Negaverse; DNK Moonbase (Patrick Stewart, if you would do the honors?)
Gladly, Gamewizard. When we last saw all our friends in the Posiverse, Supreme Leader Cheren had abruptly revealed the coming of the Apocalypse just 3 days beforehand, and now everyone is scrambling to find twenty unnamed Keys and do whatever sort of self-realizing journey God has put them on. Down in the Negaverse, however, Supreme Leader Nerehc revealed the Apocalypse four months ago. Now as either world has only one month to prepare for this cataclysm, you can surmise how serious everyone must be taking it. The Negatives, actually, are treating it quite casually. It was only a month before when the danger of the DNKG was abolished, and the skies of Nega-Land are filled with light. Things have never been happier, so why should anyone worry.
Even Nerehc himself seems more lazy than usual, in his office on Moonbase. The paperwork was stacked and "filled"; so he claims, so now he was taking it easy, kicked back with his feet on the desk. He even had a strand of grass in his mouth, he wondered what was so cool about people having these. …It wasn't bad. He sat up quick when his door opened, spitting the grass out as Ininap and Sicnarf walked in. "So um, Nerehc, summer is just around the corner, and based on your info, the Apocalypse should be happening by then, so… what're we gonna do about it?" Sicnarf asked.
"Beats me."
"B-But we can't just sit here and let it happen." Ininap stuttered.
"Well, I don't know what to do, according to Smiley or whatever he's called, the Positives are gonna be doing most of the work. The Seven Lights and Thirteen Darknesses are in their world, so…"
"Yeah, but wasn't the point of Meet Your Match Day back then to have both sides get to know each other?" Sicnarf questioned. "That way, we can fight together and have a better chance at winning."
"Maybe, but we never got around to planning another Match Day, because Cheren's crew is always busy. Makes sense. It's kinda been hard for us too, considering a lot of our operatives were traitors."
"But they've been better after Innus returned them to their normal sizes, haven't they?" Ininap asked.
"It isn't just them, the DNKG members and all their allies, they're still pretty sour. The Nimbi and the merkids are still fighting, we've still got scuffles with the Hsinim, even with this Apocalypse in mind, we can't convince them to get along. That's our real priority at the moment."
"Wouldn't it be better to just forget the DNKG kids?" Sicnarf replied. "They've been total psychos since going to Galactic Juvy. It's too risky to even let them meet their Positives."
"True, but we know some people that might help." Ininap informed with a nervous grin. "Remember our cousin, Ayamik and her friends?"
"I thought about it, but they're too classy. They wouldn't agree to it."
"If they did, would they be able to help?" Nerehc wondered.
"Depends on who can stand the other's company."
"You got me hooked." Nerehc stood up. "Take me to your cousin's house, I wanna see what's so 'classy' about them."
"If you want to." Sicnarf shrugged. "I should warn you about our aunt, Imak. And why we never invite her to Ingratefultaking dinner."
"Can't be any worse than Aluben."
Yltraeh Household
Sicnarf and Ininap kept a safe distance while Nerehc knocked on the door. A blonde-haired woman with cold green eyes, a ragged tank-top, and black shorts swung open the door, knocking Nerehc back. "The fuck do you want?" Imak Yltraeh (een Yksvolird) shouted, munching on a taco.
Nerehc rubbed the bruise on his forehead and sat up. "Hi, Mrs. Yltraeh. Is your daughter home?"
"Wut, comin' to join her prissy tea party? Yea', she's upstairs, what're you expecting a welcome party?"
"N-N-N-No, Ma'am." Ininap shrunk.
"May we come in, please." Nerehc asked with mock-politeness.
"Ain't no one stoppin' you, indoors is pretty much outdoors in this house. Just don't touch anything in mah fridge." The bad-odored woman stepped aside so the three could enter the messy, uncared-for house, going up stairs that creaked with each step. "AYAMIK, your shitty cousins are here with some NERD kid!"
Ayamik's room was quite the opposite. "That's fine, Mother." The daughter had blonde hair in seven curls, very pale with powder, and she wore an elegant white dress as she cooled her face with a fan. Her associates, Oelak Nosredna, and the siblings, Pat and Flow, wore their own fancy attire, too fancy for description at the moment, and all sat at a curtained table to drink tea in this heavily polished room of gorgeous china and posters depicting famous opera stars.
