A boy walks over a cliff six faces on the cliff as he turns seeing his sister, girlfriend and some of his closest friends standing there with him. Until something starts to feel off he hears a scream from the city bellow. Just as he's about to turn a female with hair black like his as well as his girlfriend both start turning into ash in front of him as he looks towards the rest of his friends and all but two turns to ash.

"What the hell?" He asks staring in awe.

"What's happening?" One of his friends ask looking at the  carnage left in this sudden occurrence.

Sadao looks back, seeing only himself, Shiroi and Ju Ichi being the only ones left not having been turned to ash. "What the fuck is happening." Sadao mutters.

Suddenly a ship lands next to Sadao, Kejun exits the ship and stares out in horror and the scene before him. "No..."

Never Too Late
By: Ian_Star205

Ian sits in a small chamber by himself as Rei holds onto three different blades each belonging to Sam, Glossy, and Duke. Xenovia lays in a bed unconscious and bandaged up while Crystia stays by her side tears in her eyes as she holds a tuft of pink hair. AJ looks outside of the room their in seeing a large forest where on the nearest tree is Gamayu standing over two tombstones made for Kejun and Einz as they see a magic circle forming when out of the circle Aiden steps out with Enya.

AJ steps forward. "Aiden, Enya." Aiden looks at AJ with a sad look  "What's wrong?"

"Nothing... but... we failed." Aiden says sitting down.

"Hey, it's... we all failed, Aiden." AJ tries to reaffirm the group.

Aiden shakes his head. "I lost most of my team. I saw Einz die."

"Aiden, you have something much more valuable right next to you."

"But so many others aren't here."

"I know. That's why we're gonna fix this."

"I did some research thanks to your friend Gamayu's files... there's only one way to fix this." Rei says his chest covered in bandages.

"Well then let's go and do it."

Rei sighs. "There's one problem."

"What is that?" Ian asks.

"In order to reverse it we'd have to find another pendant... and an Eternal. However... we'll have to scour the entire galaxy for a green pendant that has the power to reverse this before Zhor-En can find it and destroy it.

"How do we know he doesn't have it already."

"Because, if he did we would've known by now."

"How?"

"When we arrived at this location I recommissioned all the sensory equipment to look for all celestial energy. After he used the relics here, the earth became ground one for the most powerful release of celestial energy in the galaxy. I've been using it to track the relics since. He doesn't stay in one location long enough for us to board a ship and go after him and he travels to randomly for us to predict where his next location will be."

AJ stumbles for a moment. "How?"

Rei sighs lifting his eyepatch revealing his robotic eye. "It took me hours to get the right frequency, luckily I had help. And I've come up with a few things. There are two frequencies that are much weaker than the four pendants he has. One of them is on this planet, recently they went through a large war. While there four celestial energies emerged with one standing out as the strongest." Rei walks over as he presses a few buttons as it zooms in on the planet before showing a male with black hair and red eyes as around him forms a large red humanoid body that he uses to defend himself. "This is the guy. From what we know he could potentially be the host of the pendant of order. That or he's an Eternal, a descendant of a Celestius and a humanoid species on their own planet. Either he or it is back on Remnant. Because of this, we'll be splitting into three teams."

AJ scoffs. "Isn't being split what led to our loss?"

"Yes, but in the past, we were worried about making sure everyone made it out alive. This time... its to take down that son of a bitch. No matter the cost."

"Hold on, hold on. Shouldn't we wait and decide with the others?"

"I came up with the teams to maximize efficiency."

"And what would be the three teams' goals?"

Rei sighs. "Let's gather everyone round first."

Aiden nods slightly. "Yeah."

They go around the building bringing Ian, Crystia, Xenovia, Gamayu, and Link as he looks outside while listening to the meeting.

Ian crosses his arms. "Alright, Explain."

