Archive of Our Own

N walked out of his portal and things were as he feared. He was finally home in his own universe but that didn't mean things were okay.

There were floating pieces of the planet everywhere with giant yellow tendrils thrashing about in the distance.

Everything was in ruin that N didn't even know where to start. Despite the floating planetary debris, there must have been SOME atmosphere left because N could hear faint sounds of explosions in the distance.

"This isn't over!" N declared to himself. "Not yet!"

Some atmosphere yes, but gravity was proving a little weird. For some steps it was there, with others it threatened to have N float off into space. Most likely an effect of the planet's core being..... Well devoured. It was probably best just to use his wings.

He flew closer and closer to the source of the explosions. Soon he saw what was creating the ruckus and it gave him hope..... And confusion.

Thad, Lizzy, and Khan were fighting J with a lead pipe, Uzi 's rail gun, and that weirdly inexplicably sentient school bus.

They were on an asteroid which was being spun back and forth by one of the giant yellow tendrils. J was sitting down but it looked like the others were pinned down from the force of all the spinning.

J did her best to relax. She had almost been pushed into a corner by those three worker drones..... and their..... weirdly sentient.......bus.... But that all changed when the tendrils appeared and started to help her.

N wasted no time. He started attacking the yellow tendrils immediately. They went down almost a little too easily from some simple machine gun fire, but the asteroid stopped spinning and N made his landfall between J and the worker drones.

"N!" Thad cheered.

"What?!" exclaimed Khan.

"Ugh! Saved by the loser...." groaned Lizzy.

J leapt off her perch, landing gracefully on the ground while muttering some quiet line about 'gravity'.

"Well, well, well.... Look who managed to make his way back after all. Thought for sure you'd be stuck making commercial transactions across the multiverse for eternity!" quipped J.

N transformed his hand into a sword and crossed his chest with it defensively.

"Uzi still needs me! I won't quit on her!"

N looked back for just a second at the worker drones.

"Are you all okay?"

"Ugh! Can't believe I'm being saved by a loser." groaned Lizzy.

"I have some mixed feelings about this." confessed Khan.

"N & M!! Good to see you, bro!!" cheered Thad.

N smiled a tiny bit. At least Thad gave him a warm welcome.

J considered just killing N now, when his guard was down, but she had a job to do. While he was distracted, she would send a message from her landing pod that N was here. Then Cyn could handle N herself like she preferred.

J took two sneaky steps towards her landing pod and then.

*KABOOM!*

J was knocked back onto her butt as the bottom half of her ship inexplicably exploded.

"What? But.... How...?"

"HA!!!" shouted Khan. "My daughter had blueprints for more than just guns in her room! CONSIDER YOURSELF CAR BOMBED!!!"

"When did you even..." started J.

"Let's put it this way," interrupted Thad. "You tend to close your eyes when you do all of that bragging you like!"

"Oh I have just about HAD IT with you talking toasters!"

"The correct term, is 'Sentient Masses'!" snapped Thad.

J was about to give a nasty retort but sudden gunfire from N cut her off. Thankfully, she was able to deploy her metal wings in time to block the shots.

N deployed his own wings. "Come on, ya office bully! Ya can't catch me!"

N then took off while J processed what he just said. She then released a furious scream and flew off after him.

"What is that moron doing?!" asked Lizzy.

"Isn't it obvious? He's leading her away to some place else so we don't get caught in the crossfire!" explained Thad.

"..... Not sure how I feel about that!" confessed Khan.

Space...

N flew through the vacuum of space as quickly as he could. J was never a slouch when it came to flying so he had to pick someplace for their new battleground quickly.

Then he saw it. Another asteroid, three times the size he left Thad and the others on. His sensors also told him that it too had an atmosphere of oxygen, which was odd. He figured the other one had one because it was an intact piece of the planet or something, finding two of such large sizes with that excuse seemed very unlikely... Even to him.

He was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth though.

N landed on the edge of it but he didn't wait for J to land to meet him, not when he had a clear sight of her; he started firing missiles at her. She managed to dodge them expertly and landed opposite to him with a condescending look.

N didn't falter. He didn't smile or look impressed, the sternness of his gaze said everything. "Only one of us is walking away from this, J."

J didn't look intimidated at all. In fact, she looked like she was ready to laugh at him.

"Oh does that mean we're not fwiends anymore?" mocked J.