"Ah we really allowing company up here?" Oelak asked; his teeth looked a little large for his mouth, so he talked funny.
"It's such a cabbage patch here otherwise, what harm would guests do."
"Um… hello?" Nerehc peeked into the door.
"They harm us by beginning their sentences with filler." Flow replied, sipping her tea.
"Yeah, classy's an understatement…" Nerehc mumbled, walking in with Sicnarf and Inap behind him. "You must be Ayamik. Are these your friends?"
"'Friend' is merely a layman's term for associate, which people make use of far too casually." Ayamik replied. "We prefer to think of ourselves as such so as to distinguish ourselves from ruffians."
"Well, your cousins tell me you're actually experts in dealing with, um, 'ne'er-do-wells', making them more calm and civilized and, such."
"We're accredited for it, true." Pat replied. "However, never is it enjoyable, those fools in detention are such lunatics. Yet, the school insists on troubling us with their conflict because they need more diligent workers."
"Your work helps though, right?"
"From time to time." Flow replied. "Ydnas and Noel could serve as reference."
"In that case, I would like your help with some, if you would. I don't know if you know about the DNKG, but there's a group of alien kids in Galactic Juvy."
"You wish us to be involved with extraterrestrial miscreants?" Pat questioned.
"Hahdleeeh." droned Ayamik. "The last thing we desire is juvenile court. Let alone garblish-speaking crooks. Why would you desire them in society?"
"For personal, selfish reasons you won't care about. The reason I'm asking is because I'm not good at therapy, but I really want to help those guys. You four don't really have to, I'm just saying it may be in your best interest. So will you or not?"
"If you are to insist upon us, sure." Oelak replied. "What say you, chaps?"
"Aye." They chorused.
"Then the motion is carried. Where ah these acclaimed miscreants?"
"In Aixalag, a galaxy far far away." Nerehc answered. "We'll go up to Moonbase and take one of the S.U.B.-L.O.O.C.s. Ever since the DNKG thing, I thought we might have to go there again, that's why I asked Cheren for those Warpdrive Keys."
"Miscellaneous information that does not interest us." Flow informed.
"I know, I was saying it to them." He gestured at Inap and Sicnarf.
"Your response was to Oelak's question, was it not?" Pat asked. "You cannot so suddenly shift conversations."
"Heck, they'll break the aliens out of their madness just by drivin' 'em crazy." Nerehc remarked lowly.
"At least make this trip more enjoyable by negating to mumble." Flow commented.
The seven kids glanced at Imak guzzling the cereal, Crumb-O's in the kitchen while they casually left the house. "If it interests you, Mother, we are going into non- or semi-oxygen now, we do not expect dinner from you." Ayamik told her.
Ininap, who was the last to leave, frantically shut the door before Imak threw a chair. "Damn brats, go fall in a gopher hole."
Aixalag; Planet Noreciv
After acquiring a S.U.B.-L.O.O.C., the kids used the Warpdrive to fly to Aixalag in minutes, and were currently approaching a planet of green and yellow landscape. "According to Emorej, this is where Galactic Juvy is stationed, on Noreciv. Incidentally, the main reason they built it is because of the DNKG. He said it was around this region, so let's check."
"Another planet, how shrew." Ayamik waved the fan at her neck. "I feel the atmosphere of these beasts infiltrating my lungs already."
"Not gonna argue there." Nerehc replied. "Can't imagine a kid prison looks pretty. Even on our terms."
Although the sky was yellow, the surface was beautiful, with lush green alien plants growing everywhere. Butterflies, bumblebees, every vicious and gentle animal frolicked. An ocean yellow like lemon candy stretched over the distance. The kids landed a short distance away from a small, white building that looked like a preschool. The colorful sign outside read Galactic Juvy. "Population 12." Nerehc commented.
"This place looks delightful." Ininap grinned, shuddering at the thought of meeting mean, scary kids. "Maybe the DNKG kids are already better."
