About 30 seconds after Cirka had survived who he could only assume was Okuu's attack, his relaxing was cut short by a bonk on the head. He glanced up to see that pink monster from before who had stolen his sword. The nerve of this thing! Hitting him and taking his things! He would beat the cuteness out of her! If he felt like moving at all, which he didn't...

He sighed and pulled himself up a little, leaning on a block of ice he had constructed for support. She had asked him what was going on? Not before scolding him, though. "Eye totally know what's going on. One a' you guys' evil or something. Eye'm sure of it." The mystical youth said with both an exhaustion, and a sense of conviction. He was pretty sure he was supposed to fight someone. Even if he wasn't supposed to, that wouldn't stop him, but it'd be nice if goals lined up.

Cirka took a cursory glance around just to see what was what at the moment. Nero was still kicking luckily, groaning and moaning. Jack, (or, was he the mayor?) had taken off the ring, simply holding it for now. Some other people were talking, too. A weird girl to the side, just standing around doing nothing. And Chickenman, who was lying down. Also maybe dead? Suddenly, a bright flash had interrupted Cirka's train of thought.

"Oh my. I leave for five minutes, and you've managed to do all this?"

A short man, couldn't be more than four feet, had just appeared. Dressed in a labcoat and odd squiggly glasses, he gave off that 'quirky smart guy' vibe. A small badge with 'Hello, my name is; Eddy' was clipped to his coat. The boy silently wondered to himself if that was who he had to beat up, but he didn't want another bonk from the blob, and it still had not given him his sword back. So, he stood still as the professor-looking man gave his speech.

"Hm. Has Alton lost his life?" The nerd asked, pointing his finger to the fried chicken. He didn't wait for an answer to continue speaking. "In that case, you'll fill him in later. I, am Eddy Gadd, one of the first people to enter here. The multiverse. By magic and coincidence far out of my reach, you ten have been chosen to lead the charge against an evil villain by my program. The villain is named Eden, and it holds the power to corrupt, destroy, and reshape the multiverse. I ask you ten's help in stopping it. Or, moreso, I shanghai you into doing it. With Eden on the loose like this, him or one of his cronies will surely destroy you on the way out if you attempt to leave. My deepest apologies for that." He paused for a moment, a sincere expression on his face. "So, do you accept?"

Cirka grinned and shook his head, while simultaneously turning it to the puff. "Told you Eye had to beat someone up!" He shouted with glee. "Eye'm down!" He exclaimed to the important looking man.

As Dan was still struggling with the matter of the ring, he didn't notice the appearance of the newcomer until he spoke. "Oh my. I leave for five minutes, and you've managed to do all this?" Looking in the direction of the voice he saw Eddy and was disappointed by what he saw, since the man's greeting made him at least in Dan's ears sound like an authority figure; IE someone he would probably try to usurp eventually.

The only reason he listened to Eddy's spiel was to take his mind of the anger he still felt. "To be honest this Eden sounds like it has a lot in common with the worsts parts of my current personality which I've already shown to not be fully in control of. But as long as I get to stab people and none orders me around I'm in." That said Dan noticed he was already making plans to betray the group if he got a better offer, something he was not happy with but decided to keep secret.

When the fairy said that he thought one of them was evil and bonked him on the head again. "Stop that! You don't know who's evil and who isn't. Don't make me have to eat you." Cia said with her pouty face. She really would eat him if she had to. She had noticed that the chicken face man looked pretty much dead. She knew there was nothing she do to help him though as Kirby never had any healing abilities other than to eat food and then regurgitate it into the others mouth, and she wasn't willing to try that out as even she found it disgusting.

When Eddy appeared Cia looked up at him with almost a dumbfounded look. He explained that they were there to stop something called Eden. "What do you mean by 'My Program'?" Cia asked looking over at Eddy. "And is it possible for us to even return home?" Cia added wanting to know if they could go home, though honestly she wasn't sure if she even wanted to go him.