"We've decided upon three teams to partake in three different missions. Team one, Ian Star, Link Cole, and Gamayu are to head to another earth to gather an ally we believe his name is Sadao Uchiha. We believe he may be a part of the key to defeating Zhor-En. Team Two, myself, and Aiden Phoenix are to head to Remnant to see who survived as well as to hopefully find the pendant of Order. The last team is to gather allies from around the earth and other places and meet back up here, where we'll have our last stand against Zhor-En should he discover our plan. AJ you'll be leading this team."

Tomoko steps forward. "Wait, may I head to this alternate earth?"

Ian turns to her. "Why?"

"I'm not from this earth. The earth you'll be heading to is where I originally came from. My family is a bunch of planet hoppers. They left my younger brother there to help with the events of that world and I want to check on him."

Rei nods. "Fine. AJ, there goes your partner then I guess."

"That's fine. I know one lady that survived. Ryuko Motoi. I'll gather her and we'll look for more."

"Look for Rias Gremory, Sona Shitori, Riser Phoenix, and others." Aiden recommends,

AJ nods. "Okay."

"You all can do your own things... I'm gonna stay with Nova and Crystia for a bit." Ian says standing to walk away.

"Mr. Star, with all due respect, the quicker we do this the faster we'll get everyone we lost back."

Ian glances back. "And how do you plan to track the places you're headed to?"

"By replicating the devices here on a smaller scale for the ships we have here."

Ian nods. "And how long will that take?"

Rei steps forward. !With AJ, Myself and Mr. Cole working on it about a year."

Ian slams his sword on the table. "That's not good enough!" He walks away from the group as he uses a magic circle and teleports out of the facility with Aiden staring at his back.

Rei glances around. "Shouldn't we have stopped him?"

Aiden shakes his head. "No... he needs to grieve. I know what he's going through... up until now, Ian Star hasn't lost a fight outright. Especially not with so much at stake." He glances over at Enya her already having been eight months pregnant as Rei takes a deep breath when he looks around seeing Crystia and Xenovia missing as well.

"Cole... we should get started." Rei says.

"Yeah. Ms. Lockwood, I want you to keep track of the radar. Follow his movements."

Tomoko nods. "Right."

2 Years Later

Ian stands on a rock overlooking the ruined city of Tokyo when he closes his eyes sinking into his Sacred Gear as he wandered around a large open plane he wanders the plane until he stumbles upon a pair of doors built into a cave entrance.

"This is new."

He lightly presses on the doors when they shine brightly before opening leading down a dark path. Ian slowly enters as he does so he looks around until many different glass shards light up showing many different pieces of his past fragmented and scattered making a pathway down a long hallway. As he continues walking he notices the memories changing into things he hasn't seen before he pays them no mind not believing as he sees himself and Aiden looking at a green pendant as they look up when AJ steps next to them with Zhor-En across from them. He walks forward leading to a giant piece of glass where upon touching the glass he looks into a reflection of another version of him. Short black hair, shining bright red eyes, staring back at him with an unfamiliar sword drawn as he looks past himself seeing a young girl standing there with Xenovia's blue hair but with his red eyes holding Durandal and another boy with blonde hair and emerald blue eyes holding Caliburn. As two names appear in his mind and he speaks them without a second thought.

"Nova, Dante."

The children in the glass look at him with smiles before closing their eyes.

"We forgive you."

Ian raises his eyebrows before he's suddenly forced out of the cave as it closes and all of the images inside flash through his mind suddenly a very briefly when he awakens falling to his knees still above Tokyo. He looks out into the distance as a baby is heard crying and Aiden is carrying a small child with his bright red hair and Enya's dark red eyes. Rei looks up into the sky just as Link steps out of one of the ships covered in oil and dust.

"Hey, Rei. Go get the others ready the ships done I'm gonna go clean up then we can start heading off."

Rei nods. "Yeah, sure."

Rei walks off leaving Link alone at the ship when a magic circle forms in front of him an image of Ember forms. He sighs. A moment later a large portal opens and from it Ian steps out of alone.

Aiden grins joining him. "Hey, Star!" The two share a lingering look. "You finally ready to go stomp this asshole?"

