Vorton
Pacman and his friends arrived sometime after Jacob and his friends returned from Caerreyn. After putting the staff with the rest of the items, Jacob took a short nap near the console. Twilight was told what was happening to Nyx, she became worried as to what the little alicorn would do when they’re done. Pac and his friends introduced themselves to the multiverse resistance. He had a talk with Nate while Cyli and Spiral looked around. Jacob woke up afterward and preps for the next world.
“This watch can summon ghosts?” Pacman asked Nate.
“Yokai.” The boy replied, “I got this from Whisper so I can stop them from causing mischief.”
“And he does one heck of a job.” Jacob said, “You should’ve seen him take on big bosses. Like Dame Deadtime.”
“Who?”
“Oh, sorry. Spoilers.” The white mouse, Sebastian, walks up to Twilight.
“Oh, hello.” Twilight said, “You’re Sebastian, right.” He nodded.
“The return of the fallen shall have their revenge.” He spoke before returning to his spot. Twilight overheard what he said but didn’t know what he meant. Neither did Jacob, but she did know that he had the power to predict and see the future. Meanwhile, Pinkie was making the twins laugh just by being her goofy self. She was doing a stand-up comedy show that she did with the cake twins a long time ago. Fluttershy was talking Zill and Kayla, learning about their world. Rainbow was practicing with Frostbite. Everybody was actually socializing, either getting along or arguing. The gateway warbled to life as Jacob slid the coin in. "Lucian, Rainbow Dash, Cecilia."
Lucien muttered. "Quick of him to choose me."
"Jacob, do you have a crush on her?" Rainbow asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I just like her company." He said as the group leaped through the vortex.
Twilight said after they're gone. "Bring Nyx back."
Columbia, Bioshock Infinite
In the vortex, the group zoomed to their destination. Rainbow turned to Jacob and asked. "So where are we heading?"
"The Bioshock Multiverse." Jacob replied, "It's an awesome place. There are cities built in very amazing places. Under the sea and up in the sky."
"Yeah, exciting."
"You'll see why once we get there." The rift then spat the group out in the open, clear skies. They were quick to use their flying ability for this. Well, except Jacob and Lucien. The fox was caught by Rainbow Dash while the human began plummeting to the ground from the incredible height they arrived in, screaming his heart out as it was racing in fear as he fell, but he was swooped up by a griffon and they landed safely in a building. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." the griffon said, shifting into Cecilia.
"You never cease to amaze me with your powers." The others arrived and looked out for the opening in the building. They saw buildings flying among the clouds, floating in the air. "Welcome to the floating city of Columbia. And judging by the red fabrics flapping in the air. We're-" He was interrupted when the building shook from a sudden explosion and they nearly lost their balance. "We're in the middle of the siege."
"Why is there a war?"
"The Vox Populi are fighting for freedom. Zachery Comstock was a racist and treated the colored people as slaves."
"Ok, I'm not liking this Comstock if he treats people like that," Lucien said. "Why can't people rise against him?"
"Don't mess with him. He said to see into the future. Like heck." The group then trekked through the building. They saw the tarnished rooms through windows, as well as a few experiments and gadgets. In one room, there was a wire replica of a gorilla and in another, there were oddly shaped bottles on display. "This must be... Finkton."
"What's that?" Rainbow asked.
"The industrial district of the city. This is where all of the city's advanced tech is made."
"These guys don't look advanced."
"Albert Fink, the founder of the company, used a special method to fund all this stuff."
"Was he the one who made the city fly?" Cecilia asked.
"No, that right belongs to Roseland Lutece. She said it was quantum particles suspended at a fixed height through time and space. Her research into physics leads her to create an inner dimensional machine called The Lutece Device. Fink and his brother used the tears. Though in other words, the city is way too advanced for its time. It's currently the year 1912."
Lucian looks to him and says "That's impossible." Jacob stops and looks to the guy.
"A trans-dimensional portal. Back at Vorton!"