Kirby had thanked Negi for catching her, he gave a smile to her and then looked up towards the aftermath of the battle. There was one noticable difference and that was the man in the chicken mask was laid out flat on the floor. Negi could not really tell whether or not the man was dead be he felt he had to do something seeing as he had healing magic. Negi walked over to the chicken man and stood over him, thrusting out the hand that held his staff over the man's body.「Ras tel Ma Scir Magister...Tui Gratia Jovis Gratia Sit Cura.」A mellow yellow light engulfed the man on the floor as a magic circle appeared below him. Little balls of light entered into the mans body, curing him little by little. Seeing as the spell Negi was using was not a high leveled one he would only be able to heal the man partially but it was better than nothing. Once the spell was done, Negi lowered his staff and did a quick inspection of the man before letting the unfamiliar voice catch his attention.

Upon turning towards the voice he was pretty much informed of the situation at hand, the ten people that were in this room were charged with the task of destroying a rogue creation, that went by the name of Eden. Negi titled his head in confusion but slowly continued to follow, at the end everyone was asked whether or not they accepted.

Negi scratched the back of his head and looked around.「I mean do we really have a choice in the matter? Considering none of us even know how to get back to our homes...」He closed his eyes and with reluctance opened his mouth again.「I am accepting.」He said as he raised his hand half heartedly.

After the Kirby started bonking fairy-boy with the sword, he began to start coughing up his brief explanation in a thick accent: "Eye totally know what's going on. One a' you guys' evil or something. Eye'm sure of it."

"Yeah, uh-huh," Alexander replied with hints of sarcasm and cynicism, pulling himself up to a sitting position proper to lean on the Red Queen some. "Let's suppose you're right. Did you ever consider the idea that you could be the evil one?" He tossed out the idea, still a bit sour about the whole combat that the fairy started.

And then, suddenly, some other guy appeared. He sounded awfully coy and quirky, something that fit his short stature and squiggly 'mad scientist' glasses... wait. Eddy Gadd? That same scientist from Mario? Oh boy, this just kept getting batter and better, didn't it?

In any case, it seemed that all of these people's being dragged into this world was deliberate in that this 'Eden' entity desperately needed forces to stop it, but also random in that apparently Gadd had no way of actually controlling who got pulled in. Well, this was great, wasn't it? Get a couple of confused half-wits instead of willing fighters, why not? And yet still, Gadd had the politeness to ask if Alexander and these others accepted this new responsibility, even when he already admitted to having shanghaied them into this.

"Staff kid has a point," Alexander followed up to Negi's comment. "We're already here, and you've already admitted to dragging us into this. If we say no, you'll send us home - right?" A pause, and before E. Gadd could respond, Alexander pulled on his sword to stand up. "But then, this all would've been a great waste of time, wouldn't it? And being who I am right now-" he gestured to his form of Nero, "Who would I be to refuse a challenge?

"This Eden thing... It won't know what hit 'em!" The young man cried out, brandishing Red Queen in a display of readiness.

After the spell was cast, Leander didn't really feel any different. "Hello?" Leander said, his words coming out as plain English now, but the text bubble still appeared, displaying whatever he said. Oh well, at least he spoke English again. "Yes! Thank you!" Now that was a problem fixed, Leander turned to look at the result of the carnage. It was pretty much what Leander expected: everyone injured and/ot out for the count. One of them even looked, well, dead. Negi was attempting to heal the dead one, so that left the rest for him.

Leander went into the center of the group, then conjured up 5 Heal elements and casted a shockwave healing spell, the wave of healing magic spreading away from Leander and into everyone else within the blast radius. Everyone's wounds healed at a greatly accelerated rate, and more or less disappeared. After the healing was complete, Leander then noticed the short man with the glasses, which he was sure wasn't there before. It seemed like this man was explaining what was going on, so Leander chose to listen. After all, it was very valuable information.

Destroying this "Eden" thing was apparently their task. A rogue creation... but something still felt amiss. Leander couldn't put his finger on it, but he still felt it nonetheless. Leander asked the man, "Why us? Why did you choose us for this task? We weren't even aware all of this existed before we were brought here. Surely you must have had others who could have helped you. After all, I highly doubt a single person could have created this "Eden" thing without any help."

Under his breath, Cirka mumbled thought's spurred on by the douche-y quarter demon's comment. He was, like, 90% sure he wasn't the evil one. "Eye mean, Eye'm me, right? Eye'd know if Eye was evil... Or maybe I was brainwashed? Damn youkai..." He muttered. That was, before he got hit on the head again by that damn thing. The pink one. He huffed in annoyance and cursed at it silently before listening to it scold him again.

