Chapter Text
Earth-712, the Park
Rumi Oak looked around at the Park. She, Mira and Zoey were sitting on the front steps of the big house, Skips, Muscle Man, Pops and Thomas sitting in front of them while Hi-Five Ghost hovered in the air.
Benson was standing in front of them, reading off a tablet.
“All right, so we have a list of activities for the day, nothing too heavy, but just so we can ease back into work,” he began. “Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost, I need you to mow the entire park by the end of the day.”
“Yeah!” the pair high-fived each other.
Benson continued. “Skips and Pops, we have some stuff in the garage that needs to be cleaned out.”
“You got it.” Skips nodded.
“And finally, Rumi, Mira, Zoey, I know you girls are still on vacation, but I’d appreciate it if you helped rake the leaves in the park. We got a big meeting later today and I want this park to look as clean as possible.”
“Of course Benson, we’d be happy to help.” Rumi said with a cheerful smile.
“And then tonight, it’s Game Night,” Benson grinned. “We got a list of possible games. Fives, Twinkies, Jolly Rodger and…” he narrowed his eyes. “My Mom isn’t a game, Muscle Man, that doesn’t even make sense.”
“Looks like I win!” Muscle Man smirked.
Zoey placed a hand over her mouth to stifle her giggles and Mira smirked at that.
“I like him.” Zoey whispered to Mira who gagged a little.
“You like the strangest people, you know that?” she retorted.
Zoey shrugged. “What can I say, I like interesting people.”
Rumi rolled her eyes a little at that before Benson cleared his throat.
“There’s also the matter of Mordecai and Rigby, they’ve been missing for almost a month now, probably on some alternate Earth, and we have no idea where they are or how to find them.” He said seriously.
Pops giggled. “Oh don’t worry about them, they’re perfectly fine, in fact we’ll meet them again soon enough.”
“How can you be su- oh right, you’re God.” Rumi almost slapped her forehead at the mistake. Even now, trying to wrap her head around the idea of this jolly fellow being an avatar of the Supreme God was still a difficult pill to swallow.
“Yeah that’s never gonna get less weird.” Mira agreed.
“So we’re not gonna search for Mordecai and Rigby?” Skips asked.
“We wouldn’t even know where to start.” Benson pointed out.
Later, Rumi swept the leaves around the house, Mira and Zoey with her. She was deep in thought about what was happening. Something just didn’t feel right, she just couldn’t figure out what.
“What’s wrong, Rumi?” Mira noticed her look.
“Nothing, it’s just… this has been the weirdest week of my life by far. First the whole Saja Boys thing, then the Multiverse being real and now we’re on a parallel Earth with an immortal Yeti, a sentient gumball machine, a resident of Loliland, a ghost, a talking goat and… whatever the hell Muscle Man is supposed to be,” Rumi said. “It’s all just… a lot to take in.”
“That’s true,” Zoey agreed. “Still, we made some awesome new friends!”
“And for some reason, a crush on Muscle Man,” Mira grimaced. “Like, why?”
The hairs on the back of her neck stood up and she turned to see a portal open.
“Uh, what?” she frowned.
From the portal came a dozen heavily muscled men, all standing at least eight feet tall and all scarred, carrying battle-axes.
“What the hell?” Zoey stared in shock.
The Norscan bellowed a war cry and charged towards them. Rumi’s eyes widened and she dove to the ground right as the ax cleaved above her.
As the Norscan turned, a punch from Skips sent him flying and crashing into a tree. Rumi stood up and drew her sword.
“What the hell are these things?” she asked.
“No idea.” Skips replied.
In the courtyard it was utter chaos, Benson, Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, Pops and Thomas all fighting Norscans.
Rumi ducked under a swing and stabbed a Norscan through the throat while Mira did a spin kick that made another stagger.
Zoey was thrown down but Muscle Man rammed into the Norscan, sending it flying.
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” he bellowed before ripping his shirt off and charging again.
Skips slammed two more together before head-butting an oncoming Norscan, shattering his skull. As Rumi avoided another attack, a series of claw swipes made the Norscan fall down.
She swung to see a tiny demonic creature with green skin and pitch black eyes give a sneaky giggle.
“Shovel hasn’t had this much fun in decades.”
“Um, what exactly are you?” Mira frowned.
“I’m Shovel. What’s the matter, you’ve never seen a Quasit before?” the tiny demon mocked.
“Uh… no.”
Shovel rolled her eyes and leapt at another Norscan, sending him down. Hi-Five Ghost punched another hard, sending him down.
