Saga 8

### Saga 8: Split Paths

Alek woke up one morning tied up in a chair with a lamp in his face, the lamp moved to reveal it was Underwood who tied him up, and that they both were just in the office room with covers over the windows and the lights turned off. Underwood turned on the lights and started asking Alek how and why he left their dimension (D-2) to go into dimension E-21, as well as asking if he had any ulterior motives. Alek revealed to Underwood that ever since he was teleported into this dimension by John Cena, a powerful being known as Purple Cthulhu started rampaging and causing mass destruction and mayhem. Alek went to what was left of their dimension’s version of Fabicorp and found a device capable of transporting the holder to another dimension, however after he arrived in dimension E-21 he tripped and damaged his dimension travelling device. Underwood apologized to Alek and untied him from the chair.

Underwood told the CoolCrew and willie gang about the peril his dimension was in as Will, Evan, Echo, and Daniel decide to help Underwood and Alek while convincing the CoolCrew that they should stay at this dimension to defend it in the event someone may try to take total control. Sam Industries and Fabicorp begrudgingly collabed to use the ice crystals from the civil war saga to build a machine to transport them to dimension D-2, and after the New Willie Gang (NWG) get geared up in new attire they transport to D-2 to see a post-apocalyptic ruin of a burning city as the NWG along with Underwood and Alek prepared themselves for anything that came their way.

As they transported to another dimension, a new organization was forming in the shadows. Alton Brown started an organization with his right hand man Dedede called Slickas Gets Eats (SGE). They started stealing food from stores and restaurants, and then destroyed the buildings they robbed. Alton then found a way to control the media and brainwash people into giving them food and joining their army. The CoolCrew quickly realized what the SGE were doing and hear about the famine spreading across the world. Fabicorp opens up the doors for their currently at the time being rebuilt HQ and serves Fabirations to people not already brainwashed. This caught the attention of SGE as they sent Dedede to go over there and put a stop to it.

The NWG spot Purple Cthulhu in the sky and while Evan, Daniel, and Echo try to run from him, Will, Underwood, and Alek get the urge to fight the beast. Purple Cthulhu uses his powerful magic to destroy their dimension traveling device and the New Willie Gang barely evade his attacks, they all hid in a tree and Purple Cthulhu passed it, not seeing them there. They then decided that they must go through this deserted wasteland counterpart of America to find D-2’s version of Fabi’s lab to find anything they can get to counter Purple Cthulhu’s pure chaotic energy. As they traverse a Mad Max styled desert they are surrounded by a group of scavengers who turn out to be this dimension’s versions of Evan, Sam, and Daniel being named EdgEvan, Sneakuel, and Savage respectively, the scavengers also had Underwood’s old friend Jordan. Underwood recognized Jordan and Sneakuel while Alek recognized EdgEvan and Savage. They all decided to set up camp for the night, planning to reach the Fabicorp labs the next day.

Meanwhile, Dedede is firing several canons at the Fabicorp building, which haven’t installed their invincible metal yet. MaDOSlyn, Alec, Kaelana, Morgan, and Fabi realized they needed to protect the building and the Fabirations so they all gang up on Dedede, and after a rigorous battle they cornered him and forced him to lead them to the SGE base. After getting them in, Dedede jumped onto a wheelie and rode off as he alerted the guards of the CoolCrew as several bulky SGE guards attack. The CoolCrew managed to evade the guards and remind themselves that their top priorities were to destroy the brainwashing program, take down Dedede and Alton Brown, and return the food to the world. They decided to split into two groups, MaDOSlyn and Alec would take on Alton Brown as Morgan, Fabi, and Kaelana would take out the program. The two groups then wandered through the SGE base, which turned out to be a very large and retired Fabimart.

