Terminal Warfare

Terminal Warfare covers the war of Varia vs Ira vs The Realm and Timeline Detective Service. Eventually, Samuel also joins in on the fun, because why not?

Varia vs Dust
The first conflict of the arc. Varia approaches the group while they're all ganged up. Molten, Dust, Logan, and Henry are all together in a group. Dust, feeling threatened by Varia, decides to pull out his secret tool. Trust. He fuses with Trust. similar to how he fused with Deceit. Dust gains the power to change willpowers. He and Varia begin fighting. Varia is clearly winning against Dust when it's revealed that Dust was an illusion created by Deceit. Dust is able to attack Varia into the forest, where the group follows. The fight in the forest is short-lived, as Varia smacks Henry all the way over to the city and follows him. Henry has been knocked out for now. The rest of the group follows Varia, and the true fight begins. Dust and Varia start duking it out, with it seeming fairly equal at the start. Varia and Dust were being sent through buildings, causing destruction in the city. Eventually, after a long battle, Varia resorts to his plan. Varia had unlocked his Core after his battle with Dust in the Abyss. His Core ability is to brainwash people. He ends up brainwashing Molten and Henry, and it seems like Varia has won. He has Dust trapped, and he starts pummeling him with his giant fists. However, little to Varia's knowledge, Dust had reverted his core, using Trust. Trust could change the willpower of Molten and Henry to betray Varia. Henry, Molten, and Logan ambushed Varia, and then Dust smacked Varia away. Dust proceeded to beat up Varia all the way to the court, where he was barraged by plasma. Varia was cracking up this entire time, and the plasma was bringing him to death. Varia revealed that the only reason he started this war was to contact "Zero". Varia eventually explodes from all the damage, and the battle is over. However, chaos doesn't stop. Varia's blood (which is a highly powerful acid-type liquid) floods the entire city. It's so dense that it can cause houses to float. After all of that, the group gets a visit from somebody special. A giant, red-eye appears in the sky. It reveals itself as "Zero". He says that he's very angry at the TRTDS for killing his son, and he wishes that his other son, Ira, will give them what they deserve. He goes away after that monologue, and the group has some time to rest.

Small Break
The group gets to rest for a little bit. Dust and Logan go off to discuss the investigation against Steve. Logan says that he's found footage of Steve attempting to interact with Negative. This causes them to confront Steve, who brushes it off.

Ira and Samuel vs TRTDS
The group's short period of resting is now over. Ira has arrived at the scene, aware of his brother's death. Jaqcues, Logan, and Henry start fighting him. Suddenly, Samuel also shows up. He and Steve end up talking about not wanting to harm each other, as it feels wrong. They hope that they meet again and they then part ways. When Steve joins the others against Ira, something terrible happens. Ira throws Jaqcues into Varia's acidic, cold blood. Jaqcues tries to escape, but can't. Jaqcues is eventually melted by the acid, only leaving a burnt-up version of his jacket. Henry and Steve mourn over Jaqcues's death, but Steve isn't too torn up over it. He informs Henry that Jaqcues will remain with Henry, and flies away. When they come back, they realize that they left Logan behind. Henry goes to help him, but Steve sits this one out, as he wants to gather information about Samuel. Logan gets Justin to show up, and the duel begins. Henry was fighting off Ira while Logan and Justin fought against Samuel. During the fight, Henry suddenly finds himself using fire powers. He realizes that Jaqcues has also become apart of his core, just like Slayer. Henry starts gaining on Ira, and Logan and Justin start gaining on Samuel. Eventually, Ira has to flee. Samuel helps Ira out by giving him a portal to leave through, which Samuel also used. Samuel had a lot of his parts broken, with his endoskeleton being visible. This officially started the alliance between Ira and Samuel.

Taking a break
The group decides to move away from the city, as it is too dangerous (they just lost a team member there). However, before moving to the Forest, they met a survivor. His name was "Arthur Erimatt", and he was looking for Jaqcues. Jaqcues had invited him to join TRTDS. The group informed Arthur that Jaqcues has died, and moved on with their life. Henry already had a backup bunker set up in the forest. They get to rest for a little bit. Dust also ends up saying sorry to Henry, as Dust realized that he was too harsh with him (Trust was likely what made him realize this.) Dust also dubs himself "Dust Metzo: Act 3". After a little while, Justin brings up some interesting points about Steve. He mentions the stuff that Logan already found, plus something he found on his own. He brought up that there was a lawyer named "Steve Alexander" who looked like Steve. Justin also knew that Steve had skills in court, as he won the case against them back in the day. The group gets Steve to come over there so they can confront him. They present all of their evidence to Steve. Steve just brushes it off as a coincidence. They point out that the picture looks like Steve a few years ago, and how Steve Alexander would age perfectly to look like Steve Lstnam. They also find out that he doesn't actually know when he met Henry, which causes Steve to run away. Dust chased after him, and eventually, Steve confessed that he was possessed by somebody. Steve goes back over to the group to explain. He explained that he was dethroned by Zero, and his soul was shattered into three. He took Steve Alexander's body as a last resort to stay alive. He created TRTDS as an excuse to investigate into the matter. He hired Henry so that he could find proof that rifts are real, as he knew that Zero had something to do with it. He also says he doesn't know where the third fragment is. Henry is torn apart by this, knowing that his old friend is gone. The group has nothing to do but plan. Eventually, they come up with that plan. Justin, Henry, Molten, and Logan would try to ambush them. Dust would get Samuel away from Ira and fight Samuel. When the two approached, it was time for battle.