"Point taken." They then continued through the halls. Along the way, he took notice that Cecilia and Rainbow were in a form that fit the world they're in. Rainbow wore an outfit that the elite soldiers of Columbia wore in the city. Except she didn't wear the helmet. Cecilia still had her standard purple outfit. Jacob saw in a mirror that he was wearing a Vox Populi wore, red with white. Jacob took a good glance at the place as they went on, it was exactly as he remembered it. A war-torn city with the rebels fighting for freedom. Shame there weren't going to be any more games... yet. They heard voices coming from the area ahead of them. They then moved quietly towards the next room. They saw in the distance some soldiers of sorts. They were wearing red like Jacob was.
"Vox Populi. The guys fighting in this war."
"Then these guys are bad news." Rainbow Dash said, getting ready to zoom at them, but she was quickly snagged in a magic aura made by Jacob.
"They're the good guys. The original leader of the city is the real bad guy. Zachery Hale Comstock." They then heard guns cocking and they looked and saw the Vox aiming at them. "Oh snap." The characters grabbed them and took them away. Even though they tried to resist, they continued to be hauled away.
Meanwhile, in a neighboring world
The Crusaders were running for their lives from something in the dark, wet corridors. They hear the clattering metal and the cackling madman hot on their tails. They were afraid out of their wits, turning corners to unfamiliar parts of the building they're trapped in. They got drenched from the pouring saltwater from broken pipes and holes in the walls and ceilings. Their gallop came to a halt when they came to a dead end. They start to frantically search for a way out, but to no avail. Scootaloo collapsed to the floor, with a panicky expression, the thought of whatever was chasing them was close and ready to kill. "I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!" She screamed, "We're gonna die, we're gonna die, WE'RE GONNA-" She was interrupted by a slap from Applebloom.
"Get a hold of yourself!!" she said with a raised voice. The thing that pursued the lands a few feet in front of them, the landing made the scream a bit.
"Sssssssshhhhhh, it's all over now~." The thing said in a calm voice as it slowly crept up to the trio. When it stepped into the light, they saw that it wielded meat hooks in both hands, its clothes ripped and torn in a few places, they say it wore a bunny masquerade mask with a slather of blood across it. The trio tripped over themselves and toppled to the floor, all landing in a pile. They struggled to get up, but they keep tripping on themselves to be able to stand up straight, but the thing loomed over them. It removes its mask to reveal its horrid, disfigured face. Its brain grew out of the front, the side of the head, where the eye is. When it smiled, they saw its teeth were jagged and also missing a few. "I won't hurt you." They clearly saw it was a lie as it raised a hookup. The fillies' life flashed before their eyes, at the moment as it's about to end. But suddenly, something came down from the ceiling, on top of the freak, killing it.
They saw with wide eyes at their savior and the outfit she wore, It consists of a white long-sleeved blouse, a bird cameo, a black knee-length tight fitted skirt with a red belt, fishnet stockings and black heels with an ankle strap. Her hairstyle is brushed out pin curls and she wore make-up. In one hand, she had a device of sorts, and in the other was a one-handed crossbow. "Are you all right?" She asked.
The group was then kicked onto their knees before them is what they assume was their leader. "Daisy Fitzroy," Jacob said as he gets smacked on the head just to shut up. "Ok, shutting up." One of the other soldiers walks up to her.
"Daisy, we found these guys lurking around the labs." Daisy Fitzroy was an African American woman sort of the same kind of outfit as the others, but only wore a red scarf, brown steamer overalls, white shirt, and brown boots. Daisy looks down at them with a serious look, like she had no sign of happiness left. She looks right at the boy sitting on his knees and goes right up to her face.
"I don't recognize you." She says in a southern American accent, "You may wear our colors, but that doesn't make you one of us." She then grabbed him by the collar of his coat and slammed him against the wall. "Who did you steal this from?"
