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Vincence Kingdom: Peargame (Part 7)

[Cut to present Plus Nova flying around Plus Nova Tower in the Mark 85. He scans the interior of the tower, and sees the original Star Avenging League apprehending Tweeby, the backside of the iconic shot of Terra Nova pointing the bow at Tweeby's face while the Star Avenging League surrounds him.]

Plus Nova: Got to hustle, Haruhi. Things look like they're just about wrapped up here.

[Cut to Haruhi in Plus Nova Tower, walking towards the elevator.]

Haruhi: Got it. I'm approaching the elevator now.

Tweeby (2012): If it's all the same to you... I'll have that drink now.

Plus Nova (2012): All right, get him on his feet. We can all stand around posing up a storm later. By the way, feel free to clean up.

Plus Nova: Uh, Mr. Haruhi. I almost forgot that that suit [A shot of Haruhi walking around in his 2012 suit] did nothing for your a**.

Haruhi: No one asked you to look, Plus Nova.

Plus Nova: [whispers] It's ridiculous

Mathuvan Union: I think you look great, Haruhi. As far as I'm concerned, that's NationState's a**. [Does a patriotic salute.]

T-34s (2012): Uhh, magic wand?

Plus Nova (2012): STRIKE team's coming to secure it.

[A CCD team including Depackya and Valerox enter, known at this time as a part of a notably noble organization.]

Valerox (2012): We can take that [Taking Tweeby's Scepter from 2012 T-34s] off your hands.

T-34s (2012): By all means. Careful with that thing.

Terra Nova (2012): Unless you want your mind erased. And not in a fun way.

Valerox (2012): We promise to be careful.

Mathuvan Union: Who are these guys?

Plus Nova: They are...well, actually CCD. But, we didn't know that yet.

Mathuvan Union: Seriously, you didn't? I mean...they look like bad guys.

Plus Nova: You're small, but you're talking loud.

Haruhi (2012): On my way down to coordinate search and rescue.

Tweeby (2012): [Transforming into Haruhi for a second in imitation] On my way down to coordinate search and rescue!

[Transforming back] I mean, honestly! How do you think you'll be...

Barrow Cove (2012): [Slapping on a device on Tweeby's mouth to make him quiet] Shut up.

Plus Nova: All right, you're up, little buddy. [Looking at the briefcase with the Space Fruit] There's our Fruit.

Mathuvan Union: [Lying down on Plus Nova's shoulder] Alright. Flick me.

[Plus Nova flicks MU onto his 2012 self, right into his beard. 2012 Plus Nova then scratches his beard, dropping present MU onto 2012 Plus Nova's reactor.]

[All of the 2012 Star Avenging League get in an elevator. Kirby makes to follow, but finds the elevator full.]

Kirby (2012): Move.

Barrow Cove (2012): Whoa!

Plus Nova (2012): Whoa, whoa. Hey! Buddy. What do you think? Maximum occupancy has been reached.

Barrow Cove (2012): Take the stairs.

Plus Nova (2012): Yeah. [Kirby draws his fist back right as the elevator door closes] Stop. Stop!

[He follows through with the punch, making a dent in the wall right where the door was.]

Kirby (2012): [Pissed] Take the stairs! Hate the stairs!

Plus Nova: All right, Haruhi. I got our scepter in the elevator just passing the 80th floor.

Haruhi: On it. Head to the lobby.

Plus Nova: Alright. I'll see you there.

[scene cuts to CCD agents in the elevator]

Valerox (2012): Evidence secure. We're en route to Dr. List. No. No hitches at all, Mr. Secretary.

[Elevator opens and CCD agents sees Haruhi. Haruhi walks in and hits the button to continue down.]

Valerox (2012): Haruhi. I thought you were coordinating search and rescue?

Haruhi: Change of plans.

Depackya (2012): Hey, Haruhi.

Haruhi: Depackya. [everyone starts getting suspicious and has their guard up] I just got a call from the Secretary. I'm gonna be running point on the scepter.

Valerox (2012): Sir? I don't understand.

Haruhi: We got word there may be an attempt to steal it.

Depackya (2012): Sorry, Haruhi. I can't give you the scepter.

Valerox (2012): I'm gonna have to call the Director.

Haruhi: That's okay. Trust me. [Haruhi leans over to Valerox's ear.] Hail the Confederation.

[Everyone is surprised, Haruhi walks out of the elevator with the scepter and a smile.]

[Cut to the building's stairwell. The Kirby looks down at the many stairs below him.]

Kirby (2012): [Angrily] So many stairs!

[Cut to the lobby. The 2012 Star Avenging League start to make their way out of the building. Plus Nova and MU eye them undercover.]

Plus Nova: Thumbelina, do you copy? I've got eyes on the prize. It's go-time.