The next morning the NWG, the scavengers, Underwood, and Alek ate a short sloppy breakfast and got on cars and motorcycles made of scrapped parts from the ruined city as they drove southward, hoping to see if what remains of the Fabicorp labs could potentially help them. On very few occasions they would come across men referred to as purple masks, worshippers of Purple Cthulhu who exchange their souls for the promise of being spared by Purple Cthulhu, delaying them as they would have to either fight them head on or find a way to avoid them. After a few hours (which felt like a few years) they came across a collapsed building with the Fabicorp logo on a shattered sign, this was the place they were searching for. After moving some rubble around Underwood found a circle on the ground right next to a button, he prompted Daniel to hack the button and as he did so the circle started moving down under the floor, acting as a lowering platform for the New Willie Gang and scavengers. The platform lowered them onto a destroyed lab with broken tables and shattered glass everywhere, this gave chills to Evan and EdgEvan. After Daniel turned on the lights with his hacking powers, they found the only thing in the room that was left intact, a lone screen that was powered off. Will wiped the dust off the screen as Sneakuel plugged the cord into an outlet, the screen turned on showing D-2’s version of Fabian looking distressed, the room he was in was flashing from normal to red as sirens could be heard and scientists could be seen panicking in the background. This Fabi spoke in a trembling tone, “We were wrong, we should’ve never trusted that...that THING! Purple Cthulhu never wanted to help against Morkey, he only wanted CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION! I have no choice now but to send Alek to another dimension in hopes he can not only find our missing Underwood, but also a hero that can stop this menace before it’s too late!” an explosion could then be heard in the video as all the scientists but Fabi die, Fabian grasping onto the table with the little energy he has left as he continued to speak “Alek, Underwood, Jordan, if any of you are hearing this, I’m sorry that we couldn’t hold that thing off for a little while longer...In my dying breath...I have hidden a device in a nearby cabinet…..A device capable of calling upon beings from other dimensions ...please...you’re our only hope ...I believe in you……” another explosion went off in the video as the video went static. Jordan, in tears, angrily threw the screen at a wall until he, Underwood, Alek, and the rest of the scavengers looked at the ground as tears poured from their eyes..besides the purple masks, they are the last humans left in this dimension.

Morgan, Fabi, and Kaelana walked into a large computer room and realized this was the OS that was streaming the brainwashing videos, but before they could destroy it dedede slammed onto the ground wearing a steel mask and wielding his supercharged dedede hammer. During the stressful ordeal Masked dedede managed to fire rockets out of his hammer, Kaelana cleverly tricked Dedede to fire them at her as she jumps, revealing that the rockets were flying towards the control panel, and before dedede could stop them the control panel exploded with Morgan grabbing Fabi and Kaelana and rushing out of the room to not get caught in the explosion, Dedede was not so lucky. Meanwhile, MaDOSlyn and Alec walk into a room filled with food on a giant table as Alton Brown turned around to face his two opponents. Alton chuckled to himself as he pushes a button and a giant robot made of ovens, fridges, pans, and other cooking/food related objects and he jumps into it, commencing a fight with the CoolCrew. Flames flew across the room, floors were freezing, giant frying pans came crashing down, Alton Brown was not one to go lightly on his foes. Canons fired cherry bombs, spiky carrots drilled at MaDOSlyn and Alec, the two looked at each other and realized they had to enact their magical girl transformations from saga 2 to stand a chance. Alton cackled like a maniac as he kept pushing buttons on his grand machine to launch a flurry of attacks at the two, a majority of them hitting MaDOSlyn and Alec. With their luck, they managed to make Alton’s mech slip on a banana peel, leaving him wide open to their finishing attack which made Alton Brown’s robot blow up with him inside it, MaDOSlyn and Alec then found Fabian, Morgan, and Kaelana as they grabbed all the stolen food and they all rushed out of the collapsing Fabimart. While they were running they encountered a guard referring to themself as Big cat who was no longer brainwashed as he helped the CoolCrew escape at the last second and later promised he would be there to help the CoolCrew if they ever needed him.

