Prologue: The Collision

[Asuka Izumo]

Having seen enough of Noland's performance Asuka decided it was about time to end the test. While it would not provide any obvious results for Noland it was more than beneficial for Asuka's plans unfolding behind the curtains. Cyber and Fallen Eden did not use their full potential back in the battle on the airship because it would ruin their own plans while Asuka had no such restrictions towards their powers in virtual reality. She also upgraded some body parts of Fallen Eden with divine Achron powers which kept its body parts safe reducing all damage taken to zero proving themselves to be a useful tool for whatever Asuka had in mind. Noland and Drago, along with several others, were considered to be the top 'players' in this whole game and Asuka had to obtain as much knowledge as possible about every single person. 

Since Fallen Eden had not taken any damage there was absolutely no need for Asuka to concern herself with Noland anymore. Wings, unprotected, took damage. Chest and back, protected, took no damage. So not even them could break through Achron defenses. It was only natural considering it was all like one big game mechanic- everything has a key of its own. You can be the highest level of a player in a game, but you still will not be able to tear that treasure chest open- you need a key. These results were perfect for Asuka since only an acceptable amount of people and Bakugans could bypass the Achron defense.

Tremors could be felt through the ship and even in the virtual reality. Due to Wavern's powers both Asuka and Noland with their respective partners were pulled out of the virtual reality. Asuka did not stay long after she was pulled out- she was rather busy. "Ares." She called for her partner. Bright golden light flashed around her neck forming into a golden necklace- something similar to how Bakugans enter their orb form, but it was not quite it. "Yes..." Ares said as he turned on his All-Seeing skill which allowed him to detect a specific person or an object. "...I see, the human child has been taken... and by a rather unsavory group." Ares informed.

"I see." Asuka then approached a panel near the entrance to the room and pressed a few buttons. Lights have turned red, all of a sudden. Alarms were sounded right at that moment and all personnel of the battleship was alerted. Airship's arsenal was on standby for anything approaching- since these guests decided they would not announce themselves and just take someone away there was no reason not to open fire immediately once anybody was in airship's range without an announcement. "I'll have to excuse myself." Asuka said to those remaining in the room and she then briefly approached Noland giving him a golden ring that he found in virtual reality. It seems it was not so virtual after all. "Have that on you at all times." She said and then walked out of the room.

[Noland Hardy]

"Hey...um...can you not do that?" Naga asked Asuka. His voice radiated throughout the whole airship. "I mean, I'm all for destruction and all that jazz, but...it's not really necessary right now."

"Kendrick has been taken due to a misunderstanding," Wavern chimed in. "The Collision has caused some...very interesting changes. Some people are not where they're supposed to be now since everything is in disarray. Kendrick is one of the unfortunate victims of this and has been sent elsewhere via an unnatural disaster. He will be fine where he is right now, but...there are some beings that are now here that I'm not pleased with."

Noland was puzzled after hearing all of this. Since no one seemed to be specific on where Kendrick has gone, Noland decided to find out himself. Before that, he took a good look at the ring that Asuka gave to him. It was the same one he found off of Maria on the planet Ares made. He chose to wear it immediately to see what it would do. He felt a slight jolt when he put it on, but his body language didn't portray him as being affected by it.

"Alright... see you around then..." Noland dismissed. "..." He was definitely in deep thought over what just happened, but... "Genesis Display..."

This was a godly ability that is derived from the Ultimate Warrior Gene. At the risk of sensory overload and a temporary deactivation of his sensing abilities, Noland was going to do a couple of things all at once.

"Sight..." Noland's eyes briefly glowed in a rainbow coloration. Basically, what Ares just did with All-Seeing was exactly what Noland was doing. He was able to easily locate Kendrick due to the bond they share as brothers. He could see a Gundalian hauling him off to who knows where. "So that's what's going on then... Alright..."

Next, "Touch..." Noland felt the power all around the ring that was on his left ring finger. He grabbed onto the power itself and started to pull. 'Don't you dare,' a whisper told him. Noland definitely heard it, but he kept on pulling anyway. A couple of seconds later, he was struck by a golden lightning bolt. He definitely felt that one, so he stopped doing what he was doing. He ended the ability afterwards.

"You okay?" Drago asked, considering he saw what just happened.

"Yeah..." Noland slid the ring off of his finger and put it in his pocket. He was going to do something with it later on when he has the time. "It's like there's a living being inside of it... This is really bothering me. Why do I even have this?"

Wavern appeared inside of the ship when Noland made that comment. She started to look in Noland's memories to see everything he experienced with Asuka's test. By everything, she saw EVERYTHING, including Fallen Eden's makeup. "Hm...okay..." she brushed aside. "Noland, dear. Can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure. What's on your mind?"