Mathuvan Union: Bombs away. [Sliding down to Plus Nova's Arc Reactor] Is... is that Axe body spray?

Plus Nova: Yeah, I had a can just for emergencies. Relax. Can we focus, please?

Mathuvan Union: I'm going inside you. Now.

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): May I ask you where you're going?

Barrow Cove (2012): To lunch and then the Tavern. I'm sorry, you are?

Plus Nova (2012): ShrewLlamaLand. He's the man, one of the folks behind Nick Fury.

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): My friends call me Mr. Secretary. I'm gonna have to ask you to turn that prisoner over to me.

Barrow Cove (2012): Loki will be answering to Odin himself.

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): Oh, he's gonna answer to us. Odin can have what's left. And I'm gonna need that case, that's been our property for over 70 years.

CCD Agent: Hand over the case, Plus Nova.

Plus Nova: [To present MU through radio as he inhales sharply] All right, move it, Stuart Little. Things are getting dicey up here. Let's go.

Plus Nova (2012): I'm not gonna argue who's got the higher authority here, all right?

Mathuvan Union: You promise me you won't die?

Plus Nova: You're only giving me a mild cardiac dysrhythmia.

Mathuvan Union: That doesn't sound mild.

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): I need the case.

Plus Nova (2012): I know you got a lotta pull. I'm just saying...

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): Okay. Then give me the case.

Plus Nova: Do it, MU!

Plus Nova (2012): Get your hands off!

Plus Nova: Window's closing. Pull my pin!

Mathuvan Union: Here goes!

[Hobbes-Man pulls off Plus Nova 2012's reactor, and Plus Nova (2012) drops the case]

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): Plus Nova?

Barrow Cove (2012): Plus Nova!

[Plus Nova 2012 falls down to the ground]

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): Look, he's convulsing. Give him air! Medic!

Plus Nova: MEDIC! You guys, some help!

ShrewLlamaLand (2012): Plus Nova, you--- your chest machine?

[Hobbes-Man pushes the case, Tweeby looks at case, Plus Nova grabs the case.]

Plus Nova: Good job. Meet me in the alley. I'm gonna grab a quick slice.

[Suddenly, Kirby 2012 pushes Plus Nova to the ground and the Space Fruit slides to Tweeby]

Kirby (2012): NO STAIRS!!!!

[Everyone runs from Kirby's rampage, Tweeby 2012 grabs the Space Fruit and teleports it away.]

Barrow Cove (2012): You'll be fine, Plus Nova. Stay with us! I'll try something, okay? I have no idea if it's gonna work.

[Barrow Cove 2012 uses the his hammer as the defibrillator on Plus Nova 2012]

Barrow Cove (2012): YES!

Plus Nova (2012): That worked a treat. That was so crazy!

Barrow Cove (2012): I had no idea if that was gonna work.

Plus Nova (2012): The case?

Barrow Cove (2012): The case. It's, uhh... Where's the case? Where's Tweeby? Tweeby!

Mathuvan Union: That wasn't supposed to happen, was it?

Plus Nova: Oh, we blew it.

Barrow Cove (2012): Tweeby!?

[Cut to a walkway several floors up. Haruhi is having trouble on his communicator.]

Haruhi: Plus Nova, what's going on? Tell me you found that Fruit. [He looks up and groans.] Oh, you gotta be sh*tting me.

[In front of him, Haruhi sees his 2012 self looking back]

Haruhi (2012): I have eyes on Tweeby. 14th floor.

Haruhi: [Puts the case down] I'm not Tweeby. And I don't wanna hurt you.

[2012 Haruhi engages and the two Haruhis begin to duel.]

Haruhi (2012): I can do this all day.

Haruhi: [Standing up] Yeah, I know. I know.

[Both Haruhi's frisbee their shield's at one another which clang away as they brawl, inadvertently kicking away the case containing the scepter which falls down a few levels. 2012 Haruhi gets the upper hand on Future Haruhi's as they both fall down to the same level as the scepter. Future Haruhi's locket of The Strangers Club falls out, Haruhi (2012) notices it.]

Haruhi (2012): Where did you get this?

[Haruhi (2012) has future Haruhi in a chokehold]

Haruhi: Free Eve Vod Bey... is... alive!

Haruhi (2012): What?

[Future Haruhi takes the chance to sucker punch his counterpart, grab the scepter and knock Haruhi (2012) out, gets up and stares at him]

Haruhi: That is NationState's a**.

[Scene cuts back to Kirby and Vando0sa (2012). As Kirby is lying down on a beach chair who looks like he's sleeping with a hat on, Kirny tries reasoning with Vando0sa to let him have the Time Fruit.]

Kirby: Please, please!

Vando0sa (2012): I'm sorry, I can't help you, Kirby. If I give up the Time Fruit to help your Reality, I'm dooming my own.