"Stop that! You don't know who's evil and who isn't. Don't make me have to eat you."

He huffed again and turned his head from her. He couldn't really think of a comeback of any kind, but he wanted it to know he was displeased. Could he really tell who was evil? Hm. He wondered where Okuu went, and why she had shot at him. Sure, they had fought once or twice before, but Cirka was pretty sure whatever sun bullcrap she pulled was against spell card rules. What a dick.

Because of a sound distinctly like someone clearing their throat, the foolish young man swung his head in the important looking man's direction. Apparently there were some questions being asked that Cirka had missed because he hadn't been paying attention. The boy, continuing to not pay attention, went to go grab his sword, which had been spit out a few meters west. Science man began to talk.

"Ah, so, your questions and concerns. Firstly, 'My Program' is the executable file you had downloaded last night. It has, for lack of a better term, sucked you into this place. To get out, we'll have to export you back into the real world. Unfortunately, we have neither the time for that, nor the resources to protect you while you reach Underground Station Beta. Though, once this is all over, you should have no problem exiting as you wish." He paused for dramatic effect. Also so the author could space all this text out a little better.

"As for our question, Leander, I didn't chose you specifically per say. Who exactly is chosen is the purview of Jin Tsung's magic. He... passed away, along with many others." He managed to say, crestfallen. But, he quickly returned to normal, and even grinned a little. "So I believe the spell may no longer be picking the best and brightest, Ahoho, but I'm sure you will all do fine. I've even created a program to bring you back here to rest up, if your wireframe form ever dies. That is to say, the physical you. As physical as we can get inside a computer, anyways. Just make sure your code doesn't get damaged. It is the very essence of your being, and I am afraid that if you sustain to much..." He stopped talking.

"I'm sure it will be fine. All of you would you please mind stepping into this portal?" He asked, before an eerie inky black doorway appeared to his right. "There will be two informed, but new, operatives there when you arrive." He explained. With that, he began walking off. "Oh, I almost forgot! Nicholas, would you please come with me?" With a shrug from the mechanic girl, the two walked off.

Cirka returned to the scene after thoroughly inspecting the sword. It hadn't a scratch on it, seemingly. He guessed it was magic or something, since he was sure the wood had splintered sometime earlier. Once he made his way back to where everybody was, he was surprised to see the team down two members. Ah well, doesn't matter, the evil thing was surely in that blackhole! No screaming this time, surprisingly, just a big glee-filled grin as he went straight through the Dimensional Door.

Cia looked at the fairy as she gave a sigh. She then looked to the others. "I Guess we don't have a choice then, but we should try to introduce our selves anyways." Cia said as she started to walk towards the portal. "I am Cia! My character for any of you who can't tell by now, is Kirby." Cia said with a smile as she waited in the portal for the others. While she was trying to be careful the truth was that she was extremely excited to get this started. She wondered what world they would go to. Maybe it would be somewhere that they had to fight Godzilla, or maybe the Marvel universe, even the DC universe would be cool. Though the best world of all to her would be Candyland, from the board game. She just stood there in the portal salivating as she thought of them all going to CandyLand. It would have been delicious.