"I didn't steal it. I've had it for a while." She rammed him into the wall, hurting him. "I swear. I didn't steal it."
"You're only wearing it as a trophy. To mock us." She then throws him to the ground. Rainbow tried to get Daisy, but she gets restrained by the Vox, she thrashed and kicked to get free of them, but each move ended with a bash to the head. Lucien tries to as well, but he gets knocked to the floor. But Cecilia was the closest, she became a big grizzly to protect her friend.
"Leave him alone." she said, standing over the boy. Daisy pointed a gun at the bear, ready to shoot. As she was about to pull the trigger, the boy spoke up.
"I know about what really happened with you and Lady Comstock." He said out loud, snapping at him. Her eyes were wide as plates. She holstered her weapon and stepped back. But she quickly maintained her composure.
"Yeah, everyone knows. I killed her." She spoke.
"No, you didn't. Comstock did." She then looked at him with disbelief and made a hand gesture to have the soldiers stand down. Cecilia shifted back to allow Jacob to stand.
"How do you know that?"
"I'm not the only one who knows the truth. You're innocent."
"Yet everyone sides with Comstock. What's to stop you from being one of his."
"Because he'll kill me for knowing the truth of The Lamb." Daisy then looked to her predecessors for a moment then at the group. She sighed and walked towards a door.
"Come with me, the rest of you stay here." He followed Daisy to the next room which happens to be the sleeping quarters of Finkton. He noticed how poorly kept it was, the conditions before the revolution began made him upset. But he came here to listen to what Daisy had to say, not to recall world history. "How do you know what happened that day?" Jacob sits on a stool and then looks to her.
"Where I came from, everyone knew. They saw in the eyes of a familiar man, Booker Dewitt. They put the pieces together and found that you're innocent. Comstock knows how to make enemies as well as allies. As he made almost thousands as well as millions of enemies."
"You're not making any sense. Booker is dead."
"I know, but there's a chance he's still alive. He may be gone, but he's always with us."
"You sound a lot like Desmond. He's just like you. Positive." A headache comes to Jacob once again at the mention of that name. Daisy didn't take notice as he rubbed his cranium.
"What happened to him?"
"He was slaughtered like a pig. The cops couldn't identify what weapon was used."
"That's a major bummer, there." Jacob puts a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry for your loss."
"It's alright." She then gets up and heads back into the room. Once there, they noticed that both their teams had gotten along while they'd been talking.
"Seriously? It hasn't been that long."
"You've got me to thank, silly," Said Cecilia, "They're not so bad once you get to know them." Then without warning, the door to the corridor explodes and Corrupted soldiers came running and shooting everyone. They all then took cover as the bullets were flying. "Ok, so they're resorting to The Forgotten stages."
"Say what?!"
"Yeah, when push comes to shove, they make soldiers out of certain residents. The Forgotten are or where people but the infection became too violent. Now they're just empty shells oozing out the black mold."
"That's disgusting." Jacob pulled out his rifle and shot back. "They must've been made by the corpses littering the city." The fighters held their own as the enemies kept pouring in. Lucien blasted fireballs at them, rendering them to ashes. Rainbow stomps on a cloud, creating lighting to stun the enemies. Finally, Cecilia uses her animal abilities to fight back. After a blast from a magic grenade, the monsters kept coming. Daisy broke down a door and calls to her men.
"This way!!" She shouted, "There's too many." They all ran to escape, though not all of the Vox members made it. Jacob bars the door with a lead pipe once it was closed. "Those peacekeepers don't quit."
"Technically they're monsters."
"Whatever. Let's get moving." The enemies started pounding at the wood as the group departed. They went to the inner workings of the building, to the maintenance area where the lights were taken out. But that wasn't a problem. Cecilia grew an anglerfish light and it illuminated the area. "Wow. What Vigor did you get your powers from?"
"Oh, I was given magic at my party when I turned 16." The mouse said with a smile. "What's a vigor?"
"You folks really ain't from around here, are ya?"
