The Orb of Time

Part IV - Reclaim

by LDEJRuff

Chapter 1 - Recap

"Save the world, you say?" Bertram repeated. The final battle between Stewie and Bertram was about to begin inside the Griffin house. "Well, if you and your canine friends want to save the world as much as you'd like to save your timeline, then we're going to let this battle begin. Shall we?"

"Bring it on, Bert," Stewie replied.

"Oh, boy," Lois began, "here we go. A battle between brothers. And I'm surprised that Bertram's even related to us. How'd this all begin, anyway? And how come both Todd and New Brian are back from the dead?"

"Well, Lois," Steve began, "let me, Steve Cummings, elucidate."

"By the way, whose dog are you?" asked Peter.

Steve replied, "I belong to a middle-aged man named Larry, and he's your fourth-wall predecessor. He currently lives with his wife, Lois, and son, Milton. 'Milt' for short."

"Fourth-wall predecessor?" Peter repeated. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Vinny answered, "it means that it happened before Seth managed to work on Family Guy."

"Thanks, Vinny," Steve congratulated. "You see, in one of the pilot episodes, he bought me at an animal shelter. I was about to be put down. Nobody but Larry was able to understand me. Even though he has like the I.Q. of a newborn baby, and he may be an idiot, he's still a good friend, just like you are to Brian, whose fourth-wall predecessor I am."

"So, what you're saying is," Peter began, "Seth worked on two shorts before he worked on Family Guy?" Two-second pause. "Sounds cool."

"Yeah," Steve nodded, "it was when he was in his early twenties."

"I appreciate the lecture, boys," Lois began, "but right now, we need to focus on what the hell is going on between both Stewie and Bertram."

"Well," Todd responded, "since I was dead before, let me give some info."

"Okay, Todd," Meg replied, "give us the info, please."

"Very well..."

You see, Bertram stole the Orb of Time from Heaven, thus resulting in what's going on right now. He rewrote history to a time where Brian then became Leo's dog after Vinny, New Brian decided to stay as your dog before he died five seasons later, and Brian once again decided to become your dog upon finding out about New Brian's death.

Stewie awoke from whatever the heck universe he came from and wanted to know what was going on here. So, Brian took him to see Leo and Vinny at their tiny apartment. After the visit to the apartment was over, Stewie then wanted to see the small cottage Scott lives in. It was there that Bertram revealed his plan to Brian, Stewie and Scott. After Bertram left, Vinny, who had his memories awakened by Death, decided to visit the cottage as well. Death then awakened both Brian and Scott's memories before he went to Jasper's apartment in LA to awaken his.

Stewie then decided it was time to retrieve the Orb and save time, but not without some canine reinforcements. That's why he decided to revive both me and New Brian. That ray gun Stewie used to revive us is no toy. It's a device Stewie invented to bring back any molecules that have already died.

Before, during and after we all took a lunch break at the Founding Father, we shared stories of what had happened in this universe. After lunch, we decided to stop at the dog park for me to share my story. Afterwards, Steve appeared, and we decided for him to join us in stopping Bertram.

When we all got to the bedroom, Bertram had seized Stewie's Multiverse remote, having control of time, space and reality. With it, he sucked us all into different universes and times.

Both Brian and Stewie got the Multiverse remote from whatever universe they wound up in and decided to have us all regroup, come back to this universe, defeat Bertram, retrieve the Orb and save the timeline.

"And that's the whole story, Griffins," Todd finished.

Lois was at a loss for words. Afterwards, she responded, "You guys went through all the trouble so you can get back a magical orb from Heaven and give it back?"

"Yes, Lois," Todd replied.

"Imagine, my baby, a hero," Lois wondered. "And now, it's finally happening."

"Yeah, I'm all into orbs and heaven and all that, but right now we need to watch the fight between my two baby boys!" Peter shouted.

"Peter!" Lois shouted back.

Peter replied, "Oh, sorry."

Back to both Stewie and Bertram.

"Want to settle this in the manner of the chicken fights the fat man always has with Ernie?" Stewie requested.

"Gladly," Bertram replied.

"Fine," Stewie agreed. "Let's finish this."

The battle had begun...