Nerehc walked up the flat stone path to the front door. He knocked gently, and a pretty, obese woman with long brown hair, a blue dress with white polka-dots, and legs going into black high-heels, greeted them with a grin that rivaled the sun. "Hello, dears! I'm Miss Ahtaga Llubhcnurt, the warden here at Galactic Juvy. Are you here to visit the students?"
Nerehc, Inap, and Sicnarf looked weirdly at one-another. "Um, kind of… we wanted, um, to know if, we could help with, some of the students?" Sicnarf was at a loss while wording that sentence as he still couldn't comprehend the bright and cheerfulness of the outside.
"A sentence should not have that many intermissions." Oelak had to point out.
"If you would like to help teach, then sure." Miss Llubhcnurt grinned brightly. "Why don't you come in, dears?"
The inside of the small building was merely a lobby, with waiting chairs and a receptionist desk, in which Miss Llubhcnurt led them to an elevator on its right. "I'll take you down one floor as a start. It's suppertime for our friends, so make sure to share your food nicely! And don't get your clothes stuck in the door, dears." The eight of them squeezed onto the lift before the door closed and they rolled down. "And here we are. Hellooooo, everyone! We have guests!"
Prison cells were lined up all along the hallway, each containing an alien child aggressively eating the fine food that passed for supper. One of the aliens looked at them. "Look, it's Nerehc!! The one who beat Aluben!!" Incomprehensible shouts and roars rang all throughout the halls as each former DNKG agent desperately tried to break through their barrier.
"Looks like I'm an intergalactic hero." the boy in question noticed.
"Oh my, you seem very popular among these dears!" Llubhcnurt perked up. "I hope we won't have to line up for autographs. Hoh hoh hoh! I'm afraid I should tell you, the students usually do cleanup work in the kitchens on Yadsruht, so if you wanted to help teach any of them, may it only be a few."
"That's okay. There's four in particular we at least wanna see. Can you help us find them? They are…" Nerehc proceeded naming them.
"Why, of course, dearie! I'll take you over to the Quiet Room and have them brought out shortly."
The Quiet Room was, to say the least, quiet, keeping all the shouting outside as muffles. There were actually five different sub-rooms around the wall, Ayamik, Oelak, Pat, and Flow were led into four specific ones. After a while, scary alien guards brought the four chosen DNKG kids in through alternate doorways of the rooms, so either couple was separated by glass. Ayamik got Avakam, Oelak got Atnort, Pat got Annaira, and Flow got Beewv. Each former operative wore a blank, gloomy expression, though murderous intent for Nerehc in the background was clear in their eyes. "Um… good luck, you guys." Nerehc told them before he and his friends shut each door.
"So… you're my therapist, huh." Avakam said to her aid.
"I'll have you know that I partake no interest in associating with the likes of scoundrels as yourselves." Ayamik stated. "But it seems that I am obliged to by this stranger. So let us cut to the chase, if we may, if you were to be set free right now, what would be your course of action?"
"Grab the closest gun and shoot Nerehc in the head."
"I do not argue with your decision, but I doubt they will find it acceptable. So entertain me with what you consider your backstory."
"What backstory. My mom was a Nairuomolg, Dad was a Naineetak, but I was born on Mom's planet to learn how to hunt and shoot things. She says I can't shoot my brother, though, 'cause we'll have nothing to eat in case the Apocalypse comes. Ultimately, we live on that godforsaken ice planet, Occes, where we had little food in our puny log cabin. Then Aluben shows up, wants us to be part of her empire, I'm like 'Sure, 'long as I get away from this place.'"
"How great is your interest in hunting?"
"Very great. I like to rob creatures of life to show them life is cruel. I never like to give them the chance to look back on their decisions. They enter the afterlife as they are."
"Yes, well Lord permit you to enjoy your own meager existence." Ayamik applied lipstick to her mouth area.
"What does that mean?"
"Clearly, your skin is not naturally developed for the temperatures of an ice planet, but your parents were either poor or lazy with money, so they wished for such a living quarters. You feel distaste for all the animals and creatures who have adapted so well, your only solace is their demise. Each bullet you fire is but an inch of your accumulated spite and suffering."