"I'm bringing back my sister. But I will not change anything that has happened over the last two years."

Aiden nods. "Yeah. Remember, no matter the cost."

AJ nods as two ladies walk into the room behind him Ryuko Motoi and Satsuki Kiryuin. AJ walks away as he and the two ladies follow him out of the room. Ian nods to Rei as he, Gamayu, Tomoko and Link board one ship as Link and Aiden board the other. Enya stays on the ground with her child cuddled up in her arms as Charlotte stands next to her with Crystal relaxing on the couch in the room they were in.

Ian looks out of the cockpit seeing Link piloting as he and Gamayu both take deep breaths neither knowing what to expect fully. As Tomoko sits in the back of the ship thinking about something. Gamayu doesn't say a word as she looks at the map on the ship when Ian joins her at the map.

"So explain the scope of our mission, Link."

"Right. Our objective is to find and get the assistance of one Sadao Uchiha. As well as any allies we can find."

"And what if they don't want to join us." Ian asks.

"I have an idea. And I need you and Tomoko." Link says looking back at them.

"What is it?"

Link shrugs. "We have Tomoko speak to her younger brother to try and convince Sadao to join us."

She nods agreeing. "Fine. I just hope Eijiro's okay." Link nods at her as they soar through space looking to find an ally with the power to help them defeat Zhor-En.

Rei Ferrari

Rei walks into the ship with Aiden walking into the cockpit as he begins to pilot the ship.

"Setting course for Remnant, everyone strap in, we're going full speed from the start."

Rei nods. "Understood." He sits down in the back of the vehicle as he grabs a small pendant from his pocket seeing a picture of the entirety of Team REDS & GRAY. Aiden presses a few buttons before saluting to Enya the duo strap in when they blast off. Into space headed to Remnant preparing for what could be the fight of their lives.

Ian

Ian looks out of the cockpit as they look down after hours of travel seeing a planet with many different forms of energy.

"You see the sensor?" Ian mutters.

"Yeah, we'll land here it shows a strong source of energy."

Sadao stands on the remnants of the world tree from the Fourth Great Ninja War when he notices a large metal device floats down when a group of people steps out.

"So this is the world of Ninja?" Ian mutters,

"Stay on guard Ian. You never know what to expect."

A young male with blue hair steps off the ship dressed like Konoha's Anbu when a black haired male steps off sword drawn followed by another older black-haired man, a small woman with blue horns protruding from her head, and a lady that looks eerily similar to his friend Eijiro Lockwood.

"We're looking for one Sadao Uchiha. He can help us. And hopefully, return everyone back to their original selves." Ian says.

"Yeah. Link, think you can handle yourself?" Ian asks.

"Yeah, watch your backs out there."

"Who are you? Are you here for Cadoa Aizu?"

"Cadoa Aizu? Who even is that?" Link asks.

"As far as I'm concerned he's a lunatic who helped cause the current events." Gamayu says.

"And you are?" Sadao activates his Sharingan.

"I'm Gamayu, this is Ian Star, Link Cole, and Tomoko Lockwood." Gamayu says.

"And I care why?"

"Because we need him to help us save the universe." Ian bluntly admits.

Sadao stares at them confused. "Universe?"

"Two years ago, did half of the people on this planet suddenly turn to ash?"

Sadao nods. "Yes, Why?"

"Because, the reason that happened, is because a person named Nzo Snw caused it. And we're looking to undo it. What do you say?"

"I say that if you want my help, you have to earn it,"

He says activating his Mangekyo Sharingan as he draws his sword. When Link gains a slight glare as Ian steps forward sword drawn and ready to fight.

"Now hold on. Before any fighting happens, I want to ask you Sasao Uchiha. Where is Eijiro?"

Sasao stops for a moment, his Susano'o freezing at its skeleton frame. "Why?"

"He's my little brother. Besides, don't think I don't know about you, Sadao Uchiha. What about Ju Ichi Ten, or Shiroi Gin?"

"Eijiro was dusted."