Ira vs TRTDS
Dust went off to the Abyss with Samuel. Justin, Henry, Molten, and Logan began their attack. Arthur also shot at Ira a few times from the mountains in the forest. They eventually start gaining on him, but they're still injured. Justin was eventually flung over to the city but survived. He sat out for the rest of the fight and contacted Lu to go and give healing potions to everybody there (that were from another realm). Lu went over there and healed everybody up, and Ira got enraged. He dove into the ocean and waited for the perfect time to strike. He was walking around in unpredictable motions. Lu tried multiple times to lure him out but failed. He also struck at Henry and Jaqcues. Eventually, Lu was able to give up an injury to get Ira out. Lu left to go get Steve, and quickly enough, Steve came. Steve ended up defeating Ira using a new ability called "Cura". Cura allows him to place invisible forcefields on people, meaning nothing goes in our out. Enraged by not being able to attack Steve, Ira threw trees all over the place. Eventually, Samuel came back and let Ira escape in a portal. The group then rushes straight over to Samuel, ready to start the next battle.

Samuel vs TRTDS
Steve informs the group that he has to leave to recharge energy, believing that the group has it in the bag. However, Samuel has a trick that nobody knows about, aside from Molten. Molten had previously warned the group that Samuel had stolen the codes for missiles, but they ignored her. And now, those missiles were being fired. Dust left to go stop them from hitting, only stopping a few. The others hit the city, which made it unrepairable. Dust had used all of his energy stopping the missiles, and he passed out of the forest floor. Henry, Justin, and Logan were left alone. Molten had decided to run away as she is afraid of Samuel. The remaining fighters just had to stall until Steve came back. So they did that. Justin was using Varia fists that he had seen first hand in the first battle this arc. Justin eventually poured all of his energy in an attack against Samuel and gave Henry his Varia fists. Justin passed out of the floor, and Lu came running over. He healed up Henry, who had his robotic arm ripped off. Lu then started to fight Samuel, but it was still no use. Lu was sent flying away from the Forest, and Henry was almost out of energy. Soon, it would only be Logan and Arthur (and even Arthur had injuries). However, their stalling had worked. Steve had shown back up, and he had mastered the ability of Fortuna, the goddess of life (which explains how he can heal people). He now has the ability to control lesser lifeforms, like trees and plants. He was able to hold Samuel in place using grass, and he started his attack. He throws razor-sharp blades of grass at Samuel, and it looked like Steve was going to win. Steve then ripped a tree out of the ground and used it as a gun, using leaves as his ammo. Samuel was thrown into the water, and Steve had won. Steve went to get his body, but he was blasted away by a giant laser. Samuel was still alive. Steve had received multiple broken bones and was cornered by Samuel. Except, Steve had outsmarted Samuel's outsmart. He got him away from the water so that somebody that has more connection to Samuel could finish him off. Suddenly, Dust ambushes Samuel, as he had already recovered his energy. He punched him into the farm and flew up into space. He came flying back down with a satellite dish that Samuel used to launch the missiles. He crushed Samuel with the dish and caused it to explode using plasma. Samuel had almost been reduced to an endoskeleton, and he crawled away. Dust was already out of his recently regained energy as he flew to space. Steve also had injuries. Steve yelled at Henry to go get Samuel, but Henry failed. Henry was too slow, and Samuel was able to leave his legs behind and escape.

Aftermath
Steve healed everybody's injuries before passing out, along with Dust. Without their two leaders, TRTDS was lost. They had nothing to do, and nobody to blame but Henry. Henry went to check on Taylor, his baby sister that he had in the forest. Lu came over to celebrate what he thought was a victory. Molten came back as well, and she saw the whole thing happen. Molten told Lu what happened, and Lu SNAPPED. He started yelling at Henry, blaming Henry for his parent's death. Lu furiously flew off, clearly upset at all that had happened. However, before Dust passed out, he said that Lu was in charge. Things weren't looking good at all. Both of their leaders are in a coma, Lu was their new leader, and the city was destroyed. The group looked at the destroyed city that they used to live in. Justin asked a good, but unanswerable question: "What now?"

Characters
Steve Lstnam

Dust Metzo

Henry Xaxier

Jaqcues (Death)

Lu Menary

Molten Virtuous

Logan Howell

Justin Hipwell

Arthur Erimatt

Trust

Samuel Aster

Ira

Varia (Death)

Zero