"We were never friends. And even though it stings for me to admit that, I know it's true. Even in our mansion days, all I wanted from you was your friendship. So why?! What did I ever do to you to get you to hate me so much?!"

"You're just too much of a moron bot to understand, so why even bother-"

"Was it because Tessa liked me better than you?" N asked.

His full innocence had returned for this one question but the audacity of it caught J completely off guard.

"WHAT?!"

"I mean it was kinda obvious, even for a 'moron bot' like me. She danced around with my face, giddily. I don't recall her ever doing anything like that with you."

J gritted her teeth as she glared furiously at the male drone.

"Honestly, I don't think all the business terms you used helped your case. I actually think she was pretty annoyed with them if I'm being honest."

"ENOUGH!!!" J shouted. "Tessa is dead!! So it doesn't matter anymore!!"

J took a moment to calm down and her confident smile soon returned.

"But don't worry, you'll be reunited with her soon enough!"

"I beat you once J!" N held up his sword hand aggressively. "I can do it again!"

"Last time was just a fluke!" snapped J.

"Not a fluke!" N charged forward. "A turning point!!"

"It doesn't matter. Corporate finally signed approval for your termination. And do you want to know the best part?"

J held out her arms as if she were showing off something impressive about herself but there nothing happened. Or at least that was what N thought...

From different directions, more Disassembly Drones flew in from the void of space and landed behind J. However, these weren't just normal Disassembly Drones, they were clones of J.

"It's going to be a company bonding activity! Just like I said, effective drones were cloned more!"

There were about fifteen of them in total, and they were all aggressively closing in on N.

"You're in trouble again, N. Only this time there's no Tessa to take the heat for you, no weaponized worker to back you, no freaky pony to give you a pep talk! You have nothing but your own merit and as usual, it's pretty lacking!"

"That.... That isn't true." N didn't sound as sure of himself as he did a second ago. He was ready to fight but this was a lot, even for him. One J was a handful for him to take on, but fifteen? He didn't see how he could win.

"Shut up, Loser!" the clones spoke in unison.

N shamefully flinched.

"N, time for you to attend the board meeting about your future. And spoiler alert: It's looking pretty bleak."

N took a step back. He didn't see how he could win... and then he heard a noise. It was faint and then it started to grow louder.

"...eeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Then something whizzed past N's head and knocked down one of the the Js. But this something was actually a someone. He stood up and brushed himself off as if everything he did was all perfectly intentional.

"What the.... Hiro?? What're you doing here?!"

The blonde human waved at the drone as if he were here on a social visit.

"Hi N!! Since your the big evil that you're facing is so dangerous, Impressed ordered me to help you slay it!"

Izilith trudged into view looking like she would rather be anywhere else but here.

"And with any luck maybe he'll DIE in the process, which means that I have to come too to drag his corpse back as proof."

"Izilith? Well ... I actually am glad to see you too."

A small corner of Izilith's mouth perked upwards. "You're.... Still technically a step up from Hiro, so I guess I'm glad to see you too."

N lurched forward as something suddenly grabbed his torso from behind.

*CLANK!*

N looked down and saw that his torso was being hugged by Mimi Sentry.

"Mimi?! You're here too?!"

"N!! I missed yooouuu!!"

A string of slashes ran across his visor symbolizing a blush.

"And you're talking in something other than beeps? Ha ha! That's new...." N chuckled uncomfortably.

"Yeah!" chuckled a familiar voice. "I guess you could say that I gave her an upgrade."

"Engineer!!" N cheered.

And he wasn't alone either, the Scout was with him too.

"We don't normally do charity work but Mimi was insistent and....." Scout looked a little skittish. "I was hoping maybe you could could hook a bud up with some ninja stars?"

"Sure! You've got but to ask!" shrugged N.

"Sweet!"

"Scout might be looking for excuses, but the truth is that we couldn't let you face your last showdown alone." confessed Engineer.

Scout pointed his bat at one of the J clones.

"So these Pigtailed Penny Whistlers better bring their A Game or else!"

"Or else what?!" one of the Js snapped.

A blinding light appeared above their heads with a blue eye in the middle of it.

"Or else you may find yourself facing Heaven's wrath!!" boomed a voice from the eye.

The eye turned into a portal of water, and out popped Emily.

"Emily?" N gasped. "You're here too?"

