[Opening: Nujabes - Battlecry]

FusionFall Infinite

Season 3

Spiral Arc Finale

Chapter 24: Spun Out and Set Up

(Note: Takes place immediately after The Geist Within's "Cross Connection" chapter)

Maylene's ship barreled through space as she was breathing a sigh of relief. Seems her uncle Naruto pulled through. She woke up after a terse sleep to discover that one of the Amoral Aces was literally caught pants down and was being arrested by the Order. She snickered before breaking down laughing.

"Never thought I'd see the Order actually arrest a warper." Enid said surprised.

"The Amoral Aces are a high-profile criminal group. And considering Katsumi's got an axe, she's ensuring that Shinobu's locked up. She had to hand over Stinkmeaner and that mook to CN-Zen Kuro's US Government. Madame President has been wanting to book that old pain for a while now." Maylene said reading up on the news.

"So, how exactly is this good news?" Eclipsa asked.

"Simple. The Amoral Aces are not on our trail. Naruto's let me know that they got the spy to squeal. They weren't coming because of us, but had the spy met up…the cover we had would have been blown." Maylene said relieved. "So the Aces don't know dick…for now."

"Didn't they still steal the jewel from your allies?" Globgor reminded.

Maylene frowned and called Desmond up. Getting an answer, Desmond clearly looked he rolled out of bed, but he had actually been hard at work training.

"I'm sorry, but have we met?" Desmond asked.

"Maylene Shadows. I'm apart of Fusion Force. You're not familiar with our group, but we have a shared ally in Ryker Blackthorn." Maylene explained. "And considering everything, I only have a few words for you."

Before Desmond, she screamed, "You idiot! How could you let Joshinari get the goddamn drop on you?!"

Desmond rolled his eyes.

"Good, you didn't hang up on me, so I can actually explain myself. The Metsu Emerald they have…is a fake." Desmond said dryly. "Pinkamena helped to be make it…owe her a ton."

The anger in Maylene deflating instantly as Desmond admitted he would have gotten to the point when he had spoken to both Ryker and Saki.

"I would have told them, but they had to hang up. Something about the planet being attacked." Desmond said concerned.

"Maylene/Desmond, we got a problem!" Enid/Mura said.

Mura had rushed into the Desmond's room as both exclaimed Spinel was attacking the planet.

"Why? How?!" Maylene asked before her phone was ringing. "Desmond, thank you for your quick service. I need to take this call."

She hung up and answered the phone to hear her father sounding rather ragged.

"Father, are you all right?" Maylene pleaded.

"I am. Spinel's tried blasting the plant to space dust, but the shielding held up. Now she's on the planet throwing a damn tantrum. The woman dropped a five gallon bottle of cocoaine-infused Coca-Cola! She's…not well in the head. I think the losses drove her to the brink. Listen, don't come home until we can assure Spinel's dealt with and the Aces are far off your trail." Saki warned.

Maylene hastily explained what happened and the fake emerald.

"Well then, Ryker and I owe him an apology. We'll get to that…if we don't die. Look, go to his universe and stay there." Saki said with a sigh. "Right now, it's our safest option."

"Understood…father." Maylene said before he hung up on her. "Enid, take a course for that Evangelion universe of Desmond's. Eclipsa, check to see if there's a stocking of liquor on this ship. Globgor, please assure me it will all work out."

She slumped in her chair looking worried.

-o-

Himiko Toga returned to CN-Zen Kuro to an all-out shitshow as she could sense the clashing of powers over the States. She promptly hit the gas returning to the Hidden Ghetto Village. Her kage was not exactly happy to see her or anyone except his wife and daughter. Deandra giggled as she peacefully sat in Joshinari's lap.

"I'm sorry, my Kage, but they intercepted us. I managed to escape, but the other three were captured." Toga said with a bow.

"You did the right thing to escape. Had all of you had been captured, that would have been a bigger headache. In fact, I can take advantage of the chaos to at least get Stinkmeaner and my ninja back. You are to go with my wife to bust them out…as they are being transported to a prison on this planet." Joshinari said as Toga accepted.