Avakam laughed hysterically, "Hyou are not even CLOSE, because I am not-"
"-CUTE! I AM NOT CUTE!" Beewv screamed at Flow in their own room. "That's what I keep tellin' them, but apparently there's something adorable about the only white Naineetak in existence. And you know what I said, I said I'll learn swordplay too! And I'll CUT you all up!" He made the gesture of jabbing a sword. "I'll cut you up so hard, you'll not even SEE it! Same for all those DNKG jerks, too, I'mma chop them ALL up! THEN you'll see why you should never underestimate—"
We had technical errors while our voice actor was trying to pronounce Beewv's full name, so this scene was edited. We apologize for the inconvenience.
"You make your personal grief vividly clear." Flow said. "All I can configure is you're a nutcase. If it's any consolation, I don't find you the least bit adorable."
"Yeah, but I'm STILL sick of Miss Peppy-dress's crap! I want my swords back so I can chop up her dress and everything underneath!"
"Repulsive…"
In Oelak and Atnort's room, the former had been digging around his mouth all this time. "There we ah." He pulled out a notepad and pen. "My apologies, but I must take notes if I am to make believe I am paying attention. Please, begin."
"I'm half-Nairapmup and half-Natinrah. My parents are of two different species, but Atinrah was swallowed in conflict and wars, it ended up destroying itself so the surviving population moved to Airapmup. So as you might expect, our planet is pretty *** crowded- Wait, why was that censored?"
"No cursing in the school, dearie!" Llubhcnurt sang through the intercom.
"Anyway, not that I can show you with these chi-blocks in place, I'm a lightningbender. I always have a need to burn off energy, which I COULDN'T without shocking anyone most of the time, yet I was supposed to let my sister bloodbend me for fun. So when Aluben let us join DNKG, she promised my own private planet to shock things. But it ain't go so well when NEREHC gave me Zapper Nation and botched up my chi-paths."
Oelak nodded solemnly and wrote things down. "Mmhm, mmhm, resent for Nerehc, urge, but forbidden to be a delinquent, inability to tolerate company of others… You ah an imbecile."
"Okay, that's it, LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU STUPID-!!" Atnort furiously banged on the glass.
"Remember our manners, dearie!"
"Ghhhhhh!" Atnort really wanted to strangle somebody, but settled in his seat. "So how's things in yer life." he said through gritted teeth.
Lastly, Pat was talking with Annaira, who slouched on her way in. "So what tale have you to delight me with." said Pat.
"What my brother is shouting about in there. We're from a crowded planet, so my only comfort is controlling animals. I hate animals. Very much so. They show dislike with us, too. So I like to play with them with bloodbending. I like to kill them from inside and eat their flesh. That's what real hunting is."
"Your parents must have been proud."
"If only. I was inherently born with good bloodbending, but my mother forbidded it. Never let me practice. Only the matriarch is allowed to control her kids. Atnort always ratted on me whenever I practiced. Aluben let me take lessons. I was her favorite. I…I admired her…" Anna's eyes twitched. "Her parents let her do everything she wanted…" She clutched an invisible force. "She was going to make us respected… feared… Then Nerehc took her from us… now we're nothing…" A high-pitch ringing was rising in her head, and only she could hear. "COME BACK TO ME, LORD ALUBEEEEEN!"
Pat was checking his frowning face in a mirror, ensuring his features were perfectly symmetrical. "Yes, females are 'lords' in this universe…"
Miss Llubhcnurt's Room
"Doot, doot-doot dooooo, doo-bi-di-doo, doot, doot-doot, dooooo." The warden hummed merrily to herself in her resting quarters, which could easily be mistaken as a little girl's room. She was putting eyeliner on her lashes. "Oh, how I cannot wait for dinnertime! Those dears must be ever-so excited to show me their new kitchen. I hope those tutors finish with their four in time, I just don't like leaving anybody out. Now let's see- oh! My lipstick, of course!" She opened her drawer, took the red stick, and began rubbing it on her lips.
As she viewed her own progress in the dresser mirror, her image strangely wobbled. "Oooo, now that's funny. I didn't purchase one of those silly mirrors again, did I? Those things ALWAYS get me!" She stood up and grabbed both sides of the mirror to straighten it. "My, what an odd refraction. I'd almost say it's, wh-wh-whoa. WOOOOOOHHH!" She clumsily keeled forward and through the liquidated mirror.