"No..." Tomoko mutters.

"If you can get past me. "

Tomoko leaps into the air already doing several handsigns. "Fire Style! Dancing Fire!"

Sadao watches as she launches a blast of flames towards him that begins twirling before he does a few hand seals. "Water Style! Two-headed water Dragon." From his mouth, he releases a large dragon made of water that spirals towards her attack when they collide and they cancel each other out. "Wind Style! Gale Palm!"

He launches a large gust of air causing the group to avoid as Ian raises a hand drawing his sword along with Link as Tomoko draws a small knife and the four prepare to engage Sadao as a group. He smirks dashing for Link who responds by blocking with his sword before dodging another attack and kicking at Sadao's side. The duo duel for a few seconds when Link jumps back and Ian trades in to the fight dueling with Sadao the pair on an even footing with each other as Ian counters Sadao's jutsu's with his magic their sword fighting on par with each other when Ian jumps above and over Sadao and kicks him in the back launching him towards a prepared Link who has an arrow ready to launch but doesn't when Tomoko steps in attempting to kick Sadao, but is blocked by a red skeleton structure to which he smirks as Sadao attempts to move when he looks at Link seeing him go to a knee.

"Finally. That took to long." Link mutters.

"Shadow Paralysis?" Sadao asks.

"Yeah, how do you know about it?" Link asks.

"The Nara clan of the hidden leaf village has the ability to control shadows."

"That's their specialized magic?"

"Magic?"

"Link, they don't have magic here." Ian says.

Sadao's gaze hardens as the red skeleton starts to transform breaking Link's hold of him. The group all stand on the tree trunk ready to battle when Sadao suddenly stops and turns seeing another male with black hair standing there with his own Sharingan.

Sadao glares at him. "What are you doing here?"

"I sensed you were in trouble." The man says his gaze focused on Link.

"It's fine I had this under control, Sasuke." Sasuke stands to the side letting them stare each other down. Sadao smirks deactivating his Susano'o and turning away towards the hidden leaf village. "Follow me."

Ian and the others glance at each other when Sasuke shrugs and follows after him as they jump away after leaving Ian and Link to follow along with Tomoko. They follow him until they reach a bunker hidden deep underground as he opens the door to reveal several people. A white-haired male, one of his eyes is hidden the other dark and small, another white-haired male wearing a beanie as well as a white-haired female who is sulking in a corner with a dark-haired female.

"Kakashi sensei."

Kakashi nods. "Yeah, Who are they?"

"Don't know Yet, but they said they needed me, so I brought them here."

Kakashi sighs. "Okay? Who are you?"

Ian steps forward. "I'm Ian Star. I'm from another world. As a matter of fact, two of us are. These two are Link Cole and Tomoko Lockwood. We came here to ask for help. Two Years ago we were attacked by a person named Zhor-En. He attacked in an attempt to gain control of four pendants. The Black Relic of Death, The Blue Relic of Time, The White Relic of Life and finally The Red Relic of Space. By the time he attacked our ally Grey Lightsworn, he had already gained the Relic of Life.

Sadao crosses his arms. "So that's what that was."

Link turns to Sadao. "You've seen it?"

Sadao nods. "Yes. Three years ago just after the Fourth Great Ninja War, a person named Cadoa Aizu came and said he was looking to summon the Ten-Tails and to extract a crystal from it. That tree stump you arrived and found me at. He found the crystal there. He slipped onto the same type of device you used to get here and it took off just before I killed him."

Gamayu stares at Sadao surprised. "You Killed Cadoa Aizu all by yourself?"

Sadao shrugs. "With some assistance from my allies, yes."

Ian nods as Gamayu stares on shocked. "In any case, he took the pendants of Death and Time from other individuals, Jake Nero and Link Cole killing Jake in the process. Then he headed to my planet. He glassed over a city then attacked my allies in a bid to gain Space that I was protecting. Ultimately he would beat us and use the four pendants to wipe away half of all life in the galaxy. We've found a way to reverse this... however, we need Sadao's help in finding the object that could fix this."