"Of course I'm here. How else do you think your human pals could breathe right now? That's me! I put up an atmosphere bubble."

"I wondered why there was a second one!" nodded N.

N slipped out of Mimi's grasp and hugged Emily.

"Can I get in on the hug fest too?" A new voice called out. "I missed out meeting my friends at the skate park down at the mall to be here!"

From above, gently landed XJ9 or as she was known to her friends....

"Jenny! I can't believe you made it here!"

N gave Jenny a hug too.

"Oh I made it here, but I wasn't the one who got here first. That honor belongs to these two!"

Jenny tapped her foot on the ground twice. The floor sounded hollow and metal; it opened up to reveal itself as a hidden improv bunker of some kind. The surprises kept coming for N as C-3PO and R2-D2 emerged.

"N, it is so very nice to see you again! I must say though that if it were up to me we wouldn't be here at all!"

"*BEEP! BOP! BOOP!*"

"I am NOT a bad friend!! I'm here aren't I?!" snapped back C-3PO.

A tugging on his jacket alerted N to yet another new arrival. He was small, purple, with green hair and pointed ears.

"Don't forget your musically inclined buddy!"

"EVAN?!" N picked up the musical troll and swung him around happily before placing him back down. "But why? I didn't think you could fight at all! What're you expecting to contribute?"

Evan held up his lute. "Musical accompaniment."

N turned his head to the side in confusion. "Really?"

"Hey, songs or it didn't happen. Am I right or am I right?"

"Did.... You get here through one of those random forest portals??"

"Oh no. If you really want to split hairs, I got picked up by another friend of yours.... Well ours now I guess."

"ENOUGH!!!" shouted a J clone.

All of the J clones looked irritated and confused, each one wearing a furious scowl.

"It doesn't make SENSE for you all to be here in the same universe IN the same place AT the same time!!" snapped one of the J clones.

"Sense? Oh but what fun is there in making sense?" A voice echoed around them.

Everyone looked for the source of the voice but couldn't find it. Then everyone noticed that an extra J clone was among the rabble. The extra's head then turned into Discord 's head.

"All of these girls with the same hairdo in one place makes me think we're here for a slumber party instead of a fight. Why not have both? PILLOW FIGHT!!!"

In a flash the rest of Discord's body appeared and he slapped one of the J clones with a pillow.

"Discord??" N couldn't believe his luck. "I know we're friends through Fluttershy but I didn't think you cared this much!"

Discord flew to N with his hands in front of himself. "Well, let's just say that it wasn't MY idea."

From behind Discord, shyly emerged Fluttershy.

"Hi N." Fluttershy shyly squeaked.

"Fluttershy?! This was your idea?! This is going to be dangerous! Are you sure you want to be here?"

"Yes, I am!" Fluttershy spoke with a bit more confidence. "A friend in need is a friend indeed! And you N, are a true true friend."

N was going to say something but got cut off by a missile landing in front of their group.

*KABOOM!*

The J clones laughed together at their surprise attack but when the dust settled what they saw was not the blown to pieces bits of their enemies but a wall of giant puppy photos.

They then fell forward as if they were made of cardboard, revealing N and his friends perfectly unharmed.

Discord had his hand up in a pose to show he was the one that knocked it down. His eyes flashed red with anger at the girls.

"Where I come from, it is considered quite RUDE to interrupt people. How about I educate you in the etiquette of manners? Pillows?!"

"Pillows?" a J clone parroted in confusion.

A pillow flew out of nowhere and started to punch one of the J clones with its curled up corners.

"Yeah! Pillow. Fight."

Pillows materialized in between the J clones and N and his friends.

"ATTACK!!!" shouted a green striped pillow with a Scottish accent.

"That won't stall them for long. N if you got a rousing speech, now would be the time to give it!" advised Discord.

N turned to his crowd of recently made friends and smiled humbly.

"What can I say? I've been told I'm so simple that I've made friends with rocks and..... Well I have! It was Uzi, however, that taught me what a real friendship is like. She was my first real friend after I became a Disassembly Drone but she wasn't the last. All of you came here just to help me and well..... I'm not sure I even deserve such loyalty but I'm grateful for it."

Only smiles greeted N.

"J...... Was never my friend. It hurts to admit but it's always been true. She can't torture me anymore though, and I owe some of that to all of you! My journey has taught me what real friendship is like! Caring! Compassion! Kinship! Loyalty! J only felt that way about one person and now she's working for the monster that killed her! She might have a whole bunch of clones, but I say that's it's still all of her against me and my friends!!"