Zordoom; Trunchbull's cell
The discharged muscular principal washed her hands with gusto, splashing water onto her sweaty face before staring at her mirror. "Ahh, you put in a good effort today, Agatha, it's a shame those blowhards don't follow your example. Well, I'll whip 'em into shape one way or another. Prison's no different from school," she walked away, "and 'long as I'M around, they'll-"
"-WOOOOOH!" Ahtaga Llubhcnurt tumbled out of the mirror onto her back, startling Trunchbull. The imprisoned principal curiously stood over her, exchanging a strict, grouchy look with Ahtaga's bright smile. "Why, hello there! You look just like meeeee!"
"Who in bloody blazes are you?"
Galactic Juvy
Ayamik's friends managed to talk to the DNKG agents for half an hour before they got bored. Nerehc stood up eagerly when they returned. "So what's the news?"
"They hate you." Ayamik replied.
"Indubitably." agreed Oelak.
"A great amount." Pat said.
"I don't see what's so special about small things." Flow commented.
"Well, we tried our best." Ininap shrugged. "There's no gettin' them on our side now."
Nerehc sighed. "I'm not giving up, yet. GUARDS, bring them all out here."
The stone, toad-like aliens in metal armor held the four juveniles by the arm (and Beewv in one's fingers) as they brought them before Nerehc. "I don't care why your love for DNKG was so great, or how or why you could respect Aluben. I don't care how much you hate me, because our universe is in danger. A cataclysm is coming, and we all have to work together to save everyone. Humans and aliens, Negatives and Positives, fighting each other isn't going to help that. So if I get your butts bailed out of here, can we at least focus on the bigger picture?"
The aliens exchanged glances with each other. Nerehc made a very valid point, a universe-wide cataclysm was something they'd like to avoid. …What a load of crap.
Avakam kicked away from her guard and swiped his electric gun, shocking him in the mouth before shooting the others to free her friends. They jumped Nerehc's crew as Atnort swiped the Devil's Sword, holding it to Nerehc's neck. "Let all the others out of their cells or I'M bending his blood!"
The guards exchanged worried glance- "NOW! !" A guard nodded at another before he ran down the hall to an emergency 'Recess' switch. The guard pulled, and alarms blared as every barrier disabled.
Former DNKGs and general juveniles trashed the facility, overpowering every guard who, apparently, wasn't trained for this kind of drill. Psychotic kids were stronger in numbers. Sicnarf punched Atnort away with Armament, then elbowed Annaira back, but the former still took Nerehc's Devil Sword and bolted. Nerehc tried to chase, but Beewv had gotten up his pants leg and started biting his skin, slowing the boy's progress as he jumped while trying to smack Beewv out.
Avakam swiped two more shock-guns from fallen guards and shot Sicnarf, who rolled and dodged before running at her. Ininap balled her fists to fight Annaira, but although the latter was chi-blocked, her punches easily bruised Ininap's baby skin, knocking the human down before picking her up by the neck. Sicnarf about-faced, forced to cease attacking when Anna threatened his sister, allowing Avakam to easily shock him in the back.
Nerehc managed to grab Beewv out and throw him against the wall, but storms of juvenile aliens piled on him. Nerehc punched, kicked, and bit to get away, Wall Jumping across the hallway to get over most of them, otherwise jumping across their heads. He saw the white glow of his sword drawing farther away in Atnort's hands. He stumbled and fell into the crowds, the followers of Aluben ragefully whaled on him, prevented him from standing. Nerehc reached his open hand and called, "GHIRAHIM!"
The diamond-skinned spirit appeared from the sword, punching Atnort in the gut before taking the blade back. "Master." He smirked, tossing the sword across the crowds so Nerehc could jump up and grab it. Ghirahim stood with him back-to-back as the aliens stepped away.
"End of the line, Ner-Ner." They whipped around to face Team Aluben, who held Sicnarf and Inap hostage as Avakam aimed a gun at the latter's shuddering, teeth-clattering head. "You destroyed our leader and got us thrown in here. We're officially taking over Juvy, and our first order of business is getting rid of you. After we kill your friend." She cocked the gun, and Ininap shut her eyes.