Entity "Alton_Clef" terminated.
Attempting revival sequence...
Restoring latest backup...Done
Loading "Alton_Clef" archived memory banks...Done
huh?
Pinging entity "Alton_Clef"...Done
Alton couldn't feel anything. It was a sensation he hadn't felt ever before, this complete lack of anything. No sight, no sound, no touch, yet somehow, he was aware that something that felt like a silent voice was trying to get his attention. Alton would have felt nauseous at this surreal experience, if only he could feel much at all. He felt like he was in a dream; he lost his ability to move himself, but felt like he was being guided by something mysterious to carry this strange story forward.
Waiting for response...
'Who is there?' Alton found himself saying, or was he only thinking it out loud? Alton couldn't tell.
Entity response received. Loading shell...
Suddenly, Alton could see. He couldn't see anything, but he was sure he could actually see. Before his eyes, a pair of shoes materialized in front of him, which grew into a pair of ankles, and soon it was a pair of legs, with the bottom of a letterman jacket quickly following suit. Alton felt strange. The word "jacket" bounced around in his head, but didn't quite made a meaningful connection to anything. 'What is jacket?' Alton thought, still somewhat out of his mind.
Shell complete. Loading shell AI "Jacket"...Done
And then, something clicked. The man in front of him, he was Jacket, that guy from Hotline Miami. Why is he in this dream? Maybe Alton was playing too many video games before bed. Wow. Up close without all the pixels and flashy lights, Jacket looks horrible. Alton could feel a malevolent energy coursing through Jacket's body, just waiting to be set off.
Uploading "Alton_Clef" latest memory banks...Done.
"Wait a sec." Alton's memory finally started to kick in. He was Jacket. There were others. There was a wolf, and a fairy, and a guy with a gun, there were...10 of them? Alton strained his mind as memories started to resurface. The fight, the gunshot, the mind-switch, the bomb, "Holy crap the bomb. It killed me, killed us. Am I dead? Is this purgatory? Where are the others?" Alton looked around, as if the void held the answers to his questions. He did notice, however, that he had gotten some senses back. He could hear, he could feel his fingers again, and his vision was- NO!
Finalizing reconstruction. Preparing reinsertion.
Alton could see again, but only through the circular holes of a rooster mask. He looked down and was greeted by his hands covered by a pair of yellow jacket sleeves.
Reinserting in 10.
"No! Please! Don't put me in this body! Give me anything else, but not this!
Reinserting in 5.
"Please, I'm4.begging you! Whoever3.you are! Let me2.change this character!1.I don't want to go bReinserting...

...Done.

Alton refused to get up. He was in the phase of regaining consciousness, but was adamant to force himself back to that wonderful darkness that is anywhere but here.

As the fairy muttered something about not being Dan believed he had finally figured out what his problem was. "You think I'm evil don't you? Well at the moment I'm not sure I disagree, I did fuse with a nasty piece of work and it does seem to affect me in negative ways. In fact part of me is already making plans to betray you."

The Kirby then proceeded to introduce it/herself as Cia which frankly was a good idea. Anyway enough melodrama for now, my name is Danny, though at the moment Dan Noir or just Dan seems to fit better." After saying that he headed to the portal putting the ring before entering it. Sure he still didn't fully trust himself but if they ended up somewhere dangerous he might not get the change to change into his more powerful form, especially not since while unpowered Jack was more of an assassin than a fighter.

This. Was. Awesome.

Being inside of a video game. What could be better? Abso-fuckin-lutely nothing. Hell, she was even a robot queen! Hell yeah! She hadn't played Elsword in ages when she had chosen this character, but Eve had always been her favorite. She had simply chosen the Nasod on a whim. She thought it was gonna be just some joke game or something, but well, here she was. Inside Splatoon. As Eve. Her nerd senses were going off the charts. Even if this felt like some lame crossover, she couldn't deny it was awesome.

Unfortunately, her new robotic body seemed to disagree with her enthusiasm. Eve wasn't exactly the most expressive of beings - at least from what she knew anyways. At least she didn't chose the Battle Seraph - she would have probably lost all of them. Well, whatever. Robots! Lasers! And Guns! Mostly robots and Guns. Oh, and Inklings. She had yet to play Splatoon, so the world was a bit unfamiliar to her, but it was still awesome. The inklings were pretty cool too.

She was currently sitting on a black throne - the Inklings didn't seem to mind it so much. In fact, they didn't find her odd at all. Which she found odd. But eh, she had already had everything explained to her by some computer AI or something. Ah well. Whatever. Apparently she was waiting on some other guys to get here. Well, whatever just had more time for her to nerd out here and just get up to general mischief. She'd just sit here on this little throne and wait for the others to arrive. She hoped they were cool people and didn't chose some lame obscure character. Like something from a weird internet comic or something.

Dear god if someone chose something from Homestuck or whatever the hell that was she was going to blast them into oblivion.

...okay, so maybe not blast them into oblivion, but still. Anyone who liked that trash deserved it. Interrupting her thoughts though, suddenly two people...and was that Kirby? Aside from being a huge nintendo freak, she had never really played Kirby's games much, but eh, cool. Were these the three other people she was waiting on? Well, she kind of thought there would be more. Well, if this was it then, this was it. But this seem kind of a small number of people for fighting some evil internet robot thing.