Everyone cheered at the end.... Everyone except Discord.

"I liked it N but I feel like it could've used a bit more passion. Especially at the end. I'll give it a grade of a solid C-. Maybe a rousing fight song would do us better? Eeeeh? Catch my drift?"

"Evan, start us off!!" ordered N.

Evan took out his lute and held his hand high in preparation to strum.

"The following song is set to the same tune I used for my other song Fear Evan!" Evan spoke as if he were giving a disclaimer.

"YOUTUBE IT, READER!!!" shouted Discord.

"N friends, my dear friends, it is here we make our stand. Our beloved friend needs our help, so let's all lend a hand. Yes we all gathered here for a fight, though it could be the end. It's funny how just one soul can make so many different frieeeeeeeends."

It was touching opening, but the real catchy part was about to begin.

"N is here all alone, so let's throw him a bone and be with him as he fights! Butterflies in our tummy, but N is our chummy! We'll be his friend to the end!"

Evan then started to pick up the tempo.

"They say you've only got one life to live, so fulfill it with many friends. Some friends are fighters," Evan gestured to Jenny and Mimi. "Or make moods lighter," he gestured to Fluttershy and Emily. "But we'll all be his friend to the end!"

The mood was definitely lighter now but N wasn't done yet.

"They do say that to friendship, every burden's light! So what's one multiverse spanning fight?"

Evan stopped singing for a moment to give everyone a friendly smile.

"I hope that was okay. I ad-libbed it the best that I can."

"Take us home, little man!" cheered Scout.

"We'll all be N's friends till the ennnnnnnnnnnd!"

Everyone save Discord gave a cheer at the end.

"I don't know Evan. I'm feeling the love but I'm not really fired up to fight a bunch of killer robots. I give it a C+, maaaaaaybe a B-."

"Well in my defense, I usually sing about deeds that have already happened. I'm a little out of practice on the other end."

"Heads up, Chuckle Nuts!!" interrupted Scout. "They're done slaughtering the pillows!!"

Scout pointed his bat over at the J clones who were now covered in pillow feathers, looking none too pleased.

"Heh. Heh. Sticky feathers." snickered Discord.

The J that was furthest to the front, possibly the original, screamed out the order.

"ATTACK!!!"

The J clones charged forward and N flinched for a moment. The fear was quickly quelled when he felt a comforting hand on his arm. It was Jenny.

"You got this, N! And we've all got your back! All you gotta do is lead the attack."

N smiled at her before turning his attention to the charging drones. N changed his hand into a sword and pointed it forward like a General.

"CHARGE!!!"

While the vast majority of N and his friends charged forward, there were a few who hung back. Evan for one, who was really there more for emotional support than anything, Emily was another, as she simply couldn't bring herself to acts of violence, and C-3PO who was never really a combatant in the first place...... And by extension R2-D2, who really just needed to make sure C-3PO would stay safe.

*BEEP! BOP! WHIRL!*

"I beg your pardon?! I never wanted to come here in the first place; but do you have any idea what they would do to me if I just let you wander off to do whatever you wanted?!"

*BOP! BOP! BEEP!*

"Oh really?! And exactly what is your plan for dealing with them?! Stick your hacking device into the backside of the lower component of their body where their legs meet there torso?!"

*.....BOOP!*

"Oh I am so dreadfully sorry! I don't know what came over me!"

*BEEP! BEEP! BOOP!*

"... You're my best friend too."

One of the J clones had managed to sneak past the Frontline and was going to ambush the the two droids when Evan jumped out from behind a rock and landed on her back.

*BATWANG!*

His lute shattered against her head but did little in the effects of damage. J turned her head around and gave the small purple troll a glare of disappointment and disbelief.

"Really?" she scoffed.

Evan helplessly shrugged.

"What do you want from me?! It's the only move I got!"

J was about to respond with a threat when suddenly an immense pain shot through her. Her tail had been cut off. Evan jumped off her back as she turned to face her attacker....... Who, if she didn't know better, looked like a human version of N.

"Hi! My name is Hiro! Sorry about your tail! My sword was stuck in its scabbard!"

".... Apology NOT accepted! Not even N could be THAT dumb; you didn't really think your sneak attack would work did you?!"