"EEEEEENOOOOOOOUUUUGH!" This thundering roar was followed by a sudden quaking of the halls. This quake resulted from Agatha Trunchbull's herculean punch. "EVERYONE get back in their cells for a headcount or you're ALL being shoved someplace so dark, you'll BEG for the alien crows or whatever you bloody have to be able to fly by and land their droppings on you. NOOOOOOOW!!!" Miss Llubhcnurt stood behind her, clapping giddily.
Avakam, Atnort, Annaira, and Beewv cowered behind Nerehc. "WE'LL BE GOOD! Please save us!" they chorused.
"Yes, your loyalty to Aluben lasts only as long as your fear." Nerehc eye-rolled.
"You are truly outlandish." a voice said beside Trunchbull.
"Ex-CUSE MEEEE??" she screamed directly at Ayamik, whom wasn't phased at all while waving the fan at her powdered face.
"The only possible excuse for your behavior is you were born supernaturally large and old, ergo your premature instincts allow you to become the 'big bully' of the playground, not that your intelligence is anything to celebrate."
One expected Trunchbull to rebuttal. Her mouth opened, she raised her index finger, but she stopped herself. "Hmph… I like this girl." she said to Llubhcnurt. "You should find more of them. Congratulations, you're officially Miss Trunchbull's Number One." She smacked Ayamik's back forcefully. "Now everyone report to the kitchen for cleaning or we'll be using your misc. alien limbs as scrubbing utensils."
As everything inside was settling down thanks to the school's new co-warden, Miss Llubhcnurt was seeing their guests and the four students off. "Thank you all for coming, and for helping our students. We'll truly miss these four, but we hope you come back to visit."
"We probly won't miss this place." Atnort remarked.
"Thanks for letting us in, Miss Llub." Nerehc said. "You'll give Ayamik's friends those coordinates to Earth in case they wanna come back, right?"
"Why, of course I will. I must say, this woman is such a delight! Already 10 minutes and we feel like long-lost twins."
"HURRY UP, you silly wannabe backwards version of myself or I'm feeding this steamed broccoli to those Iceans."
"Oops, that's my call!" Llubhcnurt flushed. "You four behave, now. Toodle-ooooooo!" She wiggled her fingers joyfully as the operatives returned to the ship.
The S.U.B.-L.O.O.C. was leaving Noreciv's atmosphere with the four new passengers handcuffed in the back. "So recap us where from the universe this 'cataclysm' idea came from?" Beewv inferred.
"I guess your spies never got the chance to tell you." Nerehc figured. "I'll explain on the way, and we'll let you hang out on Earth until you're, how we say, 'rehabilitated'."
"You can't really expect us to play along too well." Annaira stated. "Even after all your talk of peace, you killed our leader."
"…Aluben's not dead. She's alive in the Underworld, I requested it."
"She's… alive?" Avakam asked, confused.
"Mm-hm. And if you behave, maybe I'll take you to see her."
Dnaleci; Gnik Household
Ragaj Gnik sat alone in his basement. It was so dark, you couldn't even see his face. Just hours ago, he had lit the green light for his allies, Team Gnik, to begin their journey. Meanwhile, he would be tending to his own tasks. "Egroeg! AlyakAm!"
His son and daughter came down the basement stairs. "Yes, Father. What is it?" Egroeg asked tonelessly.
"The doomsday we have known was coming is upon us. But I am still a long time away. I have yet to make ready for my master's arrival. That is why… I want you to go to the Posiverse." Ragaj trembled with fury, but his tone remained moderate. "A precious item was stolen from me! It was stolen by my Positive! I want you to get it back…"
DNK Moonbase
Team Nerehc and the DNKG operatives returned to Moonbase. They uncuffed the delinquents' arms, but fixed chi-blocks on Atnort and Annaira. "You'll be given minor chores and duties until we feel like we can trust you." Nerehc told them. "I'd like for that day to be soon."
"Yeah, we aren't stupid." Beewv stated smugly on Avakam's shoulder. "Just show me to the nearest dirty keyboard and I'll do what I do."
A minute later, Sicnarf brought Yddam and Hcaz to them. "Beewv, you're helping Hcaz clean the terminals." The glasses-wearing boy carried Beewv off. "Annaira, help Yddam in the kitchen."