Echo remembered what D-2’s Fabi said as he looked into a cabinet to find a phone, in which Will told him that he should try to call the two inter dimensional heroes Garzooka and Andrew WK, however nobody remembered their phone numbers so Evan suggested that Echo called Sam. Sam answered the phone as they told him to send someone to go get Andrew WK and Garzooka, Sam said he would and the second after the New Willie Gang hung up Desmond walked into Sam’s office, he set up a meeting prior to see if there’s a way he could make up for his involvements in the NDO and Dark Sonic’s Base. Sam used this chance and made Desmond find the two inter dimensional heroes, Desmond found them at a pizza place that got reopened after SGE was taken down. Desmond told them about the dangers that was happening in D-2 and asked if he could tag along with them, they agreed and started preparing their dimension transportation technique. Meanwhile in D-2, after the NWG calmed down the scavengers as well as Underwood and Alek there was a loud bang as everything shook. They all went back up the platform to see what was happening, however the moment they got up EdgEvan, Jordan, Sneakuel, and Savage all got stabbed by heart spears, killing them painfully. The remaining people looked to the left to see the one who killed them, a hooded figure who revealed himself as Hyness. Hyness told them that he was the second in command of the SSCCM and how Supreme Leader sent him on a mission to kill the CoolCrew/willie gang in many dimensions, including their counterparts in D-2. Hyness commences a battle that ends up killing Alek, which made Underwood so upset he shouted at the top of his lungs which alerted Purple Cthulhu of their location. Purple Cthulhu arrived and was about to kill the first person he saw, that being Hyness, until Hyness teleported out of this dimension so Purple Cthulhu could take out the NWG and Underwood himself. The purple masks surrounded their leader and said they would help him, but before they could do anything Purple Cthulhu killed them and absorbed all their energy. Purple Cthulhu charged a very powerful beam to kill his opponents, but just in time they were dragged away from the beam by Garzooka as Andrew WK destroyed some rubble and rebuilt is as a large wall, the wall was barely able to hold the blast for long enough for the NWG and Underwood to evade the attack as everyone rolled away and the wall was destroyed. Desmond flew down in a labbo mech as he, Garzooka, Andrew WK, Underwood, and the NWG prepared for battle. Reality was warping all around them, tentacles skewered from the ground like spikes, giant statues of Purple Cthulhu fell from millions of feet in the air, things were looking grim for the heroes. Purple Cthulhu cornered the interdimensional heroes, Desmond, and the NWG into a wall, and in an effort of desperation Underwood, who was behind him, took Jordan's gun from his dead body and shot purple cthulhu in the back, which was enough of a distraction for Andrew WK to create a catapult to launch the New Willie Gang into the air as Garzooka grabbed Purple Cthulhu’s tentacles as a means to prevent him from using them. Garzooka’s grasp was slipping quickly as Desmond threw his switch up into the air and detached the joy cons, telling the NWG in the air that they needed to grab the two joycons and press all the buttons at once. The NWG did so and launched two big blasts from the joycons, however at the same time Purple Cthulhu shoved Garzooka to the side and sent his tentacles at the blasts to counter them, the NWG kept holding down hard on the buttons trying desperately to break through Purple Cthulhu’s tentacles and it seemed as if he would be enough to destroy the blast and the joy cons until Underwood looked into jordan’s coat and found a small fog. The detective teared up as he threw the frog at Purple Cthulhu as it landed on his face, covering his view and distracting him enough for the NWG to make the blast break through the tentacles, destroying the monster and the frog on his face for good.

The NWG started falling to the ground, thankfully Garzooka, Andrew WK, and Desmond were able to catch them before they could crash. They were all panting, exhausted, as they realized that even with the help of the inter dimensional heroes and Desmond they were barely able to win against Purple Cthulhu. Evan looked at Underwood and all he could see was the detective on his knees, looking down at all the bodies that he knew of as friends. Underwood was the last ever person from D-2, everyone else was gone. Evan and Will walked over to Underwood to try to comfort him, then Underwood told them he just wanted to leave, this dimension was purely empty now. He placed his fedora on top of Alek, stood up, and followed the NWG to the inter dimensional heroes and Desmond. Garzooka put his hand on Desmond’s shoulder and told him how proud he was of the scientist, this was followed by Andrew WK telling him he’d probably be good at parties, these were the first compliments Desmond has ever gotten in such a long time and because of that he started crying a bit, his tears only started streaming faster when the two offered Desmond a spot in their little inter dimensional hero posse. Desmond gladly accepted as he shook both their hands very quirky, his orange shades were slightly falling off due to how fast he was nodding. The new inter dimensional heroic trio grabbed ahold of the NWG and Underwood as they took one last look at dimension D-2, their goodbyes only being responded with the cold, lifeless wind as they teleported back to dimension E-21. The New Willie gang and the CoolCrew, realizing that they barely won their battles, realized that the two groups should finally come to a full agreement. MaDOSlyn and Will see each other for the first time since the civil war, and they agreed to fully reform the CoolCrew back, this reformed CoolCrew would have a hybrid of original CoolCrew and Willie Gang policies. After the reunion party, and the CoolCrew base was fully fixed, Evan decided to meet up with Underwood and truly apologize for what he did back in saga 1, as well as dying his own hair purple similar to how Underwood’s hair was dyed when he first met the CoolCrew. MaDOSlyn met a girl named Bethanny and fell in love with her, planning on asking her out.