"Sneak attack? Oh no, I'm just the distraction."

"Distraction for what?!"

J got her answer as a chain wrapped itself around her from behind. She was then pulled up into the air where she was cut into tiny pieces by Izilith.

"Nobody bullies Hiro but me!"

Before she could ponder her sudden declaration, N whizzed past her with two J clones on his his tail.

"N!!!" C-3PO called. "We brought you something just for such an occasion like this!! Catch!!"

R2-D2 shot up a strange device into the air.

*BEEP! BOP! WHIIIIIIIIIIIIRL!*

N reached up and caught the mysterious device in the air. An accidental button slip turned on the device and a green energy blade shot up, nearly skewering N in the face.

"Whoa!! Oh.... Hey I remember a dodad like this! Those organics in the warzone were using them. What did they call them again?"

"It's called a lightsaber!!" called C-3PO. "We borrowed one from our Masters but we're going to need it back when you're done!!"

*BEEP! BOP! BOOP!*

"Oh they most assuredly will notice it's absence! Don't lie to yourself!"

N used the lightsaber to deflect a blow from one of the J clone's sword hands only to discover it cut the sword in two.

"Oooooh!" N cooed in wonder. "I'm going to have a lot of fun with this!"

Back on the ground, Emily had successfully set up a kind of bubble dome shield.

"ALL NON-COMBATANTS," she called. "RUN TO THE SAFETY OF MY SHIELD!!! IT'LL KEEP YOU SAFE UNTIL THE FIGHT IS OVER!!!"

The droids and Evan wasted no time getting to her while a few feet away something a little more 'chaotic' was happening. Engineer was also inside but that was because he was setting up a dispenser.

*SQUEAKY!* *SQUEAKY!* *SQUEAKY!*

These were the noises that were being made as Discord, dressed as a certain swordsman, fenced with one of the J clones while wielding a giant rubber chicken as a sword.

"Hello!! My name is Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony!! You were a tyrant to my friend, prepare to die!!"

"STOP SAYING THAT!!!" J shouted.

"We got her on the ropes, Boneless XLR!!" cheered Discord.

"It makes sense that N would befriend a freak of nature like you!!" J turned her hand into a gun and fired. "The worthless idiot has about as much common sense as a DOG!!" The bullets turned into pudding before they even touched him.

Discord's eyes flashed red for a moment. It wasn't clear exactly what specific thing it was, but something about what she just said rubbed him the wrong way.

"A DOG is he?!"

In a flash J got pinned down to the ground by a giant N plushie. Discord knelt down and stuck out a snake tongue in J's face.

"Well let's see how you like it when this 'dog' gets a case of the zoomies!"

*SNAP!*

N had already vanquished the J clones that had been after him pretty easily but he started writhing in midair as new text appeared on his visor screen.

'Downloading Discord.EXE. :P'

The words disappeared just as suddenly as they had came. N felt a prickly surge of energy race throughout his body. As if every limiter, every lag defect, was laying down so this new power could have its way. He loved it!

As a Disassembly Drone, N was already pretty fast, especially when it came to flying, but with this new super speed he was a literal blur. Couple that in with his new lightsaber, he was an absolute terror in the skies.

"WOOHOOHOO!!!"

An adorable terror, but a terror none the less. J clones were being diced left and right by the silver and green blur that N had became.

"I know that I could've just found some way for N to ingest Scout's energy drink, but I'm holding a grudge against the product's company since they refused to let me rebrand it as Discord Brand Cola!" explained Discord.

"Out of the air!!" J ordered. "It's not safe!!"

Two of the J clones landed on the ground but found something unexpected. Hiding behind a rock, currently unaware of their presence, was Fluttershy. She had her back to them and was too captivated by the surrounding fights to notice them.

"Well, well, well. What have we here?" asked one J clone.

Fluttershy spun around in shock, her back pressing up against the rock.

"Looks like one of non-fighters got left behind!" mocked the other J.

"I am here to fight...." Fluttershy meekly protested.

The two I clones threw their heads back with laughter.

"You?!" one of them scoffed.

"You don't look like you could harm a fly let alone a drone specifically designed for murdering! What could YOU possibly do against US?!" jabbed the other.

The two J clones menacingly closed in on the pony. Escape was absolutely impossible!