"Why mine?"

"You're an Eternal."

"A what?" Kakashi asks.

"A descendant of a Celestius like the Otsutsuki branch family."

"Otsutsuki?!" Sasuke steps forward.

"The Otsutsuki are a banished members of the Celestius' Royal family. The Otsukai. Celstrius' are born good people. The Otsutsuki followed a vengeful fallen crusader in Zhor-En. Descendants of Celestius' are known as Eternals, they're extremely rare, and Eternals who betray their Celestius forefathers are even rarer. Only an Eternal can act as a surrogate for usage of a relic without risking death."

Sadao nods. "That's fine, when do we start?"

"When we get allies. Other than you all, do you think you can gather an army?" Ian asks.

Kakashi sighs. "Many of the village's lost their best ninja, however the five Kage survived, I should be able to convince them to help in this."

Ian bows respectfully. "Thank you, sir."

"Of course, we will need help in convincing them one of you may have to stay to do so."

"I'll do it. Ian, you need to go to Remnant and find that relic. I have a question too, did a person arrive two years ago just after the event?"

"Yeah, he's being held in the prison. Had no way to verify him."

"Link will need him."

"He will?" Ian asks.

"I need to get to my earth, see who survived, you two can head for the last relic."

"Another Relic?" Sadao asks.

Link turns back to Sadao, their red eyes locking onto each other. "Yes. The Green relic of Order. The only one with the power to counter and reverse the effects of the other four. However, only a person with celestial magic can find a celestial object accurately. We believe that besides Zhor-En who is the wielder of the four greatest celestial powers the next strongest being of celestial energy, is Sadao Uchiha.

"So you believe that I'm the only one who can find the relic."

"The only one who can pinpoint its exact location. We've tracked the pendant to the world of Remnant, where my friend Rei is from.

"Okay. I'll go, but I'm taking a few friends with me." Sadao orders.

"That's fine. Who?" Ian asks.

"Shiroi, Jouji."

"Can't. I've got to get the hidden rain village ready for a fight like this." Jouji says.

"Okay." Shiroi stands.

"Sasuke can't, he's still recovering... Kakashi sensei needs to convince the other Five Kage... Okay. Kogane." Kogane nods as Sadao turns to Ian. "Go with Link."

Ian nods. "Alright then let's get going."

Aiden

Aiden steps into the back of the ship as Rei looks at the map of his world when Aiden join him.

"So where do we plan to land? Oh, how about over here this large desert area?" Aiden suggests.

"Vacuo? Maybe... but the readings say that the island of menagerie is the likely home of our little relic."

Aiden nods. "Alright then, we'll land there."

"Aim for the desert. Try not to be seen."

Aiden chuckles walking back t9 the controls. "That's the goal." The ship gives an alert as they notice the planet approaching at high speeds as Aiden jumps into the pilot's chair flipping switches. "Sit down, shut up and strap in. We're coming in hot."

Rei rush to his seat as Aiden takes control of the ship piloting it down culling the angle of their approach and slowing their speed rapidly until when they break the atmosphere as they come down from it and make their descent towards an island as Aiden and Rei lookout.

Aiden turns to his fellow red-head. "So what should we worry about?"

"More where should we land?" Rei says looking at the city of Menagerie. "There. M.A.R.I. who's left?" On his eye he sees the vital signs of each of his teammates as well as several of his friends. Dusk's shows he's alive, as does Erin's, Ren's, and Jaune's, however, any of the others show nothing. Rei sighs as he points to a large rock sticking out above the sand. When they approach their landing point they notice the ship starts to rumble.

"What is that?" Aiden asks.

Rei sighs. "Grimm. Their attracted to negative emotions."

Aiden hums. "This ships probably full of them."

The ship lands, the door opens slowly when Aiden who's standing there walks out seeing a large bird Grimm standing in front of him,

"Boom." He fires a blast from a long gun that he embeds with tons of fire magic causing the grim to explode into thousands of pieces.