"Would you and Drago like to team up like we did with the Hurranians? There's a certain assignment I'd like to complete in the Doom Dimension right now that-"

"You will not," Naga interjected. He showed up in the ship immediately to stop any and all conversations about that. "Wavern, you're not allowed to do that. Even talking about that could get you erased."

"But they-

"That's too damn bad!"

"..." Noland now had too much on his mind. He shook his head and was about to get the hell out of there. "Drago, let's go."

"Right." Him and Noland 'jumped' off of the ship and headed on home for right now. It didn't seem like they were in a hurry to go to Gundalia just yet either. Maybe they were planning something, but they didn't make it very clear.

[Noland Hardy]

"They CANNOT be allowed to just escape!" Wavern yelled.

"I agree, but I don't make the rules!" Naga yelled back. "Please, just drop it, okay? I'm not letting you get erased by Dharak. There'd be nothing we can do to bring you back if that happens."

"There are other Wavern across the multiverse..." With that said, a circular portal opened in front of Wavern. She jetted in there before Naga could offer a response to that.

"...This isn't going to go well..." Naga did the same to chase after her.

They arrived in the Doom Dimension around the location of the aforementioned Sacred Orb. Wavern arrived at the overlook of the building it was housed in and saw Fury and his Mechtogan roaming around. She charged at them without delay. She appeared right in front of Fury. Both beings were locked in a staredown.

"...You again..." Fury dreaded. "...I know why you're here...and I'm nearly tempted to let you do what you're here to do... I've been wanting to see your erasure for the longest time now..."

"Right, because that's literally the only possible way you could ever win against me," Wavern spat.

"Hi, Wavern," Coredegon greeted.

"Hi, Coredegon," Wavern responded in annoyed tone. "Anyway, you ARE NOT LEAVING THIS PLACE."

"You don't get to decide that," Naga told her as he appeared behind her.

"...Naga...you dare to appear before me...after YOU betrayed ME..." Fury growled.

"You, shut up. I'll deal with you in a second, but you, Wavern, this is ridiculous. I know that you and I have been butting heads ever since this happened between all of us. I'm hurt too, okay? I love you, and that's why I can't let you go in there and get on the bad side of those two brutes. They're going to have our heads."

"You know what? The way I see it, you should've been banished too with the way you were behaving all of those years ago. The fact that you even allowed the Dharaknoid to do what he did with Fury is beyond disgusting. You and I exist to STOP that, and what did you do? You let it happen, because you were too scared to stand up for ALL lifeforms in the multiverse."

"...I'm going to tell you this one last time. Leave the Doom Dimension....or else."

"..." Fury started backing away from what sounded like a confrontation.

[Noland Hardy]

Wavern attempted to attack everyone in the area on a psychological level. Fury had noticeable pain coming from his head, so he steadily backed down to try to mitigate the damage.

Naga was completely unfazed by it. This was due to his specialty: manipulation of damage. He could determine what gets damaged and by how much. Owing to his status as a god, Naga can damage ANYTHING he chooses, which is a likely reason why he's the Angel of Destruction.

"Bottom Zero!" Naga roared.

"Spirit Eye Flash!" Wavern countered.

Naga's wings slightly enlarged and had veins bulging from them. He unleashed several pulses of omni-directional waves. Wavern responded by simply glowing in a bright rainbow color and doing the same thing that Naga did.

"...You worry about me, but...your clash is irresponsible... You will destroy this universe by clashing Creation and Destruction..." Fury sighed.

Fortunately, two beings entered to stop the fight. One of them stood right above the two. It was the Dharaknoid. He pointed towards the center of the clashing powers. Without saying a word, he emitted a black flash that appeared briefly. The attacks from Wavern and Naga were gone completely.

"I deeply apologize, you two. Clearly, we must not have been understood when 'you know who' strictly forbade godly interference with this situation," Dharak sarcastically sighed. "Are you really trying to get me in trouble here?" He then looked at Wavern, because he knew that the only one who would want to come down there would be her. "Abolition!"

Before anything that Dharak just said would come to fruition, there was a bright aura that surrounded Wavern. The said aura disappeared instantly.

"Are you serious right now?" Genesis asked. "What the fuck dude? You're destroying MY partner over this? Did you not learn anything, like at all!?" This would directly imply that the energy surrounding Wavern was from Genesis himself, and it was used to protect her from the apparent attempt at her life from Dharak.

"Clearly, neither of you did when I told you exactly what I was gonna do to you if you EVER attempted to stop what I have already set in motion. Fury IS the END, which means that if you didn't want him to exist, you should have never made a BEGINNING. Such is our fate, brother. You start a project, and I finish it. What did Mother use to tell us? We are the opposite sides of the same coin? Do you need me to blast it into your thick skulls?"

"...We're leaving..." Genesis sighed. "If we fight, we'll destroy everything. I'll deal with you some other way... I promise you that."