"It would be an honor to work with Lord Dominator, sir." Toga said as Delia chuckled.

"Call me Delia, my dear. But what about Shinobu? She's being transferred elsewhere…" Delia said as Keitaro looked at him.

Joshinari simply called up Desmond who clearly looked annoyed to see him.

"I need your services." Joshinari said tersely.

"How about no?" Desmond said as Joshinari raised an eyebrow. "Consider you stole what was mine and screwed me over…I'm not in the mood for working for you."

"What do you want?" Joshinari asked to Desmond's surprise. "What do I have to give you for your help?"

"I want the Metsu Sol Emerald I found back delivered to me by Keitaro. Now I assume this has to do with Shinobu's arrest." Desmond mused as Joshinari snarled. "Thought so? You want me to save her from being sent to prison. I'll do it."

"I don't care how you do it, just have it done." Joshinari said before hanging up on him. "The bastard!"

"To be fair, you did say jacking him for the Emerald was a good idea." Delia said.

"I didn't expect it to come back and bite me in the ass! All because of those two fucking pink incels!" Joshinari said before backpedaling.

He did not exactly want to swear in front of Deandra. No need for her to pick those words up until eight or nine. He gently cradled her calming down. Right now, getting his teammate out was top priority. He tossed the yellow Metsu Sol Emerald to Keitaro.

"The moment Spinel's dead or dealt with, go to Desmond's and deliver this. Make sure he's alone so he doesn't try to put you in a body bag." Joshinari said.

"Actually, I should go with it. If anything, as a backup measure." Michiko said putting a hand on Keitaro's shoulder.

"Ok then, looks like I'll need a babysitter for Deandra." Joshinari said before calling for the best genin team.

"Question, what's an incel?" One of the ANBU asked.

-o-

[Downtown, The Core]

[Cues: Dragon Ball Z Supersonic Warriors 2 OST – Boss Battle 1]

"Honestly, Pink. This is all literally your fault for acting like an incel!" Steven said dodging energy blasts left and right.

"Seriously, what the hell is an incel?!" Pink screamed.

"Isn't that a term exclusive to men?" Amethyst said whipping a blast away to allow for civilains to flee.

"No, it was actually started by women much earlier as they were the first incel. Men were labled as those much later." Pearl said blasting away debris with an energy blast from her spear.

"The point this is Pink's fuck up." Ryker said trading blows with Spinel herself.

"Nice to see you all agree, but you and Pearl are just as guilty!" Spinel said slaming her fist into Ryker's ribs before throwing him into a building.

"Oh bullshit, we both called her out of her crap!" Pearl said only for Spinel to point out that Pink was never kicked off the team.

"And I never saw you bother to try to look for me!" Spinel said only to get double fisted into the ground.

"Remind me when this is over to strangle Pink!" Saki said before using his Omnitrix to use his Diamondhead transformation.

He made rain crystal shards as Spinel rolled out of way into being incinerated by Mandy using her Heatblast transformation. Spinel leapt out the flames grabbing Mandy and throwing her into Saki. Pink mana barrier caught them as Kevin punched her with a face full of stainless steel which she shrugged off.

"Steel, really?" Spinel said dryly.

"Force of hab-" WHAM! Kevin was sent flying into several cars.

Gwen pulled him out as other fighters were dealing the backup Spinel had brought in. Drones! Gourdian Squash Droids came in droves helping Spinel.

"Where the hell did Spinel get drones?!" Frankie said tearing one's arm off. "No seriously, I figured Spinel would be broke!"

"I had a friend who offered me a batallion!" Spinel said excitedly. "She even gave me a bucket full of coke and directions to this world to BURN IT!"

"She?!" Ryker said nearly freeze.

His mind ran mind a potential list of people but there only one notable she he could see benefiting from this…distraction.

"Ruby, Sapphire, cover me!" Ryker said flaring his ki. "I need to resecure Bayview."

"On it!" Ruby said punching the ground unleashing a wave of fire and molten asplhant after Spinel.