Rei steps out shooting out many arrows killing Grimm left and right When gunshots ring out and the trio looks out into the distance seeing a male standing there with a grey button-up shirt and a red cape.

Aiden steps forward. "And who the hell are you?"

"I could be asking you the same."

Aiden sighs. 'Aiden Phoenix. I'm here looking for an object."

"What type of object?"

Aiden scoffs. "A green relic."

"And why look out here in this remote location?"

"Because this is where we tracked it here, Qrow." Rei says.

"Where have you been, Rei?"

"I don't have the time to answer. Aiden, let's go."

The two start walking away as the man gets in their way blade drawn causing Aiden and Rei to raise their own blades. When they turn back to their ship hearing the sensor going crazy Rei runs back in with the other two following behind.

"What happened?" Aiden

Rei sighs. "Oh no..." They look at the screen seeing a large amount of celestial magic appearing in the desert with them the trio glance at each other.

"What happened?"

Aiden lowers his head and walks out of the ship. "He's here..."

"Who?" Qrow asks.

"Two years." Rei says exiting the ship. "Aiden, Qrow, think we can find it before him?"

Aiden sighs. "We have to."

The group then nod at each other and begin traversing the desert as a group while looking for the pendant.

"So you're saying that Ian is off-world and needs all the survivors of that thing two years ago."

AJ nods. "Yes."

"Okay. I'll get the rest of the Devils to join as well."

AJ bows. "Thank you, Rias. Be warned though, not everyone will survive this fight."

"Of course. So where do we go?"

"To the location of this beacon. I have a few more places to go to. More allies to gain."

Rias nods along. "Yeah."

"So that's what happened to Akeno and Koneko?" Kiba says.

AJ nods to her as he activates a magic circle that Grey showed him as he teleports through to the base where he spots several people. Ryuko Motoi, Nonon Jakuzere, and Hoka Inumuta.

"So how'd meeting with those devils go for you?" Ryuko asks.

"It went well. I still have to meet with another set of devils."

Nonon readies her battle uniform. "What will we do?"

"Will we go after them?"

"We are to go as a team when the signal is given." AJ tells them.

Aiden

Aiden stands in a small cave as he enters in front of Rei with Qrow standing in the back.

"So, Qrow, how many people can you get to help us?"

"Without setting an entire kingdom on you all? Very few." Qrow answers.

Rei sighs. "That's fine. Go get them."

Aiden continues down the cave until he jumps back seeing the cave floor begin to collapse. "A passageway underneath an underground cave, whoever hid the pendant must really not have wanted anyone to find it."

Rei hums. "Yeah."

"I'm the only one of us who could survive a fall that large. At least without my wings."

"Even then it seems too deep. Even I can't see the bottom." Rei says.

"So we mark this spot, and wait for Ian to get here."

Rei marks the spot with MARI. "Yeah."

The group start walking out of the cave when an explosion rocks the ground making them hurry out of the cavern to which they find a large creature of Grimm laying dead as Zhor-En approaches the cave. When a large cloud of sand is kicked up followed by a massive fire when a ship lands in front of them dropping some people off before flying away.

"You're here quicker than I thought you'd be."

"Sorry we're late." Ian says landing next to Aiden. Ian and Sadao stand next to Rei, Aiden and Qrow.

"Sadao, Aiden, go find the relic."

"I'll guide you." Aiden turns.

Rei: readies an arrow. "I'll guard the entrance to the cave."

"So it'll be us two?" Ian asks.

"For now. He doesn't have the other four pendants." Rei notes.

"No, he does, but his glove is so messed up he can't seem to use them."

Rei nods. "Then we keep it that way."

The trio walks forward. Rei drawing an arrow properly, as Ian summons a sword of his own while Aiden draws Crossfire.

Sadao

Sadao enters the cave alone  walking along until he reaches the place of the collapsed cave.

