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In a mysterious large theater room, surrounded by many chairs accompanied by a large screen, a flash of light came and it showed all the four groups of the City. All of them are immediately confused and slightly panicked.
"Shit, where the hell did we end up?!" exclaimed Roland.
"I'm not sure Roland, this does not seem to be connected to the Library's power." said Angela.
"Why are we brought here in the first place?" asked Malkuth.
"That... I cannot answer." said the blue-haired robot, shaking her head.
"Whatever it is, we're not alone here." said Yesod, pointing towards the other group.
They saw Heathcliff coming towards them with his usual aggressiveness.
"Oi, did you bring us here in this weird place?" demanded Heathcliff.
"Woah calm down, all of us are just as confused as you are." said Roland trying to reason with the aggressive man.
"You better be telling the truth, 'cause you'll answer to my bat." said the delinquent patting his bat.
Dante and Sinclair quickly came up to their 'ally', trying to calm him down.
"Stand down, Heathcliff!" said Dante.
"Dante's right! We're not here to cause trouble." said Sinclair.
"Is that a living clock?" asked Tiphereth in bewilderment.
Gregor quickly comes to Roland's group, "Heheh sorry about our friend here, he's always aggro."
"We notice." said Hokma.
"It's like if Gebura's aggressiveness got extracted." commented Netzach, quietly.
"I can hear that, you drunken fool." said Gebura glaring at him.
This made the drunkard flinch a bit. Rodya then questioned them.
"So all of you got taken here to this strange place?" asked the gambler.
"I'm afraid so, all of us suddenly got taken away from the Library." answered Hod.
"Library..." said Ishmael, as that felt familiar to her, "Wait a second, you guys are from the Library?! The one that took people away and turned them into books!"
The Sinners were shocked to hear that, as they remember the Library from the City.
"Faust did remember that peculiar 'Star of the City' threat, that got banished to the Outskirts for being too dangerous." said Faust.
"So your gonna start your whole book crusade again huh?" asked Heathcliff ready to fight.
"Hmph, I always wanted to challenge the Library." said Ryoshu preparing her sword.
"Of course not! We're done with that entire thing!" said Tiphereth.
Things are getting escalated a bit too intensely before a certain red gaze and a bus driver girl came in.
"All of you calm down." said Vergilius in a serious tone, causing Heathcliff to freeze as he let out 'tch' before calming down along with some Sinners, "I apologize for some of my subordinates' aggressive actions."
"At least, he cool down his head." said Chesed.
"Hold on the minute, your Vergilius the Red Gaze!" exclaimed Roland.
"You know him Roland?" asked Angela.
"Yeah, he's a Colored Fixer, like me, and a super strong one like Gebura."
The Red Gaze turned to Roland and Gebura, "So the Black Silence and the Red Mist have been taken away as well?"
"Holy shit, those two guys are Colored Fixers!" said Gregor.
"Ooh, I always admired the heroic feats of the Red Mist!" awed Don, with stars in her eyes.
"Great, another one like Myo." thought Gebura in annoyance.
"So Vergilius how are you doing?" asked Roland.
"Doing fine, just watching over a bunch of fools. Still rampaging around the City, killing Syndicates and Offices again?" asked Vergilius.
Roland just let out a nervous laugh, "Eh not exactly, I've moved past that now, just wanting to make a book."
"Then, lucky you that you're trying a new hobby now..."
"Is that one of the former Arbiters?!" exclaimed Sinclair, towards Binah.
"Hoh, your aware of me boy?" asked Binah with her mysterious smile.
"Jeez, you guys are powerhouses having a Color Fixer and Arbiter working for you." said Rodya commenting.
"We get that a lot though." said Chesed chuckling, "Don't worry Binah won't hurt us anymore unless you want to get on her bad side."
"Yeah not risking it."
"Want to see it, girl?" asked Binah mischievously.
"Not thanks!"
Dante is getting confused with this whole ordeal, like other colored Fixers like Vergilius, and an Arbiter. Things are giving him a headache.
"Ms. Angela is that you?" asked Taii, as she and her friends approach her group.
"Taii, your here." said Angela in surprise.
"That's right, we haven't seen you for a long time after L Corp fall during the 'White Nights and Dark Days' incident." said Taii.