[Cues: Dragon Ball Z Attack of the Saiyans OST - Mount Five Element / Muscle Tower]

Sapphire froze the air around as Ryker took off like rocket flying for home while immediately calling up Jasper.

"Please tell me I can join the fight!" Jasper said nearly growl. "My lord, I'm ready to fight that puny gem."

"It's a distraction. Spinel's just a cheap tactic for snake to attack our nest. Is Garnet and Rai there with you?" Ryker asked as Jasper put it on speaker.

"We're here and we've managed to have the town on lockdown, what's going on?" Garnet asked concerned. "Wait, don't tell me…Rebecca."

"I knew it." Ryker said thanking Garnet's Future Vision for confirming it. "The bitch is probably planning to attack us to weaken our numbers or steal the Metsu Emeralds under our noses."

"Wait, don't you have the three on you?" Jasper said only for Garnet to point out he left them at home. "WHY?!"

"Those things are not something you want to carry on you, plus they were mucking up my BlackTab. I had to create a patch to handle three of them. Absorbing the energy of those things isn't exactly healthy." Ryker explained.

"Got it, I know where they are." Garnet said moving towards the bedroom. "Jasper, watch Rai."

Jasper hated babysitting duty, but she knew not to complain. Organics were still weird to her, especially on the matter of growth. Garnet went into their bedroom pulling out the lockbox from under the bed, a scan of her warper energy and it opened to show the green, white, and purple Metsu Emerald. She wasted no time absorbing them into her being, but it felt like eating a chilli pepper.

"No wonder Rebecca made them." Garnet muttered trying to keep a lid on the rush of power.

Her FV and her senses kicked him. Rebecca was in the neighboorhood, and Garnet sprang into action. She rushed down.

"Jasper, I know you're going to hate this order, but I need you to take Rai someplace where. Please, I'm trusting you to secure my son." Garnet said as Jasper nodded.

"I suppose you want me to grab Tsubasa and Julia as well." Jasper said as Garnet nodded. "Next time, I want to go out and fight."

Jasper secured Rai in a harness before going for a hatch to take the emergency exit out of the beach home as Garnet went out the front door. There in a crater was Turbo Mecha Rebecca herself. Evil Morty/Mortimer was already fighting Peridot, as Rebecca turned to face Garnet.

"Garnet Sto…I mean Blackthorn. I forgot you actually married into the family…with a son and all." TM Rebecca said wryly.

"Why did you help Spinel? Why are you even here?" Garnet asked knowing the answer already.

Garnet wanted to stall but Rebecca just laughed at off.

"I came to retrieve what's mine. I hate to admit it, but I need to get to the Master Metsu Emerald. That shitstain of a cousin of yours is going to doom the world with her production of Kōhai energy. Of course, I only want to save the multiverse so I can regain my grip on the multiverse and deal with that bitch of a sister in-law of yours. Now if you just hand it over, I won't kill you or your son." TM Rebeeca said as Garnet shook. "Yes, Rai was it? Shame if the first child dead."

"And for a warper, you're so cliché. I figured you'd learn never to threaten a mother's child." Garnet said sternly.

"I will threaten who I please. Not like you can handle my power…

[Cues: Steven Universe: Attack the Light OST - Boss Fight]

Rebecca did not finish her finished as Garnet rushed in gauntlet in hand embedded in Rebecca's stomach getting her to cough blood and oil.

"Ok, you've gotten stronger. I'll admit that…but this means nothing." Rebecca said ascending to her Super Saiyan form. "Nothing compared to the might of a Saiyan."

Rebecca leapt back before punching Garnet in her jaw before using a full power energy blast to hastily vaproize her leaving an explosion.

"Oi, Mortimer, how's green dorito doing?" Rebecca asked.

"An annoying pain in my ass." Mortimer said as he crossed swords with her. "I didn't expect them to be this stronger."

"Well allow me to assi…" Rebecca said before a firm hand grabbed her shoulder.

"If that's your excuse for an energy blast, you've gotten sloppy. Here's a refresher of a real one." Garnet said as Rebecca could feel the heat coming off Garnet's ki.