"Nope."
"A vigor is a strange liquid in a bottle that gives anyone amazing powers. Like what you just did there." Rainbow's eyes were wide as saucers, getting the idea about having some powers. Jacob smiled and shook his head.
"Thanks a lot, Daisy for putting that idea into Rainbow's head." The lights then suddenly came on revealing angelic statutes that were covering their eyes. "Crap, Weeping Angels." The group looks to him, confused.
"Oh, for the love of trees," Lucien said shaking his head. "They're just statues."
"KEEP LOOKING AT THEM!!!!!" They oddly obliged. "Don't even blink."
"What is wrong with you?"
"ME!? They're Weeping Aliens. Quantum locked aliens that kill you kindly. When observed they freeze into rock."
"He's right." Daisy said, "I don't remember them looking at us. They've been covering their eyes." Daisy was correct; on a closer look, they saw that the statues were now looking at them and one of them was pointing at the lights.
"Um, that's not good, it's gonna start turning out the lights. Move, but keep your eyes on them." They then walked through the chamber while watching the angels but unfortunately, the lights started to flicker. "Oh snap. Run." The group then ran down the corridor as the lights went on and off repeatedly. The angels inched closer and closer to them. Daisy tried to shoot them, but the stone was too hard to break. So, they kept running and running, turning corners, and dodging pipelines. Till they spotted a place with reinforced doors. They ran in and slammed the doors. Big locks sealed the doors but it wasn't enough as the angels were strong enough to bash against the doors with such strength.
"Sheesh," Rainbow said, "These things won't quit."
"Let's keep going." Before they left, the assault on the door had ceased a few moments later.
"Hey, no need. They've stopped."
"They did?" Cecilia said, raising an ear.
"That doesn't make sense," Jacob spoke, readying a sword. "They should still be after us..." He then frantically looks around the room. "Unless there's something worse in here. A trap." Daisy takes out her gun.
"You sure?" She spoke.
"These things don't just happen."
"Um, they kinda do, right?" Cecilia said.
"Not without a reason." They proceed with caution.
"Whatever it is," Rainbow said, puffing her chest "I'll take it." The others rolled her eyes when they've arrived at a dead end. "Really? A dead end?"
"Maybe not." The animal woman corrected, kneeling near a vent shaft. "I think I can fit in this while small."
"You sure about that?" Jacob asked.
"It'll be ok." She then shrunk down into a cute white mouse with purple and yellow patches and leapt into the vent, but got stuck between the grate. "I should've laid off the cheese." She then wiggled herself through the grate until she was free for a moment, only for the updraft to send her flying up the pipe. Her screams echoed through all the pipes and she bonked and clanged against the metal surfaces until she dropped out of an exit vent. She took the moment to readjust herself and revert to normal to get her bearings. She found herself in a new area of the factory. "Great. Now, where am I?" She looks around and notices that the place looked more like a mansion than a factory. "A mansion? I thought I was in a factory." She noticed that the floor beneath her was a giant mechanical masterpiece. A clock. The clock struck 6:30 then a door opens. "Wow. Whoever owns this place puts a lot of work into it." She then treads into the room, Office, and looks around, she saw the books and tools of writing around the place and found a large crank on display. "Hmm, ever clock has one of these." She takes the crank and puts an apple in a fruit bowl then goes back to the main foyer. Once there, she found the Exit door was for 6:00 on the dot so she uses the crank in the middle of the clock and turns it to that exact time. Once the door was open, she walked on through to see the others down below her. "Hey!!! I found a way out!!" The others look up at her.
"Nice work, girl," Daisy called out. "Find a ladder." The mouse looks around for one, but she spots a big, black figure stomping towards them.
"Look out!!" The figure then smacks the rebel leader into the wall.
