in check found herself being quite worried.

"Um, well can you tell me...um, where am I?"
"Oh well your in the Capital."
"Capital?"
"Um, ma'am are you alright?"

She held her in pain, trying to figure out what was happening, only to see in the corner of her eyes a lizardman walking alongside a sloth man. She then looked up and saw a small dragon fly by in the clouds.

"What is this?"
"Wait a sec...ma'am, do you know where you are?"
"NO. I was walking to meet with some friends when I ended up here!"
"...Where are you from exactly."

She muttered something...to which Plum got closer and put her hands on her shoulder, as if to comfort her.

"Maam, where are you from?"
"J-Japan."

Plum's eyes widened as she was shocked beyond belief, hearing something only one of her friends told her about and so…

"Outworlder…"
"What?"
"Y-you're an Outwordler. From the realm of Gotham!"

Soon a crowd overheard her and gathered around the girl in question.

"An Outworlder?" "Outworlder…" "From the Gotham Realm!" "Honey, doesn't she remind you of Natsuki Subaru?" "Look! Look! An Outworlder!"

The girl in question got incredibly nervous by all the attention she was getting, so Plum stepped in to caral the crowd away.

"Hey. Hey! Let her be, you all know Outworlders are spooked by this kind of attention! Back up!"

She then took her hand and led her inside the house, she retrieved a mirror and spoke into it, but she did it up close, so Tsugumi couldn't hear the other party.

"Hey it's me! I know today's an important day...but we have an Outworlder here. Mm, yup. Yup. It's a girl. Name? Give me asec."

She then asked for the girl with long navy blue hair for her name...and she gave it.

"My name's Seishirou Tsugumi."
"Thanks."
"...Um, Plum-san?"

Plum spoke into the mirror again.

"Hear that. Yeah...she's Japanese...A-huh. Well, the last one was also from Japan too right? Most of them seem to come from there. Like that expressionless guy, um, Takeru Gouda? Ahahaha, then again there was that guy from R-Ru-saya? Russia? I think it was Russia. Oh, you're coming...Is that okay? Isn't it a busy day for you? Oh alright see you then."

Plum put the small mirror on the desk next to her, sitting next to Tsugumi.

"Alright, someone is coming to help you out."
"...Outworlder, they were calling me that...does that mean something."
"Yeah. Believe it or not, you stumbled into another world."

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"WHAT?!"

Tsugumi nearly fell over raising up from her chair, to which Plum only continued to sit and motion her hands downward to ease her.

"Easy, easy."

"That's crazy! A-Are you lying to me?!"

"Nope, heck you're not the first one either, we've had a big influx of people lately spilling into this world."

"An influx?"
"Yup! In fact, two individuals from your world became two of Lugnica's greatest heroes."

She seemed a bit interested by this statement, and so Plum nodded happily to say their names.

"They were Natsuki Subaru and Bruce Wayne."
"Wait….Natsuki Subaru...a year after Chitoge went to highschool with Raku, there were news reports about a student from a rival school going missing."
"A year huh?"
"How long has this Natsuki Subaru-san been to this world?"
"Ohhh...let's see, thirty years ago."
"TH-TH-TH-Thirty years ago?!"
"A-huh, he arrived here when I was a kid."

"Nooo way...this is too much."

But the evidence was all around her, the buildings, the demi-humans and the Rigers and Armored Emus pulling carriages in the streets. Tsugumi felt her world crashing down, she had no means of getting back and now found out countless others had been summoned here, becoming trapped for years.

"Oh she's here."
"Huh?"

Arriving through the door, was a woman in a lovely green coat with a black dress underneath, her orange ribbon atop her head was long and flowing, much like her dark brown hair.

"Hello there, I'm here to pick you up."
"Oh, um thank you?"
"Hehehe, don't be so shy. I know that being summoned here is a bit nerve wracking, so we'll take it easy and take our time."
"Sure."
"Now then, I am part of the Outworlder Relief Corps, we use resources at hand t help people such as yourself cope with their circumstances and integrate them into society."
"No...But I want to go home!"
"I'm sorry, but there is no way to send you back."
"Th-There has to be."
"Tsugumi-san, people have been summoned here for four hundred years, and not once has anyone been able to go back to the Gotham Realm. It's just a fact."
"...I...I don't want to be here…"

Tsugumi fell to her knees, realizing she would never see her beloved friends again, see the sights of her home or eat, drink or enjoy the tastes of that modern realm, ever again.

Yet it was a quick hug by this beautiful woman which seemed to ease her, if only a bit. She slowly patted her long navy blue hair as she talked softly.

"Tsugumi-san, I know this is a lot to handle, but you're not alone right now. I'll help you, and there many others that are in the same shoes as you...so we'll help you. I know it's scary, but right now, it's not the time to give into despair, it's time for you to start a new life."
"A new...life…"
"Yeah, for sure! It's time for you to start your life in another world!"
"Start….again…?"

She patted her head and helped her up.

"Plum-san, thanks for taking care of her, I'll handle things here."
"Okay, we'll I got to check back on the market, so both of you be well."
"Sure thing."