"Right back at you, now get the fuck out of my sight."

"..." Genesis got himself and Wavern out of the Doom Dimension before there was another confronation. With disaster averted and theplan still being set in motion, Dharak was cheezing like no one has seen from him...EVER.

"Naga, you've done us a great service," Dharak commended. "That is the only reason why I will ignore what I heard out of you. Yes, I heard EVERY word. Not happy, but I'll let it slide for now. After all, we all think that way of each other. Do it silently next time..."

"...Absolutely...won't happen again..." Naga assured him.

"Fury, tread lightly, my friend. If you dare oppose the gods like Betadron convinced you to do last time, I will have no choice but to get rid of you myself. Your presence has caused a fight between the gods and resulted in the First 'Universal War'. You would do well not to cause another... End things according to the power you were given..."

"...Yes, Lord..." Fury conceded.

"Good... Naga, let us go. I need to speak with you in private..." Dharak insisted.

"Alright..." Naga accepted. With that said, both of them left the area in a blink of an eye.

Now Fury was all alone with his Mechtogan once again. "...Once again...the pawn of the sacred ones..." Fury lamented in his head.

Meanwhile, inside of the building where the Sacred Orb was...

"Whew...I thought I was going to get destroyed there... Still making it, but without juice. Great..." the Sacred Orb sighed. "So...uh...that kid tho..."

[Darius Hardy]

The kid was warped to Earth just like the Sacred Orb promised. Since a location was never specified, he was sent wherever the orb felt like sending him to.

He appeared in a house and was laid out on someone's bed. It would appear that the energy transfer he did to the orb sapped the kid of his strength and put him to sleep instantly. Vladitor was grayed out, so there was no use asking him for anything for a while. All seemed well...

Then someone entered the house...

The kid woke up briefly to see who it was. The person who ended up walking through the door was...Alana?

"..." the kid stared at her in amazement. Of course, one might guess this was in a perverted way since Alana does have a voluptuous figure, but...the actual reason was something that no one would expect.

"...Mommy!" the kid ran over to Alana and glomped her without warning.

[Alana Cortese]

Alana was barely paying attention when she walked in since she was in a bit of a rush to meet up with Noland in a little while. When she saw the kid, she was frozen in shock of someone being in there.

It didn't click with her that an uninvited guest was in the house until this child started thinking that she was his mother. Even then, it took her a few seconds to finally respond with something.

"...No he didn't just call me that..." Alana confusingly commented. "Hydranoid, do you mind telling me what the fuck is going on here?"

"I mean...I dont know what you want me to say. I guess you've been doing some things you weren't supposed to," Hydranoid claimed.

"This isn't funny. Help me..."

"He called you 'Mommy', so I have nothing to do with that. Good luck."

"...You've got to be kidding me... How and why...?"

[Andrew Bullock]

Montai was getting dozens of phone calls. The entire world was in a fuss over what just happened to them, and the president chose to bug the CIA as if they knew what caused it. She did her best to try and make it through this shithole of a job, but the good Lord above knew that she wanted out as soon as possible.

While she was on the phone talking with the president, her cell phone was ringing. It was obvious that she couldn't tend to the phone call now, so Horridian chose to roll on over to the cell phone and answer the call himself.

"Hello? ...Yes, I answer phones now. ...There's a kid who showed up at your house, and he knows all about your body to the exact measurements of...everything...? And he's calling you 'Mommy'? Weird... Did he tell you who the daddy is? ...No, I don't think it's funny. In fact, this is the funniest thing I've heard about all day. Speaking of which, is Noland still on the planet? ...Oh. That's nice, because Allen, Tank, Tracy, and 'asshole' have reportedly vanished. Imagine that..."

Speaking of 'asshole'...

"Good grief man..." Andrew was stunned after the Collision's events. He regained consciousness in a pristine jungle. There were plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables around the area. The trees looked very lively to the point where they looked like they were waving to the left and right in a continuous cycle.

"...Am I dead...? I'm sure trees aren't supposed to move like that..." Andrew spoke too soon, because there were humanoid plant creatures that emerged from the trees. Some of them were riding on what appeared to be flytrap-looking creatures that looked like they could feast on man.

"...Damn..." Andrew grieved.

[Noland Hardy]

Genesis Dragonoid and Wavern retreated to an inaccessible section of Vestroia that was within their domain. With all of the chaos going down across the entire multiverse, Genesis Dragonoid wanted to know EVERYTHING about what happened. For this reason, he decided to map the multiverse out layer by layer.

His eyes were lit up in a rainbow coloration, and his hands were glowing with increased intensity. He then drew the multiverse as a holographic map. It was big enough to where Genesis could see how the Collision affected things as it happened.

"..."

"...I'm..." Wavern attempted to apologize.

"Sure," Genesis replied, cutting her off.