"Son of a…" Rebecca said before scream as the superheated blast sent her into hurdling into Mortimer.

"Ugh, Rebecca. Why are you even in your Super Saiyan form?" Mortimer said helping her up. "I thought you said your mechanical body couldn't handle the strain."

"Don't fret about me." Rebecca remarked.

Rebecca hated to admit it but using a Mecha based body was simply a bad idea for her. At least, the one she jacked simply had not mixed her energies well. It gave her the increased power, but not the body to handle it. Plus, she had to wait until her warper energy was fully stable to pull a bodyjacking again. She was hoping for Garnet not to be home, not dodging her punches and trading blows. Rebecca could have powered up further, but she did not want to risk her body failing. Something that Garnet was slowly realizing as she pummeled on Rebecca.

"Something wrong, Rebecca? I thought you Saiyans were the toughest in the multiverse. Rivaled by few." Garnet taunted. "I'm not even using all I got on you."

"Piss off, you hard light bitch!" Rebecca screamed decking Garnet in the jaw.

"Thank you, may I have another?" Garnet asked.

"Rebecca, we need to retreat! I sense Ryker, and he's coming in fast!" Mortimer said shoving Peridot off of him.

"Damn it! But Spinel's still rampaging through the city, and I programmed those droids to…GAHHH!" Rebecca said before Garnet chopped her throat.

Rebecca was painfully spun around only to see Garnet's outstretched hand flaring with Metsu Energy.

"So about threatening my son? Here's my response!" Garnet said. "Metsu Wind!"

Rebecca could only raise a pitiful defense before being hit with the Metsu-empowered blast as she screamed from the pain of her body being heavily wounded by it. Rebecca coughed up before looking at her body as she struggled to stand. She could not maintain her transformation and she was in no state to fight, add Ryker landing clearly livid.

"Well this…is bad. I'm pretty sure I'm outright fucked. But if you let me go, I'll tell you who really sent the droids after you. I only had pointed Spinel towards those two brats who ruined her kingdom." Rebecca pleaded. "It was Gendo Ikari! He wanted to get his hands on the Shinji of this world for something. They just asked me to give Spinel the tip and the bots."

Mortimer knew what he had to do and activated the emerengy trigger. Ryker and Garnet had blasted Rebeeca seemingly killing her. Mortimer promptly made his escape pulling the oldest trick in the book.

"My eyes!/I should have worn my shades!/Why did I even forget my visor?!" The three complained as Morty flew off into distance.

Lapis, who was dealing with droids, would have gone after him, but had to help Jasper and Tsubasa fend one off.

Back at the core, the droids were growing to be less of a problem with more recinforcements arriving. Providence and the Plumbers backing up the winded KND, Police, and Fusion Force. Spinel, however….

"Why wouldn't she just stand still?!" Rex said in absolute furstation over Spinel dancing around his attacks. "Ben, I change my mind! Upgrade Suit me, please!"

"I don't think so! Magical Nulcear Ocelot Pulse!" Spinel said her wand glowed bright pink.

She slammed it into the ground tearing the streets up and sending those standing to the ground reeling from the shockwaves.

[Cues: Dragon Ball Z Attack of the Saiyans OST - Spinach Wastes / Yunzabit Heights / East City (Destroyed)]

"As fun as this is, I need to find a new planet to start my kingdom up and new slaves. I'd use this place, but the city's damages and there's corpses all over." Spinel said twitching. "So, I'll have nuke the planet from here. Any last words?"

"I have some. Pink, this is all your fault and I hope she tortures you first!" Mandy said holding her broken ankle.

"Oh, like you're some saint!" Pink said as blood poured down her head. "Seriously! I get I was a total ass, but no one's giving me a break. Hell, Ryker has part of the blame too."

"Literally, this is all your fault. If I recall, Ryker's only sin was giving an unstable world awareness. You lied about everything and when our universe fell apart, you left me to die!" Spinel screamed as everyone was glaring at Pink.

"And people complain about the people I hang around and marry."

Everyone looked up to see Joshinari floating down on the ground emitting a dark presence while rocking the Kage robes with the hat.