Fluttershy weakly lashed out with her hoof. There was less effort in it than a person uses to knock on a door, but when she hit the J clone she was sent reeling backwards through the air.

The other J clones dropped her jaw in disbelief. When she looked to the pony for an explanation, Fluttershy showed something shiny and metallic on the bottom of her hoof.

"Discord Brand Horseshoes. He wouldn't let me come without them."

Fluttershy weakly lashed out again. "Um.... Hiyah."

Her hoof met J's face with the force of a piece of paper in the wind but just was sent flying backwards irregardless.

Another J was facepalming at how bad she and her clones were doing.

"We wouldn't be struggling this hard if they were just more drones! But of course a loser like N would make only organic friends! No REAL self respecting robot would ever..."

*BANG!*

A bullet whizzed past her face alerting her to the two robot enemies on the ground. Mimi's gun barrel was smoking as she glared daggers at J. Jenny was right next to her but she didn't look any more pleased than Mimi.

"Hey JERK!!!" Jenny hollered. "We're a couple of self respecting robots and we think is GREAT!!!"

"YEAH!!!" shouted Mimi. "You have no eye for quality!!"

"Like I care about anything a couple of trash bins like you two think!" J shot back.

Jenny and Mimi exchanged a look and nodded in agreement. Jenny stretched out her arm and grabbed J's foot, taking her by surprise.

"HOW ABOUT YOU COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT TO OUR FACES?!"

With a firm yank, Jenny pulled J down and slammed her into the ground in front of them.

J painfully pulled herself up and glared at them.

"We still outnumber you, you anti-corporate activists!"

J let out a sharp whistle and one of her clones flew down and tackled Mimi.

"That just leaves me and you with your evaluation report!" J sneered.

Jenny shrugged nonchalantly. "I'm not worried." She reeled back her hand and it changed into a giant spiked fist. "Consider yourself FORECLOSED!!!"

*POW!*

J took the punch from the spiked fist right on the jaw and was sent flying backwards.

"Corporate Cow thinks she's tough stuff..." scoffed Jenny.

Back with Mimi, her J clone had pinned her up against a rock. A quick backhand from Mimi's gun barrel thankfully gave her the breathing room she needed.

Gritting her teeth, Mimi strained herself to the point where twin mini guns popped out of her back and rested on her shoulders.

"Oooooh.... Scary." mocked J. J changed her hands into machine guns. "I can play the bullets game too!"

As bullets flew in every direction, Jenny meanwhile was dealing with her J clone very handily.

Jenny's pigtails whirled to life and shot off her head like a pair of boomerangs. J dodged them in a panic but because she was giving them her undivided attention, she never saw Jenny's giant mallet coming.

*WHAM!*

Jenny's mallet pinned J's torso to the ground just as the hair razorrangs made their return trip and pinned J's arms also to the ground.

"You know J....." Jenny started. "You're actually not that much of a toughie when you have to fight someone outside your usual targets."

"Grrr! So, you think you got me huh?" J's tail rose up behind Jenny and aimed the nanite stinger at her head. "Well guess who's got YOU?!"

Jenny effortlessly caught the stinger without looking away from J.

"Still not you. You aren't my first villain, you know?"

She didn't get a chance to retort as the other J clone tumbled on the ground to the point where she landed next to her. This was just enough of a distraction for the J clone under Jenny to pry her tail free and stab Jenny's hammer.

Jenny separated her mallet from herself and grew a new arm. With a cry of effort, the J clone pulled herself free, the hair razorrangs falling to the ground.

Both J clones now stood together just as Mimi arrived next to Jenny.

"I think it's time to show these two Tin Heads our executive power move!" declared one J clone.

"Couldn't agree more!" nodded the other.

Both J clones turned their right hands into their EMP generators. They cackled maniacally holding up both EMPs over their head.

The EMPs were just starting to power up when something whizzed past them. It was hard to tell exactly what it was but whatever it was, it was ground based.

"BONK!!!"

It whizzed by them again but this time a metal bat knocked the EMP out of the J clone's arm and onto the ground.

"BOINK!!!"

Passing around again it knocked down the other EMP.

The blur finally stopped on a hill overlooking them, it was Scout.

"Sorry to steal your thunder ladies, but I couldn't just sit by and let N show me up."

"I guess we could forgive you," jested Jenny. "but just this once since we're pals with N."

Scout tipped his hat to them and then took another swig of his Bonk! Atomic Punch and zoomed off.