"What happened to you and the other Sephirahs after it fell?" asked Finn.
"It's... a long story." sighed Angela.
"So, uh, do you know them?" asked Gregor curiously.
"Yes, you could say they're former employees who work at L. Corp."
"Former employees..." thought Gregor, looking at them reminding him of a familiar red-haired girl with an eyepatch.
"Still we glad that some personnel made it safe, after that incident." said Malkuth with a smile.
"Hehe, thanks Malkuth." said Flower.
"So, even three strong Colored Fixers got taken here as well?" said a voice.
They saw Moses and her group approaching.
Taii let out a gasp, "You're the Distortion Detective!"
Moses nods.
"I heard of the Distortion Detective, how you can prevent people from turning into Distortions." said Sinclair.
"Really? Now that's a useful ability." said Ella.
"Faust admits, your work is impressive and has exceeded your career." said Faust, recalling Moses' duty.
"Thank you for your compliment." said Moses, bowing.
"Is that a teddy bear?" asked Dante in bewilderment.
"That's right clock man." responded YuRia.
"A talking teddy bear/A talking teddy bear!" exclaimed Dante and Roland.
"Says the sentient clock." said YuRia, shooting back to Dante.
"Touche."
"Sides surely you've seen strange things besides me talking."
"Well I did fight a teddy bear before, in the library." said Roland, rubbing his head.
"One of the Taboo hunters of N Corp, has been taken in, huh?" asked Vergilius.
Sinclair froze hearing that, anything N Corp still triggered him after Kromer, Rodya patted him on the shoulder to calm him down.
"Former hunter, Red Gaze." said Vespa, staring back at Vergilius, "Due to some of my actions, I have been expelled from N Corp and how I will get back is my reasons alone."
"Then you better hope those reasons can get you back on track." said Vergilius before walking away.
"So, uh, now that we sorta introduced one another. Does anyone know why we're here in the first place?" asked Finn.
"From what, I gathered a strange light took all of us. I assume this happened to you all?" asked Moses.
"Yes a huge light in fact, while we were on the bus." said Outis.
"Charon missed Mephi." said Charon sadly.
"Same for the Library." added Hokma.
"Us too." said Flower.
"It's pretty obvious W Corp is not the one to do this, I mean it's pretty strange for them to gather peculiar people here." said Ishmael.
"It could be a Syndicate." added Ezra.
"Or an Abnormality's doing." said Angela.
"Hey guys!" called out Roland, turning their attention to him, "Think it has to do with this large TV screen."
"What does a TV screen have to do with anything?" asked Yesod.
Before anyone can answer, a new voice has been answered.
"Testing... Testing... Is this thing on?" asked the voice.
"Um, who said that?" asked Hong Lu.
"I did, rich boy." said the voice, surprising him.
"So I can assume, you're the one who brought us all in this place, correct?" asked Moses, narrowing her eyes.
"Correcto! Ms. Distortion Detective!"
"Then why brought us here, in the first place? You're here to kill us?" asked Angela.
"Whaaat? Of course not! All of you are here to watch!" said the voice happily.
This shocked all of them.
"You mean to tell me, you gathered all of us just to watch!" said Heathcliff angrily.
"Yes."
"But why, sir voice?" asked Don.
"Well let's just say all of you deserve it, after suffering a lot. Yes I know all of your histories and I mean all of them." said the voice in a serious tone.
This shocked all of them again since their mysterious captor knows all of their lives.
"But I'm not here to spout secrets. You see this peculiar TV screen shows alternate realities, worlds that have different cultures with some peaceful or chaotic."
"Interesting device that shows alternate worlds." said YuRia.
"Almost like the mirror." said Hong Su.
"So we're just gonna watch this peculiar world about its people?" asked Vergilius.
"Yes, trust me, all of you will learn something from the perspective of these people in different worlds, heck you might relate yourselves to them and share a connection. So what do you say, are you ready to watch?" asked the voice.
All of them are silent for a bit, before responding.
"Very well, let's see what this worlds about." said Vespa.
"Faust is interested to see what type of world it is." said Faust.
"As long it's interesting then, I'm good." said Roland.
"Heh, hopefully, there's action in it." said Heathcliff with a smirk.
"Then let's start! Our first story starts with two particular teams of high-tech soldiers..."