"The Ghettokage graces us with our presence." Bubbles said pushing rubble off of her. "What do you want, Joshinari?"

"To deal with this mess in front of me. I see that while you've injured her. She's shrugging off the pain like a wild animal." Joshinari said as he called upon the power of the Metsu Sol Emeralds. "I only have three, but that's enough."

"Do you really think you can stand above me?" Spinel said slurring her words. "What's happennn…."

[Cues: Shikabane Hime ~ Kuro - Original Soundtrack – Tragic End]

"Seems the cocoaine is wearing off, but what I'm seeing you're crashing hard." Joshinari said powering down. "I may not even need the Metsu Sol Emeralds for this."

"No, power back up, I'll kick your…" Spinel said as Joshinari caught her punch before slamming her head onto the concrete.

"Seems your cocaine was laced too." Joshinari said coldly. "Seems from the way your warper energy is scrambling to save itself, I'd say whoever gave you that cocaine expected you to die a blaze of coked out madness. Probably a distraction for an internal attack. Seeing that my cousin isn't here, he probably realized it. I'd ask who gave it to you, but I don't really care to know."

Spinel raised her wand trying to fire a spell only for him to slap it out of her hands. She struggled to her feet pathetically throwing punches that barely put marks on him.

[Cues: Shikabane Hime ~ Kuro - Original Soundtrack – En Toiu Kizuna]

In turn, Joshinari kneed her in her stomach before serving an uppercut to get her airborne. He used telekinesis to paralyze her and forced her into the dirt.

"So much horror, I can inflict. So many choices, too little time. But I think I'll try something new." Joshinari said producing the green Metsu Sol Emerald. "Something to take your mind off the pain."

"Sadist, much?" Shinji protested only for a Death Beam to hit near his feet.

"Well if anyone here opposes here, come and get me." Joshinari said as the masses could only grit their teeth. "Besides, are you really going to defend this trash under my feet? The worthless toy that my, oh so 'heroic' cousin and his pink playmate couldn't be bothered to save. This troublemaker…"

"Ugh, just torture the pink piece of shit already. Some of us have things to do!" A civilian said trapped under a car. "And something get this car off of me!"

Bubbles was glaring at the civilian the whole time as she got the car off the 'innocent'.

Joshinari sighed as he channeled the gem's power.

"Metsu Sol Art: Waning Wax" Joshinari said calmly.

"Well, that's a stupid att-"

Kevin ate those words as a green wax-like substance seeped off the gem splattering on Spinel's face causing her to scream and howl in pain as the wax burned beyond her physical form…and hit at the core. And given this was a planet full of warpers, they all could sense the pain. Her warper flames flickered and sputtered trying to cushion the damage, but the laced cocoaine had made that process…near impossible.

"I take it back!" Kevin said horrified as Gwen was wincing.

"But I'm not done yet. My swan song still goes o…." Joshinari said as the gem was shot out of his hand.

[Music Ends]

The music stopped, the air went still, as Joshinari asked who dared to do that as the gem clattered on the ground. The source? Mrs. Merch, herself. The woman formerly known as Beth Smith.

"Joshinari. I see you're busy being emo and venting your issues out again. You're acting too much like your old man." Merch said gracefully arriving with Morty and Bonnie in tow.

[Cues: FLCL OST – Come Down (Instrumental)]

"Don't compare me to my old man, Rick." Joshinari said coldly walking over to reclaim the Metsu Sol Emerald.

A foot came down on it as Joshinari glared up at the newcomer to the field.

"I don't know who you are, but you're asking to die!" Joshinari said before drawing Tainted Wrath only to clash with a guitar. "What?!"

"I'm sorry, it's been so long. I was mentioned, hyped up, and built up. Well, here I was! Here's Yoshinari, you guys! The Ganiax God of Fusion Force has arrived!" Yoshinari said gregariously.

"So, this is the other tenth rank asshole to live here. I guess he really does look like Jinyu." Saki thought.