"TYRANT!" The boy screams as he gets grabbed by the head and starts crushing his head. "OWOWOWOW!!!!!" He flails and kicks to get free but to no avail. The cyan woman with wings whacks the thing with a hammer at the head, it drops Jacob who starts grabbing his head to ease the pain. Cecilia found the ladder and kicked it down. Lucian shoots fire at the tyrant and it just walks up to him unscathed. "You need to nuke the guy to kill him!!"
"Never mind that," Daisy spoke up, "We need to focus on staying alive."
"Then keep shooting his head if you can. That'll keep him stunned for a while." Daisy shoots at the monster's head, slowing it down a bit as the group scaled the ladder. After a few moments, it recovers and follows them up the ladder. The group ran across the catwalks to try and avoid the brute but the thing was clever with shortcuts to get to them. It found faster ways to get them. The thing was on their tails at this point and was gaining on them. They came to the exit of the factory and were now outside, Rebel soldiers found the group and reinforced the doors. "That won't hold him forever." Lucien looks at him.
"You said something about a Nuke before," he said. " Where can we find one?"
"Nowhere in this time. But we need an explosion so powerful it takes out a heavily armored... something."
"I think I can cast a fireball as strong as that. But it'll take time." The Tyrant punches through the door and grabs a soldier by the head, the man screaming as it crushed his head. "But I'll try to be quick."
"You better."
"Act now," Daisy said, "talk later." The Tyrant then breaks down the door, flattening anyone on the other side. Once it was down, the soldiers stationed around the district began shooting the monster. Lucien took the opportunity to find a place to charge up his spell. The group avoided every fist thrown at them as Mr. X was loaded with lead. Not even these guys could slow it down with ease. The thing wiped them out one after the other. "Send in a Handyman!!" One of the rebels shot a red signal flare into the sky.
"What the hay is a guy with tools gonna do?" Rainbow shouted in confusion.
"They don't mean a man with tools," Jacob explained as mechanical stomping came their way. "They mean that!!" A giant man in an exo-suit of this century came jumping into the fight, punching the tyrant into the weaponsmith shop.
"AWESOME!!!!" The enemy emerges from the rubble and cracks his neck. He reaches for a turn dial on the chest of his coat and turns it, in a blast of smoke, becoming a mutated version of what he used to be, but with claws this time. "Aw come on. Seriously?"
"It cheated. It has overridden its inhibitor."
"Meaning what, Egghead?!"
"It's a super tyrant. Stronger and faster than it used to be." He was right. The Tyrant was evenly matched and The Handyman was being ripped to pieces as the fight went on. The Handyman shoved a fuel tank at it which just pushes it to the side with ease. With more smashes and clangs, the Handyman was almost a scrap pile. The Handyman fell to the ground with the Tyrant rearing back his clawed arm to finish the job. But Lucien emerges with a fireball ready to explode. The Tyrant looks to him as if everyone in the area took cover. He then heaves the fireball right at it, resulting in an explosion, leaving behind its hulking legs, singed from the fireball. "Hey, what happened to give someone a heads up?"
"Then he wouldn't see it coming."
In the Neighboring world, Rapture
Starlight Glimmer uses a petrification spell on Splicers while exploring Fontaine Futuristics, sunken beneath the shining city above. She finds large barricades made of furniture, wooden boards, and metal plating, blocking some of the halls. She thought to herself that they're trying to keep something in... or something out... But she managed to find her way around the blockade and into what appears to be the toy store. While hiding, she finds what appears to be a battle scene, four people were near an overheated vent, the man with white hair wore a face of guilt as they're accusing him of a horrible crime long in the past. She heard the distorted of a little girl crying in pain from the heat. She then noticed it was the two people she had met before in the other world; she recognized their voices.
"You've turned to us to solve your problems." Said the man.
"To provide a place to go where might forget." The woman spoke after.
"Where there never was an Anna in the first place."
"Comstock was never one to own up to his errors, was he, Brother?"
"Never comfortable with the choices he made..."
"Always seeking out someone else's life to claim as his own..." Terrified by this sudden revelation, he held a doll's head as he turns to another woman looking like she was about to cry.