By now, there were only three Norscans left, the rest were either dead or out. Rumi charged to meet one who swung his waraxes.
Her eyes widened and she barely avoided getting sliced. She put her sword in the path to block a strike before she leapt back. Mira avoided a blow and stabbed the Norscan through the throat, killing him instantly while Muscle Man decked another and Benson rolled to avoid a blow.
Skips lifted a Norscan and body-slammed it hard onto the ground while Pops fired his gun and Hi-Five Ghost punched another.
Rumi ducked to avoid an ax swing and staggared back before slicing the Norscan across the stomach. The Norscan punched her hard, almost breaking her jaw. Rumi saw stars and stumbled back, toppling to her knees.
She breathed heavily right as the Norscan grabbed her by the hair.
BOOM!
A gunshot rang out and the Norscan fell down, his brains exploding. Rumi looked up to see a man in a navy blue suit and an impressive jawline lower a gun.
“On behalf of the United States of America, I declare your freedom nullified.” Stan Smith smirked.
From behind him, Mordecai and Rigby leapt down, charging towards the two Norscans. Mordecai avoided a punch and tried to swing but was knocked down.
Shovel leapt at the Norscan and bit down hard, tearing his nose off and making him roar in pain. Skips punched the Norscan, flattening him against a tree.
Stan shot the last Norscan in the head, killing him.
“And that’s how you do it.” He declared.
Mira helped Rumi up, looking around.
“Mordecai and Rigby, where the hell have you been?!” Benson stormed up to them, furious.
“Uh… we ended up on Earth-999, met a family called the Griffins, then got recruited by the CIA of that Earth to save the Multiverse from a crisis called the End Times, which apparently they know about for… reasons.” Mordecai said lamely.
Benson looked like he wanted to pull his non-exsistent hair out for that comment but eventually sighed. “Oh goddamn it.”
“What End Times?” Zoey asked.
“A crisis fated to destroy the Multiverse, when the Three-Eyed King leads the armies of Chaos.” Stan spoke.
Rumi resisted the urge to facepalm.
“Can’t even get a damn vacation.”
As two more Norscan charged, a beam of green energy destroyed them, making everyone jump back. Rumi turned to see a masked armored man with a green hood and green cape slowly walk towards them.
“Oh no…” Skips muttered in horror.
“You know this guy?” Stan asked.
“That’s Victor von Doom.” Skips said in a low tone.
Rumi shivered as she heard the name. She had no idea who he was, but things didn’t seem quite right. Doom stood in front of them.
For a moment he said nothing before he spoke.
“I am Doom. You are being conscripted.”
“Conscripted?!” Zoey squeaked.
Doom clenched his fist and the air swam, showing a vision of large winged Daemons and a burning landscape.
“To stop the End Times,” he revealed. “To face the Ruinous Powers- Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaanesh.”
His voice echoed like thunder. “And to kill Archaon the Everchosen.”
“Oh boy…” Benson muttered.
“Archaon,” Rumi said. “Who is this guy?”
“The Lord of the End Times,” Stan said grimly. “He leads the Armies of Chaos to wipe out the Multiverse.”
“Dude, we really are in trouble.” Mordecai whispered to Rigby who nodded.
Doom looked at everyone. “Walk with me. The Multiverse needs soldiers.” He paused. “Even absurd ones.”
Mordecai sputtered. “Hey! We’re not absurd!”
Rigby raised his hand. “Actually we are totally-”
Stan stepped forward, his chest puffed out. “If the Multiverse needs a hero-”
“No,” Doom cut him off. “It needs competence.”
He looked at Rumi, Mira and Zoey. “And it may find it yet.”
He turned and clenched his fist, a large green portal opening, it’s energy swirling as everyone stared in awe. Doom stepped into the portal, his cape flowing behind him.
“Follow. The fate of all worlds depends on it.”
“Should we?” Zoey asked hesitantly.
“Don’t think we have a much of choice.” Mira muttered.
“Well I’m not letting the Multiverse be destroyed,” Skips said firmly. “I’m in.”
Muscle Man grinned. “You know who else can save the Multiverse?”
“Oh please don’t!” Mira groaned, facepalming.
“MY MOM!”
“GODDAMN IT!”
“Well,” Benson drawled. “Let’s go save the Multiverse.”
Rumi smiled. “One last time.”
With that, Rumi, Mira, Zoey, Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, Pops, Benson, Thomas, Stan and Shovel walked through the portal.