Kirby: With all due respect, I'm not sure the science really supports that.

[Vando0sa creates a projection with a long ray that simulates the flow of time.]

Vando0sa (2012): The Infinity Fruits create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one Fruits and that flow splits.
[She flicks the Time Fruits projection away and Shows black stream indicating a point of divergence] Now, this may benefit your reality, but my new one…not so much. In this new branched Reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world will be overrun. Millions will suffer. So, tell me, Kirby, can your science prevent all that?

Kirby: No, but we can erase it. Because once we are done with the Fruits, we can return each one to its own timeline at the moment it was taken. So, chronologically, [Holds the Time Fruits projection] in that reality, [puts it back to its spot] it never left.

[Kirby's astral form takes the projection of the removed Time Fruit, replaces it back amongst the other five, and the doomed alternate dimension fades away, illustrating his point.]

Vando0sa (2012): [still not convinced.] But you are leaving out the most important part. In order to return the Fruits, you have to survive.

Kirby: We will. I will. I promise.

Vando0sa (2012): I can't risk this Reality on a promise. It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Fruit.

Kirby: Then, why the heck did Dominioan give it away?

Vando0sa (2012): [Surprised] What did you say?

Kirby: Dominoan, he gave it away. He gave it to Baloo.

Vando0sa (2012): Willingly?

Kirby: Yes!

Vando0sa (2012): ...Why?

Kirby: I have no idea. Maybe he made a mistake.

Vando0sa (2012): Or I did. [She returns to Kirby control of his Kirby body and opens the Eye of Jojo References, revealing the Time Fruit] Dominioan is meant to be the best of us.

Kirby: So he must have done it for a reason.

Vando0sa (2012): I fear you might be right. [gives him the Time Fruit]

Kirby: Thank you.

Vando0sa (2012): I'm counting on you, Kirby. We all are.

[Cut to Baloo (2014), Osernan (2014), Spanglisha (2014) and Sorianora (2014) on the Jungle II.]

Baloo (2014): [To Sorianora] Run diagnostics. Show me her memory file.

Sorianora (2014): Sire, the file appears entangled. It was a memory, but not hers. There's another consciousness sharing her network...another Osernan.

Baloo (2014): Impossible.

Sorianora (2014): This duplicate carries a time stamp... from nine years in the future.

Baloo (2014): Where is this other Osernan?

Sorianora (2014): In our solar system. On Just Relax.

Baloo (2014): Can you access her?

Sorianora (2014): Yes. The two are linked.

Baloo (2014): Search the duplicate's memories for Infinity Fruits.

[Memory of the meeting with all the Star Avenging League starts playing]

Kirby (2023): And these Fruits have been in a lot of different places throughout history.

Plus Nova (2023): Our history. So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in.

Terra Nova (2023): Which means we have to pick our targets.

Plus Nova (2023): Correct.

[End memory.]

Baloo (2014): [To Sorianora] Freeze image.

Spanglisha (2014): Who?

Baloo (2014): The Star Avenging League. Unruly wretches. What's that reflection? Amplify this, Sorianora.

Spanglisha (2014): [Looking at a reflection of Osernan (2023)] I don't understand. Two Osernans.

Baloo (2014): No. The same Osernan. From two different times. Set course for Just Relax. Scan the duplicate's memories. I
want to see everything.

[Cut back to Barrow Cove and CALLMEDADDYSTRATTON in the Tavern, 2013]

Mother (2013): My ladies, I'll see you after. Go on.

[Barrow Cove tries not to get caught behind a large post, but gets shocked when he sees his mother behind him]

Mother (2013): [To Barrow Cove] What are you doing?

Barrow Cove: Aah!!!

Mother (2013): Aah!!!

Barrow Cove: OH, God!

Mother (2013): You're better off leaving the sneaking to your brother.

Barrow Cove: Yeah, I was simply just going for a walk, and uh... [Trying to hide his belly]

Mother (2013): What are you wearing?

Barrow Cove: I always wear this. This is one of my favorites.

[His mother puts her hand on Barrow Cove's face and takes a good look at him]

Mother (2013): What's wrong with your eye?

Barrow Cove: Oh, my eye. That's... you remember the Battle of Haroquin? When I got hit in the face with a broadsword?

Mother (2013): You're not the Thor I know at all, are you?

Barrow Cove: [Pretending] Yes, I am.

Mother (2013): The future hasn't been kind to you, has it?

Barrow Cove: I didn't say I'm from the future.

Mother (2013): I was raised by witches, boy. I see with more than eyes, and you know that.

[Barrow Cove attempts to hold back his tears and fails miserably.]

Barrow Cove: [voice breaking up] I am totally, totally from the future.

Mother (2013): Yes, you are.

Barrow Cove: I really need to talk to you.

Mother (2013): We can talk.

[They both hug each other.]

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