"Well... I don't see an easy way down without wings." Sadao mutters. He jumps down the hole. Just as he starts to see the bottom Sadao activates his Sharingan creating a Susano'o around his body protecting him from the impact and marking it retreat when moving forward, he  continues walking as Sadao begins to sense a familiar energy he walks forward as he sees a small stone wall in front of him. "The path ends here. So where is it?" He closes his eyes and starts sensing for it. "Close. Extremely close."

"Why?" Zhor-En asks. Ian and the others don't respond as they stand in front of the angry Celstius. "Why try again after you failed the last time?"

Ian gets thrown back, however he rolls through the throw and lands on his feet. "That's how we are."

"Foolish."

"Stubborn. So long as there's a hope we can save everyone, I'll take the chance."

"And if you fail?!"

"I won't. Because too many people need me to succeed."

Zhor-En hums. "You have my respect... but just cause I respect you doesn't mean I'll let you stop me."

"Fine then. We'll stop you. No matter the cost." Ian runs forward as Zhor-En grabs a blade from his side countering Ian when Aiden jumps on top of Zhor-En attempting to stab down.

He's thrown off followed by Rei who kicks him in the stomach before attempting a slash of his own before being slammed into the ground as Ian attempts to kick him but Zhor-En uses Rei as a shield. Aiden attempts an attack but is batted away by Zhor-En when Ian goes for another attack but is blocked by Zhor-En!s sword, then beaten down before being grabbed in a chokehold and starts punching him he grabs him flinging him into the sand and punching him. Ian summons another sword but it is grabbed by Zhor-En who grabs it and attempts to stab Ian with it when an arrow embeds itself in Zhor-En'a left shoulder and explodes launching him away. Rei stands and charges Zhor-En the pair dueling for a few moments as Rei begins using his blood as a weapon using it to trip up Zhor-En before he gets countered and Zhor-En starts beating him down and throws him away as they feel a rumble from below as Sadao erupts from the ground below them.

"You know, when I did what I did, I did it hoping those who survived would be glad that they did... however now... I will destroy everything that stands between me and my family."

Ian notices the green pendant fall from Sadao's pants as he and Aiden grasp it at the same time when the entire planet rumbles and a green beam is fired into space before a red one appears behind Zhor-En. And when it stops a large army stands behind him when he realizes what Ian and Aiden had just done. Ian looks up from grabbing the pendant. Tired and exhausted. He looks around seeing Rei and the others on the floor struggling to stand as he walks forward standing alone against Enzo as he summons a single sword. He suddenly perks up feeling many magic circles forming behind him as out from them step Rias and her peerage, Sona and hers, Riser's, Grey starts to stand as his peerage including Link stand there Lily stands with Thomas, Jack, Duke, and Sky, as AJ appears with Ryuko, Satsuki, The Elite Four. Tomoko appears with Naruto and hundreds of Ninja, Kakashi, Jouji, Eijiro, Ju Ichi, Shiroi, Sasuke and many others. Those on the floor slowly stand as Dusk and Erin appear along with Rai, Yoel, Cindy, Glossy, and others. Rei stands by Ian and Aiden as they look forward to Zhor-En.

Ian chuckles. "This is for you Crystia. Avengers! ...assemble."

Aiden smirks shouting as everyone begins running into the battle doing their own fights when an explosion rocks the ground thanks to Anzu as Zhor-En looks around when an explosion goes off right behind him knocking him to his knees as the four pendants are launched to the ground putting Zhor-En into a panic.

"Where are they?" He looks around for the pendants until he looks up seeing four people standing above him as they are all holding pendants of their own. "So what will you do now, you succeeded in your mission."

Ian places the relic of life around his neck, Zhor-En sees a flash of Elag. "We finish this."
Aiden ties the relic of death to his pants. "Once and for all."
"No one else dies..." Rei says wearing the relic of space
"...but you." Link says holding the relic of time.

"Ian. Let's finish this quickly." Rei says.

"Rei, Link, Aiden and I will finish this. I'm not giving him the chance to regroup all four of the pendants."

Rei glances over before nodding as he and Link run off to join the large battle raging around them.