The J clones were starting to grow back their hands but the robotic friends of N weren't going to give them a chance.

Jenny opened her chest to reveal a large cyan lense and Mimi's turret eye started to shine.

From a distance one would have been able to see two giant laser beams shoot into the sky, one cyan and the other red.

When they were done, there was nothing left of the J clones except for their feet(?).

"Now that's a light show! I bet even N's crush Uzi would've appreciated that!"

A gentle tap on the elbow drew Jenny's attention back to Mimi. She was looking a bit timid and a little afraid as she twiddled her finger in her gun barrel.

"N..... Really likes this Uzi girl?"

The crush Mimi had was obvious to Jenny now; in retrospect she should have seen it coming. Jenny had a feeling about how she could help her new friend though. She gave Mimi a friendly pat on the back and a sympathetic smile.

"Afraid so, but there's plenty of robot boys in MY world!"

"Really?" Mimi squeaked.

"Yeah! Say the word and I'll hook you up, my Sister Of Steel!"

Mimi perked up a little. "Okay."

"Question!"

"What's your question, Jenny?"

"How do you feel about dogs?"

Meanwhile up in the sky, N was still on his Discord brand zoomies and with his lightsaber he was dicing up any J clones that Izilith managed to chase up (using Hiro as a blunt weapon no less).

Then he saw it. One of the J clones was trying to get away during the chaos! It was probably the one he first spoke with.

He was about to zoom down there when a warning signal appeared on his screen. Unlike other warnings he had gotten in the past, this one had Discord's face on it. It read: "WARNING! J clones depleting! Restoration of normal stats to avoid a character being broken is imminent!"

N wasn't the smartest guy, but he knew this message probably meant his window for stopping her was closing.

"J!!!" N shouted.

J spotted N flying towards her and deployed her wings. Before she could fly off, N threw his lightsaber at her and cut off her right wing.

"AAAAAGH!!!" J screamed in pain.

She had no time to regenerate from the wound let alone dwell on it, as N gave her a flying tackle and pinned her to the ground.

"Running back to Cyn, J?! Why?! Why serve her after everything she's done?! To you, to us, to Tessa?! WHY?!"

"TESSA IS DEAD!!!"

J's shout caught N off guard just enough for her to squiggle free. She stood up and put some distance between them.

"But Cyn, even after everything, is the closest thing I have to her. The last remaining scrap to her. I didn't switch teams, I just didn't leave after the hostile corporate takeover!"

N stares at her silently for a moment and then he spoke.

"... You're right, Tessa is dead. If she were alive though, she would've been ashamed of the things you've done!"

J took a step back from N.

"Which is exactly why I can't accept that as the only explanation for why you joined up with her! You might have a whole squadron of yourself but you're still all alone in this. You were never my friend, but it doesn't have to stay that way."

N offered J his hand.

"You can join us. Stand AGAINST Cyn with me and Uzi!"

J stared at N's hand as his new friends started to gather around behind him.

"I promise, you'd have plenty of support. It's still not too late to do the right thing! Do what Tessa would have actually wanted you to do and stand against Cyn!"

J continued to stare at N's hand. Everyone else held their breath in anticipation.

Then J slapped it away.

"I would rather die!"

Everyone groaned.

"Better to side with a monster like Cyn, than support an IDIOT like you!!"

As she finished saying this another landing pod started to delicately meet ground nearby.

"See?! Employee benefits, right there!! I'm a V.I.P. associate to Cyn so she's going to make sure that I live to see things to the end!! I-"

"OH PUT A BRANDED PEN IN IT!!!"

*SNAP!*

In a flash of light, a giant JC Jenson pen appeared in J's mouth. It was so big that her jaw couldn't move one way or the other.

Discord stepped forward away from the group.

"Well N, you gave her a chance and she shot you down! In fact....." Discord's eyes glowed red at J for a second. "I believe she owes you a bit of compensation! The pod should do, right everyone?"

N's friends cheered in agreement while J tried to get the giant pen out of her mouth.

*SNAP!*

In a flash of light, J was inside a giant cannon.

"And even though the rest of your duplicates found themselves unable to regenerate due to their pieces being tossed into a vat of Episode 3 Brand Prom Punch after defeat (supplied conveniently by yours truly)....... I think we're going to have to return you to sender."