"Elizabeth..." He started as she slowly took the head from him, "child... I am so sorry..."
"No, you're not." She says with a scold, "But you're about to be." As if on cue, the man, or Comstock, gets impaled by a large drill from behind. A hulking beast in a diver suit impaled him with the drill then ripped it out of him, blood splattered on her face was the last thing the saw of her before falling to the floor. Starlight looked away from the grizzly scene as it was too horrible to watch. She then looked back and saw the thing was after Elizabeth now. Chasing her to the opposite end of the store and punching her through the wall in a single blow. She didn't see her come out and feared the worst. She then looks to the girl who was climbing out of the vent without a burn on her skin. She then heard a gun cock from behind her, followed by a voice.
"Don't move, luv." Said the voice in sort of Irish.
Colombia, Downtown Emporia
The team arrived at Downtown Emporia sometime after the events of The Tyrant events. They were taking a break at a ruined bar/restaurant, the place vandalized by the Vox Populi. The group had to scavenge around for furniture that wasn't broken. Daisy was polishing her weapons, Cecilia cooked with what food was left while guards kept watch, Jacob, Lucian, and Rainbow Dash sat about, saving up their stamina while listening to some music from the human's tablet. "Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol." Jacob started, "This sounds like this a remaster. 2001 I think." Though Lucien disliked the music.
"How can you listen to this?" he said coldly.
"You're from medieval times, dude. You wouldn't know."
"Well, I sure get it!" Rainbow said while headbanging.
"Take it easy, your head will go flying off." They laughed for a short time before Daisy turned off the thing.
"What part of laying low did you not get?" She said with a cold look, she then goes back to polishing.
"Sorry, Daisy." Cecilia serves them some cooked meat with fruit. But for Rainbow, just a bowl of fruit.
"This was all I found." she said, looking down in shame.
"It's better than nothing. Thank you." The group begins eating the meal. "We all know the plan. The Lutece Device might still be active. With it, we can travel to the neighboring world, where the ADAM is. We best get it before they do." The group nodded in agreement.
"I'll head to Vorton." Daisy said, "The Vox has your back and we'll wait there."
"Alright. Wish us luck." Daisy nods to him and heads off on her own with a few of her men. After they finish eating, the group then explores the fractured ruins of the city's district. "Man, Comstock had this coming to him."
"Then why not go after this guy?" Rainbow asked.
"Let us not get distracted at the task at hand," Lucien answered.
"We're on our way to the Lutece residence." Jacob continued, "The woman was the one who made the city fly."
"Using giant balloons?" Rainbow asked.
"No, quantum particles suspended at a fixed point in time and space."
"So... not giant balloons?" The teen rolled his eyes as they continued onwards. They witnessed the destruction of the city around them, the red velvet fabrics waving from the buildings and the fires engulfing the remains of said buildings. The group then eventually came up to the Lutece residence, currently closed for good. The doors were tightly sealed up with chains and barbwire.
"Dang. Have they heard of overkill? We're gonna need some bolt cutters." They heard a window break because Rainbow used a rock.
"Does everything have to be complex?" she asked, bluntly. She then reached in and unlocked the window then climbed in. The others follow her in minding the glass on the floor. When entering the back rooms, they find the Angels from before have already arrived. "Darn, not these guys again."
"Keep eye contact on them and follow me." The group maintained their gaze on the statues as Jacob led them to a machine of sorts. "Looks to still work somehow. Wait, someone repaired it."
"This is some machine," Lucien comments as the lights begin to flicker.
"Oh, no, not again." The lights begin to go out once again, turning off and on, the angels circling around them, nearing to launch all of them through the past. But they were saved as a rift of sorts swallowed them to the next world, after that happened, the angels were left looking at each other. They're never gonna move again due to this. Someone with a familiar red hair puts up signs on each of them, saying not to touch.
"Good luck, Jacob."