Masks 2

The Red Reaper attempted to dodge, but hundreds of bone shards from multiple directions were really hard to avoid. They ripped into him from all sides, with many slipping between the cracks of his armor. His expression couldn't be seen, but his body language conveyed agony. A few moments passed, and he collapsed lifelessly to the floor.

Throughout the battlefield, Radka finally cracked down, moving to kill the various heroes. The bone wall came in and pushed Finn off the cliff, Orla lied on the ground with tumors overwhelming her, the immobile and horrified Tony Margera was devoured by mutated wildlife, Nick and Lizzie were suffering catastrophic organ failure as the ground swallowed them, Candy was screaming her voice raw trying (and failing) to blast down Radka, and the others were getting hacked apart by infinite Radkas.

Radio static came through their earpieces as a panicked AI Emily spoke. "We-kzzzzt-can't break-kzzzzt-through! Come in! -kzzzzt- are you okay!?"

As she spoke, her words seemed to slow for those still living as the time anomaly froze everything down to complete stasis.

Then another voice spoke up, one distinctly familiar to Theraea and the Raven.

"Well! Uh, this is bad! This is really bad!" Zine shouted, their voice echoing through the timeless void. "So uh. Hang on!"

Finn, Esen, Candy, Orla, Theraea, Ken, Desmond, Emily, Elizabeth, Nick, and Darkmagic suddenly had their spirits separated from their bodies and pulled into a void far away from Los Angeles. There, a house-sized rainbow-scaled incandescent dragon stared down at them. Around them all was a void of stars, planets, and moons all on a purple and blue backdrop that swirled around and around.

"Okay! Hi everyone. I am Zine. I am a dragon. I'm new at this, and you were all WELL beyond the point where there was ANY possibility of winning. And because of how your Earth connects to the multiverse, Radka is shaping up to be a multidimensional world-ending threat. And I'm not SUPPOSED to intervene even then because it's super dangerous and super against the rules and the Creator will be SO mad at me but...well! I don't care! I don't like this."

Zine shrugged super nervously.

"Like, that time anomaly you experienced was actually caused by me sending you back in time. It created, or will create, a temporal anomaly that reacted really badly with the reality anchor. Sorry about that! I'll fix it! I just need to send you back first. Oh, yeah. Right, the plan! I couldn't pull your demon friend out, sorry about that. Their soul made that difficult! Demons are weird. They'll be okay! "

Zine slapped their scaly head and sighed, floating around.

"Right now, you are in a space outside reality. Like, if your world is the house and the abyss is outside, then we're in the space between the walls. Kind of. Sort of. Anyway, you can't beat Radka as she is now. She's become too strong. You need to go back in time, but that's SUPER against the rules. So basically, I am going to weaken the temporal walls of reality, the arcanists among you will form a circle and perform an incredibly powerful forbidden spell that isn't even POSSIBLE outside of here at this exact moment, and Theraea will need to soften the walls of the abyss. And then you're going to go back in time as far as I can send you and stop Radka before she does all this. Warn everyone you can, get everyone together. Stop this from happening. Can you do that? Any questions?"