Plum shook Tsugumi's hand one last time as she winked at her.

"Now, please come back and buy some stuff to repay my kindness, okay?"
"Oh, yes, I owe you a great deal."
"Heh, of course ya do!"

She smiled a bright beaming smile as she made her way out of that room and to her market.

"Now, let's get started."

After arriving in a estate, the long haired woman walked next to Tsugumi, who was still absorbing the ride, especially gazing at the proud looking dog like creature a Riger, apparently named Shep.

Now inside, they saw a grey haired tired looking girl in the front entrance, sitting in a receptionist desk, wearing a dark green business suit.

"Oh, yaaaawn, hey Flora."
"Hey Laura, we have another Outworlder here."
"Maaan, that's the second one this year. Surprising developments, huh?"
"Speaking of which, can you watch her?"
"Today is the day, isn't it?"
"Yes."

Tsugumi felt the heaviness in their words and could tell that something big was happening.

"...Alright, but you owe me a fruit tart for this."

Making pleading gestures with her hands, she thanked her friend as she rushed off, waving at both of them, before continuing.

"So, Tsugumi-chan."
"Y-Yes?"
"Here's some paperwork I need you to fill out."

She handed tons of paperwork to the unwilling traveler, startling her. But even she knew that this formality, especially since she was essentially an immigrant from another dimension.

So she sighed as she began doting down her information...only to feel the house shake, weird noises echo throughout the house and finally the sky turning dark…

"What is-"
"-Don't worry, this is something we've been waiting for."

"Our families, have been anxious for this day for almost thirty years...and now...I think we did it."

Tsugumi listened to her words and saw her crack a genuine look of relief, to which Tsugumi...seemed to be happy for.

There, Flora was watching as the giant ice structure was glowing brightly, and a black ooze was traveling through some pipes connected to the ice, transferring it into the glass cylinder, which was atop a pedestal with magic runes woven into it.

Beatrice motioned her hands as she spoke a canto...then brightness and a shockwave shook the room, soon everyone there was waiting with bated breaths as the light grew in intensity.

Then, it dissipated as a small black hole formed and quickly sucked up the glass cylinder, disappearing along with it.

With that Beatrice's eyes went wide as they all saw it.

The ice was beginning to melt.

Most of the people there were friends of these two.

The others, only knew about them from stories told by their parents.

But all of them were beyond relieved to see it finally happening.

Even if they wished three other certain people, should've been there to see it as well.

As the steam subsided, it happened.

A grey haired man, once a merchant and nwo Financial Advisor, began to weep.

A purple haired knight held his chest tightly.

A golden haired, strong man, formed a smile with his fanged teeth.

A woman with blonde hair, stood next to green haired girl with a flower crown adorning her head and blue haired one with a flower on hers, they held their breaths.

A yellow haired short girl held her mouth closed.

A magenta haired woman sighed sadly at the sight.

A short yellow haired woman wearing a blindfold...smiled with tears dropping down.

Others gasped.

Some cried.

But most, were in bliss.

Beatrice smiled painfully as droplets of tears began to drop.

"We did it...Subaru...Bruce...We did it, I suppose."

Then, a pair of amethyst eyes opened.

Then, a pair of sky blue eyes opened.

The first thing they saw.

Was a tall woman with a red ribbon on her gorgeous reddish brown hair. She was a mature woman who could only smile at them.

She was there to keep a promise she made.

And she did.

They all did.

"Emilia. Rem."

As the two named ladies stood up and gazed at the middle aged Petra Leyte...No...Natsuki Petra.

They began let it all out.

"Welcome home."

Here, the skies above welcomed two lost souls back into the world they called home. And with it, their zero point had begun again. It moved forward.

So they would begin their lives again...traveling on...moving on…

...Beyond Zero.

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THE END.

AN: Hope everyone enjoyed the fun, but here we have to end it. It'll be a while till I begin writing something again.

Still, all the support, snarky comments and honest reviews kept me going and they'll keep me going again...

But again, what will I write abou-

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The sands stretched out for miles.

He looked far ahead, with the scorching hot winds hitting his face. He ignored it well, then again, the pain he's had to endure physically and mentally outweighed this small fleeting sensation.

He took another step, looking down at his sneaker, noticing the footprint he made sank and appeared as if it was never there in the first place.

Far ahead of him, in the distance, past all the dunes and whirling gusts of dirt...there was the Watchtower.

"Pleiades Watchtower."
He muttered those words. Him.

Natsuki Subaru.

As he did, the young man shook sand out of his hair...glaring forward at the Watchtower in question.

And then...he roared.

"URGGRRRRAGHHHHHHH!"

Blood spewed out of his mouth and floated around his face.

He raised his fist, showing a red ring was fixed on his finger.

"THE CROSSING EFFECT SERIES"

PART TWO:

"Natsuki Subaru: The Red Lantern Lantern of a Parallel Universe."

AN: Yup, coming soon. More info in Bio...Until then, buh-bye!