...oh great. This meant time to socialize. One of the things she was absolutely horrible at. She'd like to just tell them to go away and leave her alone, but eh, whatever happened when she got this body made that seem kind of...mean.

"Hello." She said to the two who showed up, the throne beneath her folding back into nothingness as she dismissed it. Cirka and Dan. She didn't recognize either of them. Except...maybe was that guy Cirno? Heh. Lame. "I am Alexis. However, Eve might be more suitable now. I have already been briefed on what we are here to do. Perhaps if you had arrived earlier we could have already been done here."

The last bit was delivered with obvious snark. Despite gaining some of Eve's personality, it seemed as though she still couldn't resist being a bit of a...well, a bit of a jackass.

After watching a few people make their way into a door/portal thing Negi shrugged and followed right in after Kirby. It wasn't disorientating or anything it was rather normal as if he was now used to being in a different world that wasn't the human world. As the blackness slowly started to fade away Negi found himself in a place that was very familiar in that it was the world of Splatoon, well rather it was quiet familiar to Hayate more than it was to Negi, but seeing as the two of them were in the same body, it was pretty much the same thing. Regardless of the fact Negi looked around in awe. This was a world he had never been in before so this was quiet an interesting thing to be seeing.

It was at this moment Negi was interrupted by a female voice near the group of people that had entered before him. Looking up, Hayate's memories recognized the character right away and as such Negi did as well.「Well isn't it Eve.」He said with a small laugh.「So seeing as you have alread been briefed by whoever, mind filling us in?」

Leander still didn't trust the short man, but before he started accusing him of anything, he decided that he should get some more information first. After all, he only had his instincts to go on. Following the others into the portal, he then found himself in a new world. He wasn't sure where he was, though it seemed familiar. Leander then hard a girl's voice saying, "Hello", and Leander turned his head to spot a girl clad in high tech stuff and sitting on a black throne. Whatever this place was, she certainly wasn't part of it. Leander decided to.keep his mouth shut and listen for now.

At the mention of her name, she turned to Negi. She didn't recognize him - she wasn't a huge fan of manga or anime, though she didn't really have anything against it. It was nice to see someone who had either played Elsword or at least knew of it, though.

"Greetings." She began. "My name is Eve now, though Alexis will suffice as well. Unfortunately, I do not know where you are from." It seemed though, that was about as much as she wanted to talk about that. Instead, she focused on why they were here. She really didn't want to have to repeat herself. That would be annoying. She made her annoyance known by giving a little huff, followed by using Moby as a seat while Remy as an arm rest.

"This is everyone? I dislike repeating myself."

Alton lay on the floor sulking a little longer until he realized he was hearing fewer and fewer voices around him. Were people leaving? He sat up to see a large black doorway in the middle of the empty white space. It seemed that most of the others had already walked through, and everyone else were preparing to do likewise.

'Welp' Alton thought to himself, 'It can't get worse now.' He got up from where he was sitting, and walked through the doorway, along with the others.

Alton expected more emptiness when he stepped through the portal, or maybe some abstract reality of shapes, something unreal and mystical. What he wasn't expecting was a brightly colored city block populated by chibi kids with squid tentacles for hair. Strangely, none of the squid-kids seemed to notice the fact that the group stuck out like a sore thumb; not even the wolf with the motherf***ing sword in his chest got a second look. Besides that, Alton noticed that a new person had come to join the group, the robot anime chick whose name was..."Eve?" or was it "Alexis"? Well in either case, she seemed to know what was up, so Alton decided to see what she had to say.

While Dan had never played Splatoon he had seen enough commercials for the game to recognize the tentacle-haired people as Inklings. He had no idea though why nobody was freaking out at the group's sudden appearance, especially since there were some weirdo's -himself included- among them.'Before he could ask the others what they thought, some weird girl with white hair introduced herself as Eve or Alexis.

Judging by her introduction this Evelixis girl was in the boat as them but she just rubbed Dan the wrong way. It was probably the throne it seemed fit for a queen, and his Noir half had some serious issues with Queens. What made it worse was her black outfit, she really reminded of the one person Jack hated more than anyone else: The Black Queen. It took him a lot of effort not to draw his sword, but as long as no one made him any angrier he thought he could stay in control of himself.