Yoshinari had bore a similar shade to the character in question with sharp brown eyes with hint of blue. His hair was an onyx black hair that when down to his shoulder with fringe over one of his eyes and a wolf's tail. His clothing choice enjoyed the 2000s with a light purple leather jacket, black hoodie with his insignia on the center, dark blue jeans with a chain belt, high-tops, a white scarf, and salmon pink fingerless gloves.

"Ugh, what did you raid Jamie's closet with all this shit?" Joshinari said disgusted.

"Hey! What's wrong with my style?" Jamie asked.

Joshinari simply hurled an energy sphere to silence him only for it to get swatted aside by Haruko.

"What's up, bitches?!" Haruko said making her landing.

"Where the hell were you two? And what's took you?" Saki demanded.

Before Saki could get an answer, Joshinari demanded back the emerald. Yoshinari took it up in hand.

"You want it? Well then…Metsu Warp." Yoshinari said before making the emerald vanish in front of everyone. "Go find it, asshole!"

[Music Ends]

The villainous Blackthorn had the rocker by his throat, but he was laughed off.

"You're wasting time when you could be looking for that jewel of power. Trying and failing to kill me won't help!" Yoshinari snarked.

"I will decdicate all of my time to making you su-" Joshinari said as his phone rang. "I need to take this."

Yoshinari was released as Joshinari answered his phone.

"Ok, it's been done. Good. We have a new complication…and I need all of my men on it. Tell Keitaro to prepare to leave the planet once it's all done." Joshinari said before hanging up. "Well then, you get to live another day, Tadashi. But you'll regret crossing me."

Joshinari took off but not before channeling the other two emeralds to trigger the wax to explode having Spinel pop like a zit splattering blood, cocoaine, and shards of gem all over the walls with bits of warper flames peppering the ground. He left leaving nothing but a mess and a lot of property damage. Damage that Madame President was going to be furious over.

"Well, looks like my work's done." Yoshinari said as he and Haruko summoned their Vespas. "We should all go…it is the job of the government to clean this shit up."

Ben, Bubbles, and Rex looked at each other in realization and horror. The president was going to make them clean it up.

"Uh…I think I see more droids!" The three said scrambling away from the explosion to fight more droids.

Fusion Force and the Crystal Squadron had both left as well. By nightfall, most of the droids were found, but a few still lingered laying in wait directionless.

-o-

Maylene had safely made to Desmond's universe of operations relatively safe. However, there was the matter of finding a decent place to land.

"This is bullshit!" Maylene said flying around. "I can't find a decent place to park the ship! Considering giant monsters bulldoze the place, I have to park this thing in the woods!"

"Just make sure you're not detected. If I recall, Gendo's a warper." Enid said as Maylene found a spot in the woods. "And Globgor is going to need a human disguise or he can stay on the ship with Meteora."

"I'll opt for the disguise." Globgor remarked with wry grin. "I saw Maylene go into that mutation place in that ninja verse. Figured I'd get something for myself."

Globgor triggered the seal taking on a more human appearance with only oddity being the horn and the tail. He still towered over the others.

"Huh, you look a lot like Qrow…" Maylene thought.

"Well, let's go find Desmond. He should be easy to sense out." Maylene said getting out the red Metsu Sol Emerald. "And just in case!"

She took a breath and absorbed the emerald. Her warper flames flickered and her eyes gained a reddish tint.

"How do you feel?" Eclipsa asked.

"Like I literally got an expansion pack to my warper energy. It's taking all of my focus to not let the power slip though." Maylene said getting out of her capsule for her Corvette. "Come on, grab your things. We need to go."

They all piled out of the ship before Maylene returned it to capsule form before sending out her car. Enid took the front seat while the rest took the back as Maylene got in the driver's turning it on. The radio came to life and played music fitting for the world.

[Cues: j^p^n – theme. evangelion]

Maylene sped for Tokyo-3 just hoping she could keep a lid on her new powers.

(A/N: There you go, the end of Season 3! Joshinari's down two Emeralds, Maylene is getting her first taste of Metsu Enegry, and Yoshinari finally made an appearance. DSX has been a major help in the direction of the story. For now, FFI is going on a bit of a break for a while.)