"..."

"...You heard what I said when we retreated. How do you think I know everything will be destroyed if Dharak and I fought?"

"Because...it happened...? You told me this..."

"Right...but there are a lot of things about it that I haven't relayed to you yet. For one, the main ones responsible for us going to blows can be traced to three separate suspects. You tried to keep two of them sealed a moment ago. Want to know what the third is?"

"..."

"...It's the same race as the being who belongs to the strongest woman of the Silver Knights..."

"...What...?"

"Yes. They have the tendency to mind everyone else's business instead of their own. While I am worried about the effects of the Collision, I want you to monitor their movements VERY CAREFULLY. Understand?"

"Understood."

"Perfect. Now, in regards to the Collision... This surprises even me. Thanks to the White Ones across the multiverse, each universe has been placed on hold for now. This is only a bandaid though... I will have to repair and move each universe back to where they belong to prevent a big rip from happening. That's the least of our worries, and here goes another reason why we need to watch things closely. You see these two planets here?" Genesis started pointing at two planets that were in unknown locations in the 'golden' universe, which happens to be the one where shit is going down in.

"Dharak mentioned other higher societies in the multiverse. These are two of them, Olympia and Equilibria respectively. Long ago, these two worlds existed in the same universe with another world called Advent, which is in this universe by the way. Long story short, Equilibria's Xecarlos sought the power of the Olympian trio: Zerushion, Vampyrion, and Legendryion. He was able to corrupt Vampyrion and attempted to wipe out both societies. Fortunately, the Olympians were able to use Legendryion's power to pull both of their worlds to a separate universe, leaving Advent here all by themselves. They were eventually separated with Olympia vowing to stay away from Equilibria at all costs until Xecarlos perishes. Unfortunately...they are all back where they started. This is not going to look good when they realize what has happened..."

"Might I suggest destruction?"

"No... I will have to get involved myself this time..."

"Are you allowed to do that?"

"You know... I think that following the rules will only allow our ancient foes to continue to step towards us... I intend to put a stop to all of this, but...we must leave Fury and Betadron to the mortals... We can't interfere... You know why..."

"...Okay... If that's the way it has to be, that's fine. I won't attempt it again."

"Remember this though... We can't interfere...YET..." Genesis winked at her when he made this comment, which shows that there are some mitigating circumstances that could swing the situation in their favor...

[Noland Hardy]

The Dharaknoid and Naga were having their own conversation as well. It seemed like the gods have had enough and were about to take action. Similar their counterparts, they were in a hidden area of the Doom Dimension. Since Dharak didn't have the power to replicate what Genesis was doing with the whole drawing the multiverse thingamajig, the setting for the conversation had nothing for the two deities to look at, which made for a rather boring encounter.

That was until Dharak decided to ask...

"Tell me, Naga... What makes us 'brutes' as you would call us?" he posed. "No, I'm not gonna erase you or whatever if you say it since I'm the one asking you to say it."

"I've seen what you did to the other universes, my liege," Naga answered. "You already know I'm not down with this Fury business. I'll back you up and all that bullshit, but this is starting to get out of hand. I didn't sign up to fight my sister nor did I expect any of my counterparts to do the same. Why did you do it?"

"I think the better question is, 'Why not?' You and I are Gods of Destruction, Naga. We are the inherent darkness of reality. No one likes that. Even now, our counterparts have more freedom than we do. Just look around you. Do you see how many universes there are right now? I'm sitting on my ass watching this happen and know that if I dare set foot in there, there'll be hell to pay. Do you ever look at these creations and suddenly feel useless about you being evil if you destroy one or two things?"

"I mean...that makes sense..." Naga agreed.

"Right? So, in regards to these universes you speak of, I got sick and tired of them."

"So...that's literally it? You weren't provoked or anything? You just went in there and cleaned house?"

"Yes."

"...Are you kidding me right now...?"

"What?"

"I was expecting you to - well, you know - give me some story I could be sympathetic with?"

"Who gives a damn? I destroy stuff. That's what I do, man."

"This is like two brothers in a playpen who don't know how to share..."

"Hey! Don't treat this as some juvenile situation! There's a lot more happening behind the scenes than you think! Speaking of which, lookie here." Dharak pointed to the East. He was really pointing towards Equilibria, but apparently...

"Do you really expect me to see what you're referring to?"

"Oh...right. But anyway, that over there is Equilibria. The planet finally showed back up in this universe. I've been trying to destroy those heathens for far too long, and they NEED to be destroyed too. They're partly to blame for the Collision anyway! Guess who won't let me? My idiot brother!"

"Alright. How about this? They're probably going to try to move the planet anyway, so why don't we help them move it, and then as everyone is leaving, the planet somehow 'falls apart'?"

"THAT...sounds amazing! Let's go do it now!"