There was a surprisingly short amount of time between entering the portal, and exiting it. Though Cirka very obviously wasn't thinking about things as he charged towards the ink-y portal, and was preoccupied with Jack talking to him. Although he did miss about half, Cirka got the general gist. Whoever this was fused with Jack, but he was a good guy now.

So, back on topic, Cirka, being joined by Dan and Kirby, reached the other side of the portal. They were greeted with a cornicopia of color and 80's/90's flair. Or, maybe flare was the better word, it was hard to argue that the bright colors were a bit obnoxious. Still, Splatoon was at least a little cool, in that fake-ironic sense. Cirka took in the multicolored scenery, before turning his gaze to some girl. He wondered who she was, before quickly remembering they were expecting some who looked quite different to the world he was in.

She gave off a feel of dominating assholishness. Sitting on a dark throne in the middle of a cheery plaza. She even looked at him with a sort of 'are you kidding me' stint when she examined him during her introduction. Plus the sneakily hidden snarky insult. While she was talking to some other dude who had walked through the portal, Cirka turned over to Jack and whispered to him in a fairly noticeable way. "This lady's really getting on my nerves. What's say you an' eye beat her up? I mean, she could be working for Eden or somethin'." He justified. In the back of his mind he knew what he was doing was probably at least a little stupid. Still, this girl was a total jerk-wad, and he wished his friend would back him up on the matter.

Cia looked around the new world enthralled by all the colors, she knew exactly where she was, The world of Splatoon. She completely ignored the throne as she started to run around the plaza like a kid in a candy store. "Oh my gosh! This is all so cool!" Cia said with a huge smile on her face as she hopped around the plaza very happy. She finally calmed down after awhile when she heard Cirka say something about beating up this new girl. Cia stood up again seeing the girl he was referring to.

She had to admit it wasn't a totally out there idea that she could be working for the enemy. But she seemed to have a name of Alexis which meant she most have come to this world the same way they did. "I agree she does seem a little rude, but that doesn't mean we should beat people up, I'm sure we can start beating things up later but for now." She took a deep breath and floated up a bit next to Cirka so she was at his height. "STOP TRYING TO ATTACK EVERYONE!" Cia screamed as loud as she could. Some of the squid kids actually stopped when Cia yelled to stare at them. Cirka was really getting on her nerves and sooner or later Cia was gonna swallow him and not let him out until he learned a lesson.

Alexis gave Cirka a somewhat bored look. Oh boy. He was going to be trouble, wasn't he? Well, she would always be up for a good brawl if this little fairy wanted to get his wings clipped and shoved somewhere not so nice. She had half a mind to actually do just that. It'd be kinda hilarious to see that happen. Unfortunately, it seemed Eve somewhat disagreed with her - or at least something kept her from actually trying that.

"Yes. Attacking the person who will be trying to help you. I hope you are not that needlessly cruel." She paused for a moment before adding, rather unnecessarily. "Or stupid." As she spoke, Moby and Remy floated beside her, watching the others with some mild interest.

"I assure you, I am not working for Eden, and fighting between ourselves is undesirable." She finally continued after a somewhat annoyed and bored sigh. "Working together would be the best option. You all have been told the basics by the one who brought us here, yes? However, I was told to inform you of what we are looking for: The crucible." She went quiet for a moment to let the information sink in somewhat before continuing. "It is the item that formed the Multiverse, and we, have been tasked with finding it and using its power. Information on the item is unknown, so searching for clues as to its location and appearance should be our first task. It is somewhere here in the Splatoon world....whatever the name of it is."

There. That was enough information. She really should probably leave it there, but well, since when had she ever listened to that little voice in her head that told her shooting a firework into the neighbors pool was a bad idea?

"That is, unless you want to carry out that idea of yours...What is your name, anyways?"

While the fairy's suggestion was tempting Dan had no idea what Evelexis was capable off, and it would be a good idea to find that out first before trying anything. Of course if she managed to piss him of much more he would probably ignore his common sense, but at the moment attacking her seemed more trouble then it was worth. So was glad the Kirby-girl seemed intent on preventing any fight from breaking out

After the potential queen was done explaining why attacking her would be stupid and what they were supposed to do, Dan supposed he should give her a warning. "Eve, just to let you know you have a lot in common with the person the character I'm fused with hates the most and I've already discovered that my control isn't great, so there is a change I'll snap and attack you. Not a threat or anything just a warning."