Bayonetta Altera 3

**Bayonetta Altera 3** is a Story Arc of the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in an alternate version of Interra and follows the perspective of Umbran Witch Bayonetta.

## Main Arc

### Vacations Turning Sour

Bayonetta and Jeanne are taking well-deserved vacations in Europe, in the city of **Mount-Larsa**. When they are inevitably attacked by angels, the latter are also attacked by a species of mutated mud-monsters, which devour them before turning to the two woman. Taunted by a strange black silhouette, the witches tear through the creatures and reach the silhouette, Bayonetta being forced to rely on new powers coming from within: angelic abilities coming from her estranged father, Lumen sage Balder.

To understand the meaning of this, Bayonetta, sponsored by demonic blacksmith Rodin, ventures into inner Mount-Larsa, a historical city where everyone seems to have disappeared. Jeanne surmises this must be the work of an alchemist, who summoned the creatures by sacrificing the town's population. She faces more of those monsters, and encounters Luka Redgrave, an old acquaintance. Her path leads you to a major entity, **Memory**, a leader of the mud-beasts that claims to be sent in order to "reshape" Bayonetta. She defeats him, before moving on.

### Further in the Spiral

To advance, Bayonetta is forced to cross a strange portal that forces her to relive events from a distant past: the meeting between her mother Rosa and father Balder, enemies by nature, but sent there with the same purpose: to destroy a dangerous alchemist. With these informations in mind, Bayonetta carries on, crossing spaces such as an underground laboratory-prison and strange rooftops. There, she is chased by Forseti, a woman with Lumen sage powers, who claims Bayonetta killed her father, and fights her before retreating.

After defeating another major entity, **Reason**, Bayonetta relives once more events from her past, watching as Rosa and Balder slowly accept their difference. She is then pressed to carry on, through a replica of her previous home, the Umbra clock tower, where she is literally faced with an embodiment of mortality who reminds her of losing those she cares about. Afterwards, she reaches a replica of the Lumen sage basilica, where she faces against Forseti once more and discovers her past, as a woman adopted by Balder and indoctrinated into hating Bayonetta.

After saving Forseti from her own Angel summon, Bayonetta ascends in the sky towards a floating arch ruled by the last major creature, **Imagination**, which she promptly and brutally defeats. She sees at last her parents uniting to defeat Adam Kadmon, the alchemist, and destroying his arch in the past. This leads to the arch being destroyed in the present, forcing Bayonetta to evacuate to the center of the city, which is being entirely transmuted into black mud, mud that - as she learned before - originates from the fundamental constituants of existence.

### The Endgame

To prepare for the endgame, Bayonetta trains with Rodin, who allows her to face him in the past, in his prime. Finally ready to take on the responsible, Bayonetta challenges Adam, who claims to come from an era before the first Armageddon - a moment where light, dark and chaos were one. Wishing to transmute the world back into that state, Adam fights Bayonetta, taunting her, first by claiming he baited her parents into coming together to face him only to make them fall in love, "creating" Bayonetta in the process.

When this isn't enough, Adam captures Luka and destroys his Soul in front of Bayonetta. This is enough for her to unleash her full abilities, destroying Adam. However, by doing so, she fulfills the conditions of her ritual, being a bearer of light, dark, and chaos: the transmutation is complete, and Bayonetta's existence starts erasing the world. The only thing that could stop her is a bullet from Forseti, who - in fact - had foreseen the whole thing and whose purpose was to eliminate Bayonetta beforehand. Thus, the world is destroyed and the shadow remains cast.

### After the End

Jeanne, however, isn't satisfied and delves into the past in order to enlist Balder and Rosa's help, using her powerful demonic summons' help to twist time by taking advantage of the destroyed world. The trio returns to the present, where they are greeted by Adam, resurrected and wielding the power of the primordial deity Yaldabaoth. They are powerless to stop him, but manage to slow him down enough in order to resummon Bayonetta's soul in a new vessel, that of a deity equal to Yaldabaoth.

The two cosmic creatures clash in a titanic mud-wrestling contest that destroys entire galaxies, before Yaldabaoth is finally defeated, and Bayonetta crushes Adam like an ant. As she does so, and uses her power to revive Luka and restore the universe as it is, she starts fading away into nothing. As she disappears into blackness, a hand grabs hers; that of Luka, who refuses to let her go after everything they went through. A weakened, drained Bayonetta emerges through the blackness, reuniting with those close to her.

## Characters

* Bayonetta
* Jeanne
* Forseti
* Luka Redgrave
* Rodin
* Rosa
* Balder
* Adam Kadmon

## Trivia

* This storyline depicts events from a Timeline where events depicted in the **Bayonetta 3** game never happened and functions as an alternate ending to the trilogy.