"So it'll just be us two?"

"Yeah. Rei, has space meaning he's the last one I'd want Zhor-En to get his hands on."

"And what do we do about this one?" Aiden says lifting the relic of order. Zhor-En eyes widen seeing it.

"Just wait. I'll hold it." Aiden tosses it to Ian who places it in his pocket. Scouring the entire battlefield he looks around seeing large creatures attacking both sides of the fight he snaps his fingers activating the pendant around his neck as they all morph and grow smaller easily being defeated as Zhor-En goes to attack him but is blocked by Aiden as Ian joins the fight the three now fighting on an equal footing pressing Zhor-En so badly that he shouts a few random phrases or so they thought when Aiden and Ian both look up seeing a giant ship hovering overhead start to rain down fire at the group as Aiden, and the rest of the magic users place barriers above while Sadao and his sister Anzu create a pair of Susano'o's Protecting their friends as Link underneath Gray's shield directs his palms at the ship creating blue magic rings around the ship causing to age and rust rapidly until it breaks apart the missiles deactivated along with it before it crashes into the desert as Zhor-En watches he turns around back towards the fight before gasping out in horror.

"I said no one else dies." Ian stares at Zhor-En.

Ian stands in front of him, his red eyes piercing deep into the cold gaze of Zhor-En. Who slowly falls back blood escaping from his lips while Ian looks down the fighting stops when Zhor-En falls dead. Ian stands with Aiden.

"So what now?" Aiden asks.

"We end this." Ian pulls out the pendant of Order as Crystia lands next to the pair along with Lily and Xenovia. Enya to the side of Aiden. "Lily, Crystia, Nova... I love you, I always will, forever."

Aiden with a tear looks to Enya. "Enya... I will forever love you."

The pair grasp the pendant as a green beam strikes the pair as Rei notices the pendant floating off separating from the necklace along with the pendant of time on Link's neck doing the same as they float up with Ian and Aiden who float into the sky along with the relics.

"What are you doing?!" Crystia shouts.

"I'm ensuring that no one else tries to use these to destroy your futures. This may be goodbye for now... but it won't be forever."

The green beam suddenly vanishes along with Ian and Aiden leaving everyone watching from the ground. Rei stands with Sky and Glossy as magic portals open sending everyone back to their homes with the exceptions of Sadao, Rei, Sky, Glossy, Duke, Qrow, Grey, Link, Ryuko AJ, Crystia, and Enya.

"They're gone?" Rei asks.

Crystia falls to her knees. "No..." Everyone turns to her as Xenovia stands with her.

"What do you mean?" AJ asks.

Xenovia smiles. "He left Crystia and I with a gift."

Lily's eyes widen. "He didn't...!"

Crystia smiles. "Yeah."

Everyone stands in a circle as they look around the reality of their success weighed down by the loses that came from it.

Enya sighs. "If I know Aiden, he would have said that he left the futures safety to us. He wouldn't want us to feel sad."

Rei looks around. "So what now?"

"We stay in contact with each other. We watch each other's back. We'll all have our own issues. But if something bigger or worse comes about, we stand united, we stand together and we win."

Crystia nods through tears. "Yeah. We'll miss them."

Rei crouches down next to her. "No ones ever truly gone. Not forever."

AJ nods. "Yeah." They look out into the sun as it begins to rise over the horizon.

End Chapter

Post Credits Scene

The sound of a baby crying is heard as a small child is seen in a crib with a plush sword and a plush dragon next to it. As another slightly older child with blonde hair smiles as he looks to his father and one of his older brothers as he plays with a toy sword. As a man with white hair watches over the two.

"A Phenex is reborn and you will be the Sword Master. Welcome home Ian, Aiden, live a good life and hope to reunite with those from your past even without remembering most of them." Einz walks away from where he watches the pair.

Post Credit Scene End.

Stories included in this crossover
1. Out of Time
2. Sword Master
3. Shock & Awe
4. Forgotten Phoenix
5. REDS of War
6. Jutsu Master