The Yhprum sister looked frightfully at the alien. "Hehe… no hard feelings?"
"Leave your light on when you go to sleep." Anna threatened before following her.
"Atnort, help Sicnarf fix weapons. Avakam, help Inap in the laundry room."
Avakam shot a sudden glare at Ininap's face, scaring the girl. The alien walked ahead annoyedly as Inap jogged far behind. Nerehc sighed and returned to his office, sitting boredly behind stacks of papers. Ghirahim popped out of his sword. "Why do you even care about these fools, Master?"
"When the world's about to end, you have the urge to make as many friends as possible."
"Where's your evidence that the world is ending?"
"Some guy obsessed with masks. I really dunno what to do, Ghira… if finding the Seven Lights and Thirteen Darknesses is up to the Positives, I guess the most I can do is build up my own army. However whacked-up we are."
The office door knocked, so Ghirahim returned. Nerehc answered the door to find AlyakAm and Egroeg Gnik. "Hello, Numbuh -3621." The former greeted tonelessly. "We have a request for you. We wish to go into the Posiverse to meet our Positives. Our own private Meet Your Match Day."
"Could you organize a meeting?" Egroeg asked.
"Sure. What's the occasion?"
"We feel bad for missing Meet Your Match Day. AlyakAm is especially looking forward to mocking my opposite self."
"Egroeg knows that if he mocks me in such a light, I will eat his fingers." AlyakAm said.
"Why don't siblings bond as well as you guys." Nerehc remarked sarcastically. "Okay, I'll try to get in contact with Cheren and see what his operatives are doing. Maybe I can ask his progress…" The three of them left the office.
Underworld
Medusa watched them all in her giant cauldron. Nosam was helping Lorac train in acrobats, using his waterbending as an obstacle course. Ynohtna was trying to play with his gloomy little sister. Ikuyim was practicing her crystalbending. Newd was bugging Ydnew, in the form of a red bee. "Simple little Negatives… so carefree and blind to everything."
One of her green snake strands, Thanatos, dangled beside her. "Medusaaa! When are we going to start finding the Darknesses?! Palutena is going to beat us!"
"Patience, Thannypoo. It won't matter who finds what first. Because Palutena will have Seven Lights, and I will have Thirteen Darknesses. Assuming I can't rely on Ragaj to turn the Lights to my side, thirteen still beats seven!"
"Yes, but if we wait too long, the universe will be destroyed, and we'll have to wait another quadrillion years." Pandora, the living blue flame with a face, spoke depressedly.
"Yes, you're right. Which is why it's time we began our quest." Medusa smirked at her cauldron. "Little do they know, these Negatives are about to take part in a story I whipped up: Legend of the Thirteen Darknesses! HA HA ha ha!"
"Zeeeeehahaha." Blackbeard laughed, munching a cherry pie. "I'm too excited to meet them! What were their names again?"
"I dunno, Blacky. Why don't you name one?"
"Gladly!" Blackbeard twirled and let his coat flap, speaking confidently, "I believe one of them was a Pirate Emperor like me! His name is Davy Jones!" He pictured the tentacle-faced captain in the sky.
"I remember a few as well." Pandora sighed. "Two of the Darknesses are wizards. One of them is Zeref the Black Cloud." Her flame displayed the handsome, teenage mage with black hair.
"Oo-oo, I know!" Thanatos perked up. "Two of the Darknesses were alien overlords! One of them sounds super sexy! And her name," the snake twirled, "was YELLOW DIAMOND!" He imagined a slim, shadowed figure with a yellow eye.
Medusa pictured these three figures, as well as 10 more silhouetted, appearing in the dark sky. "When these three evils come together, the New World will be OURS for the taking! Any silly child army Palutena can create will pale in comparison! For now, it is time for our favorite opposites to begin. Ragus… he is at his house."
Somewhere in the Negaverse was a girl with wide, psychotic purple eyes, aquamarine hair, and a forced smile. She seemed to have stitches on her face, wore a dark-pink coat, and a dress depicting a full moon over a shadowed graveyard. "Great, Lady Medusa! I look forward to playing with him!" She held a doll of Nerehc in her hand.