"Discord WAIT!!!"shouted N.

N's outburst came as a surprise to everyone, the idea of showing J mercy at this point was a bit much to swallow; even if it was coming from N.

"N...." Emily started. "I love how kind, sweet, and forgiving you are but even I have to acknowledge that J has asked for this!"

"Oh no Emily, it's not that. I'm not like J, I believe in being nice. And while I fully intend on using J's spaceship.... Landing pod.... Thing.... It's not in me to simply steal it. Sooooooo....."

N took a piece of paper and some crayons from under his hat and wrote something on it. It read: "I O U 1 SPACESHIP :(  FROM N"

He stuck the paper to J's face. "There!" He shot her a couple of finger guns. "Now I technically owe you one!"

The cannon raised itself, readying to fire. J let out muffled screams as Hiro lit the fuse.

"Bye J! It was awesome facing you with my new friends!! Tell Cyn that I'm coming for her!" N literally waved goodbye at her.

*BOOM!*

J was cannon shot into the air to the point where she became a sparkle in the distance.

N turned to the landing pod.

"Now to find Uzi!" he declared.

"Alright," in a flash of light Discord became a airport security guard. A metal detector stood in front of the doorway to the space pod. "Everybody in the ship! This is probably going to be the one time that you're ENCOURAGED to bring scissors and hand cream! Evan, I'm looking at you!!"

Everybody started to head straight for the pod but N raced over so he could stand in front of them and block their path.

".... Everyone, thank you... but facing Cyn is something that Uzi and I have to do by ourselves." explained N.

"Why?" Was the simple but important question that came from Mimi.

"Because...." N hesitated. He wasn't really sure if he himself understood the explanation, let alone how he was supposed to explain it to other people. "Because that's the only way any of this will matter. Cyn is from This universe, so it's only right that the sentient intelligences from This universe make her pay for what she's done. It's the right thing... It's... It's the way it has to be done."

Jenny was the first to step forward. "Well I don't know about this, N.... but it is your villain from your universe so.... Okay! We'll trust you!"

Fluttershy put a comforting hoof on N.

"If you really think this is the best way, then of course we'll support you!"

"I have the utmost faith in your ability, N." C-3PO proudly declared.

"*BEEP! BEEP! BOOP!*"

"Show that evil what's for and vanquish her!" cheered Hiro.

"You're smarter than Hiro so you're already not doing as bad as you could be." smirked Izilith.

Evan the musical troll of Gothmoria put his hands on his hips and gave off a slightly different vibe from the others so far.

"While I technically have enough to write a new song right now, I'm still going to wait right here for you to get back so you can tell me your epic fight with Cyn!" Evan promised.

"The purple guy has a point." Scout nodded. "We'll leave it up to you but we ain't going anywhere until you come back alive."

"Think of us like your safety net, Son." continued the Engineer. "If you fall then the friends you've made along the way will pick up your fight where you left off."

Emily popped up from seemingly nowhere with a reassuring smile on her face. "Not that we'll need to! We know that you got this, N!" Emily's face softened. "But.... Should you need us..."

"Yes! If you need us...." Mimi tried to pick up where Emily left off but found that for some reason she couldn't.

N lurched forward from a sudden pat on the back from Discord. "If you need us then all you have to do is whisper the word 'help' and I'll have us by your side in a flash!"

"Thank you... All of you. If we do manage to win this, I promise I'll come back and introduce you all to Uzi!"

"We can have a tea party!" chirped Fluttershy.

"Tea party? I like tea parties!" Emily squeed.

"Well I'd offer some musical accompaniment for it but I smashed the only lute I brought!"

*SNAP!*

In a bright flash Evan's lute appeared in his hands as if it had never been broken in the first place.

"Wow, thanks Discord!! You didn't have to do that!"

"It's not a 'free' gesture! I'm expecting to be paid with a song ... About me!"

Evan shrugged.

"No problem! Just tell me anything you want worked into the song before I write it."

"Again, thank you..... All of you. I don't think I'm the same drone I was when I left. Thanks to all of you, I know that I'm going to go out there, find Uzi, and DEFEAT CYN!!!"

Everyone cheered at this and the pod's door opened.

N entered the pod and closed the door behind him. After a moment or two, it started its lift off.

"I'm coming, Uzi."

N's friends watched as his ship rocketed upwards filled with hope, certain that their friend would prevail.

The End.